#stealthy-one

Enemy: The Wasp Queen

Initiative: Wasp Queen, Ai, Ikki, Taras, Balasar, Lyrica, Lenna, Marsque, Specters, Elodie, Charra

The Queen took her first round to call two specters to her aid, former subjects in their lives.  Ai was able to attack the one that spawned near Ikki and myself, though it was slightly resistant.  Ikki passed her a silver short sword, before attacking that same ghost.  Taras used a Spiritual weapon to attack, and another spell.  I'm unsure if he hit, however.  Balasar and Charra teamed up to do some nasty damage to the Wasp Queen, dropping Charra into a Rage.  I reminded Elodie about her wand, before killing the specter near me and inspiring Charra.  Lenna Sacred Flamed on the queen, before Marque attacked the other ghost.  He also ordered the other rats to get clear of the fight.  One of the Spectre’s made a run for it for some reason, taking damage from Marsque before dispersing into the queen and healing her.  Elodie was able to Hex the Queen, before she had her fireball dispelled.  Shit.  Charra was unable to do any damage, but did prevent the queen from being able to effectively attack anyone but her.

The queen poisoned Charra with her attack, before Ai tossed a pot of oil at the Queen that missed.  Ikki got close enough to toss a dart, before Taras’s Guiding Bolt missed her.  His Spiritual weapon, which seemed to just be a pair of crashing waves did.  Balasar did manage to do some damage with their weapons, and another specter appeared.  I dropped a Cloud of Daggers on the queen, before inspiring Taras.  Lenna sent the spectre running, and Marsque moved into attack.  ELodie’s Fireball did hit, but not as strongly as it did against us.  The Chamberlain’s Ghost tried to run, but took some damage from Balasar.  Another Specter rose, and Charra hit the queen.

With that, she turned into a bunch of blobs like the Viscount once had done.  Ai was able to hit one of them, before Ikki went after another.  Taras’ Turn Undead sent one specter running, before his spiritual weapon missed a different one.  Balasar damaged yet another one, while my Dissonant Whispers killed another.  Lenna was able to aid us, before Marsque made a blob explode.  The specter ran from Taras, but turned back upon being hit.  Another attacked Taras, causing some nasty damage.  Elodie missed one of the blobs, and the Chamberlain hit Taras as well.  The blobs moved, but none attacked.  Charra was able to hit the Chamberlain.

Ai was able to heal Taras with a potion, before Ikki attacked the Chamberlain.  Taras cast another spell before healing himself.  Balasar killed another blob because of some spell, before using their mace to attack another blob.  I healed Taras a bit more, before attacking the Specter.  Lenna killed the Chamberlain with Guiding Bolt, before Marsque killed a specter.  Another reunited with two of the blobs, before causing damage to a large portion of the party.  She then cast some bastardized version of magic missile.  Elodie downed two health potions to heal up, before Charra closed in to heal with a potion as well.

We chose to, at least temporarily, work for the queen.  The chamberlain offered us the use of a teleportation circle we weren’t completely sure of.  After one of the wasps proved it was safe, however, we decided to take it, feeling it would be quicker.  Something went wrong, however.  Instead of being deposited near the nests we had been asked to protect, we were dumped out in an abandoned cavern.  Apparently, long before Newgar fell circles had been placed down to prevent non-residents from traversing the kingdom via teleportation circle.  Would have loved it if people had remembered this.  We were able to get a general idea of which way we needed to go between Ikki knowing North and Elodie knowing the direction we were being sent.  So we started exploring.

After finding a flooded cavern, then finding an area where we all had to squeeze threw a very thin tunnel, we ended up in a cavern where we encountered three other guilds members.  The first was a Drider.  A giant spider body with the torso and head of a Drow.  I hate spiders, but she seems interesting?  The next was Balasar.  We’ve met them before, actually.  I could have sworn it was simply a dream, our entire adventure where we explored the stars and encountered them.  But, apparently all of us but Ikki did go on that adventure.  I remember fighting beasts I’ve never seen before, and seeing beings I’d never even heard of.  That was, definitely something crazy.  But it made us friends with this elderly green dragonborn, so it worked out well in the end.  Their third party member was a High Elf, Lenna.  She’s a cleric just like Taras, but she’s more interested in healing than combat.  We discussed what we should do back and forth for a while, be hearing some sort of commotion.  Running in that direction, we found the nests we’d been sent to defend, and the others had been sent to help destroy.

We chose to just join in on the fight, taking out whoever we could.  There were initally a number of giant wasps, werewasps, and wasp swarms, as well as giant rats, wererats, and rat swarms.  Eventually some reinforcements came in on both side.  A few more of both enemies of both the giant and were varieties appeared.  A chancellor for the wasps, and someone I didn’t know for the rats also came in and joined the fight.

After we ended the fight, deciding to help the rats and focusing on the wasps, their queen appeared.  She was bound at wrists and ankles, and escorted by someone I didn’t know.  He also had three of those magical rats with him.  He told us that “fighting and killing is pointless, as the Lady of Death will rein supreme across all the planes.”  After giving that strange statement, he stabbed a dagger into the queen’s back.  Pulling a charm much like the one the Viscount used to get out of Ikki’s silence out, he and the rats disappeared.  As he did so, the queen began to mutate into something much like the Viscount.