"Hmmmm lot of that going round." Naria as she looks over the markings
The Ranger holds up his hand, for silence, and the halflings remarks then takes a moment to take in the surroundings after the combat...
Perception +6 vs Giants= 38
Esteriande presses her hand to her injury again, then uses her wand:
Wand of CLW (3 charges):
...takes her to 74...
Wand of CLW (2 charges):
...then discards the exhausted wand.
"Why'd you do that? I bet it's still good."
Romon stoops to retreive the wand.
He waves it around her wildly while mimicing phrases used by Marak during healing. Then he starts on himself.
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With her fully healed he starts on himself.
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Then he turns to the rest of the party. "Anyone else need doctor Romon's healthful healing?"
When everyone's satisfied Romon returns the wand to Esteriande.
Despite Romon's near ceaseless levity, for Ali and Lunas, killing Wolfkillers is perhaps the most serious matter of all.
Lunas, having been enhanced considerably by his Den Sister's magical connection with the Land, gains immense satisfaction from being able to attack the Wolfkillers now as an equal in size and strength. If only his other Den Siblings could see him now...
Yet still, at present he shows no outward sign of pleasure whatsoever, as both he and DireAliWolf pad forward to the edge of the cave, growling low in their throats and lending their senses to Big Bear's to determine what prey may lie before them.
Ali Perception: + Scent
Lunas Perception: + Scent
Perception
Inikai waits for the others to tell what the markings are, or if the entrance is trapped.
Perception 2
Perception #1:
Perception #2:
Distracted, Esteriande shrugs and pockets the wand, thinking she must have confused the two she has. Taking out her other wand she uses a charge for a last touch of healing.
CLW:
CLW:
"Time to advance...but let's be careful."
Just beyond the bones an enormous statue stands in frozen vigil—a forty-foot-tall giant with black skin covered by fissures and cracks, like the bed of a dried river. He wears majestic armor, gilded and encrusted with gems, and grips a towering glaive in his armored fists. The giant’s face is hidden by a ferocious full helm forged into the sneering grimace of a fanged devil. Around the giant’s neck hangs a medallion—a seven-pointed star.
Many ogres use this entrance and they seem to use it constantly.The wolves pick up a couple of scents that are not Ogres but cannot tell what they are having never encountered them before.
"Zat seven-pointed star again...always zat seven-pointed star," Esteriande mutters. "Is it magical?" she asks Marak.
The amulet is indeed Magical a larger version of the ones you have already encountered.. No Evil can be detected.
Naria.
Muchorak identifies the Giant as a Rune Giant one of the rarest of all Giant Kind..indeed thought to be almost Extinct
"Amulet is Thasillonian Maybe the thing is some form of ansestor worship?"
"Is that a statue or is it a giant that has been encased in ice?"
If it is the latter, Inikai thinks that they should just kill it while it is helpless. However, he knows that Esteriende and possibly Muchorak and Ali would oppose this idea.
... majestic armor, gilded and encrusted with gems . ....
Romon's eyes light up. Finally an ogre or giant whose worth something! While he waits for the party casters to declaim on the origin, purpose, and most importantly magic of the statue, he does a quick count of the gems and tries to estimate the armor's value without approaching it.
Appraise
Percpetion (Traps)
Romon
"Do you think this amulet is just an outsized version? Or is there something more to it?"
Growling softly again, DireAliWolf and Lunas sniff all around the statue, sensing everything from it they can. When finished, Lunas lifts his leg and makes his opinion of it clearly known in a bright stream which splashes around it's base.
It is a shame that we cannot just burn this place to ashes and be done with it. As the others examine the frozen shape, Inikai shifts from one foot the other in anticipation.
It's a body..frozen solid in the sub arctic temperatures of the mountains.Ali certainly get s the smell of death from it..and you can see from close in and below that the creatures throat has been cut.
"Frozen and dead," The ranger moves beyond the statue towards the cave itself, "It is an old evil, a giant type that has not been seen for some time."
"What was big enough to reach his throat and cut it open?"
"Himself maybe? A form of ritual suicide perhaps?" seemingly fasinated despite the morbid topic.
"Himself maybe? A form of ritual suicide perhaps?" seemingly fasinated despite the morbid topic.
Oy Vey! If humans and halflings could have children and Naria and Marak were to do so... Inikai stops himself from continuing down this line of thinking.
"Or another giant that big...who I hope is no longer around. Come, we must move on before ze guard is changed."
"Yeah. Best keep moving."
Anticipating trouble ahead, Romon settles his shield on his arm.
Naria makes sure to cast an extended mage armour on herself.
Inikai spares a backward glance at the frozen cadaver and then falls into step with the others.
"I'll take the lead with Muchorak." Romon slides along the righthand wall clutching his shield and mace.
Fast stealth to get a small (20') lead on nature boy
Perception for what's ahead
Esteriande follows them closely.
Stealth:
Perception:
Seeing Romon move along side him, then disappear into the shadows the ranger begins his move in to the cave...
Perception +2 for Favored Terrain= 33 (+6 for Favored Enemy= 39)
The passage heads into the mountain dark and looming.
You pass a pit on your right that is hewn from the rock itself it reeks of decay and old burnings.
Muchorak/Romon
You can hear the shuffling footsteps of Ogres and something larger up ahead
Romon skirts the edge of the pit carefully, but can't resist a quick peek into its depths. Then, hearing noise ahead, he slows and waits for the Shoanti ranger. He can tell from Muchorak's expression that the ranger has heard the noise too.
"It's too dark, for me too. I think we wait for the others and then rush whatever's ahead."
"I could light the place up if you want?" Naria whispers to romon and co
Affirming his grip on his blades, "Please do." The ranger closes his eyes, waiting for the burst of light against his eyelids before opening them his muscles tensed ready to strike while their foe may be caught off guard.
Romon briefly considers whether the light will draw more ogres than the ones just out of sight. That would just mean we'll kill them all sooner. I guess it's a good thing.
But he also remembers the ogres at the cave's mouth and how they were of a higher caliber than the ones they'd met earlier.
"Naria, could you make me invisible too? Then I could get behind them more easily, and maybe stop them from raising an alarm."
"Sure thing" Naria casts a light cantrip on her bracers then casting invisability on Romon "I can use a better version but it wont last anywhere near as long."
Inikai covers his eyes momentarily as the light manifests.
The light brings a cry from up ahead.. though it does not extend far enough to reveal the foe.
Perception
Round 1
Inakai 24
Romon 23
Marak 18
Muchorak 17
Naria 14
Esteriande 12
Ali 11
Enemies 5
When Naria's light manifests, Inikai seizes the opportunity to advance toward the unseen enemies. He brushes past Lunas, scraping himself against the cavern wall as he does. Then he deftly skirts Ali and takes up position facing the foes.
Before he can even determine what it is that they face Inikai moves his finders in an unnerving fashion and calls forth a giant black tentacle from the floor of the cavern.
Grapple Attack
Damage
Chance of something happening
Ok I'll allow the tentacle's attack as a readied action or AoO whatever seems more appropriate when we get to the bad guys.