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The Adventures of Baabby and Sam - a Skylanders Campaign
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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 7245344" data-attributes="member: 508"><p><strong>ADVENTURE 21: A LEAFY EMERGENCY</strong></p><p></p><p>PC Roster: <p style="margin-left: 20px">Baabby, humanoid sheep barbarian/cleric (Life) 11</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"> Sam Crow, humanoid crow ranger/rogue 11</p><p></p><p>NPC Roster: <p style="margin-left: 20px">Sapphrina, fairy sorcerer 11</p><p></p><p>Game Session Date: 7 October 2017</p><p></p><p> - - - </p><p></p><p>"...And that's why crows are the most intelligent life form in all of Skylands," finished Sam. Baabby gave his little companion a disbelieving eye...and then promptly fell over to the deck of the troll airship, all consciousness having fled his body in an instant.</p><p></p><p>"What happened?" asked Sapphrina, flying up after having heard the loud "thud" from belowdecks.</p><p></p><p>"My explanations about the inherent superiority of crows caused Baabby to faint dead away!" said Sam.</p><p></p><p>"I doubt that was it," replied the fairy. "Seriously: what did you do?"</p><p></p><p>"Seriously: I didn't do anything!" retorted Sam. "But don't worry! I know exactly what to do in a situation like this!" And the little crow rushed off to fetch the important tool he needed.</p><p></p><p>Baabby, however, hadn't simply fainted: he had received a magical <em>sending</em> of such strength and power that it temporarily knocked him out. While his body was unconscious, his mind was watching what was transpiring directly in front of him - or that's what it looked like, in any case. While Baabby was aware that he was physically still on the troll airship with his friends, one day into its journey back to Skylanders Academy after departing Sparkletown, seemingly standing right in front of him on a tree branch was <strong>Leafy Junior</strong>, the chompy in charge of protecting the Life-Giver's Grove. "We need your help desperately!" the chompy guardian cried. "We're about to be overrun! Help! Please! We need you at once!"</p><p></p><p>The vision faded and Baabby once again felt the wood of the airship beneath his broad back. Above him, he could see Sapphrina looking down at him with a worried expression on her face, and Sam hurriedly putting the cap back on a permanent marker-pen and hiding it behind his back. "I didn't draw on your face!" the crow hurriedly explained. "I wasn't even going to! I, uh, took the marker away from Sapphrina. There's no telling what she might have done! For shame, Sapphrina!"</p><p></p><p>But the sheep-man and the fairy both knew their crow companion well enough to realize when he could be completely ignored - and this was one of those times. "Was it a vision?" asked the fairy, already a step ahead of the confused crow.</p><p></p><p>"Yes," Baabby replied. "Leafy Junior's in trouble. We need to get there, faast!"</p><p></p><p>"The Life-Giver's Grove is, like, three or four days away," remarked Sam. "And I'm pretty sure it's in the opposite direction of where we're going."</p><p></p><p>"Thaat's too long," answered Baabby, regaining his feet and pulling the <em>Rift-Weaver's Blade</em> from its sheath on his back. "We need to get there -- now!" Swinging the greatsword while channeling a spell through its blade, he cut a gash in the universe itself, temporarily connecting the deck of the troll airship with the Life-Giver's Grove. The rift through space closed itself back up a mere moment later - but by that time, all three heroes had passed through the gap.</p><p></p><p>"You're here!" cried a jubilant voice from above. It was Leafy Junior, who had somehow managed to crawl up onto an overhanging branch jutting out from the Life-Giver: an enormous tree growing in the middle of a clearing in a vast forest. Surrounding the tree in a defensive ring were about a dozen chompy guardians - all that was left of a much-larger force, judging by the chompy corpses littering the clearing. And attacking them from various angles were about half a dozen other chompies: about the same size, with the same basic coloration (maybe just a bit more yellowy if you looked closely), the same build, the same stumpy legs and flapping upper leaf-limbs; only the eyes at the tops of their eyestalks were different, those of the attacking force glowing an evil red. And they somehow looked a bit withered along the edges of their leaves, like a head of lettuce left out for too long.</p><p></p><p>"Help us!" cried Leafy Junior. "We can't hold them off much longer - and their leader, a spell punk, has already gone through the rift!" Looking at the base of the Life-Giver, the heroes could see the rift leading directly to the heart of its Life energy standing wide open, being desperately guarded by three chompy guardians determined not to let anyone else through.</p><p></p><p>"What do you think?" asked Sam, notching an arrow to his Dynabow 3.0 and letting it charge with explosive energy. "Do we help fight these red-eye chompies first or go deal with their boss?"</p><p></p><p>"Leafy Junior needs our help here," pointed out Baabby.</p><p></p><p>"But they've got them outnumbered two-to-one!" argued Sam. But then, as if to prove a point, the evil chompies attacked en masse, slaying three more of the guardian chompies. The guardians responded in kind, but none of their enemies fell after their mass attack - in fact, none of them even looked particularly hurt.</p><p></p><p>That was all Baabby needed to see. He leapt forward, bringing his <em>Rift-Weaver's Blade</em> crashing down on the nearest evil chompy. The baabarian fully expected his foe to practically explode into plant matter under the power of his blade - after all, he'd been killing chompies in the same fashion from the first time he picked up the magical greatsword. But the blade scraped across the chompy's leafy hide, cutting into it a bit - but not that much.</p><p></p><p>"Okay, I get it," sighed Sam, letting fly with his explosive arrow. Its blast encompassed two of the nearest evil chompies, bunched together to the right of the massive tree, and the archer followed up with a pair of normal arrows in quick succession at the same target, picking one of the two. He managed to hit both times - the evil chompy had two arrows sticking through it like a pincushion - but it continued its advance, thorny teeth chomping. "Hmmm," mused Sam. These were like no chompies he'd ever met before.</p><p></p><p>Sapphrina took wing and shot a <em>magic missile</em> spell at the evil chompy Baabby had failed to kill with his greatsword. That dropped it, eliciting a grunt of surprise from the baabarian. He wasn't used to having his companions have to finish off his designated foes for him!</p><p></p><p>Around the heroes, the guardian chompies gnashed at their evil counterparts with their teeth and slashed with the sharp claws at the ends of their stubby forelimbs. Once again, despite hitting their targets, they didn't seem to be hurting them in the least.</p><p></p><p>Baabby raced forward to the nest nearest evil chompy, once again slashing into the plant's chunky body but failing to slay it. In retaliation, however, the evil chompy lashed out not with a physical attack but a spell-like ability. The baabarian winced as he felt a cold, cloying energy coalesce around him, draining him of some of his vitality. Following suit, the other blight chompies started creating <em>unholy blight</em> effects around their foes, not bothering to avoid their own kind as the spell had no effect on evil beings, only those of a good or neutral bent. Seeing what was coming, Sam tried calling out, "I'm thinking about stomping on puppies!" hoping against hope that he could trick a spell effect into temporarily thinking he was evil. But no such luck; he was drained just as much as his companions. "No fair!" squawked the crow archer.</p><p></p><p>Then, deciding he had better ways to express his outrage than squawking ineffectively, the former member of the Sons of Archery shot an explosively-charged arrow at a blight chompy, following it up with two regular arrows. All three hit, but still the blight chompy stood and advanced. Sam couldn't help it: he squawked "No fair!" almost involuntarily.</p><p></p><p>Sapphrina flew over and lined up two blight chompies for a <em>lightning bolt</em> spell. She caught both in her spell, but neither fell over as a result. She almost echoed Sam's verbal sentiment, but held back at the last moment, not wanting to sound like a whiner.</p><p></p><p>The few guardian chompies that were left began another completely ineffectual assault, but Leafy Junior, observing their lack of effectiveness from his perch on the branch, called them to fall back and guard the still-open rift in the tree's trunk. "Let the heroes deal with our enemies!" he advised.</p><p></p><p>Baabby was getting a little tired of these tough chompies not dying when he hit them. Actually, it was worse than just being a little tired of them: it was downright irritating! No, that wasn't quite the right word - it was <em>infuriating!</em> Baabby let the rage build inside of him, then released it in a power attack with all of his strength behind it. This time, the blight chompy had the good grace to fly apart at the seams, exploding in all directions from the force of the baabarian's blow. <em>That</em> was more like it! Not letting his rage cool, he stepped forward, up to the next blight chompy in line.</p><p></p><p>It sliced at the hulking baabarian with its claws and bit him with its thorn-teeth; neither attack did much in the way of damage, but it did plenty fine in keeping the fires of Baabby's rage stoked.</p><p></p><p>Sam sent three arrows flying into a different blight chompy, the last of them exploding upon contact. This time, he managed to kill it. "Yes!" the little crow enthused.</p><p></p><p>Sapphrina cast a <em>cone of cold</em> spell, catching two blight chompies in its area of effect and slaying one of them outright. Baabby power-sliced through the one he was fighting, leaving no further enemies on the field of combat - until another one waddled up out of a bank of greenish fog to the back of the grove. This newcomer cast its <em>unholy blight</em> effect at Baabby, draining the sheep-man of some more of his life energy.</p><p></p><p>Sam had another arrow all charged up with explosive energy, but the only blight chompy he could target was so close to Baabby he couldn't hit one without catching the other in the blast radius. So he fired blind into the patch of greenish fog, hoping to catch the chompy pod that had to be in there somewhere. No luck, but that was to be expected when you couldn't even see what you were aiming at.</p><p></p><p>Sapphrina flew high up into the air, until she could see the entirety of the field of fog. It was circular in shape, meaning the chompy pod was likely smack dab in the center of the fog. She relayed this information back to her friends, and Sam's second explosive arrow struck the unseen blight chompy pod.</p><p></p><p>Baabby killed his blight chompy foe with another full-strength swing of his sword. Then Sapphrina dropped back down to ground level and cast a <em>resist energy</em> spell on her raging friend. "I think that's an <em>acid fog</em> spell effect," she said, "but you're protected from acid now!"</p><p></p><p>That was all Baabby needed to hear. "Thaanks!" he called, before charging at full speed into the fog cloud. Sam raced over to stand directly in front of Sapphrina. "Don't worry," he reassured the fairy. "I'll send this arrow into anything but Baabby that comes out of the fog!" Sapphrina just shrugged; she could easily fly out of the reach of any chompy that might waddle out of the fog, but she appreciated the effort - and dreaded the whining to come if she didn't acknowledge the archer's attempt at heroism.</p><p></p><p>It didn't take Baabby long to find the blight chompy pod - it was right where he expected it to be. He chopped a great gash into its pulpy body with a downward slice of his greatsword, but then it spat out a new blight chompy at him in turn. The blight chompy bit and clawed at Baabby, tearing a few new cuts into his skin. But then it wandered out of the fog - and directly into Sam's sights.</p><p></p><p>Grinning evilly at his good fortune, Sam released the bowstring, sending the arrow barreling at the blight chompy - and missing in the most embarrassing fashion, by whooshing right in between its twin eyestalks. "I, uh, meant to do that!" Sam offered as an explanation. "I thought I might try intimidating it with my marksmanship skills!"</p><p></p><p>"Next time, you might try demonstrating your marksmanship skills by hitting it in the body with your arrow!" suggested Sapphrina, before blasting it with a <em>magic missile</em> spell.</p><p></p><p>"Point taken," Sam replied. In fact, several points had been taken: the points of its claws and the points of its thornlike teeth, both of which had slashed across the archer's body. He stepped back and shot an explosive arrow at the blight chompy, finishing it off.</p><p></p><p>Suddenly, the acid fog started dissipating, and Baabby's massive form appeared first as a dark silhouette and then as a fully-formed shape. He stood above a pile of mushy pulp that had once been a blight chompy pod - before he'd taken all of his rage out on it. "I got it!" he called to his friends.</p><p></p><p>"I see that!" Sapphrina called back. "But we've still got to deal with the spell punk that made it through the rift!"</p><p></p><p>The three heroes raced back to the front of the Life-Giver tree, Baabby casting a few <em>mass cure moderate wounds</em> spells on the way to heal them all up. "Good luck!" called Leafy Junior from his raised perch on the tree limb, as the three heroes entered the rift.</p><p></p><p>The other side of the rift was a small floating island. Hovering above it in a bubble of greenish energy was a life spell punk. The force-bubble around it was anchored in place by five beams of green energy, each emanating from an emerald-hued chunk of rock on the island, formed in a rough circle. A sixth beam of green energy lanced out sideways from the force-bubble, shooting out somewhere far away, for the green ray extended far beyond any of the heroes' field of vision.</p><p></p><p>Sapphrina was the first to react, shooting a <em>lightning bolt</em> spell up at the spell punk, but the energy of her attack seemed to be harmlessly absorbed by the bubble.</p><p></p><p>"We need to take out these rocks!" surmised Sam, sending an explosive arrow blasting at one of the five. Unfortunately, it had no more effect than had the fairy's spell. "They seem immune to energy!" the crow called to his friend. "See how they handle a physical attack, Baabby!"</p><p></p><p>Baabby was quick to comply with the crow's suggestion. Raising the <em>Rift-Weaver's Blade</em> above his head, he brought it down with every ounce of strength he possessed. It cracked the emerald rock in two, and the beam of energy rising up from it into the floating bubble winked out immediately.</p><p></p><p>"Great!" cheered on Sapphrina, as the spell punk cursed above them all. "Good call, Sam!"</p><p></p><p>"Of course it was a good call," replied Sam. "I'm very wise, after all. But then, I'm part owl on my mother's side."</p><p></p><p>"Whaat's that sideways beam doing?" asked Baabby as he applied his blade to chopping up another rock, then the one beside it as well in a cleaving motion.</p><p></p><p>Sapphrina squinted up at it. "I don't think it's shooting out," she guessed. "I think it's energy coming into the bubble."</p><p></p><p>"So he's got another rock somewhere far away powering his bubble thingy?" asked Sam.</p><p></p><p>Suddenly, the answer hit Sapphrina with the power of a knockout punch. "The cage imprisoning Don!" she cried, having come into the habit of referring to their demigod foe, the Devourer of Nightmares, by his initials. "He's absorbing the Life energy imprisoning him, just like the demons were hoping to do with the Undead energy in the rift in the Underworld!"</p><p></p><p>"Well that's no good!" exclaimed Sam, sending an explosive arrow shooting up at the force bubble and following it with another pair of normal arrows. Neither seemed to have any effect, although the fact that three of the five power stones had been destroyed meant the bubble wasn't quite as green as it had been earlier. Apparently, Baabby's destruction of the stones was weakening it, little by little.</p><p></p><p>"Almost there, almost there!" muttered the spell punk from above. Sapphrina sent another <em>lightning bolt</em> spell up his way, and this time some of the electrical energy made it through the force barrier. "Hurry!" the fairy called to Baabby.</p><p></p><p>"One more to go!" cried Baabby, having smashed the fourth stone and racing over to the fifth. He had noticed something his friends hadn't been in a position to see for themselves, given that their attention was focused above them while his was focused on the rune-stones on the ground: with each stone he broke, the Life Rune in his greatsword glowed a little brighter. Smashing the fifth and final stone, the Rune glowed with an emerald hue, the Life Rune having been activated at the same time the force bubble around the floating spell punk popped out of existence.</p><p></p><p>"You're too late! I have aided in my master's eventual escape!" crowed the floating mage. Sure enough, the beam of energy coming in from a great distance away had shut off, the Life energy from the cage imprisoning the Devourer of Nightmares having been fully drained away. Now the spell punk started the beam up again in pretty much the same direction; he'd drained the Life energy from the Life Rune on his master's cage, and now, since the heroes had stopped a similar process from draining away the cage's Undead energy, he would try to overpower the Undead rune by bombarding it with Undead's antithesis, Life. If he succeeded, he'd have destroyed two of the eight runes keeping his master imprisoned. His name would be praised by all who worshipped the Devourer of Nightmares!</p><p></p><p>Sam shot an explosive arrow up at the life spell punk and with the force bubble gone the blast encompassed the floating mage, leaving him a smoking ruin hanging onto life by a fingernail. Sapphrina metaphorically clipped that fingernail with a well-placed <em>magic missile</em> spell, and the spell punk's lifeless body came crashing down to the ground. "Too...too late..." the mage whispered with his last breath.</p><p></p><p>"Too late?" repeated Sam incredulously. "Look around you, buddy! Your bubble's gone, you're dead, and you're not sending any more Life energy at Don's cage! I'd say that's more like 'just in the nick of time,' myself!"</p><p></p><p>But once again, the little crow had spoken too soon. The rift opened behind the heroes - the one which normally connected to the Life-Giver tree. This time, however, the rift connected to a completely different place - as evidenced by the fact that an enormous tentacle came rushing through the gate, filling it up before emerging completely. But the part that did fit through the gate was easily 25 feet long and almost four feet wide at its thickest end.</p><p></p><p>"Gaah!" cried Sam, stepping involuntarily back.</p><p></p><p><Ever the fool!> scoffed a mental voice, one the heroes immediately recognized as belonging to the imprisoned demigod they were racing to destroy before it could escape and wreak havoc across the Skylands. <My servant has fulfilled his purpose, allowing me to stretch a bit outside my confinements!> And with that, the tentacle slapped the ground near Baabby. The baabarian dodged out of the way, but the tentacle hadn't actually been attacking him; in the space where it had hit the ground, another life spell punk rose up.</p><p></p><p>"No fair!" called Sam. "We just killed one of those!" All three heroes had been focused on attacking the tentacle upon its appearance, Baabby with his greatsword, Sapphrina with her spells, and Sam with his arrows. Now, faced with two enemies, Sam called out a suggestion to the group at large: "Baabby! You can deal out the most damage! You keep chopping up the tentacle -- Sapph and I can handle the punk!" Baabby replied with a grunt and another swing at the rubbery tentacle, carving another deep groove into its spongy flesh.</p><p></p><p>Sapphrina cast a <em>lightning bolt</em> spell at the floating mage, while Sam sent his traditional trio of arrows, one of them explosive in nature. But while they were concentrating on their foe and Baabby was dealing with the tentacle at its root, the tip of the massive appendage slapped the ground again and a second spell punk rose up.</p><p></p><p>"Oh <em>come on!</em>" griped an exasperated Sam.</p><p></p><p>Both spell punks started casting spells in unison, and some of the damage Baabby had dealt to the tentacle thus far started healing up. A fresh wave of rage flowed over the baabarian, and he channeled it into his sword-blows.</p><p></p><p>"You take the new one; I'll take this one!" called out Sapphrina, sending a <em>cone of cold</em> spell at the first spell punk and getting the tip of the tentacle in the frigid blast as well.</p><p></p><p>"Got it!" replied Sam, sending an explosive arrow in the second spell punk's face. It cried out in pain in a manner much appreciated by the little archer, who then sent a pair of normal arrows flying into the floating mage. Baabby, in the meantime, might as well have been a lumberjack chopping wood, his <em>Rift-Weaver's Blade</em> cutting deep into the flesh of the tentacle he'd singled out as his sole foe with every blow. <Enough!> cried the Devourer of Nightmares, sending the tip of his appendage slamming into the sheep-man, reeling him momentarily back. But then the moment was over, and Baabby resumed his attacks on the rubbery flesh.</p><p></p><p>Sapphrina blasted the first spell punk with another <em>cone of cold</em> spell (also catching the tentacle in the area of effect; the blasted thing was so big it was hard to miss it with area spells of any type!). Then she puzzled aloud, "...That's strange!"</p><p></p><p>"What's strange?" asked Sam. "That we're fighting a piece of Don that he's sticking through a hole in his cage?"</p><p></p><p>"No," replied the fairy. "This spell punk should probably have keeled over dead by now, with all of the spells I've pumped into him!"</p><p></p><p>"Illusion?" asked Sam, squinting his eyes at the foe the fairy had been fighting. Sure enough: if you focused at it, you could sort of see through it a bit. "It's an illusion!" he confirmed, before turning his disbelieving eyes towards his own foe. Alas, the second spell punk was all too real. </p><p></p><p>"I don't suppose there's any chance you're just an illusion too, is there, Donnie boy?" Sam asked, while loosing another explosive arrow at his all-too-living spell punk foe, catching the tentacle - or a bit of it, anyway - in the blast radius.</p><p></p><p><You wish!> smirked the imprisoned demigod. <I'm surprised you morons saw through my illusion so quickly! I'd have thought you'd have spent all your time fighting off an illusion and wasting your spells and arrows, only to disbelieve the second one, who was all too real! But never mind; your fumbling antics have provided me a bit of entertainment nonetheless.></p><p></p><p>Sapphrina sent another <em>cone of cold</em> spell into the second spell punk and the tentacle, slaying the first and damaging the second. But the tentacle was chopped off shortly thereafter, as Baabby's ability to dish out damage was much greater than the life spell punk's ability to heal it. The rest of the tentacle was pulled back through the rift, which closed up behind it. But before the rift closed, Sam hurled a final insult toward their foe: "I hope that was your <em>junk</em> Baabby just lopped off!"</p><p></p><p>"Ugh," replied Baabby, stepping away from the severed tentacle. "I don't."</p><p></p><p>"Don't be crude," chided Sapphrina. "Anyway, I know what we were fighting: that was a tentacle from his face. Remember Lord Umbros, the mind flayer? He was Don's son; Don has a squid-head just like a mind flayer, although given the size difference, it's more like a kraken-head."</p><p></p><p>"I caan't wait to start craackin' his head," muttered Baabby.</p><p></p><p>"How come this one didn't have an eyeball on the end of it?" Sam asked.</p><p></p><p>"Only his finger-tentacles have eyeballs," replied the fairy. "And he's got two eyes in his head, for an even dozen."</p><p></p><p>"I'm going to send him a pair of giant spectacles," promised Sam. "Then we can call him 'Fourteen Eyes'."</p><p></p><p>"Now you're just being silly," scoffed Sapphrina.</p><p></p><p>"Ooh!" squealed Sam, an even better thought striking him. "How about ten monocles for his finger eyeballs? Then, when we show up to kill him, he can be all surprised and have all ten of his monocles drop at the same time! That would be great!"</p><p></p><p>"If they're monocles, you'd only need five," pointed out Baabby.</p><p></p><p>"Ooh, good call!" praised Sam. "That'll only cost half as much!" Sapphrina only shook her head in disbelief. Then Baabby, tired of the conversation and ready to get back to business, used the <em>Rift-Weaver's Blade</em> to open back up the normal rift between the small floating island and the Life-Giver. The three heroes stepped through, back into the Life-Giver's Grove once again.</p><p></p><p>"We've come to a decision," said Leafy Junior, who had dropped down from his perch since the heroes went through the rift. "We'd like you to permanently seal the rift, so it can't be used against the Skylands again."</p><p></p><p>"Are you sure?" asked Sapphrina. "Once we seal it up, it won't be able to be opened again."</p><p></p><p>"We're sure," replied Leafy Junior without a moment's hesitation. Baabby struck out with his magic blade, cleaving a rent in the rift and watching as it collapsed in upon itself.</p><p></p><p>"So now what?" asked Sam. "Did that first spell punk really wipe out two of the eight Runes on Donnie's cage?"</p><p></p><p>"The Life Rune for sure," replied Sapphrina. "And it's possible he overloaded the Undead rune as well, but I don't think he had enough time for that."</p><p></p><p>"So thaat still leaves aat least six runes in place, maybe seven," pointed out Baabby. "Aand we still need four more runes for my sword." With the Life Rune added back in, the <em>Rift-Weaver's Blade</em> was lacking only the Air, Earth, Fire, and Water Runes. "We need to find four more runes for my sword before his minions caan destroy the rest of the runes on his cage."</p><p></p><p>"That's about it," agreed Sapphrina.</p><p></p><p>"But how are we going to get back on our troll airship?" asked Sam. Statue Boy has no idea where we went, and he has no orders to the contrary, so he'll keep on piloting to Skylanders Academy. They're probably going to wonder what's up when it shows up without us."</p><p></p><p>"We rifted off the ship; we can rift back on," reassured Sapphrina. "Are you ready, Baabby?"</p><p></p><p>"Ready," replied the baabarian, channeling an appropriately-powerful spell through his blade, then using it to cut a temporary rip in the fabric of space. The heroes all jumped through before it could seal up behind them.</p><p></p><p>They expected to step back aboard the troll airship. Instead, they were in an area of pitch blackness.</p><p></p><p>"Wait, what?" cried Sam. "No fair!"</p><p></p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p>Logan reused the same maps and tree prop (made from a couple of cardboard tubes, one from a roll of paper towels and one from a roll of toilet paper) from "The Life-Giver's Grove", only this time he crafted some tree limbs for the Life-Giver Tree by gluing on curving bits cut off from the bottom of a toilet paper roll tube. (He made roots for the tree using the same method.) But this allowed us to put the "Leafy Junior" token up in a tree limb and have him stay in place.</p><p></p><p>Logan used "bone chompy" tokens (and the corresponding initiative card) to represent the blight chompies, and let me tell you, it was quite a surprise to both Harry and me to meet up with chompies that couldn't be taken out a couple per round!</p><p></p><p>Apparently the next adventure's going to be called "Rift Accident," so Baabby's failure to get the team back on the airship is a plot point, not anything he did wrong. I'm interested to see what that's all about!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richards, post: 7245344, member: 508"] [b]ADVENTURE 21: A LEAFY EMERGENCY[/b] PC Roster: [INDENT]Baabby, humanoid sheep barbarian/cleric (Life) 11 Sam Crow, humanoid crow ranger/rogue 11[/INDENT] NPC Roster: [INDENT]Sapphrina, fairy sorcerer 11[/INDENT] Game Session Date: 7 October 2017 - - - "...And that's why crows are the most intelligent life form in all of Skylands," finished Sam. Baabby gave his little companion a disbelieving eye...and then promptly fell over to the deck of the troll airship, all consciousness having fled his body in an instant. "What happened?" asked Sapphrina, flying up after having heard the loud "thud" from belowdecks. "My explanations about the inherent superiority of crows caused Baabby to faint dead away!" said Sam. "I doubt that was it," replied the fairy. "Seriously: what did you do?" "Seriously: I didn't do anything!" retorted Sam. "But don't worry! I know exactly what to do in a situation like this!" And the little crow rushed off to fetch the important tool he needed. Baabby, however, hadn't simply fainted: he had received a magical [i]sending[/i] of such strength and power that it temporarily knocked him out. While his body was unconscious, his mind was watching what was transpiring directly in front of him - or that's what it looked like, in any case. While Baabby was aware that he was physically still on the troll airship with his friends, one day into its journey back to Skylanders Academy after departing Sparkletown, seemingly standing right in front of him on a tree branch was [b]Leafy Junior[/b], the chompy in charge of protecting the Life-Giver's Grove. "We need your help desperately!" the chompy guardian cried. "We're about to be overrun! Help! Please! We need you at once!" The vision faded and Baabby once again felt the wood of the airship beneath his broad back. Above him, he could see Sapphrina looking down at him with a worried expression on her face, and Sam hurriedly putting the cap back on a permanent marker-pen and hiding it behind his back. "I didn't draw on your face!" the crow hurriedly explained. "I wasn't even going to! I, uh, took the marker away from Sapphrina. There's no telling what she might have done! For shame, Sapphrina!" But the sheep-man and the fairy both knew their crow companion well enough to realize when he could be completely ignored - and this was one of those times. "Was it a vision?" asked the fairy, already a step ahead of the confused crow. "Yes," Baabby replied. "Leafy Junior's in trouble. We need to get there, faast!" "The Life-Giver's Grove is, like, three or four days away," remarked Sam. "And I'm pretty sure it's in the opposite direction of where we're going." "Thaat's too long," answered Baabby, regaining his feet and pulling the [i]Rift-Weaver's Blade[/i] from its sheath on his back. "We need to get there -- now!" Swinging the greatsword while channeling a spell through its blade, he cut a gash in the universe itself, temporarily connecting the deck of the troll airship with the Life-Giver's Grove. The rift through space closed itself back up a mere moment later - but by that time, all three heroes had passed through the gap. "You're here!" cried a jubilant voice from above. It was Leafy Junior, who had somehow managed to crawl up onto an overhanging branch jutting out from the Life-Giver: an enormous tree growing in the middle of a clearing in a vast forest. Surrounding the tree in a defensive ring were about a dozen chompy guardians - all that was left of a much-larger force, judging by the chompy corpses littering the clearing. And attacking them from various angles were about half a dozen other chompies: about the same size, with the same basic coloration (maybe just a bit more yellowy if you looked closely), the same build, the same stumpy legs and flapping upper leaf-limbs; only the eyes at the tops of their eyestalks were different, those of the attacking force glowing an evil red. And they somehow looked a bit withered along the edges of their leaves, like a head of lettuce left out for too long. "Help us!" cried Leafy Junior. "We can't hold them off much longer - and their leader, a spell punk, has already gone through the rift!" Looking at the base of the Life-Giver, the heroes could see the rift leading directly to the heart of its Life energy standing wide open, being desperately guarded by three chompy guardians determined not to let anyone else through. "What do you think?" asked Sam, notching an arrow to his Dynabow 3.0 and letting it charge with explosive energy. "Do we help fight these red-eye chompies first or go deal with their boss?" "Leafy Junior needs our help here," pointed out Baabby. "But they've got them outnumbered two-to-one!" argued Sam. But then, as if to prove a point, the evil chompies attacked en masse, slaying three more of the guardian chompies. The guardians responded in kind, but none of their enemies fell after their mass attack - in fact, none of them even looked particularly hurt. That was all Baabby needed to see. He leapt forward, bringing his [i]Rift-Weaver's Blade[/i] crashing down on the nearest evil chompy. The baabarian fully expected his foe to practically explode into plant matter under the power of his blade - after all, he'd been killing chompies in the same fashion from the first time he picked up the magical greatsword. But the blade scraped across the chompy's leafy hide, cutting into it a bit - but not that much. "Okay, I get it," sighed Sam, letting fly with his explosive arrow. Its blast encompassed two of the nearest evil chompies, bunched together to the right of the massive tree, and the archer followed up with a pair of normal arrows in quick succession at the same target, picking one of the two. He managed to hit both times - the evil chompy had two arrows sticking through it like a pincushion - but it continued its advance, thorny teeth chomping. "Hmmm," mused Sam. These were like no chompies he'd ever met before. Sapphrina took wing and shot a [i]magic missile[/i] spell at the evil chompy Baabby had failed to kill with his greatsword. That dropped it, eliciting a grunt of surprise from the baabarian. He wasn't used to having his companions have to finish off his designated foes for him! Around the heroes, the guardian chompies gnashed at their evil counterparts with their teeth and slashed with the sharp claws at the ends of their stubby forelimbs. Once again, despite hitting their targets, they didn't seem to be hurting them in the least. Baabby raced forward to the nest nearest evil chompy, once again slashing into the plant's chunky body but failing to slay it. In retaliation, however, the evil chompy lashed out not with a physical attack but a spell-like ability. The baabarian winced as he felt a cold, cloying energy coalesce around him, draining him of some of his vitality. Following suit, the other blight chompies started creating [i]unholy blight[/i] effects around their foes, not bothering to avoid their own kind as the spell had no effect on evil beings, only those of a good or neutral bent. Seeing what was coming, Sam tried calling out, "I'm thinking about stomping on puppies!" hoping against hope that he could trick a spell effect into temporarily thinking he was evil. But no such luck; he was drained just as much as his companions. "No fair!" squawked the crow archer. Then, deciding he had better ways to express his outrage than squawking ineffectively, the former member of the Sons of Archery shot an explosively-charged arrow at a blight chompy, following it up with two regular arrows. All three hit, but still the blight chompy stood and advanced. Sam couldn't help it: he squawked "No fair!" almost involuntarily. Sapphrina flew over and lined up two blight chompies for a [i]lightning bolt[/i] spell. She caught both in her spell, but neither fell over as a result. She almost echoed Sam's verbal sentiment, but held back at the last moment, not wanting to sound like a whiner. The few guardian chompies that were left began another completely ineffectual assault, but Leafy Junior, observing their lack of effectiveness from his perch on the branch, called them to fall back and guard the still-open rift in the tree's trunk. "Let the heroes deal with our enemies!" he advised. Baabby was getting a little tired of these tough chompies not dying when he hit them. Actually, it was worse than just being a little tired of them: it was downright irritating! No, that wasn't quite the right word - it was [i]infuriating![/i] Baabby let the rage build inside of him, then released it in a power attack with all of his strength behind it. This time, the blight chompy had the good grace to fly apart at the seams, exploding in all directions from the force of the baabarian's blow. [i]That[/i] was more like it! Not letting his rage cool, he stepped forward, up to the next blight chompy in line. It sliced at the hulking baabarian with its claws and bit him with its thorn-teeth; neither attack did much in the way of damage, but it did plenty fine in keeping the fires of Baabby's rage stoked. Sam sent three arrows flying into a different blight chompy, the last of them exploding upon contact. This time, he managed to kill it. "Yes!" the little crow enthused. Sapphrina cast a [i]cone of cold[/i] spell, catching two blight chompies in its area of effect and slaying one of them outright. Baabby power-sliced through the one he was fighting, leaving no further enemies on the field of combat - until another one waddled up out of a bank of greenish fog to the back of the grove. This newcomer cast its [i]unholy blight[/i] effect at Baabby, draining the sheep-man of some more of his life energy. Sam had another arrow all charged up with explosive energy, but the only blight chompy he could target was so close to Baabby he couldn't hit one without catching the other in the blast radius. So he fired blind into the patch of greenish fog, hoping to catch the chompy pod that had to be in there somewhere. No luck, but that was to be expected when you couldn't even see what you were aiming at. Sapphrina flew high up into the air, until she could see the entirety of the field of fog. It was circular in shape, meaning the chompy pod was likely smack dab in the center of the fog. She relayed this information back to her friends, and Sam's second explosive arrow struck the unseen blight chompy pod. Baabby killed his blight chompy foe with another full-strength swing of his sword. Then Sapphrina dropped back down to ground level and cast a [i]resist energy[/i] spell on her raging friend. "I think that's an [i]acid fog[/i] spell effect," she said, "but you're protected from acid now!" That was all Baabby needed to hear. "Thaanks!" he called, before charging at full speed into the fog cloud. Sam raced over to stand directly in front of Sapphrina. "Don't worry," he reassured the fairy. "I'll send this arrow into anything but Baabby that comes out of the fog!" Sapphrina just shrugged; she could easily fly out of the reach of any chompy that might waddle out of the fog, but she appreciated the effort - and dreaded the whining to come if she didn't acknowledge the archer's attempt at heroism. It didn't take Baabby long to find the blight chompy pod - it was right where he expected it to be. He chopped a great gash into its pulpy body with a downward slice of his greatsword, but then it spat out a new blight chompy at him in turn. The blight chompy bit and clawed at Baabby, tearing a few new cuts into his skin. But then it wandered out of the fog - and directly into Sam's sights. Grinning evilly at his good fortune, Sam released the bowstring, sending the arrow barreling at the blight chompy - and missing in the most embarrassing fashion, by whooshing right in between its twin eyestalks. "I, uh, meant to do that!" Sam offered as an explanation. "I thought I might try intimidating it with my marksmanship skills!" "Next time, you might try demonstrating your marksmanship skills by hitting it in the body with your arrow!" suggested Sapphrina, before blasting it with a [i]magic missile[/i] spell. "Point taken," Sam replied. In fact, several points had been taken: the points of its claws and the points of its thornlike teeth, both of which had slashed across the archer's body. He stepped back and shot an explosive arrow at the blight chompy, finishing it off. Suddenly, the acid fog started dissipating, and Baabby's massive form appeared first as a dark silhouette and then as a fully-formed shape. He stood above a pile of mushy pulp that had once been a blight chompy pod - before he'd taken all of his rage out on it. "I got it!" he called to his friends. "I see that!" Sapphrina called back. "But we've still got to deal with the spell punk that made it through the rift!" The three heroes raced back to the front of the Life-Giver tree, Baabby casting a few [i]mass cure moderate wounds[/i] spells on the way to heal them all up. "Good luck!" called Leafy Junior from his raised perch on the tree limb, as the three heroes entered the rift. The other side of the rift was a small floating island. Hovering above it in a bubble of greenish energy was a life spell punk. The force-bubble around it was anchored in place by five beams of green energy, each emanating from an emerald-hued chunk of rock on the island, formed in a rough circle. A sixth beam of green energy lanced out sideways from the force-bubble, shooting out somewhere far away, for the green ray extended far beyond any of the heroes' field of vision. Sapphrina was the first to react, shooting a [i]lightning bolt[/i] spell up at the spell punk, but the energy of her attack seemed to be harmlessly absorbed by the bubble. "We need to take out these rocks!" surmised Sam, sending an explosive arrow blasting at one of the five. Unfortunately, it had no more effect than had the fairy's spell. "They seem immune to energy!" the crow called to his friend. "See how they handle a physical attack, Baabby!" Baabby was quick to comply with the crow's suggestion. Raising the [i]Rift-Weaver's Blade[/i] above his head, he brought it down with every ounce of strength he possessed. It cracked the emerald rock in two, and the beam of energy rising up from it into the floating bubble winked out immediately. "Great!" cheered on Sapphrina, as the spell punk cursed above them all. "Good call, Sam!" "Of course it was a good call," replied Sam. "I'm very wise, after all. But then, I'm part owl on my mother's side." "Whaat's that sideways beam doing?" asked Baabby as he applied his blade to chopping up another rock, then the one beside it as well in a cleaving motion. Sapphrina squinted up at it. "I don't think it's shooting out," she guessed. "I think it's energy coming into the bubble." "So he's got another rock somewhere far away powering his bubble thingy?" asked Sam. Suddenly, the answer hit Sapphrina with the power of a knockout punch. "The cage imprisoning Don!" she cried, having come into the habit of referring to their demigod foe, the Devourer of Nightmares, by his initials. "He's absorbing the Life energy imprisoning him, just like the demons were hoping to do with the Undead energy in the rift in the Underworld!" "Well that's no good!" exclaimed Sam, sending an explosive arrow shooting up at the force bubble and following it with another pair of normal arrows. Neither seemed to have any effect, although the fact that three of the five power stones had been destroyed meant the bubble wasn't quite as green as it had been earlier. Apparently, Baabby's destruction of the stones was weakening it, little by little. "Almost there, almost there!" muttered the spell punk from above. Sapphrina sent another [i]lightning bolt[/i] spell up his way, and this time some of the electrical energy made it through the force barrier. "Hurry!" the fairy called to Baabby. "One more to go!" cried Baabby, having smashed the fourth stone and racing over to the fifth. He had noticed something his friends hadn't been in a position to see for themselves, given that their attention was focused above them while his was focused on the rune-stones on the ground: with each stone he broke, the Life Rune in his greatsword glowed a little brighter. Smashing the fifth and final stone, the Rune glowed with an emerald hue, the Life Rune having been activated at the same time the force bubble around the floating spell punk popped out of existence. "You're too late! I have aided in my master's eventual escape!" crowed the floating mage. Sure enough, the beam of energy coming in from a great distance away had shut off, the Life energy from the cage imprisoning the Devourer of Nightmares having been fully drained away. Now the spell punk started the beam up again in pretty much the same direction; he'd drained the Life energy from the Life Rune on his master's cage, and now, since the heroes had stopped a similar process from draining away the cage's Undead energy, he would try to overpower the Undead rune by bombarding it with Undead's antithesis, Life. If he succeeded, he'd have destroyed two of the eight runes keeping his master imprisoned. His name would be praised by all who worshipped the Devourer of Nightmares! Sam shot an explosive arrow up at the life spell punk and with the force bubble gone the blast encompassed the floating mage, leaving him a smoking ruin hanging onto life by a fingernail. Sapphrina metaphorically clipped that fingernail with a well-placed [i]magic missile[/i] spell, and the spell punk's lifeless body came crashing down to the ground. "Too...too late..." the mage whispered with his last breath. "Too late?" repeated Sam incredulously. "Look around you, buddy! Your bubble's gone, you're dead, and you're not sending any more Life energy at Don's cage! I'd say that's more like 'just in the nick of time,' myself!" But once again, the little crow had spoken too soon. The rift opened behind the heroes - the one which normally connected to the Life-Giver tree. This time, however, the rift connected to a completely different place - as evidenced by the fact that an enormous tentacle came rushing through the gate, filling it up before emerging completely. But the part that did fit through the gate was easily 25 feet long and almost four feet wide at its thickest end. "Gaah!" cried Sam, stepping involuntarily back. <Ever the fool!> scoffed a mental voice, one the heroes immediately recognized as belonging to the imprisoned demigod they were racing to destroy before it could escape and wreak havoc across the Skylands. <My servant has fulfilled his purpose, allowing me to stretch a bit outside my confinements!> And with that, the tentacle slapped the ground near Baabby. The baabarian dodged out of the way, but the tentacle hadn't actually been attacking him; in the space where it had hit the ground, another life spell punk rose up. "No fair!" called Sam. "We just killed one of those!" All three heroes had been focused on attacking the tentacle upon its appearance, Baabby with his greatsword, Sapphrina with her spells, and Sam with his arrows. Now, faced with two enemies, Sam called out a suggestion to the group at large: "Baabby! You can deal out the most damage! You keep chopping up the tentacle -- Sapph and I can handle the punk!" Baabby replied with a grunt and another swing at the rubbery tentacle, carving another deep groove into its spongy flesh. Sapphrina cast a [i]lightning bolt[/i] spell at the floating mage, while Sam sent his traditional trio of arrows, one of them explosive in nature. But while they were concentrating on their foe and Baabby was dealing with the tentacle at its root, the tip of the massive appendage slapped the ground again and a second spell punk rose up. "Oh [i]come on![/i]" griped an exasperated Sam. Both spell punks started casting spells in unison, and some of the damage Baabby had dealt to the tentacle thus far started healing up. A fresh wave of rage flowed over the baabarian, and he channeled it into his sword-blows. "You take the new one; I'll take this one!" called out Sapphrina, sending a [i]cone of cold[/i] spell at the first spell punk and getting the tip of the tentacle in the frigid blast as well. "Got it!" replied Sam, sending an explosive arrow in the second spell punk's face. It cried out in pain in a manner much appreciated by the little archer, who then sent a pair of normal arrows flying into the floating mage. Baabby, in the meantime, might as well have been a lumberjack chopping wood, his [i]Rift-Weaver's Blade[/i] cutting deep into the flesh of the tentacle he'd singled out as his sole foe with every blow. <Enough!> cried the Devourer of Nightmares, sending the tip of his appendage slamming into the sheep-man, reeling him momentarily back. But then the moment was over, and Baabby resumed his attacks on the rubbery flesh. Sapphrina blasted the first spell punk with another [i]cone of cold[/i] spell (also catching the tentacle in the area of effect; the blasted thing was so big it was hard to miss it with area spells of any type!). Then she puzzled aloud, "...That's strange!" "What's strange?" asked Sam. "That we're fighting a piece of Don that he's sticking through a hole in his cage?" "No," replied the fairy. "This spell punk should probably have keeled over dead by now, with all of the spells I've pumped into him!" "Illusion?" asked Sam, squinting his eyes at the foe the fairy had been fighting. Sure enough: if you focused at it, you could sort of see through it a bit. "It's an illusion!" he confirmed, before turning his disbelieving eyes towards his own foe. Alas, the second spell punk was all too real. "I don't suppose there's any chance you're just an illusion too, is there, Donnie boy?" Sam asked, while loosing another explosive arrow at his all-too-living spell punk foe, catching the tentacle - or a bit of it, anyway - in the blast radius. <You wish!> smirked the imprisoned demigod. <I'm surprised you morons saw through my illusion so quickly! I'd have thought you'd have spent all your time fighting off an illusion and wasting your spells and arrows, only to disbelieve the second one, who was all too real! But never mind; your fumbling antics have provided me a bit of entertainment nonetheless.> Sapphrina sent another [i]cone of cold[/i] spell into the second spell punk and the tentacle, slaying the first and damaging the second. But the tentacle was chopped off shortly thereafter, as Baabby's ability to dish out damage was much greater than the life spell punk's ability to heal it. The rest of the tentacle was pulled back through the rift, which closed up behind it. But before the rift closed, Sam hurled a final insult toward their foe: "I hope that was your [i]junk[/i] Baabby just lopped off!" "Ugh," replied Baabby, stepping away from the severed tentacle. "I don't." "Don't be crude," chided Sapphrina. "Anyway, I know what we were fighting: that was a tentacle from his face. Remember Lord Umbros, the mind flayer? He was Don's son; Don has a squid-head just like a mind flayer, although given the size difference, it's more like a kraken-head." "I caan't wait to start craackin' his head," muttered Baabby. "How come this one didn't have an eyeball on the end of it?" Sam asked. "Only his finger-tentacles have eyeballs," replied the fairy. "And he's got two eyes in his head, for an even dozen." "I'm going to send him a pair of giant spectacles," promised Sam. "Then we can call him 'Fourteen Eyes'." "Now you're just being silly," scoffed Sapphrina. "Ooh!" squealed Sam, an even better thought striking him. "How about ten monocles for his finger eyeballs? Then, when we show up to kill him, he can be all surprised and have all ten of his monocles drop at the same time! That would be great!" "If they're monocles, you'd only need five," pointed out Baabby. "Ooh, good call!" praised Sam. "That'll only cost half as much!" Sapphrina only shook her head in disbelief. Then Baabby, tired of the conversation and ready to get back to business, used the [i]Rift-Weaver's Blade[/i] to open back up the normal rift between the small floating island and the Life-Giver. The three heroes stepped through, back into the Life-Giver's Grove once again. "We've come to a decision," said Leafy Junior, who had dropped down from his perch since the heroes went through the rift. "We'd like you to permanently seal the rift, so it can't be used against the Skylands again." "Are you sure?" asked Sapphrina. "Once we seal it up, it won't be able to be opened again." "We're sure," replied Leafy Junior without a moment's hesitation. Baabby struck out with his magic blade, cleaving a rent in the rift and watching as it collapsed in upon itself. "So now what?" asked Sam. "Did that first spell punk really wipe out two of the eight Runes on Donnie's cage?" "The Life Rune for sure," replied Sapphrina. "And it's possible he overloaded the Undead rune as well, but I don't think he had enough time for that." "So thaat still leaves aat least six runes in place, maybe seven," pointed out Baabby. "Aand we still need four more runes for my sword." With the Life Rune added back in, the [i]Rift-Weaver's Blade[/i] was lacking only the Air, Earth, Fire, and Water Runes. "We need to find four more runes for my sword before his minions caan destroy the rest of the runes on his cage." "That's about it," agreed Sapphrina. "But how are we going to get back on our troll airship?" asked Sam. Statue Boy has no idea where we went, and he has no orders to the contrary, so he'll keep on piloting to Skylanders Academy. They're probably going to wonder what's up when it shows up without us." "We rifted off the ship; we can rift back on," reassured Sapphrina. "Are you ready, Baabby?" "Ready," replied the baabarian, channeling an appropriately-powerful spell through his blade, then using it to cut a temporary rip in the fabric of space. The heroes all jumped through before it could seal up behind them. They expected to step back aboard the troll airship. Instead, they were in an area of pitch blackness. "Wait, what?" cried Sam. "No fair!" - - - Logan reused the same maps and tree prop (made from a couple of cardboard tubes, one from a roll of paper towels and one from a roll of toilet paper) from "The Life-Giver's Grove", only this time he crafted some tree limbs for the Life-Giver Tree by gluing on curving bits cut off from the bottom of a toilet paper roll tube. (He made roots for the tree using the same method.) But this allowed us to put the "Leafy Junior" token up in a tree limb and have him stay in place. Logan used "bone chompy" tokens (and the corresponding initiative card) to represent the blight chompies, and let me tell you, it was quite a surprise to both Harry and me to meet up with chompies that couldn't be taken out a couple per round! Apparently the next adventure's going to be called "Rift Accident," so Baabby's failure to get the team back on the airship is a plot point, not anything he did wrong. I'm interested to see what that's all about! [/QUOTE]
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