Mar 16, 2018 1:21 pm
How do the other characters respond to Sorgrimm's turn of tactic?
Chapter 1 - Red Larch
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Mar 16, 2018 1:30 pm
Dazzle knows a con when he sees one and corroborates Sorgrimm's story without missing a beat. And if there's anything you need, my liege, we are your humble servants.
Rolls
Deception - (1d20+6)
(6) + 6 = 12
Mar 16, 2018 3:14 pm
Balak doesn't understand why these fools are doing what they're doing, but he told Dazzle that he would let them figure that out, so he's waiting, trying to see if anything is going on around them that is magicky.
Mar 16, 2018 4:13 pm
The necromancer's ego assuaged, he will share his story:
He was cruel almost from the time he could talk, catching small creatures and killing them in hideously inventive ways to savor the power of life and death. He grew to be an embarrassment to his well-off family, who paid a tutor to channel his undeniable intelligence and curiosity into more positive outlets. They didn’t know they had apprenticed the young Oreioth to a necromancer in need of an assistant for his researches.
When Oreioth’s master decided he had no more use for his apprentice, he sent Oreioth off to make his own way in the world. Oreioth worked his way northward, robbing graves and using his magic to intimidate or rob anyone weaker than him. Driven out of one decent town after another, he finally sought refuge in an old outlaw’s lair he discovered near Lance Rock. There he commenced his newest round of experiments, avoiding all other living souls.
Oreioth barely recognizes his own name anymore, and he harbors dreams of founding a kingdom of undead servitors with himself on the throne.
What few social graces Oreioth once possessed are fading rapidly. He has become a megalomaniac, styling himself the Lord of Lance Rock and surrounding himself with zombies and skeletons compelled to heed his every whim.
He was cruel almost from the time he could talk, catching small creatures and killing them in hideously inventive ways to savor the power of life and death. He grew to be an embarrassment to his well-off family, who paid a tutor to channel his undeniable intelligence and curiosity into more positive outlets. They didn’t know they had apprenticed the young Oreioth to a necromancer in need of an assistant for his researches.
When Oreioth’s master decided he had no more use for his apprentice, he sent Oreioth off to make his own way in the world. Oreioth worked his way northward, robbing graves and using his magic to intimidate or rob anyone weaker than him. Driven out of one decent town after another, he finally sought refuge in an old outlaw’s lair he discovered near Lance Rock. There he commenced his newest round of experiments, avoiding all other living souls.
Oreioth barely recognizes his own name anymore, and he harbors dreams of founding a kingdom of undead servitors with himself on the throne.
What few social graces Oreioth once possessed are fading rapidly. He has become a megalomaniac, styling himself the Lord of Lance Rock and surrounding himself with zombies and skeletons compelled to heed his every whim.
Mar 16, 2018 5:28 pm
Murder, my friend, is not on today's docket. If need be I am willing to stand guard of our "Lord" until the cave can be cleared. We can then take him back to Red Larch. I try to speak in a hushed tone so that the necromancer cannot hear us.
Mar 16, 2018 5:47 pm
There are three unexplored areas (I previously said two; I forgot an earlier one).
There was a tunnel off the second room (L2), a tunnel north from L4, and the tunnel northwest of the current room, L5. Which do you explore, presumably with Sorgrimm dragging along the necromancer and hanging back?
There was a tunnel off the second room (L2), a tunnel north from L4, and the tunnel northwest of the current room, L5. Which do you explore, presumably with Sorgrimm dragging along the necromancer and hanging back?
Mar 16, 2018 6:02 pm
Climbing the steps, he finds a lever and a peephole that seems to operate a rockfall in a cavern that contains a couple of chests. It seems likely that this cavern is the one to the north of the mummer zombies, and that cavern only appears to have an exit to the south.
Mar 16, 2018 6:52 pm
chief12justice says:
OOC:
Balak can't see any threats through the peephole?Mar 16, 2018 7:10 pm
Balak walks down the steps, walks up to Dazzle and asks Would you accompany me? I think I found something useful, but I need your magic expertise.
He walks up to Xella and Alyx:Keep an eye out. There is a lever with a large trap that will kill Dazzle and I should someone trigger it. Make sure no one triggers it.
He walks out to L4, and heads into the tunnel unexplored.
He walks up to Xella and Alyx:Keep an eye out. There is a lever with a large trap that will kill Dazzle and I should someone trigger it. Make sure no one triggers it.
He walks out to L4, and heads into the tunnel unexplored.
Mar 16, 2018 7:46 pm
Balak and Dazzle visit the death trap room with the chests, turns out to be just a trap (that doesn't go off unless Alyx or Xella choose otherwise, heh). After a careful examination, when the two iron chests are opened, they are empty, and there is nothing else of interest in the cavern.
Mar 16, 2018 8:03 pm
Balak and Dazzle return to the main cavern with the group.
I think we should head to the other end of this cavern next.
I think we should head to the other end of this cavern next.
Mar 16, 2018 8:26 pm
Balak sheaths his warhammer, trading it for his javelin. They head to the west side of L5.
Mar 16, 2018 8:29 pm
The workshop narrows into another passage that splits and links up twice. It gently descends to this area described as follows:
An oval cavern opens here, forty feet wide and sixty feet long. Dark purple tapestries hang on the walls. At the center stands a pedestal fashioned of severed arms arranged to clutch one another in a cone. Cradled in the uppermost hands is a glowing crystal sphere. A dark sigil with an eyelike slit floats above the sphere.
An oval cavern opens here, forty feet wide and sixty feet long. Dark purple tapestries hang on the walls. At the center stands a pedestal fashioned of severed arms arranged to clutch one another in a cone. Cradled in the uppermost hands is a glowing crystal sphere. A dark sigil with an eyelike slit floats above the sphere.
Mar 16, 2018 8:40 pm
Uhhhh, don't touch ANYTHING. Dazzle is being uncharacteristically deadly serious. Let's get the others. Now.
Mar 16, 2018 9:10 pm
Balak looks at the crystal, trying to see if he knows anything about its origin. After looking at the crystal for a few seconds, he says to Dazzle: After you, Sir Silvertongue. Balak follows, cautiously of his surroundings. I've a bad feeling about this place.
OOC:
Using Stonecunning on the check.Last edited March 16, 2018 9:10 pm
Rolls
Intelligence (History) check related to this beautiful crystal - (1d20+5)
(12) + 5 = 17
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