SESSION 47 – September 2, 2018
After receiving the message that the Seer and her forces were attacking the few defending the Collossus, we fell back through the toilet. Puk ordered the last of the two goblins he turned to fight the two remaining goblins. We expect he is dead.
Urman used 1 of the last 3 charges in the force ring to block the Otyugh from getting us, and the goblins sent to follow us gave shrieks as they came upon it and we left.
A few warg riders came at us and we quickly dispatched all but one, and Puk has a new Warg mount.
We closed the doors before goblin reinforcements could arrive, and barred it.
We found Urman’s hireling, Alrem dead.
We made it to the doors, that were blown open and found Urman’s other hireling, Godfrey dead along with two of the animated bulls.
The fires were all out and all the iron golems were slain.
We heard the sounds of a ram against the doors as the remaining Orcs and Ygritte had fallen back past the control room.
We hoped to have the Seer trapped there, and Urman gave Puk the force ring to seal one hallway with the last two charges. (It regenerates 1 charge per day.)
Urman cast lightning bolt down the other passageway, that had an ogre shaman, and felled several ogres and goblins, and left several wounded ogres.
Zho Ni cast silence on the shaman, and Otiben left a potion of goblin control as he ran off to climb the Colossus.
Batukhan and Embreck stood off to the sides of the hallway and felled the first ogre, and moved on the shaman. Zho Ni cast Prayer.
The door went down and Ygritte and company were exposed. They withstood the onslaught, and Urman cast fireball tasking out all but one orgre and several goblins. Zho Ni drank the potion of goblin control and took control of the remaining goblins. Zho Ni proclaimed Puk as their Savior, Chief of the Bloody Fang.
While the fight raged, Otiben began his slow and steady ascent.
Urman ran under the Colossus, preparing to use his final scroll of dispel magic.
With the aid of the goblins, orcs, and Ygritte the last ogres to the North passageway were defeated, and the ones in the south hall were surrounded, and kept contained, while Puk and Zho Ni ran to join Urman. Urman stepped aside just in time, as a huge plate of metal fell from the Colossus, revealing an opening inside.
As Otiben continued his climb, Urman had enough natural height for his dispel magic to reach the Seer, who lost flight, and dropped her magic wand, that fell dark and broke as it hit the floor. The Seer just barely managed to grab the lip of the opening. Urman picked up the pieces of the shattered wand, taunting the Seer, thanking her for the fancy stick.
Puk fired arrows and completely missed the entire Colossus.
While the fight in the hallway continued, Otiben completed his climb, but could not reach the Seer before she cast Improved Phantasmal Force and pushed Otiben out. The rest of us could only watch helplessly as Otiben fell to his death.
Zho Ni cast silence 15′ radius on an arrow that Puk launched just as Otiben fell, too late to prevent the spell from affecting Otiben. (A first arrow with silence missed, that Urman retrieved so Puk had it at the ready.)
Not Knowing what else to do to get up there, Urman drank the green glittery potion, and got back a 1st level spell, he had used earlier in the day. He chose Magic Missile, but did not have the range to reach the Seer.
The others slowly beat the ogres, until the last one surrendered.
Urman retrieved the luckstone, and vampire dagger from Otiben, vowing to kill the Seer, as he drank the potion of gaseous form that we acquired from the other orc city in the swamp, where we fought the vampire.
Urman floated up, helplessly, only able to watch as the Seer and the green hued, throbbing heart of the Colossus disappeared together. The body of the Colossus crumbled away.
So close to victory, the Seer snatched it from our impending grasp, leaving us hurt, tired, practically spent of all magic and spells, and our long-time companion Otiben, broken amidst the rubble of the Colossus.
Revenge is on our minds, as we plan to eliminate the remaining ogres, and what goblins do not bow the knee to Puk.
[Unknown to us, Otiben hears childish giggling in another dimension.]
[Did the ogres care enough about the goblins trapped in the web spell to free them, or did they stay to the end of its duration, risking suffocation?]
