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The Abominable Dome First steps inside of the Dome Returningfrom the void, the group appeared in front of one of the 7 large open archesaround the building. Looking inside,they saw that the interior of this building was mostly open which created atruly impressive enclosed area with over a 700 foot diameter. The only thing inside it was a heap of rubbleabout 100 feet high and about 220 feet across with several large humanoid sizedholes all over it. Near the peak of therubble pile, was a collection of hundreds of bones tied together with lengthsof sinew to form a rough approximation of a 30-foot-tall humanoid form. Stopping and looking carefully, they saw noYeti. So Sais led the way with Zheda rightbehind him and the group not far behind her as they all moved into the largeroom. At about ½ way (120 feet) to pileZheda and Sais stopped because there had been no reaction. Zheda turned and asked the group via her lookalone, ‘Do we proceed?’ Alainawhispered that she could summon a bunch of fire elementals to go in and takeout the yeti. But it was quietly pointedout that they needed the Ring so they needed the Yeti to come out so they couldget it because they did not have the time to search the entire place. Accepting that they all cautiously movedcloser. The Pile Atabout 100 from the pile Sais’s got the alter in range of his permanent arcanesight and saw that there was a magical medallion around the neck of the boneand sinew alter. So he called up Alainawho identified it via its aura alone as a Sihedron Medallion. Alaina also addedthat she expect that it was the medallions gentle repose spell that was keepingthe alter from decomposing. However asthey all moved forward and did their work; Sais, Cereliona, and thanks to hisring, Xavian were all very quiet and stealthy. But Alaina, Renon, and Zheda were too busy being on guard to bequiet. However at the same time,Cereliona and Sais, both heard the sound of movement within the many caveopenings. Cereliona then stoppedeveryone and warned that they should not go in. From what she knew about these Yeti (Favorite Enemy) they would havetheir home set up so they could ambush intruders meaing it would bad to go inand that, “It would be best if well drew them out.” Zheda and Renon both yelled and called tocreatures at this point attempting to do just that, but they got noresponse. Sais then turned to Alaina andsaid, “Looks like you get to summon those elementals after all. You want to try to draw the Yeti out.” Hearing this everyone nodded their approvalso Alaina casted summon monster VIII twice to summon 3 greater magma elementalsand 1 Elder magma elemental. FirstAlaina sent the 3 greater elementals up to 3 of the 6 cave entrances into thepile, the biggest openings. There shehad all three of them vomit up lava at the entrance so it could flow down. The lava did just that but lava moves slowlyit so it was not really going to go aware before it cooled enough to congeal. Knowing this was a real threat, Alaina wasstill surprised when the monsters did not respond to this display of fire attheir literal door step. Next Alainaoffered and the group agreed to those 3 elementals going inside and Elder stayingout as back up. So on Alaina’s command,the Elementals moved inside the pile and as the tunnels were windy and downwardsloping, it did not take more than 10 feet before they were out of sight of thegroup. About 2 seconds after that thegroup heard movement and the sounds of battle, 6 seconds later Alaina felt all3 elementals die as the summoning magic connection to them broke. [Start of Combat notes] ViaStealth, Surprise round and winning initiative (Attack in surprise round andattacked first in round 1) the 6 Yeti were able to attack the elementals 2 onone and kill them before any of summon monsters got the chance to attack back. [End of Combat notes] Butthen the noise stopped and the Yeti did not come out. Sais then said to everyone, “They are notcoming out. So we either we go in and get ambushed like the elementals, or wegrab the Medallion and run. That isprobably how their leader is getting in and out of the field anyway. But they will probably chase us for theMedallion.” Cereliona agreed, “If weget that we can get in so that is enough for now.” Which was enough to convinceeveryone else it to at least try it so Alaina sent up the last elemental towardthe alter. As she did, Renon moved upand said, “I want to check something” as he casted detect evil and looked atthe alter. As the Elder Elemental moved,up Renon saw that there was an evil aura present. When the elemental reached the alter Renonheld up his hand to stall Alaina as he said, “There is only one evil aura hereand it is Strong. But I cannot confirm it is the alter.” So Alaina had her Elemental wait, standingnext to the alter. Renon looked for afew more seconds then he said, “It is the alter and only the alter. Surprisingly the Medallion is not evil in ofitself.” He then waved Alaina on as hereadied his star knife. At Alaina’scommand the elemental reached forward and grabbed the Medallion. As soon as ittouched the medallion, Yeti’s roared in the tunnels and started to comeout. Unfortunately Renon and Xavian wereboth focus on the alter so attacked slower than the others (No surprise round) Surprise Hearingthe creatures moving out of reflex Sais dropped into Cloak and Dagger Style andwaited for the Yetis to come within his reach. Cereliona took up Startoss style as she moved to the east and north,moving herself closer to the pile while also giving her clearer shots on thearea round the alter and elemental. Outof the 6 Yetis came out, one from each of the pile’s entrance. The Yeti charged and 5 of them reached themagma elemental and slammed their claws down on it. The cold of the Yeti’s body did extra damage but the groupalso saw acid and electricity around the creature’s claws (GM note: ElementalRage and Elemental Rage, Lesser) which all combined together to severallyweaken and almost destroy the summoned creature. Zheda then took on dragon style as she leapthrough the void to reach the closest Yeti, aiming for his temple (stunning)and just barely missing her target (passed save) she still landed a blow butshe noticed the creature’s thick fur absorbed most of the hit (Medium DR). In addition, Zheda found that she was forcedto hold on with her hand in order to not fall (45 degree angle, Climb checksrequired). Alaina’s elemental thenretaliated against one of the Yeti and even though the summoned creature landeda blow, the yeti’s fur absorbed almost all of it (1 Point got through DR) andat the same time the Magma’s fire seemed to have no effect (Fireresistance). However as it struck, allthe Yeti closed up on it so seeing an opening, Alaina casted a maximizedfireball on 4 of the Yeti and Magma Elemental leaving Zheda out of the fire. But, this did not have the desiredreaction. The fire hit and Zheda who wasright next to it, saw all 4 of the Yeti in the fire roar with rage as if thefire was fueling their rage and made them stronger (GM Note: Rage Power- EnergyAbsorption). Round 1 Saisthen flew up up and from on top his carpet struck from invisibility, to stabwith dagger and blind with a surprise bomb the Yeti Zheda was next. As Sais pulled out his dagger he noticed hisblade did not fully damage it but he did more than Zheda (second very minorDR). Cereliona then flew up 10 feet forher final throwing location where she took aim and did a bounce toss hittingand designating all 5 of the Yeti around the Elemental. Also from her better view, she could see thatthese were a rare sub-species of Yeti native only to the highest altitude. So she yelled to the group that the Yeti’sthick fur would protect them from all but piercing attacks and that even thenit worked like armor (10/Piercing, Natural armor bonus). But she knew nothing that would explain whythe fire made them stronger or why Sais was not fully damaging them. Two of the yeti then used claws and bite torip apart the Magma elemental, causing the summoning to end and it todisappear. The blinded one in front ofZheda, used its noise to find Zheda but due to it blindness did not manage tofind her (Missed 1 and failed % on other 2). Another one moved to where it could reach Zheda, and easily landed apowerful blow of cold and acid as well as powerful claw. The last one that had attacked the Elementalthen turned and took an easy step (5 foot, climb speed) to swing at Zheda,landing both claws which rended her flesh for even more damage before itfollowed up with a bite, again all enhanced by the Yeti’s cold body and Acidfrom some unknown source. Thank fullyAlaina’s protection from cold absorbed all the cold damage but the power of thehits and the acid added up and Zheda felt the pain of her injuries (over 105+damage taken in 1 round). The last Yeti,joined the fight by reaching and pouncing on the now visible rogue, landing abite and a claw but Sais reacted quickly putting up his Shadow clone to takethe first hit. Zheda then filled herhands with the sin of Wrath as she started her dimensional fight, targeting anundamaged yeti, next to the one Sais blinded. Zheda then landed a punch to the temple, a punishing kick to the chest,and sweep to the leg in order to bring the creature to the ground. As it fell she got in a quick kick (AOP) andfollowed it up with 4 more while the creature was on the ground, but each time,she failed to do full damage so the monster survived her onslaught. Xavian then took flight via his broom toplace himself invisibly closer to Zheda so he could heal her but, he could notreach her yet. Seeing the damaged Zhedaand the fallen Yeti. Renon charge up andcalled on Desna to smite the Yeti as he stabbed down at the monster’s heart(improved vital strike). Again, eventhough it was a powerful hit, this time that beat the bigger resistance, it wasstill resisted a little which allowed the Yeti to survive. Alaina then took aim but thanks to whereZheda had stopped her Dimensional hopping, the sorceress could not place herspell without effecting the monk so she yelled, “Zheda, next time move out ofthe way.” So Zheda yelled back, “Drop itanyway, I can handle it.” So Alaina didjust that and dropped her powerful electric ball on the monk, and the 4 Yetifrom the last spell. Alaina’s spell hit,but the Yeti were faster than expected, two yeti rolled with the spell andavoided it completely (evasion) but the other 2 took the full blast of thespell which did hurt them, but not as much as everyone had expected (TemporaryHP’s used first). However, worst of all,Zheda apparently could not handle it and took the spell much hard than she hadexpected but still better than the Yeti (Failed save but Improved Evasion so ½damage). Round 2 TheYeti Sais had blinded, got over his daze and just started to see Sais (Durationover) just as Sais tried to flick another one into its eyes. But this time it was ready and closed itseyes back up and protected them. The nowsighted Yeti, defended itself (no Sneak attack) as Sais stabbed out at it 5times, landing 3 blows that were only slightly resisted, but were still notenough to drop the Yeti. With the Yetiso close together, Cereliona easily bounced her weapon among all six of herstudied enemies (Favorite Enemy). But the rage on these creatures’ faces showedthat they did not care about wounds and did not feel pain. They swarmed over Zheda and Sais seeingvengeance for their fallen from the nearest threats; 3 on Sais and 3 onZheda. The first one on Sais land onlyits bite, the second landed only a single claw but Sais was forced to use hisShadow clone to the take the other claws strike. So when the last one, landed 2 claws therewas nothing Sais could do but take the rend-ed wound they caused. Sais was on his flying carpet so more stablethan the climbing Zheda which meant he was actually the harder to hit of thetwo. As a result the first yet on her,landed its bite and both claws, rending her wound open. The second Yeti struckwith both claws and dropped Zheda as a dead lifeless corpse before it couldeven get its bite in. After it droppedit, Zheda’s body rolled 10 feet down the pile. The Last Yeti, seeing Zheda falled turned to Renon but could not get anattack through the War Priest Armor. Xavian then took advantage off hisinvisibility to move up and secretly cast Breath of Life on Zheda, bringing themonk quickly back to life. Renonfollowed behind Xavian and casted Heal on the now living Zheda, restoring herto almost full health. Considering whathappened last item, Alaina decided to aim her the next Electrical ball where itwould hit only 3 yeti but avoid the group entirely. One of the three saw it come and avoided itjust time but the other two, took the blast hard. Round 3 Feelingrather alone and wounded after everyone left to help Zheda, Sais pulled his mugand toasted Cayden to appear on the far side of the yeti to the east and closerto everyone else. Where he through abomb in the monster’s eyes blinding it and allowing him to make several stabsto the creature’s organs (Sneak attack) but the tough monster refused todie. As soon as Sais finished his assultand saw the Yeti still alive, he yelled out loud, “Xavian for the love of allgods, please come heal me.” Cerelionathen flew in and joined the group thanks to Alaina’s fly spell. The ranger dodged a swipe from one of theYeti as she moved to get a better angle (AoP). Once the shot lined up, she through her chakrum to bounce and hit all 6of the Yeti and killing 3 in the process. The raged filled monsters, saw the death of the brethren so turned andfocused all their rage on the slayer of their kin, Cereliona. The first on to reach her, only landed asingle claw thanks to the ranger’s armor. The next one landed its bite and its first claw but as it was about toland the second claw and rend, Renon saw this and called on Desna to interfere(Feat: Divine Interference) and with just a touch of luck from her, the Yeti’slast attack instead missed Cereliona. Awaken by Xavian and then healed by Renon, Zheda was her slayers so sherolled down the hill 10 more feet (Climb check passed) to where she could turnand violently vomit up the very acidic contents of her stomach on the 2 nearesther. One yeti dodged just in time buthis ally was burned heavily by Zheda’s Acid (Ki Power: Elemental burst). Next Xavian did as Sais asked and channeledto heal his friends. Renon then moved upto face one of the Yeti that had just attack Cereliona, avoiding a slash fromanother as he did (AOP) in order to make sure he could be a barrier between theYeti and the invisible Xavian who was in the area. Reaching his target, the warpriest stabbedfor the creature’s chest (Imp. Vital strike), landing another solid hit on thevery tough Yeti. Alaina then saw heropening as she targeted all three of the Yeti without any group member beingeffect so she called on the power of her book to amp her magic as she droppedher most power Electrical ball which both surprised and killed the three remainingYeti. Monsters · 6 Kodar Yeti [Dead] o Ring of Evasion [Thassilonian]: 25,000 gp o Bracer of Armor[Thassilonian] (+8): 64,000 gp o Cord of Stubborn Resolve: 15,000 gp Voorgoor Asthe last monster fell, Sais yelled out to all, “Don’t let your guard down, we stillhave not seen their leader, ‘Voorgoor’.” However even as everyone dialed their senses up to 10, even Cerelionasaw nothing and heard nothing. TheLast thing that happened Thegroup had just defeated the Yeti but did see not Voorgoor, the yeti leader,once the fight was over so everyone was looking around checking to see ifanything else will attack. GMFavorite moment Zhedadying, being brought back so she could roll down a hill and throw up on 2Monsters. Drunken monk. LOL Experience EachPlayer received 26,100 experience points (Total: 1,561,720 [18th level]) for Monstersand Role-playing.
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Session109 (10/27/2020) [Renon{WolfrikM} missed first ½ Session] Day 138 (Wealday the 5th of Calistril, Wednesday02/05/2048) Weather(Applied to all outside events) · Temperature: -12 o an unprotected character must make a Fortitudesave once every 10 minutes (DC 15, +1 per previous check), taking 1d6 points ofnonlethal damage on each failed save. Characters wearing a cold weather outfitonly need check once per hour for cold and exposure damage. o A character who takes any nonlethal damage fromcold or exposure is beset by frostbite or hypothermia (treat her as fatigued).These penalties end when the character recovers the nonlethal damage she tookfrom the cold and exposure. · Wind (Strong/21-30): -2 Perception and RangedAttacks. · Altitude of 25,000 feet: o Altitude fatigue: Non-acclimated creatures make Fortitudesave each hour (DC 15, +1 per previous check) or be fatigued. § The fatigue ends when the character descends toan altitude with more air. o Altitude sickness: All, even Acclimated,creatures make a Fortitude save (DC 15, +1 per previous check) each 6-hourperiod or take 1 point of damage to all ability scores. § Creatures acclimated gain +4 competence bonus TheAbominable Dome Healing and tactics Stillhearing nothing, the group felt the fight was over for now so Xavian went towork healing. He used a cure serious onSais and a cure moderate on Alaina which brought them both very close to fullhealth (a Few HP shy in each case). Cereliona then came up and got a cure moderate as well. Saying “Thank you, I usually prefer to stayin the back at range for this very reason” as she got the spell. When the spell was over, Xavian commented, “Ido agree.” Alaina then moved up to andjoined the group as well as the conversation when she said, “I stay in the backtoo. It is much safer.” No longer feeling but still remembering hiswounds, Sais said “I got to agree with you there.” After that everyone laughed a little beforethe conversation died. Leaving the strange Dome Asnoise died down, everyone also calmed down the fight and noticed the quiet ofthis room. They could not hear the windoutside and there was no motion at the moment, not even them so they could infact hear nothing. This dome was amazinglyquiet. At first Sais turned to Alaina toask her if it was a magical effect, but before he could even get the words outCereliona spoke up. She explained that thequiet was in fact a result of how this building had been designed (Knowledge [Engineering]). The curves, domes, and even right angles, keptoutside sound out and inside sound in. The group then looked at the Medallion still on the flesh and sinewalter as well as the holes the led into the Yeti’s home, where they expectVoorgoor waiting for them. Sais thenasked Alaina, “Can you scout it out with an Arcane eye?” But Alaina remindedhim of the Block against Scrying here. Sais then said, “All we really need is the Medallion right?” And everyone agreed so Sais offered tostealth up and take the medallion. Then hecould all just leave, but Sais added, “I fully expect the leader to jump us assoon as we take it but he might wait until we try to leave the dome.” Zheda then said, “Sais why don’t you go upinvisible and then after a 10 count or when we see the Medallion disappear weleave rather than waiting for you. Maybeif we move faster it will help?” Everyone was liking that but then Alaina said, “Why don’t we just takeand let him know, calling him out, so we can just get it.” Zheda then asked Alaina, “Do you want afight, we might not win?” Sais thenadded, “Plus if you go up there, Voorgoor or something might pull you in and thenwe have to go inside on their turf.” Alaina did not change her mind, “I still think we should just take it andyell for him to come and do something about it if he doesn’t like it.” Cereliona shouted to Alaina, “Then you doit?” Alaina immediately responded byturning around, casting Mage Hand which she used to easily remove the Medallionand fly it to her hand. To everyone’samazement there was no reaction, no noise, no attack; just nothing. Surprised but happy, everyone moved to theexit they used to enter the dome. Whenthey got half way there with still not trouble, Sais asked Alaina to check theMedallion to make sure it was real. So Alainapulled out the other 4 they had and compared them. She found it to be real, all 5 medallionsthey had were identical in the physical and magical ways. Satisfied, the group continued to edge and stoppedin the door way where still nothing attacked them. [Start of Special Gm note] Treasureleft behind About60 feet inside any of the entrance to the rubble pile was the unguardedtreasure hoard of the Yeti. Scatteredamong their lairs, the abominable snowmen had collected several pieces oftreasure; all of which have been left behind by those unfortunate enough to becaught by the snowmen and eaten. Thehoard contained: a mithral breastplate, a cobra-shaped platinum armband withrubies for eyes worth 2,000 gp, a ring of the ram with only 5 charges left, a+2 vicious kukri that bears the unholy symbol of Lamashtu etched on its blade, andGolden Lions Figurines of Wondrous Power. [End of Special Gm note] Next? Nowfeeling safe, Sais asked everyone, “Devil or Dragon, Where next?” At first no one answered so after a few seconds,Sais added, “Anyone?” Zheda the spokeup, “They could both kill us.” Everyonethey went silent and changed looks of ‘which one do you think will kill us theleast?’ Alaina then spoke up and said,“The Devil is not immune to Electricity.” And Cereliona picking up on Alaina’s train of thought and added, “Butthe Dragon is.” Alaina then added, “Itis odd that the dragon is in the small building, while the Devil is in thebigger one. From what I know about Dragons(Knowledge [Arcane]), there is a very good reason; Magical power, betterprotections, more defendable… I am notsure what it is, but there is something special about the location of theDragon’s Lair.” Hearing all this, Saissaid, “The devil it is!” and everyone agreed. TheHeptaric Locus Getting there Thinkingback to the tower view of the city Morgiv gave them, Alaina ask everyone ifthey knew what the building between Vomarck’s circus and the Heptaric Locuscould be. Ironically from when theyattended the gladiator matches in Magnimar with Lord-Mayor Haldmeer Grobaras;Sais, Zheda, and Cereliona all had seen that the stables for the Gladiatorarena there, and they were in a lone build near the complex just like that ine. Ironically, Alaina had been there as well,but did not remember the details so had to be filled in a little before sheremembered reading it in Xavian’s book. So based off what they all remembered and had seen, it was the probablythe stables for Vomarck’s circus. Alainasaid she could get to that build and inside. From there they could see the Gladiator arena better (300 feet away),and then make new plans. Liking the ideaof staying under cover and scouting some more everyone agreed. But before Alaina could cast it, Xavian andSais spoke up and had her wait while they used their rings ofinvisibility. Once invisible, everyonewas ready to go so Alaina casted her spell. The group disappeared and reappeared inside an old, giant sized stableblack smith shop. The forges all hadenough dust, rust, and snow on them to make it clear that they had not beenused in thousands of years, if not longer. Also on the east side, it had a partially opened door that looked outwest, right at the Heptaric Locus. Hearthe group stopped and watch to get a good look at the Arena. The building was clearly broken up into 7identical sections, each with a 100 wide, 100 foot tall arched walkway at itscenter leading into the core. Afterwatching for a while, they saw a several Lamia as well as a couple giants, butnothing came near their building. Thisseemed to do with the fact that nothing went more than 250 feet of the Arenaand hippodrome, while most stayed farther. It was not a magical barrier or spell, it was just clear that nothing likethe idea of being near it. Sais thenasked Alaina if could scout the arena with her arcane eye but then Alainapointed out she was running low on spells so she could either do the eye or shecould Dimensional door them from here to 350 feet (1/2) into walkway in frontof them. Zheda then asked, “Isn’t Arcaneeye, that one were you have to chant (Casting time) for 10 minute?” Alaina confirmed that the monk was basicallycorrect. No one wanted to wait for thecasting and the scouting, to then have to run 300 feet in open area to reach itso it was easily decided they would just dimensional door their way in. Everyone then got ready before once again,this time in a much simpler way (Dimensional Door), Alaina pulled them into thevoid so they reappeared 400 feet into the tunnel. The Main Tunnel Whenthe group appeared they found that even though the tunnel was 100 feet tall, ithad no windows and over hangings near the entrance, both of which kept thelight out. As a result even though theywere only 400 feet in, they were in complete darkness. However, they could see a little bit behindthem in the light there. However as theyhad left, Zheda had been slamming down a bottle of Baiju (drunken ki) and wasin the process of throwing it over her shoulder as the spell kicked in. As a result the bottle came with them butthen immediately continued its flight when they arrived so that is struck theleft wall and shattered, loudly 3 seconds after they arrived (Alaina Stealthtotal: 4, Zheda: 6[nat 1]). Hearing thisnoise, followed up by Zheda saying, “sorry” everyone knew that surprise was outas of right now. So in the darkness thegroup started to look around. Zheda hadher elven Darkvision and Xavian had his dwarven. Alaina had the Permanent magical Darkvisionshe casted on herself. Sais quickly puton his Darksight Goggles but Cereliona could not see in total darkness (Lowlight only) so she spoke out loud, “Can I get a true seeing from someone?” Getting to her before Alaina, Xavian castedTrue seeing on the ranger. Lookingaround, everyone could see that there was set of side tunnels about 50 feet up,one on each side, and another set like that about 250 feet back. Looking forward, they saw and heard nothingthat made them believe the tunnel would not go all the way to the middle. However, after the noise of the bottle,nothing came and got them, no alarms went off, for now they seem to be beingignored. So Sais said, “Straight to themiddle I say, quickest way.” All wereagreeing but when it got to Cereliona she said, “No we should check a few ofthese side tunnel’s first. Clear themout to make sure that when we enter the center, we are not surround on allsides.” At first a few argued, but itdid not take long for Cereliona to convince everyone of wisdom of this idea andin a short time, all agreed to make a circle and clear out what they foundfirst. With nothing here, theyarbitrationally decided to go clockwise around the complex. However before they left, Cereliona looked inher pack for something to leave hear so they would have a physical object torepresent their start and end. She foundthe bean bag Goblin she had gotten in the Goblin toss game way back on the dayof the Swallowtail festival. Sherealized that it was also from the first time she meet her now boyfriend, DavirenHosk. Cereliona pulled it out of herpack, intent on using the keep sake for her marker but she was hesitant. Seeing this Zheda pointed out the brokenglass from her bottle and that it would work just fine as a mark, “No need togive up the item for no reason.” Cereliona accepted that and put her keepsake back in her bag. With that they done, they started down theside tunnel. Side Tunnel The group then headed up, with Saiscompletely invisible 20 feet in the lead, then Zheda with Alaina flying 5 feetto her right. 5 feet behind and in themiddle of those two was Cereliona with Xavian trailing, invisible, another 5feet behind the ranger. As they walkedthey saw human, to Halfling, to giant sized side rooms. Most were caved in or in some way inaccessible,but none had closed doors and all were empty of anything but dust, snow, andrubble. However as they got about 50feet from the next of the 7 main tunnels to the center, Cereliona heard 2somethings about 20-80 feet up climbing on the main tunnel walls right were theside tunnel connect (basically around the corner of the entrance.) Cereliona then carefully said “stop”, loudenough for Sais to hear but hopefully not enough for anyone else. The ranger then reached out and silentlygrabbed, Alaina and Zheda as well as the invisible Xavian, thanks to thedwarf’s casting of true seeing on her. Thankfully it appeared that only Sais heard her and that she was able toquietly stop with the rest. Sais thenreturned to the group were Cereliona quietly and carefully explain about theclimbing noises she had heard. Hearingthis, Alaina offered to use the Staff of Illusion they got from Runeforge tomake a major illusion of the group running up so the climbing monsters wouldtry to ambush them and then the group could ambush the monsters. Everyone liked it so Alaina created the illusionand they sent it up. As the illusionmoved up, they left the visual range of all but Sais and Cereliona. However, everyone but Sais did hear the soundof something walking on the ceiling. Seconds later, 2 crimson horror fell from the celing to land upon sixlong, thin legs. Both were about the rear of the illusionary group so all ofthe real group could at least see some of the monsters. Their faces were neither that of a skull norspider, but some horrid mix of the two. As the spiders attacked, nothing happened because as Cereliona couldsee, the spiders were an illusion as well. As everyone else watched the two illusions fight it became easy to determinethat they were watching two illusions so Alaina let her spell drop and so did theother source. However, while all thiswas going on Sais snuck up, invisible, down the middle the side passage, untilhe could see fully into the main tunnel. There he saw the two spider monsters both about 10 feet up on both sidesof the door. While under them was Bonedevils, creature’s they had faced as summoned monsters in the Sloth wing ofRuneforge. Sais remembered thecreature’s quick invisibility spells but knew nothing else or anything of thespiders so he headed back to report to the group. [Start of GM game note] Saishad the Damper Presence rogue talent which made it so he did not show up on theScarlet walkers Blood sense because it mimics Blind-sight. Alsoat this point, Renon{WolfrikM} joinedthe game. [End of GM game note] Howeverfrom Alaina and Sais descriptions, Renon knew these creatures as well and headded that had a spell resistance, confusion magic even quick cast ones, aswell as being impervious to cold and acid. But on top of all of that their strange black holes that were eyes willsuck the blood out of your very body via your eyes if you look into them (Gazeattack). This worried everyone but thenRenon added these creature are also vulnerable to electricity which causedeveryone to look at Alaina. Looking ather face everyone could read her mind and she was thinking, ‘Explosiontime!!!’ Without saying anything,everyone moved out of her way and Alaina moved up to cast her spell. Scarlet Walker · Huge outsider (evil, extraplanar, lawful) · Blood Drinking gaze · Spell Resistance · Immune: Cold/Acid · Blood Sense Surprise Howeverbefore she casted, she looked to the group to make sure all were ready for thefight. Sais, Cereliona, and Zheda alldropped into their combat styles. Alainathen casted her spells as Renon also casted, throwing Blessing of Fervor on thegroup. Alaina’s then dropped herpowerful Electric ball on the left Scarlet walker and bone devil, calling uponher book to enhance her magic as she did. However, the spider had amazing reflexes and rolled with the spelltaking no damage (Natural 20, Evasion). The bone devil was not so luck and was nearly but not quiet killed bythe blast. Round 1 Whileinvisible, Sais moved to the left wall and flattened up against it. Where he readied to jump out and attack thefirst thing that came by. Cereliona tookaim and readied a throw as soon as she saw two targets, planning to bounce hitboth. Zheda waited for the monsters tocome to her. And then they did. Walking on the walls about 10 feet up camethe large red, spider creatures. Firstwas the one on the left. On the wall it stopped about 10 feet from Sais and therogue could feel the blood behind his eyes being tugged at by the creature’sstrange eyes, but nothing happened for the moment. The spider then used is natural magic toquickly cast confusion on Zheda as well as following up with a greater magic onCereliona; but both the Monk and Ranger’s wills were too strong and theyresisted it. Next the other spider cameout and walked along the right side. Asit came out and came into Cereliona’s view she attacked. Her weapon flew to thefirst one before flying to hit the second. But the weapon missed and when bounced of the wall as it returned toher, the weapon had a spin the caused Cereliona to lose her footing for asecond (natural 1, Stunned) as she caught it. The second spider then tried the same magic as the other, this timetargeting Renon, who resisted it, and Alaina, who easily resisted it thanks toher Mind blank spell. Alaina thendropped her powerful Elemental blast down on the same spider and Bone Devil aslast time. And like last time the spiderrolled to avoid it (evasion) and the bone devil took it full force. The difference was this time the Bone Devildid not survive. The other bone devil, then quickly made itself invisiblebefore it ran out and down the hall a little. It stopped, about 20 feet in front of the group were it averted its eyesfrom the spider while it all summoned a wall of Ice behind the group, 20 feethigh and side to side. Only Sais,Alaina, and Cereliona actually saw through the invisiblity, but everyoneguessed the cause. Seeing the new wallof Ice, Zheda thought to herself, ‘you think you just trap us with you. Wrong, you are now trapped with us.’ Renon then called on Desna to destroy theevil outsider as he ran up to it. Thewarpriest attempted to avert his eyes as he moved, but he mistakenlylooked. They empty holes this monsterused as eyes, pulled at his blood but his body would not let go of it(Passed). In addition, the creature’stentacle bounced of Renon’s armor. Also,becoming visible, the Bone devil took a swipe are Renon as he moved by, butlike the spider hit only armor. Once Renonwas close enough, Renon slammed his starknife up into the creature’s center(Improved vital strike). Even trying toavoid the monster’s gaze (Concealment), the blow was a mighty one; but thecreature survived it. Xavian just watchand remembered as the Heroes did what heroes do. Monsters · Bone Devil [Un-summoned] Round 2 Saiswas reckless and looked directly at the creature as he stepped toward it. He counted on and was reward when his bodyfight to hold on to it blood (passed). As he moved, Sais activated his boots of speed while on his carpet. Using this speed he first flicked a bomb intothe creature’s eye holes. But it was notclose enough and Sais could tell the monster still saw him. The rogue continued his attacked, using hisstealth training (Skill unlock: Stealth) to land 3 blows into the monster’svital organs (Sneak attack). But on hisforth, the rogue slipped slashing his own side in his hurry to kill the monster(Natural 1). Zheda also tried to averther eyes but like the warpriest she had to look once and that was enough. But like the others so far, she was tough andresisted the strange pull this monster had on her blood. As she jumped into the void to reappearbehind the giant spider, next to Renon where she kicked it in the head, killingit. On her way down from the jump shestep through dimensions to land next to the bone devil. And using 3 quick punch to the head, she spunits head around killing it as well. Asthis monster disappear it was in the way of summoned creature not that of acreature being returned to its home plane. However, Zheda and the others had no time to think on this because nextshe leaped into the air to try and kick the last spider, but she end up being afoot short this time. But she landed onher feet, near Sais. As she landed,Zheda called on her Griffon to protect her and it casted a Stunning Barrieraround her. Cereliona then took aim atthe last spider and through her chakrum at it 4 times, landing 3 of the 4blows, bouncing the weapon back to her hand for all but he last, but thankfullythat time the magic returned it to her. The last spider then tried to quickly confuse Sais which failed beforeit dropped the power of insanity on Zheda. This took hold of the monk and became part of her (Permanenteffect). Alaina then aimed 3 electric(Scorching) Rays at the spider, landing 2 of the 3 rays. The low level spell did impressive damage,proving the creature’s weakness to electricity, but did not kill it. Renon then charged up on the spider and afteranother tentacle bounce of his armor, landed another mighty blow but this timeit ended the monster. Monsters · Bone Devil [Un-summoned] · 2 Scarlet Walkers (Dead) Renon saves Zheda Afterthe fight was over and knowing what this creature could do, everyone easilyfigured out Zheda’s new problem (Permanent Insanity). However, Renon knew what to do. He walk right up to the monk and casted Healon her which completely cured her of the affliction. Zheda said, “Thanks Renon that was worse thanany drink or hang over I have ever had.” Which caused Renon to smile. Renon then used one of his fervors on himselfas Xavian casted a cure moderate on Sais. Now with everyone healed, they moved forward. The Second Side Tunnel Theypassed though the central access tunnel they continued into the next sidetunnel. They found the main and the sidetunnel much like the ones before them. Nothing of interest was found at the intersect to the next main tunneleither so they entered the next main tunnel. But when they got about ½ way across it, they were ambushed. Those with short sight (60ft= Xavian, Zheda,and Alaina) saw nothing, but heard the sound of several creature’s teleportingin around them. Renon through hisdevil’s natural ability (See in darkness) could see as well as day time so sawthe Ice Devil they had come her to see teleport in a about a hundred down themain tunnel, with his eyes close and bringing 2 Scarlet walkers with him. Seeing the devil, jogged Renon’s memory so hewarned everyone about one other power of the creature. It could regenerate unless attacked by Goodweapons so he shouted this for all to hear. This left only Sais (120ftDarkvision and See the invisible) and Cereliona (120ft True seeing) to see andknow the real situation. In addition tothe Ice devil and Walkers, there were 6 more Bone Devils. One to the north side tunnel and one tosouth. Plus another 4 on the oppositeside as the Devil, fully surrounding the group. And all of the Bone Devils wereinvisible. IceDevil · Regenerate: Good weapon/Spells TheLast thing that happened Thegroup had just been ambushed by the Ice Devil. The fight was about to start. GMFavorite moment “Treasureleft behind”. The group was truly and right fully scared of creature hereenough that they ended up leaving perfectly good treasure behind. Experience EachPlayer received 8,180 experience points (Total: 1,569,900 [18th level]) for Monstersand Role-playing.
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Session110 (11/03/2020) Day 138 [Continued] (Wealday the 5th of Calistril,Wednesday 02/05/2048) Weather(Applied to all outside events) · Temperature: -12 o an unprotected character must make a Fortitudesave once every 10 minutes (DC 15, +1 per previous check), taking 1d6 points ofnonlethal damage on each failed save. Characters wearing a cold weather outfitonly need check once per hour for cold and exposure damage. o A character who takes any nonlethal damage fromcold or exposure is beset by frostbite or hypothermia (treat her as fatigued).These penalties end when the character recovers the nonlethal damage she tookfrom the cold and exposure. · Wind (Strong/21-30): -2 Perception and RangedAttacks. · Altitude of 25,000 feet: o Altitude fatigue: Non-acclimated creatures make Fortitudesave each hour (DC 15, +1 per previous check) or be fatigued. § The fatigue ends when the character descends toan altitude with more air. o Altitude sickness: All, even Acclimated,creatures make a Fortitude save (DC 15, +1 per previous check) each 6-hourperiod or take 1 point of damage to all ability scores. § Creatures acclimated gain +4 competence bonus FightingGamigin Round 1 Actingthe fastest and seeing everything, Sais yelled out from under his invisibility,“We are surrounded by Invisible Bone Devils” before activating his boot ofspeed. Then he quietly moved away from where he had spoken and positionedhimself behind the Ice Devil and the Scarlet walkers (were Damper Presence hidhim from their Blood Sense). The twoScarlett walkers then charged up on the group, each getting close enough for asingle swipe with their tentacles; one at Renon and one at Cereliona. Luckily both of the fighter’s armors were upto the challenge and stop the red skinned creatures’ blows. Next to the monster, Cereliona attempted toavert her gaze from both but fail in both case so as she saw them, two streamsof blood pour from her eyes and each flowed to a different Walker. The pain ofthis sickened Cereliona but she powered through it and attacked. First she stepped into Startoss style before shethrough her chakrum to hit the first, bounce to the second, and then return toher hand. It was a perfect throw,designating and fully wounding the outsiders. But these creatures were might so the damager of Cereliona did not seemto phase them (High HP). In front ofSais the Ice Devil drew back it spear as he targeted Renon so seeing hischance, Sais struck from invisibility (AOP). First Sais attempted to throw a bomb in the monster eyes, but creaturesnaked its head away with its long neck. Sais used the same motion to stab his bladed into the creature’sback. As he did Sais flicked a second bombup and out of reflex the devil turned its face to the injury; taking the bombfull in the face and blinding it. AsSais pulled his weapon out, he saw that he did not do full damage (DR). Its sight and attack plan lost, the devilinstead pulled a rod from its belt which it used to quickly cast Glitterdust onthe surrounding area. Thankfully thisdid not blind Sais but it did outline him in glowing dust that negated hisinvisibility tricks and there was nothing Sais could do about it. Then the Devil then took a step back andcleared its eyes to see the revealed Sais. Alaina who was also next to both Walkers, decided to avert likeCereliona but had much the same result. Seeing both walkers but Alaina was lucky enough to resist one of the walker’sgaze but the second look she got at the other was enough to pull the blood fromher eyes. As the stream flowed towardthe northern walker, Alaina pulled out her quickening rod and used it to cast aquickened haste that effected everyone but Sais, who was out of range. Next she casted a Cone of Electricity tostrike the Walker that was drinking her blood and a bone devil; but due to thegroups and their attacker’s location, this was all she could hit. Unfortunately, the Scarlett Walker continuedto avoid the spell (Pass with Evasion) while the Bone devil was able to dodgesome of the spell but not all of it (Natural 20 for ½ damage). Zheda decided that it was not worth it toavert her eyes and just looked the monsters in the face as she attacked. However her constitution was strong enough soshe was able to resist their strange blood drawing powers. Feeling powerful from this, Zheda toastedCayden and slammed a fast drink (Swift) to gain the powers of Alcohol (Stage 1Drunk: +2 Moral bonus to all physical). Now feeling a buzz, she jump through dimensions to appear and disappeararound the Southern Scarlet walker. Themonk landed 7 powerful hit, all enhanced by Cereliona’s designation, but themonster survived. Renon choice to averthis eyes and was reward by avoiding one of the monster’s gaze but in avoidingthat one he saw the second. However,Renon was capable of resisting one gaze for now. The Warpriest then quickly casted righteousmight and grew in size. Using the reachof his new larger self, he first swung a powerful hit after Southern Walker byZheda. In one powerful hit, he finishedoff the monster. He then turn hisattention north, where still without moving, he reach the other walker, landing3 powerful hits to the tough red skinned monster. Now the Bone Devils moved up. One each went after Renon and Xavian becausethey were the only targets they could reach. To no one’s surprise, Renon’s armor protected him from the creature’ssurprise attack. But what was surprisingis that Xavian’s protected him as well. After that it was clear they Alaina, the caster was their main targetbut 4 of them appeared around her, one of which was even supernaturally flyingin the air just above his allies. Eachattacked before Alaina could react but due to the close quarters, only twolanded blows and thankfully not very powerful ones to the frail caster. Plus the poison on their blades was easilyresisted thanks to the Mage’s many magical items. Now standing right next to an enemy Xavianworried about his safety so he defensively casted Sanctuary on himself. Monster · Scarlett Walker [Dead] Round 2 Saistook a step to follow the retreating Ice Devil and Called out Kassandra. He then took Zheda’s lead and got drunk withCayden as well. The Scarlett walker thenturned its full attention on Renon. Itlashed out with 2 claws and a tentacle but only the tentacle found a weak spotin his armor. It did not do much damagethe power of the creature’s touch paralysis the Warpriest as well as ripped athis fleshed causing him to bleed. Cereliona next held her ground, resisting rather than avoiding the creature’sgaze this time. However she did nottarget the Scarlet walker, this time she through to bounce her chakrum to hitand designate all of the bone devils. Next the ice devil turned the tide a little in his fight with Sais. After missing three stabs at Sais with itsspear the devil, snuck his tail in and used it to deliver a corrupting touch(Staggered 2 round) that also slowed Sais. Alaina smile as she defensively casted a Cone of Electricity on 4 bonedevils that attacked here, shocking and severely hurting but not killing any ofthem. Zheda again decided look the giantspider into the ‘face’ and again she was able to resist its gaze. Next she called all the power of alcohol toenhance her punch (Drunken Strength) then she jump into and out of dimensions,attacking the Scarlet walker. Shestarted with a stunning hit to its temple that had her drunkenness behind itwhich followed up by 2 medusa punches to the chest. She then kicked it twice and on bothattempted different tripped but failed to trip it. However, her fourth attack was an elbow tothe creature’s head which shattered its skulled killing it and causing theoutsider to disappear. Zheda thenredirected toward the nearest bone devil, landing one hit before she almosttripped (Natural 1) causing her to miss her last punch. Renon could do nothing but be paralyzed atthis point as his wounds bled (2 bleed damage). One of the bone devils stopped and casted a wall of Ice 10 feet high,wall to wall which separated Sais and Ice Devil from the rest of thegroup. 2 Bone devils then attackedCereliona with bite, 2 claws, and singer; each. Thankfully, only the bitelanded, both of which hurt but did not seriously damage the Ranger. The remaining 3 then continued their assaulton Alaina. Each devil landed its firsthit, its bite; and other one also got in its claw before Alaina reacted andcasted Emergency Force Field to protect herself; causing the monsters remainingattacks to slash against her protective field. During this Xavian moved up and with a Remove Paralysis, the dwarf freedRenon. Monster · Scarlett Walker [Dead] Round 3 Eventhough he was staggered from the devils touch, Sais active his boots to turnback on haste as a defense against the devils slow. Then the rogue 5 foot step and stabbed the atthe devils heart (Vital Strike) and as the blow, struck just like last time,Sais flicked a bomb up right as the monster reflex turned its head causing thebomb to once again blind the monster but this time it was a much better hit(Blinded 7 rounds). However, like beforeSais was not doing full damage. Cereliona then looked at the bone devils and once again bounced herchakrum around, hitting, damaging, and designating all 6. The Ice devil, thenonce again took a step back before it cleared its eyes. Seeing Sais again, it quickly used itsspell-like ability of Cone of Cold (Quicken Spell like ability) on Sais. Surprisingly this caught Sais off guard(failed save) but even then is body seemed to act on its own to move away fromharm (Improved Evasion ½ damage). On topof that the protection from cold Spell Alaina had casted on him was stillactive so it absorbed all the damage, completely protecting Sais. As it did this, the rogue thought, ‘ThankCayden Alaina is a powerful caster [high duration] and we did these fights backto back [duration still active].’ Alainanext casted Time stop and gained 3 rounds of Quasi time. First she Dimensional doored out of herbubble to appear in the air 20 feet up, 15 feet from the Ice devil, notflanking but on opposites of the Devil with the rogue. There she summoned a Lillend Azata (SM6),then she summoned another Elder Magma elemental (SM8). Both behind the Ice devil but the Lilend was30 feet away while the Magma only 15. Finally she ended by casting a Quickened haste on both. Next Zheda went to work on the BoneDevils. First she ported up to thenearest one and with one hit, she killed it. She then moved to another one damaged by Alaina and dropped it on onehit also. Next she moved on to the bonedevil that had attacked Xavian, which she tripped with a leg sweep. The monk continued her spin and connectedwith a second kick before the monster hit the ground, which crushed in thedevil’s skull killing it. Next she movedanother one damaged by Alaina’s spell but it took two punched to drop it. After that she moved to last one damaged byAlaina’s spell and dropped it one with a single roundhouse kick. Finally she used her hasted movement to reachthe last bone devil, where she landed a powerful wheel kick to its shoulder butone hit was more that it would take to drop this one. As Zheda hit the ground, all 5 of the deaddevil, disappeared as the summoning magic holding them here was ended. Continuing to bleed Renon took a single step(5 feet) to bring the last bone devil into reach and then aimied for its head(Improved vital strike). When the blowlanded, Renon’s large weapon sliced the creature in half just before itdisappeared from the end of its summoning magic. Cereliona then turned herfocus on the wall of ice. With 5 powerfulthrows, each of which returned to her hand, she broke open a 5 foot section ofthe wall. Still blinded the Ice Devilstabbed out 3 times with its spear and once with its tail, almost landing oneand only missing because of blindness, as a result the Devil failed land asingle hit. As the Ice fell and thedevil missed Alaina commanded her Lillend azata to sing and attack thedevil. It sang which gave everyonecourage (Bardic music: Inspire Courage) and helped them fight well. Then will still sing, the creature aim andfired its bow, but it failed to penetrate the Devils skin. The Elder Magma Elemental then moved up andwith its great reach slammed its fists of fire down 3 times on the Ice Devil,but it seem to do almost no damage (DR reduced to low single digits). Alaina next aim 3 Electrical scorching raysat the Ice Devil. 2 of the 3 Rays hit,but Alaina’s magic failed to beat this creature’s resistance this time (Spellresistance). Seeing through the holethat Cereliona made in the wall of ice, Zheda saw Sais in combat so she ran(Movement 90 feet and cross 120 feet) though the gap. As she moved through she like Sais wasthankful for the Protection from cold still active from Alaina because the airin the gap was magically cold (6 cold damage as passed through). Once through, she continued on target,summoning wrath in her hands as she did until she reached the monster where sheslammed her fist into its temple. Shemanaged to damage the monster, though still not fully (DR) and it resisted herstunning attempt. At this point, Renonused his wings to take flight and get over the wall. There he used his large reach to bring downhis holy weapon on the Ice devil’s head. Renon landed a powerful blow that fully harmed the Devil. As he did, Zheda noticed that the Devil showedthe first signs of fear of this fight, after it was hit by Renon’s Holyweapon. Xavian then took flight movedcentrally over the group as much as he could. Monsters · Scarlett Walker [Dead] · 6 Summoned Bone Devils [Dead/unsummoned] Round 4 Saisthen sent Kassandra in where she landed a stab the monsters neck and killedit. Which caused the monster disappear,now truly dead, and leaving his gear behind. Renon then quickly shared that since he had just wounded it with hisholy Starknife the Devil wound not regenerate from Kassandra’s attack. Alaina easily retrieved and identified thegear that had fallen, most importantly finding the Sihedron Ring they came for,but also some Body Wraps which Zheda was interested in. After talking to Alainaand fully understanding the Wraps magical powers, Zheda decided against them,thinking hers were better. Xavian thenused a lesser Restoration on Cereliona as well as a channel that effected theentire group. Then he followed up with aCure light wounds to heal Alaina a little more which brought her close enoughto full (A few shy). Monsters · Gamigin Ice Devil [Dead] o +5 Icy Burst Returning Frost Wounding LargeSpear: 200,302 gp o Sihedron Ring o Lesser Rod of Quickening: 35,000 gp o Body Wraps of Mighty Strikes (+7: +5 H/D +2 IcyBurst): 147,000 gp TheCenter Afterdefeating the Ice Devil, it was mutually agreed that their job here was donebut it was also agreed that everyone wanted to know what was in the center ofthe arena so they all decided to take the path in front of them and approachthe center. After a short while, theyreached the colosseum. Around the vast arenafloor were seats enough to accommodate over 150,000 spectators with most beinglarge or larger sized creatures. Lookingaround at the arena itself. There were afew stone pillars and pits here and there but nothing standing or moving thatthey could see in the range of their vision. After a while Sais looked down at the ground itself. In the dirt Sais found fresh blood, justunder the top layer of dirt. And worststill, he found it everywhere. Seeingthis Zheda and Renon warned Sais that this place had a very haunt like feel toit. Alaina then spoke up and said, “Weshould go, there is nothing to be done and more important nothing to be gainedhere.” Cereliona then looked at Renon,Alaina, and Xavian, before asking how low their magic was. Everyone was very low (only a few spellsleft). Everyone then verbally agreedthat ‘Discretion is the better part of valor’ and decided they should get outof here fast. But before they acted,everyone again looked to Zheda who agreed, “It is safer to rest and we havegreater issue then this Haunted arena for now.” With that Alaina teleported everyone back tothe Mural room in the Spared’s caves. TheSpared Tunnels Surprising Morgiv Whenthe group arrived, they appeared in front of their murals about 10 feetback. Right next to the murals andtherefore right in front of the group was Morgiv. As the sound of their appearance, he panickedand out of reflex, flattened himself against the wall. Then in a split second his skin change to matchthe wall so that all but Cereliona lost him in the wall (Natural 20, HellcatStealth). Seeing him disappear, evenSais was impressed, thinking ‘Stealth really is not a skill for him, it is away of life.’ After a few moments,Morgiv removed himself from the wall, about 6 feet from where he was, havingclearly realized who the group was. Oncehe did, he apologized for hiding and before anyone could accept it, he ran andpicked up the bag he had been setting down when the group arrived. As he picked it up and turned around he said,“My Breheren have already managed to reclaim one of our old shrines, we nowoffer the treasures found there as reward for what you have done and are stilldoing.” He then pulled out a staff, 4scrolls, and a silk pouch which contained 8 Elixirs in flasks. Alaina easily identified everything. As soon as the Staff of Healing wasidentified it was given to Xavian so was the scroll of Greater Restoration, 2Scrolls of Heal, and the Scroll of true resurrection. The Elixirs turned outElixirs of the Peaks, something that the Ranger found interesting and asked tohave which the no one argued. Treasure · [Xavian] Staff of Healing: 29,600 gp · [Xavian] Scrolls o Greater Restoration: 7,275 gp o 2 Heal: 1650 gp each o True Resurrection: 28,825 gp · [Cereliona] 8 Elixirs of the Peaks: 2,450 gpeach Telling Morgiv of their success Thegroup then explained to Morgiv how they defeated the Yeti in the dome wherethey gained another Medallion instead of a ring. They followed with their trip to the HepatricLocus were they fought the Scarlett walkers and the Ice Devil. Also were they gained their second ring? Next as they start to explain that theyheaded to center if the Colosseum, Morgiv became shock and amazed. As Sais explained that they found fresh bloodin the sand and got a haunt vibe they decided to leave. Morgiv then jumped in, “Good idea, it is saidthey any who reach the center are attacked and slayed by the risen angry soulsof all those killed in the Arena back in the days of Thassilon. You are the first I have heard of that haveseen it and lived.” Morgiv thenexplained that he must return to his people and that he only planned to be hearbut a moment. Everyone thanked him forthe gifts and his help before explaining that they were about to rest too sohim leaving was well timed. Morgiv then headedinto one of the many black side tunnels. Resting Assoon as Morgiv was gone, Alaina created her ‘Mage’s Magnificent Pimp Pad’ foreveryone to rest in. And rest they did,because after three big fights all anyone wanted to do was go to bed andsleep. Day 139 (Oathday the 6th of Calistril, Thursday02/06/2048) Weather(Applied to all outside events) · Temperature: -12 o an unprotected character must make a Fortitudesave once every 10 minutes (DC 15, +1 per previous check), taking 1d6 points ofnonlethal damage on each failed save. Characters wearing a cold weather outfitonly need check once per hour for cold and exposure damage. o A character who takes any nonlethal damage fromcold or exposure is beset by frostbite or hypothermia (treat her as fatigued).These penalties end when the character recovers the nonlethal damage she tookfrom the cold and exposure. · Wind (Strong/21-30): -2 Perception and RangedAttacks. · Altitude of 25,000 feet: o Altitude fatigue: Non-acclimated creatures make Fortitudesave each hour (DC 15, +1 per previous check) or be fatigued. § The fatigue ends when the character descends toan altitude with more air. o Altitude sickness: All, even Acclimated,creatures make a Fortitude save (DC 15, +1 per previous check) each 6-hourperiod or take 1 point of damage to all ability scores. § Creatures acclimated gain +4 competence bonus Risingand Planning Dragon Fear over a Heroes’ feast AfterXavian used his book to create a Heroes’ breakfast feast, the group started todiscuss the dragon. Alaina started offby reminding everyone that it was immune to electricity. Renon then added, “If I remember correctly,it was a Wyrm age dragon (1001-1200 years old) so we will need to worry aboutDragon Fear.” And then everyone realizedthis meant panicked which means the fear would supernatural drive the fell inthe most effect way possible. Everyone thenremembered the rings Xavian had given them that would allow them to teleport toSandpoint’s house of blue stones so everyone decided until after the dragonfight, they should all give them up. Which they did, all accept Alaina who had already used hers. So Alaina ask, “Who fled?” and then it wasexplained that when they face Freezemaw, it was in face her [Alaina] thatteleported away in fear. Alaina then explained she had not gotten that far inXavain’s books yet. Then hoping to movethe topic along, Xavian spoke up, “I may be able to help with that. I pray for guidance for Irori on this lastnight so today he blessed me with the magic of ‘swallow your fear’.” Xavian then explained that spell did not makeyou immune to fear, but it would at least keep anyone from running way. And then even if they are effected by thefear (penalties) Xavian or Renon could remove it forever with a remove fearspell. Sais also offered some of hisMeditation tea which would help them fight fear, plus he reminded them thatthey had Xavian’s heroes feast. Zhedathen jokingly pointed out that, “If they could all just learn to drink right itwould take the fear away.” (Game note: Zheda is immune to fear). Magical protections Nextthe group discussed other magical protections. First Alaina offered everyone a Protection from cold which allaccepted. Next the sorceress tried andthis time succeeded in getting Zheda to take a fly spell with the reasoning of,“all the dragon has to do it take flight and you cannot touch it.” Alaina also offered Stone Skin communal whichhad a few takers as well as Greater magical weapon which Cereliona accepted onher Chakrum. Also Sais offered up hisBlood Boiling pills of which Zheda accepted. Now with their prep planned, they moved on to scouting the dragon’slair. Plannedspells from Alaina · Protection from Energy (Cold, 3 hours):Cereliona, Renon, Sais, Xavian, and Zheda. · Stone Skin, communal (1 hour duration) : Renon,Sais, and Zheda · Greater Magical Weapon (+4): Cereliona’s Chakrum · True seeing, Shield, and Bull’s Strength: Alainaonly Scouting Afterfinishing their prep talk, the group finished eating and discussed how to scoutthe dragon lair. Alaina offered toteleport everyone to the Spared tower again, were she could hopefully cast anarcane eye. This was accepted soeveryone gathered their stuff and they left Alaina’s magical home. Once everyone was out, Alaina ended the spellbefore her teleported them to the tower overlook of the city. Spairedoutlook Dragon Lair Oncethey arrived in the tower, they looked out. From their angle, they could only see the top of the Dragon’s lair,about 400 feet up from the ground below. But that was enough for Alaina to put a mobile arcane eye there so thegroup let Alaina perform her spell for 10 minutes and once she was ready, sherelayed what she saw and did as she moved her magical sensor around and downthe outside of the building. Thisbuilding had thick walls with few openings. All the openings were barely big enough to get an arrow through soAlaina could not get her sensory in. Looking through the windows here view was always extremely limited butthe little she did see show very tall (50 to 60 feet tall) and in every windowshe never got a clear view of the floor because of the giant height level ofthe window. Seeing this, Alaina offeredto teleport the group there as a place to start but this was quickly shot downas it would drop them into an extreme unknown area, where just outside thebuilding they would be surround by the largest portion of Xin-Shalast currentpopulation. So Alaina continued all theway to the bottom of the building, where she easily found the open front gatedoor that Morgiv had described to them the day before. However, like the Abominable dome the insideof this building was protected from Scrying. Upset that she could not scout the inside, Alaina settled with doing aperimeter around the building. Hermagical assisted skills of observation, noticed a secret door located next tothe North(back side) east corner of the building. However, finding it was all she could do withthe Arcane eye sensor so Alaina was ready to be done and spell was about out oftime. Shinny Asthe sensor was there, Alaina noticed something shinny for just a moment. The shine was coming out of or possible infront of one of the few building behind the Dragon’s Lair, this particular onewas alone the north cliff face wall. This momentary glance was all Alaina got as he spell ended. Alaina was willing to scout this area withanother Arcane eye but it would take another 10 minutes to cast. No one wanted to wait so this time Alaina didnot argue. From their outlook, theycould see the area that had the shiny thing Alaina saw and it was a relativelyempty section of that area of the city. So they all agreed to teleport there to check it out, because ‘shinny isalways a good thing’. Plus they hopedcould use that they could use new location as a staging area to attack thedragon, or at least investigate the secret door. Shinnyis not always good Surprise Eventhough Alaina could not see the exact spot they were landing either with hereyes or in her head; her greater teleport spell, made sure everyone reached asafe landing location. How safe viateleport and truly safe from harm are not the same thing. The group arrived at the north end of what atone time had been a small market area. There were at the northern board were the open market meet a largebuilding that was no more special than the one next to it. However standing in the 30 foot tall and 60foot wide door way were two huge conical creatures with one large open eye on theirfronts, just above their tooth mouths. Longstrands of fibrous material whipped from their sides. One appeared to mad of a thick, though fleshbut the other appeared to made of diamond with its fibers instead growing outof its body, almost like movable, hook ended spikes. Seeing these things, Sais yelled out all heknew about these strange aberrations; most important being an immunity toelectricity as well as a vulnerability to fire. Roper,Mountain · Huge Aberration · Immunity Electricity · Vulnerability Fire · Stands (fibers) do Strength damage Roper,Mountain · Same as Mountain plus Diamond body givesTemporary HP and Natural AR TheLast thing that happened Thegroup had just teleported into small but unoccupied area of the Risingdistrict, only to appear right in front of a Mountain Roper and a DiamondRoper. GMFavorite moment Theend of the fight with the Ice Devil, were Kassandra got to be the killstealer. Experience EachPlayer received 28,660 experience points (Total: 1,598,560 [18th level]) for Monstersand Role-playing.
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Session111 (11/03/2020) Day 139 [Continued] (Oathday the 6th of Calistril,Wednesday 02/06/2048)[ Weather(Applied to all outside events) · Temperature: -12 o an unprotected character must make a Fortitudesave once every 10 minutes (DC 15, +1 per previous check), taking 1d6 points ofnonlethal damage on each failed save. Characters wearing a cold weather outfitonly need check once per hour for cold and exposure damage. o A character who takes any nonlethal damage fromcold or exposure is beset by frostbite or hypothermia (treat her as fatigued).These penalties end when the character recovers the nonlethal damage she tookfrom the cold and exposure. · Wind (Strong/21-30): -2 Perception and RangedAttacks. · Altitude of 15,600 feet: o Altitude fatigue: Non-acclimated creatures make Fortitudesave each hour (DC 15, +1 per previous check) or be fatigued. § The fatigue ends when the character descends toan altitude with more air. o Altitude sickness: All, even Acclimated,creatures make a Fortitude save (DC 15, +1 per previous check) each 6-hourperiod or take 1 point of damage to all ability scores. § Creatures acclimated gain +4 competence bonus Shinnyis not always good Round 1 Reactingthe fastest, Sais dropped into cloak and dagger style as he activated his bootsof speed before he flew to get behind the mountain Roper. As he appeared from his invisiblity magic,Sais through a bomb in the monster’s eye as well as stabbed it into its chest(Vital strike, sneak). The creature’sbody was just a large mass of flesh so it took the hit well. The Diamond Roper then shot out the diamondstrands of its body toward Cereliona, Sais, and Zheda. One got Sais which pulled him toward themonsters as well as draining a little of his strength (1 Strength Damage). Cereliona had similar luck, except she wasable to resist the drain (hit and pulled only). Zheda dodge both of the strainds aimed for her. Alaina then dropped her powerful Fireballdown on the ropers. The Mountain roperreacted in time to at least resist the hit (save, ½ damage) while the diamondtook it full force. In both cases thefire was super effective, but the creatures did not die. Next Cereliona droppedinto Startoss and through her chakrum to hit the strand holding her before itbounced to hit the Diamond’s body, then it flew to Sais’s strand where itbounced to hit the mountain roper before it magically returned to herhand. Her weapon, cut both strands, aswell as hurting and designating each of the creatures. The mountain roper then took a 5 foot stepbefore shooting a new strand out of its body to replace the one Cereliona justcut. It was aimed at Alaina, but she didnot take any chances and casted Emergency Force sphere which stopped thestrand. The roper then turned itsattention to Sais, missing with it first strand but landing with its secondwhich it used to drain Sais (Fail, 1 Str drain) as well as to move him closer. After which the roper moved on to Cerelionaand it again took two strand to land a hit which it used to move the rangercloser as well as to attached to her but she resisted the strength drain. With its last attempt it sent a strand out atZheda, but the monk easily dodge it. Zheda then took a step up as she slammed down a bottle of Alcohol. With her ki to she expel it and ignite it,causing a 30 ft. cone of flame which enveloped the two ropers and Sais. As the fire bust around him, Sais thought, ‘Imay have made a mistake telling Zheda not worry about me when she doesthis.’ The Rogue then rolled but he didnot think he was going to get low enough fast enough, but by luck the power ofhaste spell gave him just the edge he needed (Save DC 27, Sais base roll 26 + 1reflex save from Boots of haste). Neither roper was as prepared as Sais so they both took the fire full intheir faces. Watching this fight unfold,Xavian took a step back away from the fight and put his back against the walltrying to stay out of the way as he watched. Round 2 Saisnext step to the right a little so he could line up with Zheda (Flanking) thenhe stabbed out into the flesh of the monster’s chest. Landing a perfect blow (Natural 20) andstriking the creature’s heart, Sais killed it, causing the monster to slump andbleed everywhere. The Diamond roper sawthe death of its ally so it turned its attention to Sais. The first strand that shot out of its body,missed Sais, but the second one landed which was able to move Sais close and heresisted the drain this time. The roperdid not stop, another two shot out at him with one missing and the otherhitting with the same results, Sais closer but no drain. Now that Sais was next to it, the monstersent a strand out a Cereliona and one at Zheda. They both hit and both targets resisted the drain, but Cereliona gotpulled right next to the monster while Zheda did not move. Alaina then dismissed her bubble and startedto move. But as she did, the Diamondroper sent one of it stands out which wrapped around Alaina’s leg and pulledher 5 feet closer, but Alaina resisted the drain. However were the monster moved her two workfor Alaina because when she stopped moving she casted a quick Cold Ice Strikewhich even though the monster was resistant to cold, it was still powerfulenough to finish it off. As the diamond Roperdied, its body quickly changed from diamond to sand, falling apart into a largepile were it had been standing. Monsters · Diamond Roper [Dead] · Mountain Roper [Dead] Healing, Scouting, and moving AsXavian used a Lesser Restoration to heal Sais, Cereliona looked inside thedoorway the ropers had been guarding. Inside she saw that the building was in fact just cover for a tunnelinto the side of Mhar Massif itself. Thetunnel was easily 50 feet tall and over 100 feet wide. Looking at the grade, Cereliona could seethat this man made tunnel also sloped up a little, but not much more could beseen into the darkness without entering. Cereliona relayed her finding the group but at the end she told everyone,“Let’s file this under, something to look at later. And get back to dealing with thedragon.” Everyone agreed so they headedtoward the dragon lair. As they moveSais and Xavian activated their rings to go invisible and Alaina casted thespell. Cereliona’s ranger training included stealth so she was able to movequietly while Zheda focused and let the hero in her get her around quietly(Used GM Gift auto pass skill check). TheDragon’s Lair Investigations and Screaming Thegroup quietly and quickly approached the Dragon’s lair from the North East inthe light of the morning sun. As plannedthey came up on the secret door Alaina noticed earlier. Once they were close enough, everyone tookcover near the door, while Sais moved directly up to and checked it out. He found the door not locked or trapped andwith a little work he also found the rock used to open it. Sais then cracked the door and looked inside. As the light hit the cave entrance Saisnoticed a small strange looking purple toadstool, but he did not know whatplant it was. Plus at the end if thelight, Sais saw a symbol written on the stone. As Sais saw the magic symbol tow things happened. First the strange plant he had not identifiedstarted to scream so loudly that it hurt everyone’s ears, but only Zheda’sstarted to bleed (3 sonic damage, others passed). Plus the magic circle activated, sending outa blast of magic. Feeling it Sais,feared the unknown powerful trap so like Zheda he pulled on that stark thatmakes him a hero and used it to fight this off (Use GM Gift: Natural 20). At the sound of the scream, Alaina said,“There goes surprise.” While Cereliona,from the sound alone, identified the plants as shriekers. She yelled as she moved, “Those things screamwhen in light, and will not stop.” Theranger ran to the entrance of the tunnel, next to Sais to do something aboutit. She was first hit by the power ofthe magic symbol, but thankfully she resisted it. Then continuing her movement, she droppedinto startoss so she could throw her chakrum into the cave bouncing to andkilling all 3 of the plants she could see in the light. Alaina then followed her ally but she usedflight to move her about 20 feet past the entrance, hopefully out of range ofthe effect. When she reached the pointwhere she could see into the cave, thankfully she was right and the magic didnot reach her there. 70 feet ahead of her, she saw the symbol on the floor andtried dispel magic on it, but the power of the spell resisted her attempt todestroy it (failed caster check). Zhedathen moved up to the wall near the door but did not look in, ready and waitingin case she was needed. Sais then movedup on the symbol and started to work on disarming it, resisting its magic onceagain as well. Seeing Sais run up,Cereliona followed and tried a crazy idea. She figured because the trap went off when Sais saw it, she pulled outher Sandpoint Winter Blanket and used it to cover the symbol. To her and Sais’s amazement, the magic of thesymbol stopped (This symbol requires line of sight). Killing the plants had silenced the alarm andthe symbol was deactivated now, but it was too late. Everyone remembered how quicklyreinforcements had shown up last time so they all gathered around Alaina. Upset about their failed attempt, theyteleported back to the Spared lookout tower in the Slave district. Shrieker · Plant · When exposed to light emits damaging piercingscream Monsters · 3 Shrieker [Dead] Watching from afar Assoon as they reached the ‘lookout’ tower, everyone started to peak out thecracks to see what arrived where they left. They all saw, just like before, 4 Rune Giants teleport in around thearea, followed by 8 Cloud giants. Thenfrom around the city, other creatures headed that way. However, even with a Ranger’s skill, fromdistance, nothing could be made out. This caused Cereliona to say, “I wish I had a spy glass” out loud,mostly to herself. Sais heard her andsmiled. He then pulled out his traveler’sany tool and turned it a spyglass which he then handed to the ranger. Cereliona was surprised but recovered andsaid, “thank you” as she took it. Thenusing the spyglass Cereliona looked back at the dragon’s lair and told everyonewhat she saw. She explained that about20 Lamia Matriarch, 10 of the Vulture like Kuchrima, and at least 40 stonegiants had showed up from the surrounding area to investigate the alarm. At that moment, the dragon came out of thefront of his lair and flew over to where the secret door was located. The dragon was clearly angry, as he slashedaround, killing 2 stone giants, as well as eating one whole before the Lamiaand the Rune giants got him calmed down. The Rune giants stayed with the dragon while the Lamia searched thearea, but the dragon roared and stopped anyone that tried to enter the secrettunnel. Then after 3 hours, 3 lamia’sshowed up holding items, covered in thick black cloth. The dragon did allow these monsters to enterthe tunnel but they were not in there long and when they returned whatever wasunder the cloth had been left, plus the door was closed right after theyleft. When Cereliona relayed thisinformation, Sais comment, “Sounds like they re-trapped it.” And all agreed,before Cereliona continued. At this point most of the creatures started todisband, with the Rune giants and their cloud giant followers the last theleave when the dragon finally moved back inside his lair. The Giants used the golden road to climb allthe way back into Karzoug’s spire. Atthis point, the alarm had been dealt with but it was clear monsters were nowmaking a point of checking this area more often which meant sneaking aroundthat area just got a lot harder. TheLast thing that happened Thegroup watch the city’s and the dragon’s reaction to their failed attempt tosurprise sneak into the dragon’s and were thinking about what to do next. GM Favorite Sad moment Thefight with the Diamond and mountain Roper did not go the way I had expected. Each monster had 6 ranged touch attacks around, that also pulled you in toward them and their high damage mouth whiledoing strength damage with a High save (27), plus they both had AC (35) andlots of HPs (few hundred each). I expectedthis to be an interesting fight with it ending with just about everyone weakenedby Strength damage. Instead the grouptore through the aberrations, like they were made of tissue paper. And on top off all of that, if it had notbeen for Traskus remembering the +1 reflex save bonus Sais got from his activeboots of Haste, the rogue would have failed the save vs Zheda fire breath whichwould have meant that the group would have done more damage to each other (Possible32 to Sais on failed save) than the monster did to the group (2 Str to Sais). Experience EachPlayer received 20,970 experience points (Total: 1,619,530 [18th level]) for Monstersand Role-playing.
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Session112 (12/09/2020) [WolfrikM (Renon) missed Game] Day 139 [Continued] (Oathday the 6th of Calistril,Thursday 02/06/2048) Weather(Applied to all outside events) · Temperature: -12 o an unprotected character must make a Fortitudesave once every 10 minutes (DC 15, +1 per previous check), taking 1d6 points ofnonlethal damage on each failed save. Characters wearing a cold weather outfitonly need check once per hour for cold and exposure damage. o A character who takes any nonlethal damage fromcold or exposure is beset by frostbite or hypothermia (treat her as fatigued).These penalties end when the character recovers the nonlethal damage she tookfrom the cold and exposure. · Wind (Strong/21-30): -2 Perception and RangedAttacks. · Altitude of 15,600 feet: o Altitude fatigue: Non-acclimated creatures make Fortitudesave each hour (DC 15, +1 per previous check) or be fatigued. § The fatigue ends when the character descends toan altitude with more air. o Altitude sickness: All, even Acclimated,creatures make a Fortitude save (DC 15, +1 per previous check) each 6-hourperiod or take 1 point of damage to all ability scores. § Creatures acclimated gain +4 competence bonus The’Spaired’ outlook New plan It wasabout 3 pm by the time things at the Dragon’s lair calmed down enough that itwas not worth constant observation. Asthey had watched and also listened while Cereliona relayed what she saw throughSais “Any tool” spyglass, everyone had also thought about what was going one,what it meant for them as well as any plans they had. So when Cereliona said “thinks calmed down.”Sais spoke up and pointed out that their next attempt will have to be atnight. Zheda added, “And I bet theDragon will be thinking that as well.” Alaina then added that because she had already used up so much magicpreparing the group and herself for the fight as well as teleporting around,she would want to rest for a full day at least before they tried that again, sotonight was out. The other spell castersagreed, plus Zheda voiced that she thought that was a good idea anyway. Sais agreed they were right. Cereliona then added that they should keep aneye on the Dragon Lair just in case, plus the ranger offered to do most of the scoutingherself. Everyone agreed so they splitup the next day and change into shifts with everyone taking a turn but overallCereliona still did 80% of the watch time. Day 140 [Continued] (Fireday the 7th of Calistril,Friday 02/07/2048) Weather(Applied to all outside events) · Temperature: -7 o an unprotected character must make a Fortitudesave once every 10 minutes (DC 15, +1 per previous check), taking 1d6 points ofnonlethal damage on each failed save. Characters wearing a cold weather outfitonly need check once per hour for cold and exposure damage. o A character who takes any nonlethal damage fromcold or exposure is beset by frostbite or hypothermia (treat her as fatigued).These penalties end when the character recovers the nonlethal damage she tookfrom the cold and exposure. · Wind (Strong/21-30): -2 Perception and RangedAttacks. · Altitude of 15,600 feet: o Altitude fatigue: Non-acclimated creatures make Fortitudesave each hour (DC 15, +1 per previous check) or be fatigued. § The fatigue ends when the character descends toan altitude with more air. o Altitude sickness: All, even Acclimated,creatures make a Fortitude save (DC 15, +1 per previous check) each 6-hourperiod or take 1 point of damage to all ability scores. § Creatures acclimated gain +4 competence bonus The’Spaired’ outlook Dusk Asnight fall approached, the group gathered for a meal of heroes’ feast providedby Xavian were they discussed what they had all seen while scouting and theirnew plan of attack. Overall everyonenoticed as a result of their first attempt, the streets and buildings aroundthe dragon’s lair were staying more densely populated, plus all passersby madeit a point to carefully look up and down as well as around the Dragon’s lairwhenever they came near. In addition,Cereliona said that she noticed that the 3 or so blocks around the hiddenpassage were they fought the ropers was still empty. It seemed even after the ropers were dead,everyone still avoided it. Since thebuilding that masked the tunnel entrance was only 10 blocks from the dragonlair, this surprised Sais so he added that, “It must be the tunnel or what isin the tunnel that scares them off. Those Ropers are not that dangerous compared to most of the creaturesthat live here.” Everyone agreed buteveryone also agreed it was a problem to be dealt with later, right now theyhad to deal with the dragon. Right fromthe start, everyone thought teleporting in was the best way to go. Sais thought of the hidden tunnel, becausethey could keep the place dark and not wake the Shriekers. Cereliona then happily spoke up and said,“While I am the only one that cannot naturally see in the dark here, I preparesome Ranger magic just for this [Greater Dark vision].” Happy with her spell and from the ‘congrats’the group gave her, Cereliona thought of something else. She asked Sais if everyone needed to look upwhen they arrived in the hidden tunnel so they don’t set off the Magicalsymbol. However it was pointed out,that everyone would need to close their eyes, except Sais, because even seeingit out of the corner of your eye would set it off. Alaina then reminded everyone of the largeopen room on the second floor of the Dragon’s lair that she had glimpsed thoughthe giant sized arrow silts via her arcane eye spell scouting. However after a few questions, Alainaadmitted that while scouting she had not seen the floor of this room. At this point Zheda summed up everyone’sfeeling as she said, “You… didn’t seethe floor… at all.. so you don’t know if there is one?” Alaina did not lie or hide, she admitted thatshe did not know how far down the floor was of even if there would be onebetween them and the floor below, but she added that if Cereliona rode on Saisflying carpet that they could all fly anyway so it did not matter. The others admitted she was right. However they discussed the possibilities ifthere was or was not a floor present. Alaina then told everyone that if there was a floor they could justDimensional door down, past the floor to appear in the middle of the room in midairof the first floor and hope they don’t end up in a solid object, but even ifthey do, they could survive it they just might end up pushed into a randomlocation. The overall suicidal nature ofattacking a dragon in its lair, when it is rested, and knows they are coming; madecrazier parts of this plan seem safe in comparison so the group agreed to it. With a plan made and accepted, Alaina as wellas the other casters went to work putting their spells on the group again. Thistime Alaina added a protection from acid and fire for herself. Plus Sais, Cereliona, and Xavian drank somemediation tea. Once the final spellswere cast and the last drop of tea had been drunk, dust ended the turn darknessof night began to take over. At thispoint everyone gathered up and Alaina casted her Greater Teleport spell. Spells/effectson the Group · [Alaina]Fly: Zheda · [Alaina]Protection from Energy (Electricity, 3hours): Cereliona, Renon, Sais, Xavian, and Zheda. · [Alaina]Stone Skin, communal (1 hour duration) :Alaina, Renon, Sais, and Zheda · [Alaina]Greater Magical Weapon (+4): Cereliona’sChakrum · [Alaina]Pro Energy (Fire/Acid), True seeing,Shield, Greater Heroism, and Bull’s Strength: Alaina · [Xavian]Swallow you Fear: Xavian · [Sais] Meditation tea: Sais, Cereliona, andXavian Dragon’sLair Second Floor Alainaspell placed everyone 120 feet up, in mid-air of a large room. It was roughly 210 feet long by 170 wide, andabout 200 feet tall. In side this room,the air was still but along the walls was evidence of an epic battle that wasfought back in ancient times. Magicalexplosions, transmutations, and other unidentifiable but assumed magicaleffects; claw, bite, and other appendage marks from the small to the gargantuansources, as well as various sized weapons had been used her to such a degree that this area had beentransformed into a huge basically rectangular room with non-straightwalls. But since all that magic hadhappen so long ago, it was now covered in dust, dirt, and snow with a few bugshere and there moving around. It made itlook almost as if the room had been frozen just as the battle ended. As they looked around at the floor belowthem, Sais noticed a Magical Symbol below them so he pointed it out to Alainaand asked if she knew what it was. Alaina explained it was a permanent symbol of Scrying and then with thegroups permission used a Dispel magic to remove it. The group then used their various forms offlight to land on the cleanest areas they could find. The ground was not wet but it was covered indirt, bugs, and a dusting of snow but here and there were several outcroppingsof stone that could be landed on. Usingthese, the group explored the area, but they could not find a set of stairsgoing done. However with the amount ofdamage this area had been exposed to, it was no surprise the entrance if notthe stairs themselves had been destroyed. Sais then ask Cereliona if she could listen to the stone and detect thedragon on other side. Wanting to put herear to the stone, Cereliona ask Alaina if she would prestidigitation a spotclean for her. Alaina smiled and cleaneda spot with magic for her friend. WhileAlaina caster her spell, Cereliona used her ranger magic to cast Acute Senses(+20 Perception) on herself, for some magical help. Once the spot was clean, Cereliona put herear to it and listened for a while, then she tap the stone with her adamantinechakrum a few times before she removed her ear from the floor and looked at thegroup. She spoke with real surprise inher voice, “Guys for the first time I didn’t hear anything.” After a moment Cereliona explained that thefloor was 40-60 feet thick (Knowledge Engineering), but she was guessing 50ftwhich was too much stone for her to hear through (DC 450, rolled 92). Cereliona then stopped and took the time tocheck the walls of this building, discovering them to be only 30-50 feetthick. Alaina then explained that sincethey know the thickness and they expect a big open room below them, she couldguess were to safely take everyone using Dimensional Door. Everyone was still on board so they plannedto move to the center of the room and then Dimensional door 80 feet down, 50feet for the floor thickness and 30 extra feet so they aren’t right next to theceiling. It was agreed that was the best chance they had for open air andsafety for this blind jump. Ready to go,Aliana casted her spell and the group let Alaina’s magic move them. Floor 1.1 However,when they appeared it was not in a large room or tall room, but in a very shortbut wide one. Looking around, everyonesaw that they were floating in 50 foot tall room that was the same basic largeshape as the floor above it. However theceiling had liquid fluid and flatness that was a sign of magical effects. Alaina guessed that an ancient spell had madea flat plate of stone across the room at the height of 50 feet, sealingwhatever had been in here forever. Theroom had no windows, exits, or even holes to allow anything in or out. Even though everyone had magical breathingeffects, the Ranger in Cereliona commented that if they had needed air, therewas at most 15 hours of breathable air in this room for a group of their sizebefore they would suffocate. After usingprestidigitation to clean a spot for Cereliona, Alaina then asked the ranger tolisten to the stone. After a fewseconds, Cereliona confirmed that the floor here was 30-50 feet thick so againshe could not hear through it. With zerodebate the group agreed to Dimensional door again, but this time only 70 feet,40 feet for the floor and 30 feet from the ceiling. This time thinking about how far down theyhad come, they guessed that they would be about 80 feet from the floor, if itwas at ground level and it was another large room like the one above. However before Alaina casted her spell, onelast time Xavian offered a Swallow your fear spell to anyone that wanted it. Cereliona admitted she was worried she wouldget scared and run so she accepted one this time. As Xavian casted it, Cereliona also castedAnticipate Peril on herself. Seeing thisAlaina casted Haste on the entire group as well. With these spells cast, once again the grouplet Alaina use her magic to move them to an unknown location. Spells/effectson the Group · [Alaina]Haste: Everyone · [Cereliona]Anticipate Peril: Cereliona · [Xavian]Swallow you Fear: Cereliona First Floor Asthe group appeared from the void they found the self in a room about as longbut ½ as wide as the second floor, and only 100 feet tall. The group was 80 feet from the group and inabout the center of this new room. Thewest end the room narrowed a little plus there was a Huge door along the southwall near the corner. About 100 feet tothe east were 4 large pillars around an empty and crack stone fountain. To thefar east of the room; everyone saw the Gargantuan Blue Wyrm. And just as important, the dragon sawthem. Round 1 Stillreacting the fastest, Sais flew his carpet bringing Cereliona with him towardthe base of the nearest pillar. As hereached the bottom but Sais and Cereliona noticed the 3 magical symbols in themiddle of the pillars activate. Thefirst one seemed harmless but it surround Sais with a magical glow (Fairy fire)which negated the Rogue’s invisibility. The second and third symbols hit them both with powerful magic but bothresisted it. Glowing Sais said, “Fuck”as he took up the primary stance of the Cloak and Dagger style. Cereliona then dismounted off the carpet asshe took up her Star toss style. Flyingthanks to Alaina’s spell, Zheda dropped into her fighting style thinking, ‘let’ssee what Dragon Style can do to a Dragon’. Once ready, Zheda jump into and out of Dimensions to appear anddisappear around the dragon. With herfirst attack she attempted Foot stomp but the dragon’s scales were too thick soZheda switch to full combat but only 2 of her next 5 punches and kicks harmedthe dragon. Flying up high, Xavian movedto be along the north wall more centrally located between all the group were hecould watch and reach the group if he needed to. Finally, Alaina casted apowerful Fire ball on the electric dragon. Her magic managed to beat the dragons magical resistance and catch itoff guard (failed save) so the powerful spell burned the dragon but not as muchas she would have expected (Fire Resistance). At this point the dragon came to life and his full presence could beseen, which allowed his fear aura to take full effect. Thank fully due to natural ability andpreparations: Alaina, and Zheda were immune while Xavian, Sais, and Cerelionaresisted the dragon fear. Plus thanks toXavian’s spell both the dwarf and Cereliona got a small boon from the power oftheir own fear (+2 Str & Con, -2 Ac). As the dragons fear effect faded, the electrical aura of his body kickedin which shocked Zheda, but Alaina’s spell protected her from it. Next the dragon quickly casted a spell thatmade it disappear (Invisibility). A fewseconds later the dragon appeared, 100 feet away, on the other side of thegroup and the pillars. However, Alaina’strue seeing automatically revealed it as an illusion, plus Cereliona resistedthe dragon’s magic; but Sais and Xavian were fooled by the trick. Then the illusion, took a deep breath and letout a line of real electrical breath on Alaina, Cereliona, and Sais. Alaina was immune to stood proud as theelectric failed to harm her, Cereliona dodged out of the way (evasion) but Saiswas surprised so took the blast (natural 1) but thankfully his reflexes kickedin and protected his vital spots (Improved evasion ½ damage). Thankfully Alaina’s Protection from Energydid its job and stopped all the damage. At this point, the invisible dragon moved and landed right on top the 3symbols in the middle of the room. Thanks to their permanent spells of See the invisible, both Sais andAlaina saw the dragon move. Watching asthe dragon moved, immune, right on top of the non-permanent symbols, Alainathought to herself, ‘casters are immune to their own symbols’. Round 2 FirstSais continued to resist the power of the symbols as he started off by tryingto move closer to the dragon so he could reach it with his swords. However he tried and failed to avoid thedragon as he moved (Acrobatics fail) so he was stopped in his tracks as the dragonto try and take a bite out of him. Themassive jaws snapped close just shy of his face (missed by 1) and moreimportantly stayed invisible (Greater invisibility). Not wanting to try that again, Sais calledout Kassandra before he toasted Cayden to appear on the opposite side of thedragon. As Cereliona resisted thesymbols as her magically enhanced super senses easily found the dragon so she drewsome of the paint she carried and hurled it at the dragon. Her throw was true, which left a very visiblesign of were the dragon was (No longer need to locate dragon but still 50/50miss). Now able to locate the dragon,Zheda once again jump through dimension to punch and kick the dragon but thistime she active her acid hands to increase the burn. However, like last time only 2 of 6 attempthurt the dragon, neither of which was her foot stomp attempt. Plus thanks tothe magical power of her amulet (mighty fist with Truthful, ignore miss chance)and Cereliona’s paint (auto locate creature) the dragon was basically visibleto the monk. As she appeared and disappeared around the dragon, she resistedthe first active symbol but the second one affected her, causing blood to oozefrom her eyes, ears, and mouth (1 bleed damage). However just as that magic took effect, thegriffin statue on Zheda’s belt activated to give her greater celestial healing(Fast healing 4) which immediately ended this bleeding. After Zheda’s second hit, Sais stabbed out atthe dragon’s unguarded side (opportunist). In the process Sais tried to get a bomb in the dragon’s eyes but itmissed. Plus as Sais stabbed out, healmost lost his grip on his weapon which caused him to miss but not to lose hisweapon (Natural 1). As all this tookplace, Xavian stayed along the north wall were he activated his armor’sprotections and tried to notice everything that was going on. Alaina then used her flight to move 10 feetdown (70 feet) and 10 feet closer to the dragon at the same time. Once in her new position, she used bloodmoney and limited wish to cast invisiblity purge which revealed the dragon andSais, under his Fairy fire, to everyone. Looking at Sais next to him, the Dragon quickly casted Mage Armor beforeit carefully casted a spell to create a large hand of force to appear betweenSais and the dragon (Forceful Hand). Asthe Hand appeared, it pushed Sais back 10 feet (Bull Rush, Natural 20). Round 3 Asthe hand automatically moved to keep itself between Sais and Dragon, the roguesaw no other way that to destroy the hand. So as he resisted the magic of the symbols again, Sais sent Kassandrain. She landed a good blow against thephantom hand. As Kassandra hit, Saistook the opportunity to strike out, landing a stab as well. Sais then followed that up with his 4 slashesplus the extra speed he got from haste gave him a 5 th . All of Sais’s slashed landed, cutting andharming the hand of force, but not destroying it. Cereliona resisted both magical symbols asshe stepped out from behind the pillar so she could see the dragon better. There she through and bounce her chakrum ofthe dragon’s scales 5 times, but only 2 of them made it through the thick skinto do minimal damage. But that was enough to designate the lizard for herfriends. Again resisting the symbols,Zheda was finally able to land a foot stomp with one of two successful kickwhich for now held the dragon in place. Alaina then casted another powerful fire ball on the dragon but she alsomade sure to hit the hand between Sais and the dragon. The fire burned the hand (Failed) as well asthe dragon but the dragon took it much better (passed and high elementalresistance). As the dragon started toact, his electrical aura shocked Zheda but Alaina’s spell continued to protecther. First the dragon quickly castedShield before it carefully casted a spell that envelope the eastern half of theroom as well as Alaina and Cereliona in total darkness. Round 4 Saiscontinued to resist the symbols as well as work with Kassandra to deal with thehand in front of him. First Kassandralanded a blow, which Sais took advantage of and followed up with a singlestrike of his own, destroying and dissipated the hand. Sais then attempted to move up while avoidingthe dragon’s long neck and bite but he failed which stopped his movement andallowed the dragon to take a bite out of him. But thankfully, the Stone skin Alaina had casted Sais, help to stop someof the damage (10 of a total of 27). Cereliona was in a bad spot, first she was forced to fight off the magicof the two symbols which she succeeded at, but then moments later, mouths andteeth of pure shadow and force appeared out of the darkness and took chunks outof her as well as drained her endurance (10 force and 2 Con Damage). Hating this darkness, Cereliona ran NorthWest to get out of range of the symbols, shouting about magical dangers in theDark. She finished speaking as shereached the edge of the dark and started to return to the light but as if topunctuate her point, the darkness took a chuck out of her as she left whichleft a bleeding wound on her left arm (1 Bleed). Once she was in the clear and could see thedragon, she through her chakrum to hit the large lizard for minimal damage, butmore importantly to again designate the creature for her allies. Unfortunately Zheda was only able to resistthe second symbol, but was effected by the first so in a moment the magic tookZheda’s sight from her permanently. Blindedbut still next to the dragon, Zheda swung out and with her first hit, shelanded a single blow but on her second she kicked up dust which caused her tosneeze and lose her balance. It took allshe had just to regain her footing. Seeing the now blinded Zheda, Xavian quickly casted Grace and then usedthe movement to reach Zheda. There thedwarf carefully casted Remove Blindness on Zheda which restored the monk’ssight. Seeing Xavian when her eyesstarted to work again, Zheda said, “Thanks”. In the darkness Alaina was also assaulted by the darkness (force damageand 2 Con) so she took flight and headed toward the dragons location. After 15feet she exited the darkness but as she did the darkness took a chuck out ofher (4 Bleed). Once she could see the dragon, Alaina casted a fire ball whichbeat the dragon’s magical resistance but failed to burned it thanks to itelemental resistance and reflexes (saved). Alaina then followed that up with a cold ice strike that fizzed as itwas stopped by the Dragon’s magical resistance. The dragon then carefully casted a mass hold person the effect Alaina,Cereliona, Zheda, and Xavian but only the dwarf failed to resist or in Zheda’sbe immune to the paralysis magic. Thedragon quickly casted a magic missile and sent them after Alaina, but herShield spell protected her. Seeing allthis, the dragon took flight and flew to disappear into the darkness. As it left, Zheda took a swing at it butmissed. Round 5 Stillresisting the magic of the symbols, Sais took his carpet up while also makinghis way south west to the edge of the darkness. Cereliona continued to bleed from the effects of leaving the darkness (1bleed) as she resisted the bleed magic of the second symbol. However, she failed to resist the blindnessmagic of the first symbol so like Zheda before her, her eyes ceased tofunction. Now blinded but stillremembering the basic lay out of the room, the ranger activated her armor andtook flight to go up 70 feet where she would be out of the range of the symbolsand then she flew north until she found the wall. Zheda resisted the symbols again before sheturned and readied to face anything that came out of the darkness. Xavian was paralysis (failed save again) butstill in range of both active symbols and as he was not as strong as the heroes,he failed to resist the magic of the blinding one so it took his sight too. Then as blood oozed from her wounds (4bleed), Alaina used limited wish and blood money to cast daylight (7 th level spell) which immediately dispelled the powerful (7 th ) darknessspell. This reveal the dragon near hugesouthern doorway, in the corner. Seeingthe group in response, the dragon casted another Hungry darkness on the groupwhich placed everyone back in darkness. Round 6 Saisclearly saw the dragon with his ‘See the invisible’ spell just before he wasdropped into darkness again so as the jaws and teeth came out of the shadowsand bit him (Force and Con damage), he charged straight forward toward the directionof the dragon. As he left the shadow, hisflesh was torn by the power of the magical darkness (5 bleed), but he was sawthe dragon. Continuing toward it Saistried to move in on the dragon without letting his guard down, but just like thetimes before, the dragon saw it and reacted. Which stop Sais in his tracks and allowed the dragon to take a bite outof him. Blinded and in the darkness,Cereliona’s wounds bled a little as she felt the magical teeth come down on her(force damage and 2 con). Wanting toleave the darkness and not able to see even if there had been light, the rangerguess a direct and flew east along the wall until she reached the far East walland as she moved, she made her way to the ground as well. Since the darkness had been cast with itscenter high in the air, the ground here was luckily out of the darkness. As the ranger left the shadows, the teethwere barely able to hurt her (1 bleed same as before). Then thanks to the paintthat Cereliona had thrown on the dragon, Zheda had been able to make out thedragons location before she was also placed in darkness. After the shadow teeth took bites out of her(Force damage and 2 con), Zheda activated her acid hands as she fell intodimensions. The first time she poppedout, she called all that which made her a hero (GM Gift: Natural 20) in orderto make sure her foot stomp work. So itwas a powerful hit which held up the dragon for a little while (not move for 1round). However all of Zheda’s follow upkicks and punches, bounced of the dragon’s armor. Paralyzed and blinded in the Darkness,Xavian’s still form was chewed up by darkness (force damage and Con) plus thelast symbols magic final effected the dwarf (failed), causing wounds to open upon his body and start to bleed (4 bleed). Alaina was also chewed on by the darkness (force and con) as her woundwept (4 bleed). As soon as she could,Alaina then took flight, headed toward the dragon. As she left the shadow, it ripped at herflesh but she was already bleeding (2 bleed, so keep 4 bleed) so she ignoredit. Alaina then dropped a Fireball downon the dragon, but like last time the dragon rolled with the flames (passed)plus thanks to its magical resistance; it took no damage. Looking at the little creature that hadforced it to stay in place, the Dragon let loose with all it had (1 bite, 2claws, 2 wings, and tail). Everythinghit Zheda but thanks to the stone skin Alaina had cast, she took less than ½ ofthe damage which was still respectable. Round 7 Asblood flowed from his body (5 bleed), Sais decided to just take the hit fromthe dragon as he moved up. The bite hurtbut at least this time he had reached the dragon. First the rogue sent Kassandra out but shefailed to penetrate the dragon’s scales. Sais followed up with his Short sword but he had the same problem. Cereliona was blind, bleeding, and alone soshe pulled out Barkenstien’s figurine and used it to summon him. The she told him to protect her so the dogtook a defensive position between his master and the dragon. Next Zheda again swung with all she had butit was not until her last punch (Hasted 7 th attack) that she finallydamaged the dragon. As she did, Sais sawhis chance and stabbed out with his short sword just as the Dragon reboundedfrom Zheda punch. Sais felt the weapongo deep into the dragon’s body, and pierce its heart, killing it. Monster · Ghlorofaex (Wyrm Blue Dragon) [Dead] o Ring of Energy resistance, greater (Fire):44,000 gp o Sihedron Ring Healing and Rings Assoon as the dragon’s body fell, Alaina casted a greater dispel magic thatremove the Hungry darkness as well as 2 of the symbols. She then followed up with a dispel magic toremove the last symbol. Once the areawas clear, Sais ran to Xavian and gave him a twitch Tonic. The alchemicalconcoction did it work and helped Xavian to final fight off the paralysis. With his body able to move, the first thingXavian did was cast remove blindness on himself. Once he could see and move, Xavian thankedSais as he moved toward the center of the group were he called everyone tohim. The group quickly came to him andonce they were all in range, the cleric channeled to heal which mostimportantly closed up everyone’s wounds (removed bleed). Alaina then used a limited wish and bloodmoney to cast restoration on herself. AsXavian used lesser restoration on Zheda, Sais, and himself, before he used afull restoration on Cereliona. However,Xavian had used both his remove blindness spells, so Alaina used a limited wishwith blood money to restore Cereliona’s sight. Once everyone could see, was healed, and no longer bleeding; the groupmoved to the dragon’s body. With herarcane sight, Alaina noticed 2 magical rings on the dragon and quicklyidentified them and found one to be the ring they needed. At this point, with greed in their souls thegroup split up and started looking for the hoard. Sais moved over to the center of the areaprotected by the symbols as Cereliona took the huge southern doorway. Sais found nothing so moved on to a smalldoor in the east wall. Inside he found asmall room that had been made smaller by a building collapse so he returned tothe main room and set off to look at the doors behind bars in the south east corner. While Sais did that, Cereliona made her waydown the hallway to where it turned east. As she turned the corner, a magic blast erupted from the archway. Thankfully the ranger’s reflexes were up tothe challenge allowing her to jump out of the way. After the sound of the blast, Cerelionastopped and found a spot to listen to surrounding area. From her location, she could hear to thestreets around the building. In those streetsshe heard the sound of 3 Lamia matriarch snake like bodies stop and start tohead this way (97 Perception roll). The ranger then turned and ran back to thegroup to warn them. As she reached thegroup, Sais reached the dented and twisted but still mostly straight bars thatprotect two doors. Hearing Cereliona’swarning, Sais decided not to waste time so he used the amorphous magical powerof his armor to ooze through the bars. Once on the other side, he reformed himself and headed to the doors. Hefound the first door unlock and un-trap. When he opened the stone door, he found a 10-foot-square chamber, thefar wall of which had collapsed, but there was more than enough room left forthe dragon’s treasure. Seeing scatterpiles of gold and gems, Sais and the group knew they did not have the time tobag up and take it all. The groupquickly agreed to get the most important stuff so Sais grabbed magic items andhanded them through the bars to the group. Once they have everything, Alaina moved near the bars where everyone,including Sais could gather around her. Then when they were ready, she casted Teleport to take them to theSpared’s Mural room. Treasure · +2 banded mail: 4,550 gp · a wand of lightning bolt (cl 6th, 23 charges):6, 210 · a leather bag containing o 4 frozen potions of cure light wounds: 50 gpeach o a frozen potion of owl’s wisdom: 300 gp o a flask of oil of magic vestment +4: 2,250 gp · A bejeweled ivory scroll tube: 300 gp o Scroll of foresight: 3,825 o Scroll of mass heal (9 th ): 3,825 TheLast thing that happened Thegroup teleported out of the dragon’s lair with the needed ring as well as thefew other magical items they could grab. They had just arrived safe in the Spaires’ Mural room. GM Favorite Evil moment Dueto a Ranger’s noisy explorations, the group was forced to leave behind a lot ofvaluable treasure · 64,000 sp · 21,000 gp · 520 pp · a gold coffer worth 1,400 gp o contains 35 assorted gemstones: 12,000 gp total · a silver bracelet: 25 gp · a jade comb:300 gp · a pair of red silk gloves embroidered with goldthread: 800 gp (the pair) o Stored in a glass display box itself worth 100gp · a suit of masterwork mithral half-plate: 9,900gp · a masterwork breastplate: 500 gp Plusthere was also the minor Artifact of a Philospher stone , hidden in the hallways beyond the hoard room. Experience EachPlayer received 41,460 experience points (Total: 1,660,990 [18th level]) for Monstersand Role-playing.
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Session113 (12/16/2020) Day 140 [Continued] (Fireday the 7th of Calistril,Friday 02/07/2048) Weather(Applied to all outside events) · Temperature: -7 o an unprotected character must make a Fortitudesave once every 10 minutes (DC 15, +1 per previous check), taking 1d6 points ofnonlethal damage on each failed save. Characters wearing a cold weather outfitonly need check once per hour for cold and exposure damage. o A character who takes any nonlethal damage fromcold or exposure is beset by frostbite or hypothermia (treat her as fatigued).These penalties end when the character recovers the nonlethal damage she tookfrom the cold and exposure. · Wind (Strong/21-30): -2 Perception and RangedAttacks. · Altitude of 15,600 feet: o Altitude fatigue: Non-acclimated creatures make Fortitudesave each hour (DC 15, +1 per previous check) or be fatigued. § The fatigue ends when the character descends toan altitude with more air. o Altitude sickness: All, even Acclimated,creatures make a Fortitude save (DC 15, +1 per previous check) each 6-hourperiod or take 1 point of damage to all ability scores. § Creatures acclimated gain +4 competence bonus Spared’sMural room Gear Assoon as the group arrived safely in the Mural room, Alaina went aboutidentifying the magical items they had taken. No one was impressed with the gear, except for the scrolls. Alaina took the one of Foresight and afterexplaining the he could not guarantee he could cast it (caster check required),but that he had had the best odds; Xavian took the scroll of Mass Heal. The rest was stowed for selling later. Now that they have their ring, they did nothave to return to the dragon’s lair again so the group moved on to what wasnext for them. Getting to Karzoug Theoptions of resting for now was brought up but the overall question of what wasthe next step to reaching Karzoug was discussed. Alaina then brought up the Hidden passagethey had found defended by Ropers and Cereliona discussed the Yeti home theyhad previously failed to search. TheYeti area was shot down by Zheda when she pointed out it had been 3 days sincethey visited that spot so if anything was there, it was bound to have muchstronger guards now. The hidden passagewas ultimate accepted as the groups’ best bet for a stealthy climb to the top,but they discussed flying, climbing and even teleporting to the top. As they were now going to be approaching theprotective field that they had been gathering items in order to bypass so theconversation turned to the split up of items. They had 5 Medallions and 3 rings. Surprisingly 4 of the Medallions were first taken by Alaina, Renon,Cereliona, and Barkenstien, due to it being a necklace (Neck slot) instead of aring (Finger). All three rings weretaken by Sais, Zheda, and Xavian. Thanksto the protection of the ring, Xavian so no loss in his defenses (AC unchanged)but both Sais and Zheda had to give a up weaker but more defense focused ringin order to wear the Sihedron ring (+5 Ring of protection swapped for +3, -2AC). Because most preferred their ownitems, Xavian was the only one to put his ring on now. After that it was agreed they would rest andthen checkout the hidden passage the next day with hopes it would get them tothe top. Alaina caster her spell andallowed the group to enter her magical mansion where everyone rested. Day 141 (Starday the 8th of Calistril, Saturday02/08/2048) Weather(Applied to all outside events) · Temperature: -3 o an unprotected character must make a Fortitudesave once every 10 minutes (DC 15, +1 per previous check), taking 1d6 points ofnonlethal damage on each failed save. Characters wearing a cold weather outfitonly need check once per hour for cold and exposure damage. o A character who takes any nonlethal damage fromcold or exposure is beset by frostbite or hypothermia (treat her as fatigued).These penalties end when the character recovers the nonlethal damage she tookfrom the cold and exposure. · Wind (Strong/21-30): -2 Perception and RangedAttacks. · Altitude of 15,600 feet: o Altitude fatigue: Non-acclimated creatures make Fortitudesave each hour (DC 15, +1 per previous check) or be fatigued. § The fatigue ends when the character descends toan altitude with more air. o Altitude sickness: All, even Acclimated,creatures make a Fortitude save (DC 15, +1 per previous check) each 6-hourperiod or take 1 point of damage to all ability scores. § Creatures acclimated gain +4 competence bonus Final thoughts over breakfast Thenext morning over, Xavian’s Heroes’ feast breakfast, Sais and Zheda discuss theirindependently formed, mutual idea of ‘Since even with both roper’s gone, no onehas gone near the entrance to the hidden passage, there must be something elsethere that is feared’. The group agreedso they discussed haunts and guards, but nothing concreate was everdetermined. However, a lot of jokes weremade and a lot of laughs were had by the surprisingly cheerful group. Butbefore too long, Joking was done and the meal was eaten so everyone left thetable, gathered their gear, and met outside Alaina’s mansion in the Mural room. TheHidden Passage Getting there Witheveryone ready, Alaina teleported the group to the Spared’s lookout tower. There Cereliona used Sais’s ‘any tool’spyglass to check out the hidden passage. Again there she saw no activity within blocks of the entrance so onceagain, Alaina teleport everyone 50 feet into the hidden cave so they did notappear on the street. The cave Onceinside, there was some light but not much. Cereliona’s elven low light helped her here while the others used Darkvisonor demonic see in darkness ability. Lookingat the walls, floor, and ceiling of this cave Cereliona confirmed that it hadbeen ‘giant’ made, though the solid stone. Alaina added that no magic was used to create it that she could tell,but all of the cave past 40 feet in, was protected by a magic similar to whatpreserved Thassilonian ruins, but much weaker which in turn made it hard tosee. Noting all this, the group movedforward. At about 100 feet the lightdimmed to the point that Cereliona’s low light did not work so she casted Darkvision on herself. At this point thecave turned clockwise and started to corkscrew up the inside of themountain. The group continued up thislarge corkscrew for several thousand feet. They rose up a little over 6000 feet from 15,800 feet to 22,000feet. As they reached the top of thecurving path, about 600 feet from the exit, they could feel air current andsmell the weak, high altitude air. Atabout 60 feet from the exit, the tunnel still turned but enough light bouncedaround and into the cave in that dark vision was no longer required. Here the group stop, so Sais could move upand scout the entrance. Giants Howeverbefore he left, Cereliona smell Giant sweat in the air(Perception 86 vsFavorite Enemy) so before Sais could leave, Cereliona spoke up and said,“Giants”. She then quickly explainedthat she smelled a Tiaga Giant, Stone giant, and a Rune giant outside the caveentrance, plus all of them smelled funny for one of their race (Giants havetemplates). The group already knew aboutStone and Rune giants so Cereliona explained the most important part of taigagiants, they could perform a Spirit Summoning each morning to gain an abilityfrom their ancestral spirits and the most common power used made them immune toenchantment and illusion magic. It tooka second but everyone realized that against that giant, invisibility would beuseless. Sais thanked Cereliona for thewarning before he invisibly headed to the cave front. Sais made sure to be extra quiet as well asto hide as though he was not invisible. As Sais reached the last 25 feet of the cave, it started to slowlynarrow, until it was down to about a 25 foot diameter opening. Here Sais stopped and looked around. At first Sais saw nothing, but then to thesouth hiding behind a large boulder, Sais saw the Taiga Giant looking at a spotright next to where he was. It was alarge and mean looking female who after a moment it was clear had not seenSais. Thankful for Cereliona’s warning,Sais used his carpet to quietly fly up and out of the cave so he could get abird’s eye view. He watch the Taiga andwaited for the right moment. Once he washigh up, he also saw that the cave exit was at the bottom of a two level pit.The first and out floor was about 50 down from the surface, while the middlepart was another 50 feet down (100 feet total) and this is where the cave exitwas. The Taiga giant was hidden on andblocking a ram that went from the bottom all the way to the top. Top the west of the cave exit, a ramp headednorth to wind around the top of the cave exit where it met the middle level (50feet down). On this path, hidden next tothe cave exit, was a large rune giant. Finally, on the actual ground level, about 250 feet directly across fromthe cave exit was large stone giant, who was also watching the cave exit. Sais study all three of the giants from adistance for as long as he felt safe, then after watching the Taiga for anopening, Sais quietly flew back in to inform the group. With the rogue’s description, Sais andCereliona identified the giants all as king-giants (Jotunblood template) whichmeant each of them was an extremely powerful version of their giant race eachwith unique power. Cereliona then added,“From what we have seen so far from Xin-Shalast Giants, we should expect theseones to be well trained and with a plan. I am guessing they are waiting to ambush us as we leave the cave.” As one the group all joked, “It’s a Trap!”but no one knew why. TaigaGiant · Huge Humanoid (Giant) · Spirit Summoning (Su) Jotunblood(King Giant) Template · +10 Racial Hit Dice · Natural AR bonus · Race Special o Stone: Move rocks telekinetically up to 1000feet away o Taiga: Gains Rage o Rune: Can throw runes from body that explode onimpact doing any type of damage (Acid, Cold, Electricity, Fire, Force, orSonic) the giant choices The Plan Firstoff, everyone worried they might be near Karzoug’s field now and did not wantto run into it, mid fight but after Sais pointed out that he was able to flyaround, everyone decided to keep continue to wait on anti-field item. Next, Cereliona talked about the narrow exitthat Sais had described so Alaina looked and saw evidence of magic, but it wasold magic meaning the original cave had a larger opening but it was shrunk downa long time ago. After furtherdiscussion, it was decided that since the Stone Giant appeared to be positionas a long range sniper, that they should all teleport to him were they could surround,attack, and take him out first. That waythey could hopefully take one out before the melee fighters (Taiga rage, Rune:no known long ranged attacks other than rock throw) could move in. Alaina then added that a distraction for theRune and Taiga giants might help as well and she had one. She offered to use her magic to cast ElementalSwarm which over the course of about 30 minutes could summon a large number ofvaried elementals of one type (2d4 large, 1d4 huge, 1 greater). She could then send the elementals throughthe door as the group attacks the stone giant. Everyone like this idea so theymoved deeper down into the caves, just in case, and there Alaina caster herspell. First 4 large Air Elementalsappears, then 4 Huger. But before theGreater and last elemental showed up the group started to prepare for thefight. Zheda drank, Sais pulled outAlchemy, while the casters casted. Oncethe last elemental arrived, Alaina waited for the right moment before sendingthem up the ramp as she and the rest of the casters finished their spells. At the moment were the first elementals reachedthe entrance, Alaina casted teleport, taking the group to land next to theStone giant, who waited to ambush them. CombatPrep by Group · Everyone: LW-Stone Skin[Alaina](20 min),Haste[Alaina],Blessing of Ferver[Renon] · Alaina: Shield, Bull Strength, Protection Energy(Fire/Acid) · Zheda: Fly [Alaina], Enemy Insight (+3 H/DGiant, stay 55 feet of Cereliona)[Cereliona] · Xavian: Protection Energy (Fire/Electricity)[Alaina] , Enemy Insight (+3 H/D Giant, stay 55 feet of Cereliona)[Cereliona] · Renon: Protection Energy (Fire/Electricity)[Alaina] , Enemy Insight (+3 H/D Giant, stay 55 feet of Cereliona)[Cereliona],Righteous Might · Cereliona: Anticipate Peril, Protection Energy(Fire/Electricity) · Sais: Blood Boiling Pill The powers of destiny Asthe group was pulled into the void, they felt themselves grow in power. This cause them to hold in the void for amoment. This did not scare anyone andthey did not know why. They just allknew that when everyone was ready and it was time, they would reach theirdestination safely. What happened afterthat would be less safe. GM 2020 Christmas gift: The group was given the experience forthe monsters they are about to face now before they faced them as a Christmaspresent over the break which allowed them to reach level 19. As such each player was allowed to fullylevel up to level 19, gaining all spells, feats, abilities, hit points, etc… asif they had rested for the night. Effectively, each character is now treated as if they had woken up as a 19 th level character this morning, then they casted all the spells and used all the abilitythey did for their morning routine as well as their fight prep. TheLast thing that happened Thegroup was in mid-teleport on their way to attack the stone Giant, just asAlaina’s elementals reached the exit of the cave to distract GMFavorite moment WhenTom[Cereliona] game me proof that players really do pay attention whenCereliona pointed out “From what we have seen so far from Xin-Shalast’s Giants,we should expect these ones to be well trained and with a plan. I am guessing they are waiting to ambush usas we leave the cave.” Experience EachPlayer received 113,140 experience points (Total: 1,774,130 [19th level],Gained a new level) for Monsters and Role-playing.
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Session114 (01/05/2021) [Zheda{Fyre} missed session] Day 141 [Continued] (Starday the 8th of Calistril,Saturday 02/08/2048) Weather(Applied to all outside events) · Temperature: -10 o an unprotected character must make a Fortitudesave once every 10 minutes (DC 15, +1 per previous check), taking 1d6 points ofnonlethal damage on each failed save. Characters wearing a cold weather outfitonly need check once per hour for cold and exposure damage. o A character who takes any nonlethal damage fromcold or exposure is beset by frostbite or hypothermia (treat her as fatigued).These penalties end when the character recovers the nonlethal damage she tookfrom the cold and exposure. · Wind (Light/0-5): no game effect · Altitude of 22,100 feet o Altitude fatigue: Non-acclimated creatures make Fortitudesave each hour (DC 15, +1 per previous check) or be fatigued. § The fatigue ends when the character descends toan altitude with more air. o Altitude sickness: All, even Acclimated,creatures make a Fortitude save (DC 15, +1 per previous check) each 6-hourperiod or take 1 point of damage to all ability scores. § Creatures acclimated gain +4 competence bonus TheMountain of Mhar Massif Returning from the Void Asthe group returned to the Real, Alaina appeared a first, about 10 feet behindthe stone giant. Cereliona, Sais, Renon,and Xavian; all appeared around her a split second later, just as the Alaina’s3 Large Air Elementals came out of the cave. All three of the giant ambushers, saw the elementals; but only the Stonegiant notice the group appear near him. Round 1 Saisfirst attempted to blind the Stone giant, but he managed to closes his eyesjust in time. Sais then followed that upwith a stab from his short sword which also delivered a second bomb into thegiant’s eyes. And this one surprised the giant, blinding him (10 rounds). Sais followed that stab up with 3 more, allto vital areas. Cereliona then took aimand bounced her Chakrum of the Giant’s hide, with 4 of her 5 bounce throwsdrawing blood. However with each hit, Cerelionasaw the giant’s stone body was resistant to some of her damage (DR), unlikeSais’s weapon (Adamantine). The Blindedstone giant then clicked his heals to togethers and started to move faster(Boots of speed) as he seem to fell around him (Tremor sense), finding thenon-flying group members of Cereliona, Renon, and Xavian. Since Cereliona had attacked her, he decidedto return the favor. With his mind, theStone giant caused 5 boulders all around the ranger, to fly at her. But the ranger was able to avoid or herarmor stopped all but one of them. Asthe boulder hit, Cereliona was lined in faire fire for a while (1 round) aswell as burnt by Acid. Xavian moved to the side and away from the melee fight,so he would not interfere as the group did their work. The rune Giant started to blur as he moved(Armor of haste) and then ran along the air (Air walk), down the side of thecliff to land on the group right in front of the Air elementals. There a shower of sparks to erupted out ofone of the runes on its body, covering the air elementals in fire andelectricity. Just as the sparks fadedaway, the Taiga giant ran up and with one mighty swing, cleave through allthree air elementals (Great Cleave_, ending the magic that held them here. Next Renon moved up on giant but thanks toits connection to the stone (Tremor sense), it felt him coming and took a swingat him, but it missed. This allowedRenon to aim for the Giant’s heart (Greater vital strike). The giant moved a little at the last momentso Renon’s blade only nicked its heart, but as Renon pulled his blade out isclear the damage was severe and that Renon’s weapon did full damage. Seeing his chance, Sais took the opportunityto stab out with is short sword, and aimed for a kidney. The giant was in pain from Renon’s blow soSais was able to find his mark. As therogue pulled out his sword, the giant’s dying words were, “For Mokmurian.” This cause Sais to think, “I hope thatMokmurian is still dead, we don’t need anyone else after us.” Alaina acted next and first thought was tocast time stop. As the quasi-time tookover (5 rounds), Alaina first used her book to cast a prismatic wall whichcompletely and perfectly (80 feet perimeter) boxed in the Gargantuan RagingTaiga giant. She followed that up bycasting Greater invisibility on herself. Then Alaina just looked around, without moving, confirming that theseseemed to be the only guards. As herquasi-time end, Alaina commanded her Air Elementals to attack the Rune giant sothey all swarmed out of the cave. The 4huge and one greater, half circled the Rune giant. The giant swung his mightsword at them as they came in, landing a single blow on each (AOP, CombatReflexes) but the strikes did not stop or slow the elementals, partially thanksto their natural resistance to damage (DR 5/-, 10/-). Once the elementals were in range, each ofthem slammed the giant with the wind of its arm. 2 of the 4 huge, and one greater, all landeda blow. However, just like the stone, the Rune giant was resistant to damage aswell (DR) so very little damage was actually taken by the giant. Monsters · Galenmir {Jotunblood stone giant fighter 4}[Dead] o potion of heroism: 750 gp o potion of gaseous form: 750 gp o oil of darkness: 300 gp o +3 breastplate: 10,100 gp o +3 light steel shield: 9,372 gp o cloak of elvenkind: 2,500 gp o Sihedron medallion o Boots of speed: 12,000 gp o Ring of life bubble: 90,000 gp Round 2 Saisturned to Cereliona, looked at her and then at the empty spot on his carpet,before he asked her with a look, ‘you want to come with?’. Cereliona thought, ‘Fuck it, why not’ andcommunicated this to Sais with a look so the rogue waited, until she was on thecarpet. The Range then moved and got onthe carpet, where she readied to attack the Rune Giant as soon as Saisstopped. Sais then used his ring to goinvisible, before he flew 70 ft. toward the giant, while also flying down thesame distance into the hole. At thatpoint, Sais paused for a moment and Cereliona took that as he cue. The ranger let her chakrum fly, which hit anddesignated the Rune giant. But like thestone, the rune giant’s body resisted some of the damage (DR). Angry and raging, the Taiga ran through themulti colored wall around her without a second thought. As she passed through the wall, every singlecolor fully affected her (Roll three 2s of 7 saves and the highest rolls of all7 was a natural 6). As she passedthrough the wall, 7 things happened in very quick succession: First her bodyerupt in flames, next acid burned her, followed by electricity, after that hereyes went blank and she started to fall over as if she was dead. As she fell her body turned to stone, nextthe last, internally screaming, the shreds of her mind went insane. Then just before the stone body was about toreach the ground from its fall, it disappeared, sent to a random plane. Seeing this, Xavian moved so and got a clearerview so he could remember it for his journal entry tonight. The Rune Giant, now noticing thenon-elemental threat, turned its back on them and moved toward the group. As he did, he opened himself up to them soeach of the elementals took a swing at him, with 2 of the huge and the greaterall landing blows, which did little damage after the Giants resistance kickedin. (DR down to less than 5 each). Thegiant moved a total of 60 feet, raising 60 feet up as he did. When he reached this, point he ripped one ofthe runes of his body and through it up to where Alaina, Xavian, and Renonstood. It exploded with Force and caughtall of them off guard (no saves), but thankfully it was not enough to endthem. Renon then took flight with hiswings to get 70 feet closer to the Rune Giant. There he tried some divine magic, but this time the spell was notpowerful enough to defeat the monster’s magical resistance. Seeing this, Renoncalled Desna and declared the giant a target of her smite. Alaina next flew 90 feet closer to the giant,where she noticed the many magic auras on the giant. Not liking his weapon’s powerful aura, Alainatarget it for a Mage’s disjunction but amazingly the item resisted the magic(Natural 20). Next the closest hugeelemental took a 5 foot step and swung twice at the giant, while the remainingones had to move father so only got in one swing each. As the other 4 moved, the giant swung atthem, landing a blow on all of them again, but with the elemental’s resistancesto damage, they were able to survive the hits. The first huge elemental landedboth of its blows, and of the other 3 huge ones, only one landed a blow. All were resisted by the Giant’s body(Dr). The greater elemental also landeda blow, but this time it did full damage. As that blow was landing, Alaina saw an unidentified aura fall of themonster (Stone skin used up). Monster · Cinderma {Jotunblood Taiga giant} [Dead andtransported to another plane] Round 3 Saisthen continued his flight toward the Rune giant, bringing the very visibleCereliona with him. As Sais moved in,the giant saw Cereliona and slashed her bad with his sword as she came in reach. As the blow landed, Cereliona a moment ofthought ‘Why in the fuck did I get in melee range of a Rune giant? … Ooothat’s right, Sais is ranged Handicapped.’ As she finished this thought, Sais became visible next to her as hethrough a flash bomb way over the giant’s head (natural 1). Cereliona then activated the flight power ofher armor and flew 40 feet away from the giant, this time dodging the sword blowthat was aimed at her unprotected side. Xavian followed taking flight on his broom to join the group, but heonly made it about ½ at this point. Atthis moment Sais realized that he was alone, standing right next to a verypissed off and now very Gargantuan looking Runegiant in front of him. Looking at thegiant’s sword Sais thought, ‘this is going to hurt’. So out of reflex, he activated his shadowclone. As the giant started his attack,he scream, “For Mokmurian!” The giant swung and landed 4 of its 5 attempts withits large sword, none of which struck the clone. The attacks dealt massive damage (162) butthankfully some of it was stopped by Alaina’s stone skin spell (DR 10, stopped40). However this was still enough toseverely wound but not kill the rogue (less than 40 hp left). Next Renon charged in, and as he did, thegiant got a hit in. But this did notstop him and he slashed the giant with a powerful smite from Desna, via hisstarknife. The blow was powerful, butthe giant was tough so stayed standing. Wanting to try her trick again, Alaina focus on the giant’s magicalarmor as she casted another Mage’s disjunction. This time it work, not only dispelling but destroying the armor. With the giant’s defense down, Alaina senther Air Elementals in. All of the 5renaming elementals, landed two blows. The overwhelming force of the small blows was enough to finally bringdown the giant, but it took every single of them (at -1 HP after allattacks). · Lokansir {Jotunblood Rune giant} [Dead] o +5 Colossal Sword of Life Stealing: 67,715 gp o Sihedron medallion o Ring of life bubble: 90,000 gp Healing and looting. Xavianfinished moving up and went to active healing. First he channeled to heal Sais, Renon, Alaina, Cereliona, andhimself. Sais still need more healing,so Xavian also used a Cure serious wound. Renon top himself off with one of his own fervors. While that went on, Alaina identified theitems and everyone else gather them up. There were a little annoyed and surprised to find 2 more Medallions,plus they guessed that the Taiga giant had had one too. Staying hidden, Air elementals. Everyonethen slowly moved up and out of the hole they were in. Around them they could see several pillarsand other spires but nothing was within 1000 feet of them. Plus thankfully, the battle had been fast andin the hole so there was little to no chance anyone would have noticedanything. But once they left this hole,the only thing that would protect them from detection was height and distance fromthe city proper. Looking around thegroup saw the Golden road about 600 feet east but as it would expose them themost they decided to avoid that. Insteadthey decided to fly up the very mountain side and Sais offered the open seat onhis carpet to Cereliona once again and she took it. Alaina then ask everyone what she should dowith her elementals. She wanted to sendthem down the hidden passage to cause some chaos in the city. At first therewas some thoughts that they should be left to guard, but once Renon brought upthat without the ring or amulet no one would be able to follow them after theyhit that field. So it was agreed thatthey would let Alaina send them into the city. Alaina turned to the elementals and told them “Got down this passageinto the city, once there attack any Lamia’s you see.” And the following hercommand the elementals started down the tunnel. Flying up the cold and windy mountain Asthe elementals left, the group turned and headed up the mountain. Thanks to their many protections from theelements, the group did not really feel the cold windy air but they could tellit was getting colder, plus it was easy to notice it was getting winder. The higher up the mountain, the colder itgot, little by little. After they hadclimbed 2000 feet, the wind had increased to 45 mph and the temperature haddropped 10 degrees. Dealing with theweather, everyone kept an eye out as they moved, but storm clouds had moved it,making it hard to see the sky. But asthey were looking at the clouds, everyone but Renon saw 4 gargantuan birds withfeathers the color of a stormy winter sky, a resemblance enhanced by thelightning that danced over their snow body, flying in the clouds, not 60 feetabove the group. Cereliona had notstudied enough to recognize the outsiders but Alaina had. It look like the Thunder birds that VeznuttParooh had warned them where only found at the peaks of the highestmountains. However the birds dove inbefore Alaina could say anything. Thunderbirds Weather(Applied to entire encounter) · Temperature: -20 o an unprotected character must make a Fortitudesave once every 10 minutes (DC 15, +1 per previous check), taking 1d6 points ofnonlethal damage on each failed save. Characters wearing a cold weather outfitonly need check once per hour for cold and exposure damage. o A character who takes any nonlethal damage fromcold or exposure is beset by frostbite or hypothermia (treat her as fatigued).These penalties end when the character recovers the nonlethal damage she tookfrom the cold and exposure. · Wind (Strong/30-50): -4 perception and Rangedattacks · Altitude of 22,100 feet o Altitude fatigue: Non-acclimated creatures make Fortitudesave each hour (DC 15, +1 per previous check) or be fatigued. § The fatigue ends when the character descends toan altitude with more air. o Altitude sickness: All, even Acclimated,creatures make a Fortitude save (DC 15, +1 per previous check) each 6-hourperiod or take 1 point of damage to all ability scores. § Creatures acclimated gain +4 competence bonus SteepMountain grade(45 degree incline): climb Check DC 15 Surprise Reactingthe fastest, Cereliona quickly dismounted from Sais Capret, as she dropped inStartoss style and took aim. She then through her chakrum at the two divingbirds, who were just close enough for her to a get a bounce. The first one landed, but the bounce was badso it missed the second (Nat 1). In theclouds a lightning bolt came down and randomly struck Xavian. The dwarf thank Irori for Alaina’s spellswhich stopped all the electricity. Thebird then each screeched with caused a bolt of cold blue lightning to shout outof their mouths. Each bird target adifferent group member, with only Cereliona being able to dodge out of theway. The others where hit but all hadsome measure of protection form the electricity, cold, and sonic damage of thebolt (Sais and Renon Protection from electricity, Renon teifling elementalresistance, and Alaina was immune plus had protection from cold as well.)though all still took varying levels of real damage. The birds held there general location 50 feetup from the ledge the group was on, circling but not really moving. Alaina next shouted what she knew about thesemonsters had adapted to the cold (Cold Creature template) so it body was madeof snow and therefore incorporeal but that these creatures where be weakagainst fire. Then acting on that,Alaina casted her powerful fireball, targeting only a single bird because theywere so far apart. She also quicklycasted a second empowered fireball just as that spell ended. The bird was hurt by both fireballs but itsincorporeal natural reduced the damage from both considerably (passed first: ¼,failed second: 1/2) but fire was more ‘super effective’ so did hurt (still x1.5of what got through). Sais then tookflight on his carpet, charging to where he could get a bird in range of hisacid splash. Sais became visible as hecasted his spell, allowing him to get a hit but this creature was immune tospecial skill (sneak attack), so the spell did very little damage in the formof acid. Renon had also studiedOutsiders so he added to Alaina’s warning that they were immune to Cold,Electricity, and Sonic damage; as well as having a cold aura and birds theirlightning throwing storm clouds. Renonthen quickly casted a divine power, followed by Blessing of Fervor on thegroup. Back on the cliff side, Xavianmoved back against the cliff wall for some cover, as he watched to see when hewould be needed. ColdThunderbird · Gargantuan Outsider (Cold, elemental, extraplaner,incorporeal) · Cold Template o Incorporeal o Fire weakness · Immune to cold, electricity, and Sonic · Cold aura: 10 feet · Storm Aura (Su): 100 feet o Constant wind/storm cloud that the bird isimmune to o Throws lightning bolts out at random viabletargets. Round 1 Cerelionaused her new training (19 th level feat: Barroom Brawler) to connectto Alaina’s magical power (Caster’s Champion) which increase the destructivepower of her Chakrum (+5 damage). Shethen took aim and through her weapon again. With similar results, this time sheaimed for the second bird, hit it, but the bounce missed the second. Another bolt of random Lightning came out ofthe sky and struck Xavian, but again Alaina’s spell protected him from theelectricity. The first bird then turnedand to where it lined up Renon and Alaina, the bird then seem to turn into acloud of snow as it rushed over the two. Both swung their weapons and easily hit snow pieces of the bird’s bodydoing some damage. But its snow body frozethem to the core but they resisted the freezing effect, suffering from frostbite as they did (14d6 cold) but Renon’s Teifling resistances help him a littlewhile Alaina’s magic protected her completely. Next the second bird swooped in behind Cereliona and hit her with itstalon as it swooped by. Cereliona took a swing at it as it came out it her,which landed but this kept her from moving out of the way. The talon connected and flung Cereliona 10feet off the cliff and into open air. Asshe fell Cereliona turned and landed on her feet lessening the impact(Acrobatics), but it still hurt and she ended up on the ground (prone). The other two birds flew by and shot bolts ofelectric cold at Alaina and Cereliona. Cereliona had the cliff wall as some cover, so she was able to dodge it,but Alaina was not as lucky. Howevermost of the force of the bolt was stopped by her spells (protection from cold)and her immunity to electricity, meaning the sonic force of the bolt (sonicdamage) was the only thing that got through. After being hit, Alaina looked up and saw 2 snow bird that were closeenough together, so she sent her powerful fireball at them. It was “super effective” but the birds weretough and incorporeal so they survived. Then acting quickly (quicken spell),Alaina casted empowered fireball on both birds. One of the bird rolled in midair avoiding some of the fire (save) butthe other did not which caused it to be consumed by the fire. Pazuzu’s Revenge Thesnow of the bird quickly turned into black ash then the ash too the shape of a largeRune( ) that Sais, Alaina, and Cereliona all seen before. They all knew this meant Pazuzu was effectingthe world. As if to punctuate the group’s thoughts, Pazuzu’s voice bellowedfrom the smoke. “Alaina you have crossedme and that can never be forgiven or forgotten. You are and always will be mine. I will always have a connection with you because of the piece of yoursoul you gave me when you willing chose to become my follower. The fact that you betrayed me, turned yourback on me, ran and hide yourself; does not return this piece to you nor doesit remove your debt to me. No matter howwell you hide yourself from me, even on other planes, I can still reachyou. Know that whenever my children findyou, no matter what country or plane of existence you are on, I can and will dothis. ” Everyone then heard a loud finger snap noise as powerful spell burst onAlaina. All of her magic was unwound ortemporary disabled (Mage’s disjunction cast on Alaina via Pazuzu). Pazuzu then continued in a voice that onlyAlaina could here, “The gods are not allowed to interfere at a like this pointso close to the fulfillment of a destiny. So this will cost me, but never forget I will be b…” The last word was cut off in mid speech, asif the magic of the spell had been ended. Shocked and awed by the power of the god, the group had no time toreact, they had a fight to win. Saisthen moved in on the bird, dodging a slash from the bird’s ice talon as hedid. Once Sais was close enough hestabbed at the bird with all he had (Vital strike). Landing and dealing some damage. Renon then took flight and charged toward thebird Cereliona had designated. The birdslong and large legs, slashed it talons at Renon as he approached (AOP) but thehard backed snow of its body, bounced of the Tiefling’s armor. After he closed the distance, Renon destroyedthe birds snow body with powerful slash of is Starknife. He then quickly used a fervor to healhimself. Xavian left his cover and movedup to help Alaina, but took all he had to reach her. Monsters · 2 Gargantuan Outsider (Cold, elemental, extraplaner, incorporeal) [Dead] Round 2 Usingthe magic of Renon’s spell (Blessing of Fervor), Cereliona quickly got up fromthe ground. Then she tried to move northto get a little better cover, but the climb was tricky. She slipped but did not fall so she ended up stayingstill. Giving up on that, Cereliona tookaim and through her chakrum at the bird that had shot a bolt at her. The weapon hit and damaged the creature butits incorporeal nature minimized the force of the weapon. A third bolt shot out of the sky and struckXavian a third time. This used up thelast of Alaina’s spell’s protection, plus sum bled over, causing the dwarf totake minor damage. Next the first bird lined up and flew through Renon andSais. Like last time, Renon was onlyfrost bite by the magic, but Sais was not so lucky. He was turned into a solid block of ice. The other bird lined up on Alaina and Xavian. As it flew at them, Alaina casted heremergency force sphere (immediate action) which protected her from the spell,but Xavian had not such defense and while he resisted the magic, he stillsuffered the frost bite. Inside herbubble, Alaina casted Greater invisibility. Sais stayed a statue of ice, floating on a magic carpet 10 feet from thecliff edge and about 60 feet above the ground below. Renon charged up on the northern bird,landing a powerful (vital) blow with his star knife as he avoided the bird’sbeak (AOP). Xavian then moved to about 5foot shy of the cliff edge where he could get Renon in range of hischannel. Alaina and Sais were too butshe was behind her bubble and he was a block of ice. Cereliona was too far away, 50 feet down atthe bottom. Round 3 However,from her location at the bottom of the cliff, Cereliona was directly under oneof the birds so she juggled her Chakrum up and down off the bird’s stomach, drawingblood with 2 of her 4 attempts. For yeta 4 time, a bolt of lightning randomly struck Xavian again (1/5, 1/5, 1/5, 1/4= .02% chance of 4 strikes in a row). This time Xavian managed to duck so he avoid the worst of it(Saved). A 3 rd bird lined upon two of the group. This time it wasRenon and Xavian. As if rushed over,Renon got a hit it, but Xavian was turned to ice just like Sais. The 4 th bird, moved north and shota bolt at Cereliona who was still protected from the electricity of it so wasonly froze and shaken (sonic damage) by it. Both bird were now taking full advantage of the speed to stay as farfrom the group as possible. Alaina thendimensional doored to appear in the air next to Sais. Renon then used a swift action to healhimself before he flew south to reach a different bird, not with is weapon butwith his spell. A pillar of flame eruptaround the bird doing holy and fire damage which was ‘effective’. Xavian, like Sais was now an ice statue. Round 4 Luckilyboth bird where close enough, so Cereliona through her chakrum and finallysucceeded with her bounce hit. Veryminor-ly damaging the both birds and designating them too. This time, no bolt fell from the sky, buteach bird did a fly over and shot a bolt, one at Renon and one a Cereliona. Both hit their targets but thanking Alaina’sprotection spells still tooks some of the damage (1/3 of attack Electrical). However, as the birds moved, Renon noticedthe shadow of some large creature moving up at the top of the hill but noglimpse of the creature itself. [Start of GM notes] Renonwas the 6 Spiders of Leng, who are at the top of this pass (at 25,500, just shyof the death zone) watching the groups Fight. [End of GM notes] Alainathen casted Magnification mansion, with a portal right next to Sais. Renon then used a Fervor to quickly cast aHeal spell. Thanking Desna for thehealing, he did a flying charge at a nearby bird, reaching it and landing agood hit on the soft snow body. Xavianand Sais stayed frozen. Round 5 Thanksto the birds attacking Renon, they were still close enough for Cereliona tobounce hit them one more time. Her slump had been broken because once again,she landed the main and the bounce hit. Theranger, then again, tried to move north for more cover, but she slipped yetagain (Failed skill by less than 5). Abolt then shot randomly out of the sky and struck Alaina, doing no damage toher. Both birds then shot bolts beforethey separated with one going north and the other south. Alaina then pushed Sais into her mansion,before she flew over to Xavian. After that,Renon charged the northern bird, because it looked weaker and because he hoppedto get a better look at whatever has just caused that shadow. He did not get abetter look, but he did land a good blow against this bird. TheLast thing that happened Cerelionawas throwing her chakrum at the birds 50 feet down from the group, stuck at thebase of the cliff. Renon was north ofthe group flying 50 feet up, fighting a frozen thunderbird and trying to seewhat creature is at the top of this pass. Alaina, who thanks to the demon god Pazuzu has no magical protectionright now, had stored the Ice statue of Sais in her magic ‘pimp pad’ beforereached the Ice statue formally known as Xavian, at its location about 5 feetfrom the cliff edge, presumably to do the same with him/it. While a Frost bird to the north and frostbird to the north are both turning and getting ready to come back for anotherrun at them, in round 6. GMFavorite moment Beingthere when a pissed off, untouched, raging Jotunblood Taiga giant ran through aPrismatic wall and fails every save. Idon’t think I have ever seen a spell so effective. On top of that it was Jacob’s [Sais] firsttime as a player and character seeing a true Prismatic wall work in all itsglory. Experience EachPlayer received 15,860 experience points (Total: 1,789,990 [19th level) for Monsters[Birds only, already got Giant Exp] and Role-playing.
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Session 115 (01/19/2021) Day 141[Continued] (Starday the 8th of Calistril, Saturday 02/08/2048) Weather (Applied to all outside events) · Temperature: -20 o anunprotected character must make a Fortitude save once every 10 minutes (DC 15,+1 per previous check), taking 1d6 points of nonlethal damage on each failedsave. Characters wearing a cold weather outfit only need check once per hourfor cold and exposure damage. o Acharacter who takes any nonlethal damage from cold or exposure is beset byfrostbite or hypothermia (treat her as fatigued). These penalties end when thecharacter recovers the nonlethal damage she took from the cold and exposure. · Wind (Strong/30-50): -4 perception and Rangedattacks · Altitude of 24,100 feet o Altitudefatigue: Non-acclimated creatures make Fortitude save each hour (DC 15, +1 perprevious check) or be fatigued. § Thefatigue ends when the character descends to an altitude with more air. o Altitudesickness: All, even Acclimated, creatures make a Fortitude save (DC 15, +1 perprevious check) each 6-hour period or take 1 point of damage to all abilityscores. § Creaturesacclimated gain +4 competence bonus Thunder birds Environmental hazard · Steep Mountain grade(45 degree incline): climbCheck DC 15 Round 6 Cereliona stopped to draw one of the flaming long swordsshe acquired from the Halls of Wrath, then she casted protection from cold onherself. Next a bolt of light struckfrom the clouds, randomly striking at the ranger, but unlike Xavian she hadtrained to avoid thinks just like this (Evasion) so was easily able to avoidit. Next the southern bird, flew to theeast and up the mountain, screeching a bolt of magical energy at Cereliona asit did. The bolt struck but thanks toher new cold protection and Alaina’s electrical protection, only the shock ofit (Sonic) hurt her. Next the northernbird flew south and east away from Renon, but the Tiefling got in a good hit asthe bird left (AOP). The bird endedabout 60 feet from its fellow, where is screeched and fired a bolt aRenon. As the bolt struck, Alaina’sspells protected him from the electricity of it but the cold and the blast ofit (sonic); frozen and battered him. Alaina then used Blood money and Limitedwish to create a Levitate effect on Xavian. Alaina then used her elemental flight to push the now ‘weight less’Xavian into the portal of her mansion that was 50 feet of the cliff edge andabout 60 feet up in the air. Rather thanstopping, Alaina followed the ice statue into her mansion. The ice statue that was Sais stood andwatched. Renon then moved to a locationright between Zheda on the cliff edge and Cereliona on the cliff floor. Therehe activated his aura of protection, yelling to the other two to stay closebecause they were both at the edge of his range. Zheda then watched as the others fought andfor now, only readied an attack if the birds came by. Xavian like Sais, continued to be a block ofice. Round 7 Cereliona then used the teleportation powers of the swordin her hand, to teleport right next to and just a little above the portal. Then once she appeared, she used her momentumas well as her body weight to maneuver into the portal and the safety of Alaina’smansion. Back outside, Renon’s aura hadonly been up for about 2 seconds when a bolt of lightning fell from the sky andstruck Renon. The power of the bolt,consumed the last of Alaina’s protection but thanks to the Aura of protectionhe was now giving off, the last of the damage was resisted (0 to HP). Next the northern bird, shot a bolt oflightning at Zheda as if flew high overhead, but the monk easily dodgedit. After that the southern one, headed NorthWest, firing a bolt at Renon as it did. Thebolt hit Renon but thanks to Desna’s protection, he took no damage from thehit. Inside the mansion, Alaina usedlimited Wish and blood money to cast Break enchantment on Xavian; freeing himfrom the Ice and restoring him to flesh. Sais however was still a statue. Renon next looked up at Zheda, waiting for her to enter the portal. Zheda saw this and yelled to him, “Youfirst”. Renon yelled back, “I am thetank, you first!” Zheda refused,yelling, “No time, you first.” Renonstop arguing looked for the birds. Easily finding one to his north, Renon casted a Flame strike which was“Super Effective” even against the incorporeal creature. Then with that blast of fire his partinggift, Renon flew into Alaina’s portal. After that used her own natural ability tojump through dimensions in order to reach and enter the portal. Healing andSafety? As soon as Zheda entered, Alaina locked up the portalsealing all in and all out. Xavian thankAlaina for freeing him before he moved over and went to work casting Breakenchantment via the power of Irori (normal casting time: 1 minute). While Xavian did this, everyone gathered inthe main room, put away unneeded items, like the flaming sword and waited forSais to be freed. Once the minute passedand Sais was free, Xavian immediately channeled 3 times; fully healingeveryone. Renon then asked, “What now,do we go back out or do we hide in here? Also, you should all know that I saw the shadow of the some hugecreature or creatures at the top.” Renonthen explained that it had been in the middle of the fight, so everyone wonderwhat had made the shadow why it had not got involved, one way or theother. Alaina now finally got a word inand told everyone that they were not really safe here. “Yes no one else can getin, but this place can be dispel which will dump all of us out, 50 feet up inthe air.” Everyone then realized thatafter Xavian’s spell, healing, and talking they had already been in the mansionfor about 4 minutes so Zheda commented, “In my experience, when big and dangermonsters want you dead, they don’t tend to wait.” Renon then asked how hard it was to dispelAlaina’s mansion, but she informed him it was no more difficult than any otherbasic spell. The group then realized,good or bad, they were going to have to go out and face the birds and possiblythe big monsters because they were not really safe here. So Sais asked Alaina, “You defenseless?” Alaina’s pride clearly showed as sheanswered, “Not me, never me. I might beless effective though so I will hang in the back.” Everyone agreed with that idea. Readying to do battle, Cereliona called outBarkenstien and got him so they could use his flying saddle if needed. Sais put a holy weapon balm on his weaponjust in case. No one else had anythingelse, so Sais went invisible and offered to scout. No one argued so Alaina ‘unlocked’ theportal. Using his flying carpet, Saisexited the mansion. While he wasoutside, the group discussed items, and when Renon pointed out that he wasgoing to need a life bubble spell soon because he would lose his air when heput on the Sihedron medallion. Sopreemptively, Xavian casted Life bubble on him now. Scouting Outside,Sais found that instead of open air, there was a carpet of smooth, flat, andnearly holeless blanket of what looked to be sticky webbing. The sheet, stretched across the open air ofthe cliff, using several outcropping to support it. The generally flat surface, looked as thoughit would be very easy for anyone to walk across. However, on this sheet of webbing, spreadaround and encircling the portal were 6 huge spiders. These immense purple spiders had leg spans ofnearly forty feet and hideously bloated bodies, yet they all moved with fluidgrace. The birds were nowhere in sightand the storm so strong and full of lightning just minutes agoe was gone aswell. Not knowing what these spiderswere, Sais re-entered Alaina’s mansion. Assoon as he returned, Sais told everyone what he saw. From the description, Alaina identified themas Leng spiders. Intelligent magicalbeast with a variety of spell like abilities, as well as webbing that they canfabricate things out of. The name rang abell with Cereliona so she added that she remembered ‘Leng’ as the dimension ofmadness that the ice nymph Svevenka had told them that this area had a strongconnect that realm which is what made all of the strangeness of this area andcity possible. Zheda then asked, “Then whydid they lay down a floor as a trap, instead of covering the portal?” Renon then added questioningly, “maybe it isa long term trap.” But then Cerelionaadded, “And they are not invisible.” With Sais right behind her saying “Andthey have not dispel the mansion yet because arcane sight they have clearlyfound it.” Cereliona then spoke up andsaid, “We can either go out swinging if we think it is a trap, or we can go outwith weapon’s sheath, hoping for peace. Either way, I feel we need to get moving.” Sais then offered to go out to negotiate and‘read the minds’ (skill unlock: Sense motive) of the spiders. But Zheda jumped in and warned him, “I wouldnot recommend looking in the minds of creatures from the realm ofinsanity.” “Good Point, drinking buddy”,Sais thanked her. It was then quicklyagreed that they would teleport to a spot higher up on the cliff, make noaggressive actions, and see what the spiders did. Before they left, Renon casted “Eagle’sspender” on Alaina to help mitigate the temporary loss of her magic items. With that done, Alaina casted her spell andthe disappeared. Leng Spiders · Huge magical beast (extraplanar) · Immunity: Cold, Confusion/Insanity effects,poison, sonic · SR · SLA: Arcane sight, freedom of movement, tongues,Dispel magic, invisibility, and Air constant or at will, Fabricate with websonly plus more. · Poison · Fast healing The Spiders of Leng The group reappeared, right on target, overlooking thespiders. As the group appeared, all sixof the spiders turned and looked up at them, clearly noticing the groups’magical appearance; but not put off by it at all. Renon looked down and said, “Parley?” whileeveryone else tried to look none threatening. Looking down at the mastodon-sized spiders they quickly noticed that eachof them ws bearing an odd number of legs;seven or nine or 11, but never eightor even an even number which left them off balance. Their eyes as well were odd numbered, butalways a different number than the number of legs. In fact, nothing about these creatures weresymmetrical, not even the purple pattern on their bodies. After a few seconds, one of the spiders,separated from the group and began to air walk up to the group. It stopped about 40 feet from the group,still floating over empty air. Then clearlyusing magic, it spoke with its spider mandibles to say, “Strange even ones, wewatch climb and watch you fight? Why you come?” Alaina answered “Karzoug.” Thisseemed to cause the spider to laugh, at least everyone thought it was alaugh. It sounded like a smokers coughcombined with the sound of twelve simultaneous sword fights. It then spoke via magic again, “Our enemies,those from Leng who play at coping your vexingly symmetrical appearances, havereturned to this world to honor an ancient alliance with the resurging lord.This your Karzoug.” Alaina then asked,“Allies?” The spider answered, “Food,you go. We wait. You slay resurgent lord, we watch.” Alaina then asked, “But aren’t you alliedwith anyone in Karzoug’s spire”, pointing to their destination as she did. This clearly angered and upset the spiderbecause it started to stamp its many feet, its eyes turned red and fixated onAlaina. “We are not allied with any lord. All symmetrical ones are enemies.” Seeing where this was going, Renon stepped inand played peace keeper, “We agree. Wewill slay Karzoug, you will stay.” (Diplomacy: 45). The calmed the spider enough that it took itseyes of Alaina, and backed 10 feet more; giving them a sign the conversationwas over. However, its eyes continued toglow red and at least one or two of its 9 eyes stayed on Alaina. Zheda then startedto move forward saying to the group, “I want to see if they know anymore.” But Renon stopped her by saying,“Best if we don’t push our luck now.” And overall the group agreed so she stopped. The group then carefully backed away from thespider, and once they were another 50 feet away, it moved to rejoin itkind. After about 500 feet, the spiderswere lost behind the stones. As thedistance increase, Renon asked the group, “Do those spiders not like a specificsymmetrical person, group, or everyone that is?” Cereliona answered, “They talked about aspecific group, but it may be all, including us.” Renon and Alaina then remember that theSpiders of Leng have a known enemy, the ‘Denizen of Leng’. They told the group all there was to knowabout these weird and strange creatures. Expecting to face these creatureseveryone listen carefully. Denizen of Leng · Medium outsider (chaotic, evil, extraplanar) · no breath, unusual anatomy (50% immune tosneak/critical/precise); · Immune poison; · Resist cold 30, electricity 30; · SR · SLA o Constant—tongues o 3/day—detectthoughts, hypnotic pattern, levitate, minor image o 1/day—locateobject, plane shift (Self only) · Planar Fast healing · Dexterity Draining bite Top of the Mountain Weather (Applied to all outside events) · Temperature: -27 o anunprotected character must make a Fortitude save once every 10 minutes (DC 15,+1 per previous check), taking 1d6 points of nonlethal damage on each failedsave. Characters wearing a cold weather outfit only need check once per hourfor cold and exposure damage. o Acharacter who takes any nonlethal damage from cold or exposure is beset byfrostbite or hypothermia (treat her as fatigued). These penalties end when thecharacter recovers the nonlethal damage she took from the cold and exposure. · Wind (Strong/30-50): -4 perception and Rangedattacks · Altitude of 26,001 feet o DeadZone: each 10-minute period a character spends in the death zone, he mustsucceed at a fortitude save (dc 15, +1 per previous check) or take 1 point ofdamage to all ability scores. If fail 3 consecutive saves, starts to suffocateuntil removed from Dead zone effects. The Dead Zone After about another 2000 feet of climbing, the groupnoticed a difference in the Air. Whilethey all had magical protection or air supplies so it do not effect them, they hadcrossed over into the dead zone of the mountain. Cereliona knew what this was so told theothers, that at this point there was not enough breathable air (oxygen) to sustainlife and that it also causes extreme cold. Everyone was thankful for the magic they had giving them warmth and airas they continued to fly up the mountain. The OccludingField Weather (Applied to all outside events) · Wind (Strong/30-50): -4 perception and Rangedattacks · Altitude of 26,800 feet After, climbing 800 feet into the dead zone, the groupdiscovered a new problem. At first itseemed like they were getting heavier. The higher they went, the worst it got. Moving even as little as 5 feet, seemed added as much as 100s lbs ofpounds to their weight. It was as if thehigher they got, the stronger gravity pulled them down. 15 feet into this field as the farthestanyone made it. Not liking the weight,the group moved out of the field so they could gear up. Expecting this to be the field they had beenwarned about, the group geared up. Sais,Zheda, and Xavian put on their rings, while Alaina, Renon, and Cereliona put onamulets with the ranger putting the last one around Barkenstien neck like acollar. After a few quick test, thegroup did confirm that both items allowed them to bypass the field. At this point, Alaina asked everyone if theycould rest, which after being clear it was outside the field, the groupagreed. So everyone took of their items againand discussed their options. Alainaexplained that because of what Pazuzu had done to her, she would need to restfor the night to get most of her magic back; but she would not get all of it untilshe rested for a full second night. Notwanting to go enter Karzoug’s spire with anything except total preparation, thegroup agreed to rest. Alaina offered tocall the door to her mansion, and after some help from Cereliona, she found asmall cave to cast the spell in. Thenonce everyone was in the cave, Renon used a stone shape spell to conceal theentrance to this small cave.
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Day 141[Continued] (Starday the 8th of Calistril, Saturday 02/08/2048) – evening of Day142 (Sunday the 9th of Calistril, Sunday 02/09/2048) Restingin the Mansion Preparations and Destiny Thegroup spent the next day and a half resting and preparing for the battlesahead. Alaina casted and made permanent6 of her spells again. Cereliona usedher Sheyln paints to create more valuable incense for her spells. Sais even took a shot of his Cayden mug,hoping to get a vision. However, upon during the swallowing the shot ofwhiskey, nothing happen. This surprisedand worried Sais. However, Alaina spokeup and said, “Right before Pazuzu left, he told me that it is not allowed tointerfere this close to Destiny. Thatmight be your problem.” This worried andupset the group as well as Sais. Knowingthat the gods had been looking out for them was a safety blanket that they nowknew they did not have anymore. In orderto deal with this loss, Zheda offered one last drinking competition. Permanentspells · (Alaina): See the Invisible · (Alaina): Arcane Sight · (Alaina): Dark vison · (Alaina): Read Magic · (Alaina): Tongues · (Alaina): Comprehend languages One more night of Drinks Sincethis was Zheda’s party, she pulled out the drinks. For herself, she took Baiju, but for everyoneelse, she had several large bottles of 200 year old, low mountain whiskey. Unlike last time, there was enough variancein the constitutions of the group that everyone got 2 free shot down. 3 rd shot ButSais, Cereliona, and Xavian; started to feel it on the third shot (savesstart). In fact, this shot already pushed Sais into the Tipsy stage 4 th shot Everyonestarted to feel the alcohol on this drink (all making saves), and Alaina aswell as Xavian both became Tipsy as well. 5 th shot Asthey all took their shots, Alaina came up with a smile on her face as thealcohol moved her to Drunk . 6 th shot Zhedafinally felt the power of her Baiju as it moved her to Tipsy . Renon Really felt the power of the Whiskey asit hit him hard (natural 1), taking him all the way to Drunk . The small Alaina did not have the body weightfor this completion so as she finished this drink, everyone saw it hit her ( Wasted )and she tried to hold it together but it was too much and down she went (Passedout), flat on her back on the floor. Sofor fun, Cereliona pulled out her paints and painted a copy of Renon’s face onAlaina’s face. And because of how hardthe Alcohol had just hit the warpriest, when he was in the middle of laughingat it, Renon got confused for a moment thought he was looking into a 3-D mirrorwhich caused more laughs than the original painting. 7 th shot Movingon to the next drink, this time Sais moved to Drunk , while Renon muchlike Alaina took his shot, felt it ( Wasted ), tried to fight it, andfailed. He passed out, face down on thetable. And since his hands were flat on the table with his fingers visible,Cereliona painted his nails with a variety of stars. 8 th shot Followingsuit with the 2 before him, after becoming Drunk last shot, after thisshot Sais felt it ( Wasted ). Andhe tried with all he had to stay awake, getting so close (missed DC by 1), butZheda’s whiskey was too much and Sais passed out. Xavain’s drink pushed him to Drunk . 9 th shot Thisshot everyone held their own which meant Xavian broke the Drunk pattern,which made him yell out with triumph. 10 th shot Againeveryone held their own. Zheda was Tipsy ,Xavian was Drunk , and surprisingly; Cereliona was still Sober . 11 th shot Withthis Shot, Xavian felt the darkness grab for him ( Wasted ). His pride as a dwarf was strong but it wasnot enough to fight it off causing him to pass out. Xavian was taken to bed, a few (lot) of bookswere placed by his bed side by the Tipsy Zheda, and Cereliona even set afew glass of water on his bed side table. They then left him, safe and secure. 12 th shot Returningto their drinking, they both quickly slammed a shot which went straight toZheda’s head ( Drunk ), but Cereliona’s liver was running at full steam soshe was fine. 13 th shot Theyeach took another shot, with Zheda, much like Xavian, fighting the alcohol onher after drunk shot. Cereliona stilldid not feel the alcohol. In fact, ittook Zheda minute to get the next shot up so Cereliona stopped and scratchedBarkenstien behind the ear while she wait. 14 th shot OnceZheda had the shot ready, the ranger returned to the table and standing, thetwo took the last shot. Zheda slammed itback, and felt the booze hit her brain ( Wasted ). She had enough of her mind left, to lookforward at Cereliona, smile, and then fall face forward on the floor. Landing with a thud. Cereliona still did notfeel the whiskey. No a little annoyedthat she drank all that and got nothing out of it. She rolled Zheda over, before painting aCayden Holy mug, over her entire face. 15 th shot and bed Afterthat the ranger, returned to the table. Shepoured a shot of Baijiu and held it there as she said to herself, “So this iswhat happens when Cayden stops looking after his followers.” Then she slammed theshot which burned. As the alcoholsettled in her stomach, she felt it hit her ( Tipsy ). Now feeling good, the ranger took her bestfriend (Barkenstien) and found a king sized bed to sleep in. Rest of the time Thenext day and evening, the group spent reading about the monsters they mightface, practicing combat skills and spells, praying to goods, reading gear, aswell as recovering from a hangover. Onthe evening of the last day, the group went to bed earlier so that they couldget up as early as possible (12:01 am). However, Renon made sure to get up at 11:55 pm,so he could go and out to use a stone shape spell to open back up the caveright before his goddess blessed him with magic again. This way, everyone started the day, fullyprepared. Day 142 (Moonday the 10th of Calistril, Monday02/10/2048) Reachingthe top of the Mountain Monday Morning Everyonegot up at 12:01 am and started their morning routines. Today was a quiet and somber morning,everyone thinking about how this might be their last morning in thisworld. However as they headed out, Zhedahad a thought so she said, “Guys, we are also at the end of this and I feelthat Karzoug is going to have a big door. When we find it, do you mind if I kick it in (Skovald it) for BigBro?” Xavian quickly explained Skovald’sViking battle tactics to Alaina and Renon and once they understood everyonenodded their approval. After thateveryone exited the mansion, one by one, with Alaina being the last oneout. Then the caster ended her spellbefore everyone exited the cave. The Occluding Field, Amulets, and Mindblank Assoon as the group, exited the cave, they all put their anti-field items onbecause they were only feet away from the field edge. Then everyone headed up the mountain. However, they immediately ran into aproblem. Aliana was not immune to thefield’s effects. So the group stop andgathered back up. It was first confirmedthat Alaina was using the same Amulet as yesterday so the only thing that wasdifferent was all the spells and full magical effect of Alaina’s items so thathad to be the problem. Alaina then carefully examined the amulet in the magicalworld and she could see some sort of magical friction going on between theamulet and the field but the field was clearly winning. After going over all her spells and all heritems, it was guess that the Amulets somehow interfered with the field and ifthe amulet was not allowed to fully function (cannot use Scrying with Mindblank active), it could not fully interfere with the field. However the rings, appeared to have beenspecifically designed to allow one to enter and leave the field so it no had sosuch limitation. So either Alaina’s mindblank spell would have to go or she would have to take off either her ring ofWizardry III or her ring of Substance. Alaina would not accept this so she tried a limited wish to give herselffreedom of movement but even it did not work. The power of this field was like it did not impeded movement, butinstead increased gravity. As she was fuming about this, Renon spoke up andsaid, “You know you really should not waste limited wishes on spells that I andXavian have prepared.” Alaina thensnapped back, “How am I supposed to know that.” Renon fired back as soon as Alaina finished her last syllable, “YOUASK!” This seem to cowl Alaina intocalming down. So after thinking hard aboutit , Alaina looked at her Ring of Substance. Even though she had temporary lost its magic of the last day because ofPazuzu’s magic and the small time it was taken when they were imprisoned inMagnimar, she had not voluntarily took this ring off since she purchased itfrom Morgamer Pug, in the Sand Point Fireday Market, 136 days ago (Purchasedand put on Day 6). Now she reached downand took it off. Then in order forAlaina to have a ring, Xavian took his off, saying, “Heroes are moreimportant.” He then gave it to Alaina,who placed Karzoug’s Sihedron Ring on her finger. Ironically, Alaina was now a little betterprotected from attacks (+3 protection bonus to AC) than she was before. Xavian then took off and stored his Talismanof last breath, as he put on Alaina’s Sihedron Medallion and his old ring ofprotection. The group thanked him andthe dwarf just smiled as way of saying ‘Your welcome’. After that the group was ready to take tothe air. Zheda on Sais’s flying carpetwith him, Xavian on his broom, Renon using his butterfly wings, Cerelionariding Barkenstien with his flying saddle, and Alaina flying next to them usingher own elemental flight. TheSpires of Xin-Shalast Weather(Applied to all outside events) · Temperature: -27 o an unprotected character must make a Fortitudesave once every 10 minutes (DC 15, +1 per previous check), taking 1d6 points ofnonlethal damage on each failed save. Characters wearing a cold weather outfitonly need check once per hour for cold and exposure damage. o A character who takes any nonlethal damage fromcold or exposure is beset by frostbite or hypothermia (treat her as fatigued).These penalties end when the character recovers the nonlethal damage she tookfrom the cold and exposure. · Wind (Strong/30-50): -4 perception and Rangedattacks · Altitude of 28,500 feet o Dead Zone: each 10-minute period a characterspends in the death zone, he must succeed at a fortitude save (dc 15, +1 perprevious check) or take 1 point of damage to all ability scores. If fail 3consecutive saves, starts to suffocate until removed from Dead zone effects. Karzoug’s base Withno resistance the group flew the last 1,700 feet to reach the large front porchof Karzoug’s compound, a mere 3,065 feet from the peak of Mhar Massif (31,565 feet). Rather than going up the Golden road thegroup had approached from the east. Theyfound a 200 feet long ledge that ran along the base level of the compound. It narrow to 100 feet in some spots and allthe way out to 500 feet where it met the golden road. In addition, along the edge of the largerpatio in the mountain stone by the golden road were 5 cut stones of Alabasterthat rose from squat bases to pyramidal peaks 400 feet high. About 100 feet away on the group’s level was1,300 foot tall spire that an intricate facade with hundreds of arches andbalconies. Two identical spires were onanother flat cliff area, 100 feet up the cliff right next to them. All three were surrounded by a 100 foot wallthat snaked its way up and down the cliff wall to surround all 3 spires. In the center was a large hill that took upover 60% of the compound, rising 300 feet in total height. On top sat a massive ice-shrouded tower ofwhite granite. The 2,200-foot-tall tower tops outed respectfully just 565 feetbelow top of the carved face at the summit of the mountain’s peak. On the far end of the compound, after theGolden road, the ‘front porch’ of stone continued until it reached a triangularfortress comprised of three slender tower that each rose 800 feet and were allconnected by thick walls to create a deep pit of a courtyard in the center. At the top here, the group saw no motion, noanimals, not even bugs. If the group hadknown what bacteria was, they would have guess not even it lived here. Again still protected by magic, the groupcould not feel it but they could see signs of the freezing cold weather. Thin ice coated almost every surface, but thepowerful wind kept the snow from piling up anywhere for too long. Reaching the top Seeingnothing and no one, the group decided to fly directly up the side to of thehill, straight to the base of the main spire. As they moved they noticed a winding path that climbed from the 3 spirescompound to the east, all the way to a collection of buildings at the base andbehind the Runelord’s citadel that they had not seen before now. But still the group saw nothing and no onetried to stop them. When they got to thebase of the compound, rather than going around the door they looked at thespire in front of them. All the way up,only about 100 feet from the top, Cereliona notice a large hole in the side ofthe spire. Seeing this and taking whatthey had learned from the raid on Fort Rannick as well as the infiltration ofJorganfist, the group hope this might be a back door in. However, that also meant it could be trap tooso Zheda got off Sais’s magic carpet so he could have it all to himself. She then pulled out her Griffin statue andbefore she could say anything, it turned into a griffin for her to ride. Seeing she was ready, Sais led the way, witheveryone else following. Zheda then jumpedon her mount and let it take control as the mount followed the group. Reaching the top level Flying2,200 feet straight up next to a near cliff face of the tallest mountain in allof Varisia was a mind bogging and rare sight that group shared. However before too long, they reached thetop. About 50 feet from the top, alittle to the east from center, there was rough 10 foot diameter hole thatlooked like it had been the result of centuries of natural erosion or a uniquemagical effect. Either way, the groupcould not deny that there was in fact a hole directly into the top floor. Being careful, Sais went up to the hole byhimself, invisible. Looking inside hesaw a small L shaped room that he could only see a ‘hallway’ of. However looking through the 15 foot hole,into the 35 foot length of the room he could see someone standing in front ofthe door there. It was muscular, bald, and tall, humanoid creature with emeraldskin and two pairs of shining, white-feathered wings. It was holding a magical greatsword. The creature did not move or in any react asthough it had seen him. In fact, Saiswas not sure it was moving even to breath. After looking for a moment long, confirming that the room has a sectionto the left he could not see without entering so he returned to the group. After describing it the group, Renon andAliana identified it as a planetar angel. A good angelic outsider with cleric powers, many immunities andresistance, as well as spell resistance and powerful spell like abilities. However because it was a creature of good andholy magic, the group thought it might not be bad. Sais even commented, “The gods may not beable to help, but maybe they can send help.” Hoping that this might be good, but preparing in case it wasn’t, Saisagreed to go in first with a 10 foot lead. Renon asked to be the first to followbehind because of his divine connection. Alaina also joined him so she could help out magically. After that, Zheda rode her griffin, Cerelionarode Barkenstien, and Xavian rode his broom; all staying outside, watching tosee what happened. Sais had his 10 footlead, not that anyone could see through his invisibility to tell, with noreaction. However, as soon as the Angelsaw Alaina and Renon in the hole, it moved. Without really adjusting for the motion, the angel just leaned forwardand started to charge. As this happened,Sais saw what was down the other part of this room. To his left about 25 feet away was a secondangel, it was charging Renon as well. Angel,Planetar · Senses: darkvision 60 ft., detect evil, detectsnares and pits, low-light vision, true seeing · Regeneration (Evil weapon/effects) · Spellcasting of a 18 th level cleric · Many powerful spell like abilities: BladeBarrier · DR 10/evil; · Immune acid, cold, petrification; · Resist electricity and fire · SR Round 1 Seeingthe angel running forward, Cereliona through her charkum into the large hole,avoiding the group, hitting the angel and then catching the weapon as it camebounce back out. She did this 3 timeswith the 4 being a miss that magically returned the weapon to her hand. However, none of her hit, fully harmed theangel. Next the Angel in front of Sais,casted a Blade barrier spell directly under Renon and Alaina. Alaina was not prepared for this so wasseverally cut up by the blades, but Renon managed to avoid them. The second angel moved up and with a mightyswing, smashed its sword into Renon’s armor, but thankfully the metalheld. Then as if that noise had causedit, a portal opened up in front of Sais. Out of it rose a large Pit fiend. The devil looked in the direction of Sais and the rest of the group inand outside of the hole as it spoke, “I always repay my debts and today thisone will be settled.” It then turned andlanded one powerful slash with its claws which fully hurt the angel. TheLast thing that happened Thegroup had just entered the top floor of Karzoug’s spire to find it guarded by 2angels. As the angels attacked, the group’sold friend Avaxial, the Pit Fiend, returned to pay his debt. GMFavorite moment Avaxial’sreturn. It has been over 3 books sincethe group decided to save the life of a pit fiend and now it pays off. E xperience EachPlayer received 61,940 experience points (Total: 1,851,930 [19th level) forMonsters and Role-playing.
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Session116 (01/26/2021) Day 142 (Moonday the 10th of Calistril, Monday02/10/2048) Weather(Applied to all outside events) · Temperature: -27 o an unprotected character must make a Fortitudesave once every 10 minutes (DC 15, +1 per previous check), taking 1d6 points ofnonlethal damage on each failed save. Characters wearing a cold weather outfitonly need check once per hour for cold and exposure damage. o A character who takes any nonlethal damage fromcold or exposure is beset by frostbite or hypothermia (treat her as fatigued).These penalties end when the character recovers the nonlethal damage she tookfrom the cold and exposure. · Wind (Strong/30-50): -4 perception and Rangedattacks · Altitude of 31,000 feet o Dead Zone: each 10-minute period a character spendsin the death zone, he must succeed at a fortitude save (dc 15, +1 per previouscheck) or take 1 point of damage to all ability scores. If fail 3 consecutivesaves, starts to suffocate until removed from Dead zone effects. TheSpires of Xin-Shalast Round 1 (continued) Lookingat the wall of blades behind him, Renon casted Dispel magic and ended itseffect. Then trying to decide if he goin or stay out, he asked Alaina, “What now?” She answered loudly, “Step back, I got this.” So Renon did just that and stepped behindAlaina. Making sure his wings were out, becausehe was now very close to a very long fall. Hearing what Alaina said, Sais invisibly and quietly flew out of theroom on his carpet and got directly behind Alaina. Sais being one of the few people that figureout perfect stealth with the help of Alaina’s magic (Invisibility and MindBlank), Alaina had no idea he was there so to be safe she asked, “Sais you clear?” Sais could not resist, he leaned up andwhispered into Alaina’s ear, “Right here.” This made the sorceress jump a little, but the she smiled as she casedmage’s disjunction, filling the room with abjuration energy. As Alaina had guess, the magic binding thesegood Angels here to do the bidding of evil men, was destroyed by herdisjunction, which caused the angels to disappear. The Demon had not been summoned so wasunaffected by the magic. A Devil along for the ride Avaxial’sresponse was to turn to Alaina with an impressed look on his face as he said inInfernal, “Impressive, you have my respect and my time. Where to next?” Sais then asked Avaxial, “If you are offeringyour help, do you know anything about this place?” As Sais finished the question, Avaxial wasabout to answer, when he and he alone was hit by a wave of magical energy thatalmost put him down, but the devil stayed on his feet and rose back up saying,“Curse you Karzoug!” He then looked at Sais,“I know less about this place than you do, I did not even know that Karzoug hadthis effect against creatures in his realm.” Figuring it was not a good idea to question a pit fiend, Sais move tothe only door. The door itself was madeof the same dull grey stone as the rest of the room, but Sais noticed thatthere was gold around the outside edges and that the door had no handle, plusit was not latched anyway either. Withan accidently slight touch of his hand, the door open with no noise to revealthe room beyond. ThePinnacle of Avarice Weather(Applied to all outside events) · Dim Light: All creatures have concealment (20%)except w/darkvision, low light, or the ability to see in darkness. A creaturewithin an area of dim light can make a Stealth check to conceal itself. · Temperature: 4 F o Unprotected character: Fortitude(DC 15, +1/check)each hour, 1d6 nonlethal damage. The hallway and the Rune Thepassage here was 50 feet tall, 20 foot wide, and 80 foot long hallway thatturned right at the end and have a left turn right next to the now opendoor. The walls of this room was carvedin all manner of detailed murals depicting life in ancient Xin-Shalast and werevibrant and bright. The floor was ofhighly polished gold and onyx in a checkerboard pattern. The outside of the closet door had been,plated in gold and silver as well as studded with gemstones. Ancient everburning torches still lite thehalls and rooms at irregular intervals, providing some illumination throughoutthe area. These torches were themselvesmade of ivory and inlaid with rubies that glowed with a vibrant red light. Even the sconces in which the torches sit inwere made of silver with jade inlay. However, the cold permeated the place, keeping it at a chilly but notdeadly temperature (4 F). As the group looked out over enough wealth topurchase all of Sandpoint, the Avaxial spoke, “Beware the Sihedron rune on thefloor.” So taking the Devil’s advice,Sais started by going invisible as he headed out the door to the left. Thetunnel immediately turn left again and then right again, making a zig-zag toreach a longer hallway. As Sais wasleading the way, the group started to follow. The devil, with an evil smile on his face, touched each person on thehead as they passed him, turning everyone invisible. The group then, invisibly followed Sais, withAlaina and Xavian with their See the invisible, preventing accidents for thosethat could not see. As Renon headedleft, he moved farther north than anyone else, to hug the wall there. However, as he did something odd happened, hefelt a strong sense of antipathy toward the rune on the floor and the urge to plungehis Runeforge Starknife into the Rune’s magic. So Renon stopped and spoke tothe group, “I don’t know how or why, but I feel it is right to attack thatrune’s magic with my Starknife.” Hearingthis Alaina looked at the magic of the rune. The power of it radiated up from the floor, all the way to the ceiling. It had a very strong conjuration aura, plussome other magic Alaina did not know. Alaina then said, “The magic of it has something to do withsummoning. Not sure it if summonssomething or destroying it will summon something.” As this discussion was going on, both Saisand Cereliona (Aliana, Xavian, and Zheda did not have Runeforged Weapons); feltthe same urge as Renon now. It was adriving force, or even a push, just a feeling that it was a very good idea todo this. Feeling the same as Renon, Saisand Cereliona agreed with him and shared their feelings with the group. After a quick talk, everyone agreed to tryit. So Sais turned around, and made somenoise so everyone could hear him go by as he headed to look at the Rune again,saying out loud, “I am sure this is a trap but it still feels right.” Cereliona then spoke up and said, “Wait, Icould throw my chakrum from here and hit it.” Everyone liked the idea of the staying back so they let her try it. The ranger took aim and with one throw, hitthe magic field of the rune tile, for a split second the magic turned into asemi-transparent image of the man they all came to face, Karzoug. The group did not see much, but his facelooked to be in pain. Impressed at howwell that work, the group hurried to the end of the north hall, where Alainaconfirmed that it’s magic was now gone. So since they were there now, the group looked to see what was to theright at the end of the hall. It wasanother 20 foot wide hallway that ended in a human sized door. Continuing to explore here now, Sais went upto the door. As he did Avaxial walkedback up to Cereliona, and turned the Ranger invisible once more. At the door, Sais found another one of the nohand, no touch, and silent opening doors so with the groups’ permission, heopened it. The Adlo Doors Insidewas a 30 by 30 foot room that was identical to the hallway except for the vastdouble doors along the south wall, each door stood ten feet in width. The face of each black stone door was coveredwith tens of thousands of tiny runes carved in the eerie, spidery script, theyhad seen so many times in Ruin before. However, these runes seem to writhe andslither about when not under direct observation. Once Sais witness this, he quickly toldeveryone, “Don’t read it. It is atrap. It has the power to send you intoa magical maze where you have to fight an endless supply of phantomkillers.” The group looked away or atleast did not read it while Sais did his work. However the devil, stared at it; he was not reading it but he was takingit in. Once the door was unlock, Saisstopped before opening them and asked, “Everyone ready. This is a big door, something importantshould be behind it.” With that Xavian,moved back into the hallway and said he would cast Silence just before thegroup entered that way so he could act as a sound barrier, like he did underJorgunafist. The group agreed and themade ready. However at this point, thedemon was hit by another magical wave. It damaged the demon and he did not seem to be healing from it. Seeing this Renon asked, “I don’t like to seeanything suffer. Is there anything wecan do for the devil?” Alaina thenpulled out the groups’ spare medallion and handed it to the devil and said,“This may help with that.” The devilaccepted it, put it one, and said, “I will have to wait and see.” Now all ready and weapons drawn the groupturned back to the door as Sais opened it and let the group looked in. Anti-chamber Thefirst area of this room was small 30 x 20 cone shaped anti-chamber. South toward the larger room, it narroweddown to a 5 foot wide opening. Stayingtogether, the group slowly, invisibly, and silently the group moved around inthe anti-chamber in order to allow them the see all of the next room. The Leng Device Theplain stone walls of this long room were lined by a variety of tables, boxes,crates, and cylinders. Some were made ofstone, but others appeared to be composed of metal. Strange winding cables protruded from some toconnect to others. All of this clutterseemed to focus upon a large metal framework constructed at the southern end ofthe room, where strange currents of energy danced and shimmer within a strangering of stone. Now and then, thesecurrents coalesced into shapes; images startling for their familiarity and yettotally alien. The images revealed amassive city of towers and gigantic monuments set in a mountain valley at thefoot of a huge peak; Xin-Shalast, as it would appear from this high mountainvista. The city beyond the energycurtain was very different, however, in that its towers and buildings wereablaze with light both magical and mundane while the great central road andsurrounding streets teemed with tens of thousands of giants and humanoids ofall descriptions. The sounds and even thesmells of this strange metropolis wafted through the image; an image that was,perhaps, trying to be an open window. Manning this strange collection of metal and magic were 12 figures shroudedin tattered leather robes. Underneaththe clothing, these strange humanoid looked more alien and horrific the more theystudied their twitching visages. Aftergetting a lay of the room, the group back up to make sure they were not seenand quickly talked. Renon pointed outthat the 12 Iin there were definitely Denizen of Leng that had heard about fromthe spiders. That is all it took and thegroup decided to attack. A plan was madein about 6 secs: Alaina would go first, Cereliona would bounce hit all shecould and everyone else would use range or run in the do clean up. Avaxial decided to stay back and watch; andthe group decided not to argue that was not much help. The group then lined up and waited for Alainato start the party with her fire ball, because she knew Denizens of Leng wereresistant to electricity. Specialcombat Rules · Group initiative used for this battle o Renon rolled initiative. Surprise Round Alainamade a big deal of caster her powerful fire ball (Maximized), even though shewas invisible and no one could see her. It made her happy, but not as happy as when the fire ball hit, in aperfect explosion that killed 9 of the 12 creatures. Also the device on the flashed with lightwhile the image in the portal would shift from Xin-Shlast of the power andpeople to a view of it as it looks today. Then it emitted several strange high-pitched whine, over and over. The noise was loud which made the groupthankful, that Xavian had turned on the silence magic. Cereliona then took aim and threw, causing herchakrum to bounce around hitting the remaining 3 Denizens. Her first hit was so perfectly aimed (natural20) that it crushed in the monster’s skull killing as it bounced to hit andharm the other two. As the first monsterdied, the machine again flicked this time more violently as it released anotherloud whine. Sais then casted an AcidSplash, and beating the creature’s magic resistance, Sais managed to burn downto whatever the creature used for a heart, killing it instantly (SneakAttack). For the third time, the machineput on its lightning show as it let loose an even louder whine. Zheda then tried to jump dimensions, but asshe did it was like running into a brick wall a full speed and it hurt whichdazed the monk so she instead just dropped back into dragon style for now. Then Renon charged into the room and throughhis Starknife with all the power of Desna behind it. As the blade hit rolled upthe creature’s body, stabbing it four time. But this monster, survived the first attack. Monsters · 11 Denizens of Leng [Dead] Round 1 Cerelionathen moved up and through to hit the last monster. But again it survived the blow. However, Renon would not be swayed and jumpedup to throw his flaming starknife at it. As this weapon, landed the blade burned and finally ended themonster. Causing it as well as the 11others to disappear as outsiders do when they die. With the last denizen slain, the image in themetal device vanished altogether, transforming into a gut-churning vortex ofspinning lights and sheets of energy. The group quickly discussed looking over the area, but after the noisethis thing had made they were worried it would blow which would at the veryleast attract attention; it was decided that they should leave for now becauseif they needed to they could come back when it was safer. Back to the Hallway Thegroup all turned and left, running back into Xavian’s silence spell and joiningup with him, just as its duration ended. Xavian asked what happened and the group told him they destroyed somemagical machine. This cause Zheda to askout loud, “I wonder if I can teleport now.” And then she tried. Hitting thesame fall of force, and feeling the pain she winched as she said, “Nope, stillin effect. Wonder what that magic devicedid?” The group then all looked aroundfor a moment to see anyone knew, even looking at the demon, who did not haveanswers for them either. So in theinterest of not staying out in the open, the group decided to moveforward. Heading down the hallway, thegroup headed toward the store room they used as an entrance and followed thesmall zig zag of the clockwise hallway. As they moved the Devil went around and place invisibility on the fewgroup members that had become visible in the last fight. [Start of Private session Notes] Zheda’sdouble check As Avaxialused his magic, Zheda watch him to see if she could read anything about him andwhy, a devil would allow himself to do such low work? Zheda could not read his mind, but she couldclearly tell that he really did feel like he owed the group a debt for freeinghim and he wanted to clear up that in balance in his life; but also there wassomething else. Avaxial had his own planand goals but it did not seem like the devil would allow that to interfere withhis debt payment. This at least madesense to the monk as to what the devil was doing so she put into the back of hermind, not forgetting about it but not focusing on it either. [End of Private session Notes] Thegroup followed the hallway for about 30 feet were it has a side alcove that wasabout 30 feet wide, 20 feet deep, with a set of small double doors in themiddle. But Sais also saw another Runeon the floor so Sais called up Cereliona. The ranger took aim and became visible the moment she through herweapon. But just like last time, theweapon passed through the magic and through the power of the sin theycollected, destroyed it. For a few splitsecond flashes, the group saw Karzoug’s face in pain, before the magic fullyfaded. However as soon as it did, amagical alarm went off. It seemed to becoming from everywhere at once. Seeing nobetter options, the group all ran through the double doors and into the roombeyond easily and quietly opening (free action) opening the doors. Then once everyone, even the devil wasinside; Sais quietly closed them. Lamia-Kin Quarters Insidethe group found an exquisitely decorated chamber that contained thick carpetingon the floor, a flickering fireplace along the northern wall, and several largenests of fine furs and cushions about the room. Each of the rooms 4 nearly equal sized walls had a single door. Looking at the rugs, Cereliona commented thatin addition the precious metals and jewels of walls, the pets were all exotic animals,ranging from snow leopard to yeti. Alaina saw a short hair pin in one of the furs that was magic and sheeasily identified its aura as a periapt of proof against poison so she moved upand grabbed the magic item just in case they needed it. At this point, everyone heard noise comingfrom all 4 doors. So Cereliona hadBarkenstien watch the East door to him to attack the first think that came outas she readied to attack the first thing that opens the door. The devil then made Cereliona invisible as hemoved to side wall so he would be out of the way and could have a goodview. Sais got into his cloak anddagger stance, as he moved to the north east corner and watched the north door,ready to attack the first thing that came through that door. Zheda dropped into Dragon Style and then shemoved the south door, and listed from the direction of the hallway, ready toattack the first thing to come through the door. At this point the east door was opened by a creatureCereliona could see as a beautiful human woman with four arms from the waistup, but below was the body and tail of an immense snake. And she could see 5 more right behindher. Knowing what all these were, sheyelled, “Lamia Matriach Priestess” as she through her weapon (triggered). Cereliona became visible a moment before herweapon smashed into the face of her favorite enemy (Monster humanoids +4). The monster, then continued into the room,were Barkenstien it attacked from invisibility and raked with his claws. The wounded monster, then slashed back atCereliona but missed. After that, one ofits fellow lamia’s came up from behind and used a spell, to cure her of most ofthe damage she had just taken. Theremaining three, casted unholy blight, luckily (or unluckily depending on yourpoint of view) effected all of the group except for the devil. Every member of the group took some damagefrom the evil of these curses as well as Sickening Xavian and Alaina. Plus this evil was familiar to every one ofthe group members, they all knew that these monster channel the unholy powersof Lamashtu. Alaina then quickly droppeda (maximized) fireball down on the lamias in the room. This made her visible and killed 3 of the5. Alaina followed that up with aquickened fire ball and while it was weaker it was enough to take out the lasttwo of the snake tailed monsters. Renonthen casted Blessing of Fervor on the group, which for the moment even includedthe devil before Renon moved to the South west corner, so he could help outwith those doors as needed. At thispoint, Zheda heard something, big go running through the hallway on at least 4legs. But that is all it did, go runningby. At this point the west door open andout of it came a monstrous lump of flesh and mouths. This creature’s appearance was accompaniedby the sound of retching and wet, flapping flesh. A thing of corpulent terror,it drug its swollen bulk spastically; a body composed of a sack-like mass ofstitched flesh swollen and almost at bursting. The iron staples that held it togetherstrained as if ready to burst asunder. The giant creature’s maw was vast, witha huge, lolling tongue writhing between rows of broken teeth. Its head andtorso were a travesty of a humanoid atop a twisted leonine body that was littlemore than a pulpy mass of shattered limbs and sinew under its monstrously obeseupper body. It drug itself along the ground with two clawing forepaws; straininglimbs that seemingly struggle to free themselves from beneath the thing’shorrid girth. As the creature moved intothe room, Sais’s action was triggered allowing him to stab out frominvisibility with his short sword and a bomb. First a bomb landed in the monster’s eyes, blinded it, a split secondlatter Sais’s sword struck true. However, as he pulled out his weapon, the creature sprayed its acidyblood in Sais’s direction but he was able to dodge it. The creature then continued to move towardthe middle of the room undisturbed by the attacks. This allowed Sais to slash out again, as wellas Cereliona (AOP), both landed hits but both were also force to dodge acidblood not only from their own hits but from the others hit as well, as sacks ofthe monster flesh burst on impact. Themonster, then stopped, turned and attempted to eat Sais. The monster got a good slash with one ofteeth as it tried to swallow Sais. [Start of Combat notes] TheHungerer room Insidethe Hungerer room, the monsters both used their magical abilities of Mirrorimage before they both started to head to the door. [End of Combat notes] Thenthe north door open. Behind it, Sais sawa Vaguely humanoid shape, a gaunt fiend with the face of a hideous fish and abody of lanky limbs and writhing tendrils. It then slashed out with all it had on the now visible Sais. Thankfully it only landed one blow but it wasenough. While it did not kill Sais, hefelt it drain his life force (2 negative levels). Xavian used his gifts from Irori to remove hissickness as he moved to get closer to Alaina. Monsters · 6 Lamia Priestess [Female Lamia Cleric ofLamashtu 8](Dead) · Hungerer [Dead] Round 2 Stillinvisible, Zheda then moved to the monster, summoning her sin as she did(Wrath: Greater Vital Strike) and using that she hit and stunned the lumps offlesh that were a monster. As she did,Sais and Cereliona, as well as herself, all had to dodge the splash of acidyblood. Sais then jumped in(opportunist), and landed a powerful blow to the monster’s vital organs. This both skilled the creature and causedthat organ to burst, once again causing everyone avoid the acid. Cereliona saw that she could not help at thenorth door so she had Barkenstien sight up and ready to attack anything thatgot too close. However seeing her chance Cereliona yelled out what she knewabout these monsters, before she took aim and readied to attack the first thingthat entered the room. Alaina thenturned her attention to the Hungerers’ room. She first dropped one of her most powerful fireballs on the two monstersand easily overcame their magic resistance so severely burned them. Alaina followed that up with another fireball(quicken) which again beat their magic resistance and burned them, but notquite as bad this time. Renon looked north at the vaguely humanoid shape in thedoor way and instantly knew what it was, an Astradaemon so he called the powerfrom Desna to smite the monster. As thatbuilt, he walked across the room, letting his armor stop a blow from the Hungereras he moved. Once he reached the daemon,Renon swung down his start knife and landed a powerful divine blow and evenmanaged to hit through the illusionary displacement. The Devil leaned against the wall and watchedas the others fought. Sais saw this andsaid, “Thanks for the help.” Avaxialsaid, “You seem to have it under control” in response. Sais then tried to acrobatically roll throughthe Daemon’s reach but failed, however, he still dodge the swipe the monstertried on him. After that, Sais used hisring to go invisible again. Next one ofthe hungerers in the next room, entered. This allowed Cereliona to throw but as she let go of her weapon, she sawthat the monster had casted mirror image on itself so she was only able to hitone of the illusionary doubles. Saisthen jumped in, attacking as the creature went by (AOP) with an attempt toblind; but all he did was take out 2 mirror images. Barkenstien also got a chance but he also hita copy. Zheda who did not have issueswith mirror images, managed to land a good blow but as a result everyone wassprayed with its acidic blood. This didsome damage to Alaina and Renon. Now atthe center of the group and totally unfazed by the attack that just struck; themonster tried to eat Cereliona, the whole reason it came into the room. Andwith a powerful bite, it managed to slash up Cereliona with its teeth but likewith Sais it was not able to swallow her. Then if fellow from in the room, casted grease on the floor of the roomeveryone was in. No one fell, but itwould hamper their movements. The Astradeamon then attempted to shred Renon,but his armor and Desna’s protection were more than enough. Xavian did his best to stayed back and out ofthe way so he could watch the fight, memorizing it all. Hungerer · CE Huge monstrous humanoid · Resist Electricity and Fire · Immune: Acid and Poison · SR · Devastating Bite Astradaemon · Large outsider (daemon, evil, extraplanar) · Constant: True seeing, displacement, andDeathwatch · DR Good and Silver · Immune: Acid · Resistance: Cold and Electricity · Soul Siphon Round 3 Zhedanow tapped two sins at once (Wrath and Sloth) to hit with a power stunning fistto the monster head (Vital Strike). Thiscrushed in the fast sack this monster used as a skull, crushing its brain, andkilling it. Again everyone was sprayedwith acid blood which all but Alaina and Renon fully avoided (All saved, R& A 1/2 damage). Zheda then moved tothe West door, ready for when the last monster came in. Then seeing the last ‘Blobly’ through thedoorway she took aim and through her chakrum 4 time to hit and bounce back to herhand. She only truly hit once, the other3 hit mirror images. Alaina then used apolar ray on the Astra Demon, which damaged and slowed the monster (3 dexDrain). After that she turned anddropped a quicken fireball on the last hungerer, in its room. This fire consumed its flesh and ended itslife. This attack got a Golf clap fromthe Devil. Renon saw this and withanger, he turned and allowed all the power of Desna to flow through him intoone powerful hit, which cut the daemon in two. Then as the two halves fell, the daemon’s body disappear, to return toits own plane. This got a simple buttrue clap from the Devil as well. Monsters · Astra Demon [Dead] · 2 Hungerer [Dead] Healing and Treasure Thegroup quickly checked over the remaining bodies while Xavian channeled to healeveryone and casted a Greater Restoration to restore Sais to full health(Removed negative levels). Overall thegroup found 9 rings, one on each creature and not much else. Plus the furs on the floor had been ruined bythe monsters’ acidic blood and the grossness of its body. At first this upset Sais and Alaina as theydiscussed ways to repair them. But thenZheda interrupted and said, “With the time you are wasting on those, you couldjust collected the gold and onyx floor tiles. They are probably worth more anyway.” Realizing the big picture, the group moved back to the task athand. Sais quickly looked into the westdoor. Hungerers’ Den Itwas a foul-smelling abattoir of a room that was empty of furniture; it appearedthat the hungerers that lived there prefers to use the half-gnawed bodies ofprevious meals as bedding. Seeingnothing he wanted to investigate, Sais moved on to the East door. Priestess’s Cells Thedecor of this large room looked quite comfortable; thick carpeting covered thefloor, while delicate chandeliers hung from the ceiling. Plus several large nests of furs and cushionslied about the room as well. After aquick once over, Sais determined that there was nothing of value here so theyheaded north. Silence Thenjust a sudden as when it started, the alarm spell stopped. Not sure what this meant but hoping it wasgood, the group pressed on. Sais made itto the north door and looked around. It ledto a small 10 foot by 80 foot hallway. With a small door the right and a set of double doors off to theleft. With the group’s permission Saiswent invisible and moved over to check out the small east door. As Sais did this, the devil once again wentaround and casted invisible on each and every one of the visible groupmembers. Prison Thisroom was a drastic change from the wealth of the rooms before. Much like the store room it had stone walls thatwere stark and undecorated; even the floor was merely functional in appearance. Two iron doors faced each other acrossthe room at the far west end. Sais movedup to investigate and as he did he noticed three things. First his arcane sight seem to stop workinginside the cells because he could not see the magic of the walls. Second, the room itself was completely emptywith only a hole in the floor and stone bed to sleep on. Third, the lock was of masterwork qualityplus it had several magical enchantments on it as well. Sais then called Alaina up, telling her aboutthe no magic in the rooms. Sais thenturned around and looked north at the other cell. It was the same, only it was only about ½ asbig and clearly size for humans, not giants. Alaina easily determined that both ‘cells’ were set with a permanentanti-magic field. After hearing that, noone wanted to investigate those rooms anymore so they returned to the hall andthe set of western double doors. Ceoptra’s Chambers Afteropening the silent doors, everyone saw the thickly carpeted floor of this grandchamber. It was further strewn withexpensive-looking throw-rugs and exotic furs. A nest of the same lied heaped in the center of the room, under arotunda-like construction atop which a canopy of silks and gauzy veils added tothe chamber’s mystique. Along the farback wall was a single door north as well as a single door to the east. The group quickly looked through the room butall they found was what they saw. However, whatever sort of creature that dwelled here was the size of anelephant, yet was also exceptionally fastidious; the silks and furs in herewere impeccably clean. Sais went to theeast door first. On the other side, hefound a small side chamber that had two small bedrooms connected to it, buteverything was empty. Finally the groupmoved to the last door. Through thisdoor, was some sort of personal shrine dedicated to the esoterica andphilosophies of greed. The northern wallwas decorated with an enormous golden Sihedron Rune, before which sat arune-carved altar. The group quicklywent through this small room and Sais found a hidden panel on the alter thatopened up. It contained 4 scrolls aswell as a large key made purely of Platinum. Alaina easily identified the scrolls as 3 of resurrection and one ofcommune. Sais realized that the big keywas what open the cells, plus it was made of pure platinum so with the group’spermission he pocketed it. With that alldone, the group returned the 4 way room. Scouting Sais,and by popular vote, Cereliona both listen to the door. Neither heard anything on the other side.After a minute, they felt it was safe so Sais asked and everyone agreed to lethim scout and come back. Sais invisiblyand silently opened the door, headed out, and closed the door behind him. Sais went the only way left, clock wise.After about 10 feet he could see the dim lights in the next room. Karzoug’s Throne room Theinterior of this dazzling chamber was awash in golden light; it shined fromevery gem, every strip of gold, and every silver-inlaid wall carving, which createda kaleidoscope of color and riches. The checkerboardpattern on the floor was interrupted in a twenty-foot-wide path from thenortheastern doors to a throne on a dais of onyx to the southwest by a path ofwhat appeared to be countless rubies, forming a “red carpet” of sorts to thethrone itself. This throne, if possible,made the rest of the chamber’s extravagance seem pale and poor, for it was madeof shining gold, diamonds, rubies, and sapphires, and draped with shimmering,glowing furs from unrecognizable creatures. Seeing the wealth and riches in this room, almost gave Sais a seizurebut he stopped himself just short of foaming at the mouth. Then he moved closer and got a better look intothe room. Inside he saw the left side of a circle of giants, only two he couldsee but there were clearly more and all of them had magical weapons as well asspells active on them. Then out of themiddle of the circle walked a woman that Sais recognized. Wearing golden armor, glowing with magic, andholding a very powerful magical golden Scimitar, Sais saw Althaea, the friendTila was looking for. As the woman walked,the giants quickened to get out of her way. Just to be safe, Sais took cover and watch for a while. He managed to notice all 6 of the cloudgiants in the room. Then when Althaeamade it to the throne, she sat down upon and looked forward, as though she waswaiting for something. After that Saisquietly returned to the group. Once hewas back inside the room and the door was closed, Sais ended his invisiblitybefore he spoke, “Good news and bad news. Good news, I think we found Althaea, Tila’s missing friend. Bad news, I think she just killed somethingin the next room and I think she is in charge because the 6 cloud giants inthere , seem to be scared of her.” What to do Withthis new information, the group worried about what was the right move now. Cereliona as well as others, had promised tohelp Tila find her friend once this was all over. Zheda spoke up first, “I don’t know thisTila, but we cannot let this stop us. Too much is at stake.” Cerelionaspoke up, “But I won’t kill her.” Zhedaanswered, “Then don’t, but we are going to have to fight.” Cereliona agreed. However, no one knew a way for sure to stopher without killing her. Zheda offer tofocus on her, keeping her stunned up and using as much non-lethal force aspossible. Everyone like this, Sais addedthat the whole group should sneak in, and take out the giants while he andZheda work on Althaea. Overall this waslike, Cereliona even asked if, since they cannot teleport, could they stoneshape an opening in the wall? Alianashot that idea down when she pointed out that all the walls here are protectedby Thassilonian protection magic, so she doubted it would work. The group then talked about any other waythey could add to their advantage here. TheLast thing that happened Thegroup was just outside the Throne room, planning their attack on the 6 cloudgiants, as well as the capture of Althaea. GMFavorite moment Howeveryone reacted to the 4 way attack in the small room. I like how everyone split up to deal with taskat hand without having to discuss or argue over it. Experience EachPlayer received 127,500 experience points (Total: 1,999,430 [19th level) forMonsters and Role-playing.
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Session117 (02/17/2021) Day 142 (Moonday the 10th of Calistril, Monday02/10/2048) Weather(Applied to all outside events) · Temperature: -27 o an unprotected character must make a Fortitudesave once every 10 minutes (DC 15, +1 per previous check), taking 1d6 points ofnonlethal damage on each failed save. Characters wearing a cold weather outfitonly need check once per hour for cold and exposure damage. o A character who takes any nonlethal damage fromcold or exposure is beset by frostbite or hypothermia (treat her as fatigued).These penalties end when the character recovers the nonlethal damage she tookfrom the cold and exposure. · Wind (Strong/30-50): -4 perception and Rangedattacks · Altitude of 31,000 feet o Dead Zone: each 10-minute period a character spendsin the death zone, he must succeed at a fortitude save (dc 15, +1 per previouscheck) or take 1 point of damage to all ability scores. If fail 3 consecutivesaves, starts to suffocate until removed from Dead zone effects. ThePinnacle of Avarice Weather(Applied to all outside events) · Dim Light: All creatures have concealment (20%)except w/darkvision, low light, or the ability to see in darkness. A creaturewithin an area of dim light can make a Stealth check to conceal itself. · Temperature: 4 F o Unprotected character: Fortitude(DC 15, +1/check)each hour, 1d6 nonlethal damage. Diplomacy vs. Surprise Standinginvisible in the hallway the group quietly discussed their options regardingthe capture of Althaea and the defeat of the Storm giants. Sais, Renon, and Cereliona were all mostconcerned with Althaea’s safety so wanted to try and talk to her but they alsoagreed that surprise was not something to just be given up. So ways of subduing as well as possiblereasons for why Althaea was working for Karzoug were thrown around, but no goodidea came to mind. Zheda ironically wasall for just knocking out (non-lethal damage) Althaea and dealing withdiplomacy later. However with thegroups’, not count Zheda and Alaina, overwhelming feeling of debt to Tila,diplomacy won. Renon who was he put it,“the best at diplomacy and also the most likely to survive a hit from her. All agreed to he took the lead, with Zhedaand Sais right behind him. Then cameBarkenstien, followed by Alaina and Cereliona. At the group’s request, Xavian stayed way in the back, down the hallway,behind a corner where he could see but was safe. The devil for his part, just leaned upagainst an inner wall a little bit down the way, were he could relax and enjoythe show. Sais gave the devil a dirtylook for this, but said nothing because it was the devil’s magic that was currentlymaking most of the group invisible. Plan A Witheveryone in place they were ready so Renon started to head out, hugging theright wall. As he moved, the group allwatched Althaea from the view point down the side tunnels. Zheda noticed that Althaea noticed Renon butthat she also do her best to hide that she noticed him, she did it so well thatZheda was the only one to see through her deception (Sense motive vsbluff). However, because she did notseem hostile yet, Zheda said nothing as she continued to watch and Renon keepmoving. Then being brave, Renon startedto walk still invisible out into the open space toward her. However, when he got within 30 feet of her,she stood up from the bejeweled throne so Renon stopped. She faced forward for a moment before shesmiled and started to draw her sword. Seeing this everyone jumped into action. Plan B as in Battle, Round 1 Saisreacted faster than her but he wanted to see what Renon did first so heheld. Cereliona casted Strong Jaw onBarkenstien. Althaea walked forward,continuing to draw her sword. As shemoved she clicked her heals together activing her boots, as well as used amental command to active her cloak. Thenet result was that an illusionary double of her started to flow over her, plusher movements speed up (Displacement and haste). Then the giants along the east side of theroom, ran to the back using their long legs to easily reach this distance. There they stopped and all three casted aChain lighting into the group in the hallway. The main bolt struck Barkenstien but then secondary bolts arced totarget Zheda, Cereliona, and Avaxial. The group members all rolled to avoid the attack entirely (evasion)while the devils spell resistance protected him. However their choice ofinvisible targets that skipped Alaina told everyone that all the giants could ‘seethe invisible’. A fourth cloud giant ranup the middle but was stuck behind Althaea. Another two came down the west side to of the room where they both swungat Renon with the Teifling’s armor stopping one of the blows but the one thatgot through was enough (Vital strike). Zheda saw Renon take the hit but all she could was hold and wait to seewhat Renon did. Renon then shouted,“Althaea, Tila wants her friend back.” He then activated his aura of divine protection to get just in case. Then he tried to run back to hallway.However, as he did the closest giant tripped him then other smashed him withits morning star but it bounce of Renon’s activated protection (with out wouldhave been hit). Seeing Renon tripped,everyone jumped into action. Saisactivated his boots and then ran along the right wall, thankful for his mindblank spell from Alaina, to come up behind them, but it was far so once he gotthere all he had time to do was dropped into cloak and dagger style. Alaina then used her book, which momentarilycovered her in electricity as it enhanced her next spell. The sorceress then dropped a Mage’s disjunctionon Althaea as well as the giants. In aninstant most of the magic items they carried became normal weapons. However one giant’s gear fully resisted thespell while Althaea’s armor, shield and an amulet all stayed magical. In addition, Althaea as well as each of thegiants all wore a Sihedron ring that was unaffected by Alaina’s spell as wellas Althaea solid gold Scimitar (Artifacts). Zheda then activated both her pride and greed sins causing 3 mirrorimages of her to appear as well as for her hands to gain the strength of adamantine. She then ran straight up the middle betweenthe giants not on both sides of Althaea. Luckily there was a 5 foot wide corridor in the middle that was just outof both sets of giants’ reaches. Whereshe landed a perfect punch directly to Althaea’ face (Critical hit, non-lethal)but the woman shook the hit off and looked ready for more. Xavian stayed back as had been requested,seeing nothing he could do for now anyway. Round 2 Cerelionathen moved out from the hallway to get a clear shot which she used to bounceher chakrum around the room easily hitting, doing extra damage to her hated foeand designating the Giants for the rest of the group. She then sent Barkenstien in to trip the onlygiant with magic left. Running in thehide armor they picked up all way back outside Turtleback ferry served the dogwell as it stopped the blow of the giant’s mace. Which allowed the dog to get in and bite thegiant on the leg, then using his momentum the dog pulled the giant’s leg out fromunder him, causing the giant to fall. SeeingZheda in front of her, Althaea swung her artifact sword of gold at Zheda 4times, followed by a bash from her shield, and then the ornate Lionhead alsosnapped at her 3 times. Under this levelof an onslaught a few managed to get through the monks defenses; but for themoment nothing she couldn’t handle. Seeing the warrior under attack, 4 of the nearby giants all moved closerand tried to end Zheda in one blow (Vital strike). This continuous barrage of attacks, allowed 2to connect. These hits, did not drop herbut they did hurt. The one standing byRenon tried the same trick, but Renon even had his protection aura up so theGiant’s attack harmlessly bounced off. The other attacked Barkenstien from the ground, but his attack waswild. Avaxial then moved up to the endof the hallway so he could see all the fun. From the ground, Renon then carefully casted Blessing of Fervor onhimself, Zheda, and Barkenstien. As hedid this, he got a good look at the giant’s chest which allowed him to noticedsome large, actual tears in the giant flesh. It took him a moment but he recognized it as the very distinct woundscaused by the Ripping Gaze of a hound of Tindalos, like what the group had faceright outside Morkmurian’s lair. Howeverthe wounds on the giant looked worse than anything the group had suffered whenthey faced those monsters. Then quicklylogging that under, ‘information to think about when I am not in a life anddeath situation’, Renon refocused on the task at hand to use the power of his spellto quickly get up without letting his guard down, (Swift stand up, noAOP). Sais then using the speed grantedto him by his magical boots, he blinded the giant and then followed it up withstabs to various, large vital organs. AsSais pulled out the last blade, the Giant finally lost enough blood and down itwent. Sais then simplify turned and tooka step toward the giant on the ground. AsAlaina dropped one of her powerful fireballs down on Althaea as well as 4 ofthe giants. As that she followed it upwith a quickened fireball. However, eventhough they were not immune to it like electricity, the giants had resistancesand for the most part (each passed 1 save) reacted quickly so that they tooklittle damage. Althaea was a skilled andtrained warrior so she faired even better (passed both) and took almost nodamage from the flames. Zheda thendropped back into dragon style as she thought to the statue in her pocket,‘Help’. This woke the griffin up from itssleep after the flight and caused both Angelic healing (FH: 5) as well as greaterstunning shield to appear around the monk. Thankful for the help and even if it was only minor, the healing. Zheda then continued her non-lethal assaulton Althaea with everything she had (stunning fist, punishing kick, head-butt,sweep kick) throughout her 6 swings and kicks. However only the sweep kick landed, but Althaea was solid on her feet sodid not budge. Xavian then moved up onhis broom to the end of the hallway as well. Monsters · 1 Warden of Thunder (Advanced Storm Giant)[Dead] Round 3 Cerelionastarted this one of with another bounce to all the giants, but her last bounceto the one on the floor missed, which caused her weapon to magically return to herhand at that moment. Not worrying aboutthe one on the ground because Sais had it, Cereliona sent Barkenstien in thehelp out Zheda. And help the dog, did,first he pulled one of the giants to the ground before he bit into the giant’sguts and ripped them out. The giant diedin a furry of fur and gore. Althaea thentook a step next to Zheda so she could line up a giant right behind the monk(Flanking) before she gave Zheda another barrage of attacks. Althaea was starting to find the holes inZheda’s defenses, this time she landed 2 good blows with her sword as well asone powerful slash down Zheda’s chest. The blow to her chest not only caused her to bleed badly but it alsowinded her (Staggering Critical). Shewas only barely able to stay on her feet (<40 HP). With each hit, Althaea was shocked by thestunning shield but each time she resisted it. Then the still standing giant on the right, then moved up and tried toend Sais (Vital) but thankfully Sais had spent enough time studying theseopponents so he was able to sense the giant’s murderous motives which gave himjust enough warning to dodge the attack (Skill unlock Sense motive, Pass to get+2 ac which made Giant miss by 1). Theone on the ground, then tried and failed to hit Sais with that one’s miss theresult of his location on the floor. Next the two giants by Zheda continued to try and kill her with each taking3 swings at the monk. The first one onlylanded one blow but it was enough to put Zheda in trouble (single digit HP) asthe second Giant came in. It landed itsfirst blow, which did two things. Firstthe griffin’s stunning shield did its job which ended the giant’s future attacksby stunning and saving the monk from a second blow but also the damage of thehit was enough to dropped Zheda (-12 HP). As soon as she started to fall, the Devil ran full speed toward her asif this had been what he was waiting for this whole time. On the way, he avoided a swing from eachgiant’s mace. The moment he reachedZheda, he used a spell like ability to ‘heal’ Zheda and bring her back to theworld of the conscious, holding her the whole time so she did not fall. As Zheda felt the healing and the claws ofthe Devil now holding her up, she thought to herself, ‘It took 72 days [Realtime: 2 years, 6 month, and 23 days], but Karma finally proved that I was rightto set you free.’ The reamaining gianttried to take out the devil, but were ineffectual against the Pit Fiend’smagical protections. Surprised to seethe devil save his friend and not really sure why it was helping, Renon focusedon the clear and present danger in front of him. Renon then laded 4 hit on the giant on thegroup, the creature’s thick muscle and strong bones took the hits. On Renon’s last blow, Sais saw a chance andtook it, getting his blade into the giant’s left, none weapon holding, arm;hitting a nerve that deadened the limb (natural 20) as at the same time hisbomb blew up in the giant’s eyes, wounding and blinding it. Sais then followed that up by stabbing thegiant on the ground, once more; killing it. Sais then took a step north to reach the giant there. Where he attempted to blind it but it dodgethat as well as Sais next to 2 stabs, but not the third one. It landed a solid blow and was just enough totake the giant out. Alaina then droppedher powerful fireball on the last Giant and Althaea. The hit was enough to burn and end theunprepared giant as well as to at least hurt Althaea (Both failed). She then dropped a quicken fireball on the ladyfighter but this one she was ready for, rolling and taking no damage (Passedand resistance). After that Zhedacontinued the assault, not giving the fighter a chance to recover. Her first it, managed to hit Althaea justright and stunned her (Natural 1 save) which caused her to drop her weapon butnot her shield which was attacked to arm. Zheda continued her nonlethal assault with a punishing kick thatsurprisingly her Althaea’s magical armor alone stopped. So Zheda tried a powerful head-butt which landedbut almost knocked out Zheda instead because of Althaea’ helm (Natural 1). Resulting in Zheda shouting angrily out loud,“Next time, no head butts if they have a helm. No Head butts if they have helms, no Head butts if they have helms” asshe rubbed her throbbing forehead. Seeing all of this, Xavian flew 40 feet into the room so he could becloser to the group and the action. Monsters · 4 Warden of Thunders (Advanced Storm Giant)[Dead] Round 4 Froma door directly across from where the group entered, they all heard the soundof large giant sized feet coming their way. The ranger knew this was the sound of Rune Giants so she warned theothers, as she through her weapon. Ithit the giant in the head, slashing and designating the giant as well asstunning him (Natural 20). This allowed Cereliona to move up on the last Giant,as she also commanded Barkenstien to do the same. Doing as he had been trained, Barkenstien bitthe giant on the leg and dragged him down to the ground. While all this was happening, Avaxial calmlyreached down and picked up the Golden Scimitar that Althaea had dropped. Moving up to help surround Althaea, Renonshouted, “Forgive me” as he attempted to hit her the flat of his blade andmissed. Sais then went invisible as hemoved up on Althaea. Alaina moved intothe room to get a clear shot and then with a polar ray, destroyed the remainingGiant (-86 HP). With only one targetleft, Zheda focus did not waver. Shelanded 4 hits in a row, the last of which was a sweep kick. And as Althaea was falling to the ground,Zheda was able to continue her spin and kick the fighter in her face, whichfinally took consciousness from her. Seeher go down, Xavian flew up closer and used a Channel on the entire group whilethere was a chance. Monsters · Warden of Thunder (Advanced Storm Giant) [Dead] · Althaea [Unconscious] Round 5 Hearingmore noise from the door across from their hallway, they also heard a lot ofnoise coming from the Thrown room’s main door. Cereliona moved to just behind the thrown and took aim with her Chakrum,ready to throw at the first thing that opened the door across from theirhallway. She also commanded Barkenstiento guard her from anything that go to close to him, so the dog took his spotnext to her. Then the door quietly open,revealing 2 Rune giants behind it. Cereliona then let her weapon fly, hit the first giant and giving him aminor wound. The first giant thensqueezed through the door before it ran to the group. It partner followed suit but due to thesqueezing, did not reach anyone yet. However from the room the giant’s just left, everyone saw an image ofKarzoug standing above another one of the large floor Sihedron runes. And this image spoke in a booming voice thegroup had all heard come from Mokmurian’s mouth (53 days [Real time:1 year, 9months, 9 days]), “andso the fools have found me. I must applaud your tenacity. You are much morepersistent than the worms I thought you to be. Creative too, using Mokmurian’sdoor. But to me, you are more likehungry maggots in your endless squirming and writhing to get to the death thatawaits you at the core of your fate. I am that fate, maggots. I am your death!” Andwith that final word, he pointed at Renon and fired a green ray of magicalenergy at him (Disintegration), but as the ray struck Renon, his Runeforgedweapon protected him from the magic. Seeing Karzoug, Avaxial held up the sword he now possessed and said,“Karzoug, I take this a payment for 10,000 years as the power source for yourinfernal dam.” Then with a snap of hisfingers the Devil used Gate and was gone. The moment the devil and the sword disappeared there was an immediatereaction in Althaea. The woman startedto go into convulsions and seizures, plus she foamed at the mouth and her eyesrolled into the back of her head. Seeingthe Rune giants Renon yelled, “Pull back to the hallway?” Zheda yelled her agreement and he even heardthe “Yes” from the invisible Sais so he casted a flame strike on the Rune Giantswhich thanks to its holy nature, manage to damage them some. He then turned and ran for the hallway. Sais stayed invisible and moved to be alongthe east hallway as he headed south to the door. Alaina saw quite a bit of magic on the giantsso she casted a Mage’s Disjunction which dispel everything on the left giantand disabled all his magic items but its ring. The other one lost his active spells but his armor and his sword, plushis ring all kept their magic. Shefollowed that up with a quickened Acid Arrow, which did no damage to thegiant. Zheda then turned and through upthe Alcoholic and corrosive contents of her stomach on the two rune giants,burning one more than the other, but at least hurting both a little. She then used her monk speed to make it allthe way back to the hallway. Xavianchanneled from where he was to heal the whole group before he turned his broomaround and returned to the hallway. Round 6 Afterseeing the green ray come from the Karzoug image, Cereliona decided to dosomething about it. With no clear shot,she bounced her weapon off one Rune giant, into the next, before it flewstraight at the image of Karzoug, striking and dispelling it just like it hadthe others. But this time, the image ofKarzoug did not look to be in pain as if faded. After destroying the image, her weaponmagically returned to her hand as she turned and ran to the hallway. Calling Barkenstien to ‘heel’ as she did. The two rune giants then moved up on Renonand both tried to land a powerful blow (Vital) but Renon’s Armor and Magicalprotection was too great right now. Nextthe main entrance of the throne room opened up and in came 6 Cloud giants eachwith armor, Mace, and magical glows. Renon grew in size as he quickly casted Righteous might, but he wasstill smaller than any of the giants in this room. Using this larger size and reach, Renonslashed out at one of the Rune giants, and got through the giant’s armor twice. Sais stayed invisible and moved south toquietly join the group gather at the hallway. Alaina saw her chance so dropped her powerful fire ball on the fourfront Cloud giants and then before the fire could clear she followed it up witha quicken fireball. The overwhelmingamount of fire, hitting the unrepaired giants (all failed both), killed themand nearly incinerated their bodies, leaving only burnt bones and some chunksof singed flesh. Zheda drew her Caydenmug and used it to get ‘drunk’ as she moved the last distance needed to join upwith the group. At the group’s request,Xavian then moved farther down the hallway and took cover behind a wallthere. TheLast thing that happened Thegroup gathered by the hallway entrance to the throne room as 2 Rune Giants andseveral cloud giants were converging on them. Renon was large, up front, and facing Rune giants. Everyone else was regrouped behind him andwatching as ‘the giants just kept coming’. GMFavorite moment Whenthe group truely tried diplomacy on Althaea, usually the group tries violenceand threat when Diplomacy is need and this time they tried diplomacy whensurprise violence would have been the best. I love this group. J Experience EachPlayer received 138,740 experience points (Total: 1,999,430 [19th level) for Monstersand Role-playing.
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Session118 (02/17/2021) Day 142 (Moonday the 10th of Calistril, Monday02/10/2048) ThePinnacle of Avarice Weather(Applied to all inside events) · Dim Light: All creatures have concealment (20%)except w/darkvision, low light, or the ability to see in darkness. A creaturewithin an area of dim light can make a Stealth check to conceal itself. · Temperature: 4 F o Unprotected character: Fortitude (DC 15, +1/check)each hour, 1d6 nonlethal damage. Round 7 Seeingthe Rune and Cloud giants moving up to converge on them, Cereliona yelled out,“Keep falling back or charge in?” Saisyelled, “Stay in hallway, we will make a line in the sand there.” Cerelionaagreed but first she through her chakrum at the first Rune giant, and bouncedit into the second, before it came back to her hand; harming and designatingthem. Then she moved to get closer to the ‘line in the sand’, yelling forBarkenstien to stay there and hold the line. The large dog could not reach anything from its location so it justgrowled at them as he did as it was commanded. The southernmost Rune giant followed the ranger, but it was forced tosqueeze its large body between the wall and the thorn (-4 AC and Hit). As it did, it left its north side open toRenon who took a shot (AOP) but the giant’s, now non-magical armor stopped theblow. The giant finished its movementwith a high arcing swing of it arms aimed at Alaina (Vital Strike, Natural20). But Alaina was not taking anychances in this fight so when she saw the giants large sword come at her, shecasted emergency force sphere which stopped the blow but took a lot of damagein the process (1/2 HP of wall). Thesecond Rune giant, the one with gear that was still magical, step closer toRenon and laid into him with 3 slashes of his sword. But Renon’s Armor and Aura of protection fromDesna kept him well defended, stopping all three. The two cloud giants at the door moved intothe room, which caused the rooms doors to close silently behind them. Each then picked up a rock and through it atRenon, but due to the Rune Giant and the pillars the first one miss but thesecond hit him directly in the face (Natural 20), which hurt but did not stopthe Tiefling. As he took that hit, Renonlet himself step back 5 feet, he needed to anyway. Now with his secure footing, out of themagical giant’s reach; Renon laid into the non-magical Giant. All 3 blows landed, but this huge giant couldtake it. Sais then moved, stillinvisible, next to Barkenstien. Where hecasted an acid splash on the giant. Thanks this skilled aim (Sneak attack), the shot actually managed toburn the giant, despite his very high resistance (57 – res 30 = 27). Being burn by a cantrip was enough to atleast surprise the giant a little. Alainathen dispelled her barrier and flew to be just above Sais. Zheda took two drinks of alcohol(2 drunkenki) as she took a single step to help firm up the line a little. Form his cover Xavian looked over the groupand for now at least, everyone was doing ok so he stayed where he was. Round 8 Cerelionabounce her Chakrum off both Rune giants as she continued to have Barkenstien,hold the line. Both Rune Giants took astep closer to Renon as they each caused a shower of sparks to erupt out of oneof the runes on their body that hit everyone but Xavian. In addition, the light of this was so brightRenon had to shield his eyes (pass both saves). Sais and Cereliona used theirtraining to avoid both of the magical effects (evasion), but Zheda andBarkenstien slipped up. The first onehit the dog while the second shower hit both. However thanks to Renon’s aura and their reflex training (Improvedevasion), those two ended up taking no damage. Alaina and Renon did not have those skills, so took the full blast. But they both still had Renon’s aura of protectedwhich protected them (effectivity reduced the damage by ½) plus part of themagic was electrical in nature which Alaina was immune so she took even less(effectively 1/4). The 2 Cloud giantscontinued farther into the room as they picked up Rocks and through them, oneat Renon and one at Zheda, both of which missed, mainly due to the cover thepillars still gave. Renon continue toslowly move the fight back to the group with another single giant sized stepbefore he focused on the giant that had just attacked Alaina. His first hit, slashed the giants arm; butwith his last, he slashed the giant from neck to nuts; causing its organs tospill out, killing it. Seeing anopening, Sais went invisible and move to the outer wall corner so he couldlater get behind the giants, all this now possible because of the dead Runegiant. Alaina then flew a little forwardfrom the line (5 ft) to get sights on the last Rune giant. She then used limited wish and Blood money tocast an Acid Spray which the giant took full in the face. However, his resistance took some of the burnout of it. Seeing the Rune Giant takeAlaina’s full spell and stay up, Zheda said out loud to herself, “He[RuneGiant] is still standing.” Cerelionaheard this so jokingly answered, “You should rectify that.” This cause Zheda to smile as she step up anddid her best to copy what Alaina had just done, just with her own drunk twistof it being projectile vomit instead of pure magic. The monks was just a little bit moreeffective then Alaina spells (Luck of the dice), but still the Rune giantresistanted a large portion and lived on. Monsters · Warden of Runes (Advanced Rune Giant) [Dead] o +5 Huge Full plate: 31,300 gp o Sihedron Ring (Star Ring): 35,000 gp o +5 Huge Corrosive burst longsword: 98,360 gp Round 9 As thesizzling of the burning acid went silent, the group all heard the sound of moregiants coming toward throne room front door, same place the Cloud giants hadcome from. Cereliona’s ranger’s and halfelf ears, picked up a little more. Shecould tell it was the sound of 6 cloud giants, 2 Rune Giants, and one medium sizedhumanoid. Cereliona then moved up andthrough her chakrum to wound and designated the last Rune Giant. A moment later, Barkenstien charged up on thegiant, taking a hit from the giant’s sword as he did (AOP); but it did not stophim. Using his speed and momentum, thedog grabbed a hold of the Rune giant’s leg before using all his might to pullthe giant off balance. However the dog’sstrength and bulk was greater than even he knew because all the dog’s strengthwas enough the rip the giant’s leg clean off. Causing the giant to fall to the ground and bleed to death in very shortorder (Natural 20). The large dog waggedhis tail as he held the giant’s leg in his mouth as he looked back at thegroup. Everyone could practically hearthe dog’s thoughts of ‘I am a good boy. Yes I am. I did a good thing.’ Looking at this all the group thought but only Sais said out loud,“Barkenstien is making us all look bad again.” Zheda said jokingly, “I can get a leg too, just wait and see.” Seeing the giants heavy hitters fall, Renonlooked at the two still relatively distant cloud giants, as he asked the group,“Charge up or Hold here.” Cerelionawanted to keep everyone back and safe, then use ranged weapons. However, this caused a joking chorus of“Don’t have one”, “What’s ranged combat”, and “Sorry that’s just you” from thegroup members around her. So seeingwhere this was going, Renon took the imitative and ran up to the Cloudgiants. On the way, his armor protectedhim from the giant’s morning star. Oncehe was close, he took aim and slash at the monsters throat (Vital) strike. Themonster took the hit on its shoulder but it clearly hurt the monster. Sais then moved up, invisible and flank thegiant with Renon. Once in position heaimed for the giant’s kidney (vital strike), and to his amazement (natural 20),he stabbed in and pulled one out. As theorgan fell to the floor Sais saw the color drain out of the giant (Sickened),as the toxins started to build up. Alainathen flew toward the throne front door, but away from the cloud giants. About ½ way she stopped and casted timestop. Then using the quasi-time thespell granted, she casted greater invisibility on herself before moving closerto the door. Then she stopped and casted2 prismatic walls, one right next to the other, to completely block thedoor. Finally she flew away from thedoors before she returned to the normal flow of time. Zheda then join the others in charging thecloud giants. She focused on the oneSais had hit and tried to stun it. Theblow landed and put a few cracked the skull but it did not stun him or put himdown. Xavian then moved up to the ‘linein the sand’ so he could see if/when his help was needed. Monsters · Warden of Runes (Advanced Rune Giant) [Dead] o +5 Huge Full plate: 31,300 gp o Sihedron Ring (Star Ring): 35,000 gp o +5 Huge Corrosive burst longsword: 98,360 gp Round 10 Everyonethen heard the main door open as well as a spell being casted into theprismatic wall and Alaina saw the red color go down. So the Sorceress shout tothe group, they got a caster and he just used a cone of cold on my wall. It is going to take time (6 rounds) but hewill take it down.” Cereliona heardAlaina’s words so kept her assault going. First she did a bounce to hit and designate both cloud giants. Then she sent in Barkenstien, who avoided thegiant’s mace on his way in for the giant’s throat. The Dog found is mark, and ripped out the giant’sthroat killing it. The remaining Cloud giant then went after his best target,Zheda. And managed to land one of 3swings. It was a good hit, but Zhedacould take it for now. Renon then took astep closer and swung at the Cloud giant 4 times, landing 3 of them. Even after that, the giant refused to godown. Sais stayed invisible and moved into position (x2 move), flanking thegiant, just in case the others did not finish it fast enough. Alaina headed south more to get near thegroup. Then she targeted a fireball tohit only the Cloud giant which was finally enough to end the giant’s life. Monsters · 2 Warden of Wind (Advanced Cloud Giant) [Dead] o +2 Large Full plate: 10,300 gp o Sihedron Ring (Star Ring): 35,000 gp o +5 Huge Morning star: 50,332 gp Emergency healing and planning Withthe temporary reprieve they had at the moment, Xavian ran into the middle ofthe group where he channeled twice. Thenhe casted a Cure light wound on Renon and Barkenstien before taking the time tocast a full restoration on Alaina (3 rounds). While receiving their healing, everyone watched as the unknown castedused 6 more spells to take down Alaina’s ‘1st’ prismatic wall. As soon as it fel the caster, saw the otherprismatic wall Alaina had casted. Atthat moment, the entire group, heard a lot of swearing as well as several newlyinvented curse words, all in Thassilonian. Then all at once, the room as well as the entire complex filled with thesound of metal attacking stone. Thinkingthey were trying to tunnel around the door itself, Alaina casted a thirdprismatic wall and this time she made it the entire length of the main doorwall so that it blocked no matter where they went through. Sais moved up and pulled out a bear trap toset by the door as well as a couple set of caltrops. Zheda slammed several bottle of alcohol andthen through the bottle down by the main door as well, making improvised glasscaltrops. This reminded her of the fightthe group had had with the goblins in the glass works back in Sandpoint allthat time ago. But she did not fall intothis thought, she stayed focused because the fight was not over yet. Alaina then casted invisibility on Xavianbefore casting invisibility sphere on herself. Once the spells were up she called everyone inside her illusion. Over all from the time the giants had startedto tunnel through the stone to now, was about 1 minute and at is when the soundstopped. The group heard the giants allrun but just a second or two later, Sais and Cereliona heard them comingthrough the far southern throne room door, behind them just before they giantscame burst through the door. Thegroup’s traps for the giants had just become the wall their back was too. Surprise Stillinvisible thanks to his ring, Sais left Alaina’s spell to hide behind the farnorthern pillar. Cereliona similarly hidbehind the far south side pillar to gain cover which was only a step out ofAlaina’s spell, all hidden from the door’s view. 5 Cloud giants then came running into theroom. All of them moved with ‘hasted’speed. 3 started to lined up on thenorth wall, between the back wall and the pillars. The last giant, did not reach the end but it placedhim about 10 feet away from the invisible hiding Sais. The next out the door 2 ran toward the middleof the room. Plus a sixth that did not quiet make it out of the door yet. Round 1 Saisdecided to hold and see what the cloud giants do first. Alaina saw a chance so casted anotherprismatic wall, this time blocking the door where the cloud giants camein. As she did the wall’s magic triedand failed to blind the powerful nearby giants; but as a result Alaina’sinvisibility sphere ended as well and leaving everyone but Alaina (imp.Invisibility, 2 rounds left) and Xavian (Alaina’s other invisibility spell)visible. Then from her cover, Cerelionathrough her Chakrum to bounce between all the giants. But on the initial throw, she bumped the pillar(natural 1) so hit nothing and then when it returned, her hand was numb so shedropped it as soon as she caught it. As it fell, she commanded Barkenstien to chargein. His armor protected him from thecloud giant’s mace, as the dog reach, bit, and tripped one of the giants in themiddle of the room. Seeing the fightstarting again, Renon activated his aura of protection (Resist all elements 20)before he moved up to the front, ready to face the giants that would come. Then for no apparent reason, Alaina’sprismatic wall disappeared as if it had been dispelled. The 3 cloud giants along the north wall,continued to move into position. Oncelined up next to the large openings between the pillars, where they could seeeverything; the giants all chucked large rocks at Barkenstien. Thankfully the dog’s armor protected him fromall 3. The one on the ground tried toget up, but Barkenstien put him back down so it tried to hit from the groundbut it missed the dog as well. The onein the door way and the one close to the door, ran to the center of the room sothey could join the fight. Sais thenlooked at the cloud giant, now 6 inches from his face and thought ‘whynot’. He then became visible as he througha bomb in the giant’s eyes blinding it. He follow that up with 4 quick stabs to vital organs (sneak) but thegiant was tough and could take it. Then2 Rune giant’s entered the room from the side door but they only made it alittle but into the room at this point. One they stop, Zheda used a flying kick to reach the Cloud giant closestto Sais but after that kick it took her 5 attempt to get around the giant’sdefenses. Her two hit, hurt but thegiant was far from dead yet. Seeing theopening Sais used the opportunity to stab out at the giant, hitting and takinga little bit more of the giant’s life blood. Round 2 Alainathen casted a Mage’s Disjunction, her last powerful spell (9 th ),over both Rune giants as well as 4 of the 6 cloud giants. All the giants lost the active spells on themand everyone kept the magic of their rings (artifact). One cloud lost all his magic (weapon andarmor), 2 lost the magic in their weapons, and one other only lost the magic inhis armor. One Rune giant completelyresisted the magic so all his items stayed magical, while the other one losteverything. The caster then moves south,where she quickly casted haste to effect Barkenstien, Cereliona, Xavian andherself; Renon was too far away at the moment. Cereliona then picked up herChakrum and through for the Rune giant, but her numb hand kept her aim off soshe missed again, but she caught it correctly on the return. Barkenstien laid into the one the ground, butlike his master, he made a mistake and slipped, over and over again. Resulting in him missing with all 3 of hisbite attempts.Renon help out Barkenstien by attacking the grounded giant. Landing 2 of his 3 swings, the last of which,gut a deep gash across the giant’s face (Natural 20). Then out of nowhere a powerful anti-magicburst of energy (‘Mage’s Disjunction’), effected everyone but Xavian. This effected dispelled the groups’ activespells, nullified a good portion of their magic items, and even caused some toover load and explode. Renon and Alainaalmost completely resisted the magic disruptions with Alaina only having a twoitem nullified and Renon having only his Ice star knife overload. Sais resisted it some and luckily only hadminor items temporary nullified and one minor magical kunai (+1) overloaded. Most of Cereliona’s items were nullified withher vest of the Surgeon overloaded; while some of Barkenstien’s defensive itemstemporary ceased to function, his dire collar overloaded. Zheda was the most unlucky, most of her itemswere nullified plus her Ki ring and belt of physical perfection (+6) bothoverloaded. The cloud giant on theground, swung at Renon rather than try and get up again, but it missed all 3attempts. The blind one by Sais, triedto hit the rogue, landed one out of pure luck, but it was a weak hit. Along the wall, next to the blinded giant, hisally moved up and tried to help by hitting Sais, but the pillar help Sais justenough (cover) that the giant missed. One then moved up on Zheda and missed. The two far back giants both ran up and through a rock at Barkenstien,but both missed. Sais then quickly tooka slam of his Cayden mug for both as liquid courage and some extra strength(Drunk: +2 morale Physical). He thenturned his short sword on the blinded giant, and with one quick slash to thegiant’s throat it was dead (Sneak). Saisthen took a step back so he could be back to back with Zheda. The lead Rune giant tried to burry its longsword into Renon’s head 3 times, but Renon was still too well defended. The trailing Rune Giant could not reachanyone so it instead casted mass charm monster over Renon, Barkenstien, andAlaina; but thankfully everyone resisted it. Xavian then took fight on his broom to centrally locate himself amongthe group where he channeled to heal all his Allies. Zheda stepped up to the giant that had attackSais. She drew on the sin in her soulbut it was not enough, only luck (natural 20) allowed her to hit this giant atthe moment, plus the hit was weaker than her usual. The loss of her most important magical itemshad taken some of the bite out of Zheda. Monsters · Warden of Wind (Advanced Cloud Giant) [Dead] o +2 Large Full plate: 10,300 gp o Sihedron Ring (Star Ring): 35,000 gp o +5 Huge Morning star: 50,332 gp Round 3 Thenow visible Alaina, quickly casted a haste on Zheda and Sais which she followedup with another haste on Barkenstien, Zheda, Cereliona and herself; Renon wasstill too far away. Cereliona thenstopped and centered herself for a second, before she through her weapon. This time successfully hit the lead Runegiant and bounce around the room to everyone other giant but the one on theground, before Cereliona caught the weapon out of the air. Then using the magical effects of his masterweapon (Designating), Barkenstien snap his jaws out and got the prone giant bythe throat, before he shook his head and snapped the giant’s neck, killingit. With that one down, the dog used hismomentum to step forward (5’) so he could reach the other nearby cloudgiant. The dog was on his game, bitingand taking the giant down, before he followed it up with a second bite to theleg. The giant ended, wounded and on theground, but still alive. Renon then quickly casted a Righteous might onhimself. Before he pulled out a bigbundle of incense (1000 gp) as he yelled to the group, “Going for broke”. He then casted a spell, which caused theincense to burn up in a moment. Throughthis magic Renon gained the luck of Desna (Invoke Deity: Luck). Then from about 15 feet the left and back ofthe throne a green ray of light shot out of nothing to strike Renon. Thankfully his Rune forged Starknife, wasable to absorb yet another disintegration spell. Shortly after that, Renon,Barkenstien, Cereliona, and Alaina all felt the magic of Alaina’s haste bedispelled. The grounded giant tried to attack Barkenstien but his attackbounced harmlessly of the dog’s armor. One cloud giant moved up on the large Renon, but missed as well. Zheda’s giant tried to mash her with hismace, but while Zheda’s teeth were not as sharp, she was still just asfast. The last giant, tried to smashSais and even blinded managed to land one blow but Sais managed to trick itwith a shadow clone at the last moment so it to the blow instead of him. Then Sais returned the onslaught with one ofhis own. After 5 slashed, 4 of whichdrew blood, enough of the giant’s vital organs had been punctured that it couldnot maintain the functions of life, causing it to fall and die on theground. Sais then took a step south togive him and Zheda more room to fight. TheRune Giant by Renon used its reach to slash the Tiefling twice with its sword,finally starting to find weakness in Renon’s defenses. The other giant, through 3 rocks at Alaina,landing 2. This hurt the sorceress butthanks to being fully healed right before all this, she could take the hits fornow. Xavian then moved south a little sohe could again reach all his allies with a channel of positive energy. Going one on one with the giant in front ofher, Zheda attacked with all she had. Out of her furry of blows, a head butt and a sweep kick landed with thelatter putting the giant on his ass. Monsters · 2 Warden of Wind (Advanced Cloud Giant) [Dead] o +2 Large Full plate: 10,300 gp o Sihedron Ring (Star Ring): 35,000 gp o +5 Huge Morning star: 50,332 gp Round 4 Alainathen used her metamagic rod to quickly cast another haste on the four. Then she through a fireball next to thethrone centered where the ray came from. As the fireball hit, she saw a 10 foot radius sphere were her fire ballwas nullified. Alaina recognized this asthe effect of a Globe of Invulnerability spell. Cereliona smiled as she said, “I heard someone say, ‘go forbroke’.” She then pulled out her ownbundle of incense (1000 gp) as she called on the protection of Shelyn but shedid not put it on herself. Instead sheredirected the magic to her friend, Barkenstien (False life, shield, and shieldof faith). She then told him, “Go getme another Rune giant leg.” And withthat in thought in his head, Barkenstien step up to closest Rune giant. Hisfirst two bites were stopped by the giant’s armor, but on his third attempt,his teeth found the spots between the armor, got a hold, and pulled the giant’sleg out from underneath him. See thegiant fall Cereliona yelled out, “Protect Alaina.” Hearing this but seeing the smoke fromCereliona’s incense, the Tiefling thought to himself, ‘Those two should be findfor now’ a she turned and moved to block the rune from have a clean shot atAlaina, but this opened up a few paths to the ranger. Once lined up on the Giant, he called all onDesna again, this time to smite the rune giant. With his goddess power behind him, Renon slash a deep chest wound intothe giant, but Rune giants were too big and tough to be taken out thatfast. Next another green ray shot out ofnothing. This time from right next tothe thrown and targeting Barkenstien. The dog’s Runeforged fangs, protected him from the spell, just asRenon’s star knife had done twice before. A new giant moved up on Sais, but rogue’s position continued to allowhim to gain cover so the giant missed. The one on the ground by Barkenstien as well as the one by Zheda bothtried to their prospective targets, but both failed in all 3 attempts. Going after the easy target on the ground byZheda, Sais blinded it and then stabbed it twice in its heart (sneak), killingit. The first Rune giant then noticedthat the ranger was now in his reach, so he swung out 3 times and missed so badwith all three attempts that Cereliona did not even have to moved (3 natural 1sin a row). The other Rune giant, thenfocus on the large dog in front of him, but the protection of Sheyln was morethat even its strength could get through. Once again, Xavian’s central location allowed him to heal all of thegroup with a channel. Zheda then lookedat the giant that had come up on Sais other side as she yelled to Sais, “duck”which the rogue did out of reflex. Themonk leap into a flying kick to hit the giant in the chest, but moreimportantly move her between it and Sais. As she landed the giant got in a good hit with mace (AOP), but Zheda didnot stop. She followed up with 5 moreattacks, the last of which was a sweep kick and the only blow to penetrate thegiant’s armor while also knocking it on is ass as well. Monsters · Warden of Wind (Advanced Cloud Giant) [Dead] o +2 Large Full plate: 10,300 gp o Sihedron Ring (Star Ring): 35,000 gp o +5 Huge Morning star: 50,332 gp TheLast thing that happened The groupwas in the middle of a fight with the third wave of guards. 2 cloud giants, both on the ground, and 2Rune giants, one standing and one not; plus an invisible caster was lastnoticed by the thrown. GMFavorite moment Goingfor broke. I love that the group wasgiven a challenge sufficient enough for them to pull out their big guns. Experience EachPlayer received 182,880 experience points (Total: 2,197,670 [19th level]) forMonsters and Role-playing.
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Session119 (02/17/2021) Day 142 (Moonday the 10th of Calistril, Monday02/10/2048) ThePinnacle of Avarice Weather(Applied to all inside events) · Dim Light: All creatures have concealment (20%)except w/darkvision, low light, or the ability to see in darkness. A creaturewithin an area of dim light can make a Stealth check to conceal itself. · Temperature: 4 F o Unprotected character: Fortitude (DC 15, +1/check)each hour, 1d6 nonlethal damage. Round 5 Alainathen focused her efforts on one of the grounded cloud giants. Taking aim to avoid Althaea, Alaina dropped apowerful fireball, followed by a quickened one. The magical flames consumed the cloud giant. The fires also hit the Rune Giants but theywere immune that element. Cereliona thenbounced here Chakrum to hit all three giants, as well as sending it to thelocation of the last green ray. She hit all three giants, but at the casterlocation, the weapon flew through air before it curved in mid-air to fly backto her hand. Barkenstien then moved upand with 3 bites he ripped out the last cloud giant’s guts, killing it. Following Barkenstien’s lead, Renon step upto the Rune giant in front of him, and then using the power of Desna’s smitehim, he cut the Rune giant down in a single blow (Vital strike). The Caster then somehow ended the haste onRenon, Barkenstien, Xavian, and Cereliona. Before a ray of blue frost shot from right in front of the throne. This hit and hurt Renon, but thankfully hisAura of Protection lessened the damage. Alaina easily identified the spell as ‘Polar Ray’. Theremaining Rune giant swung from the ground at Zheda with all it had, landing 2powerful hits on the monk. But then Saismoved up behind it where he killed it with 3 quick stabs, one to both lungsthen the heart. Xavian had everyone inrange so without asking, he channeled, knowing Zheda needed healing atleast. Zheda then ran south and pointedher gut at the general area the casters spell had just come from. She then throw up all she had, covering a 30foot cone. Her stomach acid, not onlyburn the caster but due to the wave of liquid, the group was able to confirm thatcaster’s location; for the moment. Monsters · 2 Warden of Wind (Advanced Cloud Giant) [Dead] o +2 Large Full plate: 10,300 gp o Sihedron Ring (Star Ring): 35,000 gp o +5 Huge Morning star: 50,332 gp · 2 Warden of Runes (Advanced Rune Giant) [Dead] o +5 Huge Full plate: 31,300 gp o Sihedron Ring (Star Ring): 35,000 gp o +5 Huge Corrosive burst longsword: 98,360 gp Round 6 Withthe chance Zheda gave them, Alaina flew up and using her limited wish bloodmoney combo, casted invisibility purge and her skill was so that it covered theentire room, plus a little bit of the side hallway without a door. Seeing the caster, Cereliona thought toherself, ‘he looks like a giant’ as she quickly casted ‘instant Enemy’. Then she drew he adamantine chakrum and withperfect aim, through the weapon so that it burrowed itself into the caster’sshoulder. Barkenstien ran up at the sametime, and got a bite but surprisingly failed to trip the caster. Renon was far from the caster so he quicklycasted a blessing of fervor on himself. Then using that speed boast, he move to get the caster into his reachwhere he slashed at the caster head (Vital strike). Renon hit, but the caster had been fresh andwas tougher than he looked so he stayed standing. Inan instant the caster disappeared, a 10 foot tall wall of force appeared thatcut the south ¼ of the room off from the rest. Plus 4 blast fireballs detonated throughout the group. Thanks to their training Zheda and Cerelionaavoided the explosion entirely. Sais,Alaina, Renon, and Barkenstien were all surprised by the blast (failed) so gotburned, but thanks to Renon’s aura it was not as bad as it could have been. Now having no idea where the caster was, Saisheld and waited for a chance to strike. Zheda did the same, while Xavian watched with excitement. Round 7 Usinganother Limited wish and blood money, Alaina casted a disintegrate spell at thewall of force which instantly destroyed it. Cereliona then moved south a little and look throughout the room, butsaw nothing. The ranger command hercompanions to Althaea’s side. Renon moveand joined Barkenstien in the lady’s protection. He took a moment to glance at her, she wasunconscious with her eyes open, a creepy sight, but she was stillbreathing. Out of nowhere Alaina was hitby powerful magic that she luckily resisted. But feeling the attempted effect, she identified the spell as ‘Slough’,one of the more powerful transmutation spells. Switch to Group Initiative Round 1 Renonasked Alaina about the range of that spell and Alaina informed him that it was nomore than 300 feet and it required line of sight. This caused Renon as well as the rest of thegroup to look at the south tunnel they had originally entered through andrealized that it was only place that the caster could be invisibly hiding andstill have line of sight on Alaina. Soeveryone to headed that way at full speed. Renon and Alaina were the closest. Alaina’s purge aura reached the caster first, revealing him for all tosee. Seeing him, Alaina stopped andcasted a Cone of Cold which the caster was able to fully resist (Magicalprotection). But right behind that spellcame Renon, who called down a smite from Desna has he stabbed for thewizard. The point of Renon’s large Starknife pierced the caster’s heart. The strikeactually attached the caster to the weapon for a moment, just long enough tohold him up, as his Staff of power fell to the hit for floor making a loud gongnoise. The noise range loud and clear, finishingthe body fell of the weapon and collapsed to floor in a pile. Monsters · Khalib (Male Azlanti human transmuter 18) [Dead] o Staff of Power with 6 charges: 235,000 gp § Attached Arcane Battery which holds one of thosecharges: 22000 gp o Quicken Metamagic Rod: 37,750 gp o Master work Silver Dagger:322 o Amulet of natural armor +5: 50,000 gp o Evil robe of the archmagi: 75,0000 gp § variant, +4 resist to saves replaced by +4 Intenhancement: o Sihedron Ring (Star Ring): 35,000 gp o Gold-and-ivory contingency statuette: 2,000 gp, o Spellbooks (all 1-9 spells, save for anyenchantment, Sin spells, and illusion spells), o Diamond Dust: 15,000 gp TheLast thing that happened Thegroup had just defeated Khalib and Alaina was eyeing the Staff of power theRuneLord Apprentice dropped. GMFavorite moment Theend of the Khalib. I love the team workAlaina and Renon used to take him out. Experience EachPlayer received 69,620 experience points (Total: 2,267,390 [19th level]) forMonsters and Role-playing.
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Session120 (03/23/2021) Day 142 (Moonday the 10th of Calistril, Monday02/10/2048) ThePinnacle of Avarice Weather(Applied to all inside events) · Dim Light: All creatures have concealment (20%)except w/darkvision, low light, or the ability to see in darkness. A creaturewithin an area of dim light can make a Stealth check to conceal itself. · Temperature: 4 F o Unprotected character: Fortitude (DC 15, +1/check)each hour, 1d6 nonlethal damage. Gathering gear and what to do next Alainareached down and picked up the Staff of power that she had decided now belongto her. She held it, enjoying its poweras well as noticing the arcane battery on it, which just made the staff betterin her mind. Renon left her with it, andreturned to the group in the main room. Whenhe arrived, everyone stopped and listened to see if they could hear moregiants, but there was only silence. Taking this time, Cereliona got Althaea on Barkenstien’s back and withher heavy armor and gear it was not easy. However, Barkenstien being the strong member of the group had no issuewith the weight. So Renon joined Saisand Cereliona in looting the bodies, most important being the rings. They all figured that there could only be somany of these rings so they should collect them all. As all this was going on the group spoke anddiscussed what to do next. Alainaquickly pointed out that other than a one or two good spells and a few weakones, plus her new staff, she was out of magical power. Everyone else was pretty much out of magic aswell, but no one was as bad as Alaina. Discussing their options, the group felt it came down to one of threechoices: A. Leavingand resting safely outside of the occluding field in Alaina’s mansion B. Finda room, fortify it, try to rest with everyone taking a watch, and hope we don’tget attack. C. Moveforward and face Karzoug now Alainawas the most outspoken for option A, while Cereliona like C and Sais likedB. The other 2 were unsure buteventually, those two agreed that B was the best so the group decided to find aroom. Knowing it would require travelingthrough the highest number of doors and small rooms, the group went back downthe side tunnel and into the cluster of smaller rooms off it. They went all through the main area, into 4door hallway, then the large bed chambers. After that they moved into the east side hallway, and into the mediumbedroom at the end. The south, west,and north wall were all about the same length, but the east wall was only ½ aslong, giving the room a funnel like shape. It was a little tight with Barkenstien and Althaea but everyone fitcomfortable enough. Xavian then went towork healing. First using his lastchannel, as well as a cure serious for Barkenstien. Thanks to her magical griffin, Zheda washealing just fine on her own. Cerelionaand Xavian then took their time and looked over Althaea. From everything they could tell, her body wasfine, she did not even have a fast pulse and she breathed normally. However she just lied where ever they puther, in whatever position gravity dictated; like a doll. The entire time, her eyes stayed open thewhole time, until at the end Cereliona got a little creeped out and closed themfor her. From the best they could tell,she was perfectly healthy physically; but mentally ‘no one was home’. Sais then started to reach for Kassandra butshe was already on her way. Her spiritform appeared in the room for all but Barkenstien to see. Since Zheda could still see her, the groupall learned that even resurrection would not give someone back the piece oftheir soul Kassandra had taken. Thenwithout being asked, the spirit walked up to the body and stuck her incorporealhead inside the head of the unconscious woman. Then giggling a little she said, “Some ones been in here. They stayed a while, had some fun and left thisplace a mess.” She then withdrew her head which show thesmile of humor she was getting out of this. Renon’s shield then made an audible growl at Kassandra, but she ignoredit. Sais asked, “What happened to her?” Kassandra answered in a matter of fact way asshe looked at Sais and said, “You know how I can take over your body whenever Iwant to?” She then waited for Sais toanswer, which took a little over a minute of dead silence before he finallyanswered, “Yes.” Kassandra thenimmediately added, “That is what happened to her. But it over a long time. Plus unlike me, they force her to witness andpersonally do things that broke her mind.” Kassandra then walked off to the side, in a little bit of a huff. Seeingthis, Sais moved and spoke to her, not alone but as alone as they couldget. With some annoyance now in hervoice, “You only call me out to help with advice but keep me sheath when thebattle goes on.” Sais placating-lyanswered, “I was saving you as the Ace up my sleeve for when we faceKarzoug.’ She answered, “Whatever” andthen returned to the dagger. Knowing hewould pay for that later but also trying to hide his embarrassment, Sais turnedback to the group. Everyone then quicklystopped eavesdropping and returned to the issue of Althaea. Alaina brought up Limited wish to do aRestoration. Renon added that he justhad that spell memorized so he could just cast. Xavian then spoke up to everyone’s surprise and said, “I have GreaterRestoration.” Renon commented that heforgot about that one because it was beyond him (9 th level). Alaina commented, “If that doesn’t do it, weare crossing over into divine intervention (Miracle) or supreme magic (Wish)territory.” Zheda then stepped up toAlthaea and said, “I feel bad doing this, I will be stronger and she will beeasier to control if I take these.” Zheda took her Headband of inspired wisdom (+6) as well as her belt ofphysical perfection (+6). Once equipped,Zheda said, “I should be able to handle her better now.” Cereliona then said, “I have an idea” and shecalled over Barkenstien. The ranger thenrolled Althaea over on to her back in a normal flat position. She then hadBarkenstien sit on her chest to chest with his paws all around her. This allowed the dog to give the lady as muchor as little of his considerable weight (1600lb+) as he wanted. Everyone agreed that should do it so theygave Xavian the 15000 gold worth of diamond dust they took of Khalib and Xavianused 5000 of it to cast Greater Restoration. Althaea when from a lifeless doll to a fully animated and very strongperson in a moment. Her eyes popped openand with one great push of her arms she lifted Barkenstien up, getting 3 butnot all 4 paws off the ground before the dog came back down on her (Strength of30 without magic item). Shen then yelledat them as if she knew them, “Get this dog off of me. We cannot stay her, Karzoug willattack.” Cereliona called Barkenstienoff her and Althaea made it happen faster by crawling out at the sametime. She then yelled, “You cannot waither, he will come soon. Someone give mea weapon, any weapon.” Alaina held outher staff of mitral might (+2/+2 quarter staff), Cereliona held up one of theglowing longswords she got from the halls of wrath (+1 long sword), and Renonheld up the 4 remaining elemental star knives he had left (+4Fire/acid/shock/sonic). She took themall. While she stored these on her body,Sais moved up behind her and tried to cover her mouth, but she dodge out of theway. Sais then said, “You need to bequite, someone will hear you.” She thenpointed to the amulets that various members of the group, including Barkenstienwere wearing as she said, “He can see everything and hear everything they do asif he was using their eyes and ears. Itdoesn’t matter how loud I am. He knowshow weakened you are so he will have Ceoptra send all that is left her afteryou. They are coming!” Cereliona then heard a giant hand quietlyopen the door at the opposite end of the hallway outside their room so shesaid, “They are already here.” A momentlater, the southern wall crumbled to dust. As if fell, Alaina saw the magic that had sustained this wall for 10,000plus years fade and disappear in that local area. This was not so much a spell as the negationor removal of a magical effect. Andsince this was artifact and ritual level magic that meant that only thecreator, Karzoug himself, could have done it. Her guess was confirmed when the wall was fully gone. For on the other side was an enormous,bestial demon that combined the worst aspects of a bear, a mantis, a wolf, anda reptilian humanoid as well as 4 cloud giants. Plus at the very end of the hallway, 2 large Sihedron runes had beenadded and in the right one was an image of Karzoug. Renon and Alaina both had heard of this typeof demon, Shemhazina, but neither knew anything useful about it. Round 1 Cereliona’swarning and the time it took for the wall to ‘age’ was just enough for everyoneto react. Cereliona was the quickest, soshe dropped into start toss and took aim but as her eyes meet the demons, shefelt magic try to freeze her body. Sheresisted then shouted out, “The demon has gaze magic, avert your eyes.” She then finished her throw which hit thelead daemon but with the bounce missed the giant behind. Barkenstien charged in as well, resisting thecreature’s gaze like his master before he took a bite out of its right arm likeappendage. Sais averted his eyes and wasable to avoid the monster’s gaze as he first went invisible, then he moved outof the room to end up next to the creature. Althaea charged up while averting her eyes, while gripping Alaina’s Staffwith both hands. She landed all 4 blows,but a staff was not her chosen weapon and it showed by the lessen damage shedid. But using the opportunity sheopened, Sais stabbed out with his short sword while flicking a bomb, landingboth therefore blinding and wounding the beast. However, no one was doing full damage to the creature. The blinded demon then used a mass inflict woundson the group which everyone resist but still took damage from. After the demon, the southern cloud giantsstarted to throw rocks. A total of 8rocks flew at the front line troops of Barkenstien, Renon, and Althaea withfour on the fighter, but only 2 did damage both on Althaea. In the side hallway, everyone heard the last2 cloud giants move into then hallway next door, moving toward last door. Quickly opening it (free action), the giantwas able to take a swing at Barkenstien but the dog’s armor protected him. Next the image of Karzoug disappeared but amoment later, the north wall right next to Alaina crumbled to dust aswell. On the other side, about 80 feetdown a stone ramp spiral around a central Pilar that was about 50 feet from thehole. On one of those large steps wasanother Sihedron rune with Karzoug’s image. But taking up most of the new hole was a second Shemhazina demon, theair-walking and ready to fight. Reactingquickly, Alaina closed her eyes and took a step back. She used her last limited wish blood moneycombo to cast a dismissal at the demon, but it resisted her magic. Renon the quickly casted a divine power as heavert his eyes toward the south one and completely ignored the north fornow. Avoiding both gazes this way, heaimed for the south ones lung (vital strike). The stab landed, doing good but not full damage to the beast. Zheda averted to the north and ignored thesouth as she took a step north. Once there, she landed 4 of 6 hits on the demonwith the last 2 swings being a miss. Asshe missed the second time, she yelled, “We are going to be in trouble if thesedemons get in here.” Hearing this Xavianclosed his eyes to be protected from the gaze, then said, “I think I canhelp.” He then casted circle ofprotection verses Evil. The radius ofhis spell was only 10 feet but it was enough to cover almost the entire roomthey were in, keeping the demons out, but not pushing them away. Zheda said, “Thanks” in response. Shemhazian Demon · Gargantuan outsider (chaotic, demon, evil,extraplanar) Round 2 Cerelionaignored the north one and but face the southern demon. Resisting the magic of its gaze she move tothe east to add speed to her throw and let her chakrum fly. The weapon hit the demon, then bounce to thefar south, eastern Sihedron symbol destroying it, bouncing off the way into thesecond symbol’s magic and destroying it. It then bounced up the cloud giants, hitting the 3 southern ones, andleaving the last of the 4 untouched before it returned to the ranger’s hand. Barkenstien closed his eyes and attacked thedemon next to him, landing two bites thanks to his blind fighting training andwith the second he got a leg, tripping the demon. As the demon went down, Sais stabbed outlanding a solid blow on the monster (opportunists). As he twisted his blade, the last of thecreature’s life gave out causing it to disappear like the summoned creature itwas. Sais then went invisible and waitedfor the giants to come to him. With thedemon in front of her gone, Althaea ignored the demon behind her as she droppedAlaina’s staff. Then one at a time drewand through all 4 of Renon’s star knives at the closest cloud giant. The weapons did impressive damage with eachadding some elemental damage (Fire, acid, sonic, electric) to the strikes; butthe giant lived. The lead cloud giant thenaimed both its rocks at Althaea and managed to land a hit with one. The 3 behind that one aimed and threw rocksat the southern line again, but this time armor protected everyone. Next the lead giant in the hallway, tried to smashBarkenstien but due to tight squeeze of 2 huge giants in a small room, pluscover the narrow doorway gave the dog, all the giant’s swings missed. Plus, the one in the back tried to throw 2rocks, but he could not even get them through the door way, instead theysmashed against the wall. Then from theimage of Karzoug on the Sihedron rune in the stair way, a spell was fired intothe room the group was in. It caused adownpour of snow and hail that managed to damage everyone at least a little,plus it blurred vision some (-4 perception and ranged attack). Alaina kept her eyes closed, step 5 feet backto be deeper into Xavian’s protection; where she casted hold monster on thedemon, but her magic failed to beat its spell resistance. Seeing Barkenstien next to him in trouble anda Cloud giant attacking Althaea, the war-priest as, “Fight, or heal, and who?”Cereliona answered without a second thought, “Heal Barkenstien!!” so Renon didjust that, casting a full heal on the dog and he got a vigorous tail wagging asa thank you. Zheda then charged up herfist with all her sin as she swung to stung and trip the demon. Using her borrowed magical items from Althaeathe monks but back to full fighting form. Her first punch stunned the monster, which allowed her to sneak in twomedusa punches, followed by a kick and a head butt. Then for her final strike she punched thedemon in the face while unleashing all the sin she had gathered there. This powerful blow exploded the demon’s headcausing it to disappear as all summon monsters do when they die. Xavian then moved up and casted a powerfulcure (Critical) on Althaea, restoring a large portion of what the group hadtaken from earlier. Monsters · 2 Shemhazian Demon [defeated] Round 3 Cerelionathen ran to the north where she tried to throw her chakrum through Karzoug’simage but as she reached the edge she slipped on the stone dust and missed(natural 1). Barkenstien focused hisattack on the giant in the doorway. Withhis first attack, his bite went right between the giant’s legs (natural 1) andas the dog lined up to do the same thing again, Renon called on Desna’s simplebut powerful divine intervention (feat). This caused the dog to adjust his strike at just the right moment toinstead grab the giant by the leg and pulled him off balance causing him totumble to the floor (natural 1 to a natural 20). Not wanting to step out to fight the cloudgiant there, for fear of becoming a visible and very hittable target; Sais decidedto say back and wait to see what Renon did. Althaea then drew the longsword Cereliona had given her and waited tosee what the giants would do. The leadcloud giant charged up on her and landed a powerful (Vital Strike) blow on thefighter. The three rear giants continuedto rained rocks down on the party’s southern line, wounding Barkenstien(natural 20) and Althaea. From then stairsanother spell materialized in the room, creating a cloud of green and yellowtoxic gas appeared. This chocked lungsand burned everyone’s throat. Barkenstien was the only one that was not initially able to fully resistthe gases (1 con). Standing by the edge,looking at the image, Cereliona saw that as the spell was released, its magicsomehow disrupted the Rune causing the image of Karzoug to disappear in apop. Thankfully Alaina was ready forKarzoug’s parting gift. Using the trick,she had perfected in previous fights, she pulled out her staff of heaven andearth. Using this, she created apowerful wind pushing out and away from her. This cleared the toxic fog in an instant. As the fog cleared, the cloud giant in frontof him was distracted so Renon pounced. He landed 3 powerful slashed with his starknife, the last of which wentdeep enough to reach the creature’s lungs, killing it. With Renon’s slaying of the Cloud giant, Saisdid not know what to do so he step out still invisible and decided to take hischances when the giants came up because he was not going to make his allies doall the work. Althaea also had notargets in range, but she chose a different solution. She ran up on the former second, now lead,cloud giant, letting her armor stop a blow from its mace as she did. Once in range, she landed a good hit (Vitalstrike) on the giant’s shoulder but the longsword had weaker bite that she wasused to so overall she did not do a lot of damage. Zheda then did a flying kick to hit doorwaygiant that was harassing Barkenstien which stunned him. Using her medusa training, Zheda doublepunched his head, one from both sides, causing it to pop like a red liquidfilled balloon. Before the blood hit thefloor, she launched into another flying kick. This one landed a kicked on the training giant, but she was forced toavoid the first giant’s body spasming on the floor and in doing so caused therest of her punches to miss. Xavian justwatched as the group did what it did best, win. Monsters · 2 Warden of Wind (Advanced Cloud Giant) [Dead] o +2 Large Full plate: 10,300 gp o Sihedron Ring (Star Ring): 35,000 gp o +5 Huge Morning star: 50,332 gp Round 4 Cerelionathen moved south through the wind and snow so she could reinforce the southline. Barkenstien, ran into the hallway to join Zheda. Once he was close enough, he got a nip in onthe giants heel but failed to get a grip good enough to trip. The lead cloud giant tried to returnAlthaea’s hit, but she had better armor which stopped the giant’s blow. The two in the rear through rocks at the newcomer, Cereliona, but she was prepared and dodged all 4. Alaina then flew south out of the room aswell. Seeing the 3 cloud giants groupedup there, she used one of her few remaining spells to cast a strong fireball(maximized, intensified) which she followed with a quickened fireball. After the second explosion, the lead giantfell dead to the ground but the two rear ones while heavily burned, stilled remainedalive. Renon and Sais then charged uptogether with both dodging mace as they charged different giants. Renon was the closest so he landed hispowerful blow first (vital strike) but Sais was only moments behind it anddoing the same thing to his target giant. In both cases the weapon plunged deep into the giant’s neck, killingthem both. As the two giants fell,Althaea looked impress for a moment then she heard the dog’s and Zheda’s fightso she ran to join them. But she needednot bother because the fighter reached the door way just in time to see Zhedaend the fight. Drawing on her drunkenstrength this time, Zheda hit the giant with everything she could, crushing inits chest as well as it hearts, killing it before it hit the ground. Monsters · 4 Warden of Wind (Advanced Cloud Giant) [Dead] o +2 Large Full plate: 10,300 gp o Sihedron Ring (Star Ring): 35,000 gp o +5 Huge Morning star: 50,332 gp Althaea Assoon as the fight was over, Althaea gathered up the weapons she borrowed andreturned them to their owners. As shedid, Alaina ask, “Don’t you still need this.” Althaea answered in a matter of fact tone, “No, there is no one elseleft.” And then she started to leave. Out of reflex, Zheda tried to grab her and stop her from leaving. But Althaea dodged out of her grasp and whilestill moving but a little slower she said, “I need to see if the door isclosed.” Then she continued her normal pace which was not a run but it was abrisk walk. Zheda caught up and asked,“How do you know that was all of them.” Althaea answered in a tone as though she expected Zheda to know thisalready, “I was the head warrior, Karzoug’s chosen champion. I personally and rather violently trainedevery one of the giants you just killed.” Sais had to work to fight back sayingthe comment of ‘Well you did not train them very well’ and it was hard but hedid manage to bite his tongue this time. At this point they entered the throneroom and Althaea saw the prismatic wall as well as the glass, caltrops, andbear trap that protected the main door so she turned to the other sidedoor. There she led them throw the smalland unadorned side room who’s only unique feature was the ceiling 100 footheight and into a larger room that now had hole in its east wall. Rune Giant Lair Theheight of this room stayed at 100 feet. A pair of outrageously sized beds, each over forty feet long, laidagainst the far wall of this enormous chamber. A towering stone table flanked by equallyoversized chairs sat in the center of the room. Althaea walked to and through the hole with the group following. Main Entrance Hallway Theceiling of this curving hallway was only 50 feet tall as it curved to the eastfrom the throne room entrance, by 2 set of double doors to the south and thencurving south and narrowing slowly to a point where a large single door islocated. Looking over the entrance way,everyone followed as Althaea headed to the southernmost single door. Rune Giant cells Theroom ceiling elevated to 100 feet tall again as they enter this long crescentmoon shaped room. Along the outer andinner wall, as well as with a row in between were large stone chambers, eachabout the size of a Rune giant. Alianacasted detect magic and saw that each one radiate lingering but powerfultransmutation magic. After examining ita little closer as Althaea lead them through the inner hallway, she determinethey all had something to do with ‘Status’ magic. Which caused Cereliona to say, “Well now weknow where all the trained Rune giants came from.” Further down the hallway on the left was a triangularroom instead of a square one like the others. This triangular room was empty, save for a golden bed strewn with exoticfurs and silk sheets. A long shelf abovethe bed held nearly two dozen leather-bound books plus one open book on the bed. This room alone among the rune giantcells was sized for a human occupant. But Althaea walked right by it so they did not stop and look fornow. Then a few seconds later as theycame around the last bend of the hallway, they could see a massive pair ofgolden double doors behind a shimmering hazy screen of golden energy. At the end of the outer two rows of statuschambers was a smaller room about 40 by 40 with a rounded overall shape. As soon as Althaea saw the golden energy, shestop in her tracks and started to stare as she said, “It is too late. Nothing can get through that. Soon Karzoug will reach full power and then hewill return to the world to lead his army. Karzoug has won and there is no way I can stop him now.” The defeated look on her face quicklyradiated into an aura that seem to cover her whole body. Deciding not to bother the trained killer byarguing right now, the group decided to look around as Alaina and Xavian lookedat the magical aura. Khalib’s Quarters Saisheaded back down and looked at the triangular room. Looking over the books he could no longermagically read everything so he called out Kasandra to look them over. She read through all of them in about oneminute and when she was done she said, “All but the one on the bed are magicaltombs, but this one is special. Itappears to the apprentice’s biography of Karzoug’s life, but it reads more likea holy tomb.” Sais thanked her verymuch, took the books and said, “We will have to talk about that later. Got to deal with Karzoug now” and sheagreed. Reliquary Renonand Cereliona went to check out the small room. After going through the human size front door, they found a 20-foot-tallgolden statue of Karzoug, the Runelord of greed. It stood in the southern portion of thischamber with its hands held out before it as if they may have once held anobject between them. A brazier stoodbefore the statue with plumes of smokeless fire churning inside of it. To the northof the statue stood a stone pagoda-like structure, a single opening in itssouthern face revealing two smaller statues of Karzoug within, on either sideof a 20 foot- long sarcophagus bearing the likeness of the Runelord on itsgolden lid. Looking the room over andfind nothing else, they returned the outer room. Althaea’s assumption Cerelionaand Renon were done first so as an attempt to break the ice they said toAlthaea, “Do you know what that statue was holding?” Althaea answered as though she was not reallypaying attention, “It was the weapon of a Runelord, one of 7 great weaponscreated when Xin was first defeated. TheWeapon of greed is a flaming glaive.” Just before Sais returned, Alaina and Xavian finish so they all joinedin the middle by Althaea. Alainainformed everyone that the golden aura was a Wall of Force type of magic but atthe artifact level, Sais told everyone about his book find, and Renon repeatedwhat Althaea had told them. Sais thenasked Althaea, “Why can’t we get through?” She answered, “Karzoug mental linked with me to take over my mind and inthat I learned that the only thing that can take it down is a RuneforgedDominate weapon but none exist and not even Karzoug knows of a way to makethem.” Sais then smiled a little as helaughingly said, “We have Runeforged weapons.” This sentence popped Althaea back to life like the restoration frombefore. She turned and grab Sais by thecollar, “Why did you not say anything sooner. How did you get them.. Nevermind. Just get over there and take downthat wall.” Sais then started to shoutback, “Well if you would be more forth coming wit..” But he was not allowed to finish hisjustifiable rant about her inability to share information because Zheda’s handcovering his mouth. Then while holdingSais the monk looked at everyone else with a Rune forged weapon (Renon,Cereliona, and Barkenstien) and then looked at the wall. They took the hint and attacked the wall witha Starknife, a Chakrum, and Barkenstien’s fang covers. The wall took massive damage from the hitscausing it to flicker and weaken but it did not go out yet. However, as everyone was shielding their eyesfrom the light show, everyone noticed a simple wooden door along the south wallthat was not there a second ago. On thedoor was a sign that said ‘The League of Ordinary Adventures’ in professionalcarved letters but above the word ‘Ordinary’ the word ‘Extra-‘ had been crudelyadded with a knife or other sharp instrument. A respite Seeingthe door to the magical tavern caused Sais to cry out with joy as he ran to it. Since Alaina and Cereliona felt the same way butthey resist running to join Sais, instead they walked with big smiles. Zheda’s fondness for tavern was a little morecontrolled so she walked over and explained to Renon and Althaea, “This is amagical safe haven we have visited before. Come with us you will like it.” Slowly but with confident strides both moved with Zheda toward themagical, wooden door. TheLeague of “Extra-” Ordinary Adventures Thegroup entered the rectangular wooden room with barrels to their right, and far atthe counter was the Halfling sitting on a Claw-foot. The Halfling looking up at the visitors asthey entered and as soon as he saw them Anamis said, “Hello and welcome to theLeague. Now if I remember correctly,last time we saw you… You were… goingto save your.. hometown of…??? Don’t’tell me, don’t tell me. Sand port?” Sais answered, “Close, Sandpoint. But we have actually moved up, now we aresaving the world from an evil Runelord.” This caused Anamis to smile as he said, “Then you must be close to yourpoint of destiny. And if that is thecase you should know that Fate does not like it when gods interfere so you can imaginewhat she thinks of the league. As suchwe are limited in how we can help you plus help comes at a price. Our crafting and training rooms will be offlimits and you will only be allowed to purchase a single item each, but you canget a full and safe rest here tonight with no worries. The cost is that Karzoug will be given a respiteas well so any damage you may had done to him will be healed and his group willbe given the same change to purchase an item. So you must decide as a group if you are going to officially enter or ifyou are going to turn around and leave” Surprised Sais asked, “Will Karzoug beher at the same time as us?” And Anamisanswered, “Yes and No at the same time. Technically everybody is here at the same time but not, I don’t fullyunderstand it myself. The league doeswhat it wants to and in its own special way.” Zheda was very worried about the idea ofKarzoug getting any more help, especially more magic items. Cereliona wonder if they really neededanything but Althaea spoke up in a loud voice, “I need a scimitar or I will beuseless against Karzoug.” And Renon pointed out that everyone had just lost afew items due to Mage’s disjunction. However, overall the group did not really need much. Sais then asked “Anamis, if we stay when theleague will let us go in the morning because we need be there in time to stopKarzoug?” Anamis answered, “It will letyou go in enough time to face you enemy yes, but how much is up to theleague?” Renon asked the group, “If weleave will we have the time needed to rest?” Althaea answered, “I don’t know. Khalib told me that once the wall goes up it would be about 12 hours forKarzoug to reach full power. But I knowthat was dependent on the flow of greed from souls so it could be faster orslower.” After all this Alaina bottomlined it with “I don’t have any magic left, almost everyone else is low or outof everything too. We need a safe placeto rest or there is no chance we will survive.” The decision was then put to a vote with Zheda being the only one tooppose but she agreed that while it was not the best for her, it was best forthe group so she did not fight it. Oncethe decision was made Anamis smiled even bigger as he said, “Well then welcometo the League, please enter the bar, get a drink and meal.” TheLast thing that happened Thegroup had just entered the League of Extra-Ordinary Adventures. GMFavorite moment WhenZheda had to cover Sais’s mouth to stop him from, justifiably, beratingAlthaea. It is nice to see that even atthe end, some things never change. Experience EachPlayer received 96,180 experience points (Total: 2,486,850 [20th level], Gain 20 th and final level) for Monsters andRole-playing.
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Session120.5 (03/30/2021) Day 142 (Moonday the 10th of Calistril, Monday02/10/2048) TheLeague of “Extra-” Ordinary Adventurers Shopping First thing the group headed tothe market counter and made their purchase as well as selling the giant gearthey acquired so far, minus a few items like the Sihedron rings. Purchase · All giant gear acquire sold for items. · Zheda: Ring of Three Wish · Sais: Belt of Physical Perfection +6 · Cereliona: Belt of Physical Perfection +6 · Renon: · Alaina: Spell page of Wish (9 th ) · Althaea: +5 Holy (+2), Advancing (+3, 1/rd hit=1free 5ft total) Scimitar: 200,000 · Xavian: Relaxing and reading Thegroup moved into the bar and found a table. After they ordered food and drink, the waitress left and Kassandra cameout. As soon as she did she wanted totalk about the book of Karzoug’s history that Sais had found on Khalib’sbed. Sais asked her to summarize it forthem so she did. During the reign of Runelord Haphrama, Karzougwas born in a slave den in the city of Malistoke. What horrors he enduredthrough the early years of his life in the city’s flesh pits are unknown, forthey were later stricken from history at his command. One thing is for certain,though: when Karzoug walked from the dark gates of that city 27 years later, hispath was soaked in blood and his soul charred as black as night’s void. With gold teeth plucked from the head of hislast master, Karzoug was able to buy an apprenticeship with a traveling demonbinder named Thurbel. For 7 years he followed Thurbel, serving as both a lurefor summoned fiends and a slave to the wizard. He died more than once duringthese years at the overzealous claws and fangs of demons, but each time hismaster— who had grown wealthy through the sale of his demonic services—saw fitto have Karzoug resurrected. Karzoug’s suffering was perhaps as great duringthis time as it had been in Malistoke, but during these years he rose inmagical power, learning the finer points of ruler-ship and exercise of power atthe hands of amoral demon tutors. Thus, when Karzoug heard of Runelord Haphrama’scall for new apprentices, he scuffed a summoning circle during one of Thurbel’sconjurations and idly looted his master’s belongings as the freed daemondevoured the wizard’s body. With several potent magic items in tow andenough gold to impress even a Runelord of greed, Karzoug was easily selected toserve as one of Haphrama’s new devotees. At the feet of the Runelord, Karzouglearned much of the art of transmutation and the magic of greed. He found himselfenthralled by the thinning of reality that occurred near the slopes of Mhar Massif.With secret alliances between himself and denizens from Leng, Karzoug began tomaster strange, eldritch powers in secret. His pacts promised a twisting ofreality, providing his inscrutable tutors greater access to the lands of men. When,in the 206th year of his reign, Haphrama finally caught wind of Karzoug’splotting, he was too late to stop his upstart apprentice. A virulent spellprovided to Karzoug by new allies from Leng consumed both Haphrama and hisother apprentice, Vhage, stripping their souls from their bodies and hurlingthem into the void between the planes. Karzoug took up the burning glaive, the Runelordof greed’s symbol of rule, at the age of 77 and began his reign as Runelord ofgreed. His reign saw the rise of Shalast to new heights, as his cunning andmanipulative nature wended countless paths to power. Despite his people’sdread, Karzoug’s capital at Xin-Shalast rose in prominence, becoming one of theage’s most breathtaking cities, though its grandeur existed only to delight theRunelord and the nobles as well as the few slaves they gathered around them. Inhis 466-year reign, Karzoug surpassed all of the previous Runelords of greed inpower and, it could be argued, several fellow Runelords as well. Like hispeers, though, he was forced at the height of his influence to retreat from theworld to avoid the cataclysm that befell it. He took with him into thisself-imposed exile 35 rune giants and his favorite apprentice, myself [Khalib].The plan was for the stasis to persist for some time after Earthfall, with Karzougsecurely hidden between worlds in a demi-plane of his own construction, the eyeof avarice, where he would be protected long enough for the apocalypse to runits course. Unwilling to take anychances, Karzoug elected to have his protections so overwhelming within the eyeof avarice that nothing could harm him, yet this also required, what he plannedon being nothing more than a temporary, suspension of his ability to exist. The plan was to have the stasis effect on hisapprentice me [Khalib] (or failing that, one of his 35 rune giants, or failingthat, an intervention one of over a dozen other minions and apprentices throughoutthe land, who rode out the apocalypse elsewhere throughout shalast)automatically end after a period of 100 years, at which point Karzoug’s minionswould awaken and go about the process of charging his Runewell to restore himfully to life. Yet Karzoug’s plans, as with the plans of the other six Runelords,vastly underestimated the nature of Thassilon’s fall. the various betrayals bythose the seven Runelords counted as allies, combined with the utter andunanticipated scale of the devastation caused by Earthfall, completelydisrupted not only Karzoug’s complex multi-layered plans for his revival, butalso those of all the Runelords. And so time passed, and Karzoug remained instasis deep in the eye of avarice. Dormant, his mind exploring realms beyond, Karzougwaited for millennia, anticipating the time when the Runelords would once againrise over Golarion. Kassandrastop with the story and said, “Khalib added a person note at the end as well” Time, it seems, has finally come. However a team of adventures continue to be athorn in my masters side so upon the orders of my lord, I sent a team of stonegiants to Hook mountain area to gather up pieces of a monster there so mymaster can make himself an additional guard against these Heroes. But even if they come, they cannot stop him. Thisstory made the table go quite as everyone thought about all they had heardabout their next and hopefully final opponent. Zheda’ gift Wheneveryone had finished their meal, Zheda got up and pulled Cereliona off to theside. Once alone, the monk gave theranger a crumpled up piece of parchment with something solid in it and said, “Iam not the best with words so I wrote it down.” Cereliona opened it to find a magical ring and a note. Cereliona, Youalways seem to know what is wise. If allelse fails I know you will have the sense to use this well. We all know what is at stake. My hope is that you not need to use it forwhat lies ahead. Maythe works we leave behind make life richer for those who follow. Zheda Trailsdóttir Wrappedinside the parchment was a Ring of 3 Wishes. The words in the note combined with the power of the gift, left theranger speechless for a few seconds. Still blown away by all of this, Cereliona final got her voice and weaklysaid, “I try.” Zheda took that as a cueto continue so she added, “Everyone is family here. But have a good head and always try to do thesmart thing.” Cereliona responded,“Thank you. I appreciate what you havesaid and given to me. I will use it thebest I can and something like this really has a chance of helping.” Zheda then looked around for a second beforeshe jokingly said, “I would not tell Alaina about those wishes?” which causedboth of them to giggle a little. After that they returned to the group butbefore long everyone was ready for bed so they all found rooms and rested forthe night. Sais’s Capstone WhenSais went to bed, in his dream was Kassandra in a black see thru nightie. She spoke before he could, “There as somethings that are customary before a man goes into battle.” Sais smiled because while he knew this was adream, it was also in a way real. Oncetheir physical exertions were over two were laying on the bed resting whenKassandra spoke again, “I know the connection [Capstone: “With this Sword”] youmade with me and the power you gifted me with. This was my thank you for that.”Sais was then pulled up and Kassandra put her face millimeters from Sais as shesaid, “But never try to change a woman. I took the power you gave me and made it my own.” She then slapped Sais which woke him up. His face hurting, Sais rubbed it thinking, “Imay regret this.” Artifact Kassandra · Intelligentweapon · Silverdagger set with 3 blue sapphires the same color as Kassandra's eyes; one largeon in the base and 1 on each side of the dagger where the blade and hiltmeet. The blade is emblazoned with the foxglove crest near the base ofthe blade. · +4,Cutthroat Dancing, Humanoid[human] bane and Outsider[Native] bane silver dagger · Holdsspirit of Kassandra Foxglove (Book 2: Foxglove Manor) o Shecan create a sprit body to explore the area around the dagger as if she was areal person, but she cannot go farther than 15 feet from thedagger. § Whenin spirit form she is invisible to all (not even see the invisible or trueseeing can reveal her, only a wish can allow someone to see her), except aselect few. · Alaina,Cereliona, Skovald, and Zheda can see her · Saiscan touch her as if she was real person. o LanguagesSpoken by Item: Common, Under common, and Giant · Leaping:The item can leap to its possessor’s hand or become instantly equipped. As longas the possessor has the item on his person, as a free action he can call outto the item, causing it to jump into his hand (if that is how it is wielded) orequip itself in the appropriate slot (if it takes up a slot). Items that arenot wielded or do not take up a slot cannot have this power. The possessor musthave a free hand or the appropriate slot free for this ability to function. o OnlySais and Cereliona can use this power. § Cerelionamust have the dagger on her person. § Saiscan call the dagger from anywhere on the same plane, even if she is beingwielded by someone else. · ReadLanguages (Ex): The item can read script in any language, regardless of itsknown languages · Telepathyallows an intelligent item to communicate with its wielder telepathically,regardless of its known languages. The wielder must be touching the item tocommunicate in this way. · RevengeReward (Special Dance): Works Like Dancing (Std to activate) but the daggerdances for 8 rounds instead of 4 when activated and can only dance twice perday. When dancing and attacking a creature, it moves into the target’s spaceand provides the person who activated it (but no other creatures) with flankingduring his turn if he attacks the same target in melee. Once the dagger'sactivator completes his turn, the dagger moves back to her space. If directedto attack multiple creatures in the same turn, the cutthroat’s apprenticeprovides a flank against only the last creature attacked. Each round directingthe dagger is a free action but requires communicating with the Dagger in someway (voice or touch Telepathy). o OnlySais can use this power. o Commandword: Kassandra Weapon of Sin · Wraith:Once per day, the dagger may make a free attack of opportunity against anyopponent that damages you with a melee attack. It attacks as if you werewielding including any class abilities, feats, etc… that may apply to thisattack o CommandWord: Revenge Artifact powers · TrueKiller o +2hit and +2D6 damage § Extradamage is considered force unless the target creature has regeneration or anyability that is negated (temporary or permanently) by a type of damage. If more than one such damage type exist then it is the player’s choice. § Example:used against a troll with Regeneration 5 (Fire, Acid). The extra 2d6would become fire or Acid damage. · TrueFreedom o Constant Freedomof movement to the wielder o Asa standard action, the wielder of this weapon can free an adjacent creaturefrom spells and abilities that inhibit movement, such as paralysis, solid fog,slow, and web. § Thewielder attempts a combat maneuver check while holding the weapon (DC = 15 +either the spell’s caster level or the creature’s HD); success dispels theeffect. Only a single attempt can be made against each spell or effect. · Indestructible o Hardness50 and 100 HP which heal at the rate of 1 per day. § Evenif destroyed if all the pieces are gather together, and allowed to touch, theweapon will repair itself o Ignoresall Damage reductions except “/-“ and all hardness of less than 50 · MinorArtifact o +1Ego o +5all item’s abilities · FinalStats o Ego:36 o Abilities:Int= 21, Wis=19, Cha=22 o Cost: 397,310 for powers and abilities alone A very good boy Afterfully resting Cereliona woke up to find that Barkenstien had gotten a littletougher looking overnight. Thankful towhatever power granted this boon to her friend, the ranger gave the dog lots ofextra love this morning and said, “You are a very good boy aren’t you.” Barkenstien’s tail wagged a resounding “Yes”. GMGift · Barkenstien gains the ability/Capstone of “A verygood boy.” This causes his master’slevel to be consider 2 higher for the purpose of his Animal companion bonusesbut cannot excel masters total character level. o Overall effect: Barkenstien is now a 20 th level Animal Companion. The morning Thenext morning everyone woke up fully rested and completed their morning routinebefore heading downstairs. The groupgather around a table and once everyone arrived they ordered food. Everyone ate the league’s breakfast afterXavian used his magic book to make it all into a Heroes’ feast. Once done and ready, everyone gathered theirgear and headed to the exit. On theirway out, Anamis said, “Good luck, Heroes.” TheLast thing that happened Thegroup had just stepped out of the League of “Extra-”Ordinary Adventurers andwere in the void between dimensions on their way back to The Pinnacle ofAvarice to face Karzoug. GMFavorite moment Zheda’sgift. I love when a player take the timeto role play even when they are in the mist of planning their tatics for lastand biggest fight of the campaign. Experience EachPlayer received 750 experience points (Total: 2,487,600 [20 th level])for Role-playing.
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Session121 (03/23/2021) Day ??? (?????, the ?? of ??????, ????? ??/??/????) ThePinnacle of Avarice Weather(Applied to all inside events) · Dim Light: All creatures have concealment (20%)except w/darkvision, low light, or the ability to see in darkness. A creaturewithin an area of dim light can make a Stealth check to conceal itself. · Temperature: 4 F o Unprotected character: Fortitude (DC 15, +1/check)each hour, 1d6 nonlethal damage. Return to the real world Thegroup passed through the void and walked out of the wooden door in the stonewall, back into the Pinnacle of Avarice. As soon as everyone was through, the door disappeared. Looking around, no one could tell how longthey had been gone, what time it was or even what day it was because the insideof this entire structure fought the passage of time. Even the golden field that protected the doorwas still up as well, looking exactly the same. Seeing the relative safety of this area, Alaina asked if anyone had anymid value diamonds (1000 gold), but the only Diamonds anyone had was Xavian andhe only had 2 high value one (5000 gold). They were greater diamonds than needed, but they would work. Alaina then explained that she figure out anew spell that grants ‘Protection from Spells.’ Alaina then start to cast but when she was in the middle of her spells,Alaina’s lips suddenly moved on their own as Karzoug’s voice came out, “Did Iinterrupt you.” Alaina was able to holdher focus through all of this so that when Karzoug’s voice stop she seamlesslycontinued her spell (Pass check). Hearing Karzoug speak through Alaina in anattempt to interrupt her, reminded everyone that they were in his inner sanctumand that he was still watching them through each other’s eyes. Alaina did not let this stop her form showingoff her success. She explained that thetwo people that carried these gems would gain a powerful resistance to spellmagic (+8 to saves). She offered one toXavian, but to the sorceress surprise the dwarf refused it saying, “A hero willneed that more. I am only a witness.” The group then tried in vain for a while toget him to change his mind but the dwarf was stubborn. Eventually, Alaina gave in and insteadoffered the gem to Sais who happily took it. The wall and the door Withthe gem issue settled, Sais put the gem in his pocket as he turn the set ofdouble doors protect by golden light. Hethen leaned over to Althaea and asked, “What’s past those door.” Althaea answer, “Even as Karzoug’s RunelordChampion, I was not allowed to pass through those doors.” Everyone looked around at one another andwithout saying a word they all knew it was time so everyone casted, drank, oractivated any non-short duration protections (at least 1 minute duration) theyhad. Cereliona casted spells onBarkenstien, Renon casted one on himself and activated his aura of protection, whileAlaina casted several spells on herself as well as one on the entiregroup. With each spell Karzoug voicerang out of the casters mouth with insult and profanity in Karzoug’s voice ashe attempted to distract them and interrupt their spells, but with focus and alittle luck, everyone was able to keep from losing any of their magic. Sais then took and applied several of hisAlchemical creations to himself. Zhedadrank to get her strength up (Drunken Ki) but she also offered everyone a tasteof her Warm plum wine. Everyone, evenXavian, sampled it but only a small sample. Sais then pulled out his Cayden cup and made himself drunk (allbonuses). Once everyone was ready, thosewith Dominate Rune forged weapons (Sais, Renon, Cereliona, and Barkenstien)when to work on the magical wall. Eachhit caused the wall the flicker and crackle with waves of golden energy. Wanting to help out, Alaina decided to throwan acid splash spell at the wall. Firstof all her spell seemed to have no effect on the wall. Secondly as soon as the spell hit the wall, abolt of golden light struck out and hit Alaina hard(force damage). Deciding not to do that again, Alaina let theothers finish off the wall. It took fourhits from also each person before the wall came down. In fact what would have been Cereliona finalblow to the wall, turned into her weapon loudly hitting and sticking into thedoor (Natural 1). Ever and usuallyrightfully paranoid, Sais check the door over for traps but he found none. When Sais shared this with the group Zhedaasked if she could “Viking the door open.” Those that knew him, rememberedSkovald as they agreed, while Renon and Alaina who had only heard of the Vikingfrom the others, agreed as well. Saisactivated his ring as Zheda put all she had into kicking the door open. Preparations(in addition to standard morning routine) · Cereliona o [Bark]Invoke Deity Protection (Shied, Shield offaith, False life) and Strong Jaw · Renon o [Self]: Invoke Deity (Luck) o [Aura]: Aura of protection (Resist 20 allelementals) · Alaina o [Self] Protection from Energy (Fire, Cod, Acid),Extended(rod) Shield, see the Invisible o [Group and self]: Stone Skin Communal o [Self and Sais]Protection from spells · Zheda: Drank until maxed out Drunken Ki · Sais: Alchemy o [drank/took/applied to self]: Anti-plague,anit-toxin, Blood-boiling pill, Meditation tea, Still gut, Twitch Tonic,Alchemist grease (Body) o [Self]: Cup of Cayden: Drunk, Ring of Invisibility · Xavian: [Self]: Activates his magical armor The Chamber of the Anima Focus Thetwo huge, 100 foot tall doors swung open with powerful speed but they did sosilently before stopping millimeters from the wall without making any noise atall. Pillars of gold supported thearching ceiling of this room. The northern wall bores a particularly detailedmural that showed Xin-Shalast at its height, with the face atop Mhar Massifappearing to address its citizens as magical runes and spirals of energyemerged from its open mouth. Yet eventhis impressive work of art was overwhelmed by what towered in the center ofthe room: an immense, slowly rotating, thirty-foot-diameter sphere of gold, itssurface shimmered with strangely sluggish flames. A stone walkway that had several gold coinsspread about its floor with a set of stairs led up to the side of the sphere,where a five-foot wide ramp, continued to a ten-foot-wide platform balancedprecariously atop of the globe, from which a shimmering pillar of golden lightshined up to the ceiling above. Renon was the first to speak saying, “Well thisis not what I expected.” Everyonethinking of the epic battle they expected all nodded their heads, silently inagreement. Sais then spoke from himinvisibility, “Althaea, any ideas?” Sheanswered, “Sorry, I know as much about this room as you do. The only thing I know is Karzoug is supposedto be in his personal Demi-plane, until he gains enough power to return to thisone.” Looking around Sais asked outloud, “Any ideas?” Cereliona and Zhedaboth had the idea, ‘if our Rune forge weapons hurt the golden wall, maybe itwill hurt the sphere.’ But Renon, Sais,and Alaina wanted to investigate the sphere and the platform a little morefirst. Renon casted detect magic and found the coins to all be magical as wellas also being blinded by the brightness of the magic light from the sphere(Artifact). Alaina identified them asfool’s gold coins, items created by a make those who carry them weaker to theoriginal caster’s spells. The group thenall moved up on the platform and began to discuss if these coins were needed inway as part of this using this artifact sphere. While they talked, Sais invisibly walked up to the edge of the ramp buthe did not step on to the sphere’s platform. Then he pulled out his Dominate short sword and tapped it gently againstthe gold sphere. The soft gold metal didnot even scratch but a small ripple of energy flowed over the sphere, similarto the doors. Seeing this ripple Renonactivated his protective aura because he thought it meant danger and it turnedout he was right. Because a momentlater, Sais lifted his sword high and without asking slammed his weapon down onthe sphere. This caused a huge wave ofcrackling energy to flow over the sphere, clashing with itself and building inpower with each collision. Until all atonce all the crackling energy flowed to the top were it tore a hole in reality,above the sphere mere inches from Sais’s face. TheEye of Avarice Environment · Temperature: 85 F Lookingthrough the gate, everyone could see a platform beyond the gate. Numerous red-hot pillars of liquid lookinggold rose from the fires 100 foot below and around the platform. A set of steps led up from the platform 25feet before the stairs split to go around a circular central platform. Still rising the stairs curved back towardone another but before they joined, they meet the perimeter edge, a 30 footflat surface that horse-shoed around the ledge, narrowing to 20 feet at thesides. At the each of the ends of horse-shoe,a set of stairs rose inward another 10 feet to a 30foot by 20foot platform thatare support via gold chains imbedded in the pillars of gold. Each this overlooks, has as a Cloud giant onit, ready to throw lighting. Dead center of this his upper edge was a stonewalk way that led out toward the central platform the stairs encircled. On it was a stone pool of what appeared tobe molten gold. Mounted on anarticulated frame above it was a large glass lens about 10 feet indiameter. The lens was tilted such thatis focus and magnified the light coming off the pool direct at Karzoug, sittingin his thrown. In front of Karzoug, butnot blocking the light was a centaur-like monster with the body of a largepanther and the head, arms, and torso of a pretty human female. On either side of her, blocking both sets ofstairs are a Rune Gaint and a Huge Blue Dragon. Looking at the dragon, everyone recognized him as Ghlorofaex,resurrected. Plus the four of them (Karzoug,Rune Giant, Ghlorofaex, and Ceoptra) all appeared to be composed of countlessparticles that separated and reconnected to remain whole, while overall keepingtheir appearance recognizable. Seeingall this, Alaina called all she had as a hero and tried to be the first to act(Player gift: Natural 20). However, eventhis supreme act was not enough to be faster the skill and dexterity of others;but she went before more of her opponents which is ultimately what mattered toher. Round 1 Therippling chaotic energies of the portal, negated Sais’s invisibility for amoment as it opened. Seeing the rogue,Karzoug acted the fastest and casted a Disintegrate targeting him. However Sais had recently prepared forsomething just like this (Spell Dodging armor)so his armor moved Sais out ofthe way at the last moment causing the green ray to miss (Karzougs RTA was 3over Sais AC without special +4). Cerelionawas next so she moved up behind Sais where she dropped into Startoss style andsaw the Storm giant up on the overlook. Seeing her hated enemy, a giant, she figure one target was good as anyright now so she took aim and let her chakrum fly. The weapon flew through the portal and hitthe giant but did not do full damage (DR) before magically teleporting back toher hand. After that Barkenstien tookflight and moved into the room. As he entered, he felt and resisted a magicalforce so he was able to enter and move to the side out of the way. Alaina then casted Time Stop. Using the 3rounds of quasi-time she got, she casted haste on everyone but Sais andBarkenstien. She then flew through theportal, resisting the same magic Barkenstien did. Before she drew a scroll and casted Foresighton herself. She then moved to about 5feet in front of the port and centrally located where she casted Aroden'sSpellbane to protect her and those in 10 feet from the most power and commontransmutation spells as well as dominate monster. Next the Centaur-like lady air walked forwardwhere she casted a quickened bless on all her allies before she casted aDestruction on Alaina. The sorceressresisted the magic, thanks to her protection from spells, but even doing thatthe spell was able to drain some of her life away (Pass, 10d6). Sais’s invisibility returned as he activatedhis boots of speed as he dropped into Cloak and Dagger style. Then he used thepower of his way finder and his stone to gain protection from evil, before hemoved through the portal. As soon as hestep through two things happen. First,his invisibility was lost as if that type of magic did not work here. Second,He felt as if he had hit an invisible brick wall that kept him from movingforward (east and natural 1 on save). Althaea then run through the portal, resisted the magic while moving tothe left (south) so others could follow. The dragon then roared showing is presence to one and all (Dragonfear). Sais called on his heroic spirit(Player Gift natural 20) to resist this fear and Cereliona did the same but notfor her. Instead she gave that will toresist fear(Player gift: Natural 20) to Barkenstien which allowed those two tocompletely ignore the fear. Everyoneelse, was able to resist the fear themselves except for Alaina. She became panicked and screamed at the sightof the huge Wyrm dragon. The monster then breathed lightened into the air,creating a storm cloud above it. TheRune giant then pulled one of the four spears at its back and through it,followed by all 3 of its fellows at Alaina. Thanks to Alaina’s many protections, only one struck her, but it evenone still hurt. Xavian used his broom tofly through the portal, resisting he magic on the other side, and using all hishasted speed to reach Alaina were he casted remove fear. Next from the lava that surround the centralplatform with the well on it, rose a familiar looking monster. It was nearly the same gargantuan creaturewith a long serpentine neck that supported a leering reptilian head and a body thatwas a wriggling mass of tentacles, that most of the group had face back in TurtleBack ferry. It was Black Magga but herbody was wrapped tight bandages at all places where the group had chopped herup. In addition, the creature’s veinsnow glowed red through its dark skin and its body gave off great heat as if ithad lava for blood now. Zheda knew thatthis meant she was a JuJu Zombie (template), one of the most dangerous kinds,plus Renon shouted out that the monster had also been infused with theelemental of fire (Elemental infused template). But for Zheda this was worse for now that she was in another dimensionshe hoped she would be able to dimensional hop again and Sais knew that it thatmonster the was preventing his invisibility from working as well. The creaturewasted no time and sent her tentacles at the group’s front line: Althaea,Barkenstien, and 2 at Alaina; with all four coming up from the stone below them. Everyone managed to avoid one, but Alaina didnot see the second. This allowed BlackMagga to get grip on her and pull her closer while also trying to squeeze thelife out of her. Seeing Alaina in dangerZheda thought, ‘you have so got to die’. She then ran up, avoided a tentacle slap (AOP) and punched the beast inits face while focusing on her own personal sin of greed (Cold iron) whichallowed her to full damage but not stun the monster. Next Renon flew into the room to land rightin front of Black Magga where he quickly casted Divine power before he swungfor the monsters throat (vital strike). He landed a powerful blow but the monster resisted a good portion of it(DR). Next the two Storm giants bothcasted a Chain lightning on Renon which arced to every one of the group membersexcept Cereliona who was still outside the portal. Thanks to training (Evasion and improvedevasion), luck (passed saves), Desna’s protection (Renon’s aura) and immunityto electricity (Alaina); the group survived all this lightning with only Xavianand Renon taking any damage; but even that was small (16). Round 2 Karzoungthen used a magical rod to quickly cast Time stop. Much like what the group had seen Aliana dobefore, Karzoug seemed to blur for an instant then magical spells appearedaround them. A prismatic wall now blockthe portal keeping Cereliona out, the floor that everyone stood had become afield of rubbery black tentacles that appeared to be burrowing up from thefloor as they reached for any creature they could which included the entiregroup, except Barkenstien. Karzoug nowstood in front of a Prismatic sphere with 4 balls of lightning dancing aroundhim. With a nod from the Runelord, theballs of lighting shot toward Barkenstien. Each one of them became a sphere of energy encompassing the dog. But thanks to the dogs training (Evasion) andRenon’s aura, very little of the electricity actually shocked him. Karzoug then casted a Cloud kill that coveredthe same area as the black tentacles. Everyonehad strong constitutions (passed) but Zheda and Alaina were the only ones trulyimmune so everyone else felt the spell take some of their stamina (1 ConDamage). Using the Ring Zheda had givenher, Cereliona wished the prismatic wall away. Thanking Zheda in her head, the Ranger then ran into the room andresisted the magic before she turned and moved next to friend, Barkenstien, andthankfully out of the poisonous cloud. Barkenstien then used his saddle to take flight so he could reach thenorthern storm giant. However it tookall the dog had to make it their while dodging the giants fist (AOP). Alaina then quickly casted Dimensional doorto get free of Black Magga. ThankfullyAlaina spell was power strong enough to beat Black Magga’s powers (passedcaster check) so she disappeared and then reappeared back, next to the southpoint of their entry portal. Thecentaur-like lady, Ceoptra, and then she air walked back so that she needed updirectly in front of and protecting Karzoug. There she casted Boneshaker, targeting the flying dog. The spell shook the dog’s very skeleton buthe was able to resist the magic but it still hurt (1/2). Sais, the only one that could not moveforward, took the time to sheath his weapon (Standard) and then he said,“Kassandra” which caused the dagger to appear in his hand(Free). Using the magic it gave him, Sais ignored theforce holding him as well as the tentacles as he charged forward through thecloud stopping feet from the tentacle monster. Seeing the creature up close, Kassandra roared with rage for all tohear. However, running through all thatpoison fog took its toll on Sais(1 Con). Althaea moved up into the cloud. Her strength was such that she was able to brute force her way rightbehind Sais but due to the small width of the walkway, she could not reach themonster or get out of the fog yet. Fromthe cloud above the Dragon, a bolt of lightning shot out at Barkenstien. The dog was still getting his footing so he wascaught off guard (failed) and without Renon’s aura it hurt. Then about 10 feet to the east of Barkenstienand north east of the portal a perfect copy of the dragon appeared. Having seen this before everyone knew it wasGhlorafaex’s mirage ability. Howeverthat still concerned them because they knew he could use his breath weaponthrough it. The Rune Giant then chargedup and swung down its great sword on Renon, but the narrow stairs (15 foot widefor 20 foot wide giant) kept it off balance enough that its swing missed. Knowing there was nothing he could do aboutthe cloud, Xavian got out of it and readied to heal if anyone needed it(readied action to channel). The zombieBlack Magga then leaned back 5 feet (5 foot step while climbing) and took adeep breath before she expelled white and grey cloud that sparkled, her breathof madness. This cloud covered everyonebut Barkenstien. Inside the cloud, Zhedareset personal change (Capstone: Spawn of Sin) had made her immune tothis. This gave her the chanced to lookaround at everyone. She that all butSais were resisting it. Worry for herfriend allowed her to once again, share that which makes her a hero withhim. And when she did, Sais was able toresist the madness (Player Gift: Natural 20). However even resisted, themonster powerful breath left a lasting effect (1 Wisdom Damage). Zheda then stepped up to Black Magga as shecalled the sins of greed and wrath into her fist. She then laid into the monster attempting tostun and head but her each chance she got. Landing a total of 6 of her 7 attempts, but nothing seemed to stun thisundead monster (passed all saves). Thisleft the undead monster heavily damaged but still moving. Next Renon then tried to charge up on themonster but as he did, Black Magga whipped a tentacle out and grabbed him. Pulled in and held by monster, Renon Tried tobreak free but when he failed to get free; he did not give up. He casted the quick spell of cold ice strikewhich hit the monster as well as the Rune giant next to it. The monster only took a glancing blow(passed) but the Rune giant took it full in the chest, but unfortunately thegiant was immune to the cold of it. Thespel did froze some of Black Magga’s flesh which slowed its movements andshowed it damaged state (Less than 10 HP). The north storm giant drew his longsword and tried to cut up the dog butall of his blows were stopped by the power of Shaelyn that Cereliona’s magichad given the dog. The other Stromgiant, drew a massive bow and fired an arrow at Alaina. Out of instinct Alaina casted Emergency forcesphere. Once the shield when up, blockinghis shot; the giant simply changed targets to Xavian and fired two morearrows. But thankfully Xavian’s armorand magical protection where up to the challenge and he took no damage. TheLast thing that happened Thegroup had just started to battle Karzoug. While the fight is long from decided the group is on the defensive fornow. GMFavorite moment BlackMagga rising up out of the lava. Thegroup all shouted and railed about seeing her. Then they remembered the Black Arrow Letter that mentioned some giantssteal Black Magga’s remains [Foreshadowing :)] Experience EachPlayer received 1000 experience points (Total: 2,488,600 [20th level], 20 th and final level) for andRole-playing.
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TheEye of Avarice Environment · Temperature: 85 F Combatnotes: Current active spells and effects or states · Alaina o [Self] Protection from Energy (Fire, Cod, Acid),Extended(rod) Shield, see the Invisible o [Self] Aroden's Spellbane: Disintegrate, Fingerof Death, Wail of the Banshee, Baleful Polymorph, Dominate monster o [Group and Self]: Stone Skin Communal, Haste o [Self]:Emergency Force Sphere · Barkenstien o [Cereliona]Invoke Deity Protection (Shied,Shield of faith, False life), Strong Jaw o [Alaina]Stone Skin (Communal) · Cereliona o [Alaina]Stone Skin (Communal), Haste · Renon o [Self]: Invoke Deity (Luck) o [Aura protection]: Resist 20 all elementals,Sacred AC bonus o [Alaina]Stone Skin (Communal), Haste · Sais: o [Self, Alchemy]: Anti-plague, Anti-toxin,Blood-boiling pill, Meditation tea, Still gut, Twitch Tonic, Alchemist grease(Body) o [Self, Item] Cup of Cayden: Drunk, Haste,Protection from evil, Invisibility{suppressed} o [Alaina] Stone Skin (Communal) · Xavian: o [Self, activated] Field medic Armor o [Alaina] Stone Skin (Communal), Haste · Zheda: o [Alaina] Stone Skin (Communal), Haste o Karzoug o [Spells]: Bless, ?Particle spell? and Haste · Ceoptra o [Spells]: Bless, ?Particle spell? and Haste o Ghlorofaex o [Spells]: Bless, ?Particle spell? and Haste o Rune Giant o [Area]: Off balance/Squeezing to stand on smallstairs o [Spells]: Bless, ?Particle spell? and Haste · Cloud Giants o [Spells]: Bless · Area effects o Area right in front of Portal § [Karzoug]: Cloud kill and Black Tentacles o Sphere around Karzoug’s throne § [Karzoug]: Prismatic sphere TheEye of Avarice Environment · Temperature: 85 F Round 3 Karzougstarted by sending his balls of lightning at Cereliona but the ranger had fastfeet (passed all 4 saves with evasion) so avoided them. Next he aimed a Disintegrate at Zheda and asit struck Zheda felt the spell begin to destroy her. Fighting it she tapped into her Mark as shesaid, “More” then with renewed energy she fought of the spell (Reroll passed)but it still weakened her (damaged even if pass). Karzoug then quickly casted a mudball andaimed it at Barkenstien. The ball hitbut the dog was able to keep the mud out of his eyes (passed save). Cereliona then held back and waited to seewhat Alaina would do. Alaina responsewas to cast time stop. Using the 2rounds of quasi-time she first dismissed her bubble so she could move behindthe portal, where she casted Form of the dragon 3 to become a Huge CopperDragon. Then the spell ended and she returnedto normal time as a new scaled beast. Alaina moving and changing into a copper dragon was not what Cerelionaexpected, she was not sure what she had expected, but not that. So she simply turned and looked at the Giantattacking her dog and thought, ‘Bad giant’. She then tossed her chakrum up to bounce it of the giant 5 times, allbut the last one got through the giants armor and cut up his flesh’ butunfortunately the weapon did not do full damage(DR). After that she step south 5 feet to getbehind the cloud and away from the balls of Lighting. Barkenstien then went after the giant withhis Adamantine Runeforged teeth caps. His first hit was to a leg which he used to drag the giant down and hequickly followed that up with another bite to the side, both doing fulldamage. After that the dog, 5 foot steppedcloser the out wall for safety while still keeping the giant in reach. Ceoptra then air-walked up to the ZombieBlack Magga and used a harm spell to heal the undead of a great amount ofdamage. She then quickly castedspiritual weapon and sent it after Zheda. The force weapon only landed one of its 3 attempts, but that one didwound the monk. Kassandra screamed, “Kill, Kill!, Kill!!,Kill!!!” in Sais’s head, which help to motivate him to run up on the tentaclemonster. He barely (53v52) managed toavoid the thrashing of Black Magga’s tentacles (AOP) as his carpet flew himinto place. Once he was in position heslashed out with Kassandra aiming for the creature’s heart. The artifact magic of the knife that isKassandra was so powerful, that the small blade opened a 6 foot long, 1 footdeep, and 6 inch wide gash in the monsters side (1/3+ of remaining HP). Seeing the creature take a good hit, Althaeamoved up as well and landed a powerful blow with her new magical scimitar(vital strike). This time it was thestrength and skill of the fighter combine with the magical power of her weapon,that allowed her to land a powerful gash (1/2+ reaming HP) to Black Magga’sother side. As the creature recoiledfrom this and turned to look at the fighter that just wounded her, Sais saw hischanced (opportunist). At first hesqueezed the grip of his offhand short sword but he heard Kassandra say, “No”in his head. Knowing what it meant, Saisdid not think, he just obeyed and struck out with the dagger. The sliver dagger plunged into the open wouldof the monster and found it’s heart, were the magical power of the blade slicedit in two. That released the necromanticenergy that animate its body. Thiscaused the body Black Magga to come apart where the tentacles and had previousbeen reconnected. All of these partsfell off the stairs and ledges to land in the lava below were they sizzled. Thedragon then took flight from its corner and landed on the north stairs,blocking them. It then took a deepbreath and exhaled a storm of lighting over everyone but Xavian and Alaina,both of whom were barely out of range. Zheda, Cereliona, and Sais all reacted quickly enough so that combinedwith their training they took no damage; but Renon, Barkenstien, and Althaeawhere not as fast (failed) so took the dragons blast. However, Renon’s Aura of protection reachedeveryone so the damage was lessened for all. Next from the dragon’s storm cloud a bolt of Lightning shoot out andstruck next to Zheda because the monk’s reflexes moved her out of the way justin time (passed, evasion). In itsparticle state the Rune giants body seem to heal a little (fast healing 3) asthe giant took a single step back, but due to the narrow walkway (10 feet walkway,15 foot wide creature) the giant still was off balance, which allowed Renon toget a hit in (AOP). The wound did notstop the giant’s plan as it forced magic into the runes on its skin. This caused a shower of sparks to rain overRenon, Athlaea, Sais, and Zheda. Thistime Althaea and Sais reacted in time but Zheda and Renon did not, but unlikelast time the damage came from 2 elements (fire and electricity) so Renon’sprotection helped even more than against the dragons blast. As a result, Renon only got a minor burn andZheda only got her hair singed (5 damage). Now seeing all his allies wounded, Xavian flew into the center of cloudkill so that he could reach everyone one with his channel. Breathing in the smoke caused him to cough (2Con Damage) but he was able to avoid the black tentacles and get his wave ofhealing to the group. Zheda then focusedher training to add Acid to her hands, before she punched Ceoptra in the templestunning her, which allowed the monk to land 2 powerful Medusa hits to herstomach before she followed that up with a powerful kick, a sweep kick, and ahead butt; all of which landed but nothing seemed to effect this 4 leggedmonster (passed all checks). The monkthen missed with a kick and punch before she used the hasted speed Alaina’sspell had given her to land a powerful blow to the monsters rib cage that wasjust powerful enough to stop the monster’s heart (-1 HP) causing her todrop. Her spayed body, floated on thenatural air walk ability she possessed, even as she was dying. Renon then quickly casted a Heal on himselfso he could recover from all the blast of lightning and fire. The using his wings, he moved 5 feet closerto the giant were he lashed out 4 times at the monster. However, fate was not on his side (3unconfirmed natural 1s and a normal miss) so Renon called on Desna’s luckinstead (Aspect of the Deity: Luck), turning the last miss (natural 1) into ahit which was a good but not powerful one. The northern storm giant then turned its great sword on Barkenstien asthe other fired arrows at Barkenstien. Of the 3 arrows and 3 sword slashes, nothing got throw either of thefurry creatures’ armors. Monsters · Element-Infused, Juju Zombie Black Magga [Dead] · Ceoptra [Female Lamia Harridan Oracle 14][dying] Round 4 Afireball then shot from the burning glave in Karzoug’s right hand with noapparent action by Karzoug. The ball offire, flew toward the monk, exploding where it blast hit the Rune Giant as well(immune); but Zheda had reflexes beyond human now with allowed her tododge. Karzoug then used the rod in hisleft hand to quickly cast a Volcanic storm over the central group members whichburned and bludgeoned Althaea, Renon, and Sais which left them in a stillblowing but no longer dangers storm of ash and heat which obscured their viewof Karzoug as well as the view of everyone behind them (-4 perception and -4Ranged). Karzoug motion his head south,moving all 4 balls of lightning south were they automatically encounteredCereliona and stop next to her. However,the ranger had sent time avoiding Alaina’s spells which had been perfectpractice for this, allowing her to avoid all 4. Karzoug was not slowed by this, he only smiled and said, “You don’tunderstand who you are dealing with and powers I wield, but you will see. I wish Ceoptra restored.” Ceoptra then rose from her near death but notdying state, backed on her feet, fully healed, and ready to fight, but as shedid the particles her body were made of combined into her single form, ended thatspell. But Karzoug who was still made ofparticles, took a single (5 foot) step back into the protection of his prismaticSphere. Alaina then used her new dragon wings to fly, going up over the portalto stop flying above the cloud kill spell. She then breathed a line of acid right into the Rune Giant’s whichheavily burned the giant even though he had a resistance (failed save); but itwould still take more than that to bring down the huge fighter. Alaina then roared, filling everyone but herallies with fear; but all remaining enemies were either a harden fighter orstrong willed so they all resisted the dragon fear. Cereliona then activated her armor and tookflight. She went 25 feet straightup. She then turn to watch asBarkenstien used the skills she taught him, to first nip the northern stormgiant on the arm is it lied on the stone before the dog lunged for the giant’sthroat, ripping it out; killing the giant. The dog then took another step closer to the back wall, and away fromthe now dead giant. Ceoptra quicklycasted blindness on Zheda, but the monk resisted the magic. Next she casted Harm and touched Zheda, andeven though she resisted the magic as much as she could (passed), the spellstill took some of her life. The 4legged monster, then took a step away from Zheda. Now that Black Magga was gone, Sais used hisring to turn invisible before he used his carpet to fly right up next toCeoptra. Once there, Kassandra took tothe air of her own will (dancing). Happyto have her release him from wielding her, Sais used his new combat scabbard toquickly draw his other short sword (Swift). Althaea’s armor stopped a slash from the giant’s sword as she moved upon the Rune giant. Once she was closeenough, she swung with all she had (greater Vital Strike) and landed a powerfulblow verses the monster. A bolt oflightning then shot out of the dragon’s storm cloud, as Ghlorofaex casted aspell to make a large hand of pure force appear between the dragon andAlaina. The hand then tried to push theflying Alaina, but she was able to hold her ground. The Rune giant then laid into Renon, but onlylanded one of its 4 attempts. Xavianthen flew out of the top of the cloud kill spell and seeing everyone; he positionhimself centrally and channeled again. Zheda next stepped between dimensions to appear inside Karzoug’s sphere,right next to the powerful wizard. Tothe monk’s surprise she only landed 1 of the kicks and punches she through,plus that one was a spin kick designed to trip the mage but a magical effectkept Karzoug standing. Also the acid onher hands and the cold aura from her magical items, did not affect him either(resistance to both elements). Next,Renon called on Desna to smite the Rune giant before him as he slashed out 4times, but only landing 2. However, 2 was a lot because the second sliced intothe giant’s skull (natural 20), killing the beast. Next 3 arrows rained down on Renon from thesouthern warden of thunder, with one managing to find a gap in Renon’s armor(Natural 20). Monsters · Warden of Thunder (Advanced Storm Giant) [Dead] o +5 Great Sword: 50,500 gp o +5 Full Plate: 29,150 gp o Sihedron Ring (Star Ring): 35,000 gp o Arrowmaster’s Bracers: 13,900 gp Round 5 Karzougreposition himself to the north sized of Zheda (5 foot step) before he castedSight of Wrath. Which much to thewizards surprise, Zheda completely avoided (pass save with evasion, Bull rush of62 vs CMD 72). However, Karzoug quicklysolve the problem, by casting Maze on Zheda, sending her away to her ownpersonal extra-planer maze. Alaina thecasted a powerful fireball (empowered, maximized, intensified) on Ceoptra andthe Dragon. Ceoptra was burned by it butthe dragon had good reflexes and a magical resistance to flame so took nodamage. Alaina then cast a quickened fireball,this one caught both off-guard (failed) so added to Ceoptra’s burns and evenmanaged to get some flame past the dragon’s resistance. Looking around, Cereliona saw no nearbytargets so she whistled for Barkenstien to follow as she made her way to theRune Giant. However, they both only gotto within 10 feet of their target at this point. Ceoptra then casted a quickened invisibility purgeto find the invisible rogue and finding him right next to her. She responded by casting destruction on therogue which even though he resisted it, the spell still managed to rip apartsome of his being. The lady then airwalked back 5 feet. However, Saisfollowed her (5 feet). The flyingKassandra was the first to strike, landing a good blow which gave Sais hisopening (opportunist). As Sais sunk hissword into her flesh, a bomb exploded right in front of Ceoptra’s eyes blindingher. Sais then did a quick stab witheach blade, causing the blades to meet inside her body and killing her. Althaea then ran up the stairs towardKarzoug’s sphere but she did not reach it yet. The Dragon moved back so it could once again breathe electricity on everyone. Renon, Xavian, and Althaea where unpreparedso they took the full blast but they were still within Renon’s aura so thathelp a little. Barkenstien, Sais, andCereliona all ducked and dodged around the lighting (evasion) while Alainaignored it (Immunity). Then the hand offorce, once again failed to push Alaina back, but stay between her and thedragon keeping her from getting closer. Finallya bolt rained down and struck Renon, shocking him for just a little bitmore. Xavian stayed in the air above thegroup, staying with them and channeling once again. Alaina felt Zheda’s need so as a hero shegave some of her destiny to the monk (GM gift: Auto Pass one check), thisallowed the monk to find her way out of the magical maze (Pass Intelligencecheck of 20). As she appeared, shelooked at Karzoug and said, “Did you miss me?” with a big smile on herface. Outside the sphere, Renon quicklycasted a heal on himself before he took flight, dodging around the pillars ofburning hot gold as well as the dragons jaws; Renon got in position behind thelarge reptile and landed a powerful blow to it side. The cloud giant then casted Call lighting andbrought a bolt down on Althaea who was now outside Renon’s protection andtherefore was harmed by the lesser bolt Monsters · Ceoptra [Dead] o +5 human bane outside native bane unholy danger:162,302 gp o Head band of Alluring Charisma +6: 36,000 gp o Necklace of Adaptation: 9000 gp o Ring of Force Shield: 8500 gp o Sihedron Ring (Star Ring): 35,000 gp · Warden of Runes (Advanced Rune Giant) [Dead] o +5 Huge Full plate with Acid Resistance 30:64,300 gp o Sihedron Ring (Star Ring): 35,000 gp o +5 Huge human bane outside native bane Corrosive burst longsword: 98,360 gp o Belt of Stoneskin: 60,000 gp Round 6 NextKarzoug step out of his sphere and as he did, another fireball shot out of theglave in his hand. Again it was aimed atAthlaea, who rolled and was able to avoid the worst of the fire. Karzoug then casted Horrid Wilting on thefour nearest to him (Althaea, Barkenstien, Renon, and Cereliona) with thefighter and the dog resisting the magic for a lessened effect (1/2) while theother two were severely harmed by the spell. Karzoug then used his meta-magicrod for third time to again cast time stop. Which made it so, out of nowhere, Cereliona and Barkenstien were bothtrapped inside Windowless Cells of pure force (Force Cage) and Karzoug was nolonger standing outside his Sphere, Zheda saw him just appear in the spherewith her. Alaina then flew up next tothe sphere where she could get a clear shot on at the dragon and then shecasted a Cone of cold that both hit the dragon, but also Karzoug’s sphere. This surprised the dragon (failed) anddamaged it, despite its powerful magical cold resistance; but it also hit andtook out the red layer of Karzoug’s Prismatic sphere. After that she hit the dragon with a quickenfireball, but this time the dragon was ready so after rolling (passed) and combinedwith his magical resistance; he took almost no damage (<10 hp). Next Cereliona once again mentally thankedZheda as she looked at her ring and wished that Barkenstien and herself wouldbe teleported out of these boxes. Theranger focused the magic so she appeared next to Karzoug’s sphere, whileBarkenstien appeared flanking the dragon with Renon. AS soon as she appeared,she quickly casted instant enemy on the dragon, allowing her and more importantlyBarkenstien to see the reptile as a giant (Gaining the favorite enemybonuses). This combined with theprevious spells he had gain, the training his master had given him, plus themagic items he wore, but most of all because he was a ‘very good boy’; allowedthe dog to land two powerful bites to the dragons exposed neck and rip out thedangerous beast throat, killing it. Asthe dragon die, Sais then toasted Cayden which pulled him into the void betweendimensions and pop out inside Karzoug’s sphere, flanking Karzoug withZheda. Kassandra had came with Sais andshe was the first to strike. The flyingknife landed a good hit, but the particles that made up Karzoug’s bodyprevented her from hitting anything vital (Immune to sneak attack and precisedamage). However, as she struck Saisacted on the teamwork the two had perfected to strike at the opportune moment(opportunist), landing a stab with his short sword as he flicked a bomb rightinto Karzoug’s eyes. However, Karzougjust shook his head (free action) and a magical effect restored his sight. Hoping the mage could only do that once, Saisused the speed Alaina’s spell gave him, to flick another bomb into Karzoug’seyes. Once again the mage was blinded,but once again he shook his head and a magical effect restored his sight. After that Sais only landed a singled blowfrom his short sword as Karzoug’s magical protections shielded him from theother 4 swings. Althea then crossed thelast 10 feet the Karzoug sphere where she did the only thing she could, sheroared at Karzoug, “You coward come out here and fight me! I am going to kill you!” Xavian stayed flying on his broom and movedwith the group then once everyone was back in range, he channeled again. Zheda then called on her pride to make acouple illusionary copies of herself (2 mirror images) as she also focusedwrath into her hands. She then let loosekicking, punching, and attacking Karzoug with everything she could throw athim. She only managed to land her firsttwo, a punch and a sweep kick, after that Karzoug found her rhythm. Plus thesweep kick which at least hurt the wizard, failed to trip him due to somemagical force that continued to hold him upright. Renon then took fight toward the onlyopponent he could reach, the last cloud giant, still up on its ledge. Flying at hasted speeds, he easily avoided itas the giant tried to swat him out of the air (Slam) before he came in to landa powerful slash across the monsters chest. In response to the hit, the giant dropped its long bow and quickly drewit sword (quick draw) before it slashed at Renon. Its long sword bounced off Renon’s armor allthree times, leaving the War-priest unharmed. Monsters · Ghlorofaex[Dead] o Ring of Energy resistance, greater (Fire):44,000 gp o Amulet of Energy resistance, greater (Cold): 66,000gp o Sihedron Ring (Star Ring): 35,000 gp TheLast thing that happened Allopponents were dead or dying except for Karzoug and a lone storm giant thatRenon is working on. Sais and Zheda areinside Karzoug’s prismatic sphere doing battle with him while everyone else itoutside the sphere trying to take it down so they can join. GMFavorite moment Barkenstienkilling Ghlorofaex. This was just thelatest in a long line of event throughout this entire campaign that startedwhen a Ranger adopted a dog she found in Sandpoint after defeating the goblins(Between books 1 and 2) were Cereliona(Tom) has shown me over and over againthat Animal companions are something to fear, respected, and enjoyed. For not only was Barkenstien dead useful anddeadly in combat but he was also a great addition to the role playing dynamicof the group as well as to Cereliona’s personal development as a character. Experience EachPlayer received 64,500 experience points (Total: 2,552,100 [20th level]) forMonsters and Role-playing.
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TheEye of Avarice Environment · Temperature: 85 F Combatnotes: Current active spells and effects or states · Alaina o [Self] Protection from Energy (Fire, Cod, Acid),Extended(rod) Shield, see the Invisible, Form of the Dragon III o [Self] Aroden's Spellbane: Disintegrate, Fingerof Death, Wail of the Banshee, Baleful Polymorph, Dominate monster o [Group and Self]: Stone Skin Communal, Haste o [Area]:Emergency Force Sphere (direct South westof South portal pillar) · Barkenstien o [Cereliona]Invoke Deity Protection (Shield,Shield of faith, False life), Strong Jaw o [Alaina]Stone Skin (Communal) · Cereliona o [Alaina]Stone Skin (Communal), Haste · Renon o [Self]: Invoke Deity (Luck) o [Aura protection]: Resist 20 all elementals,Sacred AC bonus o [Alaina]Stone Skin (Communal), Haste · Sais: o [Self, Alchemy]: Anti-plague, Anti-toxin,Blood-boiling pill, Meditation tea, Still gut, Twitch Tonic, Alchemist grease(Body) o [Self, Item] Cup of Cayden: Drunk, Haste,Protection from evil, Invisibility{suppressed} o [Alaina] Stone Skin (Communal) · Xavian: o [Self, activated] Field medic Armor o [Alaina] Stone Skin (Communal), Haste · Zheda: o [Alaina] Stone Skin (Communal), Haste o [Self]: Pride sin: 2 mirror images until startof turn o Karzoug o [Spells]: Bless, ?Particle spell? and Haste · Area effects o Area right in front of Portal § [Karzoug]: Cloud kill and Black Tentacles o Sphere around Karzoug’s throne § [Karzoug]: Prismatic sphere · Red layer down, o Karzoug made of particles Round 7 Karzougsmiled as a large portion of his wounds healded (Fast healing), then looking atZheda and Sais as he pulled out yet another Diamond with the Sign of wrathengraved on it. Before saying, “Goodbye” as he casted another Sign of wrath. As expected both the heroes avoided the damage of the spell (Evasion),but the force effect was so perfect (natural 20) that even Zheda could not holdher ground so Sais had no chance. As aresult Zheda was pushed 5 feet south, through the prismatic sphere aroundKarzoug, while Sais was pushed 15 feet north throw the sphere as well. Both took some Acid (orange) and someelectrical (Yellow) damage from the first two layers and then completelyresisted (passed) the poison of the next layer (green) thanks to Xavian’shereos’ feast and the gifts from Cayden they both had (Bonus vs poison) withSais getting a little more help from his anti-toxin. Zheda was able to resist the petrification ofthe next layer (Blue) but Sais did not. However as his body was being turned to stone, the spell did notstop. Both had their minds assaulted(insanity, Indigo) but Zheda’s recent changes (Capstone) had mad her immune tosuch things, while the chemicals of Sais meditation help him fight this chaosmagic just before his brain became stone. Then seeing their friends about to die the way Amarylsis did back in theRavenous crypts of gluttony (Violet, random plane shift); Cereliona and Renonwilled their destiny (2 GM gift Natural 20s given to Frye and Jacob by Tom andWolf) to both Zheda and Sais which allowed them to resist the layer. Outside the sphere, Karzoug’s balls oflighting flew to where Althaea had just roared at Karzoug, with each one shockingher a little (passed all). Alaina thenwaited to see what everyone else would do before she acted. Thankful she did a second later when Cerelionaused her last wish to take away Karzoug’s sphere of protection. Seeing the mage, as the flaming Glaive now floatingnext to him, she thought, ‘Fuck, he’s got a helper too.’ Before she focused and thought, ‘but he doeslook like a giant’ as she casted instant enemy. Cereliona then sent Barkenstien in, who through their bond also gain thebenefit of her recent spell. Thisallowed him to run up and land a bite on the wizard. Everyone saw how the dog’s runeforged teethcaps burn the wizard’s skin. Cerelionathen moved to the south to get a better angle for her next attack. Alaina then casted Time stop. Using the 4 rounds of quasi-time it grantedher; she dismissed her form of the dragon, used a wish scroll to castDimensional lock centered on Karzoug’s throne, before casting another Aroden'sSpellbane. This time to block out wish,time stop, particle form, sign of wrath, and disintegrate. The last of the time she moved to get into position,right behind Karzoug. Sais was a statueso could do nothing, but the floating Kassandra continue to circle and protecthim. Althaea yelled with joy as shestepped up and swung her scimitar at Karzoug. She only landed one blow but it was a good one, and as Karzoug’s blooddripped from her weapon, Althaea smiled the crazy smile of joyful revenge. Xavian then ran to Sais as he pulled out thescroll of Break enchantment that the group had given him back in Morkmurianslair. Using its magic, Sais was freedfrom stone. Seeing the dwarf firstthing, Sais made sure to say, “Thanks” before he turned his focus back to thefight. Zheda then stepped up to Karzoug,and just like Althaea managed to landed 2 instead of one blow. However while both damaged him, the firstfailed to hold him in place (immune to foot stomp) and the second while apowerful blow, was not as impressive as Zheda had hoped. Renon then apologized to the combatant infront of him (Storm Giant) as he turn his back on him and flew to the greaterthreat of Karzoug. The giant roared andtook a swing a Renon’s back as the Tiefling left, but the Warpriest’s armorprotected him from the blow. As Renon approached Karzoug, he called on Desna tohelp him smite the evil wizard. As he hit, Renon tapped his destinyto make sure his power was a powerful hit (GM Gift Natural 20); but then heconverted the physical force of the blow in to magic that dispelled Karzoug’sshield spell (Dispelling blow). Seeinghis challenger leave, the storm giant ran down the stairs and along the walltrying to reach someone to kill. Whilethe giant was agile on his feet (passed acrobatics), he was not fast enough toreach anyone yet. Round 8 Karzoug’sbody magically healed some more of his damage as he used his quicken metamagicrod to cast Telekinesis in an attempt to push Alaina back, but the Sorceressresisted the magic. Angrily Karzoug thendefensively casted crushing hand. Thiscaused a semi-transparent hand of pure force to appear between him andAlaina. The hand immediately pushed(bull rush) Alaina back 15 feet. Thisgot Karzoug free of the effects of Alaina’s Aroden's Spellbane. This gave the wizard back his Particle formas well as the protection it granted. The dancing Glaive then floated up to and attack Renon 3 times, but allfailed to penetrate his tough armor. Karzoug then took a step back to place histhrone next to him for some measure of cover as he commanded his spheres toattack Cereliona but even as the farthest way, she was still in Renon’s aura ofprotection so took no damage from the balls of lighting. Cereliona then casted Animal Growth onBarkenstien causing him to grow huge and then using his new reach, he slashedout with his teeth at Karzoug. The doglanded 2 hits, but each time Karzoug’s magic kept the dog from tripping thewizard. After that Cereliona move toplace herself where she would block the Storm giant from reaching the group andKarzoug. Alaina then casted yet anotherAroden's Spellbane which suspended the magic from the spells of Crushing hand,forceful hand, interposing hand, wall of force and transformation. This caused the hand next to her to disappearso she then moved around and behind Karzoug, placing the cave back wall behindher so she could not be pushed away again. With Karzoug back under the effectof Alaina’s spells which most importantly dropped his particle form, the groupattacked. Free of stone but far away,Sais then took the back way as well to get behind the wizard. Once in place, Kassandra attacked and landeda powerful blow. As she did, Sais didhis part jumping in with bomb and a blade. Both found their targets, but the bomb was first which caused Karzoug tolost sight for a moment before his magic restored it for him. But it was long enough for Sais’s blade to enterthe wizard body and as it did, Sais used one of his new tricks. Rather than damage organ, he tried to damageKarzoug’s spells (Dispelling Attack) but it failed to do enough to destroy themagic. Sais then followed that up with apowerful stab to the wizard’s chest which found and struck his heart, droppingthe mage lifeless to the ground. However, his magical spells of protection did not end plus the glaivedid not stop protecting him. Althaeajust stood in shock at the body of Karzoug. Xavian came around the side to see the dead wizard too. Zheda was not convinced he was dead soavoiding the glaive she grabbed Karzoug by the neck and snapped all thevertebras, she even felt his spinal cord rip in two. Convince that no one could survive that, themonk let the body fall. At this pointRenon came up for a look but seeing the flying sword, he worried so he spoke toGloryMone via emotions, asking for protection. The shield then took flight and latterly growled at the flyingsword. Smiling Renon then drew hisadamantine starknife and tried to destroy the glaive. The war priest landed 5 powerful blowsagainst the weapon, but even his adamantine blade failed to even scratch thesurface of the weapon (Artifact). Thecloud giant continued its run, reaching Cereliona and landing a powerful blowagainst the being that blocked its path. Round 9 Fromthe soul lens held above the Runeforge came a focused beam of light that struckKarzoug’s necklace. As it did, it liftedthe wizard of the ground and placed him on his feet. During the 1 second it took for all this tohappen, Karzoug was also healed of all damage. As he opened his eye, seeing the group, he says, “I am the most powerfulwizard in history, you did not think I would die so easily did you.” Karzoug then looked at Alaina before using therod he still clutched in his hand again, this time to quickly cast a greaterDispel magic on the Sorceress. Karzoug’smagic was so powerful that it took down all 3 of Alaina’s Aroden’s spell banes,foresight, mindblank, and even Xavian’s Heroes’ feast. As these spells went down the magic ofparticle form returned to Karzoug, plus the hand of force reappeared in frontof Alaina. As soon as it did, it grabbedher tight and squeezed. Karzoug thendefensively casted a Wail of the Banshee. The power of this magic was so great that only Althaea naturallyresisted it. Everyone else started tosuccumb to the magic. Seeing this Renontapped the power of his spell (Invoke Deity, Reroll) which gave everyone asecond chance to fight off the magic before it took effect. Cereliona and Xavian were able to resist withthis little push. Others needed morethan just the spell. Alaina and Zhedawere also given a piece of Cereliona and Renon destiny (Given 2 Gm gifts:Natural 20s), while Sais tapped his own destiny (Gm gifts: Natural 20) to fightoff this spell. This only left Renon, hehad given the last of his destiny to Zheda which left none for him and evenafter his second chance; he still could not resist the magic (failedagain). However as the spell started totake his life, he took a deep breath and let the magic flow into him (Secondwind spell) which healed him enough to keep him alive, but not enough to keephim conscious (-9 HP but would have been at -31 which is dead without this spell). [Start of Game note] GMGift Allgifts of Natural 20s have been used up. Jacob [Sais] and Cereliona [Tom] have 2 auto skills passes left each andAlaina[Traskus] has one auto hit left. [End of Game note] Theflaming glaive then attacked Zheda 3 times, but monk deafly blocked and deflectedall of them. Cereliona then smiled forshe was finally had bounce targets. Shethrough her weapon first at the lens, bounce it to hit Karzoug, final it bouncedand struck the giant. The lens waschipped, Karzoug and the giant both wound, but more important, Karzoug was notdesignated. She then whistled to get Barks attention as she sent to attack thelens. The dog’s powerful metal cappedteeth came down on and started to bend the mental of the frame. Alaina then delayed untiled she figured out away out of the grasp of the magical hand. Sais used the wisps of his destiny (Gm gift auto pass, Acrobatics) toget free and clear of Karzoug so he could fly at the lens. The speed of his flying carpet, got him therefast enough for the rogue as well as Kassandra to both strike at the glasslens. Sais rune forged weapon and toeveryone’s surprise, even Karzoug, Kassandra also chipped a chuck of glassoff. Althaea on the other hand, tookadvantage of Cereliona’s designation for the first time, as well as the factthat Renon took down the wizard’s shield spell and landed 5 powerful blows onher former master. Xavian used his broomto fly to the fallen Renon where he casted a Heal spell which brought theWar-priest back to consciousness. AsRenon was returning to the world, Zheda through everything she had atKarzoug. This included a Headbutt which staggeredKarzoug. However like with Sais’s bombs,a spark of magic around Karzoug seemed to negate it a moment later. However it lasted long enough for Zheda toget in her two medusa punches. Now awakebut on the ground, Renon quickly casted a blessing of fervor on himself beforehe swung from the ground for all he had at Karzoug. Even from the ground, his smite, help him toland all but his last swing. Still inthe grasp of the hand of force, Alaina tried to cast a spell to free her but thehand held her too tight which messed up her spell (failed concentrationcheck). The cloud giant by Cerelionathen swung at the ranger 3 times, but now she was ready for him so dodged allthree. TheLast thing that happened Thegroup had split up with Barkenstien, Sais and Kassandra attacking the soullens; Renon, Zheda, and Althaea keeping Karzoug busy; Cereliona keeping theStorm giant busy; Xavian watching and healing; and Alaina who is caught up inone of Karzoug’s most powerful spell. GM Favorite moment The fun fact that including ones to myself, I gave out 25free natural 20s, 10 auto skills passes, and one auto hit; over the almost 4year run of this game. And of those, 13natural 20s plus one one auto skill pass have been used in this final fight alonewhich is just shy of half and the game is not over yet. At this moment, the group and the GM are nowout of natural 20 gifts with only a few auot skill passes and an auto hit left,which to me means this fight is taking absolutely everything the group and Ihave. Experience Each Player received 1000 experience points (Total: 2,553,100[20th level]) for Monsters and Role-playing.
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Session 124 (05/06/2021) Day ??? (?????,the ?? of ??????, ????? ??/??/????) The Eye of Avarice Environment · Temperature: 85 F Combat notes: Current active spells and effects or states · Alaina o [Self]Protection from Energy (Fire, Cod, Acid), Extended(rod) Shield, see theInvisible o [Groupand Self]: Stone Skin Communal, Haste o [Area]:EmergencyForce Sphere (direct South west of South portal pillar) · Barkenstien o [Cereliona]InvokeDeity Protection (Shield, Shield of faith, False life), Strong Jaw, AnimalGrowth o [Alaina]StoneSkin (Communal) · Cereliona o [Alaina]StoneSkin (Communal), Haste · Renon o [Self]:Invoke Deity (Luck) o [Auraprotection]: Resist 20 all elementals, Sacred AC bonus o [Alaina]StoneSkin (Communal), Haste · Sais: o [Self,Alchemy]: Anti-plague, Anti-toxin, Blood-boiling pill, Meditation tea, Stillgut, Twitch Tonic, Alchemist grease (Body) o [Self,Item] Cup of Cayden: Drunk, Haste, Protection from evil,Invisibility{suppressed} o [Alaina]Stone Skin (Communal) · Xavian: o [Self,activated] Field medic Armor o [Alaina]Stone Skin (Communal), Haste · Zheda: o [Alaina]Stone Skin (Communal), Haste o [Self]:Pride sin: 2 mirror images until start of turn o Karzoug o [Spells]:Bless, ?Particle spell? and Haste · Area effects o Arearight in front of Portal § [Karzoug]:Cloud kill and Black Tentacles o Karzougmade of particles The Eye of Avarice Environment · Temperature: 85 F Round 10
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Combatnotes: Current active spells and effects or states · Alaina o [Self] Protection from Energy (Fire, Cod, Acid),Extended(rod) Shield, see the Invisible o [Group and Self]: Stone Skin Communal, Haste o [Area]:Emergency Force Sphere (direct South westof South portal pillar) · Barkenstien o [Cereliona]Invoke Deity Protection (Shield,Shield of faith, False life), Strong Jaw, Animal Growth o [Alaina]Stone Skin (Communal) · Cereliona o [Alaina]Stone Skin (Communal), Haste · Renon o [Self]: Invoke Deity (Luck) o [Aura protection]: Resist 20 all elementals,Sacred AC bonus o [Alaina]Stone Skin (Communal), Haste · Sais: o [Self, Alchemy]: Anti-plague, Anti-toxin,Blood-boiling pill, Meditation tea, Still gut, Twitch Tonic, Alchemist grease(Body) o [Self, Item] Cup of Cayden: Drunk, Haste,Protection from evil, Invisibility{suppressed} o [Alaina] Stone Skin (Communal) · Xavian: o [Self, activated] Field medic Armor o [Alaina] Stone Skin (Communal), Haste · Zheda: o [Alaina] Stone Skin (Communal), Haste o [Self]: Pride sin: 2 mirror images until startof turn o Karzoug o [Spells]: Bless, ?Particle spell? and Haste · Area effects o Area right in front of Portal § [Karzoug]: Cloud kill and Black Tentacles o Karzoug made of particles TheEye of Avarice Environment · Temperature: 85 F Round 10 Karzoug’swound healed damage again as he pointed his finger at Zheda as he castedResonating word. The power of this magicfilled Zheda’s ears with a magical sound, thanking fully Renon’s aura protectedher from the damage of it, but it still staggered her. Karzoug then sent his lighting balls afterSais and Barkenstien, but both avoided them. Karzoug then used his meta-magic rod to once again quickly cast timestop. As soon as he finished his spell,to everyone else, Karzoug disappeared and then they were all incased in fogclouds. Sais and Barkenstien foundthemselves inside a bank of Solid fog. Everyone else but Alaina was in a thickgreen and putrid smelling, stinking cloud. Zheda’s magical items made her immune to the vapors and everyone elsemanaged to resist them so for the moment all it did was block their vision. Cereliona, who was at the edge, tried to takea step out of the fog, but a magical force stopped her from moving toward thedirection of Karzoug. She could notfight the force so she adjusted her step to a different location outside thefog. Once clear, she saw both 20 halfspheres that each cloud made. Thestinking cloud was centered on the throne while the solid fog was centered onthe runewell. In addition at the top ofthe solid fog, like a candle on a cupcake, was Karzoug. Surrounding the wizard, very hard to see, butnot to the ranger’s senses, was a nearly invisible wall of force inside thesolid fog. This actually made her smilebecause she was able to throw her chakrum to hit the giant in front of her,bounce to hit Karzoug himself, then it went down the chimney to strike anddamage the soul lens before the weapon teleported back to her hand. This earnedher a look of death from Karzoug, who had just gone to considerable length tostop anyone from damaging the lens. Cereliona then flipped him off as she yelled, “Karzoug is 20 feet abovethe Runewell, enclosed by a chimney made out of a wall of force, then hiddenand surrounded by a Solid fog.” Barkenstien then floated up out of the solidfog, resisting Karzoug’s magic of repulsion as he did, to use his Runeforgedteeth caps to take a bite out of the wizard. Sais was able to resist the magic as well which allowed him to float upand join in. Instead of attackingKarzoug, he tried to move past the wizard and go down the chimney, but he wasunable to get by him. Althaea then steppedaway from Karzoug out of the fog, where she found Alaina held by the magicalhand of force. The warrior then took aimand slashed with her Scimitar, when the blow landed, she activated the sword’spower of dispelling which end the spell and freed Alaina. Next, from his central location still in thefog, Xavian channeled before he flew straight up and out of the fog. Once out he turned and moved closer toKarzoug so he could see, surprisingly resisting Karzoug magic as well. Staggered, there was little Zheda could dobut she was fast and she did know where the last Storm giant still was. Doing a short charge, Zheda easily reachedthe last giant on which she landed a powerful paralysis punch that locked upthe Giant’s muscles. Renon used thepower of his fervor spell to get up quickly (swift), he then flew towardKarzoug, also resisting the magic. Heended flanking Karzoug with Sais. Therehe casted Spell crush on the wizard, but to his surprised the spell hit andthen bounced off the wizard to return and effect the original caster of himself(spell Turning). This caused Renon tolose one of spells but he was then able to fight off his own magic. Now free and back behind the fog and throne,Alaina floated up in the air. Once shecould see Karzoug and more importantly the wall of force Cereliona had talkedabout, then she stopped. Carefully sheused blood money and limit wish to cast Disintegration which struck anddestroyed the wall of force. As the fogrolled in under Karzoug’s flying position above the runewell, he gave Alaina anevil look as well. This caused her toyell to him, “You must be stupid if you thought that was going to last.” The warden of thunder was a paralysis blockof flesh so all it could do it watch. Round 11 Zheda’snew position put her outside Renon’s protection so as the sound of Karzoug’sspell resonated in her body, she took damage and was stunned by the noise. Karzoug Glaive used its magic to perform somehealing on its master. Seeing this Saisthought to Kassandra, ‘How come you can’t do that?’ She answered in a sharp and angry tone, ‘Heheals, I kill’ to which Sais did not argue. Karzoug then defensively casted temporal status before touchingSais. But the rogue’s Runeforge Shortsword, absorbed the magic saving him from the spell. Full of anger, Karzoug quickly casted Mudball, but as he fired it he forgot he was surrounded. Renon, Sais, and Barkenstien all lashed outwith Runeforged weapon, two were amazing hits (natural 20 but immune tocritical). Sais as snuck in a second hit(Opportunist) as Barkenstien landed his. All of this caused Karzoug’s mud ball shot to go wild and miss. As this happened, Renon shouted out, “Wefound his weakness he cannot cast spells while we are all stabbing him at thesame time.” Cereliona then took aim andthrow at Karzoug, planning to hit and bounce her weapon off him 5 times, butonly 2 of the hits landed because the fog made Cereliona think to compensatefor Wind that was not there (natural 1s). But the first hit was the most important which designated thewizard. Barkenstien then floated down intosolid fog to continue to tear up the soul lens with his teeth. Sais avoid Karzoug’s glance as he floateddown to join the dog (acrobatics, avoid AOP). First Kassandra landed another blow to take a large chip of glass out,then Sais followed with a second hit to the same spot, which caused the glassto shatter. As it did, it turned intosand, then dust before it hit the ground. The metal frame that held the lens, dusted as well. Then the necklace around Karzoug’s neck thatreceived the gift of healing just a few moment ago, also started tocrumble. But as it is did, light cameout of the cracks before it exploded sending a wave of magical energy out inall directions. This wave had twoeffect, first it was so bright that even with their eyes close, it hurt. However, Alaina was not as fast as everyoneelse so had her eyes open when it hit which burned out her eyes causing the sorceressto lose her vision. The rest of theblast was not destructive, in fact everyone from Karzoug and Alaina to Zhedaand the Storm giant where all healed of all damage and every negative effect,except for Alaina’s new blindness. Karzoug face turned shaded of white with fear and red with anger inequal portions. Althaea ran out andaround the stinking cloud before she charged into the solid fog. She got close but did not reach Karzougyet. From his broom Xavian saw thateveryone was fully healed and in no trouble he could help with so he justwatched. Zheda then turned to face thegiant but when she looked in his face and saw no fight there. There was no tenseness in his muscles, hiswhole body had changed, and he now look like an innocent bystander. Seeing this and trusting her gut (Sensemotive) Zheda said, “Run” before she turned and watch the Karzoug fight,waiting for a spot to open up for her to join in (hold). Renon then quickly casted a Righteous mightand as it made him bigger, he flew south 5 feet so he could flank withBarkenstien. Once in position, he landed5 powerful blows against the fully healed Karzoug. The damage was amazing (301 HP) but theWizard took it and did not die. Blindedso unable to see the actions, Alaina helped in the best way she could, she gotrid of the fog. She pulled out her staffof Heaven and Earth they had found in the drake lair around Jourganfist, thenfor the last time, used it to control wind to blow away fogs. The stinking cloud was gone instantly but theSolid fog was heavier and would take longer. Alaina then floated down to the ground and used the nearby throne shefound by touch as cover. The Storm giantthen followed Zheda’s command and ran to the still open portal. He was fast, but he fell short 25 feet of theportal for now. Monsters · 1 Warden of Thunder (Advanced Storm Giant) [fleeing] o +5 Great Sword: 50,500 gp o +5 Full Plate: 29,150 gp o Sihedron Ring (Star Ring): 35,000 gp Round 12 Thespell of Resonating word tried one more time to damage the monk but this timeshe resisted it. Karzoug’s flying glaiveused its magic to heal some of Karzoug’s damage, as Karzoug own healing recoveredeven more. Karzoug then sent his ballsof lighting after Zheda and Cereliona, surprising and damaging the monk, butthe ranger was able to avoid the two sent at her. Karzoug then say the blinded Alaina so hedefensively casted finger of death and shot it at Alaina. Hearing Karzoug cast a spell, Alainareflexively casted Emergency Force Sphere which protected her from the unseen spell. Finally Karzoug quickly casted a MagicMissile which caused 5 bolts of force to strike and harm Renon; but this didnot have the effect Karzoug expected. Seeing the bolts of magical force reinvigorated the heroes, each of themseem to reach deep and used their last reserves of energy as if they knew theend was now near. Cereliona sent herchakrum to fly and hit Karzoug 5 times, but only the first managed to getthrough his magical defenses. Barkenstien then attack, landing his first but missing his secondbite. Sais then sent in Kasssandra, whoif not for the intervention of Renon (Invoke Deity) would have missed, butRenon’s magic let fate be changed which turned it into a hit. Sais followed that with a bomb and a stab toKarzoug’s undefended side (opportunist). The bomb blinded the wizard, but like before his magic just pushed itaway. Sais then stabbed one more timeand he found the wizard small and shriveled heart. Without the power of thesoul lens and the Runewell, this time when Sais pulled out his dagger itstopped beating, forever. The Death of Karzoug Atthe moment of his death, all of Karzoug’s magic stopped. All of his protections as well as the magicholding him and the glaive up. TheGlaive seem to die with Karzoug, so as the wizard fell so did the dancing weapon,now just a falling lifeless object. Karzoug fell and landed in the center of the Rune well, splashing all ofthe golden water like liquid out in one circular wave. However as the liquid left the Runewell theair in the room seem to grow cold as the liquid turned to mist, then vapor, andthen nothing. All of evaporated beforeit touched the ground. This also effectedthe little bit of liquid in with Karzoug, leaving him inside the stone basin ofthe rune well. But even that did notlast, seconds later the stone crack and chip as pieces fell off. The all at once it turned to dust with mostof it sliding of the platform, leaving Karzoug’s dead and mangled body ondisplay in the center. Also the portalthat the group had used to get here, started to flicker and blink in and out asthe magic was collapsing. Monsters · Karzoug o 2 rod of greater quicken metamagic: 170,000 gp each o rod of quicken metamagic: 75,500 gp o wand of blood money (33 charges): 495 gp o wand of dispel magic (CL 10th, 40 charges):18,000gp o wand of magic missile (CL 9th, 24 charges):3,240gp o wand of stoneskin (CL 10th, 17 charges): 7,650gp o talons of Leng: 67,000 gp o belt of physical might +6 (Str, Dex): 90,000 gp o Ioun stones: Formerly implanted § 3 crimson spheres: 24,000 gp each § 12 emerald ellipsoids: 20,000 gp each § 3 onyx rhomboids: 24,000 gp each § 5 amber spindles: 100,000 gp each o ring of protection +5: 50,000 gp o ring of freedom of movement: 40,000 gp o robes of Xin-Shalast: 198,000 gp o Headband of Mental Superiority +6: 144,000 gp o Shoes of the Fire Walker: 21,000 gp o Eyes of the Dragon: 110,000 gp o Bracers of Natural armor +5: 100,000 gp Running Seeingall this, Althaea ran to the blinded Alaina’s bubble and shouted to theSorceress inside, “Drop your sphere and get ready to fly we have to go,NOW.” Seeing Althaea’s plan, Xavianmoved to place himself in a spot directly between Alaina and the portal. Knowing she was fast enough but not sureabout Cereliona the monk looked at the ranger and said, “You want another Piggyback ride?” The ranger remembered whenthe monk had carried her back to the Vekker mining camp during the snow stormso nodded her agreement. Renon then flewdown to the corpse of Karzoug, picked him up by his shirt and said, “Ugh”. This caused all Karzoug’s possessions and itemsof value to vanish. Seeing this and eventhough they were in the middle of literally running for their lives, Sais hadto say, “Renon, you have been holding out on us.” Renon smiled. Alaina the dropped her sphere, so Althaea grabbed and reposition her aimingthe caster right at the portal. Thewarrior then yelled, “fly”. Alaina flewstraight, after about 25 feet, Xavian met up with her and continue with hertoward the portal but they only got to within 20 feet at this point. Ironically, they caught up with the fleeingstorm giant. That storm giant then did ashocking thing. He lifted both of hislarge hands, placed them behind Xavian and Alaina; then he pushed them throughthe portal as he himself ran through. Cereliona jumped on Zheda’s back, and then the monk took off running,carrying the ranger and getting them both through the portal. Cereliona whistle for Barkenstien, who usedthe magic saddle to fly through the portal next. Sais recalled Kassandra and then flew to theportal but he stopped at the threshold to wait for Althaea and Renon. Althaea, ran to the door but Renon’s wingswere faster so he got to and through the portal first. As Althaea was 10 feet from the portal, shesaw that the magic flickering was getting worse so she changed her path alittle. As a result she was able totackle Sais through the portal, allowing both to cross through at the sametime; just 3 seconds before the portal closed. Seeing Sais and Althaea coming flying through the portal as it flickeredand died, Renon turns to Cereliona and say, “You have got to remember thisbecause I want you to paint a picture of it.” Cereliona smiled as the sound of Althaea and Sais hitting the stone rangout. More running However,when Althaea landed she did not stop. Sherolled off the platform and headed for the door yelling to everyone, “We haveto go, this spire only existed because Karzoug willed it so. We have to get out of here.” Hearing this everyone followed Althaea withCereliona staying on Zheda’s back for speed. Althaea was fast but the group as well as the terrified storm giant wereall faster. So as the group was catchingup with her, Sais flew low on his carpet and scooped her up. She directed them the southern section of theRune giant’s cells. Along the way, theeastern half of the room was pulled out into the air around the spire. Through the large hole this made, the groupcould see sky and mountain side moving up. After a second they realized that is the spire that falling not theground that was moving, they just could not feel it fall; they guessed due tosome of the spires still active magic. As they reached the south end of the room, they saw a door they hadmissed earlier. Althaea had Said flyright at the door which opened to let them in. The portal room Thesouthern wall of this otherwise empty room chamber shimmered and glowed, a wallof swirling golden mist than polished stone seen elsewhere in thiscomplex. But that as the look anyone gotin the 1 second they were in room before they flew into the mist. Rather than hitting a wall, the group wasportal-ed to the location on the Ice shelf were they were attacked by Rune andStorm giants. The ice shelf Assoon as the storm giant came out the portal, he ran for the hills with even stoppingto say, ‘thank you.” The group ignoredhim as everyone turned to look back at the mountain. They all looked just in time to see Karzoug’sspire finish its fall and land on the mountain side. On impact it caused all the nearby spires tostart to fall. Each fell and joined thenow rolling larger spire. The avalancheof stone roared down the mountain side, taking out 90% of the spires in theRising district with it. It crashed atthe base of the mountain, burying the buildings as well as the end of thegolden road in rubble. This caused amoment of silence to fall on the city and valley. In this peace, Sais pulled out and lit acigar; as they all watched the dust settle. But it did not get a chance, because before it could the silence of thetown was broken by chaos and carnage. The giants, demons, laimia, and other monsters of the city wentwild. Many fled by foot and some bymagic, winking out in flash of teleportation light. However, the vast majority were takinganything of value or power they could take before they left. For one second, the group consider joiningin on the looting but then Zheda said, “I have not seen my home of Sandpointsince I died and came back. I want to gohome.” Everyone asked Alaina if shecould still teleport them. The sorceressremembered the effect this area had on travel and teleportation; but sinceothers had succeeded, she said she would try. Since Althaea wanted to come along, Cereliona casted Carry companion onBarkenstien to remove him from the spell’s limits. When ready, they all gathered and Alainacasted her spell. As she pulled everyoneinto the void, she felt a barrier that stopped her travel, but it was like awall of melting ice. She found weakspots and could feel it getting weaker, this allowed her to easily breakthrough it. Alaina’s magic then draggedeveryone out of the void, placing their feet on the dirt of the CathedralSquare of Sandpoint. It took the grouponly a moment to accept that they were home and that this destiny of theirs hadcome to pass and was now over. TheLast thing that happened The victoriousadventures returned home to the very spot where the legend of “The Heroes ofSandpoint” started. GMFavorite moment WhenRenon was hit by Karzoug’s quickened magic missile. When Karzoug did this, a collective wave of relief flowed throw theplayers. Because while it was quickenedso a higher level spell, to the group someone like Karzoug casting a magicmissile in any form, meant that the wizard was running out of spells,especially powerful ones. As Wolf put it, “It was the happiest 20 points ofdamage I have ever taken.” Experience Each Player received 253,440 experience points (Total: 2,806,540[20th level]) for Monsters and Role-playing.
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[Startof Epilogue] Session 125 (05/11/2021) Day 144 (Wealday the 12th of Calistril, Wednesday02/12/2048) 8 am Returninghome Sandpoint Asthe group stood in the square the people of Sandpoint began to see them. And just like before this led to a greatraucous. Eventually the group was ableto tell their story of how they reach Xin-Shalast, faced the city’s manyguardians, met the residents, reached Karzoug’s strong hold, fought their wayto the final chamber, then faced and defeated the Runelord of Greed. Anyone else in the world would have neededproof and even then still would have been suspicious of the story, but not thistown. After all they were the Heroes ofSandpoint and Sandpoint knew them to be true heroes so their word wasenough. This led to a large and longparty that included the whole town and anyone else that got close enough. Magnimar Onceword of the groups return and tails reached Magnimar, the lord-mayor sent thegroup a letter thanking for what they did but no formal announcement was madeto the world or the larger city. However, the lord-mayor did ask for the location of Xin-Shalast. Xin-Shalast TheLord-mayor question led the group to discuss the wealth in Xin-Shalast, thetype of people that would attract, and the spared that were at this very momentreclaiming some of the city. The groupdecided that the spared had earned their city so while the group told everyonethe city was deep it the Kodar Mountains, no one ever revealed the exactlocation of the city or how to reach. Thepathfinders were not happy about that at all but they never did more thanpester or get the group drunk trying to get the information. They never did but when emergency called forit, but the group did use the city as their special bank account. Sais Returnedto captain and as a reward for saving world, captain gave Sais ship to sailunder flay, to what he wish, legitimate jobs or piracy if he wants to. Sais got a Sandpoint crew which regularlyincludes Xavian and decided to make an honest living. However, Sandpoint is and always will be hishome port with the Turandarok Academy his place of residence and as a bonus tothis, Sais found that being around children seemed to calm Kassandra’s bloodlust, temporarily. From time to time,Sais also joined in on a few adventures; some with his captain, some with variousgroup members (Zheda, Alaina, Cereliona, Renon), even one or two for the black arrows;but always Sais kept his part short and he quickly returned to his home of theSandpoint and the Seas around it he loves. Cereliona UsingSais’s ship, Cereliona took Althaea to Riverport to find Tila. However, they had not need to for on the waythere, they passed by another ship going to Sandpoint. Cereliona’s keen eyes allowed her and onlyher to notice the Barbarian with the sign of Wrath on her forehead. This allowed the two ships to meet up. Tila transferred to Sais’s ship and she was werereunited with Althaea. After completingwhat she view as her last task, Cereliona then returned to Sandpoint. There she made a comfortable living as ananimal trainer; but she did her duties as a deputy which was limited to periodicallyhelped in training the Sandpoint guard as well as once or twice deal with apowerful beast that wandered too far from the wilds. Also she kept in touch with Fort Rannick,making the trip over to help them as needed. During this time Daviren and herself, welcomed a Human baby girl intothe world which they raised together. This continued until Daviren passed away of old age at which point thedaughter took over the family business of the Stables and Cereliona moved up toFort Rannick full time where she spent the rest of her natural life amongrangers and the fey. ZhedaTrailsdóttir - A place to call home Witha return to Sandpoint, her heart-home, Zheda let her feet carry her down thefamiliar roads to the Two Knights Brewery and into the arms of the one personshe loved more than her brother. With the full knowledge that there would notbe another chance for her to defy fate and Phasrasmas judgement withoutunleashing her sin upon the world; Zheda resolved to watch over her home untilthe end of her days. Aftersome time to just be home and not whisked away on another quest to save theworld, Zheda committed to splitting her days between helping where she could inthe brewery and entertaining the children at Turandarok Academy with herplayful drunken antics and acrobatic skills. Thereare days where wanderlust sets in still and she can be seen flying her blackgriffon over the hinterlands on days where the itch to roam is particularlystrong, but it's not secret to anyone that Sandpoint is her heart-home andwhere she will always return. Tila- Angel of Wrath Afterparting ways with the heroes of Sandpoint Tila returned to searching for herlost friend. Her time with the heroes was not a complete waste, the brutishAasimar used those new people she had worked beside as examples of how to moreeffectively work with others toward her end goal - or in some cases what not todo. Word reached her quickly that Althea had returned with the heroes ofSandpoint so she made it a point to travel there as quickly as she could to beat last be reunited with her only true friend and fellow survivor whichhappened at sea. Withthat goal accomplished Tila turned her attention to carving out a name forherself as the angelic warrior her village believed her capable of becoming asa child. With the power of wrath and a glass axe in her hand, Tila spent herlife hunting giants, dragons and terrors, in search of personal prestige and tofind the limits of her strength. Shemaintained that if another magic user ever meddles with her mind that she willbury her axe in the head of every arcane caster she meets on principle untilthe day she dies. Ironically thissomething her friend Althaea also shared. Amaryliss Herbody was ripped apart in the abyss and eaten by demons, she is forever gone. Althaea Afterbeing reunited with Tila, she was over joyed; but this fighter as seen enoughbattles to last her two life times. After the fight with Karzoug, she never held a weapon again. She was tired of the cold and the ocean soshe moved to Galduria were no one knew her. She lived out the rest of life there as a strange hermit that ironicallygot regular visits from the Heroes of Sandpoint as well as a large femalebarbarian. Renon TheTeifling settled down in Sandpoint, the town that has welcomed him like henever expected anywhere else ever would. One of his first acts was to go the Sandpoint Cathedral and returned theHoly symbol Father Zantus had lent him, but next he found Lanalee. Renon continued to date and eventuallymarried her. When Risa finally passedway, Renon and Lanalee moved into Riza’s place and took it over. Lanalee runs the restaurant while Renonsplits his “work” time between the church and the local guard but in both he isserving Desna by making sure Sandpoint’s roads remain safe for travel and thechurch remains solid. But each night hereturns to the inn so it was not long before like Cereliona and Davrin, thesetwo had a child and as chance would have it (rolled race and gender randomlyfor both); they also had a human girl. This meant that Renon now split his ‘free’ time between being a father, building/fundinga observatory to continue his father’s work, using his magic to keep in touchwith many of the people he has met along this journey and to ‘bless’ them withgood dreams (Dream spell used as effective long distance communication), aswell as taking the shape of a lion so his shield can feel it paws every now andthen; plus much like Risa used to, he tells stories of his travels and hisfriends. In fact, the paining Cerelionamade of Althaea tackling Sais through the portal as the group watch fromKarzoug’s sanctuary, now hangs on the wall of Riza’s place as well as some ofCereliona’s other works. Renon alsoalways welcomed and spoke highly of the rest of the group. · The ranger who could smell colors and her “verygood boy” doggy companion. · The sorcerer who beat all the odds to come outon top. · The rogue with all the tricks needed plus the"knife wife”. · The monk who kept us all sane, whilesimultaneously out-drinking and out-fighting everyine. · The cleric who we couldn't have survived withoutthat also brightened our days and recorded our adventures. · The Barbarian who used their rage to accomplishbig things. · The fellow warpriest we lost along the way, whoinspired him to stand his ground. Alaina Despiteeverything that happened, Renon believed that Alaina still had a chance to turnthings around. When she as not doingresearch in some far away library with Xavian reading for her, Renon offered to guide her along the godly path, asby now only the gods can restore her sight, and free her from Lamashtu’s hunts.Because even with all the things painting Alania in a negative light, she founda way to give herself a chance. The wish causes everyone she knew to see herpoorly at best and Renon knows what that can do to a person, personally so ifshe accepts the aid or not, she is often included in his prayers to Desna. Xavian Renonhas great respect for Xavian becuase through this dwarf Renon has become like a“hero in the books” that inspired him to adventure in the first place. That plus how the dwarf helped to keep themalive, Renon wanted to build Xavian a mansion or something as a thank you; butthe dwarf did not need one. Instead,after about 2 years, Xavian ‘let’ Renon help him repair and do maintenance workof replacing several walls of the house of Blue stones. Renon meant it when he told himself, he wouldhelp Xavian no matter the cost, but he was surprised that a little manual laborwas all that was required. Alaina UsingSais’s boat as well as her unlimited use of the Valdemar boats, Alaina traveledto Absalom to do magical research. Alaina would teleport Xavain, back and forth from there and Sandpoint asneeded for him to work as her eyes, reading to him. Sometimes Alaina would let others help her,but that was rare at first. As she grewin knowledge she continued to grow in power (Mythic Teirs), but she never founda way to regain her eyesight. Eventuallyshe ended up at Magnimar's academy were she was required to teach in order toget access to their libraries. Herstudents then became her readers, freeing up Xavian but the dwarf came backfrom time to time just so he can see her. This turned into a nice little cushy teaching job that gave her studentsthat obey Alaina’s ever command so she stayed. Pazuzu Unfortunatelyfor Alaina, Pazuzu does not care that she saved the world. However, Desna, Sarenrae, Cayden, and even Iroricould not ignore the prayers of their champions so in a rare cooperative actsby Gods and goddess; they saved Alaina’s soul and were able to send it to aneutral afterlife. She is not in hellbut she is not in heaven; she is somewhere else and that is somewhere that noteven Pazuzu can reach her. Xavian Uponhis return to Sandpoint, Xavian returned to Sabyn and they continued theirrelationship. They did not marry andkids were not possible; but they were happy. Sabyn still continued to look after the House of blue stones so Xaviansplit his time between being Alaina’s Reading Eye dwarf, making refuge rings sothat the group will always be able to come home as well as be able to call him,sailing on Sais ship just for the joy being back on the sea, and wheneverpossible going along with the group on their various adventures sinceretirement. Player Experience For Wolf, it is being part of a true group that can sticktogether and play longer term games. For the other 4 of the group, it what Wolfgot but is also being one of the few players to start a campaign and play itfully from level one to twenty, in a way were the game was give all the time itneeded (almost 4 years) to play out. . Very few gamer very really get to do that. I hope that next game gives Wolf thatexperience and the rest, a chance to feel it again. [End of Epilogue]
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