I was just letting Thomi's previous 22 Stealth "ride", unless there was a new reason to make a Stealth check.
Right now Initiative looks like:
- 23-Aegwyn
- 22-Thomi
- 18-Controlled Saklasi #1
- 15-Controlled Saklasi #2
- 13-Toranindracar
- 11-Controlled Saklasi #3
Still waiting for Varan & Bijannar to enter the fray!
"Blast it!" I shout in frustration.
I look at the others.
"Literally -- blast it! Unless I'm wrong, and I am never wrong, those barrels are explosive!"
Bijannar, who had a spell readied (and isn't surprised) steps into the doorway and targets all three men with his spell. ().
for Bijannar's initiative roll!!
So we've got:
- 23-Aegwyn
- 22-Thomi
- 20-Bijannar
- 18-Controlled Saklasi #1
- 15-Controlled Saklasi #2
- 13-Toranindracar
- 11-Controlled Saklasi #3
Varan?
Initiative:
Varan will attempt to interpose himself between the threat and the squishier members of the party, and attack when he’s got the opportunity.
Varan’s in! Here’s Initiative – Who does what?
• 23-Aegwyn
• 22-Thomi
• 21 - Varan
• 20-Bijannar
• 18-Controlled Saklasi #1
• 15-Controlled Saklasi #2
• 13-Toranindracar
• 11-Controlled Saklasi #3
Also, I failed to mention that there is a 10-foot diameter raised marble dias portion, roughly 8 inches high and with a silver band at the top. This is what the 3 guys are camped out on top of. The walls in the room are covered in frescoes and carvings, as is the dome itself up to roughly 2/3rds the height.
The winds whip around Aegwyn and her eyes flash. The air shimmers between as she commands the winds to assault the senses of the nearest foe.
She then steps back to allow the others to get through.
Aegwyn's eyes flash as a powerful gust of icy wind blows down the corridor you are standing in and gales down from the opening in the top of the dome. Dust and debris fly everywhere, a cloud of ash hangs in the air above the fire for seconds and slowly starts to come down, as if time had slowed for just one instant.
The feint lantern light seems to dim ever so imperceptibly around the first Saklas follower and you swear that for a moment you see a ripple in space itself. Still holding the grappling hook in his left hand, he very intentionally drops the sword from his right hand and smiles in the direction of the door ( ).
Could everyone except Thomi (whose amazing previous roll I will let ride) roll either a passive or active (in place of a move action) Perception check?
Passive Perception: 26
Additionally, you notice something you hadn't caught before about the dark robed Saklas worshiper who just dropped his sword. When you first opened the door he was swinging the grappling hook as if to throw it up, toward the hole in the ceiling. But now you see that that action doesn't make sense. Tied onto the grappling hook (which is attached to a rope ladder) is a very fine thin twine which you see coils down to the ground and then back up and is tied to a bolt loaded into a heavy crossbow which is on top of one of the barrels.
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Thomi- You're up!
-- the connection between the grappling hook, the ceiling aperture, the rope, the rope-ladder, the twine, the crossbow, etc. I'm confused about where these things are, how they're connected and why. Does it look they were in the midst of setting up a crossbow trap, but hadn't finished yet, which is why the twine is still coiled up with plenty of slack?
-- the die on the ground, which apparently wasn't part of Aegwyn's intended spell effect (and which she apparently didn't even notice). You said I'm fairly sure the die is still in my pack, even though I see it on the ground. So are you saying Toranindracar believes it's a copy? or maybe an illusion?
-- so the guy just dropped his sword, smiled, and continues to just stand there and smile? He's not approaching? This seems like odd behavior, even for someone controlled, but it seems like we're supposed to be confused about that, so that's probably okay.
-- So are two guys approaching, but the third is standing there? Or maybe all three are approaching? :)
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Knowledge (dungeoneering):
After Aegwyn cast her spell- all three men immediately draw their weapons. Then the man who is still holding the grappling hook in his left hand, dropped his sword (as a free action), and turned to you all and smiled. The man in the middle dropped the rope ladder. None of them have moved other than to draw their weapons. Only a few seconds have passed since Aegwyn cast her spell. Thomi is next in the initiative order.
If you like you can (as a swift action) pick up the die next to her foot. It's landed with the one pip facing up. You note that unlike your current die, this one has had an "X" carved through the one-pip. Something about it is unnerving you (you can make either a Perception check or Sense Motive on your own initiative turn), although that would be a move action.
Does that help clear everything up?
Thomi- Since Aegwyn's spell, it looks like they have already been disrupted. They seemed to be trying to construct a rope ladder up to the large opening up in the top of the dome. Right now the three of them have drawn their blades and are waiting for you, although one of them (the one still holding the grappling hook has intentionally dropped his). No knowledge of dungeoneering required, I'll let that ride from your Perception check. You still have all of your actions left for your turn in the initiative.
Toranindracar-let me know if you want to spend a move action to pick up the die and examine it in detail.
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Movement: I'm going to stealthily (I hope) slide into the room and angle along the north wall to see if I can move around and get close to one of them. If my movement is sufficient (can't tell exactly from the map), then I will attack the closest. Hopefully it will catch him flat-footed.
Attack:
Damage: Gladius
Damage: Sneak Attack:
Thomi disappears like a shadow into the darkened room and slides along the wall until he finally is lost in darkness only to re-emerge as the Saklasi screams in pain and surprise as Thomi's blade slices through the dark robes and banded mail.
Bijannar incants the final words of the ancient Brotherhood formula as he lets a fine spray of ground mica fall from his hands and tosses it dramatically in the direction of the three hooded guards. Suddenly a burst of glittering dust descends from the dome and covers the three men and outlines the shadowy form of Thomi who is murderously standing behind one of the men. The sparkling dust explodes a hue of golden light reflected from the two hooded lanterns.
Despite the glittering dance of a thousand tiny suns in the room, the three men seem undisturbed by the display, although each (and Thomi) is now covered in a layer of the golden dust.
Bijannar mutters to himself.... "Well hell.... didn't expect the rogue to rush right in...."
Perception check.
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Bijannar smiles at his party and says, "Well, at least Thomi is going to look fabulous as he murders these fools."
"Thomi?"
"You gonna kill those guys?"
"Well I wasn't going to invite them home for sweet cakes and tea."
"That might be the sparkling golddust I summoned to blind our enemies.... Sorry."
"Don't blame me. I don't do itchy noses."