- Ghost Wind
Player: Christopher J. Ford
Ghost Wind (Illiri: Human Sorcerer 16 / Ja'Nek: Human Cleric 3 Psion 1 / Anak "Melee" Maelstrom: Dwarf Fighter 4 / Elizabeth Archer: Human Sorcerer 4 / Thomas Archer: Human Ranger 2)
Ghost Wind survives to adventure again.
- Steel Order
Player: Wayne Edie
Steel Order (Gdarin: Human Paladin 17 / Deloth: Human Fighter 1 Cleric 6)
Steel Order survives to adventure again.
- Code Red
Player: Alain D. Ackerman
Code Red (Darren: Human Fighter Master Samurai 15)
Code Red survives to adventure again.
- Nature's Vengeance
Player: Tom Leonard
Nature's Vengeance (Arwenna Silvermoon: Elf Rogue 8 / Autumn
Dreamstalker: Elf Wizard 8 / Light-Beyond-Darkness Elf Cleric 8) entered more
slowly this time, making sure they were not surprised by any surprises on the
way to get the gauntlets.
After a Locate Object spell cast by Autumn failed, she sent out Dancing
Lights so that anything hidden would attack the lights instead of them.
Exploring one room and finding bodies, they saw Tharivol's human friend
Sargen running down the corridor, wounded. Light-Beyond-Darkness dropped a
spell in favor of a Cure Moderate Wounds on Sargen. This had Autumn fuming,
but Arwenna calmed her, saying "He works with Elves instead of against them.
He's a friend." That cooled Autumn's jets for the time being.
Seeing the other teams beginning to make progress, Autumn let off a Haste
spell, but the armored breastplate she was wearing interfered with the
spell, causing it to fail. First rule of Wizards: NEVER WEAR ARMOR!! After
that they explored a couple of other rooms, triggering a couple of curses
that dampened their skills, and having the cleric call on a Celestial Lion
to attack a weird construct designed to defend an otherwise empty room.
Entering the main chamber, they discovered a bloodstone golem wearing one of
the gauntlets. Instantly Autumn threw Magic Missiles at it,
Light-Beyond-Darkness sent in the other Celestial Lion (which was quickly
wiped out) and Arwenna tried to hide behind a pillar to sneak around and
explore. When a Fireball didn't do anything to the golem, they decided it
was time to withdraw and make sure it didn't hurt themselves or anyone
else... so Autumn sealed off the area with a Wall of Ice. All the golem did
was return to its original position and not pursue.
After another team smashed the wall down and entered to engage the golem,
the team stood ready to aid when they were most needed. Autumn cast
Invisibility and stood by waiting for her moment, Arwenna went off to find
Tharivol and enlist his help, and Light-Beyond-Darkness decided enough was
enough and cast Divine Power to gain strength before moving in. While the
other teams attacked the golem after Team Ghost Wind's telekinetic sphere
went into the room, Light strode in, confident that her god would protect
her. She was sadly mistaken as the thing had reach and slew her with three
mighty punches.
Meanwhile, Arwenna had found Tharivol and the other gauntlet. Not wanting to
hurt himself trying to get it, he gladly let Arwenna take it as the fight
raged on within the main chamber. Later rather than sooner, it was made
known to the teams that the gem had been found, and at this, Arwenna got an
idea. Could she, she thought, balance the gem on one gauntlet and bring it
back to the wizard? She wasted no time running toward where the gem lay, but
she was stopped by her sister, who put her under a spell of Invisibility.
Thus protected, Arwenna headed straight for where the gem was kept. Seeing
its size and beauty, greed overcame her and she whipped out a tanglefoot bag
(thus becoming visible) at the other person in the room without even taking
the time to see who it was. It turned out to be one of the other teams'
members, a human ranger with the favored enemy of elves. The tanglefoot bag
slammed against the ranger but didn't slow the ranger down as she attempted
to balance the stone. Unfortunately a curse earlier in the mission robbed
her of her dexterity so all she could do was move the gem along the pedestal
where it was kept.
That's when Arwenna noticed Melee the dwarf of Team Ghost Wind on the other
side of the ranger.
Uh oh.
The ranger responded in kind after the dwarf gave the rogue a love tap with
the business end of his weapon. The ranger did the rest.
Autumn, still under her Invisibility, ran for the altar to see how Arwenna
was doing (hearing one's death throes tends to do that). Unfortunately, she
ran right into Melee, who knew *something* was there and swung out of
defense, smacking Autumn before she had a chance to back off. To make
matters worse, Tharivol saw his friend Melee swinging at something, and
thinking it was something dangerous, fired a few arrows. The last thing
Autumn's eyes saw were the arrows headed straight for them.
Ironic that the elf who hated humans the most was slain by a fellow elf, no?
Nature's Vengeance is remembered in memoriam.
- Death From Afar
Player: Jon Sternfeld
Death from Afar (Tharivol Liadon: Elf Fighter 6 Wizard 1 Arcane Archer 10 Deep Woods Sniper 1 / Sargen of Hornwood: Human Rogue 3)
Death From Afar survives to adventure again.
- Team Fireflames
Player: Peter Farina
Fireflames (Yempo: Human Psion 5 Pyro 10 / Urik "The Serpent" Yargot: Human Fighter 7)
Team Fireflames survives to adventure again.
- Twig
Player: Vanessa Wilcox-Swarez
Twig (Lisonamit: Wood Elf Druid 16)
Twig survives to adventure again.
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