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Jakardros, I think I'll opt for the safer option. When it's time I will cast the spell on Fernleaf. I suggest you and Fernleaf have a little discussion about what he should look for. Are we going to start the assault in the brig? That seems like a nice quite place to start and we might find more friends locked up there. If we can do that quietly we could start a two front assault from positions of strength. Then, how do we split up our force?
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"Well we do need to clear out the secret areas first. There could be prisoners downstairs."
To Lumpy, indicating Anaba, Rolande, Cela, Fernleaf, and Buchart:
"Lumpy, follow this command until I say otherwise: if any of these people give you an order, follow it."
"There, now all of you can order Lumpy to charge in and eat up attacks of opportunity. Remember to tell him to charge all the way up to the monster to make sure he gets pummeled senseless - if he uses his ogre reach he might not get attacked."
A deep ravine stretches across this cavern, splitting the room in half. Geodes and veins of glittering minerals shimmer along the walls of the chasm, which drops away into the dark. A ten-foot-wide wooden bridge spans the gulf.
Make a roll engineering or carpentry whichever is better
It does not appear the most stable bridge, but you can't see anything and are able to test with your weight a little creaky, but OK. The crevice is 50' deep.
The Smith's tattoo was about 2 months old. Kaven's three moths old. The floating pleasure barge, The Paradise opened a year ago and burnt down and sank a few weeks ago. Jarkados offers that Kaven volunteered for the weekly southern patrol (a route most of the Black Arrows disliked due to its relatively boring route along the eastern shore of Claybottom Lake).
does anyone want to cross over and look in in the last room on the left?
Yes, let's have a look. I suggest we cross one at a time.
Who takes the lead? Marching order - One at a time.
Anaba
Buchart
Vale
Fahari
Fernleaf
Kaven
Rolande
Sekkim
Shelelu
Jakardros
Is that OK?
Anaba crosses the bridge followed by everyone else (one at a time). The old bridge creaks and moans, but holds and everyone makes it across safely. The passage is 10' wide and goes 100' to a room on the left. Going straight a head is a secret door that would open into the yard. Jakardros recommends not doing that with all the ogres on the wall and probably in the barracks.
Jakardros lets you know that the room ahead is an old crypt which has not been used in decades and he has never been in there. For the last 30 years soldiers are burned in funeral pyres and their ashes scattered.
There is a 5' wide tunnel that goes 20' into an open chamber all is dark and silent. Investigate?
Fernleaf, we need your skills please. Take Fahari with you.
Sure send Lumpy in first Sekkim, that sounds like a great idea!
Lumpy moves into the room allowing you to see a bit further in and stands there. All remains quiet.
The walls of this fairly dry cavern contain twenty seven-foot-wide, two-foot-high niches, in each of which rests the ancient body of a long-dead humanoid. The skeletons bear ceremonial armor and weapons. One of the bodies has been pulled from its niche and lies in a jumble on the ground.
Judging by the tracks from Lumpy and cobwebs on the skeleton - it has been undisturbed for decades.
Bucky, detect magic?
Sekkimm step behind Lumpy and casts detect magic.
A translucent, ghostly figure fades into view over the corpse on the floor and moves toward Sekkimm ignoring Lumpy. Its face is distorted by wrath into a hideous mask.
Anaba
Buchart
Cela
Fernleaf
Rolande
Sekkimm
Shalelu
Jakardros Sovark
Kaven Windstrike
Vale Temros
Lumpy
Ghostly figure
Cela - delays until room to move
Sekkimm - is up.
Ghostly Figure
Rolande
Buchart
Kaven
Anaba
Fernleaf
Shalelu
Vale
Jakardros
Lumpy
The ghostly figure, what looks like a black arrow ranger, seems unable to pursue Sekkimm out of the chamber. It screeches in anger and attacks lumpy.
Rolande is up.
Lumpy -4
Roland's first two shots go through the creature and it shrieks in pain. -8
Cela comes out of delay to take a look and assess the creature
She recognizes this as a Spectre
Attacks Melee incorporeal touch (1d8 plus energy drain)
Special Attacks create spawn, energy drain - not damage! (2 levels, DC 16)
Create Spawn (Su)
Any humanoids slain by a spectre become spectres themselves in 1d4 rounds. Spawn so created are less powerful than typical spectres, and suffer a –2 penalty on all d20 rolls and checks, receive –2 hp per HD, and only drain one level on a touch. Spawn are under the command of the spectre that created them and remain enslaved until its death, at which point they lose their spawn penalties and become full-fledged and free-willed spectres. They do not possess any of the abilities they had in life.
Sunlight Powerlessness (Ex)
Spectres are powerless in natural sunlight (not merely a daylight spell) and flee from it. A spectre caught in sunlight cannot attack and is staggered.
Cela advises "It is trapped in the chamber for some reason - don't engage it - use raged attacks. Energy drain is bad stuff. I can't heal that! Lumpy is immune since he is undead already"
Buchart is up!
Lumpy -4
Ghostly Figure - 8
Does anyone have a reflective surface we can use to reflect light into the cavern to destroy the spectre?
If it's a spectre, will it succumb to my arrows?
it is late afternoon. getting sunlight to the back of the cave will be difficult. You can only damage it with magic (1/2 damage with weapons without ghost touch). Cela advises "Just stand out of the room and fire away. He seems trapped in the crypt for some reason. No reason to waste our spells here. We avoided the danger, by not rushing in."
Everyone who has not gone go ahead and fire, then move away from the entrance.
hits
miss
hits
Lumpy -4
Ghostly Figure - 18
Buchart and Sekkimm are up!
Every one else stays back to let the ranged take this thing out.
If its not magic don't bother.
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It takes a few rounds, but the spectre is finally defeated. You find nothing valuable in the crypt only ceremonial sword. The Rangers recycle. You head to the lower caves having cleared the upstairs
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You see an old skeleton and glint of silvery metal
The skeleton isn't moving looks like someone fell long ago
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