[PFS/DMK/EMS] The Emerald Spire Superdungeon - Table II

Game Master Kludde

"This area looks a lot like a cave," Ilya comments as she moves over to the water. She takes a look at the pool, to see if the water's standing still or if there's a flow in it.

Perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (5) + 7 = 12

"I expect the double doors south of this pool to be the same we saw earlier. I suggest we go back there, because there were two more doors to explore. Lets not leave any unexplored area behind us."

If nothing happens and there's nothing else Ilya notices about the water:
Ilya makes through the double doors, and up to the door of the unexplored room in the eastern wall. She puts hear ear against the door and listens.

Perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27

She then shares anything there is to share, once her allies have caught up. After which Ilya opens the door, her temple sword raised.

In that case, please move my token :)

Ilya smells the scent of animal waste, and hears a chittering sound.

Ilya turns her head toward the others. "Guys, do you suppose mechanical snakes use venom? Or are they constrictors?"

The room is full of small cages containing rabbits, mice, rats, cats, and dogs. The din is deafening, and the room smells strongly of animal waste.

There is man tending to the animals, or at least doing something to them, judging by the racket. A little mechanical snake is next to him.

As soon as the man look up, he orders his snake to attack.

Ilya, you can roll K(engineering) if you want to figure that out yourself. The snake is rather small, and it look to be modelled after a viper more than anything else

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Ketill
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Man
Snake
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Zen'yr
Redke
Vayu
Kellan
Ilya
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Ketill moves to get a better view of the room, not seeing anything past Ilya he readies a bomb

Readied Bomb for first enemy to appear in line of sight, negative level, cover: 1d20 + 6 - 1 - 4 ⇒ (19) + 6 - 1 - 4 = 20
Damage: 1d6 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7

Excluding Ilya (and self) from splash, explosive bomb: 10 ft splash DC15 for 6 damage. Target is on fire

Knowledge (Engineering): 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (2) - 1 = 1

Ilya has no idea what exactly the snake does, but its resemblance to a viper makes her hope it doesn't carry poison.

The man tending to the animals move into view of Ketill, and is immediately hit by an explosive device.

RFX, snake: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 2 = 20

The man tries to cast a spell, but the distraction from the burns is too much, and the spell fizzles.

Conc: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7

The snake slithers up to Ilya. At close range, it looks more like a metal cobra. It bites at the monk, but Ilya manages to evade the fangs at the last moment.

Bite, Ilya: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (18) + 3 = 21

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Zen'yr
Redke
Vayu
Kellan
Ilya
Ketill
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Man (7, on fire)
Snake (3)
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Surprised by the sudden burst of activity Vayu rushes forward. Assuming there's a reason the man was set on fire by Ketill he fires.

Ranged Touch: 1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 6 + 1 = 10
Damage: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9

(rabbits, mice, rats, cats, dogs): 1d5 ⇒ 5
A dog in a cage behind the man takes the blow. Vayu, horrified at worsening the dog's day, reloads.

Kellan casts a shocking grasp and moves forward toward the room, though she can't make it inside because the stupid snake is blocking the way. She swings Talon at the snake.

Talon: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11
damage: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6 plus shocking grasp: 3d6 ⇒ (4, 5, 3) = 12

Unfortunately she misses, holding the shocking grasp spell on Talon.

Ilya grabs her temple sword with both hands, and swings it at the mechanical snake in front of her.

Temple Sword: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (19) + 6 = 25 2H damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12
Confirm Crit: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11 2H damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

After the swing, she lets go of the sword with one hand.

Redke sees the chaos mounting in the doorway and moves to take a potshot at the metal snake
Attack!: 1d20 + 8 - 4 ⇒ (8) + 8 - 4 = 12
Damage!: 2d6 + 7 ⇒ (2, 3) + 7 = 12

But misses (not as terribly as Vayu) due to people being in the way...

"Stupid front-liners getting in the way" Redke mutters under his breath.

Zen'yr moves to be with her companions. She focuses on her foe, as she always does. Her goal is to impose her will on others. She than casts a cloud of shiny sparklers in his eyes, hoping he is caught off guard/

You know the drill lol. Daze DC 18, 5+ HD is unaffected

Vayu shoots, and an unfortunate dog gets burned badly by the shot. Kellan and Ilya take the front line, but KEllan in a too poor position to hit the small metal snake. Ilya fares a lot better, and swing her temple sword down in a woodchopping motion, making spark fly as metal hits metal.

Some pebbles clatter along while Redke concentrates, but none of them hit the metal creature. Zener also concentrates, but on creating a debilitating effect on the man. The man looks groggy for moment, and his reaction is slow.

WIll: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (13) + 3 = 16

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Zen'yr
Redke
Vayu
Kellan
Ilya
Ketill
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Man (7, on fire, dazed)
Snake (10)
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Ketill moves out of the way to allow the others access to the room

The man in the room takes no action, his mind in a state of distraction caused by Zen'yr's spell. The snake clings and rattles as it lunges out to bite at Ilya, and lands it teeth on her boot.

Bite, Ilya: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 111d6 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

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Zen'yr
Redke
Vayu
Kellan
Ilya
Ketill
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Man (7, on fire, dazed)
Snake (10)
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It just resisted part of the damage from my sword...

Ilya switches tactics. She enters the dragon style and tries to punch the metal snake, thus switching to a bludgeoning attack. As Ilya's fist moves toward the snake, fire envelops it.

Dragon Style Punch, Elemental Fist: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9 Damage: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8 Fire damage: 1d6 ⇒ 2

Her fist then hits the door frame, because she was swinging her arm too wide. "Ouch! What just...?!"

Ilya moves five feet back to give the others a better shot at attacking.

Vayu uses the opening to fire at the snake (with a regular round)

ranged touch B/P: 1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 6 + 1 = 16
damage with up close: 1d8 + 1 + 1d6 ⇒ (5) + 1 + (5) = 11

Ilya misses terribly, but from behind her deafening shot is heard, as the iron snake scatters into a thousand pieces. At smoke emerges from Vayu's gun, the snake lies on the floor, utterly destroyed.

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Zen'yr
Redke
Vayu
Kellan
Ilya
Ketill
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Man (7, on fire, dazed)
Snake - Destroyed
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Fire damage man, at the end of his previous turn: 1d6 ⇒ 4

Ketill waits until his fellows have taken care of the man
Delay

The first attack that is landed on Ilya, I will trigger my Mes Mirror. Essentially a 50% miss chance

Zen'yr looks on as there is a mass of bodies in front of her, she refuses to expend a bolt in such conditions. Seeing the man in a dazed state, she is content to allow the other of her group attack him.

delay, with bolt at the ready in case a firing lane opens up

delayed readied action?: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9
damage + painful stare: 1d6 + 1d6 ⇒ (3) + (3) = 6

Kellan rushes forward and tries to deliver her shocking grasp spell through Talon.
Talon: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18 +2 if he's wearing metal armor, BTW
damage: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5 plus shocking grasp: 3d6 ⇒ (6, 1, 4) = 11

Seeing a possible opening, Redke pegs a pebble at the lone man in the room.

Attack: 1d20 + 8 - 4 ⇒ (9) + 8 - 4 = 13

But he probably misses. :(

Kellan rushes forward at the burning man, and stabs him in the heart. He jitters and shocks as the electricity courses through his body, then remains motionless on the floor.

Combat over!

The defeated man carried three flasks of acid, three flask of venom, a short sword and a hemp rope. The animals in the room screech restlessly, though not for love of their master, as some creatures have been badly mutilated.

"Is anyone able to calm these critters?" Ilya asks with a concerned voice.

Ilya shakes her head in disgust. "What they've done to these animals is horrible. We should take them with us when we leave the dungeon today. Though I'm not entirely sure how..."

While inside the room she also takes a quick look around for useful items, placing the items found on the dead man on the table in the middle of the room. "Take what you want."

Perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 8

"Did you notice the floor's made of stone in this room, just like everywhere else in this dungeon?"

Ilya mentions something about the floor in the animal-filled chamber, but it seems the party's attention is already focused on the next room. This room is choked with tables stacked with stills and alembics, flasks, bubbling vats, and crockery. The eastern wall is fitted with stout wine racks filled with bottles of various sizes and shapes.

The contents of the rack include 11 bottles of wine, five bottles of brandy, eight bottles of vinegar, 14 vials of synesthetic agent; eight vials of antidote for synesthetic agent, three vials of acid, two vials of bull's strength, four vials of Small centipede venom, and three potions of cure light wounds, all neatly labelled.

I've neatly labelled the doors you haven't visited as well.

Dibs on the acid

Perception: 1d20 + 5 - 1 ⇒ (16) + 5 - 1 = 20

"Funny, the potions of bulls strenght have their labels underlined. Guess they are something else. Let me try to identify them."

Craft Alchemy to identify potion take 10: 10 + 10 - 1 = 19
Sufficient to identify a CL4 potion

The 'bull's strength' potions are actually llch dust poison in an oily suspension. Keep away from young children!

Zen'yr will grab acid flask, just in case, then look around.

Hm, perhaps it was excavated somehow, by what I have no idea though. At least the animals will be safe now, that the demented doctor is no longer a threat to them.

Perception, revealed room: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23

"Yes, they're indeed safe for now... Let's move on and come back for them later."

After the inspection of the other room Ilya moves over to the excavated area. Ilya walks over to the nearest single door, and opens it as soon as the others have joined her there.

Ilya opens the door and finds a bedroom. A finely woven rug with a subtle tan and moorit pattern covers the floor of the bedroom. A garderobe enclosed by a wall is in the northeast corner, and to the west of it stands a large wardrobe.

The wardrobe is locked with an excellent combination lock.

Upon seeing the wardrobe being locked
Perception: 1d20 - 2 ⇒ (5) - 2 = 3 Redke turns pale and hurries out of the room.

"Remember the traps! Remember the traps!" Redke mutters while walking away.

"I remember them Redke, I also remember you disarming them from a distance, so why are you walking out on us?"

Perception: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (12) - 1 = 11

Kellan sees nothing at all. "Looks safe enough to me, Redke..."

"want me to fall in again ... That seemed to work ..."

None of the party members spot any kind of trap on the lock or the wardrobe...

Twiddles thumbs

"Redke, you coward, get back here and unlock the damn lock! I'll open it if you're too afraid, but I can't get past the lock!"

Ilya places the hilt of her temple sword against the lock, raises the sword, and tries to hit the lock as hard as she can.

Strength: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7

She slips past the lock, but tries again.

Strength: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (9) + 3 = 12

And a couple more times.

Strength: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (13) + 3 = 16
Strength: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (17) + 3 = 20

Redke sulks back in the room, and staying as far away from the lock as possible starts fiddling with it.

Disable Device!: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (8) + 14 = 22

"I've told you before, if it's locked in a dungeon it's trapped, but look what that did for Ketill last time..."

Redke tries to disable the lock from afar. He concentrates, and breaks a sweat while he manipulates the combination. A satisfying 'click' can be heard, and the reaction of the kinetics is one of relief, but only until he finds out he was unsuccessful. Ilya, not being so patient, then just proceeds to bash the door from the wardrobe door. It yields easily: she damages the handle of the door, but also opens it up to a chest containing 450 gp, 1,250 sp, a pouch of six onyx pieces worth 50 gp each, and a Spire transport token.

While the others are picking and smashing Vayu enjoys some brandy from one of the two bottles he took from the earlier room.

As the antics in the other room subside and others collect around he listens to the double doors near them and barring reason not to, opens the doors.

Perception Listen: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23
Perception Traps: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (10) + 7 = 17

Vayu moves off and peeks at what is behind the double doors. Rows of pews and a stone altar on a low dais show that this room is a shrine. A large statue of a mysterious, hooded figure stands solemn vigil at the east end. Paintings on the walls depict a gray- hooded man in a variety of exploits and triumphs, culminating in his ascension to godhood, when he begins aiding lesser thieves.

"Anyone recognize the hooded guy? I'm not one for the religion, personally."

"That's probably, Norgorber ... the not very nice god." From the earlier roll

Relgion: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 2 = 10 To see if the statue triggers any more memories of this god ...

Vayu eases into the room ...

After collecting all the loot from the wardrobe, Ilya moves after Vayu and Kellan. She takes a good look around when inside the shrine.

"Never heard of him," Ilya replies to Vayu. ""Or if I did, he didn't leave much of an impression on me.

Perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (15) + 7 = 22

Vayu indeed recognises this as a shrine to Norgorber. Ilya has a look round and finds a hidden cavity in the altar, which holds four ceremonial black candles, and a masterwork silver dagger.

"Anyone wants the dagger?" Ilya asks as she pockets the black candles.

After either giving the dagger someone else or pocketing this item as well, Ilya moves out of the shrine and up to the last unopened door.

Ilya waits for everyone else to join her at the door, which is when she'll open it.

I wonder where the cavern north of this door leads to... Probably deeper into the ground.

An ancient stone door opens into a dusty old crypt. Five stone sepulchers sit in the chamber’s northern and center portions. Each is carved with an effigy of a masked man or woman. To the south, one large sepulcher lies, its lid secured with iron bands.

"Hmmm ... iron bands ... must be something good in there!"

Presuming everyone has caught up and is "near", Vayu scans the room with detect magic and looks for obvious trouble, Perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (15) + 7 = 22

Barring obvious threats he moves in ...

Ilya also moves into the room. "The sepulcher with iron bands practically screams danger. I bet something very evil is locked within."

"Though I do expect that evil to have some good items..."

Before opening any sepulcher, Ilya takes a look around the room.

Perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 18

Ilya then carefully lifts the lid of the nearest sepulcher. "Let's make sure everything inside is a hundred percent dead, and can't rise to fight us, before we open the one with iron bands. After meeting those walking skeletons on the other floor I don't trust the dead to stay dead."