MUMMY'S MASK ADVENTURE PATH - GM Spazmodeus

Game Master Spazmodeus

Ready

reday with the door

Ready also, if my initiative is higher than Wynrey's, I'll delay in order to move after her

Ready Steady Go!

Harmini and Elendra pull open the door and the smell of fresh earth increases. The short hallway narrows sharply to the west, descending to
set of stairs that abruptly ends at a rough rock wall.

Everyone give me a PERCEPTION check.

Perception: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (14) + 3 = 17

perception: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 2 = 19

I'll be up in Vermont until Wednesday. I'll still be able to post, but roll20 is going to be touch and go up in those mountains.

As the door opens a short hallway is revealed. This short hallway narrows sharply to the west, descending to set of stairs that abruptly ends at a rough rock wall.

As before the orange area is difficult terrain

Chai carefully moves to the top of the stairs, trying to see if it's possible to detect what is beyond the rock wall.

Continuing to Take 10 on Stealth and 20 on Perception

This light is weird. After all, we're underground a fair bit. What's making it? Where's it coming from?

I move behind Chui and wait for his Perception check.

You're right, we are down a ways but I'm more interested in that staircase and where it goes.

Chui and Wynrey both notice the stairs lead down but end completely in a rough unfinished wall.

detect magic

I move over to the wall and check to see if it is solid of it there might be something on the over side and also to look at the holes in the wall.
Perception: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (10) + 3 = 13

I suggest we try this secret door first, and then if there is nothing there, check out the dead-end stairs and burrowing creatures tunnels.

edit on previous post: with a small chant and gesture elendra looks at the stone wall and casts detect magic
Thats a neat place for a door, good eye Chui.

OK, we can check this floor out first.

I move over to the other door and gets ready to open it.

OK, this should be one of the last one on this floor. Or maybe its not. Either way, I wanna open this one with some dramatic flair!

Chui massages his temples (and not for the first time).

Wynrey dear, we're at the secret door over here at the top of the stairs. Let's take a look at this first before trying the other set of double doors.

Take 20 perception at secret door for traps and any evidence of anything on the other side. Is it locked?

I don't know how I missed the discovery of a secret door, ignore my last post.

Harmini's eyes begin to glaze over slightly, though they always seem to shimmer. Suddenly, she snaps her fingers and walks over to the tapestry on the wall and begins examining it.

I suppose I might as well have a better look at this filthy rug if it's all we're going to get out of this...

Alabaster's center gemstone glows as he casts a spell that begins to straighten Harmini's hair and remove soil from her clothing.

First, sorry for the delays and confusion. The meds make me kind of drowsy.

That door looks sturdy but thankfully I have a...oh right, I left it with my mule outside. Well if we can't figure it out and don't mind taking a trip upstairs, then I have a crowbar and a shovel that we can use. It will be loud though. I think its worth the trip. If there is something important, it would be behind a secret door.

No worries. Due to back issues, I once spent several months being unable to do anything more intellectually challenging than watching Teletubbies.

Miss Wynrey, perhaps you can give it a shove with one of your muscular shoulders before going in search of a crowbar.

ok
Str: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 2 = 13

Wynrey rushes into the wall and comes bouncing back. Based on the blow the wall took it seems it might need one or two people working together with tools to open this door. It wasn't extremely well hidden but it definitely was not intended to be opened from this side.

Luckily my back issues do allow me to do some things, actually more than in the past, but the meds have a side effect called cognative fog. It means that without warning I may fall asleep, slur my words, forget what I was talking about, or just in general act in a slow manner. If I wasn't the one dealing with it I would almost say it was comical.

OK, y'all wait here. Where is this crowbar and the shovel? I think I'm fastest up and down the rope we set up

Climb +13

It's on the mule outside. In the front right pack. Thanks Chui.

Chui scampers up the rope, outside, and grabs the crowbar and shovel. Then, he scampers back.

"Scampering" seems like a good catfolk word.

I agree, do you want to make a scamper roll? Or do you not have to since you have a scamper speed?

Thanks Chui, now lets have a look at this door...OK, I see how this can work. I'll stick the crowbar here and if someone wants to help push maybe we can move this door. Who wants to get their hands dirty?

I get ready to push when whoever wants to help gets into position.

Strength: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 19

Wynrey finds a seam to work on and pushes with as much as she can give. The door is strong though. Maybe with a little more help.

How long are you willing to work at it, and is anyone else going to help out?

I'd take 20 on it. I wouldn't mind help though.

I can lend a claw.

Or Take 20 if that is possible

Harmini huffs for a moment at all the noise coming from down the hall.

Alabaster... will you please go help our friends open that door? I'm obviously quite busy over here and it's difficult to concentrate with all that racket.

Alabaster shuffles over and starts loudly banging several of its floating rocks at the tricky secret door to try to open it.

Taking 20 on strength check to assist will generate a 17.

Wynrey pushes hard on the crowbar while Chui pulls on the small gap the crowbar has made. The push and pull with all they have but it doesn't seem to budge. Suddenly though Harmini's stony servant, Alabaster, rushes forward and slams into Wynrey's crowbar and an audible crack can be heard behind the wall.

The hidden door turns easily and a rough tunnel leads north from it.

In contrast to the rest of the tomb, this rough earthen passage is not lined with masonry. At various points along the tunnel, sections of the walls have crumbled, as if something had dug small tunnels in the walls that subsequently collapsed.

Hmmm, maybe some tasty moles ahead!

Thank you, Nice Floating Rock Thing

Chui carefully slips into the earthen tunnel and heads north.

Taking 10 on Stealth and Taking 20 on Perceptions

should we wait for chui to return or follow him ladies?
Elendra peeks behind the door
he's one tough kitty he'll be fine

Good work everyone. First secret door beaten.

Chui cautiously moves ahead.

Chui whispers back

Something is burrowing in the wall to my right

Can I get a sense of how large - like a bear, a dragon, two dragons? Also, do I smell anything useful?

I move into the hallway, ready to attack anything that crawls out of the wall.

I can take care of that.

Wait here guys.

I move further down the hallway, still ready to strike.

I move up to chui

I move further into the hall, still ready to attack.

It might be OK guys, lets go

Chui, mechanically you would guess they are small or medium sized.

Wynrey and Elendra, please give me a perception check.

Everyone give me Initiative checks.

Perception: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15

Initiative: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7