Sunday, December 04, 2005

Dorville, Underdark City of Drow

The guys descended the spidery cliff path to the drow city two miles below the surface of Aarde, each wearing a Hat of Disguise (except the kobolds, who fit right in anywhere in the underdark) to look like drow. Rivet went shopping at a toystore and picked up a man-sized "nutcracker" wind-up halberdier. Secro and Fergus stepped into a teleportal and battled a drow priestess (dubbed Dr. Drowkenstein) and her flesh and clay golems, eventually killing her and escaping as her creations battled each other. Revan, Joseph, Taito, Black-Eyed Bill and their various sidekicks went right to the center of Dorville and into the most official looking building they could find, a large, black, spidery domed building, sunken below street level, with pillars coming down and stairs curving upward like great arachanid legs. The group entered the ominous, menacing building, populated largely by well-dressed drow women conducting unknown official business, pushing their five-wheeled "briefcases" across the black marble, slate and granite floors. The group entered a large meeting room, possibly a drow courtroom, and Revan's natural paladin ability to detect evil picked up at least 200 sources in that one room. Joseph, with his new seventh level spell, Word of Law, blinded, deafened, and killed outright most of the drow in the room. This shortened the encounter considerably, though the rest of the party still had plenty of work to do. On the way out, the party was confronted by a crowd of drow constables and rabble, some mounted on giant spiders and giant bats, some casting fireballs. The two bards in the party ultimately brought the crowd under control on the second enthrall spell, after using a wand of baleful polymorph to change the lead heckler (who prevented the first attempt at enthrall) into a yellow centipede.
Experience: 2,500 xp each (subtract 500 to 1,000 xp if not present for whole session) Treasure: 3,300 gp value each.
We will not have a session the 17th, because I have two or possibly three cello gigs that weekend. Since I can't reschedule for Sunday the 18th, and the following Saturday is the 24th (Christmas eve is not an issue for me, but you guys do have families...) I guess we'll try to do a long session on New Year's eve Day, the 31st. Also, it looks like I'm going to be able to play my high level version of Fergus in Roddy's campaign next Saturday from about 7pm to 11:30 or so on the 10th. I'm really looking forward to that, though I will warn everybody I'm probably a better DM than player.

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