Adventures of Lothar
Part 1I am Lothar a honest and pride vagrant. I am a Child of Bhaal and it made my past interesting to say the least. I had some adventures in the past with my friends but now somthing really dangerous and mystical happened and I decided to write a diary.
I was waked up by Imoen in my cell. I had no idea how I got there; I just remember that I was tortured by a wizard. I hate them really. I found my comrades close to my cell and I freed them. Rancle was so shocked that she was converted and she devoted her life to Lathander. I was a bit suprised but we can leave with it. We finally managed to escape from his dungeon luckily (maybe thanks to Lathander however I doubt it). We arrived to the Promenade and saw a conversation between Imoen and the wizard who kept us in his dungeon. Before we can attack him crowled wizards arrived and both the wizard and Imoen were taken away.
When we left the Promenade we had got an offer from Gaelan. 20.000 golds sounded a bit too much for me. We hanged around in Athkatla and we have got several offers. It seems that there is a need for our weapons! We went to Trademeet where we met with a honest druid called Cernd who joint to our team. He is really a good guy and I am proud that he is with us. We went to a nearby forest where we realized that dark druids take over the controll in the Druid Grove. We fighted some of them until we reached the Grove and I challenged Faldorn the leader. I had to put down all of my weapons and equipments and I was able to keep only my clothes. I was still able to defeat Faldorn!
SPOILER!It was really a tough fight. My vagrant was only on level 8 and I had reload this fight several times. He had no skill to use staffs, so he was not able to use really efficienlty the only weapon you can find in the fighting place. He had the following options to use:
- 4 Charm animal spells (ranger ability)
- 1 Armor of Faith spell (clerical spell)
- 1 Cure Lights Wound, 2 Draw upon Holy Might, 1 Larloch's Minor Drain and 2 Slow Poison (useless in this fight)
At the begining of the battle Lothar casted an Armor of Faith (last for 15 rounds) and pick up a staff. Druid casted a stoneskind. I was able to interrupt his next spell with LMD. Then he summoned 2 black bears (or grizzlys?) and I charmed one of them and together we easily beated the other bear. Then we concentrate on the druid and he strangily did not summoned more bear, so we were able to remove his stoneskin. He renew it but we beat it again and we finally managed to kill him.
After winning this battle I immediately challenged for the leadership of the Grove and I was able to easily win this battle.
(Remark: there is a small bug here. I challenged the leadership immediatley and I was suprised that the charmed bear was still there. I think it should be removed from there.) Together I and Cernd can lead this Grove and we can make it a good place for those who dedicated their life to serve the Nature! I got my first task soon from the Spirit of Nature: I had to kill a troll shaman who danger the balance. We got a club that is really good against such monsters and with the help of it we could easily killed him. The spirit was satisfied and I am now really sure that we can drive this Grove!
Then we went back to TradeMeet and we were asked to send the genies away from the city. They come to kill a rakshasha and I promised to them that we take care of it. We heard rumors that it is hidden near to the Druid Grove and we went back there. We realized that we met with him (her?) before, (s)he was the old lady who tried to sell potions to us. We easily killed him/her and his/her two minions. When we reported it back to the genies they left immediately. And we were celebrated as the Heroes of Trademeet and we really deserved it! Then we were asked to help for two nobles family but I do not care about politics, so we did not care about it!
Here I have to make a personal comment. My comrade Berti is not a bad one; the only problem with her is that she is really crazy. When she jumpes to fight she foes it likes a crazy bear and anyway his reactions to every moment of life is very harsh. One day she told me that she does not want to be such a crazy anymore and I was very happy. I thought it is a change in her attitude but then she told me that she wanted to become an expert in thieving. Oh, no! That was not what I wanted to hear! Our discussion was a bit harsh but we finally make a deal: she controlls her attitude and in that case I accept her choice.
We went back to Athkatla and when we entered the city we got an offer from another source. Then very soon we were asked to speak with Gaelan and I decided to do it. But before it we went to the Promenade and helped a little boy to find his mother who was lost in the circus. The circus was full with illusions inside but we found the mage and killed him (again a mage! - there is a good reason I hate them). Then we decided to go to Gaelan but when we went throught a bridge in our way to the Slums, we were asked by a nice officer to take care of killings in this area. This guy (called Aegisfield) was a decent guy but not a clever one: we asked only several questions to somke local peoples and we easily realized that the skinner is behind it. We confronted with him and we killed his people however he was able to escape. Then we went really to Gaelan and we had got a new offer: he lowered the price to "only" 15k golds and I accepted it. I used to heard that competition can lower prices and now I have got an evidence. We accepted his offer because I do not like the attitude of the other side and anyway I do not like graveyards too much. Gaelan directed us to Aran Linvail, the head of thieves here in Athkatla. We went to the thief headquater and Aran told us that he needs the help of us. I do not like it but I finally agree to do it.
End of Part 1Part 2We got an amulet and a strong protection ring from Aran. Hmm, maybe he is not so bad and ugly but a good guy? We have got our first task from Aran to meet with Mook and help her to protect a shipping. We went to the Temple District to allow Rancle to prey for her God and we saw their some fanatic who tried to convience people to join a new cult. Then a priest of Lathander asked us to help destroy this cult and we agreed to do it. Later. First we went to the country side to breath some fresh air. We saw a strange tower and we met there some paladins. They asked to destroy the demon inside the building. We entered to the tower and killed some monster there but we leave a little bit later because it seems to be really a tough place. We bought here a potion case from a nice lady.
We went back to the city and helped Mook. She died there but we were able to kill the attacker who was a vampire. Our next task was to find out where the vampire land is. We met with Renal who also has a high level position in the Shadow Thieves and we agree to find out what is happening in one of their guild house. We met with Maevar and we got several tasks from him and his follower Edwin (our old "friend" from the past). One of the task was interesting: he ordered us to kill a mage called Rayic Gethras. I was not against it, so we went to his house. We easily killed his minion and entered his room. The battle against this evil mage was started and he casted some protection spell on him. Our nice magical weapons were ineffective and then I had the idea and shouted: "
Comrades! Beat him with weak normal weapons or if you do not have then use your arms!". That made miracle and he felt within seconds. Immediately after this battle we bought some normal weapons to be prepared for the next evil wizard. We did all of the quests and we were able to collect the proof of Maver's treachery. We were asked by Renal to clean out the headquater and we did it. Finally we were offered to lead this guild and Berti convienced me to accept it. So, we have a guild now! My life become stranger than I've ever imagined.
We found out that in the Copper Coronet in the back rooms they organize fights. We had got permission to enter to this area and we spoke with Hendak and we promised to save them. I hate slavery! So, we went and attack the Beastmaster who summoned his animals! It is not the best idea against two rangers and a druid.
We concentrate on him first and kill him easily. Then we killed his pet and finally we killed his poor animals. They were very agressive because they were imprisoned. I and Rancle charmed two bears and they helped us in this battle.
In the meantime we did some small tasks (for example we helped Montaron, we investigate the fallen paladins, we had some adventure in the Graveyard and so on...) but I do not want to describe them here. One of this small event was that we were asked to rescue a bard from an evil wizard! Hah, this is a quest for me! So, we went to the Temple District and we climbed down to the sewer. Here we met with Keldorn and have a nice discussion with him about the evil creatures and the direction where the world is moving forward. We agreed that the world world was a better place used to when we were young. Then we went to a library where we met with the wizard. Here we found out that the bard entered to his library to steal a gem. We did not kill this wizard but we went back to the sewer to find an imp. The imp was also a wizard and we managed to kill him! He summoned some creature to help him (Skeleton Warriors, Mordenkainen's Swords) but we destroyed them easily. We used to bought Vhailor's Helm and using it Berti was able to cast Death Spell that killed those summons! We were really tired after this battle, so we went back to the city and spent a nice evening in the Copper Coronet!
Update:
SPOILER!I forgot to mention that the Vhailor's Helm was a great help in the battle with Pai'na. In that battle he summoned a lot of small spiders. Berti used the helm and all this small spiders were dead immediately. We then concentrated on the big spiders (spirit and and killer spiders). Ince noticed also that these big and very powerfull spiders are evil (unlike the smaller spiders including sword and giant) and therefore Protection from evil and Holy Smite are very effective against them!
We did the second quest of Aran and it was much harder than the first one. The contact was really tough and he was helped by vampire bride. Hmm, I am really not interested to know his sexual life. We found out that the opponent guild headquater is in the Graveyard. We reported it back to Aran he asked us to clear out this nest. We prepared some stakes and rememorize spells and we went to the graveyard. We have met only one strong opponent: Tanova, a mage vampire. She was really tough but all the others were weaklings. Aran told us that we can sail to Spellhold now but I would like to postpone it a bit to have more weapons in our inventory. We went to Umar Hills to find out what is killing the people there and we realized it is the Shade Lord. He seems to be very strong, so we postponed his destiny a bit.
We made a journey to Windspear Hills where we killed accidentally some disguised paladins. Oopps. We were helped by Garren the true lord of Windspear Hills but suddenly his daughter was kidnapped by Firkraag. We went after the kidnappers and enter to Firkraag's lair. Here we meet several mosnters we have never seen before. Strange and very powerfull golems (like coin golems), elementals and lot of undeads. We finally met with Tazok who was a really good fighters - at least until his death.
SPOILER!Cernd and Rancle cooked up a good weapon against fighter-type creatures. Cernd casted a Doom against him and it reduced his fighting abilities (THAC0 and maybe damage but I am not sure about it)! It could make a big difference in the fight. Cernd also used the spell Magic Resistance against him and it set his resistance to a new level which was hopefully lower then his actual resistance (Cernd was level 12, so it sets resistance of Tazok to 24% no matter how high it was before). After it he was able to affect him by spells.
We learnt also that against coins golems we need at least +3 enhancement weapon, so we have to buy some of them for later usage!
We found here the daughter of Garren but we were not able to free her. The key is with a mage but we feared that we are not able to kill him, so we left. I think the girl is not in a great danger because Firkraag is hunting for us and he needs this girl as a bait. I promise we would comeback soon!
End of Part 2Part 3We headed to D'Arnise Hold to help Nalia. We killed there a lot of bad guys (trolls and Yuan-tis). We also met golems and some spiders in a room where we found nice treasures. The golems were easy but the spiders were really tough opponents. Then we opened the gate to enter the guards to the castle and a spider and a yuan-ti mage ambushed us. This fight was a real challenge but we survived somehow.
SPOILER!We used a tricky tactics against the mage. Only one of our fighters attacked him when he was invulnerable, others spread on the field to make it hard to damage them. His area affecting spells usually affected only one of us and it did not too much damage. After a long fight he gave up and died. Unfortunately Berti, our crazy lady felt during that battle. Fortunately Rancle have high fate in Lathander and she was able to raise dead and therefore Berti is again with us
We left the castle because we were afraid of the later coming enemies. But we first forged a really good flail and I gave it to Rancle because she brought Berti back from death! I am a very good leader, I think it is very clear for everybody. After this fight we went to Cromwell and this well-know weaponsmith made a very good weapon for us, the so called Treefolk's Arm. It was very expensive but it is the best weapon I have ever seen, so it definitely worth the cost. I will use it because I deserve it.
I decided that we are powerful enough to rescue the the children from the slaves and we headed to the sewer. Here we solved the mistery and we got a really powerful but a bit crazy two-handed sword, the Lilarcor. It was given to Barbie.
SPOILER!We met there some powerful rats but they did not cause problem for us. The Shade Lover was really a challenge until I realized that my Frostreaver Axe made serious damage for this undead while my more powerful Treefolk's Arm did not. Then I shouted that "Use your slashing weapons against him!" and he died really soon.
Before we entered the slave docks we prepared very carefully for the fight. Cernd memorize a lot of Emotions and Rancle memorized some Holy Smites. Cernd did not forgot about the Doom which is one of the best spell against strong fighters. When we entered the ship they immediately jumped on us.
SPOILER!It was very important to take care of two things first:
- weak enemies
- priest of Cyric
Cernd took care of the first group with the help of his emotion spells and our fighters and Rancle tried to take care of the priest. Rancle casted some Holy Smites and it damaged the priest and killed some slaves. Most of the fighters were not able to reach the priest because there were a lot of assassins and slave guards but Barbie (our powerful barbarian) could attack him and it was enough: he died soon. Then a wizard appeared and of course it was I who attacked him. My new weapon and Frostreaver made really wonders here, the mage's stoneskin was not enough against this mighty weapons and I broke his spellcasting most of the times.
During my fight with the mage others took care of their leader, Captain Haegan! Cernd used Doom against him to make him weaker and others started to beat him. Cernd used his damaging spells because the captain had no resistance to magic and he had also no resistance to magical damage. Flame arrows and similar spells did huge damage to the captain.
Finally the captain and the wizard died and we killed also all the weaklings. Berti collected the loots and he found a key on Haegan's corpse. It opened the doors and we managed to free all the slaves. During that we were suprised time to time by assassins but we killed all of them easily. We met finally some other monsters but they were not a challenge. We went back to Hendak to report our success and we all were very happy. We celebrated it and we spent a nice evening in the Copper Coronet.
It was time to clear the D'Arnise Hold, so we went there and climbed down to the basement. We carefully prepared for the final battle against their leader. Everybody except Cernd drunk haste potion and Cernd and Rancle casted buff spells. Then we entered to the final room where we expected to meet with the main evil monster. He was there and after a short discussion the fight started.
SPOILER!He summoned a Gem Golem but we did not care about his army, we just attacked Tor'Gal. A little bit later he died without casting his feared and famous Storm of Vengeance spell. After it we killed the golem and the two giant trolls easily (ok, to be honest the golem was not so easy).
Nalia's father was dead and Nalia offered us the possibility to rule this land. We of course accepted the responsibility! We went to check the druid grove. The spirit appeared and asked us to help a small child. We went to Trademeet and we spoke with the child. He is possessed by a monster called Chaos and we force it to leave the boy.
SPOILER!The fight was easy because Cernd remember to an old book which he read long time ago. The nature of Chaos was described there and it was said that it is vulnerable to the power of native forces. Cernd and Rancle memorize a lot of Call Lightning spells and they used them during the battle. Chaos casted immediately a Creeping Doom on Rancle, so she was not able to cast spells but she has a solution to this problem: she used the Staff of Thunder and Lightning and casted Call Lightning using this staff. Those who meet such a monster in the future should also beware of the madness the chaos emits.
Chaos died soon and the Spirit of the Grove appeared and took away the child. We went back to Athkatla and we are thinking now about our next action. Are we strong enough to confront Firkraag or at least the mage who is with him? Should we go to help the bards escape from the Planar Prison? Or should we go to solve the secret of the Planar Sphere? I did not make the decision yet, we first spend some time in Athkatla and drink some beers!
End of Part 3Part 4I decided that we are strong enough to free the child from Firkraag, so we headed to Windspear Hills. We went to the final room (to where we did not enter last time) and here we had a nice discussion with Firkraag (who is a Red Dragon - wow!). We prepared for the battle against Cornster, then we went back to the prison and the hardest and most heroic battle in my life has started!
SPOILER!Timing was very important in this battle! We had two groups of enemies: Cornster itself and the summoned Skeleton Lords and we had to take care both somehow. We casted all the spells that make us better fighters (bless, chant, draw upon holy might) and we casted also spells that defend us (protection from evil 10' radius, armor of faith, stoneskin, ...). We casted also some protection spells against enemy magic. We all drunk potion of haste (except Cernd).
When we entered I rushed to the mage and started to beat him and Cernd followed me. Others prepared for the summons. Skeleton Lords appeared and Cornster casted Absoluty Immunity from scroll, so I was not able to harm him any more and I went back to take care of the skeletons. The first two summons died pretty soon but then two others appeared! We fighted against them and during that Cernd tried to disturb Conster. He had absolutely no usable magic against Conster (Conster had very good protection), so he throw darts to the mage. Conster concentrated on Cernd, so this strategy worked wonderfully. When we beated the other two Lords then suddenly another two were summoned! Oh nooo, will there be an end of this!? Conster concentrated a bit on us and breached the protection on Rancle. Cernd shouted to me that Absolute Immunity was ended, so I rushed back to the mage and started to hit him. He casted the immunity again and I ran back to help my comrades. Rancle casted ironskin and she rushed back to the battle.
I should mention here the strategy we used against the Skeleton Lords. We splited the 5 fighting people into two groups, one group contained always 4 people and this group fought against one skeleton, and the last comrade took care the other skeleton. This comrade had some protaction against the weapon of the skeleton: either ironskin (if Rancle did this task) or mirror image (Barbie was able to cast it using one of his mighty weapon). With that tactics we were able to kill one of the Skeleton Lord really soon (and during that nobody was attacked from behind) and then we can all concentrate on the other skeleton. We used some potion of resurgance because it cured us continously and we did not have to spend the valuable time on healing potion drinking during the battle.
Conster concentrated his power again on Cernd. While we were fighting against the 4th wave of Skelton Lords (yes, Conster summoned again two of them!) he finally managed to stun him. We killed the last two undead and Rancle removed the stun from Cernd by using his Remove Paralysis spell. Conster casted again Absolute Immunity, so we spread in the room to not allow him to damage all of us with one area spell. Rancle and I stayed near the place where we killed the skeletons and she cured all of my wounds. Rancle ran to the mage and started to hit him to notice when the immunity disappeared. Conster casted a Power Word Kill spell on Cernd and our brave comrade died! At that moment his protection finally vanished and Rancle shouted that "Kill him now! For Cernd!" and we all ran to Conster and started to beat him. In moments he died and we saw that his last contingency spell triggered but it vanished in the air because the caster was already dead. I do not want to know what it was.
Conster was dead and we rested and raised Cernd and we rescued the girl from the prison. We went to the cabin of Garren and he promised to help us with the Paladins. So, we went to the Radiant Heart and to our suprise we were requested to became member of the Heart! Ince, our Inquisitor was very proud, just like all of us (only Berti was a bit dubious and I understand him)! We got some tasks from them and we finished all these tasks easily. Finally we got the quest to kill Firkraag and we all eager to do it even if it is the most dangerous task we have ever got.
We decided to celebrate our success and we spent a nice night in Athkatla. We went to Copper Coronet where we drunk with Hendak and Bernard and then we went out somewhere but to be honest I do not remember this part of the night. The next day we changed our mind because it did not seem to be the best idea to go to fight against Firkraag. So, we went to the Shadow Temple to kill some evils. And there we killed our first Lich! I especially hate liches: they are evil undead wizards! It is a double pleasure to kill them! We entered the Temple and we had to fight almost immediately. There were two Skeleton Lords but the problem was the Shadow Jailor. He was a high level pries until he died which happened really soon. We moved forward and then we met the lich.
SPOILER!His minion died easily (one Skeleton Lord, 3 Greater Mummies and one Bone Golem). Against the Lich we used our spread out tactics. He wasted his area affecting spells (remove magic, mallison+slow+emotion combo, call lighnting, Horrid Wiltings) usually on one character. He was so stupid that he wasted his remove magic(s) on Berti and there were only a Resist Fire/Cold and a Remove Fear spells that were dispellable (his Berserker Rage is not dispellable) from him. He was not a genius to be honest. We had to wait a bit because he had some protection from magical weapon spells. I realized something interesting. I knew that higher level undeads are immune to non-magical weapons, so we cannot harm him when he casted his protection against magical weapons but I think it is still possible to remove his stoneskins if we hit him by non-magical weapons. I am not sure about it at the moment and we will examine it later. We were very careful when we finally started to damage him because mages have some tricky triggers that fire when they are damaged and usually it is very painful. So, only two of us hit him when we expected his final attack but still Berti died from his last spell. The lich survived only by seconds but unfortunately for him he was not raised from death. That is why you need friends!
We went to the next room where we met Amauna who gave us some items to help our quest. One will protect against the Shadow Dragon. A dragon? That sounds like a good practice for Firkraag! We moved forward but I smelled the rotten body of undeads, so we stop to rest a bit. I will tell the fight against the next undead army tomorrow!
To be continued...
): Chaotic Good; lvl 9th; 2H Sword++, Spear+, Quater Staff++, 2H weapon style++
(although I'm sure everyone knows what that line meant, I couldn't resist, sorry 