[Rotating GM] 8-07 From the Tome of Righteous Repose (Inactive)

Game Master cmlobue

Elena works on the banner and offers the wand to someone else who could cast Daylight.

Piotr's eyes go wide when Elena holds out the wand of daylight. As he reaches for it, he hears the voice of Milani in his head.
"No, no, no, my bestial loyal servant. I'm very sorry, but I cannot grant you the power to cast Daylight."

Piotr slumps his shoulders in dejection.
"Aww, Come on! Really!?!”

"Ugh. Whatever."
He scoffs.

Piotr goes to help Elena create a flagpole on her back.
"This is looking pretty good. Just a little more twine to bind these two scraps together...

There. It rises about three feet over your head. Bend forward and I'll attach the banner to the end."

"Thanks!" She finishes getting the banner ready with Piotr's help and she's ready to continue... she grabs some of the debris from the cart and throws it in the general direction of the skull.

If nothing happens she moves to the eastern hallway to have a look.

Wymarc murmurs. ”While it suits you, Elena, better hope we don’t get it into any tight spaces around here…I could never carry that while trying to snoop around or fire my bow, that’s for sure…”

He follows Elena into the hallway, covering her with eyes peeled…

Perception: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (3) + 17 = 20

A 5-foot-wide pit leads down from this room. There is a sign on the inside that reads "out of the scope of this adventure".

"Mmmh... Maybe we can check that later. Let's see if there's anything over there..."

She will look down each hallway in this room while taking 10 on Perception(21).

Each of the hallways connects to another room free of any obvious life (or unlife). The northwest hallway heads toward what looks like a meeting room, while there are statues to the south.

Elena takes a minute to have closer look of the meeting room from the door.

Taking 20 for 31 on perception.

Burned wood, pottery fragments, and ancient dwarven utensils litter the floor. Carved maps of the surrounding area decorate the walls, though orcs have added their own grizzly markers to the stony cartography.

Piotr follows Elena, his "Raven's Beak" polearm at the ready.

Anything that may have been of use here is too damaged by either the invaders or time to be worth much. You do get a good view of the room with the blood pool from the northern exit.

Elena will move to each entry and repeat being thorough with her search of anything that stands out or enemies.

She stays clear of the hole in the ground.

Take 20 perception on each door for 31 again

Wymarc shrugs at Elena. ”I can do that quicker, m’Lady,” as he checks the doors…

Perception: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (8) + 17 = 25

THe hallway to the northeast passes through two unremarkable rooms before also joining up with the room with the blood pool.

In the room to the south, the stone visage of a horrifying creature with several tentacles for a face sits in the corner of this room. The creature appears to be rearing back in preparation to strike. A pile of rubble that looks to have been a second statue once rests nearby.

Elena freezes in place. Memories of the abomination she faced not long ago coming back to her. She waves at the others to catch up before stepping inside.

"I don't like this. Maybe this place was desecrated as well. Maybe they replaced the old statue with that. We might be expecting nasty monsters like it."

With a strange (non-mechanical) sixth sense, Piotr somehow senses Elena's disturbance from the tone of her voice as she approaches the next chamber.

Piotr sniffs the air.
It's the odor of the usual death and decay in an ancient ruin.
"What do you see?"
He whispers to Elena.

Piotr crouches in a readied stance, polearm held forward, behind Elena.

Elena steps carefully into the room. "A statue of a thing with too many tentacles..."

She will keep her distance while checking it. She will let Wymarc some space to see if there's any trap on it.
Perception: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (14) + 11 = 25

Kenji moves forward to look at the statue in more detail.

“Ahh, let’s see what that is!“ he says and moves in with detect magic.

Wymarc looks it over warily, checking for traps or triggers of any kind, spider senses telling him this Susie might pop alive at any second…

Perception: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (15) + 17 = 32

This room once contained two statues depicting Torag about to land a killing blow on a Darklands creature, but the orcs destroyed Torag and left the monster. Fragments of the statue of Torag lie strewn about the room. There is no apparent significance, beyond further evidence how this place has been defiled.

However, among the rubble, you do find a pendant that radiates magic.

Elena steps carefully into the room. "A statue of a thing with too many tentacles..."

Piotr pokes his head into the room and snarls.

He steps into the room and picks up the pendant by the chain with the point of his polearm. He casts detect magic on the pendant.
"Huh. What's this?"
Spellcraft: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 20
"Huh. A gravewatch pendant."

Elena moves to the western wall of the room to see down the hall.

Piotr moves to the south side of the room to look down the hallway heading west.

Wymarc stands between Elena and Piotr, covering them as they look beyond this chamber…

The group quickly realizes that the two hallways do not lead to the same room and should pick one to go down first. Neither of them has any indication of obvious threats.

Piotr waves to Wymarc to get his attention, then calls out in a hushed tone to him.
"Hey, if Elena is still over by that other passage, tell her that this hallway doesn't meet up with hers."

Elena follows Piotr and Kenji to the next room.

This room is the top landing of a stairway. The room is filled with rubble, and it looks like it will take days if excavation to reach the level below.

"No time for an excavation... let's check the other room then."

Before leaving the stairwell, the Pathfinders notice a leather strap among the rubble. It is a worn backpack containing some potions and a set of gloves.

A rectangular basin of clear, warm water fills most of this room, leaving only a five-foot walkway around the edge. The humid air rising from the pool keeps plants, including forms of moss and fungi, alive along the room’s walls and ceiling.

The slime means the entire floor in this room functions as a grease spell.

Elena aids anyone who is trying to identify the magic items.

Spellcraft Aid+4: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (9) + 5 = 14
Spellcraft Aid+4: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 10
Spellcraft Aid+4: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6
Spellcraft Aid+4: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 20

Piotr gives the pair of gloves a look over with magic.
Spellcraft: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (13) + 5 = 18

He then dips his finger in each potion and gives it a taste.
Perception: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (15) + 14 = 29
Perception: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (18) + 14 = 32
Perception: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (18) + 14 = 32
Nice!

Wymarc, unable to detect magical items and unwilling to test a potion that does who knows what, waits and watches to see if Piotr keels over…

With Elena's aid on the first check, Piotr has identified everything.

"Mmmhh... you know what. Seeing all of these makes me wonder if they brought it for a reason. They had already defiled this place and we think the paladin was buried somewhere here... it smells like undead to me."

Elena will keep a Holy Weapon Balm handy and pass one to Zylencia and another to Wymarc.

Elena takes a look at the room with the pool and nopes. "Nah, we should make our way around. The floors look slippery and I really don't suppose anyone wants to risk falling into that pond"

"There's taking the long way around, which is through other rooms, however if we are wanting to go to the other hallways there, we will have to cross this room eventually"

Piotr rolls his eyes in embarrassment thinking about the time he had to dog-paddle across a subterranean lake in Carrion Hill a few months ago.
"Let's just move very slowly across the ledges."
He suggests.

Curious to know if there's anything in the pool, Piotr picks up a fist sized chunk of rubble and tosses it from behind Elena into the pool.

*kerplunk!*

The rock sinks into the pool in a perfectly ordinary fashion.

"Yeah, let's go around the other rooms and see if there's an alternate path. We don't have a deadline so taking a longer should be alright."

Kenji nods.

"Good, then let us go!" he says and detects magic.

Elena meant avoiding A12 by going back to A8 and then check the contiguos room. I adjusted the tokens just like they were but on the other door.

You find a hallway that does loop around the the slimy room, as well as some other uninteresting chambers. Nothing seems to be making any obvious noises from any of the areas they connect to.

Elena takes a peek at A7-West to see if there's anything of interest. "Hey Wymarc do you want to check the other room?"

Takes 10 on perception = 21

Sure…but which other room? A7 south?

[ooc]Yeah, A7-South. That should do. [/b]

"I'm right behind you, Elena."
Piotr says quietly.

"I would like to go back to that room with the pool and slippery floor, eventually. There's usually treasure at the bottom of pools like that. Guardians as well, I'm sure. We'll just take it slow in there when we go back."

Wymarc nods to Elena, draws his bow, and moves stealthily to take a peek into A7 south…

Stealth: 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (18) + 19 = 37
Perception: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (18) + 17 = 35

Hey everybody, I just realized I have been looking at the wrong treasure tables! Because I am obviously great at this, and scrolled right past the one I was supposed to use and to the one closer to the end of the scenario. So I have to take a bunch of your things, and give you other things.

Gone: gravewatch pendant, ghostvision gloves, potion of remove curse, potion of remove disease, potion of remove blindness/deafness, knight’s pennon (battle), wand of daylight (17 charges)

Added: deathblade poison (2), fuse grenades (12), shadow essence poison (4), volatile vaporizer (1st level), bloodletting kukri with a cut ruby (worth 1,000 gp) set in its pommel, oil of keen edge, amulet of elemental vengeance (combines the abilities of an amulet of elemental strife with a necklace of fireballs with four spheres [4d6 fire damage each] remaining)

Both A7s are unadorned chambers, and if anything of note was ever there, it is gone now. Nothing stirs in any of the connecting rooms that you are aware of.