Atlas, being in a not so vigilant position and somewhat afraid of entering a small room with an enemy, will remain where he is and ready his next arrow. If the target manages to make it out of the room before he, he'll have a surprise waiting for him.
ROSEBUD moves into the room and hits the RAGGEDY MAN with a Magic Stone.
ATLAS readies an arrow.
REYA waits to see what KHESSA does.
ELIAS tries to use a Mage Hand to pick up the torch and take it to alight the last RAGGEDY MAN’s clothes.
KHESSA moves to attack the last RAGGEDY MAN.She sees beyond a chamber that has partially collapsed around an open stone sarcophagus filled with dust and humanoid bones. She does not see anyone else in the chamber.
She then slashes the injured enemy with her greatly improving Greataxe. The mighty blow was enough to kill this last RAGGEDY MAN.
VICTORY!
(Map updated!)
(Since Khessa’s actions would end the encounter, I did not act on Elias’ attempt to use the torch with the Mage Hand. According to the spell, you can’t attack with the Mage Hand. And this would have been like an attack. Though what Elias was attempting was something a little different and a little outside the rules as written. This is where a DM’s fiat comes into play. Had Khessa missed, I would have asked you to make an Arcane check to see if you were able to manipulate the torch to your desires.)
"Well done, my friends!" the aggressive 'buxom blonde barrier' smiles, turning to the party with a smile that contrasts sharply with the massive blade of her weapon dripping with fresh blood "We're definitely picking up the pace with our cleanup!"
Khessa then looks down from her position at the room defended by this 'rag-fashion coterie': a chamber that has partially collapsed around... with just an open stone sarcophagus filled with dust and humanoid bones. "So Myrkul's door only leads to this dead end?" she wonders "And these four exalted only defended a sarcophagus with humanoid bones? Perhaps they dedicated it to their god..."
"I would like to destroy those bones - so that no one will ever be tempted to worship this evil deity and commit misdeeds in his name again" the tall adventuress declares, taking up a position on the ladder from which she can hit the bones with her magic fire. "But let's be careful, it wouldn't surprise me at all if an undead rose to take revenge".
The blonde arcane warrior waits a few moments, so as to give everyone a chance to speak (if someone has an objection, for example) or to make preparations of some kind. After that, she begins to fire motes of fire into the sarcophagus, so as to burn the bones and disperse the dust.
Khessa stops as the magical fire was already forming around her hand: "You're right, there might be something useful".
The enchanted flames disappear as quickly as they appeared, while the blonde arcane warrior points out: "Now I'll see what I can find... but those who have more experience than me with this sort of thing feel free to also try their hand at it".
The tall adventuress, after receiving supernatural inspiration from brother Raynoir, approaches the sarcophagus and begins searching through the bones...
RAYNOIR: Brother Ray is keen to know if there is anything of use for him as a cleric?
[[ OOC: No, this loot seems to be a bit unbalanced... Spellbooks are useful only to wizards. But after we have copied all the spells, we can sell them and divide the money ]]
"Yes, Elias! Look!"Khessa is no less delighted than the young mage, discovering the precious treasure of arcane knowledge - and runs at his side, coming so close that he can hear her breathing quicken with excitement, and showing him in detail the familiar magical runes of the alphabet of arcane magic. "Some of these spells are so powerful that, despite all the progress I've made thanks to you, I can't even understand them enough to copy them and add them to my repertoire!"
"I suggest that, for the time being, you and I keep them in safekeeping..." the blonde arcane warrior holds out two of the tomes [[ OOC: Spellbook 1 and Spellbook 3 ]] to Elias, while putting the third [[ OOC: Spellbook 2 ]] in her backpack "As soon as we have time, we'll study them together! And as soon as we've been able to copy all the spells (or at least all the spells we want to copy) we'll sell the spellbooks and split the proceeds among the whole group".
"I am puzzled, to discover so much magical knowledge in the Rag-Fashion Council..." the tall adventuress is however perplexed "They had supernatural powers, sure... Those deadly energy beams they kept trying to hit me with must not have been anything pleasant... but they did not use any of the spells contained in these spellbooks. It is as if they kept them, but without really knowing how to exploit the knowledge contained therein. Strange".
Khessa is nevertheless incredibly excited by the discovery, so she shrugs, momentarily leaves aside her unanswered questions, and resumes her initial project of destroying the bones and the sarcophagus with magic fire, in the hope of preventing the future settlement of new exalted assassins.
"When you read them, please let me know if there are any good recipes for sheppard's pie. One can live on roots and berries alone, particularly if there is honey, but a good pie can go a long way." Most of Rosebud'scaloric consumption was via alcohol but apparently she was partial to savory pies. Who knew! Being illiterate, she quickly loses interest in the books and turns her eyes to the hallways behind them and in their future.
Elias's hand brushes against Khessa's as he takes the books, his blushes somewhat, yea yea yes, we'll rest together and review them, I mean we'll sleep to get, oh dear, after. We. Get. Out of here. And rest, we'll study them together. Now extremely embarrassed, he'll place the spellbooks in one of his sacks and with a length of cord secure it as to wear the sack like a satchel. our second real test friends, I think we're improving.
Well... considering that Bhaal's door is the one the party came from (which still gives Khessa pause) and that Myrkul's door seems to have been fully explored, the blonde arcane warrior leads the party to Bane's door.
She tries to eavesdrop, then, unless she hears particularly suspicious noises, she opens (if beyond the door there is a simple corridor, she obviously starts following it).
RAYNOIR,Brother Ray watches as everyone is eavesdropping?? (an interesting concept for a Dragonborn) and discussion over recipes sounds very delightful "Shepherds Pie??" my my this group are full of surprises!
Perception with guidance | 18 | 3 | and will attempt too to 'eavesdrop' :-)
Khessa's Greataxe Attack : 12 Damage: 4 (slashing)
Atlas, being in a not so vigilant position and somewhat afraid of entering a small room with an enemy, will remain where he is and ready his next arrow. If the target manages to make it out of the room before he, he'll have a surprise waiting for him.
ROSEBUD 23 ATLAS 19 REYA 19 ELIAS 13 KHESSA 12 RAGMEN 7 RAYNOIR 6
ROUND TWO
ROSEBUD moves into the room and hits the RAGGEDY MAN with a Magic Stone.
ATLAS readies an arrow.
REYA waits to see what KHESSA does.
ELIAS tries to use a Mage Hand to pick up the torch and take it to alight the last RAGGEDY MAN’s clothes.
KHESSA moves to attack the last RAGGEDY MAN. She sees beyond a chamber that has partially collapsed around an open stone sarcophagus filled with dust and humanoid bones. She does not see anyone else in the chamber.
She then slashes the injured enemy with her greatly improving Greataxe. The mighty blow was enough to kill this last RAGGEDY MAN.
VICTORY!
(Map updated!)
(Since Khessa’s actions would end the encounter, I did not act on Elias’ attempt to use the torch with the Mage Hand. According to the spell, you can’t attack with the Mage Hand. And this would have been like an attack. Though what Elias was attempting was something a little different and a little outside the rules as written. This is where a DM’s fiat comes into play. Had Khessa missed, I would have asked you to make an Arcane check to see if you were able to manipulate the torch to your desires.)
"Well done, my friends!" the aggressive 'buxom blonde barrier' smiles, turning to the party with a smile that contrasts sharply with the massive blade of her weapon dripping with fresh blood "We're definitely picking up the pace with our cleanup!"
Khessa then looks down from her position at the room defended by this 'rag-fashion coterie': a chamber that has partially collapsed around... with just an open stone sarcophagus filled with dust and humanoid bones. "So Myrkul's door only leads to this dead end?" she wonders "And these four exalted only defended a sarcophagus with humanoid bones? Perhaps they dedicated it to their god..."
"I would like to destroy those bones - so that no one will ever be tempted to worship this evil deity and commit misdeeds in his name again" the tall adventuress declares, taking up a position on the ladder from which she can hit the bones with her magic fire. "But let's be careful, it wouldn't surprise me at all if an undead rose to take revenge".
The blonde arcane warrior waits a few moments, so as to give everyone a chance to speak (if someone has an objection, for example) or to make preparations of some kind. After that, she begins to fire motes of fire into the sarcophagus, so as to burn the bones and disperse the dust.
REYA will say, "Shouldn't we search it before we destroy it? However, I am not very good at such task."
“Search it first. Do what you want with the rest of it. Dead things are a part of life but i choose to help the living.”
Khessa stops as the magical fire was already forming around her hand: "You're right, there might be something useful".
The enchanted flames disappear as quickly as they appeared, while the blonde arcane warrior points out: "Now I'll see what I can find... but those who have more experience than me with this sort of thing feel free to also try their hand at it".
The tall adventuress, after receiving supernatural inspiration from brother Raynoir, approaches the sarcophagus and begins searching through the bones...
Khessa's 'Guided' Perception: 21
Atlas will search the sarcophagus with Khessa, first making sure it is not trapped.
Guided Investigation: 22
ATLAS checks and does not find any traps. Then he and KHESSA find hidden beneath the dust and humanoid bones in the sarcophagus three spellbooks.
Spellbook 1 is bound in red leather and contains the following spells: burning hands, detect magic, disguise self, fog cloud, ray of sickness, silent image.
Spellbook 2 has the personal rune of its previous owner burned into its umber cover. This book contains the following spells: charm person, find familiar, identify, magic missile, sleep.
Spellbook 3 is bound in scaly black reptile hide and contains the following spells: cloud of daggers, darkvision, detect magic, feather fall, mage armor, magic missile, Tasha’s hideous laughter.
(OOC - It would have been a waste to burn them up.)
RAYNOIR: Brother Ray is keen to know if there is anything of use for him as a cleric?
Elias eyes wide, spell books?
[[ OOC: Lol! Indeed! Good for Khessa she has wiser fellow adventurers to advise her! ]]
[[ OOC: No, this loot seems to be a bit unbalanced... Spellbooks are useful only to wizards. But after we have copied all the spells, we can sell them and divide the money ]]
"Yes, Elias! Look!" Khessa is no less delighted than the young mage, discovering the precious treasure of arcane knowledge - and runs at his side, coming so close that he can hear her breathing quicken with excitement, and showing him in detail the familiar magical runes of the alphabet of arcane magic. "Some of these spells are so powerful that, despite all the progress I've made thanks to you, I can't even understand them enough to copy them and add them to my repertoire!"
"I suggest that, for the time being, you and I keep them in safekeeping..." the blonde arcane warrior holds out two of the tomes [[ OOC: Spellbook 1 and Spellbook 3 ]] to Elias, while putting the third [[ OOC: Spellbook 2 ]] in her backpack "As soon as we have time, we'll study them together! And as soon as we've been able to copy all the spells (or at least all the spells we want to copy) we'll sell the spellbooks and split the proceeds among the whole group".
"I am puzzled, to discover so much magical knowledge in the Rag-Fashion Council..." the tall adventuress is however perplexed "They had supernatural powers, sure... Those deadly energy beams they kept trying to hit me with must not have been anything pleasant... but they did not use any of the spells contained in these spellbooks. It is as if they kept them, but without really knowing how to exploit the knowledge contained therein. Strange".
Khessa is nevertheless incredibly excited by the discovery, so she shrugs, momentarily leaves aside her unanswered questions, and resumes her initial project of destroying the bones and the sarcophagus with magic fire, in the hope of preventing the future settlement of new exalted assassins.
"When you read them, please let me know if there are any good recipes for sheppard's pie. One can live on roots and berries alone, particularly if there is honey, but a good pie can go a long way." Most of Rosebud's caloric consumption was via alcohol but apparently she was partial to savory pies. Who knew! Being illiterate, she quickly loses interest in the books and turns her eyes to the hallways behind them and in their future.
(OOC: is there a familiar active?)
Elias's hand brushes against Khessa's as he takes the books, his blushes somewhat, yea yea yes, we'll rest together and review them, I mean we'll sleep to get, oh dear, after. We. Get. Out of here. And rest, we'll study them together. Now extremely embarrassed, he'll place the spellbooks in one of his sacks and with a length of cord secure it as to wear the sack like a satchel. our second real test friends, I think we're improving.
KHESSA burns up the bones and not the books.
REYA looks at ROSEBUD and makes a "Yummy" sound at the mention of Shepherd's Pie.
(Where does the party go next?)
Well... considering that Bhaal's door is the one the party came from (which still gives Khessa pause) and that Myrkul's door seems to have been fully explored, the blonde arcane warrior leads the party to Bane's door.
She tries to eavesdrop, then, unless she hears particularly suspicious noises, she opens (if beyond the door there is a simple corridor, she obviously starts following it).
Khessa's 'guided' Perception for eavesdropping: 16
RAYNOIR, Brother Ray watches as everyone is eavesdropping?? (an interesting concept for a Dragonborn) and discussion over recipes sounds very delightful "Shepherds Pie??" my my this group are full of surprises!
Perception with guidance | 18 | 3 | and will attempt too to 'eavesdrop' :-)
RAYNOIR and KHESSA will not hear anything on the other side of Bane's door.
KHESSA opens the door to see a hall that descend two flights to more stinky water.
(New map will be linked in the OOC thread.)