Well, how should I start Xune? Yes, the bar will do. Alrighty then, i forgot to introduce myself, I'm Toox, changeling darkpact warlock. I appear to be a drow, I'm not. I was in a bar today, when some lolthmeat warforged entered, he took over the bar with his more sane, reasonable wizard friend Alban. They start using the the tavern as a base for their adventuring group "Final Miniboss." They recruit some odd human fighter, Wince I think. I insulted the spiderdung and Alban recruited me. A genasi had a problem with the overthrow and challenged us all to duals separately.
We fought separately and that man would give lolthblessed dryders a run for their money. A kalashar bard teleports to the other side of the room, gets recruited and dueled by that genasi, Zan-Kyri. The swordmage genasi beats the bard who I wake. Zan was on a bloody rampage! I go to the hooker room with the bard who introduces himself as Harken. We watched a good-looking changeling in the form of a girl dance. She was pretty good.
I sent Xune, my spider farmilliar, to check on the duel that had broken out between the human and Zan. Zan's was getting his mandibles sharpened, that is to say, he was losing. Badly. Zan could not hit nor damage a hair on the humans head. Wince was precisely striking, hardly missing a shot. I woke Zan as he lost. We rested and spoke about Final Miniboss. Wolf-Eye, a semi-acceptable human barkeep, told us of a fort with a decent magic item in it. As we left another member of Final Miniboss joined us. It was Livy, a young cleric of Bahamut.
As we passed some guards on the road, we spoke briefly. We ended up at the fort without a hitch. I skulked off into shadows and scaled the wall, while Harken gladly made a distraction. His roars of fury and flaming guitar never cease to amaze me. I morphed human to walk along the wall, jumped the gap in between the portcullis' winch and I, and opened the gate. We pursued the guards into the base and I dodged into the foliage of a tree. Zan dealt with one guard, as did I, while the rest killed two guards. We noticed that there was a guardhouse with several inside. I walked in as a guard we just killed and bluffed them into going back to what they were doing and that the intruders were dead.
Zan void assumed and killed two guards and took the keys, which we never used. I left and climbed a guard tower. Atop was where the underboss was. I hid out in that room. Quick to follow the party commenced a fight saving me from my unintentional prison. That was one of the more dangerous fights we had to do since I have joined them to date. Wince took some magic gauntlets from the dead underboss.
When we got back to town, Alban, who had stayed there to help Wolf-Eye, had recruited a slightly smug elven monk named Ness. Wince dueled him in the void arena and had to start a cowards fight to win. If it had been me I would have declared Ness winner when Wince chickened out and second winded. Either way we recruited the secretive monk. Wolf-Eye came around with some information pertaining to the Prism, the artifact the company was created to find. He said that Reaver of Souls, our rivals were headed to Ykrum jungle searching for a piece of it.
We went to the jungle to fight a giant ape. Turns out they are like GIANT HUMANS. I lost it and accidentally dropped my disguise. We saw 4 bodies, fresh, around the ape. We pulverized the ape and a druid came down from the trees. It was a short conversation before she ran off with them to revive them. He handed us another piece of the Prism. I decided it would be safest to have Xune take it and then have him be his passive state on me. He became a tattoo on my hand, along with the Prism. We entered a room when continuing on. It contained a chest and eight fake walls.
I flipped out at the goblins that popped out and five out of eight decided to make themselves scarce. We killed the three others without hesitation. The next fight was in a narrow hallway with a gelatinous cube. That was torture for all but me, who kept distance. We killed it and continued to a room with chest high walls. Dwarves decided it was efficient to all stand together and I spread my contagion over them all. Violence happened as Ness dashed over to a chest in the corner like a magpie. He ignored the combat entirely. We ended up killing all but one. I had a darkspiral aura of 25 feet, which is huge and highly dangerous. I taunted a dwarf into attacking me, which he immediatly regretted as his crossbow bolt snapped like a twig, followed by every other bone in his corpulent body. We trudged on into a hallway coated in minoins of every veriety. 36 in total. They explained that the head dwarf wanted to test us in a duel. Not to the death. 6 vs 1. We won without a lot of trouble. We retrieved magic items and woke the dwarf. I got deathcut leather armor. We continued into a room with floors coated in beautifully smelling vines. Using common sense to deduce that the dire rat wasn't the only "threat" I climbed the walls around to the other side and found the prism in a cloud of gas. I sent Xune into it. Scratch that, poison gas. Xune reappeared and we went to our friends aid as they called for help. I entered to find vine horrors attacking my team and Ness doing the first annual vine horror rodeo. Ness was perched atop one of them, riding its head. Livy and I used their delicious weakness against them, fire, and they retreated. Winced endured the gas and took the piece of the prism. The gas expanded and we fled. Outside the dwarf leader that had dwelled here said he was to make a base at Tamait peak. He said he didn't know about the gas trap but I don't believe him.
We returned to town and sold our un-needed equipment. I added the second addon to the Prism and arcane draconic wings sprung from my back. In compensation for carrying the Prism I gave the team 1000 gp which Ness, Wince, Livy and Harken split with the rest of the loot I didn't touch.
Things are going fine, Toox.
O.O.C. So Mike and I had a little bet. If the campaign was more shenanagainy then usual I won. Whoever lost had to dress like a hipster at school on monday. I lost. Well done Mike, I enjoyed my first time as a real character.
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