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the D&D entry, LJ-cut because nobody except carl will read it
Because Kyle's leaving town before next weekend, we decided to try our best to finish up today. We succeeded. It took until almost 7pm though. Basically, when last we left our group, we had just defeated a dragon in the middle of the desert, but had not found any of the "divine raiments" we were searching for in the area. Ok. Today we started off by searching more of the desert. ("We're combing the desert, sir!" "We ain't found shit.") We found a big buried monolith thing, and used the scorpions we can now control thanks to the ring we got off the dragon, getting them to dig out the monolith. Ok. So it's huge and magical and has all of this writing on it. We find a secret door. My character, being the rogue, opens the thing up. What's inside? A helmet. It's magic. It's cursed. It's necromantic. It's REALLY cursed. Evil, too, while we're at it. Well, that's gotta be what we came for. After debating for a bit, Kyle's character went in and grabbed it, and we got attacked by these four skeletons, which we defeated. Ok. We reseal and rebury the monolith and start back towards town. A detect curse spell, with analyzing rounds, basically determines "the curse has to do with removing the helmet from that monolith". Hmm. So at midnight while we're still travelling, we get attacked by four LARGE skeletons. IIRC, Kyle's character got killed because she was holding the helmet and got massacred. We reincarnated Kyle the next morning (luckily we rolled the right percentage for her to show up as a human) and went around town buying magic items (scrolls and potions and crap). Then we contacted the spirit of the great swordsman Mika and he said "you idiots, return the helmet, it is cursed, and you will die. Don't worry about the demon; only a paladin can break the curse on the item." We're like "But the demon has possessed a paladin, so you're screwed," and he's like "Well, if paladins suck this much, we're ALL screwed." Shrug. So we go back to the desert, preparing to return the helmet and wait for the hero and demon and all, except... they're already there. Ok. Well, in real life at this point it was 5pm so we were like "we either go forward with this or we cut until next week," and Kyle's like "Ok, we're going forward with it." So we get ready tons of spells and crap. Isaac, Nasri, Kyle and I all go into the hero's camp invisible at midnight, with Carl and Konstantin as backup outside since there are tons of dragonmen and crap. What happens? Surprise round: Four HUGE skeletons start coming out of the ground as before; Kyle lifts the tent flap up; Nasri shoots the mage with a blowgun with poisoned darts and does 2d6 con damage; Isaac comes in and chops her to bits (literally, he did about 106 points damage in one round). Great. Then Nasri comes in and attacks the hero, except the hero's in full magical plate armor, which is a little harder to hit through, and there's also two dragonmen and two divine guard left. My character was going to backstab the mage though, so seeing as she was dead, I snuck across the tent invisible to see what would happen in the battle (no reason to become visible until necessary). Kyle cast obscuring mist and then put on the divine cursed helmet. Then he commanded all of the undead in the area to attack dragonmen. Amazingly, it worked (although the four huge undead were still coming up out of the ground towards us; and towards the hero and his guard as well). With Nasri and Isaac laying into the hero, he retreated out of the mist... right over to where I was standing invisible. So I sneak-attacked him, and managed to hit... alerting the others to his location. They came out and the rest of the battle didn't last all that long; they just obliterated everything, with me spring-attacking things from time to time. After the hero was killed, the demon rose out of his body like "AAAAUUUGHHH! DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG IT TOOK ME TO FIND A PALADIN THAT STUPID? DAMN YOU MEDDLING KIDS!" and attacked... but we had this lawful good sword that we'd found in the dragon's lair. "600 years?" "Not that long. I had another, and YOU HAVE HIS SWORD!" (Keep in mind that we found out that wielding the sword would bestow negative levels for every alignment away from lawful good a character was, but nasri took it anyway because it was a +4 greatsword) So we killed the demon. And that was that. Oh, I guess I forgot the part where Carl almost died because there was this huge red dragon outside that breathed fire on him. His scorpions got killed, but in the end he and Kon survived. I ended up stealing the hero's horse, sword, and lance, and riding off into the distance.
Damn did we get a lot of XP and treasure out of it... not that it matters since it's the end of the campaign.
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