The chat continues...
When you return, it is without Al. Going in, then, are Vardui, Who Knows, Oh Well, and Lyke.
<orlon> Orlon will cure everyone up to full.
<orlon> Let's go back to where that daemon was.
<goodgulf> Gotta dig out WK's card...
<orlon> Who Knows will take in here short sword of Quickness and her magic dagger
<goodgulf> Got it. Returning the nexus, all is as it was. You scuttle back down to the slime chamber...and there is the daemon!
<goodgulf> "You back for more?" he says.
<orlon> "We brought my buddy," Oh Well tells the daemon.
<goodgulf> He attacks! 5 init.
<orlon> Oh Well and WK attack (3 on initiative)
<goodgulf> He goes for Who...20 hit points of damage.
<orlon> "Come and get it cutie!" Who Knows calls to the daemon.
<goodgulf> "You bet, baby!"
<orlon> WK wails back. 9+sword, 13+sword, 9+dagger.
<orlon> Oh Well rolls 17 + sword.
<goodgulf> Whoops. Forgot about you always getting init with that sword...
<orlon> It's been a while.
<goodgulf> All of WK's attacks miss. Oh Well hits.
<orlon> 8+sword damage from OW
<orlon> 5 initiative.
<goodgulf> Vardui pops visible, as he stabs the monster in the back for big-time damage.
<goodgulf> WK can attack.
<orlon> 16+sword, 9+sword, 4+dagger
<goodgulf> One sword hit!
<orlon> 4+sword damage
<goodgulf> He clobbers the halfing for another 20 hit points.
<orlon> Oh Well got 8+sword damage on that last attack.
<goodgulf> Got it . How about this round?
<orlon> 9+sword to hit.
<orlon> "Shit" says Oh Well.
<goodgulf> Misses. Vardui hits twice, and the monster topples over the parapet and into the slime pit below.
<orlon> "Thank you Vardui".
<goodgulf> "Whew!" says the elf.
<orlon> From the back wall?
<goodgulf> Looking north from the corner, the passage runs another 40', turning west after 30'. Down there is yet another yagnodaemon, mooning you.
<goodgulf> 50' from the back wall.
<orlon> Who Knows slips on her ring of invisibility this time.
<goodgulf> Vardui turns invisible. Lyke offers to take Who Know's place
<goodgulf> The daemon advances.
<orlon> Oh Well will try to use his wand of illumination. Does it work?
<orlon> If not, he will put it away and attack with sword #1
<goodgulf> Blinding flash...but no effect on the daemon.
<goodgulf> Lyke stands ready.
<orlon> initiative 5
<goodgulf> You got it!
<orlon> 12+sword to hit.
<goodgulf> Hits!
<orlon> 8+sword damage
<orlon> 1 initiative
<goodgulf> It misses you. Lyke connects for 4.
<goodgulf> initiative 1
<orlon> Who Knows wil attack if given the opportunity (backstab if possible)
<goodgulf> Oh well takes 19 hit points.
<orlon> Oh Well fights back. 12+sword and 13+sword.
<orlon> Who knows tries a surprise attack.
<goodgulf> Who can attack. She does not surprise him, though. Oh well gets two hits!
<orlon> WK: 9+sword 5+sword 4+dagger.
<goodgulf> Lyke also lands a hit.
<goodgulf> WK misses every time.
<orlon> What about Oh Well?
<goodgulf> You hit twice. Damage?
<orlon> 8+sword and 4+sword.
<orlon> initiative 5
<goodgulf> The daemon laughs. 6 init.
<orlon> WK 12+sword 8+sword
<goodgulf> Duh. I'm asleep! Another 19 hit points into Oh Well.
<goodgulf> Who knows misses.
<goodgulf> Lyke lands another minor hit.
<orlon> WK:14+dagger
<orlon> OW: 21+dagger and 17+dagger for 9+sword and 3+sword damage
<orlon> I meant sword, not dagger
<goodgulf> WK connects!
<goodgulf> The daemon stops laughing.
<orlon> WK: 3+dagger damage
<goodgulf> 6 init.
<orlon> 3 init
<goodgulf> wk can go first.
<orlon> 13+sword and 20+sword.
<goodgulf> Errr, okay. The daemon misses., OW hits twice.
<orlon> Don'[t you mean Who Knows?
<orlon> Me too.
<goodgulf> Arrrgh. getting confused. :^) Right! One hit.
<orlon> 7+sword and 4+sword damage
<orlon> forget the second part
<goodgulf> Sure! :^)
<orlon> Oh Well: 9+sword and 12+sword.
<goodgulf> Alright, now you can do Oh Well! The daemon looks pretty sick.
<orlon> Who Knows: 4+dagger.
<goodgulf> Miss.
<orlon> init 5
<goodgulf> Our messages are crossing... One hit for OW
<orlon> True. I have the sreen split with a window for each person.
<orlon> OW: 7+sword damage
<goodgulf> Don't know if I can do that. Everything appears in sequence. I'll have to play with it. OW kills the daemon.
<orlon> I am trying to change it to one continuous scree, but can't figure out how.
<goodgulf> Yeah, that's what I have.
<orlon> How is your ICQ setup. (Layout that is)
<goodgulf> You advance to the corner, and there, you find 14 gems (1000gp each).
<orlon> We pocket the gems.
<goodgulf> It's a scrolling window. To the right is a narrow window with the names of the chatters in it.
<goodgulf> And there's a box at the bottom to type dialogue into.
<orlon> On the option bar, under "layout" what do you have selected? (vertical, horizontal, split, IRC style)
<goodgulf> Done. You look west. Again, the passage runs 50' end to end, turning south after 40' and still descending. No more daemons in sight.
<orlon> We keep going.
<goodgulf> Sorry. This is a Mac :^) There is no option bar. There is nothing in the preferences to change it, either.
<orlon> I forgot that you use a Mac. I will figure it out somehow.
<orlon> Search for secret doors at the end.
<orlon> Look both ways.
<goodgulf> This is okay. Anyway, you head west then look south. It runs south for 60' and ends at a wall. On either side at the end are 2 10' wide openings. The passage stops descending at the openings. Am I sending real time?
<goodgulf> ie. are you watching me struggle to type this in?
<orlon> Yes.
<goodgulf> You aren't, you know. I only get full sentences from you.
<orlon> Is it the same at your end, or do you see whole sentances
<goodgulf> As you head down, 10 wights step out of the openings!
<goodgulf> No one is surprised. They are about 20' away.
<goodgulf> "Use the wand!" says Vardui.
<orlon> "Attack" Oh Well charges. Did Who Knows turns invisible again after the daemon was killed?
<goodgulf> Sure.
<orlon> Oh Well uses the wand
<goodgulf> POOF! (DM looks up wand)Wrong book!When you regain your vision, the wights are no more.
<orlon> "Thanks Vardui. I'm not very experienced with this wand," Oh Well says.
<goodgulf> The openings are 10' deep alcoves. Looking for secret doors, you find one in the end wall of the passage (middle of south wall)
<orlon> Check for traps on the door.
<goodgulf> No traps. Vardui opens the door. Beyond is a 10' wide passage running south for 20', turning east after 10'. You go and look. The passage runs east for 80' in all, turning south again after 70'. You head down and look. To the south it goes 70' in all, ascewndicendi
<goodgulf> ascending, I said! At the end is a chamber.
<orlon> I wondered what you were saying :^)
<goodgulf> I think I filled up the buffer. It started making unhappy noises at me.
<goodgulf> Heading for the chamber?
<orlon> yes
<goodgulf> It is octagonal, 10' per side. In the centre is a strange, triangular-shaped pillar. It is 10' high. In the face of each side is a portal.
<orlon> Through the portals, are there different colours?
<goodgulf> Over each portal is a word. Over one is 'Washt'n'. The partals are black.
<goodgulf> Over the second one is 'Hork'. Over the last is Ar'Razam'.
<goodgulf> "Those are places or cities or places," says Vardui. "At lewast Hork and Ar Razam are."
<orlon> "I don't like the sound of that third one," Oh Well remarks.
<orlon> "Have you ever been to Hork?" Vardui is asked.
<goodgulf> "I've been there," the elf says. "It's a city of mage-types. Fun place."
<goodgulf> "Don't think so."
<orlon> "I think we should round up the others before we go jumping in portals," Oh Well opines.
<goodgulf> "Okay." Vardui teleports you home.
When the party returned again, they reported that they had found their way to the end portal in the nexus: a triangular-shaped pillar about 10' high. In each side of the pillar was a dark opening, and over each opening were words: Washt'n, Hork, Ar'Razam.
Vardui says that he has been to Hork - the capital of Nlad - and Ar'Razam - a free city - but has never been to Washt'n.
"Washt'n sounds interesting, any idea where it is?" Al asks.
"No, I don't," replies the elf.
"So, what are we waiting for or is there something else for us to do around here?" Al asks. "Sorry I missed the rest of the dungeon, guess training takes a lot out of a person." he says with a smile. "I could use a really good and dangerous quest about now !"
"We could jump through a portal," says Vardui. He looks at Orlon, Stiff and the rest of the vast group. "What do you guys want to do?"
"Orlon, is there anything around here in Thor's name that needs to be done?" Al asks. "By the way, how are our friends doing ? The ones we borrowed the community chest from?" Al says with a smile, knowing that Occa would be pissed once he finds out that the group "borrowed" the chest and haven't returned it as of yet.
"We didn't 'borrow' it from anyone," corrects Vardui, before continuing. "Well, we heard that the giants are getting restive in the mountains east of here. Want to go and have some fun with them? Though I'd still like to jump through a portal or two, just for laughs."