[Gameplay] 6. Sepulcher of the Servant

Jan 23, 2024 1:19 am

"Thank you, my friends," Iseret says as she is recovered and healed. "I don't know what happened there."

Jan 25, 2024 10:47 am

"I thought we may have lost you," Tabat says. "But you are alright. I am glad for that, my friend."

He moves some of the rubble and as they pass into the next room closes the door behind them. If the doors open toward them, he places some of the rubble in front of the door, in such a way that it would be disturbed if the door opens. "Keep your ears open - if the door opens again, we'll know the invisible one follows."

When everyone is ready to press on, he gestures to the east. "Let us circuit the hall and check along the way. That trap was not disabled or set off - it may be that nobody has been here for a very long time."

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Jan 26, 2024 2:37 pm

Circling the hallway first, the only sound you hear is some muffled screaming from the left hand doors. Not exactly terror screams, but shrieking of some kind.

To the north, stairs lead down.

Jan 27, 2024 1:03 am

"I suppose we had better check on that sound, in case whatever it is decides to make trouble on our flank in the future. I don't think the cultists made it this far, however - we should expect some kind of creature that could have survived down here for many years. A ghoul or undead abomination, perhaps...or worse."

Tabat stows his shield and khopesh to withdraw his flail. Holding it with two hands he readies himself by the door, ready to open it when the others are prepared.

Feb 7, 2024 6:54 pm

Iseret readies her weapons and assumes a crouching stance.

Feb 8, 2024 3:52 am

You realize the screaming is coming from the inner doors, but again it's strangely muffled. After clearing the door is free from traps, you open it carefully.

Tidy wooden cabinets with brass knobs and labels fill this musty library to the brim. A large cedar table stands against the south wall.

An undead head in a gilded cage screams at your intrusion, and the three skeletons in the room move to attack, one of them picking up the cage.

Tabat is up first, then the skeletons

OOC:

Handout map updated

Rolls

Initiative: Iseret +4, Jaware +6, Khadi +0, Tabat +1, Foes +? - (1d20+4, 1d20+6, 1d20, 1d20+1, 1d20+2)

1d20+4 : (12) + 4 = 16

1d20+6 : (2) + 6 = 8

1d20 : (7) = 7

1d20+1 : (18) + 1 = 19

1d20+2 : (15) + 2 = 17

Feb 8, 2024 9:51 am

Tabat quickly takes in the group of enemies and charges forward, swinging his flail around to strike at the cage holding the head. "Andromeda, take care of one of the skeletons!" he shouts.

The camel engages and bites at one of the undead.

OOC:

Due to charging, his AC will be 20 until next round

EDIT: 19 crits, rolling to confirm

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Rolls

Tabat Menes: Adamantine Heavy Flail (Charge, Risky Strike) - (1d20+12, 1d10+14)

1d20+12 : (19) + 12 = 31

1d10+14 : (5) + 14 = 19

Confirmation Critical - (1d20+12, 1d10+14)

1d20+12 : (1) + 12 = 13

1d10+14 : (10) + 14 = 24

Tabat Menes: Bite - Atk/Dam - (1d20+9, 1d4+9)

1d20+9 : (16) + 9 = 25

1d4+9 : (1) + 9 = 10

Feb 8, 2024 7:41 pm

Tabat's adamantine flail shatters the cage, and the head flies against the wall.

Andromeda bites a skeleton and harms it partially.

The head shrieks with a painful loudness and casts a spell on Tabat. Blindness: Fort Save vs DC 18

The skeletons attack andromeda, and Tabat. Andromeda takes 11 damage.

Neferekhu: 9 damage, cage destroyed
Skeletal Champion 1: 10 damage

Everybody else is up, then Tabat again.

Rolls

mwk longsword vs Tabat - (1d20+7, 1d8+3)

1d20+7 : (8) + 7 = 15

1d8+3 : (1) + 3 = 4

mwk longsword vs Andromeda - (1d20+7, 1d8+3)

1d20+7 : (5) + 7 = 12

1d8+3 : (3) + 3 = 6

mwk longsword vs Andromeda - (1d20+7, 1d8+3)

1d20+7 : (12) + 7 = 19

1d8+3 : (8) + 3 = 11

Feb 9, 2024 11:01 am

Tabat tries to fight off the magic that threatens to afflict him.

OOC:

I'll hold off on my actions to see what the others do, but figured I'd get this in :)

I *believe* this would apply, giving him +2 to the Fort Save:

Deathless Spirit (ART): 5 resistance to negative energy dmg, negative levels do not cause hp loss, +2 to saves against death, energy drain, negative energy, spells from necromancy school.

Rolls

Tabat Menes: Fortitude (+2 from Deathless Spirit) - (1d20+12)

(11) + 12 = 23

Khadi

LightOfMidnight

Feb 9, 2024 1:16 pm

Kadi steps in and imeadiatly channels.

Rolls

Khadi: Channel DC17 - Damage - (3d6+10)

(366) + 10 = 25

Feb 9, 2024 8:20 pm

Tabat shrugs off the necromantic blindness.

Khadi channels, blasting at least one skeletal champion apart.

OOC:

They all take half damage, which is enough to destroy the wounded skeleton

Neferekhu: 21 damage, cage destroyed
Skeletal Champion 1: destroyed
Skeletal Champion 2: 12 damage
Skeletal Champion 3: 12 damage

Rolls

Saves: Head, other two SC - (1d20+12, 1d20+7, 1d20+7)

1d20+12 : (16) + 12 = 28

1d20+7 : (16) + 7 = 23

1d20+7 : (15) + 7 = 22

Feb 10, 2024 1:04 am

Iseret attempts to plunge her blade into the head.

Rolls

Short sword vs. Neferekhu (adding sneak attack damage if she can somehow manage it) - (1d20+9, 1d4+5+3d6)

1d20+9 : (14) + 9 = 23

1d4+5+3d6 : (2) + (513) + 5 = 16

Jaware

Feb 10, 2024 1:24 am

Iseret skewers the head and it shrieks in fury.

Jaware fires arrows at the head, too, annoyed at the shrieking as much as fearing the spells that it seems to cast. The arrows strike true and then the head freezes as his spell connects. The head silences and goes still.

[ +- ] 1 Snowball

Neferekhu: destroyed
Skeletal Champion 1: destroyed
Skeletal Champion 2: 12 damage
Skeletal Champion 3: 12 damage

Rolls

Bow, damage, Bow spell attack, snowball - (1d20+7, 1d8+1, 1d20+7, 1d8+1, 5d6)

1d20+7 : (15) + 7 = 22

1d8+1 : (5) + 1 = 6

1d20+7 : (14) + 7 = 21

1d8+1 : (2) + 1 = 3

5d6 : (31443) = 15

Feb 10, 2024 6:09 am

Tabat turns turns and engages the next closest skeleton with his heavy flail while Andomeda moves and attacks the other.

Rolls

Adamantine Heavy Flail - Atk/Dam (Risky Strike) - (1d20+10, 1d10+14)

1d20+10 : (7) + 10 = 17

1d10+14 : (6) + 14 = 20

Bite - Atk/Dam - (1d20+9, 1d4+9)

1d20+9 : (10) + 9 = 19

1d4+9 : (3) + 9 = 12

Feb 10, 2024 3:32 pm

The two skeletons fall to the last blows, and peace resumes

Combat is over.

The masterfully carved cedar table weighs 400 pounds, but is worth 2,000 gp if you can figure out how to remove it from the tomb. Neferekhu’s gilded cage was worth 100 gp, a bit less know that it is smashed.

The table is full of journals with terrible handwriting in them.

Khadi

LightOfMidnight

Feb 10, 2024 3:40 pm

When we come back through, could Andromeda help up drag teh table?' Khadi asked, somewhat absentmindedly as she steps towards the journals to start flicking though them

Khadi

LightOfMidnight

Feb 10, 2024 3:40 pm

When we come back through, could Andromeda help up drag teh table?' Khadi asked, somewhat absentmindedly as she steps towards the journals to start flicking though them

Feb 10, 2024 5:57 pm

Iseret also investigates the papers, trying to make sense of the writing.

Feb 10, 2024 7:40 pm