on traps, liches and standing stones

 

Chuck

 

We dried off and smacked merit around for jumping to the pool without checking, who jumps into a pool in the middle of a tower?  , we searched the room and found some information on the plane shifter we were looking for and found that  he was likely an Eladrin, but we were not sure. We slowly and quietly walked to the 2^nd floor and saw nothing there. It was another big floor with 4 rooms on the sides filled with books on various subjects, on eladrin and other subjects. I went to check the other room which held a big bad and crept closer and saw something odd with one of the floor boards. I told the rest to hang back and manage to disarm a lightning trap that would fry us bad had I not noticed, luck (or skill), we kept looking in the room which must have held something important if it’s worth guarding with trap and then I noticed another trap, 2 traps must be something good, this one was a poison needle , a deadly prick indeed. And behind a tiny chamber we found a chest with a strange rock, a flute and a book radiating with magic next to a star map, we did not know how to use yet but it seems like valuable treasure.

 

We walked up to the 3^rd floor and came across a huge beast of a skeleton in a big lizard form, a dragolich. This huge lizard of bone and stinky flesh stood high looking down on us in a cocky and  self assured manner. There is not much room to talk when you meet the undead, you either kill them, be killed, or worse, die and become undead yourself (unless that is your thing) we chose option A. the lich tried option B and summoned a shadow servant, the servant magically made the area dark and made it hard to see and debone the lich, but we managed by placing it in a wall of firing and forcing it to remain there till it burned to death. The problem with liches is that they don’t truly die, we have not seen the end of this lich, we modified the traps we found a floor below and placed them in the large window the lich used to enter the tower, it will not stop the lich, but it will feel nice to hit it with its own weapon.

 

We searched the room when the darkness went away and didn’t see anything hidden except the large obvious circle in the side of the room, a teleporter.

 

Buglago

It was obvious to me where this portal was leading and I dint think twice and stepped in, the rest came soon after and we found ourselves in the standing stones, on the floating island above the tower. Huge stones we all around and we were on an island about 40 ft in diameter and 4 smaller islands around it, we didn’t have to wait long to be attached by more beast of air and mud, I pushed one of them off the island and It fell down and crashed , the rest we slew by sword in the usual way.

It was time to find the plane shifter.  In the middle of the island stood a large stone with special markings on it, it took us time to discover that the marking were similar to the markings on the small rock we found on at the chest below. It was night and the star were shining and again after research we manage to find a code in the star map based on the star and another portal opened, we went in and found ourselves in a huge dark cave, instead of reaching the plane shifter we found our self in the huge underground land of under dark.

 

 

After leaving 1 Githankey alive to shadow us, we took both rafts and rowed towards callydyr , the major city on the north isle on moonshey. The lying weasel of the mind flyer told us that the standing stones we searched for were to the south, that was obvious, but where? We should have killed the creature at sea, too bad we hadn’t. we researched the local library and ask around and received a general direction of the standing stones to a valley deep in the mountains. One special thing we did was to spread a rumor about the red dragon we met, saying that he was weak, cowardly and we named him the pink dragon, a major insult, hoping this will get the dragon away from his lair and attack us in the open , not in his extra protected cave, is it smart to antagonize a dragon, only time will tell. after a much needed nights rest at the inn , we left the town and started the long arduous climb.



We walked most of the day in a decent pace but without rushing too much, though we lost a few days due to the kraken and we were in a race for honor against the expedition to the southern island , and we had no clue of their location or progress.



Legazy

I love the mountains, It reminds me of home, the chill of the air and the obvious sense of immediate danger and indeed not too long we heard the sounds of large creatures approaching us, their large hairy bodies with big horned head stood well above average human sized, that’s ok, I am also taller. About eight of them came up closer on the snowy path, some were bigger than others, one of the sampler minotaur’s spoke in a deep voice, why have you invaded our land? The other team members rambled on saying we are headed for the standing stones, we mean no harm, we only want to pass and other nonsense , I don’t really care, but the discussion took too long and these minotaurs asked for money to allow passage, no way. I came up to the head bull and said “I am legazy bitch, and If you don’t back off and give us money I will kill the your entire group, then find your herd and kill your young ones, move out of my way”. I don’t know if its my tone or my necklace with the ears of all the creature we slayed but they backed off, gave us money and went on their way. No body takes money from me, I am legazy.



buglago

We continued and reached ancient elven ruins plagued with elemental undead, you cannot reason with the undead, they don’t listen very often so we had to make them real dead, ruins are not what they used to , we assumed this area was pillaged before since we didn’t find anything and kept going till we saw an unusual sight.



A 3 floor tower stood and on the air above it hovered a weird land island in mid air. When we approached the tower, we saw a creature made completely of earth, it was huge and bulky and looked like a tower of mud, smaller creatures similar looking stood all around us. None of us moved and neither did the creatures. We approached slowly without hostile maneuvers and the big mud guy spoke in a strange language, we did not understand what it said. The mindflayer which was still our hostage\guide spoke saying he understands the mud beast. We had no choice but to trust the mind flayer who talked to the beast in the strange language and translated to us that the beast will gourd the tower against unlawful entry but there anyone who can break the code will come in unharmed. The code was a riddle on the tower door and we cracked it in minutes, spoke the code and the door opened, the mud creatures left the area without fighting us and we went in. this was the tower of the plane shifter we were sure of it but it was time to find out.



Merit

We walked in to the tower and into a spacious lit room with no one inside, there were rooms on both side and in the center of the room, a pool. We were so stinky from the long voyage, the sweat of fighting and the stanch of undead; I didn’t think twice and I dove in. no one told me there may be things inside the water; these water elementals, creatures of pure water energy emerged from the pool and without delay attacked us all; a few minutes later none of needed the pool since we were all soaking wet and the elementals were no more, we turned them to water dust...

Buglago
We left the dragon lair still in one peace but with our money still with us, we buried the remains of the captain and walked back to the village, hoping to find a ship that will take us to the moonshei islands. The village that we left just a day ago was now in complete disarray, bodies were everywhere, with holes in their heads and brain matter was spilled out, a very gory display even for us who live on death and fighting. Flies were surrounding some of the corpses that simply lay there in the burning sun. we looked around for survivors in this mayhem and found one, the drunken and smelly chief who filled in the blanks on recent events. It was the mindflayer ; the creature we sent back as a prisoner to the village; the villagers wanted to eat it and put it on the fire, but the mindflayer is treaky, managed to get away and ran amok and kill every one. The chief was shattered and wailing between sips of nasty home brew. Again we helped buried the mindless dead, then headed towards the shore and the boats. The village had only 2 boats but one was missing, so we hopped on the one that was left, it was a big raft, so there was room for us all including the war forge who was now the captain, and the wailing chief who was still crying. We picked up the oars and headed west. We hoped that this time we would not encounter another Kraken. The kraken can devour us all in such a small raft. We took our time in the raft as we needed to rest up, but we still had good easterly wind and we made good time with only two of us rowing. After several hours we noticed another boat in the horizon and we all joined the oars to catch up. As we slowly approached we noticed a red cape over a single human sized creature, a few minutes later we were sure. It was the mindflayer, his ugly tentacle face was showing fear as we closed the gap. We kept coming closer, reading for battle, we debated burning him out of the water or killing him and take the boat.

Zillah
We were almost on top of it, we could see the fear in his slimy eyes when all of a sudden a flying ship appeared out of nowhere, its astral form half visible. The little floating raft seemed not to notice us, which was very odd and headed straight to the mind flier. This was a Githyanki ship, the Githyanki used to be slaves for the mindflyers, now they are slavers and traders but they vowed to avenge their ancestors by killing all mind flyers. We didn’t particularly care about the life and death of the mindflyers, but no one will take our pray away from us and we charged the Githyanki who were noticing us now, but slightly too late and we slayed them all but one. Parley he shouted, parley, who cares about that, I want blood. But my friends agreed to talks and the wimpy Githyanki told us about his rivalry with the mind flayer. The mind flier was in my head still from the previous fight and he told us that he knows the way to the standing stones, which was the location of the plane shifter and the goal of our current mission. We knew it was lying through his ugly mouth, but we weren’t sure, so we struck a deal with both of them. The mind flier, we called it bob would lead us to the standing stones and if he lied we would turn him in to the last Githyanki who would be following us from a distance. This is a deal neither bob or the Githyanki much liked , but I don’t really care. With possession of 2 boats now, we reach the town of laraka at the moonshei islands.