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 from being bathed in the blood of the Multi-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
• 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 lots of rust monsters, they also run away.
• 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, on closer inspection looks like cold damage instead, and leads upwards
•  Mose instead decides to look through another area, and walks in
•  Mose finds himself engulfed in a gelatinous cube, completely paralyzed, getting hurt each round.
• 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 (for blood usage).

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
  • 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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