Castle Amber: A D&D Adventure

Most interesting. Kalar decides to leave it for now. Won't do to get speared or electrocuted for uncertain gains. Instead, Kalar heads for the portal to the ghoul lands. Hrulgin seems to be taking too much time. Might be a good idea to go in after him if he takes much longer.

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Kalar sends one of his skeletal minions down the well to investigate. After several minutes, the skeleton does not return.

Rob lingers near the door of the Lightning Room.

He casts Mage Hand, and uses it to poke and prod at the chest that Kalar blasted open last time they were here. Perhaps something of its contents can be dragged into safe reach. He will also attempt to use the mage-hand to re-trigger the spike trap that seems to have retracted itself.

Rob activates the spear trap and the electric trap at the same time by mage touching the chest. Thankfully nothing was nearby enough to get caught in the trap.

Rob continues concentrating on his mage hand, and attempts to use it to scoop up some of the molten gold from the ravaged chest.

The gold has cooled and formed a large solid spot of gold on the floor.

Kalar decides against venturing into the well. Might not be too good of an idea right now. He'll have to trust to Hrulgin's abilities to keep hidden instead.

For now, he scouts around the other rooms, always keeping some skeletons ahead of him and using his sword to look for traps. He also focuses on his holy symbol, using divine energy to attempt to pick up any intelligent thoughts in the area as he searches.


Spell used: Detect thoughts (Baator domain), lasts 9 minutes

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Kalar found that the only room not fully explored was the one with the very large bloodhulk covered in runes. It stood to reason that the stairs he could see past the bloodhulk led to the third and final tower in the ruins above. Nothing else seemed to be in the room with the large bloodhulk.
The gold Rob was trying to scoop up was slowly remelting thanks to the trap he activated. He managed to scoop small bits of it up with his spell. The spell was not made to hold liquid so progress was very slow.

Meanwhile
The talking mouse had come across the corpse of a large creature. It had no eyes and many stalky arms and legs. The creature was bleeding all over the place. Along with the creature, the talking mouse also found many other smaller dead creatures, yet still much bigger than him. There creatures seemed to be a cross between a reptile and an insect. In all the stories he had heard in his short life, he had never heard of any of the things he was now seeing. If only they were alive, he could learn even more.
Then, out of the body of the large round creature, a live bug like creature burst forth. "Oh good," thought the mouse, "Now I can make a new friend." The bug like creature approached the mouse at a slow stalking pace.
Zap.

Back at the Cabin
The screeching was slowly beginning again. It sounded closer than ever. Those at camp found it hard to focus on anything beyond the screeching. It grew louder and louder, till it was almost deafening. The screeching was quickly becoming unbearable and the source of the sound getting ever closer was truly ominous.

Voulton has no idea what the sound is, but he doesn't want any part of it. "We need to regroup!" he shouts to no one and everyone, and marches off in the direction he saw Kalar and Rob go

Rob took a wine bottle from his pack. He popped the cork, and drained about 1/4 of the bottle into his mouth in a long swig. Then he brought the mage hand close, and poured a little more wine onto the molten gold to quench it and solidify it.

He put on the leather gloves from his Explorer's outfit to avoid burning his fingers, and picks up the resulting gold nuggets, trying to guess the value of the small amount of gold he had recovered.

Rob gathered each nugget as he pulled them out of the molten pool. He had gathered 5 nuggets so far. Each of them seemed like they could be worth anywhere from 20 to 40 gold pieces each. Rob continued to gather gold nuggets using his mage hand, leather glove, and wine bath method.

As Voulton approached the ruins, he spotted a large flying insect off in the distance. It darted in and out of the tree line in the direction the screeching was coming from. It didn't seem to be making any moves towards the party, but Voulton didn't want to want to see if it changed it's mind. He stormed into the ruins to find Rob and Kalar. Kalar was the first one he found, his trail of skeletons making him easy to follow. Voulton met up with Kalar outside the door leading to the very large bloodhulk, which Kalar was investigating at the time.

"Is that so? Very well, lead the way. We'd best not provoke them, especially knowing their numbers, but be ready for combat. Rather serious combat, by the looks of things."

Kalar mounts Bill as soon as he's outside of the fortress, ready to fly as soon as the need arises.

"With luck, they'll stick to a ground assault, and our defenses might be able to hold some there and reduce their numerical advantage. If there any of those things can fly though, Bill and I will take to the skies. We could really use Lynda right about now, another flier would be advantageous."

Kalar orders all of his skeletons to take up positions near the entrance of the palisade, ready to ambush anything that comes. He silently curses his not preparing any weapons for them. He resolves to make some spears at least, or perhaps bows and arrows for them as soon as this is over.


How many skellies does Kalar have total? My last count was 12, but not sure how many bodies were left in the corpse room that Kalar could skellify.

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Rob settles in and makes himself comfortable. He takes another sip of wine. This simple task of collecting melted gold and quenching nuggets in wine promises to be a relaxing diversion to pass what will certainly be a dull and uneventful day.

Rob hums a tune, ans he concentrates on the mage hand, and tries to compose a silly little song about gold and wine.

Rachelle was standing outside of the cabin with Lynda when she saw a very large reptilian bug lurking just behind a large rock formation. Kalar, Rob, and Voulton had not yet made it back.

"Rachelle! That bug...! What the hell is that thing?!" Lynda says, alarmed.

She takes out her spyglass and attempts to observe the bug.