"There's naethin' palatable tae drink doon haur, let's move oan, shall we?"
"Stig if things get outta control ole Harvak gonna light this place up like signal fire!"
Elgan--the cockroach just went through a crack between two bricks in the wall where the mason's goop has, over the decades, flaked away.
Like roaches are often wont to do.
Probably so, Stig...but does anyone want to check of a hidden door/closet, etc?
I think Beldan got a 15 search for secret doors in this room...
(edit) yeah....15 roll.
And....small recap from the main barracks room,...
There's a door on the north wall, 10 feet to the east of the secret door from the rotgrub room you all haven't been in.
There's the stairway up to the murderholed door.
And, nobody ever searched the main barracks room for secret doors, unless I overlooked it or there was a disappearing post.
I think it's only fair for me to give you guys a recap, since this damn thread goes so fast and little details get buried, and my own DM-style can be scatterbrained at times.
I wonder where that roach could have gone. Certainly not outside....Stand back while I use my powerful skills of observation.
Stig leans against the wall then slides down into a squat and begins working a few of the notches out of his new axe blade.
"Whit's he lookin' at, Harv?"
"Rugs"
Riese can see through the crack that there's a brickwork wall effacing the room herein, then an inner space about 50 cm wide between this brick facing and an outer wall of drymasonry that presumably buttresses against the outer ground. In that inner space, there's reinforcing concrete and/or grainy rock dumped in there. That cockroach could be anywhere in this space, cruising around. Gettin' in little cockroach adventures.
In any event, a secret door does not exist where Riese is looking.
Riese is gonna do a quick search of the whole room, not taking 20's. My modifier is +7, you roll it Heathy and let me know if I find anything.
Are you talking the alchemist's room, or the barracks room outside?
Nothing additional discovered in the alchemist's laboratory room.
If Riese searches the barracks room:
I knew it would take one with my superior perception to find this.. Guys, there's another secret door on the south wall of the barracks room, 15 feet from the western wall. You can see how the wall has a faint outline and the dust on the floor is slightly disturbed in this region. Someone like to check it out for traps?
Beldan gives it a thorough once over;
"Nothing untoward on this secret door."
As the party leaves the lab to look at the secret door, Altai pours the saucer's mysterious contents into a glass phial, before carefully securing it in his backpack.
Beldan gives it a thorough once over;
"Nothing untoward on this secret door."
"Yep, I'm 100% certain it's safe.
Someone else want to open it?"
Stig grumbles and opens the door, axe in hand.
Harvak stands behind him, the great sword raised ready to kill.
"Hey, Stiggy, look out! Big-Ugly go crazy!"
<draws weapons, ready to strike down Harvak before he gets a chance to kill Stiggy>
To Gittik: "Shhh. We're gettin' ready tae kill th' mince oan th' other side ay th' duir wee fellaw."
Opening the door, there's a switchback enclosed staircase, drops for 20 feet then curves around a corner. You hear the ocean's surf, smell the ocean from here.
You can hear somebody playing a simple shanty tune on a squeezebox somewhere.
Listen dc 10:
<shrugs, slightly defensively> "OK, me just try to help."
<once the door is opened> "Me hear people talking down there. Good, me like kill live people, not dead ones."
Beldan didn't hear anything (surprise) but he trusts Gittik's senses.
"Want Gittik and I should sneak down there and scope it out?"
He too feels more comfortable dealing with the living than the dead.
"Giant maggots, skeletal giants, possible mutant cockroaches, and now accordion-playing shanty-singing sailors. The fun never ends, does it?"
Harvak follows 5' behind Gittik and Beldan.Move silently 1d20+2=17
Move Silently: 1d20-4=7
Move Silently: 1d20 3=13
Becton doesn't hear anything. Listen (1d20+4=5)
He tries to follow the "silent squad", and decides it's better to wait - the plate armor makes sound like he's banging a collection of pots together. Move Silently (1d20+1-6=2)
Harvak passes gas silently 1d20+2=17
"Whew! Somebody needs to layoff the onions for awhile."
A few people so far have made a spot of noise...
Listen check 0: the squeezebox stops, 10 seconds after Becton's clunky armor bangs up against something, and Gittik dropped something clanky.
Listen check 10:
Listen check 15:
Another male voice: "hope he lift thoose gigglers thar in the harnted mansion...Hoy don't highly appreciate them."
Beldan looks down at Gittik, then looks up at those following, and shakes his head in despair.
Becton hears the whole conversation very clearly, inspite of his clanking:Listen (1d20+4=24)
Keeping his voice low:
"Sounds like they know we are here. But I don't think they know it's us...I hear a couple of voices talking about keeping busy and such...maybe they think we are someone they are expecting to come down."
"Also...I get the impression that one of them is still above in the mansion somewhere..."
I'll repeat conversation...per spoilers, if it helps clarify things.
Cool beaners! Everybody can read the spoilers.
"Sanbalet" is pronounced "San-buh-lay."
Riese is with the sneaky guys....1d20 5=13
*whispering to the group*I got some fire for them if we need it....and some ice....
What are we gonna do, move in and catch 'em unaware? They are part a group that killed that Chosen of Pelor, that means they are of cruel intent and foul hearts in my book.
Riese is with the sneaky guys....1d20 5=13
*whispering to the group*I got some fire for them if we need it....and some ice....
What are we gonna do, move in and catch 'em unaware? They are part a group that killed that Chosen of Pelor, that means they are of cruel intent and foul hearts in my book.
Catching the whiff of fresh air and sea spray on the draft of the open door, Elgan crowds forward, bumping into Becton and causing his armor to rattle against the wall.
"Sorry Chere'," HE mutters as they both find their balance. Then he shifts back into a sleek black panther, and begins to wind his way between the others, careful to keep his tail high and out from under people's feet!
Elgan's Hide check for moving down stairs: (1d20 2=6)
AND he is obviously standing directly under someone's light source! ;P
Riese gives the ebon fur a fond stroke as the cat-like creature walks by....
Riese is with the sneaky guys....1d20 5=13
*whispering to the group*I got some fire for them if we need it....and some ice....
What are we gonna do, move in and catch 'em unaware? They are part a group that killed that Chosen of Pelor, that means they are of cruel intent and foul hearts in my book.
"Why you say two times, Iron Rabbit S%!%? One time listen to you bad enough."
"But me want to kill something, show Jane me tough man, and me no kill nothing yet."
Alyai hasn't even followed the group down the corridor, as he though that would be reserved for the "sneaky" party members. However, as the party crashes through the passageway like a bull through a china store, he decides that even he can't do any worse than his friends. After cocking his crossbow, he carefully makes his way down the tunnel.
"You know, Gittik, killing isn't what will make the fair Jane admire you - looting is. Take it easy."
"Ah hiner thaur ur bevies doon haur."
Altai looks at Stig for a few seconds, before nodding. "Uh-huh", he says, before moving on down the corridor.
Whispering "What's the plan Stigwold"...
"You know, Gittik, killing isn't what will make the fair Jane admire you - looting is. Take it easy."
"Really? But me need to kill them all to get loot, yes?"
"SShhh you two...Gittik ole'Harvak teach you all about the birds ands the bees later. Me see it all in the Dreadwood".