Gloin's attack strikes the skeleton but has no effect.
The skeleton gets up (provoking an attack) and attacks Gloin with a claw scratching him across the chest. It doesn't hurt that much but Gloin can feel his strength draining away at the skeleton's touch.
Gloin takes 3 damage and 2 str damage.
Lilly, Kavakki, Bjorn, Kirana your up.
Lilly puts her hand on Kavakii's shoulder.
"Whack him..."
Casted guidance.
Kirana draws her axes while she moves up to the skeleton, and swings both of her axes at it. "Die again!"
Round
Feeling the hammer a bit heavier in his hand gloin's attack missed
Dratz i have to adjust my hold on my weapon
using power attack
if hit, skeleton gets reflex save (dc=14) or be considered flat-footed until end of my next turn.
I've seen this type of creature before. This info may be of use...
Kirana strikes the creature but the blow doesn't have much effect.
Gloin misses
Bjorn strikes it twice dealing good damage.
kavakii punches the skeleton trips it and punches it hard shattering it's skull. The creature is destroyed.
That leaves finding a way out before your crushed.
I start to search the dead guy holding box for clues to how the trap can be deactivated
Can the sarcophagus move/ slide?
Brilliant! I can grease the floor, then we can slide it to the side and it will stop the ceiling instead of going into its neat little hole.
"Best we make haste, the metal stalactites are painful."
"Downseedaisy"
Searching the bottom of the sarcophagus wags find a hidden panel and inside is a lever. She pulls the lever and a section of the floor opens up into a staircase going down.
Awesome Sauce!
Quick everybody, follow me...
Bjorn follows Waglinde, sword ready in case she runs in to trouble
Sorry lads i have no real idea to contribute i've always been bad at the whole trap stuff
Gloin will look around for some sort of lever and workings of the trap to stop and reset it.
"Gloin, come on, before the ceiling goes squish on us."
You go down as the roof continues to descend and seals the way behind you.
The chamber at the bottom of the stairs is spacious and there are several passages leading in and out.
Two long hallways go north and seems to lead into dozens of small chambers that appear to have been used as living quarters there are a dozens rooms but both hallways are dead ends.
A door to the east leads into a well stocked armory.
Weapon racks hold 45 maces, 11 morningstars, six heavy crossbows,
55 bolts, 7 halberds, 2 glaive, 3 guisarmes and 4
longswords.
50% of the weapons are too old to be usable. Two chests contain seven well-oiled chain shirts and a masterwork suit of chainmail.
A chamber to the south hold a single wooden chest. The chest is inside a beam of green light that decends from the ceiling.
A long passage at the south-east corner of the room goes south but doesn't enter the room with the chest it seems to lead to a spiral staircase that goes further down.
See lilly we aren't dead yet and still have things and passageways to explore. says gloin casting detect magic
The suit of chainmail is magical (+1).
There is also magic radiating were the chest is obviously. (abjuration)
"A magic box. Mayhaps i can find out what spell lies upon it."
Curiously Lilly concentrates.
Kirana observes the chest over Lilly's shoulder. "Shall I try smashing the lock open?"
"...and maybe create a big ball of flames?
Safer if not yet."
You see a line of powered silver on the ground forming a circle around the chest. The aura would suggest a powerful ward but it seems inverted as if to keep something in rather than out. There is more magic weaved into it set to trigger if someone enter the circle as well. Your not sure what it is but it's powerful enchantment magic.
With nervous eyes Lilly looks back at the others.
"This aura.....it feels like a quite-quite strong barrier.
Oddly, i'm guessing its task is to refrain escape, opposed to keeping away people. Addition....stepping into the circular barrier is risky, like...hurtful risky. Lest we have knowledge of this magic, i strongly offer the idea leaving this be for now."
What about dragging the chest out of the beam and circle using a rope?
"No,no,no,no....bad suggestion. A barrier made for keeping some thing or a person locked in must be very, very important."
"To appease our curiosity, perhaps we could use one of those polearms to open the chest, w/o entering the circle, as well as keeping whatever is being held inside within it's magical area?"
reminds me of this time, back stage at the Rialto Theater, there was this button, this big red button, this big red candy like button, with a sign on it that said, 'push only in emergency.' Oh, yeah I pushed it, and there wasn't any emergency. I got in so much trouble.
that chainmail is magical so i'll put it in my bag and we can talk it over once we get out. Now do we really want to free what ever is inside ?
<Nutcase, this guy's got no common sense.
You warned them and he "still" wants to open it.>
"Wagsy, lets reverse our direction of stepping carefully. If Gloin desires to open the deathbox after the warning of doom, i have no wish to be anywhere near it."
A few sweatdrops are on her temple...she's anxious.
<Good move girl, things locked up are locked up for a good reason.
Which is totally unfair back at the asylum, we were harmless.>
Shut up..
I have no desire to do such thing as the "it" that is inside radiates of pure Evil. So i will advise against opening it and moving on
Hey, hold on a second. Is that Chain Mail Armor lighter than my Chain Mail Shirt? 'Cause if it is, I'm changing out of this stuff right now.Unless you guys think it is going to mess with my magical spells.
"Okay, so let's skip the scary box of doom and, probably, destruction. The thing and your talk about its evil are creeping me out."
Kirana takes her distance from the chest. She doesn't sense anything evil from it, but it gives her goosebumps.
it is indeed the wisest thing to do kirana
The chainmail is definitely heavier than a chain shirt. As for the spell interference...I have no idea.....
+1 Chainmail
Medium armor
+7 ac
+2 max dex
–4 check penalty
30% arcane spell failure
20 ft. speed
40 lbs.
it's about 300 pounds worth of gear not including the armors. Assuming you each have a mostly empty backpack that can hold 5 medium weapons (mace/ morningstar) Crossbows can be attached to you belt and halbert and guisarmes can be attached to your backs. Swords can also be attached to belts.
Criky, that armor is way too heavy, and I am already carrying more stuff than I ever had to carry when I was on the road in that production of "The Misty Wood River All Purpose Sugar Company". and we were on tour for eight weeks!
"It does, however, look lovely on you Miss Bowie."
But dear Erastil, she might just collapse under its weight...
"Though... I don't think it's your color, really. You should have a green one instead?"
"All that junk seems a bit more trouble than it's worth. I certainly hope there will be other, more valuable items to concern ourselves with."
Going down?
Checking the room at the north end most of them are empty, you find four human skeletons but nothing of value. You also find a somewhat more spacious room, the chief cleric's chamber were it looks like something may have gotten loose, as evident from the broken conjuration circle in the inner room.
Both doors to the chief clerics chambers are smashed, broken in two by forceful blows. Pages ripped from torn books litter the floor. Beneath the mound of rubble, wrecked furniture and destroyed items, the dismembered remains of the chief cleric still bears a +1 ring of protection, a +1 dagger and a ruby-studded unholy symbol.
"Just to not be sorry, could we pummel the bones, so they don't step up and assault us?"
Bjorn takes out his mace and crushes the skulls of the skeletons.....for Lilly's sake.
Better safe than sorry...
"Oh, sweet!" Kirana picks up the ring of protection. "Anyone minds if I take this?"
It takes Kirana some time to decide on which finger she'll put the ring.
That finger's for my future wedding ring... But if i put it on that finger, people will think I'm engaged... Oh dear...
Kirana eventually figures out which finger to put the ring on. "Do you think it looks good on me?" she asks the other girls.