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<blockquote data-quote="Menexenus" data-source="post: 3350250" data-attributes="member: 8951"><p><strong>Session 18: The Spawn of Kyuss</strong></p><p></p><p><em>3rd of Wealsun (evening). </em> After Thorash prayed for spells at dusk, he cast Water Breathing on the party so that they could investigate the egg chamber. (They decided that facing the Otyugh was an unnecessary risk.) The lead party member was caught in a Snare 4 different times in the narrow underwater corridor leading to the egg chamber. But since the party was able to breath water, these harmless traps presented no serious obstacle. When Thorash's head poked up above the surface of the murky water on the far side of the submerged passageway, he saw a large egg chamber guarded by 10 well-armed and armored kobolds. They fired hand crossbows at him as he emerged from the water, wounding him slightly. Killick moved forward and cast Entangle on the enemy. Only a few of the kobolds were caught by the spell. The others moved quickly to the side of the chamber that contained the dragon's hoard of gold coins (which was unaffected by the spell). Alexander moved into the room and cast fireball, killing many of the kobolds and fusing most of the gold together. Tarric moved to the front and killed many kobolds simultaneously with Great Cleave. </p><p></p><p>Alexander cast lightning bolt on the larger black dragon egg in the middle of the chamber. This vaporized the top half of the egg, but unexpectedly, thousands of tiny green worms began pouring out of the lower half of the egg into the surrounding water. Alexander cast Web around the egg to try to slow the worms down. Many worms got caught in the Entangle and the Web, but those few that were not stuck were fanning out and burrowing into the surrounding lizardfolk eggs, causing them to turn from bone white to dull gray. Tarric and Alees worked briefly to free some large chunks from the fused pile of gold. Killick threw Alchemists' Fire at the Web, killing some of the worms and causing damage to some kind of creature inside the web (as yet unseen by the party). Killick also spotted some small objects swimming in the water like water snakes. When Killick saw that these things were lizardfolk embryos that had been turned into some kind of wormy undead (and when he sees that more of these creatures are hatching every round), he called for the party to retreat. Thorash moved up for a closer look and commanded 3 of them to attack their brethren. Meanwhile, Katawan and Alexander moved quickly to recover the chests on the far side of the room. The party finally withdrew as tens (perhaps hundreds) of little undead hatchlings moved menacingly (but slowly) towards them. </p><p></p><p>After moving back through the submerged tunnel, they found Marzena, grabbed the larger chest of Greyhawk gold, took it to the wagon waiting outside, and headed back towards Blackwall Keep at the fastest possible speed. It quickly became apparent that they were not being pursued.</p><p> </p><p> <em>4th - 6th of Wealsun</em>. The party traveled out of the swamp, back to Blackwall Keep. Along the way, another giant crocodile was encountered and defeated. The party also encountered more evidence of at least one cockatrice (bird-like animal with a petrifying gaze) living in the swamp. During down time, the party opened the 3 chests recovered from the egg chamber. Two of them were padded, protective chests, containing 4 potion vials each. One chest contains 2 vials of opaque reddish brown liquid that turned out to be potions of Bull's Strength as well as 2 vials of inky dark blue liquid which turned out to be potions of Cure Serious Wounds. The second chest contained 2 vials of silvery metallic liquid which turned out to be potions of Haste as well as 2 vials of dark black liquid which turned out to be potions of Invisibility. The third chest contains 960 gp with a magical Ring of Spell Storing buried among the coins.</p><p> </p><p> <em>7th of Wealsun</em>. The party finally returned to Blackwall Keep. Alexander and Thorash started coughing, suffering from diahrrea, and experiencing chills and weakness. When party members inquired about these symptoms at the Keep, the soldiers said that it is a common disease called Swamp Fever that usually passes in about a week. (It is deadly only in the rarest cases - usually among the very young and very old.)</p><p> </p><p> Although the Keep had been reinforced by soldiers from Diamond Lake during the party's absence, there are still relatively few soldiers defending the keep, as large groups had been sent out to pursue the remnants of the lizardfolk army. The acting-commander of the Keep begged the party for help defeating some unknown menace that is resposible for 4 deaths. Whatever it was that was killing his men had been trapped in the Keep's basement, and the party suspects that it may be related to the diplomatic negotiator from Greyhawk that had been quarantined prior to the attack on the Keep. The party asked for compensation, and the interim commander suggested that if they defeated the beast in the keep's basement, he would forget about the chest of gold that they had brought back from the swamp. (Marzena seemed to find this sort of under-the-table deal-making distasteful, but she held her tongue.) Once Alexander was convinced that the commander had the legal authority to make such an offer, the party gladly accepted his offer.</p><p></p><p> They opened the previously barracaded basement door and were quickly engaged by 3 zombie-like creatures that were literally dripping with tiny green worms. The sight of these abominations caused Tarric, Alexander, and Katawan to flee in fear. As they attacked the remaining party members, they usually attempted to slam the party. But occasionally one would simply try to deliver a live worm to a party-member's exposed skin with a touch attack. Although the latter attacks were never successful, multiple party members were successfully slammed. When one of the zombie-creatures attacked Alees, the slam attack left a scratch that quickly seemed to become infected. Killick also noticed during the battle that some of the zombie-creatures' damage seemed to heal itself each round. However, when the battle was over, the party found 2 other bloated, green corpses of keep soldiers who had died in their sleep (but who had apparently not been turned into zombie-creatures).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Menexenus, post: 3350250, member: 8951"] [b]Session 18: The Spawn of Kyuss[/b] [I]3rd of Wealsun (evening). [/I] After Thorash prayed for spells at dusk, he cast Water Breathing on the party so that they could investigate the egg chamber. (They decided that facing the Otyugh was an unnecessary risk.) The lead party member was caught in a Snare 4 different times in the narrow underwater corridor leading to the egg chamber. But since the party was able to breath water, these harmless traps presented no serious obstacle. When Thorash's head poked up above the surface of the murky water on the far side of the submerged passageway, he saw a large egg chamber guarded by 10 well-armed and armored kobolds. They fired hand crossbows at him as he emerged from the water, wounding him slightly. Killick moved forward and cast Entangle on the enemy. Only a few of the kobolds were caught by the spell. The others moved quickly to the side of the chamber that contained the dragon's hoard of gold coins (which was unaffected by the spell). Alexander moved into the room and cast fireball, killing many of the kobolds and fusing most of the gold together. Tarric moved to the front and killed many kobolds simultaneously with Great Cleave. Alexander cast lightning bolt on the larger black dragon egg in the middle of the chamber. This vaporized the top half of the egg, but unexpectedly, thousands of tiny green worms began pouring out of the lower half of the egg into the surrounding water. Alexander cast Web around the egg to try to slow the worms down. Many worms got caught in the Entangle and the Web, but those few that were not stuck were fanning out and burrowing into the surrounding lizardfolk eggs, causing them to turn from bone white to dull gray. Tarric and Alees worked briefly to free some large chunks from the fused pile of gold. Killick threw Alchemists' Fire at the Web, killing some of the worms and causing damage to some kind of creature inside the web (as yet unseen by the party). Killick also spotted some small objects swimming in the water like water snakes. When Killick saw that these things were lizardfolk embryos that had been turned into some kind of wormy undead (and when he sees that more of these creatures are hatching every round), he called for the party to retreat. Thorash moved up for a closer look and commanded 3 of them to attack their brethren. Meanwhile, Katawan and Alexander moved quickly to recover the chests on the far side of the room. The party finally withdrew as tens (perhaps hundreds) of little undead hatchlings moved menacingly (but slowly) towards them. After moving back through the submerged tunnel, they found Marzena, grabbed the larger chest of Greyhawk gold, took it to the wagon waiting outside, and headed back towards Blackwall Keep at the fastest possible speed. It quickly became apparent that they were not being pursued. [I]4th - 6th of Wealsun[/I]. The party traveled out of the swamp, back to Blackwall Keep. Along the way, another giant crocodile was encountered and defeated. The party also encountered more evidence of at least one cockatrice (bird-like animal with a petrifying gaze) living in the swamp. During down time, the party opened the 3 chests recovered from the egg chamber. Two of them were padded, protective chests, containing 4 potion vials each. One chest contains 2 vials of opaque reddish brown liquid that turned out to be potions of Bull's Strength as well as 2 vials of inky dark blue liquid which turned out to be potions of Cure Serious Wounds. The second chest contained 2 vials of silvery metallic liquid which turned out to be potions of Haste as well as 2 vials of dark black liquid which turned out to be potions of Invisibility. The third chest contains 960 gp with a magical Ring of Spell Storing buried among the coins. [I]7th of Wealsun[/I]. The party finally returned to Blackwall Keep. Alexander and Thorash started coughing, suffering from diahrrea, and experiencing chills and weakness. When party members inquired about these symptoms at the Keep, the soldiers said that it is a common disease called Swamp Fever that usually passes in about a week. (It is deadly only in the rarest cases - usually among the very young and very old.) Although the Keep had been reinforced by soldiers from Diamond Lake during the party's absence, there are still relatively few soldiers defending the keep, as large groups had been sent out to pursue the remnants of the lizardfolk army. The acting-commander of the Keep begged the party for help defeating some unknown menace that is resposible for 4 deaths. Whatever it was that was killing his men had been trapped in the Keep's basement, and the party suspects that it may be related to the diplomatic negotiator from Greyhawk that had been quarantined prior to the attack on the Keep. The party asked for compensation, and the interim commander suggested that if they defeated the beast in the keep's basement, he would forget about the chest of gold that they had brought back from the swamp. (Marzena seemed to find this sort of under-the-table deal-making distasteful, but she held her tongue.) Once Alexander was convinced that the commander had the legal authority to make such an offer, the party gladly accepted his offer. They opened the previously barracaded basement door and were quickly engaged by 3 zombie-like creatures that were literally dripping with tiny green worms. The sight of these abominations caused Tarric, Alexander, and Katawan to flee in fear. As they attacked the remaining party members, they usually attempted to slam the party. But occasionally one would simply try to deliver a live worm to a party-member's exposed skin with a touch attack. Although the latter attacks were never successful, multiple party members were successfully slammed. When one of the zombie-creatures attacked Alees, the slam attack left a scratch that quickly seemed to become infected. Killick also noticed during the battle that some of the zombie-creatures' damage seemed to heal itself each round. However, when the battle was over, the party found 2 other bloated, green corpses of keep soldiers who had died in their sleep (but who had apparently not been turned into zombie-creatures). [/QUOTE]
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