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From humbug Tue Apr 13 17:30:36 1999
From: humbug
Subject: diddle daddles (long)
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I always enjoy it when someone posts a synopsis of an rpg
scenario/wargame, so, err, I'm going to do the same for our recent ad&d
exploits.
The players.
Eltric the cleric, of death. cian/pooka
Guy the fighter. mike/sandman
Jonas the fighter. dave/doc
Telemacus, rogue, elf with a bow type person. steve/thayl
Gandu, mage, wild mage. dave/sares
Nickos, mage, conjurer. brian/humbug
D/GM, evil player killing type person :) liam/ggoat
Thrombus. NPC fighter with a magic sword.
Tick. Little glowing blue buy. NPC.
Tock. Another little glowing blue guy. NPC
Meow. A cat. Nickos' familiar.
I was going to do an intro, but, I'll just start where we
started last night.
Well, through no fault of our own, we find ourselves standing in a
clearing in a tropical jungle, in a world with two suns, that definitely
isn't home. Two recently slain giant vultures lie dead at our feet.
Eltric begins his 'bless the dead body and send the spirit on its
way' thing, but commments that it didn't feel like usual. Eltric
meditates, and he is given a quest by a deity of his religion to set up a
branch of the religion on this (currently monotheistic) world. He
meditates some more, and everyone finds themselves waking up from being
unconscious. All the members of the party are slightly gaunt, and have a
skull, the symbol of Eltrics religion on their chests. But, on the
positive side, everyone has risen the levels that they were due to rise,
but for one reason or another hadn't trained for. Everyone agrees to aid
Eltric in his quest.
The party press on towards a nearby river, in the hope of finding
civilisation. A shout, followed by a gurgling noise cuts short
conversation, and the party whirl round to see a small snake atop Tock
having bitten him. Tick manages to bat it off, but it is too late for
Tock. Tock is quite dead, so all the party can do is press on.
A clearing is reached, containing a small pyramid (25ft sq base),
when, out of the jungle bound two large spotted cats. Nickos casts grease
in the path of one of them. It hits the slippery patch, and crashes hard
into a nearby tree. Almost at the same time, Gandu begins to cast magic
missile at the other large cat. But, something goes wrong, and the wild
magic from which he draws his power causes.. the 2nd cat to be stuck
levitating about 20ft in the air.
Concentrating on the dazed and grease covered cat, Jonas and Tick
begin the attack, and with the help from an arrow or two from Telemacus
kill the cat with relative ease. The floting cat, with nothing to do but
snarl and thrash its limbs in midair is soon killed by crossbow bolts,
arrows and daggers.
Eltric again blesses the dead, reaching the second with
difficulty, and the group presses on towards the river. The river is
reached by nightfall, and after two days travel down the bank of the
river, another clearing containing a pyramid is reached. The window in the
pyramid is barely big enough for Tick, who, with a little persuasion, rope
and a lantern, is lowered down to explore the inside. Reporting (Speaking
Common with the help of a spell from Eltric) that he has found a trap door
in the roof of a tunnel, we dig at the appropriate spot, remove the stone
slab and uncover the tunnel.
Telemacus takes off down the tunnel, promising to return within
5 hours. After 7 we start getting worried. We find that he has fallen and
hurt himself, and we all head down the tunnel.
The tunnel opens up a lot as we progress, increasing in width to
enough for about 10 people and ending in a ledge, dropping about 25ft to
the floor of a cavern. Telemacus is below, leg broken. Eltric is lowered
down, and with great difficulty restores him as good as new. After the
Cleric and Elf explore a bit below, we notice.. that a pile of nasty
looking guys are coming up behind us in the tunnel.
Before we know what's up, 8 nasty looking humanoids with big eyes
and stone axes are upon us, but, we gain the initiative, and attack first.
Nickos again casts 'grease' this time on one of the bad guys weapons. The
rest of the party on the ledge make their attacks, hitting or missing, and
then it's Thrombus' turn to attack...
He steps back, and swings his sword in a mighty arc towards the
nearest bad guy. The blow falls short however, having met resistance along
the way, turning to see what stopped his mighty blow from landing he
realises that he has accidentally decapitated Guy. And then it's the bad
guys turn to attack.
To make things worse, Thrombus is then dealt a critical blow, and
suffers 13 points of damage ( a lot from one of these little guys ). Other
hits and misses occur, and the next round of combat begins.
Jonas' first action is to turn around and heroically leap from the
edge of the ledge, in a strange but effective means of retreat.
Unfortunately though, he breaks both his legs, and renders himself
unconscious. Meow, also, leaps from the edge, but, being a cat lands
safely.
Hits and misses are made in the combat round, including arrows
from the Elf who has gotten himself into position to fire from below.
At the end of that round of combat, the position stands as
8 bad guys still alive and fighting, 2 unarmed for the moment, against, 4
players alive and fighting on the ledge, and 1 player helping by firing up
from below. Oh, and one dead and one unconscious player.
Well, that's when security kicked us out.
Excuse the typos, grammar, spelling and glaring ommissions if i've
made any, but, I dont fancy checking it.
humbug.
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