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==== V2 Session Nineteen - 26 October 2007 - "The Sinister Spire" (part 5) ==== | ==== V2 Session Nineteen - 26 October 2007 - "The Sinister Spire" (part 5) ==== | ||
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^ Player ^ Character ^ Race ^ Class ^ | ^ Player ^ Character ^ Race ^ Class ^ | ||
| Dave | [[Freyrik]] | Human(Feytouched) | Warlock/6 | | | Dave | [[Freyrik]] | Human(Feytouched) | Warlock/6 | | ||
- | | Ken | [[Ash]] | Human(Aasimar) | Paladin/4 | | + | | Ken | [[Ash]] | Aasimar | Paladin/4 | |
| THF | [[Líkami]] | Human | Monk/5 | | | THF | [[Líkami]] | Human | Monk/5 | | ||
| VW | [[Heilli]] | Human | Soulknife/ | | VW | [[Heilli]] | Human | Soulknife/ | ||
| Kurt | [[Ketamine]] | [[Crag Gnome]] | Barbarian/ | | Kurt | [[Ketamine]] | [[Crag Gnome]] | Barbarian/ | ||
| Chris | [[Yosi]] | Wood Elf | Barbarian/6 | | | Chris | [[Yosi]] | Wood Elf | Barbarian/6 | | ||
- | | Val | [[Allie]] | Human(Aasimar) | Favored Soul/5, Ranger/1 | | + | | Val | [[Allie]] | [[Lesser |
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hands in another) that remains flesh. | hands in another) that remains flesh. | ||
- | //Area S35)// Fadheela' | + | They are: |
+ | * A drow male crouching low as if he is a hound, his ears and nose still flesh. | ||
+ | * A male duergar smith with his hammer raised. His eyes are normal, and they squirm madly within the stony sockets. | ||
+ | * A female drow holding her hands out, palms upward as if in supplication. The hands are clearly flesh. | ||
+ | * A female drow standing balanced on one foot, her flesh mouth still keening. | ||
+ | * Two drow children pointing and gazing upward as if in awe. Their pointing fingers still wriggle. | ||
+ | * An angelic being struggling to launch itself into the air, its wings still soft with white feathers. | ||
+ | |||
+ | //Area S35)// | ||
{{ fadheela.jpg}} | {{ fadheela.jpg}} | ||
- | In the last major room in the Spike, the party finally finds Fadheela (though | + | In the last major room in the Spike, the party finally finds [[Fadheela]] |
- | they don't know it at the time). | + | (though they don't know it at the time). |
- | and presents a serious challenge. | + | Medusa/ |
- | to avoid her petrifying gaze -- but once her minions are destroyed, they must | + | party manages to avoid her petrifying gaze -- but once her minions are |
- | take more risks to take her down. In the end, [[Freyrik]], | + | destroyed, they must take more risks to take her down. In the end, [[Freyrik]], |
- | [[Líkami]] are turned to stone! | + | [[Yosi]], and [[Líkami]] are turned to stone! |
- | demonstration of the adventure). | + | |
- | Fadheela herself is kept from dying and a bag is placed over her head so that | + | [[Fadheela]] herself is kept from dying and a bag is placed over her head so |
- | her gaze does not further trouble the party. | + | that her gaze does not further trouble the party. |
**In a nearby storage room and a closet, the party finds the following items of | **In a nearby storage room and a closet, the party finds the following items of | ||
- | interest:** //(In the interest of expedience, I am including game stats for the | + | interest:** |
- | magic items and prices for the treasure -- however I assume you will be spending | + | |
- | money for the requisite identifies and performing the appropriate Appraise | + | * //[[http:// |
- | rolls)// | + | * Two pieces of Art (200 gp each) **// |
- | + | * A crystal goblet (25 gp) **// | |
- | * //Elemental Gem (Air)// (from S28) | + | * A set of gem-inset flatware (500 gp) **// |
- | * //Elemental Gem (Fire)// (from S28) | + | * A gold comb (150 gp) **// |
- | * Two pieces of Art (200 gp each) | + | * A platinum circlet (450 gp) **// |
- | * A crystal goblet (25 gp) | + | * Documents -- numerous papers written in Undercommon. |
- | * A set of gem-inset flatware (500 gp) | + | |
- | * A gold comb (150 gp) | + | |
- | * A platinum circlet (450 gp) | + | |
- | * Documents -- numerous papers written in Undercommon. | + | |
* Three rolled scrolls written in Yuan-Ti. | * Three rolled scrolls written in Yuan-Ti. | ||
- | * Clothing: There are numerous outfits that appear to be traveling attire or black working suits designed for Fadheela' | + | * Clothing: There are numerous outfits that appear to be traveling attire or black working suits designed for [[Fadheela]]'s humanoid torso. |
- | * Stone Chest containing 412 pp.((As written in the adventure, this chest also contained three vials of viscous oil which functioned as oil of //stone to flesh// -- However, since VW made such light of the predictability of pre-fab adventures, I've decided to take his advice and remove this from the treasure list. You're welcome.)) | + | * Stone Chest containing 412 pp.((As written in the adventure, this chest also contained three vials of viscous oil which functioned as oil of //stone to flesh// -- However, since this is nearly ridiculous (and VW made light of just such a cliché), I've decided to remove this from the treasure list.)) |
- | * //Field Provisions Box// -- This stone box is carved with runes denoting abundance. | + | * //Field Provisions Box// -- This stone box is carved with runes denoting abundance. |
- | * // | + | * // |
- | + | ||
- | **On Fadheela herself, the party finds:** | + | |
- | | + | **On [[Fadheela]] herself, the party finds:** |
- | * //Snake Key// -- This small gold rod has a head showing an opened, fanged mouth about to close over a blue agate that resembles a globe. | + | |
+ | * //Snake Key// -- This small gold rod has a head showing an opened, fanged mouth about to close over a blue agate that resembles a globe. It activates a gate made of electricity (and is worth 200 gp). | ||
* //Potion of Cure Moderate Wounds// | * //Potion of Cure Moderate Wounds// | ||
- | * //+1 studded leather// | + | * //+1 studded leather// |
- | * //+1 buckler// | + | * //+1 buckler// |
- | * //+1 shortbow// | + | * //+1 shortbow// |
* 15 poisoned arrows | * 15 poisoned arrows | ||
* Key to Storage Room | * Key to Storage Room | ||
- | Finally, Fadheela' | + | **Additional treasure adjustments: |
- | Field Provisions Box and the nearby lavatory means that a large group could live | + | * Cost for eight // |
- | here for an indefinite time. | + | * Cost for seven //Break Enchantment// |
+ | * **Net**: 535 gp for each of the seven characters | ||
+ | |||
+ | Finally, | ||
+ | the Field Provisions Box and the nearby lavatory means that a large group could | ||
+ | live here for an indefinite time. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Since [[Fadheela]] was not killed outright, the party opts to keep her alive | ||
+ | (with a bag over her head) while they question her -- as follows: | ||
+ | == == | ||
+ | **Why does Xeron want the bones?** | ||
+ | |||
+ | // | ||
+ | the way in.// | ||
+ | |||
+ | //His job was to find the bones and the weapons and deliver them to me. I was | ||
+ | to then pass them on to the Vanguard. | ||
+ | pieces, claiming he was being pursued.// | ||
+ | |||
+ | //I sent the bones and two of the items along, but kept one as protection | ||
+ | against reprisal. | ||
+ | |||
+ | **What is your role in the House of the Circlet? | ||
+ | |||
+ | //The House is for the purebloods. | ||
+ | role, but in reality they only serve the Vanguard as liaison to the cattle.// | ||
+ | |||
+ | **What does the House want? What is their next move?** | ||
+ | |||
+ | //To build a new Serpent Kingdom, of course. | ||
+ | dawn of Sertrous.// | ||
+ | |||
+ | **What do you know about [[Mosargrax]]? | ||
+ | |||
+ | //Very little. | ||
+ | |||
+ | **What is the Vanguard of Sertrous? | ||
+ | |||
+ | //Your future rulers.// | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Where are you from?** | ||
+ | |||
+ | //I am from the south - near what the cattle call [[" | ||
+ | me an outcast, so I moved to the frontier to help with the migration.// | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Who is/was the winged creature in the entry? Who are the rest?** | ||
+ | |||
+ | //You like my trophies? | ||
+ | be there, too, if circumstances were different.// | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Why does the vanguard want the bones?** | ||
+ | |||
+ | //To rule the world.// | ||
+ | |||
+ | **What items were sent to the vanguard, and which did you withhold? What pieces | ||
+ | were missing? | ||
+ | |||
+ | //That fool Xeron never found the sword. | ||
+ | |||
+ | **How can your victims be returned to flesh?** | ||
+ | |||
+ | //Why would you want to do that? Perhaps their natural state is stone?// | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Who, or what, exactly is Sertrous? | ||
+ | |||
+ | //He is the Slumbering Serpent who feeds on the souls of the weak. He walks in | ||
+ | nightmares and brings madness to the chosen. | ||
+ | people to dominion over all the races of the world.// | ||
+ | |||
+ | //Or at least that's what they say. I, of course, won't be there to see it.// | ||
+ | |||
+ | //I think it is time you sent me home.// | ||
+ | ==== ==== | ||
+ | With that, the party determined they had retrieved all they could from | ||
+ | [[Fadheela]], | ||
+ | |||
+ | The four //" | ||
+ | Inn, leaving the three petrified characters behind. | ||
+ | adventure with Es Sarch and ask him to help fill in some of the gaps in their | ||
+ | understanding. | ||
+ | == == | ||
+ | **Do you know of any other agents of Sertrous, or members of the Vanguard, in | ||
+ | town right now?** | ||
+ | |||
+ | //Until you arrived, I had never heard of this group. | ||
+ | to glean as much information as I can -- but have found essentially nothing.// | ||
+ | |||
+ | //My suspicion is that [[Fadheela]] was a lone agent working for this " | ||
+ | group. | ||
+ | arrived in Pedestal is something we may never know.// | ||
+ | |||
+ | //I was able to learn, though, who " | ||
+ | a small cult of snakemen. | ||
+ | allegedly lives on the material plane - though he has been asleep for | ||
+ | millennia.// | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Does you know who the Medusa' | ||
+ | particular? | ||
+ | |||
+ | //Again, this is an area where you have more information than I. Despite all my | ||
+ | contacts, I have *never* heard of a Celestial being in Pedestal. Perhaps it was | ||
+ | a spellcaster caught in an alternate form?// | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Do you know of someone who can de-stone the winged one and our friends? (And | ||
+ | we need it as cheaply as possible.)** | ||
+ | |||
+ | //The only spellcasters in Pedestal capable of performing this spell would be | ||
+ | the drow clerics - and I **strongly** advise against approaching them.// | ||
+ | |||
+ | //First, they care nothing about you and would charge far too much. Second, they | ||
+ | have a special hatred for surface elves, so could not be persuaded to help your | ||
+ | friend, Yosi - at any cost. Third, they claim the Necromancer' | ||
+ | own. To learn than you had infiltrated the place (killing their guards in the | ||
+ | process, I presume) would be a " | ||
+ | |||
+ | //However, there is an alternative. | ||
+ | colleague who lives far to the north. | ||
+ | from the way of [[Lolth]] and embraced the goddess [[Eilistraee]]. | ||
+ | that two years ago, her enclave suffered some sort of calamity. | ||
+ | asphyxiated - but she (and a few others) survived.// | ||
+ | |||
+ | //She has been most helpful to me in the past. I can get word to her in a day, | ||
+ | but even if she agrees to help, it will take her at least a week to make the | ||
+ | journey.// | ||
+ | ==== ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | === 20 September 1111 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | And so begins the long, uncomfortable wait in Pedestal... | ||
+ | |||
+ | While the party waits, they find a spellcaster willing to cast // | ||
+ | Languages// on the [[fadheela_scrolls|three Yuan-Ti scrolls found in Fadheela' | ||
+ | quarters]]. | ||
+ | |||
+ | === 8 October 1111 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | Finally, after nearly three weeks, [[Banaud' | ||
+ | arrives in Pedestal. | ||
+ | seen so far and is not only able to help, but is also //willing// to help. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Of course, she still expects to be paid for her services -- and since the spell | ||
+ | required((// | ||
+ | Enchantment]]// | ||
+ | first day, she successfully revives the " | ||
+ | male Drow Half-Celestial named " | ||
+ | assistance, [[Banaud' | ||
+ | all she can from this strange creature. | ||
+ | |||
+ | === 9 October 1111 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[Banaud' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === 10 October 1111 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[Banaud' | ||
+ | |||
+ | The party is (at last) whole and reunited! | ||
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| 2 | Fevers (Fire Necromentals) | | 2 | Fevers (Fire Necromentals) | ||
| 1 | Bestow Curse Trap | 5 | | | 1 | Bestow Curse Trap | 5 | | ||
- | | 1 | Fadheela (Medusa/ | + | | 1 | [[Fadheela]] (Medusa/ |
| 1 | Bloodhulk Fighter | | 1 | Bloodhulk Fighter | ||
| 4 | Grimlocks | | 4 | Grimlocks | ||
^ ^ Total XP (each) ^ 2, | ^ ^ Total XP (each) ^ 2, | ||
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