Level 7 - Demon Wastes and a Lich

A seal is slowly crumbling between the demon plane and our plane. Our party is en route through the demon wastes to shore that seal. We continue our new mission of protecting the seals.

Day One

In the demon wastes, we battle a babelith. Tux used a Quicken Flame Strike and a normal Flame Strike and did 14d6 damage for ~50 damage. Sam and Malik took a lot of constitution damage. Since it was storming, Tux used Call Lightning and Quicken Call Lightning to summon.

Day Two

Still traveling through the demon wastes. Our party becomes a little lost at one point. We encounter a small glade in a wooded area. A nymph and two satyrs appear from the water in the center of the clearing. The nymph asks what we a doing. She is tricky with words, but Ki tells her we are adventurers. The nymph would like to offer us something to help on our journey. Ki declines her offer. This greatly offends the nymph.

Battle seems likely to break out. Ki talks the nymph down, and Cas leaves because people that are tricky with words suck. The party gets ready to leave as well. The nymph is again offended by our group leaving, the satyrs attack everyone. Cas decides to return to help in battle, they are a team after all, when an idea occurs to her. The group exchanges a few rounds of combat. Cas returns, pulling out the Deck of Transformations.

Ki instantly realizes what she is doing. Cas begs her to stop this violence. Ki adds that they have a gift worthy of her beauty and greatness. The nymph is intrigued, she loves to make tricky deals. She accepts a draw from the deck as a gift. Upon drawing, she is transformed into a halfling. She is very upset by this. She wants to fight us, but is bereft of her former power. Instead, she retreats into the pool, very, very mad. Our group makes a quick exit.

Day Three

Along our next day's travel, we run into a succubus and two babau. After unsuccessfully trying to hide by climbing up the walls of the canyon, Malik jumps down and attacks all three of them. The two babau summon two more babau, as Tux unsuccessfully uses Arc of Lightning, since babau are immune to electricity damage. Malik takes over thirty damage from one babau! Lareth tried to trip but failed and took 17 damage. Rick tried to trip one of the babau with his whip but failed. The whip took acid damage and was destroyed! No one is sad that Rick will have to stop acting like Indian Jones.

On the next turn, Cas took a lot of damage, and her sword took 7 acid damage from hitting a babau. Tux then used Flame Strike on two of the babau, summoned a Dire Weasel, and the weasel did constitution damage on one of the babau, and it dies. Cas summoned her bronze griffin to battle the babau. The griffin attacks but only does 2 damage. Cas then attacks with her sword, only doing 3 damage. Lareth misses his trip again! These things suck.

On the next round, Malik does a good amount of damage, even though he has very low HP. Lareth turns from the dead Babau, runs ten feet to the Babau threatening Ki and Rick and trips it. On Constance's next turn, he fabricates a 10 cubic foot chunk of the cliff to fall onto the currently prone Babau, which does 55 damage to it, and as a result the next Babau dies. Cas had enough of the babaus' shit, so she uses smite evil to rid it from the world and kills it, and thus concludes the battle.

Time to loot the bodies!

• Gold and gems
• 200 gold, 400 gold, 800 gold, a black pearl worth 500 gold, a carnelian worth 50 gold, and a gem of purple corundum worth 500 gold, 800 gold. Total 3250 gold
• ART!!
• A golden comb worth 1050 gold
• An empty golden bottle with bottle stopper worth 1050 gold
• A silver plated steel longsword worth 550 gold
• A silver comb worth 550 gold
• 3200 gold, but Cas wants to keep the sword, so total 2650 gold
• Minor Magic Items: A magical +1 Kama, which is a mini-scythe worth 2300 gold

Day Four

The party makes it to the seal, which is guarded by 10 zombies and 3 wizards, one is a lich. Constance recognizes that this lich is a very powerful wizard and seals him within a sonic energy wall, effectively disabling him. Tux wild shapes into a Fleshraker dinosaur, pounced on top of and then later kills one of the wizards and two zombies. The lich casts a cone of Cause Fear, making Malik and one of his wizard allies run away. Lareth, Sam, Dean, Cas, all then destroyed the remaining zombies. After this, the party surrounded the lich, readied attacks, and quickly dispatched him.

Loot:

• (7,000) assorted pearls         (sell)
• (16,000) bracers of armor +4 (sell)  
• (750) potion of gaseous form (sell)
• (1,000) cloak of resistances (+1 to saves) (going to Tux)
• (6,750) wand of 9th lvl magic missle (50) (going to Ki)
• (2,000) ring of protection +1   (going to Constance)
• (65,000) staff of necromancy  (sell)  
• (25,000) x-ray vision ring        (keep this in Tux's pack for party)
• (700) scroll of summon monster IV  (sell)
• (24750) staff of alteration (sell)
• Total to sell: 114200gp.

22840gp base to each Malek and Cas
Tux: 22840 - 1000 = 21840
Ki: 22840 - 6750 = 16090
Constance: 22840 - 2000 = 20840