Tomb of Horrors IC (Inevitable Corpses)

streever

Mike takes a deep breath from his bag of holding, and starts evaluating the trap mechanism.

Farangu

Terios has a hard time deciding between holding his breath and ridiculing Mike. The end result is that he does neither particularly well.

[URL="url=http://4e.orokos.com/roll/41583"]Endurance = 11[/URL]

Fondor_Yards

Ferdinand, with the benefit of being tall and farther away from the gas, gets a good breath in first.

Endurance: 1d20+10: 22

Jam Warrior

As the gas spreads to fill the room it also thins out and so weakens its effects and no one suffers much more in the way of damage.

Spoiler:

All bar Mike take a whole single point of poison damage... Go dice! Mike escapes due to bag of holding gas mask.

The air soon clears of the volatile gas and the trap shows no sign of expelling any more for now. In fact a quick investigation by Mike shows that they have a single gas chamber each for ammunition which will now have been expelled leaving the trap harmless.

There is nothing of value in the front pews. As the wizard and runepriest move over to inspect the haul of coins, they look at each other as their magic senses starts tingling. A few mumbled phrases and a pass of the hands breaks the weak illusion revealing 90% of the coins to actually be worthless wooden tokens. Sifting through you find 400 GP of real coinage amongst the fakes.

Steelhawk

Pocketing his share of the gold (are we actually counting coinage? I'm not...) Derek turns to look again around the room.

"Well lads, do we break open the jars by the altar? Or skip them and try our luck with the portal?"

streever

Mike's head is bowed in embarrassment. "I'm sorry", he mutters, the words sticking in his throat.

daniant

"Do you think one of the tokens would fit in the slot over there?" Arjhan mutters, balancing one on a talon.

Fondor_Yards

"Maybe one of the wooden ones?'

Steelhawk

"Lets find out!" Derek enthuses, whipping up another Mage Hand and (after taking appropriate cover) sends it down the slot.

Jam Warrior

You hear the clunk of it landing on the metal coin you dropped in earlier, but no reaction is elicited.

Steelhawk

"Hmph." says a clearly dissapointed Derek Deepdelver as he pockets a handful of wooden tokens, just in case.

Jam Warrior

As considers the glowing arch, Derek feels magic spells are entwined around it.

Spells he may identify with a trained Arcana check.

Steelhawk

Then Derel will do so!

Arcana = 16

Oh, what the shit? I rolled a 2.

Jam Warrior

"Ah, well, the spell weave of the, um, spell, weft, is, um, wibbly wobbly magiccy wagiccy, er, ahem, mumble mumble..."

daniant

Arjhan puts a meaty clawed hand on his wizardly companion's shoulder.

"What is the trouble, friend?" he booms.

Steelhawk

"So sorry. I had something caught in my throat." Derek says, with teary eyes. After making some sounds approximating a cat ejecting a hairball, he tries his mojo again.

Aracana = 24

Jam Warrior

Haha! No. One try is all you get with knowledge checks. You know it or you don't.

Steelhawk

It was worth a try!

streever

Mike sits, dejected, and feeling a bit less useful.

Without talking to anyone, he starts inspecting the area around the urns, using the caution he normally displays.

check floor/ceiling for any irregularity like seams, then check the altar for slits/holes/etc, THEN, finally, if no indication of a trap is there at all, tap the urns and listen to make sure it sounds "normal" and properly hollow inside. Then, I'll ask the wizard to use a mage hand to lift the lid off the thing and peer inside.

Jam Warrior

A thorough, considered, cautious, and above all, safe investigation of the urns, reveals them to be empty urns.

streever

Mike turns red with anger and frustration at the time he has wasted, before moving on, and searching the skeletal body, looking for notes or anything hidden among the rotted leather and rusted armor.

So, we got an archway with magic that we can't detect, we got a slot in a wall with a circle above it that does nothing... anything else?

I guess we have to go through the arch?

Jam Warrior

Repeating Arjhan's search of the body reveals nothing new.

daniant

What if Arjhan just walks through the portal?

Steelhawk

I think thats going to have to be the way it is. Stick your snout in and find out!

streever

daniant wrote: »

What if Arjhan just walks through the portal?

you're the most holy of us, so maybe you'll be safe? Depending on what it does...

daniant

"Back up! I'll test this gate!"

Arjhan walks up to the portal and sticks his arm through to see what happens.

streever

"Wait!" Mike calls out, and he ties a rope from Arjhan to a pew.

"Just in case," he says, acting like he isn't that concerned.

Jam Warrior

Arjhan tentatively extends an arm into the mist, after nothing happens he shrugs and steps in. All vision is filled with orange but he can feel a blank stone wall with his hands and quickly concludes that beyond the arch is nothing more than a dead end alcove.

He turns to step back into the chapel and his mind goes blank...

The party watch Arjhan edge gently forward into the mists. Within moments he is fully obscured and you start to wonder if you should follow. Before anyone can say anything the mists part with a cold blooded scream and Arjhan comes charging out with weapons held high and a glazed expression of fury!

Spoiler:

Charm effect. Save ends (-2 penalty). Each turn the affected creature must make a basic attack or charge against the nearest creature.

Nearest creature reading down the first post is 1d4 → [4] = (4) = Derek!

Make a charge attack for the surprise round. Then if you fail to save I'll do a map and we'll go into initiatives.

streever

"Run away!" Mike yells, quickly moving out of the range of the rope and the dragonborn.

Would it hold the crazed dragonborn for long? Of course not--but at least it might buy them a few precious minutes.

Steelhawk

"Wait...Arjhan...what are you...NO!!!!"

Fondor_Yards

"Maybe we should have tried to change the colors first. Eh this is more fun!"

Jam Warrior

There were no colour jewels on this arch.

daniant

Arjhan runs and hacks at Derek, foaming a little. He continues to foam.

Spoiler:

10 points of damage to Derek, did not save, whee!

Jam Warrior

Initiatives then!

daniant

Initiative: 1d20+4 13

streever

can anyone grant arjhan a save?

Initiative: 1d20+8 19

"Ah reckon he doesn't like thu wizards beard," Mike says to the group.

Steelhawk

"Nonsense!" Derek replies, trying to stauch the wound in his arm. "My goatee is glorious!"

Initiative = 30

Farangu

Initiative = 18

Fondor_Yards

Initiative: 1d20+9: 25

Jam Warrior

Derek 30
Ferdinand 25
Mike 19
Terios 18
Arjhan 13

Arjhan is tied to the pew in square B10 with I'm assuming the standard 50ft rope.