Sir Mahoderes passing - Part 5

The Cast

Character	Title	Player
Nereus	Caster of Bones	Ed Douglas
Eliakim	Keeper of Keys	Jason Stevens
Joachim	Spinner of Tales	Ryan Randall (not present)

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Plane

Nualis Edit

Location

Sigeia - Ziggurat beside Cathedral. Edit

Events

Tried to open second residential door. It was jammed shut so Nereus started bashing at it. Two guards woke and tried to interfere - they were both killed. Nereus threw a defensive grenade into the room which promptly closed the door.

Inside were Sir Maghodere and 5 cobalt's. Sir Mag was standing a pentagram with each of teh cobalts outside the pentagram, but inside the 'spikes' of the star that it all formed. With each cobalt was a finger - all combining to form a dead-mans candle. A force wall was also emanating from the pentagram. Nereus jumped in and waded through the wall, and smashed the nearest finger - causing the cobalt to scream. They were too fast for him, so he activated Celerity. Nereus then hit the cobalt and it shrunk and became more dense - this is about the time we figured out that they were cobalts and if you damage them too much they go critical and explode ala a Nuke.

Nereus wrapped the iron bands around the cobalt and threw it into the force wall and then moved onto the next one creating a Freeze spell and inflicting it on the cobalt - it was not happy and was slowed enough that Nereus could put it too in the wall. After this, the cobalts ceased the chanting they had begun and the party realised they were building an astral gate and that once it was done, Sir Mag would escape and the cobalts go nova. Combining their resources via a trump connection, the party covinced the spells Daemon that the gate was complete, thus stopping it from killing the cobalts and stopping Sir Mag from his escape. He didn't seem to appreciate this.

Leaping forward he smote Eliakim (who had been working his way through the wall) a fell blow, breaking his shield arm with the force of his blow. Nereus attempted to interpose to take the blow but was a little too late (these things happen). After this, things progressed into a furious melee whereby Nereus tried not to get hit too often and tried to deal out some damage in return. While somewhat successful at the second, he was finally nailed by the death knights runesword. Eliakim then readied the xbow bolt that had killed the knight previously and presented it, whereupon Sir Maghodere was killed by an intense ray of sunlight.

The Ziggurat turned out to be a Shoggoth.

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Loot

Weapon rack	8 - 9' across by 2m deep x 2m high. Comes with a pair of gauntlets that allow the wearer to teleport items from the rack into their hands. The rack must be in visual range.
	It contains:
	- 3 Harm potions
	- 4 Elixers
	* each elixer has 100 disposable points in it
	- Runeblade (3pt weapon)
	* when a pt is sacrificed to it, it can be re-divined and it will reveal another of its abilities. This can only be done at an initiation.
	* it has more than 1 ability.
	- Black Flail
	* elongates (up to 3m) when swung (optionally).
	- Various fortified shields
	- Spear of the Ages (6pt weapon)
	* slows your opponent as it moves them out of time.
	* fossilised stone head with runes on it - perhaps from a pterodactyl back in the Old Ones time?
	- Iron boots of travelling (3pt?)
	* allows wearer to jump higher (3m?) or further (10m)
	* walk on an inclined surface as if it were flat (10 degrees / pt sacrificed)
	* kick as an attack (3pt kick + strength)
Scale armour (d5 c4 a6)	also very good vs crushing attacks, weighs 75kg
Plate mail (d5 c5 a6)
210 essences	70 each - made up of 7 groups of 10 essences of choice