Sanctum of Rat
| Step 2: Planning the Way | |
|---|---|
| Date | 3/30/2023 |
| Storyteller | Doug |
| Tier | Trainee |
| Player Characters | Kit, Sutton, Tremla, Maki, Bright Eyes, Mayel |
| Rewards | 200 xp (100 for Bodrukk), Deployable cover, 2 antiplagues, 2 owlbear claws, 30 gold. |
| Result | Success |
| Author | Robby |
Ratschild hired us to go through mines and locate a faster route to the evil magic banjo of Billy Bob. Ratschild wasn't very happy to learn that a few of the party didn't know what a banjo was. I was also disappointed.
When we got there Tremla and I made a fast decision to a door but everyone else sat around and contemplated for awhile before finally flipping a coin and making us come back.
Instead they went to a door with an elevator and pushed the button to go all the way down. We go past a floor with hundreds of rats that were sleeping. Good thing we didn't choose that floor.
Everyone picks a different decision to go down there so I tell them to just flip a dang coin. We go left. It ends in a slide that drops in a room full of gas. One door exit. Tremla leads the way.
We come to a tunnel. Left is a 25 ft gap, 100 ft below:rats. Right is hole with a rope. No fatties first they say...I feel like they are looking at me...
A mutated 2 headed rat shows up behind us and Bodrukk urges us to hurry.
Maki goes down the hole with an extra rope for safety.
Ahead is a collapsed path with some gaps to see through. There is also a climb down of 10 feet.
Sutton repels first down the hole.
She goes into a small hole and sees a giant rat eating people with a chest behind it. She sneaks past it and sees a bell trap on the chest. Cuts it and returns with a black box.
Tremla sets off a trap. dodges out of the way and everyone is forced to jump over a boulder which they do. Some prettier then others.
We come to some stairs. we go up and Tremla tries to smash a trap mechanism on the stairs and smashes the stairs apart. Bodrukk climbs up.
We come to a T intersection. Right is a 30 ft path with a door. Floor is covered in nails. Left is a gap, 40 ft down. 20 ft wide. We have to swing ropes to get across. We take the nail path because the ropes scare Mayel.
We lay our bed rolls down on the nails. Tremla is hesitant to lose her bedroll but agrees.
We come to a hole in the ceiling, 20 ft up. Greased around the edge.
Sutton shoots a bolt up with a rope attached. Mayel and Sutton climb up and tie a rope for the rest to climb.
Ahead is a mouse sitting on a canon.
Tremla uses my picks to open a locked door and Mayel opens it with help.
Kit shoots the canon mouse but the canon fires into the air with a load bang. Hundreds of rats come running as Brodrukk slams the metal door shut behind us.
We come to a rickety looking bridge. Mayel and Sutton go across no problem. Brodrukk and me look at each other concerned.
Maki and sutton hold a rope.
They fight rats as I go across and fall half way through but pull myself out and keep going.
Maki hands rope to Bodrukk and runs onto the bridge a little way before running back?
Tremla runs across almost falling but goes across and bites the rat.
By the time Bodrukk goes last the bridge is full of holes and barely a bridge.
Bodrukk barrels across and makes it to the very end as the bridge starts to collapse. Mayel's little body strains as he pulls on the rope and somehow pulls Bodrukk up.
I wrap my arms around Mayel and try to pull them up but he is heavier then I expected, as I pull Bodrukk slips and we both faceplant as he clings to the ledge.
Maki then steps up and helps pull Bodrukk up as I crawl away.
Oranges drops the last 2 rats off the cliff.
We run down a mine cart track. A creepy mutant rat barrels down at us in a cart.
Bodrukk attempts to brace himself with his shield and try to stop it in its tracks. Its doesn't go well and he gets plowed through as it continues on hitting almost everyone. I jump over it of course.
We make our way out and look at our loot. Deployable cover, 2 antiplagues, 2 owlbear claws, 30 gold. Nice.