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Post by catalessi on Jul 7, 2020 20:39:11 GMT
Martha carefully backs away from the creature towards the other exit from this room "let's go. we'll leave you alone, if you promise to not chase us or attack us again"
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Post by Spwack on Jul 8, 2020 1:22:07 GMT
The creature doesn't follow, it just hisses and snarls and whimpers and starts sobbing again. You can feel hostility emanating from it, but it doesn't seem to be pursuing. You've definitely made an enemy though, and who knows, the dungeon sure is a small place.
((And that is how you get things added to the "Recurring Characters" list!))
Heading north, carefully, and listening repeatedly for sounds of pursuit, you catch a whiff of stale clay. The tunnel opens out into a cramped and awkward chamber, with a side-passage heading directly left. The northern part of the cavern seems to be awash with sticky-looking brown mud. There's an immense block of black stone sticking out of the mud, several spear-lengths away from the "shore" of the mud-pool. In addition, on the far side of said mud-pool is a tiny tunnel leading up and north-east.
What do you do?
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Post by oddrick on Jul 8, 2020 1:34:46 GMT
"I've grown soft", sighs Panyrus. "Back in the day I wouldn't have left a creeper like that guy there live to tell the tale."
Any carvings or other marks on the monolith?
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Post by Spwack on Jul 8, 2020 7:57:04 GMT
None that you can see, but you get the feeling that you are only seeing a small corner of it. It also looks very precise and regular, with sharp corners and lines. It's clearly very heavy and been carved with care.
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Post by oddrick on Jul 8, 2020 16:39:05 GMT
Focusing on the stone artifact, I'll use my 7th Sense.
Additionally, if I can, I'll look for a rock or debris nearby. And throw it in the middle of this mud pool.
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Post by oddrick on Jul 8, 2020 17:03:04 GMT
Oh, and I forgot to declare it before we left the previous room, but I can do it now, if it's any good: my backpack, I'd like to have gotten it back with me as soon as we decided to move forward. Or we can establish I forgot it back there with the definitely non-Gorgon individual, which would force me to go back for it.
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Post by catalessi on Jul 8, 2020 22:31:12 GMT
i try to scout the side-passage to see where it ends. if i meet anything ugly i immediately go back trying to not be seen or heard pre-emptive dex save: 5d9pkHsl1d20+41d20+4
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Post by Spwack on Jul 9, 2020 1:22:28 GMT
7th Sense says: Yes The rock sinks surprisingly quickly into the clay, with a "glooorp". I forgot you dropped it, but you remembered, therefore you have collected your backpack, wonderful! catalessiHeading down the side-passage, quietly and carefully, you come across (as opposed to "stumble across") a sudden pit! It's the width of the tunnel, looks carved, and has rounded edges on both sides.
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Post by oddrick on Jul 9, 2020 2:00:00 GMT
I want to tell Martha about what I've detected, but I feel it must be done quietly. So I head towards her via the side passge:
dex check
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Post by Spwack on Jul 9, 2020 8:28:36 GMT
You’re there, it’s fine. I’ll assume that you are traveling carefully by default.
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Post by oddrick on Jul 9, 2020 17:47:52 GMT
I whisper to Martha: "That monolith over there, I'm getting some nasty vibes from it. I mean, objectively speaking, I can sense it. Not sure we could say it's alive, or whether it *means* harm, but yeah, you get my meaning. It's deadly, alright."
Looking down into the chasm: "so what's the plan here?"
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Post by oddrick on Jul 11, 2020 19:54:02 GMT
I probe the pit by dropping a second rock I grab from my immediate surroundings. I drop it then listen for it so I can estimate how far down it goes.
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Post by catalessi on Jul 11, 2020 23:34:40 GMT
"hmmm. it seems like our progression has reached a tough spot. let me hear what is down there first" i echolocate to feel how deep is the chasm and if there is some passage or something in it
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Post by Spwack on Jul 12, 2020 9:27:58 GMT
It sounds deep, but not bottomless. If you fell in you could probably break your neck.
I'll roll a CHA check for you Martha: Uxy0ac3h1d20+31d20+3
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Post by Spwack on Jul 12, 2020 9:29:02 GMT
Hot damn, there definitely is some kind of tunnel down there! It's small, and you can't echolocate round corners easily at all, but there's definitely a hole in the wall about two-thirds of the way down, on the right-hand side of the pit.
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Post by oddrick on Jul 12, 2020 15:53:20 GMT
on the other hand, just across the mud pool another hole leads to the dungeon's upper level, right?
I'd like to search the environment for spare planks, metal scraps and the like. I can shape metal and I now wonder whether we got enough metal (or any at all) to make us a tin ferry? Perhaps the tube that threw us here?
But that depends on what Martha'd rather do.
And on whether the pool's density will allow for floating. What does it look like again?
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Post by Spwack on Jul 13, 2020 1:04:05 GMT
It's hard to tell exactly where it leads. The gaps between the floors are quite large, just because something leads upwards doesn't mean it will go all the way up.
You could certainly salvage the tube for those kinds of materials, but apart from that you'd have a bit of trouble finding stuff in this place, especially since you've left an enemy behind.
The mud-pool is pale brown, completely smooth, and sucked down the stone you dropped into it with considerable ease. It looks too liquid to stand on, and too solid and sticky to easily swim through.
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Post by oddrick on Jul 13, 2020 1:41:38 GMT
Hmm, that's a tricky one. Even if we eventually decide to go down the pit right now (which seems a more obvious route forward), trying to latch onto a ledge that is 2/3 down a neck-breaking fall is still risky. And we have no rope or pitons.
"Well, what do you think? Should we rest here? Risk a jump into the pit? Go back to the tube so I can make us some pitons out of it?"
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Post by Spwack on Jul 15, 2020 1:29:23 GMT
((It might be up to you to make this decision oddrick))
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Post by oddrick on Jul 15, 2020 1:37:51 GMT
Stealthily, I'll head back to the nonGorgon's room. I think I have a plan.
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Post by Spwack on Jul 15, 2020 7:25:46 GMT
You're there, or at least close by. What are you going to do?
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Post by oddrick on Jul 15, 2020 14:42:55 GMT
1. Locate hostile; 2. Produce the tiny screw I collected earlier; 3. Sneak within teleporting distance of hostile (as per the rules for the Spellgineer ability); 4. Teleport screw to the middle of hostile's skull; 5. Shape screw into a few other jagged spiky starry forms inside hostile's brain (assuming I can do it telepathically from this point on, having already touched it); 6. Wait and see if it's enough to kill hostile.
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Post by Spwack on Jul 16, 2020 1:18:10 GMT
Damn! This is an excellent plan, and I do believe that if you are accurate, prepared and have the time, will deal d20 damage to a creature with a brain.
Lets see a quick DEX check to see what you run into first...
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Post by oddrick on Jul 16, 2020 1:36:30 GMT
Hd2gXZP11d20+11d20+1
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Post by Spwack on Jul 17, 2020 1:08:11 GMT
Alright, you're back in the room from earlier, and you can see the creature caressing the mutilated face of one of the statues. It pricks up it's head, peering about uncertainly in the opposite direction to you. From here, you can safely observe it. It's huge, muscular, and has massive greasy-looking wings wrapped around it's grey-green body.
Are you going to attack?
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Post by oddrick on Jul 17, 2020 2:28:11 GMT
l'll observe them for a while longer; I want to know what they're about.
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Post by Spwack on Jul 17, 2020 2:32:23 GMT
They look... crumpled. They are clearly tall, strong and fast, and those claws on their hands and feet are wickedly sharp. Even so they seem shrunken somehow. Maybe its how filthy those wings are that make them seem like a dead bird, broken and pitiful?
You still haven't seen their face.
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Post by oddrick on Jul 17, 2020 3:50:16 GMT
"What happened to you? Who were you before?"
That's right. We're doing this. (Martha stayed behind, I'm assuming, so she's safe as far as nongorgon's rekindled wrath is concerned.)
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Post by Spwack on Jul 17, 2020 6:59:19 GMT
"YOU AGAIN" shrieks the creature, hunching back towards the statue. "What do you want?"
"...I don't know. I don't know. I... I can't know? What happened to you?"
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Post by oddrick on Jul 17, 2020 16:42:16 GMT
"Not entirely sure yet. Apparently I've been teleported down here into this underground complex. Against my will, goes without saying. ((sighs, walks gingerly forward half a dozen inches; stops)) now there's really not much else for me to do except look for an exit. An obstacle right around the corner kinda compelled me to come back here (speaking of which, sorry to bother you again). I came back for... tools to... aid my colleague and I... in our journey upstairs. And I think that other room over there may be storing just the thing." . ((Awkward pause. I stand by, humming nervously)) . "Uhm... the room I speak of, by the way... Pardon my curiosity, but... is it the room where all these statues used to be located?"
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