Crypt of Everflame I (Inactive)

Game Master eddv

you need to get closer, bwhaa haaa

Vulen draws his tetsubo and begins walking in

Savannah walks into the dark crypt with her spear at the ready. She looks around, alert for danger, then slowly approaches the pile of dead bodies.

"Let's find out," she replies to Chorlo.

She examines the corpses carefully, curious if they are dead or undead.

Knowledge Religion: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (9) + 4 = 13

I placed my icon where you asked us to on the map.

The two bodies are badly mauled,
and the PCs must make a DC 15 Knowledge (local) check
to identify them as Gerol and Vark, both of whom are
friends of the mayor. Also in the chamber is a pair of
backpacks. One of the packs contains a large pillow and
two quivers (each containing 10 blunted arrows). The
other pack has 2 days’ worth of rations, a full waterskin,
and a pair of smokesticks.

"Their souls are at peace." Savannah remarks. "They looks like villagers, but I don't recognize them. Does anyone know who they are?"

Closing the corpses eyes, Savannah intones a prayer to Kurgess, "Beloved Strong Man, carry these souls to the Boneyard. See them to safety. See them home."

Then she stands and walks over to the backpacks. She puts the food and waterskin in her pack to share with the others later. The rest she holds up to the group. "There's some blunt arrows here... And... two smokesticks. Does anyone want them? Chorlo? Lucas?"

I could use some yes, I will share though." Chorlo takes a few arrows.

"We can cover the bodies and take them with us when we leave, we should shut the doors to prevent predators from coming in."

Savannah consider this, then nods. "Good idea. Your lantern can light the way."

Savannah pushes the crypt door shut once everyone's inside.

Chorlo holds his lantern high, looking for other light sources to ignite.

Mmm, I dunno, but we will found out who did this soon enough. Maybe this won't be as easy as i first thought...You ever seen anything like this Savannah? Ritual? or did they just come to the wrong place at the wrong time?
Eddie aids with covering the human coprses, and follows right behind Chorlo. Stats posted will put my picture in too, sorry DM been meaning to do that for awhile but keep forgetting.

Savannah shakes her head no. "Nothing that I can think of, Eddie... Or nothing religious, anyway. It could be magical in nature, but that's not my specialty."

Savannah looks around for exits. "Shall we?" she asks.

Vulens body gets a little smaller and his hooves go away. as the area gets dark, vulens ears and eyes begin to grow. swift action to take aspect of the bat gained darkvision

Rewinding just a touch here, going back to the ponies

As you investigate the outside of the crypt and inspect the ponies, Savannah sniffs things and looks around. It rained 4 days ago and there are still observable tracks here....whatever happened here happened just 2 or 3 days ago.

Things get a little dark as you enter the crypt. There are a couple of torches, yet to be lit, hanging from sconces in the room.

The room itself is decorated with what appear to be a couple of big puppets of skeletons that have been torn to shreds, twisting and dangling from the raised daises on either side of the room.

The tomb is otherwise deadly silent as you hang outside.

I will assume you take roughly the same actions

Vulen's batvision comes into view and he moves inside to investigate, as Chorlo lights a lantern and Savannah lights a torch from it.

However, as Vulen moves to approach the bodies he sees movement in the dark...and he hears a scraping of a bone on stone coming from all the different corners of the room.

Just at that point the lanterns are lit and the subjects come into plain view - the bodies that had been lying there, the bodies that belonged to people you saw back in town prior to the pilgrimage....they rise. Stripped of their flesh and recognizable only by their clothing...they scrambled on all fours with sharpened claws, bereft of their humanity and eyes glowering with hunger.

Initiative

White
Pink
Blue
---
Velen
Lucas
Savannah
Chorlo
---
Red
Purple
Green
---
Eddie

The skeletons move with deadly intent towards the intruder, Vulen and throw themselves at him, sharpened fingers clawing at his exposed throat.

Skeleton White: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 2 = 141d4 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4
Skeleton Pink: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 91d4 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3
Skeleton Blue: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 2 = 101d4 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4

However, Vulen's heavy armor proves too much for the skeletons to contend with, the hunger still GLOWS in their eyes.

White
Pink
Blue
---
Velen
Lucas
Savannah
Chorlo
---
Red
Purple
Green
---
Eddie

Aarh! The undead, careful Vulen, they are starting to surround you!

Sounds good, except Savannah will use a light spell on her spear, which she will have in her hands. She doesn't need a torch.

As the skeletons lunge at Vulen, Savannah shouts "Look out!"

Knowledge Religion: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 4 = 24

Savannah stalks forward and holds her silver holy symbol of Kurgess before her proudly.

"The heat of battle, the winds of Nirvana! Cower before the might of Kurgess!"

Move action to enter the tomb, standard action to channel energy to harm undead. Should strike all the skeletons.

Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 5 Will DC 12 for half damage.

Will White Save: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 2 = 17
Will Pink Save: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 2 = 18
Will Blue Save: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 2 = 20
Will Red Save: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 2 = 13
Will Purple Save: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5
Will Green Save: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8

Savannah enters the room and blasts it with positive energy, causing two of the skeletons to crumble to dust immediately.

"If I had known there would be skeletons I would have bought a club." Chorlo says moving up cautiously with his short sword in hand, going on the defensive instead of offensive.

AC 19

Sorry been busy with family issues. Is there a map set up I looked at the one in the info but nothing with the skeletons

In my header there is a link. Thats the best I can do until power gets transferred to me

@ GM - Did I learn enough about skeletons with the religion check I rolled to tell them to use bludgeoning damage?

Readying his whip and rapier Lucas moves forward in between the white skeleton and chorol.

Lucas moving in front of white I still get a attack correct or no?

if I do gonna use his rapier white

attack: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (14) + 3 = 17
damage: 1d6 ⇒ 1

Of course Savannah, they are just regular skeletons, so you know the usual undead traits and DR/Bludgeoning

Also, Velen delays.

Chorlo advances cautiously into the room while Lucas throws caution to the wind!

Lucas' blade strikes true, but he finds that his rapier does a poor job of piercing bone, even thicker bones like the pelvis and femur. Mostly, his blade simply pierces the clothing the undead villager was wearing.

White
Pink
Blue
---
Lucas
Savannah
Chorlo
---
Red
---
Velen
Eddie

The red skeleton advances on the group, making its way toward Lucas rushing with reckless abandon!

Claw: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 51d4 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3

The Skeletons trips and rips a nasty gash into the floor instead.

White
Pink
Blue
---
Lucas
Savannah
Chorlo
---
Red
---
Velen
Eddie

"Blades are ineffective! Smash them if you can!" Savannah calls out to her companions. Telling everyone to use bludgeoning.

Eddie excitedly hurries in the crypt, and goes after red. This will be fun!
Earthbreaker: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (9) + 6 = 151d10 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

"Yeah! Nice smashing, Eddie!" Savannah exclaims.

"Good work, team! Keep at 'em!"

Chorlo Tries to assist Eddie to hitting for maximum damage.

Aid Another: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (11) + 3 = 14

Velen delays again, I'm going to poke him right after this post.

Eddie advances and, spotting a slipping and unsteady skeleton above him, he climbs up Climb: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20 very quickly and raises his Earthbreaker and crashes it through the skull of the skeleton.

Chorlo apparently decides that this Eddies fight to lose and begins to aid him against the skeletons surrounding Velen.

But you need to be threatening in order to use the Aid Another action so you'll need to reposition yourself to do this.

White (-2)
Pink (-2)
Blue (-2)
---
Lucas
Savannah
Chorlo
Velen
Eddie

The skeletons each have a target before them and tear into them.

First the white claws his way into Lucas

Claw: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 61d4 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3
Claw: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 61d4 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6

and then the pink one, a school marm by the look of her clothing, claws at the heavily armored Velen.

Claw: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 2 = 161d4 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6
Claw: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 81d4 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6

And then finally the blue clothed one, one of the black smith apprentices, advances on Savannah and brings his boney sharp fingers to her face.

Claw: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 81d4 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5
Claw: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 41d4 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

However, each and every one of those attacks fails to meet its mark and the party remains strong.

White (-2)
Pink (-2)
Blue (-2)
---
Lucas
Savannah
Chorlo
Velen
Eddie

"May the Courage of the Strong Man lead you to your final Rest!" Savannah shouts, brandishing her holy symbol again.

Channel Energy Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 2

Channeling to harm undead. Will DC 12 for half damage.

I thought so but I wasn't quite sure.

"I am not much use here" Chorlo looks for a way to help. Chorlo's eyes light up quickly, rummaging in his bandoolier Chorlo pulls out a bottle of holy water.

Throw: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 112d4 ⇒ (3, 2) = 5

1 holy splash dmg to those undead around pink

Ooh that felt good! Keep it up guys, send them back to the hells!
Eddie has been waiting to get some good ole hammer work and it felt glorious! lol

Will Save White: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 2 = 11
Will Save Pink: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 2 = 22
Will Save Blue: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 2 = 10

The combination of Holy oil and Kurgess's divine might (via Savannah) end the movement in the chamber. As terrible as the scraping of bone on stone was a moment ago, the silence now may be even worse as you are left with the cold reality of murder most foul.

There are two ways further into the chamber a door to the left that is closed and a door to the right that is hanging slightly ajar.

Aside from the re-dead villagers there is little in this chamber beyond a bust labeled "Kassen".

Seeing the door beside Eddie, Chorlo ops to move towards it.

"Might as well check the door closest to us?" Chorlo puts his hand on it ready to open it when the others say go.

Flexing her muscles in an act of solidarity with her god, Savannah prays aloud, "Thank you Kurgess, for bringing these tortured souls their due rest."

Savannah crouches down over the dead bodies, then hesitates, clearly not sure what to do with them. Seeing Chorlo move to the door, Savannah stands, obviously more comfortable working among the living than the dead.

"A fine choice, Chorlo." she remarks, moving up beside him.

"Ready team?!" she asks enthusiastically. "Let's go!"

Recasting light before proceeding.

I forgot that we had checked the room before, but not now! Haha.

Before leaving with Chorlo and the others, Savannah spares a moment to check the room for anything useful, or clues to whoever had desecrated this tomb.

Perception: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 2 = 17

Aye! we should stay ready, could be more.
Perception: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (20) - 1 = 19Eddie will give the skeletons a once over for any goodies, before continuing with the others.

I hope we don't come across any more of the dead.

I'll help with the search.

Perception: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12

When finnished looking Lucas heads up twords the door

You guys find anything good? I ready when ever you guys are.

You retroactively find the things that you found before! (20 blunt arrows, 2 smokesticks being the most important finds)

Eddie proceeds to the next room with the encouragement - and caution - of Chorlo and Savannah.

What he finds is a pool in a dimly lit, mostly dark room with 4 columns and two exits to the south, one blue and one red.

The pool is fed by a fountain on the wall above it. The fountain has a stone statue of a weeping maiden holding the slain body of Kassen, but his head has been broken off and is nowhere to be seen. A voice booms out from the darkness, saying, “Magic is the key.” The voice slowly fades, leaving a dreadful silence.

Chorlo looks around for a source of the voice.

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 9 = 10

"I could use some of those blunted arrows, would be good against the skeletons." Chorlo takes 10 arrows.

"Might as well take them all," Savannah remarks, handing all the blunt arrows to Chorlo. "You're the only one with a bow."

Then she puts the smokesticks in her back pack. Does anyone want a smokestick?

Savannah walks into the room and looks around, then peers into the pool.

Perception: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 2 = 18

"Magic, huh? Not my specialty."

Using the light from her light spell, Savannah peers into the pool and sees hundreds, perhaps thousands of keys in all shapes and sizes at the bottom of the pool.

"Huh." Savannah remarks. "There's a ton of keys in this pool. Is one of them... magical? Maybe?" She looks harder at the keys, but then shrugs.

"Beats me!"

Savannah walks over to examine the statue instead.

Perception: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9

Chorlo shines his lantern, hanging it from a spot in the room to free up his hands.

"That is a lot of keys, who wants to go swimming?' Chorlo smiles as he asks.

I know nothing about magic, but didn't that statue in the other room say something about Kassen as well? I just smash things guys, Lucas what do you make of this? Eddie is clueless, and will begin retrieving keys one by one if no one thinks of a better solution. I don't mind a swim. I could use a bath.Eddie sniffs his pits, grins and begins to take off his armor down to his scibbies.

A brief inspection by Savannah and Chorlo and Eddie they realize its a ten foot deep pool.

So it will require a good swimmer.

But there are also probably about 600 keys. Any ideas on how to figure out which one to grab?

I feel like a detect magic spell would work, however Eddie wouldn't have the slightest idea except to jump in and try every one lol Or repeatedly smash the door with his hammer, you know, barbarian stuff...

Agreed. Let's hope Lucas has detect magic, cause Savannah definitely does NOT.

Savannah follows Eddie's lead. She strips off most of her clothes, and dives into the pool. While she's down there she sifts through the keys, looking for any that bear a symbol upon them relating to Kassen or his tomb.

She'll have to go up for air more than a few times, I imagine, lol.

Swim: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (13) + 6 = 19
Perception: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 2 = 21

Eddie will attempt to retrieve as many keys as possible.
Swim: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (19) + 3 = 22
Perception: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (7) - 1 = 6
Whelps DM if this is the route we must take, how do you want to go about doing this? Is taking 10 or taking 20 going to be allowed? Also I don't remember, was there a time given that we had to bring the fire back by?

Well that brings us to the next obstacle - so you have retrieved a bunch of keys, but where do you think they go to?

Savannah's notion is an interesting one, but she quickly finds that to the extent that the keys have etchings and markings on them at all, theyre pretty scattershot and eclectic. You feel as though this might be every single key that Kassen collected during his long life as a hero and roving adventurer.

She and Eddy retrieve a few dozen keys though, so they have those at their disposal.

@savannah I ment to switch summon instrument at the beginning before we started but forgotten to do so

The GM might be merciful

Chorlo holds the light high over the pool for those diving down. Once Eddie and Savannah surface Chrolo helps them out of the water.

"There seem to be to many keys down there, we don't know where they go and dragging them around might be a bad idea. We can always come back later?"

That may be a good idea chorlo, it's gonna take all day to find the right key.But save a few could find some use for them.