GM DevilDoc's Godsmouth Heresy (Inactive)

Game Master Awenydd83

Spellcraft: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (18) + 9 = 27
Spellcraft: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (17) + 9 = 26
"Fascinating." murmurs the elf as she intently studies the cloak and scroll. Without saying anything further, she dons the cloak.
"Come, we have dawdled in this room long enough. Let us gather the remaining relics and inspect the door to the next room."
Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (18) + 9 = 27

Spellcraft: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23
Spellcraft: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11

Levin nods. "Good thinking, my dear. Quite a useful item! Let's press on."

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Assuming there is no apparent danger posed by the door.

Abaal inspects the far door and opens it. "Hello?" He looks about.

In any other crypt, Abaal reflects, the idea announcing youself would have been ridiculous.

perception: 1d20 ⇒ 18

Kiri raises an eyebrow.

"Just open the door," she says.

If anyone equips the cloak, please let me know or adjust your stat bar.

Abaal opens the next door to a room of similar proportions as the one they are currently in. The theme of judgement in the afterlife is continued in the carvings on the walls of this room. A wide table stands along the north wall, draped with a heavy black cloth and a single candle burns in a tall iron candlestick in the southwest corner, but the rest of the room is cloaked in shadows.

As Abaal attempts to enter the room, a goblins head on an extremely long neck and fangs reminiscent of a large viper snakes out from under the cloth covering the table.
"You have entered into the domain of the great and mighty Yrix, Naga Mystic and Gatekeeper of the Lower Domains. Before you are allowed to enter into my domain, you must pay the toll, levied for the the privilege of my company. 5 gold for each of you to cross my threshold, and 1 gold for each question you ask. I have much knowledge of our environs, and knowledge has saved many an adventurers life."

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Sense: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 2 = 17
"And why would we believe anything that slips through your forked tongue?" growls Myantha as she knocks an arrow and fires at the creature.
Attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24
Damage: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Sense Motive: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (16) - 1 = 15

Levin sighs. I probably could've talked out way out of this, he thinks as he draws his rapier.

Levin sighs. I probably could've talked out way out of this, he thinks as he draws his rapier.

But that's no fun and you know it! Besides, we're only lvl 1! Most of us can't spare 5gp.

"And why would we believe anything that slips through your forked tongue?" growls Myantha as she knocks an arrow and fires at the creature.

"Err, I think you owe it a gold now. Perhaps we could calm--. Right...." I think I have some dried frog pills on me somewhere.

Myantha, tired of taking a diplomatic route with their adversaries, fires off an arrow. The gods must have been with this shot, as it shaves a few scales off of the creature hiding under the table.

As the arrow bounces, the goblin snake looses all pretence and bares its fangs, hissing in rage. It lunges at Abaal, breathing out a noxious cloud over the man.
[ooc]Abaal, please make a DC 13 Fort save, or be sickened for Rounds: 1d6 ⇒ 3

"Bold May Post"
Yrix- 3
Party

Myantha smirks as her arrow hits home. Feeling confident, she fires another shot at the beast.
Attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 5 = 23
Damage: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

Fort save: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

"Really there's no call for-Arg! RRRAAA!!"

falchion: 1d20 + 6 - 2 ⇒ (17) + 6 - 2 = 21
damage: 2d4 + 7 - 2 ⇒ (2, 1) + 7 - 2 = 8

Levin moves up and looks for an opening.

Rapier: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (19) + 6 = 25
Damage: 1d4 - 1 ⇒ (1) - 1 = 0

Crit confirm: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13
Extra damage: 1d4 - 1 ⇒ (2) - 1 = 1

Well if that doesn't confirm, the 0 becomes a 1 at least...

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Kiri swings at the creature, but misses.

+1 Scimitar (power attack): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 101d6 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11

The combined attacks of the party bring the goblin snake down quickly, with no lasting effects for anyone, although Abaal is still sicking it up in a corner for a few moments. Once he is finished, the party searches the room, and finds a small hoard under the table to include: a gold chalice, a gold bowl, two gold plates, a large golden symbol of Pharasma, and 24 gp. In addition, there is a headband laying in the pile. Upon closer inspection it is a simple woven band with a small, ornately carved box in the middle front.

Moving through the door on the southern wall of the room, you find some stairs going down. It is here that Esme steps forward. "This way leads out through some crypts and underground tunnels, and will bring us back to the surface many miles from the city. I promise you, I have no wish to harm you or the clerics above. We will depart, and you will never hear from us again, I swear." With a bow to you, she departs down the stairs, Svilenius following without a word.

Where to next?? There is not too much left to explore here. Yall can go back to the main room or can explore down that last passage to the south.

"There now, that wasn't so hard." she says as she pulls her arrows out of the creature's corpse.
Spellcraft: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (20) + 9 = 29
After identifying the magic items and bidding good riddance to their captives, Myantha begins to make her way down the southern passage.

Spellcraft: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (18) + 4 = 22
"This might be good for the praying types," he says as he picks up the phylactery. "Not so much for me though."

Two votes gets things moving. There are two passages heading south. The first one (Arrow 1) is back up the hall a bit; an extension of the hall that brought you to where you are. The second (Arrow 2) is a short hall in front of you, leading to ornately carved double doors, similar to the ones you saw soon after first entering the Ossuary.

I vote Arrow 2, the one right in front of us.

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Arrow 2 leads to the central chamber (where we've been) and other floors. I vote for Arrow 1 to finish off this floor first.

Arrow 1 works for me

Two votes for arrow 1 it is.
Wandering down the hall, the companions come to another T intersection. to the left is a small octagonal chamber, and to the right, the hall turns again, continuing south. Within the octagon, a suit of elaborate lacquered armor stands sentinel against the far eastern wall. Silver chains attached to the armor’s neck and chest run across the floor of the room, their ends clutched in the bony hand of a skeleton sprawled on the floor ten feet away.

Abaal turns to Verisi and Tripe and and asks, "Do you know this former person?"

Myantha surveys the scene with a raised eyebrow. "Is this what the clergy does behind closed doors? If so, it falls a bit short of the stories."
I got nothing.

Can't make that untrained and don't have the skill for it.

"Why would any of us know who this is?" Kiri asks.

Anyone moving in to get a closer look or searching the bodies?

Meh, I'm good.

"Apsu's scales... Almost looks like this poor fellow was trying to control the thing, doesn't it? We should probably keep our distance in case it, I don't know, wakes up."

Casting detect magic.

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Nothing reacts to the spell, but the armour looks extremely well made and expensive, and an equally well made and expensive bastard sword lies nearby. The glint of metal can be seen from under the skeleton.

"Why would any of us know who this is?" Kiri asks.

"Are you one of these two fine err-people who have been living in this rather homey tomb?"

Remember, she's probably barely 100.

Anything from the NPC villains? If not I suppose Abaal will unwisely take the bait and inspect the carnage.

perception: 1d20 ⇒ 20

The NPC's left after the party killed Yrix in the last room.

Abaal, I moved you into the room. If anyone wishes to join him, please move your tokens.

Abaal gingerly steps forward, ready for any mayhem. Walking closer and peering at the armour and the skeleton, he is unable to see what may have killed these two, but they are truly dead. The glint from under the skeleton's rags turn out to be two curved daggers in their sheaths. They appear to be of the same workmanship as the armour and sword lying nearby.

Yrix? Was he the really tall chap? Lives in a deep hole? Really long neck? Or was he the jaunty fellow with no body to speak of?

The armor's a bit heavy for his taste, but he will take the knives and sheaths.

Assuming nothing kills/attempts to kill him, he moves west down the corridor.

Yrix was the goblin snake hiding under the table in the last room.

The knives are two masterwork curved daggers, normal stats for dagger.

As Abaal shifts the skeleton to get at the knives, the bones shift and collapse in on themselves. It is obvious that they have lain here, undisturbed for many many years. As the bones tumble and crumble, a hissing sound grows from the armour behind him. Turning, Abaal sees hundreds upon hundreds of cockroaches boiling out of the armour, forming a swarm of the carnivorous little creatures.

Bold May Post
Suheyla
~Siorai
Abaal
Levin
Swarm
Myantha
Kiri

"Do you hear something?"

5-move back, retrieve stored item, and toss said item.

[dice=alchemists' fire]1d20+5[/dice] fire damage: 1d6 ⇒ 2

He tries to aim it so that he doesn't take splash damage, but if he does he does.

Abaal hurridly steps back, grabbing and lobbing a flask of Alchemists fire. It explodes in the middle of the swarm, but does little damage.
Tossing it into the middle of the swarm should keep you out of range from the splash. Sorry I didnt add the swarm to the map yesterday.

Bold May Post
Suheyla
~Siorai
Abaal
Levin
Swarm- 3 dmg
Myantha
Kiri

We will wait a bit for Levin to post before moving on.

"Ewww, I told you we should stay away from that! Though not quite the consequence I was expecting..."

Have nothing to do really...

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Levin searches for a way to hurt this new nemesis, while the swarm moves in towards Abaal, boiling over the man.
damage: 1d6 ⇒ 5

Abaal; you do get an AOO, but not sure what action you would be able to effectively take.

Bold May Post
Party
Swarm- 3 dmg

Myantha moves forward 5 ft., drawing two flasks of acid from her bag. She then turns to Levin and hands the bard one as she says "It's called being prepared! Here, take one!"
Not sure if I exceeded my turns for this round. If not, Levin can throw his flask now and I'll throw mine next round.

We will go with drawing the flasks was your standard action, and instead of attacking, handing the other flask to Levin was the move/attack portion of the turn.

Bold May Post
party
~Myantha <-Draw/handoff
Swarm- 3 dmg

Err. Runaway? I'm good on running away. ;)

Levin takes the flask from Myantha. "Why thank you, sweet." Hoping not to catch Abaal in the splash, he hurls it into the swarm.

Vial vs swarm: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 15
Damage (acid) : 1d6 ⇒ 2
Abaal takes 1 splash damage; unavoidable if the swarm is to take the whole d6

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Kiri steps back, draws an acid flask, and delivers an accurate attack.

ranged touch, acid flask: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 151d6 ⇒ 2

Hope you dont mind, Abaal, I pulled you back for your action this round to facilitate the other attacks.

Abaal pulls back behind the lines, while the rest of the group covers him with more flasks of acid. Both flasks land on point, taking chunks of the cloud of cockroaches. Siorai and Suheyla both move forward, lobbing two more flasks into the mass.

Throw Suheyla: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (14) + 3 = 17
Throw Siorai: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9

Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 4

Whew.. pulled a GM option there, and it paid off in spades! Managed to roll exactly what we needed!

The eidelon's bag falls short, but Suheyla is spot on, this last splash of acid killing off enough roaches to send the survivors scattering.

Out of Combat

With the dispersal of the roaches, the summoner and her eidelon bow to the party and disappear back down the hall without a word.
Exit stage right..

Finishing with the roaches, the party moves down the hall. You pass through another set of stairs down and back up, as well as a hallway you believe leads back to the large room in the middle of the complex. Moving onward, you come across some new construction at the end of the hall. Dirt and rubble surround a hole in the wall of this alcove. Within, a rough-hewn tunnel leads off into darkness. Two picks and a shovel lie on the floor in front of the hole. Turning to your left, the party is confronted with a door to the south, a door to the east, and a long hallway to the north with six doors, three on either side.

potion of cure light wounds : 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8

"Perhaps we should find a way to fill in this hole before moving on..."
Thoughts?

"We should investigate all of the rooms in this hallway in turn, and then go and report," Kiri says.

Levin picks up a pebble and, with a quick spell, causes it to shine like a torch. "Maybe things have been getting in through here?" He tosses the pebble into the hole.

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"We should investigate all of the rooms in this hallway in turn, and then go and report," Kiri says.

*Nod*

Levin and Myantha peer into the tunnel, and other than some weird footprints and an abandoned pick and shovel, there is nothing more to find. The group continues on, approaching the southern door at the mouth of the hall. Upon inspection, the door is not trapped, and does not appear to be locked. It does not, however open when you try it. Something seems to be holding it in place.

Myantha attemps to use the open/close spell on the door. If that is unsuccessful, she quips "Perhaps this could use a stronger touch. Abaal?"