Good: Jill ran Scarred lands last night.
Better: It was awesome!
Good: I am alive.
Better: I am doing well. ;)
Good: Shakira
Better: Flyleaf
Anyway, yesterday was really cool. Jill ran Scarred Lands from 2:00 until 10:00! No complaints and not too many breaks, either! It was really cool. I'm putting Tharag's 7th Journal entry behind a cut below. I hope it's not too long before we play again. I am pumped for another game!
I have a lot to do today but I am still totally wiped from this past week, not to mention staying up late after the game. I have two new Dan Abnett graphic novels and a new Simon Greene book AND I'm still reading Wicked. Those are strong arguments to just goof off all day. ;)
Tharag and the great heroes still in the skykeep. We see ratmen talking to a pool of water. Bad Vigil woman will pay!
Tharag discuss plan with Frostfur and Lord Sledd. They are sneaky. Tharag can be sneaky, too. Tharag has a good plan. Tharag and Frostfur go up to ratmen and their witch and say “We want to join. The gods suck.” Then she can use magic and see that Frostfur and Tharag are not goody-goody two-footwears, like the short elf in armor. (Sonia?)
Not everyone likes this plan. Looking down, there are more ratmen than Tharag can count. More than 12. If trick does not work, we will have to fight them all.
Sudden, the ratmen are looking! Up another passage, the Business Partner (Deadeyes?) is walking along, skipping and whistling. The ratmen hear him. Oh no, the jug is up! Tharag knows what to do. He jumps up and screams, points at the ratmen “The Titans suck!!!”
It works. The ratmen are looking at Tharag now. Hur hur. Good. Tharag has been thinking about the things he does. This time, Tharag does not ask Denev for help. This time, Tharag pretends to act like Thulkas. Tharag asks no one for help but a giant pillar of fire drops from the sky. Tharag does this!
The ratmen are not so happy as Tharag. They die, some of them. The Heliann looks at Tharag and does not speak. But look on her face says “I will show you how to do it” and “Duck!”. Tharag ducks.
A ball of fire hits all the ratmen. When anyone can see again, there are three left. The rat witch, her bodyguard (Spiny Norman) and one more. Hur hur hur! Tharag is scared of Heliann but ratmen are dead!
Frostfur really does say “I will show you how to do it” and jumps off the ledge we are on! He hits the ground running and reaches the rat witch and Spiny Norman. Pop! Frostfur disappears! Now he is up on the opposite side of the ledge, with the business partner. For a second, looks like a fight. There is growling and some yelling about “shoes”. Hur. This is why Tharag never wear shoes. But soon they join us in chasing the ratmen from the room. The rat witch is gone and we are looting the bodies like heroes.
Find nothing.
We keep going. We go a lot. Up down, left right. Even as The Bear, Tharag cannot pick up the scent of the rat witch. But Tharag leading.
There is a temple. It is wrecked bad. There are still statues of all the gods. Tharag points out what nice shoes Chardon wears. Frostmane say “Footwear”. Hur hur hur! Tharag laugh and Buggy rolls on floor and pees.
Sudden, dead goblins come in. They not want to pray and attack! There is a fight. We smash them all easy. Tharag break statue by accident. Sorry, Chardun. (nice shoes)
We go into a kitchen. There is blood and some parts of humans. Huh.
In a big room, some dead guys attack us with snakes but we kill them again.
Then we find some wine from the last war. Tastes good. We take some to sell later, if we don’t drink it. Tharag likes to get drunk.
We walk for a long time and kill some more ratmen. They were not ready to find us. We are always ready and killed them a lot.
After a long time, Tharag leads the group to the room with the god room in it. In the room, ratmen and the rat witch and Spiny Norman are fighting a devil of Chardun! Other ratmen look nervous and try to open the god room, which Tharag now see is a vault or safe. Deadeye is happy. “Chardun is on our side. We help the devil.”
“No”, says Tharag. Tharag remember the words of the Magic Cow “You are a mission now and I will not help. There will be a test.”
Hrmm.
Frostfur pulls out a key for the vault! Hur! Hur! Hur! Good one!
We fight and it is bad. First, it is bad for the ratmen, who all get set on fire and die. Then it is bad for Frostfur and Tharag. We fight the devil. It is scary! This is a good fight! The devil is tall, 10 feet! He has a long spear thing and his tail smashes Frostfur into the wall! Tharag is hit with the long spear and drops.
Last thing Tharag see is rat witch trying to hurt Buggy. Tharag must be dizzy, sees five rat witches.
Sonia the short elf of Madriel helps Tharag. She grabs his dongle and lays on the hand. Tharag feels good, strong. Frostfur is up, too. Together we finish beating the devil into the floor. Actually, Tharag finish. By now the devil has killed Spiny Norman and Deadeye and Buggy have killed the witch. The vault must open.
Tharag beat the devil with the magic sword of ice and everyone else gets the book out of the vault. It is locked (the book) but we take it with us.
Tharag has chopped and pounded the devil into a mess on floor. Tharag pee on it. Still regenerating. Deadeye has good idea and we put devil in the vault and lock it! Hur hur hur! Get out of there! There will be a test! Hur!
We get treasure out before we lock it. Tharag find a Staff of the Fence, and some good magic bracers and a Vigil Rod of Camping. Does this make Tharag a Vigil? Tharag hope so, wants to be a Vigil very badly.
Now, it is time to go back to Vesh. On the road, Tharag will practice reading and writing more. He will also ask the Heliann to teach him to talk better. Tharag is a hero and a leader. He kills for the gods. Tharag looking forward to dances and parties when we get back to Vesh as heroes. Tharag need to be able to tell joke and order Blood Sea Fish Eggs. Hur.