This isn't anything Jaq knows too much about, but he thinks a bugbear facility in the tomb is the best of ideas so far and is willing to help however he can.
The rest of the night passes in planning for a significant expansion of Lurn's tomb. In the morning the Librarian informs the party, after being yelled at and threatened by a surprised bugbear,
"The snow storm had not abated during the night and the wind has picked up slightly. The dragon will not be able to fly in this, I would guess, and any trail here will have been completely covered during the night."
She looks to those planning on heading out,
"I know where the tomb is, and will send a golem to carry Mikram there. I expect the trip will nearly deplete the golem so it will need to remain largely inert for several hours after."
Once people head out they note something the Librarian didn't mention, it is very, very cold too.
"Well, guess it makes getting to Lurn's place both harder and easier. Librarian, if your golem needs to rest, will you still be able to talk through it?"
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"With everything going on, you having a way to reach us is good... if Gethren or the dragon come knocking. Can you wake it up if you need to let us know to rush back here?"
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"There should be enough magic remaining to let you know if something is happening here, but likely not enough to run back with you."
She bobs her head in something like a shrug,
"Alternatively, if you were to carry Mikram yourselves the expenditure will be such that it should have enough magic to be able to return here. I am planning on leaving it at the tomb to keep watch, though my ability to effectively control it is diminished at that distance."
((Everyone was going to the tomb, yes? Can someone give me a couple d20 rolls please.))
Jaq will bundle up in all his warmest clothes and go along. He looks up into the snowy sky and scowls a bit. "I am thinking that I am ready for our next travel to be to a warmer place. Maybe with a hot spring."
Mikram is not keen on riding Eula and says something to the effect of,
"Aye'm not going to ride that odd lizard."
He is fine with uppsies provided by another, presumably less odd looking, lizard dragonborn.
"Don't fall on meh if ye slip."
Once up, the golem begins leading the party in a direction that they can only assume is the right one. The bugbear answers Jaq with,
"Is hot water hole over there. Where that one saw me."
She points in a direction, then stops and slowly adjusts the direction she is pointing until she says,
"Dunno where here is or hot hole is from here."
The party sets off and the bugbear trudges along beside the group, eyes constantly moving and not infrequently shifting to the white skies. She doesn't say anything during hike to the tomb, which, thanks to the snow, takes much longer to make. The entrance of the tomb would have been nearly impossible to find without the golem given it was completely under a drift (which has also filled the first five feet of the entrance).
Once the snow is cleared and the bugbear enters and inspects the space she says with disappointment,
"Being hard to know where here is makes it easier to hide. As for being small... I think the idea is to slowly make it bigger."
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Active Characters: Ernos, Tiefling Warlock in Tests and Trials | Khond Stardancer,Centaur Rogue in The Forgotten Wish | Blumeria "Bolt" Sirgula,Dragonborn Fighter/Sorcerer in Forged In Chaos
((Just going to go to work making the place bigger? With this many helpers Kroshav can probably work at near the max pace. If you do plan to start digging, roll a d100 as well @Spider.))
Cladmir will help with moving the extra rocks from the digging out front. *This* time he will try better at arranging them into something that resembles a working fortification. But Cladmir is also not above asking for input from others too.
((Cladmir can give me an... Intelligence check with advantage from asking the rest. Unless you can argue for another?))
Kroshav gets to work expanding the tomb to a...shelter? Home? Village?
Mikram gives regular input, mostly,
"Ye need to have a support pillar every 15 ft or so, 25 max. Strong stone, not the weak stuff over here."
"Gonna need an air vent. Over there by that seem."
And sometimes,
"Ye need to dig a shitter or ten for them. Deep. Good luck with that."
The work is hard, monotonous and very, very dusty. Kroshav and everyone else is covered in a thick layer of dust. Kroshav is pretty sure his sinuses have calcified.
At some point later in the day the Librarian asks through her golem,
Ernos can try using Prestidigitation to clean up the dust, otherwise keeping Create Bonfire active towards the middle of the space (after having cleared out the dust) to try to keep the area somewhat warm. He'll also periodically cast Mage Hand (since that's apparently not a concentration spell) to help haul stone.
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Active Characters: Ernos, Tiefling Warlock in Tests and Trials | Khond Stardancer,Centaur Rogue in The Forgotten Wish | Blumeria "Bolt" Sirgula,Dragonborn Fighter/Sorcerer in Forged In Chaos
This isn't anything Jaq knows too much about, but he thinks a bugbear facility in the tomb is the best of ideas so far and is willing to help however he can.
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The rest of the night passes in planning for a significant expansion of Lurn's tomb. In the morning the Librarian informs the party, after being yelled at and threatened by a surprised bugbear,
"The snow storm had not abated during the night and the wind has picked up slightly. The dragon will not be able to fly in this, I would guess, and any trail here will have been completely covered during the night."
She looks to those planning on heading out,
"I know where the tomb is, and will send a golem to carry Mikram there. I expect the trip will nearly deplete the golem so it will need to remain largely inert for several hours after."
Once people head out they note something the Librarian didn't mention, it is very, very cold too.
"Well, guess it makes getting to Lurn's place both harder and easier. Librarian, if your golem needs to rest, will you still be able to talk through it?"
DM: Forged in Chaos, Spiders of the Abyss, The Sundered Way, Champions of the Citadel
Active Characters:
Breldo, Halfling Ranger | Kathryn, Wood Elf Rogue/Ranger | Kroshav, Dragonborn Paladin | T'laren Farsiel, Wood Elf Fighter | Trill, Kenku Bard | Val "Janellae", Mark of Shadow Elf Warlock
"No. It will be inert."
"With everything going on, you having a way to reach us is good... if Gethren or the dragon come knocking. Can you wake it up if you need to let us know to rush back here?"
DM: Forged in Chaos, Spiders of the Abyss, The Sundered Way, Champions of the Citadel
Active Characters:
Breldo, Halfling Ranger | Kathryn, Wood Elf Rogue/Ranger | Kroshav, Dragonborn Paladin | T'laren Farsiel, Wood Elf Fighter | Trill, Kenku Bard | Val "Janellae", Mark of Shadow Elf Warlock
"There should be enough magic remaining to let you know if something is happening here, but likely not enough to run back with you."
She bobs her head in something like a shrug,
"Alternatively, if you were to carry Mikram yourselves the expenditure will be such that it should have enough magic to be able to return here. I am planning on leaving it at the tomb to keep watch, though my ability to effectively control it is diminished at that distance."
((Everyone was going to the tomb, yes? Can someone give me a couple d20 rolls please.))
"I can certainly carry him, or if he's open to riding on Ealu..."
DM: Forged in Chaos, Spiders of the Abyss, The Sundered Way, Champions of the Citadel
Active Characters:
Breldo, Halfling Ranger | Kathryn, Wood Elf Rogue/Ranger | Kroshav, Dragonborn Paladin | T'laren Farsiel, Wood Elf Fighter | Trill, Kenku Bard | Val "Janellae", Mark of Shadow Elf Warlock
(( Definitely follow Kroshav wherever he is going. ))
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Jaq will bundle up in all his warmest clothes and go along. He looks up into the snowy sky and scowls a bit. "I am thinking that I am ready for our next travel to be to a warmer place. Maybe with a hot spring."
Mikram is not keen on riding Eula and says something to the effect of,
"Aye'm not going to ride that odd lizard."
He is fine with uppsies provided by another, presumably less odd looking,
lizarddragonborn."Don't fall on meh if ye slip."
Once up, the golem begins leading the party in a direction that they can only assume is the right one. The bugbear answers Jaq with,
"Is hot water hole over there. Where that one saw me."
She points in a direction, then stops and slowly adjusts the direction she is pointing until she says,
"Dunno where here is or hot hole is from here."
The party sets off and the bugbear trudges along beside the group, eyes constantly moving and not infrequently shifting to the white skies. She doesn't say anything during hike to the tomb, which, thanks to the snow, takes much longer to make. The entrance of the tomb would have been nearly impossible to find without the golem given it was completely under a drift (which has also filled the first five feet of the entrance).
Once the snow is cleared and the bugbear enters and inspects the space she says with disappointment,
"Small. No fit tribe."
"Being hard to know where here is makes it easier to hide. As for being small... I think the idea is to slowly make it bigger."
Active Characters:
Ernos, Tiefling Warlock in Tests and Trials | Khond Stardancer, Centaur Rogue in The Forgotten Wish | Blumeria "Bolt" Sirgula, Dragonborn Fighter/Sorcerer in Forged In Chaos
"How many in your tribe?"
DM: Forged in Chaos, Spiders of the Abyss, The Sundered Way, Champions of the Citadel
Active Characters:
Breldo, Halfling Ranger | Kathryn, Wood Elf Rogue/Ranger | Kroshav, Dragonborn Paladin | T'laren Farsiel, Wood Elf Fighter | Trill, Kenku Bard | Val "Janellae", Mark of Shadow Elf Warlock
The bugbear nods slowly at Ernos' sage words.
"Make bigger."
To Kroshav's question she gives a shrug,
"Many. Not so many as was, but many."
((Just going to go to work making the place bigger? With this many helpers Kroshav can probably work at near the max pace. If you do plan to start digging, roll a d100 as well @Spider.))
"Many hands make light work, and all that. I can dig, if you can get your tribe here quiet like, we can work on making this big enough for them."
Kroshav straps on the claws and starts attacking the rock where Mikram directs him, with an eye to making it a defensible living space.
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DM: Forged in Chaos, Spiders of the Abyss, The Sundered Way, Champions of the Citadel
Active Characters:
Breldo, Halfling Ranger | Kathryn, Wood Elf Rogue/Ranger | Kroshav, Dragonborn Paladin | T'laren Farsiel, Wood Elf Fighter | Trill, Kenku Bard | Val "Janellae", Mark of Shadow Elf Warlock
Cladmir will help with moving the extra rocks from the digging out front. *This* time he will try better at arranging them into something that resembles a working fortification. But Cladmir is also not above asking for input from others too.
((Cladmir can give me an... Intelligence check with advantage from asking the rest. Unless you can argue for another?))
Kroshav gets to work expanding the tomb to a...shelter? Home? Village?
Mikram gives regular input, mostly,
"Ye need to have a support pillar every 15 ft or so, 25 max. Strong stone, not the weak stuff over here."
"Gonna need an air vent. Over there by that seem."
And sometimes,
"Ye need to dig a shitter or ten for them. Deep. Good luck with that."
The work is hard, monotonous and very, very dusty. Kroshav and everyone else is covered in a thick layer of dust. Kroshav is pretty sure his sinuses have calcified.
At some point later in the day the Librarian asks through her golem,
"Will you be staying the night there?"
It is still snowing but maybe letting up a bit?
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Ernos can try using Prestidigitation to clean up the dust, otherwise keeping Create Bonfire active towards the middle of the space (after having cleared out the dust) to try to keep the area somewhat warm. He'll also periodically cast Mage Hand (since that's apparently not a concentration spell) to help haul stone.
Active Characters:
Ernos, Tiefling Warlock in Tests and Trials | Khond Stardancer, Centaur Rogue in The Forgotten Wish | Blumeria "Bolt" Sirgula, Dragonborn Fighter/Sorcerer in Forged In Chaos
Kroshav is a dust making machine, but prestidigitation does help to clear up a fair portion.
There is some initial confusion as the bugbear is startled and tries to kill a flying rock passing by her, but it ends well for all involved.
With all the labor happening and bonfire, it's relatively warm in the tomb.
((Bump again if you're wanting to head back before dark or would like to push on and stay over or head back in the dark?))
(( Intelligence check with advantage sounds good to me. ))
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