THE HEROES OF DYVERS CHAPTER 7: CLARE'S ERRAND

[Diarmadhim]

"Well... at least we'll be able to fully buff ourselves before this party gets kicked off," I quip genially. "Give us a moment to prepare for the fight to come... Unholy, eh? Definitely going to use Protection from Evil this time around."

 

[Tellerian Hawke]

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[Damionte]

:: Duncan & Company ::

As they wait ... patiently ... for the trap finders to open the door the gang stands to the side. At some point Ebony begins humming a tune to herself.

"Mmmm mmm Mmmm mmmm mm MM."
It's a catchy old tune which Duncan who's still annoyed with her tries to ignore. He gives her a light "Shhhh."
The twins don't help as by the time she gets around to her third round they start singing it out loud.

Lenny: "Tall and tan and ...,"
Trav: "Young and lovely...."
Duncan under his breath. "Cut it out."
Ebony: "The girl from Tanaroa goes marching by..."
They get a little louder...
All: Three "And when she passes, each one she passes goes -AH !"

Duncan: "SHUT UP !!"

 

[Aust Thale]

Respen:
~ Trapped pit, Locked Door Activates Trap, Undead Other Side ~
"Vale, I'll open the door; you still have the potions and scrolls to hide from the undead? I have four (4) of them itching to be used. I'll keep one and give the other three (3) to you to distribute. I will trigger the trap at the door. Depending on what's at the other side, we either drink the potions and try to circumvent it, or we attack head on. "

Spoiler: Actions:

Respen removes a wand of greater mage hand from his belt and prepares to use it to open the door. If required, he will wield a wand of knock spells as well to force the door open.

Vale:
"Val, good ta hear ye, my magical friend. How close are they? And what are they? Glow blue and let's kill some baddies! Can ye give me a li'l of that?"
"Everyone, take one of these potions. If anythin' comes through the door an' gets past the traps, use the potion until we can collect ourselves. Moronic undead won't see you. Smart uns might, but the ones I've seen that are smart uns, they tend to announce themselves."
"Who might need this magical mace? If you deal the most solid of blows, it'll drop them in their tracks.
I received it from the temple in Dyvers before we ventured out to Skorane."
"Steal yourselves, my comrades."

Spoiler: Actions:

Vale distributes the HIDE FROM UNDEAD potions to the group; he will pop a scroll of the same for himself if needed. He telepathically commands Val to glow as brightly blue as it can. He gives the mace of disruption to whoever can wield it (DM advisory requested). He grasps his talisman hanging about his neck allowing him to increase his TURNING ability.

 

[Tellerian Hawke]

GM: I am assuming that, as per my instructions on LINE chat, anyone who wanted to cast buffs has done so by this point. Please post your list either on this thread, or on the LINE app. I will retroactively add the buffs as we go along. You still have time.

After waiting a minute or two on the various spellcasters in the party, Respen uses his wand of Greater Mage Hand to pull the handles of the double, gold-gilded doors at the end of the hallway, despite not being able to see them clearly at this distance.

GM: The doors are 70 ft. distant. Darkvision extends 60 ft. But the distance beyond the vision range doesn't simply "stop," although it does become shadowy and hard to make out. However, the doors are still big enough for Respen to discern the location of the handles.

As expected, the entire floor drops out, resulting in a massive, 20 ft. wide, 20 ft. deep, 70 ft. long pit; there are no spikes below, only smooth stone. There are no obstacles that you can see. It's simply a box pit. If you had fallen into it unawares, you are fairly certain that you would have run the risk of a few broken bones, mostly ankles, wrists, and head injuries, the types that are common when falling such a distance after losing one's balance. This pit seems to be less of a death trap, and more of an obstacle and/or deterrent.

Respen, you're not 100% certain, but from here, at first glance, it looks as if the door were false, and that there is another door, directly (20 ft. down) below it, leading into the bottom east wall of the pit.

Now that the floor has given way, there is less to interfere in Val's detection abilities. The glow of the axe intensifies, going from "bright" blue, to an INTENSELY bright, almost white hue of blue! The axe mutters only one word in response to its enhanced detection:

Val hisses, "Mummies!"

Although Val is certain of the mummies' presence beyond the far door, there is nothing in the pit itself that would indicate any potential dangers or difficulties... although, once you are all down there, it might be difficult to escape, once the mummies DO arrive.

EVERYONE: What do you do?

 

[Waynan]

Tam just shrugs upon seeing the trap and false to true doors set-up. This was a new one on him, but he immediately surmised the simplicity of it all:
1.) Unsuspecting of the trap, one opens the door and falls into the box pit hurting themselves, probably badly.
2.) Then, the mummies come to the attack, but, because of the fall into the pit, the adventurers are hurt, most of them pretty badly, and can't put up much of a fight.
Not very imaginative. Oh, totally effective in its simplicity --- but, Tam loved the challenge of a complex puzzle, or trap, to overcome. Surely, it was all hubris on his part; but he loved the challenges and twists so much more than this straightforward approach to a trap.
All the while Tam is thinking all this, and while standing at the lip of this pit, he gets out his lamp and lights it. He then takes 4 arrows, a vial of lamp oil, a raggedy shirt that he tears 4 strips from and his bow. He wraps the strips, one for each arrow, around the arrowhead and pours lamp oil onto each strip on each arrowhead until he's satisfied that the cloth is thoroughly soaked. When he pours the oil, he does so over the pit so as to not have any on the floor around him in order to avoid any accidental fires around his feet.
Now, when the mummies entered, he would be ready to light the oil-soaked rag on an arrow, then draw and fire at the undead horrors --- and hope he didn't miss.

 

[Sylvar B.]

Sylvar looks at the pit, "well that's new isn't it?" He summons his bow and fires a grappling arrow to one corner of the pit at such an angle that the party can use it as a zipline. He attaches the other end of the rope to the nearest strong looking point of attachment.

 

[Damionte]

:: Duncan & Company ::

Duncan speaking in a hushed tone: "I'm sorry Val did you say mummies... as in plural."
The young nobleman looks rather displeased.
"Someone remind me why we're down here again."

He watched as Sylvar sets his grapples. Ebony claps him on the back and repeats a joke from their past. "We're on a mission from god." she catches him with a grin as she sets another rope for descent.

He sighs and then prepares to follow down the rope to the floor. "Wait... no no we're not."
She laughs.

 

[Sylvar B.]

Sylvar unstrings his spare bow and uses it as a handle to make use of his zipline. He hold the bow close to the middle to minimize the risk of damage to the limbs.

When he reaches the bottom of the pit he summons his Mystic Bow.

He also walks to the middle of the pit, about 40ft from the door leading to the zombies.

 

[Waynan]

Tam still stands at the pit's edge to rain down fiery retribution from above, hoping the company doesn't get too much in the way to spoil his shots.