From Hunted to Hunter
4 November 2010-
As has become far too typical of late, I have been lax in updating this page, although we have managed to meet- somehow real life keeps imposing itself upon my more fantastic lives, and it cannot long be ignored!
Anyway, we continued down the canyon, finding a tribe of baboons and a pair of druids, among other things. The baboons were easily scared off by one of Bill's illusions (you'll note that he's no longer eBill- at least for now he's here in person every week- yay!), and the druids ended up being friendly, since we'd avoided killing almost any of the innocent creatures of the canyon, and we didn't admit to the one baboon we did kill. They helped us delay the bad guys, though, so we could sleep, and even shaped a boat for us for the next part of our journey- an underground river.
Once we got into the water, things went pretty smoothly. We were not attacked by anything in the water, and even bought some magic items from a friendly water nymph who apparently scavenged things dropped into the river by other travelers. We kept focused on the mission, though, and left a partially-submerged coffin laying where it was, even though there was obviously an undead critter of some sort in there- and our more curious types were awfully tempted to see what it was.
Finally, we found a good spot for an ambush, and dug in to attack our pursuers as they would round a curve and face a small waterfall. Our plans went awry, though, as their yuan-ti leader evidently swam past us in the dark, and then shot Craig's lizard man and Bruce's half-elf when they went to investigate the splash he made going over the waterfall. We pursued him across an underground lake, and eventually battled him and his henchmen at an underground docking area. Kevin's half-giant mage landed there first and set himself up with a force dome, but was then put to sleep by their mage. Their brutes couldn't get through to him under the dome, but they were distracted long enough for us to get close, and after Jeff shot their yuan-ti leader with his musket the rest tried to run. The mage escaped and the human fighter went down easily enough, but they also had a greater orc berserker who went toe-to-toe with Brian's swordsman and Jeff's dwarf before we ganged up and killed him in close action on the rowboat.
Next week we will get the denouement and the loot, and then we'll see. We're all hoping for- dare I say it- Supers!
As has become far too typical of late, I have been lax in updating this page, although we have managed to meet- somehow real life keeps imposing itself upon my more fantastic lives, and it cannot long be ignored!
Anyway, we continued down the canyon, finding a tribe of baboons and a pair of druids, among other things. The baboons were easily scared off by one of Bill's illusions (you'll note that he's no longer eBill- at least for now he's here in person every week- yay!), and the druids ended up being friendly, since we'd avoided killing almost any of the innocent creatures of the canyon, and we didn't admit to the one baboon we did kill. They helped us delay the bad guys, though, so we could sleep, and even shaped a boat for us for the next part of our journey- an underground river.
Once we got into the water, things went pretty smoothly. We were not attacked by anything in the water, and even bought some magic items from a friendly water nymph who apparently scavenged things dropped into the river by other travelers. We kept focused on the mission, though, and left a partially-submerged coffin laying where it was, even though there was obviously an undead critter of some sort in there- and our more curious types were awfully tempted to see what it was.
Finally, we found a good spot for an ambush, and dug in to attack our pursuers as they would round a curve and face a small waterfall. Our plans went awry, though, as their yuan-ti leader evidently swam past us in the dark, and then shot Craig's lizard man and Bruce's half-elf when they went to investigate the splash he made going over the waterfall. We pursued him across an underground lake, and eventually battled him and his henchmen at an underground docking area. Kevin's half-giant mage landed there first and set himself up with a force dome, but was then put to sleep by their mage. Their brutes couldn't get through to him under the dome, but they were distracted long enough for us to get close, and after Jeff shot their yuan-ti leader with his musket the rest tried to run. The mage escaped and the human fighter went down easily enough, but they also had a greater orc berserker who went toe-to-toe with Brian's swordsman and Jeff's dwarf before we ganged up and killed him in close action on the rowboat.
Next week we will get the denouement and the loot, and then we'll see. We're all hoping for- dare I say it- Supers!
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