I think we're all lost. A little bored of the endless dungeon-crawl to be honest.

DM King, can you just fast-forward us to the end of this thing and let us finish the adventure?

Well, difficult to do post if no one posts after my post :P. I cannot end the adventure because mostly t he others were after the sage in the ruins but we can easily write your char out of it (eventually group getting out the mysterious garden maze).

Well, I'd like to finish it and rescue the sage, even if it wasn't originally Raiden's mission. But we've been wandering this place nearly a year now, and the game has been getting slower and slower, and I think we're lost and confused.

Well, I made simply a mystery to solve but I can say OOC that you are not anyway permament fashion trapped in the maze. I know how it may sound that you have been over year in the same adventure I will pay it bit whit XP (as apology for running it slow but then I cannot make much posts if players do not interact whit their enviroment :P).

Personally, I think that with the lack of a map (and perhaps because of some of the descriptions), it's been really hard for us to know where precisely we are, what our options are, etc.  That has led to people basically just twiddling their thumbs on this game.

Just my two cents.

Big huge dungeons can get confusing without a map, I agree.  Still, its not a requirement.  I think the main impedement has been that so much time goes by betwean resolving each enconter, meenign that its difficult to keep a mental image of whats going on fresh in one's mind.

I was just lost.:)

Aha, ok. I can give plain answer that the area where you are was not area what you passed trough before you encountered the crystal (despite you used exact same route altough reversed order go back where you came from). There was crossroads in the section where the elven statue is in clearing.

So, accesible areas now in the maze are; Crystal room whit stone table and chairs, clearing whit artistic dancing elven statue and clearing where is tall rose bush.



   ******    ********
   *    *   *        *
   * S  *****  RRRR  *
   *           RRRR  *
   * ********  RRRR  *
   * *      *        *
   * *       ********
   * *
   * *
   * *
 **   **
 *     *
 *  C  *
 *******


C = Crystal + table and 4 chairs
S = Dancing elven statue
RR = Rose bush (it's quite huge pillar, about 10'ft high)

And there are no visible means of accessing any new parts of the tower to which we have not yet been?

Well, I did an IC post. Maybe it will result in something, maybe not.

ditto. :P

Does that map mean that there's no way out of the current section of the maze?

Yup

Yep if you dont count climbing atop the bushes which all are around 10-12 feet tall. But above the bushes is small gap between bush top and roof so you could see rest of the maze and tower level that waybut not that well to figure out how to get out of the maze via land route.

Would anyone be put out if Raiden simply set fire to the hedge-maze, or hacked his way through with his trusty scythe?

:D

Do your thing boss!

Sorry guys! My PC crashed and I couldn't get online for two weeks. I apologise for the delay this has probably caused and will work on an IC post right away.

Good have you back :). Anycase I hope conclude this adventure at soon after start of Summer Break if things go well. I promise pay back the spended time in this adventure in XP and perhaps (if logically possible) in loot.

Well, tahts it for me.  Goodluck.

Ok, do you all leave then to other threads then? Sorry that it taked this long explore the ruins and find the sage :P. Also do you not plan share the loot or does  Silifrey dont want anything?
This message was last edited by the player at 11:26, Mon 03 Dec 2007.

Can we have some prices on some of that treasure? Like the Harp?

I'll take my share and divide it up amongst Alec and Raiden. I guess I'll claim the Harp as part of it.

Raiden will be moving on, probably to the pirate game. Alec has already enjoyed a stint in Undermountain and now tours the Deep Southeast.

The harp is my self-made item and it is eguilevant of 1,200gp item. It's effects are non-magical in nature, it is just sheer quality of the harp which makes the bard's skills better (so the suggestion bonus applies only if bard plays the harp while doing the suggestion examply, merely carrying it is not enough).

Anycase I list them again and give prices of the items (changed Scry spell CL because it is 4lvl spell and not 3lvl as I firstly recalled :P);

2x +2 ring of protection, Price 2x8,000gp
1x Headband of Intelect +4, Price 16,000gp
1x +2 elven chainmail (basically mithril +2 chainmail but it is elven design), Price 8,150gp
1x Elven Minstrel Harp (basically masterwork elven harp which gives +2 bonus to perform; String Insturments but if you have 5 ranks in that skill you get +3 instead. Also increases daily bardic music ability by +1 and increases save DC of  bardic suggestion by +1), Price 1,200gp
1x Gloves of Dexterity +2 (dark green elven gloves with golden vine details), Price 4,000gp
2x Vest of Resistance +2 (elven design, one dark blue+silver lines, other dark red+golden lines), 2x4,000gp
3x Scrolls; Scroll of Scrying (7lvl, price 700gp), Fly (5lvl, price 375gp), Scry location (9lvl, price 1,125gp)
2x Wands; Wand of Magic Missile (3lvl, 35 charges, price 1,575gp), Wand of Cure Disease (5lvl, 15 charges, price 1,350gp)
5x Potions; 3xCure Moderate Wounds, 2xInvisbillity, Price each potions cost 300gp
This message was last edited by the player at 10:05, Wed 05 Dec 2007.

With the 5000 gp of gems, that comes to a grand total of 66474 gp by my calculator. There's 4 of us (you still here Taman?), so that comes to 16618.75 gp each. Ooh boy, that puts us well up over the wealth-by-level guidelines.

+2 ring of protection, Price 8,000gp
+2 ring of protection, Price 8,000gp
1x Headband of Intelect +4, Price 16,000gp
1x +2 elven chainmail (basically mithril +2 chainmail but it is elven design), Price 8,150gp
1x Elven Minstrel Harp (basically masterwork elven harp which gives +2 bonus to perform; String Insturments but if you have 5 ranks in that skill you get +3 instead. Also increases daily bardic music ability by +1 and increases save DC of  bardic suggestion by +1), Price 1,200gp
1x Gloves of Dexterity +2 (dark green elven gloves with golden vine details), Price 4,000gp
2x Vest of Resistance +2 (elven design, one dark blue+silver lines, other dark red+golden lines), 2x4,000gp
3x Scrolls; Scroll of Scrying (7lvl, price 700gp), Fly (5lvl, price 375gp), Scry location (9lvl, price 1,125gp)
2x Wands; Wand of Magic Missile (3lvl, 35 charges, price 1,575gp), Wand of Cure Disease (5lvl, 15 charges, price 1,350gp)
5x Potions; 3xCure Moderate Wounds, Invisibility, Invisbillity, Price each potions cost 300gp

Picks So Far:

Raiden & Alec: total 1500 gp
Elven Minstrel Harp, 1200 gp
1x Potion Of Invisibility, 300 gp

Galain: total 25575 gp
Headband of Intellect +4, Price 16,000gp
+2 ring of protection, Price 8,000gp
Wand of Magic Missile (3lvl, 35 charges, price 1,575gp)

Ok, it seems no one cared about rest of the loot (nor caring ID them) so anything what is left is free to taked anyone who posts first :P. Anycase my user name as DM is soon deleted so if there are something to be resolved PM to other DM figure it out (and he likely PM'ing my player char).

Both Raiden and Alec have moved on to other regions. I just took a few times until they were at the wealth-by-level guidelines.

The players of Galain and Taman have vanished. That just leaves Silifrey.