Recap II
So this week in the adventures of the Blades, we ruined the economy of an island nation and probably killed hundreds of people in the process.
We began where we left off, with Luc, Kalleron and Stormlit separated from Katryol and Kaela. Kat and Kaela were taking their sweet-ass times exploring, when they came upon a small altar room. At the back of the room was an inlet with a statue of the tower in it. It looked a little different from the actual tower, and when Kat and Kaela examined it they found it was glued to the stand. But not being one to abandon an item worth up to 50gp (!!!), Kat kept trying to pull it off. Kaela gave up on him and left the room, and then Kat got the brilliant idea of using his dagger to cut at the glue holding it down. With a flourish his dagger wedged in, and he pulled the statue from the inlet!
...And then blood gushed forth from where he'd cut and he got drenched.
He returned to Kaela all triumphant, and they bickered for a bit about how he was an idiot, but hey, he got a 50 gp statue. Only when they were on the next floor did Kaela stop to wonder why the inlet started bleeding when he took the tower, so they went back down to a room covered in blood. Kaela threw her dagger at the forming scab and Kat got drenched in more blood, and then he decided to attack it for some reason so Kaela abandoned him. He ended up finding a bathroom, but a cleric was exiting at the time he entered. He knocked the cleric out and cleaned up, stole the man's robes and left the bathroom, but by then Kaela had long since ascended the stairs and left him behind.
Back with the other group, we were resting after that painful fight with the mirror mimics, and Luc was trying to get some answers from the Oracle. Kalleron tried to give him some tips on question-asking, and Stormlit just wrote on a piece of paper--presumably a question she wanted to ask the Oracle. There were a few times Luc asked a question and it seemed he'd get an answer, only for it not to happen.
Eventually Kaela appeared, but Kalleron still couldn't sense her. Luc was suspicious, and Kalleron grilled his twin about where she was and why could he not sense her?! and she just answered that she turned it off. Which raises a whole lot of other questions, because how do you just turn off a link you've had since birth, but she didn't seem at all fazed by it. Luc was still suspicious, but Kalleron said he believed it was really her, and then finally Kat appeared. Luc went back to asking questions, and finally blurted out "Can you at least show yourself?" At which point the floor began to rise, ala Terminator 2, and everyone but Luc and Stormlit hid.
A giant mimic showed itself, and Luc demanded to know if it was the Oracle. It answered that it was our Doom, and then the floor became a whirlpool that sucked us all in, and deposited us in rooms down below with a large room full of blood separating us. While we got our bearings and tried to regroup, the Oracle appeared, and it was huge (3x3 squares). And hazards appeared on the walls; these tentacle things what could pull you, and they did acid damage and restrained you. Kalleron saved the day with his Mass Resistance spell, but Stormlit took quite a hit from the Oracle before it dissolved away only to reappear near Luc.
The battle took a long time. It was actually most of the session, mainly because we kept flubbing rolls, and we couldn't get combat advantage no matter how hard Luc tried to provide flanking. 3 of the members are long range and squishy, and the other rogue decided she didn't want in the thick of things and didn't take advantage of flanking provided. Then Luc was taken out towards the end of the fight as he was being used as a plaything between four hazards, and even when he saved against the restrained condition, they'd just pile it on before he could actually get up off the ground. Hurray for nerfed fighters.
The weirdest part about the fight was that twice the Oracle took on the form of something from our pasts. First it made itself into a huge bed that weirded out Stormlit, and then it became the large Master Bath in Luc's mothers' room. We never got a chance to ask it how it knew about these things, though.
We did finally take the Oracle down, at which point the walls started to shake a bit and we confirmed it was a load-bearing boss. Luc fund an exit while the others searched for treasure, and we're now about 60K richer.
When we got outside, we were just in time to watch the main tower sag and then collapse, pulling the other four down after it, most likely killing hundreds of people who couldn't get out in time. I'm thinking the city isn't going to like us much anymore.
We began where we left off, with Luc, Kalleron and Stormlit separated from Katryol and Kaela. Kat and Kaela were taking their sweet-ass times exploring, when they came upon a small altar room. At the back of the room was an inlet with a statue of the tower in it. It looked a little different from the actual tower, and when Kat and Kaela examined it they found it was glued to the stand. But not being one to abandon an item worth up to 50gp (!!!), Kat kept trying to pull it off. Kaela gave up on him and left the room, and then Kat got the brilliant idea of using his dagger to cut at the glue holding it down. With a flourish his dagger wedged in, and he pulled the statue from the inlet!
...And then blood gushed forth from where he'd cut and he got drenched.
He returned to Kaela all triumphant, and they bickered for a bit about how he was an idiot, but hey, he got a 50 gp statue. Only when they were on the next floor did Kaela stop to wonder why the inlet started bleeding when he took the tower, so they went back down to a room covered in blood. Kaela threw her dagger at the forming scab and Kat got drenched in more blood, and then he decided to attack it for some reason so Kaela abandoned him. He ended up finding a bathroom, but a cleric was exiting at the time he entered. He knocked the cleric out and cleaned up, stole the man's robes and left the bathroom, but by then Kaela had long since ascended the stairs and left him behind.
Back with the other group, we were resting after that painful fight with the mirror mimics, and Luc was trying to get some answers from the Oracle. Kalleron tried to give him some tips on question-asking, and Stormlit just wrote on a piece of paper--presumably a question she wanted to ask the Oracle. There were a few times Luc asked a question and it seemed he'd get an answer, only for it not to happen.
Eventually Kaela appeared, but Kalleron still couldn't sense her. Luc was suspicious, and Kalleron grilled his twin about where she was and why could he not sense her?! and she just answered that she turned it off. Which raises a whole lot of other questions, because how do you just turn off a link you've had since birth, but she didn't seem at all fazed by it. Luc was still suspicious, but Kalleron said he believed it was really her, and then finally Kat appeared. Luc went back to asking questions, and finally blurted out "Can you at least show yourself?" At which point the floor began to rise, ala Terminator 2, and everyone but Luc and Stormlit hid.
A giant mimic showed itself, and Luc demanded to know if it was the Oracle. It answered that it was our Doom, and then the floor became a whirlpool that sucked us all in, and deposited us in rooms down below with a large room full of blood separating us. While we got our bearings and tried to regroup, the Oracle appeared, and it was huge (3x3 squares). And hazards appeared on the walls; these tentacle things what could pull you, and they did acid damage and restrained you. Kalleron saved the day with his Mass Resistance spell, but Stormlit took quite a hit from the Oracle before it dissolved away only to reappear near Luc.
The battle took a long time. It was actually most of the session, mainly because we kept flubbing rolls, and we couldn't get combat advantage no matter how hard Luc tried to provide flanking. 3 of the members are long range and squishy, and the other rogue decided she didn't want in the thick of things and didn't take advantage of flanking provided. Then Luc was taken out towards the end of the fight as he was being used as a plaything between four hazards, and even when he saved against the restrained condition, they'd just pile it on before he could actually get up off the ground. Hurray for nerfed fighters.
The weirdest part about the fight was that twice the Oracle took on the form of something from our pasts. First it made itself into a huge bed that weirded out Stormlit, and then it became the large Master Bath in Luc's mothers' room. We never got a chance to ask it how it knew about these things, though.
We did finally take the Oracle down, at which point the walls started to shake a bit and we confirmed it was a load-bearing boss. Luc fund an exit while the others searched for treasure, and we're now about 60K richer.
When we got outside, we were just in time to watch the main tower sag and then collapse, pulling the other four down after it, most likely killing hundreds of people who couldn't get out in time. I'm thinking the city isn't going to like us much anymore.