Janzadar realizes something is happening, and moves to reach the others.
Need a climb check first to cross over. All told, I'd say 2 rounds.
Can he take 10?
If not, or not enough...
Ok, you take this round to cross. Next round will get you into the hold.
Forgot to mention Ivar chopped another one down.
Need the bird to take his shot.
Study, Hawkeye, fire.. Sorry didn't realize..
The bird is the word, managing to hit in spite of his -8 modifier. However his target remains standing.
Fungus men re-shuffle their positions and attack.
Both attack Ivar since he's big, hairy, and scary.
#3 misses, the collapses since he was staggered
#2 hit
PCs are up.
Jan is now on the boat rushing down the stairs. Can you kill everything just in time for him to arrive?
And Ivar done kilt it.
Combat is over just in time for Janzadar to arrive.
Yes, the big one has a masterwork longspear.
Searcing around:
The Nightvoice’s cargo hold is a hideous scene—the skeletal remains of the ship’s crew lie enshrined here. In all there are 19 bodies here, each consisting of a mound of bones caked
over with mold; each sits amid a small circle of personal objects, teeth, coins, bits of jewelry, and other objects that the crew member valued in life. The vegepygmies honor these bodies
as their “birth corpses” in a crude form of ancestor worship. While many of the objects scattered around the skeletons have long since rotted or rusted away, a search of the hold reveals a total
of 432 cp, 284 sp, 123 gp, and jewelry worth 250 gp amid the bones, along with a pair of bracers of armor +1 and a wand of mirror image (5 charges).
You find a moldy ship's log in the cabin aft, but it is rather moldy and needs a linguistics check to decipher.
"Hmmmmm. Let me see that."
"I try this stupid rapier and it doesn't work at all! When we get back, I'm going to have some words with the man I sto--bought it from."
"Everybody ok?"
You are unable to decipher the log at a quick glance, perhaps if you took more time you could figure it out.
That haul is for the whole place.
The Colonel spends some time with the document.
If you guys want to spend some time here, you can take 20. This isn't a quick process figuring out what is written under all the mildew stains.
"Of course." - Janzadar answers Ivar.
The Bonuwat man closes his eyes, and prays for Shimye-Magalla's help.
He finally casts Cure Light Wounds on Ivar.
There's nothing else on the wreck.
You suspect the log might be the key to how things are here.
Malok shrugs.. "Not to keen on making arrows, only firing them.. Not to keen on that either at times.."
"Shall we head back to crusty island and continue our search?"
Janzadar grabs the log and tries to read it.
You don't appear to have linguistics, so it is unlikely that you will be able to decipher it.
"Can anyone make sense of this?"
Either a good Linguistics roll or spending a bunch of time figuring it out will get you the meaning. The Col. tried a roll and didn't make it. People can try, but linguistics is trained only, so if you don't have the skill, you can't try or aid.
Now if you want to camp out here and give the Col. some time to figure it out, he will, but you will have to spend the night here for that to happen.
Janzadar gives the ledger to the coronel.
"Let's go. Don't forget to take everything we can make use of."
Lalali will try to help the colonel as good as she can with deciphering the old log. She will let him turn the pages though...
You don't see any odd fungus movement other than the odd looking stalk swaying in the breeze.
The only other place of note in this gray wasteland is a high promontory on the other side of the islet. <hint hint> Who knows there might be something important there?<hint hint>
<GM nudge>
GO TO THE PROMONTORY!
I mean, what do you want to do now?
Janzadar follows Ivar.
The promontory is separated from the islet proper by more of those fungal rope bridges.
In the interest of saving time, you are able to cross them without any trouble (you have practice now).
There is something of a trail which leads up towards the top. It doesn't appear to have seen much use in some time.
Jazadar follows Ivar on the way up.
Seeing Ivar somewhat distracted, Janzadar looks by himself the top of the mound.
Near the top of the rocky spire on the northern face, obscured from the sun and 40 feet 4 above the sea below, is a cave mouth. Numerous strange offerings lie around the cave mouth— brightly colored seashells, bits of polished stone, and many bones and skulls.
"More offerings from those plant-men. We should praise their faith."
Janzadar, without touching anything, examines the items.
You definitely seem to be on to something. They do seem to be offerings from the fungus men. Apparently something of great reverence to them must reside in this cave.
Janzadar cast light on a cooper piece, and starts into the cave...
The opening leads 15 feet inside the pillar through several thick curtains of fungus to a 30-foot-diameter cavern.
As you start into the cavern you kick a rock ahead of you which causes echoes off the walls as it hits stone.
"Sorry..."
Lalali follows some steps behind Janzadar, looking in amazement at the cave and fungi.
No problem. She says as she rubs the fungus spores out of her eyes.
Ivar finds a really large rock and chucks it into the cave making quite a clamor.
As you enter the cave, you see it is covered in fungus, but there's an odd bit on the south wall (north entrance). It's violet in color and is draped over a human skeleton.