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We finished up The Bullywug Gambit last week, and the characters are now enjoying some downtime.
So, here are some thoughts on how the assault on the manor runs, and some amusing things my players have gotten up to.
The players hit the manor at full health and at Level 4. And it was dicey. I really liked the fact that they HAD to keep going. But Power Attack is just a killer. No one died, but there were some close calls. If the Jade Ravens hadn't been around to absorb hits from Drevoraz, it could have been bad.
I had Bua-Gorg summon a Dretch, which then proceeded to nauseate about 3/4 of the party. That was pretty nasty. He was then going to rebuke some of the necromancer's pets, but the Monk got to him first and that was the end of that. Grappling monks are nasty.
Chief Lorpth would have killed some people if Liamae hadn't gotten off her Charm Person. As it was, he was distracted for several rounds, but then they fought him anyway, once his minions were gone.
The players got a kick out of the huntress and her cigar-smoking frog lips. In fact, she is now a zombie named Frogger.
So now, the necromancer has quite a menagerie. Skeletor (i.e. Veldimar Krund, the invincible bone shield), Frogger the bullywug zombie, and Pet, the skeletal rust monster. There was an amusing sequence when he was trying to extract them from the Vanderboren manor. He ended up using Disguise Undead, to turn the rust monster into... a giant riding Ant. After Lavinia managed to get him past the guards cleanign up the mess in the manor, he paraded through the festive streets, a small olman shaman, riding a giant ant, flanked by 2 mute men. all covered in tattered cloaks. People gave him a wide berth.
Then we have another character who is a Courtesan. (we have great fun telling her all the time that she's just a fancy whore). She wanted to investigate the Lotus Dragon hideout again, to try to find proof of Heldrath Kellanis involvement. But, the Taxidermist's has been boarded up by the Sunrise Watch. So, she finds a guardsmen off duty, gets him drunk, and starts flirting with him. She is flailing about verbally, trying to think of a way to have him let her into the Taxidermist's. He wants to take her down to the docks, but she says "that sounds peacful. and sometimes thats nice. but I feel wild. like an animal". She eventually gets him into the Taxidermist's and proceeds to have sex with him in the middle of the showroom before heading off to check out the tunnels after he's passed out.
Later on she gets a custom made Heward's Handy Oversized Purse, because the standard model won't match her ladylike appearance.