Dungeon World - Sky Pirates Session 66
Channel: The -ing Nerds
Date: 2020-03-25

Battle with the gelatenous ooze.  Adrian and Cliff get encased in the ooze. Phoenix gets the iron golem to join in the fray. Cliff turns into stone, and weathers the damage before getting knocked out of the ooze by the wild swings of the golem. Adrian casts her favorite spell and the ooze expands with the wrath of a fireball inside, exploding the creature and causing the golem to lose some limbs.  Bits of gold are melted to the floor, and Phoenix takes the time to pick it out of the tiles and distributes 50 gold worth to each of the party members.  Phoenix takes the next watch too, and his staff starts to glow, spreading cracks of energy seeping out over the floor, and things starting to push through. He wakes up Adrian and she supports him as he manages to get the pulsing energy cracks to seep back into the staff. Phoenix asks the staff what it was wants, and he gets a vision of the elemental chaos of the Plane of Transformation. He divines that the staff wants to bring elemental energy into the world, and makes a promise that he as the Herald of the Phoenix will at some point bring utter fiery chaos. The staff marks his hand with a branded flame scar to seal that oath.

After resting and waking up, the party decides to explore the staircase downwards. The stairs go both up and down into shadows. Cliff offers to explore and transforms into a rat, sneaking downwards carefully. He goes down and comes to the dim light of a doorway to a lower level.  He peers through and sees Adrian and Phoenix looking at the doorway expectantly. Disturbed by this, he scampers back up, transforming back into a halfling, and emerges into the chamber with Adrian and Phoenix. He explains what he saw on the level below. As the magical investigator, Adrian explores downwards, and Phoenix and Cliff see her emerge coming downwards, look puzzled, dart back into the shadows of the staircase, and emerge this time coming back upwards. Adrian smooths a rock into a sphere and drops it down the staircase. it clatters out of sight and sound downwards, and then clatters downwards from above. It passes the entrance, descends downwards, and then descends from out of sight above over and over. After a few tumbles, a huge shadowy snake is seen slithering after the rock, both of them going out of sight downwards, and then the clattering rock stops making noise.

Cliff searches his mythologies and realizes that the snake in the staircase is a legendary creature that traps prey in borrows that loop forever.  He decides to try and communicate with the snake.  He gets a ration from Adrian, and puts it onto the staircase.  The snake slithers into view, consumes the ration, and Cliff hisses hello to the snake.  The purple eyes of the snake look at the halfling curiously. 'It is rare to find someone to converse with...' the snake hisses. Cliff asks if there is any way the snake will let them pass down these stairs, or if there is any other way down. The snake proposes a riddle game. Both of them fail to guess the other's riddles.... The shadow snake licks it's chops and says that if they surrender all their rations, it would let them pass. The party suggests that they provide the snake with the fresher smushed bodies from the corridor with the rolling stone. The snake agrees that fresher meat would be preferable.

The party comes up with a plan to try and make the corridor safe.  Cliff manages to break the false wall that the iron golem hid behind.  Then he manages to gradually settle the rolling stone down into the cavity where the golem stayed previously. Phoenix goes to see what the iron golem is doing, and it's slowly putting itself back together. He spouts off some beautiful poetry about the golem, and parts of the golem manuver back into position, and he manages to remove the enchantment that compels the golem to only push the boulder back up the sloped corridor.  The repaired golem sees that its former home is now filled with the rolling pillar, and can't be pushed anymore, and just sits in a corner hopelessly.

With the stone out of the way, Cliff explores the bodies in the corridor before they feed them to the snake. He finds two short swords, and a gem that glows with a bright light. Between Cliff and Adrian trying to identify the gem, they manage to drop and shatter the stone into lifeless shards. The bodies are dragged down to the shadow serpent. Cliff spends some time observing the shadow serpent. With the snake fed, it lets the party pass down the stairs.

Date: September 8, 2019 
System: Dungeon World 
Platform: Roll20 
Players: Daniel Powell, Sean Russell, Phoenix, Ian
GM: Sean Russell 
Original Story: Sean Russell 
Recorded on: OBS Studio 

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