Skull Mountain: Another day another fortune... maybe...

[Fearghus]

Einar, Thief

"Hrmm...", the thief murmurs. "Let me make way across the berm before the rest of you follow. This place is strange".

Einar flips up his cowl and makes his way across the berm, inspecting either side along the way.

[Craigers07]

Grimes - Fighter

"I hate bugs. Then again, I hate most everything. But I really hate bugs. You don't suppose there's anything to this, is there?" He'll pause to see if his colleagues have any suggestions, or possibly just churning on through the bugs.

"I hate bugs too little friend. Let's try to find a quick way through them, so we can start killing and looting again."

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Einar slips the hood over his head and creeps across (Move Silently d100, 20, SUCCESS) the narrow berm.

The bugs, and there are lots of them, are busily eating, clambering over one another, and generally being giant bugs. The fungus gives off enough light to see by.



At the X on the map, Einar notices a dead lizardfolk covered in the locusts.

He makes it across and lowers his hood, looking back and waving at the rest of the party.

Actions?

[badams30]

Grimes - Fighter

Grimes will haul A#% across the open area, saying "Let's keep some space, but hurry... we don't want to end up like lizard boy over there..."

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Grimes runs across the berm, his mail armor clinking as he does so. The locusts are noticeably disturbed and begin to whine more, the din growing louder. When he's about halfway across, he notices more of them launching into the air, perhaps to flee the noise, and (secret roll) three of them careen towards the halfling. (d20x3, 1, 11, 19, one hits) One of the subterranean locusts slams into Grimes (dmg d4, 1) but he keeps to his feet.

Grimes makes it safely across, to join Einar. The rest of the party--Dieter with his light source, Furuk and Dandy--remains on the other side of the cavern.

Actions?

Hit points and marching order
Grimes 31/34
--Furuk 36/36
Dieter 18/18
--Dandy 23/23
Einar 11/11

[connivingsumo]

Dandy

"Err... ehh... I reckon the idear is to cross quietly then, eh?"

[Spanningtree]

Dieter - Mage

Dieter will wait for them to settle down a bit and then try his away across being as silent as possible. If they seem attracted to the light he will get back to where he came from.

OCC: We can tie a light to the light source and pull it across after were all safe or Dieter can make another one (at the cost of a potentially offensive spell).

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Dieter waits patiently and then moves slowly and as silently as he can across (DEX check, d20, 5, SUCCESS). The locusts start buzzing loudly again as if agitated, and Dieter moves back to where he came.

Dandy makes his statement but doesn't move.

[badams30]

Grimes - Fighter

Grimes says to Einar "Do we have anything we could throw across into the mess of them as a distraction?" He thinks for a moment and says "Uh... I'm pretty small. I may be able to be a distraction. It might hurt a bit, but I could try?"

OOC: Grimes is thinking of perhaps making a ruckus to distract the things while the other three cross en masse. Any other ideas? My other option might be to cast my web (from the cloak) in some position to slow or stop the flying insects.... Hmmm...

[connivingsumo]

Grimes - Fighter

Grimes says to Einar "Do we have anything we could throw across into the mess of them as a distraction?" He thinks for a moment and says "Uh... I'm pretty small. I may be able to be a distraction. It might hurt a bit, but I could try?"

OOC: Grimes is thinking of perhaps making a ruckus to distract the things while the other three cross en masse. Any other ideas? My other option might be to cast my web (from the cloak) in some position to slow or stop the flying insects.... Hmmm...

Dandy 'whisper shouts' ..."Hey there brave Halflin - don do nuthin stupid thar lil'buddy - one'them bugs hit ye and took a chunk out'o ye! Magine what they'll all do!!"

Dandy ponders...

"Well... guess it'aint bout bein quiet! What did Einar do different than Grimes or Deeters? Cloak mebbe??"

ooc: "Gilligan liddl buddy!" ... I think I just dated myself there...