Lady Trace Tries to sneakily and suddenly have her sword against his throat, if successful in this she will the say "Release your summons and surrender or face the consequences." and she says it as persuasively as she can.
"Nicely done, Dublaine! But I heard someone inside as I was on my way down from the roof,"
[OOC:] sorry for being a bit keen, didn't meant to muddy the waters ;-)[/ooc]
Dublaine acknowledge Grigory's curt nod, grateful that he'd been able to make up for his past mistake. After sorting out his rapier, he bent down to take a look at Eudonius. Though no expert with healing, he wanted to make his companion comfortable as the others made for the shop.
Ah, yes you did. Very well, Lady Trace pushed past Grigory (who probably warned her that somebody was in there) and stepped inside. The man was yelling down an open trap door and ignored Trace. The man also ignores the blade at his throat.
Lady Trace will be wary that this may be an illusion but she goes for the slit throat anyway and then immediately takes defensive stance looking for where else an attack may come. If no attack is forthcoming she will peek down the trapdoor, while watching for ambush or traps.
As Lady Trace pulls her dagger across the man's throat, there is no accompanying spurt of blood, and the man continues to shout unimpeded into the open trap door. With the mounting evidence, she can finally see through the illusion, just. It was clearly a well-crafted bit of magic.
Getting up from the floor while picking his blade and stretching his bruised joins Eudonius dismiss Dublaines worries.
I am fine, i am fine. Go help them, the gnome stored his piece of the enjoiner at his safe in the cellar, the entrance is through a trap door,
A sudden flash of light and crackling sound of electricity come from the open trap door.
As the flash of light clears your vision, you realize that the sounds of rock on rock have doubled in frequency. Dust rains down from the ceiling, and you hear an ominous groan somewhere in the rafters above.
Walking in behind Grigory, Krojun looks at the two standing besides the illusion looking down in the basement and then upwards towards the ceiling. "Where is this noise coming from?" he half yells to be heard over the pounding. He raises the lantern to get a better view.
Because of the positioning of the walls up hee, the only way to get a look at what's going on downstairs is either to lean over the edge and stick your head down, or actually go down the stairs into the cellar. Anybody care to exercise one of those options?
Lady Trace will hop down, stealthily.
Having acknowledged Eudonius as being ok, Dublaine followed the others, but not before grabbing his lantern and lighting it. On seeing and feeling the shaking he had to redouble his efforts. Moving forward into a shaking house, took all his courage.
Nice rolls, Lady Trace!
Trace hops down, using the floor above to swing herself wide of the stairs, plopping down almost silently on the dirt of the floor below. The glow of light from the open vault illuminates two small-sized earth elementals pounding away on the foundations of the east wall. They ignore you (or haven't noticed you yet), but given the amount of damage they've already done to the foundations, you doubt that they are illusions. As you watch, one of them rears a fist back and slams it into the foundation stones, but instead of the immediate crash you expect, the fist slides part way through the rock before crashing with the stone in the middle.
Trace's map is for her only; everybody else can look at Krojun's.
Eudonius moves to the front of the store to prevent enemies from sneaking away that way. He uses two charges of his magic wand to heal himself, checks for anything out of the ordinarie on the surroundings and enter the store through its front entrance if nothing is found.
You can walk around the store, if that's what you mean. If you mean through the store, yes, there is a doorway that leads into the storefront itself. It's locked, but the key is in the lock on this side. We're out of rounds for the time being (though I'm keeping track of round-equivalent time frames and are about to reenter with Lady Trace down below). If you don't want Eudonius inside yet, however, that's fine, I'll move him back out and around front. The front door is locked. The extra guy is the illusion of the man in plate mail.
So after checking the street Eudonius will open the front door of the shop and look inside with his half-orc eyes.
If everything looks alright he will enter the store, lock the door behind him and move to meet the rest of the group near the trapdoor, if things are not as they were supposed to be...we will see.
Eudonius sees nothing of interest in store front?
Oops, typo.
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Grigory watches Lady Trace drop stealthily into the basement and awaits an indication from her as to what to do next. Swapping his sap for his scimitar, he prepares to hop down the trapdoor to join her in combat should the need arise.
"Hope the roof doesn't come down on top of us," he whispers to his nearby comrades. "Maybe a few of us should head outside to search for whoever summoned that snake. I would think he's got to be nearby somewhere."
While the creaking and groaning of the building makes him uneasy enough to want to volunteer for the outside search duties, Grigory knows Eudonius' ability to see in the dark and Dublaine's stealth represent the team's best chance of finding and surprising the summoner.
Grigory knows Eudonius' ability to see in the dark and Dublaine's stealth represent the team's best chance of finding and surprising the summoner.
Grigory made his way to the trap door, through which Lady Trace had gone and as Eudonius made his way to the group, clearly looking disappointed, Dubaline began to wonder where was the summoner. Looking to Eudonius, he whispered, "Did you see the summoner, I don't think they're here, so might the be scrying on the place or spying from some location outside? Do you think we ought to take a look?
Dublaine hated to leave, especially with the pounding going on below, but if the summoner could be found, might it bring the 'attack' to an end?
He waited whilst Eudonius considered his words.
On phone sorry for no formatting,
Lady Trace will attack one of them with the short sword, sneak attack if possible, then shout for the others to help.
Please roll for me.
That's reasonable, and I can't see any reason why she wouldn't. She glances up, holding two fingers and pointing their locations, before she strikes and shouts for aid. If you want hand signals for sizes of enemies, you'll have to develop a signal language IC.
Lady Trace attack:
Damage: As elementals, they are immune to sneak attack and critical hits.
Lady Trace plunges her short sword into where the thing's heart should be, but the hard rock deflects the attack, leaving her with just a sprinkling of dust and rock flakes which quickly vanish as her rewards. The elemental has now definitely seen her. Eye-like depressions in the rock creature appear and look at her, but it continues to pound on the foundations.
That was a surprise round. Eudonius will be opening the door from the store front to the back hall during this round, and it looks like Grigory is coming down the stairs with the lantern and Krojun is handing the lantern over during the surprise round. Dublaine may or may not be going outside to look for the summoner.
Initiative:
Dublaine:
Eudonius:
Grigory:
Krojun:
Trace:
Unknown:
Elementals
Dublaine
Eudonius
Grigory
Trace
Unknown
Krojun
Elementals
AC/Touch/FF: 17/10/17
F/R/W: +6/-1/+3
HP Elemental 1: 15
HP Elemental 2: 17
After entering the back of the store Eudonius wisper an answer to Dublaine.
I checked the street in front and the front of the store, nobody. Summoning spells dont have a long range, he must still be nearby. I dont think he had enough time to crack open the safe downstairs but we should check it.
He tells to Krojun before he jumps downstairs.
The gnome's safe is in the cellar where you guys are going. If you can, send somebody to check if it was forced open. Be carefull, the summoner may be down there hidding.
Turning back to the elf.
Lets check the back, if we dont find anything we go upstairs. He entered this building through the back but he did not cross the front of it or we would have see him. There must be another path somewhere around there.
Before leaving Eudonius will also lock the door that connects the front of the store to the back of it and bring the key with him.
The vault is open and empty of people. Shelves line the walls, all with various gems and half-finished jewelry.
CMD is 15.
You can have actions left if you have movement left to get from where you are to the vault and back.
Turning back to the elf.
Lets check the back, if we dont find anything we go upstairs. He entered this building through the back but he did not cross the front of it or we would have see him. There must be another path somewhere around there.
Dublaine nodded, lamp held high and sword drawn he followed Eudonius towards the back of the building. As they moved they heard Grigory's shouts that the safe was open, things were indeed happening swifter than they'd appreciated.
#%*+
Curses the half orc under his breath as they exit to the back of the building. If the safe was open the summoner could be running away right now.
Do you know how to track footprints Dublaine? It may be worth a shot.
Lock the connecting door inside the store and move (30ft) out of the building into the backyard.
Do you know how to track footprints Dublaine? It may be worth a shot.
Dublaine replied shaking his head as he whispered back, "No, sadly not. We'd need Grigory for that and he is otherwise engaged. So what do you think do we go try and find the summoner?"
"Grigory, you help me, everyone else go outside and find the summoner he may be invisible or using other powerful magic, but he does not need to be here for these things to stay and the illusion was to buy himself time, be careful."
She will keep an eye on the vault, just in case he is still in there under a spell. "Grig, shut that"
A bit confused by the conflicting orders of Grigory and Trace, he decides that since he gave away the lantern, he might as well head down into the cellar and lend a hand.
Move action down the stairs into the cellar.
If that brings me within reach of one of the elemental Krojun will make a grapple attempt
, which he fails.
If not he'll take another move action and move close to one
Dublaine and Eudonius head outside to look for the summoner.
Grigory, meanwhile, heads down, peeks into the vault, sees it empty of people, and moves on to whack at the elemental to no effect. Trace similarly has no effect on the elementals.
Krojun descends the stairs and attempts to grab one of the creatures, but finds the stone hard and unyielding, and is unable to get a good grip on the muscular rock.
The elementals add insult to...insult bu continuing to ignore you and pound away at the foundations. Small cracks, similar to those you saw at the other two sites, begin to spiderweb along the rocks, and they start to shift ever so slightly against the weight of the building above. Those outside hear a groaning sound from the building.
Dublaine
Eudonius
Grigory
Trace
Unknown
Krojun
Elementals
On the back Eudonius desperatly looks for any sight of the summoner. Where the $&@¥ are you #%+€!
Dublaine took a moment to look around hoping that his superior vision might reveal something, that in their previous haste, they'd missed.
Perception Argh we're all fairing badly at the hands of the dice.
Ok so taking the time to check around for the summoner, and if I spot nothing obvious then taking a look for what might be the best place to work from, given what we know so far.
The half orc start to look around searching for clues or footprints the summoner could have left behind.
20 rounds! Not ideal.
You both see nothing. If the summoner is out here watching, a good vantage point would be ones like the party used: rooftops. However, while the rooftops give excellent hiding against people on the ground, they offer no cover from each other. Grigory and Dublaine would have had to be blind to not see him.
In which case Dublaine suggests that he ascends back onto the roof and take a look from there.
Ok forget that maybe, or just go through the house inside and onto the roof - I'd say the dice are making a monkey out of me, except that would be a good thing and this isn't.
And then when I do finally get there use perception, Perception.