Sven stopped, and after finding a small rock or it’s like, threw it at the suit of armor. Best to make sure it wasn’t trapped or enchanted to kill them now.
Sven stopped, and after finding a small rock or it’s like, threw it at the suit of armor. Best 3to make sure it wasn’t trapped or enchanted to kill them now.
As the rock strikes the armor, a mechanism is triggered and the suit of kobold plate armor swings the halberd in a wide arc that covers much of the landing...
The armor returns to its original position.
“well now we now what that armor is for, seems like a trap, does anyone know of a way to disarm it?”
”Throw a big enough rock to knock it over? Or...” Sven threw another small rock, to see if it always made the same attack. Because if so it’d be simple enough to knock it over by ducking beneath the blow.
[/b] I thinking knocking it over could work, we have the muscle[/b]
He begins to look for a large enough rock that would seem to knock it over.
”Throw a big enough rock to knock it over? Or...” Sven threw another small rock, to see if it always made the same attack. Because if so it’d be simple enough to knock it over by ducking beneath the blow.
Sven finds a kobold skull and chucks it at the armor, striking the wolfhead helm... The halberd lashes out again...
Studying the arc of the halberd blade, Sven figures it could be crawled past safely enough; the blade swings from the armor's left to right at a height of about 2 feet... A human might be able to crawl under it or leap over it...
[/b] I thinking knocking it over could work, we have the muscle[/b]
He begins to look for a large enough rock that would seem to knock it over.
Mydravos seeks about for a big enough rock or other object to bowl the armor over, but all he sees lying around are smaller objects--skulls, bones, and fist-sized rocks...
Rowena sees Sven Chuck a second projectile at the trapped armor, and notices Mydravos searching around for something bigger to possibly bowl it over with, and decodes to try hurling her earthbreaker at it...
*CLANG!!!* The great warhammer dimts the armor's breastplate and knocks it back into a leaning position against the back wall... The halberd swings again, this time at a higher arc that should be easier to duck under...
There! Nothing to worry 'bout now, aye?
The changeling begins to walk down the stairs...
Wait, Rowena... warns Ashok...
Rowena scoffs at the paladin and keeps walking down the stairs...
As she reaches a point about 10 feet down the stairs, a loud click echoes up the stairway, and all of the stairs suddenly shift, forming a steep slide!
WHOAH!! yells Rowena, startled and thrown off balance, as previously concealed murder holes in the ceiling spray jets of black grease onto the slide...
OOF!! grunts Rowena as she lands hard and prone at the landing with the tilted armor... The armor swings the halberd above her, missing her...
But then, a secret hatch opens in the ceiling above the landing below, and a small clay pot falls and shatters next to the prone, greased-up Rowena, and a liquid splashes her, igniting her in flames, which also roar up the greased slide toward the others standing at the top of the slide! *WHOOOSH!!*
AAAAAGH!!! screams Rowena, flailing as the flames engulf her... she falls still!
Damned fool! curses Ashok, watching helplessly as the flames burn the motionless Rowena at the bottom of a blazing slide...
Only a few seconds pass as he struggles internally, self-preservation finally losing out to his code of chivalry... He curses again, under his breath, and begins to quickly tie one end of a 50-ft-long silken rope around his waist, handing the other end to Sven...
Mighty Shiva, please let this rope be long enough... he prays, before leaping onto the flaming slide and sliding down toward the burning, unconscious changeling...
Ashok screams as the flames envelop him, and he collapses on top of Rowena, burning and unconscious!
From further down the leftbound flight of stairs can be heard a reptilian snickering...
Mydravos grabs the rope with Sven, well we should pull him up rather have one idiot die than two.
Mydravos grabs the rope with Sven, well we should pull him up rather have one idiot die than two.
Together, Sven and Mydravos are able to pull Ashok back up the ramp and extinguish the flames from his unconscious body...
Unfortunately, Rowena expires in the flames before she can be rescued...
Sven shrugged as dropped the charred body to the ground. ”Ah well. At least we saved the Paladin.” With that he began looting the barbarian’s body, looking in particular for any potions that might help the Paladin recover.
"And then there were five." Essel looks at the dead barbarian, "That didn't take long."
Scowling angrily, Kali crosses her six arms and says, So soon! It seems I chose my pawn poorly...
it seems fate can be quite fickle looking toward the sound of the kobolds. I do believe someone is watching us.
After a moment, the flames on the slide and lower landing die out...
"I don't enjoy being laughed at, I say we show them what happens when they laugh at us." he says with a much angrier tone than usual.
Sven shrugged as dropped the charred body to the ground. ”Ah well. At least we saved the Paladin.” With that he began looting the barbarian’s body, looking in particular for any potions that might help the Paladin recover.
"I don't enjoy being laughed at, I say we show them what happens when they laugh at us." he says with a much angrier tone than usual.
Uh-oh!
The scribble scrabble and pitter patter of clawed little feet receding deeper echoes from the darkness below...
Mydravos will, I would assume everyone else would follow atleast.
With Sven up front.
Essel follows her peers, nudging the fallen barbarian with her foot as they pass.
Descending the slide carefully, with Sven and Mydravos in front rank, Easealf and Essel behind, the Champions reach the 10-ft-square landing. From here, they can peer to the left down another flight of stairs, this one descending some 20 feet to another landing, where another dark archway opens on the left (switching directions back to the south)...
As they walk away Mydravos calls back, “Try not to die Ashok! We’ll be back later”
As he walks ahead with Sven he looks ahead into the darkness his devil eyes piercing through it.
Essel walks in roughly the middle of the group, ready to cast something if needed.
Sven leads the way down the shorter westbound stairs toward the lower landing and switchback... As the party reaches a point halfway down, Sven is suddenly showered by humdreds of swarming, biting spiders that drop down from above through previously unnoticed murder holes in the stairwell ceiling!
”They’re in me hair! Bloody do something!”
“Oh dear this is not good”
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INITIATIVES:
EALSEALF!
ESSEL!
SVEN!
SPIDER SWARM!
MYDRAVOS!
EEEEEK!!
Essel keeps her nonchalant attitude, firing a pair of magical missiles at the swarm.
"Really? Spiders? Should we be impressed?"
Essel keeps her nonchalant attitude, firing a pair of magical missiles at the swarm.
[dice=Potent Magic Missiles]2d4+2
"Really? Spiders? Should we be impressed?"
Essel's glowing darts of force rip through the swarm, killing the majority of the spiders, but there are still enough to continue swarming Sven...
The remaining spiders leap off of Sven and quickly scurry up the walls to disappear back into the murder holes on the ceiling...
Care to continue on should I lead? Mydravos takes a step forward to ask, he will lead if Sven is ok with it.
”Ach! Suit yerself. Bloody fookin’ spiders in me hair.” She followed behind, grumbling as he went.
Mydravos takes the lead and the explorers continue down to the next landing, where another flight of stairs, 30 feet long, descend back southward...
Several gleaming pairs of eyes reflect the party's light down below for an instant before receding further back into darkness with alarmed hisses and scuttling sounds...