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<blockquote data-quote="Andrew Moreton" data-source="post: 7525141" data-attributes="member: 6920268"><p>The team started off preparing for their incursion into the Bleak gate they decided to deploy the B-Team to stop Han's messenger while they went in, they decided to take Grappa for advice and to not try and stop Asraby coming they deployed soldiers but kept them in reserve. Their plan was that Manuel and El Kevin would go through first and stealthily deploy to deal with the guards as the main body came through, then messengers would come through these would not be fixed in the Bleak gate with the wands allowing them to go back and fetch the soldiers if the team felt this was a time for soldiers.</p><p>Manuel and El Kevin shot the guards from ambush and allowed Asraby to deal with the Trolls under the bridge. Manuel and his player loved the fact they had trolls under the bridge and began looking around for any goats. With their arrival still being secret they left the army behind and headed for the complex discussions with Grappa revealed both the entrances and the fact he had wiped Kasavarina's memories. There was a pause as they waited to see if Asraby was going to smash Grappa into tiny pieces. Then they talked through it and decided that probably meant Kasavarina was going to be a confused neutral and probably would not even recognise Asraby. Getting back to the entrances they initially favoured the lake entrance but realised they had no boat and any boat they could carry to the lake would not hold Manuels steam suit. The front doors they ruled out as they could see no way to get in without a battle so they went for the air vents in a traditional move.</p><p>They stealthily reached the top of the hill managing to avoid the dark creepers and the ambush party , with mutually awful perception and good stealth at the top they looked at the five vents and by sheer chance chose the one leading down to the living quarters of the senior people. Nevla protected everyone from fire and then Padme and Asraby climbed down before El Kevin brought everyone else who had crap climb skills down with feather fall. They sneaked into the Kitchen, Grappa warned them about the guardroom and told them they would see what all this was about if they moved through there.</p><p>Here they overestimated the elite guards firing from under a silence spell Manuel doing subdual damage with a vital striked nock gun killed one of them while the other 3 went down to a hail of attacks in the suprise round.</p><p>Moving to the exit they were very impressed and the intrusion bogged down in a good solid round of speculation about why they were building such a big golem and expressions of appreciation about it's size. They players had been expecting something live a 60 foot golem/Starscream not this. They spotted it was meant to have a lantern installed and decided it must be being made to fight an extra planar opponent overall they dismissed it being built to beat up they Fey as they could not think of anyone with that big a grudge against them. They then started to think perhaps 'Nicodemus' was an ancient or a Ghidim and had been planning this for thousands of years (hence the shortage of Adamantium) and that the collossus was being built to punch extra dimensional invaders in the nose when they next turned up. This fits with their theory that something involving planar travel/collapse of the ancient ritual/ the stars are right is coming and their conflicted position that they wish they knew what the Ob was up to so they could assess it's methods. Grappa mentioned Tinker as the designer and Manuel wanted to meet him.</p><p>Then the watching steelshaper intervened he was standing on a platform atop the shoulders of Borne along with a drugged Kasavarina and a pair of elite guards who the players ignored. He threatened the players briefly as Colin, Linus and Hunter arrived on the lift along with Creed reborn as a negative energy being and kinetecist. Grappa identified the golems and was certain he could talk them down while he did so Manuel engaged them in a philosphical debate about the sentience of Constructs while deploying his heavy shield and all protective measures, this lead to the golems at penalties engaging Manuel , while the team focused on Creed as he was inflicting lots of pain, Asraby went off to rescue Kasavarina and kill the steelshaper. </p><p>Creed took a hammering and the final magically enhanced blow from Nevla knocked him off the platform to plummet to his uncertain fate, which was nice he will return probably in part 7 as the steelshapers butler or maybe head butler at the symposium. This annoyed the steelshaper who had yet to have an Asraby in the face so he decided to crush the party by curling the platform they were on into a ball, this worried them and at his point Kasavarina noticed who Nevla looked like and realised she faced death calling out Daala she unloaded a pair of chain lightning spells into the steelshaper which hurt him badly completely annihlated the poor guards and arced into Borne's head waking the collossus. As it stirred the maimed steelshaper plummeted into the abyss along with Kasavarina, Asraby leapt grabbed her and then portalled them both into the dreaming. As Borne lurched into motion the team retreated from the debris back into the VIP quarters unfortunately losing Grappa to the depths but saving the three golems.</p><p>They watched Borne lurch out to the surface and I showed them the front cover they remained impressed by his scale and really glad the area was already largely evacuated, they met with Major Dale who was busy trying to arrest the other refugee's from the complex and agreed he should get them into custody and clear of the hill and under no circumstances attack the giant golem which matched his plans. Gale arrived followed by Roger and they decided Gale should fly Nevla to the king to sort out the response, Manuel would take roger and start to gather all the fireworks a crazed goblin could want from the planned celebrations as they wanted something big to draw the golems attention , meanwhile the rest would stay on site and keep things under observation.</p><p></p><p>We have one more session in this campaign arc then over to Star Wars for while. However they are agreed this is one of if not the best written adventure paths they have come across and as most of us have been gaming for at around 30 years that's a lot. They will enjoy returning and hope to find out what the Ob are actually up to</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andrew Moreton, post: 7525141, member: 6920268"] The team started off preparing for their incursion into the Bleak gate they decided to deploy the B-Team to stop Han's messenger while they went in, they decided to take Grappa for advice and to not try and stop Asraby coming they deployed soldiers but kept them in reserve. Their plan was that Manuel and El Kevin would go through first and stealthily deploy to deal with the guards as the main body came through, then messengers would come through these would not be fixed in the Bleak gate with the wands allowing them to go back and fetch the soldiers if the team felt this was a time for soldiers. Manuel and El Kevin shot the guards from ambush and allowed Asraby to deal with the Trolls under the bridge. Manuel and his player loved the fact they had trolls under the bridge and began looking around for any goats. With their arrival still being secret they left the army behind and headed for the complex discussions with Grappa revealed both the entrances and the fact he had wiped Kasavarina's memories. There was a pause as they waited to see if Asraby was going to smash Grappa into tiny pieces. Then they talked through it and decided that probably meant Kasavarina was going to be a confused neutral and probably would not even recognise Asraby. Getting back to the entrances they initially favoured the lake entrance but realised they had no boat and any boat they could carry to the lake would not hold Manuels steam suit. The front doors they ruled out as they could see no way to get in without a battle so they went for the air vents in a traditional move. They stealthily reached the top of the hill managing to avoid the dark creepers and the ambush party , with mutually awful perception and good stealth at the top they looked at the five vents and by sheer chance chose the one leading down to the living quarters of the senior people. Nevla protected everyone from fire and then Padme and Asraby climbed down before El Kevin brought everyone else who had crap climb skills down with feather fall. They sneaked into the Kitchen, Grappa warned them about the guardroom and told them they would see what all this was about if they moved through there. Here they overestimated the elite guards firing from under a silence spell Manuel doing subdual damage with a vital striked nock gun killed one of them while the other 3 went down to a hail of attacks in the suprise round. Moving to the exit they were very impressed and the intrusion bogged down in a good solid round of speculation about why they were building such a big golem and expressions of appreciation about it's size. They players had been expecting something live a 60 foot golem/Starscream not this. They spotted it was meant to have a lantern installed and decided it must be being made to fight an extra planar opponent overall they dismissed it being built to beat up they Fey as they could not think of anyone with that big a grudge against them. They then started to think perhaps 'Nicodemus' was an ancient or a Ghidim and had been planning this for thousands of years (hence the shortage of Adamantium) and that the collossus was being built to punch extra dimensional invaders in the nose when they next turned up. This fits with their theory that something involving planar travel/collapse of the ancient ritual/ the stars are right is coming and their conflicted position that they wish they knew what the Ob was up to so they could assess it's methods. Grappa mentioned Tinker as the designer and Manuel wanted to meet him. Then the watching steelshaper intervened he was standing on a platform atop the shoulders of Borne along with a drugged Kasavarina and a pair of elite guards who the players ignored. He threatened the players briefly as Colin, Linus and Hunter arrived on the lift along with Creed reborn as a negative energy being and kinetecist. Grappa identified the golems and was certain he could talk them down while he did so Manuel engaged them in a philosphical debate about the sentience of Constructs while deploying his heavy shield and all protective measures, this lead to the golems at penalties engaging Manuel , while the team focused on Creed as he was inflicting lots of pain, Asraby went off to rescue Kasavarina and kill the steelshaper. Creed took a hammering and the final magically enhanced blow from Nevla knocked him off the platform to plummet to his uncertain fate, which was nice he will return probably in part 7 as the steelshapers butler or maybe head butler at the symposium. This annoyed the steelshaper who had yet to have an Asraby in the face so he decided to crush the party by curling the platform they were on into a ball, this worried them and at his point Kasavarina noticed who Nevla looked like and realised she faced death calling out Daala she unloaded a pair of chain lightning spells into the steelshaper which hurt him badly completely annihlated the poor guards and arced into Borne's head waking the collossus. As it stirred the maimed steelshaper plummeted into the abyss along with Kasavarina, Asraby leapt grabbed her and then portalled them both into the dreaming. As Borne lurched into motion the team retreated from the debris back into the VIP quarters unfortunately losing Grappa to the depths but saving the three golems. They watched Borne lurch out to the surface and I showed them the front cover they remained impressed by his scale and really glad the area was already largely evacuated, they met with Major Dale who was busy trying to arrest the other refugee's from the complex and agreed he should get them into custody and clear of the hill and under no circumstances attack the giant golem which matched his plans. Gale arrived followed by Roger and they decided Gale should fly Nevla to the king to sort out the response, Manuel would take roger and start to gather all the fireworks a crazed goblin could want from the planned celebrations as they wanted something big to draw the golems attention , meanwhile the rest would stay on site and keep things under observation. We have one more session in this campaign arc then over to Star Wars for while. However they are agreed this is one of if not the best written adventure paths they have come across and as most of us have been gaming for at around 30 years that's a lot. They will enjoy returning and hope to find out what the Ob are actually up to [/QUOTE]
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