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<blockquote data-quote="Bill T." data-source="post: 9227862" data-attributes="member: 6795693"><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Dramatis Personae</strong></span></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Basel</strong>, <s>an Innenotdaran (aka grey) elf evoker from Gabal's school</s> a corpse carefully tucked into a <em>bag of holding</em> with the corpse of his familiar <strong>Star</strong>, daughter of Naizelasa.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Chæluk</strong>, an avoral the heroes first encountered defending the Taranesti henge.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Dämmek</strong>, a brainy and brawny human swordswoman with keen senses and <s>the Torch</s> an invisible spiked gauntlet she retrieved from a dead drow.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Etinifi</strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Guthwulfe</strong> and his trusty undead sidekick <strong>Gus</strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Katrina</strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Leon</strong>, a human spellthief <s>wielding a double spear</s> who can strike with blasts of earth.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Seda</strong>, a spellcasting Seela, with <s><strong>Blanche</strong>, her sentient siberian tiger companion.</s> a small twig from the First Tree that functions as a holy symbol.</li> </ul><p></p><p>Quick summary of the last few sessions:</p><p></p><p>Chæluk, with an assist from Guthwulfe, teleports the heroes to the surface. The first group teleports well above ground level, as Chæluk has never seen the area outside the Scourge Fortress and so can't simply aim for ground level. Fortunately, Leon knows <em>feather fall</em>.</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em> I decided to omit the defenders outside the Fortress for simplicitly, although I sort of wish I'd at least left the giant to lend some urgency to the escape, That said, the session was long enough as it was.</em></p><p></p><p>The heroes enter the Fortress and are ambushed by the the zombies outside the armory. Fortunately, Chæluk is leading the way, and so he simply teleports back into the front room when the zombies grab him. Seda suggests to her compatriots that they should back away from the broken grate to give themselves room enough to attack the zombies as a group.</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em> Wow, tactics — not something this group uses a lot!</em></p><p></p><p>The heroes quickly dispatch the zombies. They then make their way into the armory and take their own sweet timing going through what they find there. Most exciting is a scroll of <em>resurrection</em> — Basel rejoins the party! Sadly, Star is still dead.</p><p></p><p>The heroes then proceed across the hall into the conference room, where they battle yet more zombies.</p><p></p><p>They then proceed on to discover the Vast Pool Of Inky Death, which they'd had some inkling of thanks to the bits of it lying around the fortress. Rather than confront the ooze, Basel creates a <em>wall of ice </em>across the doorway to give everyone time to prepare, much to everyone else's consternation.</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em> This is the second time Basel has used a </em>wall of ice <em>to delay an encounter, and everyone else's reaction seems to be close to, "What are you so afraid of? I was killing these things before you were born!" (Well, sure, he's an elf, so he's the oldest by far, but the point stands).</em></p><p></p><p>Not content to fight the enemy whose nature and location they know, the heroes move on and break into the room with nullifiers cooped up with a modest horde of children. Not content to face a single foe, Chæluk teleports himself and Dämmek to the far end of the hallway in an attempt to lure the ooze out. He succeeds, eventually, although Dämmek barely avoids fighting the rest of the battle without the benefit of armor or clothing. He teleports the two of them back into the conference room, where Etinifi is busily stuffing his face with the donuts left over from the meeting that was in progress before the resistance attacked the valley.</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>After all, Etinifi hadn't eaten in <strong>months</strong>....</em></p><p></p><p>It turns out Chæluk had the right idea; while he was baiting the pudding (with Dämmek as the bait), other heroes were struggling with the nullifiers, being somewhat constrained by the narrow hallway. The pudding slooowly advances on the nullifiers and easily consumes them, and then the heroes manage to dispatch the pudding without many (any?) of the children being consumed by it.</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em> Everyone, including me, was really skeptical about Chæluk's tactics, but it turned out to be a good move, The pudding, being mindless, was completely ignored by the nullifiers until it was much too late for them to react effectively.</em></p><p></p><p>After playing around a bit with the effects of an anti-magic field and peeking around the wall to look into the room, Guthwulf explains what he knows about the clean room, both physical details and the presence and purpose of the anti-magic field. Having been given the run-down, and seeing the arrow slits themselves, the heroes cleverly decide to...walk through the clean room to the door at the far corner.</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em> They entered the clean room at the start of a new session. Clearly the use of tactics was a single-session aberration. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite11" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes :rolleyes:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Given how clever Chæluk was being with </em>dimension door<em>, I half expected him to simply teleport a strike team in behind one the arrow slits. That would really have messed with Clark's plans!</em></p><p></p><p>Dämmek manages to spot one of the archers shortly after she enters the room, which is sort of unfortunate, as the archer spots her spotting him as well, meaning the fight starts while most of the heroes are still outside the clean room. Clark and his infiltrators manage to take down (but not outright kill) Chæluk and Leon before the infiltrators are defeated and Clark quietly surrenders. The archers, meanwhile fight until nearly the last after Blanche and Dämmek race up the stairs on either side of the clean room.</p><p></p><p>Clark is happy to explain everything he knows, including how to get to the Obesisk chamber and what they will find there, but will wait in the clean room until they finish fighting Leska, Kreven, Koren, several inquisitors, and a variety of more mundane warriors. The archer they captured, on the other hand, is appalled by Clark's betrayal, and gets thrown into the prison as a precaution.</p><p></p><p>Just as the the heroes are about to make their way into the Obelisk chamber, they hear someone striding confidently into the fortress. They arrange themselves in and above the clean room to welcome the newcomer, who turns out to be Lord Shaaladel himself. There are a few tense moments as Seda confronts the Shining Lord over what he did to Innenotdar, especially when Seda demands that he betrothe Shalosha to Basel. Shortly thereafter, the other heroes suggest to Seda that any question of reparations be postponed until after they've all dealt with the immediate problem.</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em> So, everything is just about ready for the grand final battle. One interesting twist is that I was recently informed there is a special guest star coming to join us; last we saw her, she played Crystin at the finale of chapter 2, four years ago. The only logical choice I can come up with for a character to drop in is Shaaladel's chauffeur, so I've dusted off Shalosha so that she or her clone can accompany the heroes into battle.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bill T., post: 9227862, member: 6795693"] [SIZE=6][B]Dramatis Personae[/B][/SIZE] [LIST] [*][B]Basel[/B], [S]an Innenotdaran (aka grey) elf evoker from Gabal's school[/S] a corpse carefully tucked into a [I]bag of holding[/I] with the corpse of his familiar [B]Star[/B], daughter of Naizelasa. [*][B]Chæluk[/B], an avoral the heroes first encountered defending the Taranesti henge. [*][B]Dämmek[/B], a brainy and brawny human swordswoman with keen senses and [S]the Torch[/S] an invisible spiked gauntlet she retrieved from a dead drow. [*][B]Etinifi[/B] [*][B]Guthwulfe[/B] and his trusty undead sidekick [B]Gus[/B] [*][B]Katrina[/B] [*][B]Leon[/B], a human spellthief [S]wielding a double spear[/S] who can strike with blasts of earth. [*][B]Seda[/B], a spellcasting Seela, with [S][B]Blanche[/B], her sentient siberian tiger companion.[/S] a small twig from the First Tree that functions as a holy symbol. [/LIST] Quick summary of the last few sessions: Chæluk, with an assist from Guthwulfe, teleports the heroes to the surface. The first group teleports well above ground level, as Chæluk has never seen the area outside the Scourge Fortress and so can't simply aim for ground level. Fortunately, Leon knows [I]feather fall[/I]. [INDENT][I] I decided to omit the defenders outside the Fortress for simplicitly, although I sort of wish I'd at least left the giant to lend some urgency to the escape, That said, the session was long enough as it was.[/I][/INDENT] The heroes enter the Fortress and are ambushed by the the zombies outside the armory. Fortunately, Chæluk is leading the way, and so he simply teleports back into the front room when the zombies grab him. Seda suggests to her compatriots that they should back away from the broken grate to give themselves room enough to attack the zombies as a group. [INDENT][I] Wow, tactics — not something this group uses a lot![/I][/INDENT] The heroes quickly dispatch the zombies. They then make their way into the armory and take their own sweet timing going through what they find there. Most exciting is a scroll of [I]resurrection[/I] — Basel rejoins the party! Sadly, Star is still dead. The heroes then proceed across the hall into the conference room, where they battle yet more zombies. They then proceed on to discover the Vast Pool Of Inky Death, which they'd had some inkling of thanks to the bits of it lying around the fortress. Rather than confront the ooze, Basel creates a [I]wall of ice [/I]across the doorway to give everyone time to prepare, much to everyone else's consternation. [INDENT][I] This is the second time Basel has used a [/I]wall of ice [I]to delay an encounter, and everyone else's reaction seems to be close to, "What are you so afraid of? I was killing these things before you were born!" (Well, sure, he's an elf, so he's the oldest by far, but the point stands).[/I][/INDENT] Not content to fight the enemy whose nature and location they know, the heroes move on and break into the room with nullifiers cooped up with a modest horde of children. Not content to face a single foe, Chæluk teleports himself and Dämmek to the far end of the hallway in an attempt to lure the ooze out. He succeeds, eventually, although Dämmek barely avoids fighting the rest of the battle without the benefit of armor or clothing. He teleports the two of them back into the conference room, where Etinifi is busily stuffing his face with the donuts left over from the meeting that was in progress before the resistance attacked the valley. [INDENT][I]After all, Etinifi hadn't eaten in [B]months[/B]....[/I][/INDENT] It turns out Chæluk had the right idea; while he was baiting the pudding (with Dämmek as the bait), other heroes were struggling with the nullifiers, being somewhat constrained by the narrow hallway. The pudding slooowly advances on the nullifiers and easily consumes them, and then the heroes manage to dispatch the pudding without many (any?) of the children being consumed by it. [INDENT][I] Everyone, including me, was really skeptical about Chæluk's tactics, but it turned out to be a good move, The pudding, being mindless, was completely ignored by the nullifiers until it was much too late for them to react effectively.[/I][/INDENT] After playing around a bit with the effects of an anti-magic field and peeking around the wall to look into the room, Guthwulf explains what he knows about the clean room, both physical details and the presence and purpose of the anti-magic field. Having been given the run-down, and seeing the arrow slits themselves, the heroes cleverly decide to...walk through the clean room to the door at the far corner. [INDENT][I] They entered the clean room at the start of a new session. Clearly the use of tactics was a single-session aberration. :rolleyes:[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]Given how clever Chæluk was being with [/I]dimension door[I], I half expected him to simply teleport a strike team in behind one the arrow slits. That would really have messed with Clark's plans![/I][/INDENT] Dämmek manages to spot one of the archers shortly after she enters the room, which is sort of unfortunate, as the archer spots her spotting him as well, meaning the fight starts while most of the heroes are still outside the clean room. Clark and his infiltrators manage to take down (but not outright kill) Chæluk and Leon before the infiltrators are defeated and Clark quietly surrenders. The archers, meanwhile fight until nearly the last after Blanche and Dämmek race up the stairs on either side of the clean room. Clark is happy to explain everything he knows, including how to get to the Obesisk chamber and what they will find there, but will wait in the clean room until they finish fighting Leska, Kreven, Koren, several inquisitors, and a variety of more mundane warriors. The archer they captured, on the other hand, is appalled by Clark's betrayal, and gets thrown into the prison as a precaution. Just as the the heroes are about to make their way into the Obelisk chamber, they hear someone striding confidently into the fortress. They arrange themselves in and above the clean room to welcome the newcomer, who turns out to be Lord Shaaladel himself. There are a few tense moments as Seda confronts the Shining Lord over what he did to Innenotdar, especially when Seda demands that he betrothe Shalosha to Basel. Shortly thereafter, the other heroes suggest to Seda that any question of reparations be postponed until after they've all dealt with the immediate problem. [INDENT][I] So, everything is just about ready for the grand final battle. One interesting twist is that I was recently informed there is a special guest star coming to join us; last we saw her, she played Crystin at the finale of chapter 2, four years ago. The only logical choice I can come up with for a character to drop in is Shaaladel's chauffeur, so I've dusted off Shalosha so that she or her clone can accompany the heroes into battle.[/I][/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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