Tests and Trials Game Thread

((There is a door if you'd like to close it?))

((Have doors generally been closed, or open? Don't want it to stand out and cause them to investigate, but also don't want to deal with a super creaky, squealing door.))

((The doors were partially open before to most of the rooms but this room and the one Lurn is in were both closed until your party opened them, most probably due the rotting corpses. They were slightly ajar when you entered. All the doors are creaky and fit poorly, so that is also a consideration.))

((Doors open into the hall, with hinges on the hall side? Mostly closed then, such that a beefy dragonborn could run through it as part of his charge upon some unwitting drow.))

Jaq would want to close the door to the north in the room they are in.  and pull a body or two in front of it to block it partially.

And,   if the door opens out to the hallway, he will set the body so it is leaning on the door and it will fall outwards if the door is opened.

((Doors open out into the hall, hinges on the outside. Even a cursory glance would let you know these are not original doors and have been sloppily added.))

Kroshav and Cladmir close the door behind them nearly all the way, it doesn't make the room any darker.

Jaq takes a moment to drag a very ripe dwarf corpse to lean again the door. He hears a grunt of displeasure behind him and sees a rather unhappy looking duergar watching him closely from Lurn's back. Mikram doesn't say anything but Jaq gets the distinct impression he hasn't earned any points with the dwarf.

((What will be your triggers for bursting out of the room? If you are just listening for them to approach you can all give me a perception check.))

"We'll make sure they get the proper rites once the drow are dealt with, Mikram.  Though, I'm not familiar with your people's rites."

Lurn's waiting for the sound of fighting before he comes out. 22

<Sword, once they pass us, give me the word and we'll burst out and attack them.>

Mikram shifts but just gives a quiet snort.

Sword sends a warm sense of eager excitement back to Kroshav.

Perception:  12

Instead of trying to focus on what is going on in the hall Cladmir is going to focus on the Shadowy shape that is Kroshav and follow his lead when the time comes.

But while waiting he will also scan around the darkened room:  Perception 12

((Taking you off initiative for a bit here until the conditions are met. The bless spells run out, if you'd like you can retro-actively cast them again.))

Cladmir is pretty sure he stepped in corpse, but can't quite make it out. Whatever it is, it is seeping into his boot and is unpleasantly warmish.

As soon the doors close and light is nearly snuffed out things go quiet. After half a minute a short low whistle is heard from the corridor outside the door west face door. Two answering short whistles follow. Another half minute passes before Lurn can hear a muffled clicking from the south corridor and then the north. Shortly after Sword sends Kroshav,

<Spider! You want to get it?>

Lurn will hold off on recasting Bless, it can wait until we're getting into the fight, to make the best use of spell slots.

Sword says to Kroshav,

<The spider is putting its feet on the not dead drow.>

((If things weren't imminent, he'd have held off on lighting Sword up, didn't really need her lit to follow the wall down with her guidance.))

<Not dead?>

((The one Cladmir downed with a poisoned dart, Kroshav would have seen it. They are on the edge of Sword's senses.

Also, okay on the lighting up.))

<Oh, you mean the one Clad darted. Phew, that's a relief, I thought you meant zombies for moment there. I think they sent the spider on to scout, so we should wait.>

Sword narrates as the spider gets closer and closer to the door. It pauses at the door a moment, though doesn't seem interested in entering. Kroshav can hear it's feet scraping across the floor and door.

<It's just moving around out there?>

In Lurn's room he and Jaq can hear similar scraping sounds outside the north door.

Kroshav's getting antsy, at least somewhat on his own, and perhaps picking up a bit of Sword's eagerness, but he'd rather pop out and get some drow that pop out and get a spider, only to get shot up by a bunch of drow he can't see.