The Barrier Peaks Expedition: Session 25 Of Steam, baths, and Barbells

The Barrier Peaks Expedition: Of Steam, baths, and Barbells

 5/06/2016

Name	Player	Race	Class	Present	Survived	Replaced
Blake	Carl	Human	Bard	N	Y	N
Catherine Lastation	Chris	Human	Oracle	N	Y	N
Faolan Ironhand	Glen	Dwarf	Paladin	Y	Y	N
Cecilia	John L	Human	Wizard	N	Y	N
Goran Stonecrucher	Guest Player	Dwarf	Fighter	N/A	Y	N
Halvar Gunnarson	Cory	Dwarf	Ranger	N	Y	N
Menyw Daolg	Danielle	Elf	Fighter	N	Y	N
Ranold Winterhare	Tim (T.J.)	½ Elf	Magus	Y	Y	N
Ruis	Johnunce	½ Drow	Magus	N	Y	N
Thadious Bullskin	Mike K.	Human	Wizard	Y	Y	N
Mrs. Page	Mike’s npc bard	½ Elf	Bard	N/A	N	N
The Homunculus	Mike’s critter		Critter	N/A	Y	N

         

 Greetings after soothing the wounds taken in the battle with the Hulk (and themselves) our stalwart band continued on exploring the level. Upon entering a 2^nd identical storage room Faolan choose to open a door leading west towards the center of the complex. This door lead to a passage with 3 choices north and to an upward ramp or south then east or west. Faolan chose to lead the team south then west, as when they reached the east-west turn a door was spotted on the north wall to the west. Upon entering the unlocked door the team heard a soft hissing sound echoing to the north. A quick glance around revealed 5 doors one down a short hall to the west, one due north from the entrance 2 along the east wall one needing a brown key and the 5 on the west wall just north of the short hall. Unable to resist a locked door the team use a Violet card to open the door. Within the stench filled room was a large pile of rotting heavily molding garments. Knowledgeable of the danger the mold may contain Ranold uses several casting of Prestidigitation to safely sort through the pile finding 1 “lazy Beam”, 1 healing gel, and 12 Moonstones as well as a suit of the Death Armor. Gathering up everything but the Death Armor the team began exploring the rest of the doors.

Starting with the one down the short hall they found that it needed key and just open to touch. Within was a large room with bleachers to the south and the north wall littered with what looked like training equipment and a large rotting pile of something as well as 2 doors along the west wall. Seeing nothing but the doors as items of interest they turned their attention to the other doors in the current room. Staying to the west doors Faolan and Halvar stood ready as Faolan touched the white panel to open the door. The room beyond was densely filled with steam that block sight to the walls with a feeling of righteous paranoia Faolan step through the threshold and started to focus on his divine power to sense evil. As he started he started his focus he was assailed by a hail of small darts like the ones from Blake “automatic micro Crossbow” while they failed to harm him it was enough to drive him from the room before he could get a good read. Halvar while also unhurt by the fuselage of darts shook his head and closed the door. Remarking that he had heard a door close just after the bolts came flying. With the steam hindering vision in the room the team chose to try opening the north door. Shifting order and having Ranold open the door while Faolan tossed in a sunrod they acted. Just as the door opened Faolan tossed the sunrod and before Ranold could close the door a larger hail of dart rained from the room with two of the tiny darts striking Ranold. As Halvar reached to close the door Ranold collapsed from the strange toxin on the darts. Catherine quickly noted that it was non-lethal but just to be sure Faolan called upon his divine gifts to dispel the toxin. After a minute or so Ranold regained conciseness and the team decided to check the final door for this Ranold readied his own “lazy beam” and Faolan opened the door. As the door opened Ranold fired the “lazy beam” striking the wall on the others side solidly but hitting nothing living. The room itself was a large bathing area fill with various styles of Baths. Closing this door the team paused to ponder how to clear the other rooms of steam so that they could confront their attackers. Many ideas were suggested but none that worked without flooding the room they were in with said steam so Faolan suggested that they just leave whatever was there alone and look for an exit to this mad house of as Maze.

So headed west again through the door at the end of the short hall and into the larger room to investigate the doors on its west wall. Starting with the southern most of the two doors. This door opened in to a wide hallway leading south or west. Down the west passage was a door on the north wall pass that another wide hallway leading north and pass that another door before the hallway turned south. On the westward hallway’s south wall was on open door and a trio of doors just passed that. Southward passage had no door visible so the team headed to the first door on the westward. The door opened to what looked like another training room, within a well-muscled humanoid golem was lift weights until the door opened. Its lips moved but no sound came out as it reached down with one hand to pick several weights and hurled them at Faolan striking him hammering blows.

Finally seeing something she could fight Menyw leaped passed Faolan and rushed battle. Ranold, Faolan, and Halvar rush in with her, Ranold waving a grey Card and yelling for it to stop. The golem ether did not understand Ranold or did not care as it hurled 3 more weights at Faolan before stepping in to deliver a resounding series of Blows to Menyw that dropped her in her tracks. Halvar landed a powerful blow but the golem did not go flying as expected and Ranold tried to stop it without much success as while his sword cut it he scored no telling blows, even Faolan was at a lost as his hammer had little effect. The Golem stepped up and struck a series of devastating blows to Ranold but the Magus’ hardness prevailed   and he was still standing. Trusting to his skill again he stepped back and lunged leading with his spell enhanced Blade landing a telling blow as the store spell within the blade was released. As the massive electrical discharge destroyed the golem it caused some sort of magical feedback that caused the creature to explode hurling shrapnel and lighting like a fireball. The resulting devastation sorely wounded Faolan, Menyw, and dropped Ranold but Halvar badger-like reflexes prevented any wound from taking him. Catherine shaking her head with Blake’s and Faolan’s aid mended wounds and confirmed no one had died though Menyw had suffered severe broken bones in the chest and sword arm locations after a few moments of Catherine’s care healed these and she was ready for battle again.

Here is where we end for the night Time elapsed 1 week 5 days 4 hours since entering the metal castle.