After another couple of weeks suffering through complaints of Dregnoth abusing the townsfolk, Varalla told Nedok to take his latest problem to the party in order to get them out of town again. The wemic High Priest of Torm told the party that a very large black dragon had razed a new temple to Torm that was being constructed in the wemic village of Answith to the south. The party inspected the battle site with Immeral finding a dragon scale on the ground that Kargin used to scry the dragon’s location. They teleported in and began to investigate. when the dragon attempted a fly by attack Rorek promptly split it in half with his axe causing the dragons protection to teleport it away. Continuing into the lair, the party suddenly finds the air in the entire place turned to water. After seeing that it gave the party no real problem the dragon cause it to change into acid. Whlie the party was adjusting to that, the dragon began its attacks. The party eventually dispatched the dragon earning 1028 XP each.

Dec 11th, 2019 - 1,500 XP per character

Continuing down the hall past the room with the pudding. Kargin had Rorek open the first in the hall. Inside they saw another Necronaut. It did not seem to react to the door opening, so the party closed the door again. The next door i the hall way opened into a room ull of bones. Dregnoth estimated a few hundred swarven skeletons were collected int he room. In the back of the room was a small heap of bones that seemed to glow with enchantments. Kargin sent in Rorek to check it out. Rorek did what a good dwarven fighter would do. he attempted to smash it. Unfortunately for him, some type of force barrier spang into place and the bones were undamaged. At this point the pile pulled itself together to reveal a skeletal being that Dregnoth identified as a Rakshasa. As the turn progressed, the party dispelled the barrier and then proceeded to turn the undead being into a pile of bone bits. Rorek atempted to finished it off after the rest of the party beat it down a bit, but his final strike seemed to hit nothing as the Rakshasa seemed to melt into the floor. It reappeared in the corner of the room a moment later. This time Dregnoth gave it a closer look, then blurted out, “I don’t have any lich parts yet.” He then attempted to dispel the magics on the lich, but some type of contingency kicked in an whisked it away. The party stood patiently by while Dregnoth collected bones. Hoping the lich would return to the room.

@halfgiant said in October 16, 2019 - Black Pudding: Correction: Epic Black Pudding - and now Dregnoth has enough pudding reagents for 10 lifetimes. It was actually barely modified from the book. But yes, of course it was tweaked a little bit.

Exploring the caverns starting with the lower most, the party encountered some traps and Kargin managed to disable them. They encountered and defeated the dragon. The party 1700 earned XP each.

So no exp … interesting, thats how we playin it.

After defeating the Goblin Champions, the party continued into the large cavern coming to a large 80’ diameter vertical shaft (not a volcano!!). Immeral, Gruzar, and Ceasar waited on the ledge while Dregnoth and Onaga flew up and found that it curved as it went, eventually losing sight of the party. Kargin and Rorek flew down and Kargin spotted some runes glowing faintly on one side of the shaft, jsut opposite and above another tunnel leading off the shaft. Flying too close to the runes, many of them explodes in various spell effects. Undaunted, Kargin and Rorek continued to descend setting off even more, stronger effects. … Quick notes to form into story: Frog dropped a frog, Dregs dispelled, dragon attacked, frog fastballed Immeral, rorek waited for Kargin to lock down the dragon before failing to kill it, immeral finished it off. An hour later, Dregs and Gruzar were halfway done removing the runes when suddenly the remaining runes all went off at once. The last to go was a MD. The party was awarded 2100XP each

Well Kargin could probably make Rorek some haste/speed boots, i think Rorek still has some cash left over, maybe next time when we make it back to V’Ral.

After a 6 month break to train and gear up the party is getting restless (aka Kargin needs more money to make gear). So they head over to the dwarven mountain on the island previously visited. Drinking at the bar, one of the mine managers tells them they been having a problem in chamber 546, but don’t know what as no one has returned. The party goes down and finds 2 Meriliths and 4 Hezrou. They kill some and force the rest ot flee. They are awarded 11,200 XP each.

Following direction from the stone tell, the party went down the southeast guard tower to the lower level where the beholder “generals” were. Opening the door, they were great by a room about 30’ across with a floor 150’ down, curving inward the entire time. Obviously this room follows the lower half of the sphere room that the Sphere of Annihilation was traversing. The inner walls are covered in script. The script/runes seem to be glowing and fading for reasons the party has no time to investigate as they also see a number of huge beholders. Battle ensues and the party eventually manages to kill the two closest to the door they opened.

The party continued to loot/explore the B1 level of the dome. After a while the casters noticed that one of the teleportation chambers was activating. Kargin stood at the ready and flat incinerated the beholders as they teleported in. The party continued searching and cleaned out a few more rooms and then were attacked from in front and behind by a massive force of beholder guards. Fighters all charged to one group and mutilated them. the other group was ambushed by Kargin with an over powered acidic fireball. The party was awarded 7000xp each. They ransacked the rest of B1 and then used stone tell to talk to the stones and fing out where the Generals were ont he B2 level.

The party continued their exloration of the Temple sphere with the Dregnoth clone. Dregnoth tells them he has to go meet Behayla and get his gear back, and then deal with the mother beholder. The party goes back down to the first floor and Dregnoths wanders around the hallway looking for Behayla. Finding her, he gets his gear back and teaches her how to open the doors. Then heads back to the party after she goes up a guard tower. The party finds a door with a passage heading down and takes it to a new level with better rooms. Raiding these rooms the party finds a good amount of treasure, but few beholders. One door was trapped with a Prismatic Spray that everyone resisted except Immeral, who was sent to another plane. THey also find a number of large empty rooms glowing of magic but ignore them after they cannot easily figure out what they are. Evenutally the party opens one of the big rooms to fina a large party of beholders floating there. Kargin unloads two wands of maximized fireball into the room which triggers some mechanism and the room teleports all the beholders somewhere else. The party was awarded 2000 XP each.

The party decided to dimension door into a guard tower surprising 4 beholder guards. They handily destroy them and then float up through the floors to the 4th floor where they found runs marking an exit. They decide to ignore it and continue up to to the top of the tower. Reaching the 7th floor, they find no more passages up and have Ceasar Slaad bust through the wall. The party head southwest and then into the south tunnel heading to the inner ring. The inner ring is covered in antimagic. After the party wanders around a full circle, they have Ceasar Slaad break a hole from the southwest. The part tosses a continual light bullet in and it does light up. and fall for quite a distance before wining out as it seemed to go towards the middle. Onaga flies in and scouts the chamber finding the party seems to be near the top of the dome. He casts arcane sight and sees a column of nothignness in the center of the space. he brings in a continual light bullet and attempts to stick it into the column. He drops the continual light bullet in the anti-magic column it drops straight out of vision without ever lighting up. Climbing down over 300’ the wall begins to curve inward. Eventually the party climbs to the bottom. They do a little testing with a 10’ pole and eventually it is severed. Kargin notices that the sphere seems to be moving up and downthe center core of the space and send a message back to the Obelisk in V`Ral to let Sorvani know they found the Sphere of Annihilation. The obelisk takes the call and force connects the call to Sorvani while he is in the gods’ room under V`Ral. Downloading all the information over the telephathinc link, Sorvani and gods (Roland, Torm, Mystra, & Damien/Reorx) force transport and geas the “sane” Dregnoth to gain control of the Sphere and bring it back to V`ral. Game will resume with the party determining how to kill the mother beholder and escape before BehAyla finds the mother beholder. herself.

Game on y’all.

Game on all!

Game on folks!

Game on!

Sorry folks I got stuck driving down to St. Louis late last night and I am heading home now.

Game is happening. running behind, but game is happening.

I was flooded out due to a burst pipe. Will be moving stuff back into our house tomorrow finally.