PFS PbP - Emerald Spire - The Tower Ruins (lvl 1-2) (Inactive)

Game Master Revvy Bitterleaf

Nothing (other then some singed webs) can be found in this room

(What do you want to do now?)

"Is the fire over?" Sjonegaard inquires upon returning to the room. "Perhaps that door?" He points to the northern end of the room.

"We've also got one more secret door to check in the throne room."

Eladrian speaks up. "Actually, there are two doors back there, and I agree. I hate leaving unexplored areas behind me, but it does seem that we have been moving in kind of a circle. We could end up clearing everything out just by moving forward."

Moving towards the obvious door in this room and deeming it safe to open you do so and see a roughly L-shaped corridor behind it. Other then the door you just opened there are 2 more doors for youto continue your exploration.

Torrag will take a peak in the cooridor, but not enter.

"We should check and make sure our friendly neighborhood trapmaker, Mr. Addington, didn't leave us anything."

Perception: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 1 = 10

Eladrian moves into the room, and decides randomly which door to approach and check for traps.
1 for Left: 1d2 ⇒ 1
He approaches the left door and looks it over.
taking 10 for trap finding for 22(10+11 perception, +1/2 lvl trapfinding)

Torrag detects nothing unusual

Eladrian thinks the door in front of him isn't trapped (or locked)..he's a bit suspicious about the floor of the corridor to the east though..and he thinks he spotted the faint outline of another secret door at the far end of the corridor as well

Something catches Eladrians eye to the east, so he takes a closer look..
Taking 20 for 31

Hard to post til Tuesday

Tenerek follows Eladrian aiding him as necessary. . switching to sword in close confines

Eladrian spots what appears to be a trapdoor (outlined on the map).

It matches the surrounding flagstones quite well and seems to be triggered by the weight of any Small or larger creature stepping on the trap door.

"Careful! I found a trap. Everyone watch out for this." Eladrian calls as he carefully marks out the perimeter of the trap for everyone to see. He then goes to the door on the left and opens it.

"Well done."

After Eladrian points out the trap, Torrag floats over behind him.
With the fly spell on, you can assume Torrag is floating about 6 inches off the ground unless stated otherwise.

For the next 4 1/2 minutes or so anyways ;)

Eladrian opens the door and looks down another T-shaped corridor, with 3 doors...only of of which you don't know what's behind it. A quick glance around doesn't show any trapdoors, secret doors or either a trap or a lock on the 3th door in this corridor.

"Looks like there's only one door for us to go through down here."

I'm assuming you guys go for the door I've placed you in front of on the map?

The doors leading into this room are ajar, held open by jagged chunks of masonry placed as doorstops.
This large room has a wide hole in the center of its floor. A heavy, welded steel ladder descends straight down from the lip of this shaft. The extent and depth of the space below are concealed behind the many crisscrossing, whitish-gray spider webs filling the pit.

Many interwoven webs cross the upper room, making it difficult terrain. The steel ladder is set securely into the floor and ceiling but can’t be used until the webs have been cleared away.

Perception: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 1 = 21

"There's 2 spiders in there."

Heading Torrag's call, Eladrian pulls his bow and fires an arrow at the nearest one.
Attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (11) + 5 = 16 +1 if within 30'
Dmg?: 1d8 ⇒ 3 +1 if within 30'
After he releases the arrow, he slides to the side so that others may pass through the door.

Init Torrag: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (10) + 1 = 11
Init Eladrien: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 2 = 10
Init Tenerek: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (13) + 3 = 16
Init Sjonegaard: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 2 = 17
Init Spiders: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (9) + 6 = 15

As Eladrian shoots one of the spiders two pale and round-bodied giant spiders the size of a large dog rush forward to attack.
Their crimson eyes glitter with malign intelligence.

init
Sjonegaard, Tenerek
Spiders
Party

Damage Red: 4

Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8

Assuming I can see it from where I am.. if not I delay til after Sjonegaard has moved and 5 ft step forward and do the same"

Tenerek uses studied target on the green spider and fires an arrow at it.

Longbow + st + pbs: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (13) + 9 = 221d8 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

Sjone hurls a javelin at the red spider before moving forward five feet and drawing his earth breaker.

1d20 + 5 ⇒ (8) + 5 = 13, 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

Knowledge Arcana: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (12) + 8 = 20

Torrag informs the party of what he knows of the spiders.

Sjonegaard hurls a javelin into some webs (doesn't hit AC) before taking a step forward and drawing his earth breaker

You technically don't know this, but just in case someone would move into one of the webs..it's easier to know this before hand: Anyone who enters a square of moon spider web must succeed at a Reflex save (DC 13) or become entangled

Tenerek then steps up after Sjonegaard and studies one of the spiders before firing an arrow through the doorway hitting one of it's legs
(I'll assume the green one for now)

The spider with the red eyes spits out a web at Sjonegaard
To hit touch AC Sjonegard: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (6) + 11 = 17
entangling Sjonegaard in sticky strands of web
DC 19 strength or escape artist check to escape, the webs have DR5/slashing

The spider with the green eyes moves forward a bit and spit the same type of sticky silk strands towards Eladrian
To hit touch AC Eladrian: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (12) + 11 = 23
entangling the half-elf.

init
Party
Moon Spiders

Damage green: 6

"Bother."

Strength: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15

Well, in RL I am a severe arachnophobe.. so it is easy for me to say that like hell would anyone willingly walk into a giant spiderweb that just happens to be filled with giant man eating spiders.. but thats just me!

Strength: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4

Terrified, his limbs turn to jelly and Eladrian is unable to muster the strength to resist

Torrag casts Magic Missile at the damaged spider.

Damage: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

As Sjonegaard and Eladrian try to escape the sticky strands tangling up their limbs and hair Torrags casts a magic missile hitting the already damaged spider some more.

Tenerek fires another arrow at the same target.
To hit AC: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (6) + 9 = 15
piercing another of it's legs
Damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7

In return the spiders surge forward and try to bite their entangled targets

Green to hit (entangled) Eladrian AC: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 4 = 24
Red to hit (entangled) Sjonegaard AC: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7

To confirm vs (entangled) Eladrian AC: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (12) + 4 = 16

The one going for Sjonegaard fails to get it's fangs past Sjonegaard armor but Eladrian can feel the giant spider fangs sink into his flesh next to his collar bone

Damage Eladrian: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5 (and a fort save DC 15 vs poison or loose 1d3 ⇒ 3 strength

init
Party
Moon Spiders

Damage green: 16

Tired of struggling to break free of the webbing, Sjone attempts to smash the spider that has closed in on him.

Power Attack: 1d20 + 7 - 2 ⇒ (20) + 7 - 2 = 25, Damage: 2d6 + 8 ⇒ (4, 1) + 8 = 13

Tenerek seeing the grim situation Eladrian was in, begins to fire quickly at the green spider attempting to scare and alarm it

rapid fire longbow + pbs + st: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 111d8 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7

rapid fire longbow + pbs + st: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 191d8 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7

Torrag, realizing he's still to easy to hit, pulls out a wand and casts shield.

To confirm Sjonegaard's threat: 1d20 + 7 - 2 ⇒ (14) + 7 - 2 = 19
Extra damage: 4d6 + 16 ⇒ (5, 2, 2, 3) + 16 = 28

Hardly slowed down by the sticky strands clinging to his body Sjonegaard swings his massive hammer in a wide arc, hitting the spider right in all of it's 8 eyes..it's skull explodes into a gory mass as the spider drops to the floor..dead

Tenerek quickly fires 2 arrows in rapid succession at the remaining spider but only 1 arrow sinks into the spiders flesh which turns out to be enough to make the spider drop down from the webs it was clinging too and fall to the floor as well

(out of combat, so feel free to save your wand charge if you want Torrag)

Torrag casts Detect Magic.

Nothing inside this room (other then what you brought with you) detects as magical

The webs in this room are extremely sticky and you will get caught inside them from time to time as you move through the room (but since there's no danger/hurry) you can make it through the room if you take your time.

Or you can take some time to hack through the webs with a sharp weapon and clear the room of webs

If you examine the room you find nothing, other then a ladder inside the shaft which fills the middle of this room.
(which leads further down the Emerald Spire)

Fort save: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12
Eladrian stumbles as he is released from the webs, feeling weak and faint. He turns to Tenerek "Thank you. I don't think I would have looked the greatest hanging from these webs as an empty wineskin.. "

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(What do you want to do now?)

Work our way counter clockwise then finish up with the secret room?

Tenerek draws his sword, moves p to the door and examines it for traps etc.

Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (18) + 6 = 24

With some effort and liberal use of some swords to cut your way through/past the sticky spiderwebs all through the room and still getting stuck from time to time you manage to make it to the door Tenere wants to examine.

You quickly find out it's unlock and in fact it's not even closed. There's a small gap with a stone wedged between the door and the frame to keep it open. Not finding any traps Tenerek opens the door with confidence and behind it you see;

Another L-shaped corridor, with doors at 3 points.
Massive black iron gates bar the corridor, fashioned out of twisted, angular vertical bars that have sharp edges and are about a handspan apart, linked by welded crossbars. The gates have massive hinges set deep into the walls, and a heavy lock inside a welded box secures sliding bars that run into sockets in the floor and ceiling at the center of the corridor. Moreover, a black iron chain with links as thick as a human thumb wraps around the gates where they meet above and below the lockbox. The chain’s ends disappear into holes in the lockbox.

Didnt we find a big key a few rooms back?

You found a key under a skeleton covered in some rubble a few rooms ago, and you used that key to unlock a door. Not sure if you consider that a big key

"Well if we can't go this way, let's start with the secret room and work our way back around."

Since it won't effect things that much...making a little side trip

At Torrag's suggestion you investigate what's behind the secret doors you found a short while ago and find out it's just an empty connection corridor

(What are your plans now?)

ok.. my bad. I forgot that we used that key already. Eladrian moves forward to the door at the end of the L shaped hall and checks it for traps. Taking 20 for 31

Just because you used a key on a door already doesn't mean you can't use it on other doors btw ;)

Moving through some rooms to go around the bars that seal off part of the corridor you enter the same corridor through another door when Eladrian spots what looks like a pit trap right in front of the door.

He also has a sneaky suspicion that there's something not quite safe about the bars, they might be trapped as well.

"Should we go around and approach this room from it's other door, that side may not be trapped? Or do we have a way to trigget the pit trap.. say by stomping on it with one foot?"

Eladrian shakes his head "The way things have gone for me this time around, I think coming from the other side would be best."

"If it's trapped, I say we enter the room from the other side. It seems Mr. Addington designed this place to be accessible as long as you know which way is safe."