Tuesday, 16 June 2015

Pharast 4th - Part 1 - The Flaming Cleric and the Mighty Mites

The group awaken from another uneventful night’s sleep.

After a spot of breakfast the group debate where to head next and agree that they should head west.

Couple of hours later the group come across what they believe to be a cave opening, after much murmuring they decided to investigate the opening. Looking further into the opening they manage to discover that the cave is roughly 30ft in diameter of uninteresting stone until just as they are about to leave the cave a small glint in the wall catches Miro eye, he begins to chip away at the rock to slowly reveal a small vein of gold! Reluctantly the group leave the cave with no possible way of mining the resource making note on their map to return here at a later date and begin to head south east.

Riding through this hilly area whilst discussing what to do about the cave they had just left behind the group notice a large ancient sycamore tree in the distance, hoping to stumble upon some more treasure as they had with yesterday’s tree they make their way to this looming ancient giant.

Walking around the ancient trees roots the group discover an entrance like whole big enough for a human with a shaft heading underneath the tree. The group climbs down the shaft and find themselves in an earthen passageway heading deeper under the tree.

They eventually find themselves in an long chamber (Kidney shaped) which had steps leading down in various places and the smell of dung was strongly evident throughout the air, the group notice that on the other side of the chamber stood with its back to them a small blue humanoid creature. The creature was standing in front of what appeared to be a nest of eggs, Miro hoping to catch the creature by surprise quietly attempts to sneak upon the creature but poor Miro had not seen the 3 large centipedes lying near the blue creature that had noticed his presence.

Seeing the centipedes stir the blue creature turns and also notices Miro, the creature smiles in delight with a mouth of pointed teeth at the rogue and brandishes it's knife by which point Miro had already began to "strategically retreat" back towards the tunnel. Miro shouted at the party to retreat back into the narrow tunnel as he ran towards and past them in hopes he wouldn't targeted by the 3 now very large centipedes chasing after him.

Otto started to get ahead of the defensive by taking the offensive and threw a flask of alchemists fire at the approaching centipedes and managed to set the leading one alight, the lead centipede run up to the tunnel ceiling and ran past the majority of the group as it headed after Miro.

Vaneer took the opportunity to strike the centipede crawling on the ceiling with his mace and whilst he successfully squished its brains in and kill it the centipede had the last laugh as the cleric got caught by the flames of the earlier alchemist’s fire and soon found himself alight as well.

Kyrander attacked another of the centipedes and kills it with only seconds from its attempt to bite him, hoping to end the combat quickly so that his comrades could assist with his now flaming presence Vaneer pushes his way through the group to meet the one remaining centipede and with a mighty "Thwack" of his mace into the creatures abdomen he quickly completes the combat.

The group quickly deal with their flaming cleric and then make their way back into the previous chamber only to find that the blue creature had disappeared and most likely down the passage way on the opposite side of the chamber.

Not sure whether to pursue the creature or not the group stand at the edge of the tunnel it had escaped down discussing what to do, restless, Natalia suggested that if they were to waste time standing around would it make sense to destroy these centipede eggs? The party agree and start smashing, as they start smashing the eggs a noise of voices shouting could be heard coming from the tunnel they were just standing at.

Hoping this time to get the upper hand in this situation, Natalia and Otto flank the sides of the tunnel entrance, Vaneer stands in front of the entrance to ensure that whatever is coming is enticed out of the tunnel at the sight of him standing in the open whilst Miro and Kyrander fall back and prepare their bows to shoot at whatever appears.

As the first blue critter (A Mite) appears out of the tunnel Otto takes a swing at it and aimed too high to miss it, Nataila and Bob seeing Otto miss make their attacks and successfully dispatch the mite.

The 2nd mite runs out of the tunnel heading straight for Vaneer, Miro takes his shot and misses the mite, Kyrander shoots and also misses leaving the cleric to swing his mace only to also miss the mite who fails to bite him.

The 3rd mite runs out and attempts to attack Otto only to miss him.

The 4th mite ran straight for Miro and ironically manages to land a successful blow to the rogue.

Otto retaliates against the mite standing in front of him and manages to kill it with a single blow.

Nataila and Bob rush to assist Miro but fail to damage the mite attacking him; Kyrander steadied his arm and took a deep breath before lodging an arrow into the final mite killing him instantly.

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