Editing SGA 2007 Archive (section)

==Part 2==

:'''[[User:Mechante Anemone|Mechante Anemone]]:''' A fierce battle broke out, as Longrinn, Fat Bastard, Mykk, Aaron and a bunch of angry monks tried to prevent the Lord of Blood from getting out of the treasure room.  [http://www.johnzo.com/pic.html?s=_lg&d=2007-against-the-lord-of-blood&i=0&e=jpg Sianica was grabbed by a tentacle and devoured by the LoB!] (on account of player no-show.)  Meanwhile, Sammy explored the abbey for something helpful, Lyle retreated to the library to find the book about the Lord of Blood, and Petunia talked to Young Horace. 

:Petunia had really meant to kill off Young Horace before he could help the LoB complete his ritual, but upon hearing that Young Horace was hoping to find a way to heal his old father through a bargain with the LoB, she didn't have the heart.  Instead, she let him out and started trying to steer him out of the monastery, so she was too distracted to stop her dog Martha to run off and join the fray in the treasure room.

: [http://www.johnzo.com/pic.html?d=2007-against-the-lord-of-blood&i=2&e=jpg&s=_lg&c=1 While the fight raged on], with the Five Swell Gals hacking at tentacles that kept growing back, Lyle found the Book of Eville and brought it out to the light, but could not decipher it.  Sammy, tired of being pursued by an angry little monk belittling him for his part in allowing the Lord of Blood to break his bonds, decided to join the battle and attack the LoB with fire.

: [http://www.johnzo.com/pic.html?d=2007-against-the-lord-of-blood&i=1&e=jpg&s=_lg&c=1 Longrinn stopped blow after blow from the Lord of Blood], his shield dented beyond recognition.  [http://www.johnzo.com/pic.html?d=2007-against-the-lord-of-blood&i=3&e=jpg&s=_lg&c=1 Mykk fought hard, but was eventually captured by the LoB's tentacles and dragged toward the waiting maw].  Mykk used this new-found closeness with divinity to go berserk and deal the LoB several painful blows.  The combined efforts of all those fighting on the side of Good-and-Not-Being-Eaten, and particularly Mykk's berserker rage, caused the LoB several wounds.  A little monk, full of admiration for Mykk's brave fighting, tried to pull him out but instead was pulled in with the Half-Orc to be devoured by the enemy.

: [http://www.johnzo.com/pic.html?d=2007-against-the-lord-of-blood&i=4&e=jpg&s=_lg&c=1 Just as Mykk, still suspended in the air by tentacles, was being dropped in the LoB's gullet], Aaron of the Two-Sword Cuisinart dealt the LoB the mortal blows.  The hellish creature shivered; Fat Bastard and Longrinn combined their powers to Turn it, and [http://www.johnzo.com/pic.html?d=2007-against-the-lord-of-blood&i=5&e=jpg&s=_lg&c=1 the LoB collapsed in a puddle of ichor and tentacle bits].  But Martha the dog plunged into the puddle as it bubble away, and could not be found again afterwards.

:Although the Lord of Blood was gone, Longrinn could still feel evil inside the treasure room, its very walls, and some of the gold.  Then animals started arriving from the surrounding mountain forest, trooping inside the treasure chamber around the debris.  Questioned by Sammy and Petunia, they kept saying the "Spring is coming." 

:The monks decided to disband since their task was over, except for the one who had been so impressed by Mykk and asked to become his apprentice.  Fat Bastard and Sammy went down to Hommlet to take Young Horace back to his father and look for a scholar and a wizard to read the Book of Eville.  Although the priest at the local Temple of St. Cuthbert was very happy to help sequester the tainted gold, no one could be found to read the book, not even at the viscount's castle. 

:But Aaron found the local druid dead, beyond a breech in a hastily thrown barrier of thorns; she appeared to have been gored by an animal, probably a boar.  None of this did much to improve the sense that the Five Swell Gals had not succeeded as brilliantly as they had hoped.  They elected to keep watch on the place while looking for someone to decipher the book and until "spring" came. 

:Lyle finally got impatient.  She decided to walk into the erstwhile treasure room, where the animals were still waiting, and cut her hand, letting the blood fall to the floor.  The resulting tremor alerted the rest of the group, who rushed to the treasure room with weapons drawn. 

:In the center stood Martha the dog.  The animals started advancing toward her; when a squirrel reached her, she gave it a friendly lick &mdash; and it sprouted bat wings and flew off.  A steer approach next, was licked, and had its antlers turn to serpents. 

:But Petunia, not the sharpest tool in the shed, ran in and, recognizing her companion, ran to embrace Martha.  Though her features momentarily wavered when Martha licked her, she seemed unaffected.  She brought Martha out of the treasure room &mdash; where Longrinn slew the dog on the spot, then the steer.  But the squirrel could not be found...

:'''Epilogue:''' Days later in Greyhawk, a large city with its generous share of vermin, pigeons and rats gathered around a bat-winged squirrel...

; Player Thoughts
* '''[[User:Mechante Anemone|Mechante Anemone]]:''' Some favourite quotes:
** "You forgot to call me a fool this turn!" &mdash; Sammy to the angry little monk
** "We're about to be the Four Swell Gals." &mdash; Lyle
** GM: "These are the front tentacles..."<br>  Petunia: "And Longrinn's being attacked by the ass tentacles."
** "I have him right where he wants me!" &mdash; Mykk, dragged to his (near) doom by the LoB
** Lyle: "We must disperse this evil gold so it can't do any more harm."<br>  Longrinn: "Yeah, you'd like that."
** Petunia: "The druid is a halfling, so she can hardly have been gored by something large like a steer."<br>  Mykk: "Maybe it was a dyk-dyk."
** GM: "But how do you track a flying squirrel?"<br>   Longrinn: "First, you need a really large moose."

; Additional GM Thoughts
: '''[[User:Johnzo|Johnzo]]:''' [http://www.johnzo.com/gallery.html?d=2007-against-the-lord-of-blood Against The Lord of Blood: The Photonovel].



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