zondag 30 maart 2008

Session 3 - Marpenoth 20 (Day 6)

During the night both the verminfriend and the warlock receive a dream about an albino drow priestess of Kiaransalee, the drow goddess of undead. Although the dreams are different, the party cannot fanthom their meaning for the moment.
The warlock uses his divine powers to consecrate a small cavern. Within the cavern, the paladin who had suffered vile wounds from the spider abomination, can be healed. While the party is healing, they are attacked by two groups of drows, coming from all sides, and again with the company of two skinned drow. They swarm the warlock who was standing guard. He can escape, traveling by magic to join his companions. A speedy wall of fire and stone shape later, the party has barricaded themselves inside. A few moments later, the drow batter down the stoneshape and combat erupts. The party can catch their assailants in a bottleneck and kill them. Only one drow can escape the slaughter.
The party spends some time to identify the magical items they found on their slain opponents and divide them amongst themselves.
When they descend the great web, they are attacked by a drow patrol led by a priestess. During the attack, an invisible caster harasses the party with lightning bolts. Although it is a close call for both the paladin, the druid and the warlock, they can defeat the patrol.
The party decides to return to the consecreated cavern above and rest.

Session 3 - Marpenoth 19 (Day 5)

The party decides to continue their penetration of the drow caverns. When they reach the end of the shute, they are attacked by drow warriors, a drow spellcaster, an undead skinned drow and another undead spider. The party can dispatch the undead and the drow warriors but one of the drow warriors, although severly wounded, can escape. The druids question a drow warrior who was taken alive but the male is unwilling to share information and is killed.
When they search the cavern, they discover it leads to the top of a major underground cavern that has a huge web against its side. The vermin master sends his scarab minion onto the web to investigate. The tiny vermin gets stuck on an invisible strand. When the paladin tries to help him, he gets stuck as well. When he cut's himself loose, he disturbs the strands and an enormous spider approaches and attacks the party. The battle is a close call but in the end the party, mainly the paladin of Lathander, can defeat the spider. Exhausted and wounded, the party decides to withdraw and rest.