The second floor (from which came all those skeletons (along with some cots and other bits of furniture).
Rhylellia takes 20 and finds no traps. You open the east door. The missing wall allows a view to distant Absalom and sunlight touches the room for the first time in hundreds of years. A few dusty cots remain, the rest having fallen out the hole in the towers’ side along with their former occupants. There are two strong boxes beneath a couple of the beds.
You then move on to the north door and, after Rhylellia takes 20 and finds no traps, open it.
This room was clearly a barracks of some sort, with cots in neat rows, and strong boxes underneath four of them. Several human skeletons lie on some of the cots.
Standing inside the north room, Ty jerks his chin back at the east room. "This is the same kind of room that dropped skeletons on us, earlier."
Ty wields his warhammer and moves to the nearest skeleton. When he reaches it, he'll crush its skull with his weapon.
As soon as Ty steps into the room, four of the skeletons become animate and start to stand.
Initiative Order: Alexis, Skellies, everybody else
Skellie 1
HP: 4/4
AC: 16/12T/14FF
F/R/W: +0/+2/+2
Skellie 2
HP: 4/4
AC: 16/12T/14FF
F/R/W: +0/+2/+2
Skellie 3
HP: 4/4
AC: 16/12T/14FF
F/R/W: +0/+2/+2
Skellie 4
HP: 4/4
AC: 16/12T/14FF
F/R/W: +0/+2/+2
Alexis moves past Thanephos and Sir Rollynd to get into range to attack the skelton while not taking up the doorway.
Alexis moves into the room and pokes at a skeleton, inflicting minor damage. The four skeletons stand up (Alexis gets an AoO on skellie 1) and move to attack.
Ouch!! Alexis is seriously wounded as three skeletal hands rip into her leg, arm, and torso (unless she can negate skellie 1's attacks with her AoO before it gets her).
Everybody is up.
Ty was expecting the skeleton to get up, so he was ready when it actually did so. The skeleton's rising skull meets Ty's descending warhammer, resulting in a sharp crack and the skeleton to crumble to the ground.
Thanephos draws his bow, and as he nocks an arrow, a glint seems to spread across the iron point, and he fires at the skeleton furthest from Alexis so as to avoid any chance of hitting her. The skeleton crumples to the ground as the arrow connects, its head spinning across the floor.
Unfortunately, Alexis isn't able to inflict enough damage with her pointy and slashy weapons, and takes the brutal hurts.
Daniel, Rhylellia, and Alexis to go before the skellies get another crack at ripping her to pieces.
And something goes bump in the night...
Map 4
Rhylellia moves behind Skele 1 attack it.
As skellie 1 seems to grin malevolently at Alexis as it rips bloody wounds into her, the injured warrior sees the skeleton explode, revealing her friend.
Daniel draws his bow and takes aim at the furthest skeleton, trusting his comrades to deal with the closest ones.
He will spend a mythic point to move beside Alexis before drawing back again and firing another arrow with lightening speed.
How badly are you injured? can you stand?
The last animated skeleton explodes from Daniel's arrow--combat over.
None of the other skeletons animate as you move about the room.
Thoughts? Plans? Philosophical conversations?
None of the other skeletons animate as you move about the room.
Ty takes his warhammer to the remaining skeletons' skulls, just to be safe. As he does so, he'll look for any chests or other containers of valuable items and point them out to the others as he sees them.
Here, its not much but it will help. May the light of my god in me, shine forth and ease your suffering.
Alexis healed for 4hp.
he will attempt to heal Alexis a bit more.
Try to be more careful, I want to get much further before stopping to rest and recover, or better yet out of here. Let them come to us and use Sir Ty as protection.
He nods to Ty to lead on.
Alexis looks to be far more intact. Thank you Sir Rose. And thank you Rhylellia.
You are welcome, Alexis. She says surprised at the thank you, afterwards she begins looking around the room.
The chests in the north room contain similar booty as those in the east: pouches of 100 vintage Chelish silver coins, booty likely taken from the Seventh church, and dry-rotted clothes.
However, one of the chests in this room also contains a blood-stained silver holy symbol of Iomedae and a masterwork longsword.
Alexis pushes herself off of the wall We should continue if there is nothing in those chests
You've already done north and east, leaving the other two directions.
"Not a sir," Ty mumbles before trying out the west door.
Ty moves to the west door and turns the handle. The hollow sound of dry bones on wood is his only warning upon pushing in the door before skeletal claws slash at him.
Surprised by the sudden appearance of the skeletons, Ty fails to get his shield up in time and takes a claw across the cheek.
Initiative!
Initiative Order: Alexis, Sir Rollynd, Rhylellia, Skellies, Everybody else
Considering how the last fight went Alexis is going to delay for a safer opening.
Sir Rollynd dashes into the room, dodging the skeleton swipes and leaps up onto a cot, which groans audibly under his massive?? weight.
His stab would have killed a man instantly, but alas, his blade fits neatly between its ribs and out the other side.
Rhylellia flings her hand out and a bolt of lightning flies over Daniel's should at skeleton 3.
She singes its bones, cracking a few.
Skellies 1 and 2 attack Ty, while S3 nicely steps in between Ty and Sir Rollynd, attacking the halfling along with S4.
All the attacks clang off the warriors' armour.
Party is up!
Thanephos raises his bow and fires at a nearby skeleton , his arrowhead sparking with magical power.
Thanephos raises his bow and fires at a nearby skeleton , his arrowhead sparking with magical power.
[dice=Attack]1d20+8
[dice=Damage]1d8+5
Ty uses his warhammer. His blunt warhammer, not his pointy one.
Skeleton 1's head snaps back with the impact of Ty's non-slicing warhammer. It teeters for a moment before falling onto its back.
Sir Rollynd hit AC 17, not 15.
Sorry.
No problem. He can remember he has the blunted ones and kick himself next round. :)
Sir Rollynd hit AC 17, not 15.
Sorry.
There were plenty of weapons in that storage room.
Daniel fires a shot off at skelly 1.
Calistria's filthy fleshy boudoir. Rhylellia curses as her shot at skeleton 1 goes wide.
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Sorry, I'm putting this in all my games. I've been in a pretty bad accident this past Sunday and just came to last night. I'll be alright but I haven't checked any of my threads or games, and likely won't be posting frequently for another few days at best. If that's OK I'd still like to participate. My apologies- rorek55
"Just came to"? As in you were unconscious? Dang, I hope you have a speedy recovery.
I hope you're okay and recover well!
So after a fairly short back and forth, this next batch of skeletons lie in pieces on the floor.
You search the four chests you find under the beds to find similar stashes of plunder: 100 sp in vintage Chelish coin and 200 gp in Seventh Church plunder each.
Having cleared the west room of skeletons and loot, you examine the south door. Finding no traps, Ty opens it to reveal a scene similar, yet different. This room was clearly a barracks of some sort, with neat rows of cots, and strong boxes beneath several. Unlike the other rooms, which were fairly devoid of decoration, the Eye of Aroden stands prominently on the south wall, though covered with splatters of dried blood. Dry-rotted blankets on the cots cover human-shaped mounds, and pillows cover the heads.
Ty steps into the room, preparing a pre-emptive strike against the likely rising skeletons, but stops, as something is amiss. As he looks about, Thanephos notices that Ty's breath has begun to fog, and Ty catches a hint of movement as one of the nearby pillows seems to shift position all on its own.
Initiative!
Surprise Round
Thanephos, Ty, Haunt