torsdag den 28. marts 2013

32nd session: House Jhalavar

8th moon, 7th day year 4554
After some days of gathering intel and prepping for battle, the day arrives. House T'orgh goes to war with House Jhalavar.

The brothers spearhead the attack, and burst into the courtyard, then into the palace, before they make their way through halls and such to arrive at the temple. On they way, they kill at least 10 vampire nobles and a huge big-ass elemental.

The final battle takes place in the Jhalavar Temple, where the brothers face not one lich, but two liches. They manage to kill the priest, but instead, he kills them all. With the rest of House T'orgh coming for him, he flees. Nalfein is brought back from the dead by his shield and comes out of his hold monster spell before Tagar bleeds out. Belos is meanwhile kept alive by his new ring.

After they find the priest's phylectary before he can reform.

The wizard escapes, but the brothers accomplish their mission. House Jhalavar is no more. As a bonus, on top of the loot, the brothers also discover a room with seemingly 7 portals to different parts of the world.

8th moon, 10th day year 4554
The T'orghs decide to go after the Ice Symbol next.

31st session: The copper dragon

7th moon, 14th day, year 4554
Leaving the red dragon lair, they use various magics to determine the approximate area of the copper dragon and then Nalfein uses a scroll with Chariot of Sustarre to get them close.

At night, they are attacked by stone giants, but even though they are caught in a cross-fire, they manage to get the upper hand over the stone giants.

7th moon, 15th day, year 4554

The T'orghs bravely enter the copper dragon lair, and find it hiding in ambush behind illusion. Battle starts, and the dragon soon receives help from it's stone golem guardian. The fight is long and brutal, but the dark elves end up the ones alive.

The brothers loot their second dragon lair in just two days, and their extradimensional spaces are threatening to burst.

8th moon, 2nd day year 4554
The T'orghs return to Menzo, and start working on House Jhalavar, since Father decrees that they must die.

30th session: The Red Dragon

6th moon, 27th day, year 4554
The brothers leave Menzo and head north, towards the Dragon Mountains, where they hope to find the copper dragon Arguex who humiliated them recently.

7th moon, 13th day, year 4554
The T'orghs arrive at the mountains after a fairly uneventful trip. The Dragon Mountains are, as their research had shown, infested with ogre tribes.


7th moon, 15th day, year 4554

After a couple of days of climbing around and fighting small bands of ogres, they finally find an ogre village near where they think the copper dragon is.

They assault the village with an insect plague, driving the ogres out. Massive slaughter follows, and while 20 ogres including an ogre mage and a very weapon-proficient leader causes them some trouble, they end up winning the battle.

But just after, the red dragon who had been ruling the village descends on them, and a much harder fight follows. Yet the brothers still win, and then scale the mountain to find it's lair on top, inaccessible from all but the best climbers... and those who can fly.

søndag den 10. marts 2013

29th session: The Crown

6th moon, 10th day, year 4554
Invisibly the brothers penetrate the broken and almost desolate city. Recon has shown that the two most significant buildings are a palace and a Raven Queen church.

They arrive at the palace, where they end up fighting the ancient leader, now a death knight. Barely, just barely, they manage to survive and defeat the ancient evil and his wights. In the basement, they find the crown after defeating numerous traps and a magical guardian that is almost impervious to weapons.

They also pick up a lot of books about an ancient sorcerer called Elias, said to be entombed somewhere.

6th moon, 11th day, year 4554
After getting some sleep, the brothers uses the powers of the crown to avoid all undead and get to the church. There they fight some more wights and some ghosts. Protected by the crown, they manage to win relatively unscathed. As they finish up killing undead and looting the temple, more undead have arrived outside, and the place is surrounded. Nalfein destroys the altar and part of the roof, and they safely leave the undead city.

6th moon, 16th day, year 4554
After a very uneventful trip, the brothers arrive home to Menzo.

6th moon, 17th day, year 4554
The T'orghs are introduced to Ra'mok, one of their cousins, a fighter and a mage who will be assisting them in their quest and such. Father trusts him. He is tasked with discovering more about a ritual ending with the summoning of a Balor.

The brothers start investigating the copper dragon that got away..

mandag den 4. marts 2013

28th session: Back to the Underdark

5th moon, 28th day, year 4554
After a couple of days in Menzo, the brothers headed out and towards Dragon Mountain in order to enter the Underdark.

5th moon, 29th day, year 4554
Shortly after entering the Dragon Mountain, the T'orghs run into a few derros who are far from their usual hunting grounds and deal with them quickly and without mercy.

5th moon, 30th day, year 4554
The brothers run into some troglodytes, but they are killed even before they have a chance to engage the dark elves.

6th moon, 1st day, year 4554
The T'orghs run into a weird fungi creature, a rolling ball that sprays a nasty poisoneous stunning jet. After some trouble, they manage to deal with the ... thing.

6th moon, 2nd day, year 4554
The T'orghs run into a basilisk, and both Belos and Nalfein are turned to stone.

6th moon, 4th day, year 4554
On his way back to Menzo, Tagar almost dies, when he runs into two drow fighters.

6th moon, 5th day, year 4554
Tagar arrives back in Menzo and convinces father that he must help. Father (and Tagar) shadowwalk back to where the statues have been hidden, and father turns them back to flesh. Alas, the shock is too much for the fragile body of Belos, and he dies. Father ressurects him, clarifying that this is absolutely the last time, for *any* of them.

6th moon, 7th day, year 4554
After a few more days of dodging gas spores and the like, the brothers stumble over a cluster of shriekers that attract an umberhulk with their noises. A battle is fought, and the umberhulk dies.

6th moon, 8th day, year 4554
The T'orghs arrive at the dragon cave behind the waterfall. They find it inhabited by a mindflayer and some pet hook horrors. The battle is short and brutal, but the brothers manage not to die - again. They find a lot of treasure and some interesting books, that shows the mindflayer must have been searching for an elven artifact called the Crown of Alnadarr in the ancient elven ruins.
(where Belos was drained dry)

They decide to find it.

6th moon, 10th day, year 4554
After some identifying and such, they head out of the cave and towards the elven ruins.