Demonac (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} demonac) wrote,@ 2005-09-23 10:29:00 |
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D&D Excerpt #12
CONTINUED FROM #11
That was a busy week, that one I started in #11. This battle is far from over... When we left off, the invisible arcane caster was revealed once more by the Invisibility-purging field emanating from Donner, the NPC cleric, and Balcoth (who had been tripped by the skeletal dragon) was being beat on by all-and-sundry, who were trying to take advantage of the bonus to hit him whilst he was on the ground. Actually, they were still missing more than hitting, but the armored mummy (augmented with barbarian levels) managed to land a blow or two. Verian and Omit have been gang dispelling the invisible arcane caster (using only area dispels, on the 100% accurate assumption that he is using GM's newly invented Ablative Dispelling buff, which protects against targetted dispels).
Verian: Is the guy still Blinking? [Blinking is a powerful defensive ability causing the subject to phase rapidly and unpredictably in-and-out of our plane, causing 50% of attacks to miss (including most forms of magical or psionic attack).]
GM: No, that got dispelled.
Omit: What does he look like?
GM: Human-ish shaped, fine black robes with a hood that hangs low over his face, a black porcelain mask is all you can see beneath it, and he has black gloves.
Verian: Hmm. Well, I can't tell if he's undead, so I'll just have to Fire Ray him. Take 12d6+12 fire damage.
GM: He takes it. On his action he moves right through the Spiritwall, disappearing again. [Ed: as the Wall once again gets between the invisible arcane caster and Donner the Cleric's Invisibility-purging field.].
GM: Azheron, take 18. [The other players didn't seem to have realized, but the armored mummy had actually been attacking Azheron for some time, because although the room is 20 feet high, Azheron's psionic Enlargement increased his own height to about 10 feet, meaning he is only ten feet off the ground, and is within reach of the greatsword wielding undead.]
Azheron: [Doesn't appear to notice, as he is busy looking something up in one of the books]
Omit: [To get his attention] Azheron, take 38.
Azheron: [Without looking up, he gives Omit the finger]
GM: Then the Cleric gets out a scroll and starts casting.
Balcoth: [Venemous...] Mother****er, we're definitely gonna loot you.
GM: You're reacting pretty strongly...
Balcoth: He's drinking our treasure! [Technically you don't drink a scroll, but this has become the lingo for enemies who use consumable magic items, both making them harder to defeat AND preventing us from retrieving those items from their corpses.]
Click here for the stirring conclusion (and bitterness beyond human comprehension) at agc.deskslave.org
