Dr Midnight
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Yessir! Updating in a few minutes.LGodamus said:ok doc ...enough of that other junk you like to call a life....its is time to post
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The Adventures of the Knights of Spellforge Keep- UPDATED 6/6
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Dr Midnight said:
Updates, updates, updates galore,
And yet, as always, Lela wants more.
Sorry, just some bleed off from Tsunami's Story Hour.
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Dr Midnight
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LAST TIME: The last kobold, the one who’d been giving the speech, was picked up by the scruff of the neck. He whined and kicked and scratched, but he was held fast. He opened one eye and looked into the glaring, cold eyes of Dartan the Godless.
“Meepo.”
Meepo grinned nervously and lifted his shoddy, gold-painted wooden crown in a gesture of greeting. “Oh, hello!”
“What are you doing here?”
Meepo’s face darkened and he grinned with malice. “REVENGE! Revenge for what you did to Meepo!”
Dartan rolled his eyes. “And this would be…”
“Knights killed Calcryx,” the kobold said sadly.
“We didn’t kill YOU, as I wanted to. We left you as king of the kobolds.”
“You left Meepo hurt and broken. Now Meepo has taken revenge, and will continue to mush your good feelings into bad ones!”
They were walking back to the castle. Kizz asked “What revenge have you taken, Meepo?”
“HA! Devee-yus and insidy-yus plans has Meepo put into action. Your doom is already at hand.”
Edge said “Answer the lady Spellforge’s question question or I make your legs bend the other way.”
“We peed in the moat,” Meepo whimpered.
Kizzlorn wrinkled her nose. “That’s disgusting.” Vek leaned over and whispered a suggestion to Kizzlorn. She smiled and said “Yes. Meepo, welcome to the fate you made for yourself.” She polymorphed him into a little red-colored goldfish and dropped him into the moat, where he swam around frantically, not quite believing what he was breathing.
“My lady?” one of the Knights of Wee Jas was calling to Kizzlorn from the side of the castle. She went and saw what had been scratched there with a charred stick.
“That’s it.” Angered, she turned the other kobolds into goldfish as well and dumped them into the moat, to swim about in their diluted filth. “Let’s let them stew for a while,” she said. “We’ve got a god to meet.”
They shifted to the plane known as Pandemonium, somewhere in the outer planes. Here, there were only tall crags of pointed gray rock, and the howling of hellishly powerful winds whipped around their ears. Oaken quickly formed a sphere of air about them… the winds outside still blew, but inside the sphere, the air was calm and placid. They walked.
Vek stepped outside the sphere to investigate an overhang of rock. He signaled that there was nothing here to be found, then was picked up by the wind and smashed against a pile of rocks. He was fine, but he could have been carried up and into the air, far away. He hurried back to the circle.
Eventually, they found something in the desert of cold, sharpened rock. Here, a nine foot tall woman with clear yellow eyes, silver skin, and folded white wings stood with eyes downcast. She stood in a narrow tunnel where the wind howled and screamed. She was silent and appeared as if she’d stood sentinel in exactly the same position for decades.
Vek stepped up. “Are you the Gatekeeper?”
The eyes fixed on him. “I am Eco, charged with guarding the entry to the prison of Desayeus, The God Who Was Banned.”
“We are here to see him.”
“None may pass. I hold the key to the prison, and I will not willingly give it up.”
“Well, then, please step aside while we burst into the prison.” Kizzlorn banished the creature to an alternate plane, on which she’d have to navigate a complex maze to return to this place. “She’ll be back soon,” she said. “Let’s find the Gate and open it before she returns.” They searched about and realized that everything here was just stone… like everything else on the accursed plane.
Broldek asked “Where’s this Gate she was guarding?”
“She’s going to be back in just a minute- let’s find it quickly!” Kizzlorn rooted around in the crags, looking for a keyhole, a symbol, anything… but nothing was to be found.
With a flash of light and a yell, the winged Gatekeeper was here once more… and very, very angry. She swung her sword and cut deeply into Kizzlorn’s upper arm. Kizz yelped and jumped back as Broldek and Dartan ran forward, swinging their steel. Their swords rang off of hers, and she defended herself against each blow with expert skill. She turned and made a lightning-fast strike to Broldek’s shadow armor, and it was nearly split under the might of her sword. Edge darted in and shot a hand out. It smashed into her back. Her wings unfolded and slapped him in the face, and the unexpectedness of such an attack caused him to topple backwards.
The woman stopped fighting abruptly and made a choking sound. Her chest burst open and greenish ichor sprayed the fighters. Her heart flew in a straight line and slapped into Vek’s waiting hand. She stared at him, disbelieving, as her heart pumped once, twice… then stopped. She toppled over.
Vek smiled behind his skull mask and slipped the glistening heart into a belt pouch. “For later,” he laughed.
The creature’s body shuddered and grew. Its shape contorted and refolded itself as it became a large, arched doorway. The doomed Gatekeeper’s face was molded at the top. Standing in the doorway was a rippling pool of black, dotted with stars.
Vek brushed his hands together twice, to wipe off some of the Gatekeeper’s blood. He gestured to the door. “In we go.”
MORE TO COME…
“Meepo.”
Meepo grinned nervously and lifted his shoddy, gold-painted wooden crown in a gesture of greeting. “Oh, hello!”
“What are you doing here?”
Meepo’s face darkened and he grinned with malice. “REVENGE! Revenge for what you did to Meepo!”
Dartan rolled his eyes. “And this would be…”
“Knights killed Calcryx,” the kobold said sadly.
“We didn’t kill YOU, as I wanted to. We left you as king of the kobolds.”
“You left Meepo hurt and broken. Now Meepo has taken revenge, and will continue to mush your good feelings into bad ones!”
They were walking back to the castle. Kizz asked “What revenge have you taken, Meepo?”
“HA! Devee-yus and insidy-yus plans has Meepo put into action. Your doom is already at hand.”
Edge said “Answer the lady Spellforge’s question question or I make your legs bend the other way.”
“We peed in the moat,” Meepo whimpered.
Kizzlorn wrinkled her nose. “That’s disgusting.” Vek leaned over and whispered a suggestion to Kizzlorn. She smiled and said “Yes. Meepo, welcome to the fate you made for yourself.” She polymorphed him into a little red-colored goldfish and dropped him into the moat, where he swam around frantically, not quite believing what he was breathing.
“My lady?” one of the Knights of Wee Jas was calling to Kizzlorn from the side of the castle. She went and saw what had been scratched there with a charred stick.
“That’s it.” Angered, she turned the other kobolds into goldfish as well and dumped them into the moat, to swim about in their diluted filth. “Let’s let them stew for a while,” she said. “We’ve got a god to meet.”
They shifted to the plane known as Pandemonium, somewhere in the outer planes. Here, there were only tall crags of pointed gray rock, and the howling of hellishly powerful winds whipped around their ears. Oaken quickly formed a sphere of air about them… the winds outside still blew, but inside the sphere, the air was calm and placid. They walked.
Vek stepped outside the sphere to investigate an overhang of rock. He signaled that there was nothing here to be found, then was picked up by the wind and smashed against a pile of rocks. He was fine, but he could have been carried up and into the air, far away. He hurried back to the circle.
Eventually, they found something in the desert of cold, sharpened rock. Here, a nine foot tall woman with clear yellow eyes, silver skin, and folded white wings stood with eyes downcast. She stood in a narrow tunnel where the wind howled and screamed. She was silent and appeared as if she’d stood sentinel in exactly the same position for decades.
Vek stepped up. “Are you the Gatekeeper?”
The eyes fixed on him. “I am Eco, charged with guarding the entry to the prison of Desayeus, The God Who Was Banned.”
“We are here to see him.”
“None may pass. I hold the key to the prison, and I will not willingly give it up.”
“Well, then, please step aside while we burst into the prison.” Kizzlorn banished the creature to an alternate plane, on which she’d have to navigate a complex maze to return to this place. “She’ll be back soon,” she said. “Let’s find the Gate and open it before she returns.” They searched about and realized that everything here was just stone… like everything else on the accursed plane.
Broldek asked “Where’s this Gate she was guarding?”
“She’s going to be back in just a minute- let’s find it quickly!” Kizzlorn rooted around in the crags, looking for a keyhole, a symbol, anything… but nothing was to be found.
With a flash of light and a yell, the winged Gatekeeper was here once more… and very, very angry. She swung her sword and cut deeply into Kizzlorn’s upper arm. Kizz yelped and jumped back as Broldek and Dartan ran forward, swinging their steel. Their swords rang off of hers, and she defended herself against each blow with expert skill. She turned and made a lightning-fast strike to Broldek’s shadow armor, and it was nearly split under the might of her sword. Edge darted in and shot a hand out. It smashed into her back. Her wings unfolded and slapped him in the face, and the unexpectedness of such an attack caused him to topple backwards.
The woman stopped fighting abruptly and made a choking sound. Her chest burst open and greenish ichor sprayed the fighters. Her heart flew in a straight line and slapped into Vek’s waiting hand. She stared at him, disbelieving, as her heart pumped once, twice… then stopped. She toppled over.
Vek smiled behind his skull mask and slipped the glistening heart into a belt pouch. “For later,” he laughed.
The creature’s body shuddered and grew. Its shape contorted and refolded itself as it became a large, arched doorway. The doomed Gatekeeper’s face was molded at the top. Standing in the doorway was a rippling pool of black, dotted with stars.
Vek brushed his hands together twice, to wipe off some of the Gatekeeper’s blood. He gestured to the door. “In we go.”
MORE TO COME…
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LuYangShih
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Vek certainly uses quite a few Destruction spells. Isn't the cost prohibitive? Although that last one, from the description, sounds more like Finger Of Death. The spellcasting PCs must have great DCs to destroy so many opponents so easily. An interesting Story Hour, I look forward to reading more.
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Whoa... it's a good day for a story hour author when he doesn't even have to advertise his own story...
(psst! Thanks, Lela!)
(psst! Thanks, Lela!)
Dr Midnight
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I'm pretty sure the spell is Sacrificial Heart, from Relics & Rituals. He used it on the succubus that had the nice scene with Kizzlorn way back, but I just didn't remember it when I wrote it up... to the whinings of Wee Jas. "Waaaah, you didn't remember the cool thing I did! I'm gonna tell. I don't wanna play anymore..."
Quit crying, you little baby.
Quit crying, you little baby.
Thanks!
No... what happened there that was similar?
yeah... I don't have any updated rogues' gallery stuff anywhere. I did upkeep like that early in the campaign, but now it's just too much to change, and the PCs are quickly growing. They level at an unnerving rate these days...
Probably, though I'm not allowing anything from that book. Not that he couldn't slip it by me if he wanted. I'm always cracked on for not policing the characters about what they are and doing my homework on the character sheets. I don't care about any of that, you SISSIES! Bunny's too tight to mention.
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