Candlekeep Mysteries Group 2

Mav recovers from his first failure and tries again

[Rapier: 18 Damage: 12 piercing]
[Sneak Attack: 4]

Then will use his Cunning Action to disengage and move back 5 feet

TAKE A LOOK. IT'S IN A BOOK.
Mav22, LeVarBurton(20)(AC12/HP11), Archimedes19, Barbar17, Emporious15, Isa14, Orvok8, Hino4

Time to kick Hino's ass.
Take a look: 24 Damage: 10
It's in a book: 19 Damage: 14

TAKE A LOOK. IT'S IN A BOOK.
Mav22, LeVarBurton(20)(AC12/HP11), Archimedes19, Barbar17, Emporious15, Isa14, Orvok8, Hino4

Archimedes causes a distraction for Emporious.

Illiterate Hino yelps after the two successful attacks!  "Argh!  A paper cut!  IT STINGS!"

Before attacking back (Samurai Fighting Spirit)-

Nodachi Greatsword Attack: 17 Damage: 8

Bonus Action: Second Wind, healing herself for 12

The pile of animates books falls to the floor. Combat has ended. 

"I.. found.. an.. R.."  Pants Emporious as he takes some deep breaths. "Does anyone... know ...what that thing is called?" the adrenaline in his system makes his voice shake.

Mav pokes the pile of books with his sword, and starts to sift through its remains for any clues what it may have been.

Well done everyone! *cough* thing hits like a goliath. Hows everyone feeling? If only a few of us are beat up i could heal us up or we can rest here a bit and tend to any wounds, and save any magic i can do for the day. What should we do here everyone?

Hino looks quite radiant in her battlefield mode.  Kind of hot, actually.  But then she goes and ruins the mood by commenting "I toldja books are dumb, worthless, no-good-for-nothing, not worth the paper they're printed on, wastes of space!"

After a brief pause to resheath her blade, she looks down at the now deceased book monster, and kicks the pile of book wildly asunder.  "Stupid dumb books" she mumbles under her breath.

After a moment to calm and collect herself, she suddenly plasters a smile on her face, and with arms wide, she spins in a circle and addresses the room "The library is yours, gentlemen.  Enjoy wallowing in misery amongst your word friends!"  She'll then go stand by the door, guarding the room from any additional monsters who may wish to enter.

"What the heck was that?!  I've never seen anything like it before." She says, her heart still pounding with with all the 'excitement'.

Looking over at Hino "Thank you Hino and Barbar too, you are truly amazing in combat!  Are you both OK, it looked like it came after you hard."  She then turns to the rest "I think we should rest as Barbar suggests and a few of us can check through the rest of this library to see if there are any other of these 'alphabet books' around."

With that Isa will continue to search the room for any more of the puzzle books or anything else 'special' that she might find.

Investigation: 9

 Hear heart still beating hard, Isa kind of stumbles a bit heading to the back of the library trying her best to investigate after the strange meeting with LaVar Burton...

Emporious attempts to regain his composure by tugging and brushing of his vest. Archimedes has returned to his perch on Emporious' shoulder. "The choice to proceed or not really lies in the hands of the wounded. We should tend to them first. While you decide I'll just take a look in here." With that the wizard opens the door that goes from M3 into M2. He sticks his head in just far enough to look around. 

Perception:19

Other than the book with the letter R on it's spine, there's a fancy looking letter opener on the desk.

M2 - PATIO

A semicircular patio paved with gray flagstones is nestled against the building, lit by the swirling indigo miasma that surrounds the mansion.

Pretty!

Isa picks up the fancy letter opener off the desk, 'This may be valuable.' she thinks to herself.  "Not much else in here, except for this fancy letter opener that I found." she says as she shows the group the letter opener.

"Anything interesting in there Emporious?"

"Just a patio. Nothing of note that I can see. Shall we head upstairs or do those afflicted need more time?" Emporious replies.

"I think we need a bit of rest before moving on but that's really up to Hino and Barbar."

‘I can heal, if we’re pushing on for now?’ says Orvok, looking at Hino and Barbär ‘Or I can stand watch while you rest...’

My friend, ive been better, but I've been worse. Remember the troll situation we had back home? Lets go over our spell quickly and decide if we are resting or pushing on.

Barbär sidles up to Orvok and starts showing him the spells for the day and sharing old stories of the past, just for a moment still reveling in the success of battle.

Orvok chuckles at the memory. ‘It’s always fun when everything starts growing into a new troll!’ he pats his axe nostalgically.

’I think we should take the time to rest, if we can. I think our divine,’ and he nods towards Isa and Emporious, ‘and arcane, powers will be tested further before we leave this place...’

Barbär is already laying out a bedroll, if for nothing else but comfort. As everyone sits for a moment, he scrawls some things out on some of the scraps of paper left behind and tucks them away into his component pouch, and unbuckles his platemail to get a few long deep breaths in and a stretch, almost meditatively.

He stands and buckles everything back up and clears his throat.

Well time to press on then. Sorry everyone for the hold up. What door are we off to?

"I believe it's back to the foyer and upstairs."