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Vishantos' prestidigitation removes most of the stink from Geddoe.
Once everyone lets me know where they are and what they are doing, we will continue.
The hut is a 15 foot circle, effectively 3x3 squares. A-C across the top, 1-3 down the side, the chair is in B1, the caulron in B2, the door in the wall between B3 and B4.
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I have a map drawn, locations are as follows:
Calar: C2
Vishantos: A2
Nerek: A4 (outside)
Laurent: A5 (outside)
Geddoe: D5 (outside, and away from people)
Ever concious of the mummified form, Visantos and Calar paw through the mess of herbs, ores, and offal on the shelves searching for something that resembles the description of pickled rat's tail.
Suddenly, with inexplicable quickness Calar is attacked from an unexpected quarter as the cauldron in the center of the room leaps up and attempts to consume him!
To hit: 15+2=17 (vs flat footed)
Damage: 1+1=2
Improved Grab: 2+2=4
Initiatives Please.
Everyone outside also needs a listen check since they were focused on other matters, specifically watching for undead or destinking themselves.
Cauldron of Doom: Initiative 13
Nerek whistles a little tune.
Calar takes the two damage - He is at 11 hp right now. His opposed grapple check is 1d20+3 = 9. I am guessing that the cauldron's was 4.
Vishantos yells "Cauldron Attack! Cauldron Attack!"
Trying to keep his distance from the thing, he casts a spell. Unfortunately, he fumbles the gestures while dancing away from the cauldron, and the spell fails.
Calar grimaces, hefts his hammer and steps forward to swing. He is already wincing at how he imagines it will feel for his hammer to make contact with the sturdy iron cauldron. "Damnable witch. Vishantos find the rat tail." Calar swings his hammer.
CLANG!!! Ths sound of hammer on iron echoes through the small hut, Though your blow only manages to mar some of the engraving on the cauldron.
Damn it. lol
Nerek turns upon hearing the clang and quickly takes a strong grip on his mace and swings at the cauldron.
"Oy....uh.. get that pot!"
Nerek turns upon hearing the clang and quickly takes a strong grip on his mace and swings at the cauldron.
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Nerek moves over to reach the creature cleanly through the door, but his attack misses as the oddly dexterous cauldron dodges out of the way.
Laurent steps forward into the space formally occupied by Nerek, and though it is mostly concealed behind the door frame, he swings. Unfortunately he hits the lintel of the door instead of the creature, shaking the whole of the hut.
[ooc]Geddoe, you are a 5 foot step from being in reach, but you too will have to deal with cover.[/ooc[
Geddoe looked over his shoulder at the epic battle going on, then walked away, shaking his head. "A cauldron. A cauldron. This is going well past insanity."
Vishatos steps away from the cauldron (to A1) and fires his crossbow.
11+3=14, damage 5+1=6
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Vishatos steps away from the cauldron (to A1) and fires his crossbow.
11+3=14, damage 5+1=6
Vishanto's bolt sinks deep into the iron hide of the cauldron beast, though there is no way to know how much damage the attack actually inflicted.
The cauldron presses its attack against Calar, but misses horribly.
Vishatos steps away from the cauldron (to A1) and fires his crossbow.
11+3=14, damage 5+1=6
Vishanto's bolt sinks deep into the iron hide of the cauldron beast, though there is no way to know how much damage the attack actually inflicted.
The cauldron presses its attack against Calar, but misses horribly.
Calar will hammer away again.
"FIND THE RAT TAIL!"
Geddoe takes out some of his rations and chews on it, glad that it didn't stink of farting cats.
Nerek steps back and casts bless.
Between swings, Laurent remarks to Calar, "Always something, eh? Who makes a pot like this anyway?"
Between swings, Laurent remarks to Calar, "Always something, eh? Who makes a pot like this anyway?"
Calar actually manages a smile. "Seriously, eh? What say we jump the thing, pin it down, have V grab the rat tail and then get the hell away from this cursed place?"
Vishantos reloads. "I don't think that's an option, unless you're prepared to hold it for a while." He fires. . "This witch wasn't very organized. She should have arranged this stuff alphabetically. I could easilly set something up..."
Geddoe continues munching on the venison. He's not going to be much help, armed with only daggers; more than likely break on the... cauldron than the cauldron break on them.
"You know, if you'd just aid one another, and stop dicking around, you might be able to hit the damn pot ."
. Calar curses under his breath as he swings his hammer against the odd enemy again.
Nerek steps back into the fray, swinging his mace at the cauldron.
"See what you can do with that mace o' yours!"
Vishantos reloads and fires. 15+3+1=19, damage 2+1+1=4.
"Maybe if you drag it outside I could look around better."
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After Laurent and Vishantos sink more blows into the creature it leaps into the air as though to swallow Calar, then as though it had stepped out of time, it hangs in mid air as crackling magical energy drained out of the pot through the various rents and dings.
Finally it falls to the ground unmoving.
Search DC was 14, so you already made that. The Rat's tail is found.
In addition make:
Appraise DC14:
You find several rare stones and statuettes worth a total of 30gp.
Know: Arcane: DC14
You find roughly half the ingredients for a Familiar Binding ritual.
Calar watches as the pot falls to the ground. "Well, you guys saved it a world of hurt, I had that cookware lined up in my sights, but good." Calar offers a smile to show he is joking. "Let's get out of here guys."
Vishantos rummages around in the cottage. "Wow, there's quite a lot of useful stuff here. Just give me a few minutes... I wonder if she was planning to... No i'm sure the skunk moved in after she died... something though, I'd say..." He shoves seeming random herbs, jars and bottles into his bag.
"I wonder if What's her name in town would be interested in any of this stuff. We could bring her back here when this is all over."
After he is done he goes back out to the edge of the clearing and finds the injured fox. "Still here? I may have to give you a name..." He gives the fox a piece of dired meat from his rations.
Nerek stands around outside while the others ransack the hut.
Laurent examines his longsword for dents from fighting the cauldron an tries to scrape any away with a honing stone, hoping the others are finding the rat's tail by themselves.
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Geddoe stepped inside and helped find the Rat's Tail. He then glanced at some stones and statuettes, and quickly appraised their value. He then glanced over his shoulder, and picked up the stones and statuettes. He then surreptiously put the goods in one of his sacks.
Geddoe, after sorting his rations back into his backpack, stood up. "Yeah, let's get the hell out of here." He then carefully avoided the corpse in the middle of the room and walked out of the hut.
Calar has no idea what rat tail looks like, so he leaves the hut and sits in the grass to rest his aching bones.
Calar watches the darkening sky. "In all truth, it might make sense to hold up here tonight. The hut is defensible, and in a bit of clearing so we could see approaching danger."
If the group agrees, Calar will take first watch.
Vishantos looks around at all the weird fetishes hanging around the clearing. "If we camp here, I suggest we bury some of this stuff, along with the witch. Otherwise I doubt we'll get much sleep."
"We may want to push on a little further though. If we can find a good site a little closer to the monastary, then tomorrow we could go there, look for the mushrooms, and return to the same campsite. It shouldn't take us long to find the mushrooms if they're there."
Nerek has no qualms about stopping to make camp. He'll cast detect magic, however, to make sure the witch didn't leave any other nasty surprises around, making a full sweep of the hut and surrounding area.