Third Expedition

[Raven Crowking]

It looks like someone took a sledge to the wall from here....that some of the bricks where then piled strongly suggests this.

Pikar and Grim are 0-lvl, correct?

[beermotor]

Haha... touche! Well, wouldn't they get a nerfed ability sort of innately or something?

Anyway, whether they smell anything or not:

"Let's go check out this rubble and see what's in that room," Grim says. Onward they shuffle to the pile of bricks, and look into the room(?) beyond...

[Raven Crowking]

The area beyond is 10 x 10....probably once a crypt of some sort. It appears to have been looted long ago.

[beermotor]

"Let's take a quick look anyway," Daryll says. "Can I borrow your pole Jedak?"

Assuming Jedak will lend it to him, Daryll will cautiously enter the tomb and poke around the floor and the walls, looking for hollow or loose stones, that sort of thing.

[Raven Crowking]

While Daryll is cautiously poking around, a skeleton emerges from the darkness of the southern passage. A large blue jewel glows in the centre of its skull as it rushes out of the shadows! Before anyone knows what is happening, it swings a rsuty and pitted scimitar at Cisneros....rolling a natural "1"! The tang nut falls off, and the blade, no longer firmly held by the grip, slides out, skittering across the hallway and into the room where Daryll is poking about.

(So much for surprise.)

Initiatives and actions for first round, please.

[beermotor]

Initiative: 16 + 1 = 17.

Grim roars a battle cry and moves to engage the skeleton, swinging his hammer. 17 to hit, 2 + 3 (burning Luck) = 5 damage.
Pikar swings his torch as a club at the skeleton. 1 to hit (d'oh), 4 on fumble ... book says weapon breaks, so I guess the torch comes apart.
Cisneros yelps and swings his staff wildly. 1 to hit (again!), 1 on fumble ... everybody laughs.
Daryll hears the commotion and charges out brandishing his club, and swings at the skeleton if he can get close. 4 + 1 = 5 to hit.

[Edit was just to sum the 2+3=5...]

[bitflipr]

How's the chiseling going? Is there a brick out yet?

[Dumnbunny]

[Initiative 12 + 1 = 13]

Jedak tries to get close enough to the attacker, wielding his pitchfork, jabbing violently at the skeleton if he can get an opening [To Hit: 16, Dmg: 8]. Dugar hesitates to fire his bow, not wanting to hit one of his comrades; he hangs back. Sigur wields his torch like a club, jockeying for position, swinging it at the skeleton if he can get close enough [To Hit: 5], missing.

[Raven Crowking]

Jedak stabs with his pitchfork, missing by 1 (unless he'd like to burn Luck).

[beermotor]

[Wow, 17 AC! I just assumed a 17 was a for-sure hit... that's a hellacious skeleton.]

[Raven Crowking]

[Wow, 17 AC! I just assumed a 17 was a for-sure hit... that's a hellacious skeleton.]

Crap! I looked at your init roll. The skeleton has a 14 AC, and you hit. Jedak can have +1 Luck for pointing out judge error!

Grim also hits for 5 damage. The pitchfork only does half damage to the un-dead thing, for a total of 9. The skeleton shatters, bones falling to the floor.

[beermotor]

Daryll swoops in to pry the gem out of the skull, or probably more likely, use his club to shatter the bone and extract the gem.

[Raven Crowking]

As he swoops in, Daryll cannot help but notice that the bones are beginning to move together and reknit. The gem is shining brightly!

[bitflipr]

Murq suddenly starts pounding with his hammer more frantically than he ever has, in anticipation of the brick being loosed from the wall.

[beermotor]

As he swoops in, Daryll cannot help but notice that the bones are beginning to move together and reknit. The gem is shining brightly!

"What the shit!" Daryll smashes at the skull with his club, not caring if he strikes the gem or not. (If you want me to roll damage, it's 4+1=5.)

[Raven Crowking]

As he swoops in, Daryll cannot help but notice that the bones are beginning to move together and reknit. The gem is shining brightly!

"What the shit!" Daryll smashes at the skull with his club, not caring if he strikes the gem or not. (If you want me to roll damage, it's 4+1=5.)

Even as he does so, the bones pull together with an alarming speed.

[beermotor]

"Quick! Grab zee bones!" Cisneros says, and dives to grab a few before they knit back to the whole.

Grim will swing his hammer and try to smash as many as he can.

Pikar will pull out a new torch and light it off someone's.

Daryll will keep furiously smashing. "Stay dead, damn you!"

[Raven Crowking]

Despite your efforts, the skeleton reforms, the jewel in its skull pulsing brightly as it does so. Even the rusty scimitar comes back to its hand.

[beermotor]

Initiative: 4 + 1 = 5.

Grim will strike it with his hammer, aiming for the head and the glowing gem. 15 to hit, 2 damage.

Daryll will grit his teeth and strike the skull/gem with his club. 15 + 1 = 16 to hit, 1 + 1 = 2 damage.

Assuming Cisneros isn't next to it, he'll back away some.

Pikar will throw his newly lit torch at the thing. 16 + 1 = 17 to hit, 4 - 1 = 3 damage from club-like impact, 3 damage from fire if applicable.

[Dumnbunny]

[Initiative 15 + 1 = 16]

Jedak will follow the others lead and thrust his pitchfork at the skull/gem, [To Hit: 11] missing horribly. Sigur swings hit torch club-like at the skull/gem, [To Hit: 20, Dmg = 3 from the club, 3 from the fire if applicable, 2 from the crit [Rolled 4 + 1 = 5 on table I]], for a solid hit.