CHAPTER THREE: Beyond the Ritual Chamber

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CHAPTER THREE: Beyond the Ritual Chamber

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Foul and Miss Cleo lead the way down the passage to investigate the source of the flickering torchlight. The passage terminates at a 10ft-wide corridor running north and south. The southern portion has a chamber with bars blocking access to it. Torches hang on the wall next to the barred opening. The north passage enters into a well-lit room, and you can see the edge of a tapestry dropping from ceiling to floor.

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Irakas 5
Quangah 3
Foul 3
Bugg 2
Egburt 2
Toldren 1
Sitrus 1
Miss Cleo 1


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Foul turns to the others and holds a long, crooked index finger up to her stinking cracked lips.

"Shhhhhh!

She moves across the opening to the west wall as quickly and quietly as possible, watching the north passage as she moves. Once there, she will slink towards the north opening and have a peek around the corner.


Miss Cleo stays silent as she watches the other strange woman swoosh through the corridor in her filthy street gown. If the smelly woman doesn't raise any alarms, she follows suit, moving across the hall and down towards the bars to get a closer look at what they are securing.

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Irakas moves into the corridor and faces north, guarding against any threat from that direction.

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Toldren moves to support Irakas in preparing for any drama from the north. Egburt keeps eyes to the rear and the portal they just came through.

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Foul darts across the opening, to the west wall. When she exposes herself from the side corridor, a crossbow bolt strikes her from somewhere to the north! The old woman’s cackling death scream echoes throughout the corridors and a voice can be heard saying: ‘Got one!’

Crossbow = [1d20+1] = 13+1 = 14, [1d6] = 6 dmg.

Do Irakas and Toldren continue into the north-south hallway?

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Irakas 5
Quangah 3
Bugg 2
Egburt 2
Toldren 1
Sitrus 1
Miss Cleo 1


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”Whoah!” says Sitrus the mushroom farming deadbeat. ”No fair, they’ve got crossbows!”

He runs back into the acid pool room and implores the others to retreat to a more defensible position.

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Miss Cleo slaps her own forehead when Foul goes down.

"Mi shudda seen dat coming."

She decides not to press her luck with the defenders accuracy and instead quickly follows Sitrus back into the large room.

"I am getting a premonition........ Mi tinks dey know we are in here."

Should we try using the long table in the other room for cover and go in again?

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Irakas presses himself up against the north wall of the corridor. He sticks the tip of his sword out around the corner to see if he can see their attackers reflected in the blade.

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kalstone wrote:Irakas presses himself up against the north wall of the corridor. He sticks the tip of his sword out around the corner to see if he can see their attackers reflected in the blade.
Make a Luck check, 7 or below on 1d20.

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Irakas tries to use his sword to see any reflection of what is around the corner, to the north. When he sticks the tip of his blade out into the hallway, a crossbow bolt wizzes past and a voice says, ‘There!’

Sitrus and Miss Cleo retreat to the security of the Ritual Chamber.

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Bugg 2
Egburt 2
Toldren 1
Sitrus 1
Miss Cleo 1


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Irakas hurries back to the chamber. "Using the table as cover may work. What missile weapons do we have?"

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Miss Cleo

"All I got is dis dagger."

"Less go bak an check da doors we already pass. Maybe da prisoners are in der an we won't have to mess wit dees guys at all."


With that, the fortune teller takes off to the south, carefully backtracking to the door that we initially blocked with the long table.

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Here is a map of all explored areas. The red letters represent unexplored/unopened passages.

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Are you heading to the table blocking C,D & E and returning here, or are you trying another route?

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Oh, that helps a lot! I forgot all about B.

Miss Cleo sneaks as best she can through the door to the south and then back to the west, looking for a passage that might come around behind the wary crossbowmen. Quietly climbing the stairs, she listens at the secret hallway that leads into the room where they used the table to block the passage north.

If she hears nothing, she continues up the hall to the north, (B) hoping to find a way around the guards.

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Sitrus begins to follow Miss Cleo but then halts, having just had an idea.

"Aw man, I just had an idea," he says. "You all go around, I'll try to distract them, or something." He grabs a nearby party member and asks them to stay with him in the room.

Trying to buy some time for the others to explore, he begins to parley with the assailants from around the corner, silently encouraging anyone else who stayed with him to play along. "Uh, hey! Chill out over there! We've got like, twelve guys here—and we mean business, man!" He'll occasionally poke his hat out past the corner on the edge of his weapon, hoping to draw a bit of shooting.

Any stray quarrels that can be picked up safely he'll throw back down the corridor while making his best imitation of a crossbow's THWANG! sound. "Stop shootin' at us, or you're gonna get creamed, man! We've got crossbows too, you know!"

And so forth, until something else happens.

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