Trevor and Faradin manhandle the mirror from the Chaplain's office and display it in front of the weird eye fungus thing. It stares for a moment, quiet and unblinking....then a loud shriek is heard (almost felt inside your head) and it crumbles into dust. A large teardrop of what smells like pure ammonia hits the floor with a splash, causing you to leave the room for a moment.
The door forward is revealed.
Do you want to ask anything else of Winter before moving forward?
Trevor asks Winter. Is there anything we should look to bring back? You said you were low on food so where can we find the kitchen if there is one.
Winter looks about to see that she is alone with the party before she replies to Trevor
What we really need is to somehow find a way to stop or eliminate this fog so that we can escape. In the end, there is no survival here in a long term sense of the word.
We have about 6 days of food now. I fear the nature of this place will kill us all. I fear the nightmares that happen to all outside the chapel are changing us into...well, things from nightmares.
That being said, food is important for the short term, and I can tell you what I know of the general layout of the place.
The place is generally rectangular
There are three enclosed courtyards; the small one where you came up from the furnace rooms and two others. They will be exposed to the fog so use caution there.
Past that door is the entry way; in our southwest wing is the building services portion of the place. Laundry, furnace, boilers, a small workroom under the rubble. The chapel is the only area in this section open to visitors
The southeast section is the admitting area. North from there are the day rooms and a ward. On the far north is the kitchen area. The northwest had some bath facilities. The center section that divides the two remaining courtyards are the library and records sections, some meeting rooms, doctors offices, etc.
Many patient rooms and wards were on the second floor but I don't know if they still stand.
As you walk to the door, Winter gives one last piece of advice Find Ulver Zandalus. He is a quiet, although disturbed, artist. I don't know how he could have led the patient revolt, but many accounts indicate he was involved.
Beyond the door, a wide open space can be seen. White tile, spiderwebbed with cracks, lines the walls of this cathedral like hall. A prominent oval desk faces staunch double doors, while hard benches and portraits of somber doctors line the walls. Regal stairs ascend toward a second floor, but rubble has crushed the upper flights, blocking passage.
Lofty windows, gridded by bars, reveal yellow mist seething just beyond.
Let us try the north doors. Trevor heads there.
Winter gives you a good description; it looks like ...
Winter replies to Faradin I cannot tell you what to do with him ... it may be a shapeshifter assuming his form to lead the revolt, he may be under some sort of magical influence, or similar
JP hears nothing at the door. Kicking time?
Trevor opens da door!
A room of sagging shelves, held together by dust and an extensive system of rolling ladders, ring this room of husky, dull looking tomes. At the room's center broods a heavily worn table surrounded by uncomfortable chairs. A chandelier of iron vines dangles above. The scents of leather and old paper pervade the high ceiling space, but so does a distinct bestial musk.
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Hmm..Might be a wild critter in here. Trevor will enter cautiously with the others.[/b]
@ JP - no one asked.....
However, each person can have a musket and 10 cartridges (ball and powder and wadding in one paper sleeve).
Musket two handed weapon, damage 1d12, range incr. 40 feet, full round action to load (per barrel of a two handed firearm).
Note that the pistols aquired by Faradin are a standard action to reload each barrel (one handed weapons).
JP also notes that the lower shelves have many books knocked off of them and they lie scattered across the floor.
Trevor takes one musket in case of rabid dictionaries.
@ JP and Lazarus - a good point is made; these muskets are all essentially medium sized. That will limit the halfling a bit on the big guns.
The muskets have a strap so that they can be slung on the back for easy readying.
The pistol misfires on a 1; the muskets misfire on a roll of 1-2 to hit (so about two thirds of the time when JP uses one!).
Trevor notes that there are holes chewed in the shelves and the verticals between shelves along the lower rows where the books are knocked off. They are about the size of a decent sized rat chew path.
As a note - without specific instructions, I assume the party wanders somewhat randomly into the room to make their various perception checks - and those making checks are ahead of the others.
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The Lord of Cats senses a rat. Levelling his musket, he pauses a few moments in the middle of the room to detect magical auras.
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JP senses no magical aura but as he moves into the room, he hears a chittering - snarling from overhead.
A book comes whirling his way!
, but it misses by a mile!
Crouching on top of the 8 foot tall bookshelves in the dark shadows are three small rat like things - they could be rats but it looks like their hands are more like human hands, and they stand on their back feet, but hunched over.
Bursting out of the north bookshelves are two swarms of rats!
Combat time! Party's turn!
Trevor takes a shot at a rat thing a ding
Why do people like these gun things so much? They suck
Well, you both hit at least!
Lazare and Farading, go.
Lazare and Faradin? You out there?
Nope, maybe we shouldn't start burning since this hospital.
Faradin's musket misfires, gaining the broken condition!
Lazare runs to the south end of the room, feebly waiving his rapier about and chirping about rats, rats
Each ratling flings a book at the PCs!
, hitting for
, missing!
, missing!
JP leaps into a swarm of rats, but misses with both attacks!
the rest of the party may go - JP is actually in the square with the rats, but I wasn't sure how to show that and still be able to read the letters.
Trevor pulls his Earthbreaker(move) and moves so he is one square SE of the rat swarm north of him, going to help Catman(move)
Lazare remembers from Halfling Adventurer School that Rat Swarms are made up of tiny creatures, and are NOT immune to weapon damage.
See SWARMS way at the bottom of the page.
Trevor may also attack the swarm if he so desires.....
Trevor slams his hammer down
Someone give me a move and an action for Faradin.
Trevor smashes a few rats, dealing some decent damage to the swarm. The rat swarm moves into Trevor's square, and the half orc is bitten and chewed by dozens of the things!
Another swarm chews JP
Two of the ratlings each fling a book at Lazare!
, missing
, missing
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the rat swarms are AC14; the tiny ratlings are ac16
Trevor keeps going after the rat swarm
JP hits with two shots, but the big half orc's earthbreaker merely craters the floor with a big hit.
Someone give me a move for Lazare (as he is travelling); Faradin is also up.
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Faradin's eyes suddenly turn red Beep beep! Exterminate and he slices at the nasty
BREEEEEEP! Error! Error!
@Faradin - go ahead and submit a round action - we will use what Trevor said for Lazare!
Faradin kills the rat thing in front of him!
The two rat swarms continue to chew on their opponents!
a book at Lazare
Players turn!
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