Tormeron's events: the Stories

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Topic/Postby Gergel » 20 May 2014, 23:01

This week in Outland!

The group convenes at the mouth of a cave that leads from Zangarmarsh to Blade's Edge Mountains. In their infinite wisdom they decide to traverse the cave instead of doing something sensible, like fly over the mountain or something. So it should not be a surprise that things go pear-shaped very quickly. The group is attacked by oodles of spiders which, strangely, seem to disappear as they're hit by spells, arrows and suchlike. Almost as if they were merely illusions...

Celissi is bitten in the neck by one of the spiders. Or is she? She's definitely affected by a poison of some kind. Coalbrow finds a vial on the ground, the vial is empty but with traces of poison or venom in it. He has no time to examine and compare it to whatever was affecting Celissi, as spiders' attacks continue. Celissi's condition -- a massively swollen neck and throat which almost suffocates her -- is alleviated by healers casting their spells as well as Coalbrow bringing the swelling down with a herb poultice. (HERB!!!)

After fending off a series of spider attacks the adventurers face the biggest spider yet: a two-headed mutha' that speaks to them and expresses her desire to have them for dinner. There's a lot of fighting, spells flying left and right, arrows, swords and whatnot. Eventually the spider knocks Liandrix down and prepares to kill him. Salvation arrives from a most unexpected source: Floaty, Serendipity's magic lantern, which apparently was created by Liandrix and contains quite a lot of magic as well as has fierce loyalty towards its creator. The lantern floats up to the spider and blasts it with magic, destroying it completely. Yup, the horrible spider that a dozen adventurers could barely scratch, was blasted apart by a floating minipet.

The group finally makes it out of the cave, through waves of semi-illusionary spiders. All the time followed by mysterious laughter coming from shadows. There's also an incident where both of the group's mages -- Liandrix and Serendipity -- had a silencing spell cast on them briefly.

Outside the night sky of Blade's Edge greets them. As well as a wonderful smell of meat roasting on campfire. Just a few steps from the mouth of the cave is an untended fire with roast and a mysterious runed spellbook next to it. Liandrix the mage Loremaster -- who else? -- attempts to read the book, which goes *boing* and creates a magical shield around the fire. The shield -- think "Dalaran" but in smaller scale -- expands, pushing everyone away. All attempts to pierce it are met with failure: spells rebound and so does Serendipity's staff that she tries to use to bonk the shield. Then Liandrix uses his Blink spell and, a surprise to everyone, ends up inside the shield. He does some major high-grade arcane loremastering with the spellbook and the shield shrinks... and shrinks... and shrinks until it surrounds Liandrix's body entirely. On one hand this seems nice, as the shield looks like it could protect him from anything up to and including Deathwing's fart, but on the other hand the shield does not allow food or drink to reach Liandrix either. Which seems to be a problem at first, until Liandrix flexes his muscles and the shield just... pops and goes away. For some reason.

An invisible force / person runs past them, snatches up the spellbook, and disappears laughing. He is deemed to be a powerful mage: mastering silence, invisibility, shields and illusions.

With the shield problem taken care of, Coalbrow wanders up to the fire and tries to pick up the roast, which everyone warns him is an extremely obvious trap. Not giving a hoot (refer to the "demon blood" incident from the previous event), Coalbrow picks up the roast anyway. Which then proceeds to melt into goop that tries to crawl up his arms and on his head. With some quick thinking Coalbrow assumes his Dwarven Stoneform and has Serendipity toss a Flamestrike spell on him. This burns most of the goop away, while leaving Coalbrow pretty much intact. He manages to catch a little bit of the goop in one of the good strong flasks that he, as a practicing alchemist, carries around all the time. The goop seems alive and almost sentient, it bounces around in the flask trying to destroy it, then attempts to force the stopper open. Coalbrow admonishes the goo's actions and, surprisingly (maybe because 'Brow referred to Tormeron by name), it quiets down. It does not take long before Coalbrow has apparently established a reasonably good relationship with the goop, as he feeds it insects and it no longer tries to escape or kill him.

The group discusses the possibility of this goop being a part of something called Tormeron's Living Soup. Lots of references are thrown around, talking about events which I, sadly, did not attend. Someone could maybe please give a short description on the Case of the Living Soup.

Having overcome their daunting task of moving from one area to another, the group moves to Toshley's Station, then flies to Sylvanaar where they decide to rest until next week.

Next week: "a big decision will be needed". We will continue from Sylvanaar.
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