Since I am doing everyone's sheet on my side, and we have time, I am being a stickler for encumbrance. Lots of BX things to love and its such a stripped down system that leaving something like weight out is a bad idea. BX to me was explained as a resource style game - from time to hp to food water, weight, coin, weapons, and everything - and you cannot maximize it all - something has to give. So they are doing what I remember my groups doing 35 years ago and that's jettisoning the lesser value treasure in the interest of speed.
Follows:
TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY NINE
“I don’t think Bam Bam expected that,” Kovid chuckled. “Now he’s dead dead.”
Giving the brute a hard look and noting its size and weight, Abraxas bent down grabbed one of the ogre’s arms, "Señor Kovern, ayuda me, grab the other arm. Let's get this puta out of the hall, cover our movements a bit, si?’
Nervous in the hall, Brendon shook his head and pointed north, “Forget the body. We don’t have time for this.”
Straining to drag the corpse, the dwarf pulling on the other arm, Abraxas answered, "We don’t want orcasas or otros to know where we are. Plus, we can examine the room. Maybe hay es some treasures.”
Lannis nodded his agreement, still sitting against the western wall. The elf stepped up and grabbed the Ogres’ ankles and hoisted up, crab walking forward following the other two. “Wyn will help move dis too... leavin dis body in de hall is not a good idea.”
As they dragged the corpse through the doorframe (Str check need 2: Abr +2 > Blue 5, Kovid +2 =Yellow 17, Wyn +2 >Orange 9) they shoved and pushed their way in amidst the ogre’s busted furnishings, Abraxas adding, “And if we need a place to hide, it may be good to know if this room would do."
“I hear you,” Brendon replied, staying in the hall and looking around with care. “Keep it in perspective. We need the idol and we need to keep moving.”
“Can’t argue with that,” Kovid nodded, “Let’s not dawdle here too long. Let’s get back to the plan.”
Lyra went to go help check the room out, when Lannis grabbed her shirttail loosely, "Thanks for the potion, Lyra.”
She patted his head, giving him a critical look. “Yea, you’re lucky I remembered I had one. Next hit you take we might not get so lucky.” The Cleric then walked into the chamber to help look around.
Meanwhile the Magic User squinted at Brendon and pushed himself to his feet. “Huh, my eyes gone blurry, weird. We should keep going where we were going which is…" he absently pointed north.
The room itself was a bedroom and living quarters at some point but the furnishings had been pretty destroyed. It seems the Ogrea had wrecked the room and at first it appeared it was done for destructive purposes but on further reflection, the group realized the brute had tried to break items in such a way that it would better suit his weight and frame. The bottom footboard of the bed had been busted off to allow for his legs. The chairs had been stacked two on top of each other for his weight. Doors had been removed from cabinets, and etc..
In the south east corner of the room was a bell on a rope, the rope went down the wall and through a hole in the floor. “Alarm bell,” Kovid noted, looking at his map. “Most likely when we entered the four way hall, it signaled Bam Bam here that company was coming.”
“Check this out,” Lyra pointed, removing a stout leather sack from the wall on a large bent nail. She flipped back the cover and it was filled with gold coins. “Damn,” she said, “Gotta be 30 lbs in here.”
Brendon did have a point,” Kovid said. “Let’s divide it up and move on. The ogre made a mess in here and this bag of gold and Lannis’ sucking headwound is enough trouble for us to deal with.”
“Oui,” Wyn agreed. “Cinq minutes is enough time to look as well.”
The group filed out, shutting the door to the Ogre room behind them, passed their coins around (everyone add 50 gold!!) and lined up again behind Brendon taking the party north.
Time now is Day 8, 5:31 AM
(OOC)
Explore: 45 xp each
Monster: Ogre @ 270 xp divided
Treasure: 300 gold divided
Lannis, Brendon, Abraxas: 140 xp
Kovid: 150 xp
Wyn & Lyra: 155 xp
Ok – shorter turn. Unless I hear otherwise – group is still going to head north. If I have time, I do the other half of the turn taking the group at least to the end of the hall near the Guardians and mayhap beyond?
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