Plynck



July 4, 2009

XP Starting Out:      51,330

Pail 2


Land is flattening.  Mid-afternoon we cross a stream.  Dusk falls.

2nd Watch  

0: Undead attack, hit Zori, Beri, Ulfgar; Zora kills S-1 and wounds S-2.

1: Kes wakes up, looks out window; Ar'tas sleeps on; Beri determines that they're Spectres and tumbles away, casts Fireball for 34; Ulfgar hits S-6 three times and misses twice; S-2 misses; S-3 waits; S-4 hits Beri; S-5 hits Beri; S-6 hits Ulfgar; S-7 misses; S-8 hits; Ben destroys S-3, yells, "Spectres!"; Zora kills S-2; Valanthe hides; Fuori gets up and readies; Jenna Turns S-6, S-7, and S-8 -- Ulfgar AoO kills S-6, hits S-8.

2: Kes tumbles out and shoots at S-4 but misses; Ar'tas tumbles out and charges S-5 but misses; Beri tumbles away and hides; Ulfgar moves Ben out and orients him; Devourer appears, Ulfgar and Ben save vs Confusion; S-4 misses Ar'tas; S-5 hits Ar-tas; Ben Turns Devourer and dusts S-4 and S-5.

Jenna casts Restoration on Beri and also heals her.  Jenna heals Ulfgar.

22: Turned undead show back up; Ulfgar charges S-8 and kills; S-7 misses Ulfgar; Devourer casts Confusion, Ben and Jenna save, Jenna says, "Let me hit it."; Ben casts Flame Strike but it fizzles; Zora hits Devourer for 14; Jenna hits Devourer and disrupts it.

23: Kes shoots at S-7 and hits; Ar'tas moves out, circles the shelter; Beri looks out window; Ulfgar hits S-7 twice, kills.

1,470 XP        Running Total:    56,495

Pail 3


This is Kes's Birthday.  We ride.  Thunderstorms: horses spook.  Fuori speaks Horse.  Ulfgar and Ar'tas calm Beri's horse.  We remount.  Day and night pass.

Pail 4


We see a humanoid with a large pack.  Ar'tas calls a halt, and asks Ben to come forward.  Ben speaks and freaks the humanoid out; then he attacks!

1. Ulfgar moves to protect Ben; Zora does as well and readies; X-1 turns his staff into a longspear; Zora shifts forward and criticals on X-1 for 91; X-1 hits Ulfgar for 44, 3 Fort saves, and 1 Will save; Ar'tas misses; Kes starts singing, shoots, bloopers; Jenna casts Flame Strike but it fizzles; Ben casts Flame Strike but it fizzles; Beri casts a spell but it fizzles.

2: Ulfgar tumbles off horse, hits once and misses four times; Zora tumbles off horse and criticals for 92.

Gelugon (Demon) 12' tall, claws, spines, tail

Treasure:
8,000 gp
15 gems (avg 826gp)
two scrolls:
arcane -- Summon Monster II, Blur, Ray of Enfeeblement
arcane -- Blindness / Deafness, Spectral Hand, Knock
flask
hollowed bone, 4" long, with reservoir
cowbell

Cast Detect Magic:
Longspear - minor
Flask - minor (universal solvent)
Bone - minor
Cowbell - medium

885 XP        Running Total:    57,380

Day continues.  At sunset Ulfgar is getting bitten on his neck, takes a point of CON damage.   No one sees anything.  Ulfgar feels a leathery small thing with teeth.  Ulfgar hits it barehanded and it goes away.  Jennabink has heard of a "Soul Nibbler".  Soul Nibblers can only be attacked and damaged by person attacked.  Return every 24 hours.  Discussion of possible remediation ensues.  Night passes.

Pail 5


Prairie goes on forever.  Thunderstorms in the distance.
Ben causts Augury: "Will Protection from Evil help Ulfgar vs the Soul Nibbler?"
Ulfgar is bitten and smacks it with gauntlet.
We discuss questions.

Pail 6


Bern casts Commune.  Questions.  Jenna casts Glyph on Ulfgar.  We see locust tracks.  Late afternoon thunderstorms.  
Glyph triggers 55 hp cold.  Ulfgar criticals and it goes away.

Pail 7


Jenna casts Divination, "How can Ulfgar kill the Soul Nibbler within one week?"  "Find cleric or wizard who can cast Wish, Limited Wish, Miracle, Holy Word."

Mid-Afternoon  
We're attacked by giant centipedes

0: Jenna's and Ben's horses run away with them; Kes's horse dumps her and runs; Ar'tas tumbles off his horse and hits C-1; C-1 hits Ar'tas and poisons; C-2 hits Ulfgar; C-3 moves to Kes and poisons her; C-4 attacks Beri.

1:  Fuori casts Electric Orb on C-4 for 28; Ulfgar criticals for 97 then misses twice; Zora tumbles off horse and criticals on C-4 for 144; Beri casts Enhanced Fireball on C-1 and C-2 for 68; Kes tumbles off horse, starts singing, shoots C-3; Ar'tas shifts to flank and hits C-1, kills; Jenna rides her runaway horse; C-3 attacks Fuori, she saves vs poison; Ben rides his runaway horse.

2: Fuori casts defensively and Dimension Doors away; Ulfgar criticals fo 98 on C-3, kills.

11:  Secondary posion damage on Ar'tas, Kes, Beri; Fuori saves.  All get healed.

707 XP        Running Total:    58,087

We plunder body parts:
eight poison glands (two per centipede mouth): each can make one Neutralize Poison potion

Thunderstorms again.
Ben casts Anti-Life Shell before sunset; Soul Nibbler attacks anyway.

3rd Watch
Big wet storm

Pail 8


Jenna casts Divination, "How can the group kill the Soul Nibbler?"  Failed.  
Day passes.  Ulfgar uses waraxe on Nibbler.
Rains all night.

Pail 9


Ben casts Divination, "How can the group kill the Soul Nibbler?"  "I see no way for the group to do this.  I do not know it to be impossible."

Noon.
Rain stops.

Mid-Afternoon
Prairie flowers.  Beautiful.
Jenna gathers useful herbal flowers.
Ben casts Sanctuary on Ulfgar - no luck.

Pail 10


Jenna casts Divination, gets an answer.
Beri learns spells

Mid-Morning
We all see swarms

1.  Kes casts Fireball on herself and swarm on her; Swarms attack, do 9 on everyone; Jenna casts Searing Light, kills swarm; Fuori casts Ice Burst for 29, kills her swarm, also Zora's, Ulfgar's, Beri's, Kes's, also hurts Zora, Ulfgar, Beri, Kes, Jenna, Fuori, also kills all horses and ponies except Ar'tas's and Ben's; Ar'tas dismounts and asks to be hit; Zora hits Ar'tas's swarm; Ulfgar goes and gets Ar'tas's horse; Ben casts Flame Strike on self and kills his swarm.

2: Kes casts Fireball on Ar'tas; Jenna does nothing; Fuori calls Ben's horse; Beri casts Fireball on Ar'tas and kills swarm.

Healing happens.

235 XP        Running Total:    58,322

Polymorphs get cast on Ulfgar and Jennabink (who have an unusual shared experience)

1st Watch
Giant Dire Tigers attack

0: Ar'tas yells, "Tigers attacking.  Help!", hits T-1; Zora hits T-4, kills; Ben hits T-3; T-1 pounces on Ar'tas; T-2 misses.

1: Ar'tas tumbles away, opens the door, yells; Ulfgar wakes up, grabs Jenna's weapon; Zora charges T-2 and crits for 84; Ben casts Flame Strike on T-3; T-1 hits Ulfgar; T-2 hits Zora; T-3 hits Ben; Beri gets up and moves to window; Fuori gets up and moves to window; Kes gets up, starts to sing; Jenna gets up, moves to door.

2: Ar'tas goes total defensive; Ulfgar hits T-1 three times; Zora hits T-2, kills (covers outside of window with blood); Ben hits T-3; T-1 hits Ulfgar five times; T-3 hits Ben; Beri casts Magic Missile on T-1; Fuori goes to other window; Kes shoots T-1 twice; Jenna casts Cure Critical on Ar'tas.

3: Ar'tas stays total defensive; Ulfgar hits T-1, kills; Zora charges T-3, crits for 129, kills.

Healing ensues.
Zora left two tigers intact enough to skin; collect all four sets of teeth and all sixteen sets of claws.

707 XP        Running Total: 59,029

Pail 11


Polymorph Ulfgar and Jenna back to themselves.  Jenna casts Planar Ally, named Birath.  Promise of favors exchanged.
[Editor's Note: In particular, the group has promised to investigate some strange structure, vaguely on top of a "shield" to the east, that is somehow blocked / shielded against Birath's looking into it.]
Beri casts Tensor's Floating Disk for Fuori and Jenna to ride; Flowers are wilting.
Make camp.  Birath comes back and casts Miracle at sunset: Soul Nibbler is gone.

600 XP        Running Total: 59,629

Pail 12


Afternoon rain

Pail 13


No rain

3rd Watch
Meteor shower.  Very pretty, Some of those on watch see a major collision in the Ring (Ulfgar speculates about the possibility of a gap in the Ring having been created).

Pail 14


Ben's Birthday, but it still rains.

Pail 15


Rain, very thick low clouds.

Mid-Afternoon
Two Red Dragons

1: D-1 breathes fire; D-2 breathes fire; Beri casts Mass Fly on all but Ulfgar; Ulfgar activates Boots and flies up to D-1; Ben casts Prayer; Jenna reserves; Fuori casts Ice Burst on D-2 for 54; Ar'tas reserves to stay with Zora; Zora and Ar'tas mvoe to D-2, hits; Ar'tas backstabs for 32; Kes sings, moves with Jenna to D-1, shoots; Jenna casts Harm.

2: Dragon Aura takes effect, Ar'tas is affected; D-1 misses Jenna, hits Kes and Ulfgar; D-2 hits Zora and Ar'tes; Beri casts Magic Missile on D-1, kills; Ulfgar charges D-2, crits for 71; Ben heals Zora; Fuori casts Electric Orb on D-2 for 30; Zora hits D-21 and kills it.

1,414 XP        Running Total:    60,443

Take hides for armor, teeth for daggers.
Healing ensues.

Pail 16


Cast Find the Path and fly to lair.
Treasure:
12,000 gp
600 pp
34 gems (800gpv average)
two rings: minor magic and medium magic
bronze griffon figurine: medium magic

Pail 17


Cast Identify:
Cowbell (Gelugon): attracts nearest herd animals into stampede through area where cowbell is ringing
Ring 1 (dragons): Warmth
Ring 2 (dragons): Shooting Stars
Griffon Figurine (dragons): Figurine of Wonderous Powers: twice per week, up to 6 hours each, turns into real griffon
Bone Tube w/dust (Gelugon): Dust of Appearance: like combo of Glitterdust & Faerie Fire, lasts 2d100 minutes, affects things in a 10' cube
Huge Longspear (Gleugon): +3 attack and damage
Huge Leather (x2) (Ogre Magi): +1 AC
Huge Greatsword (x2) (Ogre Magi): +1 attack and damage
Huge Longbow (Ogre Magi): +1 attack and damage

Run stopped here.

2,500 XP for roleplaying: mostly innovative ideas in dealing with Soul Nibbler

Running Total:    62,943