Book-keeping Notes, Session 102 (3/30/16):
– We left off at 6:34pm on the 3rd of Jourilden with the party fleeing the prison section of Xen’Khel’s Area X. The party has been adventuring — with their last full rest ending at 5:39am — for ~362 turns (60 hours and 34 minutes; last rest ended at turn 285).
– Justified in Having a Bad Feeling about This: The Entire Party (But Especially Derich)
– Lost Somewhere in the Underdark: Axel & Friends
– Needing to Be More Machinist and Less Sleeping Beauty: Prix
– Already Counting His Winnings: Pons
#exploration-bookkeeping
Why did Pons have to go for imitating Alfred Molina’s character in Raiders of the Lost Ark?
I reiterate: ” HELPPPP!”
More seriously: Goddamnit Prix, now is not the time for the Odinsleep!
Super seriously: Sorry guys, I done fucked up.
Well, things were going super well. We should have known it wouldn’t be that easy….
I’m surprised it didn’t go worse — closing the arrow slits and rolling the armadillos helped a lot.
Both Chuq’s ideas, just like the suggestion we tie up Derich before opening the outer doors!
Seriously, who’s is higher? Chuq’s 15 WIS or Derich’s WIS?
On another note, let’s assess what we know what we have to do:
1. Overcome/bypass the spinning walkway
2. Slip past an undoubtedly activated giant Autonatom
3. Shimmy up an ascending rope suspended over the gap in the northern bridge
4. Negotiate the portal room with all but one shutter open for the energy cannons
5. Dodge the wall gargoyles (think it was 7 at last count) so we don’t plummet to the desynch field below.
6. Not sure but there should be another giant autonatom guarding the antechamber of the administrator’s office.
7. Access the controls in the admin’s desk and cancel the lock down.
This is assuming the S & E giant autonatom’s stay put!
Here are my two tactics:
Thorfus surrenders the correct admin PASKEY to Chuq/Edan, we go dark elf stealth and shadow step our way through the obstacles OR Thurfus gives the admin PASKEY to an monkey which might ceiling climb it’s way.
However we proceed, Chuq wants Derich and Prix to stay right where they are and the anti virus sphere destroyed/wiped clean.
Best yet, since Prix is the means of the anti-virus solution, he’d rather see her dead. Might as well just escape to engineering and blow the hole thing from orbit. “Only way to be sure”, right Ripley?
Yeah, Thorfus doesn’t want to give up the X Key, but with all the firepower aimed our way, it’s the smart choice, so he will….
If the Automatons are activated, can Thorfus not take control of them?
I believe it’s 6 Gargoyles, Derich definitely Held two of them. And I think we only have two cannon shutters open also.
Shadowstep and Monkey climbing seem like the best bets, whether Thorfus can control the automatons or not.
(Still kinda want a Deus Ex Drachina, but you know, consequences.)
Clarification on levitate spell (since this came up last time): the range is 20′ per level in terms of who you can cast it on; you can move 20′ per round, though, and it lasts one turn per level. A fourth level mage could theoretically move 800′ using the spell on himself.