Industrygothica's "Those Left Behind" [IC]

[Scotley]

[sblock=ooc]Have you been reading my notes? [/sblock]

[sblock=OOC]Interestingly enough it was my notes, the players just recently crawled out of the sewer in a game I'm running here too. Great minds think alike?[/sblock]

"I had no luck with my shoulder, but perhaps Rokelsh could do better. Otherwise, I've got a fine axe and I believe I can make a special opening in that door sized just for you Friadoc. Pehaps we can do better working from both sides?"

 

[Jemal]

"Before you dent your blades on the door, allow me a chance?" Rokelsh waits for them to move and throws his considerable bulk against the door (+4 STR).
*Should that fail, he shrugs, rubbing his shoulder "Allright, Axes it is."

 

[Friadoc]

"Is anyone seriously hurt. The Gods only know what sort of diseases might get into a wound down here."

"I don't know if it's serious, or not," says Friadoc. "But, the beastie slapped my shoulder a good one, I don't know if it broke the skin, though."

"Either way, gentleman," says Friadoc with a smile as he moves away from the door. "Be it muscle or steel, I think this task calls for someone of stature."

 

[DrZombie]

Jonas will have a go at it, assuming his bull's strength is still working.

 

[industrygothica]

Rokelsh sheathes his huge sword and takes a deep breath as he lowers himself, dancing a bit on the balls of his feet. He lurches forward, slamming his huge shoulder into the thick wooden door. To everyone's amazement, the door breaks free from its hinges with a thunderous crack (Strength check: 20=auto success).

The group barely has time to realize what has happened when the force of the filthy water pouring into the corridor beyond threatens to pull them from their feet.

[sblock=details]Ok, this is probably way over-complicated, but it's how I did it anyway--I'll try my best to explain it.

The water rushes for three rounds. A successful DC 15 swim or strength check (whichever is higher) means you take 1d3 points of non-lethal damage. Failure means you're knocked prone.

Prone characters must immediately make another DC 15 swim or strength check (minus any stability modifiers, for any of you dwarves or wolves out there) or be swept away in the torrent, smashing into the walls and stone floor and taking a whopping 1d6 points of normal damage. A successful check results in only the 1d3 non-lethal damage.

At the start of the second and third rounds a prone character can regain his footing with another successful DC 15 strength of swim check. Success means you get 1d3 non-lethal damage; failure, another 1d6 normal damage.

God, I hope that makes sense. Anyway, here are the results:

[sblock=Results]
Round 1:
Rokelsh: 14+4=pass; 3 nl
Rogash: 5+2+4=fail (knocked prone), Swim 3+2=fail (swept away); 4 damage
Tanith: 4+0=fail (knocked prone), Str 20+0=pass (stays above water); 3 nl
Jonas (bull's strength): 8+2+2=fail (knocked prone), Str 3+2+2=fail (swept away); 3 damage
Shai: 18+3=pass; 1 nl
Friadoc: check not needed
Dyspeer: 3+2+4=fail (knocked prone), Str 10+2=fail; 1 damage


Round 2:
Rokelsh: 5+4=fail (knocked prone), Str 6+4=fail (swept away); 5 damage
Rogash (prone): Swim 7+4=fail, 1 damage
Tanith (prone): Str 10+0=fail (swept away); 2 damage
Jonas (bull's strength, prone): Str 7+2+2=fail; 3 damage
Shai: 17+3=pass; 1 nl
Friadoc: check not needed
Dyspeer (prone): Str 3+2=fail; 3 damage


Round 3:
Rokelsh (prone): Str 4+4=fail; 3 damage
Rogash (prone): Swim 3+4=fail, 6 damage
Tanith (prone): Str 2+0=fail, 4 damage
Jonas (bull's strength, prone): 10+2+2=fail; 5 damage
Shai: Str 13+3=pass; 3 nl
Friadoc: check not needed
Dyspeer (prone): Str 16+2=pass (regains footing); 3 nl

Results:
Rokelsh takes 3 points of non-lethal damage and 8 points of regular damage.
Rogash takes 0 points of non-lethal damage and 11 points of regular damage.
Tanith takes 3 points of non-lethal damage and 6 points of regular damage.
Jonas takes 0 points of non-lethal damage and 11 points of regular damage.
Shai takes 5 points of non-lethal damage and 0 points of regular damage.
Dyspeer takes 3 points of non-lethal damage and 4 points of regular damage.

Current Status:

Friadoc 26/32
Rogash Ungart 28/39
Jonas Cleighton 28/44
Rokelsh 29/37 (3 non-lethal)
Tanith Dathius 17/23 (3 non-lethal)
Shaimon Hu'u 36/36 (5 non-lethal)
Dyspeer 25/29 (3 non-lethal)
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[jkason]

Shaimon Hu'u, barbaric human druid

Rokelsh sheathes his huge sword and takes a deep breath as he lowers himself, dancing a bit on the balls of his feet. He lurches forward, slamming his huge shoulder into the thick wooden door. To everyone's amazement, the door breaks free from its hinges with a thunderous crack (Strength check: 20=auto success).

The group barely has time to realize what has happened when the force of the filthy water pouring into the corridor beyond threatens to pull them from their feet.

As the muck roars out the door, Shai manages to stand up against it. Dyspeer, however, slips under and out of the larger man's reach.

When the flood of sewage finally clears, a desperate Shai finds the wolf, who managed to right itself near the end of the deluge. He does his best to clear filth from the the animal's muzzle, though he can't hide his own disgust at the smelly state of the full party. He looks up to the halfling clinging to the wall and raises an eyebrow.

"Don't s'pose you got a bunch of clean towels on you?" he says as his wolf sneezes and growls at its current unclean state.

 

[Friadoc]

"I have a winter blanket that could be parsed into towels," says Friadoc with a lopsided grin. In reply to the raise eyebrow, he adds, "It is not my fault that my folk have to adapt to your overside world and we sometimes avoid the mess of it all."

Once the majority of the filthy flow has made it's way beyond and down the hallway, Friadoc will drop down to the floor and pull a large, human sized blanket from his haversack.

"What?" Friadoc says as he cuts the blanket into towels with a knife. "I like to be cozy when I sleep, plus outfitters usually charge the same for blankets, regardless of size, so I'd be stealing from myself if I bought the smaller one."

 

[industrygothica]

As the filth comes to a settle the group manages to right themselves. They have fallen into a short hallway that snakes around a corner out of sight. Another corridor branches off like a T near you, at the end of which Rogash can see another wooden door thanks to his darkvision.

 

[Mista Collins]

Trying to wipe as much muck as possible off of her, Tanith final gives up. "I'll just need to give myself a proper cleaning once we are out of here."

"Where to now?"

 

[DrZombie]

Jonas gets up after being bounced like a rag doll from wall to wall. He takes the wand of CLW and heals himself.
"Does anybody else need some releif from the pain?"