| Chaos Attacks |
| After some shopping and New Year�s celebrations, the party (Dominic, Ignatius, Jack, and Nemo with Drusila and Yarol) seemed to be having a break from their typical troubles. All that changed the next morning, when Dominic was awakened by the feeling of being watched. Moments later, black clad assassins struck, hacking at him with double bladed swords. As Dominic fled downstairs, he ran into slaad and a powerful wizard. Thankfully the other party members soon came to the rescue, dealing with the warriors while trying to get into Dominic�s tower. Nemo was the first in but fell prey to a petrification spell. Using him as cover, Jack and Dominic engaged the assailants. Eventually they pinned down the survivors and killed them. After sifting through the remains, they realized that the attackers slaad and chaos plane touched. After some scrying they decided to use the escape scroll back to their base of operations. They landed inside solid stone on a pocket plane of Limbo. As they willed the terrain into something more useful, they were surprised as a halfling fell into the midst of them. Fick, as he was called, was an adventurer from another world who seemed to attract unusual happenings. Pushing on through he roiling chaos, they soon came to a stabilized gap. Floating in a large pocket of green tinged air was a fortress rising both up and down. A ribbon of flames surrounded the four-towered structure like a mobius strip. Guarding the structure were several large serpents who much to the parties surprise, spit painful blasts the turned into giant carnivorous frogs. After a great deal of trouble, caused mainly by the problem of gravity, they closed with the structure and blew open its iron door. Using wall of stone to seal off the murder holes and arrow slits, they blasted their way into the fortress�s internal maze. Amazingly they took the most expeditious path through the labyrinth and soon found themselves in the prison area. Here they found a confused band of modrons and their old friend Thomas Ken. After defeating their jailors the party and the prisoners continued through the sparsely monster laden maze to the centermost room, a chapel to chaos itself. The battle with the final band of slaad and their leader was limited by Ignatius�s web spell and the narrow doorway, allowing the party to pick them off one by one. But the real trouble was slowly conveyed to Dominic by the modrons. The dimension was unstable and would soon collapse. Finally they tossed a barrel of gunpowder into the room and detonated it with a fireball. Immediately after the fireball, they attempted to teleport out but were redirected into the center of the explosion. Trapped in this plane, the party watched worriedly as the plane self destructed and they were swept into a grey vortex. Luckily they fell into another world, a world that looked eerily like a ruined modern city. |