Recap 20181208 - Tomb of the Lizard King - Part 2 - Team B Full Recap

20181121 Recap – Tomb of The Lizard King Part 1- Team B
Part 2 of a 3 part series and competition between two teams of players.

Alyce – Female Halfling Bard/ Sorc – Steve
Ezio Auditore da Firenze – Human Rogue – Kobe
Gird – Human Monk – Art
KrizDevvon – Deva Invoker – Chris
Bannor the Bloodguard – Human Fighter – Brendon
Souldun – Human Warlord - Vic


After being selected for, and accepting the mission of learning the fate of the Baron’s soldiers and finding out who is really behind the bandit raids, the team averts an assassination attempt on the Baron and then travel to Waycombe.   They meet and defeat a group of lizardmen raiders while crossing some open fields and then turn back a second group of lizardmen elite guards that ambush the team at the great bridge.  They find the village nearly abandoned and contact Stephan, a crazy old man who lives on the edge of the great swamp.  Stephan guides the group to an island in the middle of the swamp.  Excitedly, Stephan announces that they’ve arrived at the place where Sakatha lives.  After a short climb, the party arrives at a marble platform.  At the rear of the platform, the group sees a wall of beads.

The beads fall away and a group of bandit archers open fire on the team as they move onto the platform.  Ezio runs up the west side, while Alyce moves up the center to close the range for her spells.  Stephen chases after the little bard.  Bannor, Gird and Souldun move up as a group in the center and the east.  Krizdev is securing the boat below and begins to rush up the stairway to the platform.  After the initial volley of arrows, the archer’s fire becomes a bit more sporadic.  Most of the party members are hit by one or more arrows, some of which are poisoned.  Ezio quickly takes down his first archer but takes a pair of serious hits in exchange.  Alyce heals the rogue, allowing him to back off a bit as Gird shifts over to help.  Alyce blasts a few of the archers to the southwest with arcane magic but they shake it off and keep firing.  Krizdev reaches the platform and unleashes a blast of magic, wounding a half dozen of the archers to the southeast.  Souldun downs the northern most archer and then slowly moves south.  As the team reaches the archers, they draw their swords and continue to fight but the team discovers that their enemy is much more skilled with the bow than the sword.  Ezio downs a weakened archer that’s fighting Gird and then the rogue slides along the wall toward the next enemy.  Bannor charges across the room and strikes at the enemy leader just as Krizdev blasts the same leader, leaving him shaken.  After a few rounds, and with an extra effort, Bannor puts down the enemy leader.  Several archers attempt to shoot Alyce and Stephan dives in the way, saving her but falling mortally wounded.  Souldun yells loudly and stirs Stephan back to consciousness.  As the old man gets up, he takes a poison arrow deep to the chest, and falls dying again.  Suddenly a huge blind lizard appears behind the party at the top of the same stairs the party used.  Krizdev runs south, away from the lizard.  Ezio downs his third archer, which was near the southwest corner, clearing that area.  Gird and Souldun take down the archer that is near Stephan, allowing Souldun to heal the old man once again.  This time he runs off.  The remaining archers continue to fire and Bannor, cleaves through one and then shifts over and wounds the lizard.  Krizdev blasts the wounded lizard and finishes off an archer while Ezio strikes down his forth enemy, ending the battle.

** Remainder will be posted after Team A completes their next segment

** DM's note - posting the rest of Team B's Part 2 Recap now that Team A has gotten this far.



After a short rest, Ezio finds Stephan and the old man deciphers the words on the back wall, allowing the rogue to open a passageway where an angry black dragon emerges. The dragon blasts the party with acid but only Souldun is seriously wounded. Ezio moves behind the dragon and Bannor ducking and dodging between the dragon’s legs to join the rouge. Gird and Souldun take the dragon head on from the front and get breathed on again. Gird shakes off the acid and uses his staff to pull out one of the dragon’s legs. As the dragon starts to get up, Krizdev dazes it and Alyce and Krizdev reduces the dragon’s ability to hit and inspire the party to fight harder each time they manage to wound the hideous foe. The dragon continues to breath and slash away at the party and with a mighty roar in Gird’s face, the dragon startles the monk who runs past the Bard. Souldun gets confused but then the bard tells him to coordinate with Bannor and not worry about the monk. Gird recovers and re-engages, charging back into the battle, and tripping the dragon again. The dragon attempts to move into the outer chamber but Bannor pins one of its back legs in place. With the dragon pinned in place, Ezio lands a pair of deadly strikes, finishing off the evil beast. The group finds a huge treasure horde and rests a moment before moving on again.


The team moves back to the outer chamber and finds a secret stairway that leads into a small room. Ezio determines that there is a large group of bandits in the next room and as the party discusses their plan of attack, the bandits open the door with their archers firing a volley of arrows. The bard sings out, confusing nearly the entire enemy force, causing them to pause for a moment, providing the adventurers the edge they need to act first. Krizdev bravely dashes into the center of the room and blasts nearly the entire room, immediately downing four of the more than twenty five enemies. Alyce blasts the enemy mage and with an extra effort, so does Krizdev. Ezio tumbles past a line of swordsmen and then runs flat out toward the enemy wizard and with a pair of precise and deadly blows, finishes off the mage before he can get off even one spell. After this initial assault, the bandits attempt to regroup but two more fall due to the after effect of Krizdev’s magic. With the mage and a quarter of their force already down, a line of four heavily armored swordsmen reform a barrier near the door with three spearmen backing them up. Several bandit rouges strike at isolated party members and four archers near the edges of the room maintain a constant grazing fire on engaged party members, especially spell casters. Krizdev, is alone in the middle of the room, and is swarmed by enemies and is in serious trouble. Ezio, faces off with the enemy swordsman leader and an archer who is doing what he can to distract the rogue. Gird moves over to help Krisdev and the monk becomes a blur of kicks and punches, wounding all the enemies around him and driving them back, away from the wounded Invoker. With the monk taking the heat off of him, Krizdev blasts the area, downing an additional archer and a flanking spearman, bringing the Invoker’s tally to eight. Bannor and Souldun press forward and down their first opponent as they attempt to breech the enemy line of swordsmen. The bandit swordsmen close ranks with a pair of rouges and a spearman keeping most of the party pinned near the doorway as the archers near the back of the room continue to fire. Bannor cleaves through his second swordsman, as Souldun fights on beside him. Alyce downs a swordsman, using magic to avoid the warrior’s sturdy armor. With the bandit line wavering, Gird spins ahead and kicks the enemy rogue sub-leader, deflecting a blow away from Ezio, allowing Ezio to run the enemy through from behind. Bannor shifts direction before an enemy swordsman can cut him off and Bannor’s axe blade finds the head of the enemy rogue leader, an evil half elf wielding a pair of scimitars. Bannor then charges south. Krizdev takes down two more (very wounded) bandits and rotates over to the pile of dead bodies in Bannor’s wake and with a concentrated blast, knocks the enemy spear leader out of the battle. Alyce blasts the enemy bow leader, downing her and the bandit defense finally begins to break down. The two remaining swordsmen attempt to intercept Bannor and with a cleaving blow, Bannor downs one (his third swordsman) and with a powerful lunging strike, puts the other on his last legs which Krizdev then finishes off. Bannor makes it to the rear of the room and cuts down the enemy archer sergeant. Alyce downs a flanking rouge as Gird and Souldun fight the bandit sub-commander. Krizdev, still badly wounded, takes out the spearman sergeant and falls back a bit to catch his breath. Bannor then charges over to Gird and Souldun and with a well timed blow directed by Souldun, the warlord hits the enemy axeman in the chest while Bannor hits him in the back, ending the fight.


Gird hears a voice in Dwarven calling to him and it turns out to be a magic axe that Souldun grasps and discovers that it is the Axe of Dwarven Champions, a legendary axe. With the group very badly beat up, the Invoker uses his most powerful magic to call an angel of healing to inspire the party to carry on with this cause against the powers of darkness.


To be continued…

...added the second part of the recap for Part 2 for B Team.