Chafkhem dismisses you with a wave of his hand. Where to next?
Yan waves goodbye. Well that went well! I like making friends. I'm sure he'll come around.
Yan moves back out and opens the next door in the spores room after checking it for traps.
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Oorgatch follows, grinding his teeth, also keeping his eyes open.
No spores in your current room, they are in the room to the north.
No traps on the next door although it doesn't want to open and there seems to be a lock.
"Let's try this quietly." says Oorgatch, as he pulls out his tools.
Oorgatch stands up after spending time picking the lock, and carefully puts the three broken picks away, planning on fixing them next time he has a chance.
"Ok, it should be open now."
Past the door is a circular chamber with swirling runes carved into the stone and filled with silver. The floor is polished smooth, as is the ceiling 10 feet above.
Yan takes note and moves on to the next door.
No traps, a large room on the far side though.
In it you find overturned tables and benches, all made of petrified wood that lie scattered around the edges of this expansive chamber. There are pale bones interspersed with these furnishings. Several preserved monster heads and silver plaques adorn the walls. A glowing circle of runes is etched on the floor of an alcove to the east.
Conjuration magic is present.
It does seem to be another teleportation circle, this one seems to be functional unlike the others you've encountered. Before Sendoski has a chance to further investigate though the pale bones coalesce into a huge skeleton that seems intent on killing you.
Initiative:
Oorgatch
Huge Skeleton
Sendoski
Yan
Scarred One
Oorgatch is up!
"Wow, this is big..."
Oorgatch springs into action, realizing fully that his rapier will not be particularly effective.
And then attacks.
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He then parries. Just in case
Oorgatch gets a stab in, although the lack of flesh between the bones makes it not super effective.
The huge skeleton takes a swipe at Yan and Scarred One, it's giant claw hitting them both.
Yan avoids the attack against him, and even helps Scared One with the attack against him, enfeebling the skeleton at the same time.
It reaches over the front pair and swipes at Sendoski with its other claw.
Whom it hits despite issues.
After which it continues its spin, turning to face Oorgatch.
Initiative:
Oorgatch
Huge Skeleton -14 Enfeebled 2
Sendoski (32/49)
Yan
Scarred One (72/84)
Party is up.
Look at Oorgatch, not giving up. He always succeeds… eventually! Yan tries to encourage his friends to never give up!
Critical Success Your marshal's aura increases to a 20-foot emanation and grants you and allies a +1 status bonus to attack rolls and saves against mental effects.
Success As critical success, but your aura's size doesn't increase.
Failure You fail to enter the stance.
Critical Failure You fail to enter the stance and can't take this action again for 1 minute.
Ashava, smite this creature! Yan's scarf glows with holy energy as he Smites Evil and then strikes!
The skeleton has no true gaze to meet the evil eye but it does surcumb to bad luck.
Meanwhile Yan inspires his allies and gets a strike in on the skeleton. The slashing isn't fully effective but the other bits of damage work.
Initiative:
Oorgatch
Huge Skeleton -33 Enfeebled 2 Ill Omen
Sendoski (32/49)
Yan
Scarred One (72/84)
Orcs are up!
Scarred one reaches for his club and strikes the undead with positive damage
Skeleton burns somewhat.
Oorgatch attempts to do his typical "song and dance", trying to roll through the legs of the giant, staying in flank.
Failing, he tries again.
He then stabs away, hoping to finish it, but not expecting to.
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It takes a couple tries but Oorgatch gets around, but can't get his stab to land.
The skeleton claws at Oorgatch.
Despite the enfeeble and the Ill omen it lands a crit.
It then spins and claws Scared One and Yan
hitting both!
Yan re-enfeebles the skeleton and protects Scarred One.
Initiative:
Oorgatch (43/76)
Huge Skeleton -41 Enfeebled 2
Sendoski (32/49)
Yan (67/86)
Scarred One (72/84)
”Ow, you freaking bastard!” yells Oorgatch, trying to inspire himself.
He then does his little game and attacks.
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He then parries, hoping to avoid another hit like that.
Scarred One roar in pain, he leans on his club as he keeps on magic whirling. His club wakes up and morphs into a living club of vines
The old one swings it at the undead
Yan takes advantage of the flank and strikes, hoping to attract the creature's attention.
Then he raises his arcane Shield.
Between Oorgatch's powerful crit, Yan's crit and normal hit the skeleton quickly goes back to being a pile of bones.
"Whew! That bag of bones was tough."
Oorgatch looks at the wound at his side, and shrugs. "Guess we need to heal up a little?"
Scarred One reaches for his knife "That gargantuan skeleton would be a nice scar, who is interested"
The old one reaches for his bandages as well and starts patching others
Then he looks at the skeleton
Yan, contributing to healing and then refocusing, searches the room.
It was a giant skeleton, if monstrous size has no intrinsic merit there's nothing more to say about it.
If there is not treasure to be found in the Yan moves tot he top left door, follows door protocols, and opens it.
"Size has a quality of its own. It hit hard."
Oorgatch then moves up with Yan, beckoning the others to follow.
The door is fairly boring and untrapped or locked, it leads to a narrow twisting hallway with several doors leading further, perhaps closer to the dreaded scythe hallway.
Scarred One moves inside the corridor "Stay here, drag me out if there is a trap."
He moves in and keeps his eyes open for any traps, if he reaches the door to the right be checks them for trap as well
No traps, perfectly safe.
Yan follows, and checks the first door with Scarred one and then opens it.
Opening the door reveals a chamber that contains nothing more than a single bed, an empty footlocker, and a metal chamber pot. Anything of value was clearly stripped long ago, and the room has signs of being used as a prison.
There is no magic present or signs of the scything blade trap.
Yan moves on to the next room, following Door Protocol!
Scarred One follows Yan...
No traps, perfectly safe.
Opening the door reveals a chamber that contains nothing more than several feet of thick black sludge that quickly coalesces into 1 animate pile of violent sludge.
There is not magic present.
Initiative:
Oorgatch
Scarred One
Medium Black Sludge
Yan
Sendoski
Oorgatch and Scarred One are up!
Scarred One reacts immediately, his body morphs into that of a giant frog...
Giant Frog opens its mouth and a tongue flies and strikes the ooze
While the overgrown puddle makes little effort to get out of the way it also seems to lack any sort of vital organs that might be the subject of a critical hit.
It does taste like burning though.
Oorgatch does his thing, dancing through the blob’s space.
”Learning through doing, my friends.”
However, he decides to test the precision waters with just a strike.
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He will then set up a dueling parry, and awaits its response.
Oorgatch easily moves by the blob.
Oorgatch plunges his weapon deep into the surprisingly thick and viscous ooze and pulls back to find 2 oozes where there used to be 1!
A bit of acid spurts out as well but Oorgatch gets his weapon out of the way in time.
The black ooze reaches out with a psudopod
Yan protects him!
The pusdeopod holds on though and squeezes Oorgatch further.
The second ooze blubs forward, it's movement quite slow as it goes after Yan.
Yan is luckier and is missed!
Twice!
Initiative:
Oorgatch 56/76 Grabbed
Scarred One
Half Medium Black Sludge -6 Enfeebled 2
Half Medium White Goo -6
Yan
Sendoski
"Well, I can see I am not going to be much help here, and if I keep getting hit like that, both me and Otari's armor are done for."
Knowing he needs to get out, he tries to escape.
Yan sheather his scarf in cast they need to flee. He opts not to enter his stance as oozes are pretty easy to hit but impossible to crit. He then draws his flail and strikes black:
Easy to hit, smack dab in the center, perfect hit!
Scarred frog leaps forwards and bites the ooze with its massive jaws.
Frog crushes oozy substance with its massive jaws
Frustrated that he cannot do anything better, Oorgatch punches the ooze twice.