Boom checks under the barrow.
"Seems like yet another trap.."
If these people were eating arsenic they probably went mad as hatters in here. I'd think everything's trapped.
Jan absentmindedly thumbs 4 steel back into his rifle to have 15 shots available again.
You don't find any traps, but you do find a secret door.
Hey look! A secret door!
Jan steps back with his rifle in hand and then kicks the secret door in.
No, Jan steps back and kicks the door. You can give me a damage roll if you like, but you actually aren't strong enough to get past the hardness of wood on a 1d3+1.
...
Jan looks a bit sheepish.
You were able to find a concealed mechanism to open it, which has a keyhole.
Shall I use my special key? Or should we scour this place and see if the key is floating about?
The adamantine bayonet will work just fine if you choose.
Special key works for me. Although you don't think it could be that the door opens but a trap is armed if you don't use the actual key?
Yea well, lets just get on with it.
Boom slams the bayonette in the key hole and gets to opening it, then he will open the door
Jan activates light from his wayfinder to get an idea of what's going on in the secret room.
Seven large burlap sacks sit against the northern wall of this small room, while to the west sits a small desk and chair. A leather-bound ledger lies atop the desk.
Boom moves in, checks the sacks, then the ledger
percep
Within are seven burlap sacks. Five are stuffed with gold dust and are worth 1,000 gp each. The last two actually hold gold nuggets and are worth 2,500 gp each. Each sack weighs 40 pounds. Hidden behind one of the sacks is a small coffer holding 14 uncut gems the brothers found, worth 50 gp each.
The ledger on the desk contains several detailed maps of the regions the brothers were mining, and locates all of their assay points and mines. Notes on the payout of each mine are listed—it appears that all of them have played out without imparting any particularly rich lodes. Several pages near the end of the ledger have been torn out.
I would bet my share that the info we need is on these missing pages.
I'd get you're right. What if the last mine ran into a Thassilonian ruin or woke up something that drove the miners crazy?
The pages of the ledger describe a number of different mines that the brothers had developed. The locations are explicitly noted. As mentioned, there are a number of pages ripped out at the end.
We should probably finish exploring this complex. After that I'll see if I can decipher the maps and on the carpet outside we can see if there's anything visible on the outside that's missing from the book. Although why just take a few pages? Why not the whole book?
Someone probably got here before us, and has already made their way there
"Bring those other maps just in case. At least they show us where the secret city isn't."
They expedition left Janderhoff about 70 years ago. It is a reasonable assumption that they could have come here on the way since it was their normal base camp for mining in the area.
Go through the door into B14
This room obviously doubled as the main living quarters and kitchen for the inhabitants of the cabin. A stone hearth and chimney occupy the southeast corner, with an iron hook holding a cauldron above the grate. The rest of the room is in a horrific state—firewood, cooking utensils, pots and pans, and even the furniture lie in scattered heaps. A painting of two dour-looking dwarves standing in front of an enormous elk hangs askew on the northern wall. Ancient bloodstains mar the walls and floor and bits of overturned furniture here and there, but there are no bodies.
Need wisdom checks from everyone.
Hey guys, did you ever wonder if you could catch a bullet in your teeth if it's fired at your face? Obadiah, Bo - I'll stand over there and you shoot at me.
After you do that, we should see if you can catch all the buckshot
Wow, you have a 52 wisdom DAYUM!!!!
Suppose I should make that a wisdom check and then a fort save just to speed things up.
fort
And fort saves.
Considering you left 6 points of will and reflex save on the table by taking the wrong weapon training abilities, blaming the class is like a poor craftsman blaming his tools. With Weapon Masters Handbook, a fighter can be damned close to a Paladin in saves (Bo being a mutant exception because he has all that multi-classing which boosts saves).
Still need Obi to roll.
I picked the Versatile Training I did so I could have two extra skills to use to do something besides full attack (which is pretty monotonous).
Plus Armed Bravery doesn't help a straight Wisdom check or rolling a 3 on a Fort save.