I was thinking that the "pistons" might be presses to turn a normal gold coin into a fancy Obol, which would then get supercharged by a convenient lightning strike.
But I am content to let this hook dangle for a bit!
Edit: dang, I can't type at all on mobile!
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Dang looks over the dead warlock sadly. Then, sadly, he tears off the bottom half of his undershirt, ruining his common clothes. Even more sadly, he wraps it around his face as an improvised mask. Then, continuing to be sad, he sadly tries to steal a wondrous item or two from the warlock’s corpse without getting a slug on themselves.
Brygos places a handful of coins of various denominations (let me know a total $) on the pistons and sees if the constant motion squishes then flat into a new shape, perhaps a novelty "I visited the Upturned Pyramid and all I got was this lousy deformed currency" token.
Assuming he doesn't lose a hand in the process, he takes the coins and leaves the room, stumbling across the spectral corpse of Naxtori with the monk going through her pockets.
Geth roll 1d20+1 for Sleight of Hand (please no squishy)
Sleight of Hand (please:
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CLANG! CLANG! CRUNCH! The gold is smashed flatter into a more disc-like shape, cracks formed on the edges. It looks nothing like the Obol Sy obtained earlier. (Just lose 1GP unless you have a hankering to try more than 1)
"Go down, kick ass, and set yourselves up as gods, that's our Prime Directive!"
Still searching, and without looking up, Dang says, “Unfortunately they touched some poisonous slugs. If only they had been a dwarf monk, granting them initially resistance to poisons, half damage from poisons, and then through many levels of experience, purity of body, which grants immunity to poison and disease.”
Thane shakes his head. "This is not good. We should exercise more discretion. I have heard, though, that certain kind of scroll, used in the right location, could revive someone here. We can keep an eye out for such an opportunity."
Off to bed on my side of the globe, so unless told otherwise tomorrow I’ll be nicking a Greater Healing Potion, Dust of Disappearance and a Wind Fan. Coin and mundane equipment, while valuable in a point scoring sort of way, just isn’t fun to steal.
In response to the 'Slug Incident', Azara recoils in horror as her companions' body hits the floor, stepping back with some haste, one foot in the air in case the slugs decided they hadn't had enough.
"Vile. Truly disgusting".
Sensing no other immediate danger (but still unwilling to touch the body), Azara opts to take a look at where the slugs were.
Geth, roll 1d20+2 for Investigation
I want to clarify that this is from a safe looking distance. In no way is Azara just rolling on up there.
The wall of slugs appears unbroken. With several slugs crawling back from Naxtori to become part of the wall again. There are enough of the blighters that seeing what’s on the other side is impossible without a way of parting them, and they seem quite eager to make new friends.
"Go down, kick ass, and set yourselves up as gods, that's our Prime Directive!"
Brygos reaches into his quiver and withdraws a javelin. He pokes it into the slugs from as far away as he can, not looking to spear any of them, but to see if there's anything beyond - is this an actual wall covered in slugs, or a kind of slug curtain, or a huge pile of slugs blocking the way?
If any of them get too friendly and start climbing quickly up the javelin to meet him, he'll shake it really hard against a different wall, hoping to knock them off. And if they keep coming, he'll drop it on the floor to keep away.
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“The answer to our present conundrum was perhaps within reach already.”
Dang flicks open Naxtori’s Wind Fan and takes a tiger stance. You barely see the movement of his arm.
Wind Fan
While holding this fan, you can use an action to cast the gust of wind spell from it. Once used, the fan shouldn't be used again until the next dawn. Each time it is used again before then, it has a cumulative 20 percent chance of not working and tearing into useless, nonmagical tatters.
Gust of Wind
A line of strong wind 60 feet long and 10 feet wide blasts from you in a direction you choose for the spell's duration. Each creature that starts its turn in the line must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be pushed 15 feet away from you in a direction following the line.
Any creature in the line must spend 2 feet of movement for every 1 foot it moves when moving closer to you.
The gust disperses gas or vapor, and it extinguishes candles, torches, and similar unprotected flames in the area. It causes protected flames, such as those of lanterns, to dance wildly and has a 50 percent chance to extinguish them.
As a bonus action on each of your turns before the spell ends, you can change the direction in which the line blasts from you.
Using up the 1 good use of the Wind Fan to blow the slugs backwards 60 feet.
If they end up pinned to a wall, Dang’ll move towards them and change the direction of the wind progressively to the right.
There does not appears to be a solid wall the slugs are clinging to, but he can’t feel if there an end to the slugs. Brygos is forced to drop the javelin however as the slugs surge up the shaft towards him.
Edit:
The slugs are blown back into the mass, which is not moved by the fan, instead stuck fast in place in the corridor as some wind shrieks along the ceiling and walls back at the group
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"Go down, kick ass, and set yourselves up as gods, that's our Prime Directive!"
Sy pops his head back through the secret wall. "Are you still playing with the slugs? Come on, that's dangerous."
Going back to the main room, he just looks around, not really engaging the mermaid, at first. Finally, partially bored, he looks at the Tiefling statues beside her. "Interesting work here. Make them yourself or had it contracted out?"
"Not my medium." Fever Coral rasps. The statues hold the burning skulls with wooden handles clasped in their stone hands. She's right you know, unless she's been to a very good hairdresser, she doesn't have the hardware to petrify bodies.
"Go down, kick ass, and set yourselves up as gods, that's our Prime Directive!"
"Right, right. Guess you're not into the sto..." he word drops from his lips once he realizes that these aren't carved bodies. "Oh. Right. Ok."
He glances over at Fever, just to double check that she isn't suddenly moving towards him, not that she's done anything so far to indicate she's going to attack. Not wanting to continue an awkward conversation, he stares intently at the burning skull with handles.
Do these skull things look like they could be removed? Maybe we can burn the slugs away?
"We could use some of the salt from that outbuilding, and use it to clear a path."
It seems like a theory worth testing - Thane will join someone if they want to work together to get a sample of the salt to test the slugs reaction, and either create a path they won't bother or coat a person to protect them. Anyone want to give it a shot?
"Hmm." He reaches out and attempts to pull one of the handles out of the grip of the petrified figure. At the same time, he speaks back to Fever. "Any problem with me taking this?"
Sy shrugs at Fever's indifference. "Good enough for me."
He walks back to the secret wall and walks through it to where everyone is still standing by the wall of slugs. "Got this burning skull if you wanted to try burning these things? Or are we done with the slug wall yet?"
Alright, back where everyone is so I can react to you. Though, this is a timed adventure so we really should decide something and keep moving.
It doesn't count as desecrating a corpse if the person isn't really there, or isn't really dead, right? Wait, is Nax dead for real? Or is it worse, because this is the corpse of a soul and not the mortal shell...? Ah, it's above my pay grade.
Brygos will carry the body into the satellite control room to avoid any further slug-related mishaps.
While he's there... Well, it doesn't hurt to try. He lines up the salt pyramid in the center of the screen as best he can, rumbles "Beware! I live!" into the microphone, and presses the lightning-bolt button. This kind of impulsive behaviour is what she would have wanted.
The aftermath of this can be sorted out later if they leave the pyramid through the front door.
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"Huh" Sy says as Dang takes the flaming skull and shoves it into the slugs, which actually react by moving away. "Did not expect that to actually do anything. Anyone have a means to make a bigger fire?"
Times like these make me wish I had chosen my backup wizard for one giant fireball.
"Find anything nice?" Fever Coral gurgles as you skirt the whispering fire pit towards the other side of the room, where the way is barred by an iron slab, it's surface embossed with a leering skull above a crossed pair of oars.
"Go down, kick ass, and set yourselves up as gods, that's our Prime Directive!"
What are the chances that Fever Coral will know what to do with a corpse if we present her with it, as opposed to leaving Nax's "body" behind the hidden wall?
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Probably more adventurers at the feast than we first had the camera focused. Mechanically, you just show up fresh and ready to go so long as combat's not happening. In which case you show up right after the fighting's finished.
And of course if you're rerolling/waiting to pop in, you're free to help out and offer advice as part of the OOC chatter!
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"Go down, kick ass, and set yourselves up as gods, that's our Prime Directive!"
Probably more adventurers at the feast than we first had the camera focused. Mechanically, you just show up fresh and ready to go so long as combat's not happening. In which case you show up right after the fighting's finished.
And of course if you're rerolling/waiting to pop in, you're free to help out and offer advice as part of the OOC chatter!
Awesome. I think I've got a new character ready to go then. One who won't touch the death slugs... I'll post and join in tomorrow, it's bedtime now
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Or do you mean the fancy coin Sy found (which I wouldn't want to smash).
Also, given we just lost someone, we might get distracted in the process. Maybe we wait to see if we find something that screams "zap me"
But I am content to let this hook dangle for a bit!
Edit: dang, I can't type at all on mobile!
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Dang looks over the dead warlock sadly. Then, sadly, he tears off the bottom half of his undershirt, ruining his common clothes. Even more sadly, he wraps it around his face as an improvised mask. Then, continuing to be sad, he sadly tries to steal a wondrous item or two from the warlock’s corpse without getting a slug on themselves.
Geth roll 1d20+3 for Sleight of Hand
Brygos places a handful of coins of various denominations (let me know a total $) on the pistons and sees if the constant motion squishes then flat into a new shape, perhaps a novelty "I visited the Upturned Pyramid and all I got was this lousy deformed currency" token.
Assuming he doesn't lose a hand in the process, he takes the coins and leaves the room, stumbling across the spectral corpse of Naxtori with the monk going through her pockets.
Geth roll 1d20+1 for Sleight of Hand (please no squishy)
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Sy watches the pistons squash a gold coin. "Nope, that's definitely not one of the coins I found."
He steps towards the door, "And I'd rather not press a bunch of buttons we don't know what they do, so I guess we leave to find the others."
Returning back to the hall, he sees Nax dead on the ground. "What the hell happened here?"
What does happen with items from people who die?
Aside from that burning question, I can't imagine Sy would care if someone was stripping a corpse. They're dead, not much use for it themselves
Still searching, and without looking up, Dang says, “Unfortunately they touched some poisonous slugs. If only they had been a dwarf monk, granting them initially resistance to poisons, half damage from poisons, and then through many levels of experience, purity of body, which grants immunity to poison and disease.”
I’m just putting that out there.
Sy nods. "Ok then, the Slugs are bad. What kills slugs, salt right? Anyone have any salt?"
He looks down at Nax's body. "Well, grab what you want and let's get going. This way is a dead end."
Sy walks back out of the hallway back into the main room and waits for the rest to join to prep for the room that has a normal door waiting.
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Thane shakes his head. "This is not good. We should exercise more discretion. I have heard, though, that certain kind of scroll, used in the right location, could revive someone here. We can keep an eye out for such an opportunity."
"Vile. Truly disgusting".
Sensing no other immediate danger (but still unwilling to touch the body), Azara opts to take a look at where the slugs were.
Geth, roll 1d20+2 for Investigation
I want to clarify that this is from a safe looking distance. In no way is Azara just rolling on up there.
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If any of them get too friendly and start climbing quickly up the javelin to meet him, he'll shake it really hard against a different wall, hoping to knock them off. And if they keep coming, he'll drop it on the floor to keep away.
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“The answer to our present conundrum was perhaps within reach already.”
Dang flicks open Naxtori’s Wind Fan and takes a tiger stance. You barely see the movement of his arm.
While holding this fan, you can use an action to cast the gust of wind spell from it. Once used, the fan shouldn't be used again until the next dawn. Each time it is used again before then, it has a cumulative 20 percent chance of not working and tearing into useless, nonmagical tatters.
Gust of Wind
A line of strong wind 60 feet long and 10 feet wide blasts from you in a direction you choose for the spell's duration. Each creature that starts its turn in the line must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be pushed 15 feet away from you in a direction following the line.
Any creature in the line must spend 2 feet of movement for every 1 foot it moves when moving closer to you.
The gust disperses gas or vapor, and it extinguishes candles, torches, and similar unprotected flames in the area. It causes protected flames, such as those of lanterns, to dance wildly and has a 50 percent chance to extinguish them.
As a bonus action on each of your turns before the spell ends, you can change the direction in which the line blasts from you.
Using up the 1 good use of the Wind Fan to blow the slugs backwards 60 feet.
If they end up pinned to a wall, Dang’ll move towards them and change the direction of the wind progressively to the right.
Edit:
The slugs are blown back into the mass, which is not moved by the fan, instead stuck fast in place in the corridor as some wind shrieks along the ceiling and walls back at the group
“Huh. That seemed like a cool thing. Didn’t that seem like a cool thing? Cool things usually work.”
He puts the fan in his bag of holding.
“Guess the holy books were wrong; it’s actually slugs all the way down.”
Sy pops his head back through the secret wall. "Are you still playing with the slugs? Come on, that's dangerous."
Going back to the main room, he just looks around, not really engaging the mermaid, at first. Finally, partially bored, he looks at the Tiefling statues beside her. "Interesting work here. Make them yourself or had it contracted out?"
"Right, right. Guess you're not into the sto..." he word drops from his lips once he realizes that these aren't carved bodies. "Oh. Right. Ok."
He glances over at Fever, just to double check that she isn't suddenly moving towards him, not that she's done anything so far to indicate she's going to attack. Not wanting to continue an awkward conversation, he stares intently at the burning skull with handles.
Do these skull things look like they could be removed? Maybe we can burn the slugs away?
It seems like a theory worth testing - Thane will join someone if they want to work together to get a sample of the salt to test the slugs reaction, and either create a path they won't bother or coat a person to protect them. Anyone want to give it a shot?
"Hmm." He reaches out and attempts to pull one of the handles out of the grip of the petrified figure. At the same time, he speaks back to Fever. "Any problem with me taking this?"
"I'm not gonna stop you." The hand slides out with the slight grind of wood on stone.
You have a Burning Skull Lantern! What an illuminating mind!
Sy shrugs at Fever's indifference. "Good enough for me."
He walks back to the secret wall and walks through it to where everyone is still standing by the wall of slugs. "Got this burning skull if you wanted to try burning these things? Or are we done with the slug wall yet?"
Alright, back where everyone is so I can react to you. Though, this is a timed adventure so we really should decide something and keep moving.
The monk shrugs and pokes the slugs with the flaming skull.
“This is it. If this doesn’t work we’ve got to book it through the door in the hall and try to make up for lost time.”
Brygos will carry the body into the satellite control room to avoid any further slug-related mishaps.
While he's there... Well, it doesn't hurt to try. He lines up the salt pyramid in the center of the screen as best he can, rumbles "Beware! I live!" into the microphone, and presses the lightning-bolt button. This kind of impulsive behaviour is what she would have wanted.
The aftermath of this can be sorted out later if they leave the pyramid through the front door.
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**
When Brygos attempts to use the controls, the monitor blanks, then reappears with an image.
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"Huh" Sy says as Dang takes the flaming skull and shoves it into the slugs, which actually react by moving away. "Did not expect that to actually do anything. Anyone have a means to make a bigger fire?"
Times like these make me wish I had chosen my backup wizard for one giant fireball.
Dang hands over the flaming skull thingy.
“Nah.”
Dang hops on his broom and makes for the door in the mermaid room.
Sy take aback the burning torch, shrugs, and follows Dang.
"Everyone coming?" He yells over his shoulder.
What are the chances that Fever Coral will know what to do with a corpse if we present her with it, as opposed to leaving Nax's "body" behind the hidden wall?
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Mechanically and thematically, how are new characters introduced here? I know it's part of the plan, just dunno how.
Edit: y'know I really could have used more gold here...
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Awesome. I think I've got a new character ready to go then. One who won't touch the death slugs... I'll post and join in tomorrow, it's bedtime now
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