MTG: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms

Wen immediately goes up toward the 'expensive looking discs' ready to dodge lightning if she needs to she will quickly inspect them for traps, making sure they won't be damaged if she removes them

Investigation: 17

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"Uh oh!"' she begins to try and find a way to douse what flames she is can, maybe pull unburned books to a corner or into a nearby hall

 It's a whole library there are MANY books

The fire is spreading more rapidly.  It's moving from one bookcase to another dozens of feet away. Three bookcases are now alight

So, is Wen trying to climb the rope to get to the far side of the pit on the Second floor or trying to save books in the library?  

I was just taking it for granted earlier that the rope could get you guys across to the other side.  Wen had a pjton in hand after all, so I'm saying those were used to anchor a rope, but it doesn't go quite all the way across.  Using mage hand / TK seemed cool so I wanted it to work and let me inform you about the stele in that room, somehow.  I'd prefer if people can still explore the upper rooms, so despite there being a big chunk of hallway floor missing, you can get over the gap with the rope.  Just make an athletics check DC 8 and you're on the far side if you want to be.  I'm sure more than one PC brought a rope, so one can be thrown down for vertical movement as well.  At this point there should be some urgency, since the place you're exploring is now on fire and still full of active lightning traps

<Anyone who goes in there not wearing a medallion of protection takes a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw takes 49 lightning damage, or half as much damage with a successful save.  I admit I losing track of who has one of these things, since it's nearly half the party. I don't think this is any kind of spoiler either. You've seen two of these things in action by now.>

Edit: That can't be right. Let's fix lightning damage 21

(ooc: just wanted to be clear.  If we do the athletics check does that mean we scurried across the gap on a rope if we find a way to connect the ropes?  or is there still some hallways that we can walk across but we need to run in order to make it? or does that mean it allowed us to climb up and down ropes vertically but we still need to run across this library?

lol yea its confusing who has medallions.  I just checked and if i'm correct i think Wen, Vrah, and Calner have medallions. 

also thanks for reducing that damage, I was gonna say I'm probably gonna need a short rest if we have to deal with 50 damage xP)

<It's 4d10, it was a typo.  The ropes can take you anywhere you want with a single DC 8 check. It's not meant to be difficult.  The stele are a challenge, though- that's why I say the doorways are offset so your not a sitting duck for a lightning strike as you hang from a rope. Rather you can climb, then do whatever you want to try and bypass the stele and explore rooms beyond.

To (hopefully) clarify, there is 1 explored room and 3 unexplored rooms (including the one with the discs) on floor 2.

The 3 are on the West (far) side of the hole in the floor, relative to the stairs by which the group descended.

Floor 3 (below) has so far only revealed a library, currently catching fire.>

Angus will ensure that the vertical rope leading down to the third level is properly anchored and secured. Then he will climb down to see if he can do anything to save books or extinguish flames. (Can he push the burning bookcases over away from the others? Like domino-topple them toward the far wall and create separation from the nonburning ones?) If that's unsuccessful, he will try to determine the original source of the fire.

Athletics: 6

<He can knock them over, but that seems like it would spread the fire faster,  to me.>

The fire seems to be spreading with supernatural speed, jumping between objects that are nowhere near one another.  A tow of books. Then a distant bookcase then an old tapestry hung on the wall

Angus mutters, "Could there be some invisible wizard in this room causing this conflagration? Show yourself, coward!"

Wen is down in the flaming library, so whatever she can save there. If there is a built in easy to extinguish the fire she will look for it. But if it looks hopeless she'll head back out

(The unnatural patterns make me think fire elemental, but I don't think when has experienced one before)

So... fire's gonna fire, then?

(I mean, unless there's water or something like sand or blankets, I don't think Weneon can do anything, but she's not going to stop trying until it looks dire)

When Sir Angus demands for the assistance of someone who can Create or Destroy Water, Marlyth finds her lack of preparation quite deplorable. Although she doesn't seem plagued by the blazing fire that has been attempting to consume rows of books, she is perplexed at it's intensity as well as it's capability to harm her companions.

The tiefling woman will attempt to climb down using the rope. If she's successful in the task, she will appreciate the quick-witted decision of Calner. Finally, she will assist him to extinguish the fire by casting Druidcraft on the third bookshelf. The magical effect takes the form of a tiny Naiad in order to snuff out the fire of a small place that can be compared to the campfire of 5 feet cube. When she does so, she will attempt to remember any kind of magical lore or tradition that can trigger fire.

Strength (Athletics): 20

Intelligence (Arcana): 7

[OOC: Sorry for my absence the past couple of days. was down in San Diego for a Soccer Tournament that ended up eating up all of Sunday afternoon/evening and then all of Monday with an 8 hour drive Monday afternoon/evening. I am just now catching up with all my PbP games after work and a few appointments. Back to my normalish posting schedule.]

Vrah surveys the hectic pace of every0one as they cross the floor gap and the fire. Then he closes his eyes and concentrates on th emagic flowing inside of him, his eyes flare red as he opens then looking for any source of magic within his sight.

 Athletics: 17

 Depending on what his ability shows, he will leap over the gap and try and find a way to stop the magic from happening or he will just move to the bookshleves and try and tear move the whole bookcases that are on fire and toss them all into one corner. finally he will pull his bedroll out of his backpack and try and smother the flames to put them out, trying to save as many books as he can.

Sadly, Tabaqui does not have any magical means to fight fires.  He will climb down, and attempt to investigate what might be causing the blazes to spring up, trying to locate a source or cause. He will actively search for any hidden or invisible creatures.  He will assist with efforts to stifle the blazes with bedrolls. 

Investigate: 11

Perception: 7

(ooc wow terrible rolls)

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(Wile_E_Coyote, did post #140 have any success? Need to know before possibly proceeding with other actions.)

 (OOC: Firefighting Force Assembled!!!)

Calner will attempt to smother fires with Mold Earth while creating a barrier between burned and unburned books.

Safeguard will use the Telekinetic Feat to assist in creating a barrier between burned and unburned books while also creating smaller pockets of fires to assist Marlyth

Marlyth will use Druidcraft to put out the smaller pockets of fires.

Angus, Vrah, Tabaqui, and Weneon are on Search and Rescue/Destroy for valuable objects or the source of the fire

(OOC: We will be a force to be reckoned with!!!... that doesn't use water xP)

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(ooc: noticed your post was around the same time as mine, so you may of missed post #140)

< I did.  It was the last post on that page and I didn't go back.  Sorry.>

The heaps of dirt so extinguish some flames, but the fire is spreading fast, like someone racing around the room with a lit torch, but you see no one there.

The Naiad is surprisingly successful in its efforts. Areas it snuffs out are not attacked again.  Sadly whatever magic is at work setting the blaze, she cannot ascertain.

<InkedBee, take an inspiration die>

<thanks to Plucky54 for summarizing the events unfolding>

Vrah sees... (gotta look up some schools)

Vrah, armed with a medallion of protection sees quite a bit. 3 new rooms, in fact.

In the south chamber:

Various hooks and pegs suggest this large room once
housed tapestries and other finery. The floor is etched
with geometric shapes, but the stones of the floor look
sunken and loose. Deep cracks in the floor have broken
whole stones apart.
On the southern wall hang three evenly spaced golden
discs, shaped like serving plates and studded with red
gems. Beneath them stands a stout stele marked with a
bright blue glyph.

The lab chamber

Stray stones and dirt have been scattered across the
floor by seismic activity or some other serious dam-
age. Heavy-duty wooden tables and empty wooden
bookcases still stand here, but the stones beneath
them look shaken, cracked, and uneven. The air smells
like raw clay.  Two unfinished steles already bare the blue Sigil.

Common catacomb

The passage here is rough stone, a gravel floor, and
glimpses of white cloth—and yellowed bone. It’s a cat-
acomb, without much fanfare or adornment. A human
skull stares at you from a nearby shelf.

All the steles are laced with conjugation magic, while the blue sigils they bear are of the abjuration school.  The one that hit the wolves is no longer magical.

Also, in the common catacombs lays unconscious, barely breathing, a man in red robes, his brow beaded with sweat that drips across his hairless pate.

Vrah finishes scanning the room, "Someone target these sigils with a dispel magic, that might stop the fire!" He yells out pointing to the two remaining sigils with magic in them. "Also it seems we have a Red Wizard passed out maybe, over there in the catacombs. I will go and make sure he is no longer a threat." Grinning wickedly, "I will try, maybe, to keep him alive for those of you who might wan to question him."

Vrah will then make his way over to the downed wizard and make sure he stays out, raising his greatsword above his head and bringing it down upon the wizards head, at the last moment reigning in his attack and twisting the sword so the flat of the blade connects with the wizards head, making sure the creature stays knocked out.

Greatsword: Attack: 13 Damage: 11

Marlyth seems bewildered when Vrah the Bugbear has been yelling at the rescue team, then she replies:

"I don't see any Sigil here, where did you see these things? If I manage to climb up, I might need to examine these enchanted Sigils that you mentioned earlier."

The tiefling woman casts Thaumaturgy in order to cause the flames to flicker and dim when the tiny Naiad from the previous spell effect explodes into a dust of magical blue flames to reduce the intensity of the fire.

Finally, she'll suggest the party to leave the burning place and climb up using the ropes.

Strength: Athletics 18

Vrah shakes his head with annoyance at himself, "Right, you can't see them, target the steles as the sigils are written on top of them."