"Speaking for myself, of course you can use it Arindale. I mean, what would I do with that massive club - it's almost as big as I am!"
"Braden's right, though, that we should find someplace safe to rest down here. We've been in a running battle since we first got here, and this deep underground I just don't feel at home," Maegge says, trying to explain how he just couldn't seem to find his center to be in harmony with the natural world.
You have explored quite a bit of the dungeon. Let me know where you want to make camp, and what the watch schedule will be.
This room stinks...let's stay in the Gnolls chamber. Do we want to look around for secret doors before we rest? Who else needs healing?
"The gnoll chamber. Not as glamorous as the inn in Hommlett, but more reasonable on the prices I suppose. A quick search for doors does sound good. Don't want anyone sneaking in and disturbing our rest."
As a note:
You have not explored the three doors leading east out of the chamber where the first bugbear guards were. Also, there are effectively no doors into either the bugbear or the gnoll chambers. The closest door that you have explored is the one that goes south toward the crayfish, crypt and unsearched diagonal passage.
After receiving the healing from Arindale, Berashel heals himself
"Ahh dannae like the idea of hangin aboot in a gnoll chamber, but then again, the service isnae that different frae the welcome wench! Jist wake me up when yae want me tae keep watch."
Here is the current dungeon map if anyone is wondering what has been searched.
I just need confirmation of where you want to make camp. It sounds like the gnoll chambers from what I have heard so far.
Actually let's go back to where our mounts and AC are. We wouldn't leave them alone overnight.
In that area, you have the torture chamber, the small rooms where the zombies were, the ogre room, the cell/larder by the ogre room, and the two storage rooms where the stacks of weapons had been hidden. Or just the main room where the emerald oozes were and later the crossbow trap.
"We can retreat outside and camp just out of sight of the moathouse."
"We can retreat outside and camp just out of sight of the moathouse."
"Ach, yae jist want tae pet the wee beasts that carry oor burdens! Ahh dannae ken what smells worse, the gnoll's den or the mounts."
"Ach! If yae want tae stay in the stink filled bug pit, then be mae guest, but gud luck gettin much sleep!"
Arindale waives his just cleaned new Morningstar in Ty's face, Better than sleeping on the ground!
I think it's time for a drink to celebrate van...vanqui...vuh...to hells with it, defeating that evil priest of whatever!
"So we are going to leave our mounts and stay inside?"
Braden seems confused.
He continues:
"It is safer inside than outside so we leave our mounts by themselves outside overnight? Please explain."
The big storeroom that we got the weapons out of. We have the mounts in there with us. We will watch the secret entrance to the lower level from there.
Pillar passage. It was also a hidden entrance right?
Pillar passage. It was also a hidden entrance right?
You can easily rest in the pillar passage, but the animals cannot be gotten in there. The riding dog you may be able to coax down, the stag will not fit.
"Big store room?? I can do that--let's get Gimpy."
"Big store room?? I can do that--let's get Gimpy."
"Aye, just make sure he does his business outside first! Ahh dannae want tae be smellin his aroma all nicht!"
"Of course I'll make sure he goes outside," Maegge scoffs before continuing in a more teasing tone. "Why? Afraid it might be better than sweaty Dwarf?"
Maegge grinned to show he wasn't being serious.
Berashel uses prestidigitation to clean up and freshen the room the best he can to make their stay it in more enjoyable. Once completed he finds a corner and sits going over the battle with the gnolls, trying to learn from the fight so he can apply it to the next one.
Braden rides Dworkin to the room to camp. He pats Gimpy as Maegge and he move the mounts to the room from outside. The older hobbit seems in a crotchety mood.
"I still don't have enough money to pay my debts. I still owe the bond on Dworkin here. And the big ones don't even care if our mounts get stolen or eaten."
After taking a beating at the hands of the bugbears, but feeling that the beating was returned twofold, the party again retreats back past the angled passage with the lowered portcullis, around the twisty passages and into where they met the first gnoll guards. After listening at the door from the gnoll area, the party quickly shuffles past the long angled passage that has not been searched, into the eerie tiled entrance to the crypt, through the splinter covered floor of the despoiled crypt where you almost feel the malevolence of those who had been buried here. Finally, the party reaches the naturally carved out tunnel which leads to the base of the pillar in the torture room where Gimpy and Dworkin are patiently waiting.
Once back, the party retreats to the southern storeroom where they securely fasten the door and settle in to get some rest. About an hour after getting to the room, the party hears a loud creaking from above. Everyone hopes this is simply the wind moving the ancient rotted timbers in the moathouse above.
About an hour into your watch, you hear a distant creaking as though metal were being scraped on metal.
If you made this perception check, time wise, the next perception check is about two minutes later.
This sounds more like a chain on some type of pulley.
You suddenly hear voices in the room outside. You cannot hear exactly what is being said.
. . . worthless bugbears . . . master angry . . . new recruit . . .
You then hear footsteps on what sounds like stairs before the voices go silent. A few minutes later, the voices return, but you cannot hear what they are saying.
About three minutes later you hear a loud clang as though metal were striking stone.
Please let me know if you do anything during this time. The casters have not had enough time to recover their spells.
During the night, Braden has a dream of his nephew Falco coming after him on an undead wolf with glowing eyes.
He murmurs, 'NO FALCO' but returns to sleep.
Tybek is too distracted with his own bad mood to notice anything of importance, but he does take out his pocketwatch to check the time.
"Dae yae ever notice how slow time gaes when yae arnnae havin fun?!"
Berashel hears some voices and signals Tybek. He quietly says, [smaller"Ty I think someone is out there in the next room and they are saying something about the bugbears. I think we better get everyone up. and ready just in case"
Berashel hears some voices and signals Tybek. He quietly says, "Ty I think someone is out there in the next room and they are saying something about the bugbears. I think we better get everyone up. and ready just in case"
At Berashel's warning, the dwarf, quickly becomes alert. Without speaking a word, he draws his axe and goes back into "rogue" mode.
Tybek tries again to hear what Berashel is talking about.
Lets go give em a surprise! he whispers.
Maegge sleeps like a log, curled up against the laying-down elk.
Braden whispers:
"No need seeking a fight, let's wait in ambush. If they come this way, they get what for."
"If somebody could gie me some healin, Ahh wid go doon thair and smash it tae pieces, but Ahh'm nae daft enough tae try it in mae condition!"
This room stinks...let's stay in the Gnolls chamber. Do we want to look around for secret doors before we rest? Who else needs healing?
What is your current HP after this? If needed I have two first level spells left.
We are in no shape for a fight...I am okay waiting as well. he whispers.
Just to confirm, you are not all charging out?
Arindale puts his hand on Ty's shoulder, If the Necromancer is out there we are in no shape to take him, let's see if we can wait him out. Keep an ear to the door for now.
channel positive energy 2d6 ⇒ (1, 1) = 2
"If the Necromancer is out there we are in no shape to take him, let's see if we can wait him out. Keep an ear to the door for now."
"Ach! Ahh hate waitin, but, Ahh'll dae what we need tae, tae tak oot the bastard!"
After Braden points out that he was right-- they should be outside, he returns to sleep.