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<blockquote data-quote="Menexenus" data-source="post: 3404198" data-attributes="member: 8951"><p><strong>Session 26: Beneath the Cold Forge</strong></p><p></p><p><em> 2nd of Reaping</em>. Upon learning that the party was wanted by the Greyhawk authorities for questioning, Alexander was adamant that they should turn themselves in immediately. The rest of the group was much more wary. Alexander argued that the longer they waited, the more suspicious they would look. Tarric was inclined to agree with Alexander but refused to abandon the rest of the party. The other four party members, though, were equally adamant about not turning themselves in. With his pithy wisdom, Katawan submitted that it would be foolish for the fly to willingly enter the spider's web. Thorash agreed heartily with this sentiment. Due to her prior experiences with the law, Alees wanted to leave town altogether. Killick seemed concerned that, if the party did not investigate the Cold Forge lead soon, the bad guys might not be there any more. </p><p></p><p> At dusk, Thorash re-memorized spells. Immediately afterwards, he cast a spell to seek his deity's guidance about what they should do. He asked Wee Jas whether the enemies beneath the Cold Forge would be gone if the party waited a day for Alexander to be released. The response Thorash received was that the enemies would remain, but Alexander might not be released in a day. Although Alexander was dismissive of any information gathered from a deity the likes of Wee Jas, the rest of the party concluded that it would be better to continue on to the Cold Forge while Alexander turned himself in.</p><p></p><p> Later that evening, the party headed towards the Cold Forge, cautiously avoiding City Watch patrols. Using directions given to them by Eligos, they found the smithy (which was closed for business), found a manhole cover nearby, and descended into the sewers. They found that the sewers reeked even worse than usual, because of all the blood and gore that had run off from the street level due to the Worm's Rampage. At first the party became frustrated because there were no obvious exits or entrances that might lead to a subterranean lair. Nor was there any sign of a secret door that the party could find. Finally, though, Killick noticed a slightly phosphorescent bootprint near the waterline. Killick investigated the substance and determined that it was Beggar's Gold, a relatively rare phosphorescent fungus that grew in subterranean environments near deposits of heavy metals. Killick attempted to follow the tracks back the way they had come. After about a half an hour (and after briefly losing the trail once), the party found that they had descended to a tunnel about 60 feet below street level (according to Thorash's dwarven estimation). Finally, Killick spotted a collapsed tunnel wall leading into a natural cavern whose entrance was covered with Beggar's Gold.</p><p></p><p> Alees moved forward quietly and poked her head in to see what was inside. She saw a small room filled with Beggar's Gold. Among the yellow phosphorescent fungus were 4 large toadstools about 2 - 3 feet high. She returned to the party (which had remaind around a corner close by) and reported this information to them. Killick moved forward with his continual light torch to investigate the toadstools more closely. That's when the toadstools began making a shrieking noise that was tremendously loud.</p><p></p><p> Realizing that their surprise was lost, the party sprang into action. Katawan bolted through Beggar's Gold and past the shrieking mushrooms into a thin passageway beyond. As he ran through, the yellow fungus on the ground shot out some spores. Katawan coughed a bit as he inhaled them, and then yelled back that the spores were poisonous. He stopped running when a clay jar was tossed down in front of him, exploding on the floor and igniting some oil that had been spread on the floor. As Katawan jumped back, away from the mini-inferno, he looked up and spotted three dark-skinned elves with white hair staring down at him from a rocky shelf near the roof of the natural passageway.</p><p></p><p> In the meantime, Killick identified the fungus that Katawan had run through and determined that it could be burned away. He threw two bottles of alchemist fire on the ground to clear a safe path through the fungus. Meanwhile, Killick's new animal companion, a wardog named Grimlock joined Tarric in attacking the shrieking mushrooms (whose loud screeches were making it difficult for the party to communicate). Rather than waiting for the fire to burn itself out, Thorash jumped over the last 5 feet of yellow mold and moved to catch up with Katawan. However, when he saw that there were 3 attackers waiting in ambush, he withdrew back to the fungus room (which was now blessedly quiet).</p><p></p><p> Tarric, Killick, and Alees moved forward to catch up with Katawan. But by this time, Katawan was already long gone. He had continued on into a large cave with a small pool. He saw a large snake with a woman's head emerge from the pool and hide behind one of the 3 natural stone pillars in the room. Katawan yelled back over his shoulder to his comrades about the snake-creature and then went around the pillar looking for it. He did not find it until he bumped into its invisible body, causing the creature to hiss viciously. As Katawan tried to strike the invisible monster, he was attacked from behind by a small group of more dark-skinned elves which had entered the room from the far side. Katawan tumbled away from his attackers, moving towards the direction they had come from. He found another large cavern with a small cage full of poorly fed swine and cattle and a natural stone ramp leading up to a 10 foot tall ledge overlooking one side of the room. In the middle of this room stood a female dark-elf spellcaster. Katawan had found his target!</p><p></p><p> Meanwhile, Thorash, who had remained in the fungus room while Alees and Tarric shot at the 3 drow on the ledge, suddenly heard footsteps coming up from behind. He whirled around and almost fired a crossbow bolt at the newcomer before recognizing that it was Alexander! Although Thorash was puzzled about how Alexander could have caught up with them so soon after turning himself in, he grudgingly admitted that Alexander's abilities would undoubtedly come in handy against the enemy. Alexander moved forward and shot one of the drow on the ledge with a barrage of Magic Missiles that was noticeably more powerful than the ones he usually cast. The drow enemy fell dead from his perch. The other two drew tanglefoot bags from pouches at their sides and tossed them at Alees and Alexander. Both were struck by the sticky goo. Alexander was held fast to the ground. Alees called on her god's luck power to avoid being cemented to the ground. Tarric moved to help scrape the goo off his comrades. Meanwhile, Killick and his faithful Grimlock moved in to flank the invisible snake creature. After bumping into its invisible form, he cast a spell that outlined its invisible form with glowing light. Then he and the wardog flanked the creature. The damage caused by Killick's whirling quarterstaff finally caused the creature to strike back (thereby becoming visible again). It sank its teeth into the dog, causing grievous damage, but it obeyed its new master and held its ground.</p><p></p><p> Katawan moved to strike at the drow spellcaster, a cleric by the looks of her weaponry. She drew a heavy mace and clocked him mightily. Katawan shook off some kind of spell effect and marvelled at the unnatural strength the woman possessed - no doubt the result of vile sorcery. When Katawan noticed that there was a door in the wall near the cattle pen, he ran over to see if it would open. It did not. Now that Katawan was separated from their mistress, the drow warriors took this opportunity to toss their tanglefoot bags at him. He was only struck by 3 of the 5 bags, and he avoided being stuck to the ground. The female cleric followed Katawan and brained him again. Katawan decided that it was time for some healing, so he used a stored spell from inside his ring. Immediately afterwards, though, Katawan's breathing became labored as he felt the effects of the poison he had inhaled earlier doing its damage in his system. With a cough and a retch, he collapsed at the drow cleric's feet.</p><p></p><p> Tarric ran into the room in time to see Katawan fall. He faced off against the drow warriors and began slicing through them with the expertise and efficiency that the party had come to rely on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Menexenus, post: 3404198, member: 8951"] [b]Session 26: Beneath the Cold Forge[/b] [I] 2nd of Reaping[/I]. Upon learning that the party was wanted by the Greyhawk authorities for questioning, Alexander was adamant that they should turn themselves in immediately. The rest of the group was much more wary. Alexander argued that the longer they waited, the more suspicious they would look. Tarric was inclined to agree with Alexander but refused to abandon the rest of the party. The other four party members, though, were equally adamant about not turning themselves in. With his pithy wisdom, Katawan submitted that it would be foolish for the fly to willingly enter the spider's web. Thorash agreed heartily with this sentiment. Due to her prior experiences with the law, Alees wanted to leave town altogether. Killick seemed concerned that, if the party did not investigate the Cold Forge lead soon, the bad guys might not be there any more. At dusk, Thorash re-memorized spells. Immediately afterwards, he cast a spell to seek his deity's guidance about what they should do. He asked Wee Jas whether the enemies beneath the Cold Forge would be gone if the party waited a day for Alexander to be released. The response Thorash received was that the enemies would remain, but Alexander might not be released in a day. Although Alexander was dismissive of any information gathered from a deity the likes of Wee Jas, the rest of the party concluded that it would be better to continue on to the Cold Forge while Alexander turned himself in. Later that evening, the party headed towards the Cold Forge, cautiously avoiding City Watch patrols. Using directions given to them by Eligos, they found the smithy (which was closed for business), found a manhole cover nearby, and descended into the sewers. They found that the sewers reeked even worse than usual, because of all the blood and gore that had run off from the street level due to the Worm's Rampage. At first the party became frustrated because there were no obvious exits or entrances that might lead to a subterranean lair. Nor was there any sign of a secret door that the party could find. Finally, though, Killick noticed a slightly phosphorescent bootprint near the waterline. Killick investigated the substance and determined that it was Beggar's Gold, a relatively rare phosphorescent fungus that grew in subterranean environments near deposits of heavy metals. Killick attempted to follow the tracks back the way they had come. After about a half an hour (and after briefly losing the trail once), the party found that they had descended to a tunnel about 60 feet below street level (according to Thorash's dwarven estimation). Finally, Killick spotted a collapsed tunnel wall leading into a natural cavern whose entrance was covered with Beggar's Gold. Alees moved forward quietly and poked her head in to see what was inside. She saw a small room filled with Beggar's Gold. Among the yellow phosphorescent fungus were 4 large toadstools about 2 - 3 feet high. She returned to the party (which had remaind around a corner close by) and reported this information to them. Killick moved forward with his continual light torch to investigate the toadstools more closely. That's when the toadstools began making a shrieking noise that was tremendously loud. Realizing that their surprise was lost, the party sprang into action. Katawan bolted through Beggar's Gold and past the shrieking mushrooms into a thin passageway beyond. As he ran through, the yellow fungus on the ground shot out some spores. Katawan coughed a bit as he inhaled them, and then yelled back that the spores were poisonous. He stopped running when a clay jar was tossed down in front of him, exploding on the floor and igniting some oil that had been spread on the floor. As Katawan jumped back, away from the mini-inferno, he looked up and spotted three dark-skinned elves with white hair staring down at him from a rocky shelf near the roof of the natural passageway. In the meantime, Killick identified the fungus that Katawan had run through and determined that it could be burned away. He threw two bottles of alchemist fire on the ground to clear a safe path through the fungus. Meanwhile, Killick's new animal companion, a wardog named Grimlock joined Tarric in attacking the shrieking mushrooms (whose loud screeches were making it difficult for the party to communicate). Rather than waiting for the fire to burn itself out, Thorash jumped over the last 5 feet of yellow mold and moved to catch up with Katawan. However, when he saw that there were 3 attackers waiting in ambush, he withdrew back to the fungus room (which was now blessedly quiet). Tarric, Killick, and Alees moved forward to catch up with Katawan. But by this time, Katawan was already long gone. He had continued on into a large cave with a small pool. He saw a large snake with a woman's head emerge from the pool and hide behind one of the 3 natural stone pillars in the room. Katawan yelled back over his shoulder to his comrades about the snake-creature and then went around the pillar looking for it. He did not find it until he bumped into its invisible body, causing the creature to hiss viciously. As Katawan tried to strike the invisible monster, he was attacked from behind by a small group of more dark-skinned elves which had entered the room from the far side. Katawan tumbled away from his attackers, moving towards the direction they had come from. He found another large cavern with a small cage full of poorly fed swine and cattle and a natural stone ramp leading up to a 10 foot tall ledge overlooking one side of the room. In the middle of this room stood a female dark-elf spellcaster. Katawan had found his target! Meanwhile, Thorash, who had remained in the fungus room while Alees and Tarric shot at the 3 drow on the ledge, suddenly heard footsteps coming up from behind. He whirled around and almost fired a crossbow bolt at the newcomer before recognizing that it was Alexander! Although Thorash was puzzled about how Alexander could have caught up with them so soon after turning himself in, he grudgingly admitted that Alexander's abilities would undoubtedly come in handy against the enemy. Alexander moved forward and shot one of the drow on the ledge with a barrage of Magic Missiles that was noticeably more powerful than the ones he usually cast. The drow enemy fell dead from his perch. The other two drew tanglefoot bags from pouches at their sides and tossed them at Alees and Alexander. Both were struck by the sticky goo. Alexander was held fast to the ground. Alees called on her god's luck power to avoid being cemented to the ground. Tarric moved to help scrape the goo off his comrades. Meanwhile, Killick and his faithful Grimlock moved in to flank the invisible snake creature. After bumping into its invisible form, he cast a spell that outlined its invisible form with glowing light. Then he and the wardog flanked the creature. The damage caused by Killick's whirling quarterstaff finally caused the creature to strike back (thereby becoming visible again). It sank its teeth into the dog, causing grievous damage, but it obeyed its new master and held its ground. Katawan moved to strike at the drow spellcaster, a cleric by the looks of her weaponry. She drew a heavy mace and clocked him mightily. Katawan shook off some kind of spell effect and marvelled at the unnatural strength the woman possessed - no doubt the result of vile sorcery. When Katawan noticed that there was a door in the wall near the cattle pen, he ran over to see if it would open. It did not. Now that Katawan was separated from their mistress, the drow warriors took this opportunity to toss their tanglefoot bags at him. He was only struck by 3 of the 5 bags, and he avoided being stuck to the ground. The female cleric followed Katawan and brained him again. Katawan decided that it was time for some healing, so he used a stored spell from inside his ring. Immediately afterwards, though, Katawan's breathing became labored as he felt the effects of the poison he had inhaled earlier doing its damage in his system. With a cough and a retch, he collapsed at the drow cleric's feet. Tarric ran into the room in time to see Katawan fall. He faced off against the drow warriors and began slicing through them with the expertise and efficiency that the party had come to rely on. [/QUOTE]
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