GM Crash's Godsmouth Heresy-Table Alpha (Inactive)

Game Master Crashwheeler

It sounds like the voice takes a breath through her teeth before she says "I see that the human is able to get the bodies down here secretly, but that information is cloudy to me for some reason. This secret entrance must be one of those things that the spirits wish for you to find on your own."

I was hoping for some more precise locations oh well, lots of take 20ing in those locations ;)

"Thank you Oracle." says the elf grudgingly.

"Does anyone else have more questions, or shall we look for this great pit and necromancer?"

Zanaver turns from the Oracle to Valandil

"I am eager to find this necromancer, let us seek him out"

I agree. Lets go find this necromancer ! And if we're lost, we could always came back here and ask the Oracle.

I have no more question and no more money to spare

With the situation agreed, Valandil turns to leave the Oracles room and start following the directions given. "Garox, perhaps you should be leading us once again."

"I'll keep my eyes open. I'm sure Pitbull will do the same."

After the warning Garox will take extra care in the afore mentioned areas that contain traps. Not sure how to represent that though.

Pitbull gets back to the frontlines with Garox, looking for foes.

Following Yrix's directions, they head down the hallway. They come to a cross intersection with a set of double doors ending the hallway 10 ft in front of them. Looking to the left, they see more hallway until it ends with an intersection. To the right, they see more hallway until it ends with an intersection as well. Do you want to continue going straight, or do you want to keep following the directions?

Garox will study the big double doors (listen 26 and detect traps 29).

"Might still be some treasure in here, give me a minute."

Garox doesn't notice any traps, the doors are not locked and all he hears is what sounds like torches burning.

"Torches burning? Who is down here to light torches?" wonders the elf.

Would you like to open the door?

gonna hate myself for doing this I expect

Garox opens the door slightly to take a peek inside.

The double doors open onto a long, oval-shaped room. Floating balls of fire illuminate walls covered with a bewildering array of runes, sigils, and glyphs. Beneath these carvings, stacks of engraved stone tablets rest in recessed niches in the walls.
Let me know what you want to do. :)

Don't think it's the necromancer, but could be interesting if somebody could read what's on it...

Said Nesterok

Valandil inspects the rules and flames with detect magic first, then, if they are non magical, with his mundane eyes and languages.

Pitbull shrugs at Garox as though surprised nothing jumped out at them, she then enters the room and sweeps through for enemies.

Valandil tries to use detect magic but the whole room lights up. After checking the runes with his eyes, he realizes the runes are Thassilonian.

Grigori mutters another short prayer. After Pitbull checks out the room, and after Valandil reports on his magical discernment, he takes a look at the runes and sigils for himself.

Religious understanding of this room and the various markings (+1 from guidance)?
Knowledge(religion): 10 + 5 + 1 = 16

Grigori likes to say short prayers of guidance periodically. Assume he does a few during moments when we're out of combat or other forms of immediate danger (e.g. while walking down a corridor). Feel free to be touched and claim a bonus.

Valandil looks in wonder at the runes and the room.

First he tries to puzzle out the magic within them, then he starts to look for mundane meaning to it all..
Following bonuses include guidance benefit, reduce by one if not available
spellcraft: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (19) + 12 = 31
know-arcane: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (16) + 10 = 26
know-history: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (15) + 10 = 25
know-religion: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (4) + 10 = 14

With that, Pitbull goes back out into the coridoor to guard the rear.

"Nothing in the room, so may as wll guard a spot where any enemy have to come through to get to the rest of yers"

Garox goes into trap finding mode. A place with this many magical aura's is bound to have some traps present.

While searching the room, 3 of the stone tablets were found to also function as scrolls, however each one weighs 5 lbs. Valandil recognizes the main spell as the ossuary's preservative magics in effect. He also recognizes one of the tablets to have hold portal and identify etched onto it. Garox doesn't find any traps but he does notice a rune that is shaped differently than the others, in fact it is shaped like a key.
However, as soon as Garox grabs the key shaped rune, a different rune detaches itself from the wall and flies toward the group. Knowledge (arcana) to identify the rune.

Garox, Zanaver, Pitbull, Nesterok, Grigori, Valandil, Rune

but I never... :(
Garox will hide behind a pillar/object to hide from the rune. Total defense.

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No worries about grabbing or not grabbing. It would have attacked even if you just let the key rune be.

Valandil tries to identify the flying rune.
know-arcane: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (11) + 9 = 20

Valandil identifies the rune as a constructed rune guardian in the shape of a Thassilonian rune of wrath. It casts burning hands at will with a school vulnerability(abjuration or conjuration) and a SR 12.
BTW Garox, there is nothing to use for cover in the room. You can close one of the doors and stand behind it.

Zanaver instinctively ducks as he sees the rune fly towards the group. He ready his Kama and jumps over the rune, getting behind it.

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 2 = 21

Leaping behind it, Zanaver brings his kama down with the momentum given by his graceful movements

Attack Roll:Kama: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 2 = 17
DMG: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

Zanaver brings his weapon quickly back to counterattack any harm targeting him

"Pull back! And don't clump up, it can burn groups of people within about fifteen feet of it. Vulnerable to abjuration and conjuration magics though - but resistant to other..."

Says Valandil as he quickly back peddals from the room.

does it look like something I can attack? If it is just a piece of writing flying about?

Garox moves up to the rune and attacks it with his mace. Taking care not to clutter with companions.

mace: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 4 = 18
dmg: 1d6 ⇒ 2

I think it looks like a piece of rock in the shape of the actual rune, so yes you can attack it.

Nesterok followed Garox calling for his luck swift action "Archeologist's luck" before striking it

Falchion: 1d20 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 4 + 2 = 212d4 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (4, 3) + 4 + 2 = 13

With the kama, mace and falchion attacks, the rune guardian falls to the ground in pieces. Now that the rune guardian has been defeated, the last two stone tablets can still be deciphered.

Pitbull notes the flurry of activity, and the return to peace.

She maintains her vigil in the hallway.

Grigori remains intrigued by the room's contents. Having no knowledge to contribute, he focuses on keeping vigilant for further guardians as Valandil completes his examination.

Grigori tries to be vigilant:
Perception: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (16) + 3 = 19

"Impressive!"

says the Elf, honestly suprised at the ease with which the guardian was dispatched.

He goes over to the last tablets, examining them with detect magic before trying to work out what they say

Are these in addition to the ones you told us about before?
knowledge(arcana): 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (12) + 10 = 22
knowledge(arcana): 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (9) + 10 = 19

No. There were a total of 3 tablets, with two spells on one. The two tablets I just mentioned were the ones that you weren't able to figure out last time.
Valandil is able to identify the last two tablets as scrolls of remove disease and shatter.
That is everything in this room, unless someone can read Thassilonian. If you are able to, you can use this room as a library, for a +5 circumstance bonus on knowledge(arcana) and (history) checks made about ancient Thassilon, the ossuary, or its inhabitants.

"Ugh I hate magics, never know whats gonna happen next"

"This is fantastic. If I had time, I could copy these down into my spellbook .... well a couple of them anyway. They may prove helpful later on. Is anyone strong enough to carry them for the moment?"

He looks around the room once again.

"Fantastic. If only I knew Thassilon."
The elf sighs. "There is never enough time. Still, obviously it is a language I will need to study."

I think we miss something here as no one understand what language is this. We need to be able to read this strange language.
I propose we find the hidden way were the necromancer went and go and buy what we need.
The mission has no time limit, the only thing that matter is to find the corps' stealer and kill it

...or at least make it leave. While necromancy is frowned upon by Pharasma and her followers, undead are legal citizens in Kaer Maga.

The half orc seems happy enough in the coridoor.

"If this is important, let us return to the main doors. My powers can let me bypass the portals. I can return to the surface and acquire a spell that will let me read these writings. It will likely take a couple of hours."

He looks around the room again. "I would love to spend more time here, but I'm not sure there is an urgency yet around reading all these tomes. While we don't know of a 'time limit' on our mission, if the Spirits speak to the Oracle about the necromancer - maybe they also speak to the necromancer about us. So wasting too much time may not be wise."

As informative as this room may be, the information it holds that is most reverent to you is nothing you won't find out the hard way, like the inhabitants of the ossuary...not counting the necromancer. So would you like to continue on following the directions given to you?

Yes

The group continues following the directions that the "oracle" gave them. They take that right at the intersection. To the left is a door and to the right is a long hallway that ends at a door. Opening the door to the left reveals stairs that go down into darkness. They go to lower levels of the ossuary that is not part of this mod. Feeling a kind of trepidation that the party is not used to, they close and lock the door hoping that nothing will come up those stairs to get them later. They instead go over to the door that should open up into the great pit.
Garox checks to see if there are no traps and if it is locked and finds out they both results are negative. The party can go through the door safely. Do you want to do that now?

"Hmmm, yes. I would like to return to this library as well. But perhaps another time," remarks the priest in black and crimson.

Sounds good, let's go in. Btw, I don't think Grigori knows (or cares) that the undead are legal citizens here... being a cleric of Pharasma. :)

Once the party goes through the door they see that a thirty-foot-diameter pit fills this circular room, its bottom lost in darkness. Even if Valandil uses his dancing lights, they will go out before they reach the bottom. The ceiling arches twenty feet above the pit, which is encircled by a narrow, five-foot-wide walkway. A door stands in the opposite wall of the room, across the pit. The party hears an echo of what the oracle said about this area "You may find the greatest treasure hidden near the pit, and yet in a different room...do not tarry there, for a deadly guardian may attack you if you take too long crossing the Pit."

guess we hurry
"Let's move quickly guys, this place gives me a jeepers."