Like Father, Like Son: Kid Charlemagne's Story Hour , PT III
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Gavin
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Wouldn't that be woman-handling then?
Gavin didn't even have a chance to say, "What are you talking abouuu..." as Reanna tackled him over the edge. Nobody told me Reanna had feather fall.
I loved the scene of Soldago (who is also Neutral, by the way) stuck in his envelope of silence and unable to see very far in the fog. He looks over where Gav and Reanna were standing and sees nothing but a *poof* of fog. He never even knew what was going on until the flame strike went off.
KidC forgot about the fireball arrow Soldago shot down the hole after the flame strike . There was a whole lot burning going on down there. Poor Quinn. Poor blackened, crispy, smoking Quinn.
Gavin didn't even have a chance to say, "What are you talking abouuu..." as Reanna tackled him over the edge. Nobody told me Reanna had feather fall.
I loved the scene of Soldago (who is also Neutral, by the way) stuck in his envelope of silence and unable to see very far in the fog. He looks over where Gav and Reanna were standing and sees nothing but a *poof* of fog. He never even knew what was going on until the flame strike went off.
KidC forgot about the fireball arrow Soldago shot down the hole after the flame strike . There was a whole lot burning going on down there. Poor Quinn. Poor blackened, crispy, smoking Quinn.
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Kid Charlemagne
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Gavin said:
Didn't forget; I was saving that for the kickoff of the next installment...
Quinn had a very bad day. He was one of several people on yoyo strings... up-down-up-down.
Kid Charlemagne
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An Unidentified Island in the Retic Sea, June 28th, AE 420
Arlen Kentfield screams to the cloaked woman.
“Keep them off of us!”
He then kneels down and cures Quinn. The battered and blistered alienist opens his eyes, and looks hazily around the courtyard, visibility now excellent since the fire has burnt off all the nearby fog.
And Soldago, now with a clear view of the situation, draws back his bowstring and lets fly with the fireball arrow from his bow. Quinn goes down again.
Kentfield utters a cry of frustration and starts working on his ally again. Meanwhile, the cloaked woman advances on Reana and Gavin, swords whirling. Gavin is unsettled to notice that she appears to have razor-sharp teeth and reddish eyes. He gulps and engages her in combat.
Kwarion uses the opportunity to move into postion for sneak attacks. The unholy aura has worn off by this time, so Reana and Gavin are having an easier time dealing with him. Glaron stands by Kentfield and begins pepering the area with frost arrows. The other rogue moves into sneak attack position as well.
Upstairs, Brennen looks down and thinks he knows where the door Kentfield is standing in front of comes out. He begins flying towards the dock where Kentfield’s ship is anchored. On the way, he sees Jalea heading the same direction, and grabs him. They land by the door, but before Jalea can begin picking the lock, a half-dozen sailors from the ship run towards them, shortswords held high.
A couple of seconds later, four of them lie dead on the dock, and the remaining two back off carefully…
Brennen sighs in relief, but then two figures leap out of the water and pull themselves onto the dock. It is the Sahuagin priestess from Ulfang, and her four-armed warrior guardian.
“Oh, boy,” Brennen groans, and prepares for a fight.
Kentfield manages to resuscitate Quinn again, and the beleaguered wizard stumbles to his feet.
And Corwin drops a lightning bolt on his head.
Quinn goes down for good this time.
Kentfield is enraged. He’s also been taking damage from the various blasts, and has futilely tried to save Quinn’s life. He abandons that plan, and casts a spell. Reana feels her joints stiffen, as she freezes in place.
The cloaked woman makes a motion with one of her swords, and a inky-black cloud descends over Gavin, Jovah, and Aris. They shake off the worst of its effects.
The cloaked woman throws back her hood and laughs. A third arm appears from her side, drawing a scimitar. A fourth arm appears, drawing yet another. A fifth, then a sixth. Her legs have merged into a long snaky tail, and she grows in height to about nine foot tall, grinning evilly, wielding 5 weapons in her 6 arms, each glowing with magical power.
She beckons to Gavin. “Come here, little man, and meet your doom!”
Jovah has been waiting for confirmation of her demonic nature, however. He casts dismissal. The Marilith shrieks in anger, and resists the effects of the attempted banishment.
Jovah isn’t done yet, though. Using his Luckmaster powers, he bends the laws of probability back a bit, and forces her to resist his spell again.
And this time she fails.
With a plaintive wail and a puff of brimstone and sulfur, the demon vanishes into thin air, sent back to whatever layer of the Abyss she came from. Kwarion is stuck next to Gavin, having manouevered into sneak attack position to finish him off. Instead, Gavin makes short work of him. Aris takes down the other rogue.
With a moment to breathe, Kentfield begins another spell. This time however, Corwin is waiting for him. He has readied a summon swarm, and the demonologist is engulfed by biting, swooping bats. They render him unable to cast any spells. He screams in anger. He is burnt, bruised, bloodied, and now getting bitten to death by a swarm of bats.
He turns towards his enemies and gestures with his right hand. From a ring on his finger fly three shooting stars; one lands on Jovah; burning him badly; one lands on Gavin and Reana, and Gavin drops, unconscious. The third shooting star lands on Aris and Kentfield himself. The swarm is instantly burnt away, but the demon-priest is badly hurt as well.
Jovah dispels the hold person on Reana, and she begins to advance on Kentfield, who is now all alone. Jovah then moves over to help Gavin.
Kentfield pulls a wand from his belt and aims it a Jovah, who is near death. Suddenly everything goes black. Jovah wonders if he was killed instantly, then realizes he can still hear the battle. The area is enveloped in darkness. Reana stumbles forward through the darkness and comes out right next to Kentfield, who is headed for the door behind him. Two quick sword strokes are all it takes, and Arlen Kentfield goes down in a heap.
Reana cuts his head off for good measure. She thinks of doing the same to Quinn, but he’s pretty much ash at this point.
Back at the dock, Brennen and Jalea are attempting to hold off the sahuagin. Brennen has lost one of his swords, but is holding his own. The priestess gestures towards him, and the Sword of Kelanen is held. With a nasty grin, the four-armed sahuagin grabs him, and tosses him off the dock!
Luckily, Brennen had water breathing cast on him!
Jalea now is facing off the Sahuagin warrior alone, and not doing well. The thing’s dual harpoons cut and slice into the elf.
“Help!” he yells, abandoning all decorum in the face of death. “Somebody! Help!”
Reana and Corwin hear the screams. The Ranger moves to the door. She looks around to see if she can see any signs of glyphs. The screams for help stop.
“Aw, hell,” she says, and opens the door, throwing caution to the wind.
The sonic glyph of warding knocks Jovah unconscious, but Reana survives. She runs down a hall to another door, and guesses that Jalea is on the other side.
“If he’s unconscious, and I open this door, and it’s glyphed, I could kill him,” she thinks to herself.
Corwin runs down to Jovah, and feeds him a potion of cure light wounds. The gnome groggily wakes up.
“What happened?”
Soldago is looking out for any activity. He sees one of the Ralt Gaitherese cultists run up the stairs to near where he is. He draws back an arrow, but is surprised as the katana wielding man is much faster than he expected. He approaches Soldago, and swings viciously. Blood sprays, and Soldago cries for help.
No noise comes out, since the silence is still in effect, centered on the archer. Instead he backs away.
The cry has gone up that Kentfield is dead. The crew of the fallen demon-worshipper raise anchor, and begin to sail off; the sahuagin priestess yells something to the four-armed warrior and dives off into the water. The warrior looks at the unconscious Jalea at his feet, curses loudly, and dives off the dock himself. Brennen pulls himself out of the water onto the dock, the hold person having worn off. He sees Jalea down, and goes over and stabilizes the dying elf. He tells Reana on the other side of the door that they are safe.
Soldago braces for a charge from the katana-wielding man that never comes. He sees him look suddenly to his right, apparently listening to a command from an unseen source. He then bows sharply, and runs off, as quickly as he arrived.
After saving Jalea, Brennen amuses himself, flying into the sails of Kentfield’s vessel, cutting rigging, until he draws some crossbow fire.
Soldago heads downstairs and over to Jovah, gesturing to his mouth. Jovah looks at him puzzled, then with understanding. He dispels the silence.
“That spell nearly was the death of me,” Soldago grouses.
Arlen Kentfield screams to the cloaked woman.
“Keep them off of us!”
He then kneels down and cures Quinn. The battered and blistered alienist opens his eyes, and looks hazily around the courtyard, visibility now excellent since the fire has burnt off all the nearby fog.
And Soldago, now with a clear view of the situation, draws back his bowstring and lets fly with the fireball arrow from his bow. Quinn goes down again.
Kentfield utters a cry of frustration and starts working on his ally again. Meanwhile, the cloaked woman advances on Reana and Gavin, swords whirling. Gavin is unsettled to notice that she appears to have razor-sharp teeth and reddish eyes. He gulps and engages her in combat.
Kwarion uses the opportunity to move into postion for sneak attacks. The unholy aura has worn off by this time, so Reana and Gavin are having an easier time dealing with him. Glaron stands by Kentfield and begins pepering the area with frost arrows. The other rogue moves into sneak attack position as well.
Upstairs, Brennen looks down and thinks he knows where the door Kentfield is standing in front of comes out. He begins flying towards the dock where Kentfield’s ship is anchored. On the way, he sees Jalea heading the same direction, and grabs him. They land by the door, but before Jalea can begin picking the lock, a half-dozen sailors from the ship run towards them, shortswords held high.
A couple of seconds later, four of them lie dead on the dock, and the remaining two back off carefully…
Brennen sighs in relief, but then two figures leap out of the water and pull themselves onto the dock. It is the Sahuagin priestess from Ulfang, and her four-armed warrior guardian.
“Oh, boy,” Brennen groans, and prepares for a fight.
Kentfield manages to resuscitate Quinn again, and the beleaguered wizard stumbles to his feet.
And Corwin drops a lightning bolt on his head.
Quinn goes down for good this time.
Kentfield is enraged. He’s also been taking damage from the various blasts, and has futilely tried to save Quinn’s life. He abandons that plan, and casts a spell. Reana feels her joints stiffen, as she freezes in place.
The cloaked woman makes a motion with one of her swords, and a inky-black cloud descends over Gavin, Jovah, and Aris. They shake off the worst of its effects.
The cloaked woman throws back her hood and laughs. A third arm appears from her side, drawing a scimitar. A fourth arm appears, drawing yet another. A fifth, then a sixth. Her legs have merged into a long snaky tail, and she grows in height to about nine foot tall, grinning evilly, wielding 5 weapons in her 6 arms, each glowing with magical power.
She beckons to Gavin. “Come here, little man, and meet your doom!”
Jovah has been waiting for confirmation of her demonic nature, however. He casts dismissal. The Marilith shrieks in anger, and resists the effects of the attempted banishment.
Jovah isn’t done yet, though. Using his Luckmaster powers, he bends the laws of probability back a bit, and forces her to resist his spell again.
And this time she fails.
With a plaintive wail and a puff of brimstone and sulfur, the demon vanishes into thin air, sent back to whatever layer of the Abyss she came from. Kwarion is stuck next to Gavin, having manouevered into sneak attack position to finish him off. Instead, Gavin makes short work of him. Aris takes down the other rogue.
With a moment to breathe, Kentfield begins another spell. This time however, Corwin is waiting for him. He has readied a summon swarm, and the demonologist is engulfed by biting, swooping bats. They render him unable to cast any spells. He screams in anger. He is burnt, bruised, bloodied, and now getting bitten to death by a swarm of bats.
He turns towards his enemies and gestures with his right hand. From a ring on his finger fly three shooting stars; one lands on Jovah; burning him badly; one lands on Gavin and Reana, and Gavin drops, unconscious. The third shooting star lands on Aris and Kentfield himself. The swarm is instantly burnt away, but the demon-priest is badly hurt as well.
Jovah dispels the hold person on Reana, and she begins to advance on Kentfield, who is now all alone. Jovah then moves over to help Gavin.
Kentfield pulls a wand from his belt and aims it a Jovah, who is near death. Suddenly everything goes black. Jovah wonders if he was killed instantly, then realizes he can still hear the battle. The area is enveloped in darkness. Reana stumbles forward through the darkness and comes out right next to Kentfield, who is headed for the door behind him. Two quick sword strokes are all it takes, and Arlen Kentfield goes down in a heap.
Reana cuts his head off for good measure. She thinks of doing the same to Quinn, but he’s pretty much ash at this point.
Back at the dock, Brennen and Jalea are attempting to hold off the sahuagin. Brennen has lost one of his swords, but is holding his own. The priestess gestures towards him, and the Sword of Kelanen is held. With a nasty grin, the four-armed sahuagin grabs him, and tosses him off the dock!
Luckily, Brennen had water breathing cast on him!
Jalea now is facing off the Sahuagin warrior alone, and not doing well. The thing’s dual harpoons cut and slice into the elf.
“Help!” he yells, abandoning all decorum in the face of death. “Somebody! Help!”
Reana and Corwin hear the screams. The Ranger moves to the door. She looks around to see if she can see any signs of glyphs. The screams for help stop.
“Aw, hell,” she says, and opens the door, throwing caution to the wind.
The sonic glyph of warding knocks Jovah unconscious, but Reana survives. She runs down a hall to another door, and guesses that Jalea is on the other side.
“If he’s unconscious, and I open this door, and it’s glyphed, I could kill him,” she thinks to herself.
Corwin runs down to Jovah, and feeds him a potion of cure light wounds. The gnome groggily wakes up.
“What happened?”
Soldago is looking out for any activity. He sees one of the Ralt Gaitherese cultists run up the stairs to near where he is. He draws back an arrow, but is surprised as the katana wielding man is much faster than he expected. He approaches Soldago, and swings viciously. Blood sprays, and Soldago cries for help.
No noise comes out, since the silence is still in effect, centered on the archer. Instead he backs away.
The cry has gone up that Kentfield is dead. The crew of the fallen demon-worshipper raise anchor, and begin to sail off; the sahuagin priestess yells something to the four-armed warrior and dives off into the water. The warrior looks at the unconscious Jalea at his feet, curses loudly, and dives off the dock himself. Brennen pulls himself out of the water onto the dock, the hold person having worn off. He sees Jalea down, and goes over and stabilizes the dying elf. He tells Reana on the other side of the door that they are safe.
Soldago braces for a charge from the katana-wielding man that never comes. He sees him look suddenly to his right, apparently listening to a command from an unseen source. He then bows sharply, and runs off, as quickly as he arrived.
After saving Jalea, Brennen amuses himself, flying into the sails of Kentfield’s vessel, cutting rigging, until he draws some crossbow fire.
Soldago heads downstairs and over to Jovah, gesturing to his mouth. Jovah looks at him puzzled, then with understanding. He dispels the silence.
“That spell nearly was the death of me,” Soldago grouses.
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Gavin
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And here's an insight into my thoughts as Gavin was facing down the 6 armed demon:
"Oh good, six arms! Lessee, Reanna's held and Gav has 20 hit points, a 12 Str (thank you tons KidC), and only 2 arms.....maybe I'll be a cleric next. Now where did I put my PHB. Lessee...clerics...hmm...she vanishes! Alright Jovah! Thank you Bes!"
And Jovah's player was debating the wisdom of taking dismissal and water breathing before we folded in. Apparently Bes works in a metagame sense, too.
"Oh good, six arms! Lessee, Reanna's held and Gav has 20 hit points, a 12 Str (thank you tons KidC), and only 2 arms.....maybe I'll be a cleric next. Now where did I put my PHB. Lessee...clerics...hmm...she vanishes! Alright Jovah! Thank you Bes!"
And Jovah's player was debating the wisdom of taking dismissal and water breathing before we folded in. Apparently Bes works in a metagame sense, too.
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