"Haha, oh, man, this is so sweet!" Strang laughs in awe at such a novelty as standing on the ceiling.
"Alright, now, let's see what I can do about this frigging trap!"
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Strang, tired of playing 20 Questions with a bunch of green-skinned morons, spits in annoyed frustration. "Well, what the hell, I'll just go up there and get whatever needs getting!" With that, he turns and leaves the room to go and climb the ladder rungs.
Strang adds the room has 15 foot long rungs spaced two feet apart leading to a chest resting on the ceiling with no means of support.
Strang saunters back into the room while Terion is trying to question the wretched bugbears. "Hey, check out mah bling!" he crows, flashing the coins he'd found. "Yeah, I know - equal split and all..." "And beyond that, there's another room - a lot bigger - while a ladder going up the ceiling to a chest stuck upside down. Huh, must be what this poor bastard's talking about. So, uhh, now what? Tie these guys up or what?"
"Hey, thanks, Fornitado," Strang thanked the Elven cleric as the divine energy closed his wounds. Taking a spot inside the rear exit of the door, he looked for signs of impending reinforcements or other monster's activity.
Status hp 36, AC 18
Strang follows Terion's armored bulk as he advances and slaughters the nearest foe. "Good job, big guy," Strang encouraged Terion. "But watch this!" With that, Strang ducks around Terion and tears off in what could be called suicidal bravado to charge along the wall and duck behind the two bugbears. "Come get some!" Strang taunted them, brandishing his sword.
Status hp 24/36, AC 18
Strang, despite being wounded, puts his crossbow away and gets out his sword. "I'll be right behind you, Terion!" Status hp 24/36, AC 18
Strang starts lighting a torch to back up Terion's threat - and because he couldn't do anything else anyways.
Not able to do anything else, Strang shakily brings up his crossbow and tries to shoot through the chaos in hopes of a lucky hit.
Status hp 24/36, AC 18
Hands slippery with his own blood, Strang is unable to act in the tight confines of the narrow corridor.
Status hp 24/36, AC 18
"Damn right I will!" exclaimed Strang as he stumbled back, bleeding profusely. Strang moves to the nearest unoccupied space behind Terion. "Okay, Arvhil, work your magic!" Status AC 18, hp 24/36
Nearing the door, Strang looks for traps that might spring on anyone at the door.
Strang shifted uncomfortably in his boots: what to do to help the sobbing young woman was soemthing completely outside his realm of experience. Recalling a phrase he'd once read that he'd thought sounded cool, he placed a hand on her shoulder and said, "Life before death, Des; we shall mourn the fallen later, and celebrate our own survival as we can for now." He didn't know if it would do anything, or if it would be enough, but... what else could he do?
"I'm here," replied Strang, surreptitiously oogling the young tribeswoman. "Soaked to the bone and with a fine collection of croc teeth thanks to 'me noif', here, at least."
Strang dives down beneath the water and stabs at the crocodile closer to shore.
Status hp 36, AC 18, Inspire Courage
With still more of the party in trouble, Strang wades back into the water to help the Elves.
Status hp 36, AC 18
"Bizzle!" shouts Strang a second time. The gnome was in trouble. Grabbing him around the chest, Strang pulls for the shore away from the crocodiles.
"Bizzle!" Strang cries out again, as the croc drags the gnome under - only for him to re-surface a moment later. Strang made a desperate attack at the crocodile blocking his way to the shore before grabbing onto Bizzle to try to keep him from drowning.
Status hp 36, AC 18
"Bizzle!" Strang splashes through the water in an attempt to find the diminutive magician. Finding mostly crocs, he stabs at one with his sword.
Status hp 36, AC 18
"Aaagh!"
Strang and Co. first, keeping a sharp eye out for trouble.
Strang throws his hands up in the air. "Bah! Fine, whatever. At least you'll hopefully be able to tell us about anything that might be important. Stick close to Terion, who should be able to protect you." Seeing the elves get in a canoe, he made ready to shove off with the second. "Well, you coming or not? Terion, Bizzle: c'mon!" Checking off the various party members in his head, "Cole, looks like you're with the elves."
Satisfied the cave was safe from enemies, Strang called the group down for them to explore.
"God-touched, huh? Then why'n blazes did you follow us down here? Surely you'd know better... and now our job is harder because we have to protect you! As for the Ice Titan, he told us to come down here and 'deal with it' for him. D'you really think we'd be here if we weren't scared spitless of his wrath?!"
I am very much interested in playing, especially as this module was rated as one of the best of all time. That said, I am aware that my posting is not as regular as may be desired - but I am making more of an effort since the end of Serpent God when this was trend was worst. That said part two, all of us players need to be better about playing together to make the GM's job easier by giving him options. Try reading this to see what I mean, especially #1! This is something I'm trying to be better at as well.
"Snakes... why'd it have to be snakes, again?!" Strang mutters to himself. Taking a look around, he tried to determine if there was any recent activity.
"We could use Dancing Lights and Ghost Sound to make them think we are haunts and scare them away tonight," Strang offered. Clearly, his player had been reading the Player's Handbook.
"A few coins is a lot better than getting poisoned or voodoo-cursed, Terion," Strang points out. "Or, y'know, slaughtered like your old man's pigs come the fall harvest festival." "Tell you what, let's all just put up 5 gold each and call it good: it's more wealth than these barbarian savages probably ever see in their lifetime if it weren't for people like us. Heh, but that doesn't mean we're going to put up with their thieving ways if we make it out of whatever's ahead, alive!"
"My thanks," grunts Strang for the water. He liked the way she smiled at him... but not the way she did it for all the other guys, to.
Eyeing the enormous (and enormously incomplete) totem balefully, Strang sighed. "Having learnt my lesson about not playing the doormat, I s'psoe we'd better get busy. Anybody got an axe?"
"But the 'stomping on castles like an ogre on an ant-hill' part of the tale is true. The Arm-Fang gets his way, no doubt about it!"
Yes, there were options for the bonus feat.
You gave us the bonus feat, particularly the best feat of all time: Luck of Heroes!
"Uhh, Cole? You're a Paladin: you, of all of us, should be most accustomed to having gods tell you what to do and where to go!"
With the current roster, Arvhil - Wizard 4 (Evoker)
it seems that continuing as a rogue makes the most "sense" in terms of balancing the abilities of the party. This module may also be his time to shine in terms of finding/disabling traps! Character sheet has been updated accordingly.
Checking in after a very tumultuous two days at work/school; I am still undecided about continuing to use Strang or use this opportunity between modules to explore what other classes have to offer. Tribute suggested a druid, but I can't say that appeals to me since the type of Druid I'd like to play (shape-shifter specialist) isn't available with Core rules only. I'm considering either bard or monk; at least a bard comes close to duplicating what my rogue could do.
Druids are highly encouraged! But then you may have to put up with Merrie! I already have a druid, and I'm doing a poor job of playing him to the class's fullest ability (as you know).
I'm in! Tribute, since we're skipping around all over the place, may I consider playing a different class?
"May I have your permission... my Lord... to call them back? Both are healers," Strang asked, with emphasis to denote his new, subservient status.
Speaking for myself, it's hard to give up what I think I've earned. Just look at how much people gripe about income taxes! Note that there's a significant gulf between "what I think I've earned" and "what I think I should be given".
Strang looked around. Terion, Bizzlemont, Cole, Xanthar down and possibly dead, Lamriel and Fornitado fleeing. Only he remained of his party on the field of what could only be called butchery... and no hope of victory. Live, or die. Sighing, he threw his sword away and bent knee before the king.
Speaking for myself, it's hard to give up what I think I've earned. Just look at how much people gripe about income taxes!
Strang shrugs. "I don't particularly care for 'surrender' though you've already wiped the floor with us, so how 'bout a truce? Safe passage for an equal share of the loot?" "Gotta say it makes me wonder, though: if you're such a badass, why haven't you gone and claimed it all for yourself a long time ago?"
Savaged by the wolves but unbowed, Strang spits in the face of one of the wolves and replies, "If by 'in charge', you mean 'least-dead', you'll be talking to me. Why, you ready to surrender?" That said, he deliberately doesn't attack any of the wolves surrounding him... but still on his guard none-the-less.
Status AC 20, hp 13
"Aww, crap..." Strang snarls as they are surrounded by wolves. Dropping is crossbow, he took advantage of the fact he was near a companion to draw his shortsword and stab the wolf between them.
My personal opinion is to try and beat the encounter (or successfully run away - an outcome much more probably to leave at least some of the party alive), and if we wipe, move on to another module. Even thinking about a retcon or "deus ex machina" rescue just leaves a sour taste for me. If we try and fail, at least we tried. The whole premise of the game series was to experience "early" modules, so I don't particularly care for a Paizo AP, either.
In the Silmarillion even the Elves were ready to leave Valinor and fight Morgoth just to recover a few gems (i.e. the Three... Oh, the irony!
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