Temple of Death, Part Eight

O Master, My Master
The Master rises to the occasion and levitates into the empty room. The tigers are less magical, and just jump up there. The Master offers Argorn a tempting counter offer of employment in his service (with dental plan, one hopes), but before Argorn signs anything, Thaddeus speaks up. More importantly, he speaks the name of Rahasia (where the Elven Princess babes are from), and activates his Rahasia pendant, cancelling all evil majick, and rendering the Master more impotent than a bottle of anti-viagra.

The tigers set upon Thaddeus while Argorn tackles the Master. The battle is joined, with the Bard and Lotus leaping down into the fray, while the rest stay on the top and perform ranged attacks. After some severe kicking, the Master makes for the sky and quickly leaves (boots of levitation, natch!). This still leaves the tigers, but eight party members versus two tigers don't make for long odds.


Castle Crawl
In the Master's bedroom, the heroes find two very important bundles of paper. One, a set of complete maps for the castle, complete with numbering (as if it had been photocopied from a module book, for example) and handy GM pencil notes (don't notice the Vampr!). Two, a full set of battle plans which will enable the forces of good to overcome all odds... or at least know how they are going to get stomped. We presume the former, but you never know... (Still, one of the main goals of the game, tick!)

With the maps in hand, the party descend, and encounter the castle's major domo and his hawk (everyone should have a hawk). (Insert your own jokes about "clerical duties", an "office wizard" and "spell checking" here. We certainly did!) The hawk Hulks out as the cleric casts Grow Animal on it, tearing open its hood and smashing its stand. (Try not to imagine this. One player did and we nearly had death number two...)

Obviously the heroes won (they wouldn't be heroes otherwise), and decided to make for the obvious cells marked on the map, because they were supposed to free Marialena (remember her?) and time was marching on and people wanted to GET ON WITH IT!