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Hello, scummers. Our group usually plays weekly on Sundays, from Noon to 3 PM PST. We play D&D edition 3.5, and we play on roll20.net, text only.
Spoiler: Allowed sourcebooks:
Player's Handbook 1
Player's Handbook 2
Dungeon Master's Guide
Complete Adventurer
Complete Arcane
Complete Champion
Complete Mage
Complete Scoundrel
Complete Warrior
Player's Handbook 2
Dungeon Master's Guide
Complete Adventurer
Complete Arcane
Complete Champion
Complete Divine
but Favored Soul class and Divine Metamagic feat is allowedComplete Mage
Complete Scoundrel
Complete Warrior
In addition, you may play as the Gun Mage, and Summoner.
Swiftblade prestige class is also allowed.
Racial Paragon classes are also allowed.
We use the 25-point buy to generate abilities for characters. You have 6 stats, Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma.
They all start at 8, and you can raise them by spending points according to the chart below.
Alternatively, you can reduce them below 8 to earn points back, at 1 to 1 basis. (For example, you can choose to start with 6 base Strength, which would give you back 2 points, for total of 27 points to spend on other abilities)
Spoiler: Point Buy Chart
Spoiler: Old Characters
Scummer | Character Name, Alignment & Class | Started | Status |
| Brian Skies | Anias Faroe, CN Human Beguiler | Campaign 5 | Alive |
| GuyInFreezer | Verdante Holz, CN Human Transmuter | Campaign 5 | Alive |
| Who | Saag, CN Changeling Barbarian | Campaign 5 | Alive |
| Hanasawa | Moriko Aritawa, NG Human Sorcerer | Campaign 5 | Alive |
| ConManMick | Lukas Holz, CG Half-elf Cleric | Campaign 5 | Alive |
| DiamondSentinel | Ciel Varynx, CG Human Duskblade | Campaign 5 | Killed |
| The Bulge | Bo Merivale, N Halfling Spellthief | Campaign 5 | Retired |
| fujiyamaninja | THOGИAK, CN Human Barbarian | Campaign 5 | Killed in Thundercrag fight |
| lilith2013 | Stewart, CG Human Paladin | Campaign 5 | Alive |
| Lady Lambdadelta | Nyx, CN Glastig Spellthief | Campaign 5 Act 3 | Alive |
| RadiantCowbells | Rolf, CG Elf Scout | Campaign 5 Act 3 | Alive |
PC death count is at
21
Spoiler: Campaign 1
Game Link
In post 139, FakeGod wrote:
Goblin bandits always have been a pest for towns, but their threat recently escalated when:
Supposedly, she's locked up in a dungeon somewhere being forced to make masterwork arms and armors for these vile creatures, and it's up to you, adventurers, to find the goblins' hideout and rescue her.
The caves the goblins have taken residence used to be notorious for dangerous monsters, but it seems that the goblins have cleared out a portion of the cave and claimed it as their own. Still, you should be on your guard when you're exploring the dungeon!
In post 167, FakeGod wrote:Excursion 1: Members - Who, T-Bone
Repelled by skeletons early. Wasn't able to proceed.
Excursion 2: Members - Who, T-Bone, Hanasawa, Varsoon
Decided to follow the goblin tracks to the first floor. Ran into some creatures, but slaughtered them all, except Lorick (druid) insisted that they let a fleeing enemy wolf go.
In post 201, FakeGod wrote:They found the goblin's lair and marched into a hail of arrows.
Ballad charged in bravely, and got surrounded. Who put him and another goblin under magical slumber, while Hana provided magical DPS.
quadz ended up eating three arrows and was forced to retreat. Who escaped as well.
Clovis rushed in to save his friend, only to be peppered by arrows by the goblin reinforcements. Clovis and Ballad met their grisly ends, while rest of the party got out.
In post 230, FakeGod wrote:RECAP
Party travels through the broken wall. They run into a flooded chamber, where they meet an aquatic creature girl named Diana. Diana asks Who to follow her and take a look at something, and he agrees. Who does not return. (eaten by a monster)
After Shadow, Lorick, and Who2 joins the party, they travel further down into the floor where they run into Sarah, a refugee who got captured by goblins a few months ago. Other refugees got sick and were taken away, never to be seen again. She was returned safely to the camp.
Party then fights their way through the undead infested dungeon, only to discover a strange magical sigil on the ground. After a through examination, they realize that someone has been using the sigil to create undead monstrosities. They deface the symbol and leave the accursed place.
In post 262, FakeGod wrote:Recap -
Miniri, Edgar, Lorick, and Who2 bravely explore areas that haven't been cleared out by the goblins yet. They run into various hideous flying creatures, but they defeat them with ease. Later, they face a flying manta ray who knocks out everyone except Lorick and his pet. Lorick summons much fire and sends the abomination back to whence it came.
Feeling strong enough, they raid the goblin camp. The goblins dug out a secret hallway to surround and ambush the PCs in middle of their camp, but they were simply too weak. After getting sections of their forces locked down by Who's sleep, goblin frontline was erupted with fire from Lorick/Wolf, and goblin flanking force were bottlenecked into a narrow hallway and obliterated by Miniri's AoE spells.
They found Hanasawa the blacksmith toiling away in an underground forge, and rescued her. They also were able to find all of the stolen supplies to the camp.
Mission accomplished.
Spoiler: Campaign 2
Game Link
In post 305, FakeGod wrote:In post 685, T-Bone wrote:Also why does a robot have restaurant reservations? Sounds pretty evil...
He's buying you guys fancy lunch as a way of saying thanks for helping out Hanasawa, his friend.
Dr. K is a respected scholar in the city, and 2nd campaign involves escorting Dr. K around in the city sewers.
City was built on a hilltop, and it was deemed unsafe to expand the underground sewer network to support the growing city. An aboveground dikes were built instead, and the sewers have been closed ever since.
Sewers have been fallen into disuse for a long time, and they mostly serve as a haven for unsavory creatures and criminals now.
In post 333, FakeGod wrote:Recap - Miniri, BpC, Who, Gaiden, and Lorick venture into the undead infested part of the dungeon. They battle through into a large catacombs, where undeads come in from all sides. They barely escape with their lives, except BpC who gets eaten.
Miniri and Gaiden travel to the hilltop city and accompany Dr. K to the sewers. They kill a monster and bring a sample back for examination.
In post 367, FakeGod wrote:Recap - Party travels in the old sewer system. They meet couple scared wererats, who scuttle away. They find a hole that's apparently been dug through the floor. A tentacle monster comes out, but Lorick sets it on fire and Who2 blinds it, so it runs away.
Party regroup, shop, and explore the left side, where they run into an ambush by cultists of Nerull. They almost lose their spellcasters, but everyone makes it out ok. They run into more of them as well as more tentacle monsters as they travel deeper into the sewer system.
In post 371, Hanasawa wrote:Miniri's Character Sheet: http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=272970
Even though she was passed out at least I saw it and I thank you so much for it too. I always have an emotional attachment to my character so it might have crushed me for a bit. Once again, doing my elaborated summary because FG is always a tiny bit lacking but it's good for those who just want a quick skim. This is kinda for those who want to know more just about the things that go on here and whether joining is right for you.
Attendance today (name - character):
Tbone - Lorick and Coyote
quadz - Shadow
Who - Who2
Me - Miniri
Nevertheless, our party headed into the sewers for the second campaign after people were sick of skeletons and dungeons. Dr. K did not join us today on our exploration because he just didn't want to. Lorick and Shadow do not like this clockwork robot while Miniri just tolerated him because of her sister being friends with him. Moving on, the party decided to head to the left (visually right) at the first intersection of the sewers where they came across ratfolk not liking the idea of light. Lorick, I'm pretty sure intimidated them while Shadow and Miniri were really against this idea. They ran off anyway and we haven't heard from them since. Continuing down from the other side, not wanting to disturb the ratfolk or crashing their home, we went the other way and went south down to the end of the hallway where there was a hole at the end. People spotted the monster that Miniri and Suika fought beforehand but Miniri was the only one who completely missed it. Shadow yelled at her a bit, she apologised and then fighting started happening. Shadow got in range of the tentacles like Suika did before even though Miniri sort of mentioned that happening before they left for the sewers. Lorick used Flaming Sphere, Shadow initially did okay until the grapple did 14 damage causing him to promptly run away after breaking free. Who joined in sort of at this point with Who 2, casting Blinding Color Spray, the monster was annoyed and pretty much ran away on his turn...after I hit Ray of Frost to follow up with a Slow later but it's fine. We were award miniscule EXP and then there were some complaints about not having time to buy things. So we just basically went up and bought potions/scrolls and whatever else we liked before heading off again.
Round 2, we decided to head right (visually left) this time, this is where Suika and Miniri were near the end of the last session. After checking that crevice again, no more signs of the monster which is great. Though we heard a woman crying just a little before this. Moving forward, we heard footsteps coming from the moss and before we knew it, there were cultists popping up from invisibility, giving two touch attacks to Who and Miniri that essentially pushed them down to really low health. After that surprise, it was just a matter of fighting. Who moved up and away and I'm pretty sure he casted Glitterdust later on which blinded pretty much everyone except the cultist that was the closest to him (including Miniri and Shadow). Lorick, Coyote and Shadow were fighting where they were and Miniri got downed before she could even do anything. Down to -8HP, everyone else tried their hardest to fight, Lorick used up a scroll of fire blade which was really pretty and that the pair of Lorick and Coyote took down two of the cultists. Shadow moved to try and stabilise Miniri to no avail, down to -9HP around and blind, he tried his best to give a potion which essentially saved her life, dodging a couple attacks in an attempt. After the third cultist at the bottom was killed (there were 4 in total) it was just the last one left at the top which I think Who blinded this time by using Blinding Color Spray again to get the top one (correct me if I'm wrong). Shadow kinda flopped onto Miniri as she was unconscious to be a human shield (which out of character, my heart melted so much ahhh) and then tried to jump at the last cultist, sadly missing but not as bad as it could have been. Lorick and Coyote moved up to attack, missing both and missing all but 1 AoO from the cultist flailing around blindly. That was enough to end the battle and we were pretty beat. Health went around to try and explore deeper in the cave.
Round 3, after continuing along the path, there was a way in to the south which lead deeper into the sewers so we headed there, proceeding only a little bit to hear more footsteps from the north and a growling monster at the south. After killing our lights and staying silent as well could, Shadow...the monk and dex hog of the group failed a move silent check and basically alerted everything so we moved to combat positions as another of the same monsters we fought before pop up again and once again on Shadow. Dealing with more grapples, we heard the footsteps come closer so we tried to come up with plans to deal with invisibility again, Lorick swung at where he thought something was and managed a hit, Miniri used Seeking Ray which weaved really strangely and hit the monster. After moving, everyone but shadow got surrounded by 4 cultists again (or 5, not sure) appearing right in front of us again. To keep this short, Shadow took a bit of a beating from the monster, Miniri got two attacks on her which knocked her down to low HP but not out this time, Lorick used entangle again pretty early to lock down the monster and the cultists on the same line (really good as we found later on because that monster would have shredded me into pieces if it moved any further) Miniri had to stand her ground where she was, however. Lorick took out the bottom two cultists easily, Who managed to land a daze on one after a prepared sleep spell went to waste(?). Shadow moved, taking AoOs from the monster and the cultist, all missing him before wailing on one of the two cultists surround Miniri. Miniri took out the other cultist with 3 magic missiles all landing on him, before she managed to dodge a blood buff dagger that would have pretty surely ended her life there and then (14 damage to kill, +3d6 damage on hit but -5HP which HURTS if it lands as Miniri discovered last battle) on the one to the north of her. After Shadow missing the north cultist and the last one at the bottom pretty much killed himself with the buff(?), Miniri pretty much overkilled the cultist at the top and turned him into a BBQ apparently. The monster at the bottom was swiftly taken care of with a Javelin throw by Shadow and a second seeking ray spell on the monster. Pretty much exhausted from this, everyone agreed to go back to town and just...prepare for another day of this mess and hints of treasure.
I seriously hope I didn't miss anything. Can't be bothered to read back through the logs sadly... Thanks everyone, both in character and out of character because that was really tense.
In post 447, FakeGod wrote:Who2 stumbled out from the old sewers, and with a shudder, recounted the terrible fate that befell his party.
The party battled their way through invisible cultists. This time, with darkvision, see invis, and Miniri's advanced spellcasting, the cultists are dispatched shortly and efficiently.
At the end of their travels, they found an ominous hole in the wall, revealing a stairway leading downwards. Down there, they found a forgotten tomb, full of spiderweb and bodies, with glistening, red eggs inside them.
When they reached the innermost sanctum, bodies rose. The spider queen revealed herself and cut off attempts at escape with her webs and tremorsense, as the web mummies began to overwhelm the party's defenses. Only Who2, by layering his invisibility spell with a silence spell, was able to escape.
Rest of the party were killed.
In post 564, Who wrote:Vague summary (Hana will post a more complete one):
Teela and Who3 fought some stuff, wiped them out, Caled joined them, they fought some more stuff, a wereratperson bit Who3, we all scrambled around madly for a cure, we eventually got it (Teela cast remove curse. Who3 was very grateful) we went back, fought some more stuff, met some people, almost got massacred by an undead horror, but escaped (Teela had to carry Who3 away from it because he had been paralyzed, again he was very grateful). We delivered the hat of one of the people we met to Dr. K, he insisted on coming with us if we went back there. (We went down a hole)
In post 596, FakeGod wrote:PCs traveled down the sewers yet again. They ran into some rabid ratfolks, but they proved to be no trouble.
They finally descended into the resurfaced tomb, of which claimed so many lives...
And emerged victorious!!! Mummies went down under repeated physical assault and magical fire, while Who3 kept his focus on the spider boss.
Things were looking grim when Caled, their healer, went down, and the frontline got locked down via webs. But Edgar's god finally answered Edgar's prayers, and a single good turn dusted the entire room, and left no undeads alive.
The spider flanked around, but it was already worn down heavily by Who3's spells. Mo"ak charged raging up the stairs and delivered a powerful blow, and then Who3 finished it off with his magic missiles.
The PCs returned to Dr. K with their loot, but they discovered a tragedy in the sewers.
It appears that wererats are dying en masse......
In post 617, FakeGod wrote:The PCs go to the wererat controlled area of the sewers, and meet with fair amount of resistance. Mo'ak is bitten by a wererat.
They discover a wererat girl named Sarah, who explains them the situation. It turns out that a well-dressed scholar has ruthlessly taken over the wererat community, and have been using them as slaves for something malicious. The resisting ones were infected with a strange disease and went rabid.
The PCs free the slaves and kill a deadborn vulture. They escort the wererats to the western section of the sewers, where cultists used to be, and Sarah decides to apprentice under Caled and learn alchemy.
They escort Dr. K down into the mines, where they encounter Lala Ducks once more. Dr. K seemingly goes with her requests, but he realized that something is fishy about Ducks, and warns the party via Caled's telepathy.
Lala Ducks reveal her true form, a monstrous hag! They do battle, and Caled falls. Lala's bodyguard, a giant blue ogre, comes out to disrupt Who3, but Who3 lines up a perfect Maximized Lightning to blast both of them to oblivion.
PCs return to the town afterwards.
In post 693, FakeGod wrote:Summary
PCs finally venture down into the final chamber. This chamber is rumored to be where a dragon's hoard lies for taking, but it's guarded by a powerful undead. (morhg)
PCs walk in, and begin to fight skeletons. Brian Skies is on the ceiling, shooting his Eldritch Blasts, but he notices that the morhg is making a beeline for him.
PCs wrap up the skeletons, but Brian's in trouble. Caled sends her owl to heal Brian, but Milo the owl gets hit by the morhg's tongue and drops to the ground, paralyzed and dying. Teela heals the owl back up, while Who3 spams spells to DPS down the morhg. But then Brian gets critted, so Milo goes up to heal him once more. Morhg finally goes down afterawhile.
Without a moment loss, ground begins to shake. A black dragon arises from his sealing circle, and it promises swift death to the PCs. It swoops down and uses its breath weapon to melt the PCs to very low HP. Series of fantastic caster level checks later, dragon is nearly dead. Then, the dragon breathes acid once more, and this time, most of the party are down for the count. Brian Skies nails it once more to bring it down to 1 hp. And then Who decides to finish off the dragon using Orb of Acid. ACID. Black dragons are immune to acid, which means that Who just killed off Caled, Varsoon, and Hana. This was after I told them that black dragons are immune to acid.
I let him take back the move, and he switched to orb of fire to finish it off. Last room cleared, and the dragon's loot has been claimed.
I will be setting up a new campaign for next Saturday. It is desert setting.
Spoiler: Campaign 3
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In post 705, FakeGod wrote:
At Dr. K's request, PCs head to the faraway desert in hopes of locating the renowned scholar, Lala Ducks...
Game Link: https://app.roll20.net/join/1006792/csv0Cw
In post 726, FakeGod wrote:Summary:
Party members are trekking across the desert to hear news of the scholar Lala Ducks. They are attacked by hungry landsharks, but they manage. They see a air detonation fireball coming from the nearby dunes, so they head over to investigate. They encounter a wizard who attacks them right away, so Who3 put him down. They are flanked by orc mercenaries, but they are dispatched quickly. They discover a spellbook on the wizard. A bounty hunter in full plate named St. Harriet approaches them as they are rummaging through the loot, and explains that he is working for a mining guild called Armistri Annotated, and that he was hunting down the fugitive wizard. He asks for the spellbook of the wizard, claiming that it belongs to the guild. PCs say that they will return the book personally, so Harriet shrugs and tells them to follow him to the guild compound.
They arrive, and meet up with many of the NPCs present, including Na Choma, the grumpy dwarf who is the head of the security of the guild, Headmaster Fink, the old human wizard in charge of teaching spells to the new recruit miners, Isana the cook, and her fiance, Ivan the team leader, and guild boss Tony. They interact with many of the NPCs. Kirtha helps out Isana make potatoes for dinner. Eventually, St. Harriet asks for the book again, and Who3 refuses. St. Harriet grabs him, and draws a non-lethal wooden sword. This triggers Brian Skies to shoot him with an eldritch blast, but Harriet shrugs it off. The giant eagle Caled and Mo'ak tries to break them apart, but Harriet is grabbing Who3 too tightly. Then, St. Harriet swings his wooden sword at Who3, dropping him unconscious. Brian Skies grab the book off Who3 and gives it to Harriet, who promptly tells the party to get out of the compound.
The party rests under Kirtha's magic hut, and sets off to North when the sun goes down. They find themselves in the dune once more, and they realize that the dunes were actually full of broken carts, gears, and bodies. It was a graveyard of sorts! Party quickly leaves, but they are pursued by a pair of landsharks. They dispatch the first one, but second one jumps on Who3 and nearly swallows him whole. PCs try to take it down as quickly as they can, but they cannot do it before the thing is about to retreat underground with its meal in tow (unconscious Who3). After much hesitation, Kirtha launches a fireball into the creature, fully knowing that the Who3, being unconscious, will be fully roasted. The creature finally goes down, and they give Who3 a proper funeral under the desert night sky.
In post 755, FakeGod wrote:Summary:
PCs are joined by Who4 the wizard. They sleep through the most of the scorching rays of the desert sun. They see a group of hooded figures approach the dunes, so they follow them, but they lose track of them inside the dunes. After hours of fruitless searching, they see couple miners with smuggled books. Mo'ak tackles them to the ground, but before they could interrogate them, a fireball incinerates them and the smuggled goods. White, robed figures are darting around invisibly in the dunes, shooting rays of electricity into the PCs. PCs retaliate and kill them.
They camp away from the dunes, but they notice that there are a group coming after them, so they begin to move away. They wonder around the desert, trying to lose the groups. They eventually arrive at the AA mining entrance. Isaac try to convince them to let the PCs in, but miner guards tell them to scram. When Mo'ak joins them, miners flee into the mine. Isaac shoots one of them with his eldritch blast. Party camp outside, not too far from the mines.
At daybreak, PCs are joined by Kirtha Velvetin. Kirtha goes and talks to the miners at the mining entrance, and meets Ivan. They smooth things over, and Kirtha manages to convince Ivan to loan them a guide to take them to the Carifey Camp. They walk across the desert, but are ambushed by a giant scorpion. Who4 is taken low, but they take it down. They arrive at the camp of the Crescent Moon tribe. Kirtha makes the necessary knowledge checks to understand their customs, and she convinces the chieftain Zito the One-Armed to let the PCs stay. Zito extends them hospitality and asks them to join the tribe in their Half-Moon Celebration, which is happening in 3 days.
Kirtha meets Marangal, daughter of Zito, and asks about the celebration. The Half-Moon celebration is done in honor of their patron angel vanquishing an ancient evil vampire from long past. Isaac tries to tell tall tales, but the tribespeople don't listen to him. There are a group of female sword dancers practicing, and PCs try and spectacularly fail trying to copy them. Later, Mo'ak and Teela gets invited to a landshark hunting expedition by a group of tribal hunters, to which they agree enthusiastically. They head over to the area near the mines and successfully hunt a landshark, which they bring back to the camp.
Next week, we'll do the Half-Moon celebration event.
In post 800, FakeGod wrote:Summary.
The PCs awake. Tomorrow is the day of the Half-Moon celebrations, and there are much work to be done. Miners led by St Harriet enters the camp. They are here to participate in the festival, and they brought crates of fireworks for the tribe's entertainment. St Harriet also asks Chief Zito for his daughter's hand in marriage, which Zito defers to the ancient customary duel. Marangal and St Harriet will duel at sundown. No magic is allowed, and St Harriet is not allowed to use any lethal weapons. If Marangal wins, then St Harriet is deemed unworthy, and will not be given a second chance. Marangal does't really like the idea of getting married to St Harriet, and she will be fighting with all her might.
At sundown, the duel commences after each combatants are checked for any magic. At first, Marangal seems to have the upper hand, as she disappears in and out of view, striking at Harriet's vital spots. After taking some damage, Harriet dove forward, grabbed invisible Marangal, wrestled her to the ground, and chained her arms down with his manacles. Harriet emerges victorious, and Zito acknowledges Harriet's engagement with his daughter.
Right before Harriet dove forward and caught Marangal, Isaac noticed that there was a flash of magical aura around Harriet, of divination school. He notified his team members, and PCs began to suspect that Harriet somehow employed magic to cheat in his duel. They pondered a bit more, and night fell.
During the night, Lorick was awakened by sounds of people moving about. He peeked outside and saw that the tribe guards were gathered around their Chieftain's tent. He asked what was going on, but the guard told him to remain in his tent. Lorick woke up the rest of the PCs, and Who4 cast invisibility on Lorick, who turned into a snake. Lorick slithered into Zito's tent, and saw the one-armed chief lying in pool of his own blood. Alarmed, Lorick slithered away to check on Harriet's tent. Harriet and his miners were all sound asleep, with no evidence of foul play. Lorick went back to his tent to relay all this to rest of the PCs. A soft knock and a plea for help from the tribal guards prompted Lorick, Teela, and Isaac to investigate what happened, and maybe save the chieftain's life. With a cast of Detect Poison and a fantastic Wisdom check, Teela managed to identify the poison. It is from an evil plant that lives in the jungle. It feeds on blood of the sentient creatures, and its poison makes its wounds unstaunchable. She cast delay poison and cure spells on the dying chieftain, only to watch the spells fail. Potions weren't working on him either. And Zito passed away.
Next morning, when the guard went to wake up Marangal of the tragedy that has happened last night, he discovered the dead bodies of her attendants, and a note in Draconic on Marangal's bed. It says to bring 20 members of the tribe in chains to the dunes, if they wanted to see Marangal ever again. Enraged, the tribe began discussion of what to do. St Harriet, after having read the letter, proposed that he and 19 of the best warriors of the tribe turn themselves in with fake chains on and hidden weapons, and rescue Marangal. PCs were not thrilled by this idea, but the plan received overwhelming praise from the angry tribe. PCs decided to send Who4, Isaac, Lorick, Milo the Kirtha's owl familiar, and Caled the giant eagle to tail the group, and to provide aid when needed.
They followed from great heights above, and saw that a hooded man approach the group, and led them to a hidden underground area through a well-hidden trap door. They descended and began to investigate. They heard some bangings and screams, so they open the trap door and follow through. The PCs find none of the group, but they do find a large chamber underground. There are evidence of the group being led here, but tracks become to ruffled to track elsewhere. Furthermore, there were bits of blood and nails on the walls. They search the area for awhile, and eventually find a hidden gate mechanism that would trap anyone inside the large chamber. With the aid of a summoned earth elemental, they also find a secret door. Lorick turns the door into mud and slice through, only to find a second set of metal doors behind it. When they open it, they saw 4 pools full of what looks like blood, crates and lab benches, and a wide chamber leading deeper in. There were 4 robed figures who were each positioned next to a well. They all launched fireballs at the PCs when the PCs entered, incinerating the PCs.
In post 894, FakeGod wrote:Summary
In hearing the news that their lives were in danger, miners pack up and flee back to their mining compound. At urge of Marangal, the desert tribespeople abandon their homes to flee toward the compound as well. The PCs prepare for battle by hiding in the abandoned tents. The invading mages arrive, flying 200ft above, and bombard the tents with fireballs. After burning down the tents, they quickly track down the refugees who haven't made it very far and roast them with fireballs. PCs try to heal up as best they can, and see St Harriet return with one of the bandits to the camp. They confront him, and he seems rather unpleasantly surprised to find the PCs still alive. They engage in combat. Castien and his animal companion rush down Harriet, but Harriet relies on his thick plate armor to shrug off their hits, and deal crushing blows to Castien. Mo'ak and Teela rush out of their tents to help Castien, while Who locked down the wizard with stinking cloud and sleet storm. Harriet proves to be a monstrous adversity, as he chops down Castien and moves on to Teela, the half-orc siblings managed to deal some blows to him, and Marangal materializes behind him to finish him with series of devastating sneak attacks. Isa manages to trough through the sleet storm to execute the wizard.
PCs find letters on St Harriet. These letters expose Harriet as the one who planned the assassination of Zito and kidnapping of Mara to draw the tribe's best warriors into a trap, and then destroying the tribe and making it look like the mining guild did it. Once the wreckage of the tribe was found by the other tribes of the desert, it would be only matter of time until the tribes went to war with the mining guild, which is what St Harriet wanted. Letters also mention that the scholar, Lala Ducks, was useful in raising a garden of some sorts. There is no direct mention of this in the letters, but it is implied that the bandits were growing something underground, something very dangerous.
The PCs heal up and check out where the bandits attacked the refugees. The scene is very brutal, as bandits made sure to leave non alive. Most bodies were blown to bits with fireballs and chain explosions from the fireworks inside the crates miners were carrying. As they were investigating, they get ambushed by 5 bandits once more. Isa stepped forward and dared them to attack her, while Teela cast shield other on Isa. Isa proceeds to survive 3 direct fireballs centered on her, and they proceed to chop down the bandits one by one. Then, they returned to the compound to notify the guildmaster of St Harriet's true nature. The manager Tony is rather surprised to hear this, and decides that having a bandit group of this power nearby poses a danger to their operation, and hires the PCs to eliminate the bandit threat once and for all.
In post 968, quadz08 wrote:General gist:
We were resting after being hired to fight off the bandits. In the middle of the night, Ivan woke Teela to ask her to help with Isana, who had come down with some sort of disease. It was determined to be caused by necromancy, and Ivan was going to go visit some sort of powerful individual deep within the mines to ask or bargain for help. (This information was given to him by his pet / familiar, a rat named Cheese.) Teela and Mo'ak went with him, with basically no spells and no rage available. Upon arriving, they found a sarcophagus. Ivan asked for help, and was offered "anything you want if you open the sarcophagus." After brief conversation, he opened it. A woman appeared and bit him, but Mo'ak was able to pull him from her grasp, and the three of them raced out of the mines. The woman did not pursue. Ivan was injured and cursed.
After getting some rest, the party set off to try to take down the bandits. Thanks to a couple of tangle spells from No One and Teela use resist energy (fire) and Shield Other on Isabella, the group was able to dispatch the bandits (and their pet murderplant) without too many issues. Lots of shit got found, as posted previously. We collected our massive amounts of gold, and called it a night.
WOOOOO
In post 1006, FakeGod wrote:Summary
PCs return to get paid by Tony. After paying them, Tony asks for the PC's help in clearing out the vampire from the mines. He already sent a task squad comprised of Headmaster Fink, Head of Security Na Choma, and bunch of capable miners to flush out the vampire, but Tony would rather hedge his bets. PCs agree, rest up and buy undead hunting gear with their loot, and make their way towards the mines.
They don't see anyone outside, so they march in bravely. They quickly find out that the task force has been unsuccessful, and now they must fight against now undead-miners, and mind controlled miners. They cut through and eventually meet mind controlled Fink and undead Choma. The vampire forces Fink to cast a giant channeled pyroburst that envelopes everything, including himself and the monsters, and PCs barely stabilize Fink. The rest of the expedition seems to have been killed. Fink is out of spells, so PCs let him go and begin to buff themselves for the upcoming fight with Vintell, the Wicked.
PCs arrive and find her just sitting on her sarcophagi, casually chatting with the PCs. Combat ensues. Mo'ak runs up and swings at the vampire, but she turns out to be merely an illusion. Two of the mind controlled miners stand up from two other sarcophagi, and fireball the party. The vampire debuffs Isa and Mo'ak, and steps backwards from Mo'ak's might swings... into Evard's Black Tentacles cast by Who. Marangal and Isa takes care of the mind controlled miners, but the vampire blinks out of the tentacles and drops Mo'ak in 1 turn. Who casts celerity and burrows time from the future to save Mo'ak, forcing the vampire to turn gaseous and go after Who. Meanwhile, Isa and Marangal begin to stalk the gaseous Vampire, while Teela made a beeline for her brother Mo'ak to heal him back up. Vampire materializes to catch Who, but Mo'ak, who is back up, wades through the tentacles to beat down the vampire, and Marangal's blade finished her off.
Vampire's form became translucent, and she faded back into her coffin. She admitted that it was a good fight, but promised to be back, even if it took her thousand years. PCs sharpened the wooden grip of Mo'ak's greataxe, and drove it straight through her heart, dusting her.
Campaign end.
Spoiler: Campaign 4
In post 1121, FakeGod wrote:Campaign begins.
Avina's group of ragtag adventurers start down the road into the Ariri Woods, toward the town of Bord. The Goodwill shipping and their escorts were traveling from Bord to Lorinshire nearly a week ago, and they decided to investigate. They get ambushed by some spiders, and Kat gets poisoned. They continue on to the crossroads where the road splits into two, north towards the town of Bord, and south towards the port city of Las Verisa, Avina's hometown. The crossroads are an unwelcome sight, full of destroyed caravans belonging to the Goodwill shipping. While they were investigating the area, a hobgoblin came out of the woods and demanded their surrender, declaring that his army of goblins had them surrounded. Karl, a ranger with favored enemy as goblinoids, immediately shoots him with an arrow, triggering a fight. Due to heavy numbers disadvantage, the heroes risk it all in a boss rush, and they charge down the hobgoblin leader.
The hobgoblin goes down in one turn, and some of the goblins panic and run. On the other side of the map, Avina gets caught by 4 goblins and drops unconscious. Kel leaves Karl and Who to deal with the flanking goblins to go help Avina. Lor scares away few more goblins while Kat dealt with the ones brave enough to face her. Eventually, goblins were routed, and the PCs caught a couple of them for questioning.
After some intimidation, goblins revealed that they have indeed attacked the Goodwill shipping few days ago. Their hideout is located southwest from the crossroads, in the long abandoned monastery. They were ruled by a ogre leader. The raiding party found the caravans undefended, so they stole all the shipments and took the traders as slaves. After some more intimidation from Avina and her gun, they whispered about a monster living deep inside the Monastery's basement, and if they didn't feed it with slaves, it would rise up to kill them. The party took them back to Lorinshire and handed them over to the local authorities.
Next day, they spent most of the daylight traveling to the abandoned monastery. By the time they got there, it has gotten dark. They light torches and begin to explore the monastery, and then they heard some goblins coming in. The PCs holed themselves up in a room and closed the doors, ready to jump on the goblins when they came through. Instead, they heard loud dragging sounds near the both doors, followed by a spark and BOOM. The doors both blasted apart. Goblins pored through, but the PCs held their line and fended them off. With well-placed greases and Kel's chokepointing aided by sanctuary, the goblins and hobgoblins were defeated. PCs were left in a pretty bad shape, and they decided to explore the outer buildings first and save the basement adventure for the next day. They mostly found old crates and linen, but in the third building, they found a secret staircase leading below. After much discussion, they decided to camp in the woods south from the monastery. They kept watches in shifts, and with some lucky rolls, were able to fend off a weird spider-human thing from causing them harm.
It is now morning, and the heroes are ready to explore what lies beneath the crumbling old monastery.
In post 1153, FakeGod wrote:Summary
Party returns to the abandoned monastery and travels down the the larger set of staircase. They open some doors and run into the guards that were supposed to have been guarding the shipments. Their captain, James, explains to them that they are currently sieging the goblins, and that their envoy has already came to negotiate the release of the stolen goods in exchange of the adventurers leaving. Guards seem injured and are wary. There are some explosives they have commandeered off of the goblins, and they have been set up at the corridor to discourage goblins from attacking them. A quiet and shifty human accountant named Arthur is in charge of setting up the explosives, and the crossbow sniper in second in command named Raelin has been listening for goblin's approach.
Things take a much more grimmer shape after the PCs talk to Raelin, however. Raelin warily explained to them that it was due to the Captain's laziness that the guards were lagging behind the shipping carts, and to cover up this mistake and protect his record, the captain has led them on this suicide mission to recover the goods, to cover up what really happened. Raelin expects many more goblins than the optimistic estimation of 20, but she and the guards are sticking with their captain for now. The PCs try exploring the passages to the east, and run into some goblins. They cut their way through and regroup at the guard's camp.
Night falls, and the goblin envoy, a spellcaster, approaches with his cadre of guards. Arthur went up to negotiate with him, and it seemed that the negotiations went well. The goblins agreed to return the stolen goods if the guards left. Everyone packed up and begin to leave, but Arthur had other plans. He drank an invisibility potion, and then lit the bombs set up in the corridor as the group left, killing many and injuring the rest. With the goblins swarming in, the PCs had no choice but to grab the wounded and retreat up the hidden staircase. They quickly clogged up the stairway with old crates and trekked through the night back to Lorinshire.
PCs refreshed themselves and returned to the monastery. They decided to check out a room they haven't explored before, and ran into a group of goblins, including the goblin envoy. They were planning to cut the PCs off and surround them from behind, but the PCs caught them instead. PCs managed to quickly put down the opposition, as the goblin war drums begin to rumble and the remaining goblins swarmed in through the only exit. After delaying them with a well placed grease at a chokepoint, No Two threw his torch at the goblin bomb carrier, which exploded and took out the rest of the goblin horde. Large footsteps indicated that something big was coming, so the PCs quickly got ready for another fight. The ogre stepped in and smashed Kel into the ground his giant tree trunk, all while tanking a barrage of arrows and bullets. As he raised his tree trunk to smash Katherine down, No Two castbackbiter, turning the attack back on his attacker and splattering his brain out.
With their leader dead, rest of the goblins routed, and the PCs were able to return the missing shipments and earn their reward, as well as a sizable loot.
In post 1192, FakeGod wrote:Summary
Party adventures deep into the abandoned monastery once more. They find a large number of coffins and eaten corpses and grow alarmed. They move ahead and find a magic circle on the ground. No Two disrupts it by scratching out a rune. Nothing happens. They explore the next room and finds it full of human-sized spiders. Spiders surround them, but they managed to cut their way out. One of the spiders tried to flee below by triggering the magic circle and opening a secret passage, but Avina blows its brain out.
They adventure down the passage and find a large cavern. They venture around and realize that they are not alone. Spiders swarm them, and they begin to cut them down. A gigantic 15ft by 15ft spider erupts into the fray, so Who locks it down with Web. They clean up the other spiders while the spider boss forces its way through the web. It makes it out eventually and attacks the party, but couple channeled shots from Avina and myriad of fire damage it suffered while PCs hurled torches at it in Web brings it down.
Party finds a decent number of corpses of unknown creatures in its lair. No Two tried to extract some poison, but gets poisoned instead and drops helpless. PCs help each other back to Lorinshire, along with the goods.
In post 1221, FakeGod wrote:Summary
PCs head out to Las Verisa. They say good-bye to Raelin at the crossroads. She is going to Bord to find her fortune. PCs come across a hill where a couple of merchants, Billybob and Steve, were in trouble. They lost control of their cart on the hill and it rammed into a rock at the base of the hill, trapping their horse. Their cries for help attracted an owlbear, who proceeded to murder the horse for lunch. PCs intervened as quick as they can, launching spells, arrows and bullets at the owlbear. As Lor and Kat engaged the beast, second owlbear jumped out behind them, but was subdued by No Two's Ray of Enfeeblement. They wrap up the encounter without much trouble. Billybob and Steve are grateful, and they invite them to travel with them. They are also on their way to Las Verisa, and they were hoping to make it to the roadside inn named Gerard's House. The inn opened couple months ago, and it's famous for hiring reformed ex convicts as staff, which keeps the bandits away.
They made it to the Bessel Woods, which is the forest that surrounds the port city of Las Verisa. This area is fraught with danger, so the party moves as quick as they can for the inn. They are set upon by hungry wolves, but couple of rounds showed the wolves that they are messing with the wrong group of people, and they scrammed. The PCs make it to Gerard's House, where they are welcomed in. They meet the ex-convicts staff members, like the half-orc cook, Grub. They also meet a wealthy merchant named Toronto, who started hitting on Lor and Avina as soon as he set his eyes on them. After ordering expensive wine for the ladies and himself, Toronto invited them to his room if they wanted to see his jewelry collection, and then he retired to his room.
A wild-haired bounty hunter named Izzy showed up at dinner time, and introduced himself to Kat. He is a regular at this inn, and he thinks highly of what Gerard is doing. During dinner, a ragged looking scholar bursts through the doors and demanded to see Tuhin, the Black hand. Tuhin is an infamous pirate who operates off the coast of Las Verisa. On closer inspection, the scholar turns out to be Arthur, the accountant who sold the party out back in the abandoned monastery to the goblins. Karl throws his dagger at him, but misses. Arthur reveals that he has an overcoat full of explosives, and that if they didn't want him to blow them up, everyone should not move and bring him to Tuhin. Kat rises up in anger with her greatsword in her hand, but Izzy stops her, calmly dips his cigarette into the candle oil, and launches a crossbow bolt out of his hidden crossbow with the cigarette in the trajectory at Arthur. It knocks him backwards and traps him in a globe of invisible force. Arthur swears and threatens to blow everyone up, but the oil on the cigarette ignites, triggering his bombs and disintegrating him. The explosion was contained by the orb of force, and Arthur was reduced to a charred skeleton. Izzy moves him out of the doorway off to the side of the building, and decides to take a look around the grounds to make sure there aren't any more crazies wondering about.
PCs go up to their rooms to rest, but an hour later, Avina is notified that her alarm spell went off. In mere seconds afterwards, there is a loud boom in the second floor of the inn. Gerard comes up to investigate, and when he unlocks the door to Toronto's room, he saw that Toronto has been killed and lying in pool of his own blood. There is a deep puncture wound in his chest, but no bullet was found on him, or in the room. There is a small scorch mark on the door about 4ft off the ground, but door was not damaged in any other way. The window to the hallway was open, and there is a sign of an intruder having come through the window and going to Toronto's room, but the tracks stop there. There were no tracks inside the room itself. Outside tracks have been obliterated by heavy rain.
Gerard informs them that the authorities at Las Verisa will be contacted at dawn, and until then, they should stay in their rooms. He had Grub watch the corridor for PCs's safety... and to make sure that they do not escape during the night.
To make things worse, the charred skeleton outside went missing. People are whispering, and Billybob thinks Avina may have shot the merchant, since she has the only gun in the building. PCs discuss for awhile, and retired into their rooms.
In post 1250, FakeGod wrote:Summary
It is about 6 am. It is still dark outside, but PCs got their night of rest. Lor hears a knock the door, so she answers. It is Izzy. He says Grub has fallen asleep during his watch, and he has come to warn the PCs. He tells Lor that he is an investigator from Las Verisa who have come to check out Gerard. He's been eavesdropping and gathering info all night, and he learned that Gerard and his men are planning to draw out Avina to the back and kidnap her. Izzy suggests that the PCs follow Avina out and confront the ex-convicts. Izzy individually warns each PC, except Avina. Lor goes to the window and notices that it is still drizzling. She hears someone coming up the stairs. Grub gets woken up by the sound, and notices Lor standing at the windowsill. He tells her to get back inside her room, and Lor does.
Gerard comes up the stairway, knocks on Avina's room, and lets her know that the authorities have arrived, and they have a couple of questions for her. Avina follows Gerard out, along with Grub. PCs then exit their rooms and follow them. Outside, there are no authorities. Instead, Avina ran into the group of ex-convict staff wielding weapons. Gerard tells them to not to overdo it, and steps inside. Avina prepares to fight, and is glad to see her party stumble out of the stairway and join her in combat. No Two opens with glitterdust to blind two ex-cons, while Kat rushes forward to chop one of the staff's head off. The staff were overpowered quickly, and the last surviving member, Grub, throws down his weapons and surrenders. Then, they hear a scream come from inside the inn. Avina tries to get in, but found the door locked. She shoots at the lock, but it holds. Lor gets the lock open with a natural 20, and they rush inside. They found Gerard, lying in a pool of blood, with his legs cut off. Standing over him, is Izzy, holding the two legs still wearing boots. Izzy taunts, "I'll be sure to get these boots to their rightful owner,Marion." And he vanishes. No Two cast detect magic to realize that Izzy has turned invisible, and casts glitterdust to reveal him, but it was too late. He has already gotten away, but everyone in the room got their mouthful of glitter.
Gerard's body begins to shift and change into a body of a young changeling girl. Kel comes in to stabilize her, and she wakes up. She looks around and begins to cry. She explained that her name is Marion, and she has two older siblings, Halle and Gray. They are not siblings by blood, but as changelings, they had a rough past, and they decided to look out for one another. One day, Gray got hurt badly while they were being chased by an angry mob. His lungs were damaged, and they couldn't afford a doctor, so Halle asked an infamous pirate, Tuhin, for help. Tuhin had found an artifact earlier, called the Oceanic Heart. It allows the user to survive without breathing, and Tuhin has been using it to explore the sea beds. Tuhin agrees, on the condition that Halle and Gray work for him.
Tuhin's been meaning to make a raid on Las Verisa's rich warehouses for awhile, but its dock guards are strong and well-trained. He decided that he needed a diversion, and gave that task to Halle. Halle gathered information on the city's denizens, and realized that the Lunagards were away on a faraway business trip, and their only daughter, Avina, was gone to a boarding school. Halle pretended to be Avina and took over the Lunagard finances, and used the cash to begin fueling her plans. She used part of the Lunagard money to set up an inn in the Bessel Woods, and sent her younger sister Marion there in charge. She wanted to keep an eye out in case real Avina decided to return, and she wanted to keep Marion out of harm's way away from the city. When Marion realized that real Avina has returned, she tried to rough her up and detain her in the basement of the inn, but the PCs proved to be too strong, and her men were defeated. While she was distracted watching the fight, Izzy snuck up behind her and put her down, then cut off her legs, along with the boots. Marion's plans have been blown to bits, and she lost her legs. She wanted to keep real Avina away from the city to prevent Halle's plans from getting ruined, but she failed.
Marion asks Avina if she would stay away from the city anyways, but Avina refuses. Then, Marion asks the PCs to get her to a friend of hers in the city. His name is Pinay, and he runs a curio shop. He is a trustworthy person, if somewhat paranoid. Marion believes that he will be able to get her mechanical legs and help her. PCs agreed. PCs also went ahead and looted the body of the rich merchant upstairs. Avina leaves the inn in care of Grub, and the party heads into the city of Las Verisa.
In post 1253, FakeGod wrote:Solution to the Toronto's locked room murder
The solution is very simple.
Izzy went outside to move the charred skeleton aside and patrol the nearby area. Toronto then went upstairs. Izzy climbed up to the 2nd floor window, went in, and knocked on Toronto's door. Toronto opens the door, thinking it's probably Gerard or one of the girls he's been hitting on, and Izzy stabs him and kills him instantly. Izzy then locks the door from the inside and closes the door. Izzy then leaves through the window, goes outside and hides the skeleton. After few hours and after PCs returned to their rooms for the night, Izzy climbs through the window again, walks in front of Toronto's door, ignites a firecracker to make a loud bang sound, and run back outside through the window. The small burn on the door was caused by the firecracker.
The body would be found inside a locked room with the key on the victim, and there is no trace of the intruder ever having set his feet inside the room, completing the "locked room murder" facade. With a higher heal check from Kel, he would have realized that the victim was killed few hours ago, as opposed to minutes. Toronto was one of the wealthy guildmasters of the Las Verisa, and he sensed (correctly) that there is some kind of raid that will soon happen, so he liquidated his assets and fled, only to be tracked down by Izzy, Tuhin's second-in-command, and be killed.
In post 1275, FakeGod wrote:Summary
First thing PCs do after getting in Las Verisa is to pawn off Toronto's gem collection. Unluckily for them, the jeweler recognized the gems as he worked on them only a week ago or so for Mr. Toronto. Kat and Lor tried their best to bluff out of the situation, but guards arrive to arrest them. Who teleports through a wall and chugs potion of invis and fly to get away, and Lor drinks potion of invis to get away. Karl also runs away in confusion, and Avina, Kat, and Kel are arrested and are taken away. In jail, they are confronted by the First Captain Gundabog. He is willing to hold them on bail: everything they own minus 5 gold. Kel takes the bail and leaves the station. Kel then gets lost in the city and begins to wildy preach about Light of Pelor and his Photons to the masses of unfaithful.
Meanwhile, No Two, Karl, and Lor meet outside the city and begin to plot to get their party out of jail. They come up with many different plans, and Lor tries to disguise herself and infiltrate the city once more. She instantly fails and gets arrested. She bails herself out though. No Two then asks Marion to shapechange into Toronto and pretend to have been attacked by frost giants and were only narrowly rescued by the party. Marion reluctantly agrees. Who managed to wheel in Marion into the police station, and Marion managed to convince the First Captain to let the PCs go. After gearing back up and rejoining the party, the PCs bring Marion to Pinay's Curio Shop, as they promised. Pinay is a paranoid gnome. He warns the party that Halle, who is pretending to be Avina, is looking for vengeance on real Avina, believing her to be Marion's killer. Gnome promises to get new legs for Marion, but there is a loud commotion outside. Pinay's assistant, named Linny, is getting arrested by Captain Gundabog. It turns out that Linny is a daughter of a circus performer, and the police was tipped off by someone that the circus was smuggling and selling opiates. Circus was raided and closed down, with most of the performers under arrest. After grilling them and failing to get any leads of where the drugs might be, Gundabog decided to question their family members, including Linny, in case they knew anything. Linny cried for help, but Pinay just watched her get taken away.
Marion declined Pinay's offer to stay with him until the legs arrive, and left with the PCs, complaining of how much a coward Pinay was. The PCs decide to investigate the circus, which was in the docks. It was closed, and so Karl tried to find some drug dealers and was in middle of negotiating when someone in a diving suit emerged from the sea. He introduced himself as the Third Captain Jin, and he explained that he was investigating the murder of the last Third Captain, Ilyius. It seems that Ilyius was shot through his neck from someone standing on the docks, but the angle is such that it's impossible for anyone standing in the boardwalks or further inland to have shot him. Jin is currently searching the seabed for any hint of underwater assassin, but he doubts that's the case, since the water is too murky to shoot someone through during the evening, which was when Ilyius was shot. He asks the PCs to keep an eye out and notify him immediately if they learn anything regarding the murder.
In post 1305, FakeGod wrote:Summary
PCs visit Lunagard residence, but it seems that Halle isn't there. The next day, PCs get a message notifying them that Pinay has the artificial legs ready for Marion. PCs head over to his shop, but Pinay is acting funny. Finding this suspicious, Who teleports through the wall and finds Gundabog and the police ready to ambush them. Who goes invisible and warns the party, and a fight breaks out. During the fight, Avina gets grappled by bunch of police guards, and Gundabog gets ready to stab her with a blackened arrow, murmuring something about sweet revenge. Kat pulls Avina out of the grapple, and Avina rushes to the bag of holding and pulls out Marion. Gundabog freezes and mutters, "Marion.... alive? but that's impossible....", then turns to Pinay angrily. Gundabog's features change into Halle's as she asks Pinay what he has done. It turns out that Pinay has been blackmailed into setting a trap for Marion, and the building is about to blow.
Halle bluffs and says that whoever trying to kill Marion will think of Pinay as expendable, and that the potion he just drank will not protect him against the explosion. Pinay buys into this and becomes angry. He tells Marion to get under the bed as the building blows. He has a safe spot set up there (using rope trick) in case he was ever attacked. Avina also dives under the bed, and the building blows up. Everyone survives. No Two angrily walks up to Pinay and attempt to end his life, but Kat pushed him away before he could do so. Halle suggests that they regroup back at the Lunagard residence, and PCs agree.
A tearful reunion between the changeling sisters ensue at Lunagard house. Halle asks Avina whether she will expose her, and Avina says no. Halle then tells the group that while she's grateful that they saved Marion from death, she cannot assist them openly against Tuhin, since their brother is still on his ship. However, it would be a huge blow to Tuhin's forces if they were to get rid of Izzy, his top assassin and right hand man. Halle has gathered information and knows the Izzy is planning to assassinate someone at Rainsberg Ball in few days. Only place high enough in the city to grant uninterrupted line of sight to the Rainsberg Ballroom is at the lighthouse, and that's where Halle predicts Izzy will be. Halle suggests that the PCs split up into two groups, one ready at lighthouse, and the other at the dance, in case Izzy decides to come to the dance personally to deal with his target.
In post 1380, FakeGod wrote:Summary
Lor convinced Jin to take her to the ball. The dance people (Lor, Avina, Kel) went and bought themselves nice looking tuxes and dresses. The airborne division (No Two, Kat, karl) hid out in the top floor of the lighthouse.
The Ball started. People danced to the brilliant music and the beautiful night sky. Victoria was kinda miffed at having to dance centerstage with Captain Islow, but she wasn't too unhappy, considering that she had her childhood friend, James, as their lead violinist for their phantom orchestra.
Middle of the dance, a spell circle appeared, and a chain devil stepped through the planar rift. Islow immediately told everyone that he can take care of it, and charged in, only to be thoroughly mangled by the chain devil. Lor and Avina managed to destroy all of the activated chains, forcing the chain devil's summoning to dismiss, but not before it tore apart Islow's arms.
Immediately after the Islow got wrecked, Izzy dimension doored into the lighthouse...... into the waiting hands of the PCs. No Two alarmed Avina immediately, before using rooting Izzy. Desperate Izzy called for help, and a storm elemental named Sariel answered his call, but it was too late. Izzy's position got revealed by glitterdust, and Karl's double arrow crit with high damage dice rolls sealed his fate. Kat took out the storm elemental shortly afterwards.
In post 1401, FakeGod wrote:Summary
Avina jumped out of the lighthouse window and floated down via her ring of feather fall, and immediately made way for Rainsberg Ballroom. Rest of the party looted Izzy's body for lots of good stuff. Avina returned to find a note next to Victoria, who was crying on the dance floor. Apparently, James had confessed to planning and killing Cpt. Islow in that note, and he fled afterwards. People left the ballroom after awhile, and Avina's party rejoined her and begin to search the ballroom for clues, when Halle arrived with some bad news.
Halle has been smuggling in dinosaurs into Las Verisa warehouses under Tuhin's orders. She ordered her underlings to smuggle in narcotics to keep the dinosaurs sedated, but her head underling, same James the violinist, had just threatened her with releasing her true identity to the public. Halle fears that James has removed the narcotics from the dinosaurs and make them go on a rampage at the docks, and warns the PCs to go after him.
PCs arrive at the docks, and find two not very pleasant sailors on guard duty. Karl and Lor kills them, but not before one of them raises alert by lighting a flare. The PCs quickly burst into the warehouse to find James. They take him down, but dinosaurs, who are now fully awake, begin to rampage across the docks.
PCs take care of the couple raptors in the room right away, but hears screams outside. Avina rushes out, only to see a limbless sailor gets violently thrown through the door into the sea by a pair of gigantic megaraptors. She begins to burn through her mirror image spells while yelling for help. Her party responds by attacking the dinosaurs. No Two manages to land a critical stinking cloud spell to disable them, giving the party time to inflict enough damage to the megaraptors and take them down. The other dinosaurs are taken down by Cpt. Gundabog and his men.
PCs return to Lunagard House with James in tow. James explains that he did everything he did to get rich, in order to be not shamed to call Victoria his peer. They are interrupted by Halle, who has put together a new plan to save his brother. She is going to let Tuhin know that the preparations are complete, and that he should invade Las Verisa as soon as possible. When he invades, PCs are going to attack Tuhin's flagship, Nightsail, and hopefully kill Tuhin and rescue Gray.
In post 1420, FakeGod wrote:Summary
Trap was set. Halle immediately sent word to Tuhin that the preparations were complete, and he should immediately invade Las Verisa. Meanwhile, PCs made preparations for the upcoming battle.
The invading pirates were greeted by Cpt. Gundabog. Gundabog ANGRY, GUNDABOG SMASHES PUNY PIRATES.
Captain Gundabog began murdering the pirates en masse, while the PCs dimension door'd onto Tuhin's ship. There, they began to chop through the pirate raiders, and managed to find Gray, through detect magic. Eventually, Tuhin arrived with more men, but the PCs trapped the pirates from coming above decks, and laid down the spells on Tuhin to make him run for the hills. Tuhin vanished under the ship, and returned with a giant water creature, with Gray at its core. However, the PCs were able to come ahead and achieve victory.
Gray was saved by Karl's octupus friend. He was gasping for air, since the Oceanic Heart was shattered in their fight against the pirate lord. Avina immediately took him to the nearby cleric and paid for water breathing spells to keep him alive. Rest of the party looted the ship and became rich.
Spoiler: Act 3
In post 1473, FakeGod wrote:Greetings, players.
Act 3 will progress slightly differently than before. Notably, you will notice that your XP gain rate will be dramatically reduced. Welcome to "high end" of D&D.
There will be an emphasis in making individual decisions about what your character will do in a given "time slot". You will be free to move as a group/split party/duo/solo, but XP gain will be shared across the board at the end of it.
Please be smart about allocating party resources. There is safety in numbers, but certain events might be missed (and most likely be resolved against you) if you guys refuse to take risks at all.
In post 1493, FakeGod wrote:Lunagard Family Tree
###Note that ~ indicates marriage, and the name inside the parentheses is the maiden name.
Nolan Lunagard ~ Magara Lunagard (?)
====First son - Rion Lunagard ~ Julia Lunagard (Vincent)
========First son - Elliot Lunagard -engaged to- Primrose Everley
========Second son - William Lunagard
====Second Son - Finius Lunagard ~ Elanor Lunagard (Magnus)
========Daughter - Avina Lunagard
====First Daughter - Michelle Song (Lunagard) ~ Rodrick Song
========Daughter - Maryjane Song
====Second Daughter - Serria Lunagard
Levnov Lunagard ~ ?
Trivia #1: House of Magnus and House of Vincent are rival houses, and they are both one of the major merchant families dominating trade in the region.
Trivia #2: House of Lunagard follows the modified primogeniture line of succession for its heirs. With Nolan's death, Rion, his first son, is next in line. (followed by Elliot, William, Finius, Avina, Michelle, Maryjane, Serria, in order)
Halle's Letter
Lunagard History
Light Blue Doll - Fear wrote:No one returns alive from the mansion in the woods.
Do broken souls still go to heaven? Do they go at least get to go to hell?
Red Doll - Anger wrote:Nolan died in no accident, but in murder.
What she have done cannot go unpunished. Gods above, I do not know if you listen to a mere doll’s prayer, but please let justice be done, this one time.
Yellow Doll - Surprise wrote:There is still a Lunagard yet to arrive. He is stranded on the other side of the shore.
Old Norbit? You are alive? I thought you were destroyed in your mission all those years ago.
Purple Doll - Love wrote:Do not lose faith. Help is on the way.
You are the most brave and loyal soul I have ever known, Old Norbit. I will always remember you.
Spoiler: Campaign 5
In post 2707, FakeGod wrote:Summary
The party moves into the abandoned mines. They trip a tripwire and an alarm goes off. They proceed to walk into what looks like an old mine office, and gets ambushed by bunch of kobolds. They kill off the kobold sorcerer before he can get any spells off, and proceed to take down the rest. They capture one alive, and learn that this is just a small scout force of a larger force, currently investigating the mines for useful minerals. Saag breaks its legs and let it go. It crawls away.
They travel south, where they encounter more kobolds. They engage in combat and take them down. They find the kobold camp and loot it for gems. Ciel crosses the bridge, and gets almost dragged off by a shadow spider. The party throws things at the spider, and it limps away.
The party hears loud booming sounds like something heavy is dropping from the east corridor, so they decide to go check it out. They find a very large open chamber, with sprawling ruined stairways. There are no railings, and the drop is 100+ ft below. There are signs of something heavy dropping on the stairs everywhere, along with webs. Party walks forward a bit and a Huge spider comes crashing down. The party fights back, but it impales Ciel and climbs back up, where it eats him. Rest of the party runs back to the way they came from.
Party travels south and finds a room filled with spider webs and eggs. They see a chest, so they tried to drag it out but disturb a nest of baby spiders. They fight them off, and they get some loot. The mother spider came after awhile, but Thog chopped it down with 2 swings. They found a magical necklace in one of the chests.
They traveled to east, and ran into a large chamber with a lot of acidic damage everywhere, with bubbling sounds. They turn back.
They go back to the mining office and head east. They run into some rubbles of what possibly may have been mining supply rooms. They run into more baby spiders and fight them off. At this point, a large blue/red spider comes out and begin to throw poison-soaked web at the party. Anias casts sleep to buy time and party runs back out the mines.
In post 2774, FakeGod wrote:Summary
PCs travel down once more. They head over and defeat the Crush Spider, and retrieve the amulet from its dead body. They head over to the blue/red spider and present the amulet. The blue/red spider opens up a secret passage and brings the PCs to Praxleni, an aranea friend of Lady Whitlane. Praxleni asks the PCs to remove the derro cultist threat in the southern chambers, to which PCs agree.
PCs head to the center room to investigate the spell circle. Anias almost drop off the ledge to his doom, but he is saved by Thog. Thog and Saag arrive, and they find an ettercap inside the spell circle. It warns them about the "spider king who crushes" but upon learning that the Crush Spider is dead, it and its minions attack. Saag and Thog makes quick work of them, and they cut off its head. They find another magic necklace off of it. They head over to the eastern passage and see some kind of ritual going on by the Derro and kobold slaves. They charge in and slaughter all of them, and they head over to the underdark entrance and kill the derro and their kobold slaves there too. They shut off the passageway, completing their mission.
In post 2849, FakeGod wrote:Summary
Main mines fight. PCs climb down, only to get surrounded and attacked right away by massive number of kobolds. They chop through, then explore to the west. They find a tiled corridor, leading to chilly prison cells. There they encounter skeleton archers and a Deathlock (Ice). Anias almost dies, but they manage to run away safely. They clear out some of the other rooms, but arrive at a gorge with kobolds shooting at them. They retreat, find another path, and confront the kobolds. Thog bravely lunged forward while the boss was blind from Vert's glitterdust, but enough kobold guards block him and fend him away. Boss clears his eyes and starts sniping, but Saag breaks through the kobold frontline, into the bridge, where he grows in size to Large. Kobold guards try to stop him, but they get cut down as enraged Saag charged across the bridge to the boss kobold, enveloping him in his 20ft reach. Nowhere to run, boss tries to fight back, but Saag lands a critical hit and destroys the Boss. Rest of the kobolds surrender.
In post 2894, FakeGod wrote:Summary
PCs travel down with the doctor and defeat a number of undead, traverse green slime filled corridors, and finally reach Cassios's prison, where Millie is imprisoned. It's revealed here that Millie and doctor were exploring this level together when they were attacked by Cassios, the jailwarden. Millie was cursed by Cassios, so she started to slowly lose Con and Cha and was unable to leave the prison. So she cast geas out of a scroll onto the doctor to force him to bring back help, which he did. Adventurers defeated Cassios and his minions and rescued Millie. They received a sum of money in return for keeping this quiet from Maria.
Spoiler: Campaign 5 Act 2
