PBP Gameday VII: 9-12 Shrine of the Sacred Tempest (Inactive)

Game Master Beat It Flat

Drukpa moves to the next door, opens it, and - if no one is seen on the other side, enters. Updated position on the map.

"Ain't it jes like these villains - always wantin' to play hide n seek - as if this wuz jes a game!"

Not wanting to go too far from the rest of the party, Xavier investigates the beds as well.

Perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

Finding nothing near the beds, Yaiho moves back to the main part of the room and opens the northern door.

Xavier starts to walk towards the northern door, but turns around, and goes back into the room with the beds and checks the lower east corner.

Perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (12) + 4 = 16

Xavier spots the hidden door in the southeastern wall.
Behind the door is a small storage room containing a large chest. Within are religious tools decorated with shining gold and silver inlays, as well as a collection of potions and scrolls. The most notable item is a teardrop-shaped jade bead the size of a normal human’s palm. The collection also contains a silver holy symbol of Andoletta, three potions of cure light wounds, and two scrolls of bless.

Yaiho opens a door to find a small storage closet that is full of ordinary living supplies, such as linens and plain clothing.

Drupka opens a door to find a chamber that is padded with several ornate carpets. The room is lit by only a few candles, which appear to have been changed recently. Priests in training would spend hours in meditation within this room.

Xavier picks up the supplies and walks towards the center of the room, waiting for someone else to give a signal on where to go.

Do those weigh anything? Xavier is pretty much at the edge of light encumbrance, and he can't really afford to go to medium, so someone else may have to hold them if they weigh that much.

Drukpa flexes his muscles and takes the gear from Xavier. He's not too bright, but he's strong "like a dragon."

Rutvalf points to the door to the east, and quietly asks the rest of the party if they're ready to proceed that way. If so, he'l open the door carefully.

"Yeah, let's go!"

Rutvalf opens the door, standing to the side.

Just seeing linens and such in the room, he steps back and watches Rutvalf open the eastern door. He nods and steps through the door to have a look around.

This smaller shrine is dedicated to Hei Feng himself, patron god of the tengu race. At the south end of the room is a 3-foot-tall offering box with a slatted cover over the top, behind which a huge statue of a tengu sitting cross-legged rises nearly to the ceiling. The statue holds the hilt of a sword in one hand, as if it had once held a sword across its knees.
The statue has been shockingly vandalized. White paint and what appears to be blood has been splattered over the god’s stern countenance, while the sword it once held in its right hand has been broken off at the hilt, and the blade of the nine-ring sword has been driven deep into the statue’s back.

"Now... this won't do."

Tessara proceeds to clean up the statue, while she kindly asks one of the warriors to pull that sword out of the statue's back. To heal the gap, she uses a scroll of mending.

Drukpa joins the others and gapes in shock and distress at the vandalism of the statue of Hei Feng.

"I know we's far from home 'n all, but these villagers got some funny ways to wership, if'n ye ask me, which generally people ain't. Asking me. But if they did, that's what I'd say."

"Aye, let me work on this thing. I don't want to be fighting anything in a desecrated area like this. Then it is back to finding out his is behind it." Elris says offering his strength to try and right the blade as best as possible, at least out of the back of the statue.

Rutvalf moves into the room and keeps watch at the door to the north.

Yaiho watches the others clean the idol, "Yaiho see desecration like this before. Often used to turn shrine to dark god or demon."

"This is awful." Xavier says, as he works to help clean off the altar.

Anyone looking at or cleaning the statue give me a perception check. If you are trying to pull the sword out of the statues back, give me a strength check.

Perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7

Perception: 1d20 ⇒ 7

Tessara is too consumed by her cleaning restoration task to notice anything...

Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13

Drukpa will try to pull the sword out of the statue.

Str check: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 5 = 23

Perception: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4

Strength: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (16) + 4 = 20

Perception: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8

Yaiho moves over to help Drukpa removes the sword.

Strength (Aid Other): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 10

Rutvalf will take a look at the front of the statue and altar from where he is.
Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (2) + 9 = 11

Wow, what a collection of terrible Perception rolls!

The only thing that you manage to notice is that the sword the statue is holding is removeable. Drupka and Elris are able to remove the other sword that was stuck in the statues back.

Drukpa also removes the sword that the statue is holding and holds it up to compare it with the one that was stuck in the back.

It appears that the sword in the back is the blade of a nine ring broadsword. The statue is holding the broken hilt. When you compare the 2, the hilt and blade line up as though they were once one.

Tessara applies her scroll of mending to repair the sword.

You now have a whole sword, but nothing else happens.

"Maybe the statue wants to hold it?"

The statue is holding the hilt, so we fused the sword blade back on its hilt... the statue now holds the whole sword; even if nothing happens, Tessara pays her respects to the restored statue.

Correct nothing else happens

With nothing else going on with the statue idol, Yaiho moves to the door on the north wall and opens it to peer at what is on the other side.

Yaiho opens the door and looks in. This room has an open and highly polished wooden floor. Hanging along all the walls are an assortment of weapons. On the southern wall hangs a portrait of an old tengu with
silver-gray feathers. A deep gash has been cut across the painting, ruining it.

Yaiho smiles, "Oooh, Yaiho sees weapons. Maybe magical? Also ruined painting."

Drukpa looks over Yaiho's shoulder. "Someone ain't bin takin' good care o' this place, that's fer sure."

Xavier steps into the room and looks around.
Perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23

Xavier are you stepping into the room with the weapons? If so, it is a room with a wide assortment of weapons on the wall and a damaged painting of an old tengu.

The weapons appear non magical. If you are done here, there is 1 more room in this building and double doors out the back of the building.

Rutvalf will go and check out the storage room at the back.

Yaiho accompanies Rutvalf as he goes check the back storage room.

Tessara follows the two gentlemen, gun at the ready.

Xavier also follows in.

Before they leave the armory, Drukpa examines the damaged painting of the tengu to see if it can be repaired or if there is anything noteworthy about it.

Then, Drukpa also marches along with the others, wondering where their foe has escaped to.

Drupka examines the painting, but finds nothing extraordinary about it.
Checking out the room in the back corner: This cold, cedar-paneled room is filled with barrels of preserved food and water. Additionally, a recently slain and clumsily butchered deer carcass hangs from hooks against the back wall, looking as though it has been gnawed upon. Nothing of note to be found here.

"Strange that the whole shrine is pretty much empty," Rutvalf remarks.
He proceeds to the back doors, and would like to inspect them for possible traps.
Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (2) + 9 = 11

You are convinced that they would never trap a temple door.