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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ant" data-source="post: 3521316" data-attributes="member: 17627">Bas vs The World - Part 2And there was a blizzard of bone and wolverine. The bones came from Tyrant and Bas demolishing skeletons left right and center. The wolverine blizzard was Logan being wounded and then going into a Rage. This, plus really poor rolling on my part, resulted in bouncing and swirling around, swiping claws and clamping jaws all over the place. And doing bugger all damage. Mailcon wasn't doing much better, on account of my dice liking to roll in the high teens for Spot and listen checks and below 10 for everything else (at one stage I had Tyrant looking at me suspiciously when I had Spot and Listen checks over 20 for Mailcon and Logan, and totals less than 10 for him. I was half expecting a call for a recount).In the end we reduced the enemy to a pile of bones. Mailcon healed Logan while Bas checked out the piles of gold in the corners where the coffins had been. Mailcon also takes a scroll case off the skeleton at the base of the statue.  Mailcon then wandered down into the room that the skeletons came from and found a bunch of empty coffins, from whence they had been in repose until being disturbed we assumed.Alright then. It was time to leave. Mailcon approaches the coffins blocking the other exit and narrowly misses being smacked in the nose by the coffin's aggressive door snapping open and closed. After a moment reflection Tyrant is called over and asked to carefully approach the coffin. He does so but successfully ducks out of the way as the door opens and closes. We then wait for the torch that Mailcon had chucked in the open door to do something.The coffin shudders and starts to smoke. Eventually it hops back down the  passage a few feet and then returns to the spot next to the other one. It continues to do this while bursting into flames. After a while, when it hops back, Tyrant throws some oil in the spot it will return to, liberally splashing the other coffin. When the first one returns to position, both go up in oily smoke and eventually collapse into a pile of burning fragments.With the way open, Mailcon sneaks down the passage to find a chamber at the end. The chamber seems to be empty but with pillars lining the walls and an exit other end. Mailcon gets Bas to grab a couple of coffins from the other chamber and we block the entrance behind us (to confuse the orcs). We then cross the pillered chamber and into the next passageway.This one turns out to be quite short and ends at an empty chamber with a hag statue in an alcove directly opposite. We enter the chamber, get to the statue and trigger the trap. With 3 seconds to decide, Mailcon hits the floor and Tyrant and Bas try to jump back into the passageway.Mailcon and Logan watch the blade trap slice over their prone heads, Tyrant just makes it into the passageway but has to fend off the tip with his shield. Bas stops the blade with his stomach, which was handy for the rest of us. Springing the trap also caused the alcove to descend into the floor, creating a new door.Bas bravely goes first and bravely fends of the attack of the wight or whatever it is that was hiding in the next room. Warnings that undead could be lifesuckingly dangerous become largely irrelevant in the dogpile that occurs. 1.5 rounds later, Tyrant downs, and then Bas decapitates, the thing.So we search for treasure. We check the ornate coffin that it came out of, finding heavy gold armour and a wooden longsword. A Detect Magic reveals only the sword is magic. Tyrant gets lumbered with the armour, Mailcon takes the sword, thinking how appropriate it is for a Druid to have a wooden sword. 10 seconds later he thinks how inappropriate it is for a Druid to have a sword he isn't proficient with.Anyway, we run out of things to find and return to the pillar chamber.  There we discover we can hear the voices of Orcs in the skeleton chamber and it sounds like they have discovered the passageway behind the dummy coffins we set up.So we set up an ambush in the pillared chamber. Tyrant and Bas with bows behind the back pillars, Logan and Mailcon hiding behind the front pillars with weapons and fangs drawn. Eventually one of the orcs cautiously moves to the entrance of the chamber. Tyrant and Bas fails hide rolls. Logan and Mailcon make theirs. Conversation between orcs occurs:*Orc in doorway: Uh. They are here. Are you comin’?*Orc in other chamber: Are you sure?*Two arrows: Thwock! Thwock!*Orc in doorway turns to other orc and points at arrows in chest: See?  They're in there.*Orc in doorway collapses to floor.Other orc charges in, survives arrow strikes and runs up to Bas. Ignores Mailcon's sling stone to back of the head and swings at Bas. There is a bullet time slo-mo, accompanied by a 'rooowaaarreee' sound effect from the orc as Bas ducks under its attack and then fillets the orc with his axe.  (I think this is the combat where, after it is all over, Ant asks me what Mailcon does next. All I could think to do was applaud.)Back in the skeleton chamber another search of the join discovers that the skeletons in the corners have keys carved into one finger each.  Tyrant takes these skeleton keys, we burn the coffins blocking the way back and off we go.We get back to the hole leading up to the surface and the group decides its a good idea to check out what is happening above. So Mailcon climbs up to the hut above and does some spying. He sees orcs trying to get the lizard man down the hole. Helpfully the Lizard man has killed some Orcs in the process. Mailcon's Favoured Enemy Monstrous Humanoid sense starts to tingle when seeing the lizard man. While there he hears some orc voices behind him discussing another hole we missed in the tower remains behind the building Malicon was hiding in.Mailcon climbs down and they ponder their next move.....(still haven't finished. This method of write up is darn time consuming.  Will try to finish Monday).------</blockquote>

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