Having forced Radosek to flee, the group scoured the upper level of the tower until Pavo (née Doyle) spotted the wings of the ice sculpture in the courtyard below begin to move. With a sharp crack, the dragon took flight and circled around the tower, searching for a way in. Radosek decided that he had to lure the group out, so he set the statue to strike any besides himself who appeared at the teleporter on the first level, then went in search of the group. With luck, they had just begun to reposition to the aerie, and Kyezra spotted him as he appeared in the dining room's alcove.
Kyezra took a potshot and set her companion on him, but he had prepared his defenses, knowing he had to survive long enough to get back to the sculpture. With the alarm cry risen, the rest of the group circled back to the dining hall just in time to see him disappear through the teleporter again. Pavo heard the activation words and called them out to the rest of the group.
Pavo went through first, into the waiting arms of the dragon sculpture. Although fierce in appearance, the statue's strikes didn't accomplish much. Radosek took cover behind a stairwell door and used his icicle wand to hinder the group, but they quickly dispatched the sculpture. Zacarius teleported Yrrah behind Radosek, forcing Radosek to give up his position and attempt to flee, but Yrrah caught at his foot as Radosek passed, pulling him down onto the stairs.
Kyezra had circled around by this point, and with her, her cat and Yrrah pounding on the apprentice, Radosek was quickly slain.
The group returned to the summoning circle at the top of the tower and figured out how to close the portal to Taldor, ending their only means of returning home without a long overland trip. The group decided to heed the geas laid upon them by the Black Rider, though, and decided to press on to find the owner of the tower, in hopes that she could tell them where Baba Yaga's hut was. Nadya felt that Nazhena was likely in Whitethrone, capital of Irrisen, since that was the only place she'd likely leave her tower for after having taken on the search for the Black Rider; she also coerced the group into accepting her assistance and her boys in the journey to Whitethrone to keep her boys safe.
The group quickly returned to Nadya's house and left as fast as possible, before any more trouble could be brought to Waldsby.
Monday, December 8, 2014
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Fighting with Everything
The group moved in to the next chamber, a room with a red carpet running up to another of the alcoves with magic and scrollwork on the floor. Zacarius attempted to activate the portal but failed, causing the two ice sculptures of nymphs to attack the group. Ash and Doyle each took a sculpture on, and though the fight was vicious, it was also ended quickly with slivers of ice scattered around the room.
They moved on through the northern exit and along the hallway beyond, finding a door set in the outside wall. Doyle heard the sound of a woman speaking on the other side; he stepped to the side and flung the door open for Ash, who strode in and struck the visage of Lady Argentea while she was combing her hair in front of a mirror. In response, she cowered back and told the party a tale of woe, of being held here and replaced by a doppelganger; Zacarius had spotted something weird about her ear when they first came in and figured out she was lying. Upon being informed of her duplicity, Ash cut her down and she returned to a doppelganger's natural form.
A bit more searching about brought them to the kitchen and a short fight against the cook, a spriggan with a knack for cookies. One of the cookies was actually a vehicle for a nasty curse which he had planned on giving to the Ulfen soldier in revenge for the slights she had paid him.
With Hestrig's key, the group took the last teleporter on the floor in a chain, arriving up in the aerie. The sylph took flight and ordered her ravens to attack. Though Ash and Zacarius took numerous scratches from the ravens (including Ash losing his eyesight to blood and swelling around his eyes), the sylph was rather quickly taken down and Kyezra dispersed the ravens.
Returning to the previous level with the new key gained from the sylph, the group once again tried the teleporter by the remains of the nymph sculptures. They went in as a group into Radosek's summoning chamber; he had been watching them through the mirrors and had summoned several ice elementals in preparation. When they entered his chamber, Radosek flew up to the middle of the chamber and set his elementals on them while his goat familiar, prepped with a chill touch spell, waited for the first person to cross beyond the elementals. Radosek opened combat by spraying the teleporter alcove with magical snowballs.
During the fight, Doyle got charged by the goat and was able to resist the spell, Kyezra's cat went down to bludgeons from the ice elementals, and several people were able to narrowly avoid spears of ice raised from the floor by Radosek's wand. Seeing the fight going against him, Radosek fled through the window, leaving his familiar to die. The group then systematically ransacked the chambers of Radosek and his teacher. As Doyle was looking through the last room, he spotted the ice dragon sculpture down in the courtyard start to move it's wings...
They moved on through the northern exit and along the hallway beyond, finding a door set in the outside wall. Doyle heard the sound of a woman speaking on the other side; he stepped to the side and flung the door open for Ash, who strode in and struck the visage of Lady Argentea while she was combing her hair in front of a mirror. In response, she cowered back and told the party a tale of woe, of being held here and replaced by a doppelganger; Zacarius had spotted something weird about her ear when they first came in and figured out she was lying. Upon being informed of her duplicity, Ash cut her down and she returned to a doppelganger's natural form.
A bit more searching about brought them to the kitchen and a short fight against the cook, a spriggan with a knack for cookies. One of the cookies was actually a vehicle for a nasty curse which he had planned on giving to the Ulfen soldier in revenge for the slights she had paid him.
With Hestrig's key, the group took the last teleporter on the floor in a chain, arriving up in the aerie. The sylph took flight and ordered her ravens to attack. Though Ash and Zacarius took numerous scratches from the ravens (including Ash losing his eyesight to blood and swelling around his eyes), the sylph was rather quickly taken down and Kyezra dispersed the ravens.
Returning to the previous level with the new key gained from the sylph, the group once again tried the teleporter by the remains of the nymph sculptures. They went in as a group into Radosek's summoning chamber; he had been watching them through the mirrors and had summoned several ice elementals in preparation. When they entered his chamber, Radosek flew up to the middle of the chamber and set his elementals on them while his goat familiar, prepped with a chill touch spell, waited for the first person to cross beyond the elementals. Radosek opened combat by spraying the teleporter alcove with magical snowballs.
During the fight, Doyle got charged by the goat and was able to resist the spell, Kyezra's cat went down to bludgeons from the ice elementals, and several people were able to narrowly avoid spears of ice raised from the floor by Radosek's wand. Seeing the fight going against him, Radosek fled through the window, leaving his familiar to die. The group then systematically ransacked the chambers of Radosek and his teacher. As Doyle was looking through the last room, he spotted the ice dragon sculpture down in the courtyard start to move it's wings...
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