<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span><br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Aaron Clausen <mightymartianca@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> The Tao of Cow Rifts PBEM <taocowpbem@zork.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, August 8, 2013 1:43 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Taocow PBEM] [Vesper] Book 3 - Chapter XIII - The Millennium Druids<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>>> [GM]<br>>> Oz's soldiers are little put off by the presence of the
Wind Storm<br>>> Demon, even if they can't exactly see him, but it certainly has proved<br>>> a powerful enemy.<br>>><br>>> The landscape around the Tree and up to the dam is a mess. Vesper<br>>> spots at least a half a dozen dead Kydians, as well as several high<br>>> end Splugorth weapons. While some of the druids and other Tree<br>>> defenders are gathering bodies and items up, it's a pretty monumental<br>>> job and they have not got to this area.<br>>><br>>> Where snow-covered ground was just a few hours ago is a washed out<br>>> mudflat already beginning to freeze over in the cold temperatures. As<br>>> Vesper and his odd company of demon and soldiers make their way to the<br>>> last known position of the scouts, it's hard to tell anything from<br>>> landmarks which have either been washed away or denuded of snow.<br>>><br>>> As they get closer to the
dam, they can see, here and there, the odd<br>>> arm or leg sticking out of the mud, but this could be a very hard<br>>> search.<br>>> [/GM]<br><br>> [Vesper]<br>> Vesper will gather what items he can as they come across the strange<br>> Splugorth troops. Giving one to the winter demon<br>> as payment for it's services even though he is pretty sure the mayhem it<br>> caused alone was payment for the creature.<br>><br>> He knew from his time in the Federation of Magic Splugorth odd tech was as<br>> powerful as most anything.<br>><br>> He turned to the other soldiers, "Gentleman any ideas on how best to find<br>> them ? Perhaps you should try radioing ?"<br>><br>> He had the demon help dig free beings when he saw the odd limb sticking out<br>> of the mud to see if it was any of the scouts that had gone missing.<br>> [/Vesper]<br><br>[OOC]<br>Vesper finds the following:<br>- 12 Undamaged Staffs
of Pacification (Atlantis p. 121)<br>- 2 Eylor Helms of Omnipotence (Atlantis p. 125)<br>- 3 relatively undamaged suits of Overlord Power Armor (Atlantis p. 123)<br>- 15 K-E4 Plasma Ejectors (Atlantis p. 137)<br>- 5 Forearm Plasma Blasters (Atlantis p. 153)<br>- 50 Full Long E-Clips<br>- 1 Lesser Rune Sword (Atlantis p. 127, Damage: 5D6MD, -6 to parry<br>energy blasts, +1 to savings throws)<br>[/OOC]<br><br>[GM]<br>It takes some time to gather the equipment, but it's an impressive<br>array to be sure. All the bodies dug out belong to Kydians or Kittani,<br>with a couple of the very creepy Metztla. No sign of the missing<br>scouts however.<br><br>One of the men nods at Vesper's suggestion and pulls out his radio and<br>tries to gain contact with the missing scouts.<br><br>A few moments later a faint reply comes. "We're all safe." a crackly<br>voice says. "We're in some sort of .underground control room, probably<br>pre-Apocalypse. Trying to find our way
out."<br><br>The missing scouts can't be far away, but all Vesper and his<br>companions can see is a sea of freezing mud.<br>[/GM]<br><br>[Vesper]<br>"I am no real expert on radios is there some way you can locate them with the radios ? If Alex were here she would know."<br>Not having any of the scouts belongings he knew he couldnt use magic to locate them the way he might normally.<br>"Let the scouts know we will try and find them. Right now all we see is freezing mud everywhere."<br>[/Vesper]<br><br>-- <br>Aaron Clausen<br><a ymailto="mailto:mightymartianca@gmail.com" href="mailto:mightymartianca@gmail.com">mightymartianca@gmail.com</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>Taocowpbem mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Taocowpbem@zork.net" href="mailto:Taocowpbem@zork.net">Taocowpbem@zork.net</a><br><a href="http://zork.net/mailman/listinfo/taocowpbem" target="_blank">http://zork.net/mailman/listinfo/taocowpbem</a><br><br><br></div>
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