Arabelle Adventurers Quest Notes 2012-05-04
Characters involved: 
Nora 
Merry 
Book 
Mahina 
Tempest 
Ugly
Lock 
Stock 
Barrel 
Squirt
Contents
From Last Game
See Arabelle Adventurers Quest Notes 2012-03-03
The party just had fun wading through acid.
Questing
Beyond the Skeleton Key door
Book mentions that we could fill up some vials with the acid. Merry recalls he has the empty vial from the rogue that killed that guy. Tempest suggests having Mahina fill them since the acid can’t hurt her.
Mahina mentions that the acid is very old and that the acid’s advanced age saved them. Had it been fresh, the party would have perished.
The party discusses what to do with Merry’s dogs.
Book tells Merry that it will take months for the poison acid to drain.
Mahina gets Merry’s dogs while still immune to acid.
Book listens at the North and South doors and hears nothing. The party heads through the South door, which leads into a corridor, where there is a door on the East wall. It is a solid iron door that swings outward.
Book listens at the door and searches for traps, but hears nothing and finds nothing. Merry checks for traps, but finds nothing.
The party decides to leave that door and goes through the North door instead. Book and Merry search for traps and do not find any traps. The party continues North through the door. It leads to a long hallway that goes West.
Psi crystal & Mahina believe that there is a trap ahead.
Book summons a rat from his bag and sends it to walk across the trap. Merry summons dancing lights to accompany it.
Nothing happens to the rat so the party discusses how to trigger it.
Ugly rips the door off. Merry gives Ugly a rope to tie on the door.
Ugly ties the ropes and such as Merry directs him.
Ugly does a test throw but the door only goes a few feet in front of him.
Book bribes Ugly with gold to throw the door on the trap.
Ugly keeps missing the throw, including dropping it on his toe. He finally succeeds.
The floor breaks away beneath the door as it falls and it clatters down the opening.
Book sends his crystal down it, the party hovers the torch over the opening.
The door is broken over one of the spikes in the 20 ft deep spike pit (10x10x20).
The party discusses how to get past the pit.
Mahina casts produce flame and tosses both flame balls into the bit, igniting the spikes. The party now has a flaming spike pit.
The area is getting smoky. Ugly punches the smoke.
Mahina goes away from the party a bit, sits down, and writes in her journal.
Book tosses his stone over so it can look around on the other side of the pit.
Book suggests we leave the stone & try another door.
Book informs everyone that there is yet another trap further down the hallway past the trap.
Book tells everyone that the tower is a great deal south & a little further east.
Book’s rock continues exploring. Meanwhile, the fire has gone out in the pit.
Tempest jumps across the pit once the rope is tied around her & Ugly holds tightly to the rope. She barely misses it and has to climb up the rest of the way.
Tempest & Merry make a footbridge and the party starts crossing.
Book makes it across and steps forward, falling into another pit trap.
The party fishes a slightly-impaled Book out of the pit
Ugly jumps, misses, grabs the edge, pulls himself up
Ugly climbs down the new pit, gets a stake in the butt, then starts whacking stakes and collects 6 of them. He tosses them back up and we all make it back to the other hall.
They go to the other door and decide what to do.
The door to the East has a force field in front of it, door is closed - there is a lever that has a chain and a lock on it holding it in the upward position outside of the force field
The door to the West is open, and has a lever, but the chain is broken(?) and lever is down(?). There are bones through the door.
The Gas Chamber
The party sees a chamber with a magic mouth in the wall.
Mahina steps forward to talk to it and as soon as she steps near it, it starts screaming “YOU CAN’T BREATHE!” and poison gas starts filling the room.
The party runs from the room and escapes!
Tempest gets the feeling that the person who built this was a seasoned adventurer who thinks a lot like the party in general does.
Back Into The Corridor
The party tries to decide their next move.
They see the room with the forcefield. It looks like a dormitory, complete with dead bodies.
Book sends in his psicrystal. It sees a third dead body.
Ugly goes into the room. Mahina sits outside in the hallway with Tempest and writes in her journal.
Book excitedly walks into the library.
Merry detects magic and Book detects psionics. They find 2 magic potions, a magic wand, and one psionic want.
They find 33 gold, 22 silver in their own pouches.
Psicrystal hears nothing behind the door.
The door is locked. Ugly uses the key to unlock the door.
The psicrystal finds a Facebook guy in the room, but he is completely immobile and behind a forcefield.
Guy has no eyes but otherwise looks like a normal 5’7” man. His eyes are wounds & he’s wearing a robe.
Book tries to mindlink and there is nothing there. So we believe he is probably undead.
Mahina pulls the lever to bring back down the forcefield. She peeks in the room & the rest of the party tells her that she’s doing a great job outside. So she shrugs and goes back to the hallway to write in her journal.
The party contemplates what to do next.
Eyeless Guy
The guy hangs his head down and starts to take a step forward, mumbling something in a language we don’t understand.
He starts to walk towards the door. Book yells at him. The guy looks frightened.
Merry casts Calm Emotions but it doesn’t affect undead.
It sounds like an old dialect of languages we kind of, almost know but we could not understand what he was mumbling.
He starts to back up a little and reaches out.
Tempest meets his reach and touches his hand. He is surprised to feel a warm, feminine grasp. He looks even more surprised when the party starts talking.
Book says hi to him in all languages he knows.
Book has established a mindlink with the guy from the past. It appears that they are having a conversation that the rest of the party cannot hear.
Book relays the conversation to the rest of the party sans Mahina.
From the information they gathered with their new ally, it seems they must go through the windy tunnel to reach the tower’s master.
The Tower Master had crazy amount of potions, guy gives other information about the tower. The party rests and talks to their new friend to help him acclimate to everything.
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