Dragon's Demand (Inactive)

Game Master R D

The double doors go nowhere. They lead to a cave-in.

Harlis pokes at the cave-in a few times with his sword and shrugs. "Well, it looks like we return back around to that big iron door."

Perception: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (9) + 3 = 12

Okay, so did we explore all the starting area then, or were there more doors we missed? If we did, let's go back to where we were in the new areas.

Map updated.

Wayreth checks the door for traps.

perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 22

If he finds nothing, he will open the door.

No traps. The party had previously opened the door to room A10 with the key.

So Agnes will go through the now open door, quietlike.

Anybody else going with Agnes?

Only after she sets off the fireball trap. =p

Perc: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 19

Harlis will follow inside blade forward and shield ready, teeth gritted.

Hotspur follows.

Ethendril leads the way into the new area.

OK. Agnes, Harlis, Hostpur, and Ethendril move forward.

Suddenly, the room is filled with a powerful, booming voice: "Please close the door before proceeding with the pass phrase."

"Since we don't know any pass phrase, how about we don't close the door either," Wayreth calls out from just outside the room.

Harlis steps back looking around for the source of the voice. "We haven't seen anything about pass phrases have we?"

Anybody going to stay in A10 and close the door?

Sure. Sounds fun.

Agnes will close the door.

Wayreth winces as the door is shut in his face.

"I hope they're gonna be ok," he murmurs as he puts his ear to the door and tries to listen for the roar of the inevitable fireball.

perception to hear what happens on the other side: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18

Hotspur watches the door close and prepares to die.

So, just confirming, Agnes, Ethendril, and Hotspur remain?

When the party is unable to come up with a pass phrase, the floor opens out from under them. Agnes and Hostpur catch themselves; they do not fall. Ethendril falls takes a whopping 2 HP of damage.

You all work together to help the paladin out of the pit. Wayreth takes 20 to unlock the doors, and we all move on to room A11.

A single iron lever protrudes from the wall next to the door in this otherwise empty chamber's west wall. To the east, a ten-foot-wide hallway curves to the north. A four-armed metal statue blocks access to the eastern corridor.

Map updated.

That was anticlimactic.

Harlis looks to Agnes. "Well better anticlimactic than a permanent end to a fellow. This place looks to have had very strange things going on when it was constructed, much beyond my ken." Looking at the statue he fingers the small iron sword and disk that is his symbol of Iomedae's Will ready to call upon it if the statue looks like visiting harm.

Readying a channel divinity if the metal statue looks like it will attack

perc: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (8) + 5 = 13 to take a keen look at the statue from a distance.

Ethendril grunts as he is battered from the fall.

"I could have done without that," he says. He waves his hand to clear the gas from the fire beetle.

"Excuse me," he says.

Once he climbs back up, he prepares to engage the statue.

"Once we pull this lever, my guess is that this guardian will activate."

Hotspur readies to fire on the statue should it act aggressively.

The lever opens and closes the pit that the paladin just fell down in A10.

So do they fall in again when the lever is pulled? XD

"Well.....at least it wasn't a fireball?" Wayreth grimaces as he notes the large pit.

We can see the passage beyond the statue or does it appear as wall for the moment?

Only if they're standing in A10. But, yes. Their fall is broken by the fire beetle. No damage.

Yes, you can see bits of the hallway beyond the four-armed statue. But it would require squeezing to get past it--even for small sized creatures.

Agnes will approach the statue, slowly.

As Agnes approaches, the construct whirs to life and speaks in a tinny voice: "Please present the crest for passage."

It occurs to the party, "Wasn't there a crest of some sort in the room with the imp?"

The party failed the check to note its importance earlier.

"We should go back and find the crest..." Ethendril says.

Yeah, I hadn't thought to take the crest. If we can still make it back and obtain it, I'll do so now and then present it. If it instead attacks us when we don't immediately present it, I'll prepare for combat!

When you don't present the crest within a round, the statue takes up a defensive posture.

I leave it up to you guys. As written, the statue only takes a defensive posture and blocks the hallway. You can easily go get the crest and return. But, if you want to fight it, we can do that, too.

Knowledge Arcana to know more about the statue.

I'll run back and retrieve the crest, then.

Harlis muses aloud while awaiting Ethendril's return. "I hadn't even considered that bronze plaque as something of note. Maybe a signet of a time gone by. Does anyone know any details of the history of this place?"

history (untrained): 1d20 ⇒ 19

Know Arcana: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (10) + 8 = 18

Anges still stares at the statue.

This is a clockwork guardian. It has a slam attack and can shoot nets.

Ooo....it'd be cool if we could find some way to control it. Or unload some of its nets.

A net is an exotic ranged weapon. Is anyone proficient?

You get the crest, the guardian issues its challenge, you present the crest, the guardian steps aside. You get the sense that any attempt to touch it will be met with resistance.

You go further down the hall and come to a locked iron door. Thankfully, the keys you found open it!

The next room (A12): An area along the south wall is enclosed in a cage of thick iron bars that extend from floor to ceiling. Within the enclosure sit seven black iron chests. To the north, the stone wall has collapsed, revealing a rough-hewn tunnel.

Holding the lighted blade up Harlis starts to circle around towards the exit along the wall, but looking into the enclosure.

Perception: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (19) + 3 = 22

"Maybe someone tunneled in to the tower."
Perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

As Harlis approaches, something rushes forward! It bites Harlis on the shoulder and its teeth sink deep into his flesh. The cleric siddenly finds himself unable to move. Knowledge Religion to know more.

Bite: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (15) + 3 = 18, Damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6
Harlis Fort Save vs Paralysis: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6
Harlis Fort Save vs Disease: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (13) + 3 = 16
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Wayreth is up. Ethendril is on deck.

Wayreth curses as he hurriedly raises his crossbow and lets loose a bolt at the bitey creature, then backs away to a safer distance.

attack roll: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 15
damage roll: 1d8 ⇒ 5

Don't forget to move me back. =)

Ethendril steps to Harlis' defense.

"Back, fiend!" he yells as he swings his greatsword. 5' step, then attack

Greatsword Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11 for damage: 2d6 + 9 ⇒ (5, 3) + 9 = 17 bah

Wayreth misses. Ethendril misses.

Hotspur is up. Agnes is on deck.

Hotspur says: "Bite on this." and fires on the creature with both barrels...
Musket barrel 1: 1d20 + 5 - 4 ⇒ (15) + 5 - 4 = 16
=Musket barrel 1damage: 1d12 ⇒ 5
Musket barrel 2: 1d20 + 5 - 4 ⇒ (16) + 5 - 4 = 17
=Musket barrel 2 damage: 1d12 ⇒ 5

Knowledge Religion: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

Harlis curses inside his head as his companions leap into action against the creature that so thoroughly surprised him. That curse and the pain of the bite driving other thought from him.

Hotspur misses. Harlis is paralyzed.

Agnes is up!

@the party: If its touch AC is better than 17, then we might need to look into magical means of putting it down, or some kind of area effect.