CORE Helikon´s Beyond Aztlant Ridge (Inactive)

Game Master Helikon

With an expert slash Meredith kills the lower enemy.

Doodle attacks the lower snake with both of her magical claws.

Claw 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11
Damage 1d3 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

Claw 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (11) + 5 = 16
Damage 1d3 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4

Thanks for botting me, crazy few days but I'm back now!

Amelie takes a step back and fires off a pair of arrows into the snake still standing.

Attack: 1d20 + 9 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (1) + 9 + 1 - 2 = 91d8 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 3 + 1 = 12
Rapid shot: 1d20 + 9 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (20) + 9 + 1 - 2 = 281d8 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 3 + 1 = 7
Confirm: 1d20 + 9 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (12) + 9 + 1 - 2 = 202d8 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (5, 2) + 6 + 2 = 15

From Amelie an expertly timed arrow flies down the hall impaling booth heads at once. And the beasts are booth dead.

"Phew." Meredith puts her blade away. "That thing you saw behind the wall- did it look like these? Lemme guess. Bigger."

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (15) + 9 = 24

Meredith searches the room for any additional evidence.

"I have a wand... I can heal your wounds."
Feel free to make Clue Light Wounds rolls.

Remembering this, she asks Doodle to apply the wand of Mage Armor on herself. "Every little bit helps."

Doodle uses the mage armor wand on Meredith. She then takes the CLW wand and uses a charge on herself. She thanks the mage, and then pulls her very own Mage armor wand and reapplies it to herself.

CLW 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

This time with must more success, please make a Fort save Stormy, please make two Fort saves Barth.
"Pathfinders are up!"

Fort Save: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (13) + 6 = 19

I took a nasty bite there and will take you up on the wand use. I think I have resisted the creature's venom. Stormy says, and does.

Cure Light: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Cure Light: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9

"Glad everyone made it out of that one ok, that was scary! Let's take a look around here." Amelie searches the room for anything useful, doesn't have the focus to do it very well.

Perception: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 2 = 11

Fort : 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (13) + 6 = 19

Fort: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (18) + 6 = 24

You will find a heavy flail on the shelf above the slab, also a heavy steel shield broken beyond repair.

Stormy casts Detect Magic on the flail. Maybe this is one of the gifted weapons. she muses.

The flail is magical and pretty magical at that.

Whoa. Heavy magic here. Stormy confirms. But its all wrong for me. Can anyone use it?

Spellcraft, Flail: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 = 14

"Maybe Amelie? Bartholimu seems to enjoy his weapon, and I don't have the training for it..."

Spellcraft: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (13) + 5 = 18

"Let's keep pressing on then....I don't want that demonic thing to get loose and come in here and find us!"

"Agreed." Meredith stows away her scimitar and then heads down around the corner.

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (5) + 9 = 14

Spellcraft: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (13) + 4 = 17

Amelie takes the flail and swings it around a few time, almost losing her balance from the weight of it "Guess I can take it for now. Who knows, maybe we'll need it for something." She then makes her way with the others to the next doorway.

Carefully moving forward you check the next room but the room is empty.

Meredith waits for the rest of the party to catch up before exploring the right side of the room.

Doodle hurries ahead to join Meredith in searching the room.

Perception 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (14) + 8 = 22

Amelie follows the rest to explore the other rooms, keeping her eyes open for any clues.

Perception: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 2 = 15

The room up is truly empty and the hall is also without special things.
But Arletta Tolkir moves to Doodle and mentions that she found something.
Maybe you can convince her to tell you more.

Diplomacy(Aid): 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 2 = 16

"So Arletta...what do you know about this area? I think I know why the guardian made such a mess here."

Aid another diplomacy 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 = 14

"Trust me, Arletta. I've seen things that have curled my toes today. Nothing you can say will distress me more, I don't think. Please tell me everything," Doodle pleads.

Yes, tell us what you know so that we can finish this investigation Stormy says gruffly.

Diplo Assist: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (8) - 1 = 7

Botting Amelia for a moment
Diplo: 1d20 + 8 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 8 + 2 + 2 = 24
Amelia warns you from the crack in the wall and gives you a disk emitting light.
It is a piece of dense stone 7 inches in radius and almost 1 inch thick. Despite their small size, each warding disc weighs 30 pounds.

Doodle takes the piece of stone. "Now that does this do? Are we supposed to throw it st that awful demon? Or are these stones a key to doing something with the orb of light that we saw earlier?". She casts Detect Magic, trying to figure out the stone.

"Thank you. Hopefully this will protect us from that beast." Meredith holds the stone with her other hand. She's used to fighting with her entire body.

"When you're all ready, let's head north and see what's in this room in the middle."
Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (14) + 9 = 23

Amelie takes a look at the disc they're given. "Alright great, thanks! But what's it supposed to do?"

Amelia looks at your and shrugs."How shall I know. I am no scholar.

"We'll figure this out the hard way, then." Meredith waits for everyone to get ready and then heads north.

I assume we're moving as a group here. I've moved the party icons next to me.

What did Detect Magic show, DM? Doodle would have concentrated for three rounds tying to figure out the school of magic present.

The stone is quite magic active , evocation and abjuration

Amelie's with the others, ready to move forward, not really sure what we're waiting on now.

Doodle tells the others what she sees with her magical vision in the stones, and moves ahead to the next room.

You enter the last room to enter absolut darkness.
Make perception rolls if you want to stumble blindly.

Perception 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9

"I'll light up the room once you're done."

Meredith stays outside the room and prepares to cast Light once everyone takes a look.

Amelie pulls out her wayfinder and uses it to help illuminate the room.

Perception: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 2 = 16

Light would not dispell darkness. The light spell must be of higher level than the darkness spell.
The room stays dark.

"Huh? This room is magically dark. Everyone stay alert. I wish I could turn into a wolf again..."
Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (7) + 9 = 16

Perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9

Stormy peers into the dark room listening but only hears her party. What do we do?

Anyone have an everburning torch?

Light would not dispell darkness. The light spell must be of higher level than the darkness spell.

The room stays dark.

Yes, I'm aware, but you never said it was magical darkness, all you said was it was dark.

Without a way to light up the room, Amelie stomps off to find Arletta and ask her what she knows about the room, or if she has a way to light it up. "Hey Areletta! There's this room back here that's all dark because of magic it seems. What do you know about it? Do you have any way to see in there?"

What about the disc we have? You said it was emitting light. Is it still emitting light or is it blacked out now?

Doodle waits for answers to the questions , not waiting in the dark room all by herself.

It was meant as an explanation why it won´t work
Arletta shakes her head."I am not bonkers enough to enter a dark room. I am a digger not an explorer!"

What about the disc we have? You said it was emitting light. Is it still emitting light or is it blacked out now?

Excellent question. I would say you can see a little bit!
If you search the room you find another disk two onyx animal
carvings and a mithral wand

Meredith exits the room and investigates the mithral wand.

Spellcraft: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22

"Well, that's everything except the big room, right? Once we're ready, let's prepare for battle."

Stormy nods and prepares.

She casts Barkskin on her pet and longstrider on herself. She will cast shillelagh too to just before entering.

Who has the light disk, who will try to take the darkness one?