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/673228941" rel="nofollow">http://www.twitch.tv/dm4hire/b/673228941</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. FROM THE DM DESK Much to the dismay of the players, my fortuitous statement of the die rolls changing seem to have come true to some extent, with the priest making the comment "...the demon needs a crit to hit me..." finding himself the unlucky recipient of not one, but two, back to back natural 20 rolls! But the case could be made either way I suppose with him casting a dispel magic upon the demoness herself, defusing certain, shall we say "unmentionable" traits that, to the casual observer, may have precipitated her defensive move to depart the battle field and go ethereal. But the question now is, where is she? Where did she go? What is she doing? Kell speaks his mind to the group, and worries that she might just be gone momentarily (in ethereal time) to regroup and return with reinforcements, which might not fare well for the conclusion of this portion of the campaign. All I can say, is time will tell, so don't miss a single moment as things may just have started ramping up and could very well get real ugly, real quick! QUICK READ RECAP The party continues to use all their available resources to inflict damage upon Zuggtmoy the demoness of fungi, with Karmadel casting a dispel magic upon the entity successfully altering it's powers and forcing it to back away from the battle, climb to the ceiling in the back secret area, and then go ethereal as a defensive measure, obviously impeded to a significant degree! The party regroups and takes the moment to quickly explore the temple, accidentally setting off an acid slime trap from touching one of four mysterious, dusty stones found in a niche. Leaxle, using his bow, moves the stones from the niche which opens a secret panel revealing numerous, of unknown magical items. Later, Leaxle the thief decides to remove three of the highest value gems from the jewel encrusted throne only to inadvertently summon three demons that attack him instantly from behind, knocking him unconscious upon the dias! The adventurers engage the evil minions learning that they can be hit with normal weapons as longs as the make contact with an armor class of -3 or better! Karmadel quickly aids the fallen thief keeping him from slipping into his impending doom! DM SESSION LOG 150627 Spells memorized. Tralann: 1: Hypnotism, Magic Missile*, Wall of Fog, Color Spray, 2: Web, Invisibility, 3: Fireball Argo: 1st lvl: Magic Missile* x2, Chromatic Orb, Burning Hands, 2nd lvl: Irritation, Blur, 3rd lvl: Protection From Evil, 10' Radius* Karmadel: 1st lvl spells = Detect Magic x1 / Bless* x2 / and Cure Light Wounds x2, 2nd lvl spells = Cure Serious Wounds* x2 / Hear Heartbeat x2/ and Heat Metal x1 and 3rd lvl spells = Prayer x1 and Dispel Magic x1 my at will abilities 10' wide 60' long is Detect Evil and Detect Undead Kyra: 1st Bless. 4xCLW, 2nd 6x CMW, 3rd Prayer*, Dispel Magic, Repair Injury Shenjo: Spells Memerized: Detect Magic*, Enlarge, Blur 4th round of combat. Shenjo casts enlarge on himself 1.6% greater damage. Leaxle backs out of combat. Argo casts irritation on Zuggtmoy, she rolls 87 not resisting the spell and fails save (can't cast spell for the 1st round). Karmadel casts dispel magic on Zuggtmoy cancelling stinking cloud, irritation and three other unknown abilities. Zuggtmoy backs up into the rear secret area beyond the previously pulled down curtain and moves south out of sight. Bjorn enters into the secret area, sees the demoness suspended from the ceiling and tosses a flask of holy water at her but it passes right through, smashing on the ceiling...recognizing that she is passing into the ethereal realm! He shares this information with the group. Kell surmises she went to lick her wounds and come back with more help. Balfon asks about some events being possible illusions. Tralaan senses a secret area on the west wall behind throne and opens a small recess 2' deep by 10' long and 4' tall are four dusty stones, not semi-precious. Karmadel cleans off the dust on stone 4, green slime suddenly sprays out from the niche, covering Argo, his cat familiar and Shenjo. Tralaan uses herbalism to ID the goop as a basic contact poison. Kell helps Karmadel clean up. Kyra converts spell to create water. Kyra casts create water, and all affected characters immediately clean themselves, before the acid damage takes affect! Leaxle examines throne arm for controls and finds none. Karmadel uses trap wand to show all four stones are trapped. Everyone moves out of the way and Leaxle uses his bow to knock all four stones out. A secret door slides up behind the shelf revealing In an additional hidden, secret niche: a wand, rod, ring, metal cube, a scroll case, and box. Leaxle fails a find/remove trap on the box. Shenjo opens the box....nothing happens, revealling 8 poitions. Kell and Aaron standby. Party members don't find any secrets around the throne. Karmadel uses wand of trap/secret detection (13 left) finding nothing. Karmadel searches for secret doors in temple finding none. Leaxle prys three of the highest value gems from the throne. 3 demons appear behind him instantly and they all attack, the first causing 9 hp of damage, then 14, and finally 9, knocking him unconscious! Demon attacks Kyra for 7. Demon hits Aaron for 3. Argo looks like he's vibrating after casting blur on self. Kyra withdraws (to stabilize Leaxle next round). Balfon attacks the demon that hit Kyra but the crossbow bolt misses. Bjorn swings with his halberd hitting AC -2 but misses. Tralaan casts color spray on the demon fighting Bjorn but it is resisted. Karmadel casts cure serious wounds on Leaxle for 8 hp of health...reviving him before dying! Aaron hits AC -4 for 11 hp of damage wounding the first one! Kell hits AC -4 for 11 hp of damage wounding the second one! Serandon shoots composite long bow hitting AC -7 for 12 hp of damage with the first +2 sheaf arrow, and missing on the second. Shenjo hits AC -3 for 10 hp of damage wounding the third one! Argo fires 3 magic missiles but the demon resists. Karmadel makes a shield rush on same for 10 hp of damage. Kell takes 5 hp of damage from the same. Demon hits Karmadel with two critical hits , penetrating his AC -6 for 12 hp of damage! Karmadel is shocked at this bad turn of events! Seradon shoot bow between players and hits AC -4 for 9 hp of damage. Bjorn hits and second attack for 30 hp of damage! Tralaan throws a vial of holy water for 8 hp of damage on the demon and 3 hp of half fire damage to players nearby. Party lump sum XP with all aspects considered (including but not limited to) session survival, skill usage, role-playing, alignment checks, etc: 4025 Karmadel, Priest/Bjorn (Christopher S.): 575 Argo Mage/Leaxle (Paul W.): 575 Tralann (Shalvenay K) Elf, Half: 575 Kell/Aaron (Robert D.) Human: 575 Shenjo (Craig F.) Gray Elf: 575 Balfon (Skyhawk) Dwarf: 575 Serandon (Charles W.): High Elf: 575 SESSION LENGTH: 6-1/2 Hours
