[PFS] Crypt of the Everflame (Inactive)

Game Master StephNyan

Kendra raises her hand and from a distance flips the switch with her magics on three.

While Crystal, Giri, and Kendra flip the switches and run past the, now open, traps to reach the door, Kyra sees the door open in front of her. Kyra quickly steps forward and holds the door open, allowing everyone else to pass into the space beyond before she does the same.

The map's been updated!

You end up in a corridor that splits of in two directions. The southeast part of the corridor then splits off again. All three paths you can choose from have a door at the end. The wailing is more intense inside the corridor than it was in the trap-filled room. It comes from beyond the southeasternmost door.

Be Careful there could be more traps. Crystal Whispers.

Kyra waits where she is until Giri has a chance to examine the area for more traps...

"Giri, you're up buddy." Kendra says in a friendly tone.

Giri has no trapfinding :P Just perception but I'll give it a whirl!

Giri makes his way forward and looks for traps, not doing a very good job. The wailing keeps catching his attention.

Perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (2) + 7 = 9

Oh, I didn't even notice that you were a knife master before. Well, I think you still have the best Perception score of the party.

Giri doesn't think there are traps inside the corridors.

Mist and chill comes off Crystal's hands as she clenches her fists.

Be careful, I have you covered
She stays firmly by the door ready to attack anything that threatens her companions.
Ready action Acid Splash (Frost)
Acid Splash (frost) touch: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 2 = 13
Damage: 1d3 ⇒ 2

Giri inches towards the southern door, trying to be as quiet as possible.

Stealth: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (12) + 10 = 22

He listens closely at the door, trying to discern what is behind it.

Perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (14) + 7 = 21

If he deems it safe he will beckon everyone forward and opens the door.

The mournful wailing grows louder with each step toward the door at the end of this musty hallway. There are a host of bones strewn on the floor here, many of which are cracked and broken. Giri listens closely at the door and is fairly sure there's a very sad human wailing behind it.

When Giri tries to open the door, he discovers it's locked.

Giri motions everyone back and listens at the next door. If he deems it safe he motions everyone forward again and opens it.

Perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11

Giri listens at the next door and hears soft, hurried steps of multiple feet on the other side.

Not sure if that's a situation you'd deem safe? :P

Kendra whispers to everyone.

"Maybe open the door and we step back. Just in case there's something pr someone waiting behind the door to take our heads off?"

Giri scrambles onto the wall, still being stealthy, and stops just above the door. He pulls out one of his nets and a dagger, and nods to Kendra that he is ready.

Kendra hefts her axe and steps towards the door.

"On three." She whispers back to everyone.

"One."

"Two."

"THREE!"

Crystal readies to blast through the door if something threatening comes through.

Acid Splash (cold, touch): 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 2 = 15
damage: 1d2 ⇒ 2

In the small chamber beyond the door lies the body of a man sprawled in the center. Perched atop the corpse sits a man-sized brown and yellow beetle, trying to push the corpse into the corner where a pile of trash and filth awaits. the beetle turns toward you when you open the door with a lot of racket. It makes a bunch of awkward sounds aimed at you, but stays where it is.

@Crystal: I let you hold your attack, because the beetle isn't coming through the door. If you decide to attack anyway, you'll use the same rolls.

Can we get the map up?

Giri looks very confused at the party, not being able to see what's going on.

"Disgusting. We must retrieve this poor man to be returned to his family."

Careful, the man was behind a locked door and something killed him. It may not be just the beetle in there.

"Hold on. Is the beetle trying to talk to us or something?"

Kendra holds for a moment to see the beetles reaction next.

"leave that man be and scuttle long beetle." She says firmly.

but if the beetle comes at her she'll attack with an overhead chop of her axe.

The beetle doesn't move. It stares at whoever's in the door opening.

I updated the map.

Giri looks from kendra to the door opening. No clue what is going on whatsoever.

Kendra waves her hand and four purple-white hued lights appear and float quickly towards the beetle.

"Shoo, go beetle. Ugh don't make us have to fight you too. Did you kill that man?"

Do you really think a lowly bug like that can talk? Crystal asks in a dismissive tone, but still she holds her attack, with the chill mist flowing off her right hand.

Kendra snaps back. "Animals can communicate to those who know how to read them." Then looks back at the beetle with a teeny tiny bit of worry as she makes the lights move to chase the beetle off.

The beetle attacks the lights, not realizing it cannot fight them. When she moves the lights a bit, Kendra notices the beetle chases after them.

"Grrriri raaaather wreep not killll it."
Giri says as he sees the beetle follow the light, giving away his position. He looks a little sad at the thought to kill it.

Kendra keeps the lights moving away from them and makes the beetle go as far away as possible.

What do we see inside, is there another doorway in the chamber that we can run through? if so Kendra will signal to the group to run across and get through the door while the beetle is busy, if not then Kendra will signal to the group to get the body and pull it back here.

Please take a look at the map by clicking "Pick-a-game run" below my name. You'll see the positions of a descending staircase and a second door.

Feel free to drag the beetle's token to wherever you want to lead it with the lights.

Cool thanks and done. Forgot there was a map of this area. My bad.

See I told you, just a dumb bug attracted to light, Anyone with any sense knows bugs can't talk.

Crystal grabs her skirt to shorten it and allow her to run as she readies to follow Gimi and Kyra's lead.
She will stay near the other two if they try to cross the room.

Kendra leads the beetle to a corner of the room, where it stays busy trying to catch the lights. She then runs up to the corpse and, with help of everyone who follows her, picks it up. Now carrying the corpse, your group runs down the stairs that leads away from the beetle.

You didn't specify if you wanted to take the stairs or the door, but the door's very close to the beetle...

The stairs descend and, after some feet, directly ascend. You arrive in a lofty chamber. Half of the chamber has a lowered floor, with stairs on either side to reach the bottom. Standing next to the south door is a tall wooden statue of Kassen grasping a gigantic wooden shield in each hand. One of the shields is inscribed with the word “home,” while the other reads “family.” There's a second door to the north.

I updated the map. You're inside a new room, and I let you bring the corpse with you so you can still inspect it.

"At least nothing immediately threatening in this chamber." Kendra says while searching the body for anything that can identify who it is and if they have anything on them that may help.

Closer inspection of the corpse reveals the man's a villager from Kassen. Probably one of the men charged with installing the 'traps' meant to challenge the party of youths who were originally meant to visit the crypt and obtain the flame, before something creepy happened that required Pathfinders to take over.

What are we planning to do with this? Crystal asks, putting down her the body she was helping to carry.

Then she goes and wipes her hands off the cleanest portion of the dead man's clothing that she sees.

Giri shrugs, not sure what the customs are over here. At home most grippli would have been left to the forest if dead, no reason to risk another death. He moves to the door to the north and listens closely to see if he hears anything behind it.

Perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (5) + 7 = 12

If he deems it safe he opens the door, if not he tells the group to be ready before opening it.

"Nothing we can do for him now." Kendra says then see's Giri move to the door so she gets up and walks over to him.

"Picking up anything Giri?"

"I will say a prayer for his soul to reach the Boneyard safely. Then I suggest we leave him here for now. Perhaps we can retrieve the body and return it home once we have concluded our mission here."

With that, Kyra takes hold of her holy symbol and kneels next to the corpse. "Dawnflower, I beseech you to allow this fallen soul to reach their after life without the molestation that his earthly remains received from the denizens of this crypt."

After the prayer is done, Crystal does a quick search of the the body to see if there is anything on him that they could use or that identify the man.

Giri deems it safe to open the north door, and opens it. There's a corridor behind it.

This long corridor is flanked by a row of human statues, set into alcoves on each side. The statues look like Kassen, and each one holds a longsword out in front of it. The blades of roughly half the statues are wrapped in leather padding.

Map updated.

Crystal searches the corpse for something to identify the man. She finds a handkerchief with the name 'John Doe' embroidered on it.

Giri slowly moves forward, eyeing the statues closely. He makes his way to the first statue to the right and tries touching the sword.

Kendra follows behind Giri. "Well these are somethin." She says looking at the statues.

How much do you want to bet some of those statues are traps?

Crystal stays well back from the statues but peers all around trying to see if she notices anything.

Perception: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 1 = 17

Kyra stares at the leather wrapping. "I concur with Lady Rime. I imagine the leather wrapping is to keep the recipient from being struck too hard."

The four statues closest to you don't have their swords wrapped in leather padding. Giri carefully touches the sharp sword of the first statue to his right, but nothing happens. Crystal notices there's no extra padding lying about.

Giri looks back to the group, not knowing if the statues really are traps. To make sure he takes a closer look.

Perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (3) + 7 = 10

I don't see extra padding, so it may be that only the padded swords are trapped statues.

Giri doesn't discover any traps when taking a closer look.