Lucem Feeling the power of light filling her takes a moment to admire her strike on the zombie and that it seemed to do more damage than the flail. Thanking Saranae, she then notices a figure slowly staggering to her, the decaying flesh stench is upon her and she realises that she has let her foe get too close. She turns and engages the decaying flesh monstrosity. I shall return you to the ground!
To hit:
Damage:
In her haste to strike she over balances and in this instant the thought creeps in This is going to hurt.
End of Round 2
Malstrom stepped in and delivered a slashing strike at the Zombie in front of him with his long sword. The weapon strikes beautifully, felling the corpse and stopping its undead limbs from reanimating again.
Archeos followed suit, stepping into the zombie that was attacking Lecem, and moving to gain flank as much as possible. His short sword stabbed into the thing, but this time he felt a portion of his blow robbed of its power as the rotten flesh slipped over the blade and without much damage.
Lucem desperately tried to retaliate against her foe, but its unnatural stare and the smell coming from its putrescent body prevented her from getting in a good strike. If it survived thi ministrations of her campaniosn, she may well have a chunk of flesh removed by the thing. That couldn't be good.
Beginning of Round 3
Koal shouted in controlled fear as the clwed hand scuttled over her. Summoning the concentration taught to her in the acadamy, she launched another bolt of force at the undead thing, singeing some of the felsh from around the hand. Still it came on though, moving like some grotesque spider as it scuttled around her.
Ulric moves to attack the last most threatening undead thing taking his light with him.
Flail Attack Damage
The attack feels fluid as he lets his natural skill dictate his swing resulting in a deep impact.
If required
Perception
If i can attack the hand without causing damage to Koal I will do that, moving to T5.
Sword
Hit =
Dmg=
If i need to strike unarmed
to hit =
Damage =
Round 3 cont...
Ulric rushed into the undead thing assaulting his new friends and smashed its skull apart with his flail. The collapsed braincase looked grotesque as the weapon crunched through, but so far it seemed to best place to actually strike these things to ensure they wouldn't get back up again.
Brethan turned and surveyed the scene, his eyes picking out details fairly easily thanks to the combined light of the torch and Ulric's sunrod. He watched in amusement as Koal seemed to dance around at some sort of spider thing, until he realised it was actually a dismembered hand trying to choke her.
He rushed in, swinging his sword in an effort to kill the thing but his endeavours to not kill his friend as well left the blow next to useless.
The hand seemed oblivious to the threat the barbarian posed, launching itself through the air again as it tried to kill the mage. The fingers of the hand clawed her face, but she managed to rip the thing from her and toss it aside with a scream before it could grab hold of her and choke.
Archeos regards the hand with an undisguised malice and stabs at it with his short sword, twisting the blade to maximize the damage dealt.
Atk:
Dmg:
Malstrom looks around surveying the scene, making sure there are no other animated dead coming out of the mist.
Poor bastards, they could not even Rest in Peace, can't wait to get my hands on who ever did this to these poor souls!
Archeos darted in and skewered the hand on the end of his shortsword. The grasping fingers twitched there for a moment, looking more like a skewered spider or scorpion than a hand. The digits twitched and danced as the last of the necromantic magic bled from the hand and it became a piece of rotting meat once more.
As it died, the rest of the group looked around and realised they were no longer being threatened by the risen dead. However, which tomb was the one they were after was not easy to tell in this dark and fog.
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Perception check (+5) on the likely hood on most suitable tomb:
Rockin!!
Lucem nods a thanks to Ulric and takes in the decomposing body at her feet. She looks up and looks towards Koal's shrieks.
Perception for any other creatures that are out there. Lucem has low light vision too.
Perception
If Lucem sees something she'll tell everyone else. If its close enough to engage with relative safety she will.
If there isn't anything else she will go to Koal's aid. Assuming she's still in U5 Lucem will move to V5 and attack.
To hit:
Damage:
Maybe I hould hit refresh after leaving the computer for dinner before posting. Lucem will use the perception to try and determine the tomb.
Archeos regards the skewered hand with disgust, and then offers it (still impaled on his short sword) to Lucem for consideration. "Is there anything of significance you can tell us from the "remains" of our attackers? Do you know of a way we better defend our selves from these abominations?"
Lucem looks at the hand and reaches for the short sword May I? With the putrified smell rising from it she doesn't really want to touch it. Looking at it impaled the way it is she gets an image of it on her face with a tail wrapped around her throat. She shivers inwardly and looks carefully at it in the light coming from the shield.
Which ever roll you need DM.
Perception:
Knowledge Religion:
Heal check:
Spellcraft:
Its a bit hard to tell in this light. But I'd say.... While explaing what she can discern, she hands it to anyone else who wants a gander.
Ulric takes a look around for tracks or more heavily accessed tombs.
Perception
Survival
It takes a few minutes of searching with torches in the fog, but the party eventually finds the tomb mentioned in the Professors journal.
The old mausoleum was built from the same black stone that the town itself used. Great wooden doors sat heavily in hinges rusted with age. The handle of the doors were iron rings, caught in the mouths of grotesque gargoyle faces and edged with lettering to prevent the raising of the spirits. Lucem could read the words, written in the language of the churches and invoking holy wards to protect the place.
However, under her magic sight, she could find no remaining trace of the power they once held.
Ulric did a quick search of the place before the others could trod too heavily over any sign of recent activity. To his surprise, he found a few signs of recent activty. There was a small pile of loose brown powder at the base of the door, and the two hinges of that door showed signs where the metal had recently been exposed. Someone had opened this door in the last few weeks, disturbing years of rust in the pivot of the hinge. He also found a small marking etched in the stonework at the base of the door.
All three of the magic users in the group quickly identified it as a sigil used to help break wards and complex magical protections. It would seem the Professor had found his tomb afterall.
Now all they had to do was enter it, assuming it was safe to do so.
In regards the undead
Lucem couldn't tell anything of note about the skewered hand. Malstrom however recognised the walking dead as Zombies. He vaguely remembered them as being one of the easier unded to create and control. All of the group had worked out by now that slicing and slashing weapons seemed to create far more havoc in the reanimated bodies than any of their piercing and bludgeoning weapons.
"There is evidence to suggest someone recently used this entrance. Also there is some form of magical symbol here at the base of the door."
Finding the sigil Ulric quickly removes himself from the crypt entryway. He will leave the magic to those versed in it's potency.
Ulric is soon relieved to find out the sigil is not an active ward so entry to the crypt would not be such a dangerous task.
Ulric maintains his shield but swaps out his weapons, learning now that his longsword would waste those undead better than his flail would do.
He stands ready to open and enter the crypt on the magic users word it is safe to proceed.
Archeos eyes the doors suspicously.
"Anything worth warding magically usually has other, more mundane, defences."
Perception:
Archeos proved wise to check, for sure enough, a minor trap was present on the door. It appeared designed to trap the person who triggered it rather than damage them. A clever mechanism had been built into the door that would lock the hand opening it into a stone viice, trapping the person until one of the priests came.
Now to see if Archeos was more clever than the trap maker.
Malstrom wait nervously to see if Archeos can disarm the trapped doors without blowing himsself up.
"This looks fairly straight forward ... I'll have the door open in a moment."
Disable Device:
Lucem will have detect magic up. A quick once over the door while Archeos is disarming the trap can't hurt. Breaking into a tomb is making me paranoid.
Before we go in I'll check for any other magical wards.
After the door is disarmed and opened Lucem will check out the inside before anyone enters. Here's a perception aswell: Anyone else see anything I've missed?
Archeos' nimble fingers make short work of the trap, and he slides the door open with a flourish.
Within, the tomb appears to carry the dust of ages. A group of Sarcophogi line the sides and end of the building, all of them closed with heavy stone tablets. The building itself is old, and while no windows are present, the stone work has cracked as the ground shifted and the elements took their toll.
Perception DC 12
If you made that perception then make a survival check of DC18
A separate DC 20 perception available for everyone
Perception
Survival
Perception:
Survival:
Perception (+5):
Survival (+2):
Perception 2 (+5):
"Hey all, look here, the dust on the ground appears to have been disturbed recently. And look at the far end of the room, near the sarcophogi there, it appears as if a small pile of bones has accumulated. From this distance they appear to be vermin, bat and bird bones. It is just possible that something has made this tomb its home, and those are the remnants of ts meals."
Koal will cast detect magic and check out the room, specifically the pile of bones in the corner.
Stealth Mode:
Yes I can see that to Koal, good pick up, we best be on our toes
Perception
Ulric only notices how appealing Koal looks in the light cast by his sunrod. After a moment he breaks the reverie and looks where she indicated.
Survival check:
Lucem looks inside room not noticing much except the darkness and a dank smell that was almost pleasing compared to the zombie stench. I swear I've got some of that zombie in my hair. I can't wait to get rid of that stench. The bones become obvious once pointed out. I can't even spot a pile of bones in a room with nothing else except tombs. Come on paranoia you should be helping me stay alive here.
Given that's its only small creatures, here's hoping that whatever lives in here isn't much larger and is actually living.
2d20 FTW Malstrom
2d20 FTW Malstrom
The party filed into the tomb, checking the nooks and crannies as they went. The room was thrown into stark contrast as the light from their mundane and magical illuminations came into the entrance. A small flight of stairs led them into the main sarcophagus room and now they could detect the musty odour of old bones and meat. All was quiet.
Archeos - Keep your stealth roll from before, but it will purely be for moving quietly rather than visibilty since the room is brightly lit. You can sneak in behind Sarcophogi if you wish, but then you haven't looked behind those yet.
Ulric will take the lead. He will move forward 15ft (MA) and ready and action to attack any dangerous hostile creature in melee range (SA). His Sunrod still in the shield sconce, illuminating the way.
Perception
Koal will move no further forward than F6 at this stage, but most certainly not first.... squishy and all.
Perception (+5):
She will also throw the stick she is carrying with light cast on it in the general direction of B6
Throw (+0):
With scimitar drawn squishy number 2 will move up alongside Koal and check the inside of the crypt for anything that stands out with detect magic.
Perception:
Anything that Lucem notices will be passed on to the group.
Malstrom will move in behind Ulric to e6 and cast Guidance upon myself.
I'll go up and have a look at the thing in B1. Keeping stealth and looking for trap panels etc.
Perception:
The group spread out, moving cautiously into the crypt room to try and find what they were after. Ulric had his weapon readied, barely acknowledging the presence of Brethan as the big human moved up beside him.
Archeos cautiously moved into the room, his feet moving with barely a hint of sound as he moved to check the pile of bones at the end of the room.
The young rogue bent to probe the bone pile when he caught a glimpse slithering movement from under the nearest crypt. A crack had opened inthe floor there and some great instectoid creature was rushing from the darkness to strike him.
Lucem caught a flicker of movement too, and watched in horror as her less perceptive friends were suddenyl set upon by a creature of shining carapace and chittering legs. They were the biggest centipedes she had ever seen.
Surprise round.
The centipedes struck fast, hissing partially out to strike their prey as their homes were invaded. Archeos lept back just in time, avoiding the creature striking him.
Brethan stepped away from one, but didn't see the one coming out from behind him and he felt the stinging bite of the creature as it sunk its venomous fangs into his calf muscle.
Ulric was also struck, hissing as the venom entered his body and his muscles began twitching slightly.
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Fort Save
Ulric grimaces but suppresses a yell in shock reaction to the dangerous critter grabbing his leg.
"The time to upgrade this armor is nigh."
Lucem will attack the one to her left. She'll step up to E5 and attack.
Attack:
Hit:
Koal will Force Missile the centipede at E4