@GM: First time I got to declare this; via a Dwarf's Stability trait my CMD versus trip is increased by 4, so my trip CMD is 19! I do realize, though I didn't note the variance on my profile's CMD and just listed the racial ability. This has now been updated.
As the Cagey Cage tries to trip Burdock, he shifts his bulk ever so much to try and bring the other man down before making his wait to the entrance.
-Grint attempts aid other, the patient is unaffected.
-Sabel oversees her minions.
Hank stands up, he provokes an attack from #1 & #2. #2 hits for 3 dmg, but Hank still stands. He hits #1 for 4.
-Lobotomy Patients
#1 (12dmg, bleeding), attempts and fails a trip on Grint as he tries grabbing the fighter standing on the bed. Grint, punch him.
He bleeds for 1. (13 dmg)
#2 (4 non-lethal) cries in agony at Father Burdock. Shaken for 1 round.
-Lyssa punches the bottom patient, hitting for 5 and also an artery.
-Nurse (4 dmg) drinks the potion, provoking AoO from Hank and Isabella.
The skeletons miss, the nurse has now vanished.
-Elsa throws ice at the top patient, hitting for 7. (-20, bleeding)
-Father Burdock evades the trip and reverse trips the patient. He heads for the door and casts Bull Strength.
Round 5
-Grint's turn
-Sabel & Isabella (last round)
-Patients
#1 (-20, bleeding, prone.)
#2 (-4 non- lethal, prone.)
-Lyssa
-Nurse?
-Elsa & Father Burdock
Grint tries to aid Lyssain attacking the top patient.
Round 5
-Grint's turn
-Sabel & Isabella (last round) are up
-Patients
#1 (-20, bleeding, prone.)
#2 (-4 non- lethal, prone.)
-Lyssa
-Nurse?
-Elsa & Father Burdock
She takes a 5-foot step and full attacks #2.
Sabel sees the nurse vanish and casts create water to see if she can spot her. 6 gallons (About 22 liters) of water in the square with the small black box.
Round 5
-Grint prepares to aid Lyssa
-Sabel casts create water, it doesn't reveal anything. Isabella hits once for 4 dmg.
-Lobotomy Patients
#1 Bleeds for 1 (-21), attacks Grint and hits for 5 dmg.
#2 Gets hit for 4 dmg. (-4 nl, -4l), he tries to stand up. Isabella's AoO hits for 5 dmg.
-Lyssa's turn
-Nurse?
-Elsa & Father Burdock
Round 5
-Grint prepares to aid Lyssa
-Sabel casts create water, it doesn't reveal anything. Isabella hits once for 4 dmg.
-Lobotomy Patients
#1 Bleeds for 1 (-21), attacks Grint and hits for 5 dmg.
#2 Gets hit for 4 dmg. (-4 nl, -4l), he tries to stand up. Isabella's AoO hits for 5 dmg.
Lyssa's AoO hits for 5 and bleed for 3. Top Cage goes down. (-1, bleed 3)
-Lyssa FoB on patient Nic, hitting once for 8 and bleed 3. (-4nl, -12, bleed 3)
-Nurse?....Father Burdock feels a faint push and air go past him.
-Elsa & Father Burdock's turn.
"Well, that's one less crazy to worry about."
But where has that nurse gone...?
Elsa hurls a bolt of ice [
A hit, to the face!
Round 5
-Grint prepares to aid Lyssa
-Sabel casts create water, it doesn't reveal anything. Isabella hits once for 4 dmg.
-Lobotomy Patients
#1 Bleeds for 1 (-21), attacks Grint and hits for 5 dmg.
#2 Gets hit for 4 dmg. (-4 nl, -4l), he tries to stand up. Isabella's AoO hits for 5 dmg.
Lyssa's AoO hits for 5 and bleed for 3. Top Cage goes down. (-1/0, bleed 3)
-Lyssa FoB on patient Nic, hitting once for 8 and bleed 3. (-4nl, -12, bleed 3)
-Nurse?....Father Burdock feels a faint push and air go past him.
-Elsa hits patient Nic square with her frosty ray. (-4nl, -18l, bleed 3)
-Father Burdock's turn.
He tried to intimidate the patient, but no effect.
Round 5
-Grint prepares to aid Lyssa
-Sabel casts create water, it doesn't reveal anything. Isabella hits once for 4 dmg.
-Lobotomy Patients
#1 Bleeds for 1 (-21), attacks Grint and hits for 5 dmg.
#2 Gets hit for 4 dmg. (-4 nl, -4l), he tries to stand up. Isabella's AoO hits for 5 dmg.
Lyssa's AoO hits for 5 and bleed for 3. Top Cage goes down. (-1/0, bleed 3)
-Lyssa FoB on patient Nic, hitting once for 8 and bleed 3. (-4nl, -12, bleed 3)
-Nurse?....Father Burdock feels a faint push and air go past him.
-Elsa hits patient Nic square with her frosty ray. (-4nl, -18l, bleed 3)
-Father Burdock tries to intimidate the patient yelling, sadly to no avail.
The last patient backs down, falling down into the chair, drooling and cowering. He's looking pale though, like a man losing blood quickly.
In the room are just 2 chairs, 4 hospital beds and a locked cabinet.
Trained Disable DC5 to open, Str check 10 to open, with 20% risk of breaking potentially fragile items. On top of the cabinet is a tray with bloody surgical tools and a small shallow bucket with a bloody mushy substance.
Brain tissue
The men, like the two patients in the hall, have stitches across the scalp. Obviously there's been surgery, going by the tissue in the shallow bucket, these patients had lobotomy performed on them. A cruel surgical procedure where brain tissue is scraped off the frontal part of the brain. It reduces or even erases independant will, making the subjects compliant and sometimes even more insane.
"They had a lobotomy performed on them," Lyssa tells the others while taking a closer look at the second patients. "For those who don't know, that means some of their brain tissue was removed."
"These men have been reduced to shells of their former selves. They no longer truly live."
Lyssa turns to the casters who know healing spells. "I don't know if magic healing would help them... If it doesn't, I suggest we put these men out of their misery."
Elsa raises her eyebrow at Lyssa We will do no such thing. There is no joy in slaying such wretches....
"I don't speak about killing for joy, but about living with dignity," Lyssa retorts to Elsa. "What is life worth if you're no longer you, but a mindless puppet?"
"Anyway, I hope those with healing spells can heal these men. Insane or not, they have the right to be themselves."
Though not all people who have lobotomies performed on them are truly insane...
"I'd rather get my hands on that woman that did this thing to these poor wretches. I'm wondering if this happens often in this 'Asylum'?"
1 potion of CLW
1 potion of Cure poison.
A jar with more mush in it.
A clipboard with names and a schedule.
Morning: 5
Patient #523, male.
"..." Weak physical condition, minor surgery.
Done
Patient #525, female.
"..." Weak physical condition, minor surgery.
Done
Patient #527, male.
"..." Good physical, former street boxer. Extended surgery.
Done
Patient #532, male.
"..." Good physical, former bouncer. Extended surgery.
Done
Patient #231, female.
"Emily". Average condition, pending for surgery. West wing.
Sabel moves forward and starts healing the patients.
"Hello? Are you awake?"
The one in the chair seems less cowering, he looks more questioningly.
The one who went down, you've put in the other chair. He's in the same state.
, delicate as you are, you manage to force open the cabinet without destroying fragile items within.
After a quick inspection of the clipboard, Lyssa picks up the potions. "Anyone else wants to carry these? Else I'll hold onto them."
"The clipboard shows a list of names. All people who had 'surgery' performed on them. The last name on the list is Emily, who's supposedly pending for surgery... Isn't that the girl who killed herself this morning...?"
"Shall we check out the other rooms here?" Lyssa asks the others, but she looks a bit hesitant to move on.
"That nurse is probably going to warn someone. Meaning we'll probably have people chasing us soon..."
Let her come. Elsa says, icy vengeance in her eyes. She has seen the depredations caused by these people and she wishes to unleash purifying frost upon them.
Just as you leave the room, the room's walls shifts briefly from hospital white to a shade of eerie copper, then back. The two lobotomy victims don't seem to notice it.
The light is less bright at the door to the morgue. No hampered vision though.
You notice the figure of the young woman from earlier, the others apparently can't see her. She writes 2 words on the dusty door, which you can only see. Her face partially covered in her long hair, she looks at you, then vanishes.
DEATH...VICTIMS...
Whoever's opening the door, roll a reflex please.
Sabel will move to the door and open it. When she needs to jump away she calls out.
"What the...?!"
A jet of flame spew forth when Sabel opened the door, luckily she moved quickly and only took 3 fire dmg.
The morgue looks dusty. 4 Coffins, an autopsy slab with a sheet and a desk with tools and locked drawers come right into view. A chest lies in the back.
The slab's sheet is covering something.
Locks on the desk's drawers are trained Disable Device 15...or a key.
Thinking of Lyssa's words, Elsa uses the Wand of Mage Armor to prepare herself for a coming confrontation.
"What madness lurks in this place.", Burdock now uneasy and still feeling a bit helpless without his trusty hammer at his side.
What madness lurks in this place
You'll find out.... :)
Lyssa walks over to the wooden chest. She'll open it, if it has no lock.
If it has a lock, Lyssa will try to force the chest open.
Pulling the chest open with effort, Lyssa triggers a trap.
Darts fly at her, only barely hitting her.
DC14 fort, 1 save.
Initial > -1 Con
2nd effect > hours.
A dart comes out of the chest, and hits Lyssa in her shoulder. It stings a bit, but the poison doesn't fully do what it's supposed to do.
Shoulder pulls the dart out, and tosses it onto the floor. She then examines the contents of the wooden chest, as if nothing happened.
A small, handsized tile with the engraving of a tombstone.
DC15 perception:
There's a hidden part at the bottom with a jade colored gem, probably the size of an eye.
"There's some creepy tile in here, with a tombstone engraved on it..."
Lyssa isn't too eager to pick it up. "someone else wants it...?"
She goes over to the cabinet instead, and attempts to break it open.
And again...
Despite Lyssa's powerful attempts, the desk remains firmly locked, barely scrathed.
You get the impression a faint echoing laughter can be heard as your attempts had failed.
"If you're afraid of any magical traps Lyssa, best let Elsa, Sabel or Father Burdock check it." Grint says from the other side of the room.
"Something tells me we might need it for something later on, that is if it's safe to pick up. Can you read the engraving perhaps Lyssa?"
Grint says as he now approaches the monk.
"The engraving's that of a tombstone. Just a picture, nothing to read on it."
Lyssa appears hesitant to pick the tile up after Grint's words. "Could someone check it out, before it's picked up?"
Watching Lyssa bash her way around the room, smashing objects and suffering an attack from darts. Please stop being so reckless! she barks.
Elsa casts Detect Magic in the room, scanning for magical auras.
Burdock shakes his head at Lyssa as she pulls the dart off of her. "Is she always that reckless?", Burdock asks Grint.
"Anything interesting with that?", the dwarf asks the pale woman.
Sabel stands a bit back after being scorched last time she tried anything.
"Most of the time yes."
Modest abjuration magic radiates from within the chest. The tile to be precise.
Spellcraft 18
The pattern of magic feels like an incomplete warding glyph, as if the tile is a part or a key removed from something.
The sound of metal scraping over a solid surface is coming from down the hall. It seems to get closer.
If heading out to look; you see this figure. A muscular man with barbed wire wrapped around his head and over parts of his body. He's dragging a large greatsword along.
Take the tile, it might be needed elsewhere.
and then Elsa spots the man and says Well that cannot be good.
She casts snowball DC 17 Fort or be staggered