Ashardaldon Series - Unoptimized KK (Inactive)

Game Master Freddy Honeycutt

Gurukk takes the wand then starts casting a small fire spell followed with prestidigitation. He then sniffs the wand, then his finger, and shrugs and sticks in in his belt.

Damp and crumbled steps descend 15 feet into a 10-foot-wide, 8 foot-tall stone corridor…..

The dark descending corridor sets you nerves on edge! A drip of water hits the floor ahead of you and after a minute another drop joins the first.

Elbowing their resident conduit of the fire god, Thedrin asks "Does it look safe? My peepers aren't made for looking into dark places"

Elbowing their resident conduit of the fire god, Thedrin asks "Does it look safe? My peepers aren't made for looking into dark places"

Gurukk moves ahead of everyone else peering down the hallway, moving slowly, axe out just in case

At the state of the wand, Xane just shrugs as well, indicating she is not quite as squeamish as some of her fellows.

"Now I have this wondering about how folks clean themselves up..." She mutters.

the tunnel continues straight for a bit and turns sharply to the right, you have no way of knowing what lies around that corner!

And Gurukk has no idea what is even in this tunnel as he looks up to explain the water and a drop hits him in the eye!

....perhaps an attack from the water god? ;)

the tunnel continues straight for a bit and turns sharply to the right, you have no way of knowing what lies around that corner!

And Gurukk has no idea what is even in this tunnel as he looks up to explain the water and a drop hits him in the eye!

....perhaps an attack from the water god? ;)

Gurukk turns to the rest trying to restore sight to his eye

"We have a problem, the water god's domain is in front of us and is angry at Gurukk and you for intruding. I intend to move forward, but the end may be nigh."

the sharp turn ends in a dead end, and two doors on the left side of the hallway beckon to you as possibly having answers.

Which door, nearest or furthest?

the sharp turn ends in a dead end, and two doors on the left side of the hallway beckon to you as possibly having answers.

Which door, nearest or furthest?

Gurukk choose furthest. You know how it works out when he chooses ;)

Following Gurukk through the water god territory, the mischievous inquisitor comes up with an idea to help ease his orc friends mind. He whispers as the creep through the hallway, ”My dear fire using friend, I have a little trick up my sleeve to help hide you from the water god. This ward hurts for moment but lasts a whole day and hides your power from the water god’s minions. So it is your choice if you want it or not?“

Gurukk seems appreciative of the offer.

"Gurukk would disappoint the Fire God by hiding from the minions of the water god. Gurukk's concern is for all of you who are guilty in the water god's mind only because you travel with Gurukk."

Opening the furthest door!

Four goblins sort twigs and root piles on the floor of this sagging chamber.

The collapsed southern wall opens on a vast cavern. Pustules of luminescent fungus on the rough walls and high roof loom over a twilight grove of sickly briars, bushes, saplings, and other woody plants. Ruined walls and hollow towers protrude from the briars like islands in the sea.

One yells in goblin
Goblin

They then charge and attack with dogslicers!
@ Respen
Dogslicer attack (charge) 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6 Damage 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

@Gurukk
Dogslicer attack (charge) 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (11) + 3 = 14 Damage 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3

@Xane
Dogslicer attack (charge) 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (19) + 3 = 22 Damage 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6

@Erky
Dogslicer attack (charge) 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4 Damage 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4

Initiative 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (19) + 6 = 25 beat that!

Initiative 1d20+6 beat that!

Can't! Pesky little goblin better do his worst!

Oh you can't beat the goblins!

Two goblins decide Gurukk looks tasty....
Dogslicer attack 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (20) + 3 = 23 Damage 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6
Dogslicer attack 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (20) + 3 = 23 Damage 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

confirm critical
1d20 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11
1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15

The other two go after Respen.....
@ Dogslicer attack 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15 Damage 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5
@ Dogslicer attack 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (13) + 3 = 16 Damage 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4

You are Up!

@Gurukk
"Stay on yer feet yah f%~!in beanstalk, shakes it off they err gonna eat yah!"

Casts cure light wounds restoring
1d8 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8

Gurukk steps back and blasts them with fire

Burning hands Reflex DC 13 for half and heals 1 hp
Fire Damage 3d4 ⇒ (3, 3, 1) = 7

Kenderkin, the second critical did confirm

"We'll aid in making the twlight grove your grave!" With that Respen swings his longsword at the goblin.

Longsword attack:1d20 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 = 14
Damage:1d8 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4

Thedrin ducks, dodges, dives and weaves to deliver a headbutt on one of Gurukk's crisped gobbos.
Attack: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 2 = 15 for 1d6 - 1 ⇒ (1) - 1 = 0

Reflex saves
1d20 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4
1d20 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 2 = 11
1d20 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 2 = 12
1d20 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 2 = 16

Gurukk flash fries 3 goblins!

Sir Respen gets a swing and a miss!

Thedrin goes for a head-but but he had been practicing not hitting Erky in the head and it threw him off this time!

Xane is up!

Reflex saves

1d20+2
1d20+2
1d20+2
1d20+2

Gurukk flash fries 3 goblins!

Sir Respen gets a swing and a miss!

Thedrin goes for a head-but but he had been practicing not hitting Erky in the head and it threw him off this time!

Xane is up!

Note that if any of those goblins that miss their save survive they will take 1 point of fire damage next round

Again, please remember that untill I can tell you other wise, my internet connectiuon is practically nonexistant. Feel free to DM/NPC her if you don't hear from me soon enough. *Bows*

Gripping her sword two handed to make up for the weakness inflicted upon her by the shadow encounter previously...

Att Roll:1d20 + 8 ⇒ (6) + 8 = 14

Dam Roll:1d8 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9

She grunts with effort, but frowns at her apparent lack of effect...

Gnome Hook hammer
Hammer
Attack 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (14) + 3 = 17
Damage 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

"Yah did yer best girl!"

Erky finishes off the last goblin which still burns a bit from the fire that got it....

Xane

Am hoping to have internets back some time...um...next week...?

Perception:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13

Xane takes her time looking around the room, her hands taking a long time to reliese their double fisted grip...

Aaand ses pretty much a whole lot of not much. :P

As the group is talking Sir Respen will search the goblins for clues or rather loot.

Perception:1d20 + 8 ⇒ (7) + 8 = 15

12 gold, 8 silver, 22 coppers
small leather armor
dogslicers

fleas, ticks, lice and scabbies!

"Let's keep moving so we can find more scabbies"

Xane adjusts her grip and offers to help carry stuff. To show that the shadow's have not reduced her might by any large amount. ;)

Perception DC 16

Perception DC 20

Perception:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (14) + 6 = 20

Xane tenses...

"What..the..f.." As she hefts her sword again...

Xane spots and points out some strange small running

creatures

"Oh shi..."

"In COMING!"

Att Roll:1d20 + 7 ⇒ (14) + 7 = 21

Dam Roll:1d8 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

As she drops to one knee, the better to aim low and swing hard.

Sorry for not factoring in the Str loss...:(

The wooden creature splits in two from Xanes attack a thunderous crack echos inside the cavern.....

The other three creatures run towards the center of the grove....

As you follow the re-treating creatures you find.......

Pale, spindly briars coated with tiny barbs press close to you in this underground grove. The violet light above casts nauseating shadows on the earthen floor, creating the illusion of movement among the branches, though no wind blows here.

Somehow things grow in this pale light.....

"Ooh Gurukk thinks this is what Gurukk's wand was for!"

Gurukk gets out his wand of burning hands and cast clw on himself 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9

"Lead the way Gurukk, when in doubt againist plants stay behind the firebug hehe."

Respen moves behind the big orc while gripping his longsword. Saying a silent prayer of protection from Imoedae againist these plants. Studying where the glow is coming from.

Perception:1d20 + 8 ⇒ (15) + 8 = 23

Eyebrow raised in thought, Thedrin follows after the Fire God's emissary. When Respen starts praying, Thedrin just cracks his knuckles.

Eyebrow raised in thought, Thedrin follows after the Fire God's emissary. When Respen starts praying, Thedrin just cracks his knuckles.

"Trees burn well, Gurukk hears"

"Kent be much left in this place."

The Gulthias tree

A courtyard wall of heavy stones creates a half-walled clearing among the briars. The courtyards wall only stand 20 feet high with the ceiling and stalactites above 50 feet overhead. Several varieties of plants grow around the perimeter, including a few suspicious-looking saplings, but their importance pales before that which stands at the courtyards center. Beneath the venoumous fungal light grows a singular tree of evil. It’s blackened, twisted limbs reach upward, like a skeletal hand clawing it’s way from the earth. Human figures stand near the tree: a woman and two men. A three-foot-long tree frog squats next to one of the men.

One man wears scalemail and a woman in a half-robe and leggings stand strangely still
Perception DC 15

The other man is dressed in a simple brown cassock……..

Belak the Outcast
Belak

”Hold your actions a moment, you know not what you do!”

”Hold your actions a moment, you know not what you do!”

Gurukk appears to get mad at this statement, [b]"Are you saying Gurukk, favored servant of the Fire God, does not know how to burn things? How dare you!"[b]

"Nay you I am certain know how to burn things."

”I am Belak, called the Outcast. The druidic society expelled me, the fools. And Why? Because I dared to expand nature’s reach in ways their puny minds couldn’t grasp. I don’t care. I have found what I long sought, embodied in the Gulthias Tree.”

"Nay you I am certain know how to burn things."

”I am Belak, called the Outcast. The druidic society expelled me, the fools. And Why? Because I dared to expand nature’s reach in ways their puny minds couldn’t grasp. I don’t care. I have found what I long sought, embodied in the Gulthias Tree.”

Gurukk taps his foot impatiently, "And that would be?"

Perception: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (14) + 11 = 25

Thedrin keeps quiet.. and keeps his eyes on the toad.

Xane listens to the fellow the group has come across...

And tilts her head as his words rattle around in her mind.
"Um...so let me get this straight...Druids are into Nature and the Wilds and stuff...right?" She looks at her friends as well as this 'Beltak' as she speaks,

"So...if you're all 'Expunged' and stuff...does that make you all 'Un-natural'...?" She scratches her head, still not sure about what Beltak is on about.

And I think I'm back with the interwebz! :D

Waiting after he replies to Xane, he asks the Druid "So Mr. Outcast is it, My name is Sir Respen Bayleef and I was wondering who are your friends over there?" He points to the bark covered bodies next to him.

Diplomacy:1d20 + 8 ⇒ (18) + 8 = 26

Belak

points at the

The Gulthias tree

”It’s beautiful, no? It lives, though it looks dead. In an age long past, someone staked a vampire to the earth on this very spot. The wooden stake was yet green and took root. And so grew the Gulthias Tree, reverberating with dark primal power to those who can tap it.”

He then points to the man and woman.

”They were the first two supplicants. The Gulthias Tree has accepted them and they are mine to control, just like the twig blights. You can’t save them.”

Gurukk is confused for a moment and thinks to himself "Were we here to save them? I was going to burn it all down"

Erky scratches his head....

"Seems like yah been busy down here....."

very quietly
"....I'm not sure he's got a full crew worken in tha upstairs."

"Um...so...this tree is kind'a unique then?" Xane scratches her head, still seeming nonplussed as to what exactly is going on with this fellow and his horticulture.

"But the whole 'Turning people into minions' thing? Yah, that's a paddlin'" She says with assurance growing in her voice, even as she adjusts her grip upon her trusty falcata. She grins,

"We may not be able to save them from...tree-dom..." She stumbles as she thinks over the two people's state, "But we can save them from servitude and give them back freedom!" She grins, happy at her rhyme and reasoning. (^_^)

Batter UP!

Initiative:1d20 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9

Meh...(-_-)

"We may not be able to save them from...tree-dom..." She stumbles as she thinks over the two people's state, "But we can save them from servitude and give them back freedom!" She grins, happy at her rhyme and reasoning. (^_^)

Gurukk appreciates the rhyme, "Har Har, Let's get him!"

Initiative 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 1 = 10