My lack of insight along with the inability to plan ahead have lead me to the situation now find myself in tonight. I know that Kali wouldn’t consider my gathering of personal supplies as planning but she gets a little nuts with her planning. Hey I am not complaining because the caravan planning she has been doing is a task that I would not wish on anyone, I truly believe it would be pure torture for me. So back on topic in the last town I forgot to get bacon and marshmallows. Marshmallows and this wall of fire would be perfect together. It probably would have been a bad idea anyway, the wall is to protect us from the undead and their aura that paralyzes. To maintain the wall I need to concentrate so getting effected by one of them would be bad.
Just before Sparna and I were supposed to begin our sleep someone spotted a Yeti. The Yeti seem to watch us for a little while and then they retreated back into the caves or wherever.. It felt good to get some sleep, keeping the wall of fire up is not in itself difficult but not casting other spells or doing things that would break the concentration is the hard part. Luckily I didn’t forget to concentrate on the wall of fire and cast a spell. Since it was fire it was a little easier to remember to not cast other spells.
I thought the idea was to spend the day recovering but Qatana was feeling better than expected and was able restore some of Olmas’s lost mojo with a restoration spell. So it was decided to move ahead and explore.
To the gold door we headed. After some checking it was discovered that this door was broken into before. Qatana cast hide from undead on us and it occurred to be that I should have done this on the people in the caravan. The others waited while I ran back and put hide from undead on them.
Once I was back they opened the door and a major spectral creature appeared and started to attack. I moved away from the door but as it turns out not the safest location. The revenant jumped up and started moving towards me. While it was standing next to me someone attacked breaking the spell. I really should know by now that sharing a hide from undead with the fighters is a bad idea. This was my first big mistake for the day. Luckily for me the revenant was after the spirit. Turns out this was what was keeping the revenant around. With two spiritual alleys Qatana and Sparna were able to beat down the revenant to the point where we could kill it. For my part I put some arrows into the creature but it was not doing as much damage as expected, well I know that ghosts don’t take as much damage. I know that there are ways to get around this with either magic or enchanted weapons but I am just not sure that we fight enough of these to get a weapon enchanted and the force spells such as spiritual alley and spiritual weapon might actually be a better option.
The spirit defeated the revenant was freed from his torture. I have to wonder about spirits like this one and how they became spirits. Did we just kill it for a second time and now soul is free? Well if Kali is correct then the spirit is truly dead otherwise the revenant would not have been released.
In the room with the Spirit we found armor that protects from ghosts and spirits plus a weapon to hurt them. The sword has these rings on it that provide additional magic effects. Freeing someone from possession seems to be one of the abilities I have to wonder why the gods provided this weapon to us. Is there someone we need to free, maybe the Yeti king or is one of our group possessed? I should keep these thoughts to myself or Olmas and/or Sparna may use this on some of us to free us from a so called possession.
We headed down the hallway and those in front decided to check out a side path. We had traveled down the side passage and around the corner when I commented that by not being on the main path the Yeti could walk right passed us and attack the caravan without us noticing. I was a little surprised when the others agreed with me and we headed back to the main path.
As we moved down the main path we found another magical barrier that Kali said was another anti-life spell blocking our path. This time there were two Yeti on the other side holding their hands up and telling us to stop, I am so glad Qatana the gods granted me comprehend languages. It got a little weird when Kala and Qatana set down their weapons, walked closer and then started talking in some type of jibberish that was beyond my spell. The whole time she was talking jibberish I was trying to decide when and how to attack. Trapping them between a wall of fire and the antilife area seemed like a good idea but shooting arrows also has its advantages. My second big mistake for the day was letting them walk away unharmed. I have no idea what was going through Kali’s mind or if she even had a plan. All that I know is that she told them that she was going to surrender.
We headed back to the water room and waited for the yeti. My plan was to get haste and then move up 35 feet out of reach of them and the fear effect that seems to follow the Yeti. The time arrived and no haste so rather than standing around being a target I move up into position. This is a great tactic only if we are fighting creatures with limited range capabilities.
Qatana was using one of her share crazy abilities and we were doing pretty well with the first wave. Sparna, Radella, Olmas, and Qatana were smacking the yeti while I provided range support. Kali once again brought out her pit spell and it seemed to be that she was very close to getting Olmas and radella caught in the pit trap. I keep hoping that she would get less careless with the spells. At least she thus far has stopped blinding Sparna with glitterdust.
The second wave started heading towards us from the main corridor so I put up a wall of fire to greet them. They don’t appear to light fire so this at least in the short term is a good way to control the Yeti movement. I suspect that the person with magic with dispel the in the future to try to get the drop on us. He or she better have a lot of dispel magic spells available.
The first wave was finished off and the other were pulling of things from the bodies while they waited for the second wave. The second wave arrived and we start to fight them when it occurred to me that the new Yeti were basically trapped in a narrow cave. I put a wall of fire down the length of the cave to catch both of them. This was the third big mistake I made today as the two Yeti just ran to get away from the fire. I should have just shot them with arrows.
At this point everything went crazy and I was wondering if all of them were possessed. Kali ran ahead to do who knows what followed by Radella and Qatana. There was some confusion I think in the ranks of the Yeti so Olmas and Sparna rushed forward to take advantage of the confusion with Kali retreated? Clearly everyone seems to have their own plan and is expecting everyone to go along with the crazy shit in their heads. I just kind of put myself between everyone so that I could see if we are moving forward or backwards. I just felt that if I wanted to be stupid like the others that I should run down the main hallway! In the end I calmly decided that being impulsive is one thing and being stupid is something else.