Round 3 (cont)
Ganem blesses the group. Aldy takes a shot with his bow. The arrow pierces the bugbear's leg. He staggers but continues to walk away.
Aldy
Grulk (23 damage)
Ganem
No. 201113 <- UP NEXT
Tarbin <- UP NEXT
Evgeny <- UP NEXT
Brand (5 damage) <- UP NEXT
Round 4
Aldy
Grulk (23 damage)
Grulk briefly looks back as arrows fall near him. He smirks as he sees Brand with a bow and dismissively turns to walk away to drop to safety off the wall.
The last thing he feels is an arrow between the shoulder blades as the dwarf's aim is true. The bugbear falls and tumbles off side of the building like a rag doll.
COMBAT OVER!
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The group take the equipment from the dead bugbear and likely on or two of them give his corpse a kick for good measure.
He was wearing leather armour and his high tension composite longbow survived the fall . He has most of a quiver of arrows remaining and a handy looking morningstar tucked in his belt. In a belt pouch he has some gems and gold that would be worth a total of 274gp.
Ganem works out that the ring on the bugbears finger is magical and was the source of the bugbear's miraculous fall to a potential rooftop escape. It is a Ring of Feather Falling.
Congratulations everyone! You have cleared level 1 of the Emerald Spire Superdungeon!
The group gathers up their loot and makes the trek back to Fort Inevitable.
You're all greeted at the barracks by your Pathfinder Society contact, and within moments a Hellknight assigned tax inspector appears to ensure that the Lady Commanders tax is properly applied.
Once the paperwork is completed everyone is assigned their earnings for the mission and given time to order items via the Pathfinder Society contact that can be shipped up with the next supply caravan.
For now you all have a few days of downtime to fully recover from your injurious and perform any other tasks you want or need to do.
"OK everyone, it's time to send you all to explore further down in the Emerald Spire." says the Pathfinder contact you previously found was named Volar.
"It looks like a couple of the group have been called away on other missions, but the local Venture Captain arranged for some replacements." says Volar as he waves his hand in the direction of the newer members of the group.
"Provisions have been provided, so unless you have anything else you need to do i suggest you head off early next morning."
The news of Pathfinders clearing out a fort of goblins has already got around, so even if the Hellknights are treating you no differently at least the farmers and workers in the outlying area great you with a smile.
The trip from Fort Inevitable is a quiet one. The clearing around the tower is exactly as you left if a few days ago, and after some careful navigation through the dark fort you find yourselves descending the stairs that wind around the glowing green spire.
The stairs wind around a couple of times before breaking away from the spire. They descend through solid bedrock for fifty feet before ending in a stone-lined room. A large stone door stands directly south of the stair, a small alcove lies to the east, and another door to the southeast is slightly ajar. An extinguished torch rests on the floor of the alcove.
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Early Morning sees the dwarf preparing his equipment and checking on all of his weapons and armor.
Brand greets or grunts a morning greeting to anyone who greets him but his eyes do not stray as he tightens and loosens straps as needed.
Once down in the dungeon, the dwarf takes point once more.
"Let's go explore what else this place holds."
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Flint spends the morning meditating, his hands on the ground. Now we go into you, earth. Lend me your sturdy skin. When he stands from the seance, his eyes are bruised but his skin has gained an almost rocky appearance.
He stays behind the front line warriors, hand trailing along the wall. "Let's see what treasures this level holds. "
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Bree looks with wonder at the glowing green shaft as they descend the stairs. Of course, just like nearly everyone else in the region, he had heard of the spire, but being up close was amazing. "I wonder how deep this thing goes," he says aloud to anyone near by.
Eventually the group comes to an open landing with a couple of doors. "Ok. I guess this is what where here for." Bree intertwines his fingers together and stretches his arms above his head. The bones in his neck crack and pop as he moves his head side to side followed by a few hunches of his shoulders.
"Yep. I think I'm ready so see what's here."
Aldy checks over the door and finds it to be safe to open. It also isn't locked. As the others start to gather up Aldy opens the door and finds it leads to another corridor with a door at the far end and another on the northern wall.
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Aldy will search the hallway for traps, before moving to the west door and doing the same.
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Aldy peers down the hallway before rubbing his hands together, and setting forth to give the floor, doors, and ceiling a thorough inspection to make sure the way is safe for the rest of the party.
Alrighty, lets see what we have here....
Aldy moves down the passageway cautiously while heading for the nearest door. He notices a well hidden seem between the some of the slabs on the floor. He thinks that if someone were to stand on the next ten foot section of floor that it could fall away like a trapdoor. With some clever manipulation and jamming some slivers of metal into the hinges he's sure that the trapdoor won't be opening any time soon.
Happy with his work he then heads over to the door to see if it's safe. He finds nothing suspicious and doesn't even believe it to be locked. Once the others have gathered up behind him he opens the door to see what is in the room.
A curving wall of glowing green crystal bulges out into this chamber from one corner. A stout wooden table stands along the wall opposite it. On the table lie three rotting human corpses and the remnants of a moon spider. One of the human corpses has had all of its extremities severed, and its torso has been opened to reveal the internal organs. Another dismembered corpse has moon spider legs sewn onto the stumps in place of the removed limbs, all of which are neatly arranged near the rest of the moon spider. A bucket full of reeking, old blood sits on the floor under the table, and needles with lengths of silken thread attached are stuck in a hand-sized block of bloodstained wax atop the table.
Ganem starts to walk forward but Breelajah sharply pulls them up before they take another step. Breejalah points up to a shadowy hole in the ceiling above where they were about to step. A large cage is in the ceiling and is set up to fall on whoever steps a little further inside the room. As there is a clear path around the trap it doesn't stop everyone from continuing their investigation of the room.
The spire gives off strong magic of various types and also has a unique looking symbol carved into it which is similar to the one found on the 1st level of the spire.
The postmortem surgery looks rather amateurish and doesn't look like it would ever truly create some kind of undead amalgam creature like the surgeon clearly would like. While investigating the dead bodies one of the spider legs twitches slightly which unnerves everyone for a moment. It does it again a while later just after the glow of the emerald spire increases ever so slightly which leads Ganem and Flint to surmise that some unseen energy from the spire is making a muscle spasm.
As Flint inspects the corpses he notices some potentially useful items on the cluttered table. There is a lump of wax with 6 needles jabbed in it, each needles has around 3 feet of silk thread attached to it. There is also 2 identical potion vials and a scroll case. Inside the case are 2 different magical scrolls and a sheet of parchment. The parchment has an arcane symbol drawn on it that is labeled with a single word in an ancient language.
They are Potions of Cure Moderate Wounds.
Scroll of Fireball.
Scroll of Fly.
The symbol is similar to an arcane mark and is labeled "Four".
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Flint grabs the needles and thread for his med kit. I feel like we might need some wounds stitched. Then he points to the magical items. "Hey, there's some loot! Any of you lot read magic? " He waves his hand and walks away from it to look at the trap. Mechanics and earth. Far more interesting than any stupid magic words.
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Lets see, lets see... we got ourselves a potion of cure moderate wounds, a scroll of fly, and a scroll of fireball. Oh, and those markings over there, they say 4. You front line types... take these
Aldy will toss Brand and Arkolo a healing potion each.
Anyone else want these scrolls? I can use them...probably...maybe... yea, definitely I can use these. Don't worry about it. But if someone else wants to hold on to them I'm not attached.
Aldy will give the room one more search. Assuming nothing is found, and everyone else is done poking around, he'll lead the way to the next door.
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After identifying items Aldy checks around the room one more time. He finds a couple of secret doors, one that leads back towards the entrance and another that leads off into a small passageway in the north-east of the room.
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Some Perception checks for searching the door, and hallways and doors to the next room...
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I'll start clearing the way for everyone. Searching doors and hallways as we go. Feel free to roll disable device checks for me as needed GM. I have a +11 for opening locks and things of that nature, and a +12 on traps.
Aldy checks the passageway and the next door and everything seems fine. Once the group has caught up Aldy steps back and lets Brand open the door.
This large stone chamber contains two clusters of four stone caskets each. In the center of the room, between the two groupings, stands an empty, unlit iron brazier that is covered with soot and smells faintly of past fires. Drapes of dust-covered spider webs cling to the ceiling.
There aren't any enemies visible in the room and Aldy says the entrance is clear of any traps.