Hadassa's Legacy of Fire

Game Master jhpace1

Um, Identify just gives you a +10 on Spellcraft checks to find out what stuff is, it doesn't auto-identify an item like it did in 3.5.

Nice 5000 posts btw

Sweet!

(5,000 posts! Whoo!)

(As for identify, I've always hated that nerfing. GM's prerogative. I did make ID similar to detect magic, but it needs more.)

True, but they did buff Spellcraft so you use that instead of having to use the Identify spell to find out what something is.

Hajar says Let's get going as soon as we can. We can rest in that Garden above, set a watch and block the entrances. We must be wary for Zayifid's return...he wants the scroll. Hajar says

Hajar will carry the scroll if no one else wants to...he feels like its his responsibility

Will save: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15

Bartan takes a peek at the scroll and it seems to make an incredibly bright light that only he sees. His eyes hurt and he's seeing stars, and it doesn't seem to be going away.

Of course you max out on the number of days for me to be dazzled. :-P

Bartan! Are you okay??

"Dealer?!" Yazi lets out as Paige calls attention to the man.

"My... well, I'll be blunt. My eyes have been affected by some sort of fell magic. I can see, but not as well as normal. I fear this might be permanent..."

Her face deadpan blank Yazi walks up to Bartan and begins poking him in the forehead. "Quit. Going. Blind. From. Messin. With. Cursed. Magic. Stuff."

Enjoying the freedom of his new armor but wary of the cold that seems to cling to him, Khayal pushes on to the right.
Come, let us finish with this place.

Hajar will lead the group up to the Garden for rest. They will set one person to watch and block up the exit as best they can.

Hajar uses his last remaining spells on Khayal CLW: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7 and himself CLW: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

I need 2nd level spells!

"Well, I suppose you'll just have to rely more on your fingers than your eyes for awhile." she tsks with a grin as she leads Bartan back to the garden.

"I am sorry, Lady Yazi. You may punish me appropriately when we return to the city."

Khayal will head back to the garden with the rest of the group instead of pushing on. He accepts Hajar's healing but instead of repairing his flesh, the spells cause him to become terribly ill and nearly unable to move. Khayal grasps his stomach in pain and looks angrily at Hajar, What are you trying to do to me brother?

"I am sorry, Lady Yazi. You may punish me appropriately when we return to the city."

"I may? Oh ho, if this is how haughty you're behavin in your current condition then I might have to recruit Paige or Uni to help discipline you..."

@ the Garden

Yazi looks on in bewilderment as Hajar's divinely granted healing had an opposite effect on Khayal. "Um, Sunshine, what did you do? Is Mrs. Sunshine mad at you?"

I am sorry Hajar, Khayal trusts you but that really hurt (nauseated). Khayal does not know enough about such things to diagnose the true problem.

Hajar recoils as Khayal retches I! I do not know....perhaps this place was cursed. The armor you wear! Take it off!

That way Yazi can take the armor as well! Muahaha!

"This is why you don't go robbing tombs..." she mumbles.

(I have to ask if Bartan was able to do detect magic or a Spellcraft check before he got dazzled. Not that he couldn't do it again, but he might be gunshy until that scroll is packed deep in someone's backpack.)

At the Garden, Paige tells khayal to lie down. Old fashion herbs are what you need, my friend. Some times Magic can play tricks on us. heal: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (5) + 11 = 16

Khayal will take the armor off before Hajar's second spell but the effect persists, with the second casting. After The spiders on the sarcophagus seemed to enter my body and I felt a deep chill. The warmth has not yet returned. Do you think that is what is doing this to me?

Yazi shoulders and her eye twitches as Khayal mentions the arachnid guardians entering his body. Carefully she'll begin poking the discard armor with her axe to see if any of the eight legged monsters stayed behind.

The spider statue? Perhapse we should inspect it. It might contain a clue as to what is happening to you?

Sorry, I assumed I was using three charges from my wand to identify the items before reading the scroll, didn't even think about the possibility of a curse.

Spellcraft+Identify greataxe: 1d20 + 21 ⇒ (9) + 21 = 30
Spellcraft+Identify chainmail: 1d20 + 21 ⇒ (11) + 21 = 32
Spellcraft+Identify headband: 1d20 + 21 ⇒ (19) + 21 = 40

(Spiders on the sarcophagus, Paige, not a statue.)

(And with identify used (next time we'll go for Spellcraft + Appraise and see what that does), Bartan can now tell the party what the items are.)

GM, have we rested?

Pointing at the armor,
If no one minds, this will give me greater maneuverability, my armor slows me down a bit. If one of you has need as well, I would be alright in my current armor.
My fighter archetype trades out armor training so mithril chain is the best way to max my dex bonus. I am not sure how we are doing loot though and Yazi could make good use of it as well.

"I'm good." Yazi says holding up her new axe.

Didn't Yazi just get a new axe? She hasn't even worn the patina off it yet!

One's good against humans, this one is good against everything living :3

Khayal marvels at how easy the metal moves and the very lightness of it. Then a grim look comes across his face, At least it may protect me as my body now rejects the healing of Hajar.

Paige places the bejeweled band on her head. The dead Gnoll must have been a powerful cleric. I wonder what her story is?

We should rest up, finish exploring and then head back to town. I doubt our donkeys are still there so we may need to pull the cart back ourselves.

"I'm sure we could wrangle up some Hyenas to help pull. Oh, and we need to tell the Scalies about Cocoa." Yazi muses.

Khayal looks at Yazi in bewilderment, how she is going to pull that off he does not know.
I'll take the first watch, Yazi you have the Mid, Hajar can have the morning so he can greet the sun, even if we are underground.

Haz Druid, will travel.

"I rather have Dealer. But okay." she says as she takes off her coat for impromptu bedding.

Paige may be the answer to many of our problems, food, water and something to pull the cart.

(Hajar, no one declared resting so no, no resting until now.)

(I was waiting for Bartan with the items, but moving on!)

(Will narrate once I find out your sleep schedule.)

Watches are:
Khayal
Yazi
Hajar

Paige is thankful when she gets no watch duty assignment. She will sleep and prepare spells. Halfway through Yazi's watch, Paige will wake up and create something to eat and drink for her friends. Continental breakfast when they wake up!
Super glad to have a few spells loaded again!

Bartan tells the group about the items:
The greataxe is a black iron +2 greataxe that functions as a greataxe of life stealing. Price 25,715 gp; Weight 4 lbs.
The chainmail is +3 mithral chainmail, no other modifications. Price: 13,300 gp; Weight (light) 25 lbs instead of 40 lbs.
The headband is a headband of inspired wisdom +4, 16,000 gp.

"Oooo..." Yazi purrs, positively giddy at being told what her new axe can do.

During her watch when breakfast starts appearing she'll give the Druid a playful hug and squeeze before letting her get back to her preparations.

*hugs* Thank you Yazi-always-so-affectionate! For you... *poof* Lusha-berry naffles with Osirionite myrtle-bark syrup. A druish favorite!

Paige is also very happy with an emerald circlelate of wisdom upon her brow.

"Thank you, Badger." she says as she happily begins downing the offered meal.

So the adventurers get to the bottom of the House of the Beast, find the crypt of the ancient priestess, and abscond with the treasure laid therein. They go back out through the Temple of the Waiting Beast with the dead sand kraken, hop their way across the pool of green slime and Screaming Ghosts, and walk back up the stone pillar doubling as a staircase to the level above. After they leave the room with the metal-and-stone frame that forms the strange bell-shaped cage, the floor reforms back into a seamless cover.

Back in the Garden of Stone Speakers, the bodies of the slain gnolls still lie decomposing on the grass-topped ground. The Protectors of Kelmarane, indifferent to the corpses, set up camp after their long 4th day in the House of the Beast. Taking advantage of the stone benches around the cobblestone fountain, the adventurers start a sleep watch under the light-emitting crystals on the ceiling twenty feet above.

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The next several hours pass by uneventfully, the druid waking during the other woman's turn, and making breakfast for everyone by magical means. There are no sounds other than the flow of the water in the room, and an inconsistent breeze that sometimes drifts through the grass, bushes, and trees.

It is past a full eight hours now. (Khayal, you recover the normal 1 hit point per character level. Everyone can get back 1 point of temporary ability damage for each affected ability score. Nobody talked about watching with Heal checks for long-term care.)

(Characters moved on Encounter Map. Move if you were actually in a different place.)

SURPRISE ROUND:

Init:
Hajar: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (17) + 1 = 18
Yazi: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6
Paige: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 2 = 12

Up! Everyone up! The genie is taking our bottle!

Paige throws the Lusha-berry naffles with Osirionite myrtle-bark syrup at the invisible man, hoping the gooey goodness would make his position apparent to the fighters...

"Bwah-huh? Put that down Zappy!" Yazi growls as she charges toward the disappearing cylinder.

To arms! To arms! Hajar shouts and he stands and draws Tempest Zayifid you rogue! I'll not let you have the Scroll!