Silverwalkers Quest Notes 2010-11-13

Questing

In Our Last Episode

31 HeavenFall

• Party finds the lizardmen camp and sees half-and-half orcs and lizardmen
• Party frees the lizardmen from the orcs!

In this Episode

• (Party retroactively gave up 8 longswords and 200 gp for town refugee infiltration maneuver
• Party hangs out in the lizard man camp for a while, Al talking to the pseudo-leader lizardman (Ranger).
• Lizard man pseudo-leader tells  Al that the chieftain can be revived by being bathed in the blood of the Many-Headed Wyrm
  • It's an important spirit of the swamp
  • He tells us not to kill it, but it is weak to fire he said
  • The Lizard chieftain is a high level druid who is going through some sort of restorative procedure. He does this from time to time, and none of the lizards present were alive the last time he did it except his second who lead the coup and aligned with several orc tribes.
• Party camps out in the camp there with the Lizardmen
•  Quinalin calls   Naprid and tells him of progress.
  • No word yet circulating about the Mayor's death
  • Siege has started on the Wydmoor :(

New Day Begins

32 HeavenFall

•  Quinalin crafts a makeshift sled to drag the chieftain's body on
• Party travels south to the hydra's temple, without confrontation
• Party tries to force march, but doesn't quite make it. Stops for the night

New Day Begins

1 Period of Renewal

• Party finds an entrance beneath the temple underground
• Rust trails are discovered going into that entrance. Chittering is heard, party suspects some monster that eats metal.
•  Quinalin makes some wooden weapons for him and Mose, but they leave their armor on
•  Quinalin throws a dagger at a monster, it immediately turns to rust!
•  Quinalin lost his expensive armor to a rust monster! OMG!
•  LE uses Blur scroll on  Mose 20% miss chance, to reduce chance of rust monsterdom
• Party fights and kills eight rust monsters. The rest run away and hide, since all of the party's remaining metal is hidden in the haversack.
• Rust monsters almost touch the Haversack of Holding's buckles, but  Mose barely manages to dodge them.

Rust Monster Infestation

+ 450 

Experience Points

Recipients:

 Al,  Mose,  Kimika,  LE,  Germain, and  Quinalin

• The party sees some damage to the stone walls of the cavern. Looks like fire damage, but on closer inspection looks like cold damage instead. It is centered around a hallway that leads up.
•  Mose decides to explore the other hallway leading out of the main cavern. It leads down.
•  Mose finds himself engulfed in a gelatinous cube, completely paralyzed, getting hurt each round.
• Party is unaware of Mose's plight.  Al calls for  Mose, but doesn't get an answer, so he steps into the same room that Mose is in and sees Mose apparently floating in the air. After a few pokes and questions, the party figures out Mose is in trouble and blasts/chops him out.
• They continue deeper in, find a black pudding.
  • The pudding gets chopped by  Quinalin's spear and splits into two puddings!
  •  LE fireballs the two puddings. Team realizes it does twice as much HP damage to split oozes and then fireball them.
  • The party kills the pudding.
• The party finds another black pudding, splits it, fireballs it, flaming spheres it, and kills it.

Rust Monster Infestation

+ 460 

Experience Points

Recipients:

 Al,  Mose,  Kimika,  LE,  Germain, and  Quinalin

• Old broken chest is found, glimmer in it.  Quinalin inspects it carefully.
  • A necklace is made of star iron, 5000 gp, mose grabs it
• More rust monsters come out as Quin pulls out a flail, they run away when he puts it back.
• We see a frozen rust monster body at the "cold-damaged" entryway.
•  Quinalin and  Mose throw a rust monster corpse up the entryway and get blasted painfully by cone-of-cold breath weapon.  Kimika and  Al spread heals.
• Turns out hydra breathes ice breath
• Party decides that they'll sleep, rest, and tomorrow rush in to get hydra heads so they can use the blood to wake up the lizard chieftain.

New Day Begins

2 Period of Renewal

Heroic Hydra Head Heist

• Buffs are spread around and preparations begin:
  •  LE gives blurs to  Mose and  Quinalin, and stat buffs to  Quinalin
  •  Germain gives haste to  Mose,  Quinalin, and healers.
  •  Kimika casts Prayer, and prepares to spam distant heals.
  •  Al gives Protection from Energy to  Mose and  Quinalin so they can survive some breath weapons.
  •  Quinalin creates a sturdy barricade so fighters can use armor/weapons without rust monsters coming through
• Battle begins:
  •  Al waits outside barricade to keep rust monsters away.  LE,  Germain, and  Kimika stay just outside of Cryohydra den.
  •  Mose charges in, makes good rolls dodging hydra heads and soaking breath weapon.
  •  Mose makes a great sunder roll, hydra rolls a 1 to contest. Hydra decapitated!
  •  Mose makes a great dex check to catch the first hydra head that fell to the ground.
  •  Quinalin tumbles in successfully dodging attacks of opportunity!
  •  Quinalin sunders a head and makes his dex check to capture it.
  •  Mose withdraws and takes some damage during the retreat
  •  Quinalin withdraws and hydra lucks out to do some solid opportunistic attacks
  • Team members escape back into the cave
  •  Mose is forced to cut off his armor to leave hydra cave quickly
  • Party successfully escapes with two Cryohydra heads!

Heroic Hydra Head Heist

+ 550 

Experience Points

Recipients:

 Al,  Mose,  Kimika,  LE, and  Quinalin

Heroic Hydra Head Heist (botted)

+ 250 

Experience Points

Recipients:

 Germain

• Reviving the chieftain
  •  Mose pours blood on the chieftain, regains part of his heartbeat
  •  Al goes animalistic and digs a nice bathtub for the chieftain.
  •  Quinalin drains his hydra head's blood into the bathtub
  • The lizard chieftain is revived! He is very grateful.

Chief Lizard Healed

+ 1000 

Experience Points

Recipients:

 Al,  Mose,  Kimika,  LE, and  Quinalin

Chief Lizard Healed (botted)

+ 500 

Experience Points

Recipients:

 Germain

•  Al acquires lizard man tattoo, it takes the place of bracers forever
  • Permanently loses 2 total HP
  • When under influence of animal form, gain the following:
    • + 4 Str on forearm attacks (claw, tentacle, etc)
    • Forearm attacks treated as magical attacks

GAME ADJOURNED

Final GM message

Achievements

?Gets the Job Done - Mattie and Daniel?
?Jacket Weather - Mattie and Daniel?
Easy Come, Easy Go - Daniel
Interpreter - Travis
?Run & Hide - Mattie and Daniel? Cyrohydra is < 14 HD.
?History Will Judge - someone did this.

Maps and Pictures

Lizardman camp

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Overland map

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Exploring Rust Monster Dungeon

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Entering Hydra Dungeon

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The Hydra Battle

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Escaping the Hydra

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Some Lizard Chief Chat

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