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<blockquote data-quote="Menexenus" data-source="post: 3667657" data-attributes="member: 8951"><p><strong>Session 38: Confronting Eligos (or, Tying Up Loose Ends)</strong></p><p></p><p><em>11th of Harvester</em>. After conducting their individual business in the City of Greyhawk, the party members congregated at the Crooked House (a bar in the Foreign Quarter near Eligos's house in the Garden District) just before dinner. Thorash revealed to the party that he had communed with his deity and learned a number of important facts: a) Allustan was alive but safe, b) there is another band of adventurers seeking the Eye, c) the Eligos that Alexander gave the Pyramid and Ruby to was not the true Eligos, and d) the new Eligos was in league with Kyuss. Alexander was (as always) skeptical of any information reported by Thorash. Still, it gave the party some useful ammunition as they were about to confront the potential imposter. They cast a few protective spells and then made their way through the gate to Eligos's house. As always, they were accompanied by a City Watch guard until they reached their destination and were accepted inside.</p><p></p><p> Upon arrival at Eligos's house, they knocked on the door, which was quickly answered by Pollard, Eligos's elven butler. Pollard invited them inside, inviting Killick to tie his dog up in the house's small attached stable. Instead, Killick ordered the dog to stay just around the corner from the house's front entrance. Pollard escorted the group through the house's ground floor to the conference room. He invited them to make themselves comfortable and informed them that the master would be in to see them in a matter of minutes. Thorash and Killick remained standing while the other members of the group took seats around a long table. Given their suspicions about Eligos, all the party members were a bit on edge.</p><p></p><p> After about 10 minutes, Eligos came in, greeted the party, and seated himself at the head of the table. Killick and Thorash took their seats as well. After some pleasantries, Eligos inquired whether the party had been successful in recovering the White Eye. Alexander informed him that they had been distracted by a call for help from Allustan. Eligos inquired about Allustan's state of health. Alexander replied that his status was unknown. Eligos showed appropriate concern for his former colleague, but suggested that they make the White Eye their top priority. The party inquired as to the location of the Pyramid and the Ruby - the two pieces of the artifact that had already been delivered to Eligos privately by Alexander. Eligos replied that after inspecting them himself, he had sent them up the chain of command to his superior who he insisted must remain nameless. When he saw some incredulous looks on the faces of many party members, Eligos explained that Alexander was aware of the identity of Eligos's superior and that they should trust him that that individual was trustworthy. Alexander confirmed that Eligos's superior is a powerful and trustworthy wizard.</p><p></p><p> Next, the party expressed doubts about the wisdom of bringing all of the pieces of the artifact together in one place. Eligos explained that there was no way he could find to destroy the individual pieces of the artifact other than to use the artifact's full power against itself. And the only way to activate the artifact's full power was to bring all the pieces together. Tarric asked why the artifact needed to be destroyed at all, as long as the pieces were scattered and hidden. Eligos replied that a part of Kyuss's own essence had been reposited within the artifact. So, destroying the artifact would weaken Kyuss, thereby making it more difficult for Him to break the barriers that prevented Him from returning to Oerth. Finally, the group consented to retrieve the Eye, but they insisted that they would not deliver it to Eligos. Rather, they suggested that they should assemble members of their respective churches and give it to them instead. Eligos warned that there was significant danger in spreading word of their plans to assemble and destroy the artifact. Even if the churches were trustworthy, the more people who knew of the plan, the greater the chance that word of their plans could leak to the Cult of Kyuss. Killick mentioned that Thorash's divinations had revealed that there was another band of adventurers currently seeking the Eye. Eligos pointed out that this fact, if true, made it all the more important that the party recover it first. Killick asked how word of the Eye's location could possibly gotten out, since only he and the party knew its location. Eligos said he did not know how that could have happened. He speculated that divination magic of some kind might be involved. </p><p></p><p> The party reiterated that they would recover the Eye, but they would not deliver it to Eligos. After Eligos confirmed that the party could not be swayed on this point, his demeanor suddenly changed. He threatened that the party would not leave the house alive, and then, with a wave of his hand, he disappeared. Alexander informed the party that he had cast a spell allowing himself to teleport only a short distance away. He was probably still in the house. The party heard loud footsteps coming down the stairs. They jumped to their feet and armed themselves. They arrayed themselves to surprise whomever should open the conference room's door. But despite hearing many footfalls down the stairs and in the hall outside, the door did not open. Finally, Tarric opened the door. He saw a hulking figure with a scar running down his left cheek wearing banded mail and carrying a bastard sword waiting in ambush up against the wall just outside the door. Tarric stepped out into the hallway to confront this opponent. As he swang his sword at the aging gladiator, he suddenly felt a sting in his back that caused his stroke to miss. He had been stabbed by some previously invisible figure standing on the opposite side of the door. The figure was now visible. He was short and nondescript, dressed in dark colors, carrying a shortsword in each hand. Now that Tarric was out in the hallway he could see that a tiefling cleric whom the party had killed below the Arena was alive again and standing about 25 feet behind the gladiator. And about 10 feet behind the cleric stood Anders Fierk, the wizard who had asked the party for help obtaining the Rainbow Mage's spells at the White Boar Inn in Rosewater.</p><p></p><p> At the other end of the L-shaped hallway stood Pollard and a doppelganger. Both of them were wielding longswords. Katawan tumbled out into the hallway toward the doppelgangers. Alees tumbled out as well. However, she was struck by the darkly clothed shortsword-wielder in the corner. This caused her to stop her movement prematurely for fear of being struck again. Alexander cast a spell which allowed all of the party members to move faster and attack more often, for which they were very grateful. Fierk commanded Tarric to attack his partymates in words that dripped with arcane power. However, Tarric shook off the spell's effect. Two more doppelgangers wielding longswords emerged from a door near Katawan at the other end of the hallway. Thorash cast a spell on the gladiator, and he froze in place. The shortsword wielder in the corner sliced at Tarric unsuccessfully. He shouted out to the gladiator, "Get your head back in the game, Loris. I would have had him if you had continued distracting him!" Killick, who had cast a spell on his walking stick before the door was open, used it to pummel the dark-clad rogue in the corner multiple times. The cloven-hooved cleric cast a spell and strode forward with black energy crackling across his fingertips. He touched Alees, trying to draw the soul out of her body. For a moment, it seemed that he was successful, but then, with a scream of pain, she pushed his hand away. With the gladiator frozen, Tarric turned his attention to the backstabber in the corner, knocking him unconscious. Perhaps as a result of seeing his friend get knocked out, the gladiator recovered his wits and was no longer frozen. </p><p></p><p> Katawan successfully occupied Pollard and his three doppelganger friends with his Whirlwind Attack maneuver. Although they landed an occasional hit on him, his monk training was on full display as he avoided blow after blow. Alexander chose to assist Katawan by casting a fireball at the end of the hall, causing significant damage to all of the doppelgangers while Katawan's cat-like reflexes left him completely unharmed by the fiery explosion. At the other end of the hall, Eligos came down the stairs and cast a defensive spell on himself that made his skin appear to be as tough as stone. The evil cleric stepped forward and cast a healing spell on Loris's rogue ally, whose eyes flittered open momentarily. That is, until Tarric brought his bastard sword down onto the rogue's prone chest, closing his eyes once again. He brought his remaining attacks to bear against the cleric, causing him grievous wounds. Alees repositioned herself so that she was flanking the cleric with Tarric's help. She stabbed the cleric with her dagger in a vulnerable spot, and he collapsed to the floor sputtering blood. The gladiator turned to Alees and told her that she would pay for what she had just done. He swang his bastard sword in a whirling frenzy that struck her several times. Alees collapsed to the floor unconscious and bleeding. </p><p></p><p>Fierk began casting another spell. Thorash stepped into the doorway and tried to end the gladiator's life with a mere touch, but his attempt failed. Katawan continued to pummel his doppelganger opponents, preventing himself from becoming completely encircled by withdrawing slowly back toward the rest of the party. Tarric and the aging gladiator continued exchanging blows. Thorash reached down and touched the unconscious rogue in the corner and energized himself by absorbing what little life force remained within him. Alexander seemed disgusted by this evil act. (Apparently this was the first time that Alexander had witnessed Thorash delivering his Death Touch.) However, there was no time to dwell on Thorash's act. Alexander tumbled out of the doorway into the hall, past the gladiator in the direction of the two enemy wizards. Killick cast a spell that brought down a pillar of fire onto the two wizards at the end of the hall. While both seemed resistant to the flame damage, both of them were damaged by the holy column of fire. Fierk endured the pain and continued casting his spell. Loris attacked Tarric and then stepped closer to Alexander in order to threaten him. However, Alexander merely stepped out of the gladiator's reach and then cast a lightning bolt down the hallway, knocking Fierk out before he could finish his spell. (Alexander was surprised to see that his lightning bolt did not blow out the windows at the end of the hallway.) Killick tumbled down the hallway, onto the stairs, and struck at Eligos. Eligos suddenly changed shape into a barbarian brute. He gave out a cry of rage and then moved towards Alexander, drawing a great axe from his back. He swang it at Alexander striking him rather than one of the several images of himself that surrounded him for a moderate amount of damage. At long last Tarric won his battle with the gladiator. Loris's head dropped to the floor apart from its body. With the way now clear, Thorash moved out of the conference room towards the barbarian that had previously resembled Eligos. He touched the raging barbarian, and wounds suddenly appeared on his flesh where they had not been before. The barbarian collapsed, and reverted to its true form, that of a doppelganger. Alexander quickly moved back towards the conference room and targeted Pollard with a barrage of magic missiles. As the butler fell to the ground, its form shifted to that of a doppelganger as well. No enemies remained standing; the party was victorious!</p><p></p><p> Now that the battle was over, Killick quickly cast a spell that slowly rejuvenated Alees. Alexander checked out the window to see whether any members of the City Watch had come to investigate the loud noises coming from Eligos's house. There was no movement outside the window. All seemed well. The party did a quick search of the upstairs that Eligos had warned Alexander away from before. They found that many of the bedrooms contained multiple styles of clothing, like the bedrooms they had discovered in the doppelganger lair. One of the larger rooms contained an intricate (but incomplete) apparatus composed of a metal table and many glass tubes leading to a small receptacle. This large apparatus looked exactly like a broken apparatus they had discovered in the throne chamber of the doppelganger lair. In the closet of a deserted room, they found the bodies of both Pollard and Eligos in a state of decay that Killick estimated at 10 - 12 days. Eligos's skull had been cracked open by a combination of blunt force and a sharp edge, and his brain had been removed.</p><p></p><p> Alexander, desperate to revive Eligos, removed what remained of Eligos's skull. He told the rest of the party that he planned to teleport across town to the Church of St. Cuthbert and call in a favor to have Eligos revived. Killick suggested that he take Loris Raknian's head with him as well so that he might claim the reward for his capture and contribute that money towards raising Eligos. Alexander agreed. With a head under both arms, he cast the spell and was off.</p><p></p><p> About two hours later, Alexander and Eligos returned on foot. Eligos was visibly saddened to see the corpse of his butler Pollard. While Alexander had been gone, the party had gathered all of the enemies' valuables into a pile for identification. Eligos picked out the items that had been his. In the pile that remained, there were various magical armors and weapons, as well as the standard magical cloaks and rings. However, one notable item that was recovered was the very same Boccob's Blessed Book that Alexander had left behind in the Rainbow Mage's dungeon for Lady Learah to find. Inside the book, Alexander found the note that he had left with the book being used as a bookmark. Alees reported that the book had been recovered from Fierk's body. The party also found three very large and valuable gems on Eligos's imposter that have magical auras. Alexander confirmed definitively that the Eligos to whom he had given the Pyramid and the Ruby was the imposter. He asked the party if either item had been found anywhere inside the house - they had not. The party assumed that these pieces must now be in the hands of Kyuss worshippers.</p><p></p><p> Thorash, Alexander, and Eligos decided to wake the next morning and spend 8 hours working together to identify the properties of the magical items they had found. Then, after necessary sales and purchases had been made, they would teleport back to the cairn where Allustan was apparently trapped and try again to rescue him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Menexenus, post: 3667657, member: 8951"] [b]Session 38: Confronting Eligos (or, Tying Up Loose Ends)[/b] [I]11th of Harvester[/I]. After conducting their individual business in the City of Greyhawk, the party members congregated at the Crooked House (a bar in the Foreign Quarter near Eligos's house in the Garden District) just before dinner. Thorash revealed to the party that he had communed with his deity and learned a number of important facts: a) Allustan was alive but safe, b) there is another band of adventurers seeking the Eye, c) the Eligos that Alexander gave the Pyramid and Ruby to was not the true Eligos, and d) the new Eligos was in league with Kyuss. Alexander was (as always) skeptical of any information reported by Thorash. Still, it gave the party some useful ammunition as they were about to confront the potential imposter. They cast a few protective spells and then made their way through the gate to Eligos's house. As always, they were accompanied by a City Watch guard until they reached their destination and were accepted inside. Upon arrival at Eligos's house, they knocked on the door, which was quickly answered by Pollard, Eligos's elven butler. Pollard invited them inside, inviting Killick to tie his dog up in the house's small attached stable. Instead, Killick ordered the dog to stay just around the corner from the house's front entrance. Pollard escorted the group through the house's ground floor to the conference room. He invited them to make themselves comfortable and informed them that the master would be in to see them in a matter of minutes. Thorash and Killick remained standing while the other members of the group took seats around a long table. Given their suspicions about Eligos, all the party members were a bit on edge. After about 10 minutes, Eligos came in, greeted the party, and seated himself at the head of the table. Killick and Thorash took their seats as well. After some pleasantries, Eligos inquired whether the party had been successful in recovering the White Eye. Alexander informed him that they had been distracted by a call for help from Allustan. Eligos inquired about Allustan's state of health. Alexander replied that his status was unknown. Eligos showed appropriate concern for his former colleague, but suggested that they make the White Eye their top priority. The party inquired as to the location of the Pyramid and the Ruby - the two pieces of the artifact that had already been delivered to Eligos privately by Alexander. Eligos replied that after inspecting them himself, he had sent them up the chain of command to his superior who he insisted must remain nameless. When he saw some incredulous looks on the faces of many party members, Eligos explained that Alexander was aware of the identity of Eligos's superior and that they should trust him that that individual was trustworthy. Alexander confirmed that Eligos's superior is a powerful and trustworthy wizard. Next, the party expressed doubts about the wisdom of bringing all of the pieces of the artifact together in one place. Eligos explained that there was no way he could find to destroy the individual pieces of the artifact other than to use the artifact's full power against itself. And the only way to activate the artifact's full power was to bring all the pieces together. Tarric asked why the artifact needed to be destroyed at all, as long as the pieces were scattered and hidden. Eligos replied that a part of Kyuss's own essence had been reposited within the artifact. So, destroying the artifact would weaken Kyuss, thereby making it more difficult for Him to break the barriers that prevented Him from returning to Oerth. Finally, the group consented to retrieve the Eye, but they insisted that they would not deliver it to Eligos. Rather, they suggested that they should assemble members of their respective churches and give it to them instead. Eligos warned that there was significant danger in spreading word of their plans to assemble and destroy the artifact. Even if the churches were trustworthy, the more people who knew of the plan, the greater the chance that word of their plans could leak to the Cult of Kyuss. Killick mentioned that Thorash's divinations had revealed that there was another band of adventurers currently seeking the Eye. Eligos pointed out that this fact, if true, made it all the more important that the party recover it first. Killick asked how word of the Eye's location could possibly gotten out, since only he and the party knew its location. Eligos said he did not know how that could have happened. He speculated that divination magic of some kind might be involved. The party reiterated that they would recover the Eye, but they would not deliver it to Eligos. After Eligos confirmed that the party could not be swayed on this point, his demeanor suddenly changed. He threatened that the party would not leave the house alive, and then, with a wave of his hand, he disappeared. Alexander informed the party that he had cast a spell allowing himself to teleport only a short distance away. He was probably still in the house. The party heard loud footsteps coming down the stairs. They jumped to their feet and armed themselves. They arrayed themselves to surprise whomever should open the conference room's door. But despite hearing many footfalls down the stairs and in the hall outside, the door did not open. Finally, Tarric opened the door. He saw a hulking figure with a scar running down his left cheek wearing banded mail and carrying a bastard sword waiting in ambush up against the wall just outside the door. Tarric stepped out into the hallway to confront this opponent. As he swang his sword at the aging gladiator, he suddenly felt a sting in his back that caused his stroke to miss. He had been stabbed by some previously invisible figure standing on the opposite side of the door. The figure was now visible. He was short and nondescript, dressed in dark colors, carrying a shortsword in each hand. Now that Tarric was out in the hallway he could see that a tiefling cleric whom the party had killed below the Arena was alive again and standing about 25 feet behind the gladiator. And about 10 feet behind the cleric stood Anders Fierk, the wizard who had asked the party for help obtaining the Rainbow Mage's spells at the White Boar Inn in Rosewater. At the other end of the L-shaped hallway stood Pollard and a doppelganger. Both of them were wielding longswords. Katawan tumbled out into the hallway toward the doppelgangers. Alees tumbled out as well. However, she was struck by the darkly clothed shortsword-wielder in the corner. This caused her to stop her movement prematurely for fear of being struck again. Alexander cast a spell which allowed all of the party members to move faster and attack more often, for which they were very grateful. Fierk commanded Tarric to attack his partymates in words that dripped with arcane power. However, Tarric shook off the spell's effect. Two more doppelgangers wielding longswords emerged from a door near Katawan at the other end of the hallway. Thorash cast a spell on the gladiator, and he froze in place. The shortsword wielder in the corner sliced at Tarric unsuccessfully. He shouted out to the gladiator, "Get your head back in the game, Loris. I would have had him if you had continued distracting him!" Killick, who had cast a spell on his walking stick before the door was open, used it to pummel the dark-clad rogue in the corner multiple times. The cloven-hooved cleric cast a spell and strode forward with black energy crackling across his fingertips. He touched Alees, trying to draw the soul out of her body. For a moment, it seemed that he was successful, but then, with a scream of pain, she pushed his hand away. With the gladiator frozen, Tarric turned his attention to the backstabber in the corner, knocking him unconscious. Perhaps as a result of seeing his friend get knocked out, the gladiator recovered his wits and was no longer frozen. Katawan successfully occupied Pollard and his three doppelganger friends with his Whirlwind Attack maneuver. Although they landed an occasional hit on him, his monk training was on full display as he avoided blow after blow. Alexander chose to assist Katawan by casting a fireball at the end of the hall, causing significant damage to all of the doppelgangers while Katawan's cat-like reflexes left him completely unharmed by the fiery explosion. At the other end of the hall, Eligos came down the stairs and cast a defensive spell on himself that made his skin appear to be as tough as stone. The evil cleric stepped forward and cast a healing spell on Loris's rogue ally, whose eyes flittered open momentarily. That is, until Tarric brought his bastard sword down onto the rogue's prone chest, closing his eyes once again. He brought his remaining attacks to bear against the cleric, causing him grievous wounds. Alees repositioned herself so that she was flanking the cleric with Tarric's help. She stabbed the cleric with her dagger in a vulnerable spot, and he collapsed to the floor sputtering blood. The gladiator turned to Alees and told her that she would pay for what she had just done. He swang his bastard sword in a whirling frenzy that struck her several times. Alees collapsed to the floor unconscious and bleeding. Fierk began casting another spell. Thorash stepped into the doorway and tried to end the gladiator's life with a mere touch, but his attempt failed. Katawan continued to pummel his doppelganger opponents, preventing himself from becoming completely encircled by withdrawing slowly back toward the rest of the party. Tarric and the aging gladiator continued exchanging blows. Thorash reached down and touched the unconscious rogue in the corner and energized himself by absorbing what little life force remained within him. Alexander seemed disgusted by this evil act. (Apparently this was the first time that Alexander had witnessed Thorash delivering his Death Touch.) However, there was no time to dwell on Thorash's act. Alexander tumbled out of the doorway into the hall, past the gladiator in the direction of the two enemy wizards. Killick cast a spell that brought down a pillar of fire onto the two wizards at the end of the hall. While both seemed resistant to the flame damage, both of them were damaged by the holy column of fire. Fierk endured the pain and continued casting his spell. Loris attacked Tarric and then stepped closer to Alexander in order to threaten him. However, Alexander merely stepped out of the gladiator's reach and then cast a lightning bolt down the hallway, knocking Fierk out before he could finish his spell. (Alexander was surprised to see that his lightning bolt did not blow out the windows at the end of the hallway.) Killick tumbled down the hallway, onto the stairs, and struck at Eligos. Eligos suddenly changed shape into a barbarian brute. He gave out a cry of rage and then moved towards Alexander, drawing a great axe from his back. He swang it at Alexander striking him rather than one of the several images of himself that surrounded him for a moderate amount of damage. At long last Tarric won his battle with the gladiator. Loris's head dropped to the floor apart from its body. With the way now clear, Thorash moved out of the conference room towards the barbarian that had previously resembled Eligos. He touched the raging barbarian, and wounds suddenly appeared on his flesh where they had not been before. The barbarian collapsed, and reverted to its true form, that of a doppelganger. Alexander quickly moved back towards the conference room and targeted Pollard with a barrage of magic missiles. As the butler fell to the ground, its form shifted to that of a doppelganger as well. No enemies remained standing; the party was victorious! Now that the battle was over, Killick quickly cast a spell that slowly rejuvenated Alees. Alexander checked out the window to see whether any members of the City Watch had come to investigate the loud noises coming from Eligos's house. There was no movement outside the window. All seemed well. The party did a quick search of the upstairs that Eligos had warned Alexander away from before. They found that many of the bedrooms contained multiple styles of clothing, like the bedrooms they had discovered in the doppelganger lair. One of the larger rooms contained an intricate (but incomplete) apparatus composed of a metal table and many glass tubes leading to a small receptacle. This large apparatus looked exactly like a broken apparatus they had discovered in the throne chamber of the doppelganger lair. In the closet of a deserted room, they found the bodies of both Pollard and Eligos in a state of decay that Killick estimated at 10 - 12 days. Eligos's skull had been cracked open by a combination of blunt force and a sharp edge, and his brain had been removed. Alexander, desperate to revive Eligos, removed what remained of Eligos's skull. He told the rest of the party that he planned to teleport across town to the Church of St. Cuthbert and call in a favor to have Eligos revived. Killick suggested that he take Loris Raknian's head with him as well so that he might claim the reward for his capture and contribute that money towards raising Eligos. Alexander agreed. With a head under both arms, he cast the spell and was off. About two hours later, Alexander and Eligos returned on foot. Eligos was visibly saddened to see the corpse of his butler Pollard. While Alexander had been gone, the party had gathered all of the enemies' valuables into a pile for identification. Eligos picked out the items that had been his. In the pile that remained, there were various magical armors and weapons, as well as the standard magical cloaks and rings. However, one notable item that was recovered was the very same Boccob's Blessed Book that Alexander had left behind in the Rainbow Mage's dungeon for Lady Learah to find. Inside the book, Alexander found the note that he had left with the book being used as a bookmark. Alees reported that the book had been recovered from Fierk's body. The party also found three very large and valuable gems on Eligos's imposter that have magical auras. Alexander confirmed definitively that the Eligos to whom he had given the Pyramid and the Ruby was the imposter. He asked the party if either item had been found anywhere inside the house - they had not. The party assumed that these pieces must now be in the hands of Kyuss worshippers. Thorash, Alexander, and Eligos decided to wake the next morning and spend 8 hours working together to identify the properties of the magical items they had found. Then, after necessary sales and purchases had been made, they would teleport back to the cairn where Allustan was apparently trapped and try again to rescue him. [/QUOTE]
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