Azure_Zero's Hollow's Last Hope Campaign (Inactive)

Game Master Azure_Zero

So heading for the shine or the courtyard tower?

Courtyard

Alright

You all enter the court yard, it is lightly raining and the sun is still out.

"Bertrand did we lose some people?"

"Bertrand did we lose some people?"

"I thought there were some others with us, but I'm not sure what happened to them."

Best quick and easy thing I can come up with is that some were hallucinations from a few mushrooms you used to flavor up your rations.
and Tamnir Allefort is sick with blackscour taint and went to town.

Unless you want a stealthy predator roaming the place.

"Well lets get tah finding em people err more mushrooms!"

heads for the shrine, stops short and offers...

"After you."

After a long look around the empty courtyard, Bertrand follows Barnabus back in and approaches the shrine's doors. He'll quietly open them far enough to peek inside, paying special attention to the ceiling.

If needed: Stealth:1d20 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 18
Perception:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13

1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 191d20 + 9 ⇒ (2) + 9 = 11

this is a funny result

As you enter stealthily you spot 2 darkmantles attempting to move stealthily along the rafters

Inits please.

Darkmantle init: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (9) + 4 = 13

Initiative
1d20 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7

taps and points.....

Initiative1d20 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 2 = 22

Since that looks like it's first:
Stepping just inside the door to have a clear shot, Bertrand quickdraws his bow and fires

RapidShot Longbow:1d20 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5
Damage:1d8 ⇒ 7
RapidShot Longbow:1d20 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 2 = 13
Damage:1d8 ⇒ 3

Players win init

A darkmantle gets a scratch

Crossbow 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 2 = 20
Damage 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

"Pin its ears back!"

roll to confirm crit
1d20 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 2 = 10

The darkmantles cast darkness and darken the whole shrine.

"Watch yerself Betrand while I get some light magics tah banish tha darkness."

Next round cast light orison.....

Bertrand peers into the darkness, waiting for the promised light.

It's your turn

Casting light ;)

the light slightly lightens the area but does not counter the darkness.

Low-light vision or dark vision is needed to see.

Light is Level 0, Darkness is Level 2, darkness wins

"Damn. No light? Back into the hallway, make them come to us."

Bertrand steps back into the doorway himself, dropping his bow and quickdrawing his axe. He readies himself to strike at anything attacking him.

I would keep the bow, as they fly, and tend to get the "drop" on people.

If I can't see, the bow is useless. I figure, if they come at me, I've got a shot to hit them with the axe.

true. but if it's flying near the ceiling, you can't hit it.

Once out of the area of darkness.....

"Maybe we ken wait fer tha spell tah expire an try again."

You wait about a minute and the spell expires.

Readies his crossbow and nods to Betrand....

holds up one finger, then two, and then three...

barge back in ready to shoot the creatures again!

Bertrand takes a moment to sling his axe, picks up his bow, notches an arrow and steps back in with Barnabus.

Perception checks to spot them.

Perception 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 2 = 11

"They was here a second agone!"

Perception1d20 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9

"I don't see them either. Maybe they fled in the darkness?"

1d20 + 9 ⇒ (4) + 9 = 13

You don't spot them.

1d20 + 9 ⇒ (9) + 9 = 18

Perception checks

Ouch they are stealthy buggers.

Perception
1d20 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 2 = 15

"Where tha f~#!?"

Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 23

Bert spots them moving stealthily along the ceiling to a spot above you to get the "drop" on you.

"Thanks fer tha spot Bertrand!"

Crossbow 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8
Damage 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9

Retroactive: "There! Above us"

Rapid Shot Longbow: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 2 = 18
Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 2
Rapid Shot Longbow: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3
Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 7

Bertrand shots the wounded Darkmantle, and kills it, with an arrow through the mouth.

1d2 ⇒ 2

The other darkmantle drops onto Bertrand.

Attack+Damage+Grab: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 111d4 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 81d20 + 8 ⇒ (19) + 8 = 27

and it misses.

As the thing lands near him, Bertrand drops his bow and quickdraws his axe, slicing deep into the strange creature.

Power Attack Great Axe: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24
Damage: 1d12 + 9 ⇒ (3) + 9 = 12

fort save: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7

it gets chopped almost into two halves.

"I guess them was tha out o reach creatures.....Yah think it was jus two o em?"

Continues looking and aiming at the ceiling.....

Not going to check the room?

"Yah reckon we got all o em?"

Once Barnabus calms down a bit he looks around using the light spell to help illuminate the area

"I hope so. Keep an eye on the ceiling though."

Bertrand will follow his own advice while checking out the rest of the room.

Pews of darkwood lie tipped over and covered
in dust on either side of this ancient shrine. At
the far end sits a large ceremonial anvil, but
its surface is defaced and ruined.

Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (20) + 6 = 26

"I don't see any mushrooms, but look, here on the old altar..."

Was there supposed to be something else after "long gone"?

Yep, but it's a spoiler

"Any gems left?"

lights go out...

re-casts light...

"Any gems left?"

no gems here....