Arioch
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Post by Arioch on Mar 11, 2019 20:54:48 GMT
As far as Arioch was concerned if Aislinn had no idea what else could possibly be in the cave then no one would've of had anyways. It was still helpful even if not intensely specific about the kind of creatures there would be inside of the cave. Because there would be, he was sure. No place in nature as uninhabited and caves? Natural hard refuges? Those were the natural equivalent to mansions except it wasn't about how many gold coins they had but rather how strong or tough they were when compared to their rivals. Usually.
The druid's concern on his health was not underappreaciated, but he wouldn't let it show too much.
"I've had vorse fighting"
Said trying to put her at ease. It had been a pretty hard hit that was right but even so it wouldn't do at all or admit to it while he could still walk about and fight. It was question about being in top shape however, and if he could pick the circumstances of the fight he would whenever possible.
This came to an abrupt halt when he heard Stephen call him a kid. He jerked his body around, forgetting for a moment he didn't have his mask on, as anger started to spark within him. He looked at the man and stated, dryly.
"I'm a man, not a kid." That had come off as borderline insulting to him, even if it wasn't the man's intention. He had killed for that right and wouldn't accept other kind of treatment, even verbally.
After everyone had had enough time to compose themselves and rest after the fall they had taken, Arioch got up to his feet again, and readied his greatsword.
"I'll go first, in case ve run into anything hostile. It is not too dark so that I can't see ahead... Unless it jumps at my face from one hundred feet avay I should be able to see things coming."
He looked at Stephen, and then at Aislinn. Once again he defered to the Druid as to which path to take.
"vhich vay do you think ve should go?"
He asked, and would start moving in the direction they agreed to once it had become clear
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Post by 3personal5me on Mar 11, 2019 23:24:35 GMT
(Stephen is at 7/9 health, not 6/8. I suppose I'll roll a hit die during the rest.)
Hit Die jvhDIMus1d8+1
Stephen spent the hour reflecting on his previous experience. Unfortunately, he didn't have much that could help. He liked to consider himself a knowledgeable man, but the natural world wasn't very useful on his line of work. He remained quiet as they walked, having nothing relevant to say. He walked in the back of the group, choosing to watch the flank. Upon reaching the fork, he deferred to his companion. "You're calling the shots here. We'll back you up." 1d8+1
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Faye
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Post by Faye on Mar 12, 2019 3:05:20 GMT
((Aislinn is at 21/24, 18 is her HP without adding her constitution modifier.)) ((In addition, because I forgot to mention it when it happened, my bad there, due to her spell component pouch damage she lost the components necessary for Ice Knife, Spider Climb, and Barkskin.))
Admittedly she was relieved at least Stephen was okay, and while Arioch had reassured her she wasn't quite sure she believed it. That said she wasn't one to be pushy, so she just gave a nod of her head. "Alright, if you say so,"
With that she dropped it and instead turned her thoughts inward, doing her best to see if she could come up with any other information on caves. It was slow going, to say the least, most of her life had been spent under the open sky, not with a giant rock wall over her head. While she waited for Arioch to catch his breath she made sure to keep her light up just to be safe, and it gave her something to do every few minutes. All in all, it was a slow rest, at least for her. Though Arioch's reaction to being called a kid did manage to elicit a sigh from her along with a small shake of her head.
Other than that Aislinn took a moment to assess her spell component pouch, unfortunately for her, she'd lost more than she had anticipated. While the tear wasn't too bad she did land on it causing a few small vials to shatter in the process, not to mention the bits that had fallen through the tear in the first place. Which left her with a fewer option than she would prefer in the spell department but she'd make it work.
The rest of her rest happened to be rather uneventful and slow going, however, by the end, they'd all managed to squeeze through the gap and into the rest of the cave. With Aislinn taking up a position in between her two companions. They walked in silence for a bit until coming to a fork in the cave, when the decision was ultimately left to her she bit her lip for a moment looking left and then ahead.
The moss needed water to thrive, therefore if that held true perhaps they'd manage to find water and perhaps that water would be the ocean or something that could lead them to it. As for the left, she wasn't sure, to be honest, the moss was thinner there but it could still be the right way. Taking a moment to think her response over she spoke.
"I think we should keep going straight, the moss is heaviest in that direction and moss needs water. And what better water source than the ocean." Aislinn stated emphasizing the word think as she motioned to the path northward.
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Arioch
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Post by Arioch on Mar 12, 2019 10:20:51 GMT
Arioch nodded at Aislinn's reply, and her description thus proved to him that listening to her council had been the right thing to do, it was a sound thing. Not that he had any suspicions to the contrary, but it was still reassuring to know. With that said he took point and began to walk in the agreed way, trying to remain as aware as he could be of his surroundings. Part of him was a bit worried about the kind of denizens of the underground they could run into, he wasn't familiar with such creatures or their capabilities. On the other hand it was a fair chance to prove if he had managed to overcome his previous weaknesses; it was a chance to overcome fear and see if he could do better in the face of it. Now, again, there were two people as witnesses... It wouldn't do to let such a shameful display show. He thought about his past experiences facing unknown creatures and realised that it wasn't their capabilities that scared him or their appearances usually, at least not once the fight had finally broken out and started. It was the uncertainty, not unlike the uncertainty before a battle had started or before the enemy had been spotted. He had felt that kind of fear once, the kind of fear that you can't fight because you don't know what you were facing. This time however he was determined to push through and reaffirm himself. Not really because he wanted to prove anything to Aislinn, and maybe to that other man, not only at least, but because he wanted to prove it to himself that he could do it, that he could remain firm and face those things like a man.
He made a small mental inventory of the things he still carried with him and found comfort on the fact that his greatsword was still with him. It was a realiable weapon. Heavy. It felt right on his hands and it carried a certain sensation of... power. It was a fantastic, empowering feeling to wield one, specially one as sharp as his. It didn't matter what he was facing so long as he had his greatsword he could fight against it, he forced himself to stop thinking about his lost mask and start thinking about his weaponry, the things that had survived that unexpected fall. It was calming, though it did not make that underlying fear and concern go away. No, perhaps it would be untrue to say that it was calming. It gave him courage, and a kind of certainty. He had wore the mask so far because he liked how it had looked, how it had made him feel. Because it made others, for the most part, treat him with the kind of respect or fear he felt he deserved, the kind of fear and respect he longed for because when most people looked at him around these parts of the world they didn't see a warrior but like the man had put it they instead saw a kid.
And they couldn't be more wrong. But who could they blame them, if they hadn't seen him fight? If men around these lands were so weak that by his age they were still considered children even by those who hardly outranked them? No, he'd had to show them. He hadn't come here to hide from the world after all... Didn't he come to this land to prove something to himself? Then he would. He would make a name for himself. His own fame. Starting little by little. And this incident, within this cave, would be but the first stepping stone in the path ahead.
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Arikarka
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Post by Arikarka on Mar 12, 2019 14:35:07 GMT
The trio kept to the right, lighting up more moss as they went. With Arioch still in the lead and the two others following behind they entered an area with decently well carved tunnels, some rough stone pillars breaking line of sight so as to not have one big cavern area (the bottom two 'stone' pieces of the 3 'pillar like' things on the map). As they explored the area they would see, as more moss was lit up - and made even more bright by Aislinn's light cantrip (assuming you still have this going) a third rocky collection of boulders and broken flat hunks of stone had caved in here to form a sort of slightly rising stone platform (Picture a Great Rock in the Pridelands from Lion King - ish thing,.... but super tiny) The ceilings in this more cavern like area reaches about 50 feet, the rising angled stone platform goes to a max height of thirty feet. The pathways between the pillars and platform are the same as the tunnel they had been in, about 15-20 feet. There are smatterings of moss on the pillars, but the majority of the moss is still growing, thickly and nicely, on the right side wall going northward. Roll Calls! If anyone would like to, they may Roll nature for the equality of cave they are in Perception! Perception is always nice in a new area... Anything unique you'd like to do? Ask me in Discord or here if you can roll x,y,z. I'll probably say yes If you are walking around to explore the area, please let me know, either through description or a quick chat in Discord. You may write your character going to any area of the scene I described, but there might be a chance I ask for some rolls and then for you to edit your post depending on results. This will be the first time I see how the wander-then-edit process works, so let's guinea pig how well this works. DM to Aislinn (pending character walk-around) Map update!
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Arikarka
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Post by Arikarka on Mar 12, 2019 14:38:00 GMT
DM Mystery Rolls:
duW89SiC1d20+2 Red 1d20+2 Orange 1d20+2 Yellow 1d20+2 Green 1d20+2 Blue 1d20+2 Purple1d20+2·1d20+2·1d20+2·1d20+2·1d20+2·1d20+2
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Arioch
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Post by Arioch on Mar 14, 2019 10:07:43 GMT
Perception 2bGlj7wy1d20+1
Arioch would look for potential danger, using his ability to see in the dark to his advantage. He would look for them in the ceiling of the cave, in the walls, and in the ground. Holes, most likely if they were buggers... Or maybe some freakish kind of bats? He was out of his element and thus not trusting anything. That said he would keep up with the formation they had decided before. He would take the middle road, and then turn left when faced with the big rock, slowly enough to keep the formation consistant. In truth he had no idea what manner of creatures or traps could be hiding inside the cave or even why they would be such. No clue at all since his knowledge of the local flora and fauna was remarkably lackluster. The only thing he had learned about it was the thing she could eat, which mostly included game and other kinds of animals, including some shrooms. A bit of those had been trial and error but he had gotten some help asking around. It had not been an easy adaptation but it was what it was, and life outdoors managed to keep him sharp enough and not let him flaunder about. It reminded him of the harshness of the world, unlike that the commodities inside the city had to offer. He feared those kind of things would eventually end up making him soft.
What kind of traps could there even be on a cave however? Beings he could fathom, creatures dangling from the ceiling just waiting until an unwitting creature started to walk below them only to drop from above and get the jump on them. That was the kind of thing he was fearing the most at the moment, to be caught unaware by something like that. He didn't know if such things even existed down there, but he was keeping an out for those. Up in the north where Arioch was from the most dangerous things were the yetis and the frostwolves. Some had been rumored to have found ice giants, but they seldom came out looking for trouble as far as he knew and they were more akin to a myth. A real myth at that, and most of the people in his clan were more than happy to let it remain so, for picking a fight with foes so great would only be pointless at put them in needless danger. But here, in warm weather, close to the coast? His mind quickly shuffled through all the coastal beings he knew of, from fishes, to crabs, to strange nightmarish sea creatures that one could only guess what their real shape was from the surface.
He had seen one of those while he traveled on the ship that had eventually brought him to Waterdeep. The thing had haunted his nightmares for the rest of the journey until he was on solid land again, and ever since he had been more wary of water than he should have been. Specially water that he couldn't see the depths of. At least, right now, his feet were on solid land and he had a greatsword at hand to take care of whatever problems appeared. Back in the ship he had felt helpess, left to the mercy of the winds and just having expect that the storms would not destroy the wooden contraption and cast them all out into a watery doom.1d20+1
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Post by 3personal5me on Mar 18, 2019 1:41:54 GMT
Stephen broke away from the group to wander the natural atrium, slowly walking along the outer edge. He had enough ligh to see by, thanks in part to the moss, and in part to Aislinns magic. He avoided touching anything he didn't have to, keeping his hands behind his back. "I wonder if these caves have been charted? If anyone knows this space even exists." He shrugged, and kept moving.
His eyes wandered over the stone, looking for any signs of sentient inhabitants. He may not be able to spot a bear den, but he knew his way around a gang hideout.
Investigation aMxUO7vc1d20+6 1d20+6
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Arikarka
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Post by Arikarka on Mar 19, 2019 13:49:57 GMT
Malakbel and Faye - Tagging you here as another way to grab your attention. I still need details for you both As I've said, just a single roll is not enough, I need to know what you are perceptioning for, thanks <3
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Faye
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Aislinn Atwood, 3rd Level Circle of the Land Druid | Merli, 3rd Level Sorcerer
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Post by Faye on Mar 19, 2019 17:25:03 GMT
Having stumbled into a new section of the cave Aislinn did her best not to stray, though she did have to admit she suddenly had the urge to explore. Though, considering the lighting situation, not to mention the fact none of them currently had any idea what could be lurking around the next corner she pushed it down and stayed relatively close to her two compatriots. Making doubly sure to keep her spell up in running, just to be safe.
Aislinn followed a safe distance behind Arioch in the hopes of not interfering with his vision while staying closer to Stephen to help him see in the first place. While she moved Aislinn kept her eyes peeled and looked at the cave around her, namely to see if she saw any signs of life...the natural kind. Insects, animals, anything she knew of at the very least. She made her way through the middle pathway after Arioch, though instead of turning she remained and instead focused her attention on the large collection of boulders and broken stone, slowly making her way around it, keeping closer to Stephen just in case the moss decided to go out.
Nature Check: 8nYQqQf81d20+2
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Arikarka
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Post by Arikarka on Mar 20, 2019 16:21:17 GMT
DM to Stephen:As you are following the moss your eye is carefully looking over the stone, comparing what you know of gang layouts and cross-referencing it with the effect of the cave. It's… not entirely natural, you deduce. There's natural materials here, of course, there's stone and moss. But, the layout seems too purposeful to be completely natural forming. There is a man-made element you are absolutely sure of. And as you look on the ground, right where you were about to step, is something definitely not natural. Passively it catches your eye even though you weren't looking for it.The ground is churned and packed down by little feet, three toes looking like a baby dragon or lizard. A few scraps of metal and wooden tools are remaining in the dirt. The shouts and sounds of crumbling dirt to your left on the other side of the stone pillar (that you cannot see around) lend your eyes to seeing a distinct outline ten feet wide and taking up the entire space from the pillar to the wall. A pit trap. DM to Arioch:Rocks were boring. But people? Creatures? Living things? That was interesting - a worthy target of someone like Arioch. Your eyes scan the crags and boulders still in the ceiling… and that's where you see them, at the edge of your vision. Small scaled creatures with beady eyes staring at you, and your companions. You can't make out their color, but it doesn't matter. For the moment you lock eyes on them? You feel the ground beneath you give out. A pit trap. You are starting to fall, the ground ten feet in front of you and stretching from one pillar to the other, crumbles as the weakened stone underneath gave way from the weight of your stepping on it. You were so focused on looking for living creatures setting up an ambush you didn't give head to the underhanded and cunning route of a trap ((On Discord you stated clearly you were looking for an ambush and hidden creatures)). As you are falling you spot at least 6 small sized creatures starting to swarm. DM to Aislinn:Sticking behind the muscle of the group, and keeping the light source active, was what allowed Aislinn to survey the ground, the walls, the moss, the sounds, and just - take it all in. There were bugs, but perhaps not as many as you'd expect. But there was something off, a feeling you couldn't shake. Like a hunting creature was watching you, tracking you. Following you. The ground gave out just in front of you, but you were behind Arioch enough you weren't caught right away in the fall. The excited shouts and squabbles of a lizard dragon like creature made you look up, and that's when you saw them. Kobolds. A swarm of them, coming out from around the larger flat rock just ahead of you. On the other side of a pit trap. The brown is the badly rendered pit trap. The middle one is triggered. They are 15 feet long and 10 feet wide. Depth is ? ? ? Red A - Arioch Green A - Aislinn Red S - Stephen Dots - Kobolds The space between each pillar is about 15 feet of space wide. There is about 40 feet of length per three 'lanes' From tallest point to lowest point, there is about 120ish feet of cave path Roll Calls- Initiative please!
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Arikarka
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Post by Arikarka on Mar 20, 2019 16:24:56 GMT
Kobold Pack 1 Int (ROY) Nmle7me_1d20+2
Kobold Pack 2 Int (GBP) 1d20+21d20+2·1d20+2
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Arikarka
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Post by Arikarka on Mar 20, 2019 16:36:40 GMT
So I have everything written correctly:
Stephen - Level 1, 9 HP | 14 AC Aislinn - Level 3, 24 HP | 13 AC Arioch - Level 3, 30 HP | 14 AC (At this point your AC is 10+Dex+Con so 10+2+2=14, yes? Do you have a copy of Arioch at level 3? It'll make this easier for me than to be second-guessing me de-leveling him when I need to see numbers <3 )
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Post by 3personal5me on Mar 20, 2019 18:16:50 GMT
(Stephen's numbers look right!) Initiative zG93BEnQ1d20+3 1d20+3
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Faye
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Post by Faye on Mar 20, 2019 19:16:40 GMT
(Aislinn's HP is still currently at 21/24, but other than that everything is correct.) Initiative: oyHgLkFQ1d20+1
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