Sunday Demon Game
Sep. 13th, 2004 09:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terryclothWe had a somewhat shortened session of Tom's game Sunday. Tom had some interesting combat setups that were basically wasted, because (a) we didn't want to kill anyone, since they were all possessed humans, and (b) our succubus had Charm Person, Suggestion, and Clairvoyance at will. Oh, and (c) we had lots of people who could dimension door.
After fighting off the salamander patrol, the party continued onwards through the tunnels. They spotted a salamander village at a distance (straight down in a pit) (somehow, they had to send a scout down to check it out with darkvision before they could spot the 200-odd flaming salamanders) but decided to bypass it instead of suicidally attacking, then came to a mine, with branching passageways. They followed some noise that one of them heard, and the harpyish bard scouted ahead, invisibly, but failed to sneak up on the salamander sentry.
One salamander against the group of them was no contest, though -- the only danger was that he might get away. As they ran past him and blocked his flight, however, the people in back noticed another danger -- he'd lit the fuses on what were presumably three bombs. Knowing was half the battle, though, and the party of demons managed to snuff the fuses before the tunnel was collapsed behind them. Then they dug the explosives out of the walls, for later use.
came to a broken bridge, with an unknown number of salamanders guarding it and throwing spears (again, invisible in the darkness because they were out of darkvision range).
After some relatively ineffective exchange of fire (the salamanders' spears were at three range increments and always missed, and the only ranged attack the party had that could hurt them was for one of their number to cast pyrotechnics, using the salamanders as the heat source) they decided to negotiate.
The salamanders were angry that the demons were stealing 'the tears' from their mine, and while they were okay with the party heading 'back' to the mine, they warned them that a big salamander attack was coming. "Hello, Demons! Immune to fire!" "Ha! But are you immune to ICE?" Well, not entirely, but they were resistant, yes. They didn't tell the salamanders that, though.
A bit further, they came to the 'rearguard' station of the 'salt' mines, which had a huge pile of rubble conveniently placed (probably by the salamanders) to allow covert observation of the guard post.
Since it would be a difficult assault, up a fifteen foot high wall against unknown assailants, the party decided to have the succubus use Clairvoyance to scout the place out ahead of time. She eventually (clairvoyance is awful slow) mapped out the entire guard post, which would be tough to assault without teleporting into the main chamber and unleashing area death -- climbing the wall would just leave them trapped in a little corridor while the guards closed the gates and portcullises to cut them off.
They were able to send their energy-draining critter in, invisibly and in gaseous form, to loot one of the weapons lockers -- getting four magic swords and a pair of wands of hold monster to arm the party. Then the succubus used clairvoyance to map out the entire mine, past the guard post.
Salt mine my ass! The humans -- presumably possessed humans -- were mining *diamonds*, not salt. There were lots of prisoners, and lots of guards... but only one elevator. So she scouted up the elevator, and then up *another* floor, and THERE finally located the demonic prisoners they'd set out to rescue, actually mining salt. She found an out-of-the-way alcove that no one was guarding, and the party dimension-doored up two levels into it, past all the guards.
Well, not *all* the guards. But the guards on the salt level were less alert, or at any rate not sufficiently alert to realize that the succubus -- who looked just like one of them that she'd suggested wander over to the alcove, ignore the demons, and fall asleep -- was the one going around charming everyone. Soon, she had a massive entourage, and went and got Lassitus, the wizard who'd started this whole thing. Charming a few more guards in the process.
Lassitus had a few more prisoners he wanted rescued, so while the mass of charmed guards vigilantly manned a barricade (made out of boxes of explosives, just in case someone broke the charm and they needed to blow them all up) and the dwarven waraxe was slowly put to work removing the armbands from key prisoners (such as the duke of the castle, and Lassitus himself, and a bunch of other prisoners who could dimension door), the succubus went out and got them, charming even more guards.
Getting the clerics back was awfully suspicious, though (the clerics still had their divine magic, and had to be kept drugged), and they decided that they were pushing their luck to try to keep this up any longer. So, once they had enough teleporters unchained to take everyone they'd managed to gather into their alcove, they popped out onto the surface, to plan the next stage of their assault.
last session
Erik and I argued about the rules a lot this session. He insisted you can't see the 'invisible sensor' created by Clairvoyance, even if you have a See Invisible up. ("See invisible says you see invisible things as if they were visible. You think that if the spell said that it created a 'visible sensor', you wouldn't be able to see it?"), and also that druids in the forgotten realms got their powers from gods ("It says in the book that druids *worship* gods, but *everyone* in the Realms worships gods. It doesn't say anything about the source of their power changing."). It's frustrating arguing these things with him because he'll insist that I'm 'adding rules' when I take things as written instead of adding the rules he wants ("It doesn't SAY that you could see the sensor if you had a see invisible up, so you're adding that!" "It doesn't SAY that a druid who was transformed into a demon would lose his powers, so you're adding that!"). And he has his brother there, who always takes his side no matter what.
Gah.
After fighting off the salamander patrol, the party continued onwards through the tunnels. They spotted a salamander village at a distance (straight down in a pit) (somehow, they had to send a scout down to check it out with darkvision before they could spot the 200-odd flaming salamanders) but decided to bypass it instead of suicidally attacking, then came to a mine, with branching passageways. They followed some noise that one of them heard, and the harpyish bard scouted ahead, invisibly, but failed to sneak up on the salamander sentry.
One salamander against the group of them was no contest, though -- the only danger was that he might get away. As they ran past him and blocked his flight, however, the people in back noticed another danger -- he'd lit the fuses on what were presumably three bombs. Knowing was half the battle, though, and the party of demons managed to snuff the fuses before the tunnel was collapsed behind them. Then they dug the explosives out of the walls, for later use.
came to a broken bridge, with an unknown number of salamanders guarding it and throwing spears (again, invisible in the darkness because they were out of darkvision range).
After some relatively ineffective exchange of fire (the salamanders' spears were at three range increments and always missed, and the only ranged attack the party had that could hurt them was for one of their number to cast pyrotechnics, using the salamanders as the heat source) they decided to negotiate.
The salamanders were angry that the demons were stealing 'the tears' from their mine, and while they were okay with the party heading 'back' to the mine, they warned them that a big salamander attack was coming. "Hello, Demons! Immune to fire!" "Ha! But are you immune to ICE?" Well, not entirely, but they were resistant, yes. They didn't tell the salamanders that, though.
A bit further, they came to the 'rearguard' station of the 'salt' mines, which had a huge pile of rubble conveniently placed (probably by the salamanders) to allow covert observation of the guard post.
Since it would be a difficult assault, up a fifteen foot high wall against unknown assailants, the party decided to have the succubus use Clairvoyance to scout the place out ahead of time. She eventually (clairvoyance is awful slow) mapped out the entire guard post, which would be tough to assault without teleporting into the main chamber and unleashing area death -- climbing the wall would just leave them trapped in a little corridor while the guards closed the gates and portcullises to cut them off.
They were able to send their energy-draining critter in, invisibly and in gaseous form, to loot one of the weapons lockers -- getting four magic swords and a pair of wands of hold monster to arm the party. Then the succubus used clairvoyance to map out the entire mine, past the guard post.
Salt mine my ass! The humans -- presumably possessed humans -- were mining *diamonds*, not salt. There were lots of prisoners, and lots of guards... but only one elevator. So she scouted up the elevator, and then up *another* floor, and THERE finally located the demonic prisoners they'd set out to rescue, actually mining salt. She found an out-of-the-way alcove that no one was guarding, and the party dimension-doored up two levels into it, past all the guards.
Well, not *all* the guards. But the guards on the salt level were less alert, or at any rate not sufficiently alert to realize that the succubus -- who looked just like one of them that she'd suggested wander over to the alcove, ignore the demons, and fall asleep -- was the one going around charming everyone. Soon, she had a massive entourage, and went and got Lassitus, the wizard who'd started this whole thing. Charming a few more guards in the process.
Lassitus had a few more prisoners he wanted rescued, so while the mass of charmed guards vigilantly manned a barricade (made out of boxes of explosives, just in case someone broke the charm and they needed to blow them all up) and the dwarven waraxe was slowly put to work removing the armbands from key prisoners (such as the duke of the castle, and Lassitus himself, and a bunch of other prisoners who could dimension door), the succubus went out and got them, charming even more guards.
Getting the clerics back was awfully suspicious, though (the clerics still had their divine magic, and had to be kept drugged), and they decided that they were pushing their luck to try to keep this up any longer. So, once they had enough teleporters unchained to take everyone they'd managed to gather into their alcove, they popped out onto the surface, to plan the next stage of their assault.
last session
Erik and I argued about the rules a lot this session. He insisted you can't see the 'invisible sensor' created by Clairvoyance, even if you have a See Invisible up. ("See invisible says you see invisible things as if they were visible. You think that if the spell said that it created a 'visible sensor', you wouldn't be able to see it?"), and also that druids in the forgotten realms got their powers from gods ("It says in the book that druids *worship* gods, but *everyone* in the Realms worships gods. It doesn't say anything about the source of their power changing."). It's frustrating arguing these things with him because he'll insist that I'm 'adding rules' when I take things as written instead of adding the rules he wants ("It doesn't SAY that you could see the sensor if you had a see invisible up, so you're adding that!" "It doesn't SAY that a druid who was transformed into a demon would lose his powers, so you're adding that!"). And he has his brother there, who always takes his side no matter what.
Gah.
