Emerald Spire - lvl 4; Godhome (lvls 3-5) (Inactive)

Game Master Revvy Bitterleaf

Sorry guys, anniversary weekend with the wife! She surprised me with a getaway. wow.. This is a lot to catch up on...

Eladrian goes with to grab metal from the goblins, and shoves several weapons into his pack before heading down.

When offered the grub, Eladrian makes polite excuses, and declines.

Auto succeed at Perception check
Feeling his weapons lift up, Eladrian takes a careful step back from the door. "Torrag, I think that you are right.. and it is very strong. We should be careful of going in there!"
Heeding Slaagh, Eladrian dumps out his bag of weapons from the goblin level and kicks the items over towards the door.

"Give iron-metal to Godbox"

As Eladrian starts kicking in items towards the door they slowly starts to tremble and slowly start to move across the doorway where they pick up speed and one after another get stuck to the pillar in the center of the room

Unsure of how many weapons Eladrian brought, so just going to assume it's atleast 10 pounds of metal

After Eladrian has emptied his bag and all of the metal items got stuck to the pillar Slaagh slowly nods his head and turns towards you

"Godbox content with offering, door down is open now. You can continue explore down if want"

Since this is a pretty odd module fitted into PFS legal format..if you want you can finish this level now, for reduced chronicle rewards as you've cleared passage for this level to the next

Woo! That was easy! Would we just get the one credit for carrying on for the next level or actually level up? Which would seem a bit odd, considering how easy it was to get through this one.

well I would like to get the full reward and not like almost no gold. I have an idea of what to do from things I've heard but I really want full gold.

Basically it will be 1/3 of what you could get in total..so what you would get for a "normal" PFS scenario (if you failed your second objective) - with no risk what so ever. 1xp, 1 prestige and 1600 gp.

The only reason I'd need to stop here is if we were able to buy an extra plot of land after this module, other than that, I'm prepared for the next level.

Sounds good to me! A little extra cash to splash is always a good thing!

The only reason I'd need to stop here is if we were able to buy an extra plot of land after this module, other than that, I'm prepared for the next level.

You can buy a plot of land if you stop now, it's a boon on the chronicle, on all the chronicles actually

Novid need the cash for various enchantments and things so i would like to figure that out and get the extra xp and pp

Ss'alat is okay for the most part. Would probably use the cash to buy something useful, like a wand of LCW or Magic Missiles or something

I'm easy... Gunnar wouldn't mind a bit of extra cash but if folks want to move on I won't object.

I'm okay with moving on. I thought we were just getting started.

I would like to finish and get as much gold/xp/pp as we can.. I just dont know how Eladrian would figure out what to do next... What is next, btw? How are the characters to know that anything remains to be done?

I'm okay with moving on. I thought we were just getting started.

What he said.

I would like to finish and get as much gold/xp/pp as we can.. I just dont know how Eladrian would figure out what to do next... What is next, btw? How are the characters to know that anything remains to be done?

That's kind of the point right now...how do your characters know there's anything to do here other then moving to the next level?. I just though it was fair to let you know that you could go on to the next level for reduced rewards right now, and only reduced as compared to a whole module, if you look at the gp ratio per xp/prestige it's still on the same line. As opposed to telling you you can go down now, you go down and then get upset when you only get 1 XP instead of 3 (for almost no effort btw). Told you this was an odd adventure...

Slaagh looks at you "So you move on deeper down now? Godbox happy with your offerings. You can go now"

"I would like to examine this Godbox first. Where did it come from? What is its purpose?" Following these questions, Eladrian stripss off his armor and all of his metal things and approaches the godbox to examine it.
Taking 20 for 30

Novid will cast detect magic and try to get a feeling of what the 'godbox' is.

bluff: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (5) + 11 = 16

Torrag will also cast Detect Magic.

"Godbox just is, it feeds, it protects. It is Godbox. Godbox always been here, always will be."

The Godbox itself doesn't detect as magical, but various items attached to it do.

As Eladrian goes on a little tour he notices:

In the center of each face of the hexagonal object is a vertical slot about three inches wide and close to seven feet tall.

There are nearly 150 items stuck to the Godbox. These include the following;

Weapons: Battleaxes (2), daggers (12, including a masterwork cold iron dagger), greatswords (2, including a magical greatsword), heavy mace (1), light maces (3), light hammers (2), short swords (4), starknives (2), throwing axes (3), warhammers (3).
Armor: Chainmail (3, including a suit of magical chainmail), half-plate armor (1), splint mail (1), heavy steel shields (6, including a +1 heavy steel shield), light steel shields (5, including a magical light steel shield).
Other: Crowbars (7), grappling hooks (3), iron holy symbols (2), mirrors (4), pitons (20), thieves’ tools (1 leather pouch containing the tools - also has something magical inside), belt buckles
(17), lanterns (6).

Ss'alat will whisper to the others:

"Don't take anything. This is obviously sacred to them, and they've done us no harm. We don't need to get in a fight with Slaagh and his friends, and they might help us later too if we're friendly to them It would be good to have friends at our backs."

Hmm very interesting... Gunnar muses. But don't you think it would be a bit disrespectful to our host to toy with it? It seems he attaches great cultural significance to it...

While were are here I'll use studied target on mister Trog just in case...

While inspecting it do i see a way to turn it off?

Does Eladrian see any significance to the slots? Or anything that can fit in them?

"I have a feeling we'll learn more about Godbox when we move on downstairs."

"I agree. We should proceed downstairs. We have to come back through here on the way back when we're done there anyway."

@Novid, nothing stands out

@Eladrian, nothing other then I mentioned; 6 vertical slots about three inches wide and close to seven feet tall, one on each side of the pillar..and no..or rather yes..I'm sure a lot of things could fit in there..it's 7 feet tall after all

Gunnar studies the troglodyte intently for a minute who glances at him with his head turned sideways before going back to looking what he was looking at before

Reading back through, you said on the first page that the doors themselves glow, and no one investigated that..

Moving away from the godbox, Eladrian checks out the glowing doors.
taking 20 for 30

As Eladrian has a "bright" yes, bad pun intended idea, he moves out of the room (and puts his gear back on I assume?) and goes to check out the glowing door he'd encountered when entering this level.

The doors are made of a strange, copper-colored alloy. Two large hinge pins are part of the casting, and they rest within sockets anchored
into the stone doorways.
You estimate the doors to weight about a 1000 pounds each (and are about 7 ft tall). You also count 6 total similar doors in the area you've been through.

Just to clarify, I meant nothing in the room that seemed like a good fit, but good catch on the doors

Novid joins Eladrian. "What are your thoughts?" he asks quietly?

Just checking to see if anyone wants to do anything?

Novid is waiting to see what Eladrian thinks, but he would try to use it in one of the slots and see what happens.

"The doors are probably a non-magnetic metal so they are not attracted to the Godbox. Are we ready to go downstairs?"

Are the doors made of the same material as the glow sticks on the walls, or are the sticks something else? Are the glow sticks and doors glowing the same color?

Yea, forgot about that, but Eladrian most certainly would not have! He stops to put his armor back on..

"Looking at these door, I think that they match up with those holes on the godbox. What would happen if we try putting them in there?"

"Lets try one." Novid says getting ready to help lift the door.

"Those are probably keys of a sort, so we might as well try them"

Gunnar grips his hammer firmly with both hands.

Alright let's give it a try...

The light sources are made from a different metal then the doors.

Light color isn't described anywhere, so let's assume it's a different color

With some effort Novid, Eladrian and Gunnar working together are able to move one of the heavy doors.

The troglodyte following you seems a bit surprised at what you are doing but since he's friendly to you right now due to some nice diplomacy checks you made doesn't try to stop you.

You drag the door till it's in front of the room with the Godbox and you start to feel the gently pulling on your metal items before you put it down. You do notice that the door itself isn't getting pulled forward.

I'm assuming at least those 3 carrying the door would strip of all their metal items before moving inside the room..but I prefer some confirmation of that assumption before you walk anywhere unarmed/with out armor

"It looks like the glowing door is no more than a well made one. Should we proceed downstairs now?"

How strong is the force of the pull? If they are safely stowed on out person do we need to worry? And does it pull all metal or just non magic metal?

"I would like to see what happens when all of these are in place." Novid says.

Sorry i really want the full reward for this level otherwise its kinda a waste as we only get to play it once in PFS.

Yes, Eladrian would have removed his stuff. Since it is only taking three of us to move a door, may I recommend that only the three of us remove our armor just in case things get rowdy? The rest of us can stash our arms someplace handy and reinforce the others, should things go south.

At the door there's a slight pull, which lifts (doesn't specify, but makes sense that only magnetic metals are effected) all metal objects not held down up. You didn't try to move in further with metals so you only know that what ever metal you tossed in picked up speed when it got closer to the center of the room so at this point you have no proof that you need to worry about carrying metal inside with you or not

Since I've heard nothing else, I'll move forward with Eladrian's recommendation

After putting down the door Novid, Eladrian en Gunnar strip of anything of metal they are carrying and give it to Ss'alath and Torrag for safe keeping.

They then pick up the door and carry it inside.

The Troglodyte watching you is excited "Big offering to Godbox!"

As you move towards the center of the room you notice that there is no pull on the door at all. You approach the pillar in the center of the room and having no indication if there is an order of which door to place where you just insert it into the closest slot.

The door panel seems like an exact fit for the slot in the side of the device. It clicks into place and a strange, high-pitched humming begins to emanate from deep within the machine.

"It looks like we are on to something! Let's get another door!""

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"Well I'll be a xorn's uncle, I didn't think it was going to work."

I think I lost my bearings (as a player) slightly. Are we still in room D5?

@Ss'alat; You and Torrag (are as far as I know) still standing in the doorway between D5 and D4, with all the metal gear of the others

Assuming nobody objects, going forward with gathering another door

As Novid, Eladrian and Gunnar go for a second door you notice more Troglodytes showing up to watch the great offering to the Godbox taking place.

The next door inserted into the device lowers the tone of the Godbox’s
humming and slightly increases its volume.

More troglodytes show up and hop around excited and you can hear even more troglodytes arriving from around the complex.

Well that's clearly accomplishing something... Gunnar concludes. Shall we grab the last door?

Are all the Trogs here?