DND: The Flight of Dragons 9Due to campaign switcharoo)

Sunday, DND Norse was supposed to happen, but Faust the DM was unable to DM on the sunday, so I gladly gathered maptools and built to carry on with what happened last Sunday, if you're not sure what happened. Don't worry you can find the recap here: http://thebardisdead.blogspot.com/2011/03/dnd-flight-of-dragons-paragon-campaign.html

Carrying on form their decision, the group wanted to lay siege on the city of Athena! Bardeil being the diplomatic one decided that negotiation was the first and bets option, if that did not succeed they would swoop in with the dragon, Caesar and make an aerial attack. Raz and his army of holy men waiting on the outskirts of the city for a signal or a message to tell them what would happen next...

Bardeil was successful in her negotations, how? Well with the help of Regden and the favor of Lolth (she bears a symbol of Lolth as does Hennen after the incident with Hades) Bardeil took Nero, the old Lord out of the city and the group killed him and removed his ears. They were presented to the drow by bardeil as Regden, being a druid had turned into a swarm of spiders, swarming Bardeil to make it look as if they favored her...and drow being lovers of spider's obviously found this intriguing.

So came the decision for the town who would take over Nero. Bardeil decided that it should be her, before the incident with the drow occurred she had been lady of Athena and wanted to regain her power. She managed to convince the drow of many things, but the drow now had to put her through a ritual. A pint of blood would be drawn and offered to a magically linked statue of Lolth. If Lolth accepted Bardeil as leader, the statue would erupt with a swarm of spiders. If the statue rejected her it would burst with a cloud of darkness.

The ritual took place and Regden had decided, just in case to remain in spider form and went ahead to the church of Lolth and waited inside the mouth of the statue. To both Regden's and Bardeil's shock though. The statue accepted Bardeil as swarms of spiders erupted from the mouth. Bardeil, looking at the statue, could swear at one point he saw Lolth smiling at him, before it returned to it's normal state.

So the plan was devised. Bardeil would tell the drow army of Athena that Raz the Righteous and his rebels were in a cave and that it would be important if he were eliminated immediately. What occurred next was an ambush. Regden told Raz and his army of the plan and he and the rest of the group waited outside the cave, while Bardeil stayed in the city to make it look as if she didn't know what was about to go down.

The encounter was long and hard fought, as twenty of the drow army marched to the cave, ten fought by the group, ten by Raz and his army separately so the group didn't have so many to deal with. In game time the encounter was only 42 seconds. However so much shit happened that it would have been the most unrecordable encounter ever. Hennen being the crit meister he is was killing like a mad man. Even on crit fails, fate managed to make it so that he rerolled his d20 to get a good outcome and with all my attempts to thwart hi efforts. He was the biggest damage dealer of all.

The rest of the group were being attacked by snipers, battle wights, inquisitors and an aracanist. The arcanist was the first to go down. However the group were fearful as an old enemy came onto the fields...drow poison (those unaware of drow poison and it's effects it is like this. If hit, you take -2 to attacks until you save, if you fail to save once, you are also weakened, fail to save again...and you are knocked out for the rest of the encounter) Many members of the group were hit, but relentlessly they saved and fought on, until they could save no longer. As the drow numbers diminished, so did the group's health. Regden, Erevan and Shamash fell unconscious in combat, due to the drow poison and the attacks of the drow right near the end.

In the end however the group were successful, tired, worn out. They decided it best to gather loots and find out what had to be to be done next in the war they had become a part of. Raz told them they needed alliances and were given the choice There were the human slaves, if rebellion were caused, they could gather the slaves on their side and boost their numbers. There were the dwarves, forced to mine resources in the mountains for the drow. The elves and eladrin could be contacted through the feywild and brought to the mortal planes, however they are in the throws of civil war. Then there are the dragonborn, tribes split up across the empire. And last...the Treeflings, the people of Regden, camping out in the forests, remaining neutral, remaining safe. So their race does not die out.

The group decided it best to head to the feywild, end the civil war...and take it from there. To get to the feywild though they would need to open a portal and the only place where a scroll could be found lay in the ruins of the city of Alicia. Probably filled with insane creatures and drows...and a danger to anyone who ventured there, but the group is brave and want their world back to the way it was...deciding next session they would find the scroll...head to the feywild...and end the civil war.