Batter Up!
Shorter session this week - started later, ended a bit earlier. Brian was back, no Kevin, still no Jeff. In Jeff's absence, we continue to work on getting his character killed...
Having recovered from the nasty Skeletons from Hell (tm), we rushed past the mummy on the throne (which, thankfully, didn't bother with us) and into the next room, lined with (what else) mummified priestesses. As we took stock of our new situation, we were handed our next challenge: a 12-foot tall mummy. Yup, that's right. Because the Skeletons from Hell weren't enough, the undead are now getting BIGGER.
Having had a second or two of warning, the elves had scrambled up onto a high ledge. Unfortunately, this put Craig's elf at eye level with the mummy, which proceeded to grab him and try to use him as a baseball bat. The most effective thing he was able to do for the rest of the combat was wrap himself around the thing's fist, to become more of a boxing glove. Which is better than being a baseball bat, but only by comparison.
As the monster proceeded to try to use Craig to whack various other members of the party (damaging Craig whether it succeeded or not), the rest of us started pumping things into it - arrows, lightning bolts, flame jets, throwing axes, swords, the usual assortment. After several rounds of mayhem, we succeed in dropping the thing - by which point Craig, and Bruce's Centaur Khavi, were both pretty well pulped. Healing spells were passed around liberally.
As we sat to recover YET AGAIN, we heard sounds of fighting in the distance - apparenty, somebody else was invading the complex from some other direction. After a few minutes, we found out who: a group of Drow- a SWAT team of sorts - burst in as we were trying to lick our wounds. After briefly considering, and rejecting, the idea of putting up a fight, we decided to (gasp!) talk to them. Turns out, they're after a half-elven slave - at least, we THOUGHT he was a slave - who had been chained up with us way back on the Orc slaver ship. They agreed to take us to their captain for further clarification; as it seems like there may be a LOT of these Drow around, we really, really hope we don't have to fight our way out of this.
Having recovered from the nasty Skeletons from Hell (tm), we rushed past the mummy on the throne (which, thankfully, didn't bother with us) and into the next room, lined with (what else) mummified priestesses. As we took stock of our new situation, we were handed our next challenge: a 12-foot tall mummy. Yup, that's right. Because the Skeletons from Hell weren't enough, the undead are now getting BIGGER.
Having had a second or two of warning, the elves had scrambled up onto a high ledge. Unfortunately, this put Craig's elf at eye level with the mummy, which proceeded to grab him and try to use him as a baseball bat. The most effective thing he was able to do for the rest of the combat was wrap himself around the thing's fist, to become more of a boxing glove. Which is better than being a baseball bat, but only by comparison.
As the monster proceeded to try to use Craig to whack various other members of the party (damaging Craig whether it succeeded or not), the rest of us started pumping things into it - arrows, lightning bolts, flame jets, throwing axes, swords, the usual assortment. After several rounds of mayhem, we succeed in dropping the thing - by which point Craig, and Bruce's Centaur Khavi, were both pretty well pulped. Healing spells were passed around liberally.
As we sat to recover YET AGAIN, we heard sounds of fighting in the distance - apparenty, somebody else was invading the complex from some other direction. After a few minutes, we found out who: a group of Drow- a SWAT team of sorts - burst in as we were trying to lick our wounds. After briefly considering, and rejecting, the idea of putting up a fight, we decided to (gasp!) talk to them. Turns out, they're after a half-elven slave - at least, we THOUGHT he was a slave - who had been chained up with us way back on the Orc slaver ship. They agreed to take us to their captain for further clarification; as it seems like there may be a LOT of these Drow around, we really, really hope we don't have to fight our way out of this.
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