Lizard and Lunk

The continuing GURPS adventures of eight men who really should find better uses for their time.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Of Tunnels and Trolls

8 February 2010-

After last week's send-off into the underground lake/sewer/likely monster breeding ground, we proceeded along the only likely avenue of progress- a single high tunnel leading from whatever water source feeds this town into this underground lake. We were even making some progress when we heard voices up ahead crying for help, and a strange hammering sound. Rounding a bend, we found four dwarves on a ledge, trying to escape from something which seemed to be coming through the rock towards them. One of their number charged into the tunnel from which they had come (presumably to buy the others time) and was immediately mulched and thrown back out (he bought about 1.2 seconds), while the rest jumped onto our boats below.

Khavi (the centaur) used her Walk on Air spell to move up into a covering position, as did eMichael's ellyllon Azyl. What emerged was a pair of creatures which reminded me of D&D umber hulks, and were every bit as friendly. They seemed to emanate some sort of confusion spell which made fighting them hard, and they were as strong and resilient as iron golems. They came after us, and we hit them with everything we had, from Azyl's Stone Missiles to Arcturus's Flame Jets and Gus's Lightning Bolts. Jeff's half-giant hit the things repeatedly with his magical battle axe, Khavi scored a few hits with her morning star, and even eBill's archer got some action with his few Knockback arrows, which at least kept the things off-balance enough to ruin some of their attacks. After putting a few hundred points of damage into them, we did finally finish them off, but one of them nearly killed Khavi with one hit, and Jeff's shield will probably never be the same.

After we killed them, the mages healed Khavi enough that she's at least ambulatory, although they're about spent themselves. Next week we discover if saving those dwarves was worth it.

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