::blink:: ::blink:: You murdered a helpless person? That is reprehensible. Kosz will not condone murder. Kosz' last statement inferred that by staying death's hand, Tina chose to saddle the party with this lunatic.
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Kosz claps a gauntlet clad hand upon Tina's shoulder as he bends down to quietly admonish, "Now you might begin to recognize the merits of allowing your opponent an honorable death in battle."
"Certainly not until we have secured him against further spellcasting. Even weakened, he could prove a formidable opponent." So saying, Kosz begins to pull out fine rope from his backpack to tie up the unconscious dwarf.
Kosz moves over to the area that Kel pointed out. "If it is a grave, I do not feel it proper to go digging it up. If we are going to rouse the dwarf, then we can include this in our interrogation. Doing so may save us the work or it may provide us with cause to justify it."
Kosz turns to regard the unconscious dwarf and small woman, "The dwarf lives. Tina is right in that if he regains consciousness, he may know of a way to the surface."
We were losing applications this morning at work and when I got home I had about 10 minutes of Internet before it started to crash altogether. It seems like it was just a bad day all around. I am going to the IC thread now and will post.
For the second time in a minute, Kosz slowly rises from the ground. "Oww..." Looking around at the others, he again reaches down for his morningstar asking, "Is everyone okay?"
Kosz regains consciousness. Shaking his helmeted head as he stands back up, he retrieves his morningstar from the cavern floor.
Kosz strikes out at another rat before stepping back.
That's my job.
Tina, H7 is 15' from the nearest rat.
Kosz moves up ready to swing if something attacks him.
Kosz takes a step to place the darkmantle in between himself and Kel, striking with his morningstar.
Kosz swings again at the closest creature.
Speak for yourself! =P
That's fine with me, though I wonder why Kel wouldn't just have given the arrows to someone with a bow, since he doesn't have one. Ditto
"We will have no daylight to rescue us this time." Kosz cautions the party as he takes a step towards the nearest of the darkmantles and holds up his shield at an angle above his head, readying to strike the creature with his cold iron morningstar should it drop within reach of him.
Kosz looks back from his point position at the shieldman's outburst. GM: True enough... thoughts of his own parents, bereft of children for so long before the Lady smiled upon them, comes to mind.
Kosz solemnly gazes upon the scene within the temple. After a moment of silent reverie, he quietly intones, "I think it respectful to leave them as they are. Such eternal contemplation should not be further disturbed."
"I am afraid that I do not possess any receptacles for the holy water." GM: Kosz watches to see how filling the flasks with holy water affects the water level in the bowl. He suspects that it does not refill itself. Should he be correct, he will pour an equivalent amount from his waterskin to make up the difference.
Looking through the gap to see that there is no other point of ingress into the cavern, Kosz looks back to the other scouts. "I think we have seen everything there is to know. Let's head back and report our findings." Returning to the cavern entrance, Kosz waves the others forward. "There is only this one entrance. We should all hold up in here as some of us work to clear that large piece of debris from in front of the door to the building." Looking to the human fighter, Kosz asks, "Anevia, will you watch the entrance for anything trying to come at us?" To the shieldman, he says, "I could use another strong back to try and shift this rock from in front of the door. Are you game?"
It's my third day of the week. I'm off on Fridays and Saturdays.
At the shieldman's words, Kosz nods his helmeted head. "I agree. We could do with a secure position to fall back and this one comes ready lit. I recommend that we scout out the boundaries of this cavern and determine if there are any other entry points which we will need to defend." Pointing his morningstar to the left, Kosz continues, "While I don't normally recommend splitting up the group, I suggest that some stay here while the rest move around the cavern. That way, if there is something else in here, we can drive it back to the main group. I think that Kel should stay here to best protect the main group. I can lead the scouting party. Rex and Tina both seem to work best at range, so I think one should come and the other stay. Deia and Max, you both seem to be some sort of mages. Perhaps one of you could come and the other stay to support the base group?" As he waits for the group to respond, he moves up to Max and quietly hands him the last of the scales. "I found these in that first cavern where we landed. I have been waiting to see who they belong." Unruly: It is the last unknown scale
DFW for me. I work graveyard, too. It's why I am always posting so late. My Tuesday just started.
At Tina's exclamation, Kosz hustles to catch up.
Kosz swings his head up towards the sickly light of the mold and fungus before peering into the darkness opposite. "We have a decision to make. To the left is a narrow passage coated in some kind of luminescent fungus or mold. Beyond it opens into a cavern with rubble and a building of stone. To the right, the passage goes on in darkness farther than I am able to see."
Just checking in and I will check once more tonight. A reminder that I am unavailable all day Saturday.
Holding his shield up to ward off the darkmantle above him, Kosz swings his morningstar at the creature.
Unruly GM:
I wanted to wait to respond so I could make my IC post to illustrate my OC point. We need to look to the Daylight spell for a more complete understanding of how light and dark spells interact with each other. Daylight brought into an area of magical darkness (or vice versa) is temporarily negated, so that the otherwise prevailing light conditions exist in the overlapping areas of effect. This means that light spells are suppressed by the darkness spell because it is a higher level spell. Walking into that same darkness with daylight temporarily negates both the darkness and daylight spells (as is written in the daylight spells) leaving the prevailing light conditions (in our case, total darkness) as the only level of light. Continual flame brought into an area of darkness will also be negated for the duration it is within the darkness. Likewise, that same darkness is also negated so the prevailing light condition, without any magical aid, exists. Let's remember that in the game, the terms 'counter' and 'dispel' have specific meanings. You can cast continual flame to counter or dispel darkness as they are both 2nd level spells and diametrically opposed to each other. This works just like any other counterspell except that you do not have to use the exact same spell (e.g. darkness for darkness) to counter it. In effect, you must ready the one spell to counter the other spell as it is cast. Additionally, all light and darkness spells are written so that they can be used to dispel its opposite. This works just like dispel magic. Remember, too, that you cannot ready a spell to counter a spell-like ability, so we could not have readied to counter the darkmantle's darkness as it is not a spell, but a spell-like ability. Of course, that is just how the rules are written. If you would like to use some other system for it, that's up to you and, as you have extended the decision, the players. For my two cents, I would say that a higher level spell should automatically dispel a diametrically opposed spell without need for a caster level check.
At the gunslinger's shout of warning, Kosz looks up in time to see the pitch black creature descending from the lightless depths of the fissure riven ceiling. The monster's appearance suddenly shifts into the negative aspect black and white of darkvision with the suppression of the magical lights behind him. At the cries of the now sightless humans, the divinely descended paladin draws upon his heritage and calls out, "Lady of Doors, open their eyes to your stark light!" His morningstar erupts in the brilliant light of day as a cold steel halo briefly appears to the party floating over the smiling face of the mask hanging from the back of his helmet. The daylight shines forth, banishing the unnatural darkness surrounding the creature and momentarily overwhelming the magical lights of the party.
I'm Kosz Trumpeter and I endorse this statement.
I do the same. In fact, every post I have made to this post tonight I have gone back to edit. I always kind of figured it was the reason they included the edit button. =D
Kosz, not perceiving any other dangers, looks back to see that the others have overcome the snake and resumes the march through the cavern into the tunnel at the eastern end.
Kosz turns to look back at the screaming human. Seeing the flurry of activity back with the group, he stops and begins looking around for any signs of danger.
Well as I'm currently the scout, I will make sure to post when it is time to move on, pick a direction, etc.
Kosz takes up the point position again and begins to head east.
Kosz calls up, "Why in the hells are you looking to poke him with a stick? Check him to see if he is alive and provide what Aid you can."
Also, Max is sad that he doesn't have a scale. :( Haven't had a chance. Also, didn't have Internet access last night.
Kosz sidles up to the gunslinger and hands him a scale. "Take this with you. It may help if there is someone up there who can be saved." Rex and GM: This is the scale Kosz first picked up. Since Kosz knows what it does, he knows it may help and is willing to part with it to possibly save a life.
Following up on his exclamation, Kosz begins searching the rubble for anyone that could have survived the fall.
Kosz' head snaps up at the sounds of rumbling. At the abruptly halted scream, he looks around the cavern. "By the gods! We haven't even looked amongst the bodies here to see if they are all truly dead."
Kosz moves forward to take the lead. As he goes, he stops to tell the main group, "I am going to move up to the edge of your lights. I will be within sight of you, but only dimly. This will enable me to see farther ahead for signs of danger. Please do try to remain quiet as we go; sound carries. That can make it both easier for others to hear us and more difficult for us to hear others." Before moving on, he extends his hand* to the human woman with the owl, his voice tinny and with a slight echo from the helm as he speaks, "We have not met. I am Kosz Trumpeter. I apologize for my rude behaviour in the preceding altercation with those maggots. I utterly failed to notice that one of them had closed it's eyes in sleep. In the future, I will endeavor not to strike creatures you have subdued on condition that you will inform me which of them you have subdued." Face unseen, his voice yet conveys the humor of his words. * Deia & GM Unruly: Should you take his proffered hand, you feel the hard ridges of something solid in his palm. He holds your hand for the several seconds of his greeting before releasing you, and the object, from his grip.
Oh, I read that the other way round. Still, Kosz will assume that the one he has was meant for him and not for any other.
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