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[D&D 4E OOC & Recruitment] The Tomb of Horrors! aka Rocks fall, everyone dies

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    streeverstreever Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Let's try to step that up a bit :)


    OK, so scary statue, one broken hand, one open hand.

    Could it be the Tormentor? Maybe, but nothing seems to suggest that openly.

    This line has me more concerned:
    "trembling hands"

    But, I think the best approach is to put the magic item in it's hand, and see what happens.

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    SteelhawkSteelhawk Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Agreed.

    Derek selfishly needs all of his magiks. So Fondor, if you're still up for sacrificing your item, then go for it.

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    Fondor_YardsFondor_Yards Elite Four Member: Hydra Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Hm since Derek doesn't have Make Whole, anyone have any ideas to try with the statue before we just head on in through the hole in the wall?

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    AmiguAmigu Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    question: is this updated version of TOH available as a PDF?

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    Jam WarriorJam Warrior Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Not through any official channel I don't think.

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    SteelhawkSteelhawk Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    OK, if we can't get the statue to work since we can't mend the arm and we're out of gems anyway....what about the hole in the wall?

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    streeverstreever Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    we have 3 more gems! I'm waiting for someone else to step up with a cool idea. I think Moustaches has stolen a lot of the scenes :D

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    SteelhawkSteelhawk Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I don't know. How else can we get the arm to work? Someone can hold it in place maybe? That seems unwise, but it might work. Its totally the job of a meat shield to hold up the arm though, and not a delicate wizard with a kickin' goatee.

    But then we've only got 3 gems and not 4, so whats the point? Unless the sacrifical belt can take the place of the 4th gem? Worth a try I suppose.

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    Fondor_YardsFondor_Yards Elite Four Member: Hydra Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Unless someone else has an ability/power I don't know of, I think we are out of options here. At least I'm clueless to another option other than start crawling through the hole. So I guess this is my vote to continue down the tiny passage that will probably crush us to death.

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    Jam WarriorJam Warrior Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Woo! Life!
    Steelhawk wrote: »
    I don't know. How else can we get the arm to work? Someone can hold it in place maybe? That seems unwise, but it might work. Its totally the job of a meat shield to hold up the arm though, and not a delicate wizard with a kickin' goatee.

    But then we've only got 3 gems and not 4, so whats the point? Unless the sacrifical belt can take the place of the 4th gem? Worth a try I suppose.

    Not sure if I'm misreading your musings here, but the 4th hand has no gem niche so you do have enough for a repeat offering if so desired.

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    SteelhawkSteelhawk Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Oh. I thought the 4th hand needed a gem too. OK, so lets try this then: One of our hearty party members holds up the broken arm in place and we try the gem trick again.

    If that doesn't work, then its to the hole!

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    FaranguFarangu I am a beardy man With a beardy planRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I will volunteer to do the arm holding.

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    streeverstreever Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Awesome! I'll drop the gems in again, because I'm dexterous, and the fingers try to crush you.

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    Jam WarriorJam Warrior Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Sorry for the delay. Internet problems and illness and work stress oh my!

    Adventure as written that would require 9 gems. Adventure as written I can see no more gems in the tomb.

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    Is Kamikaze Communist still playing?

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    SteelhawkSteelhawk Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Sorry Streever, I'm been out of town, otherwise Derek totally would have snatched up that gem.

    So, Jam, what is there to see?

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    streeverstreever Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    no worries dude! Mike is just being his usual charming pissy self :D

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    Fondor_YardsFondor_Yards Elite Four Member: Hydra Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Into the hole then!

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    SteelhawkSteelhawk Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Can we set up a standard marching order, so as to avoid the inevitable, "I'm not going first, you go first" stuff that happens?

    Derek will go in the middle.

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    streeverstreever Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Mike can go second, to keep an eye out, with a meatshield in front.

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    Fondor_YardsFondor_Yards Elite Four Member: Hydra Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I'll go first or third. I'm probably dodgey/tough enough to take the hit, but I'd prefer if a defender was in front.

    We still got the whole party around and paying attention still?

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    Jam WarriorJam Warrior Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    All present apart from Kamikaze Communist. I'll 'sort him out' on the weekend so don't wait for him.

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    Jam WarriorJam Warrior Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I am contacting potential replacements. In the meantime, carry on.

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    FaranguFarangu I am a beardy man With a beardy planRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I was about to say, 6 pages into the fabled Tomb and no-one had died yet. I was unsure about whether to be disappointed in us or the tomb.

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    Fondor_YardsFondor_Yards Elite Four Member: Hydra Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    This is the second area I've blindly stumbled into, I've done my part to get us killed.

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    AmiguAmigu Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I was thinking about DMing the tomb so it's really fun to watch you guys work through it after having read it myself.

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    PepiPopaPepiPopa Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    That replacement guy better show up. Or else.

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    SteelhawkSteelhawk Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    OK, these colour theory puzzles are bugging and I might need a hint or two. Are we supposed to match the colours on the statues to the colours on the portal? What two colours make up "olive green" or "russet brown"?

    Or am I missing the point entirely?

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    Jam WarriorJam Warrior Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Welcome PepiPopa to the slowest moving game on the internet!

    You followed the death vision that the orb had sent you (see opening post in game thread) but when you entered the archway at the end of the corridor it sent you here rather than to the gargoyle room. Don't read too much into this re: how the dungeon works, I just made it up because I realised I had collapsed the only known link back to the entrance.

    Steelhawk, if things don't make much sense riddle-wise I'd just forget trying to understand the workings of Gygax's twisted brain and plough on through other means. I have the full published adventure in front of me I still have no idea what half the puzzles are on about!

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    PepiPopaPepiPopa Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I can work with not knowing how i got there.

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    Jam WarriorJam Warrior Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Big clue for reason for patchy DM updating in spoiler.
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    SteelhawkSteelhawk Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    That is awesome. Congratulations!!

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    SteelhawkSteelhawk Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    OK, questions:

    1) Is the portal "on" right now?
    2) Is the wall with the silver sphere a false wall with a passage behind it?

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    Jam WarriorJam Warrior Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Oops, sorry missed those. All you can tell is that the portal is filled with swirling mist and you can sense teleportation magic.

    The painted sphere itself is an illusion so there's a circular hole in the wall behind it.

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    EvilBadmanEvilBadman DO NOT TRUST THIS MAN Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
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    Good times.

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    SteelhawkSteelhawk Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Hello?

    Anyone still here?

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    Fondor_YardsFondor_Yards Elite Four Member: Hydra Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    I've already made my actions, we're still waiting to see what everyone does to try and open the door.

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    PepiPopaPepiPopa Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    No one here but us horrors.

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    Jam WarriorJam Warrior Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Yeah, you're one of the people we're waiting on this round Steelhawk...

    I'll throw together a map soon, maybe. That'll inspire some life!

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    SteelhawkSteelhawk Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Really? its me? I made a Dungeoneering check! Did we move to another round already?

    Edit: Damnit!

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    Jam WarriorJam Warrior Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Yup

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