Hephaistos Raising... An Iron Gods thread

Game Master Helikon

"Well done, friend." Tamoq will follow Gin with the corpse. "Miss Elasbeth, would you happen to have some of your innate healing magic available? My friend Korba here has sustained some injury, though it's not life-threatening. If not, we can wait until we return to town."

Gin nods after he recovers and looks to the party... Common was not his first language here so he could not formulate what questions he wished to ask.

"The only questions I have are where the artifacts are. Beyond that I defer all the questions to you."

"If it's not life threatening right now, then we had best wait until it is necessary, or tonight if I still have some left in me. Using my nan...." Elasbeth stops abruptly, realizing what she almost said and changes it to something else, "Using my power to heal like that is very taxing and I just don't have enough control to do it too many times in one day."

Miniri catchs the slip of Elasbeth, but does not comment on it. "I am fine dear." Nan- huh...

Once the team reaches the cave of the humanoids, Kunala shows the dead body of the last goblin to Sef. After receiving the payment for their work Kunala says in his lisping accent

Thank you so much Sef, It was our pleasure to help you. If you do not mind me asking what is the secret to opening those metal doors, like the one here in your cave? We found one like it in the cave the gremlins were living in. Also, are there any artifacts that you may know of or that you have found that we might be able to look at?

Remember Kunala, your pistol has the broken condition
Sef looks at Kunala and points to the pouch. Those are all items I have found beyond the metal doors.[/B]

Gin bows to Sef for her pronounced honor upon keeping the deal. He then looks to Elasbeth a it confused as well. " Were you tryingu to speaku mai tongue? 'Nani' means What in mai languagu "

thanks for the reminder, in the excitement I had not noted it, when given the opportunity he will repair it, but until then he will leave it holstered :)

Kunala nods to Sef and asks

would you show us how to go beyond the metal doors?

Edit: when Kunala has a moment he will give the bag to Miniri to inspect the artifacts

Looking almost frightened at Gin's question sh responds, "No Gin, I was not, just forget about it please." She seems completely unwilling to talk about what ever it was any further.

Miniri takes this exchange in between Gin and Elasbeth, yet again does not comment on it. Her eyes look from Gin to Elasbeth with the combination of facination and disinterest that only cat eyes can manage.

Miniri murmers, audibly but not precisely loudly.

Turning to Sef, she switches to common again. "Yes, yes... the doors seem familiar somehow... I want to examine them if I might. What have you learned about them so far?"

"The doors... very tough. Open possible but area behind very strange. Its.... a desert! But 4armed skeletons real dangerous!"

kunala will use a diplomacy skill check to "Give lengthy or complicated aid"

diplomacy: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (20) + 8 = 28

Sef it would be a great favor to us if you would show us how to get past them

Sef leads you to the lower door and you can see that it is actually a illusion made by a little box ... and that the door is indeed breached.
OH and welcome to level 2

*ding*!

Yay... time to look at leveling then... might not be until this evening...

I cant remember do we roll or not?

Tamoq has been successfully updated. I also realized that I wasn't adding my Armor or Shield bonuses to my AC, so Tamoq will be significantly harder to hit now.

updated, the extra hit points gives a little breathing room, I assume still down the 5

Are we entering through the door in area A8 where Sef is? Or are we going back to area A11 to see if that door operates the same way?

Miniri examines the cards, curious as to their nature.

What can I determine about them?

assuming we are going through the doors in A8,

Kunala nods to Sef and says in his accented lisp

Sef you thank you for help, if we may be of some other service, just let us know.

turning to the team, who would through the door first? I am ready to follow

he finishes with a flourish of his hand, and draws his trident and readies his shield.

Miniri looks at Kunala and then at his pistol.

"Perhaps you should fix your weapon before we move further... would hate to see it explode when you try to fire it next, eh?"

Kunala nods to Miniri

It will take about an hour, Miniri, that will also give you time to look at the items in the pouch. I will start working on it, if the team needs me to stop, I am happy to use my new trident

smiling, he flinches as he sits down, opening his pack and getting out the proper tools he begins the process of repairing his pistol.

assuming we take an hour break
After an hours work Kunala finishes repairing his firearm, reloading it {still cold iron) and placing the trident back it its place he hefts the pistol and shield and in his accented lisp says

thank you for the time to repair my firearm, shall we proceed?

Having taken the time to look through the items in teh pouch with everyone, Elasbeth can't help but agree, "I imagine we should, we only have so long to get back to the surface after all."

Gin folds his legs setting both bastard swords on his lap and sits near the metal door in a dutiful pose awaiting if the group wished to go forward.

What does studying the cards reveal about them?

Miniri nods, now that their party has its gear in order again, and draws her bow and arrow.

"After you. Be cautious though, this is likely to be even more trapped than these caves have been."

Gin rises slowly inspecting the door in front of him as he carries the Heavy Blade over his shoulder. " Ai will try to go firsto. " Moving to go through the door if possible.. he was barely injured.

Just an info. I live in Germany, so I will be sleeping in a diffrent timezone.
Mini please roll an Knowledge engeneering DC is 15.
You would say it is from some hard material, but not metall. There is a brown Symbol on it, but you cannot identify it.

Ready to continue?

After waiting for Kunala to fix his gun, Tamoq takes the lead this time, stealthily trying to open the door to the next room.
Stealth: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (20) + 9 = 29

just double checking, we are leaving from A8 right?

when Tamoq gives all clear sign Kunala will follow after Gin

But we have a set of doors up North still..?

Either or, these doors are right here but we can travel north. Same deal tho. Adventure, either way, we won't be able to do more than maybe a fight or two

If you check the upper doors you find them still locked.

gin will try and pry them apart if they know no other way to open them.

Str Check?: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (9) + 4 = 13

No chance.

Sure! Knowledge: Engineering: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (8) + 8 = 16

"How do we open these? Is there a key?"

Gin lies on the ground n all fours contemplating his complete failure. he was too weak to open even a door. it was a new experience for him and a shocking one at that.

the reason I brought up A8 is that we went to talk to Sef in A8 and the door she told us about was the one exiting A8 to the east, so my assumption is that we would leave from A8 to the east

BTW DC is 45.

Sef leads you to the lower door and you can see that it is actually a illusion made by a little box ... and that the door is indeed breached.

OH and welcome to level 2

if everyone is ready

Kunala points to the breached door, waving his pistol nonchalantly and says in his accented lisp

That is our destination, Tomaq I believe you offered to be our stealthy guide into the unknown domain of the "four armed skeletons"

nodding to Gin smiling,he says,

if you will follow Tomaq, we shall follow along, myself, Miniri and Elasbeth and proved moral support as well as the occasional missile

then to Elasabeth he asks

these four armed skeletons Sef warned us about, do you believe they are cousin to the creature we fought in the 'forge'? Do you remember what worked best against It?

talking as he follows behind Tomaq and Gin.

Gin shrugs as he has no idea what Kunala is speaking of, however he wields his oversized bastard sword with confidence.

Unless I was retconned to be here for the forge and not know it, Elasbeth wasn't her for that fight and has no clue.
Preparing to follow along, Elasbeth give Kunala a strange look, "Creature in the forge? Is not that the place you came from when you found me at the inn already?"

No worries Elasbeth, I am the GM, and neither I remember any one 4armed skeleton being faught before. I could be wrong though

Tamoq will stealthily move into the room with the possibly-fake box.

Stealth: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (8) + 10 = 18

I am pretty sure he means the construct fight before I joined. Whether it is somehow related to that or not. Hence why I said all that.

sorry I thought Elabeth was with us, I didn't say we faced a four armed creature, I asked if the creature we fought might be similar to them, cousin was the exact word, seeing they came from the same place

After an hour of rest you carefully enter the new area.The walls, floor and ceiling of this slightly curved hallway are made of smooth dark gray metal. Panels of lighter material run along the ceiling eight feet above. To the north and south the tunnel is blocked by walls of metal junk and rubble, while open doorways yawn to the east and west. The interior is unlit and rather cold

Kunala removes one of the lightrods that Val had given the team out of his pack and after illuminating it he asks

would someone mind carrying the light, I seem to have my hands full

I assume we came from the west so the next plan of action is to go through the east doors

edit: new map, forget assumption

Did I make the check on the cards?

Perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (17) + 4 = 21

"This this is an interesting place. I like it."