Dungeon in Mt. Doom

9/15/2013

Attendance: Dragon, Moerderin, Azzara, Whitecat, Baggles, Qualin.

We begin fighting the Chimera along the path. The lion part of the Chimera immediately attacks Jamie, while the ram part of the Chimera attacks Jason.

Azzara shoots two arrows and misses with both (the high roll was a 46 and it still missed!). Moerderin executes a jumping attack and misses.

Dragon attacks with an electric breath.

Qualin attacks and rolls a critical. Her own weapon takes 40 points of damage.

Baggles is attacked and takes 4 points of damage.

The ram attacks Baggles with his tail and with a claw and incapacitates his arm.

The dragon part of the Chimera attacks Dragon and Baggles with fire breath. The Chimera attacks Whitecat and does 10 points of damage.

Whitecat completely heals Baggles’ arm.

Moerderin attacks the chimera and hits her twice.

Eventually, we kill the chimera and Moerderin skins the dragon head (the skin was discovered valuable by Whitecat’s detection skills). Moerderin also drains the poison from the tail and stores it in the ram horn.

After hiking for a while, we camp for the night uneventfully. The following day, we hike towards the top of the volcano (pictured below) and see lava spewing out of a hole on the side of the top.

We roll to "detect" and try to find caves or anything with creature intervention around the top. We cannot find anything. We return to the path about 90% of the way up and begin to walk around the volcano at that level. Azzara detects a cave, which goes straight into the mountain. The cave is dark and Azzara sneaks forward and sees no creatures.

We reach a clearing with pillars (one of which is circled). The upper left of the clearing has what appears to be a storage room with food (fish, algae, etc.).


Showing storage room (#10 in top right):

We cross a bridge and angry salamanders with tridents (not swords as is shown in the picture) surround us and begin to attack while treading water.




Salamanders:

Baggles immediately is hit and takes damage to his arm. Qualin successfully dodges an attack. The salamanders hit Azzara and knocks her unconscious. The salamanders also hit Whitecat and seriously injure his left shoulder.

Moerderin kills one of the salamanders by hitting it in the neck. The salamanders hit Qualin in the chest, arm and leg, leaving her arm and leg completely disabled.

Dragon does 15 points of damage by breathing fire on them.

Whitecat heals Azarra and then Azarra heals Qualin. Moerderin attacks but the salamander successfully dodges the first swing and Moerderin misses the second swing.

Azarra attacks and kills one salamander; she attacks again and hits a second salamander in the tail.

Azarra is knocked unconscious and Baggles’ arm is incapacitated.

One salamander losses his trident and runs away. Baggles punches one of the salamanders, but is easily dodged. Whitecat heals Azarra. Qualin somehow chops off the head of one of the salamanders with her mace!!!

The rest of the salamanders dive under the water and swim away.

We wander around exploring more of the cave and find, by #18, a passageway to another cave.