The Closed Eye (DM: Halford, Judge: garyh)

[Dunamin]

[sblock=Perspective]

I was thinking, if there are any recent tracks down at the bottom of the stairs, wouldn't it be better if Atreus took the lead, so that he could track them?

Natural. 20. On. Stealth.

Pretty please?[/sblock]

 

[Dunamin]

[sblock=Memory lane]

'I've got a 10-feet long pole if anyone wants to borrow it.'

'The Big Book of Adventuring says that you should never walk into an underground passageway without probing the ground ahead of you for pit traps, green slime, deadly mold, tripwires...' Palindrome drones on for a while. The list is rather long.

Oh yeah, reminds me of the classic tale of the Timber Rogue!

Man, I thought I had a link to where I heard the story, but I guess that was waaay back in ze dayz.[/sblock]

 

[Atriden]

[sblock=Perspective]

Natural. 20. On. Stealth. Pretty please?

Sure, go ahead
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[covaithe]

Woe creeps stealthily down into the darkness. On the second step down, he hears an almost inaudible click, and jerks back. Just in time, for hidden spears thrust up from the floor of that step on powerful springs, narrowly missing his groin. After a moment, hidden counterweights pull the spears back down into place, and it looks like a perfectly ordinary staircase again.

(ooc: miss. Aww... )

 

[KenHood]

'Oh! Oh! Oh! A trap! I love traps!'

Palindrome barrels past the other party members in a rush to disarm the trap.

OOC: (Do 'Thieves' Tools' help with traps? If not, knock the +2 off the roll.) Thievery. (Disarm trap.) (1d20+8+2=28)​

'See? If you had borrowed my 10' pole, this wouldn't have happened.'

 

[nerdytenor]

"What the..." Tander whispers to no one in particular after hearing the trap go off. Well, I suppose if Woe were hurt, we'd have heard about it by now...

 

[Dunamin]

“Vena’s enveloping cleavage!” Woe exclaims as he twists his nether regions away from the spear trap.

He takes a few steps back, stares in shock at the staircase, stares down at his groin, back at the staircase, and back at his groin again. He pats himself.

“There, there. It’s alright, Woezilla. Everything is okay.”

Woe turns his ear towards his groin.

“What’s that, boy? Has the unquestionably karma-reflecting trap made me rethink my actions?”

Woe pats himself again.

“Have no fear, Woezilla, it’s just a stupid insentient trap.”

Triumphantly, the warrior turns to his companions. It is all too clear that the adrenaline rush from this close call has had the inadvertent effect of making him fully aroused.

“Ha! They call that spears? I laugh at those pitiful poseurs! No, this is a real man’s spear!”

It’s not entirely clear which “weapon” Woe is referring to.

[sblock=Ha!]Woe: 1 – Karma: 0

*Sigh*
Ok, Atreus can do the minesweeping thing in front of Woe.[/sblock]

 

[covaithe]

Palindrome deftly locates the activation mechanism linking the stair to the springs, and with a quick slice, severs it. He presses hard on the plate a few times, verifying that the spears stay put despite the click.

 

[KenHood]

[sblock=Karma]On Palindrome's end, it seems to be Palindrome: 0 - Karma: 12.

*Sigh*
Ok, Atreus can do the minesweeping thing in front of Woe.

It seems we've all learned a valuable lesson about having the stealthiest, highest perception character take the point.

Not that I'm *cough* rubbing it in. [/sblock]

'Hey, you guys want to go outside, chop down one of those trees, and roll a log in front of us to disarm those traps?'

OOC: Can you guess who looked up the Timber Rogue reference?

Our party presses on, Mr. DM!

We'd like some more encounters, with a side-order of experience. Please.​

 

[nerdytenor]

For some reason, Tander is filled with the irrational urge to call out. Arnest! Peek-a-boo, I see you! But he manages to resist the temptation.

[sblock=OOC]
This is what happens to me when the babysitter is late, folks.
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