Will Saves
You turn to the south, moving carefully. The passage soon turns to the west and south again and goes about 60 feet where a cave-in has happened. Inspecting the rubble you realize that it will be impossible to clear enough to pass and you must turn around.
"Huh. Keep going to the east, then, hey?"
Jokbur nods. Back and then east it is.
Another quick look and listen before moving east at the junction.
there is a door there
Jokbur checks the door carefully . And, after checking and listening, if there are no traps, opens the door.
Rounds
This room contains 5 circular pools, each of which is 5 ft. in diameter and has a 1 ft. tall stone lip. Once you enter the room, you notice a hole beside the north door of the room; it was obviously once a much smaller murder hole used to guard the door, but it has been partially battered away, and the opening is now about one foot by two
feet large.
After you enter the room and look around from out the murder hole comes an insectoid creature that has two pairs of bat wings, a tangle of thin legs, and a needle-sharp proboscis.
Combat map on the link above like always!
- Hermann, Monster, Quirmydt, Jonas, Edmund, Ariella
AC 16 T 16 FF 12
Jokbur relates, "This flying creature is a magical stirge. They travel in large colonies. The long proboscis of the stirge allows it to attach to its victim, making it extremely difficult to remove as they drain blood from their victims. If a victim dies before a stirge is satiated, it detaches and seeks a new target."
"I would expect more to follow this one, so polearms out and ready."
Jokbur nods to Herman and Jonas with confidence.
Round 1
Seeing the giant bug drop out of the hole, Hermann moved to clear himself and the others some space to fight, his longspear thrusting out...
... but the grotesque-ness insect through off his focus, causing the razor-sharp point to come nowhere near the thing itself.
HP 17
AC 20
In Hands: Both - Longspear
Conditions: none
sorry Jokbur, I was in a rush and missed you. You ended up last in the round which might make Ariella happy she isn't last.
Stirge #1 moves and attacks Hermann
Touch attack
Stirge #2 comes out and moves towards Jokbur to attack [ooc]This one provokes from Hermann
Touch attack
Both of these sitrges will attach and do 1 point of con damage, but if Hermann hits AC 16, Jokbur's will be dead.
- Hermann, Stirges, Quirmydt, Jonas, Edmund, Ariella, Jokbur
AC 16 T 16 FF 12
As another bug drops out of the hole and buzzes toward Jokbur, Hermann lashes out with another thrust of his spear...
... splattering it across the wall. In spite of this, the original bug-thing latches onto the coarse soldier and drinks deep of the big man's vitality.
HP 16/16
AC 20, T 13, FF 17
In Hands: Both - longspear
Conditions: blood-sucked
Realizing it would be folly to swing his burning polearm at the bug on Hermann's back, and seeing the potential danger of more of those things coming out of that hole, Jonas says "Qui, think you can kill that bug without hurting Hermann?" and moves closer the hole the second one came out of.
Jokbur realizes he is saved from harm by Hermann's thrust, and gives a quick bow to Hermann. Trusting others to handle the stirge on Hermann, Jokbur prepares an arrow.
Edmund sends an unerring magic missile at the bug on Hermann.
Damage:
Qui moves over and leaps up and stabs at the stirge on Hermann's back.
Move to M41. - I should be able to move through Jokbur as the stirge is grappling and should not get an AoO.
Attack:
Damage:
Crit confirm:
Damage:
Ariella will ready to throw a flame bolt if any more bugs appear.
Quirmydt splatters the Stirge that was on Jokbur.
Go ahead and do three rounds of a stirge coming out (AoO) I will reserve Edmund's and Ariella's turns in case one lucky one sneaks by the melee.
Not sure if you want round 3 actions, or actions for the next 3 rounds. But here are 3 rounds of AoO/Readied actions from Qui.
Round 2
Attack:
Damage:
Round 3
Attack:
Damage:
Round 4
Attack:
Damage:
Jonas readies his lucerne hammer versus approach.
These rolls to be taken in the order needed. Readied attack and AoOs triggered in order.
Jokbur readies a bow shot every round
Round 2
Round 3
Round 4
OK, Rounds 2 and 3 are covered by melee, but Edmund uses a magic missile in round 4 to kill off a stirge.
After the 5 stirges come out, no more stirge emerge from the hole.
This room contains 5 circular pools, each of which is 5 ft. in diameter and has a 1 ft. tall stone lip. Once you enter the room, you notice a hole beside the north door of the room; it was obviously once a much smaller murder hole used to guard the door, but it has been partially battered away, and the opening is now about one foot by two feet large.
"Lady Ariella, uhh, are these pools magical or something?" Hermann asked, looking at the pools suspiciously.
"Let me see Hermann, one moment." She briefly touches her holy symbol, and her eyes take on a golden glow.
All five pools detect as magic.
Jokbur immerses an arrow in each pool without getting wet himself.
When he thinks no one is looking, Hermann makes superstitious, warding gestures toward the pool.
All Pools are moderate strength except the last pool listed which is very faint.
The pool closest to you detects as Divination School
The pool to the north in the "nook" (H&I/45&46) detects as Illusion School
The pool to the South-east of that (L&M/47&48) detects as Necromancy School
The pool to the south of that one (P&Q/47&48) detects as Transmutation School
The last pool to the south in the "Nook" (T&U/45&46) detects as Necromancy School
"They are all magical, of differing schools and strengths. I have no idea what their function might be. Edmund, any ideas?"
Jonas seems just as dubious as Hermann. Anything so obviously magical, in this place, was worrisome.
Jokbur uses his attuned senses to determine the magical nature of the pools starting with the closest through taste.
Jokbur drinks some of the water out of the pool. While not the freshest of water, nothing happens out of the ordinary happens.
Hermann waits expectantly for Jokbur to turn into a frog. Er, another frog, anyway.
After drinking from the first one, and having a vendetta against undead, Jokbur declares, "No sense drinking further, as I have no idea what has happened from this divination pool. If our arcane and divine magic experts are stumped too, I am ready to continue exploring. No way I touch the necromatic ones."
Edmund looks over the pools with interest, casting his own detect magic to examine the auras.
Knowledge: Arcana:
Knowledge (Dungeoneering):
Spellcraft:
He notes Jokbur's flight from the area with grim bemusement.
"One would think that the necromantic pool would be the one to exude an aura of fear like that," he says to nobody in particular. "Jokbur, did you see anything...a vision...an image...or was it just overwhelming fear?"
Edmund thinks of three uses that the pool could have: Drink, immerse an item, or a person could get into the pool.
Jokbur says it was fear out of nowhere that cause him to run away from the pool
If Jokbur's immersed arrow from the first pool does not detect as magic, he will jump in the closer divination pool.
"Am I magic?"