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<blockquote data-quote="Brakkart" data-source="post: 2519323" data-attributes="member: 19617"><p><strong>DM's Log of Session Thirty Nine</strong></p><p></p><p>Morning of Nightal 17th dawned without any further incidents and after praying for spells, Zamtap cast a Sending spell to send warning to the Farseer, the head of Savra's temple in Tashluta, of the raged dragon flights imminent arrival. He and Aeron had worked on the precise message the previous night, and it went thusly:</p><p></p><p><em>"Frenzied Green and Black Dragons heading to attack Tashluta. Estimated time of arrival Midday. sorry for lack of warning. Savras be with you"</em></p><p></p><p>Mere seconds later the Farseer sent back this reply:</p><p></p><p><em>"Thank you for what warning you could send. We will do what we can. Savras be with you also"</em></p><p></p><p>The priest then saw to the dealing with the debilitating effects of the Ti-Khana creatures venom, casting a Lesser Restoration to deal with most of the poison in Ki's veins, and then a couple healing spells to restore him to almost full health.. The party broke camp then and headed further south through the jungles along an old trail, Ben and Masembe (in Ape form) roving ahead of the group to scout.</p><p></p><p>After several hours of travelling, the druid and then Ash also, spotted a large number of snakes ahead, sprawled and coiled over the ground, and many tree branches, basking in the sunlight that streamed down through a break in the canopy above. Reporting back to the others, the group decided to forge ahead through the mass of snakes, though wary after last nights encounter, several of them chose to cast protective magics, especially Neutralise Poison, with Masembe casting it on Ash, Ki and Bends-Low-Branches.</p><p></p><p>Advancing down the pathway, Zamtap loaded his pistol and walked on warily, Aeron staying behind the armour-plated priest, while Ki ducked into the foliage and vanished from sight, he steathily creeping forwards, darting from bush to tree trunk to stay in cover, his nimble feet avoiding stepping on twigs, not a sound giving away his location. Ash chanted as he walked up to beside Zamtap, bolstering himself with a Bull's Strength spell, while Masembe led the way, moving up the trail ahead of the group and getting ambushed then as a pair of snakes, one on either side of the abruptly shifted shape, becoming bigger, and bigger, growing four short legs, their backs rippling with armoured plates as the tips of their tails grew large and bony, the pair revealing themselves to be Ti-Khana Ankylosaurs, the druid quickly shifting shape into that of a Condor to try and get airborne.</p><p></p><p>The monsters were faster though, twin huge club-like tails smacking down on the shifting man/bird before he could complete his transformation and badly hurting him. His shapechange complete, he flew up into the canopy above to perch on a branch well out of the creatures reach, as Ben leapt at one of the beasts, his thumps though impacting on the ankylosaurs armour-plated hide and doing nothing. Zamtap chanted and cast Mass Lesser Vigor on Ash, Ben, Aeron and himself, and Aeron followed suit with a Mass Enlarge Person on the cleric and paladin, Ash belolowing a batllecry and charging into one of the creatures, crashing through the undergrowth and smiting it. All the while, Ki had his prey in sight, and snuck ever closer towards it.</p><p></p><p>One of the beasts hammered Zamtap with its tail then, its jaws closing on Ash though thanks to Masembe's earlier spell, the poison in its fangs had no effect. The other monster bit and whalloped Ben, driving the Ape away, it fleeing through the jungle. Sat in the tree up above, Masembe cast an Arc of Lightning to strike at the pair of altered creatures, hurting both. Zamtap uttered a Prayer to boost his allies, while Aeron unleashed a Phantasmal Killer, slaying one of the ankylosaurs outright, ust as Ki reached it, the sneaky monk frowning and starting to creep towards the one engaged in melee with Ash, whose blows try as he might, just kept glancing off the dinosaurs impressive armour.</p><p></p><p>The beast had no such trouble in hitting the paladin though, its tail and jaws beating and biting him severely. From his lofty perch Masembe wove his hands and vbegan chanting a spell to call an ally, while Zamtaps warhammer glanced off the bony hide of the marauding Ti-Khana creature. Aeron had better luck though, his Gedlee's Electric Loop injuirng and stunning the great lizard, enabling Ash to actually hit it. Ki snuck closer to the beast, dagger drawn for a sneak attack...</p><p></p><p>Which never came, as the dinosaur missed with its tail and bite, and a huge crocodile appeared behind it, its jaws closing on the ankylosaur and tearing the life out of it, as up above Masembe cheered and laughed.</p><p></p><p>After healing themselves up, the group made their way past the steaming corpses, leaving them for the snakes to feed on, and they headed further south.</p><p></p><p>Camping that night under a Leomunds Actually Quite Large Dome (Leomunds Tiny Hut) that Aeron summoned into being, Ash and Masembe provide a small deerlike creature from their hunting, the druid identifying it as a Tabuk. Zamtap though preferred his trail rations, pulling them out of a pocket in his travel cloak.</p><p></p><p>On Nightal 18th, towards mid afternoon, the party decided to detour from their course and head up a small tree cloaked hill, hoping to get a better view over the land. Their reason for the abrupt change being the more frequent appearance of ruins amidst the jungle trees and vines now, often running across and having to trek around old walls of long since overgrown buildings, or spotting towering monuments choked in creepers and vines, everything decorated in ancient serpentine motifs and glyphs.</p><p></p><p>Masembe shifted into Condor shape again and flew up above the hill, spying then the vast sprawl of ruins along the shore of the Lapal Sea that could only be Ss'inthee'ssaree, the city running for miles along the shoreline, and up to a mile in depth into the jungle itself, once the capital of an empire than spanned the entire peninsula from Chult to the Shaar. He keeps his distance from the city itself, noting that other birds do likewise, but from as close as he dare get his excellent avian eyesight can spot numerous interesting locations, such as a huge plaza with a couple stepped pyramids overlooking it, a vast circular building with heavy foot traffic coming in and out, and a citadel of sorts with six towers shaped to look like snakes.</p><p></p><p>Having been told by the others what the Megalomen look like, he spies units of them drilling in the great plaza, and also on a balcony overlooking it a human dressed in black and red, standing beside a pureblood who is talking to a man with a staff dressed in purple, the druid getting a keen sense, even from miles away, that there was something terribly wrong about the purple-clad figure. Too from on high he spies other creations of the Yuan-ti, the Ssvaklors a couple dozen of them lounging on rooftops, as well as Yuan-ti of all sorts in the streets, many varieties of Ti-Khana creatures, and teams of jungle dwarf slaves. He spots regiments of lizardfolk and ophidians, and from many parts of the city he sees the smoke plumes of furnaces and foundries, the signs of a city marshalling for war.</p><p></p><p>He flew back down then, and reported all of this to the others in the group, a long silence following as the sheer scale of the task ahead of the group became clear to them... the silence broken when Aeron made an observation:</p><p></p><p>"Ssvaklors are dragons... if all the other dragons in this part of the world are raging... why aren't they?"</p><p></p><p>No-one had an answer.</p><p></p><p><strong><u>DM's Notes:</u></strong></p><p></p><p>Gotta love Ti-Khana creatures, dinosaurs are cool, but dinos with poison bites, spell resistance and the ability to shapechange into common snakes? Too cool! And yes, another monster from MM3 makes its appearance, the Ssvaklor, a wonderful Yuan-ti/Dragon hybrid.</p><p></p><p>No Jebodiah for the past couple sessions, but he'll be back next time as the group plan their assault on the ruined city of the snakemen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brakkart, post: 2519323, member: 19617"] [b]DM's Log of Session Thirty Nine[/b] Morning of Nightal 17th dawned without any further incidents and after praying for spells, Zamtap cast a Sending spell to send warning to the Farseer, the head of Savra's temple in Tashluta, of the raged dragon flights imminent arrival. He and Aeron had worked on the precise message the previous night, and it went thusly: [I]"Frenzied Green and Black Dragons heading to attack Tashluta. Estimated time of arrival Midday. sorry for lack of warning. Savras be with you"[/I] Mere seconds later the Farseer sent back this reply: [I]"Thank you for what warning you could send. We will do what we can. Savras be with you also"[/I] The priest then saw to the dealing with the debilitating effects of the Ti-Khana creatures venom, casting a Lesser Restoration to deal with most of the poison in Ki's veins, and then a couple healing spells to restore him to almost full health.. The party broke camp then and headed further south through the jungles along an old trail, Ben and Masembe (in Ape form) roving ahead of the group to scout. After several hours of travelling, the druid and then Ash also, spotted a large number of snakes ahead, sprawled and coiled over the ground, and many tree branches, basking in the sunlight that streamed down through a break in the canopy above. Reporting back to the others, the group decided to forge ahead through the mass of snakes, though wary after last nights encounter, several of them chose to cast protective magics, especially Neutralise Poison, with Masembe casting it on Ash, Ki and Bends-Low-Branches. Advancing down the pathway, Zamtap loaded his pistol and walked on warily, Aeron staying behind the armour-plated priest, while Ki ducked into the foliage and vanished from sight, he steathily creeping forwards, darting from bush to tree trunk to stay in cover, his nimble feet avoiding stepping on twigs, not a sound giving away his location. Ash chanted as he walked up to beside Zamtap, bolstering himself with a Bull's Strength spell, while Masembe led the way, moving up the trail ahead of the group and getting ambushed then as a pair of snakes, one on either side of the abruptly shifted shape, becoming bigger, and bigger, growing four short legs, their backs rippling with armoured plates as the tips of their tails grew large and bony, the pair revealing themselves to be Ti-Khana Ankylosaurs, the druid quickly shifting shape into that of a Condor to try and get airborne. The monsters were faster though, twin huge club-like tails smacking down on the shifting man/bird before he could complete his transformation and badly hurting him. His shapechange complete, he flew up into the canopy above to perch on a branch well out of the creatures reach, as Ben leapt at one of the beasts, his thumps though impacting on the ankylosaurs armour-plated hide and doing nothing. Zamtap chanted and cast Mass Lesser Vigor on Ash, Ben, Aeron and himself, and Aeron followed suit with a Mass Enlarge Person on the cleric and paladin, Ash belolowing a batllecry and charging into one of the creatures, crashing through the undergrowth and smiting it. All the while, Ki had his prey in sight, and snuck ever closer towards it. One of the beasts hammered Zamtap with its tail then, its jaws closing on Ash though thanks to Masembe's earlier spell, the poison in its fangs had no effect. The other monster bit and whalloped Ben, driving the Ape away, it fleeing through the jungle. Sat in the tree up above, Masembe cast an Arc of Lightning to strike at the pair of altered creatures, hurting both. Zamtap uttered a Prayer to boost his allies, while Aeron unleashed a Phantasmal Killer, slaying one of the ankylosaurs outright, ust as Ki reached it, the sneaky monk frowning and starting to creep towards the one engaged in melee with Ash, whose blows try as he might, just kept glancing off the dinosaurs impressive armour. The beast had no such trouble in hitting the paladin though, its tail and jaws beating and biting him severely. From his lofty perch Masembe wove his hands and vbegan chanting a spell to call an ally, while Zamtaps warhammer glanced off the bony hide of the marauding Ti-Khana creature. Aeron had better luck though, his Gedlee's Electric Loop injuirng and stunning the great lizard, enabling Ash to actually hit it. Ki snuck closer to the beast, dagger drawn for a sneak attack... Which never came, as the dinosaur missed with its tail and bite, and a huge crocodile appeared behind it, its jaws closing on the ankylosaur and tearing the life out of it, as up above Masembe cheered and laughed. After healing themselves up, the group made their way past the steaming corpses, leaving them for the snakes to feed on, and they headed further south. Camping that night under a Leomunds Actually Quite Large Dome (Leomunds Tiny Hut) that Aeron summoned into being, Ash and Masembe provide a small deerlike creature from their hunting, the druid identifying it as a Tabuk. Zamtap though preferred his trail rations, pulling them out of a pocket in his travel cloak. On Nightal 18th, towards mid afternoon, the party decided to detour from their course and head up a small tree cloaked hill, hoping to get a better view over the land. Their reason for the abrupt change being the more frequent appearance of ruins amidst the jungle trees and vines now, often running across and having to trek around old walls of long since overgrown buildings, or spotting towering monuments choked in creepers and vines, everything decorated in ancient serpentine motifs and glyphs. Masembe shifted into Condor shape again and flew up above the hill, spying then the vast sprawl of ruins along the shore of the Lapal Sea that could only be Ss'inthee'ssaree, the city running for miles along the shoreline, and up to a mile in depth into the jungle itself, once the capital of an empire than spanned the entire peninsula from Chult to the Shaar. He keeps his distance from the city itself, noting that other birds do likewise, but from as close as he dare get his excellent avian eyesight can spot numerous interesting locations, such as a huge plaza with a couple stepped pyramids overlooking it, a vast circular building with heavy foot traffic coming in and out, and a citadel of sorts with six towers shaped to look like snakes. Having been told by the others what the Megalomen look like, he spies units of them drilling in the great plaza, and also on a balcony overlooking it a human dressed in black and red, standing beside a pureblood who is talking to a man with a staff dressed in purple, the druid getting a keen sense, even from miles away, that there was something terribly wrong about the purple-clad figure. Too from on high he spies other creations of the Yuan-ti, the Ssvaklors a couple dozen of them lounging on rooftops, as well as Yuan-ti of all sorts in the streets, many varieties of Ti-Khana creatures, and teams of jungle dwarf slaves. He spots regiments of lizardfolk and ophidians, and from many parts of the city he sees the smoke plumes of furnaces and foundries, the signs of a city marshalling for war. He flew back down then, and reported all of this to the others in the group, a long silence following as the sheer scale of the task ahead of the group became clear to them... the silence broken when Aeron made an observation: "Ssvaklors are dragons... if all the other dragons in this part of the world are raging... why aren't they?" No-one had an answer. [B][U]DM's Notes:[/U][/B] Gotta love Ti-Khana creatures, dinosaurs are cool, but dinos with poison bites, spell resistance and the ability to shapechange into common snakes? Too cool! And yes, another monster from MM3 makes its appearance, the Ssvaklor, a wonderful Yuan-ti/Dragon hybrid. No Jebodiah for the past couple sessions, but he'll be back next time as the group plan their assault on the ruined city of the snakemen. [/QUOTE]
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