The old faithful bow was then swapped out for the two swords.

Which way did this door open? Are we able to close it from this side if we need to?

Falling to the ground and the world flashing bright, Ronalt tries to scream but no sound comes out.

His face is red and he begins yelling something incomprehensible.

Yay! Stability at last! :D

The cleric rolled his eyes and tried again. He pointed individually and specifically at everyone except Ronalt, but including himself, then motioned towards the south. His hand then covered his mouth before rapidly moving away from it, then repeated the finger and thumb opening and closing motion he did before.

Meanwhile the surviving bugbears gathered around Ronalt as instructed, the second priest remaining where he was with his back to the door.

Battle of Imridy Meadows twenty years ago
Thromel disappeared ten years ago, possibly at the site of the battlefield.

I'm more used to the D&D third edition Greyhawk setting where history has moved on to 591 CY.

"Murder? Hardly! If they had not attacked us first they would still be among the living," Yew responded emphatically.

I assume the door that has been closed is the last one we had to open before the fight?

The silence is deafening....

You know, because, well, "silence" spells recently cast over that area.

:D

I'm struggling a bit to keep up with what's happened in the game because of the space between 'moves' - often between a fortnight and a month. Hence me being caught out a few times with losing track of what's happened and my posts not making sense. Not a gripe, just I'm finding it hard to make a contribution to the game without reading back a couple of pages.

I can't find an in-character post that says who has the amulet but I might just be missing something obvious. I know Yew hasn't got it as it isn't listed on his character sheet.

Must be time to rely on....charisma then. :p

"Plan is," Sven replied, "Ivianna here and myself have one pole over each shoulder. We tie the candelabras to both poles in a vee shape, makes things nice and even."

Unless noted otherwise, corridors are of dressed stone blocks or worked from the natural limestone (or granite, in the lower depths). Walls and floors are smooth and polished wherever possible. The 10' wide corridors have gothic arches, peaking at about 17' height. The 20' and 30' passages and spaces have roman arches, about 30' tall. Unless otherwise described, doors are of oak, hornwood, or bronzewood. Each is about three inches thick, bound with bronze, and set with a large ring on each side. Cressets and sconces are along the walls, and unlit torches rest in most of the latter. In 10' wide corridors, sconces are at 10' intervals. Cressets in wider passages are at 30' intervals. Both are staggered left, right, left, right (etc. ), and unlit unless specified.

Strength is increased sufficiently to allow bearing normal armour and weapons, but does not add to combat.

Taunt the troll....

Not exactly the best of ideas is it? :p

My character is still sitting on the floor going 'ow', and being ignored :)

Or the werewolf lair

Tindo appears to scratch her backside for a moment and then hands a bottle to Gwythe.
"Drink this. It should help."

Oooooo yes! Drink it! What could possibly be bad about something she puled out of her ass!?

...a 10' pit.

Ronalt will stand watch.
Ronalt does his best to hide the groups passage. Wipe up blood trails etc.
Ronalt constructs a crude barricade with the rotted furniture.

Of course it might just be that the entire rest period goes completely without incident too...

"I believe we should leave now," he calmly suggests.

Each of the six bugbears is wearing some kind of uniform. Although their leather armour is somewhat rough and ready and apparently scavenged from numerous sources, time has been taken to dye it all black. The same golden eye of fire first seen in the moat house is painted on their backs.

STORAGE AREA (triangular room with the secret door)
This oddly shaped chamber is lined with shelves which still contain many empty containers; here are bottles, flasks, alembics, retorts, and other such paraphernalia typical to an alchemist's or wizard's laboratory. On the floor are more mundane items — a large box of chalk, sacks of charcoal, jugs of turpentine and fuel oil, candles of various colours, etc. Sufficient material seems herein to stock a small shop and supply a magic-user or two as well.
Nothing here is of high value, but the room contains nearly any commonplace item akin to those listed.

ALCHEMY WORKROOM (round room)
The merest glance herein reveals the past purpose of this circular room a place for alchemical experimentation. The walls and floor are covered with graven symbols, glyphs indicating the elements, metals, and other stuff of alchemy. Benches and work tables line the walls; upon them are flasks, retorts, crucibles, et al. Three braziers, each of a different size, are aligned in the middle of the room, piled with plates and dishes which hold heaps of strange powders, granules, and crystals. Beakers and flasks here and there are filled with odd substances.
Careful inspection reveals metal in powder and chunk form, including 10-40 coins weight of each coin type (platinum, gold, electrum, silver, and copper), but no actual coins. A small pottery flask weighs over ten pounds; it contains 100 gp weight of quicksilver (mercury). To describe other items and materials found, refer to the DMG, pages 218 (the table for magic-user furnishings) and 221-222 Appendix K, for specific substance descriptions).

LABORATORY (where the Roper laired) ...Sheets of vellum and parchment still lie upon the shelf, accompanied on an upper ledge by quills of many sorts, small pots with oddly carved stoppers, and candlesticks....

This inner chamber is obviously an abandoned laboratory for magical research and experimentation. Four long benches in this 80' x 20' area are filled with paraphernalia of all kinds. A flowing fountain of water is in the southwest corner, but almost all of the rest of the wall is taken up by shelves supporting all sorts of containers — bottles, jars, boxes, baskets, jugs, flasks, vials, etc., of all shapes and sizes. These hold magical ingredients of virtually every imaginable sort, from rare herbs and spices to monster parts and fluids. Included are ape teeth, basilisk scales, cockatrice feathers, elephant hide, fox dung, gorgon tongue, hydra blood, and other materials, of all sorts of colours and consistencies. Cupboards sometimes replace open shelves.
Many open bins are also built into the shelves; these contain different sorts of earth, seeds, bits of fur, dried leaves of various sorts, flower petals, bark chips, and metals of various forms and types including rods, wire, small ingots, thin strips, chunks, filings, and powder of iron, brass, tin, lead, zinc, bronze, steel, and others unknown to you.
The paraphernalia on the benches consists of the following items:

First Bench     Second Bench     Third Bench     Fourth Bench
bellows         balance          basins          alembics
bottles         bowls            beakers         cauldron
cannisters      knife            caddy           cruets
crucible        mirror           dishes          decanter
file            mortar           jars            jars
flasks          pans             jug             lenses
funnel          pestle           kettle          mixing rods
furnace         phials           pipette         needles
ladle           sandglass        prisms          paddle
metal ingots    tongs            spatula         scalpel
retorts         vials            spirit lamp     spoons
tweezers        weights          tubes           tubing

...tripods, quadrapods, lamps, plumb lines, dividers, candles of different sizes, shapes, and colours, chalk of all sorts, paints of many hues, and metal devices— small distillers, melting pots, etc.
...a long table heaped with many lengths of plain linen. A magical circle is drawn around the table on the floor. On the shelves are many body parts and monsters' organs, each preserved in some solution in a jar or tank. Here are also scalpels, knives, saws, needles, and thread. Several books and scrolls lie on one of the shelves.

MUSEUM ROOM (where the Lurker Above was found)
This 30' square room contains many exhibits of grim sort, hung on the walls or displayed in glass cases. Here are heads of all sorts, a few skulls, withered and bony hands, flayed skins, banners of many types, several plain crowns for wear atop helm or helmet, holy symbols of Good deities, surcoats, jupons, tabards bearing arms and shields with like decorations, and small items such as rings, seals, and sigils. One case bears several maces and similar items, though these are obviously ceremonial and not meant for use as weapons. Cabinets in the centre of the room are smashed and broken; many bones litter the floor.

The large cupboard against the north wall contains dirty pewterware which turns out is actually 15 items of silver. The bottled herbs are identified as 18 sprigs of wolfsbane. The cupboard cabinet holds a two silver daggers. The two bottles contain cheap wine, barely drinkable and nearly vinegar.

The pair of rust-red cloaks hanging on pegs by the door don't appear to have any great value, although they are the same shade as the bugbear capes and the garnet in the mans amulet. The pile in the corner contains various odds and ends of adventuring gear (but no food or water), plus the following:
2 bows, short
4 crossbows, light
3 crossbow bolt cases (empty), 2 score capacity each
42 crossbow bolts, light
4 daggers
2 holy symbols, silvered, Fharlanghn, and Phaulkon
1 morning star
1 quiver (empty), score capacity each
2 spears (6', & 8' long)
1 sword, long
1 sword, short

Kalador returned the leer.

You two really do make a great couple.....
;-)

Tindo continues to stare off into the middle distance, oblivious to the world around her, savoring the mysterious reverie that, in elves, takes the place of sleep.

If only that were an option. The sword hasn't flamed since it's previous owner held it, and nobody knows how to make it flare up again.
Also, the only light source in operation at the moment that I'm aware of is the chair leg and a handful of (non-flaming) magical weapons. Ronalt's lantern has been used in the past, but in the interests of saving fuel, and the fact that the chair leg has a pretty big radius of illumination already (60 foot radius a bright as daylight), keeping it going would have been pointless.
Somebody is going to have to use a flint and steel (shame nobody picked up Fire building as a non-weapon proficiency isn't it? Might have been able to get a flame going quicker than a couple of rounds...)

If he was quickest, Yew took the lantern from Tindo and rushed forward to hurl it at the oil-coated black thing in the passageway.

OOC: Is there anything flammable in the corridor still. Wood for the barricade?
[Private to GM: 6 HP gained from the CMW potion. So Ronalt is on 10 HP?]

Tindo will also attempt to add some fuel to the fire.

Tindo backs up, unsure of what to do.

*Cough* message #319 above *cough*

Things he would store or use at the chapel included:
 large haunch of smelly meat, a small bag of salt, a leg of salted pork (from giants)
 2x100ft rope, sharp knife, cooking pot, pewter bowl and spoon, drinking horn and axe blade (from giants)
 several empty bottles, jugs of fuel oil, candles of various colours (from storage area)
 candlesticks (from laboratory)
 wire, scalpels, knives, saws, needles, thread, a length of plain linen (inner room at laboratory)
 metal in powder and chunk form (10-40 coins weight of platinum, gold, electrum and silver) (from alchemy workroom)

 And from the werewolves lair upstairs:
  2 bottles of cheap wine (barely drinkable)
  2 silver daggers
  4 crossbows, light
  2 crossbow bolt cases
  40 crossbow bolts, light
  4 daggers
  2 holy symbols, silvered, Fharlanghn, and Phaulkon
  1 morning star
  2 spears (6' & 8' long)
  1 sword, long
  1 sword, short

 He found a suitable wooden frame (probably a bench or display case) from one of the rooms and set it up at the bend in the secret corridor. He lashed the 4 crossbows to it so they were pointed at the secret door then rigged a set of wires from the triggers so they could all be fired in one action by someone on guard at that location watching for intruders coming in through the secret door

oooo, I think somebody's got a fireball up their sleeve or around their neck.....

>:D

Unless noted otherwise, corridors are of dressed stone blocks or worked from the natural limestone (or granite, in the lower depths). Walls and floors are smooth and polished wherever possible. The 10' wide corridors have gothic arches, peaking at about 17' height. The 20' and 30' passages and spaces have roman arches, about 30' tall. Unless otherwise described, doors are of oak, hornwood, or bronzewood. Each is about three inches thick, bound with bronze, and set with a large ring on each side. Cressets and sconces are along the walls, and unlit torches rest in most of the latter. In 10' wide corridors, sconces are at 10' intervals. Cressets in wider passages are at 30' intervals. Both are staggered left, right, left, right (etc.), and unlit unless specified.

It'd work wouldn't it?
>:o

Death’s Door (Necromantic)

Level: 3                 Components: V; S, M
Range: Touch             Casting Time: 5 segments
Duration: 1 hour/level   Saving Throw: None
Area of Effect: One human or demi-human

Explanation/Description: When a cleric employs this spell, he or she touches a human or demi-human who is unconscious and “at death’s door” (-1 to -9 hit points). The spell immediately brings the individual to 0 hit points. While the individual remains unconscious, bleeding and deterioration are stopped for the duration of the death’s door spell. The subject, because of being treated by the spell and now being at 0 hit points, can be brought to consciousness, and have hit points restored, by means of cure light wounds, cure serious wounds, etc., potions such as healing or extra-healing, or clerical or other items which magically restore lost hit points. The material components of the spell are the cleric’s holy/unholy symbol, a bit of white linen, and any form of unguent.

In reply to Iviana (msg # 347):

Anyone else have difficulty following along? Does anyone have any suggestions to make to improve the game?

oooo, I think somebody's got a fireball up their sleeve or around their neck.....

>:D

He thought it best not to mention anything about that strategy possibly providing them some protection if something really big happened, like a fireball unexpectedly detonating out here.

I/my character am struggling with the party strategy. Plodding along safely also doesn't suit my character - he's not really built for fighting.

I'll stick with it, just sometimes struggling with a contribution that makes sense to me in the context of the game.

The slender half-elf rested his halberd with its head downwards and bowed respectfully when he was introduced to the more experienced group of adventurers. His gaze swept around the group, lingering on each for only a moment. When Tindo spoke to him he gave her his full attention.

"I was referred to the Council in Hommlet to learn more about the one called Lareth the Fair. Apparently he was a very bad man, for an elf, and was linked with an evil temple in this area. I need to understand more about him and the evil he was associated with, so that I will know whether I could or should try to do something to address that evil.

"Before I met with the Council in Hommlet I was approached by someone who tried to persuade me that Lareth was a protector of this area and that I should join them. I did not believe him and told the Council of it. Perhaps they were pleased with my honesty. One member of the Council suggested that I should pretend to accept the invitation but I have no skill at such deception. My skills are in stealth and alertness, agility and speed, direct action and swift reaction. The rest of the Council members recommended that I join your group instead because you are investigating the temple. It seemed the wisest course so I have followed their guidance."