Male Human (Tian) Monk (Flowing Monk)/4, Witch/1: HP (41/41): AC (22/touch=18/flat=14): Saves (Fort=6/Ref=8/Will=8): Initiative +4: Perception +9: Sense Motive +6
Does anyone here have mage armor on their class' spell list, or able to make a UMD DC 20 relatively easy? I have a wand of mage armor, but not a very high UMD yet.
Male Human (Tian) Monk (Flowing Monk)/4, Witch/1: HP (41/41): AC (22/touch=18/flat=14): Saves (Fort=6/Ref=8/Will=8): Initiative +4: Perception +9: Sense Motive +6
since we know it's hear somewhere, Kavakii will help Alanya systematically serch for the correct grate
"He DID say there was a loose grate here somewhere, right?"
Branson sees the loose grate (Perception 31 when taking 20) and points it out to the others. "Up here guys!"
He climbs up to the grate Fillian also used. Two of the bolts are missing, and the grate swings upward easily. The others easily reach the loose grate as well, and enter the belfry.
You find yourselves 10 feet above the base of the lowermost bell and a further 5 feet above the solid platform below. You will have to safely negotiate the scaffolding to reach the platform below.
Climb checks are required to reach the platform below. You can't take 10 in this location.
Male Human (Tian) Monk (Flowing Monk)/4, Witch/1: HP (41/41): AC (22/touch=18/flat=14): Saves (Fort=6/Ref=8/Will=8): Initiative +4: Perception +9: Sense Motive +6
you need climb or acrobatics? Once again, I'm happy to secure the knotted rope here until everyone is safely down, then untie it and climb down unassisted?
@Kavaki: It's climb, not acrobatics. You may do what you suggest, but of course you'd first have to climb back up.
Kavaki, Chyras and Alanya make it to the platform below. Branson has some problems, and doesn't even cross half the distance. Traceni's watching the others climb down.
@Branson: Luckily you don't fall down! Roll another roll to see if you make it to the platform this time :)
Branson's second attempt to climb down may make the others wonder what caused the trouble the first time, as he now easily climbs down. Traceni also joins the others on the platform below.
Once everyone's descended you start moving, but suddenly hear a click when you step onto a trap. All four sections of bells in the belfry begin to peal, sending off a signal of your arrival throughout the entire cathedral.
The ringing of the bells is incredible loud, leaving most of you deafened for several minutes.
Amount of minutes deafened (Alanya):1d4 ⇒ 1 Amount of minutes deafened (Branson):1d4 ⇒ 1 Amount of minutes deafened (Kavaki):1d4 ⇒ 1 Amount of minutes deafened (Traceni):1d4 ⇒ 3
Chyras, did I get Alanya's Fort save correct? There was something on good or bad saves in her profile, and Fort = good = 2? It wasn't entirely clear to me.
The trap door on the belfry’s platform leads to a narrow wooden staircase descending the dome’s interior and opening onto the dome’s viewing gallery (marked with a red circle on the map).
Looking down from the gallery at area 3: Congregation Hall:
The Cathedral of Aroden’s former congregation hall fills an enormous, high-ceilinged open space, with the rectangular nave opening into a large circular chamber beneath the building’s grand dome.
Along the dome’s ceiling, a fresco depicts Aroden’s apotheosis and his famed battle with the wizard-king Tar Baphon on the Isle of Terror. Although intricate, the fresco’s crumbling perimeter and fading colors betray the lack of recent maintenance. A narrow wooden balcony, lined by a finely carved balustrade, encircles the dome’s base and the cathedral’s nave. The balusters depict men following several different professions, while fine calligraphy graces the top railing.
Forty feet below, an enormous altar—itself the size of a small building—stands stoutly below the dome’s apex. The cathedral’s nave stretches out to the south. Soft blue light streams into the enormous space through dozens of meticulously decorated stained-glass windows lining the nave. They illuminate trophies of all sorts—from weapons to wands—hung from the hall’s many columns.
Signs of last night’s gala and the massacre that interrupted it are obvious: freshly painted sunburst decorations, tables swathed in fine cloth covered with spoiled food, a portable stage standing empty but bloodstained, and corpses littering the floor below.
You follow the gallery till you arrive at an ornate choir loft that sits twenty feet above the ground, joined to the narrow balcony encircling the nave and dome. The richly decorated wall panels depict scenes of strangely dressed men, while the low marble balustrade shows human figures celebrating. Many of these scenes have suffered recent damage, with stone shards and a broken bannister littering the floor. Several smashed glass cases line the room, numerous swords of widely varying styles and construction poking out of them.
Along the Cathedral’s south wall, a ten-foot-wide rose window glitters with the sun, bathing the loft in light. A number of red figures surround a strange white shape against the window’s blue background.
A spiral staircase leads down and a pair of doors lead east and west.
Knowledge (religion or history) DC 15:
You suspect that the scene on the rose window should depict the raising of the Starstone, but the figures’ hands are positioned in such a way that they appear to be lowering the artifact instead of raising it.
Perception DC 25:
When you inspect it carefully you notice the rose window and its stone frame are riddled with cracks.
We have an actual map now! Click on "Shadow's" below my name to view it. Please read this post in the discussion thread if you don't know how Ditzie works.
"It is quite odd that the figures in that window appear to be lowering the Starstone, and not raising it. One would expect it to be the reverse."
Perception:1d20 + 11 ⇒ (16) + 11 = 27
"Additionally there are numerous cracks around this window and the stone frame. You see, here, and again here," he says while pointing out some cracks.
Branson will cast detect magic and give the place a once over. He'll scan the dead bodies, the walls, floors, the adornments, etc.
It now occurs to me that deafened as we are, you all might not have heard what Branson was saying. If we don't get into a fight or something in the next minute, Branson can reiterate it to people. With that said, an alarm usually means people should prepare.
Branson will move straight towards the spiral staircase, and wave at others to join him in getting to the bottom. The possibility of a fight looms in his mind.
Branson tries to inform the others of his discoveries, but Chyras is the only one who fully gets what Branson says. After some pointing it's at least clear something is up with the rose window.
When Branson moves for the stair case something unexpected happens: the rose window moves. Luckily all the pointing earlier prevented the animated window from catching you by surprise.
Male Human (Tian) Monk (Flowing Monk)/4, Witch/1: HP (41/41): AC (22/touch=18/flat=14): Saves (Fort=6/Ref=8/Will=8): Initiative +4: Perception +9: Sense Motive +6
Does the mirror "levitate" or does it have "legs"? I would like to discern if a trip combat manuever would have a effect.
Male Human (Tian) Monk (Flowing Monk)/4, Witch/1: HP (41/41): AC (22/touch=18/flat=14): Saves (Fort=6/Ref=8/Will=8): Initiative +4: Perception +9: Sense Motive +6
to keep things moving, and because I never formally asked Chyras to use my wand of mage armor on us, Kaviki will pull a potion of shield from his bandolier and drink it.
shield:
School abjuration [force]; Level sorcerer/wizard 1
Casting Time 1 standard action
Components V, S
Range personal
Target you
Duration 1 min./level (D)
Shield creates an invisible shield of force that hovers in front of you. It negates magic missile attacks directed at you. The disk also provides a +4 shield bonus to AC. This bonus applies against incorporeal touch attacks, since it is a force effect. The shield has no armor check penalty or arcane spell failure chance.
Chyras hits the rose window with a splash of acid, creating a small hole in the glass. Kavaki drinks his shield potion for extra protection against this unexpected opponent. Traceni then moves over to the window and draws her morningstar.
The window moves out of its frame and hovers slightly above the floor. It then attempts to hit Traceni with a double slam.
Male Human (Tian) Monk (Flowing Monk)/4, Witch/1: HP (41/41): AC (22/touch=18/flat=14): Saves (Fort=6/Ref=8/Will=8): Initiative +4: Perception +9: Sense Motive +6
tried to move to square 2 left of Traceni. Kept getting this error message, "invalid LEFT value on x_5" when I tried to save by hitting "enter". Please move me to that location.
Can someone move me to the space just to Traceni's left where I would have done my failed aid attempt please. Of course, if Traceni was going to roll a 1 my aid couldn't have helped, so we're timing our bad rolls well.
@Traceni: The link changes when you hit Enter. You have to place the new link in your post, or no one's going to see your updated map. Like in Alanya's post.
A barrage of attacks follows from the various party members, but they all miss.
Male Human (Tian) Monk (Flowing Monk)/4, Witch/1: HP (41/41): AC (22/touch=18/flat=14): Saves (Fort=6/Ref=8/Will=8): Initiative +4: Perception +9: Sense Motive +6
Chayras his attack misses, but Kavaki delivers a shattering blow to the rose window. Pieces of glass fly off in every direction, but the window's still moving.
Male Human (Tian) Monk (Flowing Monk)/4, Witch/1: HP (41/41): AC (22/touch=18/flat=14): Saves (Fort=6/Ref=8/Will=8): Initiative +4: Perception +9: Sense Motive +6
Kavaki will FoB, and since Branson is aiding, he'll take Branson's advice to swing twice with Kavaki's blade instead of his fist. lol
With Branson's aid and Chyras' distraction Kavaki manages to get two powerful hits in. The rose window shatters, leaving a thousand pieces of colored glass on the floor.
