GM Tektite's PFS #02-18 The Forbidden Furnace of Forgotten Koor (Inactive)

Game Master Hawkwen Agricola

Samhain begins to place the wedges in place, but isn't surte of the sequence.

KN: religion check

Knowledge (Religion) 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (8) + 9 = 17
Sebastian silently looks at the puzzle pieces form where he is standing.

Know Religion: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 19
With his time on Golarion, Samhain knows a little about a lot.

Sebastian and Samhain quickly discern the correct order and place the wedges in place. With a soft hiss the door cracks open, ejecting a whiff of centuries old, stale air.

Well done, well done.

Mordo will detect magic on the room beyond before entering. I've also got darkvision.

Be careful my friends. The air does not smell as if our fellow Pathfinder went this way. Look for signs/ tracks eh?
[/dice=Perception] 1d20 +13 [/dice]

Mordo detects no magic within the room. Peering in, but not entering he sees, a vast sea of coins, gemstones, and jewelry floods this large room, leaving only a narrow path that winds towards a single dais on the room’s western edge. Sitting on this dais rests a lone, bejeweled lamp.

Samhain checks out the area.
Perception: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (9) + 22 = 31
Survival: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (2) + 15 = 17 +10 for tracking

"I have an idea... I can send Buho in to retrieve it. He is faster and lighter than all of us. What do you think?"

"Looks to me like someone really wants us to notice that lamp...as if we're foxes and don't notice that there's a string tied to the stick holding the box up over the carrot."

Perception: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (4) + 14 = 18

Ninja'd!

Buho or Riddywipple. Although I trust Buho more to simply retrieve it and touch nothing else.

Riddywipple frowns and sticks his tongue out at Mordo as Mordo thinks this. Riddywipple repeats it to the group nonetheless.

I like the idea of the owl but I hope he has the strength to fly with it. Indeed we could grab the thing now. However let me remind you we were to find our fellow Pathfinder and save if we can. We could just leave this for now, shut the door if you like, but search we still have to do.
I will leave it up to you and support the owl the best I can.

I could even cast Fly on myself or another if we want to spare the noble Buho.

"If we leave it, where should we go? Perhaps it has something to do with the final door? And don't let the plumed companion fool you, he is stronger than he looks."

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Well since I am not seeing her here then yes we will have to be going on. I meant no offense to Buho, just offering another means. Pathfinders come and go but I hate seeing the wee animals hurt. I could levitate the object to make it easier for him if he seems to be struggling. One thing to keep in mind is if there is one secret door there may be others. But let us let Buho fly, the longer we wait the worse it may be for Koor.
While the others debate Willy will go back to the other rooms and search for secret doors until he hears Buho is about to be released. Then he will come back to the doorway to aid the owl anyway he can.
One for each room as we found them.
Perception: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (8) + 13 = 21
Perception: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (7) + 13 = 20
Perception: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (12) + 13 = 25
Perception: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (5) + 13 = 18
Perception: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (2) + 13 = 15
Perception: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (7) + 13 = 20

I can send Kyofuu. He could fly, take the lamp and come back in six second ! As an elemental he don't need to breath nor eat and cannot be subject to critical hit and precision damage.

Taiko looked at the room, trying to find anything unusual before sending his friend.

Perception Taiko: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (10) + 18 = 28

You have this room and the secret door. This is a jumpy group.

Samhain sends Buho, his trusting companion, into the chamber. As the bird enters, two piles of coins and gems, that turn out to be cheap brass shavings and glass, rise up and begin moving! The faithful owl twists and spins, grabbing the lamp in its talon and rising above the animated creatures and diving down through the door to the party! As th eowl exits the chamber, the piles settle back down, blending into the heaps of metal and glass.

Samhain retrieves the lamp from the owl, arrow nocked in place with his bow hand at the sight of the moving mass of coins. He hands the lamp to a more magically inclined person for inspection as he rewards his owl. "Any idea what that mound was?"

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"I can't be certain, but I think that was an…."

K: Arcana: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23

"…animated object of some sort." Gregor thinks for a moment. "'twas obviously there to guard against anyone stealing that lamp."

Mordo will study the lamp with a familiar cantrip.

Spellcraft: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (20) + 17 = 37

Mordo finds that the lamp is not magical. It has a hexagonal base under which, Mordo finds a phrase written in Common.

A TWIST to your quest indeed—while this is not the lamp you seek, it does prove KEY to its discovery.

Mordo approaches the not-so-secret door with the lamp and looks for an appropriate keyhole.

Well played Samhain san Said Taiko

He followed Mordo to back him up.

Mordo finds no place around the secret door in which to use the lamp.

Samhain traces the edges of the door, but can't discern a way to open, thinking trying to bypass it would be most difficult. While examining the door, he notices on the opposite wall, the mosaic mural consists on thousands of tile. One tile in particular, has a hexagon shape and protrudes slightly from the wall.

Mordo places the lamp over the hexagonal protrusion.

Samhain watches as the trick with the lamp is being discovered. Buho clicks his beak happily from the attention for his success.

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Mordo places the lamp over the protrusion and...nothing happens! Stymied for only a moment, he pushes and the tile sinks about three inches into the wall, creating a socket for the lamp base. Twisting the lamp, there is a sound of grinding as the secret door opens!

Looking, the party can see a hal,l with a short set of stairs, heading to the south for about thirty feet before turning to the west.

Keeping to the shadows, Mordo will scout ahead and peek around the corner.

Stealth: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (11) + 22 = 33

If Mordo gives the all clear, Samhain will approach with bow in hand keeping an eye out for disturbances and death traps.
Perception: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (12) + 22 = 34

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+4 to that. I keep forgetting about favored terrain (underground)

Mordo peers around the corner to see the hall continue to the west for about sixty feet, ending in a sort of vault.

As Samhain comes around and searches, he notices thin, almost imperceptible cracks in the floor. The cracks run along the edges of the corridor floor, but are not present in the center. It seems the corridor is some sort of cantilever trap!

If we can’t fix the trap, there is another way. I can float down to the end of the hall, place a piton and rope in the wall. Then tie off the rope at this end and then pull yourself down to the next door. If you are not confident and pulling yourself down the rope let me know. I can levitate one person who can then pull themselves to the next door. If we can figure out which way it tilts we could just stabilize it with the rope or jam pitons in floor so it does not tilt.

I can slip into the Plane of Shadow if necessary. I will make do.

Need to double check when I get home but I think I have plenty of movement with that ability per day that I'm not going to miss much using some to jump over the trap.

"Sounds good to me O'Grady. A lot simpler than what I was cooking up."

You can try a Knowledge engineering or Disable check to study the trap.

Disable Device: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (14) + 9 = 23 (Need to put more ranks there...)

I have 240 feet per day but coming back to the Material Plane is imprecise (missing with a splash weapon rules) so I'd have to overshoot it by at least 5' to be safe. How long does the trap extend?

Of course, this might be moot if we can disable it.

Knowledge (engineering): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (2) + 11 = 13

After inspecting, Samhain stands and addresses the group, huddling them close before whispering.
"This section of flooring is a lever of sorts. If we put too much weight on it, I approximate 250 pounds, it collapses. And I fear I can feel the heat of magma beneath its surface. We may be able to cross one at a time if we are light enough."
His eyes shift uneasily.
"Also, I do not believe we are alone. Something with large talons has been down here recently. We had best be ready for the eventuality of it finding us."

Engineering: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (14) + 10 = 24

I can levitate one and fly one and blast one to the end if necessary.

In this case, someone strong could be levitating and moved each of us on the other side, right ?

Said Taiko

Disable Device: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (11) + 14 = 25

He send his friend Kyofuu looking for danger on the other side using his jade wayfinder to guide him.

Stealth (Kyofuu): 1d20 + 20 ⇒ (14) + 20 = 34
Perception(Kyofuu): 1d20 + 12 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 12 + 1 = 33

"I would trigger that with this armor. I have no problem helping you all over if you can make me float though." Sebastian says, volunteering to toss everyone to the other side.

Totally forgot I had these:

Mordo points down to his slippers of spider climb and thinks I can walk on the walls-or even ceiling-to bypass this.

Alright, I think we have more then enough evidence that you guys can bypass this.

Through a combination of single movements and Mordo's slippers, the party makes it across the trapped corridor.

Arriving at the end of the corridor, the party sees a vault-like chamber. The worked walls of the vault quickly fall away, revealing an underground river of molten magma. The biting smell of burning sulfur hangs heavy in the air. The smooth obsidian walls of this natural cavern reflect the soft glow of the burning magma flow below, casting the chamber in a red haze that highlights another grand mosaic. A natural obsidian path connects this chamber’s dock to a series of caves on its north and south shores.

The mosaic adorning the north and south walls of the landing depicts all manner of Qadiran warriors proudly flying on magnificently-woven rugs. The party notices several 5-foot-by-5-foot dust free areas on one side of the vault.

Three feet below the level of the landing and 2 feet above the magma stand a dozen solid stone pillars—fallen chunks of obsidian—creating a path to reach several cave openings on the river’s molten banks. These magma-free pillars are wide, stable, and look as if it would be fairly easy to jump from one to the other.

Samhain looks at the river of magma. "I do not suppose we can all fly, levitate, or climb our way through this?" Tracing the outline of the squares, he ponders, "What could have been here?", completely forgetting his thoughts are public domain with the dragon nearby.

Mordo will climb along the wall once again (the wall to the right) and peak around the corner.

Stealth: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (3) + 22 = 25

Fairly easy as in "Even a non-dexterous paladin in full plate can do it!" easy?

Maybe "Even a non-dexterous paladin in full plate wearing Mordo's slippers can do it!" easy?

Yeah, figured Sebastian would wear the slippers.

Mordo scurries along the wall and peers around the corner. The magma flow continues to the west, then makes a hairpin turn to the south. Mordo can see an obsidian passage leading to the north.

If Mordo gives the all clear, Samhain hops across the stones to join him.