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[Anti-Paragon]

If worse comes to worse, you could always try to lead it to the goblins...

[tehstefan]

Yeah. I'd like to see them deal with it.

[dragnar]

We should definately lock the door first, and position ourselves on either side. Hopefully it might hamper it enough to get a few good shots in while it dealt with the door, and I assumed we would flee deeper. Wish the Kobold was here. He proved useful against the undead.

Sounds good to me. You lock the door, I'll try to prepare a weaken metal rune, based on the strengthen metal rune. Then we attack with wooden weapons.

[Anti-Paragon]

Bump of appreciation.

[Paulus Fahlstrom]

Day 4, Turn 15: Order: Reece (5!,4!), Ajax (4!), Dragnar (2!), Dwareet'ik (5!,5!); New order: Dwareet'ik, Reece, Ajax, Dragnar

Dwareet'ik-

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(Sneak:3!)(Detection:1!(+1-1)) The kobold quietly sneaks away again, down the ramp and into the darkness away from the goblin squad. They never even saw him, busy arguing amonst themselves about which of their two 'leaders' would assume command of the squad now that the orginial leaders had perished.

(Observation check:6!,6!) You quickly head back down the way you came and soon find yourself on the stairs near the entrance to the special crafts worshop. You hear a loud pounding coming from below and some very distinctive swearing in human and bizzare chanting from below you. It sounds like your two companions may be in trouble. (I'll leave it up to you whether you want to go help or not. If you choose to reassert your previous action for this next turn I'll consider it retroactive.)

(+2 Observation exp.)

Reece and Dragnar-

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(Init of Skeletal rust monster:2!) The monster clearly sees the pair of you and you decide it best to quickly exit the room again. Dragnar is almost too slow, Reece had to drag him out so he could shut the door before the skeleton crashed loudly into the door from the other side. (Break door:3!) The skeletal thing went silent for just a bit before beginning to mercilessly attack the door, ramming it with it's thick head. The booming sound echoed through the stairs and beyond and you can almost hear the claws of the creature grating on stone. The door holds for now, giving you time to prepare a little. They lock, of course, but neither of you has the key so Reece is doing his best to keep the door shut. Fortunately it opens into the room and the creature is having a hard time with it.

With every hit the lock trembles as Dragnar does his best to figure out how to prepare his spell to 'weaken metal'. (Runesmithing:6!,6!) In a flash of insight it comes to you and you realize now what you mentor was talking about, using the runic structure to define the constraints placed upon the metal. If you just invert the first, third and seventh runes in the sequence you should be able to invert the intent. You quickly sketch out the runes with your fingers, speaking in the ancient tongue as the silvery runes come to life in front of you. You hold them there, with some effort and wait for the creature to break through.

The pounding is somewhat anti-climatic. It looks as though it is breaking the door slowly, but it is taking time. Had the creature not already been dead it would undoubtedly not be hitting the door as hard as it is though. After nearly half an hour or so of tense waiting you hear the lock give way. Reece continues to hold the door closed, and since the creature isn't pulling on it, doing so with little effort but with every hit the door bounces some before he can close it tight again and you begin to see small cracks forming near the edges.

(BTW this is a classic DND rust monster, which does exist in a variety of games, but the touch of the tail is technically what rusts metal. All metal, though some resist it better. The creature then feeds off the residue of the metal. It is considered bestial, hence the now undead state.)



Reece, you're holding the door closed, Dragnar you're maintaining a spell. Dwareet'ik has the option of rejoining you for combat this upcoming round. List any other preparations you want to take. Closing the door did buy you some time and if you wanted to run you would still probably have a minute or maybe five head start if you wedged something underneath the door.

Ajax-(No action listed)

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(Observation check:2!)You get back to the gate-area, tired from your long trek and get the wood laid in front of the hole and ready to light a fire. It was a long walk but you didn't have any problems. Of course it helped that you could easily get past the traps in the way. You took some time to lay out the wood properly for the fire. You figure you could also easily cook the meat on it as well if you wanted too. You've enough wood for maybe half the night, but it will help ward away the chill as well as prevent wild animal from entering through the hole even if the fire isn't going full blaze.

[dragnar]

Wait, is this thing made of rust, or does it just eat it?

Heh, I logged on seconds after this turn was posted.

Good point Dwarmin I will use the rune (can't possibly hurt) and then attack with my two-handed sword, being careful to keep away from the tail.

I've never had a chance to play D&D, In theory I'm in a club that should play every once in a while... but there hasn't been a meeting all year. The largest flaw with being an anti-social geek: It makes it hard to find other anti-social geeks.

[Dwarmin]

Oh dagnabbit... 

That's not a golem at all
Should of played more D&D >.>

I assumed it was a monster Skeleton made out of Rusted Metal, not a skeletal monster that eats rusted metal!

Edit:
Suggestion: Kay, it's just a skeletal monster, its bones are still probably composed of some kind of metal type substance from its diet though, so the rune should still work....in theory! Open the door and lets rumble!

Actions
Help Drag and Tehs defeat the monster-while Drag has it occupied, try to attack it from the rear, breaking it's back legs and/or tail. Always try to keep behind it, and watch out for the tail swipe! If it turns to face me, put my efforts into dodging all incoming attacks, and do not attack myself, while Drag/Tehs chop it apart from behind and to the sides.

[Anti-Paragon]

Durrhurr. You didn't receive my magical telepathic turn?
That was dumb of me. I thought I posted a turn early on. Ah well.

Anyway, time to cook up those goat bits. I'll cook up all three, since cooked meat doesn't rot as fast. When I'm done cooking with the fire, I'll eat the best cooked one, along with taking a drink of my waterskin. You know, if my stomach has room for it (as in it will give me a significant boost to my food counter) I'll eat it with a loaf of my longland bread, but only if I feel I could.

After that, I'll throw that chunk of goat offal to the far side of the tunnel as a decoy. I'll also load my crossbow and place it nearby, pointing towards Then I'll pull out those mountain goat bones and very casually start whittling them into bolt shafts with my crude knife, perhaps fantasizing about taking down a dragon or getting with that one hot cheesemaker I never had the nerve to ask out.

[tehstefan]

Lets wedge something under the door, and try and find a way to make its journey here harder. If we can cause it to trip, or stumble, a blow to the skull will be that much easier. Perhaps some bins, or the like?

[dragnar]

Good idea, is there anything around we could use as a tripwire?

[Dwarmin]

I don't think we have any trap making material...there might be a rope/wire in the workshops though?


I say open the door, whoever it attacks, that person try to keep it's attention, while the others attack from 2 different sides. This means that only one person has to face the claws and teeth, and the tail can't whip 2 or 3 people at once. Whoever is not facing the creature should attempt to sever the tail, denying it an important defensive tool.

[tehstefan]

I figure it'd be best to block the door, and narrow the passage, make it impossibel for it to use its tail. So, are their any bins that could be used? Maybe those lead ones, if their able to get here. They could narrow the passage some.

[dragnar]

I figure it'd be best to block the door, and narrow the passage, make it impossibel for it to use its tail. So, are their any bins that could be used? Maybe those lead ones, if their able to get here. They could narrow the passage some.

Yeah, right up until it ate them, they would make good bait for some sort of trap though.

[Dwarmin]

Drag and Tehs, try to finalize our actions so Paul can get on with the turn. Let's assume we are holding it at the door, when and if it gets though, we will continue to fight.

[tehstefan]

We are trying to block the door, then get to the end of the hallway, while looking for anything heavy enough that we could use to block the door.