Perception Check:
Perception
Shevan, from beside Phillip, looked around and said "It doesn't appear so bad from up here. Maybe we could make a lookout for ships going through the area."
Perception:
Upon closer inspection, Ashana realized that many of the piles of bones were not piles - they were skeletons, fallen in place yet somehow still linked together! Digits tightened upon scimitars, not longswords, and with a growing horror she knew the skeletons would animate themselves like the ones before.
For everyone else...
The three seagulls gave a start, noisily flapping away in a burst of off-white feathers. All round you on the deck, piles of bones suddenly stirred, rising up to take on human shapes.
"More skeletons" Ashana will cry out and then prepare for the skeleton in K6 to animate before attacking it with her claws.
Claw attack:
[ooc]Placed my self on the map last time but it didn't save for some reason...so hopefully I'm on there now.
Initiative:
Adriano begins to ready his holy symbol to banish these foul undead
Ashana's claws gave the skeleton pause, but she missed contacting the bones with her nails.
Shevan
Ashana
Adriano 20
Skeletons 15
Phillip 14
"Remember that flank maneuver, Ashy-cat?" Shevan said loudly, smiling, unhooking his flail as he stepped in front of Adriano. The man swung his right arm in a sharp arc, trying to get speed with the chained ball at the end of his weapon as he attacked the skeleton.
Attack:
The animated bones easily ducked the flail.
Phillip takes out his rapier, stabbing at the nearest Skeleton
Ashana will take a 5 foot step and then attack with her claws again.
Claws attack:
Adriano holds up his holy symbol of the Dawnflower thanking her for her power to harm hard these undead abominations with his faith in her.
Adriano moves Between Shevan and Phillip hoping to get a large amount of these abominations in this wave of faith. As Adriano prays rays of sunlight come down from the heavens each one hitting a skeleton within the range of Adriano(30 ft radius centered on him)
Channel Positive Energy
DC 12 will save
A good cleric (or one who worships a good deity) channels positive energy and can choose to deal damage to undead creatures or to heal living creatures. An evil cleric (or one who worships an evil deity) channels negative energy and can choose to deal damage to living creatures or to heal undead creatures. A neutral cleric who worships a neutral deity (or one who is not devoted to a particular deity) must choose whether she channels positive or negative energy. Once this choice is made, it cannot be reversed. This decision also determines whether the cleric casts spontaneous cure or inflict spells (see spontaneous casting).
Channeling energy causes a burst that affects all creatures of one type (either undead or living) in a 30-foot radius centered on the cleric. The amount of damage dealt or healed is equal to 1d6 points of damage plus 1d6 points of damage for every two cleric levels beyond 1st (2d6 at 3rd, 3d6 at 5th, and so on). Creatures that take damage from channeled energy receive a Will save to halve the damage. The DC of this save is equal to 10 + 1/2 the cleric's level + the cleric's Charisma modifier. Creatures healed by channeled energy cannot exceed their maximum hit point total—all excess healing is lost. A cleric may channel energy a number of times per day equal to 3 + her Charisma modifier. This is a standard action that does not provoke an attack of opportunity. A cleric can choose whether or not to include herself in this effect. A cleric must be able to present her holy symbol to use this ability.
Ashana's claws raked the skeleton between her and Shevan , but were stopped by the rusty chain mail shirt again.
Adriano's rays of light caused bones to fall off of several of the skeletons.
Raising their broken, rusty scimitars, the skeletons advanced.
Attack on Ashana:
Attack on Ashana: Damage:
Attack on Ashana:
Attack on Adriano:
Attack on Shevan:
Attack on Adriano:
Attack on Adriano: Damage:
Attack on Phillip:
Attack on Phillip:
Phillip's rapier hit the skeleton , cutting it diagonally such that it fell into a heap of dried-out bones.
Round Two
Shevan 21 (Shevan has a higher initiative, he goes first.)
Ashana 21
Adriano 20
Skeletons 15
Phillip 14
Shevan grunted. "Somebody else knows how to flank. Take this!" he told the skeleton on Ashana .
Attack (with flank): Damage:
The iron ball collapsed the collection of bones and metal. "Now we need what my fighter friends called cleaving!" the warrior told the others.
Ashana hisses at the skeleton in I-6 her ears pinning to her head. She lets loose a full volley of attacks.
Claw 1:
Claw 2:
Bite:
Phillip will take a swing at the one who has come up on him now, wheen he's up.
Adriano calls for the Dawnflower to aid him and his companions in this their time of need.
Channel
Map of the upper decks of the ship
Adriano does another soundless explosion of light from around him and his holy symbol.
What undead survived kept attacking the living ones in front of them. They swung their cutlasses again.
Attack on Ashana:
Attack on Shevan:
Attack on Phillip: Damage:
Attack on Adriano: Damage:
Attack on Adriano: The scimitar dragged the ground as the skeleton missed.
Phillip's rapier made short work of the skeleton that had moved up from the port side to his location . It collapsed in a pile of loose bones and rusted metal.
Round Three
Shevan 21 (Shevan has a higher initiative, he goes first.)
Ashana 21
Adriano 20
Skeletons 15
Phillip 14
"Not bad, Dawnflower cleric! Good to see you're not all tomes and vespers!" the archer called out. Shevan looked at the animated skeleton in front of him. "Now you, ugly, annoy me." he declared, swinging his spinning flail at the creature.
Attack : Damage:
The skeleton with its' rusty chain mail and weapon fell apart. The black-haired man took a step towards the skeleton still on Ashana.
Ashana will move to flank the skeleton with Shevan(moving to I6) and then will lash out with her claws again.
Claw attack:
Phillip, provided Adriano doesn't kill the last of them off, takes a few steps forward, and attacks the Skelly in N8, or another if it's taken out and there are others left.
These last undead just need to go down using his faith he takes a step back from the skeletons in front of him then unleashes Sarenrae's might.
Channel positive energy
Round Three - midway
Map of the upper decks of the ship
Adriano's Channel caused two more skeletons to shatter and fall into a pile of bones and rusted metal. The last skeleton raised its' jagged scimitar, attacking the black-haired archer.
Attack on Shevan: Damage:
Phillip stepped around the cleric and tore through the skeleton with his rapier, finishing it.
Everyone stood, ready for more animated skeletons, but no more of the bones moved. The battle had been less than a minute.
"Appleblight!" Shevan swore, holding his side where the skeleton had sliced him. He let his flail droop, as he stopped the rotation of the metal ball. Shevan looked at Ashana's wounds, then his own, before turning to Adriano. "If you could, Adriano, check our wounds? I think Ashana took the worst of it, but that last undead got lucky on me." Shevan asked.
"Yeah...those claws hurt..."
Phillip keeps his astral skin around him. "I think, if we keep seeing these skeletons, I'm going to need a better weapon for fighting them. I'm good with my rapier, but they're rather hard to damage with it."
"My flail works, but only one at a time. A heavy mace would be good as well." Shevan grunted, keeping an eye out. He poked at the pile of bones in front of him with a booted toe. "Huh. I guess I could Detect Evil, I was taught it back...where I come from." he stated, changing his tone halfway through the sentence. "Well, I see two doors and a hatch. Which do we pick?" he asked.
Phillip nods to Shevan. "I think the flail's a bit heavy for me, though. I think something lighter and faster would be better. Maybe a club of some sort. I don't know. I'll figure something out." He shrugs nonchalantly. "Any of the choices given sound fine. It doesn't really matter to me."
Adriano head around to everyone checking to see how damaged the party is. Calling on the power of healing of the Dawnflower to heal his friends.
Channel Positive Energy:
Adriano looks at the door and wonders what is behind them. "Phillip, you might want to see if we can break a piece of board off the deck to use off the club."
Phillip nods. "That'll work for now, but I'll start making myself something with scraps back at camp, I think."
Sifting through the piles of bone chips and ash, you manage to scavenge 13 broken, rusty scimitars, and what could be 9 sets of ordinary chainmail, with 3 more chain shirts.
Prying open the hatch, a familiar stench of shellfish assaults the noses of three of you. It's the same as on the Tattooed Lady. You suspect there's little more than crab swarms down there.
That leaves either door on the worm-eaten ship.
Phillip tries to hack away a small bit of board off the deck with his handaxe, preferrably something small enough to finesse.
Once he's done so or failed miserably, he examines the loot. This is all very good stuff. Even if we don't use it as what it is, we can utilize this stuff in other ways. If we can't carry it all out of here, we may need to come back again, maybe with the rowboat.
Both doors are warped such that they will not swing open. In addition, give me a STR check if you do try to open them.
Map of the cabins - new!
"Fine craftsmanship, to last this long." Shevan agreed. He went to the aft door, where the seagulls had perched. Trying the door, he grunted when the wood would not give. The raven-haired man backed up and gave the door a good shove.
Strength check:
Strength check:
Cracking open, dust drifted down from the chamber. A ship's galley with tables and a cast-iron stove at the far end was the only contents of the room. Bird droppings littered the open hatch and one of the tables. "Nothing here!" Shevan called back to the others. "Somebody try the other door."
Ashana will try the other door. She backs up and gets a running start trying to put her shoulder into the door.
Strength check:
Strength check:
The cat-woman's first attempt is as lackluster as you might expect, but her second attempt easily forced the door open. What met her eyes, as well as her companions when they came over, was a dark corridor.
In the middle of the passageway two door stood opposite each other. The door to starboard was torn apart; dust motes drifted in a ray of sunlight from outside. The port door was different. A pile of bones was at the edge of the door, which was scratched heavily, as if something was trying to get through repeatedly.
The door does not budge when you try the clasp. It is not only wedged, but something heavy is behind it.
Adriano leans against the door with Ashana "Here Let me help.
Str Roll
Shevan lends a shoulder.
STR check:
Phillip helps as well, if possible.
The door only moved a few inches. Clearly, something heavy was put behind the door in order to keep it closed.
Phillip tries again, backing up a bit before ramming his shoulder against the door.
With great effort, the door was forced open. A bookcase filled with lumber pieces crashed to the floor, billowing dust everywhere. You discover a small cabin. The single window has been boarded tight, and most of the room is ruined, weathered trash. What met your eyes was the mummified figure on the single bed against the wall, a white-haired skeleton clad in rotting robes. It clutched a single wooden wand in one hand, while the other held a dagger. The skeleton was missing its' right leg below the knee, with a leather strap loosely bound around the withered limb. A torch mounted upright on the floor flickered with a suspiciously active but soundless flame. Inked on the wooden wall next to the bed are several sentences in Common, the sentences jagged and curving down at the ends. You can barely make out the Chelaxian words.
Run away as fast as you can
The dead become undead, the dead become undead
Oh Aroden, why have you abandoned me?
Beware the green se
My friend s knock at the doo r, w an ting en tran ce to j o in the m
Let me die, pl ea seAro de n, jus t le t m e d i
Several items lay scattered within reach of the dried-out corpse, including a heavy pendant on a chain on bony chest and papers lying on the bed. Dust continued to settle in the room.
Ashana will search the room and the mummified man for anything valuable. If she can do it with out her party members noticing she will try and grab the pendant off the bony chest of the man.
Perception:
Slight of hand:
Shevan stared at the writing on the wall. "Not a good omen." he said soberly. He looked at the body on the bed, then at the torch on the floor, his gaze moving to the fallen books and parchments. "What do you think, Adriano?" he asked the cleric. "I didn't study books where I grew up, so I have no idea who this person worshiped in the past. Was this a holy man, or a scholar?"
Silently Adriano walks toward the fallen books, treating this room like a tomb, looking at titles for the books if they have lasted the ravages of time.
Perception Check:
Then rereads the writing one the wall to see if he recognizes them from a holy text of someone.
Knowledge Religion:
Phillip stays at the door, looking around the room in a vague and cursory manner.
You successfully hide the heavy gold necklace with the large winged eye pendant on your person.
You see Ashana's hands move quickly across the body as she leans over it to look at the corpse, and the necklace on its chest is no longer there. The necklace had a large pendant of a winged eye symbol.
Searching the room, you find:
wooden wand with skulls on it
wooden wand with grooves
wooden wand of half-raised runes - the body was clutching this
healer's kit (2 uses left)
several worthless books that have disintegrated over time
two candles
inkpen
empty ink vial
case, map or scroll (wood and pitch - waterproof)
6 blank parchments that can still be used to write on; they are the type used to write spells onto
2 divine-looking scrolls
ruined robes, backpack, belt pouch, bedroll, waterskin - not usable
enough worm-eaten lumber to count as two days of firewood
everburning torch
3 gp, 6 sp, 10 cp
All of you get the sense that this was the person's last holdout from the skeletons outside; the man died alone, and in terror.