Game: We're Still not Quite Dead Yet

Yurp. You are correct

Noncombatants:

Canzon:

the trapdoor shakes a bit, but you see no indication of any hinges, catches, etc.

Ixa:

Uses telekinesis to move furniture and other flammables around the small fire ha has made so far. He then uses his produce flame ability.

Combatants (round 10):

Penance:
Penance has the same idea as Bruce and teleports to the second floor.
"Have you seen the last one?"

Min: Full round atack scoring one hit. The archon is badly wounded and barely standing. She then uses her telekinesis to lift the archon off the ground and hold her still. (Telekinetic grapple atempt suceeds.)

OOC: The party has no propper rouge. The shortest distance between two points is a line, though.

Canzon:

You manage to pinpoint the aproximate location of the door by using the sounds of the flowing water. You do not, however find any sign of the door or a way to open it in that area. (rolled your listen and search checks)

Bruce:

You and much of the room are now covered in bone fragments and grey matter.

Min:

Continues to claw at the unfortunate archon, causing more damage and BAB penalties. (OOC: because beating on an unarmed, already wounded, and poisoned archon isn't much of a fight, I'll say that Min wins)

Min fumbles around, trying to remove the archon's armor before bagging her. When she is done, she repeats the process for the other two. All three are in the bag of holding.

OOC: By the way, I use Shemmy's bag of holding rules because they're more fun. You don't run out of air in the bag.

OOC: combat is over for everyone except Drum.

Bruce:

When you get downstairs, you see the door to the other room open. Penance is standing above what looks like a trapdoor and looking down. Min is telekinetically piling up all the available bodies. Thier armor, weapons, and other valuble-looking things are in a seperate pile. Looking out a window, you can see a house on fire--properly now. You'll need to walk through the blade barrier to get to canzon. This shouldn't be an issue.

OOC: It's a stone wall. Smashing with fists won't be easy.

Drum:

City guard oficers of this rank usually have a few minor magical items of some sort-but you don't have detect magic, so finding one is amatte rof blind luck or determined searching. Taking thier money always works too, and city guard uniforms--especially oficers'--fetch a decent price on the black market, although carrying all the armor may present a problem.

Are you going to bounce on through the blade barrier too?

Drum:

Drum succesfully dodges around the blades and into the room. (see all the descriptions above)

Canzon:

You can find no mechanisim of any sort. to open a secret door, even taking 20.

Bruce:

"I think that there is a hidden door here. You seem to enjoy breaking things, perhaps you should assist Canzonzabar.

All:

Min dispells the blade barrier--succesfully this time, and climbs down along with the others (Penance has also). She sets the rug up to cover the trap door and shuts it behind her and everyone else as she steps off the last rung of the ladder.

She also examines the wall and then casts a spell (a succesful spellcraft check identifies it as detect magic).

"I think that this 'door' is not a door. There is a passwall spell on this section of the wall that is set to trigger when a certain condition is met. I do not know what the trigger condition is, though."

"The magical trigger consists of several spells--more than would be needed to open a door based on an object or password--it is likely something more complicated. I can't imagine the details would be of much interest to you."

"The room would on the other side would be best left intact, I think. The wall did not sound very thick. I doubt it would take very much to bring it down unless it was somehow reinforced. A large metal object would probably be more than adequate to make a hole, but I see none of those on hand.

"I will retreive the one who can move, if anyone has a way safely heal it--I have potions, but they are too strong to be safely used on an enemy. I highly doubt the trigger is just verbal in any case. Even if the archon could tell us, we probably couldn't activate it. It is probably based on something more complicated judging from the power of the spells used."

"Really, dislike it as I may, carefully destroying the wall may be the safest method. I can disintegrate the wall myself, which would prevent any debris, but there would be some risk if the wall was very thin. The human's aproach to the problem looks to be the safest at the moment. A broken object on the other side is better than none at all. While we are waiting, it may be wise for someone who isn't busy to search the rest of the room."

The wall is very thin and just collapses backwards, revealing a medium sized room with several crates that also seem to be used as chairs and a table with papers strewn across it. A partially sharpened sword and a sharpening stone sits on the table. The room is lit by a few glowing stones placed in areas that aren't being used.

Bruce:

As you enter the room, you feel feel something tugging at your life force, but easily shrug it off. Looking down, you see that you are standing on a magical rune, which is now burnt out. You didn't notice it before, not that it mattered.

Min telekineticaly overturns the table in the room and moves it to cover the symbol before entering the room herself. She kneels and starts collecting the scattered papers (again, telikinetically).

OOC: You have 148, HP, so nobody else needs to save against the symbol.

Canzon:

Many of the pages are written in code. This doesn't seem to influence Min's reading speed in the least. When she is done with each piece, Min hands it to you. You quickly find yourself holding a large and rapidly growing stack of papers, most of which you can't read. A few papers written in un-coded planar trade seem to be of interest. They are financial records of this group. THey have spent a considerable ammount on blades and other weapons as well as more minor magical items. With clowers tudy, you might be able to get an idea of the size of the organizition as well as some of it's other capabilities. Whoever suplied the weapons might also know something.

All:

When Min is done reading, she hands you the last of the papers she uses the partially sharpenned sword to pry open some of the crates. Most are filled with fairly mundane supplies--oil for plate armor, clothes to aid with disguise, etc. Some of the boxes contain other boxes filled with more papers. There are a few that contain nonmagical silver weapons. Others contain potions.

"Flattery is no way to get information from me, devil, though you speak a truth of sorts. As it stands, our interests are aligned and I will help you so long as they remain so."

Min seems completely unnafected by your charms.

"Most of the letters are rather uninteresting and seem only to be coded only as a formality. All of these letters are marked from someone who calls themself 'Dream.' This person always refers to themself in the third person. The bulk of the letters seem to be sermons. Though they preach on various things, they are dull and full of fanatical rehotoric. If you wish to read them, you are welcome to decode them for yourself. I will not waste my time repeating them for you."

"Those letters that do hold some interest all designate targets. Most are on prime worlds that have caught the eye of some high-up or other in Baator or the Abyss but are not yet fully undier thier sway. All of these attacks have taken place sucessfully withen the past few years. None would merit any special atention on it's own and few have had any apreciable impact on the agendas on these primes. Your superiors may find the connections interesting, however. In all cases, no rationalization is provided for any of the attacks save that they are meant to disrupt fiendish influence on the prime. The attack on the Crossed Daggers seems to be an exception to this rule. No attacks recorded here save for it have taken place in Sigil or the planes. There is no apperent connection between the attacks at the Crossed Daggers and last night's...incident at the Ministry of Immortal Affairs."

"No orders for further attacks were issued to this group, which is, according to the records contained here, has been completely destroyed--several times over in fact. Excluding the archons we have killed here and the other two that are now also dead, there were ten mortals associated with the group. More than thirty took part in the attack on the crossed daggers. I will withhold any theories of my own on this for the time being, but there are several possibilities. None are suppourted by any records here, however."

"All of the codes that are used are at least a century old and no longer in use. All of them have been broken. The ciphers are all available on request to those such as yourself at the Ministry of Intelligence."

"At a cursory glance, the records in the other boxes seem to come from other sources. Most seem to bo copies or paraphrases of records stored elsewhere. Some describe places and individuals that have been targeted by the attacks, while others describe influential fiends--mostly those who work on the prime."

"I will claim these boxes first. The innevitable and yourself can decide jointly what to do with them after that."

"Oh, and if you call me 'dearest' again, devil, I wil make myself a new desk ornament. Take this lightly if you dare.

She says this bluntly and emotionlessly. Much like Bruce would.

"You may take them if there are no objections. Mostly, they ramble on about the victory of good at any cost. They aren't especially enlightening. Rather ironic, though."

Canzon:

You get no response, visible, telepathic or verbal.

OOC: I will say, in order to speed things along and introduce Tyui, I will skip to the next scene where you meet your mystery employer. Any research, etc. you yant to do before then, you can post now. or immediately after I post-ish. I will think of some apropriate excuse to delay Canzon. Expect a long post soon.

Bruce:

"Absolutely not. I will not harm the one you are trying to protect, but untill you give me something in exchange for her release, I will keep her. The other two will be interrogated by whatever means is nescesary to make them talk. Invincible or not, you are a poor choice to interrogate a prisoner. You should leave that to the devil. No interrogation is taking place here anyway."