Month: January 2002

Wizard Mountain Summary #14: Bugs, Boredom, and a Bugbear

We then decided to see if there was another undiscovered country, I
mean entrance to the Mtn. We followed the trail into the swamp and we
got ambushed by a nest of centipedes. Giant centipedes.

Party Roster:
Standish (Katherine)
Brigling (Katherine)
Schreck (David Bjorlin)
Tolangardh (Jay)
We paid a sage to research for a total of 8 days to figure out what
was draining the life’s blood out of sleeping characters near the
mushroom forest (which was missing from Edwin’s notes in some strange
fashion). It is an invisible cave slug that sneaks up and
drinks all of your plasma. You can protect your campsite with a
circle of expensive salt. We bought an emegency can in case the party
MUST camp in the cave..
We decided to go looking for “new” trouble. After MUCH debate, we
went to the toll house. We found cookies, but they were sent back to
the originating server. No. Wait. That’s not right.
We went to the toll house/booth/death trap. The road up the face of
the Mtn hugs the cliff and drops off sharply on the right side. The
house straddles the road. As we approached we could see that there
were a number of arrow slits in the house on the right portion and
across the span.

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Summary #2: Divide and Be Conquered Anyway

At about 5 AM the next morning, Gertrude the frost giant came with two of the wolves to raid from another herd. Unbeknownst to them, Balinor and his cronies were hidden amongst the cattle, smelling of livestock. When the enemies approached, they sprang out!

Balinor, 8th level fighter, 76 hp, played by Joel
Kodo, 6th level woodsman, 67 hp, played by Katherine
Reinhold, 4th level barbarian, 66 hp, played by Joel
Morhion, 1st level cleric, 10 hp, played by Katherine
When we last left our fighter-heavy party, it had to figure out a way to deal with three frost giants, 4 winter wolves (worg-like beings), AND a crazy high level barbarian shaman who was convinced that he was a frost giant and that these were his children.
The conclusion was that the use of the hereditary circlet, which grants frost giant strength by making you pretend to be a frost giant, had driven the shaman mad due to the unusually long duration of his life at that lofty position. The giants were an incredible threat to the village, which couldn’t even hold them off in a direction assault WITH the party’s help, much less without them.
Balinor was left with a quandary–how do you defeat an enemy that is stronger than you? Separate them.
We discovered that a herd of animals near the village had been raided by one of the giants, who carried off several of the animals. A plan germinated…

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