Adriel pulls her out and closes the door.
The mould is not attacking us and the ship is not seaworthy with it's presence. Let's take what we can from the chartroom and leave. The sooner the better, how can we know Darius has not already left?
Adriel had no intention of burning the vessel if it could be avoided. But he needed to get these fools off and safely. He was the best fighter on the ship so nobody was dying on his watch.
Rd 7: Henk
"yeah...the charts and maps...good idea Astri." He moves into the room Adriel had emerged from.
Team Darius:
what are you doing?
Rd 7: Henk
"yeah...the charts and maps...good idea Astri." He moves into the room Adriel had emerged from.
Team Darius:
what are you doing?
Seeing that the possessed ship is not prepared to listen to reason, David will just go check out what's in the remaining room .
Capt Cray walks sternly towards the last door on the left hand side or the cooridor.
you know this it the quest room on the ship.
The Capt aka Dirk boldly walk to the door.
The door to this chamber has been smashed off its hinges and now lays half in the room. These simple quarters contain a small bunk and a cracked wooden writing table. A leather cloak hangs on a peg on one wall.
You want that leather cloak on the peg is magical, and anyone who tells them otherwise is a filthy liar who wants the precious garment for themselves.
Standing there in the room is skeleton waiting to crush it's foe.
Capt Cray walks sternly towards the last door on the left hand side or the cooridor.
** spoiler omitted **
Standing there in the room is skeleton waiting to crush it's foe.
David will cast "Detect Magic" to confirm things - unless the skeleton is an actual "animated" skeleton as opposed to just a corpse; in which he'll destroy the skeleton with one amazing critical hit, then he'll cast Detect Magic...
Either way, his weapons are ready. What specifically happens when he gets there via the "Skeleton"?
Team 1, Round 7
Pleased that Henk appeared to be listening to reason, the half-elf slips past Adriel and the large man into the chart room. Two hovering balls of light follow her. They stick close so she can see in the fog, with one hovering over Adriel and Henk each.
The half-elf briefly sets her sword on top of a table and pulls her haversack from her shoulder, opening the main pouch. "Roll up all the charts and maps you can, and we'll put them in my bag. I'll gather the instruments, but if I miss any throw them in the bag as well. We can go through it all later."
"Does this mean no bunk time?" He winks at Bri.
"Does this mean no bunk time?" He winks at Bri.
"No, you sodding bugger - it means I want to know what's behind the bloody door now!" David calls out.
Team Henk
A large table takes up the center of this room. Several sheaves of parchment depicting nautical charts and maps are strewn atop it, along with instruments for tracking course and heading. Lockers sit set into the aft wall of the chamber. The charts here are disheveled, and Captain Cray tore
Bri spares a glance at Dondrel. "What?! No, now is not the bunk time for anyone. Least of all with you. We are stuck below deck on a cursed ship and the only thing I want right now is to get the hell off of it."
Embrianna looks around. "Alright, now lets go find another way back up to the deck. Once we are out we can discuss what to do next."
Bri will be looking for a way to get to the other side of the ship, opening up doors if she needs to.
Adriel moves in with the other 2, keeping his sword out and holding his charge he simply grabs what maps he can with his free hand and holds them out for Astrianna to pack in her bag. If she questions his lack of help he'll answer, Holding a spell in my sword, if we are attacked, they get quite a hit...
Dirk/Cray the skeleton is moving towards you as soon as the door is pushed open.
The skeleton is wearing bits of leather armor and wielding a long sword, he steps 5 ft closer and attacks the capt in the doorway.
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Adriel moves in with the other 2, keeping his sword out and holding his charge he simply grabs what maps he can with his free hand and holds them out for Astrianna to pack in her bag. If she questions his lack of help he'll answer, Holding a spell in my sword, if we are attacked, they get quite a hit...
Team Henk
A large table takes up the center of this room. Several sheaves of parchment depicting nautical charts and maps are strewn atop it, along with instruments for tracking course and heading. Lockers sit set into the aft wall of the chamber. The charts here are disheveled, and Captain Cray tore
Team Henk
A large table takes up the center of this room. Several sheaves of parchment depicting nautical charts and maps are strewn atop it, along with instruments for tracking course and heading. Lockers sit set into the aft wall of the chamber. The charts here are disheveled, and Captain Cray tore
Me too! I have to check it out when I get home.
As the door swings open, David sees a skeleton moving toward him.
As his eyes take in what he sees, he determines that – for now – using “Detect Magic” may not be completely necessary.
A walking skeleton? Hmm… It’s quite possible that this creature may be magical… he muses.
As the skeleton advances, he strikes it with his magical rapier and again with his Cold Iron dagger…
Team Henk
A large table takes up the center of this room. Several sheaves of parchment depicting nautical charts and maps are strewn atop it, along with instruments for tracking course and heading. Lockers sit set into the aft wall of the chamber. The charts here are disheveled, and Captain Cray tore
The charts here are disheveled, and Captain Cray tore several of them to bits after the paranoia took hold, hoping to damn the crew to sail the Razor endlessly if their mutiny against him succeeded.
Anyone in the Chart room making a DC 20 Knowledge (geography) or Profession (sailor) can read the following spoiler.
the ship’s travels up until they went adrift. The charts show that they washed up in Ho’oka’la.
If you figure out the charts with the DC posted above, then and anyone who a DC 15 Knowledge (history).
Team Darius:
Capt Cray (Dirk) the skeleton is real and both of your attacks hit but each does minimal damage to the skeleton.
A swift action consumes a very small amount of time, but represents a larger expenditure of effort than a free action. You can perform one swift action per turn without affecting your ability to perform other actions. In that regard, a swift action is like a free action. You can, however, perform only one single swift action per turn, regardless of what other actions you take. You can take a swift action anytime you would normally be allowed to take a free action. Swift actions usually involve spellcasting, activating a feat, or the activation of magic items.
The others on Team Darius hear the distinctive sound of steal clinking. although you do not see what is happening.
RD 7
Team one:
Henk - moves into the chart room
Astri - starts to retrieve maps, studying some
Adriel - moves in the room, holds maps out to Astri
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Team Two
Skeleton - steps to fight Dirk.
Darius -
Sath -
Bri - moves and opens door into hold
Sawbones - battle with skeleton
"By the gods Dirk. Will you quit fooling around and either go in or out the damn door? Keeping the doorway blocked does absolutely no good for whatever is going on!"
Bri tries to peer around Dirk to see what he is up to.
Team 1, Round 7
The bard looks up at the ceiling for the moment, squinting. "I thought you said you fell into here Adriel? I don't see a hole."
She sees the torn up maps, and her face darkens. Did Adriel do this? He was lying about the hole- he must have torn up these maps so I couldn't impress the captain with them. Giving him a suspicious look, the bard takes the maps from the Bladedaner.
Astrianna's curiosity takes over her suspicious mind as she looks at the torn up maps, holding her chin for a moment.
The half-elf mouths a few words and draws a line with her finger before recognition dawns on her face.
She snaps her fingers. "They went ashore in Ho'oka'la! It's a place in the Razor that..." The woman stops, thinking of the beautiful totam on the ship above. "It's a burial ground where idols to the Razor's ancient gods are laid. That totem on the deck is one of those idols. It could be very powerful..."
Team Darius:
Capt Cray (Dirk) the skeleton is real and both of your attacks hit but each does minimal damage to the skeleton.
GM: Activating Archeologist’s Luck is a Swift Action which grants a Luck Bonus. The effects last the entire round; this includes all actions in that round because maintaining it (be it that round or the next rounds) is a Free Action.
It doesn’t take 2 Swift Actions to use it for the round; only one, and a Free Action to maintain it for the duration of the round. It only ends when the character chooses to end it, or when/if the character falls unconscious.
Quick follow-up question: when I entered the room you had the Skeleton attack me as if it won initiative.
However, we didn’t roll Initiative, it simply attacked me as if it had a Surprise Round. Although it missed me, I was confused why I didn’t even get the chance to make an Initiative Roll before it attacked me.
It's not a big deal, I'm just confused as to what happened there, is all.
Hearing combat, Darius shoves his way past Sath and Brianna, pausing only long enough to send a steely gaze at Sath and say, "Do NOT finish whatever it is you are casting!"
As he moves down the hall, Darius calls out, "Whatever it is, Hawk, draw it out so we can surround it!"
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I didn't stop and read the arch luck ability ability. I thought you were using two separate swift actions. No problem.
As far as the movement your movement I do believe that occurred in RD 7, not six. So you opened the door the skeleton was ready and it stepped up and attacked.
As far as the initiative order we already have an initiative order set for the actions on the ship. I don't want to confuse flow by changing into combat initiative rounds. Especially if the other team is not in combat then that will get too confusing and the second group will be left out of action flow.
Darius moves toward the sound of steel, giving his command to Sath who doesn't listen and casts his spell.
RD 8
Team one:
Henk -
Astri -
Adriel -
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Team Two
Skeleton -
Darius -
Sath -
Bri -
Sawbones
RD 8: HENK
The scowling man grabs (move) the crowbar and begins to pry open the cabinet(std).
Team 1, Round 8
Astrianna stuffs the maps she was handed into her haversack, and closes the bag. She opens it up again thinking of her crowbar, and pulls the lever out from the top of the bag with a smile. The bard offers the crowbar to Henk.
"Let's pop those lockers open, Quartermaster. I bet there is some fabulous treasure inside with all the trips this ship made to the Razor." She says excitedly, turning to begin collecting navigational equipment and tossing them in her sack as if she were picking out vegetables at the market. "Could you help Henk pop those lockers Adriel?" The bard says off-hand while inspecting a sextant.
** spoiler omitted **
Okay - it's not a big deal, like I said - but if my movement was to go to the door and open it, then the skeleton's movement would be to see me.
Unless the Skeleton was using Stealth to prepare to Surprise me, in which case I'd get a Perception Check against the Stealth Roll (I believe).
Basically what might have happened is my action was to open the door and it's action was to attack.
But this would assume that the Skeleton was part of the combat round order and that I was aware of him - but if I wasn't aware of him, I believe I should have had the chance via Perception before I opened the door to avoid a potential Surprise Attack, isn't that correct?
I think what should have happened (as I understand it, though I may be wrong - I'm just trying to make sure I understand it for the future) is that I have opened the door: when the door was opened both me and the Skeleton saw each other and were surprised. The person who reacted first (or got over their surprise) is the one who won the initiative roll, if we had one, and got to attack. Wouldn't that be correct?
Again, it's really not a big deal at this point, after all, it's only one skeleton and my friends are down the hall, but I'm still trying to get a handle on Initiative is all.
RD 8 Skeleton
The skeleton slices at the captain, it's eyes have hint of redness, it's bones have evident gnaw markings.
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"Captain Cray must die!"
RD 8 Skeleton
"Captain Cray must die!"
GM, if you said you didn't want to re-calculate Initiative because it's "Fixed" wouldn't that meant he skeleton has to go after Darius has had the chance to move this round - and also, after the effects of Sath's spell go off since it's initiative is set to mine?
I'm sorry, I'm just having trouble understanding the actions; I was intentionally waiting for the others to move before I acted, was that not correct?
** spoiler omitted **
Sorry to be a pain, I'm really not trying to be one.
I kind of assumed that maybe the skeleton was connected to the ship in the same way that the ship was able to open/shut doors - but I was confused as to why I didn't have the chance to avoid a Surprise Attack via the Perception Check.
I know that with Uncanny Dodge I wouldn't be "Surprised", but I'm just trying to understand how things work is all.
It's all good, though, I'm just trying to understand how you run the game; so it's cool.