Session 19: Time's A-wastin'

The party makes it back to their favorite room and collapses.

Day 25
They are rejoined by their new cleric, who helps heal up the party while they rest for the day. That night, the two guys on watch hear some orcs arguing over something.[1] They wake up the others. When the first orc sticks his head around the corner they Magic Missle the crud out of him. The orcs run.

Day 26
Everyone but Tthardas makes their disease checks.[2] Deciding that they've had it with rats, darkmantles, and wererat sorcerers, they head to the east through the wide corridors, which are no longer magically sealed.

They open a few doors which lead to a T-intersection, where Tex falls into their honest-to-goodness very first pit trap.[3] He quickly climbs out and disables it before they move on to the door to the north. They bash through to find a former guard room, with some strange words nobody really understands. Here they find a hidden door to a secret armory, which they loot.

With no alternatives, they head back to the pit trap and follow the second path to the north. Here they find a strange room with an "obviously trapped" room inside of it. In an amazing feat of dexterity[4] Tex runs in, gets the gems with only a little damage, and runs back out only setting off the traps at the very end. Unfortunately, the gems crumble into dust.

They head to the eastern side of this room and take the more northern door, beyond which is a north-south hallway. They head north and find a very fancy door to which they don't have the right key and aren't able to pick open. Heading back, they hear whimpering and scratching from a nearby room. They continue past to a room whose walls, floors, and ceilings are covered in mirrors...and the doors close behind them.


Footnotes
1. At this point the players spent an hour arguing over whether Galen's cleric was there the night before and what healing spells would best heal up the people who had taken disease damage. Eventually we established that since I'd assumed that he didn't come back until the next day he couldn't have healed everyone on the night of day 24.

I think this was my first real B.A. moment with this group. I'm sure it won't be the last.

2. So far Flip has spent more time diseased than anyone else in the party.

3. Welcome to Section B!

4. Odie wasn't actually there; Dave was playing Tex so the party had their Theif. I think Dave rolled more successful skill checks tonight than Odie had in the last three sessions. :(