Jennix's arrow misses but Miso leaps over the pit and throws a zombie into it!
The half-troll curses as his pit doesn't seem to have worked. He instead shoots a green ray at Miso!
grn: 7 dmg
Zack takes some open shots on the zombies down the hall.
Zachary easily finishes off two of the zombies, leaving only the one that Miso threw in the pit (which no longer seems to be a threat as it seems unlikely the undead will be able to crawl out of the pit on its own).
Miso five-foots, draws his wand of scorching ray, and uses a charge!
Terflynn attempts to hex the half-troll caster, knowing that it probably won't work but is at least worth the attempt.
Jennix puts an arrow in the trapped zombie while Miso burns the troll. Terflynn's hex doesn't seem to have any effect.
The half-troll steps around Terflynn's shards and closes in on Miso, raising its pick and charging it with arcane power!
or: 3 dmg
gr: 13 dmg
Zack opens up on the troll.
Zachary puts an arrow into the troll!
or: 3 dmg
gr: 31 dmg
Jennix fires again, at the runecaster.
Miso five-foots to the side, drops the kama, activates Arcane Strike, and flurries on the half-troll.
Terflynn drops the sword, draws his longbow, and fires a shot at the troll-creature.
,
"Sorry sword."
Terflynn's arrow is off-target but Jennix's is not and neither is Miso's first punch! The troll-spriggan takes a step behind Miso for cover and swings his pick!
or: 3 dmg
gr: 49 dmg
Jennix fires again
With a well-placed arrow Jennix takes down the half-troll!
Aura faint conjuration and transmutation; CL 3rd
Slot none; Price 750 gp; Weight -
These small grenades are made from hollowed eggshells filled with assorted powders and reagents and inscribed with magical glyphs. When broken, a fugitive's grenade creates a 10-foot-radius cloud that lasts for 2 rounds. This cloud is otherwise identical to a fog cloud. A single smoke tendril in the center of the cloud forms a solid-feeling roe, 20 feet long, that functions as a rope trick spell. When the smoke cloud dissipates, so does the smoke rope, though the rope trick's extradimensional space remains for its full duration. Once the smoke rope disperses, any creatures inside the extradimensional space must jump or climb out by other means. A fugitive's grenade may be thrown as a ranged touch attack with a range increment of 10 feet.
The zombie in the pit is easily dealt with and the pit eventually raises up to the level of the floor again.
Jennix notes that the door that the Runecaster and the zombies were guarding is trapped.
The northern room, however, is unlocked and contains boxes and sacks lying neatly stacked, with shelves holding orderly bins. A wooden locker stands between the shelves. Despite the seeming order to this room, a faint charnel reek underlies the place.
Searching the creates and sacks reveals hard loaves, fine cheeses, and dried fruits and vegetables. The bins on the shelves hold quality spices and seasonings, many imported from Tian Xia. The locker beneath the shelves holds the carcasses of game animals and even the limbs of a few humanoids in various states of decomposition.
One of the bins holds three bottles of Korvosan wine worth 20 each and two flasks of aged sake imported from Minkai worth 50 gp each. The Tian spices are worth a total of 40 gp.
Jennix moves to the door and tries to disable the trap.
Jennix tries to disable the trap but instead a cylinder of fire erupts around the party!
With some work Jennix is able to unlock it, though.
Beyond the door is a veritabe trove of valuables gathered into one place. Chests overflow with gold and silver ornaments. Crates hold trae bars of precious metals. Ornate, gilded drinking horns peek out of a burlap sack. and coffers spill forth gold and silver coins in quantities rarely seen in this part of the world.
Three chests, each weighing 50 lbs, hold gold and silver brooches and arm-rings worth a total of 2100 gp. Five crates hold copper trade bars stamped with the rune of the Rimerunners Guild. There are 20 trade bars in each crate, and each trade bar is worth 5 gp and weighs 10 lbs, but are worth 50 gp each. There are a total of 23 gilded drinking horns of various beasts, each worth 15 gp, and one made from an aurochs horn and set with citrines worth 135 gp. The coffers hold a total of 850 gp, 1975 sp, and 3000 cp.
In addition, one chest holds a set of adventuring gear: two potions of cure light wounds, 10 tindertwigs, a masterwork chain shirt, a masterwork heavy wooden shield, a +1 longsword, a dagger, a masterwork cold iron throwing axe, two regular throwing axes, a climber's kit, cold weather outfit, 50' hemp rope, a pocket flask filled with dwarven whiskey, a sextant, smoked goggled, snowshoes, and a wolf skin cloak.
"Well that was unpleasant. I'll need to stand further back in the future. Who needs the wand?"
"Eh, sorry about that. I thought for sure I was disabling it."
Looking at all the gear, Jennix responds to Terflynn. "I could use it..."
"Couldn't hurt." Zack coughs out after surviving the immolation.
Once everyone is ready, Jennix creeps to the end of the hall and peers around the corner.
Jennix leads the way down the hall and finds an ornate double door flanked in alcoves on either side with bronze statues depicting warriors dressed in the ornate garb and armor of a warrior of distant Tian Xia. Beneath their broad helmets, the statues wear demonic face masks with snarling fanged maws, while their hands clutch gracefully curved swords in poses of battle.
As you round the corner, the statues (of course) come to life!
"Constructs! They resist damage, are immune to magic, and break weapons. Be careful!"
Miso looks at his wounds after the half-troll falls, and suddenly a blue beam of light springs from his hand, coating the wound and healing some of it.
I... The monk appears even more mystified than before. I do not understand...
Miso dives out of the way even as the flame strikes his party .
Miso looks at the elf in dismay as the columns begin to move. What might you have to help us with these, Terflynn? My hands and feet will surely break against them.
Zack moves to the end of the hallway to see what lies around the corner for them.
Zack begins loosing arrows at the nearest target.
Jennix draws his whip and morningstar as he steps up next to Miso and tries to trip a statue!
Zachary takes out a big chunk of one of the statues and Jennix puts the other on the ground!
blue: 40 dmg
red: prone
With one prone, Miso is still absent other reasonable options, so tries another line of attack.
He activates Arcane Strike (knowing this will make his unarmed attacks magical and thus hopeful this will give some protection), moves up and attempts to grapple Blue!
Seeing Miso fail horribly against the statue, Terflynn hexes it to warp its fate.
Miso is unable to grab onto the statue but Terflynn's hex sticks!
The red one stands up and then steps over to the monk to lend its aid!
blue: 40 dmg, misfortuned
red: prone
Terflynn tries his hex on the other. "Your future is mine."
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Terflynn's hexes have turned fate against the statues!
blue: 40 dmg, misfortuned
red: misfortuned
Zack pincushions the statue to the best of his ability.
Zachary takes down the first statue and damages the next!
red: 10 dmg, misfortuned
Jennix lashes his whip again, trying to trip the remaining statue.
Jennix puts the statue on the ground!
red: 10 dmg, misfortuned, prone
Five foot to the prone statue, activate Arcane Strike, and flurry!
Miso misses and the statue swings back from the ground!
red: 10 dmg, misfortuned, prone
Activate Arcane Strike and flurry!
Jennix tries to slide behind Miso and after dropping his whip, swings the morningstar at the prone statue.