Start of #Odal buffer: Thu Jul 10 21:40:27 2008 [18:31:01] * When we last left off, the party had opened the door at the bottom of the earthen ramp, and encountered a kobold priest with a metallic helmet flanked by two strange automata. As he notices you enter, he points and utters a command in a strange language which echoes in your minds: "Attack them!" The drones unfold themselves, ready to do his bidding [18:31:06] * Roll init, session start [18:37:36] [Paera's Turn] [18:39:17] * Charles changes topic to '[Paera] 17 [Xan] 16 [Eva] 8 [Eilenia] 7#' [18:40:29] * Eva_Kasnora is now known as Eve_Kasnora [18:43:01] [Xan's Turn] [18:43:04] * Paera hangs back, unsure. "What are THOSE?" [18:43:35] "I am not to be being sure." [18:44:16] How strange. [18:44:54] "I do not know, but I know better than to stand idly." he steps into the room extends his palms, a silver streak flying from them and towards each of the mechanical creatures. [18:46:15] * Xan grunts as the shots miss, but in-sync with one another and to the same degree. [18:48:56] * The first automata stands, and with a strange avian gait walks down the stairs by the edge of the dais. A small hatch opens up underneath and ejects a barbed quarrel, which grazes Xan's shoulder. [18:49:38] * Xan grunts. [18:51:46] * The wyrmpriest forms a ball of crackling electricity in his palm and throws it at Xan, but it passes by him easily. Pulling himself up onto the altar, the kobold bellows as well as it can in its reedy voice. "Leave Wyrmgear's home!" [18:51:56] [Eva [18:51:58] 's turn[ [18:53:17] "This is NOT his home!" [18:54:06] * Eve_Kasnora rushes forward past Xan and charges into the first odd creature, swinging both blades vertically down at it in an inelegant but powerful double-chop. [18:55:58] * Eve_Kasnora traded accuracy for power and pays for it, her swords clanging down against the floor, missing the automaton. [18:56:12] * The automata flips back on its jointed legs, deftly dodging the blows [18:56:39] [Eilenia's turn] [18:56:46] "You'r mechanical creatures will not harm any more innocents! This one will be destroyed by my hand!" [18:57:01] * Eve_Kasnora points with her shortsword at the automaton she missed. [18:59:54] * Eilenia steps forward, a fair distance behind Eve, and points her orb at the strange kobold. Blades of rainbow-colored force form around him, flying around with iridescent wings. [19:02:35] * The other automata trots to the stairs leading down from the dais and fires a bolt at Eilenia, hitting her solidly in the shoulder [19:02:48] * Eilenia tosses her orb very lightly and recatches it, and the daggers start cutting at the kobold and swarming angrily. [19:02:56] Augh! [19:08:37] * The wyrmpriest, writhing in the cloud of daggers, points at Eve. "*IS* my home!" [19:09:12] [Paera's turn] [19:09:42] * Paera follows behind Eve, pointing at the odd cube thing she's engaging. "You and your creatures have no right to take the land of others and call it your home." A column light descends on it from above. [19:10:02] * Eve_Kasnora looks behind her shoulder. "Wait, is he to be saying it is his home, or Wyrmgears?" [19:10:12] (It's a sphere) [19:10:23] (Yeah, monodrones are round) [19:10:52] (Oops.) [19:11:29] [Xan's turn] [19:13:49] * The automaton that Eve faces reels back and attempts to kick her, but doesn't manage to make much of an impact through her armor. [19:15:30] * Xan holds his palms together, intertwining two silvery bolts and firing them at the unoccupied monodrone, both of them whirring together in a drill-like motion, one flying wide and pinging into a wall, the other one landing. [19:16:32] * A small drake flickers into sight in the corner of the room and sails past Eve, making an attempts to jab her with its barbed tail, which skips off the back of her dwarven scale. [19:17:02] "Ha-ha! Dwarven Armor is best armor!" [19:17:24] * Eve_Kasnora mumbles about it standing to be more comfortable though. [19:17:40] * Charles changes topic to '[Merldron, Xan] 16 [Pseudodragon] 15 [Wyrmgear] 9 [Eva] 8 [Eilenia] 7 [Gandron, Paera] 6#' [19:19:57] * The wyrmpriest steps onto the altar, getting cut by the flying daggers as he moves up. He tosses another globe of electricity, at Eve this time, and it connects, leaving a smell of ozone and burned skin in the air. [19:20:43] [Eve's turn] [19:23:32] * Eve_Kasnora continues to swing at the mechanical sphere-creature ineffectually. [19:23:42] [Eilenia's turn] [19:26:15] [Paera's turn] [19:26:31] * Eilenia steps up closer and raises her orb. The feywild can be seen, and there's a flash of blue lightning. Then a crack of thunder in front of her lashes out, but misses the Wyrmpriest and drone before her. [19:26:50] * The eastern automata tries to kick at Eilenia, but she can see it coming and dodges out of the way with grace and ease [19:27:37] You are clumsy. [19:29:10] * Eilenia lets the daggers fade away into sparkles, which return to her orb. [19:31:44] * Paera prays quietly to herself, as light continues to rain down on the sphere-y thing. [19:34:41] * Wyrmgear points at the automata Eve is fighting. "Back! Fire!" The sphere hops back and looses another quarrel, which manages to drive through a joint in Eve's armor. [19:34:59] [Xan's turn] [19:41:43] * Xan turns to the newly appeared psuedodragon, palms out towards it, firing two silver shards at it, one hitting the creature deep at the joint of its wing [19:42:15] * The pseudodragon shrieks as it begins flying again, its movements belabored, and fades out of view [19:44:38] * Wyrmgear reels back and tosses another blast of electricity at Eve, but it sparks away in the air, not even reacing its targert [19:44:45] [Eve's turn] [19:46:57] * Eve_Kasnora hops onto of the table and hefts her blades. "Hah!" [19:47:12] * Eve_Kasnora immediately strikes at the monodrone with renewed vigor! [19:47:39] [Eilenia's turn] [19:47:47] * Eve_Kasnora misses wildly! [19:49:51] * Eilenia steps back a bit, and holds up her orb. A swarm of her rainbow-winged daggers flies out and surrounds the Kobold Wyrmpriest, trying to find an opening. [19:50:43] * Eilenia reaches to her side and pulls out an elegant eladrin-crafted longsword from its sheath. [19:51:00] * The automata follows Eilenia as she moves, landing a dreadfully solid kick to her ribs. There's an audible crack as it lands. [19:51:38] [Paera's turn] [19:56:20] * Paera turns towards Eilenia's attacker, eyes narrowing angrily. "You shouldn't have done that." Light blazes and strikes from above. [19:57:19] * Paera whispers a quick prayer as her attack misses. Eili's pain eases. [19:59:29] * The monodrone fires at Eve again, despite being in dangerous proximity to her. [20:02:23] * Eve_Kasnora swings her broad sword around as it takes just a bit too long to line up the shot, her sword sparking against it's metal body as it rends a gash in it, sending a few interior gears and springs flying away from it's sphereoid body. [20:02:44] * Despite the blow, the automata fires off the arrow, which slides through her armor and sticks deep into her leg. The creature begins to sag, its armor cracked and odd ichor dripping from within [20:03:14] [Xan's turn] [20:03:23] * Eve_Kasnora gruns, almost falling to a knee, and sags as well, blood flowing down her leg. [20:04:16] * Xan looks to the Gandron, watching Eve falter, but keeping his cool, sending twin bolts streaking towards it. [20:07:14] * The pseudodragon fades into view and sails past Eve, making an attempt to sting her that again fails to penetrate her armor. [20:07:33] * Eve_Kasnora grimaces and stands from her slouch slowly. "Dwarven Armor. Is. Best armor." [20:08:31] * Wyrmgear takes a deep breath and breathes a sheet of lightning over Eilenia, Eve, and one of his drones. However, he can't muster his breath properly, and ends up breathing a crackling sheet of static electricity. [20:08:40] [Eve's turn] [20:11:33] * Eve_Kasnora looks like she's going to be out of the fight for a moment, holding her swords up in a cross over her body defensively.. then she lets out a healthy shout and lashes out at the wrympriest. "YOU WILL NOT BE HARMING THE INNOCENTS ANY LONGER!" [20:14:42] [Eilenia's turn] [20:15:30] * Eve_Kasnora lashes out in an X pattern, gouging criss-crossed scar in the vile little creature's chest. [20:18:27] * The drone that was previously fixated on Eilenia pauses for a second, recalibrating with an audible whirr before focusing on Paera [20:18:44] * Its kick is clumsy, however, and doesn't manage to come close to connecting. [20:18:49] [Paera's turn] [20:19:01] * Eilenia suddenly vanishes in a burst of prismatic light and appears on the other side of Eve. She fires off another burst of thunder, which rolls over the drone and the priest to no effect [20:19:56] * Eilenia grasps her orb, and the daggers around the wyrmpriest become more vibrant as they begin to fade. [20:22:52] * Paera ignores the drone, closing her eyes to mutter a quick prayer, then opens them and grins a surprisingly nasty grin as she looks at the priest. "You've preyed on the civilized people of this world for too long. You'll be returning your 'home' to it's rightful owners now." She holds her holy symbol towards the priest and braces herself. A massive surge of light bursts from her hands. [20:26:36] * The wyrmpriest is utterly obliterarted by the blast of radiance, his body turning to dust almost instantly. [20:27:21] * Charles changes topic to '[Merldron, Xan] 16 [Pseudodragon] 15 [Eva] 8 [Eilenia] 7 [Gandron, Paera] 6#' [20:27:30] * Paera nods, pleased, and turns to the drone that attacked her. "You're next." [20:28:00] * Paera murmurs a quick prayer, and a smaller bolt of light strikes down on it from the sky. [20:30:26] * A monodrone kicks Eve as she turns away from the remains of the kobold [20:30:37] [Xan's turn] [20:31:42] * Eve_Kasnora grunts at the blasted thing kicks quarrel it fired into her leg even further into her flesh. [20:32:20] * Xan claps his hands together, the slapping metal panging as it if were blade-on-blade, suddenly splitting themand sending dual silver shards hurtling towards the drone that has drawn nearest him. One of them connects and flits into the cracks of the drone's body. [20:32:52] * The pseudodragon glides past Eili and tries to bite her, only coming away with a few strands of flowing eladrin hair between its jaws. Seeing its master dead and realizing itself outmatched, it flies for the sunlight at the end of the tunnel [20:32:59] [Eve's turn] [20:35:46] * Eve_Kasnora turns to the machine fully as her leg itself glows, letting her stand on it strong. She puts her shortsword away and pulls her holy symbol of bahamut out from beneath her armor, brandishing it at the construct. [20:36:08] "On Pain of Death." [20:37:55] * The automaton quirks its head sideways, staring at Eve before it shudders violently, sagging under its own weight. [20:38:02] [Eilenia's turn] [20:40:33] * Eilenia steps back and another cloud of fey daggers flies from her orb, to the drone near Paera and Xan. [20:42:52] * The southern modron swivels back and forth before focusing on Xan. It steps up and delivers a solid kick that fails to have any impact through his armor. [20:43:06] [Paera's turn] [20:44:47] * Paera continues to pray as beams of light rain down on Gandron. [20:46:10] * Paera backs towards Eve and Eilenia, continuing her prayer. [20:46:29] * Merldron's kick at Eve goes wide, and it shudders as it forces itself to attack, its body fighting against it [20:46:44] [Xan's turn] [20:47:35] "Persist your attack, only on pain of death!" [20:49:56] * Xan lashes out with both fists, leading in with a steady swing from his heavy hand, the fist crunching into the monodrone so heavily that it becomes embedded in its body, Xan having to pry it off with his foot. [20:49:57] [Eva's turn] [20:50:42] * Eve_Kasnora moves to the construct's side in a short sweeping strike, aiming at it's oddly avian legs. [20:51:48] [Eilenia's turn!] [20:57:46] * Eilenia raises her orb and points it at the Modron. A flood of multicolored daggers launch forth from it, trailing sparkles and twisting and turning through the air. The drone tries it sbest to dodge, but it's unable to keep up with the twisting projectiles, and they impact with tiny bright yellow bursts. [20:58:29] [Paera's turn, if anyone wants to fuck up that pseudodragon for the sake of completion] [20:59:29] [Otherwise, combat over] [21:00:38] * Paera lowers her holy symbol, letting out a relieved sigh. "That went well." [21:02:19] So that was Wyrmgear? [21:02:25] * Eilenia goes up to examine the body. [21:02:44] * Xan steps forward, firing two sets of arrows at the fleeing psuedodragon, his shots flying wide [21:02:52] He doesn't resemble a gear. Or a wyrm. Any more than the rest of his race. [21:04:19] * Paera looks at Eilenia, raising an eyebrow. "Do any of us particularly resemble our names?" [21:05:33] * His body's turned to ash, leaving only his equipment. His strange brass mask lies on top of the pile, along with a spear and a suit of hide armor with metallic embellishments. Oddly, among the dust, there's what looks like an altered holy symbol of Erathis, the gear and starburst design doubled. [21:05:46] Hm... ? Not quite. [21:05:49] Oh, what's this? [21:05:57] * Eilenia picks up the defaced holy symbol. [21:06:46] * Paera walks over. "What did...you...find..." she trails off, scowling. [21:08:27] * It looks as though it was once a standard symbol, designed to be hooked onto clothing, but the bottom half was constructed after the initial, proper half was made [21:09:42] * Xan calmly steps over the drones, searching them himself. [21:09:42] * In addition, a search of the altar reveals a compartment that contains what Wyrmgear must have seen as his horde, consisting of a massive pile of gold and silver coins and a single cut amethyst gem [21:10:02] * Eilenia tries to see if the bottom half can be removed. [21:10:29] That a kobold would have this...awful. [21:10:29] * Xan picks up the gem and examines it. [21:10:44] * It's screwed on, but the screws can be easily removed. [21:10:55] Don't worry. It's salvagable. [21:11:26] I'm more concerned about who they killed to take it. [21:11:58] * Eilenia frowns. "I had not thought of that." [21:12:02] "They still spoke as if their new deity lived in this place. Perhaps he is beyond that tunnel." [21:12:24] * Eilenia looks at the hide armor. [21:13:08] "You wear hide, Eilenia?" [21:13:16] * Eve_Kasnora (Novaseaker@cpe-24-168-45-216.si.res.rr.com) Quit (Ping timeout: 180 seconds#) [21:13:56] No, but the metal makes me curious. [21:14:15] Can I take a look at that symbol, Eili? [21:14:34] "I may find it to be of use if it has magical properties." [21:14:42] * Eilenia idly hands it over. [21:14:50] * Eilenia is distracted by the strange hide armor. [21:15:05] "Does anyone have enough arcane knowledge to discern this?" [21:15:34] (I'm gonna say it's been a short rest by now, so you know what's magical and what's not) [21:15:52] Certainly. [21:16:14] (You've found 280gp, a garnet worth 100gp, 400 silver pieces, and the symbol's a +1 Symbol of Battle.) [21:16:34] (The armor is just decorative, unfortunately) [21:16:52] The armor looks nice, I suppose. [21:17:00] Nothing particularly magical about it. [21:17:17] The symbol, on the other hand... [21:17:20] "I'll keep my own then. Thank you." [21:18:16] Whoever carried this was not some random victim. They were ready to fight and knew the risks of their actions. [21:18:52] * Eilenia circles the air around the symbol a few times, and the screws come loose. She removes the mirrored half. [21:19:15] * Eilenia hands the original half over to Paera. "This is enchanted for battle." [21:19:53] * Eilenia hands the other half over to Paera. "This is perfectly ordinary. Aside from being upside-down. But if you looked down at it while you were wearing it, it would appear to be right-side up." [21:21:00] * Paera takes it, saying a prayer for it's previous bearer. "We've avenged you...hopefully. I'll try to carry on your will." [21:24:35] This has been tiring. We should rest. [21:25:49] * Paera nods. "I agree. That took a lot out of us." [21:26:02] * Having cleared the waypost, and having uncovered, if not solved, the mystery of wyrmgear, the group settles down to rest for the night and consider what they've seen and done in preparing the way for future emissaries from Odal's Fen. [21:26:07] I would like to take a look at those creatures he had guarding him, though. [21:26:32] I've never seen anything like it. [21:30:06] ... but I think I've heard of them. [21:30:20] Modrons? [21:31:15] But why are they helping bandits? [21:31:18] "I thought them to be from the planes aside from this place, though they hardly seem to be from the chaotic place in which I dwelt." [21:33:13] * Paera frowns. "I've got a bad feeling about this. ...it might relate to why Her symbol is here." [21:34:10] "Perhaps this was not the true wyrmgear they spoke of." [21:36:27] So they may have been tricked? [21:37:23] It's possible. They're not very intelligent. [21:38:34] * Xan is now known as Mechazawa [21:39:15] * Paera is now known as Yonjuuni [21:39:19] Well, let's get some rest. Sleep or whatever it is you do, and we'll figure soething out. [21:39:21] [End Session] [21:40:09] * Mechazawa (rustangel@ip-214-151.atvci.net) has left #Odal End of #Odal buffer Thu Jul 10 21:40:27 2008 [21:39:44] * His body's turned to ash, leaving only his equipment. His strange brass mask lies on top of the pile, along with a spear and a suit of hide armor with metallic embellishments. Oddly, among the dust, there's what looks like an altered holy symbol of Erathis, the gear and starburst design doubled. [21:39:48] * It looks as though it was once a standard symbol, designed to be hooked onto clothing, but the bottom half was constructed after the initial, proper half was made [21:39:52] * In addition, a search of the altar reveals a compartment that contains what Wyrmgear must have seen as his horde, consisting of a massive pile of gold and silver coins and a single cut amethyst gem [21:39:59] (You've found 280gp, a garnet worth 100gp, 400 silver pieces, and the symbol's a +1 Symbol of Battle.) [21:40:03] (The armor is just decorative, unfortunately) Everyone also gets 500 XP, which should take everyone to level 2.