Eukaeros will convey the inormation out loud. Shall I carry the other, master dwarf, for safekeeping or would you like to carry them both?
As Max moves to go, Should we not wait for Malaki to return? Rather than follow I mean?
Roman stares at the hammers with a blissful look on his face for a moment, but then shakes his head to clear the greedy thoughts dancing in his head.
"If anyone feels they can be quiet, I suppose they should go. Personally, I'm as silent as an earthquake, so it's best I don't."
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Eukaeros will convey the inormation out loud. Shall I carry the other, master dwarf, for safekeeping or would you like to carry them both?
As Max moves to go, Should we not wait for Malaki to return? Rather than follow I mean?
Right, I should probably wait, if he is going alone for a stealth mission. And Max waits.
As Malaki searches the room, he finds a large ruby worth 2000gp hidden in the eye socket of one of the skulls.
The illusionist pokes the obviously sleeping dwarf, Oskar, do you want to carry these hammers or not?
"Oh, I'll take those off his hands," Roman says to Eukaeros nonchalantly as he plucks the hammers from his hands and puts them in his magical bag.
"Quite heavy and cumbersome. Better if I hold onto them anyway."
Roman then hiccuped for some odd reason.
"Pardon me."
" hmm What, aye, ahem... Sorry, musta dozed off a little. Best not to waste these little moments of inactivity don't you know. Old veterans trick bein' able to catch a few winks like that. Keeps the energy up. "
Oskar blusters,
" Can I examine the 'other' hammer while we wait Roman? "
Oskar looks over the unidentified hammer, examining any engravings or runes.
Failing that he gives it a few test swings.
As soon as Oskar touches the second hammer, a loud, squeaky voice exclaims "Here's a kiss for you, runt!" and the magical aura on the second hammer dissipates.
Harold's eyes would watch the hammers carefully as they are exchanged to and fro. At the sound of a voice coming from one of the hammers, his eyes will go wide. "What was that?!?"
"Someone is playing a trick. This is a Magic Mouth spell. I knew a wizard who liked to cast this sort of thing all the time. It was infuriating. But it doesn't seem like the kind of thing a giant might cast."
" Damn, let's just hope it didn't alert the giants. We should probably move from here quickly. "
Oskar listens out for any approaching enemies.
"I agree that we should be ready, but to move from here could cause us to leave Malaki to fend for himself. I'm sure he'll return if he finds it necessary for us to quicken our pace."
DM, in case you did not see the previous post, I did specify in addition to searching the room, Malaki was going to continue north through the double doors and continue his investigation...
Mages can be odd fellows. The elf doesn't offer any emotion to suggest he is joking or not.
Looking around the space the elf beings to fidget ever so slightly, I am not usually the one left behind to wait. It is in times like this I wish that I might have taken a familiar but alas I did not pursue that course of action...
Malaki pushes at the double doors leading north only to find them blocked. They give a little, and as he pushes harder, he hears a low growl from the other side.
You're pretty sure the growl was a growl, but what made it? You've no idea. Whatever it is, it's very near the door.
Sorry for the holdup, family life has been hectic...
Malaki would have went back and warned the others, then moved up with Max. As Max prepares to force his way in, Malaki hides and prepares to rush forward and cut down whatever beast lies on the other side.
Eukaeros nods as the fighter moves with the maul, the illusionist knocking and arrow and covering the human as he moves forward.
Malaki hides, and Max attempts to open the door, only to find it is still blocked.
"Is there another way in?"
None that you can see.
Anticlimactic. Shall we find another route? What did you find Malaki?
It's wood, but probably a good 6" thick.
To be clear, I am assuming that you're pushing the door relatively normally, not trying to force it. If you want to try to force it, that's fine, and possibly doable, but nobody said anything about it. With things like "I open the door" I don't like to add "by any means necessary."
"Let's move onto another door. Perhaps these are the wolves from your last foray. No need to unleash them right now. We can come back and check for treasure -- I mean, survivors -- later."
Roman then awkwardly cleared his throat.
"Malaki? Max? Next room?"
Gm, what are my options to move forward at this point beyond going back west?
Malaki from room 6 (after this, I'm putting the map in the campaign info tab, which a smarter GM would've done forever ago)... there's the hall that goes north, which has a set of double doors at the end, and a set that leads to 22 (the direwolves courtyard). There is a set of double doors at the south end of room 6, and a single door going south at the intersection of the halls just before room 6.
Eukaeros taps a finger on the pommel of his rapier No sawing with this, I'm afraid. I agree with Roman, let's look elsewhere. If something is there we can break our way in later...
Or find a way around.
With that simple statement Malaki darts back into the shadows, attempting to press on through the double doors to the north.
Malaki ... assuming you mean a different set of double doors than the last set. Are you opening the doors to area 22 or the doors at the end of that corridor?
22, and if he finds nothing, he will move to the double doors that open into the area directly north of the great hall and check them.
As Malaki pushes the door open, the three wolves that survived the group's last onslaught rise to their feet, snarling.
Whenever a target makes an attack roll or a saving throw before the spell ends, your blessing allows it to add a d4 to the result.
"So much for stealth. Put them down quickly!"
Two of the wolves turn and snap at the halfling arm that Max throws over their head, distracted, and the other howls in pain as Roman's flames blast it. A moment later, that wolf has charged the cleric, snapping at him to no effect.
Players up.
Roman blocks the wolf's bite with his shield, The Maiden's Song. He then takes out his silvered mace channels radiant energy and brings it crashing down on the snapping maw before him.
He then backs away slowly, and prepares to use the light of the Morninglord to keep him safe.
Flare: When a creature that you can see attacks you, you can use your reaction to cause light to flare before the attacker. This light imposes disadvantage on the attack roll. An attacker that cannot be blinded is immune to this feature.
Eukaeros opts to stay back, using his bow to harry the wolf that is moving on Roman.