The Stone Soules (“The Hideous Trapped Evil Party”) are hereby dissolved,
the Council of Tan-El and its city hereby formed. We thank you for your
attention and readership.
Treasure!
The Stone Soules (“The Hideous Trapped Evil Party”) are hereby dissolved,
the Council of Tan-El and its city hereby formed. We thank you for your
attention and readership.
Continue reading “Summary LXVIII: The Division of Party Assets: Magical Items”
>Can’t wait to see what sorts of people he ends up with… maybe a chaotic elf
>paladin druid thief.
We weren’t sure of his exact Charisma so we rolled up a bunch of guys we
thought would be useful:
1 dwarven engineer (Brogan Silverbeard) (in charge of roads)
1 human blacksmith (Tim)
2 half-elf woodsmen (Luke and Han)
1 half-elf steward (Sam)
1 half-elf excavator (Thomas)
Eli also added:
1 dwarven engineer (Dolin Silverbeard) (in charge of buildings and
sewers)
1 half-elf mage (Theodras)
1 half-elf Auroran cleric (Aliana)
Continue reading “Summary LXVII: The Colonization of Tan-El: Recruiting Help”
Lanoi’s third turning attempt and his divine intervention went off at the same time. Twelve
ghouls took off, and in fact all the feasting halted and they hovered out of the light spell
range. Had the divine intervention worked?
And the Follow-up Adventure (it was only a matter of time!)
The dynamic duo returns in an escapade worthy of godly notice:
WARWICK AND BUCK STRIKE A BLOW FOR PHAULKON
On their first adventure in possession of the new Windsock, our heroes were last left
dividing up treasure:
The survivors of the Rakshasa attack were Marriat the ranger, Warwick the ranger,
Buck the fighter, Tristan the druid, and Lanoi the Phaulkonian cleric.
The rakshasa wagon had burned, but spectular treasure was recovered, as recounted in
the official summary for the previous game. Here are some of the results:
The Regeneration scroll was used on Buck! Shockingly, Andy rolled an 01 (on my dice)
and the scroll failed!!!
Uggh.
On the good side, I also rolled Leon’s Reincartion. Incredibly, (05) Leon came back as
a GIANT EAGLE! So now Lanoi feels really cool, walking around with a giant eagle.
Warwick growled at the thought, but Skylltor offered 550,000 gp for the circlet of the
white mage (+1 spellcasting level). Gring refused.
As Warwick said, “It only works on GOOD mages…”
While Leon was getting used to his new body, Warwick decided to get the 1500 XP he
needed for 7th level by attacking… the frost giant nation. Alone.
With the Windsocks.
Continue reading “WARWICK AND BUCK STRIKE A BLOW FOR PHAULKON”
The giant worm thrashed violently for a moment. The party was elated.
Then it grabbed Sean the Ranger in its mouth…
Presenting…. the Stone Soules Final Summary! No, thank you, you’re too
kind.
This adventure was sponsored by the evil dwarves, and a hole o’ fun!
The intrepid adventurers downed the Treasure Finding Potion as promised,
and moved swiftly in that direction. Apparently the potion may have been
obscured, or just wore off, but the distance to the treasure was unclear
and shifted semi-randomly, though the direction was constant.
We eventually came upon a clearing with some vultures in it, and a large
hole in the center, bones strewn about its sides.
Talking to the birds, we deduced that a large worm had taken up residence
there. We decided, naturally, to kill it and grab the loot. We were
expecting a quick grab the items and run, so some of our spells were
detection spells rather than combat, which proved unfortunate.
Yeah, and SE even had “Moderate Better-left-Undisturbed Treasure.” But it
was only “probably inevitable that we distrub supernatural evil forces.”
For the sake of my sleep schedule, I’ll just throw in a quick summary so as
not to leave everyone in suspense. Full summary hopefully tomorrow!
And thanks to Chris playing Theo!
The party meandered around the Pit area of the Southern Wilderness without
realizing how close we were. First the party was surprised by a giant
slug. Rangorn took massive damage and had some equipment destroyed by acid
spittle. Again.
Then we spotted an owlbear. Being extremely bloodthirsty, we trashed it
with the help of _Slow_ spell and everyone just generally raining damage
down on it.
Then we entered the Pit. Ominous terrain, full of undergrowth. The party
hacked its way through to a torn path. We followed the gigantic tracks,
guessing that a huge bear thing (roughly 40 feet tall) had made the trail.
We spotted the creature– Monster ID revealed it as a “dragonbear”– result
of experiments to combine dragons and owlbears. After waiting for bad
weather, Alegra began the attack with _Call Lightning_. What followed was
about a thousand points of damage and dozens of single wounds. The
creature finally dropped, but with a dead Ceydric nearby. In addition, the
unfortunate Runt had been incinerated by an earlier blast of fire (it had a
7 segment breath weapon– full details on this later). Ceydric was rescued
by Mordrick and Theo, who dragged his body away from the suddenly rumbling
body of the dragonbear. About a minute later, the body exploded into huge
flames, but the body was shielded by the two valiant fighters. Now wasn’t
that fun?
“The Tent of the Night hides an unknown threat.”
“The Tent of the Night hides an unknown threat.”
Following his conversion to the Phaulkonian faith by Alegra, while undertaking a
top-secret government venture in the mountains of Cromwell, Warwick, Principal Ranger
of Cromwell, became keenly interested in one of the Holy Quests that Alegra had often
mentioned. This Quest was the recovery of the paired artifact of Phaulkon known as the
“Windsocks.”
The Windsocks were a powerful, but relatively minor, artifact of Phaulkon lost forty or so
years ago in the Darkwood (in the Northlands). The Windsocks took the form of two
indestructible stockings which when worn together had the
major power of being able to place a step wherever you wanted in the air. That is, the
Socks could be used to climb an imaginary staircase in the air to reach the roof of a high
cavern, or step higher to get a shot over a friend in combat,
or any number of other uses. There were other powers as well, but not a great number
of them. More importantly, the Socks were an important artifact that needed to be
recovered and brought back into the hands of Phaulkonians.
It was known from _Communes_ and other sources within the Church over the years
since their loss that the Socks had both left the Darkwood sometime afterward,
separately. One of them had shown up in the New World and had been
found by an adventurer who wished them to find their way into the hands of the
Phaulkonian Church, but needed money for his efforts. Unfortunately, at the time, the
Church was (as usual) low on resources and could not front the 10,000 gold pieces to
have the one Sock in hand. The adventurer was represented by an attorney in Dunthrane
City (Bimwiddle, who purports to provide “the only representation for non-Nevronians in
the land!”) who maintained the offer at 10,000 gold pieces through the years.
When the squirrels scattered after dark, we breathed a sigh of relief.
When the first _Call Lightning_ struck Xavier, we were considerably not
relieved.
The summary:
The party headed south out of Cromwell toward the mountains. Rangorn was
surprised by a totem. We moved on, and began our gradual ascent into the
mountains. Snow began to build up on the ground, and once the party had to
break off the march at midday and take cover in _Leomund’s Secure Shelter_,
courtesy of Eli.
The next day the party advanced through the fresh coating of snow, but was
attacked by a fanged creature that attempted to drag Runt into the snow.
It was slain, and the party trekked to a nearby cave. In the cave was a
huge segmented worm thing, which was dispatched through the able fighting
of the mighty Stone Soules.
In the back of the cave we discovered a magic pickaxe, which turned out to
be a holy symbol for a frost giant religion. There was also a one-way (the
other way) panel at the back of the cave, which we decided not to
investigate so as to clear the mountains sooner.
They ambushed him, tried to poison him, tried to shoot him. In the end, a
challenge with one of them killed the man but he got a lucky jab in that
poisoned Phargus and he was killed due to poison.
More mini-Middle mayhem!
When last we left middle it had fended off Fire Giants, Giant Toads, a fire
in the barracks, a werewolf, a Kelburnian spy, hungry wolves, and a
Nevronian seeking asylum from the “evil” wizardry of Jonhalom…
As well as more anarchist antics than you can shake a stick at…
2180 was a different year. Kant the cooper (the snitch) was poisoned in a
freak accident. No suspects were apparent. A giant weasel nearly took down
Cassana and landed her bed-ridden for a few weeks. A cave bear attacked
town and we went out and slew it. A valuable shipment of goods and gold
bars came through town. Ax, man-at-arms, bumped his head. Once again, the
anarchists made people sick at the Founders Day celebration.
Now for some fun stuff. The Daring Dozen returned from digging up a
grave-yard in Tan-El and paid salvage tax. In addition to the 24000 gold
they brought back, Faranyn seized the philter of persuasiveness and since he
had first pick he chose the unidentified Rod, which turned out to be a Rod
of Resurrection with 7 charges!!
“The wizard Wsyglyth worked on his dark abominations, terrifying the
countryside with the rejected spawn of his experiments. These
abominations of nature wandered through the forest, preying on the
common folk, until the heroes were summoned to do battle.”
Hey!
Two days after everyone arrived back in town before going to fight the
Deathstealers, Alegra presided over the marriage of Sean and Aria. Alegra
throws a 200 g.p. party for them. That makes the date 1 August 2182.
Congrats to the two of them… the party was of course invited to the
wedding and party following, along with the Phaulkonian congregation.
Kyle
BTW- the name of Xavier’s fighter/mage Henchman is Javin “Famuu”
Goldthwatt and his bobcat familiar is Boris “Chowdaddy”
Alex will eventually name the other henchmen.
Jack
Continue reading “Summary LXII: Follow-ups to the Cleansing of the Citadel”
Then the deathstealer attempted to leech the damage onto Theo.
The results are in…
Stone Soules 3 Deathstealers 0
There was also an early development during Sahrak’s return trip– his
caravan was attacked by a dozen gnolls. The dozen guards fought back–
only one guard was killed permanently, but so was the owner merchant.
Oops. And there weren’t enough animals left to pull the caravan back to
the nearest town, so it was certainly a pyrrhic victory. But both Sahrak
and his new henchman survived.
When we last left our heroes, the Stone Soules were preparing to assault
the deathstealers.
Continue reading “Summary LXI: Versus the Deathstealers: Overwhelming Force”
