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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fralex" data-source="post: 6663770" data-attributes="member: 6785902">Session 5Only three other players were here this time: Gwapo, the bard, and the wizard. That said, a lot happened.Part 1: In Which Discoveries Open New Doors[sblock=Also, we discover new doors to open]We looted the bodies of the monks and looked around the room. Ahead of us was a pair of windows through which we could make out a pair of doors we had been lead down when we were sent to that dungeon earlier. To the left and right were doors. We went down the right path first. There were a few small rooms branching out of the hallway, and we explored each of them. To the wizard's delight we found a scroll of dust devil and a scroll of erupting earth. Erupting earth is a 3rd-level spell, above his normal casting ability, but he'd still be able to cast it with a successful Arcana check.As for me, I found an unusual journal titled Personal Testament of Marios Urnrayle. I only skimmed it, but it talked about something called the Fane of the Eye. It also mentioned an object imbued with the magic of elemental earth, the Black Geode, being buried beneath this very monastery. I've taken the book with me to read more about it later.The hallway went on further, but we decided to head back to the main room and explore the other hallway. The left hall had three doors. We couldn't decide which one to open first, so three of us picked a door and we all opened them at once. Gwapo opened his door. Inside were around 4 monks. Some were sleeping, and had hung their gargoyle masks on hooks. Gwapo tried to play it off like he was looking for the bathroom, but the monks were skeptical and, after awakening their sleeping comrades, ran towards him to attack. The bard opened his door. It was locked. I opened my door. The room was without any light except that of a furnace off to the side, and had a bunch of duergar in it. They charged towards me to attack, some of them doubling in size.[/sblock]Part 2: In Which I Hold Back an Army[sblock=Well, a large group, anyway] Both Gwapo and I panicked and immediately shut the doors we'd just opened. This was a lot of things to fight simultaneously. I called for the bard to throw me his crowbar, which I braced between the door and the connecting wall (the door I opened was in a corner, and I tried to wedge the crowbar diagonally to the other wall the door's corner connected to). This wasn't enough to keep it shut on its own, but as long as I held the metal bar in place it would give me advantage on my Strength checks to hold the door shut. While I held back the duergar, the other three party members gathered at the monk door.Gwapo opened it up again and got the group of monks with arms of Hadar. They all closed in on him and got in a ton of hits with their Flurries of Blows, but then the bard jumped in with his hammer and together they downed all but two. Gwapo killed one on his following turn then, with an Action Surge, swung it into the other one and killed it, too. It's around this time that I finally lost a Strength contest and a giant dwarf knocked the door off its hinges, pushing me with it.Before they could do much more, the wizard pulled out a scroll and managed to cast erupting earth on the area behind the door. The duergar about to charge out of the room were engulfed in flying bricks and the spell left them with severe injuries and a 20-foot square of difficult terrain. Before the one in front could recover his bearings, I pulled out my frying pan, told him to "griddle me THIS!", and with a resounding clang he fell to the ground.[/sblock]Part 3: In Which the Power of Earth Works Strongly in Our Favor[sblock=W̶e̶ ̶r̶o̶c̶k̶e̶d̶]More enlarged dwarfs were coming, albeit at half-speed. I picked up the fallen door and held it in front of me as a shield, but it did nothing to stop the momentum of the huge hammer he swung at me. It splintered the door and hit me square in the chest, dropping me to 2 HP. The duergar moved to finish me off, but was shot down with a well-aimed searing ray from the wizard. There were a lot of duergar coming at us, most of them gigantic, but the difficult terrain slowing them down combined with the doorway being a natural chokepoint meant we could keep killing them one at a time. When just two were left, I held out my frying pan and with a paralyzing glare Abjured the one in front, blocking the doorway for the one behind.I ran back down the hall to get a heal from the bard while the others finished off the dwarf in the back. The one in front broke free of my avenger magic and charged down the hall at us, but we defeated him right before he got into melee range. Whew.With all our foes defeated, we turned our attention back to the third door, the one we couldn't get open. We pried the lock off with the crowbar and stepped inside. There were eight trunks, which we promptly looted. Along with assorted gold and gems, we found a nice cloak and three more scrolls: a scroll of Maximilian's Earthen Grasp, one of earthbind, and one of transmute rock. The wizard said he'd try to add them to his spellbook when he had some time.[/sblock]And that was where the fifth session ended. Once again, since then another session has happened, but this week a bunch of people won't be here so we'll be taking a break and running a different adventure (Fey Sister's Fate, I think) with different characters. So hopefully I'll be able to catch up now in these retellings.</blockquote>

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