The first came to the burial chamber of Kith-Kanan – founder of the Qualinesti, who, with the help of the Dwarves built the fortress of Pax Tharkas. Across his lap (for his remains sat in a large throne of stone) was a great sword that Lorena Whiteswan divined to be embued with some very powerful magic and then realized (with a series of raises on a Knowledge: Arcane roll!) that it must be the legendary Wyrmslayer! Norfindel took the sword – thinking the ancient king would understand they had desperate need of it!
Carrying on through some double doors made of bronze they followed a passage that lead to another hall where they were ambushed by…
SLUG EAT YOUR FACE!
(I was so excited reading ahead to discover that there was actually a GIANT SLUG in this adventure and I’d have an opputunity to use SLUG EAT YOUR FACE!)
Of course with such a big party, even making the giant slug a wild card… he didn’t have much of a chance (good thing the sword wasn’t called Slugslayer…)
After slaying SLUG EAT YOUR FACE! They realized that this was a dead end and headed back to explore a different corridor they had passed along the way here. This lead them back to a crypt with many stone doors down a dark hall. Of course Roscoe Thorngage - being “curious” and all – HAD to check them out…
Oh dear!
ZOMBIES!!
GRAAAARRRR!!!
And on the third turn I got a joker… because they hadn’t quit got a line formed up and I had a few characters more or less surrounded I – with the joker and wild attacks and gang-up bonuses I had +4 to +7 to hit (and +4 to damage, if I hit) – which these useless creature needed…
I actually hit Henry FitzArnulf with a raise… then started rolling sixes for damage… a lot of them… when it was all counted up I’d caused five or six wounds… Jackson who was playing Henry for Christian (who wasn’t there!?) roll a two to soak… fail… bennied that and started raising and raising and ended up soaking ALL of the wounds… it was that kind of night…
I also managed to tag Norfindel for a few wounds and one actually "stuck".
Wall o’Zombies hammering on Wall o’Heroes
I pulled ANOTHER joker two turns later… but this one wasn’t nearly so effective…
Eventually the zombies were whittled away…
In the end Henry FitzArnulf and Roscoe Thorngage had each taken out nine! Norfindel had taken out five, Tika and Gilthanas had taken out three each, “New Guy” and Marcus Cabot both took out two, and Magnus Blackburn had beaten down one with the torch he was carrying… Lorena Whiteswan held her light so everyone could see and managed to cast armour on a couple characters… Goldmoon tried, in vain, to heal norfindel throughout the whole combat…
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If Lorena didn't have the light just think of the darkness penalties! I also have begun to like the idea of helping the other members of the group by giving them armour - certainly very much in line with being a pacifist and just wanting to loyally help protect her friends.
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