Dungeon Adventure Path: Life's Bazaar

[Argent Silvermage]

Ragnor growls and asks "gods, do you little one's have to put traps at every step?"

"Do we Have to? No." Sando says he smiles at Lia and says "feeling better?"

 

[Old Fezziwig]

Sando's confident greeting to the bard is covered up with the sounds of gears turning. The east end of the floor turns up, unceremoniously dumping the group of you down the flight of stairs and into the room with the masks. Lia is nowhere to be seen.

Reflex Saves
Carrach, roll of 2 on d20, +3 Reflex, total 5, failure
Qoll, roll of 3 on d20, +2 Reflex, total 5, failure
Rothgar, roll of 20 on d20, automatic success
Sando, roll of 1 on d20, automatic failure
Vorik, roll of 13 on d20, +1 Reflex, total 14, success

Results
Carrach takes 4 damage, 14 hp remaining.
Qoll takes 10 damage, 7 hp remaining.
Sando takes 3 damage, 11 hp remaining.

OOC: What happened? Well, first things first—Sando botched his disable device check badly (I rolled a 2). This is why he was so certain that turning the device counterclockiwise would spring the door. The rest of it comes from the assumptions I've made based on his post above. If you go back to my initial post, it says that turning the sconce counterclockwise should open the door, freeing Lia. In the future, I'll try to be a bit clearer with my diction and sentence structure, as I can see where that may have caused Argent to make the assumptions he did. Good news is, no one's hurt badly.

 

[Douane]

Just Before Sando "opens" the secret door:


Carrach finally comes out of his shock; frozen at the very thought of having lost Liandra whom he had grown very fond of in the short time he had known her.

Cursing himself for this moment of weakness, he quickly returns, at least outwardly, to his old self.


"I doubt that it is a trap. More likely part of a defensive system like a chain of secret tunnels to outmaneuver possible invaders.

This would make far more sense than a trap which relies on having an intruder brush a certain part of the wall."


Carrach gazes at the secret door and waits for it open, so he will be proven right.


[OoC: Edited to fit in, That's what I deserved for not reading properly. ]

 

[Old Fezziwig]

OOC: You may wish to reread my post above. The secret door is not open—Sando botched his disarm on the trap and the party was dumped down the stairs into the room. Your action can stand as it is, but you can't peer through a stone wall (of course, this is D&D, so I should add "yet"). You can, naturally, go back up and see if you can get the door open and then peer behind it.

 

[Argent Silvermage]

Sando sits eyes crossed and dazed. "But Mommy.. I don't want to lick the Owlbear."
After a second he snaps to attention and says. "Well that was a horribly make secret door."

 

[rangerjohn]

"Hmmph, I shall continue to expect traps at every turn. Were these gnome tunnels or kobold warrens?" Rothgar appears rather piqued, despite comming out of the situation unharmed.

 

[Douane]

"Uaarrgh!!!" Carrach shakes his head to blow away the cobwebs after the impact.


"What a positively insidiuous way to protect their defensive network with such "easily" disarmed traps. "

"Still," the hobgoblin ranger adds while rising to his feet, falling back into his sour mood. "It hurt us rather badly and we are not any closer to recovering Liandra. The only positive thing about this fiasco is that we now know for sure that this "fortress" isn't deserted at all.

So what do you say? Try to open that damned thing again, or do we search for another entrance? Surely this place will be riddled with them. And somehow I doubt that whoever took Liandra did stay just behind the door and did not retreat further into the tunnel system."


Carach looks around at his companions, waiting for their opinions.

 

[rangerjohn]

"Uaarrgh!!!" Carrach shakes his head to blow away the cobwebs after the impact.


"What a positively insidiuous way to protect their defensive network with such "easily" disarmed traps. "

"Still," the hobgoblin ranger adds while rising to his feet, falling back into his sour mood. "It hurt us rather badly and we are not any closer to recovering Liandra. The only positive thing about this fiasco is that we now know for sure that this "fortress" isn't deserted at all.

So what do you say? Try to open that damned thing again, or do we search for another entrance? Surely this place will be riddled with them. And somehow I doubt that whoever took Liandra did stay just behind the door and did not retreat further into the tunnel system."


Carach looks around at his companions, waiting for their opinions.

Ragnor replies "I vote to try to open the door again, under the remote possiblity that it was our own blundering and not an outside angency which caused its closing."

 

[Argent Silvermage]

Sando stares at Ragnor in disbelief. "Our own Blundering? Why I'm so insulted I may just have to hold my breath until I turn blue." Sando scrambles around looking for a mechanism that will reset the trap.

 

[rangerjohn]

Sando stares at Ragnor in disbelief. "Our own Blundering? Why I'm so insulted I may just have to hold my breath until I turn blue." Sando scrambles around looking for a mechanism that will reset the trap.

"Why do you take that so personally, little one? The door opened before you started looking for mechanisms."