Draft (Runelords)

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Episode no.	Episode 96
Date	2010
Game Master	Abbe
Characters	Honeypot Nathaniel Nell Velicia
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The dead tree or the chain golem.

Finally the winter let go of it's grip and the warmth of the spring arrived. The time had come to set up our expedition to finally stop Karzoug's plans to return as an evil ruler of the world. We had to travel east into the high wild and unknown mountains. We all gathered in Turtleback Ferry and made sure we had everything ready. Kaven closed The Golden Giant and brought most of the inventory of food and spices. I left Creampuff in the care of Old Jobe. I really though we should bring a mule. Old Jobe had told stories so many times of how his mules had saved him over and over again, that I doubted that we would make it without one, but no one of the others thought so, so I gave up the idea. When getting the last things from the general store to be ready for climbing cliff sides, we were told of an old expedition that left Turtleback Ferry twenty-five years before us, that according to the tales had been to Xin-Shalast and borrowed money from several people in town to finance a return there and mining the gold rich mountains. They had never returned. I asked Maelin to make a list of who had lost how much of the ones still in town.

Early morning we set out. We were walking up to Bitter Hollow, where we had a light lunch. It was kind of strange, traveling on foot, but as we left Bitter Hollow we also left all trails behind and rounded Lake Coal to follow the river beyond. We didn't know for sure if it was the right river but it was our best guess. The hilly landscape soon turned into mountains a it got harder and harder to cross.

Come to wooden building

Outside it seems as if poisoned ground. We stay back and protection rituals from Poison, Cold and Acid

Nathaniel said that the ground had arsenic from mining. I noted that arsenic is a poison that can be hidden in food.

Went closer Honey said that old dead tree was not tree but dead ent.

I didn't care until Nathaniel said that the heap behind it glittered. I looked closer and noted that it was just "slagg" but Nathaniel was on his way there to look closer when the tree moved.

I attacked it hitting and damaging it although the others had trouble getting any good hits

Velicia taunted it with her magic and teleported out of its reach only to be chased around.

The tree screamed in a horrible voice and it was answered by an even worse.

I continued to use its blind focus on Velicia to throw my dagger in vulnerable spots while she hid in the house

She saw a ghost of one of the dwarves

I tried to keep my distance but it was hard and its cold presence almost sucked the life out of us when it was close

The answering voice now howled on the wind. It grew louder and an awful storm surrounded us.

I could still keep track of the undead ent and threw my dagger into cracks

Honeypot cast a ritual countering the cold storm

The monster understood that Velicia had hid inside the building and it smashed a hole in the wall.

Finally Nathaniel hit the monster almost for the first time and his burning sword set it on fire and it fell to dust.

The tiering storm made it impossible to get any rest so I got inside to get some cover from the wind

Look around

I scout ahead and sneak up the stairs

I found a trap making the stairs fall away if stepped on. I disarmed it before the others came up and continued on.

Suddenly the heavy chain hanging in the shaft in the middle of the stairs came alive. It surprised us all, but I kept away from its flailing metal.

Leaping up the stairs and climbing up to the ceiling I stab hard at the wood where the chain is attached. I could see below how the chain wrapped itself around Honeypot and Nathaniel trying to throw them down the shaft in the middle, but they hung on to the railing. I doubled my efforts and pried open the top link of the chain making it fall down.

Seeing it fall I got very aware of the height of sixty feet down to the stone floor, where the chain crashed down.

It fell into a heap that raised up looking like a huge humanoid made out of the chain. It reached up with a rusty arm almost thirty feet high before falling to pieces and staying down.