DtBP: Firebrand’s Redoubt - GM Turn Post 51

The smells of old parchment and lamp oil fill this room. Stone bookcases reach from floor to ceiling along the curved walls. Chairs surround tables loaded with lamps, open books, maps, and scrolls. Cabinets of small statuary and other assorted items line the open remaining wall space.

What do you do next?

Starting positions are displayed upon 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:

Barnacleez – Mage Armor (+4 AC for 5 hours)

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Map Key:

None

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Party Health:

Cando Numida (39/39), Wahesh Captain (47/49), Stabem (38/38), Lady Emyralda (37/37), Ro-Mahn (33/35), Barnacleez (42/42), Lou G'Boo (21/21)

DtBP: Firebrand’s Redoubt – Turn Results 50

Wanting to ensure complete investigation of the level, the party closed the door to the room with the stairway and dumbwaiter and proceeded west toward the next unexplored door.

Ro-Mahn and Stabem inspected the door and found it safe to open. Ro-Mahn opened it, revealing the room beyond.

DtBP: Firebrand’s Redoubt - GM Turn Post 50

A stone stairwell on the southern wall of this room leads down to a lower level. A dumbwaiter is located next to an open cabinet filled with serving utensils and trays.

What do you do next?

Starting positions are displayed upon 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:

Barnacleez – Mage Armor (+4 AC for 5 hours)

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Map Key:

None

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Party Health:

Cando Numida (39/39), Wahesh Captain (47/49), Stabem (38/38), Lady Emyralda (37/37), Ro-Mahn (33/35), Barnacleez (42/42), Lou G'Boo (21/21)

DtBP: Firebrand’s Redoubt – Turn Results 49

After searching the entry hall and the outer courtyard, the party headed back to the north and west to investigate a couple of unexplored doors.

Ro-Mahn expended 4 charges from one of his Wands of Cure Light Wounds to heal 7 damage from himself and 9 damage from Wahesh.

The party stopped at the first unexplored door. Ro-Mahn and Stabem examined the door. It was not locked and did not show any signs of traps. Ro-Mahn opened the door to reveal the room beyond.

DtBP: Firebrand’s Redoubt - GM Turn Post 49

What do you do next?

There are still two doors to the north and west that have not been explored as well as the staircase heading up off the trophy room.

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:

Barnacleez – Mage Armor (+4 AC for 5 hours)

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Map Key:

None

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Party Health:

Cando Numida (39/39), Wahesh Captain (38/49), Stabem (38/38), Lady Emyralda (37/37), Ro-Mahn (26/35), Barnacleez (42/42), Lou G'Boo (21/21)

DtBP: Firebrand’s Redoubt – Turn Results 48

The party braced for another haunt assault but Lady Emyralda, acting on the advice of Barnacleez, cast Dispel Magic targeting the ghostly warriors. The spell was effective and dispersed the haunt. As the images faded, a thrumming chant of dwarven voices sounded through the hall, swearing, “And in the blaze of both, find eternal strength.”

The duergar bodies each wear masterwork chainmail and carried a masterwork heavy crossbow and a masterwork warhammer. 18 gp is found on each body. Additionally, one carried a badger statue carved from topaz and another had a key.

The open doors lead to the exterior of the redoubt. You have seen this before from the other side.

A dwarven-built wall surrounds a courtyard cut into the cavern. Grand doors depicting dour, dwarven faces and angular glyphs stand beyond that open space. The metal doors to the redoubt are ajar, twisted and bent by brute force, and a line of light spills out from the opening. Statuary of dwarves decorates the courtyard, some of them showing signs of recent vandalism. The walkway from the main gate to the front door is littered with debris from the broken statues and overturned benches.

DtBP: Firebrand’s Redoubt - GM Turn Post 48

Roll initiative. Starting positions are displayed on the Combat Map.

You can also make Spellcraft and Knowledge (religion) checks.

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:

Barnacleez – Mage Armor (+4 AC for 5 hours)

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Map Key:

None

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Party Health:

Cando Numida (39/39), Wahesh Captain (38/49), Stabem (38/38), Lady Emyralda (37/37), Ro-Mahn (26/35), Barnacleez (42/42), Lou G'Boo (21/21)

DtBP: Firebrand’s Redoubt – Turn Results 47

The party moved into the room cautiously expecting the dead dwarves to rise from the dead. They did not. However, Ro-Mahn noticed a scent of leather and fresh blood upon entering the room.

A ghostly image of four armored dwarven soldiers bearing crossbows appeared before the group. An armored, elderly dwarven woman materialized behind them, bearing a resplendent axe, and leveled a dour finger at the party. She orders, “Drive these ashen-faced bastards back! Drive them out!” She seems to be referring to duergar but she is pointing at you. As her words echoed, she faded from the scene as the ghostly soldier raised their weapons.

DtBP: Firebrand’s Redoubt - GM Turn Post 47

Four stone columns stand evenly spaced in a square in the center of this foyer. The double stone doors you just opened match the outer doors that stand opposite. The outer doors stand ajar. Narrow slits line the walls that run the length of the room. The stone tile floor and walls are scarred with the signs of a battle long past. Three gray-skinned dwarves lie in dried pools of blood in the middle of the room.

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:

Barnacleez – Mage Armor (+4 AC for 5 hours)

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Map Key:

None

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Party Health:

Cando Numida (39/39), Wahesh Captain (38/49), Stabem (38/38), Lady Emyralda (37/37), Ro-Mahn (26/35), Barnacleez (42/42), Lou G'Boo (21/21)

DtBP: Firebrand’s Redoubt – Turn Results 46

Barnacleez and Lady Emyralda scanned the room with Detect Magic. No additional magical auras were detected.

Wahesh suggested investigating the double doors first. Stabem and Ro-Mahn went to examine the door for traps. No traps were found but the doors were held closed by a newly installed lock. Stabem was able to pick the lock and open the doors to the room beyond.

DtBP: Firebrand’s Redoubt - GM Turn Post 46

What do you do next?

There are two doors and a set of double doors to the south.

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:

Barnacleez – Mage Armor (+4 AC for 5 hours)

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Map Key:

None

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Party Health:

Cando Numida (39/39), Wahesh Captain (38/49), Stabem (38/38), Lady Emyralda (37/37), Ro-Mahn (26/35), Barnacleez (42/42), Lou G'Boo (21/21)

DtBP: Firebrand’s Redoubt – Turn Results 45

Barnacleez targeted the remaining undead with another magic missile spell. The bolts of force slammed into the monster and dealt 10 damage. Wahesh moved forward and took another two-handed swing with his longsword. The attack struck true and dealt 6 damage.

Stabem moved around the monster and attacked but missed. Cando charged up his axe, moved forward and took a swing. The half-orc too missed. Ro-Mahn stepped forward to fill the gap between Cando and Wahesh and flanking with Stabem. The ranger rogue thrust with his rapier 17 damage as the weapon penetrated the monster’s skull and destroyed the skeleton.

Lady Emyralda stepped up and cast Cure Moderate Wounds and healed 14 damage from Ro-Mahn.

Each skeleton was wearing masterwork scalemail and carried a masterwork dwarven urgrosh. Each also had a fiendish-looking pin of onyx and tarnished silver driven into its chest. As before, these pins have a 400 gp value.

Barnacleez cast Detect Magic and discovered a magical backpack stuffed in the back of one of the burial niches. The symbol of the Firebrand Legion adorned it front. The gnome identified it as a Handy Haversack and that its name was Chuck. The haversack contained five wool blankets, two tents, two dozen iron spikes, 100 feet of silk rope, a hammer, a crowbar, and 6 weeks’ worth of moldering rations.

DtBP: Firebrand’s Redoubt - GM Turn Post 45

Begin Combat Round 3. Starting positions are displayed on the Combat Map.

Initiative 23: Banacleez

Initiative 22: Wahesh

Initiative 21: Stabem

Initiative 17: Cando

Initiative 12: Ro-Mahn

Initiative 7: Bone Legion 1

Initiative 6: Lady Emyralda

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:

Barnacleez – Mage Armor (+4 AC for 5 hours)

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Map Key:

None

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Party Health:

Cando Numida (39/39), Wahesh Captain (38/49), Stabem (38/38), Lady Emyralda (37/37), Ro-Mahn (12/35), Barnacleez (42/42), Lou G'Boo (21/21)

DtBP: Firebrand’s Redoubt – Turn Results 44

Barnacleez cast magic Missile again at the nearest skeleton. The spell hit the monster and dealt 7 damage. The monster turned its attention to Cando and took a swing with its dwarven axe. The attack narrowly missed the fighter/bard.

Wahesh dropped his short sword and choked up on his longsword with both hands. The fighter took a mighty swing which connected and dealt 9 damage to the monster which reduced it to a pile of bones. Stabem tubled away from his opponent to gain flanking with Ro-Mahn. The halfling nimbly moved and attacked the unsuspecting undead from behind. The attack landed and dealt 12 damage. Cando moved forward to engage the next undead. The half-orc took a two-handed swing at the enemy but missed the target.

The monster next to Stabem attacked again but missed the acrobatic halfling. Ro-Mahn took the opportunity to attack the target in front of him with his rapier and short sword. Both weapons hit for 12 and 8 respectively but the monster remained standing.

The skeleton returned the attack on Ro-Mahn and hit for 8 damage. Lady Emyralda channeled the power of her god in a burst of positive energy. The burst washed over the undead and dealt 5 damage to each. The skeleton engaged by Cando, Ro-Mahn and Stabem collapsed into dust.