As he's about to sally forth, another enters from the stairs.

(OOC: Natra.  I made a thread Stairs Up Level 1 Room 1 for the meeting.

OOC: No worries, I've dealt with it in your new thread. Don't really want to join up with anyone at this stage, but occasionally running into people and saying hi is quite cool :)

Having made polite gestures to the other person, Bandicoot continues with his tapping an exploration, looking to put some distance between himself and the other one.

The young lady with an unlit torch seems to be following Bandicoot from a safe distance behind.

(OOC See Stair... thread for progress)

Having seen off the hanger-on, Bandicoot goes exploring, his pole out in front of him testing the ground as he goes.

OOC: Whatever he has to do to not follow the way that Natra took, he will do it.

She heads off toward the glint.

Bandicoot heads the other way.  His tapping with his 10' pole alerts him to a pit, which he avoids.

Then he comes to a point he can go through a door to the left or continue on the passage.

(OOC rolled a 3 to avoid the pit, 10' pole bumped to a 4, yea!)

Room 4

Bandicoot will look for traps on the door, and if he finds nothing opens it.

A room beyond the door contains a fire beetle chewing on a small pile of copper coins.

A door leaves opposite

Room 5

Bandicoot looks to try and get the advantage on the fire beetle. He equips his sword and shield and moves to take a swing with his new weapon.

15:40, Today: Secret Roll: Bandicoot rolled 6 using 1d8+1.  damage.
15:40, Today: Secret Roll: Bandicoot rolled 19 using 1d20+1.  sword attack on fire beetle.

An amazing first swing with his new weapon gets not only first blood but a clean kill!

2 fire beetle glands, 18 cp.

Bandicoot reequips his pole and inspects the room before moving to the door opposite. He checks it for traps and if h finds nothing, opens it.

The door opens to another passage which makes a left then goes to a dead end.

(OOC Only solid option is to backtrack to any room track number previous.  The flash game allows searching for secret doors at dead ends which I'd be inclined to allow if you wish to try to press on.)

Room 7.

Bandicoot searches for secret doors.

If he can only search a particular side of the dead end, he will search left, then right, the middle. If he finds nothing whatsoever, he will backtrack....not sure if doing it this way is okay but it could save several posts if he finds nothing :)

(Perfect!)

He gets to the middle and finds a secret door.  Opening it you find a room with a prominent painting hung on one wall of dogs dressed in fancy clothes playing dice.  It looks priceless!

Another door exits to the right.

(OOC the painting is heavy)

Room 8

Bandicoot will carefully inspect the room and the painting, with his pole first then more closely. If nothing shows up he will take the painting down and try to backtrack to the entrance as best he can.

Bandicoot doesn't find anything trap like with the painting and takes it.

He follows back most of the way, but then seems to get turned around, a left branch has a glint of light, and the passage he's in keeps going.

Room 3 lost

Bandicoot is looking for an exit so he can fence his new painting, so he tries the glint of light. He approaches cautiously in case it is a monster carrying a light!

Bandicoot comes across an open pit about 10 feet deep, a quart or so of something slimy dripping down the opposite edge, glowing.

If it is possible to go around the pit and continue on, Bandicoot will do so. Else, he will backtrack and look for the way out in the opposite direction.

The passage is blocked by the pit, you end up going back and taking the other turn.  You find a chamber 20'x30' across with no other exits (dead end) a humanoid with the face of a pig carrying a club,  He guards a huge chest (heavy.)

Room 2 lost.

If able to withdraw and retreat away from the room, Bandicoot will do so, hoping that the pig-thing won't leave its own treasure unguarded just to chase him.

If he's able to exit the area, Bandicoot will continue exploring looking for the way out.

Bandicoot tries to tiptoe away, but the humanoid catches sight of him and charges after, squealing, and whallops him within an inch of his life (5 damage)

(OOC sneaking's the only real way to leave a monster besides running away, so rolled that for you, first roll picked up some old dice, so had to roll again.)

16:05, Today: Grand Master, on behalf of Bandicoot, rolled 9 using 1d20.
16:07, Today: Grand Master, for the NPC Piggy, rolled 17,5 using d20,d6.  attack bandicoot.

Bandicoot is left with no choice but to try and fight his way to survival. He grabs his sword and takes a swing at the creature.

OOC: And, a miss.

11:16, Today: Secret Roll: Bandicoot rolled 2 using 1d20+1.  sword attack on humanoid.

The pig-man snorts in laughter at Bandicoot's attempted attack with a sword and finishes him.

16:33, Today: Grand Master, for the NPC Piggy, rolled 18,2 using d20,d6.  attack bandicoot.

"And I had this priceless Coolidge to fence, too......." are Bandicoot's last words before everything goes dark.

OOC: My next robber will be named Wombat. If you set him up for me I'll get going :)

Closing thread