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

[CanadienneBacon]

If Phud wants his heavy mace back, he can try to prize it from the shield to which it's stuck at a DC 20 Strength check. Would he try or would he be content with the new scimitar?

 

[Guest 11456]

OOC: Phud is happy with the new acquisition. As a sorcerer he was only proficient with simple weapons. But with his barbarian levels he has more weapon choices.

 

[Rhun]

Rowan frowns at the collection of 'big-folk' gear. While a crossbow would be nice to add to his arsenal, certainly these ones were too unwieldy for the halfling. Still, if would be worthwhile to collect anything that radiated magic. "Let's grab this case of, um, crossbow bolts, the potions, and that amulet. Nothing else appears to be, well, magical, although I suppose there are, ah, spells and such that can disguise an aura."

 

[pallandrome]

"True, but I doubt any of us have the ability, currently, to determine if such an aura is in place, and were it so, the stregth and willingness to haul such an ungainly stash about untill we DO come into such prowess. I say we leave the mundane loot."

 

[Rhun]

"Indeed," replies Rowan, "But we should take what we can. Certes some of these items will have value when we leave this place."

 

[Brain]

Arden nods in agreement. "The way to do it is to take things that are easy to carry, but have a good value and sell easily."

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Some of the items secured, Arden stands fast a moment longer and pricks an ear to the scuffling she'd heard earlier in the guardian room above. Whatever had previously been scuffling has now stopped and things seem, to her practiced ear, to be quiet.

 

[Guest 11456]

Phud : Male Half-Orc Sorcerer 1 / Barbarian 2

Phud moves the brazier back out of the way and climbs out. Then he helps the others out of the hidey-hole.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Phud strains against the brazier but, where yesterday the stone bulwark was merely heavy and could be shoved aside, this morning the thing does not budge. Laying aside his gear and climbing up the tunnel to get at the brazier, Phud pushes a second time with all this might, hard enough to make a vein in his forehead press against skin. His face crimson with the effort, the half-orc grunts and heaves 'til at last the brazier begins to begrudgingly grind against stone. The brazier moves half its normal width then stops, necessitating a squeeze should a medium-sized creature wish to exit. From his perch in the tunnel, Phud peers into the darkened guardian room and quickly discerns that, from what he can see of things, the two kuo-toa bodies laid in the shallow pool by Wyleck are missing and the phosphorescent moss covering the walls has been scraped away. For the moment, at least, all is quiet within both the guardian room and the main chamber that lies down the short corridor to the east.

 

[Brain]

Arden points out the following as things that should be kept by the party (aside from personal use):

--light crossbow x6 and some amount of bolts
--a shiny scimitar with zig-zag patterns embellished down the length of the blade x2
--nice light steel shield x5 (if they are masterwork)
--stoppered clear glass vial w/ vermillion-hued liquid (Rhys identifies this as a potion of inflict light wounds [divine])
--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)
--17 light xbow bolts (each bolt has a faint transmutation aura detected by Rowan)
--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]