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terrycloth) wrote2005-07-18 10:56 am
terrycloth) wrote2005-07-18 10:56 am
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Goddamn you, Tom
We had a session of Tom's D+D game in which he revealed that he'd previously lied to us repeatedly, and as a result we were screwed.
The party returned with the treasure from the swamp castle, planning to continue on to Suzail where they'd already been heading to sell off some of the more expensive magic items and buy sorely needed magical equipment that hadn't been available in Wheloon.
Only to suddenly discover that the swamp castle hasn't been on the way to Suzail after all, as they'd assumed when they set out, and had in fact been the entire reason that they went to the swamp castle at all, since getting to Suzail was more important. It was, in fact, in the opposite direction. Instead, they had to head back to fucking Wheloon and take the road that actually went to Suzail.
There was a stupid bandit ambush on the way, but the real ambush came once they got home -- the noble they'd been escorting -- and whom they'd done a full background check on before accepting to make sure she wasn't secretly a bandit or a necromancer in disguise or something -- turned out to be a bandit or a necromancer in disguise or something (although, see below), and somehow had arranged for Raiina's brother to be kidnapped and held for random unless they walked into an obvious trap that very night.
Since they couldn't abandon her brother (even though Michelle was absent), and couldn't just continue on to Suzail anyway because the enemy knew their plans, they put all their treasure into secure storage at Rhiannon's church and headed for the deathtrap, after verifying as well as they could that her brother was indeed missing, and getting a hand-drawn map of the caverns the enemy (an elite group of assassins who'd never failed a job, yada yada) had told them to meet them in.
At the entrance to the cavern, they were attacked by a giant, which they chased off because Raiina's arrows hit harder than giant boulders. Rhiannon had a couple augury scrolls, and they revealed that 'woe' would befall them if they tried to be cute and circle around behind the most likely populated area... so Zanzibar shattered the locked, trapped door and they continued on following the tracks.
They were ambushed by a weakling human with a wand of fireballs (who got one shot off before being pincushioned), and by a bunch of zombies.
Rhiannon, turning the zombies to dust: "If they were studying us for so long, why did they even *bother* with weak undead like this?"
Vials of poison gas hidden inside the zombies: *shatter*
The door was shut before too many people got exposed to the gas -- Raiina was the only one really poisoned by it, and Rhiannon had also gotten a scroll of restoration from the temple -- but now they had to go around. The next room, going around, was full of chains with a chain-wrapped demon in the middle.
Samuel: "Should we kill him?"
Rhiannon: "Yeah, I think we should just stand out here and shoot him."
Zanzibar: "Guys, he's RIGHT THERE listening to us talk..."
Only, he wasn't, anymore, as he'd started hiding. Samuel used an acid ball to burn away all the chains (Zanzibar considered shattering them, but they were pretty dense -- it would have taken 48 minutes to get them all), Zanzibar shattered the far door, and they ran past before the devil (who was bound to the room) could attack them.
Except... the acid had also burned away the outer covering disguising a pair of secret doors (that on the inaccurate map, which had had other inaccuracies, had been normal tunnels). So they went back and took one of the secret doors, which seemed to lead to mostly abandoned living quarters. The 'mostly' was taken out without actually hitting anyone with his big-ass sword (Morgan kept tripping him, then backing up and readying an action to trip him if he approached, annoying the DM immensely).
Unfortunately, most of the equipment that the party would have wanted to find was, presumably, on the assassins who were waiting elsewhere in the complex, but there were some documents that didn't really say anything useful, except that one of the assassins was a vampire and another was a doppelganger (explaining why she'd been able to trick them despite their precautions).
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The party returned with the treasure from the swamp castle, planning to continue on to Suzail where they'd already been heading to sell off some of the more expensive magic items and buy sorely needed magical equipment that hadn't been available in Wheloon.
Only to suddenly discover that the swamp castle hasn't been on the way to Suzail after all, as they'd assumed when they set out, and had in fact been the entire reason that they went to the swamp castle at all, since getting to Suzail was more important. It was, in fact, in the opposite direction. Instead, they had to head back to fucking Wheloon and take the road that actually went to Suzail.
There was a stupid bandit ambush on the way, but the real ambush came once they got home -- the noble they'd been escorting -- and whom they'd done a full background check on before accepting to make sure she wasn't secretly a bandit or a necromancer in disguise or something -- turned out to be a bandit or a necromancer in disguise or something (although, see below), and somehow had arranged for Raiina's brother to be kidnapped and held for random unless they walked into an obvious trap that very night.
Since they couldn't abandon her brother (even though Michelle was absent), and couldn't just continue on to Suzail anyway because the enemy knew their plans, they put all their treasure into secure storage at Rhiannon's church and headed for the deathtrap, after verifying as well as they could that her brother was indeed missing, and getting a hand-drawn map of the caverns the enemy (an elite group of assassins who'd never failed a job, yada yada) had told them to meet them in.
At the entrance to the cavern, they were attacked by a giant, which they chased off because Raiina's arrows hit harder than giant boulders. Rhiannon had a couple augury scrolls, and they revealed that 'woe' would befall them if they tried to be cute and circle around behind the most likely populated area... so Zanzibar shattered the locked, trapped door and they continued on following the tracks.
They were ambushed by a weakling human with a wand of fireballs (who got one shot off before being pincushioned), and by a bunch of zombies.
Rhiannon, turning the zombies to dust: "If they were studying us for so long, why did they even *bother* with weak undead like this?"
Vials of poison gas hidden inside the zombies: *shatter*
The door was shut before too many people got exposed to the gas -- Raiina was the only one really poisoned by it, and Rhiannon had also gotten a scroll of restoration from the temple -- but now they had to go around. The next room, going around, was full of chains with a chain-wrapped demon in the middle.
Samuel: "Should we kill him?"
Rhiannon: "Yeah, I think we should just stand out here and shoot him."
Zanzibar: "Guys, he's RIGHT THERE listening to us talk..."
Only, he wasn't, anymore, as he'd started hiding. Samuel used an acid ball to burn away all the chains (Zanzibar considered shattering them, but they were pretty dense -- it would have taken 48 minutes to get them all), Zanzibar shattered the far door, and they ran past before the devil (who was bound to the room) could attack them.
Except... the acid had also burned away the outer covering disguising a pair of secret doors (that on the inaccurate map, which had had other inaccuracies, had been normal tunnels). So they went back and took one of the secret doors, which seemed to lead to mostly abandoned living quarters. The 'mostly' was taken out without actually hitting anyone with his big-ass sword (Morgan kept tripping him, then backing up and readying an action to trip him if he approached, annoying the DM immensely).
Unfortunately, most of the equipment that the party would have wanted to find was, presumably, on the assassins who were waiting elsewhere in the complex, but there were some documents that didn't really say anything useful, except that one of the assassins was a vampire and another was a doppelganger (explaining why she'd been able to trick them despite their precautions).
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