HHHoHHaHH - Adder Ironfol

[Lubirio]

Day 2

You wake in the cave up to find the storm gone, but the clouds still very present, the result is a grayish sight overhead. Inside the cave a torch is lighting the way in almost invitingly. The torch lights the way for you and you see the hall narrowing to 5ft while it continues until it finally turns away and out of sight. The cave seems to have been made either in a hurry or naturally, as both the floor and the walls are very uneven.

The torch lights 40ft into the dungeon, 80ft with lowlight-vision, and you can see another 60ft with darkvision, the hallway narrows from 10ft to 5ft after 10ft, it then continues for 40ft until you see an open closed door to your left, it then continues another 65ft before turning right. The walls have a Climb DC15 and you need to succeed on a DC10 Balance check to run or charge.

Note: you can try and make a map yourself, or hope Adden finds some kind of map in the dungeon, but I will only give you small maps when there is combat, not a full map of the dungeon. :smallamused:

Actions go in italics.
"Speech is in color."
Thought is a lighter color
Pick your colors. :smallwink:

[appending_doom]

Adder, appearing to wear a partially-translucent shirt made of brown fur, and a strange mask bearing the faces of a dragon, lion, and ram hovering before his face, glances around the cave for a moment, frowning thoughtfully. Eventually, he shrugs and walks up the path towards the door.

Once standing there, he draws his mace.

"Let's do this thing," he announces, before vanishing entirely.

A man alone needs to find the best way to keep from being caught, he thinks wryly.

Actions

After having drawn his weapon, Adder uses dimension door to travel 10 feet forward (appearing, if it is empty, at the first square not adjacent to the door on the far side).


Stats and Soulmeld Information

Soulmelds Shaped: Blink Shirt, Threefold Mask of the Chimera
Essentia: Blink Shirt 1/1, Cobalt Expertise 1/1, Threefold Mask 0/1

+1 insight bonus to disarm, trip, and feint checks.
+1 AC when using Combat Expertise.
Cannot be flanked.
May use dimension door at will, with a range of 20 feet.

HP: 12/12
AC: 19, Flat-Footed 15

[Lubirio]

Appearing at the other side of the door, Adder finds himself in an empty, spacious room, with black soot burn marks on the floor in the center. All the way to his right, Adder sees a portcullis, and not far from that same wall on the wall opposite him, there is an archway, aside from that and the door he moved through, there is nothing else in the room.

Map of room and explored area:

| = wall/unexplored
- = door
. = open space
, = archway
} = portcullis

||||||||||,|||||
||...........|||
||...........|||
||...........|||
||...........|||
||...........|||
||...........|||
||...........|||
||...........|.|
||...........}.|
||-|||||||||||||
...............|
||||||||||||||.|

Is that clear enough?

Note this is not a good map, you might even find one in the dungeon, it you look hard enough. :smallwink:

[appending_doom]

Adder glances briefly at the open archway before crossing the room to the portcullis and teleporting just through it to the passageway beyond.

Actions

Self-evident; Adder teleports to the square one behind and to the north of the portcullis. This is so exciting; I feel like I'm playing nethack. :smalltongue:


Stats and Soulmeld Information

Soulmelds Shaped: Blink Shirt, Threefold Mask of the Chimera
Essentia: Blink Shirt 1/1, Cobalt Expertise 1/1, Threefold Mask 0/1

+1 insight bonus to disarm, trip, and feint checks.
+1 AC when using Combat Expertise.
Cannot be flanked.
May use dimension door at will, with a range of 20 feet.

HP: 12/12
AC: 19, Flat-Footed 15

[Lubirio]

After teleporting, Adder finds himself in a path leading around some corners, but ultimately leading to a T-split, with one leading to a dead end and the other turning around a corner.

Winding Path #1:

| = wall/unexplored
. = open space
} = portcullis

|||||||
||||..|
||||.||
||||.||
||||.||
||...||
||.|.||
||.|.||
||.|.||
||.|.||
||.|.||
||.|.||
||.||||
||...||
||||.||
||...||
||.||||
|}.||||
|||||||

You can post everything in a single spoiler if you want. :smallwink:

[appending_doom]

Adder walks cautiously down the path, stopping at the T-junction for a few moments. Discarding any attempts at finding secret passages as fruitless, he turns down the other path, slowing as he reaches the corner.

Stats and Soulmeld Information

Soulmelds Shaped: Blink Shirt, Threefold Mask of the Chimera
Essentia: Blink Shirt 1/1, Cobalt Expertise 1/1, Threefold Mask 0/1

+1 insight bonus to disarm, trip, and feint checks.
+1 AC when using Combat Expertise.
Cannot be flanked.
May use dimension door at will, with a range of 20 feet.

HP: 12/12
AC: 19, Flat-Footed 15

[Lubirio]

Continuing along the other path, Adder makes a U-turn, and comes to a door after making two more turns.

Map:

|||||||||
|||...|||
|||.|.|||
|||.|...|
|||.|||-|
|...|||||
|.|.|||||

Take your pick of the many options available to you!! :smallbiggrin:

[appending_doom]

Adder pauses at the door before teleporting through, aiming again for the second square beyond the portal.

Stats and Soulmeld Information

Soulmelds Shaped: Blink Shirt, Threefold Mask of the Chimera
Essentia: Blink Shirt 1/1, Cobalt Expertise 1/1, Threefold Mask 0/1

+1 insight bonus to disarm, trip, and feint checks.
+1 AC when using Combat Expertise.
Cannot be flanked.
May use dimension door at will, with a range of 20 feet.

HP: 12/12
AC: 19, Flat-Footed 15

[Lubirio]

Adder teleports through, finding himself inside a long room, devoid of all life or movement, save for two other doors, leading out of it.

Map of Room:

| = wall/unexplored
. = open space
- = door

|||-|
|...|
|...|
|...|
|...|
|...|
|...|
|...-
|-|||

So many choices! So little time!! :smalleek:

...

:smallamused:

[appending_doom]

Adder crosses the room and stops in front of the east door before teleporting to the square just on the other side.

Stats and Soulmeld Information

Soulmelds Shaped: Blink Shirt, Threefold Mask of the Chimera
Essentia: Blink Shirt 1/1, Cobalt Expertise 1/1, Threefold Mask 0/1

+1 insight bonus to disarm, trip, and feint checks.
+1 AC when using Combat Expertise.
Cannot be flanked.
May use dimension door at will, with a range of 20 feet.

HP: 12/12
AC: 19, Flat-Footed 15

[Lubirio]

Adder finds himself in an unlit hallway, as is everything here, that twists and turns to finally end in a door that seems to have broken on its hinges but is still stuck in the cave wall, as if something put it back there when it was broken.

Map of path:

| = wall/unexplored
. = open space
- = door

|||||||||||||||||||-|
|||||||||||||||||...|
|||||||||||||||||.|||
|||...........|...|||
|||.|||||||||.|.|||||
-...|||||||...|.|||||
|||||||||||.|||.|||||
|||||||||||.....|||||
|||||||||||||||||||||

Sorry for the delay. :smallredface:

[appending_doom]

Adder approaches the door, stopping 5 feet away. He runs his finger along the brow of the dragon face of his mask before trying to peer through.

Stats and Soulmeld Information (Altered)

Adder reinvests his one free point of essentia from the Blink Shirt to the Threefold Mask, granting him a +1 bonus to Search and Spot checks.

Spot: [roll0]

Soulmelds Shaped: Blink Shirt, Threefold Mask of the Chimera
Essentia: Blink Shirt 0/1, Cobalt Expertise 1/1, Threefold Mask 1/1

+1 insight bonus to disarm, trip, and feint checks.
+1 AC when using Combat Expertise.
Cannot be flanked.
May use dimension door at will, with a range of 20 feet.

HP: 12/12
AC: 19, Flat-Footed 15

[Lubirio]

Adder sees a wooden door, a door that would be considered good by most standards, but it was off its hinges and stuck in the wall. He can't look through it, which is what hinders him most.

I don't completely follow what you want to do here? To search for traps you need a search check...

[appending_doom]

I thought it was broken, with you know, holes in it.


Shrugging, Adder draws an absent-minded finger along the collar of his shirt, and teleports through the door.

Stats and Soulmeld Information (Altered)

Adder reinvests his essentia back to the Blink Shirt.

He teleports to the second square after the replaced door.

Soulmelds Shaped: Blink Shirt, Threefold Mask of the Chimera
Essentia: Blink Shirt 1/1, Cobalt Expertise 1/1, Threefold Mask 0/1

+1 insight bonus to disarm, trip, and feint checks.
+1 AC when using Combat Expertise.
Cannot be flanked.
May use dimension door at will, with a range of 20 feet.

HP: 12/12
AC: 19, Flat-Footed 15

[Lubirio]

Finding himself in a the middle of a wide room, Adder noticed something growling behind him. When he turned, he saw it was some creature that apparently lusted for his head, because it looked at you despairingly, craving for it.

Surprise!

Initiative:
Adder: 15
Zombie: 8

Map of room w/ you and zombie:

A = Adder
Z = Zombie

|||||||||||||
|.........,.|
|....A....|.|
}.......Z.|||
|||||-|||||||

[appending_doom]

What are the two exits to the room?

[Lubirio]

Sorry, '}' is a portcullis, and ',' is an archway, as they have been in all the previous maps. :smallredface:

[appending_doom]

Armed with a suboptimal weapon choice against a shuffling undead creature that cannot be intimidated, Adder retreats to the portcullis and teleports 10 feet through, waving cheerily at the zombie as he does.

Stats and Soulmeld Information

Soulmelds Shaped: Blink Shirt, Threefold Mask of the Chimera
Essentia: Blink Shirt 1/1, Cobalt Expertise 1/1, Threefold Mask 0/1

+1 insight bonus to disarm, trip, and feint checks.
+1 AC when using Combat Expertise.
Cannot be flanked.
May use dimension door at will, with a range of 20 feet.

HP: 12/12
AC: 19, Flat-Footed 15

[Lubirio]

The zombie becomes rather infuriated and charges the portcullis in an attempt to break it right then and there. It now becomes obvious that the same thing had happened to the door Adder originally came through.

Zombie Strength check: [roll0] Fail. :smallwink:

Success of failure, that's the end of its turn.

[appending_doom]

Am I stuck in a 5x5 cell, or is there a way to get away from the zombie room?

[Lubirio]

Sorry, there's two paths leading from there, one north and around a bend after 10ft, one west in the same way. I assumed you would continue the fight, but I guess not...

[appending_doom]

Adder hurries along the east (?) path, not quite ready to fight something he can't trick, frighten, or burn into submission.

Stats and Soulmeld Information

Soulmelds Shaped: Blink Shirt, Threefold Mask of the Chimera
Essentia: Blink Shirt 1/1, Cobalt Expertise 1/1, Threefold Mask 0/1

+1 insight bonus to disarm, trip, and feint checks.
+1 AC when using Combat Expertise.
Cannot be flanked.
May use dimension door at will, with a range of 20 feet.

HP: 12/12
AC: 19, Flat-Footed 15

[Lubirio]

Adder follows the path down some bends and finds an archway on his right, where the path continues forward. The archway leads into a small featureless room with another door at one end.

Map of path+room:

| = Wall/unexplored
, = archway
} = portcullis

|||||||||||||||
-.........|||||
|.........|||||
|.........||..|
|||||,|||||||.|
|||.......|...}
|||.|||||.|.|||
|||||||||...|||
|||||||||||||||

[appending_doom]

Adder walks through the archway and teleports just through the door out, continuing his almost ambling exploration.

Stats and Soulmeld Information

Soulmelds Shaped: Blink Shirt, Threefold Mask of the Chimera
Essentia: Blink Shirt 1/1, Cobalt Expertise 1/1, Threefold Mask 0/1

+1 insight bonus to disarm, trip, and feint checks.
+1 AC when using Combat Expertise.
Cannot be flanked.
May use dimension door at will, with a range of 20 feet.

HP: 12/12
AC: 19, Flat-Footed 15

[Lubirio]

Following the winding path of out of the room, Adder finds it ends in a door, as he teleports through that door, he finds himself in a wide room, with a cabinet on one end, and a screen that's supposed to have been wite on the other. On the screen, there is something written, recently it seems, and as Adder comes nearer, it is revealed to be Lyran was here, written with a finger in the gathering dust. The cabinet's door is off its hinges and on the floor, tattered to pieces.

No more maps of the paths, just the rooms. :smalltongue:

| = Wall/unexplored
- = Door
. = Open space
S = Screen
C = Cabinet

|-|-|
|.S.|
|...|
|...|
|...|
|...-
|...|
|...|
|...|
|.C.|
|-|||

You are at the east entrance. :smallwink:

[appending_doom]

Adder pauses to shift the power within his soulmelds, and then approaches the cabinet half-heartedly. He pores through the remnants carefully and thoroughly.


Stats and Soulmeld Information (Altered)


Take 20 on Search (21, 2 minutes)

Soulmelds Shaped: Blink Shirt, Threefold Mask of the Chimera
Essentia: Blink Shirt 0/1, Cobalt Expertise 1/1, Threefold Mask 1/1

+1 insight bonus to disarm, trip, and feint checks.
+1 AC when using Combat Expertise.
Cannot be flanked.
May use dimension door at will, with a range of 10 feet.
+1 to Search and Spot

HP: 12/12
AC: 19, Flat-Footed 15

[Lubirio]

As the thorough search through the cabinet begins, Adder feels the thick layer of dust that has gathered on it. Those layers seem to be the only thing holding it together, as all the hinges are broken, and all the screws are loose at least in some way. Probably a single touch could break it.

The cabinet holds nothing interesting. :smallwink:

[appending_doom]

Adder crosses to the screen and examines the space around it, hoping to find some trace or track of passage through one of the north doors.

Stats and Soulmeld Information


Take 20 on Search around both doors (21, 6 minutes) for tracks, disturbed dust, dropped items, or other signs of passage.

Soulmelds Shaped: Blink Shirt, Threefold Mask of the Chimera
Essentia: Blink Shirt 0/1, Cobalt Expertise 1/1, Threefold Mask 1/1

+1 insight bonus to disarm, trip, and feint checks.
+1 AC when using Combat Expertise.
Cannot be flanked.
May use dimension door at will, with a range of 10 feet.
+1 to Search and Spot

HP: 12/12
AC: 19, Flat-Footed 15

[Lubirio]

The left door seems to be locked, but the door on the other side seems to have been opened and closed again, never fully locked.

[appending_doom]

After a moment's thought, Adder approaches the left door and slips through just to the other side.

Stats and Soulmeld Information (Altered)


Reinvest to Blink Shirt

Soulmelds Shaped: Blink Shirt, Threefold Mask of the Chimera
Essentia: Blink Shirt 1/1, Cobalt Expertise 1/1, Threefold Mask 0/1

+1 insight bonus to disarm, trip, and feint checks.
+1 AC when using Combat Expertise.
Cannot be flanked.
May use dimension door at will, with a range of 20 feet.

HP: 12/12
AC: 19, Flat-Footed 15

[Lubirio]

Adder enters a long room with three doors on his side, an archway on his right not far from him, and a door on the far end to his left. He is standing in front of the middle of the three doors.

Map of room

| = Wall/unexplored
- = Door
. = Open space
, = Archway


||||||||
-.....||
|.....||
|.....||
|.....||
|.....||
|.....||
|.....||
|.....|.
|.....,.
|.....||
|.....||
|-|-|-||

As the post implies, the two right doors on the bottom both came from the room you just left.

[appending_doom]

Adder walks to the northwest door, and teleports through just to the far side.

Stats and Soulmeld Information


Soulmelds Shaped: Blink Shirt, Threefold Mask of the Chimera
Essentia: Blink Shirt 1/1, Cobalt Expertise 1/1, Threefold Mask 0/1

+1 insight bonus to disarm, trip, and feint checks.
+1 AC when using Combat Expertise.
Cannot be flanked.
May use dimension door at will, with a range of 20 feet.

HP: 12/12
AC: 19, Flat-Footed 15

[Lubirio]

Adder finds himself in a split hallway, one way leads to a dead end, the other around a bend.

Wanna check out the dead end or no?

If you don't:
The hallways makes another bend and ends in a door.

[appending_doom]

Adder examines the dead end. If it appears to be empty (especially of other creatures), he invests his mask and again takes the time to search the area thoroughly.

Stats and Soulmeld Information


Soulmelds Shaped: Blink Shirt, Threefold Mask of the Chimera
Essentia: Blink Shirt 1/1, Cobalt Expertise 1/1, Threefold Mask 0/1

+1 insight bonus to disarm, trip, and feint checks.
+1 AC when using Combat Expertise.
Cannot be flanked.
May use dimension door at will, with a range of 20 feet.

HP: 12/12
AC: 19, Flat-Footed 15

[Lubirio]

The dead end, upon further inspection, reveals nothing more exciting than anything a dead end can offer.

It's just a regular dead end. :smalltongue:

[appending_doom]

Then Adder goes to the new door, reinvests his blink shirt, and travels through, to the second square beyond it.

Stats and Soulmeld Information


Soulmelds Shaped: Blink Shirt, Threefold Mask of the Chimera
Essentia: Blink Shirt 1/1, Cobalt Expertise 1/1, Threefold Mask 0/1

+1 insight bonus to disarm, trip, and feint checks.
+1 AC when using Combat Expertise.
Cannot be flanked.
May use dimension door at will, with a range of 20 feet.

HP: 12/12
AC: 19, Flat-Footed 15

[Lubirio]

Adder teleports into the room to find two skeletons brandishing their scimitars, ready for a fight.

Map:

| = Wall/unexplored
- = Door
\ = Open door
. = Open space
S = Skeleton
A = Adder

|||||
|...|
|...|
|.A.-
|...|
|...|
|...|
|.S.|
|...|
|.S.|
|...|
|...|
|-|||

You get a surprise round.
Initiative:
Skeleton #1: 21
Adder: 17
Skeleton #2: 14

[appending_doom]

Adder executes a partial charge, flying in to smash his light mace into the first skeleton.

Stats and Soulmeld Information


Attack
[roll0]
[roll1]

Soulmelds Shaped: Blink Shirt, Threefold Mask of the Chimera
Essentia: Blink Shirt 1/1, Cobalt Expertise 1/1, Threefold Mask 0/1

+1 insight bonus to disarm, trip, and feint checks.
+1 AC when using Combat Expertise.
Cannot be flanked.
May use dimension door at will, with a range of 20 feet.

HP: 12/12
AC: 17 (charging), Flat-Footed 15

[Lubirio]

You can't charge during a surprise round, it's a full-round action, while a surprise round is only a standard action. Sorry.

[appending_doom]

From the entry on charging (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/combat/specialAttacks.htm#charge):



If you are able to take only a standard action or a move action on your turn, you can still charge, but you are only allowed to move up to your speed (instead of up to double your speed). You can’t use this option unless you are restricted to taking only a standard action or move action on your turn.

[Lubirio]

Adder's charge resulted in almost falling over while trying to hit the skeleton, and it retaliated by slashing at him with its scimitar, swishing away at empty air.

Skelly #1 attacks and misses, as does your attack. You get a full turn this time. :smallwink:

[appending_doom]

Moving more cautiously, Adder swings at the skeleton in front of him and takes a quick step back.

Stats and Soulmeld Information


Attack (Combat Reflexes for -1)
[roll0]
[roll1]

Take a 5-ft step backwards, towards the door I came in by.

Soulmelds Shaped: Blink Shirt, Threefold Mask of the Chimera
Essentia: Blink Shirt 1/1, Cobalt Expertise 1/1, Threefold Mask 0/1

+1 insight bonus to disarm, trip, and feint checks.
+1 AC when using Combat Expertise.
Cannot be flanked.
May use dimension door at will, with a range of 20 feet.

HP: 12/12
AC: 21, Flat-Footed 15


EDIT: Poor, wasted critical hit. :smallsigh:

[Lubirio]

As Adder hit the skeleton, the mace broke off its arm. In fury, the second skeleton walked over and hacked at Adder fruitlessly, only to be followed by the skeleton with only a single arm remaining slashing at him as well, leaving a wide gash on Adder's arm.

Your attack obviously hit, and you take 6 damage from a hit by the second skeleton. You're up again.

Updated map:

| = Wall/unexplored
- = Door
. = Open space

|||||
|...|
|...|
|...-
|...|
|.A.|
|.SS|
|...|
|...|
|...|
|...|
|...|
|-|||

[appending_doom]

Adder assaults the injured skeleton, and again backs away from the two, still using his weapon to block the blows.

Stats and Soulmeld Information


Attack (Combat Expertise for -1)
[roll0]
[roll1]

And did they really hit AC of 21 (the +2 bonus from Combat and Cobolt Expertise)?

Take a 5-ft step backwards, towards the door I came in by.

Soulmelds Shaped: Blink Shirt, Threefold Mask of the Chimera
Essentia: Blink Shirt 1/1, Cobalt Expertise 1/1, Threefold Mask 0/1

+1 insight bonus to disarm, trip, and feint checks.
+1 AC when using Combat Expertise.
Cannot be flanked.
May use dimension door at will, with a range of 20 feet.

HP: 12/12
AC: 21, Flat-Footed 15

[Lubirio]

Adder's second successful blow to the skeleton ends it, and it breaks apart in many different pieces. The second skeleton, looking at the fate of his companion, didn't look discouraged and jumped in closer, hacking away again, only to have it slide off Adder's armor harmlessly.

Sorry, I rolled a natural 20, so yes.

You attack hits and kills it, his attack misses.

[appending_doom]

Adder swings at the still-standing skeleton and backs up again.

Stats and Soulmeld Information


Attack (Combat Expertise for -1)
[roll0]
[roll1]

Take a 5-ft step backwards, towards the door I came in by.

Soulmelds Shaped: Blink Shirt, Threefold Mask of the Chimera
Essentia: Blink Shirt 1/1, Cobalt Expertise 1/1, Threefold Mask 0/1

+1 insight bonus to disarm, trip, and feint checks.
+1 AC when using Combat Expertise.
Cannot be flanked.
May use dimension door at will, with a range of 20 feet.

HP: 6/12
AC: 21, Flat-Footed 15

[Lubirio]

Adder's strike missed the skeleton, and it returned the favor after jumping toward him again, missing also.

Both attacks miss.

[appending_doom]

Rinse. Repeat.

Stats and Soulmeld Information


Attack (Combat Expertise for -1)
[roll0]
[roll1]

Take a 5-ft step backwards, towards the door I came in by.

Soulmelds Shaped: Blink Shirt, Threefold Mask of the Chimera
Essentia: Blink Shirt 1/1, Cobalt Expertise 1/1, Threefold Mask 0/1

+1 insight bonus to disarm, trip, and feint checks.
+1 AC when using Combat Expertise.
Cannot be flanked.
May use dimension door at will, with a range of 20 feet.

HP: 6/12
AC: 21, Flat-Footed 15

[Lubirio]

As Adder jumps back yet again, he manages to chip a piece off the skeleton before he yet again hacks into emptiness.

Your attack hits, its attack misses.

[appending_doom]

Now close to the wall, Adder took a swing at the surviving skeleton and stepped back, now up against the wall.

Stats and Soulmeld Information


Attack (Combat Expertise for -1)
[roll0]
[roll1]

Take a 5-ft step backwards.

Soulmelds Shaped: Blink Shirt, Threefold Mask of the Chimera
Essentia: Blink Shirt 1/1, Cobalt Expertise 1/1, Threefold Mask 0/1

+1 insight bonus to disarm, trip, and feint checks.
+1 AC when using Combat Expertise.
Cannot be flanked.
May use dimension door at will, with a range of 20 feet.

HP: 6/12
AC: 21, Flat-Footed 15

[Lubirio]

Looking back as he jumped to the wall, Adder's swing goes wild, and the skeleton takes advantage of this, but his swing glances off Adder's armor.

Both attacks miss.

[appending_doom]

Adder steps around the skeleton, trying to maneuver down the hall without attracting more attacks from it. He swings again, optimistically.

Stats and Soulmeld Information


Attack (Combat Expertise for -1)
[roll0]
[roll1]

Take a 5-ft step forward and to the left.

Soulmelds Shaped: Blink Shirt, Threefold Mask of the Chimera
Essentia: Blink Shirt 1/1, Cobalt Expertise 1/1, Threefold Mask 0/1

+1 insight bonus to disarm, trip, and feint checks.
+1 AC when using Combat Expertise.
Cannot be flanked.
May use dimension door at will, with a range of 20 feet.

HP: 6/12
AC: 21, Flat-Footed 15

[Lubirio]

As Adder swings one more time, it misses, and the skeleton's attack goes long as he misses also.

So if I get this right, it's like this now?:

| = Wall/unexplored
- = Door
. = Open space

|||||
|...|
|.SA|
|...-
|...|
|...|
|...|
|...|
|...|
|...|
|...|
|...|
|-|||

And both attacks miss. :smallwink:

[appending_doom]

I think so. If we're both in agreement, it can't be wrong!


Adder steps around the skeleton again, giving himself the greater part of the room to maneuver, swinging the mace cautiously to strike his enemy.

Stats and Soulmeld Information


Attack (Combat Expertise for -1)
[roll0]
[roll1]

Take a 5-ft step west and south.

Soulmelds Shaped: Blink Shirt, Threefold Mask of the Chimera
Essentia: Blink Shirt 1/1, Cobalt Expertise 1/1, Threefold Mask 0/1

+1 insight bonus to disarm, trip, and feint checks.
+1 AC when using Combat Expertise.
Cannot be flanked.
May use dimension door at will, with a range of 20 feet.

HP: 6/12
AC: 21, Flat-Footed 15

[Lubirio]

As Adder jums past the skeleton, he almost hits it with his light mace before getting slashed at himself, only for the slash to be blocked by his own swinging mace.

Both attacks miss, close for both of them.

Map as of now:

| = Wall/unexplored
- = Door
. = Open space

|||||
|...|
|.S.|
|.A.-
|...|
|...|
|...|
|...|
|...|
|...|
|...|
|...|
|-|||

[appending_doom]

Adder strikes the skeleton and steps backwards, and west, towards the far door.

Stats and Soulmeld Information


Attack (Combat Expertise for -1)
[roll0]
[roll1]

Take a 5-ft step west and south.

Soulmelds Shaped: Blink Shirt, Threefold Mask of the Chimera
Essentia: Blink Shirt 1/1, Cobalt Expertise 1/1, Threefold Mask 0/1

+1 insight bonus to disarm, trip, and feint checks.
+1 AC when using Combat Expertise.
Cannot be flanked.
May use dimension door at will, with a range of 20 feet.

HP: 6/12
AC: 21, Flat-Footed 15

[Lubirio]

Adder manages to chip away a piece of the skeleton's bones again. The skeleton, a little disoriented by the blow, jumps forward and slashes away, making the scimitar hit the wall with a loud clang.

Your attack hits, its attack misses, it's taken 6 damage.

Map as of now:

| = Wall/unexplored
- = Door
. = Open space

|||||
|...|
|...|
|S..-
|A..|
|...|
|...|
|...|
|...|
|...|
|...|
|...|
|-|||

[appending_doom]

Grimacing in annoyance at the endless trading of blows, Adder swings again, backs up again, glad the skeleton doesn't have the brains to pick out his goal.

Stats and Soulmeld Information


Attack (Combat Expertise for -1)
[roll0]
[roll1]

Take a 5-ft step south.

Soulmelds Shaped: Blink Shirt, Threefold Mask of the Chimera
Essentia: Blink Shirt 1/1, Cobalt Expertise 1/1, Threefold Mask 0/1

+1 insight bonus to disarm, trip, and feint checks.
+1 AC when using Combat Expertise.
Cannot be flanked.
May use dimension door at will, with a range of 20 feet.

HP: 6/12
AC: 21, Flat-Footed 15

[Lubirio]

Mindlessly doing its job, the skeleton dodges your blow and moves in the hack at empty air once again.

Both attacks miss. :smallsigh:

[appending_doom]

Adder attacks and partially retreats again, edging closer to the far way out.

Stats and Soulmeld Information


Attack (Combat Expertise for -1)
[roll0]
[roll1]

Take a 5-ft step south.

Soulmelds Shaped: Blink Shirt, Threefold Mask of the Chimera
Essentia: Blink Shirt 1/1, Cobalt Expertise 1/1, Threefold Mask 0/1

+1 insight bonus to disarm, trip, and feint checks.
+1 AC when using Combat Expertise.
Cannot be flanked.
May use dimension door at will, with a range of 20 feet.

HP: 6/12
AC: 21, Flat-Footed 15

[Lubirio]

Both of the set of new swings swing into emptiness.

Both miss.

[appending_doom]

"I'm really not much of a dancer, but I suppose you can do anything once," Adder mutters as he again tries to kill the skeleton without exposing himself to further danger.

Stats and Soulmeld Information


Attack (Combat Expertise for -1)
[roll0]
[roll1]

Take a 5-ft step south.

Soulmelds Shaped: Blink Shirt, Threefold Mask of the Chimera
Essentia: Blink Shirt 1/1, Cobalt Expertise 1/1, Threefold Mask 0/1

+1 insight bonus to disarm, trip, and feint checks.
+1 AC when using Combat Expertise.
Cannot be flanked.
May use dimension door at will, with a range of 20 feet.

HP: 6/12
AC: 21, Flat-Footed 15

[Lubirio]

Just as Adder talks to the skeleton, his hit chips off another piece od the skeleton's bones. His whole left arm is now lying in pieces on the floor, and as he swings with his right arm, the lack of a second arm knocks him off-balance and he swings into nothingness.

Yours hits, obviously, and his misses.

[appending_doom]

"Do you ever get bored?" Adder asks as he swings again and steps back.

Stats and Soulmeld Information


Attack (Combat Expertise for -1)
[roll0]
[roll1]

Take a 5-ft step south.

Soulmelds Shaped: Blink Shirt, Threefold Mask of the Chimera
Essentia: Blink Shirt 1/1, Cobalt Expertise 1/1, Threefold Mask 0/1

+1 insight bonus to disarm, trip, and feint checks.
+1 AC when using Combat Expertise.
Cannot be flanked.
May use dimension door at will, with a range of 20 feet.

HP: 6/12
AC: 21, Flat-Footed 15

[Lubirio]

The only response Adder seemed to get was the skeleton clattering its teeth at him menacingly, before continuing its disastrous assault.

Both attacks miss. I believe it's one more 5ft step 'till you're at the door.

[appending_doom]

Tired of the blows and the continual risk of being eviscerated, Adder takes a step backwards, and then teleports through the door behind him.

Stats and Soulmeld Information


Take a 5-ft step south, and then dimension door just to the other side of the south door.

Soulmelds Shaped: Blink Shirt, Threefold Mask of the Chimera
Essentia: Blink Shirt 1/1, Cobalt Expertise 1/1, Threefold Mask 0/1

+1 insight bonus to disarm, trip, and feint checks.
+1 AC when using Combat Expertise.
Cannot be flanked.
May use dimension door at will, with a range of 20 feet.

HP: 6/12
AC: 21, Flat-Footed 15

[Lubirio]

As Adder moves near the southern door, needles rain down on him, and he loses so much blood he falls down, barely breathing. The skeleton takes advantage of this opportunity, and makes one great slash with its scimitar, making such a great cut that Adder almost dies instantly.

OH, I did NOT see that coming! :smallwink:

Edit: more info in next post.

[Lubirio]

Oops, almost forgot, :smallredface: the southern door in the last room was trapped and it was triggered:

Hail of needles, hitting you for
[roll0]
[roll1]

Does that change you decision of teleporting through?

Edit: It should 'cause you're unconscious. :smalleek:

Make a fort save or die.

[appending_doom]

By "door is trapped", I presume you mean the door had a proximity trap.

[roll0]

[Lubirio]

Location trigger, sorry. :smallredface:

Fort save succeeds, though you're now at -9, roll stabilization! :smalltongue:

[appending_doom]

6 - 8 = -2, doesn't it?

[roll0]

[Lubirio]

But the CDG did 7 damage in and of itself. Let's hope Lyran finds you.

[appending_doom]

If I was at -9, how is Adder alive? An 82 fails a 10% chance of stabilization any way you look at it.

[Lubirio]

You're a day ahead of Adder in time, so if he somehow finds you before a day passes for him, you may yet live, bu the chances of that are about as big as the skeleton bursting into spontaneous combustion. So I think it's save to say that you die, sorry.

Unless of course, you want to wait for Lyran who might swing by, but his heal modifier isn't very high...

[appending_doom]

Eh, I don't think so. It was interesting, but not necessarily something I'd go through again. I am glad you're putting so much effort into this for your players.

[Lubirio]

Alright, you had your shot, if you want to play again with a new character, you can, but you'd start over again. But from your behavior I'm guessing you don't feel like it. :smallwink:

[appending_doom]

I think I prefer having around meat shields healbots batman companions. Good luck with the rest of them!

[Lubirio]

Thanks, part of the experience will be the process to get the party together. But once they are, it'll be one hell of a ride. :smallamused: