WLD March 1, 2006
Thursday, March 9th, 2006
Present this week were:
* Cinner - dwarven rogue
* Riamara - loresong faen greenbond
* Ruke - human paladin
* Miru – human fighter
The skittering of little feet turned out to be two massive swarms of scorpions. Cinner enlarged Ruke, then stepped back. The scorpions swarmed over Ruke, who crushed dozens of the creatures as hundreds of them crawled over his body. The scorpions crawling over Ruke nauseated him so that he couldn’t attack and had to fall back. Miru managed to wipe out another dozen scorpions as more pressed in to attack.
Cinner threw alchemists fire at the scorpions, but hardly any were burned. Meanwhile Riamara boosted Miru’s strength. The scorpions crawl over Cinner and Miru - the swarm seemed to be healing itself - some that were down and wounded rose up and rejoined the fight. Miru resisted their poison, but the dozens of tiny stings send poison through Cinner’s veins. Ruke continued to battle nausea. Miru fought her way through the stings, biting her lip. “Let’s find a place to recoup for a second!” She took a parting stab at the swarm she’s standing in, and moved back.
Cinner and Riamara fell back as the scorpions moved forward. Ruke’s mighty attack on the swarm moving towards him split the swarm in two. Cinner, Miru and Ruke were all hit by the vermins’ poison. Ruke hit a might blow causing the surviving scorpions to scuttle away into the dark corners. One solitary scorpion died at the point of Miru’s spear, leaving the hundreds more free to attack.
More scorpions crackled and burned as Cinner’s alchemist’s fire hit them. Riamara healed Miru and Ruke blasted another swarm into oblivion. The final swarm moved closer to Cinner, attracted by the smell of his dead rats. Cinner fell unconscious as the scorpions swept over him. Ruke spit out some blood from his mouth that had collected from the poison in him, rounded the corner swinging hard at the last swarm, but hit the wall instead. Miru moved over, trying to save Cinner from an unfortunate demise as she continued to skewer scorpions.
Riamara managed to heal Cinner as the scorpions poured off of his body to attack Miru. A wave of terror from watching Cinner fall swept over everyone. Ruke’s presence bolster’s Miru’s courage, but Riamara fled screaming. Ruke once again split the scorpion swarm in two as Miru succumbed to nausea from having the creatures crawl over her.
Cinner blasted the scorpions with more alchemist’s fire as Riamara continued to run. Cinner wiped out one swarm just as it was about to overwhelm him and Ruke took out the last one. The aftereffects of the poison almost killed Cinner, but thanks to a potion of lesser restoration, he survived to fight another day.
After catching up with Riamara, the party returned to the celestials for healing. Sanjid was less than pleased to see more people in need of his services. From here the party fought some spiders in an old armory, found some monuments to those who had fallen in battle, and killed a couple of centipedes in a room with a healing fountain.
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I got a little bored with the easy vermin encounters so I threw in an apocalypse swarm of scorpions. It worked really well – lots of tense moments but nobody died.