(G241 29/05/2015 via Roll20 - AP(GM), JF, Mira, Guru)

(G241 29/05/2015 via Roll20 - AP(GM), JF, Mira, Guru)

DAY 229 (26 Marpenoth) cont ...

And what a battle it was. Up until recently I'd not had much dealing with golems, but my brother
has. He and his partner in trouble Fenrir, once fought a stone golem (or living statue if you prefer)
and when they were in 'Darknessdeep' they had a flesh golem ally called Fred and they encountered a wood
golem while there as well.

Way way back in Sasserine, in Castle Teraknian myself and my poor dead friend Raz once encountered some
snake constructs. There was a huge construct in Renkrue, the work of a gnome artificer called Willy Reach,
but I was not there when it went berserk and the crew of the Sea Wyvern did battle with it.

After this battle though I'll certainly of had my fill of constructs! As my brother had warned me
they are tricky things to deal with. We'd found that out back at the Monastery when fighting the Gloomgolem
and had the lesson reinforced here.

We started with a wave of crocodiles, which did some damage, but not enough to inconvenience it greatly. Mirabella
fired off a few arrows to begin with, but when she saw that they were merely bouncing off she sat down with
Badger and in a grumpy fashion took out a pack of cards. Whatever she was up to though I was too busy marshalling
my crocodile forces.

Gurudor waded in and managed to get a few good hits in, but every time is appeared damaged the red liquid from
the big crystal in its chest flowed out and seemed to repair all the dings and dents.

We had to come up with a new plan and between ourselves we shouted out our strategy. Mirabella was to lure the
thing out over the bridge where I would use woodshape to hopefully plunge it to its doom. It was a rather desperate
plan considering how much damage its whirling arms could do, but it was the best we could do.

Gurudor jumped to it and Sylvia was to cast Sanctuary on Mirabella before she tried to duck past the golem and make
her way to the other side of the room. But she had misunderstood! She leapt down off the stairs and rush towards
the golem.
Sylvia cried out, 'Sanctuary is a touch spell you fool!'
Mirabella stopped in her tracks in confusion and was stuck down by a blow from the golem and landed in a crumpled
heap at the foot of the right hand stairs.
With a silent prayer Sylvia leapt over the banister and went to help her fallen companion.

Gurudor, rather confused, tried to lure the golem away but it was too intent in what was going on by the stairs.
I managed to get it interested in the crocodiles though, long enough for Sylvia to get Mirabella up in her arms
and run back up the stairs.

Gurudor then calmly sauntered past the golem and joined us in the retreat back to the other side of the bridge
where we healed up and got poor Mirabella back on her feet.

We needed another plan! It was barely 10 in the morning, but we settled down to rest and think.