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Friday Night Pathfinder: Dangers in the Tomb

The party had defeated the two guardians last session and was now standing in a room of alcoves, each a grave.  Three doorways exited the room besides the direction they entered.  To the south, there was a small room with a single large sarcophagus, so covered in dust that Felix could not make out what it was made of. Felix entered, sure that there were no traps (and he would know!).  Unfortunately, 4 wraiths came out of the walls and surrounded him.

Felix turned into a bat and flew away.  The rest of the party prepared for attack.  Corrail fired shots with his bow.  Chum swung wildly at the wraiths who pawed at him.  Elliot, the Cavalier, moved up to attack with his sword.  The bard played loudly  greatly inspiring the party.  Sandra, the summoner, buffed herself with magic spells, in prep for a lengthy battle.  Niva blasted the wraiths with magical lightning.  The monk, downtrodden and drunk after lamenting his answer further ("The torch!" he cries out.) sat in the corner ill (his player was out this week.)  Yuri and the tiger stayed back.

The wraiths moved up quickly to use their touch attacks.  The party avoid their undead powers, except for the Cavalier, who took heavy damaged, wilting away some of his life force (con damage).  Corrail switched to a sword and the battle continued.  The wriaths left Chum and Chum did nothing useful.  The party attacked, lightning flashed, arrows flew, and the wraiths fell.

Searching the sarcophagus, the party found it was made of gold.  There was a glyph carved into it that the rogue was able to disable.  It was a blast glyph, so the party stood clear in case the magic was unleashed.  In the grave was a barbarian of sorts, perhaps Uthgardt, clad in a magical mithral chainmail.  Don found this all odd, as this person should not be here in this very old tomb.  He recorded his findings for posterity.

From there Niva and Elliot started to discuss how much Elliot missed his mount.  Elliot lamented the fact that his horse could not manuever the underground.  Niva offered to bring the horse forth and shrink the two of them to a size fit for a dungeon.  Elliot agreed and Niva started the ritual.  Elliot decided not make it permanent, but instead to try it for a week.

While the ritual was underway, Felix searched the area.  He found a room to the North with 4 statues of knights with swords and a secret door.  To the west, he found a room with many wall-encased graves and two large fountains full of gold coins.  Felix avoided his temptation and moved on to the room with the secret door.

Don went into the room with the fountains full of coins and became trapped when his foot fell into a hole in the floor.  He could not pull himself free (failed strength check).  The party quickly gathered to aid him.  Unfortunately the hole was also a trigger for a trap.  Heavy metal doors slammed into place around them, breaking the large room into small cubicles.  Some of the characters were able to dodge the walls and choose what rooms they landed in.  Poor Elliot was hit by the way and slightly injured.

In the first room was Elliot and his mount, both of one size smaller now.

In the second room was Yuri, Sandra, and Felix.

In the third room was Corrail and Don.

They noticed holes in the ceiling.  One of them noticed that these holes contained spears, heavily weighted, that could fall at any moment.  With only 6 inches between the matrix of spears, it was going to hurt.

Felix tried to grab some of the coins, but was electrocuted.  He tried to talk Sandra into assisting his stealing of coins with her mage hand spell, but she refused.

Corrail chose not to break into the wall grave in fear that the spears would be triggered.

There was a loud, ringing as Elliot charge the wall.

Eventually there was anoth loud thud and ringing and crunching.  Then another and the wall was ripped from Elliot's cublicle.  Unfortunately the wall was holding down the trigger for the spears and when Chum ripped it away, Elliot was hit by a barrage of spears.  Chum continued along the way, ripping out walls, with the occupants dodging spears as best they could.

After the escape was complete, they broke open the graves to find them all empty.  Don, once again, found this odd.

The party moved on, through the room with the four statues, and down a hall.  There a room came into Felix's view that contained two Dark Nagas and some small creatures standing in the shadows that did not move.

The Dark Nagas were happy to see the new potential slaves, calling out to them.

Felix ran back and the party advanced.  Corrail fired with his bow.  Elliot charge them.  Sandra summoned 2 wolverines to attack them.  A blast of lightning got Felix, Corrail, and the wolverines.  Don played his funeral dirge, inspiring the group yet again.  The battle raged to the end of the session until the Nagas went invisible and to be continued next time.




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  1. Fleeing is a totally correct battle plan. I'm pretty sure one live rogue is better than one dead who can't use his 39 perception checks.

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