SPOILER
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In Short what happened:
- Party did't managed to remove the scroll but they slew Bozal. Loris hat to free the Apostle himself with the aid of a wand.
- Final Combat started.
- The Apostle managed to free itself in the 3rd Round of Combat, before Auric and the Golems reached the party (only the Partys Wizards had attacked each other by ranged combat)
- As the worm appeared it startet to snatch the golems, which were directly around it.
- The Paladin mananged to stop Auric from attacking and explained (in short) what happend. Khellek and the Golems allied with the party while Raknian was commanding the Apostle to snatch Auric and to not bother with the golems or the others.
- Auric, not really realizing what was happening then charged the Apostle, together with the Partys Paladin of Pelor. The Party Barbarian and Monk did not intervene and tried to escape the area climbing its wall up to the ranks of the spectactors.
- Khellek and the party wizard were attacking the creature with spells.
- No one did stop Auric from attacking (so all had registered that some kind of "prophecy" will become fulfilled if Auric will be killed).
- It happend what had to happen: Auric got swallowed before he could land a single blow (he had not really a chance to escape the grapple). Still having some hitpoints, Auric trie(s) to get free but only has a masterwork dagger and he rolled really bad. after the rounds in "the belly of the beast" he just managed to to 9 hp of damage. he already has taken 10 pts. / CO-Damage but still hat approx. 40 hp left.
- The Ulgurstata took some serious damage. The Paladin with "Bless Weapon" and Smite Evil landed two Critical Hits. One of the two remaining Golems did another Crit and Khellek fired three Scorching Rays. Even the Barbarian had meanwhile charged into melee. The Creature suffered almost 190 hps and is almost dead.
- The Sorcerer failed to harm the creature, so decided (successfully) to capture Loris in a Otilukes Resilient Sphere.
This are going to get a litte confused:
Should I:
a) Be Kind. Let Auric survive and escape. Let the group slay the beast and capturing Loris. All will end fine...
b) Be not so kind. Let Auric die but slay the beast (what will happen then, is the prophecy still fulfilled...will Auric reappear as a spawn if the beast is slain before the transformations finished?)
c) What about Loris in the Sphere? I think this was quite a good idea...
The failure of the Rescue has great impact on the campaign i think. about 18000 wights running around in greyhawk will make the next few sessions turn off the adventure path, while the group has to "hack themselves" through the city. On the other hand, they let Auric charge into his doom, knowing (or at least fearing) what will happen.
Thanks a lot in advance! I' am eager to hear your thoughts about the situation.
Sorry for my bad english :( i am not a native speaker or somethin similar...
