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[20:07] <DM-Shaddow> When last we left our merry band, they had been called to the swamp town of Illgard. There they met with the mayor who, along with a scared city guard, told them of a mansion that needed…cleaning. They headed out to find thise mansion and after a bit of a curfuffle, managed to enter into the second story. They began their investigations into the house, Star having been deafened, as
[20:07] <DM-Shaddow> a heart beat sound refused to die out until Galen found a mysterious package, and it is there we pick up our tale.
[20:07] <DM-Shaddow> (map: https://app.roll20.net/join/1911467/VSXMCQ)
[20:08] * Tolman is now known as Anatoly
[20:08] Galen_Warlocked looks at the package. is it bloody? Beating? Postage due?
[20:09] <DM-Shaddow> The heartbeat sound stopped, but STar still couldn't hear anything. Anatoly stood outside, the knocking picking up again further down the hall. As galen examined the package, it wasn't bloody, beating, or postage due, but it appeared to be something bound in cloth.
[20:09] Galen_Warlocked unwraps the cloth.
[20:10] <Vidame-Star> (Oh look, I totally have a figure this week)
[20:10] <DM-Shaddow> A small locked iron box lies within.
[20:11] Galen_Warlocked looks around the small hole for a key. “We have a thief, right?”
[20:11] <Vidame-Star> “What?”
[20:11] <DM-Shaddow> Anatoly that knocking sound moves towards you before moving away again, heading south.
[20:12] * @Anatoly tilts his head, attempting to understand the osurce of the knocking.
[20:12] <Anatoly> “Yes, I can pick locks.“
[20:12] Galen_Warlocked holds up the box. “Can you open this?”
[20:12] <DM-Shaddow> Lightening crashes outside, the rain picking up as the sky darkens to the point that it's almost pitch black in the house.
[20:13] * @Anatoly enters the room, moving to examine the box.
[20:13] <DM-Shaddow> Slight of hand check please Anatoly DC 10.
[20:13] <DM-Shaddow> (that should have been in normal color shouldn't it have?)
[20:14] * @Anatoly pulls out his tool pouch.
[20:14] Lan_Furra watches the others while scratching Whisker's ears
[20:14] <Anatoly> 1d20+10 lockpick
[20:14] <TolBot> [Anatoly's 1d20(13)+10 'lockpick']: 23
[20:14] <Vidame-Star> (If you are using the orangish color for descriptions, then yes.)
[20:16] * @Anatoly opens the box.
[20:16] <DM-Shaddow> The lid swings open, and you find inside a small leatherbound journal, the name 'ed' stamped in the corner in gold lettering. Under the journal you find several letters and one charcoal drawing.
[20:16] <DM-Shaddow> (thanks mage)
[20:16] Galen_Warlocked looks inside.
[20:16] <Anatoly> “A journal, personal papers.”
[20:16] <Lan_Furra> (You Found: Ed Greenwood's Journal! *fanfare music*)
[20:16] * @Anatoly holds it back to Galen.
[20:16] <Galen_Warlocked> (HA)
[20:16] <DM-Shaddow> (lmao hardly :P)
[20:16] Galen_Warlocked takes out the journal and letters.
[20:16] * @Vidame-Star glances around as this is going on.
[20:17] <DM-Shaddow> (walls of text incoming)
[20:17] Lan_Furra sets mode: +vv Galen_Warlocked TolBot
[20:18] <DM-Shaddow> The letters appear to be love letters between two people. though they are disguised as if they were sent merely between friends. The journal seems to have belonged to Ed, the head of the house, who was a wealthy book dealer.
[20:19] Galen_Warlocked tosses the letters over his shoulder and scans the journal for anything interesting.
[20:19] <DM-Shaddow> The earliest entry dates to just after his wedding to his “darling wife, Lenore,” wherein he details having bought the house with intent of raising a family there. When Lenore became pregnant, the two were overjoyed. They were to have a daughter, named Annabel. Their joy was shortlived when Lanore caught 'swamp fever' and lost the baby during the illness.
[20:20] <Galen_Warlocked> “Pfft…one less mouth for the Thousand.”
[20:20] Galen_Warlocked flips through
[20:20] <DM-Shaddow> The loss of their unborn daughter too much Lenore killed herself. Ed returned only to find her corpse. In his sorrow and rage, he blamed his daughter for his wifes death, cursing that he had ever conceived such a “perverse imp” His journal entries thereafter become more erratic and less frequent. At some point, he settles on a course of action to bring back his wife from the dead. He
[20:20] <DM-Shaddow> makes mention of going to the “college of the Ligeia” to learn the mystic arts.
[20:21] <Galen_Warlocked> “Now we're getting somewhere.”
[20:21] <Anatoly> “Hmm“
[20:21] <Galen_Warlocked> (Have I heard of this college?)
[20:22] <DM-Shaddow> Unable to find a concrete answer, he secluded himself away in the house, hoping one of the books he had collected over the years contained an answer. At some point he evnetually found such a tome. The last of the wriging that is legible, is mostly insane gibberish, making references to a “dark sacrifice.” The last clear entry mentions a ritual where he would “sacrifice the imp” and
[20:22] <DM-Shaddow> with that he would have his Lenore again.
[20:22] <DM-Shaddow> Make a religion check Galen.
[20:22] <Vidame-Star> (Cadomed… ends in ED.)
[20:22] <Galen_Warlocked> 1d20+1 (religion…the cripple's cane of the sane)
[20:22] <+TolBot> Galen_Warlocked's 1d20(16)+1 '(religion…the cripple's cane of the sane)']: 17
[20:23] <Galen_Warlocked> “He can't be all bad.”
[20:23] <DM-Shaddow> You know that they have kept knowledge of arcane for centries. Including necromancy, and other dark arts, though they keep to the 'lighter' arcane knowledges. They guard their secrets fairly closely, and it's possible they were too suspicious of Ed to allow him access to their libraries, but you aren't sure.
[20:24] <DM-Shaddow> Again, that knocking is heard by all but Star this time, knocking near the end of the hall.
[20:25] Lan_Furra slowly moves towards the knocking, keeping Whiskers by his side
[20:25] <Galen_Warlocked> “The college is a clearing house for the darker arts…but they let the unwashed have access to their more…innocent lore. They probably thought Ed was a little too close to teh Grand Truth and kept him out.”
[20:25] Galen_Warlocked turns his head to the knocking.
[20:25] Galen_Warlocked snaps his fingers at Vidame and makes a “follow me” motion with his hands.
[20:25] * @Vidame-Star pulls out a brush and starts grooming herself while everybody talks amongst themselves.
[20:26] <Vidame-Star> “Huh?”
[20:26] <DM-Shaddow> (how many of you have dark vision?)
[20:26] Galen_Warlocked rolls his eyes – a comcial gesture in spite of having one goat's eye and one Christmas colored.
[20:26] <Lan_Furra> (I do)
[20:26] <Vidame-Star> (I do not)
[20:26] <Galen_Warlocked> (I do)
[20:27] <DM-Shaddow> (k)
[20:27] <Anatoly> (not I)
[20:28] <DM-Shaddow> Lan as you and whiskers move further down the hall, while you move towards the knocking, whiskers keeps trying to veer another way. The sound coming from the south east corner, but whiskers heads south west.
[20:29] Lan_Furra trusts his companion as his hands go to his blades, “Easy friend, if you're sure I will follow.”
[20:30] Galen_Warlocked can't help but grin at the hint of unrestrained chaos and combat.
[20:30] * @Vidame-Star notices swords being drawn and puts away her brush and draws her own sword.
[20:30] <DM-Shaddow> Lan you follow Whiskers as he heads towards a door and begins scratching at it.
[20:32] Lan_Furra opens the door
[20:32] Galen_Warlocked raises his hand, muttering under his breath.
[20:33] <Lan_Furra> (I'm missing from the map lol)
[20:33] <DM-Shaddow> (scroll down :P)
[20:33] <Lan_Furra> (I have :P)
[20:34] <Lan_Furra> (I even zoomed out)
[20:34] * ^ThEeYe^ (ThEeYe@sorcery-e1esk2.cable.rogers.com) Quit (Quit: )
[20:34] <Lan_Furra> (there we go, I see mw not :P)
[20:34] <Lan_Furra> (me now)
[20:35] <DM-Shaddow> As you enter the room, it's hard to see, you have the feeling the only reason you can see at all is cause of your dark vision. It opens up to a parlor room. On an end table next to a sofa is a glass dome that houses a gold bug, in the far corner is a stuffed orangatagn, in front of the couch is a coffe table with a gold razor on it, to your right is a table with a very fine looking white
[20:35] <DM-Shaddow> mask, and to your left a scattering of books and papers. On one wall is a painting, similar in style to the ones in the hallway.
[20:36] Galen_Warlocked steps in and examines the gold bug.
[20:36] <Vidame-Star> “I can't see anything in there.”
[20:36] <Galen_Warlocked> “I can. You like stuffed animals?”
[20:36] <DM-Shaddow> Galen how are you examing the bug?
[20:36] <DM-Shaddow> remember, it's in a glass jar.
[20:36] Lan_Furra casts Dancing Lights, and scatters them throughout the room (4 torch sized lights)
[20:36] Galen_Warlocked appraoches the dome and looks at the bug through it.
[20:37] Galen_Warlocked squints at the sudden light.
[20:37] <DM-Shaddow> Can i get an invesigation check from Lan please?
[20:37] <Lan_Furra> 1d20
[20:37] <+TolBot> Lan_Furra's 1d20(7)]: 7
[20:38] <DM-Shaddow> Your eyes squint for a moment as the light hits the gold of the razor, but you see what might be a stain on it, you aren't sure tho.
[20:38] Galen_Warlocked taps the dome with a fluid crusted fingernail.
[20:39] <DM-Shaddow> The bug flutters, and turns in the direction of the tapping.
[20:39] Galen_Warlocked grins. “And what are you?”
[20:39] <Galen_Warlocked> (can I try an investigation check to see if I've ever heard of something like this?”
[20:40] <DM-Shaddow> (hang on, looking something up)
[20:40] <Galen_Warlocked> (ok)
[20:41] <DM-Shaddow> Lan what form did you want your dancing lights to take?
[20:41] <Lan_Furra> (four torch sized lights)
[20:41] <DM-Shaddow> (mage, i need to pm you a sec)
[20:42] <Vidame-Star> (Sure)
[20:43] <DM-Shaddow> (and you can try an investigation check sure.)
[20:43] <Galen_Warlocked> 1d20+1 (invesitagtion)
[20:43] <+TolBot> Galen_Warlocked's 1d20(16)+1 '(invesitagtion)']: 17
[20:44] <DM-Shaddow> You believe that it's definately some sort of spell (sorry new dm and sheet doesn't cover this :P) you get the feeling tho that the bug will change if you lift the glass dome.
[20:45] <Lan_Furra> (Do it! Maybe it'll give your face a hug!)
[20:45] Galen_Warlocked smiles and contemplates raising it.
[20:46] <DM-Shaddow> There is a pile of books, if anyone wants to investigate them, and the white mask on the table, and the giant monkey (can't spell orangatagn).
[20:46] Lan_Furra checks out the papers, Whiskers guarding his backside
[20:46] <DM-Shaddow> Investigation check please Lan.
[20:46] * @Vidame-Star enters the room and looks around, now that there is a light source.
[20:46] <Lan_Furra> 1d20 investigation
[20:46] <+TolBot> Lan_Furra's 1d20(20) 'investigation']: 20 (Nailed it!)
[20:47] <Lan_Furra> (probably a waste of a Nat20)
[20:47] <DM-Shaddow> You find several books on the history of arcana and magic. Several in the realm of necromancy. The one that catches your eye though is a spellbook containing all necormancy spells levels 1 to 3, that you estimate would be worth 800 gp to the right buyer.
[20:48] <Galen_Warlocked> (I'll give you a dead rat!)
[20:48] <Lan_Furra> Galen these may be more up your alley.“
[20:48] Galen_Warlocked looks at Lan and sees the books.
[20:49] * @Anatoly looks around at books.
[20:49] Galen_Warlocked shrugs his shoulders. “I'll take a look at them. Don't raise up this dome. I don't know what this gold bug will do.”
[20:49] Galen_Warlocked walks over to the books.
[20:49] <DM-Shaddow> Whiskers moves over to the giant monkey and hisses at it, then goes over to the bug and hisses, then to the mask, hissing again, prowling around in that manor, over and over.
[20:49] * @Vidame-Star walks over to the mask.
[20:49] <DM-Shaddow> The mask is a plain white mask, the kind that a performer might wear.
[20:49] <Anatoly> 1d20+2 Investigation
[20:49] <+TolBot> [Anatoly's 1d20(10)+2 'Investigation']: 12
[20:50] <Vidame-Star> “Boring.”
[20:50] Lan_Furra draws his blades, and follows after Whiskers and pokes the Monkey in the corner
[20:50] <DM-Shaddow> After a second though, blood starts pouring from the eyes of the mask.
[20:51] <Vidame-Star> “Not boring now.”
[20:51] <DM-Shaddow> Anatoly as you look through the papers, you find more references to a dark sacrafice.
[20:51] <DM-Shaddow> Lan the monkey doesn't move, but Whiskers keeps hissing at it.
[20:52] Galen_Warlocked takes the books and tucks them away in his pouch for later use.
[20:52] Lan_Furra pushes the monkey over
[20:53] * @Vidame-Star studies the mask.
[20:53] <DM-Shaddow> The monkey still doesn't move. the mask, STar, continues to bleed, even after the mask is soaked so much that it's completely red.
[20:53] <Galen_Warlocked> (Let's trash the room, rock star style!)
[20:54] Galen_Warlocked turns around and looks to see if the dome has been overturned.
[20:54] <Vidame-Star> “Eww messy”
[20:54] * @Vidame-Star leaves the mask alone and goes to look at the bug
[20:54] <DM-Shaddow> The dome is still over the bug, and it still crawls about. whiskers continues to hiss at the giant monkey, the gold bug, and the mask.
[20:55] Lan_Furra pats Whiskers “Come friend,” he heads back out the door with Whiskers
[20:55] <DM-Shaddow> Out in the hall, that knocking starts up again.
[20:55] Galen_Warlocked looks at Vidame “Grab that mask. It might be fun.”
[20:55] Galen_Warlocked looks over the bug one more time.
[20:55] * @Vidame-Star ignores Galen…mostly because she can't hear him.
[20:56] Lan_Furra kneels and pets Whiskers as they wait, “Calm friend.”
[20:56] <DM-Shaddow> So, are you all heading out of the room now?
[20:57] * @Anatoly looks back out into the hall.
[20:57] * @Vidame-Star pokes the glass on the bug cage.
[20:57] Galen_Warlocked looks at Vidame…and sighs as he walks over to the mask.
[20:58] <Galen_Warlocked> “I'll bet if I blew in your ear, your hair would puff out of the other side and I'd get a note.”
[20:58] Galen_Warlocked picks up the mask.
[20:58] <Lan_Furra> (lol)
[20:58] <DM-Shaddow> The mask just continues to pour blood, though none gets on your fingers.
[20:58] Galen_Warlocked examines the inside of the mask.
[20:58] <DM-Shaddow> There's nothing there but more blood.
[20:59] Galen_Warlocked dabs at the pooling blood with a pinky. “Go get that bug.”
[20:59] <DM-Shaddow> It's just blood, stains your pinky as you dip it in it, but nothing happens.
[21:00] <DM-Shaddow> A faint moan can be heard between knocks, seeming to come from the same area.
[21:00] Galen_Warlocked shrugs and shoves the mask into his bag.
[21:00] Galen_Warlocked looks towards the moans.
[21:00] <Vidame-Star> “You're an ugly looking bug aren't you?”
[21:00] <Galen_Warlocked> “Anyone else hear that moan?”
[21:01] <DM-Shaddow> (the moans are out of the room, sorry about the confusion)
[21:02] Galen_Warlocked walks out of the room, confident that Vidame can follow ever very simple instructions, and looks down the hall.
[21:03] <DM-Shaddow> The moan dies away, but the knocking picks up in intenstaty.
[21:04] * @Vidame-Star notices that the others have left, and moves to join them.
[21:04] Galen_Warlocked starts to walk towards the knocking.
[21:04] Lan_Furra follows after Galen Whiskers in tow
[21:04] <DM-Shaddow> As you move towards the south east, you find doors to three rooms. Each door sounds as if someone is knocking on it, but no one is there. Whiskers moves for the middle door.
[21:05] Lan_Furra sees where Whiskers is going, eyes the door.
[21:07] Galen_Warlocked positions himself towards the back to give support.
[21:07] <DM-Shaddow> Whiskers lowers down infront of the door, hissing softly at it. The knocks at all three doors stop as soon as you get near the doors.
[21:08] Lan_Furra grips the hilts of his blades, and gives the door a hearty kick
[21:08] <DM-Shaddow> (the middle door that whiskers is at?)
[21:08] <Lan_Furra> (yup)
[21:10] <DM-Shaddow> When you open the door, or kick open in this case. You find servants quarters with a serverant sitting in a chair, staring out blankly. He sits upright, still wearing his uniform, staring blankly towrds the door. His features are bloated an stiff, and his eyes have gone milky white. A fly crawls across the surface of them, where he does not blink. After a minute his mouth begins to
[21:10] <Lan_Furra> 1d20+2 str check
[21:10] <DM-Shaddow> move, though for now, no sound comes out.
[21:10] <+TolBot> Lan_Furra's 1d20(17)+2 'str check']: 19
[21:11] <DM-Shaddow> (wasn't locked lol)
[21:11] <Vidame-Star> “Like ewww”
[21:11] <Galen_Warlocked> “Hmm…“
[21:11] Galen_Warlocked pushes his way forward.
[21:12] <DM-Shaddow> <servant> pppppllleassssee.
[21:12] <Galen_Warlocked> “Please what?”
[21:13] <DM-Shaddow> Anyone who has knowledge of the arcane can make an arcana check.
[21:13] <Galen_Warlocked> 1d20+4 (arcana)
[21:13] <+TolBot> Galen_Warlocked's 1d20(2)+4 '(arcana)']: 6
[21:13] <Galen_Warlocked> (Seriously?)
[21:13] <Lan_Furra> 1d20
[21:13] <+TolBot> Lan_Furra's 1d20(20)]: 20 (Sweet!)
[21:13] <Lan_Furra> (ROFLMAO!)
[21:13] <Galen_Warlocked> (SERIOUSLY?)
[21:13] <Vidame-Star> (Technically in 5th edition that's everybody)
[21:13] <Vidame-Star> 1d20-2
[21:13] <+TolBot> [Vidame-Star's 1d20(5)-2]: 3
[21:13] <Anatoly> 1d20+2 arcana
[21:13] <+TolBot> [Anatoly's 1d20(19)+2 'arcana']: 21
[21:13] <DM-Shaddow> <servant> kill meee.
[21:14] <Galen_Warlocked> “I think someone beat us to that, brother.”
[21:14] <DM-Shaddow> Lan and Anatoly you know at once, this man is being used to power a spell, and that while the man is dead, his soul is trapped.
[21:14] <DM-Shaddow> <servant> please, he won't let me go, please kill me.
[21:15] * @Anatoly shivers.
[21:15] <Anatoly> “Evil magic here.”
[21:15] <Lan_Furra> (is he undead, or simply being drained?)
[21:15] <DM-Shaddow> You two also know that there is no way to kill him without killing the person enacting the spell.
[21:15] <Anatoly> “Vampiric magic.”
[21:15] Galen_Warlocked looks over his shoulder at the others. “Grant his request?”
[21:15] <DM-Shaddow> (he's being kept in a sort of statis)
[21:15] <Galen_Warlocked> (brb – juice break)
[21:15] <Lan_Furra> “Soon you will be at peace,” he moves to the next room
[21:15] <Anatoly> “He’s already dead. I think we’ll need to dispose with whomever is draining his soul… Ed I presume.”
[21:16] <DM-Shaddow> <servant> yes, Ed, he wont let me go, please kill me, put me to sleep, kill me, please.
[21:17] <Vidame-Star> “Not hearing things is totally lame.”
[21:17] <DM-Shaddow> At this point Star your ears pop, and you can once again hear, just in time to hear the servants mad ramblings.
[21:18] Galen_Warlocked takes out the mask. “Do you know about this?”
[21:18] <Galen_Warlocked> “Tell me, and I'll release you.”
[21:19] <Vidame-Star> “Oooh I can hear again!”
[21:19] <DM-Shaddow> <servant> no, i know nothing. kill me, kill me, kill me!
[21:19] <DM-Shaddow> At this point, the servant just keeps repeating kill me, as if he is no longer aware of your presense.
[21:20] * @Vidame-Star takes her sword and cleaves down into the top of the corpse's head.
[21:20] <DM-Shaddow> make an attack roll
[21:20] <Vidame-Star> 1d20+9
[21:20] <+TolBot> [Vidame-Star's 1d20(2)+9]: 11
[21:20] <Galen_Warlocked> “WHOA!”
[21:21] Galen_Warlocked scrambles back
[21:21] <DM-Shaddow> Star slices into the man's head, though there is no reaction, he merely keeps repeating 'kill me' over and over.
[21:22] * @Vidame-Star keeps chopping until he stops talking.
[21:22] <Galen_Warlocked> “ARE YOU MADDER THAN ME?”
[21:22] Galen_Warlocked tries to interpose himself under Vidame's arms
[21:23] <Galen_Warlocked> “He's not going to die until we kill what animates him. All you're doing is needlessly tortuing him, you quarter-wit!”
[21:23] <DM-Shaddow> Star slashes again and again until she manages to cut the man's vocal cords, his gortesque form finally silent, though he sits still, not having twitch despite the vicious attack.
[21:23] <Lan_Furra> (poor man doesn't have Twitch… what does he have to watch. :( )
[21:23] <Vidame-Star> “Well I didn't know that, and he wanted to die, I was trying to do him a mercy you jerk.”
[21:24] <Galen_Warlocked> (probably Youtube on Chrome…essentially nothing)
[21:24] Galen_Warlocked clenches his fists as his face manages to – impossibly – turn another shade of red.
[21:25] * @Anatoly sighs.
[21:25] Galen_Warlocked sighs and seemingly turns back to his usual jovial, off-kilter manner.
[21:25] <Galen_Warlocked> “Right. Let's get on.”
[21:25] Lan_Furra waits for the others, before opening the door (to the right of the one that was jus' opened)
[21:25] Galen_Warlocked walks out of the room, stops and turns to face Vidame “You got the bug, right?”
[21:26] <Vidame-Star> “That grottie thing, spla no!”
[21:27] <DM-Shaddow> In the room you open Lan you find what looks to be the maid's room. Nothing of value seems to be left in it however, as if they maid was leaving, but the room is a bloody mess, literally. Blood litters the floor, and is slashed across the walls.
[21:27] <DM-Shaddow> (*splashed even)
[21:28] Galen_Warlocked purses his lips and walks back to the other room.
[21:28] Lan_Furra grins and looks at Whiskers “Somebody rivals the mess you make when you catch your meal.”
[21:29] Galen_Warlocked walk over to the glass dome, taps the glass again to see if there is another response, then looks for a stiff book cover.
[21:29] <DM-Shaddow> The bug is still there, crawling around the glass.
[21:30] <Galen_Warlocked> (There were books in this room, right?)
[21:30] <DM-Shaddow> (yes)
[21:30] Lan_Furra stands between the rooms, waiting for screams.
[21:31] <Vidame-Star> “Hey what's in this door?”
[21:31] * @Vidame-Star points at the last door with her bloody sword.
[21:31] Galen_Warlocked lifts up the dome.
[21:31] <DM-Shaddow> Star you find a bathroom, that unlike the other rooms is clean.
[21:31] <Galen_Warlocked> “Here's to hoping you're not going to eat me first – I already have that honor betowed on me.”
[21:31] <DM-Shaddow> investgation check please star?
[21:32] <DM-Shaddow> As soon as the dome is lifted the gold bug expands, and morphs into a gaint fire beetle that ttacks galen
[21:32] <DM-Shaddow> Roll initivte Galen
[21:33] <Galen_Warlocked> 1d20+6
[21:33] <+TolBot> Galen_Warlocked's 1d20(6)+6]: 12
[21:33] <DM-Shaddow> 1d20
[21:33] <+TolBot> <[DM-Shaddow's 1d20(11)]: 11
[21:33] <Vidame-Star> 1d20-2 Investigation
[21:33] <+TolBot> [Vidame-Star's 1d20(11)-2 'Investigation']: 9
[21:33] <DM-Shaddow> Since you were aware it might be a nasty thing, you get to go first galen.
[21:34] <Galen_Warlocked> “Really? Fire?”
[21:34] Galen_Warlocked thrusts his hand out, firing a bolt of eldritch energy.
[21:34] <DM-Shaddow> In the corner you see something glinting. Looking further it's a single gold piece. Star.
[21:35] <DM-Shaddow> (is that a saving throw galen?)
[21:35] <Galen_Warlocked> (roll to hit)
[21:35] <DM-Shaddow> Roll your attack.
[21:36] <Galen_Warlocked> 1d20+7
[21:36] <+TolBot> Galen_Warlocked's 1d20(1)+7]: 8 (Yowza)
[21:36] <DM-Shaddow> With one well placed blast you kill the beetle.
[21:36] <Galen_Warlocked> (*bleeping bleepity bleep*)
[21:37] <DM-Shaddow> (oh wait, i'm wrong, hang on)
[21:37] Galen_Warlocked blinks
[21:37] <DM-Shaddow> (that was your attack)
[21:37] <Galen_Warlocked> (Yep)
[21:37] <Lan_Furra> (and it was a Nat1 lol)
[21:37] <DM-Shaddow> (hang on hang on, hang on lol)
[21:37] <Galen_Warlocked> (no no – take your time)
[21:37] * @Vidame-Star looks at the gold coin.
[21:38] <Vidame-Star> “That's out of place here.”
[21:38] * @Vidame-Star enters to take a look.
[21:38] <DM-Shaddow> As you go to blast the beetle, it dodges easily enough, and moves in to attack.
[21:38] <DM-Shaddow> Star it's just a gold coin, nothing interesting beyond that.
[21:38] <DM-Shaddow> 1d20+1
[21:38] <+TolBot> <[DM-Shaddow's 1d20(9)+1]: 10
[21:38] <Lan_Furra> (do I hear the commotion?)
[21:38] <DM-Shaddow> (what's your armor class galen? and yes you would hear it)
[21:39] <Galen_Warlocked> (AC 15)
[21:39] Lan_Furra darts in with Whiskers as he hears the commotion
[21:39] <DM-Shaddow> Roll inititive Lan.
[21:39] <Lan_Furra> 1d20+4 Lan
[21:39] <+TolBot> Lan_Furra's 1d20(17)+4 'Lan']: 21
[21:39] <Lan_Furra> 1d20+2 Whiskers
[21:39] <DM-Shaddow> The bug however glances off your shoulder, and shakes its body as it lands on the floor.
[21:39] <+TolBot> Lan_Furra's 1d20(17)+2 'Whiskers']: 19
[21:40] Galen_Warlocked turns to face it and fires another bolt.
[21:40] <DM-Shaddow> roll your attack.
[21:40] <Galen_Warlocked> 1d20+7
[21:40] <+TolBot> Galen_Warlocked's 1d20(10)+7]: 17
[21:40] <Galen_Warlocked> (better)
[21:40] <DM-Shaddow> hits
[21:40] <Galen_Warlocked> 1d10+4
[21:40] <+TolBot> Galen_Warlocked's 1d10(2)+4]: 6
[21:41] <Galen_Warlocked> (yaa – first blood)
[21:41] <Lan_Furra> (nah, Star beat you to that)
[21:41] <Anatoly> (Shaddow, the way initiative works, is everyone rolls initiative all at once, then folks act in the order of highest to lowest)
[21:41] <DM-Shaddow> Galen hits his target this time, the beetle screetching as it studders back, stunned. Despite the deep wound it attempts to bite him once more.
[21:42] <Vidame-Star> (True)
[21:42] <DM-Shaddow> (normally yes, but ou aren't all in the room)
[21:42] <Anatoly> (doesn’t matter… the initiative is used then to see movement and when folks can act)
[21:42] <Anatoly> (we can discuss later)
[21:43] <DM-Shaddow> 1d20+1
[21:43] <+TolBot> <[DM-Shaddow's 1d20(3)+1]: 4
[21:44] <DM-Shaddow> The beetle, having very little fight left, misses Galen Lan you get there just as the beetle misses Galen for the second time, you may attack
[21:44] Galen_Warlocked fires another bolt. “Die, already! Wretched, unwanted thing!”
[21:45] <Lan_Furra> 1d20+6
[21:45] <+TolBot> Lan_Furra's 1d20(18)+6]: 24
[21:45] <DM-Shaddow> hit
[21:45] <Lan_Furra> 1d8+3
[21:45] <+TolBot> Lan_Furra's 1d8(2)+3]: 5
[21:45] <Lan_Furra> (I have a 2nd attack if needed)
[21:46] <DM-Shaddow> It's hard to tell if Galen's eldrich blast got it, or lan's attack, but the beetle is dead.
[21:46] <DM-Shaddow> Lan and Galen make a perception check please.
[21:46] <Galen_Warlocked> 1d20+2
[21:46] <+TolBot> Galen_Warlocked's 1d20(2)+2]: 4
[21:46] <Lan_Furra> 1d20+5 Perception
[21:46] <+TolBot> Lan_Furra's 1d20(4)+5 'Perception']: 9
[21:46] <Galen_Warlocked> (*sigh*)
[21:46] <Vidame-Star> (Well Jimmy Cricket is dead, hope you're happy with yourselves.)
[21:46] <DM-Shaddow> Both of you notice that even though the beetle is dead, there are parts of it still glowing.
[21:46] <Lan_Furra> 1d20+7 Whiskers perception
[21:47] <+TolBot> Lan_Furra's 1d20(7)+7 'Whiskers perception']: 14
[21:47] <Galen_Warlocked> (Very much – now with my conscience dead, I can truly live.)
[21:47] Galen_Warlocked puts a hand up to the glowing parts to feel for heat.
[21:47] <DM-Shaddow> 1d6
[21:47] <+TolBot> <[DM-Shaddow's 1d6(4)]: 4
[21:48] <DM-Shaddow> There is a little heat, but it's mostly like a glow worm.
[21:48] <DM-Shaddow> Make a nature check Galen.
[21:48] <Galen_Warlocked> 1d20+1
[21:48] <+TolBot> Galen_Warlocked's 1d20(8)+1]: 9
[21:49] <DM-Shaddow> You aren't really familar with creatures like this, but it's a pretty glow.
[21:49] * @Vidame-Star bends down, picks up the gold coin and studies it.
[21:49] <DM-Shaddow> It's just a coin, nothing weird to it other than it was in a bathroom.
[21:50] <Galen_Warlocked> “Useless.”
[21:50] * @Vidame-Star pockets it.
[21:50] Galen_Warlocked walks out of the room.
[21:50] <DM-Shaddow> That knocking picks up again, seeming now to come from below you.
[21:51] Galen_Warlocked looks down and stomps on the floor, mimicking the pattern.
[21:52] <DM-Shaddow> Just keeps knocking, doesn't respond to the pattern at all.
[21:52] <Galen_Warlocked> “Well – that was bracing. Where to now?”
[21:54] <Vidame-Star> “Downstairs…duh.”
[21:55] <Galen_Warlocked> “Works for me.”
[21:55] Galen_Warlocked dusts off the sleeves of his goat-fur shirt.
[21:55] <DM-Shaddow> As you head down the stairs, the storm seems to pick up, lightening and thunder both crash near by. Once you come into the main hall, an erie sight greets you.
[21:56] <DM-Shaddow> (how do i move tokens from one map to another?)
[21:57] * @Anatoly looks for the stairs.
[21:57] <Anatoly> (drag the “live” or whatever thing to the next tab
[21:57] <DM-Shaddow> ( did that but you aren't appearing on the map.)
[21:58] <Anatoly> (ah, you go back to the other tab, select all the player tokens, copy, swithc back, paste
[21:58] <DM-Shaddow> (aah ok)
[22:01] <DM-Shaddow> (walls of text incoming)
[22:02] <DM-Shaddow> As you come into this once grand entrance to the house, a chilling scene lays before you. The backdrop of thunder, rain and that ever-presistant knocking provides a horrible symphony for the end result of some dark, twisted ritirual.
[22:03] * @Anatoly shivers.
[22:03] Galen_Warlocked grins
[22:03] <DM-Shaddow> A large ornamental carpet has been pushed to the side of the staircase to make room for a 20 foot wide circle, with arcane runes and symbols inscribed around the inside ring. The material used on the circle maintains a soft, greenish glow, while the runes are written in black ink. Starring at the runes you see whisps of shadow trailing off the writing, floating upwards before disapearing.
[22:04] <Vidame-Star> “Um.. uh oh”
[22:04] <Galen_Warlocked> “The Thundering Hooves Move Me…“
[22:05] <DM-Shaddow> Those with arcana training recorgnize many of the runes that represnet life and death are involved in the ritural, you see in center of this circle a small black object, a little over a foot long, the object itself lumpy and mishapen. upon further inspection, you have to fight off the bile that has risen to your throat, or fight back the glee if you are Galen as you realize you are
[22:05] <DM-Shaddow> staring at the burnt, charred corpse of a fetus, skin charred and lback. The body, smaller than you would have thought, is curled up on itself the outline of its form just barely discrnable. You see coming off the body a similar manner to the runes are small whisps of shadow, rising up towards the cieling before fading into nothingness.
[22:06] <Vidame-Star> “Ewwww”
[22:06] <DM-Shaddow> Can i get an arcana check from everyone DC17.
[22:07] <Galen_Warlocked> 1d20+4
[22:07] <+TolBot> Galen_Warlocked's 1d20(19)+4]: 23
[22:07] <Lan_Furra> 1d20 vs dc17
[22:07] <+TolBot> Lan_Furra's 1d20(14) 'vs dc17']: 14 (Fail)
[22:07] <Vidame-Star> 1d20-2 dc17
[22:07] <+TolBot> [Vidame-Star's 1d20(13)-2 'dc17']: 11 (Fail)
[22:08] <Anatoly> 1d20+2 DC17
[22:08] <+TolBot> [Anatoly's 1d20(3)+2 'DC17']: 5 (Fail)
[22:11] <Galen_Warlocked> “This makes me mad. if anyone is going to bind a soul – IT'S GOING TO BE ME IN THE SERVICE OF THE THOUSAND YOUNG!”
[22:11] * @Vidame-Star looks over at Galen.
[22:11] <Vidame-Star> “What?”
[22:12] * @Anatoly tilts his head at Galen quizically.
[22:12] <Galen_Warlocked> “This circle binds a soul to a body. More than likely the bindor is the imp Annabel.”
[22:12] <Galen_Warlocked> “Don't step into the circle, it will hurt you.”
[22:13] <Galen_Warlocked> “If you find it – kill it.”
[22:13] <Galen_Warlocked> “That will break the spell.”
[22:13] <Galen_Warlocked> “Again – avoid the circle, kill the imp.”
[22:14] <DM-Shaddow> lightening crashes insanely close by, causing a momentarily deafening clap of thunder. And that adventures, is where we will end tonights game.
[22:14] * @Vidame-Star looks around for an imp, or whomever the shortest party member is.