DM_Hallu: Once the disagreement is resolved, Akavi points to Anthony and states in no uncertain terms that, whatever their differences, the presence of a spy in the ranks must also be investigated.

Anthony_Steiber: "Ahh, okay then."

Sonofzeal: ((how much longer until I'm finished and get my Lesser Restores for everyone?))

DM_Hallu: Actually, during the disagreement you probably finished.

Sonofzeal: ((And... is Anthony the one who sensed as evil?))

Glru shrugs "Glru does not care what foxsnack sees. Spy is only problem if you do things you do not wish known."

DM_Hallu: (No, Akavi is.)

DM_Hallu: Akavi takes out a potion labeled "Elixir of Truth". "I'm not even sure," he says, "if Anthony is your real name."

Ika_Yorri: ((sonofzeal needs a nick change))

*** sonofzeal is now known as Healer_Lina

Anthony_Steiber: "So... you want me to drink the potion, then answer your questions honestly?"

DM_Hallu: Yes.

Anthony_Steiber: "Very well." Anthony takes the elixir, and downs it.

DM_Hallu: (I'm gonna let the rest of you ask the questions as much as possible)

Healer_Lina moves silently between the people, touching them and restoring each based on need.

DM_Hallu: Glru and Ika are both in bad repair, with their skin puffy and some of their fur falling out. Reisha is perhaps worse, but she bears it without complaining.

DM_Hallu: (How many Lesser Restores do you have, Lina?)

Healer_Lina: ((All of them. >=D ))

Glru pokes curiously at the puffy places.

Healer_Lina: ((well, 4; I'll save one slot for Remove Blind/Deaf))

Healer_Lina: ((*rolls 1, 1, 3, and 2 for Ability Points healed))

DM_Hallu: That'd be 1 and 1 to Glru, 3 to Ika, and 2 to Reisha.

DM_Hallu: Their skin is slightly less puffy, but they're still poisoned.

Glru is still almost as ugly as a human.

Glru thoroughly brushes himself off.

DM_Hallu: (soo... no one except Akavi has any questions for Anthony?)

Ika_Yorri: "Keep it coming."

Ika_Yorri: ((Why would I?))

Healer_Lina: "Shall I prepare more of the same, then?"

Ika_Yorri nods.

DM_Hallu: Okay. In that case, Akavi asks Anthony two questions: "What is your real name?" and "Why were you sent to spy on us?"

Glru sits heavily and fingers through his pack, he takes out one of his locks and picks it for practice, and to pass the time, listening to the interrogation with half an ear.

Healer_Lina goes back to meditating, but listens.

Ika_Yorri: ((Anthony's a spy? How'd we figure that out?))

DM_Hallu: (He let slip the name of his house, "Verity", a prominent espionage house.)

Anthony_Steiber: "My real name is most definitely Anthony Stieber. I was sent to spy on you following the events of Train A00001. According to a newspaper article, this group's methods were somewhat... unorthodox. As a result, the government hired me, of all people, to keep watch."

DM_Hallu: "And why does the government care about our methods?"

Anthony_Steiber: "I do not know that. I only know that I'm supposed to keep an eye on you and keep a log of your actions. The government didn't explain any more than that."

Glru: Hah! "And you will do what if you dislike methods?"

Anthony_Steiber: "It's not me you should be worried about, it's the government."

Ika_Yorri: "Well... What secret places are you allowed access to, by House Verity or otherwise?"

Anthony_Steiber: "Not many. My performance in Verity has been so poor as of recent that most of my rights have been revoked, and my pay cut. I figured this might be my chance to redeem myself."

Ika_Yorri: "I didn't ask for a number. Places? Names?"

Anthony_Steiber: ((Uh oh, I have no idea what kind of places I'd actually have access to. x3))

DM_Hallu: (And thus the interrogation is brought to a standstill. Let's assume that none of the places you have access to are interesting.)

Anthony_Steiber: ((Alright then.))

Ika_Yorri: ((I still want to know exactly how to get to them. I wanna be able to counter-hound Verity's people, if need be))

DM_Hallu: Okay. Anthony gives you the full address of Verity's headquarters, or at least the highest-ranked headquarters that he's ever been allowed into.

DM_Hallu: And passcodes and secret handshakes.

Ika_Yorri: ((eeeeexcellent))

DM_Hallu: Anyone want any other information?

Anthony_Steiber: ((Yay for DM fiat. It's a brilliant car, really.))

Glru: :practices the secret handshakes:

Ika_Yorri: "Are you hiding any objects on your person that I'm unaware of?"

Anthony_Steiber: "Nope. Just my money, armour and weapons."

Ika_Yorri: ((I think I'm out of questions, then))

Glru: "If you do not trust, perhaps you should search."

DM_Hallu: (butbutbut he took an Elixir of Truth!)

Anthony_Steiber: "Remember I'm still under the effects of the elixir."

Ika_Yorri: "I trust the Elixer, Glru."

Healer_Lina: ((And remember that the Elixir has a Will Save.))

Anthony_Steiber: "I'd have told the truth even if you hadn't given me the elixir. Why do you think my performance in Verity is so poor?"

DM_Hallu: (Oh right. Okay, noting that for the future. No retconning will be done.)

Anthony_Steiber: ((But I willfully took the elixir, so I decided to autofail that save.))

DM_Hallu: Akavi laughs and loses interest.

DM_Hallu: So, you guys are still in the room where you got the sun stone. There appear to be no exits, save the ladder you came in by.

Glru: searching for exist, hidden doors, etc (25)

DM_Hallu: You don't see anything except the ladder you came in by.

Anthony_Steiber: Alright, I'll go ahead and go down the ladder.

Healer_Lina: ((Or you could, y'know, wait for me to finish meditating and heal everyone....))

DM_Hallu: You go down the ladder and into the room where you met Sispirirnithis (Ika: that's the harpoon spider). He grins at you in a predatory sort of way, but does not attack.

Glru resumes picking locks.

DM_Hallu: (I *could* fastforward if you guys want to do nothing for an hour.)

Glru: "Glru thinks we should wait until we are all pretty again.�

Anthony_Steiber: ((Okay, fastforward sounds cool))

Ika_Yorri: ((Engage!))

DM_Hallu: An hour of sitting around, chatting, and lockpicking later, Lina has 4 more Lesser Restores.

Healer_Lina looks around and assesses how much healing each person still needs.

Anthony_Steiber: ((I only have one point of Cha damage at the moment, I don't really need Cha at any rate.))

DM_Hallu: Glru and Reisha each need four points (five really, but you can't cure the point of drain with a Lesser Restore). Ika needs three.

DM_Hallu: Various other people need one.

DM_Hallu: Anthony, however, is slightly spiderfang-stabbed.

Healer_Lina: ((ack, brb; I rolled 3 for Glru, 4 for Reisha, and 3 for Ika))

DM_Hallu: (yay! ok, I think that's enough to start adventuring again.)

DM_Hallu: (um, feel free to disagree.)

Glru: ((when we get back downstairs i wanna talk to the pideypidey))

DM_Hallu: (*is waiting for people to decide if they're going downstairs or not*)

Healer_Lina: ((back!))

Ika_Yorri is going down the ladder.

Anthony_Steiber: ((Well I'm already downstairs and a fair distance away from Man-Spider))

DM_Hallu: Sispirirnithis hisses at you in greeting. "Hello, morsels. We have run into a bit of a quandary. I thank you kindly for my newfound freedom, but there is still no meat for me, and my stomach growls."

Glru heads back down the stairs now that he is mostly pretty again, he waves for the spider's attention and asks "Do Sispirirnithis eat meat, or only drain fluids from prey?"

Healer_Lina smiles at each of them as she channels the light of Eir to restore them.

DM_Hallu: (the light of Eir? Who is Eir?)

DM_Hallu: "I can derive sustenance from almost any kind of meat, morsel."

Glru retroactively thanks the flower eater for his prettiness back.

Healer_Lina: ((Eir is Lina's prefferred goddess; she worships Pelor too, especially in Housely functions, but her primary alliegance is to Eir))

DM_Hallu: (Okies.)

DM_Hallu: "Even humanoid trail rations would do, if I am hungry enough..."

Healer_Lina: ((I mentioned this ages ago, I'm not surprised you forgot; this is the first time Lina's done any major healing so it hasn't really come up))

DM_Hallu: (Ok.)

DM_Hallu: (It does ring a bell, now that you mentioned it.)

Glru: "Glru has some meat, and some nearly meat. Glru would trade if Sispirirnithis has anything interesting in her piles of things..."

Glru: (is it a her or a him?)

DM_Hallu: (It's a him.)

Glru: (him then.)

Anthony_Steiber: "That meat had better not include me."

DM_Hallu: "I would gladly trade you my gold or my jade or these weapons for an appropriate amount of food... but not the crystal. The crystal is precious."

Glru: "Glru prefers gagdets and machines if you have any..."

Glru: "Glru does not need picture of fox, since he can look at actual fox."

DM_Hallu: Sispirirnithis shakes his head. "No gadgets, though the composite longbow looks a bit like a gadget..."

Healer_Lina pays little attentions to the bartering process, and instead comes up beside Glru and the other people short a single point and quietly asks if they need that last bit of healing.

Glru agrees that he would indeed like his last point of pretty back.

Glru hmmms thoughtfully and gestures to Sispirirnithis for permission to inspect the bow.

DM_Hallu: Sispirirnithis steps aside and allows you to look at the bow.

Healer_Lina touches Glru on the arm gently, murmurs to herself ((*rolls a 3 for points restored*)), and moves on to anyone who's down hp... Anthony?

Glru: (appraise 21)

Anthony_Steiber: ((Yes I am, but I forget how much HP I'm down by))

DM_Hallu: It's very well made, obviously a masterwork composite longbow, but it doesn't appear to have the extra mechanisms needed to give a Strength bonus.

Glru looks around to see if there are arrow for it in the trove.

DM_Hallu: There do not appear to be arrows for it.

Healer_Lina: ((Can you find out for me, Anthony?))

Anthony_Steiber: ((Not unless anyone has the section of Transcript explaining how much damage Man-Spider inflicted))

DM_Hallu: (I'll go look.)

Glru: ((and the other weapon was a trident, and the rest of the trove is coins and jade?))

DM_Hallu: (The other weapon was a spear. The rest of the trove is almost entirely gold, with one shiny piece of blue jadeite.)

Healer_Lina: ((Hallu - or you could just re-roll the damage, if you have the spider's stats)

DM_Hallu: It was 8 points total.

Glru: (17 appraise on the jadite)

Anthony_Steiber: ((Alright, thanks... that means he's currently at 15 health.))

DM_Hallu: (It's worth 80 gold pieces.)

DM_Hallu: (*wonders if Ika has anything to say about this*)

Ika_Yorri: ((I'll keep my mouth shut until Glru is actually in possession of the blue gem))

DM_Hallu: (Fair enough)

Glru considers the jewel and shows it to Ika "Do you have food to trade?"

Glru: ((appraise 32 on the spear))

Ika_Yorri hangs her head in despair, wordlessly.

Glru: ((whoops, 23))

Healer_Lina practically glides over to Anthony, visibly enraptured by the divine power flowing through her, and whispers "I am very close to the Goddess right now..." ((cast 2x Cure Minor, heals 12 total))

DM_Hallu: ((It's a plain ol' masterwork spear.))

Glru: ((lysdexics of the world, untie!))

Anthony_Steiber: ((X3))

Glru: ((damage?))

Anthony_Steiber: ((There's actually a website called Syd Lexia.com))

DM_Hallu: Sispirirnithis looks over at Lina, slightly distracted. "Pretty morsel, you have grown prettier..."

Glru paws through his saddlebages and pulls out a 1 day packet of feline travel food, he unwraps it and holds it on flat hands at arm's length "Would Sispirirnithis trade the bow for this, and the blue pretty for another of the same?"

Ika_Yorri nods at Sispirirnithis, urging him to approve.

DM_Hallu: "That is a tempting bit of food," says the spider, "but the bow and the blue pretty are worth much more... one month's worth of food, at least."

Anthony_Steiber gulps nervously.

DM_Hallu: "Each, that is."

*** Tobias joined #AVENdnd

Glru: "Glru will rub the food with the fox so that it smells and tastes like him..."

Tobias: ((sorry I'm so very late ><))

Anthony_Steiber: ((Hallo Tobias. :3))

Glru: "then you can look at pretty picture, and smell his fear and taste his flesh...."

DM_Hallu: "The morsel is eager to please. Very well, one month's worth of food for both of them together."

Anthony_Steiber: "Wh...what?!"

Glru: "Glru does not have so much food... but smaller amount of food here, that you can eat is worth so much more than food far away that you cannot eat. the bow, the shiney, they will not fill Sispirirnithis's stomach while he waits for others polite enough to trade..."

DM_Hallu: "True... how much food does Glru have, then? He and the rest of his party, all together?"

Glru: "those who are impolite, Sispirirnithis can eat, and add more tools and weapons to the pile, but the tipe does not fill Sispirirnithis's belly.

Healer_Lina gradually comes down from her rapture, and blinks a little as she tries to get caught up with the conversation.

Glru: (diplomacy 19))

DM_Hallu: (answer the question first pls)

Glru: ((glru has 5 days worth of catfolk travelfood on him. did anyone else bring food?))

Glru: ((icly he's not going to tell Sispirirnithis this...))

DM_Hallu: (Akavi does not.)

Anthony_Steiber: "Unfortunately rations were one of the many amenities Verity denied me due to my performance. Apparently I have to buy rations with my own money now."

Ika_Yorri: ((I have no food))

Tobias: ((no food here either))

Glru: ((because he's going to need to eat also))

Anthony_Steiber: "Might there have been anyone else coming through this way that could have had food?"

Glru brightens "Glru has idea!"

DM_Hallu: Sispirirnithis gives a spidery little curse. "There was another party of morsels here a few days ago, but they all escaped..."

Anthony_Steiber: "Can you remember what they looked like? We might be able to find them."

Glru: "Glru will rub fox with this food so it smells and tastes of him, and Glru also promises to bring back the next thing he kills in dungeon to Sispirirnithis."

Anthony_Steiber: "That's if they haven't escaped of course."

Healer_Lina: ((I have "Purify Food/Drink"... and Goodberries, which last for DAYS and nourishes like a full meal))

DM_Hallu: Sispirirnithis brightens. "This would be a good deal... the party, I do not remember. An otter and a catfolk, not as large as Glru, and maybe humans or elves..."

Glru: ((i'm a little boggled that glru is the only adventurer who eats :) or thinks about eating.))

Ika_Yorri: ((I eat leaves))

Healer_Lina: ((That's what you get in an RPG with no hunger rules))

Glru ahems slightly and raises a finger "Glru will not feed you other catfolk, and will only kill people if they attack Glru first, but Grlu will bring a monster, or a person who attacks him first."

DM_Hallu: Sispirirnithis nods. "Agreed."

Glru pads over to Anthony "Removing shirt."

Healer_Lina approaches Sispirirnithis - "Is your need for food that great?"

Healer_Lina: ((Hallu - how many berries on my bonsai bush?))

Glru: ((jickers! you'll queer the deal!))

DM_Hallu: "The pretty morsel should try being locked in a room for weeks without *her* food and try asking the question again..."

DM_Hallu: ((Four berries on your bonsai bush.))

Healer_Lina: "And how long can your kind live without food?"

DM_Hallu: "I do not know. I have never tried for long enough to die of it."

Glru: ((laugh!))

Healer_Lina: ((Heal 29 or Know Nature 23 to estimate whether or not it needs frequent meals))

DM_Hallu: ((It needs regular meals, but not as frequently as a human. Once every couple of days will do, though it'll eat more if given the chance.))

Glru: (knowledge nature 6. Glru supposes he doesn't care)

Glru: ((oh wait, 9. still don't know))

Healer_Lina plucks a single berry and prays over it, feeling only a twinge of the euphoria as she casts Goodberry on it.

DM_Hallu: Sispirirnithis looks at you suspiciously. "A single berry? Are you attempting to mock me, morsel?"

Healer_Lina places the berry on the floor directly in front of Sispirirnithis - "This is a gift that may be more than it seems."

DM_Hallu: Sispirirnithis hmms, then reaches out a delicate spidery hand and gobbles the berry. He looks extremely surprised.

Anthony_Steiber snaps out from his trance and removes his shirt.

DM_Hallu: "A magical berry!" he crows. "I should have guessed. For this, and the flavorful feline rations, and the promise of the next thing you kill, I will give you both the jade and the longbow."

Healer_Lina: ((The jade was the gem it wasn't willing to trade before?))

DM_Hallu: (No, the jade is the bloooo gem. The one it wasn't willing to trade is the crystal with the picture of Anthony.)

Anthony_Steiber: ((XD not even giving it up long enough to let me sign an autograph?))

DM_Hallu: (have you suggested doing such a thing IC? XD)

Glru mists Anthony lightly with his waterskin, gently moistening him before rubbing him down with his food, then brings it to Sispirirnithis and holds it up to him "There, smells of fox, eat slowly, savour. food will last several weeks before spoiling."

DM_Hallu: Sispirirnithis smiles widely and snatches the food out of your hand. "Yes, thank you! You are the friendliest morsels I have ever come across, I must say. Go now, and remember your promise."

Glru pockets the jade and examined the longbow, looking for a way to conveniently dissasemble it, but for now just hands it over his saddlebags which he hoists back onto his shoulder.

Glru: "Glru will remember.�

DM_Hallu: There are three exits to the room. One is the way with the pit, how you came in. The second is the ladder up to the room with the sunstone. The third is a locked door.

Anthony_Steiber: I'll go ahead and examine the locked door just now.

DM_Hallu: Search check? Or some other check?

Anthony_Steiber: Search check. Rolling now.

Anthony_Steiber: That's a 20, modifiers included.

Glru puts down his bags, digs out his gunkit and pulls out one of the sticks of charcoal, then packs it all back up, slinging it all over his shoulder.

DM_Hallu: You do not see any traps or other particularly surprising things.

Glru: ((search 29))

Anthony_Steiber: "Glru, are you any good at picking locks?"

Glru: "Glru is very good at picking locks."

Anthony_Steiber: �Can you try your hand at the door?�

Ika_Yorri: "Then I have a suggestion for you, Glru. It involves picking locks."

DM_Hallu: Glru, the bottom of the door frame is rigged so that anyone who steps there falls through a trapdoor into a pit. Once you have found the trapdoor it is easily avoided by stepping over (or carrying Ika and Anthony over, since they have a smaller pace)

Glru pokes the trap door open and closed with the end of his wrench "Nice," he observes. he checks if he can convenienlty jam it closed.

DM_Hallu: Roll Disable Device.

Glru: (25.)

DM_Hallu: You jam the trap door closed.

Glru picks the lock, but is still carefull of the trap door.

DM_Hallu: Roll Open Lock.

Glru: ((open lock 18, betting that doesn't do it))

DM_Hallu: A-nope.

Glru: ((second try 25)

DM_Hallu: Nope.

Ika_Yorri: ((take a 20))

Glru: ((29?))

DM_Hallu: Third time's a charm. The door swings open.

Glru: oh wait, I haven't been adding my MW lockpick bonus, add 2 to each.

DM_Hallu: ...onto, predictably, another narrow hallway.

DM_Hallu: It still took until the third try, I'm afraid.

Anthony_Steiber: I'll scout ahead then. I've got fair knowledge in dungeoneering so if there's any danger, I'll spot it first. XD

Glru straddles the trapdoor to help the smaller members across "Trap door is probably jammed..."

Glru: "but is better to be sure..."

Healer_Lina passes after Anthony.

DM_Hallu: Anthony, you get easily picked up and put down by Glru and reach the end of the narrow hallway, where there is another door. It does not appear to be locked.

Anthony_Steiber: I'll open the door and see what I can find.

Anthony_Steiber: ((*is insanely curious*))

Glru: ((remove the word 'curious' and the statement still stands))

Anthony_Steiber: ((Hehe.))

DM_Hallu: You find a large circular room with shelves all around. The shelves are mostly full of dust and worthless knick-knacks, but in one corner close to you there is a large sheaf of handwritten papers entitled "INSTRUCTIONS FOR SAFE EGRESS OF DUNGEON AREA".

Glru wonders if he notices the suicidal fox?

DM_Hallu: You notice the fox going through the door.

Glru: (spot 18)

Anthony_Steiber: Right, let's take a look at the papers then. Never know how we might be able to escape.

DM_Hallu: The papers read as follows:

DM_Hallu: "Believe in yourself. Follow your nose. Trust your friends, but not your enemies. I prepared Explosive Runes this morning."

Glru sputters, raises a hand to object, then shrugs, it'll be a much shorter trip to just bring the fox's corpse back.

Anthony_Steiber: "...Oh SH-"

Glru: ((heh.))

DM_Hallu: That's, uh... *checks*... yeah, we've got an explodified foxkin body on our hands.

Tobias: ((XDDD))

Anthony_Steiber: ((Hey, easily manageable chunks. XD))

Healer_Lina immediately sprints directly towards the sound of the explosion.

DM_Hallu: Lina, make a Reflex save.

Healer_Lina: ((Erg.... uh.... 16?))

DM_Hallu: Good enough. The floor cracks under your feet, but you step away in time. Keeping to the edges seems to work.

Glru thinks it will be a short walk... or more correctly many short walks to deliver the pieces.

DM_Hallu: Anthony's soul is, unfortunately, not salvageable. Unless you know Raise Dead.

Anthony_Steiber: (("Hey, if you're coming this way, you might want to take some string and a needle as well as your resurrection spells."))

Glru gestures to the others "Glru will be right back..."

Tobias follows after Lina.

Glru: ((the holy duct tape!))

Ika_Yorri follows after Tobias.

Healer_Lina: ((Can you describe in detail what Lina's seeing?))

Glru keeps to the edges, testing the floor with pressyre on his wrench.

Glru peeks into the explodeyroom.

Glru: (pressure that is)

Healer_Lina: ((Like, is he actually splattered, or is the body whole, and what else is immediately visible?))

DM_Hallu: Okay. On the west side of the room is the door you came in by. On the northwest side of the room is another door that looks similar. The room is circular and lined with several layers of shelves, but what is on the shelves appears to be worthless - mostly badly executed ceramic knick-knacks of insects.

DM_Hallu: The body is mostly whole, with a few notable exceptions, such as the left arm.

DM_Hallu: It is, however, severely burned and dead.

Anthony_Steiber: ((And The Scout knew the name of the King. :3))

Tobias winces. "Poor guy..."

Glru picks up the severed arm and pokes Lina with anthony's hand "can you fix?"

Ika_Yorri gasps in shock.

DM_Hallu: By keeping to the edges all of you are able to avoid whatever almost got Lina.

Healer_Lina runs in and hits him with a CMW just to make sure, before doing a quick survey for anything still dangerous.

DM_Hallu: The CMW does nothing. There is nothing else immediately dangerous in the room besides the rather crackable looking floor.

Anthony_Steiber: ((If this were final fantasy, what's left of Ant would probably blink and disappear by this point. XD))

Glru waits for Lina's failure, then strips anthony of valuables and equipment, making a pile, he then takes off his cap and murrmurrs softly over the body in feline.

Healer_Lina drops to her knees and starts praying earnestly for Anthony's soul in its travels.

Anthony_Steiber: ((Would you like to know what I'm carrying? XD))

Glru waits for lina to finish, then picks up the arm and the body and heads back to Sispirirnithis's room.

Tobias bows his head as he realizes nothing can be done for Anthony.

Ika_Yorri shouts at Anthony's body. "Get back up! I order you to be fine!"

Anthony_Steiber remains quite dead.

DM_Hallu: ((awwww...))

Tobias: "Ika, I... don't think that's going to work."

Glru can only just barely resist puppeting with anthony's jaw "I'm not good in a fight, I've been disarmed!"

Glru just barely resists though :)

Anthony_Steiber: ((Hey, that was my joke. xD))

Ika_Yorri ignores Tobias. "Disobedience will not be tolerated! Otherwise, you'll... you'll stay dead..."

Anthony_Steiber: ((I should probably let folks know my character's possessions at the time so that they may be evenly split among the party. :3))

DM_Hallu: (Okay, so now that the sociopaths in the room have been clearly differentiated from the non-sociopaths...)

Glru carries anthony back to Sispirirnithis's room, checking over his shoulder to make sure he hasn't been followed he says "Glru has very good news..."

DM_Hallu: Sispirirnithis gives a little gasp of surprise as Glru brings the body inside. "Such a quick delivery, morsel! I didn't expect you to kill your own foxkin. I am impressed. Thank you kindly."

Glru: (glru never really saw the fox as a person)

Healer_Lina watches Glru carry off the body with sadness, but doesn't interfere - once life is gone, providing sustenance for another life is one of the nobler ends to a body in her view.

Glru: "is not Glru's foxkin, is Sispirirnithis's foxkin. were shall Glru put?"

DM_Hallu: (precisely my point :) )

Anthony_Steiber: ((Lootwise, my character has 308pp 5gp 6sp. He also has leather armour, a handy haversack, a +2 composite shortbow and 20 nonlethal arrows.))

DM_Hallu: Sispirirnithis indicates a place in his web, smiling greedily.

Glru: (glru would be much sadder if someone else died)

Anthony_Steiber: ((Well, I'm glad I've managed to sustain something else's life, even if that thing were the subject of all my fears. :3))

DM_Hallu: Okay, well, this is creeping me out so let's assume you deliver up Anthony's body and go back to the other room. What do you do next?

Glru tosses the body, avoiding actually touching the web "Enjoy your meal." he tips his cap and returns to the rest of the part, careful of the floor again.

Glru divvies up the cash, he starts to make 6 pikes, then corrects himself, making 5.

Healer_Lina puts aside a few personal effects of Anthony for a small shrine, and blots up a little blood on some gauze "just in case".

Ika_Yorri looks downward, nearly crying.

Tobias puts a hand on Ika's shoulder in an attempt to be comforting.

Glru sets the bow and armor in front of the shrine, assuming no one else will want it.

Anthony_Steiber: xD I generally thought my character's presence was something more of an annoyance than anything.

Anthony_Steiber: He wasn't very useful at least. :p

Ika_Yorri: "But... He wasn't done living yet. He... had more to go..."

DM_Hallu: ((We can discuss this later. Let's continue roleplaying for now.))

Healer_Lina sees Ika and Tobias, decides to let Tobias do the comforting, and spreads her Calm to assist.

Glru: ((well, he found the exploding runes and the spider for us))

Anthony_Steiber: ((Yeah. I saved your asses, and don't you forget it. :3))

Glru: ((and you saved glru a long walk later))

Glru: ((search 22))

Glru: ((looking for things what go boom, other doors, wizardy fingerchopping things))

DM_Hallu: You do not see anything particularly interesting.

Glru: ((any other doors?))

DM_Hallu: (nope, just the west one you came in through, and the northwest one)

Glru: ((searching door for traps))

Glru: (19. this could be bad)

DM_Hallu: (Is that an additional roll?)

DM_Hallu: You do not see any traps.

Glru: ((i thought i'd have to roll again to search the door for traps))

DM_Hallu: Reisha has been quietly murmuring in Dwarven over the place where Anthony's body fell, but as you search she wanders off and begins to look at the walls curiously.

DM_Hallu: ((Yes, you did.))

Glru: (open lock, 30)

DM_Hallu: ((There isn't a lock on this one.))

Glru: *dur*

Glru looks around "would magicy types look for magic things that might go booms when we leave.�

DM_Hallu: The door opens into another narrow hallway, going northwest.

DM_Hallu: Akavi casts Detect Magic.

Glru: "in case there is something we can use.�

Anthony_Steiber: ((Up to here with narrow hallways. :3))

DM_Hallu: She does not find any magic.

Healer_Lina checks in on Ika and Tobias occasionally, but tries to give them some privacy... <3

DM_Hallu: Akavi seems kind of impatient with the whole grieving-for-a-spy thing.

Glru pats akavi and whispers "no more spying."

DM_Hallu: Reisha, maneuvering very carefully around the outside perimeter of the room, comes up to the rest of the party. "Excuse me," she says in Dwarven, "but does anyone else think that the stonework in here seems a bit... well... odd?"

DM_Hallu: She mentions several very technical Dwarven terms for specific kinds of odd stonework that do not bear translating into Common.

Glru checks the hallway, making occasional charcoal marks on the wall to keep track of where he's been.

Glru perks his ears curiously and asks in Dwarvish "Strange in what way?"

DM_Hallu: The hallway culminates in another door, this one also unlocked.

DM_Hallu: Reisha says something like "I can't quite put my finger on it, but some of the mortaring is off on the south side of the room," but much more technical and Dwarvish.

Ika_Yorri ceases being comforted and examines the south wall.

DM_Hallu: ((Is that a Search check, Ika?))

Glru hmmms and pokes at the morat with the pointy prybar end of his wrench, looking for hidden doors or easily removed mortar ((search 26))

Ika_Yorri: ((and by "examine", I mean "let Reisha show me where it looks funny"))

DM_Hallu: After quite a bit of prying, you find a portion of the wall that swings inward... it is, indeed, a secret door.

DM_Hallu: It's a very well-hidden door, though, something only a dwarf or a master mason would notice.

Glru: "Ha! well done little sister!" he thumps Reisha on the back.

Glru: ((is it lit inside?)

DM_Hallu: Reisha smiles shyly with pride, as though she hasn't gotten a compliment in a very long time.

DM_Hallu: Inside, it's lit the same as the rest of the dungeon. There is a spiral staircase winding its way up.

Glru: (search 19, just not my day on searches)

DM_Hallu: You do not see any traps on the spiral staircase.

Glru prods steps with his wrench before stepping on them as he pads down.

Anthony_Steiber: ((You mean up. XD))

Glru: ((he, uh, puts the pad of his food down on the step....))

Healer_Lina reminds herself that death merely reaffirms the preciousness of life, and follows the catfolk.

Anthony_Steiber: ((Okay then. xD))

DM_Hallu: The steps are solid and your wrench does not set off any traps.

Glru climbs, testing steps as he goes.

DM_Hallu: At last you reach the top of the staircase, which leads to another door.

DM_Hallu: The door is not locked.

Glru: (search 22)

Ika_Yorri ascends the staircase after Lina.

DM_Hallu: You do not see any traps on the door.

Tobias follows after Ika.

Glru gestures for silence and presses his ear to the door.

DM_Hallu: Listen check?

Glru hears nothing (rolling a 7) and bodges together a listening tool out of stuff in his junk bag (craft tools 25)

DM_Hallu: That works.

Glru: and tries the listen check again (20 plus the bonus for the listening tool (simple cup most likely)

DM_Hallu: You hear a very faint skittering noise from the other side of the door.

Glru offers the tool to whoever is closest behind and speaks softly "Glru hears skittering things, maybe rats?" (knowledge nature10)

Tobias: ((unfortunately, I have to go early :-( I'll see you all next week))

DM_Hallu: It could be rats.

DM_Hallu: ((Awww, sorry Tobias))

Ika_Yorri: ((aww))

Glru: ((i was just gonna suggest he go first, plate protecting from bitey things))

DM_Hallu: ((Tobias, can I DMPC you going first?))

Tobias: ((yes, feel free to use me for whatever while I'm gone.))

Glru: ((chicka chicka mow mow))

Tobias: ((*sigh* XD anyway, see ya))

DM_Hallu: Tobias cautiously opens the door...

DM_Hallu: Glru, Lina, make Will saves.

Glru: ((umm, did no one else listen?))

*** Tobias quit (Quit: http://www.mibbit.com ajax IRC Client)

DM_Hallu: (oh oops. do you want to do that first?)

Glru: ((see, i was offering the tool for someone else to make a second opinion))

Healer_Lina: ((Will 16))

Glru: ((hell yeah, this here is a dungeon ya know....))

Glru: ((probly ika of the big ears....))

DM_Hallu: ((Does anybody else want to make a Listen check? Such a check will not alter in any way the fact that Tobias has opened the door, but it might give you a little more information, or might not.))

Healer_Lina: ((Lina will leave the dungeoneering to the others who have more of the training and temperament for it))

DM_Hallu: ((Of the whole party, only Ika has better ears than Glru does))

*** Ika_Yorri quit (Quit: http://www.mibbit.com ajax IRC Client)

DM_Hallu: ...eeeeeek!

Anthony_Steiber: ((o.o what? Ika disappeared.))

*** Ika_Yorri joined #AVENdnd

Glru: ((they're dropping like flies!))

Anthony_Steiber: ((Welcome back ^^))

DM_Hallu: (Ika you scared me. How long have you been out?)

Glru gives Ika the listening tool and gestures her to the door.

Glru: ((actually probly everyone has better ears than Glru... lots of time in an engine shop and smithy... listen check of 4.))

Ika_Yorri: ((The last thing I heard was "did no one else listen?"))

DM_Hallu: ((Ika, you have been invited to listen at the door.))

Glru: ((glru has very good eyes, but not so good ears))

Glru hands Ika his tool.

The log was lost after this, but it was determined from Ika's time at the door that the skittering was from bugs, not rats. Glru grabbed a flame torch off the wall as Tobias opened the door, and then Tobias was hit by a confusion spell and promptly fled down the stairs.

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