STRANGE AEONS (Inactive)

Game Master Daniel Penfold 351

I have a bad feeling about this.

Atajay, your action

If Atajay doesn’t see any sort of threat, he will delay.

Chakam your action

The birds might be dopplegangers!

Trevor will back up towards the door. Those birds might attack us, like those other nasty monsters.

Domeric, your action, oh and Chakam you can take an action

Domeric delays as well, if he doesn’t see any sort of threat.

Chakam keeps his distance from the birds, but from within 30 feet he tries to detect evil (and announce immediately to his companions his findings).

The birds and the cage detect as evil.

You can have a knowledge religion to find out more

At this point the birds chirping changes into a shrill, mechanical sounding klaxon. Trevor can you make a Will save please?

Will: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 2 = 14

You manage to resist the effect, as the birds try to levitate you up into the air.

Atajay, back to you

Get off me! You stupid birds!

Is this a swarm or are there individual birds that can be targeted? Or can I tell?

They are individual birds

Knowledge (Religion): 1d20 - 3 ⇒ (10) - 3 = 7 Untrained, max DC 10

I have no idea of what these things are, but we are in the presence of evil! Even the cage is evil as well. Attack, my friends!

With that said, Chakam moves to the closest bird and lets down the weight of his immense sword.

Attack: 1d20 + 5 - 1 ⇒ (20) + 5 - 1 = 24
Damage: 2d6 + 6 + 3 ⇒ (1, 5) + 6 + 3 = 15

Confirm?: 1d20 + 5 - 1 ⇒ (14) + 5 - 1 = 18
Damage: 2d6 + 6 + 3 ⇒ (1, 2) + 6 + 3 = 12

Swift to Bestow Hope, everybody gets DR 1/- for this fight

With Chakam's mighty blow the cage and the birds are smashed into smithereens.

You find a masterwork silver dagger, an amulet of natural armour +1 and two potions of cure light wounds

Assuming that nobody objects, Domeric will take the Amulet.

“So, where to now?”

Al right if I have a potion? If there are no objections, Trevor takes one.

"Sure. Probably best that those without innate healing take those, just in case," Domeric said.

”If the orc is going to be in the front line the whole time, just give him the magical protection as well. We need him hale and hearty in this place,” Atajay suggests.

The big double doors to the north!

Sagging shelves, held together by dust and an extensive system of rolling ladders, ring this library of husky, dull-looking tomes. At the room's centre broods a heavily worn table surrounded by uncomfortable chairs. A chandelier of iron vines dangles above. The scents of leather and old paper pervade the high ceilinged space, but so does a distinct bestial musk.

Giving the amulet to the orc, Domeric follows the group to the next room. He looks around, casting Detect Magic.

Perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15

The paladin proceeds with the others, taking point as usual. He looks around the library with curiosity, and feeling this entire building was some kind of unholy ground, he again tried to detect if they were in the presence of evil, moving his outsider gazer around.

Domeric you notice three rat like creatures at the top of the shelves. Chakam they do show up as evil

Trevor takes the amulet. Thanks, so is there more here than just kindling?

"Well, looks like there's three rat-like things up there," Domeric said with a gesture, "But I doubt that the three blind mice will be answering our questions."

Anyone have cheese?

"Sadly, I expect I've forgotten where I kept my cheese collection," Domeric said, jokingly.

The rat like creatures start shrieking and squeaking and start throwing stuff off the bookshelves at you. At this point they are not aiming at you directly, just throwing stuff to the floor near you, trying to scare you off.

Whoa there! Um..Peace!

They squak louder and keep throwing stuff

Does rat want a biscuit? Gooood biscuit!

One of the Rat creatures throws a book at Trevor

Book: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 1 = 201d2 - 2 ⇒ (1) - 2 = -1

Well if you are going to be thay way, no biscuit for you. Trevor leaves to the north in a huff.

Domeric follows Trevor.

”If the creatures are evil, why don’t we remove them quickly,” the man whispered to the group.

Well if they just stay up there tossing books then they arn't worth our time.

"Indeed, no sense in wasting our energy on them," Domeric agreed.

where to next?

Through the North doors

The door opens into an L shaped hall which runs from a collapsed space in the west to a small waiting area outside the asylum administrator's office. You notice mucus like smears on the tile floor, forming a trail between doors C9, C10 and C13. Next to the door of C14 is a nameplate that reads, "Administrator Eliege Losandro."

Trevor checks out C9

A once handsome wood conference table now sits marred by the partially toppled southwest walls. Between heaps of collapsed stone, a closet door still stands

Trevor opens da closet

Make a Reflex save please

Atajay stands by and holds his bow at the ready, in case there are more surprises lying in wait.

Chakam follows Trevor closely behind, around 15 feet. He was curious about the administrator's door - maybe that's where some of the papers about them would be? But then, suddenly, he notices his companion went on a different direction. Before Chakam could come too close, Trevor was already opening the door for a closet.

Reflex: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 2 = 14