With Helba's help the group finds a secret door built into a small alcove in the hillside. It leads into a dark straight hallway before reaching another stone wall. The release mechanism is clearly visible and the wall swings open revealing the main vault below the citadel.

This wide, empty stone hallway is oppressive and dark. To the east, the hall ends at three separate open doorways, while six additional corridors branch off to the north and south. A mass of rubble spills out of a clogged archway in the northeastern portion of the room.

OOC: Visible doors are as follows, going in clockwise fashion.

North 1 (N1)
North 2 (N2)
North 3 (N3)
East 1 (E1)
East 2 (E2)
East 3 (E3)
South 2 (S2)
South 1 (S1)

Nezaglomie whispers, "We should start in the north.  Whatever the 'dead things' are, the gobbo implied that they stayed where they were if they weren't bothered.  What we don't want is to start one fight and then have different enemies come up behind us."

Yala nodded. "Lets do it. We can handle the dead things last. Let's do this north passage first, be be careful about the bare they said is up that way." She whispered in reply.

Sularius nods, "I agree with the plan. I can scout ahead of the group first to see if there are any threats and check for traps along the way."

[OOC: Just a reminder if you didn't see it in the other thread Sul, Yala gave you and Yarr the same potion as last time so you both will have a +1 PER, and a +2 on spotting traps and secret doors.]

Nezaglomie bounces on her toes a bit, agitated at the indecision.  She had always been the leader of the popular crowd in school, so she decides to take charge here, as well.  "OK, let's get going," she whispers.  "Sularius, there's enough light reflected into the hallway that you should be able to see at least to the bend without a light source, maybe all the way to the door.  So you and Yarr head up this first path north, listen at the door, which you can do even if you can't see, and Yarr can open the door quietly and look to see what's beyond it.  Then come back and ... let us know what's there."  She manages to stop herself from ordering them to 'come back and report.'

Once the pair heads out, the gnome peers into the weak light, looking for anything unexpected to the east, and then she takes a few steps to look down the first hall to the south.  (Moving to -- hmm no labels -- where Sularius is now.)

Nez looks around but all the doors are shut.

Sularius nods and quietly sneaks down the first hallway to their left, and once he gets to the door, listens intently for any noises on the other side. If he hears nothing, he quietly opens the door.

Sneaking down the first hallway to the North. Stealth: 26
Listening at door. Perception: 14
Opening door if he doesn't hear anything.

10:13, Today: Sularius Alariel rolled 14 using 1d20+7 with rolls of 7.
10:12, Today: Sularius Alariel rolled 26 using 1d20+10 with rolls of 16.  Stealth.

Sularius sneaks up to the first door and hears croaking from behind it. It is too muffled and  difficult to tell how many "frogs" might be croaking. It could be one, it could be several.

Sularius quietly returns to the group, "I hear croaking of some sort from the other side of the door. Frogs or something...maybe giant frogs?"

Yarr thinks for a moment, "Ye want te listen at the other doors to compare before we pick one?"

"We may need to clear the whole thing at some point. What's up with those three there next to one another? Let's take a listen to those." She said, pointing to the one's by the stairs.

OOC: Speeding things along:

Listening to N1 the party hears croaking.
Listening to N2 the party hears a small group of three talking in an unknown language.
Listening to N3 the party hears nothing.

Listening to E1 the party hears nothing.
Listening to E2 the party hears nothing.
Listening to E3 the party hears nothing.

Listening to S1 the party hears nothing.
Listening to S2 the party hears nothing.

"Right, well if we assume the frog things can't open doors, we might want to deal with the second door to the north first, hopefully take them out before they can run for help or let Big Brasher out."

Agreed.  Let's do it.  (If I were playing my big blundering barbarian character, it would already be happening. :-) )

"Shall we surprise them with an alchemist fire? Sul or Yarr opens the door, I toss it at them?" It was kinda scary, but Yalandlara had a devious smile on her face.
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"That's an excellent idea," responds Nezaglomie, "but rather than aiming for them, you should get a fire burning on whatever exit door they might escape through.  We don't want one of them escaping and bringing reinforcements.  How long will your fire burn?  If you just have oil you can throw in there, I can light it, and that would burn for long enough for us to engage them."

"I don't have oil, but I have two bombs. That's what they are, chemical bombs. It's called alchemist's fire. It'll burn for a minute or so. Not sure I would throw one at the exit though, the initial damage might destroy the door and the burning isn't awesome. It may not have the effect you intend." She considered a moment. "Still, if you want to try that route I can give you the other one. You hit the escape route and I hit them."

Za considers her own throwing prowess, "mmm, sure, if you like, but maybe there's someone with better aim than I have.  I, uhh, throw my little balls of fire with magic, not my arm.  I'm, maybe, not the best choice for real throwing."  She stands up to her full 2 feet 10 inches to try to ward off the feelings of physical inadequacy, but it doesn't help.

"All you have to do is hit the area in front of the door to the right." She offered Nez a reassuring smile. "I have faith in you."

Opening the door reveals an antechamber, a waiting room for guests before entering one of the other rooms. Once luxurious seating made from mahogany and velvet has been broken to pieces and used to fashion crude shelters. To the north, a door is heavily barricaded with debris.

Standing in the middle of the room is a frog looking warrior talking to three monkey warriors.



OOC: Due to rpol being slow as molasses I'll roll initiative next round




*Eagle Eyes - +1 Perception, +2 to find traps or secret doors


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Nezaglomie peeks around the corner to see into the room.  "Ugh.  Disgusting," she spits out when she sees the frog creature.  Somewhat belatedly, Za realizes that she is nearly useless standing behind all these bigs in a narrow corridor.  Not wanting to try to weave an alchemists fire nor a ball of flame through the legs of Maerk and Yarr, she uses Telekinetic Projectile to grab a chunk of old furniture that it already in the room and tries to crash it into the frog creature.  However, trying to see through the gloom and through the crowd ahead of her, she has little idea where she is aiming and the shot is wide by a good margin.


Action 1&2:  Telekinetic projectile
12:05, Today: Nezaglomie rolled 7,7 using d20+5,d6+4.  Telekinetic projectile at Froggy.

BTW, you have all our attacks one point too low, since we all gained a point with the level up.  (At least, I did, I assume everybody did.)
Edit:  I see you've corrected that, but you now have me at TK +8.  I'm only +5 with TK, because it uses dexterity rather than spell ability.

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"Damn, more than we thought, change of plans. Za let me have that back." She tosses the first Alchemists fire at the frog man, and the second alchemists fire at the middle monkey man.

[OOC:
Action 1: Toss Alchemist Fire Bomb at Frog Man.
Action 2: Retrieve unused Alchemist Fire from Za.
Action 3: Toss Alchemist Fire Bomb at Middle Monkey Man.

By rules they can get affected by the splash damage only once, and the persistent burn only once.

17:31, Today: Yalandlara Vallindel rolled 18,7 using 1d20+6,1d8+1 with rolls of 12,6.  Alchemist Fire Bomb 1.
Hit: 18
Damage: 7
Splash: 1

17:34, Today: Yalandlara Vallindel rolled 2,3 using 1d20+1,1d8+1 with rolls of 1,2.  Alchemist Fire Bomb 2.

And no one takes any damage from this one because that's a critical miss. lol]

The door opened, danger was revealed, the tall warrior simply reacted by charging headlong toward the frog-like foe! An eerie roaring sound trailed his sudden entry into the chamber, a keening cry of battle! The Ulfen's sword swept downward to strike while his footwork carried him just a bit to the side in order to allow his flashy companion a means to attack as well!


A1-A2: Sudden Charge to [S,19] - Maerk rolled 19 to hit for 10 damage!
A3: Step 5' to [S,20]

Maerk updated HP=32, AC=19(21 w/shield)

When the door opened, Sularius took quick stock of the situation, and seeing only one frog man, decided he would be a good initial target. His first arrow strikes true, while a second whizzes past the creature. Not wanting to waste another arrow, he quickly speaks some arcane words to determine if anyone of the creatures are protected my magical enchantments or wielding magical weapons.

Action 1: Fire arrow at frogman; hit AC: 18 for 9 damage (includes sneak attack)
Action 2: Fire arrow at frogman; miss (hit AC: 9)
Action 3: Cast Detect Magic

17:43, Today: Sularius Alariel rolled 18 using 1d20+8 with rolls of 10.  Shoot frogman.
17:44, Today: Sularius Alariel rolled 9 using 2d6 with rolls of 5,4.  Damage + Sneak Attack.
17:45, Today: Sularius Alariel rolled 9 using 1d20+3 with rolls of 6.  second shot.

Yarr strides up to the frog man and feints with his blade...

But the true feint was that what the frog man thought was a feint was actually a real attack!

"Ha-ha! En garde!"

A1: Move to S19
A2: Feint 19 (gaining panache if successful)
A3: Strike 18 (vs 2 less AC if feint succeeded) for 7 damage (10 if feint succeeded)
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Nez causes the room furniture to whirl around but the frog man ducks to avoid it.

Yala chucks in a pair of firebombs. The first hits dead on but the second ends up being a dud.

Maerk charges forward, hitting the frog man with a heavy strike before slipping to the side.

Sularius fires off a pair of arrows, sinking one of them.

Yarr charges up behind Maerk, juking to the right before striking from the left catching the frog man off guard.

Arnellia finds herself too far back in the hallway to even see the enemies but she remains waiting as back up in case her talents are needed.

The series of sudden attacks has left the frog man heavily wounded but it manages to bring its club to bear. First the frog's gullet expands and it lets loose a horrifying croak that reverberates off the stone and seems absolutely horrifying in sound, like a cry from the depths of hell.

OOC: Everyone must make a DC 18 will save or become Frightened 1.


The frog then turns to smash Maerk with its club but Maerk deflects it with his shield sending the force of the blow sliding off to the side. Undeterred it swings again and this time Maerk sidesteps the attack.
A1: Terrifying Croak (auditory, emotion, fear, mental)
A2: Attack Maerk - miss
A3: Attack Maerk - miss


Meanwhile behind the frog the monkey warriors are grabbing everything not tied down and flinging it rapidly at Yarr and Maerk. It is a veritable avalanche as it turns out the monkey's brahcial adaptations of flexible wrists and long strong arms creates a perfect throwing mechanism.

While their armor takes the brunt and they do their best to dodge the incoming debris both Maerk and Yarr end up taking some solid hits from pieces of furniture and stone.

OOC:
All monkeys use 3 actions to fling debris
Maerk takes 8 bludgeoning and Yarr takes 4 bludgeoning from the thrown debris


*Eagle Eyes - +1 Perception, +2 to find traps or secret doors
*Frightened 1 - take a -1 to all checks and DCs. Goes away at end of turn.

"Ye'll be croakin' in another way in a mo', ya gurgle gargling goose groper!" Yarr quips as he so totally resists the fear effect he isn't even aware it was supposed to be intimidating.

He jabs at it, striking home before wheeling around it and going after monkey #3, slashing it across the ribs as he spins around to his new position with the grace of a dancer.

Save vs Croak: Nat 20 for 25 total.
A1: Attack Frog, 27 to hit, 6 damage.
A2: If frog dies, Stride to Q20. If frog survives, Tumble Through to Q19 with rolls of 26 to set up possible flank on it for Maerk.
A3: Confident Finisher on Monkey #3, 20 to hit, 14 damage.

Note: Tumble Through was +1 higher than it normally would be due to the effects of panache.

The frog's gullet quivers and it drops to the ground. The monkey men begin to hoot and holler in their strange foreign language.

With the frogman dead Yalandlara quickly moves past Yarr and Maerk to slash at the first of the Monkeymen!

[ooc: 18:33, Today: Yalandlara Vallindel rolled 22 using 1d20+5 with rolls of 17.  Will save.

Action 1: 30' Stride to Q20.
Action 2: Slash at Monkeyman in P20.
Action 3: Same at Action 2.

18:34, Today: Yalandlara Vallindel rolled 4,7 using 1d20+2,1d8+1 with rolls of 2,6.  Elven Curved Blade Attack 1.

18:34, Today: Yalandlara Vallindel rolled 4,7 using 1d20-3,1d8+2 with rolls of 7,5.  Elven Curved Blade Attack 2.

What are the odds of that??!]

Nezaglomie hears the frog's croak and laughs at the feeble attempt to scare her; she feels the magic wash over her, and just lets it flow past.  Moving up beside the goblin pirate, she casts Telekinetic Projectile once again, this time picking up a chunk of an old table at letting it fly into the head of the first monkey.

16:27, Today: Nezaglomie rolled 27 using 1d20+8.  will save
19:57, Today: Nezaglomie rolled 16,6 using d20+8,d6+4.  TK attack Monkey Man #1.

A1:  Move to S20
A2&3: TK attack on Monkey Man #1.

The noise was utterly terrifying. A man of battle, Maerk was no stranger to fearful things, but this sound was something new to the big man... up until it turned into a gurgle from Yarr's well-placed attack! Still a bit unnerved, Maerk stepped forward and swung his blade, narrowly missing one of the monkey-creatures. He raised his shield, making ready for another onslaught, but his feet were set to react should there be an opportunity.

Will Save: Maerk rolled 16 - Fail!
A1: Step to [Q,19]
A2: Attack Monkey-man (-1 Frightened) - Maerk rolled 17 = Miss!
A3: Raise Shield (AC21, Sets up Reactions)

Sularius completely ignores the loud croak from the frogman. When the creature drops he moves up to get a clear shot at the monkeymen, but fails to connect with either of his two shots.


Will Save: 24 vs DC 18
Action 1: Stride to V19
Action 2: Fire bow and miss
Action 3: Fire bow and miss

17:39, Today: Sularius Alariel rolled 24 using 1d20+8 with rolls of 16.  Will Save.
17:40, Today: Sularius Alariel rolled 12,10 using 1d20+8,1d20+3 with rolls of 4,7.  Shoot Bow Twice.
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Yarr cuts down the frog man and moves forward, riding the momentum into the first monkey man.

Yala moves forward slashing with her blade but the monkey men hop and duck around avoiding the attacks.


Nez brings brings an old end table down onto the wounded monkey and cracks its skull, dropping it down.

Maerk finds his original path blocked by Yarr and Yala but can move up into the space left by the now dead or unconscious monkey warrior. Put off by the croak his concentration slips for a second and the monkey dodges his attack.

Sularius moves up and fires but misses.

Arnellia steps up and lets loose a beam of divine energy at one of the monkey men and clips it with holy energy.
OOC: MOnkey Man #2 takes 5 pts of good energy.

The first monkey seems to fly into a rage, hooting and hollering as the heroes step up and  flies into a primal rage as it swings out with its hatchet making big sweeping cleaves in wild and chaotic attacks. The whole time it is shrieking and howling in fury.

OOC: Both monkey men trigger a frenzy on their turns and using their hatchets each make 4 attacks.

A1: Attacking Maerk: +8, 1D6+3 = 5 damage. Let me know if you want to take it on the shield.
A2: Attacking Yarr: +4 (+8 -4 multiattack +1 sweep), 1d6+3 = Miss
A3: Attacking Yala: +1 (+8 -8 MA +1 sweep), 1d6+3 = Miss (just barely!)
A4: Attacking Maerk: +1 (+8 -8 MA +1 sweep), 1d6+3 = Miss

The other monkey steps back and grabs more debris, flinging it with wild abandon.


A1: Step to N19
A2: Fling Debris @ Yala: Miss
A3: Fling Debris @ Nez: Miss



*Eagle Eyes - +1 Perception, +2 to find traps or secret doors
*Frightened 1 - take a -1 to all checks and DCs. Goes away at end of turn.

Nezaglomie sees one of the monkey men trying to get away, probably to call in reinforcements before the team is ready for them.  "Oh, no you don't." she breathes as she casts Tanglefoot on the creature.

09:40, Today: Nezaglomie rolled 11 using 1d20+8 with rolls of 3.  Tanglefoot on escaping monkey
Hmm.  Not that great a roll, but I believe that it ignores armor, so maybe it is still enough.

A1&2:  Cast Tanglefoot
A3:  Regret that I didn't aim better.

Yarr flips through and plants a keen blow into the side of the furthest monkey.

A1: Tumble Through closest monkey 16
A2: If that Failed try again, if it succeeded Tumble Through to other side of furthest monkey to block door. 20
A3: confident finisher on furthest monkey, 22 to hit, 14 damage.
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Arnellia works her way closer before calling on the light of the Aurora.

---

12:19, Today: Arnellia rolled 21 using 1d20+7 with rolls of 14.  Divine Lance (Good).
2:22, Today: Arnellia rolled 8 using 1d4+4 with rolls of 4. Damage.

A1:  Move to R20
A2-3:  Divine Lance on the furthest one if it is still standing, or on the nearer one if it is not.

Yala swings her large blade several times at the monkeyman before her!

[OOC: Action 1: Strike Monkeyman in P19
Action 2: Strike Monkeyman in P19
Action 3: Strike Monkeyman in P19

12:52, Today: Yalandlara Vallindel rolled 18,8 using 1d20+2,1d8+1 with rolls of 16,7.  Elven Curved Blade Attack 1.
Hit: 18
Damage: 8

12:52, Today: Yalandlara Vallindel rolled -2,10 using 1d20-3,1d8+2 with rolls of 1,8.  Elven Curved Blade Attack 2.
Hit: Nope. Never.
Damage: Yeah Right.

12:52, Today: Yalandlara Vallindel rolled 7,5 using 1d20-8,1d8+3 with rolls of 15,2.  Elven Curved Blade Attack 3.
Hit: 7
Damage: 5]

Sularius fires two more arrows at the monkeyman in back, striking true with one of them.

Action 1: Shoot Monkeyman at N19; Hit for 4 damage
Action 2: Shoot Monkeyman at N19; miss

16:53, Today: Sularius Alariel rolled 4 using 1d6 with rolls of 4.  Damage.
16:01, Today: Sularius Alariel rolled 22,9 using 1d20+8,1d20+3 with rolls of 14,6.  Shoot Bow Twice.

Nez has her regrest as she fires off a tanglefoot spell but the monkey man target dodges out of the way.

Yarr tries to tumble through the monkey man but is blocked. He tries again and this time succeeds rolling under it as it hops and finishing with a stab that kills the monkey man behind them.


Arnellia steps up and blasts a monkey man with a blast of divine energy and Yala cuts it down with her blade.

Just as the party begins to relax with the death of the last enemy the side door opens up revealing another group of cultists, three more frog men, appear in the doorway.

The first one swings his club twice at Yala, connecting once and nearly sending her flying to the side with the force of the swing.
OOC: Yala takes 11 damage from the attack
Frog Man #1 (Q18) - A1: Move A2: Attack - Hit! A3: Attack - Miss

The frog men behind the leader both let out terrifying croaks hoping to disorient before throwing javelins. Both Maerk and Arnellia end up taking two javelins each.
OOC: Everyone must make 2 will saves vs. DC 18 will save or be frightened 1
Frog Man #2 (Q16) - A1: Croak A2: Throw Jav @ Maerk - Miss A3: Throw Jav @ Maerk - hit Maerk takes 6 damage</orang>
<orange> Frog Man #3 (Q15) - A1: Croak A2: Throw Jav @ Arnel - Miss A3: Throw Jav @ Arnel - Miss


*Eagle Eyes - +1 Perception, +2 to find traps or secret doors
*Frightened 1 - take a -1 to all checks and DCs. Goes away at end of turn.


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"Yup, nope not happening. We got three of those frog guys!" Yalandlara quickly gets out of the doorway and moves over between Yarr and Maerk and works on their wounds! "You two go beat their asses!"

[OOC: Action 1: Stride to O20
Action 2: Battle Medicine on Maerk.
Action 3: Battle Medicine on Yarr.

Note: Given Yala keeps her healing tools in her bandoleer as per the rules their pulling out are considered part of the action that they are being used in.

18:33, Today: Yalandlara Vallindel rolled 10,17 using 1d20+7,2d8+10 with rolls of 3,6,1.  Battle Medicine Maerk.

18:34, Today: Yalandlara Vallindel rolled 12,13 using 1d20+7,2d8+10 with rolls of 5,2,1.  Battle Medicine Yarr.

18:39, Today: Yalandlara Vallindel rolled 16,19 using 1d20+5,1d20+5 with rolls of 11,14.  Will save, DC 18.

And I'm Frightened 1.

I hate this freaking god damn die roller. Well at least the shitty rolls make sense.]

Nezaglomie sees the door burst open and hears the shrieks of the frogmen.  The first washes over her much like the earlier shout -- she recognizes the inherent spell and just lets it flow past her as she holds her breath briefly.  However, just as she starts to inhale, a second shout hits her and she realizes that she was overconfident.  Acting now in fear, she reaches for her old standby, Produce Flame, forming a ball of fire in her palm and hurling it at the first frog, but hitting the ceiling instead.  I guess he wasn't as tall as my fears made him out to be.

11:13, Today: Nezaglomie rolled 21,15 using d20+8,d20+8.  will save x2.
11:15, Today: Nezaglomie rolled 13,6 using d20+8,d4+4.  Produce Flame.

A1&2: Produce flame.

As the door crashes open, Yarr whips around and his vision is suddenly filled with a larger figure rushing at him with medical tools.

"AH!" he lets out a short, girlish yelp, raises his shield, and leaps reflexively to the side.

His combat instincts partially take over, sending him spiralling through the air through the door and to the other side of the front most frog man. His flight through the air is a work of art in its purest form. Time almost seems to slow, and his journey has more twists and turns than an epic novel. The goddess of beauty herself glances and observes that it is quite fantastic before having better things to look at. The tumbling releases enough artistic energy into the world that three random artists in a slump break out of it and aren't sure why. Such is the accidental beauty of this Tumble Through and the tragedy that it will go mostly forgotten.

His sword comes down on the awestruck froggyman, dealing a telling blow. It is then that Yarr finally registers that the rushing figure was his ally and where he has jumped and done. Naturally he plays it off as on purpose and pretends he didn't scream like a girl.

Failed both saves, the second critcal failed.
A1: Raise Buckler
A2: Tumble Through to R17 to set up flank. Nat 20, 31 total.
A3: Confident Finisher on the frogman in the doorway. 26 to hit, 13 damage.

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From Msg#34, Yes, Maerk will take it on the shield, Steel Shield hardness is 5, so negates the damage.

The tall warrior deflect a serious threat with his shield, hearing the steel ring out and feeling the shock in his meaty forearm, but saving himself a wince for the shield took the damage well.

He then felt his stomach lurch as a side-door opened and that horrific sound poured forth from beyond!

Maerk rolled 21,22 using d20+5,d20+5 with rolls of 16,17.  Will Saves vs Fear.

But this time it only fueled the warrior! He barreled toward the door, edging past Yalandldara and smashing directly into the frogman in the doorway!

A1-A2: Sudden Charge - Shield Boss - Grapple/Athletics to Shove as my attack. Maerk rolled 19 - Intent is to push the Frogman currently at [Q,18] back to at least [Q,17] to unblock the doorway. Shield Boss damage if unsuccessful at the attempt to move enemy = Maerk rolled 8
A3: Raise Shield (AC21, Sets up Reactions)

Round 4
Yala gets the heck out of the way of the battle toads and tries to patch up Yarr and Maerk but things are moving too fast.

Nez goes to fling her flames but clips the ceiling.

Yar tumbles like a bouncy goblin through the doorframe and stabs the battle toad with his sword.

Maerk bashes his way into the Frog Man and sets himself up as a first line of defense.

Sularius moves up and stabs the battle toad twice, finishing it off.
OOC: Sularius ends up doing at least 13 damage...I forgot a sneak attack die but that was more than enough to finish it off

Arnellia steps over and shoots a froggy with a divine lance of holy energy.
OOC: Arnellia does 4 damage to #2

The two frogs draw their clubs stepping forward to flank poor Yarr the bouncing goblin.
(Frog #2 (P17) A1: Draw Club A2: Move A3: Strike - Hit for 12 damage
Frog #3 (R17) A1: Draw Club A2: Stride A3: Strike - Crit! 20 Damage!



As one frog catches Yarr in the side the other is able to bring its club straight down on the poor goblin's head knocking him unconscious!


*Eagle Eyes - +1 Perception, +2 to find traps or secret doors
*Frightened 1 - take a -1 to all checks and DCs. Goes away at end of turn.


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With Maersk holding the doorway, Sularius decides it might be a good idea to flank the frogmen. He starts running back the way they came, and then up the hallway to the other door that leads into the room.

Using all actions to stride to T16, or as close as I can get to there.

Nezaglomie shifts slightly to get a better view of the action, and she gasps to see that Yarr has gone down.  He may be a goblin, but he's still a team member.  I hope he is OK.  With the power of her mind, she grabs a stone from the rubble behind the frog man and crashes it into him with a solid hit to the midsection.

17:56, Today: Nezaglomie rolled 22,9 using d20+8,d6+4
A1:  Move to R20
A2&3:  Telekentic Projectile into the Frog Man in P17

"Maerk I'm about to do something stupid, so watch my back!" She said as she ran past him through the door, stopping behind the Frog Man to the right and slashing him. She then begins to tend to Yarr.

[OOC: Action 1: Stride to P16. (Thank god AoO's are rare now.)
Action 2: Slash Frog Man at P17.
Action 3: Spend my 1/day Medic Use of Battle Medicine on Yarr.

19:33, Today: Yalandlara Vallindel rolled 15,4 using 1d20+2,1d8+1 with rolls of 13,3.  Elven Curved Blade Attack.
Hit: 15
Damage: 4

19:34, Today: Yalandlara Vallindel rolled 25,18 using 1d20+7,2d8+10 with rolls of 18,4,4.  Battle Medicine Yarr.
18 HP Back Yarr!

Yeah baby!!!]

Chagrined at her reaction to the appearance of the Frogmen, Arnellia struggles to catch up as Yala dodges in to help the goblin.

With a brief grimace and a shake of her head, she bows her head for a moment.  Murmuring quietly she raises her hand beseechingly and a soft white light pulses around her as she casts Heal.

---

A1,A2,A3:  Divine Font - Healing.  30 foot radius
22:20, Today: Arnellia rolled 15 using 1d8+8 with rolls of 7.  Divine Font.

Maerk grunted in response to Yala's warning. He stepped right behind her to dissuade any attempts from the froggy creatures to jab her in the back. With a backhanded swing, he attempted to sever something important from one of the amphibious foes!

A1: Stride 15' to Q,16
A2: Stab frogman at P,17 (if he's not already... croaked ;-) otherwise R,17 - Maerk rolled 29 to Crit for 22 (11x2) damage!
A3: Raise Shield

The goblin wakes up, but his hat has fallen from his head. The goblin looks confused, and sees his remaining wounds patched up. Figuring out that he must have just nearly died.

"Ah? AHHHH!"

He lunges at the froggy man in R17 in a seeming panic from his demeanor but his arm moves with the usual grace as if pure muscle memory was in control of his body. Similar to how he had reflexively jumped and struck at a foe. Though the frog man seems to see through all the chaotic, but disciplined feints it's still struck by the attack.

"Get away from me, monster! Get away!" he says in a very different voice, the one he had previously when he had taken his hat off in town.

A1: Stand
A2: Feint 10
A3: Attack (presuming that failed) 25 to hit, 6 damage.

12:01, Today: Yarr the Hearty rolled 6 using 1d6+2 with rolls of 4.
12:01, Today: Yarr the Hearty rolled 25 using 1d20+8 with rolls of 17.
11:59, Today: Yarr the Hearty rolled 9 using 1d20+7 with rolls of 2.  Feint, Deception vs Perception DC.

EDITED OUT THE RETRY ON THE FEINT BECAUSE I FORGOT I WAS PRONE WHEN I MADE MY TURN. THIS SHOULD CORRECT THE MISTAKE.
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Round 5
Sularius dashes down the hall, rounding back up to stand in front of the closed door to the frog room.

Nez flings debris at the bruised battle toad.

Yala runs into the room and slashes at a toad before shoving smelling salts into Yarr's face. It wasn't pretty but it got the job done. Yarr's eyes sprang open as a burst of energy surged through Yarr's limbs.

Arnellia lets loose a burst of healing energy further healing the party.

Maerk strides up and drives his sword through the chest of the frog...but the frog somehow stays standing. It grabs onto Maerk's arms, pulling the sword deeper into it and trapping Maerk opening him up for a coup de grace from his froggy companion.

Just then Yarr springs up, cutting the frog's arm and giving Maerk the distraction needed to break free of the frog's grasp and pull his sword free. Without leverage to hold onto the dying frog drops to the ground. Yarr tumbles through the battle toad's legs hoping to land another decisive strike but having seen the maneuver before the frog is prepared and steps aside.
OOC: A1: Strike - Hit A2: Tumble Through A3: Confident Finisher - Miss

The frog is still focused on Maerk killing his partner. Croaking in anger the frog slams its club down over and over at Maerk who expertly dodges and deflects the wild furious attack.
OOC: A1: Strike - Miss A2: Strike - Miss A3: Strike - Miss

From across the way next to where Arnellia had just issued out her heal the door opens up and four more of the monkey warriors poke their heads out curiously before raising their weapons and roaring to attack. Arenllia is caught by surprise, taking a hatchet to the shoulder and two thrown pieces of chair to the head in a rapid attack.

OOC:
Monkey Man #4- A1: Move A2: Grab Debris A3: Throw - Hit - Arnellia takes 9 damage
Monkey Man #5- A1: Move A2: Grab Debris A3: Throw - Miss
Monkey Man #6- A1: Move A2: Ready Weapon A3: Strike - Hit - Arnellia takes 8 damage
Monkey Man #7- A1: Move A2: Grab Debris A3: Throw - Hit - Arnellia takes 8 damage


In the aftermath of the brutal ambush Arnellia drops unconscious and bleeding to the ground.


*Eagle Eyes - +1 Perception, +2 to find traps or secret doors
*Frightened 1 - take a -1 to all checks and DCs. Goes away at end of turn.

Nezaglomie looks at the monkeys about to attack her fallen healer.  "Oh no you won't!" she shouts.  Stepping over Arnellia's body with her tiny legs, the sorcerer releases a gout of flame that catches all the monkeys in its blast.

A1:  Move to Q20
A2&3:  Burning Hands, 15 ft cone, for ... (going to roll now) ... OMG, why?!?  4 lousy points.  DC 18 reflex save
20:20, Today: Nezaglomie rolled 4 using 2d6.  Burning Hands

"...oh hell, now what!" Upon hearing Za Yala charges out of the room, and upon seeing Armellia down she stop by her, take a slash at the Monkey Man in front of Za, then kneel down to try and revive Arnellia.

[OOC: Action 1: Stride to P20 (Didn't I start here?)
Action 2: Attack Monkey in Door.
Action 3: Battle Medicine on Arnellia.

03:06, Today: Yalandlara Vallindel rolled 12,9 using 1d20+2,1d8+1 with rolls of 10,8.  Elven Curved Blade Attack.
Hit: 12
Damage: 9

03:07, Today: Yalandlara Vallindel rolled 12,21 using 1d20+7,2d8+10 with rolls of 5,6,5.  Battle Medicine Arnellia.
Battle Medicine: 12 (Failed)
Healed: Doesn't matter. Thank god I have potions.]

Sularius flings open the door to shoot the frogman, but is distracted by Yarr just enough, making him barely miss his target twice,


Action 1: Interact to open the door
Action 2: Shoot frogman and miss (hit 16 AC)
Action 3: Shoot frogman and miss (hit 16 AC)

09:52, Today: Sularius Alariel rolled 16,4 using 1d20+3,1d6 with rolls of 13,4.  Second Shot (if relevant).
09:52, Today: Sularius Alariel rolled 16,4 using 1d20+8,1d6 with rolls of 8,4.  First Shot.

"MAERK WILL KILL FROG-MAN! RRRAAAAAAWWWW!" The huge warrior bellowed at his swarthy companion as he slashed wickedly with his longsword. The blade stuck momentarily in some joint, causing his backswing to lack much power, but the initial strike was indeed brutal! Maerk's helm dripped with the splattered blood of his foes as he andvanced toward the door with his bloodied shield at the ready!


A1: Attack Frogman - Maerk rolled 27 (Crit!) to hit for 12^{(2 x 6)} damage!
A2: Attack Frogman - Maerk rolled 10 to miss
A3: Raise Shield (AC21, sets up reactions)

Round 6
Nez's blast hits all four monkey warriors although the natural dampness of the air keeps it from being absolute devastation.

The monkey ducks Yala's slash but that buys her time to get into position to eventually heal Arnellia.

Sularius opens the door to flank but the frog man is ducking and bobbing and both shots miss.

Yarr tumbles around trying to set up the last frog warrior for a finishing move but can't seem to get into the right position.

The frog warrior suddenly lashes out with its giant tongue trying to stop Yarr from moving all around but Yarr expertly rolls out of the way and the sticky tongue splats on the stone floor. The frog man keeps swinging his club at Maerk hoping to bash him into the ground but only hits once.
OOC: A1: Tongue Grab - Miss A2: Club - Hit! A3: Club - Miss
8 pts to Maerk. I assume he is going to take it to the shield so that is 3 damage to shield & Maerk.

Arnellia stops bleeding out but remains unconscious.


The monkey man in the doorway sweeps its hatchet trying to cleave through Nez and Yala but both women are able to avoid its wild attacks.
<orange>Monkey Man #6 (Q21) - A1: Attack Nez - Miss, A2: Sweep Attack Yala - Miss A3: Sweep Attack Nez: Miss

Behind it however the monkeys continue to rain down destructive debris. Nez takes part of a table right to the bridge of her nose and another to her temple causing her to be knocked out as well.


Monkey Man #4 (P23) - A1: Grab Debris A2: Throw - Crit! - 14 damage A3: Grab Debris
Monkey Man #5 (R23) - A1: Grab Debris A2: Miss A3: Grab Debris
Monkey Man #7 (Q23) - A1: Grab Debris A2: Throw - Crit! - 12 damage A3: Grab Debris



*Eagle Eyes - +1 Perception, +2 to find traps or secret doors
*Frightened 1 - take a -1 to all checks and DCs. Goes away at end of turn.


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"Maerk, Yarr we're dropping like flies out here!" She yells back to the others fighting in the other room! "We got 4 Monkey guys, and I'm the only one left standing!" She said as she pulled out a potion of healing and forced it down Arnellia's throat! Then she turned to Za, and went to do her best to use her Medic training on her!

[OOC: Action 1: Interact, Pull out Elixir of Life, Minor
Action 2: Give said Elixir to Arnellia.
Action 3: Use Battle Medicine on Nezaglomie.

00:31, Today: Yalandlara Vallindel rolled 3 using 1d6 with rolls of 3.  Elixir of Life, Minor (Arnellia).
HP Returned to Arnellia: 3

00:33, Today: Yalandlara Vallindel rolled 24,14 using 1d20+7,2d8+10 with rolls of 17,3,1.  Battle Medicine Nezaglomie.
Battle Medicine (DC 20): 24
HP Returned to Nezaglomie: 14

Both are up again! Woot! Yay me!]
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Round 5 Reaction: Aggressive Block! - Foe is moved 5' or Flat-footed. Intent is to push away so as not to trigger AoO...

Maerk snarled at the frog-man, putting his strength behind the block he'd made with his shield to put the foe off balance. Seizing the opportunity, his big legs began pounding the floor, driving him forward toward the monkey-men! He didn't take a whole lot of care to not trod upon his fallen companions, instead focusing on the impact, attempting to force the scraggly creature back through the door! He felt the creature resist, but the big man's bulk and ferocity were too much! He bellowed a war-cry in triumph!

"BONE AND STEEL!"

A1: Interact, Sheath Sword (pfft, action tax)
A2: Stride 20' to [Q,20] (Nez is prone and small, assuming I can occupy her space)
A3: Shove vs Fortitude, DC = Maerk rolled 12, Spending Hero Point to re-roll! Maerk rolled 26! Following free 5' (or 10' if that's a Crit) with the shove should put Maerk at [Q,21 or 22] filling or blocking the doorway!
Reaction: Reactive Shield raises AC to 21 if attacked, possibly causing the attack to miss.

Sularius fires two more arrows, the first missing, while the second solidly connects with the frogman, He then moves into the room in order to get a better look at what is happening in the other room.

Action 1: Shoot at frogman; miss with a 12
Action 2: Shoot at frogman; hit AC: 22 for 5 damage
Action 3: Move to Q15 (provoking if the frogman has attack of opportunity)

11:03, Today: Sularius Alariel rolled 12,22 using 1d20+8,1d20+3 with rolls of 4,19.  Shoot Bow Twice.
11:03, Today: Sularius Alariel rolled 5 using 1d6 with rolls of 5.  Damage.

Arnellia groans and coughs a little as the potion is poured down her throat, but nods a thank you to Yala regardless.  She levered herself painfully to her feet, muttering under her breath a little before staggering out of the line of fire and preparing for the next stage of the fight.  .oO Smart....  really smart Oo.

---

A1:  Stand my stupid ass up :D
A2:  Move to S19
A3:  Interact to retrieve her potion

Battered from two directions, Nezaglomie goes down hard, hitting her head on the floor and blacking out.  A moment later, the vision returns to her eyes, Yalandlara's lovely face swimming into view.  Even this calming sight, however, is not enough to calm her fury.  Without even getting back to her feet, Za fires a spell from a sitting position.  She feels the flame rising in her, ready to cast another Burning Hands, but she sees that there is no way to cast it without hitting Maerk.  Instead, she grabs a piece of the rubble with her mind and crashes it into one of the monkeys.

09:11, Today: Nezaglomie rolled 18,8 using d20+8,d6+4.  TK some rubble at a monkey

Round 7
Yala rapidly heals Arnellia and Nez back to life.

Maerk shoves the battle toad into the wall and then runs across the hallway to protect the rest of the party from the monkey men flinging debris, shoving his way into the doorframe.

Sularius hits the battle toad with an arrow and moves into the room.

Arnellia moves out of the way.

Nez considers throwing debris at a monkey man.

Yarr attempts to feint the battle toad but his feet slip out from under him over committing him to the action and leaving him exposed. Failing that he quickly ducks down between the frog's legs, bouncing back to his feet and then attempting to stick the frog in the back with a finishing blow but once again the frog seems quite perceptive and swats Yarr away before he can land a finishing blow.


The frog responds by once again firing out its tongue trying to pin Yarr in place. This time it lands and Yarr finds himself stuck as the giant tongue muscle wraps around his slim chest even as the sticky spit glues the tongue to Yarr. Luckily the goblin is too large to be swallowed but with the tongue stuck to him it does severely restrict his movement.
OOC: While researching frog tongues I found a fun video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFlHHG57V2U">enjoy<a/>
Frog Man (R17) - A1: Tongue Grab - Success! A2: Strike - Miss A3: Strike - Miss


The hatchet monkey shouts and suddenly goes into a frenzy, hammering Maerk over and over again with its hatchet.
Monkey Man #6 (Q22) - A1: Strike - Hit! - 8 damage -> 3 damage
A2: Strike - Crit! - 18 damage
A3: Strike - Miss
A4: Strike - Miss
Total: 21 damage to Maerk, 3 damage to his shield


Meanwhile behind him the monkeys all unload their debris and Maerk finds himself in a hailstorm of debris as the monkey warriors tear the room apart throwing everything they can find at him and enough gets past his shield that Maerk collapses to the ground unconscious.

With Maerk no longer blocking one of the monkey throwers tosses a chunk and clips Nez.


Monkey Man #4 (P23) - A1: Throw Debris - Miss A2: Grab Debris A3: Throw Debris - Miss
Monkey Man #5 (R23) - A1: Throw Debris - Hit - 5 damage A2: Grab Debris A3: Throw Debris - Miss
Monkey Man #7 (Q23) - A1: Throw Debris - Hit - 6 damage A2: Grab Debris A3: Throw Debris - Hit - 7

End Result: Maerk ends up taking another 11 damage and Nez takes 7




*Eagle Eyes - +1 Perception, +2 to find traps or secret doors
*Grabbed - Cannot move more than 10 ft from frog man, flat-footed.


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Another comrade down!  This has to stop. Nezaglomie steps over the downed Maerk, needed a bit of a hop to get over his huge body.  "Incendi!" she shouts as she channels her rage into another cone of flame at the monkeys.

A1: Move to Q21
A2&3: Burning Hands
12:43, Today: Nezaglomie rolled 8 using 2d6 with rolls of 6,2.  Burning Hands.
DC 18 Reflex save for half.
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Arnellia swears again and with a grimace entreats her deity for aid.   In another rush of moonlight, healing energy engulfs the party.

---

Divine Font - Full round action.
16:51, Today: Arnellia rolled 11 using 1d8+8 ((3)).

Yalandlara will pull out a potion and force it down Maerk's throat.

[OOC: Action 1: Interact, Pull out Elixir of Life, Minor
Action 2: Feed Potion to Maerk.
Action 3: Stand there and look pretty.

00:55, Today: Yalandlara Vallindel rolled 5 using 1d6 with rolls of 5.  Elixir of Life, Minor (Maerk).
Healed Maerk: 5 HP
Other Benefits: +1 Save against Poison and Disease for 10 minutes.]

Sularius fires two more arrows at the frogman, barely grazing it with one. He then moves into melee range.

Action 1: Fire arrow at frogman; hit AC: 19 for 1 damage
Action 2: Fire arrow at frogman; miss
Action 3: Move to Q16

11:23, Today: Sularius Alariel rolled 19,10 using 1d20+8,1d20+3 with rolls of 11,7.  Shoot Bow Twice.
11:26, Today: Sularius Alariel rolled 1 using 1d6 with rolls of 1.  Damage.

Maerk's gaze sharpened suddenly as he regained consciousness. A mixture of drool and blood drizzled down his beard as he heaved himself to his feet with a grunt of pain. He found the goblin-girl crowded near him with fire raging from her fingertips! He pushed her back and then grasped the door and yanked it shut!

"Fall back! Make ready! Maerk will hold the door!" He bellowed, determined that the monkey creatures would not get through until his companions were ready!

A1: Stand
A2: Push Nez back to [Q,20]
A3: Interact with the door to hold it against monkey business, Maerk rolled 20 (Athletics)

Round 8
Nez steps up and unleashes another gout of flame on the monkey warriors. Most of them dodge out of the way only getting slightly singed but one does catch a full blast looking a bit wounded.

Arnellia unleashes a healing burst, healing friends and foes alike.

Yala feeds a potion to Maerk.

Sularius clips the battle toad with an arrow.

Maerk stands up and shuts the door to the monkey warrior room.

Yarr fakes out the battle toad leaving him wide open for a powerful finishing attack dealing massive damage to the frog.

The frog responds by trying to smash Yarr three times, clipping him twice with its club.
OOC: Yarr takes 18 damage

As far as Maerk can tell, none of the monkeys make any attempts at opening up the door.


*Eagle Eyes - +1 Perception, +2 to find traps or secret doors
*Grabbed - Cannot move more than 10 ft from frog man, flat-footed.


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"Alright, this is going to take some coordination. One of you opens the door. I'll make and toss a bomb in, Za uses her burning hands thing through Maerk's legs. If the one at the door is still there me and Maerk smack him, and then Maerk shuts the door again. Arnellia, you want to open the door and heal Maerk?" She asked as she laid out the plan fast. "Now Maerk, if we manage to cripple them with this, let's go in now, if not, close the door and ready for round two. Key is the one in the door."

[OOC: So order of actions if everyone agrees to Yala's plan would be:
Arnellia open door heal Maerk.
Yala Make/Toss bomb, attack monkeyman in door.
Za reach between Maerk's legs and burning hands monkeymen.
Maerk slash monkeyman in door if he's still up and close door.]

With his arrow count getting low, Sularius drops his bow and pulls out his rapier and stabs at the frogman twice, missing with both attempts.

Action 1: Interact to draw rapier
Action 2: Stab and miss
Action 3: Stab and miss

14:50, Today: Sularius Alariel rolled 14,14 using 1d20+8,1d20+3 with rolls of 6,11.  Stab twice.

Nezaglomie takes a breath.  "Maybe wait for Yarr and Sularius, first.  It sounds like they are still fighting in there.  Also, I can only cast Burning Hands twice more, today, so if you think your bomb and one round of attacks will finish them, maybe I should save it."

The gnome follows her ears, and, sure enough, there is still fighting going on in the next room.  Squeezing past Yarr, she moves beyond the melee, then turns and uses her mind to fling a good-sized rock into the frog creature.

A1: Move to O15
A2&3:  Telekinetic Projectile

18:24, Today: Nezaglomie rolled 22,5 using d20+8,d6+4.  TK a rock at the frog
Yay!  I hit something.  Then rolled minimum damage.  Sigh.

Arnellia gave a sharp nod of understanding before moving to stand beside the door and Maerk.  A few words and a faint aura shimmered into existence around her and then faded to invisibility.

---

A1 - Move to R20
A2,3 - Cast Sanctuary on myself.

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Yala pulls out another healing potion and gives it to Maerk. "Here, drink another."

[OOC: Action 1: Interact Action pull out potion, give it to Maerk.
Action 2 and 3. Just waiting.

1d6 HP back when you drink it.]

The large Ulfen warrior was grateful for the efforts of his companions in making him feel better, the wounds knit and the leaking of precious blood subsided somewhat. He nodded in gratitude.

Maerk wondered why the monkeymen weren't attempting to open the door. He glanced at the other exits to the chamber they were in. "Maerk thinks monkey-men maybe come to flank! If come them, run in room with frog-man!"

Maerk readied a javelin.


A1: Interact, draw javelin
A2-A3: "Hodor"
Healing: Maerk rolled 3 using 1d6

Round 9
Sularius draws his rapier and engages the battle toad, pressing him on the attack but failing to land a significant strike.

Nez falls back behind Yarr and Sularius, pelting the battle toad with telekinetic projectile in the process.

Arnellia uses holy magic to hide her from enemy's eyes.

Yala and Maerk wait by the door to the monkey room.

Yarr cannot tumble because he is still connected to the frog but he can continue to feint, opening up the frog man for another big finisher. Unfortunately the frog man continues to batter at Yarr and the poor goblin's mobility is very limited against the battle toad.

Yarr brings his dog slicer up and cuts the tongue clean through, freeing him from the toad warrior. The stump of a tongue snaps back into the toads mouth.

Assessing the situation the battle toad clubs Yarr back from it, landing a solid hit before stepping back and retreating down the hallway.
Toad - A1: Strike - Hit - 7 damage A2: Step A3: Move

Maerk again doesn't feel any attempts at opening the door from the other side.


*Eagle Eyes - +1 Perception, +2 to find traps or secret doors
*Grabbed - Cannot move more than 10 ft from frog man, flat-footed.

"Agreed Maerk. If when Arnellia opens that door, and they are not in that room, that's what we will do." She said with a nod.

[OOC: So it's plan time!]

Maerk didn't like the situation. They were battered and wounded and running low on resources. He knew his companions were waiting on him to initiate their hastily crafted plan, but something about the lack of activity on the other side of the door he held gave him pause.

"Plan change. They wait to ambush, maybe try to flank... fall back, quickly, Maerk will follow!" He jutted his bearded chin in the direction of the room the frog-man had been in.


A1: Delay Stride to room on opposite side, will end up at [Q,17] after everyone else goes.
A2: Interact Shut the door...
A3: and hold it.

We can do the same plan from the westward room, and... if we're left alone for 10 min, someone might Treat Wounds... maybe?

Arnellia hesitates only a moment before nodding. Before moving into the further room, she makes a few gestures, mutters a few words, and heals Maerk further.

---

A1,2: Last use of Divine Font - 16:22, Today: Arnellia rolled 15 using 1d8+8 with rolls of 7

Good roll at least ;)

A3, Stride to err 16 (no letters).  Should put me just to the right of Nez

Nezaglomie is not sure about letting the frog get away -- it might come back with a bunch of friends -- but she lines up behind Maerk, ready to cast Burning Hands past him if there are still monkeys on the other side of the door.

"Fine. Alright. Fall back." She said with a nod.

With the frog man clearly very injured, Sularius decides to take pursuit of the creature and attempt to kill it. Unfortunately the run to catch the creature apparently affects his accuracy.

Folks, at this point I am clearly just a liability to the party...Even tried to reroll with a hero point and failed

Action 1: Move to spot adjacent to frog man
Action 2: Attack and miss (even with hero point reroll)
Action 3: Attack and miss

15:04, Today: Sularius Alariel rolled 14,13 using 1d20+8,1d20+3 with rolls of 6,10.  Rapier attack twice
15:07, Today: Sularius Alariel rolled 11 using 1d20+8 with rolls of 3.  Hero Point reroll.

Round 10
After some discussion the consensus seems to be to fall back instead of opening the door so the door remains shut.

Arnellia moves to the other room and heals Maerk.

Nez falls back with the others.
OOC: Unless you want to enact the plan by yourself but everyone else is motioning that they're leaving and you can't open and shut the door and cast a spell. Drop a line OOC if you want to retro this to burning hands anyway.

Sularius moves up to attack the fleeing frog man but fails to connect.

Yarr pursues as well and in a brilliant display fakes the frog out and then cuts him open from belly to throat and the frog collapses.



*Eagle Eyes - +1 Perception, +2 to find traps or secret doors
*Grabbed - Cannot move more than 10 ft from frog man, flat-footed.

Maerk breathed a sigh of relief when Yarr was able to bring down the frog-man. Hearing nothing beyond the portal he was holding, the huge warrior dropped his shield and javelin and began shoving whatever he could find in the room in front of the door, kicking bits of debris into the crack to act as wedges.

"Let we defend one door, not one and another one," Maerk pointed toward the southern door.

"Fall back, make rest!" he said to Yarr and Sularius.


Free: Drop shield & javelin
A1-3: Improvise a barricade of the eastward door.

"Maerk, please sit down and catch your breath for a few moments.  We'll know if they try to break down the door.  And Yarr, please come have a seat over here so I can patch you up properly?"   Arnellia asks as she lays out her kit just so.

---

Arnellia will Treat Wounds on Yarr.
11:19, Today: Arnellia rolled 19 using 1d20+8 ((11)) - Skill Roll
12:00, Today: Arnellia rolled 5 using 2d8 ((2,3)). - Well that sucked, but better than nothing.
This is provided we are given enough time of course.

Sularius runs down the hallway to the end and glances around the corner, before retreating back to the room.

Going down to Y15 to look around the corner, and then moving back into the room

"You cannot help others to well with wounds like that. Here, let me see to those." She told Arnellia as she began seeing to her wounds. It was obvious that while Yala did not have the divine spark, she had the same care of the healer's and clerics in Shelyn's temple, her mother's temple.

[OOC: 18:25, Today: Yalandlara Vallindel rolled 21,12 using 1d20+7,2d8 with rolls of 14,7,5.  Treat Wounds Arnellia.
Rolled: 21 Success
HP Healed: 12

Arnellia is now full HP and no longer wounded. :)]

"Sularius, wait.  We should stay in groups, at least, in case of trouble." Nezaglomie follows Sularius, stopping at the corpse of the frog.  She checks the horrible thing over.  Is it sentient?  Is it just a beast looking for food?  I thought we heard the creatures talking with the monkey men.

Walk to X15.  If there's no trouble, the check the body for any sort of loot.

Maerk finally relented and took a knee, allowing his companions to do their best to patch his leaking hide. He observed that his shield had taken some considerable damage. He'd need to get that fixed. Just one more thing to eat up his meager coin. Such was the reason there weren't any rich mercenaries, only those seeking the next payday and those who slumbered in shallow graves near where they fell.

Round 11
Maerk looks around and attempts to improvise a barricade although it is difficult. The furniture inside the room has all been damaged. A broken bed frame, splintered drawers, and a smashed desk mark this chamber as a long-abandoned bedroom.

Greasy tents and moldy piles of cloth reveal that someone has recently been squatting here but none of that makes a very effective barricade. Maerk does his best but it is unlikely to be very secure for long if someone tries to break through.


Sularius pokes his head around the corner but doesn't see anything.

Yala looks around at everyone's wounds but there isn't much she can do at the moment.
OOC:Battle medicine doesn't remove the wounded condition and you do not yet have 10 minutes rest to use treat wounds.

To avoid confusion I've gone back through and marked who has already been treated with battle medicine. Note that the wording is that it only makes it immune to YOUR battle medicine so everyone with battle medicine can treat someone 1/day

Nez checks the body and besides the equipment they know about (club, javelins, studded armor) there is a belt pouch with some silver pieces inside. Quickly counting it there are 19 silvers.

Yarr notes what Nez is doing and heads back to the other body and searches it. He too finds a belt pouch full of silver pieces as well as a small statue carved to look like a dog out of some kind of black stone that has white speckles through it.

---

From the other side of the door Maerk is guarding he hears other doors being thrown open and the sound of movement inside. Through his door he hears many voices, including some more croaking frog-like voices and hooting monkey-like voices.


*Eagle Eyes - +1 Perception, +2 to find traps or secret doors


Battle Medicine Tracker:

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Maerk motioned to the others to indicate there was activity on the other side of the door. He pointed toward the other exit and shrugged. He didn't feel ready for another pitched battle, but if his barricade didn't hold, there wasn't much choice.

Nezaglomie takes the entire belt pouch, leaving the silvers inside.  Bringing it back group, she announces, "I found a little cash on that one over there.  We can keep it all in this pouch and divvy it up later."  I doubt people would think I'm stealing from the group -- it's not like I'm a halfling -- but this should put them at ease.

When she notices Yarr pull out the statue, she is intrigued.  "Oh, nice.  Can I take a look?"  The sorceress casts Read Aura on the item.

OOC: Read Aura takes 1 minute to cast (10 rounds). Are you sure you want to do that right now?

OOC: If I start and something happens, I can just abandon the spell, right?  It's only a cantrip.  I don't have anything better to do at the moment.  I'll do this back in the room.

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OOC: We're still in initiative order going round by round. So if you just want to plunk down and begin that is fine. I'll mark down the rounds for you in case you do sit still long enough to complete it.

"I have one more healing potion left. Yarr, would you like it before they arrive?" Yalandlara offered to him, pulling it out noticing that he was still the most hurt.

Arnellia moves up to Maerk. "We can take some of these scraps of canvas and a bag of caltrops and try to injure and slow any that start coming through a door.  That'll reduce the avenues they can rush us from."

Maerk nodded his agreement. "Get ready with plan," Maerk whispered. "If they door-push Maerk, we must hit first, hit hard! Make room!" He motioned for the others to position themselves appropriately and prepared to hold the door. He returned his javelin to its loop and drew his sword.

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Holding the door. If the door cannot be held, Maerk will step back to [R,17] and use whatever reaction makes sense based on what happens. Maerk is holding his sword at this point. I'd suggest we Ready ranged attacks like they did to us!

Edited weapon holding based on GM note
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Sularius returns back to the room, sheaths his rapier and picks up his bow.


Action 1: Move to Q15
Action 2: Sheath Rapier
Action 3: Pick up bow

"Plan? PLAN? Had we of followed my plan we'd not be cornered like dying rats!" Yala was clearly not happy. No, she'd finally hit the boiling point. "If we go down that hallway to the entryway, they will be waiting for us and we will most assuredly die. We will walk right into them." She sighed, clearly unhappy. "If we'd did my plan, we'd known they were gone, could have went that route out, and been outside now."

"We all need to go, now. In force if we are going to do this. You are our strength. Plus I doubt they are all outside that door Maerk." She said, flatly. "If we are doing this, we do it now. You take point and let's go. Quickly."
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Nezaglomie is worried for Yala, who seems to be freaking out.  She stops her casting, almost before it was started, and prepares to exit the room with the others, planning to stay near the middle of the group.  She makes sure that the statue is safely packed away and gets in line.  As the group moves out, she hustles her little legs as fast as she can to keep up.

Triple move to get out to safety.
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Arnellia sighs.  "Let us get clear of this place and regroup.  We clearly need to work on strategy instead of bickering amongst ourselves.  What is done is done and we will deal with it."  She shakes out her sling and hopes not to have to use it.


A1: Pull out sling
A2: Ready an attack should the door be forced before we can commence moving down the hall.

When the party commences moving, she will triple move down the hallway toward the door.  If she does not have to make an attack, the Sanctuary will still be active so she'll keep toward the back of the group.

Round 12

Nez and Yarr leave as they think everyone is following but everyone else ends up finding things to do in the room to keep themselves parked. They are able to make it to the secret door and again no enemies are seen down the hallway.

Maerk feels someone trying to open up the door, followed by a heavy thump as something big and strong tries to force it open. He feels a second thump as whatever it is tries once again to open the door and fails to do so.

Yarr and Nez sees from the corridor a couple of the monkey warriors come down and poke their heads out. One of them even has a piece of debris handy and chucks it at Yarr, knocking him a bit. It hoots and hollers back up its corridor and there are several hooting replies and one croak as well.
OOC: Nez takes 5 damage from the debris throw


*Eagle Eyes - +1 Perception, +2 to find traps or secret doors


Battle Medicine Tracker:

Having been tensely waiting for the door to be forced open, Arnellia breathed a soft sigh of relief when it held.  Even as she spoke up she was moving south down the hallway at a rapid pace.  "Okay that's it.  Let's get out of here now."

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A1,2,3 : Moving to head outside.
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"Go! Maerk will follow!" The warrior yelled, straining against the enemies on the other side of the door.

A1-3: Delay retreat until just after Yarr's turn so Maerk is last to leave and at the end of the line going through the secret door.

Nezaglomie curses in Gnomish, a word that would have gotten her mouth filled with sand if her mother heard it.  Quickly, she forms a glowing shield in front of her, then casts Grease on the floor where the monkey men are standing.  Hopefully, that will give them enough trouble that it will slow their attack until the others arrive.

A1:  Shield
A2&3:  Grease on Y-Z-AA 17 and Z16,  DC 18

Grease:  All solid ground in the area is covered with grease. Each creature standing on the greasy surface must succeed at a Reflex save or an Acrobatics check against your spell DC or fall prone. Creatures using an action to move onto the greasy surface during the spell’s duration must attempt either a Reflex save or an Acrobatics check to Balance. A creature that Steps or Crawls doesn’t have to attempt a check or save.

Yala clears out of the room.

[OOC: Actions 1 to 3: Triple Stride to secret entrance.]

Round 13
Arnellia runs down the corridor and through the opened secret door towards the hillside outside.

The monkeys all start hooting and hollering in surprise. It seems they were unaware that there was a secret door there judging by how they're pointing and shouting at one another.

Nez spreads slippery grease through the hallway. One monkey man maintains his balance but the other backpaddles in surprise and its feet slip out from underneath him.

Everyone else leaves but Maerk is faced with a choice seeing Nez standing at the entrance casting spells instead of fleeing. Maerk decides to step in front of her to guard her as the rest of the party retreats.

From the room comes another bang as the now unguarded door is opened up. Maerk can see a frog man and two monkeys are coming down the corridor.

Down the corridor the monkeys no longer have any debris to throw but one of them pulls out a dagger and flings it at Maerk who catches and deflects it with his shield.

The other monkey stands up, jumps out of the grease stain and pulls out a dagger ready to throw.

Another frog warrior comes down the corridor, hits the grease and slips and falls.

OOC: I'm assuming everyone is going to just run away. If not, say something by this afternoon...




*Eagle Eyes - +1 Perception, +2 to find traps or secret doors


Battle Medicine Tracker:

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Za turns and runs as fast as her little legs will carry her.

Maerk snarled at their foes and followed Nez out through the door. This day would be remembered, and these enemies would soon taste his steel!

Sularius follows the others quickly.

The party turns and flees and thankfully find that while the frog men and monkey throwers follow them into the corridor as they exit to the countryside the enemies don't pursue allowing the party to make their way back to the goblin tribe encampment a few hundred yards away.

Combat is over.
The party earns 250xp for enemies defeated.

Yala waits just outside the entrance for Za and Maerk to exit. Once they do, she begins to walk for the camp.

Nezaglomie follows Yala to camp, chatting amiably.  "Frog men and monkey men!  It's like the stories of heroes of old, seeing bizarre monsters.  I guess we are real adventurers, now."

Arriving at the camp, she asks Arnellia to take a look at the cut on her shoulder, "It stings a bit, and it will probably keep me up."  After getting a drink of water, she settles down with the statue to cast Read Aura on it.  Oh, please be magic, please be magic.  That would be so cool, to have gotten a real magic item from some real monsters.

"I know, right? It's kinda neat, and yet scary too." She said walking next to her gnome companion.

"We should rest here for the night, before going back in. It might take a couple days to clear them all out." She advised as they walked into camp.
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Maerk grumbled to no one in particular, brooding, his mood dark, even as his steps were weary and his wounds continued to ooze. He painstakingly removed his armor, wincing as gashes and bruises were exposed. He allowed his companions to help place bindings and bandages, but his demeanor was most foul about the whole ordeal.

"Wake Maerk when it be Maerk's time for watching." And with that he fell into the fitful sleep of exhaustion.

Upon awaking, he seemed to be in much better spirits, his quiet stoicism again replaced the simmering rage. He finally spoke after consuming a goodly portion of whatever there was to eat.

"Maerk's shield needs repair. We go to Blacksmith, yes?"

The Priestess is lost in thought as they make their way back to the goblin camp.  Playing the fight back in her head again.  It was painfully clear to her that they needed to plan ahead a little more than they had been if they were going to clear the ruins.

She spent the evening tending to Nez and Yar, humming quiet melodies as she worked.  As the night wears on, and the moon rises, Arnellia finds herself as quiet of a place without leaving camp as she can to pray.

As much as she'd like to go beyond the camp and dance; she also knew it was not a very wise choice.


16:24, Today: Arnellia rolled 9 using 1d20+7 with rolls of 2.  Treat Wounds for Nez.
Sorry Nez!  At least it wasn't a critical failure!
16:25, Today: Arnellia rolled 13 using 1d20+7 with rolls of 6.  Treat Wounds for Yar.
Yeah...  she apparently just needs to go to bed :D  Sorry guys. I gave it a shot.

The night passes without incident and the goblins awake the party at the next dawn.

Meanwhile Nez discovers that yes, the figurine does contain some kind of conjuration magic. She guesses it can be activated with a command phrase but the small statue doesn't provide any clues what that activation word would be.

Nezaglomie squeaks with delight.  "It IS magic!  We just have to figure out the command phrase to make it work."  "Activate!" she exclaims.  After a pause, she tries "GO!"  These seem not to do anything, so she thinks about the conjuration spells she knows:  Tanglefoot and Grease.  No, that doesn't help.  Well, if it duplicates a spell, maybe just the name of the spell.  She starts with the most likely one: "Summon Animal."  Yarr found this on a frog.  I hope it isn't some phrase in froggish.  She looks to the others, "Anyone else have any ideas?"

Sularius takes a look at the figurine as well, but it secrets seem lost to him.

09:48, Today: Sularius Alariel rolled 10 using 1d20+8 with rolls of 2.  Arcana.

Sularius looked over at the figurine and recognized that while the carving at first glance seemed to be crude, it was actually very precisely carved elvish minimalist abstract artistic style. Meant to strip away baseless details and focus on clean angles and lines and shying away from curved surfaces to only present flat surfaces.

This revelation allowed Nez to realize that the command phrase would probably be in elvish, not common although she didn't know elvish. There were plenty in camp that did and working with Sularius she began listing off different words or phrases and repeating the translations provided by Sularius.

This went on well into the night. They would work for awhile, taking a break to rest and recoup before trying again with little success.

That night however Nez had a dream not about commands but about names. She dreamt she had found a wild dragon wyrmling in the woods but before she could take it home she needed to come up with the perfect name for it and so Nez sat down in the middle of the field and began thinking up the perfect name. It wouldn't do to just call the dragon "Dragon", she needed to come up with the perfect name.

When she opened her eyes that thought stuck with her and she had yet another consultation with Sularius. Through him she learned about an elven myth regarding a lost elven child being raised by wolves in the wild. It was very popular set of story and different elven communities would have their own variations on the story and the adventures that this child would have with its wolf companion. When she inquired about the name of the wolf, Sularius remembered it was called "Du'calcia" which roughly translates into "Night's Mirror" into common.

Holding the figurine, Nez calls the name and this time there is a reaction. The onyx seems to melt through her fingers, pouring like water onto the ground at her feet forming a large puddle of liquid onyx. From out of the pool a form emerges, first a set of ears and then a head and shoulders push out of the liquid. It forms the head just long enough that it can lock eyes with Nez before it melts back down into the puddle. The liquid stone coalesces back into the form of the statue now resting at Nez's feet.

The whole change and reformation takes only a second and it takes the mind a few seconds to catch up and process what had just happened.

After some more consultation and thought Nez figures out two more things. The first is the name has to be said with conviction to complete the summoning ritual. She had said the name more out of curiosity than with a force of will behind it which is probably why the summoning only partially completed. The second is the knowledge that while she had never had a chance to study a figurine like this before, typically these items could only be summoned once before the statue would require time to "recharge" again.

Further testing would be necessary to identify the specific limitations of this device and she didn't have an idea of what the onyx dog would be capable of but it was still a huge step in the right direction of discovering the truth behind this item of power.

Yalandlara would sit there in the morning and remain quiet as she contemplated the events of the day before. She would take the time to also prepare her alchemic infusions for the day, and care for Jasmine. Then finally, she would give a small sigh.

While the rest of the group camps and recovers from their running battle Maerk heads back to get repairs made on his shield.

OOC: It costs 5cp for the repair (1 skilled laborer for 1 hour).

Coming back Maerk is able to get healed up with the rest of the party before they prepare to descend back into the lower level of the citadel. Approaching the secret door the party notices that the door is ajar. Walking cautiously and sneaking around with all caution they discover it seems that the remaining warriors have all left. A few bodies are missing, perhaps they were not completely dead or perhaps they were taken as a food source, but the remaining bodies have all been stripped of their gear if not already looted by the party.

OOC: Descriptions of rooms, from left to right as a recap

Sularius looks to the others, "Well, that is fortuitous, although I would not assume the area is completely empty. This time, I will be more deliberate in my search." He starts to head back up the first hallway.


OOC:
Intent is to scout out the rooms we've already been in to make sure there's no one waiting for us. So starting with the first hallway going north, if it's clear, going through the door to the east into the room a the top of the second hallway (not opening the northernmost door there assuming it's still closed), and then proceeding west into the next set of room.

16:06, Today: Sularius Alariel rolled 16 using 1d20+7 with rolls of 9.  Perception.
16:05, Today: Sularius Alariel rolled 20 using 1d20+10 with rolls of 10.  Stealth.

Nezaglomie, knowing that stealth is not her best ability, stays behind with the bulk of the group.  But she seems to be almost dancing on her toes, clearly anticipating something exciting.

Sularius double checks but just confirms again that the rooms are empty.

"We should also consider the fact that they have drawn back into one of the rooms we have not been in.  Perhaps even that room in the south?  We should consider looking there.  We definitely don't want a group of the enemy between us and this door should be we forced to retreat again."

Considering the crude map for a moment:  "Before we go through any door allow me a moment to briefly enchant the weapon of whomever needs it the most."

"Do we still have the haunch from the big lizard?" Za asks.  "That room that the goblin labeled 'Big Brasher' is going to have either a very hungry bear or one dead from starvation.  But let's check that one first."

There isn't much left over from the dead dragon. While you were exploring the lower level a team of goblins had gone back and butchered the corpse to feed the starving tribe.

What was left over probably wouldn't completely feed a starving bear but would definitely go a long way towards distracting it and getting on its good side. That being said there were several bodies lying around that could be chopped up if the group didn't mind butchering sentient beings.

"We can use what the goblins did not eat of the dracodiles I suppose for the bear. I am not for butchering the remains our enemy though." Even though no one suggested it, she felt it necessary to point it out that it was not an option right now.

Maerk had been adjusting one of the new straps the town blacksmith had attached during the repair to his shield. It wasn't quite right due to the fact that it needed some sparring sessions to loosen it up a bit to fit his massive forearm comfortably. He glanced up to see his companions charting a course through the underground and thought he'd better attend to the annoyance at a later time.

"His need the help, yes?" Maerk pointed Arnellia to the bow of Sularius.

Maerk had no problem feeding the bodies of their foes to the bear. He also didn't think they should even waste the time hacking them up. If the bear was hungry, he'd go for the most tasty bits first. After airing these thoughts in his broken Taldane, he simply shrugged.

As the others contemplated, Maerk kept a vigilant watch.

Nezaglomie didn't feel that the corpse of a frog was any more worthy than that of a dragon-kin.  After all, *I* am a dragon-kin, if a bit distant, she thought; this was relatively recent knowledge, and still seemed a bit freaky.  Thinking about all the paraphernalia of her grandmother's that she had found, she found herself speaking without thinking of Yala's feelings, "If's just a frog.  It ..." she trailed off, her brain finally catching up with her mouth.

"We give Brasher the remainder of the Dracodile meat." She said softly. "Tonight we can help the Goblin tribe hunt properly for food to compensate."

She then stood. and nodded once. "Let's go finish this." She hands Yarr and Sularius a Eagle Eye elixir. "You guys are making good use of these, may as well keep it up."

"Agreed."  She nods at her words.

"Sularius, when we open the door, pause a second so I can enchant your bow.  I'll wait if there are no enemies in the room however."


If, when the door is opened, there is a need, she will cast Magic Weapon on Sula's bow.
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The door is opened revealing a large grizzly bear standing over a pile of half-eaten humanoid bodies. Two appear to be monkey warriors and the other two appear to be frog warriors. The bear looks up at the group with a giant frog leg hanging out of its mouth. It drops the limb and lets out a mighty roar that reverberates off the wall before charging towards the door.

"Here, eat." Yalandlara begins tossing the remains of the dracodile meat at the bears feet hoping the free, better, meal will stop it's charge as she also steps to the side to avoid said charge.

16:15, Today: Nezaglomie rolled 22,10 using d20+8,d6+4
Woot!  Max damage.

Nezaglomie is puzzled that a bear with plenty to eat would charge at the group, but it doesn't slow down her reactions at all.  With her mind she grabs one of the loose rocks sitting right in front of the door and slams it directly into the bear's nose.  That'll slow down such an aggressive beastie.

Almost as an afterthought, she throws up a small Shield, just in case the bear manages to charge through the strong warrior in front of her.

A1&2: Telekinetic Projectile
A3: Shield
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The warrior was big, huge even by human standards. His long arms and legs carried a hefty amount of muscle. He was athletic also and could move well for one as large as he...

...but he could see right away that the bear wanted out of the room, regardless of the large Ulfen in his way! Maerk reached out and attempted to slam the door shut once more. "Maerk thinks the bear much want to go out! Get out of bear's way!"

OOC: Quick! Make a path...!
A1: Shut the door!
A2-3: HODOR! Hold the door until the party is clear, or, if the bear is too quick and attacks Maerk, he'll react accordingly, meaning Shield Block or Aggressive Block to protect himself.

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"Aye there! I be thinkin' we may want to bring some O'dem bodies back 'ere an shove 'em true da door!" He looks up at Maerk before continuing, "What'cha tink merc? Can ya ho'da'door while we haul some ass back 'ere to fee' ta Teddy tharr?" He starts to put action to his words but will not leave until there is some confirmation that others like the plan.

OOC: just in case you have a hard time with the pirate brogue, Yarr is suggesting that we collect the bodies and feed them to the bear.
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"WE HAD A PLAN! THAT'S WHY WE BROUGHT THE DAMN MEAT!" Yalandlara yelled at the lot of them who were clearly not caring about the plan that they had just made moments ago. She was starting to wonder how any of them made it this far in life.

[OOC: I assume we have a new Yarr?]

Arnellia sighed and fought not to roll her eyes.

"Yala, please don't scream.  Put down whatever we have for the poor thing and retreat.  It's been stuck in that room for who knows how long.  Everyone just calm down and let's not frightening.  It's confused and hungry and wants out.  Let's all just get out of it's way and let it out."


Nature check to attempt to calm/slow the bear and get it to eat the meat we're throwing to it.
16:41, Today: Arnellia rolled 23 using 1d20+8 ((15)).

Can the bear get through the secret entrance we used or is it too big?
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Sularius simply shakes his head and backs up into one of the adjacent rooms to stay out of the bear's way and pulls out his bow just in case.

Moving to Q22 and pulling out bow

OOC: Okay rewinding things a little bit.



The bear pauses when Yala throws food at it.

OOC: Requires a Nature check which thankfully Arnellia took care of here...

Arnellia:

Arnellia sighed and fought not to roll her eyes.

"Yala, please don't scream.  Put down whatever we have for the poor thing and retreat.  It's been stuck in that room for who knows how long.  Everyone just calm down and let's not frightening.  It's confused and hungry and wants out.  Let's all just get out of it's way and let it out."

<Orange>
Nature check to attempt to calm/slow the bear and get it to eat the meat we're throwing to it.
16:41, Today: Arnellia rolled 23 using 1d20+8 ((15)).

Can the bear get through the secret entrance we used or is it too big?

The bear stops its charge and snaps up the remains in its mouth but continues to move towards the door. With its mouth full of meat it is no longer roaring in anger at least...

OOC: Okay and unpause. If you want to keep to your same action as before just copy & paste it again. Right now the party has initiative so you can do an action and then the bear will go.

Sularius simply shakes his head and backs up into one of the adjacent rooms to stay out of the bear's way and pulls out his bow just in case.

Moving to Q22 and pulling out bow

Nezaglomie sees the bear starting to charge and, panicking, she looks for a handy rock and starts casting Telekinetic Projectile.  But she sees it stop to sniff at the food Yala has tossed to it and she holds up.  She casts a quick Shield, just in case, then starts to back away.

A1: Shield
A2:  Move to S20

Yarr lets out a chuckle as the bear slows for the offered food, then he quickly makes his way to the end of the hall (t19) to ensure that the door at that end is wide open as well. If he has the time he will step over to the side of the hall to be out of the way. (S20)

"Everyone, just back up, and let him out." She said as she slowly eased back, placing a gentle hand on Maerk's shoulder, she would whisper in his ear softly as she tries to gently lead MAerk back too. "Come on, let's see if he'll just leave."

[OOC: Going back to R20, coaxing Maerk back with her, to give the bear enough room to hopefully keep moving past.]

Maerk snorted and shrugged the delicate hand from his shoulder. He gripped his shield, and walked through the door, fearlessly, attempting to skirt the huge bear!

He gestured toward the door and, in the Ulfen tongue, spoke to the wild beast, [Language unknown: "Evlatr Ouslaress, e esut el se somstrday..."]

A1: Raise Shield
A2: Stride (carefully) to L15
A3: If the bear leaves, shut and bar the door behind it, Else reaction...

The party backs out of the way and the bear squeezes out of its tiny room and lumbers down the hallway towards the open secret door. It would be a tight squeeze for the bear but that was its only hope for getting freedom.

The bear leaves behind an absolutely destroyed room. All the furniture has either been smashed or heavily clawed. The pile of bodies in the middle of the room has already gotten a strong smell of rot that has mixed poorly with the large piles of dung plopped around the room.

A quick search of the viscera pile reveals a couple bits of equipment not smashed or ruined. One body has an intact tanglefoot bag while another body has what appears to be a vial of alchemist's fire.

Among the debris along the north wall appears to be the remains of a small personal library. The books are shredded and torn. A quick glance doesn't show anything of value but given dedicated time to sit and study some of the books might be able to be pieced together.It appears the library was focused on information about the Hellknight order but beyond that it is difficult to tell.

Yala would walk up to the once again closed door and knock on it. "Maerk, the bears gone. You can open the door..."

Za gives a little squeak when the huge bear passes by and then chuckles with relief.  "I assume those goblins are staying clear of the door, or they're going to get a surprise," she says, shrugging.  It's clear that the well-being of the goblins is not her first priority.  When the tanglefoot bag and the alchemist's fire is discovered, she declines any interest in either.  She is already feeling a little guilty for having grabbed the statue of the dog, which is clearly the best item they've found.

"What do you folks think?  Should we take a peek in the room they have helpfully marked 'Dragon (Don't enter)'?  It's probably their treasure room.  Otherwise, we should go clear out the undead before delving any deeper into the unknown."

Maerk opened the door and tossed the bottle of fire to Nez and the sticky bag to Yarr.

"Books," he said with a bit of a snarl toward Yala, though he didn't really look at her. His bluster was wearing off though, and the mention of treasure eased it away even more.

"Maerk once saw a dragon. It ate horses three... No, Maerk does not believe a dragon is here."

He hefted his shield and approached the door. "Ready?" he asked, looking back over his shoulder.


OOC: With no objection, Maerk will open the "Dragon" door!

Nezaglomie freaks out when Maerk tosses the alchemist's fire.  Her instincts were to dive away from the projectile, but he had tossed it gently and she managed at least to cushion its fall.  "I'm not the best person to carry this," she remarks.  "Someone with better ability at throwing things, and the ... uhh ... height ... to get the distance with it would be better."  She carefully hands the bomb to Sularius.
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"Maerk, come on, don't be like that. Please..." She said softly as he went by. Tossing alchemist fire at the LEAST experienced person for it instead of the MOST. She gave a small, gentle sigh, and shook her head.

"Yeah, that makes sense, giving that to the person who admitted being the least experienced with it instead of the person who's most experienced with Alchemy." Jasmine, the flying cat said.

"Not now Jasmine. He's upset." She  said softly to the feline.

"Anyway, you may be right Maerk but we should still have Sularius and Yarr have a look and listen first. I gave them the potions for that purpose, let them use their talents please." She said, politely.

Maerk's glower spiked for a moment at the odd pet, but finally his brow relaxed and he gave a great sigh. "Maerk knows fighting, Maerk knows killing. Maerk does not make pretty words in this tongue. THIS is what Maerk knows, and Maerk knows it best!" He held up his battered shield.

It was obvious he was struggling with the language and was frustrated that he could not find the words to say what he wanted to convey. "Maerk sees things with eyes of war... sneaks and word-magicks are not for Maerk to make. Give Maerk sword and shield when time to make battle and Maerk protects much you. But Maerk's ways not your ways. This is hard for Maerk to..." he pointed at his head and his heart, not having the vocabulary to finish his thought.

He stepped aside and gestured Yarr and Sularius to lead the way, sheathing his scarred sword and drawing forth one of his javelins.

She smiled to Maerk, and patted him on his shoulder. "You are a good fighter, and a strong one." She said with a soft smile and a nod. "Sometimes though, those with the finer skills are needed when we're not." Then she grinned to him. "But don't fret my friend, I am sure we'll meet many strong enemy for you to charge in and fight! And I'll be right there next to you, with my sword, or to tend your wounds. Or both! Okay?" She took her hand from his shoulder, and offered it to him, to shake.

Maerk reached toward her hand, but instead of taking the grip, he went further and grasped her forearm in the Ulfen manner, his huge paw easily wrapping all the way around her forearm, his grip vice-like.

He nodded and said something in his own tongue and then attempted a translation, "Brothers for battle..."

The furniture in this former bedroom is all askew, revealing a mountain-like pile in the center made up largely of garbage such as filthy cloth, chunks of rubble, and bent nails, though there are a few shining glints in the mix. On the southern wall, scrawled in a chunky substance in a childlike hand, are several words that might be gibberish.

[Language unknown: UGHILLAME ORENCEATE OREESSEST!]

Along the eastern wall it looks like the stones have been smashed and a rudimentary tunnel has been dug that stretches about three feet into the earth beyond. On the floor next to this pathetic attempt at excavation are bent lengths of metal and pipe as well as smaller pieces that look like bent rusty spoons encrusted with dirt.

Sorry, that's in the room labeled 'Dragon.  Don't enter'?  I'm assuming that's the case, because you said that there are only 5 doors left we haven't opened, and your list doesn't include the door to that room.

Nezaglomie chuckles at the room empty of any sort of wyrmkind, and then again at the writing on the wall.  "Well, whoever wrote this at least knows a bit of Draconic, but their ability is barely grade-school level.  It says, 'BEWARE MITEY DRAGONS!'"  The gnome manages to convey the misspelling in her awkward pronunciation while translating.

"I suspect I was right -- this is just the goblins' treasure room, and that mess over must be what they consider 'treasure.'  There's probably a few silver pieces amongst the garbage, but I don't see any reason to take it from them.  I'm rather baffled, though, what they thought to gain by scrawling a warning inside the room.  For anyone to see it, they must have already entered."  She shakes her head and mutters, "goblins."
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She smiled and nodded. "Brother and sister for battle." Then she smiled again. "You'll have to teach me the Ulfin language at some point." She said with a nod.

Then she grinned. "Now lets go! We have a goblin home to clear big guy! Plus I wanna see if there is a dragon, I never seen one..."

"It's weird that it is written in Draconic." Yala says as she walks into the room with Maerk (hopefully). "I did not think Goblin's knew that language, considering it is the language of dragon's and magic."

Then she considered what Za was saying for a moment then looked at the attempt of a tunnel. "Why, were they digging a tunnel?" She asked as she pointed.

Sularius nods, "It is strange that they would be digging a tunnel when they could just exit through the secret door, unless they felt trapped. Regardless, we can ask them when we head back to camp. I think we should finish investigating the rest of the rooms, just to ensure there are no other threats down here."

The goblins made no mention of digging a tunnel and even goblins understand you need more than spoons and random bits of metal to dig a proper tunnel.

It seems reasonable to conclude that perhaps the invaders, once trapped by the collapse and without knowledge of the secret entrance, had attempted to dig their way out.

"Alright, lets check the room with the dead things next since they know whats there. I don't want to look into a room that they do not know what's in it yet..." She said with a nod.

Maerk began to understand a little more clearly what it must have been like to be trapped down here with an angry bear...

He nodded, ready for the next challenge they would face.

While the others are concerning themselves with the other things in the room, and making further plans, Arnellia takes the time provided to look through the damaged books for 4 or 5 that might have the most remaining information that could be gleaned from them.

Yarr keeps his thoughts to himself as he checks out the room. He takes a good look over the tools and scraps that had been used for digging before checking the lettering on the wall. Lightly running his hands over the script and checking for any kind of hidden switch.

Seeing that the tunnel goes nowhere, and the pile of books and other garbage is just that, garbage, Nezaglomie is eager to get moving.  She seems to have some personal reason for getting into a battle, not with a hungry bear, but with a group of easier monsters, and skeletons (or whatever) are just the thing.

Sularius nods in agreement with Nezaglomie's plan, and moves down to examine the door leading to the 'dead things' and listen for sounds on the other side.

Moving down to examine and listen to the S2 door - 12 perception, 13 for finding traps

13:11, Today: Sularius Alariel rolled 12 using 1d20+7 with rolls of 5.  Perception.

"Hey guys, remember what Calmont said? He was looking for something down here...  Said the Goblins knew where it was, or at least made it like he thought they did at least." She said in thought, remembering back to the earlier fight. "It makes me wonder, about that warning there, and the room the Bramblebrasher's labeled on the map with a question mark and monsters." She continued as she followed behind Sularius, growing quiet as they neared door S2.

[OOC: Don't forget your bonuses for the Eagle Eyes potion Sul and Yarr. :) ]

Four monuments loom in this dark and somber room, each with prominent carvings of black-winged angels and various stylized pentagrams. Burnished plaques along the floor next to each sepulcher bear the names of those interred within, while atop the northern wall near the ceiling the words “Sepulcher of the Nail” are carved in prominent relief.

On each plaque is a name and retelling of accomplishments and judging by the "titles" bestowed upon these dead Hellknights they were very important, worth of dedicated tombs.

The four named are: Mistress of Blades Xera Delphine, Master of Blades Renten Viselli, Paravicar Yenesta, and Paralictor Loreen Sinelle.

There is an archway leading to the East as well as a door south of that which is currently closed.
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Having studied the Hellknights for the last few years, Sularius was visibly excited to see the monuments and rushes to the front of the group, taking a quick look for traps before rushing to look at the first sepulcher.

28 Perception check for traps
17 Society check to learn more about the hellknights

15:03, Today: Sularius Alariel rolled 17 using 1d20+9 with rolls of 8.  Society.
15:03, Today: Sularius Alariel rolled 28 using 1d20+8 with rolls of 20.  Perception.

"Sularius wait! Remember they said there was dead things in here, that might mean undead!" She warned as he rushed in to look at the sepulcher!

Yarr enters the room when he can get through everyone else and takes a look around the perimeter. The others are checking out the obvious points of interest. What else might there be in this room? He takes a listen at the door to the south and if he doesn't hear anything he carries on and looks through the archway to the east.

Nezaglomie walks in the room with the others, gazing at the monuments with a certain amount of awe.  This is what real adventuring is like!  Hideous monsters slain, mysterious sepulchers, no doubt holding the body of an ancient king buried with all his magical regalia.  Standing a little out of the way, she begins casting Read Aura on the closest monument, knowing that the spell will probably take too long before the rest of the group is ready to move on, but maybe she'll get to finish it.

Maerk concerned himself with not being surprised by something dead suddenly becoming life-like. He let his gaze fall around the chamber as he wondered what sort of monument would someday be built to honor him...

"Maerk thinks rocks and a muddy ditch!" He laughed at his own joke, finding this particularly humorous.

Arnellia pauses in the doorway, shocked by the monuments before slowly walking into the room.  .oO(Thank Ashava these goblins were wise enough to leave them to their rest.)

She made her way around the room reading the plaques, giving those with the skills to scout the ways out.   She wondered how many of these names were in the library that had been destroyed.

She also watched her companions, ready to interfered should any of them try to disturb the dead.  Several of them were alarmingly abrupt and she would not stand for any desecration.

Sularius doesn't spot any traps on the crypts and looking over the nameplates he would imagine that being buried in such a manner would be considered a very high honor for these particular hellknights. They would have been viewed as heroes or even legends among the order to be given this kind of special treatment.

Looking through the archway Nez spies what happens to the rest of the Hellknights when they died. Instead of typical flagstones the whole hallway is made up of headstones with what looks like writing carved onto the surface. Nez can spy about six of the headstones that look like they've been pried open but from the angle she can't tell what was beneath them.

Along the southern wall here is a large relief carving of
a sunburst made of nails.

There appears to be a door at the very far side of the hallway as well as another open archway to the south.

"Something concerns me, and that is why those one's are disturbed." She said as she began to look around. "Let's be careful."

Peeking through the southern door Yarr spies another long chamber. Narrow stone walls filled with coffin-sized compartments stretch from the floor to the ceiling in this dark, claustrophobic chamber. Most of the compartments are occupied with shroud-covered bodies, though some of them are conspicuously empty.

"Heh heh heh" He chuckles "I be thinkin we may not be the only ones down here friends." He states in a stage whisper loud enough for all hear.

Sularius nods at Yalandlara's comment, "I agree, we should definitely be careful. I'll check to see if there are any arcane auras associated with a trap in there." He says a few arcane words as he looks into the long room with the coffins.

Casting Detect Magic into the room with coffins, looking for a magical trap or anything like that.

Sularius sends out a pulse and detects that there is magic present.

OOC: To clarify, Detect Magic is very imprecise now compared to 1e. Until it is heightened to a 4th level spell it no longer will "pinpoint" magical fields, it is just a binary "is there magical effects within 30ft, yes or no".

It does specify you can ignore "known" effects like your party members so I am asssuming Sularius is doing that. I also put him on square AN15 to "focus" on the southern room but detect magic is now a 30' emanation, not a cone.

Sularius frowns a bit, "Well, there's definitely magic in there, but unless we wanted to take about 10 minutes for me to examine it, I couldn't say for sure what it is."

My understanding is I could use the Identify Magic skill action to find out more information about it, correct?

"Do we have the time?" She said, considering. "And can you tell what's magical?"

[OOC: You would need Read Aura cantrip to figure out what's even magical in the room,  and to Identify its abilities. Essentially they split the old Detect Magic into two seperate spells, and the old Spellcraft skill into 4 skills. They really took what made ID'ing magic simple, and complicated it.]

The priestess eyes the disturbed graves uneasily.  Clearly someone has already disturbed some of them; unless of course they were already set up as guardians.

"I believe we should take the time to determine more information about it.  Let's not go blundering in and trigger a trap that a little caution could avoid."

She pauses for a moment.  "And let's not compound problems by disturbing those who are still resting here."

OOC: Poke poke. Someone do something or I will have something done to you <insert ominous music

"Agreed. Let's tread carefully and let Yarr and Sul take point to make sure that nothing get's tripped since they have the added benefit's of my potions." Yala said, agreeing with Arnellia.

[OOC: I think we were waiting on your input on DEtect Magic bossman. :) Now that you've given it, we should be able to move on.]

I was still waiting to find out if there are any results from my Read Aura on the closest monument.  It's quite different from Detect Magic -- it is slower and more targeted, aimed only at a single object and taking a minute to cast.  I assumed your comment about Detect Magic was because I didn't have results yet from Read Aura.
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Nez studied one of the monuments but there are no magical auras present on the monument. Of course that doesn't mean there might not be something inside or underneath that could be magical, just that there is no magic that she can detect on the monument itself.

Nezaglomie waits eagerly, almost bouncing like a puppy, as she encourages the more sturdy members of the group to advance into the area where "obviously" a bunch of undead are about to jump out at them.  She keeps one hand in her pouch and seems to be mouthing something over and over without making any actual sound.

Maerk was out of his element for the most part, knowing or caring little about magic and the subtleties thereof. Instead, he listened hard for sounds of approaching danger, and he tried to find the tactical points i the chamber which might lend him some advantage or other... Maerk's companions were the experts at this sort of thing.

OOC: Keeping a lookout

ah undead he thinks sardonically.
He starts into the room cautiously, inspecting for traps or trigger mechanisms before he puts each foot down.

Sularius sighs as Yarr heads into the room, "I realize you believe you're invincible Yarr, but crawling around old buildings and sneaking into long forgotten tombs is literally what I do. It might make sense to let me check things out first?"

Regardless of the goblin's response, Sularius follows into the room, cautiously looking for traps.


27 Perception (nat 20), 28 for finding traps

16:10, Today: Sularius Alariel rolled 27 using 1d20+7 with rolls of 20.  Perception.

"You both have the skills for it, as well as my potion helping you, work together." She said with a small chuckle.

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Remember you are both under the effects of an Eagle Eye, Lesser elixir from Yala.

Give you +1 to Perception, +2 to find Traps and Secret Doors. Last an Hour.

https://2e.aonprd.com/Equipment.aspx?ID=90

To the surprise of nobody, as soon as Yarr crosses the threshold skeletons begin climbing out of the open graves. Five of them appear to be standard bony skeletons but the sixth is clad in Hellknight plate armor.



*Eagle Eyes - +1 Perception, +2 to find traps or secret doors

Nezaglomie give a little squeal of delight as she pulls out the onyx dog out of her pouch.  As she throws it over Yarr's head, she shouts, "Du'calcia," filling the phrase with all of her intent that the object come to life and attack the skeletons.

A1:  Move to where I can see the skeltons.  Let's say AK19.
A2 & 3:  Activate item.

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Sularius moves into the room to get within range of his, pulling it as he finds a good position. He fires a single shot, trying to find the range to the target.

Action 1: Stride to AM18
Action 2: Draw bow
Action 3; Shoot skeleton in AM30 and miss

17:38, Today: Sularius Alariel rolled 12 using 1d20+8 with rolls of 4.  Shoot skeleton.

She quickly moves to the other side of the wall, pulls out her slide, and loads it.

[OOC: Action 1: Stride to AM17
Action 2: Pull out Sling.
Action 3: Load Sling.]

The big Ulfen yawned hugely, his strong jaw making a popping noise with the effort. He thought he heard something and was about to dismiss it, but then his companions suddenly became excited and began scattering about. He gripped his javelin and stepped around the corner, squinting into the gloom to see his foes!

A1: Stride 25' to [AL,20]
A2: Raise Shield
A3: Delay throw javelin until a foe is within 30' (Maerk rolled 13,7 using d20+8,d6+4 ((5,3))) Pffft!

Nez activates the figurine and it grows and morphs into a dog with fur the same onyx shade as the statue. It isn't a particularly large dog but it instantly alerts itself on the undead that are climbing out and marching. It sniffs around and also barks to the South before focusing back on the skeletons.

OOC: Nez just as an FYI if you want it to do stuff you will have to use actions to command it. No nature roll is needed as it has a mental link but is still somewhat limited on intelligence. Don't expect it to write out Oliver Twist :D



Sularius draws his bow but firing arrows at skeletons is very tricky given they are either empty space or hard bone.

Yala moves up and readies her sling.

Maerk strides forward, ready to throw his javelin as the enemy approaches.

Yarr moves up, prepared to assist Maerk. Arnellia likewise steps up prepared to assist as needed.

The skeletal knight issues a silent signal and the others stream forward. Maerk lets loose his javelin but it bounces off of one of the skeleton's shields. Two of them make attacks on Maerk while a third swings at Yarr.

Maerk takes a hit on his newly repaired shield and deflects the blow.

Round 2



*Eagle Eyes - +1 Perception, +2 to find traps or secret doors


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Yala fires off a sling bullet at one of the skeletons, reloads, then fires off another at the same one!

[OOC: Action 1: Fire Sling Bullet I loaded last turn at the Skeleton at AM21.
Action 2: Reload Sling.
Action 3: Fire sling at same skeleton at AM21.

17:13, Today: Yalandlara Vallindel rolled 19,2 using 1d20+6,1d6 with rolls of 13,2.  Sling Attack 1.
HIT AC: 19
Damage: 2 Bludgeoning

17:14, Today: Yalandlara Vallindel rolled 13,1 using 1d20+1,1d6 with rolls of 12,1.  Sling Attack 2.
Hit AC: 13
Damage: 1 Bludgeoning

You'd think a sling would be propulsive (add STR to it) since it does require you to spin it and fling your arm. Oh well, either way only one would have hit. lol.]

Sularius frowned as he glanced at his bow, wondering if arrows would actually have any sort of effect on the skeletons, while realizing his rapier likely wouldn't either. So he fired twice at the skeleton in the middle, and then backed out of the room.

Action 1: Shoot Skeleton #3, hit AC 19 for 6 piercing damage
Action 2: Shoot Skeleton #3, hit AC 17 for 5 piercing damage
Action 3: Stride to AL16

17:27, Today: Sularius Alariel rolled 19 using 1d20+8 with rolls of 11.  Shoot skeleton #3.
17:27, Today: Sularius Alariel rolled 17 using 1d20+3 with rolls of 14.  Shoot skeleton #3.
17:28, Today: Sularius Alariel rolled 6,5 using 1d6,1d6 with rolls of 6,5.