Our party cleaned up the Crimson Throne's Secret Port in a long play session over the Thanksgiving weekend. We all (7 + DM) had a blast. Our group is made up of several active, retired and ex military guys so we have this thing about clearing any stronghold type adventure from top to bottom, so we pretty muched started at the top of the "wreck city" and worked our way down, then around the bay . The fight with the 7th coil was extreamly difficult for us and in the end the spellcasters had pretty much fired their entire battery, and our witch was balefull poly'ed into a snake but in the end we perservered. Making our way down we fought through some captains and dealt with the retriever from range. We leveled up to 15th just before we encountered the Fleet Admiral and that's when our monk took over.
A quivering palm to the chest followed by a failed save and it was all over in a single blow. I have been gaming since the mid-70's and cant ever recall seeing a quivering palm save or die actually work I felt so good the monk player.
We opened negotiations with the Fleet Treasuries guardian immedietly after, but decided to deal with the rest of the ports denziens before we tackled the tough nut.
As we made our way down and around the port we encountered the Eye-of-the-deep. We lucked out on the initiative rolls and the pary witch hit the beholder-kin with an enervation, this was key and alowed the monk to move in for the stunning fist which was successful only because of the -4 from the enervation. The rest of the party then proceeded to gang attack the helpless aberation and slay it.
Saddly the monk player had to leave after that battle but the party carried on. The slaad at the gate imploded our rouge, but we avenged her loss; then raised her just so her and I (Ranger/totemic demonslayer) could fall victim to an insanity symbol. The spell casters were able to bring her mind back to normal, but I am currently tied-up awaiting some arcane help.
The port cleared of Crimson Throne supporters, we discovered, in the dredges of the lowest ship a tortured and imprisoned captain who mutineed against the admiral. We informed the sole surving capatin that as the admiral was decesed he was now in command of the Crimson Fleet Pirates, and agreed that in exchange for his freedom and his life (Cpt Harless had a problem with this last part of our accord) he would relieve the guardian of the fleets treasure of his duties. He whined but in the end saw that freedom and his life was better than the alternative.
The treasury guardian, was highly interested in the opportunity to return to whatever pit of the abyss he was from, and once evidence was given that our new found friend was indeed the default Admiral, the guardian left. A second later, Cpt Harless ran the would be admiral through.
We all have had a great time and our DM who has converted this all over to pathfinder so kudos to Charlie for putting in the hard work. I feel ya brother CoCT was a pain lol.
I will post more when get to Gapping Maw!!