...and for your sins... (Inactive)

Game Master Tin Foil Yamakah

"Excellent work," Jeneva acknowledges with a nod toward the mage. She slides the flat of the blade across her leg, brushing off any clinging sand or dirt, then returns it to its scabbard. "Let us hope it will not be as frustrating to exit, when the time comes."

With the path clear, she moves ahead to lead the way into the isle's interior, assured her companions will be not far behind.

Here goes nothing....

Jeneva: The corridor revealed beneath the dirt is made from plain flagstones, roughly hewn and fitted together. The ceiling is about 20' above your head and thickly strewn with cobwebs. The passage is 20' wide and 30' long at the far end is a pair of large, wooden double doors with great iron pull-rings.

You should be able to move your character and edit it with any info you want to add

Skiron saunters into the corridor, and his eyes roll about the room.

I use my detect secret doors spell-like ability.

Ta'ruk casts shield and follows the others into the corridor.

Skiron: You do not detect any secret doors I assume you are in the same square as Ravens

Ta'ruk: Noted

Is that the square you want to be in? because you and Jeneva can occupy the same square(remember every square is 10')

The dancer may be able to see a ways into the darkness, but she is fairly aware many of her companions may not. She takes a step further, clearing the way for those coming in behind her, and draws a stone from one of her pockets. It glows with a white fire glimmering within, and sets itself in orbit around her head as soon as she releases it, lighting the chamber around them with an ivory glow.

Activating ioun torch. That way the party member(s) without Darkvision can see.

Simon patiently waits outside the hole to let his companions venture forth first.

Though he does cast a quick spell so that his group can communicate.

(Message. Unless there's a reason not to Simon recasts the spell to keep his group in communication. The easiest way to work this spell is to consider it like Walkie Talkies.)

Ok then 4 of you are in the hole, Simon/Molly are keeping watch outside

Jeneva has lit the room up.

Ta'ruk has cast a defensive spell upon himself

Skiron has scanned the room for secret doors, finding none

Ravens has taken up a position to the right of Jeneva

Is that the square you want to be in? because you and Jeneva can occupy the same square(remember every square is 10')

Um, okay, I actually meant to be in the square behind Ravens, but didn't realize each was 10' - I guess I'll go with Jeneva.

Skiron knocks back a small vial of black sludge.

false life: 1d10 + 9 ⇒ (4) + 9 = 13

These will last 9 hours or until depleted.

Skiron: Oops, yeah you are in the same square as Ravens

Ravens spends a lot of time inspecting the door while he waits for others to get into position.

Take 20 on doors: 35 Perception

He spits while looking around, wishing that the predators of this place were more pronounced.

Ravens: I have a little house rule that I do not allow taking 20, I had it in the original recruitment thread that I somehow managed to nuke out of existence

Hmmm...from your current location, dem doors look like doors.

Skiron sighs lightly.

"Where's a valet when one needs one?"

He raises his hand, trembling and crooked-fingered, at one of the far corners of the room. From it leaps a creature that looks more than anything else like a cross between a jaguar and a hatchetfish. Its massive eyes are shut tight for some reason.

For my next trick: A fiendish Hound of Tindalos with the Magic Attacks, Pounce, and Tremorsense Evolutions!

The thing pivots around, rears on its hind legs, and pulls the doors open for the assemblage.

Skiron:Cool creature, I like the part where it says only reckless spellcasters would even attempt to summon one.

If you look on the map, you will see the origins of the classic phrase "Rocks fall, you die" indicated by my horrible scribbling. Rocks fall: 10d6 ⇒ (5, 5, 4, 1, 1, 3, 6, 1, 4, 6) = 36 damage to the Hound.

Since the rest of you are in the first 10' you have no worries.

Ravens smirks as the magical puppy immediately proves its worth. He is impressed by Skiron's guile and lack of worry for the safety of his pet.

"Nice puppy. I wonder how long it will last here," Ravens smirks and moves forward.

Ravens looks at the door for more interesting traps (or a resetting one).

1d20 + 15 ⇒ (15) + 15 = 30 Perception

Simon Steps inside.

Moved myself on the map. Molly, unless otherwise states stays behind the group and as out of the way as possible. She's around, but I want her out of fireball range.

Ravens: There is no getting to the door, unless you wish to spend a few hours clearing rocks

Simon: I got your familiar Molly on the map

Puppy: You can whimper to your master, that upon opening the door all you saw was a wall of solid rock

"Quite a warm greeting," she remarks with dry sarcasm. With the obvious egress blocked, she begins searching along the walls, slowly, for signs of another passage - a hidden doorway or perhaps a switch of some sort.

Perception: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (14) + 11 = 25 Beginning search on the area of the wall just south of where we entered, and moving counterclockwise around the room.

Jeneva: You are quite certain that there are no doors or switches within what remains of this room.

"I was afraid of that. Very well then." She cracks her neck loudly as she moves toward the pile of stones. "Assistance would be appreciated, but if you feel yourselves unable, do make yourselves comfortable, this will take time."

Her skin begins to darken, taking on a dark blue-grey hue as her body begins to twist and grow. Foot after foot the dancer's body expands upward, eventually coming to a rough halt at a towering twelve feet and some excess. As she does, her hair twists, lengthens, and hardens, forming around her head and shoulders as a massive crest, crystallizing into hooks and ridges of firm bone and craggy armor. It flows down her shoulders and across her arms, branching into long jagged spines, then at last draping down her fingers gauntleting them in armored claws. As her skin continues to harden and crystallize, a draping tail extends from her spine, first collapsing limp to the ground then beginning to sway and writhe like a serpent. With a deafening crack, her legs lengthen and twist, bending digitigrade as her feet expand, then split apart, hardening into massive two-toed talons; a third digit spears off from her heels to provide stability for her enlarged form. At the last, from the enormous crest that now rises from her head and shoulders, the last bits of her hair spiral forward before coalescing into a horn jutting out over her head, spearing upward like the black horn of a twisted unicorn, then widening and curving slightly, taking the shape instead of the gargantuan weapon of a rhinoceros or some even more primitive beast.

Beneath the new-formed helm, Jeneva twists her neck one last time, eliciting another echoing crunch of bone and cartilage, then sets to the long, arduous labor of clearing the stones away from the door. Her work is quiet, at least bar the noise made by shifting and lifting the boulders, and meticulous and unrushed; she is apparently unconcerned for the passing of time.

Enter Masquerade using mask Gargant Hulk. In addition to her rage powers, she becomes Large with the usual benefits and penalties thereof: +8 Strength, +4 Constitution, +2 natural armor, –2 Dexterity,–1 size penalty to AC and attack rolls, +1 CMB and CMD, –2 Fly, –4 Stealth, 10-foot reach.
She also activates her Task Reveler feat. She immediately spends 2 rounds of Rage instead of 1, but as long as she is performing a non-combat task (in this case, Strength checks to move boulders) her Rage does not consume more Rage rounds and lasts as long as she needs it to.

Cool... How does 20 minutes sound to clear 20' of rocks sound

I have enlarged you on the map

Works for me. Jeneva won't have much to say unless someone else speaks to her, so if the others want to do things or converse while she works feel free. =)

Cleary impressed by Genevas new form,

"Well, that's useful."

Ravens watches for danger while Jeneva's works.

1d20 + 15 ⇒ (13) + 15 = 28 Perception

Skiron's creature assists the behemoth in the rubble-clearing for the next 9 minutes, at which point it abruptly vanishes from existence, as though whatever had been dreaming of the horror had abruptly woken up.

It has a Strength and Dexterity both of 21, so it should be a pretty able assistant while it lasts.

Skiron: It definitely helps and in fact cuts the time to clear the room in half, down to 1 turn, Ok the room is clear. I am going to use that icon for all of your creepy stuff you summon

Edit: I have assigned control of Summoned monster and Molly to the appropriate players

"What's in the next room?"

Molly says having moved just barely into the underground "doorway."

Jeneva moves up to the doorway, now that the path is cleared, hauling one of the boulders with her. If the apparent blocking wall that the Hound saw before is still there, she attempts to push/throw the boulder through it, to test if it is an illusion... or another trap.

Jeneva/Hulk: You bang a boulder against the wall and confirm that it is indeed solid rock.

"Trap entryways - this, comrades, is a tomb constructed by those who knew what they were doing. Call this low-hanging fruit, but I'm going to venture that the true entrance is somewhere else."

Ravens concedes Skiron's point and returns to doing his slowly circling search of the outside.

"Where the piddlespotting heck is this piddlespotting entrance?"

1d20 + 15 ⇒ (16) + 15 = 31 Perception

or there is no entrance and one has to report to get to the safe zone. Therefore, one has to know where they're going. Which we don't."

Simon says dryly.

Ravens: As you begin circling and probing you do indeed find another entrance on the north side.

"Here!" Ravens snorts, keeping his mind on where he is so that if he needs to find another entrance he could.

Can you describe the 'entrance'? Is it a door? Needs more digging?

I return to the surface and walk around a bit with detect secret doors to see if that reveals any OTHER hidden entrances.

Ravens: Sorry about that, I should not post before I have caffeinated fully Indeed as you begin a thorough search above ground probing the ground for weaknesses. You are rewarded by discovering a spot where your probe meets no resistance.

After spending a few minutes clearing the area, You see that another egress is in the hill. Same drill as before folks, the ground is crisscrossed with petrified roots. So it is going to take some work

Skiron: While Ravens is probing You scan the area for secret doors and do not detect any

If my Hound is still around at this point, it assists in tearing away at the roots.

The armor-clad behemoth makes her way back to the entrance, squeezing through the narrow egress if necessary, and returns to the surface. She follows Ravens to the location he discovered and, unless directed otherwise, begins ripping out roots and shoveling aside debris with her enormous clawed hands.

Skiron: The hound will help, but it will take 2 turns to get a hole large enough to squeeze through

Jeneva;The ground is tough but you manage to rip through the ground and roots relatively easy and clear an area you can squeeze through in 2 turns.

Ravens keeps guard for the next few rounds, his club in hand, waiting for a chance to use it.

C'mon, give me something I can fight.

Simon leaves the tomb and moves near Ravens location.

"The opening thus far should allow access for us, if we are willing to endure some discomfort in the process," the armored giant finally announces, tossing aside the latest armful of broken roots and loose sandstone. "If we wish a more cooperative egress, it will take some further time."

Sorry for the late posting...Paizo was down during my posting window last night.

Ravens, bored, dives into the roots, clubbing and bending and adding his back to the labor in clearing the entrance.

"How did the devils before gain entrance here? I thought he sent others."

Shortly after Ravens enters Simon will slip in as well,

Just to make it look easy
Escape artist 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (9) + 10 = 19
Acrobatics 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (18) + 12 = 30

The passageway is about 10' high and constructed from plain blocks of stone. At the far end you can just make out the outline of 2 doors at the very end of the long corridor.

Remember the passageway is 60' long x 20' wide

Ravens:No worries the site was down for like 3 hours last night, as far as the devils finding an entrance...

Simon: So you dive through headfirst, tumble in mid-air and land on your feet. *Holds up sign with a 10 on it*

Simon: So you dive through headfirst, tumble in mid-air and land on your feet. *Holds up sign with a 10 on it*

Simon poses momentarily.

"That answers that." Jeneva surrenders the mask, her body quickly shrinking back down to its normal height and her bulky armor dissolving - most of it crumbling into grey dust that blows away in a previously-nonexistent wind, but some returning to its original violet-grey hue and soft texture as bone and chitin becomes hair once again. She follows the two men into the descending corridor, one hand on her blade's hilt as she enters the newly-unearthed chamber.

Ta'ruk follows the others into the new entrance. He stands next to Simon and has his Lucerne Hammer ready. "So, after the last false door, who wants to check this door?" asks Ta'ruk.

Ravens opens the door.