RED OAK: Return to the Pass of the Hounds

[Woe]

You're right. I misread "pick shut" as "pick open"

As for spells, Tiana would only have 1sp left. She cast the web before the knock.

With no spell points, we'll wait until tomorrow. For that, I have another plan.

[Longman]

No problemo.

You rest all day and gain another hp each. So Freya is on 3 down and I think everyone else is back to maximum.

At about 11pm - - someone on watch hears the sound of something moving out in the dungeon, in the area where the skeleton is...or was.

You can't hear what it was, but definitely movement.

(Who is on first watch? Whoever it was, they heard it. Tiana still only has 1 SP.)

[Woe]

It took a bit to find, but...

Watches for this expedition are four three-hour shifts (8-11, 11-2, 2-5, 5-8):
Tiana and Anna
Freya and Abigall
Kilian and Bruce
Talin and Fido (and Jane)

I'll add that to player notes because we'll refer to it often.

[Woe]

That's the normal watch. Because Freya should be resting, she can't be on watch right? Assuming the negative...

Watches for this expedition are four three-hour shifts (8-11, 11-2, 2-5, 5-8):
Tiana and Anna
Bruce and Abigall
Kilian
Talin and Fido (and Jane)

[Woe]

Anna's a thief. She can go sneak over and check it out. Tiana's recommendation is to stay in the shadows and on the top floor, though I'm sure she will get A Look from Anna for the suggestion.

[Longman]

You never said where exactly you were camping so I just assumed it was the secret room. The door is closed. Is that right?

Anna can sneak over and listen at the door, old-fashioned style like. She rolls a 17.

It sounds like there is something large and----snakelike? Lizardlike? Moving about in the room with the skeleton. There are clicking sounds of feet, and swishing sounds like a snake's body.

Everyone else is now awake, but no one has moved.

If you are not in the secret room, where are you?

[Woe]

Oh! I was thinking the kitchen. I'm ok with either.

Me:

Then find a nice place to hole up for the night. Probably the kitchen, because it is close and very defensible. Was there a door that we could close?

You:

So you rest up for the rest of the night in the secret room.

Obviously we need to read better.



So... if she's upstairs, she'll walk and peek. If everyone is in the secret room, they'll stay quiet. The door is pretty noisy when opened?

[Longman]

I did read that...but, after you discovered the kitchen door would have to be picked shut, I figured you would hide in the secret room. But never mind.

I've rolled randomly and...you're in the kitchen, upstairs. The door is ajar.

Anna walks out of the door and through the upstairs mess area with the large table.
She is quiet as a ghost as she moves through the room. Again she can hear the sound of WTF that thing is down below.

Your problem here - - Anna can't see in the dark. She's doing all of this with her light medallion in her helmet covered to give her a tiny glimmer to walk by. But not a full light to see what it is.

She reaches the balcony. She can hear it move past the junction to the south of the room below her, and into the empty room with the secret door in the eastern wall.

She thinks it could be up to 25 feet long...

The door is pretty noisy when opened?

Not at all. It's very quiet. The door is currently locked - Anna and Freya have figured out how to open it from either side.

[Woe]

Yikes. Sounds very scary and quite possibly dangerous. Stay in the room, make sure the door gets spiked shut again, and maybe, quietly, add a big heavy object to the door as well.

I'm stating that the door opens into the kitchen room because it does.

We can investigate tomorrow once everyone has rested.

[Longman]

OK - seeing as I didn't think to say which way the door went, I'll let you have that.

Anna creeps back to the room - rolling a 16 out of 100. You can practically see the experience points flowing into her, like in a video game. She tells the others that there seems to be something out there, something big.

Spiking the door shut - really? That will make a lot of noise. You sure? Freya can now hear the creature, still down on the lower level.