Campaign.02 or Can everyone say level up?

10/23/07


Last night was amazing. I don’t know that I will be able to recount all of the details due complexity of the adventure. Let me just say that the experience points we got last night were well deserved and hard earned.

The evening began with our prayers being answered. Yes, the great Jonathan Marshall graced us with his presence and let me tell you that his actions last night earned him his chosen name, Flame, no matter how dumb that name is.

The action begins with Molotov telling the holy trio from last week (Russell, Cibo and Roget) of a group of hobgoblins and goblins that are fortified and causing problems in an area to the north. He tells them to go forth and defeat the evil. They agree and head north after gearing up.

On the trail to the north they ran into a young Druid named Flame. They asked him if he has any knowledge as to the whereabouts of the group of Hobgoblins and their minions.
Flame says he has seen them in a fortress a short distance from where the group was and agreed to take them there. What was three then becomes four.

The foursome headed up through a heavily forested area until they were within in sight of the goblin fortress. Under cover they could spot two large hobgoblins and four average goblins. Each was armed to the teeth. At this point the goblins were completely unaware of the four heroes so the group decided to try a surprise ranged attack. Cibo being the only one with a weapon capable of reaching the goblin fortress drew back his bow and shot an arrow at one of the two hobgoblins. The arrow glanced off the hobgoblins shield doing little damage to anything more than the safety of there location. Luckily from where the goblin gang was they could only see Flame. Completely unaware that he was not the only attacker all six villains came charging toward the band of adventurers.

Still beyond the range of magic or melee weapons Russell and Roget could only prepare their attacks and wait. And wait they did until just the right moment and then Whammo!!! Russell hit the goblins with a color spray spell. Hitting the two hobgoblins and one of the smaller goblins and stopping them dead in their tracks. Quickly Roget hit the bigger of the two hobgoblins with a coup de tas using his long sword. The aggressive attack killed the hobgoblin instantly and at that very instant the newest member of the group cast an entangle spell calling forth the foliage and trapping the entire evil quintet in thick vines, grass and brush. At this point finishing them off was no problem and Cibo even got to make good by shooting one of the goblins through the eye. In addition Russell used acid splash very effectively melting the lower half of the remaining hobgoblin and Flame killed another goblin using his antler ended cudgel. Victory. Now on to the spoils. Many weapons and including a long sword and a number of javelins were divided among the group; there was also some gold and better armor. Even little Cibo got some armor. Cute.

The group decided that they should investigate the fortress for other loot. Once at the door Roget sensed a booby-trap just past the archway. He sprung the pendulum knife and let the large blade swing to a stop. They then entered the fortress following Russell’s newly introduced ‘familiar’ (his animal companion, like a raven or a rabbit). Russell’s familiar happened to be a toad. He used the same spell he used last week on the chicken to make a mobile light source.

About 50 feet into the cavernous space they could see that the space split into 3 chambers. There was one that went down to their left with a huge hole in it. The band of adventurers decided to explore the chamber to the right due the fact that there was a horrible stink coming from the main chamber straight ahead. The found that the chamber did not go very far and at the end they found 3 locked chests.
After a ridiculous number of attempts Roget was able to bash one of the chests open finding a nice set of metal armor. This bumped his armor class up to 19. Sweet, yes sweet indeed. Finding they could not open the other two chests they decided to head back and see what that stink was all about in the main chamber.

Suddenly to the left a blue boggle with threw something them and then teleported away. It was at this moment the group realized that a large monster called an otyugh was in the room with them. They decided that they should attack the beast. At first it seemed hopeless. Neither Cibo nor Russell was able to inflict any severe damage, luckily with a couple of high roles Roget and Flame brought the beast to its knees (or whatever this thing had that was like knees). It was a combined effort that would not have been possibly with out all members in the fight. In a lucky twist the keys to the other chests were found in the guts of the otyugh. While heading back to open them the boggle reappeared holding a satchel, Cibo quickly pulled back his bow and hit the boggle wounding it enough to make it retreat and drop the satchel that contained quite a bit of gold. More gold was discovered in the remaining chests. They bounty was divided evenly among all members.

Success again. This weeks adventure has proven that you can trust new friends. (Especially if you are graced with a ‘Sense Motive’ feat like myself that way no one can catch you off guard.) We will all be buy spells first thing next week so that should be exciting. Much was learned and we all leveled up. So now we are all second level.

It should be mentioned that DM, Sean’s girlfriend, Cait, really spiced things up with this weeks matt play by doing illustrations on the matt as thing appeared. Just great.