!!Lost Mine of Phandelver Campaign Thread!!

Lyngheid flexes her muscles, " Anyone want to give me a hand with them big doors?"

Ireniana nods and approaches the door. "Let's do this." 

You are talking about the doors in the cliff side near the 4C barn?

If so, you can see that these are thick iron doors, 20 feet tall.  There's a door latch 9 feet off the ground.  How do you reach it?

If Ireniana activates her Giant's Might and grows large, she can reach it.  Make a Strength Check at advantage() due to your Giant's Might.  Lyngheid also make a Strength check.

What is everyone else doing and where are you at if Lyngheid and Ireniana are by the double doors near 4C and Umbriel is at the shoreline behind 3?

Baeshra would see the others come over and wave them off, "Let them come to us, we can ambush them when they come out."

Lyngheid looks at Baeshra.

" You think its likely they'll come out to see why the shaft stopped turning?  Should we prepare some traps, fortifications and deadfalls?"

Whistler flexes his muscles, eager to fight with his new flaming sword.

Irenaina will activate her Giant's Might and grow large. 

Strength Check - 22

Ireniana can easily reach the handle now, and she gives a mighty heave.  The twenty-foot-tall iron doors swing open to reveal a rough-hewn passageway about 40 feet long that is blocked by an iron portcullis at the end. 

Peaking through the portcullis you can see a cold, dark vast chamber with a 50-foot-high ceiling and an 80 foot diameter hole in the middle of the floor.  An iron rig is bolted to the pits circular rim.  Suspended from this rig by iron chains is a 60-foot-diameter, cricular platfrom made from wood beams.  The sound of rushing water comes from the river and a small passageway where the waterwheel shaft enters the room and connects to the iron rigging, although it is now still.

OK, we've got Lyngheid, Ireniana and Whistler by the portculis leading to area 9 from 4C.  Nyx, Umbriel and Baeshra are behind the #3 hut from where Umbriel blasted the water wheel.

It's been about 10 minutes since the water wheel stopped turning.

OCC: Are the stairs at No.1 the way we walked up here and are the parapets a full size wall? Can we get on top of them and have cover?

Also does the bridge at No.2 look like it would support the weight of a giant or do i think they would just jump across the gap?

Insight? 19

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OCC: Are the stairs at No.1 the way we walked up here and are the parapets a full size wall? Can we get on top of them and have cover?

Also does the bridge at No.2 look like it would support the weight of a giant or do i think they would just jump across the gap?

Insight? 19

 Yes, the stairs at No. 1 are the top of the 12,000 steps that lead down to the valley floor.

The parapets are a wall surrounding the village.  They are 20 feet high, made of mortared stone.  You can try to climb them with an Athletics check.  Once you are on top they are 5 feet wide to walk around on, but flat, no cover.

The old wooden bridge would have supported a fire giant, but it rotted away.  The new, smaller bridge at #2 is still quite sturdy, as the Yakfolk are large creatures.  If you had to guess it would probably support a giant, but it would move around quite a bit under a giant's weight.  Each square is 20 feet, no sane giant would try to jump across the gap.

"Hey... those giants are going to need to cross that bridge to make it outside to the water wheel. I think we should damage it a little so if one steps on it, it will collapse"

Baeshra sees Ireniana heading towards the gate and looks to the others, "Are we going in or waiting to ambush?"

It's been 11 minutes since the water wheel stopped turning!

" If someone has fire they can go set the bridge alight."

Whistler mimics the sound of roaring fire as his sword lights up.

Umbriel gently steers Nyx toward the bridge as he draws his dagger. "Let's cut a few of the supports almost all the way through, so that it's safe for folk our size, less so for giants. If we need to, we can retreat across the bridge."

OK, Umbriel, make a Dexterity check and add you proficiency bonus to see how well you get the ropes cut.  At Advantage() with Nyx's help.

And an Intelligence check at Advantage().

Dex check with Nyx's help: 9

Intelligence check: 19

Alright!  Umbriel with Nyx's help very deftly cuts just the right amount of rope that he thinks will support their weight.

It's now been 19 minutes since the water wheel stopped turning. 

Whistler, Umbriel, Nyx and Baeshra have just finished cutting the last of the ropes on the west side of #2 bridge.  With Umbriel barely talking Nyx and Whistler out of setting the whole thing on fire.

Lyngheid and Ireniana are about 380 feet away on the 4C side of the closed Portculis leading in to Area 9.

What's the plan now?

Baeshra moves over to the main door and tries to listen for any hint of things moving within.

perception: 18