Lost City of Khemsa, Forgotten Kingdom of Verulia, Great Eastern Desert, the World of Hyboria
Day Eight. After Midnight?, 19th day of the month of Yuluk, 1279th year of the Age of Aquilonia
Revealed by the impossible light atop Mako's quarterstaff, rows of eerie faces leer out of the eternal shadows under the earth as the adventurers try in vain to hold back the tide of madness and mayhem.
Trapped. Surrounded. The battle lines are unmoving. And the thralls of Zargoth hunger for their death!
Antique blades chop, carve and sever, continuing their unrelenting, brutal work! Cruloc is lacerated across the arm (-2hp), Amethu is stabbed in the chest (-5hp), and Xorzen is impaled in the gut (-4hp) and falls to the street, dyeing the bricks red with his blood!
High above the scarlet road, Kiri pulls himself up onto the roof of Tjoruy's hovel. The ancient structure hold his vast weight as he unshoulders his bow and sinks an arrow into the heart of one of deranged revelers in the second rank! Another pale masked subterranean falls dead.
Cruloc the barbarian sees the hole open in the enemy's ranks and tries to hack his way to it! A devastating slash of his merciless blade sends a masked head flying from its shoulders on a jet of gushing crimson!
Cruloc steps forward to take the headless man's place!
Behind him, wounded and weak with blood loss, Amethu and Loche cannot kill their way to freedom.
While inside the dilapidated hovel, Zahra the amazon razes yet another foe who crashes to the floor, blood pouring liberally from a severed throat.
Beside her, Garrin the paladin, utterly unaccustomed to knife fighting, risks a glance backwards and sees an opening in the street outside!
Then Tjoruy steps over his brother in Osorus and mangles Xorzen's assailant vengefully with an iron bludgeon! Another enemy falls and Tjoruy croaks, "Their line is sundered! This way my friends! Let us flee!"
Actions?!
Underground City Map:
Only lit areas are visible to one or more PCs. All else is from memory.
Non-required Reading (rolls and rulings):
PC Status:
- Amethu: Verulian Grand Magus Cleric/Magic-User 3/2: Move: 9", AC: 4, HP: 3/14, Spells: 2/7 1st lvl, 2/3 2nd lvl
Cruloc: Cimmerian Northman Barbarian 2: Move: 12", AC: 4, HP: 21/35
Garrin Locke: Argosian Atlantean Paladin 3: Move: 12", AC: 3(1), HP: 11/26, Laying Hands: 0/1
Kiri Khutan: Kambujan Easterner Fighter/Magic-User 2/2: Move: 9", AC: 3, HP: 4/14, Spells: 2/3 1st lvl
Loche: Pict Savage Thief 4: Move: 9", AC: 5, HP: 4/18
Mako: Khitan Easterner Illusionist 3: Move: 12", AC: 7(5), HP: 8(1)/10, Spells: 0/2 1st lvl, 0/1 2nd lvl Light spell
Tjoruy: Verulian Osoran Cleric 4: Move: 9", AC: 3, HP: 12/31, Spells: 1/5 1st lvl, 4/4 2nd lvl
Xorzen: Verulian Osoran Monk 3: Move: 17", AC: 6(4), HP: 0/16
Zahra: Verulian Amazon Fighter 3: Move: 12", AC: 3, HP: 6/21
- Protection from Evil (Garrin): -2 to AC and +2 to saving throws against evil, in a 10 foot radius around Garrin.
Healing Mists of Osorus (Garrin, Kiri, Loche and Xorzen have breathed of the mists): All lost HP recovered with 8 hours of sleep. Wakeful rest, or sleeping less than 8 hours, enables recovery of 1 HP per hour. Duration: "months."
Protection From Evil (Tjoruy): Target: Xorzen. -2 to be hit by evil, +2 to saving throws against evil. Duration: 17 rounds left