Rappan Athuk Old School

[Elathras Narcinal]

brvheart wrote:

So we are waiting on Thoron then? Marthek will attack on his turn,

I believe so, since your last initiative order post, everyone has gone except Thoron and Marthek. We did go out of order, but that seemed to be ok in the past. It also seems like you do Marthek last just before the bad guys.

[Alana Kelsh]

I am actually jet last, I got skipped on the last round which is why it looked like I went out of order. I was originally going to drop a fireball, but had an epiphany by the time everyone went and used a different spell instead. I will likely pass this round and let the melee folks chop up the ogres while they are blind, but it always depends on the most up to date actions when we get there...

[brvheart]

Well this is the Init order

Initiative Order Round two
Silvash
Elathras
Marthek
Thoron
Alana
Cuthalian
Ogres

[Alana Kelsh]

Nuts, I thought I was after even the ogres...my bad

[Elathras Narcinal]

brvheart wrote:

Well this is the Init order

Initiative Order Round two
Silvash
Elathras
Marthek
Thoron
Alana
Cuthalian
Ogres

Yep :)

So moving forward do you want us to wait for our slot, or is it ok that we go out of order as long as it's still in the round?

Also are we moving on to round three? Or will we wait?

[Cuthalian]

Cuthalian attempts to down the ogre nearest to him. He adjusts his position to flank the ogre with Marthek and attacks.

Curve blade PA: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (19) + 10 = 291d10 + 13 + 1d6 ⇒ (3) + 13 + (5) = 21

[Thoron Palehorn]

Sorry Guys, I missed all of you moving. I'm taking a double move to be beside Alana

[Alana Kelsh]

Alana turns to Thoron as he approaches, "It makes them so happy to have the upper hand, I am going to just watch them take care of these guys."

Alana will delay in case she is needed. No action for round 2.

[brvheart]

Marthek moves 5' forward and attacks
great club: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (3) + 16 = 19 damage: 1d10 + 14 ⇒ (2) + 14 = 16
great club: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (19) + 11 = 30 damage: 1d10 + 14 ⇒ (6) + 14 = 20
He kills one ogre
Let's move to round three.

[Elathras Narcinal]

Smiling as Alana blinds the Ogre's then tells them to 'make short work of them, Elathras nods, "I think we can do that." Then swarms the creatures with Marthek, Cuthalian and Silvash. Moving forward he thrust his pole arm at the last standing creature.

Rage @ 3 rd. move 10 ft. attack AC @ 16, Guisarme (two handed) rage PA RA reach
attack: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (10) + 13 = 23 for damage: 2d4 + 10 + 6 ⇒ (2, 4) + 10 + 6 = 22

[brvheart]

Elathras finishes off the last ogre. xp=300 each.

[Alana Kelsh]

Woohoo! Now what have these ogres been guarding, hmmm?"

[Elathras Narcinal]

Releasing the rage, Elathras Nods in agreement with Alana, he then begins to search the bodies and the room.

perception: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (16) + 15 = 31

[Cuthalian]

Cuthalian follows suit in searching the room.

Perception: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (7) + 13 = 20

[Thoron Palehorn]

nods to Alana "looks like they had fun hitting the ogres"

[brvheart]

The ogres are not carrying any treasure nor is there any in the room. Again, the tunnels are small, 3' in diameter. Which way?

[Elathras Narcinal]

After finding nothing of value in the ogres, Elathras sighs, "Look narrow tunnels again. We may as well start with the one beside where we came in." He then goes to the first tunnel clockwise of the one they entered and starts to move that way slowly watching for traps or anything.

perception: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (4) + 15 = 19

[brvheart]

That tunnel leads to a dead end.

[Elathras Narcinal]

Finding a dead end, Elathras retreats. Shrugging at his friends, Dead end!" Going to the next narrow tunnel clockwise from the dead end. Keeping a keen eye out for traps or trouble.

perception: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (20) + 15 = 35

Is it only the four tunnels?

[Alana Kelsh]

"Let us know when to follow..."

[Elathras Narcinal]

Turning back to Alana, "Oh sorry, I thought you all were. Should I wait for you or just assume your coming along?"

I just assumed we were all headed that way

[Cuthalian]

"I guess one of us should go forward at least 30 feet or so and then call back if it looks like it continues. No sense in all of continually having to back out of dead ends." Cuthalian says in response.

[Elathras Narcinal]

Nodding in agreement, Elathras volunteers, "I'll go forward, you all wait here." He moves thirty feet, or close to that, ahead hoping for an exit.

[Alana Kelsh]

Yup, I was dropping a post just to show I was still monitoring

[Thoron Palehorn]

"doesn't much matter to me , but let's take them in order

[brvheart]

That tunnel leads to the mud room.

[Elathras Narcinal]

Stepping into the mud room, Elathras turns back and looks at his friend, pointing to the south. "That way is the temple." pointing to the north. "That way is Max's house." Shrugging, "Another fight or try and find some hidden doorway or something?"

[Alana Kelsh]

"Another doorway? I am unsure we are ready to attempt another run at the temple."

[Cuthalian]

"Why not head north? We can check out the staircase, any doors we haven't checked and so forth." Cuthalian suggests.

[Elathras Narcinal]

Turning north, elathras shrugs. "The only stairs I'm aware of are the ones we came down from the third level. but we can scour the hall, maybe find a secret doorway that we missed the first time"

Brv, once they get to the hall how many roles do you want looking for secret doors in the two hallways?

[brvheart]

Well it is one roll for every 10' you are checking.

[Elathras Narcinal]

brvheart wrote:

Well it is one roll for every 10' you are checking.

Is that each side, or does ten foot get both sides on a five foot halllway?

[Cuthalian]

Would it not be quicker and easier to have us roll for the possible number of items to be found and charge us for all of the areas we would have checked that could not result in something? So it takes 10 minutes to check the total hall each but one roll representing the time we checked the actual area of the secret thingy.

[Cuthalian]

At the corner between 'I' and '5' there is a door. Did that turn out to just be a closet? If that's the case then we definitely need to check in there. And area '5' itself, is that a portcullis or a magical barrier? There appears to be a corner down past it. It seems like forever since we came this way and I don't recall those areas.

[Elathras Narcinal]

Cuthalian wrote:

At the corner between 'I' and '5' there is a door. Did that turn out to just be a closet? If that's the case then we definitely need to check in there. And area '5' itself, is that a portcullis or a magical barrier? There appears to be a corner down past it. It seems like forever since we came this way and I don't recall those areas.

yes just south of the corner is a closet and the four small parallel circles above the '5' that looks like a portcullis we were told to ignore because we disabled the trap.

[Cuthalian]

Amazing memory or are you keeping notes? Did we check down that way? If we not we need to, if we did and it was a dead end then that is another obvious spot to look for secret doors.

[Elathras Narcinal]

Cuthalian wrote:

Amazing memory or are you keeping notes? Did we check down that way? If we not we need to, if we did and it was a dead end then that is another obvious spot to look for secret doors.

I had a vague recollection and searched portcullis. At the end of the hallway (down by '5') was a 'false' secret door that was a trap for the portcullis.

[Alana Kelsh]

So, is that everything then? Is it time to sack up and make another pass at the temple?

[brvheart]

Elathras Narcinal wrote:

brvheart wrote:

Well it is one roll for every 10' you are checking.

Is that each side, or does ten foot get both sides on a five foot halllway?

10' square

[Elathras Narcinal]

Alana Kelsh wrote:

So, is that everything then? Is it time to sack up and make another pass at the temple?

I believe so but we can check the hallway one more time.

Getting his bearing on the level, Elathras points to the right. "The bad guys are that way." Pointing to the left, "we came in that way." turning to the left he wonders. Maybe we missed something."

Leaving the mud room #3 He carefully checks the hallway. He then checks the hallway with the stairs they came down and the wide hallway with the false secret door at the end. He then double checks the wide hallway.

hallway between secret door in 2 and three
perception: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (16) + 15 = 31
perception: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (15) + 15 = 30
main hallway
perception: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (19) + 15 = 34
perception: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (19) + 15 = 34
perception: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (4) + 15 = 19
perception: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (12) + 15 = 27
wide hallway
perception: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (14) + 15 = 29
perception: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (8) + 15 = 23
perception: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (19) + 15 = 34
perception: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (5) + 15 = 20
perception: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (6) + 15 = 21
perception: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (12) + 15 = 27
wide hallway
perception: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (17) + 15 = 32
perception: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (9) + 15 = 24
perception: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (15) + 15 = 30
perception: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (8) + 15 = 23
perception: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (19) + 15 = 34
perception: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (13) + 15 = 28

[Thoron Palehorn]

"Well we don't have a lot of choice do we? Other than the temple.

Let's review what we are going to do going into the temple. 1)I'm going to get as many protection from evil spells as I can get before we go in there instead of cure light wounds. Who would be best suited to have that on them? Then I'll cast shield of faith on either Alana or me to give us a better AC. I can get 2 bear's endurance and 2 remove paralysis. Who would want the bear's endurance? or I can pray for bull's strength if you all think that would better. I have neutralize poison, remove blindness/deafness already. I'll hold back on casting remove curse and lesser restoration for now. I can also cast fire shield on me to give a bit more damage. Anyone remember if the non human things were fire based or not? All this would be cast before going in of course.

Then Alana and I will work on the underlings while the rest of you work on the main guys on the altar thingy.

Most important, let's not get stuck in the hallway going in if possible. that almost killed us last time."

sorry I'm late guys but Microsuck decided to do a major update most of yesterday

[Alana Kelsh]

Ain't it funny that microsuck will not let you turn that off anymore, like they are so high and mighty they know better what we are doing? /end rant

"Give yourself the Shield of Faith as I an do the same. We should all use a Protection from Evil, I can assist there as well. Our front liners can decide between Bear's Endurance and Bull's Strength as they will be using it. I can also provide Enlarge person and Haste, although I can only use Haste and Fireball a total of 4 times before it is depleted.
I think our priority is defeated the greater evil of the demon before we destroy the remaining priests. Does anyone know anything about their particular kind, like its weaknesses? Other useful tidbits in the inventory, I have an Immovable Rod, Potion of Invisibility, and a Scroll with Antimagic Field, Wall of Stone, and Rage, though I am loath to use the scroll unless it is exceptionally dire. Thoughts?"

If allowed, K. Planes: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (4) + 16 = 20

[Cuthalian]

"I have several prep spells I can cast on myself. Haste would be greatly appreciated. I have several abilities that should aid me against the demon. I intend to turn invisible before entering in hopes of moving into the room and selecting my choice of targets. I will also look for the demon and share a bit of motivation (Freebooters bane) before moving too far in. If, after boosting others, you have enough power to do a bull's strength on me, I would appreciate that." Cuthalian says laying out his thoughts.

[Elathras Narcinal]

As they study the hallway, talking about magic, Elathras gestures towards Marthek. "You should cast 'enlarge on Marthek or me and haste on everyone you can. I have a belt that gives strength so maybe bears endurance?"

If someone with enlarge has the +1 holy longspear what kind of reach would that give them, and would that be beneficial?

[brvheart]

Alana Kelsh wrote:

Ain't it funny that microsuck will not let you turn that off anymore, like they are so high and mighty they know better what we are doing? /end rant

"Give yourself the Shield of Faith as I an do the same. We should all use a Protection from Evil, I can assist there as well. Our front liners can decide between Bear's Endurance and Bull's Strength as they will be using it. I can also provide Enlarge person and Haste, although I can only use Haste and Fireball a total of 4 times before it is depleted.
I think our priority is defeated the greater evil of the demon before we destroy the remaining priests. Does anyone know anything about their particular kind, like its weaknesses? Other useful tidbits in the inventory, I have an Immovable Rod, Potion of Invisibility, and a Scroll with Antimagic Field, Wall of Stone, and Rage, though I am loath to use the scroll unless it is exceptionally dire. Thoughts?"

If allowed, [dice=K. Planes] 1d20+16

Hmmm, sound maybe?

[Silvash Auerial]

Silvash thinks for a moment and says "I plan on being invisible when we enter as well. I'll have to wait for haste to be cast and then turn invisible. I will also have some other defensive spells active. It's best if I flank with someone to do the most damage."

[Alana Kelsh]

brvheart wrote:

Alana Kelsh wrote:

Ain't it funny that microsuck will not let you turn that off anymore, like they are so high and mighty they know better what we are doing? /end rant

"Give yourself the Shield of Faith as I an do the same. We should all use a Protection from Evil, I can assist there as well. Our front liners can decide between Bear's Endurance and Bull's Strength as they will be using it. I can also provide Enlarge person and Haste, although I can only use Haste and Fireball a total of 4 times before it is depleted.
I think our priority is defeated the greater evil of the demon before we destroy the remaining priests. Does anyone know anything about their particular kind, like its weaknesses? Other useful tidbits in the inventory, I have an Immovable Rod, Potion of Invisibility, and a Scroll with Antimagic Field, Wall of Stone, and Rage, though I am loath to use the scroll unless it is exceptionally dire. Thoughts?"

If allowed, [dice=K. Planes] 1d20+16

Hmmm, sound maybe?

My bad, I was distracted when I typed out the post this morning and left an incomplete thought, the idea for the knowledge check was in case she could recall any details from our previous encounter with the demon, especially if she could recall any weaknesses or vulnerabilities for us to exploit.

[Thoron Palehorn]

"So we all want to get on the main guys then? I can switch out a cure moderate wounds for silence if you all think that would be better for us. That way I could cast it on the altar area and the fighters could get a round of attacks without him casting spells on us."

[Thoron Palehorn]

Brvheart what kind of thing was summoned by the high priest in the temple area?

[brvheart]

Nothing was actually summoned in the temple. There was a demon that showed up though.