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terryclothToday Ed was still running the GM-switching game, he thinks it'll take one more session for us to either rescue/kill Jonas or give up.
Much of the session was spent with me and Eric arguing about how figments and glamers should work. If there's a gray area, I like to try to interpolate between the nearest possible data points that are explicitly spelled out, while Erik likes to try to find general principles that he thinks make sense and fit most of the data points and use them.
So, the book says that someone walking over an illusionary floor will fall through it and instantly see that it's an illusion, but someone poking at the wall to detect if it's an illusion or not has to make a will save to notice it. We eventually agreed that leaning against the wall with your whole weight, so that you fell through it, would detect an illusionary wall automatically, but we couldn't agree on whether attacking it with your sword or your fist would work (although it would obviously at least give you a save).
The party used a Thoqqua (who needs Stone Shape?) to burrow down into the tunnel past the massive corpse of the fiendish purple worm, and scouted ahead, using Breya as their canary since they didn't know how long the tunnel was. Near the end, though -- which they could see because of the glowing red portal -- Autumn summoned an owl to fly around and look for any traps.
It instantly died, but the fifth dire bat lived, so they figured it was safe to approach. The portal hung in midair in the middle of a forty-foot diameter bubble in the lava rock, and through it they could see a small room with a stone floor. Hiko, Tordak, and Dae lept through immediately.
They noticed, first, that the walls were illusions -- probably because the wings of the demon flying overhead clipped through them a little. Beyond them were more than half a dozen major demons. "Leave now, or we'll devour your souls!" the demon cried.
So they left. And Arie tossed a sonic ball right back through the portal. Two sonic balls. Then they returned, to find... that the room was empty, although not for long. One of the demons attacked, whirling about a twenty foot long spiked chain that stunned on impact... soon everyone was stunned, except for Autumn who'd decided to stay safely on the prime material and send summoned creatures through.
Eventually, the summoned creatures -- ha ha, who am I kidding? The summoned creatures were totally useless -- the demon didn't even bother attacking them -- but eventually people got enough hits in when they weren't stunned to make the demon cut and run.
Still, the party decided that making basic preparations before venturing into Hell was the better part of valor, and retreated to a random spot outside the keep, where they spent the day and night in a rope trick, planning strategy and changing out spells, again, to take into account the newly discovered fact that devils were vulnerable to lightning.
So they were much better prepared the next day. They sent three lit up eagles down the mile and a half tunnel to scan for death traps, but found none. They cast barkskin, and resistances, and flies, and enlargements, and endurances, and polymorphs, and attacked!
...and the room was empty, and the door was locked. And knocked. And backed up by a wall of stone. Which was stone shaped away.
So they charged out into a courtyard, and were charged right back by a group of demons, which Hiko and Torday failed to hold the door shut against -- *twelve* of the horribly spiky devils they'd been badly hurt by one of, a few days back!
After a while -- and a few devils killed -- it was apparent that not all of them were truly spiky devils. Most were lesser devils polymorphed. It was still a fight, though. Arie was grappled by the real spiky devils and badly spiked, and their horned friend from the day before came back to haunt them. But the power of Tordak and Hiko and Dae could not be denied, and soon all the devils were dead, except for the horned devil which ran away AGAIN.
The party wasn't so badly hurt that they needed to run away immediately, so they prepared to press onwards, although since their target hadn't been waiting by the portal, they really had no idea where to find him.
How many devils could there be in Hell, though?
last session next session
Much of the session was spent with me and Eric arguing about how figments and glamers should work. If there's a gray area, I like to try to interpolate between the nearest possible data points that are explicitly spelled out, while Erik likes to try to find general principles that he thinks make sense and fit most of the data points and use them.
So, the book says that someone walking over an illusionary floor will fall through it and instantly see that it's an illusion, but someone poking at the wall to detect if it's an illusion or not has to make a will save to notice it. We eventually agreed that leaning against the wall with your whole weight, so that you fell through it, would detect an illusionary wall automatically, but we couldn't agree on whether attacking it with your sword or your fist would work (although it would obviously at least give you a save).
The party used a Thoqqua (who needs Stone Shape?) to burrow down into the tunnel past the massive corpse of the fiendish purple worm, and scouted ahead, using Breya as their canary since they didn't know how long the tunnel was. Near the end, though -- which they could see because of the glowing red portal -- Autumn summoned an owl to fly around and look for any traps.
It instantly died, but the fifth dire bat lived, so they figured it was safe to approach. The portal hung in midair in the middle of a forty-foot diameter bubble in the lava rock, and through it they could see a small room with a stone floor. Hiko, Tordak, and Dae lept through immediately.
They noticed, first, that the walls were illusions -- probably because the wings of the demon flying overhead clipped through them a little. Beyond them were more than half a dozen major demons. "Leave now, or we'll devour your souls!" the demon cried.
So they left. And Arie tossed a sonic ball right back through the portal. Two sonic balls. Then they returned, to find... that the room was empty, although not for long. One of the demons attacked, whirling about a twenty foot long spiked chain that stunned on impact... soon everyone was stunned, except for Autumn who'd decided to stay safely on the prime material and send summoned creatures through.
Eventually, the summoned creatures -- ha ha, who am I kidding? The summoned creatures were totally useless -- the demon didn't even bother attacking them -- but eventually people got enough hits in when they weren't stunned to make the demon cut and run.
Still, the party decided that making basic preparations before venturing into Hell was the better part of valor, and retreated to a random spot outside the keep, where they spent the day and night in a rope trick, planning strategy and changing out spells, again, to take into account the newly discovered fact that devils were vulnerable to lightning.
So they were much better prepared the next day. They sent three lit up eagles down the mile and a half tunnel to scan for death traps, but found none. They cast barkskin, and resistances, and flies, and enlargements, and endurances, and polymorphs, and attacked!
...and the room was empty, and the door was locked. And knocked. And backed up by a wall of stone. Which was stone shaped away.
So they charged out into a courtyard, and were charged right back by a group of demons, which Hiko and Torday failed to hold the door shut against -- *twelve* of the horribly spiky devils they'd been badly hurt by one of, a few days back!
After a while -- and a few devils killed -- it was apparent that not all of them were truly spiky devils. Most were lesser devils polymorphed. It was still a fight, though. Arie was grappled by the real spiky devils and badly spiked, and their horned friend from the day before came back to haunt them. But the power of Tordak and Hiko and Dae could not be denied, and soon all the devils were dead, except for the horned devil which ran away AGAIN.
The party wasn't so badly hurt that they needed to run away immediately, so they prepared to press onwards, although since their target hadn't been waiting by the portal, they really had no idea where to find him.
How many devils could there be in Hell, though?
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