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"I have some spare pages in this book." Kvit holds out a few pages torn from his formula book. He is confused at Lough's ploy, but tries to play along hoping he's just trying to get information from the administrator. "Yes Lough, please be careful not to damage the paperwork, there is still information we need to know." "Now, What is the status of your project? Chafkhem?"
Occultism:
"Oh, uh, just a symbol of a deranged god, Nhimbaloth. Powerful stuff, but as long as you're careful, it'll be fine." He looks around at the rest of the room, especially the "window" and its controls. "Anything else in here? secret investigate:
Kvits immediately recognizes it and his eyes widen as Kka hands over the ring. "I- I never thought I would ever see one of these, let alone use one..." He appears lost in thought as he slips it over one furred finger.
Spirits Lore Recall Knowledge:
Kvit stares at the situation unfolding, expecting the ghosts to fly into a murderous rage at any moment, especially as the others antagonize them. He looks from one to the other as they bicker. He shakes his head in amazement and annoyance. He steps up and knocks his staff against the ground to get their attention. "I can assure both of you that nothing that can hurt your incorporeal form between here and the surface exit. In fact, I've placed several wards along the way to ensure our own safe passage, so you will be fine." Lie:
"Though, before you go, do you remember anything about an administrator here?"
K it turns back to see Lough near the basilisks and Kka sneaking across and freezes. "Those idiots! They're going to get turned to stone and then I'm out of here." He breathes a sigh of relief when Kka manages to sneak by and return without issue. He glares while waiting for everyone to regroup. "Hope it was worth the risk..."
Sorry to hear that, Good luck to you and your family that all of the arrangements and activities go smoothly during this time.
"Basilisks... who was talking then? Let's go around." Kvit starts heading back clockwise, not really waiting for an answer.
Kvit looks at Fuìn curiously. "Well, if you think you have a use for it, I won't stop you." He follows down the supposedly dead-end hallway. "Yes, since the other end of this hallway was a secret entrance, it would make sense if the opposite end was too."
Aww little baby Lough
Kvit peers at the formulas and nods. "Should be simple enough, with the right ingredients. Mostly the venom and some preservatives."
Kvit checks out the caved-in hallway and tries to mentally align it with the surface. "Wonder if this connects with the cave. Could be a back way in if we can't get these teleportation circles to work. Though getting it cleared out will be wildly time consuming. Alright, lets move." He follows Kka as they check out the next door.
Kvit takes the beak and looks it over. "Sure, should be easy enough." He attaches the talisman to Kka's weapon while everyone regroups.
Congratulations!
Kvit steps forward and reaches an arm towards the shadow. Electricity seems to course through him, making all his hair stand on end.
Q1: Difficulty This is a difficult one for me to answer. I think difficulty is fine. We've had some players coughkkacough go down, but generally have been fine. Most fights seem to be over in two rounds or less. I could see increasing the difficulty slightly. Considering that we have eliminated some the "trash" encounters by GM discretion, hand-waved healing in-between most fights, and lowered the dying difficulty due to crits. Though I don't feel that Kvit is particularly contributing well to combat in the "direct damage" category. He also hasn't got hit much only one or two times for any significant damage. So I hesitate to ask for more difficult combats. Especially if that just means the enemy saves are higher. The fighting in the vaults has been *very* tight quarters almost every fight, so lightning bolts or even just a color spray is difficult to get off. It seems like a crit one way or the other makes things very quick. Seems like I don't usually have much of a chance to use anything crowd-control-wise. Last fight I used web (borrowed spell) to great effect, but most fights setting up warped terrain or other sustainable spells isn't effective. Even the haste buff only trades 2 actions from Kvit to maybe 1-2 actions for an ally. Overall, not sure. I wouldn't mind more difficulty, but am worried that Kvit won't be able to pull his weight. Q2 GM rolling saves I'm all for this in PbP if you as GM want to speed things along. If it's a required roll, it doesn't much matter who makes the roll. As long as you're good with retroactive hero points when it really matters. Though I'm fine with either way overall.
Without a clear view and remembering how effective they were last time, Kvit sends three bolts of force directly at the creature. They zip out of the arrow slit, make a tight turn, and slam into it.
Kvit identities the creature quickly as a greater shadow. "If you can't tell, this is another shadow creature like fought in the cave. Though this one is much worse."
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Peering through the arrow slit, Kvit tries to figure out what this thing is. Recall knowledge:
Then he casts a ward on Cherry and the creature.
"Not sure how you're going to cover me from an entirely different room, but alright." Kvit waits for Cherry to come through before turning into a rat much like Sneakers, but skinnier and much greyer. He slips through the arrow slit and after a quick check for safety, returns to size to activate the lever. . Sneakers chuckles, "good look for ya boss." . Kvit squeaks back, in an annoyed tone, though is unable to make intelligible speech. . "Ah, you'll get the hang of it boss."
While Kvit waits for cherry to make it through, he whispers through the bars. "I see a lever in the north room that looks like it opens this. I might be able to squeeze in there."
Kvit eyes the rest of the gang and nudges Cherry. Looks like it's up to us brave souls. We should be able to find a way to open it.
He sticks his staff through the bars before trying to awkwardly squeeze through.
Kvit looks over the found items with some interest. "Hopefully there is no need for swimming down here, but this could be useful if we do." He moves to inspect the levers and looks between them and the open pits. "I assume these were to dispose of guests."
The missiles make a sudden last minute 90° turn and head towards the other creature!
Kvit holds his staff out and sends several bolts of force towards the more damaged creature.
Kvit has no idea what these are, but can tell they count on bouncing around to their advantage. He moves into the room carefully and lobs a ball of silken adhesive strands that cover the east part of the room.
Full Web Description: Each time a creature in the web begins to use a move action or enters the web during a move action, it must attempt an Athletics check or Reflex save against your spell DC to avoid taking a circumstance penalty to its Speeds or becoming immobilized. A creature that gets out of the web ceases to take a circumstance penalty to its Speed from the web.
Critical Success The creature is unaffected, and it doesn't need to attempt further Athletics checks or saving throws against the web this turn. If it used an Athletics check, it clears the web from every square it leaves after leaving the square.
Occultism RK:
I don't know much about the classes in the play test. It sounds interesting at least. I am not sure if the "rare" tag actually means it's stronger or not compared to other classes? I personally (as player and GM) would rather not bring in play test content like this in the middle of an AP. If it were a normal society scenario length, it wouldn't be a big deal either way I think. (I'm also likely not going to complain if the rest of us is okay with it and it happens.)
Kvit spends a few minutes seemingly staring at the door. He takes a small piece of red glass, as if from a stained glass window and peers through it. Nothing in particular keeping that door closed, it's just the wood that's warded from decay. I think it is just mechanically shut. As for what's inside. I'm not sure. Whatever it is, someone has specifically made sure to prevent teleporting or ethereal travel in and out of that room. I still can't say it's safe to open though... I think... We should come back to this. Perhaps we can find more information on this administrator before we decide to have a chat."
Kvit investigates the door to see he can figure out how to disable the wards if the group chooses to do so. Secret Arcana:
"If he is in there, yes, he's either dead or undead. Perhaps he may be grateful to be let out. Plus, if Belcorra was trapping someone, that leads me to believe they might be useful. Though remember, the enemy of my enemy is still my enemy."
Kvit gives a side eye to Kka who's apparently able to cow even mimics with ease. She is a force to be reckoned with. "Maybe we can find some other denizens to come by this way..."
Kvit keeps his voice low as he murmurs to the others. "Don't go in yet. They're probably mimics. Don't touch anything in that room until we deal with them. They have a powerful adhesive ability." "They are intelligent, so we may be able to just convince them it's not worth the trouble and move through."
Kvit walks besides Cherry. "Every spell has its use. Like a tool. Unless you're more of a sorcerer, then every solution to any problem is some sort of exploding ball of magic."
Kvit shrugs at Fuìn "Belcorra probably had spies and methods of viewing the entire place. That doesn't really narrow anything down."
Kvit tries to keep from inhaling as he peers into the room. "I have a scout for this." He summons a tiny construct that appears made of clay and ash. It has wings and a misshapen face like an unartistic person molded it out of clay. The little creature moves into the room without being verbally instructed by Kvit and starts by retrieving the small glinting object and bringing it back. Then it pokes around some more.
Kvit prepares to help Kka, hopefully his thievery skills have improved since last time. He helps with helpful pointers and advice.
Kvit peers at the fire intently, if it was illusory, it was pretty good, though he thought yes, the cobwebs give it away." He'd have to remember that for when he tries something later on. "Yeah, and think about the kind of stuff we've seen so far and think of what they wanted to keep locked up."
Kvit shrugs, "Not sure, I isn't on the same chain as the others we have found. I'd guess this one goes down though. But we'd also be marked with a sigil of some kind of we did. Which, should be benign normally, but I certainly can't guarantee that around here. It might even be beneficial if there are further magical defenses that are watching for intruders."
Heavily wounded, Kvit scurries for cover behind a ancient table. He points his staff and conjures an arrow made of pure aicd.
Kvit moves forward to inspect the rune circle, It appeared to be similar yet different than the previous teleportation circles they had encountered so far. "I would just assume something nasty will show up anywhere down here..." Secret Arcana:
Kvit follows along, keeping an eye out for more gross flesh blobs or interesting artifacts. He is very interested in the frescoes and tries to make note of the creatures he can identify. Noticing the secret door, he taps Kka on the shoulder with his staff "Psst, there's a door there too." "Yes, there is definitely something down there, let's stay clear, for now at least."
Kvit crosses his fingers in an occult gesture, casting guidance on themselves.
Kvit steps back in disgust somehow surprised that these gross abominations somehow manage to get worse as they went. He touches Fuìn's shoulder and his form blurs. "Try not to get grabbed too." He really doesn't like being surrounded by the things so makes a tactical retreat.
Kvit moves into the room warily eyeing the chains in tbe ceiling, remembering the last similar room. "Another jail cell then."[b] He looks around, careful to avoid stepping on the floor grate. He points it out, [B]"Everyone watch out for that."
As Kvit is spattered with acidic guts, he gags, but keeps it together. He follows up with a flame attack on the mouther after moving to get a better angle.
Kvit can't get a good look at the fight with the mouther, but fires off a bolt of fire at the grothlut.
Then he raises an arcane shield of force in case of retaliation.
Ah, honestly hadn't considered taking his stuff. "...four light hammers, a +1 studded leather armour, thieves' tools, and 110 gp. And, of course, Vol Rajani's longsword..." Was all of that on him, or was some of that just "found" in the cave?
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