Cadas is unsure of the level of threat this pitiful creature really poses and chooses to save resources. She stabs at the woman and then returns to her normal size.
[dice=+1 trident]1d20+9;2d6+5
vs DC 15
vs AC 18 Mammy
vs AC 18 Mammy
Robin continues to cause damage to Mammy, both fire and cutting remark. Marcellano sees that all the images are down, so he stands by, just in case, but at this point he figures the warriors type can take her down. Adolina grins as there is only one target left, and damages her with a critical hit. Cadas shrinks back to her normal size and attacks, this time missing Mammy. Atrius also with a critical hit, kills the ogrekin outright.
That went easier than it might have. Nice work. Cadas praises as she casts Detect Magic and casts about looking for enchanted items or other clues.
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Adolina gradually falls out of her battle trance, only now becoming fully aware of how tired she is. Her movements, as she sheathes her sword and begins the, thoroughly unpleasant, tasks of searching the rotund corpse are much slower than usual.
"Uggh. That thing got some sort of spell off and it feels like my limbs are made of lead..."
"What?! Stand still. Let me see," Marcellano commands. He grabs Adolina's arm and stands her in front of him, scanning first her, then the corpse, then the room with detect magic.
Everyone looks around the room, both magically and mundanely. You find a potion of cure moderate wounds, wand of magic missile (CL 3rd, 44 charges), wand of ray of enfeeblement (28 charges), and a spellbook.
3rd—displacement, fly, ray of exhaustion, slow, vampiric touch
2nd—blindness/deafness, false life, ghoul touch, mirror image, spectral hand
1st—chill touch, grease, mage armor, reduce person, true strike
0th—light, mage hand, message, open/close, touch of fatigue
plus:
animate dead, magic missile, ray of enfeeblement
"Ah. The curse is fading, you should be fine," Marcellano says, sounding relieved. When the party discovers the wands and the spellbook, though, his eyes light up. "Excellent! Sweet Nethys, these sorts of things are wasted on an ogrekin...well, as we saw." He flips through the spellbook, wrinkling his nose. "Why is it wicked souls always gravitate to necromantic spells...? Well, no matter. I can still learn much from this. I'll hang onto it. I can use both of these wands--but would anyone else like them? Robin, I think you can use this one, at least." He waves the wand of magic missile.
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"May I have the potion?" Adolina asks, working slowly through a gentle stretch or two as her strength returns. "I won't always be able to get back to you if I'm injured so it could be useful."
Once everyone is ready Adolina looks around, "Next door?".
Adolina returns to the corridor and moves smoothly down the corridor to the next door.
I can use neither wand and do not need the book or potion. Cadas says as loot is handed out.
Moving north she listens and opens the door at the end room. This flthy bedroom contains little more than a lumpy mattress heaped with twigs, mud, and hopefully little else, although the stink of sewage in the room indicates otherwise. Dozens of humanoid fetishes crafed of bits of leather, straw, corn husks, twigs, and bones hang from cords throughout the room.
Opening the final door on this corridor. This dark room stinks of putrefying flesh. Eight wooden chairs with grinning bleached skulls crowning their backs circle a monstrous four-foot-high oak dining table covered with a crude tablecloth of crinkly human leather. The centerpiece of the dining table—a rotting human head, its stringy red hair thankfully draped over its mutilated face—serves as a gathering place for a host of buzzing, bloated flies.
Cadas is happy to bring up the rear.
vs AC 22 Adolina
Are you frickin kidding me !!!
Adolina steps thru the doorway, when a scythe comes down from the ceiling and misses her. She checks the trap, and discovers that it would have to be reset manually so she leaves it in place, moves on to the closest door and listens.
Cadas moves closer to the door and nods Go!.
Adolina signals the others that there are two of the ogrekin in the room beyond the door, and after receiving nods of approval from all, flings open the door.
This simple room is strewn with “toys,” some of carved wood or bone, while others appear to be little more than partial animal carcasses. Old bloodstains mark the walls; some resemble crude, childlike paintings and feature images of dismembered horses, a ridiculous grinning horned devil tossing children off a cliff, and a big lake with a black reptilian monster sprouting tentacles from its back. Bookshelves rest against the wall, but instead of tomes they hold skulls of all shapes and sizes.
Two of the ogrekin are standing in the room, and they seem quite surprised that you are there.
Cadas moves in and casts Burst of radiance hitting the two enemies.
Light on her shield (70 minutes)
Magic Circle against Evil 10' r on herself (70 minutes)
Freedom of Movement on Adolina (70 minutes)
Barkskin on herself (70 minutes)
Resist Energy Communal (Fire, unless someone has a reason for some other element) on all of us (12 minutes each)
Bless on all (7 minutes)
Divine Favor on herself (7 minutes)
Bull's Strength on herself (7 minutes)
Guidance on Adolina (1 minute)
vs DC 15
vs AC 14 Ogrekin
vs AC Atrius
Adolina steps up to the closest ogrekin, and slices it in half with her attacks. Robin steps into the room and begins his comedy routine which helps his friends with their attacks. Cadas also moves into the room and sends forth a burst radiant shimmering light, which damages the remaining ogrekin and dazzles him. Atrius moves into the room and swings his fauchard at the dazzled ogrekin, almost killing it. Marcellano follows into the room, but seeing the last foe swaying on its feet, refrains from wasting his magic energy.
The ogrekin tries to spear and bite Atrius but misses terribly, so Adolina steps up and skewers it, killing the last one in the room.
Look at what they played with Robin. They had to be put down. We did so without causing unnecessary pain or suffering. Better than they would have done for us. Cadas says, dismissing Robin's concern, at least in her own mind.
Finding nothing of interest in the room, Adolina leads the group back out and after listening and checking the southern door, you enter that room.
This filthy bedroom contains little more than a lumpy mattress heaped with twigs, mud, and hopefully little else, although the stink of sewage in the room indicates otherwise. Dozens of humanoid fetishes crafted of bits of leather, straw, corn husks, twigs, and bones hang from cords throughout the room.
The northern door in this last room on the mail level, leads to a set of stairs going down.
Cadas considers the fetishes for a moment before stating For some reason I'd rather go up and explore above before going below.
Agreeing to go up before heading to the basement, Adolina leads the way back to the stairs up, and heads up. At the top of the stairs there are two doors, and as she listens at both doors, she hears nothing.
These fetishes are nothing but trash. They do not even mean anything. Cadas says with some confusion as she follows the group upstairs.
"Likely they bear some personal meaning to the savages that would be incomprehensible--if not reprehensible--to us," Marcellano says dryly. "I wouldn't worry about it." He draws the wand of magic missile he took off of Mammy Graul, just in case they come to a fight that he can contribute to.
With nothing to go on, Adolina decides to open the door on the left. This room is filled with large, filthy beds. Human skulls with antlers fixed to them are mounted on the bedposts and headboards. Against the west wall sits a large cedar chest. As there is no living creatures, she then opens the right door. Tables strewn with beakers, glass vials, old tin cans, rope, animal traps, bits of twisted metal, spikes, bones, and all manner of junk litter this area. In one corner sits some old furniture and other keepsakes.
Cadas maintains her Detect Magic and looks into each room.
Marcellano peers into the room over Cadas's shoulder, doing the same thing.
Looking carefully through the room, both mundanely and magically, you find some minor amounts of coinage, however Cadas finds three sets of tools that could be used to pick locks and help with traps.
Adolina leads the group down the attic stairs to the main floor and then down the stairs to the basement, where you see three doors. Listening at the northern door, then the southern door, she hears nothing from either room
Cadas will renew Guidance on Adolina (1 minute) and nod for her to open the door.
Light on her shield (70 minutes)
Magic Circle against Evil 10' r on herself (70 minutes)
Freedom of Movement on Adolina (70 minutes)
Barkskin on herself (70 minutes)
Resist Energy Communal (Fire, unless someone has a reason for some other element) on all of us (12 minutes each)
Bless on all (7 minutes)
Divine Favor on herself (7 minutes)
Bull's Strength on herself (7 minutes)
Guidance on Adolina (1 minute)
Down in the basement, Marcellano nods that he is ready, wand drawn.
Having heard nothing at the doors for the northern or southern rooms, Adolina opens the northern door first, then the southern door.
This dark, recessed corner of the basement smells of rot and old blood. Piles of gore-spattered skin lie heaped on the floor. A horrid rubbery face robbed of its supporting skull and muscle rests on top, its toothless mouth agape and empty eyes revealing only the layer of tan flayed skin resting beneath.
It’s difficult to gauge the exact dimensions of this cluttered room, thickly packed with old crates, broken farm equipment, and furniture. There is a set of double doors on the southern portion of the western wall.
You search both rooms, both magically and mundanely and find nothing of interest.