[Moonhaven] Into the lair

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OOC: So is my suggestion to get someone who has successfully climbed up there to direct the mage hand doable? or does Bharash have to try and climb up there with his mighty +2?

If he has to try getting up there is it possible for the others that have tried to assist him by giving advise about where to best brace himself etc based on their experience?

Some dice rolls if needed

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[daft]

OOC: I don't have the PHB with me so a noob question; What should I roll to assist? 8

[harknail]

Feb 5, 2009 18:23:53 GMT -5 daft said:

OOC: I don't have the PHB with me so a noob question; What should I roll to assist? 8

OOC Your need to roll a 10 or better to assist (add +2 to someone's skill). For Sanem that's automatic for agility

[harknail]

With Sanem's help, Bharash climbs up on the chair atop the table and sticks his head into the hole. He casts a light spell so that he can see up there (perhaps on his hat). He then casts mage hand. Finally, with Sanem's help from below, Bharash is able to lever himself up to see the glowing egg and quickly snatches it with his mage hand spell. Bharash doesn't even try to stay up (since he has the egg). With Sanem's help he lands back on the chair and climbs down, the glowing egg following him.

Once at floor level everyone can easily get a close look at the small glowing egg. In the bright light of a torch and a light spell, the glow isn't visible. But still colors can be seen continuously shifting one the surface. Watching it is somewhat relaxing, the shifting patterns soothing.

OOC: Never underestimate the ingenuity of players. I didn't think there was any way to get the egg...

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Now he has the egg in his hand Bharash takes time to more thoroughly examine it.

OOC: Trained in Arcana. Assuming we are still in our extended rest, I think with the current rules he can identify most magical things.

Almost in his own world now he has a new bauble to investigate Bharash absently asks "Does one of you guys want to yank that dagger out too?"

[harknail]

OOC: Actually an extended rest would be sleeping overnight, this would be a short rest. But you are correct, most magic items can be identified within a 5 minute rest. This does however generally involve touching and handling the item as well as looking at it.

Bharash is unable to identify the magic item just by looking at it. He can't recall ever hearing about a magic item that looks like this. That the item is magic is not in doubt, and Bharash is sure that it's more than just a pretty night light. He just can't tell what it does without touching it and handling it for a while.

[Ogremind]

Doran is not so interested in the egg as the Dagger. With the egg safely in someone else's hands, Doran will see if he can recover the dagger.
Besides, maybe no one else will notice.

[harknail]

Doran has no problems at all climbing up and reaching the dagger. He pulls the dagger from the stone with only slightly more effort than required to pull it from a sheath. Doran now has a shinny new dagger to add to his collection.

OOC: Does he examine it (making test swipes and throws), or just tuck it away out of sight?

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OOC: I used the term extended incorrectly forgetting it had a specific game meaning. I Said extended because it was a longer then average short rest. I suppose technically it is multiple short rests back to back.

Yes Bharash examines and touches the egg to acertain its workings. Assuming he thinks it prudent to do so. His vocation is finding and learning about magic objects so he has done all this before. He will know what he needs to do to work it out more then I 8

[harknail]

OOC: I thought it prudent to explain first so that no-one gets the idea that they didn't use adequate care in handling the object. The first encounter was harder than I had planned, requiring the use of resources (daily powers) that will be needed later. Also I hadn't been tracking which daily powers had been used. This was made even more complicated by characters being taken over by new players. And characters coming in that have fought an even harder fight off camera. So I decided I should just reset everyone as if they had done a long rest, without requiring the characters to stop. Rather than make it just a GM fiat, I decided to work it into the game as an unusually magic item. I set it up in a situation that I thought were it was impossible to retrieve it without setting it off. Yet using great creativity, you were able to see the item and come up with a way to get it down intact. For the reasons above I still need the magic item to activate, but at this point I admit that I am doing so arbitrarily. But such creativity should not go unrewarded. When I get around to totaling XP, I'll be adding the XP of a level 2 elite monster to the group for having overcome this challenge. I hope no one is offended by my setting off the magic item after all your careful work retrieving it. And I hope you enjoyed the challenge as much as I did your solution of it.

Bharash begins to identify the item as some kind of powerful healing magic. But the glowing egg proves impossible to hold, being both nearly weightless and incredibly slick, it slides out of Bharash's hand and crashes to the floor. Hitting the hard floor activates the item, bathing everyone in the group with polychromatic light. The glow feels warm, a warmth that goes all the way to the bone. When the light fades, everyone feels refreshed, as if they had just woken from a long restful sleep followed by a good hearty breakfast.

OOC: Everyone is at full HP and healing surges and has all daily powers available again (I'll track these now). Now you know why these items aren't around anymore, they are incredibly hard not to activate accidently (also were hard to make, but mostly they would disrupt game balance).

OOC: P.S. The dagger would have been in that chamber anyway, that's the planned treasure. The egg just provides a better reason for the dagger to have been left there.

[daft]

Sanem lets the light devour him and cleanse his body from tiredness and pain. Once the glow subsides, the Ranger feels even lighter in his step than usual. 8

[crysun]

Howahkan has a look of surprise "Wow, that was impressive. I never seen anything like that, not even in a temple. I wonder what it was called and who made it."

[elricz]

Despite his efforts to conceal it, Thursagan is happy to regain his vitality. "Are we ready? There is still work to do"

[daft]

"I'm ready", Sanem answers. The Elf is quite clearly eager to get going again. 8

[cyco]

Gabe looks around the group, "Lets move out then, I believe there are some more Goblins and a few other things that might be waiting for us up ahead."

OOC: So unless anyone objects lets just go due north and check out the first corridor (H&I on the map)

OOC: Gabe will attempt to sort a marching order out as we move along. Since only two of us have low light vision most should stick in a reasonably close formation. I'll suggest an order below just to get started and will edit as people post their preferences if that is okay.

Marching Order

Thursagan	Harknail
Gabe	Barash
Sanem	Howahkan
	Doran

OOC: Note I don't really see Doran & Sanem really being part of the marching order that often and expect them both to be darting forward and backwards moving through the rest of us as we plod along.

[harknail]

OOC: Waiting to hear if Doran is identifying his new dagger or not. But we don't need to hold up everyone else up for that.

Checking out the tunnel opposite the rat cage, the group finds a mirror copy of the rat cage, though in worse shape. That portcullis is broken, twisted and jammed part way down. The guard room is bare and the crank broken. The cell also has old trade goods. These haven't had rats eating at them, but they do appear to have been looted recently. None remain that still have any value.

[cyco]

Gabe after giving anyone who wants to search five minutes to do so will hustle the party to the corridor the creature was trying to flee down, "Lets keep moving and be careful, this will be where they must have gone."

OOC: Just trying to keep things moving, speak up if anyone minds or wants to spend more time there.

[crysun]

OOC: What creature are we chasing?

[cyco]

OOC: Actually I'm still a tad confused about the whole story. I've read the recap (Reply #167 on page 12) and I think Gabe is one of the ship wrecked adventurers but unsure why we chasing Goblins unless it's just because they attacked and we don't like them. Also seems that Bharash is after some sorcerer with a lense(?) (Reply #169) and there is some sort of connection to Zombie attacks, but I'm not sure if my character is aware of who/what that is and whether Gabe should have asked at that point. Maybe whilst we were resting we should have did more thorough introductions about who we are and why we are here. Maybe some retroactive introductions or when we next have a rest.

The way I'm seeing/playing Gabe currently is not that he has a specific aim or goal here, but that he likes order and strategy and will naturally try to organize people to meet whatever threat he perceives in the best way he is capable of. However if there is someone/people with a specific goal he'd be keen to learn it and start planning the best way to achieve it.

[elricz]

Thursagan will follow the suggestion of Gabe, and he will walk in front of the group once we leave the area.
OOC: What is the light condition on the tunnels?
OOC2: Should we start a new thread once we get moving?