Going down, you open the door at the bottom of the stairs and find yourself at the end of a short hall [E1] with a door. This door is different than the ones on the upper floors - it is made of stone, and it has been hammered and chiseled to such an extent that you can barely make out that there used to be carvings of images of some sort on it before.
You open it, and find a room [E2] with two pillars supporting the ceiling. Alcoves in the north and south walls contain partially damaged statues of a man in robes holding a book and a glaive (a long dagger blade at the end of a long pole). The entire room slants downward slightly but noticeably to the west, and the statues are all tilted in their alcoves. The room is covered with grime and soot.
There's only one other door, on the west wall.
Crastor will go and search the alcoves with the statues. If he finds nothing of interest, he will go and search and listen at the one door before motioning Jzero in.
Crastor, make a Thievery roll at -2. Everyone else make a Notice check at -4.
Crastor works away.
You open the door at the east end of room [E2], and see a short hallway with two doors at the eastern end and pair of stone statues depicting men wielding glaives stand in alcoves in the north and south walls. At the eastern end, there's another alcove which only has the legs and waist of what is presumably a man . The hall seems to slope upwards to the east, as opposed to [E2].
As you start to walk down it, Velrek happens to see several shiny glints on the floor near the middle of this otherwise dirty and dusty hallway, which seem out of place and makes him suspicious.
Velrek, what do you do?
"Stop!"
He points to the shiny bits and the possible body.
"Could these two things be related?"
"Is that man or destroyed statue?" Jzero asks, raising his everburning torch higher to see if it helps. "Can we maybe jump over this? It might be pit trap or some other kind."
"Chief, perhaps you'd like be first in line as we cross this area."
"Before we sacrifice the goblin, let me take a look." Crastor says as he kneels before the shiny objects to take a look.
Once it's been pointed out to him, Crastor has no trouble identifying this as a trap. He blows the dust away, revealing a shiny metal 6-foot square plate that fills the corridor left-to-right . If someone had stepped on it, something bad would happen, but Crastor can't tell what. Regardless, he can try to disarm it.
Crastor manages to wedge some small rocks that are lying about in the hallway under the metal plate, ensuring that it won't be triggered when stepped on.
There's two doors at the east end - north and south. Votes?
"Good job, Crastor."
He heads past the trap and points to the door on the left. (North)
Crastor nods and will head over to the north door to search for traps and listen for any sounds beyond the door.
You open the door and see a circular room with a red marble stone ledge encircling the room, making the available floor space an oval . It is lit by four burning skulls scattered about. Three chairs sit at various places on the floor. The ledge is covered with scrolls, bones, old books, jars of deformed creatures resting in a liquid, and other strange objects. At the north end, a round fountain filled with clear water bubbles away.
There is a woman inside, both beautiful and deformed, standing next to the right side of the fountain. Her left arm is a red demon-like talon, and her bared belly is covered with numerous old scars. When she sees you she screams "So, Sandpoint sent you to kill me, did they? I have been told by" - she pauses - "it is my destiny to burn all of Sandpoint to the ground, and no one will stop me!"
Evesk shouts "Die, you abomination of Lamashtu!"
Round 1!
Statuses
Engagements
Modifiers
Initiative
Half-demon woman - JH
Crastor - 10S
Velrek – 10D
Ceri - 8S
Jzero - 5S
Evesk - 2C
The woman is holding a bow, and fires it :
= 10, Raise
Hitting
Alphabetically, that's Velrek.
Doing
= Shaken
She drops the bow and draws a sword.
Everyone is up!
Velrek grunts and charges in, leaving room for a few others to easily get to the evil woman.
He then attempts to strike her down
Just in case there's another hidden baddie:
Crastor charges in behind Velrek and swings his warhammer at the monstrous woman.
Jzero drinks the protection potion, then advances to join the gang around the woman, if woman she is. Just before reaching her, he jumps in the air and lets his momentum add to the power of his kick.
Modifier: +1 (monk bonus) - 2 (MAP)
Result = 6 + 6 + 4 + 1 - 2 = 15
AP 2 (monk)
If the attack achieves a raise, the target is made distracted or vulnerable (bold = attacker's choice), even if no damage was done or if damage was soaked.
Ceri fires the wand :
= 19, Raise
and does
Round 1 Summary
The woman nicks Velrek with an arrow, but he recovers.
Velrek's attack would inflict 1 Wound, but :
actually has no effect.
Crastor's weapon bounces off her armor.
Jzero's kick makes her Shaken.
Ceri's fire bolt has no effect.
Round 2!
Statuses
The woman is Shaken.
Engagements
The woman is engaged with Crastor, Jzero, and Velrek
Modifiers
+2 to Fighting for Crastor, Jzero, and Velrek
Initiative
Evesk - JOKER! +2 to all rolls, everyone gets a Benny (above spoilers reflect this)!
Half-demon woman - KS
Crastor - 7S
Jzero - 5H
Velrek – 3S
Ceri - 3C
The woman recovers from Jzero's blow.
The woman touches a medallion you see hanging around her neck, pulls out a potion and drinks it, then attacks Jzero :
but misses.
She then attacks Velrek :
and misses again.
Everyone is up!
"Tough one.."
Velrek gives his all, taking two fast, strong swings..
And just in case of late parties...
Crastor snarls at the monstrosity and swings his warhammer once more.