Augar your heal will hit after the construct goes. Do not worry he will not be killing Ivar if still alive.
Consider yourself stabalized Ivar.
Bold may act.
Crystal, James
Construct
Ivar, Vedia, Augar, Elkin , Xande
Crystal's aura bursts to life as she grows more and more frustrated with missing-
Moving forward she uses Elkin's boost to ensure she makes it across the grease-
She slides across the slick with a wild smile, raising her earthbreaker up high as a particularly strong glow emits from its massive mallet end
But even with destiny itself wrapped into her weapon, the weapon misses though she now stands over the robot. Wiping some of the grease from her face she frowns "This is more than embarrassing! ALL I WANTED WAS A FEW WONDERFUL PARTS TO CASH IN." She screams at the still prone construct.
Crystal shows her surefooted nature by steping though the grease but may have focused on it too much as her swing goes wide.
Botting James
James glances at the grease
DC14
and slips, falling prone.
The construct attempts to right itself.
but fails staying prone. It still swings at Augar
and misses by quite a bit.
Bold may act.
Crystal, James Dont forget the grease.
Construct
Ivar, Vedia, Augar, Elkin , Xande
"Dag-nabbit!"
James stands up and re-loads his pistol.
Augar, attempting to defend his fallen companion, deals the creature a mighty blow. The machine is clearly taken a large amount of damage at this point and has begun making grinding noises when it moves.
I has also begun to generate a loud repeated tone, probably attempting to notify any friendly creatures or constructs to its peril.
Xandar tries to assess how damaged the construct is, judging if he should risk getting closer to attack.
He thinks it better to risk a hit to stop the construct attracting others of it's kind to come investigate the sound.
Xandar keeps singing as he steps closer to silence the construct.
"When I take a step into the darkness, even if I run away from fear,
Don't look back, don't stop believing, I can't run from myself.
How far should I go? I lose my control. It's fine to fumble in the dark.
I hold on tight to the truth I'm about to lose sight of."
Club
Club 2handed
Clearly having had enough Xander steps up to the machine and swings. There is a shower of sparks as the constructs head is separated from its body.
The area is no quiet except for your breathing, you do not hear anything else approaching so it appears the distress call was ineffective.
You have already effectively searched the rooms you are in and have traveled though. There is a single door to the south and another set of double doors to the east. The south door is open and appears to simply contain rubble (nothing to find).
"That was a tough one, guess we better help Ivar. I'll administer one of the potions we found earlier." Xandar says taking one of the cure light wounds and pour it carefully down the throat of the paladin.
Ivar stands shakily to his feet. "Thank ye lad, that was helpful. I think I'd still be better off staying in the back for a while, ye ken?"
Vedia examines the machine for any interesting parts, and then lets someone better a looking things over go first to the east. "Take a look. Let's see how the doors open."
"Let me help you with that, lass." James finishes loading his pistol and steps up to assist Vedia.
"I might say that would be a good idea Ivar, unless Augar decides to channel the power of his god." Xandar says as he helps Ivar up on his feet again.
A search of the construct provides little of use the creature is fairly well damaged and doesn't seem to break down into much useful. You do find a small compartment that contains what appears to be a broken yellow and black gun.
The gun is clearly a piece of very advanced technology and is beyond the knowledge of the party but there may be someone in town that can help with it.
You know of a man, Sanvil Trett, who is the most knowledgeable outside of Khonnir. Sanvil has a shop in town but spends a lot of time traveling as well, you think he is currently in town.
The other interesting thing you discover is that there doesn't appear to be an on board power source.
"I just don't know much about all this new tech. I guess we can keep that 'e-pick' now, though," he says with a laugh. He moves towards the east doors, and examines them to see if he can figure out how to open them. "Hey, maybe it could help with this door?"
"Outside of Khonnir, I think Sanvil Trett would be a good man to tell us more about this thing." Ivar says, examining the gun. "He's in town at the moment, I believe." Threat dealt with, Ivar takes his time examining the door.
"Good call, as this certainly looks interesting."
Apparently all the new tech has James a bit distracted.
"Let's bring it with us, I'd love an opportunity to study it once we have saved Khonnir. So let's see of we can get around this door." Xandar says studying the door.
The doors can be pushed open with two people working together.
In the next room two strange machines sit to the north and south against the walls here, their faces appear similar to coils of metal tubes with several nozzle-like protrusions pointing into the room itself. There is a second set of doors on the other side of the room.
Ivar inspects the two machines, trying to figure out what they do.
"Wow, this is an amazing find. No wonder Khonnir was eager to return. But could he have gotten this far? Well, I suppose he wouldn't have tried to steal anything in that first room..."
Ivar while you have very good rolls u have little technology experience. The best you can work out is that they are nozzles that when active will probably spray a liquid into the area, completely covering the room. You are completely confident it is not a trap.
"Hmm. I'm better at smashing technology than divining its function, but these seem to be designed to spray liquids around this area." Ivar says, gesturing to the nozzles. "It's definitely not a trap, though. I'm sure of that."
"Interesting machines. If they aren't a trap, let's see what's on the other side of this door." Vedia helps to open the second set of doors.
Xandar also gives the machines a quick look. "I like to give them a quick look before we explore more. Just give me a minute or two before we proceed."
Elkin moves into the smaller room with the others, and looks confused when Ivar offers his explanation of the nozzles. "What would be the purpose of that, if not a trap? Is this chamber for... what? Cleaning? Do they just spray water, or maybe soap?"
Xander you did not glean any additional information.
When you guys are ready the doors to the next area can also be pushed open with two people. I am in no way rushing you, you should take the time to investigate as you like, just letting you know.
"Let's see what's behind door #2."
James starts to try to open the door, motioning for others to lend him a hand. While he is highly intrigued by the tech, he is most concerned with finding his friend first.
Elkin gladly steps in to add his limited strength to the effort to open the doors.
When you apply pressure the grey metal doors slide back into the wall revealing a passageway of rough stone with a sand covered floor. As you move half way down the passageway you can see that the spaces in front of you appears to open into a larger sand covered area, you cannot tell the size as beyond your torches / vision is is pitch black.
The sand is slightly lower in the center of the passageway and there are swirled marks thought.
At the end of the hall, in the sand there is a large (8ft or so) grey / white rock with pits in it that the swirls appear to continue around the rock.
Something appears to have been dragged down the hall and perhaps the tracks were covered by the swirled patterns.
It appears the stone itself was dragged forward.
It appears the rock dragged itself and you can see something moving though one of the holes in the rock.
The party is about 20ft from the opening to the cave.
"These swirling patterns, don't they kind of look like someone tried to cover up a trail of some sort? I'm thinking that something was dragged down this path then the sand was swept around to cover up the trail."
Xandar sees absolutely nothing. "It might be Elkin, I can't really make that out though. I might still have some lingering effects from that blinded effect I got earliere."
Ivar nods, concurring with Elkin, but having nothing more to add. Belatedly, he turns to Augar. "Brother, I cannot speak for the others, but I certainly would not mind some of the Father of Creation's healing energies."
"I'm fine. I haven't been hit. Standing in the back reduces the chance of getting hit by something. Something has been dragged? Let's explore carefully."
Feel free to talk among yourselves. I think a few people have not weighed in and no one has mentioned an actual action so I am holding for the moment.
Xandar doesn't want ot be the first one through the doors. "Maybe we should start move in so we can look for Khonnir. Crystal, Augar do one of you want to take the front?"
"Thank you, Augar. I do feel better."
"It looks like that large rock has been dragged forward as well. Very strange."
James moves to the cave's opening, and then moves to examine the rock more closely.
James, taking the initiative as the others hold back steps forward to examine the rock.
Unfortunately the rock appears to be the home of a many tentacled purple creature that lashes out when James gets within ten feet.
miss
miss
The sand around the creature also rapidly turns into a quagmire as the tentacles lash out.
Bold may act.
James, Crystal Elkin, Augar
Creature
Ivar, Xander, Vedia
Please use the map, you will need to zoom in on the left side.
Elkin moves up behind James to get a better view of the creature. He studies it, trying to recall if he'd ever heard of such a thing. Purple, tentacles, lives in a rock?
He focuses his gaze on the creature, his eyes glowing blue, and sends ill-will towards the strange thing.
As the tentacles lash out Elkin gains some insight into the clearly alien creature. The creature can move and made the tracks around it with its tenticals. The ground around it will not only trap the unwary but will also damage them and may be how the creature feeds.
- bahh
The creature wriggles under the gaze of the witch as its otherworldly mind recoils.
Crystal
Crystal attempts to step up to the creature
but gets caught in the earth around her as she swings her eatrhbreaker.
Creature
Senseing that one of its opponents has been snared the tentacle lash out at Crystal connecting across her chest with one strike.
Xandar moves up behind Elkin and tries to identify it.