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Post by Spwack on Feb 7, 2021 12:42:35 GMT
Jax: Your hands go crinkle-crackle as the magic works on them again, and it feels even worse than before. You take 1 Stress from all the various limb mangling you've been doing to yourself, and can heal to full HP again. Henry: Channel Lightning is a slightly cheaper spell because it is used to redirect electricity, not generate it. You'll probably be able to do this. You might be able to learn how to generate it, though.
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Post by garmr on Feb 8, 2021 23:10:16 GMT
Hmm, in that case I'm not so sure I want to scribe Channel Lightning - since I don't even know where I would find lightning/electricity in the dungeon. What other spells does the Professor have on offer?
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Post by Spwack on Feb 9, 2021 8:01:54 GMT
The Professor has on offer:
- Scroll of Animate Book (100) - Scroll of Construction (150) - Scroll of Returning (200) - Scroll of Fungal Torrent (150) - Scroll of Flesh to Steam (200) - Scroll of Eldritch Rift (350)
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Post by red_kangaroo on Feb 9, 2021 11:39:17 GMT
Flesh to Steam sounds like a really cool attack spell!
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Post by garmr on Feb 9, 2021 22:13:06 GMT
I'm imagining that if I scribe Flesh to Steam then I can vaporise parts of a (fleshy) enemy by touching them. Or if not vaporise, then at least cook them from the inside out.
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Post by Spwack on Feb 10, 2021 4:14:51 GMT
I mean, you have porcelain flesh right? Normally I'd have a human that somehow internalised the spell to be able to transform themselves into steam.
Oh wait. How about becoming a flesh-transmuting machine? You consume blood or flesh and shoot jets of steam out of wherever you choose.
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Post by garmr on Feb 11, 2021 22:01:17 GMT
Now that sounds cool. Maybe at the centre of the sigil there is actually a hole in my hand like a garbage disposal, that grinds up flesh and shoots out steam the other end...
But I'm getting ahead of myself, let's see if we make it to the wall of flame first.
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Post by red_kangaroo on May 21, 2021 7:57:24 GMT
I would like to once again badger Sergeant Toughmuffins about the armour and One Hit Wonders about the healing potion I commissioned. frankiestein garmr There should be some extra scrap in the minecart room, if we want to build some contraption with the bell?
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Post by Spwack on May 21, 2021 10:07:08 GMT
Sergeant: "Listen here, sonny! Your frippery and foppery has caused absolute havoc in my supply lines! Apparently someone got it into their fool head that we would be supplying such things regular-like, and has gone completely off the rails!" You here muttered, high-pitch grumblings coming from... inside the walls? "Anyway, it'll get here when it gets here, in whatever form it takes, and you'll be paying a commensurate price for, this, gah, silks and leathers and hats! Hats I tell you, whatever will they think of next..."
When you go and check out One Hit Wonders, you see next to him a sizeable lead-and-oak cask, with a big golden lock on it. It's about knee-high. "Yo man! As ordered, healing potions! Slight problemo though, I could only get a bulk and rush order. There's ten potions in here, and they want six gold pounds for each dose, so it's, uh, six thousand copper in total. That ok?"
((Also, I completely forgot that the ice orb was meant to be dangerous to use. Strange how Jax seemed fine using it at the drop of a hat, hmm... :D ))
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Post by frankiestein on May 22, 2021 5:22:44 GMT
I would like to check on the lady in the painting, to see if she is doing well and offer to regale her of our travels if she wishes to be entertained. I'll try to incorporate the goblins in the telling.
Also yes, I suggest we rest and tinker.
I want to ask the wizard fellow (blanking on the name) after the lady of the painting and ask about the heart we extracted "Hello! This place has not gotten to me yet it seems... Don't suppose you'd happen to know about this device?"
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Post by red_kangaroo on May 23, 2021 10:26:23 GMT
Sergeant: "Listen here, sonny! Your frippery and foppery has caused absolute havoc in my supply lines! Apparently someone got it into their fool head that we would be supplying such things regular-like, and has gone completely off the rails!" You here muttered, high-pitch grumblings coming from... inside the walls? "Anyway, it'll get here when it gets here, in whatever form it takes, and you'll be paying a commensurate price for, this, gah, silks and leathers and hats! Hats I tell you, whatever will they think of next..." When you go and check out One Hit Wonders, you see next to him a sizeable lead-and-oak cask, with a big golden lock on it. It's about knee-high. "Yo man! As ordered, healing potions! Slight problemo though, I could only get a bulk and rush order. There's ten potions in here, and they want six gold pounds for each dose, so it's, uh, six thousand copper in total. That ok?" ((Also, I completely forgot that the ice orb was meant to be dangerous to use. Strange how Jax seemed fine using it at the drop of a hat, hmm... )) ((The drop of a hat, eh? Now I'll be expecting it to eventually blow in my face. ))
To One Hit Wonders: "Well, ehm... No problem, of course. I will be right back with the money." And I want to go to the frog area and retrieve my treasure chest.
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Post by Spwack on May 23, 2021 14:58:27 GMT
Hurricane: The Lady bears your antics, and that of the goblins, with considerable good grace. Professor Spell-o-Matic recognises the device immediately. "Ah, a ticky thing! And fully intact I see as well, congratulations my good fellow. Those things are well known for going off like very linear bombs when breached."
Jax: Done, and done, I'll need to think of better ways of extracting money from the lot of you. The ice orb is probably fine, I'll just need to think of why it bit the Professor and not you. Perhaps because he was investigating it magically?
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Post by red_kangaroo on May 24, 2021 6:50:21 GMT
The Professor is a machine, so maybe it reacted to him because we are using only its side-effect and it's true function actually has something to do with machines?
Once I get a key from One Hit Wonders, I unlock the cask and take out one potion. I turn off my healing necklace and before my wrists get the chance to start cracking again, I down the potion.
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Post by Spwack on May 25, 2021 4:00:21 GMT
Hmm... a very reasonable explanation.
Coins clatter inside of One Hit, and a key drops into the potion slot. The cask more like a beer keg, and is sloshing full of healing potion. One Hit also advises you that slowly drinking two doses would fix up your wrists completely, especially given how they've been messed about with magic so much.
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Post by red_kangaroo on May 25, 2021 9:23:30 GMT
Hmm... a very reasonable explanation. Coins clatter inside of One Hit, and a key drops into the potion slot. The cask more like a beer keg, and is sloshing full of healing potion. One Hit also advises you that slowly drinking two doses would fix up your wrists completely, especially given how they've been messed about with magic so much. ((A keg of healing. Nice. ))
"Thank you very much for your help, master Wonders. I will do as you suggest."
I will return to my companions and sit down, sipping on my two doses of a healing potion and watching what are they up to.
If they are still with the Lady and the Professor, I will tell the Professor about the ghost of an orcish hero bound in that urn I used against the big robot. The Professor wanted to hear about the exact effects of using that urn.
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Post by Spwack on May 26, 2021 10:40:55 GMT
"Curious and curiouser. And you say that the orcish hero ghost was 'blown away' by the robot? Hmmm... I shall have to ponder this further."
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Post by garmr on May 27, 2021 0:08:06 GMT
Do any of the vendor-machines sell meat of some kind? I need fuel for my steam gun hand.
In terms of future goals, I would like to go back up to Floor 1 and find that room with the eerie blue goop, and fill up my empty potion bottles with it. Seems like it would be a powerful weapon.
Another thing I'm interested in is unlocking the dwarven vault on Floor -1. I am owed a secret by Prof. Spell-o-matic, so I could probably use that to find out where one of the two keys are hidden. That's a big task.
But, the last quest we did was for my sake, so I'm happy to follow along with someone else's ideas as well.
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Post by Spwack on May 27, 2021 7:37:40 GMT
I reckon Sergeant Toughmuffins would have a few (5) cans of very-expired potted meat in storage somewhere.
"I dun have any price listed... but for you, I can cut a special deal, three silver each."
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Post by garmr on May 27, 2021 9:57:18 GMT
"I'll take three, good sergeant."
I will crack open a can and experimentally push a bit of meat through my grinder-hand. How much meat is required for a good sized steam blast? (Pointing my hand up into the ceiling of the minecart room to avoid hurting anyone.)
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Post by red_kangaroo on May 27, 2021 12:37:06 GMT
"Curious and curiouser. And you say that the orcish hero ghost was 'blown away' by the robot? Hmmm... I shall have to ponder this further." "Indeed, but what in this dungeon is not curious?"
I would also like to find a lead on the dwarven vault, but I have very little idea where to start. Though depending on how much metagaming is okay, I think I might have read a teleporter code for a gemstone city somewhere. Jax wouldn't know that unless we say it was somewhere in the books here in CB0. It's supposed to be a full-on city here in the dungeon, so maybe we could try to gather information there and find a proper place to sleep and eat.
As my wrists are fixed, I also reroll my hp:
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Post by red_kangaroo on May 27, 2021 12:37:34 GMT
Never mind, that didn't help.
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Post by Spwack on May 29, 2021 1:44:00 GMT
Henry: The meat smells awful, and so does the steam it produces. A tiny morsel gets a big puff, like taking the lid off a pot that is almost boiling over. A big chunk would give anyone in the way a nasty steam burn, especially if they were stuck in the way. If you were to grab an enemy, and shove a third of the can through at once, they would take at least d12 damage ((does this sound fair to you?))
What secret does the Prof owe you for?
Jax: Metagaming is not only permitted, it is actively encouraged. Everything is assumed to be written does somewhere, or passed along. I would strongly advise finding a player that has been there and ask them about it.
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Post by red_kangaroo on May 30, 2021 7:42:43 GMT
garmr Let's see what the Professor tells you and maybe check out the gem city, unless frankiestein has some other ideas?
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Post by garmr on Jun 1, 2021 23:40:50 GMT
The Professor owes me information in exchange for my story about the animated axe (which we found somewhere north of the wall of fire). I'd like to trade it for the location of one of the dwarven vault keys, or failing that, at least a clue about where to start looking.
A visit to the Gemstone City also sounds good! Perhaps the gem people are relatives of the porcelain doppelgangers?
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Post by Spwack on Jun 3, 2021 3:45:41 GMT
"I know not where those keys might be. Dwarven-made artifice, especially important objects like those keys, are built to last, so I doubt they have been destroyed. Perhaps the Drow may help you find them? Though I caution you against trusting them, for obvious reasons."
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Post by wingilbear on Jun 9, 2021 11:18:15 GMT
And in wriggles a cloaked worm slightly glowing blue.
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Post by wingilbear on Jun 9, 2021 11:21:01 GMT
“Blue goo in the tank is anti magic, tank is full of magic scorpions no one knows who is winning that battle. Gem city is on lockdown until the name thief has been defeated. They will evaporate anyone that gets close.” (When we were friends it was 1d20 damage when you took the teleporter and they were trying not to kill me )
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Post by red_kangaroo on Jun 9, 2021 12:00:18 GMT
"Ah, Blerble! Good to see you again. I do not recall whether you've met His Majesty Henry XIV, king of Caoilainn?
There is really no end to the strangeness one encounters here in the dungeon, is there? But we should not go to the Gem City, then. Hm...
Would you know the path to the drow, Blerble?"
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Post by wingilbear on Jun 9, 2021 12:04:17 GMT
I do know the path to the drow. They are dangerous and fun.
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Post by Spwack on Jun 9, 2021 12:29:03 GMT
((I'm statistically likely to hit every single dungeon trope, and in fact many many other tropes along the way as well, if this dungeon is fully explored, so drow had to be in here somewhere :D ))
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