I'm not surprised, not only am I no longer thirsty I seem to have been healed. Maybe we should all toss a coin & take a sip. Eleanor, you got a bit banged up back there, care to try?
Approaches fountain.
I think I will, my hurts are paining me a bit.
Tosses a gold coin into the fountain and drinks from it.
Eleanor glows softly for a few seconds.
Well, that was less than impressive. I'm still as banged up as before.
More light than heat, one might say. Cort, Pastorgrym, care to give the fountain a spin?
Perhaps faith is an advantage. Seems that there is little risk, in any case.
Approaches fountain, tosses a gold coin in, cups his hands scoops up some water and sips.
And Cort, once you toss your gold piece in
Shall we see what's down this passage?
Moves toward passage, others follow.
puts bow away straps on sheild
I'll take the lead. Would you serve as rearguard Pastorgrym?
With Pastorgrym's nod, Cort leads the party into the passage.
The walls of this large cavern are covered with crude drawings of goblins. The ceiling is about 20 feet high, and the room itself is about 30 feet wide.
In the southwest corner is a throne made from animal bones, with a goblin wearing a crown of bones and feathers.
Four more goblins are nearby, arguing violently with each other. The goblin on the throne appears annoyed, and is covering his ears as the four other goblins shove and scream at each other.
When Cort enters the room, the arguing goblins stop and stare at the intruders.
The chief composes himself, sits up straight, and attempts to impress his goblin minions by addressing the scary heroes in a loud voice, saying,
“Who you? This throne room of me, King Fatmouth!”
Enters the room with the others.
Your name is known to all King Fatmouth. Please pardon the intrusion. We are a band of adventurers who seek to defeat a dragon which plagues our village.
"Ho, nice pretty lady! Me sister Bucktooth stole dragon toy. Her missing now. These idiots too scared to go find toy. If you go find toy, me let you live. And me let you go through throne room as much as you want!”
He turns to the still-arguing goblins and waves his bone scepter at them.
"Shut you not-so-fat mouth"
King Fatmouth sighs.
"She love that dragon toy. It move! It wings flap and mouth make like fire come out."
He waves his arm toward the north east corner of the cave. "She go there. She no come back."
Looks to each member of the party with an inquiring raised eyebrow, all nod very slightly.
Great King Fatmouth, we accept your bargain and will attempt to recover this Precious for you.
Heads for the NE corner.
Same order as before, campers?
Same order, different direction.
turns to address Fatmouth
Great King Fatmouth, we must fill our water bottles from a trusted source, we will do that & return to recover the Precious.
What was that about Eleanor, and why are we going away from our quest for a toy?
Call it wizards intuition, I think we may find, or learn things that will be of use.
Leads party down passage from fountain room
You skirt the fountain and head toward the other door which opens with a gentle push. You see a rectangular room with a door at the southwest corner.
The chamber is bathed in red light. On the east side of the room, a pair of stone statues stand on either side of a dusty altar that is inscribed with runes. Atop the altar sits a large red gemstone. The creepy read light comes from this gemstone.
As soon as someone enters the room, a booming voice seems to come from the statues, "Approach with humility and live!"
Examines statues & runes, at a distance.
Also examines runes.
Well, I don't do humility very well. Larcenara could you, with great humility, look around for traps?
Do not test very high on it myself - but I can fake it well enough. As for you, if we spoke of archery skills...
walks about the room, examining.
You can make a Disable Device skill check on either one of the statues to try to disable the trap so it doesn't go off.
Also, you're not walking about the room. No, no, no. You are examining the room from where you stand.
OK, I don't do humility - I do self preservation.
drops to her belly on the floor
There are traps in each of those statues about 3 feet off the floor. I'm going to take a whack at disabling them.
Crawls to the statue on the right.
Larcenara fiddles with the trap for a few moments and finally locates a lever that she can lock into position.
The gem still gleams brightly on the altar.
Worked once, ought to work again - right?
Crawls to the other statue.
You might all want to step to the right, in case I mess this up.
Begins to work on disabling the trap as the party moves right.
As Larcenara inspects the other statue, she realizes that the trap mechanism has already been latched into place, and cannot be set off.
Huh, looks like I disabled both from the right side.
Stands up.
Eleanor, lets take a closer look at this glowing gem.
Steps to the altar, Eleanor joins her.
Nice bit of rogue-ing, Larcy
Closely inspects gem.
"Larcy"? Umm... nevermind, perhaps we can speak of it later.
At first glance, the gem appears to be a large, flawless ruby
This stone has some magical properties. Wizards call it an energy heart. Among other things, it provides protection against fire attacks. As we're after a dragon, and Cort will most likely take point against the scaly scourge, I suggest we have him carry it.
The party agrees, Eleanor gives the stone to Cort.
Well and graciously done - Ellie Cort bows slightly as he speaks.
Shall we continue? And which way?
I suggest we exit, stage right.
Party agrees.
Onward, then.
Cort takes point, followed by Larcenara, who is followed by Eleanor, Pastorgrym takes rearguard duty.
Pokes Cort in the ribs. Ellie? What's up with that?
We are all a bit busy now - let's talk about it later... 'Larcy'.
This webs hang from the corners and ceiling of this room. Dozens of tiny spiders crawl about on the webs, but they're far too small to be the source of the large webs.
I don't like this at all, these spiderlings could not have spun these webs. Larcenara, Eleanor, I think it would be prudent if you readied you bows.
Larcenara knocks an arrow on her shortbow, Eleanor loads her X-bow as Cort cautiously advances taking care to avoid contact with webs.
Best avoid touching the web, we may not want to face the music begun by plucking that string.
Party follows Cort.
Everyone make a Perception check
None of you saw the spider hiding in the web, so none of you were expecting the attack. You are all caught flat-footed for this surprise round.
You'll need to roll for initiative after the spider attacks.
Fortunately, the spider misjudges the distance and misses Pastorgrym