Characters:
Jeremy played : Hawt Pantz - Cleric
Floatey played : Molly "The Mage" Misandre - Magic-User
Luke played : Narlia - Elf
Justin played : "Shooter" McGavin - Halfling
James played : Happy Gilmore - Fighter
Magic Items:
Hawt Pantz : Warhammer +1
Molly "The Mage" Misandre : Bracers of Armour AC 7
Narlia : Longsword +1, Light 30'R
"Shooter" McGavin : Potion of Extra Healing
Happy Gilmore : Dagger +1
RECAP:
The group left the bodies of the two slain Siswa and continued. They soon found a large, hexagonal chamber with a very high, domed ceiling. An altar stood on a raised platform, and behind it, infront of a large statue of a bearded man, was a black robed figure.
With a puff of smoke, he was gone.
Hawt and Shooter stayed outside the room as the other three investigated. But the statue of the bearded man, shook and cracked. What looked at first to be grey stone, was infact just dried clay. From the broken wreckage of the clay crust, strode a monstrous creature of bone. Each of its four arms ended in large, claw-like hands that gripped a mighty blade.
The fight was joined.
Bone Guardian
The creature though was impervious to all but the magic weapons of the Cleric and Elf. The bastard sword of Gilmore and the arrows of McGavin merely deflected from its iron-like bones without causing even the slightest scratch. Meanwhile, the abomination was a whirl of sharpened metal, causing serious injury to Gilmore, Hawt Pantz and a now melee combatant McGavin.
Gilmore declared, quite soundly, that this was a creature beyond the groups resolve and made a dash for the door. Everyone tried as well but for Hawt Pantz who tried to turn the thing. Her righteous Holy Power seemed to have no effect at all.
Eventually, all the group made it back out the doors and they were shut. The skeletal monster did not pursue them further. Most were injured, some grievously. It was now deteremined, that the creature was not an Undead abomination, but rather some kind of construct, perhaps a Bone Golem. Hindsight being the better part of valour at this point, the group tied up the Siswa that Molly had put to sleep earlier, and headed back to the Elven village with their captives in tow.
Back in town, the were heralded as heroes. They were fed and housed by Rahasia, but she was saddened that there was no news of her father, he betrothed or her friends. The group stayed for a day in the village to heal before they would head back.
Upon arriving at the Temple on the return journey, the group decided to go through the Temple doors via the courtyard instead of heading directly below. The gates still stood ajar and the courtyard was still overgrown. They were not attacked as they passed through it and by the brackish pool.
Inside the temple, the group found some small alcoves, one only had some clothes pegs on it, but were empty. The other, saw the group attacked by a male elf. But the fight was over quickly when he realized that they were not Siswa, and he apologized for attacking them. His name was Alki . A member of an adventuring group that had entered the temple at the behest of Rashasia. He was the lone survivor of a group of four that had been ambushed by the Siswa. Alki joined the group and they set off.
A room nearby had a small raised area with a round altar on it. But closer inspection found that it wasn't an altar at all, but a well, descending into darkness. Molly dropped a copper piece, but to her dismay, heard nothing at the other end to indicate the coin had hit bottom. The group left the room into a corridor with a number of alcoves set either side perked the interest, when each alcove had a small statue. One of the statues had a golden and black jade pendant around its neck, but the group could not make it move, and when Hawt Pantz tried, she was blasted by blue lightning. In frustration, she took her hammer to the statue, removing its head, but was still unable to make the amulet budge without being zapped.
The group continued, discovering some corridors filled with shadow that Alki believed were part of a teleporter system. Ignoring them, they came across a narrow but long room. Hunched in a small circle and sharpening their scimitars were a group of five Siswa.
Siswa Guards
The battle was soon joined, Molly once again brought down a magical slumber upon the group, but only four of them fell to sleep. Happy swept his blade in a deadly arc, severing the head from the body of the last one standing. Molly was unhappy at the death, but nothing would bring the elf back now. Those that survived were tied up, their weapons and sent back to the Elven village with Alki their guard and guide. Behind where the Siswa had crouched, two bags of gold were found, again with black panthers and the word "Tithe" on them.
The group pushed on and found more of the supposed teleporters. After Narlia went through one of them unexpected, the rest of the group followed suite.
They soon found themselves travelling the side hallways next to the room with the Bone Golem. Peering through a set of double doors, they found that they were on the Western side of the room. The Golem was back in position, the damage it had suffered apparently repaired. The group continued.
Suddenly, the hallway in front of them shimmered. A large, cube of gelatinous goo attacked, slamming at those in front. Happy was struck and paralysed. As was Hawt Pantz. But the cube was destroyed, melting away into an ooze of smelly, viscous fluid. Four small diamonds were found in the remnants of the creature, and these were cleaned off and taken. The group then completed the circumference of the large, Bone Golem room before ascending back to the courtyard level and completing their investigation of that level also.
-- Game to be Continued --
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