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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 9664030" data-attributes="member: 27780">Everyone was present this time. They started their exploration of level 3 in similar fashion to the previous two. The winged kobold explored the mausoleums of area 16 (now thoroughly ransacked by the hungry fungus people) while the binder sent her shadow forward into area 17. It was quickly zapped by the collective lightning bolt powers of the kuo-toa whips on the other side, but that was no great loss and at least the PC's knew where the enemy was now. Time for the orc to take point and charge into the fray before they recharged their zapping powers. A few martial maneuvers later they were downed and easy prey for the priestesses acidic whip.  The next wave of defences after the ramp met a similar fate. They then reached the big 4 way junction, which once again made things more interesting as they decided to split the party. The kobolds and barbarian went down the south passage, while the priestess and binder wandered east. This as usual turned out to be a bad idea, as the girls wandered straight into the giant octopus lair in area 20. (cue inevitable hentai references) The binder had a high enough AC that only natural 20's could hit her, so even 8 attacks per round wasn't doing much, but the priestess did actually get grappled and took a decent amount of damage before they managed to shred them into calimari. Meanwhile the guys opened up the door to room 18, where more kuo-toa were guarding the shaft down to level 4. The orc did most of the heavy hitting as usual, then they backed off once the monsters were downed and the sniper finished them off with an electric blast. They then had to spend several rounds finding the girls and telling them that the main plot was this-a-way, once again slowed down by the underwater movement penalties before they could get to the final level.Level 4 continued in a similar fashion, two more waves of kuo-toa defences that at this point it was obvious were merely stalling for time, even the choke point of area 23 failing to do more than get a couple of lightning bolts off before they were destroyed by charging orc and the others piggybacking on him to make up for their slower movement rates. I had hopes that the kraken that was the original boss of this adventure would last a little longer, as it does at least have 310 hp in 3e. But no, the orc had the right martial maneuver ready to unleash a full attacks worth of triple damage strikes that downed it in a single round. But no amount of twinkery can deny the whims of the DM, so it was still able to gasp out a dramatic "you're too late", and they could see the portal open behind it with tentacles even longer than a kraken's emerging from the rip in space. Perfect time for a cliffhanger ending. Lets see if the Scarlet Lord survives any longer with not only 408 hp, but also 20/+4 damage reduction and actually gets to use the other tricks up its many sleeves.</blockquote>

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