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Entering the room, you can now tell that there is the remains of a spiral pattern on the floor made out of greenish tiles. The room makes a roughly plus shape, with the spiral arms reaching into each of the extensions of the room. To the far left there is an open doorway, and almost straight across there is another solid wooden door.
As the hand enters the room, you spot another chimera skeleton in the far corner by the open doorway. Already as your hand enters this monster is moving towards the sounds of you behind the door.
"Another chimera skeleton. Approaching us, fast." Merla says in a distracted tone of voice. She steps backwards, and the hand-spider rapidly crawls back through the window and retreats behind her.
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Not sure whether to let Armun handle this, or help him at the cost of losing my spell... I guess it depends on whether it tries to squeeze through the door to get us, or just looms in the corridor and bars our progress.
Bull's Strength and Heroism should both still be up, anyhow.
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This image you have of European peasants huddled fearfully in decrepit hovels while packs of baby-eating wolves terrorize the countryside has no basis in reality.
As the door bashes open, you see the skeleton has stopped where it was in the middle of the room - seemingly just having frozen in place when the spider hand retreated from the room. On the door smashing open however, it appears to re-awaken and head towards you again.
Merla steps back. Breaking her concentration would cause her to lose her spell, and she's confidant her comrades can handle the chimera without injuries.
((Passing actions indefinitely))
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Originally Posted by Candle Jack
This image you have of European peasants huddled fearfully in decrepit hovels while packs of baby-eating wolves terrorize the countryside has no basis in reality.
Armun, with a reptilian roar, rushes forward at the chimera skeleton, swinging his bludgeon viciously.
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Making a charge attack for +2 to hit, but transferring +2 from attack bonus to damage using Power Attack, for a net modifier of +9 to hit and +15 (Bull's Strength is still active, I believe) damage. Also, -2 AC until next round.
Attack: (1d20+9)[29]
Damage: (3d6+15)[30]
EDIT: Damn undead! What a waste of a critical! Really awesome rolls though.
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Armun charges in, giving the new threat a big whack with his hammer as Zeus takes a shot from behind - unfortunately going ever so slightly wide. In response to the new threat, the chimera bites down on Armun but unfortunately snaps just above his head.
After the battering from Armun's hammer, Zeus's arrow managed to just strike the chimera in the exact right place to bring in down before it gathered up the momentum to retalliate again against the intruders.
Merla moves forward, her spider-like hand crawling down from her shoulder and skittering across the floor.
"Bravo." she says, distractedly, as the hand crawls up to the lower door and attempts to twist the handle and wrench it open.
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Originally Posted by Candle Jack
This image you have of European peasants huddled fearfully in decrepit hovels while packs of baby-eating wolves terrorize the countryside has no basis in reality.
Merla sends the spider scurrying down the corridor, calculating it's length as she goes.
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Originally Posted by Candle Jack
This image you have of European peasants huddled fearfully in decrepit hovels while packs of baby-eating wolves terrorize the countryside has no basis in reality.
"Extends 50 feet, turns a corner..." Merla reports, sending the spider on further.
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Originally Posted by Candle Jack
This image you have of European peasants huddled fearfully in decrepit hovels while packs of baby-eating wolves terrorize the countryside has no basis in reality.
Armun walks across the room and, after looking down the long dark corridor for a moment and thinking, turns back to the group and sets his backpack on the ground. He fishes around for a moment before pulling out two slim, waxy looking rods.
"Sunrod," he says simply, beckoning to Merla, "It's dark in there. We don't want to be running into anything unaware."
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Edited because Zeus has a sunrod already and I forgot...
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"Thank you." Merla wanders over to accept the sunrod, and has her spider follow the corridor.
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Following the corridor until I reach a junction, a door, or a dead end.
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Originally Posted by Candle Jack
This image you have of European peasants huddled fearfully in decrepit hovels while packs of baby-eating wolves terrorize the countryside has no basis in reality.
The hand takes the turning to the left, enquiring further into the darkness. As it does, there is a noise coming out of the darkness and the hand is struck dead.
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(1d20+4)[24] (Ouch. I'm not rolling damage as the minimum I can get is already too much)
Merla hisses in frustration and pain, as her hand abruptly reforms, broken and twisted, before shaping itself back into a normal human hand.
"Something killed the spider after I directed it up the corridor to the left. It could see sixty feet ahead in the dark, and yet I saw nothing approach, so it must have triggered a trap or been ambushed by something stealthy. It was... sudden."
She twirls her quarter staff around, then grabs it, abruptly arresting it's motion. Then she stalks ahead down the corridor, stopping five or ten feet before the point where the spider was killed.
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Did it do more than 12 damage? The spider's toast either way, but I need to know whether I had time to make a move action and end the spell before the spider bled out, or whether I didn't have time, and therefore need to roll damage from the spell being ended abruptly. Spider Hand
Also, how far did it progress up the northern corridor before being killed? Or did it die as soon as it came to the T-junction?
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Originally Posted by Candle Jack
This image you have of European peasants huddled fearfully in decrepit hovels while packs of baby-eating wolves terrorize the countryside has no basis in reality.
Armun, instantly on alert from Merla's warning, lights his sunrod and tucks it into a front pocket of his travel cloak to free his hands. Then, grasping his hammer firmly in both hands, he follows Merla down the corridor...
Zeus follows a couple of steps behind, his hat still providing illumination. "It might be best of Mister Armun goes first, Miss Merla. Of the three of us, he seems the most durable." he whispers as they cautiously move forward.
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Move Silently: (1d20+4)[8]
Map updated with tentative new positions and walking order based on actions already taken. It's in my signature.
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Merla pauses, glaring at junction reproachfully. She looks for any smears, marks, burns or any other detritus on the ground that would provide a clue as to what happened to the spider, and how it died.
"It was killed there." she whispers, pointing. "If one of you would like to check that area for traps, it would surely be prudent. If not... it's probably my turn to go first, anyway."
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Waiting for one of the party to check the area for traps. If they do so, she will head back around the corner and take cover there. If they don't, she will proceed to the junction, and use her steel mirror to peek around the corner without actually stepping onto the place the spider was killed.
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Originally Posted by Candle Jack
This image you have of European peasants huddled fearfully in decrepit hovels while packs of baby-eating wolves terrorize the countryside has no basis in reality.
Armun, temporarily taking one hand off of his hammer, retrieves the sunrod from his cloak pocket, and proceeds to toss the glowing stick past Merla and into the junction between the two hallways, attempting to illuminate any lurking dangers.
Zeus peaks around the corner from where he is standing and looks the area over as well, searching visually for signs of what might have happened, but not going to the junction itself just yet.
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Stepping up into Armun's space and looking around the corner for this, will be forced back out of his space if combat should start.
Not sure if search or spot is more correct for this. So here are both.
Search: (1d20+3)[15]
Spot: (1d20+6)[24]
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Currently Played characters: Morda, in Reincarnate. Zeus, in The Twisted Dungeon of Chaos. Map
Peering around the corner, you see a javelin lying on the ground in the junction, and you spot a huge skeletal creature ducking around the corner further down the passageway.
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Really awesome rolls though.
