Torgue is blocking the bottom of of the steps and you can't jump down over the side because of the walls.
Chell had been in a kind of stupor on the way over. Mostly she just trying to get the bad thoughts and images from her head. Lost in thought, she neither hears nor sees the dog attacking Torgue and stands patiently waiting her turn to enter.
Torgue bashes the dog into Scaggy Snacks
If Torgue's attacks don't pulp the dog, Astrianna pulls out her bow and attempts to plug it with an arrow.
RD 1: Chewy
Chewy takes a wallop from Torgue growls and chomps down on the man,
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viciously shaking his head with the barbarian's calf in it's steel vice jaws.
confirming Crit:
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RD 1 update
Everyone but torgue need to make a perception check to see if they either saw or heard (if you are in middle to the end of the marching order)
Initiative Order:
Torgue hits for 32 hp
Chewy bites Torgue for 14 HP
Astri hit for 6hp
Sorrin
Chell
Cire
Bri - tired to slumber chewy
Why am I forcing my way closer to a chomping maw?
Sorrin moves through the threatened area and draws the AOO from slobbering beast.
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It's teeth snap together missing it's meal.
Cireladwen your keen senses pick up that there is danger in the cellar.
Cireladwen if you want to take a RD 1 action go ahead and do so.
RD 2
Everyone but torgue need to make a perception check to see if they either saw or heard (if you are in middle to the end of the marching order)
Initiative Order:
Torgue
Chewy
Astri
Sorrin
Chell
Cire
Bri
The Map is in the previous post.
, 15 damage total.
Astrianna is certainly impressed as Sorrin deftly maneuvers his way past the vicious guard dog, but she hesitates at the thought of getting closer to the beast. Smoothly knocking another arrow, she launches it at the dog's flank. It was an easy target when it was latching on to Torgue's leg.
HP 72/93(105/105 when raging)
AC 19/T11/FF19 (-2 when raging)
Saves F11/R3/W4
Weapon in hand:Greatclub
Rage used 2/18
Effects:
Used:Smasher 1/1 Day
Grrtt-off!
Everyone but torgue need to make a perception check to see if they either saw or heard (if you are in middle to the end of the marching order)
Everyone but torgue need to make a perception check to see if they either saw or heard (if you are in middle to the end of the marching order)
Torgue you crush the dogs skull with your club.
Chell is starting to wonder what all the commption is about.
Torgue kicks the dog corpse into a corner and lets the others through.
Astrianna is about to loose an arrow when it suddenly stops snarling. She slowly relaxes the string and puts the arrow back in her quiver. The bard keeps her bow out, just in case...
"All clear. Let's keep moving..." She says to the others behind her, descending the stairs. Her light orbs spread out over the cellar, casting many shadows from the racks of alcohol. "Embri, you said there's another passageway in here?"
"What just happened?" Chell asks from the top of the ladder. Then she sees the corpse and the blood on Torgue's leg. "Oh dear. Let me have a look at that." She gingerly touches the large mans wounded calf and healing mist flows from her hand into the worst of the wound. It seems to have little affect so she tries again.
Bri will point out the barrels where they found the items.
"Be careful guys. We don't know if there are any more doggies down here."
Astrianna is highly intrigued by the barrels. She puts her bow back into its case and inspects the hidden compartment before pulling out the false bottom. "I'm assuming the dogs weren't here before. You took everything out of this barrel, correct?" Th half-elf is eager to find some more free goodies.
She thinks for a moment. "If whomever you followed down here was disposing of something in the acid bath, they would have went to store the valuables in this barrel... Finding them missing, they would know their hiding spot to be exposed and there was intruders at some point... Causing placement of the dog, in the very least."
The cellar is dank and smells of brackish salt water. There is hint of an acidic smell although you seem to be getting use to the aroma, so it's a bit less pronounced. You can see a doze of so oak cast barrels in the cellar, with a little investigating you find that half are filled presumably with ale or grog, while the others are empty. Bri points out the cast that had the false bottom and to Astri's sanctification everything of value has been pinched from the barrel.
On the north wall is a well concealed secret door that Sorrin demonstrates how to open. To Bri's delight the smell of acid has been diminished so not to burn her eyes. The passage dead ends into a wall.
Bubble, bubble... toil and trouble.
It's always worse when they're dissolving, gases being released as living tissue unravels and is consumed by liquid... Chaos. Or so, I've heard.
"There was that dwarf removing something out of here earlier. He may have placed the dog down here and locked the doors after he was done with him work."
Astrianna peers down the hallway on containing the secret door, and considers the dead-end for a moment. "Why would a secret door lead to an empty dead-end passage? There may be something else in here. Help me look."
The bard starts to feel at the walls down the length of the passage, looking for a trigger similar to the one Sorrin showed them.
"It could be a false wall. Put up for extra protection. Maybe could have Torque take a swing at it with his hammer and see if anything happens?"
Bri looks around the wall and its edges, looking for any crack or gaps in it that might indicate it could open.
Astri looks on one wall of the passage while Bri slithers in and starts to nimbly touch then other wall near the dead end, when she discovers a latch.
The scent of grog tinged with the burning, after reek of some alchemical substance fills this spacious room. Over a dozen casks of ale stand by the south wall, and three huge open metal drums rest in the room’s middle. A churning, bubbling sound echoes from within. Polished steel piping sprouts from the drums and curls in spirals, dripping condensation. A spigot extends from each pipe, extending over a pile of open barrels and casks against the north wall.
There's a set of stairs on west wall 20 feet in front of your position which lead up to walkway that overlooks the room below.
Bubble, bubble... toil and trouble.
It's always worse when they're dissolving, gases being released as living tissue unravels and is consumed by liquid... Chaos. Or so, I've heard.
"Please, just don't," Chell says looking a little sick.
Torgue peers around when the rest of the party moves aside for him to roll into the room.
Astrianna moves into the room behind Sorrin, taking in the sights of the still. She waves at the air in front of her as if to dispel the stink, but it's no use.
The piping intrigues her, and she wonders if this is an intricate set up for ale, or alchemy?
"Oh, eewww! Was that the smell I was getting sick on earlier?"
"Shall we check out the walkway above and see what's in the drums? Though Chell may not want to see, just in case."
Devil's brew...
"Oh, eewww! Was that the smell I was getting sick on earlier?"
"Shall we check out the walkway above and see what's in the drums? Though Chell may not want to see, just in case."
"No. I need to see this," she says with as much determination as she can muster.
You are on the ground floor.
I'll post the results of your perception checks and initiative tomorrow. I've a few things to take care of tonight but I wanted to get the two floor of maps up for you.
I still need to post what you all see inside the distillery. I'll post that tomorrow, so hold off taking any actions until I get a chance to put that information up.
Order:
Barrett
Sorrin
Cireladwen
Chell
Bri
Blister
Torgue
Astri
This is the Inquisition! *URRRPPPPPP*
Initially Torgue and Sorrin enter the room after the latch was discovered. Chell is close behind but still in the secret tunnel.
What the three of you see are 3 large vats, piping, and a stairwell leading upward to the catwalk. On the stairs near the top is a tall dwarf - Barrett most if not all of you previously seen him tending bar. Nobody sees Blister, the half-orc that is behind the large vat in the room. the vat blocks any visual. There is table across the room and along the wall that has various linen mask, and containers on it.
Barrett is standing near an open trap door that the stairs end at. The trap door is part of the catwalk above. He is holding a beautiful greataxe and chewing a cigar stub, he has some linen mask around his neck. "Friends you must be lost." he states in a cool calm manner.
Astri and Bri you don't see anything but the bottom of the stairs; however, you hear the voice clearly. It almost sends a chill down your spine how calm it is.
You notice the piping and spigots, along with valves accessible from the catwalk. You know form your brewing experience this is some sort of ventilation and liquid control system. Its a bit more complex then what you are use to with your small operation. You have sense enough to understand that damage to the vats or pipes will spill out the contents into the room.
Astrianna is momentarily taken aback at the calmness of the dwarf's voice. Someone who has seen much and intends to see much more. Is that Barret?
It only takes a moment to re-compose herself. "No, we're exactly where we mean to be. We have questions, and now stumble upon a provider of many answers." She replies cooly, from the tunnel, behind four over people.
"You squeak like mouse right before the cat begins to play with it. You're in my place, unwelcome as that maybe, yet you act like you know what's the outcome is going to be. How so?" His move action is he steps up through the trap door and kicks its shut, there is loud mechanical click. He then turns a valve on the wall with one hand (std action) as he whistles. The pipes begin to rattle and creak.
Bri holds of speaking for the moment since she cannot see the source of the voice.
You cringe when the dwarf responds to Astri and the pipes rattle. For once woman just be quiet and don't antagonize him.