WELCOME AARON
9/4/06
For today’s D&D and Star Wars sessions, it was me (Dave) running, plus Rod, Rob, Carson, Bella, Penny (for a bit) and Aaron E. (who came 3 hours up from Oregon just to play). I feel very flattered about this, thank you Aaron!
In D&D, Taito finally battled the drow and won the Key prize, an amulet that stores 21 levels of arcane or divine spells, and contains one true resurrection. But the main adventure dealt with the fact that transmuted “mongrel men” variants, many including golem parts, have become so common, the party felt certain Jaramon himself, founder of the Cult of Transformation, must have been brought back to life. As it now appears, this may--or may not--have been the case. The party rode Cap’n Fergus’ spelljammer to the pyramid site on the Isle of Ancients and fought a huge battle there, decimating a large number of a huge variety of mongrel men warriors, many of which were giant-sized. To cap it off, the pyramid itself was subjected to Rock to Mud, and Efreet variants were summoned (At Joseph Prax’s suggestion) to search the site for treasure (a type that could move through the mud and detect magic easily).
As it turned out, the pyramid itself was causing transmutations in the surrounding area, one of which caused Black Eyed Bill to take on the nose and other aspects of a snapping turtle. Four metal 20’ ancient epic titan-made custom staves of transmutation (probably actually worth about 850,000 gp each) turned out to be embedded in the pyramid itself. At Revan’s suggestion, the party ended up selling all four to the god Khadgar for 425,000 gp total, for safekeeping (and due to a lack of other well-heeled buyers). Aaron’s character is a wizard, Nephrim or something like that. The party is currently 13th-15th level, mostly. XP:5,000.
Star Wars was interesting. On Alzakak, an Imperial-controlled world, the party was sent to assist Blastsmoke, another of Dabbo the Hutt’s agents. Destro went under cover, using his forged identity as Imperial Captain Jarvis, to train cadets at Damachatron City. Garik Gracus, also with Imperial credentials, went looking for Blastsmoke at the encrypted distress signal coordinates, along with Jaina Brioli. Pieda Bowmon II (played by Aaron today) and Jackpot searched the officer’s mess hall/lounge. Garik found him, and on Blastsmoke’s urging, the party joined him and his assistants Duville and Horacio, in order to be certain to secure hard credits and data files from an administration building. As it turned out, Blastsmoke had already been caught, and had cut a deal with local authorities to lure additional Hutt agents here and trap them. An Imperial sleep gas grenade proved ineffective on the party, however, as did the 25 or so storm troopers arrayed to capture or kill the party, who wiped nearly all of them out. With 3 storm troopers remaining, Destro arrived to instruct one of his classes of 25 on procedure, and instructed them to stun everyone in the room. Destro, suddenly the ranking officer in the room, examined the warrant data pad and declared it faulty in procedure, since with special agents involved this would situation would require an inter-agency investigation (and other such matters). He then invited his class to join him on a field trip to follow the matter through. Once all 25 were on the ship, they were easily disarmed and sold into slavery to the Hutts for 1,000 credits each. The party was also able to sell holovids of Imperial training procedures to the Hutts for a hefty 20,000 credits. As Akbar’s Trap departed, Jaina’s typical parting gift went off, leaving several blocks in ruins. Current party level: 5-8th. XP:2,000
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