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"We don't know that the religious items were his. Maybe he stole them or maybe this is simply the storage room for this tomb. Although why they would use so many vestments and stuff when they rarely venture down here, I don't know.

Before we go on, I would like one tiny moment to take a closer look at the area outside here. Those carvings look very well done."

A quick scan for anything out of the ordinary between the stone benches and the podium
Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (7) + 9 = 16
Knowledge Religion: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (16) + 5 = 21

"Let's give them a hand, Moose."

Rika puts her hands on Adinomo's backside and helps him push, while Moose scratches and heaves against the door next to them.

Rika strength aid: 1d20 ⇒ 7
Moose strength aid: 1d20 ⇒ 3

Rika slips and stumbles over Moose in an effort to help, but doesn't actually manage to offer any assistance.

"Does anyone need healing?

Slap Adinomo's wand against whoever needs it. Do you allow take 5 on the wand?

With wounds tended to, Rika turns towards the door where they saw the flapping head. "It looks like it was trying to get through that door. Should we see what's in there that would attract a vargoullie?"

"I have no idea. But I'm guessing we do not want to be bitten. Those teeth look sharp. Master Uldar might know more."

Both Rika and Moose attack, then take a step back so the ranged combatants have more chance of hitting the thing.

Attack Rika: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 91d4 ⇒ 3
Attack Moose-bite: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 2 = 191d4 ⇒ 2
Attack Moose-claw: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 2 = 211d3 ⇒ 2
Attack Moose-claw: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 2 = 181d3 ⇒ 2

Rika and Moose move a bit closer, trying to get a better look at the thing and determine what it really is.

Knowledge Nature: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20

If it looks like a normal animal, I'll try to get it to leave us alone. Gently shoo it away.

Wild Empathy: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11

Moose readies an attack, in case it attacks us.

"Is it me or does it look like it's trying to get through that door?"

"Yeah let's. Not worth breaking our necks over it. There must be stairs leading down somewhere, so let's find them."

Rika walks over to the door and listens for a second. It wouldn't surprise her anymore to find a dragon or something waiting for them on the other side after the darkmantle and the creepy little spiders.

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (17) + 9 = 26

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

"Well this looks.... ominous... Cover the rear for a bit, Moose."

Rika cautiously steps into the room, particularly interested in the single black statue that seems oddly out of place. She'll take a good long look before stepping closer to it.

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (9) + 9 = 18

Am I correct in thinking that the platform with the staircases we see is on the floor below us? Or are the staircases leading down from this floor to the one below?

Rika takes a peek at the symbols Uldar points out.

Knowledge Religion: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8

"Hmm, nope. It doesn't mean anything to me either."

She waves Lem, Adinomo and Eleanor closer, hoping one of them can figure out what these symbols mean.

"Ow! Their sting burns."

Rika takes hold of her quarterstaff en tries to pummel the tiny thing in front of her.

Attack, inspire: 1d20 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 1 + 1 = 141d4 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Then she takes a step back, squishing the remains of the spider that Luca killed underneath her boots.

"Moose, please help us kill them."

Rika quickly trots back up the stairs to retrieve her sling, then says as the doors open:

"Moose, do you feel up to some scouting?"

She waits a second to see if anyone follows her, then she and Moose start cautiously walking the hallway towards the other door.

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (16) + 9 = 25
Stealth: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (9) + 6 = 15

"It could be," Rika agrees. "But it might also be someone that's been lost down here for a very long time. After all, they don't open those doors very often. Maybe someone got trapped down here.

All the doors look the same to me, so we might as well take the middle one, indeed."

Hmm, I see you point, but that's not how I read it. If you take it literally it only says that "you" can't activate it again, not that "the item can't be used again".

"Thanks Adinomo." Rika points the wand at Moose. "Tervendamine, you said?"

Cure light wounds: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

"There. Don't you feel better now?"

If no one else asks for healing she'll hand the wand back to Adinomo and take a closer look at the graffiti on the wall.

"It just looks like insane ravings or something... Does this make sense to anyone?"

"Thank you for the help, Uldar. You arrived just in time. I'm Rika. And thanks to Lem and Adinomo too, of course, for helping Moose. Go on and thank them, Moose."

Moose licks Lem's and Adinomo's face and Uldar's hand (because he can't reach higher).

"He still doesn't seem to be feeling very well. Do we have any healing we could spare or is it more prudent to give him my second potion?"

She'll wait until Moose is healed before taking a closer look at the room.

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (15) + 9 = 24

"I think there's something written on that wall," she points out from the other side of the room.

Rika joins the huddle (10 ft move) and holds out the healing potion in the pitch blackness.

"If anybody needs it. I have a potion ready here," she yells up, because there's no way for her to get any closer.

Can I ready to administer or give the potion if anybody wants it and comes close?

Moose :'(

Since she hears more sounds of combat, but - more importantly - still no sound from her companion, Rika starts moving up the stairs towards the darkness, healing potion in hand to administer to the first person that is in dire need of it.

"Guys! Just tell me where the healing needs to go."

Am I right in asuming the acrobatics was only for moving in darkness? If not:
Acrobatics: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9
Also I can't move myself when posting from my iPad, but If I make it I should be just outside the darkness I think.

Rika hears Moose's painful cries, but there's nothing she can do from here. She rummages through her pouch grabbing the potion the sister gave her. She moves closer hoping to help Moose if he manages to come down the stairs.

Rika keeps moving down as well, all the while wracking her brain for some mention of a creature that moves in darkness like this.

Acrobatics(for the last part of the stairs): 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 4 = 24
Knowledge(Nature): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (5) + 7 = 12
Knowledge(Religion): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24
if either is applicable

When she sees the bigger room they end up in, she says: "We should spread out. Try to lure it away from the stairs"

Rika can hear strange sounds coming from below her. An odd crashing sound complete with a gnomelike scream as Adinomo tumbles down the stairs, but her friends seem to have the right idea.

Double move = 2x 20ft
Acrobatics: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 = 14

She can see again!

"Guys!" Rika alerts the rest, in case they didn't notice anything. "There's something behind us!

She takes a few steps down the stairs and drops her sling, the pebble ticking sofly as it skips down the steps. That weapon isn't going to help her on this winding stairs, so she grabs the quarterstaff slung across her back instead.

I assume we move ourselves on the map. 10 ft movement should be ok for me, right?

Rika eyeballs her companions all eager to go down the dark and possibly monster-infested stairwell. She’s fine with going last, mostly because she’ll have her hands full getting Moose down the claustrophobic stairs. The wolverine might take a more prominent role when they reach more sizable rooms, but for now he is fine in the back with his master.

She lets the others get a small head start, partly so the light from her buckle won’t immediately give them away, and then moves down the stairs herself. She hasn’t gone more than 2 steps before she hears Moose’s slightly panicky grunts behind her.

”Shh! Quietly now. Don’t be afraid. I can already see it getting wider” she lies, knowing the wolverine will have no choice but to keep going down once he’s halfway through.

Stealth Rika: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12

Stealth Moose: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (10) + 11 = 21

She puts a bullet in her sling and keeps a lookout behind them in case anything tries to creep up.

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (18) + 9 = 27

I vote for Lem. Bards are always fun to have along.

Rika silently listens to the sisters words. She has a bad feeling about this. Bodies going missing? An ancient sealed ossuary? Great. Well, it's not like she can refuse. Her penance to the temple of Pharasma has not yet been paid in full.

She accepts the potion and the holy water and adds it to the stock she already had, but leaves the chime to one of the other adventurers. Instead she asks a question to which she dreads hearing the answer.

”How do you know bodies are going missing? Are they missing from the ossuary? And what are we likely to find down there?”

Waits for answer before continuing

Without another word Rika steps into the black opening. She looks back one more time and gives Moose a pet.

”You can stay here if you want.”

She knows the wolverine passionately dislikes dark en cramped places, having been locked into a box for most of his life, but Moose only growls and trots along after her as if to say he won’t leave her alone down there.

A few feet into the tunnels, Rika pauses again. She casts light on her belt buckle (refresh whenever needed) and waits for her companions to join her. When they have gathered and they can hear the heavy stone doors grinding back into place, she says spritely:

”Hiya, my name is Rika. Rika Meadowwind. Fancy meeting all of you here…. Oh, and this is my friend Moose.”

Is my statblock ok like this or are there things I should add?

Rika looks at the great temple ahead of her. As usual, a part of her feels dwarfed by it, it's tall archway looming far above her, the statues more than twice the size of the small halfling, even though the temple itself is hardly considered large. With a deep sigh she steps over the threshhold.

"Let's go see what the Lady of Graves has in store for us today, Moose."

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