Adventure 05: Talon's Gate
Date: Tuesday October 23th, 2001
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Adventure Details
Serena and Piskie return to the tavern (the Phantom) to learn that several oriental people are looking for them. They talk with the others and then answer a knock on the door. It's the barkeep telling them that the people looking for them are back. The party heads down stairs expecting a fight. So Dong and Serena recognise the strangers as members of the Shi-Kaze, a rival clan from their homeland. The strangers want to escort the party to see their leader so they agree.
They meet with Takana, the Shi-Kaze leader, who informs them that a statuette the Shi-Kaze recovered from the missing ship (which they apparently found abandoned) is magical and they they would like to know the password which operates it. The party has 24 hours to come up with it or Takana will set "X" (a beholder) onto them! The party then leaves and decides to fight the beholder in the city ruins.
They head to the shops and stock up on everything they need for their traps and plan an elaborate ambush. The following day, (once everything has been prepared) Takana, X and their lackeys come calling on the party. Piskie is hidden in a pit, while the others are spread about. Battle soon erupts and a cat and mouse battle ensures amidst the rubble and ruins. Several Shi-Kaze warriors are wounded by traps but eventually most of the party are cornered and fighting for their lives.
Piskie spies X hovering over her position and leaps out to backstab, but fails to hit! Moments later she manages to hit with her poisoned blade just as Garet drops and continual darkness plunging the area into pitch black so nobody knows what is going on. So Dong manages to drop the warrior fighting him (thanks to a critical) while Serena also dispatches her opponent. When Garet finally manages to drop the continual darkness there is no sign of the remaining warriors. Just then the alarm sounds in the distance...
Piskie picks a lock to get the party into the leaders quarter and they (after a brief rest at the Dragon temple) head over to Yorin's palace to attack the leaders. They fail to con their way past the guards but that doesn't matter. One ogre guard enters the building and then Piskie backstabs the other killing him instantly. They drag the body inside and dispatch the other ogre before heading upstairs. Here they find a chamber occupied by two more ogres. They draw off one and it is backstabbed by Piskie and seriously wounded then Serena finishes it off. Unfortunately the other lets out a warning alerting Yorin and Takana to the fact that they have intruders.
Garet tries to web them but both make avoid it and then the real fun begins. Yorin makes short work of So Dong and turns of Garet. Serena tries to kill him with a poisoned Shiriken but misses and hits Garet, who collapses. Piskie is left to fight the enraged Yorin but then Serena hits him with a second Shiriken and he drops (rolled a 2 vs poison and died). By now Garet has recovered and he holds the monk Takana with a spell and they slay him. The toughest battle so far but the party prove the victors once again, due more to good luck than to good management.
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