Heatmonth the 4th, 289 of the 29th age. 7:50 AM. The party discussed plans. Lots of plans. Wyvern? Bear? Both? Either? Contingencies. Too many to detail, too many to list. But after an hour and 10 minutes, they had boiled down to a decent operation.
Wilhelm cast Hide from animals twice on the party, making them invisible to normal and giant sized animals for up to 6 hours. Wouldn’t affect the wyvern, but the bear is fair game. Then a series of delay poisons were cast on Darius, Nate, and Connal – assuming that these 3 would be the ones in front of the wyvern when we attack. After that a light spell was cast on a single rock. That would give us 70 minutes of time.
Nate was hit with an invisibility spell so the thief (Fighter) could place himself for a backstab. We then walked down the hall, commanding the animals to stay behind for now. And just before entering the chamber, a bless, a bull strength on Connal, and a divine protection spell followed.
We entered the lair and the Wyvern lunged forward, tail weaving and stabbing. We shot and hit at hit, arrows struck but the scales of the wyvern turned some of the damage away. Shim’s magic missile spell tore in as well. Darius took a stab from the tail to the chest but the delay poison spell held it back for now.
Connal and Darius tanked the wyvern who wasted 2 of its attacks trying to rip Darius tower shield aside so it could get more tail stings at him. More arrows followed and another round of shim’s missiles. Nate got close enough for a solid back stab, and the Wyvern was down past half hit points. For those still down the hall, they could hear the bear coming closer, looking to investigate the combat.
The wyvern was shot by one of Eoghan’s stone biters, the arrow drilling deep into the muscle. That was it, it turned, screeched at the party and charged forward trying to flee. It mowed Darius down, then smashed Connal to the floor. The rest of the group leapt and dodged, trying to get away from the wyvern. As it made its way out, its tail was waving back and forth, daring anyone to get too close and get stabbed. As the trailing line was running out, Darius and Connal snatched it up and braced back, wrapping it around a stalagmite, making the Wyvern snarl and jerk to a stop briefly.
A second Wyvern had arrived from outside and was anxious, jumping about. Meanwhile the Cave bear, 13’ of it, was at the entrance of the other cave and watching. The arrow tore free and the Wyvern made to run outside. Connal snatched up Shim and the 2 of them threw their AC to the wind, charging out of the cave and trying to make the wyvern.
Meanwhile the animals was barking at the bear who advanced a bit, and the animals went back down the wyvern lair. Jack stood their alone another 30 seconds before joining the rest. The party also moved back down the hall, watching the bear and deciding of what to do. Outside Shim managed to fire off a blast of Shim’s missiles and the wounded wyvern fell over dead. The 2nd one took to the sky and Shim and Connal returned to the cave.
Still invisible to animals, they found themselves entering the bear’s portion of the lair, but a fired off dancing lights attracted the bear’s attention and it followed them back that way. Connal and Shim were forced to hug the wall as the bear sniffed and walked, getting closer. A hurled rock by Nate to distract the bear made it turn back to the main cave briefly, giving the monk and gnome a chance to go around it.
Eventually the Cave bear returned to its lair and we all joined up again. In the wyvern’s lair we looked for treasure. We did find old signs of eggs – Wilhelm and Eoghan were sure 4 or 5 years olf, and maybe 5 of them. Wyverns reach adulthood after 3 years so there were more wyverns out there.
As for treasure, we did find a portion of a goblin victory obelisk. Maybe 5’ tall, 4” square. A few of them read the goblin marks that were still visible. “During the razing of Mende….Powers beyond even that of Maglubiyat, the clans…Four Peaks, Dark Fathoms, and Torn Flesh came as one under…Site of the victory of the dark beast without the need…Eternal Queen Helen Back.”
Some of them had to be goblin clans, but the name Helen Back didn’t sound…gobliny. We took the obelisk to put in the hut and went outside, not wanting to engage the cave bear yet. We took some teeth, blood, and Nate along with some help from others, tried to milk some of the poison from the Wyvern’s tail. He got coated – quite a bit, but did get a single dose of Type D for now.
At this point Neutralize poisons were given out to those infected and we discussed plans on the bear. Friendship? Charming? Attack? Summon monsters and get past in the fight? Hide from animals on the animals? Lots of options and none were the best choice.
Heatmonth the 4th, 10:55 AM.
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