The Fourth Voyage of Mendez

Mendez, guilt ridden for causing the death of one of the Hamsters, resumes his journey directly home. Unfortunately the Sky-ship develops a fault and the panicking Hamsters are forced to make an emergency landing on the first available island.
They set down on a beautiful beach and, while repairing the Sky-ship; they are approached by a group of semi-naked Human natives.
They seem friendly and offer the hamsters fruits and herbs. The Hamsters are unable to resist, but Mendez suspiciously waves the food away.
Soon it becomes apparent that these ‘herbs’ are drugs that rob the Hamsters of reason. Mendez roars with anger and sets about the savages with his enchanted sword. The dozen or so natives are sorely outmatched and Mendez makes short work of them. Those he doesn’t kill, run off in terror.
Once the Hamsters are themselves again, Mendez posts some guards and sets off to explore the island.
Again, he stumbles into unsafe land.
Tumbling through soft earth Mendez finds himself in a burial ground where all the corpses have precious jewels pressed into their eye sockets. With no regard to their dignity, Mendez prizes out these gems, scrambles back out of the hole and races back to the Sky-ship.
Some of the Hamsters have gathered food and water and once the repairs are finished, they’re soon sailing above the clouds again.

Current Hit Points, Constitution Loss, Spells Used and Arrows/Bolts etc

Telfis: HPs: 48
Bodush: HPs: 35
Garjarpan: HPs: 17
Eolar: HPs: 60
Elogyn: HPs: 34
Meldo: HPs: 31
Thesis: HPs: 83 -7
Kruddo: HPs: ? -11 (-3 Con?)
Chicken: HPs: 1
Durin: HPs: ? -13( -3 Con?)
Wer: HPs: ? SEND CHARACTER SHEET!
Masienta: HPs: ? SEND CHARACTER SHEET!

Everyone let me know how many arrows/bolts/stones initially had and how many used.

Bodush, Telfis, Eolar, Elogyn, Thesis and Wer... What spells have you remembered/used.

Everything was reset after your nine hour rest stop at the bottom of the stairs.
Since then you've faced six Huloms, Pandit Beck and three normal Derros.

You are currently in one of the donor/prisoner cell rooms.

Ozul and Toalden

Elogyn felt the hit against her shoulder, grabbed her mace and quickly turned round to land a hit on whoever attacked her. She could see a ugly face, felt her mace coming down hard on the creature in front to her and suddenly the room was filled with light. She looked around where it came from, but it seemed to be just there. The troll in front of her also ignored her. She tried to hit him again, but the mace went straight through! She shouted over to Eolar to find out what to do but he just had a shocked face and didn't seem to hear her over the noise of the battle.
She made a few steps back, picked up her crossbow and fired, just to see that the bolt bounced off the stalactite behind the troll. He appeared to be see-through and weapons couldn't harm him it seems. She turned round just to see Telfis standing in front of her with his crossbow aimed directly at her! The bolt left the crossbow and Elogyn, absolutely shocked by that, tried to dodge it. Without success! Interestingly she couldn't feel the pain as the bolt went into her chest. She looked down and to her amazement couldn't see a wound! Confused, she saw the troll collapse behind her. Did Telfis just shoot through her??
And then the laughter started. She looked up and saw two people standing a few feet away who looked like paladins. They were lucent and the rest of the party didn't seem to notice them. They also didn't seem to notice her as Thesis just tried to run her over!! She looked at the paladins again as one of them started to speak: "It's a strange feeling, isn't it! Are you a first-timer?". Elogyn was totally puzzled now "What do you mean? And who are you??". "Forgive me, we didn't introduce ourself properly! I'm Ozul of Alan-Gareth and this is my friend Toalden from Egoralgat. We are paladins in ordinary of the Church of Shon. And who are you if I may ask?". "Elogyn, cleric of St.Cuthbert and protege of Eolar, member of the council in Seawell. What are you doing here?". With a smile on his face and pointing past Elogyn he asked "Is Eolar the fellow over there?".
Elogyn turned round and just as she wanted to confirm the question, she noticed the body lying on the ground. It looked suspiciously like her body!! Eolar was kneeling next to it concentrating on a scroll, while the others tried to drag him away. The voices sounded quite muffled. The dwarf was just about to pick up her....body.
"Nice party you've joined there! So.....divers!". Elogyn looked from the paladins back to the others. Just now she noticed that her body....the body she was in right now...also had the glowing aura around it that the paladins had. "What....what...what happened???". "You bravely took on a troll that was a lot bigger than you and made a quick step to the celestial plane!" Ozul said and Toalden couldn't hide the sniggering. "Step to the celestial plane?? You mean, I'm..." "dead!" offered Toalden and burst out in laughter. "Took you quite a while to realize!!".
Elogyn looked around. This would explain why everything was filled with light and she didn't feel that good for....ever? She looked helplessly at the two paladins who smiled at her "It can be quite confusing if you are here the first time. Come on, we'll show you around!". "But I can't! I have to go back! Eolar counts on me!!". "Don't you worry, I have the feeling you'll be back soon if I read the words on the scroll correctly. It still gives us enough time to introduce you to some friends. Time is relative here!".

Doing it for the Booty

Thesis: 100gp from Grimes.
Durin: 100gp from Grimes.
Eolar: 100gp from Grimes.
Elogyn: 100gp from Grimes.
Telfis: 100gp from Grimes.

2x sacks of gold from Grimes' Orc guards: 1000gp total

From Pandit Beck:
MWKs Small Dagger
Scroll: LightningBolt x5 120’ (8d6)
Potion: Cure Serious Wounds
Horn of Blasting: 40’ cone/ 5d6+deafness(save=half and no deafness.)
Gold: 20gp

From Normal Derros:
2 x Small Short Swords
2 x Small Light Crossbows
10 x doses of Greenblood oil (Poison=1con/2con)

Wide-eyed and Legless

The room the adventurers find themselves in is about 16’ square with six, metal barred cells lining either side. There is a raised central bulwark about 3’ from the back wall that gives a reasonable defensive position to fire arrows or bolts towards the door.
The door is intact, thanks to Telfis, and can be rebolted. The walls are solid stone.
Thesis stares around at the assorted amputees in the room. It disturbs him to see them.
His offer to ‘put them out of their misery’ was more based on his own discomfort than their despair.
The two Orc’s seem in a better mental state than the humans, though despite everything, all five males seem sane.
It’s hard to tell with the woman without a face, as she will not come out of the corner.
When she does occasionally turn around, her eyes stare unblinkingly.
Both Orc’s are missing an arm each, but have taken the small swords off the two dead Derro.
One Human is missing both his legs, another both his arms. One poor soul has had all his limbs removed. His anguish made worse as he seems to be a tough and seasoned veteran.
The young woman is whole aside from her face. You would guess her to be only around seventeen or eighteen.
Even Bodush is troubled by this obvious evil.

Trolls:1/Adventurers:6

The unfortunate side effect of a large party is that the experience isn’t just divided by a greater number, but that the threat level of your opponents is reduced.
This effectively means; you’re not just one party of adventures… you’re two.
Saying that, although only Thesis and Durin (Durin was 6th level right?) managed to go up a level, the rest of you headed in the right direction.

Thesis: 28,707 xp (8th Level!: Fighter:6/Cleric:1/Barbarian:1)
Durin: 21,079 xp (7th Level!: Barbarian:7)
Eolar: 27,106 xp (7th Level: Cleric:5/Ranger:2)
Elogyn: 9,244 xp (4th Level: Cleric:4)
Telfis: 26,626xp (7th Level Rogue:5/Bard:2)
Kruddo: 14,099 xp (5th Level: Fighter:5)
Bodush: 24,567 xp (7th Level: Sorcerer:7)
Wer: 22,756xp (7th Level: Druid:7)
Mendez: 29,752 xp (8th Level: Ranger:3/Barbarian:2/Fighter:3)

Hope you all enjoyed yourselves last night. If you want to, we’ll play the next part in two weeks time.
Sort out Assif with some sort of teckie/trekkie communicator.

Dwarven Focus

Durin is momentarily distracted by an odd rock formation.
“Go on without me. I'll just be a minute.”
Before anyone can stop him, the Dwarf is gone.