Ketil draws his mace and rapels down the secured rope, ready for the fight below.

In reply to Ketil Deepwalker (msg # 121):

Apparently short of torch, Hograth stows his crossbow on his pack and pulls out his axe and shield, holding his flint in his shield hand, before he realizes he will need those hands to repel down the rope. So he tucks his axe half back into his pack, where he can easily grab it, and his flint into his belt, and follows Ketil down.

Urrun waited until last, watching and waiting for the line to become unweighted before he took hold off the rope, gave one last look over the edge, then stepped off.

In reply to Urrun (msg # 123):

The ordinary lamp oil burns slowly, providing a light only barely brighter
than a torch., and mostly greases the floor, unlike alchemical fire, which
 explodes dramatically when ignited or hurled.

The room below is filled with corpses, and as you get closer
 (not rapelling, that requires a wall, and you are entering from the top
of a dome), you can see rats moving among the bodies, along with gaunt
Dog legged creatures with long claws.



Ooc: hidden lore, undead anyone?

In reply to Narrator (msg # 124):

Hograth looks at the creatures below.

[Private to GM: Rolled Exactly my Hidden Lore (Undead) skill...]

In reply to Hograth Podkarmen (msg # 125):

Ghula are free willed undead natives of another plane of existence, enemies of the Hadereum, have a paralyzing touch and the ability to gate into shadow through piles of bone. Where more than three bones are in contact with eachother, they can make a gate.  This does not work with ash.
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Once on the ground, Goran mutters a brief prayer to the sun and his morningstar becomes sheathed in flame.

[Private to Narrator:
17:09, Today: Goran the Marked rolled 8 using 3d6.  Flaming weapon 15 - 1 active spell.

FP: 9/12
Power Item: 6/6

Active Spells:
1. Armour - 1 DR on self (upkeep 1-1 = 0)
2. Flaming Weapon - on self  (upkeep 1-1 = 0)]

In reply to ghula (msg # 126):

Hograth passes on this information as he lands and draws his axe and shield and looks around, scattering any bones he can see.

[Private to GM: Hograth has had continual light cast on his headlamp, just so you know.]

Urrun came last, and jumped the final few feet to land with a clatter among the decaying refuse. He came up quickly, drawing his own rusty axe from the loop at his belt as be blinked away to help his eyes adjust to the darkness.

13:10, Today: Urrun rolled 12 using 3d6.  Climb down rope (14).
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In reply to Hograth Podkarmen (msg # 128):

In addition to the rats erupting from some of the many corpses, about 8 ghulae are in the immediate vicinity.

Fright checks at +2 all, +4 for Hograth and Urrun

13:16, Today: Urrun rolled 11 using 3d6.  Fright Check +4 (Willpower of 10).

Goran is extremely unsteady on the rope. He may fall.

[Private to Narrator: Rolls
17:41, Today: Goran the Marked rolled 14 using 3d6.  Climbing (DX-5) = 7 .
17:42, Today: Goran the Marked rolled 13 using 3d6.  Fright Check +2 (Will 14).]

In reply to Goran the Marked (msg # 132):

Hograth has clearly done this before. He has no trouble with the rope.

[Private to GM: Rolled 6 under skill.
Rolled 7 under unmodified will of 14, so target 18, right? Was that including Combat reflexes?]

In reply to Hograth Podkarmen (msg # 133):

Unmoved by the appearance of the ghouls, or the rats exploding out of days old corpses, you are ready to deal with the ghouls

In reply to Narrator (msg # 134):

Hograth steps forward and swings his axe at the nearest abomination.

[Private to GM: Rolled 10 under axe skill, silver axe, 12 cut damage.]

OOC: did Goran make it down?
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Seemingly surrounded, Urrun shuffled closer to Hograth, back to back, and let his lips pull back in a deep, rolling warning growl that echoed in the enclosed space. His ears laid back and his eyes seemed to grow wider in the dark as his yellowed teeth flashed in the half light.

Just before the Ghul closed he lunged forward and swung from the side with his axe with both hands.

[Private to GM: 11:54, Today: Secret Roll: Urrun rolled 11 using 2d4+4.  Axe Damage.
11:53, Today: Secret Roll: Urrun rolled 7 using 3d6.  Location.
11:53, Today: Secret Roll: Urrun rolled 15 using 3d6.  Axe vs Ghoul, any available target (16).
]

Ketil moves to flank Urrun and Hograth, using the back-to-back pair as an anvil to strike from.  He swings his spiked mace at OE of the oncoming ghuls.

In reply to Ketil Deepwalker (msg # 138):

Two ghouls are nearly split in half by Urrun and Horgath, Gorun has landed, Ketil needs to see if he hit.

Passing a note.

[Private to GM: 19:28, Today: Ketil Deepwalker rolled 10 using 3d6 ((1,4,5)).
 Mace Dex +3 (16).]

In reply to Ketil Deepwalker (msg # 140):

Ketil's mace smashes through another of the shambling things.

In reply to ghula (msg # 141):

Hograth gets ready to chop the next one that gets within range.

[Private to GM: Rolled 3 under attack to hit, 6 cut damage (silver)]

Urrun stifled a gag as he laid the Ghul open, then let out a thunderous series of barks that seemed overly loud in the underground chamber before he caught sight of the next one and let his axe fall.


[Private to GM: 09:59, Today: Secret Roll: Urrun rolled 9 using 2d4+4.  Axe Damage.
09:58, Today: Secret Roll: Urrun rolled 8 using 3d6.  Location.
09:58, Today: Secret Roll: Urrun rolled 12 using 3d6.  Axe vs Ghoul, any available target (16).]

Goran unsteadily makes it down the rope, but quickly joins the fray. He swings his flaming morningstar at the nearest Ghula.

[Private to Narrator:
14:33, Today: Goran the Marked rolled 9 using 3d6.  Morningstar 15.
14:34, Today: Goran the Marked rolled 7 using 2d6+4.  Morningstar damage.]

Meeping amongst each other, the ghouls back off. Two are badly injured, the last is buring. Two intact ghouls grab a wounded one by the arms and retreat, a lone ghoul dives into a pike of half eaten bodies and disappears.
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