Kraw unstoppers his own antitoxin and downs it, happy that he was prepared for this.

Kyra drinks a vial of antitoxin as well before proceeding. She really wishes she took more than vial with her before they came here. "Oh, well..."

Ayeesha as well, leading the way down.

Descending down the stairs the party finds a large room is supported by four wide pillars of stone. The ceiling above arches in a dome nearly twenty feet high. The walls are lined with skeletons caked into the mud, human bones mostly, but here and there smaller bones might be from halfings, or perhaps children. Fifteen-foot-square pits sit to the east and west, each filled with a large heap of hundreds of bones. To the south, a crude hole has been gouged into the wall, providing access to a tunnel.

In the dim light Figus spies a large set of bones that seem oddly organized in the eastern pit while in the western one Kyra spies six human skeletons that seem too perfectly arranged although they do lie motionless.

"If these things animate, we will need blunt weapons to destroy them. I got a mace for such cases, but saps will not do much. Kyra, Kraw, how are you set for that?"

As Figus is talking he draws a mace and a potion of Mage Armor to feed to his dog.

Ayeesha patted her mornign star. "Not the same as the greatsword, but it'll work in a pinch."

Kraw says "any heavy bones around that'll act as a club?"

"Bashing things in melee is not my forte, but I have something else that will work if needed." Kyra takes out a flask of holy water from a pouch. And just in case, she armors herself with a spell before continuing.

Mage Armor up.

Kraw turns back to look for something that will make a serviceable club. Minutes later he comes back with a stout tree branch, picking off side branches as he moves forward. He says "the heavy winds last night left a few branches like this topside. I'm ready to move forward."

Going back down the stairs they see the suspicious skeletons are still in their respective piles.

OOC: We'll keep your positions on the map the same and consider this your surprise round. You can make a single standard action at this point and then we'll enter initiative turn order.

FYI Turn order will be:

Kraw: 14
Kyra: 13
Figus: 11
Ayeesha: 4

You can also use this time to adjust your turn order if you'd so desire

"Some acid, anyone?" Kyra offers flasks of acid to anyone that wishes to take one. Once they are ready and in position she will anoint her magical deck with a holy balm before throwing a flask of holy water where it could do the most damage.

Got 4 flasks of acid if someone wishes one. Best target for Kyra is skeleton at J8 (or J7) to maximize splash damage. That big one on the other side looks like a problem though.

Figus readies a club and his light mace and waits to see if the skeletons animate saving his actions for that moment.

"No thanks, I'm trying to quit," she smirked at Kyra while pulling out her morning star.

"Dibs on the big one," she continued as she moved off towards the larger skeleton, weapon drawn. She was unable to charge it and make sure the bones weren't, erm, attached. So instead she took up position between the big skeleton and her friends.

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Sorry I've been slow, should be better now.

Move to I16 with morning star drawn I guess I'll roll an attack of opportunity if needed.

15:57, Today: Ayeesha rolled 16 using 1d20+5 with rolls of 11.  power attack of opportunity.
15:58, Today: Ayeesha rolled 10 using 1d8+7 with rolls of 3.  damage +4 strength, +3 2 handed power attack.

Kraw moves to L15 and readies his club. He then looks around in case the skeletons were bait for a different sort of trap.


15:14, Today: Kraw rolled 20 using 1d20+10 with rolls of 10.  Perception .
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Round 0
Kraw moves into position. He doesn't spy any other traps in this area.

Kyra lobs her holy water and makes a direct hit in the middle of the skeleton pile. The holy water sizzles and burns and the bone it splashes on starts crumbling to dust. The skeletons start scrambling up, grabbing broken blades and armor but two of them don't seem to be able to stand before crumbling.

Ayeesha gets into position to block the large skeleton.
Round 1

The skeletons scramble out, one rushing towards Kraw while the other moves towards Kyra and Figus.

Kraw swings at the skeleton with the barely-familiar weapon.


19:29, Today: Kraw rolled 11 using 1d20+6 with rolls of 5.  Club attack.

19:29, Today: Kraw rolled 4 using 1d6+1 with rolls of 3.  Club damage.

Figus swings with him mace at the skeleton near him, but the attack is weak and unbalanced, and hits at a bad angle. Figus was also not happy that Kraw was out there by himself and coudl be easily surrounded by the undead.

"Alpha, pull it down!" and the faithful wolf moved forward to trip the skeleton on Kraw.

22:30, Today: Figus Dva rolled 20 using 1d20+2 with rolls of 18.  CMB Trip sk4.
22:29, Today: Figus Dva rolled 26 using 1d20+7 with rolls of 19.  Handle Animal Maneuver (Trip) sk4.
22:27, Today: Figus Dva rolled 8 using 1d20+6 with rolls of 2.  Attack sk2.

Kyra backs away from the undead, her hand drawing a card from her magical deck. With a swish the card sails to strike at the skeleton in front of her.

5' step back to E13, throwing a card at skely 2. Assuming a hit (bah, minimal damage), there's a DC 10 reflex check to avoid another 1d4 holy damage next round.
09:19, Today: Kyra rolled 20,5,2 using 1d20+7,1d4+2,2d4 with rolls of 13,3,1,1.  Point blank shot (Attack, damage, holy damage).

OOC: OK following Figus' advice, I rolled a second attack. I'll let you decide whether my last AoO happened or not (I'm guessing not) and whether you want to use this new roll when she moves in and attacks wherever the big skellie ends up.

14:54, Today: Ayeesha rolled 16 using 1d20+5 with rolls of 11.  power attack big skellie.
14:54, Today: Ayeesha rolled 14 using 1d8+7 with rolls of 7.  morningstar damage.

Round 1 cont.

Kraw swings his club and hits the skeleton but doesn't appear to do any damage although with a animated skeleton it's hard to get a gauge on its condition.

Kyra flings a card and while the card doesn't seem to do any damage the burst of holy energy causes a giant portion of its chest and skull to crumble into dust and the rest collapses shortly afterwards.

Another skeleton moves up from the pit advancing on Figus only to get jumped on by Alpha and torn apart as the wolf shakes the rib cage lose of the necromantic magic.

Skeleton #6 advances up and moves towards Kraw.

The big skeleton ignores the stairs and just paws its way up the side of the pit. Ayeesha grips her morningstar with both hands and smashes it down but while she takes a chunk off of it the giant skeleton doesn't seem hampered by the strike.

With a giant swipe of its claws it opens up a pair of lacerations across her cheek, just barely missing taking out an eye.
OOC: Ayeesha takes 7 slashing damage from the claw attack

Ayeesha continues to pound down on the thing with her morningstar but the thick bones just aren't cracking and splitting.

Round 2
A skeleton brings down it jagged blade at Kraw but a quick parry with the club blocks the strike.

Figus uses the pillar as cover to close with the Big Skeleton and wacks it with his mace


23:11, Today: Figus Dva rolled 4 using 1d6+3 with rolls of 1.  Damage.
23:11, Today: Figus Dva rolled 19 using 1d20+6 with rolls of 13.  Attack.

Kyram moves closer to the melee to get a good shot before throwing another card of hers. But this time the card just passes through the skeleton without connecting.

Move to I14, attacking Skely 6. Missed.
08:33, Today: Kyra rolled 13,6,3 using 1d20+7,1d4+2,2d4 with rolls of 6,4,1,2.  Point blank shot (Attack, damage, holy damage).

Kraw, unused to toe-to-toe fighting, keeps the pillar partially between himself and skeleton #6, granting them both partial cover from the other. With a vocalized "a little help here?" he strikes again with his club against skeleton #4.

00:18, Today: Kraw rolled 11 using 1d20+6 with rolls of 5.  Club attack.

00:18, Today: Kraw rolled 7 using 1d6+1 with rolls of 6.  Club damage.

Round 2 cont.
Kraw engages with the skeleton but doesn't find a good opportunity for a critical strike.

Kyra approaches a skeleton from behind but her card sails over the shoulder of the undead creature.

Figus steps up and cracks his mace down on the big skeletal beast. While it is hard to gauge damage on undead he did take off a chunk of its shoulder blade.

A skeleton takes a sweep at Kraw but he throws up his club in time to intercept. The big skeleton finishes climbing out of the pit and slashes out with its claws landing hits on both Figus and Ayeesha.

OOC: Figus takes 10 damage, Ayeesha takes 7

Ayeesha responds by slamming her morningstar down on the creatures back. It shudders and then starts to fall apart, crumbling to dust.

Round 3

A skeleton strikes at Kraw with its broken blade but Kraw ducks and the skeleton lodges its blade into a crack in the pillar behind Kraw, catching the blade and leaving it momentarily defenseless.



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OOC: Shit, sorry I missed last round! Will try to catch up.

Ayeesha, wounded again, watched her opponent crumble to dust for only a second, then whirled, ducked to the North of the pillar and moved to flank one of the remaining skeletons.

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Move to J13, moving North around the pillar to her left.
17:07, Today: Ayeesha rolled 21 using 1d20+7 with rolls of 14.  bonk skeleton with morning star.
17:07, Today: Ayeesha rolled 11 using 1d8+4 with rolls of 7.  damage.