Go to Hell!
Aug. 27th, 2004 01:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terryclothTonight, after a week's hiatus, we had a session of the dragonlance game. After resolving the elven situation, we executed a lightning assassination mission. Against a servant of a lord of hell.
Louis once again didn't show up -- I think he's quitting the game without telling us. So we're taking back his 4 million steel piece sword. }:)
After the priest and the devil were dead, and the other devil returned to hell, the party led Alhana and the other two elven princesses down through a secret passage into the heart of the palace, where they began to sing the melody from the music box...
All throughout sylvanesti, the spirits of the dead elves (and there were lots of dead elves, after being conquered by the knights of Neraka, the forces of Mina, Cyan Bloodbane, and the Minotaurs in turn) rose up to kill their oppressors -- every 'enemy' in the entire forest was killed, and turned into another wraith to fight for the forest. In seconds, it was over -- and the great tree of the palace was dead.
But then, the elven princesses began to glow, and merge, and they sank into the tree, reviving it at the cost of their own lives, apparently. They didn't seem to leave behind any trace. So how was the party to get paid?
They decided to take matters into their own hands by finding and looting the minotaur treasury before the elves could arrive to reclaim it. They found the payroll, at least -- 20,000 steel worth of silver coins, weighing two tons (which meant Kij was moderately encumbered carrying both chests).
When the elves arrived, the advance guard riding in on gryphons, they immediately wanted to know where Alhana and the others were. "Oh, they're in the throne room," Kij said nonchalantly. "Okay guys, let's LEAVE?"
But no, they didn't want to run off and not get their promised lands and titles, so they followed the guards in and showed them the place where it had happened, and the tree. By the time they left, the elves were already blaming the Kagonesti for everything.
The loot from the minotaurs gave the party enough money for another round of mad shopping, but while that was going on, Sonnet got put under a geas -- "Come to me, and kill me, yessss!" So their next trip was decided, helped along a bit by Murphy's need to impress a white-robe in order to get promoted to the council of seven.
So the plan was to travel to the fourth level of hell, invade Belial's citadel, and kill the devilgnome that was haunting and geasing Sonnet. Lini had learned Plane Shift, and they were able to commission a tuning fork for the fourth level of hell. After arranging for fire immunity for everyone, they cast all their short-duration spells (hoping for immediate combat) and plane-shifted to Hell.
The found themselves over a vast lake of lava, but half the party was flying, and everyone had joined hands from the plane shift, so they were able to hold it together long enough to teleport to the devilgnome's sanctum.
But it was empty... except that Murphy and Mike suspected an illusion, and suggested people test the surroundings to make sure they were real. They weren't real, in fact, but by then it was too late -- the devilgnome had the time to cast a Mordenkainen's Disjunction at them, filling the room!
Luckily, during the shopping spree, Mike had bought a ring of greater counterspelling and put a Mordenkainen's Disjunction in it, so the spell was countered. This annoyed the devilgnome considerably, and he ordered his tower of flesh to devour Mike. When its efforts proved futile -- because of the blink, the displacement, and the mirror image -- the devilgnome tossed it a gem of true seeing and had it try again.
The party focused its attacks on the devilgnome himself -- Kij attacking him in melee, triggering his curse but, for the first two rounds at least, being saved by Lini's Resurgence spells. Morgan tumbled into flanking position, but to his vast displeasure found him immune to sneak attacks. Mike kept counterspelling everything he did -- using up spellgaunt fang after spellgaunt fang to power his Disjuncts without losing XP. The gnome refused to stand for this, and stabbed Mike in the leg with an evil shortsword that tried to cut him up, drain his con, and give him negative levels all at once, and couldn't easily be pulled out.
Sonnet and Sawyer tried silencing him, but the silences were countered, and they were pestered by the severed head of a gnomish servant she'd gotten from the scroll-box-of-many-things and later lost to the devilgnome. Sawyer finally was annoyed enough to try to kill it, and it exploded in an unbelievable amount of acid, horribly wounding Sawyer and Kijj. Murphy tried making the devilgnome dance uncontrollably, but the spell bounced off and affected him instead -- he was out, dancing, for the entire fight.
Kijj's luck finally ran out, the turn he would have killed the gnome -- the curse stuck to him, reducing his strength to 1. Between the clerical spells he'd cast on himself using a ring of spell storing (divine favor and divine power), Tetsuyo's Kensai ability giving him +8 to hit, and arcane strike, he wasn't *completely* out of the fight, but his combat effectiveness was severely reduced -- getting your strength reduced by 36 points will do that.
The gnome was really, *really* hurt, so it fled the only place it could -- inside the stomach of its tower of flesh. The tower of flesh was unhurt, but was pretty weak, and not even a match for a weakened Kijj with all the spells he had piled on. Sonnet used a wish to quickly Forbiddance the room to prevent any teleporting in or out, and Kijj coup-de-graced the tower of flesh to kill it once and for all.
Mike, who'd finally freed himself from the stabbing shortsword by using a rod of cancellation to destroy its magic, disintegrated the dead demon so that they could get to the devilgnome before he had a chance to get away or heal himself... but he was already dead, and Mike ended up disintegrating him and all his equipment, except for what seemed to be the scepter of evil. Oh, and the true seeing gem that had been passed to the tower of flesh.
Murphy: "This sucks. I spent the whole fight dancing."
Mike: "Well, that's better than me -- I spent the whole fight destroying party treasure."
last session
After the game, I got home to find a message from the GHC lab saying that the more detailed test had come in, and I *don't* have strep throat. Well, the penicillin seems to be working on whatever I do have, so I'll keep using it unless they tell me different.
It also keeps my confidence at the lab at its current 'pegged at 5%' state. They've never had a positive result come back for anything. NOT EVEN ONCE!
Louis once again didn't show up -- I think he's quitting the game without telling us. So we're taking back his 4 million steel piece sword. }:)
After the priest and the devil were dead, and the other devil returned to hell, the party led Alhana and the other two elven princesses down through a secret passage into the heart of the palace, where they began to sing the melody from the music box...
All throughout sylvanesti, the spirits of the dead elves (and there were lots of dead elves, after being conquered by the knights of Neraka, the forces of Mina, Cyan Bloodbane, and the Minotaurs in turn) rose up to kill their oppressors -- every 'enemy' in the entire forest was killed, and turned into another wraith to fight for the forest. In seconds, it was over -- and the great tree of the palace was dead.
But then, the elven princesses began to glow, and merge, and they sank into the tree, reviving it at the cost of their own lives, apparently. They didn't seem to leave behind any trace. So how was the party to get paid?
They decided to take matters into their own hands by finding and looting the minotaur treasury before the elves could arrive to reclaim it. They found the payroll, at least -- 20,000 steel worth of silver coins, weighing two tons (which meant Kij was moderately encumbered carrying both chests).
When the elves arrived, the advance guard riding in on gryphons, they immediately wanted to know where Alhana and the others were. "Oh, they're in the throne room," Kij said nonchalantly. "Okay guys, let's LEAVE?"
But no, they didn't want to run off and not get their promised lands and titles, so they followed the guards in and showed them the place where it had happened, and the tree. By the time they left, the elves were already blaming the Kagonesti for everything.
The loot from the minotaurs gave the party enough money for another round of mad shopping, but while that was going on, Sonnet got put under a geas -- "Come to me, and kill me, yessss!" So their next trip was decided, helped along a bit by Murphy's need to impress a white-robe in order to get promoted to the council of seven.
So the plan was to travel to the fourth level of hell, invade Belial's citadel, and kill the devilgnome that was haunting and geasing Sonnet. Lini had learned Plane Shift, and they were able to commission a tuning fork for the fourth level of hell. After arranging for fire immunity for everyone, they cast all their short-duration spells (hoping for immediate combat) and plane-shifted to Hell.
The found themselves over a vast lake of lava, but half the party was flying, and everyone had joined hands from the plane shift, so they were able to hold it together long enough to teleport to the devilgnome's sanctum.
But it was empty... except that Murphy and Mike suspected an illusion, and suggested people test the surroundings to make sure they were real. They weren't real, in fact, but by then it was too late -- the devilgnome had the time to cast a Mordenkainen's Disjunction at them, filling the room!
Luckily, during the shopping spree, Mike had bought a ring of greater counterspelling and put a Mordenkainen's Disjunction in it, so the spell was countered. This annoyed the devilgnome considerably, and he ordered his tower of flesh to devour Mike. When its efforts proved futile -- because of the blink, the displacement, and the mirror image -- the devilgnome tossed it a gem of true seeing and had it try again.
The party focused its attacks on the devilgnome himself -- Kij attacking him in melee, triggering his curse but, for the first two rounds at least, being saved by Lini's Resurgence spells. Morgan tumbled into flanking position, but to his vast displeasure found him immune to sneak attacks. Mike kept counterspelling everything he did -- using up spellgaunt fang after spellgaunt fang to power his Disjuncts without losing XP. The gnome refused to stand for this, and stabbed Mike in the leg with an evil shortsword that tried to cut him up, drain his con, and give him negative levels all at once, and couldn't easily be pulled out.
Sonnet and Sawyer tried silencing him, but the silences were countered, and they were pestered by the severed head of a gnomish servant she'd gotten from the scroll-box-of-many-things and later lost to the devilgnome. Sawyer finally was annoyed enough to try to kill it, and it exploded in an unbelievable amount of acid, horribly wounding Sawyer and Kijj. Murphy tried making the devilgnome dance uncontrollably, but the spell bounced off and affected him instead -- he was out, dancing, for the entire fight.
Kijj's luck finally ran out, the turn he would have killed the gnome -- the curse stuck to him, reducing his strength to 1. Between the clerical spells he'd cast on himself using a ring of spell storing (divine favor and divine power), Tetsuyo's Kensai ability giving him +8 to hit, and arcane strike, he wasn't *completely* out of the fight, but his combat effectiveness was severely reduced -- getting your strength reduced by 36 points will do that.
The gnome was really, *really* hurt, so it fled the only place it could -- inside the stomach of its tower of flesh. The tower of flesh was unhurt, but was pretty weak, and not even a match for a weakened Kijj with all the spells he had piled on. Sonnet used a wish to quickly Forbiddance the room to prevent any teleporting in or out, and Kijj coup-de-graced the tower of flesh to kill it once and for all.
Mike, who'd finally freed himself from the stabbing shortsword by using a rod of cancellation to destroy its magic, disintegrated the dead demon so that they could get to the devilgnome before he had a chance to get away or heal himself... but he was already dead, and Mike ended up disintegrating him and all his equipment, except for what seemed to be the scepter of evil. Oh, and the true seeing gem that had been passed to the tower of flesh.
Murphy: "This sucks. I spent the whole fight dancing."
Mike: "Well, that's better than me -- I spent the whole fight destroying party treasure."
last session
After the game, I got home to find a message from the GHC lab saying that the more detailed test had come in, and I *don't* have strep throat. Well, the penicillin seems to be working on whatever I do have, so I'll keep using it unless they tell me different.
It also keeps my confidence at the lab at its current 'pegged at 5%' state. They've never had a positive result come back for anything. NOT EVEN ONCE!
