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| Epicaste of Ancient Thracia |
Dealing with Ontussa, finding Epicaste 2400 each
Exploration 400 each
20 skeletons cr 1/4 xp 50x20= 1000
disembodied mouth cr 2 = 450
living door cr 5 = 1800
Total 3250/2= 1625
Total 4425 Shieldbiter & Hakeem, 725 to Ajax
Shieldbiter L15 4425+167,166=171,591/195,000
Hakeem L18 4425+283,671=288,096/305,000
Ajax L8 725+44,500=45,225/48,000 (cast 2 x lvl 3 - fly, fireball 3 x lvl 1 - magic missile, mage armourx2) w wand of bull's strength
7:00am 2017-6-24 Smon Has entered the room
Smon: Hi Bill
7:02am 2017-6-24 chris107 Has entered the room
chris107: Morning chaps
Smon: Hi chris
DESTROYERBILL: hello
chris107: Wonder what the Sphinx will tell us about the First King?
DESTROYERBILL: yeah
Smon: GM Can start now while waiting for croissants
Smon: Ontussa smiles down at you from her pedestal.
chris107: Ready when you are.
DESTROYERBILL: yum
chris107: yum indeed
Smon: The walls of the chamber are decorated with ornate Thracian frescoes of gods and heroes.
Smon: You see the name "Argos II" over a prominent figure.
DESTROYERBILL: bondor?
Smon: Ontussa: "I have riddle for you..."
Smon: brb croissants!
Smon: "The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?"
chris107: Steps?
Smon: Shieldbiter: "Life? Every time we attack someone we leave behind..."
Smon: Ontussa: "Yes, footsteps is correct. What is your question?"
chris107: Good answer Shieldbiter
Smon: (Bill is munching croissans afk)
Smon: Rosa whispers: "Will she eat us if we a riddle wrong?"
Smon: Ontussa smiles sweetly down at Rosa.
chris107: OOC - This is a tricky on with all the various issues we are dealing with..
chris107: Should we battle the First King before we face the Warbringer?
Smon: "That seems advisable. His powers are still weak, and you passed the secret door to his lair just now, so access is quite convenient."
chris107: Hakeem scratches his head.
chris107: His brain isn't built for this
Smon: Ontussa: "You see, if you leave it too long, he will awake from his tomb and be much more powerful, I would think your best bet is to stab him while he's still in there... is that clear?"
chris107: "Crystal. Don't suppose you fancy pointing out just where this secret door is?"
DESTROYERBILL: yeah
Smon: Ontussa smiles: "I was just thinking I'd fancy some jewelry for my astral jaunts... say a thousand gold's worth?"
Smon: "In return for directions."
DESTROYERBILL: hakeem?
chris107: "I think that could be arranged."
chris107: "My wife has some beautiful jewelry. I could bring you that or maybe we will find something very pretty in the lair of the First King for you?"
Smon: "Jewelry first."
chris107: "Then we must away back to Thusia and risk the First King growing in power. Or search for this secret ourselves and you have no new jewelry for your jaunts."
Smon: Ontussa shrugs. "I'm sure you can be to Thusia and back before he wakes. He's been waking for at least three years already!"
chris107: "I'm sure that the First King's jewelry would be of a much greater value than my wives. It's a bit of a gamble I suppose....." He leaves this hanging.
7:28am 2017-6-24 subaltari Has entered the room
Smon: Heh, ok DC 20 persuasion roll CHA+Prof
chris107: Hi Subs
chris107 rolls 1d20+7 and gets: 6, (+7) = 13
subaltari: Hail the Wilderlanders
Smon: Ontussa: "If the First King kill you I get nothing! Besides it's against the Sphinx code to give info out for free..."
chris107: "I guess if the inferior jewelry of mortals is okay with you, then we must away to Thusia?"
Smon: "Personally I prefer human jewelry anyway."
chris107: "Personally I could see you suiting the priceless heirlooms of the ainients better. But no matter. It is a little thing to me."
Smon: "Lizard chic never suited me... no offence." (that last to Shieldbiter)
chris107: "Come Prince Shieldbiter, we will away and find Ontussa some trinkets. Assuming we don't stumble upon this secret ourselves along the way."
chris107: hehe
DESTROYERBILL: okay
chris107: Hakeem turns to leave.
Smon: Ontussa watches you leave. "Best of luck!"
chris107: "We shall keep this Kings jewlery for our own wives....."
DESTROYERBILL: me to
chris107: "Thank you once more for your aid. Your name shall no doubt be writ large when we write our histories..."
Smon: Rosa (whispers): "She said there's a secret door down this tunnel?"
DESTROYERBILL: lets look
Smon: Ontussa inclines her head gracefully.
chris107: (whispers back) she did, keep an eye out.
Smon: There are no obvious doors off.
chris107: Look closely by the statue of Argos II
Smon: If you're tapping & prodding the walls you can make either INT+Prof or WIS+prof checks (investigate or perception)
chris107: both the same for H
chris107 rolls 1d20+6 and gets: 14, (+6) = 20
DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d20 and gets: 3,
Smon: Looking closely at Argos II, he seems faintly translucent. Hakeem gets the feeling all the frescoes are illusory.
chris107: "Could Ontussa create such an illusion?"
Smon: Ontussa coughs. "I said the secret door you seek is in the skull passage - not here."
chris107: "Thank you, you are most helpful."
chris107: Hakeem will continue his prodding and tapping in the skull passage.
DESTROYERBILL: thers probably traps
Smon: You can both roll again.
chris107: Hakeem nods sadly at Shildbiters perspicasity.
chris107 rolls 1d20+6 and gets: 20, (+6) = 26
chris107:
DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d20 and gets: 16,
DESTROYERBILL: what bonus
Smon: Hakeem & Shieldbiter locate a hollow section in the west wall spanning two of the skull-set marble panels - a secret door? It seems locked, though.
DESTROYERBILL: break it open
chris107: Hakeem stands bac, sword ready and crackling to protect his friend as he bashes the door.
Smon: Hakeem happens to touch the mouth of the right-hand skull, it slides back 1".
DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d20+10 and gets: 8, (+10) = 18
DESTROYERBILL: strength check
Smon: The door vibrates slightly as SB slams into it.
chris107: "Touch the other skulls, see if that makes it open wider?"
Smon: So there are 2 panels compising the door, 5' wide & 15' tall.
Smon: Each set w glowing green skull 5' off ground.
chris107: Do the skulls move at all?
Smon: Rosa touches the west skull, it also slides back, but meanwhile the e skull has moved forward again.
chris107: Like handles?
chris107: "Ajax, you try the other while Rosa moves hers."
DESTROYERBILL: a riddle
Smon: Ajax pushes the right skull, Rosa the left.
Smon: Both move back and the panels push in then slide left and right.
Smon: Well done
Smon: Beyond is a dark and musty 10' wide stone tunnel.
DESTROYERBILL: lets go
Smon: No glowing skulls here to light the way.
subaltari: ( puzzle solving berserkers ftw! )
chris107: Hakeem grips his sword more tightly, sheltering behind his shield he lets the crackling blade illuminate beyond..
DESTROYERBILL: ignite
Smon: Proceeding cautiously down the tunnel, after 25' or so west it ends at a wide stone stair descending.
chris107: (Low cunning Subs )
Smon: In the light of your blades you see the stairway is choked with huge, dusty webs.
chris107: "I think we should spread out."
DESTROYERBILL: no
chris107: "Dr.P, Ajax, wait here for the moment. "
DESTROYERBILL: ever seen a horer movi never split up
Smon: Rosa & Ajax nod.
chris107: "If the First King is a Dragon, he could breath on us all if we bunch up Prince Shieldbiter..."
Smon: A very faint orange light drifts up from below through the webs.
DESTROYERBILL: he is not a dragon a dragon lord
chris107: "We are warriors, able to resist. Our friends are not."
DESTROYERBILL: he fine we shall leave them
Smon: Rosa: "Even being a high level academic, I'd rather not get breathed on... "
chris107: "And even we are sorely wounded..."
DESTROYERBILL: stay safe
Smon: Rosa: "Actually, could we maybe rest here? That bite is hurting."
DESTROYERBILL: lets dothat
DESTROYERBILL: lets go to the roof with the wyvern
chris107: Okay lets move back beyond the doors into the skull corridor
DESTROYERBILL: and my wife
Smon: Ajax: "These webs look ancient, but let's keep an eye out for giant undead spiders!"
chris107: "We would risk encountering many more monsters if we go back all the way to the surface.."
Smon: Rosa: "It will take an hour to get back to her Shieldbiter, I think a quick rest here..."
Smon: GM: You fall back into the corridor of glowing skulls.
DESTROYERBILL: resting hear we will die
chris107: Do the skull doors move if we try manipulating the skulls to open and close them a little?
DESTROYERBILL: we need safty but leave a trail
7:53am 2017-6-24 subaltari Has exited the room
chris107: "We can protect our friends better for an hour than for three Prince Shieldbiter?"
Smon: Messing with the doors, you get them to slide shut again.
Smon: They can be opened from either side.
Smon: Ajax: "Freya is a bit exposed back there, and the lizardmen will find their dead eventually..."
chris107: (OOC one wandering monster roll instead of three Bill?)
chris107: "But if Princess Freya is at risk, then the longer we wait the more danger she is in."
Smon: SB reluctantly agrees to rest in the skull corridor.
Smon: GM: You settle down...
Smon: /roll d6
Smon rolls 1d6 and gets: 3,
Smon: An hour later you are rested and can spend hit dice as desired.
chris107: 4 dice
chris107 rolls 4d12+20 and gets: 6, 10, 12, 7, (+20) = 55
DESTROYERBILL rolls 10d12+30 and gets: 8, 2, 3, 4, 8, 6, 8, 8, 7, 5, (+30) = 89
chris107: 221/221
Smon: You patch yourselves up and apply healing poultices.
chris107: 1 Rage spent, 4 Healing Dice, 0 Berserks.
DESTROYERBILL: 172/172
Smon: Rosa applies dock leaves to her leg bite and looks better too.
Smon: Ontussa is still in her brightly lit room. She calls down the tunnel: "You're lucky nothing saw the light & came to check you out... Though I am a little taboo!"
Smon: It's about 5pm now you reckon.
chris107: "Your greatness would keep even Dragons at bay, mighty Ontussa, greatest of all th sphinx and first lady of knowledge."
Smon: H & co arrived at Thracia 1pm, fought shambler then rested, then through city, down tunnels to here, rested again.
Smon: Ontussa: "Indeed."
chris107: "Let's go and kill this First King thn Prince Shieldbiter?"
Smon: Ajax & Rosa open the secret door and you head back to the top of the web-choked stairs.
8:02am 2017-6-24 subaltari Has entered the room
chris107: Same tactics?
Smon: Ajax: "So Rosa and I stay well back?"
chris107: Leaving Dr.P and Ajax well back as the two mighty warriors advance?
chris107: "Protect her with your spells Ajax, we need her."
DESTROYERBILL: okay
chris107: sword - cracle-crackle
DESTROYERBILL: ignite
Smon: Your swords crackle & flame.
chris107: use them to part the ancient webs.
DESTROYERBILL: okay
chris107: (and look out for undead spiders!)
Smon: The ancient webs burn away easily at the touch of your blades.
DESTROYERBILL:
chris107:
Smon: You proceed down the stairs together, slicing through the webs that burn and fall away.
Smon: 30' down the steps you see a collossal spidery bulk.
chris107: Keeping a distance apart, for breath reasons..
chris107: Does it move?
Smon: The spider must be over 8' across in the torso alone.
Smon: It's unmoving and its legs are sprawled in death.
chris107: phew
DESTROYERBILL: i stab it to make sure
chris107: prod it
Smon: Getting closer you see it's little more than a long-dead husk. It burns as SB stabs it.
Smon: A foul stench arises.
chris107: "If this is the skin that it shed..."
Smon: At the bottom of the 40' stairs you see a 30x30 stone chamber.
chris107: Does it look like a shed skin?
Smon: Skeletons stand erect, lining the walls, their eye sockets glowing orange.
Smon: No it was a whole giant spider.
chris107: ah, thanks.
chris107: How many skeletons?
DESTROYERBILL: 10
DESTROYERBILL: mabye?
Smon: Moving past it to the chamber entrance you see it is high ceilinged with a balcony along the west wall, a door below.
Smon: 20 skeletons.
chris107: "Ajax, now may be the time for that fireball you've wanted to cast?
chris107: (Would it fill the room but leave us in safety if we withdrew up the steps?
Smon: What looks like an oddly fleshy carving of a disembodied mouth is set in the door.
Smon: On the upper balcony you see 2 green stone gargoyles, unmoving.
DESTROYERBILL: its a trap
Smon: The gargoyles are at n and s ends of the balcony.
chris107: "It is, but one we must pass through if we are to slay the First King."
Smon: Yes fireball would fill room but not get you if cast from up the stairs.
DESTROYERBILL: okay
Smon: Ajax: "Come back up here and I'll fireball.
chris107: "Shall we have our wizard clear the skeletons at least Shieldbiter?"
DESTROYERBILL: okay
Smon: GM You retreat back up the stairs.
Smon: Ajax: "Kalatu Baradoo Fireballleo!"
Smon: A streak of flame shoots from his hands, down the steps past the spider corpse, erupting in a massive fireball.
Smon: Flames shoot partway back up the steps, consuming the spider husk. It burns brightly, emitting foul smoke.
Smon: /roll 8d6
chris107: (Shame Fergus isn't here to see it. He's been wanting to do that for weeks! )
Smon rolls 8d6 and gets: 2, 3, 3, 2, 6, 2, 5, 2, = 25
Smon: Shouldnae ha changed his work hours.
Smon: You hear a scream from down the stairs.
Smon: /roll d20+2
Smon rolls 1d20+2 and gets: 15, (+2) = 17
Smon: It sounds angry.
DESTROYERBILL: lets kill it
chris107: Big roaring?
Smon: No, small
chris107: "And yes, let's kill it."
Smon: /roll d20x20
Smon Rolls 1d20x10 and gets:
9 = 9
1 = 1
15 = 15
6 = 6
13 = 13
3 = 3
9 = 9
9 = 9
11 = 11
15 = 15
Smon: /roll d20
Smon rolls 1d20 and gets: 11,
Smon: /roll d20x10
Smon Rolls 1d20x10 and gets:
17 = 17
20 = 20
20 = 20
15 = 15
16 = 16
6 = 6
10 = 10
5 = 5
20 = 20
2 = 2
Smon: GM: Hakeem and Shieldbiter emerge into the chamber, weapons ready, to see burning skeletons sprawled about.
Smon: The 9 skels that survived the fireball attack...
DESTROYERBILL: slah
chris107: Rage
DESTROYERBILL Rolls 1d20+1x2 and gets:
13 (+1) = 14
7 (+1) = 8
chris107 Rolls 1d20+2x2 and gets:
6 (+2) = 8
7 (+2) = 9
Smon: At the same time the mouth that was on the door (now badly scorched) flies up into the air & at you...
Smon: /roll d20+2
Smon rolls 1d20+2 and gets: 6, (+2) = 8
Smon: You win
DESTROYERBILL: yay
Smon: The mouth is up high out of melee range
chris107: yay
Smon: But the horde of skels swarm onto you.
Smon: Raging?
DESTROYERBILL: i can attak the mouth wings
chris107: yes
DESTROYERBILL: yeah rage
Smon: OK yes you could leap up & get 1 att on it
Smon: If it survives it gets free att as you drop back
Smon: You can't hover
DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d20+12 and gets: 10, (+12) = 22
DESTROYERBILL: hit?
Smon: SB leaps up and smashes the mouth
chris107: agin the skelletons
DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d12+10 and gets: 9, (+10) = 19
chris107 Rolls 1d20+14x2 and gets:
8 (+14) = 22
19 (+14) = 33
Smon: AC 14, it gurgles and vanishes w a pop.
DESTROYERBILL rolls 2d6 and gets: 6, 2, = 8
DESTROYERBILL: 27 damage
DESTROYERBILL: brb
Smon: It's gone.
chris107: "Nice work Prince Shieldbiter!"
chris107 rolls 2d8+12 and gets: 2, 3, (+12) = 17
chris107 rolls 2d8+12 and gets: 4, 6, (+12) = 22
Smon: Hakeem cuts down 2 skels, they only have 1 hp left.
Smon: SB can hit 1 too
DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d20+12 and gets: 16, (+12) = 28
Smon: SB smashes a third.
Smon: 3 vs each of you...
Smon: 3 vs Hak:
chris107: 6 to go!
Smon: /roll d20+4x3
Smon Rolls 1d20+4x3 and gets:
14 (+4) = 18
17 (+4) = 21
15 (+4) = 19
chris107: ac22
chris107: phew
Smon: Bondor protects you!
Smon: 3 vs SB
Smon: /roll d20+4x3
Smon Rolls 1d20+4x3 and gets:
19 (+4) = 23
15 (+4) = 19
1 (+4) = 5
Smon: 2 hits
Smon: /roll 2d6+4
Smon rolls 2d6+4 and gets: 3, 1, (+4) = 8
Smon: 8/2=4 dmg raging
DESTROYERBILL:
Smon: R2 your go
DESTROYERBILL: 168/172
chris107 Rolls 1d20+14x2 and gets:
1 (+14) = 15
3 (+14) = 17
Smon: AC 13, H smashes 2
chris107: even on a 1?
Smon: oh sorry no
DESTROYERBILL Rolls 1d20+12x2 and gets:
19 (+12) = 31
17 (+12) = 29
Smon: H gets 1, SB 2
Smon: /roll d20+4x2
Smon Rolls 1d20+4x2 and gets:
15 (+4) = 19
18 (+4) = 22
Smon: H is hit!!!!
Smon: /roll d6+2
chris107: riposte
Smon rolls 1d6+2 and gets: 4, (+2) = 6
chris107 rolls 1d20+14 and gets: 7, (+14) = 21
Smon: 6 dmg H, can riposte
Smon: he smashes it
Smon: 1 vs SB
Smon: /roll d20+4
chris107: 3 with rage, 218/221
Smon rolls 1d20+4 and gets: 15, (+4) = 19
Smon: hit
Smon: /roll d6+2
Smon rolls 1d6+2 and gets: 3, (+2) = 5
Smon: 5/2=2 to SB
Smon: R3, 2 left
DESTROYERBILL: 166/172
chris107 Rolls 1d20+14x2 and gets:
12 (+14) = 26
6 (+14) = 20
Smon: your goes
Smon: H sweeps his sword through the old bones
DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d20+12 and gets: 15, (+12) = 27
Smon: They clatter down to join their fellows, and silence falls.
chris107: Hakeem sprints towards the door whilst his rage lasts, looking for another target
Smon: SB kicks some.
DESTROYERBILL: tahnks
chris107:
Smon: The door is locked, you have advtg if try to smash it (athletics DC 22
chris107 Rolls 1d20+11x2 and gets:
3 (+11) = 14
5 (+11) = 16
Smon: H bounces off.
chris107: "Grrrrrr!"
DESTROYERBILL Rolls 1d20+10x2 and gets:
9 (+10) = 19
14 (+10) = 24
chris107: Does that count as an attack?
DESTROYERBILL: i do it
Smon: action
Smon: SB charges it
chris107: "Yay!"
Smon: d20+10 2 rolls raging
DESTROYERBILL: i already did
Smon: The door smashes open and SB hurtles through onto the top of stairs overlooking a grand chamber.
DESTROYERBILL: looks nice
Smon: A great hall of ancient statuary.
Smon: The stairs descend 10' to the floor., arched 25' ceiling
Smon: Ten glowing pillars illuminate the hall w eerie yellow green flickering light.
DESTROYERBILL: oooooo
chris107: nice
Smon: Alternating w the pillars are 10 great pedestals on which sit carved statues of fantastic beasts.
Smon: 6' tall pedestals, the nearest beasts are a sphinx with huge quartz sphere eyes and an 8 headed hydra of black marble w amber eyes
Smon: Further along you see a minotaur, dryad, griffon, manticore, harpy, hippogriff, satyr & centaur.
chris107: "Wow"
DESTROYERBILL: ooooo
Smon: Each is carved off a different stone, with gem eyes.
Smon: minotaur is soapstone & jades, dryad is basalt w citrines, etc.
Smon: The walls are plastered and depict scenes of dancing satyrs & such.
chris107: Hakeem scans the fantastic chamber, looking for exits.
Smon: There are no obvious exits - Hakeem make INT save (INT+prof)
DESTROYERBILL: can i
DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d20+5 and gets: 20, (+5) = 25
Smon: Yes. Also if you search the walls that'd be WIS+Prof
chris107 rolls 1d20+6 and gets: 12, (+6) = 18
DESTROYERBILL:
chris107: nice
DESTROYERBILL: i got a critacal sucsess
Smon: SB reckons the far west end of the n wall is illusory, covering something.
Smon: H doesn't notice that, but he does think the plaster on the far west wall looks odd.
DESTROYERBILL: anything els crit sucsees
chris107: Can we split up, each warrior taking a side and our squishy folks staying back up the steps?
Smon: Rosa & Ajax come up behind you.
Smon: Ajax: "I'll protect Rosa in the skels room."
Smon: They stay back - you descend the steps?
chris107: North or south wall shieldbiter?
Smon: Suddenly the lights blink out, the room is dark but for your glowing swords.
chris107: "Or do you want to stick together?"
chris107: "Drat!"
DESTROYERBILL: stick together
Smon: And you hear a low rumble.
Smon: /roll d6
Smon rolls 1d6 and gets: 6,
chris107: Down the steps side by side then.
DESTROYERBILL: oh no
Smon: You cautiously descend the steps.
chris107: (A great image)
Smon: You have just reached the floor when the pillars burst back into brilliant light, brilliant strobing light sweeps over the chamber threatening to blind you.
Smon: DC 12 CON saves or blinded.
chris107: H raises his shield
chris107 rolls 1d20+11 and gets: 12, (+11) = 23
DESTROYERBILL: me to
Smon: d20+8 for SB
DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d20+10 and gets: 9, (+10) = 19
DESTROYERBILL: -2
chris107: nice
DESTROYERBILL: 17
Smon: You blink and shield your eyes until the brilliance subsides.
Smon: You head through the statuary hall - the pink granite satyr w ruby & diamond eyes is especially nice
chris107: avoid looking too closely
Smon: The black lava hippogriff w peridots by contrast looks like something out of Tate Modern (OOC)
chris107:
DESTROYERBILL: ha
Smon: As you head through the chamber to the west side you hear a ghostly rumbling again, and a sound like heavy footsteps in the distance.
Smon: Can make raw INT checks (d20+INT mod)
chris107 rolls 1d20 and gets: 4,
DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d20 and gets: 17,
chris107: nice roll Bill
DESTROYERBILL:
Smon: SB reckons the sounds come when you move, as if triggered, and they have a slightly ghostly cadence.
Smon: Just illusions, maybe?
chris107: "Trickery!"
DESTROYERBILL: probably
chris107: "Shall we go look through your illusionary wall?Q"
DESTROYERBILL: okay
DESTROYERBILL: brb
Smon: After 30 seconds you have reached the west end. Hakeem inspects the plaster on the w wall - a thin layer of plaster crudely conceals a secret door. SB looks at he w end of north wall, it seems slightly translucent.
chris107: "Watch ot for the plater on this west wall too, just doesn't look right."
Smon: Then the lights go out again.
chris107: plaster
Smon: /roll d6
Smon rolls 1d6 and gets: 3,
chris107: H once more brings his shield upto cover his eyes
Smon: This time the light comes on again after 15 seconds, you cover your eyes until glare subsides.
chris107: Push on through the illusion
Smon: You find a door through the illusory section of the n wall, it seems locked.
Smon: No handle, but moves slightly at your push.
chris107: Hakeem tries brute strength
chris107 rolls 1d20+11 and gets: 10, (+11) = 21
Smon: Rage has subsided now but the door breaks easily enough (DC 15)
Smon: You see an unlit tunnel running north.
DESTROYERBILL: okay
chris107: H tests the floor ahead.
Smon: The air is cool here, colder than in the statuary hall.
DESTROYERBILL: okay]
Smon: H enters the corridor, prodding the floor - nothing happens.
DESTROYERBILL: hmmm
chris107: Sword crackling and shield at the ready Hakeem advances, stealthily
Smon: Tunnel runs n 70' then turns e.
chris107: Stopping at the corner, listning then peeking around.
Smon: At the n end of the tunnel you see a long flight of stone steps going up east.
Smon: SB make WIS +Prof roll.
DESTROYERBILL: intersting
chris107: "Back and check the plastered door?"
DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d20+8 and gets: 17, (+8) = 25
DESTROYERBILL: pass
chris107: Rolling well today Bill!
DESTROYERBILL: yep
Smon: SB follows H up the cool tunnel. He notices, being a fire dragonborn, that a section about 40' along is particularly cold.
8:58am 2017-6-24 subaltari Has exited the room
Smon: Then it warms again as he reaches H at the n end.
Smon: /roll d6
Smon rolls 1d6 and gets: 1,
Smon: H can make WIS check
DESTROYERBILL: ?
chris107 rolls 1d20 and gets: 12,
chris107: "Let's investigate this cold bit."
DESTROYERBILL: He notices, being a fire dragonborn, that a section about 40' along is particularly cold.
Smon: H hears a distant sound from up the stairs - sounded like a low roar of a bear or similar.
Smon: Some ways off.
chris107: He looks for secret exits around the cold section.
chris107 rolls 1d20+6 and gets: 6, (+6) = 12
Smon: A 5' wide section of the w wall is definitely much colder than the rest.
chris107: he pushes on it..
Smon:
chris107: oh dear...
chris107: I don't like that smile
DESTROYERBILL: me nether
Smon: Glowing red eyes blink open in the Living Door as it sucks life energy from Hakeem.
Smon: /roll 10d6
Smon rolls 10d6 and gets: 2, 6, 6, 1, 6, 1, 1, 6, 2, 3, = 34
DESTROYERBILL: i pull him out
chris107: "Aaarrgghhhh!"
Smon: 34 necrotic dmg, CON save DC 14 for half
chris107 rolls 1d20+11 and gets: 20, (+11) = 31
Smon: roll init, you are surprised but can act on init if rage
DESTROYERBILL: pass
Smon: door
DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d20+1 and gets: 4, (+1) = 5
chris107 Rolls 1d20+2x2 and gets:
10 (+2) = 12
11 (+2) = 13
Smon: /roll d20+1
Smon rolls 1d20+1 and gets: 14, (+1) = 15
chris107: 201/221 then with the save?
Smon: Before you can react a mouth appears in the door, breathing out cool gas.
Smon: DC 14 WIS saves (WIS+Prof) please.
DESTROYERBILL: both
chris107 rolls 1d20+6 and gets: 4, (+6) = 10
chris107: Drat!
DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d20+8 and gets: 20, (+8) = 28
Smon: Hakeem feels an overwhelming urge to embrace the door, SB resists.
DESTROYERBILL: save
chris107: fail
Smon: Before SB can react H embraces the lovely door.
chris107: Will his rage save him?
chris107: If not I guess he embraces the door.
DESTROYERBILL: what?
Smon: Oh yeah, berserk charm resistance? But you lost init so not raging
Smon: /roll 10d6
Smon rolls 10d6 and gets: 1, 6, 3, 3, 2, 4, 3, 2, 4, 5, = 33
chris107: con save for half?
Smon: another 33 necrotic, DC 14 CON for half
chris107 rolls 1d20+11 and gets: 13, (+11) = 24
Smon: 16 dmg
Smon: make another WIS save at end of your turn H to throw off charm
chris107: 185/221
Smon: SB you can Rage & hit door?
DESTROYERBILL: yep
DESTROYERBILL Rolls 1d20+12x2 and gets:
1 (+12) = 13
8 (+12) = 20
chris107 rolls 1d20+6 and gets: 11, (+6) = 17
DESTROYERBILL: 1 hit
Smon: H recovers from charm as SB hits door (AC 14)
Smon: Your fire does x2 dmg vs it
DESTROYERBILL Rolls 1d12+10x2 and gets:
5 (+10) = 15
12 (+10) = 22
chris107: Burn it. Burn it to death.
DESTROYERBILL rolls 4d6 and gets: 3, 4, 6, 3, = 16
chris107: H will probably not need to rage
Smon: 31 dmg to door, a great rent appears in it.
Smon: You glimpse a frosty chamber beyond.
DESTROYERBILL: what
Smon: It's still alive though...
Smon: R2 the door breathes out more charm gas, DC 14 WIS save
chris107 rolls 1d20+6 and gets: 19, (+6) = 25
DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d20+8 and gets: 4, (+8) = 12
DESTROYERBILL: fail
Smon: Hakeem resists, SB is charmed and moves to touch it
chris107: H hacks at the thing
Smon: But H goes first
chris107: He hacks recklessly
Smon: Before SB can embrace the living door H strikes
chris107 Rolls 1d20+14x2 and gets:
7 (+14) = 21
15 (+14) = 29
chris107 Rolls 1d20+14x2 and gets:
19 (+14) = 33
5 (+14) = 19
Smon: He hacks it apart, it shatters into dozens of black shards.
Smon:
chris107 rolls 4d8+24 and gets: 2, 2, 6, 2, (+24) = 36
Smon: Well done!
DESTROYERBILL: thanks
DESTROYERBILL: chris
Smon: Good team
chris107: "You okay Prince Shieldbiter? That was nasty!"
DESTROYERBILL: i didnt get hiy
DESTROYERBILL: but you did
chris107: Hakeem looks at the frost burns on his body and shudders (185/221
Smon: Beyond is a 30 e-w by 20 n-s chamber, floor covered in 2" of frost and snow. Two figures lie unmoving on the floor, under a layer of frost.
chris107: Looks into the frosty chamber
Smon: There is an arch in the w wall.
DESTROYERBILL: stab them make sure
Smon: The figures are dressed in archaic Thracian plate, resembling the heroes on the murals above.
Smon: A man and a woman, they seem lifeless but perfectly preserved in the deep freeze.
Smon: SB stabbing them?
chris107: "Wait!"
DESTROYERBILL: yep
DESTROYERBILL: okay
Smon: roll init
chris107: "If these are heroes, they may be able to help?"
Smon: Or is SB stopping?
DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d20+1 and gets: 17, (+1) = 18
DESTROYERBILL: i stab
chris107: (Sorry Bill, I think you were right to stab them all along )
Smon: I meant roll init to see if H could stop H stabbing them.
chris107 Rolls 1d20+2x2 and gets:
8 (+2) = 10
16 (+2) = 18
Smon: Tie
chris107: Dex 14
Smon: The man is lying in front of the door - a handsome fellow beneath his bronze helm, with curly brown hair and tanned complexion.
chris107: Hakeem tries to stop him
DESTROYERBILL: dex?
Smon: You tied so roll off
chris107: Dexterity score, on a tie?
chris107 rolls 1d20+2 and gets: 7, (+2) = 9
Smon: just raw d20
DESTROYERBILL rolls 1d20+1 and gets: 3, (+1) = 4
Smon: H is faster
chris107: phew
Smon: H moves in front of SB to block him from stabbing the body.
chris107: "Wait, my friend. These could be allies. Held in magical slumber by the cold."
DESTROYERBILL: you will probably regret its a trap
chris107: "Let's see if we can thaw them out?"
DESTROYERBILL: or a trap
Smon: You hear Rosa call from down the hall: "Ow that light is blinding! Can we come up now?!"
chris107: "Or a trap. Come down Rosa, your help is needed."
chris107: "Let's give it a go at least Prince Shieldbiter?"
DESTROYERBILL: fine
Smon: You see Ajax & Rosa approaching from the hall of animal statues.
chris107: H tries to pull the bodies into the corridor, away from the frost, he covers them with his wolf skins.
Smon: The woman is very shapely and beautiful beneath her helm.
Smon: Hakeem pulls the bodies into the hall while the others watch curiously.
Smon: The man lies unmoving.
chris107: "Ajax, do you have some minor magic that can heat the air? Not one of your fireballs!"
Smon: Suddenly the woman coughs, blinks!
Smon: "eww... uh..." she says.
chris107: "Are you okay?"
chris107: "My name is Hakeem, these are my friends."
Smon: Ajax: "Just wall of fire and fireball..."
Smon: "Danaus?" she says.
chris107: He offers her a flask of water.
chris107: "This fellow?" he gestures
Smon: "Thanks friend!" She raises her helm, revealing glossy black hair, and eagerly takes the water.
Smon: OOC she's the spitting image of Wonder Woman.
Smon: "Yes..."
chris107: hehe
chris107: Linda carter?
Smon: Danaus isn't moving. His eyes are open. The woman reaches over and checks him.
Smon: "Dead..." she sighs.
chris107: "I am sorry. Your husband?"
Smon: hm, url too long
chris107: H quickly explains the situation.
Smon: Yeah Linda Carter is good.
chris107: "By your equipment you have been here some time."
Smon: https://www.flickeringmyth.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/lynda-carter-wonder-woman.jpg
chris107: "What were you doing here in Thracia?"
Smon: "Time? I am Epicaste of the Golden Falcons. He is - was - Danaus, my comrade in many adventures."
Smon: "Did King Agamemnos send you?"
Smon: Her speech is very archaic Ghinarian.
chris107: "I have never heard of this King. Doctor P?
Smon: Piercemuller shivers slightly in the cold air coming through the archway.
Smon: "Sounds Ghinarian - an ancient Thracian king, perhaps? Records are sparse from that era."
chris107: He offers her the wolf furs that covered poor dead Danaus.
chris107: "Do you know what is through that archway Epicaste?"
Smon: Epicaste gets stiffly to her feet, hand on sword hilt. "I don't like the sound of this... We were sent down to investigate rumours of a Beastman uprising - through the trapdoor... into that chamber. But there was a door, red eyes, it froze us...."
chris107: "It is gone now."
Smon: "Yes, the corridor ends with a trapdoor above, we rapelled down."
DESTROYERBILL: https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&ved=0ahUKEwj81eKiltbUAhUFvxQKHZeND0cQjRwIBw&url=https://www.intothejungle.org/how-do-you-get-rid-of-a-dead-body-after-a-catastrophe/&psig=AFQjCNFC3tWCBWIFHabDlB71wes5sNMJPg&ust=1498383104239771
chris107: Won't link Bill
Smon: OOC the notes for Epicaste say that her magical armour is unsuitable for males due to the large D-cups.
DESTROYERBILL: what
chris107: hehe
chris107: (So through the arch is a corridor with a trap door above?)
DESTROYERBILL: yep
Smon: (yes)
Smon: D is a bra size Bill
chris107: "Let's get out of the cold and rest. Does your comrade have any equipment that may pove helpful?"
Smon: She checks Danaus - his sword is still frozen in its scabbard.
chris107: "We can lay him to rest properly once our quest is over."
Smon: She shakes her head. "I have the same gear - plus my enchanted armour..." she smiles slightly.
Smon: The armour does show a lot of cleavage.
chris107: "Would you care to join us or seek saftey above?"
Smon: "It is enchanted to protect better than bronze, but is light as cloth."
Smon: "What's the situation? The Beastmen?"
Smon: She looks you all over.
chris107: "Most deead, though some remain. There is a greater threat..."
Smon: "You're a Dragonborn?"
DESTROYERBILL: yes
Smon: She nods. "Our ancestors fought alongside yours against the Orichalan Dragon Lords - the Doomfire Empire..."
DESTROYERBILL: okay
Smon: She looks Hakeem over. "You look like the statue of Bondor at Nippuri!"
chris107: "It is against one of these Lords that we battle now..."
Smon: "But Bondor died a thousand years ago..."
chris107: "Thanks."
chris107: "Bondorr lives."
Smon: Rosa: "Epicaste, your city - Thracia - fell a thousand years ago. More. The Nerath Empire rose and fell while you slept."
Smon: OOC need to finish off soon.
chris107: OOC, sure, a good session
Smon: Epicaste looks stunned, trying to process this.
Smon: "We - we... I thought I found a secret door in there, right before we collapsed..." She gestures into the frozen room.
Smon: "...King Agamemnos is gone?"
DESTROYERBILL: yep
Smon: Rosa: "Well, I expect so." she shrugs and smiles.
chris107: "Then let us warm up, rest then investigate it?"
chris107: (Rest back in skele room?)
Smon: Epicaste nods. "As you will. I do need time to warm up..."
Smon: Rosa: "Welcome to the gang, Epicaste!"
Smon: OOC will stop there.
chris107:
DESTROYERBILL:
chris107: Cool! Thanks for the game Simon. Well played Bill!
DESTROYERBILL: thanks see you later
chris107: see you later!
Smon: Prob play next on Wednesday?
chris107: Next game 19:30 tonight?
Smon: I love playing am. Get waker not tireder as game goes on!
9:45am 2017-6-24 DESTROYERBILL Has exited the room
chris107: No level 3 game tonight?
Smon: Yes L3 tonight
Smon: I meant next H & SB game Wed
chris107: hehe
chris107: That would be great. Getting very exciting now.
Smon: You'll get good XP this time, 2 big accomplishments
chris107: Thracia is proving to be ace.
chris107: Level 19 not too far away. But then it's the big hike to 20
Smon: Started a bit slow but you have done well navigating
Smon: Epicaste is one of my fav bits, glad you found her at last!
chris107: we need allthe help we can get
chris107: I think we are pretty close to a major fight!
chris107: So we start next time with rest and HD?
Smon: /roll d6
Smon rolls 1d6 and gets: 1,
Smon: yep
Smon: At 6pm
Smon: I'll post log
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