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00:00:03	Tim	Welcome back adventurers to session five of our ongoing journey into the Dragon's Delve, a dungeon of danger, mystery and ancient power. Our heroes press deeper into the labyrinths, twisting corridors, facing new perils and uncovering secrets long buried beneath the earth. So grab your dice, ready your spells and join us once more as we descend into the Dragon's Delve
00:00:32	GM - Dave	You're perfectly welcome to try to kill as many NPC's
00:00:35	Jestix - Tim	so long as you get about 320 experience.
00:00:38	Mistress Fria - Howard	It's a really interesting one, that you guys talking about Lawful Good is actually, Fria In my mind, is chaotic neutral, but at the moment, she wants the party to be organised because that's what's keeping her alive. It's really interesting to see how Vulf is playing a chaotic, just barbaric, going and kick everything and just do it out of impatience, whereas Fria is not impatient, but she is chaotic. And at the moment, I would say I'm playing more true neutral, or even slightly, apparently, lawful neutral, or even chaotic neutral. You can argue about these things forever, and people can and do. They had debates in which they killed people in the Middle Ages over that sort of thing. It's nice to hear that you guys debate, so what's the word, carefully and politely.
00:01:41	Vulf - Pete B	It's only a game, after all.
00:01:42	GM - Dave	Right guys, if I remember rightly you have just killed a scorpion here.
00:01:48	Mistress Fria - Howard	Yeah, we've killed baby scorpions, and there was scuttering from other places.
00:01:54	GM - Dave	There's noise from down this corridor that way and from this way, that way and down that way.
00:02:02	Mistress Fria - Howard	Yeah, so we have ominous maw scorpions. They're not impossible to kill, but they're very dangerous, but they're very dumb. So I think we've set up a scorpion slaughterhouse. What do you think, guys?
00:02:16	Jestix - Tim	It's encouraging them to come to us, but then there's stuff both ways, so whatever we do will potentially encourage stuff in both directions.
00:02:23	Mistress Fria - Howard	Well, maybe we go back to where we killed mum, and we put a small blockage and we kill them with a missile.
00:02:29	Jestix - Tim	i.e. you.
00:02:30	Mistress Fria - Howard	If anyone can use a bow, we have a bow and twelve arrows.
00:02:33	Jestix - Tim	I can't use a bone.
00:02:34	Lómeril - Pete	I think I can.
00:02:35	Mistress Fria - Howard	Mr Lómeril, I would be surprised if an elf fighter couldn't use a bow. I believe we have a masterwork.
00:02:41	Ahumstut - James	Elves get automatic proficiency with bows.
00:02:45	Mistress Fria - Howard	We could get a few old tables. I don't think I've seen that much furniture.
00:02:51	Ahumstut - James	And a longsword for that matter.
00:02:53	Mistress Fria - Howard	Build a barricade and somehow attract them to us and just slaughter them.
00:02:58	Jestix - Tim	Or we could just go one way or the other and see what's there. Don't assume.
00:03:02	Mistress Fria - Howard	Okay, how about I sneak down
00:03:05	Jestix - Tim	That's a good idea. That's what you're here for.
00:03:07	Mistress Fria - Howard	I sneak down towards APN.
00:03:10	GM - Dave	It's dark, I can tell you that for
00:03:12	Mistress Fria - Howard	These guys have some light, so I would say this is in the penumbra of low light, and I have low light vision.
00:03:19	GM - Dave	You can probably make out a scorpion -like creature there.
00:03:23	Mistress Fria - Howard	One or two?
00:03:24	GM - Dave	It seems to be a singular.
00:03:26	Mistress Fria - Howard	Okay, I walk carefully back. There appears to be a scorpion in that room. Shall I go and have a look at the other one?
00:03:31	Vulf - Pete B	Yeah, go for it.
00:03:32	Mistress Fria - Howard	I pause briefly by this door to examine it.
00:03:35	GM - Dave	As I only rolled a 10, Howard, I'm not going to make you roll a stealth, but you might want to consider it.
00:03:40	Mistress Fria - Howard	Well, we did just kill its brother with lots of yelling, grunting, and smashing. So if it didn't notice that and come out, it shan't have been noticing me creeping up and having a look at it.
00:03:51	GM - Dave	That's why it needed to get quite high, it's not that bothered. you're creeping down here, yeah?
00:03:56	Mistress Fria - Howard	I examine that door briefly, and I peer around the corner.
00:03:59	GM - Dave	You think round the corner there's another one there, and it doesn't look like it's actually paying an awful lot of attention, and no, it's not.
00:04:06	Mistress Fria - Howard	And what about the corridor going north?
00:04:09	GM - Dave	The corridor turns east. Just there it turns east, okay?
00:04:14	Mistress Fria - Howard	Go back, tell them. You've got one on either direction. If we are unlucky, they will all attack at once. If not, we take them one at a time. The one down here looks like it's boxed in. It has no escape, whereas the other one, the corridor goes on. I think we'll take the boxed in one first, because there might be more than one if we go to the one at APN.
00:04:36	Jestix - Tim	Yeah.
00:04:37	Mistress Fria - Howard	What do you think, guys? I could start proceeding by shooting it with a crossbow and retreating until you can get it into a position where you would be happy to flank it. For example, and I'm just going to use my character, if we had a small ambush here, we could then attack it from two sides.
00:04:57	Jestix - Tim	Yeah. Works for me.
00:04:58	Mistress Fria - Howard	Okay, so I will be bait. Who wishes to be ambushed in the corridor?
00:05:03	Ahumstut - James	I will be bait. Famous last words.
00:05:06	Vulf - Pete B	I look on his face as though, hmm, quite impressed by all this strategy.
00:05:10	Mistress Fria - Howard	Mr. Poole, would you like to take the front centre, or would you want to ambush it?
00:05:16	Vulf - Pete B	Front, centre.
00:05:17	Mistress Fria - Howard	Okay, I will attract it and shoot it, and then I will retreat back past you, keeping its attention, and I hope greatly that you will assist it from not eating me.
00:05:31	Jestix - Tim	Lómeril, where do you want to be?
00:05:33	Mistress Fria - Howard	Ambush or front dead centre?
00:05:36	Lómeril - Pete	Dead centre with a bow so I can get a shot off.
00:05:39	Mistress Fria - Howard	Okay.
00:05:39	Vulf - Pete B	I'll have my hand axe and my throwing axe ready to, if he comes around the corner, to chuck at it.
00:05:43	Mistress Fria - Howard	I sneak up to just where I can see it, and I try my best surprise attack with a crossbow to shoot it. I take all the time in the world to aim and smack it. Hopefully, someone ever hurts. Are there any bonuses for sort of taking aim?
00:05:58	Vulf - Pete B	No, but you might be able to, you can probably get a sneak on it, though.
00:06:01	Mistress Fria - Howard	Can I use my rogue sneak?
00:06:03	Ahumstut - James	Just has to be not acted / flat-footed.
00:06:07	GM - Dave	Yes, you have to have done a stealth up to it.
00:06:09	Mistress Fria - Howard	I can stealth.
00:06:10	Vulf - Pete B	Within 30 feet.
00:06:11	Mistress Fria - Howard	So I will stealth up. That is what it requires. Oh, fuck it. I'm not very stealthy, but then I'm bait. So that's fine. I accidentally drop something very loud as I'm breaching.
00:06:23	GM - Dave	You get to about there, it
00:06:24	Mistress Fria - Howard	A natural one, and it sees me, and I then run.
00:06:27	GM - Dave	Then scutters, scutters, scutters in your general direction, and then we'll roll initiatives.
00:06:31	Mistress Fria - Howard	My initiative.
00:06:32	Vulf - Pete B	Can I have a readied action? When he comes around the corner to throw my axe, is that reasonable?
00:06:37	GM - Dave	Initiative guys?
00:06:39	Mistress Fria - Howard	4, I'm rolling badly today. Get the crap ones out.
00:06:43	GM - Dave	Lómeril got 17, so
00:06:45	Lómeril - Pete	Yep.
00:06:45	Jestix - Tim	10.
00:06:46	Vulf - Pete B	23.
00:06:47	GM - Dave	Jestix was 21. So tell me what's Jestix?
00:06:50	Jestix - Tim	10.
00:06:51	GM - Dave	10, and 23 for Vulf. Okay, so Vulf is actually going to go first, and then you go on to hold, or whatever, delay, readied action.
00:07:00	Vulf - Pete B	Yeah.
00:07:00	GM - Dave	Next to go will be the Scorpion itself, who can
00:07:04	Mistress Fria - Howard	It's going to close on me.
00:07:05	GM - Dave	move eight squares.
00:07:07	Ahumstut - James	It's a speedy boy.
00:07:08	GM - Dave	It will get right up to Freya, and then go for the attack, and I believe Vulf wanted to do something.
00:07:14	Mistress Fria - Howard	Smack it, please.
00:07:15	Vulf - Pete B	Yeah, throw my axe.
00:07:16	Mistress Fria - Howard	I cocked up the sneak. This is where the game mechanic pain.
00:07:20	Vulf - Pete B	Roll a d20, you see what I get. It's gonna be around 13, possibly less.
00:07:24	GM - Dave	AC 13,
00:07:25	Vulf - Pete B	Yep.
00:07:26	GM - Dave	You need to do better than that.
00:07:27	Vulf - Pete B	Okay, when it bounces off, it's a chitinous armour, then, I guess.
00:07:30	GM - Dave	Okay, well, it will do
00:07:32	Mistress Fria - Howard	Chitinous armour, well done.
00:07:34	GM - Dave	a singular claw attack against you because it's moved.
00:07:37	Mistress Fria - Howard	Oopsie.
00:07:38	GM - Dave	Luckily, I've already just rolled the 20, but it rolled a 19, so I think that is probably going to be a hit, because your AC would need to be 21.
00:07:46	Mistress Fria - Howard	My AC is 13, I'm afraid.
00:07:48	GM - Dave	It will do you 4 points of damage,
00:07:51	Mistress Fria - Howard	Ouch.
00:07:51	GM - Dave	and a grappler attack was hit with a claw STR modifier DEX modifier for grappler check, whichever is better.
00:07:57	Mistress Fria - Howard	My DEX would be better. Opposed roll
00:08:00	Ahumstut - James	Opposed grapple roll. Yours is based on STR though.
00:08:03	Mistress Fria - Howard	Doing STR.
00:08:04	Ahumstut - James	It's always STR but because he's got the scorpion's got the improved grab feat they can use either STR or DEX.
00:08:10	Jestix - Tim	Scorpion can do either, you can't.
00:08:12	GM - Dave	And I think as it's just got 21…
00:08:14	Mistress Fria - Howard	I can't actually do better than 21, I don't think. I got a 16. I got minus 1. I did well, but not very well.
00:08:21	GM - Dave	Right, so you have been grappled. It actually makes no difference at this moment in time, just as I said, you have to try to escape. Next go, if you're still grappled, it just gets auto-damage on you.
00:08:33	Mistress Fria - Howard	I'm not actually pulling it back into our killing zone.
00:08:36	GM - Dave	Lómeril
00:08:37	Lómeril - Pete	Oh dear, the boss is being waved around like a- Like a flag.
00:08:41	Jestix - Tim	That's a flag, saying shoot, shoot.
00:08:44	Mistress Fria - Howard	Yeah, I am saying shoot.
00:08:45	Lómeril - Pete	Shoot the hobbit.
00:08:46	Jestix - Tim	Yeah, it's a gnome.
00:08:47	Lómeril - Pete	Try to shoot the scorpion. That was a 17, so I think I can get plus 2. That's 19. I don't know if it's a- What is it? Is it a normal bow or a master bow?
00:08:58	Jestix - Tim	Masterwork.
00:08:59	GM - Dave	you another plus 1.
00:09:00	Lómeril - Pete	20. What damage does it do?
00:09:02	Ahumstut - James	Minus 4 firing into combat / grappling.
00:09:06	Jestix - Tim	16.
00:09:07	GM - Dave	16, still hit, still hit.
00:09:09	Lómeril - Pete	Is there a size penalty or a size benefit? Because it's a gnome in the claw of a giant scorpion.
00:09:14	Ahumstut - James	It's just a straight negative.
00:09:16	Lómeril - Pete	How much damage for an arrow?
00:09:17	Vulf - Pete B	Er, what bow is it?
00:09:18	Mistress Fria - Howard	Long.
00:09:19	Ahumstut - James	D8.
00:09:19	Vulf - Pete B	D8.
00:09:20	Lómeril - Pete	1.
00:09:20	Jestix - Tim	Tickled it.
00:09:21	Lómeril - Pete	1 point of damage.
00:09:22	GM - Dave	Jestix.
00:09:23	Jestix - Tim	Well, it hasn't arrived yet, so I don't yet know that it's all gone hideously wrong
00:09:27	GM - Dave	You might have heard the squeak of Fria, though. Okay, so you've got to stay on hold for the moment.
00:09:31	Jestix - Tim	Yeah.
00:09:32	GM - Dave	Fria, you can try to escape, which would be an opposed grapple check, or escape artist, if you've got it.
00:09:38	Mistress Fria - Howard	Good question. I don't think I have escape artists.
00:09:40	Jestix - Tim	What a thief with no escape, artist.
00:09:42	Mistress Fria - Howard	Escape artists I have plus 2. And if it's opposed STR, I'm at minus 1 So I'll use my plus 2 escape artist.
00:09:49	Ahumstut - James	It's an opposed. The opponent uses grapple. Use either grapple or escape artist.
00:09:55	Mistress Fria - Howard	And I'll use escape artist. I don't think I have a grapple at all in terms of skill.
00:10:00	GM - Dave	You do have a default grappler, but it's not really very good.
00:10:03	Mistress Fria - Howard	A 15.
00:10:04	GM - Dave	Oh, and it gets a 3, so it's got a 5, so you make it, and you wriggle out.
00:10:09	Mistress Fria - Howard	Okay, I wriggle out. And if I can use… Can I use my move without attacking? Can I back off 5 feet?
00:10:16	GM - Dave	I think so.
00:10:17	Mistress Fria - Howard	That is the plan. I'm backing off as fast as I can. Well, quite frankly, if I can break off and run at this point. Without attracting attention.
00:10:26	Jestix - Tim	Attack of opportunity.
00:10:27	GM - Dave	I think if you do a full move, you do provoke.
00:10:30	Mistress Fria - Howard	I will do a full move. If I get a full move, I do…
00:10:34	GM - Dave	You provoke an attack of opportunity, but I think if you make a five-foot step, you don't.
00:10:38	Mistress Fria - Howard	Then a 5 foot step is fine. I'm trying to stay alive here.
00:10:41	Ahumstut - James	Withdrawing means that the square on doesn't count towards the thing.
00:10:47	GM - Dave	Yes, but you can't withdraw, because that's a full round. That's what I mean. You have to use his attack to escape.
00:10:52	Mistress Fria - Howard	So it's just a 5 foot.
00:10:54	Jestix - Tim	Yeah.
00:10:54	Mistress Fria - Howard	I get nearly to the corner.
00:10:56	GM - Dave	I would think that Jestix might be able to see the fact that Freya is coming this way now, but I would imagine she's still going to stay on hold, aren't you?
00:11:05	Jestix - Tim	Yeah, because it looks like the plan might be working.
00:11:07	GM - Dave	So, next round. Vulf
00:11:09	Jestix - Tim	Fria was obviously just trying to attract his attention.
00:11:11	Mistress Fria - Howard	Oh God, I did that. I was pretty damaged before we started. Leased to all.
00:11:15	Vulf - Pete B	I charge forwards and attack the creature.
00:11:17	Mistress Fria - Howard	Thank you. Not quite the plan.
00:11:19	Vulf - Pete B	I want to try and hit this thing to dissuade it from going after the cute and fluffy little gnome.
00:11:23	GM - Dave	Fria, you can have an attack of opportunity against Vulf as he runs by.
00:11:26	Mistress Fria - Howard	He did call me cute. My hand might have to take him out for that.
00:11:30	Vulf - Pete B	I've seen the picture. Definitely cute.
00:11:32	Jestix - Tim	But I'm not sure about Fluffy.
00:11:33	Mistress Fria - Howard	But the hair is pretty fluffy.
00:11:35	Vulf - Pete B	Yeah, pretty damn fluffy. 2, 15, 17 to hit.
00:11:39	Mistress Fria - Howard	That'll hurt.
00:11:40	Vulf - Pete B	10 damage.
00:11:41	GM - Dave	Okay, it's still there. It is grievously hurt, but it's still there. Okay, it's now the scorpion's go, and there seems to be an individual who can do its full round against, so it will. Joy, Pete. Have… oh, that'll be a hit, so that'll be 19, probably.
00:11:55	Vulf - Pete B	Er, well, I've got an AC of 17, so I'm suggesting it's probably gonna hit.
00:11:59	GM - Dave	So that's one claw. The second claw misses you, and it'll try to sting you,
00:12:04	Vulf - Pete B	Not sting me…
00:12:05	GM - Dave	that's only 1, so it's a miss.
00:12:07	Vulf - Pete B	Hurrah!
00:12:08	GM - Dave	You get a claw, 5 points of damage, and then it'll try to grapple you with its claw, which will be a 18.
00:12:16	Vulf - Pete B	I'll have to make a grapple check, they say.
00:12:18	GM - Dave	Yeah, it successfully got you.
00:12:20	Vulf - Pete B	It beats my grapple. I get 9.
00:12:22	GM - Dave	Okay, so you're currently in its claw, and its soulless, beady eyes stare at you
00:12:28	Vulf - Pete B	Dumb beastie.
00:12:30	GM - Dave	Lómeril, 17.
00:12:31	Lómeril - Pete	Drop the bow, grab up the longsword and run down the passageway to get help.
00:12:37	GM - Dave	One, two, three, four, five, six.
00:12:40	Vulf - Pete B	Should be able to have an attack.
00:12:41	GM - Dave	Yes, I would think so. You could probably do a charge together, because
00:12:44	Vulf - Pete B	Well, providing you move 30… Does Lómeril move at 30 or 20?
00:12:48	Lómeril - Pete	It's a very good question, where's move on the character. 20 because of my armour, I imagine.
00:12:54	Jestix - Tim	Yeah, so he won't get there.
00:12:56	GM - Dave	you'll need to take a move action to draw, so you won't be able to get…
00:13:00	Vulf - Pete B	Not if you've got an attack bonus of 1 or higher. You can do it as part of a move action.
00:13:05	GM - Dave	Oh, okay, so then you can do a double move, which can do a charge.
00:13:08	Vulf - Pete B	Oh yeah, I suppose so.
00:13:09	Ahumstut - James	No, there's people in the way. You can't charge through anyone's square.
00:13:13	GM - Dave	Okay, so you can't get there. I'd say you can get there, but you can't charge.
00:13:18	Lómeril - Pete	Okay.
00:13:18	Mistress Fria - Howard	Only a little, gnome.
00:13:20	Lómeril - Pete	I'll get there.
00:13:20	Ahumstut - James	Place could shove prayer aside.
00:13:22	GM - Dave	And you can have an attack, yes.
00:13:24	Lómeril - Pete	What if I kick the boss out of the way?
00:13:26	Mistress Fria - Howard	Perfectly reasonable.
00:13:26	Lómeril - Pete	I'll charge up, take like a step off the gnome.
00:13:30	GM - Dave	Bank shot. Okay, Jestix, you go next, and you probably now see two of your compatriots run past.
00:13:36	Jestix - Tim	In which case, I'll come around the corner, see what's going on, because obviously the plan's gone pear-shaped.
00:13:41	Mistress Fria - Howard	Yeah.
00:13:41	Vulf - Pete B	Utterly.
00:13:41	GM - Dave	I don't think there's anything you can actually do, is there?
00:13:43	Jestix - Tim	No.
00:13:44	GM - Dave	Not unless you can tumble through people.
00:13:46	Jestix - Tim	I can tumble, but I'm not going to. I'm not very good at tumbling.
00:13:49	GM - Dave	Fria.
00:13:49	Mistress Fria - Howard	Apart from the fact I just been push out of the way. Can I shoot at it?
00:13:54	GM - Dave	minus 4.
00:13:55	Mistress Fria - Howard	No, it's not worth it. These two have got their backs to me. Can I stamp between them? and Colour spray it. Because it just hurts.
00:14:02	GM - Dave	Yeah, but I think you'd need to make a spellcraft roll, just to make sure you don't include your compatriots.
00:14:07	Jestix - Tim	That would be very bad. Possibly terminal.
00:14:09	Vulf - Pete B	Very funny, though. So how did the campaign end, then?
00:14:12	Jestix - Tim	The gnome colour-sprayed the fighters while they were in combat.
00:14:15	GM - Dave	Considering this is the first time Fria has done this, the party may wish to acquire some dark sunglasses.
00:14:21	Mistress Fria - Howard	This is not the first time I've done this.
00:14:24	Jestix - Tim	Yeah, that's what he said. Or break her fingers.
00:14:26	Vulf - Pete B	The Tim approved method.
00:14:27	Mistress Fria - Howard	Guys, incoming spell. I'm spraying him. It's only a 9. Probably not enough for a spell casting roll. It wasn't a cock-up, but it wasn't Excellent.
00:14:37	GM - Dave	I think that means your compatriots are included.
00:14:40	Ahumstut - James	Will saves for everyone.
00:14:42	GM - Dave	I think it's reasonable to give them a bonus on their will saves, as they are not technically looking in the same direction.
00:14:48	Mistress Fria - Howard	I'm firing from their kneecap at it and something in front of it.
00:14:51	GM - Dave	I give you plus 4 on your will saves.
00:14:54	Jestix - Tim	And that's the problem. Instead of going forward, you're going up.
00:14:56	Mistress Fria - Howard	So plus 4 at… So which roll do I…
00:14:59	GM - Dave	No, you don't.
00:15:00	Ahumstut - James	It's the other.
00:15:00	Jestix - Tim	They have to make a plus 4 willpower.
00:15:03	GM - Dave	You've got a DC by your spell.
00:15:05	Vulf - Pete B	Willpower, saving throw, Ay. Er, yes, the natural enemy of the barbarian.
00:15:09	Jestix - Tim	Yes.
00:15:10	Lómeril - Pete	12.
00:15:11	GM - Dave	I think you probably made it peak.
00:15:12	Lómeril - Pete	If I get plus 4.
00:15:13	GM - Dave	If that hadn't got the plus 4 in it.
00:15:15	Mistress Fria - Howard	for warning.
00:15:16	GM - Dave	What's your Howard? Do you know what it is?
00:15:18	Mistress Fria - Howard	DC 15.
00:15:19	Vulf - Pete B	15?
00:15:20	Lómeril - Pete	Fail then.
00:15:20	Ahumstut - James	How's it 15?
00:15:21	GM - Dave	That's pretty good.
00:15:22	Vulf - Pete B	For a first level spell? Good lord, man.
00:15:24	Mistress Fria - Howard	I'm quite good.
00:15:25	Ahumstut - James	Oh yeah, because gnome. They're good at illusions.
00:15:29	Jestix - Tim	So you've just taken the front line of fighters out. Have you taken…
00:15:32	Mistress Fria - Howard	Lómeril got 16. He rolled 12 and got plus 4.
00:15:34	Lómeril - Pete	No. 12 total.
00:15:36	Mistress Fria - Howard	Ah.
00:15:37	Lómeril - Pete	3.
00:15:37	Mistress Fria - Howard	Damn. Have I taken out the scorpion as well?
00:15:39	GM - Dave	He's just knocked you unconscious again, I think.
00:15:42	Lómeril - Pete	Yeah, well done.
00:15:43	Ahumstut - James	Wait, how many hit dice?
00:15:44	GM - Dave	2.
00:15:44	Ahumstut - James	I'm conscious for D4.
00:15:46	GM - Dave	What about Vulf?
00:15:47	Mistress Fria - Howard	Yeah, the scorpion's the one I'm worried about.
00:15:49	Jestix - Tim	He's unconscious as well. He failed.
00:15:50	GM - Dave	They both failed.
00:15:51	Vulf - Pete B	Well, I did roll a natural 1.
00:15:53	Mistress Fria - Howard	Oops, I'm not good at this am I.
00:15:55	GM - Dave	Something tells me that you lot might want to have a talk with your gnome. Right, it's a two-hit dice creature, so it falls unconscious, too.
00:16:01	Jestix - Tim	In which case, I will go in and kill it while stamping on the gnome what
00:16:04	Mistress Fria - Howard	Okay, kill it. Make sure it's utterly dead and then I bring the boys round.
00:16:07	GM - Dave	I'll roll some damage, Tim.
00:16:08	Vulf - Pete B	If you're doing a coup de grâce, you should get critical damage, and it has to make a saving throw.
00:16:12	GM - Dave	Does he not have to roll to hit?
00:16:14	Vulf - Pete B	No.
00:16:14	Jestix - Tim	What is critical damage. Double damage?
00:16:16	Vulf - Pete B	Yeah, it's because of only a weapon, but you often double, but it can be more…
00:16:19	Jestix - Tim	Quarterstaff.
00:16:20	Vulf - Pete B	Yeah, double. So it doubled everything, so it doubled his strength as well.
00:16:23	Jestix - Tim	Yeah. 8, 16.
00:16:24	GM - Dave	It is dead, and it failed its saving throw.
00:16:26	Mistress Fria - Howard	Okay, I bring the boys round with a glass of wine
00:16:29	GM - Dave	A few rounds later, 4 rounds later, you two wake up, but then there's a couple of rounds of blindness, isn't there?
00:16:34	Ahumstut - James	Couple rounds of blindness, d4, then stun for a round.
00:16:38	Vulf - Pete B	I can't see!
00:16:39	Mistress Fria - Howard	It'll come back in a moment. Scorpion's gone.
00:16:41	Jestix - Tim	While they're moaning, I'll go and have a look around the room Scorpion was in.
00:16:44	Mistress Fria - Howard	I'll look after them and just keep an eye for the other scorpions coming out behind us. And also grab the mule just slightly closer. And we slain some boys. I let a grenade off.
00:16:55	Jestix - Tim	Again.
00:16:55	Mistress Fria - Howard	Again.
00:16:56	Vulf - Pete B	Whoa, that was really bright.
00:16:58	Jestix - Tim	Unfortunately, the gnome isn't.
00:17:00	Mistress Fria - Howard	The gnome has two hit points.
00:17:02	Jestix - Tim	Yeah, So you should have gone the other way.
00:17:03	Mistress Fria - Howard	I don't back down, that easily. It had riled me, gentlemen. I'm sorry. I hope that your heads recover in a moment. Have more beer.
00:17:11	Vulf - Pete B	All's well that ends well, I suppose, but yeah. Maybe not do that again.
00:17:15	GM - Dave	Okay, Jestix, it's reasonably obvious that this piece of corridor here is a newer construction than the one you have just left.
00:17:25	Jestix - Tim	Yeah. This is original complex. This is something someone's added on more recently,
00:17:29	GM - Dave	Yes.
00:17:30	Jestix - Tim	but there aren't any doors in there.
00:17:31	GM - Dave	No. There is a mosaic showing
00:17:33	Jestix - Tim	Mosaic. What's it a mosaic of?
00:17:36	GM - Dave	a vague humanoid shape on the floor.
00:17:38	Jestix - Tim	Cleaning it up a bit while I'm waiting.
00:17:40	GM - Dave	The figure seems to be a kind of crude bear with kind of insect bits.
00:17:46	Jestix - Tim	A crude bear with inset bits.
00:17:48	GM - Dave	Yeah, like insect wings.
00:17:50	Jestix - Tim	Oh, right. Insect.
00:17:52	GM - Dave	But it looks a bit like a giant kind of crude bear with insects. Kind of mandibles things.
00:17:58	Jestix - Tim	Oh.
00:17:59	Vulf - Pete B	Sort of a bear covered in some sort of bug thing.
00:18:02	GM - Dave	Yes.
00:18:02	Vulf - Pete B	Bear bug, perhaps.
00:18:04	Mistress Fria - Howard	Not an owlbear.
00:18:05	Jestix - Tim	Bugbear.
00:18:05	GM - Dave	Yes, something like that. It does look a bit weird.
00:18:08	Mistress Fria - Howard	Owlbears are more beaky.
00:18:09	Jestix - Tim	More owl-ish.
00:18:10	GM - Dave	Do you by chance have stone-working or knowledge of dungeoneering?
00:18:14	Jestix - Tim	No.
00:18:14	GM - Dave	So, that's it.
00:18:15	Jestix - Tim	Yeah. Okay. And then I'll come back and wait for Fria to explain to my companions why she shot them in the face.
00:18:21	Vulf - Pete B	Actually, it wasn't in the face.
00:18:22	Ahumstut - James	He was in the back.
00:18:23	Mistress Fria - Howard	In the kneecaps.
00:18:24	Vulf - Pete B	Whilst they were defending her from the beast.
00:18:26	GM - Dave	There's a large amount of some kind of big prawn-like creature that could probably be very tasty.
00:18:32	Vulf - Pete B	Extra eating tonight, lads.
00:18:33	Mistress Fria - Howard	Yeah, cook it up well. Supplement the rations.
00:18:35	GM - Dave	Okay, so you two come around, your eyes start to readjust.
00:18:39	Vulf - Pete B	I'll spend the requisite time just to get used to life again, and finish parading Fria. Don't need to do that too many times. Say, one of you priestly types, or woodlandy types, got any curing? Have you used it all up today?
00:18:51	Jestix - Tim	Used it all up today, I think.
00:18:52	Lómeril - Pete	Oh, I still got some.
00:18:53	Mistress Fria - Howard	Those claws were big.
00:18:55	Vulf - Pete B	You look even worse than I do, and I don't feel well.
00:18:57	Lómeril - Pete	Get 8 point's back.
00:18:59	Vulf - Pete B	Ooh, thank you. Feel re-energised.
00:19:02	GM - Dave	What would you like to do next, guys?
00:19:03	Jestix - Tim	Well, there's another one at the other end. Why don't we send a gnome to colour spray it first?
00:19:07	GM - Dave	Ah, the alternative strategy.
00:19:10	Vulf - Pete B	That does sound quite good, but… Can't afford to have a being eaten.
00:19:14	Mistress Fria - Howard	No, I certainly can't afford to be eaten again. I'm rather unwell.
00:19:19	Vulf - Pete B	We can make a noise and see if we can attract it around the corner, and then shoot things at it until it dies.
00:19:24	Mistress Fria - Howard	That would be ideal. We have just made quite a bit of noise. I don't think they're hearing, so I think we just throw something down there to attract its attention and shoot it as it approaches.
00:19:35	Jestix - Tim	Gnome throwing?
00:19:36	Mistress Fria - Howard	Have you realised anything about the dangers of suggesting that?
00:19:41	Jestix - Tim	No. I know the dangers of everything being around gnome's , it doesn't make any difference. I've seen it repeatedly. He keeps shooting the fighters in the face.
00:19:49	Vulf - Pete B	Do you have colour spray? Not colour spray, dancing lights.
00:19:51	Mistress Fria - Howard	I do.
00:19:52	Vulf - Pete B	Good. Well, I suggest if it doesn't react too much to noise, maybe some dancing lights might attract it. And if we all stay here-ish, we can then A. ambush it, and B. shoot things at it. So if we send the dancing lights down to here,
00:20:04	Mistress Fria - Howard	I'm just getting over my anger at the monk at the moment. If you get set up, I'll be with you in a moment.
00:20:11	Vulf - Pete B	way you don't have to go down there.
00:20:12	Mistress Fria - Howard	I take a moment and I put the dancing lights. I can move the lights, can't I?
00:20:17	Vulf - Pete B	Yes, that's one of the advantages of them.
00:20:19	Mistress Fria - Howard	So I shall put them as far down here as possible to attract it into sight and illuminate it.
00:20:25	Vulf - Pete B	And then bring it back up again.
00:20:26	GM - Dave	Yeah, that's quite reasonable. I think it comes
00:20:29	Mistress Fria - Howard	I don't have to bring it towards us. Once it's in range and illuminated I will try and keep it where it is. If it sees us and advances, I will keep it illuminated.
00:20:38	GM - Dave	around the corner, and what are you lot doing?
00:20:40	Vulf - Pete B	Throwing things at it.
00:20:42	GM - Dave	Okay, so you're not hiding or anything like that.
00:20:44	Jestix - Tim	I am hiding, because I haven't got anything to throw at it.
00:20:47	GM - Dave	Vulf is here. Lómeril, where are you going to be?
00:20:50	Lómeril - Pete	Where I was.
00:20:50	Jestix - Tim	But then you can't see it's shooting it, probably.
00:20:52	Lómeril - Pete	Well, I'm assuming he's going to rush up that tunnel in like one round. The last one moved really fast, so I'm just not going to bother.
00:21:00	GM - Dave	It'll be in the centre of view straight away, yes.
00:21:03	Lómeril - Pete	Yep.
00:21:03	Mistress Fria - Howard	That's if it seises. If I can keep it moving around down there for a round, distracted, I shall.
00:21:09	GM - Dave	Okay, so we use the initiative we've already got. So Vulf, you can go first.
00:21:13	Vulf - Pete B	I'm going to wait for it to get a bit closer. It's a bit too far for me to throw it. Readying it when you get to 10 feet away, lob.
00:21:19	GM - Dave	It'll be somewhere there, won't it?
00:21:20	Vulf - Pete B	Okay, when it comes into closer range, lob.
00:21:23	GM - Dave	Okay.
00:21:23	Vulf - Pete B	16 to hit.
00:21:24	GM - Dave	That's a hit.
00:21:25	Mistress Fria - Howard	Before it gets close range, the other guys with prepared actions might be able to shoot it as well before then. As long as we all shoot it.
00:21:33	GM - Dave	Actually, that's a good point. I would suggest you all got prepared actions, so yes.
00:21:37	Mistress Fria - Howard	The moment it's in range for Lómeril or… does Jestix have a range weapon?
00:21:43	Jestix - Tim	Nope.
00:21:44	Vulf - Pete B	Okay, Dave, I did 6 damage with my throwing axe.
00:21:47	GM - Dave	We'll go in order of initiative. So Vulf, then it will be Lómeril.
00:21:52	Lómeril - Pete	Are you saying I can have a bow shot and then be ready for close combat immediately?
00:21:56	GM - Dave	Yes.
00:21:57	Lómeril - Pete	Okay.
00:21:58	GM - Dave	This is your delayed action from the previous round.
00:22:01	Lómeril - Pete	All right, that's what I did. so 17.
00:22:04	Jestix - Tim	That's a hit.
00:22:04	Lómeril - Pete	That's 8 points of damage this time.
00:22:07	GM - Dave	dead. Good strategy this time, and you got it.
00:22:09	Vulf - Pete B	High five the elf.
00:22:11	Mistress Fria - Howard	I shall wander and examine that door.
00:22:15	GM - Dave	This door? A reasonably large, ornate, double door. It's quite old, but it's a better quality and newer than most of the other doors you've seen so far.
00:22:26	Mistress Fria - Howard	Do we want to go and check out things that lair? Just cases, guys? Or shall we go to the door and do the lair later?
00:22:33	Jestix - Tim	Do the lair now, because we've already cleared it.
00:22:35	Lómeril - Pete	Yep.
00:22:35	Mistress Fria - Howard	I'll sneak down to there and have a look.
00:22:38	GM - Dave	Okay, and you find some remains of creatures, but nothing else.
00:22:43	Mistress Fria - Howard	I like the idea of a double door. A corridor going up in every direction.
00:22:47	Vulf - Pete B	And a suspicious-looking mosaic over here, apparently.
00:22:49	Mistress Fria - Howard	Yeah, I saw that. It looks like some sort of bear. I will check if it is locked and check for traps.
00:22:56	GM - Dave	Yes.
00:22:56	Mistress Fria - Howard	Not necessarily in that order.
00:22:58	GM - Dave	You're on which you're going to be first.
00:22:59	Mistress Fria - Howard	This is detect traps. So this is just a search. Natural 15. I think that's a 20. That's not very good, actually. It's trap working.
00:23:09	GM - Dave	You don't detect any traps.
00:23:10	Mistress Fria - Howard	Then is it locked?
00:23:12	GM - Dave	There's a keyhole.
00:23:13	Mistress Fria - Howard	Oh, we've got some keys. Have… Lómeril, did you keep the keys? Who had the keys?
00:23:17	Lómeril - Pete	I don't remember having keys.
00:23:19	Mistress Fria - Howard	We found some keys in one of the earlier rooms and somebody picked them up. Maybe it was Jestix.
00:23:25	GM - Dave	Or you.
00:23:26	Mistress Fria - Howard	Or me. They were on high hook. So I don't remember it being me but if it was me, then I will try the keys.
00:23:32	GM - Dave	None of these keys fit this keyhole.
00:23:34	Jestix - Tim	Not on my list.
00:23:35	GM - Dave	It does look quite an ornate hole. So it looks like it would take in an ornate key.
00:23:40	Mistress Fria - Howard	Okay. But is it locked? It has a keyhole but is it locked? Give it a very gentle push.
00:23:46	GM - Dave	The door moved.
00:23:47	Mistress Fria - Howard	Okay, I think it's open, guys. I'm going to back off and let you guys explore. I back off and cover them with my crossbow. So I'm currently at the corner covering them with a crossbow.
00:23:58	GM - Dave	Okay, who's opening the door? Vulf?
00:24:01	Mistress Fria - Howard	Yeah, I'll open the door. Best make sure everybody's ready.
00:24:03	GM - Dave	This chamber is lit by a continual flame spell on the ceiling. There seems to be the sound of movement in this room, but you can't see what it is. It's quite a large room, which I'll fill in in a second. 2 massive square pillars, almost 10 feet by 10 feet, support the centre of the ceiling of this wide chamber. Beautiful silk curtains draped from the walls, and equally lavish woollen carpets, red and gold, adorn the floors.
00:24:30	Mistress Fria - Howard	Lavish carpets.
00:24:31	GM - Dave	Throughout the chamber, old but serviceable wooden furniture can be found. There's a divan here, a bureau there, wardrobe.
00:24:39	Mistress Fria - Howard	Some of the first furniture we've seen.
00:24:42	GM - Dave	Yeah, a massive sumptuous bed, a marble bathtub,
00:24:46	Mistress Fria - Howard	My sort of place.
00:24:47	GM - Dave	silver-plated rack for hanging towels. The place is spick and span clean, and it doesn't feel like anyone lives here.
00:24:55	Mistress Fria - Howard	An unseen servant. Sounds almost like an illusion to me.
00:24:58	Jestix - Tim	Well, you're the expert on said things.
00:25:00	Vulf - Pete B	Peer around for these movement, this movement, see if I can see what made me suspicious about movement.
00:25:07	GM - Dave	Coming around the pillar, about when you were saying, what's that movement? You see a dumpy kind of Potato thing on wheels, holding a feather duster.
00:25:16	Mistress Fria - Howard	And not unseen servant.
00:25:18	Ahumstut - James	It's a seen servant.
00:25:20	Mistress Fria - Howard	Relax, Hello.
00:25:21	GM - Dave	It doesn't say anything.
00:25:22	Vulf - Pete B	Walk towards it.
00:25:23	Mistress Fria - Howard	That could be what's keeping a former wizard's lair Spick and span, but watch it carefully.
00:25:28	Vulf - Pete B	Yep, wander in. I'm trying to ascertain what it is a bit more. Is it some sort of summoned demon-y thing?
00:25:33	Mistress Fria - Howard	A spell of some sort.
00:25:35	GM - Dave	Well, it's a kind of floating thing with wings, so it could be demon-y, yes.
00:25:38	Mistress Fria - Howard	Potato thing.
00:25:39	GM - Dave	Yes, it's a kind of clumpy kind of thing with wings. Now you look a little bit closer, it has tiny little horns.
00:25:47	Jestix - Tim	It's an imp.
00:25:48	Vulf - Pete B	Imp's, you usually think of it being dumpy.
00:25:50	Mistress Fria - Howard	Knowledge arcana?
00:25:52	GM - Dave	Yes
00:25:53	Mistress Fria - Howard	Can you know what it is? Or spellcraft? Too see if I can see what sort of spell it is.
00:25:57	GM - Dave	Someone could make a roll yes.
00:25:59	Mistress Fria - Howard	Is it knowledge arcana or something?
00:26:01	GM - Dave	Yes.
00:26:01	Vulf - Pete B	Larval stage of the Sontarans, perhaps.
00:26:03	Ahumstut - James	What?
00:26:04	GM - Dave	Sontarans. It's a
00:26:05	Jestix - Tim	Doctor Who reference.
00:26:06	Mistress Fria - Howard	Only an 11 on my spellcast.
00:26:09	GM - Dave	No, you don't recognise all this.
00:26:11	Mistress Fria - Howard	I've not seen one of those.
00:26:12	GM - Dave	Knowledge dungeoneering, if anyone's got that can have a roll.
00:26:16	Mistress Fria - Howard	Knowledge engineering?
00:26:17	GM - Dave	Dungeoneering.
00:26:18	Vulf - Pete B	Such a creature, my bardic knowledge.
00:26:20	GM - Dave	Yes, you could try Bardic Knowledge.
00:26:21	Vulf - Pete B	13, I think.
00:26:22	GM - Dave	Nah, that's not quite enough.
00:26:24	Vulf - Pete B	New to me.
00:26:24	GM - Dave	It doesn't pay any attention to you. It just kind of potters around the room.
00:26:29	Mistress Fria - Howard	Well, in which case, let's go and have a look around.
00:26:31	Lómeril - Pete	very ungraciously charge into the room and leap full spread onto the bed.
00:26:38	GM - Dave	Okay.
00:26:39	Lómeril - Pete	Do a big flop, then realise it's a mimic and scream.
00:26:42	Jestix - Tim	Or an illusion, and go crashing to the floor.
00:26:44	Vulf - Pete B	Dave looks up bed of devouring.
00:26:46	GM - Dave	There is lots of furniture in here, basically. It's a room is full of stuff.
00:26:50	Mistress Fria - Howard	I think we get everyone in, close the door, and we search the place.
00:26:52	Vulf - Pete B	Yep.
00:26:53	GM - Dave	The creature just potters around the room, dusting, doesn't seem to take an awful lot of notice of you lot.
00:26:59	Mistress Fria - Howard	That's why it's Pristine in here. He left an unseen servant on tickover. Love the flames on the roof, like it being in a barbecue.
00:27:06	Ahumstut - James	Unseen servants only last an hour a level.
00:27:08	Mistress Fria - Howard	I suggest we carefully search the place.
00:27:10	Vulf - Pete B	Yeah, see who might have lived here.
00:27:12	Mistress Fria - Howard	Close the door, save on oil. This is going to be a good base for operations. Beds and baths, places to sit.
00:27:18	Vulf - Pete B	And cleaning thing.
00:27:19	Mistress Fria - Howard	I've still got this hobbit's ring to examine.
00:27:22	Lómeril - Pete	Venturing party honey trap.
00:27:24	Mistress Fria - Howard	It is.
00:27:25	GM - Dave	Cleans up poo, the mule's just done. Okay, search the room, mate.
00:27:29	Mistress Fria - Howard	Yes, quite frankly, if we feel safe, I'm even tempted to break out with a bit of rations and rest, because we still don't quite know what the ring the hobbit did. We've got some magic items that haven't yet been determined.
00:27:42	Jestix - Tim	But haven't you already had a go at the ring?
00:27:44	Mistress Fria - Howard	I'm trying to remember if I have and failed or whatever.
00:27:47	GM - Dave	Okay, so you come in here, close the doors, potter around, search the place. What's the level of searching you've been doing?
00:27:52	Mistress Fria - Howard	Detailed. Take 20.
00:27:54	GM - Dave	Okay, so you're going to take 20, and it's going to take quite a long time,
00:27:58	Ahumstut - James	An hour.
00:27:59	Jestix - Tim	I'm just going to wander around aimlessly and poke at things. Doing a normal, just a roll.
00:28:04	GM - Dave	Yeah, so we'll have three or four search rolls from Jestix, and if you get a high number, you might see something. We'll have a search roll from Lómeril, just because, and Vulf.
00:28:15	Vulf - Pete B	Wolf is also researching, but same as Jestix. You know, just poking around.
00:28:19	GM - Dave	So maybe 4 search rolls, and if you get anything reasonable, tell me.
00:28:23	Mistress Fria - Howard	Can I take 20?
00:28:24	GM - Dave	Yes, but it basically is going to be a few hours searching at that rate.
00:28:28	Jestix - Tim	I got an 18 and a 17.
00:28:30	Vulf - Pete B	18 was my highest.
00:28:31	Lómeril - Pete	18 for me.
00:28:33	Mistress Fria - Howard	I think the silver ring we found was magical.
00:28:35	Jestix - Tim	No, it wasn't.
00:28:36	Mistress Fria - Howard	With a small sapphire, approximately 50 gold.
00:28:39	Jestix - Tim	We didn't think it was, because it was tarnished.
00:28:41	GM - Dave	Okay, Jestix.
00:28:42	Mistress Fria - Howard	Yes.
00:28:42	Jestix - Tim	Yes.
00:28:43	GM - Dave	Lying on a tabletop is a flat wooden box inlaid with mother-of-pearl inscribed with a floral design. It's a writing box. Lifting the lid, you see a sheet of very fine vellum.
00:28:54	Jestix - Tim	Take it out.
00:28:55	GM - Dave	Three small bottles of ink, blue, black and red, and six very usable quill pens.
00:29:00	Mistress Fria - Howard	Wow, That's better than mine.
00:29:02	Jestix - Tim	Is there anything written on the vellum?
00:29:04	GM - Dave	No.
00:29:04	Mistress Fria - Howard	That almost makes it more valuable in my book.
00:29:07	GM - Dave	Okay, Vulf, underneath the bed, you find a blue velvet bag about the size of a man's head, a large roll of very fine silken thread. It's light beige colour and pleasant to the touch.
00:29:20	Vulf - Pete B	Not really my colour. Added to the mule of carrying.
00:29:24	GM - Dave	Looks like you could knit or spin it into something.
00:29:27	Vulf - Pete B	Well, someone could.
00:29:28	GM - Dave	Somebody could.
00:29:29	Mistress Fria - Howard	It might be ideal for a magic spell of some sort, so
00:29:32	GM - Dave	It's quite fine quality, but it's not anything.
00:29:36	Vulf - Pete B	Yeah, so you can make a fancy dress or something out of it.
00:29:39	GM - Dave	Yep.
00:29:39	Mistress Fria - Howard	Probably quite a large… To actually weave with it would be But yeah, that's good for… I'll detect magic.
00:29:45	GM - Dave	Yep, we'll deal with that in a moment. Lómeril, you find a hollow plaster statue of a fat merchant laughing. You rattle it a bit and there's some coins in it and you find that the bottom can just plug and comes out and there's 12 gold coins in it.
00:30:01	Ahumstut - James	It's a piggy bank.
00:30:02	GM - Dave	And it's got three pea-sized green stones.
00:30:05	Lómeril - Pete	Add it to the party
00:30:06	GM - Dave	I hope somebody's documented that, Howard.
00:30:08	Mistress Fria - Howard	What was that last treasure?
00:30:10	GM - Dave	It's a hollow plaster statue piggy bank of a fat merchant with big ears.
00:30:16	Mistress Fria - Howard	Has it got anything in it?
00:30:17	GM - Dave	Yes, it's got 12 gold coins and three pea-sized green gemstones. It's about six inches or so high.
00:30:24	Mistress Fria - Howard	I suggest that we all just take 4 gold just to have in our pockets, just case. It's not enough so that we have to hoard it. So there's 12 here, 4 of us. Let's just split it up.
00:30:34	Vulf - Pete B	Alright?
00:30:35	Mistress Fria - Howard	I won't put that in party treasure. That's for individuals who are
00:30:38	GM - Dave	Okay, so yes, the room is sumptuous. There are pots and pans for cooking, but there doesn't seem to be any obvious place to cook. Although there's a nice bath, there doesn't seem to be any obvious place to water to come out.
00:30:50	Mistress Fria - Howard	expected magically to be able to create a
00:30:52	GM - Dave	Yep.
00:30:52	Mistress Fria - Howard	wizard of some sort.
00:30:54	GM - Dave	Okay, so you're doing a detect magic. Is that before or after?
00:30:58	Mistress Fria - Howard	After I've done my search, I've finished my search.
00:31:01	GM - Dave	What is your search, plus 20, Howard?
00:31:04	Mistress Fria - Howard	I think it was a 26. Double check. No 25. It's going to take a while to search this thing. To do a fingertip search of this place is going to take a while.
00:31:15	Jestix - Tim	I hope that bed is very big.
00:31:17	Mistress Fria - Howard	We've got continual lighting. Just around the corner there was some edible meat. You've got chaise longues and divans to lounge upon. Quite frankly, I'm feeling well and truly beaten up. So an hour or so of quiet would be quite useful.
00:31:33	GM - Dave	Right, you search the room starting around the outside, as you probably would.
00:31:38	Mistress Fria - Howard	Mythologically.
00:31:39	GM - Dave	And eventually you get to the pillars and you discover that this pillar has a secret slider panel.
00:31:47	Mistress Fria - Howard	Check it quickly for traps so I open it.
00:31:50	GM - Dave	Okay, a trap roll.
00:31:52	Mistress Fria - Howard	God, my rolls are crap tonight. Oh no, it's not. That's 20.
00:31:55	GM - Dave	Okay, you don't think it's trapped,
00:31:57	Mistress Fria - Howard	I open it. I examine it carefully and think, wow. It's a lovely piece of hiding.
00:32:03	GM - Dave	it seems that there's a round secret door on it and you twist it round a bit and then it opens. There is a key.
00:32:11	Mistress Fria - Howard	Is it a big ornate key?
00:32:13	GM - Dave	No, but it is distinctively different other ones you could have got.
00:32:17	Mistress Fria - Howard	Okay. I assume everyone's just lounging around bored by now. I'll show them what I've found and I look to see if there's anything else in it.
00:32:24	GM - Dave	It is ornate. It looks the similar sort to the big door here, but it's not that one.
00:32:31	Mistress Fria - Howard	Cool. Ok, well I pocket it.
00:32:33	GM - Dave	A piece of paper written in common with some words on it. if you want to pay attention to yet.
00:32:39	Mistress Fria - Howard	I will definitely read that.
00:32:41	GM - Dave	Okay, it's describing a blue steel door between a room you've not been into and the moon pool room. Okay, and it says the password is Desitan.
00:32:54	Ahumstut - James	That's Desitan.
00:32:55	GM - Dave	Desitan, thank you.
00:32:56	Mistress Fria - Howard	I'll note that one down.
00:32:58	Vulf - Pete B	Which is the moon pool room, Dave?
00:33:00	Mistress Fria - Howard	When we first came in, isn't it?
00:33:02	GM - Dave	I don't think you were here for that, bit.
00:33:04	Vulf - Pete B	Okay.
00:33:05	GM - Dave	You remember the stairs coming down?
00:33:07	Vulf - Pete B	Yeah.
00:33:08	GM - Dave	If you go east, there was a room there with it in.
00:33:10	Vulf - Pete B	Okay.
00:33:11	Mistress Fria - Howard	Do we find any other treasures.. There's a lot of loot-able stuff in here if we were to really loot.
00:33:18	GM - Dave	Another piece of paper written in another language. Anyone want to tell me any languages they read?
00:33:24	Mistress Fria - Howard	Dwarfish
00:33:25	GM - Dave	Nope, it's not dwarfish. Anyone could speak any other languages? Sorry, read and write?
00:33:29	Mistress Fria - Howard	Common, dwarvish, elvish, gnome, goblin.
00:33:32	GM - Dave	No.
00:33:33	Jestix - Tim	Common Druid.
00:33:34	GM - Dave	No.
00:33:34	Vulf - Pete B	Can't find the languages.
00:33:35	Ahumstut - James	Barbarians aren't supposed to know languages.
00:33:38	Vulf - Pete B	Yeah, I can speak common.
00:33:39	Lómeril - Pete	Draconic.
00:33:40	Vulf - Pete B	Barbarian bard, sorry, I'm not a bit of it.
00:33:42	GM - Dave	So Pete was Lómeril?
00:33:44	Lómeril - Pete	Common, draconic, elven and goblin.
00:33:46	GM - Dave	It's Draconic.
00:33:47	Mistress Fria - Howard	Excellent.
00:33:48	Lómeril - Pete	Wow. Yeah, interesting. Go back to sleep.
00:33:51	Jestix - Tim	I thought you'd be reading the cleric book.
00:33:53	Lómeril - Pete	I'm enjoying having a bed. I'll go back to reading the book when I wake up.
00:33:56	GM - Dave	You know it's Draconic, but you can't bother to look it up. No problem. There's also another kind of crudely staked together pieces of paper, you know, like when people stick a hole and they put string through.
00:34:05	Mistress Fria - Howard	Notes, yeah.
00:34:06	GM - Dave	Yeah, there's a whole raft of odds and sods of random pieces of sized paper all written in either common or Draconic, and it contains things like, remember to get bat's wings, milk and eggs.
00:34:18	Mistress Fria - Howard	I will look through them just in case there's any further clues.
00:34:21	GM - Dave	16 round to-its, and basically it's just a long list of various things. Remember to, all sorts of rubbish like that. It's a pile, doesn't seem to have any relevance to anything.
00:34:31	Mistress Fria - Howard	And he keeps these in a secret compartment.
00:34:34	GM - Dave	Yeah.
00:34:35	Mistress Fria - Howard	Weird.
00:34:35	GM - Dave	A potion bottle, a scroll.
00:34:37	Mistress Fria - Howard	With potions?
00:34:38	GM - Dave	There's two potion bottles in fact, and a scroll.
00:34:41	Mistress Fria - Howard	Okay, does anybody want to have a look or shall I carry on evaluating these?
00:34:45	GM - Dave	Could you roll me a appraisal roll?
00:34:48	Mistress Fria - Howard	I'm not the best at appraisal but yes, that's a 9.
00:34:53	GM - Dave	Okay, you'd think some of the furniture in this room probably could be quite valuable, but you wouldn't even hesitate to say, How much?
00:35:01	Mistress Fria - Howard	It could be looted.
00:35:02	GM - Dave	Yes, the sum of the furniture in here definitely is sell-able quality.
00:35:06	Mistress Fria - Howard	If I had enough money for the water I'd buy that bath.
00:35:09	GM - Dave	Okay, so now we've got… Are you going to detect magic when you… The two potions and the scroll are magical, but nothing else in this room apart from the creature floating about.
00:35:20	Vulf - Pete B	Does that include stuff on each of us as well?
00:35:23	GM - Dave	So if your carrying is magical, then yes, I would imagine it pings up.
00:35:26	Mistress Fria - Howard	Does have the ring ping. I thought the ring pinged.
00:35:28	GM - Dave	Yes, it does. It is definitely magical. I don't think you've done a detect magic on it before.
00:35:32	Jestix - Tim	No.
00:35:33	GM - Dave	It is magical.
00:35:34	Vulf - Pete B	It is magical, do you say?
00:35:35	GM - Dave	It is magical.
00:35:37	Mistress Fria - Howard	It'll take a while to work out what I think these potion bubbles scrolls are but now is the safest time. We've got a bed, we've got food, we've got flames. I'm going to do it unless we are desperate to move on. And also, is anybody able to give me a cure because I'm starting to feel like shit after being shaken around like that.
00:35:55	GM - Dave	I believe you'd get to roll a spellcraft roll on the magical things you spotted to see what sort of schools they are.
00:36:01	Mistress Fria - Howard	You can't take 20 on a spellcraft. You just have to roll them.
00:36:04	GM - Dave	You've got the ring, you've got two potions, and you've got a scroll.
00:36:08	Mistress Fria - Howard	So let's do the ring first. It says spellcraft and is it something I take 20 or do I have to roll?
00:36:14	GM - Dave	You have to roll for it.
00:36:15	Mistress Fria - Howard	That's a 10 plus 5 on my spellcraft 15.
00:36:19	GM - Dave	15's not enough.
00:36:21	Vulf - Pete B	15 plus spell level.
00:36:22	Mistress Fria - Howard	It is magical but we don't know what.
00:36:24	GM - Dave	Yes, it's faintly magical.
00:36:26	Mistress Fria - Howard	I'd put it on.
00:36:27	GM - Dave	You put it on, okay.
00:36:28	Mistress Fria - Howard	Unless anyone else wants it.
00:36:30	GM - Dave	So it wasn't a ring, was it? It was a bracelet.
00:36:32	Jestix - Tim	Yes, the ring was tarnished.
00:36:34	Mistress Fria - Howard	The ring was tarnished, there's a bracelet.
00:36:36	Jestix - Tim	And I've got the bracelets.
00:36:38	GM - Dave	Yeah, but you still thought that was right. You hadn't done a detect magic on it.
00:36:41	Jestix - Tim	No. I put the bracelet in my pocket, because everybody was going, oh. And we did do a detect magic on it. We'd detected magic, but we failed the spellcraft, and nobody's willing to do anything, so I just shoved it in my pocket.
00:36:51	GM - Dave	Right, okay, so that's that done.
00:36:53	Mistress Fria - Howard	Potions?
00:36:54	Vulf - Pete B	A 25 on the spellcraft check. So unless you've got plus 5.
00:36:58	Mistress Fria - Howard	I have plus 5 but I would have to take 20.
00:37:01	Jestix - Tim	But you can't. You only get one shot at it per level or something.
00:37:05	Mistress Fria - Howard	Wow, so I have very little chance on 25 to really work out what it is.
00:37:10	Jestix - Tim	You'll identify one in 20 items.
00:37:12	Mistress Fria - Howard	Yep,
00:37:13	Ahumstut - James	I think you're able to take 20 on potions.
00:37:18	Mistress Fria - Howard	I should like to because that's about my only chance of success.
00:37:22	Vulf - Pete B	Try again, see about this. Okay, some of the spellcraft things, it says no retry. But for identify a potion, it requires one minute, no retry. There you go. So therefore, it'll take a minute, you get a roll, and that's it. You don't get to take 20.
00:37:35	GM - Dave	Okay, so go for it.
00:37:36	Mistress Fria - Howard	Potion number 1? That's crap, that's a 4 so it's a 9. Not a hope unless it's really easy and it's written on the outside.
00:37:44	GM - Dave	No.
00:37:45	Mistress Fria - Howard	And the number 2? I'm rolling so crap. That's a 1. I roll a natural 1 on potion number 2
00:37:51	GM - Dave	Okay, so you don't recognise either of those, and then there's the scroll.
00:37:54	Mistress Fria - Howard	Okay, is the scroll something I can take 20?
00:37:57	Ahumstut - James	Yeah, you used read magic.
00:37:59	GM - Dave	Which is a zero.
00:38:00	Vulf - Pete B	Without using read magic, and that's 20 plus spell level.
00:38:03	Mistress Fria - Howard	Have read magic.
00:38:04	GM - Dave	You just know, I think, innit?
00:38:06	Vulf - Pete B	I think so.
00:38:07	Mistress Fria - Howard	It's a 0 level spell. I take one of my 0 level tokens and I read magic.
00:38:11	GM - Dave	I'm just double checking, but I think you can just read it.
00:38:15	Vulf - Pete B	Seems what it is suited for.
00:38:16	Jestix - Tim	Yeah, it says, read spells and spellbooks.
00:38:19	GM - Dave	Allows you to recognise glyphs of warning. Any symbols?
00:38:24	Mistress Fria - Howard	It's a scroll that allows me to identify glyphs of warding.
00:38:27	Ahumstut - James	No, read magic does.
00:38:29	Mistress Fria - Howard	Oh, okay.
00:38:30	GM - Dave	Being able to recognise glyphs of warning is actually something you should consider.
00:38:34	Mistress Fria - Howard	What's the spell?
00:38:35	GM - Dave	It is a scroll of blur.
00:38:38	Mistress Fria - Howard	Blur, Excellent.
00:38:40	Ahumstut - James	20% mischance.
00:38:41	Mistress Fria - Howard	Can anybody use magical scrolls? Can anyone do it? It needs abilities.
00:38:47	GM - Dave	It's an arcane scroll, if I remember rightly, and so you can read it.
00:38:52	Mistress Fria - Howard	It's in my ability to set it up and use it on me. Is it me or someone else?
00:38:56	Ahumstut - James	I think it's touch.
00:38:57	GM - Dave	So level 2 spell, so by default you can't actually cast it without a spellcraft roll, if I remember rightly.
00:39:04	Ahumstut - James	Caster level check.
00:39:05	Mistress Fria - Howard	I'm only 1.
00:39:06	GM - Dave	Yes, you can cast it, but you need to make a roll to cast it.
00:39:10	Jestix - Tim	If he fails the roll, there's a scroll fade.
00:39:13	Ahumstut - James	I think the scroll gets wasted.
00:39:15	GM - Dave	Yes, I think it does.
00:39:16	Mistress Fria - Howard	Okay, well there you go guys, a magical treasure. You can probably sell that for a lot.
00:39:21	GM - Dave	If cast on someone, grant subject concealment, 20% mischance.
00:39:26	Mistress Fria - Howard	I'll hang on to it just in case I need it. On people leaving concealment mode, I suspect I will but unless anyone actually wants it.
00:39:35	Vulf - Pete B	It's the sort of thing that's useful in a fight.
00:39:36	Jestix - Tim	The problem is, the rest of us probably can't cast
00:39:39	GM - Dave	It doesn't make you harder to see, Howard. It makes you harder to hit.
00:39:42	Mistress Fria - Howard	Excellent.
00:39:42	Jestix - Tim	So it's the sort of thing you would cast onto one of the fighters while standing behind them, rather than at colour screen.
00:39:48	Mistress Fria - Howard	That might work, yep.
00:39:49	Vulf - Pete B	Yeah, I will be able to cast it at some point. I just can't cast it yet.
00:39:53	Mistress Fria - Howard	Okay, so I will hang on to that one for later use and that's about it. Considering such a rich room, it's disappointing, little money.
00:40:04	Vulf - Pete B	Useful spell those.
00:40:06	Lómeril - Pete	Right.
00:40:06	Mistress Fria - Howard	We've rested and whatever.
00:40:08	Lómeril - Pete	I'm going up to the gnome. I'll say, shut your eyes and receive a blessing.
00:40:13	Mistress Fria - Howard	Okay.
00:40:13	Lómeril - Pete	I'll cast Cure Light Wounds by poking my two fingers into her eyes. Jab. Heal
00:40:21	GM - Dave	Stop blinding me!
00:40:23	Lómeril - Pete	7, No, sorry. 8.
00:40:25	Mistress Fria - Howard	Ow! Thanks.
00:40:29	Vulf - Pete B	I've heard it tell, oh mighty priest, that there are those amongst you who are able to exude an area of warmth and curative powers on a few occasions per day. Would you be one of those priests?
00:40:43	Lómeril - Pete	No.
00:40:44	Mistress Fria - Howard	Talking of which, there was that almost edible meat which we saw from the other room. You go and collect that and carve it and check it in the light.
00:40:53	Vulf - Pete B	Do you have turn undead? A certain number of uses per day.
00:40:57	Lómeril - Pete	Yes.
00:41:00	Vulf - Pete B	Then you might want to read up on that.
00:41:01	Lómeril - Pete	I might now want to read up on it.
00:41:05	Vulf - Pete B	Yeah, channel positive energy, it should be. And that means that there's usually two ways you can use it. One to blast undead, and one to cure your fellow compatriots.
00:41:16	GM - Dave	I don't think that happens in this. That's a Pathfinder special.
00:41:20	Vulf - Pete B	Is it?
00:41:21	GM - Dave	I think it is a nice Pathfinder mod, but it's not in.
00:41:24	Mistress Fria - Howard	Guys, we've rested, we've eaten.
00:41:28	Lómeril - Pete	You can have an extra 4 hit points. I'll use my zero levels to give you,
00:41:32	Vulf - Pete B	4 hit points. Thank you.
00:41:34	Mistress Fria - Howard	Shall we go and explore onwards?
00:41:37	Lómeril - Pete	since you're the major meat shield on the party.
00:41:39	Vulf - Pete B	Certainly the one who flings himself into the most danger.
00:41:41	Lómeril - Pete	Yes.
00:41:43	Mistress Fria - Howard	What stands in front of the gnome? It's the most dangerous part of the party as far as I can see.
00:41:48	Jestix - Tim	As far as I can tell, it doesn't matter where you stand around the gnome. It's dangerous.
00:41:51	Mistress Fria - Howard	Seems fair. So, shall we crack on?
00:41:55	Jestix - Tim	Well, there's this door here we haven't been through yet.
00:41:57	Mistress Fria - Howard	I was thinking exactly the same thing. Shall we go and investigate those Jestix?
00:42:02	Jestix - Tim	Yep.
00:42:03	Mistress Fria - Howard	I might have to call you Madge.
00:42:05	GM - Dave	Okay, so you open the door, yeah?
00:42:06	Jestix - Tim	I don't care what you call me, so long as you don't colour screen.
00:42:10	GM - Dave	Okay, right guys, I would suggest a listen check might be useful at this moment.
00:42:15	Mistress Fria - Howard	As I said, we're expecting a few more scorpions.
00:42:18	GM - Dave	If you've got a listen skill, roll a d20, now.
00:42:21	Vulf - Pete B	We all have listen skills.
00:42:22	Mistress Fria - Howard	Oh God, that's my third 1of the evening.
00:42:26	Vulf - Pete B	7.
00:42:27	Jestix - Tim	8.
00:42:27	GM - Dave	No.
00:42:28	Lómeril - Pete	Er, wait, wait, wait. Oh, yeah, I screwed that one up.
00:42:32	GM - Dave	Okay, so all of you fail.
00:42:33	Mistress Fria - Howard	We just stumble out
00:42:36	GM - Dave	Okay.
00:42:37	Mistress Fria - Howard	ignoring the fact that there's probably hundreds of things out there.
00:42:39	GM - Dave	Unbeknownst to you, a whole pack of rats have been munching away at this scorpion. They hear you lot come round the corner and are swarming towards you at this moment in time.
00:42:50	Mistress Fria - Howard	Big rats, small rats.
00:42:51	GM - Dave	Tiny little rats gets a big swarm.
00:42:54	Mistress Fria - Howard	I suggest we get back behind the door.
00:42:57	GM - Dave	So we'll have some initiative first, shall we?
00:42:59	Mistress Fria - Howard	They do have a long way to run.
00:43:01	GM - Dave	Oh yeah, you might be able to escape.
00:43:03	Mistress Fria - Howard	And they're only little.
00:43:04	Jestix - Tim	But there's lots of them.
00:43:05	Vulf - Pete B	And they're all in full scurry mode.
00:43:07	Mistress Fria - Howard	Actually, that doesn't mean they can run fast. They're just more dangerous.
00:43:12	Jestix - Tim	5.
00:43:12	Lómeril - Pete	14.
00:43:13	Mistress Fria - Howard	19.
00:43:14	GM - Dave	Vulf.
00:43:15	Mistress Fria - Howard	No, sorry, 18.
00:43:16	Vulf - Pete B	I got 8.
00:43:17	GM - Dave	Lómeril.
00:43:18	Lómeril - Pete	14.
00:43:18	GM - Dave	Basically, they will get to go first. I'm going to use this creature for it.
00:43:23	Mistress Fria - Howard	Even with me on an 18.
00:43:24	GM - Dave	You didn't notice them Howard. So they basically rush towards you lot. They're going to go three squares. So actually, they get to there. You notice them, then they continue down the corridor another three squares. Why are you all in the corridor? You're all in the corridor, so yeah.
00:43:40	Mistress Fria - Howard	We were. The idea is that we
00:43:42	GM - Dave	Yeah, but you've got a leg back. Now it's back round to ordinary rounds. Fria goes first on 18.
00:43:48	Mistress Fria - Howard	isn't a way I can do the rats with a colour tree without getting somebody else's there, from where I'm standing.
00:43:56	GM - Dave	Yes, you can. You can move forward and do it.
00:43:58	Mistress Fria - Howard	If I move right next to Vulf. and spray them, I'm not going to get Vulf and the guys.
00:44:05	GM - Dave	No.
00:44:05	Mistress Fria - Howard	This is an ideal use for it. I shall blast them.
00:44:09	Ahumstut - James	Yes, you appear to be a bit too trigger happy.
00:44:11	Mistress Fria - Howard	I am definitely This is one of the reasons I left my gnomish village.
00:44:17	Ahumstut - James	They were too scared of you.
00:44:18	Jestix - Tim	He kept blinding everybody.
00:44:21	Mistress Fria - Howard	I wanted to blow this stuff up and have as much fun. I'm not just sitting there making stuff with my hammer. Bugger that.
00:44:28	GM - Dave	Freya goes to here.
00:44:30	Mistress Fria - Howard	yep, there's my first level spell token Dave sitting out in the middle.
00:44:34	GM - Dave	Cool. What's the range of said
00:44:36	Ahumstut - James	15 foot.
00:44:37	GM - Dave	15 foot? So yes, they will be within the range. It's a saving throw, isn't it?
00:44:42	Ahumstut - James	Will save.
00:44:43	Mistress Fria - Howard	DC 15.
00:44:44	GM - Dave	DC 15 will save. And then it will be how many hit dice. Yes.
00:44:49	Mistress Fria - Howard	4 hit dice. Surely everything in there is an individual rather than a swarm.
00:44:55	GM - Dave	It doesn't work like that Howard, But you do succeed. So they fail their will saving throw. They have 4 hit dice creatures. They're still blind. They're still stunned, are they?
00:45:03	Ahumstut - James	Stunned and blinded for d4, then stun for d4. No, just stun for one after that.
00:45:08	GM - Dave	They're not unconscious, but they are stunned. They're stunned for two rounds. And are they currently blinded as well?
00:45:14	Vulf - Pete B	Probably.
00:45:15	Mistress Fria - Howard	How many of them?
00:45:16	GM - Dave	The whole swarm at the moment? And stunned is what?
00:45:19	Ahumstut - James	Can't do anything.
00:45:20	GM - Dave	Okay, they can still move.
00:45:21	Ahumstut - James	I think it can't take any actions. Yeah, drops everything held. Can't take actions. Minus 2 to AC. Loses DEX.
00:45:28	GM - Dave	Okay, so you've basically stunned them for 2 rounds, guys.
00:45:32	Mistress Fria - Howard	Roughly how many of them are there?
00:45:33	GM - Dave	There's hundreds of them held.
00:45:35	Mistress Fria - Howard	I'm going to grab the mule and escape up towards room 13, gentlemen.
00:45:39	GM - Dave	Next to go is Lómeril.
00:45:41	Lómeril - Pete	Crap, going back into the room would be better. But never mind, you'll have to follow the boss.
00:45:46	Jestix - Tim	The boss hasn't moved yet.
00:45:47	Mistress Fria - Howard	Get trapped in there. The rats might go away.
00:45:52	Lómeril - Pete	I follow the gnome.
00:45:53	Mistress Fria - Howard	Grab the mule and let's run.
00:45:55	GM - Dave	Are you legging it up the corridor?
00:45:57	Lómeril - Pete	Yes.
00:45:58	GM - Dave	Right, you could easily get into the room there.
00:46:02	Lómeril - Pete	Okay.
00:46:02	Mistress Fria - Howard	Take the mule.
00:46:04	GM - Dave	Rats, they can't act. It's Vulf next.
00:46:07	Vulf - Pete B	I'll look at the stunned rats. Okay, I think moving away from them, I shall take out my musical instrument.
00:46:14	GM - Dave	So where are you going to?
00:46:16	Vulf - Pete B	I'll move up the corridor with the others as well.
00:46:18	GM - Dave	Okay, well, move yourself then.
00:46:19	Vulf - Pete B	Move 40.
00:46:20	GM - Dave	One, two, three. Yeah, it'll be about there.
00:46:24	Vulf - Pete B	That's 40, is it? Okay.
00:46:25	GM - Dave	Oh, sorry, eight squares. Okay.
00:46:27	Jestix - Tim	You said half move.
00:46:28	Vulf - Pete B	Yeah, 40 is a half-move, rather than 80.
00:46:30	GM - Dave	Jestix.
00:46:31	Jestix - Tim	Follow the crowd.
00:46:32	GM - Dave	And who's got the mule?
00:46:34	Mistress Fria - Howard	Looks like I have.
00:46:36	Jestix - Tim	Yeah.
00:46:36	Mistress Fria - Howard	It could be me dragging a mule up with it, but let's go.
00:46:40	GM - Dave	All right, okay. So Jestix, where are you going?
00:46:42	Jestix - Tim	I'm following the crowd down into the room down here with the dog.
00:46:45	GM - Dave	Okay, so what's your move?
00:46:47	Jestix - Tim	My move is 30.
00:46:48	GM - Dave	So you could double move into the room. Assuming you do that.
00:46:51	Jestix - Tim	Yep.
00:46:51	GM - Dave	Leaving Fria behind. All right, so beginning of the next round. Fria, what are you doing?
00:46:55	Mistress Fria - Howard	Grab the mule and drag it at full double move as fast as I can go up to where the boys are.
00:47:01	GM - Dave	So what's your move?
00:47:02	Mistress Fria - Howard	It's only 20.
00:47:03	GM - Dave	So that's 4 squares.
00:47:04	Mistress Fria - Howard	I'm running as fast as I can.
00:47:06	GM - Dave	So you can get to the mule, and you can drag it up into the corridor.
00:47:10	Mistress Fria - Howard	Yes, I'm running like hell.
00:47:13	GM - Dave	Okay, and then it will be Lómeril. What are you lot going to do in this room?
00:47:17	Jestix - Tim	Watch the impending rat fest go
00:47:19	Lómeril - Pete	Is there a door that can shut behind us.
00:47:21	GM - Dave	There's a door into the main area, and there's a door into the room with the lion on the ceiling.
00:47:26	Mistress Fria - Howard	Which we kicked in.
00:47:27	GM - Dave	That's right, actually. The door into the room with the lion has been kicked in.
00:47:31	Lómeril - Pete	No.
00:47:31	GM - Dave	This is a secure door here. Or did you kick that one in too?
00:47:34	Lómeril - Pete	Okay, I run to that door, step through, and then prepare to shut it.
00:47:39	GM - Dave	Okay, so the rats are now on their second round. Of being inactive. Vulf?
00:47:44	Vulf - Pete B	I delay, basically, because I know that the gnome's behind, so I will start strumming.
00:47:52	GM - Dave	Okay, Jestix.
00:47:53	Jestix - Tim	Go through the door.
00:47:55	GM - Dave	That'll be your full action.of And then it's background to the beginning of the round, and I'm assuming you're going to continue.
00:48:00	Mistress Fria - Howard	Running is definitely my best option. I'm going to continue to run towards the only secure door which doesn't trap me in here.
00:48:09	GM - Dave	The measurements are right. You get halfway into the room. You're about there-ish. Then the rats have their action.
00:48:17	Ahumstut - James	They also get stunned for one more time. Blinded and stunned for d4, then an extra 1.
00:48:22	GM - Dave	Blinded doesn't mean you can't actually see, but it does mean that
00:48:26	Ahumstut - James	Still stunned.
00:48:26	GM - Dave	they're still stunned. They stay there. Okay, so Vulf. The rats have not so far come round the corner.
00:48:33	Vulf - Pete B	I am waiting for Fria to escape.
00:48:36	GM - Dave	Jestix is there, so background to the beginning of the round. Fria, you can easily get through there in that next time period.
00:48:43	Mistress Fria - Howard	Yep.
00:48:44	GM - Dave	Okay.
00:48:45	Mistress Fria - Howard	What are we going to do about these things? Can we fight them?
00:48:49	Vulf - Pete B	I have a plan.
00:48:50	Mistress Fria - Howard	Excellent! We'll join in.
00:48:52	GM - Dave	The rats are no longer stunned. I suppose they can move half, can't they? Get to there. Vulf.
00:48:58	Vulf - Pete B	I'll keep a beady eye on the rats. If they start to head down the corridor, then I will start to play to try to fascinate them.
00:49:05	GM - Dave	Ooh, good idea. If you wait, basically, they will eventually start coming up this way. They're currently blinded.
00:49:12	Mistress Fria - Howard	fascinate them while they're blinded.
00:49:14	Vulf - Pete B	Yeah, all right, try to fascinate them. The idea is the Pied Piper effort, and yeah, they're To try and basically fascinate them so that they follow me, and then I will lead them off somewhere well away from us lot. Outside, perhaps, because I believe that there's some stairs that lead pretty close to the entranceway, like these ones.
00:49:33	Jestix - Tim	Or you can lead them into one of the other rooms and shut the door on them.
00:49:36	Vulf - Pete B	There is that. Yeah, they may go down to the trash pit and have some fun there. That was option two.
00:49:40	GM - Dave	Okay, so roll your Fascinate. What's it against?
00:49:43	Vulf - Pete B	So, fascinate. Is
00:49:45	GM - Dave	A Will save.
00:49:46	Vulf - Pete B	DC for affected creatures. Will save against the effect. If the creature succeeds, can't attempt it again. Fails if it isn't quite a song, taking no other actions. But you could, I suppose, if you wanted to, so that they follow me because that is precedent has been set for that sort of thing. But I'll make a perform roll with my loot, which is not as good as the other ones. So 13 is the DC, not the save.
00:50:08	GM - Dave	And they fail. Assuming it was a Will.
00:50:11	Vulf - Pete B	It is.
00:50:12	GM - Dave	Yep, they fail.
00:50:13	Vulf - Pete B	OK. Well, the general idea, then, is to… I can't see easily on this map the stairs that lead out to the outside.
00:50:20	GM - Dave	Now it's up this passageway here, down that way, and across.
00:50:24	Vulf - Pete B	So it's miles back sort of thing.
00:50:25	GM - Dave	How long does Fascinate last for?
00:50:27	Vulf - Pete B	As long as I keep playing, I think. Within 90 feet, see and hear the bard, pay attention to me.
00:50:33	GM - Dave	So there's no hit dice level on that.
00:50:36	Vulf - Pete B	No, I only affect one target though.
00:50:39	GM - Dave	Okay. Well, you smash the door in there, and there's a pit.
00:50:43	Vulf - Pete B	Do we smash it or do we open it?
00:50:45	GM - Dave	You smash this door.
00:50:46	Vulf - Pete B	OK.
00:50:47	Mistress Fria - Howard	So we'll all get out the way and you can pied piper them
00:50:50	Vulf - Pete B	What about this door here, where my white
00:50:51	GM - Dave	Which door?
00:50:51	Vulf - Pete B	Where my white hand is?
00:50:53	GM - Dave	This door wasn't locked. You just opened it.
00:50:55	Mistress Fria - Howard	So we can just do that, won't we?
00:50:57	Vulf - Pete B	Yeah.
00:50:58	Mistress Fria - Howard	Okay, well if you carry on playing, we'll open the door and you can lead them in there. How are we going to get out, I don't know.
00:51:05	Vulf - Pete B	Leave them in here, and then when they're all sort of in there, back out the door and shut the door is kind of the plan.
00:51:11	GM - Dave	You've got Animal Handling?
00:51:12	Vulf - Pete B	I do have an animal handling, yeah. Do you want me to roll that?
00:51:14	GM - Dave	Yeah, I think that's an appropriate… If you succeed, then you succeed in what you're trying to do.
00:51:20	Vulf - Pete B	OK. He rolls poorly. 5.
00:51:23	GM - Dave	Ok, You find it difficult… You in this room, and the rats are kind of, like, hovering here. You can't seem to encourage them to actually come into the room.
00:51:32	Vulf - Pete B	Okay.
00:51:33	GM - Dave	They're not endangering you or endangering the rest of the party, but they just don't seem to…
00:51:38	Vulf - Pete B	Perhaps if I went further into the room and tried to climb round the side here, would that be sort of my only other option?
00:51:44	GM - Dave	Yeah, but you probably can't play your lute while you're doing the Clamber round, but certainly you could…
00:51:49	Mistress Fria - Howard	Climbing with the loot.
00:51:50	Vulf - Pete B	No, I mean, I'd obviously stop looting at that point.
00:51:53	GM - Dave	Okay, yeah, so you go there.
00:51:55	Vulf - Pete B	So, OK, I stand all the way back here. Hopefully one of the others will have the presence of mind to shut the door.
00:51:59	Mistress Fria - Howard	Yeah, if we know what you're doing. I can't guess and will close the doors.
00:52:04	GM - Dave	Make another Animal Handling roll.
00:52:06	Mistress Fria - Howard	15.
00:52:07	GM - Dave	Yes, they're now all in the room. With you?
00:52:09	Mistress Fria - Howard	Any stragglers as we close the door are Henry's
00:52:12	Vulf - Pete B	Look down at the vast, yawning pit below me,
00:52:14	GM - Dave	Yep.
00:52:14	Vulf - Pete B	swallow, and then try to climb round here.
00:52:18	Mistress Fria - Howard	we're guessing what he's trying to do, I will run to there to try and catch him or offer assistance as he swims around.
00:52:27	Vulf - Pete B	No offence, but I might need somebody with a bit more weight behind them than you, because I'm just pull you into the hole.
00:52:31	Mistress Fria - Howard	Guys, he's trying to climb around the edge of the pit. Let's go and see if we can help.
00:52:35	Lómeril - Pete	Why is he doing that?
00:52:37	Mistress Fria - Howard	It's the only way you can get them all in the room. It's a good place to trap loads of rats.
00:52:42	GM - Dave	You can do a Climb or a Tumble check.
00:52:44	Jestix - Tim	Tumble strikes me as insane. I don't know what your skill is, but
00:52:48	Vulf - Pete B	I've got a fairly high tumble.
00:52:50	GM - Dave	I'm assuming they don't have Agility now, So it's a Climb.
00:52:53	Vulf - Pete B	I need to make a climb roll.
00:52:55	GM - Dave	Yeah.
00:52:55	Vulf - Pete B	Is it relatively easy?
00:52:56	GM - Dave	Yes.
00:52:57	Mistress Fria - Howard	I have some silk rope.
00:52:58	Vulf - Pete B	If I should fail, then I'll try to grasp hold of anybody's outstretched hands.
00:53:02	GM - Dave	Okay, after you've stopped looting them, how long before they come round and decide? Is it straight away, or is there a delay?
00:53:10	Vulf - Pete B	I would imagine, it just doesn't say it carries on for any time, but when I stop playing, it probably stops. But I wouldn't have thought it's an on-off switch. It's just sort of, oh, it's ended. What were we doing?
00:53:20	GM - Dave	Yes. Time to eat Pete!
00:53:22	Ahumstut - James	So sits quietly and listens to song, taking no actions for as long as Bard continues to play and concentrate up to a max of one round per Bard level.
00:53:32	GM - Dave	Yeah, so actually you've done it a bit longer than you should have done, but I suppose we could have made you keep rolling Fascinate.
00:53:38	Vulf - Pete B	OK, I
00:53:39	Ahumstut - James	Yeah, once per day per Bard level.
00:53:41	GM - Dave	So actually, you couldn't have done it for all this length of time, but we'll let you get away with it just because it was fun. So, yes, you'll have to make a Climb roll to get round there.
00:53:48	Vulf - Pete B	Ok, I will try to make a climb roll. That brings me up to 9.
00:53:52	GM - Dave	Okay, you figure that you can't do it. You're not quite skilled enough to quickly shuffle round. You rats go eek eek eek, and starting next round they will run towards you. So what are you going to do first? You've got another action.
00:54:07	Vulf - Pete B	Can I have another go?
00:54:08	GM - Dave	Yes, you can risk your life again.
00:54:11	Mistress Fria - Howard	Yeah, so I think Jestix and I are there.
00:54:14	Jestix - Tim	it doesn't matter. It's a big enough pit to kill him.
00:54:17	Mistress Fria - Howard	Yeah, I know. I'm just trying to think.
00:54:20	Vulf - Pete B	Yeah, I can try to grab hold of somebody's hand. So I'll try it again here.
00:54:24	Lómeril - Pete	Yeah, I'll offer a hand.
00:54:26	Vulf - Pete B	It's better than being eaten alive by rats.
00:54:27	GM - Dave	Roll a Climbing skill, Pete, and if you get 13, you can give plus 2 to him.
00:54:33	Lómeril - Pete	Oh, me.
00:54:34	GM - Dave	Lómeril, you're Aiding.
00:54:35	Mistress Fria - Howard	Jestix helping.
00:54:36	Jestix - Tim	Jestix is the one that's there.
00:54:38	GM - Dave	Oh, sorry, Jestix.
00:54:39	Lómeril - Pete	I need to roll a climb roll.
00:54:41	Jestix - Tim	No, I'm the one with the climb skill.
00:54:43	GM - Dave	Then Jestix, you do it.
00:54:44	Jestix - Tim	22.
00:54:45	GM - Dave	Okay, so you get plus 2, Pete, you climb.
00:54:47	Vulf - Pete B	All right. Oh, rah. 23.
00:54:50	GM - Dave	Okay, you successfully hop round, and Jestix pulls you into the room. Okay, the rat swarm. It makes a Notice roll with a 2, so they lose track of where you went. So they all pile down into the pit, because obviously that looks tasty.
00:55:06	Vulf - Pete B	It probably smells a bit.
00:55:07	Jestix - Tim	We exit stage left as quickly as possible.
00:55:10	GM - Dave	There's a lot of squeaking, and they all four-stroke clamber down into the pit and munch on anything they can find down there.
00:55:17	Jestix - Tim	Hobbit.
00:55:17	Mistress Fria - Howard	Jolly well done, Vault.
00:55:19	Vulf - Pete B	Hurrah!
00:55:20	Mistress Fria - Howard	I suggest we escape while we still can.
00:55:22	Vulf - Pete B	I felt as though I needed a flute, rather than a lute, for that. Remind me to get one when we next go back to town.
00:55:28	Mistress Fria - Howard	Here you go. for an excellent bit of thinking. Have my flute.
00:55:32	Vulf - Pete B	Do you have a flute?
00:55:33	Mistress Fria - Howard	I have a flute.
00:55:35	Vulf - Pete B	Oh, you are blessed indeed.
00:55:36	Mistress Fria - Howard	I can play but not very well.
00:55:39	Jestix - Tim	Just one note. It might as well be a whistle.
00:55:42	Mistress Fria - Howard	I've got perform 3 and I've
00:55:43	Vulf - Pete B	You got performed 3. Well, so do I.
00:55:45	Mistress Fria - Howard	got perform wind instruments 4. So yes, but no I haven't used it and you're a bard. There you go. Have my flute. I'll buy another one.
00:55:55	Vulf - Pete B	Oh, well, thank you. I appreciate this magnificent gift.
00:56:00	Mistress Fria - Howard	With a little more caution than perhaps before make our way to the door we were going to go before we were ambushed. Maintaining a rough party order so we don't get killed by passing scorpions or
00:56:15	Jestix - Tim	Or bugbears.
00:56:16	Mistress Fria - Howard	bugbears. I've just thrown everyone roughly into the right area.
00:56:20	Jestix - Tim	It's not even vaguely the right area.
00:56:22	Lómeril - Pete	I'll keep an eye out for scuttling scorpions or lurking bugbears.
00:56:27	GM - Dave	All seem to have gone quiet again, Pete. That could be suspicious. Okay, an old wooden door with a hole through.
00:56:34	Mistress Fria - Howard	A key. Well, we had 3 keys from one room and we found another key from… Do any of the keys I have fit?
00:56:42	GM - Dave	Okay, the small ring of keys which were found here, one of them fits.
00:56:47	Mistress Fria - Howard	Oh, excellent.
00:56:48	Vulf - Pete B	Where can we find the small ring of keys.
00:56:50	GM - Dave	It was hanging behind that door which you smashed down.
00:56:53	Vulf - Pete B	Ok.
00:56:54	GM - Dave	And also, I believe you did smash this door down.
00:56:57	Mistress Fria - Howard	Yeah.
00:56:57	GM - Dave	They also have the key for that door too.
00:56:59	Mistress Fria - Howard	We found the keys only too late.
00:57:01	Ahumstut - James	When in doubt, smash it down.
00:57:03	Mistress Fria - Howard	OK, I open the door. I unlock the door. I will retire somewhere I can cover them and let them do the big grand entrance.
00:57:14	GM - Dave	So who opens the door?
00:57:15	Vulf - Pete B	Oh, well, I guess I will, after having been bolstered by the clerics and many curing spells.
00:57:20	Lómeril - Pete	I'll be standing ready with a longsword draw.
00:57:23	GM - Dave	A small 10 foot by 10 foot room. There's a number of wooden pegs along the walls which hang a few cloaks.
00:57:31	Jestix - Tim	It's the broom cupboard.
00:57:32	GM - Dave	A leather coat, a hat.
00:57:34	Lómeril - Pete	So whilst the gnome goes in to start pulling all the pegs to check the secret doors, I'll finally get round to reading the draconic piece of paper.
00:57:43	Mistress Fria - Howard	Seems fair, I search the place.
00:57:45	GM - Dave	The gnome's going to go in there, I assume, and search the room, yeah?
00:57:48	Jestix - Tim	Jestix will go in and just search randomly as he normally does.
00:57:51	GM - Dave	Okay, right, so, Lómeril. We're currently looking at the draconic piece or paper Right, it describes a funny triangular room with a weird glass cylinder in the middle of it.
00:58:07	Mistress Fria - Howard	Oh, excellent.
00:58:08	GM - Dave	And it suggests the western side has a secret door. So it describes the secret door, and that you push it to the left and it clicks open.
00:58:20	Lómeril - Pete	Okay, tell everyone what's written on the paper.
00:58:23	Mistress Fria - Howard	We've seen that room. We'll go back there later.
00:58:26	Jestix - Tim	I get a 17 search in the room.
00:58:29	GM - Dave	Okay, so, Jestix, roll your… I am just running, looking around.
00:58:32	Jestix - Tim	Yep. I got 17.
00:58:34	Mistress Fria - Howard	Those nice leather cloaks you guys. They'll keep you warm after a cold night outside.
00:58:39	Jestix - Tim	Pity we're inside.
00:58:41	GM - Dave	Okay, the leather cloak looks quite wearable, Jestix, if it was to have a little bit of mending done to it. The others don't look very good to you.
00:58:50	Jestix - Tim	Okay, Well, I'll take the leather coat he's mending as I can give him some time, get a mending skill.
00:58:56	Mistress Fria - Howard	You've seen both Wolf and I do mending.
00:58:59	GM - Dave	I think most of the party can do mending now. I think it's a core capability of this party. Yes, Fria, you searched the room quite intently, and what you find is that one of the cloaks, which is basically moth-eaten load of rubbish falling to bits, actually has a silver clasp, which looks a bit like a flock of birds.
00:59:20	Mistress Fria - Howard	Oh, beautiful. That was once a nice cloak but ain't any more. I will take the mask and show everyone and throw it into party treasure.
00:59:30	GM - Dave	Certainly would make a nice clasp on a cloak. And that pretty much is the only things in the room.
00:59:37	Mistress Fria - Howard	Jestix, do you like that leather cloak enough to actually want it?
00:59:41	Jestix - Tim	Yeah. I haven't got a cloak at the moment, I don't think.
00:59:44	Mistress Fria - Howard	OK, I cast a mend on it.
00:59:48	Jestix - Tim	Thank you.
00:59:49	Mistress Fria - Howard	Bing! That's looking a bit better. More like a smart adventurer I like hanging out with.
00:59:56	GM - Dave	It probably also needs a prestidigitation to clean it as well,
01:00:02	Mistress Fria - Howard	I'm happy to mend. Maybe later. OK, let's push on. The corridor turns east which is closest. Did I ever investigate room 13? The secret doors or other than the bugbear thing. Is it 13? The one where the scorpion and the bugbear on the mosaic.
01:00:21	GM - Dave	you've not searched that area.
01:00:23	Mistress Fria - Howard	OK, guys, I'm going to have a quick look down there just because I haven't and then you're welcome to join me or we'll carry on up this other corridor. That's where I think we go next but I'm just going to have a quick romp through here just because I haven't seen this here bugbear.
01:00:39	GM - Dave	So, Freya, you spent ages wandering around down here.
01:00:43	Mistress Fria - Howard	I'm the most boring person ever to adventure with but we do find all the bloody secret doors. he guys might have already gone on ahead.
01:00:52	GM - Dave	No, because there's only one torch, unless somebody else is going to light a torch. So, what else is everybody else going to do?
01:00:58	Vulf - Pete B	I'll have studied the mosaic as well. I want to check out this bear of bugs a bit more.
01:01:03	GM - Dave	Okay,
01:01:04	Jestix - Tim	And I'm going to spend my time looking down the corridor waiting for something to come up and attack us.
01:01:09	GM - Dave	you sit there chatting to your dog, looking both ways, I assume. And Vulf is in here looking at the mosaic. What about Lómeril?
01:01:17	Lómeril - Pete	Do I have anything else to read?
01:01:18	Jestix - Tim	You've got the cleric's book.
01:01:21	Lómeril - Pete	I'll continue reading the cleric's book. All this searching bores me intensely.
01:01:26	GM - Dave	Fria takes 20. It's going to take her a good half an hour at least to search this area. Vulf, you can probably take a 20 on some kind of knowledge if you've got it.
01:01:35	Vulf - Pete B	Okay.
01:01:36	Ahumstut - James	I think you can't take 20 on knowledges. It's either you know something or you don't. And you can't do it by uming and arring for 20 times as long as you would.
01:01:48	Vulf - Pete B	Sadly, I think he's right.
01:01:49	GM - Dave	Do you have any kind of bardic knowledge stuff that might be useful?
01:01:53	Vulf - Pete B	Right, so you want me to make a roll?
01:01:54	GM - Dave	Yes.
01:01:55	Vulf - Pete B	9.
01:01:56	GM - Dave	Some kind of weird creature, that's about as much as you know.
01:01:59	Vulf - Pete B	Okay, what I want to do is see if any of the… if I press any of the mosaics, whether or not anything interesting happens.
01:02:05	GM - Dave	I will assume you've taken 20 on a search. You don't find anything.
01:02:09	Vulf - Pete B	That concludes my interest in the mosaic.
01:02:11	GM - Dave	You're not a dwarf, are you?
01:02:12	Vulf - Pete B	No.
01:02:13	GM - Dave	Fria finds absolutely nothing.
01:02:15	Mistress Fria - Howard	Buffer, About 30 minutes of my life I'll never get back. Sorry guys. Crack on.
01:02:19	GM - Dave	Which way next?
01:02:20	Vulf - Pete B	Up the corridor, I suppose.
01:02:22	Mistress Fria - Howard	Yeah, we were exploring this way.
01:02:24	GM - Dave	Right, the corridor turns east, then continues north.
01:02:29	Jestix - Tim	I.e. to go round the room in front of it.
01:02:31	GM - Dave	Yeah, it goes this way, then goes north, and then comes out into a largest chamber.
01:02:36	Mistress Fria - Howard	We will progress in standard party order.
01:02:39	Jestix - Tim	A random rabble.
01:02:41	Mistress Fria - Howard	Yeah, with me and the mule in the middle I hope.
01:02:44	Jestix - Tim	At some point the fighter's going to insist you go in front because it's much safer.
01:02:48	Mistress Fria - Howard	Laughter…
01:02:50	GM - Dave	It's 20 by 50.
01:02:52	Jestix - Tim	Big room.
01:02:53	GM - Dave	It's full of old bits of rotten wood.
01:02:57	Vulf - Pete B	What, from benches, chairs, that sort of thing?
01:02:59	GM - Dave	Well, I'm assuming you've not spent a lot of time looking at it at the moment. Planks of wood.
01:03:04	Mistress Fria - Howard	I'm listening and looking for movement and danger.
01:03:07	Vulf - Pete B	I'll stand in the doorway, surveying it, see if anything comes at us. If nothing does, then eventually we'll go in.
01:03:12	GM - Dave	Nothing comes at you.
01:03:13	Vulf - Pete B	We'll go in.
01:03:14	GM - Dave	The room is basically full of wood that's rotting.
01:03:17	Vulf - Pete B	Is it piled, stacked neatly, or is it tumbled down from the ceiling?
01:03:21	GM - Dave	It's tumbled down.
01:03:23	Mistress Fria - Howard	So it once had an vaulted wooden ceiling or something.
01:03:27	GM - Dave	There is not a wall there, by the way.
01:03:28	Mistress Fria - Howard	So, quite large.
01:03:30	GM - Dave	Very quiet, dark. Your torch. This room's actually quite tall.
01:03:37	Mistress Fria - Howard	It once had some form of It's not a collapsed roof, is it?
01:03:40	GM - Dave	Most of the corridors around here are 15 or 20 foot tall. This room is nearly 30 foot. Okay, there's rusty nails, all sorts of stuff like that.
01:03:51	Mistress Fria - Howard	Some of which may one day be useful.
01:03:53	GM - Dave	I'm assuming you have only just standing here and looking down at the moment.
01:03:57	Vulf - Pete B	We will go in if nothing tries to eat us.
01:03:59	GM - Dave	Nothing tries to reach you.
01:04:00	Vulf - Pete B	We will go in.
01:04:01	GM - Dave	There's a bigger pile of wood here, near the very end.
01:04:04	Vulf - Pete B	Right, well, I'll start going through it and exploring.
01:04:06	GM - Dave	Anyone got any relevant crafts they would like to try on me?
01:04:10	Mistress Fria - Howard	Relevant craft. That's an interesting thought.
01:04:13	Jestix - Tim	Nope.
01:04:14	Mistress Fria - Howard	No. Trap making, metalwork, bow making, alchemy. None of which will really help.
01:04:19	GM - Dave	You could try what knowledges you might have.
01:04:21	Mistress Fria - Howard	Arcana and local.
01:04:23	GM - Dave	Nothing there.
01:04:24	Mistress Fria - Howard	OK, just have a look at the ground.
01:04:26	GM - Dave	There's a big pile of wood at the end of the room.
01:04:27	Jestix - Tim	Cautiously approach the big pile of wood at the end. Does it look vaguely like a barricade?
01:04:33	GM - Dave	No, looks nothing like a barricade. It looks like something's collapsed.
01:04:36	Vulf - Pete B	Keep an eye on the ceiling as well, see if there's anything up there that might have caused everything to fall down, like, you know, a large roosting bat or something.
01:04:43	GM - Dave	Actually, now you look more closely, the ceiling, although it's 30 foot above you, there's actually a lip about 20 foot up.
01:04:54	Jestix - Tim	Where there was a balcony.
01:04:55	GM - Dave	Yeah, it looks like all the way around the room, you can look into this room. And when you spot that, you actually spot that there's occasional holes around the balcony area.
01:05:08	Vulf - Pete B	Entrances into this room from elsewhere.
01:05:10	GM - Dave	They're about six by six inches into the wall.
01:05:14	Jestix - Tim	Murder slots.
01:05:15	GM - Dave	Could be murder holes, yes, that's one valid interpretation.
01:05:19	Mistress Fria - Howard	Or there could be where beams or supports went for an artificial roof.
01:05:22	GM - Dave	That's much more likely. Now it's been pointed out to you, that's exactly what they look like.
01:05:26	Mistress Fria - Howard	They're beam holes and the artificial roof has basically rotted and collapsed.
01:05:31	GM - Dave	Yes, and now you've worked that out, it looks remarkably like it's the remains of a staircase.
01:05:36	Mistress Fria - Howard	And there was a staircase going up. Staircases go to somewhere. I would try and look at where the staircase went.
01:05:41	GM - Dave	It went up to the next level.
01:05:43	Jestix - Tim	Well, yeah. Went to the balcony.
01:05:45	Mistress Fria - Howard	OK, so there's a big ornate staircase going up to a lovely balcony so that people could then look down at whatever was on this room. Unusual.
01:05:53	Jestix - Tim	Well, no. We've had a couple of rooms with balconies in already.
01:05:56	Mistress Fria - Howard	Yeah, he loves his balconies. If there were other rooms or entrances going on, they'd be 20 feet up.
01:06:02	Jestix - Tim	Indeed.
01:06:02	Mistress Fria - Howard	Have a quick look around just to see if there's anything which might indicate that there is a secret door up there, but I realise that would be bloody hard. So I'm not going to take 20. I'm going to roll that one. Just have a good look around up there.
01:06:16	Vulf - Pete B	See if there's a way out of here, towards the far end.
01:06:18	GM - Dave	No, it's all quiet, nothing much is going on.
01:06:21	Mistress Fria - Howard	OK, there's no other way in or out. I really would love to find a way of joining the two rooms up. This room seems to be higher. It's all raised, isn't it?
01:06:31	GM - Dave	Yes, anyone got craft, stonework or any of those dungeoneering type knowledge?
01:06:35	Mistress Fria - Howard	No, I'm afraid not.
01:06:37	Vulf - Pete B	No.
01:06:38	Mistress Fria - Howard	Only what I might naturally have with craft untrained.
01:06:42	Vulf - Pete B	That's for dwarf's, isn't it? OK, are there any other ways out of this room?
01:06:45	GM - Dave	Apart from trying to climb the wall, no.
01:06:47	Mistress Fria - Howard	Climbing is not my strong OK,
01:06:49	Vulf - Pete B	OK, well, I guess we leave.
01:06:50	Mistress Fria - Howard	in which case, I think this whole end is a dead end. The next bit to explore is where the rats came from.
01:06:57	Vulf - Pete B	Yeah.
01:06:57	Jestix - Tim	Yep.
01:06:58	Mistress Fria - Howard	So we make our way carefully with party order and due caution out over this direction. Isn't that right?
01:07:05	Jestix - Tim	Yep.
01:07:05	GM - Dave	The passageway, turns to the south, then turns to the west, and then there's stairs going up.
01:07:14	Jestix - Tim	Ohh.. Back to the surface.
01:07:16	Vulf - Pete B	Follow the stairs.
01:07:18	GM - Dave	Right, so there's some stairs going up.
01:07:20	Mistress Fria - Howard	Progress carefully, said
01:07:22	GM - Dave	The corridor turns north, and then it opens out into a room. And there is a door just there.
01:07:29	Vulf - Pete B	Are we going to go up and investigate the room since it's opened out into it, or are we going to open the door first?
01:07:34	Jestix - Tim	Send the..
01:07:35	Mistress Fria - Howard	Send the gnome.
01:07:36	Jestix - Tim	gnome to listen at the door.
01:07:38	Mistress Fria - Howard	Yep. OK, listen at the door.
01:07:41	GM - Dave	OK, roll a listen roll, Hod.
01:07:43	Mistress Fria - Howard	It's a natural 9 and my listen isn't going to add a lot more to that. Plus 5 for listen, so it's a 14.
01:07:51	GM - Dave	You don't hear anything.
01:07:53	Mistress Fria - Howard	All is quiet. Door locked.
01:07:55	GM - Dave	Nope, it's not locked.
01:07:56	Mistress Fria - Howard	Cool. In which case, I will stand back and cover who ever wants to open it.
01:08:02	Jestix - Tim	Well, with Lómeril on one side and Vulf on the other.
01:08:06	GM - Dave	OK, the passageway continues on.
01:08:08	Vulf - Pete B	What, through the door?
01:08:10	Mistress Fria - Howard	Useful, however, in case you're being pursued by rats.
01:08:13	GM - Dave	OK, so the corridor continues on. You see that it continues on west and opens up into a room.
01:08:19	Mistress Fria - Howard	So we have two options that open up.
01:08:22	Vulf - Pete B	Let's go down here.
01:08:24	Jestix - Tim	Well, I would go that way because we can shut the door behind us.
01:08:28	Mistress Fria - Howard	Yep.
01:08:29	GM - Dave	Quite a large room.
01:08:31	Vulf - Pete B	What's in the room?
01:08:32	GM - Dave	OK, it continues a bit further than that. I'll just fill in the rest of it, but it's probably just about the length of your light in size.
01:08:44	Mistress Fria - Howard	Do we hear or see anything moving? Any threats?
01:08:47	GM - Dave	The room is completely quiet. I'll describe the other things in the room in a second. There are some things in the room, but nothing is currently attempting to attack you.
01:08:58	Mistress Fria - Howard	Good start.
01:09:00	GM - Dave	It's a funny-shaped room with some niches, and there's a corridor leading out, and there's a corridor leading that way as well. The room is dark and silent. A long, wide hall stretches ahead with small alcoves and niches along its length. Many of these hold small shelves that display various small idols or statuettes of an unknown origin. In other places, the shelves are empty. At the southern end of the room is a large stone table holding a triptych of massive size.
01:09:30	Mistress Fria - Howard	Well, this is where Lómeril would go mad for lots and lots of fake idols like an altar with a huge book on.
01:09:37	Vulf - Pete B	A triptych to whom?
01:09:39	GM - Dave	Where are you all at this moment in time? You're actually the…
01:09:42	Vulf - Pete B	Probably in the room, if we see this.
01:09:44	Mistress Fria - Howard	If it looks safe, we will move in cautiously.
01:09:47	GM - Dave	You're heading into the room when things start to move on the shelves.
01:09:53	Mistress Fria - Howard	Things start to move on the shelves. All these strange idols are waking up.
01:09:57	GM - Dave	Yes, they do.
01:09:58	Mistress Fria - Howard	Many of them fall over or fall off their shelves.
01:10:01	GM - Dave	They jump off their shelves.
01:10:03	Mistress Fria - Howard	Did that say animated drawven armour?
01:10:06	GM - Dave	It isn't animated dwarven armour, but in the set of stuff, it doesn't seem to have anything that quite matches what I want, so it'll be these. Yeah, there's six of these that jump out, and there's two bigger ones.
01:10:21	Mistress Fria - Howard	I have two colour sprays left.
01:10:23	Vulf - Pete B	Not sure it's going to affect these things.
01:10:25	Mistress Fria - Howard	No, I think we might have to just smeg them. And when I say we,
01:10:30	Vulf - Pete B	Shoot them. That'll work.
01:10:32	Mistress Fria - Howard	I'm sure it's by the place and shape.
01:10:34	GM - Dave	Okay, so we need to roll some initiative, guys.
01:10:37	Vulf - Pete B	Are they all the same size? Two big ones and five little ones.
01:10:41	GM - Dave	Oh, sorry, there should be another one. There's six little ones. Okay, they are strange-looking statuettes. They're not of humanoid form.
01:10:50	Vulf - Pete B	What form are they? Insectoid?
01:10:52	Mistress Fria - Howard	More little homunculus type things?
01:10:55	GM - Dave	That's a good word, but it's not that,
01:10:57	Vulf - Pete B	Demons? Slugs?
01:10:59	GM - Dave	No, they look like odds and sods.
01:11:01	Mistress Fria - Howard	gargoyles?
01:11:02	GM - Dave	Gargoyle-type. They don't look animalistic at all. Weird-shaped, straight edges.
01:11:08	Mistress Fria - Howard	All animated stone statues?
01:11:10	GM - Dave	Yeah, just kind of random-shaped animated statues.
01:11:13	Vulf - Pete B	Weird.
01:11:13	GM - Dave	Yeah, very weird-looking.
01:11:15	Mistress Fria - Howard	I suggest we smeg the big ones first.
01:11:17	GM - Dave	Okay, so their initiatives are going to be that.
01:11:19	Jestix - Tim	Jestix has 11 and Lómeril has 13.
01:11:23	Mistress Fria - Howard	I have a 5. God, last time I was wrong. Great, today I'm rolling crap, it happens.
01:11:30	Vulf - Pete B	15 for me.
01:11:31	GM - Dave	Ooh, they go on 20.
01:11:33	Mistress Fria - Howard	They're moving first, then.
01:11:34	Jestix - Tim	Charge towards them.
01:11:35	GM - Dave	Oh, they do, yes. They won't do that, they'll do.
01:11:38	Jestix - Tim	Disintegrate as they hit the floor.
01:11:40	GM - Dave	No, what they do is all of them moved together into one spot
01:11:45	Jestix - Tim	And merge.
01:11:46	GM - Dave	and merge to produce a uber-sized one.
01:11:50	Vulf - Pete B	Can't say I approve of that.
01:11:51	GM - Dave	Okay, so there's an uber-sized one.
01:11:53	Vulf - Pete B	How big is this uber-sized one? Large? Huge? Medium?
01:11:57	Jestix - Tim	Ginormous.
01:11:58	GM - Dave	It takes up four squares, so it's 20 foot sort of size.
01:12:01	Vulf - Pete B	Four squares is large.
01:12:02	GM - Dave	Yes, it counts as a large creature.
01:12:04	Vulf - Pete B	OK. You're very big, aren't you?
01:12:07	Jestix - Tim	Bigger than its component parts.
01:12:08	GM - Dave	Well, it's made up of a lot of empty space, shall we say. But the bits seem to have slotted together to create this amorphous, death-dealing creature. And it's going to start lumbering towards you. So, Vulf, 15.
01:12:21	Vulf - Pete B	I start singing, readying my axe.
01:12:23	GM - Dave	Okay, you're singing.
01:12:24	Vulf - Pete B	Be brave, or a cry of once more under the breach to your friends, that sort of thing.
01:12:28	Mistress Fria - Howard	This doesn't count as a giant type, does it? Over these trolls and giants. I'm hard hit by those buggers.
01:12:35	GM - Dave	No, I'm afraid not. Unless it counts all large creatures, I'd assume it doesn't.
01:12:39	Mistress Fria - Howard	This is against most of the giant types. No, I think it is actually the big giant humanoids.
01:12:45	GM - Dave	Okay, so Vulf is doing some kind of inspire, I assume.
01:12:48	Vulf - Pete B	Yep, so everybody gets plus one to hit and damage and on fear saves, I think.
01:12:53	GM - Dave	Okay, Lómeril go.
01:12:55	Jestix - Tim	Lómeril will probably attempt to shoot it.
01:12:56	GM - Dave	Okay, go for it.
01:12:58	Jestix - Tim	21, which is a natural 20.
01:13:00	GM - Dave	It's threat, but I'm not sure what these are. They're constructs, so I don't think they have the…
01:13:05	Vulf - Pete B	Can't remember in 3.5. Oh.
01:13:07	Mistress Fria - Howard	Lómeril is using a masterwork longsword, a masterwork bow, as far as I'm aware.
01:13:11	Jestix - Tim	Yeah, actually 23, but it's more a question of whether it's threat-enabled.
01:13:16	GM - Dave	Oh, it's a hit. It's definitely a hit. Question is, can you crit a construct?
01:13:22	Ahumstut - James	No, you can't.
01:13:23	GM - Dave	Thank you for that, James. I thought the answer was that, too. So, no, you can't crit it, but you've definitely hit it.
01:13:28	Jestix - Tim	So that's 6 damage.
01:13:30	GM - Dave	It has taken a 6 damage.
01:13:32	Mistress Fria - Howard	Really good start.
01:13:33	GM - Dave	Jestix.
01:13:34	Jestix - Tim	I'm casting a spell.
01:13:36	Mistress Fria - Howard	Ughhhh!
01:13:37	GM - Dave	Da da da.
01:13:39	Mistress Fria - Howard	And does the bard's song yet help us shoot
01:13:43	Vulf - Pete B	Oh yes.
01:13:43	Jestix - Tim	Or at least I'm attempting to cast a spell Let's put it that way. Presumably I have to roll.
01:13:47	Vulf - Pete B	you have to roll?
01:13:48	GM - Dave	Why would he have to roll?
01:13:49	Jestix - Tim	All right. In which case I cast
01:13:51	GM - Dave	What is it?
01:13:51	Jestix - Tim	Shillelagh.
01:13:52	GM - Dave	It succeeds.
01:13:53	Vulf - Pete B	Just works?
01:13:54	GM - Dave	You only need to roll things if you're actually in combat and you don't want someone to hit you.
01:13:58	Jestix - Tim	All right. Okay.
01:13:59	GM - Dave	Okay, so, Jestix, are you moving up or are you staying where you are?
01:14:02	Jestix - Tim	I'm staying where I am at the moment with everybody else.
01:14:05	GM - Dave	Okay, so Fria.
01:14:06	Mistress Fria - Howard	Shoot it. Is about the only thing I can do?
01:14:09	GM - Dave	Ok.
01:14:09	Mistress Fria - Howard	Find myself a nice little angle and shoot. 13.
01:14:13	GM - Dave	13, don't think it's a hit.
01:14:15	Mistress Fria - Howard	Probably this ping.
01:14:16	GM - Dave	You've just… did you take into account the plus 1 from the Bard?
01:14:20	Mistress Fria - Howard	Oh, 1 more. didn't include the bard's bonus.
01:14:23	GM - Dave	So, 14 would be a hit.
01:14:25	Mistress Fria - Howard	Oh, excellent. I actually hit something. That's a d6 plus bard's bonus. That will be 6 points of damage as well. It's plus 1 to hit and damage.
01:14:35	Vulf - Pete B	Yes.
01:14:36	GM - Dave	That is enough for it to shatter back
01:14:38	Mistress Fria - Howard	I've got this.
01:14:40	GM - Dave	into…
01:14:40	Jestix - Tim	It's component part.
01:14:41	GM - Dave	the component parts, and that one disappears.
01:14:44	Mistress Fria - Howard	Oh, bugger.
01:14:45	GM - Dave	There's one less.
01:14:46	Mistress Fria - Howard	Each one of those is 12 points, we are going to be while.
01:14:49	Jestix - Tim	Not necessarily because it all combines to a 12-point monster.
01:14:52	GM - Dave	On its go 20, it will take its full round to try to reassemble itself, okay?
01:14:57	Vulf - Pete B	OK.
01:14:58	GM - Dave	And it will move forward 4 squares. Then it's a Vulf.
01:15:04	Vulf - Pete B	I finish doing my inspiration, but it lasts for five rounds, and I'm going to… Can I rage?
01:15:10	Mistress Fria - Howard	Take a potion of dragons breath and kill it.
01:15:12	Vulf - Pete B	If only I had one.
01:15:13	Mistress Fria - Howard	You have. We found 5, I gave one to everyone, and the rest are on the mule.
01:15:18	Vulf - Pete B	Maybe I wasn't there for that.
01:15:19	Mistress Fria - Howard	Remind me at some point to give you a potion of dragons breath.
01:15:22	Vulf - Pete B	Sorry, just checking to see whether or not my rage and being able to throw things is compatible.
01:15:27	GM - Dave	I don't think you can rage and throw. I don't think you can throw while raged.
01:15:31	Vulf - Pete B	That's all I'm just checking. Can't cast spells, can't use certain feats. Nope, I can. I think throwing something is quite within rage, anyway.
01:15:40	Jestix - Tim	Only if it's an empty bottle.
01:15:41	GM - Dave	And you do it in a Glaswegian accent.
01:15:43	Vulf - Pete B	So I'm going to rage, and I'm going to throw my axe.
01:15:47	GM - Dave	Total 12. Miss.
01:15:48	Vulf - Pete B	Okay. I missed bouncing off it's armour.
01:15:50	GM - Dave	Yep. Lómeril.
01:15:51	Jestix - Tim	Shoot it again. It's not got here yet. 14, 17.
01:15:55	GM - Dave	That's a hit.
01:15:56	Jestix - Tim	9 damage.
01:15:57	GM - Dave	Ooh, that's pretty good. Still there, though. Jestix.
01:16:00	Jestix - Tim	Well, given I haven't got a ranged weapon, I will move to engage.
01:16:04	GM - Dave	Okay, it doesn't have a long range, so you can get there.
01:16:08	Jestix - Tim	And then I will Flurry of Blows it.
01:16:10	Vulf - Pete B	Isn't that part of a full round action?
01:16:12	GM - Dave	Yes, it is.
01:16:13	Jestix - Tim	In which case I'll just hit it normally. 13, 16, 17.
01:16:17	GM - Dave	17 to hit.
01:16:17	Jestix - Tim	Yeah.
01:16:18	GM - Dave	Hit.
01:16:18	Jestix - Tim	Doing 15 damage.
01:16:21	Vulf - Pete B	Crikey.
01:16:21	Mistress Fria - Howard	That'll hurt.
01:16:22	GM - Dave	15 damage?
01:16:24	Vulf - Pete B	That's a lot of damage, Mr Monk.
01:16:25	Jestix - Tim	Yep. The advantage of having a Shillelagh. It becomes a d10 weapon.
01:16:30	Vulf - Pete B	Ooh.
01:16:30	Jestix - Tim	And a plus 1 d10 weapon at that.
01:16:32	Vulf - Pete B	Ooh.
01:16:33	GM - Dave	Wow, how much did you just do?
01:16:35	Jestix - Tim	15.
01:16:36	GM - Dave	15. So that's, um, just…
01:16:39	Vulf - Pete B	Bits of rock go flying everywhere. Magnificent blow.
01:16:42	GM - Dave	Yep, it does, again, shatter.
01:16:45	Mistress Fria - Howard	We've taken out one of his 6 lives.
01:16:47	GM - Dave	I think the combined is actually more than 20 that time.
01:16:50	Vulf - Pete B	It was. It was 24.
01:16:53	GM - Dave	So it loses two of its parts.
01:16:56	Jestix - Tim	At which point Henry then attacks one of the parts.
01:16:58	Mistress Fria - Howard	I'll break his teeth and stones, poor little dog.
01:17:01	Jestix - Tim	But they're only small. He'll worry them.
01:17:03	GM - Dave	Go on, then.
01:17:03	Jestix - Tim	22.
01:17:04	GM - Dave	Yes, that's a hit.
01:17:05	Jestix - Tim	Does the dog get your inspiration bonus?
01:17:08	Vulf - Pete B	Yeah, all allies.
01:17:09	Jestix - Tim	5 damage.
01:17:10	Vulf - Pete B	I have to say, it's the first time I've really seen you in combat, in anger. Quite impressed with that blow, with your cudgel.
01:17:15	GM - Dave	Smash. Okay, Fria.
01:17:17	Mistress Fria - Howard	I will move my 5 feet to ensure that I have as clean a shot as I can. And I will shoot at this big one here, providing it's safe.
01:17:27	GM - Dave	Okay.
01:17:27	Mistress Fria - Howard	11 plus 4, so that is 15 to hit.
01:17:31	GM - Dave	Hit.
01:17:32	Mistress Fria - Howard	My damage plus 1 is 5. One of the little guys.
01:17:36	Jestix - Tim	I thought you said it's a big guy.
01:17:37	Mistress Fria - Howard	But I think of him as little. How big are they?
01:17:40	GM - Dave	The tiny one or the small one?
01:17:42	Mistress Fria - Howard	The small. The larger of the two.
01:17:45	GM - Dave	So that was 5, wasn't it?
01:17:46	Jestix - Tim	Yeah.
01:17:47	GM - Dave	Okay, now beginning the next round.
01:17:49	Mistress Fria - Howard	Not the place to be, Henry. Vulf and Lómeril, did they move up?
01:17:53	Jestix - Tim	No, because they…
01:17:54	Mistress Fria - Howard	They'll be shooting.
01:17:55	Jestix - Tim	Yeah.
01:17:55	GM - Dave	This one will move up and attack Jestix. This one will move and attack Vulf. These two will attack Henry. Okay, so Vulf's one does a slam attack against you. He's getting a 10. Jestix is going to do a slam attack against Jestix. Getting a 13, which is probably going to miss as well, isn't it?
01:18:14	Jestix - Tim	Yeah.
01:18:15	GM - Dave	And Henry gets two slam attacks. A natural 1 and an 18.
01:18:20	Jestix - Tim	Which hits?
01:18:21	GM - Dave	Okay, this is a tiny one, isn't it? Which does a d3 minus 1 damage. Doing 2 points of damage. That's the end of the go. So Vulf, this will be the second or third of your thingy.
01:18:34	Vulf - Pete B	Yep. I attack.
01:18:36	GM - Dave	Okay.
01:18:37	Vulf - Pete B	19, so that's going to hit. 11 damage.
01:18:40	GM - Dave	Okay, still there. Lómeril.
01:18:42	Jestix - Tim	Well, change weapons and hit it.
01:18:44	GM - Dave	He's currently within the attack area of something. So if he, um…
01:18:49	Vulf - Pete B	Well, it wasn't until somebody moved him up there.
01:18:51	GM - Dave	Ah, okay. So he's… So he still doesn't move.
01:18:55	Jestix - Tim	It will change weapons a move and a hit.
01:18:57	GM - Dave	Yeah, okay. I'll allow that. What's the point in having the speed draw feat then? If you're a fighter or you
01:19:03	Vulf - Pete B	Because if you wanted to throw multiple things in a round, for instance, or if you wanted to take out a second weapon, stuff like that.
01:19:10	GM - Dave	Or you don't have to move.
01:19:12	Vulf - Pete B	It's a free action, not part of a move action.
01:19:15	Jestix - Tim	That's a 20, which is a hit.
01:19:17	GM - Dave	Okay.
01:19:18	Jestix - Tim	Doing eight damage.
01:19:19	GM - Dave	Dead. Next to go is Jestix.
01:19:23	Jestix - Tim	I will Flurry of Blows the one nearest me. Getting a 20 on the first blow.
01:19:29	Vulf - Pete B	Rolled a 20?
01:19:30	Jestix - Tim	Yeah. There's no point rolling it again because you can't crit them, and a miss on the second blow.
01:19:35	GM - Dave	Okay.
01:19:36	Jestix - Tim	And the first blow does 12.
01:19:39	GM - Dave	Yes, dead.
01:19:40	Jestix - Tim	And then Henry attacks one of the ones attacking him. Getting… I'll roll off a 17 to make an 8, which is a miss.
01:19:48	GM - Dave	Okay. The two remaining ones will attack Henry.
01:19:51	Vulf - Pete B	Doesn't the gnome get a go?
01:19:53	GM - Dave	No, sorry. We missed Fria. Sorry, apologies, Howard.
01:19:56	Vulf - Pete B	Fria of shoots, and misses, right, your go.
01:20:00	GM - Dave	The small two. So one got a natural 1. Followed by… Oh, just rolled off a 20.
01:20:05	Jestix - Tim	Yeah. Well, it seems fairly fair. Mine rolled off a 17.
01:20:08	GM - Dave	So that's natural 4. So that's two misses. Followed now by Vulf.
01:20:13	Vulf - Pete B	I shall move up and hit one of the ones on Henry. 19 to hit.
01:20:17	GM - Dave	That's a hit.
01:20:18	Vulf - Pete B	10 damage.
01:20:19	GM - Dave	Dead. Lómeril.
01:20:21	Jestix - Tim	If he can get up and attack the other one, he will.
01:20:24	Vulf - Pete B	You can't get there, anyway.
01:20:25	Jestix - Tim	Getting a 1.
01:20:26	GM - Dave	That's a miss. Jestix.
01:20:28	Jestix - Tim	I will, if I can get it, I will attack it as well.
01:20:31	Vulf - Pete B	You may have to go round, but you've got loads of speed, haven't you?
01:20:34	Jestix - Tim	So normal attack. 5. And Henry attacks. Getting a 12.
01:20:40	GM - Dave	Miss.
01:20:40	Jestix - Tim	No, sorry, not 12. 13. Still not enough. 14.
01:20:44	Vulf - Pete B	He's going up all the time.
01:20:45	GM - Dave	Actually, I would guess Henry would probably have flanking. So that would be plus 2.
01:20:50	Jestix - Tim	16. 6 damage.
01:20:53	GM - Dave	Dead.
01:20:54	Mistress Fria - Howard	I start having a look round.
01:20:55	Jestix - Tim	I will cast my cantrip on Henry, healing one point.
01:21:00	Mistress Fria - Howard	Did Henry get much for pounding?
01:21:02	Jestix - Tim	I've already cast it, so I can't do that. He took 2 points.
01:21:05	Vulf - Pete B	Hurrah! Victory! He let's out a bellow of
01:21:08	Mistress Fria - Howard	I have a look at the big book. The triptych.
01:21:12	GM - Dave	Okay, a triptych here is a three-part picture, Painting.
01:21:15	Jestix - Tim	It's not a block in the slightest.
01:21:16	Vulf - Pete B	of what, though?
01:21:17	Jestix - Tim	It's three religious pictures, normally. That's the point.
01:21:20	Vulf - Pete B	A triptych of something nice, or something dodgy?
01:21:22	Jestix - Tim	I wouldn't go running down there to look at the triptych straight away, because there may be more of these things popping out of the alcove.
01:21:28	Vulf - Pete B	I thought the triptych was here.
01:21:29	GM - Dave	Yes, it is.
01:21:30	Jestix - Tim	All right. Ok. I assumed it was the other end.
01:21:32	GM - Dave	You came into the room, you looked at it, and then looked at the creature's statue.
01:21:35	Jestix - Tim	Ok. So while he looks at it, I will carry on looking down the corner, waiting for some more beasties to pop out of the alcoves.
01:21:42	GM - Dave	It's made of three flat pieces of ebony, framed in copper, held with copper hinges. The triptych contains a map of the night sky with various small jewels holding the position of stars and planets. It's quite heavy. It's about 300 pounds.
01:21:58	Mistress Fria - Howard	Appraise
01:21:59	GM - Dave	Ok.
01:22:00	Mistress Fria - Howard	Vulf is actually better at appraising, I think. I will assist Vulf's appraise.
01:22:06	Vulf - Pete B	Well, if I were you, I would have roll. And you have a roll.
01:22:11	Mistress Fria - Howard	Then we'll discuss it.
01:22:12	Vulf - Pete B	argue about it.
01:22:13	Mistress Fria - Howard	Okay. My appraise roll is a
01:22:16	Vulf - Pete B	I'd get to 4.
01:22:18	Mistress Fria - Howard	I get a 6.
01:22:19	GM - Dave	It's a bit of junk, really. It looks impressive, but it isn't really. Yeah, why would someone put this piece of junk in this room? Obviously, it's a trap.
01:22:28	Mistress Fria - Howard	Ok. We've ignored so many artworks. Tapestry, just ignore it and move on.
01:22:33	Vulf - Pete B	If it's pretty big, then yeah.
01:22:35	GM - Dave	I mean, it's obviously paste. The gems are not real.
01:22:37	Mistress Fria - Howard	Yeah.
01:22:38	GM - Dave	You initially thought it was ebony, but actually it's just stained pine.
01:22:41	Mistress Fria - Howard	Just pine and boot polish.
01:22:43	GM - Dave	Yeah.
01:22:43	Jestix - Tim	I'm not entirely convinced by this. I will have my own assessment.
01:22:46	GM - Dave	Have you got appraise?
01:22:48	Jestix - Tim	Yep. 18.
01:22:49	GM - Dave	It could be as much as a 1000gp.
01:22:52	Vulf - Pete B	No way.
01:22:53	Jestix - Tim	Mentally, I agree with that, but I'm a Monk. I don't care. If they think it's tat, it's tat. I will tell them any differently.
01:22:58	GM - Dave	Serves them right for being avarice over wretches.
01:23:01	Jestix - Tim	Precisely.
01:23:02	GM - Dave	Okay, so you basically got little alcoves with where these things were.
01:23:07	Mistress Fria - Howard	Have a look round.
01:23:08	GM - Dave	But how detailed a search did you count?
01:23:10	Mistress Fria - Howard	I'll take 10.
01:23:11	GM - Dave	Okay, so you wander around the room, taking 10, you find nothing.
01:23:17	Tim	And so ends session five of the Dragon's Delve exploration. Join us next time as the adventure continues.

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