WLD Feb 8, 2006
Present this week were:
* Cinner - dwarven rogue
* Riamara - loresong faen greenbond
* Ruke - human paladin
* Valik - dwarven wizard
* Kevgretor - dwarven cleric
* Miru - human fighter
After resting up following their fight with Morat, the party awoke to something pounding on the door to the north. Upon opening the door they found what looked like a short stocky elf with silver hair and rainbow eyes and a human in full plate. After confirming that they were responsible for killing the barghests, Doj, the celestial, asked if they’d seen another celestial with a mighty sword. Miru showed him Rosco’s holy longsword. Doj took this as confirmation that his mate, Sensil was dead. This hit him hard and he asked Ruke, the paladin accompanying him, to take the sword while he went to seek his mate’s body. Miru requested that Doj bless Rosco’s body. Doj said a prayer and pointed a wand at Rosco’s corpse. The corpse began to shine with light and became as bright as the sun. When the party could look again, it was gone.
As he was about to leave, Doj notice that staff that Riamara was carrying. He examined it and proclaimed it one of the wardstaves. Ruke proceeded to lead the party to the celestial’s leader, Kelara. Kelara was thrilled to get one of the wardstaves back. Cinner found Besar to be agreeable enough and they started chatting and swapping recipes for the creatures they’d encountered. Kelara told the party that the inevitables have decided to use whatever creatures they can conscript to fight evils. She pointed the party in the direction of some of the other wardstaves and gave them a number of weapon-enhancing oils to assist them and to thank them for returning one of the wardstaves.
The Holy Swarm, a group of celestial formians, had one of the wardstaves. Cinner recalled seeing the symbol for the Holy Swarm on one of the doors he checked, so the party headed off in that direction. There was a brief fight with some shadows where Ruke bore the brunt of their attack. Then they found room after room full of dead formians.
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Wow, this was a great session for roleplaying! Given that this is a massive dungeon crawl, we tend towards letting the dice do the talking. Until the fight with the shadows at the end, it was almost all talk. I’m hoping to set something like this up in every region to give those who like more drama a treat. We’ll see how that works out. This is one case where my typing/improvisational speed is a real bottleneck though as I can’t set up the responses ahead of time.