Kang steps toward the hole... 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (17) + 4 = 21 and spots something strange as he does! Around the edges of the pit, more rotting boards are ready to give way. Craft check to try to shore them up.
Barin opens the door and sees: The furniture in this once-fine dining room was crushed by the debris falling from the floors above. What remains is sodden and mostly unidentifiable. Nothing seems useful or valuable in here, but there is a deep smell of rot and mildew pervading the place.
Molly detects no magic anywhere.
Zac tries to light the fireplace, but the wood is damp and just fizzles.
As Barin enters, he hears that same scratching from under the floors, but it's louder and more insistent now. As he frowns at it, suddenly spectral hands erupt from under the floorboards! They claw at his legs!
Barin Will:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12 Barin cries out in pain as the spectral hands dig painfully into his skin, causing long bleeding wounds!
Initial Damage:4d6 + 10 ⇒ (6, 4, 1, 5) + 10 = 26 slashing. The wounds bleed fiercely! Barin feels his legs are not able to bear him as fast anymore! -10' penalty to your speed until fully healed!
Zac grabs Barin and jerks him out of the room, saving him from future slashing.
Anji, Indigo, Kang and Molly?
The spectral hands still wave, grabbing blindly for victims! Anyone trained in Religion can recognize this effect as a haunt. Furthermore anyone trained in Religion can attempt to exorcise it with a Religions check.
Male Tian-Shu Human (Versatile) Wizard (Unified Magical Theory) 6 | HP 62/62 | AC 22 (23 with mystic armor) | F +12 R +14 W +13 | Perc +11 | Stealth +12 (+2 Init) | 25' | drain bonded object: 1st: 0/1 2nd: 0/1 3rd: 1/1 | Versatile Vials: 4/4 | Focus Points: 0/1 | Hero Points: 2/3 | Familiar Focus: 1/1 | Staff 3/3 | Active Conditions: Avoid Notice
Kang starts at the sudden apparition. Not sure what he can do to help, he pulls out a flask of alchemist's fire and flings at the spectral hands, then quickly retreats.
Male Tian-Shu Human (Versatile) Wizard (Unified Magical Theory) 6 | HP 62/62 | AC 22 (23 with mystic armor) | F +12 R +14 W +13 | Perc +11 | Stealth +12 (+2 Init) | 25' | drain bonded object: 1st: 0/1 2nd: 0/1 3rd: 1/1 | Versatile Vials: 4/4 | Focus Points: 0/1 | Hero Points: 2/3 | Familiar Focus: 1/1 | Staff 3/3 | Active Conditions: Avoid Notice
Anji is out of healing right? If so...
Kang takes a moment to catch his breath as the ghostly presence is exorcises. Until he realises how close to death Barin is. He dashes over, quickly mixes an elixir and pours it down Barin's throat.
Use 1 infused reagents to make Elixir of Life (Minor) - heal 1d6 HP (will let Barin roll it himself) and +1 item bonus to saving throws against diseases and poisons for 10 minutes.
Male N Human Garundi Scholar Cleric 1 | HP 17/17| AC 13 | F: +4, R: +3, W: +9 | Perc: +7 | Speed 25ft| Focus Pool: 1/1 | Spells 1:2/2 |
Anji is out of healing, but nonetheless will attempt to still heal with common knowledge.
"Please, if you would, I will attend to your wounds the old fashion way." You can see as Anji prepares the wound, that is clearly disappointing that his magical abilities have been drained for the day.
Barin is brought around and mostly healed, if not wholly so. He limps, as his legs are damaged from the haunt. -10' to your speed.
You head to the north door. Only a single, aged worktable still stands in one corner of this room, though the clay fragments of an oven and rusted metal suggest it was once a kitchen. The ceiling has completely fallen in, leaving this room open to the sky above. Doors stand in the east and west walls.
Anji moves through the empty room to the next door and opens it. Everything this room once held now lies jumbled over the floor in a soggy mess: torn pages, scraps of fabric, and splintered remnants of furniture. Doors hang askew in the north and east walls, but the door to the south has been smashed from its hinges.
However, a faintly glowing wand lies on the remains of a table.
Barin ignores the glowing wand and limps toward the door.
Ivy has overgrown the empty window frame, casting this room into cool shadow. A low shelf, its wood warped and cracked, stands against the south wall, and a desk has been overturned and smashed in the eastern part of the room.
As Barin gets closer to the doorway, he hears whispers from the room. They're mostly murmurs, but he hears the word 'rest' repeated again and again. He might be able to make the whispers out better in the room...
Male Tian-Shu Human (Versatile) Wizard (Unified Magical Theory) 6 | HP 62/62 | AC 22 (23 with mystic armor) | F +12 R +14 W +13 | Perc +11 | Stealth +12 (+2 Init) | 25' | drain bonded object: 1st: 0/1 2nd: 0/1 3rd: 1/1 | Versatile Vials: 4/4 | Focus Points: 0/1 | Hero Points: 2/3 | Familiar Focus: 1/1 | Staff 3/3 | Active Conditions: Avoid Notice
Before...
Even though Barin is not interested, Kang's eyes, however, lights up when he sees the wand. He very carefully picks it up.
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Now
Kang creeps in closer, hoping to hear better what is being discussed. Or even better, to peek in.
stealth, level bump:1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 6 + 1 = 19
I'm not very sure which room that is, so please move me there? Thanks!
Kang slips into the room, where the whispers grow louder. They seem to be whispering about wanting to rest, wanting to end their suffering. Spectral shapes hover at the edge of his vision: men and women trapped in terrifying undead bodies, only seeking release!
Indigo realizes this is indeed the first stirrings of a haunt, probably restless spirits of the undead if the rumors you heard were true. He offers a blessing and the spirits quiet, seeming to accept the benediction.
Haunt conquered!
The rest of the house seems quiet, but your mission is to spend the night there. Where would you like to set up camp?
Male Dwarf Fighter 01 | HP 23/23 | AC 18 (20) | Fort +8 Ref +6 Will +5 | Perc +7 | Athletics +8 | Speed 20' | Melee +10/+5/+0 (1d8+5) | Ranged +6 (1d8) | Hero Points 01 | Conditions -
Barin studies the hallway and the stairs leading to the upper floor then he seeks out the place that could be most easily fortified in case the party is attacked.
Barin, Molly and Zac hear a shuffling sound, from at least two people and one heavier footfall around midnight. It's coming from the direction of the front door.
Male NG Ancient Blood Dwarf Artist Champion 1 | HP 32/22(32)| AC 17 (+1) | F: +7, R: +3, W: +6 (+1) | Perc: +4 (+1) | Speed 20ft| Focus Pool: 1/1 | Hero points: 1/3 | Active conditions: Wounded 1.
Although not a really trained too much, Indigo will slowly tend to Barin and apply his "Lay On hands" though out the evening to bring him back to better health. Once that is done, Indigo agrees with Anji "This will do fine. We are large enough that a simple watch of pairs should be fine. I am used to broken sleep so I can take the mid as needed"
Male Dwarf Fighter 01 | HP 23/23 | AC 18 (20) | Fort +8 Ref +6 Will +5 | Perc +7 | Athletics +8 | Speed 20' | Melee +10/+5/+0 (1d8+5) | Ranged +6 (1d8) | Hero Points 01 | Conditions -
Barin thanks Indigo for his help. When he hears the footsteps coming he takes his axe out of its sheat and nods and wakes the others up (if needed). "Be ready. We've got company and I don't think it's ghosts this time..."
Male Tian-Shu Human (Versatile) Wizard (Unified Magical Theory) 6 | HP 62/62 | AC 22 (23 with mystic armor) | F +12 R +14 W +13 | Perc +11 | Stealth +12 (+2 Init) | 25' | drain bonded object: 1st: 0/1 2nd: 0/1 3rd: 1/1 | Versatile Vials: 4/4 | Focus Points: 0/1 | Hero Points: 2/3 | Familiar Focus: 1/1 | Staff 3/3 | Active Conditions: Avoid Notice
Kang moves away from the entrance to let his melee teammates take front, finding some cover to hide. He draws an elixir of quicksilver mutagen and gulps down the content.
CG Snow Goblin Wizard 4| 42/42 | AC 20 | F +9 R +10 W +8 | Perc +5 | Stealth +11 Speed 25ft | Focus 1 | Spells Cant: 6/6 1st 4/4 Spells 2nd 4/4 School 1st 1/1 2nd 1/1 Bonded Object: 1/1| Conditions:
Molly calls upon her protective ward to bolster the party, and casts Enlarge on Zac.
@Zac Freelan: Enlarge:
Duration: 1 Minute
Bolstered by magical power, the target grows to size Large. Its equipment grows with it but returns to natural size if removed. The creature is clumsy 1. Its reach increases by 5 feet (or by 10 feet if it started out Tiny), and it gains a +2 status bonus to melee damage. This spell has no effect on a Large or larger creature.
@Party: Protective Ward:
5 Foot Radius emanation centered on you
Duration: Sustained up to 1 minute
You emanate a shimmering aura of protective magic. You and any allies in the area gain a +1 status bonus to AC. Each time you Sustain the Spell, the emanation's radius increases by 5ft, to a max radius of 30ft.
The reinforced door gives one, two shudders, then explodes inward as three zombies lurch toward the room One is a huge, most likely an ogre (large size) and the other two are human-sized!
Indigo slashes into the big guy with a hacking strike! His first strike hits and seems to encounter a stone wall, as the guy seems a lot more solid than most zombies!
The red smaller zombie shuffle around to the southern door and begin clawing at it!
The big guy grabs the smaller green zombie and hurls it at Zac! Zombie throw!:1d20 + 11 ⇒ (1) + 11 = 12 for 2d6 + 9 ⇒ (5, 3) + 9 = 17 bludgeoning damage! It misses and lands prone next to Zac!
The big guys tries to hit Molly! Hunk of Meat vs Molly, 15' reach:1d20 + 11 - 5 ⇒ (20) + 11 - 5 = 26 for 4d10 + 18 ⇒ (3, 10, 4, 6) + 18 = 41 bludgeoning damage!
But Indigo's Glimpse of Redemption gives the monster pause! It misses!
