Dandy stands up, taking a set of jaws to the ankle.
His own legs were quicker than the wolf's jaws, and Dandy hits the wolf.
Tsschas moves up to stab the wolf with his spear. He comes close, but the hungry lupine dodges at the last moment.
"Grrr"
Mykel joins the slashing and stabbing, but the wolf refuses to be hit just yet.
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Blue wolf (-2)
Dandy nearly got bit again.
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Lebrario & Nithrandyl
A spat of frost hits the wolf.
Lebrario
Another stone flies by and get lost in the grass...
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Lebrario's stone flies past Tsschas' ankle into the grass, and we head for the next round.
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Mykel flanks with Dandy to attack the wolf, but ends up skewering a hedgehog which popped up at that moment.
Dandy & Tsschas
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Blue wolf (-2)
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Lebrario & Nithrandyl
I had you non prone from earlier.
Mykel flanks and misses on his attack.
Tsschas hits the wolf, which lets out a short yelp of pain.
Dandy
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Wolf (-9)
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Librario & Nithrandyl
Mykel flanks and misses on his attack.
Tsschas hits the wolf, which lets out a short yelp of pain.
Dandy whips prone the wolf again.
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Wolf (-10) tries standing up.
Mekyl cuts down the wolf.
Combat over!
Janira stands with a smirk of approval.
"Well done guys, well done. Though i like dogs, these lupine cousins are less friendly."
Once you've patched up the injured, she makes gesture to hit the road again. "Seeing the surroundings, i noticed several fallen trees and rocks. Those could considerably slow us down if we have to get past more of them."
Lebrario takes a few minutes to think
I'm more used to streets and towns than fallen trees and rocks, but it's look like a puzzle. And I enjoy resolving puzzles and enigmas.. Let me see... Starting there..it's a jump to the left, and then a step to the right. With your hands on your hips, you bring your knees in tight..
Noticing that he speaks alone
What are you waiting for? Follow me.
Some time later:
Janira: "Good work, it'd have been a fuss if we'd have to climb over that many trees and rocks."
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The dense forest opens to a wide clearing at the base of a sheer cliff. Thick vines cover the surface of the cliff stretching 30 feet overhead.
"Here! The cave entrance is behind those vines," Janira says with a broad smile as she walks to the cliff’s face. She pulls back several layers of vegetation to reveal a narrow crack in the cliff’s surface. "This is where I saw the gillmen enter."
As she motions toward the aperture, the surrounding woods come alive with the sound of small animals fleeing some unseen danger and a large creature crashing through the undergrowth.
The halfling worriedly remarks, "Quick, take cover before whatever it is spots us!" As if she’d summoned the creature with her words, a massive horned monstrosity emerges from the trees.
Standing eight feet tall on a pair of cloven hooves and wielding a tremendous axe, the bull-headed creature roars with unbridled anger when it spots the group.
Janira screams, "A minotaur! There’s little chance we can stand against it!"
Janira: "Take this bag,”, she pulls pull off her backpack, "and head deeper into the caves.
Finish your mission. I’ll lead it away from the caves, lose it in the forest, and join you as soon as I can. Now go! GO!"
She heaves her backpack into the cave, casts a spell, and darts off toward the minotaur before turning to lure it away.
You see the minotaur chasing after Janira through the trees, fighting its way through the dense undergrowth. Soon the cacophony of the chase fades and the sounds of the forest slowly return to normal.
Potion of barkskin, potions of cure light wounds (2), potion of feather step, potion of vanish, scroll of entangle, scroll of identify, scroll of mage armor (CL 6), scroll of obscuring mist, wand of burning hands (CL 3rd, 4 charges), wand of cure light wounds (CL 3rd, 7 charges), acid, alchemist’s fire (2), holy water, smokestick, 1 tanglefoot bag, thunderstone, antitoxin, sunrods (2)
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You head into the dark tunnels, on to find the details of the mystery.
The narrow tunnel twists and turns for several hundred feet before slowly opening to a wider passage. A large hole spans the cave’s width and stretches ten feet down the path. At the bottom of the pit lies a small bundle of cloth. You notice half the hole's flooded with water.
Lebrario takes a look at the various alchemical flasks
Janira seems to be a woman full of ressources. Let's hope her plan don't backfire and she survive the minotaur. She looked like she knew what she was doing.
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I wonder what that bundle is? We should check it out..might be important.
Mykel takes his rope and ties one end around himself. He hands the other end to Tsschas. He also takes off his armor.
I'm going to head down and check it out. If you could anchor this end for me...I am not the best climber, but i think you guys can pull me up if there is an emergency.
Mykel heads down.
Climb DC for the pit is 15, without anchorage.
Mykel jumps into the water, but the team gets a slightly funny scene, as he's splashing around at first.
Mykel's effort in diving and retrieving works, though when he tries to scale the wall of the hole his first attempt is coming just a tiny bit short, as his footing slips.
*Slides...... O_O.....SPLASH!!!*
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"Her bravery will not go unremarked; but we still have a mission to perform.", Dandy following the others into the cave. Approaching the pathway, he sees the others working hard to swim across and prepare to aid others in that endeavor. Instead, he makes himself useful by easily leaping across to the other side with a sprint.
Seeing Mykel struggle, he also moves to aid the party in pulling him out.
Mykel is heaved back up, utterly soaked, but carrying an old cloak.
Cloak of Resistance +1
Dandy takes a short distance and makes a leap across the hole, in a suave way. On the other side, around a corner, he finds a 3 foot wide , 12 feet long, plank.
Once everybody's up safely, you continue your walk down the tunnel.
If only that were on the other end of the pit to start with.
The tunnels continue on, leading deeper beneath the Kortos Mounts until they eventually open into a large cavern. What must have once been beautifully carved reliefs and inscriptions have since weathered heavily, their features dulled and softened to the point that it is hard to distinguish what each once depicted.
A wide tunnel exits the cavern on its far side, and blue-burning torches line the passageway’s walls.
Only 4 carvings with inscriptions are somewhat legible.
Carving of the Artist, Carving of the Craftsman, Carving of the Fisherman & Carving of the Merchant.
For every +3 you pass a check, you understand another of the 4 segments.