DM-Camris' REIGN of WINTER Part 2: The Shackled Hut (Inactive)

Game Master Camris

I shall accept the healing from Giacomo, 20 hp right?

Appraise: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8
"This necklace looks fancy, but I don't think it will fetch much..."

"If she doesn't want the magic one, i'll hold onto it. So, where to? "

"That depends, where does that crystal take us?"

you think 400gp at most.

You manage to use one of the crystal keys to bring the body back downstairs, and tie her up with the other guards. in a few minutes you're sure everyone is tied securely again and head back up to the dining hall.

"Let's first see where the guy escaped to, before he stabs us in the back, okay? Nobody jumped from the other doors at this point, so I don't expect an ambush from them anytime soon."

moving from the dining room, you cautiously push the door open the rest of the way, it opens easily. beyond them, a long red carpet extends from the western doorway of this mirrored hall between ice sculptuers of twin nymphs with bows, arrows pointed at an open alcove to the east, lit with a blue light. Passageways continue north and south, following the contours of the tower's outer wall, where windows look out over the open courtyard below. somehow the light in the alcove seems fainter, maybe its the darkness permeating the ice from the storm outside.

you check the room out. but you don't know the pass phrase to this teleporter. you search around, and find two broken glass vials on the floor near the teleporter. Arwyn takes a look and surmises that he drank two potions, probably to heal himself, and fled.

labelled doors C1 in the north, C2 and C3 in the south. its a dead end to follow Volan, there's no evidence he went another way.

Now what?

Gondork sighs in frustration.

"We keep searching." Said Arwyn.
She went to door C1 and opened it when everyone got into position.

Tiles of ice cover the floor in this recessed alcove, beneath a
large window overlooking the tower’s northern exposure.

Hatch told you the command to take you up from this teleporter. Hestrig's key could be for one of these teleporters. I'm guessing no one is handily proficient in Use Magic Device?

"Whelp, no point in gaping at a teleporter that we can't get working without everyone having a key. Maybe if we make sure there are no other people on this floor, that we could convince Hatch to come up here? I mean, he knows all these activation thingies by heart, and to be honest, I forgot them already..."

Damn you, Gondork, why aren't you a regular Occultist? You could've licked these things and instantly know how they work! :P

Use magic device, Sudden insight: 1d20 + 9 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 9 + 1 = 28

I guess I could drive this thing to wherever it's going...

gondork successfully activates the teleporter blindly. He paralyzes in place as ice begins growing over him. evil gm smile. Gondork you make me so happy sometimes.

you have one round to try to extract him. otherwise he's teleported at the end of the round.

separtely: for my curiosity, i know i said giacomo has the key to the dining hall teleporter, the snowflake key. Who is holding hestrig's teleporter key, the crescent moon key?

For the phrase, you can make an intelligence check to remember the phrase dc 15 if you don't speak skald, dc 10 if you do.

nadya int check: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 1 = 13
"I think hatch said the key to this teleporter is: "

Ta vinge, sveve og fly, la meg se vinterhimmelen

nadya can stay and coach the rest through saying it if you'd like to start going up. if not, you need to try and break him free of the ice before he teleports at phase zero. consider yourselves to have a full round of actions from when gondork initiated the rouond. good luck. >:)

O,O

you UMD'ed the teleporter right? congrats on succeeding. the DC was 25. >:)

"Gondork you big oaf! Stop fiddling with things you don't understand!"

Ten-Penny then starts pulling at Gondork to try and get him out.
Strength Check: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9

Noo not the plane of ice!!

ooops. nevermind. that prob won't happen in the given round.
ice (hardness 0, 3 hit points per inch of thickness, 11 inches thick )
so 33 hp of dmg to an object in a round necessary to free him.

so... I guess ...

Gondork vanishes as the iceberg submerges to the floor, whisking him away. Caladan stands flummoxed with a "Did he really just?", look on his face, hand on his mace unsure what to do. Nadya repeats the phrase in Skald to coax anyone who needs it. Does anyone try to ascend or going to give him a moment? ]

ten-penny searched the bodies and the rooms, will presume she has the crescent crystal key for whatever evil gm curse rolls up next, and i presume giacomo has the snowflake crystal key.

Arwyn turned back from the door.
"What was that sound just now?"
She looked around.
"And where is Gondork? I need him to help with the door."

Will save: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12

"Ta vinge, sveve og fly, la meg se vinterhimmelen" ::inhales:: "he disappeared. Ta vinge, sveve og fly, la meg se vinterhimmelen"

he's been gone maybe ten seconds

To Arwyn
"That sound was Gondork fiddling with the teleporter and him being teleported away somewhere! I'm going to try and follow him, before he screws up some more where he is now!"

Int check: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 1 = 21

Will save 2 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 19

Ten penny activates the portal, but the light fizzles, and no ice forms around her.

"Dammit! How do we follow him then?"
She glanced around.
"There are too many unsecured doors around here. If we can't follow...
"We'll have to find another way up. Even if all there is is climbing the exterior!" She swore aloud.

there's a window behind the alcove, you could break that and try to scale the tower of ice in a heavy storm. (this sounds like a bad idea)

Will save 3 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

Arwyn ran over to the window behind the alcove, but slapped her head when she saw that the stormy weather made exterior climbing impossible.

let me sort of put it into an initiative so i can check off who takes actions each round.
[21: Nadya], [20: Penny], [9: Giacomo], [9: Arwyn], [7: Caladan]

Nadya keeps coaching the password, in case anyone wants to try the teleporter again.

the ice walls have a dc 30 climb, w/o penalties from the weather. yeah. its pretty impossible at this tier. even flight would be rough.

there's the possibility as well that he's trying to get back but can't b/c the teleporter is occupied on this end. >:)

UMD: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (16) + 9 = 25

as you're standing around trying to find another solution, gondork appears in an iceberg, and thaws out rapidly, looking a little more scorched than usua, a blackened bit of his armor sizzling against the cold.

"Gondork, you moron! This is the reason we do not touch things without a plan first!" as she points towards the marks on his armor.
"You can't even function as a scout! Normally someone would tell us where this teleporter leads to, and what is there on site. But YOU are BLIND, Gondork! How did you even manage this!?!"

"I guess asking what you saw is kinda useless... " she sniffs the wound
heal: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 19

"Looks like a small bolt of lightning struck him, he's scorched with electricity. Was it a trap? or someone was up there?"

Daunted by Ten-Penny's outburst, Gondork half-heartedly attempts to recompose himself.

I eh.. I don't know, ok, ten-penny!? It just felt... right! Then everything clicked into place, and I was in this throne room type chamber, with a white-haired woman casting spells at me and hitting me with some strange lightning. Be glad it was me and not you who stepped in there.

He then turns to Nadya, feeling more secure with someone who's not a half-orc as well.

It must be the witch everyone is talking about, I forgot her name, nazeehma or something. I doubt she's got more in store for us than she already hit me with, though. I say we go back and break her little icy heart. And her bones as well while we're at it

The nose-picking session that follows is a sight to behold, as is the almost orcish content revealed.

Hmm.. who would win? Gorum, or Sivanah? They would definitely make a great couple...I shall have to ask a cleric when I get the chance.

Oh eh, Giacomo, do you have any more wound closing magic? I can't move my arm.

"I can spare one, better to do it now than in the thick of it. "
cure light wounds: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

status: gondork's blindness. he needs one more night's rest to recover. for now he can see very blurry light or dark, but can't make out shapes and things look like they're moving when still. he's still got the blind condition, but is getting used to it. he no longer suffers the -4 on str/dex based skill checks, and doesn't need to make a dc 10 acrobatics check to move more than full speed, he can see fuzzy outlines enough to avoid most obstacles.

@gondork - you attuned yourself to the attentive mirror. Did you leave that with Hatch in case of an emergency downstairs? or did you give it to someone in the group? or do you still have it on you ? you might've said but if you did i missed it.

I have it on me. It has a strange attraction for Gondork so he decided to keep it as a trophy.

nadya stops muttering the phrase. and when gondork looks healed and set:
"so. now what? was that the witch who blasted you? Should we try this again now that we're ready? "

Yup, I'm all good once our little friend here asks his silly forest god once more to let him return my sight to me. He must be glad to be of use in harsh times such as these, haha!

He gives Giacomo a smirk and shrugs as if doing him a favor.

cool k. so you'll go up first again once you've got your sight? and who's up 2nd and 3rd. any delay in between or will it be one per round (max speed)?

"Alright, I'll be up next." Said Arwyn.

presuming giacomo has nothing but a few chastising remarks for gonork, and maybe some healing. you take a short rest ( five minutes ) and catch your breaths. Maybe then he can lend him sight...

Giacomo lends gondork his sight, and Caldadan blesses the group while everyone is gathered. Nadya coaches, and Gondork freezes in place, once again forming a foot thick layer of ice over him, before melting into the floor in one large iceberg a few seconds later. Arwyn counts off a second or two and steps on, repeating the phrase with Nadya and freezes in place too, forming ice, and disappearing like Gondork and so on.

Arwyn, Penny, Nadya can state any action they would like to take while downstairs in the round gondork is frozen.
meanwhile upstairs...

Gondork thaws again, this time seeing the room clearly, A triangle of crossed steel wires runs between three wooden posts in this crescent-shaped room that smells strongly from the bird droppings scattered across the floor. Along the south wall, open windows look down from a dizzying height, admitting a brisk, cold wind. Two doors exit this chamber, one next to a large mirror to the west and another standing between a pair of wooden chests to the northeast.

A white haired woman with an almost blue tinged skin stands a bit away, and ravens perch on the rope, and on her shoulder, weapon in hand, but just raising it in readiness, looking up as she pets a bird perched on her hand with her other gloved hand.

Gondork is up, upstairs.

>> White Haired Woman <<

[- round 1 -]
[22: giacomo], [15: Caladan (delay)], [13: Gondork], [12: Raven Swarm], [11: Arwyn (delay)], [11: Jairess], [10: Penny], [6: Nadya]

bold = upstairs
ooc = downstairs

Ten-Penny will ascent after Arwyn, unless Caladan or Giacomo wants to go first

Ten-Penny waits for the moment she can use the teleporter, Short Swords in hand.

Sorry for the silence, Mondays and Tuesdays will be silent days for a while, I'm afraid.

"What? 'Silly forest god?' Well, I just felt my 'silly forest god' revoking the right to use his divine power on you. How do you like that?"
Giacomo then sticks out his tongue at Gondork.

"Oh, right, wait a minute.."
He taps Gondork again to give his eyesight back, then sticks out his tongue again.

"Wait a minute...."

Three uses of Binding Ties used, two left. Make 'em count.

Oh yeah, and some heals. Gondork, how much do you need?
Would taking 5 for 7 be allowed, or should I roll?

sure

I'm at 23 atm so after a take 5 I'll be back to 28.

you were at 29, got blasted for 12 down to 17. caladan gave you 5, and giacomo taking average gives you 7. so you're back up to 29 ( lets hope 1 point doesn't matter, but i'm f~!!ed at work today so i can be a nag.

hoping you post an action soon gondork =D

Sweet. Only a Shield of Faith left as a fist-level spell (and Enlarge Person), and Burst of Radiance and Align Weapon as second-level spells. I'm running dry, guys.
Also, Ten-Penny has Barkskin for a while, don't forget.