Badger of Awesomeness

I am in love with the dungeon Andrew threw us into yesterday. Love love love.

Some background. The session beforehand my character, Joanne finnaly came upon the scene she had been dreaming on for a couple of weeks, a little girl being stabed and thrown off a cliff. We killed her murderer, and Joanne jumped off the cliff she had been thrown off. This thing is 300ft heigh. Thanks to her ring of feather falling she floated to the bottom where she found a mangled corpse. At this point everyone is yelling at me. Anyway there was alot of shouting about why on earth we hadn't brought rope. Turned out I didn't need it, cause I had a spell called spider climb that would allow me to climb 6,000 feet in 50 miniutes...huh.

We left the wererat town and Andrew asked me to throw for whether that bite was going to turn me into a warerat or not. I rolled a 1 then someone pointed out that he probably should have done it behind a screen. Huh. We got our money for getting rid of the wererats, neglecting to tell our minder that we had done so by releasing them into the wider world. Ahh well.

We went shopping and brough backpacks (Andew: Wait...you didn't have backpacks before now!) and some other mudane stuff. Aj insisted we needed 50 pieces of chalk. We also got rope. Lots of rope. We paid, we went on our next mission, which involved an airship trip and a boat ride. When we got to our destination and tried to say something to harvey, only to discover he wasn't there, ("What, I hadn't noticed in the 3 day airship ride!?! Damn Monk! I'm going to beat him up!") We then proceded to what dan described as "Temple of doom from which we must steal mysterious orb" We went in the first room was filled with stone gargoules. Steph imediatly said... weeping angels, and scott wanted to know what that meant when we explained, he suggested we run away and screw the quest. We didn't. There was a huge blue diamond on a pillar and I didn't want to touch it, so I batted it off with the priests walkingstick. Then the gargoils attaked and we smooshed them. We smooshed them good.

We moved on. Room with flaming circle in the middle. Huh. I worked out it was a portal to the elemental realm of fire. "Huh guys, don't step in that." Twyson "We need marshmellows!" we eventually accidently summoned a giant fire thingy which we where going to defeat stratigicly, but the priest just turned into his angel form and whacked the shit out of it. Scott: Dude, we should have stuck around and watched. We might have gotten xp!

Next room giant chasm. Not like 300 foot, but like bottomless pit kind of chasm. Theres a wooden beam shaped like a T that leads to a platform and a door. So what do we do? We tie a rope around my waist and hope to hell I suceed on getting to the platform. I roll a 20 on tieing the rope (whoot) and proceed. I fall a few times, but get reeled back in and try again. Then I throw a 1 on my balance check, not only falling but pulling my rope free, then 1 on reflex. Oh Shit. The others reeled in the rope, tied it round the angel and he jumped off trying to catch me. Fail. Reel him in, try again. He's a hairs breath from me and I vanish. Poof. Into thin air. Ah shit.

I reapeared in a force button, near me between 2 platforms in the middle of the wall is a button. I used message to tell the others. They tied a rope around betty and he climbed down and pressed the button, releasing me. But the rope had been severed by giant swinnging pendulums. I might have this bit a little out of order... I got shot the rope, and got pulled back up. Betty got whacked by a pendulumn and thrown off, he's now on 1 hit point and in the forcebubble.. ah shit. So what do we do:

Scott: Joanne climb back down!
Me: No freaking way! Giant freaking pendulumns!
Scott: What about twison can't he turn into a bird
Someone: Yeah, fly into the button
Scott: Or summon a Badger of Awesomeness to push it

So we summon a Badger of awesomeness who with great glee presses the button constantly. He releases betty onto the platform. But betty needs mhealing. It's too risky to try and get him up again. I decided to spiderclimb across the beam (In love with this spell) I went across to the door and pressed a preasure plate. A milisecond later a giant ball thing whaks me out of the corridor and into the pit. A floor is apearing above me. Pop, im in the buble, badger pushes the button, I give betty a healing potion and bobs your uncle. So we can walk out. But theres still the pendulums. Betty tried to run across and got knocked into -6  or something hit points. Druid. Pointy Stick! Now! He got thrown into a corver where the pendulums didnt reach, so we crawled along there and got to the next room.

Yet another freaking pit. I'm not going to give a blow by blow, but the angel tried to jump across and quickly discovered that what looked like pit was realy floor and what looked like floor was realy pit. Damned confusing. Most of the time was spent rolling willsaves with those who failed screaming and trying to save the person 'falling' into the pit, and the rest looking on with wry amusment as the said person screams and flails on the floor. The angel got across, as did betty (I belive she was dragged across) I got a 20 on my will save, and jumped across to the solid part and then just walked across with arineal screaming at me. I didn't even bother with the rope. Twyson saw the logic in this and followed and we eventually got Areneal across too.

And that was the awesome dungeon. Great fun. AWESOME.