SESSION: 3
GAME MASTER: Farseer G
PARTICIPANTS:
Alfard the Half Elven Bard (Ryanbo)
Weed the Human Wizard (Raiz)
Pink the Human Cleric (Vio)
Valenna Denethall the Human Paladin (Me)
NPC Companions
Eldeth - A Female Dwarf
"Prince Darendil" - The Ape-man that claims he is an Elven Prince
Brinjal - A sentient humanoid shroom, Brinjal is now unofficially Violet's pet
Bipipdo - A Deurgar (Dark Dwarf?)
Introduction:
Alfard the Bard while trying to lead his companions to him startle upon a group of Gnolls (a race of humanoids with canine head/features) and the Gnolls don't appear to be particularly friendly...
Previous Session
The Story so far:
It appears that the Gnolls do not take kindly to Alfard's appearance and is in no mood to talk. Sizing Alfard up, the Gnoll pack leaves the runtiest among them to dispatch the fragile looking Alfard. Not confident to take on the Gnoll mano a mano, Alfard makes a run for it while dropping Caltrops on the floor to dissuade the Gnoll from chasing him.
The Gnoll whips out a bow and unleashes her arrows at Alfard, one arrow hitting the bard squarely in his butt cheeks. Despite the pain, Alfard continues to speed away. Brief moments later, the companions catch up and witness Alfard fleeing for his life. Valenna rushes forward with her sword drawn, bellowing at the Gnoll to surrender. The Gnoll pays Valenna no heed and continues attacking with her bow. The rest of the party patches up Alfard.
Valenna finally closes in on the Gnoll and both have their feet stung by the Caltrops that was dropped earlier by Alfard. After a brief moment of battling each other, the adventurers finally triumphed. Concern with more Gnolls in the vicinity. They retreat back to entrance of the side tunnel and began to rest and regroup.
Darendil & Bipipdo were both tasked with keep watch while the rest recuperate. While Deldeth forage for edible mushrooms. Hours passed while the party rested, all of a sudden they are alerted by a loud scream. Rushing to the vicinity, they find Bipipdo lying in a pool of blood. It appears that someone or something has ambushed Bipipdo. Pink the Cleric tries to resuscitate Bipipdo but he was already dead and there was nothing the party could do. Valenna mutter a prayer for the fallen and the party set-off to investigate the "mysterious feminine voice" they all been hearing in their heads.
Following the voice, the party finally came upon another side entrance. Pink notices that the floor was covered with tracks and this part of the tunnel appears to be constructed. Cautiously the party advances into the tunnels. As they delve deeper, they came upon an ante-chamber with a door in front and an ornate side door. Inside the ante-chamber are two Gnolls and they surprised to find the party. Alfard recognizes these as the Gnolls that he meet in the caverns earlier.
A fight ensues and the party emerge victorious due to overwhelming numbers. While the party searches the ante-chamber, the door at the end of the chamber burst open. The Gnoll pack leader standing one head taller than the earlier Gnolls faced by the party strode forward bellowing at Alfard. The party turned their attention towards the Gnoll leader and dispatched it after an exhausting battle. Searching the body, the party discovers that the Gnoll Leader was wielding an exquisitely ornate looking long-sword. As no one was trained to wield martial weapons except for Valenna. The Paladin picked up the longsword and handed her sword sword over to the Bard. Taking the risk, the party decides to rest in the room and recuperate from their injuries.
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Things goes smoothly as their rest is not interrupted. The band of adventurers then discovers that the side rooms were filled with sarcophagus and this place was a ancient temple of sorts dedicated to a forgotten god from a forgotten civilization. As the party plans to plunder the tombs, Valenna was against the notion of ransacking the graves of the dead. She prayed to her god and then mutter a prayer for the fallen as sign of respect. The party truly carried out their plans to ransack the tomb and Valenia stood in their way.
Alone and not strongest in the group, Valenna was quickly overpowered by the rest of the party. An ghostly being appeared above the tomb of the ornate Sarcophagi and warned the party not to disturb their rest. Alfard being the one who pry the coffin lid off the Sarcophagi was filled with ill feeling. After ripping the lid off, they discover that the ornate Sarcophagi contained only skeletal remains of the dead and nothing of value.
Moving to the next room, Valenna once again block the entrance to prevent her companions from looting the other sarcophagus. As usual, not being very strong, the party shove her to the ground and continue their ways. Unfortunately for them, neither of them is very strong either and they only manage to pry the lid off two Sarcophagus and found nothing of value on them. After several minutes of searching high and low, pink discovers a lever behind one of the sarcophagus. Weed, quickly runs into to pull the lever and this reveals a hidden door way but also triggers a trap. Darts flew out at amazing speed and struck Weed in the chest, injuring him. The party resumes formation with the Paladin in the front again as they descend the stairs and finally came upon another ornate tomb.
Seeing the party up to loot the tomb, Valenna once again stood in their way. Alfard explained that they are here to free that "feminine voice" and the owner of the voice could be within the Sarcophagus. Valenna also sensing a presence of evil finally relented and aided the party in lifting the lid off the Sarcophagus.
After several exhausting attempt by our not so strong adventurers, the party finally lifted the lid off. A dark smoke billowed out and formed into a menacing smoky humanoid with skeletal feature. The undead proclaim its identity and cursed the party for trepassing and threatened them with their doom. Alfard & Weed both attempts to negotiate with the smokey ghostly figure but does not appear to have much success.
The Paladin sensing an immense presence of evil emanating from the ghostly figure, draws out her sword and threatens to smite the Wraith as negotiations break down. Lunging forward, Valenia strikes at the Wraith repeatingly. The rest of the party now forced to fight, join in the battle. Crossbow bolts from Alfard and Pink pierced into the ghostly figure. Darendil & Deldeth slashed their shortswords at the Wraith. Weed struck out with his twin daggers. The Wraith then, gestures in a dramatic fashion and yelling for his minions to join him in dispatching the foolish trepassers. An eerie howl was heard from above the above the underground temple.
Knowing that they could be surrounded anytime, soon the party rained flurry of blows upon the Wraith. Yet the undead still stood before them. Again, it howled out for aid and another eerie scream was heard from above. Within moments, another ghostly figure with skull appeared behind the party. The specter lashed out at the Bard but the Bard deftly stepped aside. Weed mutters an incantation and blasts the Wraith with a ray of frost. The Undead howled in rage and struck back at Weed with cold & lifeless dark tendrils. Weed, collapsed to the ground as he was already injured by the traps earlier on. Pink quickly rushes to her husband's side and attempt to stabilize his condition while the party continue to focus their attacks on the Wraith.
After a grueling battle with the combined attacks of the whole party, the Wraith is finally weakened. The Undead let out a blood curdling howl as the Ornate longsword plunge into its skull. The Wraith rapidly dissipated into nothingness. The Specters that it suppose also faded into thin air.
Gathering their senses, the party search the tomb and discovers an ornate staff, beautifully carved. The party could once again hear the feminine voice thanking them for releasing her. Weed picking up the staff realizes that the voice belonged to the ornate staff. And that he is wielding a sentient magical item of power.
After spending time resting and communing with the staff, Weed learns that the Staff has capability to dispense fireballs. As a sentient, it also has its own memories and knowledge which Weed may later be able to tap on. With Bipipdo dead, the party had no guide as to where the village they could properly rest up and resupply themselves.
While Weed consulted his staff, Eldeth pointed to a general direction which Bipipdo said the village was. The party once more set off to find a resting place while foraging for food in the underdark. While doing so, the party once more encounters blood sucking giant mosquitoes and with some effort finally got rid of them.
Several days passed and the party found the tunnel they had to passed through filled with Cobwebs. Weed decides to demonstrate the power of the Staff of Fire and let loose a ball of fire. The fireball flew into the tunnel and exploded, engulfing giant spiders and their webs in fire. With the giant spiders effortlessly dispatched, they continue their way.
Days later the party finally arrives the massive underground lake. This area was so massive that no ceiling can be seen and the only light source appeared to be luminous fungi. With limited lighting, the party could not make out where the boundaries of the lake are but could tell that it might be the size of a small sea.
Moments later, a group of fish like people appeared out of the bushes. Alfard attempted to negotiate but only to learn that the fish people are not cooperative and only saw the party as food or sacrificing the party to the Deep Father.
Several minutes later, the group hears another rustling and are surrounded by another group of identical fish people but with different color markings. The second group introduced themselves as worshippers of the sea mother and demanded that the party assist them in slaying the first group.
Alfard continues to buy time by talking to the fish people. Valenna unsure who to aid, kneels down and pray to her god seeking guidance. Eldeth joins Valenna in prayer and prays to her Dwarven gods. Weed frustrated that this is going nowhere, rips out his two daggers and rushes forward to stab one of the fish people. Unfortunately, he trips over and falls down. The fish people sensing Weed's aggressive intentions now ready their weapons to do battle....
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