Star Wars Revised Session 14

After talking to the floaty talking figure in the tree.  We overhear other Jedi say that the ruins are over 21,000 years old which means the droids are also that old.  They also say that zero non-force users have ever been inside these ruins.

-FLASHBACK-

When we first entered the ruins, I noticed a large door-sized white marble stone in the hill about ten meters past the entrance.

-END FLASHBACK-

I just noticed that there was an empty handed droid that is unarmed standing inside an alcove next to the stone covered by the roots of the normal-sized tree growing above the white rock on the hill and it is watching us.  All the other droids are missing.  A battalion of troopers with auto-cannons, padawans, and masters are gathered around the hole we found.  Scouting party are being formed for reconnaissance on the ruins and some are being stationed in certain areas.

   I asked the hologram in the tree what else we woke up and the hologram replied,"He's not up yet and neither is she."

   "She?"

   "Yes, there are two of them" stated the hologram matter-of-factly.

   "What are them" I ask.

   "They are two very powerful dark-side users."

   "Sith, or before Sith?"

   The hologram replies,"before Sith."

   "How long till they wake up?"

   "Good question.  All depends on what you disturbed.  Hopefully you didn't get too far into the vault.  Hopefully they won't wake."

   "All we did was open the door.  We got freaked out when the dead people started moving."

   We hear him chuckle under his breath and say,"I really need to thank that tech for that."

   "What tech do you mean?"

   "Oh, you heard that.  His name was Tal'roc.  He was a Twi'lek and liked zombie films."

   A collective sigh is heard behind us when the news that the dead coming alive down in the hole were holograms.  The hologram asks me to leave and a padawan comes and takes Fra'll and I to guard a mountain pass while he talks to our masters.  The dark-force still pulses from below and every time it does the walls within the ruins glow white.

   "What race are you?"

   The padawan answers me,"I'm a Kathar."

  She asks,"What do you think of all this?"

   "What do you mean?"

   She explains what she means by reciting everything that has transpired since we arrived at the ruins.  She says something about how this is a minor problem.

Two robed figures enter the ruins, walk to the unarmed droid, bow, say a few words, walk to the Lady in White, said a few words, looked at Fra'll and I, then said a few more words to her, turned around and walked out, nodding to the droid, and left through the ruin entrance.  Heard two speeders leave shortly thereafter.

My master approaches after talking with the Lady in White and says we are going someplace else, off planet, to a restricted planet to deal with some living force.

   We leave the ruins on our speeders and make our way to the temple grounds and see everyone training for battle and several transports, seven to ten inbound.  There are troopers and non-force users inside the sacred temple.   Place is literally an army encampment.

   Kaleth Ruins destroyed via explosion.  Can feel the dark-side emanating from there at the Temple.  See large smoke clouds rising from the direction of the ruins.  Healing others for rest of day.  Make it back to our rooms at temple after about five hours of helping and we end up having to share a room due to overcrowding of wounded.  The hole that we found in the ground is now twenty meters by twenty meters crater.  The droid that was unarmed at the ruins is now standing by the temple where it meets the mountain it's built into and it's holding something.  I wake up, grab my ration box and head over to talk to the droid.  I ask him two things: who are you and what are you holding?

   He answers,"I am the protector.  I am the one to see if you are worthy of the item."

   I see the item he is holding is a wrapped cylinder.  The droid has no rust and no signs of age, even though he is 21,000 years old or older.  It says,"I feel that it is on purpose that the two awoke and destroyed part of the test.  The other part of the test is to know what the item is."

   He tells me it is the First Hilt.  The first hilt is the very first hilt of the very first lightsaber.  The hilt can still be used as a hilt for a lightsaber.  The last time it was used was over 20,000 years ago.  No one has proven worthy since.

   Before I get to the droid I see him talking to a force apparition that's different than the hologram force apparition at the ruins.  The outfit the apparition is appearing in is a cross between a Sith Lord and a Jedi Knight.

That's where we left off.  Out next meeting will be in two weeks, Tuesday Night because of the World's Largest Trivia Contest.  Until next time, safe gaming and have fun.

Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 Session 15

We were surrounded by satyrs.  Fortunately, I had enough time to push Bram off his horse and one of the satyrs not knowing that Nightwind was effected closed to engage in melee with him.  The satyrs had shortbows, but most of them were in melee with us and used there heads, literally, to attack us.  One closed behind Ja'Lil on his horse, but Ja'Lil used his horse to try and get away and ended up attacking the one preventing him from leaving with his horse.  Nightwind dropped the first one and soon after Ja'Lil was knocked from his horse and fled through the brush and rocks surrounding the road we were on.  Bram, having woken up from being dumped off his horse, used his magic missile wand after using his spell of the same name to get rid of some of them.  I told everyone at the beginning that they needed cold iron weapons to defeat them faster.  My longsword didn't do much damage, but when there was only one satyr left Nightwind and I flanked him and a was able to sneak attack him and drop him.
   After we stacked there bodies and found their treasure, a large chest full of silver and a masterwork wooden harp, we set up camp for the night on the other side of the road.  While resting for the night, we scared off a black bear scrounging around looking for something.  I was happy we were lucky in only having one black bear show up.
   We continued towards the ruins at first light and had an uneventful lunch of rations.  We started towards the ruins afterwords until we were about an hour away from the bridge.  We hear some noise from our left and find ourselves being attacked by some large owlbear skeletons.  All we knew was that they were undead creatures.  Ja'Lil was the man of the hour with his cleric training.  He destroyed three of the skeletons before Nightwind and I could get the fourth wobbling on his feet for Bram to use his wand and blast the last one to dust.  Apparently, skeletons have no treasure, but when I uttered these words, Ja'Lil, the cleric replied,"that's because they have no pockets."  We all have a good laugh after that.

That's where we left off for the night.  We'll be back on in a month since we are participating in the World's Largest Trivia event in two weeks and preparing ourselves with note gathering.  Until next time; safe gaming and have fun.

Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 Session 14

We knock on the door to the small cabin where Stand lives; definitely meager in appearance.  There was a vegetable garden to the rear of the cabin, a scant stable for his warhorse, and a stonewall drawing well with a large wooden bucket behind the garden.  The scenery was very picturesque.  We hear a response from inside the cabin, "Yeah."
   Nightwind pipes in,"We are here to talk and we brought some friends."  We hear some shuffling from inside and about five minutes later the door opens.  Filling the large door frame in front of us is the figure of Stand, the paladin of Chauntea.  He is wearing his plate mail armor with his holy symbol prominently etched into it with oak filigree.  He is the biggest human that I have ever seen.
   "I see you brought some friends," Stand utters while he turns to face the drow Druid,"I am Stand Doffersteen and who might you be?"
   "I am Syllanna Darklight of the Darklight family, but I am now known as Lightwater, my Druid name.  I am pleased to meet you."
   Stand nods approvingly and sidesteps evacuating the door and leaving a halfling that it seems nobody noticed was standing behind him.  Stand announces,"This is my friend and partner; introduce yourself Rolo."
   The halfling shuffles his feet a bit and then seems to gain his self-confidence as he erects himself and bows formally towards Syllanna,"I am Rolondo Trackfeet, but I am known as Rolo the Tracker.  My friends call me Rolo."  He rights himself and immediately sidesteps behind the paladin.
   At that moment, the army mage-cleric, the human that we rescued from inside the orc encampment, stepped forward,"I am Sir Staven Misthaven.  It has been my privilege to know you, but after what has happened at Po's Inn, I need to be back on my  way to Reka Padaet.  I must first speak with the stable master at Po's to procure new horses for me and my countrymen.  Fare thee well."
  We learn a few interesting things from Stand while we watch Sir Staven and the three other soldiers head off to Trynt.  We then inform him off the pending doom coming from the Black Tree Ruins and he informs us that we need to go back and count how many leaves remain on the tree.  He tells us that he will go into Trynt and investigate what happened at Po's Inn.  We head off towards town; Stand and Rolo said they would be arriving tomorrow.
   We go to Korgle's and Syllanna comes with us, though she says she is leaving in the morning.  Once we arrive at Korgle's we hear obnoxious tales inside, which is packed full, about a dragon, a vampire, and some lizardfolk group.  We find a table in the corner with three chairs and two more chairs along the wall.  We all sit down.  After awhile, I notice Syllanna paying attention intently to the rumors.
   "You're not believing everything they are talking about, are you?"
   "Well, I don't believe what they are saying about how they all showed up at Po's Inn, but I wonder where they came up with a dragon, a vampire, and lizardfolk."
   "What do you mean?"
   "I mean, why those three particular villains, why not bugbears or orcs that killed everyone at Po's."
   "Oh."
   We ask a passing barmaid about the dragon and the other rumors.  She tells us about a dragon seen about one year ago flying overhead and a story about lizardfolk from the southern marsh swamp three years ago and finally a story about livestock being drained of blood near the lake to the east.  She ends up serving us our food.  While eating, we remember about the little boy we found at Po's.  We go to Po's to check on him after we get done eating.  We notice a small light coming from inside Po's, the door was unlocked, so we go in and say "hello" to see if anyone was there.   A woman comes from in back towards the kitchen and she tells us that the boy was from a visiting family and that he is staying with Mary at Mary's Market.  Ja'Lil says that she looked like she was crying.  The floor of Po's was stained red and looked wet and water-logged.  We go back to Korgle's and sleep.
   When we awake, Syllanna is gone.  We take our horses and ride north towards the black tree ruins and everything was fine until twilight when we were ambushed with magical music.  First Bram, his horse and Ja'Lil's horse fell asleep.  We then heard another melody different than the first.  Ja'Lil had kicked his horse, waking it, but then it seemed that he was affected by this music.  After that music was done, a third tune started up and I heard some leaves rustling to my right and saw a hiding monster in the brush.  I yelled out,"It's a satyr."

That is where we left off.  We will be playing this next week if all goes well.  Until then, game safe and have fun.

Update

I will be writing up the next installment of the DnD 3.5 game I am running in a day or two.  Stay tuned and I apologize for the long anticipated wait.  Until then, safe gaming and have fun.