Sol, looks like you leveled up too! Roll new HP and make any other adjustments.

hp d12: 10!  Real dice, too.

Do I need to roll for anything else? Otherwise, I'll go over the statblock and increase his HP, fighting skill, etc.  Admittedly, I do miss playing a Warlock, but I can wait for the next game.

When we're rested, I'd like Kondor to climb up to the roof. There should still be the rope in the room, and the one outside.

I will guess breaking up the bed and burning it. He will wait until Sol has a look at the paper and books remaining in the room before using them for kindling.

Can we block the door with a blanket to halt the wind? I’m thinking it can be on the various metal bits from when the flaming sphere got through the door. Another option is to have the tent in the door way, blocking the wind.

The hole in the roof will allow smoke to go out.

xp: woo woo!

As that all works, Kondor rests and regains his strength.  He will eat and mourn his friend, and ready himself to (a) climb to the roof, and (b) ring that bell and save whoever that woman may be.

Kondor drags the body of Emral inside the room, wraps the whip around his waist, and pins his tent sheet over the open doorway in the North wall to try to repel the cold and retain the fire's heat. The mattress against the West wall is moth eaten and moldy from being exposed to the elements through the punctured ceiling. 

The wolf carcasses from an earlier scuffle have frozen solid as the hanging explorers. And Kondor pulls the mattress back exposing a single thin flat of wood atop the hard, stone floor. Lifting to break it apart reveals three missing stones in the floor, each with a dark cavity...

Sol probably is readying his tinderbox across the room near a wooden door in the east wall.
Or he could be reading through the weathered books that line the walls.
Or he could be investigating the 2 bodies hanging on the rope through the hole in the ceiling.
He will let the party know soon, with his new HP roll......

spotter wrote:

Sol checks out the books. (ooc: if they're still around)

The books are badly burned. A quick perusal reveals poetry about the gods set to music.



 

Helios, but I would think the Barbarian would be far more interested in getting that fire started, and what he found under that mattress, than in the silly gods of these foreign men.

Last edited by Iron Ranger (10/06/2019 10:58 am)

Indeed!   Give Kondor another +100XP!

Very well -  Kondor drops the mattress atop the three stoneless cavities and goes to huddle next to Sol; they sit close together while they take turns reading aloud from the the Psalms of Helios, but even their shared bodily warm leaves them stiff and uncomfortable and though their sweet voices ring out to the heavens above like whistling of songbirds made of crystal of his praise - Helios provides no benevolence. They know they will never recover from their wounds like this and most probably die in this frozen church, but the books are just too damned good.

But wait, as Kondor reaches down for another song to sing, he notices a tome of a different bind deep within the next pile...

The heavy leather cover is slighted scorched and the pages are well worn but free of burn. Its title page reads Instructions for Fine Fettle.  The prose is dense with long descriptions and archaic wordings, even for a studied student like the barbarian reading these passages will take time.

Sol and Kondor find enough dry pages of the hymnals to light and the welcoming flickers of flame dance in the frigid air before them on the stone blood stained floor.

Kondor returns to the bed, alas there is no bed frame he recalls, only the accursed mothy mattress, he once lifted and released in favor of the sweet songs with Sol. Nearby at its foot is a kicked over bowl, spilled ash and incense sticks.

Yes there is a wooden door on the eastern wall. And the burned out door that you entered from the courtyard on the north wall.

The mattress is against the west wall, and yes there were three stones missing under the mattress when Kondor lifted it before.


OODM: I wish I could upload the map, but the image upload button no longer seems to work on here.


|---------------------------------------
|             bowl        mattress       |
|                                                  |
|            hanging men                burned door
|                                                  |
|                 dead wolves             |
|                                                  |
| _________wood door_______|