and
Curses...
The barrels on Uran's rifle turn again and he fires at the pesky creature.
Attack-ranged:
Attack-ranged:
Vanya roll a knowledge nature check.
Gregory takes another swing at the remaining vermin.
You remember that cousins of Jinkin are pugwampy and they have an unluck aura. You think this is a halfbreed. The unluck aura is cancelled if someone is under a luck effect. You think maybe teamwork will prevail were simple works fail.
Risking attack from the little creature, Aelden hefts his shield in front him and moves around to provide a flank for the others.
Leveling blast after blast Aurora screams in frustration at the horrid little thing.
Vanya shoots another arrow at the creature. "Die, you ugly beast!"
After so many misses the gremlin starts to laugh uncontrollible and falls laughingly to the floor, right between Gregory and Aelden.
Gregory frantically tries to kill the annoying vermin!
With a mighty slash Gregory finally wounds the gremlin his greatsword does a bad wound to him, but it is not yet enough to kill it.
Aurora stands very still, casting her mind back to the calming mantra she learned to focus on when her powers were raging almost out of her control.
The creature was nigh impossible to hit before for her, and with it now led down she had even less opportunity.
She continues to chant under her breath as she waits for her companions to finish the thing off.
Aelden aims to kill, the creature's laughter grating on his last nerve.
As the Gremlin is prone, that is enough to kill the gremlin. With a last laugh... he dies. You suddenly feel again a bit luckier. You are sure the gremlin menace is over. She wordlessly hands you over a pouch with a few items.The pouch contains 49 silverdisks and five strange cards made of a f lexible, smooth material. These five cards each bear a brown stripe.
Also she offers to answer you your questions and tell you what she knows.
You have seen something similar as the silverdisks in Auroras possession. They are burned out batteries. You can trade them in the silverdisk hall for 10gp apiece. The flexible cards.... are somewhat more difficult. You have seen varisian harrowing cards, those are similar, but you think that track is wrong. Maybe a badge of office or so.
Uran also looks over the items found, but shrugs his shoulders as they mean little to him. He does reload his rifle before the group returns to the main room, as well as search about a bit to see if he can spot anything else.
Perception:
@uran you do not seem anything special.
Thank you for the gifts, and a bargain well struck and honored
Aurora nods at the skulk leader
Now, you promised to take us through to the next area, we'd appreciate your doing that and warning us of any dangers you know we might face. Lastly, have you seen a human male pass this way?
she proceeds to provide a description of the missing wizard.
"I saw indeed a man come through leading a group of strong warriors. He was not daunted by the door in the other cave and used mighty magic to open it. He faught a guardian and took it with him. Later he returned to the caves and the second time he did not return. Unlike the redhaired monster who can shoot fire from her hand.
That is most helpful of you to notice! praises Aurora
What of this red-headed one? I sense she is dangerous, has she been here long? Caused your tribe any problems?
She advises her companions
So the big door then is where we need to go, though let's hope the 'big magic' did enough to make it easier to open second time around!
With a shrug Sef adds. "She left many sleep cycles ago. No worries. And door is broken. Open all time."
Sef, glad to have met you. I trust we part as friends, I will drop by to see you when we pass this way again, and we can trade tales of adventure she smiles
Aurora turns to the party
Onwards then we must go, through the broken door and hot on the wizard's trail!
she starts to walk then stops, looking sideways at Aelden
You'll only grumble if I lead, I'm sure your sword and shield would be best placed ahead of my fragile form, if you don't mind!
"I only grumble lass, because I don' fancy carryin' yer bloody corpse out o' this cave." His words are harsh, but he grins as he steps forward to lead the way.
"As long as we do not encounter any more of those 'bad-luck' gremlins, I'll be happy!", the gnome mutters to no one in particular.
Sef leads you to the door in the big cave and pulls away a little box behind the door, moving through the door. The illusion? is shattered and you can see that what looked like a slap of metal is now a ragged hole blasted by magic.
What now? Check beyond.
Gregory cautiously moves forward, eager to explore what lies beyond...
Sef stays behind and moves back to the shadows vanishing.
The walls, floor and ceiling of this slightly curved hallway are
made of smooth dark gray metal. Panels of lighter material run
along the ceiling eight feet above. To the north and south the
tunnel is blocked by walls of metal junk and rubble, while open
doorways yawn to the east and west.
"Right then - it looks like there is only one way forward..."
So saying, Gregory continues to cautiously move forward.
Aurora suggests the group heads east, with nothing to differentiate the two paths one was as good as the other. If no-one objects, she follows Aelden in through the doorway.
Uran grips his rifle and moves forward; all his senses tingling in this weird corridor.
"A whole building made of this...metal? I have seen some truely wonderful things in my travels, but this tops it!"
"Aye, lad. Strange stuff it is." Aelden nods at Uran. "Away east then." He cautiously steps through the doorway...
You do not find anything in this room. The door to the next room is closed.
Gregory attempts to open the door.
You cannot push it open and it has no doorknob.
Thoughtful, Aurora reaches out to touch the small rectangle, arcs of energy playing across her skin.
Those metallic cards Sef gave us, are they the same size as this?
Aurora beckons, and the cards slowly pop out of Uran's pack, gliding through the air until they rest in her hands.
She sighs and without looking at him, offers them to Aelden.
Delicate flower of a sorcerer, nasty traps, bloody corpse, grumbling warrior...
She tries and fails to keep a straight face.
Gregory spots a small rectangle of a slightly darker grey next to the door.
"Could this be important?"
"What am I supposed to do with this?" He holds up the gray card, twisting it back and forth in the dim light.
Perception:
"Huh..will you look at that! That spot right there looks about the right size for one of those weird card-thingys. Here let me see one of those."
When he is given one of the cards he will tey to 'fit' it onto the dark spot.
As soon as you put the card to the square you hear a beep. But nothing more. The cards are also about double the size of the grey squares.
Aelden will take his card and hold it over the square. When it beeps but nothing happens, he frowns. "Bloody..." In frustration, he waves his card at the gray box.
As you wave it over the box again it beeps again.
Oh for the love of... Aurora trails off in Androffan, frowning all the while.
She tries each of the different metal cards on the rectangle, and pushes the door before, during and after the beeps for good measure.
Surely if they enchanted this door to require a key they could have added a nicer musical tone than that horrid beep, maybe a gong or perhaps a bell?
The moment Aurora pushes the rectangle the door opens. With a decent woosh about one ton of solid metal moves smoothly up. If she presses the rectangle again it will move down. If she presses after pressing a card once it will remain closed but after putting the card to it again it will open.