Tests and Trials

[NotStickFigures]

(sounds like a plan)

[Dlover]

((Aye, I'd say turn it off if there are no other questions.))

Once the golem is finished its exploring, Lurn return to Jaq, "I can certainly see what guidance My Lord will offer us. Who will it be that I support?"

[Rodgeir]

((Let's see... It will be investigation for both Jaq and Joe. Joe can add her proficiency to the roll or double her proficiency if she is already proficient, this is straight up archeology.))

[spiderwrangler]

Kroshav stands by for lifting and digging, as needed.

<Ealu, it looks like we'll be going underground soon. Not sure you and Charlie will fit, but maybe we can find a nice place for the two of you to hang out while we go below?>

[Dlover]

Lurn will apply Guidance to Joe for an extra 1d4.

[The Lost]

Joe seems initally saddened at the appearent lack of libary, but seems to eye the boulder a bit, taking a mental note of it.

Joe frowns at the depression of the ‘libary’ trying to look for anything...anything out of place or of significance.

Investigation (archelogy) [1d20+8] = 15+8 = 23guidance [1d4] = 1


(Also a question would the shatter spell help in shattering mundane objects? I’ll need to get it next day but it would be good to know just in case and Joe has investigation and history, so she’s pretty decent at her job as archelogist)

[Rodgeir]

Kroshav gets back,

<Somewhere warm. It's cold. I'm cold and Charlie is cold too. Can you make a fire?>

Joe gets to the business of archeologying with a fury. She examines the depression and after a couple minutes of light excavation she uncovers the outline of the stairway, dirty and cracked stone. A bit more digging shows the stone floor around that and the top of the first stair, or at least what remains of it. The entire structure she can see appears relatively intact but has been heavily weathered. A few more minutes of digging in the frozen, rocky soil shows reveals another stair in not great condition. Joe isn't able to estimate how deep this goes but would guess that the entire stairway has been filled with soil and rocks over the years and it might take days to clear it. What that means for the overall condition of the archives she can't say but wouldn't guess it is a positive thing unless there is or was a doorway that would have stopped things from getting further in.

Looking out over what she is sure was the library floor, Joe can say that the archive's roof has not collapsed though it is entirely possible something else has happened to it.

((Shatter would work on the boulder...and the stone library floor. You could potentially cast it in the air above the boulder so it misses the floor and hits only it. The boulder does qualify as a huge object so it will take some doing to out and out destroy it.))

[Dlover]

"Hm, well, maybe the boulder blocked the passage so that one didn't get filled in? If we can get it moved, that is."

[NotStickFigures]

"Either way, it looks like we might be out here for a cold night, so I'm going to start a fire to keep everyone warm, any objections?"

[Rodgeir]

Ealu stomps and nuzzles Jaq.

[The Lost]

“P-please hurry with tha. I-it’s frezzin’ meh up.”
Joe points out the rubble and stairs. “Thar be a good c-c-chance of s-shelt’r ‘ere.” Joe digs through her bag and brings out a shovel, pick and the immovile stick.

She tries to find a place to wedge the shovel between the boulder and the wall.
“Anyun got r-rope? Lurn can ye find pieces o wood o somethin’ ta help wedge t-this bould’r?”


(Joe is from a much more topical enviroment, living to the south and near the coast so she is very much hating this cold weather)

[Rodgeir]

With some digging around the boulder Joe uncovers the floor, and in one spot an area it looks to enter the stairway. The rock gets wider as it goes up, in a vaguely squat egg shape, making getting under it a bit tricky. How much of the egg is down plugging the stairs is unclear.

Using her pick she is able to chip away pieces of the boulder and of the floor enough to get a shovel in.

((This spot is pretty well scoured of trees/bits of wood. You'd have to walk a good ways to get any from either side of the Cut.))

[spiderwrangler]

"I can help work on the rock, but if someone wants to take the horses to drag back some firewood, Ealu can let me know if you need me to come running."

[The Lost]

”Can ye be careful? If this done wrong we may haps harder time gettin it out.”

How much of the egg is down plugging the stairs is unclear

Eggg? Arcana [1d20+5] = 2+5 = 7 history [1d20+5] = 19+5 = 24
Joe carefully tries to chip away from the...egg boulder.

(Hmmm what lays med/large eggs? Dragon? )

[NotStickFigures]

Jaq will go with the horses to get firewood brought back. "Can I get a ride, Ealu?" he asks.

[Rodgeir]

(("vaguely squat egg shape". It's a big rock.))

Ealu looks to Kroshav on Jaq's request but does seat closer.

[spiderwrangler]

<If you're comfortable with him riding you, Jaq's going to go get some wood for a fire so we can stay nice and warm.>

[Rodgeir]

<YES! It is so cold.>

She moves closer to Jaq.

[spiderwrangler]

"She would very much like to get warm by a fire, Jaq. You can mount up and she and Charlie will help drag back whatever you can find."

[NotStickFigures]

Jaq has some rope and will do just that, go looking for a good fire log or two with the horses.
"OK, let's go look for some fire wood, horses, I'm going to hop on, as you two can move faster than me."

[Rodgeir]

Jaq easily gathers wood with the horses.

What is everyone else doing in the meantime?

[spiderwrangler]

Kroshav is putting his war pick and shovel to use in shifting dirt on one side, to see if we can topple the 'egg' and roll it out of the way.

[The Lost]

Joe puts the immobile stick between the wall and gap and uses it to help prop up the boulder and leaves it hanging. She tries to get her pickaxe and picks at the space near the immobile stick so that she can try to put the shovel in and uses her shovel as a lever to aid Kroshav in getting the egg rock out. Any additional movement of the boulder and the stick will be put behind it so they don't loose their place as they work on it.



(Uh huh suuuure. I'm onto you )

[Dlover]

"I've got rope, but how does it help?"

[The Lost]

"I'if thare be enough space fer ruby ta squeeze through, we maybeh able ta get the top around tha rock n use tha stick o tha disk spell as a ru-rudament'ry pully o pull s-sys-st'm"