Barty's "Lost Mine of Phandelver"

"Ahhhhggg!!" Argos yells as he narrowly catches himself on the ledge, dropping his shortswords to do so. After Nemean helps him up, he thanks him. "Whew... that was close." Argos looks down into the pit, saddened by the loss of his shortswords. "Eh, I can get new ones, we don't have time to get them." He then turns to his comrades. "I don't suppose any of y'all would mind lending me one of your weapons?"

Tarok hands Argos his beloved Greatsword.

"I expect this back, so don't drop it down a pit if you can help it." he says, drawing his maul from it's holster.

"Thank you, I will do my best to keep hold of it. After we clear this place out I can go down that hole and get my swords back anyway." Argos moves into the room that Droop is in, avoiding the hole. Argos then takes a look around the room.

"Well. That was eventful. Any more of those, Droop?" Cinis says with a raised eyebrow.

OOC: The hole is 10 feet across, so Argos, Tarok and Sildar are able to jump across (a character can jump a number of feet equal to their strength score). Cinis and Nemean will have to make a Dexterity (Acrobatics) check to skirt the narrow ledges left. The Redbrand is also unable to make it across at the moment with his feet loosely bound.

With a running start, Argos leaps across the hole, his short legs just barely crossing the threshold. Reaching the doors, he sees an apparent mausoleum. 

Three large stone sarcophagi stand within this dusty crypt, and propped up against each sarcophagus is a human skeleton clad in bits of rusty mail. False columns along the walls are carved in the image of spreading oak trees. The inner side of the double doors you have entered through are sheathed in tarnished copper plate.There are two additional doors in this room, one to the north and one to the east.

Tracking:
Argos and Droop have entered the mausoleum at the end of the hall.
Cinis, Nemean, Tarok, Sildar and the Redbrand are on the opposite side of the pit trap, down the hall.

Cinis presses his back to the wall and skirts around the huge pit. 

Acrobatics: 13

Cinis skirts the edge successfully, watching a small rock fall the 20 feet to the ground below and his feet shuffle across the ledge.

"Droop does not know. D-D-Droop did not expect that, Droop promise!" The goblin says in response.

Tarok stows his Maul and picks up the tied up Redbrand and throws him across the pit toward Argos. "Better take this lug with us." he says before leaping across himself.

OOC: I'm a little unsure of the checks involved in throwing our prisoner, regular strength check?

Sorry, accidental double post.

Once the rest have made their way across, Nemean will follow. He presses against the wall and moves along the narrow ledge.

acrobatics 22

Tarok STR: 9

DM Screen:

"Whoa, hey hey no!" The Redbrand protests as Tarok casually hefts him, tossing him toward the other side of the pit, but he doesn't quite make all 10 feet. There is a thud as the Redbrand's chest meets the edge of the pit, and a shout of surprise is followed quickly by another thud at the bottom of the pit.

"Gaaah, why??" Comes the call from the Redbrand, still alive and bound at the bottom of the pit.

Tarok and Sildar easily clear the pit with a leap, and joins the others in the mausoleum.

Tracking:
The Redbrand is at the bottom of the pit, quite battered.
The others are on the other side of the pit and able to enter the mausoleum.

Tarok sighs at the Redbrand. "Why did you have to squirm while I was throwing you?" he says.

"Maybe that is a good place for him for now, we can retrieve the fool on our way out" he adds to the others.

Looking back at Tarok, Argos agrees, "Yeah we'll come get him later. He can rest down there with my shortswords."

As Argos enters the mausoleum, he jumps a bit at the sight of the skeletons, "Eh, what are skeletons just doing laying around here. Don't these people know how to keep a place clean?" Argos heads towards the northeast door, opening it if it's unlocked.

OOC: Lol I love it. Each character receives 20 XP for surviving the pit trap.

DM Screen:

The skeletons suddenly animate as Argos approaches the door, rising with swords and bows, and attack the room's intruders.

Initiative:

Shortsword Attack at Argos: 5
Shortsword Attack at Argos: 23
Shortsword Attack at Nemean: 21

Two of the skeletons surround Argos, blocking his path to the door. The dwarf ducks just underneath a stab from one that deflects the incoming stab from the skeleton behind him. The third skeleton rushes toward Nemean, and the nimble tabaxi steps aside of the incoming stab.

Droop runs to the corner, terrified.

Round 1 Order:
Skeletons
Players <=====

Tracking:

"I told you we should have just left this place. Now we've got undead on our hands!" Cinis shouts, lobbing a bolt of eldritch energy at the skeleton by Nemean.

Eldritch Blast: 24   Damage: 7

(OOC: Really? How many times have I rolled 1 damage in this campaign...)

Nemean reacts to the sudden strike by reflexively slashing with his scimitar.

Attack: 13 Damage: 9

He glares at the creature “What unholy magic is this?” He grunts and strikes again with a long sweeping cut towards the skeleton.

Attack: 18 Damage: 8

 He then briefly turns to his companions, “This cannot be the work of the Redbrands! What is this place!?”

At the sight of the undead, Argos lets out a mighty roar and swings a greatsword at the skeleton to his right. He then takes some steps back to prevent being stuck between the two skeletons.

Standard Action

Attack: 21 Greatsword: 6

Movement

Argos moves back 5 feet, away from the skeletons.

Tarok charges forth swinging his maul at the closest skeleton.

"Perhaps it is the work of Glasstaff, or maybe this place is cursed. We can figure it out when the dead aren't clawing at us." Tarok says.

Attack: 20 Damage: 10

OOC: Sorry for the delay, on vacation, timing didn't work out to resolve actions yesterday.

DM Screen:

Sildar Longsword Attack: 19
Sildar Longsword Attack: 8
Damage: 3

Nemean strategically chops two ribs out of the skeleton that rose in front of him, which crumples to the ground unmoving. Likewise, Tarok's maul crushes another skeleton's skull into fragments. Argos hacks into a skeleton's collarbone, shortly before a small fire bolt from Cinis lands within its chest. Sildar rushes in behind the fire, chopping a bone apart, but his second slash comes up short.

Skeleton Shortsword Attack at Argos: 10

The remaining skeleton stabs at Argos with its sword, but the damage done to its bones seems to have affected its momentum.

Round 2 Order:
Skeleton
Players <=====

Tracking:
Argos and Sildar are engaged in melee with the remaining skeleton.
Cinis, Nemean and Tarok are 15-25 feet away and have a sight on the skeleton for a ranged attack.

OOC: Is there space for me to melee attack the skeleton?