The faint rush of air and slight feeling of nausea that accompanies teleportation by the black rod doesn't feel as bad this time. You must be getting used to it.

You look around at your new surroundings. It is a bleak landscape that is like a desert of powdery grey ash. The only breaks in this bleak landscape are some sort of ruined building about 80 feet ahead of you and the silhouette of a mountain range behind you. Actually, there are broken pillars of stone sticking up 5 to 10 feet out of the ash around you, too

A howling wind rises quickly and soon starts to whip the ash around you in blinding clouds that sear your lungs and sting any exposed flesh. The ruined building looks like the only possible place to escape from the wind. You can just make out some darker patches around the base of the building, near the middle of it, that might be openings into a lower, darker level of the building not quite buried beneath the deep drifts of grey ash that surround you.

OOC: Main Game Map updated.

Taking in the area at a glance Minmorc will jog south and a little west to stand behind one of the pillars (second one down on the left). Vera poised and squintin along her length Minmorc will peer into the shadows, ready to attack the darkness.

Riza will move to occupy the pillar opposite Minmorc and try to see what she can trough the stinging ash, she only has a plain arrow prepared, not wanting to loose any special ones in the howling winds.

She once again disappears, blending into her surroundings.

In reply to Riza (msg # 3):

Arlein will jump on Minmorc's shoulder, walk to the other one, the flop down like a half scarf.

Bulldust keeps his mouth shut and pulls his Paynim's blanket tight around himself with his left hand.  He carries his goose-hook in his right.  He trots forward southeastward and stops in the niche of the column on the right level with Min and Riza.

There is no sign of movement - no sign of life at all - not from the shadowy patches at the base of the building, nor from anywhere around you at all.

That wind-driven ash is really starting to sting, though.

In reply to Wyrm of Wyrd (msg # 6):

Oopses just shivers in the wind, " Guys can we goes inside"

Moffdust squeals at the stinging dust. "Dis is waspdusts!" She wraps her blanket close and scurries after Bully. She's eager to get under cover so she keeps following, with her new wand in hand and Cat safely hidden under the layers of blanket and cloak.

Riza agrees with the group and moves forward into the building, just purely to get out of the stinking wind

"Inside ! Inside !" Dregz urges, though so swaddled is the little goblin that his words are barely distinguishable.  No mistaking his intent, however as he strides forwards.

In reply to Dregz (msg # 10):

Oopses follow Dregz.

Hearing several panicked cries to get inside Minmorc will barrel forward with Riza and will enter the 6ft gap into the lower level.

As they approach the building they see that it looks like the lower levels of a building that was once significantly taller. The walls rise up 10 to 20 feet above the grey ash that covers the ground. The floor of what might once have been the second level of the building is now only a couple of feet above the new ground level of ash outside. All windows have been shattered long ago. The roof and any upper floors above this level have collapsed and are covered in at least a foot of ash over the whole building.

The dark spaces, which could barely be glimpsed from the point where the Team arrived, prove to be openings into what was originally the ground floor of this building. The openings are barely two feet high at the northern edge of the building but in the middle of the building there is a large open space that extends 20 feet into the building with a low balcony rail around the south, east and west sides of this open area. The ash slopes down as you look southward into this area and the opening into the lower level reaches 6 feet in height at the southern edge of this area.

Looking into the lower level you see that it forms three separate chambers extending south, east and west from this central open space. The grey ash continues to slope downward into these chambers at a rate of about 1 foot drop per 5 feet away from the open area, so the last ten feet or so of each of these chambers has little more than a few inches of ash covering the floors.

The light is poor (low light) in each of these lower chambers but that won't present a problem for any of Team Arda-Nuff.

Riza and Minmorc (and Arlein riding on Minmorc’s shoulders) are now close enough to see there is some sort of large stone altar near the southern end of the south chamber. A single door can be seen in the eastern wall of the eastern chamber and a similar door in the western wall of the western chamber.

OOC: Main Game Map updated.

Minmorc will call out to be heard over the wind "der's an altar and I fink der's sum tracks. I'm gonna go closer ter see dem clear like." Minmorc will head into the southern chamber to have a closer look at the tracks and the altar."

The serried ranks of the Seven Mounting Heavens of Celstia could be arrayed against them, and at this moment still would Dregz advance to get out of this hell of dust and ash.  Wordlessly, his pack and its precious cargo secure upon his back, the little goblin trudges after Minmorc, sliding down the slope to whatever shelter lies below.

In reply to Dregz (msg # 15):

Today: Oopses rolled 28 using 1d100.  20-35 snowballs down the hill.

Jurz urges Rog forward at a trot.  The faster they get out of these winds the better.

Riza follows after Minmorc, once down in the room she will move to the left side of the room and cover the others as they progress through the area

The tracks that Minmorc finds in the southern chamber are more like a churned trail about 2 to 3 feet wide across the surface of the grey ash slope. It looks like there are either:

• two separate trails to and from the eastern chamber with one of those trails extending further into the western chamber and back; or
• one trail that runs from the western chamber to the southern then the eastern, back to the southern then the eastern again, then back through the southern to the western chamber again.

Minmorc can't tell what it was or which way it was travelling.

Riza moves across to the southwest edge of the eastern chamber and can see those tracks winding down into and circling round inside that eastern chamber but can't see any sign of life in there at the moment.

Dregz and Oopses follow Minmorc down the slope into the southern chamber (Oopses in the inimitable style that obviously earned him his name!) while Jurz and Rog lead the rest of Team Arda-Nuff forward in their wake.

Dregz barely glances at the tracks, preferring to start off on a proper footing by relying on divine inspiration.  Wordlessly he holds up the precious Magic Stick (aka The Black Rod) to see in which direction it is pulling him.

The black rod points back the way Dregz has come, though it does angle downward a bit.

Jurz allows Rog to follow Minmorc and Riza into the sheltered area.

Bulldozer slides down the slops in a wave of ash and dust that wipes out some of the tracks that he had not yet noticed.  He makes a circuit of the large southern room sniffing the air hoping to detect the scent of anything that lives (or once lived) down here.  He slings his goose-hook on his back and draws his white-tipped flail, preferring its weight, magic and divine blessing in this oppressive place.

Moffdust slithers halfway down the slope and rolls up her blanket. She shakes the dust out of her cloak, dislodging Cat. The bat flies off wherever it will, its small squeaks fading as it leaves the south room. "I doesnt likes it here. Looks like humies made dis places." She notices where Dregz stick is pointing. "Does dat means wes has to digs?" she asks dubiously. She looks at Bully sniffing around in the corners. He likes to dig holes, but he'd probably get buried alive if he tried to dig in this dust.

She takes out a fistful of wands to hold in her left hand but casts Detect Magic and focuses her attention towards the south end of the room where Minmorc is.
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"Must be buried deep," Dregz replies despondently to Moffa's question. The little goblin shakes the Magic Stick but seemingly gets the same result as he tries again.

"Unless ... dis place was buried by der ash-sand ?  Mebbee der next bit we want is in der basement ?"  He peers upwards, but the bad weather outside is showing no sign of letting up, if ever it does.  "Gotta be worth a look-see."

Moffdust's spell initially indicates that yes, there is definitely magic down at the southern end of the southern chamber but she soon realises it is only what Minmorc, Bulldust and other members of the team have brought in with them. There is no sign of any other magical auras in the southern chamber.

There are two doors in the southern wall of the southern chamber, one in the eastern wall of the eastern chamber and one in the western wall of the western chamber but nothing leading directly to the north where the black rod is pointing, because the northern end of the building is completely buried in ash. If the team wants to explore other areas they will need to decide which way they want to go.

It should be noted that the ash is only loose and soft for the first few inches below the surface. Below that it is packed hard enough to walk on.

Minmorc will conclude his search of the room by giving the altar a good kick. Setting his gaze on the eastern door in the southern chamber Minmorc will take a couple of seconds to properly prepare for some dungeon delving. Careful not to disturb his rider Minmorc will stow his spear carefull and will withdraw the Axe wife. Focusing his small well of magical power Minmorc will softly pray to Nuffle for first a blessing upon the the party then for additional divine favor for himself. Axe in hand and cat on shoulder he will then move over to the door and try to open it.

The southeast door that Minmorc tackles is designed to open inward into this chamber. It is held in place by a sturdy bar on the inside, which Minmorc can easily remove. The door seems stuck but Minmorc pulls on it with great determination and finally it swings open to reveal a solid wall of densely packed grey ash behind the door, completely blocking that exit.

Bulldust goes into the western chamber and tries the door there on the left.

When Bulldust enters the western chamber he notices some fairly obvious tracks leading down toward the door at the far western end of that chamber. The broader churned up tracks that circle through all three chambers wipe out those other tracks for most of their length.

The western door is free of the grey ash and Bully is able to pull it open easily. It leads to a small landing at the top of a set of stairs that leads down into darkness towards the south. There is also another door on the western side of the landing.

OOC: Main Game Map updated

Minmorc will head west and attempt to open the Western door in the Sothern chamber.

In reply to Minmorc (msg # 31):

" I thinks this is a castle, a underground castle" shaking, where to to fear, excitement or cold it's hard to tell.

Jurz is happy to wait, somewhere between the various explorers, ready to come to their aid if  required.

The southwest door that Minmorc tackles is exactly like the southeast one he already opened. It is designed to open inward into this chamber and is held in place by a sturdy bar on the inside, which Minmorc can easily remove. The door seems stuck but Minmorc manages to pull it open to reveal a solid wall of densely packed grey ash behind the door, completely blocking that exit too.

Minmorc will take his axe and attack the dustness. If nothing happens he will head over to Bully and "playfully" nudge him towards the stairs.

In reply to Minmorc (msg # 35):

Arlein ees minmorc's grin and raises him a evacuating leap, moving to the otherside of room then preening as the dustcloud is convoked.

The ash is looser near the top of the doorway and Minmorc can easily poke his axe through to see daylight (it is only about 5:30pm at present, so it is still light outside) just above the top of the doorway. The ash would be about 6 feet deep outside this doorway. His axe can fairly easily chop through the lower levels of ash too but it is like digging through packed earth and does indeed raise a thick dustcloud around him too.

Riza moves back to the main room and, seeing Minmorc raising a dust cloud, keeps moving over to bulldust. "Found anything other than ash bulldust?"

Dregz considers the various surveys being undertaken before making his pronouncement.

"Dis way !" the little goblin calls out, trailing after Riza to make his way over to Bully at the Western door beyond which lie the stairs.  "Dis is der way to der next bit of der Magic Stick !"

Dregz and Bully are able to see that the stairs lead downward about 10 feet with an opening on the eastern side at the bottom of the stairs.

When Bulldust hears Minmorc coming up behind him he playfully steps aside, at the last moment, to let Minmorc precede him down the stairs.  He replies to Riza "Nuffing down dere so far cept stairs, an da occasional orc."  He stays on the landing to sniff the air, trying to catch the 'scent' of whatever made the tracks.

Rog and Jruz prowl over to stand behind the others.

"Woz a ock Asian al Ork? Imma Ork, alwayz an Ork." Minmorc will step onto the landing and will try to open the door.

Moffdust looks around for Cat wondering if he's found anything interesting. She trudges through the dust into the west room too. Everyone's over there at the end looking down the stairs. But look there! There's another door just there on the left. She wonders what's in there. She tries to open it, fire wand at the ready just in case its nasty...

Cat the bat has flown around through all the three lower level chambers without showing any sign of finding anything that alarmed or excited it.

The door found by Moffa in the southeast corner of the western chamber is at least two-thirds buried by the slope of grey ash sloping down into these three chambers. It would probably be easy enough to clear those 3 or 4 feet of ash but it would take quite a while and would stir up huge clouds of choking ash and dust that would make it a very unpleasant task.

The western door beyond the landing at the top of the western stairs proves much the same as the ones Minmorc has previously opened. A solid wall of packed ash lies directly behind that door too. Enough spills down onto the landing to make it difficult to close that door again and will take a bit of work to clear enough to close that door. The landing was previously clear of ash but it and the top stairs are now covered by a heavy dusting of ash that is already marked by the footprints of Minmorc and Bulldust.

"Pfft, coff coff, stupid, coff, ash... Bah!" Minmorc will head down the stairs.

Dregz stares down into the darkness, wrapping the cloth back around his nose and mouth again before exhorting everyone to follow the big Orc.  Unfortunately his words are completely muffled and made entirely indistinguishable by the cloth.

In reply to Dregz (msg # 47):

Oopses stands at the top of the stairs looking down, as if recalling something unpleasant.

Bulldust's scent ability has not detected any whiff of danger so he trundles downstairs after Minmorc, flail at the ready.

"Aheh! Pfff!" Moffdust coughs as she steps onto the dusty landing, and she she grumbles softly at Min and Bully "Stops stirrin up de dusts youse two. Looks likes deres only one ways ter goes, so follows dem trackses." .

Minmorc and Bully lead the way downstairs and find a 5 foot wide corridor leading east for 80 feet. There are 6 doors in the northern wall , which all stand open, and two closed doors in the southern wall.

The first four doors open to four separate rooms, which are as follows:
1. 15 x 15 room with four 6ft benches, 2 chairs and a lectern.
2. 15 x 15 room with 2 tables, 4 benches and 4 chairs.
3. 10 x 15 room with an oven and two side tables.
4. 5 x 10 room with shelves stacked with dry remains of food.

The 5th door on the north side (0 on the map) opens to reveal a long corridor leading north with more doors on both sides and two openings on the eastern side.

The sixth door on the north side (door 25) opens to a storeroom full of piles of folded brown cloth.

The two southern doors (42 and 43) are locked.

At the eastern end of the first corridor there is a bend then the corridor continues east again. The first northern door after the bend (also marked 0 on the map) leads to another northern corridor with more doors and openings.

The eastern corridor after their bend has another 8 doors on the north wall and 8 more doors on the south wall, all of which as closed.

Bully can't smell anything interesting - it all just smells musty - but Dregz's black rod points straight up the first northern corridor.

OOC: See group M map. The room numbers mentioned above correspond to door numbers on the map.

In reply to Wyrm of Wyrd (msg # 51):

Oopses wanders up the hallway to area 19.

Minmorc will also head to area 19.

Riding a massive dog is not the best way of exploring dungeons - so Jurz and Rog stay towards the rear of the group, ready to provide support at either end of the party if it is required.

Riza will move along with the others cautiously, it is never a good sign when everything seems this dead

Minmorc is becoming convinced that the party will turn a corner and on top of a pile of dust will be the next rod piece, bathed in a single ray of light while particles swirl and shimmer in the air above it.

Bulldust was distracted by the shimmering dust motes ... just the be a bit different, he goes along to the other door 0 then silently turns north towards room 19.  "I'll flank em." he whispers before he leaves.  [rolled 25 move silently]

Moffdust is totally creeped out by this place. "I dont likes dis places." She quietly uses a wand to cast Protection from Evil on herself then on Bully. She creeps along close behind Bully with her wand of fire at the ready.

As Oopses, Minmorc and Riza lead the way up the western corridor and Bully and Moffa up the eastern one they reach the openings to area 19 without any incident. But the moment they reach those two openings they are nearly deafened by piercing shrieks from the southernmost section of area 19.

Oopses, Minmorc, Riza, Bully and Moffa can see 4 purple mushrooms as big as goblins bunched together in front  of the southernmost wall of area 19. Everyone else can hear them but not see them yet. Note that it is dark down here so anyone with lowlight vision will need a light source.

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OOC: Riza and Raven were the only characters in the group who have lowlight vision not darkvision. The redcaps had a lowlight lamp that only sheds dim light in a 20ft radius, so I assume Riza would now have that piece of equipment
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In reply to Wyrm of Wyrd (msg # 59):

SchrEeeeEe
Oopses:EEEeeEEee!
EeeeEEeeeE
Oopses:EeeEEEeeEEe
EeeeEEeeeEEeee
Oopses: Eeeee..e....
EeeeEEeeeEEeeee

"Oh! Deys such pretties!" Moffdust yells above the shrieking. "And dey sings so nice." Using the corner for cover, she levels her fire wand and readies an attack at the first fungi who betrays malicious intent by moving or flailing any tentacles.

Bulldust snorts and moves ahead 20' to peek into room 18. Not much point trying to move silently now.
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Minmorc will step forward and attempt to finely dice a mushroom with a great axe and more enthusiasm than accuracy.

Jurz knows an alarm when he hears one, even if he can't see the origin of this particular siren call - however he knows there are mushrooms that makes noises like that.  Almost everyone is in front of him, so he turns to watch the rear.

Dregz sticks his hands over his ears, moaning softly.

When the shriekers start their noise the responses of various members of Team Arda-Nuff are as varied as their own natures. Oopses  joins in their chorus, Moffdust draws a wand as though she is their conductor and Dregz sticks his hands over his ears and moans in tune with their shrieking. Riza handles the lighting (low light to suit the ambience of the venue). Bulldust is unimpressed and walks out on the performance while Jurz and Rog stand by as ushers or bouncers to handle any uninvited guests.

Minmorc is the only one who objects violently to the musical interlude and he steps into the room to hack the closest one of the purple mushrooms (v1) apart with his greataxe.

The second front-line fungus responds in kind by lashing at Minmorc with four 10-foot long tentacles. Two of the tentacles strike the big orc leaving bloody welts across his skin

Moffa reacts instantly to the violet fungus's attack. Even as its tentacles are lashing Minmorc she points her wand and a scorching ray of fire burns deeply into the violent fungus. Although badly damaged it is still alive and thrashing its tentacles about.

It is now obvious that there were two violet fungi and two shriekers, which are still shrieking.

At the back of the group Jurz suddenly becomes aware of a brighter light in the corridor behind them and moments later an unexpected visitor arrives at the southern door to this northern corridor. The black figure holds a glowing rapier in one hand and, remarkably, the figure looks just like Raven.

OOC: Main game map updated. Everyone has the benefits of a Bless spell previously cast by Minmorc (+1 to hit and +1 on saves vs fear) for 14 more rounds.

Jurz had been expecting something, so he wasn't surprised as the corridor behind him became brighter.  However, he was surprised when Raven walked around the corner.  last time he had seen the Kenku she was setting off to build a nest in a tall Oak Tree and she hadn't had a glowy sword.  But things chang e...

"How's Grakk?" he shouts down the corridor, prepared just incase it isn't his friend of old.

Between the noise the shriekers and his companions are making and having his hands firmly over his ears, Dregz can't hear much of anything, though the bright light flaring behind him does attract his attention.  Like Jurz, the hairy little goblin is surprised and confused to see the Kenku at the other end of the corridor.

"Is dat Raven ?" he asks the druid, in some puzzlement.

"Oh Grakk is  being fine, and is being sleeping. Was Being sleeping too until however I woke up on roof not in my tree!How about that?"


I got him home ok.

Bulldust does not hear the conversation with Raven, which is a shame as he'd like to have heard news of Grakk.  Having noticed nothing of concern in the northern room he returns 15'to the entrance to the shrieker room drawing his goose-hook as he comes, drops his flail and attacks the volent fungus V2 while staying safely out of reach of its tentacles (14HP dmg should finish it off).

Moffdust peeks around the corner and aims her fire wand again at a shrieker and scores 10 HP. "Shuush nows! Youse'll wakes de deadses!"

In reply to Moffdust (msg # 71):

Threats of violence shake off Oopses gut reaction at the horribly disfigured screaming goblins.

""Wooo argh!" Minmorc will step into the remains of the first violent fungus and will lash out at the last shrieker with even more enthusiasm then his previous attack. If the blow lands he will ask "any of yous knows a good recipe fer scream of mushroom soup? I want sum scream of mushroom soup."

Jurz has some suspicions about Raven, what she is saying doesn't sound quite right - nor does the way she is saying it.  So perhaps it is time for a more testing question.  "Did Grakk's feathers grow back OK?" he calls back to raven

 "Awk, Grakk happy happy, yes. Hims feathers all okay now. He not see any hoomans only see me! Den I sleep and wakes up on roof here! How dat happen I don know. All smoky ashy burn eyes and hurt throte. Den Iz sees you and came qwik qwik!"

 She bobbed her head up and down then on it's side, looking at them from one eye then the other. Then turned her head up and down and squawked.

 "Awk, what dat horrble noise? An what you do heres?"

"Whaaat?!"  Bulldust didn't hear the question.  No loss, he wouldn't have known the recipe anyhow.  Boys can't cook, everyone knows that.

Well dat give it away Jurz thinks hard for a moment, and then calls  "We's come looking for youse.  We's wanted to makes sure youse was alright.  Us gobbos and birdys has gots to stick togevver, hasn't wes?" he calls back.  "Dats Moffa plaing wiv a mushroom.  You'se wanna come see?"

Riza moves in with her spear, determined to silence the vile thing giving her a monster headache.  She deftly skewers  the shreiker

Ears ringing Minmorc will yell back at Bulldust "WOT?!"

In reply to Jurz (msg # 77):

 "Why youz looking fer me herez? Youz knew Iz going to big oak. I stopz at Grakkz place check if he seez any hoomanz but him not see any."

  She look at him strangely as he were being silly or forgetful!

For a moment, absolute confusion reigns in Jurz head, before  he blurts out "Cos de stick said. So why's youse here an not in der big oak wiv Grakk?"

"Me don know how! Was sleepin in da tree an dreamin den Iz herez! Sat all me knowz."

She shrugged her shoulders unsure how she got there.

"Youse dreamed youse wuz 'ere !  I dreamed dat too !"  Obviously having his hands over his ears wasn't proving very effective, as he responds to Raven's explanation with enthusiasm.  "It's der magic stick !  It must've brought uz all 'ere !"

Mystery solved to his complete satisfaction, the little goblin becomes aware that most of the party seem to be in mortal combat with something that's making a lot of noise dying.  "Mebbe we should help dem," he ponders reluctantly.

"I's watchin der rear!" Jurz says defiantly.

"Awk awk, could be dat iz true! Don want me go home, want me herez wit youz."

 She hopped a couple of times then goes closer to the others. She bobbed her head up and down then looks at them with one eye.

 "So, what wez doing? Wez making Mushroom Zoup? Or singin?"

"Mebbe Mimmorc is singin' ?" Dregz nods thoughtfully - while he'd assumed there was some sort of fight going on around the corner, Raven's suggestion is indeed most plausible.

"We should go an' take a look," he decides.  Even if the latter proves true, the big Orc will undoubtedly insist on everyone learning the words, so best to get a head start on that.

"One of us should stay with Jurz - you wanna go see what's goin' on, or should I ?"

"Rog and me is good." the little goob responds.  "We's can do it on our owns."

He says knowing that mounted on the large dog, and with the spells available to him, Rog and his rider as about the quickest people around here.

Jurz and Dregz turn their attention to the unexpected arrival of Raven behind them. They question her about Grakk the minotaur and how and why she is now here, but she seems even more confused than they are. The last she remembers was dreaming of this group here in the ruins in a desert of ash, then she woke up here and came quickly down to join them.

Meanwhile, Bully swings into action with his goose-hook to finish off the second violet fungus(v2), Moffa fries the shrieker (s2) behind it with another scorching ray from her wand and Minmorc shrugs off the effects of the violet fungus’s attack to leap in at hack apart the other shrieker (s1) with his greataxe. Moffa’s fried mushroom is still shrieking (although it now sounds more like a punctured gas bag) so Riza leaps in to finish it off with her spear.

Finally there is silence, broken only by the excited chatter of Team Arda-Nuff speculating on whether the magic stick was responsible for Raven’s sudden arrival and other, more important topics like the best recipe for Scream of Mushroom Soup.

OOC: Main game map updated. Room 19 has several writing desks pushed into the corners and numerous empty shelves on the walls. Room 18 is bare except for a few wooden racks that might once have held weapons and wooden frames that might have supported archery targets or something similar.

Everyone has the benefits of a Bless spell previously cast by Minmorc (+1 to hit and +1 on saves vs fear) for 13 more rounds.

Grumbling about the welts left by the lashes Minmorc will draw a wand and give himself a jab. As the wounds fade a little he will call out "Yodregz, use der force o der rod! Where's we goes now?"

Now that all the shouting and yelling and screaming has stopped, Dregz can clearly hear Minmorc shouting and yelling and screaming his name, thus ending the debate with Jurz and Raven over 'should-wese-shouldn't-wese'.

Hastening to the big Orc's side, the little priest calmly ignores the aftermath of the battle and dutifully sets the Magic Rod to seeking out its missing bit.


OOC: hey, Dregz likes Shriekers ... they're fun guys.

Jurz and Rog follow Dregz into the big room, assuming that raven will now keep an eye out behind them -  or at least scream loudly in warning if she is attacked.  As the priest does stuff with his magic rod, Jurz bends down and cuts a slice  from  one of the shriekers.

Lifting it to his nose, he sniffs delicately, then takes a good sized bite.

Bulldust is surprised to see the kenku again, but Dregz and Jurz seem relaxed about it so he grins and says "Hi Raven."  Seeing what Jurz does, he takes a slice of shrieker too and tries it, then slings the goose-hook and retrieves the flail he dropped as he peers back up the passage to the north.

Sliced shrieker turns out to be quite tasty, actually. That's probably why they developed such a deafening scream to scare away animals that want to feed on them. The violent fungi don't look as appetising, though.

Dregz waves the black rod back and forth a few times but it still persistently points northwards.

Those keeping watch in the two north-south corridors don't see or hear anything to worry them.

 She watched Bulldust take a bite of the shrieker and decided to grab some too. After slicing off a few slices, she tried some, nods nods as she approves, then turned to Bulldust to reply to his greetings.

 "Awk, Hiya Bulldust! Glad to see youz. Youz doing okz?"

"Def'ntly dat way," Dregz confirms what the Magic Stick is telling him, point his finger northwards almost as persistently as the rod itself.

"Huh, so dat way, right? Right." Minmorc will stomp up to door 11 and will try to open the door. If civilized approaches like handles, nobs or pushing don't work he'll go for the axe and shoulder.

Convinced that Minmorc will swiftly locate the next piece of the Magic Stick, foes, fixtures and even ages-old architecture not withstanding, the little Goblin follows close on the big Orc's heels.

Moffdust blows the smoke from the tip of her wand then nibbles a piece of fungus too. She waves at Raven. "Wes was in de deserts killin humanses. Youse wont likes it dere, alls sands and no treeses. Wes glad youse back wid usses now." She heads north up the passage past Bully and pauses at the corner to watch Min savage the door.

Sure enough, door 11 is firmly locked, which gives everyone else a few seconds to decide where they want to be before Minmorc's Axe-wife forces entry.

Jurz cuts himself another slice of Shrieker, and sets  himself as tail end charlie again.

"Asl kaosps in aye rot das bok" he half mumbles through a mouthful of mushroom.

"Oi, oi, OI!" Riza, saves me sum mushroom! You lot better saves me sum o der loud one, don't want none o dat slappy one!"

 She hopped and ran down the hallway after Minmorc and the others weapon ready, munching shrieker as she went. Once there she handed Minmorc a large hunk of mushroom then waited for the next move. She tried the door gingerly and found it locked. She bent down and checked the edges of the door for traps, then pulled out her tools and tried to get the lock to open.

"Awk, I try open door, maybeez!"


19:09, Today: Raven rolled 24 using 1d20+7 ((17)).
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It seems the cunning Raven has located Minmorcs achilles heel (achilles stomach?) Distracting Minmorc with delicious mushroom Raven should have plenty of time before the axe falls...

With Dregz pointing the way Minmorc is the first to head north again but everyone else follows shortly after. Most are still munching on tasty slices of shrieker and Raven distracts Minmorc with a big slice of the delicious mushroom while she sets to work to unlock door 11. It takes Raven a couple of attempts but she is rewarded with a click from the lock and the door easily swings open.

The light from Raven’s rapier illuminates the room inside, which looks deserted. The room is about 15 feet wide and extends back about 12 feet from the doorway. There is a 6 foot long stone table in the middle of the room and empty shelves on the north and east walls.

OOC: Main game map updated.

Everyone has the benefits of a Bless spell previously cast by Minmorc (+1 to hit and +1 on saves vs fear) for 11 more rounds.

Moffdust squeezes past Bully and crows in beside Raven to peek into the room. "Is dat a stone tables, or one ov dose stone boxes dat humies put dead humies in? Only dose humies dont stays dead does dey? Wooo-ooo!"

Dregz casts about with the Magic Stick, trying to see if he is getting closer to it, his eyes fixed on the stone table, in the light of Minmorc's suggestion.

"Not wiv der death priests an' neck-romancers aroun'," the little goblin agrees with the big orc. "But at least der dead humies usually do wot dey are told - not like der live ones !"

The stone table is just that - a stone slab supported on two sturdy stone blocks. It is not a sarcophagus but it would be the right size to lay a body, or a coffin, on top of it.

Dregz's black rod doesn't point at the stone table. From the doorway it points toward the western wall of this room.

"Iz der another door dat rod seez we duznt see?"

 She hopped toward and stared at the wall turning first one eye then the other to study the wall for a secret door. If she finds one she will try to unlock it and open it.
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Bulldust keeps watch to the south ... then gets distracted by the door to the north.  Is it locked?

As Raven moves into the empty room and heads past the stone table to investigate the western wall, Bulldust tries the handle of the next door to the east (door 12). It is not locked.

"Duz youz seez sumthin dis wall? Duz it look shiny? Kind a like it reflecting sumthing?"

 She asked seriously. She squinted and looked closer at the west wall.

"It looks all magical like dun it? Like da wall der like murky water but Iz seez right through it! Maybez itz got two tablez in therez, one top odder. Maybez a big box er sumthin. Ain't nuthin movin der."

 She moved her hands softly over the wall looking for an entrance to the room she sees.
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Takes a peek ...

Jurz is getting bored now.    Everyone else is looking at stuff except him, so he reaches down and opens the door beside him (9).

Bully pushes the door (#12) open to reveal a larger room with two more stone tables. This room is about 25 feet wide and extends back about 12 feet from the doorway. One stone table is empty but the one closest to the door has a stone coffin (or sarcophagus) lying on top of it. The lid of the stone coffin is closed. Six wooden coffins are stacked against the eastern wall of this room.

Jurz pushes open another door (#9) to reveal a 10ft x 15ft room full of bookshelves. Row after row of dusty, leather-bound books fill the shelves.

OOC: Main game map updated.

"I's got bookses." Jurz calls forward to the rest of the group "What has youse got?" he asks Riza and Oopses, gesticulating at the door they are close to.

The door (#10) beside Oopses and Riza is locked.

In reply to Wyrm of Wyrd (msg # 116):


Oopses is busy attempting to gather the (edible) mushrooms in assorted pans.

Chewing on a bit of mushroom Minmorc will head into room 12, will wander over to the sarcophagus and will try to open it up. "So, wots in der box, in der box, wots in der box terday?"

Moffdust moves into the room with Raven. She casts Detect Magic and studies the room. "What kinds of spellses does dead humies needs?"

Bulldust puts his hand down on the stone lid.  "Dis sarcofobox is mine, Min.  An everyfing wots in it."  He pushes back the lid.

Raven's questions are most troubling for a priest of simple but very firmly held beliefs.  Slowly Dregz steps forwards around the east side of the table, the Magic Stick held out before him, pointing at the west wall, as if for protection.

Bulldust pauses and grins at the big orc.  "Jus kiddin Min.  Course I'll share.  In fac, if dere's a walkin corpse in dere, e's all yours!  I jus wan is jools."  He laughs and gets on with sliding back the lid.

"Ugh, not inter playin wid a dead humies jools. Yer reckon der could be sum gems in der? Tell yer wot, you gets der jools, I gets der gems an we shares der gold an der magic an stuff wid der tribe."

"Dats da same fing, gems and jools, only jools is worf more an gems.  Lets get dis lid off is sarcofobox den pick over wot e has got instead of wot I hope e's got."

Arlein sits down besides Minmorc swishing her tail forcibly, making tail angels as it twisted and curled.

Dregz and Moffa follow Raven into the room (#11) to try to work out what she is talking about. The black rod in Dregz's hand stays trained on the middle of the western wall, although to the casual observer it would probably look like it was pointed at Raven! Moffa recites a brief incantation and starts scanning the room for magic.

Jurz opens a different door (#9) and reveals a storeroom full of bookshelves loaded with books, while Oopses is still busy loading his pots and pans with delicious shrieker mushrooms. (It looks like scream of mushroom soup is still on the menu for tonight.)

Meanwhile Bully, Minmorc and Arlein venture into the larger room (#12) with its 2 stone tables, coffin stack and stone sarcophagus. Minmorc and Bulldust unceremoniously push the lid off the stone sarcophagus to get at the riches they assume will have been interred with the corpse inside. There is indeed a corpse but any speculation about gold and jewels is immediately pushed from their minds as a vaguely humanoid shadow lashes out at Minmorc!

OOC: Main game map updated.

Everyone has the benefits of a Bless spell previously cast by Minmorc (+1 to hit and +1 on saves vs fear) for 10 more rounds.
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As Minmorc feels the chill touch drain a little of his strength he roars in anger. Calling on his gods favour and his own rage Minmorc will lash out with the Axe Wife.

Arlein's annoyance escalates to folded ears as Minmorc pushes on the slab, Then to irate verbal annoyance once the seal was broke.mmmmmmhrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Dregz frowns at the Magic Stick, and then the western wall.

"What is happenin' ?" he mutters.

 "Awk! Der wall verra funny here! Itz like itz not der at all, jus kinder push tru itz stuff! Der peoplez in der too! Too, tree, or fer peoplez. Mebbe standn on boxz. Ken yer seez dem?"

 She turned her head this way and that even on its side and even turned her head and body to look at the wall upside down. Finally she pushed on the wall slowly with her hand to see if it moves or goes through.
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Bulldust almost drops his flail in fright.  He's glad he dibbsed the jewels!  Recovering himself he lashes out with the flail.

"No I doesn't sees anyone, but i's goin tear sees if dat wall has magics." Moffdust is puzzled at Raven's words but she keeps concentrating on detect magic.

OOC: Partial update.

Minmorc's enchanted greataxe whips through the shadow without any sign of harming it at all but Bulldust's equally enchanted flail tears a substantial gash in the insubstantial shadow.



OOC: Moffa, Oopses, Arlein, Riza and Jurz can still act this round. Raven has only used a partial action so far this round.

Hearing Minmorc's roar, Jurz's eyebrows raise, and he rides Rog across the big room (18) and  along to the doorway to see what the angry orc is killing now.

 Once she sees the peoples inside the room start moving toward her, she yanks her arm back out and hops backwards quickly, grabbing her weapon as fast as she could! She didnt know if they was dangerous, but she wasn't gonna wait to be stabbed or something before she defended herself!

"Awk! Dey iz movin! Dey is alive! Or somethin iz makin dem move!"

In reply to Raven (msg # 135):

Arlein rolled 19 using 1d20. intimidate vs creepy shadow.

Arlein goes from gutteral growl to full blow fluffy tailed hiss.

"Yer axe dont scare da ghost, Min.  Try frowin da cat in da box, she'd scare anyfing!"  He holds his ground, squinting sideways past the shadow to get a glimpse of the jewels.

In reply to Bulldust (msg # 137):

Oopses finishes pack up what he can hold and keep from spilling of the mushroom, only to find the ghost kenku talking about invisible things and see through walls, screaming about things chasing her.


Wut, moffda, is she a crazy ghostie?

"Waaaaargh! I hit you, I hit you, yer cheatin! Fight fair or I use my nasty gasses on youse!"

Riza has been busying herself with the mushrooms also but upon hearing the commotion high tails it to the rom with Minmorc and sees him attacking a shadow.
"Wait shadows attacking us now!? Hey no ones been messing with my drugs have they!"

Riza stands her ground with her spear to see if she can spot a good position to get into next round

 She pointed at the wall with shaking hand and wide eyes!

 "Der wall, itz not solids! My hand it went rite through it it did! An der peoplez in der started coming at me."

 She backed away further and looked at Dregz to see what he thought about it all.
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Dregz shakes his head, unsure as to what he sees and hears, backing away towards the east wall.  His gaze flicks momentarily to the door in the south as he thinks quickly.

"Get away from der !" he warns Raven.

In the room (#12) where Minmorc and Bully had loosed a shadow from the stone sarcophagus, the shadow is damaged but not destroyed by Bully's flail. That doesn't phase the shadow at all but the scary cat (Arlein) is another story altogether. Perhaps the shadow was allergic to cats in its previous life, or perhaps it is the light that Riza brings to the room – whatever the cause, the shadow flees across the room and disappears from view among the stack of coffins against the eastern wall.

Meanwhile, virtually the opposite effect occurs in the other room (#11). As Raven suddenly squawks a warning and retreats from the western wall and Dregz echoes her concern as he backs up as far as he can to the east, four figures suddenly lunge out of the western wall and attack Raven, Dregz and Moffa! Raven's attacker is a plate-armoured dwarf (d1) wielding battleaxe and shield. Dregz is attacked by a dire badger (db) with a leather-clad gnome (g1) close behind it waving a scimitar and wooden shield, while another gnome (g2) in chain shirt armour leaps out of the wall onto the stone table and stabs at Moffa with a shortsword. All four of them are yelling or roaring as they attack. Thankfully Raven's warning was just enough so they are not taken completely by surprise.

The dwarf's battleaxe slices through Raven's armour to cut deep and leave her grievously wounded.  Dregz has more luck and easily dodges the claws of the dire badger and Moffa flinches back just out of reach of the gnome's shortsword.

OOC: Main game map updated.

Everyone has the benefits of a Bless spell previously cast by Minmorc (+1 to hit and +1 on saves vs fear) for 9 more rounds.

 She squawked louder than she ever had before in her life as she tried to evade being butchered for somebody's dinner! Using her wings she hopped up and tried to slash at her attacker as well with her rapier.
Action:five foot evade defensive slash...
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Momentarily frustrated by the shade Minmorc will focus on the more promising melee in room 11. Rushing back in Minmorc will take Ravens place in front of the Dwarf and take a swing at the nearest Gnome. "Oi Bully, der rumble's in ere!"

Dregz roars in fear, slapping at the badger with his free hand while praying fervently to Bargrivyek to rain down hell upon the beast !

Jurz gets there just in time to 'see' the shadow disappear and get barged aside as Minmorc runs to the nearest fight.  Dismounting from Rog he mutters a few words  and the flaming scimitar appears in his hand.
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Moffdust's eyes widen in terror as her worst fears materialise through the wall - gnomes! Her instinct is to flee through the door... but poor Dregz is trapped! How many times has that little green priest stood up for her. Bottom lip aquiver, she ducks her head to avoid the gnome and plunges forward to Dregz side. "D-d-don't worries d-d-Dregzie. I'll s-s-saves youse!" She points her fire wand at the badger and blasts it. (OOC: oops, I wrote gnome on the dice roller but meant badger)

Bulldust purses his lips and nods when the shadow flees from the angry cat, understanding just how it must have felt.  He glares at the empty sarcophagus which seems to be stubbornly refusing to admit to being lined with jewels, and swishes his flail in cat-like contempt.  Tearing himself away from greed unfulfilled, he follows Min into the next room.  "Ooo goody, gnomes!"  He would've liked to slay some elves, but gnomes are almost as good.  He whips the flail around the legs of the gnome on the table and pulls to trip it.

OOC: Main Game Map updated to show where everyone has moved to. The only confusing bit is Raven. The only place she could retreat to is under the stone table, so you will just see a bit of her yellow disc poking out from under the table. If anyone else wants to do anything this round or if I have misinterpreted positions let me know. I will post the results of this round one evening this weekend.

Raven's rapier glances off the dwarf's full-plate armour as the kenku ducks and dives for cover under the stone table.

Minmorc rushes into the room to occupy the spot just vacated by Raven, right in front of the heavily armoured dwarf (d1). But Minmorc swings his greataxe at the chain-shirted gnome (g2) standing on the stone table instead. She ducks beneath the wild swing and the axe barely grazes the back of her chain shirt.

Dregz wails in fear and prays to Bargrivyek as he slaps the dire badger (db) on the nose. His touch opens a deep and painful gash across the badger’s face.

Moffdust fights back the fear that the sight of gnomes evokes and dashes to Dregz's side to fire a scorching ray from her wand straight into the dire badger's face. The dire badger collapses on the floor at their feet.

Bulldust follows Minmorc's lead and rushes into the room right behind him. He too attacks the chain-shirted gnome (g2) standing on the stone table. His white-tipped flail whips her legs out from underneath her and she falls flat on her back on the table. Bully follows up with an overhand swing of his flail but she nimbly rolls aside in time to avoid being hit.

Outside the room Jurz leaps off Rog's back and recites a prayer causing a flaming scimitar blade to spring up from his hand while Oopses rushes up to see what is going on.

The gnome in studded leather (g1) behind the dire badger wails in anguish as the beast is overcome by Moffa's scorching ray. "Oh, Digby, no! I'll save you!" she cries then scrambles forward over the badger to swing her cudgel at Moffa! The little wooden club clonks Moffa on the head and Moffa reels from the blow.

The heavily-armoured dwarf (d1)suddenly finds himself confronted by a raging orc, which seems to be something he understands. He swings his battleaxe at Minmorc in a savage slash intended to slice open the orc's belly. The savage blow doesn't quite achieve that but does cut deep and leaves Minmorc seriously wounded.

However, the gnome (g2) on the stone table squeals in fright as she looks up at Bulldust and she agilely rolls back off the end of the table away from him. "What's going on here?" she scries. "That’s a damned minotaur! What's one of them doing here with a bunch of goblins and orcs? And a damned kenku, too!"

Suddenly the western wall of the room vanishes and a trio of identical, flying, robed gnomes (g3) can be seen weaving about in the air above a second stone table in the western part of the room. "Minotaur!" a male gnomish voice shouts above the noise of the fight. "Why are you here with these foul goblins and orcs? They cannot hope to defeat us! Join us and we will reward you well when they are defeated!"

OOC: Main game map updated.

Everyone has the benefits of a Bless spell previously cast by Minmorc (+1 to hit and +1 on saves vs fear) for 8 more rounds.

"Dwarf? Waaaaaaaargh!" Now completely focused on the pile of metal he's cut himself on Minmorc will do his best to bury his axe in it. "Deff ter der damned tiny dirt people!"

Bulldust grins wickedly at the little girlie gnome.  "Nah!  Yer lil eds all confused.  You're finkin of Grask da Minotaur.  I'm Bully da Bugbear - I'm a big nasty gobbo, an i'm gonna eat yer all up!"

Just then Moffa gets clonked on the head by another gnome.  This is too much to bear.  "Oi!  Short pants!  Dats my sister!"  He hops up onto the stone table and leers down at the gnomes as he decides which one to smash with the flail.

"Owwwww! Dats my bootiful headses! Wasn't youse taught dat jealousys a bad tings?" Moffdust swipes the fire wand at the offending gnome (14 HP).
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Dregz screams again as the gnome hits Moffa, but this time it is in fury.  The hairy goblin fumbles for his dagger, stabbing at the gnome with unrighteous anger, if not so much accuracy ...

"Foul?  I's not a chicken!" the little druid shouts as he pushes his way into the room and squeezes past Raven as she  hides under the table pushing into the free space on the other side (between the three gnomes).  Then he pokes his fiery blade at the Goblin by Minmorc (G2).

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15:18, Today: Jurz rolled 17 using 1d20+3.  Attack G2 (vs Touch AC).
15:18, Today: Jurz rolled 6 using 1d8+2.  burn,Gnome, burn!

Bulldust decides to help Moffa and Dregz.  He whips the flail down at g1 to try to entangle her legs but his aim is about as good as Dregz.

"Hur, hur, hur, Dwarves is short pork and gnomes taste like chicken. I gonna get der Dwarf spam outta da can!"

Riza looks at what seems to be either a really enjoyable brawl or utter chaos. She holds her head for a moment Now I know someone's been messing with my drugs

She changes out her spear for her bow and selects a drow poison arrow and waits for space to clear so she can move in and add to the onslaught

 Using her pig sticker rapier she tried stabbing the goblin in front of her from under the table maintaining partial shelter under the table.

Minmorc finally focusses on the dwarven fighter (d1) right under his nose and swings his greataxe down on that ironclad menace. Axewife bites deep, seriously wounding the dwarf.

Moffdust howls in pain and fires a scorching ray from her wand straight at the gnome (g1) that had hit just her on the head. The fiery ray scorches studded leather and exposed flesh leaving the gnome badly blistered (and moderately wounded). Dregz tries to stab the same gnome with his dagger but doesn't manage to find a way through the gnome's studded leather armour. Bulldust fares no better when he tries to sweep the same gnome off its feet with his white-tipped flail. Bulldust has to settle for verbally taunting the three flying gnomes (g3) instead, over their mistake of calling him a minotaur. Raven tries to stab that gnome too from under the table but finds the gnome is harder to hit than she looks.

Jurz squeezes between Bulldust and Minmorc, scrambles past Raven under the stone table (his flaming scimitar making sure that everyone gives him enough room to squeeze past) and pops out on the other side to slash it at the chain-shirted gnome (g2) who had just rolled back off the stone table. The flaming blade sears her skin through her chain shirt armour leaving her lightly wounded.

Outside the room Riza readies her bow as she looks for an opening into the fight and Oopses, Arlein and Rog can’t do much more than listen to the sounds of the battle.

The dwarf roars in pain and anger and slashes at Minmorc again with his battleaxe. But this time his wild swing bounces harmlessly off Minmorc's bright red breastplate.

The surrounded, outnumbered and seriously wounded female gnome (g1) is obviously very worried about her predicament and continues to focus on the goblin girl who is proving to be her nemesis. She swings her cudgel at Moffa again but this time she completely misses and comes closer to clobbering Dregz on the follow through.

The chain-shirted female gnome (g2) squeals in pain as Jurz burns her and she stabs back at him with her shortsword but her blade fails to cut the little druid’s magically toughened skin.

The weaving trio of flying gnomes (g3) are outraged by Bully's taunts and weave their hands in intricate gestures and speak words in a tongue that sounds familiar but incomprehensible to Bully. Finally they respond in words he can understand. "Not you, you stupid bugbear," they shout back. "I'm talking to the minotaur behind you!" Sure enough a big, bull-headed man now looms over Riza's shoulder peering into the room. "Mooo-Ok. Me join de brave gnomes. Mooove outa de way, yous evil monsters! Me coming through!"

OOC: Main game map updated.

Everyone has the benefits of a Bless spell previously cast by Minmorc (+1 to hit and +1 on saves vs fear) for 7 more rounds.

"No !" Dregz is adamant, ignoring the gnome before him for the moment to address his old friend Grakk.  "Dese gnomes are messin' wid your mind !  Youse are on our side !  Youse must help us kill dem !"

"I'm not stupid!"  Bulldust is indignant because the flying gnome(s) is plainly wrong.  "Yer lil eds all confused again.  I'm much smarter dan I look.  Stupid would be dis orc ere, im wots killing yer dwarf."  He glances behind at the minotaur apparition.  "An Grakk's not ere, e's back on da watch hill wid da purple smoke bag.  So dat one in da doorway is just a gnome trick.  An I aint fooled!"  He ignores the minotaur and concentrates on tripping the chain shirted gnome girl g2 again with his flail.
OOC: its a complicated manoeuvre (dice roller).  If she fails in the opposed STR check she falls prone and gets hit for 10HP.  Being prone makes her an easier target for anyone else to hit, -4AC, and we get attack of opportunity if she stands up.

"Oh, hi Jurzies!" Moffdust spies the brave red goblin behind her gnomish nemesis and holds fire with her fire wand. She casts magic missile at g1 instead (9hp casting on the defensive). She joins in with Bully in disbelieving the minotaur "If my brudder says youse not dere den youse not deres! Youse jus doesn't knows it yet."

OOC: Main game map updated to reflect Bulldust's current position on top of the stone table. Poor Raven is hidden somewhere under there - under Bully and the stone table.

Dregz's first reaction when he sees the minotaur is to assume it is Grakk somehow come to join them the same as Raven, but after the first glance it is obvious it is a different minotaur.

Bully convinces himself it is just a gnomish trick and attacks the female gnome (g1) again, this time tripping her then hammering her with his flail. Moffa follows up with a pair of magic missiles at her as well. Between these attacks the gnome (g1) is grievously wounded but somehow still refuses to give up the fight. (She is currently prone.)
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In reply to Wyrm of Wyrd (msg # 165):

Oopses digs around in his bag for a Smokestick, and instead grabs a Tindertwig(match) and burns himself trying to light and throw it at the talky gnomes.

Oopses is out of smoke sticks.

OOC: Bulldust was going for g2.  The problem is gnomes, like minotaurs, all look the same :-)

 She backs out backwards from under the table, rapier set in a defensive manner in front of her.

Minmorc has reached a place of pure focus in his rage - the gnomes, the goblins, the possible minotaur, Bully, all that Minmorc is paying attention too is the Dwarf in front of him. Opting for precision over his usual all or nothing swings he'll bring the axe down two handed trying to split the log on the stump.

"Oh, nice swing Min, beautifully placed, poetry in motion.  How are ya finding da axe?  Do ya miss Helen?  Have ya ever tried dwarf?  I've heard its tough.  I'm really looking forward to sampling dis gnome.  Do ya fink she'll go nice wiv shroom? ..." bugbear refusing to be ignored.
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"war, war, war, waaargh, I'm choppin der Dwarf, I'm not lee sa ning."

OOC: Partial update. (Jurz, Riza and Arlein can still act this round)

Dregz's first reaction when he sees the minotaur is to assume it is Grakk somehow come to join them the same as Raven, but after the first glance it is obvious it is a different minotaur.

Bully convinces himself it is just a gnomish trick and attacks the chain-shirted female gnome (g2) again, this time tripping her then hammering her with his flail. (She is currently prone.)

Moffa follows up with a pair of magic missiles at the other female gnome (g1). By now, both the female gnomes (g1 and g2) are seriously wounded.

Minmorc has now really mastered the art of chopping dwarves while raging and again he chops down on the ironclad dwarven fighter with his greataxe. This time plenty of dwarven blood is spilled as the Axewife bites deep again. The dwarf (d1) falls over backward and crashes onto the stone floor, unconscious and bleeding profusely.

Oopses lives up to his reputation as he fumbles with a tindertwig in the corridor outside and Raven finally gets a chance to retreat to a safer spot near the door.

OOC: Main game map updated.

"Lisa?  Nobody said you was an exotic sounding Lisa, Min.  Is dat flying gnome messing wiv yer head too?"

Not quite sure what is going on behind him and on the other side of the table, Jurz decides to ignore it.  He is much more worried about the gnomes surrounding him than something big not near him yet.

"burny, burny, burny ..." he chants as he pokes his blade at the same gnome again.


OOC:  Sorry guys sort of lost track of this.  I WILL pay more attention (although I am away from home living in a field this weekend)
15:44, Today: Jurz rolled 17 using 1d20+3.  stabby stabby with flame blade vs touch ac.
15:44, Today: Jurz rolled 9 using 1d8+2.  burn, baby, burn ...

OOC: Living in the field is exactly where I'd expect a Druid to be :)

OOC: LOL!  and a nasty dirty damp hole in a field for a goblin druid.  Enjoy!   :-)
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 She looked around to see if there's anything she could do to help out, but it was awfully crowded around the table. She peeked out the door and saw a minotaur and notes it's not theirs, so she hopes toward the door to see if she can help out there.

 She tried to flank and sneak attack but has trouble getting past the crowd at the door, and nearly stabs herself.

With the sudden appearance of the Minotaur beside her Riza is now completely convinced someone has spilled one of her drugs. She aims at one of the flying hallucinations but her arrow goes wide and misses.

OOC: rolled 10 to hit flying gnome

Moved by a whim he does not understand, Bulldust leers down at the two wounded gnomes and growls in a deep gravelly voice "Noom.  Eat!"  He licks his lips as he watches them for any opportunity to attack them again (and again and again) with his flail.
OOC: don't worry, he's not possessed ... just going for a laugh inspired by another character in another game :-)

OOC: New dishes to try - Noom and Shroom, Scream of Mushroom Soup and Short Pork.

Sounds yummier than Worm Whip!

I quite like worm whip ....

After Bully and Moffa play with the female gnomes and Minmorc flattens the dwarf it is Jurz's turn to play too. He pokes his fiery blade at the chain-shirted gnome (g2), burning her again. She is now grievously wounded.

After retreating to the doorway Raven is startled to see the minotaur lurking in the corridor outside. She responds instinctively, stabbing the minotaur with her glowing rapier. The minotaur grunts in surprise and a trickle of blood flows down his side from the wound.

Riza ignores the minotaur beside her and shoots an arrow at one of the three flying gnomes from the doorway. Unfortunately the gnome veers aside at the last second and the arrow just misses.

The minotaur looks at the gnomes and suddenly bellows, "Me coming to help gnomes! Get outa de way, all youse evil goblins and lizards and kenku!" Then he strides into the room, simply pushing Riza, Raven, Moffdust, Dregz and Jurz out of the way as he barges his way across the room. It steps right over the gnome (g1) that was in its way.  Bully takes the opportunity to lash out at the minotaur as it barges past and hits it solidly, leaving a great red welt on the minotaur's back. The minotaur bellows in pain at the blow but continues on toward the gnomes.

The studded leather-clad gnome (g1) turns her attention to Jurz behind her and swings her cudgel at him in a desperate effort to clear a way for her to retreat. Sadly for her, she misses.

The chain-shirted gnome winces in pain and quickly rolls away out of Bulldust's reach. She rolls underneath the flying gnomes and comes to a stop near the western end of the room where she quickly selects a small glass vial from her belt pouch.

The flying gnome triplets point at the minotaur and shout instructions. "Good minotaur! Well done. Now push them all out of here and lock the door behind them!"

The minotaur grunts acknowledgement, turns to face Jurz and lowers its head ready to charge.

OOC: Main game map updated. Everyone has the benefits of a Bless spell previously cast by Minmorc (+1 to hit and +1 on saves vs fear) for 6 more rounds.</Orange>

She took a swipe at the enemy minotaur as it shoved it's way past trying to do some serious damage.
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Dripping gore Minmorc will roar his victory over the Dwarf. Focusing in the Gnomes in front of him he will bellow "I AM DER NOOM DOOM!" He will step up onto the Dwarf and swing at Gnome 3.

In reply to Minmorc (msg # 185):


A roaring Hiss is heard from the other room.

"Worm!!"  Bulldust shouts in disgust at the chain-shirted gnome girl (g2) who has wriggled out of reach again.  He takes out his frustration on the poor little trapped and wounded gnome girl (g1), flicking down the flail at her (25 to hit, 9 HP dmg).  Then he hops off the stone table into the space left by g2 and swings his flail menacingly at the crowd of flying gnomes.  "Go ahead, make my day."  He does his best to ignore the minotaur, but will thump it again if given the opportunity.

Moffdust glares at the gnome with the cudgel. "Don't youse hits Jurzy wid dat sticks!" She prepares to cast another pair of Magic Missiles to finish her off, or to target the flying gnomes if she's already down, or one each if she looks close.

More worried abouth the  Minotaur facing him that the girl-gnome with the stick, Jurz steps to one side (5ft step into the space under the g3 closest to the minotaur) and absent-mindedly waves his  flaming blade at the gnome cowering on the ground in the corner (G2).

"Wheres did de cowman comes from?" he asks almost rhetorically.


14:53, Today: Jurz rolled 7 using 1d8+2.  dam vs G2.
14:52, Today: Jurz rolled 13 using 1d20+4.  Attack G2 (+1 for Bless) vs Touch.

OOC: Partial update. (Dregz, Riza, Raven and Oopses can still act this round)

Raven had stabbed the minotaur again with her rapier as it pushed past her, adding another little trickle of blood that the minotaur ignored.

Minmorc uses the dwarf's body as a stepping stone as he steps forward and swings his greataxe at one of the flying gnomes. The already bloody blade slices deep into the gnome's leg and the grievously wounded little gnome screams in agony. In fact, all three flying gnomes (g3) suffer the same injury and all open their mouths to voice that single scream.

A roaring hiss is heard from Arlein in the next room.

Bully clobbers the studded leather-clad gnome (g1) with his white-tipped flail then Moffa finishes her off with a pair of magic missiles. The gnome passes out and collapses on top of the unconscious dire badger.

The minotaur still stands with head lowered, poised to charge at Jurz, so Jurz steps out of his way, walks beneath the flying gnomes and swats the other gnome girl (g2) cowering in the corner with his fiery scimitar, as he starts to demand answers from her. Answers she won't be supplying as the pain of the burn she receives sends her into unconsciousness.

The minotaur makes no move as Jurz steps aside.

OOC: Main game map updated. (Edited following advice in OOC thread)
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 "Bulldust! Helps me up der on da table so Iz can stab dem flying girls! I helps youz get em."

"But dat is not Grakk !" Dregz seems mortally offended by the imposter and points an accusing finger at the creature.  "Id's not even a real minotaur !"

The litte goblin watches in consternation at his companions' actions, until it dawns upon him that they might not have realised this.

"ID'S A PRETENDS !!!" the priest yells out turning to glare at the gnomes, one of which is undoubtedly the culprit. "GED DOSE GNOMES !"
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Moffdust pats Dregs's arm. "Dere dere Dregzie. Its all rights now. Wes gots dem. Now lets us takes dere stuffs." She starts searching the gnome girl.

"Dis one's still alives!" Moffdust gasps as she feels the gnome's breathing. "Can wes keeps her Dregzie? I promises I'll trains her. I'll takes her for walkses and she'll pick up my poos. I thinks I'll calls her Sparkies." Cat the bat flutters out of Moffdust's cloak and settles down to suck blood from the dead badger. "Its alright Cats, youse still my besties."

She jumped up trying to skewer gnome girl #3 with her rapier!
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Rica selects a normal arrow and joins in trying to finish off the flying gnomes


OOC rolled 17 to  hit flying gnomes, with 4 damage

Raven hops up onto the first stone table then lunges forward over Bully's shoulder to stab the closest of the flying male gnome trio (g3). But the moment her blade pierces the gnome it simply vanishes! Raven ends up draped across Bully's left shoulder.

Then Riza steps into the room for a clearer shot and fires an arrow at one of the two remaining flying gnomes (g3). This time her arrow hits its target but the effect is exactly the same as for Raven. The gnome vanishes completely, leaving only one flying gnome in the room.

Moffa and her little bat, Cat, descend upon the bodies of the leatherclad gnome girl (g1) and the dire badger, only to discover that both are not quite dead yet. It is quickly obvious that the other gnome girl (g2) and the dwarf (d1) are still alive as well, although all four are mortally wounded and likely to die from blood loss soon.

The last flying gnome (g3) is in the back corner of the room, as far from the combat as he can get. He squeals in terror and pain (he is already grievously wounded by Minmorc) then amid a flurry of hand gestures he rattles off an incantation and he too vanishes from sight.

The minotaur remains motionless, still poised to charge eastward towards Moffdust and Dregz.

OOC: Main game map updated. Everyone has the benefits of a Bless spell previously cast by Minmorc (+1 to hit and +1 on saves vs fear) for 5 more rounds.

"Where'd e go?" Bulldust sets Raven down on the stone table in front of him.  He hops back up on the stone table behind and starts sniffing the air hoping to catch the scent of a gnome floating past.  If he does he'll swat it with the flail.

Jurz reaches out and touches the girl-gnome at his feet with his flaming blade, helping her into the realms beyond.  Beyond what, he isn't sure, but for the moment that isn't a big concern of his.  Instead  he steps across, into the corner and stands facing the room, seeing if he can see what happened to the last of the flying gnomes.

With no more threats in sight Minmorc will shake his head, focusing on what's going on around him and now very aware of his wounds. He will make his way to the door, planting himself firmly inside it to stop the gnome getting out and will place a hand over the bleeding. Eyes closed there is a faint glow over the cut and the bleeding stops. "Any of yer knows where der little bugger went?"

 Moffdust concludes her brief search of the leather clad gnome then stands up. She casts Detect Magic and looks around the room. "Maybes he's invisibles. Be de doorses Min, keeps him in. Gnomes is tricksy."

"Mum always said I was a better door than a window."

"Sowwy abot dat Bulls! Me killt him? Where he go?"

She looked about in confusion for a moment.

The disappearing flying gnome causes sudden confusion in the room and people head in various directions trying to find him and prevent his escape. Except for Bully. He sniffs the air then swings his white-tipped flail in a high swipe near the ceiling. There is a thud as his flail makes contact and then a splat on the western wall ten feet away. A bright splash of blood high on the western wall accompanied that splat. It's a gnome run!

The minotaur remains motionless, still poised to charge eastward towards Moffdust and Dregz.

OOC: Everyone has the benefits of a Bless spell previously cast by Minmorc (+1 to hit and +1 on saves vs fear) for 4 more rounds.

Minmorc will watch Bullys swing and will grin. "Hur, hur, hur, dat'll do it." Putting one wand away he will pull out the other one and give himself a quick jab, the last few encounters have really sapped his strength and he wants a little extra vigor. Lumbering forward he will move to the prone Dwarf and give him a little kick.

The dwarf is unconscious and doesn't respond to Minmorc's kick. The pool of blood on the floor around him is still slowly spreading.

Bulldust bounds over the second stone table, fielding his own ball.  He sniffs about until he finds the invisible gnome g3 and lays him on the stone table. "Here ya go Raven, yer can check im out now."

Once he is satisfied that the in visible flying gnome is dead, Jurz lets out a cheer  "Oooh.  Good 'en Bully! Youse a good batterer."  before he squats down and starts checking over the girl gnome's gear and possessions.
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Riza stows her bow away and finds a nice clear corner and goes through her pack, taking note of her poison and drug store.  She can be heard muttering along the lines of "I know someone's been in here. .. Bloody flying gnomes my scaly but"

The battle is over – victory is complete – and all that is left to do is the mopping up.

Current status of Team Arda-Nuff is as follows:

•   Arlein, Bulldust, Dregz, Riza and Rog unwounded
•   Oopses is lightly wounded (down 1hp)
•   Jurz is moderately wounded (down 8hp)
•   Moffdust is moderately wounded (down 7hp)
•   Minmorc is moderately wounded (down 16hp but slowly healing 11hp to be lightly wounded)
•   Raven is grievously wounded (down 12hp)

The dwarf (d1) and the dire badger (db) are mortally wounded, unconscious and will bleed out in 4 rounds unless someone intervenes, one way or the other. The chain-shirted gnome girl (g2) and invisible male gnome (g3) are dead. The other gnome girl in studded leather (g1)is mortally wounded and unconscious but has been stabilised by Moffdust, who seems to want to keep her as a pet.

The minotaur remains completely stationary and silent for 2 more rounds then vanishes.

The shadow in room 12 shows no sign of wanting to come out from hiding among the coffins anytime soon, even if Arlein leaves the room.

The body of the invisible gnome (g3) is a bit difficult to search because the slightest touch sends it floating away, so Raven has to hang onto it with one hand and search with the other. She gets a nasty surprise when she searches inside the gnome's tunic and a little weasel tries to bite her fingers. The weasel becomes visible when it scurries out from hiding and sits protectively on the invisible, dead gnome's chest threatening to bite anyone who gets too close.

Moffdust scans for magic and slowly isolates all the magical auras on the bodies and equipment of the dwarf and gnomes. Apart from 3 magical auras on the body of the male gnome (g3) and one on the stabilised female gnome (g1) that must be spells cast upon themselves and still in effect, the magical items found are as follows:

Dwarf d1 (medium size):

•   Spiked gauntlets: right gauntlet has moderate evocation aura

Gnome g1 (small size):

•   Oak cudgel has faint transmutation aura
•   Studded leather armour (bone studs) has faint abjuration aura (= +1 studded leather)
•   Heavy wooden shield has faint abjuration aura (= +1 shield)
•   Brown woollen cloak has faint abjuration aura

Gnome g2 (small size):

•   Chain shirt armour has faint abjuration aura (= +1 chain shirt)
•   Grey cloak has faint abjuration aura
•   10 potions (6 x faint conjuration, 1 faint transmutation, 1 faint illusion, 1 faint adjuration)

Gnome g3 (small size):

•   Wand has faint conjuration aura
•   Bag of holding (type 1)
•   2 scrolls of Knock (CL3)
•   1 potion (faint conjuration aura)
•   6" Segment of black rod, strong aura

Other equipment and treasure on the bodies is as follows:

Dwarf d1 (medium size):

•   Full plate armour
•   Heavy steel shield
•   Masterwork battleaxe
•   Masterwork heavy crossbow and 10 bolts
•   Backpack
•   Belt pouch
•   50gp
•   100gp gem

Gnome g1 (small size):

•   Masterwork scimitar
•   Masterwork light crossbow and 10 bolts
•   Backpack
•   Belt pouch
•   2 antitoxins
•   2 alchemists' fire
•   2 acid
•   2 holy water

Gnome g2 (small size):

•   Masterwork buckler
•   Masterwork short sword
•   Masterwork light crossbow and 10 bolts
•   Backpack
•   Belt pouch
•   Masterwork thieves' tools
•   2pp, 5gp
•   50gp gem

Gnome g3 (small size):

•   Staff
•   Dagger
•   Light crossbow and 10 bolts
•   Backpack
•   Belt pouch
•   Spell component pouch
•   Spellbook
•   700sp, 30gp
•   100gp pearl

Their backpacks also contained a fair assortment of mundane adventuring gear as well including bedrolls, waterskins and enough trail rations for each of them for a week. (Assume any other item you want from the adventuring gear list is there, up to a 12gp price limit per item.)

OOC: If anyone is planning to make their own personal, unofficial arrangements for distribution of loot, let me know via a private line. Sleight of hand checks (or dex checks for the unskilled) vs spot checks for those close by will apply.

Once he is satisfied that Arlein has won the battle next door, and they are not liable to be attacked by an angry ghost, he will turn his attention to the dead gnomes in  this room.

”Nomeses runs away an dey pee an poo all over de cave.” Jurz says authoritatively as he lets the flaming blade blink out.  Once he has collected the loot from the gnome at his feet (G2), Jurz brings it across to one of the stone tables and lays it out.  ”Look.  She’s gots armour like me, an she’s got spells like me.  If youse keeps her, we’s all might get a flaming swordses up der jacksies whiles we is asleep!” the druid reminds Moffa.  However he looks over the gnome-druids gear.  ”Ise bets de club runs out of de magic in a few minuteses, cos dat looks like a shilling-ale-y”

However, he takes his buckler off and tries the heavy wooden shield out,  and waves the club about at the same time -  just to get a feel of how it might work in battle.

It doesn't take Jurz long to confirm his guess about the nature of the magic on the oak cudgel. It is a Shillelagh spell that will wear off after several more minutes pass.

Jurz carefully removes the shield and dons his buckler again  "Dat feels all wrong.  Heavy and jus don't sits right." although he considers keeping the club.  It might not be magical, but it is a nice bit of oak.

Instead, he starts looking hard at the cloaks.  "One grey one, one brown one and ...." the rhyme sort of fades out as he holds the two up in comparison.

OOC: The dire badger could make a nice grey one with a black and white striped hood.  ;o)

Minmorc will lift the Dwarf slightly then with a deft twist snap his neck. "E put up a good fight, not right ter just bleed out. I like der axe an shield, any o yer wannem?" Minmorc will remove the Dwarves gear and add it to the pile.

Moffdust looks up at Jurz with big sad eyes. "I knows youse right Jurzie. I know wes can't keeps pets wes can't eats. An she did hits youse on de headses wid dat clubs... maybe I's just keeps her bootses." She whisks the cudgel out of Jurz's hands and clunks the gnome girl firmly and finally on the head. She hands back the cudgel and smiles "You knows Jurzie, it always feels good when you does de right things." She pulls off the dead gnome's boots and holds one against her foot, then uses her dagger to pierce some holes in the toe for her claws to come through.

Dregz's eyes dart about and he seems reluctant to believe that there aren't more invisible flying gnomes hanging about waiting to pounce, but eventually he relaxes just enough to sheathe his dagger and fetch out his magic stick, which he uses to heal the worst of the hurts his companions have suffered, wandering around and poking them with it as necessary, with only the occasional panicked upwards glance.

In between, the little goblin priest eyes the magic bag greedily, seeing it as a worthy receptacle for his Holy Book, but doesn't dare stake a claim until the bigguns have made their selections from the loot.

Bulldust has no objection to Dregz taking the bag.  He takes the 2 antitoxins, 2 alchemists' fire, 2 acid and 2 holy water for himself.  He needs cash to pay back Moffa, so he waits for his share of the leftovers.  He puts on the dwarf's gauntlets and tries to work out how to activate the magic ... trying to make it 'flame on'.
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Moffdust wants the two scrolls of knock and G3's potion with faint transmutation aura - whatever that means! She's not interested in the bag or the wand. She helps Bully work out how the magic gauntlet works.

In reply to Moffdust (msg # 219):

Oppses stares at the masterwork backpacks from the doorway.

 She eyed the loot with fascination and wanted to go look but had to wait for healing. Hollow bones fractured easily and she wanted to be sure she wasn't broken . She thanked her friend for the healing from his pokie stick, wriggling with impatience as the force flowed through her. As soon as he removed his pokie stick she nearly flew over to check the shinies!

 "Tank youz fer the pokie poke sticken! Iz feeling better already! Gotta get some shinies now doh!"



She ran over and pawed through the treasures. She sorted out the shinies and sparkles first but only grabbed the thieves tools if nobody beat her to it! She looked for anything else she could use best.

OOC: I'm assuming that while Minmorc strips the Dwarf, the gnomes get proper looted too and all the gear put on the table. This should reveal the latest segment of black rod. so...

Minmorc will sheath and stow his axe wife and will experiment with the heft of the shield and battle axe. "Dat looks like der next bit of stick. We gonna camp ere or pop der stick an ope fer a less dusty place ter sleep? I don't like it ere, I wanna grab some meat an mushrooms an der loot an scarper."

Riza repackaged her bag and silently looks through the assortment of loot. She selects the dagger, spins it around her claws to test the balance and stows it away in her backpack. "Whatever we don't divy up we can put in the magic bags till we can sell it I suppose" she also collects some of the trail rations off the bodies to resupply her own stocks and will then wait with Minmorc until the others finish deciding on what we are doing next.

Jurz can't make up his mind about the shield, so he puts it to one side, ready to put on Rog when they leaver -  so that he can try it out properly.  However, he c an decide about the cloaks, and puts the brown one on, because it goes better with his 'natural' look.

"Its good to do der right fing! Jurz agress as he solemnly watches the girl-goblin dispatch the gnome at her feet.  "Is youse gonna sees what all de potionses does?" he asks Moffa.

"Youse never knows we we is gonna finnish up, if'n we's do de magic stick again.  If'n we stays here for a night, we's all get der spells back again first."


Jurz has stripped his gnome and laid stuff out on the table.  He is half-claiming the small wooden shield and the oak cudgel - and wearing the small sized brown cloak.

Oooh !  The Black Rod !  Once that is uncovered, Dregz will fairly race through the whole 'poke it with a stick to make it better' routine until everyone is cured whence he can rush over to reunite the other Magic Stick with its missing piece, triumphantly slotting it into place.

And almost surreptitiously getting his hands on the Magic Bag if it's still there ...

Moffdust plucks her bat off the badger and pulls his wings to stretch them out. "If youse eats too much youse won't flies. Go fer golds Catses!" she tosses the bat towards the open door and watches him flutter out.

She sits on the stone table amongst all the other treasures. "I likes it here. Its gots a homely feels. Sometimes we has to takes a break from doin de right things, so I says we should stays here an opens all de boxes till wes got paid for all ours good deedses."

She starts on the potions, taking a sniff and a lick to figure them out.

Yet another distraction !  This time it's Catses, flapping off.  Dregz stares after the bat sadly, remembering his own lost Robber whose cold corpse now lies in the sack which was the little creature's home.

Perhaps once the bigguns have gone (for they are likely to simply munch Robber down as a quick snack) he'll leave his little friend here, for this tomb seems a suitable place for so brave and stalwart a critter.

"Whats it say in Bargriefyuks book about eating gnomes Dregzie?" Bulldust asks, gently laying a gauntleted hand on the little goblin's shoulder and willing it to evoke some wisdom.

The goblin priest scrunches up his face as he considers his god's will in this important ecumenical matter.  "Roasted on der spit," he suggests thoughtfully, licking his lips.  "Wid apple sauce if youse 'av it."

Bulldust looks around.  "Do you fink dis dusty tomb would be a good place ta find dis apple sauce?"

"I prefer them slightly burnt... Or raw is fine in a pinch" Riza chimes in with the food discussion "Can't be too fussy, but did get the occasional apple back home"

"Applses grows on treeses." the druid observes dryly as he looks around the dark and dusty room.

"Some of dese potionses would goes nice wid gnomes." Moffdust observes, tasting the treasure. "Maybes dere will be sauces in de boxes? Dose old humies puts all sorts of thingses in dere boxes wid de dead humies ter snacks on." She takes out a scroll and casts Mage Armour, licking her lips in anticipation of... something.

Dregz considers.  Despite the general optimism, as Jurz says, applses grows on treeses, so it's not looking good for the apple sauce.  But there is a saving grace.

"Dat's OK," the little goblin assures his hungry companions.  "Wese c'n do widout der apples.  I c'n bless der food an' dat will make it acceptable in Bargrivyek's eyes."

"Youse can says de saving graces on de sauces Dregzie, den I'll eats dem after I opens all de boxes.  Catses will finds de bestest ones. Batses is such good friendses." She pats Dregz's arm in sympathy and glances towards the door, listening for the flutter of wings.
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In reply to Moffdust (msg # 235):

"ugh, Arlein wont budge, when ever i try to move her she jah svkratches at me and growls at da room"

Jurz nods wisely.  That seems like perfectly normal behaviour for a cat.

However, he does contemplate the magical gear they have won.  "Does youse  wants dis brown cloak?" he asks waving the grey cloak, that Moffa said was magical, about.  "An dere is de boney-lethery armour, dat is like mine, and de chainy armour dat is magics too. "

After 5 rounds of prodding with Dregz's magic stick everyone is nearly fully healed.

•   Arlein, Bulldust, Dregz, Moffdust, Raven, Riza and Rog unwounded
•   Oopses is lightly wounded (down 1hp)
•   Jurz is lightly wounded (down 2hp)
•   Minmorc is lightly wounded (down 7hp but slowly healing at 1hp per round and will end up only down 1hp)

The shadow in room 12 shows no sign of wanting to come out from hiding among the coffins anytime soon, even if Arlein leaves the room, although Oopses reports that Arlein obviously doesn't want to leave that room anyway.

A bit of experimentation with the two small cloaks reveals that both are cloaks of resistance. Moffdust carefully tastes and inspects all the potions and is eventually able to work out what they are:

• 7 Potions of Cure Light Wounds (CL1)
• 1 Potion of Cat's Grace (CL3)
• 1 Potion of Invisibility (CL3)= Raven
• 1 Potion of Hide from Undead (CL1)

The other magical items found (and who has claimed any so far) are as follows:

•   Spiked gauntlets (medium size): right gauntlet has moderate evocation aura = Bulldust
•   +1 Chain shirt armour (small)
•   +1 studded leather armour (bone studs)(small)
•   +1 Heavy wooden shield (small) = Jurz
•   +1 Cloak of resistance (small, grey)
•   +1 Cloak of resistance (small, brown woollen) = Jurz
•   Wand has faint conjuration aura
•   Bag of holding (type 1) = Dregz
•   2 scrolls of Knock (CL3) = Moffdust
•   6" Segment of black rod, strong aura = Dregz

Other equipment and treasure on the bodies is as follows:

•   Full plate armour (to fit a dwarf)
•   Heavy steel shield (medium) = Minmorc
•   Masterwork buckler (small)
•   Masterwork battleaxe (medium) = Minmorc
•   Masterwork heavy crossbow (medium) and 10 bolts
•   Masterwork short sword (small)
•   Staff (small)
•   Dagger (small) = Riza
•   Backpack (medium size)
•   3 Backpacks (small size)
•   4 Belt pouches
•   Spell component pouch
•   Spellbook
•   Masterwork thieves' tools = Raven
•   Oak cudgel (small size; statistics as a club) = Jurz
•   Masterwork scimitar (small)
•   3 Masterwork light crossbows (small) and 3x10 bolts
•   2 antitoxins = Bulldust
•   2 alchemists' fire = Bulldust
•   2 acid = Bulldust
•   2 holy water = Bulldust

Money and gems:

•   2pp, 85gp, 700sp
•   50gp gem, 100gp gem, 100gp pearl

Their backpacks also contained a fair assortment of mundane adventuring gear as well including bedrolls, waterskins and enough trail rations for each of them for a week. (Assume any other item you want from the adventuring gear list is there, up to a 12gp price limit per item.) (Riza takes some trail rations)

Cat the bat is sent out of the room to go exploring but returns looking very agitated and alarmed at about the same time that Dregz finishes healing everyone.
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As he finally pockets his Magic Stick of healing, happy that his tribe is mostly patched up, Dregz eyes the potions greedily ... but settles for swapping his heavy and extremely difficult to use crossbow for one of the finely made lighter versions that the gnomes had.

"Wese should take all der good stuff too," the little goblin is not afraid to speak the obvious.  "Sell it when wese can."

Moffdust puts back the potion she was holding. It was not what she'd hoped, it tasted of cat pee.

Something has upset Cat. "Somethings comings dis ways!" she cries in alarm. "Its just down past de mushrooms." She had already cast Mage Armour on herself, now she uses a wand to cast Protection from Evil on herself. She readies her fire wand as she dashes out into the passage, takes a right and peeks around the corner down the passage towards room 19.

Bulldust puts down the magical gauntlet reluctantly.  "De glove makes yer weapon magic.  But I already got magic gloves."

Puzzled by Moffa's warning, Bulldust follows her to the corner, preparing his flail as he goes.

"Awk! What upsetting de cat? Is bad things? Dey hear de fight maybe?"

 She quickly stuffs things in her pouches and pockets and gets ready to fight. In fact, she takes the thieves tools first then anything else not claimed she thinks she can use.

"Bulldust take rest to sell for de party?"

In reply to Raven (msg # 242):

Oopses grabs the two backpacks, and tries to throw one over the collection on pans on his and stuff the other under his arm. "I don't knowz but da shrieking is almoz as badz as da shrooms, so it can't bez worse can it?

While Dregz finishes healing the party Minmorc will strap the shield to his pack and then start looking for something to sheath the battle axe in. A big grin on his face he shaves the Dwarf and uses its beard in a sack to sheath the axe. Drawing Vera he will follow Bully.

Bulldust stops mid stride and grins over his shoulder at Raven.  "Yeah, no worries Birdie Girl, I'll make sure we all get a share.  Take what yer want an leave der rest here fer now, we gotta help Moffa kill somefing first."  The young bugbear is chuffed that others are starting to look to him for dominance.  With age comes responsibility.  He glances at Minmorc following him and smirks, glad he's not that old yet.  But do bugbears have a long life expectancy?  He'd never thought about it before.

Thinking like a supreme commander of the tribe, he issues his orders.  "Go help Moffa kill somefing."  Then he uses his newly-discovered initiative and changes direction.  He turns left instead of right and enters the room with the angry cat.  "Hows it goin Puss?" he asks Arlein.
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In reply to Bulldust (msg # 245):

Arlein gives the oversized goblin a judgemental look before leaping onto the overturned lid, and pawing at it then turning towards the room and starting a growl that starts turning into a yowl.

Minmorc will give Bully a glare that suggests he definitely doesn't have a long life expectancy then shrugs when he realises he does like killing things. "Moffa, can yer ask der flyin cat woz wrong?" And it wasn't so long ago he was showing the young Bugbear how to use his first spear, they grow up so fast.

"Ah! the little druid grimaces at the thought of another battle, then grins as he decides to try out the new shield rather than his trusted buckler.

Grinning he watches Bully and Minmorc 'discuss' the issue of command in a silent and glarey way, then slips along behind the orc to see what the trouble is.  "Keeps an eye de ovver way." he mutters to Rog as he passes.

"Somefing is gonna be sorry it met us !" Dregz bares his teeth in true military fashion as his tribe starts to file out looking for a fight.

The Magic Bag was supposed to be for the Holy Book, but it's clear that it's expected that it be used to carry as much of the treasure as possible ... and "Dat's only right," he declares as he quickly stuffs the more valuable items in first, starting with anything magical that's as yet unclaimed, just in case the group need to leave in a hurry.  "I'se a priest, so Ise should know."

Moffdust put down the potion of Cat's Grace and Raven picked up the potion of Invisibility while Dregz loaded the rest of the valuables into the Bag of Holding.

Then Cat the bat returned and stirred everyone up again.

Most headed out to the southwest passage to see what the trouble was but Bully backtracked to check on Arlein first.  While Bully peered into the stone sarcophagus again Arlein made a show of jumping all over the discarded stone lid then ran hissing and yowling at the pile of empty coffins at the end of the room. The shadow suddenly flew out as though terrified of the cat and dived back into the stone coffin to hide beneath the corpse again.

Meanwhile everyone else crowds around the corner of the corridor to see a huge, 15ft long centipede twisting through the opening into the room where the shriekers and violet fungi were (area 19).

[Map not updated yet.]

In reply to Wyrm of Wyrd (msg # 250):

"Dats a big bug, dont think it cooks good, all hard skin and garbage. Legs though, they tasty lika.. lika dah little white clouds hummies keep in jars and eats ahround fires with stickz. stepping back further into the room.
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 She squawked in her shock and fumbled for her bow, knocking an arrow and tried to shoot at the centipede before it got too close!

 "Watch out! Dem tings can bite and stings lotz!"

Jurz grins at the others and backtracks to where Rog is waiting.  Making sure that his new shield is securely on his arm, he mounts up, ready to move up either of the tunnels.

Moffdust fires a jet of flame from her wand at the centipede (16 touch to hit, 13 dmg). If Raven's arrow didn't get its attention this should. "So dats whats scaring poor Catses. Tanks fer de recipes Oopses, dis shoulds cooks its legs nicely." After firing she tries the door to room 10 to find a safe place to avoid the wrath of the bug. If it's locked she will find a large Orc to hide behind.

Door 10 is firmly locked and the door itself looks stronger than any others you have seen down here.

Door 9 is closed but unlocked as Jurz has already looked in there.

The huge centipede had its head in room 19, probably feeding on shrieker or violet fungus, but it obviously notices the flames and will react sooner or later, depending what everyone else does this round.

Bulldust watches Arlein, puzzling out what she wants.  "What's dat Skip?  Ya got da spooky bit back togever wiv da boney bits.  Clever Puss! ...  An now yer want me ta shut da lid?!"  He lifts up the sarcophagus lid and slides it shut.

In reply to Bulldust (msg # 256):

Arlein bounds down the lid, and patiently watchs as bulldust slides the lid back on. Going to like her paw, she finds the ammoint of dust on it revolting and puts it back down.

Minmorc will move down the Western corridor to the ten foot entrance to room 18 and will cast enlarge person on himself. Large sized and with a big Vera sticking down the tunnel set against the charge he will yell "OI, I teach yer to eat my mushrooms! Come an get some Vera!"

"Duz we got to go down there? Maybez it jest eatz den goes back home? Itz jest hungry maybe."

 Her fearful try at attack over, she backed up to let the others go ahead. She'd defend from the rear.
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The corridor is only 5 feet wide and 8 feet high, so giant Minmorc is hunched over his greatspear as he sets it facing down the corridor. He certainly makes a better door than a window but others can still see past him and even fire missile weapons past him.

OOC: Main game map updated. Only Riza and Dregz are still to act this round.

Riza moves around the corner to behind Minmorc and upon seeing the monstrosity snaps off an arrow. "Got to stock up on poisons, this one should be good for some"

OOC: Rolled 25 to attack rolled 4 damage

Unable to recall any specific mention of centipedes in his Holy Book, Dregz decides to look in on Bully, in case the bugbear is in need of any urgent religious support.

Bulldust just looks guilty when the priest appears unexpectedly.  "Da cat put da spooky back in da sarcofabox." he explains hastily, well aware that he should be out helping the others smash the centipede.  He shoves his hands in his pockets and waits for the next round when he can hasten out of the room and away from certain condemnation.  At least the cat's not angry any more ... it would no do to be surrounded.

Dregz isn't the sort of priest who really has a handle on guilt.  To him Bully just looks hungry.  But he certainly approves of sealing ghostly things in tombs.

"Dat's good," the little goblin assures the Bugbear.

He's not actually very fond of undead at all.  Except skellingtons. They're quite amusing.

Yes, especially when they keep popping up over and over again.  :-)

Reassured, Bulldust confides that "Moffa's gonna open up anovver box over dere.  I fink she said somefing like it said Pandora on da door.  Maybe deres gonna be creepies runnin all over da place soon.  An I'll have ta put da lids back on dere boxes too.  She tells me dats what little bruvvers are for." 

Dregz never had a big brother.  All the other goblins in his litter were the same size as him, and his experience of bigguns involved them beating him up and stealing his food.  So logically ...

"Tribe is like a lot of bruvvers," the priest nods sagely, divine inspiration striking hard.  "Wese must all put der creepies in der boxes togevver."

"C'mon, cat ... youse is in our tribe too."

In reply to Dregz (msg # 266):

Arlein rolled 18 using 1d20.  Intimidation vs Dregz.

When Dregz starts talking down to Arlein she bristles up and activates bushy tail mode giving him a pensive stare in return.

The little goblin whimpers as the cat glares at him, and hurries after Bully.

In reply to Dregz (msg # 268):

Arlein takes 5 foot steps to the door, leaning into the left side of the doorway on her way out.

Moffdust glances up from the the scroll she's holding as Bully then Dregz come around the corner. "Deres a tings about catses in boxes, Dregzie... dey can be alives in de boxes or deads in de boxes, but catses cant be undeads in de boxes."

 "Awk! Dey can't be dead in de boxes 'less dey be in de ground! Best dey be 'live in de box, keep dem mices out de box. Jus don put no poison in de box, no no."

 She snickers and waited for another chance to try to shoot at the centipede... or maybe run away, whichever looked best at the time.

Bully finds the passage blocked by a giant orc bum.  This gives him time to think about what Raven and Moffa and Dregz are saying about boxes and cats.  Bulldust can't imagine how anyone could have gotten a cat into a box in the first place.  From what he's seen, Cats seem to belong only to the mood they're in, and only go where they want to go, but ... "Yeah!  If da box was full of mice den da cat would want to go in.  An if da mice was poisoned den da cat might die after all."

"I don' fink cats like dead mice," Dregz ventures, looking nervously over his shoulder in case Arlein should be there.

Raven's arrow glances off the huge centipede's exoskeleton but the scorching ray from Moffa's wand crisps several of its legs and leaves a section of its body smouldering. Riza's arrow finds its mark as well.

The centipede looks seriously injured and responds to the sudden assault aggressively. It whips its forward section out of the opening (room 19) and charges down the narrow corridor at its attackers. Fortunately Minmorc has Vera set in anticipation of exactly this and the centipede impales itself fully 10 feet along the greatspear before it collapses on the floor, dead.

But there is no time for celebration as a loud scuttling of many bony feet on the stone floor heralds the approach of a second one of these monstrous vermin down the eastern corridor. Seconds later it scuttles across the open area of room 18 to lunge at Minmorc from that side. Fortunately, its fangs don't quite manage to penetrate Minmorc's breastplate and he is unharmed.

OOC: Main game map updated.

Jurz grins from ear to ear, as the second centipede arrives - just as he had expected.  Urging Rog around the corner he rides the dog up to the beast's rear end - and pokes it with his flaming blade as Rog bites at the closest bit.

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17:25, Today: Jurz rolled 10 using 1d20+5.  poke centipede (with flanking) vs Touch AC.
17:26, Today: Jurz rolled 9 using 1d8+2.  Jurz dam centipede (just in case).

17:27, Today: Rog rolled 21 using 1d20+4.  Bite Centipede.
I screwed this up.  Wrong bonus (it should be +6 not +4) and didn't add flanking  - which would make it 25 (not 21)
17:28, Today: Rog rolled 8 using 1d6+4.  bite centipede damage

Oopses freezes in terror as the second millapee zooms around the corner. Luckily he didnt scream out a warning so it went for the noisy orc instead. Only to get barreled over by a zealous rog initiating a chain of events best described as "pot and pan armagedon: The Cacophony".

Very satisfied with the dead bug impaled on Vera Minmorc snarls when something tries to bite through his armour. Leaving the spear in one bug Minmorc will draw the axe wife and will try to put a great axe in the next bug. "I don't like dis place, stuff keeps trying ter hurt me! Oh, wait, dats evry place... Bwa ha ha, Minmorc strongest every where!"

The smell of spitted, roasted Centipede has Dregz drooling. "Hope der's enough fer everyone," he gets out before Bargrivyek speedily anticpates his wish and another appears.  "Dat's better !"

"Oh yeah, ged dat cener-peed guys! dat sure iz smellin good! Wez gonna have feastin tonight! Iz famished and ready for scream of mushroom and cener-peed steaks!"

Moffdust licks her lips at the smell too. "Yess! Dat smells like goblins foods." The second centipede is already being attacked at both ends, so Moffdust attacks the door to room 10. 'Knock!' she casts a spell from a scroll then readies her fire wand just in case this was a bad idea after all.

 She ran hopped around by room 13 to try to get a shot off from that end but not wanting to get TOO close cause it might run fast with all them feet! She aimed her crossbow and shot when she could.

Oopses cowers in terror against the wall as Jurz and Rog charge past him to attack the rear end of the second huge centipede while Minmorc  drops Vera and switches back to his axewife to slash at the bitey end of that huge creepy crawly. Rog bites off a chuck of crunchy leg and abdomen and Jurz obligingly cauterises the wound with his flaming blade. As the centipede rears up to strike back at the attackers behind it Minmorc's greataxe almost slices the creature's head off.

Raven hops back across to the eastern corridor in time to shoot a crossbow bolt into the twitching rear end of the centipede and it finally collapses on the floor, just as dead as the first one.

Thoughts of the culinary delights ahead fill the minds of many members of Team Arda-Nuff.

Moffdust happily leaves the battle to her fighting friends and focusses on the strong, locked door (#10) beside her. She reads a spell from a scroll and there is a satisfying click as the lock on the door unlocks itself. The door, of course, remains closed. (This door needs to be pulled open and will open outwards into the corridor. The hinges are on the left side of the door.)

OOC: Main game map updated.

Minmorc will start dragging the centipede carcass out of the corridor and into the mushroom room. With the axe within easy reach he will free the spear ready to lend a jab where needed.

Her eyes alight with a mixture of curiosity and greed, Moffdust pulls open the door. Using the door for cover she peers inside while chattering excitedly as she prepares to cast a spell.
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Oblivious of the centipede battle, Bulldust's eyes are fixed on the open doorway.  He sniffs the air and drops into a wary crouch with his flail at the ready.  Then remembering his manners he smiles pleasantly to greet (or belt) whatever occupies the room.

Room 10 is a bit of a disappointment. There don't appear to be any monsters in there at all. It is just cluttered up with four big, heavy, padlocked, wooden chests.

OOC: Map updated.

Bulldust follows where Moffa is looking, not at the chests but at the holes bored into the wooden ceiling just inside the door.  He pokes a long green finger into one of the holes, touching the brown crusty stuff that plugs the hole.  "Could it be a trap?" he says uncertainly.  "Perhaps someone else should go in first, like da clever lizzie girl or sneaky birdie girl?"

When Bully pulls his finger back out there is a bit of rust on his fingertip.

Minmorc will reach out and spear set against the charge will attempt to see what's behind door number 8.

Dregz watches Bully from the safety of the corridor, unaware of the chests in the room beyond.

"Looks ter me like bars might be droppin' down from dose holes," the little goblin suggests.  "Ter trap someone on der other side ?"

When Dregz turns his attention to the ceiling in room 10 (well, what he can see of it from back down the corridor) he notices that the section of ceiling with holes in (about 5 feet wide and 8 feet long, directly beyond the door) also looks like it has a clearly defined edge, like a trapdoor or something like that.

Minmorc easily opens door 8 and finds another boring room inside. This one looks like a storeroom for furniture - mostly beds and chairs.

OOC: Main game map updated.

"I really don' like der look of dat," Dregz points at the ceiling, stepping clear of the doorway as he determines the angle that the maybe-trapdoor might open.  "Moffa's in der ?  We needs ter jam it wid sumfin."

OOC: If there's no jam available, then a long pole or wood plank ... even a table we could stick in the doorway might do ?

Moffdust continues her incantation, repeating the last few syllables over and over to hold the spell until she's ready to release it. She does not enter the room until one of the rogues has checked the trap. But her eyes are fixed on the four chests all in a row and her little claws are twitching in anticipation. She strains her eyes to read the labels... could it be Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy?
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Minmorc will snort and call out "got beds an stuff in ere." He'll then reach out and open the door to room seven, poised and ready to stab the next Ikean to cross his path.

In reply to Minmorc (msg # 294):

Oopses moves to harvest the roast centipede legs.

 She realized the cenner-peed was dead so she went to help Moffdust with the chests she'd found in the other room.

 "Whatcha gotz Moffdust? Hopez itz sumthin good! And wez gonna haz uz a feest tonight. Scream of mushroom supe and cenner-peed steaks!  Mmm!"
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Raven would have to pass Dregz, Bulldust and Moffdust before she walks through the doorway into room 10. Does anyone intervene?

Minmorc opens the door to room 7, which turns out to be another storeroom. This one is full of brittle old carpets, mattresses and blankets.

OOC: Main game map updated.

Bulldust pulls his finger out   of the trap-hole above the doorway.  He puts a big paw on Raven's shoulder and points up to the row of holes in the ceiling just inside the door.  "Hey birdie girl.  Inside the room deres four chests.  But here in da doorway deres pointy iron bars up inside dese holes, like bars could drop down and block off da doorway.  Can you look fer traps an find a safe way ter get ta da chests?"

He lets go of Raven and replies to Dregz.  "Dats a good idea Dregzie.  Better safe dan full of pointy iron bars.  Min found beds an stuff so I'll get some."  He moves into room 8 and looks for a solid bed frame and chairs ...

"...ya uln...ya uln..." Moffdust keeps repeating to hold the spell. She shrugs when Raven asks what she's found but gestures for her to have a look.  When Raven mentions the food she grins and rubs her tummy then she wanders off down the passage past Minmorc and continues out of sight through the door at the end. Cat the bat flutters on ahead of her.

Arlein takes the centipede as the highest seat in the house and lords over oopses as he forages from the corpse, and the hectic shuffling of bugbear and orc, and others.

Minmorc will stomp across their pantry grumbling something about various stupid items of furniture and will try to open the door to room 15. His spear is poised in the air, hungry for the blood of carpentry, beware home wares, beware!

For the time being Jurz just lets everyone get on with it.  The magic stick has been claimed from the gnomes, they put the ghostly spirit back in the box and he already found a room full of books and bookshelves.  Now everyone was rushing about ...

On a whim he reaches down and opens the door to room 14.

 She looks up at the holes in ceiling above the door and jumps back with a squawk! She cocked her head this way and that studying the holes with one eye and the other then both, dipping her head up and down as she thinks how the trap might work.

 "Awk! Me go look yez!"

More rooms are opened up by the explorers as the rest of the group focusses on finding a safe way to enter the room with the four locked chests. Raven, Dregz, Riza and Bulldust all try to figure it out but in the end it is left to Bulldust to try to wedge a bedframe between the floor and the section of ceiling with holes in. He nearly manages to get it into position but as soon as he starts to straighten it up to vertical position it presses down on the floor, which turns out to be a pressure plate that releases the heavy trapdoor from the ceiling. The trapdoor swings down in an arc to slam against the open doorway sending row after row of 6-inch long metal spikes to protrude out of the holes in the wood and skewer anyone caught inside the room by the swinging trapdoor. Fortunately Bully was far enough back and protected by the bedframe, so he is just pushed back from the door as the trapdoor swings down.

However, the spiked trapdoor was then wedged in place and required some considerable muscle to push it back up into position. Luckily Bully and Minmorc are big enough and strong enough to manage that and finally the trapdoor can be propped up in position on the ceiling again with a solid beam of wood from the broken bedframe braced diagonally down from one of the holes to the corner of the room just beside the doorway. As long as no one is careless enough to dislodge that beam the trapdoor is now secured and it is safe to enter the room.

Cat the bat flutters around the room and Moffdust tells Raven to open the chest to the right of the doorway first.  Raven quickly picks the lock and lifts the lid of the chest to reveal its contents. It looks like a decent collection of gold and silver temple ornaments, all bearing a holy symbol that consists of a crescent moon in front of a new moon surrounded by about 14 stars.

Eventually all of the other rooms along these northern corridors are opened without finding any more monsters lurking inside. The previously unopened western and central rooms (#5 to #8 and #20 to #25) are all storerooms of various kinds, holding spare furniture, clothing, bedding, camping supplies, cooking, cleaning and gardening equipment, etc. The eastern rooms are
#13: Armory (various non-masterwork weapons and armour up to chainmail and banded mail in human and halfling sizes (no half-plate or full-plate armour) – leather items are dried and brittle; steel is rusty but still serviceable)
#14-#15: Craftsmen's workshops – carpenter, leatherworker, tinker, tailor, candle-maker (tools and supplies are still there)
#16-#17: Laundry.

OOC: Main game map updated.

Minmorc will gleefully busy himself carting and steel armor and weapons to room 11 and carrying any corpses to what he's referring to as the larder, room 19. He will leave his masterwork cauldron in the larder with Oopses. "Oi Oopses, wen yer done yer butcherin an yer set up yer fire pit let me know an I'll gets Nuffle ter put sum water in der pot fer boilen. First we doz der lootin, den we doz der feastin!"

 She worked on the other trunks as well once she had grabbed a shiny or two just to admire and hold for luck. She pulled out her master work tools and picked just the right tools, then holding her ear very close to the lock, she closed her eyes and listened to the mechanism and felt with her fingertips as she moved the picks just so and... click! The second lock snicks open! She stepped back so Moffdust  can open the chest.

01:49, Today: Raven rolled 12 using 1d20+7.  Open locks 4.
01:48, Today: Raven rolled 14 using 1d20+7.  Open locks 3.
01:48, Today: Raven rolled 27 using 1d20+7.  Open locks 2.

The second trunk is full of copper coins. All old and tarnished and of an unfamiliar design but still valuable enough in human lands. There must be thousands of them in there.

Riza will assist Raven in unlocking the chests if any locks seem to be giving trouble. Failing that she will call in Minmorc and bulldust to apply their subtle persuasion on the locks.
While the others rummage through the chests Riza will busy herself with the centipede corpses, before heading back and seeing if there is anything she could use from the items discovered.

Raven and Riza work together to pick the locks on the last two chests. These prove a bit more tricky but eventually they manage to unlock the third chest, which is full of silver coins. All old and tarnished black and of an unfamiliar design but still valuable enough in human lands. Again, there must be thousands of them in there.

Eventually they manage to unlock the last chest, too. But when they lift the lid of the chest a sudden rush of smoke pours out of the chest to engulf them! Raven gasps and coughs for a moment then collapses on the floor.  Riza manages to hold her breath and is not overcome by the smoke.

OOC: Main game map updated.

After the trap is triggered there can be heard the odd clunk and clatter from the mist as riza tries to make sense of what happened.   a few moments later riza is seen dragging or attempting at least to drag the unconscious raven out of the smoke. Holding her breath does not seem to bother the small lizard. Once she has gotten clear of the smoke she breathes again. bloody traps she turns to bulldust. bully can you call the others, I don't have the skills to see if raven is okay
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While the others concentrated on Moffa’s room, Jurz rode Rog around the rooms, picking over the various weapons armours and tools.
Eventually he made his way back to the book room,  and starts looking for a book with pages made of nice soft paper.  For some things, soft paper was much more pleasant than leaves.  And it came already packaged.

When the spluttering and coughing starts accompanied, as it almost certainly will be, by the Ooohs and Arrhs of the others - Jurz makes his way back to the corridor to see what is happening.

"Oh dears, oh dears !"  Dregz rushes into the room to provide Bargrivyek's succor to the striken member of his tribe.

Moffdust returns from her walk down the corridor still muttering "...ya uln...ya uln..." but also carrying an earthenware urn. When she returns the room is full of smoke, Raven is stricken and there is still nowhere for her to cast her spell. So she abandon's the spell and sets down the urn. "Just opens de ones wid de golds." she offers helpfully.

Then realising that that was not really much help, she casts Detect Magic to see if any magic auras linger in the room or on the piles of armour and weapons and books that Min and Jurz are hauling out of the other rooms. She grins at Jurz' practical use for the book he found, but comments to Dregz "Sometimes a holey books just wont do."
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"Oooh!  Arrh!"  Bulldust sounds alarmed as the smoke trap goes off.  He calls for Dregz and Jurz as Riza asked, and takes the unconscious Raven from Riza when she drags her out.  He delivers Raven into Dregz care. "Da birdie girl got smoked.  Can ya fix er up Dregzie?"  He finds a piece of tattered tapestry and fans the room from the doorway, then holding his breath he dives inside to haul out the chests one by one into the larger space across the passage.

The smoke cloud was still expanding and by the time Riza drags Raven out the smoke completely fills that room. It seeps out the doorway making the 5-foot section of corridor outside the door smoky as well, but it doesn't seem to be expanding any more.

Bulldust retreats as the smoke advances so he is not affected. Raven doesn't seem to be injured, just unconscious. She is still breathing.

Moffdust stands as close to the smoke as she can to scan for magic inside the room after everyone is out.

Meanwhile Bulldust fans the smoke from the doorway and that does seem to be having some effect as the smoke does seem to be thinning and clearing.

OOC: Bully won't need to drag the chests out as the smoke will dissipate after a few more rounds. Raven will be unconscious for at least a minute, maybe longer.
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Luckily Dregz is concentrating on his patient and doesn't hear Moffa's heretical words.

The little priest intones a prayer to Bargrivyek, maintaining a low chant as he pokes and prods raven, finally advising with no little relief that, "she's alright - jus' sleepin' !"

"Awww, how sweets!" Moffdust tucks Raven's head under her wing.

She goes back to concentrating on Detect Magic. "No magics on all dose rusty armours an stuffs, but deres someting magics in de smoke rooms. So lets me sees..."

Raven gets an unexpected but restful nap in. Lol.

Once Gregz announces that Raven is only asleep, Jurz relaxes and turning, slips the book with the soft.paper into his saddlebags.  Climbing down he waits by Rog's head, idly petting the animal's chest and neck in appreciation of his patience.
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Bulldust has fanned away the smoke and now holds his breath and goes into the room to see what was in the final chest and to drag out the chest with all the gold to the central area where it can be divided up.

As the smoke clears away Bulldust holds his breath and heads back into the room, then drags the closest chest over to the doorway. He can't pull it right out of the room without dislodging the bedframe prop that is holding up the spiked trap panel above the doorway, so he is obliged to pass the items out to those waiting in the corridor outside. By the time he is finished the smoke has completely cleared and Raven has woken up again from her nap.

The items that Bully passed out are a set of gold and silver temple ornaments, all bearing a holy symbol that consists of a crescent moon in front of a new moon surrounded by about 14 stars.  There are two silver candelabras, four silver candlesticks, a silver candle snuffer, a silver incense urn with holes in the lid, a large silver tray, a gold chalice, a gold plate, a gold bowl, a gold ceremonial dagger, one larger gold and silver wall ornament and two smaller gold and silver wall ornaments. The general consensus among those in the group that have any idea of the value of such things is that this collection might be worth about 5000 gold coins in human lands.

Bully heads back in to fetch the items from the fourth chest.

There are also two other chests in there full of old silver and copper coins.

"Dis is good treasure Moffa!  Plenty fer everyone."  Bulldust grins at his little green sister.  After emptying the treasure chest, he pushes it back from the doorway and goes to look in the final chest.  He's not much bothered with the silver and copper coins but suggests "Deres lots ov silver for da tree-pee Jurzie."

"Dat's just wot I was finking!  Well done Bully.  Wiv all dis finking yous will turn into a Saucier like Moffa or a priest like Dregz"  However, before he goes to claim silver pieces, he sorts through the temple ornaments, looking for something small with the Moons and Starts holy symbol on, that will eventually go on his stampy stick.  "What god is dese for, Dregzy?" he asks his compatriot.

The chest of copper coins is nearly full and probably contains about 50,000 coins (500gp value, weighing 1000 pounds). The chest of silver coins is just under half full and probably contains about 20,000 coins (2,000gp value, weighing 400 pounds).
OOC: DC15 Knowledge (religion) check for anyone with that skill, to identify which god this symbol is for.

Dregz dutifully turns his attention to the symbol emblazoned upon the various ornaments, but shakes his head.  "Ise not seen dat one before," he admits.  Though truth be told, most of the little goblin priest's exposure to such devices was while watching the forces of Light advance towards him, while he quaked in his boots.

Bulldust grins at Jurz.  "Maybe I'll be all ov dose people ... an a killer like Min, an a tree-hugger like you, an sneaky like Riza, an grow some wings like da birdie-girl.  I might even get scary like da cat."  Life is full of possibilities for the young.

The chest that was trapped was mostly empty, but Bulldust found two vials containing two different coloured liquids (one milky white and the other murky green).  "Are dese wot was magic Moffa?"  He removes the stoppers on each and has a sniff with his super smart nose.

The milky white liquid appears to be some sort of oil with virtually no aroma at all.

The murky green liquid smells awful and nearby makes Bully retch. Sometimes a highly developed sense of smell is not an advantage!

"Doesn't matter, really" Jurz shrugs and continues to poke about for a small item that can be added to his stampy stick.  If there isn't anything small and seemingly, disposable, he will start thinking about breaking a piece off of one of the large items.

In reply to Wyrm of Wyrd (msg # 327):

Oopses has collected a pile of legs , enough he could be mistaken for a woodcutter after a long days work and sorted the centipede meat into a deep pot, and the shroom flesh into several pots. Satisfied with his gathering he begins work on the pair of backpacks, dumping them out and trying to figure out how to fit his collection in them.
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"De milky potions is faint magics, but de green ones is jus smelly. Put de corkses back in Bully!" She concentrates a little longer on the Detect Magic spell to learn as much as possible about the magic aura.

"I fink dere was some pattern on da padlocks."  Bulldust suggests to Jurz.  He fetches the one from the temple trinket chest and gives it to the red gobbo.

The bugbear has a rethink when he learns how many silver coins there are.  They're worth taking.  So once all the loot is out of the treasure room, he pulls the silver chest out the door, dropping the bars behind the chest as he goes, and drags the chest into the open space.  He thinks over what he's learned about sharing, and tries to remember how Oopses divided coins back in their temple hideout.  He starts by tearing off pieces of mildewed tapestry and placing them on the floor, one for each of the people: Oopses, Jurzie, Raven, Riza, Min, Dregzie, Moffa and Himself.  Its a lot of coins.  So he borrows a rusty helmet to use as a scoop and ladles out the coins into equal piles, finishing off by tying each bundle with a piece of tapestry cord.  "Can I borrow da pee tree later Jurzie an turn mine inta holy juice?"

OOC: thats 2500 sp each (worth 250 gp each, weighs 50 lb each).

He does not know how to divide up the gold and silver temple relics.

While Bulldust fusses about with his little piles of silver coins Moffdust sits nearby studying the two potion vials, while Riza turns her attention to extracting giant centipede poison from the dead centipedes and others sort through the rusty weapons and armour in the armoury or plan out the menu for their next meal. In one of the rooms someone finds a shelf full of glass and ceramic flasks, vials and jars that could be used for the green tree pee (holy water) that Bully wants to extract from Jurz's miniature tree.

"Youse such a fuss pots Bully!" Moffa teases as she takes her neat little bundle of coins. But then its too heavy for her to lift. "Now youse has ter carries it fer me."

"Dat white potions has a conjuring auras. I wonders what it does. Who wants ter drinks it?!"
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"let me have a sniff." the little goblin leans forward and breathes in deeply.

 She watched avidly as the coins get divvied out once she woke up that was. All those coins were intoxicating to her smokey sight. She had to force herself not to jump into the piles and start tossing them up in the air to catch with her beak to taste the wonderful metals. She restrained herself and did her best to act like a civilized rational being, even if it was nearly impossible to ignore the beautiful shiny coins.

 "Rawk! We'z rich we iz! Lovely dem shinies will be wen dem cleaned! Jus need vingar en salt!"

 She did find them a burden though when she picked up her share. Maybe if she distributed them around her body they wouldn't feel so heavy.
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"Der smelly potion is probly poison," Dregz announces authoratively.

Sorry to disappoint you Raven, but all those thousands of silver coins are not shiny at all. They are hundreds of years old and all tarnished as black as Raven's feathers. They would polish up beautifully with a bit of work, though.

The milky white liquid is actually an oil, not a potion, so probably not for drinking.

"De smell potion is a poison, but  a good poison." the Goblin Druid says quickly.


OOC-  Rush at work today.  better explanation later.

Moffa leaves the others to investigate the smelly murky green liquid "Maybe its acids. Some of dem acids is smellys, specially when dey has dissolved youse all up."

She concentrates on the odourless white oil which has a faint conjuration aura and rubs a tiny bit on her hand then on her dagger.

Minmorc will work until the metal weapons and armor are collected then will go and use a giant centipede as a couch, contentedly watching Oopses cook. When the others gather to eat he will ask "So, ow long yous wanna stay ere?"

"It does curing fings." Jurz comments to Moffa distractedly.


OOC:  Another busy day, I am afraid.

Dregz looks dubious, despite Jurz's reassurances.  "I'm not drinkin' dat !"

As the excitement of the battle, the traps and the treasure finally starts to fade the members of Team Arda-Nuff finally begin to realise just how tired they are. It is now just about sunset at the end of day 12, which is just when they would normally be waking up, but normal sleep patterns have been completely disrupted today. The previous night had been spent travelling to the town of Kester with their caravan of Paynim nomad prisoners and horses. They arrived near dawn and had little rest before entering Kester as soon as the gates opened in the morning, then spent the whole day trading and shopping in the marketplace. They teleported out straight afterwards about half an hour before dusk. So the team have all been awake and busy for almost 24 hours. It is time to rest!