+2 for sound
+2 in forest
+2 traps, trapspotter
As you enter the room, you are instantly aware of 4 men in the corners with bows trained on the door. Somehow, though, they fail to surprise you.
+2 in forest
You sense she is deceiving you.
Red's dead.
Seeing the well-armed party rush in and kill their compatriot, the others switch tactics, dropping their bows and drawing their longswords.
They all three attack Marduk.
The girl's demeanor changes as she takes a 5' step over and casts a grease spell out in the first room.
Unfortunately for the girl, Marduk's presence has distracted her sufficiently that she lost the spell.
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"Never trust little girls you just happen to meet during a mission. Don't you read the journals?"
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Fade moves to where he can get the best view and he whirls up more aether and debri, directing it to...
Blue and green are both struck unconscious. The girl seems unaffected. Fade tries to blast her, but misses.
Pink starts to cast another spell, triggering Haliban's shot.
The spell is disrupted, and the girls looks severely injured.
Purple stabs at Bo Goh, but doesn't even come close.
He pushes back into next room.
Green was unconscious, so it is easy to kill him with two well placed shots.
Purple likewise succumbs to the rapid attacks of a rabid Marduk.
The girl casts a spell, targeting Lanfyr right in front of her. The scorching ray of fire shoots past the elf's head, hitting nothing but the ceiling which now starts to catch on fire.
While it looked like Bo Goh put 2 arrows into the downed opponent, it is now clear that he simple shot them into the man's jacket, pinning him to the ground.
Haliban easily knocks out the deceptive girl.
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Fade moves in, stepping over and past either unconscious or dead bodies, looking for signs of the tablets, traps or pirates.
He spies the small room to the north and investigates it, moving past the bloody wildling.
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Lanfyr checks the door, and finds no enemies. As Marduk rests and cares fro her wounds and Rogzul binds the bleeding spellcaster, Fade checks out the smaller room and finds a trap door in the floor.
Bo Goh checks, and all of the thugs are currently still alive, but will die shortly without medical attention.
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"Do we want to talk to her? Or leave her to die?" Rog asks, unsure how his party wants to continue, if they choose to speak with the girl he will heal her.
If not, he will wander to the back and grunt at the trap door that Fade found.
He will look through the room and smell the air, trying to determine if anyone had gone through the trap door recently.
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"If they live, fine but just don't go out of your way." Fade days off handedly.
Seeing the look on Bo's face he shrugs his shoulders and says, "Look, it doesn't lessen me at all. They weren't going to worry about keeping me alive, I'm sure."
Turning to Haliban, Fade agrees,"Yep, I'll bet that's him." shaking his head he continues, "Damn shame that they went and killed him."
Fade searches the bodies for anything of value or interest.
Fade motions to Haliban to come check out the trap door. "Maybe this will lead us to the tablets."
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The thugs each had: potion of blur, potion of cure moderate wounds, potion of darkvision; Studded leather, buckler, longsword, composite shortbow, quiver with 20 arrows, backpack, 50 ft. silk rope, a grappling hook, signal whistle, silver earring (5 gp), 2 gp. The spell caster simply had quarterstaff, dagger, spell component pouch, spell components and an empty potion bottle.
The trap door is not trapped.
It doesn't sound like you brought anyone conscious, and may or may not have let them live, correct?
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Rog shrugs, being given conflicting advice, but his spirits remind him that his superiors tend to prefer there not be dead bodies left in the wake of every mission, so he stabilizes each of the thugs.
Since no one seems interested in speaking with the enemy, he unties the girl and places his rope back in his pouch. Unable to pick up any scents that might tell him if the trap door was used he frowns but nods when Fade suggests using the trap door.
"Then lets go." He grunts impatiently.
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After a minute of looking for any enemies or other prying eyes Lanfyr turns back to the room from which he came.
"Their actions bespeak of their character. I hold no opinion in these lands on how to punish the guilty so their fates concern me not at all."
Lanfyr moves to help Fade with the trap door.
A plain wooden ladder leads down from the trap door. Rogzul confirms that some people have recently gone through here, and just as you think to descend, he notices a faint odor of something odd - the ladder has been greased!
It seems to lead to a rocky shore and the Underdocks.
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"Good catch on the grease there. I'll go down first." Fade says to the group.
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It is safe enough to descend.
You enter into a gloomy, greenish twilight where scattered beams of light filter down between weathered dock planks, bouncing off seaweed covered stones that jut from the dark harbor waters. A forest of pylons suspends the docks above where the scurrying feet of merchants, sailors, and longshoremen hammer like a muffled thunderstorm. Between the pylons, you spot small stone bunkers, ruins of older siege forts now crumbling and weathered from centuries of angry waves. A narrow set of docks traverses the rocks, connecting various locations. Eventually, all lead out to the shallow bay at the mouth of the maze. Nearby, you notice a fresh trail of muck-limned, wet footprints.
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"Anyone can not be the human shield. Only some of us are human." Rogzul says to Haliban, in case he didn't understand that. "I will follow behind as well. A shaman's place is not in front."
He follows behind Fade and anyone else that wishes to take point, but keeps his senses alert for anything or anyone that may overtake them while traveling into this strange underground dock.
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"Come on Lanfyr. Let's go. As for the rest of you...just be on alert for surprises." Fade hisses as he shakes his head with a lopsided smile. Brave lot of killers we have. All best from behind, HAH!
He moves along swiftly, not wanting whoever left the wet prints behind to get much further ahead. He takes out a vial from his belt containing a potion of shield of faith and hands it to Lanfyr. "Here, take this. I've got another. It will only last a minute but it should help protect you."
After passing off the vial, he pulls out a second for himself, and also quickly pulls out a heavy resin soaked bag that hovers behind him telekinetically as he continues to move ahead and scan for threats.
It looks like this is a dead end, as the end of the dock is empty. However, Lanfyr notices a nearby dock and two rowboats. It appears, though, that these boats have some men guarding them.
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"Good eyes Lanfyr. Lead us over that way Bo, and since you don't mind, move in close so they won't suspect anything. Maybe even use that dim wi... err... sweet charm of yours when you ask them if they saw anyone pass by recently. I would wager that those little boats lead to a bigger ship out a ways."
If they are pirates we can always fight if we have to, but on the off chance this is a legal dock and they are just paid guards, it might pay to start diplomatically. Ugh! Did I really just think that?! I have got to get away from that damn fool monk.