Max - lvl 9 elven Mage (part 8)Handicaps - solo, no wands, no protection scrolls, no running from fightsNashkel MineMax finally decided to deal with the whole iron ore shortage situation and headed into the Nashkel mine to explore it. What he found inside was an absolute swarm of Kobolds at every turn, but they were easily dispatched with the help of skull traps and cloudkill. Their leader Mulahey also succumbed to a Power Word Sleep spell and was easily finished off, along with his skeleton and kobold bodyguards. After informing the Nashkel mayor Berrun Ghastkill that the mine was successfully cleared, Max gets ambushed by yet another in a seemingly endless stream of assassins, this time a mage/thief called Nimbul who got instantly killed by a Lightning spell.
Max returns to Beregost to deal with a mage called Tranzig in hope of finding some answers. The mage refuses to cooperate and attacks him instead but gets transformed into a harmless little squirrel and killed.
Max then travels to High Hedge to visit Thalantyr, but naturally gets ambushed again by an entire group of female amazons who rudely interrupt his casting of cloudkill with a critical hit, so they definitely weren't playing around. What lied ahead was a very difficult and chaotic battle, mostly because Max didn't have a lot of spells ready and no cloudkill, but also because while he was dodging their attacks he ran into 3 separate groups of gnolls who joined the fight and sided with the amazons. Like that wasn't enough for Max to deal with, the amazons also summoned 3 groups of skeletons to join this overcrowded shindig. Max quickly ran out of spells and had resorted to throwing a few oil flasks of fiery burning at his foes, which left only a handful of them still standing so he eventually picked them off one by one with his throwing dagger.
A few days later after visiting various merchants and stocking up on potions Max returns to visit Thalantyr and of course, gets ambushed by another group of bounty hunters led by a man called Molkar. Max immediately casts cloudkill on them and the entire group falls dead to the ground, which in contrast to the previous battle was remarkably easy.
Archaeological SiteMax encounters and helps an archaeologist but shortly after gets attacked by a spooky apparition called Doomsayer, who seemed to be immune to anything that Max threw at him so he had to get a little creative in order to defeat him. Max decided to use a combination of Mirror Image and Fireshield against Doomsayer, with the idea being that the creature ends up killing himself from Fireshield while Max absorbs his blows with Mirror Image, but also throws a stab at him here and there with the help of True Strike. The plan worked to great effect and the powerful apparition was eventually killed.
Ogre's ReachMax decided to help a pretty girl "gib some gibberlings" and was soon absolutely swarmed by the little buggers who just kept coming at him out of nowhere. After he ran out of skull traps to cast he put on his newly-found gnomish boots that made him immune to web/grease/entangle effects and casted web on himself. The gibberlings easily got caught in the web wave after wave while Max stabbed them one at a time with his venomous dagger. Later on, Max encountered a group of ogres who instantly died at the first sniff of his deadly cloud, which was rapidly becoming his favorite spell.
Gnoll StrongholdMax mostly used the same tactic on the numerous groups of gnolls throughout the area, which was either Web or Grease combined with the Gnomish Boots, along with the occasional cloudkill and skull trap. He also found a tome and saved a girl so it was a pretty good day.
Firewine BridgeMax ran into a couple of desert trolls here so he turned them into squirrels before finishing them off, which was his preferred way of dealing with the pesky creatures. While resting at night Max was interrupted by undead monsters he hasn't seen before, a Greater Ghoul and a Zombie Lord. The ghoul was very fast but died to magic easily while the zombie lord seemed to be mostly immune to it, but he did get caught in a web and killed off. Later on Max encountered a very powerful ogre mage named Kahrk who saved against every disabling spell that Max threw at him, so he called his pet shadows to help him out. Kahrk focused the shadows with everything he had but he couldn't finish them off because they were immune to normal weapons, and once Kahrk was out of spells Max emerged from the shadows to rejoin the fight and started casting every damaging spell he had at him. Soon enough, Max was also out of spells to cast and had to whip out 4 more damaging spells from his scroll case, which he was saving for a rainy day, but it was worth it as the ogre mage finally fell dead to the ground leaving Max victorious after a very drawn out battle.
Firewine RuinsMax entered the ruins and once again summoned his shadows to help him explore the dark corridors. They ran into a large number of kobolds who were killed off with ease, but later on they stumbled upon an ogre mage who was accompanied by a mage called Lendarn and some bodyguard ogrillons. Lendarn casted web at the approaching shadows but hilariously got caught in it himself along with the ogre mage. So Max said why not, and casted a web of his own and went in to finish them off with his dagger, also finding a scroll of Fireball in the process. Max is absolutely loving his gnomish boots, they are extremely useful whenever Grease or Web are involved.
Mutamin's GardenMax encounters a strange gnome with a lot of pet basilisks around him, and not wanting to end up just another statue in this madman's garden he protects himself against petrification before engaging them. He throws a couple of fireballs their way and finishes off the wounded basilisks with his dagger. Shortly after, Max threw some more fireballs around, this time aimed at a hostile group of adventurers. He also ran into a mighty Skeleton Warrior who was near immune to magic, but to his own surprise he was able to melee him very successfully when fully buffed, with the help of True Strike and a few invisible attacks of course.
Ulcaster School
Max walks into a Wraith at night, an undead creature equipped with high level spells who also summons ogres to his aid, so Max keeps his distance and throws 4 fireballs their way, but the tough Wraith survives and was eventually killed off with the help of web. Later on Max runs into an Orc Mage who also seemed to be packing higher level spells but he too falls prey to web and gets stabbed to death, along with an Orc Priest shortly after. But the very next Orc Priest that Max runs into instantly casts Free Action and Blade Barrier which surprisingly counters the "web him and stab him" tactic, so Max turns him into a squirrel instead and finishes him off from afar with fireballs and magic missiles. Before entering the Ulcaster ruins Max gets attacked by a tough skeleton warrior named Icharyd so he buffs up and is able to melee him successfully, but all of a sudden the day turns into night and instead of dying the undead creature fully heals and becomes more powerful with the help of his god, while Max starts to repeatedly get hit by lightning and all of his buffs disappear. So he drinks a potion of absorption to survive the lightning which also helps against Icharyd's flail and is able to melee the persistent skeleton once again with the help of a few health potions.
Ulcaster RuinsWithin the ruins Max first runs into a Mustard Jelly that once again gets killed with the help of sunstone bullets and a sling. Then he finds a bunch of mummies and manages to easily melee them, albeit after some buffing up. And finally, in the deepest and darkest corner of the ruins Max finds the Wolf of Ulcaster himself followed by a dozen dread wolves. A very tough battle followed but was made easier with the help of shadows and some fireballs aimed at the heart of the bloodthirsty wolfpack. The dark wolf had some fear spells of his own but eventually died too after a number of magic missiles were thrown his way.
The East WoodMax runs into a hostile group of mages who were all dressed in red and gets attacked on sight, so he throws a couple of fireballs among them until they were literally toasted. Throughout the area Max finds various types of spiders, some of them very scary looking too who also had some magic resists but they all fell in the end nevertheless.
LarswoodIn this area Max encounters a whole army of goblins who were easily killed with fireballs and cloudkill. He also finds about 30 wolves and about a dozen bandits, along with a couple of crazy druids who all perish to his high damaging area of effect spells.
PeldvaleNot much was going on in this area, Max found some bandits and local wildlife but the highlight was definitely running into a black panther at night time.
Bandit Camp
So Max finally found the hidden bandit camp which contained dozens of bandits and mercenaries who swarmed him on sight. He used cloudkill and fireballs to dispatch most of them and picked off any remaining stragglers with his dagger. For tougher foes like Taugosz Khosann and Garclax he used polymorph to render them harmless before finishing them off with his dagger.
Cloakwood LodgeMax saved a guy from some very pissed off druids who easily went down to some fireballs along with their dire leopard summons. Later on Max witnessed a brown bear killing two nearby squirrels and thought it would be funny if he turned the bear into a squirrel as well before killing him, and he was right, it really was funny.
Cloakwood Nest
Max agreed to help some poor guy find his missing brother and in the process cleared the entire area of a major spider infestation, along with a spider nest which he burned to the ground with fireballs. The missing brother was recovered, but unfortunately didn't manage to survive his own encounter with the deadly spiders.
Cloakwood Druids
Max encountered some very rude shadow druids so he decided to teach them a lesson in manners, especially the archdruid Amarande who was hiding out in a tree house. The old treehugger summoned a couple of his friends along with a Fire Elemental and some leopards, so Max called up his shadows as well to join him in the fight. The archdruid was put to sleep with the help of Greater Malison while the fiery elemental was absolutely pummeling the shadow summons. So when the druids were out of the picture Max focused his attention on the elemental with a few Lightning spells, which only left the leopards who were killed at the very end with the help of Grease.
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