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Milo Windby's Collected Story Hour
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Milo Windby
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Bump? Wow!
Heh heh, thanks Darklone. You're making me feel all wanted-like. I'm always happy to see my reader count go up.
I've got one more post to write up then we're up to date. Unfortunately we'll not be playing Monday since Brigit and I have friends coming in from out of town. I'll try to make the next post a good one. It's hard to top the giant killer though.
Speaking of which, we never did ask Jeremiah what he would do with a giant prisoner, Nail. I'd imagine he'd love him and stroke him and pet him and call him George.
Gosh it's hot.
Heh heh, thanks Darklone. You're making me feel all wanted-like. I'm always happy to see my reader count go up.
I've got one more post to write up then we're up to date. Unfortunately we'll not be playing Monday since Brigit and I have friends coming in from out of town. I'll try to make the next post a good one. It's hard to top the giant killer though.
Speaking of which, we never did ask Jeremiah what he would do with a giant prisoner, Nail. I'd imagine he'd love him and stroke him and pet him and call him George.
Gosh it's hot.
Broccli_Head
Explorer
giants...Oy!
Jeremiah is definitely a giant-killer!
It's amazing that in every campaign that I know, there is a tale where a hero slays a giant single-handedly and never lives it down. In one campaign, this one 2nd ed., a halfling rogue took down a hill giant with one strike (this before sneak attack!)...He rolled two twenties which was triple damage and then the backstab multiplier put the damage above 50 pts. They had that 50 pt rule for all sizes back then. The giant failed its save and keeled over.
Jeremiah is definitely a giant-killer!
It's amazing that in every campaign that I know, there is a tale where a hero slays a giant single-handedly and never lives it down. In one campaign, this one 2nd ed., a halfling rogue took down a hill giant with one strike (this before sneak attack!)...He rolled two twenties which was triple damage and then the backstab multiplier put the damage above 50 pts. They had that 50 pt rule for all sizes back then. The giant failed its save and keeled over.
Brigit Deeperdown
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frog said:
I just want to comment on the Jer and a Giant surrender. I think that would have been a bad thing. Think how concerned he is about his horse. What would we do with the concern he would have for a giant? For those of you needing back ground information. We all have horses. And Jer is forever very concerned about his horse. Its cute.
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Milo Windby
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Temple of Elemental Evil - part 29 (session 12)
A few minutes later, after a quick search of the bodies, the four friends left the room to explore further. The short hallway opposite of the door led into another storage area. Firewood was stacked along the wall and lumpy bags of coal were piled in a corner.
"Maybe we should have waited and set this room on fire?" Milo suggested light-heartedly.
"No thanks! We want to find out what's going on down here, not smoke them out into the forest." Mazi answered quickly.
"Don't get your elf-britches in a bunch. I'm just kidding." Milo giggled.
"Milo?" Jeremiah asked quietly.
"Jeremiah! I completely forgot. You need to speak up more often if you need some of the healing touch!" Milo said after he turned to see Jer holding his side in pain.
Jeremiah had taken a couple of hard hits from the ogres and trolls. Amazingly enough the giant hadn't landed a single blow on the barbarian. Milo called up the divine energies entrusted to him by Usamigaras and channeled them into a healing spell for Jer. The barbarian was soon hale and hearty, ready to take on another giant.
They returned to the intersection and ventured down the eastern passage. After a couple of turns they entered a long room. The floor was littered with broken containers. A rotten stench filled the room from the old food supplies that still lay inside.
"Smells rotten, like a garbage dump." Mazi groaned.
"Yeah, but at least there aren't any rats, right Mazi?" Milo said with a grin.
"Shhhh! Don't even mention rats!" she replied.
Milo chuckled a little. He started walking near the wall, making a complete circuit around the room.
"Nothing hidden here that I can see."
"I wouldn't think so. Who would want to hang around here with that smell?" Mazi said, wrinkling her nose.
"I don't know, this could have been the troll's personal quarters." he replied. "Either way, we'd better leave before Mazi's delicate senses are bruised any more."
One last passage led from the central intersection, this one to the south. The passage eventually branched into a 'Y', one hallway leading to the southeast, the other to the southwest. Right at the intersection stood a door leading to the south.
"Door first, hallways second. Good?" Milo asked to unanimous agreement.
Milo found no traps but could hear the dripping of water through the doorway. He warned the others then stood back as Brigit and Jeremiah led the way. The room beyond was an oblong octagon bisected by a curved wall. The dripping noise was from a pool of water filled right up to the edge of the wall. A steady drip from the ceiling kept the pool full while the excess seemed to drain elsewhere in the room.
"Um, I hate to ask this," Milo said, "but what's on the other side of the wall?" Milo strained to see over the obstruction.
"Heh heh heh, Ah ferget how small ye are sometimes, Milo." Brigit laughed, "Come 'ere, Ah'll give ya a boost."
Milo clambered up Brigit's outstretched hands to peer over the top of the wall. The surface of the water was very still besides the small ripples caused by the steady dripping. He could see that the floor sloped down as the floor drew closer to the far wall.
"I can't tell if there's anything in there, alive or otherwise. Hang on a second." Milo then spoke his magic detection cantrip. "I see something glowing at the far end. It looks like a dome-shaped object at the far end."
Brigit then let Milo down. They gathered around to discuss plans on investigating the magic object. Many ideas were offered and subsequently discarded. ("We are NOT going to 'toss tha halflin', Brigit!") They finally settled on tying one of the Ropes of Climbing around Mazi and letting her wade to the deep end to retrieve the object.
Mazi shed all of her gear down to her armor and sword. Milo withdrew a Rope of Climbing from Brigit's pack and encouraged it to secure itself around Mazi's waist. Once they were sure she wouldn't slip out Jeremiah gave Mazi a boost up to the top of the wall.
"It's shallow here," Mazi said as she slipped her feet gingerly into the cold water.
No sooner had she stood on both feet then they were swept out from underneath her. Mazi had stood on a particularly slippery bit of slime. She slid right to the bottom of the pool, barely able to gasp a breath of air before going under at the deeper end. Brigit and Jeremiah let the rope pay out, trusting her to signal if she was in trouble. She soon regained her equilibrium and cast about for the dome.
She soon found what she was looking for. The edges were buried in a fine silt that lay at the far end. Mazi found the edges after digging into the silt. The dome turned out to be the outward surface of a shield. She lifted the heavy metal shield from the silt and strapped it to her back. Once secured she kicked off to return to the wall.
The silt she had disturbed swirled in the water around her, her kick served to cloud the waters even more. Mazi had trouble seeing in the murky waters. She began to panic, not able to tell which way was up and which was forward. Her arms flailed as she tried to find some sort of surface to cling to.
Brigit and Jeremiah felt the tugging on the rope that her motions caused and hauled away. A sputtering, wet, and very bedraggled Mazi soon stood at the edge of the pool. She tossed down the shield and climbed to the floor with Jeremiah's assistance. Milo immediately crouched down to examine the object, which still glowed in his magically enhanced vision.
"This shield has a stronger enchantment than the others we've found." he remarked.
"Well I hope it was worth it," Mazi sniffed, "My hair is a mess!"
Mazi had already found her mirror and was shaking out her wet hair. She soon gave up with an exasperated moan and put the utensil away.
"What now? Any more pools full of slime and silt I can jump into?" she asked sarcastically.
"Nope, I think we're all done here. Thanks Mazi." Milo said with a perfectly straight face.
They investigated the two branching passages outside the door. The southwest passage followed the contour of the room they just left, ending in the great hall they found before. The southeast passage mirrored the southwest except for one difference. At the oblique corner leading south a separate passage led back to the northeast. The south passage led back to the southwest before ending in the great hall as well.
"Let's see, we could go deeper into the temple this way or we can check out the other side of the minotaur room." Milo said, "We never did find whatever that rogue took with him."
"Tha's right. Ah say we go track 'im down!" Brigit agreed wholeheartedly.
From the grand hall they returned through the slightly turning passage around the pool room. They were soon back at the circular stairwell, facing the hallway that led into the minotaur room.
"Be ready, we didn't finish all of them so we don't know what they may have waiting for us." Milo warned.
They entered the room cautiously, but couldn't have been prepared for what they found. Two giant centipede-like creatures hovered over the corpses piled next to the secret door. One was feeding off the minotaur's corpse and the other on a bugbear. Mazi retched.
The centipedes raised up on their rear sets of legs and their antennae quivered in the party's direction. Eight tentacles waved slowly in the air, protruding from their carapace. They fell back to the ground and scurried with alarming speed towards the surprised group.
Brigit reacted faster than anyone, stowing her axe and whipping out her bow. An arrow sped towards the leading centipede, followed shortly by another arrow from Mazi's and a bolt from Milo's crossbow. Two missiles sunk into one centipede and a third into the other.
The centipedes ignored the wounds and slammed into Brigit and Jeremiah. Sixteen tentacles reached for the two fighters, eight each. Brigit was able to avoid most but the few that landed caused a chill to run down her spine. She fought off the lethargic effect that washed over her in time to avoid a nasty wound from the centipede creature's mandibles. Jeremiah fought a similar battle not five steps away from his dwarven friend.
Brigit turned the tide of the battle with two surprises she picked up in Specularum. She pulled out two thin pouches and tossed them at the creatures. They exploded on impact and showered the creatures with a fine powder. The powder soon solidified into a much harder and stickier substance, reminiscent of Mazi's webs. One of the centipedes was stuck firmly in place by the tanglefoot bag, the other's tentacles were bound tightly by the substance.
They made short work of the centipede creatures. The one still moving was first to drop from a fierce round of attacks by Mazi and Jer. The bound centipede was finished off by Brigit and Milo working in concert.
"Ugly critters!" Brigit spat.
"Those tanglefoot bags came in handy thought!" Milo said.
"Aye! Ah figgered they'd be useful sooner er later." she answered.
A quick look around revealed that besides the centipede feedings nothing else was disturbed in the room since they left.
"At least we know they're not making these into an undead army." Mazi stated.
"Ugh, don't remind me of that. I hate undead." said Milo.
A few minutes later, after a quick search of the bodies, the four friends left the room to explore further. The short hallway opposite of the door led into another storage area. Firewood was stacked along the wall and lumpy bags of coal were piled in a corner.
"Maybe we should have waited and set this room on fire?" Milo suggested light-heartedly.
"No thanks! We want to find out what's going on down here, not smoke them out into the forest." Mazi answered quickly.
"Don't get your elf-britches in a bunch. I'm just kidding." Milo giggled.
"Milo?" Jeremiah asked quietly.
"Jeremiah! I completely forgot. You need to speak up more often if you need some of the healing touch!" Milo said after he turned to see Jer holding his side in pain.
Jeremiah had taken a couple of hard hits from the ogres and trolls. Amazingly enough the giant hadn't landed a single blow on the barbarian. Milo called up the divine energies entrusted to him by Usamigaras and channeled them into a healing spell for Jer. The barbarian was soon hale and hearty, ready to take on another giant.
They returned to the intersection and ventured down the eastern passage. After a couple of turns they entered a long room. The floor was littered with broken containers. A rotten stench filled the room from the old food supplies that still lay inside.
"Smells rotten, like a garbage dump." Mazi groaned.
"Yeah, but at least there aren't any rats, right Mazi?" Milo said with a grin.
"Shhhh! Don't even mention rats!" she replied.
Milo chuckled a little. He started walking near the wall, making a complete circuit around the room.
"Nothing hidden here that I can see."
"I wouldn't think so. Who would want to hang around here with that smell?" Mazi said, wrinkling her nose.
"I don't know, this could have been the troll's personal quarters." he replied. "Either way, we'd better leave before Mazi's delicate senses are bruised any more."
One last passage led from the central intersection, this one to the south. The passage eventually branched into a 'Y', one hallway leading to the southeast, the other to the southwest. Right at the intersection stood a door leading to the south.
"Door first, hallways second. Good?" Milo asked to unanimous agreement.
Milo found no traps but could hear the dripping of water through the doorway. He warned the others then stood back as Brigit and Jeremiah led the way. The room beyond was an oblong octagon bisected by a curved wall. The dripping noise was from a pool of water filled right up to the edge of the wall. A steady drip from the ceiling kept the pool full while the excess seemed to drain elsewhere in the room.
"Um, I hate to ask this," Milo said, "but what's on the other side of the wall?" Milo strained to see over the obstruction.
"Heh heh heh, Ah ferget how small ye are sometimes, Milo." Brigit laughed, "Come 'ere, Ah'll give ya a boost."
Milo clambered up Brigit's outstretched hands to peer over the top of the wall. The surface of the water was very still besides the small ripples caused by the steady dripping. He could see that the floor sloped down as the floor drew closer to the far wall.
"I can't tell if there's anything in there, alive or otherwise. Hang on a second." Milo then spoke his magic detection cantrip. "I see something glowing at the far end. It looks like a dome-shaped object at the far end."
Brigit then let Milo down. They gathered around to discuss plans on investigating the magic object. Many ideas were offered and subsequently discarded. ("We are NOT going to 'toss tha halflin', Brigit!") They finally settled on tying one of the Ropes of Climbing around Mazi and letting her wade to the deep end to retrieve the object.
Mazi shed all of her gear down to her armor and sword. Milo withdrew a Rope of Climbing from Brigit's pack and encouraged it to secure itself around Mazi's waist. Once they were sure she wouldn't slip out Jeremiah gave Mazi a boost up to the top of the wall.
"It's shallow here," Mazi said as she slipped her feet gingerly into the cold water.
No sooner had she stood on both feet then they were swept out from underneath her. Mazi had stood on a particularly slippery bit of slime. She slid right to the bottom of the pool, barely able to gasp a breath of air before going under at the deeper end. Brigit and Jeremiah let the rope pay out, trusting her to signal if she was in trouble. She soon regained her equilibrium and cast about for the dome.
She soon found what she was looking for. The edges were buried in a fine silt that lay at the far end. Mazi found the edges after digging into the silt. The dome turned out to be the outward surface of a shield. She lifted the heavy metal shield from the silt and strapped it to her back. Once secured she kicked off to return to the wall.
The silt she had disturbed swirled in the water around her, her kick served to cloud the waters even more. Mazi had trouble seeing in the murky waters. She began to panic, not able to tell which way was up and which was forward. Her arms flailed as she tried to find some sort of surface to cling to.
Brigit and Jeremiah felt the tugging on the rope that her motions caused and hauled away. A sputtering, wet, and very bedraggled Mazi soon stood at the edge of the pool. She tossed down the shield and climbed to the floor with Jeremiah's assistance. Milo immediately crouched down to examine the object, which still glowed in his magically enhanced vision.
"This shield has a stronger enchantment than the others we've found." he remarked.
"Well I hope it was worth it," Mazi sniffed, "My hair is a mess!"
Mazi had already found her mirror and was shaking out her wet hair. She soon gave up with an exasperated moan and put the utensil away.
"What now? Any more pools full of slime and silt I can jump into?" she asked sarcastically.
"Nope, I think we're all done here. Thanks Mazi." Milo said with a perfectly straight face.
They investigated the two branching passages outside the door. The southwest passage followed the contour of the room they just left, ending in the great hall they found before. The southeast passage mirrored the southwest except for one difference. At the oblique corner leading south a separate passage led back to the northeast. The south passage led back to the southwest before ending in the great hall as well.
"Let's see, we could go deeper into the temple this way or we can check out the other side of the minotaur room." Milo said, "We never did find whatever that rogue took with him."
"Tha's right. Ah say we go track 'im down!" Brigit agreed wholeheartedly.
From the grand hall they returned through the slightly turning passage around the pool room. They were soon back at the circular stairwell, facing the hallway that led into the minotaur room.
"Be ready, we didn't finish all of them so we don't know what they may have waiting for us." Milo warned.
They entered the room cautiously, but couldn't have been prepared for what they found. Two giant centipede-like creatures hovered over the corpses piled next to the secret door. One was feeding off the minotaur's corpse and the other on a bugbear. Mazi retched.
The centipedes raised up on their rear sets of legs and their antennae quivered in the party's direction. Eight tentacles waved slowly in the air, protruding from their carapace. They fell back to the ground and scurried with alarming speed towards the surprised group.
Brigit reacted faster than anyone, stowing her axe and whipping out her bow. An arrow sped towards the leading centipede, followed shortly by another arrow from Mazi's and a bolt from Milo's crossbow. Two missiles sunk into one centipede and a third into the other.
The centipedes ignored the wounds and slammed into Brigit and Jeremiah. Sixteen tentacles reached for the two fighters, eight each. Brigit was able to avoid most but the few that landed caused a chill to run down her spine. She fought off the lethargic effect that washed over her in time to avoid a nasty wound from the centipede creature's mandibles. Jeremiah fought a similar battle not five steps away from his dwarven friend.
Brigit turned the tide of the battle with two surprises she picked up in Specularum. She pulled out two thin pouches and tossed them at the creatures. They exploded on impact and showered the creatures with a fine powder. The powder soon solidified into a much harder and stickier substance, reminiscent of Mazi's webs. One of the centipedes was stuck firmly in place by the tanglefoot bag, the other's tentacles were bound tightly by the substance.
They made short work of the centipede creatures. The one still moving was first to drop from a fierce round of attacks by Mazi and Jer. The bound centipede was finished off by Brigit and Milo working in concert.
"Ugly critters!" Brigit spat.
"Those tanglefoot bags came in handy thought!" Milo said.
"Aye! Ah figgered they'd be useful sooner er later." she answered.
A quick look around revealed that besides the centipede feedings nothing else was disturbed in the room since they left.
"At least we know they're not making these into an undead army." Mazi stated.
"Ugh, don't remind me of that. I hate undead." said Milo.
Milo Windby
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Ok, I miscalculated. I've broken the last half of the session into two smaller posts. So there is still one more little nugget of the story to post before we're completely caught up. Since we've got friends coming in this week I probably won't get it posted until next Friday or Saturday. In the meantime, feel free to post comments and whatnot!
