Godsmouth Heresy (Inactive)

Game Master Vahanian 89

Talon looks around the massive chamber.

"These guys knew how to spend gold lavishly," he observes.

The rogue looks at the statues surrounding the chamber.

"Are all these giving you the same reading, Kid?" he asks Ziusudra.

"If so, maybe we ought to leave the statues alone for now."

He looks around for any other secret passages or hidden things.

perception take 10: 10 + 7 = 17

You think there might be but cant seem to see how you would open them.

Okay, so the obvious doors out are the one we came in, plus a door at each point of the compass?

"Are all these giving you the same reading, Kid?" he asks Ziusudra.

Detect Magic

Delighted that a "veteran" field agent asked him a question, Ziusudra attemps to cast his spell, with a flourish!

Perform: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

But, as he gestures in what he believes to be a grand fashion, the wizard trips over his own robes. Boom! Then, he gets up and sheepishly casts Detect Magic the "normal" way.

They arent obvious from this side but it doesnt take much to think there is more. Seeing how you came out a secret door to get here.

"Seems to me like there's gotta be more of them secret doors around here, ya? We should see if we could move these bad boys out of the way and check."

Madge nods to herself as she comes to a realization.

"Worst case scenario, we just gotta use some healing, ya? We got some of those cure wands?"

"If them statues are fixed to the floor, we'd need to use a pickaxe to get them uprooted. Sounds like more trouble than they're worth." Halorn looks around.

"There's also them double doors leading out of this room. Maybe it's easier to check them out first?"

"I'm happy to check out the statues," Talon responds to Madge. "Only, someone else can be the one touching them. For example, that last one has a magic trap on it. That much I know. What it does, I have no idea, and am not much inclined to find out. But be my guest," he says.

"Otherwise, let's go around and try those doors to the east," he suggests.

Looks like the north and south doors here are higher on a catwalk, right? So let's walk around to the east, ya?

[ooc]Because you will figure it out. All of the statues are magical and most are traps. And behind each is a secret door. Where do you go?"[/b]

I still suggest the doors to the east, since I don't like the idea of setting off traps to get to the secret doors (unless someone else wants to hit them).

At Talon's mention of someone touching the statues, Koriar's hands instinctively grabbed Ziusudra's robe, preventing him from running around. He looks at him.

"No... and no, and absolutely no... hum, the east door looks good to me."

Aaziroth stands listening to the discussion as he looks around the room. "I agree, let's not set off the traps if we don't have to." He then heads over to the door in the east and waits for Talon to check it before opening it.

Perception after opening door: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 2 = 10

I would happily hit the traps, as I was trying to hint before. I just was hesitant because I'm playig a fresh character and I dont have my own healing wand yet and would have to crib charges from someone else. The consensus appears otherwise anyways.

Madge steps away from the statue, following Talon and Aaziroth, her heavy boots padding against the stone.

Upon receiving yet another admonition, Ziusudra puts his hands in his pockets. But, he will take 10 to look around the room. He speaks Thassilonian, so he'll check out any runes.

Talon investigates the eastern doors carefully, then motions for Aaziroth to open them.

After take 20 perception for a 27

No traps on any door. Just some statues. Also what set of doors? Feel free to move yourselves.

Ziusudra geeks out at the size of the room and yells: "Echo!"

"Echo! Echo. Echo"

Ziusudra giggles uncrontrollably. :-)

Lol also no traps on the door when you open it.

The ceiling opens up between two staircases in this wide corridor, creating a shaft above the hallway. Ten feet up, the shaft appears to connect to another passage above running north-south. A grisly heap of decaying body parts lies at the bottom of the shaft. The air is rank with the smell of rot, corruption, and pungent chemicals.

Talon frowns and examines the pile of gore from a distance.

"This looks like an important lead," the rogue says. "Looks like someone cutting up the dead..."

perception for anything unusual in the pile, take 10: 10 + 7 = 17

Do you guys go into the hallway to investigate?

"Ewww..."

Aaziroth turns up his nose at the stench. "This doesn't look good," he says as he focuses on the pile. Detect Evil

Assuming nothing ... "Keep your eyes open, and watch your step," he says as he grips his sword and shield and steps into the hallway.

If something shows up ... "Wait. Don't enter. I'm sensing evil in the room. Ziu, can you zap that with something from here so we don't have to get too close?"

perception: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 2 = 14

Detect Evil

If something shows up ... "Wait. Don't enter. I'm sensing evil in the room. Ziu, can you zap that with something from here so we don't have to get too close?"

Awaiting the result of your Detect Evil before responding. :)

Looking at the pile you see some small things moving but cant quite tell what they are. There is evil in the rubble though.

Looking at the map, the area past the east doors still hasn't been revealed. Is all this in a hallway going east, then? Is there a way past it, or do we have to climb over the pile o' gore?

Whoops fixed it. The dotted line is a level above you. Thats where the ceiling collapsed.

Since Aaziroth asked, I'll toss a pebble or something at the pile-o'-gore.

Something seems to garb it before it hits the pile, but its drak and hard to see what.

"Eep! Did you see that?!? Something grabbed the pebble that I threw!"

"That is so cool!"

Ziusudra geeks out for a few moments and takes a puff from his inhaler. The wizard then wills his Wayfinder to light and holds it aloft to get a better view.

Am I able to see that the hallway ends and there is a cross-hallway with my darkvision? Assuming I can ...

"Yeah, I saw, but couldn't tell what it was. It looks like the hallway ends up ahead. I think we would be better off looking for an alternate route. Why don't we try the south door first since I think that should connect back to the initial room we were in. Then we can go to the west door." Aaziroth waits for a response from the group and then moves to the south door. If no objections.

Madge cocks her mouth to one side.

"Well, if that's what ya think is best."

Halorn shakes his head, "Only if we can close these doors properly. There was somethin' movin' in that room and I'd rather not let it sneak up behind us if we get into trouble in a different room. Plus now that the door's open anythin' can probably hear us too if we cause a ruckus."

"Maybe we could collect them!" Ziusudra suggests.

"You know: for study. Explore, report, and all that."

Seeing the looks from the other party members, the wizard amends his suggestion: "Maybe just one?"

Talon looks over at the pile, sighs, and reluctantly moves to check it out further.

"Let's at least see what's in there," he says as he moves for a better look.

perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (3) + 7 = 10

Ziusudra follows 10 feet behind Talon to provide light.

"Wait for me, Talon, I go with you."

Aid Another (Perception): 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 1 = 10

Koriar moves to walk besides Talon, trying to help discover about that thing.

Darkvision

Halorn sighs, loosens the chain to his weapon and looks around in the room.

Perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 4 = 18 +Darkvision

You move to investigate, at first you don't notice anything but then crawling out of the pile of decaying corpses you see 3 HANDS!!!! And they leap at you!

Round 1
Talon
Korair
Halor
Madge
BG
Aaziroth
Ziu

Bold may post. These are diminutive creatures. Just a heads up. Know religion to know more.

Know religion to know more.

Knowledge Religion: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (17) + 10 = 27

These are undead hands. Literally. They have a special grab attack that chokes

Talon sees one of the creatures starting to move, and before it can jump at it, he hurls a dagger at it.

The rogue then darts to the back of the group, leaving the rest for the front-liners.

MW Dagger Attack: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (14) + 6 = 201d4 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3 sneak stab: 1d8 ⇒ 3 targeting blue, vs. flat-footed since it hasn't acted yet.

"Eep! Talon! You startled me!"

"I never thought it possible for a mortal to move that fast," the fresh-faced wizard says with unapologetic fanboi admiration.

Just waiting for everyone to act.

Talon's dagger strikes true but the hand still crawls along!

[blue -6]

Round 1
Talon
Korair
Halor
Madge
BG
Aaziroth
Ziu

"Less talking and more fighting, kid!" Talon responds.

Love the fanboi!!!

Koriar was besides Talon, but I forgot to move him (as previous post).

Seeing the crawling hands coming into his direction and still remembering their previous fight, Koriar retreats to a more open area.

Withdraw action.

"Everyone get back, we can fight better."

Halorn moves back and readies his weapon. He has reach, so he should be able to attack in front of Koriar or in Aaziroth's square if they're small enough to enter his square.

Aaziroth shakes his head in disappointment. "That is why I suggested going around. It's decisions like that which will get you killed, Talon. Zui, you need to move back."

Will post action once I see what BG does.

Madge retreats to allow her beefier allies to get into the melee, while also preparing to strike should one come in-range.

Move action to move, standard action to ready to attack any hand that comes in-range