Neverending Dungeon - Talin

[Tanaric]

The air surrounding you fairly hums with the residue of magic, an aftereffect of the spell that brought you to this place. A quick glance reveals that you are in a cramped, rectangular room, devoid of any life save for yourself. The sound of dripping water can be heard faintly, and the stone walls are slick with moisture. In complete defiance of logic, a torch is already lit, resting in a bracket by the sole door visible in the room.

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There is a door at D-3, east side. Unless otherwise mentioned, all doors are sliding metal.

[Emlyn]

Shaking his head to clear the cobwebs, Talin surveys his surroundings.

Search:
[roll0]
Listen:
[roll1]

If he doesn't notice anything he takes out his 10ft pole and pokes the door.

[Tavar]

Electricity sparks, and upon closer exception, you see a web of wires on the door, though they are now burnt out.

[Emlyn]

Talin moves up the door and opens it enough to get a good look at what's on the other side.

Search:
[roll0]
Spot:
[roll1]
Listen
[roll2]

[Tavar]

There is a hallway that goes north and south. Please note vision types. The hallway has no illumination by default, though there is a torch in your room.

[Emlyn]

Darkvision 70 ft. I'll always use that unless I note otherwise.

[Tavar]

To your south, the hall extends a ways, then turns east. To the north it turns west. Please describe standard search routine.

[Emlyn]

Talin goes north, continuing to check around corners. If there is a split, he will go right. If he reaches a dead end, he'll back track till he comes back to an intersection and takes the other branch. He'll stop if he finds anything interesting.

[Tavar]

Immediately north of the door, you trip on a tripwire. The sound of stone on stone, and nothing else. When you reach the turn, you see that the hallway splits 3 ways. First, it goes south, then further along another branch goes north, and a bit past that, the whole hallway turns north.

how are you handling searching again?

[Emlyn]

Take the first branch, continue to look for traps and such. Same as before with splits.

(In case needed)
Spot:
[roll0]
Search:
[roll1]

[Tavar]

the problem is that search only works on a 10 by 10 patch of floor. Would you like me to start rolling the extra search checks needed?

[Emlyn]

Ya, it will save time and keep me from being eaten. :smallsmile:

[Tavar]

Checks:
[roll0]
[roll1]
[roll2]
[roll3]
[roll4]
[roll5]
[roll6]
[roll7]
[roll8]
[roll9]

[Tavar]

Ouch.
okay, you take [roll0] darts. Attack rolls, in order:
[roll1]
[roll2]
[roll3]
[roll4]
[roll5]
[roll6]
[roll7]
[roll8]

You also trip over another tripwire, and you hear stone grinding against stone.

If you're still alive, you have gone north, then west, then south. You can now continue going south, returning to the first hallway you just left, or you can go west, towards a 4 way intersection.

[Emlyn]

Well there goes half my health.:smallfrown: Might as well keep going towards the four way. Same search as before (not that it seems to help)

[Tavar]

Any particular direction you want to go when you reach the 4-way?

[Emlyn]

The dice shall decide.
[roll0]
Straight ahead it is.

[Tavar]

[roll0]
[roll1]
[roll2]
[roll3]
[roll4]
[roll5]
[roll6]
[roll7]
[roll8]

[Tavar]

You almost pass it by, but you realize that one of the walls isn't quite right. Almost as if it's fake, or something.

[Emlyn]

Talin stops and tries to figure out what's up with the wall.

Search
[roll0]

Assuming I see nothing else, I first poke it with the ten foot pole then attempt to open it.

[Tavar]

As you poke it, it crumbles revealing a room with 4 dwarves from clan Babyeater.
Int[roll0]

[Emlyn]

I'm assuming that's initiative.

[roll0]

I use a power point and create inertial armor. I stay in the hall and draw both swords.

[Tavar]

Two of the dwarves move to attack you.
[roll0]
[roll1]
[roll2]
[roll3]

[Emlyn]

Whichever one got the +5 to attack, I'm attacking him. Assuming he survives my attack, I also designated him for dodge.

And now is when I just realized that I didn't take two-weapon fighting but instead took dodge, doh.

[roll0]
[roll1]

[Tavar]

can I get a link to your sheet? In any case, that hit and it drops him.
the other moves up to attack.
[roll0]
[roll1]
[roll2]
[roll3]

[Emlyn]

Oh, I thought you had it.
www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=170768

Staying where I am and attacking the one with +3 to attack.

[roll0]
[roll1]

Designate the one I attacked for dodge.

[Tavar]

Miss. Also, my mistake, there are only 3 dwarves, 2 still up. they attack.
[roll0]
[roll1]
[roll2]
[roll3]

Edit: where are you getting the +3 to Ac? Dodge gives +1, Psionic dodge gives +1. So where's the extra bonus coming from?

[Emlyn]

Inertial Armor, +4 to AC. I forgot to add Psionic dodge however to my AC. Dodge I didn't add as it only affects one enemy.

Once again, attacking the one with +3

[roll0]
[roll1]

[Tavar]

The power doesn't stack with regular armor, though Force Screen does. I'll let you switch it, if you like. And I was refering to the random +3 mic bonus you have.

Miss. They attack. Since at this point they need natual 20's to hit, I'm just rolling striaght 20's,
[roll0]
[roll1]
[roll2]
[roll3]

[Emlyn]

I have no idea how I missed that, it's spelled out on it's own seperate line. Yes I think I'll change it. Replaced with vigor, which I'll say I used instead of the armor okay?

Anyway, back to the +3

[roll0]
[roll1]

[Tavar]

Sure, and that drops the dwarf. The last one moves over, and attacks again.
[roll0]
[roll1]

[Emlyn]

Ow. Die stupid dwarf!


[roll[1d8+3

[Emlyn]

sigh, my bad.

[roll0]

[Tavar]

He's injured, but not down.
[roll0]
[roll1]

[Emlyn]

I stab the stupid dwarf again.

[roll0]
[roll1]

[Tavar]

He dodges, and attacks again.
[roll0]
[roll1]

[Emlyn]

Sigh, well once again.

[roll0]
[roll1]

:smallannoyed:

[Tavar]

And again....
[roll0]
[roll1]

[Emlyn]

Yay for me.

[roll0]
[roll1]

ARGHH :smallfurious:

[Tavar]

Shouldn't you be, you know, unconscious now? The dwarves have done a total of 12 damage, which should bring you to 0, and the standard action brings you to -1.

[Emlyn]

I messed up the damage taken earlier. I took 4, not 8 (I acidently took the amount of darts I triggered as damage + the ones that hit) from the dart trap. 4+12 = 16
However, since you let me take and use vigor, I gained 5 temp Hp at the start of battle so I've taken 11.

[Tavar]

Ah, okay. In that case,
[roll0]
[roll1]

[Emlyn]

What is up with 11's? Seriously, that makes, what 4?

[roll0]
[roll1] That was very stupid of me

[Emlyn]

And due to that stupidity, yet another double post

[roll0]

[Tavar]

Okay, assuming you do minimum damage, he's dead. You gain 150xp, 600gp, and your choice of their items. Each had a heavy sheild, scale mail, a Dwarven waraxe.

[Emlyn]

Talin only takes the gold. He then searches the room and assuming looks for anything to barracaide the entrence he created.

[roll0]

[Tavar]

There is nothing.

[Emlyn]

Well then, Talin still needs to rest and this looks like the best place. Talin curls up in a corner and tries to sleep.

Of course, if sleeping is not possible Talin continues on in the direction he was going before the dwarfs. If he has to continue, he uses vigor again.

[Tavar]

Remember that vigor only lasts 1 minute. And sleeping causes death, at least, it does unless I tell you otherwise.

You go west, then north, then east. You have a choice: continue on to the magic shop, or open a door to your south. You can enter and leave the magic shop as many times as you want.

[Emlyn]

Ah well that makes sense. Also, I really need to read my spells more closely. Yes I enter the magic shop.

[Tavar]

You can buy and sell anything you like. Note that standard prices apply, and you can only sell for 1/2 it's value.

[Emlyn]

I can't sleep in here right?

Anyway, I'm buying 6 potions of cure light wounds.

[Tavar]

Nope, unless you want to leave this floor and head on to the next one.

[Emlyn]

Alright then, I drink two of the potions.

[roll0]
[roll1]

Then I leave the magic shop and poke the door with the pole. Assuming nothing happens, I open it enough to look through and see what's there.

Search
[roll2]
Spot
[roll3]
Listen
[roll4]

[Tavar]

You open the door to reveal a 30ft e-w by 20ft n-s room In the south east corner stands an elaborate chest.

[Emlyn]

On second thought, I shut the door and go back to the dwarves. Then I take all of their gear back to the magic shop and sell it. Finally I head back to the room.

I enter the room and assuming nothing happens I poke the chest with the pole.

[Tavar]

Oh, just to speed this up: you find a tripwire on each square of the floor heading to the chest. Once you touch the chest, it vanishes.

[Emlyn]

Okay then, so I'm standing in a room full of tripwires. Fun. :smalleek:

Well assuming I got this far into the room without setting anything off, I retrace my steps to the door. Once there, I attempt to disable the nearest trip wire.

Do you or I roll that check? If you do, I get a +7 bonus. I have trapfinding so I can disable a magical device.

Other thing, I had forgotten to add my Favored Environment bonuses so I've added them to my sheet.

[Tavar]

You do. Note that it's relatively easy to avoid them once you know where they are.

[Emlyn]

Is there any thing else in the room? Actually, I go to the spot where the chest was and check to make sure it didn't just turn invisible.

[Tavar]

It's not invisible, and there doesn't appear to be anything else in the room. Note that you've only searched the area from the door to the chest in a straight line.

[Emlyn]

Ahh, well then I do a full search of the room.

(In case I need more then 1)
[roll0]
[roll1]
[roll2]

[Tavar]

DM special roll:[roll0]

You find nothing besides more tripwires.

[Emlyn]

So it's a giant empty room with tripwires. :smallconfused: Oookay then.

I leave the room, avoiding the tripwires, and head back the way I came past the dwarves till I reach a tunnel/corridor thing and go down it.

[Tavar]

You're at the 4 way intersection. You have not gone south or north.

[Emlyn]

Let's go North.

[Tavar]

More DM rolls.[roll0]

You go north, then east, then south, then east again. You have a choice, now: a door in front of you, or to go north, where you see 2 hallways leading east, and a door on the western side.

[Emlyn]

Poke the door with pole, then open and check room.

search
[roll0]
listen
[roll1]
spot
[roll2]

[Tavar]

Listen:[roll0]

[Tavar]

Opening the door, you see three elves clustered around a fire.
Int:[roll0]

[Emlyn]

Once again, I discover I forgot a bonus. Speed of thought gives me 10ft additional to my speed.

I use vigor on myself then I draw my longbow and shoot the nearest elf. Then I move 40 ft back down the corridor. (unless of course the corridor ends, then I stop)

Int
[roll0]

Attack
[roll1]
[roll2]

[Tavar]

You can't do all of that: you can only take 1 standard action and one move action, or take 2 move actions in a turn. You've taken 2 standard and a move.

[Emlyn]

Well I figured as they didn't see me I would be able to. Yes, it would take more then one turn but I was assuming they wouldn't know I was there until I shot. And isn't drawing a weapon a minor or is that only if it's done as part of a move action?

[Tavar]

Only if done in a move action, and sorry I didn't make this clear: they do see you. That's why Int was rolled, and I didn't say you had a surprise round.

[Emlyn]

Ahh, in that case I cast vigor, draw my swords, and stand in the door. I designate the closet elf for dodge.

[Tavar]

The closest one charges you.
[roll0]
[roll1]

The others shoot arrows.
[roll2]
[roll3]
[roll4]
[roll5]

[Emlyn]

Yay for AC.

I attack the one attacking me.

[roll0]
[roll1]

Son of a, a 1. Do you do crit failures?

[Tavar]

Nope. Same thing, again.
[roll0]
[roll1]

[roll2]
[roll3]
[roll4]
[roll5]

[Emlyn]

Well that's a relief.

Staby!
[roll0]
[roll1]

[Tavar]

You hit him, and he goes down. Another elf moves up and the attacks continue.
[roll0]
[roll1]
[roll2]
[roll3]

[Emlyn]

Do ties with my AC hit?

Either way, I attack the close one.

[roll0]
[roll1]

[Tavar]

Yes, they do.
[roll0]
[roll1]
[roll2]
[roll3]

[Emlyn]

Figured, just had to clarify.

Please die you stupid elf.
[roll0]
[roll1]

[Tavar]

Surprisingly, he obliges you. The last one shoots you again, then moves to engage you more closely.
[roll0]
[roll1]

[Emlyn]

Good lord.

Please hit.

[roll0]
[roll1]

:smallbiggrin:

[Tavar]

And he's dead. Gain 150 xp, along with the following:
3 longswords, 3 bucklers, 3 longbows, 60 arrows, 3 studded leather

[Emlyn]

First I'm taking two healing potions.

[roll0]
[roll1]

Now that I'm back to a reasonable amount of health, back to the magic shop to sell the loot! Assuming nothing happens between now and then and that there is nothing else in the room I go back to the four way intersection and go south (or whichever direction I haven't gone yet.

[Tavar]

You do know there is another door and two more halls at that point, yes?

[Emlyn]

I need to sell everything so I'm not encumbered. Then I go to the door that apparently I missed (sigh). Standard door opening. Poke with pole, open and look inside.

search
[roll0]
Listen
[roll1]
Spot
[roll2]

[Tavar]

Listen check:[roll0]

[Tavar]

opening the door, you see a plain, 10ft e-w, 15ft n-w room. There are 3 squirrel like creatures in the room.
INt:[roll0]

[Emlyn]

Oh yay, well let's kill the fuzy animals.

[roll0]

If I go first I ready an action to attack the first creature that gets in range. Otherwise I attack the closest creature. I stay in the doorway.

[roll1]
[roll2]

[Tavar]

Make a fort save, dc 13, to avoid [roll0] cold damage and 1 str damage.

A chill darkness springs up over you. All creatures now have 20% misschances, and don't provoke. Two of the creatures move into your square, attacking as they do so.
[roll1]
[roll2]

Each hit deals 1 damage.

[Emlyn]

Well that's annoying.

Fortitude
[roll0]

Well it's slashy time.

Attack
[roll1]
[roll2]

:smallannoyed: I see where this is going.

[Tavar]

Rolling confirmation. It will do 2 damage, in that case.
[roll0]

[Tavar]

One charges you, and the others continue their attacks. Please roll your miss chances for attacks, preferably by rolling 1d5, missing on a 1.

[roll0]
[roll1]
[roll2]

Confirmations:
[roll3]
[roll4]
[roll5]

[Emlyn]

Ya, that would be easier then double posting.

As I haven't hit yet, pick a random one.

[roll0]
[roll1]
[roll2]

[Tavar]

Miss, and they attack again.
[roll0]
[roll1]
[roll2]

Confirmation:
[roll3]
[roll4]
[roll5]

[Emlyn]

This is not going well. Is there any position I could move to that would let me fight them one at a time?

[roll0]
[roll1]
[roll2]

[Tavar]

Nope, they move into your square to attack. You could try exiting the darkness, but doing so at this point would incite AOO's.

[roll0]
[roll1]
[roll2]

[Emlyn]

sigh :smallconfused:
And a 15 misses argh :smallyuk:

[roll0]
[roll1]
[roll2]

[Tavar]

Hit and a kill. The others continue to nibble at your ankles.
[roll0]
[roll1]

[Emlyn]

Get back ye foul ankle biters!

[roll0]
[roll1]

[Tavar]

And another one bites the dust. The last one attacks.
[roll0]

[Emlyn]

And let's stab it.

[roll0]
[roll1]

[Tavar]

Miss, and it attacks. Again.
[roll0]

[Emlyn]

Sigh,

[roll0]
[roll1]

umm, ya ignore the second roll.

[Emlyn]

[roll0]

instead of a 1d20.

[Tavar]

And it dies as well. Gain 300gp, 150xp.