Blades of Cormyr

Game Master ShakaUVM

He looks at you as if you were stupid.

"No, that's GrkGrk. He's a mighty sorcerer artificer. The guy with the acid? Alchemist."

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Edmond shrugs, "It does not matter much. Either way we were going in." To the kobold he turns, "Are there any traps we should be aware of? You will be going in first, so it behoves you to be honest."

He glares at you. "Do you think I'm immune to acid, just because my tribe are the descendants of a black dragon?"

Then he thinks about it a bit.

"Maybe I am?"

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"Only one way for you to find out. Now knock again."

"Never a bad time for an experiment."

My roll20 icon says that I have 8hp remaining. I should only have 5hp, by my calculations.

The kobold grits his teeth and runs into the cloud. You hear a surprised yelp and a meaty sound of a body hitting the ground hard.

Do we hear any sizzling?

"Damned, what a waste of some perfectly good armour."

He wasn't wearing his armor. Havelock took it off of him.

You don't hear sizzling.

Or much of anything, really, other than the billowing of the acid cloud.

"All well in there?"

No reply.

Sorry about the lack of posting. Finals are in full swing.

"Hmmm..." I walk back to the other Kobold and untie him. "Can you take us to GrkGrk? We had another Kobold willing to help us, but he fell into some acid VrkVrk left out."

No worries.

What is your plan?

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So, you said that a disintegration spell is needed to break the runes. And these runes in the back we can't just walk through, per what armored guy said. So, we have to break the runes. And we need disintegration to do that. But wait! Sorcerer guy has a wand of disintegration. So we get his wand (preferably peacefully), march on back to the second manor thingy and find the issue. I thought everyone would have figured that out.

Now, the Kobolds aren't hurting anything, and they're clearly sentient, so as long as they don't break any laws, killing more of them unnecessarily would be murder. And since I'm a LN character, I'd prefer not to do that.

Now, the Kobolds aren't hurting anything, and they're clearly sentient, so as long as they don't break any laws, killing more of them unnecessarily would be murder. And since I'm a LN character, I'd prefer not to do that.

Given my health status (or lack thereof), peaceful resolutions work well for me.

Will you peacefully walk into the acid cloud?

There is also a final section of the manor to the north east that you have not explored yet.

"Well," Marcus begins, "I'm certainly not walking into an acid cloud and most likely some Kobold traps. Would anyone care to join me for a tour?" He motions to follow those that may, and walks from the northwest side of the manor to the northeast side, inspecting the unexplored areas. He explores the westmost and then northmost area. If he finds anything new at all, he stops.

Perception: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 2 = 16

Will you peacefully walk into the acid cloud?

I think I know this one..."there is no spoon, there is no spoon, there is no spoon..."

Uh, I went back and talked to the other Kobold we had tied up. Is he telling me to walk through the acid cloud?

Pretty sure that was ooc. I can understand where the confusion might've come from though.

Edmond nods to Marcus. "Gladly." He likewise inspects and will stop if he finds anything interesting.

Perception: 1d20 ⇒ 12

He explores the westmost and then northmost area. If he finds anything new at all, he stops.

Sorry, that should be eastmost and then northmost. He's moving from the northwest unexplored area to the northeast.

>Uh, I went back and talked to the other Kobold we had tied up. Is he telling me to walk through the acid cloud?

He's recommending against it...

>"Well," Marcus begins, "I'm certainly not walking into an acid cloud and most likely some Kobold traps. Would anyone care to join me for a tour?" He motions to follow those that may, and walks from the northwest side of the manor to the northeast side, inspecting the unexplored areas. He explores the westmost and then northmost area. If he finds anything new at all, he stops.

I've gone ahead and explored the whole house for you. You find sleeping quarters and a *lot* of workshops where the kobolds are fitting blue crystals into wands. Analyzing them, it looks like they are building a pretty diverse collection of wands. They're not finished, but the raw materials would be worth a fair amount of money to people that cared about that sort of thing.

"So I take it these shiny wands aren't for farming or tickling?"

I walk with the Kobold I untied back to the rest of the group.

"Can we please stop with all of the fighting? We have no quarrel with you, we merely need to get to the main house." I say to the Kobold guards (In Draconic). "Is there someone I can negotiate with?"

"Let's find out." Marcus picks up the materials, trying to identify the various unfinished components and patterns of the wands to determine their magical properties; both potential and raw.

Spellcraft: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (14) + 6 = 20

Marcus, you find incomplete wands for about 30 wands, mostly 1st through 3rd sorcerer spells. They are mostly evocation, transmutation, and abjuration.

The kobold you free slowly walks in front of you with his hands raised and calls out to the kobold archers, "Don't shoot, guys! The humans have come to apologize!"

GrkGrk, the leader of the kobolds here, pokes his head around a wall and calls out, "Really? Ok, let's hear it. We have some bodies to bury."

"I'd like to remind everyone that we were attacked first. All of the killing done was, from our perspective, self defense. We mean you no harm so long as no harm is posed to us. We'd like to apologize for the unnecessary deaths and will not cause any others today." I then tell them how we're being sent to get to the main house and how we need a disintegration spell to do so.

GrkGrk thinks about it for a while.

"Very well, in exchange for your word that you and yours will leave us alone, we shall let you pass, and I will expend two charges on my wand to destroy the ward line blocking the covered bridge. Do we have a deal?"

"I accept."

Edmond stares at all the components, finding this all rather boring. "Anything of use for us here, my friend?"

The components would be very useful for any magical artisan worker bees in the party, which there are none.

Hugh whispers "Are we really in a position to guarantee there will be no retribution? Count Illance Doesn't seem like the forgiving type."

"Unfortunately," Marcus responds, "there's nothing here that's complete. However, it would seem our luck's balanced out with their offer." He sets down what objects he had been inspecting to their respective original locations.

Is Genta still with us?

Edmond moves back to Havelock and hears the updated situation. He responds to Hugh, "I believe we are in a position to guarantee no retribution from ourselves. I do not think we can account for the actions of others." This was also in a whisper.

"I guaranteed safety from us, not from anyone else" I whisper in common.

Ok, the kobold will tell you to wait while he goes to disable the ward line.

You hear the now-distinctive sound of the wand of disintegration activating twice, and then he walks back, and moves his men out of the way. It seems they don't quite trust you to keep your word, but they've kept theirs.

The covered bridge awaits.

I bow, "Thank you. We'll be on our way." and walk towards the bridge.

Edmond follows.

Dimwit, still suspicious of a room full of kobolds, follows suit.

With a confirming nod to the kobolds, Marcus passes the kobolds and follows the group.

When crossing the covered bridge, you smell the distinctive ozone smell of a pair of disintegration spells.

1d20 ⇒ 71d20 ⇒ 161d20 ⇒ 81d20 ⇒ 191d20 ⇒ 20

You hear the sound of a waterwheel splashing in the enclosed space beneath you, and the faint sounds of a creature moaning in pain.

"Pardon? Is anyone there?"

You just hear more moaning coming from down below where the stream is.

You can't see anything, since you're standing on a bridge, but there does appear to be an access hatch.

"Care to investigate?"

Nodding, Marcus attempts to open the hatch.

The hatch opens easily. You see a razor-edged iron water wheel turning very slowly - too slowly, perhaps - covered in some sort of disturbing brown substance.

The moaning comes from beneath it. There's no easy way to get down to look at it except by jumping down to the bank or loweringa rope.

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