Doodle moves 15' closer, moved myself on the map readying an action to cast a spell on the tiefling if he returns to the scrum. "We need to head after him. He will warn everyone in this whole place about us!"
Ledt places his hands over his ears as he sees the thunderstone approaching. The shriek is horrible but he is still able to listen properly "We have to catch him! What direction did he took?!"
The halfling rushes over the stairs towards the place were the man flees.
Acrobatics:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21
Did we see if he took the first corridor or the second corridor to the North?
If I can see the man from the new position...:
In case Ledt sees the man from his new position, he casts 'grease' at his feet.
Ref DC 15, no SR
In that case Ledt hustles to the far end "Someone, remember to pick up any useful stuff on those bodies" and while he reaches the corner, he peers-through to see what is there, and make signs accordingly to his companions.
Stealth-full speed:1d20 + 8 - 10 ⇒ (15) + 8 - 10 = 13
m Dwarf init +9, perception + 11; +1 if trap; +2 if there something unsual in stone (trap or secret door) The dm roll then. "marchand" level 2. AC 17, 27/27hp; Fort +3, Ref +6, Will +3; +2 spell, spell-like and poison
Yâble stop to play violin for other battle. and start to walk.
acrobatic:1d20 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 2 = 18
Evarice channels holy energy, healing those around her, but only slightly.
Ledt, Yâble, and Doodle all make moves closer to the entrance, trying to catch the fleeing guard.
--UP NEXT--
Evarice
Doodle
Taerel
Yâble
Ledt Renedar
Varian (-8 hp, deaf)
"Tiefling"(purple)
Those in bold may act
(As it's been nearly 24 hours, someone may wish to consider botting Renedar and Varian. I'm guessing they'll move to give chase, but please take into account the squeezing rules for Renedar (spaces only one square wide—like the doorway—cost an extra square of movement).
Half Orc Male Half-Orc Monk 3 HP 23/23; AC 15; TCH 15; FF 12; F +4; R +5; W +5; CMB+7; CMD 21 (22 vs. grapple); Speed 40FT; Init +2; Perception +6;
Renedar moves up the ramp and into the room behind the narrowing, squeezing into the small chamber next to Ledt.
I think that's double movement, is it possible to stop where I put Renedar on the map?
Yes. That's a double move (squeezing the whole way), and you end squeezed (-4 attack, -4 to hit). However, you're really only "partly" squeezed, so I'll cut those penalties in half for that position.
Only Varian remaining to finish the players' turns this round.
Doodle rushes forward, trying to catch the tiefling. With her slow speed, she doubted she'd get to him, but she wasn't going to stand by and do nothing. Double move or 40' total to his position.
So, you can take the south passage, and (by my count) end up in the same square as the southeast corner of Renedar (N20, causing you both to squeeze), or the west passage, and make it about half-way up (K16).
Rounding the corner, Renedar sees what was once a shrine room, recently converted to a barracks.
Stuffy and hot, this shrine has been transformed into a guardhouse. The smell of cooking food fills the air, and the poorly vented fire, burning in the shrine’s southwest corner, leaves a smoky haze in the room. Everywhere there are signs of a hurried collection of artifacts—the walls are covered in an elaborate relief sculpture, its surface marred with deep gouges where parts of its face were haphazardly carved from the larger whole, and a number of niches in the wall now lie empty, their icons and relics absent. The fire consumes a huge sheaf of palm-frond pages, upon which Vudran calligraphy may be discerned as the flames devour it.
"They are burning their orders!" Says Ledt as he sees the fire on work on turning around the corner.
If the fires seems on the point of being handled and the pages are still recognisable, Ledt uses his cloak to put off the fire and recover the pages. Otherwise, the halfling continues running into the next chamber to see where the sentinel is running to.
It costs 1 standard action to dismiss though :/
Doodle and Renedar chase the tiefling, but find they're both to slow, albeit for different reasons.
Ledt grabs the burning pages from the cooking fire, stepping over the gear scattered about. This is a full round action, according to the scenario, but see my note on initiative order, below. fire damage:1d4 ⇒ 3 Reflex DC 12 for half:1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20 So, 1 fire damage, and I'll subtract 1 for specifying you're using your cloak to protect your hand -> 0 fire damage
Taerel and Yâble stand, frozen, unsure how to react.
At this point, I'm going to suggest dropping out of initiative order, unless you really want to chase the Tiefling. He has a bit of a head start.
Evarice tries to identify if the carvings have any religious significance, She doesn't think up anything significant, but she does give the room a thorough look.
m Dwarf init +9, perception + 11; +1 if trap; +2 if there something unsual in stone (trap or secret door) The dm roll then. "marchand" level 2. AC 17, 27/27hp; Fort +3, Ref +6, Will +3; +2 spell, spell-like and poison
Yâble just look silently the group not knowing what to
Ledt has pulled the burning pages from the fire by the time Evarice gets there. The books is Mizravrtta Brahmodya, a religious text likely to be of interest to the Society.
The fire was built at the site of a now desecrated shrine of some sort. The shrine and it's icons have been covered with graffiti and scratched by (presumably) the recent occupants.
Knowledge(religion) DC 15:
Trained checks only
Some of the remaining iconography decorating the shrine relates to the worship of Meenashdu, a (NG) Vudran god of charity and almsgiving.
Leaving the bodies at the temple entrance untouched and unexamined, Evarice spends time riffling through the packs of the three guards living in this small space. Her search of the converted guard room reveals several minor treasures, including a tiny silver statuette of the Vudran goddess Likha and a gold seal (used to mark letters) etched with Vuradni script and showing a 10-tusked elephant.
Linguistics DC 12 (trained only) OR Vudrani language:
The gold seal reads "Sigurdanda Virgandya" the name of a legendary Vudran maharajah
"Does anyone speak Vurdan? I can't believe they ruined this." Evarice fumes as she sees the ruined shrine and the ruined art. "It- how old is this, and they just scratched it. They even tried to burn this Mizravrtta Brahmodya! "
Evarice calms down after a bit. "We need to search the guards for more clues."
Evarice will investigate the bodies and apply emergency first aid.
Perception:1d20 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 = 14 Heal:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21 Heal:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10
She also wants to know if Varian wants more healing, and if the guards should be brought to consciousness.
The guards are alive, but severely wounded and unconscious.
Each of the bodies has a pair of cleats (for moving freely across the ice) (makes it *not* difficult terrain), which they didn't have time to put on after being surprised.
Both carry bronze Aspis Consortium badges.
As you move the bodies next to each other, you realize they are probably brother and sister.
Digging through the gear of the first guard, you see a red potion, a high quality crossbow bolt that he didn't fire, masterwork chainmail, a masterwork heavy wooden shield, a masterwork heavy crossbow with 10 bolts, a masterwork longsword, a somewhat bloodied cold weather outfit, and 23 gp.
As you search the gear of the female, a green potion, a white potion and two alchemist’s fire. She's also wearing masterwork chain shirt, a masterwork heavy wooden shield, weilding a masterwork battleaxe, a light crossbow with 10 bolts, cold weather outfit (also bloodied), and 46 gp
Doodle didn't have a head for religion or strange languages, so she observed and helped the others check the downed sentinels for goodies. She takes an alchemist's fire as those always seemed to come in handy.
She looked at the three potions to see if she could tell anything about them.
Red 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (16) + 5 = 21
Green 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11
White 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9
Evarice will apply emergency aid and tie them up somewhere, so she can pick them up later for desecrating the temple. "Aspis Consortium. Well, they are definitely here."
"This red potion is one of Bull's Stremgth. Any of you strong types want to get even stronger," she says, holding out the potion to the first to claim it.
While the others identify the potions, Ledt casts detect magic and checks if anything else is magical.
He specifically tries to identify the special bolt, and whatever he finds, he takes it and prepares to shoot it in his crossbow.
Spellcraft:1d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 19
"It seems the time to continue has arrived. Let's head around the corner and see what surprises they have for us..." says the halfling, crossbow ready.
He will dismiss the enlarge person spell if Renedar feels uncomfortable with it.
You step carefully out into the courtyard (A3), expecting trouble, but not immediately seeing any.
The temple’s central sanctum rises from this wide courtyard. Bas relief carvings cover every inch of its curved surface— winsome apsaras, vanara heroes, and avatars of the monkey lord himself all seem frozen in the bone-chilling cold. In stark contrast with the celestial beings carved on the sanctum’s outer walls, a carved throng of evil covers the walls of the courtyard itself—fiendish asuras, great black nagas, and goblinoid hordes are frozen in stone as they besiege the mountain rising from the temple’s center.
Knowledge(planes or religion) DC 10; may be untrained:
The walls of the courtyard and central sanctum are a structured catalog of outsiders affiliated with Vudra, from the wickedest to the most enlightened.
To the west, you see the other side of the fallen banyan tree that had blocked your initial entry.
Please go ahead and position yourselves in the area.
Yes, The description was for A3, where Evarice was (is). The "sanctum" is the big round thing in the middle of the temple. The carvings described are on its outer walls. You can't see inside from here.
"Well, it's pretty work, I have to admit. Of course it's scary, too. I can fill a whole notebook for the Society drawing pictures, and explaining this area alone!"
