GM icehawk's wrath of the rightious

Game Master icehawk333

Haruto waits at the top until the others say it's clear... or call for help.

Lina makes progressively makes weirder faces as she watches Hanna go through the taxidermy. "W-why are you..." She adjusts her scarf and pretends she saw nothing.

"the poisonous ones could be sold for a bit of money, besides someone went through a lot of wffort to make this. He clearly put value on them. I'm trying to determine if any of these would be valuable to anyone else. Probably not now that I have had a good look at them"

Retconning...

Before we go down the hole, let's go over to this eastern door...

Could we leave the NPCs here, or do we need everyone?

the NPC's (except horgus, horgus is coming wether you like it or not.) could defiantly do with a rest. Just talk to them and tell them you're scouting ahead and you'll come back if you find the way forward, or something of the like.

Azlana tells the elves that they are going to scout the eastern area while they take a rest, but that they will be back as soon as they can to continue forward.

Just yell if you need us. We won't be far.

Lina takes the lead through the path past the eastern door.

Haruto follows.

A muted roar echoes down the walls of this hallway. Near the
eastern end, the worked stone give way to natural cave walls,
just before the hall ends at an open shaft. Hanging over the
edge of the shaft is a knotted rope—the other end tied to an
iron spike driven into the ground.

Can we tell what the roar is?

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (11) + 9 = 20

Azlana climbs down the rope.

there is definatally an underground river here, with two huge white fish swimming in a pool formed by the running water.

Per: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (17) + 8 = 25

"Wonder what those fish taste like," Lina says off-handedly. "Also, lookie there." She points out the secret entrance for the others.

Knowledge Nature: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 10

No idea, but I wonder if I can shoot them while they are swimming. Might be tricky, but worth it if they taste good.

Attack: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21
Attack: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8

Haruto hangs back, not thinking himself the best to be crowding around a hole and shooting fish.

the arrow thunks into one of the fish, and it attempts to lash out but can't really get to azlana.

Azlana keeps shooting the fish until they are not a threat anymore.

(Assuming they can't hit back from what just happened, I am going to post several attacks, but feel free to negate any of them if the fish *can* do something.)

Attack: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14
Damage: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6

Attack: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14
Damage: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7

Attack: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8
Damage: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4

Attack: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13
Damage: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9

Attack: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21
Damage: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3

Hanna considers helping with a shocking grasp, but shrugs, figuring she has this

it isn't too long before the fish are very much dead, floating in the water.

"Isn't there some saying about this...?" Haruto asks with a distant smile.

Hanna shakes her head "if there is, I'm not familiar with it

Ha ha. There would be if they were in a barrel.

Hanna, do you have mage hand or anything that could pull those fish over so we can clean them and see if they are any good to eat later?

If they can get them, might be good to hand them up through the hole and give them to the people left behind to cook up while we explore further?

Once the fish are taken care of, the party proceeds through the secret entrance that Lina pointed out. (Unless there are any objections?)

"I do but it won't work unless someone else has it. Those fish weigh more than five pounds... though maybe with them in the water it might be worth a shot first trying on the fish to see if boyancy has any affect on the weight limit of the spell. If that doesn't work she tries again but this time targeting one of the arrows, trying to use them to gently nudge the fish towards the edge

"Alternatively, we could just forget the fish, and check out passage," Lina says quietly. "...Nice shooting, by the way."

Thanks Lina.

Hmm. Looks like we have to go swimming anyway to get to the passage you pointed out.

Azlana leans over the edge of the pool and ties the fish to a rope (if possible), so they can be pulled up.

She looks down to see how deep the pool is

Knowledge Dungeoneering: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9

Then she jumps in.

She swims over to the passage to go through it.

Swimming check: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 2 = 15

the water isn't too deep, and relativly calm, compared to the river. It's easy to swim through.

the chamber is a small hallway about 20 feet long, with a dusty wooden chest covered in cobwebs at the far side.

Lina puts a hand up to signal for the others to stop. "Hold on." She checks for traps.

Per: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (11) + 9 = 20

Azlana stops obediently, waiting for Lina to let them know the way was clear.

there is indeed a trap in the floor- a simple but effective pit trap.

Is there enough space to skirt around the trap without stepping on it?

in the write up, the room seems rather small. I'd allow an acrobatics check to try and move around it without triggering it, or to jump the length of the trap, of course, or you can just disable device.

"Give me a second," Lina says.

disable device: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (16) + 11 = 27

soon enough the trap locks in place, and isn't going anywhere. It should be safe to traverse, now.

"Well done lina" Hanna says with a nod before continuing with her

Lina crosses the hall, checks the chest for traps, and if she doesn't find any traps she tries to open it.

per: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (19) + 9 = 28

Azlana waits to see if there is anything cool in the chest. She pulls up detect magic, just in case.

in the chest there's a wooden shield (magic), a ring (magic), two scrolls and two potions (magic), and quite a pile of gold. (250 gp)

Hanna also has detect magic "oh dang, jackpot!
Know(arcana): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9
spellcraft(shield): 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (5) + 10 = 15
spellcraft(ring): 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (19) + 10 = 29
spellcraft(potion): 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (14) + 10 = 24
spellcraft (potion): 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (1) + 10 = 11
She also casts read magic on the scrolls

ring of climbing, scroll of identify, scroll of magic fang, and a pair of potions if Darkvision. The shield remains unidentified.

Should we use that scroll of identify on the shield, since we have it, or did you guys want to wait and sell it?

"we'd probably have a better shot of selling it if we knew what it is, but we should wait until tomorrow so I can try to copy it into my spellbook and maybe learn what the sword does too

Haruto gives identifying the shield a try once it's brought back up.

Spellcraft: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (14) + 7 = 21

the shield is a +1 shield.

Azlana looks around for anything else hidden down here. If nothing, she suggests they go back up and rejoin the others and get some rest.

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (15) + 9 = 24

"anyone like to climb? We have a ring of climbing here, scroll of identify Magic fang, I'm going to want co copy those into my book, and a couple potions of dark vision that I don't care about.... shield too but I don't really know much about shields and armor, not really my thing" she picks up the scrolls

Haruto shrugs slightly. "None of those are of interest to me," he states. "The question now is, do we press on or retreat to rest now?"

"Rest seems best, after we regroup with the others" abandoning the NPCs is no bueno

"If you can use a spell to find out more about this, all the better," Lina says as she taps the starknife to indicate it. She takes one of the potions of Darkvision and stores it in a belt pouch. "I'm not overburdened, I can carry the other gear in my bag. Beyond that, I agree that we should return to the others."