Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh (This is the Game Thread)

[LittleLuna]

(ooc:is the ghost in the kitchen now? Is she visible?)

[Breila]

Save vs. fear (spell): 1d20=18, pass, easy, 12 would have been enough


Kim looks at the ghost, steps aside and makes a little bow as it passes.

[Jenara]

(Ooc: right now... In the kitchen)

The door slams in Gunters face, knocking him backwards, almost knocking him into Vee.

The remaining members can only listen as the Ghostly figures appear in the hall and dining room.

[JadedDM]

"What trickery is this?" Amon demands, now apparently trapped in the dining room. "More illusions?" If they were indeed illusions, like the one they saw in the kitchen, Amon remembers in his training that he can try to will himself to disbelieve in them, seeing through the deception. He makes no move against the sword-bearing 'ghost' but rather concentrates on seeing through the illusion.

Dogmeat, not understanding, attempts to attack the man with the sword who threatens his master.

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Save vs. belief (1d20): 17, pass. (Actually, 18. I forgot my bonus from my cloak.)
Intelligence check (1d20): 7, pass.
Dogmeat attacks the sword-bearing 'ghost' (1d20): 7

[Robbo]

Gunter shakes his head in surprise and draws his sword.

Running into the drawing room he grabs Searos by the shoulder and pulls him along.

"They're in trouble...I saw some sort of spirit and then the door slammed shut. There's got to be another way into that hallway!"

He attempts to open the other 'hidden' door in the drawing room.

[Jenara]

In the Dining room:

Amon recognises the pictures, in fact some of the people in them look like his family, he can see family traits...
He chooses not to attack the man wielding the sword at him, instead he concentrates on disbelieving it is even there, slowly the images vanish for him, leaving nothing but an empty room once more, with the small family of mice.

Dogmeat however lunges at the man, flying across the room, and skidding across the table.

In the Drawing Room:
Gunter drags Searos into the dining room, diving for the otherwise hidden door which is jammed tight, the door they entered closes suddenly, leaving the others trapped in the kitchen.

The once empty chairs are now occupied with two figures dressed in hunting gear they produce crossbows, leveling them at Searos and Gunter.
"Leave, leave this place!!" The lead figure screams, letting a bolt fly at Gunter.

In the Hall:
Kim steps aside and lets the Ghostly figure pass, it flies directly at Echo....

In the Kitchen:
Brax and Vee are left standing alone in the Kitchen, they can hear the ghostly figure advancing on the door, and shouts of "Leave this place!!"

Brax turns, she seems to be calm, relaxed, almost serene, holding onto her Symbol she seems to be praying to Pelor for aid. "Save us, drive back these creatures to the afterlife where they belong."

As she does so long reaching tentacles slowly reach from the sink, winding and twisting they rise up and start to encompass both Brax and Vee, attempting to pull them off there feet.

[LittleLuna]

Vee pulls one of her daggers and attack the Tentacles, trying to cut them off.

1d20=2, 1d4=2 (shit!)

with the panic she misses the tentacle and gives a squeaking cry when they touch her arms. "That's not the Time for Pray! Do something!"

[Jenara]

Brax attempts to disbelieve the creature, if the cupboard was unreal, then why wouldn't this creature which had no place being inside a house.

1d20=11 Fail.

She attempts to push the tentacles back but only succeeds in getting caught up further, the tentacles lift them high into the air, then throw them down... There is a loud "crash", a splintering of wood. Vee finds herself falling, the roof above her collapsing.

She wakes to find herself lying on top of Brax, surrounded by bottles, no light can be seen.

[HorizonsDream]

Echo jumps slightly upon hearing all of the doors slam around her. "What in the..." she starts, but the ghostly figure catches her attention especially as it makes its way directly towards her. Quickly, she ducks down to the floor. "This can't be real," she mutters to herself, closing her eyes as she tries to fall back on her training.

Fear Save 14, (Actually, it would be a 15 with her cloak.)

INT Check 4, (Pass)

Disbelief save 8, (fail)

[JadedDM]

Amon isn't sure what to think about the paintings. They do resemble his family, but as far as he knows, his family has never lived here. There is no time to consider this fully, though. Instead, he focuses on disbelieving the illusions, and sure enough, he succeeds. Convinced someone or something is just trying to scare them, he goes to reopen the door and warn the others.

[Breila]

"Everything OK, Miss Soulstaff?" Kim asks, approaching, but stopping at a polite distance.

[Robbo]

Gunter's jaw drops for a second as a cold fear creeps onto his skin. He draws a short sword in his free hand (he is now wielding both long and short swords)

"Pardon our intrusion sirs, but it looks like you're closing off our only exit."

He glances sidelong at Searos.

"Any ideas?"

[The_Muffin_Man]

Searos gets dragged along begrudgingly. As is so often the case any more (ah, but for the simpler times of gooning for this group or that...) he goggles at the figures with the cross bows. He pays specific attention to the crossbows. At Gunter's question he turns to the ranger, swallows hard and is visibly thinking.

"Good sirs! I see that you are very interested in protecting this place. But for the life of me... err, poor choice of words perhaps? Anyway, what is it you are protecting? Surely there is nothing of real value in this... "house" if it can be called that. Also, if we do not explore the house and report back to the townsfolk, they are planning on burning the whole structure to the ground in naught but a fortnight... a fortnight I say! Now, I'm no expert on houses, abodes, habitats, dwellings or even domiciles, but I think I do know that all of those things require a structure to be standing."

[LittleLuna]

"Brax? what? where? How?" Vee asks disoriented. Then she recognize that she is lying on Brax. "Ooups, sorry."
she rolls down of her and tastes for her left Dagger in her sash, hoping it is still there.
"Brax? Are you ok?" without waiting for a answer she goes on: "what happened? I cant see anything! Are the Tentacles gone?"

[Jenara]

Echo moves aside, unfraid of the Ghost she allows it to move by her. Try as she can she throughly believes the Ghost is there, flying through the air, disappearing through the door with a puff of smoke.

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Amon tries to open the door, but try as he might the door will not budge, Dogmeat sits in the corner howling licking his front paw, he cannot understand why his Master is ignoring the People trying to attack him.

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"They will not burn this place!" The lead figure shouts letting off a single bolt, it shoots into Gunters arm pinning him to the wall.

(Gunter takes 4 points of damage and is impaled to the wall, unable to move)

To Searos it seems that these people are quite mad, how they appeared suddenly was rather strange and now they Shot Gunter.

(Searos needs to make a save vs spell.)

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Brax rises slightly on her arms, there is a large cut on her forehead, her left hand appears to be twisted back painfully. It looks to Vee that Brax took the full brunt of the fall.

"I am ok, well almost, we were falling, I did what I could." Brax answers scanning the room, producing a small light from her symbol. "We are in a Wine Cellar it seems.."

The light reveals hundreds of bottles in racks all around them, most broken, cobwebs are everywhere, rat droppings cover the floor.. The racks seem to go on forever.