Servitor trudges forward and splashes into the muck, pushing in the direction the arrows came from.
Initiative:
Shifters <<
Adir/She Wolf<
Tierney<
Sewer<
Jarot
Warforged<
Uriah<
Servitor<
The warforged and two shifters continue to take the opportunity to try and knock one of the enemies out of the fight (Sticking with Tierney).
Tierney pulls out and chugs a CLW potion.
No more slippery than the floors of the rendering stations during the war
Moving easily through the muck to 3L, Jarot remembers his recent "difficulties" in combat and drinks a Shielding concoction.
Uriah double moves to A3, which is S2 on the map.
Drop your weapons to face certain death!
Adir and Ghost each rush forward to keep up with the group.
Ack. There are things moving in this mess!
Jarot attempts to escape the sludge by moving to H4. He pulls a fragile looking ampule from his satchel as he does so and throws it at the nearest enemy.
+ Reflex save DC 15 or catch fire.
4 splash damage adjacent to hit square
Nasty water spews from the first pipe. Luckily, it is right before Uriah arrives in his new location.
The Warforged fires another shot at Tierney (before Uriah shows up) and then drops his bow and draws his sword.
Tierney had just downed a CLW potion, so he is still up.
Jarot's ranged touch hits the Shifter. He takes 7 damage. The other two take 4.
Initiative:
Shifters <<
Adir/She Wolf<<
Tierney<<
Sewer<<
Jarot<<
Warforged<<
Uriah<<
Servitor<
Servitor does what it does best, charge forward and hit things with a hammer. Though brutally effective and proving its "breeding" as a warforged, the machine's rather simplistic mode of fighting that shows its lack of experience.
Hearing Tierney cry out behind him, Adir urges Ghost forward and then turns and heads towards Tierney. Drawing on the powers of the Moon, his hand glows briefly in this dark sewer. He reaches out with the glowing hand and touches the tiefling's shoulder.
At Adir's cue, Ghost runs forward and bites at the warforged in front of Uriah.
Servitor obliterates the shifter.
The other shifter 5 foot steps and shoots at Uriah.
Ghost misses the shifter before he five foot steps.
Tierney double moves forward.
The tunnel right behind Jarot shoots sewage out. The force makes him catch his balance.
Initiative:
Shifters <<<
Adir/She Wolf<<<
Tierney<<<
Sewer<<<
Jarot<<
Warforged<<
Uriah<<
Servitor<<
Jarot slips and slides his way forward to b4 and throws a dagger over Uriah's shoulder at the remaining shifter.
The warforged steps up and attacks Uriah. Uriah is reduced to 0 HP.
From the water in front of Servitor, a lizard head appears. It bites Servitor and then attempts to grab him (What is your CMD).
Initiative:
Shifters <<<
Adir/She Wolf<<<
Tierney<<<
Sewer<<<
Jarot<<<
Warforged<<<
Uriah<<
Servitor<<
Adir runs towards the group, skidding to a halt beside Uriah, sending splashes of dirty sludge flying. You hear what sounds like faint cursing in another language, but it is too low to make out.
Meanwhile, the she-wolf bites at the warforged's legs, trying to trip him up.
Uriah attacks the Warforged in front of him.
Uriah also attempts to parry and riposte the first attack against him
Servitor retaliates and brings its hammer down on the lizard thing, shocked by the amount of pain the bite caused.
Uriah's attack misses, but Servitor delivers a good blow on the lizard.
The shifter attacks Servitor.
He hits his mark!
Ghost misses due to the hard corner.
The eighth tunnel sprays sewage at the far end of the sewer.
Servitor takes the hit again and flinches.
Servitor takes the hit again and flinches.
Jarot looks at the confused melee in front of him and decides to use geometry to his advantage. He pulls another different ampule from his satchel and hurls it at the ceiling over the enemy shifter's head.
Tierney's voice is drowned out by the cacophony, no one hears him utter arcane words, nor do they note him gesture with his free hand as he points at the bowman.
Daze spell
Will DC13 or lose action
The magus does not wait to see if the spell takes effect. Instead, he drops his sword into the muck and draws his crossbow and loads a bolt into it. Bottleneck at the front, I can't get through to melee. Better just fire at the archer he thinks. I hope I can find my sword again.
The bowman makes his will save. The warforged take another swipe at Uriah, but Uriah is able to riposte the attack instead of dropping.
The lizard bites Servitor and then grabs him in his teeth.
Initiative:
Shifters <<<<
Adir/She Wolf<<<<
Tierney<<<<
Sewer<<<<
Jarot<<<<
Warforged<<<<
Lizard<<<<
Uriah<<<
Servitor<<<
The warforged scream in anger. "Give me the Journal and you shall live!"
Uriah dances away from the near fatal blow and responds with a fierce cut of his own!
Uriah prepares to Parry and Riposte again
[ooc[\]from the prd on splash weapons: "You can instead target a specific grid intersection. Treat this as a ranged attack against AC 5. However, if you target a grid intersection, creatures in all adjacent squares are dealt the splash damage, and the direct hit damage is not dealt to any creature." I am assuming that in a sewer the ceiling isn't more than 10 feet up and that the acid has to go somewhere. Over the shifter would put it so that allies aren't adjacent.[/ooc]
Servitor doesn't seem to hear the surrender command, or at the very least is in no mood to listen to it as he slams his knee into the lizard man.
[dice=damage]d6+3
Jarot's (alchemist fire?) explodes upon hitting the ceiling above the shifter. A huge flash of fire envelops the three enemies. It appears more effective than usual alchemical weapons(4 damage).
Still reeling from the fire, the lizard and Warforged attack Servitor and Uriah. Servitor slams the side of the lizard's neck with his fist and it slumps into the sewage loosening its grip on him. Uriah slices the warforged man's ribs and he falls. Once again, a small compartment opens in its chest and a messenger flies off.
The shifter fires a shot at Servitor, but misses. He turns and moves away.
Uriah says Not so fast my friend! and moves up to attack the final warforged.
Looks like I goofed that one badly...sorry GM.
Uriah races up and delivers the final blow to the Shifter Ranger. He sinks into the sewage.
Tierney begins to run his hand over himself to check himself for wounds but quickly desists once he realizes that his hand is covered in filth. "Who is injured?" he calls to his companions. Stupid question! What are you going to do, heal them yourself?
With a sigh of resignation, he squats and uses one hand to search for this dropped sword. He keeps his crossbow across his knees and looks back and forth along the tunnel in case they are set upon again.
Idly, he thinks about leaving this place. The smell of us will keep any assailants away after wading through this.
Servitor uncaps two of the potions of light repair that it's kept on itself and swallows the potions.
"I am still damaged, Tierney, but I will be fine. I will repair myself tonight." The machine stares at the corpses bobbing along in the water. "But how did they know to find us here? Isn't the only known route here with the journal?" Servitor comments oddly perceptively.
Adir steps up to Uriah and offers healing.
"An interesting point, Servitor. And they still wanted the journal, too. If they have the information and were ahead of us, why would they still need it?"
[i]"I am starting to wonder if we are the only group sent out by House Cannith. Perhaps there are rival factions in the house. Or perhaps there is a spy in their ranks."[/b]
The threat seems to be over after a long interlude so Tierny exhales, more out of resignation and disgust than of fatigue, and reaches his other hands into the river of sewage. After what seems to him an interminable wait, his fingers find the hilt of sword and he pulls it free.
"Ye gods! Jarrot, do you have any cleaning solutions with you?" His tone of desperation is unmistakable.
"I am starting to wonder if we are the only group sent out by House Cannith. Perhaps there are rival factions in the house. Or perhaps there is a spy in their ranks."
The threat seems to be over after a long interlude so Tierny exhales, more out of resignation and disgust than of fatigue, and reaches his other hands into the river of sewage. After what seems to him an interminable wait, his fingers find the hilt of sword and he pulls it free.
"Ye gods! Jarrot, do you have any cleaning solutions with you?" His tone of desperation is unmistakable.
"It seems a reasonable conclusion. Either way, we press on."
Adir looks around at the muck and grime. "I can offer clean water. We are all going to need to wash everything after this."
I am starting to wonder if Uriah's way of thinking about the marked houses is not absolutely correct.
"Ye gods! Jarrot, do you have any cleaning solutions with you?" His tone of desperation is unmistakable.
Why of course sir! One can not properly mix chemicals or attain the proper knowledge from an autopsy with filth under you finger nails. However let us first remove these cadavers to a less effluent part of the sewer system. I would like to see what I may learn from them. Something else to consider the next time we face a warforged opponent. If we can prepare to intercept the final messenger we can deprive our enemies of additional intelligence.
Resolved to your foul-smelling fates, you move through the valve cluster quickly to avoid another encounter with agents of the Lord of Blades... or a stream of sludge. You duck beneath another archway and into a broader tunnel piping a much larger stream of filth from above, carrying it out through another grating to the Dagger River, you would presume. You spot no sign of ambushers or anyone's passing this way in some time, but again, you are faced with only one direction.
You turn to what you presume to be North, making your way along the slippery walkway that whatever guild uses to maintain these tunnels. You squint into the light, scanning the filthy walls for any sign of the entry way marked on the map. If what Lady Elaydren said is correct, the door will not have been used for centuries...
Tierney, Adir, and Jarot; whose eyes seem to be able to penetrate the deeper, darker shadows created by Servitor's light, immediately spots a glimmer of something set into the sewer wall. Whatever it is, it's caked over with dark, slime-like filth. Perhaps it is the doorway? The glimmer appears to be silver, though given the environment and the fact that it still shines even through the caked-on muck, it is more likely mithral!
"So much filth. How do they stand it up there?"
Adir trudges along, trying to keep the map as clean as possible. He washes his hands before he handles it each time. His waterskin doesn't seem to run out of water.
"I think there is something here." He points out the spot where the glimmer is coming from. To clear some of the sludge, he casts above it several times.
As Adir creates water over the crust and goo obscuring the mithral object, a large chunk of it falls with a splash into the fast-moving, brackish water at your feet. The mithral is much, much too small to be a door... it is but a plate of dark metal set into the stone, marked with the silver-like inlays which sparkle in your light. With a little more water, Adir removes enough of the crud to make out a symbol that you recall vividly. It was, after all, imprinted upon the journal that Provost Bonal Geldem died for...
hmm it seems likely this will open a passage or door of some sort. Perhaps I can determine how it will operate before we do so. We have had too many surprises already, and it may be trapped.
Jarot looks closely at the device. It does not appear trapped. When he gets really close to the wall though, he hears light scratching on the other side.
Interesting that we were met here...even though no one knew we were coming. Uriah muses out loud to no one in particular Funny business that...
To Adir Uriah says Thanks Kindly brother, almost met my end there....