Post-Session 20 Events: A Close Escape from the Lizard King

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as noted, he can do anything - except catch y'all

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Post-Session 20 Events: A Close Escape from the Lizard King

TavisAllison 11 Apr 2010 17:57

This is a thread I started to pick up on events from last session, in which:

- a giant, dessicated, winged lizard man was discovered brooding over a hoard of treasure
- shouts woke this ghastly figure, causing him to vanish from his treasure room, re-appear in the altar room, and conjure a crackling brain-thing
- the party grabbed some magic items, hid in the bags of holding, and ran through the planar door to Limbo

The current situation is:
- the bulk of the party is in Limbo
- the Lizard King is at large in the dungeon; he may believe Arnold's shouted claim that Lilliand the marilith is screwing with him
- G'ruk, the shaman of the ordinary, non-brain-summoning lizardfolk, is dead; was a plan to blame this on the Beast Lord executed or just talked about?
- the Ninth Menegril, through his seneschal Cahaya Bambang, is threatening to shut down further cross-planar travel unless you help him deal with the heat caused by the death of Patariki Van and the subsequent involvement of the Assassin's Guild

Other things I'm forgetting?

Let's use this thread to keep track of stuff that gets established in the various carousing threads etc., so that it's a one-stop destination to learn what's happened in between last session and the next.

Re: Post-Session 20 Events: A Close Escape from the Lizard King

Chris Newman 11 Apr 2010 18:07

G'ruks body and chamber was made to look like the work of the beastlord.

Re: Post-Session 20 Events: A Close Escape from the Lizard King

TavisAllison 12 Apr 2010 12:05

Thanks!

Events taking place offstage:
step 0, I roll a 1 and 5
step 1, I roll a 3 and 4
step 2, I roll a 6 and 6

Re: Post-Session 20 Events: A Close Escape from the Lizard King

flyingace 13 Apr 2010 14:04

G'ruks body and chamber was made to look like the work of the beastlord.

& I used my magical sickle to remove traces of our entrance into the larger chamber and then into the room where G'ruk was murdered.

Re: Post-Session 20 Events: A Close Escape from the Lizard King

TavisAllison 21 Apr 2010 11:47

Barrogin leads his 25 surviving Barrelmen out of the Caves of the Conquered Dark and back to Drum Coggo, where he sends word to the Stronghold of First Principles and other places where his employers might be found.

"My men and I have left our post, because the alternative was death," he says, addressing his words to the tabletop. "I first heard the whistle alert for enemy contact near the stairs beyond the bronze bars. When we arrived, the sentries there were dead, their corpses sizzling and broken. They died with weapons in their hands, but I saw no scratch on the tentacled crackling thing that hovered above them. We launched volley after volley of crossbow bolts into its flank, to no effect. The thing ignored us and methodically moved from light to light, smashing them from the rock until they fell into the river below and darkness reigned in the caves once more.

"As we prepared for a final defense in the shrine of Balint, a voice hailed us from the dark near the upper reaches of the cave. Speaking in fluent Dwarven, it told us that we must serve or be annihilated. I replied that we were already sworn to service. It asked to whom, and I replied that this was none of its business. The voice attempted to buy our allegiance, but when I said that I had already given my word it asked if we would accept compensation for the deaths of the dwarves that had been killed, which I did. It then said that we must leave the caves; to refuse would be to die, while to do so would serve our masters well by bringing them word that this was once again the territory of the Immortal King, and that none may enter without his permission.

"A pouch of ancient Thracian gold coins was left for us on the stairs when we departed. The voice said that if we were released from our current service, we should take this as a down-payment for our future service to the Immortal King. I recognize that my men have failed in our commission, and if you understandably send us packing I may consider this offer so that we may be closer to the shrine and Balint's remains. However, I would sooner turn this gold over to you and assist you in retaking the caves; I have no love for those who hate light."

Re: Post-Session 20 Events: A Close Escape from the Lizard King

Oban 21 Apr 2010 12:43

However, I would sooner turn this gold over to you

Not to be too greedy, but how much gold? Cause Maldoor does not currently have enough to carouse…

It seems we have to go through or bargain with the Immortal King.

I like the idea of a full assault session on Saturday and do not really care if we assault this guy and his flying electric tentacled thing or the beastlord and his combined forces.

Given what we know of things so far, I think we can try to bargain with this thing - it wants to be the ruler of the territory, and we point out that the beast lord makes a mockery of that claim. Would it care to join with us in exterminating the beast lord? Perhaps with magical assistance from the floating tentacle ball we could more easily pass through the beastlord's defenses (which still include some sort of dragon or hydra or somehting, a medusa, gnolls, more weird skeletons, possibly more minotaurs, the dog brothers, and whatever else the sphinx told us about. And likely another water elemental, unless we steal the summoning device).

I would much rather have the so-called Immortal King on our side for a session or two than deplete our forces fighting two battles at once.

Other thoughts?

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Re: Post-Session 20 Events: A Close Escape from the Lizard King

James_Nostack 21 Apr 2010 14:36

I dislike the Lizard King even more than I dislike Philomena, but I think Oban's right. Our goals are aligned momentarily.

Let's offer to assist the Lizard King in destroying the Beast Lord. This lets us have another access point to the Lost City, may give us a few allies in the attack, and lets us scope out the Lizard King's forces.

That said, I think it would be a good idea to placate the Ninth Menegril first, so that we have our interdimensional escape route handy. (Alternately, I like the idea of sending the Lizard King to Limbo, and then sealing the gate. Let him cause all the trouble he likes there.)

Re: Post-Session 20 Events: A Close Escape from the Lizard King

Invincible Overlord 21 Apr 2010 14:50

Wouldn't the Immortal King recognize us as the guys who walked into his treasure room before he teleported away?

Re: Post-Session 20 Events: A Close Escape from the Lizard King

James_Nostack 21 Apr 2010 15:28

The only dude he saw was Chrystos, who mutilated his own hand in homage. I think we're in pretty good shape if we have to negotiate. The Lizard King was willing to pay the Dwarves rather than eat them, so it's not a complete psychopath.

The Lizard King is probably a lich of some kind. Most gods can see invisible dudes, wouldn't need to haste themselves, and could travel across planes to chase us.

If it's a lich, then we can try to nab its phylactery. If John can carouse to get us a good illustration for reference, Arnold can try to Locate Object on it.

Re: Post-Session 20 Events: A Close Escape from the Lizard King

Invincible Overlord 21 Apr 2010 15:38

Dungeon Logic tells me that this creature is from an era of creation that predates the tedious standardization we expect in later eons — I could be wrong, but I expect it and the brain are pure Jaquays, big bags of fights as this, saves as that, 2-16 claw damage, can do this that and a whole lot else, all in about 2 lines of text. No templates here.

If my carouse or a stolen scrying bowl doesn't get us some solid info, let's off the necromancer. He's probably got scrolls and stuff.

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