Caelesti's notes

Date

10/7/2010

Log

The party camped out near Smokey, Carric's animal friend. The next day, every few hours, Caelesti cast Fly and Invisibility on Yoshi, who then flew about the homestead scouting.

The following day, the party headed back to the homestead. They worked their way through the giants' war room, through the secret door, and back downstairs. Carric found a secret door between the stairs and the portcullis.

The room behind the secret door was a treasure room. There was a yellow moldy spot in one corner. Yoshi backed away and fell into a pit trap. Caelesti cast Fly on herself, flew down into the pit, and cast Fly on Yoshi. The two flew out of the pit. Yoshi said he felt weak, believing it to be from a poisoned spike. Torin cast Restoration on Yoshi.

Yoshi shuttled the party across the pit trap to the treasure room. Caelesti cast Detect Magic, detecting some in a broken barrel and in the mold. She could not determine the schools of magic, so Carric cast Detect Magic as well. He was able to determine that the school of magic in both locations was Illusion. Interacting with the broken barrel illusion revealed that the barrel was intact and contained a map of the area and an obsidian box. The box contained a black chain and a piece of parchment. The parchment explained how to use the chain to teleport a group to Jarl's Rift.

A chest contained gold. Caelesti cast Knock on the lock of an iron box; it contained platinum. Other coffers had copper and silver. The illusionary mold concealed a quiver of arrows, a spear, and two swords. The party gathered up all the stuff, Caelesti cast Invisibility on everyone, and everyone left the giant steading.

The party planned to attack the guard by the gong the next day, in the hope of attracting another small group of giants to attack, rather than the large group held up in the dining hall.

Nessey's notes

Talon: we just woke up, in the cave, having escaped and helped others to escape
Talon: The DM recaps for the sake of Carric.
Talon: some of the players discuss a stick figure cartoon
DM/Torin: Eclavdra
Talon: a dark elf signed the letter written in Dark Elf-ish
Talon: Talon suggests we forge a letter and lure a bunch of them out and ambush them to cut down on their numbers and to cause them to not trust Eclavdra.
Talon: we continue to dither
Talon: Caelesti says we should back off and wait and see, again. With our sturdy mastadon.
Talon: Smokey.
Talon: We have slept.
Talon: We can reset hit points and spells, we presumption.
Talon rolls Spot: (d20+1) : [19 + 1] = 20
Talon: the Sun rises
Talon: Caelesti recasts extended Mage Armors on herself and Yoshi.
Talon: The back door of the Keep opens, as we watch from a distance, and 20 Giants come out.
Talon: Or not.
Talon: We go back and sleep in cave first night, then go and wait by mountain pass for a full day.
Talon: To see if any Giants come through.
Talon: Caelesti offers to cast invisibility and fly on someone every few hours so they can scout.
Talon: Yoshi goes first.
Talon: Yoshi goes we know not where.
Talon: He flies up the Stedding.
DM/Torin: The Steading of the Hill Giant Chief
Talon: He checks out the normally sleeping guard on the tower. The normally sleeping guard is not sleeping.
Talon: Yoshi listens at chimneys and checks doors which turn out to be locked.
Talon: He flies back and reports this and tunes communication rings with Caelesti.
Talon: The doors are not OPEN. That is all we know about the Doors.
Talon: He did not notice anything suspicious or Giants wandering around.
Talon: The Chime on the watch tower has been replaced and the Giant there is holding the clanger with clentched fists
Talon: He looks around nerviously, above, straight up.
Talon: He comes back and reports.
Talon: They appear to be more prepared for intruders now.
Talon: Yoshi is all for waiting until tomorrow.
Talon: Talon is all for forging a letter to draw them out.
Talon: Caelesti is all for all of us.
Talon: We consider we might have missed a room in the baement somewhere.
Talon: We think we might have missed some better treasure that belongs to Chief.... down stairs from war-room....
Talon: Torin and Mongo are with us.
Talon: We are going to go in through the courtyard.
Talon: Elf Fighter Mage is pining for the fjords...
Talon: formerly insave Engineer "escaped" up the stairs ages ago into the Stedding with the Giants and was not yet seen again.
Brianna recenters everyone's view
Talon: We might figure out how to open door to courtyard or might fly.
Talon: Talon checks and discovers that the courtyard door is not locked.
Yoshi rolls Ability:Strength: (d20+2) : [12 + 2] = 14
Talon: Yoshi opens the door
Talon: Yoshi goes in.
Talon: Wolf carcases have been removed. Courtyard is empty.
DM/Torin rolls d20+4: (d20+4) : [3 + 4] = 7
Talon: Torin and Mongo help Yoshi open doors into the Stedding.
Yoshi rolls Ability:Strength: (d20+2) : [16 + 2] = 18
Talon: They get the door open and see the usual areas. We make our way to the Chief's war room.
Talon: We do not encounter anyone so ar.
DM/Torin rolls d20+4: (d20+4) : [10 + 4] = 14
Talon: so far
Yoshi rolls Ability:Strength: (d20+2) : [7 + 2] = 9
DM/Torin rolls d20: (d20) : [14] = 14
Talon: The 3 strong guys (Yoshi, Mongo and Torin) get door open to war room.
Talon: We make our way to the secret room and down the stairs.
DM/Torin rolls d20+4: (d20+4) : [12 + 4] = 16
Talon: Mongo leads.
Talon: Carric brings up the rear.
Talon: Yoshi tells Torin to check for secret doors in the hallway at bottom of stairs.
DM/Torin rolls d20+1: (d20+1) : [16 + 1] = 17
Carric rolls Search: (d20+5) : [3 + 5] = 8
Talon rolls Search: (d20+4) : [10 + 4] = 14
Talon: We all search and take 20.
Talon: A Secret door is finally found in the expecte area, but Carric, by taking Twenty!
Talon: by Carric
Talon: Torin opens the door and sees ------- !!!!
Talon: He sees a passage opening into a room.
Talon: Yoshi pops into the room and looks bravely around the corner.
Yoshi rolls d100: (d100) : [85] = 85
Talon: He sees -----!!!!
Talon: He sees a large chest, an iron box, a coffer, 3 other boxes.
Talon: To the right is a large sort of area of fuzzy yellow mold.
Yoshi rolls d100: (d100) : [33] = 33
Talon: Yoshi carefully steps back.
Talon: As he does so, he steps on a trap door, and falls through.
Talon: He falls 10 ft.
Talon: Onto 4 iron spikes.
Yoshi rolls d100: (d100) : [89] = 89
Yoshi rolls d100: (d100) : [54] = 54
Yoshi rolls d100: (d100) : [17] = 17
Yoshi rolls d100: (d100) : [56] = 56
Talon: The trap door closes above Yoshi after he falls on the Spikes.
Yoshi rolls Sv:Reflex: (d20+7+2+1) : [7 + 7 + 2 + 1] = 17
Yoshi rolls Sv:Reflex: (d20+7+2+1) : [19 + 7 + 2 + 1] = 29
Yoshi rolls Sv:Reflex: (d20+7+2+1) : [15 + 7 + 2 + 1] = 25
Yoshi rolls Sv:Fortitude: (d20+7+2+1) : [2 + 7 + 2 + 1] = 12
Yoshi rolls d100: (d100) : [87] = 87
DM/Torin rolls d6: (d6) : [3] = 3
Talon: He is dexterous enough to only hit one spike and takes 3 damage by poisoned spike.
Talon: Mongo goes over and gets confused.
Talon: Carric wants to help open secret trap door without falling in himself.
Talon: Mongo holds Carric and uses Carric to trigger the door, but holds Carric to prevent him falling in.
Talon: Carric asks Mongo to dangle him by the ankles so he can pull up Yoshi.
Talon: Caelesti casts fly on herself.
Talon: She flies into the pit?
Talon: to cast Fly on Yoshi.
Talon: Mongo pulls up Carric and pit door closes.
Talon: Mongo tosses Carric again. Trap door opens again.
Talon: Caelesti and Yoshi fly out, assuming she cast fly on Yoshi.
Talon: Yoshi recalls that Yellow Mold felt drafty/cold.
Talon: Yoshi requires healing of 3 Con damage.
Talon: Torin is able to Restore Yoshi to normal Con.
Talon: How many more Flies can Caelesti do?
Talon: Or Yoshi can ferry people across.
Talon: He does so. We all are careful to keep our distance from the Yellow Mold.
Yoshi rolls Ability:Intelligence: (d20+0) : [11] = 11
Talon: InT checks all round
DM/Torin rolls d20: (d20) : [7] = 7
Talon rolls Intelligence - 18: (d20+4) : [7 + 4] = 11
Carric rolls Stat - INT: (d20+2) : [8 + 2] = 10
Caelesti: Caelesti has a hint of INT
Talon: Only Caelesti and Yoshi are flying.
Talon: Caelesti casts Detect Magic.
Talon: The Yellow Mold and the Broken Barrel both radiate magic.
Caelesti rolls Skill (Spellcraft): (d20+3) : [13 + 3] = 16
Caelesti rolls Skill (Spellcraft): (d20+3) : [14 + 3] = 17
Carric rolls Spellcraft: (d20+11) : [5 + 11] = 16
Carric rolls Spellcraft: (d20+11) : [19 + 11] = 30
Yoshi rolls Sv:Will: (d20+7+4+1) : [10 + 7 + 4 + 1] = 22
Caelesti rolls Save (Will): (d20+3) : [10 + 3] = 13
Talon rolls Save Will : (d20+10) : [1 + 10] = 11
Talon: Carric did a Spell Check and found there is an Illusion coming from the corner.
Talon: where the yellow mold is
Talon: ditto with broken barrel - also an illusion of some kind
Yoshi rolls Sv:Will: (d20+7+4+1) : [3 + 7 + 4 + 1] = 15
Talon: Yoshi interacts with the "broken" barrel and it does not feel broken.
Carric rolls Save/Will: (d20+12) : [14 + 12] = 26
Talon: Carric can see it for the very nice intact barrel it is. Inside is a scroll and an obsidian box
Talon: scroll/parchment is a map of mountains with a telltale X - farther to the West than this Steeding - and in a different but connected mountain range.
Yoshi rolls Ability:Intelligence: (d20+0) : [19] = 19
Carric rolls Stat - INT: (d20+2) : [8 + 2] = 10
Talon: Yoshi passes INT check and reads map correctly - find valley where we are and to west other mountain range - bigger mountains.
Talon: Carric thinks it all just looks Squiggley
Talon: Carric asks if one of us - Caelesti? - can check box for joke traps.
Talon: Caelesti simply opens box.
Talon: There is chain of weird black metal and a little piece of parchment.
Talon: 8 ft long chain.
Talon: Yoshi looks at parchment, doesn't understand language.
Talon: Talon reads/write Giant and can read it.
Talon: Loop the Chain into the Figure 8. Let 3 step into each loop. If one of those 6 holds the map, you will appear in the Yald's Rift.
Talon: Yoshi approaches the mold of some illusion and feels colder.
Carric rolls Save/Will: (d20+12) : [12 + 12] = 24
Talon: Carric walks towards the Yellow Moldy thing and makes a Will Save.
DM/Torin rolls d20+11: (d20+11) : [10 + 11] = 21
Talon: Torin tries next.
Caelesti rolls Save (Will): (d20+3) : [15 + 3] = 18
Talon: Talon sings to inspire competence.
Talon rolls Save Will : (d20+10) : [8 + 10] = 18
Talon: We are all quivering in fear of the now plusing mold.
Talon: We start opening chests and boxes.
Talon: Yoshi opens large chest boldly and it is filled with more gold pieces than can count.
Talon: An iron box and several coffers. Iron box is locked.
Talon: Caelesti casts KNock on the iron box, it springs open.
Talon: It is filled with platinum pieces.
Talon: We find other coffers, intact and some battered.
Talon: INside one is 62 gems. INside another 17 pieces of jewelry.
Yoshi rolls Sk:Search: (d20+0) : [12] = 12
Talon: Caelesti pokes at the Yellow Mold with her dagger.
Talon: An ordinary dagger.
Caelesti rolls Save (Will): (d20+3) : [14 + 3] = 17
Talon: This mold does not seem to be real.
Yoshi rolls Sv:Will: (d20+7+4+1) : [5 + 7 + 4 + 1] = 17
Talon: It appears to be something that hangs from wall and clangs.
Talon: So Yoshi pokes his dagger at it too - bangs/clanks.
Talon: Weapons.
Talon: Caelesti reaches in and finds quiver of arrows, spear and two swords.
Talon: All are magic weapons.
Talon: They detect Enchantment now.
Talon: Jarl's Rift.
Talon rolls Knowledge History: (d20+9) : [3 + 9] = 12
Talon rolls Knowledge Bardic: (d20+16) : [11 + 16] = 27
Talon: Talon knows that Jarl is the name of a leader - like an Earl. Specialized title for people who live in north - barbrians or Frost Giants.
Talon: Giant leader's head quarters. Frost Giants, for instance.
Talon: Yoshi fills barrel and carries stuff out with us, perhaps.
Talon: Yoshi and Mongo carry the chest, actually, full of gold.
Talon: He asks Caelesti to turn them invisible as they will move slowly.
Talon: the rest of us take gems, jewelry and parchments and obsidian box and chain, etc.
Yoshi rolls d100: (d100) : [33] = 33
Yoshi rolls d100: (d100) : [91] = 91
Yoshi rolls d100: (d100) : [67] = 67
Yoshi rolls d100: (d100) : [26] = 26
Yoshi rolls d100: (d100) : [69] = 69
Yoshi rolls d100: (d100) : [95] = 95
Yoshi rolls d47: (d47) : [18] = 18
Talon: We get past the Giants safely. And we get back to the cave.
Talon rolls 47: (47) : [47] = 47
Talon: Mongo reminds us we must clean out the remaining Giants as they pose a threat to innocent villagers and there are a lot of orces still cowering in a room in the basement.
Talon: We return to the cave and plan.
Talon: There are four doors into/out of the great dining hall where most of the giants congregate.
Talon: Caelesti suggests we attack one on guard tower and ring gong and take out more.
Talon: We agree to do that today or tomorrow morning.... Better with more spells perhaps.