[LANAI] The Rod of Seven Parts: Into the Crucible

[Brain]

Arden searches the area thoroughly and announces that she has found a neat little room that looks feasible to rest in. She also helps search the bodies before they are dumped, and arranges the spoils into neat categories and lines them up for easy and asthetic viewing.

 

[Guest 11456]

Phud : Male Half-Orc Sorcerer 1 / Barbarian 1

Once the hidey hole has been located, Phud gestures at all the things they found on the bodies. "Maybe we take dat stuff below."

 

[Rhun]

Rowan happily retires to the hidey-hole found by Arden beneath the brazier. Completely drained, both mentally and physically, the halfling doesn't wait for his companions to discuss watches and guards and loot and such. He unfolds his bedroll, chitters at Grinai for a few moments (telling the rat to wake him at any sign of trouble), and then lays down. He is fast asleep and snoring within just a few minutes.

 

[Rhun]

Awaking quite refreshed from his undisturbed slumber, Rowan yawns and stretches. Then, the halfling pulls his spellbook from his pack, and reclines against the wall to study, munching on some rations while he does so.

After long minutes of study, the halfling wizard begins to beam, obviously pleased with himself. He remains quiet though, but is obviously excited about whatever his studies have revealed to him. Finally, he closes his book with a loud thud and packs it safely away again.

"I don't know if it is, well, the amount I've been forced to use my magic the last few days or not, but I've finally figured out a few of the other spells I had been, ah, studying." The wizard continues to smile. "Those kuo-toans won't know what hit them!"

 

[Guest 11456]

Phud : Male Half-Orc Sorcerer 1 / Barbarian 2

Now rested, Phud feels much better. "What we do now?" Meanwhile bird, rested as well, hops upon his master's shoulder ready to go.

 

[Rhun]

Rowan looks up at Phud with a bit of a gleam in his eye, and a slight smile on his lips. "Now we go put the beatdown on these kuo-toan thugs."

 

[CanadienneBacon]

[sblock=Items recovered]Summary of items recovered from dead kuo-toas in both the guardian room and the main chamber:

KT1:
--light crossbow
--a shiny scimitar with zig-zag patterns embellished down the length of the blade
--leather bandoleer
--18 light xbow bolts
--nice light steel shield

KT2:
--light crossbow
--a dinged-up scimitar
--nice light steel shield
--stoppered clear glass vial w/ vermillion-hued liquid (Rhys identifies this as a potion of inflict light wounds [divine])

KT3:
--nice light steel shield (w/Phud's heavy mace stuck fast)
--light crossbow
--a shiny scimitar with zig-zag patterns embellished down the length of the blade
--15 light xbow bolts in a case

KT4 (dead by portcullis door):
--light crossbow
--longspear
--dagger
--leather bandoleer
--13 light xbow bolts
--nice light steel shield
--signet ring
--silver holy symbol of a stylized lobster with lightening bolts crossed in the background(Rowan identifies it as symbol of Blipdoolpoolp)
--stoppered glass vial w/clear blue liquid that smells of almonds (Rhys identifies this as a potion of cure light wounds)

KT5:
--light crossbow
--longspear
--dagger
--leather bandoleer
--17 light xbow bolts (each bolt has a faint transmutation aura detected by Rowan)
--nice light steel shield

KT6:
--light crossbow
--longspear
--dagger
--leather bandoleer
--12 light xbow bolts
--nice light steel shield
--crude-looking stone amulet on a natty leather cord, gives Phud a nasty shock when he touches it (faint evocation aura detected by Rowan)[/sblock]
The loot is detailed above. If you want something, please declare what you have your PC take. If you're unsure about taking something that you think others might want, please use the OOC to hash out details.

Leaving the bulk of the main chamber unexplored due to the fear of impending discovery, Phud gathers up KT4 from where the kuo-toa lies dead by the portcullis and crosses the main chamber back into the guardian room. Once each creature is divested of its gear and accoutrement, Wyleck sets about dragging each of the six kuo-toas for deposit into the shallow indentations containing murky water in the guardian rooms. With only four such pools, two do double duty and contain two dead guards. The gathered items safely secured in the 20-ft square room secreted beneath the stone brazier and everyone cloistered inside for a bit of rest, time does, indeed, pass uneventfully until Rowan wakes and studies--to his excitement--his spell tome 12 hours later.

As Rowan excitedly boasts of his new lore, Arden's ears prick to the sound of scraping and dragging coming from the guardian room above.

 

[Rhun]

[sblock=CanadienneBacon]

Rowan would have cast a detect magic on the pile of gear before resting. Anything other than the potions radiate magic?

[/sblock]

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Rowan casts detect magic and has a careful look at the recovered items. Potions aside, one case of partially-used light crossbow bolts and the crude-looking stone amulet necklace attract his attention. Likewise, should he have ventured out into the main chamber before resting beneath the brazier, the door with the zig-zag patterns back in the main chamber radiates a faint aura, though just of what remains elusive to the halfling. The stone door atop the stairs has an aura to it; by casting his spell and being thoroughly informed of the limits of his arcane prowess, Rowan divines that the door has a faint aura about it that must originate on the inside of the room beyond. Just what the door's aura is, however, Rowan doesn't know.

Sorry, rolled a 2 and a 5 for his spellcraft checks on those last two doors. I've included an edit in my earlier post to detail aura strength and school on the bolts and amulet.

 

[Guest 11456]

Phud : Male Half-Orc Sorcerer 1 / Barbarian 2

Phud digs through the items and decides on the shiny scimitar with zig-zag patterns embellished down the length of the blade and one of the nice light steel shields. "Phud ready go."