"Sigh, did your shrooms say how to get out of here exactly?" Kastix asks before he search the ground for signs of traffic and tryin gto see where the steps went and came from.
Survival: 23
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"Yes, we should keep going the south west path." Rhyana replies to Pax. "Unfortunately, I wasn't able to go all the way to the place where we found Droki, but I got fairly close to it. We are heading in the right way." Rhayna replies to Sekkar and Kastix. If there is nothing of interesting in this cave, she will move on.
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Kazri - Level 10 Human Paladin (Oath of the Ancients) - The Tales of the Fellowship of the White Cloaks Droknin Palemane - Level 4 Leonin Barbarian (Path of the Beast) - Where the Cold Winds Blow... A Lost Mines of Phandelver Story Faelan (Cottontail) Whisperwind - Level 3 Ranger (Fey Wanderer) - Zorg's Lost Souls II
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
Zeno stands aghast at the pit of zombies. Why are these here, he thinks to himself...then to Useless, realizing he might have some information about what these are doing here.
Perception to see if there is anything of interest in the pit, especially something shiny: 10
Rhayna, Pax, Kaylyn and Zeno can see very little peering into the pit, other than what Rhayna has seen before... zombies of various sizes and races, moving among piles of body parts. Zeno's thoughts are only overheard by Useless due to the telepathic connection from the myconids (the flumph doesn't read minds as such) but it responds to his question saying: The derro do experiments. Demonic experiments. Experiments on other creatures. Often they don't work. They discard the results. This is where those go.
Being unrestricted by the ledge, Pensive bravely flies into the pit, deftly keeping away from the slow zombies. It spots a small tunnel behind a patch of fungus by the south wall, and flies inside. The tunnel would be too small for the others (save the myconids) without the help of pygmywort, but Pensive flies easily down it for about a hundred feet. There it branches to the south and the north-east, so Pensive returns again to Kaylyn, remembering the horror of the last solo trip down such skinny tunnels.
Kastix examines the ground around the ledge and sees evidence that a derro was here recently overlooking the pit, but that it very recently ran off into the south tunnel, apparently in a great hurry...
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"Alright then. Let's head this way." Pax, pushes their prisoner forward down the south passage, holding his rope tightly as they move down the passage. She looks at the rope tied to his ankles, and wrists, and the gag to make sure they all seem intact and not messed with as she continues down the passage.
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“Weird, I thought there would be a derro here.” Wonders Rhayna. She keeps going following the passage south. She will be on the look out for an cave entrance with metal bars blocking it. She will stop the party as soon as she sights what she believes is the next cave.
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Kazri - Level 10 Human Paladin (Oath of the Ancients) - The Tales of the Fellowship of the White Cloaks Droknin Palemane - Level 4 Leonin Barbarian (Path of the Beast) - Where the Cold Winds Blow... A Lost Mines of Phandelver Story Faelan (Cottontail) Whisperwind - Level 3 Ranger (Fey Wanderer) - Zorg's Lost Souls II
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
"A derro came and ran out of here. They knows these tunnels better than us and there may be a good reason why Derro don't come in often and the one that did ran away," Kastix states as he stands up from examining the footsteps.
Kirin - Level 15 High Elf Wizard (Evocation) - Zorg's Lost Souls - Overchannel Steel Wind Strike for the Win against Demogorgon Silas - Level 11 Human Cleric (War Domain) - Tomb of Annihilation Done
Rhyana suddenly stops, and she indicates for the group to stop for a moment. "We may need to proceed with caution friends. Up ahead, there might be another cave with it's northern entrance blocked by a large gate made of iron bars. Inside that cave, I saw two Derros and there were cages as well. In each cage, I saw very big Grimlocks. I even saw one of the creatures had two heads. The Derros might be doing experiments on them as well. I exited the cave as soon as they saw me. Unfortunately they might be expecting us." Says a worried Rhayna.
She looks at Kaylyn. "I hate putting Pensive at risk, but can you ask him to scout ahead?"
Kazri - Level 10 Human Paladin (Oath of the Ancients) - The Tales of the Fellowship of the White Cloaks Droknin Palemane - Level 4 Leonin Barbarian (Path of the Beast) - Where the Cold Winds Blow... A Lost Mines of Phandelver Story Faelan (Cottontail) Whisperwind - Level 3 Ranger (Fey Wanderer) - Zorg's Lost Souls II
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
Being unrestricted by the ledge, Pensive bravely flies into the pit, deftly keeping away from the slow zombies. It spots a small tunnel behind a patch of fungus by the south wall, and flies inside. The tunnel would be too small for the others (save the myconids) without the help of pygmywort, but Pensive flies easily down it for about a hundred feet. There it branches to the south and the north-east, so Pensive returns again to Kaylyn, remembering the horror of the last solo trip down such skinny tunnels.
Is the tunnel in the pit? or just the south wall?
Pensive, trying hard to be brave and make up for his previous fear is willing to head down the tunnel to scout.
(Ops, sorry. Posted too soon. Please ignore my last post for now.)
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Kazri - Level 10 Human Paladin (Oath of the Ancients) - The Tales of the Fellowship of the White Cloaks Droknin Palemane - Level 4 Leonin Barbarian (Path of the Beast) - Where the Cold Winds Blow... A Lost Mines of Phandelver Story Faelan (Cottontail) Whisperwind - Level 3 Ranger (Fey Wanderer) - Zorg's Lost Souls II
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
The tunnel entrance is in the pit, in the south wall of the pit.
Pax checks Gorlak's bindings and concludes they are safely tied. He doesn't appear to have made any further attempts to escape, and seems instead to be waiting patiently, perhaps for another distraction like the coin-eating monster.
Kaylyn:
As the group escort the prisoner along the south passage, Pensive continues to scout the smaller tunnels. Despite their convoluted paths, Pensive has learned to travel them by flying and makes good time. The eastern tunnel bends and curves both sideways and up-and-down but seems to be heading steadily back toward the fungal forest, so Pensive decides instead to head south. Not far along, Pensive hears muffled voices and the tramp of heavy feet overhead, and concludes there must be a larger passage crossing somewhere above the smaller tunnel, but can't make out any details of who might be passing through. The tunnel continues south then gradually starts to bend toward the west.
The group reach a point in the tunnel where a solid zurkhwood door blocks the passage. Before they come close enough to open the door, it opens from the other side, and a startled derro with a crossbow stops short and stares at the group. Behind it is a two-headed grimlock that likewise stares stupidly in surprise. It only takes a moment though for the derro to scream out some babbling Dwarvish and try to push past the grimlock back through the doorway.
Rhayna:
Rhayna can't be sure, but this appears to be the derro from the ledge over the zombie pit.
Sekkar:
The derro is yelling: They're here! They're here!
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Pax shoulder Gorlak hard to the side as she rushes the Derro, her sword whispering free of its sheath.
Initiative : 13
Plan : Bonus action : tap shoes together. Action: Cast Mind Spike on the Derro. Wisdom DC 14 or 17 psychic damage. Movement max I can up to them after casting my spell.
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"Looked at this, he knows us. Or at least expected." Sekkar looked around for a safe spot for the egg, noting to himself, that it slowly becoming a habit.
Rhayna yells "Stop right there mister!!!" She casts Command on the Derro. (WIS Save 15)
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Kazri - Level 10 Human Paladin (Oath of the Ancients) - The Tales of the Fellowship of the White Cloaks Droknin Palemane - Level 4 Leonin Barbarian (Path of the Beast) - Where the Cold Winds Blow... A Lost Mines of Phandelver Story Faelan (Cottontail) Whisperwind - Level 3 Ranger (Fey Wanderer) - Zorg's Lost Souls II
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
"Let's try this out,"Kastix takes his wand and seems flick it as if to tap the air as he cast Toll the Dead on the Grimlock, creating bells ringing only heard by it.
Wis Save: 16 Damage: 9 (Damage if hurt beforehand 22)
Kirin - Level 15 High Elf Wizard (Evocation) - Zorg's Lost Souls - Overchannel Steel Wind Strike for the Win against Demogorgon Silas - Level 11 Human Cleric (War Domain) - Tomb of Annihilation Done
Pensive does his best to communicate what he is seeing to Kaylyn, who also checks in with him, sensing what he senses. So far no danger and Pensive seems willing to continue so she allows it. But she keeps an eye on him, ready to intervene if he runs into trouble. She makes sure she lets the rest of the group know what Pensive is finding in the small tunnels.
As they reach the door and it opens she readies her magic to blast the Grimlock should it attack.
Sekkar's egg management will take an action, but let's roll initiative anyway.
(Derro initiative: 6 Grimlock initiative: 8)
Zeno: For the sake of continuing, I'm gonna say that Zeno is at the back and can't see enough of the action to engage in combat. Still roll initiative and post an action for round 1 though.
This post has potentially manipulated dice roll results.
Zeno (20): Ready HXBow Sekkar (17): Put down egg Pax (17): Mind Spike WIS save 5 fail 8 psychic Rhayna (12): Command WIS save 14 fail. Kaylyn (8): Ready Eldritch Blast 2HGrimlock (8): Club vPax 23 miss (Kaylyn's spell released, hitx2, 22 force, DEAD.)
Kastix (7): Derro (6): Derro 'stops'.
Sorry Kastix. Kaylyn killed your target. Different action?
"Sigh, did your shrooms say how to get out of here exactly?" Kastix asks before he search the ground for signs of traffic and tryin gto see where the steps went and came from.
Survival: 23
Kirin - Level 15 High Elf Wizard (Evocation) - Zorg's Lost Souls- Overchannel Steel Wind Strike for the Win against DemogorgonSilas - Level 11 Human Cleric (War Domain) - Tomb of AnnihilationDone"Yes, we should keep going the south west path." Rhyana replies to Pax. "Unfortunately, I wasn't able to go all the way to the place where we found Droki, but I got fairly close to it. We are heading in the right way." Rhayna replies to Sekkar and Kastix. If there is nothing of interesting in this cave, she will move on.
Kazri - Level 10 Human Paladin (Oath of the Ancients) - The Tales of the Fellowship of the White Cloaks
Droknin Palemane - Level 4 Leonin Barbarian (Path of the Beast) - Where the Cold Winds Blow... A Lost Mines of Phandelver Story
Faelan (Cottontail) Whisperwind - Level 3 Ranger (Fey Wanderer) - Zorg's Lost Souls II
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
Zeno stands aghast at the pit of zombies. Why are these here, he thinks to himself...then to Useless, realizing he might have some information about what these are doing here.
Perception to see if there is anything of interest in the pit, especially something shiny: 10
Rhayna, Pax, Kaylyn and Zeno can see very little peering into the pit, other than what Rhayna has seen before... zombies of various sizes and races, moving among piles of body parts. Zeno's thoughts are only overheard by Useless due to the telepathic connection from the myconids (the flumph doesn't read minds as such) but it responds to his question saying: The derro do experiments. Demonic experiments. Experiments on other creatures. Often they don't work. They discard the results. This is where those go.
Being unrestricted by the ledge, Pensive bravely flies into the pit, deftly keeping away from the slow zombies. It spots a small tunnel behind a patch of fungus by the south wall, and flies inside. The tunnel would be too small for the others (save the myconids) without the help of pygmywort, but Pensive flies easily down it for about a hundred feet. There it branches to the south and the north-east, so Pensive returns again to Kaylyn, remembering the horror of the last solo trip down such skinny tunnels.
Kastix examines the ground around the ledge and sees evidence that a derro was here recently overlooking the pit, but that it very recently ran off into the south tunnel, apparently in a great hurry...
How does a red dragon blow out the candles on its birthday cake?
"Alright then. Let's head this way." Pax, pushes their prisoner forward down the south passage, holding his rope tightly as they move down the passage. She looks at the rope tied to his ankles, and wrists, and the gag to make sure they all seem intact and not messed with as she continues down the passage.
What's the difference between a Wizard and a Sorcerer?
Class.
“Weird, I thought there would be a derro here.” Wonders Rhayna. She keeps going following the passage south. She will be on the look out for an cave entrance with metal bars blocking it. She will stop the party as soon as she sights what she believes is the next cave.
Kazri - Level 10 Human Paladin (Oath of the Ancients) - The Tales of the Fellowship of the White Cloaks
Droknin Palemane - Level 4 Leonin Barbarian (Path of the Beast) - Where the Cold Winds Blow... A Lost Mines of Phandelver Story
Faelan (Cottontail) Whisperwind - Level 3 Ranger (Fey Wanderer) - Zorg's Lost Souls II
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
"A derro came and ran out of here. They knows these tunnels better than us and there may be a good reason why Derro don't come in often and the one that did ran away," Kastix states as he stands up from examining the footsteps.
Kirin - Level 15 High Elf Wizard (Evocation) - Zorg's Lost Souls- Overchannel Steel Wind Strike for the Win against DemogorgonSilas - Level 11 Human Cleric (War Domain) - Tomb of AnnihilationDoneRhyana suddenly stops, and she indicates for the group to stop for a moment. "We may need to proceed with caution friends. Up ahead, there might be another cave with it's northern entrance blocked by a large gate made of iron bars. Inside that cave, I saw two Derros and there were cages as well. In each cage, I saw very big Grimlocks. I even saw one of the creatures had two heads. The Derros might be doing experiments on them as well. I exited the cave as soon as they saw me. Unfortunately they might be expecting us." Says a worried Rhayna.
She looks at Kaylyn. "I hate putting Pensive at risk, but can you ask him to scout ahead?"
Kazri - Level 10 Human Paladin (Oath of the Ancients) - The Tales of the Fellowship of the White Cloaks
Droknin Palemane - Level 4 Leonin Barbarian (Path of the Beast) - Where the Cold Winds Blow... A Lost Mines of Phandelver Story
Faelan (Cottontail) Whisperwind - Level 3 Ranger (Fey Wanderer) - Zorg's Lost Souls II
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
Is the tunnel in the pit? or just the south wall?
Pensive, trying hard to be brave and make up for his previous fear is willing to head down the tunnel to scout.
Perception 19
Stealth 7
(Ops, sorry. Posted too soon. Please ignore my last post for now.)
Kazri - Level 10 Human Paladin (Oath of the Ancients) - The Tales of the Fellowship of the White Cloaks
Droknin Palemane - Level 4 Leonin Barbarian (Path of the Beast) - Where the Cold Winds Blow... A Lost Mines of Phandelver Story
Faelan (Cottontail) Whisperwind - Level 3 Ranger (Fey Wanderer) - Zorg's Lost Souls II
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
The tunnel entrance is in the pit, in the south wall of the pit.
Pax checks Gorlak's bindings and concludes they are safely tied. He doesn't appear to have made any further attempts to escape, and seems instead to be waiting patiently, perhaps for another distraction like the coin-eating monster.
Kaylyn:
As the group escort the prisoner along the south passage, Pensive continues to scout the smaller tunnels. Despite their convoluted paths, Pensive has learned to travel them by flying and makes good time. The eastern tunnel bends and curves both sideways and up-and-down but seems to be heading steadily back toward the fungal forest, so Pensive decides instead to head south. Not far along, Pensive hears muffled voices and the tramp of heavy feet overhead, and concludes there must be a larger passage crossing somewhere above the smaller tunnel, but can't make out any details of who might be passing through. The tunnel continues south then gradually starts to bend toward the west.
The group reach a point in the tunnel where a solid zurkhwood door blocks the passage. Before they come close enough to open the door, it opens from the other side, and a startled derro with a crossbow stops short and stares at the group. Behind it is a two-headed grimlock that likewise stares stupidly in surprise. It only takes a moment though for the derro to scream out some babbling Dwarvish and try to push past the grimlock back through the doorway.
Rhayna:
Rhayna can't be sure, but this appears to be the derro from the ledge over the zombie pit.
Sekkar:
The derro is yelling: They're here! They're here!
How does a red dragon blow out the candles on its birthday cake?
Pax shoulder Gorlak hard to the side as she rushes the Derro, her sword whispering free of its sheath.
Initiative : 13
Plan : Bonus action : tap shoes together. Action: Cast Mind Spike on the Derro. Wisdom DC 14 or 17 psychic damage. Movement max I can up to them after casting my spell.
What's the difference between a Wizard and a Sorcerer?
Class.
"Looked at this, he knows us. Or at least expected." Sekkar looked around for a safe spot for the egg, noting to himself, that it slowly becoming a habit.
Meili Liang Lvl 5 Monk
Dice
Initiative: 12
Rhayna yells "Stop right there mister!!!" She casts Command on the Derro. (WIS Save 15)
Kazri - Level 10 Human Paladin (Oath of the Ancients) - The Tales of the Fellowship of the White Cloaks
Droknin Palemane - Level 4 Leonin Barbarian (Path of the Beast) - Where the Cold Winds Blow... A Lost Mines of Phandelver Story
Faelan (Cottontail) Whisperwind - Level 3 Ranger (Fey Wanderer) - Zorg's Lost Souls II
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
Initiative: 7
"Let's try this out,"Kastix takes his wand and seems flick it as if to tap the air as he cast Toll the Dead on the Grimlock, creating bells ringing only heard by it.
Wis Save: 16 Damage: 9 (Damage if hurt beforehand 22)
Kirin - Level 15 High Elf Wizard (Evocation) - Zorg's Lost Souls- Overchannel Steel Wind Strike for the Win against DemogorgonSilas - Level 11 Human Cleric (War Domain) - Tomb of AnnihilationDonePensive does his best to communicate what he is seeing to Kaylyn, who also checks in with him, sensing what he senses. So far no danger and Pensive seems willing to continue so she allows it. But she keeps an eye on him, ready to intervene if he runs into trouble. She makes sure she lets the rest of the group know what Pensive is finding in the small tunnels.
As they reach the door and it opens she readies her magic to blast the Grimlock should it attack.
Attack: 21 Damage: 6
Attack: 15 Damage: 14
Initiative - 17
Sekkar's egg management will take an action, but let's roll initiative anyway.
(Derro initiative: 6 Grimlock initiative: 8)
Zeno: For the sake of continuing, I'm gonna say that Zeno is at the back and can't see enough of the action to engage in combat. Still roll initiative and post an action for round 1 though.
How does a red dragon blow out the candles on its birthday cake?
Sekkar Initiative: 17
Meili Liang Lvl 5 Monk
Dice
Zeno (20): Ready HXBow
Sekkar (17): Put down egg
Pax (17): Mind Spike WIS save 5 fail 8 psychic
Rhayna (12): Command WIS save 14 fail.
Kaylyn (8): Ready Eldritch Blast
2HGrimlock (8): Club vPax 23 miss (Kaylyn's spell released, hitx2, 22 force, DEAD.)
Kastix (7):
Derro (6): Derro 'stops'.
Sorry Kastix. Kaylyn killed your target. Different action?
How does a red dragon blow out the candles on its birthday cake?
Zeno Initiative: 18
Unable to see what’s happening until those in the front scattered a bit, Zeno will hold his action in case another Grimlock comes through the door,
Hand Crossbow
Attack: 20 Damage: 11