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Jarnick will use the cracks and the handholds to climb up from the left, if he succeed in climbing up to the first ledge, he'll ask Ryona to give him the grappling hook and try to attach it to something and helps the others climb up. If he isn't successful he'll suggest that instead.
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"Go ahead, I don't trust this. I'll stay down and ready to attack in case something dangerous comes out. When you climb to that first ledge, help me go up please" Falenas will stay down in line where the group started climbing, paying attention to anything dangerous Perception: 15
He'll wait until the rest of the party is up to start climbing. Athletics: 14
OOC: We'll take this one round at a time, with each Athletics check attempting to take you to the next ledge.
For Ryona:
These holes were likely made by some rat-sized creature. They do not look like a natural occurrence from weather.
Yevele is the first to reach a ledge, easily scaling to one on the right side of the cliff. It has enough room for her to stand comfortably as she looks to continue onward. Ryona and Jarnick make a decent attempt, but run out of handholds and are forced to head back to the ground to find a different way up. Malfearance and Noah both fall from their first set of handholds, landing prone upon the ground (taking no damage except to their pride), as Falenas waits patiently for the others to scale the cliff.
The lights from Maelfearance show that the holes are not shallow, but do not cause any disturbance, and nothing visible emerges from within them.
After a moment's rest, Yevele will begin climbing up to the next ledge. She will try to position her climb so that if she slips and falls she will land back on the ledge rather than falling back to the ground. Athletics5
(ooc) with the rolls we're getting, this climb may take awhile.
Jarnick talks to Ryona, "Ryona, didn't you buy that grappling hook? You should try to use that now, it could maybe work..." and being Jarnick, he will try again at the same spot, which is at the left side.
I believe Yevele has said they were securing a rope at the first plateau and malfeasance is using that to climb, not so much the handholds. Even still, he finds himself a bit humbled by his lack of skill at making what he would have assumed a simple climb.
But while swiping the dirt off his butt from falling, Maelfearance will take another look up the cliff side and at the holes. The lights had no effect but perhaps... And with the though, Maelfearance sends his Unseen Servant moving in and out of the rat holes closest to the area he intends to climb. ((I'm unsure if I would be aware if they his an obstacle or went by anything interesting or such, but even just having the force going through the things may disturb something?))
Assuming nothing disturbed or such, Maelfearance will try climbing with the rope once more... Athletics4
"Maybe I should just wait down here," Maelfearance grumbles quietly to himself...
Noah winces as he hits the ground, cursing himself for his ineptitude. The fact that several of his compatriots are fairing no better is of some comfort, but he remains undeterred.
Clasping more tenaciously to the rope, he attempts the climb again: Athletics7
Ryona chuckles after a round of rump-falls, unperturbed by the minor setback as no one got themselves hurt. As she backs away from the cliff, looking up, she shakes her head.
"Alright, alright, let's not get a sprained ankle over this. Maelfearance, can you secure the grappling hook up on the big ledge with your servant? Your rat can be your eyes up there, right? Noah, you can levitate a piton and hammer for his servant if needed. Jarnick, Yevele, be careful. They're only rat-sized, but something made those holes in stone, and there could be a lot of them if each of those holes are a home. Pretty good spot to camp out up there if the critters attack anything that climbs the cliff."
Not in a rush to get herself or others hurt, she waits for now, shield still stowed.
Jarnick is the next to reach one of the ledges, mirroring Yevele's path on the opposite side as the monk begins her climb to the next area, with Noah and Maelfearance not far behind.
Green = Jarnick Yellow = Yevele Red = Rest of Party
OOC: Before I resolve the unseen servant, where, approximately, is Maelfearance attempting to climb? I can't say why, but it is important that I know where.
Maelfearance has been trying to duplicate Yevele’s path... I’m unsure by reading the spell but it seems like the unseen servant could carry a rope, piston and hammer up and fasten it? As a shapeless force I’m unsure if it would need to climb itself or if it could more just move up the wall?
Noah grumbles in frustration, standing up and brushing himself off of dust. Once the tenderness leaves his joints, he walks over to join the rest of the party, clearly more than a little annoyed at the inability to overcome this fairly minor obstacle.
"Very well. I'll make myself useful in any way that can get us up this forsaken wall."
"The thought occurs to me, perhaps we should just knock? We could wait here at the base and knock upon the yurt and see if Alcaeus Scaevola wishes to receive us at all..." Maelfearance offers as he prepares to try to get up the cliff once again. And while his Unseen Servant rise up with the rope and a hammer and a piston (if someone can lend me one) and tries to fasten a rope into place on the ledge roughly 40' up, just to the viewer's right of where the red party block is marked, Maelfearance will also study the "rat holes" and consider if perhaps there is a pattern to their locations, if perhaps if they had enough staffs or such to insert in them if they could make a kind of ladder, and just keeping an eye on them in case of... emissions?
Assuming Jarnick lends the grappling hook, piton and hammer (he is the only one with them, Ryona gave them to him when she bought it), she nods to Maelfearance. "If he's the skittish type, he might run when he hears us. Want me to call to him?" With that, she looks back up, casting her magic. "Thunder of divine, bring to me the presence of Tyr." (Thaumaturgy to multiply power of her voice)
Jarnick looks at Ryona, "You think something isn't normal? Okay, I'll be careful."he climbs again and if he comes close to a hole he will try to inspect them.
After Yevele slides back down to the ledge from her last attempt, she spends a few moments studying the holes in the cliff face trying to identify the best places to place her hands and feet. When she has a plan in place, she begins climbing.
As Maelfearance's invisible servant begins to tow a rope from his bag, Jarnick reaches another ledge, now halfway up to the first long ledge. Yevele, taking great care to map out her route, is still near the first ledge.
OOC: Note that because an unseen servant can only move 15 feet and/or interact with one object per turn, it will be a few rounds before it reaches the ledge. It currently has the rope in hand.
For Maelfearance:
The holes do not seem to have any pattern to them. While there are some areas where the holes are closer together, especially higher on the cliffside, some are spread far from the others and creating a ladder out of them would be nigh impossible.
For Jarnick:
There is a hole at eye level on this ledge. The hole is slightly larger than a gold coin, and it is not shallow; the hole moves into the cliffside further than your eye can see from the sunlight that reaches in, but nothing obstructs your view until that point.
Green = Jarnick Yellow = Yevele Red = Rest of Party
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Miserable at her fail, Yevele decides to try and follow the advice she was given at the Abby and take a few minutes to center herself. When she was ready, once more she started to climb.
With yet another failure to make it up to the next ledge, Yevele thought back to the teachings of Lao Te: "When you fail at a task, consider why you failed and then do the task again. Repeat as many times as necessary to learn how to succeed."
(ooc) I hope I'm not out of line by adding a second attempt to a single post. As long as I don't roll a 1 or am successful, it doesn't seem like there is any need to wait for a DM post.
"The three of us will take the rope when it's ready. Put it there, if you would, Maelfearance." She points up just to her left, such that the rope would go over the two small ledges. She then pulls off her rope from her pack's side, and starts to tie it on her herself at one end. Quickly knotting it with practiced motion, she turns toward Falenas and Noah as she continues to make a hitch knot. Nervousness causes her to tremble again as she speaks more softly to them. "Noah, you go first once Yevele or Jarnick get to the rope. If something goes wrong, I'll go up first." As if confirming it's completion, she tugs on the rope, then starts to loosen it to put it on Noah (next turn).
"Don't worry, I still have got your backs. Climb calmly, if anything comes out I'll take care of it. You'll be fine" Falenas is still trying to pay attention to the walls. In case that something aggresive comes out, he will cast Eldritch Blast at it, but otherwise he'll just keep waiting.
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Jarnick will use the cracks and the handholds to climb up from the left, if he succeed in climbing up to the first ledge, he'll ask Ryona to give him the grappling hook and try to attach it to something and helps the others climb up. If he isn't successful he'll suggest that instead.
Athletics: 18
"Go ahead, I don't trust this. I'll stay down and ready to attack in case something dangerous comes out. When you climb to that first ledge, help me go up please" Falenas will stay down in line where the group started climbing, paying attention to anything dangerous Perception: 15
He'll wait until the rest of the party is up to start climbing. Athletics: 14
OOC: We'll take this one round at a time, with each Athletics check attempting to take you to the next ledge.
For Ryona:
These holes were likely made by some rat-sized creature. They do not look like a natural occurrence from weather.
Yevele is the first to reach a ledge, easily scaling to one on the right side of the cliff. It has enough room for her to stand comfortably as she looks to continue onward. Ryona and Jarnick make a decent attempt, but run out of handholds and are forced to head back to the ground to find a different way up. Malfearance and Noah both fall from their first set of handholds, landing prone upon the ground (taking no damage except to their pride), as Falenas waits patiently for the others to scale the cliff.
The lights from Maelfearance show that the holes are not shallow, but do not cause any disturbance, and nothing visible emerges from within them.
Yellow = Yevele
Red = Rest of Party
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After a moment's rest, Yevele will begin climbing up to the next ledge. She will try to position her climb so that if she slips and falls she will land back on the ledge rather than falling back to the ground. Athletics 5
(ooc) with the rolls we're getting, this climb may take awhile.
Jarnick talks to Ryona, "Ryona, didn't you buy that grappling hook? You should try to use that now, it could maybe work..." and being Jarnick, he will try again at the same spot, which is at the left side.
Athletics 21
I believe Yevele has said they were securing a rope at the first plateau and malfeasance is using that to climb, not so much the handholds. Even still, he finds himself a bit humbled by his lack of skill at making what he would have assumed a simple climb.
But while swiping the dirt off his butt from falling, Maelfearance will take another look up the cliff side and at the holes. The lights had no effect but perhaps... And with the though, Maelfearance sends his Unseen Servant moving in and out of the rat holes closest to the area he intends to climb. ((I'm unsure if I would be aware if they his an obstacle or went by anything interesting or such, but even just having the force going through the things may disturb something?))
Assuming nothing disturbed or such, Maelfearance will try climbing with the rope once more... Athletics 4
"Maybe I should just wait down here," Maelfearance grumbles quietly to himself...
Noah winces as he hits the ground, cursing himself for his ineptitude. The fact that several of his compatriots are fairing no better is of some comfort, but he remains undeterred.
Clasping more tenaciously to the rope, he attempts the climb again: Athletics 7
Ryona chuckles after a round of rump-falls, unperturbed by the minor setback as no one got themselves hurt. As she backs away from the cliff, looking up, she shakes her head.
"Alright, alright, let's not get a sprained ankle over this. Maelfearance, can you secure the grappling hook up on the big ledge with your servant? Your rat can be your eyes up there, right? Noah, you can levitate a piton and hammer for his servant if needed. Jarnick, Yevele, be careful. They're only rat-sized, but something made those holes in stone, and there could be a lot of them if each of those holes are a home. Pretty good spot to camp out up there if the critters attack anything that climbs the cliff."
Not in a rush to get herself or others hurt, she waits for now, shield still stowed.
Jarnick is the next to reach one of the ledges, mirroring Yevele's path on the opposite side as the monk begins her climb to the next area, with Noah and Maelfearance not far behind.
Green = Jarnick
Yellow = Yevele
Red = Rest of Party
OOC: Before I resolve the unseen servant, where, approximately, is Maelfearance attempting to climb? I can't say why, but it is important that I know where.
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Maelfearance has been trying to duplicate Yevele’s path...
I’m unsure by reading the spell but it seems like the unseen servant could carry a rope, piston and hammer up and fasten it? As a shapeless force I’m unsure if it would need to climb itself or if it could more just move up the wall?
Noah grumbles in frustration, standing up and brushing himself off of dust. Once the tenderness leaves his joints, he walks over to join the rest of the party, clearly more than a little annoyed at the inability to overcome this fairly minor obstacle.
"Very well. I'll make myself useful in any way that can get us up this forsaken wall."
OOC: That is certainly within the bounds of what an unseen servant can do. Nothing in the spell restricts the servant to the ground.
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"The thought occurs to me, perhaps we should just knock? We could wait here at the base and knock upon the yurt and see if Alcaeus Scaevola wishes to receive us at all..." Maelfearance offers as he prepares to try to get up the cliff once again. And while his Unseen Servant rise up with the rope and a hammer and a piston (if someone can lend me one) and tries to fasten a rope into place on the ledge roughly 40' up, just to the viewer's right of where the red party block is marked, Maelfearance will also study the "rat holes" and consider if perhaps there is a pattern to their locations, if perhaps if they had enough staffs or such to insert in them if they could make a kind of ladder, and just keeping an eye on them in case of... emissions?
Assuming Jarnick lends the grappling hook, piton and hammer (he is the only one with them, Ryona gave them to him when she bought it), she nods to Maelfearance. "If he's the skittish type, he might run when he hears us. Want me to call to him?" With that, she looks back up, casting her magic. "Thunder of divine, bring to me the presence of Tyr." (Thaumaturgy to multiply power of her voice)
Jarnick looks at Ryona, "You think something isn't normal? Okay, I'll be careful." he climbs again and if he comes close to a hole he will try to inspect them.
Athletics:13
After Yevele slides back down to the ledge from her last attempt, she spends a few moments studying the holes in the cliff face trying to identify the best places to place her hands and feet. When she has a plan in place, she begins climbing.
[skill]athletics[\skill]3
As Maelfearance's invisible servant begins to tow a rope from his bag, Jarnick reaches another ledge, now halfway up to the first long ledge. Yevele, taking great care to map out her route, is still near the first ledge.
OOC: Note that because an unseen servant can only move 15 feet and/or interact with one object per turn, it will be a few rounds before it reaches the ledge. It currently has the rope in hand.
For Maelfearance:
The holes do not seem to have any pattern to them. While there are some areas where the holes are closer together, especially higher on the cliffside, some are spread far from the others and creating a ladder out of them would be nigh impossible.
For Jarnick:
There is a hole at eye level on this ledge. The hole is slightly larger than a gold coin, and it is not shallow; the hole moves into the cliffside further than your eye can see from the sunlight that reaches in, but nothing obstructs your view until that point.
Green = Jarnick
Yellow = Yevele
Red = Rest of Party
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Miserable at her fail, Yevele decides to try and follow the advice she was given at the Abby and take a few minutes to center herself. When she was ready, once more she started to climb.
athletics9
With yet another failure to make it up to the next ledge, Yevele thought back to the teachings of Lao Te: "When you fail at a task, consider why you failed and then do the task again. Repeat as many times as necessary to learn how to succeed."
athletics7
(ooc) I hope I'm not out of line by adding a second attempt to a single post. As long as I don't roll a 1 or am successful, it doesn't seem like there is any need to wait for a DM post.
"The three of us will take the rope when it's ready. Put it there, if you would, Maelfearance." She points up just to her left, such that the rope would go over the two small ledges. She then pulls off her rope from her pack's side, and starts to tie it on her herself at one end. Quickly knotting it with practiced motion, she turns toward Falenas and Noah as she continues to make a hitch knot. Nervousness causes her to tremble again as she speaks more softly to them. "Noah, you go first once Yevele or Jarnick get to the rope. If something goes wrong, I'll go up first." As if confirming it's completion, she tugs on the rope, then starts to loosen it to put it on Noah (next turn).
"Don't worry, I still have got your backs. Climb calmly, if anything comes out I'll take care of it. You'll be fine" Falenas is still trying to pay attention to the walls. In case that something aggresive comes out, he will cast Eldritch Blast at it, but otherwise he'll just keep waiting.