DM Brian Z- The Fountain Tuesday November 15th, 2022 12:06:51 PM
Meeko answers happily, hoping to prove his worth. Oh there is water there, makes kobolds strong. Much drinking we do there. After that, Meeko doesn't know. Master said to wait here and guard.
Merletta does a quick scout of the room, and the team is ready for a possible attack.
The lighting in this room is less than the previous, but still enough to get by. (low light vision needed to see normally, otherwise large number of shadows)The room contains a statue of an elven princess. The woman depicted in the statue appears to be weeping. And true to Meeko's word, underneath and around the statue is an elaborate fountain. Clear, clean water arcs out a number of nozzles and pouring into the basin around it.
Rhys (Bob W) AC18; CMD 17(19 vs disarm and sunder); HP20/20 d20+5=10 ; Tuesday November 15th, 2022 3:01:24 PM
Rhys pulls out his dagger and begins cleaning beneath his finger nails, making sure Meeko can see his every move. ”you know, I’m starting to like you Meeko. So the water makes you strong, and your friends, the other kobolds, they have been into the next chamber after that?”. Rhys continues his questioning. (Intimidate 10 to continue his threat from last round)
Xuce (Chris) AC: 17, T: 17, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 16/17 Tuesday November 15th, 2022 8:32:57 PM
Xuce waits for more light before he enters the next room.
(OOC is dancing lights still in effect?)
Myre (Carl) -- AC 13/12/11 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/5 d20+5=18 ; d20+4=18 ; Tuesday November 15th, 2022 9:16:02 PM
Myre kneels down on the edge of the basin, looking into the water at her rippling reflection. Waddles joins her, resting on the ledge along with her. She stares into the pig's eyes in their reflection.
"Are you sure? That kobold says it will make you stronger!" ... "You're made of rubber! You're not going to melt in a little water!" ... "Fine, but you're probably missing out." She puts the pig back in its pocket on her pack. She studies the elven woman in the statue, trying to figure out if she's someone important.
Knowledge nature or arcana: 18 Perception is also 18 to spot anything on it or the basin.
Kwarsk (Carl subbing for Wayne) AC 21/T 12/FF 19, HP 24/24, CMD 15/19 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. d20+10=25 ; Tuesday November 15th, 2022 9:22:22 PM
Kwarsk is first into the room, tower shield at the ready. He scans the chamber for any other entrances, determined to put his shield between them and his companions. His stout, dwarfy eyes check the stonework of this place for...buttons, or whatever it is people do with stone.
Perception: 25 (27 for stonework traps/mechanisms)
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 16, CMD 11, HP 22 | Fort: +3, Ref: +5, Will: +3 d20+8=13 ; Tuesday November 15th, 2022 10:15:16 PM
Zarsellet follows up Rhys' question. "Yes. How far inside of here have you seen? And what were you supposed to guard?"
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 22/22 | CMB:3 CMD:16 | Fort:2 Ref:5 Will:0 Tuesday November 15th, 2022 10:20:55 PM
Master? Magic water? The kobold just got very interesting.
Rhys! Tell him we'll pay him to lead us to his master, but only if there's no fighting when we meet. Muuru edges over to the fountain, peers in, and racks his brain -- what does he know about this type of thing? (Knowledge: Arcana: ).
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 22/22 | CMB:3 CMD:16 | Fort:2 Ref:5 Will:0 d20+9=18 ; Tuesday November 15th, 2022 10:23:27 PM
[OOC: Glitch on the roll. Result was actually 22, but I rolled again anyway and got 18]
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 22/22 d20+4=5 ; d20+6=18 ; Tuesday November 15th, 2022 10:25:53 PM
Before entering the room with the fountain, Paige calls out to those questioning the kobold ”Find out who this ‘master’ is, and if he’s further down along the tunnel, or did he go out - and when he’s expected back!” Thanks to her elven mother, Paige can see quite well in the semi dark. She peers at the sculpture, wondering if it is the representation of some deity (Knowledge Religion =5) Not particularly interested in kobold ‘refreshment’, Paige scans the room for further openings/doors. (Perception = 18)
Nintos Melinous (Clint) | HP 16/16 | AC:12 T:12 FF:10 | CMD:13 CMB:1 | Fort:2 Ref:2 Will:4 | Merletta (Familiar) HP 4/4 | AC:15 T:14 FF:13 | CMB:0 CMD:6 | Fort:1 Ref:4 Will:2 d20+8=17 ; Tuesday November 15th, 2022 10:46:24 PM
Unable to fully see in the darkness, Nintos touches the end of his quarterstaff and says an arcane word; “mitne sari wer whedabra” and the end lights up with a Light spell.
Not normally one to walk into a room before those with the big weapons go in, but the human is on the heels of his dwarven friend Kwarsk. He is amazed by this fountain system and begins to study it. [Knowledge 17 for all or 18 if Arcane or Dungeoneering]
DM Brian Z- The Fountain Wednesday November 16th, 2022 7:40:19 AM
Meeko nods in agreement to Rhys and Zarsellet's questions. Yup the others went past the fountain, but not us guards. Meeko puffs up in pride. We stayed out here and guarded the door so no one gets in. And dug out a few shinies when we got bored
Xuce would like some more light. The effect doesn't last long, but it can be reactivated as needed.
Myre inspects the fountain. If this statue was someone important, it is perhaps forgotten with the passage of time.
Fingers inspects the water, but will need to detect magic first to identify any auras. The fountain itself is not known to books of arcane knowledge.
Paige is not reminded of any particular deity while looking at the statue. Still she does have a funny feeling about it.
Nintos makes sure the room is well lit, and also looks at the fountain. No new information is revealed.
Nintos, Paige, Fingers, and Myre: As you look into the water of the fountain, you see a horrid, rotting reflection that slowly turns to murder the others in the room. Will save DC11 to resist the effect! On a failed save, you are affected by an extreme desire to flee from the fountain in fear! (towards the entrance)
OOC- kn arcana identifies the effect after it is set off. Nintos, Fingers and Myre are able to identify the spell as cause fear - but only if they make the save!
Nintos Melinous (Clint) | HP 16/16 | AC:12 T:12 FF:10 | CMD:13 CMB:1 | Fort:2 Ref:2 Will:4 | Merletta (Familiar) HP 4/4 | AC:15 T:14 FF:13 | CMB:0 CMD:6 | Fort:1 Ref:4 Will:2 d20+4=20 ; Wednesday November 16th, 2022 10:20:03 AM
Seeing the water, Nintos thinks that it would be nice to wash off a bit. The face and hands are a bit dusty and sweaty from the days travel. As he looks in, he sees an image of himself that he hadn’t seen since his days spent in the bottle. Sunken in eyes and cheeks, but this time there is flesh falling off him. The urge to flee from this is strong, but his iron resolve causes him to stay and investigate what is happening. [Will Save 20]
Cause Fear? he thinks to himself; I wonder if it is the waters itself or if there was some sort of magical trap causing this. Realizing that others might have a similar experience with the urge to run; “Don’t look into the water, there is an arcane spell that has been placed on this. It could cause you to flee from this chamber.”
Rhys (Bob W) AC18; CMD 17(19 vs disarm and sunder); HP20/20 Wednesday November 16th, 2022 10:23:55 AM ”Tell me Meeko, Who is this master of yours? Is the master a kobold or some other being? And is your master still inside the room past the water? We would like to meet the master. Can you lead us through the cave to the master?”. Rhys continues to stand calmly over the trussed kobold, the dagger glinting in the blue light as he works his nails. The elf can’t help but wonder if Meeko can keep track of the barrage of questions coming it’s way.
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 22/22 d20+8=19 ; Wednesday November 16th, 2022 12:19:39 PM
Whilst studying the statue, Paige glances briefly at the water. For a moment the cleric thinks she sees a horrible, rotting reflection. Her first reaction is to clasp the symbol of Domi about her neck and closes het eyes. When she opens them, the vision is gone (Will Save = 19) Hearing Nintos warning the half elf moves to block the passage into and out of the room. “I might have something for that” she calls back, remembering one of the items gifted to the group by Berem before they left.*
* 22Aug2022 DM post - Scroll of Remove Fear
Myre (Carl) -- AC 13/12/11 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/5 d20+4=15 ; Wednesday November 16th, 2022 2:08:22 PM Myre gasps loudly and spins around, ready to warn her friends about...whatever that thing was, but the thing's not there. She manages to keep her cool (will 15), but holy moly is her heart pounding!
She rounds on the fountain and points an accusing finger at the statue. "Not cool, statue lady!" Seeing her friends saw the same, she wonders how they stayed so calm. She blushes momentarily and gathers herself back together. She regrets not paying attention to her father's spellcrafting lessons all those years. They'd come in handy figuring out how that fountain's trap worked. She'll just have to trust Nintos to figure it out.
She nervously peers over the edge of the fountain again, seeing if the monster is gone now. She was letting her curiosity talk her into drinking it a moment ago, but there's no way she's drinking rotten monster water. No sir...
Kwarsk (Carl subbing for Wayne) AC 21/T 12/FF 19, HP 24/24, CMD 15/19 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. Wednesday November 16th, 2022 2:13:42 PM
Cwarsc spins around when his friends are affected by the spell, ready to leap to their defense. He breathes easier once he learns it is merely a trick. He frowns before opining, "a cheap, cowardly tactic. I'd hoped we were fighting a foe with honor, even if it was flawed honor. It appears not."
He goes to stand closer to the door leading past the chamber, still keeping his eyes out for stonework traps or mechanisms. He keeps a keen eye on the doorway, trusting in his skill and equipment to keep him safe.
OOC: Rolled a perception: 25 (27 for stonework traps/mechanisms) last round that didn't get mentioned. Not sure if it was overlooked, or if silence = nothing was found.
Xuce (Chris) AC: 17, T: 17, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 16/17 d20+10=13 ; Wednesday November 16th, 2022 7:10:49 PM
Xuce walks around the room now that he can see looking for any other ways in or out, avoiding looking at the water. (perception 13).
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 16, CMD 11, HP 22 | Fort: +3, Ref: +5, Will: +3 Wednesday November 16th, 2022 7:39:04 PM
Zarsellet hears the warning of the fountain being magically trapped and glares at the captive kobold. "So we're trying to be friends and you lie to us? You said the fountain made you all strong but now we find that it is magically trapped? What other lies have you told us? If we find out more that you didn't tell us I'll be slicing your throat open instead of cutting the rope binding you!"
Muuru sees the image in the water, swings around to shoot the minotaur whose reflection he'd seen -- then realizes that it was just an illusion. Boy, that thing almost had you all fooled, huh?
DM Brian Z- The Fountain Thursday November 17th, 2022 7:52:37 AM
Nintos identifies the spell, and gives warning to the team.
Meeko looks confused for a moment as Rhys questions him. Then he answeres. Oh, you mean the King. Yes, he went past the fountain. I went outside to guard. Guards were told not to go in there.
Paige shakes off the effects of the spell, and readies a scroll, just in case.
Myre scolds the statue. It might be her imagination, or maybe the statue winked at her as she does so. Myre wonders if it is safe to drink.
Kwarsk stands ready for action. He does not notice anything unusual about the stonework of the fountain.
Xuce looks around a bit. He can confirm there is another door on the other side of the room.
Zarsellet scolds the kobold and he looks to be a bit afraid. Meeko shrugs. It's ok when we drink it. Though it did taste a little funny yesterday.
Muuru shrugs off the magic.
The team can either investigate the door, or the fountain. (or come up with a plan :)
OOC- I will update the map tomorrow
Nintos Melinous (Clint) | HP 16/16 | AC:12 T:12 FF:10 | CMD:13 CMB:1 | Fort:2 Ref:2 Will:4 | Merletta (Familiar) HP 4/4 | AC:15 T:14 FF:13 | CMB:0 CMD:6 | Fort:1 Ref:4 Will:2 d20+9=12 ; d20+9=14 ; Thursday November 17th, 2022 11:22:17 AM
Seeing that everyone is okay from the effects of the spell, Nintos turns his attention back to the pool. “Evnek wer Arcanik irsa.” He mutters as he cast Detect Magic.
Nintos studies the fountain for its magical components. He knows that there is an active spell of Cause Fear, but he wants to discover if there is more to it than that. Are there any clues, finger prints within the magic, that could lead them to who set this magical trap. [Spellcraft: 12 | Arcana: 14]
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 22/22 d20+6=19 ; Thursday November 17th, 2022 4:32:23 PM
Paige is glad she doesn’t have to use the scroll. She calls over her shoulder to Rhys and anybody else remaining in the first room: ”Xuce has found another door. Are you coming? Oh! There’s a magicked fountain in here. DON’T look at the water, and I’d suggest not drinking it either!” Paige moves across the room to stand behind the halfling and studies the door for markings. (Perception = 19)
Xuce (Chris) AC: 17, T: 17, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 16/17 d20+5=6 ; d4=4 ; Thursday November 17th, 2022 6:02:01 PM
Xuce stands ready next door, waiting to see if anything comes from within. (ready action to attack if an enemy comes through the door, AC 6, nonlethal 4).
Rhys (Bob W) AC18; CMD 17(19 vs disarm and sunder); HP20/20 Thursday November 17th, 2022 6:27:55 PM
Rhys re-sheaths his dagger and once again addresses the captured kobold. “Tell me more about the King Meeko and I shall set you free. Is the King a kobold or some other race? Does your King have special powers? How many of his personal guards did he take into the next cavern with him? Tell me what you know and you may go free, your life intact, never to return here.”.
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 16, CMD 11, HP 22 | Fort: +3, Ref: +5, Will: +3 Thursday November 17th, 2022 6:54:35 PM
Zarsellet shakes his head in disgust at the kobold, then just turns and walks away.
He hears Paige's warning and stays away from the water on his way over to her. He casts his Dancing Lights spell again and directs it to float ahead of him. "The prisoner is stupid and useless. Where do you want the lights?"
Myre (Carl) -- AC 13/12/11 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/5 Thursday November 17th, 2022 10:14:53 PM
Myre scratches her head, wondering why her friends are being mad at a kobold for being a kobold. She's curious about what Nintos finds in his investigation, but is otherwise ready to keep moving.
OOC: Short on time today!
Kwarsk (Carl subbing for Wayne) AC 21/T 12/FF 19, HP 24/24, CMD 15/19 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. d20+3=21 ; Thursday November 17th, 2022 10:16:57 PM
Cwarsc positions himself near the next door. He makes ready to bull charge any nasties back into the room they came from.
Readied bull rush: 21
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 22/22 | CMB:3 CMD:16 | Fort:2 Ref:5 Will:0 Thursday November 17th, 2022 10:55:15 PM Hey! Muuru shouts to Zarsellet. There is no call for insults! You know, there's a good chance you'll be the only survivor of this party. Think you'll be any less stupid and useless?
And you... he points at Rhys. Those are the choices you give him? Die or run off? Didn't you hear me when I said he could help us avoid the boss fight?
Muuru strides over to the kobold and kneels down. All right, Meeko, don't worry about this guy. What can you tell us?
And can you help us meet the King?
DM Brian Z- The Fountain Friday November 18th, 2022 8:41:06 AM
Nintos can tell there is a trap on the fountain, but he lacks the knowledge of disarming it. However the auras revealed show there is more than just the trap. Something else is here, hidden by the energy of the fear spell.
OOC- those who made the save are immune to the effects of the trap.
Paige finds some writing on the door in elven and dwarven. It translates to 'place of learning'
Xuce is ready for action
Zarsellet continues lighting the way.
Myre looks over Nintos' shoulder. Maybe he is on to something? And did the statue wink at her again?
Kwarsk is ready for action. There is no activity from the door.
Fingers and Rhys question Meeko some more. Between their comments and other comments in the room, the kobold is confused again. But he answers as best he can. Oh, our King is a kobold. He is magicky. And smart too. He figured out how to open the door. Said it was important. Hmm he took some guards in, and the captain! Meeko smiles that he was able to remember all this important stuff. The King told him to get better at remembering. Oh no, I can't Shaking his head at Muuru. He said he had some important King stuff to do, and if we interrupted we would get hurt bad. Nope, I can't go in.
Nintos Melinous (Clint) | HP 16/16 | AC:12 T:12 FF:10 | CMD:13 CMB:1 | Fort:2 Ref:2 Will:4 | Merletta (Familiar) HP 4/4 | AC:15 T:14 FF:13 | CMB:0 CMD:6 | Fort:1 Ref:4 Will:2 Friday November 18th, 2022 10:10:58 AM
With a sigh of frustration; “Why can’t I get this? What am I missing?” Nintos is used to figuring things out that he studies and starts to get frustrated, missing even the simplest clues.
He begins to look around the base of the fountain, the statue, the walls all while mumbling to himself.
Rhys (Bob W) AC18; CMD 17(19 vs disarm and sunder); HP20/20 d20+1=17 ; Friday November 18th, 2022 10:21:08 AM
Rhys bites his tongue as the brazen taur barges in and interrupts his interrogation of Meeko. Perhaps this is just the way of taurs, to bellow and charge at all they disagree with he thinks to himself as he gathers his gear and prepares to follow the rest of the group into the room with the fountain. ”Thanks for the help Meeko, Fingers here will see you right”.
Rhys enters the fountain room and feels the cold sweat of fear crawl towards him as he glances at the fountain. The elf forces himself to stand firm and soon the feeling passes (Will Save 17).
Myre (Carl) -- AC 13/12/11 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/5 Friday November 18th, 2022 1:38:34 PM "HEY!" Myre suddenly shouts loudly and points an accusing finger at the statue. "Stop winking at me, statue! We're not friends!" The little half-drow stares daggers at the statue and keeps her accusatory finger pointed at it.
Kwarsk (Carl subbing for Wayne) AC 21/T 12/FF 19, HP 24/24, CMD 15/19 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. d20+10=30 ; Friday November 18th, 2022 1:42:14 PM
Cwarsc, realizing how intelligent and insightful Myre obviously is, walks over to the statue she's pointing at. Stowing his weapon, he takes his tower shield, holds it parallel with the ground*, and pushes it against the statue. Not enough to break it, but enough to test that it's securely attached to the fountain (if it is there at all).
Perception is 30 to detect anything fishy. It's 32 if it's stone-related.
*He's staying as far as he can while pushing the statue, not going right up to it and shouldering the thing. He will not step or look into the water.
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 16, CMD 11, HP 22 | Fort: +3, Ref: +5, Will: +3 Friday November 18th, 2022 6:23:33 PM
Zarsellet moves up by Xuce at the door, waiting for the rest of the group.
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 22/22 Sunday November 20th, 2022 9:47:13 AM ”Hey! Nintos! Over here! “ calls the cleric. “Through this door is a place of learning! Zarsellet! When I open the door, send your lights ahead.” Weapon in one hand, Paige pushes the door open, but steps back - clearing the way for the gnome’s magical lights to proceed her.
Xuce (Chris) AC: 17, T: 17, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 16/17 d20+10=29 ; Sunday November 20th, 2022 12:03:48 PM
Xuce looks into the room after the lights light things up (perception 29).
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 22/22 | CMB:3 CMD:16 | Fort:2 Ref:5 Will:0 Monday November 21st, 2022 12:18:42 AM Learning? Really? Let's see.. Muuru moves to where he can see inside the room.
DM Brian Z- The Fountain Monday November 21st, 2022 9:51:46 AM
Nintos continues to examine the statue. The water detects as magical, as does the known trap. The statue seems to have some religious significance, but it is not yet known what that is. (knowledge religion check please)
Rhys moves past the fountain, and with the knowledge of what will happen, is able to fight off the effects.
Myre accuses the statue of funny business, no no further movement is detected.
Kwarsk checks the statue. It is solid, and the fountain and statue are all carved from one piece of marble. It does not move or animate.
Meeko wonders what all the ongoing fuss is about regarding the fountain. He walks over, shudders for a moment when he looks in. He cups some water and drinks it. Hmm. It tastes kinda funny now. It didn't taste like that before.
Paige opens the door, finding it unlocked. Zarsellet sends in some lights, and the two of them, plus Xuce and Muuru take a look inside.
This room is darker still, as dim light. Only the dancing lights provide illumination. This room is a library. There are a number of bookshelves, and many of them are still filled with books. The room has several comfortable looking benches, carved from darkwood.
Xuce notices some movement, and with the aid of the light, sees a kobold. The creature has a book in its hand and looks poised to throw it as a makeshift weapon.
OOC- the benches are not on the map, trying to reduce clutter
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 22/22 Monday November 21st, 2022 10:32:11 AM ”Take care, friend… Paige whispers, touching Xuce lightly on the shoulder and casting Guidance* on the halfling monk.
Noticing the taur suddenly at her shoulder, she says sotto voce, ”who’s guarding the kobold? Weren’t you with him last?”
Guidance cast on Xuce - +1 competence bonus on a single attack roll, saving throw, or skill check. Duration: 1 minute or until used
Myre (Carl) -- AC 13/12/11 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/5 Monday November 21st, 2022 10:56:46 AM
Myre glares at the statue as she walks away. She points two fingers at her eyes, then back at the statue, indicating she's keeper her eyes on it. She makes for the newly found library, trying to look like she's not hurrying.
She goes to warn the kobold to chill out, but she hasn't learned draconic in the past few minutes. She puts her hands out, trying to show she means no harm to the kobold, then slowly lowers them. She hopes he does the same. It feels wrong to just attack it. Realistically it poses no serious threat to the eight of them.
Rhys (Bob W) AC18; CMD 17(19 vs disarm and sunder); HP20/20 d20+4=18 ; Monday November 21st, 2022 11:03:51 AM ”Meeko! How did you escape your bonds? Did Fingers set you free? Have you struck a deal with our taur friend to lead us to your King and help us in our quest?”. The elf is astounded that the kobold who earlier refused to surrender is now at their side, and just who is expected to watch over him??
When Meeko comments on the taste of the water, Rhys watches carefully to see what effect if any it has on the kobold. (Perception 18)
Nintos Melinous (Clint) | HP 16/16 | AC:12 T:12 FF:10 | CMD:13 CMB:1 | Fort:2 Ref:2 Will:4 | Merletta (Familiar) HP 4/4 | AC:15 T:14 FF:13 | CMB:0 CMD:6 | Fort:1 Ref:4 Will:2 d20+8=26 ; Monday November 21st, 2022 12:04:05 PM
Nitnos studies it for a moment longer. Thinking to himself; my faith has never been strong, what if this is tied to a deity? [K-Religion Check: 26]
His attention is quickly drawn as Paige hollers for some light. Picking up a rock or a pebble on the floor, or even a copper in his pocket if a stone isn’t handy; “Mitne sari wer whedabra” and with a flash of light, the rock/coin lights up. Nintos flicks it into the chamber past those standing before the door as he moves forward. (Moves from L21 to K20)
Lowering his voice towards Paige; “I believe that stature has something to do with a god of some sort. Religion isn’t my focus of study, but I have studied them enough to be dangerous.”
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 22/22 Monday November 21st, 2022 1:41:50 PM
OOC: Paige did a Knowledge Religion check Nov. 15. DM response was Nov. 16. Since the roll was nat. 1 for 5, she didn’t get much…
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 16, CMD 11, HP 22 | Fort: +3, Ref: +5, Will: +3 Monday November 21st, 2022 5:17:51 PM
Zarsellet floats the Dancing Lights around wherever Xuce says to move them.
Kwarsk (Wayne) AC 21/T 12/FF 19, HP 24/24, CMD 15/19 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. d20+5=22 ; Monday November 21st, 2022 7:36:41 PM
Kwarsk considers the religious significance of the statue, thinking perhaps he can recall something useful since Dwarven writing has been on the doors.
(OOC: Knowledge - Religion - 22)
Kwarsk then picks up the bound Meeko like a small log, sideways, and walks Meeko over to the open door leading into the library. When Meeko slurps some water, Kwarsk merely says in Common, "Thirsty, huh?"
Kwarsk looks inside the library (OOC - Darkvision 60') and sees the many bookshelves and the kobold holding a book as if to throw it.
Kwarsk looks at Meeko, still bound and carried sideways like a log by Kwarsk, and shifts to hold Meeko upright, and says in Common, "Meeko, I think you should tell your friend over there to sit down and talk with us." Kwarsk winks at Meeko, showing Meeko Kwarsk's face held hard like granite, a very Dwarven hint to obey Kwarsk.
Xuce (Chris) AC: 17, T: 17, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 16/17 d20+10=16 ; Monday November 21st, 2022 8:19:54 PM
Xuce says in a low whisper "I see one" then slowly moves into the room (to J23) keeping an eye out for more (perception 16).
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 22/22 | CMB:3 CMD:16 | Fort:2 Ref:5 Will:0 Monday November 21st, 2022 9:02:29 PM
Muuru is eager to get a look at the books in this place, but he doesn't want to disturb the current -- negotiations. Can he see any of the tomes from where he's standing?
DM Brian Z- The Library d20+3=5 ; d20+3=15 ; Tuesday November 22nd, 2022 8:44:06 AM
Paige casts a spell on Xuce, and wonders who was guarding the kobold.
Myre keeps an eye on the statue, just in case. Then tries a bit of diplomacy
Rhys wonders how Meeko got free. He watches as Meeko drinks the water. Aside from his reaction to the taste, there does not appear to be any other effect.
Nintos casts a light spell on a coin and tosses it into the room, providing even more light. There are a few squeals of displeasure from the room, apparently the kobold with the book is not alone.
Zarsellet adjusts his own light source, providing light source where needed.
Kwarsk considers the dwarven writing on the statue. Then has Meeko join in the diplomacy. Ok, but I don't think they will.
Xuce moves into the room and spots another kobold.
Fingers takes a quick look, and can tell there are still many tomes on the shelves.
Meeko(still mostly tied up!) yells for the others to surrender in draconic. In response, several books are hurtled towards the door. One of the kobolds taunts you to read it if you want to be saved.
A few sling bullets are shot at Xuce, but none connect. There is more movement in the back of the room.
On the Fountain, Kwarsk was able to make out some inscriptions that speak of miraculous healing properties. If this is true then the fountain has been corrupted. Since Meeko spoke well of the Fountain previously, then possibly the kobolds corrupted it? Nintos has deduced that some of the same type of magic that the Fountain provides, may be needed to restore it.
Rhys (Bob W) AC18; CMD 17(19 vs disarm and sunder); HP20/20 d20+5=17 ; Tuesday November 22nd, 2022 12:41:07 PM
Rhys seizes the initiative and dashes into the library, sword drawn, to confront the kobolds. (Rhys will take a double move and end up at K 26). ”lay down your arms and you may leave this place with your lives, ignore me and pay the price!” Rhys calls out in draconic. (Intimidate 17)
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 22/22 Tuesday November 22nd, 2022 12:49:38 PM
Paige moves through the door and takes up a position behind a bookshelf (N23)
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 16, CMD 11, HP 22 | Fort: +3, Ref: +5, Will: +3 Tuesday November 22nd, 2022 3:34:46 PM
Zarsellet moves into the room, quickly casting Daze on the kobold over in the corner.
OOC: Targeting K4 with Daze. Will save DC13
He calls back to the rest of the group, "More kobolds here, and they're attacking!"
Xuce (Chris) AC: 17, T: 17, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 16/17 d20+5=12 ; d4=3 ; Tuesday November 22nd, 2022 5:19:12 PM
Xuce moves over to the kobold (the one in F23) and attempts to knock it unconscious (Attack AC 12 non-lethal damage 3).
Nintos Melinous (Clint) | HP 16/16 | AC:12 T:12 FF:10 | CMD:13 CMB:1 | Fort:2 Ref:2 Will:4 | Merletta (Familiar) HP 4/4 | AC:15 T:14 FF:13 | CMB:0 CMD:6 | Fort:1 Ref:4 Will:2 d20+3=23 ; d20+3=11 ; d6+1=3 ; d6+1=3 ; Tuesday November 22nd, 2022 5:46:07 PM
Nintos sees his companions spring into action. He follows the cleric in (M23) and readies an attack with his [iAcid Dart[/i] if something comes within range (30 ft). [Range Touch Attack: 23 (NAT 20) with an 11 to confirm | 3 or 6 if crit confirmed]
Kwarsk (Wayne) AC 21/T 12/FF 19, HP 24/24, CMD 15/19 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. d20+10=21 ; d20+3=17 ; d6+2=5 ; Tuesday November 22nd, 2022 8:20:19 PM
Kwarsk, hearing what is happening, says to Meeko, "Thanks, I think," and somewhat gently drops (free action) the (DC 23) tied-up Meeko on the ground, butt first, and then Kwarsk races (double-moves L17-L25) towards the fight, drawing his waraxe along the way (free as part of a move; +1 BAB requirement met).
(OOC if a kobold attempts to surprise Kwarsk from out of Kwarsk's view and the DM asks for a Perception roll, the result is 21.
Also, Kwarsk has Combat Reflexes.
IF any kobolds trigger an attack of opportunity THEN Kwarsk will strike to subdue; I have rolled one AoO at +3 with an elbow hitting AC 17 for 5 points of nonlethal damage, but please roll up to three (3) if they all charge Kwarsk for some reason.)
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 22/22 | CMB:3 CMD:16 | Fort:2 Ref:5 Will:0 Tuesday November 22nd, 2022 8:34:25 PM
Fingers does part of a double-move, ending at K29:L30, and readying his blackjack.
Myre (Carl) -- AC 13/12/11 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/5 Tuesday November 22nd, 2022 10:11:01 PM
Myre moves up to get a better look.
***
Moved to K22
DM Brian Z- The Library d20-1=5 ; d20+1=20 ; d6-1=5 ; d20+1=19 ; d6-1=4 ; d20+3=6 ; d20+3=17 ; d3-1=0 ; Wednesday November 23rd, 2022 7:56:22 AM
Rhys moves in and attempts to intimidate the kobolds. They seem unwavering in their resolve.
Paige moves into position
Zarsellet dazes his target (K4)
Xuce attempts to knock out one of the kobolds, but is unable to get through its' thick skin.
Nintos readies an attack
Kwarsk moves up to guard the area, ready for whatever they try.
Fingers moves in, and the kobold he moves past stabs him (5 damage)
Myre moves up, ready to assist.
Kobold1 stabs at Rhys with his spear and hits! (4 damage) Kobold2 moves up and fires a sling at Rhys, missing. Nintos makes him pay for it with an acid dart! (kobold2 injured) Kobold3 fires a sling at Paige, and connects with the cleric(1 damage) Kobold4 is dazed and is unable to act
Rhys (Bob W) AC18; CMD 17(19 vs disarm and sunder); HP16/20 d20+6=10 ; Wednesday November 23rd, 2022 9:35:29 AM
Rhys winces as the spear tip leaves a red crease across his thigh. He brings his curved elven blade across in a wide low sweep, beneath what he assumes will be his opponents guarding parry. (hit AC 10). ”Not a wise move angering me little one. “ the elf says menacingly in draconic. The hardness in his eyes speak to his intent.
Kwarsk (Wayne) AC 21/T 12/FF 19, HP 24/24, CMD 15/19 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. d20+4=16 ; d10+2=4 ; Wednesday November 23rd, 2022 11:38:29 AM
Kwarsk mutters, "Must it always be this way?" Kwarsk grimaces at the heavy wound Rhys took, and moves (L25 to K27) next to the first kobold (K1) and brings his waraxe to bear in an overhead downward slice!
(OOC hit AC 16 for 4 damage.)
Nintos Melinous (Clint) | HP 16/16 | AC:12 T:12 FF:10 | CMD:13 CMB:1 | Fort:2 Ref:2 Will:4 | Merletta (Familiar) HP 4/4 | AC:15 T:14 FF:13 | CMB:0 CMD:6 | Fort:1 Ref:4 Will:2 d20+3=6 ; Wednesday November 23rd, 2022 11:48:05 AM
Seeing success with his readied Acid Dart, Nintos rounds the right side of the bookcase (From M23 to N27) and fires an Acid Darts at the further Kobold (K2). It flies wide and hits the bookcase behind him. [Attack: 6 Miss]
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 16, CMD 11, HP 22 | Fort: +3, Ref: +5, Will: +3 Wednesday November 23rd, 2022 4:27:24 PM
Now that the group had moved in to get rid of these kobolds Zarsellet starts a war chant, empowering it with his bardic magic.
OOC: Inspire Courage +1 morale bonus to hit and weapon damage, and on saves vs fear and charm.
Xuce (Chris) AC: 17, T: 17, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 16/17 d20+5=16 ; d4=3 ; d20+5=13 ; d4=2 ; Wednesday November 23rd, 2022 6:32:10 PM
Xuce hearing the battle heating up behind him stops playing around and goes to punch the kobold (K4) in the gut (AC 16, 3 damage) then elbows it in the head (AC 13, 2 damage).
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 21/22 Wednesday November 23rd, 2022 7:34:12 PM
Enraged by the dart from the kobold down the hall (K3) and inspired to courage by Zarsellet’s chant Paige takes a run at the little cretin with her mace raised high and ready to strike (double move - can’t charge/attack due to passing through the square held by Nintos - ending up in N31)
(DM Sanity Info:
Inspire Courage from Zarsellet - +1 morale bonus to attacks, damage, and saves vs fear and charm
Myre (Carl) -- AC 13/12/11 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/5 Wednesday November 23rd, 2022 10:59:39 PM Myre goes wide-eyed as Paige tears after that kobold. "How unlike her!" Myre wants to see where this bravery goes, but doesn't want her friend stabbed in the process. She follows Paige a little ways in, then casts daze at her target.
***
Move: N26 Standard: Daze at K3. Will save 14
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 22/22-5 | CMB:3 CMD:16 | Fort:2 Ref:5 Will:0 d20+3=22 ; d8=3 ; Wednesday November 23rd, 2022 11:46:47 PM
Fingers moves to K32:L33, attacks K3 with his blackjack. Att: 22, Dam: 3 nonlethal
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 22/22-5 | CMB:3 CMD:16 | Fort:2 Ref:5 Will:0 Wednesday November 23rd, 2022 11:53:45 PM
(Forgot the STR mod; that should be 5 damage nonlethal)
DM Brian Z- The Library d20-1=3 ; d20+1=9 ; d20+1=18 ; d20+1=18 ; d6-1=2 ; Thursday November 24th, 2022 7:26:05 AM
Rhys swings at his opponent, but missed this time
Kwarsk moves in and attacks a kobold with a solid hit!. The creature is still standing, but barely.
Nintos repositions, and shoots another dart of acid, but missed the target
Zarsellet inspires the team with extra courage!
Xuce attacks his opponent, hitting it once.
Paige charges up to the kobold that hit her, taking away its' ranged options.
Myre offers some support and dazes her opponent!
Fingers moves over and attacks the kobold, knocking it out!
The kobolds act!
K1 tries to stab Kwarsk, but is unable to get through his armor. K2 steps up and tries to stab Kwarsk, but the armor still holds! K3 -unconscious, dazed K4 manages to hit Xuce with his spear, inflicting 2 damage
Nintos Melinous (Clint) | HP 16/16 | AC:12 T:12 FF:10 | CMD:13 CMB:1 | Fort:2 Ref:2 Will:4 | Merletta (Familiar) HP 4/4 | AC:15 T:14 FF:13 | CMB:0 CMD:6 | Fort:1 Ref:4 Will:2 d20+3=6 ; Thursday November 24th, 2022 8:27:15 AM “Opps, sorry about that.” Nintos says as Paige tries passing him up, but he keeps his attention on the Kobolds on Kwarsk. Attacking out with another Acid Dart he sees that the Kobolds are harder to hit than expected [Touch Attack 6 – Failed]
Xuce (Chris) AC: 17, T: 17, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 14/17 d20+5=6 ; d20+5=9 ; d4=3 ; d4=4 ; Thursday November 24th, 2022 8:48:29 AM
Xuce tries to move out of the way of the spear but he bumps into the bookshelf. In retaliation, he throws two punches at the kobold (AC 6 & 9, damage 3 & 4) but the pain from his recent injury makes his attacks go wide.
Rhys (Bob W) AC18; CMD 17(19 vs disarm and sunder); HP16/20 d20+6=16 ; d10+4=14 ; Thursday November 24th, 2022 10:14:23 AM
Rhys moves behind Kwarsk and takes up position beside him (K28), his blade already in motion as he arrives at his destination. The long curved blade slices through the air with a hiss striking at the kobold who had previously speared him (hit K1 AC17(forgot +1 inspiration) for 14 dmg). ”I told you there would be a price for taking up arms against us!” Rhys growls in draconic and fixes his gaze on K2.
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 22/22-5 | CMB:3 CMD:16 | Fort:2 Ref:5 Will:0 Thursday November 24th, 2022 12:56:44 PM
Fingers squeezes between bookcases to H30:I31, then smacks K2 with the blackjack Att:
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 16, CMD 11, HP 22 | Fort: +3, Ref: +5, Will: +3 Thursday November 24th, 2022 4:57:51 PM
Zarsellet moves around to get a good shot on the kobold in the corner (K4), singing all the way to keep everyone inspired.
OOC: Double move and maintaining Inspire Courage.
Kwarsk (Wayne) AC 21/T 12/FF 19, HP 24/24, CMD 15/19 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. d20+5=9 ; Thursday November 24th, 2022 6:26:48 PM
Kwarsk feels energized by Zarsellet's chant, and seeking advantage, suddenly strikes across at a different target (K2) with another overhead slice, but misjudges the kobold (K2)'s footwork and does nothing but blow the wind of combat around, "Hnh!"
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 21/22 Thursday November 24th, 2022 8:16:20 PM ”Hunh!?!” exclaims the cleric I’m disbelief, when the joy of smiting her antagonist with her new weapon is snatched away. Paige blows at a wisp of red hanging in her face and lowers her weapon, before stepping around the unconscious kobold and taking up guard beside the next door (Double move to M36).
If anything comes through the door, they’ll have to contend with the red-headed half-elf first!
Dm sanity info:
Zarsellet’s war chant - +1 to attacks and damage, and saves vs fear and charm
+1 to Fortitude from dwarven ale
DM Brian Z- The Library d20+1=7 ; Friday November 25th, 2022 7:59:49 AM
Nintos fires another acid dart, but misses the target
Xuce throws some punches at his opponent, but his concentration is off, and he missed
Rhys moves up and slices into a kobold. It drops to the ground
Fingers finds moving about a little difficult, but he still knocks out a kobold with his practiced swing
Zarsellet moves and continues to inspire the team
Kwarsk switches targets but missed as Fingers just knocked that one out.
Paige moves up to cover the door.
The kobolds act!
K1 is dead K2 is unconscious K3 is unconscious K4 stabs at Xuce again, but missed.
Nintos Melinous (Clint) | HP 16/16 | AC:12 T:12 FF:10 | CMD:13 CMB:1 | Fort:2 Ref:2 Will:4 | Merletta (Familiar) HP 4/4 | AC:15 T:14 FF:13 | CMB:0 CMD:6 | Fort:1 Ref:4 Will:2 Friday November 25th, 2022 8:43:25 AM
Seeing that most of the Kobolds are either unconscious, or severally outnumbered, Nintos moves to pick up his coin with Light cast on it.
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 16, CMD 11, HP 22 | Fort: +3, Ref: +5, Will: +3 d20+4=17 ; d3=3 ; Friday November 25th, 2022 11:15:49 AM
Zarsellet maintains his Bardic music for one last round, steps up to the kobold and stabs at him with his dagger. "You should have surrendered when you had the chance. Your brother kobold outside still lives because he wasn't as stupid as you...."
OOC: 17 to hit. Damage is 4. (Forgot to add my own +1 for Inspire Courage!)
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 21/22 d20+6=21 ; Friday November 25th, 2022 12:09:40 PM
Sure that her companions will dispatch the kobolds, and reconnaissance the book stacks for valuables, Paige studies the door and surroundings for additional information (Perception = 21)
Rhys (Bob W) AC18; CMD 17(19 vs disarm and sunder); HP16/20 d20+4=5 ; Friday November 25th, 2022 12:22:07 PM
Rhys spends the next few moments separating dead and unconscious kobolds from their weaponry and any belongings of value or those that might be informative about the caverns, the ambitions of the kobolds in this area, etc. he will start with K1and K2 before continuing on to K3. ”I’ll leave any interrogations and negotiations to you Fingers. You may want to truss that one up!” he points at the unconscious Kobold at the taur’s feet. Rhys scans the stacks for anything ‘interesting’ as he moves through the room (Perception 5 -Nat 1) but his attention is focussed on kobolds and what Fingers intends to do with his growing cadre of captives.
Xuce (Chris) AC: 17, T: 17, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 14/17 d20+5=22 ; d20+5=20 ; d4=2 ; d4=3 ; Friday November 25th, 2022 5:48:11 PM
Xuce sidesteps the kobold as he tries to stab him again with its spear. Then moving up with several punches to its head and body (AC 22 & 20, Damage 2 & 3)
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 22/22-5 | CMB:3 CMD:16 | Fort:2 Ref:5 Will:0 Friday November 25th, 2022 10:25:16 PM
Since the only conscious kobold has enough to deal with, Fingers binds the unconscious K2.
Myre (Carl) -- AC 13/12/11 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/5 d20+4=12 ; Saturday November 26th, 2022 1:14:35 AM
Myre wonders what everyone's planning to do with the number of kobolds they're taking prisoner. "What's the protocol for this? Leave them tied up? Give them a stern talking to and send them on their way?" She scratches her head, genuinely curious. "Is it...ethical to make them walk ahead of us and trigger any traps? That doesn't SEEM ethical, but I'm not an ethicsologist..." She thinks for another moment. "Ethicothary? Ethicstician? Those exist, right?" She goes quiet when she remembers that the word "philosopher" exists.
Anyway, there's lots of books in here and she wants to check them out. Maybe there's one about adventuring ethics! Unfortunately, she's so set on looking for the subject that she develops tunnel vision (perception: 12).
Kwarsk (Wayne) AC 21/T 12/FF 19, HP 24/24, CMD 15/19 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. Saturday November 26th, 2022 1:48:51 PM
Kwarsk finally recovers from his overpowered axe swing, and sees that his newer companions Zarsellet and Xuce have together defeated the last kobold. With the huff and puff of combat ending, Kwarsk says, "Well done, Zarsellet and Xuce... perhaps your teaming was twice as much 'Z' as the kobolds could handle?" Kwarsk finishes with a grin.
Kwarsk begins looking over the bookshelves for any titles in Dwarven or Common (or Undercommon) on the spines, to see if anything seems unusual or interesting.
(OOC Take 20; Perception = 30 for the first 5' by 10' area, or whatever core rules defaults to for scanning titles on book spines)
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 22/22-5 | CMB:3 CMD:16 | Fort:2 Ref:5 Will:0 Sunday November 27th, 2022 12:49:04 AM
Fingers notices Kwarsk and Myre perusing the racks. He also remembers one of the kobolds saying "Read it if you want to be saved!". And by "it" he seemed to mean one of the books they used as projectiles.
Fingers examines the books that the kobolds had thrown. He reads all the Tauric languages, and Common. If any are not in a language he knows, he can probably at least identify the language.
Linguistics, Take 10 = 18 Knowledge: Arcana, Take 10 = 19
DM Brian Z- The Library Monday November 28th, 2022 7:18:27 AM
End of combat.
Nintos regains his magic coin
Zarsellet and Xuce finish off the last kobold
Paige checks the next door. As with the others it contains some dwarven and elven writing. The writing translates as: resting place
Rhys checks over the kobolds equipment, and disarms the prisoners. But he finds their gear to be poorly made and not of any real value.
Myre wonders about the fate of the prisoners, and looks around for a book with adventuring advice.
Kwarsk congratulates the team on the victory, and begins looking over the books.
Fingers ties up the new prisoners. Then he takes a look at the books the kobolds threw at the team. One of them is in elven and indicates it contains a listing of useful herbs for cooking and medicine. The other title is in common and promises a collection of raunchy poems.
Myre and Kwarsk scan the book titles. Some are in elven or dwarven, and many are in common. The titles indicate a very large variety of topics, some useful, some recreational. A few of the books seem to have deteriorated with age, but a surprising number look to be in useful condition.
What do you do next?
(map unchanged from last round)
Nintos Melinous (Clint) | HP 16/16 | AC:12 T:12 FF:10 | CMD:13 CMB:1 | Fort:2 Ref:2 Will:4 | Merletta (Familiar) HP 4/4 | AC:15 T:14 FF:13 | CMB:0 CMD:6 | Fort:1 Ref:4 Will:2 d20+8=11 ; Monday November 28th, 2022 7:41:35 AM
As his party looks over the books in the room, Nintos returns to the fountain; “There is something that we can do with this fountain to restore it back to its original purposes.”
Looking over the fountain he begins to mumble to himself; “The fountain Caused Fear, but these inscriptions spoke of healing properties. Maybe a casting of Purify Drink could do it? Or maybe another Conjuration type of spell to kickstart it back to its original purposes…”
[i]Why can’t I get this…{/i] Nintos looks perplexed. [Knowledge Check 11]
Rhys (Bob W) AC18; CMD 17(19 vs disarm and sunder); HP16/20 Monday November 28th, 2022 11:16:48 AM
Rhys finishes separating kobolds from their weaponry and calls out to Meeko, ”Meeko! are any of these kobolds in here your King or the Captain? Do you know what they are looking for in here?”. The elf will wander down to stand near Paige by the next door.
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 21/22 d20+6=11 ; Monday November 28th, 2022 12:55:36 PM ”Once we retrieve the scroll Clarice saw in her vision, I’m of a mind to ask our mining friends to seal up this cave!” Paige mutters. She gives the door to the resting place a shove. If it opens, she will peer inside. (Perception = 11)
Myre (Carl) -- AC 13/12/11 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/5 Monday November 28th, 2022 7:44:36 PM
Myre speaks elven, so if any of those books are actually important she can read the titles. ***
She gasps at Paige's suggestion. "AFTER we get all the books out, yea? I'm not much of a reader but even I know that you don't just ignore this much knowledge." She takes a cue from dad and grabs a book at random, making sure it's not one that will fall apart. "Like this one! It's all about..."
***
Obviously I don't know what it's about. Let's see what the DM tells us!
Kwarsk (Wayne) AC 21/T 12/FF 19, HP 24/24, CMD 15/19 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. d20=20 ; Monday November 28th, 2022 8:38:42 PM
Kwarsk hears Rhys' ranting and looks up to see Rhys walk a little away after speaking.
Kwarsk will impress upon Meeko the importance of answering Rhys's questions by walking to within five feet of Meeko, facing him and smiling expectantly.
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 16, CMD 11, HP 22 | Fort: +3, Ref: +5, Will: +3 Monday November 28th, 2022 8:46:44 PM
Zarsellet steps away from the kobold while Fingers ties it up. He is much more interested in the books. When he hears that there is an elven book about cooking and medicines he goes to look it over. "Hey! I've been considering learning to cook. Maybe that will help!" He glances through it quickly and if nobody complains puts it in his pack.
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 22/22-5 | CMB:3 CMD:16 | Fort:2 Ref:5 Will:0 Monday November 28th, 2022 11:53:42 PM Hey! says Fingers to Paige, while moving to the door. [b] You know the rules: no opening doors until I check for traps. See if Nintos is right about the Purify or maybe Remove Curse.
Perception for traps: Take 20 = 25.
DM Brian Z- The Library Tuesday November 29th, 2022 7:15:32 AM
Nintos may be on to something for restoring the fountain....
Rhys and Kwarsk pose some questions to Meeko. Nope, he just said it was important. A shaman in the tribe told him so.
Paige is concerned about the danger of the cave. She presses on the next door but it doesn't budge.
Fingers checks the door. It is not trapped, but it is locked.
Myre flips through a book. The title indicated information about astronomy and astrology. She finds a passage about big, giant rocks floating around out in the void. Why would anyone leave rocks there?
Zarsellet checks the cookbook. He glances over some unusual recipes for chicken soup.
With battle settling down, Merletta flutters over to Nintos and lands on his shoulder.
Hearing Paige Nintos turns his head towards her; “Seal this up? If we turn this fountain back to its original purposes this location would be a valuable asset to this region.”
Rhys (Bob W) AC18; CMD 17(19 vs disarm and sunder); HP16/20 d20+4=10 ; Tuesday November 29th, 2022 11:29:50 AM
Rhys looks about the surroundings of the door, probing any indentations and protrusions in hope of finding a latch or hidden trigger that might unlock the door (Perception 10). ”Somebody check that nearest book shelf for any means of opening the door. If there is a hidden latch it would probably be close to the door. Maybe one of these kobolds knows the way in, are any of them conscious yet?”
Xuce looks around after the battle seeing that everyone is still up he makes his way around the room checking on the unconscious, then the fallen.
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 16, CMD 11, HP 22 | Fort: +3, Ref: +5, Will: +3 d20+7=13 ; d20+3=10 ; Tuesday November 29th, 2022 7:38:56 PM
OOC: Perception 13. Will save 10.
OOC: If I'm still capable of deciding what I'm doing Zarsellet is flipping through the recipes and waiting for the group to decide about moving forward.
Kwarsk (Wayne) AC 21/T 12/FF 19, HP 24/24, CMD 15/19 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. d20+10=23 ; Tuesday November 29th, 2022 9:15:08 PM
(OOC Perception = 23)
Kwarsk moves to one side of Fingers, about 10' away, leaving him room to work on the lock.
Kwarsk stands guard looking around (OOC Darkvision if applicable) and listening for a second wave of kobolds, an ambush, or something.
(OOC Kwarsk is a guard/bodyguard by profession, though no skill ranks)
Myre (Carl) -- AC 13/12/11 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/5 d20+4=16 ; Tuesday November 29th, 2022 9:36:35 PM
Will save: 16
Myre's voice trails off as she realizes what book she's grabbed. Waddles settles into the crook of her elbow as they skim the book. "I know, right! What are the chances!" ... "Well I don't know about that. You still had all your baby fat still when dad...well, you know. That was only like...30 years ago. This book looks WAY older than that." ... "Oh. Yea, that's a good point. They probably just moved into an existing space rock when they made you. OK, we'll keep an eye out for it. Probably should put it away for later though. You too, porky." Myre slips the book into her sack and secures Waddles in his place. She looks up, hoping her friends figured out what they're doing next.
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 21/22 d20+6=8 ; Wednesday November 30th, 2022 12:35:03 AM ”Fine!” Paige raises both her hands to shoulder height and walks away from the taur by the door.
When Nintos calls to her from the fountain room, she answers back: ”I might be able to sort out that fountain on the way back. With adequate preparation I can purify food and drink - however at the moment it is not possible.”
Paige does a quick assessment of her and her companions injuries, the peruses the room idly (Perception = 8) waiting for Muuru to work on the next door.
DM Brian Z- The Library d6=2 ; d8=2 ; Wednesday November 30th, 2022 8:25:26 AM
Nintos muses on the possible future use of this site.
Rhys checks for a secret door, but doesn't find anything suspicious.
Xuce notices a strange cloud of dust swirling about and rising from the floor. The newly tied up kobolds begin to stir.
Zarsellet sees the dust cloud rise up suddenly in front of him. It briefly takes on the form of a spiritual vestige of a wrathful custodian that waves her hand in front of the reader’s face. Zarsellet is cursed! and will suffer a -2 on all saves for the next hour.
Kwarsk stands guard, and sees the cloud 'attack' Zarsellet. The cloud then swirls about some more, slowly moving around the room.
Myre puts the book away, saving it for later. The cloud swooshes by her, and she briefly sees the wrathful spirit. There is some sort of magical energy, and Myre resists the effect. The could then returns to moving about.
Fingers finds no trap on the door, and is satisfied by the click of unlocking it.
Paige agrees the fountain may be able to be purified. She thinks it will have to wait. (kn religion check plz)
The cloud moves again, and appears before Rhys! (will save)
There is something amiss, and some knowledge of religion may shed some light.....
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 21/22 d20+4=5 ; Wednesday November 30th, 2022 9:14:03 AM
Moving between the stacks of books, Paige returns to the fountain room, and finds Nintos. ”We need to keep moving, friend. Muuru has unlocked the next door. The longer we stay here, the longer we will be prey to the evil magiks of this place. “
The cleric gives the fountain another perusal, but doesn’t pick up much (Knowlege Religion = 5, nat. 1 *sigh*
Nintos Melinous (Clint) | HP 16/16 | AC:12 T:12 FF:10 | CMD:13 CMB:1 | Fort:2 Ref:2 Will:4 | Merletta (Familiar) HP 4/4 | AC:15 T:14 FF:13 | CMB:0 CMD:6 | Fort:1 Ref:4 Will:2 d20+9=12 ; Wednesday November 30th, 2022 10:10:59 AM
Snaping to as Paige calls out for him to get the lead out and move on; “You’re right, better preparation will be needed to deal with the fountain.” Nintos recast Light on his coin as he rejoins the group collecting at the new door.
If while passing Rhys Nintos sees the swirling cloud, he would stop and keep his distance. Shouting for help. Detecting Magic and studying the cloud. [K-Arcana/Dungeon/Spellcraft 12, the rest of K’s would be 11. Not sure what the check would be]
Rhys (Bob W) AC18; CMD 17(19 vs disarm and sunder); HP16/20 d20+1=6 ; d20+1=9 ; Wednesday November 30th, 2022 11:13:15 AM
Rhys backs away from the whirling cloud, unsure of whether to take up arms against it. It didn’t seem to attack the others but…(Will Save = 9,10 versus fear effects…used hero point to no avail)
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 16, CMD 11, HP 22 | Fort: +3, Ref: +5, Will: +3 d20+7=11 ; Wednesday November 30th, 2022 5:26:36 PM
Zarsellet tucks the book into his pack. It isn't "stealing" exactly.... The previous owner wasn't around, anywhere? Then he sees the dust cloud and feels, something.
OOC: Know-Religion: 11. We're getting great rolls here!
"What was that? Some sort of ghost of the last librarian?"
Kwarsk (Wayne) AC 21/T 12/FF 19, HP 24/24, CMD 15/19 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. d20+5=14 ; Wednesday November 30th, 2022 8:09:04 PM
(OOC Knowledge: Religion = 14)
Kwarsk watches the cloud attack Zarsellet, and others, and looks at his axe, the cloud, his axe, the cloud... hmm... probably ineffective, Kwarsk thinks.
Kwarsk continues to think hard... (OOC - Prompted by the DM's request for a Kn: Religion check, Kwarsk awaits the result of his ponderings...)
Myre (Carl) -- AC 13/12/11 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/5 Wednesday November 30th, 2022 9:20:42 PM Myre shakes her head as the effect bounces off her. "What was that?" She looks around at the others who seem to be getting the dust's attention. "Is it guarding the books?" She greedily hopes it doesn't do anything like follow the book and haunt her. She really, really wants to keep it. "Probably best to move on! Maybe take a few books to throw at bad guys so they get attacked to?" Her tone suggests it's not a serious consideration.
She falls into line, ready to move on.
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 22/22-5 | CMB:3 CMD:16 | Fort:2 Ref:5 Will:0 Wednesday November 30th, 2022 10:38:01 PM Okay, door's open. Are we ready to...YAAH! (in response to the phantom librarian).
Paige, can you -- turn it or lay it to rest or something? Or should we just run in panic?
Xuce (Chris) AC: 17, T: 17, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 14/17 Thursday December 1st, 2022 6:43:44 AM
Xuce points at the dust could as it moves about the room. "We should probably deal with this before we move on, don't you think?"
DM Brian Z- The Library d6=1 ; Thursday December 1st, 2022 8:59:12 AM
Paige is concerned about lingering too long in the area
Nintos agrees and renews the light spell, the only significant source of light the team has.
Rhys backs away from the could as it again turns into a wrathful spirit! Rhys suffers a -2 to AC for the next hour due to the curse.
Zarsellet ponders the issue, but comes up empty this time.
Kwarsk ponders the issue... and then recalls something he heard once about such places. The affected books must be burned, sprayed with holy water(needs 2), or have channel energy cast on them.
Myre wonders if it is guarding the books. Maybe it is haunting them? The team notices that the wrathful spirit does not seem interested in the books already taken, but seems focused on a few particualr volumes on the floor near the door you entered the room.
Fingers opens the door and turns to see the phantom librarian. As he turns, he notices some movement in the next room...
Xuce offers the wisdom of solving one problem at a time.
The cloud disappears, dropping the dust it was swirling about to the floor. Soon, you see dust swirling about again in a new spot, closer to the door where you entered the room, It seems to be stationary for the moment, hovering about a small pile of books there.
The captured kobolds, now awake, smile and chuckle at the team's distress. Seems like they knew what would happen, perhaps from experience. Meeko remains hiding near the fountain.
Kwarsk (Wayne) AC 21/T 12/FF 19, HP 24/24, CMD 15/19 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. Thursday December 1st, 2022 10:42:14 AM
Kwarsk calls out to Paige, " Paige, I read something about this at the monastery where I trained. Look at the books the cloud is near (POINTS) - channel your deity's energy at the books and that'll end things. If you can't, then we need two flasks of holy water, or fire, but the books must be cleansed now!"
With that, Kwarsk turns back towards Fingers and the door, watching for any threats, perhaps even ready (OOC: Ready an Action to Attack) to immediately face any monstrous (and tangible) opposition, waraxe in hand.
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 21/22 d20+4=19 ; d6=3 ; Thursday December 1st, 2022 10:55:32 AM
Assuming Kwarsk shares his information with the group - Paige will dig out 2 vials of Holy Water* and pass one to Nintos. ”You heard the dwarf. We need to get this on the pile of books by the door!.
Since the cleric has to pass through the door from the fountain room to get back to the library, she encounters the dust spirit and takes a swing at it with her new cold iron mace (Hit 19, 3+2 for 5 dmg, cold iron negates damage reduction for demons and fey) before using her teeth to unstopper the vial and dump the water on the pile of books.
(OOC: Paige had 4 vials of Holy Water from 22Aug2022)
Myre (Carl) -- AC 13/12/11 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/5 Thursday December 1st, 2022 11:45:45 AM
Myre watches with rapt curiosity as Paige and Nintos do...holy stuff. She considers how her meager selection of spells so rarely lend themselves to being helpful. She pouts a bit, but shakes it off. "Got to walk before you run," she says quietly just to herself. She looks down at the pig in her hands before continuing, "don't be silly. You're not running anywhere, metaphorically or otherwise."
Rhys (Bob W) AC16; CMD 17(19 vs disarm and sunder); HP16/20 d20+5=9 ; Thursday December 1st, 2022 12:05:45 PM
Rhys backs away from the door and the whirling dust and moves back towards the nearest conscious kobold (K3?). He slides the long curved blade from its resting place across his back and places it beneath the smirking kobold’s chin. ”It is good you find amusement at our expense. Now I will find my own amusement at your expense. What do you know of this creature guarding this place? Be sure of your answer for my patience is already sorely tested” the elf threatens the kobold in its native draconic tongue (Intimidate 9)
(OOC not sure why or how Rhys was attacked given that in two previous posts I had made it clear that I was by the door marked ‘resting place’ and not near any of the books that this guardian is protecting. I have reduced my AC nevertheless)
Xuce (Chris) AC: 17, T: 17, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 14/17 d20+10=28 ; Thursday December 1st, 2022 3:49:26 PM
Xuce moves quietly over to the newly open door and peers inside (Perception: 28) and then looks back at the dust creature. I hope we don't make too much noise fighting this thing.
(OOC: ready action, attack anything that comes into the room from beyond the door)
Nintos Melinous (Clint) | HP 16/16 | AC:12 T:12 FF:10 | CMD:13 CMB:1 | Fort:2 Ref:2 Will:4 | Merletta (Familiar) HP 4/4 | AC:15 T:14 FF:13 | CMB:0 CMD:6 | Fort:1 Ref:4 Will:2 d20+3=10 ; d6=1 ; Thursday December 1st, 2022 4:02:09 PM
Nintos takes the flask from Paige and he tries to protest because of his inability, but everything is moving fast and he decides to throw the flask himself. [To Hit 10 (AC 5 or 10 for a 5-foot square?) DMG 1 sigh smh
Throwing the flask to hit the books, Nintos believes that he could have done better. “You said fire right? Give me a moment and I will burn those books!” realizing what he said; “I pray to the gods that there are other copies of the information within those tomes.”
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 16, CMD 11, HP 22 | Fort: +3, Ref: +5, Will: +3 Thursday December 1st, 2022 4:45:26 PM
Zarsellet tucks his new book away and moves over, a little bit, closer to the protected stack of books. "Wait! Can't somebody channel positive energy by the books? Will that get rid of the guardian haunt? without destroying valuable books?"
DM Brian Z- The Library Friday December 2nd, 2022 8:02:02 AM
Kwarsk shares some information about the haunt. He is ready for action in case anything comes from the other room.
Paige swipes at the half-formed mist/librarian, but there is no effect. She hands a vial of holy water to Nintos, and pours another on the books. This does have an effect. The books begin to hiss and steam as a hot object immersed in water would do.
Myre watches. She wonders when it will be her turn to do important stuff.
Rhys backs up and questions the new prisoners. We don't know anything about it, except it attacks any kobolds that try to look for treasure in the books. So we leave them alone now.
Xuce looks into the next room, but it is very dark. Some movement is spotted, but not much else. Hearing, however is different. There is definitely some sort of mumbling noise coming from in there.
Nintos tosses the other holy water at the books. His aim is poor, but he does manage to hit them. With an increased steaming hiss, the books evaporate in a puff of smoke. The spirit coalesces for a moment, is angry, and then content? as it dissolves. It does not reappear.
Zarsellet wonders if the channeling would save the books, but considering the effect of the holy water, the results may have been the same.
The haunt has been cleansed.
There has been movement noted in the next room and also some noise resembling mumbling.
Rhys (Bob W) AC16; CMD 17(19 vs disarm and sunder); HP16/20 Friday December 2nd, 2022 11:17:50 AM
Rhys grumbles something unintelligible about kobold stew and sheaths his sword. He moves back towards the door now unlocked by Fingers and readies his bow.
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 21/22 Friday December 2nd, 2022 11:24:04 AM
The cleric raises her eyebrows at Nintos’ shenanigans. ”Next time, just take the stopper off, dad! Those books weren’t going to attack!” Paige scratches her head before adding, ”at least I don’t think they were…”
The cleric will round up any stragglers in the library room and make her way towards the door to the “resting place” - but stay far enough to the back and one side in order not to crowd her companions on the door step. She will ask those who faced the ‘guardian’ how they feel, and try to get a sense of what harm they incurred.
(OOC: will Paige know that Myre is unharmed and that Zarsellet and Rhys are affected?)
Myre's eyes bulge and her jaw drops. "WOAH! What kind of wizard burns down a library! It's just a little guardian spirit thing doing its job! Just...move on or something and it probably won't follow. Myre doesn't want to fight with her friends, but will absolutely hurl herself at Nintos to stop him from burning the place down.
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 16, CMD 11, HP 22 | Fort: +3, Ref: +5, Will: +3 | Cursed -2 to all saves for 1 hour Friday December 2nd, 2022 7:00:08 PM
Zarsellet shakes his head when the books.... evaporate? "I wonder if any of the other books have any value? At least I got mine!" He checks to verify that the elven cookbook hadn't evaporated out of his pack. ??
Kwarsk (Wayne) AC 21/T 12/FF 19, HP 24/24, CMD 15/19 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. Saturday December 3rd, 2022 10:10:23 AM
Kwarsk says, "Great job Paige and Nintos! There are more rooms to investigate, but perhaps we should take a few moments to look for interesting titles to set aside for when we're on the way out?
Kwarsk will either 1) join the group in reviewing titles if the bulk of the party begins reviewing book titles, or 2) be ready to help at the closed door if the group intends on going through.
Nintos Melinous (Clint) | HP 16/16 | AC:12 T:12 FF:10 | CMD:13 CMB:1 | Fort:2 Ref:2 Will:4 | Merletta (Familiar) HP 4/4 | AC:15 T:14 FF:13 | CMB:0 CMD:6 | Fort:1 Ref:4 Will:2 Saturday December 3rd, 2022 11:16:46 AM
[ooc: Sorry for the delay. The wife and I are in the hospital and she is delivering our third child.]
“Ohhh… stopper off.” He smiles as the ribbing he received. Every new adventurer, odd thing to call myself, has to have a few bumps along the way He thinks to himself.
When Kwarsk says take a few moments to look for interesting titles Nintos doesn’t take a second moment to begin looking. Nothing in particular, obviously anything magic related he would naturally gravitate towards. But also, he would also pick up anything related to his sons, and by proxy his deity; Serenbeth
Merletta flutters around the tops of the shelves looking for any bugs she could make a snack out of.
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 22/22-5 | CMB:3 CMD:16 | Fort:2 Ref:5 Will:0 Sunday December 4th, 2022 3:27:28 AM
Fingers pulls the door shut.
Everybody, there's something in there! Get ready! He won't open the door until everyone is at least paying attention.
Nintos, see if you can fit that light under the door.
Xuce (Chris) AC: 17, T: 17, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 14/17 Sunday December 4th, 2022 1:24:48 PM
Xuce stands next to Fingers and waits for everyone to get into position.
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 22/22-5 | CMB:3 CMD:16 | Fort:2 Ref:5 Will:0 Sunday December 4th, 2022 10:43:08 PM
[OOC Clint, I almost missed that! Congratulations!]
DM Brian Z- The Library Monday December 5th, 2022 8:57:33 AM
Rhys moves up to the door and readies his bow.
Paige checks on the team. Everyone knows who was affected.
Myre is fine, and objects to any book burning.
Zarsellet wonders about treasure. The book in his pack is fine, and he recalls the kobolds did not have a chance to search this room for treasure.
Kwarsk is ready, either for reading or fighting.
Nintos takes a quick look for treasure.
Fingers closes the door and shouts a warning.
Xuce positions to support Fingers.
The team has a decision to make. Push on into the next room? Or search the library. (Or other as you decide!)
Rhys (Bob W) AC16; CMD 17(19 vs disarm and sunder); HP16/20 Monday December 5th, 2022 3:42:46 PM ”Ready when you are” Rhys stands some 10’ back from the door, bow ready, and awaits Fingers’ next move.
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 16, CMD 11, HP 22 | Fort: +3, Ref: +5, Will: +3 | Cursed -2 to all saves for 1 hour Monday December 5th, 2022 5:24:30 PM
Seeing others heading toward the door to continue to the next room Zarsellet starts to object. Maybe they should search for treasure? There are all of these books! But then decides that they should have safe time on the way off to do so....
He readies his shortbow even though there is almost no chance that he will use it.... "I'm ready too."
Myre (Carl) -- AC 13/12/11 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/5 Monday December 5th, 2022 6:42:25 PM "This library has been here for a long, long time. It will probably be here when we're done with this place. Let's continue..."
Myre's ready to book it out of here.
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 21/22 d20+6=9 ; Monday December 5th, 2022 7:59:34 PM
Paige takes up a position at the back of the pack, and to one side. She casts an eye on the trussed up kobolds, and ponders the wisdom and morality of leaving them tied up and defenceless. And yet, if they should free themselves, they could cause the party much trouble.
Whilst most of the party face the new door, the 18 yo half elf looks back the other way…in case trouble should come from behind. (Perception = 9)
Kwarsk (Wayne) AC 21/T 12/FF 19, HP 24/24, CMD 15/19 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. Monday December 5th, 2022 8:55:51 PM
Kwarsk stands to the side of the door where, once opened, it will not be stopped by Kwarsk.
Kwarsk is in "ready to fight" stance with tower shield and waraxe ready.
Kwarsk nods to Fingers to open the door.
Kwarsk, believing the kobolds didn't make it into this room, expects no traps, and once Fingers opens the door Kwarsk will move inside the room and to the right, leaving the doorway clear for our archers to fire through without hitting Kwarsk.
Xuce (Chris) AC: 17, T: 17, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 14/17 Monday December 5th, 2022 9:20:01 PM
Xuce waits off to the side looking around at the rest of the party "Everyone ready?"
Nintos Melinous (Clint) | HP 16/16 | AC:12 T:12 FF:10 | CMD:13 CMB:1 | Fort:2 Ref:2 Will:4 | Merletta (Familiar) HP 4/4 | AC:15 T:14 FF:13 | CMB:0 CMD:6 | Fort:1 Ref:4 Will:2 Monday December 5th, 2022 9:35:00 PM
[ooc: thanks guys, mom and baby are both healthy and we just got home. Sorry for the delay. ]
Nintos digs out 5 copper coins and cast light on each of them. One by one he flicks them under the door as Fingers asked; “There ya go, better get in there quick!” Nintos steps back and let’s those with the armor and weapons lead the way.
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 22/22-5 | CMB:3 CMD:16 | Fort:2 Ref:5 Will:0 Monday December 5th, 2022 11:58:49 PM
Crossbow in one hand, FIngers opens the door.
DM Brian Z- Temple of the King d20+3=15 ; d20+3=5 ; d20+3=16 ; d20+3=12 ; Tuesday December 6th, 2022 8:05:37 AM
The team stands ready, and Fingers opens the door. The coins tossed into the room by Nintos provide the only illumination. Inside, you see a room which has been thoroughly trashed. What once must have been comfortable benches and places to rest, now lies piles of rubble. Smashed to bits, all that remains is part of an elaborate chair, which the kobold king has claimed as his throne.
After the door opens, several events occur. -Kwarsk moves in -someone completes a spell -someone yells in draconicHighlight to display spoiler: { kill the intruders, the treasure will be ours!} -several sling bullets are fired at the team: Rhys(miss), Zarsellet(miss), Kwarsk(miss), Fingers(miss)
The area around the door is the only lit area. The room gets darker the farther you are away from the light coins. This counts as dim light. All attacks have a 20% miss chance in this area.(unless you have low-light or darkvision) Outside the radius of the light coins, the room counts as darkness. (additional penalties unless you have darkvision)
The room contains several areas of difficult terrain. These areas can be moved through, but cost double to move onto, through, or out of. You cannot charge through these areas.
There is a door on the other side of the room.
Effects from anyone cursed by the librarian are still active.
Rhys (Bob W) AC16; CMD 17(19 vs disarm and sunder); HP16/20 d20+5=23 ; d6=5 ; Tuesday December 6th, 2022 10:09:02 AM ”FINGERS…DOWN!!” Rhys shouts to the taur and let’s loose a single arrow that speeds by the rogue on its way to its target K2 (Hit AC 23 for 5 hp). The elf quickly nocks another arrow in readiness.
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 21/22 Tuesday December 6th, 2022 10:35:45 AM
Before the group disperses throughout the new room, the cleric calls on her god and asks for his blessing upon the party. (Cast Bless on the party http://legacy.aonprd.com/coreRulebook/spells/bless.html#bless
(DM Sanity info:
Bless on party - +1 to attacks and saving throws vs fear (2 minutes or 20 rounds
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 16, CMD 11, HP 22 | Fort: +3, Ref: +5, Will: +3 | Cursed -2 to all saves for 1 hour Tuesday December 6th, 2022 5:39:27 PM
Seeing how dark the room is Zarsellet casts Dancing Lights and sends it into the room to dance around the closest kobold.
OOC: Adding DL to the map for Dancing Lights? Not changing the colors for Lit Area, but they should light up an area like torches.
Myre (Carl) -- AC 13/12/11 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/4 Tuesday December 6th, 2022 5:40:03 PM "Excuse me! Coming through! Area of effect spells incoming!" Myre, politely as possible, elbows her way through her friends and around Fingers. She can see fine in the low light, so she positions herself close to one of these stupid kobolds and throws a rainbow at him. ***
Xuce (Chris) AC: 17, T: 17, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 14/17 Tuesday December 6th, 2022 6:11:12 PM
Xuce hurries after Myre, as he passes her to take up a defensive stance (at 39M, fighting defensively) "You shouldn't rush like that you are going to get hurt or worse Mr. Waddles could get hurt" He adds with a wink.
(OOC: Xuce readies an attack if a kobold gets within reach. Xuce has the deflect arrows feat, he can deflect once a round.)
Xuce (Chris) AC: 19, T: 17, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 14/17 Tuesday December 6th, 2022 6:15:06 PM
(OOC: AC now reflects fighting defensively)
Kwarsk (Wayne) AC 21/T 12/FF 19, HP 24/24, CMD 15/19 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. d20+5=16 ; d10+2=12 ; Tuesday December 6th, 2022 10:17:40 PM
Kwarsk tactically moves to be adjacent to K2 from an angle.
(OOC - Kwarsk starts in J38; moves to I39, then I40, then ends in J41
OOC - reminder - Kwarsk, as a dwarf, has Darkvision)
Kwarsk shouts, "Next time, talk before slinging stones!"
Kwarsk swings his waraxe at K2 mightily, his waraxe's zig matching the kobold's zig, and the waraxe's zag delivers a telling blow!
(OOC Kwarsk hit AC 16 which is probably a solid hit, for 12 damage!)
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 22/22-5 | CMB:3 CMD:16 | Fort:2 Ref:5 Will:0 d100=63 ; d20+2=17 ; d8+3=10 ; d6=3 ; Tuesday December 6th, 2022 11:13:40 PM
Fingers moves to J37:K38 and gores K2 Miss chance: (trying to beat 20): 63. Success. Attack: 17 Damage: 10 + 3 (sneak) = 13
Nintos Melinous (Clint) | HP 16/16 | AC:12 T:12 FF:10 | CMD:13 CMB:1 | Fort:2 Ref:2 Will:4 | Merletta (Familiar) HP 4/4 | AC:15 T:14 FF:13 | CMB:0 CMD:6 | Fort:1 Ref:4 Will:2 d20+4=10 ; d6+1=3 ; Wednesday December 7th, 2022 12:19:14 AM
Nintos moves forward through the door (from I36 to N37) and shoots an Acid Dart at the kobold towards the back of the room. [Range Touch against K4 10 | DMG 3]
DM Brian Z- Temple of the King d20-1=9 ; 2d4=8 ; d4=2 ; d20+1=5 ; d20+1=20 ; d20+8=16 ; Wednesday December 7th, 2022 8:23:16 AM
Rhys shoots the first kobold he sees, and it drops to the floor.
Paige casts bless, and gives the team a boost.
Zarsellet casts a dancing lights spell, increasing the light sources in the room. (I highlighted additional area around K2, the kobold he can see from his location)
Myre moves into the room, and hits a kobold with a color spray. K1 is affected by the spell, and falls unconscious from the effect.
Xuce moves in, and takes a protective position by Myre.
Kwarsk moves tactically, taking a new position, but his expected opponent has already dropped.
Fingers also positions to attack K2. The poor kobold never had a chance.
Nintos moves in and fires an acid dart at K4, but the creature dodged. (touchAC12)
The kobolds act!
K3 moves up and tries to stab Fingers with a spear. miss(AC 5) K4 moves up and tries to hit Kwarsk with a spear. miss! it was a valiant effort, but the kobold is unable to get past the tough dwarf's armor. The kobold Captain moves up to Xuce and takes a swing with his sword. He looks confused as he missed, perhaps expecting a different result. The King is furious at the intrusion. In draconicHighlight to display spoiler: {You will not succeed where we failed!} He casts a spell, trying to help his minions. Kwarsk DC 14 will save or flee the room. DC 15 spellcraft to identify:Highlight to display spoiler: {cause fear}
Kobolds: K1- unconscious 8 rounds, blinded and stunned 2 rounds, stunned 1 K2- dead K3 K4 Captain King
Nintos Melinous (Clint) | HP 16/16 | AC:12 T:12 FF:10 | CMD:13 CMB:1 | Fort:2 Ref:2 Will:4 | Merletta (Familiar) HP 4/4 | AC:15 T:14 FF:13 | CMB:0 CMD:6 | Fort:1 Ref:4 Will:2 d20+9=17 ; d20+4=18 ; d6+1=2 ; Wednesday December 7th, 2022 9:59:11 AM
Listening to the one speaking; “That one is in charge, talking about treasure and not allowing us to succeed.” As the king begins casting a spell, Nintos is familiar with this necromancy spell; “Hold onto your courage Kwarsk, he is trying to Cause Fear.”
Nintos side steps (From N37 to O38) and fires one of his last Acid Darts. [18 Range Touch | DMG 2….]
Rhys (Bob W) AC16; CMD 17(19 vs disarm and sunder); HP16/20 d20+2=14 ; d6=5 ; Wednesday December 7th, 2022 10:14:07 AM
Rhys steps forward into the now vacant doorway and looses another arrow, this time at the captain of the kobold guard (hit AC14 for 5 HP, -4 for shooting into a melee accounted for). The battlefield, or at least what the elf can see, has grown crowded and few easy targets present themselves.
Current position L37, Active effects: Bless, Dwarven Ale, Library Curse
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 21/22 Wednesday December 7th, 2022 11:07:26 AM ”Coming through! Paige announces as she tries to slip past Rhys and into the new room (M37 if possible). ”Courage! Domi is with us! she cries out - reminding everyone that they are Blessed*
* + 1 to attacks and saves vs fear - 2 minutes (1/20 rounds)
Xuce (Chris) AC: 21, T: 17, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 14/17 Wednesday December 7th, 2022 5:30:22 PM
Xuce's stance shifts ever so slightly (Moves into total defense). In dwarven "Man this one's breath stinks" switching to elven "You might want to take a few steps back Myre, in case he gets past me."
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 16, CMD 11, HP 22 | Fort: +3, Ref: +5, Will: +3 | Cursed -2 to all saves for 1 hour Wednesday December 7th, 2022 5:44:48 PM
Zarsellet moves in to see around the room. Seeing such a cluster of melee he stays where he is and starts loudly singing a battle chant to help his friends.
OOC: Inspire Courage. +1 competence bonus to hit and to weapon damage, +1 morale bonus to saves versus fear and charm. ****Note: The Competence bonus stacks with the morale bonus from Bless. The +1 to Fear save does not stack.****
Understanding the words of the Kobold King he calls out (in draconic) "So King Kobold, What did you fail at that you're so worried we might succeed?" Regardless of any answer he calls out to the others "The King says they failed at something and he's worried that we'll succeed."
Myre (Carl) -- AC 13/12/11 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/4 Wednesday December 7th, 2022 9:40:13 PM "My hero!" Myre swoons with good natured humor, then looks for other targets. She takes a step to her right, then lets loose another blast of rainbow magic past Xuce that hits the captain! "Hopefully he doesn't snore too."
Since her attacks are non-lethal, she keeps them up until combat's officially called off. Still, she IS listening to what her friends are saying.
***
Move: 5' step to L38 Standard: Color spray. Will DC is 15. Should just hit the captain.
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 22/22-5 | CMB:3 CMD:16 | Fort:2 Ref:5 Will:0 d8+2=10 ; d20+4=15 ; Wednesday December 7th, 2022 10:12:54 PM What a waste, Muuru thinks. These little mugs can barely hurt us; why must they resort to violence?
He drops the crossbow, pulls out his blackjack, and bops K3 on the head. [ooc: oops, rolled damage first]
Damage: 10. Att: 15
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 22/22-5 | CMB:3 CMD:16 | Fort:2 Ref:5 Will:0 Wednesday December 7th, 2022 10:47:24 PM
Blackjack does nonlethal damage
Kwarsk (Wayne) AC 21/T 12/FF 19, HP 24/24, CMD 15/19 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. d20+8=9 ; Wednesday December 7th, 2022 11:28:59 PM
(OOC - Kwarsk (+5) is a Dwarf vs. Spells (+2) and is Blessed/Inspired (+1) = +8, and rolled a natural 1, also missing the DC of 14; Kwarsk gains the condition frightened which is the same as shaken with the addition of "run far away from the source of the fear" (here, the kobold king))
Kwarsk lets loose a bloodcurdling scream, then turns and moves to D37 and faces the wall so he doesn't have to look at the horrifying visage of the kobold king!
(OOC - Kwarsk can't go to the door we entered because that would put him a little closer to the king. The spell says Kwarsk is otherwise in control of the direction of his flight, so he's in the furthest corner, back to the king, that he can reach without trying to go through the new door on the bottom, which is clearly too scary to try because it might be the king's bedroom and have portraits of him!)
DM Brian Z- Temple of the King d20+5=18 ; d4=1 ; d4=3 ; d20+1=16 ; d6-1=2 ; d20+8=10 ; 3d4+3=7 ; Thursday December 8th, 2022 9:39:40 AM
Nintos identifies the spell the King cast, and sends a spell back at the King, hitting him for some acid damage.
Rhys fires an arrow at the Captain, and connects, hitting the kobold on the shoulder.
Paige slips around Rhys(you can move through an occupied allied square) and reminds everyone fo the blessing of Domi.
Xuce is wary of attacks from the Captain, and is better prepared to defend against them.
Zarsellet moves into the room(I placed you on the map) and inspires the team to victory!
Myre adds some colorful lights to the room, spraying the Captain with them. He squints at the bright light, but shakes off the effect.
Fingers switches weapons and knocks the kobold near him out cold.
Kwarsk is affected by the King's magic. He runs to the corner of the room and tries to hide there. The magic begins to fade.(Kwarsk will have normal actions next round)
The kobolds act!
K4 looks at his King, nods, and then bravely steps up to support the Captain. He tries to stab Zarsellet, and connects, hitting the bard with a serious scratch (2 damage)
The Captain tries his luck again against Xuce's improved defenses, and is unable to score a hit!
The King cackles with glee when Kwarsk runs away. Then his attention turns to Nintos as he is hit by the acid. in draconicHighlight to display spoiler: {That wasn't nice, let's see how you like it!} The King casts a spell at Nintos, Three streaks of energy strike out and hit the wizard unerringly! Nintos is hit by the magic energy. (7 damage) DC 15 spellcraftHighlight to display spoiler: {magic missle}
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 22/22-5 | CMB:3 CMD:16 | Fort:2 Ref:5 Will:0 d20+3=22 ; d20+4=24 ; Thursday December 8th, 2022 10:30:11 AM
Spellcraft: 22. Magic Missile! He can hit anything he can see. Ergo...
Muuru throws a smokestick at the king. (Actually, trying to cover N39:O40). Att: 24
Kwarsk (Wayne) AC 21/T 12/FF 19, HP 24/24, CMD 15/19 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. Thursday December 8th, 2022 10:43:56 AM
(OOC Kwarsk moves from D37 to J41 with a double-move.)
Kwarsk's heart suddenly slows from its jackhammer pace and he regains his senses. "That kobold... tricked me with his magic!" Kwarsk says to no one in particular, and then re-orients himself and moves at full combat speed, nearing multiple flanking opportunities with the three remaining kobolds, a stern grimace on his face, a fusillade of imaginary warhammers thrown from his eyes towards the kobolds!
Rhys (Bob W) AC16; CMD 17(19 vs disarm and sunder); HP16/20 d20+3=19 ; d6+1=7 ; Thursday December 8th, 2022 3:55:24 PM
With few other options available, Rhys carefully draws aim on the Captain and waits for the split second when a clear path to his intended target opens up. The elf let’s fly with a smooth, easy release and the arrow flies true. (Hit AC19 for 7 HP;+1 Bless,+1 bardic song, -4 firing into melee, +1dmg). ”Forget the niceties Fingers, the kobold King has called for our deaths, they will take no prisoners!”
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 21/22 d8=1 ; d8=2 ; Thursday December 8th, 2022 4:09:58 PM
Moving around and past Nintos Paige taps the wizard with the Wand of Healing (1d8+2 (re-rolling 1 per Wold rules for 3 pts of healing) before moving into the darkness (P38). ”Can you manage some light over here, pops?” she asks the older human as she gingerly feels her way towards something solid.
DM Sanity info:
Active effects: Inspire Courage (from Zarsellet), Bless (2/20 rounds) Dwarven ale
Wand of CLW2 - used 4/40 charges
Xuce (Chris) AC: 21, T: 17, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 14/17 Thursday December 8th, 2022 6:01:38 PM
Xuce looks over as another kobold joins the dance and readjusts his footing so he can better block attacks from two combatants (staying in full defense). In common "Look if you really did fail why are you still here? Why not just leave this place it holds nothing for you."
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 15(no shield), CMD 11, HP 20/22 | Fort: +3, Ref: +5, Will: +3 | Cursed -2 to all saves for 1 hour d20+3=22 ; d20+3=8 ; d3=2 ; Thursday December 8th, 2022 6:03:21 PM
Zarsellet feels the attack of the kobold as he continues his song and realizes that holding a bow in a melee was particularly stupid. "Ouch! You pathetic little lizard!"
He pulls a dagger and slashes. It's interesting to be attacking something the same size as he is....
OOC: Slash with MW Dagger, 22 to hit Crit threat. Not confirmed. Returning his 2 points of damage and 1 more for the Bardic song. OOC: That's 7 rounds of Bardic music used today. 2 remaining.
Myre (Carl) -- AC 13/12/11 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/2 d20+6=26 ; Thursday December 8th, 2022 10:51:46 PM Myre finds herself literally in the middle of combat. "Hmm, maybe Xuce knows what he's talking about after all. NO MATTER!"
She guards her movements, not wanting to give the kobold in front of her an opening (casting defensively: 26 = success). Her hands vomit out more rainbows, hitting the kobold and the captain (again!).
***
Move: Spend a moment wondering how I got into this mess Standard: Color spray - Will save still 15
Nintos Melinous (Clint) | HP 9/16 | AC:12 T:12 FF:10 | CMD:13 CMB:1 | Fort:2 Ref:2 Will:4 | Merletta (Familiar) HP 4/4 | AC:15 T:14 FF:13 | CMB:0 CMD:6 | Fort:1 Ref:4 Will:2 d20+9=20 ; d20+3=19 ; d6+1=6 ; Friday December 9th, 2022 8:07:29 AM
[Spellcraft 20] “Ahh!” Nintos lets out a yell as he is really hit for the first time since setting off as an adventurer. Looking to the captain, Nintos speaks to him in draconic; “wux jalla majak svern, mardrek kagh wux janik tepoha vin krehl ekess waph” In Draconic Highlight to display spoiler: { You should give up, surrender and you might have an chance to liveYou should give up, surrender and you might have an chance to live}
But he fires off his last Acid Dart as he olds his side where the Magic Missile struck him. [Range Touch Attack 19 | DMG 6]
DM Brian Z- Temple of the King d20-1=17 ; d20+5=17 ; d20+1=5 ; d20+8=22 ; d6+4=6 ; Friday December 9th, 2022 9:12:05 AM
Fingers throws a smokestick. the smoke covers the area of the difficult terrain around K1, blocking some of the sight in the room.
Kwarsk recovers from the spell, and moves back in to the fight.
Rhys aims a shot at the Captain, and hits him solidly on the side. The Captain staggers for a moment, but he is still up.
Paige moves up and gives Nintos some magical healing.
Xuce holds on to a defensive stance, with an additional opponent near.
Zarsellet attacks the kobold in front of him with a dagger and scores a hit.(drops bow to have enough actions for this)
Myre is in the thick of it, and does not back out. She casts another rainbow and hits the Captain and kobold with it. They both manage to overcome the effect of the pretty colors. They must be inspired!
Nintos fires off an acid dart and hits the Captain(please declare targets). Then calls for the Captain to surrender. The Captain just growls and promises revenge.
The kobolds act!
K4 attacks Zarsellet, the nearest target his same size! But now that Zarsellet is properly armed, maybe it threw off his aim.
The Captain attacks Xuce again, and manages to find a soft spot in his defense. Xuce takes 6 damage from the wicked cut.
The King seems pleased. As he moves he makes a suggestion to those that he knows can speak his languageYou should leave now while you still can, here come my reinforcements! Spellcraft DC 14Highlight to display spoiler: {ghost sound} From the Library, you hear the sounds of several soldiers clanking in armor and shouting battle cries as they rush to the battle.
Rhys (Bob W) AC16; CMD 17(19 vs disarm and sunder); HP16/20 d20+3=7 ; d20+4=16 ; Friday December 9th, 2022 12:37:52 PM
Rhys tries one more time to thread an arrow through the crowd of combatants to hit the captain, but his luck does not hold (Hit AC 7). He then spins at the sound of armoured soldiers behind him and scans the library for approaching trouble. (Perception 16)
Myre (Carl) -- AC 13/12/11 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/1 d20+6=7 ; d20+6=14 ; Friday December 9th, 2022 12:52:51 PM "The thing about luck, is that other people have it too. Even if those people are kobolds...but that luck can't last forever!"
Myre then goes on to prove her own point by failing to pay attention while casting defensively (nat 1 = 7). She reaches deep down, pulling on her reserves to heroically pull it together...and fails again! (14 this time).
She is very happy her dark skin makes it difficult to see how flushed it is.
Nintos Melinous (Clint) | HP 9/16 | AC:12 T:12 FF:10 | CMD:13 CMB:1 | Fort:2 Ref:2 Will:4 | Merletta (Familiar) HP 4/4 | AC:15 T:14 FF:13 | CMB:0 CMD:6 | Fort:1 Ref:4 Will:2 d20+9=11 ; d20+4=13 ; d3-4=-1 ; Friday December 9th, 2022 5:13:59 PM “Merletta, if that one talking begins casting a spell I want you to dive bomb him. Just like you annoy me in the study, annoy him while casting!” [Merletta readied Attack on King 13 | DMG min 1]
[Spellcraft 11] Looking to the doors a look of worry comes over his face; “Reinforcements? I can make it over there and have one strong offensive spell remaining… but I can bring something forward to guard the doors.” Nintos begins casting Summon Monster I
Xuce (Chris) AC: 18, T: 17, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 8/17 d20+6=12 ; d20+6=11 ; d4=2 ; d4=2 ; Friday December 9th, 2022 6:43:18 PM
Trusting that his allies can hold off the reinforcements, Xuce looks down at the blood starting to flow out of him. "Ah I see your point now feel my fists." Then he unleashes a flurry of blows at the kobold captain (hit ACs: 12, 11 Damage: 3, 3)
Kwarsk (Wayne) AC 21/T 12/FF 19, HP 24/24, CMD 15/19 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. d20+8=10 ; d10+3=5 ; Friday December 9th, 2022 8:55:52 PM
Kwarsk observes that Zarsellet is armed with a dagger, and carefully steps over debris to achieve a flank on K4.
(OOC from J41-K40, move action costing 10' of Kwarsk's 20' move, achieving flank with Zarsellet on K4)
Kwarsk silently takes advantage of Zarsellet's distraction of the kobold (K4) with an overhead chop, but the kobold was zagging when Kwarsk zigged, and Kwarsk's waraxe strikes only empty air. (Hit AC 10; 5 damage if by some chance K4 has lost AC recently...)
Kwarsk multiplies his grimace, and the angrier Kwarsk gets, the more silent he gets...
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 22/22-5 | CMB:3 CMD:16 | Fort:2 Ref:5 Will:0 d20+3=15 ; d20+4=22 ; d8+2=10 ; d6=1 ; Friday December 9th, 2022 10:15:32 PM
[OOC: Silly me; the target of the smokestick was the King, but K1 wasn't the king! Let's just say Fingers fumbled the thing.]
Spellcraft: 15. Don't bother, Nintos! His "Reinforcements" are a illusionary sound cantrip! That's actually kind of funny!
Muuru chortles while banging K4 on the head: Att: 22, Dam: 10+1 = 11 (nonlethal)
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 21/22 d20+6=20 ; d6+3=9 ; Saturday December 10th, 2022 5:42:48 PM
Having no doubts about the righteousness of the party’s cause, Paige moves forward and next to Xuce (to N39) bringing her Cold Iron mace down on the ‘captain’ of the kobolds with a mighty swing (d20+4+1 bless+1 bardic song = 20, for 9 points of damage.) Paige squints ahead trying to pierce the darkness (low light vision) to see who is delivering the taunts and calls out: ”to me hero’s of the Patch! This evil villain’s tyranny is at an end!”
DM sanity info:
Active effects: Bless, Bardsong, Dwarven ale
Wand of CLW2 - used 4/40 charges)[/b]
(OOC to Nintos/Clint - don’t forget to add +3 to HP from healing received 8Dec - see PP post)
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 15(no shield), CMD 11, HP 20/22 | Fort: +3, Ref: +5, Will: +3 | Cursed -2 to all saves for 1 hour d20+4=6 ; Saturday December 10th, 2022 11:13:50 PM
Zarsellet continues his Bardic music and slashes back at the kobold. Maybe he wasn't expecting the little lizard to attack him but his slash is as bad as the little lizard.
OOC: One more round of Inspire courage. +1 to hit and to weapon damage competence bonus and +1 morale bonus to Will saves against fear and charm. One round left and then he is out for the day.
DM Brian Z- Temple of the King d20+8=16 ; 3d4+3=9 ; Monday December 12th, 2022 7:52:35 AM
Rhys fires another arrow, but is distracted by the noise. He turns around and looks into the library, now much darker that you have brought your light sources with you. Even with low light vision, he doesn't yet see any additional troops.
Myre tries a defensive spell, to prevent an enemy attack, but it fizzles out.
Nintos begins casting a spell, while Merletta looks to distract the enemy spellcaster.
Xuce is a flurry of motion, attacking the kobold Captain, but does not penetrate his armor.
Kwarsk moves into a flanking position, but the floor is filled with debris, throwing off his aim this time.
Fingers moves in, and knocks out the kobold in front of him(K4). He also warns the team, the sound of reinforcements is just an illusion!
Paige moves up, and trying to inspire the team delivers a solid thump to the Captain. He staggers under the blow but hasn't dropped yet!
Zarsellet continues inspiring the team. He swings at the kobold, but it is already down.
The kobolds act!
The Captain has suffered several wounds but is not down yet. He identifies Paige as his biggest threat and swings with his sword. The blow just glances off her armor. The King doesn't like Kwarsk maneuvering behind his Captain, and tosses a spell at the dwarf. Several motes of energy streak out and catch the dwarf through his armor, causing 9 damage. spellcraft DC 14 Highlight to display spoiler: {magic missle}
Rhys (Bob W) AC16; CMD 17(19 vs disarm and sunder); HP16/20 d20+3=7 ; Monday December 12th, 2022 9:30:50 AM
Rhys calls out that no immediate danger will come from behind and returns his attention to the battle in front. Once again he attempts to finish off the Captain of the kobold guard, but the chaos unfolding around his target is too much and his arrow goes astray. The elf shakes his head in disgust, drops his bow and moves deeper into the fray, pulling out a long wicked looking blade as he easily moves through the crowd. (Rhys moves to L40)
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 21/22 d20+6=20 ; d6+3=9 ; Monday December 12th, 2022 9:54:08 AM
Swinging her mace with vigour, Paige batters the Captain (Hit AC 20 for 9 pts damage). “It’s time for your audience with the god of life and death! she announces, as she prepares for what’s next.
If the Captain is down, Paige will move in a straight line directly into the gloom and rough terrain towards the source of the magiks cast at her, as far as she can get. (N42?)
Active effects: Bless, Bard song (last round), dwarven ale
Wand of CLW2 - used 4/40 charges
Xuce (Chris) AC: 18, T: 17, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 8/17 d20+6=26 ; d20+6=12 ; d20+6=24 ; d4=3 ; d4=1 ; d20+7=13 ; d4=1 ; Monday December 12th, 2022 4:04:26 PM
If the captain is still up, Xuce will attack him again with another flurry of blows (hit AC 26 Nat 20 to confirm 12, 24. Damage 4 and 2) "why are you still standing?
If the captain is down, Xuce will move over to the king (43P) and attack with a single punch to the face (Hit AC 13 or carry over my first roll to hit? 26, Damage 2? or my first roll for damage 4) "You are causing so much trouble for my friends and me."
Myre (Carl) -- AC 13/12/11 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/1 Monday December 12th, 2022 4:18:15 PM Myre gets ready to use her last spell on the clump of kobolds, but Rhys wades into the area of effect. No biggie. She tries to get the captain to stop trying to hit her friends with his sword instead.
***
Move: None Standard: Grease on the captain's sword. Reflex DC15 or he drops it. Save must be made each time he attempts to retrieve it OR use it if initial save fails.
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 15(no shield), CMD 11, HP 20/22 | Fort: +3, Ref: +5, Will: +3 | Cursed -2 to all saves for 1 hour Monday December 12th, 2022 4:37:05 PM
Seeing the crowd in front of him and most of the kobolds down Zarsellet continues his singing while he moves over toward the door on the back wall.
OOC: Double move to F41. Final round of +1 to hit and to weapon damage competence bonus and +1 morale bonus to Will saves against fear and charm.
Muuru moves to M37:N38, strikes the captain: Att: 6, Dam (yeah, right): 8 nonlethal.
Nintos Melinous (Clint) | HP 12/16 | AC:12 T:12 FF:10 | CMD:13 CMB:1 | Fort:2 Ref:2 Will:4 | Merletta (Familiar) HP 4/4 | AC:15 T:14 FF:13 | CMB:0 CMD:6 | Fort:1 Ref:4 Will:2 d20+4=8 ; d20+3=5 ; Tuesday December 13th, 2022 8:56:59 AM
[Summoned Dog Round 1 of 3]
Nintos finishes the Summon Monster spell and decides to summon “man’s best friend” next to the lying king. In draconic; “We gave you your chance.” turnin to the dog, “Attack!” The dog attacks, but misses. [Attack 8….]
Seeing that the dog missed Nintos fires off an Acid Splash at the king and misses himself. “Blast it!” Nintos moves up to get a better chance of hitting the king. [Range Touch 5][Move to P40]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Memorized Spells: 0: Acid Splash, Detect Magic, Light, Open/Close. 1st: Summon Monster 1, Burning Hands, Mage Armor Acid Dart: 0/7 (per day) +3 Attack 1d6+1 (+1 per 2 lvl) [EDIT: +3 HP from Dec 8th CLW]
DM Brian Z- Temple of the King Tuesday December 13th, 2022 12:29:39 PM
Rhys misses his next shot and moves in with a sword.
Paige smashes the Captain again. he staggers but still stands!
Xuce wonders why he is still standing, and hits him a few more times. This time the Captain drops. (Flurry is a full attack action, Xuce will not be able to move this round)
Since the Captain is down, Myre saves her spell for a better target.
Zarsellet moves to a better spot while still inspiring the team.
Fingers moves up to the Captain just as he drops.
Nintos completes his spell and summons a dog into the fray! The dog tries to bite the King but only tears at the robes. Nintos moves for a better angle.
Kwarsk(may make a move when posting to make up for this round)
The kobolds act!
Or, the King acts, he is the last one left. He casts a spell at the dog(DC will 14 to resist) DC 14 spellcraft to identifyHighlight to display spoiler: {color spray} then draws his dagger. draconicHighlight to display spoiler: {You can't have it! It's mine!}
Kobolds: K1- unconscious 4 rounds, blinded and stunned 2 rounds, stunned 1 K2- dead K3- unconscious K4- 3 dmg, unconscious Captain- dead King- 2 dmg
Kwarsk (Wayne) AC 21/T 12/FF 19, HP 24/24, CMD 15/19 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. Tuesday December 13th, 2022 12:32:21 PM
Kwarsk moves (K40:N43; 5 squares including difficult terrain, so a full move) into a flanking position with Nintos' dog and says in Common, "Surrender, 'king'!"
(OOC the "air quotes" around 'king' are audible :-) )
(OOC Kwarsk has Combat Reflexes (max 3), should the king attempt multiple actions that each would trigger an AoO.)
Kwarsk (Wayne) AC 21/T 12/FF 19, HP 15/24, CMD 15/19 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. d20+7=19 ; d10+2=11 ; Tuesday December 13th, 2022 12:41:05 PM
(OOC Prior post was Monday's round, per DM statement "Kwarsk(may make a move when posting to make up for this round)" in DM post)
(OOC - King needed a Concentration Check to successfully cast that spell, since both Kwarsk and the dog was adjacent and threatening the King when the King began casting.
DM post of 12:32 was not visible to me on F5 refresh when I was posting Kwarsk's action for last round)
Kwarsk should receive an AOO for King's casting, although the King then may have chosen to not cast, or to have done a 5' step first and only risk the dog's AOO; I have not taken the AOO on this post, however. Presuming King would have stepped away 5' then then this round Kwarsk would Move to obtain a flank with the dog, risking an AOO from the King's dagger in order to get the flank.)
Kwarsk (OOC following Tuesday's post) says, " That's quite enough, your lowness!" and with that Kwarsk's anger rises and he swings his waraxe mightily at the king's midsection,
(OOC +4 base, +2 flank, +1 Bless = +7 = hit AC 19, for 11 damage!)
(OOC edit - fixed HP to show the 9 from magic missile)
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 15(no shield), CMD 11, HP 20/22 | Fort: +3, Ref: +5, Will: +3 | Cursed -2 to all saves for 1 hour Tuesday December 13th, 2022 1:20:55 PM
Zarsellet moves along the back wall and casts Daze at the "King". OOC: Unless he's already down?
OOC: Will DC13
Nintos Melinous (Clint) | HP 12/16 | AC:12 T:12 FF:10 | CMD:13 CMB:1 | Fort:2 Ref:2 Will:4 | Merletta (Familiar) HP 4/4 | AC:15 T:14 FF:13 | CMB:0 CMD:6 | Fort:1 Ref:4 Will:2 d20+4=6 ; d20+1=12 ; 2d4=4 ; Tuesday December 13th, 2022 3:15:05 PM
[Summoned Dog Round 2 of 3] [ooc: Does the dog get an AoO from the king casting a spell? If so…] [Attack 6…. Smh]
[Dog will save 12] Just as quickly as the dog appeared, the dog is hit with a vivid cone of clashing colors and it causes it to go to sleep.
Shaking his head, Nintos takes a 5-foot step forward (P41) and tosses his own spell towards the “king” “de docar ekess relgasic” and a cone of fire burst from the mages hands.
Rhys (Bob W) AC16; CMD 17(19 vs disarm and sunder); HP16/20 d20+9=13 ; d10+9=19 ; d10+3=13 ; Tuesday December 13th, 2022 3:28:29 PM
Rhys moves into flanking position across from the summoned dog (N42) and strikes at the kobold King with his sword, a poor effort at best (hit AC 13 for 13 dmg; AC 14 and 14 dmg if bardic inspiration is still active). ”Not looking so good your majesty! Perhaps a graceful exit can be arranged”, Rhys speaks to the king in draconic.
Xuce (Chris) AC: 18, T: 17, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 8/17 d20+5=14 ; d4=2 ; Tuesday December 13th, 2022 5:47:28 PM
Xuce walks over to the kobold king (42O) and punches him in the thigh (Stunning fist Fort DC 13, to hit AC 14, 2 damage)
(OOC A stunned character drops everything held, can’t take actions, loses any Dexterity bonus to AC, and takes a –2 penalty to AC)
Myre (Carl) -- AC 13/12/11 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/1 d4+1=2 ; Tuesday December 13th, 2022 11:05:35 PM
Low on options, Myre bombards the king with a bunch of tiny meteors. Her luck with the spell has not improved since the last time she used it.
***
Standard: Minute Meteors for 2 damage. Reflex DC 15 to negate.
Just so you know, I think its wrong for Kwarsk to doubt the veracity of your title or authority. [i]BONK[/II]
Roll high to see through the gloom: 21. Barely succeeds! Att: 20, Dam: 8+5 = 13 nonlethal.
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 21/22 d8+2=5 ; Wednesday December 14th, 2022 12:33:58 AM ”Woah! Nice one, Pops!” calls the red-headed youngster, when the wizard sends some impressive flames the kobold king’s way. Paige moves next to Nintos and behind Xuce (41O) ( ”Steady on, little dude. I’ve got your back.” she says, tapping the monk with the wand I held in her off hand (Wand of CLW2 = 5 HP restored.)
DM Sanity Info:
Active effects: Bless - 2 minutes, dwarven ale (+1 Fortitude)
Wand of CLW2 - used 5/40 charges
DM Brian Z- Temple of the King d20+9=15 ; d20+4=9 ; d20+4=23 ; Wednesday December 14th, 2022 7:29:09 AM
Kwarsk moves in and hits the King with his waraxe. He doesn't look so confident anymore.
Zarsellet casts a spell at the King, but he shakes it off.
Nintos adds a spell to the fray, and the King is not able to dodge.
Rhys adds an attack but missed this time.
Xuce tries to stun, but the King's tough hide helps him shake it off.
With attacks coming in from all sides, the King still manages to avoid Myre's tiny meteors.
Fingers continues to be effective with knocking people out, and the King drops unconscious to the ground. The wicked dagger he appeared ready to use clatters to the floor.
Paige heals Xuce a bit, keeping him in the fight.
The kobolds act! .....................
End of Combat! K1 will shake off the spell in a few more rounds. All remaining opponents are defeated.
Kobolds: K1- unconscious 3 rounds, blinded and stunned 2 rounds, stunned 1 K2- dead K3- unconscious K4- 3 dmg, unconscious Captain- dead King- 17/21 dmg, cold resistance, unconscious
Rhys (Bob W) AC16; CMD 17(19 vs disarm and sunder); HP16/20 Wednesday December 14th, 2022 9:23:52 AM
Rhys sheathes his sword and returns to the doorway where he had dropped his bow. The elf retrieves the weapon and then busies himself checking on the state of the various unconscious kobolds. He begins by removing any weaponry and then drags the bodies to a central space and positions them in a sitting position back-to-back-to-back before tying their hands together behind them so that no we can move without the others. He mumbles and grumbles beneath his breath, wondering just what the rogue is going to do with his captive tribe of kobolds ”#$&@ mrgnff …if he’s not careful he’ll end up in their cook pot mmrg$#@&” his musings continue as he completes the knots.
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 15(no shield), CMD 11, HP 20/22 | Fort: +3, Ref: +5, Will: +3 | Cursed -2 to all saves for 1 hour d20+7=19 ; Wednesday December 14th, 2022 9:34:55 AM
When the "King" collapses Zarsellet moves in to examine the body, or more specifically whatever the king kobold had on his body. "He was saying 'You can't have it. It's mine.' What was he so afraid of losing that he couldn't bring himself to surrender when obviously he was about to die?"
OOC: Detect Magic and search the King. Perception: 19
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 21/22 d20+6=21 ; d20+4=18 ; Wednesday December 14th, 2022 10:27:20 AM ”Signage outside the door identified this room as a ‘place of rest’. Is that like ‘final resting place’ or just a bed chamber or barracks?” she muses aloud scanning the room for evidence of it’s use. (Perception = 21) and for funsies (Knowledge Religion = 18)
”I wonder if we can use it as a place of rest?”
The cleric is also worried about how the party is going to deal with 7 kobolds - some wounded, some tied up, some unconscious - but all still alive!
Myre (Carl) -- AC 13/12/11 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/1 d20+4=11 ; Wednesday December 14th, 2022 1:20:33 PM Myre watches Rhys work for just a moment before she smiles and turns away. He could be delightfully grumpy sometimes.
She busies herself with the room they're in now that nothing's (obviously) trying to kill them. She's a little distracted, though. Also, it's kinda dark still. She'll think of more excuses for failing if you give her some time...
Perception: 11
Nintos Melinous (Clint) | HP 12/16 | AC:12 T:12 FF:10 | CMD:13 CMB:1 | Fort:2 Ref:2 Will:4 | Merletta (Familiar) HP 4/4 | AC:15 T:14 FF:13 | CMB:0 CMD:6 | Fort:1 Ref:4 Will:2 Wednesday December 14th, 2022 2:12:57 PM
Within a few seconds the sleeping dog disappears back to its original plane.
Ninto’s whistles for Merletta; “Why didn’t you attack that kobold as it was casting the spell? That would have saved us a bit of ground…” smiling at the bird Nintos produces a bit of bread from his pocket.
Rubbing his ribs, Nintos talks reprimands himself; “How did you not see that he was using a spell to make it appear like reinforcements were arriving… the mage’s guild won’t find this acceptable. I need to study more…”
Turning his attention to the rest of his companions; [b}“Does anyone have manacles on them? If not, it might be something we would invest in moving forward.”[/b] Nintos moves forward towards the spellcasters and begins searching for a focus item or spellbook; “We don’t want any more nasty tricks coming from you while you’re tided up.” He will also Detect Magic on their persons to remove anything that could help with an escape.
Xuce (Chris) AC: 18, T: 17, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 13/21 d20+11=17 ; Wednesday December 14th, 2022 5:50:17 PM
Xuce looks up at Paige "Thanks. I feel better already." Then Xuce walks around the room checking it over (Perception 17)
Kwarsk (Wayne) AC 21/T 12/FF 19, HP 15/24, CMD 15/19 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. Wednesday December 14th, 2022 6:21:49 PM
Kwarsk looks at the kobold king, then his axe, then the king, then his axe, and says, " I hit him so hard... how did a kobold take so much punishment before falling?"
Kwarsk examines himself where the energy (magic missile) hit him. He doesn't see any obvious wounds, but when he touches where they hit, "Ow! Paige, is there still a lot of healing magic left in that wand? I'll be guarding the new door for a bit."
Kwarsk walks over to the new door (bottom of the room) and looks it over for traps.
(OOC Perception = Out of Combat, Take 20 = 30 (2 minutes of looking))
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 22/22-5 | CMB:3 CMD:16 | Fort:2 Ref:5 Will:0 Wednesday December 14th, 2022 11:45:34 PM Okay, someone question these guys. Anyone want to come with me to finish searching the library?
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 21/22 Thursday December 15th, 2022 7:58:20 PM
Paige will try to discern if this room is a good staging place for the group to take a long rest and recover from their wounds and restore their magical resources. If that is not the case, she will use the wand of CLW2 to bring the injured some relief.
Rhys (Bob W) AC16; CMD 17(19 vs disarm and sunder); HP16/20 Friday December 16th, 2022 10:34:21 PM
While Fingers scouts the library and Paige checks out the security situation, Rhys carefully examines the body and belongings of the Captain, taking his time so as not to miss anything. (Take 20 for Perception 25).
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 15(no shield), CMD 11, HP 20/22 | Fort: +3, Ref: +5, Will: +3 | Cursed -2 to all saves for 1 hour d20+7=17 ; Friday December 16th, 2022 11:55:24 PM
Once the group has gathered everything of value from the bodies Zarsellet goes back to the library to search for other interesting books.
OOC: Perception 17
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 15(no shield), CMD 11, HP 20/22 | Fort: +3, Ref: +5, Will: +3 | Cursed -2 to all saves for 1 hour Monday December 19th, 2022 5:06:54 PM
OOC: Found a Hobgoblin version of War and Peace? Pity I don't speak/read Hobgoblin.... Part of the curse?
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 15(no shield), CMD 11, HP 20/22 | Fort: +3, Ref: +5, Will: +3 | Cursed -2 to all saves for 1 hour d8=2 ; Monday January 2nd, 2023 8:42:41 PM
OOC: HP roll
DM Melvin - Temple of the King Wednesday January 4th, 2023 10:09:31 AM
It is quiet outside of the cave. Quiet within the room.
The group had succeeded in fighting off the kobold king and his guards, and will eventually have to decide what to do, if anything, with the unconscious kobolds. But for now, the focus is in what they came for.
Rhys gathers his stuff and searches the bodies for weapons. He ties up the kobolds and wonders what to do with them.
Zarsellet aids in the search.
Paige wonders what the room was originally for. Some searching indicates that this may be the antechamber to a nearby tomb, though anything of note got replaced with the throne.
Myre expresses some appreciation for Rhys' thoughts on what to do with the kobolds. Nintos chastises his familiar (and himself) for his mistake. Paige and Xuce look around.
Kwarsk wonders how a Kobold was so hardy, and asks for a heal. (There isn't an easy answer but you can probably deduce by now that he was an accomplished spellcaster.)
Fingers wants to question the guys but you might have to wait a while for them to wake up. Paige considers taking some time to rest rather than to go through.
The kobold servants themselves have nothing of note. But upon the king's body, you find a +1 flaming dagger, a cloak of resistance +2, and an emerald cloak clasp. The captain has a masterwork short sword, masterwork studded leather, steel mining helmet, and a cloak of resistance +1.
The only other thing of note is the ornate door ahead. Kwarsk spots no traps.
A bored Zarsellet returns to the library to flip through books, bringing about his own doom... Is what one would say if the library hadn't already been cleansed. Instead, Zarsellet does find the Kobold version of War and Peace, roughly translated as "Don't You Know We're Really Dragons."
Kobolds aren't really known for their introspection.
And with Zarsellet's perception, he can see that the group overlooked some treasure. In addition to the nearby spellbook, there is a pearl of power (1st), a number of actual books, and most notably a number of scrolls being used as bookmarks.
Nintos Melinous (Clint) | HP 12/16 | AC:12 T:12 FF:10 | CMD:13 CMB:1 | Fort:2 Ref:2 Will:4 | Merletta (Familiar) HP 4/4 | AC:15 T:14 FF:13 | CMB:0 CMD:6 | Fort:1 Ref:4 Will:2 d20+10=18 ; Wednesday January 4th, 2023 12:35:24 PM
With a casting of Detect Magic the magical items draws Nintos’ attention. If Zarsellet mentions the spellbook, Pearl of Power and scrolls, Nintos turns his attention to those. Opening the spellbook; “You can tell a lot about a caster by the spells they collect. Let’s see what this one reveals.”
[Spellcraft 18]
As he is flipping through the book; “We also need to discover how to correct the fountain.” as an off the cuff reminder.
Myre (Carl) -- AC 13/12/11 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/1 d20+5=18 ; Wednesday January 4th, 2023 12:37:34 PM Myre's eyes lock onto that cloak clasp. Where did a kobold find something so pretty? She casts a quick detect magic to make sure it's mundane. She keeps her hand off the treasure for now, not wanting to be rude. She gives Xuce a quick hug for getting between her and the danger. Her mother's voice chastises her for encouraging the belief that she needs protection, but it was a sweet gesture. Besides, she is really squishy.
"Are we really going to question the kobolds again? Last time we tried it we only succeeded in getting angry and threatening them with war crimes." She leans down over the unconscious kobolds. "Maybe we just leave them tied up and walk them out of here with us when we're done. Of course, if we don't return this way we may end up leaving them to die slowly of dehydration and starvation. That doesn't seem very heroic to me, even if they did try to kill us."
She joins Paige near the throne and lends an eye to its inspection. "This looks like the only interesting thing in the room now that the kobolds are dea...defeated." She frowns for just a second before she shakes the thoughts away. "Wanna hold my hand while I sit in it, just in case I need to be yanked off it? Maybe Fingers should look at it first..."
Perception to inspect the throne is 18.
Rhys (Bob W) AC16; CMD 18(20 vs disarm and sunder); HP22/26 Wednesday January 4th, 2023 3:15:34 PM
Rhys inspects the items gathered from the kobolds and tries on the King’s cloak. Assuming someone tells him what it actually is, he will ask to wear it for at least the time being. (OOC character sheet is updated, rolled for hp on the LnB (poorly) and changes are reflected on the linked sheet…ready for approval)
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 28 | CMB:6 CMD:17 | Fort:3 Ref:5 Will:1 Wednesday January 4th, 2023 4:55:28 PM
Fingers tours the library, taking notes, and sitting down with any books that will help him in his quest to become an Arcane Trickster.
Just have to choose a Feat and two more Skill ranks. Suggestions welcome.
Zar, you found some books? And scrolls? Lemme see!
But just as begins to read, he hears Myre's suggestion, and says She's right! Standard procedure -- nobody move until I inspect the room!
He doesn't really expect everybody to freeze while he examines the throne and everything else for traps, but he's gotta say it. Perception: Take 20 => 25 (+1 for traps).
Xuce (Chris) AC: 18, T: 17, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 13/21 d20+11=20 ; Wednesday January 4th, 2023 5:44:14 PM
Xuce looks over the ornate door (perception: 20) “We have been through a lot in the last few fights, it might be best if we rest a bit then see what’s behind this door.”
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 16, CMD 11, HP 27/27 | Fort: +4, Ref: +5, Will: +3 | Wednesday January 4th, 2023 6:00:27 PM
OOC: "the group overlooked some treasure."
Zarsellet is surprised with the find and calls out to everyone. "Hey guys! Check this out. I think this is a spellbook, and a couple other useful things!"
OOC: Of course he'd tell everyone. Even the kobolds if they are listening. Schmucks missed something good!
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 32/32 2d6=4 ; d8+2=3 ; d8+2=3 ; d8+2=5 ; Wednesday January 4th, 2023 8:16:11 PM
Paige gathers the injured about her, making sure to distance them and herself from the injured and unconscious kobolds. She places her hand over the holy symbol at her neck, and warmed by her belief in the healing powers gifted to her by her god, she channels that energy into her companions.*. (Channel positive energy 2d6 = 4). Rhys and Nintos look good to go, but the tank of a dwarf and the little monk not so much. The cleric uses the wand to restore Kwarsk (3+3=6 hp)and Xuce (5 hp) to fighting form.
Job done, Paige clasps Myre’s hand as that small one tests the throne…
(OOC: rolled for HP in L&B and character sheet updated (including all items used, charges on wand, etc. as of Jan. 1, 2023 and linked - ready for DM review. Posted today as if level 3.)
Wand of CLW2 (1d8+2) - 32 charges left
DM Melvin - Temple of the King Thursday January 5th, 2023 1:57:52 PM
Nintos starts doing detects upon the loot, and mentions that they should also do something about the fountain.
Myre's eyes are drawn to the cloak clasp, though it gives no sign of magic. She thanks Xuce, tries to be diplomatic about the treasure, and suggests just leaving the kobolds unconscious and tied up.
Rhys eyes the king's cloak (Nintos should be able to identify it) and makes a request.
Fingers ponders the mysteries of the arcane, and notes the new treasure. He takes some time to search for traps but doesn't seem to find anything.
Zarsellet brings in the treasure for Nintos to identify.
After Paige heals some companions, she and Myre test out the throne. It is quite comfy for a makeshift chair built by kobolds out of scraps. But no secret doors or traps activate.
The spellbook, simple and unadorned, holds the following spells: 2nd (Knock, scorching ray), 1st (alarm, feather fall, obscuring mist, mount, shield, shocking grasp, silent image, sleep). In the margins are notes on improving the efficiency of each spell. Simple techniques like drinking a magical elixir of bleach, or turning your undergarments inside out, or other hopelessly misguided ideas. And a few interesting ones like the idea of using higher spell slots to power or expend spells. Or, for Fingers, some ideas of tapping into the very rogue abilities to learn spells such as mage hand.
The scrolls are: 1) see invisibility, 2) detect thoughts, 3) comprehend languages, 4) detect secret doors, 5) identify, and 6) detect undead. (The first 2 are worth 125 gp and the rest are 25 gp. The spellbook is worth 275 gp.)
Kwarsk (Wayne) AC 22/T 13/FF 19, HP 30/30, CMD 15/19 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. Thursday January 5th, 2023 2:47:20 PM
(OOC: Kwarsk was clearly guarding the kobolds while everyone else acted; sorry all, my Wednesday night got yoinked from me.)
(OOC: HP roll was on LnB, and header is updated appropriately.)
Kwarsk replies to Paige, "Paige, thank you very much -- I'm ready to jump into the next fray now!"
Kwarsk then stares into the distance, and contemplates all the treasure his companions are excited about. Kwarsk notes that he is better at defense than attack, and wonders how a cloak of resistance might make him a better defender than he already is.
Kwarsk then says to the group, "We should probably pick some of us to wear and use some of those magic items for the rest of this cave system. We can roll bones or something later to determine who gets what, right?
As for the kobolds, if our knots are good enough, I agree we can leave them here for now. We probably won't all be wiped out by the next battle," Kwarsk finishes with a grin.
Kwarsk strides to a location where he can both watch the tied-up kobolds and also glance at the new door everyone is now considering, back again on guard duty.
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 32/32 Thursday January 5th, 2023 7:17:22 PM
Paige helps Myre jump down from the kobold throne, and watches Rhys try on the cloak. She is glad to note that her friends’ experiments with unknown items is working out better than her trial with the drow sleep poison. Hey, Kadaz that cloak worn by the Captain looks like it might fit. Why don’t you give it a try?” she calls to the dwarf, adding: ” I’m interested in that pearl, if no one else is!”.
Rhys (Bob W) AC16; CMD 18(20 vs disarm and sunder); HP26/26 d20+6=18 ; Thursday January 5th, 2023 7:26:33 PM
Rhys detects the flow of Paige’s healing magic as it courses through his body. ”Thanks Paige!” he exclaims. The feeling of the pain from his wounds disappear is an exhilarating sensation and he can feel his mood improve with it. With a new cloak secured across his shoulders, the elf inspects each of the captured kobolds to make sure they are still secured, and hen heads to the library looking for books that might speak to his interest in the crafting of elven weapons and the operation of small forges or perhaps the specific history of the current cave system they have now entered. Rhys takes his time with the search (Perception take 20 = 25; knowledge dungeoneering to interpret any relevant material on the caves = 18)
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 16, CMD 11, HP 27/27 | Fort: +4, Ref: +5, Will: +3 | Thursday January 5th, 2023 8:23:24 PM
Zarsellet considers the items from the kobolds. How often would this group be fighting little creatures with equipment his size? He nods when Paige claims the pearl. Any caster could use it but she probably use it better for the party.... "Makes sense to me Paige. Extra magic for the team cleric!"
He picks up the short sword from the captain, glancing at the other stuff. "Anybody care if I take this sword for now? Might do a bit better than my dags if I need to stick something. And the armor might fit me? Not sure about it though. Didn't keep him alive!" He ends the last with a smirk, examining the damage to the armor from the weapons that killed the previous owner....
OOC: He does not take the Kobold version of War and Peace. Might be a funny read but he doesn't really feel that it is worth the weight.
Xuce (Chris) AC: 18, T: 17, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 21/21 d20+11=15 ; Thursday January 5th, 2023 9:11:49 PM "Thanks Paige, I feel like new." Then Xuce rushes back to the room with the fountain and looks it over (perception: 15)
Myre (Carl) -- AC 13/12/11 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/1 Thursday January 5th, 2023 10:36:15 PM Myre realizes Kwarsk is right. Those who do the defending should be taking those cloaks. That emerald clasp keeps calling to her, though. Unless it goes with one of the resistance cloaks, she'll pick it up. She doesn't wear a cloak, but maybe she'll pick one up now!
She follows everyone back into the library, careful to watch out for any book ghosts. "So, anybody got any ideas on what to do with this fountain?" She gives it another look.
OOC: Would you mind re-detailing the fountain for us?
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 28 | CMB:6 CMD:17 | Fort:3 Ref:5 Will:1 Thursday January 5th, 2023 11:12:27 PM As for the kobolds, I don't like the idea of leaving them tied up if may not make it back. I say we let them go and tell them to behave themselves, else we'll track them down and beat them up again.
OOC: In the Wold, that will acutally work.
Nintos Melinous (Clint) | HP 12/16 | AC:12 T:12 FF:10 | CMD:13 CMB:1 | Fort:2 Ref:2 Will:4 | Merletta (Familiar) HP 4/4 | AC:15 T:14 FF:13 | CMB:0 CMD:6 | Fort:1 Ref:4 Will:2 Friday January 6th, 2023 6:50:48 AM
With Xuce’s statement of resting, Nintos nods in agreement; “Even if their leaders trickery made some of us think there were reinforcements coming, does not mean that there aren’t dangers beyond.”
When Kwarsk mentions someone wearing the items found Nintos speaks up; “Those who rush into the fray first might be better suited for those protective cloaks. If they have spell casters again they might try and target the first threat that appears.”
“That pearl could be used for a last minute healing if we find ourselves in grave danger. You should keep it Paige. Though seeing how it works, I will have to look into such an item when we return to town.”
“If nobody objects, I wouldn’t mind studying this spell book and the scrolls. There are some interesting notes found within that are tied to their personal study.”
Xuce (Chris) AC: 18, T: 17, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 21/21 Friday January 6th, 2023 9:00:54 AM
As the treasure is being talked about Xuce says "I too, would like one of these magical cloaks"
(OOC: Xuce can read Elven and Dwarven)
DM Melvin - Temple of the King/Fountain Friday January 6th, 2023 2:32:24 PM
Kwarsk continues to guard the kobolds and thank Paige for healing.
Paige and Myre get down from the throne.
Rhys takes another look for the library but there really isn't anything left to learn at this point.
Zarsellet notes that these items didn't keep the kobolds alive, and decides against the book in question.
Fingers suggests letting the Kobolds go with a warning, rather than just leave them in the cavern.
Nintos suggests they rest before entering the last chamber, though dallying comes with its own risks.
The gang decides to start divvying part of the treasure. Kwarsk asks for the king's cloak. Paige requests the pearl of power, and Rhys takes the captain's cloak. Zarsellet takes the captain's short sword and maybe the captain's armor. Myre takes the emerald clasp (separate from the cloak), and she (and Xuce?) considers buying a cloak of her own when they get back. (Most are in agreement that the cloaks for now should go to the front line, though such cloaks are recommended for any team member. After all, a smart caster might know to attack the healer first. Spoilers.) Nintos asks for the spellbook.
Xuce and Myre make their way back to the fountain, separated from the rest of the group by this point.
Compared to all the dark areas that the group wandered around, the area looks bright. (Need low light vision or see large number of shadows.) As before, the room contains a statue of an elven princess, though the woman depicted in the statue now appears to be staring at you puzzled. Underneath and around the statue is an elaborate fountain. Clear, clean water arcs out a number of nozzles and pouring into the basin around it. Meeko is long gone.
You may remember that there was some form of energy behind the trap, and that if you resisted the trap before, you are immune now.
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 16, CMD 11, HP 27/27 | Fort: +4, Ref: +5, Will: +3 | Friday January 6th, 2023 5:35:22 PM
When nobody gives a negative comment about the sword or armor Zarsellet tries it on and belts the sword on. Refreshing his dancing lights he glances around at the group. "Where's Xuce and Myre? Shouldn't we stay together for safety?"
Myre (Carl) -- AC 13/12/11 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/1 Friday January 6th, 2023 9:05:43 PM Myre looks back at the woman in the statue. She addresses Xuce without turning to face him. "You think she's aware in there, but unable to interact with us? She's sitting here thinking 'come now, you dolts. Surely you've figured this out by now...'"
She looks down at the cloak clasp she took and holds it up to the statue. "This yours? Doesn't seem like something a kobold would hold on to. Plus, it didn't go with that cloak they were wearing."
Out of curiosity, Myre will check whether or not the princess statue has a cloak that's missing a clasp.
Rhys (Bob W) AC16; CMD 18(20 vs disarm and sunder); HP26/26 Friday January 6th, 2023 9:31:52 PM
Rhys returns from the library empty-handed and rechecks the captured kobolds. If all is secure he will spend a few moments trying to decipher any text surrounding the final door. He stays some 5+ feet away from the door and does not touch any part of it or it’s immediate surround. (OOC Rhys is wearing the Kings cloak of resistance)
Nintos Melinous (Clint) | HP 12/16 | AC:12 T:12 FF:10 | CMD:13 CMB:1 | Fort:2 Ref:2 Will:4 | Merletta (Familiar) HP 4/4 | AC:15 T:14 FF:13 | CMB:0 CMD:6 | Fort:1 Ref:4 Will:2 Friday January 6th, 2023 9:53:14 PM
Closing the spellbook, something that Myre says as he is talking to the statue causes him to remember some about her moving her eyes; “Blink if you understand us.” He turns to Myre; “She might really be thinking that about us by now.”
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 28-5=25 | CMB:6 CMD:17 | Fort:3 Ref:5 Will:1 Friday January 6th, 2023 11:41:42 PM Say Paige, have you got any spare healing? I'm still a little sore, but I can stick it out if you need to save your spells.
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 32/32 Saturday January 7th, 2023 12:34:16 AM
Paige is concerned that the group has spread themselves out across 3 different rooms: the fountain room, the library, and the throne room, and wonders what it is about the fountain that so enthrals the magickers….
She is also concerned that some folks may have exhausted their magical resources.
When Zarsellet tries out armour and sword, she nods in approval and asks the bard about his voice and commends him on his ability to inspire the group during altercations. She is glad that Nintos has collected the scrolls.
The cleric checks out the Minotaur, and advises Muuru”you should be okay, but I can keep an eye on you and provide additional healing if required.” (See Post 4Jan2023 - +4 HP from Channel positive energy)
Whilst waiting for folks to satisfy their curiosity, and/or deal with the kobold prisoners, the half-elf studies her newly acquired pearl, and contemplates how best to use it.
DM Sanity info:
Dwarven ale - 1 day +1 to Fortitude saves
Orisons: 2/4 used Level 1 spells: 2/3 used ****if level 3 accepted and in play 0/2 Domain spell: 0/1 used ****if level 3 accepted and in play Domain spell 0/2
****if level 3 Channel energy 1/6 used
Wand of CLW2 - 32 charges remaining
(OOC: party members should all be at FULL health/HP, with the exception of Fingers, who is 1 HP short - if I understand the HP in his heading correctly. Math looks wonky.)
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 32/32 Saturday January 7th, 2023 12:42:04 AM
The line under level one spells should read:
****if level 3 accepted and in play Level 2 spells: 0/2
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 16, CMD 11, HP 27/27 | Fort: +4, Ref: +5, Will: +3 | Saturday January 7th, 2023 11:41:06 AM
Zarsellet finishes getting the armor on. It was better quality than his old leather but still felt slightly uncomfortable. Perhaps because the previous wearer was dead? He drops the old armor, not worth carrying....
"My voice is fine but the magic to project encouragement.... Well, that'll take a short rest to recover. I'm glad I was able to help with it. My little dag didn't do much!"
OOC: If the group is heading back toward the statue? he follows. He stays back as he isn't sure if he'd been exposed/resisted the magic.
Kwarsk (Wayne) AC 22/T 13/FF 19, HP 30/30, CMD 15/19 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. Sunday January 8th, 2023 12:48:56 AM
(OOC: Saturday post; just finished hanging out with my local gaming group)
Kwarsk is likewise concerned that everyone has spread across three rooms. Kwarsk looks a bit crosseyed at this realization, but maintains his post where he has sight lines to both the new door and to the tied-up kobolds.
Kwarsk sighs and mutters to himself, "And we were doing so well in group discipline... Pantheon help us."
DM Melvin - Temple of the King/Fountain Monday January 9th, 2023 2:09:34 PM
(OOC: By this point, all sheets have been approved, I believe. Be sure to update your headers, and your sheets with any gear.)
Zarsellet (adding his new stuff) begins to realize that part of the team wandered off.
Myre continues to check with the statue, wondering if there might be a spirit, and asks if the emerald clasp is the key. Nintos tries to communicate. The statue rudely does not move or answer.
Rhys checks out the final door. There isn't any text nearby, and no traps are set off.
Fingers asks Paige for more healing. Paige answers that he should be ok and promises to keep an eye on the wound.
Otherwise, Paige frets about everyone being spread out, considers her magical resources, and studies what to do with the newly acquired pearl. (OOC: It grants an extra level 1 spell slot, but probably needs a rest to be prepared.)
Zarsellet drops his old armor, as not worth carrying. (Though it can be sold back to the catacombs for some return cash.) He warns that he might need to rest to recharge his bard songs, then heads back to the fountain.
Kwarsk figures he needs to stick around near the Kobolds and the door.
Know Religion Check 12: Highlight to display spoiler: {The fountain and statue are religious artifacts corrupted. Any healing magic (channeling, cure magic, healing potion) into the fountain should take care of the visible corruption.}
Appraisal Check 10 Highlight to display spoiler: {The emerald clasp is fancy but otherwise normal. It can be sold for 100, and was meant to be treated as a normal gem.}
Myre (Carl) -- AC 13/12/11 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/1 d20+1=6 ; Monday January 9th, 2023 5:18:47 PM
Appraise: 6 (fail...so I'm gonna have some fun with it)
Myre looks at the clasp again. "No. No, this has to be for something important." She pulls Waddles out and holds the thing under his nose. "Got its scent, boy? Good. Let's go!" Myre then holds Waddles out at arms length and walks around the fountain a few times. After three trips around the fountain she stops and glares into the pig's eyes. "If you didn't smell anything, you could have just said so."
With a huff, she puts Waddles back in his pouch. "Pigs! Hmmph." She heads back into the other room with Kwarsk, wondering why he looks so grumpy. "Hey, did we kill the king or just knock him out? I forget..."
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 16, CMD 11, HP 27/27 | Fort: +4, Ref: +5, Will: +3 | d20=12 ; d20+7=19 ; Monday January 9th, 2023 6:40:05 PM
Zarsellet moves in to the room seeing the others studying the fountain. He casts Detect Magic to see if he can see anything important about the fountain.
OOC: I think I avoided it before. What save was needed and how close do I have to be to be affected? 12 rolled for the save. Modifiers above. If that saved, Knowledge-Religion 19
Xuce (Chris) AC: 18, T: 17, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 21/21 Monday January 9th, 2023 7:27:49 PM
Xuce follows Myre and Waddles around the fountain and then back into the other room. "Why did we come all the way out here again? "
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 32/32 2d6=11 ; Monday January 9th, 2023 7:41:38 PM
The cleric is anxious about securing the scroll that is the object of the party’s mission, but she is not prepared to venture into another chamber without the consensus of the group. She lets out a gusty breath, and blows the wisps of red hair out of her eyes as she heads back to the fountain room. On the way, she gives Kwarsk’s shoulder a squeeze and says: ”I’ll see if I can round up the stragglers.”
Spotting several of the party about the fountain and it’s guardian statue, Paige volunteers: ”I did not recognize this as related to any deity when last I studied it*, but I can channel some holy energy and attempt to chase away whatever evil might linger about it - Domi willing. If that fails, we could pour some holy water into the fountain and see if that would purify it of contaminants. Regardless of the results, we must decide if we are of a mind to complete the task given to us by the folks at the Black Cathedral….” The half elf transfers her gaze from her companions, to the fountain and the statue, and sends good vibrations through her holy symbol, in it’s direction. (2d6=11). If that doesn’t do the trick, she fishes around for her remaining vials of Holy Water.
* Paige rolled Knowledge Religion earlier when studying the fountain, and failed, so she’s taking a flyer!
Channel Energy - used 2/6
Rhys (Bob W) AC16; CMD 18(20 vs disarm and sunder); HP26/26 Monday January 9th, 2023 8:12:16 PM
Satisfied there is no more to learn from the doorway beyond the throne room, Rhys settles in to watch over the trussed up kobold king and and his remaining minions.
Hearing potter talk about using her channeling energy; “That is exactly what is needed! That will remove the corruption that has come over this shrine.”
As Paige’s energy waves over the room, Nintos is healed by her channeling. Nintos studies the statue while the channel energy waves over it.
Kwarsk (Wayne) AC 22/T 13/FF 19, HP 30/30, CMD 15/19 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. Tuesday January 10th, 2023 11:23:44 AM
Kwarsk finishes putting on the Captain's cloak and practices fighting the air to ensure the cloak doesn't interfere with his combat movements.
Then, Kwarsk sees Rhys move closer to the kobolds for guard duty, and says, "Thanks Rhys, I'll fully focus on that new door now. The King's cloak looks good on you. How do you think the Captain's cloak looks on me? Hmm... Captain Kwarsk... does the Woldian League of Adventurers have names for their ranks? And would that make you King Rhys," Kwarsk finishes with a grin.
DM Melvin - Temple of the King/Fountain d4=4 ; Tuesday January 10th, 2023 2:27:43 PM
Myre still can't figure out the fountain or the clasp, and spends a lot of time looking everywhere. Xuce follows around, wondering why they did this.
Zarsellet gets close to the fountain, and can't detect the magic being studied. He does make the religion check and should have seen the corruption.
Myre, Zarsellet, Xuce: Looking around, you see the horrid rotten reflextion within the pool itself, as it starts to murder everyone in the room. (Frightened effect, 4 rounds, Will DC 11 to save.)
(OOC: It's supposed to be activated by looking directly into the fountain itself. I decided, based on the RP, that everyone did that to some degree this round.)
Paige and Nintos afterwards comes to the fountain and finally realizes what is going on. She channels the energy inside, and the corruption twists and turns, moving through nothing and then into nothing.
Perception DC 10 Highlight to display spoiler: {The elven statue is now smiling.}
Nintos or Religion DC 10 Highlight to display spoiler: {The fountain may now be used, after prayer to any deity, to heal, remove fatigue, or create food and water.}
Rhys continues to watch over the king. Kwarsk continues to look over their gear.
One more chamber remains.
Myre (Carl) -- AC 13/12/11 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/1 d20+4=13 ; d20+5=12 ; Tuesday January 10th, 2023 3:29:43 PM Myre gasps loudly, but keeps her cool (will 13). She glares at the statue above the fountain before adding, "not cool, lady!" She then stomps away. She turns around when Paige, as usual, has the right idea and starts fixing the fountain. She looks away from the statue for just a moment, then sees it smiling (perception 12). "Oh look! Paige made her happy!" She leans over the edge of the fountain and stares into the water, trying to see if that gross corpse thing is still there.
Xuce (Chris) AC: 18, T: 17, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 21/21 d20+10=26 ; d20+11=30 ; Tuesday January 10th, 2023 3:57:12 PM
Xuce stares into the fountain as the mist fades away he sees himself walking up to each member of the party and killing them slowly but as he blinks the nightmare dissipates and he’s left looking into his own reflection and that of the statue smiling upon him. Xuce then makes his way to the next door and stands off to the left and waits for everyone and is left thinking about what he just witnessed.
(OOC Will save: 26 Perception: 30)
Rhys (Bob W) AC16; CMD 18(20 vs disarm and sunder); HP26/26 Tuesday January 10th, 2023 5:10:25 PM
Rhys isn’t sure of what ranks define the WLA but is quite sure their is no King and Captain seems very far off. ”we’d be lucky to be corporals let alone officers at this point” he observes wryly. He walks over to where the last of the King’s belongings lay and picks up the magical dagger. ”I don’t think we should just leave this lying about. One of us can surely use it, or at worst it will fetch some coin at the catacombs.”. Rhys slides the dagger into the calf of his boot for safekeeping (+1 flaming dagger).
Kwarsk (Wayne) AC 22/T 13/FF 19, HP 30/30, CMD 16/20 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. Tuesday January 10th, 2023 9:00:34 PM
(OOC: Kwarsk automatically makes DC 10 Perception checks)
Kwarsk is surprised at the sudden channeling of energy but then sees, from a distance, the statue's countenance change to a smile. Kwarsk sighs a sigh of relief as one more mystery is apparently resolved, whatever was wrong over there.
Kwarsk strides to the opposite side of the door as Xuce and patiently waits for the group to reassemble, readying his tower shield and drawing his waraxe as he goes.
(if Xuce is on the non-hinged side, Kwarsk will silently gesture with his axe to direct Xuce to move over to the hinged side of the door)
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 27/27 | Fort: +4, Ref: +5, Will: +3 | d20+8=19 ; d20+7=8 ; Tuesday January 10th, 2023 9:01:56 PM
OOC: Perc 19 Know-Religion 8....
Zarsellet looks up at the statue. "It's good to see her smiling now. Good job Paige!"
"Will we be continuing? The doorway in that last room?"
OOC: Or are we resting first?
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 28-1=27 | CMB:6 CMD:17 | Fort:3 Ref:5 Will:1 d20+7=27 ; Tuesday January 10th, 2023 11:03:38 PM
Perception: 27. (Can anyone else Take 10 on this? That's an automatic success!).
Aw, that's sweet. (And a little scary.) If there's only the one room left, I'm good to go. Does anyone absolutely need that short rest?
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 32/32 d20+6=25 ; Tuesday January 10th, 2023 11:45:10 PM ”Alrighty then!” Paige says aloud when she spots the change in the facial expression of the statue (Perception=25) ”We’re finished here? Everybody ready to go through the next door? Maybe we can find this dangerous scroll that has Clarisse and the folks at the ‘Department of Administrative Affairs’ so bothered!”
As the cleric makes her way back through the library room, into the throne room, she talks in a quiet voice to Myre: ”I think you should wear the broach, Myre. It goes really well with the purples and blues in your robes, and matches your eyes perfectly. It’s kind of ‘magical’ that way!”. The cleric winks at the little sorcerer.
Nintos Melinous (Clint) | HP 22/22 | AC:12 T:12 FF:10 | CMD:13 CMB:1 | Fort:3 Ref:3 Will:4 | Merletta (Familiar) HP 11/11 | AC:15 T:14 FF:13 | CMB:0 CMD:6 | Fort:1 Ref:4 Will:2 d20+3=15 ; Wednesday January 11th, 2023 10:30:52 AM
[Perception 15] Seeing Paige’s magic work and the elven now smiling, he notices a few changes to the pool; “The gods have blessed us with the purification! I believe that if we pray to our deity and drink that there are now healing properties in the water and it will help with the fatigue of the day. I also don’t know how, but besides the water that is there it can provide food to sustain us?”
Scratching the even further growth of a beard that has been growing since leaving Plateau City; “That is something I must study once this temple has been fully cleared. But, Zarsellet, are we in the shape needed to continue on? Paige’s channeling has healed us, but I am depleted of most of my arcane abilities.” after looking at those around him and Paige’s own words; “But I can press on if need be.”
He calls for Merletta to rest upon his shoulder before moving on.
DM Melvin - Temple of the King/Fountain Wednesday January 11th, 2023 3:30:03 PM
Myre resists and looks into the fountain again. It now looks perfectly clean.
Xuce, also resisting, just moves to the side.
Rhys and Kwarsk continue to discuss the gear situation.
Kwarsk gets ready to enter the final chamber, glad that the fountain has been cleansed.
Zarsellet is also glad to see the fountain cleansed, and asks if they should continue on. Fingers is ready to go, but allows that someone might need to rest.
Paige is ready to go, and recommends that Myre should wear the broach.
Nintos is quite impressed with the fountain. He is the only one who suggests needing to rest, but he is ready to press on if need be.
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Darkness. The doors to the last chamber open only to darkness.
As you enter, only a single light from overhead activates. The beam falls down to a pedestal in the center of the room, shining off it and a glass scroll case.
People with Darkvision Perception 15 Highlight to display spoiler: {There is a locked treasure chest on a side wall.}
All that is left now is to walk in and take the scroll.
Rhys (Bob W) AC16; CMD 18(20 vs disarm and sunder); HP26/26 d20+5=20 ; Wednesday January 11th, 2023 5:23:18 PM
Rhys peers into the chamber from the door to see the lit pedestal as well as what appears to be a locked chest to one side against a wall. (Perception 20). ”l don’t see any obvious trip wires or other traps from here, but there is a chest over by the wall” the elf observes to his compatriots. ”Surely there is more to protect this scroll than a dark room and a glass case otherwise the kobolds would have been in thereby now…unless by ridding the fountain of corruption we have somehow managed to lower any defences.” Rhys sounds less than certain regarding this last bit.
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 27/27 | Fort: +4, Ref: +5, Will: +3 | d20+8=23 ; Wednesday January 11th, 2023 6:18:19 PM
Zarsellet shrugs. "I don't have any magic to power my music but everything else is good to go. Even got the new sword I can try out. Let's go."
At the door he refreshes his Dancing Lights and is ready to 'push' then through the door once it is opened. Once the door is opened (and he can see something) he casts Detect Magic and scans the area.
OOC: Perception 23, but I do not have Darkvision. Looking for any magical auras, but I am not in the front line.
Xuce (Chris) AC: 18, T: 17, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 21/21 d20+11=22 ; Wednesday January 11th, 2023 6:24:25 PM
Xuce looks into the room now that Zarsellet has his dancing light in the room. "Thanks Zarselelt" (Perception 22)
Kwarsk (Wayne) AC 22/T 13/FF 19, HP 30/30, CMD 16/20 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. d20+11=23 ; Wednesday January 11th, 2023 8:08:09 PM
(OOC - Perception 23; Kwarsk, a dwarf, has Darkvision.)
Kwarsk says, "A fine scroll case and... look there, off to one side, there's a locked treasure chest. How do I know it's a treasure chest? Well, what else could it be? Fingers, care to check it for traps?"
Kwarsk steps 5' inside, then 5' to the right, making room for others, and waraxe and tower shield still at the ready, looking for any ambushers.
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 32/32 Wednesday January 11th, 2023 10:13:25 PM
From the back of the pack, just outside the new room, Paige calls out: ”remember Clarisse reported the vision* from Gargul revealed a guardian protects the scroll! We must retrieve the scroll due to it’s relevance to the Scar, but beware the guardian!”
see DM post 17Aug2022 for Clarisse’s vision
Myre (Carl) -- AC 13/12/11 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/1 Thursday January 12th, 2023 1:16:16 AM Myre nods as she listens to Paige, then puts on the broach. It really does go with her outfit! AND it highlights her eyes! "She really does have all the answers, doesn't she?" Waddles doesn't seem to have an opinion on the matter. Myre hopes he isn't getting jealous. "You can be such a peacock sometimes, you know that?" She stuffs the pig back onto her pack and hurries after her friends.
She listens to her friends comment on what's in the room, especially the bit about a guardian. "Maybe that chest is a mimic or something. Those guard treasure, right?" She shudders involuntarily. "How many new adventurers do you think have gotten all excited about treasure only to find themselves being swallowed before they can react? It seems unfair, if you ask me...and gross." She peers into the darkness. "Maybe we stab it, just to be sure..."
As Nintos sees the glass scroll case his eyes widen with wonder. Almost as with breathing, he cast Detect Magic and begins to study the magic that is in the room. [Spellcraft 13]
Nodding with Paige recollection of Clarisse’s vision; “It seems so long ago, but no matter the guardian we must retrieve it. We need to wait until we can check fully for traps.”
Taking a drink from his waterskin while he waits, he nearly showers those in front of him when Myre mentions the possibility of a mimic. “That would be a terrible fate to any young adventurer, or us. I have done some studying on them before, if it is a mimic we do not want to get close to it or allow it to grapple one of us.” Looking at Myre; “If you do wish to stab it I would suggest shooting an arrow at it first, don’t stroll up to the thing.” [K-Dungeoneering 19]
Rhys notes the chest and looks around. Seeing no traps, he notes that something is up, but maybe cleansing the fountain did something?
Zarsellet casts detect magic and dancing lights.
Nintos also casts detect magic, but needs to wait a round to make the spellcraft check.
Zarsellet and Nintos sees Highlight to display spoiler: {There are auras, on the pedestal, on the case, on the chest... and up above.}
Xuce and Kwarsk enter and look around the room. Kwarsk asks if Fingers would like to check for traps.
Paige remembers and calls out that there is a guardian. Myre wonders if they should stab the chest. Nintos points out that a range attack would be better.
At the casting of dancing lights, the light above the pedestal begins to shift. At Paige's remarks, shadows begin to glow and fall.
Eventually, you see the source of light land between you and the pedestal. It is a humanoid figure obscured by darkness, but you can make out his brilliantly glowing wings, his stern and shining eyes, his drawn mace.
"You have made a grave mistake in pursuing this scroll, whatever your business," he growls. "But it is not too late to turn back now."
Myre (Carl) -- AC 13/12/11 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/1 Thursday January 12th, 2023 6:19:57 PM Myre speaks up quickly, hoping to satisfy her curiosity before violence happens. It's much harder to find answers once stabbing is involved.
"We did? Clarisse was pretty adamant that bad stuff would happen if we didn't come get it, and I don't think she'd lie to us.
"Honestly we don't even know what it is! Could be a strawberry jam recipe for all we know. Maybe you can tell us? Doesn't feel right fighting you when we don't really know why."
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 32/32 Thursday January 12th, 2023 7:09:18 PM
Paige peers past her companions and into the room at the winged figure. ”Hold your fire whilst I discern the nature of this ‘guardian’! It may be a good spirit concerned that the scroll might fall into the wrong hands!”
Orisons: 2/4 used Level 1 spells: 3/3 used Level 2 spells: 0/2 used Domain spells: 0/2
Channel energy: 2/6 used
Wand CLW2: 32 charges remaining
Rhys (Bob W) AC16; CMD 18(20 vs disarm and sunder); HP26/26 d20-1=0 ; d20-1=0 ; Thursday January 12th, 2023 8:15:55 PM
Rhys purposefully leaves his sword secured in its sheath and strapped across his back. Hands empty and pointing forward so that this being can see his exposed palms, the elf strides into the doorway and calls out. ”Peace! Peace! Our goals may be one and the same. Our patrons in the church had a vision that the scroll was in peril and sent us here to rescue it. We too have been charged with its protection.” . (Diplomacy =0, Sense Motive =0).
Rhys is his usual diplomatic self and despite all efforts cannot get a sense of how this winged being might respond to his protestations. All he can do is hope that Paige is right with her intuition about the guardian.
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 27/27 | Fort: +4, Ref: +5, Will: +3 | d20+9=11 ; d20+9=20 ; Thursday January 12th, 2023 8:46:19 PM
Zarsellet calls out as he spots magic. "There's magic, on the pedestal, on the case, on the chest, oh, and up above." Then sees the creature land and issue his challenge. He stays at the dorrway but doesn't enter the room yet. Hearing Paige's call for caution he nods agreement. He adds to Rhys's words, using his 'best' diplomatic voice, "I don't know if they had tried to break in here yet, but we stopped a small tribe of kobolds that were just outside of this door. We'd much rather talk with you than fight."
OOC: Wow! Bad diplomacy rolls all around? My +9 gets me an 11! LOL!!! And Sense Motive 20.
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 28-1=27 | CMB:6 CMD:17 | Fort:3 Ref:5 Will:1 d20+7=25 ; Thursday January 12th, 2023 11:43:52 PM
Fingers moves to K18:L19. While everyone else is rightfully paying attention to the guardian, he looks for traps and such the best he can from this spot. (Perception: 25, +1 vs traps)
Xuce (Chris) AC: 18, T: 17, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 21/21 d20+9=19 ; Friday January 13th, 2023 7:25:19 AM
Xuce moves in front of Myre (L14) and in a whisper "I thought we just talked about this..." (Sense Motive 19)
Myre (Carl) -- AC 13/12/11 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/1 Friday January 13th, 2023 11:10:18 AM Myre whispers out the side of her mouth at Xuce. "We're not fighting yet! It doesn't count!"
Nintos Melinous (Clint) | HP 22/22 | AC:12 T:12 FF:10 | CMD:13 CMB:1 | Fort:3 Ref:3 Will:4 | Merletta (Familiar) HP 11/11 | AC:15 T:14 FF:13 | CMB:0 CMD:6 | Fort:1 Ref:4 Will:2 d20+10=26 ; Friday January 13th, 2023 12:01:40 PM
[Spellcraft 26] Seeing the auras Nintos speaks up; “Yes, everything is magical in here… more than I would” As the winged humanoid appears his attention quickly turns to the guardian.
Nintos enters but hugs the wall towards the chest, but only a few feet away from Paige and whispers to her; “I don’t specialize in this, but don’t angels have wings?”
[ooc]Do we have our spells/abilities from leveling up or do we need to rest first?[/ooc] Nintos’ holds from doing anything that could turn this situation sour.
Myre attempts some diplomacy first, dropping some information.
Paige guesses that this might be a good spirit and casts detect evil. (No evil is detected.)
Rhys makes an attempt at diplomacy, but he is so bad that the shrouded figure looks quite concerned.
Zarsellet does a little better at diplomacy, insisting that they just wish to talk. He presumably continues with detect magic, noting that they are of moderate strength.
Fingers moves to look for traps. Xuce suspects a trap of his own. Nintos is himself nervous, having not seen the wings.
Knowledge Arcana DC 18 Highlight to display spoiler: {They are all moderate abjuration magic.}
Spellcraft DC 18 or Nintos Highlight to display spoiler: {The pedestal is surrounded by a magic circle against evil. The scroll case is surrounded by nondetection. The chest is arcane locked.}
As Fingers moves, the shrouded figure fires a spell at him, but it has seemingly no effect except to mollify the figure.
Spellcraft DC 15 Highlight to display spoiler: {He's been casting detect evil himself, constantly.}
Finally, the figure stands down himself. "I am Evanthe, guardian and angel of the room, a volunteer to remain behind to protect the scroll against evil doers. Of which you do not seem to be... and your desire to talk rather than fight speaks well to your wisdom (glancing at Rhys) if not your eloquence. But I am not familiar with this Clarisse, or this Church. Of where did you say that you hailed? You said some peril is coming?"
Rhys (Bob W) AC16; CMD 18(20 vs disarm and sunder); HP26/26 Friday January 13th, 2023 6:54:23 PM ”Truth be told Evanthe, I feel more comfortable with a sword in my hand than I do with words in my mouth.”Rhys looks abashed as he speaks. But all I have said is true. We have been sent by the Black Cathedral in Plateau City, by the clerics of Gargul, because one of them had a dire vision about the scroll.”. The elf stays a safe distance from the guardian, sure that the angels gaze can see right through to his very core.
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 27/27 | Fort: +4, Ref: +5, Will: +3 | Friday January 13th, 2023 7:16:39 PM
Zarsellet sheaths his little sword and smiles at the creature. He steps up by Xuce, "That's great to hear Evanthe. I'm Zarsellet Farhing, and I very much prefer singing to swinging a sword. Those kobolds were more fighting than I like seeing. How long have you been guarding that thing? Seems to me that if it's that dangerous it should just be destroyed. Protect the world the simple way...."
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 28-1=27 | CMB:6 CMD:17 | Fort:3 Ref:5 Will:1 d20+11=15 ; d20+3=21 ; d20+3=6 ; Friday January 13th, 2023 11:20:52 PM
Arcana: 15. Ouch. Spellcraft: 21 Okay good to know. Spellcraft: 6. He must have cast Detect Handsome or something.
Uh, if you're not sure about us...perhaps you can come with and deliver the scroll yourself?
Kwarsk (Wayne) AC 22/T 13/FF 19, HP 30/30, CMD 16/20 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. Friday January 13th, 2023 11:23:05 PM
(OOC: missed yesterday, sorry, but my Wednesday post, "5' inside and 5' to the right," would have placed Kwarsk at M16.)
Kwarsk was bewildered and awed at this glowing creature called... Evanthe?
Kwarsk, seeing that Rhys has the right flank, slowly walks over to near Paige (OOC: M16 -> J15) for an unobstructed view of Evanthe. Kwarsk grimaces. I should be in front, but this is parley time and all the silver tongues are in front. Hmm...
Nintos Melinous (Clint) | HP 22/22 | AC:12 T:12 FF:10 | CMD:13 CMB:1 | Fort:3 Ref:3 Will:4 | Merletta (Familiar) HP 11/11 | AC:15 T:14 FF:13 | CMB:0 CMD:6 | Fort:1 Ref:4 Will:2 d20+10=14 ; d20+10=12 ; Saturday January 14th, 2023 7:03:00 AM
[Arcana 14 | Spellcraft 12] Not being the most diplomatic of the bunch Nintos leaves himself to study the magics in the room. Still standing near Paige and Kwarsk he whispers to them; “The magic around the pillar would not harm us. It is against things that are evil. I believe we are on the same side.”
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 32/32 Sunday January 15th, 2023 12:18:44 AM
The cleric of Domi concentrates on the cone of detection*, and pushes her focus beyond the winged creature towards the scroll to learn if perhaps it might be an evil thing.
”The one called ‘Clarisse’ is a servant of Gargul, the god of life and death in the Wold and beyond. At some time in her youth she appears to have learned of this cave and visited it with dwarvain friends. Her god recently sent her a vision that she has chosen to share with us. This scroll is linked to a ruined place in Plateau City that sits under a mysterious curse and is know as The Scar. The church hopes to amend the curse that condemns The Scar to remain in ruins, and allow the place to recover and thrive.
Detect evil second round
Myre (Carl) -- AC 13/12/11 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/1 Sunday January 15th, 2023 1:07:36 AM "Waddles, I need to start paying attention." She only thinks it, but that's enough.
Myre keeps quiet, but wonders if she could just walk up and grab the scroll. The figure said he was there to guard it from evil doers. Myre is not evil. No sir...not even a little.
"Logic seems sound enough..." she mumbles quietly to herself.
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 32/32 Monday January 16th, 2023 11:07:42 PM
Whilst Paige awaits the winged guardian’s response to the party’s overtures, she takes note of where her companions have positioned themselves around the chamber.
Zarsellet notes that it might be better to just destroy the thing. Evanthe stares at the scroll like the thought never even occurred to him.
Fingers asks if Evanthe can deliver the scroll itself.
Kwarsk continues to circle the area, wanting to be on the front lines. Evanthe pretty clearly watches this, one of the few actions that can be construed as aggressive.
Nintos passes along the message regarding the pillar.
Paige explains who Clarisse is. Evanthe replies that he does remember a group visiting a while ago.
Myre wonders if they should just run up and take it, if it's only protected against evil things.
Evanthe does ultimately relax. "Long ago, I volunteered to remain here and guard the scroll. I do not truly know of what the scroll is, except that if must be protected from evil. And now, it would appear that my time to protect it has passed, if you truly wish to take on that burden. You have shown that you are capable. You have braved the challenges, but you have also risked the scroll itself to do what is right.
"I meant what I said in the beginning. To take the scroll is heartbreak, even if it is ultimately necessary for stopping the evil that gathers. Even if you desire the scroll only to protect it. If you take it, I suggest some precautions... keeping its non-detection scroll case, for instance. Otherwise, I wish to you all, the best of luck."
And with that, Evanthe began to fly back from where he once came.
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 32/32 Tuesday January 17th, 2023 2:42:31 PM
Paige watches as the angel goes…wherever angels go. ”Hmmm…so the case protects the scroll from being seen…more or less.” The cleric looks over the party, and recognizing a fellow adventurer who is both lawful and good and furthermore has a strong inclination to protect she suggests Kwarsk be the scroll bearer.
The half elf contemplates the idea of ‘heartbreak’, but having no real experience with the emotion, she shrugs her shoulders.
Rhys (Bob W) AC16; CMD 18(20 vs disarm and sunder); HP26/26 Tuesday January 17th, 2023 2:58:17 PM
Rhys feels relieved at the disappearance of the angel. It is discomforting to think that a being can peer directly into your soul and see every weakness and frailty. He looks over at the chest ” That may contain things that will help us protect the scroll on its journey back to Plateau City and the Black Cathedral…care to see what you can do Fingers?” . Rhys stands back not knowing just how proficient the taur is with these kinds of locks and traps.
Myre (Carl) -- AC 13/12/11 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/1 Tuesday January 17th, 2023 4:34:56 PM "Maybe..." Myre starts, gears whirling, "it's literally bad for your heart. Maybe it prematurely ages your heart to the point where it...well, breaks." She frowns. "Probably not, though. It's a weird choice of words, isn't it? I would have expected something like 'despair' or 'suffering', but heartbreak? Well, I'm just glad we didn't have to fight that guy. He seems nice."
Myre walks up to the scroll, but won't touch it. She just wants a good look. Maybe it's unrolled some and she can read it. She does keep an eye out for the case too...
Xuce (Chris) AC: 18, T: 17, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 21/21 d20+11=31 ; Tuesday January 17th, 2023 9:19:00 PM
Xuce walks back to the door and makes sure no one is sneaking around. (Perception: 31)
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 27/27 | Fort: +4, Ref: +5, Will: +3 | d20+7=8 ; Tuesday January 17th, 2023 9:44:12 PM
Zarsellet casts his detect magic again and studies the lock. "Could the arcane lock be covering something? Perhaps a trigger to a magical trap? But I'm not seeing anything...."
OOC: And a 1 rolled for Knowledge-Arcana, total of 8 so "I know nothing!"
Kwarsk (Wayne) AC 22/T 13/FF 19, HP 30/30, CMD 16/20 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. d20+11=17 ; Tuesday January 17th, 2023 10:51:18 PM
Kwarsk is in contemplation of Evanthe's words, and also Evanthe's piercing gaze as Kwarsk shifted position in case of a fight, but hoping words would solve the matter. Apparently words did solve the matter, Kwarsk thinks to himself.
After Paige speaks, Kwarsk says, " Paige, wait, I know I would do my best, but shouldn't the scroll be locked in the Cathedral or the City Council's chambers with lots of guards instead of travelling with me, with us, wherever we adventure?
(to all the group) What do the rest of you think?"
While waiting for replies, Kwarsk slowly walks over to the door near Xuce and also watches for an ambush.
(OOC Perception = 17)
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 28-1=27 | CMB:6 CMD:17 | Fort:3 Ref:5 Will:1 d20+8=15 ; d20+10=24 ; Tuesday January 17th, 2023 11:00:19 PM
Muuru watches the being fly away. No one tell the Adventurers back home that we talked ourselves out of a boss battle. We’d never live it down. He’s not his usual snarky self when he says this; somehow he feels…ennobled by this Presence, and somewhat taken aback by the warning.
Uh, yeah, Kwarsk; hide that case deep in your backpack. If anyone asks – like the kobolds – we say that our plunder consists of whatever’s in that chest. With that, Muuru goes to the chest, checks for traps (Perception:15 ), and unlocks it (Disable Device: 24) )
Nintos Melinous (Clint) | HP 22/22 | AC:12 T:12 FF:10 | CMD:13 CMB:1 | Fort:3 Ref:3 Will:4 | Merletta (Familiar) HP 11/11 | AC:15 T:14 FF:13 | CMB:0 CMD:6 | Fort:1 Ref:4 Will:2 Wednesday January 18th, 2023 10:24:22 AM
Hearing that the scroll case prevents outside forces to detect it causes Nintos to think; “Fascinating, It does cause me to wonder if nothing is supposed to be able to detect it why was it able to be found.”
As Rhys mentions the chest; “There is an arcane lock on that chest,” Before Evanthe flies up; “Do you have a key, or a way to open the chest?”
Looking to Kwarsk; “I believe that Paige means you should be the bearer of it back to where we are going, not for the rest of your days.”
Nintos also joins Myre in looking over the scroll, if there are any visible parts of the text. Is it written in common, elven, celestial… Nintos ponders.
Paige suggests that Kwarsk carry the scroll. She notes that she has no real experience with heartbreak, but the campaign is still young. (Seriously, that sounded like a challenge to a DM finishing up the next module.)
Rhys notes that its uncomfortable to be on the wrong side of a scan, even if the scanner is on your side. He asks Fingers to try and unlock the chest.
Myre takes him at his literal word, then asks why heartbreak specifically. She tries to read it without touching it, but it's still pretty tightly wound.
Xuce checks for anyone behind them but the path out is clear.
Zarsellet tries to take a look at the trap, but fails.
Knowledge 17 Highlight to display spoiler: {The spell is what locks the chest, boosting the DC needed to pick the lock. It can be dispelled or suppressed, i.e. by knock. Or you can see if the angel will help out.}
Kwarsk reminds them that they should really take it to the Cathedral. Nintos suggests that might be what Paige had in mind.
Before the angel leaves, Fingers tries really well at disabling the chest. Feeling sorry for the guy, and because Nintos asked nicely, the angel helps Fingers out and the chest unlocks.
Fingers feels ennobled and nervous. He also hopes vainly that tales of talking their way out of a boss battle doesn't become cannon.
Nintos wonders why this particular set if it wasn't supposed to be found. But perhaps it was only supposed to be found by the right people.
The arcane locked chest(unlocked by Evanthe) contains: a mithral chain shirt(1100gp), masterwork cold iron longsword(330gp), masterwork silver dagger(322gp), ring of protection +1(2000gp), ring of feather falling(2200gp), boots of elvenkind(2500gp), cloak of elvenkind(2500gp), amulet of natural armor +1(2000gp), brooch of shielding(1500gp), eyes of the eagle(2500gp), bag of holding 1(2500gp), bracers of armor +1(1000gp), cloak of resistance +1(1000gp), and a chime of opening(3000gp)
For now, the cave is quiet, only lit by a few sources flashing against the blue quartz gems in the rock. The fountain itself awaits travelers in need of healing and rest. The kobolds are long gone. The group takes the scroll in its case, though one can open and unscroll it easily.
It looks like it might be time to rest, mine or head for home.
Xuce (Chris) AC: 18, T: 17, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 21/21 Wednesday January 18th, 2023 4:23:09 PM
Xuce would like to coin toss (or the equivalent) for the Boots of Elvenkind, Eyes of the Eagle, and the Cloak of Resistance +1.
Xuce walks around the room "This place would be as good as any to rest for the night and go over things we have learned and found in this place."
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 32/32 Wednesday January 18th, 2023 5:54:40 PM
Paige ‘face palms’ when the dwarf mistakes her intent, and nods her head in agreement when Nintos straightens things out. ”Maybe you and Myre could have a look at the scroll when we get back to ‘the Patch? If Kwarsk is worried about being the bearer over the time it takes to get back to the city, maybe you’d like to do it?”[/ i]
The cleric lets Xuce and the rest of the party know she’s in agreement that they take a long rest before heading for home. She suggests the ‘Fountain Room’ is as good as any in the string of chambers.
If the party decides to ‘make camp’ in the cave, Paige will spend some time explaining to the newest party members -Xuce and Zarsellet that the group has a ‘lair’ in the [i]Nightmare Quarter with lots of space, individual bedrooms, and even a courtyard for martial training or other outdoor pursuits. She’ll explain that it was a ‘gift’ from the Black Cathedral after the party routed a poisoners guild. She expresses her hope that the halfling and the gnome will continue adventuring with the group.
”We don’t have a name yet, but we call our place ‘The Patch’”
Rhys (Bob W) AC18; CMD 18(20 vs disarm and sunder); HP26/26 Wednesday January 18th, 2023 9:08:03 PM
Rhys agrees with the others, time for a rest. ” I don’t know about the rest of you, but I feel the need for more sustenance than that provided by some magic fountain water. Give me a few minutes and I will bring in our provisions and get started on a meal.”. After a few moments the bard returns with two large burlap sacks , one containing a mixed assortment of potatoes and root vegetables, and the other containing a wheel of cheese, a cured ham, and two large salamis wrapped in cheesecloth. He settles down to start preparing a meal.
When the topic of ‘The Patch’ comes up, the elf pipes in with a brief description of the building, it’s rooms, and more importantly the role they hope ‘The Patch’ will play in the poorer area of the Nightmare Quarter. ” We are still setting it up. Fingers has an area set aside for an alchemy lab and assorted alchemy supplies, and Paige has a room set aside for an infirmary. We hope to be able to provide needed medical, magical and where necessary protective services to the less fortunate in the area around the Black Cathedral . While we are away one of the orphanages is helping look after the place. If you are interested you are more than welcome to join us and help in the cause.” . He looks at the two newest members of the team with a hopeful expression.
Kwarsk (Wayne) AC 22/T 13/FF 19, HP 30/30, CMD 16/20 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. Wednesday January 18th, 2023 10:13:44 PM
Kwarsk's cheeks flush red, then back to normal, and he says to Paige and Nintos, "Ah, sorry, 'bearer' is more of a job title in the Scab, not just a temporary task."
Kwarsk looks over the loot. "Wow, that's a lot! Hm, Fingers you should flip a coin with Xuce over those Eyes of the Eagle - you're our trap-finder!
As for me... I'd flip a coin to try to get the amulet of natural armor and the ring of protection - really make it hard for foes to take me down!"
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 27/27 | Fort: +4, Ref: +5, Will: +3 | Wednesday January 18th, 2023 10:16:04 PM
Having failed spectacularly trying to figure out the magic Zarsellet goes with Rhys to get some food for the group. "I haven't trained any at cooking but I am interested. The book I found is interesting but I'm sure I'll learn more by doing. Let me help." He accepts any direction and helps with the meal preparation.
When Rhys explains the work in a place called 'The Patch' Zarsellet listens. "So besides it being a place to live we'd be helping out anyone that needs it? Count me in. I've had a pretty good life and that sounds like a good way to pay it back."
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 28-1=27 | CMB:6 CMD:17 | Fort:3 Ref:5 Will:1 Wednesday January 18th, 2023 11:58:01 PM If we're comparing wish-lists, Kwarsk is right -- I'd like those Eyes too! Hopefully the monk won't make me wrestle him for them. Also, I'd love the bag of holding -- a real conversation starter, that is!
If I lose those die rolls, I'll be happy with anything else as long as it fits me.
Nintos Melinous (Clint) | HP 22/22 | AC:12 T:12 FF:10 | CMD:13 CMB:1 | Fort:3 Ref:3 Will:4 | Merletta (Familiar) HP 11/11 | AC:15 T:14 FF:13 | CMB:0 CMD:6 | Fort:1 Ref:4 Will:2 d20+8=13 ; Thursday January 19th, 2023 8:02:33 AM
When Evanthe opens the chest Nintos slightly bows; “Thank you, we will do all we can with this to keep the scroll safe and out of the hands of evil.
As others begin to look through the magical items within, his jaw drops at what all is within. Seeing a few things within he speaks up;[b] “As Myre would know, for those who conjure the arcane armor is a real hinderance. I would put a chip in the hat for those Bracers of Armor. Everyone would benefit from that resistance cloak. But, I would put a chip in the hat for the Ring and Brooch, those are always handy situational things to have.”
Myre (Carl) -- AC 13/12/11 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/1 Thursday January 19th, 2023 12:29:55 PM Myre looks over the haul. "The bag may be best as party property. I've already got fancy bracers, but the ring would sure help." She looks to Nintos. "Maybe we lightweights can split them?"
She's reluctant to claim anything else. The cloak would be pretty nice, but it's the ring she'd really like.
Xuce suggests that they rest for the night, and that they coin toss for loot.
Paige explains herself, and suggests they look at the scroll when they get back. She agrees to rest for the night, and gets the new people up to speed.
Rhys brings in their food and they begin to camp. He explains some of the amenities.
Kwarsk lays down some of the things that he would like. (You can use the dice rollers to divide loot but you should have this discussion over email and/or through a shared google sheet. Not really sure how coin flips work if three people want something, though.)
Zarsellet attempts some cooking, and notes that he's ready to give back in life.
Fingers throws his wish list in as well.
Nintos says thank you to the angel. "No, thank you," Evanthe replied, "for proving that at least one of you has some manners. Farewell, and may you find what you are searching for."
The group takes some time to set up camp and to divide the loot. It might be time to discuss where you will sleep, as well.
Rhys (Bob W) AC18; CMD 18(20 vs disarm and sunder); HP26/26 Thursday January 19th, 2023 4:16:09 PM
Rhys leads Zarsellet through some meal preparation. The various vegetables are cleaned, cubed and placed in a large pot with water and salt and heated over a small fire in the outermost chamber. While they cook, the cured ham is sliced and the rind removed from the cheese before it too is sliced. As the vegetables and potatoes cook the elf sprinkles in a mix of herbs and spices. ”Normally I would add the meat into the vegetables to make a stew, but Fingers doesn’t eat meat so I’ll keep them separate and folks can help themselves to what they wish.”
It doesn’t take long before a heart vegetable stew with sides of cheese and ham are ready to eat. ”It’s a pity I didn’t see fit to include a keg of ale on the cart, 8 suppose the magic water in the fountain will have to suffice”.
The elf will take first watch and see the the horse and cart before being relieved.
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 27/27 | Fort: +4, Ref: +5, Will: +3 | Thursday January 19th, 2023 7:52:26 PM
Zarsellet enjoys working to make the stew. He is surprised at the mention of Fingers being vegetarian. He'd heard of people not eating meat but couldn't imagine it himself. "Is that a personal preference or some sort of penance? I've heard of people swearing some sort of oath like that too.... Not me though. Meat's good!"
Once the food is ready he does a quick headcount and calls out to anyone that isn't in sight. "The food's ready. Enjoy!"
OOC: He'll take whatever watch is open. He can't see in the dark but can keep his magical lights active.
Xuce (Chris) AC: 18, T: 17, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 21/21 Thursday January 19th, 2023 8:31:43 PM
Xuce takes a bow of stew and after a few bites, says "Thanks Rhys and Zarsellet this is outstanding. I should be good to take any watch so long as I have some light to see with."
Kwarsk (Wayne) AC 22/T 13/FF 19, HP 30/30, CMD 16/20 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. Thursday January 19th, 2023 10:42:53 PM
Kwarsk stands for a moment, perhaps lost in thought, then speaks to the group, "Friends, it's about time to sleep before heading back, and we have a lot of choices as to where to sleep. I suggest, if the door out is sturdy enough, we pick the library. It has a lot of heavy bookshelves we can shove to block the door from the inside so we can sleep in peace. What say you?"
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 28 | CMB:6 CMD:17 | Fort:3 Ref:5 Will:1 Thursday January 19th, 2023 11:16:53 PM Rhys, just serve my bowl first, then add the meat to the rest.
No one back home eats meat, really. Since I've started traveling, I try some out of curiosity, or to be sociable. But most times...(shudders a little) ...there's more for the rest of you.
Now about splitting the loot: have you heard of the "round robin" method? That's where all of us roll dice, and that tells us the order in which we pick an item from the stash. We go around again until nothing's left.
Maybe Nintos should roll twice -- once for himself and once as the party quartermaster. For that last one, he picks items that should be shared by the party, like the Bag or Holding.
Myre (Carl) -- AC 13/12/11 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/1 Thursday January 19th, 2023 11:27:53 PM Myre sits cross-legged with a bowl of stew in her lap. She nods at Fingers' suggestion. "That sounds reasonable enough to me." She takes her first spoonful of stew and sighs contentedly. "We should just use that bag of holding to keep Rhys stocked with ingredients. It'll be our portable pantry." She takes another spoonful and resumes talking before it's swallowed. "Cush I'm naa goin back ta rashons aftah this."
After finishing up, she asks about those kobolds. "We just gonna kick'em out of the cave and tell them to behave themselves? Fine by me if we are, especially if we can barricade ourselves in the library with that creepy statue."
OOC: Reminder that our wiki page has our watch order.
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 32/32 d20+6=11 ; Friday January 20th, 2023 12:13:04 AM ”Looks to me like the kobolds are long gone*, Myre” volunteers the cleric - making a little stack of cheese and ham. ”and it looks like there’s only one way in or out of this place. I’d be more comfortable taking up watch closer to the cave entrance, and bedding down where there’s some fresh air, afterwards.”.
Having finished the cheese and ham, Paige fills a tin mug with the soup, grabs her pack and finds a spot that lets her keep an eye on the cave entrance without being seen herself. She takes out the pearl she has acquired and studies it for a while, then puts the magical bauble away and concentrates on the task at hand. (Perception = 11).
”I wonder what Evanthe’s comment ‘to take the scroll means heartache’ is about?” she asks the individual with whom she shares a watch.
*DM post 18Jan2024
Nintos Melinous (Clint) | HP 22/22 | AC:12 T:12 FF:10 | CMD:13 CMB:1 | Fort:3 Ref:3 Will:4 | Merletta (Familiar) HP 11/11 | AC:15 T:14 FF:13 | CMB:0 CMD:6 | Fort:1 Ref:4 Will:2 d20+10=13 ; Friday January 20th, 2023 10:14:12 AM
Nintos takes this time to look over the spellbook and scrolls. He finds a location off by himself so he can study the See Invisibility scroll. He takes an hour studying the spell in an attempt to add it to his spell book, this way he can recall the spell in the future and use it as needed. [Spellcraft: 13]
In his frustration he rolls back the scroll and puts it in his scroll case. Mumbling to himself; “This is not a proper location to study… Once we get back to plateau city I will try again at the library.”
[ooc: Ar we allowed to just say that the bag of holding is a party item and not roll for it? It is something that we would always want to use anyway, right?]
Rhys and Zarsellet cook and talk over Fingers being a vegetarian and about how alcohol would be good right now.
Xuce is quite appreciative of the food.
Kwarsk suggests camping in the library so that they can use bookshelves to block the doors.
Fingers suggests a good way to split the loot. He notes that the vegetarian thing is cultural.
Myre wonders about the kobolds but telling whoever is left to get out and behave themselves generally does the trick. She suggests keeping a bag of holding available for food.
Paige notes that the kobolds escaped and don't seem to be coming back. She votes to sleep at the cave entrance, and continues to wonder about the use of the term "heartache," though no answers seem forthcoming as of yet.
Nintos asks if they can just make something a party item. (OOC: You can do that by everyone adding to the sheet at 1/8 wealth and deciding who carries it. Other groups can and have done so.) He has trouble adding spells to his book and decides to wait until later.
You continue to work out a watch schedule (if you haven't already, you can use that schedule for any time) and discuss traps. I'll give you the weekend to come to some consensus. Otherwise, I'll take the seeming majority vote on monday.
Kwarsk (Wayne) AC 22/T 13/FF 19, HP 30/30, CMD 16/20 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. Friday January 20th, 2023 9:57:44 PM
Kwarsk says, "Before we go to sleep, we haven't added Xuce and Zarsellet to the watch order. Zarsellet, would you be willing to pair with Rhys for the 1 a.m. to 4 a.m. watch? Xuce, would you be willing to pair with Nintos for the 4 a.m. to 7 a.m. watch?
As for the bag of holding, thinking about it, I too think it should be a party item, perhaps rotating among the three of us who are extra-good at dodging attacks, even magic. That is, myself, Fingers, and Xuce, though I think Fingers, with all his tools, would most appreciate carrying the bag all the time," Kwarsk finishes with a smile.
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 27/27 | Fort: +4, Ref: +5, Will: +3 | Friday January 20th, 2023 11:35:15 PM
Zarsellet nods to Kwarsk on the subject of the watch schedule. "Sure I'll pair with Rhys in the middle of the night. And I'll keep the lights on...."
"Wouldn't a bag of holding be a bit of a load for a little guy like me, or Xuce? It's a great utility item that should be for the good of the party. But I know I wouldn't want to be lugging around a bag that weighed close to half of my weight."
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 28 | CMB:6 CMD:17 | Fort:3 Ref:5 Will:1 d100=97 ; Friday January 20th, 2023 11:39:37 PM Yeah, I would; that's why I hoped to get it in the rounds of choosing. But unless there are any objections, sure; let's call it our party item.
For everything else: Does everyone agree to the round-robin method? In case you say "yes" I'm going to make my roll now:
d100 = 97
Kwarsk (Wayne) AC 22/T 13/FF 19, HP 30/30, CMD 16/20 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. d100=6 ; Saturday January 21st, 2023 1:59:15 PM
Kwarsk follows Fingers' lead, and rolls the bones!
(OOC - Result = 6)
Rhys (Bob W) AC18; CMD 18(20 vs disarm and sunder); HP26/26 d100=73 ; Saturday January 21st, 2023 4:49:40 PM
Rhys remains unsure about the method proposed for dividing up the spoils of battle but rolls the bones before taking his watch (73)
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 32/32 d100=55 ; Saturday January 21st, 2023 5:53:49 PM
Paige agrees that the bag of holding is a good item to share. She considers the wand of CLW2 in a similar vein. Though more than happy to wield it for the benefit of her friends, she hopes another would not hesitate to take it and wield it if she was to become incapacitated.
The cleric prays that everyone is able to select a prize that suits their needs. She is pretty happy with items she has acquired to date, and only wants a little gold to sponsor her advancement with the WLA. (D100=55)
Xuce (Chris) AC: 18, T: 17, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 21/21 d100=100 ; Saturday January 21st, 2023 6:52:15 PM
As Xuce is setting out his things for a night's rest "Yeah I can pull watch with Nintos. And having the Bag of Holding be a party item is a good idea."
(OOC are we going highest to lowest or low to high? d100=100)
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 27/27 | Fort: +4, Ref: +5, Will: +3 | Sunday January 22nd, 2023 2:53:35 PM
OOC: I already got the MW armor and sword, and most everything on the list is better suited to someone other than me. Can I just take the last place on the list so everyone else gets their pick before me?
Myre (Carl) -- AC 13/12/11 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/1 d100=78 ; Sunday January 22nd, 2023 3:53:21 PM Myre agrees with the round robin plan as well & rolls the dice.
She perks up when Paige suggests camping at the entrance. "That's a good idea! We could keep an eye on the outside too that way."
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 28 | CMB:6 CMD:17 | Fort:3 Ref:5 Will:1 Sunday January 22nd, 2023 11:20:19 PM
[B]Xuce, I didn't want to emphasize this when I rolled a 97, but we usually go from highest to lowest. You win!
Zar, I guess anyone can lower their number or skip the whole thing if they like.
Has everyone rolled?
DM Melvin - Cave Entrance Monday January 23rd, 2023 11:53:16 AM
Kwarsk adds Xuce and Zarsellet to the watch list, and suggests rotating the bag of holding.
Zarsellet agrees to the watch but notes that he's got a load limit.
Fingers notes that he can use it more than others but agrees to make it a party item. He begins the round robin, and Kwarsk follows, followed by Rhys.
Paige wonders if the wand of CLW should be a party item (particularly if she's the one who needs healing). She's generally happy with what she has.
Xuce rolls. Zarsellet picks the last on the list instead of rolling, feeling that he already got what he wanted.
Myre hops on to Paige's idea, and that seems to be the consensus.
While the group uses (offscreen) methods to divide the loot, they settle in at the entrance to the cave, making sure that nobody comes in. And with dancing treasure in their head, they fall asleep (except on watch).
Xuce (Chris) AC: 18, T: 17, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 21/21 Monday January 23rd, 2023 5:17:22 PM
(OOC Xuce's first pick would be the boots of elvenkind)
Rhys (Bob W) AC18; CMD 18(20 vs disarm and sunder); HP26/26 d20+6=23 ; Monday January 23rd, 2023 7:12:34 PM
Rhys checks on the horse and cart and then collects any samples of the blue crystals left behind by the long departed kobolds. He hopes they may prove valuable to the miners guild along with his sketching of the surrounding area. It has been his experience in the past that the species of vegetation in an area often reflects the surrounding geology and mineralogy (Survival 23). A number of questions race through his minds as he awaits his turn on watch… What is the scroll, why might it result in heartbreak? What trauma resulted in Clarisse’s lack of memory and might it have been caused by the corrupted well? How are things back at the Patch and what progress has been made on the shop sign he had commissioned before leaving on this adventure? And finally, what of these feelings niggling in the darker recesses of his thoughts that he might not be suited to sit on the Elven Council as was his father’s wish? Was being an adventurer and member of the WLA his real calling? . Rhys spends an uncomfortable night wrestling with his thoughts
Myre (Carl) -- AC 13/12/11 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/1 Monday January 23rd, 2023 8:28:10 PM
After Myre finishes her first watch, she lies down to sleep. Just before she closes her eyes, she has a realization.
"We're going to have to go up all those lifts again, aren't we?" She groans, then falls asleep.
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 32/32 Monday January 23rd, 2023 8:32:44 PM
When Paige sees Rhys making notes about the cave and surroundings, she is reminded of the party’s promise to the Guilds back in Plateau City. The cleric fishes out her maps, and fills in some of the blanks with additional details during her watch, taking breaks to reconnaissance the front of the cave and around the entrance.
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 27/27 | Fort: +4, Ref: +5, Will: +3 | d20+8=22 ; Monday January 23rd, 2023 9:30:46 PM
After the meal and clean-up Zarsellet spends a little more time searching the books again. He knows it's silly, but he's hoping to find another book about cooking, hopefully NOT written by an orc, kobold, or similar race. He wonders if lizardfolk cook their food....
OOC: Perception 22 to find any such book?
Whether or not he finds anything he settles down for the night relaxed as he can be. Tomorrow they'd be heading back to the city and their homes. He promised himself at least one good sleep in a bed. He considers learning a magical lullaby to help himself fall asleep but realizes that it probably wouldn't work.... then quickly drifts off to sleep.
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 28 | CMB:6 CMD:17 | Fort:3 Ref:5 Will:1 Monday January 23rd, 2023 11:20:26 PM
Muuru choose the Eyes of the Eagle. He puts the lenses on and looks around; does it make his vision better all the time, or is it only for close work, like a jeweler's loupe?
He goes to sleep along with the others. When its time for his watch, assuming Kwarsk doesn't object, he'll take a little time to wander around the library, looking for anything about magic, history, crafting, or the story behind that fountain.
Kwarsk (Wayne) AC 22/T 13/FF 19, HP 30/30, CMD 16/20 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. Tuesday January 24th, 2023 12:37:57 PM
Kwarsk says, "Fingers, as long as you're awake on our watch and can hear or smell intruders, I think we're good."
Rhys takes some samples of the blue crystals along with some sketches, hoping to give them to the miners guild. (His survival check does confirm that there are a number of minable blue crystals in the cave and surrounding area.) He spends his nights thinking about what might come.
Myre realizes that they have to go up the lifts again. (Probably, though I need time to look up what that means.)
Paige, remembering their promise, helps Rhys out
Zarsellet looks for a specific cookbook, but doesn't seem to find one fitting his desires. He tries to sleep in the surroundings.
Fingers spends his time for the watch checking out his eyes of the eagle (they improve all perception checks) and getting some basic knowledge about stuff. He learns a few things that help explain his new abilities, but as a matter of finding exposition, it looks like all the secrets that the cave held that can be revealed has been revealed.
Kwarsk agrees that Fingers can do it.
Everyone exits the cave the next morning, and it is a beautiful day. The scroll remains nestled in the non-detect case one of you carries out. A soft breeze floats past each of you.
With a nod of your heart, you begin taking the long trail back to the miners and eventually back home.
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 27/27 | Fort: +4, Ref: +5, Will: +3 | Tuesday January 24th, 2023 5:31:41 PM
Although he is disappointed at not finding another cookbook Zarsellet does get an OK night of sleep. They prepare and eat an OK breakfast and set out for their home. He thinks about the lift and is actually looking forward to it this time. Up this time, not down. Not that he wants it to happen, but he does wonder if the lift has something like a featherfall magic on it to prevent a total disaster if the lift were to break loose....
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 28 | CMB:6 CMD:17 | Fort:3 Ref:5 Will:1 Tuesday January 24th, 2023 11:32:19 PM
Muuru holds open the bag of holding so the sunlight can shine in.
Hey, this thing's only about two feet across and deep. That's a little disappointing; some of these are like the size of a room inside. But this one should hold about 250 pounds.
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 32/32 Tuesday January 24th, 2023 11:59:05 PM
If Kwarsk declines the role of protector of the scroll, Paige hopes Nintos will accept the task and that the dwarf will act as his body guard.
If neither of them wish to assume the burden, the cleric will take on the responsibility of transporting the scroll.
Myre (Carl) -- AC 13/12/11 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/1 d20+5=15 ; Wednesday January 25th, 2023 12:38:06 AM
Myre remembers that woman who said she'd pay for mining locations. She didn't think the place they came from. "Maybe I could tell her she can mine for knowledge in the library? She doesn't seem like the kind to appreciate the pun."
She will keep an eye out for potential cave entrances as she walks (perception 15).
Rhys (Bob W) AC18; CMD 18(20 vs disarm and sunder); HP26/26 d20+6=9 ; Wednesday January 25th, 2023 8:22:09 AM
Rhys double checks the harnessing of each mule and ensures that everything is loaded and secured in the cart before departing. Along the way he continues to scan his surroundings, not only for things of geological interest, but also for any signs of the escaped kobolds or other dangers. Perhaps it is the considerations of his future role in life, or perhaps the beauty of the day, but he fails to keep his attention where it belongs (Survival / Perception 9)
Kwarsk (Wayne) AC 22/T 13/FF 19, HP 30/30, CMD 16/20 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. Wednesday January 25th, 2023 1:35:47 PM
Kwarsk says, "Ok, the scroll, in its case, is secure on me. We definitely need to get it to the church, maybe they have a vault or something."
Kwarsk passes the bones to Nintos to roll, as the group begins walking back to the miners.
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 27/27 | Fort: +4, Ref: +5, Will: +3 | d20+8=17 ; Wednesday January 25th, 2023 5:53:37 PM
Once they get moving Zarsellet keeps watch out for any dangers along the road. He doesn't understand what the scroll is but everyone seems very concerned for its safety....
OOC: Perception 17
DM Melvin - Heading Back to the mining camp Wednesday January 25th, 2023 8:40:04 PM
Zarsellet looks forward to heading back out to the lift.
Fingers checks out the bag of holding.
Paige worries about who will carry the scroll. Kwarsk insists that he will carry the scroll.
Myre keeps an eye out for cave entrances.
Rhys is the first to understand that he should scan for dangers like escaped kobolds. But he keeps getting distracted.
Zarsellet decides to watch out for figures as well.
Zarsellet Highlight to display spoiler: {You can hear someone approaching on a nearby path.}
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 32/32 d20+6=7 ; Wednesday January 25th, 2023 9:13:42 PM
As Paige trudges along the path back to the dwarven mining camp, she check’s the party members to ensure they are feeling well and none the worse for the time spent in the caves. She asks everyone if they are ‘okay’ - not just physically, but mentally. Finding herself beside Myre she scritches the magicker’s porcine companion behind a shiny rubber ear and muses aloud: ”I wonder how this scroll is linked to The Scar back in Plateau City? Do you think it would lift the curse and allow for rebuilding in the area? Might it put a stop to the mysterious holes that keep popping up?”. The half-elf is too preoccupied with thoughts of the scroll and its implications to pay much attention to her surroundings. (Perception = 7)
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 28 | CMB:6 CMD:17 | Fort:3 Ref:5 Will:1 Wednesday January 25th, 2023 11:58:41 PM
While driving the wagon, Muuru tries out his fancy new eyewear by scanning the countryside. (Perception, taking 20 = 32)
Nintos Melinous (Clint) | HP 22/22 | AC:12 T:12 FF:10 | CMD:13 CMB:1 | Fort:3 Ref:3 Will:4 | Merletta (Familiar) HP 11/11 | AC:15 T:14 FF:13 | CMB:0 CMD:6 | Fort:1 Ref:4 Will:2 Thursday January 26th, 2023 10:36:44 AM
[ooc= I have updated the Wiki and will move forward with the loot page shortly. Sorry for being away. Strep & ear infections invaded my house…]
Nintos snaps out of what funk he has been in and breaks his silence; “My apologies, after what we have been through with this adventure, which really is my first real one, it made me wonder about Alexander’s pilgrimage that he is on.” He thinks for a moment; “When we get back I would like to try to send word for him, wherever he may be. I don’t even know if he is alive.”
Turning to Paige; “Some evil has to truly be behind The Scar, so an artifact? like the scroll could be a key to correcting it.”
Nintos also makes mental notes as they begin to divide the items.
Rhys (Bob W) AC18; CMD 18(20 vs disarm and sunder); HP26/26 d20+5=13 ; Thursday January 26th, 2023 11:54:08 AM
Rhys snaps back to the present and continues to scan for potential dangers ahead (Perception 13). As they walk he reaches into his boot and draws out the magical dagger he had retrieved from the kobold King. ”If there are no objections I will lay claim to this fine blade as my selection. It has nice balance and holds a fine edge.”. The elf slips the blade back into his boot and continues to walk alongside the mules.
OOC Rhys selects the +1 flaming dagger
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 32/32 Thursday January 26th, 2023 12:07:14 PM
During a pause along the trail, Paige removes her long dusty travelling cloak, rolls it up, and tucks it into her pack. She reaches into the back of the wagon and selects one of the cloaks from the new treasure haul. This one falls to her knees, and is lighter in weight. The simple act of putting it on makes her feel a little more confident. (Selected the +1 Cloak of Resistance.)
Kwarsk (Wayne) AC 22/T 13/FF 19, HP 30/30, CMD 16/20 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. Thursday January 26th, 2023 1:59:40 PM
Kwarsk trudges onward, endlessly, sometimes he and the small folk fall a slight pace back, but then the tall folk pause a moment to rest and Kwarsk catches and passes them. Kwarsk smiles, remembering a surface folk tale retold in the Scab, about the tortoise and the hare... Kwarsk absentmindedly rubs the amulet now around his neck and says, "For my pick, this amulet which seems to make even my skin tougher and deflect weapons more... good thing for a bodyguard to have..."
DM Melvin - Wilderness Thursday January 26th, 2023 3:51:59 PM
Paige discusses the scroll out loud while walking around. Nintos notes that the scar might have an artifact behind it, so the scroll might correct it.
Fingers tests out his fancy new eyewear.
Nintos notes that he has been thinking about Alexander.
Rhys flips around the magical dagger. Paige adds her cloak of resistance.
Kwarsk tries to maintain a pace with the rest of the party and picks his amulet.
Pretty much the entire party suddenly tries, with varying degrees of success, to watch out for enemies and to gear up. (OOC: you can't take 20 on a check like that.) But it doesn't take a lot of looking around to determine that you are not alone.
As Zarsellet shouts a warning that someone has been following them, the entire group is hit by a spell. (Will DC 16 or -1 to all rolls.)
"So, the dream was true. The scroll in the cave does exist."
Turning around, the group sees a cleric emerging from the wilderness. He twitches, he glowers, he smiles. In his hands, a scorpion whip swings back and forth.
"I only prepare, just like you. You have questions, you seek power, and I can give you that help. Tell you how to use the... how to fix the scar. Help you avoid your... heartbreak."
Rhys (Bob W) AC18; CMD 18(20 vs disarm and sunder); HP26/26 d20+4=12 ; d20+4=21 ; Thursday January 26th, 2023 7:07:43 PM
Rhys feels the spell wash over him and tries to fight it off (Will =12, 14 if the spell is an enchantment and 15 if it is a fear effect) (Will =21 using a hero point)
Angered by the unprovoked attack, the elf draws his curved elven blade and heads immediately towards the cocky cleric swinging his chain in the roadway (double move to end up immediately adjacent to the cult cleric ; AC versus Atk of opportunity = 22). [Drop the chain or I drop you! [/b] Rhys growls at his adversary.
Xuce (Chris) AC: 24, T: 23, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 21/21 d20+6=10 ; d20+11=21 ; Thursday January 26th, 2023 7:18:59 PM
(Will 10, +2 vs enchantment spells and effects, +2 vs fear)
Xuce turns around hearing the voice Who are you and what are you talking about? As the spell takes hold Xuce looks around for others that may be hidden and then takes a defensive stance.
(Perception 21, Total Defense)
Myre (Carl) -- AC 13/12/11 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/1 d20+4=11 ; d20+5=10 ; Thursday January 26th, 2023 7:48:53 PM
Will save 11. If it's an enchantment, it's 13 and I'm using a hero point to bump it to 17. I'm NOT using a hero point if it's not an enchantment and I'd fail anyway.
***
Myre looks askance at the weirdo who just showed up, then watches as Rhys advances. "You have a lot to learn about good first impressions, dude. Luckily Rhys is here to give you a lesson..."
She decides to take a good look around them, thinking he may not be alone.
***
Perception 10 to keep a look out for anyone else. Readied action: Daze on anyone who approaches. Save DC is 14.
Kwarsk (Wayne) AC 22/T 13/FF 19, HP 30/30, CMD 16/20 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. d20+9=22 ; d20+7=11 ; d20=17 ; Thursday January 26th, 2023 8:01:59 PM
(OOC - +2 vs spells; net save 22)
Kwarsk stares at the interloper intently, evaluating his words... the mention of heartbreak when Paige never used that word after we left the cave...
(OOC Sense Motive = 11)
Kwarsk, right hand open, tower shield in his left hand as always, turns and full moves (N11 -> I11, 30' our of 40' max for a double-move) to a position to flank the priest with Rhys (AoO AC = 23). From behind his raised Tower Shield, Kwarsk says, "What he said. Drop your whip, have your friends come out from the bushes and trees, they drop their weapons too, and we talk." Kwarsk's stern face glowers at the priest.
(OOC Intimidate = 17)
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 27/27 | Fort: +4, Ref: +5, Will: +3 | d20+3=16 ; d20+8=14 ; d20+8=12 ; d20+6=7 ; Thursday January 26th, 2023 8:12:24 PM
OOC: Will Save 16 Spellcraft to identify what the cleric casts? 14....
Zarsellet calls out a warning (too late) and turns to see the person approaching. He readies his bow. "Casting hostile magic on people before you try to negotiate? Not smart. Care to start over before you make any more bad moves?" Zarsellet aims at the priest.
OOC: Ready action: Shoot an arrow at him if he starts to cast another spell. Perception 12. And I miss if I shoot....
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 32/32 d20+9=11 ; d20+9=15 ; Thursday January 26th, 2023 9:19:32 PM ”Gah!” cries the cleric as she tries to resist the villain emerging through the wilderness. Paige digs deep (burned a Hero point) but she fails to deflect the evil spell, even with her new cloak! (Will = 11, 15)
The half elf counters with some divine magic of her own, as she channels Domi’s gift through her holy symbol - a blessing* upon her companions!
*Bless - +1 on attacks, +1 on saves vs fear affects. Counters and dispels ‘Bane’. 3 min or 30 rounds - should last the whole battle!
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 28 | CMB:6 CMD:17 | Fort:3 Ref:5 Will:1 d20+1=13 ; d20+1=15 ; d20+12=30 ; Thursday January 26th, 2023 11:57:00 PM
Will: 13. (Second roll was accidental, unfortunately)
Fingers stops the wagon, readies his crossbow, and looks around for more interlopers. Perception: 30. (Sorry, actually 29.)
Nintos Melinous (Clint) | HP 22/22 | AC:12 T:12 FF:10 | CMD:13 CMB:1 | Fort:3 Ref:3 Will:4 | Merletta (Familiar) HP 11/11 | AC:15 T:14 FF:13 | CMB:0 CMD:6 | Fort:1 Ref:4 Will:2 d20+8=22 ; Friday January 27th, 2023 9:43:02 AM
As a flurry of questions and comments have started to fling towards the newcomer, Nintos whispers to Merletta; “Fly, look for others that are hidden.” Merletta circles overhead with her full speed double while looking (80 feet total)
OOC: Prayer is an enchantment-compulsion effect, mind affecting, non-fear. I'll try to express the type from now on, but you can always google it later.
Rhys uses a hero point to fight off the prayer and double moves next to the cleric (no AoO issue). He warns the cleric to drop the whip.
Xuce takes a defensive stance and takes in what happened.
Myre uses a hero point and manages to just avoid the prayer. She readies an attack on anyone else who approaches but it looks like he's alone. She snarks that Rhys is going to teach the cleric a lesson in manners.
Kwarsk looks over this guy, trying to figure him out. (The sense motive is enough to show he's paranoid and deranged.) He flanks with Rhys, saying the group is willing to talk but only if he disarms and shows his friends. "No friends, don't need," the cleric responds. "Too many questions."
Zarsellet resists and can see that he cast Prayer. He readies his own attack and warns the guy not to shoot.
Paige manages to avoid the prayer with a hero point but counteracts with a bless spell of her own.
Fingers readies his own weapon.
Nintos sends Merletta to look for more villians but the road is clear.
The cleric looks back and forth at all the raised weapons and warnings (though he keeps locking an eye on Paige a lot). "You fools, you do not understand." His voice drops to a growl. "I am not even close to finished making bad moves... for you..."
The cleric raises his arms to begin. Zarsellet fires his arrow but is so surprised that it barely gets past the bow. Myre fires her daze at the cleric but it doesn't even seem to hit him.
With a shout, he begins to fire his negative energy, hitting Rhys, Kwarsk and Merletta. (12 damage, Will DC 16 for half damage.)
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 27/27 | Fort: +4, Ref: +5, Will: +3 | Friday January 27th, 2023 5:17:49 PM
Zarsellet chuckles to himself at how bad his bow shot was.... but then calls out a war chant, empowering it with his bardic power to aid his friends.
OOC: Bardic Performance Inspire Courage: +1 morale bonus on saving throws against charm and fear effects and a +1 competence bonus on attack and weapon damage rolls. Does not stack with the Bless +1 morale bonus against Fear, but the competence bonus on attack does stack since Bless is a morale bonus to hit.
Kwarsk (Wayne) AC 22/T 13/FF 19, HP 24/30, CMD 16/20 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. d20+7=21 ; d10+2=9 ; d20+7=24 ; Friday January 27th, 2023 6:32:43 PM
Kwarsk grimaces and grits his teeth as the evil anti-life energy passes through him, and he redoubles his Dwarven Sternness!
Kwarsk takes a five foot step to follow the priest, nodding to Rhys as Kwarsk moves back into what will become a flanking position once Rhys moves to match Kwarsk. (OOC - CP hasn't moved on map to match his 5' step yet)
Kwarsk readies his Dwarven Waraxe as if waiting for something.
(OOC - presuming Rhys gets the hint and moves into the flank, Kwarsk's readied attack hits AC 24 (including Flanking and Paige's Bless and Zarsellet's Bardsong) for 10 damage. (forgot the +1 damage for Bardsong on the roll)
Just noticed I did the Readied Attack prior to resolving the Will Save - CE is supernatural, not a spell, so Kwarsk does not get that bonus, and his Save is a 24, so he takes 6 damage.)
Rhys (Bob W) AC18; CMD 18(20 vs disarm and sunder); HP14/26 d20+4=15 ; d20+11=17 ; d10+4=6 ; Friday January 27th, 2023 6:50:32 PM
Rhys shudders as the energy courses through his body. (Will save =15 Rhys takes full damage). Angered by the clerics continued attack and obvious arrogance the elf presses in, moving up into a landing position with Kwarsk. The blade sings as it cuts through the air (Hit AC 17 for 6hp).
Xuce (Chris) AC: 22, T: 21, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 21/21 d20+3=23 ; d4=1 ; Friday January 27th, 2023 6:57:27 PM
Xuce moves up next to the cultist (J10) and goes into a defensive stance (fighting defensively) then attempts to stun (stunning fist) him by punching him in the side of the head (Nat 20 for 23 to hit, 1 damage Fort save DC 13 or be stunned). You are not making any sense so take some time and think about what you're doing.
(A stunned character drops everything held, can’t take actions, loses any Dexterity bonus to AC, and takes a –2 penalty to AC)
(stunning fist: 2 out of 3 remaining)
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 32/32 2d6=5 ; d20+6=24 ; Friday January 27th, 2023 7:08:40 PM
Paige follows those who have moved towards the villain (M10) in time to witness the attack on her friends. “Domi’s knees!” she cries noting the ferocity of the strike. The cleric clasps her holy symbol and channels positive energy toward all party members (healing for 5 HP).
Squinting her eyes, she tries to identify the spell focus of the mad cleric. (Perception = 24)
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 28 | CMB:6 CMD:17 | Fort:3 Ref:5 Will:1 Friday January 27th, 2023 11:04:29 PM
Fingers takes a 5-foot step and readies an action: as soon as the cleric is "clear" of party members, Fingers shoots him.
(OOC: To avoid the -4 penalty for firing into melee, target must be at least 10 feet from party members, unless they're immobilized/unconscious and he's not still attacking them.)
Myre (Carl) -- AC 14/13/12 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/1 d4+1=3 ; d4+1=4 ; Saturday January 28th, 2023 1:27:09 AM "I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm getting pretty sick of being the only ones who don't know what we've gotten ourselves into."
She points at the jerk who hurt her friends and two motes of energy unerringly fly out and strike him.
***
Standard: Magic missile for 3 +4 damage Move: Glower menacingly at this jerk
Nintos Melinous (Clint) | HP 22/22 | AC:12 T:12 FF:10 | CMD:13 CMB:1 | Fort:3 Ref:3 Will:4 | Merletta (Familiar) HP -1(+falling damage)/11 | AC:15 T:14 FF:13 | CMB:0 CMD:6 | Fort:1 Ref:4 Will:2 d20+2=8 ; Saturday January 28th, 2023 7:45:39 PM
[Merletta Will Save 8 = Failed] The negative energy blast through Merletta and life winks out from her eyes. Nintos watches as his companion of all these years plumet lifelessly to the ground with a sickly thunk.
“NOOO!” He begins stepping forward and cast a spell at the cleric, pulling free powder he blows it towards the creature muttering a few arcane words; “nautkyn lae dreikic whedabra glomic dout sidric” Nintos cast Glitterdust [Will Save DC 17 or blinded & covered in dust.]
Kwarsk signals to Rhys to keep flanking and connects with his swing. Rhys does so as well.
Xuce comes in with a stunning fist, but the cleric shakes it off. He looks really insulted that you said he doesn't make sense.
Paige heals and tries to identify his holy symbol. You can make it out but don't really recognize it (I rolled a knowledge religion check for you.)
Fingers readies an action to fire should the cleric break free.
Myre lampshades that shes tired of all this exposition and fires magic missile.
Nintos mourns for his bird, and fires glitterdust. The cleric once again shakes it off.
He definitely looks like he's seen much better days, and sounds like hes seen better decades. "You fool, you'll all pay. I'm just the messenger. I... I... you."
He points to Paige.
"You are the cleric. You spoke of the scroll. You must have it, you must know what you have done, you, you..."
Targeting Paige, he casts call lightning defensively. Arcs send down towards Paige as a last gasp of anger. (11 damage, Reflex DC 16 for half.)
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Cleric - AC 16, 24 damage, prayer (+1 to attack rolls, weapon damage rolls, saves and skill checks)
Rhys (Bob W) AC18; CMD 18(20 vs disarm and sunder); HP19/26 d20+11=19 ; d10+4=10 ; Monday January 30th, 2023 3:50:54 PM
Rhys pivots and brings his blade back towards the enemy cleric, pulling the blade low across the torso of his opponent (Hit AC =19 for 10hp). His anger fuels the blade in its path towards the clerics vital area, and just as quickly back towards a defensive position to parry any incoming attack. ”Remember, you were provided the chance to stand down” the elf growls.
Nintos Melinous (Clint) | HP 22/22 | AC:12 T:12 FF:10 | CMD:13 CMB:1 | Fort:3 Ref:3 Will:4 | Merletta (Familiar) HP -1(+falling damage)/11 | AC:15 T:14 FF:13 | CMB:0 CMD:6 | Fort:1 Ref:4 Will:2 d20+5=11 ; d6+3=8 ; Monday January 30th, 2023 5:15:07 PM
Seeing that his Glitterdust was unsuccessful, he fires off an Acid Dart. [Attack 11 -4 in combat 7 | DMG 8]
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 27/27 | Fort: +4, Ref: +5, Will: +3 | d20+8=24 ; d3=3 ; Monday January 30th, 2023 5:46:56 PM
Zarsellet moves up closer to the enemy and throws a dagger at him. "Messenger? For who? You're acting more like a thief."
OOC: Continues his Bardic chant, and moves up to throw a dagger at the enemy. 24 to hit. 3 damage.
Xuce (Chris) AC: 18, T: 17, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 21/21 d20+5=16 ; d20+5=9 ; d4=4 ; d4=3 ; Monday January 30th, 2023 6:16:27 PM
Xuce switches up his footing and unleashes a flurry of blows upon the Cleric. (Hit AC 16 & 9, Damage 4 & 3)
Kwarsk (Wayne) AC 22/T 13/FF 19, HP 24/30, CMD 16/20 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. d20+9=20 ; d6+3=6 ; d6+3=6 ; Monday January 30th, 2023 9:19:24 PM
Kwarsk is mildly surprised that once more someone didn't fall to the first blow of his mighty waraxe!
Kwarsk then realizes that if we kill this priest we'll never find out what he's talking about, and while Rhys' flanking has the priest distracted, Kwarsk goes for an elbow to the priest's throat!
(OOC elbow strike nonlethal, +5 base, +2 flank, +1 bless, +1 bardsong, result = AC 20 for 6 NON-LETHAL damage (sorry for the double-roll; browser was slow))
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 28 | CMB:6 CMD:17 | Fort:3 Ref:5 Will:1 Monday January 30th, 2023 10:46:44 PM
Fingers takes a 5-foot step and readies again.
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 32/32 d20+3=22 ; 2d6=7 ; Monday January 30th, 2023 11:44:54 PM
As the villain sends arcs of lightening in her direction, Paige grasps the edge of her new cloak with her right hand, swirls it up across her face and over her head (Reflex = 22 for half damage) then sweeps it back down - revealing a shining holy symbol held in her left hand. Once again she channels Domi’s healing touch to restore vigour to herself and to her allies! (Channel positive energy - 7 HP restored to all injured allies)
Channel energy: 2/6 (used to restore 5 HP 27Jan and 7 HP 30Jan to all party members/allies. This should include Rhys, Kwarsk, and Merletta. Note: the radius includes the villain cleric!
Bless on party members - +1 to attacks, + 1 saves vs fear - 3 min/30 rounds
Bardic chant from Zarsellet - +1 to attacks and damage, +1 saves vs charm and fear )
Myre (Carl) -- AC 14/13/12 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/1 d4+1=3 ; d4+1=2 ; Tuesday January 31st, 2023 12:16:31 AM "You can teach us, or attack us, but not both you jerk!" Another volley of glowing energy orbs strikes out at the weirdo.
***
Magic Missile - 3 & 2 damage
DM Melvin - Wilderness Tuesday January 31st, 2023 1:42:07 PM
As Paige manages to dodge much of the lightning and heal, Rhys slices the evil cleric's chest right open.
The rest of the team make a number of statements that the cleric does not respond to.
Only Kwarsk tries to switch to non-lethal, though it's not clear you would have gotten any good answers even if you captured him.
Eventually, the forest goes silent.
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 32/32 d20+5=7 ; Tuesday January 31st, 2023 2:21:35 PM
Rapidly covering the space between herself and the villain, Paige picks up the symbol through which the bad man channeled his magic’s. Even close up, she has no idea of it’s provenance (Knowledge religion = 7)
With a sigh, the cleric looks around: ”You’ve got better luck with this sort of thing, Kwarsk. What do you make of this?”. She holds out the talisman for the dwarf and any one else who is interested.
*Everyone should be healed up due to channel energy x 2. Possibly even Merletta
Rhys (Bob W) AC18; CMD 18(20 vs disarm and sunder); HP26/26 d20+5=8 ; Tuesday January 31st, 2023 2:22:41 PM
Rhys nudges the body at his feet with a boot to satisfy himself that the cleric is dead. He sheaths his sword, bends down, and performs a cursory search of the body and removes any weapons and interesting items Paige might have missed from the corpse and puts them to one side, out of reach from the body…just in case! (Perception +5 to search the dead cleric).
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 28 | CMB:6 CMD:17 | Fort:3 Ref:5 Will:1 d20+12=31 ; Tuesday January 31st, 2023 3:28:00 PM
Not dropping his guard just yet, Fingers scans the surroundings in case the cleric was lying about being alone. (Perception: 31)
Xuce (Chris) AC: 18, T: 17, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 21/21 Tuesday January 31st, 2023 5:09:20 PM
Xuce takes a deep breath after the Cleric drops then looks over everyone making sure they are doing alright.
I think we need to have a talk with whoever sent us out here... Xuce motions around the area not sure if it's safe to mention the scroll out in the open.
As Rhys is searching the body Xuce says We should probably watch what we say from here on out too. This guy Xuce points at the now-dead cleric. Must of been watching us or the cave for some time.
After Rhys is done searching the body Xuce adds What are we going to do about the body?
Nintos Melinous (Clint) | HP 22/22 | AC:12 T:12 FF:10 | CMD:13 CMB:1 | Fort:3 Ref:3 Will:4 | Merletta (Familiar) HP -1(+falling damage)/11 | AC:15 T:14 FF:13 | CMB:0 CMD:6 | Fort:1 Ref:4 Will:2 Tuesday January 31st, 2023 5:32:19 PM
Seeing the rest of the party has the cleric taken care of, Nintos makes his way to look over Merletta…
Kwarsk (Wayne) AC 22/T 13/FF 19, HP 30/30, CMD 16/20 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. d20+5=10 ; Tuesday January 31st, 2023 9:00:09 PM
As the positive energy of Domi flows through him, Kwarsk sees that it has undone all of the damage from the cult priest, and smiles a broad smile.
Kwarsk turns to page to thank her, but instead she asks him to examine the priest's holy symbol.
Still smiling, he nods at Paige and takes the symbol, flipping it to and fro, back and forth, contemplating.
(OOC: Knowledge Religion - 10 - should be enough for a well-known deity, or at least one that is not obscure in the Wold, right?)
Kwarsk begins to explain his thoughts to Paige, based on his religious studies in the monastery of Pantheon...
(OOC - DM Melvin, please fill in whatever Kwarsk learned, in the DM post please :-) )
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 27/27 | Fort: +4, Ref: +5, Will: +3 | d20+7=18 ; Tuesday January 31st, 2023 10:16:02 PM
Zarsellet walks by the body, retrieving his dagger. He glances at the holy symbol, then moves off to scan in the direction the man had come from. "Gather anything useful of interesting, then toss his body off the road for scavengers to eat. He shouldn't have attacked...."
OOC: Know-Religion 18 to recognize the holy symbol?
Myre (Carl) -- AC 14/13/12 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/1 Wednesday February 1st, 2023 12:41:22 PM Myre joins in poking the corpse, not wanting to be left out. "He attacked eight adventurers single handedly and immediately jumped to violence. It's like he wanted to be killed!" Her face goes white. "Do you think he wanted to be killed? Like...his soul is now in the scroll or something? Paige! Is that scroll any heavier? How much do souls weigh?"
DM Melvin - Wilderness Wednesday February 1st, 2023 2:39:03 PM
Paige sighs and heals everyone up. She still can't make out the talisman.
Rhys checks the body of the cleric, making sure he is dead.
Fingers keeps watching for a second wave but that's it.
Xuce notes that they need to be more discreet on the road, perhaps even so with their employers. He asks what to do with the body?
Nintos checks on Merletta, and the bird is fine (since Paige channeled healing energy in the round it went down.) It lets out a few squacks and shakes - maybe a sneeze - before moving normally.
Kwarsk can't really make out anything about the symbol either. Yet it looks really familiar.
It isn't until Zarsellet takes a long look that something clicks. Highlight to display spoiler: {It looks like a variant of Ga'al... but with a dwarven symbol that can't be placed.}
Myre notes that the cleric was almost suicidal, but tries to game out what rational reason he might have.
On the cleric's body is a +1 chain shirt, a masterwork scorpion whip, dagger, cloak of resistance +1, potion of invisibility, scroll of owl's wisdom, and a wand of cure light wounds (50 charges). And, of course, his symbol.
Rhys (Bob W) AC18; CMD 18(20 vs disarm and sunder); HP26/26 Wednesday February 1st, 2023 6:22:00 PM
Rhys helps strip the cleric of his possessions and loads them into the wagon for division later. ”Xuce is right, this fellow must have been watching for us to have found us so quickly. We will need to be on our guard at all times!”. Rhys will also help dispose of the body in whatever fashion the party decides.
Xuce (Chris) AC: 18, T: 17, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 21/21 Wednesday February 1st, 2023 7:55:42 PM
Xuce looks up and down the road I think we toss him off the road and make a straight line back home. Stopping for nothing until we talk with those who gave us the quest.
Nintos Melinous (Clint) | HP 22/22 | AC:12 T:12 FF:10 | CMD:13 CMB:1 | Fort:3 Ref:3 Will:4 | Merletta (Familiar) HP -1(+falling damage)/11 | AC:15 T:14 FF:13 | CMB:0 CMD:6 | Fort:1 Ref:4 Will:2 d20+10=30 ; Wednesday February 1st, 2023 9:55:15 PM
[OOC: I added the cleric’s items to the loot sheet. Also, where did we end off with people claiming items?]
Nintos makes his way to Merletta and is overjoyed with the sight of her fluttering her wings in the dirt; “You… haven’t we talked about keeping your distance? Wide births when you scout for others. Up you go.” as he guides her to his shoulder. Reaching in his cloak pocket for some dried scrap food bits for her.
Making his way over to the body, he eyes up the holy symbol to determine who they were a follower of. [What a time for a nat 20… K-Religion 30]
Kwarsk (Wayne) AC 22/T 13/FF 19, HP 30/30, CMD 16/20 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. Wednesday February 1st, 2023 10:10:53 PM
Kwarsk for once doesn't contemplate, decisive, he says to all, "I agree with Xuce. Unless we need to briefly stop by the Dwarven miners, we should do exactly as Xuce said."
Kwarsk helps Rhys load the wagon and then looks expectantly at the group, using his head to point in the direction home.
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 27/27 | Fort: +4, Ref: +5, Will: +3 | Wednesday February 1st, 2023 10:41:01 PM
Zarsellet hands the holy symbol to Nintos. "I don't recognize it. Possible variant of Ga'al, but dwarven? I don't know."
OOC: Another wand of CLW? I'll carry that one for use on whoever needs it. Unless anyone else can use it?
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 28 | CMB:6 CMD:17 | Fort:3 Ref:5 Will:1 Wednesday February 1st, 2023 11:56:57 PM That's a magic chain shirt, right? Anyone object to my trading the mithral shirt for it? The magic one will fit me better.
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 32/32 Thursday February 2nd, 2023 1:10:44 AM
Paige helps pull the evil cleric’s body off the road, and covers it with a layer of brush. She shudders as she wonders how the villain’s soul is faring with his audience in front of Gargul - the god of life and death.
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 28 | CMB:6 CMD:17 | Fort:3 Ref:5 Will:1 Thursday February 2nd, 2023 1:47:03 AM Wait, the magic armor won't resize to fit me? Never mind.
And I thought I could get an armorer to refit the mithral shirt, but there's not enough material in it. Someone else can have it; I'll take the Brooch of Shielding instead.
Myre (Carl) -- AC 14/13/12 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/1 Thursday February 2nd, 2023 1:11:58 PM
Myre's face pales. She flashes back to talks with dad about the gods. He was a devout (in his own way) worshiper of Wardd, but gave all gods their due respect. All except Ga'al. It was one of the few times he was completely serious with her.
"Myre, do not get tangled up with Ga'al. There's some evil in this world that will not reason with you." Sure, he'd then chuckled at his pun about getting tangled, but he was serious.
"No one told me he would be involved." She carefully cuts through any clothing covering his chest (that's non-magical), looking for any evidence that the jerk before them was heart-seeded.
DM Melvin - Wilderness Thursday February 2nd, 2023 3:20:55 PM
Rhys collects the rest of the treasure. He notes that they need to be further on guard.
Xuce wants to dump the guy and head straight home.
Nintos reminds Merletta that they need more caution and scouting. He continues to try to determine what the cleric is a follower of, but doesn't really get more into that. (I'll send why in a group email.)
Kwarsk agrees with Xuce, but notes that they might need to stop by the dwarven miners.
Zarsellet notes of what it is, and of what it might be.
Fingers places a claim for the +1 chain shirt, but then remembers that he might be a little large for it. (Also it's not a mithril shirt, it's just a normal chain with the normal armor penalties.)
Paige basically hides the cleric's body, and thinks of death.
Myre freaks, noting that Ga'al was basically the worst one. She looks for heart seeding but he doesn't seem to be anything but ordinary human.
With nothing else to do, it becomes time to hit the road, and to decide whether to go straight for home, occasionally camp, or head off to the dwarven miners.
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 27/27 | Fort: +4, Ref: +5, Will: +3 | Thursday February 2nd, 2023 5:26:38 PM
Not hearing any objection Zarsellet tucks the wand away. Everyone knows about it so he's sure it'll see some use, hopefully not too soon.... "So? Back home quick to figure out what to do about the scroll?"
OOC: Were we going to stop with the miners? Or all speed to home?
Xuce (Chris) AC: 18, T: 17, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 21/21 Thursday February 2nd, 2023 5:58:41 PM
Xuces eyes go wide as Zarsellet mentions the scroll out in the open I don't think we need to go back to the miners... maybe just send word that the cave is clear and to be on the lookout for the kobolds we let go? Then glances about, shrugs, and walks next over to the wagon.
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 32/32 Thursday February 2nd, 2023 6:03:26 PM ”You know how to use that thing, then?” the half elf asks Zarsellet”Good!. The cleric eyes what remains of the items collected from the cave and off the evil cleric and concludes there is nothing she wishes to claim. She hopes the others will kit themselves out for the benefit of all, and suggests that whatever isn’t useful can be sold.
Paige rubs her nose in thought, then asks: ”We didn’t make a commitment to the miners did we? I say we do as Xuce suggests and press on for home as quickly as possible.”.
Rhys (Bob W) AC18; CMD 18(20 vs disarm and sunder); HP26/26 Thursday February 2nd, 2023 7:20:51 PM
Rhys spends a few minutes doffing his chain shirt and slipping into his newly claimed Mithril armour. From beneath his fine elven shirt and cloak only a small glint of Mithril can be seen, and that only by a keen eye. He tucks his old chain into the wagon and is ready to continue their trek. ”I think we can give the miners camp a pass for now. We can always send word from the guild as to the condition of the cave and fountain.”. The elf takes his position next to the mules should they need any coaxing.
Fingers (Shawn) | AC:14 T:11 FF:12 | HP 28 | CMB:6 CMD:17 | Fort:3 Ref:5 Will:1 Thursday February 2nd, 2023 7:25:20 PM I'm all for heading straight home, but it would be nice if we could drop the dwarves a note. Could Merletta carry one? Or is it too far out of our way?
Kwarsk (Wayne) AC 22/T 13/FF 19, HP 30/30, CMD 16/20 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. Thursday February 2nd, 2023 8:41:57 PM
Kwarsk says, "If I recall correctly, the local miners were of help to us because the mining guild back in Plateau City recommended them as having the most local knowledge about the mine, but everything else we found, like blue stones or gems, maps we drew, and so forth, that's all stuff the mining guild wanted.
Anyone a good enough writer to document everything we found in writing, or draw illustrations or somesuch? Nintos, weren't you making occasional sketches, or was that Rhys?
We can walk towards Plateau City as we go, unless we think the local miners might have more info to give us when we tell them what we found in the cave. I still vote for going straight back to Plateau City."
Myre (Carl) -- AC 14/13/12 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/1 Thursday February 2nd, 2023 10:13:28 PM Myre frowns, resisting the urge to poke at the man's corpse while looking for evidence of Ga'al's parasites. She gives the man an angry glare before turning her back on him.
"Sounds like we're going home, then. Sooner we get there, sooner we can get that thing out of our hands."
She's ready to head off with all haste.
DM Melvin - Wilderness Friday February 3rd, 2023 2:32:50 PM
Gear is distributed, bodies are poked and the group moves on.
Everyone agrees to skip the miners, with varying degrees of sending a message.
And with that, the group begins to head back to the home, carefully guarding the scroll as they go. The path takes you westward at first, into the sunset.
Myre (Carl) -- AC 14/13/12 CMD: 13 HP: 20/20 Spell Slots Remaining: Inf/1 Friday February 3rd, 2023 2:42:42 PM Myre spots the sunset, and immediately her mood perks up. She looks to the sky, hoping it's clear. "Looks like we'll be sleeping outside tonight!" She seems oddly excited about the prospect.
Nintos Melinous (Clint) | HP 22/22 | AC:12 T:12 FF:10 | CMD:13 CMB:1 | Fort:3 Ref:3 Will:4 | Merletta (Familiar) HP -1(+falling damage)/11 | AC:15 T:14 FF:13 | CMB:0 CMD:6 | Fort:1 Ref:4 Will:2 Friday February 3rd, 2023 4:22:05 PM
Turning to Fingers as he ask about Merletta delivering the message; “I have never used her as a long range “carrier pigeon” but I am sure it would be something she could carry out for us.”
[ooc: With my ranks in K-Geography and her Int score I am sure it would be possible… DM?]
“I was making general sketches and notes. More of the paintings and sculptures than of a map route. I also believe Rhys was doing more of that.” Nintos responds to Kwarsk.
Smiling at Myre; “I do like a good campfire story.”
Kwarsk (Wayne) AC 22/T 13/FF 19, HP 30/30, CMD 16/20 vs. Bull Rush & Trip. d20+11=26 ; Friday February 3rd, 2023 9:42:08 PM
Kwarsk trudges on, using his tower shield to guard himself from the setting sun's glare, but rotating from time to time to ensure the group is not ambushed from the front.
Kwarsk isn't contemplating now. He's on mobile guard duty, and his unmoving guard face is on!
(OOC: Perception = 26)
Rhys (Bob W) AC18; CMD 18(20 vs disarm and sunder); HP26/26 d20+5=12 ; Friday February 3rd, 2023 11:11:45 PM
Rhys walks along beside the mules and scans the roadway on either side (Perception 12). ”This road should turn eventually to the east, or we are headed in the wrong direction, for Plateau City and home lies to the east yet we are headed west. Nintos, can you send Merletta up to scan the wider area?
Zarsellet Fahring (Randy) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 27/27 | Fort: +4, Ref: +5, Will: +3 | d20+8=13 ; d20+9=14 ; Friday February 3rd, 2023 11:40:41 PM
Zarsellet glances at Nintos and grins. "A good campfire story.... I know a couple. But first maybe some music?" He opens his pack and removes a soft leather case, carefully unpacking a small harp. Sitting and holding across his lap he starts to play and sing a few songs. OOC: Must not have taken enough time tuning it though. Performance-Sing: 13?
Setting the harp aside he looks around at his 'audience'. "But you did ask for a story. Here's an oldy for you."
"Creak", a sound, faint, distant, but still heard. "Crack", something snapping, or being trampled on.
"The man sits in his room, reading. The room is silent except for the quiet fire burning."
"Creak" ..It's just the the house settling, nothing more. "Crack", Perhaps some small animals outdoors. "Whoosh", Was that the wind?
"The man stands up and peeks out the window. A clear night is all he sees, the full moon brilliant in the sky. Laughing at his nervousness, he returns to his book."
"Creak", the man now silently chuckles at the sound. "Crack", how could he have been scared of some sounds. "Whoosh", must be breezy out tonight. "Thump" …did that come from within the house?
"The man stares into the fire, trying to calm his jangled nerves."
"Creak"… "Crack"… "Whoosh"…will the sounds never cease? "Thump"… "Thump"… "Thump"…
"Closer, he thinks, the sounds are getting closer. He shuts the book and closes his eyes, and thinks of something besides his wild imagination."
"Creak" "Thump" "Crack" "Thump" "Whoosh"
"Thump"… "Thump"… "Thump"… a pause? The man moves quietly, slowly, towards the door with a nervous gait. "Thump"… a step back… "Thump"… yes, it’s getting closer. "Thump"… he stares at the door, trying to somehow see through it… "Thump"… he reaches slowly for the doorknob, hand shaking, no longer able to take not knowing… "Creak", a loose floorboard, near the door outside… "Thump" , he slowly opens the door…
"A scream"
"…silence…"
OOC: And the dice hate me.... Perform Oratory: 14.
Paige Potter (Carla) AC 17, CMD 13, HP 32/32 Saturday February 4th, 2023 12:36:21 AM
Paige confirms that she has made some notes on the maps she holds for the party, and that Rhys has made notes on the cave as well as collected a sampling of blue crystals. ”So we’ve got stuff for the ‘Map Makers Guild’, the ‘Miners Guild’…and something for she drops her voice to a whisper before continuing ”our ‘friends’ in The City”.
Wherever they are and whatever they are doing, the cleric keeps and eye on Kwarsk. She trusts he doesn’t find the task of bearing the ‘you-know-what’ too onerous.
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The half elf listens to Zarsellet’s story - eyes round and mouth agape - hoping the bard will describe the gory details…
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Xuce (Chris) AC: 18, T: 17, F: 13, CMD: 16, HP: 21/21 Sunday February 5th, 2023 5:31:36 PM
Xuce remains silent as they make their way into the setting sun his thoughts drift to the events of the day and the vision he received looking into the waters in the cave. I for one can't wait to get back and sleep in a real bed
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