Immersive Ink

^ Yes, but don't touch the gems with our skin (at least until we can confirm that they are non-magical).

"I may be able to help with that," Aldbane says. He moves into the room and casts find traps, scanning the entire room and contents.

No traps reveal themselves to his magic

Meanwhile on the surface world, Franklin wiggles his toes by the fireplace and takes a long draw on his corn cob pipe. "I wonder how my friends are getting along?" he wonders.

So let's grab the gems and return to the elevator (Maloof will climb the statue if they are not within reach).

To make a story short, you pry out the eyes, and head back to the elevator, and make it back to the surface with no incidents

I will do up xp this weekend

DELVE 16b

MONSTERS
3 cockatrices @400 xp = 1200 xp
TOTAL: 1200
PLAYER SHARE: 400 each

TREASURE
2 gems worth 500 gp ea = 1000 gp
TOTAL: 1000 gp/xp
PLAYER SHARE: gold 333 each, xp 333 ea

733 base xp each

Aldbane 38089 + 733 + 37 (bonus) = 38667

Maloof 19999+ 733 + 73 (bonus) = 20805
Maloof is now Level 6
4d6 for hit points = 19
Some Saving Throws increase
Chance to hit increases by 1
He gets his last special ability
lvl 1 - Light 3x/day
lvl 2: Color Spray 1/day
lvl 4: Phantasm 1/day
lvl 6: Confusion 1/day

Nailus 9999 + 773 + 37 (bonus) = 10577
Nailus is now a level 4 MU, so he can memorize four 1st level and two 2nd level spells
He has a full Level 1 and Level 2 spell book (the party has full books up to and including level 3)
His saving throws went up
His hit points do not increase

Nailus is Ftr 2, MU 4, and has to decide whether to adventure as a Fighter or MU

Nailus spend one week and 2000 gold pieces and invents a magic missile spell
auto-hit, 1 at level 1, 3 at level 6, 5 at level 11, does 2-7 dmg/missile

Naillus will adventure as a Fighter

He will take Sleep, 2 of his new MM spell. Any suggestions for his last 1st level and his two second level?

Maloof is also now at his maximum Thief level.

We discussed in the past that Gnomes (in general) would have a maximum thief level of 6 and magic-user level of 4, but I don't recall if we discussed whether they can multi-class similar to an elf? It's fine with me if they cannot (especially since they already gain some cool spell-like abilities), Maloof would then be similar to Franklin in that he can't really use any additional XP and would just be adventuring for the fun and glory!

I took a look, and we had a choice between making a 4 MU / 6 Thf class, or sticking to Gnome illusion idea and making you straight thief with some intrinsic illusionist-like abilities built in

Yes, you and Franklin can still get better by getting better gear