GoM: The Festering Blot - GM Turn Post 42

Roll Initiative. Start Combat Round 1.

Starting positions are displayed on the combat map.

Please submit your turn instructions using the Player Action Response - Turn Post Template. If you are planning to use a specific skill, please list the skill and the associated roll(s) along with your 5 d20 rolls.

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Conditions:

Lady Emyralda - 2 Constitution damage

Lady Emralda - swimming

Stabem - swimming

Barnacleez - swimming

Ro-Mahn - on top of barrel

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Map Key:

The large S indicates the secret door at the end of the downward passage.

Ceiling - The ceiling is approximately 10 feet above the dry portion of the room.

Lighting - the room is dark without any natural light.

The stairs are steep and are considered difficult terrain when ascending or descending.

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Special rules for the room:

The water is nearly 4 feet deep in the flooded area. It costs Medium or larger creatures 4 squares of movement to move into a flooded square, or characters can swim if they wish. Small or smaller creatures must swim to move through a square. Tumbling through these squares is impossible.

Pulling oneself up onto the elevated platform at the far end of the room requires a successful Climb check.

The heavy barrels in the water block movement, but it is possible to dive under them with a successful Swim check.

Getting onto a barrel requires a move action and a successful Acrobatics check. Any character who starts her turn on a barrel or jumps onto a barrel must also succeed at an Acrobatics check or fall into the water.

As a move action, a character who succeeds at a Strength check can move a barrel 5 feet. For every 5 points the check result exceed the DC, the character can move the barrel an additional 5 feet.

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Party Health:

Cando Numida (26/26), Wahesh Captain (31/31), Stabem (24/24), Lady Emyralda (20/20), Ro-Mahn (22/22), Barnacleez (26/26), Lou G'Boo (13/13)

GoM: The Festering Blot - Turn Results 41

The party waided into the room with Cando and Wahesh taking the lead, moving toward the stairs located in the northwest. Ro-Mahn moved toward the nearest barrel and climbed on top. The human proceeded to hop along across a couple more barrels as he headed to the western ledge.

Lady Emyralda, Stabem and Barnacleez were forced to swim due to their shorter stature. As the party neared the center of the room, there was a ripple in the water and Stabem narrowly avoided a strike from the circular maw of a giant leech.

GoM: The Festering Blot - GM Turn Post 41

Steep stone stairs descend into a vaulted cellar flooded with turbid water, in which dozens of wooden barrels idly float.

What do you do next?

Starting positions are displayed on the combat map.

Please submit your turn instructions using the Player Action Response - Turn Post Template. If you are planning to use a specific skill, please list the skill and the associated roll(s) along with your 5 d20 rolls.

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Conditions:

Lady Emyralda - 2 Constitution damage

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Map Key:

The large S indicates the secret door at the end of the downward passage.

Ceiling - The ceiling is approximately 10 feet above the dry portion of the room.

Lighting - the room is dark without any natural light.

The stairs are steep and are considered difficult terrain when ascending or descending.

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Special rules for the room:

The water is nearly 4 feet deep in the flooded area. It costs Medium or larger creatures 4 squares of movement to move into a flooded square, or characters can swim if they wish. Small or smaller creatures must swim to move through a square. Tumbling through these squares is impossible.

Pulling oneself up onto the elevated platform at the far end of the room requires a successful Climb check.

The heavy barrels in the water block movement, but it is possible to dive under them with a successful Swim check.

Getting onto a barrel requires a move action and a successful Acrobatics check. Any character who starts her turn on a barrel or jumps onto a barrel must also succeed at an Acrobatics check or fall into the water.

As a move action, a character who succeeds at a Strength check can move a barrel 5 feet. For every 5 points the check result exceed the DC, the character can move the barrel an additional 5 feet.

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Party Health:

Cando Numida (26/26), Wahesh Captain (31/31), Stabem (24/24), Lady Emyralda (20/20), Ro-Mahn (22/22), Barnacleez (26/26), Lou G'Boo (13/13)

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No traps or magic were detected upon the trap door. Ro-Mahn and Barnacleez gave Cando the all clear and the party entered the downward sloping passage. The passage ended after a drop of about 15 feet.

The backside of a secret door was discovered. It too proved to be without traps or magic auras. The door was stuck but Cando put his shoulder into it and forced the portal open. The half-orc was soaked with fetid water that rushed in from the partially submerged room beyond.

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What do you do next?

Starting positions are displayed on the combat map.

Please submit your turn instructions using the Player Action Response - Turn Post Template. If you are planning to use a specific skill, please list the skill and the associated roll(s) along with your 5 d20 rolls.

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Conditions:

Lady Emyralda - 2 Constitution damage

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Map Key:

The red square indicates the secret trap door.

Ceiling - The ceiling is 15 feet high on the estate’s ground floor and second floor.

Lighting - Areas inside the estate have normal light because of the abundance of doors and windows.

Chairs - Any squares that contain chairs are treated as difficult terrain.

Tables - With a successful DC 12 Acrobatics check, a creature can hop onto a table as part of a move action. If the creature fails this check by 5 or more, its movement ends and it falls prone.

The stairs are steep and are considered difficult terrain when ascending or descending.

Squares filled with bushes are considered difficult terrain and provide concealment (20% miss chance).

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Party Health:

Cando Numida (26/26), Wahesh Captain (31/31), Stabem (24/24), Lady Emyralda (20/20), Ro-Mahn (22/22), Barnacleez (26/26), Lou G'Boo (13/13)

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The party decided to investigate whatever was glinting in the sunlight. After carefully navigating the garden, Ro-Mahn climbed to the top of the gazebo to take a closer look. The shiny object turned out to be a key. Ro-Mahn estimated that it was meant to open an interior door of the manor.

Heading back inside, the party went to work on musical endeavors. Lady Emyralda cast the Mending spell several times to repair the broken lute while Cando sat at the harpsicord to play the music box tune. Following the sheet music, the half-orc could play the melody without any difficulty. Once the music had been played there was a click and the nearby carpeting sunk slightly. Rolling back the floor covering, the party discovered a secret trap door and a passage angling down and to the east.

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What do you do next?

Starting positions are displayed on the combat map.

Please submit your turn instructions using the Player Action Response - Turn Post Template. If you are planning to use a specific skill, please list the skill and the associated roll(s) along with your 5 d20 rolls.

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Conditions:

Lady Emyralda - 2 Constitution damage

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Map Key:

Ceiling - The ceiling is 15 feet high on the estate’s ground floor and second floor.

Lighting - Areas inside the estate have normal light because of the abundance of doors and windows.

Chairs - Any squares that contain chairs are treated as difficult terrain.

Tables - With a successful DC 12 Acrobatics check, a creature can hop onto a table as part of a move action. If the creature fails this check by 5 or more, its movement ends and it falls prone.

The stairs are steep and are considered difficult terrain when ascending or descending.

Squares filled with bushes are considered difficult terrain and provide concealment (20% miss chance).

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Party Health:

Cando Numida (26/26), Wahesh Captain (31/31), Stabem (24/24), Lady Emyralda (20/20), Ro-Mahn (22/22), Barnacleez (26/26), Lou G'Boo (13/13)

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A search of the room did not uncover any traps, dangers or anything of value. Looking out the eastern window revealed a good view of the garden and gazebo. The glint of something was seen upon the gazebo’s roof.

Looking under the bed uncovered letters scratched into the floor. The words “help me” were carved into the hardwood planks in a dark substance.

Having investigated the entire floor, the party returned to the first-floor ballroom.

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The large windows of this bedroom offer a magnificent view of the hills to the northeast.

Starting positions are displayed on the combat map.

Please submit your turn instructions using the Player Action Response - Turn Post Template. If you are planning to use a specific skill, please list the skill and the associated roll(s) along with your 5 d20 rolls.

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Conditions:

Lady Emyralda - 2 Constitution damage

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Map Key:

Ceiling - The ceiling is 15 feet high on the estate’s ground floor and second floor.

Lighting - Areas inside the estate have normal light because of the abundance of doors and windows.

Chairs - Any squares that contain chairs are treated as difficult terrain.

Tables - With a successful DC 12 Acrobatics check, a creature can hop onto a table as part of a move action. If the creature fails this check by 5 or more, its movement ends and it falls prone.

The stairs are steep and are considered difficult terrain when ascending or descending.

Squares filled with bushes are considered difficult terrain and provide concealment (20% miss chance).

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Party Health:

Cando Numida (26/26), Wahesh Captain (31/31), Stabem (24/24), Lady Emyralda (20/20), Ro-Mahn (22/22), Barnacleez (26/26), Lou G'Boo (13/13)

GoM: The Festering Blot - Turn Results 37

Ro-Mahn disabled the floor trap while Stabem set to work on the column trap. Both rogues were able to successfully disarm the traps.

Barnacleez identified the magical objects upon the two tables. It total, there were five potions of cure light wounds, two potions of endure elements, a potion of enlarge person and a potion of reduce person. The monocle was an Antiquarian’s Monocle:

This magical eyepiece is often used by those without spellcasting training to peruse mystical writings.

ANTIQUARIAN’S MONOCLE  

PRICE 1,350 GP

SLOT eyes CL 3rd WEIGHT —

AURA faint divination

This lens, mounted in a round silver frame, fits snugly in the eye orbit of any Medium or Small user. Three times per day on command, the monocle allows the user to read magical inscriptions (including scrolls) as if affected by read magic.

Once per day, by speaking a second command word, the user can activate a 1^st level spell from a scroll even if she doesn’t have the spell on her class list or meet the other requirements. Activating a scroll with the monocle is a full-round action (or the spell’s casting time, whichever is longer).

Additionally, there were four vials of alchemist’s fire and two sunrods.

A search of the northern portion of the room yielded an old map of the manor and surrounding grounds. It indicated that there is a secret door in the southwest corner of the cellar but not what lies beyond it. A musical note has been drawn onto the area depicting the ballroom. Besides the map, a chain shirt and a masterwork cold iron longsword were also found.

After plundering the room, the party moved on to the last door on the second floor. Ro-Mahn checked it for locks and traps. Finding none, Cando opened the door and entered the room.

GoM: The Festering Blot - GM Turn Post 37

The traps are still active.

How do you wish to proceed?

Starting positions are displayed on the combat map.

Please submit your turn instructions using the Player Action Response - Turn Post Template. If you are planning to use a specific skill, please list the skill and the associated roll(s) along with your 5 d20 rolls.

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Conditions:

Lady Emyralda - 2 Constitution damage

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Map Key:

Red “X” indicates the trapped floor section. 

Red “S” indicates the area impacted by the scythe trap.

Ceiling - The ceiling is 15 feet high on the estate’s ground floor and second floor.

Lighting - Areas inside the estate have normal light because of the abundance of doors and windows.

Chairs - Any squares that contain chairs are treated as difficult terrain.

Tables - With a successful DC 12 Acrobatics check, a creature can hop onto a table as part of a move action. If the creature fails this check by 5 or more, its movement ends and it falls prone.

The stairs are steep and are considered difficult terrain when ascending or descending.

Squares filled with bushes are considered difficult terrain and provide concealment (20% miss chance).

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Party Health:

Cando Numida (26/26), Wahesh Captain (31/31), Stabem (24/24), Lady Emyralda (20/20), Ro-Mahn (22/22), Barnacleez (26/26), Lou G'Boo (13/13)

GoM: The Festering Blot - Turn Results 36

Stepping around the trapped floor section, Barnacleez and Ro-Mahn continued to examine the contents of the two tables. The gnome identified 9 magical auras upon the table to the right and one aura on the table to the left. The magical objects on the right all appeared to be potions while the object to the left was a monocle. The leftmost table also contained 4 alchemist’s fires and 2 sunrods amongst the alchemical artifacts. The rogue did not find anything trapped or hidden.

Cando and Wahesh stopped and waited for the rest of the part to catch up. Lady Emyralda approached as the half-orc was explaining the subject of the taxidermy project before them. “That my friends if the carcass of a manticore. If it were still alive, those wings would allow the beast to fly by, attack you and fly away. They are surprisingly maneuverable for a creature so large.” Pointing, Cando continued, “See that tail? The monster could fire those spikes in volleys. They are as effective as short bows in a strong man’s hands. The insidious thing is that those babies grow back quickly, taking only a day or two to replenish …”

As Cando continued to inform the rest of the party, Stabem walked past, to examine the northern portion of the room. The halfling paused next to the pillar and set off another trap. Scythe blades emerged from the pillar striking in the area surrounding the pillar. The halfling luckily ducked the blade and avoided the damage.