((Magic stuff: Not looking for Fianna to get the bracers but she does have an Attunement slot. But she has 19 AC already which ain't bad for a Warlock... She would defer on taking any of the potions, she largely prefers to stay off the front line and she thinks they may be better served to one in the midst of things.
BUT speaking of potions... Fianna will pass out 2 regular Potion of Healing to everyone. She's got 19 on her and it may be wisest to have them spread out a bit more rather than just in her bag. Just let me know so I can mark them off...))
Fianna merely gives SinSin a smile and softly says "We're all hear for you," and then lets the issue drop. She's sure they all carry baggage of one kind of another. The Wall of Force she had blocking the sentry from coming after them will not last forever. Hopefully they have gone back to a dormant state and are not waiting to continue the chase but Fianna will make a point of warning the others when the spell drops.
Otherwise Fianna is thrilled and delighted by the map. It is a thing of wonder, for sure. She will suggest places Jahren should summon forth, trying to think of the most distant and rumored places, testing the limits of these magics....
((And just figured I'd share in image of Fianna pre-antlers...))
(Loane has the lowest AC and, of course, there is no such thing as "too high AC" for a tank, so, Chen or Loane?)
Mirica watched more with a surprise - so far SinSin looked like quite a happy mercenary, but you never know, and only said "yea, I did not like it either." As a more prosaic type, she made a mental note never offer an octopus (probably other seafood too) to the tiefling.
"Good idea with potions. The invulnerability one might be useful for Chen, but honestly, in our situation it is useful - period, no matter who is having it. The rest - fast delivery might be indeed a great help."Potions were not just useful, but necessary and at the end of the day, it did not matter who was carrying them.
The map, though, was absolutely fascinating! Clear and beautiful demonstration of usefulness of magic. She suggested to Jahren to think about corridors around them - just to see what happens and if they can trick the map to show insides of the ruins, but if not - it was still great. "Well, I for one have no castle, but if I suddenly acquire one, would not mind to dig that wonder out. A pity we have to leave it behind!"
(Fianna will get her beauty back the moment we have dust!)
Jahren tries a location in the Feywild he's familiar with. A map of the area appears, though has strange patches of fog across large parts of it. Trying to focus on the passageways around them though didn't work. (NICE TRY!)
((Both have 3 things attuned, though they may prefer attuning to the... And LOL, nice "fix" Nathan! Though she did hack then down to just nubs! ;) If they were a permanent feature I fear FinFin may try to nest in them!))
"Could you put it in your 'happy place', Mirica? Can you leave things there for later use?" Fianna asks, more as a point of curiosity than a proposal. Random boots or potions is one thing, but large scale removal of things from this place seemed... almost sacrilegious. "And here, stow these two potions..." ((You didn't say If you were taking or not so take two regular Healing Potions!))
"Is the fog places you are unfamiliar with," Fianna asks Jahren, "or perhaps areas somehow blocked from this enchantment?"
"If only out of curiosity - after all, the place is not on our plane. Not exactly." She accepted potions and places them in the bag then watched Chen trying his new boots. "Feeling stronger? Might come handy sooner than we would like. That was a Mind Flayer. I do not know much about them, but that knowledge is universal - or so I thought. Mind Flayers never make alliances with anybody else, it contradicts their nature. And... How did they get in here?"
Chen slips the new boots on, takes a few steps, and suddenly... nothing feels different, except that he is making noise when he walks. He'd almost forgotten the sound of his own footfalls, and they seemed rather heavy. But that was all... for now. Not yet, he replied to Mirica. Perhaps after taking some time to get used to them he would start to feel stronger. Then looking to the rest of the group, Chen says: Well, looks like we still have time before Toc returns. Shall we explore the other side of this area?
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How does a red dragon blow out the candles on its birthday cake?
Leaving the map room behind for now, the magical field holding the sentinel is gone, but it doesn't seem to have pursued, so you're free to continue exploring. The next small room has a well in it, which seems to descend a long way into darkness. A stone dropped splashes a long ways below. You go back into the hallway. You get to the end of the hallway and open the last door on this side of the complex. This room is well lit with glittering gems in the walls, casting colorful lights of purple, yellow, green, and blue across this large room. There are no other exits from it. It's perhaps 30 feet by 30 feet with a vaulted ceiling that reaches up twenty feet at its peak. In the center of the room is a large round stone slab. Laying on it you see several glittering items. You see a crown, a scepter, a long sword, bejeweled belt, a helm and a battle axe. There seems to be an inscription running, repeated over and over around the edge of the stone slab in Elven and Common. "Here lie the treasures of the Order. Only Champions of the Order may take them without Peril."
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Heading back you cut through a crypt and find another door. Here it opens up and you see what appears to be a nicely appointed, though very dusty office. Wooden desk, dried up ink well, some old crackled papyrus, a couple of chairs, a lantern and so on. (Feel free to let me know if you explore it at all.).
You check one more door and find a large, very clean room. Against one wall is a massive tapestry that covers almost the entire ten foot high, twenty foot long wall. It's of an elven woman, standing before a dark archway. She is located in a clearing, and the backdrop behind everything is an ancient forest filled with massive trees. It's unnaturally light and even from here you can feel the tingle of magic emanating from it.
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"Feels like magic - stay away from magic,"summed up Mirica, admiring the tapestry from afar. She was not going to stop anyone from touching that amazing thing, but would be ready to save that "someone" in case of inevitable complications.
Fianna cannot help but be interested by the office. Dried up paper, pens... it’s always interesting to see what others find valuable enough to commit to paper. Fianna will poke through the desk, read enough of anything she finds to at least catch the most of what topic it’s about - business, history, journal... shed quite likely catch up to the others in the tapestry room...
“it’s beautiful,” Fianna says in wonder of the tapestry. She would indeed approach it, if nobody else has yet... mainly to pull one side away from the wall and see if there is anything behind it.
"Do you mind if I spend some time here?"asks Jahren, regarding the room with the items for the Order and also the tapestry room. Since they have to wait for Toc anyhow, he'd like to take his time casting Detect Magic and Identify on the rooms & items. (as rituals as time allows)
Chen holds a lantern in one hand, the wooden grip around the wire metal handle swings gently back and forth as he moves, the yellowish light casting the hallways and rooms of this underground crypt in dancing shadows of the group as they move along. The carved stone walls with scenes of forests, and magical items, or scenes of rituals are given more life as the shadows cast by the light follow along the hall, making them seem to move.
Meanwhile, it's almost as if this group is a cluster of children in a candy store with so many interesting discoveries in one place. The map room alone seemed interesting enough, but the office, and then the large tapestry almost pulsing with energy seemed unique and very interesting.
Jahren and Fianna spend some time digging through the office, while Chen and Mirica admire the tapestry from afar. The drawers contain papers written in elven that describe membership to the order, assign crypt rooms to certain families or family members, and describe quests the order is undertaking. However, even for elves, these papers are old and very brittle, and there not reference to anything newer than 500 years ago. However, there are some papers that you read about this crypt. They specifically imply that it was built so deeply, so as to reach under the in-ground portion of the Mythal. "To avoid the therein forbiddance on Divination, Charm, and Teleportation magics thus blocked by the Mythal."
Completing his detect magic spell he glances around the office, seeing only the mundane. However, in the tapestry room, the tapestry is very much magical, and has overlapping fields of conjuration and transmutation upon it.
Fianna approaches cautiously, grabbing one edge and pulling it aside. Behind she sees only stone wall, but when she touches the tapestry and lifts it she gets a jolt along her fingers and so drops the tapestry pretty quickly.
The group hears a sudden commotion come echoing down the long dark halls, a grunt, some thuds, and more thudding and rapid foot falls. The group turns and rushes back. The group finds Toc moving quickly towards them, the Sentinel on his heels. He glances about at everyone, "Not a very nice welcome to this place!"
The Sentinel is 40 feet behind Toc, and approaching at a light job, it's heavy stone legs thudding into the hard rock floor.
Roll init. Sentinel goes at 15. If you go before it, you may take a turn. You are 40 feet away down a 4 foot wide hallway.
Chen isn't sure if Fianna is able to block the sentinel again, so he lowers his lantern, hefts his hammer and charges toward the creature to keep it away from the group.
((Magic stuff: Not looking for Fianna to get the bracers but she does have an Attunement slot. But she has 19 AC already which ain't bad for a Warlock... She would defer on taking any of the potions, she largely prefers to stay off the front line and she thinks they may be better served to one in the midst of things.
BUT speaking of potions... Fianna will pass out 2 regular Potion of Healing to everyone. She's got 19 on her and it may be wisest to have them spread out a bit more rather than just in her bag. Just let me know so I can mark them off...))
Fianna merely gives SinSin a smile and softly says "We're all hear for you," and then lets the issue drop. She's sure they all carry baggage of one kind of another. The Wall of Force she had blocking the sentry from coming after them will not last forever. Hopefully they have gone back to a dormant state and are not waiting to continue the chase but Fianna will make a point of warning the others when the spell drops.
Otherwise Fianna is thrilled and delighted by the map. It is a thing of wonder, for sure. She will suggest places Jahren should summon forth, trying to think of the most distant and rumored places, testing the limits of these magics....
((And just figured I'd share in image of Fianna pre-antlers...))
Jahren thanks Fianna for the two potions of healing.
Testing the table, he tries a location in the Feywild that he's familiar with.
(Loane has the lowest AC and, of course, there is no such thing as "too high AC" for a tank, so, Chen or Loane?)
Mirica watched more with a surprise - so far SinSin looked like quite a happy mercenary, but you never know, and only said "yea, I did not like it either." As a more prosaic type, she made a mental note never offer an octopus (probably other seafood too) to the tiefling.
"Good idea with potions. The invulnerability one might be useful for Chen, but honestly, in our situation it is useful - period, no matter who is having it. The rest - fast delivery might be indeed a great help." Potions were not just useful, but necessary and at the end of the day, it did not matter who was carrying them.
The map, though, was absolutely fascinating! Clear and beautiful demonstration of usefulness of magic. She suggested to Jahren to think about corridors around them - just to see what happens and if they can trick the map to show insides of the ruins, but if not - it was still great. "Well, I for one have no castle, but if I suddenly acquire one, would not mind to dig that wonder out. A pity we have to leave it behind!"
(Fianna will get her beauty back the moment we have dust!)
Meili Liang Lvl 5 Monk
Dice
Fianna, I fixed your picture for you.
Jahren tries a location in the Feywild he's familiar with. A map of the area appears, though has strange patches of fog across large parts of it. Trying to focus on the passageways around them though didn't work. (NICE TRY!)
What's the difference between a Wizard and a Sorcerer?
Class.
((Both have 3 things attuned, though they may prefer attuning to the... And LOL, nice "fix" Nathan! Though she did hack then down to just nubs! ;) If they were a permanent feature I fear FinFin may try to nest in them!))
"Could you put it in your 'happy place', Mirica? Can you leave things there for later use?" Fianna asks, more as a point of curiosity than a proposal. Random boots or potions is one thing, but large scale removal of things from this place seemed... almost sacrilegious. "And here, stow these two potions..." ((You didn't say If you were taking or not so take two regular Healing Potions!))
"Is the fog places you are unfamiliar with," Fianna asks Jahren, "or perhaps areas somehow blocked from this enchantment?"
"If only out of curiosity - after all, the place is not on our plane. Not exactly." She accepted potions and places them in the bag then watched Chen trying his new boots. "Feeling stronger? Might come handy sooner than we would like. That was a Mind Flayer. I do not know much about them, but that knowledge is universal - or so I thought. Mind Flayers never make alliances with anybody else, it contradicts their nature. And... How did they get in here?"
Meili Liang Lvl 5 Monk
Dice
Chen slips the new boots on, takes a few steps, and suddenly... nothing feels different, except that he is making noise when he walks. He'd almost forgotten the sound of his own footfalls, and they seemed rather heavy. But that was all... for now. Not yet, he replied to Mirica. Perhaps after taking some time to get used to them he would start to feel stronger. Then looking to the rest of the group, Chen says: Well, looks like we still have time before Toc returns. Shall we explore the other side of this area?
How does a red dragon blow out the candles on its birthday cake?
Leaving the map room behind for now, the magical field holding the sentinel is gone, but it doesn't seem to have pursued, so you're free to continue exploring. The next small room has a well in it, which seems to descend a long way into darkness. A stone dropped splashes a long ways below. You go back into the hallway. You get to the end of the hallway and open the last door on this side of the complex. This room is well lit with glittering gems in the walls, casting colorful lights of purple, yellow, green, and blue across this large room. There are no other exits from it. It's perhaps 30 feet by 30 feet with a vaulted ceiling that reaches up twenty feet at its peak. In the center of the room is a large round stone slab. Laying on it you see several glittering items. You see a crown, a scepter, a long sword, bejeweled belt, a helm and a battle axe. There seems to be an inscription running, repeated over and over around the edge of the stone slab in Elven and Common. "Here lie the treasures of the Order. Only Champions of the Order may take them without Peril."
What's the difference between a Wizard and a Sorcerer?
Class.
"Anyone know anything about The Order?" Fianna asks. "We may be best off leaving this room alone until we consult with Toc...
"I know that I am not a member of that Order. Doubt any one of us is - unless Toc is the one. More reasons to wait for him, I guess. Next door?"
Meili Liang Lvl 5 Monk
Dice
Heading back you cut through a crypt and find another door. Here it opens up and you see what appears to be a nicely appointed, though very dusty office. Wooden desk, dried up ink well, some old crackled papyrus, a couple of chairs, a lantern and so on. (Feel free to let me know if you explore it at all.).
You check one more door and find a large, very clean room. Against one wall is a massive tapestry that covers almost the entire ten foot high, twenty foot long wall. It's of an elven woman, standing before a dark archway. She is located in a clearing, and the backdrop behind everything is an ancient forest filled with massive trees. It's unnaturally light and even from here you can feel the tingle of magic emanating from it.
What's the difference between a Wizard and a Sorcerer?
Class.
Chen stands gawking at the tapestry, impressed with its size and beauty, particularly with the light associated with it.
(Just realised... do we have a light source? Chen doesn't see in the dark)
How does a red dragon blow out the candles on its birthday cake?
"Feels like magic - stay away from magic," summed up Mirica, admiring the tapestry from afar. She was not going to stop anyone from touching that amazing thing, but would be ready to save that "someone" in case of inevitable complications.
Meili Liang Lvl 5 Monk
Dice
Fianna cannot help but be interested by the office. Dried up paper, pens... it’s always interesting to see what others find valuable enough to commit to paper. Fianna will poke through the desk, read enough of anything she finds to at least catch the most of what topic it’s about - business, history, journal... shed quite likely catch up to the others in the tapestry room...
“it’s beautiful,” Fianna says in wonder of the tapestry. She would indeed approach it, if nobody else has yet... mainly to pull one side away from the wall and see if there is anything behind it.
"Do you mind if I spend some time here?" asks Jahren, regarding the room with the items for the Order and also the tapestry room. Since they have to wait for Toc anyhow, he'd like to take his time casting Detect Magic and Identify on the rooms & items. (as rituals as time allows)
“Until another stone sentinel comes after all, take all the time you need.”
Chen holds a lantern in one hand, the wooden grip around the wire metal handle swings gently back and forth as he moves, the yellowish light casting the hallways and rooms of this underground crypt in dancing shadows of the group as they move along. The carved stone walls with scenes of forests, and magical items, or scenes of rituals are given more life as the shadows cast by the light follow along the hall, making them seem to move.
Meanwhile, it's almost as if this group is a cluster of children in a candy store with so many interesting discoveries in one place. The map room alone seemed interesting enough, but the office, and then the large tapestry almost pulsing with energy seemed unique and very interesting.
Jahren and Fianna spend some time digging through the office, while Chen and Mirica admire the tapestry from afar. The drawers contain papers written in elven that describe membership to the order, assign crypt rooms to certain families or family members, and describe quests the order is undertaking. However, even for elves, these papers are old and very brittle, and there not reference to anything newer than 500 years ago. However, there are some papers that you read about this crypt. They specifically imply that it was built so deeply, so as to reach under the in-ground portion of the Mythal. "To avoid the therein forbiddance on Divination, Charm, and Teleportation magics thus blocked by the Mythal."
Completing his detect magic spell he glances around the office, seeing only the mundane. However, in the tapestry room, the tapestry is very much magical, and has overlapping fields of conjuration and transmutation upon it.
Fianna approaches cautiously, grabbing one edge and pulling it aside. Behind she sees only stone wall, but when she touches the tapestry and lifts it she gets a jolt along her fingers and so drops the tapestry pretty quickly.
S: 15 T: 10 Attack: 20 Damage: 16 Attack: 15 Damage: 18
The group hears a sudden commotion come echoing down the long dark halls, a grunt, some thuds, and more thudding and rapid foot falls. The group turns and rushes back. The group finds Toc moving quickly towards them, the Sentinel on his heels. He glances about at everyone, "Not a very nice welcome to this place!"
The Sentinel is 40 feet behind Toc, and approaching at a light job, it's heavy stone legs thudding into the hard rock floor.
Roll init. Sentinel goes at 15. If you go before it, you may take a turn. You are 40 feet away down a 4 foot wide hallway.
What's the difference between a Wizard and a Sorcerer?
Class.
Chen Initiative: 20
Chen isn't sure if Fianna is able to block the sentinel again, so he lowers his lantern, hefts his hammer and charges toward the creature to keep it away from the group.
Action: Attack with Maul+2
Attack#1: 15 Damage: 15 bludgeoning
Attack#2: 25 Damage: 16 bludgeoning
How does a red dragon blow out the candles on its birthday cake?
Fianna Initiative: 10
((Awaits turn...))
Initiative: 22