Help Us Kill Morrus - Just updated 23/03/05

[Inconsequenti-AL]

It's over!

We sorta won!

Managed to turn the queen against the king... She wasn't amused to find out the king had stolen her phalectery and kept it from her. Unsuprisingly.

Anyway, with her help we managed to beat the king and his guards. Just. More correctly, that'd be - we won without her hindering us too much.


Final tally:

Paladin: Dead
Samurai: Dead
Wizard: Dead
Archer: Dominated by Lich Queen.
Sorceror: 6 HP left. ~60 vile damage.
Cleric: ~20 HP left. Tons of vile damage. Wisdom drained to 13!

The Slaadi king: Dead
His guards: Dead
The queens guards: 1 of 3 remaining.
The queen: All too healthy. (Gulp!)


The final round was rather tense. The paladin went down to a volley of chain strikes from the king, leaving him in charge range of 2 very injured spellcasters. Our cleric hurled his only offensive spell - a Searing Light - connected for near maximum damage and finished the king off. The look on the clerics face was priceless!



From my point of view, some highlights were:

The Wizard - reduced to Int 11 - taunting and defiantly hurling magic missiles into the face of the Slaadi king... from melee range.

Our brave samurai - desparately trying to keep the King and guards away from the spellcasters. Nearly managing to make the king Elusive Target his own guard. Unfortunately brain fried by our 'ally' the queen and her badly placed area spells.

Stealing the kings crown - true strike + telekinetic disarm - followed by a mad dash from the paladin... just managing to grab the thing. Enabled the queens powers to affect the king.

Heroic final stand from the aforementioned paladin. He was in what ammounted to a 1 on 1 duel with the Slaadi king. Brave!

My sorcerors scrape with death - at melee range with a Gith mageslayer - with nowhere to run. A desparate Scorching Ray managed to toast him good.

The groups look of fear, when the queen handed the dominated archer a quiver of 'better' arrows.

Plenty of other fun stuff and I'm sure there's a lot I'm forgetting.



We're now at the mercy of the Lich Queen. Who can guess what's going to happen next! Hopefully it involves her giving us piles of treasure and a holiday in barbados, but I doubt it somehow.

Thanks for the help everyone. Much appreciated and this has been a lot of fun!

 

[Sarellion]

Congratulations to your phyrric victory.

 

[TimSmith]

Umm, all these combat tactics sound good except that the enemy has now been proved to outclass you totally.

I really think there must be some plotting/infighting going down with the 2 factions of bad guys and that you MUST MUST MUST exploit this (or at least try).

I don't like to say "I told you so," but.....

Seriously, sounds like a good hard fought combat, where you really overcame a challenge. Just hope the Gith queen is (at least somewhat) grateful for you revealing the Slaad King's perfidy over the phylactery.

One question- do you have access to raise dead in this campaign

 

[Inconsequenti-AL]

I don't like to say "I told you so," but.....

Seriously, sounds like a good hard fought combat, where you really overcame a challenge. Just hope the Gith queen is (at least somewhat) grateful for you revealing the Slaad King's perfidy over the phylactery.

One question- do you have access to raise dead in this campaign

We're hoping she's grateful too! There's not a lot we can do about it if she isn't happy... beg perhaps?

Thankfully raising is available. Although it's never cheap! Cash or friends - what a tricky question! Hopefully all the dead will be coming back to play...

 

[TimSmith]

We're hoping she's grateful too! There's not a lot we can do about it if she isn't happy... beg perhaps?

Thankfully raising is available. Although it's never cheap! Cash or friends - what a tricky question! Hopefully all the dead will be coming back to play...

Well, you could sell all their gear to pay for the raisings and then explain about the Queen demanding her "share" of the spoils

 

[Darmanicus]

Oh what a night!

That was soooo close. 3 of us down but 3 of us left......just. Once again the cleric pulls a winner out of the bag, and such a low level winner at that.

And the ranger, once again, spawns it to safety with naught but a scratch.......I'm in the wrong profession.

The King was manageable, that was until his armour and chain powered up!

All in all a good night apart from dying and the fact the Lich-Queen is tip-top and we're definitely not.

 

[Darmanicus]

Well, you could sell all their gear to pay for the raisings and then explain about the Queen demanding her "share" of the spoils

Oh, that's right, dig it in deeper.

 

[TimSmith]

Oh, that's right, dig it in deeper.

Heh heh- be grateful I didn't visit the other thread and suggest that the enslaved soul of a Paladin would be a fitting present for the Queen to cheer herself up with after such unpleasantness!

Seriously, though, sounds like you all have some heroics to relate. I know its early days but are you going to give us another write-up? A lot of water under the bridge since Clawron Shattersoul and company, but its good to see how you are all getting on...

 

[Darmanicus]

Heh heh- be grateful I didn't visit the other thread and suggest that the enslaved soul of a Paladin would be a fitting present for the Queen to cheer herself up with after such unpleasantness!

Seriously, though, sounds like you all have some heroics to relate. I know its early days but are you going to give us another write-up? A lot of water under the bridge since Clawron Shattersoul and company, but its good to see how you are all getting on...

Ah Clawron, now there's a guy you could really party with!

I'll see about the write up, it takes ages.

Thanks for your support btw.

 

[kigmatzomat]

We're hoping she's grateful too! There's not a lot we can do about it if she isn't happy... beg perhaps?

Well, if you still have the King's crown then at least one of you has some protection. I'd give it to the uninjured archer myself.