DDT 03

November 9, 2020

[8:26 PM] Baron Sukumvit: So, team LOO has descended further into the dungeon.  You defeated the two incoming ogres and moved forward, discovering more rooms ahead.  Journeying through, you found one room with the remains of a Yuan-Ti that seems to have done battle with the gnome.  In that room you also discovered a secret passage way that lead you to the large statue of a monk in lotus position.  Within that statue you also found one of the three gem stones you needed and, after fighting a pair of gargoyles, managed to claim it, as well as three rings of protection by solving the riddle of a mysterious voice in another room.

[8:27 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Now, we pick up with you all in a large mostly empty chamber with a pool of maggots in the center, covering a large dagger, and a large black figure up top that may be a giant fly.

[8:27 PM] Baron Sukumvit: So, time to decide...do you take the magic +3 dagger?

[8:27 PM] Olenna: ... perhaps we should just go.

[8:28 PM] Osu: Seems like bait.

[8:28 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Plu: "...kinda a puny weapon for my tastes."(edited)

[8:29 PM] 𝕷: If it becomes necessary we know where it is

[8:29 PM] 𝕷: heads out of the room

[8:30 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Ok, you guys head out of the room?  If so, continuing northwards, you eventually come to a fork in the hall, one going left the other right.  Make perception checks.

[8:30 PM] Olenna: Right.

[8:30 PM] Olenna: follows her.

[8:31 PM] 𝕷: ((23))

[8:31 PM] Olenna: ((14.))

[8:31 PM] Osu: ((9.))

[8:33 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Ok, looking to the left you can all see something faintly glinting in the dark.  Hard to tell, but it looks to span most of the hall at that end.  To the right you can see a rope hanging down from the ceiling, but not much else from here.

[8:33 PM] Baron Sukumvit: L You can also hear a low rumbling noise in the walls along the passage heading down, like something's moving around in there.

[8:35 PM] Baron Sukumvit: So, which way do you go?

[8:35 PM] Olenna: What is that shining there?

[8:36 PM] 𝕷: approaches the shimmering  to get a better view

[8:36 PM] 𝕷: ((11 stealth))

[8:37 PM] Baron Sukumvit: ((How does your dungeon delver thing work, again?))

[8:38 PM] Olenna: detect magics it.

[8:38 PM] Osu: examines the rope.

[8:39 PM] 𝕷: ((Posted dungeon delver in ooc chat))

[8:40 PM] Baron Sukumvit: ((I saw, thanks.))

[8:40 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Ok, so Osu goes right while the other two go left?

[8:40 PM] Osu: is not going too far away.

[8:41 PM] Baron Sukumvit: The rope's several feet in.  You can give me another perception check to examine the rope from a far, but if you want to get close enough to really look at it, you will need to step away.  Or the others with have to follow you.

[8:41 PM] Osu: will just follow the others.

[8:42 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Olenna The thing at the end of the corridor seems to be a wall, cause the aura's around all of it.  It is magic.  and it's school is transmutation.

[8:42 PM] Baron Sukumvit: L, having walked out in front, I need you to make a DEX save.  With adv, cause you passed your perception check before.

[8:42 PM] 𝕷: ((22))

[8:44 PM] Olenna: There's a transmuting wall at the end of the corridor.

[8:44 PM] Baron Sukumvit: L, listening to those noises you heard before, you also hear them suddenly stop.  As such, you are not hit when the wall completely gives way and two figures come tumbling out.  One appears to be the knight from the beginning.  The other is another Yuan-Ti.

[8:45 PM] Baron Sukumvit: They seem to be locked in combat as it hisses at him.  He seems...less agile than you'd expect.  He's taking quite a beating.

[8:47 PM] Olenna: checks them both for magic.

[8:47 PM] Olenna: ((Which one seems less agile than expected?))

[8:48 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Olenna You see nothing magical on the Yuan-Ti, but there seems to be something magical around the knight's wrist.  Something enchanted.

[8:48 PM] Baron Sukumvit: The knight is less agile.

[8:48 PM] 𝕷: keeps her distance moving to be back with the rest of the group

[8:49 PM] Olenna: Stop them!

[8:49 PM] Olenna: casts spell.

[8:49 PM] 𝕷: rolls her eyes and jumps into the fight

[8:49 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Plu charges!

[8:49 PM] Baron Sukumvit: I'd like initiative from everyone.

[8:50 PM] Osu: (6)

[8:50 PM] Olenna: ((14.))

[8:50 PM] Osu: (I want to note that my iniative is +5.)

[8:50 PM] Baron Sukumvit: ((Ouch, I'm sorry, man.))

[8:50 PM] 𝕷: ((19))

[8:51 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Ok, the order then is as follows

PM] Baron Sukumvit: The Yuan-Ti, L, Olenna, the Knight, Plu, and Osu

[8:53 PM] Baron Sukumvit: The Yuan-Ti is going to turn to you all and hiss at you.  I need you all to make WIS saves

[8:53 PM] Osu: ((17))

[8:53 PM] Osu: (double digits!)

[8:54 PM] Baron Sukumvit: ((And a pass.  Good.  ))

[8:55 PM] 𝕷: ((Nat 1 ,6 total.e))(edited)

[8:57 PM] Olenna: ((19, sorry, I rolled wis instead of a wisdom SAVE.))

[8:57 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Ok, so Osu and Olenna pass, but sadly Plu and L do not and L, you feel your feet stop in a supernatural fear.

[8:58 PM] Baron Sukumvit: The creature will then take one swing at the knight.

[8:58 PM] Baron Sukumvit: And hit him for 15 points of damage.  Slashing into his armor.  He lets out a cry.

[8:58 PM] Baron Sukumvit: And now it is L's turn.

[8:59 PM] Baron Sukumvit: L,  I'm afraid you're going to be fleeing from the creature

[8:59 PM] 𝕷: will scramble away and use the hide action.

[9:00 PM] Baron Sukumvit: You run back 30 feet and now not looking at it, you may make another WIS save.

[9:00 PM] 𝕷: ((16))

[9:00 PM] Baron Sukumvit: ((As you hide and cower you suddenly ask yourself..."What the hells am I doing?!?"

[9:00 PM] Baron Sukumvit: You may act freely on your next turn.

[9:00 PM] Baron Sukumvit: @Olenna You are up.

[9:01 PM] Olenna: shoves a potion down the knight's throat, if he's still alive.

[9:03 PM] Baron Sukumvit: You lift his helmet to do it and find a much, MUCH older man then you likely expected.  He's someone easily in his seventies with a wrinkled face and a long greyed mustache.  He is alive and the potion seems to do him good (roll for the potion.  I believe these are 2d4 +2))

[9:05 PM] Olenna: ((9!))

[9:05 PM] Baron Sukumvit: ((He will gladly take it.  Anything else?))

[9:05 PM] Olenna: ((Nope, I really only have one action per turn.))

[9:06 PM] Baron Sukumvit: ((Ok.  Then it is the knight's turn.))

[9:06 PM] Baron Sukumvit: He turns to you.  "Thank you.  Now, if you'll excuse me."

[9:06 PM] Baron Sukumvit: He moves to strike the creature.

[9:07 PM] Baron Sukumvit: And he rolls a natural 1

[9:08 PM] Baron Sukumvit: He goes to strike and you hear a cracking sound as his back gives out and he falls to one knee while moaning.

[9:08 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Plu...is fleeing.  He's running away whimpering.

[9:08 PM] Baron Sukumvit: And he doesn't pass, so...well...

[9:08 PM] Baron Sukumvit: @Osu

[9:09 PM] Osu: shoots at the Yuan Ti.  ((16 and 23.))

[9:09 PM] Baron Sukumvit: ((Both hit))

[9:09 PM] Osu: ((25 total damage.))

[9:10 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Yowch!  Well, he's not happy about that.  I'll even say one of those bolts go into it's eye.

[9:10 PM] Baron Sukumvit: So...yeah, he turns to you and hisses, clearly hurt badly by that.

[9:10 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Is that your turn?

[9:11 PM] Osu: (That's it.))

[9:11 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Ok, then we're back to the top of the order.  L.  You are up.

[9:12 PM] 𝕷: ((Can I reach him for melee?))

[9:12 PM] Baron Sukumvit: ((Not after running, I'm afraid.  Sorry.))

[9:13 PM] Baron Sukumvit: ((You can get in 30 ft though if you want to toss a dagger.))

[9:14 PM] 𝕷: will get close enough to fire the bow at him ((can I get a deception  from the yuan-ti that has to beat 21?))

[9:15 PM] Baron Sukumvit: ((Sure))

[9:15 PM] 𝕷: ((Nat 20 to hit))

[9:15 PM] Baron Sukumvit: That hits.

[9:15 PM] Baron Sukumvit: And you get sneak attack

[9:17 PM] 𝕷: ((35))

[9:17 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Ok the bow shot plunges deep into it and it lets out a pained cry.

[9:18 PM] Baron Sukumvit: ...oh, I forgot it was supposed to go first actually.

[9:18 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Shit.

[9:18 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Um, if you're done the Yuan-Ti will go.

[9:19 PM] 𝕷: ((Yep))

[9:20 PM] Baron Sukumvit: The Yuan-Ti then lift's it's head and talks.

[9:20 PM] Baron Sukumvit: "Foul creaturessssss!"

[9:21 PM] Baron Sukumvit: It will then lunge at Osu, who is the closest threat.  And he'll go to grapple you.  So I need you to make an acrobatics or athletics check.

[9:22 PM] Osu: (15)

[9:23 PM] Baron Sukumvit: ((...well, he got an 8.  So you manage to slip his grasp))

[9:23 PM] Baron Sukumvit: He'll use his second attack to try and slash you, though.

[9:24 PM] Baron Sukumvit: ((It's a 20, unnat.  So I assume that hits?  Keep in mind you have a +3 bonus to your ac cause of the ring.))

[9:24 PM] Osu: ((AC is 19.)

[9:24 PM] Osu: (So hits.)

[9:25 PM] Baron Sukumvit: ((...he rolled two 1s, I don't know what's happening.  But you only take 6 damage.))

[9:25 PM] Baron Sukumvit: And it's now the knight's turn.  He will charge the creature from behind to get a flanking bonus.

[9:27 PM] Baron Sukumvit: ((Oh, and I forgot last time, he actually gets multiattack, cause level 6 fighter))

[9:27 PM] Baron Sukumvit: So, his first is a miss with a five, but his second hits, just barely.

[9:28 PM] Baron Sukumvit: He deals 6 additional damage.  So...something.

[9:28 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Looking around you actually can't see Plu.

[9:29 PM] Baron Sukumvit: So, it's oh shit I forgot @Olenna I'm so sorry.

[9:29 PM] Baron Sukumvit: You go now.

[9:29 PM] Olenna: ((How is the yuan-ti looking?))

[9:30 PM] Baron Sukumvit: ((It's hurt very badly.  I wouldn't say it's at death's door precisely, but it's definitely bloody and getting that wild injured creature look))

[9:30 PM] Baron Sukumvit: ((Like...you'd guess it's lost more than half it's health.))

[9:30 PM] Olenna: ((Well, this is probably a terrible idea, but.))

[9:30 PM] Olenna: I'll go for Plu!

[9:31 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Ok, you dash?

[9:31 PM] Olenna: will run.

[9:32 PM] Baron Sukumvit: You dash on past the creature, but it's a wide enough hallway to move around him without an aoo (especially as he's surrounded).  You keep running and looking ahead still don't see Plu...but you are seeing a dark patch in the floor below.  A pit.

[9:32 PM] Baron Sukumvit: And you think you hear faint calls of "Hello?"

[9:33 PM] Olenna: ((I'm assuming that takes my whole turn, right?))

[9:33 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Unless you have a cantrip.

[9:34 PM] Olenna: ((Cantrips are still 1 action.))

[9:34 PM] Olenna: I'm coming, Plu, hold on!

[9:29 PM] Olenna: ((How is the yuan-ti looking?))

[9:30 PM] Baron Sukumvit: ((It's hurt very badly.  I wouldn't say it's at death's door precisely, but it's definitely bloody and getting that wild injured creature look))

[9:30 PM] Baron Sukumvit: ((Like...you'd guess it's lost more than half it's health.))

[9:30 PM] Olenna: ((Well, this is probably a terrible idea, but.))

[9:30 PM] Olenna: I'll go for Plu!

[9:31 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Ok, you dash?

[9:31 PM] Olenna: will run.

[9:32 PM] Baron Sukumvit: You dash on past the creature, but it's a wide enough hallway to move around him without an aoo (especially as he's surrounded).  You keep running and looking ahead still don't see Plu...but you are seeing a dark patch in the floor below.  A pit.

[9:32 PM] Baron Sukumvit: And you think you hear faint calls of "Hello?"

[9:33 PM] Olenna: ((I'm assuming that takes my whole turn, right?))

[9:33 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Unless you have a cantrip.

[9:34 PM] Olenna: ((Cantrips are still 1 action.))

[9:34 PM] Olenna: I'm coming, Plu, hold on!

[9:34 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Ok then.  @Osu

[9:34 PM] Osu: shoots again.  ((18, 19))

[9:35 PM] Baron Sukumvit: ((Both hit))

[9:35 PM] Osu: ((22 damage total.))

[9:36 PM] Baron Sukumvit: It's barely holding on, but he is holding on.

[9:36 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Yuan-Ti: "...no...no more."

[9:37 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Yuan-Ti: "You...woman...thissssss fissssh man...he'sssssss not your friend.  I ssssssuggessssssst you attack before he turnssss on you!"

[9:37 PM] Baron Sukumvit: And now I need L to make a WIS save.

[9:38 PM] 𝕷: ((...I am so sorry it’s a second Nat 1, 6 total))

[9:38 PM] Baron Sukumvit: L, on your turn...you need to attack Osu.

[9:38 PM] Baron Sukumvit: As the suggestion burrows into your brain.

[9:38 PM] Baron Sukumvit: And it's your turn now.

[9:41 PM] 𝕷: ((Can I choose not to use sneak attack or do I have to completely treat psi as an enemy?))

[9:41 PM] Baron Sukumvit: ((He did not specify to use sneak attack, so I will allow you not to use it.))

[9:42 PM] 𝕷: will run up and slash Osu with a rapier ((21 to hit))

[9:42 PM] Osu: (that hits.)

[9:43 PM] 𝕷: ((7 damage))

[9:43 PM] Baron Sukumvit: So, that was a turn.  Now the knight get's a go.

[9:44 PM] Baron Sukumvit: ....................

[9:44 PM] Baron Sukumvit: ..................ok, this is fucking stupid.

[9:44 PM] Olenna: ((We better not have traded Plu for this guy, is all I'm saying.))

[9:45 PM] Baron Sukumvit: The Yuan-Ti laughs as L plunges the rapier into Osu's back.  ...but the laugh is cut short.  As the knight, with a nat 20 (not even joking) just beheads it.

[9:45 PM] Baron Sukumvit: The corpse then falls to the ground, dead.

[9:45 PM] Baron Sukumvit: End initiative.

[9:45 PM] Osu: looks at L.  "Ow."

[9:45 PM] Olenna: Help! Bring the magic rope!

[9:45 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Knight: "Well, thank you.  I do not believe I could've done that on my own...as I currently am."

[9:46 PM] 𝕷: ((I assume I snap out?))

[9:46 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Plu: "...it smells bad down here."

[9:46 PM] Baron Sukumvit: ((You do.))

[9:46 PM] Olenna: What does it smell like? Rotten eggs?

[9:47 PM] 𝕷: looks at her sword and looks at Osu.

[9:47 PM] 𝕷: I Will try to aim worse next time

[9:47 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Plu: "No...like...oh, dead people.  This is full of dead people."

[9:47 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Plu: "...oooooh...and a shiny."

[9:47 PM] Olenna: Just hold on!

[9:47 PM] Olenna: Don't try to get it.

[9:47 PM] 𝕷: goes to Olenna

[9:48 PM] Olenna: points down the hole. "Plu is down there."

[9:48 PM] 𝕷: pulls out the magic rope and drops it down to Plu after fixing the top at the top of the hole.(edited)

[9:48 PM] Osu: looks down.

[9:48 PM] Olenna: will shine a Light down there and do a Detect Magic.

[9:50 PM] Baron Sukumvit: You detect no magic in the pit.  The pit, you see, is 12 ft wide and across and has the rope hanging over it, though.

[9:50 PM] Baron Sukumvit: In Plu's hand, you already see the shiny, having ignored your instruction.  He quickly hides it behind his back.

[9:50 PM] Olenna: Oh, it's all right, it was in your reach. Let me see.

[9:51 PM] Baron Sukumvit: The pit, you see, is also full of corpses in various states of decay.  But the majority seem to be just skeletons.

[9:51 PM] 𝕷: ((Is plu up?))

[9:51 PM] Baron Sukumvit: He holds it up.  You see a large sapphire in his hand.

[9:52 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Oh, yeah.  He'll climb out of the pit.  You see he's a bit hurt by the fall (17 dam), but seems largely unphased by it.

[9:52 PM] Olenna: Oh, excellent! We're going to need that to get through. How clever of you to have found it.

[9:52 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Plu smiles.  "Thank you, Lady Olenna."

[9:52 PM] Olenna: Is everyone all right?

[9:53 PM] Osu: Yeah, I think so.

[9:53 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Knight: "A bit worse for wear...but I shall live."

[9:53 PM] 𝕷: My head doesn’t feel great but I am fine

[9:53 PM] 𝕷: will take the sapphire from Plu if he lets her.

[9:53 PM] Olenna: Please forgive my directness, but where is your lady? And were you always, er... venerable?

[9:53 PM] Olenna: does make sure the sapphire isn't magic, though.

[9:54 PM] 𝕷: packs the rope away

[9:54 PM] Baron Sukumvit: ((It does not appear any more magic than the emerald did))

[9:55 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Knight: "Apologies, but perhaps introductions are in order.  I am Sir Dekon Strom of the Kingdom of Faelyn."

[9:55 PM] Olenna: I'm Olenna; this is Plu.

[9:55 PM] 𝕷: packs the sapphire next to the emerald.

[9:57 PM] 𝕷: pulls out a piece of paper holding it out and stares unblinkingly wide eyed  at the knight “ L”

[9:57 PM] Osu: Osu.

[9:58 PM] 𝕷: ((If he takes it is the riddle that was in his chest with L having scrawled sir strom on it))

[9:59 PM] Baron Sukumvit: He will take it, read it...and then he laughs a small, dry, humorless laugh.

[9:59 PM] Olenna: Don't forget the coins and the potions.

[9:59 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Strom: "A shame I did not have this prior.  It may have saved me some hardship."

[10:00 PM] 𝕷: will hand over two coins and two health potions “ It was in your chest along with these”

[10:00 PM] Olenna: What happened to you?

[10:01 PM] 𝕷: will hand a third health potion to Olenna “ since you used one on him”

[10:01 PM] Olenna: And what about the lady? And what happened with the chests? Someone tried to open one that wasn't theirs, I take it.

[10:01 PM] Baron Sukumvit: He takes the coins, but leaves you the health potion.  "You have already spent one of your on me."

[10:01 PM] Olenna: makes sure Strom gets 2 potions and takes the third, nodding.

[10:02 PM] Olenna: Osu, Kasad is in the pit, would you be willing to go down there and search him? He may have a poem.

[10:03 PM] Baron Sukumvit: He then holds up his right arm and you see an armband covered in skulls.  "Me and the Lady Quill were assaulted by a golem made from the parts of dead men.  He was a fearsome foe, but we managed to over come him.  He had this on his right arm and, being told it was magic, believed it to be a band of strength.  ...instead...when putting it on, I became weak, frail and much older.  It felt as though it ate years from my life."

[10:04 PM] Osu: nods, and steps off the edge, his fish making a little cloud around his feet and levitating him down.

[10:04 PM] 𝕷: What happened to Quill?

[10:04 PM] Olenna: inspects the band with Detect Magic on.

[10:04 PM] Baron Sukumvit: You see it is magic and it is enchantment based.

[10:05 PM] Olenna: I am assuming it can't be taken off.

[10:05 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Strom: "Shortly after the battle, we were assaulted by a rampaging ogre.  No idea where it came from.  She took off with the musician and we became separated."

[10:05 PM] Olenna: ... the musician?

[10:05 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Strom: "I have tried, but it seems bound to my flesh."

[10:06 PM] 𝕷: will go back and search the yuan ti quickly

[10:06 PM] Olenna: casts light on a stone and tosses it into the pit to double-check that Quill isn't down there.

[10:06 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Osu, going into the pit, you see the body of Kasad, the bard, among the refuse.  He is bloody and...oddly frail to the touch.

[10:07 PM] Osu: ... I found Kasad.

[10:07 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Looking in, you do not see any signs of the elven maiden.

[10:07 PM] Olenna: Hm.

[10:08 PM] 𝕷: I told him we were both already doomed.

[10:08 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Strom: "All but one of us.  I wish to see the Lady out.  But to do so, I must find her once more."

[10:09 PM] Olenna: I can attempt to dispel the effect.

[10:09 PM] Osu: checks KAsad for his poem.

[10:10 PM] Olenna: ((Take his musical instrument too. And anything else valuable he has. For now. >.> ))

[10:10 PM] Osu: ((True.))

[10:10 PM] Osu: loots the corpse.

[10:11 PM] Olenna: ... please don't forget to close his eyes and leave him... some dignity.

[10:11 PM] Olenna: Perhaps we can come back for him later.

[10:11 PM] Baron Sukumvit: If you take your time, you will find on him a lute, a lyre, several gems, some darts, daggers, a bag of ball bearings, rings, two shattered potion bottles, but one in tact and with serum still inside...and a single note.

[10:12 PM] Osu: looks at the note.

[10:13 PM] Baron Sukumvit: What level do you attempt dispel magic?

[10:13 PM] Olenna: ((4, the highest I can go.))

[10:15 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Osu, the note reads as follows:

Beware your valor and male inhibitions

For a woman's cry may not be what you're wishin'

This woman's voice, though light and fair

Is held by a creature you'd best beware

For if you meet this lady's gaze

Frozen in place you'll forever stay

[10:16 PM] Osu: Oh crap, there's a medusa somewhere.

[10:16 PM] Olenna: ... that is concerning.

[10:16 PM] Osu: gathers all the stuff and floats back up.

[10:16 PM] 𝕷: That is

[10:17 PM] 𝕷: Can I see the poem?

[10:17 PM] Osu: hands it to L.

[10:17 PM] Olenna: Read it aloud for  us, if you will.

[10:17 PM] Osu: does.

[10:17 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Ok, with a level 4 dispel magic, you see the object glow and fall to the floor at Strom's feet.  The moment you hear the clanging, you see the figure before you youthen and strengthen, until he's now a strong, raven haired, 35 year old man.

[10:18 PM] Olenna: uses a handkerchief to pick the thing up and puts it away.

[10:18 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Strom: "Thank you, madam.  If you are going deeper in, I ask that I may join you.  As I still must find my Lady Quill."

[10:19 PM] Olenna: Yes. If possible, I am hoping you will allow me to win the competition and split the prize between the rest of you. And we will hope to find the lady. Do you know her well?

[10:20 PM] 𝕷: We should take a break at some point soon we have been going for a while

[10:20 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Strom: "I do, and I fear I cannot allow that, Madam Olenna.  I am sworn to Lady Rhana Quill as a knight of her husband, Reginald Quill.  I am to see she is successful."

[10:21 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Plu: "It's comfy in the pit.  Oddly soft."

[10:21 PM] Olenna: Her husband, hmm? ... that is odd, frankly. I suppose some of them have begun to liquify.

[10:22 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Plu shakes his head.  "I don't think so.  They didn't feel squishy, like normal.  More like paper."

[10:22 PM] 𝕷: How far will you go to ensure her success?

[10:22 PM] Olenna: ... mummified? Really? The air isn't dry enough for that.

[10:23 PM] 𝕷: Should we check out the corpses?

[10:23 PM] Olenna: ... I'm afraid so.

[10:23 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Plu: "...where we go, anyway?"

[10:23 PM] Osu: I don't like the idea of sitting in the pit for that amount of time.

[10:24 PM] Olenna: We'll continue, but I need to make sure we're not missing something important.

[10:24 PM] 𝕷: brings the rope out secures it and climbs down

[10:24 PM] Olenna: follows L.

[10:24 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Ok, L, roll investigation with adv.

[10:25 PM] Olenna: Detects all over the damn place this time.

[10:25 PM] Osu: sighs and just sits on the edge, keeping watch.

[10:25 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Plu: "...this is boring."

[10:25 PM] 𝕷: ((26))

[10:25 PM] Olenna: We'll be up in a moment, Plu, I promise!

[10:26 PM] 𝕷: You never answered my question Strom how far will you go?

[10:26 PM] Baron Sukumvit: L Investigating you see the corpses do indeed seem to have been dried out.  Not a full mummification process, but something sucked the moisture from them.  Even Kasad seems to have gone ashy like it's already begun with him.

[10:27 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Strom: "To see her champion, I shall do my best.  To keep her safe, I shall lay down my life."

[10:27 PM] Olenna: Nothing dishonorable, then, I trust.

[10:27 PM] Osu: makes some goodberries and tosses one to Plu.

[10:27 PM] 𝕷: Not mummification Something drained all the moisture from them.

[10:27 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Strom: "Lady Quill would never accept a championship wrongly earned."

[10:27 PM] Olenna: looks up to check for giant spiders.

[10:28 PM] Baron Sukumvit: L You also notice something...moving...the bodies seem to be shifting.

[10:28 PM] Olenna: ... something like a spider, or a vampire?

[10:28 PM] Olenna: Wrong can be very subjective.

[10:28 PM] Olenna: climbs back up, with some difficulty.

[10:29 PM] Olenna: ... for example, the way you were looking at each other, I would not have imagined that there was a husband.

[10:29 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Strom blushes

[10:29 PM] Olenna: ... then again, some people have unusual domestic arrangements.

[10:30 PM] 𝕷: backs to the rope pointing at the motion “ something is in there”

[10:30 PM] Olenna: Climb up. Now.

[10:30 PM] 𝕷: climbs up

[10:30 PM] Olenna: Get the rope, and get ready.

[10:30 PM] Baron Sukumvit: L, as you back up to the rope...you hear singing.

[10:31 PM] Baron Sukumvit: A low, gravelly, but not unpleasant singing.

[10:31 PM] Baron Sukumvit: "Don't ever laugh as a corpse goes by, for you may be the next to die."

[10:31 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Those looking will see, the sound seems to be coming from Kasad.

[10:32 PM] Baron Sukumvit: "She wraps you up in thin white sheets, then dumps you down underneath."

[10:32 PM] Olenna: Spider.

[10:32 PM] Baron Sukumvit: As you're climbing, you feel something tickle your foot.  And you all see hands begin coming up from the pile.  Sickly, pale, dry corpse hands.

[10:33 PM] 𝕷: will kick them away as she climbs

[10:33 PM] Baron Sukumvit: "It all goes well, for about a week, and then they begin to leak."

[10:33 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Now it's a chorus singing.

[10:34 PM] Baron Sukumvit: "THE WORMS CRAWL IN!  THE WORMS CRAWL OUT!  THEY'LL CHEW YOU UP AND SPIT YOU OUT!"

[10:34 PM] Osu: starts shooting down there.

[10:34 PM] Olenna: will cast Create Bonfire, in that case, and fry some of them.

[10:35 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Osu fires in and the Create Bonfire catches them all up with their dried mummified bodies.  They sing and sing...but it gets weaker and weaker...and soon...it's just a pit.

[10:36 PM] 𝕷: will pack up the magic rope and put it away

[10:36 PM] Olenna: ... I've no idea what that was, but I  don't think we ought to stay in this room to rest.

[10:37 PM] 𝕷: Next room might be worse

[10:37 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Plu: "What about in the wall Strom and snake man came from?"

[10:38 PM] Osu: Good idea.

[10:38 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Strom: "...I'm not sure I recommend it in there."

[10:38 PM] Osu: We could fall back to the waterfall.

[10:38 PM] Olenna: That is an interesting question. Where did you come from? And yes, the waterfall is a very good idea.

[10:40 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Strom: "We were too weak from the golem fight to take the ogre.  While trying to find a way to escape I fell through a fake wall.  There's a series of tunnels within these walls...some even big enough for a man to walk through.  While scuttling in there, trying to find another way out, I found a section with these long thin holes that a snake popped out of.  I went to stab it and...well...it turned into that."

[10:40 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Strom: "Those tunnels are...strange."

[10:40 PM] Olenna: ... how so?

[10:41 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Strom: "The stone's...different...more worn and worked.  Not carved in like these caves look.  And there's a writing all over it I can't read."

[10:41 PM] 𝕷: Part of that older temple maybe?

[10:41 PM] Olenna: That's intriguing. Perhaps we ought to take a look at some point.

[10:42 PM] 𝕷: I vote we camp  at the waterfall then do the tunnels

[10:42 PM] Olenna: Agreed.

[10:42 PM] Olenna: keeps an eye on Plu.

[10:43 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Plu nods and follows you guys to rest with Strom.  ...Plu seems freaked by the singing corpses but is staying strong.

[10:43 PM] Olenna: pats him on the shoulder.

[10:44 PM] 𝕷: will search the yuan ti as we pass it

[10:44 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Ok, roll investigation.

[10:44 PM] 𝕷: ((26))

[10:45 PM] Baron Sukumvit: You find two scimitars, a small pouch that seems to contain human bones of different ages, you feel the skin to be very tough and, if worked, could for a strong light armor, and a +1 longbow.

[10:46 PM] Osu: Could I have those bones?

[10:46 PM] Olenna: Let me check them for magic.

[10:46 PM] Olenna: checks everything for magic.

[10:47 PM] Baron Sukumvit: ((The bow is a magic +1, but nothing else seems to be.))

[10:47 PM] Olenna: I think so, yes.

[10:47 PM] 𝕷: tosses the bones to Osu and leaves the rest

[10:47 PM] Osu: stows the pouch.

[10:48 PM] Olenna: The bow is magic. Is anyone good with a bow?

[10:48 PM] Osu: I'll take it.

[10:48 PM] Osu: Just in case.

[10:48 PM] Olenna: nods.

[10:49 PM] 𝕷: hands it over to Osu

[10:49 PM] Olenna: Why is Lady Rahna here, Sir Strom?

[10:50 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Strom: "Personal reasons.  She wishes to prove herself in the challenge.  She was told it was a place that could easily challenge one's knowledge and wits as well as brawn.  And I am here to make sure she can meet the tests without fear of assault."

[10:50 PM] Olenna: And her husband is not here.

[10:51 PM] 𝕷: ((17 insight on if he is lying about anything))(edited)

[10:51 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Strom: "Both leaders of the kingdom could not participate."

[10:51 PM] Baron Sukumvit: L His response is canned and trained.  Indicating he was told to give it...not that it is true.

[10:51 PM] Olenna: Did they both wish to?

[10:54 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Strom: "King Quill wished to compete as a pair...but his position made such an act too reckless to take."(edited)

[10:55 PM] Olenna: What is his position?

[10:55 PM] Olenna: And should we rest for a little while or for eight hours, do you think?

[10:55 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Strom: "...King of Faeryn."

[10:55 PM] 𝕷: stares at him “if you are just going to obfuscate you may as well not answer.”

[10:55 PM] 𝕷: We should keep watch

[10:56 PM] Olenna: Yes, we should.

[10:56 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Plu: "I can take first watch."

[10:56 PM] Olenna: But first, are we resting for eight hours, or only a few?

[10:57 PM] 𝕷: Eight

[10:57 PM] 𝕷: Who knows next time we will find a safe place

[10:58 PM] Olenna: Excellent.

[10:58 PM] 𝕷: will just keep staring at Strom consistently wide eyed unblinking.

[10:58 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Strom refuses to meet your gaze.

[10:58 PM] Olenna: ... Strom, you can tell us. I understand why you're here.

[10:59 PM] Olenna: I want to understand why she is. It might be important.

[10:59 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Strom: "...she is seeking her brother."

[11:00 PM] 𝕷: A previous contestant?

[11:00 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Strom: "He participated.  We expect he is dead, as all the others are, but despite what they said, his body was never returned to us."

[11:01 PM] Olenna: Oh, dear. I do hope we didn't just torch him.

[11:01 PM] 𝕷: More evidence of the baron having some hidden motivation

[11:01 PM] Olenna: Very possible. Is there a way we could recognize the brother?

[11:02 PM] Olenna: pats Plu on the shoulder and does a bit of magic.

[11:02 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Strom: "He is fair haired, stern faced, half-elven, dressed in a forest green tunic."

[11:03 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Strom: "...we should rest."

[11:03 PM] Olenna: Yes.

[11:03 PM] Olenna: will hit the waterfall once they get there, first, though. If it's still there.

[11:04 PM] Baron Sukumvit: It is still there.  All is as you left it.

[11:05 PM] Olenna: The water restores your magic. We tested it before.

[11:05 PM] 𝕷: ((The gargoyles still gone?))

[11:06 PM] Baron Sukumvit: They are.  Not even in the hands.

[11:06 PM] Baron Sukumvit: What's the watch order?  Plu offered to go first.

[11:08 PM] Olenna: ((Well, my Perception is a +2, so.))

[11:09 PM] Baron Sukumvit: ((I would imagine Osu has the best perception))

[11:09 PM] Olenna: can if he doesn't want to.

[11:11 PM] 𝕷: will lay out a watch schedule “Plu first, then Olenna, then Osu, and I will take last”

[11:11 PM] Olenna: Excellent. Wake me up when it's my turn, please.

[11:11 PM] Osu: (That's fine.)

[11:12 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Ok.

[11:12 PM] Baron Sukumvit: I'll roll for Plu.

[11:14 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Ok, most of you just roll over and go to sleep as Plu keeps watch.  Eventually he goes over to Olenna and shakes her awake.

[11:14 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Plu: "...we fine."

[11:15 PM] Olenna: sleeps sitting up, and therefore just opens her eyes.

[11:15 PM] Olenna: Good.

[11:15 PM] Olenna: will keep her watch quietly.

[11:15 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Roll perception.

[11:16 PM] Olenna: ((14.))

[11:16 PM] Baron Sukumvit: You have your watch...things seem to go smoothly.  You don't hear or see anything.  Osu, you go next.

[11:17 PM] Baron Sukumvit: @Osu ?

[11:17 PM] Osu: ((Need me to roll?))'

[11:18 PM] Olenna: will wake Osu up and then go back to sleep, probably somewhere in the vicinity of Plu.

[11:18 PM] Baron Sukumvit: ((Yes))

[11:18 PM] Osu: ((14.))

[11:18 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Things also seem to go by quietly for you.  You think maybe once you see the statue twitch, but it's probably a trick of the light.

[11:19 PM] Baron Sukumvit: You go wake up L?

[11:19 PM] Baron Sukumvit: L, give me a perception check.

[11:20 PM] 𝕷: is ina strange seated crouch position she opens her eyes when Osu approaches and keeps watch ((25))

[11:22 PM] Baron Sukumvit: L You don't see anything come at you, but as you sit, you hear a voice.  A female voice.  "I see you.  You are not like them.  And so, when the time comes...you'll be understanding.  A rat cannot escape this nest."

[11:23 PM] Baron Sukumvit: And so, with that, the rest ends.

[11:23 PM] Baron Sukumvit: You all recover hit points and spell slots.

[11:23 PM] 𝕷: will just mutter “Not here to escape”

[11:24 PM] 𝕷: will check her bag and make sure everything is there.

[11:24 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Nothing seems missing.

[11:24 PM] Baron Sukumvit: You guys head back to the intersection?

[11:25 PM] Olenna: Everyone feel rested and ready?

[11:25 PM] Olenna: ((Don't forget to take your 4HD of HP back.))

[11:25 PM] Olenna: ((Well, 4HD-dice of HP.))

[11:25 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Yes

[11:26 PM] Olenna: Good. Should we examine inside the walls first, or try another direction?

[11:27 PM] 𝕷: seems a distracted “the walls sound good”

[11:27 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Ok, you guys go into the hole?

[11:27 PM] Osu: LEt's check the walls.

[11:27 PM] Olenna: ... are you all right?

[11:29 PM] Olenna: will go after someone else, but not first.

[11:29 PM] 𝕷: heads to the wall “...We should get a move on”

[11:30 PM] Olenna: Right.

[11:31 PM] 𝕷: I heard something last night

[11:31 PM] Olenna: What did you hear?

[11:31 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Ok, going into the wall, it is dark.  You see the walls are lined with a likely once polished marble but now worn and dirty.  You see arcane symbols and characters that seem to bend to accommodate thin holes drilled into the wall, about as thick as your arm.

[11:32 PM] 𝕷: A voice

[11:33 PM] 𝕷: checks for traps or hidden doors or anything else

[11:33 PM] Olenna: Saying what?

[11:33 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Plu: "...a woman's voice?"

[11:33 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Plu: "Said something about a nest?"

[11:34 PM] 𝕷: ... you remember anything else Plu?

[11:34 PM] Olenna: Who told Lady Rahna this would be a good place to challenge her wits, Strom?

[11:35 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Plu: "She said...she said she would add us to the song."

[11:35 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Strom: "That was a lie, Lady Olenna."

[11:35 PM] 𝕷: Interesting, it’s different .

[11:36 PM] Baron Sukumvit: What languages does everyone speak?

[11:36 PM] Olenna: ... good.

[11:36 PM] Olenna: ((Celestial and Common.))

[11:36 PM] 𝕷: ((Common,   elvish,thieves cant))

[11:37 PM] Osu: ((Common, primordial, uncommon, black speech.))

[11:38 PM] 𝕷: ((24 investigation on the wall looking for anything trap or door))

[11:38 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Yeah, these writings mean nothing to you, unfortunately.

[11:38 PM] 𝕷: Do you remember anything else Plu?

[11:38 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Plu shakes his head

[11:38 PM] Olenna: Perhaps it's a spider with enervating venom rather than a medusa.

[11:39 PM] Olenna: ... it isn't Celestial, that's all I can say.

[11:39 PM] 𝕷: So do we want to risk this way or find another way

[11:40 PM] Olenna: Do we have everything needed for the gem puzzle?

[11:40 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Strom: "Be wary of the holes.  Any snake that comes out may be one of those things."

[11:41 PM] Olenna: If not, we ought to stick to the outside tunnels.

[11:41 PM] Baron Sukumvit: ((You still need a diamond.))

[11:41 PM] 𝕷: We are missing one gem

[11:42 PM] Olenna: Then we ought to stay to the paths, as that's where a diamond will likely be.

[11:42 PM] Osu: nods.

[11:43 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Ok, you guys head back into the outer tunnel.  From here, you can go back to the pit, or go towards what you now see is likely a mirror.

[11:43 PM] 𝕷: Deeper into her nest

[11:43 PM] Baron Sukumvit: ((For the record, L, you have a poem about a mirror))

[11:43 PM] 𝕷: ((I know))

[11:44 PM] Olenna: ... that's the wrong way, isn't it?

[11:44 PM] 𝕷: closes her eyes while looking at the mirror

[11:44 PM] 𝕷: “While this glassy surface may catch your eye

The image you see may twist and writhe

No reward lies down this path

Merely a curse of vanity's wrath

This long road a dead end brings

Best carry on and take your things."(edited)

[11:44 PM] Olenna: We don't go down that path, then.

[11:45 PM] 𝕷: To the pit then

[11:46 PM] Baron Sukumvit: Heading to the pit you see it is now empty, save for ash.  You also see a rope hanging overhead.  But Osu, from earlier, you see that the rope is cut in the middle, a trap.  Best to use your own rope on the hook it is attached to.

[11:46 PM] 𝕷: The voice I heard last night told me no rat can escape this nest

[11:47 PM] Olenna: checks for magic.

[11:47 PM] Baron Sukumvit: No magic.

[11:47 PM] Olenna: We're not rats.

[11:48 PM] 𝕷: That’s what the rats always think

[11:50 PM] Baron Sukumvit: ((I think I'll wrap up here guys.  It's late, and I'm tired.))

[11:50 PM] Olenna: I meant more literally.