OffDET118

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The Office of Deaths, Exploration & Treasure

 Session:  118 - Wednesday 15th January 2003
 Referee:  Tim "The Mechanic" Evans
 Title:    Bloody Apes!
 Author:   Tim Evans
 Previous: OffDET117
 Next:     OffDET119

Characters

    HowardT
        Filthy Ike - Half Orc/M - Barbarian/4 - CN

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

    MartinS
        [Calmert of Highfolk]? = Half Elf/M = Ranger/4 = LN

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

Encounters:

    3x Smaller Apes CR 2 (2 Defeated)
    1x Expanding Ape CR 4 (driven off)
    Lots of Strange Metal Constructions

    Rhyad XP 600        (Total XP=10787)
    Silverbark XP 600   (Total XP=9659)
    Calmert XP 600      (Total XP=7529)
    Filthy Ike XP 600   (Total XP=8981)

Trophies:

    Nothing at all.

Events

The squad decide to investigate the Forrest, to see if they can find any material that could be used to build a raft. After about 15 minutes of travel through the Forrest, they hear ahead of the the bellow of some animal. Fithy runs towards the sound. Rhyah decides to follow but on the left flank, Silverbark follows Filthy and Calmert goes up the right flank.

Filthy arrives at a clearing, and on the opposite side of the clearing is a Large Ape, Filthy Shoots it. The Ape runs across the clearing to rip Filthy in Half, as he runs across he is bellowing some more, which the rest of the party hear, just at the new bellowing stops, the three following members of the Squad are confronted by medium sized apes of there own.

The large ape hits Filthy with both claws and tries to rip him in half, but he is not big enough, so he decides to get bigger, and in front of Fithy's eys he turns from a Large Ape into a Huge Ape. But luckily for Filthy the Ape fails to land a good blow.

Rhyad shoots his way though his Ape, but Clamert and Silverbark are stuck fighting theres. As Ryhad reaches the left flank of the clearing he sees the Huge ape almost rip Filthy in Half, leaving him crumpled on the ground. Rhyad takes a shot at the Ape, which then disappears into the trees towards Silverbark. At about this time Silverbark cast obscuring mist to hide himself from the medium ape. Rhyad rushed to the spot where Filthy was lying to see if he was still alive, he was barely, Rhyad then looked to see if he could get another shot off at the Large Ape, but he could not spot it in the Forrest. Having done what he could for Fithy he then went to help Calmert with the remaining Ape.

Once Calmert's ape was dead, the party went back to Fithy and used what cures they had left to bring him round, and then returned to the edge of the Forrest before anything else could happen.

The squad rested over night, with the look out being up a tree, but they had a uneventful night. In the morning they decide to explore some more around the lake, having gone to the north of the Forrest they decide to climb a small hill to give them a better view of the area, and take another reading on there target, which is confirmed as being in the lake. They spot some movement near a spall lake to there left, so decide to go and investigate.

As they approach the lake they see 5 (1 Gold Coloured and 4 Amber Coloured) of what may be golems, but are different to the ones tunneling to the south, and they seem to be walking around the lake in a random fashion. Rhyad rushes to the edge of the lake while there is gap in there wandering pattern, and see that the lake has nearly sheer sides, she then rushes back to the party. Rhyad then decides to approach to where the golems can see her. Once he got within 20 feet of a Amber one it stopped wandering and approached her. She then retreated, and the Amber one followed her, until it was 20 feet away from the edge of the lake. Rhyad then picked up a small stone and tossed in the general direction of the Amber One, which seemed to shot the stone some how, at this point the other Amber and Gold ones begin to converge on the spot there Rhyad is standing, the Gold one stays near the lake edge, but the other Amber ones approach the point where the first Amber one is. Rhyad then gets the rest of the squad to approach, and as each one gets near Rhyad one of the Amber ones positions itself between the squad member and the lake. The squad then split up, and there Amber Golem move with them, the Gold golem stays near the Amber Golem in front of Rhyad. The Squad then retreat to consider there options.

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