All's Well that Ends in a Well, V.2 (Inactive)

Game Master Choon

The Sarcophagus is opened. The first thing you see is a beautiful necklace. The first thing you smell is an ungodly stench that leaves you involuntarily gaging. A monster lies in the coffin and you all react immediately, beating it back into death.
I have full faith in your ability to do 14 damage on a prone, flat-footed target in one round.
The necklace is easily retrieved and should be worth 1000gp in a market large enough to afford it.

Huzzah! The undead are at rest once more, and we have found fancy treasure to boot! Looking at Zadira's map, it seems the only place we haven't explored yet on this floor is past the trap with the twin doors - shall we investigate?
If Zadira wants to keep the necklace with the extra group money, that is fine, otherwise Grelthe will stick it in her pack with the other goods.

The room on the right was a secondary hideout for the bandits you vanquished earlier. There is no treasure here, but you do find a flier saying that there is a 25 gp reward for them, dead or alive, that can be collected in Zelkor’s Ferry if sufficient evidence of the bandit’s demise can be provided.

In the he room on the left there is a pile of 8 skulls in the northeast corner, which is otherwise completely empty and filled with dust and normal cobwebs. The skulls are normal, but each one has a small hole bored into the top.

I'll wear the necklace until we can sell it.

Is there something inside the skulls? Maybe they are candleholders. :)

Disable Device: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (13) + 11 = 24 Trap by skull door
Disable Device: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (5) + 11 = 16 Trap by twin doors
Disable Device: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (13) + 11 = 24 Trap by "past the well room"

The skulls are empty.

^^^oops, sorry. Edited while you were writing to add trap rolls.

Also, keeping the bandit flyer as a souvenir.

Moved Party

Traps disabled. :)

Catarya, do you want these skulls for anything? I know you are into bones.

Also, I think Kayla wanted to say something when we had a moment, didn't you Kayla?

I moved us to the next door, but we can take time for conversation now since we aren't in battle if you want. :)

Grelthe suggests going back to where the bandit leader's corpse was left, to check him for any sort of identification. Are they wearing a badge or tartan or anything that identifies they were a group?

Kayla had been following along, keeping to herself for much of the boring parts. but definitely showed concern when it came to Zadira disarming traps.

of course she looks to Zadira when the question or rather comment came up. huh? did I say I wanted to say something? maybe later when we make camp for the night. I don't want to start any problems right now.

Hey we gonna claim that reward for the bandits? she says trying to change the subject.

Oh, okay she says to Kayla. We'll do it later.

Yeah, good idea.

Before they move to the present location, they go back and see if there is anything they can salvage that proves they took out the bandits.

gonna take some coaxing for Kayla to open up. wanted to wait till we finally make camp, unless the coaxing works sooner.

Zadira wants to know, but she is worried that you have a Melkar-like secret, and she wants to wait until you guys are sitting down and Grelthe is preferably not near any weapons before she talks you into telling us what is up. :)

The leader is carrying something. A tattoo across the shoulders identifying him as "Tall Jack".

Grelthe gets out the dagger she took from the bandits and grimly goes to work slicing off his tattoo. Then she slices off a bit of his clothing to wrap it in.

Well, shall we head down to the next level or back to camp?

Catarya, do you want these skulls for anything? I know you are into bones.

"I usually take te small bones. A whole skull is kinda beeg... mebbe just a jawbone..." Catarya checks for magic (with dispel magic), and then removes a jawbone from one of the skulls (assuming there is no magic). She ties it to her armor by one of the many small thongs of leather hanging from it.

-------Later-------

Well, shall we head down to the next level or back to camp?

"By my map tere is still an area to te souteast to explore on tis level. Let's look tere first."

Oops, Grelthe is bad at reading maps, lol

Okay, I think things are wrapped up with what we found, but if anyone wants to retcon something else in, feel free

Zadira casts Open on the door in front of them. Current map position

2d20 ⇒ (8, 18) = 26
As Zadira steps up to the door the stone directly in front moves! There is a click and a sudden gust of air rushes from the room, nearly blowing out any torches near by! This used to be a trap, clearly, but whatever the effect was has degraded or was broken.
More worrying, Zadira didn't detect this one with her normal ease. Perhaps traps are getting harder to detect in this area?

The room is otherwise empty.

Whoops. Um. Close call. She tries to disarm it so that no one else gets such a scare:

Disable Device: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (5) + 11 = 16

It is already disarmed and the mechanism that produced the gust now sits idle. It probably won't fire again unless someone resets it manually.

Oh, okay. On to the next room then.

Zadira is more careful this time though. She doesn't trust only her natural trap sense, but also specifically, actively checks for danger.

Perception: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (18) + 12 = 30

If no danger sensed, then cast Open.

Melkar is quietly pleased when Kayla declines the offer of further personal conversation. He figures the less of that, the better for him.

When Grelthe nonchalantly collects the tattoo, he can't help smiling in approval. She is a foolish paladin who still believes her god won't steer her wrong, but maybe she can still be savaged. If only she didn't have that orc blood in her.

Melkar- Are you insinuating my human side is more easily corruptible?

So excited to see what's behind door #1! I see you shiver with antici......

Heh, no. More attractive. The thought of being with an orc, though....

LOL and I just realized I misspelled "salvage." Even hobgoblins have Freudian slips I guess.

...pation.

or ...passion?

"I see you shiver with antici... . . . . . ...pation."

Catarya knows what's up.

Oh, alright. "Anticipassion" was still funny. :)

The door swings open on a room piled high with scraps of cloth. It smells of rat and twenty beady red eyes stare back at you!

Zadira and Grethle are up, then the rats. Working on map now

Map complete.

I get to go first. Hmm... I guess I will hang back and stay safe. :(

Zadira steps to the side to open the path into the room, and shoots at yellow through the doorway.

Attack Yellow: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (5) + 7 = 12
Damage Yellow: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8

Grelthe steps forward with her flail & shield and says "fýri" (Cast spark using verbal component). Instantly, the pile of rags (grey) rat is sitting on bursts into flame. (Assuming the rags are flammable, of course)

Too bad we don't have a nice Fireball spell right about now.

I have an AoE spell but it only damages evil creatures.

Grethle steps into the room, and trips a wire just within!
1d4 + 4d20 + 1d4 + 4d20 ⇒ (4) + (12, 15, 2, 8) + (3) + (8, 12, 13, 5) = 82
Four arrows fly from the far wall! Grethle catches one on her shield, two miss, and one barely knicks her (for 3 damage).
Then the rats close in, but her defence stands strong and she establishes the front!

Grethle is now flanked to the north, west, and south by rats. The far rats are closing in. Will update map when I can. Party up.

Going to step into the room and burn several rats to death if I can, but my targeting has to wait till I know where they moved, so I can get as many as possible.

Burning Hands: 4d4 ⇒ (1, 2, 2, 3) = 8 DC 15 reflex save for half

the good thing about me being surrounded is it'll be super easy for anyone to flank the rats lololol.
Also did I successfully catch the grey rat on fire?

Planning to run in and flank while fighting defensively, but there's no map yet.

So, follow up to describe in text as requested: Zadira is counting on the rats bunching up because they are all going after tasty, tasty Grelthe. So, if she can get 4 or 5 within her 30 foot cone, she walks to the most advantageous position within her movement and blasts them (hopefully without also getting Grelthe). If for some reason they do not bunch up (if she can only get 2 or 3), then she will just fire another arrow. I'll roll that possibility below.

If Yellow isn't dead from her previous attack (not sure if it was even high enough to hit), she attacks Yellow. If Yellow IS dead, she attacks Orange.

Attack Yellow: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (5) + 7 = 12
Damage Yellow: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11

Grelthe will wait to see if her teammates flank the rats around her, staying where she is to give them flanking bonuses. If no one takes down any of the rats surrounding her, then she will target the south one (so she is not flanked). I'd someone takes out the north or south one she will target west instead.
flail attack not flanking: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (20) + 9 = 29 if flanking, +4
flail damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7

crit confirm: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (18) + 9 = 27
crit damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7

Map updated.

Catarya moves in and sets fanking for Grethle who immediately smashes in the skull of the northern rat. Zadira's arrow misses.

Kayla and Melkar are up.

South rat, not north rat. I want to give other people opportunity to flank, not take it for myself.

corrected
edit: or someone corrected it. :)

Kayla stealthily slips into the room quietly drawing her blades.

as she approaches the first rat she slices into it.

sneak into room: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (18) + 18 = 36

attack yellow: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (12) + 10 = 22
damage yellow: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2
sneak damage yellow: 2d6 ⇒ (6, 6) = 12

Nice rolling on the damage, Kayla. :)

Melkar rushes in and starts sweeping away rats with his scythe.

attack+mutagen+crowd control: 1d20 + 10 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 10 + 2 + 1 = 27
damage+mutagen: 2d4 + 14 + 2 ⇒ (3, 2) + 14 + 2 = 21

"Snakes and rats. If I survive this place somehow, perhaps I have a future in pest control."

I will move where the X'ed out green rat is and attack grey.

Map updated.

Catarya moves in and sets fanking for Grethle who immediately smashes in the skull of the northern rat. Zadira's arrow misses.

If Catarya just did a single move I'd like her to also do full defense. This will be her standard strategy if she is trying to position for a flank without making an attack.

Catarya, you can still attack if you want to. Grethe attacked the south rat, not north (we corrected it after what you quoted), so north is for you if you want.

Also, moved dead rat off board to the south and Melkar into his spot, just for organizational purposes. If the rat is going to come back as undead, feel free to have him nibble on Melkar's boots anyway. Technically, Melkar is still standing on or over the dead rat.