"We can use the rope to help hold us on the ledge I guess... I'd go first, but I'm not as sturdy as some of us."
Nat will wait for Darian or Angus to go. If both refuse, she will go first, holding her Longspear out ahead of her to be cautious.
It's a long trench, with a narrow ledge along the side. Yasmin scampers across rather easily. She takes nat's rope with her, playing out line as she goes. The trench is five feet deep, full nearly to the top with the sludge.
Nat is able to make her way across too, moving slowly. Her feet nearly slips a few times, but she hangs on and both of the little heroes are across!
As Yasmin reaches the other side she is able to tie off the rope for the others.
Seeing Nat scamper across not look much more nimble than he, Angus waits for the rope to be tied off, and then he too carefully works his way across the ledge, grumbling all the way about the foolishness of the endeavor.
With the help of their rope, the group makes their way across the narrow ledge.
Once on the far side, they continue following the hallway for a long way, until finally they reach a locked door. The door has a small, barred window.
Angus does his best to open the door, and if brute strength won't work, he'll begrudgingly give the locksmith a turn.
Gio indeed thinks the way look clear. He is able to get the first door open.
As soon as he enters the room a booming voice says: "Please close the door before proceeding with the pass phrase."
Yasmin stops in her step and looks puzzled at Giovanni
Hold what?
Yasmin smirks at Giovanni
As Gio looks around the room and sends his message, the floor drops out from under his feet! He quickly jumps to the side and grabs hold of the edge before he can fall into the 10-foot-deep pit. There is enough ledge to pull himself up on. He stands and dusts himself off.
Yasmin jumps to Giovanni like a nimble cat and helps him up on the ledge. She hastens to apologise to the bard
"I am sorry Gio, just a little harmless prank I thought, I did not want to cause any real trouble."
Nat peers around the room, looking for any sign of what produced the voice.
Yasmin relaxes at Giovanni's words and casts a cantrip to determine the source of the voice.
Yasmin detects a faint magical aura. It seems similar to what she'd expect for a magic mouth spell.
The voice is definitely not coming from a living (or undead) creature.
There is enough of a ledge for Giovanni to check out the far-side door. It is locked as well, but there are no other traps.
If'n there be a handle on that there door, tie a ope to it and we'll haul ourselves across!" hollers Angus, growing tired of these shananigains. Where a straight up fight when ye want one!
Gio gets the second door open easily. With that door open, Gio sets up a rope and the group crosses the pit easily enough.
In the next room 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 construct blocks access to the eastern corridor. This clockwork servant stands on three jointed legs. A large, metallic key floats in the air next to the automaton. A moment after the group enters the room, the construct whirs to life and speaks a pre-programmed phrase to them in a tinny voice:
"Please present the crest for passage."
Nat gets her spear ready from behind Giovanni to attack the thing if it attacks them.
The clockwork servant makes no verbal response, but moves towards the group in a threatening way!
Round 1:
Yasmin <<
Giovanni <<
Natulcien <<
Angus <<
clockwork
Darian
Angus leaps forward, eager for a fight after all this dancing around ledges and what not. Looking for a panel that might contain control of some sort, he punches into the metal hoping to break sprockets and gears, and expose the vital inner workings of the thing.
Hoping to flank it, Nat moves off to one side and strikes out with her spear.
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Giovanni begins backing away as he reaches for his mandolin.
He begins playing a marching-metalic song!
This ability replaces inspire courage.
Yasmin holds back for a moment.
Giovanni is able to tell that this is a clockwork servant (just barely). It is particularly vulnerable to electricity.
Angus punches the robot and bit of metal and a few loose gears go flying, but it keep on moving.
Nat's spear slams home with the help that Gio's song provdes (creature still FF). A few more bits fall off, but the core still functions. It tries to slam Angus with tis clenched fists!
The thing lands a very strong blow on the dwarven brawler that leaves his head ringing.
Looking the thing over trying to find a critical gear or vital point Angus determines that this thing is built like a tank and will most likely crush him like a pancake. However, if he's going to die, he's going to die swinging, as he tries to crush one of the knee's of this mechanical monstrocity.
Angus' fist crashes into the machine with a loud crunch and more loose parts fall off. The thing still keeps coming. Darian's sword skitters of a piece of metal and doesn't cause further damage.
Darian (ineffective attack)
Yasmin <<
Giovanni (continues performance)
Natulcien <<
Angus (punches robot)
clockwork servant (21 damage)
Darian
Nat strikes out again with her spear, but her bare foot stepping on a loose gear that fell out of the clockworks when it was struck spoils her aim.
The machine strikes again!
The automaton swings as Natulcien, but the blow can't push past her armor.
GIo sees that the machine could be tripped, but that it would take a very good manuever to do so (IC equivalent of realizing its CMD is 20. It's got three leg, after all).
Yasmin racks her brain, trying hard to remember if the thing is susceptible to illusions.
Meanwhile she loads her crossbow and fires a bolt at the thing. If it is possible to get a better shot by taking a 5ft step she will do so.
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Giovanni looks at his rope. He then sizes up the automaton before making his way in there to attempt to tie it around its legs.
Angus continues his assault on the strange mechanical thing, knowing only that it is trying to kill him, so he will try and destroy it.
Nat's spear again comes agonizingly close to damaging the machine, but can't make it. Darian scores a nice hit, and then Angus throws himself at the machine full-force. The force of his blow causes it to explode in a showr of gears, springs, and bits of metal.
Nat gingerly picks her way through the metal debris the machine has left on the floor, and pokes around at it, wondering if there's anything of value in its workings.