Its "A" Dungeon, the Three-ening (Inactive)

Game Master Terquem

Turn 1

As the characters approach the bottom of the stairs the black depths loom before you. There is no light down here, and the only things you see are within the range of Godwins torch

The range of Normal light, centered on Godwyn, is 20’, and then there is low light out to 20’ beyond that. Characters with Low Light Vision can see up to a total of 60’ away from Goodwyn

At the bottom of the stairs is a chamber. It is 30’ by 30’ (square) and you enter through a 10’ wide opening in the center of a wall. You enter from the South (S). Looking ahead of you, you see a cluttered room, with shelves set on the walls, in the corners about four feet from the ground. On the shelves are, what appear to be, broken jars, small buckets, sticks, and pieces of cloth.

The chamber is constructed from close fit, large, grey and brown stones. The ceiling is fifteen feet from the floor.

The chamber has a total of four exits. Each exit is a 10’ opening (10’ wide by 10’ high) and has a casing, or “frame” like arch setting it apart from the walls to either side of it. The exit in the south wall is the flight of stairs you have just descended. There are openings in the N, W, and E walls. The passageway beyond each opening looks to be level, made of similar stones, and is 10’ feet wide.

Its “A” Dungeon

Olwyn pull out an Ioun stone, grasps it for a moment and releases it. The stone begins to orbit 1d3 ⇒ 2 feet from her shedding light equal to a torch. She firmly holds her crossbow at the ready, and casts detect magic in the room to see if any magical auras are present.

"Any suggestions on where to proceed?"

Olwyn pull out an Ioun stone, grasps it for a moment and releases it. The stone begins to orbit 1d3 feet from her shedding light equal to a torch. She firmly holds her crossbow at the ready, and casts detect magic in the room to see if any magical auras are present.

"Any suggestions on where to proceed?"

Godwin is amazed at the strange light that Olwyn just created, he look at it for a while and then looks at Olwyn.

"We should carefully approach this, I suggest we first examine all exists because this is the ideal place to ambush someone. With your strange light do I no longer need my torch."

Godwin unlit his torch and puts it in his backpack. He firmly holds his shield in his left hand and his weapon in his right hand.

I will let you make decisions about where to go, after this room, okay? Here at the very beginning, one of you can go to the discussion thread and roll a d6, 1 or 2 you go left, 3 or 4 you go straight, 5 or 6 you go right. We also want to wait for everyone to be ready.

A small wooden bucket, in the NW corner of this room has a faint aura.

Yurian moves himself to the fore, looking down the passageways. (Darkvision 120 ft). He scans them with his eyes, trying to decide which way looks like the best to go, and what risks said passages might present. Hearing someone (he's not quite sure who) mumble something about going right, he moves to that entrance, and starts to advance he way down cautiously, pushing on the ground well ahead of him with his ten foot pole.

Perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (3) + 8 = 11

While the others get ready, Olwyn moves towards the bucket and continues to examine it.
Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (18) + 9 = 27
Knowledge (Arcana): 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 9 = 10
Spellcraft: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (16) + 9 = 25

"Hey guys, this seems fishy."

Surtessh waits to hear Olwyn's conclusion about the bucket before following Yurian down the hallway at a distance of 25 feet.

Yurian holds up, looking back to see what has held up his companions.

"Something suspicious? Need me to take a look at it?"

"Looks lacka bucket to me." Surtessh says in his sibilant creole drawl.

"That looks like a normal bucket to me, but it is good to check it out just to be sure" Godwin smiles

Godwin follows Yurian staying next to him with his shield and weapon ready, he carefully looks into the right room.

Perception: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

"Well? Anything of note? Should I keep going?"

"Well worth taking with us along for the ride I think. It can produce warm water for us and seems to be activated by speaking the goblin word"Pleesh." Luckily my Goblin is good enough so I should be able to use it."
Olwyn puts the bucket in one of her donkey's pack bags.
"Ok, shall we move on?"

"Fine." the Svirfniblin snaps, a little too harshly, "Let's go."

Yurian is a curious looking creature; one of the Darkland gnomes, originally it would seem, but something must have happened to him along the way. Much of his body seems to have been lost at some point, and what remains is augmented or replaced with a motley assortment of mechanical parts, clockwork components, and even bits of animate stone. Whatever happened to him must have been dramatic, but the tale of how he was put back together in this fashion must be equally odd.

The passageway going to the E is 20’ long. The passageway is not clear, there are dried leaves on the ground and they are too numerous to avoid stepping on, and they make a distinct sound when they are stepped on, “crunch, crunch, snap”. If Yurian stands at the beginning of this passageway he can see into the chamber that lies beyond the passageway, but he can only tell that it is a chamber, he cannot tell how “wide” it might be. He can see the far wall of the chamber and what appears to be another 10’ wide passageway continuing out of that chamber to the E.

If he moves slowly, cautiously, Taking 20, he can travel to the end of the 20’ passageway, noisily, and he will find no sign of any traps. The Chamber, at the end of this passageway, is 30’ x 30’, has a 10’ passageway leaving it to the E (in the center of the wall), and another 10’ passageway leaving the chamber going S (in the E 10’ section of the south wall, so it is not in the center of the south wall). And there is a wooden door in the N wall of the chamber, in the right hand space of the center 10’ section of the north wall. The wooden door has several large gashes in it, as if a large axe has struck it many times.

if players move out of the firs chamber, into the second chamber, on the right, they will be risking getting ahead of the rest of the party.

Chyrri tries to look around as best she can. However due to her limited sight she opts to remain silent and follow the others of the group.

"Do we know what kind of creatures lurk within this labyrinth?"

She adjusts her garments as she gets ready for her role as a healer.

Surtessh follows the strange little gnome as quietly as possible, his shield and kukri at the ready.
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Please note I also have darkvision, but I can only see 30' period. Due to my oracle's curse.

Taking 10 on stealth for a 14. I know the leaves, but doing it anyway.

Olwyn follows behind the hulking green oracle muttering to herself about the smell of the place, and replies to the other oracle,
"Your guess is as good as mine. I'm just hoping it is worth it treasure wise...
Stealth: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4
Aaaaaand she apparently steps on every crunch leaf along her path.....

As everyone seems to migrate towards a passage, A wispy young woman clad in armor makes her way rather noisily down the stairs. You all weren't going to leave without me were you? In any case, I'm here to help. She smiles and moves toward the front of the group and draws her sword ready to face the dangers within.

Godwin Everlin looks at Felicia "It's good to have another warrior at my side"

Godwin then looks to the rest of the group "Is everyone here? Are we ready to move on?"

Sorry I was so slow getting everything on here. things have been pretty crazy.

okay, there are 6 players here, and that means the APL (Average Party Level) is going to be 1.5, and I will adjust encounters accordingly, good luck!

The large group of adventurers is now entering the 30’ x 30’ chamber on the right and has three options in front of them. The Chamber, itself, is identical, with selves in the corners, to the first chamber, but there is less clutter here and at least one broken bottle on the floor (in the SE corner of the chamber).

There is a Door in the N wall, an open 10’ wide passageway in the E wall, and another open 10’ wide passageway in the S wall. You can see 60’ down the passageways (each is straight) but cannot tell what is beyond that.

characters with Darkvision beyond 60’ sort of put a “kink” in the game-play I have been using so far in other versions of this game. When the Party moves to the end of a 60’ length of passageway they roll on Table I, Periodic Check, to determine what lies ahead. Naturally if you can see beyond this 60’ range, it means I should be asking you to roll on Table I sooner, but as long as no one minds, I would like to keep doing it the same way as before, okay?

This marks the end of Turn 1

Turn 2 begins when you decide what to do next

by the way, is anyone having trouble seeing the map linked in the first post? I am going to try and update the map tonight, but if there are problems with it, please let me know

Godwin Everlin says "I'm going to check that door"

Godwin Everlin walks carefully towards the door. He puts his ear to the door and tries to hear any sounds. Like the sounds made by creatures.

perception(listen): 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

"Somethin' funny about the darkness in this place... I can usually see further, but it's like it gets all dim after a couple dozen paces..."

"Hey, steel for brains; better let me help before you hurt yourself."

Yurian moves closer to the door and inspects it for traps. Perception: 1d20 + 8 + 1 ⇒ (17) + 8 + 1 = 26

Surtessh hangs back two paces, watching the others. "We shoul' jus pick ah direction an go on datta way. Don' make no difference which way we go first."

"Watch out. Door's trapped. Turn the handle and something drops on your head. Might not hurt you, Godwin, but the rest of us use 'em for somethin'. You guys want me to fix it for ya, or you wanna go another way?"

"If they bother trapping it, might be because something worthwhile is behind it..."

"No prob then. Hold on a minute."

Disable Device: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (12) + 8 = 20

Turn 2

Examining the device closely, and moving his fingers with care, Yurian comes close to triggering the trap, but manages to defeat it, temporarily.

A small trap door in the ceiling opens and a cage, with a little winged imp is lowered. The imp sizes up the people standing by the door, sights down his thumb, and then pulls a lever within his cage.

A large panel in the ceiling above opens near the door and an enormous double bladed axe (why is there a blade on the back side of this axe if it is meant to strike the person standing by the door?) begins to fall, but it stops, after moving only a few inches.

The imp in the cage glares at Yurian, and then thrusts its arm upward, while clasping its other hand in the crook of its elbow. The axe squeaks and groans and returns up into the ceiling and the caged imp pouts as the cage is slowly pulled back and the trap door closes.

The door is safe to open

for a while...

"Awww. Poor little fella, stuck in that cage all the time. Didn't even get to do 'is job, neither. That's gotta be a letdown. Well, let's see what we've got behind door number 1!"

Yurian opens the door.

You see a room
(this room was already discovered by a previous team of explorers, and they have already moved on, but one of the exits from this room is unexplored, now which one was it again, hmmm)

It is a 20’ x 20’ room

There is a Stone Door in the opposite (North) wall from the door you just opened, and another Stone Door on the East wall

There are three corpses in this room; a Human Male, A Dwarf male, and A Halfling Female.

The bodies appear to be still wearing armor, and the human has a Long Sword in a scabbard on its belt. The bodies have backpacks, and they are opened, as if someone, recently, rummaged through them.

"Hmm. Previous victims. Look recent. All the good stuff is probably gone from 'em, but we can always 'ave a looksee."

Yurian moves up to the bodies and examines them, both for their cause of death, and to determine if there are any articles of value that might have been missed.

Perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (6) + 8 = 14

"Well that isn't ominous at all..."

Olwyn decides to examine the room for anything else of note and hopes to discover the path not taken by any other adventurers by noting the dirt/leaves on the floor.

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (19) + 9 = 28

Hmmm, guess its a good thing we came in a slightly larger group. Felicia pokes at the human and the dwarf a little while muttering a soft prayer for the departed.

"Be carefull whatever killed them could still be close"

Godwin examines the bodies, do they show any of the typical weapon wounds that he learned about in the militia?

Profession(Soldier): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (20) + 5 = 25

Surtessh blows some spit into his palms and slaps his hands over his eyes. They begin to glow a soft green color. He concentrates for several seconds and scans the room.

Casting detect magic and concentrating for three rounds, then scanning the room.

Chyrri watches the group keeping close as she examines the bodies of the dead to see what might have killed them.

1d20 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14

Does everyone know and understand the difference between Perception and Intuition as they apply to this game?

it took a little more negotiation with the other group to finally identify what items were left behind on the bodies in the room you discovered, so to be clear: The human is wearing a Chain Shirt (medium), his backpack is empty, and there is not a Long Sword on his belt (sorry); the dwarf has been stripped of his armor, but there is a heavy steel shield by his side, his backpack is also empty; the Halfling is wearing a Chain Shirt (small), and her backpack is empty except for one small sized gauntlet.

"Olwyn, dat door be magic girl. Whatchu tink?"

"Magic doors are always awesome."

Olwyn approaches the door and tries to examine it for any more signs of its purpose or ability:
Knowledge (arcana): 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 9 = 10
Spellcraft: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (16) + 9 = 25

"I don' know 'bout that. Some magic doors be tricky..."

Perception for Magic Traps: 1d20 + 8 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 8 + 1 = 21

"Very curious, some kind of claws and very tiny knives have killed these people. I also notice that in addition both fire and frost has damaged those people, a strange combination, it must have been magic"

Godwin thinks for a while.

"Multiply dangerous creatures must have killed those people, we have to be very careful. Monsters with claws, evil sorcerers and worse could be near!"

Godwin moves close to the door, he holds his shield in the direction of the door and his sword ready to strike anything that might come out of it.

Yurian examines the door, closely and is careful not to touch it, but cannot determine what kind of “magic” (a trap? some other kind of magic?) is involved.

Olwyn peers over the top of Yurian’s head, and suddenly she has the sensation that she smells Lemon Cup Cakes, even though she does not smell anything at all, and this tells her, through her Arcane training and Spellcraft knowledge, that there is some kind of Illusion based magic worked into the Door.

"Sound like anodder group o adventurers to me man." Surtessh says to Godwin.

"Well... There is one good well to dispel and illusion... Who wants to touch it?"

"I agree with Surtessh, I think we might be dealing small monsters that are armed with clubs and perhaps bows. I didn't notice any frost and fire damage though... if there is such wounds we might be running either a spell caster or an alchemist." Chyrri stands up.

"I could touch it if you like, but what kind of illusion is it suppose to be of?"

"Lemony goodness and um... Door-ness. Ok, not the most reassuring... But we will never no if we don't try to bust through."

Olwyn fires a bolt toward the door to see if the illusion is visual as well as olfactory. After the bolt failed to pass through the door, she stared stumped for a bit.

"Who wants to push?"

Godwin sheates his sword and temporary puts his shield on his backpack. He then tries to push the door with all his strenght.

strenght check: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11

"This door is very strong, can other people help me? Felicia you look like a strong warrior, can you maybe help me?" He smiles.