Campaign Journals 6-20-08
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 3:38 pm
The journey East towards Cormyr was uneventful. Two days into the journey I received a sending from our new undead archmage friend that informed me of a messenger that he was sending to us named Hayai. The name sounding like "Hi ya" almost made me think it was a prank, except for the source.
Another days walk and we were starting to relax a little. I shook off the mood that had taken me after another death in our party and Ty started good naturedly ribbing me again for my little missteps here and there. A very good sign.
Hayai caught up with us before that evening, just as were starting to come up on the boarders of Cormyr. I found him a little solemn, but he seemed stalwart enough.
As I was technically headed home, I spent a lot of time remembering some of the better times growing up there. Reminded of my favorite prank as a boy, I secretly fashioned a little dye bomb and seeing the perfect opportunity, I flicked it over the head of the new guy, thinking to catch him unawares... and was totally surprised when leaping up, he caught it and had thrown it BACK at ME... when it went off, I was still blinking in amazement at his speed. Even ty would be hard pressed to move that fast, I thought.
Laughing, though, as I cleaned off as much dye as I could, could see Ty looking at the newcomer appreciatively. Evidently her competitive nature was asserting itself.
As the day was ending, we arrived at the gates of the small boarder keep that Cormyr maintains at all the main access roads into their kingdom. Evidently there was some entertainment going on, as we were hardly questioned, and the walls manned with a skeleton crew.
The evening was enjoyable, though I did not enjoy the adulation for my role in the goblin wars... I just did my duty and what I thought was right... nothing more.
The only thing marring the evening was the call of a dragon on the night air... despite our having bested a dragon twice now, the call still chilled my blood and I pulled the blanket a little tighter.
The next day was as fair a day as you could want for travel. We can down the pass, on the main road, moving quickly to cover the ground to the next city.
However, we were soon dismayed to find a white object in the sky that seemed to be tracking us... and as we watched it dived right for us.
"Ware the Dragon!" yelled Ty and she started back, before realizing she should be off the path. Everyone scrambled for cover and I followed Creeg for the rocks, after casting another fireshield on everyone within range.
Creeg, being unhappy about my presence, wanted to move, but the dragon was coming in too fast. I cast a firestorm in front of it, reveling in the power as I poured my rage into fueling it hotter and hight, but as the gragon emerged, I saw it had been unaffected. I followed up with a fireball and an orb of force a moment later, but then the beast was upon us.
I screamed in pain as the teeth punctured the plate armor I was wearing like so much parchment. The Fire around me flared up, burning and searing. Through the pain I instinctively cast my most powerful defensive spell, blowing away part of her lip and teeth... then she dropped me... Lucky for me, she had not gone high and I hit the ground rolling to a stop against a boulder, as I saw the beast slam into the ground not far from me.
Lots of healing later, I was sipping a cup of hot tea that Ty had brewed up for us all, to calm our nerves... I could see it had shaken her a little more than usual, but it was to be expected with a beast that size.
Having skinned the Dragon, to put it's skin to good use another time, we sent it on to the village to be tanned, but decided to take a more round-about way. Good thing we did, as we crossed a ravine, we saw two figures taling us, evidently frustrated with our choice of crossings.
Hours later, as the sun dipped in the sky, Ty called to me that we were being followed again. Looking back I couldn't see anything, but she assured me they were there.
Going over another hill, we stopped and had Ty, Yev, and Hayai fan out, hiding to create an ambush. But evidently Hayai was not as good at hiding as he was at snatching dye bombs and the two figures stopped, with one firing arrows at his position.
This proved to be too much for him and he jumped up, speeding toward his attacker at an incredible speed. I'd never seen anyone move so fast, even magically enhanced.
But the archer was also very good and sent arrow after arrow into him. Sighing, I quickly gathered the weave together and hit both with a fireball. making it larger and hotter than normal just required a few extra tweaks with my hand and it burst forth singeing both.
The next thing I know, I was surrounded by my own worst spell, as Black Tentacles reached out to grab me. I evaded the first one, launching another spell, as I jumped out of the affected area, but found myself again surrounded. This time, one got a hold of me and didn't let go.
I struggle with it for a moment, fearing it was too strong, when I heard Ty cry out in anger. It propelled me to greater efforts and again, I broke from it's grasp and ran to an unaffected spot.
The battle was in full swing and I hit the armored man, who had appeared on our hill now, with a couple of good spells, and he went down with Ty and Everyone else around him striking almost simultaneously.
Looking out, I saw the archer frozen in waste deep mud. The battle was over. A good thing too. Everyone looks like they could use another cup of tea.
Another days walk and we were starting to relax a little. I shook off the mood that had taken me after another death in our party and Ty started good naturedly ribbing me again for my little missteps here and there. A very good sign.
Hayai caught up with us before that evening, just as were starting to come up on the boarders of Cormyr. I found him a little solemn, but he seemed stalwart enough.
As I was technically headed home, I spent a lot of time remembering some of the better times growing up there. Reminded of my favorite prank as a boy, I secretly fashioned a little dye bomb and seeing the perfect opportunity, I flicked it over the head of the new guy, thinking to catch him unawares... and was totally surprised when leaping up, he caught it and had thrown it BACK at ME... when it went off, I was still blinking in amazement at his speed. Even ty would be hard pressed to move that fast, I thought.
Laughing, though, as I cleaned off as much dye as I could, could see Ty looking at the newcomer appreciatively. Evidently her competitive nature was asserting itself.
As the day was ending, we arrived at the gates of the small boarder keep that Cormyr maintains at all the main access roads into their kingdom. Evidently there was some entertainment going on, as we were hardly questioned, and the walls manned with a skeleton crew.
The evening was enjoyable, though I did not enjoy the adulation for my role in the goblin wars... I just did my duty and what I thought was right... nothing more.
The only thing marring the evening was the call of a dragon on the night air... despite our having bested a dragon twice now, the call still chilled my blood and I pulled the blanket a little tighter.
The next day was as fair a day as you could want for travel. We can down the pass, on the main road, moving quickly to cover the ground to the next city.
However, we were soon dismayed to find a white object in the sky that seemed to be tracking us... and as we watched it dived right for us.
"Ware the Dragon!" yelled Ty and she started back, before realizing she should be off the path. Everyone scrambled for cover and I followed Creeg for the rocks, after casting another fireshield on everyone within range.
Creeg, being unhappy about my presence, wanted to move, but the dragon was coming in too fast. I cast a firestorm in front of it, reveling in the power as I poured my rage into fueling it hotter and hight, but as the gragon emerged, I saw it had been unaffected. I followed up with a fireball and an orb of force a moment later, but then the beast was upon us.
I screamed in pain as the teeth punctured the plate armor I was wearing like so much parchment. The Fire around me flared up, burning and searing. Through the pain I instinctively cast my most powerful defensive spell, blowing away part of her lip and teeth... then she dropped me... Lucky for me, she had not gone high and I hit the ground rolling to a stop against a boulder, as I saw the beast slam into the ground not far from me.
Lots of healing later, I was sipping a cup of hot tea that Ty had brewed up for us all, to calm our nerves... I could see it had shaken her a little more than usual, but it was to be expected with a beast that size.
Having skinned the Dragon, to put it's skin to good use another time, we sent it on to the village to be tanned, but decided to take a more round-about way. Good thing we did, as we crossed a ravine, we saw two figures taling us, evidently frustrated with our choice of crossings.
Hours later, as the sun dipped in the sky, Ty called to me that we were being followed again. Looking back I couldn't see anything, but she assured me they were there.
Going over another hill, we stopped and had Ty, Yev, and Hayai fan out, hiding to create an ambush. But evidently Hayai was not as good at hiding as he was at snatching dye bombs and the two figures stopped, with one firing arrows at his position.
This proved to be too much for him and he jumped up, speeding toward his attacker at an incredible speed. I'd never seen anyone move so fast, even magically enhanced.
But the archer was also very good and sent arrow after arrow into him. Sighing, I quickly gathered the weave together and hit both with a fireball. making it larger and hotter than normal just required a few extra tweaks with my hand and it burst forth singeing both.
The next thing I know, I was surrounded by my own worst spell, as Black Tentacles reached out to grab me. I evaded the first one, launching another spell, as I jumped out of the affected area, but found myself again surrounded. This time, one got a hold of me and didn't let go.
I struggle with it for a moment, fearing it was too strong, when I heard Ty cry out in anger. It propelled me to greater efforts and again, I broke from it's grasp and ran to an unaffected spot.
The battle was in full swing and I hit the armored man, who had appeared on our hill now, with a couple of good spells, and he went down with Ty and Everyone else around him striking almost simultaneously.
Looking out, I saw the archer frozen in waste deep mud. The battle was over. A good thing too. Everyone looks like they could use another cup of tea.