Before you touch the door, you notice that:
A.) you are in a small, enclosed space (a 10x10 area), with extremely well-polished walls
B.) the hinges on the door behind you are extremely well-oiled, and are made of copper instead of iron, with additional copper wiring coming off of the hinges
C.) there is soot at the edges of the door in front of you
A + B + C = falling block trap up top, magical fire trap in front of you, and a door that shuts by itself and releases some kind of electricity behind you. Probably after the fire trap goes off. The electrical trap behind you is mechanical, but you'd need some kind of detect magic for the one in front of you. The falling block's switch looks like the fire trapped door's lock.
The smell of wax has a smell of death to it now, coming from the north.
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"Well with the burns on the door ahead of us I'm guessing that one will fry you with fire, with the copper all around this one and the hinges it will fry you with electricity and lock you in, and it looks like something will also drop from the ceiling. And somethings off with lock on the fire door, might be what sets off some or all of these buggers."
Yazi taps her chin for a moment before quipping "Be right back." as she turns and leaves the hallway. Returning a minute later she's dragging two of the gnoll corpses.
"We might be able to set them off by shooting them, otherwise we have some rather well behaved Fluffies who would be more than glad to help us search for the triggers."
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Waiting for everyone to back out, Khayal sheathes his kukris and grabs his longbow. Aiming for the locations Yazi points out his looses a couple of arrows at them.
Trying to hit any trigger.
If that fails he slings his bow and takes out his collapsable plank and lashes one of the dead "fluffies" to the end of it. Taking the plank he then prods the "fluffy" against/on the trigger from a safe distance.
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Khayal shoots the handle on the northern door but only succeeds in destroying two arrows. When Yazi got back, Khayal put one of the gnoll corpses at the end of his assembled plank. Pushing the body against the door handle, something must have gone right, because there was a series of actions.
The door Khayal was nearest sprang shut, closing on the collapsible plank. An instant later, fire erupted from the northern door, the flames engulfing the gnoll corpse and the wooden plank, licking around the edge of the nearest doorway.
You take fire damage, or half if you make the save.
As soon as the flames die down, a buzzing is heard, and if it wasn't for the wooden nature of Khayal's prod, he might have felt the electricity coming from the closest door and going to the northernmost door.
Just as the air inside the table room became sharper with the discharge from the 10x10 chamber, a grinding noise shouted from the trapped hallway, and Khayal had the plank in his hands wrenched violently downwards.
10 hit points, hardness 5, and a break DC of 24
It meets or exceeds all those criteria.
Needless to say the gnoll corpse, already crushed once by a boulder, is now not much better than putty and fluids.
The plank breaks in Khayal's hands. Another grinding noise is heard from within the chamber, and you hear a deep male human voice calling out, "Well, they weren't so smart after all. You there, check out to see what's left of them." You hear the other door open with a click after a few seconds.
SURPRISE ROUND
Init:
A scarred gnoll face looks surprised at seeing Khayal at the other side of the passageway as he holds the door open with one hand. Of the fluffy gnoll, well, there's some red liquid and charred and burnt pieces on the stone floor, and some dripping from above.
His arm hair a little singed, Khayal rushes forward drawing his Kukris. At last he thinks, smiling as he rushes forward.
Hajar calls upon Sarenrae to deliver her holy vengeance on these evildoers.
It is time to force these thieves to return the Scroll.
Bartan moves forward and charges up his deck of cards.
Older Rayhan moves up to support Bartan.
Nasir and Khayal run into the room at the gnoll holding the door handle, while Hajar casts a spell. Yazi runs in the room itself, burying her axe into the gnoll with one slice.
The ceiling of this room arches up to a height of twenty feet, yet the thick, rotten smell in the air makes the room seem close and cramped. Three wide benches sit in the room facing a tenfoot-wide dais at the far end. The wall behind the dais depicts an immense carving of a hideous arachnid monster creeping out of a hole in the world the size of a kingdom. The smell seems to be coming from the mounds of decaying bodies heaped to the left and right of the dais, bodies in various stages of decay and caked with wax from the drippings of dozens of fat, sloppy candles wedged in among tangled limbs, empty eyesockets, and battered ribcages.
The proprietor woman from before stands at the other side of the room at the center of a circle of gnolls, next to another stone door. Seeing the adventurers, she called out "I told you, Khair al Din, they weren't your usual adventurers!" as she tells the gnolls surrounding her, "Fire, you idiots!"
The arrows fly, but all miss the humans. One gnoll holds his scimitar at the ready.
The man at the dais in red-and-brown leather armor done in the gaping mouths of the Rough Beast, his face obscured by a mask covering his mouth and making it look like a spider's jaws, just cackles madly, raising his hands. "More for the Rough Beast to devour!" he rebuffs. He begins saying words in a foul tongue.
Three of the corpses rise up off of the pile at the man's command.
ROUND ONE
Init:
Minions of Rovagug! Prepare to be destroyed and your ashes scattered to the wind! Hajar shouts, Tempest held high
"You will not be devouring anyone, foul one!"
With his allies blocking the way, Bartan steps forward and pulls out both a small ruby and his knucklebone. He casts the spell he had recently finished researching.
Unfortunately the spell fizzles and the knucklebone rolls blindly.
The die rolls in midair and Bartan's eyes widen with fear as the die lands on Eya-Doh. He feels his strength being sapped from him instantly.
The undead at the dais lunge forward at the humans at the doorway. The man in red-and-brown finishes his spell, and a ghostly rough-hewn greataxe appears next to Khayal.
The man himself moved along the far wall, casting again.
The gnolls fired a second time.
The redhead in the back exclaimed "You take care of these, Khair al Din. I'm going to warn Father Jackal and Tamir!" She turned, and opened the stone door to the northeast.
Rayhan stepped behind Bartan, aiming his wand at the enemies along the far wall.
Khayal Charges the gnolls to the North.
Bartan, he is casting again, throw a card to distract him.
Hajar charges straight ahead and attacks Yellow
Tempest shears right into the gnoll, the north wind begins to howl with bloody vengeance
Throw down your arms and beg for the Goddess' Mercy! Hajar commands
I shall show none to followers of the Rough Beast!
"Miss Yazi, my goddess requires me to take the risks of luck. If I did not accept her wishes, I would be a terrible practitioner... but I do wish she would smile on me more often."
Khayal killed the gnoll in front of him, while Hajar killed the second gnoll, in rather spectacular fashion. The hovering greataxe continued to follow Khayal.
Yazi moved around Nasir and put her greataxe through the first undead, allowing Nasir to step over it and attack the second undead. It fell under the combined blows from the woman.
ROUND TWO
Init:
Bartan casts snowball, charges a card with it, and throws it at the caster.
plus plus
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"Miss Yazi, my goddess requires me to take the risks of luck. If I did not accept her wishes, I would be a terrible practitioner... but I do wish she would smile on me more often."
"Then you are to say absolutely NOTHING to me when I accept my Goddess' wishes." Yazi hisses back, her eyes starting to water.
Bartan casts snowball, charges a card with it, and throws it at the caster.
[dice=harrow card]1d53
[dice=card toss]1d20+10-1
[dice=damage]1d4+3 plus [dice=frost]1d6 plus [dice=snowball]5d6
Khayal charges the woman to the north.
Bringing his Kukri down upon her he smiles, Stand and fight, or surrender.
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Determined to get closer to the fleeing enemy, Nasir utters an incantation as her body twists into an intricate spiral dance, before exploding forward in a blur of colorful after-mages, slicing through one of the gnolls as she passes him.
As her movement comes to a stop she flashes the woman a wild grin, the living embodiment of beautiful violence.
The evil cleric's spell fizzles, the man's hands covered in snow.
Hajar attacks the gnolls in front of him [Grey first and if it falls then pink]
Death to the followers of Rovagug!
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Bartan's playing card connects, Hajar killed the middle gnoll, then the gnoll behind him . Nasir took care of the gnoll on the side .
But when Khayal threatened the merchant woman, she turned and fled through the opened door.
"A follower of the false light! Tell me, Dawnfollower, what happens when your light fades, as it must in the final darkness?" the man in red-and-brown armor taunted as he moved closer. The ghostly greataxe on Khayal swung again.
The undead hit the closest target.
You have been afflicted with ghoul fever. Onset 1 day; frequency 1/day; effect Con and Dex damage; cure 2 consecutive saves.
"You there! Rise and serve Rovagug!" the evil cleric calls out behind him, and two more undead rise off of the pile of corpses.
The older adventurer finally enters the room and sees the situation. "Disgusting things." Rayhan mutters as he brings his wand to aim it at the undead.
The corpse attacking Yazi falls into pieces at her feet, hit again and again by the invisible force balls.
ROUND THREE
Init:
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Khayal charges the fleeing woman, cutting into her once more.
Stand and fight! I don't like killing you in the back.
Hajar moves toward the Cleric You wish to challenge my faith, Follower of the Rough Beast! Face the power of the Dawnflower!
Hajar casts Spiritual Weapon and a flaming scimitar attacks the Cleric
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Nasir takes off after the woman and Khayal, her increased speed bringing her close as she launches into a complex gyrating skip step, courting the magic of the dance. The world blurs around her as she is projected forward in a streak of multi-hued after images, sliding the edge of her blade along the fleeing woman's skin as she passes, skidding to a stop ahead of her, smiling.
"Leaving so soon?"
Bartan moves forward a bit for the sake of aim, casts snowball, and attempts to deliver it to the cleric with a card.
=> 3: The Big Sky (Chaotic Good, Strength)
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Bartan's second card hit the red-and-brown cleric as well.
The cleric growls and lifts his greataxe. With a laugh, he easily dodged the paladin's spiritual weapon attacks.
Rayhan used his wand on the ghouls in the back.
The ghoul collapsed into parts on the floor.
Khayal ran after the woman, who stopped before the door, only to get hit by the fighter. She tried to cast a spell , but fell screaming under Khayal's kukris. Nasir's magical scimitar struck a bleeding corpse as she fell.
The flying transparent greataxe stopped following Khayal and instead moved to strike the paladin.
The other undead ran towards Hajar, its' fetid breath in the man's face.
"Bah! Arise, my parishioners! Show your devotion to Rovagug!"the evil cleric called out, and two more bodies shuffled off of the collection before the dais.
Yazi's greataxe slices into the cleric, killing him. The floating greataxe and undead in the room remain, however.
ROUND FOUR
Init:
Khayal takes a moment to search the lady's body. Knowing that his friends won't have an issue mopping up what's left behind him.