Dungeon 2 Turn 28
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Ricki tries talking to the pair of thugs.
“Hey, no worries. I’m just here to work on the pipes, so I don’t need to get any closer than this lever here. I might need to come back later and mess with it again, but it’s nothing to do with whatever you guys are up to.”
“Well, you don’t look like the type who’d go to the Guard… fine. But one wrong move and my buddy here fires.”
“That’s a pretty nice crossbow, by the way. Any chance you’d trade for it?”
“Yeah right. I doubt you have anything worth as much as this thing.”
Ricki can’t help but notice they didn’t actually say no. She wonders how many bolts they even have left with all the dire rats and snails running around down here.
Meanwhile, Kamau continues his battle with the centipede. Thanks to wearing a bucket on his head, Kamau continues to take no damage. However, the bucket also causes him to whiff his attack this turn.
“This is demeaning.”
Ricki: Flip the lever, see how that changes the flow. Flip it back if the flow is shut off, we want the pipes running. Ask them if they want help opening the chest.
Kamau: Fight
Here’s the mapped out dungeon so far
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I’d like to see how the snale reacts to the pipes being shut off.
I also don’t want to split loot with the thugs, or give them reason to be wary. Hanging out on opposite sides of the crawlspace is fine. Also, we can’t actually help with the chest right now unless they’re offering tools, and they have no reason to leave Ricki alive after the chest is open.
If it went to a fight, I predict the one with a dagger deals 2 damage and the crossbow also deals 2 damage per shot. Budget for at least 4 incoming damage and probably more, especially if they have abilities like Ambush or weapon proficiency like Ricki could’ve learned on level up.
You know, there are some chests and keys in this dungeon that are only accessible to Ricki, but guarded by monsters that are too tough for her to defeat alone. But these two bandits are small enough to fit through the rat tunnels and help her …
Ricki: Ask the guys if they’d be interested in working together. Tell them you know of some treasure chests in secret locations, and if they help you get the loot, you and your partner will split it with them.
If they bite, we’ll have to be alert for double crosses. Might be smart to start with the keys rather than the chests. And if Ricki goes in with them (I can’t imagine they’d agree to go in alone), she’ll be very vulnerable without Kamau there to protect her, so she might want to stay by the tunnel, ready to bolt back to safety.
“bolt back to safety”
(no pun intended) 🙂
One other observation: The bandits saw her and identified her as a goblin immediately, and they don’t have a torch in there, so they can see in the dark. Dwarves? That might not bode well for working together with a goblin …
I think we’ve established that the walls and floors in some magical way do not block the torch on the top of this room. I have no idea how that works, but as long there’s a torch on the wall, the room is considered bright? Just a conjecture. I don’t remember hearing that from the GM and/or reading it clearly in adventure description.
Word of warning: they are wary of guards, and Kamau was a guard. He seems to have been a very succesful one, so he may be well-known, and there’s a chance that those thugs will go crazy when they see Ricky being friendly with Kamau
Pity. They may not join the party then.. unless they can be convinced to overlook that Kamau is no longer a guard
Lsn stop trying to bait us into attacking the bandits
Kamau: interpose.
Ricki: go back through the rat tunnel and beat the crap out of that centipede.
Kamau is barely damaging it with 4 attack. Ricki won’t be able to scratch the centipede alone.
Unfortunately, “thanks to the bucket” does seem to confirm that the centipede deals 4 damage. Since we have a valve for Ricki to experiment with, I don’t mind taking some extra time.
We should swap so Kamau wears armor and Ricki puts a bucket on her head. With Dungeon Eyes, she might even not be impacted, and even if she has the miss chance she still has the wand.
Looks like time to get past the nasty centipede, go examine the corpse? and see if anything can be done for that drunk. Burial perhaps?