The stone has an aura of moderate conjuration.
The spade is enchanted with expeditious excavation, allowing the wielder to excavate and move earth, dust, and sand up to the size of a 5-foot cube per minute.
The belt, as described in the scroll, is the Belt of Truth. It will impart several benefits to the wearer, such as increased ability to sense motives and be diplomatic, but also inhibits the wearer's ability to bluff others or lie.
The boots are likely the Boots of Readiness, with some evocation and minor transmutation auras.
Tyler tells the others what he has discovered about the items.
"Sorry, I couldn't learn much on the Stone. The belt seems to be this belt of truth. Makes you better at spotting lies and sweet talking people, but makes you bad at lying and bluffing. The spade makes you a super digger, and the boots are boots of readiness. So the belt and boots are part of this holy armor set the scroll spoke of?"
"Do we think the holy armour is likely to work better as a set? Is that something that happens, magic isn't within my expertise"
Úlf scratches his chin, thinking. "Is not Úlf's area, either, but such a thing seems to make sense...still, even pieces of it are probably valuable. Even a normal piecemeal set of armor is better than no armor at all."
"Such a holy artifact would most likely offer a number of benefits to the wearer if it were complete, I should think. Try the parts we have now and see if they function separately, then wear them together and see if there is any difference. That would be my suggestion."
Tyler doesn't think any of the wearable items are his thing, he will take the Spade in case we need it though.
Carry on searching the secret areas then?
"Knowing if any of the items actually work or not would be helpful. We might as well see if the boots do anything and I'm curious about the stone since we don't seem to have identified it." He takes the stone and turns it over in his hands a few times to see if there's any clue of what it's supposed to do. "Once we're satisfied, I suggest we head south and clear the tunnels heading that way if we're continuing on. I think there are a number of rooms we can clear before looping around."
After taking the stairs down from the temple area, the room and corridor leading away from it were decorated with paintings illustrating the legendary feats of Torag and his followers.
Heading south, you show your amulets and open the secret door to the next room. There are three of Korin's followers on duty here, including one cleric. Through concealed viewslots, they keep their eyes on the room to the south to see who's using the entrance and also on the north passage leading to the temple of Torag. They tell you that this level used to be a general living area for the dwarves. There were small domiciles for families and larger ones for groups of bachelors. There were also some rooms used for recreation areas and personal workshops. The dwarves originally came through the outside entrance located to the south of this area - it is still used occasionally to get supplies and news from relatives in Daggerford.
The south passage of this room leads to the secret entrance to the outside used by the dwarves.
"So what now? Do we catch a breather here before seeing if we can attract the orcs attention?" Ami smiles, seeming less and less like the quiet maid of a few months ago (or is it mere weeks?}
After clearing out many of the smaller rooms on this level, you hear the sounds of several orcs and goblins coming from the room ahead of you. You get to within 25 feet of the opening of the cavernous room and stop to decide what you want to do...attack the group or retreat?
"Is foolish to just charge in, swords swinging...is better idea to get their attention somehow. Maybe go further back, see if we can make enough noise to draw some away and take on a smaller group."
"That sounds like a good plan." Tyler agrees, "Perhaps someone who looks harmless draws their attention then runs away, leading them into an ambush?"
He is carefully not looking at Amelleanne when mentioning the looking Harmless part. :)
"Sure why not, I assume lost and alone will do, no need for actually helpless, should keep it believable." Ami considers... "Not sure they'll split up without a compelling reason, what's to stop them all chasing me? Even if they don't think they need all of them to chase me - they may well do it for fun anyway."
Initiative
Kyrus takes cover nearby, ready to spring their ambush when the group is prepared.
Úlf does the best he can to move to one of the walls of the chamber, feeling his way about, to position himself in what is, he hopes, a good place for an ambush.
Liren also attempts to make himself hidden.
Stealth:
Ami gets the attention of the goblins and orcs, drawing them into the passage where the rest of the party waits. The goblins come running after her, but the orcs are a bit more suspicious...
Round 1
Kyrus:
Liren:
Goblins:
Ulf:
Tyler:
Orc shaman:
Amelleane:
Orcs:
Kyrus falls back behind the blade wielding members of the group and fires at the first goblin to come down the hall.
Kyrus draws back his bow and takes a deep breath as the overly excited goblins rush toward the source of the noise. He releases his breath and the arrow at the same moment, letting the shaft fly as two goblins nearly fall over each other trying to be the first to go after the intruders. The arrow flies straight through the first goblin's oversized mouth as he's about to let out a war cry, silencing him and passing straight through his balloon-like head to bury itself in the next goblins chest. The second goblin looks absolutely baffled as his body tumbles on top of the first and both fall over dead.
Liren moves forward to strike at one of the advancing goblins, then sees an arrow streak past his head and skewer two of the small beasts.
"Wow, great shot whoever that was!", the warrior priest calls back as he raises his greatsword to slice at the goblins before him.
Attack:
Damage:
Round 1
Kyrus: Gets himself a two-fer!!
Liren: Steps up and slices another goblin from shoulder to chest, quickly ending another humanoid life!
Goblins: The remainder of the goblins move forward, screaming in their guttural language. Of the 3 goblins that remain alive, they all shoot their short bows at Liren and Ulf...
for damage!
for more damage!
Ulf:
Tyler:
Orc shaman:
Amelleane:
Orcs:
Tyler will cast Grease
Reflex save DC14 or the two Goblins fall over.
Round 1 (con't)
Ulf:
Tyler:
Both goblins manage to keep their footing in the slick spot Tyler causes to appear...
Orc shaman:
Amelleane:
Orcs:
Úlf moves forward, momentarily releasing one hand from his axe, drawing a throwing axe from a loop on his belt and heaving it at one of the nearest goblins.
Round 1 (con't)
Ulf: Just a bit outside!
Orc shaman: The orc moves away from the party, speaking arcane words in a harsh tongue. As he completes the spell, a ball of sick green vapor speeds towards the group, rapidly expanding to fill the hallway!
Amelleane:
Orcs:
Kyrus manages to hold his breath and avoid choking on the noxious fumes.
Tyler.
Tyler inhales at the wrong moment and is reduced to a nauseated wreck.
Fort Save:
Seeing the roiling ball of noxious fumes, Liren takes a deep breath and then lets the cloud roll over him.
Úlf also takes a breath at the wrong time and begins to wretch; his only recourse is to as quickly as he can back out of the cloud of green gas as fast as he can to avoid emptying the contents of his stomach on the floor.
Ami contemplates rushing through and attacking, but not knowing the state of her compaions in the vile fog she elects to hold back
Drag Tyler back a step out of the fog, if I can do the same for Ulf as my other action (with a 5' step) will do so.
Liren casts about and grabs hold of Ulf's arm. He directs the big warrior out of the gas and into the clean air back the way they had come.
The party manages to make it out of the noxious fumes, some retching...the cloud of sickly green vapors blocking all sight.
"I guess we either fall back further and see if they follow us, or ready for kicking straight into it once the fog clears?" Amelleanne speaks quietly, watching for wall of fog for movement.
Kyrus nods. "Let's just hope there's not double the number of orcs waiting over there when it clears up. Or that they didn't just run away. And let's watch our backs so they don't come up behind us through a side passage or something."
"We should be ready to retreat, just in case they have nasty surprise for us."