zondag 24 februari 2008

Session 2 - Marpenoth 19 (Day 5)

After resting, the party goes back to the main tunnel. The first cavern they pass by contains a lot of loot. The party deducts this is the lair of the maurezhi demon.
They continue and discover two drow and an undead spider behind a barricade. The drow call out and then retreat into a pit and down a chute in the cavern. The spider attacks the party but is quickly dispatched. The party hesitates to descend immediately while their defensife spells are still active.

Session 2 - Marpenoth 18 (Day 4)

When they explore the bebilith cavern, the party discovers another illusion blocking a secret room. The paladin enters the room but is unable to see anything as a obfuscating darkness enshrouds the room. The verminfriend's familiar is send through next but is also unable to see anything. The warlock tries next and his devil's sight can penetrate the darkness. When he searches the room, two bloated spiders appear out of nowhere and attack him, biting him and draining his spells. He can barely escape the room alive and when he returns, the other partymembers go through the portal and stumble through the darkness until they are in reach of the spiders. While bite, claw and sword are exchanged in the darkness, the star elf and the warlock remain behind in the previous cavern covering the rear and healing up. Luckily for the party as a group of ravenous ghouls approaches from behind. Seconds later another group of ghouls appear out of nowhere, blocking the way towards the other partymembers. Both the star elf and the warlock seek higher ground to evade them. When the other partymembers finish the spiders, they hear the other combat and come to the rescue. The vermin friend destroys most of the ghouls except for their controller, a ghoul demon. The party then focuses on this demon and the kill it quickly.
The warlock searches the other cavern and finds some loot stacked in a corner. The party rests for a few minutes and then advances towards the next hidden door. The star elf uses his magic to see the room beyond and the party prepares accordingly. But their plan does not go well early on so the party has to go in without tactics and take the drow within on in hand to hand. A spell-heavy battle ensues. After the combat, the party searches the bodies of the drow and devide their loot.

Session 2 - Marpenoth 17 (Day 3)

When the party descends further into the caves, they encounter a bunch of bony corpses that animate but the skeletons are finished off quickly. The star elf and the warlock detect a hidden magical doorway. The verminfriend sends one of his minions in to explore and finds a large cavern covered in webs. The lathanderite, the dwarf druid and the warlock advance boldly through the hidden doorway. Within they encounter two enormous spiderlike-creatures. They spit spiderwebbing at the lathanderite and the dwarf druid and then wade in with their poisonous bite. During the fight, the dwarf druid has to retreat into the stone cavernfloor to heal herself. The paladin is almost killed but doesn't give in and keeps slashing at the demons while the verminfriend and the starelf blast them with spells. Afterwards they bunk down, rest and nurture their wounds.