Tomb of Horrors IC (Inevitable Corpses)

streever

I forgot about athletics checks. It'd probably be a good idea for someone to make one.

Fondor_Yards

Well I'll use athletics then.

Blarg I'm a big old dumbass again!

PepiPopa

I wanna make a somersault and swing from one of the chains while i try to pull the door open. Acrobatics - 1d20+14: 32! nice roll.Sorry for the late update.

streever

DM rolls athletics checks for searching for traps Fondor--Pepi, you are probably alright with yours! however, you may be absolutely dead Be cautious. This is the legendary tomb of horrors.

Jam Warrior

You can roll your own in this challenge.

Mike's thievery = [19,18] = (37)
Ferdinand's Athletics = [8,12] = (20)

Ferdinand has a good pound on the door and presses and yanks on its various panels. Distinct hollow noises and a slight give allow him to point Mike in the general direction of a number of points around the door where mechanisms seem to be hidden in the woodwork.

Mike starts to work a slim blade into the cracks and crevices indicated and discovers some small hidden studs which seem to release something when pressed. He has time so far to find studs in roughly half the places Ferdinand has indicated.

One more relevant skill success needed to find the other half.

Terios thinks back to the legends of Acerak and really tries to get into his mind. 'If I were a cruel bastard liche with a sadistic sense of humour, just how would I seal these doors..?' His musings allow him to point the two working on the door to some possible insights.

He added a +2 bonus to one of those physically working with the door. History can't be repeated this door. Insight might work as a substitute though

Aleksander amuses himself as he leaps ninja like around the small enclosed space. He doesn't help matters at all but at least he was nimble enough to not get in anyone else's way.

Acrobatics is an irrelevant skill.

Derek turns his mage eye on the door. He quickly sees that this door is simply a complex mechanism and no magic is at play. However there is something going on. Yes, in the walls of the room. A pulse of arcane energy. Building. Getting stronger really quite quickly. Not nice energy. You have a bad feeling about this and feel that getting out of the room quite quickly would be a really good plan.

streever

Hearing Derek's warning, Moustaches gets cracking, working double-time on his door opening operation. Depressing the studs, he exclaims, "Keep going Ferdinand Farthead! Beat this thing!"
I will continue trying to open the door with thievery skills!

Fondor_Yards

"Keep calling me that and you'll wake up one morning bare lipped."

I'll use Athletics again if I can.

Farangu

After Terios hears about the impending bad energy, he does the only thing that seems prudent.

He drops to his knees.

"Oh please Gods please Gods please Gods get me out of here alive..."

Religion check - 14

PepiPopa

Ha-ha. Now that here requires some skill.Not dying while dangling from a chain in the Tomb of horrors. Thats how i roll
Aleksander has a sober moment from his insanity and jumps down from the chain he was hanging upside down on, landing on his head. Again.
" I'm pretty good at them mechanismismsmism's let me take a look!"

Thievery vs door i got tools dunno if they can help. Oh man... 1d20+14: 15 + 2 From the tools so .. 17 ! Heh.. Goodbye cruel world.

Jam Warrior

The last few studs are quickly located while Terios begs the skies and Derek stares on dumbfounded.

Religion did not help. The Gods do not hear you in The Tomb.

The door swings open and you all bundle though quickly. Terios yanks the stangely unresponsive Derek behind him, and just in time. Lightning shoots from the walls and fills the room you just left with arcs of electricity.

You turn around and find yourself in a pretty much identical small room. Another ornate door ahead of you.

Derek mumbles,

"Energy building again, both rooms now, quick, quick, quick"

Fondor_Yards

"Ohhh forget what I said before about this place, things are starting to get real fun!" Ferdinand heads over to door to try the same technique on it as the last one.

I'll use Athletics on this door as well if it wasn't clear.

streever

Mike shakes his head grimly as he begins to get to work, after Ferdinand's first inspection. "I hate this, I really hate this. Now there's PRESSURE on me, yanno?" he says to no one in particular, as he continues working the door with his tool set.
Thievery: 1d20+18 24

PepiPopa

Aleksander having a blank expression stares at the door intensely.

I will use Insight on the door to see if its a fake door. 1d20+5: 24

Steelhawk

Already knowning that impending magical doom is upon them, Derek turns his mind to his vast experience in the delving of dungeons...

"We must hurry..."

Dungeoneering = 26

PepiPopa

Sorry to ask dumb questions but does the DM roll the checks or is it whatever is faster?

streever

dm normally rolls perception/theivery checks to check for traps, without telling us the #. in this skill challenge we've been rolling.

Farangu

Go go gadget history...

11

...crap.

Jam Warrior

Ferdinand's athletics [7,12] = (19) You can roll yourself in this challenge.

Terios tells a nice anecdote about the time Acerak convinced an adventurer to eat his own head. It doesn't really help matters.

With Derek and Aleksander on helpful advice duty (successful aiding) and Mike and Ferdinand on the good adventurer/bad adventurer tag team of pounding and gentle poking (successful primary checks), a number of hidden catches are found concealed along the right hand edge of the door. They are released but what that has achieved is not immediately obvious and will take more fiddling.

This progress is not fast enough though as the magic lightning finishes its charge and shoots from the walls once more. The bolts twist together in the air and form a single whip like arc which shoots straight for Ferdinand, discharging into his body in a painful crack.

4d8+2 → [6,1,5,1,2] = (15) Lightning damage for Ferdinand.

A humming at the back of Derek's skull lets him know the trap is no sooner finished with its attack before it is charging once more.

Fondor_Yards

Athletics Checks for more door Traps: 1d20+12: 22

"Hahah looks like this place just starting to warmed up, it's about time. We should probably hurry though, one of you little babies might actually get hurt by that attack."

PepiPopa

"Hehehe electrecuted goliath smell like chicken...After we escape from this death room Im having a bite out of you Ferdi my boy."Aleksander licks his lips and turns to the door with his tools.
Thievery check - 1d20+14: 30+2 From the thieves tools still not sure if they apply to the door.

Steelhawk

Derek does his best to help out again with his expertise:

Dungeoneering = 20

Farangu

Terios, having some nimble fingers of his own, gets to work on the door:

Thievery - 21

Jam Warrior

Banging and crashing and shaking, it turns out no individual part of the door moves but the whole thing slides sideways into the wall.

You all jump though ahead of the next magic discharge to be confronted with a familiar sight. Another blank room. Another ornate door.

A quick nod from Derek is all you need to know that the game is still afoot and the magic is charging.

New Round.

Thieves tools do indeed apply.

Fondor_Yards

"The same thing three times in a row? I guess the designer got lazy and copy the same thing a few times to save some work..."

Athletics Check: 1d20+12: 18 Bleh

PepiPopa

"Bwhahahha this place is crazy. If i made this insane place i would have made another exit."
Alexander searches for a secret door concealed by magic or otherwise.


Insight 1d20+8: 11
Thievery 1d20+16: 23 Bleh

streever

"How about you let me get that, champ," Mike sneers, as he deftly works the locks.
Thievery: 1d20+18 34

Farangu

Go go gadget thievery...

13

Crap.

Steelhawk

Derek works to try and delay the inevitable magical trap.

Arcana = 19

Jam Warrior

Ferdinand and Mike have this beat and poke routine down to an art and soon find a faint seam down the middle of the door. A little more effort is needed to find out how to release this opening however. Their efforts aren't really helped by Terios who gets distracted by twidlling the ears of very ornate dragon head to no useful effect.

Alexsander's search of the rest of the room turns up nothing to suggest there is more to this than the door gauntlet.

Derek attempts to hold back the magic forces but the power builds from too many sources into one overwhelming wave he can't combat and the lightning strikes forth again. This time it homes in on Mike's back as he works.

[5,2,3,7,2] = (19) Lightning damage for Mike.

Fascinating map update:

Spoiler:

Next Round!

streever

Mike howls in sudden pain, as he keeps trying to pry open the doorway, but to depressing results.

Thievery: 1d20+18 20

Farangu

Thievery = 18

Fondor_Yards

Athletics Check: 1d20+12: 15

Poop

PepiPopa

Aleksander seems really confused for a second then snaps out of it.
"Oh, the door!"
Thievery check - 1d20+16: 30

Steelhawk

Derek tries to aid another...

Dungeoneering = 16

Jam Warrior

Ferdinand doesn't achieve much with his banging.

Derek tries to help but doesn't have much useful to offer either.

Aleksander jumps around behind everyone waving his arms but can't get to the door to help.

I said only two people per skill.

However, Mike and Terios each pull on a separate side of the frame simultaneously and the double panels of the door open inward allowing the party to pile into the next room as the lightning zaps behind them.

The next room is significantly longer than the others but has a familiar sight at its end.

Spoiler:

Next Round!

PepiPopa

Thievery - 1d20+16: 28

I apologize for that i seem to have not read that. But it's something Aleksander would do.

Fondor_Yards

Athletics Check: 1d20+12: 30

I guess that makes up for the last shitty one.

Ferdinand heads up to try his luck yet again on a door.

Steelhawk

Dungeoneering again = Woot! Natural 20 (31)

streever

Mike peers around the next room anxiously. He feels more than a little nervous that this room is so large.
Perception: 1d20+13 15

Farangu

Thievery = 16