"It is too bad that we all can't be invisible," the ghostly voice of Kahan chimes in before he strolls peacefully across the hall.

Shae will follow along behind Tahldar and his images.

Tahldar casts a spell and you carefully cross.  No one is hurt this time.  His plan has worked, but by the time you reach the far side, all of his mirror images have been destroyed by the statues, which lunge and destroy each.

Now you are at the exit gate, which is closed.  Again, you must push up on one of the numbers (1 through 10) to get the gate up.

Meanwhile, the revived ore and death statues are headed your way...

Borimer turns to face the incoming danger, "Anyone know which number to push..?"

Shae says, "I think it's just weighted, so we each get behind a number and hope we can lift enough weight."  She looks nervously at the statues and then takes her place back at number 8 again, ready to push.

Leo gets next to Shae on number 7 nervous about the approaching statues since he isn't hiding this time.

Jumping on 9 Vuzyl makes ready to lift.

"Get on the step you were before." Tahldar says as he hops on step six.  He looks behind him with worry as he hopes they can get the door opened before the giants come after them.

OOC:  Here is where we stood when the door opened:

Borimer: 1
Shapfren: 2
kahan: 3
Steps 4 and 5: empty
Tahldar: 6
Leo: 7
Shae:8
Vuzyl: 9

Borimer will wait and watch the incoming golems until his companions have taken their places, and then he will turn and step up to "1" and push.

As before, it takes 2400 pounds of lifting to move the gate up.  That will take about 18 seconds (3 combat rounds).  For each 200 pounds of lifting power added to that, it will take 6 seconds off of the total.

In the meantime, you are vulnerable to attacks from both the ore and death statues, which are attacking from behind and to the side of you.  Being hit by one will reduce your lifting capacity by half for that round.

Plan accordingly.
This message was last edited by the GM at 00:38, Wed 20 Jan 2016.

as soon as either golem is close enough to strike at us then borimer will turn and engage it before it can attack anyone else (or at least that's his plan)

They will reach the group at about the same time, so he will need to pick one or the other.  The gate is 30 feet wide (3 feet per area to step on and push times 10 spots for people).

Tahldar begins to cast another mirror image spell...

OOC: Rolled for 5 images.  The mage will do his best to attract whatever golem Borimer does not attack.

Ore Golem:
  HP=307/386
  AC= -4
  Immunities: ?
  Attacks: Cleave x2
  Dazing Fist
  Special Attack: ?
Death Golem:
 AC= -1
 HP= 13/78 (half damage from bludgeoning)
 Immunities: ?
 Speed: 20
 Melee: Bone Staff (x2) 1d6 plus 1d6 cold
 Ranged: Bne s
hard (1d6 +1d6 cold)
 Special Action: ?
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 Ore Golem:
 HP=314/386
 AC= -4
 Immunities: ?
 Attacks: Cleave x2
 Dazing Fist
 Special Attack: ?

Borimer quickly decides to attack death based upon his previous combat with both golems "I may be able to take it down quick enough to make a difference..."

(am I supposed to roll for attacks now or wait...?)

You can roll as though this is the first round of combat.  I will have everyone lifting except Tahldar and Borimer.

Borimer steps forward and starts hacking at the death golem...

FYI, the party was fully healed when the golems were healed, so long as they wanted to be (instead of climbing up onto the shelf where the gem was at and where the healing water did not reach).

Kahan continues lifting as he is currently "immune" to the statues' attacks.

I'm guessing no one figured out their lifting scores.  That's good because it takes out some metagaming.  But since you are trying to lift this round, here is likely what your characters are figuring out.  According to the rules you can lift up to twice your maximum carrying load.  So what's your max carrying load?  I just posted a chart in the Rules thread; it is based on strength.  Here, you have the following lifting abilities:

Borimer 920 lbs
Kahan   300 lbs
Leo     230
Lukas   200
Shae    260
Shap    160
Tahldar 160
Vuzyl   520

So right now (without Borimer and Tahldar), your group is trying to lift 2400 pounds.  But your lifting ability is only 1570 pounds.  You can add another 920 pounds with Borimer and another 160 with Tahldar, so it looks like Borimer needs to be lifting no matter what.  This IS the Test of Strength, right?

Everyone gets in their previous positions except Tahldar and Borimer, who try to distract the statues.  Your backs turned to the statues makes you nervous and a feeling of helplessness overcomes you.

You begin lifting.  Without Tahldar or Borimer lifting in unison, it feels much heavier, but it begins to slow rise...but you can't get the gate any higher than your ankles.  Together, you simply do not have enough strength.

Borimer swings twice and hits the death golem a severe blow (critical hit), which dazes the death golem and he loses his chance to attack this round.

Tahldar casts mirror image, and five more Tahldars appear before you.  The iron golem begins hacking with his giant sword, striking down two of them.

You realize that without Borimer's help, you will be unable to lift this gate.

crunching the numbers shap can step off and Borimer on that gives us 2430lbs (saves everyone else doing the maths)

Yes, with everyone on, you have 250 pounds of freedom, but also see my post above about lifting the gate faster with more power lifting.

As before, it takes 2400 pounds of lifting to move the gate up.  That will take about 18 seconds (3 combat rounds).  For each 200 pounds of lifting power added to that, it will take 6 seconds off of the total.

In the meantime, you are vulnerable to attacks from both the ore and death statues, which are attacking from behind and to the side of you.  Being hit by one will reduce your lifting capacity by half for that round.

Plan accordingly.
By my estimates, Tahldar's mirror images could take the brunt of one round, leaving you only exposed for one round (if you are all lifting).
This message was last edited by the GM at 00:39, Wed 20 Jan 2016.

Tahldar says "Please hurry with that gate!" as he weaves another spell.

OOC: Tahldar will cast a grease spell on the square the iron golem is attacking from in hopes of getting him to slip.

"Borimer, we need your help!" calls out the invisible priest, hoping that Tahldar's magic can help them survive.

Glancing over his shoulder Vuzyl says "I Don't like this, Maybe we should kill these two before we get out of here