Did I hit?
Thorrpe continues his assault
for
Ok shad I will go for its flappy, smelly part this time! thorrpe says as he plunges his sword into the spot where the skin hangs loose
The terrible blows, while quite damaging, are not fatal to the undead who grimly holds on to Albus's throat.
Takara will try once more to Command the creature to release Albus. She looks inward and adds a bit more resolve to this spell.
The magus tries to escape from the grasp of the hideous undead who remains unidentified.
Albus is now at -4, the creature drops him to turn towards Dwalindor.
Go!
Thorrpe will attack again. Remember if I hit he has -2 on his attacks and -4 against me
for
To confirm for
ok shad this time I go for the neck! Good idea!
Thorrpe's blow does kill - uh re-kill - the monster, and Velriana Hypaxes drops on the ground.
As she drops she utters a terrible, soul wrenching sound.
Nooooooooooooooooooooo
After her collapse, her hand flops over dramatically, and movement ceases.
Well done Shad! See truffle! We are useful!
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Dwalindor , breathing hard for half a minute. turns around to see who Thorpe is talking to.
"Now...who...are ya... talkin to? First Shad ...and now Truffles? Are you drunk? And if so, you might want to get a refund on that bottle."
He turns to Albus
"Are you ok? Takara, anything we need to do for him? This kady we killed before. She looked like she came back for vengence ."
"Interesting... likely the necromancer who is animating the undead has picked up your scent and commissioned an undead who specifically hates you." Takara reasons.
Takara moves over to Albus and tries to heal the man.
She says the magic word once and coughs. "Wibble..."
The wand doesn't react. "Sorry... Wiffle!"
She quickly heals him thrice over.
You are truffle. thorrpe says utterly confused
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Dwalindor, having regained his breath, sniffs his beard.
"My scent? Like a truffle? Ok, now both of you...I had my bath this year already. So it ain't me! Ok?!"
He grunts.
"Let's finish up with her. Make sure she is fully dead and then move on..."
on the body for signs of its master.
to track back to her origins.
You don't see any clues about who raised her, but you do find some extra items - apparently Velriana was looting the necropolis.
She has a belt made of many bits of tanned leather joined together by thick metal studs, six gold bracelets, a pretty diadem studded with rubies and a tasteful necklace set with smoky quartz crystals - which is surprising because Osiriani jewelry is mostly chunky and awful.
Takara kneels down next to her and investigates everything.
The belt is magical.
Takara will examine the belt to see if she can determine its properties.
The belt is a bladed belt.
Take 10 on Appraise on the jewelry for a 20
The bracelets are worth 15 gp each, the diadem is worth 600 gp and the necklace 75 gp.
OK, where did you want to go next?
Slowly Albus gets up from the floor. Thanks, that really hurt...
That'll teach you to have a life when your poor, miserable undead DM doesn't. Apparently the rotting flesh is a turnoff - people are so lifeist. Takara healed you for 15 - so you're at 3 HP.
Which location did you want to visit next?
"To the Marvelous Maps!" Takara yells as she straps the belt around her waist. Can't hurt to have a free weapon on hand.
Resettling
You travel through the streets, avoiding the stream of zombies, ghouls and skeletons rampaging through the streets.
You reach Mahhept's Marvelous Maps, a small shop off an abandoned caravaneer's square. There is a closed door made of ironwood preventing entrance to the building.
checking for traps on the door
disable a trap or lock
if a second DD is needed
Once that is done Thorrpe puts his back to the wall next to the door, letting Dwalindor open it as he tries to be as quiet as possible
stealth
"We could just knock..." Takara reasons as this is a shop, but lets the blonde man do his due diligence.
The door successfully unlocks at the ministrations of the Thorrpe, and waits patiently to be opened.
After you open the door you walk into a small shop that is lined with the honeycomb shelving of scrolls. A small figure appears to be sweeping the floor, and has collected a large mound of dust, sand, cobwebs and spider corpses.
When you enter he turns and seems surprised - no small feat since he's an animated skeleton dressed in the decayed remains of a colorful robe.
His bones are the color of yellowed-ivory, and he has a pronounced overbite. He also leans forward slightly towards you, as if he were near-sighted and trying to focus on your faces.
Customers! It's been ages, just ages!
He'll doff a half-rotted fez and move behind a counter.
Welcome to Mehhept's Marvelous Maps! I'm Djar, the proprietor. I can't tell you what a relief it is to have customers again, especially ones who talk. Some of the people wandering about out there are clearly lost, yet they steadfastly refuse, just refuse, to buy a map! Maps are ever so helpful and I just can't understand it.
He'll point to another corner and you see a gleaming coppery axe stuck in a de-animated zombie.
I'm sorry to keep the door closed but some of the citizens have gone frightfully mad and are running into things and tearing up the merchandise. There's a shocking amount of dust and sand built up in here, and I felt it better to tidy up some more before reopening.
The skeleton looks somehow...apologetic.
Ah, I should say upfront that I'm frightfully short on spare change so I'll have to charge you the exact price of the map. It's very embarrassing, of course, and I hope you don't think too poorly of me. Now, what kind of map would you like? One of the city perhaps? The camel trails to Sothis? I have a fabulous map of the verdant, bounteous lands of Nex or one of the newer nations such as Taldor. And I even have a map of known ancient monsters' feeding grounds in the Inner Sea should you be setting out on an ocean voyage! So many maps for almost any occasion!
Dead guy thinks he is still a shopkeeper and its a regular bussiness day. He sells maps and want us to buy one. Albus whispers to the group.
Maybe something from the city here, what do you have?
Thorrpe remains outside the door ready to attack if needed