"Watch this!"
Nudging Marak aside Romon dashes to the edge of the pool and leaps forward.
So Moving on..
You enter the chamber and Romon in a typical burst of flashiness leaps over the pool.he turns towards the rest off you with a grin..
"See, I told you it was ea.." he begins to tell Inikai just as a massive shape erupts from the waters of the pool.
The Troll is quite the biggest any off you have ever seen and towers over the young Rogue, as an equally Massive trident in it's right hand stabs towards him.
Trident
Damage
Total 62
Romon slumps to the floor bleeding out.
SUPRISE!!!!!
One action each folks
Naria opens up with a pair of scorching rays#
Attack Touch
Damage
Edit: damn. His stat line is wrong too. I'll fix that too, and we'll just roll with R at -4 hp on the surprise round.
Blood and drool ooze from Romon and drip into the pool.
Initiative:
Esteriande hurtles into the attack with wild abandon.
Attack: Damage:
Threat Confirm: Damage: + Fire
Through a foggy vision of pain, Romon sees Esteriande attack the troll. Faz ma gurlfren
Marak is safe because you can't make AoO's on a surprise round either.
Sorry Esteriande..you are not close enough to attack in the surprise round as you would have to move more than 5 feet.But I'll let you retain that attack for the next round.You make it to 08.08(See I can be kind sometimes..and speaking of being kind...)
Apologies to Romon you are on 4hp...though I suspect you might be playing dead at the moment.At least it wasn't all on one attack and you didn't have to make the insta-death save
Romon lies still and waits for the troll to turn his back.
When the troll savages Romon, Inikai is momentarily taken aback and stands rooted in place. Kill it with fire he thinks, or burn it with acid. With that he inhales deeply.
But when Esteriende launches herself into the pool he realizes that she is in the way of his attack and quickly the binder changes his tactics. Instead of spewing forth acid he sneers, steps to his left looks upward and looses an assault on the troll's mind.
Duration..ooowwww
Yowling in surprise and anger as Romon goes down from the hit, DireAliWolf leaps into and through the pool, rushing up to savage the stunned troll.
The pool is 15'deep..Swim roll for Ali please.
You hack the troll to bits..encounter over advance to tenth level..
CR10 encounter over before it began..
Esteriande rushes to Romon to administer lay on hands.
Healing:
Gathering himself after slaughtering the beast the ranger turns to his companions, "Whatever magic stunned it so." He sheathes his blades, "Was something I hope can be repeated."
Gathering himself after slaughtering the beast the ranger turns to his companions, "Whatever magic stunned it so." He sheathes his blades, "Was something I hope can be repeated."
"It's not something that I can do as often as I would like" Inikai says, while rubbing his temples and closing his eyes tightly. "It is an effort and I need to recover after doing it, much like the difference between swinging a greataxe and thrusting with a dagger, if that makes sense."
When Inikai opens his eyes the irises are a bright green set against a lighter green sclera. The discoloration lasts only a moment before fading and his eyes return to their normal shade of brown.
"How is Romon?"
"How would I be? It's dangerous work keeping you all from blundering into traps." Romon's injuries may have made him snappish. He still thanks Esteriande for her attention with a linger squeeze of her hand.
DireAliWolf Swim check:
DireAliWolf Climb check:
The water deeper than she had realized, DireAliWolf swims to the side, climbs out, and then rushes to help her packmates slay the stunned troll.
When finished the grisly work, she rushes over to Romon to check that he is ok. As she licks his face with her massive tongue, she inadvertently gets some troll blood and guts all over him.
Romon rubs his fingers into the deep fur behind Ali's wolf ears, and works them back and forth for a few moments before he rolls to his feet, to escape Ali's tongue.
"Thanks, Marak. 'Randi." He tries brushing some of the mess off, then gives up. "I'm going to need some water."
Looking about he asks, "what happened to the big boy, there? All of a sudden he was about as active as a wood Shoanti."
Looking about he asks, "what happened to the big boy, there? All of a sudden he was about as active as a wood Shoanti."
Romon's adventuring career is a gave loss to Magnimar's Diplomatic Office.
Inikai starts to speak but for several seconds only gibberish comes out of his mouth."Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn"
Clearing his mouth of an unsightly strand of phlegm, he glances sheepishly at the others and says "Excuse me"."
"Uh...what about that thing's trident. Is it useful to us? Is there anything else at the bottom of the pool?"
You recover a Large +1 vicious trident.
Esteriande passes over a waterskin.
"Inikai incapacitated 'im, we did the rest."
Romon splahes the water liberally over his hands and face and tries to scrape off the troll guts that Ali shared. He smiles brightly and looks around, "Better. Now what?"
Once the others have finished attending to Romon, Inikai walks over and picks up the trident from where it fell. "Hmm, too big to use, but it would look good mounted on a wall" he says before stowing it in his haversack.
"Maybe the magic can be syphoned out of it, or somezing," Esteriande shrugs. "Let's see whatelse is down 'ere. At least we know 'oo 'wet papa' refers too. Ze ogres must 'ave run into trolls."
I hope there's only one troll.
Romon shakes his head. "Lots of doors here. I say we go through the big ones."
The large doors to the south will require you to move the pile of skulls out off the way to access them.
"They probably lead someplace important. But you'll have to move those skulls without me. My back just doesn't feel right." He feigns stretching and flinching in pain.
BLuff
"Zat is no great chore," Esteriande replies, looking sadly at the pile of skulls. "At least in the work, the nature...is different."
Taking up a skull Esteriande murmurs a prayer to the spirit of it's owner and lowers it into the pool. Then she takes another...
"Careful, there might be traps. Although, with a troll as the only occupant of this room, I doubt it." As Inikai pitches in he briefly looks over the skulls to try to determine what kind of creatures they belonged to in life. Following Esteriende's example, he gently places the skulls into the pool.
While the others work on the pile of skulls, DireAliWolf pads over to Romon, nudges him with her muzzle, almost accidentally knocking him over, and then pads towards the first doorway, looking back over her shoulder.
With or without the rogue, she will carefully sniff and check out all the possible exits.
it takes you about five minutes working as a group to move the skulls away.
Ali sniffs around and finds the scent here to be mainly troll..however she gets a strange metallic tang close to the eastern doors.
The south door has a whiff of sulphur around it.
Naria Helps with the skull moving eager to see what is on the other side.
Romon follows along with Ali. While she sniffs, he listens and checks each door for traps.
Perception (listen)
Perception (traps)
Perception (listen)
Perception (traps)
Perception (listen)
Perception (traps)
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Marak joins in the skull removal, attempting to ensure that each skull is handled with appropriate dignity, which seems a Sisyphean task, given the indignities that have already been heaped upon them.
"I still don't understand why every ogre and troll in existence hasn't been murdered by angry specters yet... *Humans* can't get away with this nonsense without hauntings and wraiths and violated spirits retaliating!" he mutters, incensed by the unjust workings of the universe.
Romon finds no traps but his listening reveals nothing of note.
Marak joins in the skull removal, attempting to ensure that each skull is handled with appropriate dignity, which seems a Sisyphean task, given the indignities that have already been heaped upon them.
"I still don't understand why every ogre and troll in existence hasn't been murdered by angry specters yet... *Humans* can't get away with this nonsense without hauntings and wraiths and violated spirits retaliating!" he mutters, incensed by the unjust workings of the universe.
Marak's words causes Inikai to nearly drop the skull in his hands. Anyone observing him afterward notices that he moves slower and with greater care than before. All the while Inikai wonders why Marak's observations are so.
"I still don't understand why every ogre and troll in existence hasn't been murdered by angry specters yet... *Humans* can't get away with this nonsense without hauntings and wraiths and violated spirits retaliating!"
"Naturally not, zey slay zeir victims elsewhere, and zat is where zeir spirits 'aunt zis world," Esteriande shrugs. "Or zey return to places familiar to zem. Where zeir skulls are, zat 'as less relevance. Zat is why ogres and trolls are able to do what zey do - zey leave zeir curses for ozzers to deal with."
Muchorak assists with the skull removal as well.
As said above it takes 5 minutes for the doors to be cleared whilst Ali and Romon check things out..
Romon checks the southern door and declares it trap free..he cannot hear anything behind it
Well as no one seems to have anything to say..you push on the southern doors and they open silently and smoothly as if they had been installed yesterday not countless centuries past.
A dull green glow emanates from each end off the room from what you cannot determine at least not from outside .
"OOOOhhhh" Naria looking like she is about to run off to check the stuff out herself.
Muchorak readies his blades, "Shall we?" He asks then moves cautiously into the room.