No one has followed yet. Safe bet they know the guards are dead and will increase the numbers,
Depending on exactly what you wanna do sure
Try dingeoneerjng, engineering. For starters
I have...neither of those. Curse Rameth and his reliance on Strength!
It appears that Rameth's trap is actually fairly extensive, it will actually fill the entire corridor with rocks and rubble, it will either completely seal the tunnel, but could easily crush the entire orc tribe were you to lure them in to it, you also recall that there are many creatures in the under dark that you could possibly lure out and into the orc camp, which might be able to do some damage.
A bluff to draw the orcs? Big minus w/o speaking orcish. But I do like wacky
Well, I was going to use Bluff or something with alchemists fire, maybe taunt them into position? Heck, I don't know orcish.
You already did that check earlier that's how you know about the torture
Describe what you want to do w fire and I'll give you a roll option
I want to figure out a way to either create a diversion to get orcs away from Rameth's cage, pit, whatever.
All of them? With some fire? Not likely. You could probably pull some of the grunts, but the bosses know you escaped for sure and expect you to try something. Luring something out to distract them, some kind of beast is possible but will take time. If you want to act now not sure what the option is. It might exist hit I don't know what it could be.
OK, here's the Rube-Goldberg setup:
Gather wood and some sort of accelerant to create blazes of green flame in pillars.
Create an acid drip to eat away at a rope that will let alchemist fire trigger the whole thing to create a distraction giving me a Stealth bonus to sneak in, grab some piece of Averaka for resurrection or reincarnation and save Rameth, then hightail it out of Belkzen.
ok you can certainly create something to burn green for sure. Are you planning to set the diversion in the camp or towards the tunnel. It will also take time, probably need to create the stuff with alchemy. hours, not days, unless you just want to make the flame green, thats probably simple. Also there is a chance you might have to fight some anyhow. Lots of orcs there.
shame you can't summon a demon out of the flame...thatwould be sick
you sure you don't wanna try to drive some kind of creature into the camp?
Would I roll Survival for that?
That would work, or dubgeobeeribg or nature
Get a nat 20 I'll make up a deus ex machina
Watch the natural 1 roll in.
Just for gigges: ...I knew it.
Amazing. Tempted to give it to you just for that but that is a perfectly good roll
It takes about a half mile into the earth before mesdoram spots tracks of something big maybe very big
Wanna follow?
Why not?
Why not?
death? dismemberment? Being lost in the under dark forever?
Mesdoram finds his way into a lair filled with bones
dungeoneering please...roll well get that investigator skill going!
Yea I know but you are an investigator so you can make untrained and that is close enough that I have to go look up the info again for you at what you found
Mesdoram realizes that he has come onto the lair of a bone sucker
A bonesucker is a bizarre creature that stalks the darkness of wastelands and dank caves. The body is encased in a thick, rubbery sheath of flesh and muscle that makes the bonesucker highly resistant to injury. The bonesucker moves about through the use of 5 thick tentacles at its base.
Bonesuckers consume only the bones of an opponent by grabbing it and piercing its flesh with its hollow tentacles. The tentacles inject digestive enzymes into the bones, which break down and are sucked up as a pasty meal for the bonesucker—the attack of a bonesucker is horrifyingly painful. Experienced adventurers always know they are nearing the hunting grounds of a bonesucker: the creature leaves boneless carcasses of its meals lying where it finished them.
Bonesuckers stand about 10 feet tall.
A bonesucker attacks with its tentacles. Initially, the tentacles appear to be only a foot or two in length, but the bonesucker can extend them to a length of approximately 10 feet. It can attack with up to four of its eight tentacles in a single round.
Lovely.
How do I lure that out towards the orcs?
How do you do that? You do recognize that there are lots of Orc bones...seems to have a taste for them...use some of them as bait?
OK, Mesdoram will crack some of them open and leave the sweet, sweet marrow exposed to lure the beast into the camp in a trail? Like Hansel and Gretel, only awful?
oh sorry that as not clear, the bones are certainly sucked dry, it is called a bone sucker after all.
I meant want to go get some fresh orcs?
Or maybe offer yourself up, let it chase you
Um, let's call self-bait option B.
What did the orcs do with their corpses?
You gotta go back and look at what they did with them.
But knowing orcs as you do try are either still laying there stripped of gear or piled up
Poke
Dang, I thought I posted my stealth back to steal corpses.
Taking 10 if possible for 32.
You easily stealth back to the camp and you find that they have been using the corpses for target practice until they are falling apart then they toss them into the bonfire.
Pretty open space around the bodies and it is somewhat watched. Chance of failure on this with just trying to sneak over and grab a body. At least without a good distraction
Friggin' orcs.
Ummmm, well hell I don't know then. Sorry.
ok give up and move on!
Doesn't that mean the game's over?
maybe for Rameth...but not for you. Ill roll dice he might survive, Come back for him later if you like.
The dice boned the party so retreat might be the best way to go for now.
Of course!
Mesdoram finds a den of badgers.
You find a Bear with cubs
I will spend another couple of hours for bigger than badgers.
Do I have to kill the bear via combat?
No. I believe you can be obnoxious enough to make a bear chase you. Cover yourself in honey, steal a cub, leave a trail of picnic baskets
The third one - right to the edge of the camp so the orcs have to deal with the bear.
Ok so you don't have picnic baskets. What are you really gonna do?
Can I snipe the bear and bait it back to the camp?
Sure.
Then I do that.
Picnic baskets would be more fun however.
ok, describe your approach, make your attack roll, etc
you can certainly bone this and wind up fighting a bear
I'll sneak up using advice from my survival skill and use a crossbow bolt to antagonize it? I know very little about medieval bear-baiting - I think now you're just supposed to use a giant rifle of doom that could break your shoulder if you can't avoid the bear.
The bear begins to pursue Mesdoram.