[4E] Adventures in Fallcrest - IC

[Hzurr]

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As Pavick casts his counterspell, the symbol begins fading. A split-scond later, a loud humming is the only warning as the symbol suddenly flashes a bright crimson, and explodes out from the door in burst of fire and magical energy.

Attack vs. Pavick's Reflex: (1d20+6)[24]
Attack vs. Shep's Reflex: (1d20+6)[20]

Damage: (2d6+4)[12] (half-damage on a miss)


@Eltain, Aramil, & Lucan:
Your debate on the sounds of furniture and people in windows is suddenly interupted by a the sound of a gnome shouting "OH SHI-" and an explosion that echoes from down the alley.

[Haberdashery]

Shep remains in his position for a moment, his face charred black with soot, lips pursed somewhat sardonically. He turns his head very slowly to Pavick next to him.

"Mr. Lucky Gnome, I think we need to rethink your nickname."

[dariathalon]

Pavick - Gnome Wizard

Pavick stands bolt still for a moment as well, letting the realization of what just happened dawn on him as well. He blinks his eyes a few times before finally moving the rest of his body. He looks down at his blackened robes and skin. "Mr. Shepherd, I think that you may have a point."

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Is the door still there, or was it blown up too? What about the trap? Has it disappated after being sprung, or did it rearm itself?

[Hzurr]

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OOC: The door is still there, and appears to be intact and locked. However, it does not appear that the trap reset itself.


(Anyone can make this check)
Perception DC15

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After the explosion, you here a number of footsteps moving around within the house, definitely more than one person. Finally, a door shuts, and you don't hear anything else

[DSCrankshaw]

Lucan - Half-elf bard/MC ranger

"I think we've lost the element of surprised," Lucan says. "Maybe we should just head in." He tries the latch on the door.

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Perception - (1d20+10)[16]

Oops, forgot to post an action.

[Nai_Calus]

"Indeed. I'll pretend I was here to ask her out, and was working up my courage while others attacked," Eltain whispers. "It probably won't work but let's try anyway."

Eltain bursts through the door if it's open, and tries to force it if it isn't.

"Are you all right?" he calls.2

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I dunno what to roll for forcing a door so have a d20 to add modifiers to:
(1d20)[8]

[Mando Knight]

"Honestly, I don't know what Pavick was thinking. We're here as much for her benefit as for ours, why did he try disarming the trap on the back door?"

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Perception - (1d20)[8]+5=13

[Hzurr]

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The door is still locked, and as Eltain throws his weight against it, the door barely budges. From the sound of things, it's been barricaded with something from the other side. There's no answer to Eltain's query.

(DC 15 Athletics check to open)

[DSCrankshaw]

Lucan - Half-elf bard/MC ranger

"Maybe we should do it together?" Lucan waits until one of the others tries to force the door, and then lends his weight against it.

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Aid another:
Strength - (1d20+2)[13]

[Hzurr]

OOC: Actually, a DC 17 non-skill check is ridiculous. Let's bump it down to 15, and make it an athletics check instead. That gives Aramil a pretty decent chance of success, especially with Lucan helping.

[Mando Knight]

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Eladrin... UPPARCUT
Athletics - (1d20+10)[11] ...phailure.

Aramil readies himself, then misses and rams the wall next to the door. "...I meant for that to happen."

[DSCrankshaw]

Lucan - Half-elf bard/MC ranger

"Again?" Lucan says, making another run at the door. This time he doesn't wait for the others, but attempts to break it open on his own.

Like Aramil, he runs into the wall, instead of the door. Only he does it headfirst. He staggers back, rubbing his head. "Ow!" he says. He reflects that it's a good thing he hit it with his head, instead of something important.

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Athletics - (1d20+3)[4]

Y'know, I wasn't really expecting this level of slapstick when I signed up for this game.

[Mando Knight]

"One last time."
Athletics - (1d20+8)[12]
After getting a bad angle on the door and failing to move it, Aramil backs up and looks at the window. "Forget it. I'll see if I can open it from the other side."

(is enough visible through the window that I can use Fey Step to get inside?)

[Hzurr]

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After slamming into, around, and everywhere but through the door, it soon becomes obvious that the front door isn't going to open, and the Party will need to find another way into the house.

@Aramil - Yes, the window is open enough that you can use fey step to get inside.

[Hzurr]

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OOC: Also, for Pavick/Shep, I'll either need a DC 13 athletics check to bust the back door open, or a DC 13 theivery check

[dariathalon]

Pavick - Gnome Wizard

Pavick examines the door carefully for traces that the trap has rearmed. Once he has satified it is gone, he says, "Well the trap is destroyed. Now it's just a matter of opening the door."

He reaches out and tests the handle. "Though locked too, I see. Well they are already alerted to our presence. Maybe you could open the lock or knock down the door or something?" Pavick suggests.

As he waits for Shep to chime in, Pavick casts a quick prestidigitation, using it to clean himself up a bit after that explosion. If he has enough time, he'll give the goliath a similar treatment.

[Haberdashery]

"Hmmmmm..." Shep wipes two little holes right around his eyes in the black soot mask covering his face. It makes him look like a reverse raccoon.

He presses the palms of his hands together and shuts his eyes. He holds the position for a few seconds, and then touches the lock of the door with the tip of his finger.

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Thievery: (1d20+10)[12]

Feel free to have Pavick use the Athletics check to actually open the door if you'd prefer. Shep's monk mumbo-jumbo lockpicking could be just that; mumbo-jumbo.

Or you know.

[dariathalon]

Pavick - Gnome Wizard

Pavick sighs heavily as Shep fails to pull the lock open. "Well, I see it'll fall to me to get it open then." He walks backward about 10 paces and takes a few deep breahts. He rolls up his sleeves as he gives the door a thorough staredown. "And here it goes!" Pavick charges at the door leading with his shoulder. Surprising even himself manages to pass right through it, leaving a gnome-sized hole in the lower portion of the door.

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Use a healing surge first. Then use the athletics roll from OOC.

Seeing the tone of the game for the last day or so, I fully expect someone to open to door from the inside and Pavick to charge into the building and smack up against the opposite wall or something.

[Mando Knight]

Aramil looks into the window for a moment, begins to step forward, and promptly vanishes.

He reappears inside the house, and looks around to see where to go.

[Hzurr]

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@Aramil:
You find yourself standing in a small bedroom. A bunk bed sits in one corner, next to a small stand that holds a bowl for washing. A small trunk is shoved under one of the beds. The beds are unmade, and you suspect someone used them recently. Directly in front of you is an open door, leading out to a hallway. In the hallway, there is an additional door next to yours (that you assume leads to another bedroom), as well as a staircase leading down.

@Pavick
As you burst through the door, you find yourself briefly in a small hallway. Unfortunately, you have no time to see where the hallway leads as your momentum keeps you going straight through the back door, and halfway through the wall on the opposite side of the hall. Fortunately, only your head and shoulders go through this wall, and you find yourself staring down the privy. The smell is most unappealing.

@Shep
Once Pavick bursts through, you're able to easily reach inside, and unlock the door. Stepping in, to your right you see the hallway open up into what looks like the kitchen. To your left, the hallway leads to an open room, where you can see the bottom of the staircase, as well as the front door, barricaded shut with a chair.

The house appears empty.

[Haberdashery]

The Flight of the Lucky Gnome is worthy of bard song. The blaze of glory that Pavick burns through the street (and forthwith, the door) leaves a great wet tear in the Shepherd's eye. Such magnificence has moved this rock to tears.

Humbled, Shep follows Pavick inside and promptly lifts his dazed friend out of the privy by his collar.

"That'll do, Mr. Lucky Gnome. That'll do."

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Spending a healing surge and also taking a glance around while Pavick clears his head.

Perception: (1d20+2)[8]

Obviously Shep is temporarily blinded by having just witnessed unparalleled splendor in a gnome-sized package.

[Mando Knight]

Aramil heads to the front door, so as to remove the barricade and reunite the two parts of the party.

[dariathalon]

Pavick - Gnome Wizard

By the time Pavick is removed from the wall, his face has turned a rather unattractive shade of pale green. His eyes are squinted and his face is twisted into a grimace. "Ygh! Somebody needs to clean that out!" he says. He looks up at Shep, "Thanks. From the smell, I think Kala must have eaten a bad apple this morning."

"So perhaps we ought to start looking around for wherever she got off to. I'm guessing there's a secret exit to this place around here somewhere."

[DSCrankshaw]

Lucan - Half-elf bard/MC ranger

Waiting patiently for someone to open the door, Lucan begins tapping on his drum, playing an elven tune. Unlike the high pieces from the Feywild, this one is more earthy and wild, a song of the forests and jungles, one of nature rather than magic.

[Hzurr]

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Aramil is able to open the door without difficulty, and the party is re-united in the main room of the house.

quick map:

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Blue is stairs, red is door.

1 - Main room: a few chairs, a small table, a book or two
2 - bedroom: bed for 2 people, unmade, a wardrobe
3 - the kitchen: generic cleaning supplies, some tea still on an oven
4 - the privy: currently has a gnome-head shaped hole in the back
5 - Dining room: large table, 6 chairs
6 - cupboard: some generic foodstuffs
7 - bedroom: The bedroom Aramil arrived in
8 - bedroom: The other bedroom, similar to 7
9 - Hallway:
? - This door is locked.

As you take a quick look around the house, it appears to be completely abandoned. You can't see anyway for whoever was in here earlier to have slipped by you outside. In the hallway, however, there is one door that is firmly locked.

OOC: If you want to search a room in more detail, tell me which one and make a perception check

[DSCrankshaw]

Lucan - Half-elf bard/MC ranger

Now that things have calmed down, Lucan takes a look around, starting with the main room and then the bedroom.

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Perception for room 1 - (1d20+10)[29]
Perception for room 2 - (1d20+10)[23]

[Haberdashery]

Shep nods to Pavick in agreement, but his attention is distracted by the locked door to his immediate left. He holds up a stalagmite of a finger to his gnomish friend and stoops over to look at the locked handle. He taps his fingernail against the lock a few times, one, two, three... he follows the taps with a mighty flicking thud.

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Thievery: (1d20+10)[30]

[Hzurr]

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As Lucan searches the main room, the only odd thing he notices is that there has been an unusual amount of traffic moving through this room. He finds scuff marks from boots, the occational claw mark, imprints in the furniture from a number of different sized creatures, etc. The bedroom appears to have only been used by one person, and aside from a few cloaks in the wardrobe, is fairly barren. However, upon closer examination, Lucan finds a small drawer hidden under the bed, that contains 2 small rubies

Streetwise DC 11

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Worth about 60gp each

The door in the hall is both locked, and barred from the otherside. However, after focusing himself, Shep is able to tap the door at just the right spot, with just the right amount of force, that the bar on the otherside pops up, and tumbles to the floor, only to bounce back up to hit the door handle with precisely the correct amount of force to cause the lock to fail, and the door to swing open silently.

Inside, is a staircase leading down to a cellar or basement of some sorts. The stairs lead down, and immediately turn a corner, so you're currently unable to see what lies below. You can however, see a flickering light, most likely from a torch or a fireplace.

[DSCrankshaw]

Lucan - Half-elf bard/MC ranger

Lucan pockets the rubies and goes to join the others. "I found some gems--" he begins, and then he sees that the door's open. He shuts up and carefully readies his bow. "How do we want to do this?"

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Streetwise - (1d20+6)[17]

[Haberdashery]

Shep turns his head to Pavick, and gives him the slightest satisfied nod of his head. He clenches his hand into a loose fist, and stands his thumb straight up.

He seems very pleased with himself.