Category: Stone Soules

And don’t forget the 40 or so new party magic items! 😉
Yes, there are about that many, but only about 10 would you count as actual
items, the rest are “assets.”
I think the semester has come to a successful and fulfilling conclusion. If
you like closure, and you had the full scope of what was going on in Tan-El,
you would see that things are starting to wind together, though there will
always be mysteries…
More foes fall to the Stone Soules! 🙂
Alegra/Kyle

seven vampires in gaseous form incased in tar- how to destroy/ get rid of
them? There is also a devil in trapped in a jar.
method #10- throw them all into the pool of at the Shrine of
Nevron. ” Hey, I know where a pool of holy water is…”
Player # 1: “Sheesh. We’d need an awful lot of holy water, and at the price
of about 3000 gold per gallon, we could run up a little bit of a bill…”
Player # 2: “Hey I know where we could find a huge pool of holy water, and it’s
free!”
Okay, we have to confess that Player #2 was ZACK! Hee hee!

Continue reading “Summary XLIV: How to Destroy the Vampires Stored at the Ziggurat?”

Our next expedition was to eliminiate the “ancient one” so we went to the
Ziggurat and performed a ceremony that destroyed the evil altar there, as
well as dispelling the hell hole. Eventually some of us might call the
Ziggurat home, now that it is rid of all dangerous evil. I am sure if we
scraped off the soot and featured what remains of the hell hole (by
building some sort of dais around it) it might look like a neat place.
Forces of Evil: 0, Stone Soules: 8

Continue reading “Summary XLIII: Against the Ancient One in the Dark Pit and More Tan-El Stuff”

So next was Tyner’s tower…at last. As usual, “questions were met with
disturbing answers.” (an augury we got once). We got in through the
usual method and started experimenting with what turned out to be the
bedroom door. As was guessed by other players, Tyner was well prepared
to protect his place from other mages (although with all the magic here,
I don’t see how Tyner could have made the place within a human
lifespan). The knock spell on the door caused a memory moss to hit Eli
and eat all of his spells in memory. Kinda delayed the expedition 🙂
So we used the Chime instead and found beyond a plush arch-mage bedroom.
Everything was magical to some extent, from the carpet that is always
clean to the warm sheets etc. We found four cool magic items which we
still need to identify amongst the other standard Tan-El fare…you know,
twisted bits of metal and, a Chaotic Evil (malignant) force in a bunch of
jars. Appeared to be some sort of ooze. Xavier tried to sprinkle holy
water on it but was attacked by some insubstantial mist that temporarily
drained two levels and enticed him to open the jars (Hmm…I wonder what
would happen if we dropped the jars into the hell hole, let the two bad
boys fight each other first 🙂 ). So anyway, we moved on to the door
that led to the next upper level.

Continue reading “Summary XLII: Tyner’s Tower: Disturbing and Other Answers”

Beginning with the party located at the Ziggurat, we setup camp for a
little while and cast some _Speak with Deads_ to try and find an entrance
to the Ziggurat. We found that there was a star shaped pendant
(pentagram) on the witchdoctor that supposedly opened the blocks. So we
spent a good deal of time finding all the real magic items on the loser
(he had some aura altering spell cast on virtually all of his posessions
so they appeared to be type 5 magic) so many dispels later we had his
holy symbol and the “key”. Around this time, Alegra felt that we were
being scryed upon and almost immediately after that feeling the blocks to
the Zig opened. We took that as the cue to pack up and leave. We
figured that if the witchdoctor was going to fight us, we would rather do
it in the forest instead of his Zig.
So, later that night some distance away, the witchdoctor attacked by
drinking potions of firebreathing, spell immuning himself, and throwing a
silence over the area. It looked dangerous for a second (after Ceydric
had taken 60 points of fire damage) but our consistent damage won out.
He had lots of cash for a bugbear (probably just looted the Zig).
Anyway, we made it back to Middle and the downtime began.

Continue reading “Summary XLI: Beyond the Ziggurat: Witchdoctor on the Offensive”

When we last left our intrepid adventurers, they had just taken the
Ziggurat. Ceydric was battling one of the bugbear commanders on one of
the upper levels and the party was picking off the other fleeing
commander and nameless retreating bugbears while trying to catch up to
Ceydric.
Combat with the bugbear commander ended rather quickly and Ceydric then
moved to get the other commander. He, however, tried to retreat into the
Ziggurat when his comrades collapsed the entranceway, killing him and
almost squishing Ceydric. This unfortunately prevented the party from
gaining immediate access to the Zig so we then seized our advantage and
moved to take the slave pens before the bugbears could react too quickly.
Many more scrub bugbears die…

Continue reading “Summary XL: More Fighting at the Ziggurat and the Slave Pens”

It’s late. This will be brief, to say the least.
50 Bugbear War party:
a couple escape, rest die painfully.
1 man-at-arms (Mo) dies. Men-at-arms plus Gauss (standard bearer) and Mo’s
body go to elven lands (these creatures will just kill them).
Head back towards Ziggurat. Feeling of being watched (scrying). Try not to
give any landmarks and stop the scrying. Every once in awhile it happens
again. We decide to attack rather than have them ambush us.
We ford the river north of the Z and head for it. We detect a sizeable
force (say 75) bugbears behind us. We make straight for the Z. There are
fortifications. Bugbears and ogres die. Ceydric (flying, prot. from
missiles) opens the gate, gets hit by ballista, fights deformed Cloud Giant.
Cloud Giant hammers Ceydric, but no wound. Eli and Deirdre unload scroll
magic missiles at it, doing about 90 some-odd points of damage, a couple of
bow shots, it flees into the air and out of range too soon –darn it!

Continue reading “Summary XXXIX: The Bugbear War Party and the Ziggurat of the Witches”

Updated 14 Nov 2178 / 11 Nov 1996
(*) denotes an unusual item
All items are held in Tower stores unless otherwise stated.
Necessary other storage space is immediately needed, as can be seen
from the list.

Continue reading “Summary XXXVIII: Miscellaneous Party Equipment of the Stone Soules”

Hey all!
Here’s what happened (in brief):
1. Raven turned down his potential druid henchman who was a total weirdo
(and probably fanatical).
2. Alegra picked up a henchman bowyer-fletcher named Frank and a
Phaulkonian Ranger henchman named Sean, who happens to have both an 18/33
strength and an 18 intelligence. He’s really cool. Frank specializes in
crossbows. Frank will soon be Phaulkonian. 🙂

Continue reading “Summary XXXVII: Returning to Middle and Research Results”