Chapter 3: Third time's the charm

[drpete]

Just to add a wrinkle... as you try the door to the orc room, you find it locked.

[kalstone]

Solaine whispers, "Ok. Let's take this one step at a time. Let's check the room to the north to make sure we don't get attacked from behind. Someone keep an eye on the door to the orc room. We'll tackle that next."

[bobloblah]

"Lead on..." whispers Brother Galen.

[kalstone]

Solaine leans her pole-hammer against the wall next to the north door, draws her sword in one hand and slowly opens the north door with the other.

[drpete]

Date: Skullmont 13, 9:20 am
Season: Early Fall
Light Sources: Brother Galen (Lantern, 3 hours, 50 minutes remaining), Climent (Lantern, 3 hours, 50 minutes remaining)
Time since rest: 10 minutes
Moon phase: Waxing Gibbous
Location: Abandoned Guard Room

Cautiously watching your back, you move into the room to the north. This wrecked guard room is much as you remember it from a few days ago... a 20 foot by 40 foot room with a door in the east wall. A dilapidated weapon rack is shoved into the northwest corner. It has an old tarp over it. Old broken stools lie around the room, and the air is thick with smells of dust, sweat and blood. The room shows signs of a recent battle. You count four fresh corpses of pigmen splayed out on the ground, recent victims of violence, with blood pooled around them.

One of the pigmen lays in the doorway in the east wall, his corpse holding the door open.

[kalstone]

Solaine whispers back to the party. "There's some orcs in there. They don't look like much of a threat anymore. Randolpho, would you and Steel mind having a try at that lock?" She points to the door to the east.

[drpete]

The east door in the guardroom is open, with an orc corpse in it. Are you talking about the locked door east from the statue room?

[kalstone]

Whoops. Yes I meant the door in the statue room.

[Zorroroaster]

"I agree, we should make our way to the altar room. But, if the Orc room is barred, can we not go around via the guard room and the passage to the north?"

What he means is, can we sneak around and see if whoever locked the door has locked the other side as well?

[kalstone]

Solaine says, "Might be worth a try."

[drpete]

As you discuss what to do, Ajax starts sniffing around the corpses of the orcs.

[barkman]

Randolpho, with Solaine (hopefully) standing guard, will attempt to pick open the lock of the locked door in the statue room.



<ajax is sniffing around the orcs in the guard room, or the statue room?>

[drpete]

Ajax is sniffing around in the guard room.

Attempting to get the door open will take 10 minutes. It's barred from the other side, and this would be your attempt to get it open.

[barkman]

I won't bother to open it then, i will listen at the door though.

[drpete]

Randolpho listens to the door on the east end of the statue room, but hears nothing. Actions?

[kalstone]

Solaine says, "Well, Torgyr. Your idea seems best. Let's go around it to the north."

[drpete]

Date: Skullmont 13, 9:40 am
Season: Early Fall
Light Sources: Brother Galen (Lantern, 3 hours, 30 minutes remaining), Climent (Lantern, 3 hours, 30 minutes remaining)
Time since rest: 30 minutes
Moon phase: Waxing Gibbous
Location: Four Way Intersection

You step over the pigman corpse, enter the hallway, and head east. Proceeding cautiously, you come to a T intersection. You note that the floor around the T intersection is sticky with some old goo.

You take the south fork from the T intersection, and move to the four way intersection. Torgyr moves to check the door in the west fork when figures move out of the darkness to the east!

They are dressed in togas, and reach out to you desperately from the darkness. As they come closer, into the shadowy light of the lanterns, you their slackjawed expression, and lifeless eyes. The two dead men shuffle forward and grab for Torgyr!

[Zorroroaster]

Shuddering, Torgyr attempts to leap back, out of the way of the groping undead hands.

"To me!"

Initiative roll, if you desire it:

Initiative: [1d6+2] = 5+2 = 7

[kalstone]

Solaine thrust her holy symbol in front of her. "Begone foul things!"

Turn: [1d20] = 16, [2d6] = 4

[Dogma]

Ranulf rushes up to the approaching men, sword and shield at the ready, looking to place himself between them and Torgyr If one of them has actually grabbed Torgyr, he will swing at the attacker.