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There is a Hall of Dark Lords back in the hallway. The long hallways has five statues at various places, and each in front of a doorway or exit. There are no other ways out. The walls on the hallway begin to cry out and sing in praise of chaos as Alzar passes by.
Each statue is around 8 feet tall and exquisitely made. Each of the five statues was carved by a Lord of Chaos in their honor. To the left is the first one, and it’s a single block of amber, and a skeleton body, barely human. It awakens as Alzar nears, tells Alzar that: “I am the form of the Heart of Darkness, which is called Shiv, I am in the image of she who is lord of Pestilence, rotting, and corruption. I am the Giver of Lifelessness. I, whom am master of all of this, desire a sacrifice. Thou, who hast given the gift of death to so many, hast found favor in my eyes. Give willingly of a token of thy devotion, and that make thee strong for our cause.” Alzar thinks, and then heads up and has the golem grab a corpse from upstairs of one of the chaos champions he slew. He gives it to the statue. “As the sacrifice was given, so shall the prize. Step into the alcove and be rewarded, bloody-handed one.” The statue pulls back, and the doorway to the room beyond can be moved through. In here is a large amber mace leaning on the wall with murals of diseased people praying to the mace. Alzar has the golem gather it, and as it does, the mace leaps into Alzar’s hand, and since Alzar is not a cleric, he loses 1 STR and CON immediately. Typhus - INT 11, EGO 16, CN, can only be handled by clerics without bad stuff happening, +3 mace, immune to disease, every hit causes disease per the spell unless a save is made. Can cast cloudill and wither once/day, and gives +1 to level for turning or commanding undead. -1 STR and CON to any non cleric who tries to wield it. Each time uses a spell, moves more towards CN. When removed, truns to normal Align, or regains lost STR/CON after one week. Alzar tosses Typhus into a Bag of Holding for later. Alzar’s stats don’t change for this adventure - CON at 8 isn’t any different than at 9, and his STR is magically bumped anyways. Returning to the hallway, the next alcove has a deep green stone statue in front, with a 6 foot tall humanoid male, peacefully looking calm. It animates as well… “Greetings mortal. I am the image of the Night Lord. The Nameless, the Unseen, the Silent, lord of the bats, the insects and the cards. I am the master of all that lurks in darkness and Lord of all nightmares and the Weaver of Dreams. I feed on the thoughts of others. I, who am master of all of this, desire a sacrifice. Give willingly this time of thy love for me, and I shall give thee a token of power to make thee strong for our cause.” Alzar doesn’t want to lose any of his thoughts. That’s way too precious for him. He skips this one for now. |
The third one is carved from a single great emerald and a handsome male. His hands rest on the hilt of a great sword, and he activates as well:
“Greeting children. I who am the image of Lord Eork the Beautiful, Lord of Seven Darks, Duke of Higher Hells, Chief Among the Lords of Chaos, do seek a sacrifice from thee, my loving followers. Give unto me what I ask and receive power most glorious. In return for a soul, and receive a most wondrous gift. “ Again, Alzar is not exactly sure that’s something he wants or is able to give. The fourth statue is a single deep-blue sapphire and a very beautiful women, around 8 feet tall. She animates, “Greeting beloved. I am the image of Kara the travels, Mistress of the Eternal Cycle, Lady of the Dark Magics, My power is that of life itself, All who live are my playthings and subjects to do with as I will, for without me, they would not exist. No life has meaning unless it is devoted to my service. I would bestow upon thee my favors, if thou shall prove thy devotion. In return for human life, I will give thee a key of great power.” Alzar definitely doesn’t want to pay that price. As he moves to leave, the statue cries to him: “By the very nature of my maker, Kara, I cannot be made to serve chaos. But am free to choose my actions. Should you be able to turn ,me to flesh without the gift, and allow me to accompany you here, I will give you my gift.” After conversing with the statue for a while, Alzar is convinced of its sincerity for now, and casts Stone to Flesh on it. Kara, the Traveler: AC -3, MV18, fly, swim 15, HD 10, 70 HP, THAc0 - 11., deals 2d10 damage from punch. Can cast any commonly known enchantment/charm spell, but it affects her as well. Can cast Magic Missile for 5d4+5 5x daily. She stays within 30 feet of Alzar and begins to show him around. They head into the alcove she was protecting… There is an Iron Golem in here, with a large amulet around his hand. She tells Alzar that he can take her gift as a mage. He takes it and is truly staggered at its value: Amulet of Power - Detect Magic, Read Magic at will; Fireball (12 HD) 1/day; Teleport w/o Error 1/week; gives the wearer 50% Magic Resistance. Any non-wizard donning it is feebleminded. That is not a typo. 50% magic resistance is just staggeringly good. She tells him about the gifts of the other two status they passed - a Cloak of Shadows that can only be worn by clerics, and a powerful anti-law sword that can only be held by fighters . They will remove some wisdom and intelligence for the Cloak and remove your ability to ever be resurrected for the sword. Hmmm… So no chance of taking out a statue in melee an moving in? Sure, you could. They are all as powerful as her. But let’s move on for now. The statue at the end of the hallway blocks it off. It’s the most fearsome looking of the five.. Single black diamond used to carve it. Ten foot long scythe, non-gendered beast. This was does not speak, but simply moves to attack Alzar. Arkady the Reaper: AC 02, 90 hp, Thaco- 1, deals 2d6+6 with three attacks, immune to non-magical weapons. And lots of other stuff. 50% magic resistance. With its triple attacks, and hugely powerful chance of hitting, it’s just going to care up it’s target. Round 1: Alzar’s side rolls a 4, and his a 7. Kara uses one of her Missiles - 2 get through the MR for 6 damage. Alzar casts Bone Block. The Golem intervenes, and it attacks the golem. It hits three times for 9+10+7 damage. Golem 61/97 hp Arkady wins init and deals 38 damage to the golem. Alzar’s axe is out and attacks. He steps in front of the Golem to take some attacks. He hits twice for 18 and 17 damage - 35 total, and it takes 11 from missiles. Golem 24/97 Arkady 38/90 Alzar grabs initiative back and kills Arkady. 10000 XP |
They can now pass down the corridor. But Alzar wants those items. He moves to Eork, Lord of the Seven Darks, who is hiding the great sword.
He casts Wild Swing on himself and attacks: Eork - AC -4; 65 hp, THACo 9, 1d10+9, soul drain. Finger of Death if he hits. With his bonuses, and Axe n hand: Alzar is -4 from spell, -9 AC right now, so it needs an 18 to hit, and if it does, save to only save 1d10 to him, and then roll Finger of Death effect. It’s not smart enough to attack Alzar’s bone limbs. Four turns later Alzar has slain it: 9000 XP Alzar heads to the Statue of the Night Lord which his spells are in effect: Statue - THACo 12, -1 AC, 70 hp, 1d10 damage and INT/WIS Drain., Needs a 20 to hit him with one attack. Again, Alzar blows through it. 9000 XP Alzar heads in and uses the Ring of TK again: Cloak of Shadows - -3 AC, 2x move silently percentage, polymorph into cat or bat 1/day. Non-thief wearing it loses half their current hp every round until they take it off or die. He also grows and grabs the sword from the final alcove: Erok’s Sword - 20 INT and Ego, CN, +3, Wielder is CN whenever the sword is in hand. One extra attack/round when fighting lawful, Detect lawful creatures at will, Sword of Wounding against Law, and cannot be healed save by cleric magic from chaotic cleric. The sword always attempts to dominate a wielder when drawn, and still shifts their alignment. Curses any-non fighter who wields it. Can be sheathed as normal if not dominated. Alzar is currently CN, but he cannot be dominated, even y this blade, and sheathes it. Into the Bag of Holding with you! |
The wall behind the Reaper disappeared and they begin to head down the pathway. Kara tells Alzar about a trapper in the floor of the corridor beyond a certain point. In order to get past it, Alzar slips on the Slippers of Spider Walking, returns Aleph to the Warp Marble, and Azzil can fly over it for around 30 feet until it ends.
There is a room at the end of the pathway that is quite disorienting. It’s a large black tone, and the room spins on its axis and eight tentacles are here writhing about. Kara tells him that the tentacles have to be slain in order to stop the spinning. Alzar casts Evard’s Black Tentacles and his unmoving tentacles outnumber theirs considerably, and soon enough the room is cleared out. 9800 XP There are two trap rooms off this one - and Alzar avoids them. He uses the chaos key to rotate the room to the right direction as per Kara’s instruction and they move up a set a stairs. A there are thirteen large stair, and each stair is trapped - there are 13 in total. Most have magical traps, which won’t detect in here, like one is coasted in Oil of Slipperiness. Again, Slippers of Spider Climbing gets Alzar over the traps easily enough, and Kara’s immune to most and aware of the others. There are great murals and hanging curtains resplendent with scenes of the Lords of Chaos conquering realms and breaking the thrones and implements of law ,being cheered on by the masses. They reach the throne room and main temple The doors swing open and there is a room 90 by 170 with pillars of black marble along the wall, with a giant inlaid sword on the floor, a small dais, with an old, wizened man hunched over on it with a scepter, inhand, there is a great altar to chaos here with various symbols, and carven into the ceiling are runes that are a hymn to the glory of chaos. There is a scintillating fire on the inlaid sword about 30 feet long that is shifting hues constantly. Braziers to each side of the altar give off incense and aroma. When Alzar enters, the ancient priest: “Greetings brave ones. I am Tumbaric the Undying, Master of Doom, High Priest of this holy fane. Long have I served the Great Ones, awaiting those who would take up this mantle. I am pleased that you have come - I do get so few guests here these days. By reaching this chamber you have proven yourself fit to serve the Lords of Chaos. At least I can lay my long burden down, knowing the Scepter of Chaos has passed into worthy hands.” Once again, Alzar declines the offer for taking up the mantle of Chaos. The High Priest looks at him oddly and tries to convince him of the value of Chaos. For a good 30 minutes the last Priest-King of Chaos tries to prostelyze Alzar. But it’s to no avail, and soon enough, he realizes that Alzar has the faith of his convictions. “As it has always been, thus it shall be” He hoists the Scepter of Chaos and aims it at a nearby secrets door. It opens and outcome four Spirit Nagas. While he does, Alzar drops the Warp Marble and the Golem appears. Tumbaric the Undying, Master of Doom, Priest-King of Chaos - Four allies here too in the Spirit Nagas, which are a major threat: Spirit Naga - HP 70, 69, 65, 62; AC 4, THAC0 - 11, deal 1d3 + poison to kill, can gaze to petrify, can cast Cure, Missile, Bless, and a few other spells. These are not a simple quartet of thugs (I have doubled the Nagas, and increased the level of the final bad) The cleric does not rise from his seat, instead using the Scepter of Chaos to animate the fires on the sword attack if he is not casting spells. Alzar leads with Time Stop. He moves in and casts Power Word, Kill on a Naga, and then Power Word, Blind on another. Both work. And one is blind, and the other dead. Time resumes and Alzar is near the quartet. Init - Tumbaric casts Flame Strike on Alzar One Naga casts Bless One Naga casts Protection from Law The blind Naga tries to attack Alzar Alzar wants to cast Maze on Tumbaric. Kara casts Magic Missile on Tumbaric The golem and imp move to melee range 6 vs 2 Alzar takes 29 damage from the Flame Strike after making a save. He is missed. Badly. Both spells resolve. Alzar spins and Mazes Tumbaric, no save, he’s so smart and such a high level that he’ll return in 2 rounds. He takes 19 damage from Missiles as he leaves. Next round. 1 vs 7 Alzar’s axe snaps out and he hits twice on the naga that cast Bless. He doles out 38 damage. The golem misses, and Azzil does as well. The blind Naga misses, Alzar is the target of a pair of Magic Missies from both Nagas. His Gem of MM Reflection gest 10 charges used up, Alzar chooses to direct 5 at the wounded Naga and it dies. He heals the other five for5d4+5 - 13 damage Alzar 63/79 4 vs 9 Alzar and crew slay the remaining unwounded Naga. The blind one is ignored. Alzar orders his group to get near to where Tumeric will appear. The next round init? 3 vs 4. The priest returns and Alzar can strike before he casts any spells. Out fly more missiles for 16 damage, and Alzar hits once for 18 with axe and 11 with shield. The golem? Tosses a 7 and misses. Azzil? 8 and misses. Tumeric is still alive, although badly wounded. He casts Word of Recall and disappears. They finish off the blinded Naga. 20000 XP for Naga They head through the open door to check things out. |
There’s a crypt for dead Priest-Kings and Queens. 4 sarcophagi are here. Alzar will skip them for now and return. The next room is a magic and inner sanctum that was used for enchanting chaotic weapons and imbuing chaotic servants with powers.
The last room they pass by is the bed chamber of the Priest-King, and there is a troll guardian back here that dies, and is flask of acid’d with alacrity. Alzar will return to the bedchamber, soon, there but here a room off the bedroom, Alzar enters it and is stunned by what he sees. This is why Morena prepared him. Why he learned so much from her. It’s not just helping her dwarves, nope. The Amulet in his belt pouch turns back into an angel, and explains ot him what has been happening. In this room are nine portals. Nine open gates to other worlds Tumeric fled out one of them to another world. These gates should not be here. They are in the Hollow World, they cannot be here with mortal magic. The only way these things exist is if an immortal, one of Entropy according to the angelic creature, opened them. And now that the Shrine has risen again, these gates are now open, and they need to be shut down. Got it. The angel tells him that he has to break up the Chaos Key, and then toss a piece through each portal to close the gate, and banish one piece each of the Key to that realm. The shrine won’t be able to be used, and the gates are done until the key is reassembled, which will obviously take a really long time, if ever, Alzar does so, and shuts down the various portals in here to the realms of various members of the Chaos Lords. With the gates down, there is little left here to threaten anyone. The Priest-King is banished there as well, and the Chaos Key disassembled. Alzar heads back and begins an investigation of what he skipped The coffins are cursed, according to Kara, and one empty for Tumbaric when he passed. |
The chamber of the Priest-King?
Numerous traps, Scroll - Protection from Law; Protection from Law, 10’ Radius; These spells are slightly different takes on the old Pro Evil or Pro Good spells. They are identical, and reversible as well. Alzar memorizes the revers of both versions. Scrolls are gone. 1500 gp worth of clothing Exotic Furs on bed - 2000 gp Art Pictures on Wall - 800 gp Figurines of Various Animals - 5000 gp 6000 Gp of various furniture (chair, sofa, tc) Alzar’s golem grabs some of the stuff and they store it into OtherSpace or other places. Alzar casts Shrink, opposite of Enlarge, to drop the size of the couch to get it to fit. Alzar returns and tells Draconus about the success, but he already knew. Alzar and Draconus spend a few hours moving his books over: 655 books on general history, culture, and nature of various Hollow World societies and organizations Kara agrees to head back and out, and she leaves Alzar to begin to Travel. She has never seen the Hollow World before. XP gained - 127200 x10% for his bonus and that’s around 140k. Welcome to level 26. He gains a new spell of levels 1-4 End of The Lost Shrine of Bundushatur |
After Alzar returns to the dwarf village, the dwarves are beginning to return themselves from where they fled. Alzar took out more than 75 undead in the shrine, and that included a lot of powerful ones, like Wights, Juju Zombies, Wraiths and Ghouls, not simple skeletons or zombies, so he gets why the dwarves were hit. Apparently the illusionist/cleric led them and was raining destruction down on the dwarves. And they still managed to kill some baddies before fleeing. Alzar brings them warm news.
However, after they fled from their town for a week or so, their defenses were attacked and badly damaged by nearby goblinoid creatures that struck at a time of weakness to take advantage and destroyed senses and buildings even more. Fearing future attacks, and without their defenses to help them fend them off, they are likely to be taken down. There is discussion about the whole community moving wholesale to somewhere else as well. The leader comes to Alzar and tells him of a Hammer, an old artifact that was lost a few decades ago into the depths of Thunderdelve Mountain. If Alzar could find it and return it to them they would not only have a fighting chance in defense, but they believe that the evil denizens would likely skip attacking altogether after news got out of its return. Begin XS2 Thunderdelve Mountain  I was intending to skip this one, but it slides in nicely to where we are. Alzar is keeping Aleph in the Warp Marble until he can get home and get it healed, barring an emergency of some sort. This is one of the last truly solo adventures, and I have no idea what’ll happen. In the module, you are playing a dwarf, so I swapped Alzar in, and I’ll increase the difficulty of combats to match where he is. That’s it. Alzar is questing for the Hammer of Vitroin |
Alzar begins at the edges of the village and arrives at a broken track. As Alzar makes his way down the track and hunts a bit here and there, there is a broken cave off the off the left. He chooses to explore it. Alzar finds a small waterfall of the left and there is a ledge under that goes to the cave. He slips inside and finds a small set of carved steps heading down. The steps ar slippery
Alzar heads down stairs and fails his rolls and takes 9 damage from the fall. Alzar -71/80 (Im doubling damage from stuff like this) There is a small and dusty room at the bottom of the stairs. There is no sign of life here, and the Star reveals a secret door to the left. Alzar opens the door and reveals a small bedchamber. The northern wall has a canopied bed, with silks, satins, and pillows, and Alzar investigates. He quickly looks through some furs and stuff, and then nothing under the bed or side table. Alzar pulls aside the headboard and finds: 150 pp Phial of Red Liquid labeled “Poison for Sword.” Go to FF section if Alzar uses sword Alzar chooses to taste it a bit, and it’s a potion of Super-Heroism. There’s a door from the west that Alzar opens. The northern half of this room is immaculate and has fine silks and such . The southern half is in total shambles and disarray. Suddenly one of the rugs rears up and it’s a giant black bear, much bigger than normal. Fight - Giant Black bear - AC2, HP55, THACO 13, 3 attacks Alzar’s axe is out and he stabs the bear. The bear misses, cloak, and then wins init and misses again. Alzar finishes in 1000 XP In the room is: 150 ep 3 golden goblets - 50 gp each Alzar heads south from here. |
This is a corridor that is well used and pretty clean too boot, and there is a large number of doors in here. Five total exits off the hallway, including the one he just entered. Alzar peeks into the door on the left and there are 50 bandits or more in here, all goblins. Alzar heads back, and chooses a different,
Alzar heads into the room and a guard is here, a hobgoblin, and he cries for help. Alzar’s axe silences him, and suddenly 8 guard follows. Alzar casts Sleep and drops a few, and then slays the rest. 1000 XP Alzar is told to roll 5 times for treasure in here and then check event GG from the list Treasure: Topaz Necklace - 1000 gp 10 Turquoise - 10 gp each Onyx - 50 GP Pearl - 500 gp Bag of Holding Well, finding a BoH is certainly something really nice and he’ll take that. He heads through the door the guard ran through. Inside is a lavish bedchamber full of rich goods, and there is a large chest here as well. Alzar hears movement. A young page-boy arrive,s and Alzar orders him to stay where it arrives The chest is unlocked and untapped. Alzar serach for traps and……finds them with the chest opened, and Assorted Gems - 2000 gp Emerald Necklace - 2500 gp 2 Gold Armbands - 250 gp each 500 sp 750 gp A small satin bag has a Ring sculptured in the shape of a wolf Head. The pageboy tells Alzar that the head guy., Redface will be really angry if it disappears because he uses them to train the wolves. Alzar can choose to wear the armbands (event JJ) or the ring (I) or both. He choose the Ring only. |
He heads back out to the hallway
Alzar heads to the room here and there are voices, and Alzar has marked of GG so… This is a empty barracks. Moth eaten blankets, and such. Alzar rolls 4 treasure: Amber Ring - 600 gp Pearl - 500 gp Strength Potion Ruby - 1000 gp He returns and take the final door There is a short and dusty passage behind the door and there is a vibration sound. Almost like thunder. Alzar investigates the corridor, and then rolls his Dexterity. The floor cracks open, and Alzar manages to grab the rusty chain underneath and then swing back over.. Cross off event H They head down the hallway and try and few doors. A secret door opens into a corridors off this corridor, Alzar checks and there is a another secret door and some holes here. He peers and there is a large room beyond, with numerous goblinoid creatures of various types, as well as a dwarf slave and someone called the Master. Alzar slams open the secret door and moves to fight!!! It smashes open! There is a dwarven women here kneeling and 32 goblins here, and three break off to hit Alzar. Alzar blows through them, and then cross off event D after rolling for 3 treasures: Healing Potion Pearl - 500 gp Jade earrings - 800 gp Alzar heads through an open door to the south. There is a large hall here that the master was just through. There is a lot of trash and refuse about. Alzar heads south into an large room with marble and granite where there were numerous items before. Gems were removed from precious murals recently. There is nothing here but a tapestry hanging from the south wall. Alzar pushes it aside and finds a chest on the other side, but its locked. There is a iron egg on a bed of velvet. It’s odd. Alzar makes off Event E and takes it. Alzar finds a secret door behind the chest and takes it. There are a variety of evil smelling fumbles in this small chamber, with stairs leading down. They have taken some recent damage as well. In fact, the entire area is damaged so badly it would take a while to cela this pout, but there’s another secret door to the left he opens. There is a door here that opens onto a foul smelling room. A large group of wraiths melts from the walls. Alzar uses Negative Plane Protection to slay them. 10000 XP Alzar kills them. In the room is: 3000 sp worth of silver ingots 250 pp 100 gp Gold and Mithril Helm - 3500 gp 3 phials labeled in dwarvish. Inscription 5 (You have to decode dwarven runes in this game to read them) HEALING STRENGTH SPEED Those are the words If you wear the helm check II |
Return to the main hall
Alzar is at a large hallway and there are wooden door sot the left that he heads too, but they are barred on the other side. He would need a silent way to penetrate them. How about fire? He uses a charge from the Wand of Fire to light the doors. There is a huge one-festive hall with now in ruins, with a large pillar in the middle, and then multiple exists. Alzar moves and there is a giant dwarven statue golem in the middle. Alzar moves to it. They begin to attack each other:” Dwarf Statue - AC-3, 75 hp, needs 11 to hit, 4d8 in one punch ( I really amped the power of this thing) Random.org Alzar wins in four rounds and took one hit for 19 damage 7500 XP The statue leaves behind: The Golem’s Heart - a gem worth 6000 GP Cross off event M Alzar is cleansed from the pillar’s and gains 2d6 hp of healing after investing it. Then he heads south Alzar finds a corridor with a bunch of bats, and then he slays them quickly. Then there are some moldy scrolls, and a yellow mold at the end. 8 moldy and illegible scrolls He can fix them up later Alzar finds a locked door in a hallway off the main chamber and uses a vial of acid to open it. There’s nothing here though - totally empty. Eight red worms are in the next room though and they each have 2+2 HP. Alzar drops them with a Blastbones spell 1600 XP There is a small metal box in the room, and a little melted from the hit blood of the red worms here. Alzar breaks it in with a document covered with rosh and fire marks, and some runes. It’s mostly illegible (check our Inscription 9 to make sure) Alzar store the box in his Bag of Holding, again something that can be repaired later. 1 ancient and locked dwarven tome Alzar returns to the chamber with the dead golem and chooses a different door. |
Alzar tries a different direction, and find s a corridor, and t the end of a potion that he sips.
Potion of Mind Control He kills a few shadows in this hallway and then a bedchamber with: Golden Armband - 50 gp Alzar falls asleep on the bed instinctively, knowing he is protected, and he awakens with full hp. There are some ruined dwarf homes, with: Crystal Dishes - 250 set Alzar finds a hidden caches in the back room here and decodes thew the dwarven inscription correctly: Black Bag - 100 gp Gems 1400 gp Ruby Ring - 1000 gp Platinum Headband - 1500 gp3 gold ingots - 1200 gp total The Ring Is magical, and of an unknown nature, the headband s not (Ring of Pro +1) Alzar grabs a spinning top from a nursery in an adjunct door and marks off P There is a pit in the far side of a chamber here off the corridor and explores it. He crosses an old dwarven bridge down here and finds an ancient armory all locked up months ago. Alzar’s Chime opens it, and there is a great hammer of mithril, studded with diamonds and emeralds in here. . Alzar take the hammer down and the hammer wants to return to the dwarven hold, but the dwarven female here is one of the rightful master sand needs to be freed. There may be others here as well. It tries to control him but Alzar;’s will is too strong by far. Alzar slays some vapor ghouls down here, or controls them and has them jump off cliff. He then returns the big golem room and heads down some stairs. Alzar finds a great door here and opens them and plunges in. There is a crystalline room down here blackened by fire. Numerous benches line the walls. Alzar finds a small armory and a barber closest here. A large pool is past the barber’s room and there is a triad of vapor ghouls in here he finishes. Alzar grabs some smelling salts and checks of W , Alzar passes through numerous hallways, with various aspects here and there. A few pools too and he finds… Strange Helmet of Untarnished Silver - 1000 gp Take it? U Wear it?? X Alzar wears the helmets and heads out. He arrives at a large pool of water, where a mighty head appears and asks to help Alzar, bald heads inside his brain. He tells Alzar how-to finish the quest - to cast the Heart fo Heir’s Arm down and spear his name. Cross off O and Y. |
Alzar continues to move through multiple watery tunnels.
The hammer tries ot dominate him again and fials. Alzar passes by another tunnel. And then Alzar finds a minor pool room as well. Alzar disturbs the were-worm and out of it comes the great dragon that runs the area. Alzar must face the creature - Fyrsnaca - AC-5, HD12, hp, 100, THACo- 6, bite is 4d8, breathe is 25% of current hpo ,and it attacks now! Alzar slides into OtherSpace and grabs Wyrmcleaver and uses it to fight Random.org 6 rounds later the draconic creature si dead. 20000 XP This whole section of the dungeon collapses, back past that door from the steps down. Because Alzar has touched Heir’s Stone in the great cavern, and held the Heart of the Golem as well, he has the right to slay the Fyrsyca without getting people upset at him. He has also found and brought back he hammer, but bow he heads back to hit the locals and free the woman and other dwarves captured by the goblin raids. . Alzar casts his mightiest spells, and raids the goblin caverns for all they are worth, and brings back 11 dwarves that were taken, many dwarven items stolen from their village and brings back their weaponds and such. A might blows struck, and he turns over the Hammer of of Vitoin, an intelligent Warhammer which is frankly, not htat good - it’s not an artifact at all, just an intelligent weapon - Hammer of Vitroin -+1, _3 vs wyrms, INT 9, CHA 12, AL Chaotic, gets +2 vs saves on battles against wyrms, 2 CWLs on wielder daily, 1 Wall fo Stone/day) That’s not’s not, bad, but not exactly the best hammer ever. Anyways, it is rumored to be a mighty artifact, and that’s what matters, Plus the tribe was dealt a death blow and their leading battering ram of a were worm that damaged many buildings and such is dead. End of XS2. Thunderdelve Mountain |
Alzar spends the last day here helping the Isarite dwarves to rebuild a few key structures, and he finds out why the dwarves are different. Isar Dwarves are not the warriors that their kinsmen can be. They have a ruddier skin tone - almost swarthy, and they are a bit pudgier than normal dwarves. They have almost no inclination toward magic at all. Of that almost 2000 that exist, only 2 are clerics. None are mages, and none have any class or subclass that has magic - no dwarven paladins or bards or rangers or such. Nothing like that at all.
And the Dwarves of Isar aren’t exactly these amazing smiths or miners or anything like that either. They still think the Hammer of Vitroin is an artifact. They don’t have these extremely powerful smiths that make these exceptional items out of mithril and iron. That’s not who they are either. Sure, they can still craft a lovely battleaxe or something, Alzar almost missed what makes them special. They didn’t brag about it, and he just saw them in action… Like all dwarves, the Isarite clan is also really strong and durable with better constitutions and strength than usual These dwarves have used that constitution to have a lot of experts in deep diving and staying underwater for a longer period of time. Now that he notices - there are a number of pearls and underwater decorations of various types. And Alzar grabs his underwater magical items and heads down to check it out and discovers two underwater crafting stations where they add an underwater crafting angle to the various accoutrements they make. It gives their things a unique spin normal protections and durability and such. They send expeditions to the nearby bay to grab pearls, crabs and lobster, shellfish of other sorts, and more. As Alzar sees these interesting differences in Isar culture, one of the dwarves who is a cleric comes over to them and they begin to talk. Morena has a message for Alzar, and he heads back to the mountain into the old complex he was in. After an hour or so, Alzar finds a quiet, secure place, and a manifestation of Morena arrives. She thanks Alzar for helping to save the Isarites both by taking out the Shrine of Chaos, and then heading into the mountain to both hit some of their local enemies back, but also to kill the dragon-ish creature and to return their hammer to help him them enough power to continue to survive here. Morena has a powerful message for Alzar, and it’s one that he was not expecting certainly not today at least. |
A council of immortals has been discussing Alzar’s situation. Again, the mortals can’t have a thousand planar applicants for immortality turning up on a annual basis. That just throws off the math. But now that the curse is gone from the demon prince, Alzar could have left. There is nothing tying him here. He could have gone back to Thorasia and moved his things over, or slid back to Hamedh, but he continued to push him self and his home here on Pandius. That shows a level of dedication to the plane that is a good sign. Plus, Alzar has done a variety of tasks and quest that are the sorts of things one would expect of a seeker of immortality. Slaying the goblins here certainly isn’t, it’s pretty mundane, but again, there are lots of things he has done. He destroyed the Shrine of Chaos, by himself to a degree that the entire coalition of Law couldn’t do. It’s now over and done.
So the immortals have chosen to make an option available for Alzar to find immortality. But it’s not….normal. In fact they are making the path harder than it is for anyone to have ever gained immortality before. Alzar must find an Immortal Sponsor in each of the five spheres, and then do all of the quests and obligations for each of the paths to immortality. After Alzar completes all five paths, then he will be officially accepted, and he can choose with the five spheres he wants to join. Morena points out that she is being a lot more open than normal. She had expected to be Alzar’s sponsor to the Sphere of Matter, and she would have laid out the specifics of the path to him after he completed another quest for her. She still thinks that he is close to matter than the other four spheres, and would be a good asset. He’s a fighter, just like they tend to be, and no matter how much he may consider himself a “mage” today, he still fights from the front, and can carve out damage at a rate with his weapons that makes normal fighters seriously respect his game. Magic users on Pandius very rarely fight as he does, and leads as he does. He has always had more of an affinity for the element of earth, than those of the others, and from having his first home under ground (instead of towers, above ground structures) or preferring earth elementals to the other three to use in battle, or having more earthen golems as his own, instead of flesh, wood or bone golems. Alzar also has a similar world view to the Sphere of matte for some things, and is a huge ally of law. He also builds a lot. Shoot, he even has a church to Matter as the official religion of his holdings. Law? Builder? Earth? Fighter? Viewpoint? These all synergize with the Sphere of Matter So, now Alzar learns from Morena what he has to specifically do to win the Path of Matter: The Sphere of Matter is closely relation to earth, and its purpose is to withstand destruction and decay. The sphere stands for stability, sturdiness, as matter is the building block of all things. Even in decay and dissolution, matter uses the various elements to create new forms. Matter is rich in variety and easily mutable to any form. Matter represents the laws of the universe and existence, and physical stuff. It is opposed to Time’s constant efforts to change and it grounds Thought in reality and existence. Matter is. Matter is also the only one of the five spheres that leans lawful, although all five spheres have members that are lawful, neutral, and chaotic. The Path of the Polymath: Of the five spheres, none have as many forms, as much variety and as many incarnations of itself as matter. Therefore, it values multiples skills, assets, and more. 1. Alzar must gain 10 new non-weapon proficiencies 2. Alzar must reset his XP at zero and begin a new career as a cleric and then another as a thief. (basically he dual-classes over). He must get to level 10 in each of those, and find an artifact. Since he already has two classes and has dual classed once before, he knows how, and may do so again. Each time his advancement ends when he finds the same artifact 3. After finding the artifact twice in each incarnation, he’ll turn it over to Morena, and she’ll give him the powers of all of his classes at once. 4. Alzar then continues to adventure for 2 more levels of all his classes, including fighter, until they are all at least level 12. 5. Alzar must be accompanied on his adventures by one member of each of the four core classes - fighter, mage, cleric, and thief. They may not be a higher level than Alzar in order to “walk” him through quickly 6. Alzar must have a giant monument erected in his honors and the honor of his adventures, and it must last at least 10 years. After completing those 6 tasks, Alzar can continue as a Mage if he wants, and he has completed the various tasks laid out for him, and he will finish the Path of the Polymath, and can move to immortality. Morena essentially will reset his levels with dual-classing, since it goes outside of the boundaries of normal human classes. Now Morena cannot give Alzar any advice or information on the other paths. And Alzar certainly has to find and secure a sponsor from the others. But for now, this is the information that he gets from Morena. Alzar agrees to head back and will begin the transformation soon. It takes two days to return up the North Pole entrance from the Hollow world due to him fighting the winds rather than riding them down. He arrives, gathers Megala and Ak’kabar, and then teleports back to his holdings and unloads the mimic Magic Door and ghost from the adventure just completed. Alzar’s only been gone for around 9 days total, so very little has happened while he has been gone. |
Anyways, so here is Alzar is his final-pre Polymath phase:
Alzar the Mighty, Marquis 8th level Fighter (Myrmidon), 26th level Path Mage (Fivefold Mage) Lawful Evil Human Str: 17 Dex: 13 Con: 10 (9 until Month 7, Year 6) Wis: 16 Int: 21 Cha: 17 Hit Points: 80 THACO: 13 AC: -2 (Bracers AC2, Helm, Cloak -2 AC, Ioun Stone -1 AC:-3 more for Bright Barrier or -2 when fighting with one-handed weapon) Total XP: 6156490 (Level 27 at 6,250,000) Age 62, Body - 28 Race Abilities: None Taken Class Abilities (Cannot use as Necromancer without losing XP gain): Specialization Leadership (Alzar can command the tactics, strategy, logistics and more that a large force requires) 3 attacks every 2 rounds Non-Weapon Proficiencies: Myrmidon Bonus: Tactical History 14 Fire-Building 16 Riding 11 Swimming 12 Reading/Writing 13 Survival 14 Blind Fighting Etiquette 13 Endurance Heraldry 13 Hunting 10 Fishing 14 Weather Knowledge 10 Orienteering 15 As a Necromancer/Fivefold Mage Necrology 17 Netherworld Knowledge 14 Herbalism 14 Alchemy 15 Poison Use 11 Ancient Languages 10 Spellcraft 12 Ancient History – 14 Bookbinding – 16 Papermaking - 16 Sage Knowledge: Outer Planes, Inner Planes – 13 Divining: 15 Genie Lore: 16 Riding, Specialization: 10 Research: 13 First Lore – Aleph I: 8 Riding, Air: 13 Languages – Thorasian - Typic, Sis’sharr, UnderTypic, Kuo-Toa; Hamedhi – Arjuni, Sand Mire Common – Pandius Prime, Traits: Empathy Fast Healer Precise Memory Obscure Knowledge Weapon Proficiencies: Bonus Kit Specialization: Battle Axe Battle Axe One Handed Weapon Style x2 (-2 AC when using one weapon in combat) Crossbow Battle Axe Weapon Mastery Spear Dagger Total with normal battle axe - +3 to hit, +3 to damage, -2 to AC. An additional +1 with the axe and +1 damage for strength Staff – Can only use this as a Necromancer, +1 Class Ability: 1). Alzar can control undead as an evil Priest of the same level, and this ability extends to extra planar beings which are considered undead with the same hit dice for this purpose. 2). One Extra Spell/Level is Gained, must be Path. 3). Fivefold Mages reduce the spell level by one when researching spells in The Path. 4). Chance to Learn spell in The Path increased by +15% 5). Saving Throw of Targets when targeted by spells from The Path at -1. 6). No more than one spell per level can be from the group: Abjuration, Alteration, Alchemy and Geometry barring a highly unusual and temporary circumstance. 7). Fivefold Mage must invest a focus item as the method through which magic is cast. (Alzar’s Father’s Ring) 8). Must have a lab and library and workbench with 1,000 gp value per level, and an upkeep of 50 gp/level/month 9). They can store spells like an Artificer, but cannot begin to do so until level 6 10). Fivefold Mages have a chance to identify a magical item by spending a turn peering at it closely and examining it - chance is their level times 5. 11). Fivefold Mages never suffer from a negative reaction penalty due to controlling or animating undead. Immune to starvation Can cast ESP once/week A Wish Resulted in - An interdimensional Pocket which only he can access by reaching out his hand, or concentrating to send himself there. It’s sort of like a giant Bag of Holding. It can hold up to 500,000 coins of items, and it’s the size of a large room. Due to the size and volume, it cannot be accessed as readily as his items in a Bag of Holding can be, and therefore, he cannot find items during combat from it. He also can’t step into it during combat, it takes a minute of meditation to translocate his form there. Alzar may move and survive in the following planes at will: Tarterus, Acheron, The Abyss, Elysium, Arcadia, and the Astral Plane and Positive Energy. +2 to all saves against fear/awe effects |
Alzar’s Stuff:
26,900 gp 20,000 sp 65,055 pp Gems: 80250 gp worth of gems; 10 Pearls, 100 gp each; 33,000gp in uncut gemstones; Gem - 1500 GP; 10 Turquoise - 10 gp each; Onyx - 50 GP; Pearl - 500 gpx3;Ruby - 1000 gp; Jewelry: 703,200 gp worth of jewelry, all types; Platinum Chain with Emerald (900 gp); Dragon Tooth Necklace (1500 gp); Gold Crown set with rubies and diamonds - 12000 gp; Jeweled Belt and Armband – 10500 gp; Jeweled Circlet, 1500 gp; Topaz Necklace - 1000 gp; Emerald Necklace - 2500 gp; 2 Gold Armbands - 250 gp each; Jade Earrings - 800 gp; Amber Ring - 600 gp; Gold and Mithril Helm - 3500 gp; Platinum Headband - 1500 gp; Strange Helmet of Untarnished Silver - 1000 gp; Objet d’arts: Huge gold door, 20000 gp; Pair of Heavy Crystal Statues of Elves (1500 gp pair); Mother-of-pearl and mahogany box (500 gp); Arabian Rug – 3000 gp; Jade Table – 8000 gp; 20 5 lb gold bars, 250 gp each; 1500 gp worth of clothing; Exotic Furs on bed - 2000 gp; Art Pictures on Wall - 800 gp; Figurines of Various Animals - 5000 gp; 6000 Gp of various furniture (chair, sofa, etc); 3 Golden Goblets - 50 gp each; 3000 sp worth of silver ingots; Crystal Dishes - 250 gp set; Black Bag - 100 gp; 3 gold ingots - 1200 gp total; Books: 22000 GP Spell and Use Library 3 books on golems and repair – 500 gold. Manual of Summoning Familiars – When read in its entirety just before casting Find Familiar or a similar spell, three possible familiars will arrive and spellcasters can choose which one they want. The Anatomy of the Harginn (The Fire Elemental Grue) worth 500 gp and tell how to summon, and what they do, etc. Four texts on Elemental Water, Evil – 250 gp each Seven Tomes on Secret Rituals of Water Evil of various sorts. Two Books of Magic Three Books on Spell Research into Commanding Undead 5 books on summoning and binding of demons Book on the Soul Gem Lament for Lost Tharizdun – 33,000 gp Book of the Gate – Firestorm Peak The Fivefold Path to Power One bookshelf of tomes on becoming a lich, controlling undead, diseases and curing Diary of Helthrax Treasures of Thorasia 3 Rows of Bigby’s Bookshelves: Magical Theory, Spellmaking, Enchanting, Science, Astrology. Illustrated Hamedh Bestiary (250 gp) Creation of the Shade Surrisk’s notes on undead, necromancy, and a spell Undead Familiar Book of the Coming Neconilis’s Book of Horrors Manual of Bodily Health; Manual of Gainful Exercise; Tome of Clear Thought; Grim Grimoire; Diary - Alinor, Prince of Alphia 315 books from Alinor, Pandius, Restored - They are historical, contemporary historical, and magical treatises. 14k Library used for Return to Alzar spell research History of the Badlands Tribes (20 gp) Encyclopedia of Local Plants (50 gp) Diary of the Wizard, Zelligar Meteorological Phenomena of Hamedh (75 gp) Tribal History of this Duergar Clan Yaghoub’s Journal Three books of magical history Book on history of tower and residents 11 books on the nature of demi-humans – 250 gp 100 Books from Bone Hill Study 1000 gp library of 300 general purpose books from Dungeon in Desert 6 Books on Worship of Nabilah 1200 GP of works on spell research for Scrollmend 5000 gp research library from Nadir’s Tower Complete Leather-Bound 10 Volume Set of writings of Japheth Arcane (5000 gp set) Scrolls, Maps, Journals, War Plans from Tomb of Amhara 1000 gold worth of texts from Tower in Rahasia 2000 gold worth of Castanamir’s own personal journals. 3 books on golems and repair – 500 gold. 5000 gold in books on summoning and conjuring. 10 alchemy texts, 1000 gp value. 15,000 gp specialized summoning and conjuring texts 2500 gold Gingwatzim information, and the five books and two manuscripts that show it. 1000 gold, 12 books, info on making portals 3000 necromatic tomes for research Ye Secret of Ye Philosopher’s Stone – 500 gold Concerning Mesmerism and Lists of Effects – 50 gold; The Magical Properties of Gemstones – 150; The Magical Properties of Herbs and Flowers – 150; The Metaphysics of Mathematics – 150; Principles of Navigation and Legal Distinction in Letters of Marque – 10 gold Cenozoic Glacial Geology, - 50 gold;The Art of Coarse Angling – 75 gp; History of The Gauntlet and The Sentinel – 250 gold 200 tomes, 12000 gp – value of books in generic mage research for spells and other mage stuff. 1500 gp worth of alchemical books Tome – 500 gp Detailing sacrifice of humans to earth elementals for various effects. Treatise on the nature of a flesh golem (not its construction) 5 books on anatomy of various monsters 8 books on Magical Lore 25 volumes on Battle tactics and strategies in various wars and sieges 100 magic research tomes 1786 texts - Shrine of Kuo-Toa, on religion, water, history, and various UnderDeep cultures. 150,000 gp 18 high quality religious texts on Sea Mother, 2500 gp total 358 Titles on Alien Theory, Gates, Teleporting, Magical and Normal Creatures, Various Theories 25000 gp on Books on herbalism, poisons, and magic item construction. 46 books on anatomies of various creatures. 320 books on history of Thorasia 2500 gold in making items such as Scarabs 301 Uncommon to rare books on general knowledge topics 4 books on summoning and controlled Spectators 220 Books on Beholders, Magic, and Research on Spells without requiring Somatic/Material Components 442 Books from Beholder Library – General Topics Detailed Notebook on making a Dwarf Crusher Golem 4 Books that relate, in detail, how to make Spellcache Rings of various sorts How to Make a Thunderpot in Four Easy Steps Notes on Summoning Hordlings, and 4 Truenames given to Summon 6 Books on making various potions, Climbing, Giant Strength, Healing, Heroism, and Gaseous Form 467 Arcane Texts 33 Books on Dwarven Lore Book on Axe of the Dwarvish Lords; Friar Hyckum’s shocking tale, Dragons of Depravity, worth 1000 gp Theology Texts from Temple of the Frog – 6 shelves and 72 additional books 232 Light Reading Books, 1st Floor Temple of the Frog 4 lined shelves of Cult of the Frog secrets, including how to make items, spells, and frog people. 655 books on general history, culture, and nature of various Hollow World societies and organizations Tome of Clear Thought; Tome of Understanding; Manual of Puissant Skill at Arms; Libram of Teleportation Arches; Libram of Gainful Conjuration; Laboratory: 27000 gp lab generally Thunderpot Making Equipment Alchemical Equipment – Makes Climbing, Giant Strength, Healing, Heroism, and Gaseous Form Potions. Artifacts: Face of Xenous - Summon one of each elemental, 16 hd, no control, once/week; Cone of Cold, Telekinetic Gaze, 1000 coins, 2/day; Flesh to Stone, Web 1/day; Color Spray, Darkness, 15’, 3/day; Comprehend Languages at will - Fires in 60’ extinguished and temperature drops 20 degrees when power used. When non-evil touches it take 4d4 damage and ages 1d4 years. INT 25, EGO 25, turn to CE if dominated. Bright Barrier of the God-King Dargeshaad Alignment – Lawful Large circular shield Major Power: Purge – Drain 2 levels of HD from all non-lawful who can see it 3/day Minor Power: +2 Shield, wielder can hold shield and cast spells simultaneously. Deliver Shield Punch attack for 1d8+2 damage. Cast Command at will; Detect Lie 3/day Dangers: Wielder ages 1d10 months any time activating major power is used. Major power also pushes user more and more towards and stricter and stricter alignment. Chance Dargeshaad will inhabit user if major power used. Magic Items: Potions - of Sweet Waterx2, Diminutionx7, Gaseous Formx9, Poisonx6, Telekinesis, Extra-Healingx8; Healingx18, Levitationx4, Spider Climbingsx6, ESPx3 Animal Control – Horses, Clairvoyancex3, Clairaudiencex4, Fire Resistancex2, Philter of Lovex2, Control Plantsx3, Neutralize Poison, Speedx11, Cure Disease, Water Breathingx4, Invisibilityx4; Invulnerabilityx5, Undead Controlx5 (Wight, Vampire, Ghoulx2), Heroismx8, Flyingx3, White, Silverx2, Greenx2, Blue Dragon Control; Oil of Etherealnessx2, Strengthx2, Treasure Findingx2, Human Controlx5, Growthx2, Animal Controlx4 Philter of Persuasivenessx2, Super-Heroismx4, Polymorph Selfx14, Titan Strengthx3, Agilityx4, Seeing, Fire Giant Controlx2, Freedomx3, Mammal Control, Fire Breathx4, Storm Giant Strengthx2, Oil of Slipperiness; Hill Giant Strengthx2; Plant Controlx2; Vitality; Tonguesx3; Pursuit, Nutritionx3, Fish Control, Levitation; Cold Resistancex2; Lycanthrope Control; Infravisionx2, Fire Giant Strengthx2, Devil Control, Shielding, Clear Thought, Oil of Acid Resist; Oil of Disenchantment; 2 Jars Keoghtom's Ointment – 6 applications left; Ointment of Blessing, of Poison; Potion of Sustenancex2, Bug Repellant, Elemental Formx3, Blending, Agility, Vitality, Sightx2; 5x Ethereality; Super-Healingx3; Dreamspeechx3; Fortitudex4; Mergingx3; Ventriloquism; Oil of Slipperiness; Mind Control; Weapons and Armor - +1 Pesh-kabzx2, Short Bowx2, Daggerx4, Gada, Club, Heavy Crossbow, Yataghan, Sling, Tulwar, Shamshir, Scimitar, Spear, Axex3, Footman’s Mace, Longswordx4; Staff, Short Sword, x4; +1 Changestaff (Takes the form of any weapon, always deals 1d6+1 damage); +2 Flail; Khanda; Macex3; Yataghan; Bastard Swordx2, Short Sword, Net, Longswordx4;Warhammerx2; Scimitar; Broadswordx2; Axex2; +3 Pesh-Kabz; Daggerx4; +3 Mace; Axe; 2 Handed Sword; +4 Battle Axe; Broadsword; Short Sword; Bastard Sword. +2 Mace, +4 vs undead; Mace, +1 vs Lawful, -1 vs Chaotic; Spear, +1, +2 vs Giants, +3 vs Orcs, Ogres ; Warhammer, +2, +4 vs Weapon-Using Opponents; Short Sword, +4, +6 vs giants; Sword of Chaos,+4, +6 vs Law, Levitate 3x day, Lawful characters that grab it to use it take 20 damage, neutral 10 damage; +2 Dagger, Longtooth; Cold Sword; +3 Frostbrand Sword; Scimitar of Defending +4; Vorpal Yataghan; Pickaxe of Piercing; Hammer of Luck +2; Ptah’s Royal Flail - +3 Flail, acts as Mace of Disruption; Dagger of Venomx2; Sword of Deceiving +2; +2 Spear of Accuracy, +4 when thrown; Mattock of the Titans; +2 Trombash of Returning; +4 Sling of Seeking; +2 Crossbow of Speed, +2 Heavy Crossbow of Speed; Hasp of Reloading; +4 Short Bow, x8; Arrow of Giant Slaying; 4 Javelin of Lightning; Javelin of Piercing; 11 Darts of Wounding; 22 Bolts of Ice, +1 Bolt, deal 1d6 extra damage, 2x damage vs fire; 12 Stun Bolts; 2x Quarrels of Flying; +2 Javelin of Returning; +1 Arrowx20.; +4 arrowx4; Arrow of Disarming x4; Dart of the Hornet’s Nest; Dart of Death; +4 Arrows, +7 vs Weapon Using Foesx4; +4 Arrow of Dispellingx2; +4 Arrow of Climbing, x8; +1 Shieldx5 ; +1 chainmail; +1 plate armorx3; +1 Splint Mail; +2 Chainmailx2; +2 Leather Armorx2, Plate Mailx2; Shield x4; +3 Shield; +3 Flying Shield; +3 banded mail x3; Chainmail (Goblin Sized); +4 Leatherx3; +4 plate mail; +4 Shield; +5 Shield +3 Bronze Elven Scale Amor; +3 Shield of Haste (Once/day can cast a self-haste which does not age the user); Chainmail of Presence (+3 and CHA 18 when worn); Shield of Fear (Like Plate Mail of Fear); Elven Chainmail +1; Missile Deflector Shield (+1, +4 vs missiles, 20% chance Magic Missile negated); Rings - Greater Ring of Sustenance; Ring of Water Walkingx2, Ring of Depetrification – 12 charges; Ring of Protection +1; +2x4, +3x5, +4,; Ring of Warmth; Ring of Windwarding; Ring of Quick Action; Ring of Invisibility; Ring of Human Control; Ring of Fire Resistancex2; Ring of Telekinesis, 50 lbs; Ring of Feather Falling; Ring of Mammal Control; Ring of Anti-Venom -20 charges; Ring of Mirror Images – 19 charges; Ring of Free Action; Ring of Sustenance; Anything; Regenerationx2; Spell Turningx2; Chameleon Nature; Cantrips; Shooting Stars (12 charges); Frog Controlx2; Ring of Water Command; Ring of Three Wishes (3 charges); Ring of Frog Calling; Ring of Djinni Summoning – Can only open a gate to a random Prime Material Plane once/month, and nothing else. Ring of Wizardry (Double 1st and 2nd); Ring of Spell Storing – Haste, Lightning Bolt; Cleric Ring of Spell Storing – Word of Recall; Ear Ring; Finger Nail Spellcache Rings (Anti-Magic Shell, Dispel Magic, Flame Arrow, Phantasmal Killerx2, Reduce, Stoneskinx4, Non-Detection, Haste, Mirror Image, Grease) Wands, Staves, Rods - Wand of Paralyzation 17 charges; Wand of Magic Missiles – 20 charges, 63 charges; Wand of Wonder – 45 charges, 63 charges, 19 charges; Wand of Force – 90 charges; Wand of Negation – 5 charges; Wand of Opening – 10 charges; Wand of Frost – 9 charges, 12 charges; Wand of Ice Storms – 42 charges; Wand of Lightning – 12 charges; Wand of Viscid Globs – 79 charges; Wand of Metal Command – 19 charges; Wand of Fire – 65 charges; Spider Wand – 64 charges; Wand of Fear – 22 charges; Wand of Rust – 27 charges; Wand of Secret Door and Trap Det – 7 charges; Wand of Salt – 21 charges; Buckler Wand; Rod of Terror – 8 charges; Rod of Electrification – 17 charges; Rod of Smiting – 19 charges; Rod of Rulership; Rod of Cancellation; Rod of Victory; Rod of the Wyrm (Chaotic); Rod of Rulership (31 charges); Staff of Striking – 48 charges; Staff of the Serpent, adder; Staff of Spell Focusing – 23 charges; Amun-Re’s Staff of Rulership; Staff of Power – 16 charges; of Healing – 14 charges; Scrolls – Wizard Scrolls -, Tongues; Invisibility, 10’ Radius; Push; Haste; Fly; Gust of Wind; Minor Globe of Invulnerability; Invisibilityx2; Mass Invisibility, Illusionary Script, Shield, Light, Mirror Image, Spectral Hand, Continual Darkness, Shadow Door, Dig, Feign Death, Strength, Hold Person, Emotion, Dispel Magicx3, Monstesr Summoning III, Disintegrate, Death Spell, Maze, Death Spell, Symbol of Discord. Disintegrate, Remove Curse, Airy Water, Limited Wishx2, Mislead, Summon Swarm, Control Weather, Crystalbrittle, Energy Drain, Gate, Charm Plants, Knock, Pyrotechnics, Globe of Invulnerabilityx2, Stone to Fleshx4, Symbol, Write, Invisible Stalker, Passwall, Fire Trap, Push, ESP, Wizard Lock, Vocalize, Shape Change, Solid Fog, Guards and Wards, Water to Poison, Vampiric Touch, Ghoul Touch, Monster Summoning VI, Power Word Blind, Summon Shadow, Erase, Dispel Magicx3; Binding; Fire Shield, Dimension Door, Elonia’s Glamer, Dazzle, Transmute Mud to Rockx4; Time Stop; Teleport Without Error; Abjure; Gate, Astral Spell, Scroll of Disintegrate, Delayed Blast Fireball, Mordenkainen’s Disjunction, Dispel Magic, Polymorph Selfx3, Color Spray, Dispel Magicx3; Invisible Stalkerx5; Hold Portal; Tensor’s Floating Disc; Lower Water, Dissolve, Power Word, Stun, Legend Lore, Phase Door, Wall of Force, Prismatic Spray, Lightning Ring; Polymorph Other, Shapechange, Lower Water; Scroll of Spell Catching 1-6; Scroll of Portals; 2 Scrolls of Communication linked together Cleric scroll – Scroll of Creation, Truth; Protection from Cold, Demonsx2, Undeadx3, Magicx2, Elementalsx4, Lycanthropesx3, Felines, Traps, Devils, Possessionx2, Nonmagical Weapons, Shapechangers; Dragons; Fire, Acid; Items Worn Gauntlets of Ogre Powerx2; Gauntlets of Dexterity; Gloves of Missile Snaring; Rock Jellaba; Robe of Useful Items; Necklace of Adaptation; Bracelet of Swimming; Necklace of Missiles –5; Necklace of Protection +1 AC; Bracers of Defense, AC7, AC6, AC4, AC 2x2; Bracers of Protection vs Normal Missiles; Bracers of Cleaning Periapt of Proof Against Poison +2; Periapt of Health Amulet of Proof against Scrying and Detectionx2; Amulet of the Planes; Talisman of the Golem; Medallion of ESP 30’; Scarab of Death; Scarab of Protection – 12 charges; Talisman of Memorizationx2; Medallion of Defense; Amulet of Neconilis; Amulet vs Undead (5th Level); Amulet of Finding x4; Amulet of Inescapable Location; Medallion of Proof Against Detection; Scarab of Venom; Luck Charm (+1 Saves); Protection +2; Brooch of Shield Spell - 9 Charges; Girdle of Ogre Strength; Zoster of Zeal; Girdle of Many Pouches; Sandals of Speedx2; Elven Bootsx3, Boots of Striding and Springingx2; Slippers of Spider Climbing; Boots of Varied Tracks; Boots of Levitation; Boots of Traveling; Cloak of Displacement; Cloak of the Manta Ray; Cloak of the Bat; Cloak of Protection +2,+3; Elven Cloakx3; White Dragon Skin Cloak - +3 save vs cold, 50% less damage from cold sources; Cassock of Precaution; Set – 1 Black Cloak, Black Boots -75% to move silently/be invisible in dungeons. Crown of Leadership; Mask of Disguise; Helmet of Underwater Action; Helmet of Reading Languages and Magic; Hat of Disguisex2; Helm of Telepathy; Ioun Stone - Incandescent Blue Sphere (+1 spell level), 2xDusty Rose - +1 AC; Deep Black Sphere (See in Non & Magic Dark); 2xPearly White Spindle – Regen 1 hp/turn; Clear Spindle (No eating or drinking needed); Pale Lavender Ellipsoid (Absorbs spells up to 4th level, 20 charges left); Eyes of Humanoid and Monster Charming Death Mask of Ptah 3x Bag of Holding, 10000 coins; 3x Weightless Chest; Flatbox; Zagyg’s Spell Component Case (12000 gp of components); Heward’s Handy Haversack; Bag of Tricks (C); Crystal Ball with Clairaudiencex2; Crystal Ball; Crystal of Death Scrying; Carpet of Flying (4 Passengers); Broom of Flyingx2; Folding Boat; Square Wheel; Star of Mo-Pilar (Gem of Seeing), Rope of Entanglement; Rope of Climbingx3; Warp Marble; Iron Flask; Prison of Zazig; Iron Bands of Bilarro; Chime of Opening; Grave Key - Magical item that opens any locked coffin, tomb, crypt, etc. Dust of Appearance x5; Dust of Disappearancex20 Magic Jelly Beans – 1 Grey, 2 Green, 2 Orange, 2 Yellow (G Cube), 2 White (Crystal Ooze), 2 Black 5 Beads of Force; 9 Thunderpots; 6 Buttons of Blasting; Stone of Diminution, when held acts as potion until dropped; Glowstones x6; Lamp of Creation; Crucible of Melting ; Lens of Speed Reading ; Honing Stone 6 charges; Quill of Forgery; 4 Jars of Preserving; Chalice of Identification; Slate of Identification; Lamp of Long Burning; Incense of Enlightenment; 6 Blocks of Incense of Meditation; Phylactery of Faithfulness Whistle of Golem Control; 2x Collar of Animal Control; Banner of Renown; Pillow of Regeneration; Gem of Magic Missile Protection, 50 charges; Pearl of Power 3rd Level; Pearl of Power 4th level; Pearl of Power, 2nd level; Shovel of Digging House of Zebulon ; Cube of Forcex2; Daern’s Instant Fortress; Bag of Puchezma’s Powder of Edible Objects – 50 pinches 4 Kegs of Smoke Powder, 100 charges each Horn of Collapsing; Kamencheh of Calming; Horn of Blasting; Horn of Fog; Bronze Horn of Valhalla, summons 2d4 Neutral Evil, level 2 fighters, AC4, 15 hp, spear or sword. Can only be blown by N, NE, LE, or CE Priest or Warrior. Table of Plenty; Decanter of Endless Water; Metal Platter (Beef, Lamb, Turkey, Pheasant) for four people once/day; Mug (Beer, Ale, Mead) six/day; Pitcher (Water, Tea, Wine), three/day.; Ebony Fly, Serpentine Owl Figurine, Onyx Dog, Obsidian Steed, Ferret Figurine; Brazier of Controlling Fire Elementals; Stone of Controlling Earth Elementalsx2; Censer of Controlling Air Elementals The Whistle, “Nightcaller” – Blow once/week at night to raise Zombie from grave to follow you Multiform Graegzim Gingwatzim, amulet an turn into Fremlin. Selinyr - +5 Axe, with two talents – Translating and Extinguishing. Bladestar - +2 dagger, CN, I 15, E 11, Detect Invisible, Charm Person on contact 3/day, strength 1/day, 19 or 20 does max damage when used in backstab. Slay Lawful Creature, 1/month – save vs death or dies instantly. Wyrmcleaver - +2 two handed sword, becomes +4 vorpal sword against dragons Amulet of Power - Detect Magic, Read Magic at will; Fireball (12 HD) 1/day; Teleport w/o Error 1/week; gives the wearer 50% Magic Resistance. Any non-wizard donning it is feebleminded. Helm of Selnor – Can only be worn by warrior with CHA of 15+, +1 AC and cast Charm once/day on group – save vs spells and cannot be broken normally, charmed become barbarians in culture and alignment, as well as friends. Cloak of Shadows - -3 AC, 2x move silently percentage, polymorph into cat or bat 1/day. Non-thief wearing it loses half their current hp every round until they take it off or die. Bloodfear - A +3 longsword that absorbs blood during combat = for every 20 points of damage vs a flesh entity with blood, the sword gets +1 in damage to a total of +7, after which is drops back to just +3 because it’s satiated and has to be built back up again. Unifex - +2 Dagger made from unicorn horn, AC2 given and can teleport once/day Erok’s Sword - 20 INT and Ego, CN, +3, Wielder is CN whenever the sword is in hand. One extra attack/round when fighting lawful, Detect lawful creatures at will, Sword of Wounding against Law, and cannot be healed save by cleric magic from chaotic cleric. The sword always attempts to dominate a wielder when drawn, and still shifts their alignment. Curses any-non fighter who wields it. Can be sheathed as normal if not dominated. Typhus - INT 11, EGO 16, CN, can only be handled by clerics without bad stuff happening, +3 mace, immune to disease, every hit causes disease per the spell unless a save is made. Can cast cloudill and wither once/day, and gives +1 to level for turning or commanding undead. -1 STR and CON to any non cleric who tries to wield it. Each time uses a spell, moves more towards CN. When removed, truns to normal Align, or regains lost STR/CON after one week. Deathstone Fragment - User will be cursed and lose 10 max HP; can control up to 50 HD of undead, with half level of ability. Curse is transferred is given away. Gem of Delusion – Command word forces everyone other than user in 20’ radius to save vs spells as Gem flashes. If they make it, they are stunned for 1d4 rounds and then Feebleminded for 1d6 after. If they fail, then deluded. The Earthshaker’s Mind Gem – Controls the Machine Amulet of the Abomination – The Amulet used to summon the Abomination of Karazan, it no longer works. The Eye of Myr Div - Unique other-planar gem - 25,000 gp. Cursed – Periapt of Foul Rottingx2, Helm of Alignment Changing, Ring of Spell Snatching; Cloak of Poisonousness; Body Parts: Alicorn Eyes, Scales, Teeth, Blood, Central Eye of a Beholder Parts from a Bronze Golem; Drolemx2; 4x White Wolf Pelts 7x skins, tentacles, fangs, blood of Displacer Beasts; Eyes, Teeth, Scales, Blood, etc, of an old Blue Dragon, old Black, 7 red dragons (5 young, 1 old, 1 very old), Dragon Turtle, venerable Black; Unusual Items: Spell Component Collection – 12500 gp value 19 Rings Ready for Spellcache 38 empty Thunderpot Flasks Silver Dagger 6 Ichor-Green Potions – Turn drinker into frog-person if they fail a save The Golem’s Heart - a gem worth 6000 GP 8 moldy and illegible scrolls 1 destroyed ancient dwarven text Psionic - Lamp Without Reservation, 12 charges; 3 dampsuits; 5 flaregoggles; exoskeleton, 6 tentacle extensions |
Protective Amulets allow a save made if they fail one and are destroyed
Level 1 – Charm Person Level 2 – Forget Level 3 - Suggestion Level 4 – Polymorph Other Level 5 – Domination Level 6 – Flesh to Stone Level 7 – Finger of Death Level 8 – Maze Level 9 - Power Word, Kill Stored Spells: Level 1 - Spoil Holy Water Level 2 – Vocalize Level 3 – Vampiric Touch Level 4 - Minor Globe of Invulnerability Level 5 – Magic Jar Level 6 – Døkkálfar Teleport Level 7 – Teleport without Error Level 8 – Maze Level 9 - Lauthdryn’s Cleaving Alzar can cast: 6/6/6/6/6/6/6/6/5: Spellbooks Castanamir’s Evil Books: 1st Level: Charm Person, Hypnotism, Friends, Magic Missile, Nystul’s Magical Aura, Protection from Good, Sleep, Spook, Corpselight, Dance Macabre, Reflected Image, Spoil Holy Water, Wandbane 2nd Level: Darkness, 15’ Radius, Deafness, ESP, Fools’ Gold, Irritation, Ray of Enfeeblement, Stinking Cloud, Tasha’s Uncontrollable Hideous Laughter, Choke, Dark Mirror, Empathic Control, Ghost Pipes, Castanamir’s Magic Missile Reflection, Undead Mount, Wall of Gloom 3rd Level: Feign Death, Haste, Improved Magic Missile, Protection from Good, 10’ Radius, Suggestion, Vampiric Touch, Curse Tablet, Dire Charm, Minor Malison, Mummy Touch, Skulltrap, Watery Double, Whip of Pain 4th Level: Contagion, Enervation, Fear, Phantasmal Killer, Bestow Curse, Delayed Magic Missile, Putrefaction, Ray of Oblivion, Rain of Terror, Greater Malison, Merald’s Murderous Mist, Disfigure 5th Level: Animate Dead, Avoidance, Cloudkill, Domination, Magic Jar, Deathmaster’s Vial, Eyefire, Fiendform, Nystul’s Enveloping Darkness, Persona of Death, Vile Venom, Xult’s Magical Doom 6th Level: Death Fog, Ensnarement, Geas, Mislead, Programmed Illusion, Flesh to Stone, Curse of Lycanthropy, Gauntlet of Teeth, Otiluke’s Excruciating Screen, Seizure, Spell Mirror 7th Level: Acid Storm, Amorphous Blob, Blood link, Consume Knowledge, Create Crypt Thing, Finger of Death, Otiluke’s Death Screen, Spell Turning, Torment, Vanish, Wandweird 8th Level: Abi-Dalzim’s Horrid Wilting, Bone Blade, Brain Spider, Demand, Heart of Stone, Mass Charm, Maze, Otto’s Irresistible Dance, Trap the Soul, X-Ray Vision 9th Level: Absorption, Blade in the Soul, Energy Drain, Estate Transference, Imprisonment, Mass Domination, Mordenkainen’s Disjunction, Programmed Amnesia, Weird Castanamir’s Enchantment Books: Book 1 – Basics – Permanency 8th, Enchant an Item 6th, Analyze Dweomer 8th, Enchanted Weapon 4th, Recharge 6th, Steal Enchantment 7th Book 2 – Advanced Item Making – Obar’s Lesser Purification (4th), Merald’s Meld (4th), Eternal Flame, (5th), Veladar’s Vambrace (5th), Crown Meld (6th), Wondrous Web (6th), Awakening (7th) College of Wizardry Levels 8 & 9 Demonomicon of Iggwilv: Banishment 7th, Binding 8th, Dismissal 5th, Dolor 5th, Ensnarement 6th, Torment 7th, Gate 9th, Cacofiend, 7th; Power Word, Banishment 9th, Spiritwrack 6th Xaene’s Spellbook 1st – Affect Normal Fires, Charm Person, Comprehend Languages, Find Familiar, Grease, Identify, Magic Missile, Read Magic, Write 2nd – Continual Light, Darkness 15’, ESP, Invisibility, Levitate, Melf’s Acid Arrow, Shatter, Vocalize, Web 3rd – Clairvoyance, Dispel Magic, Explosive Runes, Flame Arrow, Hold Person, Material, Melf’s Minute Meteors, Phantasmal Force, Wind Wall 4th – Dimension Door, Fear, Fire Shield, Ice Storm, Magic Mirror, Polymorph Other, Wall of Ice, Wizard Eye 5th – Animate Dead, Conjure Fire Elemental, Dismissal, Dolor, Hold Monster, Sending, Teleport, Wall of Force 6th – Bigby’s Forceful Hand, Control Weather, Enchant an Item, Glassee, Globe of Invulnerability, Guards and Wards, Legend Lore, Repulsion 7th – Banishment, Drawmij’s Instant Summons, Limited Wish, Mass Invisibility, Phase Door, Reverse Gravity, Torment, Vanish 8th – Bigby’s Clenched Fist, Binding, Glassteel, Incendiary Cloud, Mind Blank, Permanency, Polymorph Any Object, Symbol, Xaene’s Mighty Chilblains The Tome of the Unusual: Aganazzar’s Scorcher, Odeen’s Magic Cloud, Vipergout, Ray of Fatigue, Paralyzation, Dispel Illusion, Acid Bolt, Gullship, Andrui’s Baneful Backfire Bigby’s Great Tome Bigby’s Bookworm Bane, Bigby’s Feeling Fingers, Bigby’s Dextrous Digits, Bigby’s Silencing Hand, Bigby’s Pugnacious Pugilist, Bigby’s Battering Gauntlet, Bigby’s Construction Crew, Bigby’s Force Sculpture, Bigby’s Fantastic Forces, Bigby’s Interposing Hand, Bigby’s Strangling Grip, Bigby’s Superior Force Sculpture, Bigby’s Besieging Bolt, Bigby’s Forceful Hand, Bigby’s Grasping Hand, Bigby’s Clenched Fist, Bigby’s Most Excellent Force Structure, Bigby’s Crushing Hand Evocation Tome of Beginners – All common 1st level evocation spells Standard Spellbook – Feather Fall, Hypnosis, Sleep, Spook, Magic Mouth, Shatter, Dispel Magic Sussick’s Spellbook: Magic Missile, Chill Touch, Spook, Detect Magic, Read Magic, Detect Undead, Cantrip, Wall of Fog, Find Familiar, Light, Tensor’s Floating Disc, Continual Light, Flaming Sphere, Death Armor, Hold Person, Levitate, Locate Object, Spectral Hand, Bind, Dispel Magic, Hold Undead, Item, Dig, Undead Familiar Piyarz’s Book – Detect Magic, Find Familiar, Light, Magic Missile, Read Magic, Sleep, Baltar’s Lightening, Magic Mouth, Locate Object, Tongues, Rary’s Mnemonic Enhancer Lurg’s Book – Detect Illusion, Detect Magic, Emrikol’s Question, Identify, Phantasmal Force, Read Magic, Wizard Mark, Non-Detection, Illusionary Script Porro’s Book – Change Self, Color Spray, Dancing Lights, Find Familiar, Detect Magic, Identify, Light, Read Magic, Wizard Mark, Hypnotic Pattern, Misdirection, Knock Cipolla’s Book – Detect Magic, Read Magic, Sand Jambiya, Tensor’s Floating Disk, Wall of Fog, Invisibility, Ventriloquism Spellbook destroyed by rat, just one spell left – Levitate (remnants of book were procured and owned) Neconolis Spellbook: 1st level – Alarm, Burning Hands, Detect Magic, Detect Undead, Friends, Jump, Magic Missile, Protection from Good, Read Magic, Spook 2nd Level – Deafness, Detect Good, Ghoul Touch, Magic Mouth, Whispering Wind, Wizard Lock 3rd Level – Bewilder, Explosive Runes, Hold Undead, Non-Detection, Secret Page 4th Level – Curse, Emotion, Enchant Weapon 5th Level – Animate Dead, Summon Shadow 6th Level – Summon Least Yugoloth Telvar’s Spellbook – 1st Level – Cloud Ladder, Charm Person, Detect Magic, Magic Missile, Protection from Good, Read Magic, Identify, Sleep, Shocking Grasp 2nd Level – Darkness, 15’ Radius; ESP, Flying Fist, Invisibility, Levitate, Detect Invisibility, Magic Mouth, Wizard Lock 3rd Level – Dispel Magic, Fireball, Fly, Protection from Normal Missiles, Feign Death, Monster Summoning I, Leomund’s Tiny Hut, Scintillating Sphere 4th – Rary’s Mnemonic Enhancer, Wizard Eye Crescent Witch Spellbook: 1st – Run, Burning Hands, Charm Person, Read Magic, Detect Magic, Identify, Charm Person, Shocking Grasp 2nd – Invisibility, Stinking Cloud, Darkness 15’ Radius, Baltar’s Lightening, Knock 3rd – Genie Contract, Protection from Good, 10’ Radius, Lightning Bolt, Dispel Magic 4th – Evard’s Black Tentacles, Unburn Dervill’s Spellbook – Read Magic, Identify, Detect Magic, Wizard Mark, Hold Portal, Magic Missile, Chromatic Orb, Featherfall, Web, Detect Invisibility, Misdirection, Audible Glamer, Haste, Protection from Normal Missiles, Dispel Magic, Nondetection, Item, Suggestion, Polymorph other, Wizard Eye, Daltim’s Flaming Fist, Teleport, Desert Fist Nadir’s Spellbook – 1st - Read Magic, Identify, Wizard Mark, Detect Magic, Change Self, Comprehend Languages, Magic Missile, Shield, Erase, Conjure Spell Component 2nd – Melf’s Acid Arrow, Summon Swarm, Ray of Enfeeblement, Invisibility, Wizard Lock, Knock, Vocalize 3rd – Teleport Object, Dispel Magic, Fly, Lightning Bolt, Sepia Snake Sigil, Hover 4th - Fire Trap, Dimension Door ,Ice Storm, Stoneskin, Minor Globe of Invulnerability, Phantasmal Killer, Leomund;s Secure Shelter 5th – Cone of Cold, Mordenkainen’s Faithful Hound, Shadow Door, Teleport, Transmute Rock to Mud, Waves of Sand 6th – Antimagic Shell, Chain Lightning, Death Spell, Disintegrate, Globe of Invulnerability, Stone to Flesh 7th – Finger of Death, Prismatic Spray, Teleport without Error, Negative Plane Protection Transmuter’s Spellbook : 1st: Burning Hands, Fist of Stone, Detect Magic, Read Magic, Identify, Cantrip, Color Spray 2nd: Strength, Shatter, Wizard Lock, Knock, Bonewood, Melf’s Acid Arrow 3rd: Dispel Magic, Lightning Bolt, Blink, Explosive Runes, Haste, Fly 4th: Wizard Eye, Stoneskin, Polymorph Self, Dimension Door 5th: Passwall, Teleport, Farscry, Feeblemind 6th: Teleport Other, Disintegrate, True Seeing 7th: Teleport Without Error, Phase Door, Power Word Stun Anderia’s Spellbook: 1st - Burning Hands, Chill Touch, Identify, Enlarge, Nystul’s Magic Aura, Shield, Taunt, Pro. from Good, Melt, 2nd – Melf’s Acid Arrow, Invisibility, Detect Invisibility, Ray of Enfeeblement, Tasha’s…Laughter, Infravision, Mirror Image, Blindness 3rd – Explosive Runes, Dispel Magic, Fly, Slow, Vampiric Touch, 4th – Life Bolt, Enervation, Charm Monster, Confusion, Minor Globe of Invulnerability 5th – Wall of Force, Demishadow Monsters Wazor’s Spellbook 1st Level – Magic Missile, Chromatic Orb, Detect Magic, Read Magic, Identify, Burning Hands 2nd Level – Invisibility, Detect Invisible, Flaming Sphere, Tasha’s….Laughter, Forget 3rd – Fly, Fireball, Flame Arrow, Dispel Magic, Item 4th – Charm Monster, Fire Trap, Massmorph, Polymorph Other, Polymorph Self 5th – Transmute Water to Dust, Hold Monster, Dolor, Improved Blink 6th – Anti-Magic Shell, Enchant and Item, Stone to Flesh, Globe of Invulnerability 7th – Phase Door, Statue, Teleport Without Error, Dragon Breath 8th – Major Globe of Invulnerability, Permanency, Incendiary Cloud 9th – Wish, Meteor Swarm, Gate, Wail of the Banshee Neroth’s Spellbook 1st – Magic Missile, Sleep, Read Magic, Detect Magic, Charm Person, Protection from Evil, Wizard Mark, Ray of Fatigue 2nd – Pyrotechnics, Invisible, Melf’s Acid Arrow, Levitate, Web, Improved Phantasmal Force 3rd – Dispel Magic, Protection from Evil, 10’ Radius; Haste, Fly, Lightning Bolt, Dire Charm 4th – Ice Storm, Phantasmal Killer, Remove Curse, Confusion, Wizard Eye 5th – Conjure Fire Elemental, Telekinesis, Teleport, Passwall, Wall of Stone 6th – Disintegrate, Invisible Stalker, Legend Lore, Claws of the Umber Hulk 7th – Statue, Power Word Stun, Vision, Mass Invisibility Serge’s Spellbook 1st – Magic Missile, Read Magic, Detect Magic, Charm Person, Protection from Evil, Light, Burning Hands, Charm Person 2nd – Detect Invisible, Melf’s Acid Arrow, Levitate, Web, Continual Light, 3rd – Dispel Magic, Hold Person, Lightning Bolt, Vampiric Touch, Haste, Hold Undead 4th – Confusion, Wall of Fire, Hold Monster, Acid Bolt, Shout 5th – Telekinesis, Teleport, Dissolve, Cloudkill, Summon Shadow, Cone of Cold 6th – Disintegrate, Projected Image, Death Spell, Dimensional Blade 7th – Planar Door, Spell Turning, Limited Wish 8th – Power Word Blind, Incendiary Cloud Felmot the Invoker’s Spellbook 1st – Detect Magic, Read Magic, Identify, Magic Missile, Chromatic Orb, Shield, Tenser’s Floating Disk, Wall of Fog 2nd – Flaming Sphere, Stinking Cloud, Web, Flying Fist, Know Alignment 3rd – Lightning Bolt, Melf’s Minute Meteors, Dispel Magic, Delude, Invisible Mail 4th – Ice Storm, Wall of Fire, Otiluke’s Resilient Sphere, Delayed Magic Missile 5th – Cone of Cold, Cloudkill, Wall of Force, Zerixith’s Spellbook 1st – Hold Portal, Detect Magic, Read Magic, Feather Fall, Magic Missile, Phantasmal Force, 2nd – Blindness, Knock 3rd – Hold Person, Hold Undead 4th – Polymorph Self, Instruct Spectator, Dimension Door Khuxristul’s Spellbook 1st - Detect Magic, Read Magic, Hold Portal, Magic Missile, 2nd – Detect Invisibility, Darkness 15’ Radius, Knock 3rd – Protection from Normal Missiles 4th – Dimension Door, Extension I 5th – Wall of Blackstone, Contact other Plane, Wall of Force, Extension II 6th - Extension III, Geas Naera’s Spellbook: Magic Missile, Read Magic, Detect Magic, Mirror Image, Web, Haste Splecters’s Conjurations, Masteries, and Summonings: Protection from Evil, Detect Invisible, Web, Infravision, Water Breathing, Charm Monster, Control Bats, Plant Growth, Polymorph Other, Conjure Air Elemental, Control Gargoyles, Hold Monster, Invisible Stalker, Monster Summoning IV. Najirit’s Tome of Wonders: Warning Trumpet, Wizard Eye, Teleport, Detect Magic, Ventriloquism, Hold Portal, Charm Portal, Detect Magic, Detect Invisible, ESP, Clairvoyance, Phantasmal Force, Improved Phantasmal Force, Haste, Dispel Magic Phenalon’s Phantasmagorica Symbol of Spell Loss, Entrap; Legend Lore, Phantasmal Force, Improved Phantasmal Force, Phantasmal Killer, Shadow Creatures, Hallucinatory Terrain, Projected Image, Change Self, Invisibility, Audible Glamour, Dancing Lights, Unseen Servant Asztellor’s Book of Deadly Spells Animate Dead, Animate Dead Animals, Undead Mount, Summon Shadows, Ghoul Touch, Lich Touch, Vampiric Touch, Mummy Touch, Energy Drain, Spectral Hand The Book of Dolzhabban “The Dread” Magic Missile, Fire Ball, Stone Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Burning Hands, Cone of Cold, Melf’s Minute Meteor’s, Flaming Sphere, Flame Arrow, Melf’s Acid Arrow Tairdo’s Spellbook: 1st Level – Magic Missile, Cantrip, Detect Magic, Read Magic, Identify, Burning Hands, Find Familiar, Feather Fall, Grease, Taunt, Nystul’s Magic Aura 2nd Level – Invisibility, Detect Invisible, Summon Swarm, Mirror Image, Melf’s Acid Arrow, Glitterdust, Knock, 3rd – Fly, Fireball, Flame Arrow, Dispel Magic, Non-Detection, Monster Summoning I 4th – Charm Monster, Fire Trap, Massmorph, Polymorph Other, Polymorph Self, Stoneskin, Monster Summoning II 5th –Hold Monster, Demi-Shadow Monsters, Mordenkainen’s Faithful Hound, Leomund’s Lamentable Belaborment, Teleport, Monster Summoning III 6th – Anti-Magic Shell, Ensnarement, Enchant an Item, Stone to Flesh, Invisible Stalker, Project Image, Monster Summoning IV 7th – Phase Door, Simulacrum, Teleport Without Error, Spell Turning, Drawmij’s Instant Summons, Limited Wish, 8th – Power Word Blind, Permanency, Monster Summoning VI 9th – Astral Spell, Monster Summoning VII, Power Word, Kill, Mordenkainen’s Disjunction. Eyes, Vision, and Arcane Sight: Infravision, Wizard Eye, Clairvoyance, Blindness, Deafness, Vision, Blur, Eyebite Glandar’s Grimoire: Flesh to Stone, Finger of Death, Disintegrate, Fellblade, Melisander’s Harp, Disruption, Immunity to Undeath Spayle’s Book of Spellbook Spells – Animate Drawing, Copy, Erase, Organize Spellbook, Protection from Bookworms, Protection from Liquids, Read Magic, Ink Transfer, Explosive Runes, Illusionary Script, Ink Luminance, Secret Page, Sepia Snake Sigil, Fire Trap, Avoidance, Damage Link, Leomund’s Secret Chest, Spayle’s Pocket Spellbook, Temporal Corridor, Symbol To be Decoded Later – NONE currently. YAY! Alzar’s Combined Spellbook, 7/7/7/7/6/6/6/6/5: First Level: Alarm Alzar’s Undead Porter Armor Animate Dead Animals * Cantrip Charm Person * Chill Touch * Chromatic Orb * Comprehend Languages Conjure Spell Component Create Divining Rod (D229) Dance Macabre Detect Magic Detect Undead Emrikol’s Question Enlarge Friends * Identify Innocent Bearing (D271) * Hypnotism * Light * Locate Remains Mount * Organize Spellbook (D262) Protection from Bookworms (D262) Protection from Chaos * Protection from Good Protective Amulet Read Magic Sleep * Spoil Holy Water Talon’s Waterproof Unseen Servant * Wandbane * Warning Trumpet Wizard Mark Second Level: Alzar’s Axethrow Alzar’s Bookcopy Alzar’s Bookmend Alzar’s Familiar Attract Ghoul Baltar’s Lightening Blastbones * Bone Block (D271) * Choke Continual Light * Continual Wind Death Armor Embalm Empathic Control * ESP * Forget Ghoul Touch * Hold Person (Hamedhi) * Ink Transfer (D262) Knock * Leomund’s Trap Locate Object Melf’s Acid Arrow * Ray of Enfeeblement * Ray of Ondovir * Scare * Skeletal Hands Spectral Hand Speak with Dead Summon Swarm * Tasha’s Uncontrollable Hideous Laughter * Tenser’s Hunting Hawk Undead Mount Unpickable Lock Vocalize Wall of Gloom Wild Swing (D271) Wizard Lock Zala’s Lifeforce Guardian Third Level: Alamir’s Fundamental Breakdown Bands of Sirellyn Bewilder Bone Knit Control Bats Curse Tablet Dire Charm * Dispel Magic * ESP Barricade (College) Explosive Runes Fly Genie Contract Haste Hold Undead Ink Luminance (D262) Leomund’s Tiny Hut Lesser Rhabdomancy (D229) Lightning Rod (Volo) Mummy Touch * Proof Against Teleportation Protection from Chaos, 10’ Radius Protection from Good 10’ Radius Searing Serpent * Sepia Snake Sigil Slumber * Skulltrap * Suggestion Teleport Object (Volo) Tongues Undead Summoning I Vampiric Touch * Watery Double Fourth Level: Alzar’s Quest Alzar’s Scrollmend Alzar’s Undead Expertise Backlash Bestow Curse Charm Monster * Confusion * Contagion Control Death Tyrant Detect Ensorcellment (D229) Detect Scrying Dig Dimension Door Disfigure Dweomerflow (Volo) Enchanted Weapon Evard’s Black Tentacles * Fire Trap Greater Malison * Instruct Spectator Itemmeld Magic Mirror Merald’s Meld (Volo) Merald’s Murderous Mist * Minor Globe of Invulnerability Mordenkainen’s Faithful Phantom Shield-Maidens * Obar’s Lesser Purification (Volo) Otto’s Tin Soldiers Polymorph Other * Putrefaction Rain of Terror Ray of Oblivion Rary’s Mnemonic Enhancer Remove Curse Ritual of Renewal Special Effects Summon Lycanthrope Swordshun Unburn Vorthala’s Undead Turning Immunity Wall of Evil Fifth Level: Alzar’s Far Summons Andrui’s Baneful Backfire Animate Dead * Chaos Conjure Earth, Air or Water Elemental * Contact Other Plane Control Gargoyles (CM8) Damage Link (D262) Deathmaster’s Vial Dismissal Dolor Domination * Eternal Flame (Volo) Fiendform Feeblemind Focal Stone (Volo) Greater Rhabdomancy (D229) Hold Monster * Magic Jar Mnemonic Negation Mordenkainen’s Faithful Hound Passwall Presper’s Moonbow Prying Eyes Spell Trigger (Magister) Stealweb Summon Shadow * Teleport Temporary Youth (D260) Transmute Rock to Mud * Veladar’s Vambrace (Volo) Vile Venom Xult’s Magical Doom Sixth Level: Alzar’s Backtrace Teleport Alzar’s Golem Heal Alzar’s Spellbookmend Anti-Magic Shell Bind Tabi Crown Meld (Volo) Curse of Lycanthropy Death Spell * Dimensional Blade Døkkálfar Teleport Dwoemer Divest (D229) Enchant an Item Ensnarement Flameproof Geas * Globe of Invulnerability Invisible Stalker * Legend Lore Lich Touch Recharge Seizure * Spell Mirror Spiritwrack Stone to Flesh * Summon Soul Eater Summon Least Yugoloth Teleport Other * Transmute Bone to Steel True Seeing Wizard Seal Wondrous Web (Volo) Seventh Level: Amorphous Blob Awakening (Volo) Azundel’s Purification (Volo) Banishment * Blood Link (Volo) Cacofiend Conjure Greater Earth Elemental * Consume Knowledge Create Crypt Thing Descry (College) Finger of Death * Hold Golem Mass Teleport (Volo) * Negative Plane Protection Planar Door Power Word, Stun * Prismatic Spray Return to Alzar Semi-Permanency Simulacrum Spectral Guard Steal Enchantment (Volo) Teleport without Error * Torment Vanish Wardmist (Volo) Younger Eighth Level: Abi-Dalzim’s Horrid Wilting Analyze Dweomer Binding * Create Death Tyrant Create Spectral Wizard Demand * Hornung’s Random Dispatcher Major Globe of Invulnerability * Mass Charm * Maze * Monster Summoning VI Otto’s Irresistible Dance Permanency Power Word, Blind Summon Fiend Symbols Normally and Spell Loss, Entrap as well Trap the Soul * Ninth Level: Astral Spell Blade in the Soul Disruption Energy Drain Estate Transference Gate Immunity to Undeath Imprisonment Lauthdryn’s Cleaving (Magister) Mass Domination * Mordenkainen’s Disjunction* Power Word, Banishment Power Word, Kill * Programmed Amnesia Strip Resistance (College) Terminate Scrying (College) Time Stop * Virus Charm * Wail of the Banshee * Worldwalk Key to Spell Locations: Volo – Volo’s Guide to All Things Magical Magister – Secrets of the Magister College – College of Wizardry D followed by number - Dragon Magazine. So, for example, D229 is Dragon 299 and D262 is Dragon 262. CM8 – Spell from module CM8 Special Books Already Used – Tome of Clear Thought; Tome of Leadership and Influence; Libram of Ineffable Damnation; Tome of Understanding; Tome of Quickness of Action; Manual of Puissant Skill at Arms; Longevity Potions Drank – 2 Younger - 1 6 Death Tyrants 2 Vampires - AC2, HP 40 each, Deal 1d10 damage and energy drain, charm, over at Ilth K’hinax 9 Coffer Corpses; 6 Ghoulstirges; 4 Swordwraith; 2 Topi; Undead Head (AC7 in the bottle), HD 3+3, HP 30, DMG 1d6 from screech or 1d4 bite. Alerts everyone.; 24 Giant Skeletons, various lower level undead (Zombies, skeletons) in Ilth K’hinax |
Pets in Pandius
Ak’Kabar Tabi HD – 5; HP 26 THAC0 – 15; 2 Attacks, 1d4 each; Intelligence – 9 Speaks – Own Language, Common Tongues AL – Chaotic Neutral Each hit by a claw must save vs poison or be deluded for 2d6 turns. Tabis can pick pockets, hide silently, and move in shadows with a 40% chance of success, and they can backstab when doing do. A tabi looks like a cross between a monkey, a bat, and a cat. They are about 15 pounds, and roughly 2 feet tall. After being bound I is extremely loyal, will do anything commanded, will be loyal for life, can go far outside the boundary normally had, and most importantly, the tabi is not a familiar. He can have a familiar, and if it dies nothing bad happens Azzil, Imp AC 2, HP 14, Save As: Level 7 THAC0 – 19; 1d4 + poison or die Lawful Evil, INT Average Flight class A, 18 25% Magic Resistance Can only be hit by silver or magical items Can polymorph at will into a raven or giant rat. Can turn invisible, detect good, magic, at will. Has infravision. Regenerate one hp/rnd. If within 1 mile, master gains infravision, regeneration and 25% magic resistance. User’s caster level increased by one. If not in 1 mile, caster level decreased by one. Immune to cold, fire, electricity. Can communicate telepathically with Alzar. Once/day can cast Suggestion. Now, if Azzil dies, Alzar is drained of two levels like an Energy Drain. Azzil wants to be the leader of this relationship, and views Alzar as the tool and him as the master, but in reality, Azzil knows that it’s not nearly as powerful as Alzar can be. The devils allowed Alzar to take one of their Imps as a recognition of the work he’s done against demons. Imps are the Ferrari of familiars. There is virtually no familiar that is as useful as an imp. Auto kills no matter the level with poison, they grant MR 25%, regen, and infravison and +1 caster level. They can invisible, polymorph, detect at will. They are the best and most agile of flyers. Now sure, Azzil is a bit independent, and will collect its own treasure and hide it away from bad guys. But it’s good. Megala, Homunculus Lawful Evil HP: 10 THAC0: 19 AC: 6 Damage: 1d3+ sleep Megala is Alzar’s Homunculus from before Vorthala died, and he had given Alzar much of the ingredients. Megala has no personality, and is merely an extension of Alzar. When he fights, his fangs force a save vs poison or put a person to sleep for 5d6 rounds. If he dies, Alzar will take 2d10 damage Aegis – AC – 2 HP - 70 (HD 14) THAC0 – 7 1 attack for 3d8damage Needs a +2 to hit with a weapon Immune to most spells Made of Onyx Stone, gives it a better AC and HP than a normal Stone Golem. Heals fully when a Transmute Mud to Rock spell is cast on it. Coils, Iron Cobra Neutral AC: 0 HP: 8 THAC0: 20 Attacks: 1d3 + poison The Cobra can be activated and deactivated by command words known by Alzar. When an Iron Cobra hits in combat, the target must make a save at -2 vs. poison or die. The Cobra only has three such charges, but can be refilled by Alzar using his Poison Use proficiency. It has all of the normal construct immunities (Cold, Poison, Disease, Sleep, Charm, Fear, etc). Fangs, Necrophidus Neutral AC: 2 HP: 12 THAC0: 19 Attacks: 1d8 + paralyzation Fangs appears like a skeleton of a giant snake, with a human fanged head at the top, and jewels in the eye sockets. It shares all of the normal immunities that constructs have. In combat, it bites with its fangs and those bitten must save vs. magic or be paralyzed for 1d4 turns, which gives the Necrophidus plenty of time to finish off the target if they can kill, paralyze or drive off other invaders. Due to its slinking nature, it can surprise an opponent 50% of the time. The Necrophidus can perform a maneuver called the Dance of Death. It is a hypnotic, semi-magical swaying that rivets the attention of onlookers. All must save versus Magic or be hypnotized, and unable to move. Creatures that are hypnotized can be safely attacked by the Necrophidus and Iron Cobra. Bronze Golem, Named Aleph: Bronze Golem – AC 0, HD 20, HP 97, THAC0 – 3, 1 attack fist 3d10 damage +1d10 heat damage; Deals 1d10 heat damage from its scaling hot “blood” inside the being. That fiery liquid spurts out when it takes damage to whoever hit it, or when it punches because it makes contact. Immune to heat, and requires a +2 magical weapon to hit. “Kitty”, Amber Golem – AC 6, HD – 10, HP – 50, THACO – 11, 3 attacks for 2d6, 2d6 and 2d10. Movement 18. Looks like great amber lion, Detects Invisible, +2 weapon to hit, can follow a trail 12 hours cold, for every 12 hours more its -5% at tracking. Half damage from fire magic. “Lance”, Silver Golem – AC 0, HD – 12, HP – 65, THACO -9, 4 attacks for 1d8, 1d8, 1d8, 1d8. Movement 30. Fastest known golem, has mercury in it. Always wins initiative, even against magic that would take it. +2 weapon to hit. Magic fire heals it, and causes it grow for a time (full damage from magical cold and it will shrink temporarily). Not affected by spells. Android Bodyguard – AC -1, HD 7, HP 40, THAC0 – 8, 1d8+4/1d8+4 attacks. Programmed to use any human weapon, from missiles and physical weapons to the energy weapons on the ship. Immune to cold, and all of the normal construct immunities. Half damage from acid or fire. If hit with electrical attack, 1% chance per damage point dealt that it shuts down. As a guard android, has full stats = 18 dexterity, 18/90 strength, 18 constitution, can see 150% vision, hearing, and has infravision. Intelligent. It can self repair minor damage, major damage cannot be repaired save by returning to the ship and finding a way to do so. The bodyguard shows him how to use the various items he didn’t know. One of the benefits of having this mobile attack platform is that he can use the best weapon for a battle without any disadvantages. For example, if they are fighting fire creatures, give the android a Frostbrand sword. Give it the vorpal yataghan normally, and maybe Wyrmcleaver or the +3 Flail of Disruption against undead and so forth. It punches twice or can use a weapon in each hand or a shield and a weapon and so forth. Plus it can use a weapon that might normally try to control the user or dominate it without any issues. Allies Bevidoro, Mimic who insists he is a “Magic Door” AC7, HD8, HP 51, MV3, ThACo 13, 3d4 damage, uses glue-ish attack to stick to target or anything else. Immune to acid. Neutral Bevidoro was starving and picked up in the Lost Shrine of Bundushataur and promised lots of food and a nice place back home. Bevidoro guards places in Alzar’s castle, and is fed by the staff daily to prevent it from accidentally eating someone. Bevidoro can shrink down the size of a large box and stick to someone mobile to relocate quickly. Since mimics have a bad reputation, Bevidoro insists that he is, in fact, just a hungry magic door, and not a mimic at all. He will never admit otherwise. Unless maybe food was involved. Draconus - Level 20 Ghost/Mage. Lawful Good, touch ages 1d4x10 years. Sight ages 10 years. Can use Magic Jar constantly, and can be turned. Knows lots of magic spells, from Wish to Magic Missile, and everything in between. (Magic Missile, Charm, Pro Evil, Read, Detect, ESP, Forget, Scare, Web, Hold, Light bolt, Slow, Suggestion, Confusion, Fumble PMprhOther, Wall of Fire, Wall of Ice, Cone of Cold, Feeblemind, Hold, TK, Wall of Force, Geas, Domination, Globe of Invul, Legend Lore, Limited Wish, Power Word - Stun, Vanish, Mass Charm, Maze, Symbol, Bigby’s Crush H, Foresight, Wish). Draconus was one of the leaders against the Lords of Chaos and fought in the final battle at the Shrine of Chaos in Thunderdelve Mountain, and like many of his companions, fell there. He was trapped in a ghost’s body in the Shrine, and uses a Wish to stay LG and retain his magic casting ability as well. He can’t rise in ability or learn new spells. After Alzar arrived and removed the chaotic taint from the area, the ghost, who had been trapped for 1300+ years, agreed to come back and be the guardian, warden, and primary user of the extensive library that Alzar has collected. Draconus is good to Alzar’s evil, so there’s only so far he’ll go to help out, but this certainly counts. Plus, as he has told Alzar, there is a time in the near future where Alzar is going to be the Champion of Law in a major cross-planar battle that he is totally unaware of right now. Figurines of Wondrous Power: “Zadaxx” Ebony Fly Figurine, A Giant Fly, AC – 4; HP – 25; THAC0 – 16; 1d6 damage in combat from ramming; Alzar can ride it. Can be used three times per week for 12 hours at a time. Flies very fast, and can be turned back to statuette at a word, and is the size of a pony, and can be used as a steed. If killed, reverts to statue form and that uses up its magic for that 12 hour period. “Zandran” Serpentine Owl; Two uses, and you can switch back and forth between them for eight hours a day. 1 –A small owl, very sneaky AC7, 3 hp, THACO – 20, 1d2x2 damage – 95% silence, infravision, keen hearing, telepathy with owner; 2 – Giant Owl, AC6, 19 hp, THACO – 17, 2d4, 2d4, 1d8. “Kithog,” Onyx Dog - AC 3, HP 22, THACO 16; 1d6, 1d6; LN, Can summon any number of times but not more than one hour/day total, takes one week to come back after he dies. “Angral” Obsidian Steed - like Heavy War Horse, but can use Fly, Go Ethereal, Astral; turns to 8 hours per day, 3x/week. “Balo” Full Sized Ferret, AC5, Thaco 30, 3 hp, deals 1d2 damage, infravision of 60 feet, move silently 100%; hide in shadows 95%, pick pockets 75%, very fast,can be used for up to 6 hours at a time for up to 3 times a week. |
Pretty cool stuff. I remember having the master and immortal sets (and a couple of the immortal campaigns), never did actually play them, but the materials were quite interesting. I'm excited to see Alzar trying to head down this path.
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A few things to note. Alzar will dominate this challenge for a few reasons:
1). Alzar has already done a duel class when he voluntarily gave up the axe for the staff and became a mage. So he understands what that process is like and how works and doesn’t work. 2). Alzar keeps his things. After all, it would be very un-matter like to require him to do the quest just from the power of his spirit or something. So Alzar can use the various things he’s found in order to empower him. For example, right now Alzar benefits from the fighter-only items that amp his combat. He has a lot of thief- and cleric- only stuff, he can swap over too. This will help him in ways that the other stuff never could. 3). He remains in charge of eh March of the Mighty Alzar has the local Magist create Spellcache rings with Teleport on them. He’s grown accustomed to teleporting around, and he doesn’t want to spend too much time without it. Alzar’s next move is to work with his Shadow Mage ally, Gwifa. They spend two months preparing himself, and running the March. She is fully trained now in dowsing, and she agrees to help him move over to his first task For those two months, the March is quiet. Alzar does another quick course for the College of Wizardry, and Japheth Arcane loves the idea of going to all of the different classes and thinks it’ll be quite enlightening. The only major incident is a bandit raid that Alzar teleports to and ends as soon as he hears. Alzar takes all of his things over that he cannot use. He grabs items and prepares |
Month 3,Year 6
Near the end of the month, Alzar has gathered a group of adventures around him: Rogren, a level 1 fighter, from the local town guard, who recently distinguished himself in catching a criminal. Racala, a level 1 cleric and servant of the Sphere of Matter. Adentium, a level 1 apprentice and conjurer of a local leader Forx, a level 1 bard who was recently entertaining the local population, and no looks to explore. All four of these people have been vetted by Alzar’s spells and allies. Alzar is moving to thief. He thinks it’ll be the hardest to do, but also the easiest to advance, since thieves don’t require a lot of XP to level up: Morena arrives and swaps his class over. He spends around 6 weeks in training as a thief, and now that he has this class, these various abilities come very quickly to him. He selects the Investigator kit, as a way to track down criminals and lawless folk. It’s a natural fit for him |
Alzar, Level 1 Thief Alzar the Mighty, Marquis Alzar, Level 1 Thief, Investigator; (8th level Fighter (Myrmidon), 26th level Path Mage (Fivefold Mage)) Lawful Evil Human Str: 17 Dex: 13 Con: 10 (9 until Month 7, Year 6) Wis: 16 Int: 21 Cha: 17 Hit Points: 80 THACO: 20 AC: -1 (Cloak of Shadows, Boots, Ring of Pro +4, Iuon Stone drops him to -2.) Total XP: 0 Age 62, Body - 28 Race Abilities: None Taken Fighter Class Abilities (Cannot use as Necromancer or Thief without losing XP gain): Specialization Leadership (Alzar can command the tactics, strategy, logistics and more that a large force requires) 3 attacks every 2 rounds Non-Weapon Proficiencies: Myrmidon Bonus: Tactical History 14 Fire-Building 18 Riding 14 Swimming 12 Reading/Writing 15 Survival 16 Blind Fighting Etiquette 16 Endurance Heraldry 13 Hunting 12 Fishing 15 Weather Knowledge 12 Orienteering 17 As a Necromancer/Fivefold Mage Necrology 17 Netherworld Knowledge 16 Herbalism 16 Alchemy 15 Poison Use 13 Ancient Languages 11 Spellcraft 13 Ancient History – 16 Bookbinding – 16 Papermaking - 16 Sage Knowledge: Outer Planes, Inner Planes – 13 Divining: 15 Genie Lore: 16 Riding, Specialization: 10 Research: 13 First Lore – Aleph I: 8 Riding, Air: 13 As a Thief: Information Gathering: 15 Trailing: 16 Set Snares: 12 Languages – Thorasian - Typic, Sis’sharr, UnderTypic, Kuo-Toa; Hamedhi – Arjuni, Sand Mire Common – Pandius Prime, Traits: Empathy Fast Healer Precise Memory Obscure Knowledge Weapon Proficiencies: Bonus Kit Specialization: Battle Axe Battle Axe One Handed Weapon Style x2 (-2 AC when using one weapon in combat) Crossbow Battle Axe Weapon Mastery Spear Dagger Total with normal battle axe - +3 to hit, +3 to damage, -2 to AC. An additional +1 with the axe and +1 damage for strength Staff – Can only use this as a Necromancer, +1 Thief Weapons Short Bow, Short Sword Thief Class Ability: Cannot use Armor Without a Trace Defensive Bonus- -3 AC when unarmored Backstab - x2 damage from level 1-4: +4 to attack Open Locks: 20 Find/Remove Traps: 35 Move Silently: 15 Hide in Shadows: 20 Climb Walls: 60 Read Languages:5 Evasion: 15 |
Alzar now has the Information Gathering proficiency which gives him the ability to find information from the underworld. Trailing is sort of like city tracking. Or other community -villages, towns, underground in places like cities, and such. He can also set snares too.
Alzar created his Skills and Powers Thief Class: 80 character points spent for: 10 backstab 20 Traps and Locks 10 Move and Silent 5 Climb walls 5 Read Languages He doesn’t spend anything on pick pockets or detect noise. 50 points spent thus far. (There is little in here, unfortunately, but Dragon magazine article from D256 has an extensive list of expansions and options for rogues.) Now, ideally, he wants to take things like Rogue’s Luck which gives him one free reroll a day on an attack or a saving throw, or Charm resistance - +2 saves v charms. But it’s hard to explain how ot do it. So here are the final 30 points for Alzar: 10 Evasion 10 Without a Trace +5 No Armor 15 Defensive Bonus Alzar is specializing in not dying, since he came close multiple times when he was reset in Hamedh and dualed in Thorasia. He is used to fighting without armor, so he’s adjusted his thief style to match. He gets a -3 AC bonus when he’s not in armor, and he now can’t wear armor, a restriction that will cross over when he slides to multiple classes again later on. Evasion is another special skill, and the first time in a round that Alzar would be hit, roll his Evasion, and he hits it, he dodges the damage. He can’t put more than 5% per level into it, and never more than 60% full. Without a trace basically gives Alzar a chance to scurry away, even when there are no other options or has has been found. He makes three checks against Climb Walls, Move Silently, and Hide. If he makes all three, then he finds some nook or crawlspace and squeeze in and is hidden. He disappears without a trace. |
Alzar is currently wearing:
Cloak of Shadows, -3 AC, which gives him 2x chance of Move Silently, and he can polymorph to bat and cat Gauntlets of Dexterity - +10 to all thief skills Necklace of Adaptation Periapt of Proof Against Poison +2 Rock Jellaba Zoster of Zeal Boots of Striding and Springing (-1 AC) Hat of Disguise Greater Ring of Sustenance and Ring of Free Action, but when adventuring Ring of Pro +4 which gives him -4 AC and to saves. With the Ring, Alzar gets -1 AC, and -2 if he uses the Iuon Stone. +4 Short Bow he found, with the Hasp of Reloading which gives him double attacks in a round, and a ton of arrows he can fire. Short Sword, +4, +6 vs giants Alzar’s goal is to be a bit of a mobile scouting missile platform. His familiar, Azzil is still here. But he gains no benefits from it, and its uncontrollable for the most part. He is still bound to the Tabi and Homunculus, and the golems still answer to his call. But many are locked off. Alright, it’s time to head out and go on the first adventure, as a quick shake down. Alzar has a 16 Thaco with his weapons, 80 hp, and an AC of -1, with +4 bonus to his saves. He’s not your normal fragile level 1 character. Now, he also doesn’t have the Helm, the axe, the artifact Bright Barrier (warriors only need apply) and such. But he’s not in a bad place, and he should level up pretty quickly. |
Here we go!
Begin Book of Lairs  This book has a bunch of unconnected lower level adventures and snippets. We are connecting a bunch together that could fit into the Ljallenfels mountain range next door. The southern route through the mountain chains has apparently been blocked by a Fire Giant He’s demanding an exorbitant toll, and scaring those who won’t pay. This seems like a good time to load u p his party and to head out. Plus he nearby mountains are not the most dangerous ever - there are lots of lower level stuff, but not like thousands dragons or giants or such. He’s unlikely to run into anything too unforgiving. |
They head out, and Alzar has unfurled his Flying Carpet - which normally fits 8, so the 5 of them are no surprise. They fly over to the southern pass, and arrive after a few hours, and then unload and begin to head out.
As they begin to move up the southern pass, and exploring, there are a few side passages to the right and left. The right one heads to a small outcropping of rock that overlooks a stream and after a bit of weaving and wobbling, the left to a small cave, with a handful of animal prints here. Alzar really needs to get Tracking, he’s going to fast track that as his next proficiency. He got one of the non-weapons for free as an Investigator, so he has a lot of points open for non-weapons. He scouts it a bit and checks it out, and fails a roll to stealth on over and check it out under the cover of the branches. Alzar sees a feline shape slip out, a snow panther. Alzar waves over the others and has his short bow up and guarding the area. He has the Hasp of Reloading and two quivers of arrows as well, ready to fire. There’s a huge willow tree by the opening, and some bones by it. They must drag food there and eat it. A powerful sinewy female panther emerged from the cave and pauses, body erect. Then it turns and charges at Alzar’s party, and growls. A few answers come from the cave. Out from the cave come three more adults, one male, and two females. They are in range and Alzar fires two arrows at the one charging them. He has a 16 thaco, and fires two arrows. AC 6, sohe needs a 10 and he tosses a 3 and a19. He hits for 1d6 damage - 2. Meanwhile Rogren moves out to block the team, and Racala follows him. Forx draws her sword and Adentium his daggers. Female 24/26 Melee is joined with the female, and the others arrive next turn. Alzar decides to use one of his items to help the team. He has added an array of magic items to his belt and such, replacing the normal places he had wands or spell components. One of those is a small iron sphere ,and he tosses it at a female closing, and he rolls to hit and……he rolls an 14 and this. The Iron Bands of Bilarro spring out and capture the kitty. Rogren grabs and quaffs a Pot of Heroism. the female, but a dagger stabs her for 2 damage. She misses a bite on Rogren - he has pretty good armor Alzar gave the crew light magical items like +1 armor and such as well as some potions. 22/26 Full melee is here. Alzar’s bow is back up and he fires and….hits for 5 damage. Rogren, now a level 5 fighter, smashes the kitty for 6 damage. The cleric adds a mace smash for 3 and then Forz decides to use a spell - Magic Missile, and finishes her off. Two down. They bite back and the male hits Rogren for 7 damage. With his extra hp from the Pot, he;s fine though. Alzar orders them to focus on the male. He’s a lot bigger and stronger. They win init and bite Rogren again for just 5. Rogren stabs for 7 and Alzar’s bow hits just once for 1 damage. No other hits Male -32/40 Next turn Alzar’s team doles out 15 damage, and the female bites for 8 and the male misses. The next turn they finish the male, and the female snow kitty decides to flee with her mate dead, and retreats. 900 XP Alzar orders them to stay clear of the captured Snow Panther. They clearly need more allies, so he heads into OtherSpace and rummages around a bit until he finds the 2 Collars of Animal Control. He brings one out and puts it on the captured panther, and she realizes, failed her save. It’s now permanently controlled, like a pet. Female Snow Panther, “Babs” - AC6, THAC0 16, bite for 2d4+2 damage or two rakes for 1d4 and 1d4. 25 hp. |
Alzar needs some more allies. He pulls out the Ferret figurine and orders Balo to scout the cave. It slips in very easily. It’s a one room cave, very shallow, and nothing in there. They head in to check it and out, and even the Star verifies there is nothing here.
(First lair in the book done. Check. This is the sort of thing you can expect. Remember that now XP is divided among all five of them. If Alzar were soloing here, 800 XP would be more than half of the XP he needs to hit level 2. Alzar does not get an XP bonus, his DEX is just 13). There is a small game trail on the far side of the cave that was used by the fleeing panther. They decide to head down it as well. As they wind along it for about an hour it moves in and around the hills, and then comes to an outlook, and down below it is a large stream or mountain brook, around 100 feet across at its widest, meandering through a gentle valley. Alzar holds up and waits. Soon enough, he spies two major groups of animals. There is a large group of giant otters in the southern part of the valley at it’s widest, and around a half mile upstream are a family of four bears that are moving closely towards the otters. |
Alzar prepares an ambush against the bears. He summons Zadaxx, the giant fly, from his figurine to fly down and attack. The whole group mounts the carpet. As a reminder, it’s stable for firing, so Alzar’s goal is to fly down fire from above, let the giant fly attack them in melee, and have Babs leap down to engage them in melee as well. There are two younger bears, formerly cubs but now just younger bears, a normal female, and an unbelievably large male, that’s the one Alzar wants to target. He grabs a Rope of Entanglement to try that trick again, and to grab the male bear. He wants to use the other collar on it, if it’ll fit, he’s not sure it’ll fit around the neck.
They fly down and move to attack the family of bears: Younglings - AC6, 32 hp, 13 thaco, 1d8/1d8/1d12 damage. Female - AC6, 56 hp, thaco 13, same attacks Male - AC6, 71 hp, thaco10, att as above Alzar has Forz toss the Rope on the male and….it makes its save and avoids it. Alzar’s bow fires and an arrow thuds into a youngling for 3 damage. More missile fire follows and misses. Zadaxx has closed, and Babs leaps down. Next round - Alzar’s group fires and hits the bear for 11 damage. Zadaxx misses. They hit Zadaxx once and the mal moves to the panther and slashes her twice for 10 damage. Babs - 14 The next turn, they finish the wounded youth, and then the bears kill Babs and the female bites Zadaxx for 6 damage. Alzar orders them to take out the male. That’s the threat there. Alzar grabs the Horn of Blasting from his belt and ordered Zadaxx to rise, and then he blows the horn, and everything in front takes 2d10 sonic damage - They take 10 damage each. Without anybody to melee and keep their attention, they raor and begin to retreat. A sling stone hits the male for 3 damage. Alzar needs to give them a melee target, to keep them on the battle, so he violates one of the rules and leaps down himself, grabbing his Gladius as he does. He has the hp and the lowered AC to survive a tussle at close range against these folks. The bears come at him Next round… 4 s 2. Alzar takes….21 damage. His Gladius snaps out and hits for 7 damage. (it increases damage on the hit as well, the bow does not). Their team hits the male for 8 damage. 6 vs 8 Alzar misses. He takes 16 back. They connect for 9 more on the male. 2 vs 3. Alzar hits for…..9 damage - just under his max, (Alzar gets +1 to hit and damage from 17 STR in melee) He tossed a 4 on a d6. The arrows fire in and the bear is badly wounded and pulls up and begins to move off. Alzar is hit for 11 damage by a claw and a bite from the other six attacks. Alzar stabs and misses the female. Arrow and missiles fire and….hit and the bear takes 3 from a sling and that’s it. Zadaxx flies over to smash it as it flees and the archers retrun. Alzar takes 9. Alzar - 23/80 1 vs 5 Alzar stabs and hits for 10 damage on the female, and she takes 2 damage form arrow from the fighter. Alzar is Cure Light Wound’ed from Racala’s spell, and heals 10, and then he takes11. Alzar 22/80 2 vs 1 Alzar would have takes one hit for 4 damage from the six attacks, but he dodges it with Evasion. The male dies from Zadaxx’s smashing hit. Alzar heals another 10 (the cleric has a high WIS and she gets bonus spells.). Alzar stabs for 7 damage on the female. With a dead male, dead youngling, just a bit over half damage on her and begin to flees. Alzar orders Forx off the carpet and to gather the rope and try it again. 32/80 Alzar orders the carpet to circle in front of the bears and Zadaxx covers another angle. She raors and attacks Zadaxx and hits for 10 damage and kills it. Alzar slashes at her and hits for 9. She takes an arrow from the fighter Rogren and dies. Just a youngling left. Forx flings the Rope and orders its capture, and….they gather it. Alzar uses he Collar from babs for it: “Stabs”, Youngling Bears - AC6, 32 hp, 13 thaco, 1d8/1d8/1d12 damage. 22/32 current hp 3400 XP They gather their things, fired weapons and more, and then Alzar can’t backtrace their steps to their lair, so they move on. |
Their party flies over to the otters, and there are 5 adult otters here, playing and working. As they near the Otters, they make out the sound of a battle ongoing on the far side of the stream, and up the hill.
A scouting party of 20 gnolls is here, with 5 hyenadon allies and steeds, and they have trapped a trio of hill giants into a large pit, with a pseudo-artificial-quicksand they made to keep the giants there. The gnolls are fighting smart. They pinned the giants, they have missile weapons out of reach, and then a group of hyenadon cavalry lancing in and stabbing the giants and then leaving, with a handful of gnolls constantly moving into and out of melee range to keep the giants confused. Smart. Alzar grabs the Scarab of Vemon and uses it to coat two arrows of his with a deadly poison Alzar grabs one of the globes from a Necklace of Missiles and they fly over and he tosses it at the fire and a small 5d6 fireball goes off. Everyone takes….16 damage, or save for 8. The gnolls have 7, so any of them are dead. He can only get 12 gnolls in the explosion, 8 are firing weapons on the far side and un harmed. Meanwhile the hyendadons have 31 hp normally, so all five are standing. The three giants are caught in the radius as well… They fly down and begin battle. Alzar launches two arrows at two wounded hyenadons. The first hits for….3 damage and….it makes it save and takes 10 poison damage. Alzar tosses a a 14 and hits for….2 damage on the arrow and…fails its save and dies. Hyenadon #1 - 8 hp left Hyenadon #2 - 23 left Hyenadon #3 - 11 left Hyenadon #4 - 15 left The gnolls move around to add missile fire. Round: 8 vs 2. The hyenadons have arrived for melee next round. Missiles fire from the gnolls and Alzar is hit twice for 11 damage and…fails that evasion toss. He had used a Regeneration Iuon Stone from the battle about a half hour ago with the bear’s tussle, so he’s fully healed. 69/80 Next up, Alzar’s bow twangs and slays the first and poisoned opponent. And he misses. Stabs the bear leapt down to enter melee, and Rogren followed, using the bear as moving terrain. They attack the bear and….hit once for 3d4 on a bite for….11 dmage 11/32 Stabs 2 vs 9 Alzar’s bow chirps and hits twice (they have just an AC of 7) for a mighty 1 +3 damage - 4 on #4. Rogren follows his lead and adds 7 damage from his long sword (which is specialized in) and then a sling stone finishes it. They need a 15 THACo - 6 - 9 to bite stabs and toss 4 and 17 and hits for….2+2+3 - 7 damage. Stabs gently hits once for 4 damage on #2. 4/32 Stabs Alzar is hit 3 times for….4+2+4, and he makes evade - 6 more damage 63/80 7 vs 2 They fire again and Alzar tasks one hit for 3. The hyenadon finishes Stabs. Another pet has fallen. Then Rogren and Alzar drops the best hyenadon down to high single digits. They break off when a giant bounder flies in and just misses the archers. 60/80 3 vs 5 Alzar orders the carpet group to chase the 7 gnoll archers. Rogren finishes the badly wounded hyena, and then one is left but fleeing along with the gnolls They focus on the fleeing gnolls, and two drops quickly as the carpet flies past them. Alzar’s arrow snip out to finish them easily enough. Low ac and easy to kill. In a few turns, the Gnolls are slain. The final hyenadon is hunted down aerially. |
Of the giants, two died. The last is badly wounded. He just wants to take the stuff his brothers had, two sacks, and go back home. Doesn’t even want to bury the,. Alzar lets him go.
They fly over and follow the gnoll tracks and there is a small encampment at the top of a hill around 4 miles away. About 10 females and children are here, and there’s 2 young hyenadons, in pens being raised. They flee as Alzar’s party arrives. There’s a slave pen with about 12 humans here, and Alzar frees them and will take them home momentarily, A quick search of the area finds: 520 ep 111 gp 10 pieces of Jet, 100 gp each 5000 XP for everyone Alzar grabs the stuff and stores in and heads into OtherSpace for a moment. He comes back with 2 Brooms of Flying. They can each carry two, and then the Carpet three more, and then hands a Stone of Diminution to shrink one to be carried for free. Alzar turns into a Bat and flies back freeing up a carpet, and Forx gets the Cloak of the Bat to do the same. About three hours, they arrive back a Alzar’s castle. They are all healed and they split the 9400 XP Each party member gets: 1880 |
And that’s enough to level up:
Alzar (needed 1250, needs 2500 for level 3) Rogren (needed 2000, got 10% bonus for having 16+Str, and got 2k - 4k for 3rd level) Forx - (need 1250 too, needs 2500 for next level) Gains a spell of his choosing and selects Color Spray Racala (needed 1500, needs 3k for next level, has a 17 WIS too) Only the mage can’t level up (need 2500) They spend a few days training and getting new stuff, and Alzar: +5 in Evasion +10 to Detect Traps +5 Move/Hide +5 Open He also gets the Tracking Proficiency after spending some time with it. He still has 2 unspent points which he can spend for a 2 pointer, or a 3 pointer next level. Alzar gives all of the money, gems, and such to the party and skips it. A few days later, they head back out after the fire giant in the hills. (They took out three Lairs in the Book though, Bears, Snow Panthers, and Gnolls) |
They fly back out and try to alight on the gnoll camp again to check it out, and it’s been abandoned. Nothing else has moved in yet. They begin to explore the area some more, and a huge boulder flies form a nearby hill at them. The Hill Giant that Alzar’s group freed has returned, with two friends, and remembers that Alzar’s fireball slew one of his brothers.
Hill Giants: HP - 55, 48, 42; 12 THACo - 2d8+4 with club or boulder.AC 3 with hides on. Alzar hands a few items from the belt to his peers as they fly down. Forx the bard uses Horn of Blasting. 2d10 damage sonic - 2+5 - 7 total damage. They are stunned this round and don’t do anything. The crossbow from Rogren fires and hits for 3 damage, and Alzar orders the magic users to stick with missiles only. Alzar uses the Scarab of Venom on two arrows and as they close, he fires at two Hill Giants He misses the first with a 4 and then rolls a 9 and….that misses too. There AC is better and he need 13 to crack their armor. He’s going t drop down to melee, where he can use his gladius’s +6 vs giants ability to be more reliable hitting. As he does, he activates the Zoster of Zeal. A boulder crashes into Alzar for 11 damage as he lands, Alzar’s two iuon stones, regen and AC are still spinning around his head. 69/80 6 vs 9 Alzar swings the +6 gladius at his wounded foe and….tosses a 14 and hits for 1d6+7 damage - 11. Meanwhile just one weapon, an arrow from Forz’s long bow, deals 2 more damage to it. Alzar is punished by a club (8 ,8, 13 rolled by them) for 14 damage 56/80 9 vs 2 They attack Alzar again and toss 14, 10 and 3. They hit Alzar once and he takes 8. Alzar follows with a hit (het gets + to hit with Zoster too) for 09 damage. Another 2 follows from a sling stone. 49/80 7 vs 8 Alzar slashes and hits the wounded giant for 10 and slays it. Two left. They toss 17 and 19 and Alzar rolls a 45 and misses his evade and he takes 3+7+4 - 14 and 2+6+4 - 12 - 26 total damage. Zarg! Two missiles scratch a giant for 4 damage total and Alzar is healed of 10 damage by Racala. 34/80 Alzar nods to her to stop healing, he’s fine right now. No sense wasting it. 4 vs 1 The giants attack Alzar 6 and 12 and miss. Alzar’s 9 hits (+6 for weapon, with bonuses to Zoster, he needs a 8 to tackle it). Alzar adds 10 damage. The others misses 7 vs 4 They retain init. Alzar is hit for 12 and 18 and….rolls a 22 and dodges the hit. He misses with a 2, and then they take just 4 damage on the wounded one. 2 vs 6 Alzar’s group wrest initialize back. They dela 14 damage total with a hit from Alzar leading the way. They miss him with a 7 and 11 2 vs 1 They grab init back and one hits Alzar for 10 28/80 Alzar hits for his max damage - 6+6+1 - 13 damage. RAR! A bolt from Rogren finish it. Dead giant The next giant chooses to flee. Alzar drops his sword and grabs his bow and quiver. They fly over to chase it. It picks up a boulder and flings it at the carpet in desperation, without even aiming, just to force them away. The one left is the one that survived before Alzar’s bow peppers it once for 3 damage. Four turns later, missile attacks finish it 9000 XP Gained |
They have some sacks, and among nasty smelling clothes and lumps of ruined and decaying meat, there’s a +1 hatchet that they are using to skin their kills and such. It’s balanced for throwing.
They gather themselves, do some resting, and regen has healed Alzar. Alzar and company rise and head out. The area looks to be cleaned out, with giants, gnolls, bears, cats, all handled. Alzar moves and takes the Carpet back to the southern pass, and they continue along the way/ After about an hour of ground travel… The pass is getting narrower as they move out, and there is a 12 foot tall fire giant standing there who shouts that they must pay the toll of the mountains, with a pile of boulders collected and ready to toss. Hmm….12 feet? Alzar has a lot of experience with Fire Giants, and that’s about half their real size. He slips the Star of Mi’Pilar off his belt and looks through it. It’s a polymorphed Ogre Mage. There is a giant wall of thorns in front of the Ogre mage, it’s not easy to close to him. Good defenses. The giant is a chatty sort as Alzar begins to talk to it, and not altogether unpleasant. He mentions that he has to work and his chieftain makes him, and the toll is 10 gp per person or animal, and 25 gp for wagon or cart. Alzar tells the giant to wait, and begins to reach out to is belt pouch and tosses it to Forz, and tells him to count out 50 gp for the giant. As he does, the not-giant but Ogre Mage looks at the cash to make sure the money is appropriate. Alzar then bends to his belt and the giant is too powerful for something like the Bands of Bilarro or the Rope, he’d likely break out and destroy them. But Alzar’s Warp Marble is on his belt too. He adds the Warp Marble to the coins, and a few gems as well to add some shining things to it and tells the giant that he wants to pay now to come back through in a few days. The giant agrees, and reaches down to take the money, gems, and marble. As he grabs them, Alzar calls out the activation password for the Marble ,but he makes his save, and looks oddly at Alzar’s weird word. He checks and all of the gems and coins are real and as promised. He backs away and heads up the pass. |
Alzar grabs the Carpet and the group gets on. He tells them what he saw, and plans an attack against the Ogre Mage. Alzar’s Ring of Invisibility is used on himself, and the rest will follow on the Carpet. Alzar meanwhile will creep afterwards and get in position, and they each have a Scroll of Communication and can write back and forth to each other.
Alzar follows easily enough. The Ogre Mage heads to its lair, and from here there is a path to am ambush spot above the passage with boulders and javelins lined there. Alzar moves silently successful and moves into position invisibly. The Ogre Mage chuckles as he realizes the Marble is a magical item and what the word Alzar used was. He chuckles at the stupidity of humans. Alzar positions for an ambush of his own, and writes a message to the others. He animates the Onyx Dog into Kithog to prepare to battle. In a moment, he gets the message back, stores his things quietly, and then moves to backstab with his Gladius… +4 to hit, +6 due to physical form of target matching giants, even if essence is not, Alzar gest +11 to hit with his strength and…tosses a 09 - that hits. Alzar connects. He deals - 1d6 (he rolled a 4) +6 for Gladius, +1 for Strength, and the n x 2 for backstab - 22 damage. Kithog is next to him and the giant roars. Suddenly as it spins around to face Alzar, the party breaks out from outside line of sight to fly over with the carpet silently to missile range: “Hello giant! You took something of mine, and I want it back! I figured I’d come it to get from you, man to man!” Alzar obviously implies that he is here by himself, but doesn’t come out and say it. The giant grins, and then grabs his great halberd and swings it at Alzar. He rolls a 14 and hits66 tossed for evasion, so Alzar takes 14 damage. 66/80 Alzar swings and misses intentionally. He wants to keep the giant from thinking he is a major threat Kithog bites for 2 damage. Ogre Magi can cast gaseous form when badly threatened, once/da. Alzar takes a hit of 9 and fails to evade 58/80 Alzar loses init. Ogre Magi regenerate as well. As Alzar “misses” he gains more and more confidence Alzar misses and Kithog tries to hi and actually misses too. 3 vs 2. The giant swings and hits Alzar for 11 Alzar dodges though. It’s time. Alzar sees he message and swings for real and…tosses a 14 for 10 damage. It healed 4 from wounds, and took two from Kithog, so its -30 damage taken. Meanwhile, Magic Missile flash into his body, and Alzar loaned the Iuon Sphere that gives bonuses to caster level. It takes 6 damage from the missiles. Since their cleric was without any magic that harms at first level, she has one of the Thunderpots Alzar made after capturing the equipment to do so. Alzar told he to toss it and she does. 15 damage to Alzar, Kithog, and the Giant. Normally, you wouldn’t expect to use fire here, but Alzar assured her hat it works. Alzar and Kithog survive, the “giant” doesn’t, and collapses under its own weight, without ever realizing its death. |
It converts to an Ogre Mage. They get all of their stuff back and:
222 pp 850 gp 1000 gp jeweled scroll tube (empty) Potion - Non-Detection Portable Hole Set of Drums Alzar takes the Hole and the Drums. Drums of Blessing, when beat on by a proficient player, all allies in earshot get +2 ot attack and damage while played. Forx can’t use drums yet, but promises to learn! 3200 XP Alzar and party see a cave back here, and then scout with the Ferret, but there are numerous winged bad guys down there. Harpies? Gargoyles? Maybe just Striges, but still, it’s time to head back for now. 12200 XP total 4320 XP for everyone total Again, they spend a few days leveling up and such: Rogren is now level 3. He needs 8000 for level 4 Racala the clerics got the needing 3k, and she is level 3 and gains new spells! Adentium is level 2 and gets to level 3 at 5k. Forx and Alzar are level 3, and get to level 4 at 5k. Rogren, a level 3 fighter, from the local town guard, who recently distinguished himself in catching a criminal. Specialized in long sword. THACo - 17 STR, Expertise, +1 sword, +3/+4 damage. 18 THAC0 so 15 normally. He needs 8000 for level 4 Racala, a level 3 cleric and servant of the Sphere of Matter. With 17WIS. Gains level 4 at 6k. Adentium, a level 2 apprentice and conjurer of a local leader, with Magic Missile and Armor. Forx, a level 3 bard who was recently entertaining the local population, and no looks to explore. Has+10% XP and gained…..Color Spray. Alzar gets: +5 to evasion +10 to Find, +10 Move +5 Hide Forx spends a week learning how to use a drum. Alzar gains… Locksmithing - In addition to learning how ot make locks, he get s+10 Open Locks Current Thieves Stuff: Open Locks: 35 Find/Remove Traps: 55 Move Silently: 30 Hide in Shadows: 30 Climb Walls: 60 Read Languages:5 Evasion: 25 Remember he gets +10 to these with the Gauntlets of Dexterity. |
Alzar and company had back out and fly over to the spot where the Ogre Mage camped.
There is nothing else here, but again, a cave is off on a cliff. Balo investigates and the ferret returns with a similar scouting report This time Alzar investigates and sneaks down to take a look and scout around. He makes his move silently roll, fails the hide and can be made out if someone cares (they don’t) A group of around 8 gargoyles are in a large chamber flying about. There is a small number of stalactites on the ceiling of a natural cavern, and several seem to be resting there, so the guess is not 100% confident, but 8-ish. Alzar waits and they are flitting about lazily, not much to fear. There is a hole open to the sky over on the east side of the chamber, so there are even two exits. Alzar slips back and they get a group with the carpet to run backup over there in case any try to flee. They’ll have the cleric and bard. The bard can use the Horn of Blasting to hit any wounded gargies that fly out. The others move to the cave. Gargoyle - AC5, 32 hp each, 1d3, 1d3, 1d6, 1d4 damage, need +1 weapon o hit. Thanco 15 Alzar sends Balo back, I won’t be of any use here. Alzar preps a few bigger one-hit stuff that he needs - Warp Marble, Iron Flask, and he hands a Thunderpot to Adentium in case he needs a mass damage dealing effect. Ideally he just relies on the Magic missiles he can cast with the Iuon Stone. They are immune to poison, no sense coating anything, If he had his magic he’d leave for a day, memorize Control Gargoyle, and grab them. That ceased to be an option. Alzar grabs magic missiles. Alzar and party head in. Alzar uses the Zoster Alzar leads with a bow that fires at the nearest Gargoyle. He has fired two +1 arrows and tosses 14 and 13. He hits twice for 3 and 5. 8 damage total. It cries out a warning and flies down to engage. Alzar drops his bow and gabs the Gladius as it flies really quickly. Magic Missiles stab out and light it up for 9 damage. 17 total taken. |
A short while later they head back out again
Unfortunately Alzar is no longer able to control undead, because rumors of undead attacks on people just outside of Saffir, in the northern pass. They are teleported there by the Magist and begin to meet with locals. There have been raids by skeletons, zombies, and shadows all separately. Alzar heads out. He summons various figurines and drops Aleph, the golem in the trees from his Warp Marble. Aleph should be a strong anti-undead tool in case they need it. It’s near night time. Alzar and company alight onto the flying carpet above, and look down and wait, watching the area. 4 hours later, at about 1 hours before midnight, there are a group of black bodies that are darker than the rest of the night moving out. Shadows likely, although perhaps Slow Shadows or another shadowy creatures. Alzar wishes he had his powers, he could reach out and sense their presence. It’s a bit….wonky feeling to be a rogue and not a wizard. Wizards are the epitome of power and rogues are the weakest of the four major classes. But the die is struck. There are numerous creatures moving below them. After preparing some anti-undead stuff, they are ready. Alzar orders Kithog, Zadaxx, and the Obsidian Steed hidden in the trees to move and get to the far side. They’ll help to fight anything that direction that gets turned. For example, the mace +2, +4 was given to a certain cleric, Alzar prepared both the Potions of Undead Control and Scroll of Protection from Undead in case they are needed. But the most valuable item is the Amulet vs Undead Alzar found in Hamedh and is wearing. It gives him the ability to turn undead like a 5th level cleric. After ensuring that Aleph is in their way as well, the Carpet is order to land. Both Alzar and Racal reach out to turn undead. They are shadows. Alzar needs a 7 on a d2-0 and tosses a 19 - good job. He turns 5. Racal needs a 13 and tosses a 20 and turns 4. 9 turned. There are some large packs here. 20 shadows or so are below, and now they’v split them up. Everyone but Alzar unloads here to take down the 11 or so left, and Alzar heads over to hit the fleeing shadows. The party fights first. The shadows near, and they let them come in. Adentium uses Burning Hands to deal 10 damage to 5 of them., and they have 11 hp left in that group. A Horn of Blasting deals 2d10 to everyone as they near and they are not stunned though. 8 damage to everyone. Soon a Spiritual Hammer is out and smashing one, and Rogren is in the front line, carving with the sword. Random.org There were actually not 11 but 12 shadows ,10 are slain, 2 flee. Party survives |
What about Alzar and 9 shadow?
They are fleeing from turning. Alzar fires his bow as some as he flies over. But then Aleph and the animals move in from the other flank, and the turning has ended, so they move over to attack. Alzar’s group hits them hard, and one shadow is punched out of existence by Aleph. Alzar will stay out of melee range, and away from their Strength drain. They attack and kill kithog and the steed, and deal 25 damage or so to the Golem, but then there are just 3 left, and then they flee as well. Zadaxx smashes into one for some damage and slays it, but the other two get away 4 shadows from both groups are running to their lair, and Alzar’s carpet meets the party and they gather together and move in There’s an ancient and dilapidated ruins of some long-forgotten building with an even longer-forgotten purpose. They use it as their lair, and there are some shadows here returning from other hunts. The 9 shadows are slain 28 shadow s total killed Anything in these ruins? Nope. They were cleaned out long ago, and shadows have no need for, or use for, treasure. 10200 XP As they explore the area to make sure there is nothing here, one of the party members enters the woods, and a giant bear launches an attack on him. Brown Bear - AC4, 60 hp, 1d6, 1d6, 1d8 attacks, thaco 12 hugs for 2d6 free if first two attacks hit in same round The Bear hopes to defeat it’s target quickly, or to tear away some flesh and flee with food. Forx takes 10 damage, and then casts Color Spray at it, which also alerts everyone. The bear is confused by the Spray and begins to move off but its slow, and the party arrives and slays it in a few rounds with missiles and other attacks. It’s frothing t the mouth and appears diseased of some sort, normally a bear wouldn’t attack a human like that. 2000 Xp for diseased bear |
After loaning his regen Ioun stone to heal, they head back out. There are a number of skeletons raiding some giant badgers in the nearby area. 40? 50? The skeletons are definitely winning. It’s about 2 miles away, and Alzar heads down and over with the party in tow. They drop down behind the battle, with Aleph running at them, and missiles behind. A few skeletons fall, and then Alzar and Racala each turn 5 skeletons and 10 are now running away. Soon enough, they are slain by local weapons and they chase down those that were turned.
While the area is trampled pretty badly, Alzar’s tracking can tell the undead came from up hill, and and they follow. Up on the hill is a large shelf in the mountain that was once natural, but then expanded by artifice of some sort. There are a handful of skeletons her keeping watch and slain. It was opened up recently, and again, nothing else is found here other than ruined and rusty armor and such, even when scanned by the Star. 60 skeletons slain 3000 XP S they head back up into the sky, a group of 9 wights nearby is coming back from raiding. They head over and stay up in the air, out of range of the energy draining undead. They begin to flee in multiple directions, but Alzar can’t allow that, Wights are too powerful to leave in these numbers this close to Saffir - about 9 miles away. Alzar drops down in front of one of the undead groups, and they can’t get away. Smelling fresh meat, they begin to coalesce and circle him. Soon enough Alzar is surrounded by the pack. Then he unfurls the scroll and reads it. Protection against Undead. Wights begin to come his way, and Alzar’s weapons bite. At first, they don’t realize anything is wrong. One Wight dies. They just think that their attacks aren’t working, or they are missing or what not. Aleph is coming in from one flank, and the party from others. Missiles fly in and Alzar stabs and kills Wight number 2. One finally begins to figure it out, and then Alzar stabs it in order to keep it off balance. But it still says something in a dark necromantic tongue. Then Magic Missiles fly into it and it dies. The golem is on one route away from this area. The wights roll a morale check and…20 - they flee. One is slain as they go. Alzar orders the Flying Carpet and flies up above then. They flee towards the humans instead of the golem, but a successful turn attempt sends 4 back, and just one continues. Suddenly denuded of his allies, he begins to retreat and follow, and they are heading towards the golem. Alzar jumps down behind them and chases them with his sword. Aleph punches and slays a 4th Wight. They run around it, and while slowed, Alzar connects. Forx’s Magic Missiles him the one Alzar hits and take it out too. 5 down, 4 left. They continue to do this for a few more minutes and all 9 Wights are killed, Alzar’s scroll is used up. 12600 XP |
Dawn getting close - around an hour or so, and they are no closer to understanding what is going on, so they head back to Saffir and rest, heal, and memorize a new slate of spells.
Alzar asks locals and the town sheriff what might be going on and where they might be holed up. One of the local guardsman mentions that there is an ancient graveyard around 15 or 20 miles away, and centuries old. It hasn’t been used to bury anyone in decades and it’s deep in the valley and miles from the road Its hard to get too, and most here haven’t been there in a long time, if ever. That might be it. They try to get some information on it. It used to be owned by a local wizard family, but the last scion of that family died some time ago. That was decades ago, right around when people stopped using that graveyard They head out to scout around in daytime, which makes sense. As they move out, there is no reason to hit now, when their forces are likely to be together. So they instead wait until night. The graveyard gets nearer and nearer. They spy a pack of 6 ghouls moving from the graveyard, and fly over them and slay them with missiles Another rack of 6 are killed about 30 minutes later. Both are coming straight from the graveyard though, so that was a good guess. There is a glowing white field coming from the graveyard and crackling with energy, and it guards the entire graveyard and what is inside, but tree recently fell down across it, and Alzar spies some undead moving from the graveyard across the tree about to raid and attack locals. A pack of ghouls is climbing out, and they see Alzar’s group flying in and move to attack 3 are killed, the rest flee back to the graveyard 15 ghouls dead |
They move to the tree, as the crackling energy goes up into the air, and seals off - the place cannot be landed into - was someone trying to keep the undead safely contained? They land and unload, and as they do, there are a pack of ghouls warned by the 3 that escaped
Actually, nope, Alzar makes his Necrology check. There are 3 ghouls and 6 ghasts. Ghasts are more powerful, and Alzar turns them and 4 head back, and the others are early targets, and magical missiles from Forx slay one - have to take them out early. 18 Ghouls 2 Ghasts This cemetery has a number of crypts and graves, but there is a large gate in the center, and some energy is coming though it from somewhere. There are hundreds of undead in this cemetery (exact count is 876.) Now that they are in the cemetery proper, all attempts to turn undead will fail. Alzar immediately identifies this as a gate to the Negative Energy Plain and one with Necromantic designs. They have to destroy the gate to end the portal. The physical gate is a magical archway, they don’t have the spells or firepower to take it down physically. There are gems in a sort of control panel of different types, with many missing. The undead in here begin to push them and tighten. Alzar recognizes the panel as being similar in concept to the various spaceships he saw. He orders the party out of the graveyard in case he’s wrong. He has another Scroll on my belt if needed. He speeds over (Boots) and gets to the panel with a few rounds before others arrive. Soon a group of undead beings to form in the gate behind him - 6 specters. Alzar plays with the panel, and quickly realizes that all he needs to do is remove every one of the gems (they aren’t proper jewels actually, just glass.) After the last one is pulled out, the Gate collapse, and the various undead who came through it are pulled back. None are left. The party heads back in and the undead left behind nothing since they weren’t from here. Nor were they slain here either. There are no special items here either, and nothing that suggests itself as a fun place to deal with issues. 30000 XP |
They have finished the undead invasion. (In the actual story, this graveyard is a random lair, that the tree just collapsed that day, and I connected it with all of those various undead lairs in the book. In other words, I created the campaign from the various bones.) I am being nice with the XP - 800 undead would average at least 100 XP per, and clock in at 80000 XP. But instead I gave them quest XP, ghouls and ghast kills to bring them to a round 30k.
Total XP Gained - 57800/5 11600 total + current 5000 16600 for each adventurer and more for those that had 10% bonuses. Rogren gains two levels turning level 5 at 16k. 32k for level 6 At 13k, Racala gained level 5. 27.5 for level 6 for her. Adentium is now level 4, and gets to 5 at 20k Alzar/Forz hit level 5 at 10k, and ge to 6 at 20. Alzar now deals x3 backstab damage +5 evasion; +15 find/remove traps, +5 move/hide End of Book of Lairs for Now |
Rogren, a level 5 fighter, from the local town guard, who recently distinguished himself in catching a criminal. Specialized in long sword. THACo - 17 STR, Expertise, +1 sword, +3/+4 damage. 16 THAC0 so 15 normally. He needs 32k for level 6. 18k XP right now
Racala, a level 5 cleric and servant of the Sphere of Matter. With 17WIS. Gains level 4 at 6k. Gets +2 1sts, +2 2nds, +1 3rd level spells. 27.5 for level 6 for her. Adentium, a level 4 apprentice and conjurer of a local leader, with Magic Missile, Burning Hands, Melf’s Acid Arrow, etcc and Armor. Forx, a level 4 bard who was recently entertaining the local population, and no looks to explore. Has+10% XP and gained…..Color Spray, Magic Missile, Glitterdust, Audible Glamer Now if you’ll recall, starting at level 5, Alzar can begin to quest for an artifact. He has to quest and find it.Then it’s sent somewhere else and he has to do the same with a different place. Alzar takes a break for a couple of weeks running his March while his sages begin to check to see if there are any missing artifacts nearby. Do the dwarves, elves, halflings, or barbarians know of any? Nothing is coming in yet, but he sends out feelers. So Alzar needs to get to level 10 with the artifact, and then he resets at level 1 again as a cleric - solo as well. Once Alzar gets to level 10as a cleric with the artifact, the he complete this task, and he has to further get to level 12 in all classes. Once that happens, Alzar finishes those takes in this path. |
Alzar has been spending some time ruling again, and is getting XP for leading the dominion. He levels to level 6 right now. I dropped the amount of XP Alzar was getting from ruling to 10% of what it should have been - you are supposed to get XP on a 1:1 Basis with the GP you make. So he should be making roughly7k a month from ruling, but that really pushes this dynasty and challenge in an very easy and odd space. But he is learning - especially what it’s like to rule without being a mage. That’s a different stayle and way of doing things.
I’m ruling that Alzar gets 10k from reigning this year, and that’s it. Thief Skills at level 6: Open Locks: 40 Find/Remove Traps: 95 Move Silently: 45 Hide in Shadows: 45 Climb Walls: 60 Read Languages: 5 Evasion: 40 Now that I have maxed out Traps, the next thing I want to work on is stealth stuff. Because Alzar doesn’t have as many magical items or options available to him, he has few ways to investigate the unknown, So he spends some time trying to figure out that Pendant he found months ago. Yes, it’s magical, but is that all? |
Begin AC10. Bestiary of Dragons and Giants
We’re going to head back here for a quick adventure Thyralax and the Amulet This dragon shaped amulet was found on a dead Airdrake in the Spindle of Heaven. Alzar was unable to figure it out and a lot of other major things happened, but now he has some time to dedicate - without time needed each day to study spells or cast them, Alzar finds he has a lot of time on his hands, particularly with the Greater Ring of Sustenance. He spends some time trying to figure out what the Sapphire Amulet is and is for. It’s magical of some sort - it detected as such. After working on the Amulet in his lab for a while, trying various ways to make it crack its secrets, he adds a drop of Universal Solvent to the Amulet, hoping that he can clear it up or open it up or whatever. Some hard-to-make-out dust and gunk was in the eyes, nose, and mouth of the Amulet, and now it’s clean. As Alzar finishes wiping it down, he receives a mental communication: “Hold me next to your heart!” There is no compulsion, and it’s not trying to dominate Alzar, it’s just a request. Alzar tries to communicate back via speech or mentally, but nothing works. So he does it. And after 100 heartbeats… “I beg of you to help me! I need your help to break free of the curse that binds me and I can prevent the spreading of a great evil!” The Amulet calls itself Thyralax, a Sapphire Dragon that was battling with an evil Brown dragon over in the Wyrmsteeth range, and the brown, Mardius, got the aid of a sorcerer to make the Amulet and then captured Thyralax to it, and that was centuries ago. Mardius is sure to be around, and Thyralax wants to be freed. His home is in the north of here, in the plains and forests there. It sends Alzar five places that Alzar has to go to dip the Amulet, and thereby weaken the bond it has. The places are emotional ties that can help to break the hold on the dragon. They are: Bubbling Pool of Molten Lava Still pool of crystal water Winding muddy river with shores lined with high reeds Dark opening in the side of a stone mountain Herd of animals in a meadow, by a geyser giving off a grey gas Alzar needs to head to the north and find these five places and expose the Amulet to the lava/water/water/earth/geyser. And then afterwards take the Amulet to the Wyrmsteeth Range and destroy it there physically. And that’s it, |
Of course, Alzar is very suspicious. How does he know there’s really a Sapphire Dragon in there, and not an evil blue one. That have similar colorations, and a blue dragon made in gemstone would be sapphire and look like this. And it might not even be a dragon - it could be something pretending to be a dragon.
Although, if you are going to pretend, why pretend to be a gemstone dragon and not a good dragon, ike a Gold one? If you’ll recall, a year and a half ago, Alzar helped a mated pair of gold dragons in the nearby Ljallenfels mountains, and so he flies over and checks in on them. After renewing acquaintances, Alzar introduces the Amulet to them. They recognize it as anti-dragon magic, particularly good against gemstone species, and there was a Sapphire in this region called Thyralax some time ago. Finally, they also point out that a gemstone dragon would be fighting to end the spell from within to aid Alzar and free themselves, and that requires energy - but with a limited amount of energy - no food or drink or magic arrives, the imprisoned dragon would have a limited supply. Communicating with Alzar likely took some of a finite measure. Thus it has clammed up. Since Alzar verified virtually every claim that the Amulet made, he heads back, and begins to fly over the area, looking for places that fit the visions and scenes that passes into his mind. Alzar lands in a promising place about a mile from the target, and then heads to bed in OtherSpace as it is nearly twilight He eats some food and is away from everyone. Alzar awaken in the morning and takes a ride over the plain and meadow. There is everything as expected. Alzar grabs the Carpet and moves to fly over looking for the geyser. Now there are about 15-20 gorgons here that are angry at Alzar for criss-crossing around, but no geyser. Hmmm… Is the geyser no longer here? Was it underground now? Or is the picture an analogy, and the pendant need’s a Gorgon’;s breath as the “geyser”. Alzar grabs his Ring of Antipetrifaction and then puts it on and lands, with the Amulet In his hand. The Gorgons breathe on it a few times. He doesn’t think they’ll work on him (Necklace makes him immune) but its better to be safe than sorry. After the 10th such breath, the Amulet shifts form and becomes a small handheld sapphire statuette. The first of the tasks is complete |
The next he can make out from the sky out here is still pool of crystal water, that perfectly meets his expectations. There is a small shallow valley back here and about 200 feet across or so, and low hills around. There is a buzzing from the three circular pools at the bottom and Alzar makes out some dragonflies. The big monster kind .
Two of them are in a mating dance. They are red dragonflies, and that makes them work with fire. Alzar swaps on the Ring of Fire Resistance for Free Action for this encounter. He thinks he can solo these. Time to find out - he uses the Scarab of Venom to coat two arrows with poison and will go over by ground, because they are likely more maneuverable in air than he is, faster, and have a breath attack. So he is more familiar with ground. After landing, he begins to sneak up to them with his skills. It’s very easy, there’s lots of cover, and they aren’t really looking around. He gets to range and launches an arrow at each. He rolls a16 and a 7. They are very hard to hit -2 AC so the first hits, and the second misses. The Dragonfly takes 5 damage and…rolls a 3 and dies. One dead. The mate pauses, sees Alzar, and then breathes on him as he loads more arrows Init - 1 vs 7 Alzar’s arrows fly out and he misses with both. The breath come out and the fire settles down, he takes 5d6 damage - 19 damage, brought down to -2 per die, so 14, and then fails his save. 66/80 He can’t regen fire damage either 1 vs 6 Alzar hits once for 1 damage. The dragonfly flies over to attack in melee, so Alzar drops the +4 short bow and grabs his Gladius from his leg-sheath 4 vs 3 The creature bites Alzar for 1d6+6 damage 9. Alzar’s THACO is 18, and he needs -5 forhis sword and STR, and then adds 2 back for AC, so 15 is needed, so his 11 misses. Random.org this Alzar is hit three times, dodges, once, and then slays the creature. He’ll regen these bites though. 1300 XP total Alzar takes the small statuette and dips it in each of the three crystal pools. After the third, it grows again, and is now fully handed sized. |
Alzar flies up and spies a stream and follows it. After about 2 miles, the place looks like his vision. Some high reeds are around the stream, and the bank is very muddy as it bends here almost 90 degrees.
The stream is surrounded by low hills as well, and there are three scaly humanoids here with heads like crocs or gators, and they are fishing, putting a net into the water, checking a nearby snare for food, and they have two giant lizards with them, great creatures of considerable size that Alzar is unfamiliar with. They are yoked together to a wagon, and there are supplies and that’s where the food is going.  As Alzar moves over, they call out to him in a halting Pandius Prime dialect, “Greetings friend! A fine day for fishing, is it not? Come, the river has plenty for all!” They turn back and continue to scavenge and look for food. Alzar has heard about Gator Men here on Pandius, but very rare, and has never seen one before now. He drops from his Carpet and then heads over to them. From what he’s read, they can be extremely unpredictable and chaotic, not evil, not good, sort of in between (CN tendencies) Alzar hails them, and asks about them. One heads over to talk ,they have a village about a half day’s journey from here, and this is one of the best fishing holes around. As she explains it, one of the Gator Men reels in a red worm from the river. It’s exactly the sort of red worm that Alzar encountered in Thunderdelve Mountain, about 2-3 feet long, and took around two hits to kll each. They kill it and toss it into the wagon. They are the larval form of the Fyrsnaca, the great lizard-worm-dragon thing he killed, and there are likely others here. He asks her about the nearby Fyrsnaca and she grins, a very toothy grin. “We don’t know. We saw this red worm, and another dipped under the water. The stream is very deep here because of the bed, and ,muddy, so there are lots of places for it to hide. Red worms are a delicacy to us, so any chance we can get to find some we’ll take.” She tells him about their lizard steeds as he asks. They are called tuatara Giant Tuatara: An 8-foot-long lizard that looks like a cross between an iguana and a toad is the giant tuatara. White spikes along its back protrude from olive-colored, pebbly bide. Tuataras have a temperature-sensitive membrane over their eyes which, when lowered, allows the lizards to “see” in darkness (90-foot infravision). Tuataras love to hunt small animals at night and sleep during the day. They aggressively attack people who wander too close to their lairs. Although these lizards can be trained to attack, the spines along their backs make them poor mounts. They are used as draft animals for working a plow by the Gator Folk. |
As they continue to talk, suddenly, a head rises from the water, and the Fyrsnaca attacks!
Fyrsnaca - AC5, HP 75, 2d8 from bite, Thaco 13, Have a breath attack and can emit a fiery gas for 3d6 damage.  As it attacks it breathes, and Alzar takes less damage, he is still hearing the Fire Resist ring. He takes 11 damage, the others take 16. His bow fires at the worm-like creature and hit once for 4 damage. Then 2 red worms pop up from the river as well. Alzar orders the Shark Men to pull away from the bank and they take a turn to do so. As they two, three more red worms pop up, and his Horn of Blasting catches all 6. It deals 2d10 sonic damage and they toss a 7 and 7. 14 damage. That bad damages the Red Worms and hits he Fyrsnaca for a few hits as well. Two red worms drop as they push forward mindlessly by the shark men. 55/80 Alzar 2 worms dead 3 more worms crawl out of the river the next round. Alzar and company win init and kill two more wounded worms. 4 dead. Alzar rushes to intercept the creature, and it levels itself to bite him, but fails. Alzar smashes out with his Gladius and stabs the creature lightly, and then takes 8 from a red worm and 8 from the Fyrsnaca as well. 39/80 They chop a wounded red worm dead. 5 dead, all of the wounded ones are defeated. Alzar misses. The Fyrsnaca bites Alzar but misses. He takes 5 from a red worm 35/80 2 vs 1. They bite Alzar onces (he dodges) and then miss. The gators hit and wound a worm, and Alzar hits for 10 damage on the Fyrsnaca. 2 vs 6 Alzar chops again and misses. They kill the wounded worm 6 dead. Alzar takes 13 from two bites. 24/80 6 vs 7 Alzar clashes out and hits for 9. The others all miss this round. He takes a bite of 4. 21/80 6 vs 2 They bite Alzar once for 10 and then he is missed. Alzar’s sword cracks more scales for 11 damage and the Fyrsnaca roars loudly and begins to retreat. The gators focus and drop it and it dies. 2 red worms follow next turn Dead 8 red worms, 1 Fyrsnaca The gators take the 9 red worms bodies as food. There is nothing else here, so Alzar dips the statuette into the water and it grows again and is now almost arm length and getting pretty heavy. Alzar heads up 3600 XP |
Alzar spending some time recuperating and eating, Alzar then flies out and scouts, and he finds a quartet of caves on the leeward side of a nearby hill that all match the basic vision that he received. He heads over to investigate. A burning metallic odor is here, and Alzar finds the cave, and there are a few oozes and slimes in here. Alzar grabs from OtherSpace and lights some oil flasks and cleans the place out, and then waits an hour for it to be safe. He heads in and finds an odd crack in the ceiling here that lets in light, filtered, into the bottom. It’s the only feature in the cave that’s unusual or different. After being places in the light the statuette grow
One place left. There’s a back entrance in the 3rd cave here that he investigates, and it heads down. After scouting with Balo first, Alzar sneaks around using his best thief skills until he finds a room with a set of blubbing pools of lava from deep below, and he’s deep underground as well. There are some fire creatures in here relaxing - lava lizards. He can’t tell how many, but there have to be at least 3 or 4. Perhaps more. Instead of fighting, Alzar grabs the Ring of Invisibility and goes invisible. He’ll Move Silently (x2 chance of success with the Cloak, +10 with the Gauntlets 0 successful 90% of the time). It works and it’s over. He grabs the statuette from his Bag of Holding and dips the statuette (still invisible) into the lava, and it grows again and is now around the length of his leg. He can’t move silently with this big thing here, so he mediates and drops it off in OtherSpace, returns, and moves back out silently The five seals on the enchantment are done. Now to head away 5000 XP for battles and quests |
Two days later Alzar arrives in the Wyrmsteeth Range at the designated location, with the party in tow, in case things go badly. Alzar begins to use a tool to crack the Amulet in the right location, and the sheering force of Thyralax from the inside, the weakened seals, and Alzar’s tool are enough, and the gemstone cracks and disintegrates and a gigantic Sapphire dragon breaks out of the shell. Exhausted by its efforts, the creature falls to the ground, unconscious.
Alzar orders the anti-dragon stuff they brought with them to be set up just in case Thyralax still doesn’t wind up as he seems. About twenty minutes later, the heavy wings of a ancient brown dragon are heard, and an old voice cracks the valley they are in. “And so you have returned. I felt the magic break Thyralax….? Your foolishness is my good fortune!” Ignoring the humans, the dragon flies down to attack the unconscious dragon. Can his party handle, solo, a dragon? Mardius, Brown Dragon - Venerable, -4 AC, 20d6+20 breathe weapon, 1d4, 1d4, 3d10 damage in attacks, knows spells, THACO 9, 120 hp Alzar mentioned - they brought their anti-dragon stuff with them: Scroll of Protection vs Dragon Wyrmcleaver - +2 two handed sword, becomes +4 vorpal sword against dragons - handed to Rogren Not a lot though. He was doing prep work for the Sapphire’s sonic attack, not the Brown’s acid one. The main goal here is to not-die. Alzar just has the one Scroll, so it has to be the last one. But he has something else. He reaches into the Bag of Holding and grabs a Scroll of Proetction vs Acid and uses it. Alzar’s goals are to do two things - 1). Give Rogren the best chance of hitting with his Sword 2). Survive as long as possible so Reogren can attack more with the sword With no acid attacks on the table any more, everyone is in a good place As Mardius moves in, they get ready Racala casts Bless which gives them +1 to hit and +1 to saves against Fear stuff, including….say…dragonfear effects Forx will cast a few spells, and then begin to play the drums, giving everyone a +2 to attack and damage. Racala will follow with Prayer, a 3rd level spell that gives everyone +1 to hit, +1 to damage, and +1 to saves, and -1 to enemies, including the brown dragon |
The dragon breathes, and the Acid just rolls off them unharmed. It takes 6 damage from magic missiles, and then the Magic Resistance withdraws the other.
It lands and the bonuses for attacking begin to hit and Alzar and Rogren move in to melee range 1 vs 8 Alzar’s sword swings - he gets +4 for the sword +1 for strength, and +4 for to hit bonuses of spells and the Drums. Thaco - 18, 22 for AC and Thaco, and then -9 to 13 - so Alzar needs a 13 to hit. 8 ,misses. Rogren has the same bonuses, and specialization in swords to -10 instead of 9. Thaco is lower too17 - so he just needs a 7 to hit. Now if he rolls really well, a 19 or 20, Wyrmcleaver kills automatically. Alzar’s killed two dragons that way - so a 10% chance each attack of an auto kill….8 and hits for 1d12 for the sword and 5 +4 for sword, 2 for specialization, 1 for STR, and 3 for bonuses - 10 total 15 damage from Rogren. The dragon reaches down to claw, claw, and bite Rogren, with the nasty pointy sword thing. Rolls 3,m 6 and 19 for 9 damage Rogren has 33/42 hp left 2 v 9 Alzar tosses a 6 and misses. Rogren….16 and hits for 17 damage. A Chromatic Orb is launched from Adentium who misses. 15, 8, 5. Rogren takes 2 31/42 7 vs 5 The dragon 3, 16, 12, bites Rogren for 16and claws for 2. A heal spell from Racala, Cure Light Wounds heals 10. Alzar finally connects for 13 damage. Rogren….13 for 19 damage 23/42 55 damage to the wyrm. It flies up. This is not working. It casts magic Missile at Rogren instead. Max - 5d4+5 damage fires at him. 18 damage. Alzar hands Rogren his Extra Healing potion from his belt and Rogren drinks it and heals 30. Alzar tosses the Dart of Death and Horn of Blasting to Adentium as well. 35/42 9 vs 5 The dragon breathes again to see if their protection is up, knowing that it would likely kill everyone but nope. He’s flying above the group, immune to melee attacks right now, and Alzar’s Short Bow bites two arrows at him for. One hit for 7 damage. The Dart of Death is used and hits automatically one creature, but stays at that creature for 1d4. 3. 65 damage total 2 vs 4 A dragon can outfly someone all day long, but Alzar want to push this lizard in the sky a bit. Him and Rogren begin to fly up to where he is hovering to sort of push him. He turns and casts Mirror Image and creates 10 illusionary images of himself. Alzar skips his turn to drop his weapon, grab the Star, and tell Rogren which imagine is actually not an image to aim for. 1 vs 4 Rogren swings and….gets an 19….dead dragon. The vorpal sword goes snicker snack, they leave it dead and with its head, they come galumphing back 20000 XP for the group After slaying Mardius, about an hour later, Thyralax raises back from unconsciousness. He asks what happened and Alzar grabs Mardius’s head. He was spending an hour caving up the skin, teeth, etc of the dragon. Thyralax thanks them and flies them up to Mardius lair to show them it. They can have anything in it. 18000 gp 2 Star Sapphires 10k each 12 blue pearls, 500 gp each Bag of Turquoise Pieces - 2500 gp Potions of Blending, Climbing Staff of Dispelling Chime of Time Rod of Health Ring of Safety Wheel of Fortune Thyralax agrees to aid Alzar if he needs it as help for freeing him. He lives back in north-eastern most parts of the Ljallenfals. It’ll work out. The whole group gets 4000 XP and Adentium and Forx both level up. Alzar gets 4k +14900 - 18900 End of Bestiary of Dragons and Giants. Again |
I suspect we’ll keep hitting this one up, it’s pretty solid
So let’s talk about how Alzar is about to break the Rogue class Alzar levels up: Open Locks: 40 Find/Remove Traps: 95 Move Silently: 60 Hide in Shadows: 55 Climb Walls: 70 Read Languages: 5 Evasion: 45 And he got one more in Thaco. Alzar just collected his second weapon proficiency and he has not used the first. He is about to use them both. The first, is going to be Expertise on his Short Bow. Weapon Expertise is available for any class that does not have the ability to specialize with a weapon (and Mages can take it either). They can take Expertise precisely once. Now, Expertise is a poor-man’s specialization, which has just one benefit. Not any more bonuses to hit, and none to damage either. And Alzar won’t gain Point Blank range with the bow like a fighter would. Nope. He gets one thing. The number of attacks of a specialist. Now if you’ll recall from way back when, Alzar’s axe had a lot more attacks once Alzar got to level 7 as a warriors, as a mage when he got to level 8 and gained that specialization and multiple attacks, he became a lethal tank-mage, rather than a little squishy-mage. And what level did Alzar just reach? At level 1-6, someone firing a Short Bow with Expertise or Specialization gets 2 attacks a round. Pretty good, right? At level 7, that person now gets 3 attacks per round. So Alzar will be able to naturally fire his Short Bow thrice. But don’t forget…. Alzar has the Hasp of Reloading. When he fires a bow with it, another arrow appears from the quiver and he gets one extra attack with each shot. So the Hasp doubles your fire rate. And Alzar has 3 shots a rate. So I don’t have to win the Math Field Day competition to tell you that Alzar now gets to fire SIX arrows a round. Rogues can also specialize in fighting styles, like Alzar did with one-handed weapon fighting as a warrior. And that’s great. Alzar is looking at two possibilities, Missile and Weapon and Shield. Alzar likes what both can do, but for now, the 6 extra shots are enough of an upgrade, so he’s going Shield and 1 Handed Weapon He gets an extra -1 AC for skills in melee, and can also use the Shield Punch with any shield, not just Bright Barrier. The Barrier is fighter only, but he has a +5 shield he equips. In melee only, he drops from -2 AC with the Ioun Stone to -8. This increases his survivability even more. For non weapons, Alzar takes: Fine Balance - +2 to rolls for tumbling and tightrope walking, no penalties to fighting on an unsure surface, and gets +10% to Climb Walls - I already included ht bonus above |
Anyways, let’s take a looksee at those magic items, yeah?
Staff of Dispelling - 13 charges. Casts Dispel Magic at 15th level. Usable by any character. Chime of Time - Keeps time of whatever increment you want Rod of Health - Only usable by clerics, can be used like a Staff of Healing, but without using charges. Each target can only be healed once/day. (Cure Disease, Blindness, Poison, or Serious Wounds) Ring of Safety - 4 charges. If the wearer fails a saving throw, can burn a charge and succeed. Wheel of Fortune - An infamous magical item that has random effects for the spinner, and some great ones, but the bad ones are worse than the good ones are good. Each person may spin the Wheel once Alzar swaps +3 weapons for the party as they continue to adventure for any they don’t have in order to make sure they can hit creatures like constructs or higher level undead or elementals and such. |
Begin of AC10 Bestiary ….
Ravellia and the Dragon Eggs You know what? Let’s just do another one right now Three days later, Alzar is holding court, and had entered the time where anybody in his March can come to him and talk something over. As he does, a middle age woman dressed in a green blouse with grey eyes and black hair walks in. She introduces herself as a sage Ravellia, and she specializes in all things draconic. As Alzar’s realm is next to the Wyrmsteeth Range with a lot of dragons there, she thought she would come and ask him for aid in a project. There are three black dragon eggs that have been abandoned by their mother. Ravellia was watching them, but urgent business calls her away, and she wants Alzar or some of his people to head and watch over the eggs, and record anything that happens, It’s a rare opportunity to study their habits and nature without any parents. She has stuff that’s needed, including some black dragon oil that the eggs need to keep moist, and a magical cube that tells the temperature of the place, and answers all questions about black dragons or their eggs. Earlier, Ravellia went to Claranensa the Seer’s place, but she directed Ravellia to Alzar instead for someone to watch and study and record. The goal is to make sure the eggs get to hatch. If all three eggs do so, then things would be excellent. Alzar agrees. They are teleported to the eggs in the mountains by the court Magist, and then Alzar has her send a summons to Vala, over in Thorasia, his own apprentice. Alzar is shown the items, and the three black dragons eggs into the sands of a cave. He begins to ask the Cube questions and it’s quite detailed Perfect! After the Magist teleports Ravellia and herself back, Alzar begins His old apprentice Vala arrives about an hour late,, and Alzar puts in a request to borrow a minor magical item, and she agrees to do so if he shares the results. She heads back and teleports over some scrolls. Alzar used to have a magical quill that would write down anything that was said. While here, Alzar will spend his time asking a bunch of of highly detailed questions, and he will bind them into a book he titles: Everything You Need to Know About Black Dragons and their Eggs, As penned by Alzar Vala will get a copy too! |
Alzar spends the first part of his time here turning and oiling the eggs. All dragon eggs are different, and these are leathery and purple colored. The thermometer begins to change hue and its too cold. Alzar has grabbed the Lamp of Long Burning to keep the area around the eggs lit, and he sets it up. They will stay warm and comfortable until they hatch.
Alzar spends a lot of time asking questions and investigating black dragons. He is learning a considerable amount of detail about their species. His quill is filing it away as well. He restocks the ink as well. After a while Alzar returns to another oil and turn, and then heads out to do a little exploring, with a rear exit of this cave to the next one. Behind this one is a passage and more. There is a huge room with a lot of junk - broken swords, armor, wooden splintered items, dishes, cups, and more all broken. He grabs the Star of Mo’Pilar to do some investigation, and he finds a magical rod in here that he secures and uses the Slate of Identification to ID: Rod of the Black Wyrm Alzar head back to the eggs and watches them for the rest of the day. That night, there is a setting of the sun, and in twilight, a group of four elves approach the cave with bows drawn and order Alzar to surrender. Alzar is puzzled. Are they here to kill the black dragon eggs? He asks why, and then they tell him that he is one of three chaotic mages that they have been hunting that are causing problems here. What? Does Alzar look like a chaotic mage? He is Marquis Alzar. The leader narrows her eyes at Alzar for a moment, and then recognizes him, and nods to the others, and they lower their bows. She apologizes. She tells him about these three lawless mages out here on the back of the Llallenfels, and they have been trying take care of them permanently. She leaves him with a great horn make from elk antler‘s and tells Alzar to blow it to summon the elves if he makes out the magi. They head out and the next day passes uneventfully. Alzar doesn’t need to sleep or eat or drink with the Greater Ring of Sustenance. So he’s fine to take care of the eggs all day long. He’s asked all of the questions that he can think of. So he spends the time reading, or doing long-distance correspondence back home, writing letters which are dispatched to folks via his Magist, and more. |
The next day, Alzar is relaxing by the cave when he sees a presence. There are a trio of mages behind an Invisibly 10’ Radius spell, moving cautiously in. He can see through invisibility as part of his super-high intelligence.
Alzar pretends not to notice them and walks up, stretches lazily, and then moves towards the cave mouth, which would block them, and then they slow down. He heads inside and sits back down by the fire, with his back to them, and they see this as a good sign. He reaches over to the horn and blows it quite loudly for the elves. The wizards aren’t sure what just happened, so they ready spell components. Alzar opens a book and begins to write. After waiting a couple of minutes, one inches closer and closer, not wanting to disturb the sand. Alzar reaches into his belt and pulls a closed box from his belt pouch. He opens it, and reveals a shining magically enchanting gem that pulls their attention. He places the gem on the ground and then backs away and turns around to look directly at them. “So what do you want with the eggs anyway?” Shocked by his question from nowhere they pause. After a moment, the one in the back furtherest away speaks up. They have a recipe for an Acid Breath potion, and it requires the shell of a black dragon egg. Thus, they are here to secure the eggs. “I can’t blame you. I’ve raided places for components for potions, spells, magic items, scroll ink, and just general interest for an eternity. I get it. Normally I’d let you do it. But I promised a lady that I would guard and protect these eggs. And after finding out all of the different forms that black dragons take when they turn human, I think she was a polymorphed dragon. Perhaps even the mother. I cannot tell her when she comes back that I gave away her eggs.” The magic user offers Alzar money. “Let me ask you one question. What could you possibly offer me that’s more valuable than this gem I already have?” All of the mages impulsively look at the gem, and Alzar intones it’s trigger word… The Gem of Delusion fires Gem of Delusion – Command word forces everyone other than user in 20’ radius to save vs spells as Gem flashes. If they make it, they are stunned for 1d4 rounds and then Feebleminded for 1d6 after. If they fail, then deluded. They roll 19, 2, and 16. So the leader and the defensive specialist made it, and the aggressive one failed. He is deluded. He is massively paranoid. The other two are stunned for 2 rounds, and then feebleminded for 4 more. Alzar’s bow is at his side, and he grabs it, load,s his Has pof Reloading and spend this round getting ready. Meanwhile, his foe casts Melf’s Acid Arrow at Alzar. He takes 8 damage this round 72/80 4 vs 5 Alzar’s six arrows head up and fly at the mage. Alzar tosses 17, 15, 9, 7, 13, and 2. Four hit for 2+4+4+2 12 damage. Very symmetrical. Wendell the Mage runs away, and Alzar takes 7 9 vs 6 Wendell flees and Alzar takes 8 again. Alzar’s arrows slay the stunned leader. The other one is now feebleminded and is +4 to hit and can’t cast anything. 6vs 3 Alzar hits the enfeebled mage for 21 damage. The other one is found by the elves coming from the horn blast, Wendell, and slain this round. The next round Alzar kills the feebled one. All three dead The elves arrive and identify all three. These are the chaotic mages they were hunting. Alzar strips off anything good and uses the Star to help, and then the elves take the bodies for proof of death and Alzar gives them his trumpet Alzar finds: Book - How to Make an Acid Breath Potion in 12 Easy Steps Everything other than the eggshells is in a backpack. They have enough here for 10 potions. Nothing else of value other than stuff like water, weapons, and such. No magical items, and no spellbooks are here. |
That night, one of the eggs hatches. Alzar got instructions a while ago. He cleans off the wings, which start of sort, and smashed together. Then he has to begin feeding it. He heads into OtherSpace for a moment and comes out with some of the items that make magical food -
Metal Platter (Beef, Lamb, Turkey, Pheasant) for four people once/day; Mug (Beer, Ale, Mead) six/day; Pitcher (Water, Tea, Wine), three/day.; He uses the Decanter of Endless Water to clean off the dragon without leaving the area, and then feeds the hatchling some beef, lamb, turkey, and pheasant in turn, They can eat any meat, and magically created meat is fine. They need about 25 pounds of meat a day, but this will work for now. All next day, Alzar spends getting some meat delivered from the Magist, and then stores it in his Bag of Holding for later. That night, a second egg hatches, and he cares for the next youngling. |
The following day, a rumbling can be heard a little before noon, and a creature that finds black dragon younglings and eggs a delicacy emerges from the ground. A purple worm!
Alzar’s Warp Marble flies out and he tries to catch it. Then he grabs his bow, Hasp, and arrows as it flies in. 17 tossed, nope, no good. Alzar;s arrows fly in and hit it for 7 damage. The Worm stops and turns towards him, and moves at Alzar, rather than towards the dragons and egg. Alzar has one round of arrows before it arrives. It has an AC of 6, so Alzar fires six shots - he needs 17-6-4 7 to hit. He gets it four times for 14 damage. 21 total to it. It moves it and tries to chomp him. If it rolls a 20, it eats him. And that won’t be good. It tosses a….20 Alzar takes 12 damage from the bit and he is swallowed whole! 68/80 Uh oh! Alzar spends a round concentrating. He takes 10 damage from the digestive processes, and then leaves to go to OtherSpace 58/80 With his meal suddenly disappearing from his stomach, the worm pauses. Not sure where Alzar is…. Alzar swallows a healing potion, and switches to a weapon that should prove useful The next round, the Worm decides to give up hunting down Alzar and moves back to hit the dragons. 70/80 Alzar pops out of OtherSpace loaded and ready for bear. Or worm. Alzar intones the word to active the Stoneskin Spellcahe Ring he had, and 10 skins protect him. With his +5 shield and Gladius he wades into battle with a -8 AC, 10 hits from the worm that need o be done before and 40% of dodging the one attack the Worm can do with Evasion, and if he dodges, the Skin won’t be used. I’m not even rolling the dice on that one. Alzar wins. Dead worm. |
After making sure the b. dragons and egg are fine, he moves to begin using Poison Use skill to collect the poison glands, and such from the Worm, and he also collects acid, and some teeth.
After a few hours, baby #3 hatches. Nothing else happens that day. As the sun passes on the next day, Ravellia returns from her conference, flying in. She sees her dragon babies and spends some time with them making sure that they are okay. She then flies to her lair to make sure everything is there (not here) and when she returns, she has a bag in her mouth and she polymorphs back to human form. She gives Alzar some of her treasure as a reward, and in particular a magic item that she can’t really use much of. There are 2500 platinum pieces, and a crystal. She shows him the crystal, and then Alzar takes off. She is very cordial and effsuie about him. Results - 1). Alzar has gained an ally in Revellia, a powerful chaotic evil dragon in Ljallenfels. 2). Alzar has gained lesser allies in the three black dragon younglings 3). After spreading the news about him, Alzar will get +1 to all encounters with black dragons from here on out. That means Blacks are more likely to talk than attack, and more likely to listen than fight. Crystal of Deep Healing - When someone holds the Crystal, and touches someone who is wounded, their wounds, diseases, and such heal over time, much like a really quick regeneration. However, once the Crystal is used by someone, it can never be let go of, physically. Should physical contact end, or the Gem be destroyed, the last person to use it takes 1 hp for each hp healed from all healings that were done. Alzar gains XP for the dragon as if he killed it, and a bonus 10k for all three surviving, according to the module. So he gets: 49,000 XP Welcome to level 8 Open Locks: 40 Find/Remove Traps: 95 Move Silently: 75 Hide in Shadows: 65 Climb Walls: 70 Read Languages: 5 Evasion: 50 End of Bestiary of Dragons and Giants. Againx2 |
Alzar reads the Manual of Bodily Health; Manual of Gainful Exercise; and he gains 1 point in STR and CON each
He won’t be able to benefit from either ever again, and they are now gone Alzar’s STR rises to 18 and we will roll % dice, because he has been a fighter in the past - 23. But his STR just counts as 18 for his Thief right now. And when he gets back to Fighter, he can increase his str with magical items, but still, why turn down a stats gain like that? |
Begin the Dancing Hut of Baba Yaga
 Let’s finish the Thief part of the quest for now thing This one actually subs right into what we’re already doing. Let me give you some lines from the intro “Although Baba Yaga is one of the most powerful wizards in existence, she has not yet succeeded in her most ambitious goal - immortality. While she has perfected a number of spells and magical devices that can either prolong her life or snatch her back from Death’s icy grip, she still fears that one day one of these methods might fail.” Baba Yaga has been planning a way to gather the powers to give herself immortality. First, she began to stalk and follow these Minor Deaths - avatars of various gods of death on various planes. After following them and seeing how they would sometimes kill and absorb the soul, she captured a few and forced them to show her how to do so. Giving her the ability to extend her life more, and yet not true immortality. So you can imagine how intoxicating it must have been for her when she began to do research on the plane of Pandius and found that people here could take a very rough and difficult path to immortality, and then she could be guaranteed to never die. But early research suggested that other planar people were not welcome to move to Pandius and become a part of their little Immorality club. And that changed a few months ago when Alzar, an extra-planar candidate officially began his journey. Yes, it was harder, but it had begun. Baba Yaga has left some of the other experiments and places she was working on and arrived here on Pandius, to begin researching immortality and Alzar here. |
“And when did this happen? Five days ago?”
“It was probably more like 6 days ago now, Marquis.” “And every animal fled from the area, in a ten mile diameter - a pure circle.” “Me and my fellow elves witnessed it personally. Why?” “Its nothing, but a five mile radius around a certain traveler is the first sign of her arrival, I believe, that’s a very specific number. Let me do some research.” Alzar heads to the library and has Draconis help him find what he is looking for. A few hours later they locate it. A reference to arguably the single most powerful magic user of all time, Baba Yaga. She spent decades of her life creating a singular artifact, a Hut, that she uses to transverse the planes. She has lived longer than any other living human recorded, and extended her life by thousands of years. There are numerous books and stories on Baba Yaga and the people who have visited her. Her hut is regularly open for people to visit, and sometimes he can be helpful to those who seek it, although with a price. And she’s always looking out for herself. She is probably the most dangerous of evil - neutral evil, not lawful and trustworthy, and not chaotic and reliably attacking each other to spite their face. She plays both off, and is horrible to predict. That makes her a problem, and her presence in Alzar’s realm, in the woods nearby is even worse. And she’s been there for almost a week. Alzar begins to summon the party. A few hours later, a representative from the Sphere of Entropy has arrived. A cleric of one of their immortals tells give, and him alone, some bad news. Thanatos is missing. |
Each of the five Spheres has a nominal leader, the original founder of that sphere. Thanatos is not only the first Entropic Immortal, but one of the first generally, and he’s considered one of the two or three most powerful immortals of them all. His area of power contains death. Thanatos has been missing for about a day now, and his clerics, and there’s aren’t many that want to follow him, have not been given any of their spells or powers, like turning undead.
The missing Thanatos and the appearance of Baba Yaga are probably not a coincidence. They have to be related. And that’s not good news. Alzar at his most powerful wouldn’t be able to take out Baba Yaga, certainly not in her own turf. And the power level he would require to hit the most powerful Immortal would be unbelievable. If Baba Yaga did that, then he can’t really believe that he has a shot at doing anything. Time to investigate. Alzar does some research prior to heading n. According to people that entered and survived, the stories have some similarities. There are a ton of magical spells and items that won’t work in the Hut for anyone other than Baba Yaga - 1). Any spell which moves something from one place to another like teleport or blink 2). Any magic that detects anything 3). Any magic that opens a portal or conjures something 4). Any magic that tries to contact someone 5). Any magic which has an extra-dimensional component 6). Any magic that uses a wall, Stone Tell, Dig, Passwall; or interacts in a similar way 7). Any item which duplicates these restrictions The hut is impervious to magical, physical and elemental attacks, and the feet can be destroyed though. Sometimes the hut is open for a visitor, but that can be more dangerous - it means Baba Yaga is watching and expects you Alzar and party move in and head out to the Hut  After flying over for about 4 and a half hours in the Carpet, they near the area. Alzar lands about two miles from ground zero. They head in and unload. After reaching the hut, there is a huge fence with each post a Necrophidus construct. Inside is a garden and a gate of golems. The hut is before them… The gate is open, and the door ajar. |
They pause for a moment to assess everything that is happening, and Alzar tries to use some of his items like the Star of Mo’Pilar, but none are working. He doubts they aable able to sneak in, and they don’t have the power to deal with Baba Yaga, so they might as well head in, and act cordial.
The Necrophidus turn as Alzar moves, they are looking directly at him, not the rest of the party. That’s a bit on the creepy side of life. He doesn’t want to door to potentially close behind him, so he has the rest of the party head through first and then he follows. The door does close behind him. They are in a hexagonal room, much like that of a hut. Small and dark, with wood planks, a 10 foot high ceiling, and a ladder leading up to a trap door in the ceiling. There are bed and brazier, dried herbs and rugs, and a frayed carpet. Alzar tries to use various items and none of them work. He can’t even use his OtherSpace or Bags of Holding here. He prepared a backpack for everyone in case that was the case with various items - potions in hard metal vials, for example. So Alzar is going to scout the area with his thief skills instead. Moving Silently, Hiding in Shadows, stuff like that. They spend some time investigating, and there is a trapdoor under the carpet. They head up and the trap door opens. The attic here is also hexagonal, smaller, and bare of anything but some dirty straw. They search, but there’s nothing there. The trapdoor down opens, and they head down. |
This rough stone cavern contains a jumble of boxes and barrels that smell like stale food. Alzar moves into stealth mode, heading to the shadows along the walls. Alzar’s Gladius slips into a crate and lifts the lid after searching and failing to find any traps, and there’s nothing here. Alzar doesn’t have the time or the ability to search all of these crates and barrels, so they slip past them.
There’s heavy metal plate on the floor just past them. It’s very hot. There is a door at the end of the hallway. Alzar heads to the door first and checks it and it’s trap free. There are some rats down here, normal rats, and they are missing one eye each and have a glass eye in them. It’s unlocked and they head through…. They teleport to a storage room magically cool, with sheep carcasses hanging on great metal hooks from the ceiling. Alzar, first one in, seems an image of himself on a hook too, and immediately notices it’s an illusion. There is a door to their left (directions now make no sense) and through it is a kitchen. There are two large tables, wooden stools, and a huge stove, with cabbage soup cooking on the pot on a stove. There are various cooking implements here The stove is cast iron and has a front shaped like a dragon’s face, with eyes of beads. The warmth spreads around the room. There is a metal door behind the mouth of the stove, and could be reached. It’s pretty hot there. There are also doors forward and to the right. There is a dumbwaiter in that door in front after it is opened ,but none are small enough for that. The door to the right opens into a long twisting hallway with walls of a soft, red material and a floor that is knee deep in putrid sludge. Alzar grabs a kitchen tool and tosses it in, but it’s like the acid of a snake or something. He grabs a heavy pot and tosses it into the corridor and then falls to the ground himself. There is a serious pain in his lower intestine. Could this corridor actually be his own body? That’s a vile trap. He shuts the door There aren’t any other ways to go but into the stove. Alzar searches and finds no traps or anything. The stove is massively hot. So Alzar has a different idea. He can use the Stone of Diminution for the Dumbwaiter. He grabs it after heading into it, and gets winched up, and then leaves, places the stone on the plate and it heads back down and they repeat that four more times until everyone is up. The dumbwaiter arrives in a room with a table bedecked with elegant crystal glasses, and a decanter, and well as a variety of serving stays and such. They are enraged with various signs, and there is a door on the far side of the small chamber. The Decanter appears similar to the Decanters of Endless Water Alzar has used before and he takes a mental note in case they need to come back. They find a parchment on a table that reads: “The recipe for black pudding is seven measures of oatmeal, two pounds of meat, and three onions. Questrix” |
Well that’s a bit odd. But Alzar notes it down and leaves it. The door opens into a large reception hall. There is a curtain on the far side, and it is pulled aside. Four clay golems are in the four corners of the hall. There are emblazoned on the curtains two knights sparring, ad a gem studded throne that defies description. The floor is studded with alternating silver and gold tiles, and there are two braziers that flank the throne.
There is a door to the open side. A stair case winds upwards to a balcony and wraps around a seemingly bottomless pit that radiates cold. There is a huge amount of cold in here, and Alzar heads up, and then grabs a door here and they teleport again… They arrive is a huge round chamber dominated by a circular raised dais On it is a reclining easy chair with black leather upholstery. Over it is a domed ceiling. The ceiling shows the stars above, twinkling and in real detail, although it is not a open window. This observatory has some twinkling lights on the far sides of the rooms, some balloons on one side and the other a globe, The globe is a relief of Pandius. There are no doors here Alzar inspects the area, and then finds a button in the globe and presses it and a secret door opens and then head through it to a newly teleported room… This is an odd looking chamber, There is a circular room with a variety of mouse holes at floor level, and mice are scurrying about underfoot. There are some red leaved bushes no one in the party recognizes, and there is an odd odor in here, like a cat. In a moment, a elvish cat appears and then disappears again, just as quickly After it does it a few more times, Alzar decides that it wants to be chased, so they chase it around the area and into four rooms in the mouse holes. At the end, Alzar gives the cat some food from his backpack and the elven cat thanks them for playing, and as a reward will answer three questions about Baba Yaga. Alzar asks them and finds out: 1). Baba Yaga recently gained the cooperation of the powers of Night, Twilight, and Day 2). You can choose your next place of arrival by giving a door a special knock in code if you want 3). There are exits here to the Baths or the Conservatory - Alzar chooses one |
This flower shaped greenhouse is made up of a large domed room that opens into 8 smaller rooms. The walls are made of leaded glass, and there are tons of alien and unusual planets in here. In fact, there are two species that Alzar has not seen since his tour of the first crashed spaceship he explored.
There are a bunch of large ants, around 6-9 inches long each in the area, quietly doing their job. And some bumblebees and dragonflies and well. There are some special black flowers in the center of the garden, and like before, Alzar chose to not take anything - they don’t have time to stop and pause. There are three doors from here. Alzar takes one and….arrives back at the Playroom o the cat. Instead of trying another door, he just decides to head to the baths instead This is the baths. The floor and walls here are finished in ceramic tiles and depict sea monsters, some of whom Alzar has not encountered. There is a pool of water and at either end are five steams of water that feed it and there is a cluster of glowing spheres with Continual Light spells on them for luminance. Lounging around the pool are a hug number of frogs, and like other animals are missing an eye and have it replaced with a glass one. There is a room in the back filled with shelves and that are crammed with things like towels and bed sheets. After a quick look around, Alzar finds a secret door, and heads through it other than the regular door in here and arrives… This area is filled with clanking machinery and the noise is so loud that evens shouts are barely heard. There are no natural light sources in here, but Alzar’s black Ioun stone is out and the continual light stones of the others come out. Like other places Alzar slips into the shadows. There walls floor and ceiling are made of bronze and the ceiling has great pistons crashing down from them, and eject huge clouds of steam that is quite hot. Heading into that steam would likely cause serious damage There are two doors on the far side of this chamber. Alzar has the others stay and he stealths over dodging steam blasts and climbing the walls in places to get over machinery. This first door opens into a small control roo, Alzar makes an INT rolls, succeeds, and hits the right button and the pistons stop. The other room stops the steam, There is a stair case on the far side now that it is safe to get to, and they head up They arrive in a large wizard’s laboratory stocked with every possible bit of equipment, supply, potions, and more. There are numerous tables and shelves in her, and a huge samovar in the center of the room. There is a lot of writing here and Alzar can read it - its : “Some sugar for your sweet tooth? Questrix” Is that a clue? Alzar goes forward and moves to a new chamber… |
This area is oddly shaped and in a corridor., There are some locked double doors in front, and Alzar….picks them successfully. Inside is a walkway that has a metal railing, and it encircles four hexagonal chambers that are 20 feet below the level of the walkway. At the center of each of the chambers is a figure of black robes and death’s face. Each of the figures has a great scythe and appears to be using it.
Alzar passes his Spellcraft prof and these are temporally en-stasis. Set into the railing is a card that reads: “To learn more about the tableau below, please open” There is a small box. Alzar searches one of the boxes for traps, or locks, or anything else and finds nothing and opens it. Alzar is teleported to the tableau below in the first of the hexagons and the figure animates and moves to face him. This is a Minor Death Alzar is facing it alone Alzar’s bow is out and he fires some arrows at it, but they are nonmagical and can’t hit it. Even when fired by the +4 bow and the Hasp, they don’t count as magical. Alzar switches over to the shield and Gladius as the minor death arrives for melee. 9 vs 5 The minor death always wins initiative, and never misses. Alzar takes 2d8 damage from the scythe. 1+7 - 8 damage. Alzar needs a 17+4-4-1. 16, he gest a 9. He also tries to shield punch too and needs a 19. 3 - nope. 72/80 Alzar takes 7 and then gets a 19 and this with the gladius for 1d6 (2) +4+2 - 8 damage 65/80 5 and 8 rolled. Lzar took 10 55/80 Alzar takes 10 again and tosses a 16 and 4. 11 damage back 45/80 (Since it never misses I’m not giving Alzar a chance to evade) Alzar takes 11 - 20 and 19 rolls for 9 and 7. Dead Minor Death 40/80 Alzar gains 3500 XP and is teleported back. He chooses not to head to the next tableau, and they head out…. Back to the laboratory. This time Alzar goes… |
Cobweb filled stairways lead down on either side of the area to a darkened room with a ceiling height of just 3 feet. There is a grate below them and underneath the grate a Living Wall. Hands from the wall reach out to grab and attack the party. They miss mostly, and Alzar cuts off the hand that hits Adentium, They rush off and head up the stairs to a door…
They arrive in a small diamond shaped room with four doors. Alzar checks and opens the first one with a weaving room with a spinning wheel sacks of clothing and such, and there are a bunch of rats in here weaving magical clothing., They ignore Alzar. A dog is helping with laundry in another, cats are helping with sorting in another, and in the final one, birds are sorting food. And an all cases they are ignoring Alzar and have the glass eye. Alzar searches and finds a secret door in the laundry and the….. They arrive in a great hallway and there are with eight doors off this one. They are solidified and strong, built more durably than any other doors here. Alzar steps up to one after checking to make sure it’s free and it was guarded with a magical spell he did not detect and out from one of the rooms spells a Green Abishai devil It greets Alzar as the Marked One, who earned the ire of Jubilex and Zuggtmoy. But it has been charged ot guard this prison ,and cannot let Alzar in. It attacks 1 vs 7 They win init and Alzar’s Gladius and shield are up and in front and he stabs and misses. He does not use his shield - wants to keep the AC bonus from it. Rogren stabs the guy for 9 damage with a sword, and two sets of Magic Missiles fly in and slip past the small Magic Resistance for 18 damage total. It stabs at Alzar and miss.es 7 vs 8 They stab out and hit it for 9 from Alzar and 6 from Rogren and slay it. It is banished back to its own plane. 8000 XP for the party. |
They search the various jail cells and in the 5th one they check, is
Questrix Neutral Gnome/Illusionist (Skygnome Tinkerer) 10th Level Str 10, Dec 16, Con 15, Int 17, WIs 12, Cha 15. 33 hp Thaco 17 No spellbook or anything else None of the other cells have anyone in them Questrix the gnome introduces himself and explains what happened. He came into the Hut just a few hours after it arrived, he heard that Baba Yaga had a very rare black flower that would seriously increase his spell use. He was able to work out the various parts about the first floor, and the explored it all until he was captured by Baba Yaga in battle with her in the reception room. That was a few days ago. There is at least one upper level but it has a cache they can’t find out, and cannot get too. There are apparently two rooms they never reached, a servants quarters, and a large room that a Cyclops is held prisoner. He is too big to fit through the doors. Hmm… Alzar, his group and Questrix leave, in order to regroup and plan a future mission here. They knock on the exit here to head directly to the first room, and then knock again to give the way out and head out. They leave the grounds and head back homes and arrive there round 5 hours later. End of The Dancing Hut of Baba Yaga for now.. |
Everyone gains a level for penetrating the Hut
Rogren, a level 6 fighter, from the local town guard, who recently distinguished himself in catching a criminal. Specialized in long sword. THACo - 17 STR, Expertise, +1 sword, +3/+4 damage. 15THAC0 so 14 normally. He needs 42k for level 6. 42k XP right now Racala, a level 6 cleric and servant of the Sphere of Matter. With 17WIS. Gains level 4 at 6k. Gets +2 1sts, +2 2nds, +1 3rd level spells. 27.5 for level 6 for her. Adentium, a level 6apprentice and conjurer of a local leader, with Magic Missile, Burning Hands, Melf’s Acid Arrow, Chromatic Orb, etc and Armor. Lightning Bolt and Monster Summoning I at 3rd. Forx, a level 7 bard who was recently entertaining the local population, and no looks to explore. Has+10% XP and gained…..Color Spray, Magic Missile, Glitterdust, Audible Glamer Alzar levels up too and: Backstab - x4 damage from level 9-12: +4 to attack Open Locks: 45 Find/Remove Traps: 95 Move Silently: 80 Hide in Shadows: 80 Climb Walls: 70 Read Languages: 5 Evasion: 55 He also gains this proficiency Camouflage - 12 He makes a roll to hide himself when he has time and adds 40% to hide in shadows. Wins surprise on attacks and evades being seen. |
After a few hours of rest, Morena appears. Alzar has now gained 9th level.
She explains that the upper levels of the Hut cannot be reached except by mortals of a certain level. It would take Alzar a long time to level up to the right level, so she is ready to move him to the final class. Yes, technically Alzar needs to quest and find an artifact and turn it in, but the Hut is certainly an artifact, and it’s within his realm. And they need him to get in and get Thanatos out - assuming that’s where he is, and the Hut only opens for him and his party, not for anyone else. Morena also agrees to accelerate Alzar’s development. Whatever cleric and skills he chooses will be gained immediately, due to the severity of what is going on. “And don’t worry about choosing me to be a cleric. Each immortal has their own spheres of mage that they give you, so just choose someone that gives you the magical access that you want. Welcome back to casting spells…” |
Alzar is now a level 1 cleric, he is taking the Scholar Priest kit. Alzar may spend weapon points on non-weapon skills with this kit. He also gets huge positive reactions from scholars, sages, and such
125 character points: +15 points for no armor at all Major Access to these Spheres: All, Healing, Astral, Law, War, Combat, Charm, Divination, Guardian, Necromantic, Protection, Summoning, Wards, 95 points Numbers? Elemental? Thought? 35 for those three at major if we want to later 45 points right now. Alzar wants to focus on magic that either is something new (Healing) or supplements his stuff he already likes (Summoning). One of the major struggles with priests is that they have some good summoning spells in the Elemental schools, and thus cannot be acquired. But they have spells Alzar typically doesn’t like. Alzar downright detests illusions and disdains a quick evocation spell that does immediate damage versus a spell like Conjure Earth Elemental, which blows through a lot of people a lot more powerfully than a Cone of Cold spell does. Because I really want to give Alzar all of the summoning spells, let’s give him major Elemental access as well - 15 points. 110 - 30 left Fire Immunity - Alzar is immune to fire. Any non-magical fire, flame, lava, or heat won’t affect him. He always makes his saves against fire spells and effects. And if a fire spell doesn’t have a save, he gets one. So he’ll always save for half damage against an effect like Fireball. 10 points left Protection from Energy Drain - +2 on saves vs energy drain effects, and grants a save when there is none Cold Resistance - +2 on all saves vs ice-based and cold attacks. Effects without a saving throw are not given one New Proficiencies: Alzar gets two free with his kit Scribe - 12 Religion - 10 Investigation - 11 Healing - 14 Hypnotism - 9 Administration - 16 Alzar also uses one of the Wishes from his Ring to gain one in Wisdom to 17. 16 is pretty good, but he can be an even better Cleric with 17 WIS because that lets him cast 6th level magic. He can’t do 7th though. You can raise each stat with s Wish just once, and he’s only done it with INT up until now. Weapon Prof: Alzar is considering the Mace so he can use Typhus until he levels to a decent place. But he could ggrab Flail instead so Ptah’s Royal Flail - +3 Flail, acts as Mace of Disruption would be an option. But nah,Typhus it is: Typhus - INT 11, EGO 16, CN, can only be handled by clerics without bad stuff happening, +3 mace, immune to disease, every hit causes disease per the spell unless a save is made. Can cast cloudkill and wither once/day, and gives +1 to level for turning or commanding undead. -1 STR and CON to any non cleric who tries to wield it. Each time uses a spell, moves more towards CN. When removed, turns to normal Align, or regains lost STR/CON after one week. And using that. Mace He holds on to one free weapon proficiency for now Priests can use shields, so he’s using the +5 one. With the shield and Bracers, he has a really low AC. He has a few items that are going to intrigue: Bonus Spells - 2 1sts, 2 2nds, 1 3rd Alzar also has three Pearls of Power for 2nd, 3rd, and 43th level spells, and these can be used by a Priest to get an additional spell of that level. |
Let’s take a looksee at the March of the Mighty after a few months have passed
Month 7, Year 7 - After a few months, we had a breakout of disease that was healed, we finished the defenses in Havendrop, there was a minor attack of orcs in the south that was ended, and the unead assault around Saffir that Alzar personally ended. One of his lyncantrhope servants found a pair of spies and killed them. Here’s the current finances of the March 63,396 Income EXPENSES – 33,330 + Tithe, Taxes Military – 17,590 Navy – 2750 March Staff - 3,420 Specialist Staff – 8050 Stronghold Staff - 7160 Taxes to Ericall – 20% (12800) Tithe to Matter Temple – 10% (6400) Treasury - 301,522 |
Begin PC2. Top Ballista
 Welcome to the next campaign. Top Ballista is a supplement for D&D and adds a new and fun place to the campaign world, and then gives you a small group of adventures. I am taking a character from one supplement in one campaign world (the Baba Yaga Hut) and turning him into a different character to fit the campaign here at the city of Serraine |
What is Serraine?
 “Serraine... To begin, it is best to look at the birth of the city itself. Serraine began as an idea over a thousand years ago by some of the more imaginative gnomes: a flying city powered by both magic and technology. That dream is now a reality and a haven for all manner of beings. As well as being a merchant's and librarian's dream, by it's very nature Serraine is cosmopolitan, not just as a meeting place for traders and scholars, but a home to those who want a place where they belong. Serraine has always been open and relaxed about who enters its gates, (not that it has any, merely railings to prevent falling to one's death). It has perhaps, the greatest variety of races known as both visitors and inhabitants. Nowhere else can one find pegataur paladin, a cloud giant laborer, technically-minded sky gnomes, faenare, ambitious humans and a floating skull as the city's librarian? Among the city's delights are the requisite flying ships (sometimes powered by elementals), a vast library, the Tumbling Fields (a zero-gravity area), pegataur jousts, and the ability to readily order what you can't buy on the spot, thanks to the city's mobility.” In 251 BC legendary gnome craftsman named Glimreen Gemeye discovers a jet engine artifact of the destroyed Blackmoor civilization. (The places Alzar saw including the City of the Gods). He begins to reverse engineer it, and more than 200 years later, the City is completed by numerous gnomes and a variety of other species and takes its maiden flight. |
Alzar and Questrix sit down to plan the next expedition into the Dancing Hut, and for now Alzar loans Questrix an empty spellbook and some of his own spellbook (not his personal ones, but the ones captured and traded for). Questrix soon enough builds a random but respectable spellbook.
While Questrix begins to rebuild, Alzar’s bound tabi, Ak’Kabar, which was captured in Hamedh, but bound here in Mystara. Ak’Kabar, Tabi HD – 5; HP 26 THAC0 – 15; 2 Attacks, 1d4 each; Intelligence – 9 Speaks – Own Language, Common Tongues AL – Chaotic Neutral Each hit by a claw must save vs poison or be deluded for 2d6 turns. Tabis can pick pockets, hide silently, and move in shadows with a 40% chance of success, and they can backstab when doing do. A tabi looks like a cross between a monkey, a bat, and a cat. They are about 15 pounds, and roughly 2 feet tall. After being bound I is extremely loyal, will do anything commanded, will be loyal for life, can go far outside the boundary normally had, and most importantly, the tabi is not a familiar. He can have a familiar, and if it dies nothing bad happens As you can see, a tabi is a bit like a winged monkey with some feline features. Ak’kabar, although bound, is still free-willed if that makes sense. He’s extremely loyal to Alzar, certainly. But he is not a homunculus or something. He is his own creature, if that makes sense. Alzar is summoned to the woods in the northwest of his domain for some work-stuff, and while there, his tabi tells him that another group of tabi have recently moved into the area, he can sense them. Since tabi are pretty rare, this intrigues Alzar, and he sets up to head out and try to find the tabi. |
Begin First Adventure - “Tabi Hunt?”
Alzar sets out to find the group of tabi the next day after getting some directions. Ak’kabar can sort of sense his people, but he’s not like the bat’s ability to hone in on them, just their general presence. Alzar heads into the forest and after a few hours, finds a pair of local elves here. They greet Alzar and tell him that they are having a clanmeet and to head west from to take a detour. He agrees, and asks if they have seen any tabi about, and shows them Ak’Kabar to let them know what he’s discussing. One of their rangers did, to the south and a bit west of here. About a day’s march from here. Alzar thanks them and heads out in the direction indicated A few more hours melt away and there is a very hungry black bear that is moving in Alzar’s direction. Alzar can see it’s very hungry, and heads to OtherSpace for a round, comes back with a tray and makes some food and drops it and they continue on the bear heads over and begins to eat A black dragon flies overhead a few minutes later and spies Alzar and lands. It’s Rosellia, the black dragon that hunts here. She greets Alzar warmly for a bit. He tells her about the nearby bear, and she grunts, heads up, and grabs the bear for food and flies out. Noon has melted away and an odd form comes flying out of the air at Alzar. He lands and then hails Alzar. This is a Pegataur, a flying Centaur:  |
He gallops in with a sheathed sword, and a black hair and mane, looks around 25 years old, well muscled, has some magical ingredients and can clearly cast a few spells if needed, and a longbow with a quiver on the side, and an oddly shaped sack. Sort of a cross between a saddle bag and a backpack. He has chain barding on as well.
He introduces himself as Rolane Rolane Neutral, Pegataur AC2, THACo 14 27 HP, STR 15, Int 13, Wis, 9, Dex 13, Con 12, Char 12. 5000 XP, level 2 Fighter/Mage 200 gp +1 Two Handed Sword; 6 +1 arrows; Knows Magic Missile, Shocking Grasp; has Read Magic, Shield, Protection from Magic, Magic Missile, Shocking Grasp in spellbook. Rolane arrives and after introductions, points to Ak’Kabar and asks Alzar about the tabi in an oddly accusing tone. Alzar explains that the creature is bound to him, and was captured on another plane of existence, and it sensed others of its kind here. Rolane relaxes a bit. Rolane tells Alzar that he flew down here from Serraine, it took about 30-40 minutes, and was chasing a tabi thief. One of the tabi stole a clan-hilt weapon from him. He saw a tabi disappear as the theft occurred, and likely flew off with it. And since all tabi are thieves, he flew down here to find the one that stole his stuff. After spending some time with introductions, they agree to travel together, since they both are seeking the tabi home. Alzar doesn’t tell Rolane that he’s the leader of these woods and lands, it seems a bit like bragging. They head out for a few hours and talk about things. Rolane is only the 2nd person from Serraine that Alzar has met, Questrix the first. They talk of various things that come to mind. This is a great opportunity to learn more, but Rolane is pretty gruff and stern. He doesn’t talk a lot. Nor does he want too. |
Dinner rolls around and they light a fire and begin to eat. After a half hour or so, a odd and definitely recognizable odor can be smelled. Zombies.
There is a grey feathered creatures, humanoid, with vulture-esque features. Alzar has met them before. Chaotic and evil to the bone. Highly manipulative and highly untrustworthy. This one has gray eyes, and a gray cloak. He is escorted by two zombies who carry his things. This is a nagpa. Extremely intelligent, and extremely magical  He walks and flies pompously, like the whole world should belong to him. He announces that he is called D’ath, and that he has arrived, so prepare! D’ath has the zombies grab hit items and he sits down by the fire to warm himself. He wants the warmth of the fire, and he seeks a single lost item, one that the tabi supposedly have. So he is searching for them too, and since he overheard Alzar and Rolane talk about the tabi, he knew he should sit down and help them find it, or else they might die without his aid. Rolane protests at the presence of the zombies, but D’ath points out that they are durable, useful, tireless guards, un-charm-able creatures, and generally strong aids. They will come in handy. After all, mark his words, but they’ll come across harpies sooner or later. Rolane seems a little off-put, but accepts it. He really seems to take things at face-value. He accepted Alzar’s claim, and now D’ath’s. Alzar agrees to have D’ath accompany them on one single condition. That D’ath allows Alzar to cast a spell on him, and will willingly fail it. A simple Detect Lie. “Why would I lie to you, that’s an insult!” “Then prove it’s an insult and accept the spell.” After pausing for a moment, D’ath nods, and Alzar casts the spell. Alzar asks a few questions: D’ath is after a rare book. He seeks an old book of Traladrian History with the tabi possess. He was from Serraine, and then damaged a valuable book. Rather than face the wrath of the terrible undead Chief Librarian Matazumi, he chose to flee and fly down to find the tabi have, and then take it back to Matazumi to make up for the damaged book and to be let back into the city. Alzar agrees to let D’ath accompany them. They take shifts and the zombies are on the whole night. At night a quartet of wolves can be seen tracking the campsite, but the odor of the zombies sends them away and there’s no attack |
D’ath tells Rolane that all tabi are born evil and vile creatures who steal recklessly, and Rolane is eating it up. Alzar chooses not to get involved.
About an hour after lunch, they can make out something odd in their pathway - a pair of stone creatures - one a tabi and the other a goblin. Typical petrifaction. There’s nothing to be seen here but that’s a clear and good warning. Two more hours roll pass. Alzar notices something. In the trees above the ground, about 20-30 feet are 3 young tabi, smaller than normal. Alzar has Ak’Kabar fly up to talk to them. The youth initially are scared of the new Ak’Kaba,r but after a few moments, they have finished a conversation. The youth head off and Ak’Kabar lets Alzar know what they spoke of. They gave the group directions to the tabi camp. After moving towards the camp for 40-ish minutes, there is an old and ancient tabi that appears in front of them on the path. Alzar can tell it’s an illusion but doesn’t tell the others. Rolane’s long bow is up and D’ath has slipped back behind his zombies. Alzar moves ahead and begins to talk to the image of the creature. He notices around 10-15 tabi surrounding them, but deep in the foliage. He makes no move nor does he inform the pegataur and nagpa. Alzar address the tabi, who introduces himself at Quenstin, the leader of the tabi here. He welcomes the Marquis of the area, and both D’ath and Rolane look at Alzar oddly. One with suspicion and the other admiration. Quenstin tells Alzar that his group settled here a little over two years ago. They wanted to find a place away from the nagpa who often enslave them. They felt they would be okay in Alzar’s realm since he has a tabi servant whom he treats well. Alzar found out and has arrived to see their village and such. The leader then turns ot Rolane and tells his that they do know where the item is that he was stolen. “Do not be so presumptuous, pegataur. One thief does not make us all thieves. Learn some common sense!” Then he turns to D’ath, who perceptibly shrinks back a bit. “We do have what you want., but you don’t seem to be thinking of what to offers us for it.” D’ath asks what they wants, groveling and sniveling. “The ring. The one that animates your zombies.” D’ath whines wordlessly and doesn’t move. “It will be really hard to go home without the book. Matazumi can be so harsh when it comes to his books. The ring please.” |
The napga looks stunned, takes, off, and hands the ring over. Quenstin points back down the path of the en-stoned creatures a few miles back. There is a large gray lizard in a nearby shallow ravine, with some ruins there. This basilisk turns people to stone, and is a threat to the tabi. He doesn’t want to risk his own people. That is also where the sword is as well as the book. If the three can head over and take it out, they can get their stuff.
Rolane is gung-ho, all bows locked on target and ready to go. D’ath is predictably cowardish. He suggests ways to cheat the tabi and steal what they want. Alzar refuses. They agree and head on out. A few miles away, they come to the ravine. Alzar pauses and inspects the area from above quietly with the Carpet. The ravine is small here, and there is an old ruin of a shrine or temple of some sort, in front of a cave. In the ruins is the lair of the basilisk. Alzar will wait up here as the others move down, and then cast Light at the eyes of the lizard. Hopefully they’ll blind it, which prevents it from gazing at people (it can’t get the eyes to connect with people if the spell keeps it from doing so) They move in, Alzar casts the spell as the lizard hears them… 9 - it fails. The Light is on after it failed the save. It is blinded! Longbow arrows snap into the creature from Rolan, and Sling Stones from D’ath. Alzar’s Trombash of Returning flies out and hits it a few times too. It can’t move around, and they all fly, so they are safe from melee and can’t be petrified. They win - it dies. After killing it, they land and begin to check it out. They find the book, weapon, and a few other things as well: 85 pp, 580 gpo, 275 sp, etc. Alzar lets Rolane and D’ath split it, if Alzar can borrow the book for one day, and he has his Magist use Alzar’s Bookcopy on it. Rare Book - Traladarin History: King Halav’s Early Life and Battles - 750 gp Alzar spends some time cutting and hacking off pieces of the Basilisk. Skin, blood, teeth, and eyes. Alzar checks out the cave, and it goes in pretty far. They return and deliver good news. Because he didn’t need anything, Alzar is offered his choice of items from a dead adventurer that the Basilisk killed - Plate Mail +1 Shield +1 Long Bow +2 Rolane’s recovered sword is a +2 one. They rest up, and then Alzar wants to head back to the cave and check it out real quick while he’s here…. End of Tabi Hunt? |
Alzar is now level 2.He can cast a 4th 1st level spell now
We pause this campaign to go off track a bit. But just a bit. Begin Book of Lairs II  Alzar heads in and things are a bit stuffy. The Necklace of Adaptation keeps him from breathing the local air, but it’s a bad smell to it. He heads in further, and uses the Ioun stone to see in darkness, and he does. As Alzar winds into the cave system, he turns a corner and some yellow mold on the ceiling puffs some spores at him. He lights a torch and burns it keeping the flame lit. There are two more yellow mold growths here he kills. The cave soon ends at a large cavern. At the entrance to that cavern are some purple fungus, which Alzar kills. Again, he Necklace is making him immune since it creates a pocket of air around him magically from which he breathes, and thus he is not breathing the air around him. It’s a nice way to delve and explore, and it works against all gaseous attacks as well as most ways to deny him oxygen. There are a few more fungal dangers in her,e but Alzar cleans them out and finds a few old skeletons back here as well. All of the non-magical stuff is rusted, but there is: +1 Trident 450 gp of assorted gems Alzar returns and gains 1125 XP and levels up - level 3 He can now cast level 2 spells, and three of them. Here are the spells he can cast: 2nd Level - Chant, Mystic Transfer, Sanctify, Astral Awareness, Ethereal Barrier, Enthrall, Charm Person/Mammal, Hold Person, Snake Charm, Music of the Spheres, Aid, Spiritual Hammer, Augury, Detect Charm, Find Traps, Dust Devil, Soften Earth and Stone, Fire Trap, Flame Blade, Heat Metal, Produce Flame, Watery Fist, Cure Moderate Wounds, Slow Poison, Calm Chaos, Restore Strength, Resist Acid, Resist Fire/Cold, Withdraw, Draw Upon Holy Might, Messenger, Emotion Perception, Rally, Frisky Chest, Zone of Truth, Silence, 15’ Radius, Continual Light. End Book of Lairs II |
The first module said you can toss anything into that area you want, so I tossed in a quick little fungal reaches. Alright, let’s hit up the next module in this Serraine campaign book…
Screams of Terror Alzar heads back to the tabi camp. D’ath has always flown up to Serraine to return, with the book in hand, after Alzar’s Magist copied it while he was out. The tabi tell Alzar of another problem, in the area. The tabi haven been here for about 2 years. Roughly 4 months ago, a group of Harpies (referred to as a scream) arrived around 12.5 miles to the west. Ever since then, trade and travelling that way has become dangerous, and there have been some locals that that gone killed or missing. Alzar agrees to check it out while he’s here. Rolane wants to come as well, he’s happy to head into a new challenge. The two of them stay the night and rest up. Alzar grabs some spell components for spells that he learned that he’d likely cast, such as a small lead bead or ball for Hold Person. The next morning, after grabbing breakfast, Alzar and Rolane head out. The morning is calm and quiet. There is a path that leads dead west from where they are, and they have reached the foothills of the Ljallenvals. The ground is moving up and down quickly. A few miles have past, when a form slips down from the hills above and flies down to them. A Wyvern! Alzar doesn’t have a lot of magic spells that’ll help here. He grabs a clerical Wand from his belt and readies it. Rolane flies out from him, and casts Magic Missile at the Wyvern and it takes 8 damage. Alzar’s Wand of Paralyzation fires a charge at it but it makes its save. The Wyvern swoops at them and melee range is reached. 5 vs 3. It attacks Alzar, seeing the man on the ground as an easier target than the dancing and flying pegataur. It misses (Cloak). Alzar’s Mace toss a 14 and…+3 for Mace, +1 for STR, +3 for AC so you need a 13 to hit and he connects for 1d6+5 - 8 damage. The great two handed sword from Rolane misses. 3 vs 7 Alzar misses, Rolane hits for 8+2 - 10 damage. The wyvern attacks, rolls a 19 and….hits Alzar for 9 damage and a poison roll. Alzar gets a bunch of bonuses (periapt and other stuff) and he tosses a 12 and he’s fine 8 vs 7 The wyvern attacks and toses a 3 and misses. Alzar’s 2 isn’t any better, and Rolanes 8 isn’t either. 9 vs 4 It’s 9 misses. Alzar tosses a 20 and connects for 6 damage. Rolane gets a 16 and hits for 7 and it dies. Dead Wyvern 1400 XP Alzar grabs the scales, poison glands, etc |
“Better you than me!”
A man on a horse shouts out to Alzar and Rolane as Alzar readies. The man is pale, ill-looking, in his late 20s, wearing chain mail, with a ripped away right sleeve and an ugly injury on his arm. To his right is a younger man in his late teens, with leather armor, a shield and a crossbow on his back. The man stops them near the dead wyvern, and dismounts with some difficulty. The younger man helping him the entire time. He introduces himself as Rachlann… Rachlann Human Fighter, Myrmidon Kit Neutral 6th level, 42 hp (34 currently) AC2, THACO 15 STR 16, Int 10, Wis 11, Dex 16, Con 14, Cha 13 +1 chain mail, +1 longsword, Potion of Healing, 25 pp ,55gp, And his squire… Sarion Human Fighter Lawful Neutral 1st level, 10 hp AC 6, THACo 19 STr 17, Int 7, Wis 14, Dex 8, Con 12, Cha 12 Crossbow, bolts, leather armor, bastard sword, shield Rachlann tells their story while Alzar uses his Healing proficiency to diagnose the wound. It’s badly infected and needs a Neutralize Poison spell to cure it. Rachlann and Sarion were heading to the March of the Mighty to sign up with the growing military there. They were mercenaries and fought in a few skirmishes on the edge of civilization to the north, and decided to head south to the March for a more steady income. At that, Rolane smiles and tells them that they have just met the Marquis of the March Alzar glances up and nods, and turns back. Rachlann and Sarion stammer for a moment, and then continue the story. Last night there was a harpy that attack them, and Rachlann slew it, but not before it clawed him badly on the arm. Alzar offers to heal it, but Rachlann knows it needs more than a gentle cure spell and tells him so. “You are right. Luckily I have just such a thing.” Alzar grabs the Rod of Healing and uses it to Neutralize the Poison of Rachlann. Alzar then casts Cure Light Wounds and heals the wounds. Rachlann is fully healed. Alzar offers to have the two of them to go harpy hunting if they want, or they can continue on if they’ve had it. Rachlann is up for it. He’s looking for some payback |
After a few moments, everyone is mounted. Alzar on the Flying Carpet, Rachlann and Sarion on their horses, and Rolane on, well, himself…
About three hours later they are roughly a mile from the location of the harpy camp. Alzar calls them to a stop to begin to prepare. He explains the basic harpy strategy. He has an Amulet he gets out and puts on. It will make him immune to charm magic, but there’s nothing he can do to protect them. But he has magic. He can cast Charm Person spell. When that spell works on someone already under a charm, the charm is broken. Both cancel each other out. He also has some Hold Person magic as well that can freeze someone. Alzar’s tabi, Ak’Kabar has finished spying on them and reports. He also had Balo, his ferret, scouting the bottom. Both report the same. Alzar pulls out and turns Kithog and Zadaxx out for battle. They are un-charmable, and could be a good front. The harpies have two people charmed - one elf and one cleric from a local village. Alzar wants to un-charm them first and the others will hit the harpies. But because there is a cleric here, and one of the harpies looks like it might be a spellcastr, Alzar will lead with Silence. Alzar loans some magic items for this battle, like Sarion getting a real crossbow with the Hasp of Reloading, for example. They count 5 harpies total. |
Here we go.
They arrive at the harpy’s home, and four harpies emerge from the woods to protest their presence, led by a charmed cleric. Battle begins! 4 vs 8 Alzar leads with Silence 15’ Radius on the cleric and the harpy next to it. The harpy can’t charm and he cleric can’t cast spells. The Crossbow of Speed fires and hits once on a harpy in the middle for 6 damage. Everyone else is closing this round. A charm goes out and….. Rachlann fails his charm and is now a friend of the harpies! 1 vs 5 Alzar charms Rachlann and….Rachlann fails and is back. Rolane reaches the damage harpy and casts Shocking Grasp and hits it for 9 damage. Another bolt flies into it and slays in. One harpy casts Dispel Magic on the Silence to dispel it. That harpy charmed and missed, and the cleric casts Bless on their party 8 vs 6 A harpy and elf flanked the group and come out on the left-rear flank. They are on Alzar’s side and move to attack him. They’ll be able to attack next turn. Their leader casts Cause Light Wounds on Rolane and he takes 10 damage. Their cleric rushes in and attacks for a big ol’ miss. Alzar casts Charm person on their cleric. He tosses a 2 and fails. Zadaxx rams their leader for 3 damage. No one else hits this turn. 1 vs 6 Alzar recalls his 2nd level magic with the Pearl of Power and casts Charm Person on their elf. He tosses a 9 which….fails. He is freed as well. Rolane stabs their magic user for 5 damage. Bolts hit it for 9 damage and the Kithog bites for 2. He casts Cure Moderate Wounds and is virtually healed and Alzar is missed by a harpy 5 vs 4 The harpy misses Alzar, and Rolane takes 6 from a harpy bite by their non-leader. Rachlann carves their spellcaster/leader for 8, and then Alzar follows with Cause Light Wounds for 10. Bolt and Rolane badly damage it and it begins to fly away. Rolane takes 4 more from the other harpy. The cleric casts Cure Light Wounds on Rolane. 2 vs 8 Bolts finish out and kill the leader. Rachlan hits again on the other harpy. Alzar casts Command on the harpy that is by him to sleep for a turn and it falls to the ground for one turn. The elf hits it for 7 damage on the ground. The harpy begins to float off. Kithog, Ak’Kabar and Zadaxx move to Alzar. 2 vs 3 Alzar casts Command again to drop the harpy. The elf and Alzar’s various folks kill the sleeping harpy. Rolane flies along the fleeing harpy and drops it. Dead - 5 harpies 1 harpy cleric/leader 3050 XP total |
A quick search turns up a few nests of harpies in the trees. No eggs or babies, but they do find:
A bunch of gems and coins, given to everyone Alzar casts Detect Magic and finds: Pots - Invis, Healing The elf is healed up with the Rod and returns to her local clan. The cleric is also healed, and they begin to escort both back home by the party. The elf’s clan would come up first. End of Scream of Terror Alzar is now level 4 Sarion is level 2 Alzar’s THACO drops from 20 to 18. Alzar gains a new nonweapon prof - Diplomacy He could get another weapon prof, but he’s holding off still. He can cast a new 1st and 2nd level spell. Sure, he’s just level 4, but Alzar has a massive quantity of spell casting. Due to his wisdom, he can cast 5 1st level spells and 4 2nds. Then use the Pearl and he’s essentially a 5/5 magic user this early. That’s a lot of spells this early. |
Begin Adventure-lite 3 Crash Landing
A few hours later, while heading back to tabi town, they notice something in the far distance. An object of some size is coming to the ground. Faint sounds of humming and sputtering can be faintly heard even this far away, Rolane flies up in the sky above the trees for a better look and then returns. “As I thought! It’s a cloud clipper, an airplane from Serraine. It’s crashed to the north and a bit east of here, in the deep woods.” Alzar uses a Spellcache Ring to Teleport to his HQ and grab the mages here. The Magist Teleports everyone, including Questrix over to the crash landing, and Alzar gets there about ten minutes after landing, with his Rod of Healing in hand. He begins to heal some of the badly wounded gnomes. Rolane and the others get here around 2 hours later. |
A group of skygnomes like Questrix are here and scampering about. They are trying to keep any parts of the airplane from exploding or catching on fire. Alzar is able to heal three skygnomes that were on death’s door. 7 gnomes are here.
The leader and pilot of this group is Dunbar Stormkinder. After helping Dubar secure the crash site and nearby, Dunbar introduces himself properly…. Dunbar Stormkinder Neutral Good Gnome Cleric, Tinker Kit Level 3, 16 hp, AC5, ThACO 17 STR 10, Int 14, Wis 13, Dex 16, Con 9, Cha 10 Potion of Human Control, x4 doses; Wand of Fireballs 17 charges; Leather Armor, crossbow, Gladius The gnomes here are very proud, they are members of the 2nd Top Ballista Squadron, a highly respected quadroon of the defenses in Serraine. No idea what happens but hammering and such have already begun. Questrix and Dunbar don’t know each other, but they know of each other. Dunbar is a highly decorated pilot and Questrix a popular entertainer with his illusion magic. Dunbar needs a few things in order to get back to Serraine: 1). Time. They can make repairs. But they need time to get them complete - probably around a week or so. 2). A runway. Someone needs to cut down the trees and make a runway. Alzar doesn’t think the elves are going to like that though. 3). Defenses. The gnomes aren’t exactly powerful warriors, and they are needed for repairing and such. They need some defenses to keep them safe 4). Provisions. They need some food and water. They have enough supplies for two days. If they spend time foraging and getting supplies that cuts into repair time and getting ready. Now Alzar has a lot of people here right now: Alzar Ak’Kabar his tabi Rolane Sarion Rachlann Rescued Elf Rescued Cleric Questrix Rogren Forx Adentium Racala And he can get more from all over his March. For tonight, they’ll build defensive formations like palisades and such. Alzar gets things moving. He speaks with the elf and cleric, and both agree to advocate on his behalf with the local people to let him build a runway strip for the gnomes. It’s within the borders of his land, but he likes to be neighborly. Can’t hurt to ask, instead of telling. The next day, the permission is granted by the elves. They can begin work |
Alzar’s magical items provide food and water to supplement the provisions. Alzar is teleported back to the castle for five hours the first day to run the March, and then is sent back afterwards.
As he comes back, there has been some sabotage to the work! A full day’s work is undone when the nut and bolt assembly fails apart and a jury-rigged repair crashes. It’s very deliberate, but bizarre and unable to be tracked. No one observed anything. As Alzar begins to investigate the damage, one of the dwarves is shaking his head and saying, “one of them again…” Alzar asks and the gnome tells him that it’s likely a gremlin. There are a few dens up in Serraine that they haven’t been able to get rid of, so they are used to this. Alzar gets a description of them and their powers, but it doesn’t match those of gremlins on his world and out in the outer planes, so it could be anything really. They have a chaos aura and some different spell ike powers here on Pandius. After setting up defenses for the evening, Alzar can make out an invisible gremlin at the limit of his sight, creeping up to the camp and the airplane. Alzar can see him with his high INT. Alzar turns away and pretends not to notice and talks to Rolane and tells what he sees. Rolane begins to gently fly up, preparing his spells. Alzar tells Adentium as well, and he preps a Magic Missile spell. Racala casts a Dispel Magic spell at the place Alzar indicates, and the gremlin turns visible! Suddenly darts of magical energy fly in from the flank and from the mage and gremlin takes 15 damage total. Forx readies a spell and then the gremlin screams in anger and pain, and Dimension Doors away. Well at least they scared it off. Nothing happens that night The next day the magi memorize a anti-gremlin set of spells. Shortly after noon a large pack of blink dogs come by to check out the noise, and they blink around, and then leave The gremlin though does not show face, which is good. Night time is mostly quiet, although a group of large vampire bats fly in and around the area and land, but a few spells and missiles that kill two or three quickly cause the rest of the pack to up and fly away. |
The next day, Alzar recommends to retain the anti-gremlin stuff, so they do. The next day, is clean and quiet ad that night there’s nothing major., Work continues nicely
On the 3rd day, shortly after breakfast, the gremlin is back, scouting very cautiously. Alzar and the party agree on their plan. Alzar summons all of his figurines. Zadaxx, Zandran. Kithog, Balo except for the Obsidian Steed one. They fan out quietly, and Ak’Kabar flies up gently above the area, to get a good view, and even Rolane gets the signal and slips quietly back. After a few seconds, Alzar leaves the area completely to “get some more tools”. The gremlin sees Alzar leave, who the one who located him earlier. Alzar grabs his flying carpet, ad flies off, making a big show of heading to the capital to get some supplies. After waiting about 10-12 minutes to make sure that Alzar is actually gone, the gremlin moves in And suddenly Alzar appears from the inside of the airplane. Dispel Illusion fires from Questrix and the rest follow with three sets of Magic Missiles from Forx, Adentium, and Rolane, an Alzar casts Cause Light Wounds for 10 damage. The gremlin takes 29 damage total. It shrieks again and casts Dimension Door. The various flyers begin to track it. The Illusionary Dispel will keep it from going invisible for a while. Zadaxx has it in sight and flies up for a second to tell everyone. Alzar is flying on the Carpoet and heads over, leading others The chase takes around 20 minutes, but with all of their flyers, they eventually corner it, and kill it with some more spells from rage (so it’s chaos charm/aura thing won’t work). 1500 XP total, divided a lot Alzar made 300 The gremlin has died. It was confused by an illusion that Questrix created. Alzar was hiding the entire time, and had never left. Questrix point sout that illusions aren’t as bad as Alzar thinks they are! |
That night shortly after twilight a large owlbear and its mate come through the area, and are very hungry, so they attack the camp.
They have various pickets and so forth for defense, so Alzar heads off defenses. Arrows, bolts, and spells pepper the big one. Alzar flies behind them to cut them off from landing with his +5 shield the mace Typhus, and his Cloak of Displacement keeping him from being mostly hurt. At the end of battle, Alzar took a handful of damage from a lucky attack that the regen Ioun stone works on easily enough and heals him. 900 XP Alzar gets 150 The day is done. Two more days ebb past, and the only attack that arrived were a bunch of bugs that came in from a heatwave and flew through the area. That was it though and the runway is finished by Azalr’s crew, and the repairs will be done tomorrow on the airplane. That night there is nothing too major, just a large nocturnal snake slipping through the area, and slips into a branch above the camp and scares a gnome on guard. It’s not dangerous, just a big plant-eater. Repairs are complete! They have to wait a day until tomorrow when Serraine will be closest. There’s a glowing orb on the panel of the airplane that is used to detect and steer back to Serraine. The plane is tight, but there is some space on board to take folks back up to Serraine. Alzar asks for passage since he helped them out, and Dunbar is willing, but tries to talk him out of it. Alzar doesn’t have the proper paperwork and can’t stay, but he could come a few days as the tourists. There’s some intrigue and annoying ness going on up there right now though. Alzar pushes and there are three seats from three gnomes who died in the crash. Who is coming with Alzar? Rolane decides to fly up to Serraine tomorrow himself and may run into Alzar later, maybe not, it’s a real city. Alzar wants someone who knows the area to show him around, so Questrix makes sense. He can’t bring both Sarion and Rachlann. He decides to leave the 4 people of the party behind, so they leave the final spot open and blank, and Alzar and Questrix will head up tomorrow. Alzar meets with the Magist in the morning as the gnomes are doing final checks of their airplane. He grabs a few official March items to take up with him, and they coordinate some work plans and such. They launch from the quickly-made runway and head up into the air. Alzar says goodbye, maybe, to Rolane, and then they fly up to Serraine, and land on an external landing strip, and then exit. End of Crash Landing |
Alzar is now level 5.
He can now use 2 level 3 spells. He can cast: Level 3 - Continual Light, Dispel Magic, Remove Curse, Astral Window, Etherealness, Dictate, Emotion Control, Prayer, Unearthly Choir, Detect Spirits, Locate Object, Extradimensional Detection, Speak with Dead, Wind Servant, Zone of Sweet Air, Meld into Stone, Stone Shape, Flame Walk, Protection from Fire, Pyrotechnics, Water Breathing, Water Walk, Glyph of Warding, Cure Blindness/Deafness, Cure Disease, Hold Poison, Repair Injury, Rigid Thinking, Strength of One, Feign Death, Negative Plane Protection, Remove Paralysis, Line of Protection, Magical Vestment, Protection from Evil 10’s Radius, Summon Animal Spirit, Caltrops, Fortify, Efficacious Monster Ward, Invisibility Purge, Squeaking Floor, Thief’s Lament, Water Window, and……ANIMATE DEAD baby. That’s right, daddy’s back He gains the Court Intrigue proficiency Key spells I suspect he’ll use: Dictate - Lasts for 1 turn/level, 6 creatures, save, will follow simple instructions Repair Injury - Repairs one critical strike from combat or serious injury (broken ankle, broken ribs, bruised nerves, etc) Rigid Thinking - One target, save, 1 rnd/level - character focuses on task at hand and won’t change Prayer - +1 to attack, damage, saves, AC of allies; -1 to those of enemies.1 rnd/level Wind Servant - Creates angry wind Zeephyr - auto-hits one person with base damage AC -2d6, lasts 1 rnd/levl, requires concentration Summon Animal Spirit - Free-willed elemental sprit summoned - AC4, Thaco15, 2d4 bite, 10+level hp, can only be hit by magical weapons, 1 rnd/level. Caster can communicate with it mentally. Examples for Rigid thinking include a thief picking a lock, won’t change to deal with guards or a fighter fighting a kobold, won’t switch over to giants. But this is not Ray of Ondovir. Dictate examples include, “Drop your weapons,” or “Wait here until I return” or “Capture that elf!” |
Welcome to Serraine. Here are the various races that inhabit Serraine.
Nagpa -  These ugly vulture folks are ugly inside too. Maybe it’s genetic. Aarakocra  These flying bird people have large aeries and there are even a few of them in the far Ljallenvals and elsewhere. They have a small presence on board Serraine as well. Skygnomes -  They founded this as a place for their own, since all of the other nations and spaces were taken. They run it, they repair it, and they fight for it. Skygnomes live and breathe here. Sphinxes  A variety of different sphinxes also call this place home, and they even helped the gnomes build it more than 1000 years ago. Tabi:  There are a few packs of tabi here, and they are mostly used as familiars and slaves to the Nagpa. They make good spies and thieves. They are intelligent and can take classes as well Pegataur:  There is a clan of pegataur here in Serraine as well. They are like Centaur, but part pegasus rather than horse. Cloud Giants:  While there are not a lot, often preferring their skycastles in the clouds, Cloud Giants also live here in Serraine, as merchants or aides. Faenare:  There are a group of very rare fairy creatures that rare bigger than normal, and thus can fly to Serraine. They have a bit of an selfish, borderline evil streak. Harpy:  There are some harpies that initially joined the city when they needed defenders early on. Today there are still three screams of harpies that live here, most helping to protect the city |
 Current Populations: Gnomes - 1520 Nagpa - 125 Tabi - 250 Sphinxes - 22 Faenare - 80 Aaracokra - 100 Pegataurs - 120 Harpies - 35 Cloud Giants - 12 Gremlins -40 Kobolds, Orcs, Ogres - 40, 20, 6 Humans - 100 Elves - 70 Tourists - 150 The kobolds, orcs and ogres are slaves, stowaways, and such that were found, charmed and indentured, and do labor. |
The place they land is the landing strip, outside of the structure proper. There are numerous fling vessels here including military ones and civilian transports. Magical cannons that fire Fireballs, Lightning Bolts, Ball Lightnings and Magic Missiles are arrayed in defenses around the city, with the ability to turn every way (save at the city).
Dunbar shows Alzar and Questrix where the exit is. There is a large Cloud Giant on the platform, with a number of boulders for defense. There is one exit from the landing strip and it goes to immigration control. They head in. Dunbar and his crew are waived in, and Questrix is next. This is a large wooden hut with 2 elderly and irritable gnomes with a sprawl of cabinets, scroll cases, tables, ledgers, and more. They have multiple magical devices, and abacus for counting. Questrix is looked up in a giant book for skygnomes, and found. After being verified, they heck to make sure that there are no pending warrants or anything for him and there are not. “You’ve been gone for almost a year Questrix. Are you still clanless or have you been adopted by one of the five clans?” Questrix is still clanless, and they make a notation. They make some minor inquiries, and then grab a Wand and use a charge. All of Questrix’s magical items glow, and they assess a “Reentry Fee” for him which he pays. Next is Alzar. Alzar steps up and introduces himself. They grab a Book of Undesirable Persons for humans to look him up to see if he has been banned. After verifying, Alzar acts for an official document to be granted. He tells them that he is the Marquis of the Mighty, from the Kingdom of Norwold, and wants to spear with the Mayor of the City on official business. That raises a few eyes, and one of the gnomes looks over at a crystal questioningly. It does not respond as expected. “Can you say again?” “ I am a Marquis of the Kingdom of Norwold.” Nothing happens. “Can you lie to us about something please.” “I am really a Baron, not Marquis rank.” The crystal glows a bright red. Alzar continues, “And my name is really Hetman the Portly.” It glows again. It’s a magical device that detects lies Questrix confirms that he has been to Alzar’s castle in the March and that he is, indeed, the Marquis. They begin to create some paperwork for him. They have a sash for him to wear too to denote diplomatic relevance. They begin to assess a fee for these, but Alzar successfully uses his Hypnotism ability and convinces them to let him through, as a gesture of diplomatic benevolence prior to him meeting with the mayor. They agree and his fee is waived. Alzar has entered Serraine. |
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