Dungeons & Dragons - The Orb of Kendar

[Rain Yupa]

And with a final strike, Aelgeirr would deliver a final piercing stab with his weapon, running the goblin through and ending its life!

COMBAT OVER!

Everyone gets 250XP, and everyone has reached their first milestone for today! Action points for all!  

[Plainsfox]

After his bloodlust abated, Aelgeirr would pick up his throwing axe and start looking inside the room. There must be something in here that would at least open the doors. He COULD flip the switch, but the elf was fairly certain that the trap would merely reset, leaving the ork and the human stuck underneath. He had no wish to join them, so didn't even try to lift up the gates....at least not while the trap was unset.

As he searched the room and the gobbo bodies, he'd call out... "Good arrow work, Ambra. If not for you and Mercy, I'd be dead by now.".

OOC:
Perception+1
Results: 15  

[Rain Yupa]

A few seconds after Aelgeirr would begin to search, there is a soft click noise, and the portcullis begins to rise.

Aelgeirr, do you continue your search (you haven't had a chance to really discover anything yet), or does this change your course of action?  

[Paidi tou Selini]

It didn't take too long for her to get her ankle fixed up. It still hurt, but not enough that she couldn't use it. Though as she was pulling the rope out of her pack she heard the click of the portcullis rising and turned nervously to see who might peek over the edge. From the sounds of things, the fighting was over, but... nobody was talking.

"Ahm. You two still alive up there? Did we win?"  

[Plainsfox]

"Yeah. I'm just checking things out up here. Did you guys do anything down there?" Aelgeirr would continue to search, but he'd kind of divide his attention between searching and watching the trap door. His sword would be drawn and held ready to strike anything hostile that MIGHT emerge from that trap door.  

[Rain Yupa]

Aelgeirr, how long do you want to spend searching? And what is everyone else doing in this period of time?

Thork, in the meantime, would look sadly at the dead adventurers, now that he has been promoted to not-ladder. "What Mercy think we should do about them?"  

[Plainsfox]

Aelgeirr will spend three minutes searching  

[Kowsauni]

Ambra Goldstar
Mage in Training

Now that the fight was over Ambra would run over. To the hole to check on her companions. She was relieved to her Mercy's voice from down below but she what lied down at the bottom with them she was horrified. She put her hand up to her mouth and gasped at the sight of the adventures' corpses . "Oh god...how awful. D-do you need getting help out of there? Or does that door open?"  

[Paidi tou Selini]

"Oh thank heavens." she sighed, incredibly relieved that her mistake did not cost any lives. "Why yes, help would be lovely. I couldn't see a way to open the door from down here, and my idea for escape has been... unsuccessful... So we're going to tie my rope to this staff and toss it up to you. You just need to anchor it on something.

And she began doing just that, nabbing the staff and securing the rope to it, calling out a "Ready?" and upon hearing confirmation, finally tossing it up.  

[SCN_ Grey_fox]

"Rest well," Thork spoke sadly to the corpses, before looking up to the lever... "How goblin reset trap? Gate go up first or floor?"

Turning back to the dead, "Forgive Thork", he said as he checked what belongings they had left.  

[Rain Yupa]

@ Thork:

Among the dead, you find 4 standard adventurer's kits (you can replace your broken one with one of theirs), and an assortment of mundane equipment, appropriate for a fighter, cleric, wizard, and rogue.

Also, can you give me a DC... say, 12 insight check?

UPDATE: Thork, your insight check isn't high enough to pinpoint what is nagging you about these dead heroes. Something seems out of place but you just can't quite put your finger on it. (No, it isn't familiarity with them, you're 100% certain you've never met them before).  

[Plainsfox]

"Hey! It may be a better idea to toss it up here. That way you guys can come up. We can reset the trap, and Ambra can walk over." Aelgeirr states as he ponders the lack of loot input on the bodies of these goblins.  

[Kowsauni]

Ambra Goldstar
Mage in Training

Ambra would pick up the staff ad look around for anything to tie the rope to. Unfortunately there was nothing. She set down the staff. "There's nothing up here to tie off to. I'm going to go drag in a barricade to attach the rope to. I'll be back shortly." Ambra then moves back to the front entrance and begins the arduous task of moving a barricade closer to the pit.  

[Rain Yupa]

A rope is tied to the staff, and it is thrown up to Ambra, who makes sure it doesn't fall back in.

Aelgeirr begins his search.

Ambra heads towards the mouth of the cave.

Suddenly, there is a metallic CH-CHNK!, and the sound of gears. The floor panels that gave way above begin to rise on their own, before closing shut after about 10 seconds, locking Mercy and Thork in.

Mercy, Thork, luckily you have a sunrod lit, so it's not pitch black. Just you and the bodies. Curiously, the rope wasn't severed, and you can barely make out the tiny slit in the ceiling where the center of the hallway above would be.

A-Team, the rope connected to the staff can be traced to center of the hall floor. The gap is less than a centimeter, but it didn't sever the rope. It looks like it might have damaged it, though. You can make out the bright light from their sunrod bleeding through the crack.

Aelgeirr, your search up until now (about a minute) hasn't revealed anything yet. Does this event interrupt your search?  

[Plainsfox]

Aelgeirr would beckon Ambra over to his side of the trap and then pull the rope over as well, if he could. He would then brace the rope staff against something on the goblin body side of the trap and, after making sure Ambra was not going to fall in, state "Are you ready? I'm going to flip the switch!" Aelgeirr would take his rope from his Adventurer's kit and tie it onto the staff as well. He would keep the undamaged one to the right and the damaged one to the left. "OK. When the trap opens, I'm going to toss down another rope. Use this rope and not the one that has a cut in it."