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<blockquote data-quote="Fenros" data-source="post: 6337" data-attributes="member: 975"><p>First Adventure – “From The Woods Come The Undead” Part 3:</p><p></p><p>The party enters into the mysterious structure. The main hall has another set of double doors at the far end and two side chambers half way from the front entrance. The party searches the chamber on the right and find nothing in it. They search the left chamber and Atalos notices that there is a secret door in one of the walls. On closer examination, he notices also an area in the decorative wall where a key can be inserted to open the secret door. He also tells the group that without the proper key, a trap may spring should anyone try to pick the lock.</p><p></p><p>The party asks if Atalos can disarm the trap. Evantil eyes him suspiciously. Atalos says he can try. He explains that he had once watched locksmiths in his city of Selora work on such mechanical devices. Evantil sarcastically says, “Oh…of course.”</p><p></p><p>Atalos attempts to disarm the trap. Evantil asks where he got the tools. Atalos said he got the picks from one of the dead human bodies out front. Atalos fails to disarm the trap and it starts to activate. A large block from the ceiling starts to descend but it gets stuck. Everyone breathes a sigh a relief. Golorn asks Atalos if he can maybe try to disarm the trap again. Atalos expresses that tampering with it again would be a very bad idea. Various party members convince him to try again anyways. Anything that is guarded by such a trap must indeed be worth a lot. Evantil remarks that they are here to stop the undead and not to ransack what might be an ancient elven temple. The party thinks about it for a moment. Then they ask Atalos to try again.</p><p></p><p>Atalos fails to disarm the trap but at least had found a way to keep the ceiling block from falling any further. But he says that if were to attempt picking the lock again, he would have to release the mechanism he jammed that is keeping the block from falling. Victor and Rashino discuss whether or not their combined strength can hold up the block. They decide that they wouldn’t be able to and the party moves on.</p><p></p><p>Everyone goes back to the main hall to go through the double doors at the far end. They enter a huge room that is intricately carved with a forest theme. Even the pillars on the side are carved to represent tree trunks that go up to the ceiling. Victor says, “They sure went to a lot of trouble to make the inside look like the outside.”</p><p></p><p>At the opposite end of the room there is a section in the wall that looks like a hidden door that slides up and down to reveal another room beyond. The secret door is partially open. About a few feet off the ground. The party crawls through to the room on the other side. There they see a statue of a large two headed bear. At the base of the statue is some unreadable writing and an area where something the shape of a heart and the size of a hand used to once sit in the stone. By the statue lies another dead human body. This one however was not torn apart by animals, but has a knife in its back. Near the body, there’s a spot in the floor where the old layer of dust has been disturbed. The disturbed area is in the form of a perfect circle.</p><p></p><p>Atalos searches through the backpack of the dead man on the floor. He finds some silver and a little gold. He puts it in the ‘widows and orphans’ fund. He also finds a small notebook of sorts in the backpack. In the book he sees notes that have been written concerning the same language the party notices on the base of the bear statue. Flipping through more of the book Atalos sees it has enough notes to translate the writing.</p><p></p><p>Going to the base of the bear statue, Atalos decrypts the old writing. Atalos tells the party that the writing indicates the thing that should be sitting in the empty socket is the Heart of Nalvaya. By some magical means, the Heart is the center link to the temple’s influence over the surrounding animal life both live and undead he thinks. It also says that each of the temple’s worshipped spirits are linked to the Heart. Golorn deduces that a band of humans must’ve broken into the temple, removed the heart, and attempted to leave the forest with it. Obviously most of them failed to escape the vengeful animals. Evanstil remarks that at least one human had gotten really far. Meaning the first body they found at the bottom of a cliff. Some one asks, “Yeah, how did he get that far?”</p><p></p><p>Atalos looks at the ground. At the perfect circle free of dust. Atalos says that its quite possible that the man they found at the bottom of the cliff had stabbed the one with the notebook and then teleported away using a spellscroll with that ability. That was what the empty piece of paper was in the scrollcase found. He obviously had no reservations about abandoning his fellow party members to escape. But he didn’t have the Heart of Nalvaya on his body when it was found. Then who does have it?</p><p></p><p>Victor declares that the party must find the Heart. The man found at the bottom of the cliff must’ve handed the Heart off to someone else before he died or somebody found the body first before the party did and took it. In either case, they must try to track it down. The party exits the temple.</p><p></p><p>As the party begins to cross the field of bones they see two figures walking on one of the four paths. They seem to be moving toward them. The party gets ready for combat.</p><p></p><p>Walking toward them are Krog the half-orc barbarian and Ajanen the gnome druid. They greet the main party. Victor asks who they are and what they are doing here. Krog says that he was a part of the group that was trying to steal the Heart of Nalvaya. Evantil takes great offense to his presence and a fight almost breaks out. Krog just nonchalantly says that he doesn’t mean any offense, its just that he was hired to go with these people as extra muscle. He didn’t know what stealing the Heart would do. When the animals attacked the group he held out with them as long as he could. After the front door of the temple had broken down he and another man ran for the woods. Krog explains that he went into hiding and for the past few nights has been trying to escape the animals unsuccessfully. Ajanen then explains his story. He tells the party that he had traveled across the ocean to visit the wild elves. After doing so he planned to visit the other elves. In his travels east he came across an odd sight. A large two headed bear. He tried to follow it but lost it. Before he knew it, he was deep in the sacred forest surrounded by undead wolves by night. There he met up with Krog, who was also trying to stay alive. Both of them teamed up to avoid the perils of the woods until they could figure out how to escape.</p><p></p><p>[ Extra DM Commentary/Notes: <em> My friend who plays Victor tells me that two more friends of ours want to join up and play D&D too. The group was already huge, but I couldn’t turn them down because simply they were my good friends too. So they were admitted into the game at this point. Eight players? Might be a stretch, but I can handle it right? Just gotta be more on the ball. Right?</em> ]</p><p></p><p>Victor comments that he finds it odd that both Krog and Ajanen haven’t been able to escape the Nalvayan woods. They say it was because everytime they attempt to leave, no matter how early they set out, it becomes night before they can escape the woods and that’s when they get overwhelmed by skeletal animals.</p><p></p><p>Victor declares that with him and their total combined numbers they should easily be able to battle their way out of the woods. And with that, the party heads north and away from the temple.</p><p></p><p>[Extra DM Commentary/Notes:<em>Yes, the party decided not to investigate the other four paths that led away from the temple</em> ]</p><p></p><p>To be continued . . .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fenros, post: 6337, member: 975"] First Adventure – “From The Woods Come The Undead” Part 3: The party enters into the mysterious structure. The main hall has another set of double doors at the far end and two side chambers half way from the front entrance. The party searches the chamber on the right and find nothing in it. They search the left chamber and Atalos notices that there is a secret door in one of the walls. On closer examination, he notices also an area in the decorative wall where a key can be inserted to open the secret door. He also tells the group that without the proper key, a trap may spring should anyone try to pick the lock. The party asks if Atalos can disarm the trap. Evantil eyes him suspiciously. Atalos says he can try. He explains that he had once watched locksmiths in his city of Selora work on such mechanical devices. Evantil sarcastically says, “Oh…of course.” Atalos attempts to disarm the trap. Evantil asks where he got the tools. Atalos said he got the picks from one of the dead human bodies out front. Atalos fails to disarm the trap and it starts to activate. A large block from the ceiling starts to descend but it gets stuck. Everyone breathes a sigh a relief. Golorn asks Atalos if he can maybe try to disarm the trap again. Atalos expresses that tampering with it again would be a very bad idea. Various party members convince him to try again anyways. Anything that is guarded by such a trap must indeed be worth a lot. Evantil remarks that they are here to stop the undead and not to ransack what might be an ancient elven temple. The party thinks about it for a moment. Then they ask Atalos to try again. Atalos fails to disarm the trap but at least had found a way to keep the ceiling block from falling any further. But he says that if were to attempt picking the lock again, he would have to release the mechanism he jammed that is keeping the block from falling. Victor and Rashino discuss whether or not their combined strength can hold up the block. They decide that they wouldn’t be able to and the party moves on. Everyone goes back to the main hall to go through the double doors at the far end. They enter a huge room that is intricately carved with a forest theme. Even the pillars on the side are carved to represent tree trunks that go up to the ceiling. Victor says, “They sure went to a lot of trouble to make the inside look like the outside.” At the opposite end of the room there is a section in the wall that looks like a hidden door that slides up and down to reveal another room beyond. The secret door is partially open. About a few feet off the ground. The party crawls through to the room on the other side. There they see a statue of a large two headed bear. At the base of the statue is some unreadable writing and an area where something the shape of a heart and the size of a hand used to once sit in the stone. By the statue lies another dead human body. This one however was not torn apart by animals, but has a knife in its back. Near the body, there’s a spot in the floor where the old layer of dust has been disturbed. The disturbed area is in the form of a perfect circle. Atalos searches through the backpack of the dead man on the floor. He finds some silver and a little gold. He puts it in the ‘widows and orphans’ fund. He also finds a small notebook of sorts in the backpack. In the book he sees notes that have been written concerning the same language the party notices on the base of the bear statue. Flipping through more of the book Atalos sees it has enough notes to translate the writing. Going to the base of the bear statue, Atalos decrypts the old writing. Atalos tells the party that the writing indicates the thing that should be sitting in the empty socket is the Heart of Nalvaya. By some magical means, the Heart is the center link to the temple’s influence over the surrounding animal life both live and undead he thinks. It also says that each of the temple’s worshipped spirits are linked to the Heart. Golorn deduces that a band of humans must’ve broken into the temple, removed the heart, and attempted to leave the forest with it. Obviously most of them failed to escape the vengeful animals. Evanstil remarks that at least one human had gotten really far. Meaning the first body they found at the bottom of a cliff. Some one asks, “Yeah, how did he get that far?” Atalos looks at the ground. At the perfect circle free of dust. Atalos says that its quite possible that the man they found at the bottom of the cliff had stabbed the one with the notebook and then teleported away using a spellscroll with that ability. That was what the empty piece of paper was in the scrollcase found. He obviously had no reservations about abandoning his fellow party members to escape. But he didn’t have the Heart of Nalvaya on his body when it was found. Then who does have it? Victor declares that the party must find the Heart. The man found at the bottom of the cliff must’ve handed the Heart off to someone else before he died or somebody found the body first before the party did and took it. In either case, they must try to track it down. The party exits the temple. As the party begins to cross the field of bones they see two figures walking on one of the four paths. They seem to be moving toward them. The party gets ready for combat. Walking toward them are Krog the half-orc barbarian and Ajanen the gnome druid. They greet the main party. Victor asks who they are and what they are doing here. Krog says that he was a part of the group that was trying to steal the Heart of Nalvaya. Evantil takes great offense to his presence and a fight almost breaks out. Krog just nonchalantly says that he doesn’t mean any offense, its just that he was hired to go with these people as extra muscle. He didn’t know what stealing the Heart would do. When the animals attacked the group he held out with them as long as he could. After the front door of the temple had broken down he and another man ran for the woods. Krog explains that he went into hiding and for the past few nights has been trying to escape the animals unsuccessfully. Ajanen then explains his story. He tells the party that he had traveled across the ocean to visit the wild elves. After doing so he planned to visit the other elves. In his travels east he came across an odd sight. A large two headed bear. He tried to follow it but lost it. Before he knew it, he was deep in the sacred forest surrounded by undead wolves by night. There he met up with Krog, who was also trying to stay alive. Both of them teamed up to avoid the perils of the woods until they could figure out how to escape. [ Extra DM Commentary/Notes: [I] My friend who plays Victor tells me that two more friends of ours want to join up and play D&D too. The group was already huge, but I couldn’t turn them down because simply they were my good friends too. So they were admitted into the game at this point. Eight players? Might be a stretch, but I can handle it right? Just gotta be more on the ball. Right?[/I] ] Victor comments that he finds it odd that both Krog and Ajanen haven’t been able to escape the Nalvayan woods. They say it was because everytime they attempt to leave, no matter how early they set out, it becomes night before they can escape the woods and that’s when they get overwhelmed by skeletal animals. Victor declares that with him and their total combined numbers they should easily be able to battle their way out of the woods. And with that, the party heads north and away from the temple. [Extra DM Commentary/Notes:[I]Yes, the party decided not to investigate the other four paths that led away from the temple[/I] ] To be continued . . . [/QUOTE]
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