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know local: 1d20 + 100d1d20 + 12 ⇒ (16) + (13, 10, 15, 16, 15, 15, 10, 16, 14, 5, 1, 4, 15, 19, 6, 10, 18, 14, 9, 16, 20, 18, 4, 6, 6, 19, 12, 13, 9, 10, 4, 12, 14, 3, 5, 5, 2, 12, 5, 8, 14, 1, 14, 13, 20, 4, 20, 7, 9, 19, 7, 18, 20, 8, 18, 6, 5, 13, 12, 6, 3, 15, 13, 12, 5, 17, 3, 5, 3, 14, 4, 5, 9, 19, 15, 9, 20, 6, 10, 11, 1, 4, 14, 5, 16, 2, 18, 20, 5, 17, 3, 15, 7, 7, 17, 7, 1, 10, 12, 15) + 12 = 1084
I do not know what is wrong with my post. The formula looks correct.
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know local: 1d20 + 100d1d20 + 12 ⇒ (16) + (13, 10, 15, 16, 15, 15, 10, 16, 14, 5, 1, 4, 15, 19, 6, 10, 18, 14, 9, 16, 20, 18, 4, 6, 6, 19, 12, 13, 9, 10, 4, 12, 14, 3, 5, 5, 2, 12, 5, 8, 14, 1, 14, 13, 20, 4, 20, 7, 9, 19, 7, 18, 20, 8, 18, 6, 5, 13, 12, 6, 3, 15, 13, 12, 5, 17, 3, 5, 3, 14, 4, 5, 9, 19, 15, 9, 20, 6, 10, 11, 1, 4, 14, 5, 16, 2, 18, 20, 5, 17, 3, 15, 7, 7, 17, 7, 1, 10, 12, 15) + 12 = 1084
I do not know what is wrong with my post. The formula looks correct.
"This is most worrisome... So murderers and kidnappers were redirected to this site by this man... Tancred Desmire. I have heard of him attending pathfinder sponsored events in the past. I suspect this will be coming to an end..."
He moves about the fountain and inspects the balcony nearby before moving on to the last door on this level.
Despite what happened to William, Melufiuos finds no magical auras on the 'Gates Ajar' collection nor any other book.
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"Remember that we found a pommel-cover with the Desimere crest, as well?" Ophelia points out. "Perhaps someone of that affiliation has been here recently, though for what means, I do not know." As she speaks, she crosses to the books, taking a deep breath. "My goddess has steeled my mind against many threats. Allow me to try."
Quiella is also unsure what the thin men are.
Ophelia successfully picks up the books from The Gate Ajar without getting burned. It appears to be a set of encyclopedic volumes relating to daemons, demons, or devils. The cleric also finds a marked page that details first contact with an Abyssal entity named “Arastrax”—a shadow demon in whom the owner(s) of these books showed a particular interest.
Arastrax was the shadowy creature that attacked the Blakros wedding reception by possessing a guard. He also brought along a dretch. When the guard's body was destroyed, he left the body to return to his true form, a small-sized shadowy bat-winged creature with demonic feature. He scared away Melufiuos and Moadis with some innate ability, then hid in a corner until he just left for some undetermined reason.
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Moving south to check all the rooms on the first floor, the group finds a large kitchen with an attached sunken cold room that holds slowly decaying foodstuffs. A stone oven squats in the southern half of the room. Near the oven, a dark well provides the manor’s fresh water. Wooden counters, tables, and barrels make up the rest of the kitchen’s contents.
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After searching the kitchen, the group next moves to a ballroom on the west side of the first floor. A scuffed hardwood floor dominates this large recessed chamber. At the room’s far end, a large harp and piano sit neglected, suggesting this room once provided revelry.
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Finishing your exploration of the first floor, you find a door in the west side of the sitting room with stairs leading down.
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Apparently Mel was more interested in looking cool and important than paying attention to what he was doing.
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William double checks the door and then nods to the group.
"Alright everyone... tactical formation!"
Confident in Mel's abilities to spot traps, William opens the door quickly and steps through, keeping the way behind clear for his allies and keeping the way ahead covered with the barrel of his musket.
Melufiuos finds no traps on the first floor, nor on the way up the stairs. At the top of the spiral staircase, William leads the group to a small antechamber with two chairs. A curtain of pure white linen appears to separate the larger room in two. The curtain is decorated with embroidered images of bone-white doves with berry-stained beaks.
Valik notices a subtle ivory pattern throughout the curtain—an Abyssal rune.
You recognize that the rune represents the demon lord Shax.
Behind the curtain, a warm carpet, thick curtains, and a four-poster bed decorate the other side of the room, along with three doors. The door on the west wall has a smooth jet surface not unlike the glowing door you saw in the mural in the dining room.
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William raises an eyebrow at the runes woven into the curtain. "Very poor taste... If this was not to be inhabited by friends of the society, I would recommend a series of flame strikes at key points about the structure to raze it to the ground. But alas... war makes strange bedfellows."
William eyes the door on the west wall warily, thinks for a moment, and then moves to inspect and then open the northern door instead. "Let us secure the perimeter."
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very confident and decisive. He's very thorough. Systemic, making sure there are no enemies at our back. It's almost hard not to like this guy, damn him. Mel tries to keep up with the soldier, checking the traps along the way.
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William checks the western door, but finds no traps. He then opens the northern door. It exits onto an outdoor veranda overlooking the mountain pass. Overhanging the edge of the bluff, the distance from the balcony to the ground below is about 80 feet.
Melufiuos agrees with Ophelia's recollection that Shax is known as the Blood Marquis, and is the male demon lord of envy, lies, and violent murder. His temples take the forms of crooked alleyways, hidden rooms in grand estates, and secret dungeons.
Melufiuos also does not find any traps in the room.
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"Temples featuring secret rooms and dungeons you say? We had best keep our eyes out for secret doors."
He pauses and thinks a moment and then adds. "Perhaps I shall shoot it twice."
William will check the balcony for any secret egresses and then moves over to the more disconcerting door.
Once there he breaths deep, then opens it up, steeling himself for whatever horrors may lurk beyond...
"I still believe that torching this estate via an aerial strike is the only way to be sure..."
Valik also recalls that Shax appears as a human male with a dove’s head, bird’s legs, and an immense collection of knives and other bloodstained weaponry. His unholy symbol is a curved white feather sitting in a pool of blood.
William finds no secret passages in the balcony area, nor anything else of interest other than the view.
He then move back inside to open up the jet black door, and a hail of arrows rain down on him and Melufiuos from a series of well-hidden small holes in the northwest corner. Both adventurers quickly realize what a pincushion feels like as they are puncture by a number of arrows.
Behind the trapped door is an empty walk-in closet.
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Once he's certain Quiella is no longer at an imminent risk of spontaneous life-link induced death, William goes back to the closet.
"God of tricks eh... I'm sure that stupid thing must have been hiding something..."
He'll walk into the now opened closet and search for hidden caches of incriminating messages, secret doors, or additional facial incineration.
Once he's content that he, and anyone else willing, has searched it to the best of their abilities, he'll move to the last door.
In the back of the closet, William finds a hidden sliding panel. Behind the secret door is a stout ledge that hangs over a shaft descending into darkness. A series of iron rungs attached to the wall serve as a ladder leading down. The exact distance is difficult to measure with normal vision. Those with low-light vision who look down can detect a small reddish glow which allows them to determine the distance is less than 50 feet and there appears to be water at the bottom.
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When the arrows fly out Mel is quite surprised and then equally surprised to find that the he's not the only one cursing loudly and frequently. He looks to his comrade and smiles in pain." I knew there had to be a trap around here dammit. So sorry."
At the soldier's suggestion that the monk be the first one down Mel agrees and offered him his ion torch.
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Quills looks down. "There's a ladder. I can't see the bottom, but I don't need the light." She stows her weapon and begins climbing down.
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Valik will look on with horror as his allies become barraged with arrows.
Are you guys still alive?! as he begins to stop the severe blood loss. Once they are healed he looks in and isn't shocked when William notices the secret shaft heading down.
Let me try, but I'm unsure about the ladder. If the door is trapped, so could the damned ladder
Valik will than drink his Mage Armor potion. He looks the ladder over presuming it is trapped.
If it looks safe he will proceed to climb down the ladder. If he can instead of entering the water, Valik will look at the water for signs of life or trouble.
After drinking a potion of Mage Armor, Valik checks the ladder for traps and finds none. He then moves down along with Quiella.
The iron rungs descend from the vertical shaft and continue all the way to the floor, leading into a clear pool filling the bottom 10 feet of the room. The chamber’s walls depict Asmodeus in all manner of triumph. A stone stair rises from the pool to a dais on the room’s eastern end, where several dark robes hang on hooks. An ornate double door in the east wall provides the only visible egress from the chamber. Small glowing red crystals embedded into the ceiling at intervals of between 10 and 20 feet illuminate the area with dim light.
Although he can barely see it, Valik believes there might be a culvert 10 feet underwater leading south.
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Once he gets the all clear from Valik (in other words, nothing explodes) William will carefully descend and join him and Quiella in the newly exposed passage.
"I have heard tales of powerful weapons kept in the wreckage scattered throughout Numeria... weapons capable of delivering immense blasts from the void of the dark tapestry. Perhaps those would best be employed on this foul den."
He takes care to seal and stow his powder horn before descending into the water, and opts to wield his Numerian stun gun as he moves forward. "Black powder and water do not work well together. These gadgets though have survived thousands of years of wear and still pack a punch. I will admit though... I do love to hear the roar and see the gout of flame from a good old-fashioned musket."
He'll stay behind Valik and Quiella for now, still a bit put-off by the arrow trap.
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Helping shed some light, Mel assists Valik in checking the ladder.
"Now we're getting to the good stuff." muses the young magus as he works his way down the stairs behind his fellow pin-cushion. If Valik points out the covert, Mel will toss a lightstick in the water near it, hoping to see if there are any creatures hiding within. In addition to the ioun torch around (his or Valik's head), Mel also holds aloft his everburning torch.
Once in the room, Mel again helps Valik look for traps
Also, make sure none of those lights aren't actually eyes.