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Re: Chapter 8: Forgotten Ossuaries
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 9:26 am
by Wouter
The cleric sneaks up to the door and places his ear against the cold wood. Besides his own breathing and the faint beat of his heart he hears nothing, so he decides to try to open the door...
Almost effortlessly the door swings open and by
Albin's torchlight - the fresh torch burning brightly again -
Lisglen peers into a 6 m by 9 room and sees how the floor is littered with hundreds of bones, neatly stacked in piles...
In the meanwhile
Freda and
Van keep sentry at the north side of the junction for anything coming from that part of the corridor while
Holger and
Dahl do the same for the south side. So far, all is quiet and still.
Mechanics
According to my administration, Memphisto has 3 torches left. As far as resources are concerned, I have the following:
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Character Candles Torches Oil Rations Water Arrows Spikes
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Dahl 0 0 0 9 1 0 12
Memphisto 3 3 0 4 1 0 6
Lisglen 0 0 1 4 1 0 0
Van 10 0 0 4 1 20 0
Holger 0 0 0 4 1 0 6
Balthus 0 6 0 3 1 0 0
Freda 0 0 1 4 1 17 12
Albin 0 0 0 4 1 20 0
Please let me know if you think I'm off at any of the given numbers![/ooc]
Re: Chapter 8: Forgotten Ossuaries
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 12:22 pm
by kwll
Asking Albin to follow him Lisglen cautiously enters the room, his weapon handy.
OOC: Maybe we should not wait too long before we go out of the dungeon for re-supply...
Re: Chapter 8: Forgotten Ossuaries
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2017 7:13 am
by Wouter
Lisglen carefully steps into the room while
Albin's flickering torchlight eerily shines upon the piles of bones. The cleric notices that most of the bones are recognizable as being human, though some appear to be exceptionally large or particularly small...
They are suddenly startled by a sound coming from the hallway:
"We've got company!" Freda shouts as she and
Van see four human skeletons - three armed with swords, of which two carry shields as well, and one armed with a short bow - turn the corner to the north. Upon seeing the adventurers the front two of the rambling remains firmly close their bony hands on the hilts of their swords and the straps of their shields, preparing to storm forward for the attack...
Please declare your actions for the first combat round...
Wandering monster encounter
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Re: Chapter 8: Forgotten Ossuaries
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2017 4:52 pm
by kwll
Lisglen goes back to the corridor and will try to turn the skeletons.
Re: Chapter 8: Forgotten Ossuaries
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2017 4:40 am
by Etarr_the_Good
Balthus raises his shield and sword in defensive posturing and readies himself for the attack should the cleric's spell fail. He will attack any skeleton in melee range should the party decide not to flee. "May the gods look favorably upon us" says Balthus.
Re: Chapter 8: Forgotten Ossuaries
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2017 1:45 pm
by Wouter
Lisglen rushes out of the room just in time to see how one of the charging skeletons jabs his sword into
Freda's diaphragm. The halfling cringes in pain and slums to the floor, closing her eyes and breathing her last breath as the eternal sleep overcomes her...
Van raises his battle axe to strike upon the killer of his short companion while two arrows - fired by the skeleton in the back - narrowly whiz over his head. Before he can lash out the cleric quickly steps in front of him, raising his holy symbol in front of his eyes and with a booming voice he orders the skeletons to go from whence they came. The shielded skeletons drop their swords and cower at the display of
Lisglen's clerical might: they turn and, as they start fleeing through the northward corridor, almost overrun the archer and swordsman who hare away as fast as their bony legs can carry them.
After a while the sounds of the running skeletons die out and a deafening quietness falls on the adventurers as they gaze down upon the lifeless body of
Freda...
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Re: Chapter 8: Forgotten Ossuaries
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2017 1:17 am
by jcftao
Memphisto looks down at his fallen companion, "Poor girl...her life was too brief. We will give her a proper burial when we leave this hole."
To the others he says, "We need to be ready for when they return."
Re: Chapter 8: Forgotten Ossuaries
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2017 4:57 pm
by kwll
"By the Holy Light!" exclaims Lisglen, seeing his companion dead on the floor. Turning to his remaining party mates, he says: "Maybe this is a divine warning to us that it is time to go back upstairs to resupply and prepare to meet the evil dangers of these parts?"
Re: Chapter 8: Forgotten Ossuaries
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2017 5:12 am
by jcftao
Memphisto is in favor of regrouping to rearm and resupply.
Re: Chapter 8: Forgotten Ossuaries
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2017 7:11 pm
by Wouter
I'm assuming all will agree to retreat from the ruins under Kal-Dokk's tower and head back to the village of Jodcar.
The adventurers decide to leave
Freda's body behind and move out of the Forgotten Ossuaries. They close the ancient door behind them and swiftly make their way through the Vermin-infested Halls. An unpleasant surprise awaits them in the four way room, however: just in front of the passage leading to the stairs that run up to the Abandoned Lab four giant rats are nibbling on the candle stubs that lie in the southwest corner and five more are gnawing on the ragged rug in the center of the room...
As soon as the party enters the rats are alarmed and move in for the attack! One bites
Albin - dropping his torch - and one sinks his teeth deep in
Memphisto's arm. Another rat wounds
Lisglen with its sharp, yellow fangs...
Please declare your actions for the first combat round...
Wandering monster encounter
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