TG605

Stalemate

Episode Number: (TG605)
Original Airdate: 4/2002

In a special extended-length episode, the party takes on three Oathmaker clerics and three iron golems deep inside the Ta'bar'pur fortress. After an intense battle, Timus traps two of the clerics in a wall of force, forcing all three clerics to Word of Recall out of there. The party returns to the Temple of the Bright Blade to recuperate, and catches up on current events with Simon. Meanwhile, Timus and Sendant borrow some quality Scrying time from the BB temple for a view of the "city to the north". The next morning, the party plans on Teleporting there.

Plot Points

• The three clerics were dressed in gray, signifying that they were part of something gray-like that Geordan doesn't quite remember right now.
• One of the Oathmaker clerics was Lienne (from Bearing Witness and Witnessing Bears).
• Ironpass became destabilized when news of the use of devils spread among the populace.
• Simon, along with Krieg, Karilon, and Emcee, are planning to take advantage of the ensuing political unrest to stage a coup d'etat in Ironpass.
• The Ta'bar'pur use a different form of magic, which explains why they are so resistant to normal magic.
• Simon's research into the history of Em-shil-vish, the ancient king, shows that he attempted to tap into the Ta'bar'pur's magical energies to become a powerful outsider.
• Arly suspects that Em-shil-vish became the Penumbral Lord.
• Tierney suspects that Em-shil-vish is Rant.
• The device stolen by the Penumbral Lord's agents is known as the Device of Ecklips (spelling unknown), and will be activated tomorrow.

Analysis

Unanswered Questions

• Will the Penumbral Lord himself appear in the northern city?
• How, exactly, does the Device of Ecklips work?

Notable Quotes

(Sendant Blade Barriers an entire room.)
Geordan: 16d6 is... 62.
Patrick (rolls): ...Whew, he makes it.
Colin: Bastard with that Reflex save.
Patrick: Reflex save? That was his massive damage save.

Colin: I may have failed my Reflex save.
Patrick: I'm sorry, I don't understand the words you are saying.

Colin: Golems are neutral?
Patrick: Golems believe in the balance between the things they hit and the things they walk on.

Colin: It's 6 on 5, we can win this.
Jen: Aren't you a puddle of mush?
Colin: Well... not necessarily...

(Patrick rolls to hit Sendant.)
Pat: ...31?
Mike: No! Piss off!
Tony: Now THAT'S the Bright Blade.

(A cleric casts a death spell at Tierney.)
Colin: You have to roll 50% miss chance to hit me.
Pat: Graaah. (Rolls.)
Colin: And you have to beat SR.
Pat: Graaah. (Rolls.)
Colin: And THEN it doesn't work.
Pat: Actually, I rolled two 1's.

(Mike rolls a 2.)
Pat: Would you like to borrow the sledgehammer?
Mike: ...After the game.

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