Fireseek 9 (briefly
continued): We get through the night. Tarva finishes
her Identify spell
about 2am.
Ahb is 10th level!
Fireseek 10: 10:00am
Tarva tells the group that: (a) the horn has only a fading aura and is
not magic - whatever powered it either hasn't been renewed, or else was
only effective within the limits of the (un)holy portion of the
temple. The fact that the Air Temple cleric used it there, rather
than bringing it closer to the enemy (us), suggests the latter.
Tarva leaves it with the rest of the booty, seeing no need (or use) in
carrying it around any more). (b) The longsword is a +2 (and of
course may have other powers as well). Taizu is still carrying
it, but is not inclined to investigate it further just now. (c)
The alabaster wand is a Wand of Divine Favor, with 25
shots. When cast, the castor is +2 to hit and +2 to damage
(weapons only, not spells) for one minute. As the only
person present who can use it, Ahb is carrying the wand.
There is a mild amount of discussion on strategy. Abeted by some
confusion as to what temple we were just in (was it the Earth
temple? but why did the Ogre Mage have a Fire symbol, then?)
suggestions include: going the other way around; frontal assault; check
out other passages and hope to find another way in; leave; careful
frontal assault. The final decision is to check out the other
passageways first, then if necessary do a careful frontal assault.
10:20am There are two
unexplored passages. The first we pick up again at the foot f the
stairs. Glendon, with his goggles in the dark, is scouting ahead
of the group, which has several light stones out. He goes past a
watchpost, deserted, and reaches a door. Taizu, mapping, thinks
this is the other door into the temple; various people recall that it
was barred from the inside - thus trying to barge through it would be
noisy, time-consuming, obtrusive, and provide plenty of opportunity for
a counterattack. So we go back and take the second
passageway. Again scouting ahead, Glendon comes across a
wall-to-wall barricade of tower shields, set edge to edge, with gaps
usable as arrow slots. There is no sign of any actual beings
behind the barrier, but when he comes back and tells the rest of the
party, the decision is to not bother with it, and instead switch to the
careful frontal assault.
We go back to the temple door we'd used yesterday. Taizu
sings Inspire Greatness
on Rowan; Tarva sings Inspire
Geatness on Arvee.
0: Rowan opens the door; Arvee
steps into the doorway (Taizu and Tarva standing just out of sight to
the sides of the doorway, Ahb, Darred, and Glendon are a bit further
back, hopefully protected by the angle of the passage at that point),
and sees, 100' down the main corridor a barricade across the hallway,
6' high, made of dead bodies, from wall to wall, but with a 3' gap in
the middle, and the tips of many horns sticking out above the
barrier.
1: Glendon steps to where he
has a clear line of sight through the (Arvee-filled) doorway and to the
barrier, and casts Flaming
Sphere immediately behind the (our) right barricade, for 5
points; Taizu, singing, reserves to stay with Rowan; OgreMage mutters,
and a cold, cloying, greasy cloud envelopes all of the party but Darred
-- Arvee, Ahb, Rowan, Taizu and Tarva each take 4 hp, Glendon takes 9
hp, feels very ill, and is -2 on everything; Rowan reserves for Arvee
getting out of the way; Ahb reserves on Arvee getting out of the way;
Tarva, singing, reserves to stay with Arvee; Arvee runs to the first
(left) side passageway and ducks in for shelter, but along the way a
blast of fire from the lefthand wall hits him for 11; Rowan runs to the
same side passageway with Arvee, tumbling past the section of wall
which blasted him; Ahb casts True Seeing on herself;
Tarva moves to keep up with Arvee, also tumbling past that section of
wall, but stays out in the main corridor; Taizu moves forward to the
corner of the foyer and the corridor, still close enough to Rowan to
keep her covered but not exposing himself; Darred casts Mage Armor on himself,
wisely staying outside the cloud; Hill Giant steps out from the right
branch of the cross passage, throws a stone at Tarva, but misses; Ahb's
spell causes her to see nothing not visible to normal eyes.
Through the gap, all can see that the horns belong to Minotaurs,
carrying great axes and wearing studded armor with ToEE symbols (but
without any temple affiliation).
2: Glendon's Flaming Sphere does
another 10 hp damage, while Glendon runs (without bothering to try and
dodge the section wehre Arvee got burnt) into the same side passage;
some can hear the OgreMage (not yet seen) mumble something; Arvee
activates his boots successfuly, chargers through the barrier gap,
takes two hp from the Flaming
Sphere, yells "move the damn sphere", hits on Minotaur1
for 19, designates Minotaur2 as his dodge opponent, goes
berserk, hits Minotaur1 for 24; Rowan rushes to the left
barricade, starts pulling it down, Minotaur3 AoO for 16; Ahb
runs all out for 80'; Tarva, singing, moves 60' after Arvee; Taizu,
singing, moves 60' after Rowan; Darred moves into the (remnants only)
cloud, casts Fireball behind
Minotaur5, doing 23 to Minotaur3 - Minotaur8;
Hill Giant rumbles, "Kill them all" (Arvee mutters, "Oh, I will..."),
and Minotaur1 - through Minotaur8 start foaming
at the mouth; Minotaur2 falls down, Arvee AoO for 24;
Minotaur1 hits Arvee for 16; Minotaur3 moves to
Rowan, Arvee AoO for 24, hits Rowan for 15; Halfling behind Glendon
hits him for 22, Glendon loses concentration and the Flaming Sphere winks
out; Hill Giant throws a rock at Taizu but misses.
3: Glendon turns around and
hits at Halfling but misses; OgreMage comes out of the cross corridor,
is seen only by Ahb until he turns visible while hitting at Taizu for
23; Arvee on Minotaur1 hits for 26, kills, cleaves on
Minotaur2 for 24, strikes at Minotaur2 but
misses, misses; Rowan on Minotaur3 hits for 9,8; Ahb steps
5' and casts Castigate on
the OgreMage for 25, and he is
deafened for 3 rounds {except I don't think that is how the spell works};
Tarva, singing, tumbles to flank OgreMage with Taizu, tumble fails but
OgreMage AoO misses, hits for 15, kills; Taizu, singing, shoots at
Minotaur3 and hits for 12, 6; Darred moves 30' and casts Magic Missile on Minotaur3,
kills; Halfling criticals on Glendon for 13; Minotaur2 gets
up and hits at Rowan, misses; Minotaur4 on Arvee hits for
14; Minotaur5 on Arvee hits for 21; Minotaur6 on
Arvee hits for 14; Hill Giant throws rock at Taizu and hits for 15.
4: Glendon on Halfling
hits for 8; Arvee on Minotaur2 hits, kills, cleaves on
Minotaur6 for 25, strikes at Minotaur6 for miss,
24; Rowan moves 5' to Minotaur6 and hits for 11, criticals
for 20, kills; Ahb casts Harrier
and sics it on Hill Giant, which it hits for 4, and moves 20'
towards Glendon; Tarva, singing, switches to her bow, shoots at
Minotaur4, misses; Taizu stops singing [Inspire Greatness on
Rowan will wear off in round 9] and drinks a potion of Cure Serious for 25;
Darred casts Lesser
Electric Orb at Halfling, but Halfling dodges, moves in front of
Glendon, Halfling AoO on Darred for 7; Halfling strikes at Darred and
hits for 6; Minotaur7 to Rowan, Arvee AoO for 24, hits Rowan
for 19; Minotaur4 on Arvee hits for 14; Minotaur5
on Arvee hits for 12; Hill Giant on Harrier misses.
5: Glendon's illness is
over, he casts Magic
Missile at Halfling for 4; Arvee on Minotaur7 hits
for 24, 24, >1, kills, cleaves on Minotaur4 for 24; Rowan
on Minotaur8 criticals for 21, hits for 12; Harrier hits
Hill Giant for 5, Ahb moves to Glendon, casts Cure Serious for 21;
Tarva, singing, on Minotaur8 shoots for 8, misses; Taizu
begins singing Inspire
Courage, on Minotaur8 shoots for 10, 5; Darred casts Burning Hands, Halfling
AoO for 9, Darred loses concentration and the spell, tumbles 5' away;
Halfling on Darred misses; Minotaur8 on Rowan hits for 15;
Minotaur4 on Arvee hits for 22; Minotaur5 on
Arvee hits for 14; Hill Giant on Harrier misses.
6: Glendon casts Magic Missile on
Halfling for 10; Taizu and Tarva notice that OgreMage's body has
disappeared (damn!); Arvee on Minotaur4 hits for 24, 24, 21,
kills, cleaves on Minotaur5 for 23; Rowan on Minotaur8
criticals for 17, kills, moves towards (but not within reach of) Hill
Giant; Harrier hits Hill Giant for 5, Ahb moves to Halfling and hits
for 10; Tarva stops singing [Inspire Greatness on
Arvee will wear off in round 11], shouts, "Ahb, the OgreMage's body
just disappeared!", shoots at Minotaur5 for 8, 4; Taizu,
stops singing [Inspire
Courage takes effect, will wear off in round 11], moves to
Arvee, casts Cure Moderate
on Arvee, Minotaur5 AoO on Taizu for 12, Taizu keeps
concentration, successfully touches Arvee for 23; Darred casts Magic Missile on
Halfling, Halfling AoO on Darred misses, for 8; Halfling surrenders;
Minotaur5 on Arvee hits for 22; Hill Giant on Harrier misses.
7: Glendon steps back, cocks
his crossbow at Halfling; OgreMage becomes visible while hitting Rowan
for 20, then disappears again; Arvee hits Minotaur5 for 25,
22, kills, charges Hill Giant and hits for 26; Rowan drinks a Cure Serious for 25,
OgreMage becomes visible again taking an AoO on Rowan for 24; Ahb moves
40' towards the OgreMage; Tarva shoots at OgreMage for miss, 10; Taizu
casts Sculpt Sound
on OgreMage; Darred tries to knock out Halfling, but merely waves his
arms over the Halfling's head like a benediction; Halfling does
nothing; Hill Giant hits Arvee for 22, 14, Arvee falls unconscious at
-9.
8: Glendon guards on Halfling;
OgreMage on Rowan criticals for 35, Rowan falls unconscious at -8,
OgreMage vanishes again; Arvee stabilizes, does not lose any more;
Rowan
stabilizes, does not lose any more; Harrier hits Hill Giant for 5; Ahb
casts Flame Strike
on OgreMage for 19 fire plus 19 divine, OgreMage falls down, but only
to Ahb's sight, as it doesn't turn visible; Tarva moves to Rowan, casts
Cure Light for 4;
Taizu moves to Arvee, Hill Giant AoO for 22, casts Cure Moderate on Arvee
for 22; Darred starts to tie Halfling up; Hill Giant on Taizu hits for
21, Taizu falls unconscious at -7, moves 5' and hits at Tarva for 19.
9: Glendon guards on
Halfling; OgreMage gets up and flies down corridor away from us, seen
only by Ahb; Arvee drinks a potion of Cure Moderate for 16;
Harrier hits Hill Giant for 7, Ahb casts Healing Circle for 17 to
Arvee, Taizu, Rowan, Tarva, and herself; Tarva drops her bow and draws
HR, tumbles to Hill Giant, hits for 13; Taizu uses wand to cast Invisibility on
himself; Darred tying Halfling up; Hill Giant on Tarva hits for 14,
criticals for 39.
10: Glendon guards on
Halfling; OgreMage (as seen by Ahb) is at the end of the corridor,
drinking a potion; Arvee gets up, flanks Hill Giant with Tarva, hits
for 17, kills; Rowan gets up, drinks a Cure Light for 11;
Harrier vanishes, Ahb moves to next to Arvee, casts Sword Storm on OgreMage
for 18, OgreMage falls down, still seen only by her, "It's 30' in front
of me"; Tarva moves 30' towards where she thinks Ahb means, swishes her
sword through air; Taizu drinks a potion of Cure Light for 10, gets
up, casts See Invisible
on himself; Darred (having tied
the Halfling up in a mere 12 seconds, a new rodeo record) tells
Glendon to leave the Halfling, does a double move towards the rest of
the group.
11: Glendon moves 80'
towards the group, pulls out a flask of oil; OgreMage does nothing;
Arvee moves to OgreMage, hits for 17; Rowan moves 60', shoots at
OgreMage and hits for 13; Ahb administers a coup de grace for 22; Tarva
administers another coup de grace and decapitates it; Taizu starts
studying the body; Darred starts moving back towards the Halfling.
1,200 ep
Arvee makes 10th level!
Glendon goes with Darred, suggests that Arvee come along also for the
usual intimidate-the-witness interrogation. Rowan guards at the
cross corridor; Tarva takes the OgreMage head (so it can't accidentally
reattach) and asks outloud if there are any useful body parts in an
OgreMage, such as could be used to make potions, then takes the head
even further away to go guard the end of the corridor. Ahb
mentally runs through her alchemic knowlege and says that there is a
gland at the base of the skull (let's hope Tarva didn't ruin it) that
is uweful for flying; and the liver is good for invisibility (both of
these we saw [or didn't see;-] as inate abilities of the
OgreMage).
Arvee comes up to the Halfling, swats him and knocks him out.
Taizu strips and searches the OgreMage's clothing, and Ahb then starts
working to extract the liver (she took instruction on how to preserve
body parts, for just this kind of need). With the Halfling
temporarily out of the way, Arvee, Darred, and Glendon start checking
out the rooms down that side hall. The first is, just as it was
yesterday, a storeroom with basic food stuffs. Around the two
right angle bends, Arvee opens the door to the room on the right to a
20'x20' room, with two massive 10'x5' beds, chest, pelt, large
wolverine. Arvee closes the door, says, "It's not asleep," opens
the door again, and steps in.
1: Wolverine hits Arvee
for 7, 12; Darred casts Lightning
Bolt on Wolverine for 16; Glendon shoots his crossbow at the
Wolverine but misses; Arvee hits for 20, criticals for 90, kills.
64 ep.
The chest is locked. The other room - on the left - is 20'x15'
and a jumble of beds. The three of them search it and find: a
flask of oil, a 20' coil of rope, a battle axe, and a longsword.
Ahb takes the head from Tarva, determines that the gland was not damaged, and successfully
extracts it. Darred goes to get Taizu to open the chest.
Glendon goes to help burn the OgreMage body. Except that pouring
oil on the body and setting it afire burns only the oil, not the
body. There is discussion on what to do with the body.
Suggetions which result in it possibly alerting others as to our
presence are rejected. What
did we do with it?
Ahb heals on us a lot; Tarva Faith Heals on Arvee; Rowan uses her wand
five times to cure the last few points.
11:00am While definately
low on spells, we're also fairly sure we won't encounter anything else
here of a challanging nature, and it would certainly be better to
search everything now, before anything new can move in. The bunk
room is the same as when we left it (except that all the bodies were
used in the barricade). Going down to the cross passage, taking
the left arm, its double doors open into a 40'x50' room. This
seems to be a feasting room. There is a pile of 4" black
spheres (someone tells Tarva they're used for torture: heated white hot
then strapped into the back of someone's knee, to painfully criple them
-- Tarva is appalled / disgusted, and tries to put it out of her mind,
immediately forgetting who told her so she won't associate that image
with that person). Along the hallway behind this room is a small,
15'x15' room full of bones. While everyone else goes on, Taizu
stays behind to search it (which means that Tarva stays behind,
also). He finds a small bag with a huge number of items
inside. Especially including many vials of potions, a wand, some
scrolls, and a thief's kit. There are several differnt colors
among the potions, but twenty-five of them are the Light Green of a Cure Light Wounds.
The group finds various other rooms, an armory, and an alchemical
lab. One room has a locked chest, which Taizu is called to.
It has a trap, he finds: a poisoned arrow. Carefully and slowly, he is
able to work around and disam it. There are a lot of silver coins
in it (Taizu has Tarva cast Easy Math and estimate
them at 1,280 coins), three smokesticks, and a map to what looks like a
cave about ten miles from this temple complex. As our mapper,
Taizu keeps that.
noon Taizu casts Detect Secret Doors and
finds a passage, which eventually opens out into the main
corridor. Going into the alchemist room, with sigils on the walls
and floor, and a strong smell of incense, Darred opens one of the books
there. With a flashBOOM all the books are destroyed as Darred and
Glendon take 19, and nearby Ahb, Tarva, and Taizu take 9. Another
room has a strange head impaled on an upright sphere. Someone
recognizes it as being that of an Umber Hulk. The 20' wide stone
bridge does indeed span to the volcano's central isle/peak, arching
over the grey-white water (?) of the caldera. There are 20' high
bird-like statutes at each end of the span, with a 3' long
lozenge-shape ??fire??.
[For a more complete description of D'Gran's GuardKeep, see the
maps. For what we found in each room, see the booty list.]
[As always with interrogations,
validation of what I've written is appreciated.]
The Halfling, having been dragged around by Arvee all this time, begins
to come to. He seems much more willing to talk now. He
attacked Glendon because D'Gran told him to stay back there, then
backstab whomever he could. This isn't a temple -- the nearest
temple is Air; next nearest is Earth, in the other direction.
That's where the nearest exits to the outside are, also. D'Gran
guarded the bridge for the Masters. Master DoomDreamers, in the
Fane: he's never seen them. Otherwise, he confirms our guesses as
to who lived in which room (D'Gran lived in the room full of bones).
The Umber Hulk's head was a prized possession of D'Gran: he'd
killed it in single combat and was quite proud of that fact. From when
her True Seeing spell was active, Ahb knows that the Halfling isn't
evil, and tells Taizu this when he asks. Since Ahb had placed
Taizu in charge of all decisions regarding prisoners, Taizu declares
that we'll give him back his armor and scimitar, toss in a week's
rations, and send him on his way (but not let him stay inside).
While Taizu and Glendon finish searching rooms and bodies,
Arvee and Darred escort Halfling to the Air Temple front door, and send
him out with his chain and scimitar restored, plus a week's supply of
provisions.
Ahb announces that rather than sleep back in Dwarf Haven (as we're
certainly not doing any more exploring today), and possibly coming back
to here to find that it's acquired new inhabitants, we will spend the
night here, instead. Treasure will be moved back to the care of
the Acolytes, however. All the (potential) booty is gathered
together and Glendon casts Detect
Magic on it to discover what is and isn't. All of the
non-magical weapons that aren't magical are taken into the armory,
other non-magical items are mostly abandoned (except coins and
high-value appearing items). Tarva also has a couple of better
looking bows kept aside and taken back to Dwarf Haven.
2:00pm Tarva asks Ahb it
she'd like Tarva to cast Identify
again "tonight", and Ahb thinks this is a good idea. Tarva
suggests checking out the cloak from the Air Temple fighter, the gloves
from D'Gran (the OgreMage), and a pair of slippers found on one of the
bodies in the barricade. Ahb thinks that is a good choice.
Tarva would like to start earlier, today, and thus not have to throw
off the group's schedule tomorrow - which means she won't be available
to help with all the back-and-forth to Dwarf Haven. This also is
fine with Ahb.
Before she starts casting her spell, Tarva is also asked by Ahb to
distribut the 25 new Cure
Light potions in the best way. Based on what each person
still has unused, Tarva distributes most of them, then gives one extra
to each of Darred and Glendon, as being the people who didn't have
their own healing means: Ahb, Taizu, and Tarva have healing spells, and
Tarva and Rowan have wands with shots of healing (and Arvee claims that
Cure Light does too
little to help him, to be worth drinking in combat). Thus the
numbers distributed are:
Ahb 2
Arvee 4
Darred 3
Glendon 4
Rowan 6
Taizu 3
Tarva 3
Taizu takes the wand he found, under the suspicion that it is the same Shatter wand used
against Heart's Reach yesterday (boistered by the jagged tracery on the
wand itself), and goes into the armory to try using his Spellcraft to
figure out how to activate it. He succeeds, shattering one of the
normal swords there.
During the transfer of treasure back to Dwarf Haven, the acolytes cast Cures on everyone to
bring them back to full health.
4:00 Taizu has suggested
that Tarva use the armory for casting her spell, because it only has
one entrance and will be easy to defend. Tarva casts Identify on the three
items. Eight hours later, at midnight, she knows that:
the cloak is a Cloak of Resistance: Saving Throws +1
the gloves are Gauntlets of Ogre Power: Strength +2
and the slippers are Slippers of Spider Climbing
Fireseek 11:
Outside, the smaller moon Luna will be full tonight. Tarva tells
everyone what she's learned about the items. By considered
consensus: the gauntlets go to Rowan, as our second-best fighter (and
because Arvee's already has some); the slippers are carried by Ahb (who
would prefer to wear more protective footwear most of the time); and
everyone joins in to convince Tarva that she should take the cloak (a
surprise to her, and she is very touched by the respect it implies).
Taizu casts Detect Secret
Door again, and checks out those parts of the GuardKeep he
wasn't able to check yesterday. He finds no additional hidden
compartments, etc.
Rowan wants to know more about the monster who's head was on the
spear. She's heard a little about Umber Hulks, but if we're
likely to run into them, she'd appreciate knowing everything anyone in
the group knows, as well. As some of us don't know anything about
them, that applies even more for us. Pooling their information,
those in the know tell us that Umber Hulks live underground, they can
"go through rock like cheese", move about 20' a round, look like huge
beetles, are a lot brighter than they look. That's not much to go
on, but certainly more than Tarva knew before.
9:00am We're leaving by
the tunnel at the far end of the corridor from where we came into
D'Gran's GuardKeep. Glendon is once again scouting ahead.
Very soon he comes across a 60' diameter circular room, with a 10'
diameter circular pit, 6' deep, in the center. The pit has
obviously been used as a trash dump and midden. Shortly
thereafter he comes to a larger cave, filled with several types of
fungus, some up to 3' or 4' high. Within sight are two openings
along the right-hand side. Glendon comes back and tells this to
us, asks Ahb's permission to carry her back to the cavern, to see if
she can identify the various fungi, and whether or not they're
safe. Glendon, with Ahb on his shoulders, and accompanied by
Arvee go ahead, while those of us with light stones stay further
away. As Ahb, wearing Glendon's goggles, is saying that she
doesn't recognize some of the species...
0: UmberHulk1
charges Gelndon, hits for 13; Glendon bolts, UmberHulk1
AoO for 11; Arvee says, "It's an UmberHulk,
put Ahb down."; Glendon puts Ahb down, takes his goggles back.
1: Rowan runs up; Taizu
runs up; Ahb releases her light stone necklace, runs towards Arvee; UmberHulk1
hits Arvee for 12, 13, 14; Glendon runs back to UmberHulk1,
strikes, misses; Darred runs up; Tarva runs up; Arvee turns and strikes
at Ahb (!) for 18, miss.
2: Rowan drops her sword,
takes her bow, shoots at UmberHulk1
for 6; Taizu casts Daze on
Arvee, to no effect; Ahb on UmberHulk1
misses; UmberHulk1
on Ahb misses, misses; Glendon on UmberHulk1
misses; Darred casts Hypnotic
Pattern, then yells, "If they don't move, don't hit them!",
Tarva starts singing Inspire
Courage, changes to bow; Arvee does nothing.
3: Rowan picks up her
sword, switches to it, and moves near UmberHulk1;
Taizu reserves for attacking UmberHulk1
if it moves; Ahb reservers for UmberHulk1;
Glendon backs a step, reserves for UmberHulk1;
Darred shouts out several rounds worth of advide and commands; Tarva
keeps singing, Inspire
Courage takes effect, reserves for UmberHulk1;
Arvee does nothing.
4: Rowan reserves; Taizu
moves to beside UmberHulk1,
changes to sword; Ahb reserves; Glendon reserves; Darred concentrates
on his spell; Tarva switches back to HR, moves up to UmberHulk1;
Arvee does nothing.
5: Rowan on UmberHulk1
hits for 15, criticals for 29; Taizu on UmberHulk1
hits for 13, criticals for 20, kills.
As Darred keeps his spell going, and Tarva keeps singing, the others
start discusing how to release Arvee. Glendon hears a noise, in
the closest passageway, and tells everyone.
0: Taizu reserves for a
target; Ahb moves to Rowan; Darred concentrates on his spell; Tarva
continues singing, reserves for a target; Roawn switches to her bow;
Glendon casts Grease in
front of the closest passageway, gets out a wand of Web; Arvee does nothing.
1: Taizu is listening to
pinpoint the noise better; a hole opens up under Tarva, she falls 10'
and takes 6 hp, stops singing [Inspire Courage will run
out at round 6]; UmberHulk2
hits Tarva for 12; Ahb to the edge of the hole, jumps in, takes 1 hp,
on UmberHulk2
criticals for 31; Darred concentrates on spell; Tarva on UmberHulk2
hits for 8, miss; Rowan moves to edge of hole; Glendon blindfolds
himself (turns his goggles backwards), jumps in the hole (no damage),
on UmberHulk2
miss.
2: Taizu moves to hole,
casts Daze into
the side passage where UmberHulk2
is , no effect; UmberHulk2
on Tarva hits for 10, on Ahb hits for 10, on Glendon misses; Ahb does
nothing (!); Darred concentrates on spell; Tarva sees what Glendon has
done, shuts her eyes and uses her Blind Fight feat (or not) on UmberHulk2
miss, miss; Rowan reserves for target; Glendon on UmberHulk2
miss.
3: Taizu tosses a
tanglefoot bag into the shaft; Rowan on
UmberHulk2
(now a target thanks to the tanglefoot bag) criticals for 26, hits for
9; UmberHulk2
on Tarva hits for 7, miss; Ahb on Glendon (!) hits for 12, miss; Darred
concentrates on spell; UmberHulk2
backs up, Tarva AoO for 10, Glendon AoO for 7, kills.
342 ep
Tarva made 10th level!
Taizu lowers a rope to Glendon. Tarva sings Fascinate on Ahb, but
fails when attempting to piggyback a Suggestion, for Ahb to
sit down and talk about Pelor, on top of it. However, Ahb does
nothing for the three rounds that the Fascinate is in
effect. During that time Glendon climbs out, then holds the rope
for Taizu to go down. As Tarva's Fascinate runs out,
Taizu sings his own Fascinate
at Ahb, but also fails to piggyback a Suggestion to
her. Tarva climbs out. Nine rounds later, when Taizu's Fascinate runs out, Ahb
is back to normal. Ahb changes to her slippers and Spider Climbs
out, while Taizu uses the rope (now held by Tarva). Encouraged by
Ahb's recovery, Darred releases Arvee from the Hypnotic Pattern.
He also is no longer confused.
Hit points down:
Ahb -- 18, 1,
10 = 29
Arvee -- 12, 13, 14 = 39
Darred -- none
Glendon -- 13, 11, 12 = 36
Rowan -- none
Taizu -- none
Tarva -- 6, 12, 10, 7 = 35