Disk Of Chan
They returned to Red Devil Island. Van Hil has made the party two offers.
He will teleport them to any location they desire and their dealings with the trading
company will be over. However, he would like them to continue to work for the trading
company. The next task is to go to the Kingdom of Ye to activate the teleporter located in
that country.
The party negotiate with the League of Guilds representative, Van
Hil, to continue activating disks, rather than returning to their homes. They negotiate a
price of 2,000 GS each per disk activated, and 75% off list price for magic items that are
purchased through the Guild.
Teleporting back to Chan Xian Yuen, then travel by blip
to Wing Ting Mai, the party hire a boat to Nu Gong Zao. The
trip takes ten days. On the way the party fights a group of Kappa and has a talk with a Ki
Rin. The latter is on a standard patrol of these waters and is interested in the
activities of the Chan clan.
Arriving in Nu Gong Zao the party do their own things.
Chan Su Wan meets up with his contacts in the city and delivers the message his family
have asked him to deliver to their contact. This relates to the ransoming of the blip they
have captured.
Cebo headed off to the red light district and hired a girl to tech the arts of
calligraphy and painting.
After some confusion about different sign languages, Slok Brethin meets up with the
local thieves guild. After a slow start he obtains a passport for use within the Kingdom
of Ye.
The party hire a river boat for the travel up the Da Jiang to Wu Jiang. Rather than
wait for the imperial navy escort, they decide to travel up at high speed. The cost of the
boat hire (all the way to Ru Yu Shui) is 600 GS. They will have to change boats for a
smaller river boat in Wu Jiang. The party gives board to two nobles who have reason to
travel quickly to Wu Jiang and transport three messages, earning 800gs for this leg alone.
On the way to Wu Jiang, the part are attacked by a group of Buso Tigbanua. The party
are victorious.
The part's boat entered the swamp and
proceeded upstream. As they approached the wild city of Ru Du Shui the captain informed them that
these is a tax to be paid. This was a surprise. They decided, that as it was 4AM and the
river very wide, to bypass the town. This was done successfully.
In the swamp the party was attacked by a group of 10 poisonous toads. The toads knocked
Calim Russale to unconscious before overcoming the toads. As they were loosing
constitution, two of the party, Calim Russale and Slok Brethin decided to overdose on the
spice. They did not die.
They made good time onwards to their intermediate destination of Wu Jiang QuanXi. Here they stayed
overnight and changed to a much smaller river boat. On this boat they were not able to
have three crews as previously and hence the next section of the trip was much slower.
The next trip was quieter, as the lands here are more tame than the wild swamp. The
party was only attacked once in the next 10 days of travel and were able to beat off the
one Common Oni that attacked, disguised as a poor fisherman.
On reaching their destination, Yu Ru Shui.
The party discovered a small impoverished town. The towns folk were moderately
accommodating, until they announced that they were going to the old capital. On hearing
this the town shunned the party. No one will talk to them or acknowledge that they exist.
With one exception. Another Acetic approached Chao Lin and gave some information on the
old city.
The party learned that the emperor died and had many of his retinue buried with him
using clay forms to represent their persons. If not already dead, they were killed. A few
years after the death of the emperor, the city was abandoned, because of the increasing
activity by various monsters made it unsafe to live in. Now no-one goes near the city
because of the palpable evil that exists there. The few brave adventures who do go either
do not return, or worse, come back as evil monsters.
The party went into the town. Calim Russale and T'Pao flew over the site of the old
city and discovered that little remains of the city. The section where they want to
activate the portal is now totally overgrown and the presence of buildings is not
discernible. They also discovered that in the grave district, there is an opening that is
obviously well used. There are also trails, well worn, along the lines of the old major
roads.
Chao Lin did a divination spell and determined that there are between 100 and 200 evil
creatures in the complex, with one that is very much more evil than all the others. They
seemed to be sleeping.
Rob's surprise birthday.
The party camp outside Chen Xue Chong. As they approach the city that are effected by
the evil presence and some succumb and become grumpy.
The party arrive in the city during the day, to discover that it is deserted. They
spend most of the day trying to determine the location of the old Van Hill trading company
outpost in the overgrown and mostly buried remains of the trading district. After one
unsuccessful attempt the party discover the building foundations. Later they are use a
locate object to determine the precise location of the disk. They spend the next 4 days
excavating the disk.
The party decide to enter the tomb of the old emperor. Here they begin to explore the
complex. Inside on they find a group of rooms. There are three bedroom, and lounge
apartments. In each is a Terracotta Concubine and her barbarian lover. After some early
difficulties, they easily cater for the concubines, and the barbarians joining the group
for the moment.
The party retires from the complex and set up in the ruined old town. After dark they
fight first one, then another and finally two groups of terracotta warriors. They then
retire for the night.
Kill List: 4 Brigades, 60 Warriors, 60 Xing Xing.
After resting the night the party return the next day. As they approach the city
movement is noticed from atop the hill, where the old city palace and graveyard is
located. Soon a veritable army of terracotta warriors is seen marching over the hill in
their direction.
Calim flies (on his magic fly) into the battle with Slok. They approach the army and
Calim begins blasting away with fire balls and lightening bolts. The army responds with a
hail of arrows and Calim is knocked unconscious. Luckily he is revived with a clw
potion and they are able to make good their retreat. The party now retreat in front of the
army, which is not too difficult as it only moves at 10". After discovering that the
army will follow them out of the city the party try and make other plans. After some
skirmishes, in which they discover some of the leaders with the army, the party circle the
army, out of it's sight and return to the city.
In the city, they again enter the tomb. They find little of interest, and are unable to
enter the main tomb as it seems to be surrounded by impenetrable magic and bars. They also
find the arm's quarters, and generally destroy everything. This is not difficulty as the
all furnishings in the complex, apart from the doors are made from ordinary terracotta.
Now heading north, they try to find somewhere to rest. Though there is some decent from
T'Pao as he is concerned that the army is now marching on the nearby town. There is also a
view put that they should return using the disk and get reinforcements and rest before
returning to complete the task, though some are uneasy as this will mean leaving the local
are at risk to the rampaging army.
Returning to the city, the party discover the the army has returned. At each corner of
the old wall, there is a small troop, with the main force, back in the north near the
tombs. They enter the city from the south east and destroy the two squads guarding that
corner of the city. They then head into the city, making for the portal.
Kill List: 1 General, 43 Xing Xing, 31 warriors, 17 horses.
Returning to the portal, the party discover that the army has filled back in the hole.
They have about 5 minutes before the army reaches bow range. After a short discussion
about the merits of summoning an army of celestial badgers to re excavate the hole, they
instead summon a fire elemental and sent it into battle. The battle is joined at 400' with
some very ineffectual missile fire. It will last a mere 60 rounds.
Marching down toward the party are three brigades of terracotta warriors with three
leaders. One clearly more powerful than the other two.
T'Pao, with a protection from missiles, engages the army, with the army returning fire.
When the elemental reach the party, it kills first one terracotta warrior, then the large
leader and finally six more warriors and Xing Xing. Though the leader is able to inflict
sever damage on the elemental before the spell runs out. In the mean time, Chao Lin
creates first Magmin and then two Thoqqua. Some of these inflict damage on the armies, but
kill no warriors before they them-selves are killed.
Meanwhile, Slok and Cebo sneak up around to the back of the army and follow it from
behind. The ineffectual missile fire continues for the until round 21, with T'Pao being
surrounded by a small mound of arrows. At this stage, Chao Lin, now also protected by a
protection from missiles, moves up 50 feet and turns the Xing Xing in the centre group.
The party then run up and engage in combat.
For the next twenty odd rounds the party hack their way through the army. One of the
generals managers to knock a barbarian down to unconscious, before the party come to his
aide. Cho Lin fist destroys all the Xing Xing, then spends some time being pursued by a
small group of warriors while casting sound blasts at the remaining large body of
warriors, before they are distracted by Calim, stabilises the barbarian before at the end,
joining in the melee combat. T'Pao spends some time spring attacking from behind the front
line of monsters, before he is surrounded. He spends the rest of the combat mostly
completely surrounded by warriors, before finally overcoming his foes. Slok initially
watches. After his attempt to backstab a general is foiled by circumstance, he eventually
joins in helping first the monk and later the brown bear which mysteriously finds itself
fighting for the party. Calim initially makes no actions, later he summons the brown bear,
which has a group of it's own warriors. He then spends some time fleeing a small group of
warriors, before he is able to get some help from the Cebo. He then spends a few rounds
magic missiling the generals, before himself joining in the melee combat. There is great
rejoicing as he walks up to a warrior and dispatches it in one hit. Chan and the three
rescued barbarians spend the entire combat wading through the bulk of the army,
dispatching the majority of the warriors. Cebo attacks the army from behind, first killing
one squad of warriors before running over to the first general. He trips and then body
slams the general dealing much damage and with Calim's magic missiles, destroys the
general. Buoyed by this success, he runs right through the middle of the combat, tumbling
as he goes, to the other general. However his trip attack is ineffectual. The general is
destroyed before he can try again. After carrying the unconscious barbarian from the
middle of the combat, he then spends the rest of the combat, tumbling and running from one
side, destroying a warrior here and there, much to the displeasure of the rest of the
party.
So after a full six minutes of combat the army is destroyed. Cho Lin uses her last
curing spell to cure 18HP to all party members.
Kill List: 1 Emperor, 2 Generals, a group of 90 warriors and Xing Xing.
Wondering what to do next the party
mull around for a while and then head off back into the Tomb. It is felt that there at
least they can easily defend themselves. On returning to the entrance to the King's Tomb,
they find that the entrance to the complex is wide open. Chao Lin raises a Detect magic
and with Slok checking for traps, they move on forward. The whole area has a faint aura of
magic. The first room is very plain. In the second they discover a small trove of
Terracotta replicas of every day items. In the third they find the emperors throne and
many chests all protected by strong or medium magic. They are also made from Terracotta,
but they also turn out to be fully functioning objects.
Slok, checking for traps on the first chest, set of the magic protection and the whole
complex has a guards and wards spell come into effect. Resisting the urge to sit on the
throne, though his magic resistance, he proceeds to unlock the chest and discover it's
contents. In the mean time, Chao Lin, T'Pau, and Cebo are caught by slamming doors and
some are hurt. T'Pau finds himself in the 10x10 corridor entrapped in a web spell. Chao
Lin and Cebo are also then caught in stinking cloud spells, but are able to escape the
area of effect. Calim, out in room 22 is effected by a confusion spell, but has too few
useful spells remaining to be a threat to the Barbarian trapped in the room with him.
Cebo, then decides to kick the throne. This sets of the Trap the Soul spell and is
trapped. The two Barbarians in the room are called in to destroy the throne to release
him.
Meanwhile Slok, under the careful watch of Su Wan opens all the chests and they
retrieve the contents and T'Pau breaks his way out of the corridor in to the throne room.
Having gathered and found the loot, Su Chan values the treasure to be worth 10 times it
face value to antique coin collectors and they force their way out into the open world
through the magically locked doors.
There is a moment of tension as the party try to rip the Barbarians off blind, before
they agree to leave with all the copper and silver.
While the party are uncovering the disk, two, Su Chan and Cebo head off to the town to
explain all that has happened and that the threat has now been destroyed. However, they
never make it. On the path, travelling in the opposite direction is the Acetic they met in
the town. This Acetic is pleased with what they have done and returns to the old city with
them.
Meanwhile, the party excavates the disk and piles it with the terracotta treasures from
the tomb. While this is happening an Ki Rin comes down to meet them. Talking only with Su
Wan, the Ki Rin, advises them that the Ki Rin are pleased with their efforts. They warn
the party that the forces aligned against Van Hil are more powerful than they realise and
that they should continue, but take great care.
The others return and the party are again united. They trigger the portal and return to
Red Devil Island.
On the Island the party describe their adventures to the Red Devils. All but Chao Lin,
who has eschewed all worldly possessions, are paid their 2000 gs payment for activating
the disk. They then travel to Chan Xian Yuen by Portal and then onto Nu Gong Zhao by Blip
to sell their vast treasure and stock up with magic.
In Nu Gong Zhao, they learn that the three winged blip was returned for a small payment
and an undertaking not to attack the Kingdom of Chan again. It seems that there was a
misunderstanding for which the emperor was apologetic.
Having reequipped they undertake the next task.
See the Disk of Lan Tan.
Booty: 12001 cs and 1601 ss given to Barbarians.
3641 gs, 16 ps, 9 Gems - 2x1100gs, 80gs, 700gs, 300gs, 90gs, 100 gs and 2x800 gs.
Trove of terracotta replicas sold for 4000gs.
