WLD on OpenRPG - Dec 28, 2005
After missing last week’s game due to my eldest son’s Christmas concert, we were back in full force this week.
Present this week were:
* Riamara - loresong faen greenbond
* Cinner - dwarven rogue
* Rosco - deep halfling barbarian
* Miru - human fighter
* Valik - dwarven wizard
After last week’s pitiful battle with the orcs, the party rested up. A door of light appeared and Valik fell through it. After some initial suspicion on both sides, Valik agreed to join the party.
After a very brief encounter with a darkmantle, they found a room with a swirling oblong vortex of black and red, pulsing with eldritch energy. Valik felt that he could close it with a bit of concentration, but before he could begin a man with a ratlike face, Longtail, came down the hallway toward them shouting that they should leave that alone.
The party immediately moved into attack mode. Rosco and Riamara struck at Longtail, but didn’t affect him. Longtail responded by zapping Rosco, Riamara, and Miru with lightning.
Valik enlarged Rosco while Miru jumped Longtail using her newly improved grappling skills. Rosco and Cinner both missed the rat-man. Riamara hit him with an icebolt. Longtail cast a spell to aid him in his escape, but it didn’t help much.
Valik returned to studying the portal. Miru pinned Lontail, but got bitten by him in the process. Rosco and Cinner both missed due to Longtail’s shield spell.
The next round went much the same way, but this time Cinner managed to hit Longtail.
Valik took a swing at Longtail and missed. Miru tried for Longtail’s spell component pouch but failed to tear it from him. An imp appeared suddenly and started attacking Riamara with a vicious dexterity draining poision. Rosco missed completely while Cinner’s axe failed to do any damage. Riamara healed Miru up a bit and Longtail managed to free his muzzle from Miru’s powerful grip.
Valik helped Rosco with his aim and Miru grabbed Longtail’s mouth again. The imp hit Riamara again, but she resited the poison’s effects. Something went crunch as Rosco smashed Longtail. Cinner’s axe barely nicked the rat-man. Riamara tried to mind-stab the imp, but failed. Longtail thrashed about but failed to escape.
Valik tried to close the portal, but failed. Miru managed to grab Longtail’s spell component pouch and tossed it into the darkness.
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The fight with Longtail was a lot of fun. Everybody had something to do - Miru kept him down, Rosco and Cinner swung at him, Riamara fought the imp and Valik tried to close the portal. The party did very well. I’m really looking forward to running Region E.
There were all kinds of technical glitches - nobody could log onto our regular server, I stopped being able to see anyone ’s responses midway through combat, fog was still giving problems. Everybody is going to try to do a fresh install of 1.6.3 before next week. Hopefully that cleans things up.