So, in this thread, I talked about how my 21st level party got killed by Kyuss or turned into his undead slaves.
I ran a brief (3rd-10th level) campaign in which some new PCs are sequestered in an extraplanar hideout, and when they come back out, the Age of Worms is in full swing and they have no idea what to do.
After escaping the now-nightmarish Free City, fleeing their epic-level undead PC counterparts, and fighting off an undead horde laying siege to the Twilight Monastery, they finally make it to Magepoint and find Manzorian.
There, with some help from Zeech, the PCs sneak into Alhaster while Celeste leads a diversionary attack on Kyuss' undead hordes. They head up to the Spire, fighting off small patrols of undead, until they reach the top, per Manzorian's instructions. There, they manage to destroy Kyuss' monolith (while simultaneously getting annihilated at the same time by Kyuss), at which point a ring of levitating spell weavers gate in and strip Kyuss of all divine abilities, saying that "the experiment is over". Basically he loses all divine abilities, all clerical abilities (and associated epic feats), and his worm that walks template. Then the PCs fight him again as just a mortal (albeit a very badass sorcerer). I wanted the party to have a fighting chance this time.
With backup from Manzorian and Agath, the PCs manage to whack Kyuss from all sides, smiting and healing and draining Con while Kyuss kept knocking them on their butts. The dwarven fighter, who'd specialized in bull rushing since 1st level, managed to actually knock Kyuss off the 240+ foot Spire, leaving him a bloody crater on the streets of Alhaster.
Anyways I thought this was neat and wanted to share.
Heh.
That's so funny. The greatest tale of revenge ever played!
Ummmm. Why exactly did Tenser & Agath act as back-up to 10th-level PCs, instead of the other way around? After all, you don't take a knife to a gun fight.
Ummmm. Why exactly did Tenser & Agath act as back-up to 10th-level PCs, instead of the other way around? After all, you don't take a knife to a gun fight.
They were pretty expended by then, and couldn't beat Kyuss' SR for much of the fight. Tenser did lots of counterspelling and Agath did lots of healing, both of which only they could do in the quantities necessary to keep up with Kyuss' damage output.
There, they manage to destroy Kyuss' monolith (while simultaneously getting annihilated at the same time by Kyuss), at which point a ring of levitating spell weavers gate in and strip Kyuss of all divine abilities, saying that "the experiment is over". Basically he loses all divine abilities, all clerical abilities (and associated epic feats), and his worm that walks template.
How did the party destroy Kyuss's monolith? I would assume it was a minor artifact at least. Of course as it’s your game setting it's yours to run as you please but I thought the point of the final adventure "Dawn of a New Age" was Kyuss freeing himself from monolith to begin the AOW? So if he was still vulnerable to it's destruction why would he keep it around in Alhaster for a low level party to destroy ?
How did the Spellweaver's strip a god of his power, especially when his power was waxing seems a little beyond their abilities?
It sounds like you came up with a nice way to wrap up the AOW for you campaign world but I'm just a little confused on how the party managed all those nigh-epic feats.
Uh, Kyuss doesn't know "feather fall" ???
How did the party destroy Kyuss's monolith?
With a magic-eating construct NPC.
Of course as it’s your game setting it's yours to run as you please but I thought the point of the final adventure "Dawn of a New Age" was Kyuss freeing himself from monolith to begin the AOW? So if he was still vulnerable to it's destruction why would he keep it around in Alhaster for a low level party to destroy ?
He had no idea the party was capable of destroying it.
How did the Spellweaver's strip a god of his power, especially when his power was waxing seems a little beyond their abilities?
They all have the Epic Feat "Deus Ex Machina".
It sounds like you came up with a nice way to wrap up the AOW for you campaign world but I'm just a little confused on how the party managed all those nigh-epic feats.
Kyuss was basically reduced to a 32nd level sorcerer whose offensive spells were all being absorbed by a pseudonatural pig who'd been gated in (long story). So... a 32nd level sorcerer with a big executioner's mace.
And no, he didn't have feather fall.