DM Entry: Tomb of Horrors (second to final session)

Next session is the grand finale of the Tomb of Horrors.

The second to final session saw an amazing feat pulled off by Nost the Wild Mage, Cleric of Boosh, Mystic Theurge.....

He used a Nahal's reckless dweomer  casting as a cleric (from his Wild Magic domain)...

to emulate a miracle spell....

which was used to cast a paradox spell....

which was used to "not cast knock on that trap and kill like...Everyone in the party but me" and instead cast protection from evil on himself

So to recap, that was a Nahal's reckless dweomer, miracle, paradox, protection from evil spell



On another note,

This adventure truly earns its rightful place as THE most brutal adventure ever written for Dungeons & Dragons

In 20 years of DM'ing I have never had the pleasure of rolling 20d20 damage (206 total damage, which very nearly was a total party kill).

...not that I enjoy killing the *entire* party in a single trap...

so.....Next Session is the Grand Finale, where the party will face off against Acererak the Demilich

Tomb of Horrors: ECL 9 Nost Wight Underfolk WildMage 4 CoB 3 Mystic Theurge 2: Entry 3

The last thing I recall... the world explodes and everything turns black. When I wake it feels as if the Overgod has changed me. Is this what rape feels like?

Tomb of Horrors: ECL 8 Tennescarl Beguiler Wild Mage 8: Entry 1

I did it!

Well, it was nothing special.  Yeah, to be perfectly honest I'd done it before.  So many times.  You never forget.  It's like riding a------///////// no but really, I did it!  That's what's important.  I said I could do it, and then, I did it.  Yeah but honestly it was effortless.  I make this look so easy.  So easy.  Yes.  I mean, how could I not?  You never forget.  It's like falling off a-------------///// wait now I think we need to focus on how god-damned GREAT that thing I did was.  That thing I pulled off.  No, not that one.  The other...you know what?  It doesn't matter.  I say I can do so many things, and then, do those things, that even I lose track.  To be frank, it's all become a bit banal.  A bit passé.  After all, you never forget.  And if you never forget, it's hard to escape it all becoming a bit like just punching the-----------//////// but then again I never liked Frank anyway.  He could never do anything like this.  He could never even SAY he could do anything like this.  And that's half as important as doing it.  More than half maybe.  I mean, I already knew I could do it.  But could I SAY it?  A-ha.  A-ha a-ha.  Roll it back.  Too much a-ha.  Just one.  A-ha.  That's better.
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Where was I?  Oh, here I am.  But why did I say that thing that I then later did again?  Uh it was surely...to overcome some great obstacle standing in the way of my glory.  Why else would I do anything?  I mean, there's only one reason I'd do anything.  And that's because I said I could do it.  Yeah not that glory thing that somebody wrote.  Who would say that?  What if I said I could be glorious though?  I--------------////////
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Well I never said that anyway but obviously if I said I could then I would do it.  Follow the fucking established narrative, here, will you?  What?  Huh?  Who?
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Also there was this wretched slime flesh Frank made and I I I descended from on high for a moment to bestow on it the glorious gift of thought like I did for myself before and then I I I watched it burn and and I watched me burn but but I'm okay but all THAT's hardly worth mentioning I've done THAT so many times anyway always after I said I could anyway and I don't think his name is Frank anyway anyway.

Tomb of Horrors: ECL 10 Daerev Wer'Vrinpict Dragonborn Dragon Shaman 10: Entry 11

I have beheld many seemingly amazing things on my journey.  But to see a true miracle is awe inspiring.  I hope I live to make it out of here alive so that I may profess the power of the gods to the world.  Against all odds and in a way that should have never been possible, the cleric brought "Orbius" back to life.  This was an incredible display of trust and power.  Do I dare put myself in the way of danger in order to help these awesome companions?  Do I show them my power and resolve?  Do I risk losing myself all the way to the power of the Dragon?

Tombf Horrors: ECL 10 Bruhgos Drider 10: Entry 8

I'm as powerful a drider as I can be. Also, I now command two Familiars. Now if I could just pull off that trick the cleric did with the living spell.

Tomb of Horrors: ECL 9 Nost Wight Underfolk Wild Mage 4 Cleric of Boosh 3 Mystic Theurge 2: Entry 2

Boosh holds us close and protects us. Boosh grants life to the unworthy and creates life from my magic.
No sign of Faustwiil's remains.

Tomb of Horrors: DM Entry

The party gets railroaded...literally.

A stone juggernaut rolls over the party, most of which are sleeping.

The eyeball-beholder gets squashed like grape (but later raised from the dead), before the dragonborn finally destroys the thing.



Then later in another room, some haunting melody comes from a bank of fog, dazing some and enthralling the beholder's cohort.  The cohort mindlessly enters the fog.

The wild mage lobs a few fireballs into the fog. And then one of them turns into a living spell, which engulfs the cohort killing it.

Tomb of Horrors: ECL 10 Daerev Wer'Vrinpict Dragonborn Dragon Shaman 10: Entry 10

Our new team has found some cohesion, going against a powerful foe.  A master of undeath known as a Lich.  Whoever it was, he pretended to be the lord of this dungeon; known as Acererak.  I suspect facing the true master of this tomb will be a much more challenging event.  I also think that this Acererak will be surprised at the amount of power we intend to bring against him.