Keeping a careful eye on the statues, Scarlet decides to use stealth to move up to the barricade and carefully look for traps.
Del moves to the edge of the stairway, and looks down, waiting for an all clear from the advance team before descending.
Perception
The four of you make your way towards the bottom of the stairs. Scarlet and Dalron are in front checking for traps, Lanliss and Del directly behind them. You do not find any traps or see anything out of the ordinary, besides the stone slab pile in front of you.
To move forward you will need to climb over or use brute strength to move the stone slabs.
Bozvrig glances down at Truffles worriedly. She snorts and moves forward down the stairs.
“Alright. Stand back.”
Bozvrig strains his back.
“Dose are some heavy rocks. Best be climbin’ over.”
“Show off...”
"A little help here?" Barnabus calls out from the bottom of the pile.
Del attempts to scramble down.
Climb
And finds his armor is much more suited to climbing than to jumping and swimming.
Scarlet goes about climbing over the stone slab.
"Perhaps a rope would help some of us."
As you all are at the wall trying to move forward, Del and Truffels are the only two able to make it across. As the two of them they are caught off guard as a volley of arrows scatter around them. Del takes two hits for a total of 7 damage. Looking from where they came from, the party sees three Varags all wielding bows aimed in at the party.
Initiative
Vargs
Everyone
"Come on! Use a rope or something. I'll hold them off".
Del moves up to the first victim and slices at it with his WarAxe.
Waraxe, hatred
Axe Slash
"Looks like it's you and me for now piggy".
Agile Feet (5/day) (Su) For 1 rd, you ignore difficult terrain.
Hearing the commotion, Bozvrig commands Truffels to attack while he gives the rubble another go.
Barnabus makes it half-way up and then slides down again.
As Del and Truffels charge forward, they both discover that the hay was hiding something below. The floor here is littered with caltrops. Truffels is lucky and is able to avoid the trap, but Del finds himself stomping his foot directly onto one of the caltrops and takes 1 point of damage. Due to the caltrop being in his foot, he can only move half speed.
Del and Truffels both move up and land vicious attacks to the varags they are in front of. An arrow flies from behind the wall and strikes true on the middle varag.
Everyone else is having difficulty climbing over the wall.
"Ouch! Dang it! Dungeons hurt".
"Everybody push!"
Lanliss throws his scrawny frame against the stones.
"I really need to learn how to levitate...." Barnabus mutters as he takes a hit from his flask.
"Ouch! Dang it! Dungeons hurt".
"Hrrruhggghah!"
With a loud “Hrrruhggghah!” Bozvrig pushes his way through the stone wall blocking the pathway. Those behind the wall are free to move.
"Very good to bring a brawny half-orc along. Much easier than learning how to levitate."
Barnabus takes another hit of whiskey.
With the wall down, Scarlet slips pass his companions and follows the southern part of the wall until he reaches the southern most statue. He decides to slip between the statue and the corner of the wall to get next to one of the enemies.
Scarlet sees an opening and darts into the room. Squeezing his way behind the statue, Scarlet finds himself behind enemy lines. With both Scarlet and Del around him, the southern Varag gives an angry growl as it drops its bow and pulls out a Scimitar.
The Varag to the north that Truffels looks as if he is in charge tumbles backwards away from Truffels and barks out commands.
The leader draws its bow and lands a devistating blow. The one in front of Scarlet acts as if whatever the leader said has pushed him and It lashes out with an attack at Scarlet as he passed through their defensive wall. Both attacks hit dealing a total of 18 damage.
The one that Dalron shot with an arrow steps in front of Truffels to prevent any way for it to follow their leader, and give itself a little cover from the arrows. It draws out its Scimitar and strikes down at Truffels and it takes 7 damage. Moments after its attack lands two arrows find their home in the Varag and it slumps lifeless on the ground. Even with the cover of the statue Dalron’s ability with the bow eliminated the threat.
Initiative
Varags
Dalron
Del
Bozvrig
Scarlet
Lanliss
Barnabus
Barnabus moves to get a bead on Varag #1 and casts a flaming sphere to engulf him
"Infernus Burnus!!!" he calls out as the area around the goblinoid bursts into flame.
(reflex DC16 for half)
Lanliss moves forward into the room, already hearing that the fighting has started. He draws an arrow as he moves forward, nocks it to his bow, and looses it at the first Varag he sees.
Scarlet wobbly from the double hit, lashes out with his rapier, hoping to down the enemy in front of him before he is hit again.
Bozvrig steps through the gap in the barricade and roars ferociously at the nearest varag. Truffels, seeing her target engulfed in flames, hangs back.
"Not Nice"!
Slash
Cut
Del takes another well aimed slice at the Varag, but his hands slip a bit on some of the blood on the handle, and the blow is not as severe as he'd like.
The combination of Lanliss’s arrow and Del’s attack causes the Varag that was in Scarlets face to fall. The leader of the group growls something that is familiar to a few.
The last Varag standing looks at Scarlet and lets an arrow fly. The arrow strikes Scarlet square in the chest, the force of it causes him to stumble back against the wall and fall.
With a laugh the leader leaves through the opening to the north.
Avoiding the hay, Lanliss runs over to Scarlet and starts to heal him with the wand of cure light wounds.
As Dalron makes his way across the current room, he sees that there is a collection of water along the west wall. You begin to realize a sound that was blocked out because of the rush of combat. It is the sound of crashing water. You all see water and mist coming into the room from the opening to the north (up and right according to the new map photo)
Dalron walks to the opening and sees that the air here is filled with mist and spray from a nearby waterfall. You see a slick staircase leading down to a slick ledge and walkway. A cavernous chamber opens to the east, its floor lost in darkness. It looks like someone has built a rope line into the stairs as a way to make the descent easier.
Quickly looking, Dalron does not see the leader Varag in this room.
There is an opening along the western edge of their room that goes into the waterfall that is acting like a curtain to the outside world. From where you are, it is hard to make out anything beyond the waterfall except that it is daylight out. You believe that if you wanted, you could jump through the opening, through the waterfall, and into the pool below outside. Getting back in would be impossible.
Avoiding the hay, Lanliss runs over to Scarlet and starts to heal him with the wand of cure light wounds.
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1d8+1
Seeing the varag flee. Bozvrig gives chase, but stops short behind Dalron.
"Best not fall."
"Only one way ta go..."
Bozvrig peers through the veil of mist to see if the varag is lurking and waiting in ambush.
Looking around at the crossing and seeing the water spray in from the waterfall you have no idea where the Varag could have went. But, you do know that there is nowhere in sight that it could have hid. Down the pit to the right, through the waterfall to the left, or continuing on along the path to the opening at the other end are the only three choices.
Lanliss goes and uses 5 charges of the Cure Light Wounds wand to heal him 25 hp, Scarlet is awake and at full hp.
Scarlet opens his eyes to see Lanliss standing over him. "Ugh... thanks Lanliss. Sorry you had to save me again."
He gets up and looks around to see what is going on. Spotting two dead enemies and one missing, along with a few party members missing. He can guess what is going on.
"We should catch up with the others. Getting separated won't be good."
Scarlet starts to head to join those chasing down the last enemy.
Del follows Dalron in pursuit of the remaining enemy. He sighs in frustration when he sees the situation.
"Water... why does it have to be more water... He rubs absentmindedly at the healed but itching scars of the leeches on his body.
If Bozvrig agrees to it, Lanliss will cast lesser restoration on him. If he doesn't agree, Lanliss will cast it on Del.
Before leaving the room, Scarlet does a quick search of the two downed enemies. Not wanting to leave anything valuable behind.
After searching the bodies and pocketing any loot, Scarlet goes to move into the next room.