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Light Condition: Dark
Active Buffs: None
Active Penalties: None
Kipp, Devotee to Azathoth(-0,Fine)
Lady Vulpina Korada(-4,Fine)
Giacomo Isidore(-0,Fine)
Red Spider(-0,Fine)
Andreas Isidore(-0,Fine)
Seren Elberion(-0,Fine)
Orange Spider(-,Fine)
Blue Spider(-6,Dead)
Green Spider(-0,Fine)
The red spider moves where the blue splatter is, taking a chance to bite Vulpina!
Vulpina feels the bite of the spider leave a light mark on her, but she fends off from the poison.
"Andreas, let me get in there."
Seren, hearing the commotion but unable to see down the stairs, pulls a sunrod from her pack and strikes the tip against her starknife to activate it. Then she steps down the stairs , throwing light into the chamber.
Seren quickly shoves all but the crossbow in her bag and follows the group, ”Hey, can anyone use this wand? It does a magic acid splash.”
"I can use it, of course."
"Spiders. Why doesn'the maintain his things?"
Not willing to move into danger, Andreas will back out of the hold, allowing Seren to move in. If he can see the orange spider, he will use a ray of frost on it.
As her light illuminates the boat, Seren cries out, "Desna protect us!"
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Light Condition: Bright Light
Active Buffs: None
Active Penalties: None
Kipp, Devotee to Azathoth(-0,Fine)
Lady Vulpina Korada(-0,Fine)
Giacomo Isidore(-0,Fine)
Red Spider(-0,Fine)
Andreas Isidore(-0,Fine)
Seren Elberion(-0,Fine)
Orange Spider(-0,Fine)
Blue Spider(-6,Dead)
Green Spider(-0,Fine)
With the light now in favor of the Pathfinders, they can strike out at the spiders who approach. Both red and green make their attacks against Vulpina!
As the more-visible spider scuttles by, she dips her blade into it-- as soon as Kip's hammer is clear, anyway. Nobody wants a bent rapier.
She'll lash out with her next attack at... whichever spider, really; she's not particularly fussed as to which. Ideally one she can see.
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Light Condition: Bright Light
Active Buffs: None
Active Penalties: None
Kipp, Devotee to Azathoth(-0,Fine)
Lady Vulpina Korada(-0,Fine)
Giacomo Isidore(-0,Fine)
Red Spider(-0,Fine)
Andreas Isidore(-0,Fine)
Seren Elberion(-0,Fine)
Orange Spider(-7,Dead)
Blue Spider(-6,Dead)
Green Spider(-11,Dead)
Three spider corpses now lay at the feet of the pathfinders, with only one remaining. It moves up to Seren to attempt a bite attack on her.
Vulpina is a veritable typhoon, her thin blade poking this way and that! It's been a very busy 6 seconds for her.
Andreas will step behind Seren and augment her natural armor class by one.
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The last of the spiders gets crushed by the combined strength of the adventurers, and Seren shakes off the ill effects of any poison. There appears to be little else down here in this boat's hull.
Of course, tracks! They lead to and from a part of the hull. It appears that Gaedren has built a secret door here.
"I worry he may have escaped in a different direction," suggests Vulpina.
Seren smiles at Andreas, ”Hey, thanks.”
Seren scowls at the floor, tipping her head to one side as she ponders it, ”Oh, um, so... are those tracks leading to a secret hatch or something? Do you see that?”
Seren points out the tracks to her companions.
Vulpina's eyes light up as Seren rolls way better than anyone else.
"Ah, excellent. My mood is much improved. Seren, was it? You have been nothing but a joy," she chimes, striding purposefully toward the door, sheathing her blade, and using the now-free hand to--
Wait.
She stops herself from touching the door at the last moment.
"What are the odds that this is trapped?"
”Ah, um, thank you.”
Seren’s eyes widen at the reference to traps and she casts detect magic to make sure no cruel magics await.
Andreas notices nothing.
If that doesn’t work, Vulpina will raise an eyebrow and try the handle.
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Slamming her hands around the door, Vulpina finally manages to find the way to crack it open. Daylight now floods the boat hull, as you find yourselves on a lower dock.
A narrow space exists under the fishery, with about three feet of room between the floor of the eastern side of the building and the languid, foamy river water below. Wooden pilings support the building, and thick mats of moss and cobwebs hang from ropes and rusted chains between them. A wooden walkway floats on the river’s surface, winding along the inner wall of pilings that supports the building’s frame above. The walkway leads from the sodden ship to the east all the way west to a small two-and-a-half-foot-square door that leads into an understructure below the fishery’s land-bound half.
The pilings below this understructure are densely arrayed, leaving only narrow gaps into the water below that area.
"Anyone else growing lightheaded? I keep holding my breath as we open doors, and there has been an awful lot of that of late."
"Anyway; onward, then!"
She sets off across the walkway.
"A door can be wherever you make it," chuckles the noble.
Seren makes a brief prayer of gratitude to Desna for guiding her way, then she follows Kip and Vulpina.
"Let's not play smashy-smashy on doors at the waterline, pelase." says Andreas, shaking his head.
He follows the team in.
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The adventurers make their way across the pier, when Andreas notices a lurking threat below. A shark of immense size swims back around the pier and seems to hungrily gaze upwards at you all once or twice as it pauses its swimming. So far, however, it seems to continue its patrol.
The door to the inside of the pier is locked, but fiddling through the collection of keys reveals the brass key is able to solve that issue. Now is a different problem, however, as it seems the doorway is so tight that if anyone needed to get through in a pinch it would take extra effort.
The air in this large room is chilly and stinks of the river, thanks to a huge opening in the floor that drops away to the river shore three feet below. Several pilings emerge from the waters to support the roof eight feet above the floor, with mossy ropes slung between them. In two places, rusty manacles hang from the ropes over the water. Two five-foot-wide walkways cross the hole to the other side of the chamber, where a collection of old cabinets, lockboxes, and piles of clutter are strewn about. Chipped porcelain plates, a cracked goblet, badly rusted silverware, an old wooden shield with a crossbow bolt embedded in it, the odd dinged helm, and other “treasures” litter the floor of this side of the chamber. Three tables heaped with clutter stand amid this mess. In the southwest corner, a wooden door provides access to a walled-off section.
A old jaundiced man, who resembles a corpse, stares up at you with yellow eyes. To his left is an alligator with a nasty slab of meat stuck in its jaws. "So, the little drugged up pet wanders into my home. Shame, I didn't get you enough to put you down for good. Well, you miserable flea-bitten freak, how bout another fixing?" He smiles a wicked and partially toothless grin. He then raises a hand crossbow and aims it at Kipp.
Light Condition: Light from Sunrod and Windows
Active Buffs: None
Active Penalties: None
Gaedren Lamm(-0,Fine)
Kipp, Devotee to Azathoth(-0,Fine)
Giacomo Isidore(-0,Fine)
Gobblegut the Alligator(-0,Fine)
Lady Vulpina Korada(-0,Fine)
Andreas Isidore(-0,Fine)
Seren Elberion(-0,Fine)
Lamm, holding the hand crossbow at Kipp,
Andreas - 2
Kip - 3
Seren - 2
Vulpina - 3
Giacomo - 2
"Dexterity Rerolls: A PC can spend a Harrow Point to reroll an initiative check, Reflex save, attack roll modified by Dexterity, or Dexterity-based check. The PC must abide by the new result (although if he has additional Harrow Points, he can use them for additional rerolls).
Dodge Bonus: A PC can spend a Harrow Point to gain a +1 dodge bonus to his Armor Class for one encounter. He can spend up to 3 Harrow Points per encounter to increase his Armor Class in this manner.
Speed Increase: A PC can spend a Harrow Point to increase his base speed by 10 feet for one encounter."
The fiendish eagle attacks at the alligator.
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Light Condition: Light from Sunrod and Windows
Active Buffs: None
Active Penalties: None
Gaedren Lamm(-0,Fine)
Kipp, Devotee to Azathoth(-4,Fine)
Giacomo Isidore(-0,Fine)
Gobblegut the Alligator(-0,Fine)
Lady Vulpina Korada(-0,Fine)
Andreas Isidore(-0,Fine)
Seren Elberion(-0,Fine)
Andreas - 2
Kip - 3
Seren - 2
Vulpina - 3
Giacomo - 2
"Dexterity Rerolls: A PC can spend a Harrow Point to reroll an initiative check, Reflex save, attack roll modified by Dexterity, or Dexterity-based check. The PC must abide by the new result (although if he has additional Harrow Points, he can use them for additional rerolls).
Dodge Bonus: A PC can spend a Harrow Point to gain a +1 dodge bonus to his Armor Class for one encounter. He can spend up to 3 Harrow Points per encounter to increase his Armor Class in this manner.
Speed Increase: A PC can spend a Harrow Point to increase his base speed by 10 feet for one encounter."
Gobblegut starts chomping down on the summon that was casted upon him, his massive jaws taking a large bite!
Vulpina moves swiftly inside, working towards cutting off Lamm's potential escape route; blade and pistol ready, her nostrils flare.
"You have made enemies high and low, I am afraid," says the noblewoman, in a hollow version of her former affability.
"You. I lost my life at the Academae because of you. Now, you will lose yours." growls Andreas, as he casts ray of frost.
Seren pulls a strange Pearl from her pocket and presses it against her holy symbol as she prays, ”Desna, may your starry grace guide and protect us in our time of need.”
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Light Condition: Light from Sunrod and Windows
Active Buffs: Bless
Active Penalties: None
Gaedren Lamm(-0,Fine)
Kipp, Devotee to Azathoth(-4,Fine)
Giacomo Isidore(-0,Fine)
Gobblegut the Alligator(-3,Fine)
Lady Vulpina Korada(-0,Fine)
Andreas Isidore(-0,Fine)
Seren Elberion(-0,Fine)
Andreas - 2
Kip - 3
Seren - 2
Vulpina - 3
Giacomo - 2
"Dexterity Rerolls: A PC can spend a Harrow Point to reroll an initiative check, Reflex save, attack roll modified by Dexterity, or Dexterity-based check. The PC must abide by the new result (although if he has additional Harrow Points, he can use them for additional rerolls).
Dodge Bonus: A PC can spend a Harrow Point to gain a +1 dodge bonus to his Armor Class for one encounter. He can spend up to 3 Harrow Points per encounter to increase his Armor Class in this manner.
Speed Increase: A PC can spend a Harrow Point to increase his base speed by 10 feet for one encounter."
Lamm lets out a mean old cackle as more peoples whose lives he destroyed enter the room. "A bunch of losers who got a beef with me? Wonder why the little girl and failed graduate think they can take me?" He hurls out his dismissive insults before taking a shift backwards, drawing his dagger, and stabbing at Vulpina.
Vulpina dodges sideways, and grins at Gaedren.
"Negging does not suit you nearly as well as silence, Lamm!"
The fiendish eagle attacks Lamm