GrayDeath
2020-10-26, 04:05 PM
Preface: This Journal will span about 2 years of paly, and I will post between 1 and 3 posts per week, depending on how well I can get all the stuff that happened into a form both readable and fun.
So here we go:
Campaign Special Rules: Starting at Level 5, we were informed we would be starting without equipment except what we could hie in/on our bodies and the central most important item (So Spellbooks, Main Weapon or armor, that stuff).
W were also told to build nonhumans, and with at least 1 Template of LA +1 which would be free.
The starting Team in alhpabetical Order:
Bongo, a draconic Ilithidheaded halfling Bard//Ranger (Lets call him P)
Karnrak: A Dark Warforged Warblade//Rogue (moi)
Sierochae (writing of my brother is horrible^^): A Sorcerer/Favoured Soul/Mystic Theurge Petal. (my Brother lets call him M., also we are using Houserules that allow a MT to only ned 2 preMT Levels of each class if hes spontaneous, in case qustions would hav been asked.)
The Last things we knew where totally normal.
The Petal was petaling around on a huge flowery Grassy Hill with at least 2 other petals, crafting Flower arrangements.
Bongo had just finished his evening work by making the whole tavern pay him his Dinner (and he needed that he eats a lot, even for a halfling).
And Karnrak had been standing in Standby for the last 13 months. Yay.
///
We awoke in a clammy, dark (luckily we all ahd Darkvision, less lucky it was dirty and ratty) Dungeon. Each in a single cell. In total there where 8 Cells, and all contained people of various Races, but none of them "pure" Standard race.
Karnrak got up from the steel "bed" (more alike to a morgues Table, if rusty and obviously old), and quickly ralized his normally deep gray/Black Body had some kind of tron lines in electric blue ovr arms and Legs, which obviously where transmitting Electricity.
Nut, awake, no Pain, and whoever got him had not found the inbuilt Lock Picks in his fingers.
So he picked the lock, got out, and started by getting a closer look on the 2 cells clostst to him.
In one there lay a very small, greenish Petal with added treelike skin on about half her body.
The other cell contained a Dwarf with a nagas Tail, obviously dead.
Checking who else was alive, he saw a very fat and very muscular Halfling with 2 Batlike Wings sitting on his "Bed" and looking gloomy. And having tentacles instead of a lower face.
Introductions where made, and Bongo explained that he was missing his Bongo. And blurbled while saying so. Karnrak found it funny enough not to dig deeper.
Karnrak let him out, and together they foundf a horror cabinet in the other cells.
Some where people simply combined, one was a half elf who had a lot of tubes and metal aprts (half Golem) but also Faery Wings (he was dying slowly), a Dwarf with the legs of a Minotaur who had obviously killed himself via ramming his head into the wall.
So we got back to the Petal, Karnrak picked the lock (and found out that indeed, the locks were all rubbish, as even rolling a 2 with at that point only a +11 modifier was enough).
Awakening the Petal proofed that she could still fly, and screech. Obviously, for her, she had been made a Woodling Petal.
We had more than enough proof to be sure that we were in the Dungeon of a mad Scientist Type. Karnrak assumed it had to be House Cannith.
Just as he was about to tell that to the others, the only door out of the cell block opened, and half dwarf "hovered" into the room. His legs replaced by a kind of bucket, and a second replitoid Head behind is.
Whatever had been done, it made the Dwarf itself very slow tor eact. But hsi second ehad shot a mixed Acidf FIre Bolt at the Petal...and missed.
Luckily for me, ahving HiPS, that was enough to hide and flank the bugger.
Our bard did what bards do, eg nothing useful at first glance, and our Petal Cast Scorching Ray, which hit but didnt seem to do much.
Next round, Karnrak combined SneakA ttack with assassins Stance (ergo at the time 4D6) with Emerald Razor, and instakilled the...thing.
A little looting and many a Knowledge Roll alter we knew...we had no idea.
Whatever habeen done to the Dwarf wasnt magic, the Petal Said.
it wanst any form of magitech Karnrak knew from Eberon, and Fat Elan, ahem Bongo, failed his Bardic Knowledge Check.
We decided to pick every lock and see what we could loot.
Which wasnt much, but at least I had a nice mastercrafted Greataxe.
We also found out that all 3 of us had similarly been modified without magic. The Bard found his newfound wings much cooler than the Petal found the woodiness (badumtiss^^) of her situation.
Karnrak kinda liked the electric look, but so far I had not found out what it actually DID.
So, we sneaked out the door and further onward.
We found a mostly empty Guard Barrack.alike, manned by 2 Elves with similar heads on their necks as the Dwarf had had, and our first Human, whos legs were the same thing as the Dwarfs, and whose Arms ended in what to karnrak looked like Automatic Crossbows.
Realizing our Petal could cast Invisibility, and the fact ALL of us had good stealth basics, we decided to ambush now, ask later.
Worked like a charm, the only surviver an Elven Woman where we ahd removed the "Shooting Head" however proofed that we were in deep ****.
Namely that we had been captured, as we had assumed, by a "Mad Science" Wizard. What we ahd not known was that he was a big C Chaos Cultist (Check the Chaositk book for details) and that as far as the dying Elf knew, he was both a Wizard and kind of an amorphous, nearly immortal Blob.
We decided to do what we though could keep us alive, and went towards the lower reaches of the strange buoilding (I mean, Wizard, Evil, etc, and it wasnt a Tower? Didnt the guy know what was expected?^^).
After all, the only access to the upper parts was obviously some magical Portal, that needed codes. And well, aside from being suicidal anyway, the elf was dead now.
A few smaller encounters and 8 hours of rest in the looted Guard barracks, we came to what seemed like the exit of choice, namely the Severage access.
Sadly, it was behind 2 Doors behind which the (as she told us now) Petal could do and had done at will, MAgic Detection said "there is a small sun of power".
We paused until the next session. Unnoticed to us at first, we also seemed to continue to change/mutate.
Namely the Petal became even woodier and seemed a bit tougher as well, my Warforgeds Slam attacks suddenly dealt Piercing Damage (I liked the Spurs on the hands^^) and I gained +2 natural Armor, and ...nothing obvious for the Bard.
Should have known there was something wrong with that...
Returning to the problem, we decided to Storm the first one first, as the Magic in it was moving, and we didnt want anything in our backs.
Cue karnrak ins tealth opening the door...and being charged by a Minotaur on a centaurs Body. With a Golden glowing greatsword.
I ate a full Smite Evil Charge, and dropped to only 7 HP left.
With 2 Scorching rays, the Bard for one doing something and attacking the Minotaur with the expected Stone, and me ignoring death and putting my all in a Iron ehart attack, we barely killed the stupid Paladin. Not that we didnt try to get him to be peaceful. But seeing that his smite ahd worked (well, karnrak IS LE^^) he decided to continue smiting.
After that we decided we needed the rest.
Sadly, Warforged are hard to heal, so only the Level 1 Repair and a made Craft Armor roll by myself helped and got me back to 31 HP in the morning.
Sadly none of us could use the Paladins Armor or Sword (stupid LG no fun enemies^^).
With much more care, ergo the invisible Petal right next to me qwith a readied scorching ray, we opened the next door.
And wow. On the wall was a Ritual Circle in which hang a hound Archon, being bleed, pierced by a deep black Flamberge that made the whole room feel cold.
Karnrak immedeately shouted "Mine!", and was obeyed.
We "freed" the Archon by killing him. Then Bongo decided to eat his brain. And drink some of its blood. And overall giving in to his Implanted Ilithid parts.
Karnrak was OK with that, the Petala rgued a while, but in the end was outvoted.
I got the sword, we filled some blood for "futre projects" in some bottles, and luckily found a Bag of Holding to store the stuff that had been collecting the Archons Blood (among others 2 roughl 45cm wide and 1cm thick Braziers of Pure Gold (each weighing 39kg). Yay, Money! But no stores anywhere..
The sword showed to be an intelligent Weapon, and cursed. Luckily, the curse didnt work on Warforged, and its Goal was "kill chaotic Good Guys, especially Priests", so my LE Warforged found it a very nice partner.
(as UI later found out, it had another power that needed a specific event to activate, for now it was n intelligent +2 Cold Burst Flamberge with at will mage hand, Detect magic, and 3/Day True Strike, Yay! Still the worst AC in the group as the main Frontliner, but a great weapon is a great weapon.
We decided to rest one more time, then leave through the Severage.
In that Severage we found out that a medium sized nest of Formians had burrowed into it.
At those levels, these things are insanely hard.
In the combat our bard found pout he had a weaker version of an Illithids Mind Blast, and Karnrak finally activated his special Circuits. They give Init bonus and extra Electricity Damage for 5 minutes.
Sadly the battle laste´d longer.
Still, with good palcement of Blasts, Grease, and me charging the firstmost enemies after the 2 had weakned them, we managed it.
Half dead and barely getting some loot, we exited the Building and quickly ran towards the closest Forest, where we found a hidden spot and recuperated. And levelled up to level 7 in Karnarks, and Level 6 in the Casters Case (more expensive Templates).
At the very well hidden Fire, the Cthuloid Bard showed us another item he had found looting the Archon, but forgotten to tell us. A simple Deck of Cards....:smallamused:
So here we go:
Campaign Special Rules: Starting at Level 5, we were informed we would be starting without equipment except what we could hie in/on our bodies and the central most important item (So Spellbooks, Main Weapon or armor, that stuff).
W were also told to build nonhumans, and with at least 1 Template of LA +1 which would be free.
The starting Team in alhpabetical Order:
Bongo, a draconic Ilithidheaded halfling Bard//Ranger (Lets call him P)
Karnrak: A Dark Warforged Warblade//Rogue (moi)
Sierochae (writing of my brother is horrible^^): A Sorcerer/Favoured Soul/Mystic Theurge Petal. (my Brother lets call him M., also we are using Houserules that allow a MT to only ned 2 preMT Levels of each class if hes spontaneous, in case qustions would hav been asked.)
The Last things we knew where totally normal.
The Petal was petaling around on a huge flowery Grassy Hill with at least 2 other petals, crafting Flower arrangements.
Bongo had just finished his evening work by making the whole tavern pay him his Dinner (and he needed that he eats a lot, even for a halfling).
And Karnrak had been standing in Standby for the last 13 months. Yay.
///
We awoke in a clammy, dark (luckily we all ahd Darkvision, less lucky it was dirty and ratty) Dungeon. Each in a single cell. In total there where 8 Cells, and all contained people of various Races, but none of them "pure" Standard race.
Karnrak got up from the steel "bed" (more alike to a morgues Table, if rusty and obviously old), and quickly ralized his normally deep gray/Black Body had some kind of tron lines in electric blue ovr arms and Legs, which obviously where transmitting Electricity.
Nut, awake, no Pain, and whoever got him had not found the inbuilt Lock Picks in his fingers.
So he picked the lock, got out, and started by getting a closer look on the 2 cells clostst to him.
In one there lay a very small, greenish Petal with added treelike skin on about half her body.
The other cell contained a Dwarf with a nagas Tail, obviously dead.
Checking who else was alive, he saw a very fat and very muscular Halfling with 2 Batlike Wings sitting on his "Bed" and looking gloomy. And having tentacles instead of a lower face.
Introductions where made, and Bongo explained that he was missing his Bongo. And blurbled while saying so. Karnrak found it funny enough not to dig deeper.
Karnrak let him out, and together they foundf a horror cabinet in the other cells.
Some where people simply combined, one was a half elf who had a lot of tubes and metal aprts (half Golem) but also Faery Wings (he was dying slowly), a Dwarf with the legs of a Minotaur who had obviously killed himself via ramming his head into the wall.
So we got back to the Petal, Karnrak picked the lock (and found out that indeed, the locks were all rubbish, as even rolling a 2 with at that point only a +11 modifier was enough).
Awakening the Petal proofed that she could still fly, and screech. Obviously, for her, she had been made a Woodling Petal.
We had more than enough proof to be sure that we were in the Dungeon of a mad Scientist Type. Karnrak assumed it had to be House Cannith.
Just as he was about to tell that to the others, the only door out of the cell block opened, and half dwarf "hovered" into the room. His legs replaced by a kind of bucket, and a second replitoid Head behind is.
Whatever had been done, it made the Dwarf itself very slow tor eact. But hsi second ehad shot a mixed Acidf FIre Bolt at the Petal...and missed.
Luckily for me, ahving HiPS, that was enough to hide and flank the bugger.
Our bard did what bards do, eg nothing useful at first glance, and our Petal Cast Scorching Ray, which hit but didnt seem to do much.
Next round, Karnrak combined SneakA ttack with assassins Stance (ergo at the time 4D6) with Emerald Razor, and instakilled the...thing.
A little looting and many a Knowledge Roll alter we knew...we had no idea.
Whatever habeen done to the Dwarf wasnt magic, the Petal Said.
it wanst any form of magitech Karnrak knew from Eberon, and Fat Elan, ahem Bongo, failed his Bardic Knowledge Check.
We decided to pick every lock and see what we could loot.
Which wasnt much, but at least I had a nice mastercrafted Greataxe.
We also found out that all 3 of us had similarly been modified without magic. The Bard found his newfound wings much cooler than the Petal found the woodiness (badumtiss^^) of her situation.
Karnrak kinda liked the electric look, but so far I had not found out what it actually DID.
So, we sneaked out the door and further onward.
We found a mostly empty Guard Barrack.alike, manned by 2 Elves with similar heads on their necks as the Dwarf had had, and our first Human, whos legs were the same thing as the Dwarfs, and whose Arms ended in what to karnrak looked like Automatic Crossbows.
Realizing our Petal could cast Invisibility, and the fact ALL of us had good stealth basics, we decided to ambush now, ask later.
Worked like a charm, the only surviver an Elven Woman where we ahd removed the "Shooting Head" however proofed that we were in deep ****.
Namely that we had been captured, as we had assumed, by a "Mad Science" Wizard. What we ahd not known was that he was a big C Chaos Cultist (Check the Chaositk book for details) and that as far as the dying Elf knew, he was both a Wizard and kind of an amorphous, nearly immortal Blob.
We decided to do what we though could keep us alive, and went towards the lower reaches of the strange buoilding (I mean, Wizard, Evil, etc, and it wasnt a Tower? Didnt the guy know what was expected?^^).
After all, the only access to the upper parts was obviously some magical Portal, that needed codes. And well, aside from being suicidal anyway, the elf was dead now.
A few smaller encounters and 8 hours of rest in the looted Guard barracks, we came to what seemed like the exit of choice, namely the Severage access.
Sadly, it was behind 2 Doors behind which the (as she told us now) Petal could do and had done at will, MAgic Detection said "there is a small sun of power".
We paused until the next session. Unnoticed to us at first, we also seemed to continue to change/mutate.
Namely the Petal became even woodier and seemed a bit tougher as well, my Warforgeds Slam attacks suddenly dealt Piercing Damage (I liked the Spurs on the hands^^) and I gained +2 natural Armor, and ...nothing obvious for the Bard.
Should have known there was something wrong with that...
Returning to the problem, we decided to Storm the first one first, as the Magic in it was moving, and we didnt want anything in our backs.
Cue karnrak ins tealth opening the door...and being charged by a Minotaur on a centaurs Body. With a Golden glowing greatsword.
I ate a full Smite Evil Charge, and dropped to only 7 HP left.
With 2 Scorching rays, the Bard for one doing something and attacking the Minotaur with the expected Stone, and me ignoring death and putting my all in a Iron ehart attack, we barely killed the stupid Paladin. Not that we didnt try to get him to be peaceful. But seeing that his smite ahd worked (well, karnrak IS LE^^) he decided to continue smiting.
After that we decided we needed the rest.
Sadly, Warforged are hard to heal, so only the Level 1 Repair and a made Craft Armor roll by myself helped and got me back to 31 HP in the morning.
Sadly none of us could use the Paladins Armor or Sword (stupid LG no fun enemies^^).
With much more care, ergo the invisible Petal right next to me qwith a readied scorching ray, we opened the next door.
And wow. On the wall was a Ritual Circle in which hang a hound Archon, being bleed, pierced by a deep black Flamberge that made the whole room feel cold.
Karnrak immedeately shouted "Mine!", and was obeyed.
We "freed" the Archon by killing him. Then Bongo decided to eat his brain. And drink some of its blood. And overall giving in to his Implanted Ilithid parts.
Karnrak was OK with that, the Petala rgued a while, but in the end was outvoted.
I got the sword, we filled some blood for "futre projects" in some bottles, and luckily found a Bag of Holding to store the stuff that had been collecting the Archons Blood (among others 2 roughl 45cm wide and 1cm thick Braziers of Pure Gold (each weighing 39kg). Yay, Money! But no stores anywhere..
The sword showed to be an intelligent Weapon, and cursed. Luckily, the curse didnt work on Warforged, and its Goal was "kill chaotic Good Guys, especially Priests", so my LE Warforged found it a very nice partner.
(as UI later found out, it had another power that needed a specific event to activate, for now it was n intelligent +2 Cold Burst Flamberge with at will mage hand, Detect magic, and 3/Day True Strike, Yay! Still the worst AC in the group as the main Frontliner, but a great weapon is a great weapon.
We decided to rest one more time, then leave through the Severage.
In that Severage we found out that a medium sized nest of Formians had burrowed into it.
At those levels, these things are insanely hard.
In the combat our bard found pout he had a weaker version of an Illithids Mind Blast, and Karnrak finally activated his special Circuits. They give Init bonus and extra Electricity Damage for 5 minutes.
Sadly the battle laste´d longer.
Still, with good palcement of Blasts, Grease, and me charging the firstmost enemies after the 2 had weakned them, we managed it.
Half dead and barely getting some loot, we exited the Building and quickly ran towards the closest Forest, where we found a hidden spot and recuperated. And levelled up to level 7 in Karnarks, and Level 6 in the Casters Case (more expensive Templates).
At the very well hidden Fire, the Cthuloid Bard showed us another item he had found looting the Archon, but forgotten to tell us. A simple Deck of Cards....:smallamused: