Afina vs the lich (Afina)

[Ebiris]

"Hmm... alright Smrgol I want you to bash in the rock around there a bit," Afina points to where the trap is anchored, hoping some gross destruction will destabilise it and keep it from triggering when everyone else passes.

Smrgol, being the jolly crystal dragon that he is, is only too happy to comply!

He has absurd strength and damage, he's basically just doing some excavating around the trap to wreck it up

[Anastasia]

Just for reference, what numbers are we looking at here?

[Ebiris]

He can make +20 strength checks and does about 100 damage on a bite and 60 on all his other many attacks

[Anastasia]

This goes uneventfully enough, until a bright flare of magic bursts, momentarily dazzling all of you. It fades, leaving no sign of it having been there.

[Ebiris]

"Should be safe to go on now," Afina says, advancing and keeping an eye out for further traps. "Good work, Smrgol."

Still taking 10 for 53 on search checks

[Anastasia]

Mei nods firmly and strides on. Dana follows, "Nice," she says, as you advance. You go down this river for a little time, going another 60ft before your searching find another trap. This time it's a simple tripwire, so thin as to be almost invisible.

[Ebiris]

"Tripwire, just step over it and you'll be fine," Afina says, directing everyone safely over it, paying special attention to Smrgol given his extra limbs and tail to be considerate of.

[Anastasia]

"Awful lot of defenses for a cave," Dana remarks, "Damn paranoid wizards."

[Ebiris]

"It's surprising really," Afina says. "I mean if you had all these traps you'd expect your minions to accidentally set them off now and then. Maybe he just doesn't care?"

[Anastasia]

"Or it's a fucking diversion," Dana points out, "Let idiots run down here and kill themselves for nothing."

[Ebiris]

"Expensive diversion, but I suppose it's possible. We won't know until we reach the end."

[Anastasia]

On you go - and not another 50ft before Afina notices a slight fissure in the floor. Some kind of pit trap, she thinks.

[Ebiris]

How annoying when she can't fly. "Pit trap," she points it out, using her stone shape ability to fill it in and make a safe passage over it.

Stone Shape SLA http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/stoneShape.htm

[Anastasia]

And just like that, the pit is filled in. You advance on - and ahead you see a small, mostly dried up lake. It's sunken below the level to feed out into the dry river and no sources of water feed into it, at least above water level. It also seems to be a dead end.

[Ebiris]

"You might have been right, Dana," Afina concedes grudgingly. "Lets check for any secret passages before we leave though. That giant spider and ogre had to come out from somewhere below, I'm sure this entire mountain is all interconnected somehow."

Taking 10 for 53 on search