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The bright orb cast by Alpha-47 floats out away from the party, and over the sunken floor of the large cavern. With this additional illumination, you can see another primitive hut and the far wall of the large chamber, though the far end remains in dim light, but it appears to be a large metal wall of some kind on the far eastern side of the cave. You'd have to be closer to tell more for sure.
The three fallen Black Tear thugs are equipped as the others have been with leather armor, daggers, and hand crossbows. They carry, between them, 15 silver sails but no other loot of note. The white-haired leader also wears leather armor and carries 4 daggers. He also has 3 clearly labeled healing potions that were apparently scavenged from fallen House Aldori guardsmen. Jaethal flinches a bit from your embrace, and her skin is surprisingly cold to the touch, but she eventually submits to the hug. "I have not seen the Lady Jamandi since last night. These killers caught me unarmed and unawares and I was in a pretty bad spot till you arrived. I have not seen anyone else of consequence as my group split up when the fire started." She listens as you relate what has transpired so far. "I don't have my weapon, but if you let me use those daggers, I will stay with you if you'll have me. I don't really have any prayers left today, but if you have a kit, I can patch someone up if they get hurt."
AH, then I suppose I should delete my prior post? Probably too late to delete now, but feel free to retcon to something else if you wish.
The group sets off to the southeast with Karina's light spell illuminating the way. After about 30' or so, the passage widens into an enormous chamber. The ceiling here rises 30' or more overhead. A five-foot wide ledge runs along the western wall, sloping down to the cave floor 10' below. Four ramshackle huts made from what appears to be strips of metal, hides, and some sort of fibrous plant matter sit on the lower floor, while to the south yawns a black pit. The room is large enough that parts of it cannot be illuminated with the existing light spell. There does appear, also, to be a narrow passage from the ledge back to the west, and another that leads to the north. You don't see any visible occupants of the hut, nor do you spy creatures of any kind.
This one extra HP is enough to put Orange out of the fight.
we are moving house by end of the month, so sometimes i get distracted and forget to post, just a heads up on the chaos for the next 2-3 weeks Get to us when you can. When your team gets in a fight, will need you present regularly, or I will bot you. LMK if you want specific bot instructions, but I have your common tactics figured out so far.
Storage Barn - Round 4 - continued
27 Iovia (unluck)
Ntuni, despite the trend towards bad things happening, is able to land a physical blow on Orange Pugwampi as it flees from him, and it is very badly hurt, clearly just about to pass out after the blow. M'Baba leaps on the table and strikes at one of the pugwampis, but the table leg is shorter than the other, and with his weight on it, the table yaws to one side, making the stabbing attacks both miss despite being from behind. Nyandra keeps her song going, and is able to weave in a healing spell that gives some relief to M'Baba, though some of his wounds persist. Green Pugwampi leaps off the teetering table, and rushes to make a strike at Za Minyahil from behind. The hit scores and only the inherent weakness of the gremlin keeps it from being a much worse wound than it is.
Alpha has not heard of the emaciated creatures shown in the drawings. They may be some kind of unidentified creature, or perhaps just a figment of the artist's imagination.
Secret Rolls:
Graham receives some medicinal ministrations, and his situation improves somewhat.
The bound elf is none other than Jaethal from the this evening's (was it that short a time ago?) dinner party. She has raven-black hair which makes her ultra-pale white skin stand out even more. Her scythe is not present. When ungagged and unbound, she rubs her wrists for a moment, and says, "Thank you for the timely intervention. I am not hurt badly. Save any of your healing for your allies." When she sees Selina among the rescuers, she smiles broadly. "Hello friend! I am glad to see you still among the living. This night is a horror. I owe you and your team a great favor it seems."
Took an unexpected overnight trip, so will be out of pocket for posting until tomorrow evening.
I made it in secret checks for you and you succeeded before you rolled and failed. I mentioned it in OOC notes then.
The drawing seem to be drawn on the wall with chalk or something very similar. The robot-thing you recognize, and while you have never seen the four-armed humanoid before, Karina has heard stories, during your time in Torch from other bards, of a very secretive race of similar build humanoids who live in the wild and dark places of Numeria. Those stories did not tell of these creatures being as emaciated as the drawing, but that might just be artistic license or something. Secret Rolls:
Peril in the Parlor- Post Combat Summary Wounds
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Peril in the Parlor - Round 2 - concluded After landing on the floor again, Selina skewers one bandit, and then turns and skewers the other as well, felling two foes in the same action sequence. As the last thug falls dead, the fight is over. End of Combat
As far as I know, Za Minyahil is NOT affected by the gremlin unluck. I rolled that save in secret when they first entered the room. You don't have to take the unluck rolls, but even without, your grapples are ineffective this round.
Storage Barn - Round 4 - continued Iovia pushes more divine healing on Ntuni, trying to keep them in the fight. Then she turns to strike the nearest gremlin, but her fist strikes the wooden shelf instead, doing no damage. Yellow Pugwampi leaps back from the melee attack, drawing out its shortbow as it moves. Then it fires one arrow at M'Baba, hitting the rogue with a painful shot. Blue Pugwampi strikes out twice against Ntuni who keeps pressing it. The first stab scores another hit, but the wound is very minor. The second misses completely, then the blue gremlin scampers away towards another table of goods. Za Minyahil pick themselves up off the debris-laden floor, more embarrassed than hurt. They then try to grapple the Yellow Gremlin, after stepping to follow it, but their plant-like arms come up empty once again.
hit
Storage Barn - Round 4
27 Iovia (unluck)
Storage Barn - Round 3 - concluded Ntuni clambers up on some of the storage items, swinging at one of the gremlins, but just as he thinks it will be a hit, the shelving gives way, and he falls back to the floor, his strikes both missing. Ikto rushes towards Green but he also cannot make contact with the dog-faced foe, nearly dropping his weapon which gets loose in his hand mid-strike. The attacks hit nothing but air. Orange Pugwampi rushes away from where Ntuni moved, turning to shoot the dwarf in the backside with its shortbow. One small arrow glances harmlessly off Ntuni's chain mail, and the other falls well short of the target. End of Round 3
The rocky floor does not yield much in the way of footprints to track, but Zaria thinks she sees one impression that might be a boot print coming back towards the intersection from the slightly upward sloping path. It appears that boot might have belonged to the fallen half-orc in the room previous.
Peril in the Parlor - Round 2 - continued Teela hurls a projectile across the room, striking the Black Tear leader squarely in the head, caving in part of his skull in the process. The white-haired man falls dead from the blow. Selina leaps up on the pool table, rushes across the slate surface, and then drops down while impaling Blue Thug with her rapier. She uses her boot to push the dead corpse off the end her blade, and then turns to the remaining bandit, glaring with a raised eyebrow as if to say, 'you're next'. The sole remaining bandit is now quite afraid of Selina, literally shaking with fear.
Peril in the Parlor - Round 2 - continued After getting a hit in as the bandit leader retreated, Graham follows on, despite his serios wounds, closing the distance and striking again. His attack is incredible vicious, especially for someone appearing quite hurt, and lands a major wound to the white-haired foe, who looks just as bad off as Graham now, if not more so. Still looking wild-eyed at the attack of the heroes, Green Thug fires his crossbow once more at Selina. The bolt hits her magical shield, dispelling it, but the shield serves its purpose, protecting her from any damage. The Green thug tosses his crossbow aside, and draws out a dagger in case there is any close in fighting.
hit
The southern passage quickly bends to the southwest, winding farther into the caverns system. Using Karina's illuminating spell to see, the group travel about 40' down the narrow passage in single-file. After that point, they can see a crossroads of a sort. A collection of crates, boxes, rubble, and scavenged metal lies heaped in the northwest section of this damp cave. Several strange chalk drawings of twisted, spiny plants, a strange three-legged creature, and emaciated four-armed humanoids mark the walls here. The three-legged creature looks very much like the robot you saw at Foundry before you came down here. The passage also splits at this point to continue either to the southwest or the southeast. The southeast path seems to slope upwards, while the other remains level.
Storage Barn - Round 3 - continued M'Baba lunges one way at the gremlin, attempting to attack from another, but he overbalances, slipping on a piece of broken crockery that was somehow underfoot, and instead of getting an advantage, he ends up off-guard against counter-attacks. His actually strike also misses, as does any attempt to frighten the small creature. Nyandra keeps her inspirational music going but also tries to cast a spell against one of the remaining miscreants. The spell seems to have no effect as the pugwampi shakes off the daze effect and any damage. Green Pugwampi slips out of the box created by the initiates, slides behind M'Baba, and attacks the off-balance foe. It's shortsword connects twice, but the damage is still fairly mild.
Even with the gnawing of some of the flesh post-mortem, Alpha is able to determine that the subject died of several stab wounds, as if from a dagger or other short-bladed weapon. Some of those wounds appear to be in the back.
Yikes, glad you made it through safely
Storage Barn - Round 3 - continued Iovia casts a healing spell on Ntuni, who has taken some damage so far, then she moves to flank with M'baba, hopeful to catch one of the gremlins off-guard again. Blue Pugwampi drops its shortbow, and draws out its shortsword striking twice against Ntuni who is adjacent. The determined gremlin lands boths strikes undoing some of the healing offered by Iovia, and perhaps a bit more damage. Za Minyahil returns ot the storage room after making their gremlin deposit, and attempts to grab Green Pugwampi, but the footing under them somehow gives way enough that they fall face first onto the floor of the storage barn filling their face with dust and debris.
hit
Peril in the Parlor - Round 2 - continued
22 White-Haired Dude (9hp dmg)
Alvis drops his melee weapon and invokes the aid of his patron deity once again, trying to heal himself so he can provide succor to the others, especially the seriously hurt Graham. The magic healing fills him and most of his wounds close leaving him mostly restored. Graham is able to react to the retreat of the bandits' leader, stabbing him in the flank as he goes and smirking at the cry of pain it elicits.
Peril in the Parlor - Round 2
22 White-Haired Dude (3hp dmg)
"Kill these interlopers," shouts the white-haired man, clearly a leader of some sort. He stabs at Graham with a pair of daggers one from each hand. Both daggers sink into the shoulders of Graham, the first strike taking his attention from the second blade, which hurts even more. The leader then steps back and away from melee.
Peril in the Parlor - Round 1 - concluded From the other room, Quintessa sweeps together a number of metal fragments, launching them across the table at Red Thug. The shards do deadly damage, felling the assassin. The sorceress then conjures on more spell creating a temporary glass bubble around her body to ward any counterattacks. End of Round 1
Storage Barn - Round 3
27 Iovia (unluck)
Storage Barn - Round 2 - concluded Ntuni grabs the stricken gremlin, carries to the cage in the hall, tosses it inside, and then sprints back into the fight. Orange Pugwampi leaps up and back a shelf out of reach of the dwarf, and fires its shortbow twice at close range at Ntuni. Both shots miss rather badly, as the gremlins seems rattled by the onslaught. End of Round 2
hey folks, not feeling well. May not be able to post for a bit. Please feel free to bot Nyandra if necessary; right now her goal is to keep Courageous Anthem going and will try to use Daze when she can. No worries. Health first. Get well soon
Peril in the Parlor - Round 1 - continued 22 White-Haired Dude
Teela begins playing her harp, she fails to get Lingering Composition to work, but she does still inspire her allies boosting their fighting ability. She also sends a chord of fear through Red Thug, who appears visibly shaken. Selina leaps into the fight, moving to the side of Alvis and stabbing at the nearest assassin. Her attack just misses, but she does get her shield up in order to ward any counter-blows. Blue Thug steps to the side to line up a better shot, and fires the length of the pool table at Alvis. The shot is true, and although Alvis gets his shield in the way to block some of the force of the missile, it still plants in his left side painfully, damaging the shield a bit as well. Red Thug, now faced with two foes and already frightened, stabs at Alvis, who cannot get his shield back up in time, and takes a serious stab wound to the shoulder and neck, the damage piling up for the poor cleric. The frightened foe then backs away around the table, lessening its front facing area.
critical
The fallen half-orc looks like it has been dined on for some days by the insects, vermin, and rats of the cave system, but despite that unkindness, Karina recognizes the corpse as Parda Garr, a female brawler from Torch who was one of several thugs that traveled into the caverns after their discovery and before Khonnir Baine returned from his first expedition. Parda, while running around with thugs, was friendly enough to everyone, and was a regular at Foundry Tavern, where she saw Karina perform on a regular basis.
Storage Barn - Round 2 - continued Za Minyahil manages to hold onto one of the feisty little gremlins, dragging into the remaining cage in the hallway. Nyandra enters the room, continuing her anthem to boost her allies battle prowess. She also feels the unluck fill her but continues playing nonetheless. Green Pugwampi watches the ghoran rush past carrying its ally, so it moves forward and attacks M'Baba who is assaulting another of its kind. the first blow mildly scratches M'Baba, but the second misses completely. Ikto steps forward to attack the same Green gremlin, but his attack misses. He does get his shield up, just in case the attacks start coming his way.
Peril in the Parlor - Round 1 - continued 22 White-Haired Dude
Graham shakes off the dagger strike and enters the fray against the white-haired man. His threats sound empty, but his stabbing attack with his rapier, scores a minor hit on the foe, who grunts in surprise and pain. Alvis, meanwhile, enters the room and raises his shield. His taunt at the nearest Black Tear actually seems to work, causing the invader to look around in a frightened way. Green Black Tear steps forward a bit to line up a better shot, then fires his hand crossbow at Graham from across the billiard table. Fortunately, the shot flies high, the bolt sticking into the wall above Graham's head. The thug curses, and begins to reload.
As you move to check the western area, Karina's light spell fills the chamber which holds a collection of stalactites and stalagmites which choke this low ceilinged cavern, making it difficult to squeeze between them. Matching stalactites close inf rom the five-foot high ceiling, giving the impression of a maw of needlelike teeth bearing down on one another. A dead half-orc sprawls on the ground just inside the cavern's eastern entrance nearest you.
Peril in the Parlor - Round 1 22 White-Haired Dude
The man with the white hair whirls from bending over the elf captive as you enter advances a bit, and in a quick motion launces a pair of thrown daggers at Graham, who is first to enter. The first dagger hits the surprised hero, but he is able to just dodge the second thrown weapon.
"No! Wait! I command you!" sputters Tartuccio impotently, his voice rising in pitch until its almost a screech as you all leave the room.
Graham pushes open the northern door, and finds a large room containing several padded chairs, a comfortable-looking pair of couches, and a finely crafted billiard table. Inside the room, are three more active black-cloaked invaders and a white-haired man also with a black cloak, but he holds 2 slightly curved daggers, and has a number of other small daggers on a belt across his chest. The white-haired man seems to be standing over a female elf bound and gagged on the couch at the western end of the room. "Hey, there's some live ones!" cries the closest Black Tear, and all turn to look at you, apparently ready for a fight. Initiative:
Storage Barn - Round 2 - continued Having snuck up on Yellow Pugwampi, M'Baba launches a strike with his rapier and then another, but neither manages to hit the small crafty foe.
Storage Barn - Round 2 - continued Iovia enters the room, feeling the strange unluck effects from the fey cavorting about the space. She casts a spell on the nearest pugwampi that intends to damage and daze, but the fey shrugs off most of the effect, suffering not much more than small headache instead. Yellow Pugwampi leaps to a barrel near where Za Minyahil is attacking one of this brethren, drawing out a shortsword as it comes. Then it makes one stabbing attack at the ghoran for limited damage. Blue Pugwampi unshoulders his bow, and looses two arrows at Ntuni. The first slides off her chain mail without consequence, but the second sticks in her shoulder, hurting rather a lot.
The gnome raises one extra furry eyebrow at Teela but says nothing until Graham chimes in. "Giants you say? Yes I vaguely recall seeing those. We must evacuate you say? Well then, I command you to escort me to this garden you speak of. At once! Well, don't just stand there! Get those doors open, and let's be off!"
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