Session Start: Sun May 12 13:29:21 2002
[13:55] <Grey> Grey pages Minora, and asserts that the other half of the party is going fine. Zim's ring of regeneration no longer works, due to his undead status. Zim passes the ring to Leo. Morning arrives, but the women have not yet awoken, having only gone to sleep an hour ago. After some discussion, we decide to track the beast, and not worry about wating for the women. After all, the beast and the person may need to sleep as well...
[14:02] <norse_DM> the "women"are called Thorsa, Katrina ("Kat"), Thora of Norrvik and Gunnhild
[14:03] <Tessarael> is anyone taking care of the women, or will they be able to fend for themselves? Current list of enemies is at least an archer with a long bow (who you haven't yet caught up with, so he's better at hiding than the tiger) and the 20 foot long tiger
[14:04] <Grey> The women are currently sleeping at various people's houses.
[14:05] <Grey> Safranna begins tracking, rather effectively. She tracks at full speed, we jog to keep up. Tirelessly, of course. Safranna finds booted footprints of a medium size humanoid that meets up with the tiger. The boooted prints then disappear, probably into the trees. It appears the tiger circled around behind us last night, before attacking us.
[14:08] <Grey> Safranna finds signs of the Avoral Guardinals. Safranna finds the scene of combat. It appears the Avoral Guardinal lost, although the tiger shed some blood. Safranna continues to uncover further signs of last nights events. She finds a point, perhaps an hour behind the tiger, where someone has started to conceal the tracks. Quite possibly, someone knows we're following them.
[14:11] <Tessarael> how competent are they at concealing the tracks?
[14:13] <Grey> Safranna cannot follow the tracks.
[14:14] <Grey> Safranna then employs some rune, but to no avail.
[14:17] <Grey> Lani chats to some birds. One of them is fairly informed, and knows of where a large furry creatures lives, as well as a number of two-legs (Kobold's?). Zim paralyses an insect on touch, and feeds it to the bird. Rih flies off to investigate. A bit of his wing falls off, despite the preservation spells cast upon him.
[14:24] <Tessarael> (what sort of undead is Rih?)
[14:26] <norse_DM> (just the undead template)
[14:28] <Grey> We head off, but choose to approach from the non-village side. We move in a hopefully quiet manner. Rih finds a Kobold encampment. There's also entrances to caves or mines of some sort. We arrive at the hill, and can see the Kobold encampment. There's some sort of writing on the cave entrances. There's only a couple of dozen Kobold's available. All cave entrances are big enough for the big tiger.
[14:36] <Grey> Zim sneaks down, invisible, and investigates. Zim finds some natural traps as he sneaks in. He then falls into a pit trap. Zim takes a nasty wound from a spike - or at least, he would have if he could be criticalled. Zim, however, is quiet in doing so. He then moves on. He sneaks into the Kobold camp. He sees sings of the giant tiger. He also sees some other sort of creature in the Kobold camp. Some sort of big long furred creature, with stripes, perhaps six feet long. It is still smaller than the 30 foot long tiger. Zim gets right up close, and notices that it's a dire weasel. It smells Zim. The dire weasel attacks Zim, but misses. Zim flies up. Invisibly. Zim then hangs about mid-air, and is then spotted by some Kobold's. Zim is attacked.
[14:59] <norse_DM> two spears bounce off him
[14:59] <Grey> Safranna, Grey, and Lani head off, flying, toward the encampment. Spells are cast. I attempt to communicate, but the Kobold shaman starts casting dispel magic. Combat ensues. Lani successfully colour sprays the Kobold shaman. The Kobold's ineffectually throw spears.
[15:14] <Lani-Zim> Another dire weasel appears out of a cave
[15:15] <Grey> Grey flies down, and kills a Kobold. Zim shadow evokes a shout, and kills most of the Kobold's. One survives, in the area of effect. The Kobold's start to scream. They turn and run for the different entrances. A dire weasel goes for Grey, quite ineffectually.
[15:23] <Lani-Zim> Safrana charms/calms the other dire weasel, just by speaking with it. It was trying to attack her and now sits placidly at her feet.
[15:24] <Grey> Lani attempt to knock the shaman unconscious.
[15:27] <Lani-Zim> Lani gives the shaman a piddling graze on the head. Grey chases him and smacks him on the back of the head.
[15:28] <Grey> The shaman keeps running. Grey hears a loud growl ahead of him. A big growl.
[15:29] <Lani-Zim> Zim and Lani bait the other dire weasel into coming near Safrana.
[15:31] <Grey> Grey is currently separated from the others, and within the cave system. Lani flame arrows the other weasel to death. The other weasel is reduced by Zim.
[15:34] <Lani-Zim> The calmed dire weasel tries to run away so Zim throws a Reduce spell at it.
[15:34] <Grey> The other weasel (now three feet long), runs away. In the caves, Grey fireballs the fleeing Kobold's, killing them all. The massive tiger attacks me. It deals a small amount of damage. The others move to catch up.
[15:38] <Lani-Zim> Zim casts Glitterdust on the tiger.
[15:39] <Grey> The tiger glitters away, but is not blinded. Lani starts to summon a monster.
[15:39] <Lani-Zim> Disco tiger!
[15:42] <Grey> Grey cleaves into the tiger with his greatsword, but despite the powerful blows, it is only moderately wounded. Someone behind the dire tiger casts magic fang. Some fiendish dire weasels move past the tiger to attack Grey. Lani summons a Chaos Beast, behind the tiger. Lani flame arrows the tiger.
[15:48] <Lani-Zim> The tiger resists the Chaos attack thingy
[15:51] <Grey> Grey full attacks the weasels, and kills two of them. One weasel remains. Zim acid arrow's the big tiger. The dire tiger tears apart the chaos beast. The remaining weasel wounds Grey. The weasel's jaws latch onto Grey. Lani attempts to dismiss the tiger, but to no effect. Grey kills the weasel. Zim dim doors to the other side of the tiger, and finds some kobolds. They natter happily, and look eager to kill the gnome that has popped into their presence. The tiger tears away at Grey. Lani is sneak attacked from behind.
[16:03] <Lani-Zim> The acid continues to eat away at the tiger.
[16:04] <Grey> Lani turns around, and sees a camoflaged orc, looking rather pissed off. He has two weapons. The kobolds atack Zim, but to little effect.
[16:05] <Lani-Zim> One of them casts Hold Person at Zim, and being undead, he shrugs it off.
[16:07] <Grey> Lani finger of deaths the orc. The orc dies.
[16:07] <Grey> Grey kills the tiger.
[16:11] <Grey> Zim casts fear against several of the Kobolds
[16:14] <Grey> Grey wriggles past the corpse of the tiger. Grey gets smothered in blood, guts, etc, in doing so.
[16:18] <Grey> Lani blasts most of the kobolds with a sonic attack. One kobold remains. Zim paralyses him with a touch.
[16:22] <Grey> Lani checks out the orc for magical gear. He has various items of magic. The shaman also has some magic.
[16:34] <Grey> We then split up and slaughter the remaining kobolds.
[16:34] <Grey> We also find the lair of the tiger, and the orc. The lair has many animal skulls, and an alter stained with blood.
[16:39] <Grey> We finish up, all kobold's accounted for. Except for the kobold children, whom Zim doesn't feel like killing, since they're just kobold kids. Zim with Lani's help attempt to teleport the kids to my palace, from where they can go to Serraine. Except, Lani mis-teleports. She arrives in a similar location. It looks to Lani that Grey has done some redecorating. So much so that his "guards" that don't speak Sindhi start pointing spears at the teleporting members. They're speaking Ylarii. The guards appear to quite upset.
[16:59] <Grey> The Sultan's vizier appears, and politely invites them to join him for refreshments. Zim had paralysed the children. They're taken away by the guards.The Sultan's palace is fairly ornate. Zim and Lani are invited into a room where half-clad men serve them some tea. Lani and Zim pretend to drink the water. The vizier queries them as to where they come from, etc. After some discussion, the vizier lets them go.
[17:10] <Grey> Zim does the next teleport, and is successful. They take the children through the gate to Serraine.
[17:17] <Grey> Zim discusses the mattter briefly with Gwen, and (after some consternation) decides to put them up in their home. Whilst Zim looks for some Kobold nannies, Lani desperately tries to entertain 35 screaming kobold babies. Lani spends a free 5th level spell to cast prestidigitation. In desperation, trying to shut the children up.
[17:21] <Grey> Zim finds a kobold mother, whom she asks to look after the 35 children for her. The kobold mother is so pleased that Zim is being so nice as to run a kobold orphanage. (she has not been told Zim just participated in the slaughter of their families) Zim and Lani start discussing the possibility of a proper orphanage. A bevvy of Kobold women turn up, and start looking after the children.
[17:38] <Grey> Lani arcane locks many of the rooms in our manor. Lani and Zim teleport back to the village. We debrief the valkyrie-like women back at the village.
[17:47] <Grey> We interrogate the kobold. He says the orc turned up about half a year ago. He was some sort of reject from his tribe, and had all sorts of weird animals with him. He often tortured animals as well. After torturing some of the weasels, they weren't really the same afterwards: they started to like blood, and went feral, etc. He let loose various of the animals that went feral. They developed a taste for blood. The orc was named Ror. He was the one that dealt with the now-dead valkyrie woman. It would appear he wanted to attract the other women. Except we turned up. We let the kobold prisoner go.
[18:02] <norse_DM> he runs freeeeeeee
[18:07] <Grey> We divvy up the treasure. Safranna wants to hunt down the fiendish animals. We agree to catch up with the Valkyries. A little down the road, after they've raised their friend from the dead. The village has a celebration that night. Safranna and Grey hunt fiendish creatures that night.
[18:21] <Grey> We have a day off.
[18:22] <Grey> We trundle off down the road. We meet up with the adventurers. They teleported in, reduced in size. They are with their fifth companion, now resurrected.
[18:25] <Grey> Turns out she didn't actually have an item to find. It was just that she found out about that creature stalking the woods, but ended up being stalked in turns.
[18:26] <Grey> We ask her about Jotans. She says there are rumours of great giants in the mountains. She knows of where some normal giants are. She gives us directions to these giants (she doesn't know what kind they are). She directs us up into the mountains. The giants are about 40 miles west of Sudorn (which is itself about 40 miles north of Norvick). She gives some more detailed directions.
[18:31] <Grey> She thinks it'll take about a week to get there. We prepare to travel off.
Session Close: Sun May 12 18:41:47 2002