Ericka, please make for me a Lore test, and a Spot test, the latter with advantage due to your malumeter
Welcome to the minefield!The sigil Ericka spotted will be made visible on the roll20. The sigil itself is in the center of the ring, but seems to have a proximity where it will trigger from.
[Can they be detected with Spot checks? and do we move for next round?]
Now that you have been made aware of them, yes, you can make Perception(Spot) checks for them. I'll base the spot check based on where you make the check from, so probably better to check before moving.
She'll then turn back and look for sigils, flipping her Scout goggles down and scanning the areas in front of her friends and also see if the courtyard was a safe (if noisy) way to go for her friends.Cunning: 6D6 = [3, 5, 4, 1, 2, 6] = 21
Relocate Trick. no haunts. Summoning one of those would be bad.
stealth: 4D6 = [2, 3, 3, 6] = 14
1 success
Per of 7 plus 5 w/spotting glass equipped: spot(Per): 12D6 = [3, 6, 1, 4, 4, 3, 1, 4, 6, 6, 6, 2] = 46
4 successes
Knowledge: 5D6 = [6, 6, 4, 4, 4] = 24
2 successes
The best option is avoidance, since you can't know for certain what the trigger is without the caster telling you. Some common ones for traps include Direct Contact, Proximity and Trip Line. So basically if you touch it (usually keyed to living things, otherwise small things like leaves, or in this case, ashes, would set it off), come within a preset range (probably not more than a 4-5 meters) or cross in front of it (ducking under or stepping over would bypass these), you would set it off. Mental command is also a viable trigger, often used to allow one to let some people through a minefield while not others. The triggers could also be keyed to certain criteria like "Any male that enters the proximity" or "Any weilder" for example, so long as it's a tangible detail. Saying "an accountant" isn't really a tangible detail to set a trigger by.
The trouble is, identifying exactly what kind of trigger a sigil has is impossible withotu testing to see if what you do sets it off.
As for disrupting one, destroying the surface it is on is pretty reliable so long as the method of doing so doesn't trip it, or the act of breaking the surface itself isn't the trigger. (Sometimes destroying the sigil is what is keyed to set it off. Sometimes you want a sigil that is activated by destroying it, say like putting a Restorative or Poison sigil on a cracker, so when it is destroyed by being eaten it goes off)
Looking through your character sheets, I think your best options are Elemental Strike (Lloyd and Ericka) or one of Ericka's self destruct bombs. Both will make noise since you are attempting to destroy surfaces, so keep that in mind, as well as consequences for breaking say, the beam the sigil by Lloyd is on, will likely cause additional noise from structure collapse. But in both cases, it's purely energy damage destroying the sigils, and done from at least a little range, so long as the proximity isn't breached, but Ericka's malumeter can sort of pick that up with careful searching)
Just for a little extra info: Sigils can have all kinds of triggers, and can be placed on all kinds of surfaces, though obviously more sturdy surfaces are best so they aren't destroyed by mistake (putting a sigil in sand or ash for example doesn't work very well, though the ground under ashes is still a concern). It's quite possible to put sigil on say, a piece of paper to have it activate when the paper is torn, or on your own armor to be triggered by being touched by your own saliva (you lick a finger then touch the sigil to trigger it). In this way, it is possible to prepare spells in advance, though you want to be careful since triggers can be set off accidentally if the conditions are met.
trick - spectral tree: 6d6=1, 6, 6, 5, 5, 2 25 4 successes.
attack, Symbiotic: 10d6=4, 6, 2, 5, 1, 5, 3, 2, 2, 4 34 if advantage for attacking a static thing, 5 successes, otherwise 3
Lloyd strikes out with the magical properties of his arcane trick and smashes the beam. Whether stealth was a viable option or not before, the loud crash as the splintered charcoal that was once part of someone's home is near deafening as part of the roof collapses as well. It does not drop in a way that is any danger to Lloyd or any of the other wielders present, but it does kick up a plume of ash in addition to the noise and it takes little more than a moment for a loud cry to be heard coming from the direction of the akuma, Helmontra.Advantage attacking a stationary target seems fair!
Go ahead and roll Recovery everyone!
