Monday, March 27, 2017

Aftermath, First Chamber

Best to start with a new post, I think.

Lothar, you do roll a d8 for hit points.  Reroll any 1s, please.  I have updated the google drive with your new sage knowledge points.  All this climbing over rock and up and down hills has increased your mountaineering skill to amateur level.  You must have had some sort of breakthrough when you were rigging the cage to drop.

Pandred is right.  You've not plundered the statues yet.  They are still in their original places.

Engelhart, the bodies are lacking any sort of clothes or equipment.  These frog things seem to be wholly naked ~ though it is clear from the way they fought that they had intelligence, moved in a bipedal fashion and worked as a unit.

Embla, could you please roll a d6 for the 2nd javelin that you threw?  You did cast them both, rolled for only one of them.  I think the second one missed, yes?

Regarding the door, it seems secure.  The creature on the other side has grown quiet, but if either Embla or Lothar puts their ear to the door and others remain quiet, they can hear it breathing.

The book has been picked up and then (I assumed at the time), dropped, as the players did not describe it in their hands.  What do you wish to do with it?


31 comments:

Pandred said...

I'll reiterate in case it's missed in the previous comments, but I'm putting away my crossbow and attempting to lift the 43 inch statue into the elevator.

Lothar Svensson said...

Luck of all luck, my d8 rolled an 8! Thanks for the Sage numbers, I'm excited to see what Amateur Mountaineering looks like!

I offer the healing salve in my backpack to Bergthora, unless someone has an objection.

Perhaps we can use the bodies of the frog-men as food to befriend whatever is on the other side of the door?

Alexis Smolensk said...

Yep, catching up in a circle.

The statue isn't 43 inches tall. That's the pedestal height. Back when Embla took the elevator partly down, I described the figurines as about a foot high and six inches in diameter. They're actually about 10 inches tall and about 5 inches in diameter [makes them about 4,090 cubic cm]. Calculating for granite, each is only 23.8 lbs. Not too bad.

Alexis Smolensk said...

Bergthora will decline the healing salve. "I do not need it for now, Lothar," she says. "Are you truly considering opening this door? Whatever it is will probably overrun us, since it nearly broke down a barred, heavily reinforced door. Should we not just see what is the value of these things we have just found first? I am, for one, starving for food."

Alexis Smolensk said...

There, Lothar. I've taken a first pass at the Ranger abilities for Mountaineer.

Engelhart Askjellson said...

I help myself to the humanoid statue. Guessing we'll share the weight around.

Other than that, back to camp and to a hearty meal, we have some serious recovery to do.

Pandred said...

I fully intend to take all four statues with us, and will begin hefting them into the elevator.

We have enough clearance for an additional hundred pounds safely, right? If not, I'm prepared to wait down here and be lifted up on my own.

I also share Bergthora's sentiments about retreating to the world above. As badly as I want to continue, she and Embla are sucking fumes for HP. Plus, maybe we can convince one or two of the others to come down this time.

Alexis Smolensk said...

And the book?

Lothar Svensson said...

Certainly I'm for retreating for a bit and resting. I was only wondering aloud about possible uses for the bodies in the future.

Someonewho can read ought to try reading the book. I don't think my outlaw parents bothered teaching me letters before they were hauled off...

Lothar Svensson said...

I'm liking the direction of the mountaineering skills, too! Thank you!

Embla Strand said...

I rolled a 5 for the javelin, and I will pick up the book.

Should we flip through it?

Engelhart Askjellson said...

I wouldn't just yet, Embla. No need to tamper with the thing before getting ourselves safely up. We've a whole trip back to Stavanger and equipment purchases ahead of us.

Embla Strand said...

Let's get these statues and the book back to the camp - several of us are in less-than-optimal condition.

Lothar Svensson said...

I assist in loading the cage with the stones. If necessary I will wait for the second trip so as not to overload the rope.

Alexis Smolensk said...

Are you ready to start being pulled up in the cage? Are you all going in one trip? With the addition of Bergthora and the statues, that's an increase of about 250 lbs.

Engelhart Askjellson said...

I stay behind with one of the statues (let's say, the one in the highest pedestal), waiting for the return trip.

Pandred said...

If we're doing two trips anyway, I wait with Engelhart and another of the statues.

First trip is the two most injured, Lothar, two statues and the book.
Second trip is myself, Engelhart, and the remaining statues.

No risk of catastrophe, same timetable.

Alexis Smolensk said...

I think with two people having agreed on that plan, the rest will probably not argue. And having drawn this out enough, I'll state clearly that you all get drawn up in the cage to the descending platform without incident, statues and book intact.

Any reason not to take you back to the camp at this time?

Engelhart Askjellson said...

None that I can think of.

We might be interested in taking the time to draw the rope from the cage for extra safekeeping but whatever's down there should be quadrupedal and the chances of someone from the outside going that far are... slim.

Embla Strand said...

I agree with Engelhart. Let's head back to camp.

Pandred said...

We've all taken considerable damage.

Of the lot of us, I would say Lothar and I are probably best able to make a trip back to Stavanger for supplies, but frankly we're in need of more than one day of rest.

I can't see the cost of getting a local healer to churn up a Cure Light Wounds or two on the table. And we've used up those salves preposterously fast.

We may actually get more benefit out of trying to hire on one or two more men instead.

Obviously this is very contingent on the value of both the book and the statues.

Speaking of, let's take a crack at the book. Engelhart at least can read.

Engelhart Askjellson said...

I'll have to give Embla the honor. She took the most risk and I wasn't that piqued to begin with.

Lothar Svensson said...

Let us go back to the camp.

Regarding the book, I am very interested in what it might have to say, though I lack the ability to decipher it, and it's probably written in Ancient Druidish anyhow.

We should definitely take the donkey to town, so whoever goes, someone in the group needs to be able to handle it.

Pandred said...

That'd be yours truly.

Embla Strand said...

Alas, I cannot read.

If we can wait for a day and I can get the benefit of a Cure Light Wounds, I can handle the donkey, as well.

Lothar Svensson said...

I think we've got enough food for at least one day. I think it's still the 30th, so at the end of the day if we all eat 6 lbs we should have something like 50 lbs of food left, plus half the keg of beer (21 pints). (I hope you all have your own mugs and we aren't all sharing mine...)

Pandred said...

Not in the least! Chugging from the tap, eating with my fists.

It's tradition among fighters who've run out of basic consumables and forgotten what utensils are.

Regardless, I will press the book upon our lone wordsman, and as he reads will begin packing the statues away for the trip back to Stavanger. Would we be able to make it today, or is dark coming too soon?

We might want to bring one or two of the hirelings who's in fighting shape as well. We haven't had anything happen, but it'd be foolish of us to lose our entire haul because we assumed nothing COULD happen.

Engelhart Askjellson said...

Okay, then, I'll read the damned thing. Almost did get us killed.

Alexis: As soon as we're at camp, I take the time to leaf through the book.

Team: I assumed we were all going to Stavanger. We're going to need something like 3 days' worth of rest between us, even with healing spells cast, so why spend them out here in the cold, where we're liable to actually lose health if we press our stay?

Lothar Svensson said...

I agree that everybody going back to town sounds like a good idea. Better shelter, easy access to food... Hopefully we'll have some coin to pay the innkeeper. Embla?

Engelhart Askjellson said...

Lothar: that can be on me, but it can be argued that you fellows would wish for some privacy.

Alexis Smolensk said...

I have created a new post. Let's continue there.

[had a very, very good interview this morning!]