The Back Room: Live Tabletop Games

1:54 AM

alright...to remind you -- you folks were in the 2nd of the 2 15x45 rooms with coffins on shelves in it and had just cleared the zombies out of it

NautArch

i should probably shut down the thorns

Shalvenay

yeah -- good thinking

NautArch

or not...muahahahaha

Shalvenay

so yeah -- Gabe shuts down the thorns now that they aren't needed

daze413

<snake hiss> I stick out my tongue like a dog

Shalvenay

1:58 AM

the room has a connection on the side that leads into a dark corridor, this one on the right -- it appears possibly blocked like the previous one. The door at the far end of the room looks to be heavy though, with a deadbolt type lock on it

NautArch

From our side or the other?

i guess i wouldn't know it was deadbolt if it as the otherside...nm

daze413

I don't have thumbs in this form, so...

NautArch

we should check out the corridor first. no surprises.

Shalvenay

the deadbolt looks to accept a key from your side

NautArch

i'm sneaky, but carrying a light...i'm less sneaky.

Shalvenay

2:01 AM

You folks check out the corridor -- it's quite dark, and ends at a barricade

daze413

Is there a crevice that maybe a tiny form can enter through?

NautArch

anyone have knock?

Shalvenay

The door looks to be reasonably well fitted, with a small undercut that maybe an ooze or a mouse could get through

daze413

Jor gets out of wild shape and sighs exhaustedly.

"I don't know about you guys, but I'm out of breath from all that fighting, can we take a break for a while?"

Papayaman1000

MAH! Sorry!

NautArch

2:03 AM

"um, it's been like 10 minutes since we entered"

"Lath, can you knock and ask this door to open?"

Papayaman1000

"Sure. Ehehe. Say, anyone need their stuff fixed? I've Mending, y'know."

daze413

"I'm sorry, are you a shapechanger? Do you know how exhausting it is?"

NautArch

"yes, you broke my 2nd favorite flask"

daze413

"Sorry, just the tiredness speaking."

Papayaman1000

"I'm afraid I don't have Knock prepared. D'oh..."

daze413

2:05 AM

I try to clear a portion of the floor of zombies and attempt a short rest, if everyone's down for it.

Papayaman1000

"Say, if we're stopping for a bit, could I take an hour? I've been meaning to get my bat demon summoned."

daze413

"That sounds" Jor sits down on the floor, resting his head on a shelf "lovely."

NautArch

"Seriously? Ugh. fine. How are we getting through this door?"

Papayaman1000

"Well..."

daze413

"Later... patience"

"Once we've had a rest, we can think about it"

Shalvenay

2:07 AM

(taking a short rest?)

NautArch

<grumble>primadonna non-humans. Need a break after 10 minutes of crypt exploring.
sheesh.</grumble>

"Well, if it's gonna be that kind of party - mind if I light this?"<produces hand rolled cigarette-type thing>

daze413

[even humans take 30 min breaks after 5 minutes of work, we just accumulated 1 hour worth of breaks haha]

Papayaman1000

I think this is literally the first short rest I've ever taken where I have nothing to replenish.

daze413

haha sorry, man, need the wildshape back if I wanna crawl below the door :D

Shalvenay

so...you folks take a break and shoot the breeze...and about an hour later, you hear scraping from one of the coffins opening...

Papayaman1000

2:09 AM

No issue. Maybe let me summon my familiar... "quick"?

NautArch

"Oh jor! I didn't realize you were that tired! Yeah, let's rest a bit and then get through this door."

Gabriel stays on watch

Sets up a hunting trap.

Papayaman1000

[I cast Find Familiar. Demonic bat.]

Shalvenay

[you get a celestial bat instead that arrives complete with a kiwi in its mouth, as it's a fruit bat]

daze413

ah, cute

Jor actually says that ^

Papayaman1000

[DEMONIC. Not celestial. I specify this stuff on casting.]

NautArch

2:11 AM

"Holy hells!"

"You have got to warn me about stuff like that! I nearly shot that...thing...down."

Papayaman1000

"Try it and you become Korean BBQ. It took me an hour to get the bloody thing!"

daze413

@Papayaman1000 "Korean? That's in the east, right?"

NautArch

"okay Jor, you ready for this?"

Papayaman1000

@daze413 "I... think?"

[Give the bat a bag of ball bearings to hold on to.]

daze413

"On second thought, the bat can scout for us, probably better at it too"

Shalvenay

2:14 AM

[Lath gets a kiwi taste in his mouth from the telepathic link with his familiar]

NautArch

Gabriel chuckles at the sight of a demonic bat trying to squeeze under a door.

Protip @Shalvenay : A Kiwi is someone from New Zealand...

Papayaman1000

Or a bird from New Zealand... or a berry.

Shalvenay

@NautArch harhar :P

daze413

so we have two options, right? a barricaded corridor, or a locked door?

we can take down the barricade. Does it look like it can be taken down? @Shalvenay

NautArch

scroll up - there's a scraping sound from a coffin

Shalvenay

2:18 AM

A pointy-eared zombie rolls out of the coffin and off the wrong side of the bed so to speak, landing in Jor's lap

Papayaman1000

"KILL IT WITH FIRE"

NautArch

crap!

Shalvenay

The barricade looks to be heavy, but possible to take down -- the door looks to be possible to take down after some effort too

daze413

I wanna back away while on my butt, kicking and stuff

NautArch

Shoot! Shoot!

initiative?

Shalvenay

2:19 AM

THe lock on the door doesn't look to be much though -- it's a simple warded lock that any skeleton key can get

and yes init

d20

11

10 for the zombie

d20

16

d20

2:20 AM

11

20 for Gabe

12 for Jor

d20

18

18 for Lath

2:21 AM

Lath > Gabe > Jor > zombie

Papayaman1000

"I'm beating it with my stick now." [Quarterstaff: roll to hit two-handed]

d20

Dice Service

17

daze413

"There are more of these things yet to rise! Maybe those corpses in the other rooms are also due to undie right about now"

NautArch

doesn't 20 beat 18?

BUt it's fine - i'll him step in front :)

Papayaman1000

d8

Dice Service

2:23 AM

5

Papayaman1000

[Proficiency bonus?]

daze413

[strength modifier]

NautArch

[guessing zero?]

daze413

[Qstaff isnt finesse]

Papayaman1000

[3 total]

Shalvenay

2:25 AM

14 HP left

Gabe's turn

daze413

[-2?]

NautArch

first sharshootin' shot

d20

Dice Service

10

Papayaman1000

[It's at 7, okay?!]

NautArch

14?

d8

Dice Service

2:25 AM

2

NautArch

16 piercing

Shalvenay

Gabe's arrow thuds home into the zombie after Lath whacks it with his staff...

(undead fort save, DC21, +3)

d20

Dice Service

16

Shalvenay

..and drops the zombie

Papayaman1000

[End init?]

daze413

2:29 AM

"Me and my big mouth, resting beneath a coffin wasn't the smartest." Jor says, "Alright, now that we've cleared our heads. Shall we decide on a path to take? Didn't the guy outside say he barricaded the source of the zombies? Shouldn't we go to the barricade?"

Shalvenay

[end init]

Papayaman1000

"There might be something in that locked room, though. I'll have my bat scout the room."

[It tries to wriggle under the door.]

NautArch

[gabe chuckles]

Shalvenay

The bat finishes its kiwi and is able to wriggle under the door without too much issue -- the kiwi was actually a pretty hefty meal relative to the size of the bat ;)

Papayaman1000

[What does it see with its Blindsight?]

daze413

2:31 AM

Jor looks at astonishment as the bat finishes the fruit.

He gets a nasty taste in his mouth as he remembers the taste of undead flesh. blech

Shalvenay

It sees a ladder down from an otherwise empty room.

daze413

"This won't come off for 2 weeks, this taste."

Shalvenay

and that there's dim light at the other end of the ladder

Papayaman1000

"So, guys, wanna chance that door?"

daze413

"Can your bat unlock it from the other side?"

Papayaman1000

2:34 AM

"Probably not, but I might find something like a key." [Bat, see what's down the ladder?]

daze413

[I look at the zombies, do any of them look relatively newly dead, possibly holding the key?]

Shalvenay

none of the zombies have a key...and there's a platform with a single torch lighting it at the other end of the ladder. The platform seems to be bobbing in a...canal?!

Papayaman1000

[Use Light cast via the bat to have it illuminate itself a dim red.]

"So, uh, you might want to hear this..."

daze413

I put down the zombie I'm rummaging through. "Did the bat find anything?"

Shalvenay

the bat quirks an eyebrow at the glow, but doesn't otherwise mind

Papayaman1000

2:39 AM

"A canal?"

Shalvenay

You can also see using your bat's senses a letter 'B' carved into the wall behind the platform

Papayaman1000

"Ohhh no. I saw that on the door."

NautArch

"So, which way we going?"

Papayaman1000

"That's a good question."

daze413

"The canals give me an opportunity to use the octopus form, but I vote barricade."

NautArch

2:44 AM

"Okay, let' dismantle the barricade. We know the locked door is keeping the canal...locked down"

daze413

@NautArch "eyyy"

Papayaman1000

[Get the bat back.]

Shalvenay

You folks head down the corridor and start working on the barricade...

daze413

[*barricade montage]

Papayaman1000

[Implied Helping (Mage) Hand]

Shalvenay

2:48 AM

After a fair amount of demolition work, you get through the barricade and corridor to a dimly lit, long, narrow room on the other end, which you have emerged into the middle of. Zombies, some of them faster moving than the ones you've seen before, are coming at you from both ends... (roll inits)

d20

17

d20

4

8!

2:49 AM

oof

d20

17

nvm

just an 18

6d20 (all at -1)

6d20

Dice Service

2:49 AM

7

2

12

19

12

Shalvenay

Lath > R1 > Jor > R2 > R3 > Z1 > Gabe > R4 > Z2

Papayaman1000

[How am I always first]

Shalvenay

There are three zombies on either side of the party, one of them kind of trailing behind the other two on each side

daze413

[ok, so it's a room and we've opened a middle door, right? is it also 15x45?]

Shalvenay

15x60 although I may have to adjust that for grid reasons

Papayaman1000

2:51 AM

[Could I give/toss the bat ball bearings as a free action?]

Shalvenay

@Papayaman1000 sure

NautArch

dex?

Papayaman1000

Mine and the bat's are both 16

sooooo

if you wanna

Shalvenay

you can just go ahead and give the bat the bag of bearings, although you can tell it's a pretty heavy load for it to carry

daze413

[untied and ready to spill all over the floor, presumably]

Papayaman1000

2:54 AM

[While the bat flies towards the left triage of zombies, launch a firebolt at the leader on the right.]

d20

Dice Service

18

Papayaman1000

2d10

Dice Service

10

9

daze413

oooh nasty

Shalvenay

3 HP on Z2

Papayaman1000

2:55 AM

"TROGDO*incessant coughing*"

Shalvenay

The rear zombie on the right erupts in a blast of flames, but shuffles on. It's counterparts on the left approach, the quicker zombies reaching the party as the ball bearings get spilled out behind them by the bat

Papayaman1000

I hope you mean they're walking *towards* the bearings.

Shalvenay

[the two faster ones are already past where they got dropped, the slower one has yet to encounter them]

Papayaman1000

[graaagh, fair enough]

/pass init/

daze413

[which ones are the quicker ones? Z1 and Z2?]

Shalvenay

2:58 AM

(negatory, Z1 and Z2 are in back, Z1 has yet to encounter ball bearings, Z2 has 3 HP)