TWITCH STREAM Be sure to participate with the group each week LIVE! at <a href="http://www.twitch.tv/dm4hire" rel="nofollow">www.twitch.tv/dm4hire</a> every Saturday night at 6 PM until midnight. View this entire session here... <a href="http://www.twitch.tv/dm4hire/b/659838826" rel="nofollow">http://www.twitch.tv/dm4hire/b/659838826</a> Twitch.tv keeps each broadcast for one week only, so be sure to stay up-to-date while it is still available, and be sure to click the heart icon under the twitch screen to 'follow' the group and be alerted of each new session. Brief portions of these weekly sessions can also be found on Youtube with the same date code. QUICK READ RECAP The above water assault group continues to venture deeper and deeper into the uppermost, dry level, surmising that it may be used as nothing more than a holding area for non-water breathing prisoners as the strange, sterility of it's clinical abandonment becomes increasingly more evident. Raising the portcullis of a strange prison, they find an aged man in a far corner, weak, and near death, who, under questioning relates a strange story of how he and possibly other adventurers stumbled into the submerged lower cavern to be immediately attacked by a large number of sahuagin, possibly the sole survivor of the atrocity. In his last moments, he manages to relay a message with serious intensity to Kyra leaving the party mystified of it's possible meaning. Later, the group happens upon a secret treasure room, loaded with magical items! Shenjo takes a risky chance, and dons an unknown magical cloak, instantly changing into a frightening manta ray sea creature right before everybody's eyes! Below water, having stumbled into an areana full of sahuagin watching a death match, luck is on their side, as they are able to close and bar the door they had just opened, fleeing with great haste up the flight of stairs in the NW corner, with Balfon luckily sensing and opening a secret door, bringing it to the party's attention. All members quickly enter the unknown hallway beyond, closing the door just as pursuing sahuagin pass by on the other side! Time remaining on the underwater breathing spell and other important spells continue to count down. Will they succeed in their mission, or drown trying ! DM SESSION LOG 150516 Spells memorized. Tralann - hypnotism, magic missile, invisibility, wall of fog, web Argo - 4x magic missile, mirror image, blur, water breathing* Karmadel: 5-1st, Cure light**, Endure Cold x2** (7-1/2 hours) /5-2nd /1-3rd Bless, Protection evil / cure serious x2, hear heart x2, water fist Upstairs group moves forward... Bjorn asks "Is there anyone in there?" and doesn't hear anything. He raises the portcullis. Argo surmises that the upper level is a staging, holding area for prisoners and non-water breathing creatures. Bjorn finds a shackled old man in the NW corner talking to himself, he relays the message to the group. Marine offers the dying man some water. He wants to drink much more, but the marine limits his available consumption to a small amount. Bjorn pulls one of the shackles out of the wall. Argo asks the dying man "Who are you and how did you come to be here?" He weakly explains that he is/was a thaumaturgist and leader of party of adventurers from the hold of the sea princes, sent by prince monmurg to investigate strange goings-on in the former lizard man lair. He explains that he came with a possibly party of 4 others, but has a hard time remembering who came with him and who he was shackled with, and accidentily explored the underwater sea cave wherupon they were immediately attacked by a large number of sahuagin. He can't remember if he's been here for months or years, possibly a sole survivor. Bjorn pulls out the other shackle holding the man. He grabs Kyra and says intently, "Remember metamorph" and then falls down...dead. The underwater assault group... Oceanus closes the door. Sahuagin warriors grab their weapons. Karmadel bars door. Large seated Sahagin motions to warriors making a shooing motion with his hand. The warriors begin to move. Some sahuagin open three sets of doors..to the north, east and south. Karmadel goes up the stairs by the previous shark battle. Sahuagin attack Borga for 6 hp of damage reducing him to 5 hp of life. Kysh and Oceanus join Karmadel upstairs. Borga flees combat. Attack of opportunity reduces Borga to 2 hp of life. The above group... Shenjo finds a secret room and casts detect magic. Many items glow. Party contemplates how to get into the locked stone coffer. Leaxle finds and disarms a thrusting blade trap. The fighters pry open the box. Shenjo wears the cloak and disappears with a manta ray in his place. Kyra surmises maybe the cloak was what the old man was referring to. Shenjo puts the cloak in his back pack for being bold and taking the chance to wear the garment. The underwater assault group... Karmadel's sword starts to sing. "I ain't got no body..." Balfon senses a secret door and opens it. The party hides in the hallway behind the secret door and closes the door behind them just as the pursuing sahuagin come up the stairs outside! Karmadel casts 2 cure light wounds on Borga for 4 and 8 hp of life bringing him to 11 full health. Oceanus senses and opens another secret door at the end of the hallway opening up into a green tiled room in the NW corner of submerged level 2. There is a seaweed bed in the NW corner, a spear propped up in the SW corner, a mirror hanging on the E wall with a closed coffer beneath and a hallway leading due E to a pink colored room. Group adjourns for the evening. Party lump sum XP with all aspects considered (including but not limited to) session survival, skill usage, role-playing, alignment checks, etc: 5000 Karmadel, Priest (Christopher S.): 500 Argo Mage (Paul W.): 500 Tralann (Shalvenay K) Elf, Half: 500 Kyra Foghard/Borga (Robert D.): 500 Shenjo (Craig F.) Gray Elf: 500 Balfon (Skyhawk) dwarf: 500 Aaron (William C.): 500 Triton (Issac R.): 500 Bjorn: 500 Oceanus Elf, Aquatic:500 SESSION LENGTH: 6 Hours
