[Pathfinder] Hewligan's Rise of the Runelords: The Hook Mountain Massacre

[Fenris]

OOC: Perception for traps
1d20+13=24

I say we hit the female voice.

 

[hewligan]

Jovik leads the way, moving with alertness, after the worrying motion on the floor. He has hardly moved outside the room when he stops, looks up, and signals the party to hang back.

Above him, pulled up into the roof, sit four massive spiked levers, coiled back as if ready to strike down. Jovik turns his gaze to the floor. The floor-boards look fine, but then he notices one that is raised just a shade, just enough. It would have been a horrible trap to walk into. The spiked blades on the lever trap are a good eighteen inches long. Someone in this house can rig traps, that is for sure.

Moving back into the room he explains the situation to his friends, and then lifts a chair and throws it onto the raised floorboard. The trap trips, and the four arms slam down with ferocious power, impaling the chair and carrying it upwards, embedding it into the top of the door frame. The group have to move under the chair obstacle, but at least the trip is no longer a danger.

Alert now to the danger, Jovik's eyes watch each step like a hawk.

Ahead you hear a cackling, and then in very coarse common tongue:

"Four little rabbits come to play. Rutting like rabbits in the hay. Come to Mamma, hear me say .. naked little rabbits squeezed like clay"

Clearly delighted by her song, the woman laughs. She is near. Probably in the room at the end of the corridor.

Elsewhere in the house, footsteps can be heard running towards you (from the other direction that you chose not to take).

 

[Fenris]

Jovik points in the direction of the approaching sound indicating they need to take care of that first. But he calls out to the female voice in giant.

"Four little rabbits come to play,
Hucker found those rabbits today,
Oh what will Mama say,
when she finds Hucker's blood reddening the hay."

 

[frostrune]

Jokad lowers his voice so just the others can hear, "We could be hit from two sides. Kael, have you any tricks that can trap or delay foes in one direction or the other?"

As he speaks he scans the surroundings looking for a semi defensible position.


OOC: Hew - having a hard time visualizing the surroundings. Trying not to get caught where Danth or Jovik have to hold another front.

 

[hewligan]

OOC: Hew - having a hard time visualizing the surroundings. Trying not to get caught where Danth or Jovik have to hold another front.

OOC: No problem. I will post a map with locations (and external picture of the house) tonight. I hadn't bought the PDF of this adventure, and was using only the print copy, so posting maps etc. is harder. However, I think I NEED the maps for the fort section, so I plan on getting the PDF today.

 

[hewligan]

To help with the visualisation of the current environment, I have purchased the PDF and here is a picture of one of the ogrekin (the one you killed near the vegetable patch outside) with the house in the background. The next picture is a map of the ground floor. You are at the way out of the room towards the corridors, hanging left.

Graul Homestead

First Floor Map

 

[Fenris]

OOC: Awesome pics Hew. Looks like you'll get a lot of use out of that PDF.
I say we back into the room. The female doesn't appear to be moving, while this other thing is. Have Jokad be visible in the door way as we are in the room. Jokad can hit the thing as it charges in with his spear (Tears of Sorrow? Sorry forgot the name) then we can all hit it as it engages. Plan?

 

[hewligan]

OOC: After this battle with the Grauls, assuming he survives and participates, Kael will be leveling up to 7. We may be a week or two away from this happening, but I thought perhaps Friadoc would like a little time to think about what options he would like to take, etc. Any questions regarding the level-up process please ask in the OOC thread.

 

[frostrune]

I say we back into the room. The female doesn't appear to be moving, while this other thing is. Have Jokad be visible in the door way as we are in the room. Jokad can hit the thing as it charges in with his spear (Tears of Sorrow? Sorry forgot the name) then we can all hit it as it engages. Plan?

OOC: So we fall back to entry room A2 - Jokad taking position in the doorway between A2 and the two hallways? I like that idea.

 

[Rhun]

Danth turns and withdraws back to the entry room, his companions' warnings about being engaged on two fronts loud in his mind. Reddish-gold flames continue to flicker along Crimson Dawn's blade as the cleric readies himself for the coming battle.


AC: 22/24 vrs. EVIL, Hit Points: 56/56

Spells in Effect
- Magic Circle vrs Evil, duration <70 minutes (remember everyone within 10' of Danth gets +2 to AC and Saves vrs EVIL)
- Divine Favor on self, round 6 (?) of 10 (+2 attack and damage bonus)

[sblock=Spells Prepared]
- Level 0: Detect Magic, Light, Guidance, Read Magic
- Level 1: Command, Bless, Shield of Faith, Divine Favor + (d) Cure Light Wounds
- Level 2: Deific Vengeance (CD), Hold Person, Lesser Restoration x 2 (normally Resist Energy, Silence) + (d) Heat Metal
- Level 3: Summon Monster III, Magic Circle vrs Evil, Dispel Magic + (d)Searing Light
- Level 4: Restoration x 2 (normally Holy Smite, Summon Monster IV) + (d) Fire Shield
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