[dungeoncrawl] Re: Thursday Morning Review

    I'm amused that we both wrote a review at the same time.  Yours is
more detailed though.
    I forgot about Amrikol's line to Ariakas about worshipping a god.
However, my favorite line of the evening came from Ambrosia.
    Nadan was resurrecting the fallen Riders, and Ambrosia was trying to
help by setting up small sacrifices to the gods they worshipped.  Nadan
asked her to stop, saying he needed to be focused on Lathander, and a
small theology argument ensued.  In the end Ambrosia snapped, "You men!
They aren't a sports team, they're a pantheon!"  I loved that line!

jimkaren@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Last night, we picked up where we left
> off with Magnus, Carpathia, Quasit,
> Nadan, Baish, Talosaard, and Mileena.
> They wanted to have Dennis raised in
> Sigil, and had just entered a portal
> created by a frustrated Elminster, who
> had just received a tongue-lashing from
> Nadan.
>
> Elminster sent them to hell, where they
> found themselves confronted by none
> other than the Black Legion.  Amrikol
> was apparently talking with a few
> devils when they arrived about how
> powerful he would become in that realm
> if he died.
>
> The party was surprised by Elminster's
> actions, but it's hard to know what
> brought it about - only time will tell.
>
> Once there, the group had some success
> at talking to the Black Legion, but
> things took a turn for the worse when
> Ariakas found out that the party had
> confronted an alternate reality form of
> Talos and apparently destroyed him (at
> least to hear Nadan tell it).
>
> The Legion also included Iludriss, a
> fighter who was apparently composed of
> fire and encased in magical full plate;
> Nibrodius, a cleric of Kossuth; and
> Talon, an assassin.
>
> Amrikol seemed to take offense at
> Magnus's suggestion that he couldn't
> control the Legion, and combat ensued.
>
> During the fighting, Quasit and
> Carpathia died quickly as a result of
> their injuries.  Things looked grim for
> a while until ANOTHER Amrikol appeared -
>  this one completely different from the
> first, and much more like the one that
> Magnus remembered from times past.
>
> The two Amrikols began to battle each
> other, and the party attempted to sneak
> away. Unfortunately, Iludriss had not
> forgotten them, and he began to attack.
>
> Meanwhile, the members of the legion
> were forced to choose sides between the
> two Amrikols.  Ariakas, still enraged
> with Nadan, continued that battle for a
> while, and eventually left in a rage
> with a plane shift spell after
> a "destruction" spell failed.  Before
> he left, though, he shouted "I am
> loyal!" to the "original" Amrikol, who
> shot back, "You worship a god - you can
> never be loyal!".
>
> Talon apparently remained loyal from
> the start to the original Amrikol, and
> stood by him.  When Nibrodius found
> himself unable to decide who to ally
> with, and threw himself on both
> Amrikol's mercy, Talon slew him.
>
> Ultimately, Magnus succeeded in killing
> the "new" Amrikol, partly with
> the "original" Amrikol's help.
> However, he noticed that the "new"
> Amrikol was almost too eager to die.
> When the killing spell came, he said to
> the one devil: "You must now do your
> part in our bargain."
>
> With that, he died in a conflagration,
> and arose as a 50' tall pit fiend.  He
> almost seemed to lose interest in the
> battle, and proudly proclaimed himself
> to be "one of the nine".  It seems that
> his past experience at world destroying
> and universe altering (with the
> introduction of third edition) had
> given him some prestige in hell -
> enough to give him quite a career boost
> when he arrived.
>
> With some difficulty, the group (the
> Riders and Amrikol, Iludriss, and
> Talon) left through a portal and
> arrived back in Sigil.
>
> After a parting of ways, the party
> resurrected Carpathia, Dennis, and
> Quasit.  The group had some internal
> scuffles, as Mileena had temporarily re-
> animated Carpathia during the fight,
> and as Nadan and Magnus had serious
> differences of opinion about the
> group's methods.
>
> In the end, Dennis explained
> that "General Klaw" really wanted to
> liberate his own world, and that is
> where he took the weakened gods that
> Celane seemed to control.  The riders
> would head there next, after some
> research into the matter.
>
> I'll give out my comments later - my
> wrist is hurting from this, and I
> didn't even talk about the "Tooth of
> Dendar" artifact -
> comments?

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