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Dungeon Raiders: The Wolf's Den
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Li Shenron
Legend
You carefully remove the skeleton's hands from the sword, just in case there are more traps or hidden dangers, but luckily this task this time seemed surprisingly easy. The blackened longsword is now yours.
Bartleby offers it to any of the others, who might want to use such a weapon. If none takes it, he stores it in his pack.
Li Shenron
Legend
[OoC: Short summer break! See OOC thread 
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Li Shenron
Legend
Very short recap...
You have investigated seemingly all locales of these catacombs, but you have found one possible way further, through the trapdoor on the ceiling at the end of the corridor. You have looted the tombs and corpses for some jewelry and fancy-crafted weaponry, but no major treasure. To get to this point, you've wiped out the hobgoblins, the stirges, the ghouls, the giant centipedes, and the zombies in the room with the grim statue (which is where you are standing now), but none of these monsters could match 'the' monster of legend, if it ever existed.
[OoC: it's been a long time since the beginning of the game, I suggest you go take a quick read at the 1st post in the 1st page to recall what the adventure is all about... I am starting to forget it too! ]
Overall, you have been in this dungeon for several hours... it was after sunset when you entered, so you can estimate it's probably very early morning right now.
Most recently, you have managed to unlock the last room and found the very tomb of Lord Wolf himself. After a quick survey of the room, your newly acquired comrade Swift fell victim of another cursed scroll and turned back again into a vermin form, but you immediately figured out to break the spell in the same way as before, by burning the scroll. You had to evacuate the room because of the smoke, but Bartleby managed to go back briefly and secure the black sword of Lord Wolf, which is now in his possession.
Anyway... as Bartleby rushed in and out to grab the sword, covering his eyes to protect them from the acrid smoke, and perhaps coughing a bit, he seems to catch a glimpse of the shadow of someone or something peeking into the grim statue room from the outer corridor, but when he instinctively rubs his eyes and looks better, the shadow is gone...
You have investigated seemingly all locales of these catacombs, but you have found one possible way further, through the trapdoor on the ceiling at the end of the corridor. You have looted the tombs and corpses for some jewelry and fancy-crafted weaponry, but no major treasure. To get to this point, you've wiped out the hobgoblins, the stirges, the ghouls, the giant centipedes, and the zombies in the room with the grim statue (which is where you are standing now), but none of these monsters could match 'the' monster of legend, if it ever existed.
[OoC: it's been a long time since the beginning of the game, I suggest you go take a quick read at the 1st post in the 1st page to recall what the adventure is all about... I am starting to forget it too!
]Overall, you have been in this dungeon for several hours... it was after sunset when you entered, so you can estimate it's probably very early morning right now.
Most recently, you have managed to unlock the last room and found the very tomb of Lord Wolf himself. After a quick survey of the room, your newly acquired comrade Swift fell victim of another cursed scroll and turned back again into a vermin form, but you immediately figured out to break the spell in the same way as before, by burning the scroll. You had to evacuate the room because of the smoke, but Bartleby managed to go back briefly and secure the black sword of Lord Wolf, which is now in his possession.
Anyway... as Bartleby rushed in and out to grab the sword, covering his eyes to protect them from the acrid smoke, and perhaps coughing a bit, he seems to catch a glimpse of the shadow of someone or something peeking into the grim statue room from the outer corridor, but when he instinctively rubs his eyes and looks better, the shadow is gone...
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(OOC:also, we think we know the shield is magic (Bartleby's been using it, but I don't remember if we've been told of specific effects), and Bartleby is happy to let anyone try out the sword to discover if the same is true for it.)
IC:
Bartleby blinks, and thinks he has missed something. "Wait! Was that something in the shadows?"
IC:
Bartleby blinks, and thinks he has missed something. "Wait! Was that something in the shadows?"
Li Shenron
Legend
Sorry
fixed now.Yes, I think Bartleby is actively using the shield, and benefitting from a +1 AC bonus. Have you taken this bonus into account?
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I hadn't, and I realize that maybe I can't: when the character was made, we were using play test stuff, before the PHB. Did we have a conversation about druids-wearing-metal? I don't remember. I do remember that his wisdom dropped because they shifted the wis bonus to hill dwarves, and the armour proficiency became redundant.
So he's still in scale mail (dwarven and druid proficiency, but against druid regs; ok because of dwarf?); and shield (druid proficiency only; and so must be non-metal?). If so, someone else can take the shield.
(And I notice that we're roughly a year of play time since we levelled to 2, though that includes several months trying to integrate a centipede into the party. Just saying'.) [/sblock]
I hadn't, and I realize that maybe I can't: when the character was made, we were using play test stuff, before the PHB. Did we have a conversation about druids-wearing-metal? I don't remember. I do remember that his wisdom dropped because they shifted the wis bonus to hill dwarves, and the armour proficiency became redundant.
So he's still in scale mail (dwarven and druid proficiency, but against druid regs; ok because of dwarf?); and shield (druid proficiency only; and so must be non-metal?). If so, someone else can take the shield.
(And I notice that we're roughly a year of play time since we levelled to 2, though that includes several months trying to integrate a centipede into the party. Just saying'.) [/sblock]
Li Shenron
Legend
[sblock=shield]It is up to you to decide if Bartleby as a druid would use metal shields and armors, or not. It's an ethical/spiritual issue and as such nobody can tell you what to do, not even a stupid line in the book.
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Li Shenron
Legend
So... do you want to rush quickly after it, follow it slowly but carefully, or continue your activities in this room?
"Lads! I saw something in there! I'm sure of it." He draws his weapon and advances cautiously, holding his shield high.
Li Shenron
Legend
Swift and Bartleby carefully go after the shadow...
OoC: both of you, make a Dex(Stealth) check and an Int(Investigation) check. We'll use these together as if they were single group checks with advantage, where the group is the two of you.
OoC: both of you, make a Dex(Stealth) check and an Int(Investigation) check. We'll use these together as if they were single group checks with advantage, where the group is the two of you.
Li Shenron
Legend
You turn around towards the entrance of the grim statue room, but alas you realize you weren't probably quick enough to see youself what the druid had. But as your two comrades walk past you and approach the doorway for investigation, you ready yourself for possible dangers.
[OoC: if it's ok, I am assuming that Swift & Bartleby leads the investigation by going carefully towards the door, and if it seems safe to do so, even a bit further]
