Session Start: Fri Nov 03 00:10:47 2017
Session Ident: #greenvale
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Session Time: Sat Nov 04 00:00:00 2017
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01[19:45:02] <srps> heyyo
01[20:16:40] <srps> Hey Maelthra
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01[20:34:02] <srps> Huh, no wulfeh? Did they nickchange and forget to switch back?
[20:34:36] <Maelthra> I see wulf here, but I will check
01[20:34:44] <srps> oh, the _
01[20:35:00] <srps> /.-.\
01[20:35:14] <srps> Is there a cabbit?
06[20:35:18] * srps pokes Jimmy
[20:35:39] <wulfeh_> buh?
[20:35:43] <Maelthra> \o/
01[20:35:51] <srps> \o/
03[20:36:42] * William is now known as Evan
03[20:38:32] * srps is now known as Wendy
[20:40:34] <Maelthra> So, let's see how far I can get here.
01[20:41:21] <Wendy> In coldest day, in hottest night / No monster shall escape my might / Servants and lord of evil's light / Burn to cinders... Pure Fire Smite!
[20:41:42] <Evan> MINES!
[20:41:54] <Evan> ...you know, in Undertrove.  Where we just came from.  They were nice.
03[20:42:08] * wulfeh_ is now known as Blizzar
03[20:42:12] * Blizzar is now known as Bliizar
[20:42:16] <Maelthra> You're in the small room underneath the ancient House of the Divine. There's a wooden table set up down here, and a small stove, as well as a bed piled high with a jumble of blankets. A small nightstand sits beside the bed with a sheaf of papers on it.
[20:42:37] <Maelthra> Everything here looks like it's been here a very, very long time.
[20:42:55] <Evan> "Sermon notes.  They were iffy on dragons."
[20:44:28] <Maelthra> The papers are indeed sermon notes. A very brief overview shows: 1) The Divine can change to be what is needed. 2) So can the evil one. 3) Dragons may be either.
[20:44:53] <Maelthra> People were poking around teh room, so it's okay to keep doing that if you want to.
06[20:45:04] * Wendy muses. "Usually it's humanity - kith - that get talked about in such free choice of morality."
[20:45:04] <Bliizar> "So someone remembered something from before afterall."
01[20:45:19] <Wendy> ( Light the stove! )
[20:45:44] <Evan> "Haven't the dragons been around since the fight with Maelstrom started?  This must be a *very* old sermon."
06[20:45:56] * Wendy looks over the ole stove, trying to light it with tightly controlled, tiny shoots of flames.
01[20:46:34] <Wendy> "Speaking of remembering things. Bliizar, you've said curious things now and then about remmebering the past. Did the orcs keep a good history?"
[20:47:20] <Bliizar> "Uh, spotty at best. They remember thing we're supposed to do something, but don't have records of why."
[20:48:05] <Bliizar> "Thats the excuse they use to stay put and never leave."
06[20:48:39] * Evan looks under the bed, in drawers, etc. while the others do similar but complementary things.
[20:49:52] <Maelthra> The stove tries to light, but the flame flutters out. No fuel. There's not hardly anything under teh bed, most of teh mess is on top of it.
[20:50:29] <Evan> Walls, floors, more secret levers?
[20:50:35] <Maelthra> The mess moves as soon as Evan climbs to his feet again. Just once.
[20:51:42] <Evan> What's the mess of?
[20:52:05] <Maelthra> It looks like a huge pile of old blankets
06[20:52:38] * Evan pulls them off dramatically to reveal...   !!!
[20:55:22] <Maelthra> You come away with a huge oile of blankets... and a tibia. the rest of the blankets are shoved aside as a voice that's obviously trying to be echoey and ethereal but really just comes across as old and crotchety exclaims, "Give meh m' leg back! I need that!
06[20:56:33] * Wendy raises an eyebrow. "Not like you've been using it, upstairs is a right mess."
[20:56:50] <Bliizar> "Ghosts!"
[20:57:48] <Evan> Schrödinger grabs the tibia in his mouth and carries it back to the bed helpfully.
[20:58:47] <Maelthra> "'M not a ghost, pipsqueak!" The rest of not-quite-a-skeleton sits up. That leg might be bone, but the rest of him still has flesh, even though it's completely dry and cracked. he grabs teh bone and tries to fit it back onto himself before tossing it away with a sigh. "And I was just at teh -best- part of my dream too. Whadya want?"
01[20:58:50] <Wendy> ( Wonder if this place is a hint that maybe one of the dragons is evil. They've been putting on a good front so far.)
[20:59:30] <Evan> "I apologize if I broke your leg.  Would a healing spell help fix it?"
[20:59:54] <Maelthra> "You keep that stuff away from me. Do you know what would happen if I were alive at my age?"
01[20:59:57] <Wendy> "Hark, yonder. We seek dragons and glory."
[20:59:57] <Bliizar> "Can't I have a little surprise in my life."
06[21:00:05] * Wendy grins a bit wryly.
01[21:00:16] <Wendy> "Mostly dragons."
[21:00:19] <Evan> "...would an unhealing *curse* help?"
[21:00:37] <Maelthra> "I think I'll jist hop."
[21:00:45] <Evan> "I do apologize."
01[21:00:54] <Wendy> ( IIRc, you can change your positive energy stuff to negative energy to heal undead. )
[21:01:26] <Maelthra> he waves Evan off. "Probly fell off centuries ago. I hafn't moved much. He turns to Wendy. "Dragons? Dragons ye say? Why would ye be lookin' fer a dragon?"
01[21:01:52] <Wendy> "Why do you think we'd be looking for a dragon?"
[21:02:27] <Maelthra> "Ye jist -said- ye were. I'm old, not deaf!"
01[21:02:36] <Wendy> "I said what, not why."
06[21:03:38] * Wendy tilts her head. "Are you a cleric of the Divine"
01[21:03:40] <Wendy> ?"
[21:16:59] <Maelthra> "Used to be. Doubtthe Divine would have like me lichifyin' myself, but I had a job ye see."
01[21:17:38] <Wendy> "They're not around to anymore to object, it seems."
[21:17:48] <Bliizar> "A jobs a job eh?"
[21:21:41] <Maelthra> "Until it isn't anymore. But you didn't answer my question, young lady."
01[21:22:35] <Wendy> "You didn't answer mine yet. What reason do you think we have for chasing down dragons?"
06[21:22:51] * Evan lets Schrödinger jump to his shoulder.
[21:23:11] <Maelthra> "I wouldn't know. Some people love them, Some people hate them."
[21:23:33] <Bliizar> "We be dragon hunters!"
06[21:23:35] * Wendy critically eyes the lich, trying to figure out what particular flavor or method got used.
[21:24:01] <Maelthra> He looks almost homemade. It was probably an accident that it worked at all.
06[21:24:29] * Evan quietly casts a world-mind spell, includes the party.  . o O (Is there a reason to be cagey?  He seems like an okay dude.)
01[21:25:14] <Wendy> .oO(Force of habit. Also, this place is dodgy about dragons and he's a lich. I'd like to know a bit about what foot he stands on. )
06[21:25:21] * Wendy grins a bit. .oO( Heh, foot. )
[21:25:51] <Evan> "We'd rather keep our mouths shut until we know what side of our issue you'd be on, you see."
[21:27:05] <Evan> . o O (Of course by definition someone who becomes a lich likes existing.  I mean, he went to some lengths to hang on to it.)
01[21:27:08] <Wendy> .oO( I wonder what the lich method was used. Usuaully the process is a horrible abomination but this seems less sacrifice a thousand innocents, I guess thats why he seems so weak? )
01[21:27:41] <Wendy> .oO( Maybe one of the sinless variants that are much less effective or require a lot more powerful. )
[21:28:03] <Evan> . o O (I didn't know they existed at all!  I've never met any.  I've got training in casting out ghosts and things but I always half suspected it was old superstition that got mixed in with the books.)
[21:28:54] <Maelthra> "Nope! Sorry! Not the way it works! Can't jist go around telling everyone, now can I? Gots to be standards!"
01[21:29:09] <Wendy> .oO( They don't move like a figher, or a combat level wizard. A holy ritual, then? But with the Divine gone, do they still have power? )
06[21:29:39] * Wendy shrugs. .oO( I should do the title again. I wanna do the title. )
[21:29:46] <Evan> . o O (Beats me! Never had occasion to use it!)
01[21:29:47] <Wendy> .oO( I'm going to do the title. )
[21:29:59] <Evan> . o O (Go for it.)
06[21:31:26] * Wendy grins. "Very well. I am Wendy, Welder of Greenvale, Warrior Witch Wizard, Ally of the Arkheion, Champion against Chaos, and Empress of Infernos. I seek to locate and recruit the last of the four godling children in a fight against Chaos."
01[21:31:49] <Wendy> "I make myself known and bid you make yourself known as have I."
[21:34:13] <Maelthra> "You've met the Blue, have you? Well then! I suppose you'd be here after the Green, wouldn't you? I can tell you where he is. But you won't like it."
[21:34:56] <Evan> "Not that that will matter.  Still going after him."
[21:35:08] <Evan> "Also, she did ask who you are."
[21:36:38] <Maelthra> "I'm Spring's Herald of course! That is why you're here isn't it? You've read the books and come to find me."
06[21:37:11] * Wendy glances away and adjusts her hat. "Haven't heard of that one yet. Or are you the Druid?"
[21:37:17] <Evan> "My cat ran in here and we fell down a staircase after we poked around following him.  Sorry."
01[21:38:36] <Wendy> "This world has a pretty distinct lack of useful books relating to anything." She grouses a bit.
[21:40:01] <Maelthra> "Well, the Green is a druid. Dunno if that's the same druid as you're talking about...."
01[21:41:35] <Wendy> "Well, whatever it is you're waiting for, now's the time to come out. The Maelstrom's been growing in power, building his armies, etc, etc, doom is nigh, etc."
01[21:41:59] <Wendy> "We've been running around gtahering the dragons and getting everyone ready to defend the last little valley thats left."
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[21:42:28] <Maelthra> "Oh, I don't -do- things. That's your job. And just point you to the Green. And then die I s'pose. I think that's part of it."
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01[21:43:02] <Wendy> "Howabout we bend the rules a bit. Stick around to the end of this war."
[21:43:04] <Evan> "Well, we appreciate your patience.  I suppose we'd best get on with our various roles."
01[21:43:15] <Wendy> "In an advisory capacity, at least?"
[21:43:42] <Maelthra> It's sort of in the description, but maybe there's a way around it. Although I don't really know much."
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01[21:44:18] <Wendy> "I'm pretty good at finding loopholes. What's the particulars?"
[21:45:02] <Maelthra> "I'm the key to the Green. I wan't really... briefed. It was a rush job all round."
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[21:45:46] <Bliizar_> "Seems like it was for everyone."
01[21:46:14] <Wendy> "A willing trigger to make sure the right person does it...?"
06[21:47:45] * Wendy frowns. Looks around. "Well, lets get to it, then."
01[21:48:05] <Wendy> .oO( Another source of knowledge from the past, just gone again. This is irritating. )
[21:50:11] <Maelthra> "Only I'm not sure it'll work, now, y'see. My leg."
06[21:50:28] * Evan bes embarrassed.
[21:51:10] <Evan> "I've got quite a *lot* of ways to heal people.  Or hurt living people, which if I understand the theory works the other way for undead."
[21:51:43] <Maelthra> "Well, let's see what happens first. Then we can try things. Don't want to mess with things any more'n we have to, do we?"
[21:51:54] <Maelthra> "Somebody gimme a hand upstairs?"
01[21:52:09] <Wendy> .oO( Usually when I do the rash stuff it works out for me. Sorry, Evan. )
06[21:52:25] * Evan helps the dude upstairs.
01[21:52:31] <Wendy> "One step ahead of you."
[21:52:46] <Evan> Schrödinger carries the leg, in case we need it.
[21:54:27] <Maelthra> The Herald grabs a blanket, too, and wraps it around him. It's incredibly musty, but at least now hes not immediately identifiable as undead. He points the way to the edge of town, and then turns in a circle. "Huh. Used to be here."
[21:55:15] <Bliizar_> "burried?"
01[21:55:24] <Wendy> "Greens been shifting, different farms are going crazy. "
[21:55:37] <Maelthra> "Guess he's a shifty sleeper. Still, I would be too if I had people plantin' rutabagas in me."
01[21:55:48] <Wendy> ( Cookie probabaly knows but they seem pretty AFK. )
[21:56:19] <Maelthra> ((We can assume that Cookie has shared her infos from the market))
[21:56:39] <Evan> "Looking for the more fertile fields?"
[21:56:54] <Bliizar_> "Wait. Planting in it? The whole area is the thing?"
[21:57:07] <Maelthra> "Yep yep. The best field. Was always right here before."
[21:57:24] <Evan> "Potatoes right now.  Which side of town was it again?"
[21:57:49] <Maelthra> "Potatoes?! Ooh... He ain't gonna be happy about that."
[21:57:59] <Evan> "?"
[21:58:03] <Bliizar_> "I like potatos"
[21:58:09] <Evan> "Not fond of tubers?"
06[21:58:13] * Wendy thinks a bit, recalling the map Cookie drew out. "That way, i think." She points, vaguely.
[21:58:16] <Maelthra> "Ever had one grow in your shoulder?"
[21:58:28] <Maelthra> "Nasty buggers to get out."
[21:58:33] <Evan> "I bathe a bit too regularly for that."
[21:59:00] <Evan> "Knew a fellow that had flowers for hair, once.  Some sort of alchemical accident.  The girls went nuts for him in the spring."
[21:59:10] <Maelthra> "Right, lets go that way!" he point dramatically in the general direction Wendy did."
[21:59:31] <Maelthra> "Squirrel scent'll do that too."
06[22:00:13] * Wendy raises an eyebrow, and runs a hand through her hair, makes a face.
01[22:01:03] <Wendy> "I wonder if it'd mask the scent of burnt smoke."
[22:01:42] <Maelthra> A few minutes on and you're in the potato patch. There's a HUGE lump of potatoes just bursting from the ground, and the Herald points at that. "Dig right there, would ye?"
06[22:02:02] * Evan steps aside for Cookie and his magic shovel.
[22:02:25] <Maelthra> Cookie goes down about three yards before hitting something the shovel won't go through.
[22:03:11] <Maelthra> The Herald peers into the hole. "That's it alright. Ye see the person-shaped hole in the door? I laid still for three days so they could carve that I did."
06[22:04:07] * Evan loosk at it.  Couldn't a small person go through?
[22:04:29] <Maelthra> "You just try it. Gonna have to stick me in it. I'll have my leg back now, please an' thank ye."
[22:05:02] <Bliizar_> "STick it in you?"
[22:05:24] <Evan> Schrödinger gives the dude back his leg.
[22:05:41] <Evan> "What's your name, mister?  Shame if you die and we didn't even know."
06[22:05:47] * Wendy nods. "I've been a preistess and a woman of the cloth in the past. Do you have any last words or wishes?"
[22:06:42] <Maelthra> "I've had so many last words it's gotten to be borin'. Lets jist do this an' see what happens."
06[22:07:13] * Wendy nods, and watches, quietly.
[22:07:14] <Maelthra> "An' my name? Hell if I know! I knew when this all started, but I've slept since then!" He cackles at his horrible joke.
01[22:07:36] <Wendy> "I know that feeling. Easy to pick new ones you like, though."
[22:07:55] <Maelthra> "We'll see!" He hops into the hole.
[22:08:05] <Maelthra> There is a VERY loud explosion.
[22:08:24] <Maelthra> Bits of Herald fly everywhere, thoughmost of the pieces are in tact.
06[22:08:35] * Wendy covers herself reflexively, ducking down a bit.
06[22:08:41] * Evan dodges.
[22:09:12] <Maelthra> "Well. That's a surprise. before you go through, can you... gather me bits up and lemme have 'em back?" This comes from a head lying under an particularly expansive potato leaf.
[22:09:43] <Evan> "You survived!  Or, um, sur-unmortised.  Good for you!"
06[22:09:54] * Evan helps gather up Herald bits.
[22:10:04] <Maelthra> The hole is wider now. It's still not particularly large, but the stone of teh door is broken, so whatever spell was on it is assuredly gone now.
06[22:10:40] * Wendy helps too. "I want to look into whateve ritual did this to you sometime after this is over. I want to comapre notes about something."
[22:11:20] <Evan> "Do you want to hang about up here?  People may come looking for the explosion."
[22:11:31] <Maelthra> "I'll be very quiet."
[22:11:40] <Evan> "Cover you with leaves?"
[22:11:55] <Maelthra> "S'fine if ye want to."
[22:12:25] <Evan> "Just don't want you getting smushed by a scared mob."  He does this.
06[22:12:50] * Wendy grins a bit. "A sending off gift for a bit." She murmurs a bit, then endows the collected bits of Herald with a fly spell.
[22:13:36] <Maelthra> "Wha-- Woah, this is weird! I hope I all fly the same direction!"
[22:13:41] <Bliizar_> "That would be unfortunate."
06[22:13:56] * Wendy then jumps in the hole!
[22:15:02] <Maelthra> Through the door is darkness, broken only by the thin stream of light shining through teh slit above. It's about a thirty foot drop past the door. The room appears to be sideways. Fortunately, there's a gravel pile you can roll down, and soon you're all atthe bottom.
06[22:16:19] * Evan follows Wendy.  "Probably inside him again.  Once he wakes up I suppose we'll need to avoid rock falls."
[22:17:07] <Maelthra> At the far end of the room is a heavy stone door. Squatting a few feet in front of it is an ugly statue of a bestial creature, its features mostly concealed by the stone wings that enfold it. However, you can see the silver key it clutches in its hand.
01[22:17:52] <Wendy> "Snatch the way forward from the devils grasp, hmm?"
06[22:18:13] * Wendy doesn't hesitate, and immediately grabs the key.
[22:20:06] <Maelthra> okay, gimme init
[22:20:11] <Maelthra> d20+4
[22:20:15] <Maelthra> oops
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04[22:20:22] [jBot:#greenvale COMMANDS:] !help, !leave, !join <#name>, !luck, !init, !note
01[22:20:29] <Wendy> d20+2
[22:20:29] <Maelthra> d20+4
06[22:20:29] * jBot throws the bones for Maelthra (d20+4) and gets a natural 15 for a result of 19.
06[22:20:29] * jBot throws the bones for Wendy (d20+2) and gets a natural 20 for a result of 22."Verðandi says 'hi'."
[22:20:32] <Bliizar_> d20+1
06[22:20:33] * jBot throws the bones for Bliizar_ (d20+1) and gets a natural 11 for a result of 12."Passable luck. And by passable I mean boring."
[22:23:05] <Maelthra> *prod the Evan*
[22:23:54] <Evan> 1d20+1
06[22:23:54] * jBot throws the bones for Evan (1d20+1) and gets a natural 8 for a result of 9.
[22:24:07] <Maelthra> !init Wendy (20), monster (19), Bliizar (12), Evan (9)
06[22:24:07] * jBot saved channel init as Wendy (20), monster (19), Bliizar (12), Evan (9)
[22:24:34] <Maelthra> As soon as you snatch the key, the statue comes to life, it's eyes burning red, as it's claws reach for teh keythief.
[22:24:37] <Maelthra> Wendy, you're up!
06[22:25:31] * Wendy already has a fireball up in the non-snatching hand, and slams it forward, a bunny hop back and a quick release forward.
01[22:25:47] <Wendy> 8d6+13
06[22:25:47] * jBot throws the bones for Wendy (8d6+13) and gets 38
[22:26:16] <Maelthra> ((whats teh save for tht))
01[22:26:17] <Wendy> ( DC 22 Reflex; if they make it, 1/2 dam, on a fail full dam and [blind] for 2 rounds. )
[22:26:27] <Maelthra> d20+11
06[22:26:28] * jBot throws the bones for Maelthra (d20+11) and gets a natural 18 for a result of 29.
01[22:26:30] <Wendy> ( oh and [burning] )
[22:27:25] <Maelthra> It takes the fireball straight in the face, but fire doesn't seem to especially faze it. Maybe it needs to be hotter. It is stone.
01[22:28:23] <Wendy> ( Do I have key? )
[22:28:29] <Maelthra> yes
[22:28:40] <Maelthra> It snarls and leaps forward, straight for Wendy, claws extended.
[22:28:47] <Maelthra> d20+9
06[22:28:47] * jBot throws the bones for Maelthra (d20+9) and gets a natural 4 for a result of 13.
[22:28:56] <Maelthra> that is proably a miss,.
06[22:28:57] * Wendy tosses the key over to Evan. (Wsift action, pass object )
[22:29:11] <Maelthra> ((kk))
[22:29:28] <Maelthra> Bliizar, your go.
06[22:29:58] * Bliizar_ panics at the now living statue and throws a grenade at the back of its head via shadows!
[22:30:14] <Bliizar_> ((glue grenade because small room, ect.
[22:31:02] <Maelthra> is there a save for that
[22:31:29] <Bliizar_> 21 ref iirc
[22:31:36] <Maelthra> d20+11
06[22:31:37] * jBot throws the bones for Maelthra (d20+11) and gets a natural 18 for a result of 29."A success is what a high roll would do."
[22:31:46] <Bliizar_> 8d4+6
06[22:31:46] * jBot throws the bones for Bliizar_ (8d4+6) and gets 27
[22:31:54] <Bliizar_> ((i think i rolled that right.
[22:32:02] <Maelthra> any save for damage?
[22:32:13] <Bliizar_> no
[22:32:14] <Maelthra> or is it the same for both?
[22:33:21] <Bliizar_> no save for dmg
[22:33:23] <Bliizar_> just the effect
[22:35:44] <Bliizar_> d20+14
06[22:35:44] * jBot throws the bones for Bliizar_ (d20+14) and gets a natural 16 for a result of 30.
[22:36:11] <Maelthra> yarp, that hit
[22:36:46] <Maelthra> that actaully hurt. A lot. Maybe Wendy burned off an outer protective layer or something cuz now it's howling.
[22:36:50] <Maelthra> Evan!
06[22:38:41] * Evan makes a gesture, ripples, and the ripples spread out and cloak the area in deep shadow.  (Darkness spell.)  Immediately, a ghostly ball of light floats out from the lantern attached to his pack, and shines a weird glow on the scene.  (Will-o'-wisp lantern -- allies can see the light, the statue can't.)
01[22:38:47] <Wendy> .oO( What kind of architect puts a guard statue after a door locked by a willing bomb!? )
[22:39:07] <Evan> (This is either clever, or pointless if it has darkvision that can see through a 2nd circle darkness spell.)
[22:39:35] <Evan> "Buddy, can you talk?  We're authorized!"
[22:39:47] <Maelthra> The glow reveals that perhaps the architect isn't in control anymore, as teh walls and ceiling all warp into odd bulges and cavities. The floor, though, remains strangely unaffectd.
[22:40:35] <Maelthra> It's also immediately apparent that this thing won't be responding, because it has stone for mouth.
[22:41:45] <Evan> And a world-mind spell needs a willign recipient.  Alas.
[22:42:17] <Evan> "I wonder if the statue is a later addition, courtesy of Maelstrom."
[22:43:01] <Maelthra> It flails about in the darkness, before rushing in a random direction out of teh cloud. ((Wendy 1, Evan 2, Bliizar 3, all other directions, nothing
[22:43:05] <Maelthra> 1d8
06[22:43:05] * jBot throws the bones for Maelthra (1d8) and gets 7
[22:43:24] <Maelthra> It runs into a wall and attacks it before realising it is a wall.
[22:43:31] <Bliizar_> ((heh))
[22:43:49] <Maelthra> Oh, Wendy was supposed to go first, but \o/ Wendy, your go
06[22:46:39] * Wendy switches something - changing something on her gloves, and pulling out a crystal shaft about a foot long. (Swift action, switch weapons.) It lights up into a long beam of contained fire, which she swings like a spear of laser at the thing.
01[22:46:57] <Wendy> ( Reach, for AoOs, and Gaurdian for +1 AC, and [fire] damage. )
01[22:47:14] <Wendy> d20+12
06[22:47:14] * jBot throws the bones for Wendy (d20+12) and gets a natural 7 for a result of 19.
01[22:47:22] <Wendy> d20+7
06[22:47:22] * jBot throws the bones for Wendy (d20+7) and gets a natural 19 for a result of 26."Schrondingers critical. It's a crit and not a crit at the same time."
[22:47:30] <Maelthra> first misses, second hits
01[22:47:31] <Wendy> d6+6
06[22:47:31] * jBot throws the bones for Wendy (d6+6) and gets 12
01[22:47:35] <Wendy> ( 12 dam )
[22:48:00] <Maelthra> It doesn't seemed lpeased. THEN it runs atthe wall.
[22:48:20] <Maelthra> Bliizar!
06[22:49:01] * Bliizar_ kinda feels sorry for it, but grenades it again, trying to stick it to the wall
[22:49:05] <Bliizar_> d20+14
06[22:49:06] * jBot throws the bones for Bliizar_ (d20+14) and gets a natural 13 for a result of 27.
01[22:49:23] <Wendy> .oO ( I'll hold the front. Bliizar, counting on you! )
06[22:50:27] * Evan cheers Bliizar on!  Hates to kill something if they don't really have to.
[22:51:30] <Evan> . o O (If it's a threat it's a threat, but if we can get it stuck, great.)
[22:52:09] <Bliizar_> ((did dat zot hit/
[22:52:28] <Maelthra> it do))
[22:53:12] <Bliizar_> 8d4+6
06[22:53:12] * jBot throws the bones for Bliizar_ (8d4+6) and gets 25
[22:53:19] <Maelthra> yeah, it's melty now.
[22:53:38] <Maelthra> It does it's best wicked witch flying monkey death combo. The door is clear now.
06[22:54:10] * Evan dismisses the darkness.  "Ah, wasn't just glue then.  Ah well."
06[22:54:23] * Evan checks out the door for more traps before sticking a key in anything.
06[22:54:47] * Wendy cuts the thrashing short with a firesword to the neck.
[22:55:36] <Maelthra> There are no traps. The key unlocks the door easily, but on the other side of it is a chasm, crossed only by a narrow, curved stone ledge that leads into another room.
06[22:55:51] * Wendy spins the firesaber around, two full rotations, then retracts the blade to back just a haft of warm crystal.
06[22:56:32] * Evan drops a rock when he's halfway over the chasm, counts seconds.
[22:56:40] <Maelthra> ALL THE SECONDS
[22:56:47] <Maelthra> At least 20
01[22:57:58] <Wendy> "I am leery of just magicking past this. Let's walk the side, Evan, stay with us and help us keep balance?"
[22:58:11] <Evan> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zwPRGbmrow 1:45
[22:58:22] <Evan> "Sure thing."
06[23:02:23] * Wendy stares out into the chasm. "Too many things that can be in there. I've got a failsafe in case things go bad, but lets keep that toplan B."
01[23:03:01] <Wendy> ( Bastion'd Fly will pretty much nosell the travel part but I suspect there's things not obvious vs that. )
[23:03:23] <Maelthra> You slowly make your way around the edge. It's not dangerous. Perhaps it's the places way of trying to scare you. Shrieks and squeals of glee -- or disappointed wailing; it's hard to tell the difference as echoey as it is -- can be heard as you round the corner. the new room looks as if it were ripped from a dwarf fortress years ago. The ceiling is dwarf-height, unlike the corridor that leads to it, and the room doesn't
01[23:03:58] <Wendy> ( "unlike the corridor that leads to it, and the room doesn't" - cut off. )
[23:03:59] <Evan> "and the room doesn't"
[23:04:39] <Maelthra> ... match the surrounding stonework in the slightest. It looks as if it were possibly a pump room for something once upon a time, and in between the broken machines and the low ceiling are what look like orcs, but smaller, plumper, and immensely misshappen. They flee atthe sight of you, some down a stairway at the other end of teh room, a couple down a drainpipe.
[23:06:24] <Evan> "Well, they're not aggressive.  That's good."
01[23:06:58] <Wendy> "I am Wendy of Greenvale, Ally of the Green Dragon and champion against the chaos, Maelstrom. If you be a foe of courage, come at me. If you are also an ally of the dragon, fear me not."
06[23:07:35] * Wendy supplants that with a language spell to cover any lingual drifts.
[23:08:26] <Evan> "Waking up the fire dragon required finding a portal somewhere else and making friends with Schrödinger here.  Wonder if the method is similar?  Probably not."
01[23:08:29] <Wendy> "'ole Red had a tribe of half dragons on him that were dedicated to him."
01[23:08:38] <Wendy> "This might be the same."
01[23:09:18] <Wendy> "If I'm reading this right, machine life? Have to start the engine?"
06[23:10:01] * Wendy walks forward, awating a response from the locals, while exploring a bit, trying to figure out where all the myraiud technology leads to or from.
06[23:11:00] * Evan looks at the stuff about, his most applicable knowledge skill probably being Arcana.
[23:11:00] <Maelthra> One of the... things... stops running, and warily peers out from behind a broken pipe. "What wants you."
[23:11:07] <Maelthra> go for it Evan.
[23:11:13] <Evan> 1d20+8
06[23:11:13] * jBot throws the bones for Evan (1d20+8) and gets a natural 13 for a result of 21.
01[23:11:35] <Wendy> ( I've got Engineering at +14. should I roll, or can I take 10? )
[23:11:42] <Maelthra> Not really magical, although the pipes were definitely made ina magic forge. It's mostly junk, truth be told. Looks like it might be the inside of a boiler room.
[23:11:47] <Evan> (Engineering is probably way more useful.)
01[23:11:49] <Wendy> ( Perception +8, too. )
[23:11:51] <Maelthra> ((10 is fine))
06[23:11:58] * Evan waves at the thing!
01[23:12:04] <Wendy> ( 'k, 24 Enginerring. )
[23:12:19] <Maelthra> It's the non-functional half of a water-based heat exchange system.
[23:12:25] <Evan> "We want to make friends!  Have you been down here long?"
06[23:12:48] * Wendy extends out her magical aura to include the peering local in her translation field.
[23:13:03] <Maelthra> "Down? Highest room this!"
01[23:13:27] <Wendy> ( Is there a way to turn it on or do a non-time-intensive fix? )
[23:13:48] <Maelthra> Well, it's not connected to anything, and has no water.
[23:13:58] <Evan> "Door up open now."
[23:14:01] <Maelthra> It is probably just... collected.
[23:14:11] <Maelthra> "Lies! No more up!"
[23:14:16] <Evan> "Come see."
[23:14:25] <Maelthra> "No no no no no no no no no!"
[23:14:30] <Evan> "Cookie, you got anything edible for making friends with?"
[23:14:34] <Evan> "Okay.  Okay."
[23:14:42] <Maelthra> Cookie probably has tea cakes.
01[23:14:53] <Wendy> "Don't care if you beleive us. You'll see yourself when you look."
01[23:15:08] <Wendy> "Where is this, though?"
[23:15:10] <Maelthra> "Not looking!"
[23:15:23] <Maelthra> "Home." She says this with the tone of 'duh'.
06[23:15:45] * Evan offers water as Cookie offers tea cakes.
[23:15:51] <Evan> "How low home go?"
06[23:15:54] * Wendy pokes and prods different pipes and stuff. "Is this important? Is there a warm spot, or a place you're not supposed to go?"
[23:16:37] <Maelthra> "We take metal things, make things. We go all places. Except for sunroom. Hurts eyes."
01[23:17:10] <Wendy> "Where is the sunroom?"
[23:17:29] <Maelthra> It points in the way you've come.
[23:17:47] <Maelthra> "We feed heart. But heart sick."
01[23:17:55] <Wendy> "Out, then. We came in from the sunroom."
[23:18:07] <Evan> "Heart sick?  Maybe we can help?"
[23:18:16] <Maelthra> "If you can find again."
01[23:18:18] <Wendy> "Can you guide us to the heart?"
[23:18:23] <Maelthra> "It move."
[23:18:47] <Maelthra> "Was there." It points to the chasm.
06[23:19:01] * Wendy glances at the chasm. "The heart moves?"
[23:19:09] <Maelthra> "All move."
[23:19:21] <Evan> "Where to?"
[23:19:28] <Maelthra> "Places."
01[23:19:34] <Wendy> "Is there a pattern? Does it repeat and move the same way if you wait long enough?"
[23:19:34] <Maelthra> It shrugs.
[23:20:04] <Maelthra> "Pat-tern. Pattern.... What?"
06[23:20:19] * Wendy glances back at Bliizar. "Let me know if you have any odd feelings or intuitons."
[23:20:23] <Evan> "Can you show us the places it goes?  We want to help.  What does the heart need?"
[23:20:52] <Maelthra> "Not know. We feed everything."
01[23:20:52] <Wendy> "I'm banking a little bit on you having a connection here. If you feel one, please speak up."
[23:22:34] <Bliizar_> "This is soo much stranger than red or white were."
[23:22:57] <Maelthra> "Cannot show, trap will eat I."
[23:23:02] <Maelthra> "Can tell."
[23:23:08] <Evan> "That'll be fine.
01[23:23:22] <Wendy> "That's fine. We'll keep you safe, just get us close."
[23:23:52] <Maelthra> "No no no no. Tell only."
01[23:24:12] <Wendy> "The places keep changing, you said. Will tell only work?"
[23:24:24] <Maelthra> "Cannot show, movings."
[23:25:22] <Maelthra> "Mouth goes to gizzard, but maybe not. Maybe goes to gauntlet, then gizzard, but maybe not." Gizzard in middle, but not really middle."
[23:25:34] <Maelthra> Need to find crazy stairs.
[23:25:48] <Maelthra> "If find those, go down and find pit."
06[23:25:51] * Evan nods, as if these directions make sense.
[23:26:06] <Maelthra> "if find bones, wrong way."
06[23:26:20] * Wendy blinks, flatly, a bit. "Right then."
[23:26:23] <Maelthra> "If find fancy stone rooms, wrong way."
[23:26:40] <Bliizar_> "So its a living, changing maze.
[23:26:41] <Maelthra> if find black graves, then right way."
[23:27:00] <Maelthra> "Help I!"
[23:27:07] <Maelthra> It seems happy.
06[23:27:22] * Wendy nods. "You helped a lot. Thank you."
[23:27:46] <Maelthra> "Don't tell." It stares at you as seriously as it can, given its visage.
06[23:28:00] * Wendy nods. "I won't."
[23:28:08] <Maelthra> "Flee now."
[23:28:13] <Maelthra> It screams and runs away.
[23:28:29] <Evan> "He seemed nice."
06[23:30:10] * Wendy is quiet, and musing.
[23:31:36] <Evan> "Guess we need to find a mouth first."
06[23:31:53] * Evan looks around for something that seems suitable fanged.
[23:32:17] <Maelthra> a mouth doesn't always mean lips and teeth,
06[23:32:46] * Wendy eyes the pipe strutures some more. Is it actually connected to anything beyond itself, or is it totally displaced?
[23:32:52] <Maelthra> it is not
[23:33:16] <Evan> ...yeah, but lips and teeth is a decent start when you're looking for a mouth.  If nothing nearby presents itself as obvious, we have to decide which way to go next.
[23:33:27] <Maelthra> nothing does,
01[23:33:34] <Wendy> ( Is it more a shear, like it got cut off, does it look modular like it's supposed to plug into something thats not there, or like someone moved it? )
[23:33:53] <Maelthra> more like ripped out of the wall
06[23:34:04] * Bliizar_ looks around for general large holes in area
01[23:34:34] <Wendy> "My largest worry isn't finding the way forward, it's not being able to find the way backwards when we start."
[23:34:40] <Maelthra> In other words, the room looks like it was part of something else before it was part of this.
01[23:35:52] <Wendy> "The traps are a lesser concern, but still a concern."
[23:35:58] <Maelthra> Remember what started all of this in Blackwood? Why did the Green cause the problem to get your attention? (It will be good for Evan to know this anyway)
01[23:36:13] <Wendy> "If there's locals who live here, the traps will be marked or warned away from somehow, though."
01[23:36:32] <Wendy> ( It was getting corrupted. )
[23:36:41] <Maelthra> ((by?
01[23:36:46] <Wendy> ( Big M. )
[23:37:03] <Bliizar_> ((Big O? Showtime?!))
[23:37:08] <Maelthra> ((right, by chaos. So if you've just been led to teh Green by the herald...
01[23:37:27] <Wendy> "... keep an eye out for red. That'll be a signal to me fromthe Green."
[23:37:47] <Bliizar_> "Red the dragon? or the color?"
01[23:37:57] <Wendy> "The color."
[23:38:22] <Maelthra> ((that means that this is corrupted by Chaos.))
01[23:38:39] <Wendy> "Evan, this dragon ... is very corrupted. It's only got a little of itself left."
[23:38:44] <Maelthra> ((so nothing is going to connect to anything properly.))
01[23:38:57] <Wendy> "It's mostly been taken over by Maelstrom."
[23:39:26] <Evan> "Well, that would explain why the directions keep changing.  But it's the heart we have to find, so... keep moving?"
01[23:39:29] <Wendy> "My last words to the Green before it retreated to await us was to mark our path in red."
[23:39:46] <Evan> "...oh.  That's handy.  So look for red?"
01[23:39:57] <Wendy> "And the mouth."
06[23:40:33] * Wendy looks over the pipes, and around, looking for ways out, and for red.
06[23:40:45] * Evan looks down the various branches off the room.
[23:40:52] <Maelthra> The mouth is rather more cryptic then intended apparently, so... what does mouth usually refer to underground?
[23:41:17] <Maelthra> There is just one additoional exit. it's a long, shallow ramp downwards.
[23:42:03] <Maelthra> At the bottom of the ramp, a hall splits off to the left, and the one you're in continues forward, rather unevenly.
06[23:42:14] * Wendy keeps a flame held in hand to light the way, and provide some strong shadows for Bliizar.
01[23:43:18] <Wendy> "Gizzard next?"
[23:43:29] <Evan> "Maybe.  Red?"
[23:43:52] <Maelthra> Here there is no guidance. perhaps it's ultimately uneccesary.
01[23:44:45] <Wendy> "I'm feeling the uneven one here. More gizzardy. Or gauntlety?"
01[23:45:00] <Wendy> "Bliizar, thoughts?"
[23:45:25] <Bliizar_> "I do not know. Left perhaps."
01[23:46:14] <Wendy> "Close enough. Left. Keep an eye out for traps."
06[23:46:20] * Bliizar_ starts checking with magi-goggles.
[23:47:03] <Maelthra> It's only a short distance before the corridor opens into a large -- no, immense -- cavern.
[23:47:44] <Maelthra> The facade of a magnificent villa greets you as you enter. It's mostly in tact, and must have once been teh home of a very wealthy noble or politician.
[23:48:03] <Evan> "Fancy stone room.  Wrong way?"
01[23:48:26] <Wendy> "Yeah. Lets hope the backtrack is still there."
[23:48:28] <Maelthra> It has lots and lots and LOTS of draconic themes. The achitecture mirrors that of the church above, so it's undoubtedly old. Perhaps dragons were once en vogue.
06[23:49:57] * Wendy frowns a bit. "Interesting. Factions. Same group who ran the chruch above, but there's no vagueness about being on the side of dragons, here."
01[23:50:12] <Wendy> "Not group. Era."
[23:50:31] <Maelthra> The doors of the villa have been torn off their hinges, maybe in  in some long-ago battle and lie blasted and scorched on the ground.
[23:50:40] <Maelthra> ((in in!
[23:51:04] <Evan> "If the place is corrupted and trapped, I'm dubious about indulging our curiosity along byways."
01[23:51:29] <Wendy> "Agreed. I want to explore, but we've got a map that doesn't let us explore."
06[23:53:08] * Wendy , on impulse, shouts at the place. "I'm Wendy! I'm gonna revive the Green Dragon! If you want to help, come out and come with us!"
06[23:53:43] * Wendy turns, and heads for the other fork in the tunnel.
[23:54:17] <Maelthra> But answer came there none -- And this was scarcely odd, because there wasn't anyone."
[23:56:09] <Maelthra> Down the other corridor, a narrow stone bridge arches over a deep chasm, possibly the same one you crossed earlier. This time though, the stronge misshappen denizens of the labyrinth are standing their ground,. It's fairly obvious that 110% of them is muscle, because they're holding rusty swords and warhammers that are easily twice their height.
06[23:56:13] * Wendy didn't expect a response, not even just this once.
[23:57:52] <Maelthra> Most of them are still probably not a huge threat, but the larger ones in the middle might be.
Session Time: Sun Nov 05 00:00:01 2017
06[00:00:39] * Wendy frowns. Sighs.
[00:01:23] <Evan> (Sounds like a long enough battle to start up next week.)
[00:01:38] <Maelthra> We can pause, yes
01[00:01:42] <Wendy> ( I won't be here next week, mind. )
[00:01:59] <Maelthra> perhaps the group will run in the other direction after all >__> We'll see!
03[00:02:53] * Wendy is now known as srps
[00:03:39] <Bliizar_> idk, wendy loooves to fight