After the crocodile died, Rime checks her hunting trap to see if she can use it again.

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Rime tries to strike the croc again.

Attack: 18 Damage: 11

 Incredible hit, kills the Croc. I'm willing to give 100 XP for the skill challenge.

Rime skewers the Crocodile through its eye and out the back of its brain

Having defeated the captured monster, you are free to explore the rest of the tower. To complete your mission, you must find clues that you can bring back to the Wardens."

Skill challenge (10 successes before 10 failures)
6x Investigation DC 8
4x Perception DC 9
2x Arcana DC 10
2x History DC 10.
1x Acrobatics DC 10
1x Animal Handling DC 10
1x Athletics DC 10
1x Insight DC 10
1x Nature DC 10
1x Medicine DC 10
1x Religion DC 10
1x Survival DC 10

Roll up to ten skill checks at a time. Each skill check has a maximum number of successes. You only need to roll again if you have failures. For every success, you will get a clue for your report.

Athletics: 7
Acrobatics: 12
Nature: 21
Investigations: 15 589
Perceptions: 14 18 17

5 success and 5 failures, 5 new rolls:

Investigations: 3 13
Perception: 2
Arcana: 8
History: 16

7 successes and 8 failures, 3 new rolls: (This is going to be tight)

Arcana: 19
History: 14
Religion: 3

9/9, 1 new roll with 50/50 chance:

Survival: 1

9 successes and 10 failures... not even with one more. What's the plan if the skill challenge has been failed?

just for the sake of it:

Animal Handling: 9

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9 successes and 10 failures... not even with one more. What's the plan if the skill challenge has been failed?

Hmmm. The plan is that you return to the Warden with enough information to continue the investigation. You may have a future drawback. Either way, you've completed round

Congratulations, you gain 300 XP and +500 gp. If you would like to roleplay your conversation with the Wardens, you can use the information you've gathered to post a scene. The Wardens will want you to track down the missing Wizard +500 gp

You can level up your character or start fresh with a new Tier 2 character, level 2 with 1500 gp

Investigation/Perception Clue: You find strange writing in an unknown language (journal)
Investigation/Perception Clue: Treasure chest with 500 gp worth of gems, platinum, gold, and silver
Investigation/Perception Clue: You find strange writing in an unknown language (journal)
Investigation/Perception Clue: You find journals written in common
Investigation/Perception Clue: You find a signature with the name Naydal
Investigation/Perception Clue: Symbol of Shebaz is etched under the table.
Arcana Clue: You have a rough idea that a Wizard was using inter-dimensional magic based on the origin of several crystals
Acrobatics: You are able to stand on the window ledge and reach around to find a hidden key tied to a nail outside of the tower
Animal Handling Clue: Found Fur from a Giant Boar, Scales from a Crocodile, Dander from a Large Wolf
Athletics Clue: You push a bookshelf away to find a hidden compartment in the stones hiding a planar fork
History Clue: Naydal the Wizard was the lone survivor from an outpost settlement massacred by Orcs.
Insight Clue: You determine a Wizard was working here using Far Realm magic to make Aberrations
Nature Clue: Multiple animals were kept in the cages leaving behind unidentified fur and dander
Medicine Clue: Inter-dimensional crystals found in the feces left in the cages
Religion Clue: Arcane writing mixed with symbols of Shebaz, a Far Realm deity of Aberrations
Survival Clue: Unusual beast tracks and claw marks all around, on cages, furniture, and even in the stone

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9 successes and 10 failures... not even with one more. What's the plan if the skill challenge has been failed?

Hmmm. The plan is that you return to the Warden with enough information to continue the investigation. You may have a future drawback. Either way, you've completed round 

Looks like I found a skill challenge for the DM! LOL

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Futher edit, just remembered he has the Guidance cantrip.

on 5+2 = 7 Failure for perception, let's add another 4

For 2+5 = 7 Failure for athletics, let's add another 3

 

 Alright. 4 turns the 7 Perception to 11 Success, freeing up one roll from there.

And 3 for the athletics make a 10 for a success there.

And then the one extra roll (since I wouldn't have rolled the last perception roll there)

Insight
17+4 = 21 SUCCESS

 

Congratulations, you gain 450 XP and +500 gp. If you would like to roleplay your conversation with the Wardens, you can use the information you've gathered to post a scene. The Wardens will want you to track down the missing Wizard +500 gp

You can level up your character or start fresh with a new Tier 2 character, level 2 with 1500 gp. I've posted new Encounters and updated the lead post on this thread.

 OOC: I think I'll keep going with Garagas for now. Kind of want to see how far he can get before he dies. (Plus that'll give me more time to think of what the next character will be. The content sharing is opening up a lot of options I'll want to look at.)

For the information I've gathered, is there a place I should look for that?

And with exploring the tower, is that going through the other T1 encounters too still? Or choose one of the T2 encounters for the next one in the tower? Probably looking at the two polar bears. Gonna want to prep the room with the jelly ochre with some traps and things before proceeding up the stairs though.

Rime uses her newfound riches to get a splint mail armor made of mithral. What a wonder of craftsmanship, she thinks to herself, all links fall easily into each other and it makes nearly no sound when she moves around. This will certainly help, when stealth is needed. Further, she buys some scrolls, waterskins,  a few daggers and javelins and another set of hunting traps. Hopefully she will be better prepared for the next quest as the wrestle match with the crocodiles was a near death experience.

(After much consideration, I think both, the scorpion and the polar bear(s), are too tough for Rime as everything is large and can easily move up the 20 feet wall... She will dance with the three tigers.)

When she entered the castle, Rime cast Armor of Agathys from a spell scroll, which will bolster her resolve (5 temporary HP) and deter attackers (5 cold damage to anyone with a successful melee hit while the temporary HP remain) for a full hour.

Climbing the vines, brings you to the top of a large inner ward about 80 feet wide and 100 feet long. You are standing on the high wall and there are stairs and ladders leading down to the inner ward 20 feet below.

Rime, with her shield and a dagger equipped, sneaks up the high wall and tries to stay low when peeking what is inside ( Stealth: 17 ).

A tiger appears in the inner ward.

( Initiative: 7 ) If unseen, she will approach to within 20 feet before acting. 

Barri returns to the wardens and relays the information and returns the clues he has found. When they offer him the chance to make more coin tracking the wizard, he accepts. He spends the night resting. In the morning, he stops by the magic shop, trading in his old axe for a warhammer and purchasing a Vicious Battleaxe and adamantine scale mail. He then journeys off, back to the keep and further into the wilds, until he comes upon an old fortress. Determined to find the wizard, he heads inside.  (Giant Scorpion, Initiative 11)

(I’ll choose my Teri 2 encounter, give me a moment.)

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After getting his reward from the Wardens, Aresus goes to the local enchanter, providing his maul to be enchanted with viciousness and his splint to be reinforced with adamantine. He also stops by an apothecary to pick up another potion of heroism and some supplies that he uses to make a potion of healing using his herbalism kit.

Once he arrives at the Old Keep, he drinks the potion of heroism and prepares to fight the polar bear (Encounter 2C) at the top of the vined wall with his initiative of 20 (19 + 1).

I'm reposting this so that it's easier to find.

I will take on the giant scorpion (action economy reasons)!

Im not gonna buy anything cause I’m saving up for a +1 weapon. 
initiative: 16

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I will take on the giant scorpion (action economy reasons)!

Im not gonna buy anything cause I’m saving up for a +1 weapon. 
initiative: 21

But you just got the 1000 for the +1 weapon if you would like one, right? 500 for the last quest and 500 more for starting this one. Including the 500 at level 1this is a 1500 total with which a new character would start at level 2. Well, that's how I understand it at least and how much gold I spent. If I'm wrong, I will need to return this new shiny mithral splint armor...

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I will take on the giant scorpion (action economy reasons)!

If you want to talk action economy, the giant scorpion is the worst option, what with it having more attacks than everybody else. Not to mention one of those attacks dealing enough damage to one-shot your character.