[Ptolus/AD&D] IC Thread #2 - Underground (part 1)

winkingbishop · January 28, 2011, 09:17:36 AM

Othos waits for the two unconscious party members to be brought from the hallway. "Please let me see their injuries before you load them up Ylarum. Did any of you men standing suffer a wound to your flesh?"

Benoist · January 28, 2011, 11:37:08 AM

DM: I'll let you work out the details of your strategy from here. What you want to do, when, how. Looks like you need to catch up with each others and make some decisions at the moment.

Drohem · January 28, 2011, 12:18:58 PM

Belak helps Tudd and Ylarum move the injured men out of the room and past the candle room. He steps away to let Othos and any other healers do their work.

He moves over to Tarm and retrieves his crossbow and quiver of bolts, and says, "thank you for the supporting fire. That creature was an affront to all that is good, no doubt."

Addressing everyone, Belak says, "are there any more of those creatures down here? Shall we put the wounded in the lift and take them up? what else have you discovered down here, other than this trapped room with arcane candles?"

Cole · January 28, 2011, 02:31:49 PM

Quote from: Drohem;435833Addressing everyone, Belak says, "are there any more of those creatures down here?

"I'd like to hear what Runch's pet orc has to say about that."

Having spoken, Ulas examines the external secret door facing, then, once the injured party members are brought to safety, looks for evidence of a similar door on the corresponding wall in the eastern section.

Benoist · January 28, 2011, 02:57:09 PM

Quote from: Cole;435878Having spoken, Ulas examines the external secret door facing, then, once the injured party members are brought to safety, looks for evidence of a similar door on the corresponding wall in the eastern section.

DM: Roll me a d6, please.

Cole · January 28, 2011, 02:59:56 PM

Quote from: Benoist;435885DM: Roll me a d6, please.

6

(P.S. - do you have a link to the post where they originally found the west side door?)

Benoist · January 28, 2011, 03:04:48 PM

Quote from: Cole;4358866

(P.S. - do you have a link to the post where they originally found the west side door?)

There definitely is a secret door in the wall.

DM: The information you are searching for is on and around p.46-48 of the thread. This post might be of interest.

Cole · January 28, 2011, 03:24:27 PM

Quote from: Benoist;435887There definitely is a secret door in the wall.

DM: The information you are searching for is on and around p.46-48 of the thread. This post might be of interest.

"There's another switch over here," says Ulas.

"Runch, does the prisoner have an opinion on what might be in here?"

skofflox · January 28, 2011, 04:46:02 PM

surveying the gore as I place a hand on Tudds back..."By Charlathans forelock what a beast! Glad ta see you up and in hi color brother!" as I note the bug perched...I shake my head...

I look to aid the fallen. I glance about the room then crawl after the others. "Ahh Othos!" then gesturing back to the NW "Someone wanna collect Riss as well!" as I kneel next to the dwarf to investigate the bindings . "We send'em up or seek ta speed their healing?" As I look to Othos with concern.

Glancing to Ulas..."Ma gobo might have sumth'n ta say bout all this...mentioned the "Quann" or some such thing. Fetch'm in a trice!" as I turn back to the injured.

Sigmund · January 28, 2011, 04:53:36 PM

"Hiya brudder, did we make Charlathan happy?" Tudd asks with a grin.

skofflox · January 28, 2011, 05:05:35 PM

Quote from: Sigmund;435911"Hiya brudder, did we make Charlathan happy?" Tudd asks with a grin.

smiling at this..."I 'spect so boyo,I spect so!"

after the others have cleared the room,Nimten comes to the door of the first secret room and throws a piece of debri to see if the candle trap is still in effect.
If it is he will crawl to investigate the far room and dead beast. If not he will stride...

thedungeondelver · January 28, 2011, 05:10:49 PM

Quote from: Drohem;435833He moves over to Tarm and retrieves his crossbow and quiver of bolts, and says, "thank you for the supporting fire. That creature was an affront to all that is good, no doubt."
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Tarm shoulders the arbalest and regards the creature.

"Good...bad...I'm the guy with the crossbow."

He smiles crookedly and hands the crossbow and case of bolts back.

"Strangely enough the closeness of using a good stout polearm is more comforting. I'm not flinging the only pointy object between me and something like that, then scrounging another one while it gets closer."

Benoist · January 30, 2011, 02:21:22 PM

Quote from: winkingbishop;435777"Please let me see their injuries before you load them up Ylarum. Did any of you men standing suffer a wound to your flesh?"

Json and Tarm both raise their hands. "We've been wounded Sir, but nothing we can't handle right now." (They are both at 2 HP each)

Ulas finds the switch without much trouble, though the area is thick with smoke, still. (It seems the fire is still going in the storage room north of Ulas's position, but it also seems to have died down a bit at this point. Smoke is everywhere in the complex, in one fashion or another. Some of it escaped by the hole at the top of the main room's dome that leads to the Gold Ladder).

Runch: the orc you chained at a pillar in the apothecary stays there quietly. He seems a LOT more relaxed now that your fight for survival is over. He just bides his time at this point, following each of you he can see one after the other, waiting to see what his fate is going to be from there.

Quote from: skofflox;435914after the others have cleared the room,Nimten comes to the door of the first secret room and throws a piece of debri to see if the candle trap is still in effect.

The trap is still in effect. No question about it.

Quote from: skofflox;435914If it is he will crawl to investigate the far room and dead beast. If not he will stride...

Nimten proceeds. He is now in the fallen beast's room. He notices the huge piece of furniture on the western wall with all its small, unlit candles. The baskets with the colored balls of clay in little niches under the candles. The beautiful carpet on the floor. The round, violet window at the other site of the room. And of course, the hacked mass of flesh that once was the tentacled horror you just faced.

Tell me which part of the room you want to investigate more closely.

Roll me 1d% as well.

Here's the updated map as I understand it (I have extrapolated some of your characters' positions, as well as the unconscious characters. There is a rope that links the dais to the Gold Ladder that you can pull to "call" the platform from the surface. Let me know if you do so).

(Click for higher resolution)

Cole · January 30, 2011, 02:34:58 PM

Ulas looks northward checking to see if there are any flammables in danger of causing the flames to spread southeast.

Benoist · January 30, 2011, 02:52:59 PM

Quote from: Cole;436285Ulas looks northward checking to see if there are any flammables in danger of causing the flames to spread southeast.

The armoury is bare of much flammable items, aside from the wooden frame covering the eastern part of the room where most weapons are hanging. On the floor, there are of course various polearms, swords, axes, shields and bits and pieces of armour, but nothing that seems to be an imminent danger at this point.