DM Entry: Tomb of Horrors session 1

The most dramatic event of the entire evening:

Does the gnome wild mage jump into a 30 ft pit of spikes and time it just right to activate a teleportation to move into a secret room on the side of the pit to aid his allies in a fight against a brutal 4-armed gargoyle of giant proportions?

And risk the chance of error and land on the deadly poisoned spikes?

Camera's zoom in for a close up. A single bead of sweat runs down the gnome's forehead as he calculates the risk...and questions his loyalties to his long time friends.

Cue the music as the gnome fearlessly leaps into the air in slow motion....

Kill Bargle: ECL 9 Dearev Wer'Vrinpict Dragonborn Dragan Shaman 9: Entry 5

Rargh!!!  I have been tested against a true dragon and been found worthy of my new form.  Bahamut graces me with power and I continue to make him proud.

Kill Bargle: ECL8 Tore Troll 5: Entry 1

Kill Bargle: ECL9 Faerevan Faustwiil Arcane Gnome Wild Mage 6 Favored Soul 1 Priest of Madness 2: Entry 7

FINALLY WE DEFEAT BARGLE! and his red dragon companion.

Even though I spent part of the battle polymorphed (by my own hand), my god shines upon me. For I am reborn. I am emissary to his madness.

Kill Bargle: ECL 7 Dearev Wer'Vrinpict Dragonborn Dragan Shaman 7: Entry 4

Desperate times call for desperate measures.  The power of the dragon grows within me.  Too many times my own friends get in the way of me unleashing my might.  While under the influence of an enemy I attacked at random unable to focus on friend or foe and affecting all.  When I was finally released from the power than held my mind in check, I looked down to see Danill dead from what could have only been my own dragon's breath.  I will not fall to despair but will I become lost in the ferocity of my nature and burn more of my allies?

Kill Bargle: ECL 6 Bruhgos Drider 6: Entry 4

The tour of Bargle's lair continues. Killing several animated statues and battling oozes. Finally making progress it seemed, as we encounter Bargle himself. Turned out to be a cheap copy, which I dispatch immediately. Perhaps it doesn't matter, for Deneil is dead. Perhaps I shall track this wizard down, just to return the favor done Deneil. I will call out to my familiar as I contemplate. Come Azriel, come to your master...

Kill Bargle: ECL 7 Faerevan Faustwiil Arcane Gnome Wild Mage 6 Favored Soul 1: Entry 6

Everywhere we turn, false Bargles engage us. Some sort of shapechanger or doppelganger infests this fortress. I know not if they make lair or if they're minions of Bargle. Facing this legion has taken its toll on me. Jumping into a trap, not the wisest move I've made. Interment in a nasty ooze is my punishment. Upon teleporting to freedom, I cast a personally modified magic missile and dispatch one of the oozes created from the efforts to free me. These nasty bashers reproduce from slashing injury. I release another bout of Faustwiil's Focused Force Missile...and things journey south. My spell turns wild, changing the ooze into…



Everything goes dark at that point. I dream of the hurt caused my friends from my chaotic nature. I dream of easing that pain. I dream of maddening laughter and of chaos. I wake and somehow I am different.

Kill Bargle: ECL 5 Bruhgos Drider 5: Entry 3

We are attacked on all sides. These foes are familiar to one from the underdark. Shadows form and attack the mighty dragon, nearly sending him to his god. The gnome is targeted also and by luck most wild survives the day.
I grow stronger every day. My power shall encompass my vision... someday...

Kill Bargle: ECL 6 Faerevan Faustwiil Arcane Gnome Wild Mage 6: Entry 5

Try as I might to stop it, my magic goes wild. Great and frightening is my power. Scarred, at my hands my friends have become. I fear that my magic has chased the tree away. I shall use her share wisely.

Kill Bargle: ECL 6 Dearev Wer'Vrinpict Dragonborn Dragon Shaman 6: Entry 3

The cold hands of Death squeeze my heart in the form of an undead shadow creature.  This pain, this fear, is this what Tore experiences everytime he encounters an enemy greater than himself.  I can't imagine what goes through the mind of a troll, but I now know the limits of my mortality.  I am not nearly as great as a true dragon but I hope that someday I can live up to the calling of Bahamut.  My path will be much more cautious now.

Fires of Dis/Kill Bargle: ECL 6 Ashbeard Treant 6: Entry 5

Death chances my gnomish companion like a starving dog chances fresh meat. I do by best to keep him from harms reach, but the over grown magic weasel finds a way to court all that wish him dead. My bark is blackened and scorched by his wild magic, but I have naught but weary respect for his magic. When things go well for the gnome, they go very well indeed. Perhaps someday, he'll be able to cast consistently, instead of every third spell shrinking him to the size of a small duck. I fear he may be squashed beneath the toes of us larger beings if this pattern persists. However, the winds of my homeland call to me, and I must abandon this quest. After many goodbyes, though non were tearful, I left the rubble that is Bargles home in search of my forest. Perhaps some day, I shall meet these odd people, and we shall venture forth in the name of money, glory, women, and money once more. But for now, I, Ashbeard the Great Teak, head out on my own adventures alone.

Fires of Dis / Kill Bargle: ECL 5 Bruhgos Drider 5: Entry 2

The farther I venture with my new companions the less vengeance lives in me. I dedicate my life to these few who would accept me. Even the inept paladin shall not bring me down.



Bargle will cower before us and pay for his crimes.
 



--The drow have no word for friend in their language. Alliances are made but friendship is considered weakness. My connection to these adventurers proves that ideology false.--

Fires of Dis / Kill Bargle: ECL 6 Faerevan Faustwiil Arcane Gnome Wild Mage 6: Entry 4

          I have all the respect in the realms for Paladin warriors. It's a shame that we don't have one on this adventure. If my oldest friends fall as recompense for this "atonement quest"...*cough*baleful polymorph*cough*

         The sooner we kill the mage Bargle, and get out of this damned castle, the better.

         Bargle better have some decent arcana.


Post Script: I think the spider yearns for me to quench her fire.

Fires of Dis/Kill Bargle: ECL 5 Ashbeard Treant 5: Entry 4.

This whole adventure is getting out of hand. We barely manage to survive the ascension, only to find ourselves on another harebrained quest. We travel to aide the paladin in his atonement, regardless of the fact that he wasn't to blame for the near failure of the ascension. An angel died, and we seek the Mage that killed it. And by we, I mean everyone but the paladin, who has only served as a target since we left Fortitude. He has little knowledge of healing, and less of the undead. He says he can take an outsider in a fight, but on a physical plane, that does us little good. I suppose he can only improve. As for the rest of the party, however, I can only see bad things happening to us from here on out. The gnome nearly died, and this caused the Dragon born to lose his mind. I've got the scorch marks on my backside to prove that. He gives me dirty looks, like he believes the gnomes misfortune to be my fault. I had no control of the situation. Of he'd've moved out from behind me, perhaps a smaller member of the party could have gotten to him quicker. Who knows, but the gods that watch our lives for their own thrills and chills.

Fires of Dis/ Kill Bargle: ECL 6 Dearev Wer'Vrinpict Dragonborn Dragon Shaman 6: Entry 2

We are successful.  The Ascension of Fortitude is complete.  Thanks to my personal testimony of the rightousness of the paladin who wields the legendary Guardian sword, the event was completed in all its glory.  I take heart is seeing such a holy event and give thanks to Bahamut that I am so lucky.  I may not mention it to them in person but I am also thankful to all my friends and associates who made this possible.  We fight for good and faced evil head on to prevail.  Now we seek to find atonement for the paladin who almost allowed a great tragedy to befall.  We journey with him to the material plane in order to defeat a wizard that murdered an angel.  So far I find the paladin to be in the way more often than not.  The tree has also proven my point in being a powerful creature that has no mind for tactics.  Thanks to the tree's inability to focus in combat I almost lost my best friend.  The tree felt the power of the dragon due to its mistake, something I fear may happen again with greater pain to us all.