Things have been tough for player characters the past couple of weeks. A week ago Wednesday the 26th, Alex ran Star Wars and half of our characters were possessed by the Sith ghosts. We finally left the tomb of the dark siders, but Koyi Komon, my scoundrel, will unfortunately discover that when he returns to his senses, more than half of his considerable fortune (about 50,000 of his 99,000 credits) will have been spent on carousing and an old bounty hunter enemy who was hired by "Koyi" (actually the possessed Koyi) to wipe out rivals in a town on the mining world Selfor.
Then last night, I ran my Aarde D&D session. Happily, I have my new 3.5 edition DMG, and I was also armed with some good notes and ideas for the game. The party is in the Underdark now, and Ani (Alex's ranger) pushed the canoe off downriver. So they have been down there for about four weeks and run through their torches and rations. Most of the party are humans, but luckily they have a couple of magic weapons that give about 5' of light to see by. They're exploring deeper into the caves, mainly because they are tired of eating Hydra meat (see notes from the last sesssion). With lots of water everywhere, they focus on the drier caves. Jon's paladin, Crom, being a lizardman, has darkvision, which is helpful when the party encounters 5 Fire Bats, which they dispatch somewhat easily. Phil shows up late, and we hand him Xymo (a human fighter). Daybill (the npc halfling bard), Aiko (Penny's dwarven monk) and Crom uncover a pit trap which Shianji (Rob's human monk) jumps across with the party's only 50' rope. Daybill begins to cross and falls 30' onto spikes -- and lives! Ani falls while climbing to rescue Daybill, and also lives, then cuts open a boulder-sized egg sack with a giant beetle inside. Upon hearing other beetles making their way to him, Ani and Daybill scramble out of the pit. The 10' long Giant Rhino Beetles attack the party with a vengeance. At the end of the encounter, Daybill, Ani and Xymo lay dead. Aiko is unconscious, and Crom appears to be dead (but it turns out he isn't). More next time, gotta go.
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