Help!! Trapped in a burning city...

[Ahlai]

Hey... I was just wondering if anyone know anything about the demon Vrock? Pretty much all I know is that it's CE and full of the firey goodness...

My party in my D&D group is currently trapped in this fun town where little demonies have burned a pentagram/pentacle (which is it? I can never remember...) around/through the city, and we're all trapped on the outskirts of the bloody thing. Apparantly they're summoning/releasing a Vrock, and then more demons will follow.

Our options (that I see) are:
* Sell souls to Vrock and hope to be reincarnated as fun demons (percent chance of succeeding: nil, except for one party memeber [CE], who has about a 30% chance).
* Pray out Paladin/Cleric will save us (percent chance of success: about 10%. fat chance. He's a level 2 thingie-doo... And he's a wuss. BOO!)
* Dig a hole/trench/pit. All neutral chars proceed to hide inside and hold breath, hoping against hope that we aren't found. (percent chance of success: about 50%. this is our best bet, that I can see.)

My DM assures me that they're are other ways to survive. In our party we have:
3 CN Druids (lvls 2, 2, and 1)
1 LG Paladin/Cleric (lvl 2)
1 CN Wizard, specializing in Illusion (lvl 2)
1 CE Fighter (lvl 2)
1 CN Bard (lvl 2)
1 CE Wizard (lvl 1, currently in a jail [or something] being tortured by demons)

...Is there any way to break out of a teleportational barrier surrounding and evil, evil pentagram of evil doomy death? Our wizard and figher and willing to sell their soulds, but... Yeah, I don't really think that's an option. How can we survive this?

(Stupid DM... He gets so crabby when his GF isn't there.)

 

[Ahlai]

Help Meeeee!!!

Come ON you guys! Help me! ::big, sad eyes:: Is it my fault I'm a girlie n00b?

 

[Wycen]

Well plugging that into the online encounter calculator says that's a deadly encounter and the party should run away.

Now, if the vrock isn't released yet, that is a different story. Sounds like you should consider a back up character soon.

 

[Westgate Polks]

Ahlai -

Fist things first. Has the Vrock ALREADY been summoned? If so, then you have big problems. If not, then your situation is not all bad.

If the Vrock has NOT been summoned, then you do not need to defeat the demon. You need to prevent the summoners from succeeding. This should be much easier than defeating the Vrock. You can try disrupting the ceremony, pitting one faction of the summoning demons against another, tricking the demons to pursue a different course of action, etc.

Barring that, you might try to find a way to dissipate the pentagram/pentacle. If it is fiery, then perhaps there is a way to extinguish part/enough of it to dispel or weaken its effects. I bet the Druids and Cleric could help with that.

Best of luck to you!

 

[robberbaron]

You've got a Paladin with 2 CE characters? Really?

Hmm.

Offer the Paladin to the Vrock as a sacrifice.

 

[the Jester]

This is rough! Either leave town ASAP or else interrrupt the ceremony somehow. For instance, can you 'break' the pentagram somehow? Can you kill a crucial member of the group performing the summoning?

Good luck- let us know how it goes!

 

[Vlos]

Yeap , my suggestion as others have mentioned is to break the pentagram. Since it sounds like the Vrock is not yet summoned this should be the course of action.

Either try to extinguish part of it in different areas to break it, or dig holes/trenches through/under the flames which should also extinguish it.


Is there a dam upstream, break the dam, flood the town.

Get other town members to help put out the fires to break the pentagram. The paladin should be good at this.


Any water tanks that can help put out the fire?

I would try and focus at the pentagram intersections. Either the five corners or where the inner star lines cross.

The clerics could possibly go to the center and concecrate the area so it may make it harder for the Vrock to enter (holy area), along with the broken pentagram areas.


I would not expect every to survive the day. If the Vrock is already out, run!