Intelligence (nature) check:
"Incoming!" Rosco shouted as the stones came rolling his way. He spun around and plowed through the mud back to the group. When he got to Sir Adrian, Rosco turned around again to face the stones, fell to one knee, and drew his shortsword.
"Right.. Bring it." He said through gritted teeth while bracing for impact.
Shoo recites some praises in the name of Lathander, and a bright aura appears on some of his companions.
Bless: Whenever a target makes an attack roll or a saving throw before the spell ends, the target can roll a d4 and add the number rolled to the attack roll or saving throw.
"Elementals," Ragnar says before trudging forward through the muck.
He draws his greatsword and prepares an attack.
Seeing as how she will not be able to get into the fight, Aura will again begin speaking to....something, but this time it is a much shorter conversation. As she does so, she draws 3 rocks from a pouch of them on her left hand side and...while you can't be sure, it appears that they move a bit on their own in her hand. With that done, she will throw one of them at the creature that is advancing towards Clyde.
Sir Adrian swings his Greatsword at the oncoming rolling stone.
(Don't have access to the book at work, so I don't know if it adds my casting stat or not, but I will assume not)
Ember is shocked as Clyde leaps in front of her, " What?! "
The Stones stop once they round the bend and unfurl, revealing two stone humanoids with malevolent eyes and large paws from which they can smack down.
Clyde moves in front of her to protect her, while Ember stands in stunned silence. Rosco jumps back to be in line with his comrades. Skyreaver launches a stone, dealing 6 magical bludgeoning damage to one.
Each of them snarls and rolls up to charge, ignoring the thickness of the mud that slows down each of you.
Both the men manage to hold back the tide of stone.
Shoo casts Bless. Sir Adrian smashes into Rs, causing a crack to appear down the creature's torso. Ragnar smashes into the same stone Adrian hit, dealing
damage, splitting the crack open the rest of the way and rending the stone in two.
......RsSA.ClEm..Sh
.....RSRoRa..Sk...
Initiative Order: Clyde, Ember, Rosco, Skyreaver, Stones, Shoo, Adrian, Ragnar
RS (-10 HP)
Rs (dead)
Skyreaver will whisper "Now is your chance! fly!" to one of the rocks in her had before she throws it.
Ember places a hand on Clyde's shoulder in a silent thank you. " These are Shards of Ogrémach, Earth elementals, they're vulnerable to thunder magics, immune to poison and weapons aren't as effective against their tough magical stone skin... " As she speaks she closes her fist, and opens it again, fire blossoming in her palm. She attempts to hurl the flames over Clyde and Sir Adrian's shoulders at the Earth elemental in front of Sir Adrian.
RS (-8 HP)
Rs (-10 HP)
Clyde nods and releases his grip on the great sword. He runs towards the elementals, unsheathing two daggers. He leaps through the elementals slashing at their sides, attempting to get behind the hulking rocks.
Ragnar rushes forward in a rage, nearly knocking Rosco down. He uses the momentum to attempt to knock the elemental down.
Shoo calls on the power of Lathander to castigate the evil creatures, while he keeps an eye on his companions to check if they're all ok.
Clyde moves between the Shards of Ogrémach, slicing each as he goes through. Ember slashing one from afar with a whip if flame.
Initiative Order: Clyde, Ember, Rosco (we are here), Skyreaver, Stones, Shoo, Adrian, Ragnar
RS (-11 HP) <-- in front of Rosco
Rs (-14 HP) <-- in front of Adrian
Sir Adrian calls upon the might of Torm to add the power of the divinity to his attack's damage, as radiant damage flows through his greatsword.
With a fluid motion, Clyde attempts to stab both daggers into the elemental that Ragnar had previously swung at, then rips them downward, spinning into a readied position once more.
Rosco attacks with his shortsword.
His sword cuts deep into the shard in front of him.
Skyreaver launches another stone, and lands a solid hit to the creature in front of Rosco, killing it.
The remaining Shard of Ogrémach retaliate.
The rock's solid arm slams against Adrian's armor, but avoids causing any harm.
Shoo's Sacred Flame licks the rock for fire damage, charring the living rock.
With one dead, Adrian presses the attack, and with divine power he destroys the evil of the last Shard.
Upon investigating the creature's, you find they easily split open, revealing several geodes with a soft pale glow.
Ragnar rushes forward in a rage, nearly knocking Rosco down. He uses the momentum to attempt to knock the elemental down.
Ragnar holds his action until space is made for him to get into the melee.
If space is made, he will attack with his greatsword again, targeting the one he hit last.
Clyde wipes the dirt from his daggers with a corner of the red cloth wrapped around his neck, and resheathes them. Breathing heavily he walks back to his greatsword and mounts it on his back.
"Sentient rocks... What in the hells is going on here?", he mumbles, rubbing his forehead. "Is everyone alright?"
All is well, now, friend. Let's collect the pretty rocks and move on, shall we?
"Is anyone injured? I still have a few spirits left who would like to see the insides of people."
After having traveled for almost hour, you come to another annulus like entrance next to a prominent rock like you found in the oubliette. This one is set into the wall instead of the floor and is much easier to be opened. No earthquake occurs, the door simply spirals open and the stone retracts into the wall.
The stinging scent of acid burns your nostrils before you see the contents of this rocky oblong cavern. A vast pool fills the kidney-shaped cavern between you and the tunnel on the other side.
This oblong cavern is made of rock and filled with a lake of lightly churning acid. The smell is overpowering. Other than that the only obvious exit is one hundred feet on the other side of the lake of acid, there is no eminent threat.
General Features of the room:
The pool is vaguely kidney bean shaped, and fills the entire room. The acid is a translucent green and the bottom cannot be seen. There is a visible annulus with rock nodule visible on the other side, one hundred feet away.
Acid. The pool is full of acid.
Light. There is no light in the room.
Smell. The room smells overwhelmingly caustic. It is unpleasant to breathe but the fumes are not poisonous.
Walls. The walls of the room are rough with deep vertical fissures creating almost fin-like rocky protrusions throughout the room.
This room is a puzzle to be solved.
If you have proficiency or a relevant feature (race, class, or background) in any of the following, you may check out some hints:
"Is anyone injured? I still have a few spirits left who would like to see the insides of people."
Clyde laughs loudly and reaches up to pat Skyreaver on her shoulder. "Haha, Skyreaver... That is so weird."
As they reach the kidney shaped room, Clyde pipes up, "Ah ha! It's a stomach! See? That intestine comment before doesn't seem so stupid now, does it?" After the failed attempt to reassure himself, he takes a long look at the room, mouth and nose covered by his gauntlet. "Well, I dislike the idea, but we could make use of the climbing gear we were given and try to make it around... Or we could craft some sort of... pulley. Though I care for that idea even less. And we'd need roughly 200 feet of rope." Clyde scratches his head and turns back to the party. "Any other ideas? Should we test how acidic it is?"
I agree that the acid may not cause too much of an issue, but we should test it first. Otherwise, I would venture a climb along the walls to get across.
"We could walk back and get the bodies of the two Boulders-Who-Think and use those to get across the pool. They look like they would hold a pair of us."
Upon investigating the creature's, you find they easily split open, revealing several geodes with a soft pale glow.
Goat says he wants shiny rock. Does the girl want one of these?
Ragnar takes one for himself and leaves the rest for the party.
Ragnar sticks his pinky finger into the acid.
Ember smiles at Clydes analogy. " Though that next door should be a long straight esophagus then. "
" Both great ideas, the mud from the hall is Alkaline, if we put enough into the acid pool, it will neutralise and we'd be a lemon to wade through safely enough... perhaps a combination of all three? Use the shards as bouys with rope to pull ourselves across, neutralising the acid as best we can i case any one falls in? "
Ember scoops up some of the mud and tosses in the pool to demonstrate the effect. The mud reacting with the acid as it sinks in.
Ragnar winces, and thrusts his pinky in the mud to try to alleviate the burning.
Frustrated at seeing no better option, Ragnar starts to head back to where the Shards are to drag them back. Once there, he takes out his rope, ties one end to one husk and the other to the second, grabs the center of the rope, and starts dragging them back.
The pool is 100 feet long; that's how far you have to travel to get to the other side where the door is. It's width is about 60 ft, kidney-shaped.
The climbers kit makes it so if you fail a climb check, you can't fall My further than the distance you set the pitons from each other (max 25').
Ragnar - you can easily drag them back to the pool.
-I... uh... I have no idea how to get through there, he he he... I hope you guys find a way- says Shoo, smiling dumbly.
Clyde sets his pack on the ground and starts searching through it. "I'll climb over first. Which of us was given the pitons? Was that me?"
After recovering all the climbing gear, he ties 2 50ft ropes together and hammers a piton into the wall, tying off one end of the rope with a noose knot. Clyde removes the grappling hook from the rope around his waist and places it back in his bag. He takes some time to remove his armor and asks if someone might hold that for him. He drapes the coiled remaining rope loosely over one shoulder and begins climbing, tying the 25' rope around his waist to the pitons he hammers in.
" Careful Clyde, " Ember says, watching nervously as he climbs around the wall. " Hmm if we cover ourselves with the mud, it could give a layer of protection against the acid, in case we fall in... "
Ember begins to cover herself in the mud, though she finds the process absolutely disgusting, an opinion clearly written on her face.
After she's done she attempts to follow Clyde. " I must learn a spell of flight... " she mutters as she begins.
-Wait, guys, before yo go...
Shoo blesses everyone just before he/she attempts the climbing, bringing forth the wellness of Lathander and his love for fair sports.
Sir Adrian nods at Shoo, then proceeds to cover himself in mud, grumbling all the while.
Damnable mud is taking the shine off my armor. I hope this works, Ember.
He hefts himself up to follow Clyde along the wall.