Minmorc staggers a little as the door has succeeded a tumble check to avoid his second blow. Growling "Oi, come back, wasn't done wid you..." If others don't swarm forward Minmorc will prowl down the staircase, his big key ready to unlock more things and people.

Dregz holds his breath, ground and flail (tightly) as he waits for all Hell to issue forth now that their way is ... 'unbarred' seems a little underbaked for Minmorc's mighty effort !

Seeing as nothing barrels through the door, Jurz puts his wand away and heads down stairs to join the others.

"Good job Min."  Now that
the door with the spells is gone, Bulldust pushes past Min and down the stairs, fingers still in ears and sniffing to catch the scent of the person who just passed.  He moves 30' down the stairs and around the bends.

Moffdust grabs the dire wolf by its whiskers and urges it to follow Bully. "Sniffs dem out Wolfie."

When Minmorc busts the door open, Bully and the dire wolf hurry down the stairs, sniffing as they go.  Everyone else follows them down. The dire wolf is so large it virtually fills the width of the staircase and nobody behind can see much past it.

The stairs slope down for 10 feet, turn right and slope down another 15 feet, then turn right again and slope down a final 15 feet. The stairs end at another closed door. There are no hinges on this side so the door probably opens away from you.

OOC: Main game map updated.

Bulldust is now too excited to be sneaky.  "I'm goin in.  Moffa can ya ask da wolf ter lend a paw?"  He blows a little bugbear magic into his right fist, which grows grey and stoney-looking.  He then crouches down and charges his right shoulder into the door, possibly with a wolf pushing as well. 

08:02, Today: Bulldust rolled 20 using 1d20+8.  Str check to burst door .(Ignore second roll, iPad resubmitted roll when I went back to page)
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Moffdust gives the dire wolf's hind leg a hopeful shove "Gets going Wolfie!"

"Can youse get him to let me ride?" Jurz asks Moffa, as he points at the dire wolf.  "He's a bit like de old Rog, an I hasn't had a good ride in ages ..."

Bully smashes the door open and it slams back against the wall of the chamber behind it. Jurz scurries forward past Minmorc to clamber up onto the dire wolf's back as soon as Moffa nods.

This chamber is circular like the two above it but slightly smaller. It is 50 feet in diameter and the domed ceiling rises to peak 20 feet above the floor. All of the walls are again painted with images of chromatic dragons.

But the most startling feature of the chamber is a 20-foot wide pit running east west across the full width of the chamber. The pit drops 10 feet below floor level to a pool of dark water seething with literally dozens of crocodiles!

The northern portion of the room is bare but the southern portion is furnished as someone's bedroom with a narrow bed, a chest, a desk and chair against the southern wall. There is also another closed door in the southeast portion of the wall, more or less opposite the one that Bully has just opened.

There is no sign of the owner of this bedroom.

OOC: Main game map updated. Bully and Jurz have each taken one move action so far this round.

Minmorc will help Jurz onto the dire wolf and will smile happily, it's really cute seeing a jersey on a puppy. When he can make it into the room he will follow suit and start sniffing for magic, though he will find it hard to concentrate past the awe inspired by a bedroom with its own moat. "So we slept on der cryin hydra mattress when we coulda had der penthouse wid der swim in wardrobe?! Lookit, its even has a range o boots an handbags for der accessorizin, dis room is awesome!"

"Dat's a lot ov gnashers," Dregz peers out from behind a protective shield of big Orc to pronounce judgment on the pit of crocodiles.

"Ise can float over der, an' carry a goblin wid me ... if wese heard voices by der door, den dey had some way ov gettin' across.  Mebbe der's a button dat makes a magic bridge ?!!"

OOC: If any goblin proves game (I'm lookin' at you, Moffa), Dregz will use his boots to levitate and then drag himself and his passenger along the wall to the far side of the chamber.  Two goblins are better than one when it comes to a thorough search !  ;>

Jurz has beening surveying the 'moat' from atop his mount.  "If only dis big dog coulds get a decent run up ..."  Jurz mutters, as he considers trying to get the Dire Wolf to jump the 20ft gap.

"What do you fink  dey feed dem on?" he asks squinting at them sideways.  "And if dere isn't a button maybe dere's an invisibubble bridge ..."
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Minmorc isn't keen on an Indiana Jones leap of faith but he's always up for a lord of the rings toss a mate :)

Moffdust grins when Jurz asks her permission to ride. She pulls on Wolfie's tail to make him sit, and then Min helps Jurz climb on. "He's yours for de whole days Jurzie. Now Wolfie, youse does what Jurzie says."

She enters the room and peers dubiously at the moat, casting Detect Magic to help her see if its real. "Lets go Dregzie." She clings onto his waist while he floats them over and she concentrates.

OOC: Wolfie has jump +21 but without 20' run up the DC would be doubled (40 instead of 20).
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Bulldust is itching to get across before all his spells run out, but he has no way to cross the moat.  He moves to the closest edge of the moat, crouches down and sniffs, trying to catch the scent of water and crocs.  He even dangles the white donger end of the chainflail into the water.  "Yeah.  Wot'd dey all eat?"

The team all move out into the circular chamber – most staring at the crocodile infested indoor swimming pool. Bully even dangles the white head of his chainflail down into the water. 

Moffa clutches tightly to Dregz's waist as he starts to float up into the air and he starts clambering across the wall above the pool with Moffa in tow.

Moffa and Minmorc both cast a spell.

Then a male voice is heard from the southern side of the room, obviously speaking the words of a spell, although the speaker is not in sight. Seconds later a tiny ball of flame appears (at grid ref J59) and streaks across the pool straight at the dire wolf's nose. But just as the tiny ball of flame is about to hit the wolf it suddenly explodes in a huge fireball, 40 feet in diameter. Minmorc, Bully, Raven, Jurz and the dire wolf are all engulfed by the fireball but Dregz and Moffa have just barely moved far enough away to narrowly escape the flames.

OOC: Main game map updated.
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"Dat's not nice ...." Jurz shouts and he digs his heels into the dire wolf and drives him forwards towards the moat full of crocodiles ....  "Gets him, wolfie ..."

OOC: 20:12, Today: Jurz rolled 20 using 1d20+5.

Dregz whimpers and redoubles his efforts to pull himself and Moffa along the wall ...

As Minmorc continues to sniff for magic there is a flash and he starts to smell something burning, it's distracting and Minmorc is going to be really angry when he eventually realises it's him. Stepping behind Bully he will growl to Raven "Birdie girl, I eard a voice over der odder side and I don't want ter hear im again, don't like wot e has ter say. Shoot dis arrow at im an we won't ave ter listen ter im anymore." Thinking of that magic moment when the crowd holds its breath before a big kick he puts that hush into one of Ravens arrows.

"Wheee! Keep goings Dregzie!" Moffdust is unharmed and excited by the thrilling near miss. She looks over to see how her friends coped with the fireball and giggles to see Min smoking. Wolfie dodged the worst of it and is ok. But seeing Jurz spurring Wolfie on she wonders what he knows that she doesn't. The croc pit looks real to her, and Wolfie can't jump that far without a run up. But she trusts the red goblin implicitly, so she calls out "Come on Wolfies! Sniffs 'im outs!"

As soon as Dregz sets her down she abandons the Detect Magic and casts Dimension Step instead on Bully and Min. They can both now teleport up to their base move to any point they can see. "Go gets 'im boys."
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Bulldust ducks under the fireball and is not as smoked as Min. The crocodiles look real and he's stuck on the wrong side of the pit.  But then he feels Moffa's magic pulling him forward.  "Oo Oo!" he hoots excitedly and wills himself forward to the desk (K59).  He sniffs again hoping to catch the scent of elf, chainflail ready to say hello if he catches a whiff.
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OOC: Partial update. I just need to know where Minmorc chooses to teleport to following Moffa's casting of Dimension Step on him, then I will close out this round.

The fireball catches Minmorc off guard but Jurz, the dire wolf, Bully and Raven manage to duck and avoid the worst of it. However, it still injures all of them to some extent. (Jurz, Minmorc and Raven are moderately wounded after the fireball, and Bully and the dire wolf are lightly wounded.)

Jurz first tries to urge the dire wolf to charge across the pool of crocodiles but when it baulks at the idea of leaping into the water, he quickly covers its eyes with his cloak, rides the wolf in a circle and then charges straight across. Incredibly, to those watching, the dire wolf's paws thud softly in mid air as it charges across the pool 10 feet above the water level.

Dregz drags himself and Moffa around the western wall then drops to the floor, whips out his flail and slams it down on the wooden chest at the end of the bed. The chest is scratched but doesn't react to his unexpected attack.

Minmorc takes a step closer to Raven so he can reach the loaded light crossbow she is holding in her off hand, then he growls instructions to her before he casts a spell on her crossbow bolt. She turns to him and opens her beak but doesn't make any sound at all.

Moffa cheers on Jurz and the dire wolf then casts a spell on Bully and Minmorc.

Bully suddenly vanishes and instantly reappears on the southern side of the room right in front of the desk. He sniffs suspiciously then swings his chainflail at an unseen target immediately to his left (L59 on the map). There is a loud thud as the flail head hits and bounces off something there.

Raven was obviously watching as she drops her glowing rapier to shoot her crossbow at whatever it was that Bully hit. Her crossbow bolt bounces off that unseen target and drops to the floor in front of Bully (L59).

Absolute silence envelopes Bully, Jurz and the dire wolf but the rest of the team can hear any sounds emanating from outside that area.

OOC: Main game map updated. Spell of silence 20ft radius around L59.

Urging the wolf forwards with one hand and his feet, Jurz waves his stompy stick and shouts something, silently, at Bully.

Bulldust's face is lit with a leer of triumph and delight. He looks at Jurz, the grin wavering as he wonders what the gobbo is saying and why he can't hear.  Guessing what Jurz needs he takes a 5' step back to L58 to make way for the wolf, and points to the empty space before the door.
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