Nachti wrote:
Hey tfunke
today I joined a mixed party at the ilithid mines with my dwarf monk. They thought of me to be still under illithid control, so I had to prove myself (after one drow tried to strike me with a bottle to see if i am an illusion). I lead them to the place where my dwarf almost got enthralled in the past - the hive.
An archer, an assassin, an monk and a wizard. They were exited about the stuff sold there: Implants, worms. We went into the portal to the dungeon. A golem...a mindflayer........a cage with a golem....easy monsters, all fine.
I thought we would just run the snail way to the middle, but then we ported into a whole new area. It looked like the hives of baldurs gate. We were rushed by a illithid and a intellect devourer. Nasty monsters. They use two magical attacks.
Our wizard took the wrong portal and had to move to the hive again. We explored two rooms before he managed to get back to us. I didnt believe it what i saw next.
A beholder, a mind witness. I knew them from the books. A combination of illithid and beholder. ~12 HD and CR 15. eyerays, magic cone, psionic blast, psionics. These beasts are nightmares....
Another room was filled with 3-5 illithid sorcerer that spammed IGMs, another moment i was not sure if we would survive this, but our own IGMs/arrows and my spellresistance saved us.
Our buffs were dispelled, our magic exhaused. We decided to move out again for rest. The exit led us to some new part of the snail. Instead of getting out, we went deeper by mistake. At the time our saves started to fail frequently. Sometimes our half team was stunned by a mindblast. I have no clue, but we made it to the front of the elder brain.
We wouldnt make it back the way out so we prepared for the last fight. 1-2 golems, 2 ilithid sorcerer, the two brain tentacles, an althoorn at back........and i charged the sorcerers.
I couldnt kill them before they buff, and someone cast bigys on me. So i only disabled one of them while my crew killed the golem and the other sorcerer. It seemed that everyone did cast his spells on me. I was like one hit before dead all the time. Healkit, low, healkit, low, healkit! The minions died to us but the tentacles killed the wizard and the assassin got killed by firestorms. Finally the biggy went off and i could move again. Somehow i couldnt hit the tentacles at the pool. I think they can only be attacked by range. Our archer slowly took care of them while i took out the last illithid at back.
I didnt believe it, but we managed to get throught the hive with exhausing every potion/kit and without mind protection.
We killed beholders, undead ilithids and a brain like on the way......with just a level 17 party. We did it!
And my duergar proved to be no thrall.^^
Its really a nice area you made. Well done!