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The door is still open and you hear growling in the room.

Thimble:

Roll initiatives.

Guy's the thread is revived.

Back from the dead.

Asther:

Guys? Asther, roll a Knowledge (nature) check.

Now you hear growling.

When you first opened the door all of you could hear the snoring, like the sound of sleeping animals breathing. Now there is just silence.

Yes, but how are you going to get her to walk in? It's not something a hawk would normally do.

Roll a Stealth check to see how quietly you open it (1d20+3).

The door is not locked, and in fact is open a crack.

Do I have to roll perception to hear?

Nah. In this case, since you have all day, and you know there is something to hear, you can take 20.

Thimble listens at the door:

Perception (1d20+1=13)

Thimble:

Both of you

Look on your character sheets under senses. Aster, you have Perception +8 (+10 on sight- and sound-based), which means 1d20+10. Thimble doesn't have ranks in Perception, so he just uses his Wisdom modifier for Perception checks (Wisdom of 12 is +1), so 1d20+1.

Roll a Perception check:

Perception DC 15 (If you get 15 or higher):

You leave the room and turn left down a narrow corridor. Thimble goes first, then Vartan, then Asther leading Bess. It's dark, so Asther lights her Scimitar again. After a shot distance (about 10 feet, the corridor turns right. 10 feet after the turn there is a closed door on you left, and 5 feet after that there is another one.

You can see the corridor stretches straight for a good ways. About 50 feet down the corridor, an open door on the right lets light in from the outside, and 5 feet past that another open door on the left lets in more light. About 60 feet down, you can see the end of the passage, and a dim figure standing there motionless, framed by light coming in from the end of the passage, which is open to the outside.

It is about 5:30 PM, but it is still light enough outside to illuminate the far section of the corridor through the open doors and the open end.
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Thimble and Asther set out their bedrolls and rest forr a few hours. Vartan does his best to take care of you while you sleep.

Heal check (1d20+4=20)

Nothing happens during that time, so you wake up feeling better.

2 more hp each, since Vartan succeeded on the Heal check.

The thunder has died down, but you still hear a light rain on the roof above you.

If you rest for 8 hours you would each regain 1hp. However, Asther still needs to wait until tomorrow morning to prepare new spells. If you rested until the next morning you would each regain 2hp. This would mean an additional day before you could get back to Falcon's Hollow, which might very well result in the death of more townsfolk. Also Thimble wouldn't regain his 2 expended rage points (out of 6) until the next morning.

The potion heals Thimble 7 hp.(1d8+1=7)

That puts you at 13/15 hp (down 2 still).

Asther is at 9/12 and has expended a 1st level spell (cure light wounds, cast on herself in the morning), leaving her with charm animal, which she can always swap for summon nature's ally.

Vartan, Bess and Dena are still at full hp. Firefoot is at 2/5.

BTW, it is only about 9:00 AM.

Yes. When you found it Aster tasted a little bit and said it's a healing potion.

I was wondering. ;)

Its a big anvil, a shrine to some old Dwarven god. Its surface is chipped and scarred like its been beat on with a hammer, and there is writing scratched into it (that you can't read).

On its top surface, you notice five small octagonal-shaped depressions.

Thimble:

Now you can check out the anvil

Dena attacks the creature engaged with Vartan; however her talons fail to penetrate the creatures thick hide.

By the way, the light shows one dead creature and one still attacking Vartan.

Thimble takes a mighty swipe at the creature attacking him with is greataxe and connects solidly. The creature flops to the ground, not moving. Asther's scimitar lights up again, driving away the unnatural darkness that was filling the room.

Dena's turn to act.

Asther and Dena

You can attack as normal. 1d20+5, 1d20+7 raging. Damage is 1d12 + 8, 1d12 + 12 if you rage. No penalty yet because it hasn't grappled you, although it is trying.

Round 1:

Initiative:
Creatures 21
Thimble 20
Asther and Dena 15
Vartan 3

I rolled initiative for everybody to speed things up.

The creature attacking Thimble sinks claws into him 7 points damage, but Thimble's wild struggles prevent the creature from latching onto his head. Vartan manages to dodge the other creature again.

Thimble never makes it to the anvil. A soon as he and Vartan reach the middle of the room, Asther's light goes out and the room plunges into darkness (although Thimble can still see). You hear a leathery fluttering noise above you just before something rough and grasping drops on Thimble's and Vartan's head. You can feel it trying to grab your head like a big leathery bag with claws and teeth.

That's the surprise round.

Beyond the doors is a large room (about 30 feet long by 30 feet wide). Inside you see two rows of wooden benches, some of them tipped over and all of them covered with dust. At the far end of the room you see what looks like a huge anvil on top of a stone pedestal, its surface defaced and ruined. It looks like it used to be a shrine of some kind.

There is a door on the south wall.

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Thimble doesn't hear anything. The doors are halfway open, so he takes a peek inside.

Thimble:

Just then the light goes out. It is completely dark in the room, but the hallway outside has shadowy illumination from the partially open door to the outside.

Asther:

Besides the old clothes and the hat, Asther finds, hidden in the corner of the room, a single ironbloom mushroom.

Asther:

Thimble doesn't hear anything so he opens the door. Beyond the door is another small room. There is a small table in the center of it and a dirty hat sits on the table. Tattered rotting cloaks and coats hang from pegs on the walls.

Normally you would roll a Perception check, which a 1d20 + your Perception skill bonus. You don't have any ranks in Perception, so you just use you Wis modifier for a bonus (+1 for a Wis) of 12. Roll a 1d20+1.

At each level you get to put ranks into skills. The number of points you get to put into skills depends on your character class and your Int score. A barbarian gets 4 skill points per level + Int bonus (-1 in your case). Since Barbarian is your favored class, you can either get 1 extra HP per level or 1 extra skill point per level. Since you have ranks in 4 skills (Acrobatics, Craft (Weaponsmith), Intimidate, and Survival) it looks like you took the extra skill point. I also see a mistake in your skill bonuses. Survival should be +5.

Thimble: 1d20+1. For an explanation see the OOC thread.

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You hear nothing but rain and thunder.

You really should roll a Perception check to see if you hear anything, but in this case there really is nothing to hear

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Bess is at the 4. The dead body was in 5. You are about to open the door directly south of the door leading to 5.

Thimble:

Thimble:

Thimble kicks at the body, and it doesn't move. It's quite dead. Thimble seems to have a paranoia about undead, since he distrusts the dead state of every dead humanoid he encounters.

When you get closer to the body you see that it has an old vial in one hand and an ancient piece of parchment in the other.

Thimble tries to open the door, but it seems stuck. He then gives it a hard shove and it opens into the room with a loud crack of something breaking. The room beyond is dark and smell rotten and musty.

By the light of the torch you see the broken remains of an ancient chair that looks like it was holding the door shut. In the center of the room you can make out the mummified remains of a dwarf wearing what looks like a blacksmith's apron.

The room is small, about ten feet wide and ten feet long. You do not see any other doors in it, or anything else besides the body.

What now? There is the closed north door out of the hallway you are in, the closed south door, the passageway leading north and south, and the partway open double-doors to the west.

Although there is a little bit of light coming in form the open doors to the outside, it looks like it is going to be dark further in. Thimble can see in the dark, but Asther and Vartan can't. Vartan has a torch lit, and Asther can cast light at-will.

You sill can't hear anything other than the rain and the occasional clap of thunder.

Thimble returns to the hallway with the backpack. He opens it out and you examine it's contents.

The rope is a silken rope (50 ft. long), lighter and stronger than the normal hemp ropes you usually see. Inside the purse is 42 gp in assorted coins, and the leather case contains a set of small tools.

Thimble hands Asther the potion and she takes a tiny sip of it. After a moment's thought she announces it is a healing potion.

actually a potion of cure light wounds

To try identify a potion, you can taste a tiny bit. To see if you know what it is, roll 1d20 and add your Perception skill bonus. If it is a kind of potion you have had before and the check succeeds, then you know what it is.

You might want to detect poison first though :)

Check to OOC thread for some rules info about identufying potions

OOC Thread

Asther opens the vial and tastes a tiny bit of the liquid inside.

Asther:

Back in the room, Thimble hands Asther the blue vial.

Asther :

Thimble:

The body doesn't move or anything; it appears to be quite dead.