Bupkis also tries unsuccessfully to wriggle free of the trap.
"Nasty traps! Goblins can't get out!"
Hmm. Well that certainly makes me worry a lot more n' I was. Hang on, we'll get ye out. An' make sure ta be more careful. Whoever be using this place clearly ain't got Trunau, nor its people's best interests at heart. The dwarf walks over to help out the gobo's he continues talking while he tries to pry the traps open enough for them to get out.
Lets go an' see what they got n' that chest back near tha' trap door ladder, mightin' be something useful, or least somethin' that help explain whats goin' on.
"Goodness that looks painful!! Edwin, help them get free." Edgar says as he motions Edwin to help Ivan help the goblins. " it certainly is ominous that this would be here," Edgar says as he draws his dagger, "we might not be done fighting just yet." he concludes as his face begin to show some worry.
While you all stand there trying to help Bupkis and Scrabbler, you hear steps above.
Of course you can take 20. But for now you can only take an action for one round. If your priority there is to get the goblins out of the traps, then you roll for it.
Menrozzar freezes as he hears the foot steps above, grabbing his hammer, he says, ”Get the goblins free! I’m going to see who’s up there!”
Menrozzar runs for the ladder up to the Plague House so he can try and catch whoever is up there.
Daseem attempted to force open the jaws of the trap. He pushed and pushed till his veins suck out and he started to go purple. With a cry he slipped and fell backwards, "NNNNnuuuuhhh! No good!"
Defected he sighed, "N-n-need a lever."
As Ivan takes a closer look, the bookshelf on one side of the room holds little of value — only the mostly destroyed pages of Iomedae’s holy text, Acts of Iomedae, and several other weathered scriptures.
The chest, however, contains quite some interesting items. But the only thing looking helpful for the problem at hand is the set of thieves tools.
While Daseem and Edwin try in vain to get the goblins free under the watchful eye of Edgar, Menrozzar storms up the ladder. As he sticks his head out of the destroyed trap door, he looks into the dumbfounded face of Daktani. "Ghaer, the guard is here." he shouts and throws a tanglefoot bag at Menrozzar, entangling him in sticky goo that immediately hardens.
Ivan would be picking up the items as he heard the commotion behind him at the ladder. Oh, well some O' this looks looks to be a mite useful. Least wise in later uses anyhow. Wait, what's going on up there?!
Scrabbler focused through the pain, found the spring release used to safely open and set the trap, and turned it. The jaws immediately went slack.
Bupkis tries to follow Scrabbler's example, but find's it's not as easy as it looks. "How you do this?", he cries in frustration.
Menrozzar cried out as he was stuck to the ladder - Lucerne hammer stowed, no weapon in hand - and Daltani was there. He was vulnerable, and whatever Daktani and Ghaer were up to, they were going to get away with it. He felt fear - and then, that flame inside him flared up, getting hotter and more powerful, and this time, he surrendered to it. He let out a near-bestial roar. His eyes turned gold and reptilian, his hands warped into scaled, draconian claws. He then clawed at the goo, trying to scrape it off so he could pursue the cutpurse.
Goo scraped off, he fixes Daktani with a glare, letting him know he’s next.
Daktani turns on his heel and flees out of the room, and judging by the footsteps, further down the corridor to leave the building.
when he sees Menrozzar rip his way out of the tanglefoot bag glue Edgar says,"Ok guys we officially don't have time for this," as he casts a grease spell on the two goblins and their bear traps. "Edwin, see if you can help Menrozzar, eh?"
Edwin moves back into the trapdoor room and begins climbing the ladder behind Menrozzar.
Hearing a commotion from above, Daseem darts forwards and surges up the ladder taking three steps at a time. It was awkward climbing up with his steel out, but fortunately the ladder was short. Blinking as he emerges into the upper level he shouts, "W-where?!"
With Menrozzar and Edgar on the ladder everyone else is blocked from following. Once Menrozzar gets up and out of the basement and all follow outside, the half orc is long gone,
After considerable effort, Bupkis finally gets out of the trap, and climbed up the ladder. "Who here? he asks.
"Dis one stucked." Scrabbler complained.
Bupkis managed to squeeze free and the trap's jaws snapped all the way shut. Scrabbler grabbed up the traps and chased after the rest fo the group.
The flame inside Menrozzar died out, leaving the guard suddenly tired. His eyes and hands returned to normal and he cursed into the darkness. "Daktani, the half-orc cutpurse, and someone named Ghaer. We'll need to alert the rest of the guard - if he's fled back into Trunau, we'll hunt for him tomorrow. We can have the gates locked against him. They know we're investigating, too. Daktani specifically called me "That Guardsman." We need to finish searching the Plague House - leave nothing untouched. Whatever they were up to here, I don't like it."
Daseem impatiently waits his turn to get up the stairs.
Ivan goes to turn around, but hearing that the filth had fled he curses and spits on the ground. Bah, coward. He won't be welcome no more round' Trunau, but what be worryin' me is what if he been moving around the town disguised as other people? See, look 'ere.
Ivan toss the disguise kit out for the others to see, assuming the goblins and edward managed to make their way back.
Likely been doing that ta' avoid suspicion. Nothin' stoppin' em from doin' it again. But aye, informin' the guard is a smart thing. Make it harder for 'em fer sure. Ta' the next room then? Ivan points down the passage way they haven't ventured down.
Edgar calls out to Menrozzar,"how bout you, Daseem, and Edwin search the top floor while Ivan, the gobs, and myself finish up down here. Then we can get back to town and alert the guards to Daktani's tricks."
"Did you ever get that chest opened Ivan?"
Bupkis continues exploring, a little more cautiously now.
Menrozzar calls back down the trapdoor, "Agreed. It looks like there's only one room to check, anyway."
Menrozzar will move to the door they hadn't opened yet upstairs, stopping and listening at the door for any sounds of movement.
There is nothing to hear ant the door. Opening and entering Menrozzar finds most of the room in shambles, and the western wall has collapsed in a heap of rubble. A staircase to the northeast leads to a wooden loft upstairs; the area beneath the loft is filled with fallen beams, jumbled bricks, and other debris.
Two giant centipedes have nested among the rubble and debris beneath the wooden loft. The centipedes come out of hiding and attack Menrozzar.
Menrozzar backs out of the room and shuts the door.
Hungry and disappointed centipedes scuttle back into their pile of rubble.
Bupkis finds no traps on the way. Neither by looking, nor by accident with his feet. Around the corner is a stark subterranean chamber. Doorways to the northwest and southwest offer egress from the room. Around the corner to the south, a lone statue has been relegated to a dusty corner behind the stairs.
"Here's stairs," Bupkis calls to the others.
He doesn't know much about religion, but even he recognizes a statue of Iomedae. He moves in for a closer look at the sword.
Bupkis calls out to the others, "Bupkis finds real sword from statue!" He gives it to someone more knowledgeable than he to examine.
After that, he continues past the statue, down the hall to the door. He listens at the door and checks for traps.
Again Bupkis finds no traps and there is nothing to hear behind the heavy iron door he opens it. The walls of this chamber are pocked with skull-sized cubbyholes, each containing a single brass or clay urn—some long since shattered or dented, others still intact. A lightly colored stone statue depicting a burning chariot wheel occupies the northwest corner of the room. Two iron doors on the eastern wall allow egress from the room.
Daseem followed Menrozzar to the door they'd not explored upstairs and blinked with surprise when there was an oversize crustacean behind the door. "Er..." he gasped when Menrozzar slammed the door shut again, "W-w-we should get the others and s-s-stick together."
Hearing the call of one of the little gobos, Ivan treads down the hallway after showing the others the chest contents. We'll split tha' gold after we finish here. Ye can trust a dwarf on that. I'm goin' to see what the little green one has found.
He slowly makes his way down behind bupkis, Oy, whats all this about now? Ye say ye found a sword? Bah, where? Lemme take a look at it. See ifn' it's worth anythin'.
Assuming Bupkis points the sword out.
Edwin will stick close to Menrozzar until Edgar comes upstairs.
Edgar will follow Ivan towards Bupkis,"Not entirely strange to find a longsword in an old Iomedae temple...." he says as he scans it for magic.
Bupkis peers into the spooky looking room, trying to muster the courage to enter.
Bupkis cautioned the others, "Something weird in room! Hard to see; Bupkis tests!" He takes out a small dagger and uses telekinesis to float it over to the almost-invisible object, and gently pokes it.
"Agreed, Daseem. Let's head down to the basement again." Menrozzar leads the others back to the ladder down, and he descends into the basement. He then walks to the room where the traps had been set off, and follows the sound of Bupkis's voice to find the others.
"There are a couple of giant centipedes up there. We can probably leave them alone - they're in a room that has a working door and can't get to us."
The cube suddenly moves and lashes out at Bupkis.
The cube now blocks the door.
"It attacks!", Bupkis cries out in alarm. He steps back, retrieves a sling bullet from his pocket, and launches it at the semi-transparent thing.
Cursed stone! stand back all! Ivan moves backward, drawing his crossbow as he does so and dropping his shield, he fires a bolt into the awakened hair gel.
"D-d-did you hear that? Bupkis and Ivan!" cried Daseem. He glanced at Menrozzar and Edgar before rushing towards the sounds of battle.