"Well, I guess it wasn't fair, but it was their choice." Drivish looks over the side into the mist. "Maybe we should try going down here. Lafiel, would you be so bold as to scout ahead?"
"Well that was easy," Qadim-sul remarks, lowering his khopesh with a disappointed grimace. "Does anyone remember the one at the Duke's keep being a little more difficult to put down?"
Rin shakes his orb, concerned at his inability to hit anything.
"The one at the palace seemed to be enhanced in some way. Well, at least we know their intentions are entirely dishonourable. Shall we go and meet some more of them? With a bit of luck this stupid thing might start working soon." He shoots a glare at his unresponsive orb.
Barhsevy looks at the corpse of the ape-man, silently aghast at the unreasoning fanaticism of its final moments.
"Easy fight." Lafiel mentions, then checks the corpse of the dead apeman that's on the ledge for anything interesting. After that she nods to Drivish and begins to prepare the ropes. She looks down, trying to find the best place to descend to, then starts climbing down the rope.
The cleric begins talking to no one particular, other than himself.
"Lafiel discovered at least three tracks from the razed village, one back to town and two deeper into the forest. Could we have just dispatched the last of the murderers? Or are those two still at large? Why did they attack that village? What do they hope to achieve by harming the Duke's family?"
He throws his arms up and looks straight into the sun.
"Oh Blessed Pelor, what have I gotten myself into?"
Meanwhile, Lafiel keeps descending down into the chasm. After a while, she moves near a small ledge where the corpse of the dead apeman dropped to after it was killed. She examines the corpse from a distance, but doesn't see anything interesting so she keeps going down.
Athletics check (1d20+1=10)
Suddenly, Lafiel's hands slip and she starts falling, but manages to catch herself in time. Her heart beating quickly, she finds a small ledge and rests a bit to catch her breath.
Athletics check, 2nd try (1d20+1=20)
Grabbing the rope firmly, Lafiel keeps going down, trying to move down as silently as possible.
Stealth check (1d20+9=12)
However, a leg placed wrong hits a small rock, which falls down into the chasm.
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✦ Success: You climb at one-half your speed. When
you climb to reach the top of a surface, such as when
you climb out of a pit, the distance to reach the top
includes allowing you to arrive in the square adjacent
to the surface. The last square of movement places
you on that square.
✦ Fail by 4 or Less: You stay where you started and
lose the rest of your move action, but you don’t fall.
You can try again as part of a move action.
✦ Fail by 5 or More: You fall (see “Falling,” page 284)
and lose the rest of your move action.
Lafiel, want to clarify?
Upon hearing Lafiel scream and fall Barshevy grabs a rope and ties it around himself.
"Dangle me down to the bottom, quick! She'll need my healing!"
Acrobatics check to reduce damage (1d20+9=14)
Where is Lafiel ? can she see anything from her ledge ? Is the rope long enough to get to her ?
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Acrobatics check to reduce damage (1d20+9=14)
Where is Lafiel ? can she see anything from her ledge ? Is the rope long enough to get to her ?
The mist is pretty thick, the stinging gasses mostly being overwhelmed by the stinging spray, but it looks like another 50' or so down
Lafiel can't really see anything upward. The rope is long enough, but hanging out over the chasm -- it would take a DC15 Athletics or Acrobatics check to reach it on a lunge, with the same consequences for failure.
Everyone else is aware that Lafiel is no longer on the rope, but not much more than that.
Nodding at Barshevy, Rin also heads for the edge of the ravine.
"Down you go Father. We'll be right behind you."
Pat
Rin's journey down the ropes when needed. It ain't pretty.
Rin alternately shimmies and plummets down the rope, bouncing off the rock face...
"It's not that easy..." he mutters as he bangs his arms and legs ineptly on projecting stone.
He gains a small amount of confidence, but fatigue overtakes him in the end and he falls badly for the last part of the journey down ...
DC12 athletics checks for rope descent (1d20=17, 1d20=17, 1d20=4, 1d20=3)
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Rin's journey down the ropes when needed. It ain't pretty.
DC7 athletics checks to get down the rope (1d20=14, 1d20=6, 1d20=15, 1d20=19, 1d20=5, 1d20=8, 1d20=5)
DC12 athletics checks for rope descent (1d20=17, 1d20=17, 1d20=4, 1d20=3)
How much damage do I need to roll for him? We may be down a wizard.
14: descend to 115'; 6: fall 15' to 130'; 15 (save): catch yourself; 19: descend 15' to 145' (can see Lafiel below); 5: fall 15' to 160'; 8 (save): bounce another 15' to 175'; 5 (save): bounce another 15' to 190'; 17 (save): catch yourself.
If you survive you're only about 10' above the floor (read Lafiel's spoiler)
With the total of 60' falling, though:
Rin's falling damage (6d10=29)
YOu'll be at -5 and dying and need immediate medical help.
This will all be after Barshevy goes down, though, and he's being lowered, not climbing.
Pat
[ooc]OK. Hope he makes it. Climbing is not Rin's long suit. Along with much else apart from being supremely diplomatic.[ooc]
Qadim-sul will offer to go down first, or follow right behind Barshevy. "I have a climbing kit you can use, Father," he says. "I think it's best if we don't send people down into these mists alone from now on."
Strength checks (if needed for lowering) (1d20+2=19, 1d20+2=7, 1d20+2=12, 1d20+2=16, 1d20+2=7)
Pat
Drivish will volunteer to go last.
Lafiel keeps silent, and tries to hear any sounds from her friends above.
Pat ** spoiler omitted **
Pat
Nah. Forget it. He's impulsive. Play it as it lies.
Fargrim, once reaching the bottom, will wait for everyone else to reach the bottom. Once gathered, he'll approach Drivish, "I suggest we take positions that would most protect the rest of the group, particularly the mage and the priest. One of us should take front, and the other should take rear. If we're to explore this place, I'd like to do so while protecting the others from surprise attacks. I'll take rear if ye'd prefer." He wispers, as not to attract too much attention from would-be attackers.
Watching as Barshevy is lowered to the depths of the ravine, Rin impetuously grabs the rope.
"That looks easy enough." he says cheerfully. "I couldn't climb ropes when I was younger, I wonder if I've improved at all?"
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Rin alternately shimmies and plummets down the rope, bouncing off the rock face...
"It's not that easy..." he mutters as he bangs his arms and legs ineptly on projecting stone.
He gains a small amount of confidence, but fatigue overtakes him in the end and he falls badly for the last part of the journey down ...
At this point, Barshevy has been lowered more than halfway down to Lafiel (100' down, 60' from Lafiel).
Rin:
Lafiel:
While contemplating this, you hear more than see Rin falling past and screaming, ending with a dull thud below.
Qadim-sul watches Rin fall and shakes his head. "Anyone else want to climb down, or wait to be lowered?"
He leans over the side, calling to Barhevy: "Father, try to patch up Rin when you get to him, too."
"F$@#in' amateurs!" he mutters under his breath.
DM, what do I have to do to stop this nitwit from swinging onto the rope I'm carefully lowering?
Acrobatic jump to rope (1d20+9=14)
Lafiel hears Rin's scream, quickly readies herself, takes a deep breath, then jumps and tries to reach the rope. She manages to catch it, but her speed combined with the slipperiness of the rope cause her to lose hold of it.
Trying to stop dying here (1d20=1, 1d20=17, 1d20=6, 1d20=16, 1d20=14).
"Not the best idea I ever had." he thinks randomly as he hits the ground hard.
Lafiel falls down a bit, but manages to catch herself on time. Thinking about the thud Rin's body made hitting the rocks, she hurries down the rope, trying to find out what's his condition.
More athletics checks (1d20+1=8, 1d20+1=14, 1d20+1=14, 1d20+1=4, 1d20+1=20)
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Banged and battered herself, Lafiel reaches Rin on round 3, when he has just failed his second death save. Lafiel can easily see that Rin is severely injured and unconscious.
Lafiel: