There are many giant ants. They are gesturing with their legs and
antennae
telling us where to go. We go where they
point and are hopeful we are not their lunch.
They are blocking all the other paths.
We reach a pile of stuff (dirt).
Aunt Hillary speaks to us. She
says she doesn’t want to fight or be involved in interspecies sex
with
Ben. She wants to make a deal. We kill a nest of yellowjackets
in exchange for access to the portal.
There are about 150 of them and they move their nest regularly. The hive is underground. We
need to kill the queen and destroy all the
eggs.
Ben suggests Earthquake.
How many stalks wide is a nest? 7 == 210’x210’
Typically 1 exit.
Depth of 60’ probably.
Egg chamber is in the deepest part.
Tunnels are maybe 5’ tall and 3’ wide.
How many HP does a bee have?
YELLOWJACKET!
Maybe catch one and beat it ‘til it’s dead to find out.
Have summoned monsters do the work for us with the bees?
YELLOWJACKETS!
Fireball? Chained
Lightning? What will kill the bees?
YELLOWJACKETS!
Maybe an elemental of some sort? Or a Summon of some Xorns? Or a Koatl? But, we’d have to bargain with them to kill the bees.
YELLOWJACKETS! (whatever)
Plan – Beari:
(1a) Cast Expeditious Retreat
(2) Drink potion of Haste
(3) Cast Maximized Chain Lightning (1000 foot range)
(4) Cast Time Stop
(5) Run in and check damage
(6) Pearl of Power to “regain” Lightning spell
(7) Cast Maximized Chain Lightning again
(8) Run Away
Ants guide to 500’ away from shrew bodies, but along a route totally out of sight until then.
Roll Init.
Beari does plan. Kills all 13 wasps with Chain Lightning twice. Does victory dance and waits for Time Stop to end.
We discuss and discard many more plans while inside our Secure Shelter protected by the ants. We try to come up with a plan to eliminate the bees.
YELLOWJACKETS! (whatever)
The Plan – In the night:
(1) Cast Wall of Force
(2) Cast Blade Barrier
(3) Cast Blade Barrier again
(4) Cast Blade Barrier one more time
(5)
{Nevermind}
Elder Xorn are 10’x10’. We summon 2 of them to do nest recon on the bees.
YELLOWJACKETS! (whatever)
The Plan (now):
(1) Summon two Xorn Elders: they wear white shirts and ties and try to convert everyone, but we ask them to do recon on the nest for us.
(2) Xorn report back; give us a map to the Nut Queen – what nut is she queen of? [Editor note: Macadamia]
(3) Next Night – new spells and such
(4) Cast Wall of Force to cap the main entrance plus our tunnel into the nest
(5) Cast Summon Monster 4 & Summon Monster 5 for Formian workers
(6) Have them dig us a tunnel from inside the wall of Force to the Nut Queen sleeping chamber. Also, Beari drinks Haste.
(7) They break through and we attack:
Beari – Casts Maximized Chain Lighting twice, once along each side
Ben – Casts Flame Strike (as Lightening) in the middle of the chamber
(8) Beari casts Time Stop
(8.1 through 8.?) Beari casts additional attack spells
(9) Ben stands ready to cast Divine Storm
Pail 4,
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Everyone gets in place.
Round 1
Roll Init.
Beari casts Wall of Force as per step (4);
five Yellowjackets fly out of entrance
Beari, hasted, casts Ice Burst on Y01 through Y05
Ben casts Blade Barrier between entrance and group
Yellowjackets fly around Blade Barrier and attack group (two on Ben)
One stings Ben for 11hp but he saves vs poison
Ben casts Blade Barrier between entrance and group
Arden, having reserved, strikes Y01
Zora, having reserved,
strikes Y02
Round 2
Beari casts Summon Monster 5; hasted, casts Summon Monster 4, brings in seven Formian workers for 19 rounds
workers are told to start digging
Arden attacks Y01, kills, tumbles and attacks Y04, kills
Zora takes 5’ step, attacks Y02, kills, cleaves Y05; then hits, hits, kills; tumbles to flank Y03
Ben saves vs poison for second and last time; casts Blade Barrier across mouth of entrance; hasted, hits, hits, hits Y03
workers begin digging.- get 20’
four more Yellowjackets – Y06 through Y09 – fly out of entrance, are damaged by that Blade Barrier, fly around first Blade Barrier, execute spring attacks on group members but miss.
Round 3 (items in blue were finished on 2023-08-27)
Beari moves down tunnel behind workers
Arden attacks Y03, hits, kills; tells Zora to rearguard at mouth of tunnel; follows Beari down tunnel
Ben follows Arden down tunnel
Zora positions herself
for
rearguard. (at
a guess: reserves for the
first spring attack and designates one of the four her dodge)
Zora designates Y09 as her Dodge; reserves
for first
spring attacker.
workers continue digging – now at 40’, tell Beari they will break through next round
Yellowjackets execute
flying
spring attacks on Zora (results to be determined at start of
next session)
Y06 attacks,
Zora kills it first; Y07 misses;
Y08
hits for 3, Zora saves; Y09
misses.
