GM Zer0darkfire's Crypt of The Everflame (Inactive)

Game Master asdffghjkl01

Zoey lowers her knees slightly, and swings upwards, attempting to keep her shield as much between her and Asar as possible.

Shield Bash Defensively: 1d20 + 7 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 7 + 1 = 24
Damage: 1d4 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 6 + 1 = 11

I was mistaken last round, my AC should have been two higher against both. It is now 23 against Asar and 20 against the skeleton.

Since Oloch seems to be stable and realizing if Zoey goes down they will be in a lot of trouble. Hullric touches Zoey's shoulder with his wand to heal some of her wounds.

Wand of CLW on Zoey: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Zoey smashes Asar's skull with her mighty shield bash. Asar stands there for a moment as though frozen, although only a few seconds later his bones collapse into the floor and come to rest.

In response, the remaining honor guard, no longer having his charge, simply stands there passively, oblivious to anything around him.

Combat over!
will post plot/story elements when I get home.

Now that Asar has been destroyed, you turn your attention to Oloch and Zoey, both of whom are carrying severe wounds from the wicked skeletons.

Feel free to heal up if you'd like

Catching your breath and looking around, you see an unconscious women laying on the open sarcophagus. You also see the everflame lantern hanging over the sarcophagus. Among Asar's bones you see some sort of magical glowing stone.

Andy casts Detect Magic and looks at the stone..

spellcraft: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (20) + 6 = 26

Andy shares any information he learns with the rest of the group. He then goes over to look at the women...

heal(untrained): 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 1 = 14

Hullric goes about healing his companions when Andy reveals what the stone is. "Oh... interesting. I hope we can keep that. I'm sure the Lantern King placed such an item here for me to find."

Wand of CLW on Oloch: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8
Wand of CLW on Oloch: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Wand of CLW on Zoey: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8
Wand of CLW on Zoey: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2
Wand of CLW on Zoey: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

@Hullric, I totally didn't even think of that when I was writing the item, I just didn't see anything in the book for how you're supposed to light the everflame lantern so I made that item up, sorry.

Andy determines that the women is alive and stable, but definitely injured and unconscious from her wounds.

She is stable, but at -1

Reggie lets out a whoop of victory as Zoey knocks some sense out of Asar. He's about to do the same for the last member of the honor guard when he realizes that it's just standing there. He debates for a few moments. Is there any such thing as a good, or even not bad animated skeleton? Probably not, but it just doesn't seem right pounding something that is showing no aggression.

Rowdy makes his decision for him, though not in the way the wolf wants. The animal lunges at the skeleton but the unfairness of it tips Reggie over the edge and he reins his mount in.

The little knight puts away his sling staff and leans over his pommel, panting with the effort of the battle.

As Hullric goes through the process of healing up those who took the brunt of Asar's wrath, Reggie clambers up on the sarcophagus, careful not to disturb the woman and pulls down the fancy special lantern.

@Hullric - Feel free to retcon that you're using Reggie's wand for some of those CLW hits. You shouldn't have to be the only one spending charges. In fact, I had another game where we all just gave the healer our wands at the beginning and she divided up the charges used evenly at the end. I'm good with chipping my wand in for that here, too, assuming the GM's ok with it.

Sharing charges that way is totally fine with me

Guys, I will totally transfer money for the CLW charges to you after this event! GM, is that possible to include in the chronicle sheets?

We're not allowed to give each other money or items. Usually I just keep a note that I owe someone wand charges and next time I play with that character I donate.

We're not allowed to give each other money or items. Usually I just keep a note that I owe someone wand charges and next time I play with that character I donate.

Yup. What Zoey said. But I figure that it could have been me just as easily as Oloch and would hope others would be ok with sharing their wands.

Sharing wands is okay with me. And don't worry about it Oloch, I got my wand for situations like this. I just suggest you use your 2 PP you get from this adventure to purchase your own Wand of CLW for you next adventures.

Satisfied that he has healed most of his companion's wounds, he goes to the unconscious lady and uses his wand once more before putting it away.

Wand of CLW on unconscious lady: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Yep, you can't give items or money, but you can let people borrow your items for the duration of the adventure.

The women wakes up thanks to Hullric's healing. Her eyes flutter open, "Oh my, you must be adventurer's from the village. Have you seen my brother!? Is that horrible skeleton man gone!?" she says with fear in her voice.

ruh roh

Those are two separate questions; her brother is not Asar the skeleton champion lol

Hullric helps the woman up, "We took care of the skeleton man. He won't bother you anymore. As for your brother, we did run into a guy we had to knock him out for he wouldn't stop attacking us. If that is your brother, he is fine and we can pick him up on our way out. He'll be sore for a few days though, but alive."

Oh good...I couldn't remember what happened to him. I thought we had to kill him to save him.

Hullric is correct, he is simply knocked out currently.

"Oh thank you! That bone man was horrible, I think he was going to sacrifice me or something." she says as she begins to stand.

"I'd like to get out of here and return home now, setting this place up proved to be far more dangerous than we thought. Let's grab my brother and split! Oh and I guess grab that lantern too since you're already here."

Hullric is correct, he is simply knocked out currently.

"Oh thank you! That bone man was horrible, I think he was going to sacrifice me or something." she says as she begins to stand.

"I'd like to get out of here and return home now, setting this place up proved to be far more dangerous than we thought. Let's grab my brother and split! Oh and I guess grab that lantern too since you're already here."

also thought he was dead

Roldare falls unconscious, but is not bleeding out.

Combat over!

Hullric looks at the others, "Shall we retrieve her brother and then get out of here. We seem to have accomplish the 'ritual' we were tasked."

Oloch is so sad about everything that he only nods.

Andy says "Let's not forget our fallen comrade, Stigard Ufgood."

So, what would the party like to do?

Open the West door in the previous room?
Leave with the girl and her brother?
Light the everflame lantern?

Zoey gives her sword a quick twirl, making sure the clatter on the ground didn't damage it. "There was one more room, if I'm not mistaken. We should check on it, ensure there are no more undead skulking about."

Oloch peoposes to light the everflame lantern and then leave with the siblings.

"I am inclined to agree with Zoey, we should make sure."

Andy looks around to see if he can recover lost bullets."

@Andy, for every bullet that missed, roll a 50% chance to see if you can recover them.

"We should at least light the lantern before we explore or leave this place."

bullet(high is good): 1d100 ⇒ 21
bullet(high is good): 1d100 ⇒ 54

"I agree with Hullric. Let's light the lantern, check out the other room, then get out of here," Reggie says as he retrieves his fancy new lance.

When Hullric lights the lantern, a spirit rises up from the ground. Based on the previous imagery you've seen before in the Crypt, this is the spirit of Kassen.

"AH HEROES, THANK YOU FOR PUTTING AN END TO ASAR.", he then clears his ghostly throat, "Whoops, sorry, been a while since I've been able to speak to the living, didn't mean to shout out you old chaps!." he says as he tries to slap Hullric on the back but phases right through.

"Here, let me reward your heroism and deeds with gifts from my own adventuring days." he says as he begins to pull items out from his sarcophagus.

"Ah here you go, a bag of holding type 1, a +1 bashing shield, and a water elemental gem. Oh, and you should each have a scale from my old scale mail armor, in memory of destroying the evil in my crypt. When you're need is greatest, the scale will bestow the greatest of luck."

See chronicle sheet for what the scales do; "Kassen's Boon".

Hullric looks at the spirit quizzically. "I have a question for you. Hopefully you can answer it. With the defeat of Asar over there, would any other undead in the crypt go motionless like the skeleton?"

Kassen scratches his ghostly beard as he thinks,"Probably not, I'd say. Those skeletons there look like ones he brought to defend himself specifically. I reckon the only reason it stopped moving is because it has no commands and cannot defend its fallen master any longer.

Tell you what though, I could go for a bit of stretching my legs and it has been far too long since I've been adventuring. Now that Asar's curse is gone from my spirit, I can move freely about this place. Might be a bit of fun to go around bashing these undead to bits." he says while shadow boxing the air.

Hullric looks at the others, "Up to the rest of you. Though our young 'sister' here will need to stay toward the back of the group for protection."

"I'd much prefer it if you leave the undead here to me. Who knows how long I'll be able to stick around, could be hundreds of years. They should prove entertaining to destroy in the meantime.

On the other hand, if you feel it required of you, you can clear out the rest of my crypt, but don't feel obligated on my account. As new adventurer's I'd much prefer you stay alive." he says as the Ghost of Stigand appears next to him.

"Well, sorry about this chap though, but at least he can keep me company here, ain't that right Mr....?"

"Well you heard him. Lets retrieve the brother and get out of the crypt then."

"Well, we cleared out the whole top level, so I guess we are done here."

"I'm Stigand, no need for 'Mr.'." After a chuckle, "Could be fun scaring new adventurers!"

"As you like it, good King Kassen. Thank you for your blessing," Reggie says with a bow to the ghostly figure.

He then nods to the other ghost. "And to you, Stigand, I hope you find happiness here. I am sorry that we did not do more to protect you."

He salutes them both with his sword before having Rowdy amble out of the chamber.

He'll be on the lookout for anything they didn't explore along the way, though.

Was there another room? I didn't see any place unexplored on the map but I didn't look too close. If there's any place they didn't check out, Reggie will vote for exploring it, but won't argue too hard if the majority of the party isn't interested.

There is much more to this floor, but since you took the central stairs, you got to skip past most of it and go right to the final fight. You're welcome to continue exploring if you'd like or you can return to the village and I send out Chronicles.

I will defer to the rest of the group. I'm going to be on vacation for the rest of the week so I won't be able to post a lot, but I don't mind being botted if everyone wants to keep up the pace and complete everything.

Personally, I don't care that much, so I'll also defer.

I would like to finish exploring in case we miss any items off the chronicle sheet if we don't, but I think Andy would want to get the siblings to safety and leave.

In that case, you bring the brother back to consciousness and take him and his sister to the entrance where they inform you that they can make it back to the village on their own.

The party rests and as they do, Stigand manages to focus his mind's might into a more corporeal form.

@Stigand, if you'd like to continue playing, and since the main quest is over, you are more than welcome to play as a phantom from the spiritualist class. You are, however, tethered to the Crypt and cannot leave it.

When the party comes back to the west door on the bottom floor, Zoey opens it. This new chamber has a number of recesses carved into the walls and a fissure in the ceiling. When you look up, you see hundreds of bats hanging on the ceiling, and upon seeing you, they begin to swarm over the party!

Initiative Order, Bold May Go!
Combat Slide
>>>Andy
>>>Reginald
>>>Phantasmal Stigand
>>>Hullric
Bat Swarms
Zoey
Oloch

Andy begins to sing..."My friends and I have come to fight, evil creatures we will smite. Your reign of terror soon will pass, once we have finished kicking your....buts."

basic inspiration: inspire courage: +1 H/D; +1 vs. enchantment/fear.

Andy then takes off his backpack and fishes out a flask of alchemist's fire. "Anyone care to do the honors?"

knowledge(local/nature(+7); else(+3)): 1d20 ⇒ 11

Andy shares any information he may learn.

Knowing swarms can be a bit dangers, Hullric begins to chant and blesses the entire party. "May the Lantern King once more guide your strikes true against these creatures of darkness."

Cast Bless: +1 to Hit; +1 vs Fear

Reggie tries to imagine skewering one of those bats with his fancy new lance and sighs. Then, he contemplates cutting them with his sword and sighs again.

"Should have bought a fancy one of these," he mutters as he pulls out his sling staff.

"You've probably got as good a chance as anyone, buddy," he calls as Andy pulls out the alchemical fire.

He and Rowdy rush past and he takes a swing.

Sling Staff plus Inspire Courage plus Bless: 1d20 + 4 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 4 + 1 + 1 = 20
Blunt Damage plus Inspire Courage: 1d4 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 2 + 1 = 5