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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brakkart" data-source="post: 2290767" data-attributes="member: 19617">DM's Log of Session ThirtyOut in the hall Ash ducked behind his tower shield again, sending another volley of darts ricocheting away. He then slammed his sword into the third metal door, making a lot of noise but doing little else with the blow. Back in the second corridor, the gold horror tried to slice Jebodiah with its razor saw, but succeeded only in damaging itself, a piece of its armour plating coming loose exposing the gears of its innards. Casting a Cure Moderate Wounds on himself to recover some of the health he had lost to the golds lightning bolt, Zamtap yelled out to try and get Ash's attention but received no reply. Seeing an opening, Gylippus nimbly stepped in beside the gold horror, but his strike with his rapier was turned aside by the beetle-like constructs armour plating. Such did not stop Jebodiah's axe though, as Stormcleaver cut into the automaton with ease. Calmly watching the ongoing fight, Aeron simply swigged a healing potion.Undeterred by another volley of darts bouncing off his armour, Ash continued his assault on the third door, but as he stepped back to swing, so he slipped on one of the hundreds of darts littering the floor and fell over, dropping his sword, though he quickly grabbed it again. Ki somersaulted over the gold horror then  and stabbed a dagger into the rear of the creature. The horror responded by blasting out another lightning bolt, hitting Zamtap with it, though the blast had no effect, the cleric now protected by his spell of energy resistance. Ignoring the horror, Zamtap tossed his sunrod out into the main hall to light it up, and lit up another of them. With the gold horror now having three foes around it, Gylippus was easily able to stab his rapier into its insides, dislodging a couple gears, and then everyone got showered in debris as Jebodiah's axe thundered on impact, utterly annihilating the horror.Out in the hall, Ash pulled himself to his feet as darts pinged off him, no longer really caring about them, returning to attacking the door, managing to actually dent it this time. With the gold horror gone, the rest of the group moved up towards the door it had been guarding, with Ki checking the door over and announcing that he found no traps on it. With that Jebodiah pushed past and opened it, heading into another short corridor which ended at yet another door. Shrugging, he strode towards it, only for the floor to open under him, depositing him into a 80' spiked pit, to the cry of "Not agaiiiinn!!" heard by the others above, and then a whole lot of growling and snarling from the pits depths as having gotten impaled on 2 spikes, the pain had triggered the dwarfs berserker frenzy! Aeron walked up to the edge of the pit, peered down into its depths, and then walked back towards the main hall.As darts rebounded off his armour and shield, so Ash battered the door again, a loud clang heard throughout the main hall as he put another dent in the metal door. Sighing, Zamtap and Ki got out the lengths of rope they had taken from the kobolds and started tying them together, calling down to the furious dwarf "We'll pull you out, but not until you calm down!", their only reply being curses and growls as the dwarf hauled himself off the spikes he was impaled on, and set about destroying them with his axe. Seeing that those two had things in hand to effect a rescue, Gylippus headed back towards the main hall also, heading after Aeron who then darted across the main hall to try and reach Ash, only to run across the opening to another pit trap that the paladin had avoided, and he fell 60' onto spikes, one impaling him through a leg, the wizard unconscious and bleeding to death at the base of the pit."Aeron!!" cried Ash, seeing the genasi drop into the hole, and hearing the scream of pain from below and then silence. Ignoring the hail of darts that pinged off him he ran and jumped into the pit after his friend, getting impaled himself once, but stretching out a hand across the base of the pit and laying it on the wizard, returning him from the brink of death. As Gylippus made his way across the hall to the lip of the newly opened obstacle, so the gold horror behind the arrow slits blasted lightning at him, though he easily avoided it. Down in the other pit trap, Jebodiah finally calmed himself down and tied the rope about himself that Zamtap and Ki lowered down. Healed now, Aeron stood up, pulling himself off the spike and drank a healing potion.At the top of the pit it was Gylippus turn to take a pelting from the darts, a couple of them hitting to deplete his protection spell. He quickly made his way to the metal door and picked one of the doors three locks. With Zamtap and Ki braced on the other end of the rope, they hauling up the slack, Jebodah began climbing up out of the pit. Aeron had another way entirely of getting out of the pit he was stuck in, casting Fly on Ash who grabbed the wizard, aand soared up out of the trap to land near the door beside Gylippus..With the paladin positioning himself to shield the wizards from as many of the horrors as he could, none of the ensuing barrage of darts had any effect on the three figures by the third door, and Gylippus was easily able to pick the second lock. For some reason though, the paladin got a bit overconfidant, and flew out into the middle of the hall, getting himself lightning bolted by the gold horror, the electricity badly hurting him, to teach him a lesson in humility.Flying back to land in front of the wizards again, the next volley was also ineffective most of it bouncing off Ash's shield, as Gylippus picked the third lock and opened the door into a long corridor, seeing ahead 2 electrums and behind them 2 golds, he moving just inside to get out of the main hall. Seeing foes he could actually fight, Ash flew down the corridor, launching himself into an electrum, hiw sword tearing into the construct. alternating between getting pulled and climbing, Jebodiah nears the top of the pit, aided by Ki and Zamtap, the pair heaving on the rope to hasten the dwarfs ascent. Seeing the new group of horrors blocking the corridor ahead, Aeron muttered "I've had just about enough of this" and chanted, his spell bringing into being a sphere of telekinetic force, which he immediately sent hurtling down the corridor into an electrum, it having no effect though.As darts smacked into him, Aeron could feel his protective spells energy depleting, the darts battering down his defences slowly but surely by sheer attrition. Ash easily parried the attacks of both electrums in the corridor, and then destroyed one. Gylippus stayed back for the moment, casting a Scorching Ray into his spell-storing rapier. Back in the other corridor, Zamtap and Ki finally hauled Jebodiah up out of the pit, while Aeron and Gylippus watched as both gold horrors blasted their lightning into Ash, the paladin teetering and then finally crashing to the ground. At that, Aeron dashed up the corridor, pulling a potion from his belt as he went, and ignoring the nearby horrors, forced the healing liquid down Ash's throat to bring him back from the brink of death. repaying the favour the paladin had done for him less than a minute before.The remaining electrum horror in the corridor attacked Aeron with its razor saw, but narrowly missed. Seeing the danger to himself and the wizard, Ash grabbed Aeron and flew back down the corridor and out into the main hall, placing the genasi down beside Gylippus before he flew down into the nearby pit trap, and hovered there 20' down, using it as cover from the darts. Heading out into the main hall, Ki smirked as a dozen horrors launched their darts at him, and the gold blasted lightning towards him also, he evading every one of the multiple projectiles and nimbly sidestepping the bolt of electricity. Scuttling down the corridor towards the main hall, both gold horrors attacked Gylippus in melee, but neither was able to hit him. Zamtap saw to Jebodiah's wounds, casting a moderate healing spell on the barbarian. Gylippus saw how the battle was turning against the group, and fled back across the main hall, diving into the second corridor, to be met by Jebodiah heading in the opposite direction and gulping down a healing potion as he walked. Focusing his will power on the Defenestrating Sphere he created, Aeron sent it slamming into a gold horror, sending the creature bouncing off the ceiling and walls of the corridor, heavily damaging it.While Ki and Aeron came under fire, neither were hit by the fussilade of darts, and Ash flew up out of the pit then and shut the third door, much to Aeron's annoyance, the wizard cursing "I need to see the sphere to control it!". Ki headed back into the the second corridor then, as a gold horror forced open the third door into the hall, pushing aside Ash who been trying to hold it closed against the construct, it then blasted a lightning bolt into Aeron but to no effect, the wizard avoiding some of the blast, his spell of energy resistance soaking up the rest of the electricity. Back in the second corridor, Zamtap caught up to Jebodiah and cast a Lesser Vigor on him with a wand, the dwarf then running across the hall towards the third door and the horrors there. Grinning in satisfaction, Aeron smashed the gold horror again with his sphere.A storm of darts smacked into Jebodiah and Ash, catching both of the groups fighters off guard, the darts finding weak spots in their armour and hurting the pair of them. bleeding profusely, Ash left the fight in the third doorway to Jeb, and flew across the hall, back into the second corridor, seeking the healing magic of Zamtap. The gold horrors pushed their way into the hall now, lightning bolting Jebodiah and slicing Aeron. Using his wand of Lesser Vigor again, Zamtap cast the spell on Ash to start his wounds closing, the paladin though grumbling about how this would take too long. Responding to the lightning bolt, Jebodiah hewed a gold horror in half with his axe, as Aeron smashed the other around with his sphere, the wizard relishing the chance to really batter the things.Seeing the genasi wizard as the greatest current threat, the electrums in the hall opened fire solely on him, further depleting his protective spells but failing to actually injure him. One attacked Jebodiah in melee though and lightly wounded him. Ki makes an effort to try and heal Ash, but the charge from his wand of cure light wounds does not have much effect. The gold horror behind the arrow slits fired its lightning bolt at Aeron, but had no effect on him, while the other remaining gold failed to score a hit on Jebodiah in melee. Zamtap saw to more of Ash's considerable wounds, laying a cure moderate wounds on the paladin, while Gylippus ran back into the hall, tumbling past the gold horror battling Jebodiah, as the dwarf failed to hit it. Aeron had more success though, battering the horror to scrap with his sphere.Another onslaught of darts saw one of the annoying projectiles find a gap in Jebodiah's armour, lightly woundiong the dwarf as it embedded in him. Ki continued trying to heal Ash's wounds, but another of his wands charges did very little. Zamtap cast another healing spell on Ash, healing up a good number of the cuts and bruises on the Sunite. Gyllipus lent his aid to Jebodiah, trying to hit the electrum attacking the dwarf with his rapier, but not managing to get past its armoured shell, the dwarf missing also, though the beetle construct was unable to avoid Aeron's defenestrating sphere, getting battered about by it.DM's Notes:Week two of the ongoing battle vs the Clockwork Horrors, up to 34 consecutive rounds of combat now! The party are making progress, slowly but surely, and there were a couple moments this week that I imagine will be remembered years from now, namely Jebodiah falling down the pit trap and using his first Frenzy on the spikes at the bottom of it! And also Ash jumping into a 60' spiked pit in order to lay hands on Aeron. Now thats what I call self sacrifice!!</blockquote>

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