"MacGruff, take the solo, I got an idea!" Pen keeps strumming her performance of Inspire Courage as Officer MacGruff's howling takes over on vocals, and she takes the opportunity to speak to the insects!
Administrative Offices
Round 2
The pesky Mosquito buzzes about Ono with a determined sound of Fate; shouting from the rooftops that this is the day...
Splat!
Pen's sweet words just hang in the still, silent, blood-covered air...
So this key from this corpse seems to fit into the lock of this locked drawer...
Click! And the drawer opens revealing 45 gp.
Praise Dammerich and the Agents of Edgewatch!
Father Emmett quickly spills the drawer into his sack with practiced grace. Whistling, he moves around the room first pulling a bottle of rare sake off the shelf, wrapping it in bubble wrap, and dumping it into the sack. He then skips over to a corpse with a shiny dragonfly brooch and nimbly removes it.
Does anyone need to accessorize?
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”Gosh Father Emmett, you’re the best treasure finder I’ve ever met! I’m really glad that you were recruited into the Edgewatch division. I’m not sure how we’d fund our lawful exploits otherwise.” Ono says to Father Emmett, giving him a sincere compliment.
Miss Canella joins the rest of her team.
Good job everyone.
Hall of Faces
Along the walls of this room stand dozens of terra-cotta sculptures of strange creatures ranging from tiny to nearly ten feet tall. One of the statues has been destroyed, and there is a badly marred human corpse near its base. Exits include a hallway to the west and a sliding door to the north.
Be cautious my friends! There is a hazard in here.
"You see all these statues? They all show some sort of kami, these spirits that inhabit and watch over objects and places of significance. Oh, and yeah, watch out!"
Mechanical, Trap
Stealth DC 18 (trained)
Description A hollow statue filled with explosives is connected to a trip wire running along the adjacent door.
Disable DC 21 Thievery (trained) to safely cut the wire
AC 21; Fort +6, Ref +12
Hardness 5; HP 30 (BT 15); Immunities critical hits, object immunities, precision damage
Explosion [reaction] Trigger A creature opens the northern door without first disabling the trip wire; Effect The statue explodes, spraying shrapnel to the west in a 5-foot cone and dealing 1d10+7 piercing and 1d10 fire damage to all creatures in the affected area (DC 18 basic Reflex save).
Father Emmett suddenly stops. He can feel a set of eyes looking at him, making his skin crawl; like that time...well...we don't talk about that!
Father Emmett jumps to the side.
Don't want to step there!
Pen whistles a guidance to herself and gets to work.
”That’s a good start, Pen! Let me see if I can finish it off. This next part is pretty tricky... so, you all might want to stand a ways back. At least I would if I were you.”
After issuing his warning, Ono attempts to work with Pen to safely disable the tripwire.
”Any words of wisdom or guidance you’d like to share, Pen?”
Watanabe braces for impact.
Pen will guidance Ono.
Pen fiddles a bit with the wire. Some dust seems to have been displaced by wind coming from Father Emmett's direction.
Ono whistles in relief, as nothing actually blows up!
With the Guidance granted by Pen, Ono clips the wire without burning the house down.
Miss Canella starts looking around to see if she see anymore
Kobolds or giant mosquitos. She also looks at the art in the room.
This stuff is awesome. We should get some for the prescient. What
do you guys think?
Ono opens the now trap-free door and steps through. He carefully makes his way to the next door, being careful to avoid the dangerous patches of floor.
Miss Canella carefully around the room. She notices that there is 4
broken boards. She then steps within 10' of Ono.
Hall of Messages
The western half of this rectangular room features a small network of wooden gutters, extending a foot from the walls and gradually sloping from the south to the north end of the room. The bottoms of the shelves are covered with a layer of sand. Narrow pipes along the walls connect the northernmost shelf edge to the ceiling and the southern edge into the floor. Exits include a hallway to the east and a sliding door to the south.
Four corpses lie sprawled on the floor, their bodies studded with arrows.
Miss Canella starts to look around to see if she can find anything.
Pen, Watanabe, Father Emmett. Come over here and look at these small network of wooden gutters.
Watanabe pokes at the bodies and clicks his tongue for a moment, "There'd be more blood on the floor if they were killed here. Likely they were moved. They show signs of resisting, see here," the wizard points an quill at the gnome's fingernail, "there are bits of scale underneath where she scratched them." He goes on to point out some other forensic evidence and gets out his numbered pins and baggies.
Looking at the gutters he starts to spout about the religious customs, "You write your prayer here in the sand, you want to pass an entrance exam or something like that, then when it rains it erases the message. Supposedly this will carry the message to the spirits of the temple. It's possible that it works but unlikely, depends if the spirit is paying attention and cares."
Father Emmett looks sternly at the bodies as he holds his greataxe.
There will be justice..
”Excellent work, team!”
Satisfied that this area is secure, and confident in his teammates ability to assess that which needs assessing, Ono moves towards the next room, always wary of potential threats or danger.
Hall of Wisdom
In the northern corner of this room, before a bank of sliding paper windows, a wide stairway leads to a raised dais bearing a smaller version of the red gate-arch that marked the temple’s front doors. Three bronze bells of varying sizes hang from the arch’s crossbar. A few small cushions lie scattered across the chamber’s floor, and the whole room is crisscrossed with strands of white, sticky webbing. Exits include a hallway to the west and a sliding door to the south.
Consumable, Mechanical, Snare, Trap
Price 3 gp
You arrange brambles, wires, sticky goo, or other materials to interfere with a creature’s movement. The square with this snare, as well as three adjacent squares (to form a 10-foot-by-10-foot area), become difficult terrain when the first creature enters the snare’s square. The difficult terrain affects the creature’s movement right away, including its movement into the triggering square, and it lasts for 1d4 rounds after the snare is triggered. A creature can use an Interact action to clear the difficult terrain out of a single square early.
Watanabe first sees the cleverly laid snare and begins to point it out, but then hears a light chittering and a shadow play along the wall. He slowly looks up but wishes he hasn't. He manages to say, "But why?"
Hall of Wisdom
Round 1
Spring Upon Prey
Automatic And Reactive Abilities
ACTION TYPE: Reaction
TRAITS: attack
TRIGGER :: A creature touches the hunting spider's web while the spider is on it.
Requirement: Initiative has not yet been rolled. Effect: The hunting spider automatically notices the creature and Strides, Climbs, or Descends on a Web before it rolls initiative.
Itsy bitsy spider crawls down its webbing. Its multiple eyes winking and blinking at Ono!
The Hunting Spider decides it has never had Elf before!
And it goes in for another tasty morsel!
Belly filled with so tasty Elf, the bloated Hunting Spider acsends back up the webbing 25'.
Miss Canella moves into the snare and laughs. Then she raises her shield.
There you are guys. I hope this helps.
”Hey Pen, got any words of inspiration that you’d like to share? I want to shoot that spider that bit me full of arrows, but I’m not quite feeling that fire...”
Father Emmett summons Dammerich's blessing to heal Ono.
HP back to Ono.
Get it, Ono!
Father Emmett casts Guidance on Ono.
Feeling much better with some healing and guidance from Father Emmett, Ono gets into a particularly deadly ranged stance, the aims at the giant spider. He then releases a few arrows in its direction, hoping they find their mark.
piercing
piercing
Hall of Wisdom
Round 1
Father Emmett (knowing how funny Elves are about touching) decides to Heal him from afar.
Ono--feeling both Guided and relieved--takes careful aim at the dirty not-so-little spider!
Watanabe--feeling as if this spell may have merit--chucks a rock at the spider; blasting it in the eyes!
The Spider still looks at the Agents with its black eyes!
Miss Canella feel like somebody's watching her....
Suddenly an unobserved Kobold sneaks up to Miss Canella; placing the business end of his shortswort into her ribs!
Then that same kobold retreats back behind the altar.
Round 2
The pissed-off Spider black eyes the Agents down below!
It spits some webbing at Ono's face!
It then decides to retreat; once it hears a whistle.
Father Emmett runs up to help the injured Miss Canella with Battle Medicine.
14 HP healed
Emmett then casts Guidance on Miss Canella.
Ono steps to the side as a glob of web flies through the air in his general direction, and says, ”Looking for more, are you? Nasty overgrown critter!”
He continues to (mostly unsuccessfully) fire a flurry of arrows at the spider that has fixated upon him.
piercing
piercing
piercing
Thank you Father Emmett for healing me.
Miss Canella strides 10' and tries to stab the Kobold. Then
raises her shield.
Take that you nasty beast.
Hall of Wisdom
Round 2
Ok. So, some stuff happened in the last 6 seconds that may not be suitable for young ears. Ours Agents that round decided to advance some expertise in extermination, exasperation, and gropperation!
Father Emmett lays somes bandages, Elmer's glue and a bit of Big League Chew on Miss Canella's wounds.
Ono (feeling a bit miffed by the attractions of our Spider) fires a bit blindly at the Spider, but the cover from the dais causes them to bounce a bit wildly.
Miss Canella (feeling a bit mistreated, mishandled, and bad touched by a Priest) strides slowly toward the fool of a kobold.
She sees him ducking a bit behind the dais. She attempts to return serve but only hits air.
Watanabe tosses the only thing laying about that would absolutely complete this encounter; a prayer bead left by some poor sap, who thinks it was worth the 3cp.
The kobold yells at the Spider. He then Steps and the Spider crawls up and over the dais to Flank Miss Canella.
They both then attempt to bite and stab her respectively!
Father Emmett casts Guidance on himself. He strides over to flank the spider moving to avoid any potential spider attacks.
He then swings his greataxe at the spider.
DIE SPIDER!!!
Watanabe complains, "How did the kobolds manage to get a spidew in here? And abyssal mosquitoes too?!"
”Seriously! Where do you even get a giant spider? Is there some kind of shop for this? Or perhaps mail order?” Ono says in reply to Watanabe as he fires off a few more arrows at the spider.
piercing
piercing
piercing
Hall of Wisdom
Round 3
Father Emmett furiously focuses his fury at the fuzzy (be not furry) Spider!
Watanabe reckons that a rock right in the kobold's rear would right things!
Ono announces his armourous attractions to further enable his arrows!
The sudden quietness settles over the Agents, as they catch their collective breaths!
”Wow, this kobold’s weapons are really clean! Respect. I wonder if she has any treasure... er, money to pay the fines that will most certainly be leveled. Yeah, fines.” Ono comments as he rifles through the kobold’s belongings.
That hurt you ass wipe.
Miss Canella throws up all over the place.
I don't feel so good.
Oh, I feel much better now. Where to next?