Al will wave back to his waiting companions to approach, then slip through the archway and creep towards the first door on the eastern wall, peerking around the corner
Peering through the southern-most archway along the eastern wall of the nave, Al spies a wide hallway, leading east, ending at a wall 80 or 90 feet away. A window in that wall, and two open archways in the southern wall allow light in to illuminate the hall.
Near the centre of the space stands a stone statue of a winged woman. The statue is about seven feet tall, and appears mostly intact, although one hand is broken off. The floor of the hall is strewn with debris, and what looks (and smells) like animal dung. There is also a smell like beasts are housed somewhere in this area.
As described above, there are two open archways along the southern wall of the hall. There are several openings or passageways along the north wall; from west to east is an open archway, a door hanging partly open, a closed door past that, and, at the far end of this hall, another narrower hall leading north.
From the nearest opening to the north, the open archway, comes sounds of clattering and quite banging.
From somewhere nearby, to the north-east, there is a sound like hooting, and more banging (louder but more distant).
Farasha studies the statue intently
Farasha, you are quite sure that the statue depicts your goddess, Sarenrae. The missing hand would have held a scimitar.
Mus'ad stays with the others as they move slowly inside. He looks at the statue for a moment, then nods towards the nearest noise. He raises his eyebrow in a clear question,.... 'That way?'
Fallowing 5 feet behind all Sefu moves after the halfling, but seems to catch his shield upon the wall.
20 PERCEPTION 5 STEALTH..Think it's time to ditch the sheild :0
Mus'ad stays with the others as they move slowly inside. He looks at the statue for a moment, then nods towards the nearest noise. He raises his eyebrow in a clear question,.... 'That way?'
Al nods and ghosts towards the opening, pulling out his sling as he does so, and peers into the chamber beyond.
Mus'ad follows with the rest, his crossbow at the ready. He doesn't move anywhere near as noiselessly as Al or Nasir, but his nimbleness allows him to move more or less quietly across the floor. Unfortunately he is so busy paying attention to his feet, that he's not really looking ahead of him,...
Dashki begins herding the camels together as the group dismounts. “I will watch the beasts,” he says, “and watch for danger out here.”
“What of us boss?” asks the male mercenary sardonically, he and his female companion standing watching everyone else begin to head out. “Do you want us with you, or shall we wait out here also?”
Stay
“As you say boss. Call out if you need us, we shall keep watch till then.”
Al moves stealthily towards the archway from whence came the nearer noises.
Beyond the doorless arch is what appears to be a large kitchen complete with walls lined in shelves and cupboards, a huge central table, and an enormous oven against the north wall. Several drawers and cupboard doors stand askew, and the floor is a jagged field of broken glass, smashed pottery, bits of sharp stone, jagged bones and discarded cutlery.
As Al peers around the corner, two tiny manikins – ugly, dog-faced pugwampis – are pushing a large pot across one of the benches. One of them glances up and looks in shocked surprise straight into the halfling’s eyes.
Al curses silently to himself, the creatures seem very good at sensing when enemies are about. He tries to send of a sling round before they react.
Al is quite quick to react, but unfortunately he fumbles his sling stone as he attempts to load the weapon, allowing the pugwampis to react first. The one who saw him draws its tiny bow and ducks down, gaining some cover from the bowl it was pushing.
The halfling’s aim is pretty good … but unluckily the sling stone bounces off the table just ahead of the little creature, flying off in the other direction.
So that puts Sefu, Mus’ad and Nasir fairly close behind the halfling (say five or ten feet), with Farasha and Bashad bringing up the rear.
Farasha waits expantly, ready to assist any of her companions who may become wounded in the coming fray.
The pugwampis who first spotted Al fires its tiny bow at him, but the dart bounces harmlessly off the stone wall. The other creature shrieks, in a loud, high pitched, warbling tone, before scrambling to cover behind a shelf.
From a large bowl resting on a bench at the far side of the room, two more ugly pugwampis heads look up, apparently having been woken from sleep by the screech.
Al cringes at the shriek of the little beast, hoping that it doesnt alert more of the tribe to the attack. He loads his sling once more and fires at the pugwampis who fired the bow
Nothing seems to happen in response to the shriek (although Al’s fear of it attracting further attention may be warranted). Unfortunately Al’s next sling shot just misses the wee beastie, who managed to duck for cover at the last moment, giggling cruelly.
Seeing Al hurl his sling stone, and hearing the shrill cry of the the Pugwampis, Mus'ad seems to shed his contemplative, almost fearful mannerisms, and dashes to his friend's aid. He pulls up behind Al, his slightly greater height allowing him to see into the room over Al's head. Without hesitation the half-elf chants nonsensical mystic syllables, and draws upon the magic brought to him by his faithful servant. He shapes it, and an instant later hurls it into the room. There is a silent burst and a feeling of your ears popping as the magic takes effect.
"Quickly!" Mus'ad hisses to the others. "I don't know if I got them all!"
Bashad will try to position himself so that while he stays in the first room , he can shoot at the gremlins with his bow while keeping far from them
How easy would this be and would I need to roll twice in this case ?
Mus’ad completes his magic and hurls the spell. The two nearest gremlins, the ones that Al has been exchanging missile fire with, immediately yawn widely in unison, then slump down to the benchtop and begin emitting high pitched snores. The second pair, sticking their heads up above the large bowl an the other bench seem to resist the spell.
Bashad will try to position himself so that while he stays in the first room , he can shoot at the gremlins with his bow while keeping far from them
How easy would this be and would I need to roll twice in this case ?
It seems that perhaps the pugwampis high pitched shriek did alert something else in this place; the hoots and grunts from the north east appear to be getting louder, although there is as yet nothing else visible down the hall.
If he can Sefu will move in to attack the little beasts
13 and 19 taking the lowest If I recall so 13 to hit
Bashad move behind Al and try to fire at one of the awahe pugwampis . his arrow go wide of the mark leaving Bashad in question if he is still unlucky or not
Farasha decideds that healing can wait. She advances on a Pugwampi and slashes with her scimitar
1d20+4=8, 1d6+2=3, 1d20+4=14, 1d6+2=4
As Bashad’s arrow thuds into a wooden cupboard door, Sefu and Farasha move side by side into the room, scimitars swinging. Sefu cuts the head clear off one of the mites, but Sarenrae’s favour is not with Farasha, who, off-balance on the treacherous floor, misses her strike completely.
Nasir moves partway into the room, and flicks her whip-dagger at the creature that Farasha attached. Although she moves carefully, and does not injure herself on the debris littering the floor, she is not as lucky with her attack, missing completely.
Two of the pugwampis sleep, and a third is dead, beheaded by Sefu’s blade. The last one shrieks piercingly, then tries to scramble away to safety.
Seeing that the creatures in the room seem to be taken care of, AL moves to take up a position to surprise the creatures approaching from the north east.