The lizard shrieks in pain as the greatsword bites into its side, but manages to stay up.
Valletin draws his bow and shoots the lizard
to hit
to wound
Valletin lines up the arrow with the creature, but second guesses the shot as Harold moves in front of the lizard. The arrow hits the floor mere inches away from it.
Initiatives:
Harold 22
Valletin 22
Korganna 16
Gandel 14
Murro 14
Lizard 11
Gandel steps up next to Harold and slashes at the lizard with his new silver shortsword.
Murro peers around Valletin and frowns. [b]"These beasts are wasting our time." He extends two fingers, focuses his will and fires yet another Ray of Frost.
Korganna steps forward swinging her flail over her head and brining it down on the stone floor next to the lizard. Gandel then tries to sneak in a stab with his new silver shortsword, but the lizard evades as it jumps from the crashing flail. From the back, Murro launches a ray of pure ice which hits the puddle on the ground, freezing it momentarily.
The lizard lets off another shock at Harold in its excitement then scurries over to the corner of the room.
Gandel takes a swipe at the electrified lizard as it scurries away.
By now expecting the lizard's 'shocking' method of attack, Harold this time manages to dodge away from the worst of the electricity arc, only getting slightly singed...
As the lizard attempts to retreat, he lashes out with his sword, attempting to spit the creature on the end of his blade!
As the lizard attempts to flee, Gandel nicks it in the leg slowing it enough that Harold's greatsword chops it cleanly in half, scattering its entrails across the wet floor.
Nodding in satisfaction at the lizard's demise, Harold returns to searching the room.
.
"I say chaps, would you mind if we rested for an hour or two, before we tackle the next door? That lizard knocked the wind out of my sails..."
Nothing special turns up in the search of the room.
Harold returns to the 'stuck' door, and attempts to force it open...
Eventually Harold's efforts pay off and the door opens revealing the central staircase to the tower. The stairs down have been reduced to rubble, but the way up is still intact.
Harold regards the staircase quizzically for a moment, before shrugging, and turning to the others.
"Well then, shall we continue?"
He then begins to carefully climb the staircase...
"I agree, we have spent too much time here" Valletin adds, before going behind Harold up the stairs
"You want Korganna go first? Korganna have no problem going first...More destruction that way."
Korganna stands there obsessively picking little bits out of the wall.
"Come on, Murro. Guess we should catch up with the others before we miss all of the fun," Gandel says to his sorcerous companion as he begins to climb the stairs to follow Harold, Valletin, and Korganna.
Murro nods and follows along, keeping an eye out for any trouble along the way.
As you ascend the stairs you finally come to another door. The stairs also keep going up from that point.
"I think we should explore this place level by level... I hate the idea of leaving unexplored territory behind me."
So saying, Harold will try to open the door...
As Harold rams his shoulder into the door, he realizes it is actually locked.
"Want Korganna open lock? Korganna pick lock good." As she hefts her flail.
"Korganna, maybe we should let Gandel try first?"
"Korganna, maybe we should let Gandel try first?"
"Korganna be convinced to acquiesce. Korganna like Gandel, he not make Korganna feel like freak." Korganna's orcish sentence structure makes you forget she is intelligent, until she uses a 10 platinum word.
"Happy to oblige there, luv!" Gandel exclaims, hopping up the steps past Korganna, Valletin, and Harold.
The plucky halfling examines the door carefully before fishing into his belt pouch and retrieving a couple of tools which he promptly inserts into the locking mechanism.
"Nope, lady and gentlemen, this one's beyond Ol' Gandel," the halfling says with a grimace as he puts his tools back into their pouch. "Korgie, luv, I think this one's gonna require your expertise."
Gandel's lock-picking attempt is successful.
pats Gandel on the head.
"Good job Gandel, Korganna approve!"
As you enter the room you see two stone altars, one black and one white, sit at either end of this large chamber, which takes up two wings of the tower on this level. The crumbling remains of wooden benches sag in front of each altar beneath rotting ceiling tapestries. Carved symbols and writings snake along the walls. The burnt corpses of two troglodytes lie on the floor in the center of the room.
Knowledge (religion) DC 10
Stepping cautiously into the room behind Korganna, his sword at the ready, Harold surprises himself by recognising the iconography of the room.
A temple to Nethys? Interesting...
Keeping one eye on the flash-fried troglodyte corpses he comments:
"Let's be careful. Gandel? Would you mind checking to see if there is some sort of trap near where those bodies are? I would prefer to not be cooked..."
Korganna looks a bit disappointed in the lack of enemies to challenge.
"Korganna not like this, not enough enemy."
knowledge (religion)
"I wouldn't let your guard go down just because you can't see the enemy, this is a shrine to a god of magic after all, our enemy may not use standard or even fair ways to fight us Korganna"
Murro moves to where he can look into the room without actually stepping into it and casts detect magic, studying everything he can see carefully.
"Let's be careful. Gandel? Would you mind checking to see if there is some sort of trap near where those bodies are? I would prefer to not be cooked..."
"Aye-aye, Cap'n!" Gandel says, saluting smartly has he moves into the room and begins to (carefully!) sweep it for traps.
As all of you make your way further into the room, you notice a flickering orange light at the other end of the chamber. Two skeletons, bathed in flame, move toward you wielding rusty old scimitars.
The skeletons move forward with menacing flames dancing all around them. One approaches Murro swiping at him with its scimitar, striking the doorway in the process.
Korganna
Harold
Murro
Gandel
Skeletons
DM Rolls
Harold grimaces slightly as he is lightly grilled by the skeleton's flaming aura, but nonetheless brings his sword around in a mighty swing...
Valletin sees Harold beeing attacked so casts virtue on him