Just a quick note . . . I'm going to take down this blog and re-start a new blog. a bit larger in scope. centering not on just gaming, but a few bit more of my interests. Furthermore, once it's set up, I plan on keeping to a schedule of posting at least once a week.
So here's hoping I can keep to my goals.
31.3.09
9.11.08
Favors for Pharasma
In our Rise of the RuneLords game, we had left off having just resurrected Nekosse. Knowing that we didn't have the strength to beat the Golem with a Scythe in the bottom of the Tower, the group decided that we needed our characters to level up a bit.
We asked the church of Pharasma, where Nekosse had been saved, if there was anything we could do for them. (Gotta love farming that XP) They had two things that we could accomplish for them.
The first was to go into the golemworks and investigate a shut down area of one of the factories. apparently there had been an explosion at some point and the basement had been sealed off. Now, there were sounds coming from down in the basement and some suspected undead as the reason. The Pharasmans would go themselves, but with a sudden outbreak of a plague of some kind in far off Korvosa, their resources were spread rather tight.
The second item was to investigate a cemetary where the remains of recent murder victims were rising as undead. While getting information on the two jobs, Nekosse got bored and started looking through items in the priests office at random, unintentionally breaking stuff. "All the big words confuse me. Just tell me where to swing hammer" or something to that effect.
The group decides on searching the golemworks, and heads off in that direction. once there, Fagin takes point and demands of the first person he sees "Where's the basement with all the undead?" Completely ignoring and disregarding anything resembling tact or politeness. After several minutes of questions, the workers Fagin was asking figure out what he's refering to, ask him for verification and fagin responded with something to the effect of "Yes, we've been taling about that this whole time! you're just now figuring that out? geeze, how stupid are you?"
We get directed to the right factory and the right basement. We begin to explore and find some corpses propped up as if they were still supposed to be doing their job. A secretary at a front desk, a few workers standing at work stations . . . and the like.
Once we find the furnance in the basement the source of the noise becomes evident. some of the workers were so dedicsted to their jobs they kept working after death. They just continued making golems in their shambling, undead state. They turned to us, and pointed, speaking in a raspy voice "You're not supposed to be here." and then they charged.
The ghoul/zombie type undead seemed quite resistant to fire/flames/heat and even seemed to generate ambient heat damage when you got up in their face. Finnegan summoned a Celestial Bison to help fight and it could barely fit through the hallways.
When one of the undead went down, something suprizing occured. It seems that for this particular type of dedicated worker doesn't like getting told he's fired, and therefore explodes apoun destruction. They don't just hit the people in melee with them with this explosion, there's a 30 foot Radius to their explosion. Radius, not Diameter. To paraphrase a bit, "Looks like we're gonna need a bigger blast template!". And it hurt, 5d10 fire damage with a Reflex Save of 18 . . . I mean these types of underhanded, painfully suprizes are stuff I'd expect from my buddy Annialus.
The Rest of the fight took on a slightly different tactic as we tried to determine a way to whittle down the hp of the two remaining "Blast Shadows" (as the GM later told us) while not wanting to be in the blast radius when it went down. At one point, Felroth was down to 4 HP, and standing right next to the BS, and he had the coice to attack or run.
It's funny, just as a quick aside, since 4e came out, even though this particular campaign is 3.5/PRPG, we sometimes use 4e terms for a matter of convenience. "Bloodied" is a great term regardless of what system I think.
So Felroth could either strike the killing blow, and go out with it, or run to safety . . . yeah, no suprise there.
After we finished off the undead. We met with the Supervisor of the Factory, he thanked us for clearing out their basement, and offered us each some money as a reward. Lula bypassed the money and instead put it toward a down payment on a custom made golem for herself. Nekosse just asked for Mithral that he'd be able to craft into armor (havling lost his armor in his death).
Then after checking back in with the temple of Pharasma, they thanked us for our assistance, and we stated that we'd head off to the graveyard where the victims of the murders were coming back from the grave. The Church insisted we did not need to, but the party thought "Why Not".
We get to the graveyard to find it littered with skeletons, we pulverize the skellies with little to no effort, Finnegan summoning another Celestial Bull. THen after exploring the area slightly, we came across some ghouls.
Taking out the Ghouls took a little bit of work, but between Nekosse, Lula and Lila they were destroyed. By that time, what looked like a funeral procession had showed up to the graveyard and as it turns out it was just the Brotherhood of the Six, lead by the elf Ironbriar we'd spoken to last session. that fight took a bit longer, with him constantly changing his appearance to look like a different memeber of the party.
he was obvoiusly the leader of the Six, and the Bull had fun stampeding over the remaining members after Iron Briar went down.
We asked the church of Pharasma, where Nekosse had been saved, if there was anything we could do for them. (Gotta love farming that XP) They had two things that we could accomplish for them.
The first was to go into the golemworks and investigate a shut down area of one of the factories. apparently there had been an explosion at some point and the basement had been sealed off. Now, there were sounds coming from down in the basement and some suspected undead as the reason. The Pharasmans would go themselves, but with a sudden outbreak of a plague of some kind in far off Korvosa, their resources were spread rather tight.
The second item was to investigate a cemetary where the remains of recent murder victims were rising as undead. While getting information on the two jobs, Nekosse got bored and started looking through items in the priests office at random, unintentionally breaking stuff. "All the big words confuse me. Just tell me where to swing hammer" or something to that effect.
The group decides on searching the golemworks, and heads off in that direction. once there, Fagin takes point and demands of the first person he sees "Where's the basement with all the undead?" Completely ignoring and disregarding anything resembling tact or politeness. After several minutes of questions, the workers Fagin was asking figure out what he's refering to, ask him for verification and fagin responded with something to the effect of "Yes, we've been taling about that this whole time! you're just now figuring that out? geeze, how stupid are you?"
We get directed to the right factory and the right basement. We begin to explore and find some corpses propped up as if they were still supposed to be doing their job. A secretary at a front desk, a few workers standing at work stations . . . and the like.
Once we find the furnance in the basement the source of the noise becomes evident. some of the workers were so dedicsted to their jobs they kept working after death. They just continued making golems in their shambling, undead state. They turned to us, and pointed, speaking in a raspy voice "You're not supposed to be here." and then they charged.
The ghoul/zombie type undead seemed quite resistant to fire/flames/heat and even seemed to generate ambient heat damage when you got up in their face. Finnegan summoned a Celestial Bison to help fight and it could barely fit through the hallways.
When one of the undead went down, something suprizing occured. It seems that for this particular type of dedicated worker doesn't like getting told he's fired, and therefore explodes apoun destruction. They don't just hit the people in melee with them with this explosion, there's a 30 foot Radius to their explosion. Radius, not Diameter. To paraphrase a bit, "Looks like we're gonna need a bigger blast template!". And it hurt, 5d10 fire damage with a Reflex Save of 18 . . . I mean these types of underhanded, painfully suprizes are stuff I'd expect from my buddy Annialus.
The Rest of the fight took on a slightly different tactic as we tried to determine a way to whittle down the hp of the two remaining "Blast Shadows" (as the GM later told us) while not wanting to be in the blast radius when it went down. At one point, Felroth was down to 4 HP, and standing right next to the BS, and he had the coice to attack or run.
It's funny, just as a quick aside, since 4e came out, even though this particular campaign is 3.5/PRPG, we sometimes use 4e terms for a matter of convenience. "Bloodied" is a great term regardless of what system I think.
So Felroth could either strike the killing blow, and go out with it, or run to safety . . . yeah, no suprise there.
After we finished off the undead. We met with the Supervisor of the Factory, he thanked us for clearing out their basement, and offered us each some money as a reward. Lula bypassed the money and instead put it toward a down payment on a custom made golem for herself. Nekosse just asked for Mithral that he'd be able to craft into armor (havling lost his armor in his death).
Then after checking back in with the temple of Pharasma, they thanked us for our assistance, and we stated that we'd head off to the graveyard where the victims of the murders were coming back from the grave. The Church insisted we did not need to, but the party thought "Why Not".
We get to the graveyard to find it littered with skeletons, we pulverize the skellies with little to no effort, Finnegan summoning another Celestial Bull. THen after exploring the area slightly, we came across some ghouls.
Taking out the Ghouls took a little bit of work, but between Nekosse, Lula and Lila they were destroyed. By that time, what looked like a funeral procession had showed up to the graveyard and as it turns out it was just the Brotherhood of the Six, lead by the elf Ironbriar we'd spoken to last session. that fight took a bit longer, with him constantly changing his appearance to look like a different memeber of the party.
he was obvoiusly the leader of the Six, and the Bull had fun stampeding over the remaining members after Iron Briar went down.
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