Ch. 1: Rescue Penelope Primrose!

[The_Wanderer]

Cy

Cy uses his shield to keep a foe at bay and then comes around with his mace. The swing is properly weighted but the sweat on his hand nearly causes him to lose his grip on his weapon. "Keep on it!..."
Mace (THAC0 19): [1d20] = 3 [1d6] = 4 Init: [1d6] = 6


Status: Weakened, 9 strength

[Zhym]

Combat Round 4

Grond's attack on one of the wolves draws its attention from Dax. The wolf turns to attack him—which gives Dax and Iliro the opening they need to slice and skewer it with axe and spear. The blows are not strong, but they are enough. With a whimper, the wolf dies.

Twiddle, realizing that a spear works better as a piercing weapon than a bludgeon, tries to stick his furry-footed opponent with the pointy end. But the wolf ducks down and under the blow, aiming for Twiddle's waist. As the wolf's teeth dig into his flesh (-3 HP), Twiddle expertly adjusts his attack to spear the beast in its rear haunches. It, too, dies, leaving Twiddle the king of furry feet in the room, at least among the living.

Three of our heroes are heavily wounded, but both wolves are dead.

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Status: Grond (F1): 7/7; Twiddle (½1): 1/4; Molly (½1): 3/3; Cy (C1): 2/5; Iliro (E1): 6/6; Dax (D1): 1/9; Tanta (½1): 5/5
Effects: Cy, Iliro weakened (STR:9 each)
Light Sources: Lantern (Twiddle): 9 turns, Lantern (Molly): 13 turns

[Rex]

Tanta

Tanta will search around well someone who knows more about patching people up helps the wounded.

[GreyWolfVT]

Dax kicks the dead wolves just for good measure.

[VonAlric]

Iliro

Iliro will clean off his spear on the hide of the wolf then look to assist binding the wounds of the injured. "If we cannot heal these two enough, shall we wait and camp here to allow some natural healing to occur?"

[The_Wanderer]

Cy

"C....C...Camp in here? Are you sure that's safe?" Cy snaps his finger and a spark of divine energy escapes. He sighs. "It seems my Lord has not yet blessed me with enough of his light to heal you. Maybe soon." While the others talk, he goes first to the west door to listen and then to the east door, watching his footing as he walks cautiously around the dim room.

[Captain Kinkajou]

Molly

Molly wipes sweat from her brow with the back of her hand, snorts and hocks up a big gob of saliva on the floor.

"Not so f@*#ing bouncy now are you!" she pointlessly taunts the nearest dead wolf.

Then she pulls out her sword and starts skinning and butchering the carcass. The wolves are pretty gaunt and scraggly but there's a few morsels of stringy meat to be had from them. Might as well scavenge as much of it as she can while the others are patching themselves up from the fight.

[The_Wanderer]

Cy
"Heh...Molly...uhh calm down. It's dead. Oh wait, I see. I thought you were desecrating the body. You may proceed. At any rate, if the rest of you concur, I understand the need to camp. I would feel better under the open sky however."

[GreyWolfVT]

Dax shrugs his shoulders "Eh sky er cave I'm good campin wherever. But goin back out ta the surface kinda has us loosin ground don't it?"

[Rex]

Tanta

"I am kinda new but what he says sounds about right." Tanta points at Dax.

[Captain Kinkajou]

Molly

"Yeah, Dax is right. Makes no sense going back after we've made it this far. I say we camp inside, somewhere hereabouts. Any place where it can be made reasonably secure."

[The_Wanderer]

Cy

Cy takes a short swig from one of his wineskins and sighs. "Fine. Inside will work."

Given the party probably doesn't have the supplies to barricade the room, Cy scatters some loose rock in front of the doorways, hoping against hope that if anything interrupts their rest, that they warn the group with a kick of some pebbles.

[VonAlric]

"We should probably go back into the previous room where the bed was. There are only two doors there and as the approach one of them, we will hear them coming. If we want only one door, we have to head back out past those loud heads and go to the room to the south."

[VonAlric]

Seeing the party's lack of drive after two tough battles, Iliro will go around and encourage everyone to get up and start moving towards Room 2. Once there, he will try to secure the door to prevent unwanted intrusions.

[Rex]

Tanta

Tanta will help secure the room and offers to take 1st watch.

[GreyWolfVT]

Dax I'll take whate'er watch is needed."

[Captain Kinkajou]

Molly

Molly grumbles about having to go all the way back to room 2 but supposes that at least they haven't left the mountain entirely, as was suggested earlier.

She'll take any watch and will volunteer for 2nd, if actually picking one makes things easier.

[Zhym]

With two dead and others heavily wounded from the fight with the wolves, you decide to rest and recover. This room has too many doors, so you retrace your steps back to the room with the mysterious pool. The dwarven busts are mercifully silent as you pass through—perhaps the builders of this place did not think it as important to announce when guests leave as when they arrive.

DM rolls dice...no random encounter.

You make it back to the pool room unaccosted and settle in for a long stay. You pound spikes under the door in hopes of keeping visitors out. Someone please deduct one or more spikes from your character sheet and post that you did it.

Any last preparations or actions? If not, I will roll for encounters while you're holed up, and create a new thread for a new day.

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Status: Grond (F1): 7/7; Twiddle (½1): 1/4; Molly (½1): 3/3; Cy (C1): 2/5; Iliro (E1): 6/6; Dax (D1): 1/9; Tanta (½1): 5/5
Effects: Cy, Iliro weakened (STR:9 each)
Light Sources: Lantern (Twiddle): 9 turns, Lantern (Molly): 13 turns

[VonAlric]

Iliro will take last watch and then study to change his spell to Magic Missile.

[Rex]

Tanta

Tanta doesn't have any spikes.