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I apologize to everyone, but I have been moving toward a departure from these forums for some time and find that I cannot put it off anymore.

I no longer have the energy or desire to continue with these games.

I thank you all for the experiences and have enjoyed playing with each of you, but I am leaving. I realize that this leaves the game in a bad state, and for that I am sorry.

Like these Surgeon's Tools?

Maybe another +1 for being masterwork?

"If you truly want a room to be secret, you put the entrance in the privy. Nobody will ever find it there.

Well, if there's nothing else down here, let's keep moving."

Dol follows Loth to the southern door and waits for the halfling to open it.

Any mechanical benefit to the surgical tools?

Dol scans the room with Detect Magic.

Dol opens the door.

"Doesn't appear to be anything of interest here. Maybe once we invest in some scrolls of Comprehend Languages we can come back and see what he is saying"

Dol moves to open the door next to him, but waits to see if others agree first.

Dol opens the northern door.

Careful sounds good to me

As Tarphrex and Loth examine the doors, Dol moves in and considers them. "Without some clue of where we should go, I always say to go left. That would be the North door"

"We found silver and gold in the treasure room, may as well use that."

Dol takes four silver pieces and slides them into the little grooves. If nothing happens, he will use four gold pieces instead.

Yeah, that is a standard utility spell I like to carry on a scroll but I haven't had time or money to buy one yet. Of course, whenever I've had a scroll I've never needed it....

Dol returns to the fresco of coins and begins tapping on the wall attempting to determine if there is empty space behind it. He will also feel around for hidden buttons among the coins.

Perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12

I always feel items like that should go to frontliners first. I'd suggest Loth.

"Agreed, Razvik. I actually intended to open all of the sarcophagi and I am not quite sure how I got distracted from that aim. Let us return and check there.

Afterwards we can return to the wall with the treasure image and see if we can figure out if it opens or not."

Web is a great control spell, but if you want to be a blaster, that's fine as well.

Dol is levelled up (not much to think about). 18 Wisdom now, and a couple of empty spell slots ready to be converted to healing.

Oops... Total brain fart on the healing the enemy thing.

Thank you for being a benevolent GM!

Dol uses his last channel to heal the injured combatants.

Channel: 2d6 ⇒ (6, 4) = 10

Dol gets out a wand and attempts to keep up with the damage.

CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8

Dol moves to the doorway, in order to get near enough to reach Zenaida.

"The best thing to do is to kill the creature. But, making her larger in these confined environs might not work so well unless we move out of the room first."

We would ALL be squeezing if she becomes large

Converting a spell, Dol reaches out to heal Zenaida.

CLW: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

The Grab monster ability doesn't normally work against a creature who is larger than the creature. That doesn't mean that the creature can break free of the grapple, but it might mean that the crab is not able to confirm the grapple (and thus not inflict more constrict damage).

Seems like a good idea, though it will likely just mean the crab moves his attacks to a smaller opponent.

Regardless, I will heal her. I am a little slow to post as I am currently on vacation.

"That doesn't look like a friendly creature."

Dol tries to fling a ball of acid at the creature, but it splashes in the water harmlessly.

Acid Dart,Melee,Cover: 1d20 + 2 - 4 - 4 ⇒ (8) + 2 - 4 - 4 = 2

"I agree Loth. A hoard protected by undead, with an evil power whispering for release is suspect at best. The upper levels may have been ruled by noble men at some point, but this level reeks of evil. The jewels and coins should stay."

Dol moves forward to pull the amulet and examine it more closely.

Spellcraft: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9

But, he finds that he can't even sort the flows properly. "Tarphrex, do you have a good knowledge of magical items? It would be good to know what this does."

THIS POST is what I was remembering

"No that wasn't quite right, Lyrie said something about greed freeing this Malfeshnekor. If that helmet belonged to him, I don't think I would like to meet him."

Dol looks into the room and peers at the carvings, then moves inside to take a closer look at the pool (but not too close).

"Perhaps, Tarphrex. Though, it would have to be a very small dragon, and one that didn't care if its treasures got ruined by water."

Casting Detect Magic, Dol scans the pool to see if there is anything magical (and thus worth retrieving in the pool.

"Didn't the riddle say something about the key being hidden in the treasure?"

I've heard three options:

1. Take Lyrie back to town, come back once we are healed up on Strength
2. Take Lyrie aboveground and continue exploring
3. Just continue exploring

My vote is for #2.

Let's see if we can get a majority opinion.

"Yes, getting her out of this castle is the best possible scenario. Perhaps we can find if there is an enchantment confusing her.

Perhaps if we get her up to see the sunlight, that would have a positive effect on her state of mind."

Dol looks back, having missed the struggle between Lyrie and Orik in his worry over his teammates.

Leaving the empty crypt, he rushes back and tries to speak soothingly to Lyrie.

"What is it, Lyrie? What caused this reaction? Was it the shadows? The undead are gone now. There is nothing to fear."

Sounds feasible

Funny that you should mention the glaring S. I think it would be glaring even without the tag there.

Dol looks with concern at Zenaida, but feels helpless at the moment. "Perhaps if you lighten your load a bit? I can carry your pack, or even the armor, if need be.

You could wear my breastplate for now, if that would be better."

Dol looks about the room as well. "I doubt there will be anything left in these sarcophagi, but we should take a look." He starts to move toward one, but his face scrunches up. "Odd. The symmetry of the room is all off. That alcove in the center of the wall should have another sarcophagus. Razvik, maybe your eyes might pick out something hidden there?"

Dol begins moving from sarcohagus to sarcophagus, taking 10 to search each one. Perception T10 = 13

I want this thing dead. It is doubtful we'll run into more shadows and I have plenty of healing capacity for the time being. Hopefully that takes it out.

Channel or wand? Average channel is 7hp, Average CLW is 6 and requires a melee strike. I guess the math goes with channel.

Channel: 2d6 ⇒ (2, 6) = 8 (DC 13

Dol will delay to see if the shadow can be taken out by Melee

If you are withdrawing, there is no AoO anyways

Dol glances with concern at the new friend among them, worried moreso by the prospect of attempting to defeat these creatures without her aid.

"I didn't prepare spells to heal this kind of damage, but try to hold on. Back out, if the situation is desperate."

Dol channels again, hoping to drop some of them.

Channel: 2d6 ⇒ (4, 5) = 9 (DC 13)

Watching in horror as his team is drained. Dol calls upon Torag to aid in the destruction of these unholy monsters.

Channel: 2d6 ⇒ (3, 4) = 7 (DC 13)

Dol will probably start out channeling, and can send acid blobs as well.

Three shadows can go very badly for us very quickly...

Knowledge(Religion): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (5) + 8 = 13

"Shaodws! You'll need magic weapons to harm them."

Casting Magic Weapon, Dol reaches out to touch Razvik's axe.

I am hoping Zenaida can enchant her own weapon

Actually moved people's icons on the map. @GM I think we are ready to move into the center of the room. If that doesn't have a result, Dol will open the NW sarcophagus

After about half a minute, Dol crinkles his nose, the spits on the ground. "I sense Necromantic magic coming from all of the sarcophagi. Certainly that means they are filled with undead.

We should clean up that little blot. Let's get in formation, then move into the room. We'll see if that triggers them to come out."

Dol shivers uncomfortably. "Seems like some kind of mausoleum."

Stepping inside the room, he casts Detect Magic and scans the room. "Do you feel that chill?"

Dol opens a door to see what lies beyond.

"The greed mentioned may have something to do with the carvings of coins that Tarphrex is so interested in. From the sound of it, I also have little interest in freeing this Malfeshnekor.

There might be more clues elsewhere in this structure. Lyrie, would you like to come with us to look for clues?"

Dol moves past the woman and examines the southern door. Perception: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (18) + 3 = 21

"Malfeshnekor? That sounds like the name of some ostentatious goblin hero. But, trapped here. Perhaps a god figure?"

Dol considers the strange cat and looks more closely at Lyrie. "This whole time, I thought it was the other woman who was charming people, but she was a cleric. Charm isn't typical of clerics and unlikely from a Lamashtan."

He tries to keep his voice steady, but begins to grow wary. "Lyrie. Does Malfeshnekor speak to you through your cat?"

Dol peers at Orik after his response, wondering exactly how long Orik has known the woman. Shrugging, he turns his attention to Lyrie, just in time for Zenaida to begin making introductions.

"Yes, hello, Lyrie. I am Dol Stormmaul. We are friends of Orik here. He seemed quite worried about you, so I am glad to see that you seem well.

Is there something you are looking for down here, or something that you need? Perhaps we can discuss it back in town. I'll buy you a round at the Rusty Dragon."

Doesn't really feel like the right time for a Diplomacy roll, but I'll throw one out there.

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (11) + 5 = 16

Yes. I'll get a post talking to Lyrie up after work.

Dol watches the cat and Kyrie, furling his brow as he tries to consider what may have happened. He still overhears Tarphrex though and agrees. "Yes, looking for traps is always wise. You should look for magical traps as well, if that is within your ability."

He continues examining Kyrie as he talks to Orik. "Orik, has she always had a cat?"

Dol smiles when he sees Orik poke his head out. "Let us see what the problem is, then."

He follows Orik into the next room, keeping his eyes open for any dangers the man might have missed during his search.

Perception: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6

Doesn't even occur to a dwarf to prepare it :)

When we get to Magnimar, Loth can buy an Ioun Torch and it won't be an issue anymore.

"There was a nasty looking trap on a pressure plate just beyond the door there, but Loth disarmed it."

He looks down at Loth. "Maybe you should make sure it hasn't been reset before we proceed?"

He peers down the hallway, attempting to listen for remote sounds. "To that end, we haven't seen much of this level. It is good news that no enemies filtered into the rest of the structure. Perhaps that means we have already cleared it out. I wonder what became of Orik, though."

Moving closer to the hallway, he calls out. "Orik? Are you down here? We're coming back to help you with your search!"

Perception: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (13) + 3 = 16

Agreed. Fortunately a nat 1 isn't automatic failure for a skill check.

Dol smiles as he sees that Zenaida appreciates the gift. "Well, then, that is good. I think the metal appreciates the chance to be something beautiful for a while, even if it is just gilding."

He sighs, tracing one of the vines. "I suppose it will start flaking off as soon as we get into the first battle. Maybe we can find a way to strengthen the bond at some point."

Picking up his pack and new hammer, Dol cinches the straps on his breastplate, then offers to help Zenaida don her own armor. "Well, we may as well track down the rest of the team. Thistletop isn't getting any less goblin infested as we sit around here."