UPDATE Adventures of The Black Dragons Continued

Well I missed out on last weeks game... I got wasted the night before and was basically still drunk the next morning so I was going no where. But luckily I had emailed the DM my character sheets a few weeks before. But the party must go on so to speak. The group had a few encounters with some a few powerful demons and spiders. We're definitely getting close to Lolth now as no Demon, Spider, or Drow is some unintelligent mook. Also thought I'd mention one of my favorite little bits about LoMak and the Demon web, LoMak as the ability to feel the presence of Demons and Devils and pin point thier exact location. But entering the Demon Web has prevented him from using that ability, it's like staring at the sun. You know it's there but you really can't see even if your looking right at it, most of all it hurts.

There were several traps for the party the usual lures and such but the best of them was the story about the Succubus' luring LoMak to attack and grapple her as her friends and their buddies dispelled his protection from evil because it makes him immune to their charm spell the Succubus used a Cube of force to entrap the two and prevent LoMak's escape. They pounded him with charm spells only to realize that while Hellreavers(a Demon Hunter Prestige Class) have powerful wills LoMak is exceptional in that capacity and easily shrugged off their charm attempts. The Succubus then attempted to drain his life force away only to find LoMak was literally immune to her life draining kiss and realized to her horror that she had just locked herself in a cage of force with an uncontrollable demon hunting beast that she has no hope of stopping. LoMak pulled his weapon and the two disappeared as the inside of the cube of force as as a mist of blood engulfed the area inside the cube and soon obscured all vision into the cube.

As for the Game today... I finally got LoMak Killed! Sort of, luckily he got hit with a Revivify spell which brings you back to life without penalty/level loss if you can get it cast fast enough, but it was the first time in his long history he was taken past the -10hp mark. He has hit -9 on more than one occasion. It was a typical long walk down halls in the demon web and we came to a large room with two Mariliths who orders us to surrender. Naturally we respond in kind and they let loose a pair of Blade Barriers down that hall and enfulfed the corridor we were in that totally chewed up Yak because he took up the whole corridor. Yak charged and engaged the Mariliths directly who pulled out their six long swords each was magically enhanced and each Marilith carried one sword that was brilliant energy as their primary weapon (which quickly got dubbed the light sabers) Yak got dropped pretty quick. LoMak move up to engage the Marilith but was stuck inside the blade barrier so he couldn't rage with hurting himself because he'd become large and hit the blade barrier. So he engages the Marilith 's and without raging he drops one in a round after an ally had softened her up and some really good rolling. Then the other Marilith opens up on LoMak and surprisingly she tears him up about as fast as both did Yak never missing dropping him in 1 round. Luckily there were still 2 PC's and 1 NPC left in the fight as half the party and half the Mariliths where down as well. Gabrielle (Marek's good demon blooded daughter) uses one of her abilities to create a flame whip and suppress the Marilith's resistance to fire as she opens up a can of whoop ass on the Marilith and smack her around with a crit on the fire whip! That was awesome but then the Marilith grapples Gabrielle and now she's near death. Markek and Olek both come in and droped everything they've got on the Marilith killing her. They got lucky though, there was a chance of hitting Gabrielle with those big hits because she was wrapped and being constricted in the Marilith snake like body. the one time I try and fight smart instead of raging and rushing I go and get killed, go figure. From now on as far as LoMak is concerned the best defense is a good offense. The DM Told us later that both Marilith's where advanced versions with specially picked gear to match their capabilities and specifically to make it a more interesting fight than the usual oh look it's a Marilith, the Demon Generals, how cute... Squish. I gotta admit it was much more fun this way but it makes the DM work a lot harder for it. Except that I screwed myself, I totally forgot that I had prepared myself for just such a fight and have a shirt of Damage Reduction vs Silver, it would have reduced the damage significantly and LoMak would have survived. So LoMak didn't die be cause he lost he lost because I was stupid, Oh well.

Oh the Bright side LoMak's Ranger weapon specialty is a dual wielder and seeing as how the two Light Sabers are technically "Large" swords (a Marilith is a large creature) LoMak is the only one in the party that can use them. So now if he's not wielding his trademark ten foot tall adamantine great sword the "black dragon" he's wielding two light sabers. Having a pair of light saber's as your back up weapon is pretty sweet eh?

We're pretty sure we've found Lolth's lair but are way too beat up and spent not to rest, we've really pushed ourselves to the limit getting to this point and if we go in now we're dead. So looking for a place to rest we found a cave with 7 colossal spell warped spiders, which we have now dubbed "House Spiders" since they're as big as a house. It was a potentially dangerous fight but fought smart with Yak hitting LoMak in the head regularly trying to steer the raging hellreaver in the right direction. The team has cleaned out the cave, killed the spiders after a short fight and are preparing and getting ready for the final assault tomorrow.