In the Eye of Stormreach


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Male Engineer Geek 6/Engineer 5/Engineseer 1

I was just thinking how easy this was getting...

The range is about 20 feet and the dragon is moving none too quickly, so instead of rolling to hit, it attempted, and failed a reflex save.

Since it was at 0 hp, it dies on impact.

Leaving Brick some 40' above the ground.

Damage will be 17, but you can cling to the dragon with a reflex save DC 18 for half.

Liberty's Edge

Male Engineer Geek 6/Engineer 5/Engineseer 1

As the dragon dies, the air around you begins to hum, a deep resounding note. Before your eyes the walls age, darkening, and even vines, tendrils, and roots begin spreading it across the surface.

Liberty's Edge

Male Engineer Geek 6/Engineer 5/Engineseer 1

Ruuz: 22+
Dragon: 22-
Brick: 12
Sari: 11+
Beren: 11-
Rokko: 7
Valessa: 6
Merreck: 4

Sari is up


Female Human (Aundairian) Rogue 3 / Ranger 1

“We have to kill the – oh!” Valessa starts to yell back at Beren, then stops when Brick abruptly jumps off the pillar onto the dragon.

“Khyber!” she swears, starting to run back towards the centre of the pillar (on her turn – she’s currently out a little way on the bridge). “We have to get it – him! – Brick! – back up here! We all need to be on top of the pillar … I … I think…”

Her companions may notice that Valessa has the platinum disk that the group found in the circular chamber right at the beginning of this delve in her hand.


Male Wildhunt Shifter Ranger / 3

Beren's jaw drops as Brick launches himself over the pillar. "Crazy Forged," he snarls.

"Sari, let's go get him."


M/n Warforged Cleric 3 / Paladin 1
Dragonmann wrote:

I was just thinking how easy this was getting...

The range is about 20 feet and the dragon is moving none too quickly, so instead of rolling to hit, it attempted, and failed a reflex save.

Since it was at 0 hp, it dies on impact.

Leaving Brick some 40' above the ground.

Damage will be 17, but you can cling to the dragon with a reflex save DC 18 for half.

Rolled an 18 base. If that isn't luck, I don't know what is. And, true to form, I don't have Brick's HP written down. I'm guessing it's negative.


I believe that Brick was at 1 hp.


M/n Warforged Cleric 3 / Paladin 1
Stormreach NPC Guy wrote:
I believe that Brick was at 1 hp.

Down to -8 now. Thanks for the recap.


Female Human (Aundairian) Rogue 3 / Ranger 1

“Frak … he’s smashed up pretty badly…” Valessa glances down at the broken warforged lying atop the remains of the dragon down below, then up at the swirling vortex above the pillar and back down at the platinum disk in her hand.

How high above the floor is the top of the pillar?


M/n Warforged Cleric 3 / Paladin 1

Brick looks much like a pile of broken china mixed with iron slag.

Fortitude save to stabilize: 13 + 4 = 17.

Even as Valessa and Beren look down from the pillar, some of the pieces are beginning to glow softly and knit back together.

Liberty's Edge

Male Engineer Geek 6/Engineer 5/Engineseer 1

The floor, and presumably most importantly Brick is about 50 feet down.

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Male Engineer Geek 6/Engineer 5/Engineseer 1
Brick wrote:

Brick looks much like a pile of broken china mixed with iron slag.

Fortitude save to stabilize: 13 + 4 = 17.

Even as Valessa and Beren look down from the pillar, some of the pieces are beginning to glow softly and knit back together.

Warforged don't bleed out, so no need to stabilize


Female Human (Aundairian) Rogue 3 / Ranger 1

"Ive got rope!" yells Valessa, hurrying forward (on her turn...)


Male Wildhunt Shifter Ranger / 3

Are we out of Initiative? Can we all work on getting Brick? Any rolls needed?

Liberty's Edge

Male Engineer Geek 6/Engineer 5/Engineseer 1
Beren Kemble wrote:
Are we out of Initiative? Can we all work on getting Brick? Any rolls needed?

Still in initiative please. You just killed the power source of the eldritch machine that was holding back thousands of years. You may want to hurry.


M/n Warforged Cleric 3 / Paladin 1
Dragonmann wrote:
Brick wrote:

Brick looks much like a pile of broken china mixed with iron slag.

Fortitude save to stabilize: 13 + 4 = 17.

Even as Valessa and Beren look down from the pillar, some of the pieces are beginning to glow softly and knit back together.

Warforged don't bleed out, so no need to stabilize

Yeah. Forgot about that. Sorry. Why is it that whenever I post on this thread, I'm really spacey?


Female Human (Aundairian) Rogue 3 / Ranger 1

We're up to Sari ... but you guys might want to delay, 'cos I think Valessa is the only one who has rope.


My guess is that Sari would not mind delaying. Beren will also delay. And Rokko, well he wants nothing to do with helping. He just shakes his head while looking down at the broken Warforged.


Female Human (Aundairian) Rogue 3 / Ranger 1

Valessa races back on to the top of the platform, already pulling the fifty foot length of silk rope from her pack.

“Alright, this is how we need to do this,” she says, uncharacteristically confident and in charge (rather than just her normal brashness).

“Someone strong needs to stay up here and hold the rope. Sari, Beren, you two are probably the strongest, it needs to be one of you. The rope is only fifty feet, and I’m going to need a bit to tie Brick on, so you’ll need to lie down on here, lean over the edge, the grip that roof as if my life depended on it –which it will.

“Someone else who can climb needs to come down the rope with me and help lift Brick a bit so I can tie him onto the rope. Everyone else needs to help Sari or whoever, make sure she doesn’t get pulled over while we’re going up and down the rope.

“One Brick’s tied on, we climb back up, and then we all pull Brick up. Sound good?”

She hands the rope over to Sari or Beren and prepares to climb. “Unless someone has a better suggestion?”

Like if someone can heal Brick? Repair spells or potions? Cure’s are only at half strength on warforged, so I’m not sure how effective that’ll be if he’s at –8.

Liberty's Edge

Male Engineer Geek 6/Engineer 5/Engineseer 1

A large bird wearing a t-shirt that says DM Fiat flies into the room and screeches "Anybody gonna save the professor?" It then flies away...


Female Human (Aundairian) Rogue 3 / Ranger 1

Remind us where he is again?

Liberty's Edge

Male Engineer Geek 6/Engineer 5/Engineseer 1

Downstairs...

you know, where Jyra went a few rounds ago


Female Human (Aundairian) Rogue 3 / Ranger 1

Ah, crap. Yeah, someone better get him ... hope we have time...

Time is playing havoc with my memory on this; as far as Valessa can remember, was she told that she should activate the targetting disk on top of the pillar to get them out?

Liberty's Edge

Male Engineer Geek 6/Engineer 5/Engineseer 1
Valessa Marr wrote:

Ah, crap. Yeah, someone better get him ... hope we have time...

Time is playing havoc with my memory on this; as far as Valessa can remember, was she told that she should activate the targetting disk on top of the pillar to get them out?

you watched the old elf put a similar disk in an identical hole in reality before you were sent back here.


Female Human (Aundairian) Rogue 3 / Ranger 1
Dragonmann wrote:
Valessa Marr wrote:

Ah, crap. Yeah, someone better get him ... hope we have time...

Time is playing havoc with my memory on this; as far as Valessa can remember, was she told that she should activate the targetting disk on top of the pillar to get them out?

you watched the old elf put a similar sik in the hole in reality before you were sent back here.

Ah, that rings a bell. Cool, thanks.


Female Human (Aundairian) Rogue 3 / Ranger 1

“We can’t leave Dorkin and Mishelle here either,” says Valessa, suddenly remembering.

Maybe its just as quick to go back down via the stairs/grandstand thingy rather than a rope?


Male Changeling Artificer 4rd

Are we still in initiative?
Ruuz will ready an action to repair Brick when it is his turn.

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Male Engineer Geek 6/Engineer 5/Engineseer 1

Yeah stay in initiative, since you only have [censored] rounds before you are trapped in here forever...

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Male Engineer Geek 6/Engineer 5/Engineseer 1

Wow, the intensity and drama don't seem to be building the way I hoped.

BTW I leave for GENCON at o-noon-thirty tomorrow


Female Human (Aundairian) Rogue 3 / Ranger 1
Dragonmann wrote:

Wow, the intensity and drama don't seem to be building the way I hoped.

Not exactly...

Ok, here is Valessa's planned actions in the coming rounds; she will give the targetting disc to whoever is staying behind in this chamber, saying "If everything starts going to s+@#, and I'm not back yet, make sure you're up on this platform and put the disc inside that vortex there," pointing to the swirling vortex above their heads. "That should get you to safety. But wait until the last possible moment alright? I want to get out of here alive!"

She will then make her way down to the floor of this chamber via the quickest possible method (short of jumping); be that by climbing down the pillar on a rope or running down through the amphitheatre.

While Ruuz is trying to repair Brick and the others are getting him back onto the platform, she will run back through the corridors with all haste to the chamber they left the professor and Mishelle. She will call out the giantish phrase to open the door when she gets there and urge them to come WITH ALL HASTE back with her if they want to live.

If Beren or someone wants to come with her, she'll welcome the help - but no one slow (heavy armour wearers or short legs).

If they argue or delay, she'll leave them; either way, racing back to this chamber and trying to get back onto the pillar before the others put the targetting disc into the vortex.

If the place starts falling apart or something to the degree that she doesn't think she can get back, she will take her chances with heading to the central chamber and trying to climb back up the rope to the jungle surface instead.

Liberty's Edge

Male Engineer Geek 6/Engineer 5/Engineseer 1

Alright, I am going to call this battle (finally)

In a very tense few moments, you manage to gather up your fallen comrades, and get back to the column, just ahead of thousands of years of vines and creepers.

Sliding the disk into the hole in reality results in a sensation of being turned briefly inside orange.

When the searing darkness fades, you find yourselves standing around in a circle, as the ground in front of you begins collapsing, forming a crater nearly a mile in diameter.

Your return to Stormreach is uneventful, and you discover you have returned about three hours after you left...

5000 xp for all


M/n Warforged Cleric 3 / Paladin 1

Level up, right?


Female Human (Aundairian) Rogue 3 / Ranger 1
Brick wrote:
Level up, right?

Should do. Brings my xp total to somewhere above 8000.

Liberty's Edge

Male Engineer Geek 6/Engineer 5/Engineseer 1

Should deffinetly level up, depending on where you were sitting may even be twice...


M/n Warforged Cleric 3 / Paladin 1
Dragonmann wrote:
Should deffinetly level up, depending on where you were sitting may even be twice...

Twice?

Liberty's Edge

Male Engineer Geek 6/Engineer 5/Engineseer 1
Brick wrote:
Dragonmann wrote:
Should deffinetly level up, depending on where you were sitting may even be twice...
Twice?

i didn't have a running tally of xp, but if 5k is enough to level twice (meaning you were within 1k of level 4) then you are level 5


Female Human (Aundairian) Rogue 3 / Ranger 1
Dragonmann wrote:
Brick wrote:
Dragonmann wrote:
Should deffinetly level up, depending on where you were sitting may even be twice...
Twice?
i didn't have a running tally of xp, but if 5k is enough to level twice (meaning you were within 1k of level 4) then you are level 5

I don't think we will. While it's possible I missed some xp along the way, my tally was 3050. +5000 brings it to 8000 odd, enough for level 4 but shy of level 5.


M/n Warforged Cleric 3 / Paladin 1

Multiclassing to paladin OK?

Liberty's Edge

Male Engineer Geek 6/Engineer 5/Engineseer 1
Brick wrote:
Multiclassing to paladin OK?

Sure


M/n Warforged Cleric 3 / Paladin 1
Dragonmann wrote:
Brick wrote:
Multiclassing to paladin OK?
Sure

Alright, it's done.


Female Human (Aundairian) Rogue 3 / Ranger 1

Valessa is in something of a daze on the way back through the jungle to Stormreach. What really happened back there? Did she really spend several days thousands of years in the past, in the Age of Giants? Did an entire ruin just … vanish in time? And what do they have to show for it all? A mithral disk, a strange, screaming sword, that weird spear …

Valessa is generally leveled as rogue, just need to allocate skill points.


M/n Warforged Cleric 3 / Paladin 1

Does anyone have stats for the screaming sword? I think Brick's going to keep him.

Liberty's Edge

Male Engineer Geek 6/Engineer 5/Engineseer 1
Valessa Marr wrote:

Valessa is in something of a daze on the way back through the jungle to Stormreach. What really happened back there? Did she really spend several days thousands of years in the past, in the Age of Giants? Did an entire ruin just … vanish in time? And what do they have to show for it all? A mithral disk, a strange, screaming sword, that weird spear …

Valessa is generally leveled as rogue, just need to allocate skill points.

Um, you don't have the disk, it didn'tcome back out of the hole in reality

Liberty's Edge

Male Engineer Geek 6/Engineer 5/Engineseer 1
Brick wrote:
Does anyone have stats for the screaming sword? I think Brick's going to keep him.

I do, muwahahahaha

you can invest in finding out about it

trust me, it ain't no +1


M/n Warforged Cleric 3 / Paladin 1
Dragonmann wrote:
Brick wrote:
Does anyone have stats for the screaming sword? I think Brick's going to keep him.

I do, muwahahahaha

you can invest in finding out about it

trust me, it ain't no +1

What do you mean by invest?

Liberty's Edge

Male Engineer Geek 6/Engineer 5/Engineseer 1
Brick wrote:
Dragonmann wrote:
Brick wrote:
Does anyone have stats for the screaming sword? I think Brick's going to keep him.

I do, muwahahahaha

you can invest in finding out about it

trust me, it ain't no +1

What do you mean by invest?

oh, identify to start with

legend lore, bardic lore, sages, trips to korranberg, etc etc


Female Human (Aundairian) Rogue 3 / Ranger 1
Dragonmann wrote:


Um, you don't have the disk, it didn'tcome back out of the hole in reality

Fair enough. Do we know if any of the Morgrave expedition survived? Was Valessa able to get back to Ghorkin etc in time?

All leveled by the way.

Liberty's Edge

Male Engineer Geek 6/Engineer 5/Engineseer 1

Ghork's survied, as did the last assistant.

Rokko will be running off with him to morgrave as his new assistant.

Valessa

Spoiler:

I need to ask, since I ain't sure how much Eberron lore you know... do you realize who the younger elf you spoke to was?


Female Human (Aundairian) Rogue 3 / Ranger 1

Dragonmann:

Spoiler:
My Eberron lore is not great. Aeren … doesn’t ring any bells. Although its just occurred to me that the elven continent is called Aerenal, so I’m going to guess he’s pretty important… Would Valessa know?

Liberty's Edge

Male Engineer Geek 6/Engineer 5/Engineseer 1
Valessa Marr wrote:
Dragonmann: ** spoiler omitted **

Spoiler:

Aeren is the guy who lead the revolution... and you spent a few days talking to him...

Valessa would probably need a DC 25 or so history check to know the name Aeren, and DC more to figure out if that was THE Aeren

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