Last night we got home, had a light dinner, and set up for gaming.
After we were all finished, we went to bed.
It seems that tonight my wife has plans with Ginger. Or, maybe not. I'll give Ginger a call today (Laura will be too busy at work to do so) to clarify. I need to run some stuff out to Matt and Kymm's. Tomorrow we have no plans.
I did the stairs this morning with just one of the developers (one was late, the other's legs hurt too much). She doesn't use the handrails and takes the stairs two at a time. I didn't use the handrails for the first ten flights, and took a break at 25. (I've been using the handrails the whole time and taking two breaks - one at 20, one at 30.) So, that's progress.
The party started out where we left them, spread between three rooms. In the process of experimenting with the green goo in the glass chamber, Daisy the Barbarian learned that it provided minor healing qualities. She took some to Anasha the Sorceress to examine, and Anasha - though previously in shock and unconscious - stirred. She inadvertantly smeared some on Riki the Familiar as well, bringing him out of his coma. The two of them rested.
Jillian and Mackie, the Rogues, explored the room with the glass chamber and found a handle in the ceiling. After some hemming and hawing, they eventually turned it and opened a door leading to a vertical shaft. They went off to explore, and found a side passage. Mackie waited at the side passage while Jillian continued up to discover that the shaft rose about 400 feet and ended at another door. Beyond that door was the surface world - in fact, across the street from an inn. She climbed back down to the side passage, but Mackie was gone. She scurried along the side passage and passed a grating in the floor (through which she heard rushing water) and continued a great distance to another vertical shaft. This one only went down. She descended and discovered another door, this one set into the ceiling of a room the group had been in before - but found no sign of Mackie. She ascended, crossed the long passage, and descended back to the room with the green goo.
Meanwhile, the party was alerted to a problem by Racso the Bard. He pointed out to Jebidoh the Cleric that some of the slaves - left in his care in the room with the rat god statue - had disappeared. As they discussed it, a few more disappeared. The group assembled to figure out what was going on (except for the Rogues). Jebidoh read a powerful scroll he was given, which he had been assured would wake the slaves from their stupors, and passed out. The party was entirely healed, and the slaves became fully conscious. And began demanding an explanation. As Jebidoh tried to calm them down, a great roar shook the cavern.
The tanks ran to meet the new challenge. ("A lion!", though Daisy.) They met up with a huge reptilian head, just poking its way into the chamber. With a hail of crossbow bolts and clubs, they met the challenge and smote it swiftly. And as it fell, a cloaked figure stepped out from behind it and cast a spell. The spell struck everyone and almost took out the party ... except that the gods intervened on behalf of Daisy, and everybody else resisted the spell's effects. (Though some damage was dealt.) Calling upon the magic in his mace, Jebidoh called forth thunder and lightning and struck the figure a mighty blow from which it did not recover. And, in fact, which reduced it to a pile of flesh and cloth.
The group licked its wounds and regrouped in the (now crowded) chamber with the slaves (at least, the ones who hadn't climbed up through the passageway in the ceiling). Jillian returned at this point and told them what she had found - that the passage emerged into daylight. Since the passage was too narrow for the entire party to fit, she used it to return to the temple and enlist magical aid in their return topside.
The priests at the temple were pleased to see the adventurers, and rewarded them all. And began muttering about a temple filled with evil which needed cleansing...
As a side note, the bard wrote a song to encourage the fighters:
'Kay, guys, let's go,
Let's beat this guy up.
Go do some brave stuff
And try not to suck.
(chorus)
Don't be not awesome,
Don't be not cool.
Get up, go do stuff,
And totally rule.
Bravery and courage,
These and more are yours.
Go and beat the bad guys,
And with them mop the floors.
(chorus)
Now you guys are rockin',
Looks like we're gonna win.
So let's finish it up,
And bash their heads in.
(chorus)
Posted by trent at July 31, 2008 08:28 AM