Who wants to try the door?
To DM: Please check messages, should clear things up.
Azzakan also tries to see more and get a feel of what is around him. Does he fel arcane work around him?
Nothing specific, but you can definitely feel strong residual energies eminating from the hut. Some MIGHTY magics have been conducted in this glade!
Knowledge arcana check please.
Who wants to try the door?
Friend Daedeloth, mayhap you should knock and see if the Witch abides within?
I must have learned a lot from that!
To group: I read the language on the cross....
It said Shaman....thinking kobold got messed up by the witch maybe. Think we might want to be careful how we proceed.
To Daed: up to you if you want to walk up to the door. Maybe if you offer up your eyes!!!!!!!!
Laurel said the witch was crafty and mean, but she also said that her grandmother was able to trade with her, so maybe we can deal with her as well.
Be ready for anything.
I knock on the door.
"Hello, is anyone home, we are travelers seeking to trade with Ulizmila."
Your knock echos hollowly throughout the glade.
The only response is an ominous silence....
I try opening the door.
With the moldering door rotted off its hinges, you give it a solid heave and push it in to the cottage. A dank reeking stench billows out of the structure, the contents within covered in shadows.
I will cast an orison: light.
If nothing immediately attacks, I will cast another: detect magic.
The door is moldering and rotted off its hinges. When we combine that with everything else we see, do we have an impression of whether the cottage is currently inhabited?
I am keeping watch on the forest outside. Don't want to be surprised.
I am ready to help Daed.
Azz, Var, Jar,
Cottage contains shelves line the walls, covered in all manner of clay jugs, clouded bottles, strangely cut rocks, rotted bunches of herbs, and a museum of other crude curios and menants of a bone grinder's artifice. A rusted iron cauldron, with a mouth nearly 5 feet wide and a depth of at least 3 feet, dominates the hut's single room, its ash-covered surface shaped with a relief of capering fiends and leering devils. Across from the door, against the far walls, stands a high-backed chair made of wicker, the giagantic curved tusks of some monstrous beast, and thousands of human teeth. In the chair sits what looks like a corpse wrapped in filthy burial linens, its form padded with pungent herbs and sprouting patches of thick white mold.
BE READY if corpse is undead or something!
How about the detect magic? And do I see any rat tail?
I enter the cottage, moving aside from door so others can follow of they want.
Daedeloth enters the hut and disappears from the view of the rest of the party...
Azz and Var come on in and help look for the rat tail. Jalriel can keep watch outside.
Azz and Var come on in and help look for the rat tail. Jalriel can keep watch outside.
[dice=Perception]1d20 + 12
Variel enters the hut By the First Flame; what a mess! And what is that stench? ~coughs~
Describe how you search the hut for rat tail.
I enter ready for battle. Do I hear anything out of the ordinary?
I enter ready for battle. Do I hear anything out of the ordinary?
I am ready to toss the napalm on the so called corpse sitting in the chair. I look around
The hut quickly searching for herbs and chemical compounds that might be exotic. I stay away from the corse or I am going to torch it.
The hut is filled with a mish-mash of materials, most of which you don't even recognize their origin or possible use. Almost everything you see looks exotic. You figure to fully catalogue the contents of the hut would be a labor of several weeks.
To Variel: Druid can you use your awesome natural sense to find the rat tail.
Azzakan looks for a jar labeled "rat tail"????
I concentrate my search on the shelves, especially the bottles and jugs.
Are there any secret doors or floor caches we can find?
After about 20 minutes of fruitless searching, Daedeloth's eyes finally alight on what he imagines can only be rat tail. Looking at the jar he can read in spidery script the words "rat tail" penned in a dark ichor.
Found it guys. Lets go. I grab it and head out the door.
Initiative:
So: Azzakan, Daedeloth, Variel, monster, Jalriel
DM: attack and damage rolls below, would it be easier to hit the thing from the inside? bonuses?
"Desna, let me strike true!"
DM: attack and damage rolls below, would it be easier to hit the thing from the inside? bonuses?
"Desna, let me strike true!"
[dice=attack]1d20+2
[dice=damage]1d4+2
I'll draw my weapon and enter the hut.
I'll draw my weapon and enter the hut.
I crush the cauldron with my morning star hoping it does not have any sonic effect on my friend inside.
Shaking off the shock of a living cauldron, Azzakan lays in a mighty blow to the animated apparatus. Not quite as quick to recover, Variel swings wide. From inside they hear an impassioned cry from Daedeloth Desna, let me strike true! and the sound of metal on metal. You notice that the cauldron's surface has an inherent hardness that blunts the effectiveness of your blows somewhat.
As you hear the continued banging of Daedeloth within the metal monster (Daedeloth take 4 points!), it savagely snaps again; this time hitting Variel for 5 points, hammering at his shield arm.
In the meantime, Jalriel rushes in to the hut to see the crazy fray and prepares to deal some damage the next round.
Initiative:
So: Azzakan, Jalriel, Variel, Daedeloth, cauldron
How much damage did I do?
Swing again I guess?
DM: Last night there was a post that said I took 8 damage when initially attacked and swallowed. If I take 4 more points, I am at -1.
DM: Last night there was a post that said I took 8 damage when initially attacked and swallowed. If I take 4 more points, I am at -1.
The 4 points are non-lethal but they are 4 points. Nighty night.
How much damage did I do?
Swing again I guess?
11 points.
Did I crush the cauldron and free Daedloth with the mighty swing of my Morningstar?
To DM When I first looked at post it did not have the damage listed only the commentary. Guess I should have waited longer. Things sometimes take a while to arrive on my iPad.
Daedeloth=zzzzzz
The might of his prior strike throws of his equilibrium as Azzakan's next strike rings harmlessly off of the lip of the cauldron. Jalriel coming in from the blind side lays a mighty slash on the foe which is quickly followed up by Variel from the other side. Daedeloth's body continues to be buffetted by the cauldron's wild gyrations.
The cauldron swils around, snapping at Jalriel for 3 points!
Initiative:
So: Cauldron; Variel; Jalriel; Azzakan
To Jalriel
Awesome damage!!
Post your actions and I'll write the round in the morning.
I use my Morningstar to destroy the cauldron. If the cauldron is dead I am ready to heal and administer a cure light to Daed (hopefully not AKA Dead).
I am going to smote the cauldron a mighty blow!
Daedeloth=zzzzzz
With a series of clanging strikes, most significantly from a titanic smoting delivered by Jalriel, the cauldron ceases its wild maneuvers and sits still. The mouth of the cauldron slowly opens, revealing a battered and unconscious Daedeloth. The inside of the cauldron appears to be starting to secrete some type of viscous acidic fluid.
From a small, withered, hideously shrunken head a withered female voice speaks: Woe betide the fools that disturb the residence of Ulizmila the Witch! My curse be upon you all!
Quickly free Daedeloth from the acidic clutches of the cauldron and pass him off to Azzakan for some healing.