OffDET117

Ref: NewGallo / DragonStar / OffDET117

The Office of Deaths, Exploration & Treasure

 Session:  117 - Wednesday 8th January 2003
 Referee:  Tim "The Mechanic" Evans
 Title:    Flaming Birds!
 Author:   Tim Evans
 Previous: OffDET116
 Next:     OffDET118

Characters

    DaveF
        Silverbark = Elf/M = Cleric/3 Soldier/1 = N

    MartinS
        [Calmert of Highfolk]? = Half Elf/M = Ranger/3 = LN

    PhilippeK
        [Lady Rhyad de Grances]? = Elf/F = Paladin/4 = LG

Encounters:

    3x Flaming Birds CR 3
    2x Flaming Birds CR 3
    Lots of Mining Constructions.

    Rhyad XP 1599 (this includes your 20% DM Bonus)   (Total XP=10187)
    Silverbark XP 1333                                (Total XP=9059)
    Calmert XP 1333                                   (Total XP=6929)

Trophies:

    Nothing at all.

Events

After a certain amount of discussion about what to take on the mission, the squad finally were on there way, after renaming the scout craft 'Eclair'

The trip to the planet was uneventful, and the scout ship landed some way north of there target. After checking the atmosphere, Calmert does a diving role out of the lower entrance while Rhyad covers him from the upper entrance. Calmert is very surprised when nothing attacks him :)

The squad them load as much supplies as they can onto there six wheeled cargo transport. And set off west towards a river. the river is 25 feet across, and flowing moderately fast. They then turn south, when they reach a small 50 feet high mound they climb up, to survey the ground ahead. They then use there scanner to confirm that the target is to the south of them.

While they are checking the scanner, they are attacked by 3 flaming birds, which they defeat but take a considerable amount of damage. Rhyad notices there are some flying creatures 20 or more Klicks away near the largest mountain in the area. They then decide to head of east so as to triangulate onto the target.

They get to another small hill, and triangulate that the target is in the middle of the lake.

They now try to cross the nearest river but with out much success, Calmert has to be rescued, so the decide to go down stream to where the river forks, so see if they can find a ford, or a easier point to cross. About Half a klick after the river fork, they find a point where they can cross more easily. Once they are on the far side, they head south again.

As they approach the lake, Rhyad checks on the birds, and tries to see if there is small island in the lake, there is not, but what he does notice is some form of activity on the southern edge of the lake.

They decide to go around the lake, but as they start out they are attacked again by 2 flaming birds, the party take even more damage, and decide it may be a good idea to heal them selves before someone dies.

Once they get to the southern end of the lake they see an number of what they decide are Golems, and they appearing to have just started digging some sort of trench/gully that may be designed to empty the lake. The party hide at the edge of a forest a few hundred meters away to observe the tunneling, to gauge how fast it is going. (Not very).

Sheriff Sir Karl Tsukin OGE <sheriff@newgallo.net>, The Office of New Gallo Law Enforcement and Aggressive Defence