Dragon's Demand (Inactive)

Game Master David_Bross

You find a door, check it for traps, and find it as ordinary as the ones that came before it. It is however locked.

"Ah, locked is it?
I could try, then again Braggom's just warmed up."

With no offer to "smash" the door from Braggom, Cassandra takes out her tools and gets to it.

Disable Device: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (3) + 8 = 11
If that's a 5 or less DC fail, i get a retry.
Disable Device: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9

Her attempt was foiled by something, clearly.
"Darn, what's with this thing, something stuck within the lock?
Braggom, could your strenght resolve this please."

"Braggom break door"

hit and damage: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 72d6 + 7 ⇒ (3, 2) + 7 = 12

It is sort of funny because you guys actually had the key to this door.

After a few swings from Braggom's sword it yields and is bashed in. You all see a creature ready to leap at you from the other side.

The man looks malformed and has dull green to grey colored skin. Knowledge Religion to identify

Bold may post their actions, regular round
Ronaef
Marcellino
Braggom
Cassandra
Nátulcien
Creature

Ronaef leaps into action as soon as the door is coming down.. ware the creature and fires a blast of acid at it.

Acid Splash ranged Touch: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 2 = 151d3 ⇒ 3

Ah...sounds like i'll be able to do little here.

Cassandra quickly draws an arrow and releases it at the figure.
Shot, PBS: 1d20 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 4 + 1 = 21 Dmg, PBS: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

She gets the feeling it did little to nothing.

HP 6/17
Rage used 3/6

Raging, Braggom will charge the creature...

raging, power attack and damage: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (14) + 7 = 212d6 + 10 ⇒ (3, 4) + 10 = 17

Ronaef's acid burns away at the creature as you all smell a horrible stench. Cassandra strikes the creature squarely with an arrow, piercing its flesh. When Braggom enters the creatures reach it takes a bite out of his flesh.

attack: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (14) + 3 = 17
Damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Fort save 1: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (14) + 8 = 22
Fort save 2: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (18) + 8 = 26

Shaking off any ill effect Braggom returns his sword to the creature's neck, severing it clean off.

Inside the room you see an area along the south wall is enclosed in a cage of thick iron bars that extend from floor to ceiling. Within the enclosure sit seven black iron chests. To the north, the stone wall has collapsed, revealing a rough-hewn tunnel.

"Baggrom is bleeding badly... but I can only heal once more today. Does anyone else have curing?"

No.. no-one else.. we may have to rest.

Nat reluctantly spends her last burst of divine energy for the day to close some of Baggrom's wounds. clw: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

The wild halfling winces as she feels the weakness of the positive energy surge. "I'm sorry. I've only got so much of that I can do in a day, and it seems I'm running low."

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"Recover and venture another day. It'd be best to rest then, outside preferably."

"Let's see if we can get at those chests. Might be, eh, shiny things?"

Nat approaches the iron bars and examines them. Taking 10 on perception for 16.

The bars and the chests inside look solid. You see no noticeable keyholes. Additionally, you notice two grooves approximately the size of and shape of a small knife not well concealed in the wall, next to the bars.

"Where are those daggers with the strange notches in them? Maybe they're keys of some sort?"

"Well one way to find out is a closer look. A quality dagger has many uses."

Cassandra quickly inspects it.
Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9

The daggers lign up, more or less. Do you insert them?

"I'm not sure who had the second dagger, but as soon as we get both, i'll try use them in the mechanism"

HP 1/15
Braggom will take a seat and rest.

"Braggom tired. Need heal. We rest for night?"

Ronaef and Cassandra simultaneously insert and turn the daggers, causing the cage door to open. Inside there are 7 locked chests.
You guys can rest where ever you would like. Keep in mind things might change due to passage of time, and some places are less safe than others to rest. It is looking like the party is pretty well spent at the moment.

Cassandra's eyes turn big like Scrooge McDuck's, when he's found treasure.

"Oh my, chests, 7 of them. I'm itching to have a go at this and see what marvels they hold."

Disable Device: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (15) + 8 = 23
Disable Device: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (10) + 8 = 18
Disable Device: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9
Disable Device: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (7) + 8 = 15
Disable Device: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (13) + 8 = 21
Disable Device: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (17) + 8 = 25
Disable Device: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (5) + 8 = 13

Making a second attempt at #3,4 & 7, provided i didn't fail by more than 5.
Disable Device: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (14) + 8 = 22
Disable Device: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (13) + 8 = 21
Disable Device: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (7) + 8 = 15

That should be 3 HP, Baggrom, unless you were already negative when Nat healed you for 2. Maybe the chests will have enough that we can buy a CLW wand in town?

I was at 4 HP, then during rage it goes up by 2. Then I took three damage. After raging it drops back to normal. Thus 1 HP.

Disable Device can be retried forever on locks, traps and sabotage are where things can go wrong

Cassandra eventually manages to get all the chests open. Insie the chests contain the following treasure: 18,500 cp, 4,000 sp, 115 gp, 14 pp, and a teak case containing 30 gems.

Ronaef carefully looks over them and discerns that all together this haul is probably worth close to 800 gold pieces.
appraise: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (19) + 8 = 27

So you're considering the healing as having happened before raging stopped? That makes sense.

Nat pokes Marcellino in the shoulder. "Hey. Priest man. Don't you got cure spells too?"

Haha. :)

He can get them, he just chose not to

Ronaef plunks his gear down in the designated spot lets setup watches and then goto sleep

"I propose one of us who can't see in the dark to take the early shift.
Since our big friend here needs his rest more than i do, i'll take it, if nobody minds."

"We're camping here? In the ruins? What if they come down on top of us? I don't like this. Why don't we go out and use this treasure to buy a wand of curing, then use it to cure Baggrom's wounds?"

Highly entertaining. Anyone come to a consensus

"This place is a backwater.. it's doubtful there would be a wand to purchase. . These ruins have been stable enough so far

"Me take first shift. You all sleep now."

Please post if you agree or disagree, have 2/5 which isn't a majority yet :)

I think Cassandra also was in favor of it.

Agree

You all take turns taking watch and sleep through the night. No one comes by during this time. You can refresh spells and gain back the rest hp.

Waking up from the rest, Cassandra quickly takes a 360 look.
Seeing as we are still alive, i refrain from a roll?

To any others who wake up after her;
"Morning, has rest done you well?"

Braggom gets up and says "Braggom all better! Where Braggom fight?"

Actually, unless someone healed him before going to sleep at night, he only regained 1 (that is ONE) hit point. So now, he has 2 (TWO) hit points out of 15.

Isn't it 1 + con modifier?

I just went and checked and it says:

Natural Healing: With a full night's rest (8 hours of sleep or more), you recover 1 hit point per character level. Any significant interruption during your rest prevents you from healing that night.

Now, if the kindly GM wants to give me more, I'll take it <<grin>>

You heal the natural rate. It was really fortunate you fought that ghoul before you rested, as that would have been an unfun encounter in the middle of the night :)

"Hmm, i'm not sure, you still look pale."

She looks at Nat, "Do you have means of healing again?"

clw: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5
clw: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

"I need to save some spells for later." Since I now seem to be the only source of healing.

HP 12/15

"Wow! Braggom feel much better. Let's find fight!"

"Yes.. do lets.. "

Cassandra inspects the room the ghoul was in, before heading for any doors.

Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 22

Then for any doors.
Perc vs traps: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18
Disable traps: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 8 = 12

Cassandra cautiously advances until she sees a small barricade in the tunnel ahead. She inspects it for traps, not finding any. It will require a very low DC climb check to move over the barricade

"A small barricade. By the size of it, i'd reckon kobolds likely, since they were outside."

Who needs climb, jedi acro jump: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (20) + 8 = 28