You've already got your five, so I'll just show intrest in getting a spot the next time you decide to teach!
Besides GMing is not entirely new to me, and I wouldn't want to take a beginner's spot.
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Tassira pulls a golden medallion out of the rotted robe. It has the temple's dragon seal on it. Kariel doesn't hear anything in the next room.
The party goes around the corner into the western room which proves to be wardrobe/cloak room. Folded siswa robes are on shelves on the western wall and pegs for cloaks line the eastern wall. Alki says "The Siswa don't maintain any guards on the outer walls or the entryway to the temple. All of the security measures seem to be internal...siswa guards, magical traps, wandering beasts. All deadly enough but it seems like all can of people can just wander in." Ikky: Alki seems honest, you can hear movement in the distance.
Sorry about the wait. I'm going to try to update at least 3 times a week will I recover, I actually think I can do 5 times a week but we'll see. I got a nifty wheelchair, a pair of crutches, a walker, and a protective boot thing for my leg that looks like storm tropper armor from the knee down. I also get my blood tested every few days for signs that the antibiotics aren't working. That's the good news, the bad news is that since I'm a prediabetic (a real condition, that I've had for years and years) my healing is slower than normal in regards to things like cuts and incisions (like a surgery that leaves a six inch scar on my ankle). Therefore my recovery is going to run longer than what they expected at first. Still I'm back to being able to spend at least sometime everyday sitting upright in front of a proper keyboard. Thank you all for your best wishes and your patience.
Sorry about the wait. I'm going to try to update at least 3 times a week will I recover, I actually think I can do 5 times a week but we'll see. I got a nifty wheelchair, a pair of crutches, a walker, and a protective boot thing for my leg that looks like storm tropper armor from the knee down. I also get my blood tested every few days for signs that the antibiotics aren't working. That's the good news, the bad news is that since I'm a prediabetic (a real condition, that I've had for years and years) my healing is slower than normal in regards to things like cuts and incisions (like a surgery that leaves a six inch scar on my ankle). Therefore my recovery is going to run longer than what they expected at first. Still I'm back to being able to spend at least sometime everyday sitting upright in front of a proper keyboard. Thank you all for your best wishes and your patience.
"I'm Alki Galathil", says the elf Eldrain encounters at the top of the stairs in quiet voice. "There's Siswa all over the place. A group of brigands just made off with some of the 'tithe' the Rahib demands and the guards are trying to find them before they leave the compound." He looks warily about him "I don't know why there isn't alarms going off or shouting but there's an unused cloak room just around the corner and if we're going to have a longer conversation I'd rather not have it in the open." He moves toward the room to the west, not waiting to see if you follow.
So I got sick. The first sign you’re in trouble is when you visit the doctor’s office and the last thing they say to you before you leave is “We’ve called the hospital and they’re expecting you”. The second sign is when the doctors at the first hospital transfer you to the second hospital because the specialist they would normally have you see has gone home for the day and they say “We don’t think waiting until he gets back in the morning is a good idea.” The third sign comes when you realize that it hasn’t even been 24 hours since you visited you doctor’s office and they’re taking you into surgery. The panic sets in after the surgery. Strangely enough it is when they say “You’re so lucky you went to the doctor when you did. We caught this early enough you’ll get to keep your leg” you realize that it could have killed you. The funny thing is I didn’t go to the doctor because of the fever or the pain in my ankle, in fact I almost didn’t mention it. It was just my regularly scheduled visit because of my high blood pressure, but my doctor saw me limping, and he dragged the whole story out of me. How everybody got a cold and then got better, except for me. How whenever I stopped taking ibuprofen the fever came back. How I had twisted my ankle the week before. Turns out everyone else in my family probably had just a cold. I didn’t. An antibiotic resistant bacterial infection was lurking in my system but it wasn’t strong enough to effect my mostly healthy organs. Then, I hurt my ankle and it attacked, setting up shop in my bone and started pumping out all sorts of nasty stuff into the rest of my body. The surgeons went in and cut it out. I spent about a week in the hospital and have at least a month or so of recovery ahead of me. I’ve managed to avoid the at home IV antibiotics, by taking massive doses in pill form of a powerful antibiotic that doctors weren’t sure would even work, but it did. I’ve been at home for a few days now and I can’t say for sure when I’ll be up to posting regularly. I’ve been feeling guilty about not posting but I haven’t been feeling up to trying to post a coherent message from my tablet either. I’ve finally grabbed my daughter’s laptop and typed this up. I’m just not sure how long it’s going to be before I get back into the swing of things. If I’m a player in your game I’m sorry. If it makes sense please run my pc as it makes sense. For those of you who I’m the game master … well it’s going to be a few more days.
So I got sick. The first sign you’re in trouble is when you visit the doctor’s office and the last thing they say to you before you leave is “We’ve called the hospital and they’re expecting you”. The second sign is when the doctors at the first hospital transfer you to the second hospital because the specialist they would normally have you see has gone home for the day and they say “We don’t think waiting until he gets back in the morning is a good idea.” The third sign comes when you realize that it hasn’t even been 24 hours since you visited you doctor’s office and they’re taking you into surgery. The panic sets in after the surgery. Strangely enough it is when they say “You’re so lucky you went to the doctor when you did. We caught this early enough you’ll get to keep your leg” you realize that it could have killed you. The funny thing is I didn’t go to the doctor because of the fever or the pain in my ankle, in fact I almost didn’t mention it. It was just my regularly scheduled visit because of my high blood pressure, but my doctor saw me limping, and he dragged the whole story out of me. How everybody got a cold and then got better, except for me. How whenever I stopped taking ibuprofen the fever came back. How I had twisted my ankle the week before. Turns out everyone else in my family probably had just a cold. I didn’t. An antibiotic resistant bacterial infection was lurking in my system but it wasn’t strong enough to effect my mostly healthy organs. Then, I hurt my ankle and it attacked, setting up shop in my bone and started pumping out all sorts of nasty stuff into the rest of my body. The surgeons went in and cut it out. I spent about a week in the hospital and have at least a month or so of recovery ahead of me. I’ve managed to avoid the at home IV antibiotics, by taking massive doses in pill form of a powerful antibiotic that doctors weren’t sure would even work, but it did. I’ve been at home for a few days now and I can’t say for sure when I’ll be up to posting regularly. I’ve been feeling guilty about not posting but I haven’t been feeling up to trying to post a coherent message from my tablet either. I’ve finally grabbed my daughter’s laptop and typed this up. I’m just not sure how long it’s going to be before I get back into the swing of things. If I’m a player in your game I’m sorry. If it makes sense please run my pc as it makes sense. For those of you who I’m the game master … well it’s going to be a few more days.
Sorry for the deley, everybody in my house got sick at once, wife, kids and me. Should be able to update later today.
sorry for the deley, everybody in my house got sick at once, wife, kids and me Should be able to update later today.
Ikvvy and Arean:
The gems have minor enchantments on them. They allow the person holding the gem to trigger the spell imbued on it three times before becoming a nonmagical stone worth 100 gp.
Eldrian: You open the doors quietly and pearing inside you seen an Elvish warrior - who clearly isn't a Siswa- looking right at you with an expression of surprise on his face. He quietly blurts out "You're not a Siswa either!"
Vigar and Tassira manage to scoup up a sack full of centipedes, but you realize that even the best sack you can find is just barely up to the job because of the age of the material.
Ikvvy and Arean:
The jars are non magical but you can't tell if anything inside the jars are magical or not. To your surprise all six of the gems appear as magical.
The swarm takes full damage from Tassira's spell, Kariel's spell has a devasting effect as well as the the centipedes suddenly stop moving.
Rowan you don't notice anything out of ordinary in this room, you also can't find any tracks. Vigar these supplies are spoiled but they don't look that they are hundreds of years old either, something weird about that. Also it is very likely that their may be other store rooms around.
Vigar pokes the grain bags with his spear and because he's expecting something he's able to leap back before being engulfed as a swarm of centipedes comes boiling out! Initiative Group One: Vigar, Kariel, and Tassira Group Two: Centipede Swarm Group Three: Rowan Group One is up
The Water Wyrd shudders from the blows the party delivers to it, but it's reaction the spell that Aearn reads out aloud is worse. It shimmers and pulses in and out repeatedly and rapidly. Suddenly it explodes and showers the party and the courtyard and party with water. Fresh cold clean water, the other result of the purify food and water spell. In fact the entire pool is now as clear and inviting as the illusion that the water wyrd projected as a lure, except instead of a mosaic at the bottom of the pool there are 2 clay jars and a scattering of precious gems.
Tassira: Two things catch your eye. 1)One of the rotted robes has something in it's pocket, without looking closer you can't deal exactly, but your gut says something hard and metalic. 2)There's something moving under the rotting grain bags, again without looking closer you're not sure what but your guess is one or more small animals.
Splintered furniture and heaps of debris fill this room. At one time, a row of wooden pegs along the wall probably held anumber of dark, hooded robes, but the pegs have disintegrated and the robes are small piles of rotten cloth on the floor. Against one wall there are several sacks of rootten graain and the sour smell of old vinegar fills the room. Vigar: your perception and traking checks from before you opened the door didn't turn up anything.
The water weird surges up out of the pool and attempts to engulf Braden but fails. As a side note Ikkvy realizes that this beast has a reach of at least 15 feet meaning it is an old and larger than normal water weird and nowhere on the stairs would have been safe. Initiative Order Party
The party figure out how to open the secret door easily and then find no traps. They do notice that the footprints of the undead that they spotted going into this crypt also go door the hallway behind the secret door. The party cautiously makes their way down the long passage way until they com to where the passaway branches as show on the map. The party can proceed to the west or continue south either way the map show a secret door ahead.
Ikvvy: Water Weird: Magical Creature made of water, They feed off the life of the things they attack. Typical attack is to grab creature and drag it under water squezing it until it drowns or dies via crushing. Can appear in any shape, snake most common. The lager the water weird the father the attack range out of water. Mininum attack range is 10 feet. Almost immune to piercing and slashing weapons (1pt of damage per hit) full damage from blunt weapons. Can not be killed by weapons only "disrupted" and forced to reform. Cold base spells slow them. Fire based spells do have or no damage. purify food and water spells and similiar spells kill water weirds instanlty unless it makes a saving throw.
You realize that the symbol you are looking at is the symbol of the ancient temple. The map you have says that a secret door is hidden behind it. It doesn't take long before you find the opening switch. With that doorway open you know that you face a tunnel of over 200 feet before you reach the temple's lower levels.
The party makes it way accross the courtyard to the stairs, staying away from the fountain/pool as best they can. When they get to the stairs however they realize that northern edge of the pool is built up next to the stairs. It is possilbe to stay 10 feet away from the water by hugging the wall opposite of the pool while going up the stairs in single file. Once you reach the middle landing, you'll have stay away from the edge of the landingby the pool to be safe because the landing is ten feet above the surface of the water. As long everyone takes there time and is careful you can move up the stairs with no problem. If anyone wishing to hurry up the stairs a DC 10 Acrobatics check is needed, moving normal speed up the stairs requires a DC 5 Acrobatics check. Going up the stairs at half speed requires no check.
Take the all the time you need, family first
Rowan and Vigar finish off the last of the skeletons. Out of Combat
Arean:
The enchantment on the water is not a standard spell instead you can tell it's an ablitiy of some magical beast that lurks in the water. The intent is clearly to lure prey into striking range.
When crossing the courtyard or going up the stairs please state how close you come the pool.
Tassira's magic strikes down the two skeleton's attacking Kariel
Tassira smashes another skeleton as does Vigar, Rowan has some bad luck and misses again while Kariel continues to try to avoid being hit. for
None of the skeletons connect with anyone this time. Party is up.
Vigar and Rowan both miss, Tassira shatters a skeleton to tiny pieces, and Kariel defends herself.
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Kariel takes another hit and all the remaining undead in the room shudder but none go down. Party is up
Eldrian: You smell brackish water, must be a puddle of it in this overgrown courtyard somewhere
Eldrian: You smell brackish water. You may reroll your will save.
Tassira uses a spell to magicaly armor herself and Rowan smashes another undead. for
The remaining skeletons attack again, with only the ones facing Rowan and Kariel hitting anyone, a fact they would regret if they had minds as all of the undead take damage as Kariel Angel blood fills the air. The remaining skeleton that Tassira had injured before crumbles to dust.
Party is up.
No one finds anything else of intrest here.
Ikvvy:
No signs of magic, in the room After finishing the fight it is easy to that this room is actually open to the outside courtyard. The courtyard is 80 feet deep and 90 feet wide. Once well cared for, the dirt floor is now choked with weeds. In the center of the yard sits a large pool. Just beyond the pool is a set of stairs leading to the main doors of the temple itself. Four wooden sheds are attached to the west wall, and another four to the east wall. The southern corners of the courtyard are occupied by the building you are standing in and it's twin, small octagonal stone buildings, each covered with a delicate looking dome. Searching the Sheds:
All the sheds are empty except for number 7. Two bags of 250 cooper coins each (500 coins total) are marked with the word "Tithe" and the two black panther symbol. Will Save please If you get a 20 or better:
The courtyard pool is 40 feet long and 30 feet across. Its stone rim rises three feet above the ground. The water has gone brackish and putrid, looking almost glossy black. If you get below a 20: The courtyard pool is 40 feet long and 30 feet across. Its stone rim rises three feet above the ground. It's waters look cool and refressing. Crystal blue you can clearly see the elegant mosaic at the bottom. You are so very thristy.
Marcos delivers a powerful blow which finishes off the last gargoyle. There are thousands of silver coins on the ground behind the dead gagoyles. Mixed in with the silver is the ocassionaly gold coin as well as scraps of chewed leather bags. Counting and sorting the coins reveal 4000 silver coins and 80 gold ones. Perception check DC 20: A scrap of leather which says "Taxes" and is embossed with two black panthers is found among the coins.
End of Round 1 Kariel manages to destory one of the skeleton's that Tassira wounded. Start of Round 2 Vigar shatters another skeleton to dust. Rowan and Tassira are up.
Rowan and Vigar each destory a skeleton, but two more simply step into there place! Tassira's bolts of magic that fly from her fingers fail to destory the undead on either side of her but both are hurt badly. for
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The skeleton's mostly fail to strike home, except for blows to Vigar and Tassira. Karil to Finish Round One, Then the rest of the party to start Round Two
The Gargoyle is shaken again by Aearn, grappled by Braden, hit by arrows from Eldrian and Ikvvy, and hit by Marcos sword strike as well as Furnok's blow... It's still not dead. It tries to break Braden's grapple but fails. Party's up.
As you creep closer into the crypt, trying to see what kind of emblem watches over the warrior's rest. You hea an odd creaking sound, and whirl just in time to see the bronze door slam shut! The darkness would be total but for the light Kariel has provided. You suddenly hear the rustle and clinking of rusty mail all around you as the skeletal warriors rise from their biers and move toward you.
There are 12 skeletons six on each side of the party, you are all flanked at the start of this combat. Tassira, Vigar, and Rowan act first.
Round One
Arean causes the creature to be shaken again, Brad grapples it, and Ikvvy puts an arrow into it. End of Round Two Round Three Marcos, Eldrian, and Furnok are up. Marcos, and Furnok can Flank the grappled gargoyle if they want to.
Kariel:
Your detect magic finds no signs of magic except what your compainions carry.
Rowan takes his time and carefuly unlocks the door. From outside you can see that the crypt is very dark and moldy, and seems far older than the other crypts in the cementary. The ceiling is low, and the stone flooring is cracked and unevern. black mud oozes in the joints and cracks of the stone dressing. To either side, cobweb fouled buriel niches hold the moldering remains of ancient warriors in rusted hauberks of mail. At the back of the crypt you can see an unusual sign or seal of some kind, glinting in the weak daylight.
The remaining gargolye with arrows sticking out of it from the party's archers attacks Marcos. for for for for But it can't manage to hurt him thanks to still being shaken by Aearn. Ikvvy, Brad, Aearn to Finish round Two
The graveyard is in just as much disarray as it was the day before. Vigar's good work of putting it in order has been undone. As you most likely expected the crypt that contains the entrance to the secret passaage into the temple is the same one Vigar had noted as being undistrubed yesterday. A close examination of the outside of the tomb reveals tracks and other signs that people (people shaped undead) have been going into and out of the crypt recently. After you decide who is with you: The door to the crypt is locked, and the door is quite sturdy.
Arean tells the creatures to surrender and while the creatures do not surrender they do seem shaken by her words. Braden succesfuly grapples one of the creatures holding it still long enough for Furnok to kill it. Ikvvy's arrow meanwhile goes into the other gargoyle.
Eldrian is up to finish the start of round 2.
From the you have found you see that the lower levels can be reached by a secret entrance disguised as a crypt in the graveyard or by a stairwell in the upper level that Brother Giles the historian/tomb raider must have dug out. Tassira: Performing a new ritual is beyond your skill, but you have ever confidence in you ability to restore the original one if you can find the missing "Rod"
Brad's attack in the surprise round manages to just barely hurt the gargoyle. Furnok's second blow doesn't seem to bother the gargoyle at all. gargoyle 1 vs Furnok Gargoyle #1 attacks Furnok in a flurry of blows but all miss! gargoyle 2 vs Marcos Gargoyle #2 atacks Marcos but all its attacks miss! Ikvvy, Brad, Aearn to Finish round one, then Eldrian, Marcos, and Furnok to start round two.
Creature #3 falls to Eldrian's arrows. Marcos slams his sword into creature #1.
Furnok is up.
Eldrian and Ikvvy feel free to look up the gargoyle information on the PRD. Ikvvy, we're in the eastern stairway, which if I'm reading the map right is room 13. ''''''' Marcos and Furnok attack the creature closest to the party and deliver powerful blows to the creature. It staggers and clearly very injured but it does not go down. Furnok you realize that it seemed take far less damage from your blow then it should have. Initative: Eldrian 21
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