Xandarian is advancing, using his light mace to stun, not kill.
Uelarik double moves into the room.
Seeing everyone rush into the chamber, the dwarf gets big cartoon popping out eyes, and casts a spell. His outline blurs and becomes indistinct.
PCs are up.
"Stop fooling around" Mol rasps as he charges the shifty dwarf.
You now have a miss chance. It's only 20%, but a miss chance nonetheless.
High is good, roll %.
"You killed Marky-McNuts!!!!"
Not to be completely outdone Tanrov also charges
"Hey Molitov your not trying to plash your stuff everywhere this time?"
and swings at the dwarf with the Earthbreaker
Molitor lands his blow.
Tanrov rushes up and gets confused enough by the blur to miss so thoroughly as to elicit a HAW HAW from the dwarf.
Uelarik moves to gain line of sight and fires.
Kevin moves up to the dwarf and attacks him with his scimitar. "You hurt our friend!"
Evil crazy dwarf moves 5' and casts defensively.
pass
And another of those fans of color erupts from his hands enveloping Kevin and Tanrov.
DC 13 will save or you join the nap brigade.
5' step and swing again.
"Nimble little beard shucker...." Mol curses as he swings wide.
Actually you are nowhere near them on the map (and you would have to be to attack), if you were, you would be in the cone as well, so save.
Last time I posted there wasnt a map, I thought we were going without one.
I charged last round.
"pretty colors....." as he slumps to the ground.
Tanrov manages to shield his face with his earthbreaker without hitting himself.
He blinks and looks around after it passes.. "Ha! Your hedgewizardry has no effect on the faithful of Pharasma."
Tanrov steps up to him and attempts to curtail further casting.. percussively
This AP seems to be map full to a degree many others aren't. Assume there's a map if I call for combat.
Uelarik fires again ... and misses.
"Stop it", exclaimed Xandarian to the dwarf.
The cleric hits the dwarf solidly on the head.
hit. And he drops.
Combat is over.
Everyone wakes up, and then is stunned and blind. Eventually it the bad trip wears off, but you are stuck putting dude, whoa, and wow into every sentence for a while.
Searching the evil crazy and bleeding out dwarf you find: 2 potions of cure light wounds, potion of invisibility, scroll of shocking grasp, 2 scrolls of resist energy; dagger, light crossbow with 10 bolts, cloak of resistance +1, 16 pp, 7 gp
Searching through the rest of his stuff you find:
a ratty bedroll,
a small pack filled with dried meat, preserved fruit, and some moldy cheese (6 days of rations), and a chipped 6-inch-tall marble statuette of a humanoid throwing a spear. The statuette is worth 75 gp. In addition to his prepared spells, Millorn’s spellbook contains detect secret doors, fog cloud, grease, invisibility, resist energy, shocking grasp, and silent image. This book is worth 160 gp.
This seems like a good point for you folks to level up.
You're second level now. Still no mythic.
Uelarik will take the scroll of shocking grasp. He takes one scroll of resist energy and hands the other to Xandarin. He also takes the crossbow bolts and Millorn's spellbook, which he will study the next time they rest.
"Check this out everyone ...." Molitor exclaims.
"I've always had this growth in my left armpit. I thought it was just a giant mole, but it turns out it's alive!"
He shows off what appears to be a nasty little fleshy hedgehog that has detached from his armpit.
"I've decided to call him Lump!" he says proudly.
"I think he gets cold, so I'll put him back now." he finishes, tucking the little creature back in his armpit.
I will assume people are leveled up and ready to resume.
The tunnel opens into a large cavern, about seventy feet across. Cylindrical rock formations along the walls arch up to make a domelike chamber, but the walls and floor are riddled with cracks. At the center of the cave, a stone tower that may once have reached the fifty-foot-high ceiling has collapsed onto its side.
As you approach, you see two rather odd looking humanoids adopt a defensive stance.
One of the mongrels is a hunchbacked woman named Dyra, her face
so warped by tumors that she’s incapable of intelligible speech. The second is a man named Lann, and he does the talking for the two. Lann is a tall, thin creature with a face that melds the features of an attractive elvenman,agoat,andalizardfolk. His oversized fingers end in dull, spadelike talons.
He speaks in a raspy voice, but in Taldan, though with an odd accent.
“If your intentions are ill, we ask you to move on and leave us in peace. If they are good, then perhaps you can help. As you can see, misfortune has befallen us.”
"We are simply travelers, trying to find our way back to the surface, we mean you no harm." Mol says in reply to the mongrelfolk.
"What seems to be your problem?"
Wow! Look at Mr. Diplomacy check!, thinks Xandarian, nodding with agreement.
"My friend Crel is trapped under a rock. It is too much for my companion and I to lift. We need help. "
You can either try to help them shift the rock (Str check, with up to 5 assists, the NPCs can make two of those). Otherwise you can be creative.
"I'll go", speaks Xandarian, putting his weapons back in their sheaths."How long have they been trapped?"
"I'll go as well.. I'm good at lifting" replies Tanrov
He goes along and tries to lift the rock
Easiest thing to do is pick the person who will be lead on the lift, and then the 5 assists (again, the NPCs can pitch in instead of PCs).
"Ouch ..... my toe!!!!"
"Of course we'll help. Let's go lift this thing off."
I wonder if Mythic Three Stooges is a system?
Tanrov has lifted the rock a bit but still needs help to get it past the tipping point and his expression is falling by the second as hhis compatriots efforts are not up to the task...
"Umm is there a mage who can help?"
Ok, NPCs to the rescue
One of the NPCs does a Schemp impersonation, but the other gets his feet set well and between him and Tanrov, you almost get it.
You can try again if you like.
"Ok so, lets keep going til someone gets a good grip and the others are able to help get it off."
Tanrov assists the first to get a grip..
Seeing his fellows struggle, Xandarian leaps in to assist.
"I'll help ...."
So far we don't have a lead. Both of your 18 str people seem to have passed on that. Of course with the rolls they have this is good.
Also note, the NPCs have a 14 str, so if you bonus is less than that, you might want to let them go for you.
As there is nobody left in the party who can do a better lead, I'll let the NPCs finish this up.
lead
assist
And you just make it, moving the rock, finding another of the disfigured underground dwellers.
The strange looking strangers are particularly grateful for the help (their compatriot could probably use more healing still).
They offer to take you to their town Neathholm. From there they say you can find a way back to the surface.
"Pitifulness...." Mol says as he shakes his head at the poor effort.
"We welcome your invitation to your homestead and look forward to meeting more of your colorful compatriots."
Xandarian takes a look at the previously trapped mongrelfolk.
The mongrelfolk's anatomy is so twisted, it's hard to see if it's suffering from any lesser injuries.
"The route to Neathholm seems to be blocked, but we know an alternate route. Please follow. " and he leads you into a SW passage.
Eventually you come to a chamber.
Ahead, a wide chasm splits the tunnel floor. The floating rock dust in the air and the groans as the tunnel walls settle indicate that the tunnel split recently.
Your freaky new friend finds this rather worrisome as it could indicate that their town got walloped as well.
The chasm is 10 feet across, 70 feet wide, and 30 feet deep. The tunnel continues on from the chasm’s opposite side about 40 feet east of the entrance. There is no way around it, though you can climb along the ledge, though it looks somewhat tricky.
Seeing the Clerics frustrations Tanrov decides to help by casting cure light wounds on the mongrelfolk
"Here let me, Pharasma will show the way."
Kevin walks up to the chasm and says as he digs in his backpack, "We can climb down and then up. This rope will help. Doesn't one of those scales let you levitate. Might make it easier for the injured to get across and cut down on the chances of someone falling down".
Uelarik nods at kevin. "Good idea, using the scale."
Uelarik will then tie the rope to a large rock and will throw the other end into the chasm. "Who's first?"
He peers down into the darkness for any sign of danger at the bottom.
The chasm looks empty and quite new. The rock has the signs of fresh fracture. Must have come from the recent events (demon assaults have their consequences).