The Ninth Adventure

[mushgnome]

@Bastet1002 unfortunately Robur already cast his spell for the day (Faerie Fire vs. the giant spiders).

@rredmond good brainstorming, but I rule shillelagh spell only affects a wooden weapon usable by druids (such as a cudgel or staff) therefore cannot be cast on Dame S's sword.

[Bastet1002]

Robur readies is Hobbit dagger and experimentally takes a swipe at nearby mushrooms on the ground to see whether some kind of path could be made.

[mushgnome]

Robur thinks, if he uses his dagger like a machete, he can carve a path through the slimy mushrooms, hopefully enabling him to cross the room without making a save vs. wands. (Note that nobody has failed their save yet, so it's unclear what you are saving against. Your humble referee made vague reference to some kind of "catastrophe." Since Robur passed his save, all he knows is "nothing bad happened.")

Which direction does Robur carve a path: heading toward the north or the south exit? Or does he wait until the combat is over?

[Bastet1002]

Robur starts to "machete" his way north just on gut instinct. Maybe this will somehow help the battle with the crocodile thing... He isn't sure yet... but at least it could be another avenue of retreat, or maybe he thinks, the crocodile could fall down and get stuck on slippery mushrooms if his friends retreated this way?

[mushgnome]

OOC: Good plan, to carve a path to the north exit! Also can I just say how cute it is, that you think moving the fight to slippery, uneven terrain would give the hobbets advantage over the swamp-dwelling quadraped.

[rredmond]

OOC: Ah but didn't you HR that Entangle works on mushrooms? Skeleton comes in, but it might not come out

[mushgnome]

I support weaponized mushrooms!

Let's do this: We'll give Willie, Wilbur and Dame Simonetta a chance to finish this in melee...

[mushgnome]

Round 3

Dame Simonetta hits again with her sword. It is a powerful blow, and she can see the bones beginning to splinter.

Wilbur finishes the job with his crowbar, pulverizing the skellie croc to dust! Whatever necromantic force was holding the skeleton together has been dispelled.

The battle is over! This was no ordinary skeleton; it had 7HD! Nice job, hobbitses.

Hobbets melee (including +2 Faerie Fire bonus)
Dame Simonetta 8 hit for 5hp
Willie 8 miss (he has slightly worse THAC0 than Wilbur and the Dame due to only being Fighter 2)
Wilbur 8 hit for 4hp

Once again the +2 bonus from Faerie Fire makes a big difference!

[mushgnome]

Meanwhile Robur begins hacking a path through the mushrooms. He soon finds himself at the edge of a pit trap! (Now we know what the save vs. wands was for.)

The pit looks about 10' deep. The way the mushrooms are growing is funny: The mushrooms growing in the pit have bamboo-like 10' long stems, so that their caps are level with their neighbors outside the pit. The stems are comically long and thin compared to the caps they support; like trying to balance a frisbee on the end of a jump-rope. Surely these mushrooms would collapse under their own weight, if they didn't have their neighbors to lean on.

It's hard to tell from where Robur is standing, but it looks like there might be something at the bottom of the 10' pit. Possibly a spherical object, about the size of a pumpkin? It's hard to see from up here, since the light is bad and the pit is crowded with mushrooms.

[kipper]

Dame Simonetta returns to the Mushroom-room. "Good job, Robur!", she exclaims. She is well-pleased with the progress made, and will lend him aid in whatever way he requires.