Tests and Trials Game Thread

"Yes, lead us to the drow first, then we'd like to see the storage dep... storage place."

The golem doesn't move but after half a minute another golem comes up the stairs and starts walking, pausing only if you don't follow it.

It takes you right to the SE quadrant and to a room with a door, much like those you saw in the floor below. A trio of golems stand unmoving outside the door.

The golem that led you points at the door and says,

"The Drow is in there."

"If he shoots me, wake me up."

Kroshav will jiggle the handle, opening the latch if it's not locked, before shoving his shield arm and shoulder against the door.

((Athletics please!))

Athletics: 24

If a golem could look surprised, well none of the three golems standing by the door change expression at all - stone seemingly providing an excellent poker face.

The Drow huddle in the corner behind a bed, he looks surprised. Not so surprised he doesn't take a shot at the dragonborn bursting through the door, but definitely surprised.

Attack: 17 Damage: 5

((Con save on hit please))

Kroshav has barely stumbled to a halt when the four golems storm in behind him to swarm the screaming, kicking Drow. It only takes a moment until the man's arms and legs are pinned under a golem.

CON: 15

Kroshav gets woozy and drops shortly after entering the room.

Jaq moves in behind Kroshav and grabs the shoulders of the paladin and shakes him until he awakens.  

"Good job?  Yeah.  Good job.  The door got opened easily and the Golems took the drow with out any problems."

To the drow he states in Elven,  "Tell me where you have our items that you took when we were captured.  If we get all items back we'll let the Librarian know you told us that at least."

((Failed, but not enough for sleepy time!))

Kroshav looks down at the dart sticking out of his bicep and feels the familiar wave of lethargy wash over him but before he can drop Jaq gives him a shake. The wave of tiredness passes quickly and instead he feels queasy. Like if he moves to quick or jumps up and down he is going to puke...and a sudden gut cramp hints at maybe something worse. Sword tells him,

 ((Kroshav is poisoned for 1 hour))

The pinned Drow struggles a bit more before relaxing, then trying to struggle again. Panting he responds,

"You're the new people? The ones that walked into the spiders? All your stuff is probably down in the junk room, maybe weapons and armor got tossed in the armory! The Captain would have gotten your money, maybe one of the mages took some? Anything magic they'd have taken."

He manages to briefly get a leg loose before being re-captured.

"I was out on a patrol and when I came back you were already locked up. Next day I came back and you had gotten loose. Just tell the snake to let me go!"

Cladmir followed the others into the room, slightly awed at Kroshav's seemingly casual approach to tackling potentially danger situation*.  He had no idea what Jaq and the Drow were saying though so he resolved to just stand there expressionless, but did nothing to conceal the hate burning in his eyes.

*Before Cladmir would have thought someone like Kroshav to be foolish moron because that is how young and unexperienced soldiers tend to die -- with their hand in the clouds and their body in the dirt.  But because of circumstances Kroshav has somehow transcended that view.

Kroshav presses a hand to his bicep and says a brief prayer under his breath, and when he finishes, he stands up straight and takes a deep breath, rolling his head side to side to crack his neck. His eyes look alert and un-poisoned.

<Hush, Sword. He's the Librarian's to deal with now.>

"Let me know when he stops being useful.", Kroshav says to Jaq as he rifles through the drow's things and extracts a poisoned bolt.

((Lay on Hands to purge poison, when Jaq's done with questions, Kroshav is going to send the drow to sleepy time with his own bolt if there are no objections, so the golems can take him wherever they want.))

Jaq has a few more questions.  "Before I tell the librarian anything, answer a few more, truthfully."   Then he switches to common so the others can understand.  "First, give us directions to what you call the junk room.  And the Armory."   He lets him answer then asks, "How many Driders are in this complex?"

The Drow just stares in confusion at Jaq before replying in Elven,

"What? What do you want me to answer? Was that human or? I don't speak human, I don't know what to answer..."

((Presuming Jaq goes back to Elven,))

The Drow gives directions to the fifth floor and the room full of gear (which you've been in) and the room full of weapons (where Joe lit everything on fire). To the last question he says,

"Drider? Just Xeranthas."

He looks up tiredly, no longer struggling.

Lurn can relay everything said in Elvish to the rest, while Jaq handles the interrogation.

"Any one else have any questions? " he says to the party in common.  "I do think he is actually telling the truth.  He did give the correct answers about the rooms, but we've already checked them."    He shrugs.   

"If no one else has questions, then Kroshav, do your thing."

*poke*

"Hey! No, this isn't-! Stop!"

It takes a few pokes (probably) but the Drow does go to the land of nod.

"All yours.", Kroshav says to the golems, standing up and brushing off his knees. 

"Jaq, you ready to lead on to the other rooms?"

Cladmir watched the event unfold with interest.  Normal in the course of battles the important enemies or even entire organized companies are usually captured and held ransom while the "less valuables" are sold as slave or, if the battles were particularly brutal, summarily executed.  Being poisoned by one own's weapon before being handed off to a snake-librarian in some underground cave is quite unsettling to say the least, although based on recent events he hoped the Drow will ultimately get what he deserved in the end.