Dis tha new thread!

The majority plan of action works for me!

Usopi will go first down the stairs dressed in his robes and circlet.

Osric follows Sir Usopi, Ghost Eye in hand but doing his best to conceal his powerful gleaming blade under his robes.

Was it possible to like... drape a robe and circlet over Gat’s head? It’d suck if he’s exposed to these monster things because he’s not a bipedal humanoid.

Not a problem. He's dressed to the nines.

OOC they wouldn't be interested in him anyway, but theres no way for you lot to know that.

Awesome! (even if we knew that I love the idea of dressing a dog up in the ceremonial robes of an evil religious order. XD )

Phew - that seems to have worked! Looks like they can't get close to us even without sacrifices. Let's hope it holds!

To be fair, it's no stranger than dressing up a she-wolf as an abbess of evil. XD

More seriously, does anyone's PC need that GREATER HEAL from Caith before rest IC?

I'm down 4 hp, but greater is 7 right? Don't know if anybody else is still wounded.

I'm down 2HP, so Greater Healing is probably overkill. Mind you, Brannon only has 8HP at the best of times. He's pretty squishy.

If that's the case, then splitting the MP down finer to cast three LESSER HEALING instead seems wiser to me.

No worries, and I'll sort that out OOC:

1xLesser Heal for Brannon (1MP cost, 2HP restored)

1xLesser heal for Usopi plus 1xPowder Dose (1MP cost, 3HP restored)

If anyone else needs healing up, say so now, or Alphail's currently best candidate for the last healing magic until High Moon as far as Caith knows.

Osric’s all good after your last ministrations thanks

In reply to Osric Grim (msg # 13):

Deise was down one up, but has meditated and recover this (presuming this is ok).

Back to the game and tactics. I recall when many of us were in Ereworn, we were attacked by a magic user from a shifting black veil of darkness. I am wondering whether the shifting darkness in the hall beyond the giant throne is the same?

I am happy to lob in a flash pellet and then have a quick attack on anything that might be lurking in it and waiting for us?
What do folks think.

Happy 2021 btw to all of you.

In reply to Deise (msg # 14):

Happy belated new year to y'all too.

In reply to Sir Turren Uvedale (msg # 15):

Deise feel free to come in with Turren, if you're flash-pelleting, call as you do it, I'll blink.

In reply to Sir Turren Uvedale (msg # 16):

Thanks
If Deise hears or senses anything, he will firmly say NOW, then fling a pellet in the direction of the noise/movement.

The flash pellet is a good plan. :)
Happy 2021 to you all.

Also, my apologies for being slow in posting IC.
Real Life happens, and far too much of it at once for me to deal with all of it in a timely fashion.

Speaking as a player, if I were a powerful cultist of the dark*, I'd be looking to trick and trap any pursuers behind me. This situation looks like a trap to me.

So logically, the good news is that party has got the opposition worried enough to take evasive action. Got the rotters on the run now...

The bad news is figuring out what kind of trap it is before anyone sets it off.

Caith's brain is still loading up extra data processing capacity, please wait...


*Yes, whoever cast that veil of darkness on the hidden door was a powerful user of elemental magic.

In reply to Caith Cernach (msg # 19):

What part is the trap - the side doors or the sealed door. Are you thinking that sealed door is a diversion to nudge folks toward the side doors?
Or is the sealed door the trap and the side door with hidden tunnel the way to go. All dust and no sign of prints near the sealed door. Reckon the cultist took one of the side doors.

Sir Turren's ready for a huddle when everyone else is.

I am inclined to agree with you on the sealed door being a trap, and the side tunnel being the way the likely foe went.

While Caith could think of ways to leave no footprints in dust, or even ways to leave a new concealing layer of dust over existing footprints, she can't argue with a still hermetically sealed door being an unlikely place to look for a fleeing cultist behind.

Otherwise she'd be asking Colm to take a hot blade to the wax right now.

In reply to Caith Cernach (msg # 22):

Damn.
Giles incenerated
Brannon down & unconscious. Badly wounded.
Deise down badly wounded 0HP left

Careful people, this place may be full of traps! xD

RIP Giles. We'll see if Brannon joins you soon!

In reply to Brannon Darrow (msg # 24):

I'm devastated!! Giles!!! "I'll go with you. May as well make myself useful." were the last words he said - and now this?! :(

(And the others - if you don't make it)
This message was last edited by the player at 08:31, Tue 26 Jan 2021.