Wednesday, October 08, 2008
After the nasty battle with the Hill Giant with a Beholder head and minions, we discovered a holding cell with a female human, male human, and a male dwarf (I guess I assumed it was male).
After some brief discussions we decided they weren't an illusion disguising vile beasts and were caravan merchants that were captured by the former residents, and were intended to be food for the beholder/giant. We continued to look for the goblin mage dude without luck. But Valeska and Fatoxhxj soon found some more orcs and gnolls coming out of a couple secret doors we had missed. Another battle started. Mostly gnolls until Yanni charged into a room that he saw the goblin wizard doing stuff in the fire place. He walked in and was nearly beheaded by two nasty looking Ogres. Orin jumped in and started melee with one and was nearly wiped out as well until I did some magiks, got him closer to Demona, and I showed the Ogre what a hedge mage can really do. Before that Yanni did a neat wall of force to prevent the other one from eating me alive. The battle was won but the goblin wizard escaped (or was it an illusion?).
Meanwhile Valeska and Fatoxhxj were trying to open the locked door to the main columned entrance room. Except Valeska had morphed into a nasty orc thing hoping to infiltrate the hoards of creatures she heard on the other side of the barred door. Eventually, we got the door opened and discovered that a large group of humanoids had fled out the front doors. We searched the other side of the dwarven keep and found the humanoid groups living area (In some old dwarven barracks). After discovering all the secret doors (I think) we moved the 3 caravan people up to that area and barricaded the front doors and other possible entrances but not before I took a peek outside and saw the goblin wizard, a nasty gnoll, and another hill giant beholder dude. Ugg.. the beholder dude tried to blast me after I saw them but I managed to escape unharmed.
We then headed up the stairs to a room with 4 dwarven statues in each corner, the floor was colored white and black, and some impressive double doors with a message above it saying something to the affect that dwarves are welcome but all others magic can not beat dwarven magic. Er. something like that.
We brought the dwarf up from the small group and had him look at it. He thought it was likely a floor trap and something else but was hesitant to open the doors for us. He returned to his friends.
So Valeska cast Alter self and became a rather decent looking dwarf and opened the doors. She was tied to a rope just in case the floor gave way and flying. Nothing. Next went Orin. Nothing happened so next went Yanni. Still nothing. Next was Demona. She got to the middle and the floor gave way as a small door in the ceiling just inside the double doors opened and this white globe came out and washed light over Yanni, Valeska, Orin, and Demona. It was soon discovered that it caused some kind of dispel magic cause many of their magic items were no longer functioning.
After a couple of climbing attempts, and hanging from the rope over the pit, Demona made it across. Valeska flew down to the bottom of the spiked poisoned pit, impaled herself, and recovered Demona's little ioun stone that wasn't floating any more.
Now we had a large pit to get Fatoxhxj and me across. After some debate I climbed across holding the rope, and Fatox jumped across, barely. He managed to grab the lip of the pit and climb his way up.
Now everyone being across the pit, Orin made it down a few sets of stairs that were trapped some with pressure plated spikes, and saws that were coated with a poison, and also that Sepia's Snake Sigil thing. At the bottom of the 10' wide stairway, we entered into a room with a throne on the far side, and some tapestries covering the walls. After we searched the room, we found a passageway behind the left tapestry. It looked to start winding down a natural tunnel. Hearing nothing, and having several combats and being fairly depleted of spells, Yanni threw out a rope trick and we climbed up to rest, reflect, level up, and plan the search for the pestle.
After some brief discussions we decided they weren't an illusion disguising vile beasts and were caravan merchants that were captured by the former residents, and were intended to be food for the beholder/giant. We continued to look for the goblin mage dude without luck. But Valeska and Fatoxhxj soon found some more orcs and gnolls coming out of a couple secret doors we had missed. Another battle started. Mostly gnolls until Yanni charged into a room that he saw the goblin wizard doing stuff in the fire place. He walked in and was nearly beheaded by two nasty looking Ogres. Orin jumped in and started melee with one and was nearly wiped out as well until I did some magiks, got him closer to Demona, and I showed the Ogre what a hedge mage can really do. Before that Yanni did a neat wall of force to prevent the other one from eating me alive. The battle was won but the goblin wizard escaped (or was it an illusion?).
Meanwhile Valeska and Fatoxhxj were trying to open the locked door to the main columned entrance room. Except Valeska had morphed into a nasty orc thing hoping to infiltrate the hoards of creatures she heard on the other side of the barred door. Eventually, we got the door opened and discovered that a large group of humanoids had fled out the front doors. We searched the other side of the dwarven keep and found the humanoid groups living area (In some old dwarven barracks). After discovering all the secret doors (I think) we moved the 3 caravan people up to that area and barricaded the front doors and other possible entrances but not before I took a peek outside and saw the goblin wizard, a nasty gnoll, and another hill giant beholder dude. Ugg.. the beholder dude tried to blast me after I saw them but I managed to escape unharmed.
We then headed up the stairs to a room with 4 dwarven statues in each corner, the floor was colored white and black, and some impressive double doors with a message above it saying something to the affect that dwarves are welcome but all others magic can not beat dwarven magic. Er. something like that.
We brought the dwarf up from the small group and had him look at it. He thought it was likely a floor trap and something else but was hesitant to open the doors for us. He returned to his friends.
So Valeska cast Alter self and became a rather decent looking dwarf and opened the doors. She was tied to a rope just in case the floor gave way and flying. Nothing. Next went Orin. Nothing happened so next went Yanni. Still nothing. Next was Demona. She got to the middle and the floor gave way as a small door in the ceiling just inside the double doors opened and this white globe came out and washed light over Yanni, Valeska, Orin, and Demona. It was soon discovered that it caused some kind of dispel magic cause many of their magic items were no longer functioning.
After a couple of climbing attempts, and hanging from the rope over the pit, Demona made it across. Valeska flew down to the bottom of the spiked poisoned pit, impaled herself, and recovered Demona's little ioun stone that wasn't floating any more.
Now we had a large pit to get Fatoxhxj and me across. After some debate I climbed across holding the rope, and Fatox jumped across, barely. He managed to grab the lip of the pit and climb his way up.
Now everyone being across the pit, Orin made it down a few sets of stairs that were trapped some with pressure plated spikes, and saws that were coated with a poison, and also that Sepia's Snake Sigil thing. At the bottom of the 10' wide stairway, we entered into a room with a throne on the far side, and some tapestries covering the walls. After we searched the room, we found a passageway behind the left tapestry. It looked to start winding down a natural tunnel. Hearing nothing, and having several combats and being fairly depleted of spells, Yanni threw out a rope trick and we climbed up to rest, reflect, level up, and plan the search for the pestle.
Labels: Beholder, Dwarves, pestle
