Walking along with the group as they advanced, Lukasz looks at the description, his brow furrowing as he attempted to figure out what to expect on the other side of the door. "Perhaps stealth would be advised for this next room?"
Hearing Lukasz's response Allyson will add, "It could also mean deception. We should hide the symbols of Asmodeus and any other markings we may bear." She says pointing to those with arms marked in the prison.
Dex smiles, "An odd thing to have to do, hide ourselves here underneath the Manse owned by the Cardinal himself no?" he asks as he searches the door for traps.
Perception
You do not believe there are any traps.
"A valid view point," Lukasz said in response to Allyson's words. The fact that he himself was probably the least stealthy of the group convinced him to hang back, allowing the stealthier, and less marked of the group, to take up positions in front of him.
Dex rolls down his sleeves to hide his scar and places his holy symbol of Asmodeus in his pocket.
"Let us see what is on the other side shall we?"
The smith opens the door...
The room is shrouded in darkness. The light spilling into the hallway from the previous room does not make it to the door.
Tired of the dark Dex pauses and lights a torch and sines it into the darkness.
"An underground mushroom and a big one! May be worth cutting up to see what we can make out of it, well after we get what we cam here for".
He pauses to let anyone else peer into the room to see if they know more about what that thing is.
"Snuff out your light! Secrecy is our greatest ally remember. This is the first dark room we've found."
Dex douses the light and turns to Allyson, "I remember a certain dark room where a foul mist struck us all. I agree that secrecy may aid us but it may also harm us with no method for most of us to see".
Unfortunately Dex does not snuff out his torch quick enough. The mushroom lets an ear shattering shriek when dex lights his torch. A round later the shriek dies out
"Hmmm, we should probably wait here for the moment". Dex moves back 10' to see what, if anything, will happen due to the loud noise.
You can hear things breaking in the next room.
You hear wood breaking.
Allyson covers her ears with her hands a second too late. "Ahhh, gods! What the hell was that!" She glares at Dexter with a fierce scowl, but hearing the sound of wood breaking she draws her blade and turns her attention back to the room.
It's coming from the north.
I mean like you rolled a 1
Dexter sighs and relights the torch, "Well the damage is done already, let's at least see what it is we will have to face".
Putting his hands to his ears as the high-pitched shriek, Lukasz grimaces as the sound dies down. His expression changes to slight concern at the sound of breaking wood. Gripping his shield in one hand and sword in another once more, Lukasz will work with the others to pinpoint the sound's origin as soon as possible, so they could prepare.
After a second Dex again starts the ear shattering shrieking which drowns out the sound but not sight of large barnacle encrusted axes chopping through the door on the west side of the room
"Can someone shoot that damn thing already!?" he states pointing at the giant mushroom.
The mushroom unfortunately drowns out dex's words. He can barely hear himself.
Dex puts out the light again, "BY Asmodeus' ears, someone shoot that damn thing, it is the source of that shrieking racket!!! I'll not go in to face whatever is in there with no light".
Dexter continues trying to speak but can't be heard.
Allyson covering one ear as best she can moves to the mushroom driving her blade into it.
Allyson drives her blade into the mushroom. As she does the shrieking comes to an end.
I will continue tomorrow if nobody posts any actions, because we're in the last round before combat starts.
Allyson will move to the door and await whatever lies beyond. Her body tingling in excitement finally seeing proper weapons.
With the creature dead, and the sound of axes chopping at wood resounding through the room and into the hall, Lukasz states, "This must be the death that was warned." He then utters a now familiar prayers as he touched Dexter's shoulder, bestowing divine guidance upon the big man. Then he once more draws his sword in preparation for a fight.
Dex mumbles, "Praise be Asmodeus that the damn sound is silenced!" and lights the torch again.
The door shatters under the blows.
Payn drives her blade into one of the undead creatures and Leekoo gets to toss off a shot.
Leekoo being the only one to actually ready an action besides Payn may now attack.
Dex
Lukasz
Allyson
Leekoo
Undead thing 1
Undead thing 2
Undead thing 3
Undead thing 4
Init Order
Round 1 Dex, Leekoo
Round 2 Undead thing 2
Round 3 Payn, Allyson, Lukasz
Round 4 Undead 1, 3, 4
Top of init, back to leekoo and dex.
Dex will hold.
That's not possible. Allyson and Payn have them bottlenecked. Payn. Update your positions.
No can do. You're flying they're in a door that four people are already blocking Leekoo do you wanna hit the front row?
The thing and it's companions act as though unaffected, so to does Allyson.
Payn on the other hand feels the flames wash over her skin eliminating more than a little hair.
One of the undead tries to move forward to strike at one of the two, but the bottleneck prevents him from doing anything.
Payn, Allyson, and Lukasz are up.
Allyson feels the heat of the goblin's bomb wash harmlessly off her flesh, as she flips her blade to the ready and thrusts it at the creature before her. She keeps her defensive stance ready to parry the next incoming blow.
With the undead effectively blocked from coming into the room, Lukasz advances into the room, continuing with his short prayers to Asmodeus, this time granting the Lord of Hell's guidance to Payn.
Payn strikes at the creature in front of allison and hits.
Undead thing 1 attacks allyson and misses as she expertly defends and strikes back.
Undead number 4 attacks Payn and is stopped by her armor.
Undead 3 cannot move forward to attack.
Back to Leekoo and Dex