Monday, 17 September 2018

17th Arodus 18 - Miro vs Miro - The Reckoning

During the early hours they had agreed that their target obviously couldn't be found as they or it was hiding in the dreams of the towns folk, so they decide to sleep in the same room hoping that if an dream encounter were to happen they would all be involved.

Miro is awoken by a kick to his groin, as he looks up through watery eyes he takes a second to try and make sense of what he sees.

Standing over the halfling was well another Miro!

“We need to talk, Now!” the other Miro says,

Miro gets up from the floor and attempts to wake the rest of the group but he has no luck,

“You're a disappointment and a let down so I'm here to take over from you again and get rid of you permanently!” The other Miro explains with a smirk,

The Miro's exchange words but as with all things Miro it soon devolves into a sword fight,

Both Miro's go for each other for a number of rounds, occasionally hitting each other with little affect,

Eventually Natalia and Vaneer stir from their slumbers to hear the commotion nearby and quickly make their way towards the noise where to their shock find themselves looking at two Miros with blood splatter all over the place and the fighters,

Both Miro's notice the two spectators and before anything else can happen one Miro stabs the other in the back killing him and as the halfling drops to the ground he mutters “But! I'm the good one...why!!”

The corpse of the slain Miro then disappears taking with it all his loot causing the other Miro to drop to his knees screaming in disappointment confirming to both Vaneer and Natalia that the Miro in front of them was unfortunately their Miro.

16th Arodus 18 - It all goes Bump in the night

The commune results confirm that the bloom happened yesterday as expected and is still present in Wyvernshore, the bloom is currently moving possibly below ground level in the area of the royal quarter.

The group instantly make their way to the royal quarter and investigate the area.

Natalia casts commune with nature to see if she can find the target that they're looking for but the spell fails to have any affect.

Natalia then shifts into the form of an Earth Elemental and uses the forms senses to detect any signs of movement in the ground beneath the group but senses nothing.

Natalia then casts detect plants which fails.

Vaneer then casts discern location which also fails.

The group now getting disgruntled at the elusiveness of their quarry resort to searching buildings the old fashion way of one at a time.

Now the affects of being awake for over a day are starting to take hold, Vaneer decides to cast a Divination spell to seek further guidance only to be told “You need to sleep”.

Reluctantly the group agree that sleep would probably be the best course of action and so they retire to their homes.

Around the middle of the night Vaneer wakes to find a bright light shinning in through his window from outside.

As the cleric looks outside he sees what appears to be a hellish type landscape with city structures either on fire in an eternal blaze or crumbling into piles of rubble. In the sky above a large whirlpool of crows could be seen circling and shrieking which got so loud it caused the glass in his window to explode inwards.

Vaneer then instantly wakes to find that his window has just that second exploded and shattered inwards causing the glass to shred both the cleric and his wife whom now was in a desperate condition. Vaneer instantly casts a Heal spell on his wife to save her life followed by a cure light on himself to stem the bleeding from his wounds.

The cleric looks out the window to find the landscape normal but the explosion had attracted a lot of attention as people wake to find out the source of the noise that shook the night.

Meanwhile elsewhere in the city, the city militia are flooded with reports of an Axe wielding manic causing terror on the streets of Wyvernshore which Otto decides to investigate personally.

Elsewhere Natalia returns home to find that her husband is missing and finds bloody footprints leading out of the house.

She sends an animal messenger to each of the group members but the spell for some unknown reason fails.

As Natalia follows the footprints she soon finds herself in the city cemetery alone with no other soul in sight, as she follows the trail through the mist she soon finds herself standing in front of a tomb stone which read,

“Here lies Natalia Rovska, Loving Wife, Mother and Comrade in Arms who will be hugely missed, Died 16th Arodus 18”, Natalia stumbles back as she realises that he date of death is in fact today.

In that moment all the graves around Natalia explode open as withered, decaying hands reach out from underneath the soil and grab at the druid whilst one creature crawls its way out of her grave, almost skeletal in appearance and from within its exposed rib cage another creature explodes out at Natalia.

The shock causes Natalia to startle awake in her bed to find a similar looking creature with a fetus in it's chest looming over her,

Immediately Natalia looks to find her husband sleeping next to her just before she changes her shape into that of an Huge earth elemental,

Her husband wakes at the commotion and instantly runs out into the street to seek help,

Natalia attacks and hits the creature (Devourer),
The Devourer attacks Natalia with its large claws, which hits and causes her to shudder with a sickly cold feeling which the druid manages to shake off,

Suddenly Sagroc The Bogeyman appears in the room admitting he had sense some sort of unnatural energy in the city,

Natalia attacks and hits the Devourer,

The Devourer again attacks the Druid and she manages to shake off the sickling chill,

Sagroc attacks the Devourer from behind and hits,

Bob rushes into the rescue and maws the Devourer,

Natalia smacks the Devourer again,

The fetus in the Devourers chest extends its small boney arm towards the Druid “Join Me!” it hisses before hitting her again,

Between Natalia, Sagroc and Bob they make sure that the Devourer receives the beating it needs as it collapses and disappears.

Otto's investigations have proven that there was only one axe wielding running wild in the streets but by the time Otto managed to track down the culprit which was an Monk that had gone crazy he had already been stopped by his fellow brothers whom unfortunately had to end their brothers life to end his rampage.

The group decide to gather so they can talk over the recent events.

15th Arodus 18 - All Dressed up with no where to go

The group and Wyvernshore forces begin patrolling the city ahead of the impending bloom attack.

The patrols carrying on into the evening and with the group beginning to fatigue, Vaneer uses his abilities to refresh the group so that they can continue into the night without any ill affect.

As the night continues there is still no sign of any attacks and nothing is reported other than attempts of looting around the city.

The group decide to continue till morning when Vaneer will attempt another commune.

14th Arodus 18 - Planning ahead

The group join Miro on the inspection of their forces early morning before heading to brief the royal council on the matters ahead whilst setting up their plans that will allow everyone to be alerted of any attacks happening.

13th Arodus 18 - Pestering the Gods and getting the Engaged tone

The group gather in the morning and join Vaneer as he cast's two commune spells to try and get them a head start on the next bloom and when/where it would appear.

Commune 1 Results told the group little other than that the bloom would happen in 3 days time in Wyvernshore, in the north area of the city with possibly multiple opponents that may or may not be fey and may or may not be able to fly.

Commune 2 Results again proved less than useful to the group with only informing them that the bloom would target the city, be of an undetermined size that would appear at night and may be able to affect the undead.

The group consider the responses from Erastil and wonder what they should do in light of the lack of information, after much contemplation they decide to prepare the forces of Wyvernshore for anything to happen whilst at the same time issue an royal order to evacuate as much of the city as possible.

12th Arodus 18 - That's one horny hunk

The group are on an intercept path to ambush their current bloom quarries.

As they travel Otto decides to shield the group with an invisibility sphere before casting mirror image upon himself.

The group soon stumbles into the path of 12 Ettin's, a skinny female elf like creature with small Ram like horns protruding from her head along with a Satyr like creature with muscles that would make any strong man feel like a scrawny imp which is only then topped by his massive horns extending from his temple.

The horned hulk looks in the direction of the “invisible” group and demands that they hand over the sword 'Briar'.

Obviously the group (aka Miro) told the horned hulk where to shove his request.

The horned hulk then drew his bow and let loose a Seeking, Halfling Bane arrow straight at Miro which hit and sent the halfling flying and yelping in extreme pain as he started to crawl to Vaneer asking for aid,

Otto casts a quickened haste on the group followed by a prismatic wall that separated the group from five of the Ettin's and the Horny hulk to which Miro breathed a sigh of relief,

Boss shoots at the female fey creature with a cold iron arrow which hit it's target followed by a holy arrow which also hit but did not seem to trigger the arrows properties,

Miro chugs down a potion of cure to start his healing process,

Hugo points his Rod of Razors towards the group of 7 Ettin's which shoots a wave of blades with only a couple managing to hit one of the targets,

The female fey manifests a green crystal scimitar in one of her hands whilst in the other an orb of green light which then shoots a ray of light at Boss, the ray strikes and causes the fighter to go blind,

The 7 Ettin's move to attack each of the group members with the exception of Bob.
    • Vs Natalia – Misses
    • Vs Bokken – Hits
    • Vs Vaneer – Misses
    • Vs Miro – Hits
    • Vs Hugo – Hits
    • Vs Otto – Misses
    • Vs Boss – Hits

The other 5 Ettins attempt to run through the prismatic wall;
    • 1 is Hit by the Red wall – Setting the Ettin on fire
    • 1 is Hit by 2 walls (Blue/Indigo) – Ettin is turned into Stone
    • 1 is Hit by the Violet wall – Ettin is sent to another plane of existence
    • 1 is Hit by the Indigo wall – Ettin is electrocuted
    • 1 is Hit by the Orange wall – Ettin is covered in Acid

Vaneer casts a quickened Remove Blindness on Boss followed by a Cure Moderate spell on Miro,
Bokken throws three of his bombs at the Ettin attacking him,

Natalia casts Reverse gravity on the Ettin's and the female Elf, causing all of the targets to float in mid air,

The Horned hulk teleports himself 80ft behind the group,

Otto casts another prismatic wall which again blocks the group from the sights and attacks of the Horned Hulk followed by a quickened fireball at four Ettin's, killing one.

Boss shoots at the female elf and hits twice,

Miro shoots at an Ettin in the anti gravity field and hits one,

Hugo shoots his Rod of Razors into the anti gravity field which hits an Ettin three times, killing it,

The female elf shoots her green ray at Otto which hits and turns him blind,

The remaining Ettin's attempt to throw their javelins at the group but they all miss,

Vaneer uses a cure serious spell on Miro followed by a quickened Remove Blindness on Otto,

Bokken throws an explosive bomb at an Ettin which hits and then throws another explosive bomb at the female elf which misses,

Natalia unleashes another spell at the female elf but she manages to dodge most of the effects in mid air,

The Horned Hulk decides to teleport away from the group and the fight,

Otto casts chain lightening at the floaters followed by a quickened Fireball which combined deals so serious wounds,

Boss shoots at the female elf and kills her with a direct hit,

Natalia dismisses her anti gravity spell and allows the remaining 4 Ettins to fall into the prismatic wall below,
    • Two are turned into Stone
    • One is turned into Stone and shatters as it hits the floor
    • One is Poisoned and dies from the affects

Vaneer uses his Discern location spell on the used Halfling Bane arrow to find out where the Horned Hulk teleported to. The spell finds him in a place called “Thousand Breaths” which was on another plane which the group wouldn't be able to travel to.

Otto teleports the group home back to Wyvernshore.