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Name: Benjamin (cleric 5)
Place: mindflayer lair
Catalist: Empowered lighting bolt

Protected by the bulk of the party he could do what he could do best, provide healing. The bulk however, couldn't protect him from the empowered lightningbolt that tore throught their ranks.

Name: Roderick (sorcerer8/rogue1)
Place: mindflayer lair
Catalist: Empowered lighting bolt

Roderick survived the first lightning bolt that struck down Benjamin, he didn't survive the second one however. Being the sort that bragged about killing many foes with a single magic missile(after the rest of the party softened that target for him) and even bragged about the fact that his position at the back of the farty allowed him to flee when a fight went really bad this was poetic justice.

Name: Grigorii, human barbarian/rogue
Place: mindflayer lair
Catalyst: torn in two by octopin.

After breaking down the door Grigorii rushed in the room with the brain and made his save v.s. the brain. Finding nothing else he rushed on to find enemies to chop, expecting the rest to follow. The rest of the party did but only piecemail allowing the brain to succesfully dominate 2 of his fellow partymembers. The result was that had to fight the advanced octopin alone while the rest of the party were fighting among themselves. Grigorii dealt alot of damage because of being enlarged and raging but due to this and an entangling breath attack by one of his dominated partymembers his AC was so low that 2 tentacle hits and rend damage was almost garantied every round (that's 8d6+28/round combined!). After killing the octopin and subdueing their dominated partymembers the rest of the party beat a hasty retreat.

Grigorii will be raised.

Stay sober! I vaguely remember them getting past the octopus last night but I'm buggered if I know how. When I asked a friend today if he knew he couldn't really remember either. No doubt some rule-mistakes were made then. Thankfully the one player that had to drive home was sober (naturally) so I can ask him

I do remember they all had a blast almost dying from fighting both the dop guards and the stalkers simultaniously because of their blitzkrieg approach. I hope they remember enough to recall the error of that tactic.

I'm sorry I can't really give you any real advice. Do make sure to read the adventure a few times and try to get the locations and descriptions in your head, there are quite some areas that are "3D heavy". It wouldn't hurt to use google sketchup to visualise some of the rooms even if only for yourself.

I found this free 3D drawing program lately and fiddled around with trying to create dungeond and such. It works great, if you go to http://sketchup.google.com/ you can download it and check the simple mockup of Blackwall keep I made in about 10 minutes at: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/search?q=blackwall&ctyp=&btn G=Search+3D+Warehouse. I might try to make 3d versions of the spire or other 3D structures of the AoW later.