Friday, August 04, 2006

Kostchtchie riding a Sled Encounter

Day 158 -October 7th
Hallucinary terrain over a stand of trees to a denser foliage to provide cover against wandering patrols is created. All four Hextorities - Raven, Helm, Bellam, Zachery - and Damien, take refuge in the hallucinary terrain foliage. Illusionary area lasts until dispelled. Strength and stoneskin spells are cast to the maximum allowed the morning of movement. Location 250yds south, outside 200yd radius of mist surrounding the fortress = 450yds south or about a quarter mile out. Damien in raven form scouts the fortress for the departure of any patrols, to communicate telepathically back to Raven.
At around 2pm, Damien spots the following patrol emerging out of the mist (on foot):

Kostchtchie riding a sled driven by 8 very large polar bears
3 sub-chief frost giants riding mammoth
20-some worgs running along-side
1 Babau tannar'ri herding 5 bar l'gura herding...
10 giant trolls leading the patrol on foot

Around 3pm Damien spots the following patrol emerging out of the mist (in air):

6 very large white dragons carrying...
6 ogre magi sub-chiefs
6 dimunized frost giants - Jukrel and 5 sub-chiefs

No other patrols are spotted that day.


Spells previously cast at the beginning of the day* Dust applications remaining - 18 to 13.5.

The New Hextorites are:
Raven
*Stoneskin -R8
*Strength - 18.70
Dust
Fly -R (13 turns)
Negative plane protect - 3rd (10 turns)
1. Z- Resist cold (9 rounds)
1. Tongues -self ( 1 turn)
2. Dispel evil (10 rounds)
3. Trueseeing on Damien (10 rounds)
4. Prayer spell (10 rounds)

Helm
*Stoneskin -R6
Gauntlets - 18.00
Dust (13 turns)
Fly - potion (12 turns)
Negative plane protect - 3rd (10 turns)
1. Resist cold - self (6 rounds)
2. Resist cold - see Bellam
3. Deafness on Bellam
4. Deafness on self

Zachery
*Stoneskin -Z6
*Strength - 18.70
Dust (13 turns)
Fly - boots (12 turns total)
Negative plane protect - 3rd (10 turns)
Poisoned blade lethal contact - Frostbrand
1. see Raven
2. Resist cold - self (9 rounds)
3. Haste (13 rounds)
4. Prayer spell (9 rounds)

Damien
*Stoneskin -R6
Dust (13 turns)
Negative plane protect - 3rd (10 turns)
True seeing

Bellam
*Stoneskin -Z8
Girdle of Hill Giant - 19
Infravision (13 hours)
Dust (13 turns)
Fly -Z (13 turns)
Negative plane protection - 3rd (10 turns)
1. NIL
2. H- Resist cold (6 rounds)
3. Deafened by Helm
4. Drinks super-heroism potion - 11 rounds) 2 levels - THAC0 9 +12hpt

R (10 rounds)
Last commands before deafening
Five rounds maximum stay. Take down group - five rounds out. Go to Kostchtchie.
Stay together - Cage-Rod out.

Round 1
Raven uses his Rod of Rulership - 400HD of creatures can be effected. Damien is on his shoulder. All but the tannar'ri are automatically taken under control - 8 charges left. all 5 bar l'gura fail, but the babau resists the rulership. All the canoloths are unaffected. K is unaffected. Helm and Bellam descend to attack Kostchtchie. Baubau flying up and casts a dispel magic on Bellam - unsuccessful. Bellam in three blows kills the babau, but his weapon suffers corrosive damage, fails a save - and is reduced to +1 weapon. Kostchtchie 8 magic missile's at Bellam and Helm - 4 each. Helm's ioun stone 8th absorbs - 3 charges left. Bellam's ring of spell turning - all reflected but dispelled against K's MR. Regardless, stoneskins are reduced by 4 (4 and 2). Helm moves in hand-to-hand, attacks twice - misses. Zachery moves to attack to giants. Three hits - Giants hit once, 5 SS. The 'polar bears' pulling K's sled, now revealed as canoloths, move 4 each to Bellam and Helm to tongue lash. Knock off 1SS each. (3 and 1)

Round 2
Declaration of spells: Zachery dispel evil on self after retreating from giants.
Raven commands all animals vs. giants, trolls vs. bar l'gura. Giants kill a mammoth, injuries to all in combat. Two canoloths fear, two darkness centered on K, four attack. Bellam attacks a canoloth -hits 4 times - kills one, injures another. 2 canoloths attack, without dex AC-4, 2 misses. Helm attacks K - blind and deaf, Helm needs a 20 to hit. Two misses. Two canoloths attack Helm, one hits with tongue lash. No lashing, just 4hpt damage - Helm at 25. K attacks 4+1 times, negated by 1SS with two remaining hits. Helm at 29.

Round 3
Declaration of spells: Stoneskin scroll to Helm by Zachery- to be delivered by touch. Helm is stunned by hammer attacks and unable to do anything but move. Helm is provided 8 SS. K comes storming out of the darkness and hits Helm 3 out of 4 times, then stomps him. Helms SS4. Three canoloths cloudkill- each to Raven, Helm and Bellam. Four move to claw-claw-bite. All canoloths miss Helm. Bellam attacks canoloths. Bellam missed all times by canoloths. Raven descend to attack with dispel evil touch on the canoloths, one screams and disappears back to its plane. Melee blood letting for the masses.

Round 4
2 mammoths, 1 FG, 2 bar l'gura dead.
K doesn't like the dispel evil, he immediately head towards Raven. Helm pursues and attacks K. Zachery tries to dispel the canoloths. Bellam continues to attack his canoloths - kills one, injures another badly.
Kostchtchie unleashes an unholy word.
Raven - deafened for 4 rounds, 3/4's move, -2 to attacks, 50% chance of spell failure
Helm - immune
Zachery - Deafened for 3 rounds, 3/4's move, -2 to attacks, 50% chance to spell failure

Round Five
Battle ensues... with masses.
Kostchtchie heads for Helm, leaps and attacks for six attacks flying. Canoloth misses Helm all times. Two K hits with kicks to Raven SS6, three hits to Helm SS 1. Bellam attacks canoloths - kills both. Zachery, Helm and Raven attack Kostchtchie. Zachery hits twice - 21hpt damage. Damien gives dragon warning.

Round Six
Masses killing - trolls vs. wolves - rest dead. K attacks -*hits.
*Blindhelm Cage-Rods. Healed to 102.
*Zachery SS on scroll Blindhelm - simultaneously - 8SS. 2 SS Scrolls left.
****Raven heal sphere Blindhelm.
Bellam comes to the group.
K follows the party with the Cage-Rod into the demi-plane.

Round Seven
Kostchtchie scans the area for 3 segments and disappears. 11 rounds elapsed for the spell count - so far resist colds, tongues and dispel evil expired. Damien retrieves 6th level travelling spellbook from the portable hole - within it contains:
1. Chain lightning 2. Anti-magic shell 3. Death spell
4. Scorpigeddion's black door 5. Beating heart 6. Otiluke's freezing sphere
7. Guards and wards 8. Transmute water into dust
Raven taps Helm with Staff of Curing (15 charges remaining) to heal him of deafness.
Bellam, Zachery idle.

Round 8
Resist cold casting begins - Helm to Bellam (6 rounds), Raven self (10 rounds) Zachery self (9 rounds).

Round 9
Resist cold by Helm self (6 rounds). Zachery is handed the Staff of Healing, Helm gives Cage-Rod to Raven, Bellam idle. Zachery taps Bellam with Staff of Curing (14 charges remaining) to heal him of deafness. Damien carries the travelling book between himself and Raven's back. Raven Cage-Rods back to the battlefield.

Round 10
The party Cage-Rod's back to the site - Kostchtchie is harnessing up white dragons to his sled, five giants are assisting him. Ogre-magi are not seen. Everyone is aware of the other. A mass of lightning bolts, breaths, and hammer throws insues, with Helm taking the Cage-Rod for a quick escape. Raven and Zachery cast lightning bolts, 46hpt to dragons and giant - 43 to dragons and other giant. Bellam throws (last round of super-heroism) at first dragon, injures it. Breath 7 Breath 8 Breath 8. Helm SS6, Bellam SS2 and Zachery SS3 each hit with boulder by giants. Kostchtchie tries to throw three times at Raven, two end SS. Helm activates Cage-Rod out segment 7, spoiling all final throw attacks of all combatants.

Round 11
Zachery and Raven teleport group from demi-plane to the mudship. Mudship moves to a new location a half mile up the river. Once all is secure, rest and rememorization begins. This begins at 5pm. Total rest required is 8 hours - 1am. Raven casts SS on self. Raven SS8 Zachery SS7. 52 spell levels to rememorize = 8 hours 40 minutes. rememorizing - 7:40am. Zachery on Bellam SS6. Raven on Helm SS6, Damien SS6.
Rest 6 hours - 1:40pm. Rememorize 2 4th spells - 8 turns - 3pm.

Old DMG p.40
SPELL LEVEL 1-2 3-4 5-6 7-8 9
4 hours 6 hours 8 hours 10 hours 12 hours

Strength spells on Helm and Zachery - 2 turns. Spells previously cast at the beginning of the day* Dust applications remaining - 13.5.

Raven
*Stoneskin -R8
Gauntlets - 18.00

Helm
*Stoneskin -R6
*Strength - 17 to 18 (11 hours)

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