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terrycloth) wrote2008-02-17 06:24 pm
terrycloth) wrote2008-02-17 06:24 pm
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Nondisplacer Beasts
Friday we had another session of the Shadake game, in which the party moved slightly farther into the dungeon. Castle. City. Well, city wall.
They didn't have any choice but to leave the horses and enlarged dog and their cart in the blink dog lair, because the other doors out were normal sized, but perhaps the dragon wouldn't waste time incinerating their baggage train...
But the first room was trapped... with hundreds of poison darts, with poison strong enough to rival bee stings, arranged at ankle level. This wasn't much of a barrier, especially not with Mira along. The next door was barred, and took some doing to get past because the door was made of copperwood, and so kind of hard to chop through. Eventually, Cho managed to make a small hole in the door with his foot, and after getting his foot OUT of the door, they had a hole to stick a pole through to dislodge the bar.
...which led them into a seemingly recently-inhabited room, only with no sign of the inhabitants. All the entrances were barred from the inside, but there was no sign of the person who might have barred them. Kit checked for invisible folks, but no... was it a were-blink dog?
Then some growling came from the next hallway over... it sounded like language, but not any language Kit knew, which surprised him because one of the things he'd always been sure not to forget was languages. So they opened the door, and he greeted them in the oldest language he could remember... and they attacked!
This proved to be a foolish choice. They were displacer beasts, relying on their effective invisibility to help them attack and defend, which was almost instantly nullified by Kit's fairy-fire. Cho zorched one, Kit 'burned' two with his temporary fire (Bob then went around slitting their throats, over his objections), and the last... latched onto Kit's throat with a vengeance, knocking him to the ground.
Leen decided to save Kit by covering him in a thick layer of ice armor... freezing the displacer beast's head in pace. This did save Kit, but by the time the rest of the party finished off the beast, he'd been tossed and battered around the room, unable to reach his pockets to get at his components for any of his spells.
But after the battle, it was clear that these beasts were more civilized than such creatures were by reputation... so there was a bit of treasure to be had, at any rate. And the area they lived in might be secure against the dragon.
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They didn't have any choice but to leave the horses and enlarged dog and their cart in the blink dog lair, because the other doors out were normal sized, but perhaps the dragon wouldn't waste time incinerating their baggage train...
But the first room was trapped... with hundreds of poison darts, with poison strong enough to rival bee stings, arranged at ankle level. This wasn't much of a barrier, especially not with Mira along. The next door was barred, and took some doing to get past because the door was made of copperwood, and so kind of hard to chop through. Eventually, Cho managed to make a small hole in the door with his foot, and after getting his foot OUT of the door, they had a hole to stick a pole through to dislodge the bar.
...which led them into a seemingly recently-inhabited room, only with no sign of the inhabitants. All the entrances were barred from the inside, but there was no sign of the person who might have barred them. Kit checked for invisible folks, but no... was it a were-blink dog?
Then some growling came from the next hallway over... it sounded like language, but not any language Kit knew, which surprised him because one of the things he'd always been sure not to forget was languages. So they opened the door, and he greeted them in the oldest language he could remember... and they attacked!
This proved to be a foolish choice. They were displacer beasts, relying on their effective invisibility to help them attack and defend, which was almost instantly nullified by Kit's fairy-fire. Cho zorched one, Kit 'burned' two with his temporary fire (Bob then went around slitting their throats, over his objections), and the last... latched onto Kit's throat with a vengeance, knocking him to the ground.
Leen decided to save Kit by covering him in a thick layer of ice armor... freezing the displacer beast's head in pace. This did save Kit, but by the time the rest of the party finished off the beast, he'd been tossed and battered around the room, unable to reach his pockets to get at his components for any of his spells.
But after the battle, it was clear that these beasts were more civilized than such creatures were by reputation... so there was a bit of treasure to be had, at any rate. And the area they lived in might be secure against the dragon.
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