onsdag den 19. december 2012
23rd session: Everybody wants to kill the T'orgh brothers...
1st moon, 23rd day, year 4554
After a good night's rest, the brothers spent the day looking at art objects and identifying various items they had collected lately.
1st moon, 24th day, year 4554
In the morning, the T'orghs headed back to the beach and Grokar was there, as per their agreement. He sailed them back to the mainland, and was paid his dues and allowed to leave, looking very relieved.
The brothers started to make their way west. During the afternoon, they ran into a swarm of angry death beetles, and while they survived, it was certainly close. But Nalfeins wand of fire made a huge difference here.
1st moon, 25th day, year 4554
At night, two large wyverns attack the brothers. While fairly easily dealt with, the fact that they both bear House Hume marks makes the T'orghs wondering what is going on.
1st moon, 28th day, year 4554
During their sleep, the T'orghs are attacked by a dark elf assassin cloaked by improved invisibility, a dark elf wizard and his imp. The battle looks bleak for a long time, with everybody being down and out at some point, but in the end, the brothers manage to kill the opposition. The wizard bears the house sigil of House Hume...
2nd moon, 1st day, year 4554
Another night, another ambush. Four dark elf mercenaries assault the brothers, after saying:
"Your brother Hu'ar sends his best and thank you for all you have done for House T'orgh."
Their acid-coated shortswords seem to be tipping the scales for a while, but a Hold Person and a Suggestion spell turn the tides of battle...
torsdag den 13. december 2012
Dying - Houserule
A character does not die at -10 hit points. Instead he dies at -10-level. Ie a 5th level character dies at -15 hit points. This is to offset that damage goes up, but the death-buffer (0 to -10) never changes, thus ensuring a much, much greater lethality at higher levels.
22nd session: The bronze trial, part II
1st moon, 12th day, year 4554
Using his ring of change self, Nalfein enters the village of Derrick posing as an elf, and after talking with several fishermen, secures passage for the brothers.
1st moon, 13th day, year 4554
The next morning, he meets Grokard, the fisherman, and sets out. After a couple of hours they pick up the rest of the party. Grokard is surprised and frightened by the dark elves that join them, but the lure of a lot of gold and the realization that they can kill him easily ensures he agrees to sail them to the isle.
1st moon, 21st day, year 4554
The T'orghs arrive to the island, and agree with Grokard that he should return every 3rd day to the island. After a week, he is free to go as he please.
They decide to follow the coast, and look for a lake or similar, as Belos has informed them bronze dragons do.
After a couple of hours, they find a river leading inland. They follow it, and are quickly ambushed by two giant crocs. The crocs die and are raised, one by Belos, one by Nalfein.
Continuing on, the brothers and their new undead guardians are attacked by 24 man-sized, blue and yellow frogs. The fight is long and hard, with Belos almost dying and Nalfein going down as well.
After the fight, the T'orghs decide to rest. They move a bit away from the river, and make camp. During the night, a minotaur and what later turns out to be a psychic tiger try to sneak up on them, but when discovered and faerie-fired, try to flee in order to regroup. This results in a 10-minute hectic chase through the forest, finishing by Nalfein and Tagar catching up with the minotaur. Fight starts, and the psychic tiger returns invisible and joins in. Tagar trades blows with the minotaur while Nalfein holds off the tiger. Belos arrives after a while, and help finish off the monsters.
1st moon, 22nd day, year 4554
The T'orghs continue inland, bypassing some ruins and finally find their lake, hidden in between some hills. Tracks show that the dragon at least comes here occassionally, but no cave in sight. Belos makes them all able to breathe water, and they go exploring underwater. Suddenly the dragon, which is just about bigger than anything else they have seen, arrive, dropping in from above. The T'orghs realize that they are screwed underwater, even if they can breathe, and quickly dimensior door out of the lake while the dragon finishes off their undead servants, including Jeffrey. The battle then continues on land (and in the air), finishing by Nalfein killing the dragon with his wand of fire, mere seconds before the next breath weapon would surely kill most, if not all of the brothers.
Exploration turns up a dragon-lair, complete with a dragon-horde.
Using his ring of change self, Nalfein enters the village of Derrick posing as an elf, and after talking with several fishermen, secures passage for the brothers.
1st moon, 13th day, year 4554
The next morning, he meets Grokard, the fisherman, and sets out. After a couple of hours they pick up the rest of the party. Grokard is surprised and frightened by the dark elves that join them, but the lure of a lot of gold and the realization that they can kill him easily ensures he agrees to sail them to the isle.
1st moon, 21st day, year 4554
The T'orghs arrive to the island, and agree with Grokard that he should return every 3rd day to the island. After a week, he is free to go as he please.
They decide to follow the coast, and look for a lake or similar, as Belos has informed them bronze dragons do.
After a couple of hours, they find a river leading inland. They follow it, and are quickly ambushed by two giant crocs. The crocs die and are raised, one by Belos, one by Nalfein.
Continuing on, the brothers and their new undead guardians are attacked by 24 man-sized, blue and yellow frogs. The fight is long and hard, with Belos almost dying and Nalfein going down as well.
After the fight, the T'orghs decide to rest. They move a bit away from the river, and make camp. During the night, a minotaur and what later turns out to be a psychic tiger try to sneak up on them, but when discovered and faerie-fired, try to flee in order to regroup. This results in a 10-minute hectic chase through the forest, finishing by Nalfein and Tagar catching up with the minotaur. Fight starts, and the psychic tiger returns invisible and joins in. Tagar trades blows with the minotaur while Nalfein holds off the tiger. Belos arrives after a while, and help finish off the monsters.
1st moon, 22nd day, year 4554
The T'orghs continue inland, bypassing some ruins and finally find their lake, hidden in between some hills. Tracks show that the dragon at least comes here occassionally, but no cave in sight. Belos makes them all able to breathe water, and they go exploring underwater. Suddenly the dragon, which is just about bigger than anything else they have seen, arrive, dropping in from above. The T'orghs realize that they are screwed underwater, even if they can breathe, and quickly dimensior door out of the lake while the dragon finishes off their undead servants, including Jeffrey. The battle then continues on land (and in the air), finishing by Nalfein killing the dragon with his wand of fire, mere seconds before the next breath weapon would surely kill most, if not all of the brothers.
Exploration turns up a dragon-lair, complete with a dragon-horde.
lørdag den 8. december 2012
21st session: The bronze trial
11th moon, 26th day, year 4553
After travelling home towards Menzo for a couple of days, the brothers are, while setting up camp for the night, approached by an old dark dirty and barefoot darkelf, who asks if they will share their fire with him.
They decide to do so, slightly intrigued what a dark elf is doing on his own out here. He doesn't tell them much, aside from the fact that he was banished from Menzo a long time ago by the Council and the brothers' father. He also appear to know Tagar's mother and shows some interest and knowledge about Belos' newfound staff. Nalfein distrust the old man, and decides to take a round, looking for magic or something else. As Nalfein is gone, the old man shapechanges to an old acquaintance, the dragon they met in the Underdark, and assaults Belos and Tagar. Fortunaly, both Tagar and Jeffrey prove very precise and hardhitting, and the (poor) dragon is ripped to shreds in no time at all.
11th moon, 28th day, year 4553
The brothers, still on their way back to Menzo, are attacked by a phase spider, which they kill quickly.
11th moon, 29th day, year 4553
The T'orghs arrive back at Menzo, and complete the first trial by pouring the blood out over the altar.
12th moon, 2nd day, year 4553
After 3 days relaxing and spellscribing in Menzo, the brothers once again head towards the temple.
12th moon, 10th day, year 4553
The brothers arrive at the temple. After having seen that the Earth Symbol only changed a bit, and how it changed, the brothers Belos and Nalfein decide to try to figure out what the other symbols could be. They flex their mental muscles, and come up with the following
From top left, to bottom right
1- Air
2- Brass
3- Bronze
4- Chaos
5- Copper
6- Creation
7- Death
8- Earth (Hill Giants)
9- ??
10- Fire
11- Gold
12- Ice
13- Justice
14-
15-
16- The dead
They decide on the bronze symbol. A horned devil appears in a puf of smoke and says:
"Deliver a scale weighting no less than 5 lbs from the hide of the dragon called Tyrat. Bring it to the altar in the temple of T'orgh, and keep it on the altar for safeguarding until the next trial has been completed"
Not knowing who the hell Tyrat is, the T'orghs decide to swing by their library in Menzo and find out.
12th moon, 15th day, year 4553
At night, the brothers are attacked by seven very brave orcs. They overbear Nalfein and manage to land quite a few blows before they are killed and subsequently reanimated. While a humiliating experience, it does help Nalfein realize that his new ringmail must have been mis-identified, due to the amount of protection it turned out to offer.
12th moon, 18th day, year 4553
Back in Menzo, the brothers start to research.
12th moon, 27th day, year 4553
After nine days of perusing over old books, the T'orghs have found 3 interesting pieces of information.
- Jurat Firemonger is credited to have said: "Tyrat ignored several of my spells, but every one of my electricity spells"
- Jurat also writes: "As we were closing in on Tyrat, we were assaulted by all kinds of animals. It was if nature itself had a deal with the beast"
- Tyrat lives on the island of Nosurax, east of the Silent Forest.
1st moon, 4th day, year 4554
On the way east, towards the isle of the bronze dragon Tyrat, the brothers ran into a live tree who tries to eat them, but they dispatch it quickly enough.
1st moon, 7th day, year 4554
The brothers stumble over a couple of hardened elves resting for the night. They ambush them and make short work of them, before reanimating one of them.
1st moon, 11th day, year 4554
The T'orgh brothers are attacked by a wyvern. After killing it, Nalfein tries to animate it and create a very powerful guard, but fails. Instead Belos does it.
1st moon, 12th day, year 4554
The T'orghs arrive at the coast, near the village of Derrick.
After travelling home towards Menzo for a couple of days, the brothers are, while setting up camp for the night, approached by an old dark dirty and barefoot darkelf, who asks if they will share their fire with him.
They decide to do so, slightly intrigued what a dark elf is doing on his own out here. He doesn't tell them much, aside from the fact that he was banished from Menzo a long time ago by the Council and the brothers' father. He also appear to know Tagar's mother and shows some interest and knowledge about Belos' newfound staff. Nalfein distrust the old man, and decides to take a round, looking for magic or something else. As Nalfein is gone, the old man shapechanges to an old acquaintance, the dragon they met in the Underdark, and assaults Belos and Tagar. Fortunaly, both Tagar and Jeffrey prove very precise and hardhitting, and the (poor) dragon is ripped to shreds in no time at all.
11th moon, 28th day, year 4553
The brothers, still on their way back to Menzo, are attacked by a phase spider, which they kill quickly.
11th moon, 29th day, year 4553
The T'orghs arrive back at Menzo, and complete the first trial by pouring the blood out over the altar.
12th moon, 2nd day, year 4553
After 3 days relaxing and spellscribing in Menzo, the brothers once again head towards the temple.
12th moon, 10th day, year 4553
The brothers arrive at the temple. After having seen that the Earth Symbol only changed a bit, and how it changed, the brothers Belos and Nalfein decide to try to figure out what the other symbols could be. They flex their mental muscles, and come up with the following
From top left, to bottom right
1- Air
2- Brass
3- Bronze
4- Chaos
5- Copper
6- Creation
7- Death
8- Earth (Hill Giants)
9- ??
10- Fire
11- Gold
12- Ice
13- Justice
14-
15-
16- The dead
They decide on the bronze symbol. A horned devil appears in a puf of smoke and says:
"Deliver a scale weighting no less than 5 lbs from the hide of the dragon called Tyrat. Bring it to the altar in the temple of T'orgh, and keep it on the altar for safeguarding until the next trial has been completed"
Not knowing who the hell Tyrat is, the T'orghs decide to swing by their library in Menzo and find out.
12th moon, 15th day, year 4553
At night, the brothers are attacked by seven very brave orcs. They overbear Nalfein and manage to land quite a few blows before they are killed and subsequently reanimated. While a humiliating experience, it does help Nalfein realize that his new ringmail must have been mis-identified, due to the amount of protection it turned out to offer.
12th moon, 18th day, year 4553
Back in Menzo, the brothers start to research.
12th moon, 27th day, year 4553
After nine days of perusing over old books, the T'orghs have found 3 interesting pieces of information.
- Jurat Firemonger is credited to have said: "Tyrat ignored several of my spells, but every one of my electricity spells"
- Jurat also writes: "As we were closing in on Tyrat, we were assaulted by all kinds of animals. It was if nature itself had a deal with the beast"
- Tyrat lives on the island of Nosurax, east of the Silent Forest.
1st moon, 4th day, year 4554
On the way east, towards the isle of the bronze dragon Tyrat, the brothers ran into a live tree who tries to eat them, but they dispatch it quickly enough.
1st moon, 7th day, year 4554
The brothers stumble over a couple of hardened elves resting for the night. They ambush them and make short work of them, before reanimating one of them.
1st moon, 11th day, year 4554
The T'orgh brothers are attacked by a wyvern. After killing it, Nalfein tries to animate it and create a very powerful guard, but fails. Instead Belos does it.
1st moon, 12th day, year 4554
The T'orghs arrive at the coast, near the village of Derrick.
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