Champion of Evil
Jan. 19th, 2003 08:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terryclothToday was Tom's RttToEE game, wherein we pulled the other group's nuts from a fire, brought assorted NPCs back from the dead, and worshipped an evil god. Oh, and made 10th level!
Last time, the (rediculously huge) party split up because there were too many of them to fight effectively in the temple. The half with most of the PCs got its butt kicked by some golems, and decided to head back to find the other half.
After passing battlefield after corpse-laden battlefield, they finally found the other group fighting a large red dragon, and mostly losing. A large invisible red dragon.
A couple of dispel magics took care of the invisibility, but the dragon looked at the new opponents and thought 'target rich environment', and they were well toasted. The mages and clerics and such retreated into a side passage to be out of the way of further attacks, but the dragon charged down the hall to incinerate them, heedless of the warriors trying to block the way -- and collapsed, slain, as the warriors chopped her to bits in passing.
The dragon's horde was trapped, but not with anything dangerous enough to cause the party any real trouble. They split up the loot (giving some of it to a pair of 'friendly' drow who hadn't interfered) and decided to head back to the prison to rest, figuring they were strong enough to stand off anyone left alive at this point.
The next day, they had three dead to raise: The paladin rescued from the prison, the dwarf from the other party, who'd been snatched by the invisible dragon, shoved into its mouth, and then breathed on, and Tenaris, who'd been standing in the hallway when the party had been toasted, and hadn't been as quick or as tough as the rest. The paladin and the dwarf were raised conventionally, slightly worse for wear, but Mepechu decided to reincarnate Tenaris into a new form, since most of the possibilities were more powerful than 'elf', particularly when applied to someone like Tenaris who had no particular specialty that being, say, a wolverine might curtail.
She ended up as a Satyr -- or rather, a 'Fawn', the female version -- as quick as she'd ever been and much tougher, but the rest of the party suddenly did a marked 180 and screamed and whined at Mepechu for using such a risky spell on their GOOD FRIEND Tenaris (whose death they'd been cheering for since they'd met her a week back). Tenaris herself didn't seem too put out.
At any rate, the party -- the whole party -- then headed for the main temple to finally retrieve the orb of silvery death. It was guarded not by enemies, but by an annoying puzzly ritual involving the torch of revealing, a horn, some hidden switches, the blessed air key the party had used to get inside, and a lot of trial and (painful) error. But finally, the Veil was brought forth and the party stepped through it into the Black Cyst.
In the Cyst, a voice demanded that the party kneel and pay their respects to Thorizdun, then take the orb (which was sitting on a pedestal) in his name. The party knew that the orb could only be used by a spellcaster, but would give negative levels to the person who took it (unless they were evil), and Darien (mostly an archer, but with a bit of mage training) had been selected as the lucky orb-holder. The party hadn't realized that taking the orb required performing this whole ritual and swearing yourself to Thorizdun, but... well, who cares?
Darien knelt, and prayed to the evil god, and took the orb, and then (using the torch) found the hidden compartment with the special magical items reserved for the champion of Thorizdun -- which he now was. As far as anyone could tell, he hadn't actually been turned to evil or anything. At least not yet.
Then the party lit the black... thingies... and swung them around, teleporting them out of the Black Cyst, and into...
Well, we'll find out next session.
last session next week
Afterwards (since we were ending early) we watched some anime... Noir (Lain, only with assassins instead of the internet) and You're Under Arrest, which kind of put me to sleep, although it was sort of amusing. Probably a sugar-crash from all the jelly beans I'd been munching on during the game.
Last time, the (rediculously huge) party split up because there were too many of them to fight effectively in the temple. The half with most of the PCs got its butt kicked by some golems, and decided to head back to find the other half.
After passing battlefield after corpse-laden battlefield, they finally found the other group fighting a large red dragon, and mostly losing. A large invisible red dragon.
A couple of dispel magics took care of the invisibility, but the dragon looked at the new opponents and thought 'target rich environment', and they were well toasted. The mages and clerics and such retreated into a side passage to be out of the way of further attacks, but the dragon charged down the hall to incinerate them, heedless of the warriors trying to block the way -- and collapsed, slain, as the warriors chopped her to bits in passing.
The dragon's horde was trapped, but not with anything dangerous enough to cause the party any real trouble. They split up the loot (giving some of it to a pair of 'friendly' drow who hadn't interfered) and decided to head back to the prison to rest, figuring they were strong enough to stand off anyone left alive at this point.
The next day, they had three dead to raise: The paladin rescued from the prison, the dwarf from the other party, who'd been snatched by the invisible dragon, shoved into its mouth, and then breathed on, and Tenaris, who'd been standing in the hallway when the party had been toasted, and hadn't been as quick or as tough as the rest. The paladin and the dwarf were raised conventionally, slightly worse for wear, but Mepechu decided to reincarnate Tenaris into a new form, since most of the possibilities were more powerful than 'elf', particularly when applied to someone like Tenaris who had no particular specialty that being, say, a wolverine might curtail.
She ended up as a Satyr -- or rather, a 'Fawn', the female version -- as quick as she'd ever been and much tougher, but the rest of the party suddenly did a marked 180 and screamed and whined at Mepechu for using such a risky spell on their GOOD FRIEND Tenaris (whose death they'd been cheering for since they'd met her a week back). Tenaris herself didn't seem too put out.
At any rate, the party -- the whole party -- then headed for the main temple to finally retrieve the orb of silvery death. It was guarded not by enemies, but by an annoying puzzly ritual involving the torch of revealing, a horn, some hidden switches, the blessed air key the party had used to get inside, and a lot of trial and (painful) error. But finally, the Veil was brought forth and the party stepped through it into the Black Cyst.
In the Cyst, a voice demanded that the party kneel and pay their respects to Thorizdun, then take the orb (which was sitting on a pedestal) in his name. The party knew that the orb could only be used by a spellcaster, but would give negative levels to the person who took it (unless they were evil), and Darien (mostly an archer, but with a bit of mage training) had been selected as the lucky orb-holder. The party hadn't realized that taking the orb required performing this whole ritual and swearing yourself to Thorizdun, but... well, who cares?
Darien knelt, and prayed to the evil god, and took the orb, and then (using the torch) found the hidden compartment with the special magical items reserved for the champion of Thorizdun -- which he now was. As far as anyone could tell, he hadn't actually been turned to evil or anything. At least not yet.
Then the party lit the black... thingies... and swung them around, teleporting them out of the Black Cyst, and into...
Well, we'll find out next session.
last session next week
Afterwards (since we were ending early) we watched some anime... Noir (Lain, only with assassins instead of the internet) and You're Under Arrest, which kind of put me to sleep, although it was sort of amusing. Probably a sugar-crash from all the jelly beans I'd been munching on during the game.
