I'll post in Dag, Jurgen, Ambrose, Gareth order, just as I made the characters.

Give me a minute to set up the roll and link it.  Just want the order posted up front so there is no question. Spot then listen in each case.

8 D20 checks
1d20 → [13] = (13) Dag spot, raw
1d20 → [8] = ( Dag Listen, Raw
1d20 → [9] = (9)Jurgen spoit
1d20 → [14] = (14)Jurget listen
1d20 → [9] = (9)Ambrose spot
1d20 → [3] = (3)ambrose listen
1d20 → [4] = (4)Gareth spot
1d20 → [5] = (5)Gareth listen



Sorry, I have to dash... like badly, otherwise I'd do the math. Good to see my luck is still top notch  

Be back in an hour or so!

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4 and 11, you know the modifiers.

Spike,

I've reviewed your bonuses.  Nothing you need to be aware of that I haven't already mentioned.

'Kay. I didn't think so, not the way I rolled.

Just wanted to confirm that you're checking the room with the hanging corpses just as thoroughly?

Yes.

Should be like the other rooms, only with careful poking and prodding of the corpses with the flail (longest reaching thing in the party, after all) just to make sure there is no surprises there too. * thats poking them after Gareth says they won't explode.

And then the door will get wedged tightly shut as an extra precaution. 'Cause that's how I roll.  IF I don't wedge a door shut, I take it off the hinges so no one can lock it behind me, none of this pansy shit. If I had time, I'd be taking the place apart.

I raid dungeons like the Romans conquer Carthage. Salt and everything.  I only stop when Ambrose declares he's really bored and would like to move on to the next dungeon "any day now".

And seriously: I'm not really joking. I'll be as absolutely through as the party lets me be.  Of course, I won't spend four hours looking at an evil altar... I just smash it to bits and move on. (This has happened before....     )

The party thoroughly investigates the room.  Once they're sure that there are no other exits or any dangers, they spike the doors open in both rooms.  The entry room, the cell, and the former guard barracks turned into a macabre marionette show are all secure.

The passage continues deeper into the complex.  Twenty-five feet beyond your current position is a wide four-way intersection.  Fifty feet beyond your current position is another intersection, this one narrower.  The passage you're standing in continues beyond that, disappearing from sight beyond the range of your darkvision.

Darkness and silence reign supreme, causing the grating sound of the metal spike lodged under the door to reverberate throughout the complex.  Whatever killed the noble and his retinue would have to be dead to have failed to notice your approach.

I got two clumsy dudes in plate armor...


I expect them to know I'm hear sooner or later...

Continue usual spread to intersection. Gareth will look down each branch before 'we' do anything else.

I have volunteered to skip all this and just move to the final doorway/whatever. By this time it would be terribly obvious if I were doing something radically different for metagame reasons, I should think.

Ima laugh if we don't and its a one monster dungeon.  Also: As apparently I missed the existance of a door behind me: That's one of the ones that go off the hinges, not spiked. I like to not get trapped (bad first ever dungeon railroad, I'm afraid!).

Also, I may have just given away my moniker....  

There are things that you might encounter before 'the end', so moving through is probably for the best.  The map is one chosen by Fectin, so while it's a little large for our purposes, we'll make do with what we have.

From the intersection you can make out that the passage to the left (west) ends after 60', with one passage branching off back toward the south near the far end.    

The passage to the right also extends 60' before ending.  A passage branches off toward the south about halfway down the hall.  

From this vantage you can see that the hall you've been walking down extends past the next intersection and into a pillared hall, the doors standing open.

Sigh.

Ok.

I guess... I go left then. Same deal as usual, lots of detect thoughts going on from Jurgen's medallion.  Since we can't exactly secure the rear, Ambrose will move up to ahead of Jurgen, and Jurgen will include 'behind the party' in his scanning.

Working methodically, the party follows the dwarf as he checks for traps.  With no chance of rescuing kidnapped villagers, the party proceeds down the left passage.  The only thing of interest is a room at the end of a short hallway.

The room is a richly appointed bedchamber.  A desk with writing implements reveals that this is the primarch's office.  No deaths mar the luxurious accouterments.

Spike,

It won't matter right now, but with each of your actions, please roll a Spot/Listen check as well.

Quote from: deadDMwalking;573789Spike,

It won't matter right now, but with each of your actions, please roll a Spot/Listen check as well.

Ouch.  I realize in a normal game, that may very be ok.  What it's going to result here is that if something bad happens coincidentally the same round when Spike fucks his Spot/Listen checks, it's just going to be perceived because you chose that round to have it happen, because you're got a massive dog in this hunt.

See what I mean?