Wolf 4 drops dead to the ground. Wolf 1 hurls itself at Cronin and tries to pull him to the ground.
Wolf 1 attack on Cronin (1d20 7=22, 1d6 2=8).
From behind door, shouts are heard. You can expect more company shortly.
At the wolf's bite, Cronin responds with a deep growl and startst to change. His posture becomes a little closer to horizontal, his legs get a little longer, his jaw lengthens. Cronin makes a break for the hole with great speed. Meanwhile, Kelemvor's grace closes the wounds left by the Darano.
In case the wolf is still alive
Cronin's transformation startles wolf 1, but doesn't prevent it from landing a passing bite on the shifter as he races past.
Caine takes advantage of the distraction to land a substantial blow, the wolf reels and clearly can't take much more, but it is still standing.
Wolf 1 OA on Cronin (1d20 7=18, 1d6 2=6)
The noises behind the door continue. Snaggletooth follows Cronin towards the hole in the ground.
basic attack (1d20+7=18)
basic damage (1d8+3=10)
Fairwind darts across the field once more to the site of battle, and lunges with her longsword.
Against all likelihood, the last wolf survives Fairwind's ferocious onslaught.
"Heel", Brujo looks sadly as the frozen blade comes crashing into the wolf.
Wolf 1 falls at last. Even Brujo realises that unpleasant butchery as this was, you may well have done them a favour. The beasts were starving, gaunt shadows, attacking out of instinct.
Snaggletooth gestures frantically. "More Daranos will be coming. Big family."
Wolf 1 falls at last. Even Brujo realises that unpleasant butchery as this was, you may well have done them a favour. The beasts were starving, gaunt shadows, attacking out of instinct.
Snaggletooth gestures frantically. "More Daranos will be coming. Big family." 9/ooc]
"We better head on then, anyone need healing?" leo asks as he heads for the hole.
258XP each for taking down Kalmo and the wolves. Additional 100 XP for role play so far. Taking you to 2304. Level up time folks. Choose your upgrades and they will come into effect after you have taken your next extended rest.[/ooc]
Cronin pauses to offer up a short prayer, and his wounds mostly close. Further, he seems even tougher than before.
Casting light on the tip of her staff, Perigia points at the hole. "Are we going in or not," she asks.
Casting light on the tip of her staff, Perigia points at the hole. "Are we going in or not," she asks.
"Yes."
Urged on by the sounds of the rampart door being pushed open, you lower yourselves one by one into the hole.
Perigia's light shows you a gloomy scene. The room you are in is part of an ancient catacomb. Crumbling vaults line the walls and along the western wall lies an open conduit full of fetid water. It's not deep as far as you can see. In the distant past you would guess that it carried fresh water to the castle. The conduit is spanned by a bridge of more recent date. It's rough, but serviceable.
On the northern wall one of the vaults has collapsed entirely, leaving a pile of bones exposed. There are solid doors on the eastern and western walls. Perigia's light exposes the ceiling too. Here the vaulting is low, with numerous dark shadows. You can hear faint rustling.
For all that this place should have been long abandoned, someone has used it and recently too. Both doors have trails leading to them.
Snaggletooth drops to the grounds and gazes intently. "Creepers went both ways." From above you, you can hear cries of outrage as the Darano clan discover the carnage you have wrought.
"East!"
"let's try the east door first" Perigia says.
The door is an iron grille, rusted, but serviceable. It should open fairly easily if you're strong enough. Darano voices float down to you.
"They've gone. Do we follow?"
"We do not. We mourn our brother and we wait for their return."
"Suppose they don't come back?"
"The better for us. But I think they will. The catacombs are inhabited."
"Yes Ephram."
Snaggletooth shakes his head. "Stupid halflings. Being wolves has softened their brains. Don't talk about plans so loudly. Sneaky kobolds know this," he adds smugly before casting a worried look at Cronin's wounds.
"You got better? You can heal us again?"
The door is an iron grille, rusted, but serviceable. It should open fairly easily if you're strong enough. Darano voices float down to you.
"They've gone. Do we follow?"
"We do not. We mourn our brother and we wait for their return."
"Suppose they don't come back?"
"The better for us. But I think they will. The catacombs are inhabited."
"Yes Ephram."
Snaggletooth shakes his head. "Stupid halflings. Being wolves has softened their brains. Don't talk about plans so loudly. Sneaky kobolds know this," he adds smugly before casting a worried look at Cronin's wounds.
"You got better? You can heal us again?"
Leo steps forward to try and haul open the door after a few moments he stops to get his breath back after his face turned red from the exertion.
"Okay i think this is going to take a few of us to open unless someone can say magically open it?" Leo asks taking a few more moments to get his breath back stepping back in case one of the others wants to try.
Cronin whispers, "It sounds like we may have time to rest a few minutes before confronting new horrors. I'd find it welcome."
Rev:
At Cronin's request, you pause for a few moments to recuperate before once more turning your attentions to the door.
At Cronin's request, you pause for a few moments to recuperate before once more turning your attentions to the door.
Leo and Perigia try and haul the door open...
Between them, the genasi and the half-elf heave the door open. A fetid passage opens up before you, leading after a few feet around a bend and then to a further set of iron grilles. Through them you can see a chamber evenly dotted with tombs. Unlike the first set of gates, these do not look particularly hard to open.
[quote=]Between them, the genasi and the half-elf heave the door open. A fetid passage opens up before you, leading after a few feet around a bend and then to a further set of iron grilles. Through them you can see a chamber evenly dotted with tombs. Unlike the first set of gates, these do not look particularly hard to open.
"Shouldn't we keep this front gate open in case we need to head back through them?" Leo asks the others keeping an eye on the first gate to make sure it doesn't slam shut.
"Shouldn't we keep this front gate open in case we need to head back through them?" Leo asks the others keeping an eye on the first gate to make sure it doesn't slam shut.
"Yes, but then open the other one, too, so it's not too obvious which way we've gone."
Fairwind stays behind as pointman.
"I think I'll head back with the others" Brujo moves off with Leo and Cronin. "Never no what trouble will come their way"
"I think I'll head back with the others" Brujo moves off with Leo and Cronin. "Never no what trouble will come their way"
"Too true, mind yourselves there might be undead in there and we might need backup if those Darano get it into their heaeds to head after us before we get that other gate open, let alone if there's something waiting for that gate to open as it is," Leo points out.
Brujo, Leo and Cronin
As you re-enter the room, you can still hear Darano voices from above. They seem to have set a guard over the hole, but are making no attempt to join you in the catacombs. Do you have a light source? Perigia was carrying the communal one.
Caine, Fairwind and Perigia
You wait patiently for any sounds to inform you of the fate of your comrades.
Brujo, Leo and Cronin** spoiler omitted **
Leo moves from the right hand gate they passed through and heads to E-10 unless something prevents him getting any further than a step from the gate they passed through.
Leo, Brujo, Cronin
The disturbed crypt on the north wall contains a worrying number of bones. You can still hear Darano voices above you and they make it hard to concentrate. Leo's advance is unimpeded. Snaggletooth emerges from the corridor behind you. "You need me. A sneaky kobold to find sneaky traps," he explains to Cronin. He seems to have taken Cronin's welfare upon himself.
Leo, Brujo, Rev:
Brujo goes to his pack and draws a sunrod.
Brujo, Cronin, Leo
Snaggletooth nods. "Don't touch the bones. Go round them. Be sneaky."
You can reach the eastern gate easily enough and it's easier to open The light of the sunrod illuminates more stone corridor, but the floor is strewn with rubble. Snaggletooth points at a piece of cloth beneath a pile of rocks.
"More traps." he says proudly. "Stupid creepers didn't have a kobold."
Caine, Fairwind, Perigia
Snaggletooth scampered after the other group and is with them.
Turns to Fairwind and Perigia, "Let's go."
Caine trudges back up the corridor to where he can see the first room. Cronin, Leo and Brujo are clustered around the kobold as he points something out to them. The Commander is standing at the corner and can see both groups, Pergia and Fairwind to the south and the others in the room to the east of him.