Ptolus- Palace of the Silver Princess (Campy)

[Deuce Traveler]

Guy pulls open the door and sees behind it and sees two animated gnoll skeletons. The chain-mail armored monstrosities slowly turn towards the adventurer, large spears gripped in their hands. It looks as if they had recently been killed, as small bits of flesh still cling here and there to their bodies. Only one person would be able to engage them at a time, as they are somewhat protected by sides of the doorway.

 

[TheMagician]

"So, who wants to go first?" Samuel asks with a grin. He steps back a little from the door and pulls out his spear, just in case any of the gnoll skeletons get too close for comfort.

 

[Mista Collins]

With a crack of his whip, Carl goes to step forward and stops. "What a gosh darn minute! I'm not the tank of the group, how 'bout one of you guys go in first!"

 

[InVinoVeritas]

"Aw, no! They killed the puppies!" Thorg wails.

He pulls out his holy symbol:

"Bad puppies! Go beddie-bye!"

 

[Deuce Traveler]

Thym holds his action since he worries that he might hit Guy. Carl also holds after getting ready to strike, but is prepared with a whip. Samuel also waits, himself with a spear in case one of the skeletons gets by. Guy takes a 5-foot step back, avoiding an attack of opportunity while drawing weapons to prepare for melee. Thorg summons the might of Pelor, obliterating the lead skeleton. The second skeleton steps over its comrade and out the door, while making a strike at Guy, but the nimble swashbuckler gets out of the way in time, returning with his own counter-thrusts that also miss. Renard moves backwards so that he can better employ his arrows.

Everyone else is now able to move forward and engage.

 

[Mista Collins]

As Carl tries to wrap the whip around the leg of the skeleton and bring him down to the ground he refrains from some making some witty comment. Not because I chooses to, but because he has just been struck by a case of writer's block.

 

[Erekose13]

With uncanny precision, Thym launches an eldritch spear at the closes skeleton, firing into melee if he needs to.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

Thym fires a bolt of eldritch might, ripping pieces of bone from the sides of the skeleton that cascade over Guy before the swashbuckler can strike. Carl also makes a move, but misses wrapping the skeleton around the leg. Guy attacks next, both blades whipping through the air and connecting with the skeleton's collar bone simultaneously, removing skull from corpse. With a clatter, the creature comes apart and falls into a pile of bones.

The room behind them is square, each wall 20 feet in length. The door is in the center of the southern 10 feet of the west wall. On the south wall of the room is a lever. The lever has two positions: up or down. The down position is unmarked. The up position is marked "B". The lever is pushed down. There is nothing else in the room.

 

[Mista Collins]

"B? B..... B..... B....." Carl says to himself as he looks at the lever. Final figuring out what the B must stand for he lifts the lever. "B stands for booty! This must lead us to hidden treasure!"

 

[Deuce Traveler]

Carl grabs the handle, but before he can lift it he pulls back as if in pain. He stares for a moment at his finger in surprise, and a drop of blood can be seen on his hand. A small needle is now poking out from the lever that wasn't visible before he grabbed at it.

Carl
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You feel a stabbing pain in your palm as a needle springs forth and pricks you. You look at your hand in shock, as a feeling of numbness steadily crawls up your arm.
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