Saturday, November 13, 2004

The (D&D) "Matrix" episode 11/13/04

Well, today was a great game. Phil, Carson and Robby, Roddy and Shane made it. P. had a bazaar so I had B. too (she's 3, but she behaved herself). It was about 4 already when I learned Robby and Carson would have to go at 4:45, so that was a bummer, since I wanted to wrap the "Matrix" plotline into the game today. First, the party was running a routine errand, picking up yeast from the Cliff Village lizardmen for a nice dwarf town baker lady. They met a lizardman who was the sole survivor of a patrol ambush, where the rest of his group was captured. Then, the party was attacked by 10 flying 4-armed "Violet Vultures," formerly lizard men, armed with +3 longswords (3 each), +3 shields, and +3 breastplate armor. It was a very tough encounter that k/0'd or killed all 4 npcs and all the pcs except for the paladin and the ranger. But the reward was very great. On their way to get the Taito (Carson's Monk), resurrected at Moporia, the day watch (they were in the black desert, travelling by night) spotted another group of Violet Vultures that turned back on seeing the party. Later, when just two party members were on watch, there was a white flash, blacking out the party members. When they came to, their captive bad guy was gone, but they resumed the trip (or so they thought). As it turned out, a lizard went behind a rock, then an identical lizard went behind the same rock... (yeah, I know, a dead giveaway from The Matrix). Eventually, Revan was able to make some amazing saving throws and woke up in a glass "coffin" crysallis, in a room with the ten of them arranged in a circle of crysalli. He broke out, attacked the elf mage (of the purple order) attendant, and eventually everybody was able to escape (there were thousands). But Jaramon popped away again at the first sign of trouble... Finally, everybody was able to recover their equipment, and Taito's body was found. A presentation is being made to St. Cuthbert's church in Moporia regarding the incident. I awarded 3750 XP, and once items were sold, each character racked in about 275,000 GP in treasure (Yeah, higher than usual, much higher...) But they earned it, they probably saved the world this day.

The (D&D) "Matrix" episode 11/13/04