Shift grins as Bronx names and then mounts the skull to his back.

"Topher the shiny skull, hah!"

Kaltent grins at 'Topher' then looks a bit worriedly at Shift as he casts his healing spell.  "Feeling better?" he asks after the spell is complete.

"You worried about me Kaltent, got feelings for me a?"

Shift gives a wicked grin and winks at Kaltent,

"Yeah I should be ok. Lets see if there's anything interesting to loot from this room, shell we?"

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"You worried about me Kaltent, got feelings for me a?"

Shift gives a wicked grin and winks at Kaltent,

"Yeah I should be ok. Lets see if there's anything interesting to loot from this room, shell we?"

 "Nah," Kaltent responds with a sly grin.  "Just don't want you slowing us down."

The group finds no notable treasure in the room. There are three exits to the room, including the way they came in. A gentle chute leads down to a room to the east and a passage opens to the south.

“Passage next?” Kaltent asks (and leads the way of the others agree)

(Everyone in the group remembers climbing down the chute last time. They vaguely recall an unopened door along the passageway to the south.)

"Sure, lets see if we can get the door open this time."

Shift gets his Thieves' Tools ready,

"If we both have a go, we should be able to get through."

Shift follows along behind Kaltent.

When they reach the door (unless something else happens in between), Kaltent gestures for Shift to go ahead and try opening it.  As he does so, he glances over the door looking for traps.

Investigation: 9

Zinn walks along behind them. He mumbles to himself quietly as the others examine the door and fidgets with his ring.

Shift bends down and takes a look at the door, looking to see how it is locked and trying to unlock it if he can.

The door appears to not be trapped and its lock is trivial to bypass. Shift swings the door open proudly and three ghasts spring out at him! (This fight will happen in the hallway, so we will go with theater of the mind again.)

Surprise round:

Ghast 1 attacks Shift.

Claws Attack: 7 Damage: 10

Ghast 1 attacks Kaltent.

Claws Attack: 7 Damage: 8

Ghast 1 attacks (1) Zinn.

Claws Attack: 8 Damage: 9

Initiative:

• • Shift: 22
  • Bronx: 13
  • Kaltent: 19
  • Zinn: 22
  • Statue: 18
  • Krennic: 11
  • Ghast: 23
  • Ghast: 10
  • Ghast: 17

   

The ghasts are clumsy as they pile out of the room at Shift, who stumbles a bit with his tools while trying to ready himself for battle.

Initiative order:

Bronx, Kaltent, and Zinn are up. Then the ghasts, then everyone else.

Bronx chants a short canticle in the black tongue of the orcs, casting Bane at first level on the three ghasts (Cha DC 14, -1d4 to all attacks and saves on a fail). His happy grin seems to curdle the very air in front of him as his eyes flare with dark power.

Shift takes a nasty gash from one of the Ghasts as he stumbles back, stashing his Thieves' Tools.

"Dam it!"

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Shift takes a nasty gash from one of the Ghouls as he stumbles back, stashing his Thieves' Tools.

"Dam it!"

Sorry, I thought it missed! Here's a CON(10) check for Shift to avoid being paralyzed: 6

oo, ouch. Shift is paralyzed for a minute or until he makes the CON check.

Zinns eyes pop as the ghosts take him by surprise. He composes himself and begins waving his hand and conjures three scorching rays. He hurls one at each of the foes.

Attack: 21 Damage: 9

Attack: 24 Damage: 8

Attack: 26 Damage: 23

The ghasts each take a hit from Zinn as Bronx's spell washes over them.

G1 CHA(14) save: 16

G2 CHA(14) save: 11

G3 CHA(14) save: 13

DM shield:

Zinn strikes the ghast that sprang at him at point blank range and provides a devastating hit (for an additional 10 points of damage.) This is enough to persuade it to change targets and all three sense Shift's weakness, springing on him with ferocious bites.

Bite Attack: 17 Damage: 8 + 9 if it is not already a critical hit.

Shift falls before he can even try to move again. So the other two move to attack Krennic instead.

Bite Attack: 21 Damage: 8 + 8 if it is not already a critical hit.

Bite Attack: 21 Damage: 14 + 10 if it is not already a critical hit.

Krennic takes a hit but does not move to retaliate (Dodge)

Everyone may go in any order!