WE ARE VICTORIOUS!!!

The Black Dragons Have Killed Lolth and ended the "War of the Demon Queen!" I don't think this fight could have been any better if it were deliberately scripted the way it turned out. Momma Lolth came in invisible in her humanoid Drow form after buffing herself the entire time she was upstairs and only a few team members could see her when she made her arrival. But it made me a little more confident that I had made the right move picking up Blind Fighting for LoMak even though it never did come into play because when ever he did manage to lay a blow on Lolth no reroll was needed.

First once Kira was up she threw her big mass heal and brought everyone up to full hit points, then Olek was the first to make an attack on her, it was a weak roll and only hit around a 30ish AC which we knew would miss but points out her position to the rest of the party. Then LoMak rolls in, Debuffed for the most part but using no power attack and still had his major enhancement bonus' and bane up in an attempt to get Lolth with his call to justice(Dimensional Anchor) I used the ability of the Black Dragon Greatsword to ignore natural armor bonus' and go for it, I roll a Big 19! Awesome right? Total Hit was an AC of 64.... Missed.... As a group we were stunned at that! Our Big hitter just went in with no power attack to ensure a hit got a really good roll and missed! Granted he didn't use his furious strike on which adds another +8 to hit but still Holy Crap! The Target AC was 67 and with his Furious strike that's well within reach of his Leap Attack but we had to get that Dimensional Anchor on her to stop her from using several of her abilities that would allow her to escape.

Now she lets her Divine Blast go, 17d12 damage OMG she tossed Bart the War Mage like a Salad and almost straight up killed him in one blast. Marek was quick to move to Bart and stabilize him as Kira hit Bart with another heal spell bringing him to full again. Yak Could not get into position for the most part to make himself useful so he spent much of the game using his Ioun Stone of Absorption to Absorb her quickened spells and abilities to great effect in the beginning. Hugo was hidden within one of the pillars of Lolths chamber so she performed an alter reality to change the pillar from stone to a pure force effect trapping Hugo within the pillar. Lolth was getting iritated that she had not succeeded in killing Bart so she charged herself up with a spell as the Team discovered she had used a play from our play book and made herself immune to dispel magic spells. But we did have some success with the last charge from an Artifact called the Magic Cipher and Olek was able to drain close to a dozen of her spells with it but not anywhere near half of them and not the important ones and dropped it chargeless on the ground and refocused his mind blade to attack her again.

LoMak continued in vain to lay his Call to Judgment Ability on the Demon Queen and Anchor her from dimensional travel as Olek continues in Vain to try and hit her. Marek Lets loose his Spirit of War Power and Kira quickly follows up with another buff of her own. Finally Lolth let her spell loose, and Automatically crit with her Divine blast on Bart Killing him outright for 34d12 damage! Hugo in Ghost form has no disintegrate spell handy to free himself from the tubed column that he is trapped within. Instead he goes to a spell he never figured he'd use in such a situation, and transforms himself into the ghostly visage of an eye tyrant(beholder.) He is then able to use the disintegrate stalk and make a hole to escape the pillar of force. Kira Moved in to raise Bart with a revivify.

Liking the effect it had on Bart Lolth begins charging it up again Olek moved into flanking position and got a small hit in, allowing LoMak to move in and finally get a 20 with a full power attack doing just over a hundred to her. Now she is anchored and we've actually managed to get a few shots in but had only begun to scratch the surface. As we do she lets her Blast go again this time targeting Yak with her Automatic Crit Divine Blast, luckily he's made of much tougher stuff than Bart and sucks up the damage but is reduced to 9 hit points. Bart attempted to hit her with one of his Orbs of Acid but failed to connect. Kira Moves in with a Heal spell and Yaks natural fast healing kicks in. Now with Lolth Anchored LoMak moves to using his Furious strike and is able to land more blows in on Lolth, they're not full power attacks like he normally likes to do but he has an honest chance of hitting from here on out with his first blow. Hugo Tried to help by exposing Lolths position with the eye tyrants natual anti-Magic cone. But that turned out to be more hindrance than help. Kira hits Yak with a Cure Critical wounds bringing him up to just below a hundred hit points.

Again Lolth Blasts Yak as her greater invisiblity comes to an end and is about to kill him as Marek saves his ass as he has done to LoMak so many times taking half the damage onto himself. Lolth Looks at Yak and Says "Leave, and I'll let you live." Yak having traveled with the black dragons as long as he has knows not to trust demons let alone the "Demon Queen" she won't let him live and he knows it, or at least she'll make him wish he was dead he looks at her and says "I don't think I'm the one who needs to worry about that." Olek and LoMak continue to nickel and dome Lolth getting a few more hits in with the added buffs allowing them to hit on rolls lower than 20. Several of LoMaks attack rolls slightly exceeded my original guesstimates as I had not figured in the Luck Bonus from Kira allow in the hit bonus' on allowing LoMak to reach +58 to hit on particular one roll. That may sound impressive, but where fighting a freaking god here! the hit chance on that is almost 50/50 with an AC 67 so if you think about it it's perfect.

Hugo dismissed the eye tyrant form and he and bart made several failed attempt to attack the Demon Queen as her Spell resistance was too astronomically high even with his assay resistance buffs or she turned out to be immune to the orbs they had actually managed to hit with. Marek finally gets to let loose his Alpha strike, it would have been an automatic x3 damage crit as she was doing to us but one of the spells she had up gave her immunity to critical hits so the alpha strike from the psion only did around 250pts of damage. Knowing that he will not survive another blast from the Demon Queen Yak decides to charge the bitch and put her on her ass before he goes out and over runs the crap out her putting her ass on the ground.

Olek and LoMak continue to nickel and dime Lolth getting a few more hits in (mind you they're nickle diming her with hits doing form 80 to 100pts of damage which at this scale of game play are nickle dime but they all add up) with the added buffs allowing them to hit on rolls lower than 20. Gabrielle retrieves the Sipehr and Merak uses a full Bend Reality to Recharge the Artifact. Lolth Blasts Yak as she had "warned the impudent fool" and Kills him our right.

Finally Gabrielle Lets the Magic Cipher Loose and with clutch timing strips Lolth's important buffs (most importantly the crystal body went down which prevents crits.) LoMak and Olek Continue to Nickle and Dime her but are able to get even more hits in now as Marek lets loose with what will be his last and final alpha strike regardless of the outcome as he does not have enough left to try for another. He rolls poorly and uses an ability allowing him an immediate reroll using that last of his power points and got himself an 18 and a hit! Lolth dosn't like that, so now she uses her immediate action with an alter fortune and forces him to reroll again knowing the odds are in her favor of forcing him to miss. He rolls a 19 even better! With his Daughter's blessing on his axe it's an automatically confirmed critical hit with the overcharged alpha strike! Total Damage was in the neighborhood of just over 600 points of damage, As Marek's Axe embeds itself in Lolth's skull and the Black Dragons must make a hasty exit as her plane begins to fall apart.

All in all it was a fantastic, scary (Could we actually pull thiss off?!?), and great end to a fun campaign.

More to come with the after effects of killing Lolth as we already have our next campaign in the making.... "Generations."