D&D Beginner's Game: Act 1, Scene 3: The Hunted

Nebelwerfer wrote: »

Webby embraces Brutha "Thank you! I feel so much better".

Webby steps through the doorway into the corridor and checks left and right to see which other party members have remained behind.

Webby can see that 9Lives, Stu Pendous and Fector remain in the corridor. Brutha and Stufur are behind him in the room with Sandor, who is still sulking in the corner, unaware of the lit torch Echtrae holds near to him.

Mollyb60 wrote: »

[OOC: rolled a 10 for the runes]

Meera gently touches a finger to the mask.

Meera can make out that they are scrawled in Goblin, an incredibly crude form of writing.

The runes read:

"Upon the fifth day of the Year of Mirrors, in the Desert of Mist, the Black Castle shall be destroyed"


Upon touching a finger to the masks, Meera gets another sensation of power from it.

Guffy wrote: »

Echtrae is consumed by the jewels embedded in Sandor's sword, his eye's shining with greed.

He noticed Sandor's dismay at webby's torch missing and figured he must be wearing something combustible.

He looked a Webby and Sufur as they left, trusting them now less than ever. "Maybe if I rid the world of this undead creature, it will release my companions from what spell they are surely under" he thinks.


He creeps up on Sandor and presses the torch into his back, holding it until his clothing to ignites.

OOC: Getting to this shortly. Now would be a good time to declare a spell though

Mollyb60 wrote: »

'OOh! Tingly!' [OOC: can I figure out what sort of sensation?]

Meera checks the back of the mask for traps or triggers and if she finds none she lifts it off the wall.

[OOC: I bet this is gonna end well! ]

Meera takes the mask into her hands, and is hit with a wave of power emanating from the mask.

She is compelled to put it on, the power is urging her to do so.

She attempts to fight it with her own will, but the power is too strong.

She puts the mask on.

It wheels her around in a circle from another power burst, to face the runes.....

Which start to glow red.


The North Wall slides apart, and from within, two Orcs and a Kobold rush from a small room hidden there.

They charge towards Meera.....



OOC: Stopping there for tonight. Next action is yours. Guffy, will get to you tomorrow as well, things a bit hectic at work. Sorry folks

Recap :

The king is dead! But worry not, dear reader, for the culprits have been caught and cast into a dungeon from whence no one has ever returned. The gods shall judge them, and the rats will eat what's left.


Where are you all?

Sandor's Tomb :
Sandor, King of the Black Gate Forest has risen again. Having bitten and seemingly raised Stufur from the dead, he's now being bullied by a magic user.
Echtrae (Guffy) is that bully, waving a lit torch in the face of the enraged risen king.
Stufur Evergreen (Fourier) having recently had his insides made into outsides by a scythe trap seems to be doing a lot better, but was recently seen eating Webby's leg and is currently moving to attack Echtrae with fang and blade alike in response to his bullying antics.
Stu Pendous (Kolido) is also there, brandishing a dagger but hearing Stufur out.


In the corridor outside Sandor's tomb
Webby Frothfist (Nebelwerfer) - having recently been chewed like a toffee in Sandor's tomb, he's made his way outside the door just in time to miss all the crap kicking off to grab a quick heal from Brutha
Brutha (JasonB) - having just healed Webby, he's positioned right outside the door.
9 Lives Pete (Conor222) - standing outside the door of the tomb. It's a big door.
Fector Hammerchop (Duffman13) - Also outside the door. Was standing behind Meera but thanks to the miracle of asynchronous play by mail she's in the next paragraph.

The Mask Room
Meera Trakos (Mollyb60) - Wearing a fearsome mask and watching a couple of orcs and a kobold prostrate themselves in front of her.
Aesc the Thief (Old Goat) - having heard a commotion in the room behind him, runs in from the southern door to see the masked figure and their attendants.

The Scythe Trap
Lalwende the Elf (Professor Moriarty) - off on her own investigating the site of Stufur's recent near-bisection.

Where are these rooms relative to eachother? Well that's up to you to map. Molly had a decent start if you want to scroll back, but I encourage you all to keep track yourselves, if only because there's only so many times you can say "I head south" when you're standing in an east-west corridor before I let you head south and bump your head on a wall for 1HP damage. There are many ways to die in this dungeon, and that is the 3rd most humiliating one. (Good luck to the first one who finds the Wand of Dysentery trap)

Before anyone posts again, can everyone please check in in the FG thread so we know who's on pause and who'll bleed for the cause before we resume?