Alexander the barbarian, Episode 4.
This epsiode was great, although nervewrecking.
First of all I wanna share some more dialogue I've never seen before.
And this awesomeness, also never seen before. Poor Aphril sees them ALL the time!
Then something disturbing happens. Even though SCS clearly states: items are taken away in spellhold, this is Alexanders inventory in the dream realm, which is totally off..
So we still have all our gear.
I re-install, but the same thing happens..
I decide to improvise. What would Jon make Lonk the Sane take away while throwing our team in the cells? I decide he would take away all our gear except armor and other clothing like gauntlets and boots (stripping characters completely seems kinda off..)
That does mean all other items, from scrolls to potions, from weapons to rings and necklaces are put in Hexxats sack/bag of holding. I would therefore still have to make heavy use of items found in the asylum.
So this is my team at the beginning of the maze:
The containers cannot be opened obviously.
We get the bag of holding with Bodhi's note and equip mundane weapons and helmets.
While killing kobolds with aerial servants, we got a surprise. Where did those Yuan Ti come from? Did you guys ever see them here? Does SCS make enemies travel between area's?
We poison the dangerous yuan-ti mage with darts of wounding and arrows and bolts of biting. Quite effective.
We sneak past the other yuan-ti and collect the boots of speed.
And so here it is, I'm hyped. No insect plagues this time. We prepare as good as we can: cast all the buffs we have, including death wards and 2 chaotic commands. Imoen has already created 5 enchanted weapons by spell: 1 mace for Viconia, 2 shortswords for Haer Dalis, 2 shortswords for Imoen and Jan. Alexander will use the +3 spear from the dungeon, Aerie will use the cleric's staff +3. All will throw and shoot poisoned missiles.
We release the inmates and concentration is max.
Jon starts with double remove magic on Jan. Guess he figured he would dispel ALL the buffs. Fortunately I make Jan run quickly towards the left up corner so only he would get dispelled. It works, he's completely naked ha ha. Viconia-clone gets a doom of and yes, Alex-clone gets to hit Alex there
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Meanwhile I underestimated the Viconia-clone. She is buffed, has -9 AC,19 strength and a +3 mace, haste boots and 2 aerial servants and 2 skeleton warriors in her spellbook.. I try to team up on her with Alexander and Haer Dalis and we beat her to near death.
I retreat Alexander waiting for Haer Dalis to finish the job. But after a while she's STILL not dead.. Oh.. right.. she is also wearing the regeneration ring :/
Jan gets a chaos off affecting only Alexander-clone. Jan-clone gets shot to death and Imoen-clone gets power word: killed by one of the inmates. Meanwhile Aerie-clone gets stomped to death and our own Aerie makes a simulacrum with one of the found scrolls.
Jon's timestop/alacrity/planetar happens. ALL ATTENTION TO THE ANGEL PLEASE! I stick to my plan and make Vionia cast magic resistance on it. To my dismay SHE WALKS up to the angel to cast it. Guess I didn't figure that was necessary when she tested the spell on herself earlier. Luckely the planetar is too busy with stoneskinned, mirror imaged (and probably pfmw too) Aphril. That girl comes in handy!
The disaster happens..
A disgustingly effective dragon's breath from Jon chunks Viconia who wasn't ready with casting her spell yet! NEEEUUUU!!! I see my hopes fade.
Jan dies also while the planetar doesnt get hit (looked it up seems it has big fire damage resistance as well as magic resistance).. Look at that SAVE vs breath from Alexander.. He wouldve been death FOR SURE
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New plan, Aerie has to slowly but steadily reduce magic resistance with her 3 memorized lower resistance spells. We get to get 2 off. Imoen tests a magic missle and it connects for about 20 damage.
Meanwhile Viconia-clone who is fully healed and her aerial servant beat up Haer Dalis. I make him offensive spin and aid Alexander in trying to hit the angel. Alexander gulps the only potion he found in the asylum (of an illithid).
The angel still focusses on Aphril while Haer Dalis gets a nice crit. Alexander also hits for 8 damage. Viconia-clone summons another aerial servant and one of the loonies gates another demon (sigh)..
The angel is at injured. I think and got an idea. Maybe, just maybe, Imoen can get the power word: stun off we found in the asylum (notice it in the quickslot).
But before we can even cast it Dradeel BEATS US TO IT!!! It works! Look at her standing there stupefied harhar!
We slay her. I consider this a huge succes at this stage, without good items we still slay this powerful foe against odds.
Alexander transforms into a troll which, combined with the regen ring he took from Viconia's charred remains, leads to some serious regenerating. Aphril, who has proved more than her worth, and Dradeel get double k.o.'d by a meteor from Jon. Meanwhile a summoned Mordy sword is a huge distraction for enemy summons. So much going on in one screenshot!
Just 3 of us left.. Eventually Imoen runs out of everything and when I don't pay attention for a second or 2 she gets tagged by a skeleton warrior. We use all the leftover scrolls, even animal summoning III. Jon uses a power word stun on the near death ogre berserker here, which was doing serious work on the enemy skeleton warriors, XD! Notice Alexander decided enough is enough, transforms back into human form and starts pummeling the mage.
All eyes are on Jon. All his big protections have run out and we are occasionally able to hit the high AC mage with missles. Aerie even interrupts his spells twice with a bullet!
And we succeed!
Things are looking bad still because clone-Viconia is just unbeatable right now, not even considering the 'murderers'. I opt to flee. We run into Saemon who transports us out. Storywise I figure this is when Alexander runs to Irencius chambers and gets his gear, which means we can open the bags of potions, gems, scrolls, and holding again. Only Alexander and Aerie are left, resting at the temple in Brynnlaw currently.
We survived a close call, I couldn't have played or prepared any better so this is true satisfaction.
This weekend no play time and I need a breather from this crazy battle, so it will be a couple of days.
Thanks for reading. Cheers!
Retour en haut
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He'd be better off with PfMW.
