Session 13-11-05

[Prince Herb]

Session Start: Sun Nov 13 20:55:52 2005
Session Ident: #kotb
* Now talking in #kotb
* elisteran (user@eddore.NMSU.Edu) has joined #kotb
* elisteran is now known as thorn
* Rakhal is now known as Chandor
* Seriumu is now known as Hidoyou
<Prince_Herb> And so, without further ado, our fearless heroes crossed the pit at the cave entrance, and were faced with the choice of left, into the cobwebbed room, or right up past the dead kobold and up the sloping passageway
* Hidoyou stands guard
* Chandor suggests the cobwebbed room.
<thorn> Ick, cobwebs
<thorn> Why not first look in the passageway?
<thorn> if we see anything troublesome, we can turn around and try the dirty room instead
* Chandor hates it when spiders creep out of a room we didn't check and bite us in the back...
* Hidoyou nods at the cobwebbed room
<Hidoyou> This passageway is no doubt used less
<thorn> right, and why wouldn't people want to go to the river water?
<thorn> so we should go the way people usually go!
<Hidoyou> I agree with the priest. We should go left.
* Hidoyou looks at Celanyth, Mitchigan, and Third
<Prince_Herb> Mitchigan looks ready to charge any way you suggest
<Hidoyou> It would be foolish to split up...
<Prince_Herb> Celanyth examines the area
<Prince_Herb> roll 1d20 for his search
* Musk-bot --> "Prince_Herb rolls 1d20 for his search and gets 1."
<Prince_Herb> "Nothing to give us any clue here," he says
* Chandor wonders if he can sense any undead
<Hidoyou> You're our self-appointed scout, Celanyth. Go take a look up in the passage ahead.
<Prince_Herb> Celanyth agrees and sneaks up the passageway
<Prince_Herb> roll 1d20 for stealth
* Musk-bot --> "Prince_Herb rolls 1d20 for stealth and gets 17."
<Prince_Herb> He's very quiet
<Prince_Herb> Celanyth pads along the corridor, reaches a corner, turns and is quickly out of sight
<Prince_Herb> What's everyone else doing in the meantime?
* Hidoyou looks at Third
* thorn is peering up the other passageway
* Chandor is seeing what he can percieve (non magically) in the room
<Prince_Herb> Third takes up a position besides thorn, her spear at the ready
* Hidoyou looks towards where Celanyth went
* thorn calls over to hidoyou softly, "See any sign of him?"
<Prince_Herb> Chandor notices some oily patches on the ground underneath the cobwebs
<Chandor> Hmm. Anyone know what those oily patches on the ground under the cobwebs could be?
* Hidoyou looks over there
* Hidoyou examines it
<Hidoyou> roll 1d20+2
* Musk-bot --> "Hidoyou rolls 1d20+2 and gets 4."
<Hidoyou> Hmm...
<Prince_Herb> It appears to be some kind of oil or grease
<Prince_Herb> No clue where it came from
<Chandor> Hmm, it could be venom from large spiders in the webs out of sight, dripping down.
* Hidoyou looks up
<thorn> large spiders? Ick
<thorn> well, we're not too likely to see them while we have these torches at hand
* Chandor has heard that some spiders can teach pigs to talk.
<thorn> what, talk spider?
<Hidoyou> One way to find out..
* thorn comes over to rejoin chandor and hidoyou, now looking around for both boars and spiders
* Hidoyou takes a torch from Mitchigan
* Hidoyou waves the torch in front of the nearest web, attempting to light it on fire
<thorn> what are you doing!
* Hidoyou watches for any movement as he does this
<thorn> "Are you really that paranoid about cave spiders that you'll destroy their habitat as we come across them?"
<Prince_Herb> Hidoyou sets fire to the black, greasy webbing
* thorn shakes my head in disgust
<Prince_Herb> It begins to burn, giving off a thick, acrid smoke as it does so
* thorn backs away from the smelly fire and again peers at the exit celanyth did not go through
* Chandor retreats
<thorn> "You think that maybe someone will smell that? We should put it out"
<Prince_Herb> roll 2#d20 for Third and Mitchigan
* Musk-bot --> "Prince_Herb rolls 2#d20 for Third and Mitchigan and gets 13, 10."
<Chandor> roll d20+3
* Musk-bot --> "Chandor rolls a d20+3 and gets 4."
<thorn> roll 1d20+1 for listening
* Musk-bot --> "thorn rolls 1d20+1 for listening and gets 2."
* Hidoyou rolls 1d20
<Hidoyou> roll 1d20 err
* Musk-bot --> "Hidoyou rolls 1d20 err and gets 1."
<Prince_Herb> The first you know of the other problem is when you see Celanyth running back towards you, and a large round object trundling after him at speed
<Prince_Herb> The thick black smoke is starting to get to your lungs now
<thorn> "Put that out! Celanyth, what's that!?"
* Hidoyou whirls around
* Chandor must leap across the pit to get out of the exit
<Hidoyou> roll 1d20+3
* Musk-bot --> "Hidoyou rolls 1d20+3 and gets 13."
<Chandor> roll 1d20+2
* Musk-bot --> "Chandor rolls 1d20+2 and gets 17."
<thorn> roll 1dt20+2 to check how smoke hits the lungs
* Musk-bot --> "thorn Dice Error: Invalid arguments in the attempted roll"
<thorn> roll 1d20+2
* Musk-bot --> "thorn rolls 1d20+2 and gets 17."
<Prince_Herb> roll 2#d20 for Mitchigan and Third
* Musk-bot --> "Prince_Herb rolls 2#d20 for Mitchigan and Third and gets 10, 2."
<Prince_Herb> Mitchigan, Third and Hidoyou are all choking in the smoke
* Hidoyou throws the torch down the passageway
<Chandor> Get down low
* Hidoyou coughs and stumbles away
<Hidoyou> Let's... hoguh... get out of here...
<Prince_Herb> The boulder strikes Celanyth in the back, and rolls straight over him
* thorn throws myself against the wall of the room by the passageway, in an attempt to get out of the boulder's way
<Hidoyou> roll 1d20-1 for reflex
* Musk-bot --> "Hidoyou rolls 1d20-1 for reflex and gets 13."
<Prince_Herb> roll 1d20
* Musk-bot --> "Prince_Herb rolls 1d20 and gets 12."
* Hidoyou jumps out of the way
<Chandor> roll 1d20+1
* Musk-bot --> "Chandor rolls 1d20+1 and gets 13."
<Prince_Herb> Chandor lands at the bottom of the pit
<Chandor> roll 1d20+1
* Musk-bot --> "Chandor rolls 1d20+1 and gets 18."
<Prince_Herb> Chandor lands unhurt at the bottom of the pit
<Prince_Herb> The boulder smacks into the others in turn
<Prince_Herb> roll 1d20
* Musk-bot --> "Prince_Herb rolls 1d20 and gets 8."
<Prince_Herb> It bounces into the pit and ends up inpieces next to Chandor
<Prince_Herb> Angry hornets swarm out of the papier-mache boulder, and out into the acrid smoke
<Hidoyou> This is... huchogf.... stupid!
<Prince_Herb> The hornets flee the smoke, heading for the cave exit
<Prince_Herb> But for the smoke, it might have been nastier
* Hidoyou climbs down the pit
<thorn> "are you all right, chandor?"
* Chandor inspects the 'boulder' for clues. And designs.
<thorn> "And what was -that-, Celanyth?"
<Chandor> Yes, I seem to be OK. If a little shocked.
* Hidoyou coughs into his hand
<Prince_Herb> Celanyth stands up
<Prince_Herb> "It was a trap..."
<Prince_Herb> "It rolled out of a room at the top of the corridor just as I got in sight of the entrance."
<thorn> "Somebody saw you?"
* Hidoyou coughs some more
<thorn> "I guess we can put out the fire now."
<Chandor> If that's really oil on the webs, we probably will not be able to .
<Prince_Herb> "Maybe ; someone with darkvision would have been able to see me a while before I saw them", he admits
<Chandor> Looks like we either run away, or charge. Or stay here and get more balls rolled down on us.
* Hidoyou climbs back up the pit, sniffing
<thorn> "Well, we might as well go investigate."
* Hidoyou looks towards the the fiery tunnel
<Prince_Herb> That room is now clear of cobwebs, and appears to be entirely empty
<thorn> "We should probably look to see if there are people up there. Balls of insects seems like they might not be friendly to visitors."
* Hidoyou pokes his head in towards the the cobwebbed area
<Chandor> They have some artisan skills though, Constructing a papier-mache ball that size and filling it with hornets could not have been easy.
<Hidoyou> roll 1d20+2 for search
* Musk-bot --> "Hidoyou rolls 1d20+2 for search and gets 18."
<Hidoyou> roll 1d20 for spot
* Musk-bot --> "Hidoyou rolls 1d20 for spot and gets 19."
<thorn> "Maybe that was just their nest. Wasp nests are like that, aren't they? Maybe celanyth's noise knocked the nest off balance"
* Hidoyou picks up the torch
<Hidoyou> All right, let's go, then.
* Hidoyou hands the torch to Mitchigan
* Hidoyou takes his shield from the ground
Session Time: Mon Nov 14 00:00:00 2005
* Hidoyou walks up the passage way, carefully
<Hidoyou> Come on, let's go
* thorn follows hidoyou
<Prince_Herb> The party cautiously make their way up the corridor
<Chandor> such...
<Prince_Herb> About 60 feet along it there is a side passage off to the left, with a friendly welcoming tripwire stretched across it
<Prince_Herb> The main passage continues up
<Chandor> Is this where the ball came out of?
<Prince_Herb> Peering down the side passage, you can see it slopes up and goes on for around 20 feet until it meets another corridor
<Prince_Herb> Celanyth says "No, it came from up ahead"
* Hidoyou examines the trip wire
* Hidoyou looks at Celanyth
<Prince_Herb> "It's not attached to anything," he says
<Hidoyou> Go dismantle it, then
<Prince_Herb> Celanyth shrugs and cuts it with his wirecutters
* Hidoyou waits for any movement
<Prince_Herb> Nothing stirs
* Hidoyou looks back and forth between the two tunnels
<thorn> "Let's keep going up this way. Why change horses mid-stream?"
* thorn  slowly resumes heading up the tunnel
* Hidoyou walks after him
<Prince_Herb> </game<
<Prince_Herb> Mext week : Battle to the Death!
* Disconnected
Session Close: Mon Nov 14 00:19:08 2005