Saldazar's Spectacular Slaying
- Adventuring On
- 2020-10-26
- Field Notes
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- Retelling
- Runery was first to charge and she ran at full tilt
Vale was next to the front line, his hand upon his hilt
Hoj threw another firebolt but it splashed upon a shield
Lyrad loosed two arrows but both struck Cinnabar's force field
Rys cast upon the villain his trusty Faerie Fire
And from this action Runery was Bardically Inspired
Will aimed and shot the Enemy with three bolts from her 'bow
Then we all braced ourselves as it was Motorcar's turn to go
He threw a mighty fireball straight into our midst
He sought to kill us off, but yet we did persist
But Coco and Miguel, our long-time bony friends
Were caught in this inferno and that's how they met their end
The fireball distracted Rys who dropped his Faerie Fire
While Mugs cast Sleep upon our Foe to force him to retire
She knocked a nearby captive out, but Resevior still stood
So she ducked behind a boulder having done all that she could
At our Foe, Junipanther swatted with her limbs
One bounced of his force field then the second one went in
Fenn's Ray of Sickness conjured boils upon the Mage's skin
Selene dispelled the Mage's armor, much to his chagrin
Runery charged the evil Wizard and she was feeling brave
"Attack straight on!" urged Hoj, but she choose the butt-end of her glaive
Masonjar took three hard blows and spat out a lost tooth
That guard still sought a captive Mage from which to wrest the truth!
Vale appeared behind the Wizard and struck twice with his blade
The Mage took lots of damage but he didn't seem dismayed
"By dead men, I'm surrounded" he sneered at all of us
And then he raised some Zombies from the bodies in the dust
Hoj, our mighty Paladin, made short work of a pair
One second they were growling, the next and they weren't there
Hoj also healed our wounded by channeling the divine
Our Foe went to raise more Zombies but Fenn called "this one's mine"
He clapped together his two hands as though to swat a fly
And Raise the Dead was counter-spelled, the Zombie once more died
A Zombie Lyrad ensnarrowed, dropping it to the ground
And pincushioned the last Zombie to help to bring it down
Rys spoke some words at Zanzibar that made the Mage unsettled
Then whispered to him Dissonantly and the Wizard lost his mettle
Sushibar turned and fled the nightmares in his mind
Vale and Junipather then struck, flaying his behind
From a Captive, Baggage Car stole a modicum of healing
Will freed some captives but when released they started reeling
"Send us back" they cried out loud as though they had been robbed
"I miss her" yelled another as he nearly almost sobbed
One tried to strike at Will but mostly failed in the attempt
How strange that they would meet their rescue with so much contempt
Mugs finished off a Zombie and she headed for the Mage
Who once more stole life from a Captive, his damage was assuaged
Junipanther lashed out twice, but both blows hit a shield
She roared a beastly bellow but the defenses did not yield
"You, you will serve" foul Aurevoir declared
Junipather was now charmed, she'd been caught unawares
Fenn left behind the Zombie who was trapped in Lyrad's snare
And cast a Ray of Sickness, but Commissar's shield just flared
Selene dispelled the magic that had Junipanther charmed
And Vale was then enchanted so as to share in White Feldspar's harm
Runery blunt-ended Millibar for a pair of hits
However the two blows only seemed to hurt a bit
Vale cast silence on the place where Miramar did stand
Then cast Planar Warrior on his his blade, which made it look quite grand
Coffeebar still managed to suck life from one more captive
It seems that even silenced this Necromancer was adaptive
Hoj threw another firebolt as he charged towards the Foe
But once again, very wide, the Paladin's bolt did go
Hulk the Elk, Hoj's steed, charged into the fray
And tried to gore the Mage, but the Scoundrel jumped away
Lyrad shot the hostage who was flailing against Will
She hit him in the shoulder; she was not looking for a kill
Rys yarled Faerie Fire after unsettling the Foe
But Jugular healed up once more, preparing for more blows
Will obliged him, once, then twice and blew on her crossbow
Then Guarantor healed up again, and so the fight did go
Raconteur turned again to flee and was gored by Hoj's Hulk
Runery also thrashed the Mage, causing him to sulk
Vale took a bit of damage from the disengaging blows
"I'm ok guys! Keep it up!" Vale bravely let us know
Myanmar spun and cast a spell straight at poor old Hoj
And suddenly our Paladin was cast right out of dodge
It seems that he'd been banished to a plane ethereal
The Villain Mage's magic proved far from ferial
Mugs ran up to Aerostar to give "the ol' one two"
And truly wrecked that Wizard by the time that she was through
But Minicar did charm her with his evil magic spell
And to her knees in veneration Mugs then quickly fell
Fenn Chill Touched Wrecking Bar, a stoke of magic smarts
For now the Mage would find no health from plying his dark arts
And he lost his concentration, bringing Hoj back to the fight
Then Selene's Magic Missiles struck like a pack of dynamite
FDR then summoned forth a troop of ghostly shapes
And sent them all headlong at Fenn who could find no escape
Fenn ducked and weaved and dodged and dived and tried hard to evade
But the spell still caught him anyway and down our friend was laid
A collective gasp came from our group as one of ours did fall
And our resolve was redoubled to make Lit Cigar pay for it all
Runery swiped at the mage but her glaive failed to score
Vale cast Cure Wounds on fallen Fenn, who came alive once more
Old Guitar made a vain attempt to charm strong-minded Vale
But the Ranger scolded Glass Bell Jar "now that's just beyond the pale"
In vengeance for his fallen friend Hoj charged the Necromancer
And swiftly swung his long sword to rid the world of this Foul Cancer
"YOUR SOUL IS MINE, SALADBAR", Hoj yelled as his sword fell
And so ends the first chapter of this epic that I tell
It all ends with the image of a mighty Paladin posed
Above a fallen Necromancer. The Saladbar was closed.
Of course no saga truly ends, and neither did ours that day
Mugs shook off Train Boxcar's foul charm and Runery was dismayed
"I'll hate to do the paperwork" he muttered to himself
Hoj and Juniper robbed the Corpse and added to their wealth
Fenn read a scroll of magics from times so long ago
That the mighty spells that they described none alive would know
While Fenn distracted Runery, Black Coal Tar's body disappeared
But somehow, in his pocket, Fenn found the mage's ear
Vale closed his eyes and drifted off and then let out a chortle
He stood up straight and smiled for he'd found a planar portal
It was somewhere buried deep inside the nearby looming tower
It seemed our party soon would need to go and seek this power