Game: In the Spire's Shadow

P&~P confidently pushes the door open, examines the situation in the other room, and prepares to cast...

Likewise

(Initiative as above; Zhegre's apparently not moving very fast this round.)

Zhegre hesitates momentarily, rethinking that burning hands spell. Casting fire spells when surrounded by possible burnables... ah, no. Different attack, then.

He moves through the door to form up on a part of the "front line" -- an arc in front of the door -- complementary to wherever Kadar chooses, and summons up Tharmekhûl's hammer (casting spiritual weapon), willing it to strike at the nearest otyugh:

"Molotov! Blaze forth!"

M'rek moves in a blurr as he aims and an arrow of acid flies from his hands:

Init 20

Hit 29 possible crit
http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=949447

edit: rolled damage wrongly, here is the correct roll: total 16 with sneak, 7 otherwise

http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=949489

now for crit

confirm ac 12 (touch)
damage +3 for total of 19

M'rek wil shoot and move up to 30' around the boxes to get some protection from the tentacles , staying out of their reach if at all possible while also staying out of the flames, for which he will try to make a save vs illusion based on the information given by the Modron (see bellow)

Baba runs into the room (as do his vertigo-inducing images) to add fire to the illusionary flames, opening a portal to his homelands and letting a twelve-foot long bundle of flaming limbs come through in front of the party. "Grab the first Ooze-denizen that comes close!", shout the Babas in Ignan. "This should keep us fairly safe - if the ooze isn't flammable. That would be bad news."

The mirrored gnomes begin to back up. "Really bad news."

(In game terms, move forward 10 feet into room and summon the Huge Centipede in front of all the nasty ooze creatures. It readies an action to grapple the first Otuygh that moves by it's threatened area (10 feet).)

Zhegre feels his pulse quicken. . o O (Ah, blaze and battle! This is when you know you're alive!)

Molot's doing fine, so no need to redirect it this turn. (I think that means it doesn't require a move action to let it keep going.) And nobody on our side seems to have been more than scratched, so, time to start whaling away myself.

* If I've got a move action available and there's an otyugh already within reach, I'll draw my sickle and go at it. I'll take a step to help provide a flanking bonus, if I can do so without breaking the front line of threatened squares between me, Kadar, and the centipede.

* If I don't have a move action, and there's already an otyugh in reach, then presumably I can't draw the sickle, and it's the hammer for that one.

* If I have a move action and there's not an otyugh in reach, I'll pick the closest I can and close to engage, as long as I can do so without breaking the line; if I can't, then I'll stand here, protect the casters in case anything tries to make it through, and, hmm, cast Magic Vestment on myself. Likewise if I don't have a move action and there's not an otyugh handy.

Most likely, Zhegre's cheerfully entering the fray, weapns of the homeland held high. Oh yes, and he's singing:

o/) Salute otsam ee nashem dedum / zahvietum eekh fsigdah vierney. Tepierre nichtoh, nee astanoivit, pabiedney shark, radnoy straney. o/)

Round 2
(By the way, Mrek rolled 20 for initiative last round, check the post - 15+5)

This round M`rek will move up to the Othy grapling with the worm ( No3)and stab it, hopefully freeing the worm to attack another target (same 3 will also burn for second round of acid arrow
Here are the rolls:
acid arrow 5 damage
atack ac 30 (another possible crit)
Damage, with sneak(1d3+1+2d6): 7

http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=956527

Now for crit confirmation: AC 20 I think it confirms even without the flank bonus
damage :4 - For a total of 16 which should knock the Othy cold and free the worm for bigger fare!

http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=956529

PS: M`rek has fire resistance which should keep him relatively safe from burning objects...

PS II: My post above assumed that the Othy fighting the worm/centipede is actually grapling with it (that is how it looked like from DKLK post, if not, M`rek will keep the same actions, but tumble to avoid the tentacles and be able to flank the Othy...same result all things considered
Here is the tumble roll:

P&~P will cast Magic Missile at the nearest filth-beast.

http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=957098 (3d4+3 = 8 )

Zhegre steps around to assist Kadar with their remaining enemy (flanking if possible), and redirects Molot to attack the still-mobile foe as well... 'course, by the time he's in a position to do anything the combined efforts of everyone else in the room will probably have reduced the beastie to giblets. ;^)

He'll make an attack if there's need for one. Whether the battle's ongoing or not, though, he'll stop singing and say to Kadar: "Eh, looking a little scratched there my friend. May I offer you some medical assistance?"

Kadar smiles at his new companion's offer.
"One thing at a time my friend" he calls back as he continues his attack

"My thanks Zhegre, perhaps we should take a quick look around before heading off."

Kadar begins to rummage around, searching the room.

(Search check below or will take 20 if no-one minds taking a rest)

The Babas attempt to snap their fingers, but are prevented by the goop. They shout at the centipede and it returns to the flaming regions from whence it originated.

Which one is the real one is fairly obvious when Baba covers a small bit of flaming debris left over with his hand, putting it out immediately. He dismisses both spells.

"This place is a privy. I'm forced to come to sigil twice a week and marinate my nose in a Babau's bottom, and now I get the pleasure of the exact same smell, with a side of lightly roasted horror from the depths."

"Simply tasteless."

Still complaining, he begins to search the room half-heartedly [take 10, result 17].

Zhegre eyes the otyugh eggs.

Zhegre undergoes an ethical dilemma.

. o O (The eggs didn't do anything to hurt me. They're not threatening me now. They might in the future, but the same could be said of a lot of things. What, really, is the line between a monster and an animal? Those didn't appear to be fiendish creatures, simply predators.)

. o O (Dangerous predators.) He sighs, and finishes the job with a few taps of the hammer. . o O (I wonder if otyugh egg is any good... no, probably not.) Feeling a little more comfortable thinking of them in that light -- there's probably something that eats otyugh eggs -- he turns to the salvage expedition.

"Bozhe moi. The poor books. Who knows what waluable knowledge there might have been there. Sight to bring a cheer to a Doomguard's heart, that." His tone makes clear that that is not a particularly favorable event.

"Ho, that is quite a lot of gold you have found. And, I say, are those magic do you think? What a splendid find! Handle them carefully, no telling what sort of powers they have until properly identified..."

He beams at the others. "I am sure once we find out whose temple this used to be their clergy will be wery pleased to have their property back. Well, shall we depart for Outlands?"

M`rek

M`rek looks longingly at the eggs in the corner, but already having had breakfast makes a comitment not to indulge himself at this time...Instead he moves over to where the valuables are being stockpiled and inquires from teh group:

"any of you Bloods have any idea whose temple we are in? Perhaps it would be possible to tell from the kind of treasure they keep. What say you PEEP? What can you tel from these relics, and magic items? It is usually a good idea to know whom are you looting...some of these so called powers are less forgiving than others, while others might not even care a whit about anything material...Finally, anybody knows where to now?"

Although I am posting late, M`rek the ever curious would have joined in the search of the room, looking also for secret compartments/ doors/ hiding places. Please tell if he finds anything different from what has already been revealed: Search roll bellow:

Finally

"Uh, the old man never said that the oath had to be honest and binding did he?" chips in Kadar "I'd rather try a few alternate wordings which might give us a loophole before taking the oath exactly as we were told."

"A forced oath isn't an honest oath anyway," replies Kadar "although it seems we agree that we should try to soften the wording. Perhaps something like 'I swear to protect the natural forces of the multiverse as best I can including both entropy and creation' or 'I swear to protect entropy so long as that protection is not to the detriment of other multiversal forces.'?"

"I'd rather we gather up this lot first" states Kadar gesturing at the collected treasures. "I'm happy to load it into my bag if it's going to be too heavy but I'd prefer it if we worked out what the magic stuff was first."

[OOC- were there any eggs left? how are they kept? any special conditions I should be aware of?]

(OOC: I did. Let's not be too butcher-shop about this... I was a little worried the dern things might hatch hungry in our haversacks and give us a nasty surprise when we reached in! ;^) I also was assuming we had packed up the stuff without worrying too much about who had what, but I suppose someone's got to actually spend the spell to do it, so...)

Zhegre says, "Oh, aye. Sorry. I can have bit of one-track mind when it comes to quests."

He leans over the suspiciously magical-looking items and casts his day's detect magic, seeing which is which and if there's anything unprepossessing-looking in the pile they might have overlooked. He'll carefully pick out anything that registers with the point of his sickle and put it into a side pocket of his haversack. Unless someone with more training in arcana than he can reliably nail down what something is, they can always just deliver it to Athene's priests and let them worry about it.

(Untrained K(arcana) check on my own behalf below; so, Int check, and this will only let me know if there are any common sorts of magical items in the pile. Dunno whether dwarven Appraise and Craft bonuses, not to mention my Craft skill ranks, might apply to any stone or metal items in the lot, especially weapons: )