House Millithor in COSQ: part 4

[Serpenteye]

The day after the commoner revolt (and day before Edwin arrives), the Lich Eilos walks into the Matron's audience room with the head of a drow male clutched in his hand by the hair. The lich bows and offers the head to the Matron.

"Tooman Tendrick was the priest of the Elder Eye. After Quertus disrupted Tooman's ritual and forced him to flee, it was child's play for me to follow and slay him."

The Matron does not look pleased, immersed as she is in a cruel vision of the near future.
"Well done, eliminating another enemy. Sadly he's useless to us now, but I'm sure you made the attempt to take him alive."

 

[Xael]

Quertus calmly watches the "storm" raging in the chasm. "Now, this is something you don't see very often. They're making a flashy entrance at least. Hmph. Let them. They'll be wasting their energy. Should we move back, or are we taking them on here? In any case, I'd propose taking out the spellcasters first if possible."

Quertus then let's Icho poison one of his crossbow bolts with the sleep poison, and loads his hand crossbow with it.

OOC: Quertus has basic, long-lasting protective spells on (Mage Armor, Protection From Arrows, Endure Elements, Shadow Mask, Stoneskin).

 

[Serpenteye]

The Matron sends one of the guards forwards. "When you see the enemy, scream." and turns to reply to Quertus' question. "His death will alert us that the enemies are within striking distance, then you can lead our arcane casters forwards and attack the enemy behind a screen of guards. Hopefully we will get the first strike and your initial attack will weaken them sufficiently for us to finish them off."
She turns to the wizards in general, "How many Fly spells do you have prepared, to cast on our heavy melee forces?"

ooc: Has the Initiative been rolled yet?

 

[Endur]

As Torellan and others look up the chasm, a massive darkness falls hurtles down the chasm towards them.

As it gets closer they realize it is the burned, electrified, and frozen body of the gargantuan spider that built the web. It continues to fall until it passes the noble level and hits the river below.

ooc: The Matron's spellcraft is such that she realizes it wasn't really a storm of vengence, but actually a large number of area effect spells going off, one after another. The Vampiric garrison members didn't have enough hit points to survive being hit by more than one area affect spell.

ooc: Given the large numbers of PCs and NPCs, I'm not going to roll initiative. I'm just going to resolve actions one side after the other.

 

[Serpenteye]

ooc: Given the large numbers of PCs and NPCs, I'm not going to roll initiative. I'm just going to resolve actions one side after the other.

ooc: And now it's our turn, and the enemy can't act until all our forces have finished their actions?

what spells do Eilos, the Aprentice, and our other wizards have prepared?

 

[Endur]

ooc: go ahead.

ooc: And now it's our turn, and the enemy can't act until all our forces have finished their actions?

 

[Serpenteye]

ooc: Since speaking is a free action...

The Matron asks her casters what spells they have prepared for the day.

 

[Endur]

As Quertus prepares his spells for action, he takes comfort that his arcane sight reveals that Solom's Private Sanctum is still up. The noble level can not be scried on by the surface heroes. After all, he knows how well Solom's Private Sanctum works against scrying, as Quertus was unable to scry the noble level with his scrying device before it was destroyed.

 

[Endur]

Eilos has a number of spells, including Greater Shadow Evocation, Mass Suggestion, Greater Dispelling, Permanent Image, Mirage Arcana, Hold Monster, Confusion, and Phantasmal Killer, amongst others.

The apprentice has various 4th level and below spells.

 

[Serpenteye]

Any Wall spells? (except for G Shadow Evoc)