October 1, 2005 Session Summary
Well, we actually got to game again yesterday. It was a very weird session.
First off, there were a LOT of interruptions. People kept phoning, and they were phone calls that had to be taken. Add in the interruptions with the kids and supper and we probably played for an hour or so of the seven we were there.
Second, there were almost no dice used. The PCs started out leaving Ebonring Keep, so they did a quick sneack check to avoid agents of the other shadow dragon. They gave the Shadowstaff to Tyrus as the second part of the payment for his resurrection of the warmain. He gave them their last task, retrieving The Book of Obscure Names from House Vladaam.
They returned to the city of Atarin where they had gone through the Banewarrens 10 levels earlier. They checked in with people they had dealt with before, Brother Fabitor of the Church of Lothian and Jevica Norr of the Inverted Pyramid, and caught up with what had been happening in the city. They decided to sell the Ebonring to the Inverted Pyramid so that the Inverted Pyramid could study it.
At the end of the evening, they headed into their only fight of the session. They tried to be diplomatic with Navanna Vladaam, but that didn’t work out too well. “You want to see our library? Sure, here we have a complete set of ‘Lives of the Great Accountants’, first edition, uncut. Over here we have the only known in depth study of Bugs of the Sword Coast… Other books are kept in our private libraries and you’re not getting in to see those.”
The PCs left, buffed up, and bluffed their way back in. We ended the session after they’d killed off a couple of low level guards and were in hot pursuit of Navanna as she fled. The magic user used telekinesis to pull Navanna’s headband off when Navanna tried to use it to dimension door out of a grapple. Navanna managed to flee after the house wards bypassed the warmain’s spell resistance by 2 points and convinced him he should leave.
Now to see what happens when House Vladaam’s full defenses activate…