3/23 session recap and awards

It was a normal day in Oriv for the party. Rockaneeshoo had teleported to Fovona to pick up some supplies. Rhin was in his temple. Enli was in the library. Urgmob and Hrir were walking around town, trying to figure wherethey wanted to build a pub. Davinov was off patrolling outside of town.

The peace and quiet of the midmorning were shattered when a green dragon landed on the roof of the tallest building, the library. He bellowed for someone to come out and play, and hobgoblins scattered. He craned his head to look into the library, and started up a conversation with Enli. He said that he had heard there was some treasure here, and did Enli know anything about it. Enli said that there was an artifact hammer being held by an earth elemental north of town. Minebeard, fearless, approached and was confronted by the dragon. The dragon asked if the mutant knew where any treasure was? While this was happening, Urgmob was hiding, invisible, 100yards away.

Unsurprisingly, Hrir breathed on the dragon and was breathed on in response. Enli, who had moved into the open, attracted the dragon's attention by summoning an earth elemental. Urgmob fired a lightning bolt into the dragon. The dragon spun around, smashing Hrir with his tail, and leaped upon Enli. Enli rolled out of the way, but the dragon still demolished the hobgoblin shack nearby as it flapped downward with it's massive wings. Urgmob fired several potent warning shots at the dragon. Enli's earth elemental attacked as well, and Hrir made another charge attack that was countered with a bite to the shoulder. Enli tried to cast another spell, and was bitten by the dragon, abruptly ending the plea to Ibenaikad. The dragon then took flight, swooping low near where Urgmob crouched behind a shack. The shack was demolished by the dragon flying by, and Urgmob wasscratched by flying debris.

The dragon didn't return immediately, but Enli determined through divinations that the dragon would attack again today. Sure enough, in the mid-afternoon, the dragon dropped a boulder on the library while calling out, "Liar!" Hrir summoned a blade barrier in front of the dragon, but it was able to avoid it with some extreme evasive maneuvers. Everything was silent again until close to dusk. Urgmob had taken position on the roof of the damaged library with his onyx dog, Tybalt, when the dog barked a warning. Urgmob and dog rolled out of the way just in time as another boulder smashed into the library from directly overhead. It was followed closely by a diving dragon. It spread it's wings at the last moment and breathed upon the roof of the building before landing heavily, cracking the stone walls of the upper floor. Urgmob dove to the street in a bruised and burned heap with his dog, and Hrir ran up to deliver another icy breath. The dragon took flight again, calling out, "I'll be back!"

The party contacted Pelema, but their tone was not that of panic, and she said that she didn't have the people to spare at the moment. Moreover, they already had her most powerful dwarf in their service. Keggrok Halfear, the hobgoblin King, offered his might in battle, for he was no coward. But he said he didn't think his help would amount to much. Rockaneeshoo was contacted by sigil, and perhaps will deign to return before the dragonattacks again. Or before the party goes on a hunt for it.

Hrir, Urgmob, Enli, and Rhin all receive 250xp for this session.

Sean's Place

Just a reminder that this week's game is going to be at Sean's. Actually, until both Jen and Matt(a.frank) move in May or June, Sean's place is the designated mustering point.

3/16 session awards and recap

After training for 2 weeks, Urgmob and Davinov were still out hunting in the woods. Enli was walking the streets and playing his harp when he noticed a scuffle between two hobgoblins. One of them took off with a bag of what appeared to be loot. Enli followed him out of town, and stopped in the woods to call for backup. Rockaneeshoo, Rhin, and Hrir all decided to come take a look, while Inky flew ahead to see what where the guy was going. Inky came back and said that the hobgoblin seemed to drop the bag in a small clearing in the woods. Rockaneeshoo flew down to the clearing and was struck by a green beam that disintegrated part of his leg! There was a beholder in the trees! Rock hid and sent a message to his companions, whereupon they started running towards the conlfict. The one beholder seemed to be saying something to another beholder somewhere else in the cover of the trees. The overlapping anti-magic fields allowed them a few volleys of eye rays, but once the entire party was together, they waited for the brief moment of non-anti-magic as the beholders fired their rays. They were able to bring one down in this manner, setting a tree ablaze in the process. The other fled, keeping it's eye trained on as much of the party as possible. Enli flew out of the cone of anitmagic and was turned to stone. Rockaneeshoo barely saved him with a featherfall spell, and then used a wish to turn him back to flesh. Hrir slowed it's retreat with a blade barrier. Rhin made a flanking maneuver, and got turned to stone as well. Rockaneeshoo had by this time summoned an air elemental however, and the beholder was besieged on all sides. As the antimagic cone spun wildly around, enough attacks made it through to weaken it. Enli, recovered, hit a glancing blow with a sling stone. Then the air elemental dashed it eye-first onto a pointy branch, thus ending it's life. Inky feasted on the many eyes and was happy.

The party returned to the village the next day to find an execution ceremony happening. Six hobgoblins had stolen loot from their neighbors, and two had died fighting off Keggrok's guards. The other four were bound and awaiting Keggrok's falchion. Rhin had a word with Keggrok, and convinced him that some of them might have been magically coerced. Rhin questioned all four, in turn killing two of them with a mere touch, paralyzing one with a touch, and demanding that the remaining one become his slave. The paralyzed one was hung up on a pole to wither and die slowly. The treasure that was stolen was returned.

For the session, everyone present receives 1500xp.

That brings the totals to :
Urgmob : 113,010
Rhin : 102,310
Rock : 135,986 (after two limited wishes are factored in)
Enli : 136,215 (up to 17th level!)
Hrir : 102,257

I know that Rock is only 14xp away from 17th too, but Greg has complained about being the highest level character, so I figure one session of beinglower than Enli will be sufficient to make him change his mind. Heh.

-- Mike