Ches 30
Ches 30, 1370:
High = 30, Low = 15
Light precipitation (1.5" snow) starting @ 8:30am
Wind gusting to 12 mph from the sea.
Overcast.
Denyae finishes training early, rolling a 5 for HP +3 for CON,
bringing her HP to 72.
Around 9:00am, Five-Fingers sends word that the Silent Travellers
have just gone into Undermountain.
The party charges off.
Tristan, Darius, Staric, Maanamere, Alril, Kades, Deringa,
Dexter, Henkles, Denaye, Steve, and Elvis the Giant Basset Hound
entered Undermountain together through the Yawning Portal (12gp
deducted from party treasure). Henkles and Elvis proceded through
the null-magic room while the rest of the party had to work their
way around it by answering the magic gates riddle. This delayed
them but they caught up to Henkles and Elvis as they were
following the Silent Traveller's scent northward.
Around the Grim Door, Elvis's excited baying attracted the
attention of 8 carrion crawlers. The party was able to dispatch
them, but not before Tristan, Maanamere, Alril, Thades, Dexter,
Henkles, and Denyae were paralyzed and Steve was stunned by a
stray Color Spray,
3360xp to Alril, Darius, Denyae, Deringa, Dexter, Henkles,
Maanamere, Staric, Steve, Kades, and Tristan, for attracting
some monsters and killing them
The party had to wait 40 minutes before everyone was able to move
again, but no monsters showed up in the mean time. They continued
north after Elvis until the came to the stairs down to the second
level that the party had taken on their way up when they arrived
from Nesme.
(4/8/12 Game)
Ag caught up to the party at the top of the stairs while Steve was
using his Gargoyle Ring to summon a Gargoyle. Tristan? cast
Invisibility on the gargoyle and sent him down the stairs
as a scout. A few steps down, the gargoyle spotted a tripwire
which had recently been strung across the stairs, apparently to
cause someone to take a fall. The party decided to leave it in
place. Nice.
The gargoyle made it down to the first landing and continued down
the second flight. It failed to notice the second tripwire,
halfway down the second flight, but beeing a gargoyle, took no
damage from the fall. After it reached the bottom, Henkles and Ag
followed it down. Henkles removed the second tripwire.
When they reached the base of the stairs to Level 2, Henkles and
Ag spotted some St. Elmo's Hounds coming up a separate flight of
stairs towards them. Ag immediately panicked and ran back up the
stairs, which got the hounds excited, so they attacked Henkles.
The party headed down to help, but decided to leave the gargoyle
invisible. Henkles fought alone for two rounds (the gargoyle
caught a little lightning damage from being too close), then the
rest of the party, including Ag, showed up to help finish the
fight.
1700xp to Henkles for killing the big one on his own
3440xp to Ag, Alril, Darius, Denyae, Deringa, Dexter, Henkles,
Kades, Maanamere, Staric, Steve, and Tristan, for the rest of
the fight
The party (Elvis) was able to pick up the trail of the Silent
Travellers again and followed it into a chamber filled with slain
Carrion Crawlers. The damage to the crawlers suggested a party of
adventurers and the damage seemed fairly recent (a few hours ago).
It took a while to get Elvis back to tracking with so many
exciting dead things to sniff, but he eventually proceeded West.
The western corridor lead the party to a door, which opened on a
vast room. Initially the party could not see beyond the 60'
afforded by bullseye lanterns, but echoes indicated that the room
extended far beyond that. They could also see a light in the
distance, which seemed to illuminate several people working in a
gazebo, 60' above ground level. That light went out almost
immediately when a cry of "It's them!" came out of the darkness.
Henkles through some light buttons around, which gave the party a
better picture of the chamber and the large ziggurat in the middle
(100' on a side, 60' high plus columns and small roof). It also
confirmed that at least some of the Silent Travelers were on the
ziggurat.
Things got exciting after that. Many people were flying, lots of
spells were cast, a lot of Silent Travelers died. The most
spectacular was probably Ag's flying backstab overkill of Mirima
Thadodarin, the party leader. AFAL took a lot of damage,
but no losses.
9860xp to Ag, Alril, Darius, Denyae, Deringa, Dexter, Henkles,
Kades, Maanamere, Staric, Steve, and Tristan for winning
1000xp to each member of AFAL, 500xp to each Shining Son/former
member of the Silent Travelers, tentatively, for
the final defeat of the Silent Travelers (story award)
During the fight, the party discovered that the Silent Travelers
had been assembling a wagon and loading it with sacks of einkorn
on the south side of the ziggurat.
The bodies and prisoners were sorted and inventoried and are here
recorded:
Thadidon Ramnardaphorask - Human Male, killed
Full Plate
Morning Star
Dagger
Bow, Short
12 +1 flight arrows
1 Sleep Gas (M) from Aurora's
4 Harbor Moons, 5pp, 4 Toals, 6sp, 10cp
Marrin Rhaunrenardon - Human Male, surrendered
Full Plate
Magic Ring
Bastard Sword +1
Bow, Short
8 +1 flight arrows
1 Sleep Gas (M) from Aurora's
14gp, 6sp, 9cp
Gurugh Brightfire - Half-Orc Male, killed
Plate mail
Longsword, +1, +3 to backstab, (some other non-combat effects)
Dagger
Bow, Short
2 Potions
3 Harbor Moons, 4pp, 6 Toals, 12sp, 9cp
Relask Radon - Human Male, killed
Leather armor
Long Sword
Bow, Short
3 Sleep Gas (M) from Aurora's
small magic fly statue
8gp, 9sp, 8cp
Marraba Minarmas - Half-Elf Female, killed
magic ring
Long Sword
Bow, Short
Dagger of Hurting
3 Sleep Gas (M) from Aurora's
3 Shambos, 5 Harbor Moons, 5 Toals, 8gp, 3sp, 14cp
Mirima Thadodarin - Human Female, killed
Scale mail
Medium shield
Whip
Morning Star
Sling&bullets
magic staff
1 Sleep Gas (M) from Aurora's
silver holy symbol - Loviatar
2 Chrysoberyls, 4pp, 5gp, 11sp, 13cp
Dhethun "Clumsy" Rhaunrimarkos - Human Male, knocked below zero
Scale mail
Guisarme, +1
6 Darts
Long sword
Footman's mace, +1
1 Sleep Gas (M) from Aurora's
4pp, 9sp, 5cp
Earnartra Staros - Half-elf Female, killed
2 magic rings
Dagger
6 Darts
Black wooden wand with rose-like thorns, ending in a small shard
of flint.
1 Woodtine, 4 Harbor Moons, 5gp, 5sp, 3cp
Humtlkurgim Gindlpurmrun Pentetendrptusn - Gnome Male, surrendered
+1 Scale Mail
Medium shield
Broadsword, +1
Short bow, +1
Voulge
Footman's pick, +1
Dagger
1 Sleep Gas (M) from Aurora's
4 Harbor Moons, 4pp, 18 Toals, 12sp, 11cp
Minlisa Goblinshadow - Human Female, killed
Studded leather armor
Medium shield, +1
Long sword
Blowgun w/Barbed Darts
Footman's pick, +1
2 Sleep Gas (M) from Aurora's
3 doses Urd's Teeth poison (12 doses for darts)
6 Toals, 11sp, 8cp
Kapa Godsong - Human Female, surrendered
+1 Studded Leather armor
Small shield
Hand crossbow, +1
Glaive
10ep, 16sp, 6cp
The party began questioning the conscious survivors about what
they were doing in that room but didn't get very far before a huge
(10'd.) floating orb with one central eye and what looked like a
huge mouth beneath it and 10 eyestalks came in through one of the
southern doors, apparently attracted by the noise of battle. The
party started thinking "Beholder" and panicking when Tristan
picked up on the fact that the famous anti-magic effect of the
central eye was not happenning. He then got in a good shot which
eliminated the central eye too easily for a Beholder. Henkles
charged and was able to confirm that it was actually a Death Kiss,
a beholder-kin that uses extensible tentacle-mouths to drain blood
from its victim, by getting caught by three of its mouths and
drained to near zero hit points. The party hit the thing hard and
fast, which it turns out is the best way to handle a Death Kiss
and killed it before it finished Henkles.
500xp to Tristan for figuring out it probably wasn't a beholder
8000xp to Ag, Alril, Darius, Denyae, Deringa, Dexter, Henkles,
Kades, Maanamere, Staric, Steve, and Tristan, for something
slightly less scary than a beholder
After that the party harvested a 70gp blood eye from the remains
and looted everyone from the big figh except for Humtlkurgim and
Kapa, the hirelings who surrendered. They resumed their
questioning and learned that at the bottom of a 10' wide shaft in
the top of the ziggurat was a 30'x30' chamber, in the center of
which was a large jade snake statue. The snake statue apparently
came to life and attacked anyone who stepped on the floor of the
chamber, but was a solid jade statue the rest of the time. The
Silent Travellers had been planning to lift it out with a block
and tackle and use the wagon to transport it to the magic bridge
to Nesme. Ag flew down and confirmed the description of the room,
which was lined with shelves of bones from some many-armed snake
creatures. The room showed signs of multiple lootings, but the
statue was intact.
The party made use of the Silent Travelers' block-and-tackle to
bring the statue up and a Feather Fall to get it down the
outside. After some heaving and sweating, they got it onto the
back of the Silent Travelers' wagon and headed back towards the
stairs to level 1 with the plan of hauling it up.
Ag went on deep rear guard at this point.
As the party was preparing to haul things up the first staircase,
the snake statue came to life and faught it's way past the rear of
the party. It took a lot of damage but kept right on going. As
soon as it was past everyone, it took off towards the ziggurat
room.
Henkles: "I think we took down the second tripwire on our
way back up, since there was no reason to leave it there then.
Henkles will keep both wires unless someone else (Ag?) wants
them."
The party dropped off Kapa Godsong, Humtlkurgim Gindlpurmrun
Pentetendrptusn, and Clumsy Rhaunrimarkos in the shield room so
that they could leave via the Yawning Portal. Maanamere stayed
with them to make sure they got out and didn't try to follow the
party. The rest of the party headed to the Cooking Room with
Marrin Rhaunrenardon.
On the way to the Cooking Room, the party encountered 7 fire
beetles in a corridor.
245xp to Alril, Darius, Denyae, Deringa, Dexter, Henkles,
Kades, Staric, Steve, and Tristan, for squashin' bugs
In the Cooking Room, the party threw the heads of the slain Silent
Travelers into the boiling oil. The then explained to Marrin that
they would do something similar to him if he ever made trouble for
AFAL again. He made assurances that he would stay out of their
way and way given a sword to defend himself with and told he was
on his own getting out of the dungeon. He smirked and used the
teleport maze in the Cooking Room to exit Undermountain as the
party had done their first time in the room.
After that they called it a day and headed home without further
trouble.
| Letter from Henkles to Morgath the Stable |
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We took Silver Strike into Undermountain on a typical loot
run. We encountered several groups of creatures, including St
Elmo's Hounds, Carrion Crawlers, Fire Beetles and a Death
Kiss. We also met a group of ruffians who ruthlessly attacked
us. Silver Strike performed exceptionally well against all
foes except the St Elmo's Hounds, where it's metal nature made
striking them a shocking experience. Still, I did far more
damage to them than they did to me.
I think the Magic Missile effect might be a bit overkill,
though. I was expecting something more like a Light spell on
the target's visual organs, or perhaps Negative Plane
Protection on the wielder. When I was fighting the St Elmo's
Honuds I was quite glad it wasn't a Shocking Grasp effect.
I fear that any creature powerful enough to be undamaged by
a +2 weapon will also have enough magic resistance to negate
the magic missile effect. Further experimentation is in
order.
I will send you another report when I have something more
interesting to tell you.
Henkles of Iriaebor
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