Month: January 2018

SESSION 34 – January 28, 2018

Urman was peeved that he himself was fireballed, and hurt worse than anything to date had ever hurt him.

We healed and rested, hired more mercenary body guards for Urman, and then made our assault.

Mydius’s tower had a wall around it. Inside were fields with some huts and 4 scarecrows. Otiben climbed the wall and saw this. As he went over the wall, there was a scream. Magic mouth or some such had alerted Mydius to our presence.

Otiben and Zho Ni went over the wall, and all the rest went towards the gate, that the Otiben and Zho Ni were to open.

I decided to let them be a diversion. I climbed the wall, cast dispel magic on the tower to knock down any defensive spells Mydius had cast. I also ruined magic potions, etc. But I was going for broke. He was going down! While the rest of the party, except my new bodyguards were rushing through the gate, I then fireballed the tower. I thought it was an open window, but it had glass, so the bulk of the blast was blocked.

[The other players and the DM were like, “Dude! You are so wicked! that’s cold.” My reply, “That’s what he gets for fireballing me.” (He has at least 3 levels on me, I have to throw everything now, before he uses his amulet to teleport out.)]

The Otiben climbs into the window Urman out with the fireball, and the rest of the party knock down the door and rush into the tower.

I take a moment to cast protection from normal missiles and shield, then rush up.

I get there as the fight is starting. Mydius struck his staff on the ground and four suits of armor animated to defend him. This was in addition to his human/wolf hybrid things. We’re not sure what they are yet.

There was some fighting, but not much. I prepared to cast web in through the tower window, in hopes of preventing him from moving, and activating his amulet to escape. Zho Ni prepared to cast silence 15′ radius at the ceiling of the 2nd floor of the tower.

Before the spells go off, Batukahn rushes the wizard, grapples him, and in a rushing tackle defenestrates the wizard and rides the wizard to the ground. [The half-orc has 50+ hitpoints so is willing to take the damage.] Mydius survives the fall, still grappled, desperately trying to get to the amulet.

The web gets all but one suit of armor, who defenestrates itself to aid Mydius, and one of the human/wolf creatures near the stairs. The silence then goes off, so Otiben is in the web filled and silenced room. He has a 19 strength, so can make his was to auto kill two suits of armor and one human/wolf thing. He climbs out the window to get to the second floor to run to the stairs to go get the last held suit of armor.

The Batukahn manages to prevent the wizard from activating the amulet, so Mydius shouts, “Defend!” and the four scarecrows come to his aid.

One of my bodyguards binds and gags Mydius while the rest of us fight the scarecrows and suit of armor outside. Urman gets the amulet away from him and pockets it.

Inside, the cleric, his dwarf fighter henchman, and some other hirelings, fight the last human/wolf hybrid. The cleric does hold person, and the dwarf finishes it.

Finally, we finish off the scarecrows and last suit of armor.

In the final moments of the fight, Urman, and a bodyguard drag the wizard away from the fight, and I take his staff and any other items he has. All but his robes.

Suddenly, a giant 10′ long shadow wolf, a form of an evil ally of mutual necessity (Alosha) shows up and swallows the wizard. The wolf says, “Thank you for your assistance,” and runs off. Before it can top the wall, Urman pulls out his last scroll, and casts fireball. All it does is make it made, and it says, “I’ll remember that.”

I activated the bear belt for the first time, and ran after the wolf, but it was too fast. All I could do is roar in fury and frustration. I had planned to learn about Mydius working with the ogres before dispatching him. I fear he may yet live.

Next week, cleaning up my new wizard tower, and getting all the oil that the others threw around the tower on their way up the stairs. The furniture should look well polished.

What items, notes, and spell books will I find?

SESSION 33 – January 21, 2018

At our last session, we went up against the bugbear allies of the regional wizard, Mydius. We took out the first camp of bugbears, with minimal losses.

We began this session with a celebration at the Stonespear’s Hall in the town of Crossing, a man with a male and female attendant/guard approach, and all the warriors look concerned. The man is an obvious wizard. Otiben tosses his trident, but enchantments prevent it from causing harm.

Mydius asks if that is the way the Stonespear chief treats his guests. Urman spoke up and mentioned that the bugbears we fought claimed that he invited them here. Mydius dropped his pretensions of innocence, and the fight was on.

First to fall was the male guard, who broke like pottery and fell into dust. Then the same happened with Mydius, and lastly with the woman. (The man and woman had changed a bit into beastmen type creatures.) After the fight Urman examined the remains and determined that it had been made of some sort of magic infused clay.

It was decided to strike the other, main bugbear camp before they could get ready for us. Otiben attempted to scout ahead, but he was heard in a fight with a bugbear scout who shouted a warning. We heard a horn in the distance.

We moved towards the sound and found only tracks that lead to the base of trees with platforms in them.

After a bit of backtracking and change of direction, we walked towards the camp. We were not surprised and evaded the stink bombs they threw at us. We quickly engaged having success in the battle of blades. Urman lit up the night sky by casting fireball on one of the large platform with archers. The bugbear’s morale held, and they continued the fight.

Frike was laid low by an arrow, his horse ran off, and Thogi stabilized him. The chief of the Stonespears was affected by the shaman’s fear spell, and sat atop his horse, paralyzed with fear til the battle’s end.

Puk and his riding dog, Hades, and Rip attacked and felled a bugbear on the left flank of Urman. They did the same to another.

The Stonespear warriors, Zho Ni, and the dwarf held the flank on Urman’s right.

Urman used one of his scrolls to once again light up the night with a fireball cast upon the other platform with archers. Many more huts and tents were fired, and many more bugbears fell. Still their morale held. Zho ni lost his target of the shaman, as the shaman went invisible.

Urman was hit stopping him from casting magic missile at a bugbear he felt was too close.

Otiben and Gunner were working with some Stonespear warriors to get past a few bugbears barring their entry into the camp.

Zho Ni and his war horse and dwarf henchman were making progress.

The tide of battle outside the camp was turning in our favor as we were slowly overcoming the bugbears.Urman got off a sleep that helped clear the way for Otiben’s team to move in. The morale of the bugbears finally broke.

Just then, the shaman showed up with Mydius. Somehow he was able to contact Mydius and bring him here. Mydius cast fireball dropping Stonespear and Bugbear alike. Poor Frike was burnt up in his sleep, never knowing his final fate. Thogi died in the blast while standing over Frike. Both Thogi’s and Urman’s horses died. Urman managed to evade the worst of the blast, but was severly hurt, and ran for cover and an opportunity to use the healing salve.

Urman estimated that Mydius was half again as powerful as himself.

Batukahn charged and got a good hit on the wizard. Mydius had some sort of amulet he used to flee. That left the shaman, who was silenced by Zho Ni. Batukahn got a solid hit on the shaman. Otiben did not manage to connect, but Gunner took down the shaman by ripping out his throat.

The bugbears, and the surviving females and children fled into the night.

We found a glass orb on the shaman that had what looked like a forest in it.

Puk managed to round up Frike’s horse.

Urman set to making a travois to haul out what gear and treasure they manage to find.