Kali manages to slip free of the net, but Eva is still enmeshed in hers. DC 20 Escape Artist or CM check vs. grapple to escape. Senja's hex fails to bite on the walking dead. Kragnor steps back and lands a solid hit on the creature, though. Asvald calls forth a powerful rage in all who wish to accept it. Melody's lightning hits the spider, which spasms in all its limbs and hisses angrily through its spiracles.
Round 2:
Initiative order
Foes-acted
Kali-
Senja-
Kragnor-
Eva-
Asvald
Melody-
The zombie follows Kragnor, but a lingering trace of Senja's hex keeps it from hitting the dwarf. The spider emits a cloud of dense fog that fills the entire short hallway and spills out into the room with the nets and the undead.
Dice rolls:
DC 15 Will save vs. misfortune hex:1d20 + 3 ⇒ (17) + 3 = 20
Spider damage: -6 HP
Zombie damage: -9 HP
With a quick turn, Kali disappears from view once more. She then moves adjacent to the apparently undead creature and attacks!
Swift Action: Spent 1 Ki to use Vanishing Trick. Move action: Move 15 feet to square north of undead. Standard: Attack with Wakizashi. 2/5 Ki remaining
M Wayang Witch 10 | HP 70 | AC 18 | T 17 | FF 14 (w/mage armor: 22/17/18) | CMD 18 | Fort +10 | Ref +11 | Will +11 | Init +9 | Perc +21
Senja moves further into the room, hoping to escape the mist. Once he can see again, he cups his hands together and begins working what appears to be a ball of solid shadow. Strangely, the ball turns white after a moment, and he hurls it at the zombie.
Initiative order
Spider-acted
Kali-acted
Senja-acted
Kragnor-acted/holding
Eva-acted
Asvald-acted
Melody-
Kragnor, after the zombie goes down you notice something about the south wall--a seam that suggests a hidden door (now marked). Kali cuts away at the net holding Eva while Senja tries to help the monk extricate herself; the net's tangles still hold her fast, though.
Will bot Melody if I hear nothing by tomorrow morning CST.
Dice rolls:
Random die roll, just for the heck of it:1d20 + 9 ⇒ (17) + 9 = 26
Nothing is going to happen for at least the next couple of rounds, though, and with that amount of time you're able to free Eva while avoiding the other two pressure plates that Kali and Kragnor spot. (Well, one of you might get caught in a net, but it only does a d6 damage, and Melody is about to channel anyway.)
On the other side of the secret door is a short hallway, with another door at the end. The other door is concealed from the other side, which is why it's marked as a secret door. It's actually visible from your side.
Female Halfling Cleric of Shelyn 6 | HP 39/39 | AC 18 T 13 FF 16 | CMD 14 | F+7 R+5 W+8 (+2 fear) | Init +2 | Perc +4 | channel 3d6 (DC 16): 5/8 | luck: 3/5 | arc: 4/5
Checking in! For future reference, I've got trackers of Melody's daily abilities in her header. She's out of lightning arcs but has 4 channels and 4 Bit of Lucks left for the day.
Melody sings a quick verse and the power of Shelyn washes over the group, healing their wounds. She follows along as Kali checks the door and the party moves through.
The room on the other side has a few wisps of decayed and dust-covered webbing hanging from the walls, but the ceiling is free of webs and there is no sign of spiders in the room. Scanning the room, Kragnor notes a couple of apparent concealed doors in the south and west walls. The ceiling is blank save for four metal medallions, one in each corner of the room. Each is about one foot in diameter, and the dwarf readily identifies them as steel. The floor is equally devoid of items, with the exception of a stone pedestal in the center of the room with a metal-reinforced wooden chest sitting on it. The pedestal is 5' by 5', and about two feet tall. On the far side of the pedestal from you as you enter is a shallow hole in the floor, in which a coppery gleam can be seen. Next to the hole is a stone tile lying loose, sized to fit over the hole.
There's a padlock on the chest, but it appears to be a fairly simple one to open. Kragnor also notices something odd about the way the chest sits on top of the pedestal--there's a fine seam in the stone around the base of the chest, and it looks like the stone that the chest is sitting can actually retract into the stone plinth.
I'm once again not impressed with either the playtesting or the editing here. There's some ambiguity, let's say, in the module description of this particular room and its more salient features.
Kragnor notices one other feature of the plinth: around it on the floor are small fragments of stone, like fine gravel, that seem to have been knocked loose from the top edges of the plinth. Looking up, the dwarf notices a faint outline on the ceiling directly above the plinth, a square five feet on a side.
AC16/T12/FF14/CMD19(+4 vs BR, TR; +2 SD)|HP37[37]||F:+6|R:+6|W:+3(+3 vs poison, spell, SLA)
Stats:
|Init:+2(+2 undgrnd)|Percept.+9(+10 in underground environment to notice traps, potential cave-ins, dangerous flora *free check @10')
Dwarf Ranger (Dungeon Rover) 4
Kragnor mumbles to himself and points to the ceiling. "Ye see that? There on yonder ceiling? Makes me nervous...."
Getting out his tools, Kragnor gets down on his knees and begins trying to disable....something. If you can auto-aid, then Kali has the higher Disable, I believe.
