ADVENTURE Ch. 59 - He Underthrows It a Bit

Ark ---------- Leinster Lyons ------ http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=531173
CommodoreJim - Drominus Hellcleave - http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=381991
CommodoreJim - Melange ------------- http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=463188
Eltrotraw ---- Tombs the Gunman ---- http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=376543
Deathfish64 -- Vellamo ------------- http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=421842
Moonside ----- Elsa ---------------- http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=471952
Skeleton ----- Freddie ------------- http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=381882
Skeleton ----- Warty Morty --------- http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=438457





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<Fishfosh> hi
<Moonside> hi
<Moonside> So, are we doing this
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<CommodoreJim> !roll 1 20 +6
<MODOK> [CommodoreJim - 1d20(+6)] <23> <17> <Total: 23>
<flibbyjibbits> im sort of half watching hobbit with family so i can pay half attention
<flibbyjibbits> but can atleast get a bit done
<flibbyjibbits> when not an action scene
<Fishfosh> Okay
<Moonside> Ok.
<Moonside> We just killed a reaper thing in a dark little place.
<flibbyjibbits> the reaper thing disspeared and the well cleared up
<Moonside> "Was that the ghost from your nightmares?," I ask Drom.
<CommodoreJim> "I believe so..."
<Moonside> What did the notes by the well say, again
<Fishfosh> "It was certainly a formidable opponent, whatever it was."
<Moonside> "Well then, our work here is done. Now, we should head to Sparona."
<flibbyjibbits> i forget the specifics of what the notes said but just about preparing it for its new purpose once the plan had been completed
<Fishfosh> "This well was said to have healing magic, at least long ago.  Now that the water has cleared up, do you think its power has been restored?"
<Moonside> "...I would rather not try it out."
<flibbyjibbits> i guess to save time and trial another peice of paper can float up from the depths of the well and its floating near the middle
<Moonside> I take it and read it.;
<flibbyjibbits> difficult to read since its been at the bottom of a murky pool for centuries
<flibbyjibbits> but basically says that the pools been made to scry, cast a spell into it to see
<Fishfosh> Any spell?
<flibbyjibbits> well a universal school spell wouldnt get much result
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<flibbyjibbits> maybe we're down too many people if ark said he couldnt make it and politoed seems away
<Fishfosh> I guess so
<CommodoreJim> Myeah
<Moonside> Hmmm.
<flibbyjibbits> ill just pay attention to the movie until peoiple get back
<Politoed> Here
* Politoed is now known as Skeleton
<Moonside> hi
<Moonside> Cast a non-universal spell in the well.
<Skeleton> "What a wimpola!" says Freddie
<Skeleton> So a spell huh, how about Mad Monkeys
<Moonside> Sure, what could go wrong
<Fishfosh> nothing
<Skeleton> Let me see... I should probably have at least one Lv3 left I don't remember
<Skeleton> Monkeys-a-go-go
<Skeleton> "Let's see what happens if we add some monkeys."
<flibbyjibbits> the monkeys fire from your fingertips into the pool
<flibbyjibbits> they dissolve back into conjuration magic and fall down a whirl
<flibbyjibbits> the surface of the pool stills and an image appears in it
<Moonside> What is it?
<flibbyjibbits> the elf queen of farim, in some dark semi ruinious structure, giving orders to a small skeletal figure that is sewing and smithing bodies together
<Skeleton> "Oh gross"
<Moonside> Oh, does Elsa know Mr. Bones?
<flibbyjibbits> maybe has heard stories but not seen or nothing concrete
<flibbyjibbits> may have heard of his work or seen some on the fringes of town at night
<Fishfosh> "That's a very disturbing image... Perhaps we should try something else."
<Skeleton> Really? The flesh bag monsters made it all the way to Rakor?
<Fishfosh> "Unless this is significant to any of you."
<Fishfosh> Because Vellamo obviously has no idea who either of those figures are
<Skeleton> "Kinda. That's the Queen of Farim and her little fleshsmith"
<Skeleton> "They're not our friends."
<Moonside> "That is an... interesting creature."
<Skeleton> "She's not a nice as she probably looks"
<Fishfosh> "Yes, I would certainly hope that they are not your friends, then."
<Skeleton> "She did kill the first Idrian we ever met so that counts for something."
<Skeleton> "Unless you meant the species. She's an elf, like me. We have feelings you know..."
<Moonside> "Try a spell of a different school."
<Fishfosh> "No, that is certainly not what I meant!  I merely object to sewing together corpses like that."
<Fishfosh> "Allow me to try one."
<Skeleton> That was in response to 'interesting creature'
<flibbyjibbits> oh yeah and just for confirmation he totally had that dragon there
<flibbyjibbits> well parts of it
<Fishfosh> oh, nevermind then
<Skeleton> "Have at it"
<Fishfosh> Anyway, I'll cast Lullaby over the well
<flibbyjibbits> i mean it was implied heavily enough but now its for certain
<Fishfosh> enchantment school
<Skeleton> "Change the channel"
<Moonside> I said the interesting creature to Mr. Bones
<Skeleton> /I/ know that of course :B
<flibbyjibbits> enchantment school so it shows the queen again, marching through the streets of the elf capital city, far in the woods, the lunar city, the "camera" mostly focusing on the moonstorm
<Fishfosh> "Her again..."
<Skeleton> "You could say Farim is going through some... dark ages... right now."
<Fishfosh> ("Is this scrying pool just designed for peeping on the queen?  Perverts!")
<Moonside> "... try a necromancy spell."
<Skeleton> Freddie plunks in a Disrupt Undead
<Skeleton> (the only non-level-0 I have is Familiar Melding, Freddie has an aversion to necromancy because he thinks it creepy)
<flibbyjibbits> you see a fancy lab of steel and crystal, through a window to another chamber you can see idrian contained in what looks like liquid crystal.  another window overlooks a prison block, there are many young girls in it, one is being led to a chamber full of crackling magic that seems to be pulling a spirit off the idrian and converting the prisoner into a clone
<Moonside> Elsa raises an eyebrow at this.
<Fishfosh> Liquid crystal?  Like a Game&Watch?
<Skeleton> "Uhhhh whoa."
<Skeleton> bleep bloop
<flibbyjibbits> like a viscous shiny thing, or a glass pillar thats sort of flowy
<Skeleton> "Is this the Idrian Factory??"
<Skeleton> 'or the fortress of solitude, what the hell is superman up to'
<Moonside> "Well, would any of you like to try another spell?"
<CommodoreJim> 'being a dick'
<Skeleton> Freddie drops a Jolt, Transmutation
<flibbyjibbits> id have thought that previous scene might have warranted a reaction but whatever
<flibbyjibbits> anyways
<flibbyjibbits> transmutation
<flibbyjibbits> the pool goes all murky and totally black for a bit
<flibbyjibbits> then
<Skeleton> I reacted!
<flibbyjibbits> it looks like little stars , like its the night sky, and far in the distance there is a tower
<Fishfosh> Vell's reaction to the last one was mostly confusion
<flibbyjibbits> its a sort of, well, shitty tower, made of discarded wood from broken buildings, cobbled together with stolen nails
<Fishfosh> "That does not look like a very solid tower."
<flibbyjibbits> the vision approaches it and goes into a chamber, where a knight in mixed up armor from dozens of nations, extant and not
<flibbyjibbits> he stands in front of a glass orb on a pedastal
<Fishfosh> weirdo
<Moonside> How similar to Freddie's orb is this one?
<flibbyjibbits> theyre all identical
<Fishfosh> How different can glass orbs look?
<Moonside> Different size?
<Skeleton> different colors, imprefections, bubbles or jurassic mosquitoes sealed inside
<Fishfosh> "What's he doing?"
<Skeleton> "Mmmm... none of this rings a bell..."
<Skeleton> "That's one of the magic balls. I've got one right here!"
<Fishfosh> This is the least disturbing image so far, so naturally Vell's more interested
<Moonside> "That seems to be another one of the orbs like the one you have, Freddie."
<Fishfosh> "Hmm..."
<Skeleton> "Yeahp, there's one for every magic class, each containing the... soul? spirit? consciousness? Don't know. Of a really old mage"
<Skeleton> "Mine seems to have lost his mind from misuse and abuse. Not my fault, I swear"
<Skeleton> "But I don't know who that guy is. Drom? Any ideas?"
<Fishfosh> "I have never seen anyone like that before."
<CommodoreJim> "Haven't the foggiest."
<flibbyjibbits> its like each peice of his armor came from another part of the world or time period, many are rusted beyond identification, which i guess is fitting in with the aesthetic of his building
<Fishfosh> "I recognize some of that armor, but each piece comes from a different origin, and the majority of them I don't know at all."
<Skeleton> He sleeps under a big antique quilt at night, eats fruit from his lemon/orange/grapefruit/lime tree, and always orders his pizza half and half
<Fishfosh> Assuming it would be reasonable to recognize at least the more prominent ones from existing nations
<flibbyjibbits> those who have seen it may recognize the landscape as being that of behind the big round death doors
<Skeleton> Let's try an Illusion, in goes a Ghost Sound
<Skeleton> "boo"
<flibbyjibbits> telmar in his office, reading a book and playing with the animated undead parrot
<flibbyjibbits> vision centered on the crystal ball on his desk
<Skeleton> "Ugh."
<flibbyjibbits> that im pretty sure i made sure to mention every time you were there
<Skeleton> "Ah!"
<Moonside> "...ah!"
<Fishfosh> "You know him?"
<Skeleton> "I think this thing is showing the locations of all the magic balls?"
<Skeleton> "Lemme try a divination one"
<Skeleton> detect magic I s'pose
<flibbyjibbits> pool goes perfectly relfective
<flibbyjibbits> reflective
<Skeleton> "Bingo"
<Moonside> Elsa seems to be in deep thought.
<Fishfosh> "Fascinating"
<Skeleton> Freddie messes with his hair
<Fishfosh> What haven't we tried yet?  Evocation?
<Skeleton> Evocation, Abjuration I think and that's it
<Fishfosh> I'll throw in a dancing lights
<Fishfosh> for evocation
<Fishfosh> oh, enchantment
<Fishfosh> no, I did that
<Fishfosh> Yeah, just evocation and abjuration
<flibbyjibbits> the vision in the pool shows a large manor on an island to the south, that people whove been there may recognize, and those who havent wouldn't
<CommodoreJim> oh hey
<flibbyjibbits> the "camera" of it sort of flies into a window in the wing zulban messes around in
<flibbyjibbits> its just sitting on a table in his bedroom
<flibbyjibbits> he apparently sleeps in his armor
<Moonside> "That can't be comfortable."
<CommodoreJim> gee
<CommodoreJim> "It's actually not as bad as you'd think."
<Skeleton> "What kind of weirdo sleeps in his armor."
<CommodoreJim> Drom coughs.
<Skeleton> I have one more level 0, so in goes a Resistance for Abjuration
<Moonside> Don't you have infinite level 0s
<flibbyjibbits> a great throne room of steel and stone and flowing lava, dwarfs mill about near a giant empty metal throne, the orb itself is embedded in the back of the throne
<Skeleton> Mmmmaybe. I forget what the 5? means
<CommodoreJim> is this some sort of fort
<flibbyjibbits> the vision zooms out to show that this room is in the center of a giant sphere of lava, in the center of the greatest dwarven city
<Moonside> Oh wait, meta comment but the Evocation thing was used to summon the obsidian behemoth so yeah Zulban would have it
<Skeleton> their air conditioning bills must be humongous
<Moonside> "Is that all of them?"
<flibbyjibbits> abjuration conjuration ecocation ehcnatment necromancer transmutation thats uh
<CommodoreJim> wwhat about sexy magic
<Skeleton> Movie magic
<Fishfosh> Those mostly fall under enchantment, Jim
<Skeleton> CGI everywhere
<flibbyjibbits> divination and illusion yeah thats all of them i think
<Skeleton> Illusion
<Fishfosh> we did that
<Fishfosh> "That covers all the schools of arcane magic, at any rate."
<Skeleton> "I don't know if it'll help but I took notes"
<flibbyjibbits> there are no orbs of psionics dont worry
<Fishfosh> or divine magic I guess
<flibbyjibbits> divine and arcane use the same schools
<Fishfosh> ah
<Fishfosh> "This is all quite a bit to take in at once..."
<Skeleton> "That's why I took notes, I'm gonna forget it if I don't!"
<CommodoreJim> Deadpool: TAKE NOTES!
<Moonside> "Well, shall we take our leave, then?"
<Fishfosh> brb
<Skeleton> "Guess so"
<Moonside> We leave.
<Fishfosh> Windmill status: exited
<flibbyjibbits> outside the windmill theres a half dozen mask people with swords or other weapons, one steps forward   "surrender all that you have learned inside"
<Moonside> Are they level 2 commoners?
<flibbyjibbits> maybe
<Skeleton> "Learned?"
<Moonside> "Why?"
<CommodoreJim> "And why, exactly, should we?"
<Fishfosh> "I do not surrender very easily."
<flibbyjibbits> brb (damn that was a good movie)
<Skeleton> Freddie can only hope to become half the wizard Gandalf is and leave no rock un-cut in half
<flibbyjibbits> "Well, thats what you're here for"
<Moonside> "You might say that we should give whatever information we may or may not have acquired to you because you helped us get into the city... however, that was before it was confirmed that you are running experiments on the denizens of this city, and as such your morality and intentions are questionable at best. I would, at the very least, like to know what you plan on doing with this information that may or may not exist."
<Moonside> "And no, not really."
<flibbyjibbits> "We bring you in, you clear the spectre, find the necromancer's secret, give it to us, then we killed you, that was the plan I was told"
<flibbyjibbits> hes sort of just confused as to why the plan isnt working
<Skeleton> "Wait wait wait wait what was that?"
<CommodoreJim> "Well, I'm afraid we'll have to break procedure."
<Skeleton> "And your SKULLS"
<flibbyjibbits> he scratches his chin with his sowrd "wait, are you not in on this?"
<Moonside> "I have never heard of a plan such as the one that you described."
<Skeleton> "Why would we be in on getting killed, I do not understand your reasoning"
<Fishfosh> Vellamo addresses the party, "Why does it seem like everyone you know wants to kill you?"
<CommodoreJim> "Fate is cruel, I suppose."
<Fishfosh> "...Yes, so it is."
<flibbyjibbits> "well its for the greater good I heard, that that the uh, the thing in there" he points towards the windmill with his sword "was supposed to be the key "
<flibbyjibbits> brb (bathroom was occupied before but isnt now)
<flibbyjibbits> ok i guess it still is
<Skeleton> shit doesn't happen
<Moonside> "Oh, indeed? Please tell me more about this."
<Moonside> !roll 1 20
<MODOK> [Moonside - 1d20] <17> <Total: 17>
<Moonside> diplomacy roll I guess
<Moonside> +15
<Skeleton> MODOK's die does mods
<flibbyjibbits> "Well thats all i was told until you tell me first"
<Moonside> Yeah, I just forgot
<Skeleton> oh
<Moonside> "Hmm, I see. What, exactly, was it that we were supposed to tell you, then?"
<Fishfosh> "Does it really matter?  He already said that he plans to kill us afterwards.  We should either escape now or prepare for combat."
<flibbyjibbits> "Well, just, idunno, what did you find in there?"
<Moonside> "Many ruined books, and water."
<Skeleton> "A bad ghost."
<Fishfosh> "Two dire tigers and a lunatic, but they left."
<Skeleton> "Yes, I defeated them with the nonviolent power... of empathy."
<flibbyjibbits> "Did, uh, did they tell you anything, or did you read them or something?"
<Skeleton> "Key word is 'ruined.'"
<flibbyjibbits> "No, thats not right, the uh, the necromancer's big secret thing for how to change everything was supposed to be in there, or how to find it"
<flibbyjibbits> "just, yknow, get... sworded on and let us look around in there"
<CommodoreJim> Pff
<Moonside> "Are you sure you want to fight us? We just destroyed a creature that you were not able to."
<Fishfosh> 'get sworded on'
<flibbyjibbits> he is not a profesional sworder
<flibbyjibbits> "Well they told me thats what the plan was supposed to be"
<flibbyjibbits> some of the others, though you cant see their face due to the masks, seem to be losing resolve on the subject
<Skeleton> "Don't fight us. You don't want to, and you're just following orders so it's not even... I can't even get mad at you"
<Moonside> "You do not even seem to have any reason to be following these orders, or to have any idea of what is going on."
<Fishfosh> "I assure you, you do not wish to cross blades with me."
<Fishfosh> !roll 1 20 +9 intimidate check
<MODOK> [Fishfosh - 1d20(+9)] <21> <12> <Total: 21>
<CommodoreJim> "Additionally, you don't seem to be well-versed in using weapons. We, on the other hand..."
<Skeleton> "Nah I don't even mean it like we'll beat 'em to a pulp, even if it's true"
<flibbyjibbits> the other 5 run away but the one that was talking drops his sword and throws a vial
<flibbyjibbits> !roll 1 20
<MODOK> [flibbyjibbits - 1d20] <4> <Total: 4>
<Fishfosh> pfft
<flibbyjibbits> !roll 1 8
<Skeleton> "Ehp!"
<MODOK> [flibbyjibbits - 1d8] <5> <Total: 5>
<Skeleton> "I was about to give a little spiel about self-identity and making your own decisions"
<flibbyjibbits> he underthrows it a bit
<Moonside> "a bit"
<flibbyjibbits> its like the guy who tries to throw a ball but then just spikes it into the ground in front of him
<Moonside> Did it do anything to the ground?
<Fishfosh> or us?  If it were a splash weapon with sufficient aoe
<Moonside> Or him?
<flibbyjibbits> he gets caught in the aoe of it
<Skeleton> oh no.
<Moonside> "That is very pathetic."
<flibbyjibbits> apparently a fairly powerful admixture of fire and acid and he died from it
<Moonside> Oh my god.
<Moonside> "Oh my."
<CommodoreJim> "...well, that was...depressing to see."
<Skeleton> http://smaaaash.net/theinternet/ohmygod.gif
<Moonside> "That was very pathetic."
<Skeleton> "That poor guy... he had his whole life ahead of him"
<Moonside> "...well, then, shall we go to Sparona?"
<Fishfosh> "He didn't have to off himself..."
<CommodoreJim> What was in Sparrow Town again
<CommodoreJim> I I mean
<CommodoreJim> Sparona
<Skeleton> rum
<Moonside> Lotte and Elly
<CommodoreJim> RIGHT
<CommodoreJim> THAT'S IMPORTANT.
<Fishfosh> dicks
<Moonside> you forgot about your girlfriend omg screw you drom
<CommodoreJim> it's been several weeks I knew she was quarantined somewhere just didn't remember where omg :<
<Skeleton> sorry lady lotte but my first and only love is AXES
<CommodoreJim> "We should make for Sparona as soon as possible."
<Moonside> no more hairsex for drom
<CommodoreJim> "We've spent enough time with this diversion."
<CommodoreJim> diversion being Drom's hero moment where he doesn't land a single hit
<CommodoreJim> and rolls a one
<Skeleton> "Wonder how long before you're world famous as a cool hero"
<Moonside> well
<Moonside> considering that this was from the well I guess
<Moonside> will he be famous for that now
<Moonside> "that" being not landing a single hit and rolling a 1
<Fishfosh> Will he be famous for succeeding or for messing up his moment of glory?
<Skeleton> Maybe famous as a guy whose friends do everything for him!
<CommodoreJim> "I didn't do anything, Freddie. I am hardly deserving of fame of any sort."
<CommodoreJim> Famous as a leader maybe :<
<CommodoreJim> or maybe he can trade fame for a class change is this how things work
<Moonside> famous as a friend of the person with the shiny sword that killed the thing
<Fishfosh> Headlines in Rakor: 'Fage Rolls 1, Botches, Heroic Moment'
<Fishfosh> Fage*
<Fishfosh> Fag*
<Fishfosh> wow how did I do that twice
<Skeleton> phage
<Moonside> Let's leave then
<Fishfosh> "Oh, about that."
<Moonside> "Hm? Oh, yes, thank you for your assistance. You were very helpful."
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<flibbyjibbits> hi
<Moonside> Hey.
<Arkay> hi what did i miss besides guy killing self
<Skeleton> Hiya Arkeops
<Arkay> who is guy anyway
<CommodoreJim> just a no named loser
<Skeleton> Some grunt of the mask gangsters
<Moonside> When we left the windmill, some mask people tried to kill us, but they were dumb.
<CommodoreJim> from the little order of maskdouches
<Skeleton> Probably wasn't a bad guy really
<Moonside> Elsa sort of talked with them about nothing at all to buy time, then Vell scared most of them away
<Skeleton> They didn't try, they didn't even really threaten
<Moonside> But the last guy tried to throw a vial of fire and acid at us.
<Skeleton> They kinda thought we had everything under control
<Skeleton> Including the part where they kill us
<Moonside> But he sucked at that, so he threw it at himself and died
<Fishfosh> "I feel as if I am somewhat indebted to all of you now.  I would have died if I had investigated that windmill on my own, and you certainly did not need me to do it.  Additionally..." She removes her hood.  "Additionally, I find it quite refreshing that none of you seem to be bothered at all by my race.  So, to that end, would you allow me to continue working with all of you?  At least for a while."
<Skeleton> "Sure!"
<Fishfosh> also she gets lonely
<Moonside> "Oh, of course! Ah, well... I would not mind it. Would any of you?" I turn to the others.
<Skeleton> "High five?"
<CommodoreJim> "Mm. I know the feeling. It is rather nice to have company that isn't bothered by race, is it not?" Drom takes his helmet under his arm for a moment, before giving a bow. "It would be an honor to have you along."\
<Arkay> "Being the new guy, I don't think I have much say, but I wouldn't mind traveling with her one bit."
<flibbyjibbits> the part of iron man 2 where he just up and invents a new stable element is on
<Fishfosh> science
<Moonside> screw chemical rules I have money
<Fishfosh> Is the high five directed at Vell?
<Skeleton> yeah
<Fishfosh> "High what?  Erm... no, thank you."
<Skeleton> "o-oh..."
<Moonside> "Hmm, very well then. And, well... I will admit that it will be nice to have another female in the party, heh."
<flibbyjibbits> he just shined a particle accelerator laser, that he apparently had in his basement, on a metal triangle, which begins glowing and he calls it a new element, and he just tosses it into his reacotr and solves  all problems forever
<Arkay> "Don't worry, Elfy, I'm sure she'll come around."
<Skeleton> Then the group died of political correctness poisoning
<Moonside> I call it plotnium, flib
<Skeleton> "It's 'Freddie,' with an R"
<Arkay> relfy
<Skeleton> omg
<Fishfosh> erfy
<flibbyjibbits> anyone want to recap the more important thing for him
<Fishfosh> Er, right
<CommodoreJim> we discovered orb locations
<Fishfosh> Yeah, basically
<CommodoreJim> using magic water
<Arkay> oh neato
<flibbyjibbits> possibly even in the form of in character talking it over on the road to destination
<Fishfosh> The well is now a scrying pool
<Moonside> Oh yeah, the well whose water we cleared up showed the location of the orbs when we used magic in it
<Moonside> The queen in farim had two, Telmar had one, Freddie has one, another was in the Idrian factory, another was with a multicultural guy
<CommodoreJim> Zulban had one
<CommodoreJim> and slept in armor
<Moonside> That too
<Skeleton> What if the Enchantment one
<Skeleton> Is actually the moon in Farim
<Skeleton> ??????????????
<flibbyjibbits> they were orbiting her head when you saw her
<Skeleton> oh
<flibbyjibbits> like oversize ioun stones
<Skeleton> I must've missed that
<Fishfosh> She's got gravity
<Moonside> So are we on the road now
<Skeleton> yo queen so fat she got satellites
<Fishfosh> I would make mass jokes if she weren't established at being thin
<Fishfosh> as*
<Skeleton> *ass
<flibbyjibbits> i guess so
<Fishfosh> "So, those crystal balls that we saw in the well.  Clearly they are of great importance, but what do they actually do?"
<Skeleton> "Well, mine makes divination easier for me somehow, and can also retrieve answers to questions from the minds of people at a distance."
<flibbyjibbits> an ability hes used twice
<Fishfosh> yeah, you should use that thing more
<Skeleton> "So I imagine the others do neat tricks relating to the other magic classes... I wouldn't mind having another or more or all of them"
<Moonside> "Telmar had one, huh?"
<Skeleton> I've used it a bunch haven't I? It's a dud so often though
<flibbyjibbits> just like the magic "ask falkan or zulban a question" stick that was used never
<Moonside> magic stick what
<Fishfosh> I never felt like I really needed that
<Fishfosh> I guess Pikkup still has his, wherever he is now
<Skeleton> being eaten by vultures?
<Fishfosh> save it for a rainy day, and then ask zulban if he can go get some nachos
<Moonside> 'no'
<flibbyjibbits> 'THE FOOD OF CHAOS?
<Moonside> "It was the Illusionism one, yes? Hmm... I wonder what it is capable of."
<Fishfosh> 'The food of tex-mex'
<Skeleton> "Maybe making Telmar seem to be less of a douchewagon."
<Moonside> "Hmm... perhaps."
<CommodoreJim> Drom places his helmet back on and hides a smirk
<Moonside> Note that Elsa was being 100% serious there
<flibbyjibbits> her paladin vow is no-fun
<Skeleton> Of course.
<Fishfosh> fun is the enemy
<flibbyjibbits> fun is the mind killer
<flibbyjibbits> i must not fun
<Skeleton> "Wonder if that patchy man would give me the transmutation one..."
<Moonside> "But, to tell the truth, I do not like illusionism... imagine what sort of terrible things a sufficiently powerful illusionist would be able to hide."
<Skeleton> "Like being Telmar, for example!"
<Moonside> Elsa coughs a little.
<Fishfosh> "A well-used illusion could save your life.  Or somebody else's."
<Skeleton> "Hey, you and Drom better not be getting sick and better not spread it to me"
<Moonside> "...it was nothing."
<Moonside> Well we can go to Sparona then I guess
<Fishfosh> Vell sings the occasional traveling song as she goes
<Moonside> Elsa is fond of the music.
<Skeleton> Freddie approves
<Fishfosh> !roll 1 20 +15 perform(sing)
<MODOK> [Fishfosh - 1d20(+15)] <26> <11> <Total: 26>
<Fishfosh> Not her best performance, but not a bad one either
<flibbyjibbits> call it about a week i guess
<Skeleton> That is a long song
<Fishfosh> the srd puts perform checks over 25 as a "memorable performance" though
<Fishfosh> It's not one song :P
<Skeleton> d:
<flibbyjibbits> basically chaarcters over level 7 are super level at skills compared to regular people
<Fishfosh> yep
<Skeleton> Cool, now I'm an Above-Average wizard
<Fishfosh> I could roll a 1 and exceed the mark for an entertaining performance
<Moonside> unless we're using the rule where 1s count as -20? actually I'm not sure if we are or not
<Fishfosh> I think it's kinda dumb when you always have a 5% chance to fail routine tasks, especially when you're supposed to be an expert at something
<Fishfosh> So I'm not fond of that rule
<Moonside> Yeah, me too
<Moonside> I suppose that that's what taking 10 is for, though
<flibbyjibbits> its the chance of really botching something
<CommodoreJim> http://www.360nosco.pe/
<Moonside> We arrive at spain
<Fishfosh> whens bullfighting
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<flibbyjibbits> city looks about the same as normal
<flibbyjibbits> its a nice city
<flibbyjibbits> also i didnt know there was a real city named that
<flibbyjibbits> all the towns in this setting were named by dwarf fortress
<CommodoreJim> ha
<flibbyjibbits> i cant even name a city in vermont and thats like, 2 hours from here
<flibbyjibbits> far from able to know a city in europe
<Moonside> there isn't
<Fishfosh> As we approach, can I make a disguise check to appear human?
<flibbyjibbits> sure
<Moonside> Well, are there any guards around the entrance to the city? We should ask where the sick people place
<Fishfosh> !roll 1 20 +12
<MODOK> [Fishfosh - 1d20(+12)] <31> <19> <Total: 31>
<Moonside> is
<flibbyjibbits> oh also on the way out of ombathu you all had very complex several hour long medical examinations to make sure you werent plagued
<CommodoreJim> turn your head and cough
<Fishfosh> I would assume this mostly involves hiding any visible blue skin
<Fishfosh>  /hair
<Arkay> oh right
<Fishfosh> and fin ears
<Fishfosh> etc
<flibbyjibbits> the city gates to sparona have another medical checkpoint around them that i forgot about until just now
<Arkay> weren't we supposed to roll for the disease
<Moonside> Now I'm picturing Vell as Minette
<Arkay> or at least some of us
<flibbyjibbits> that vell probably cant hide from
<Arkay> I know I had to but I don't know who else
<Fishfosh> Oh well
<Arkay> would it be possible for me to like, dimension door me and vell past or is it really not that important
<flibbyjibbits> the examiner makes some racist jokes to his friends because everyone but humans and dwarfs arent popular in rakor
<flibbyjibbits> but since nobody got sick its all fine
<Fishfosh> She's used to that sort of thing
<Moonside> Oh, on the way, Elsa might've asked Vell "Are you frequently prejudiced against?"
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<Eltrotraw> is dis still goin
<Fishfosh> The answer would be a pretty simple "Yes."
<Eltrotraw> omg
<CommodoreJim> Drom is also used to racist jokes.unfortunately :'<
* Arkay blows eltro's leg off
<flibbyjibbits> for a bit
<Eltrotraw> ok im ded
<Moonside> Elsa nods silently at that
<Eltrotraw> i reroll as ghost the wisp
<Arkay> no it's okay here have some water
<Arkay> i promise it won't turn you to ash
<Moonside> yeah eltro I dunno if tombs should actually continue to exist or what
<flibbyjibbits> summary of things
<Moonside> we found location of orbs, man killed himself accidentally, we go to sparona
<Fishfosh> He rolled a 4 to throw an acid bomb of some sort
<Fishfosh> hit the ground in front of him
<Eltrotraw> sparona is where again
<Fishfosh> But yeah, the well became a scrying pool
<Fishfosh> Sparona is near the border between rakor and nethu I think
<Eltrotraw> ok sorry guys for being a no show again
<flibbyjibbits> its one of them cities where half is in one country and half is another
<flibbyjibbits> got lotta bighuge bridges
<Moonside> I ask one guard near the gates or w/e where the sick people place is.
<flibbyjibbits> "mmmm the quarantine, it was built over the grave field, on the other side of the city, so that they can just open the floor of a cell and let the infected fall out to the pit"
<Moonside> Elsa seems quite distressed upon hearing that.
<Fishfosh> Gee, that's morbid
<flibbyjibbits> my knowledge of how people deal with plagues comes entirely from pathologic
<CommodoreJim> "WHAT."
<Moonside> "We... we must hurry!"
<Eltrotraw> "Don't you run out of space?"
<CommodoreJim> "YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS."
<Moonside> so pretty much plagues are the worst things ever in this setting
<flibbyjibbits> "Its a very deep pit.  "
<Fishfosh> I hope people aren't walking around with extra livers and kidneys
<Fishfosh> to trade for drugs
<Skeleton> "That sounds like it'd take a lot of effort to build, and for no other purpose?"
<Moonside> Elsa hurries to the place.
<CommodoreJim> Drom is not far behind
<flibbyjibbits> "You aren't from here.  To the south there is a hole, like the ones to other worlds, goes very far down into the black."
<flibbyjibbits> "The local tradition is to put the dead there, and most of the city's garbage."
<Eltrotraw> "Has anyone ever tried burning it all?"
<Fishfosh> That sounds unstable in the long run
<flibbyjibbits> "Why burn it, we've got a perfectly good hole to an empty world."
<Fishfosh> "That sounds unstable in the long run."
<Skeleton> "It doesn't smell rank at all?
<Skeleton> "
<Eltrotraw> "'Empty' world?"
<flibbyjibbits> "Well its like the old stories about doors in hidden places, the big empty place without much in it"
<flibbyjibbits> "this is just a much bigger one of those doors and its sideways"
<flibbyjibbits> "nethus got a lot of em anyways, t'say the spire was built all on top of the bigest one of em"
<Eltrotraw> "Aren't you scared of people hidin' stuff in there?"
<Fishfosh> What if it mutates into a giant trash monster and crawls out seeking REVENGE
<Arkay> D:
<Fishfosh> trash and plague corpse
<Eltrotraw> like what if they dip some of those bottles in there and it transforms into a trash golem
<Moonside> can we arrive at the quarentine
<flibbyjibbits> "Well we guards try to keep people away, theres a wall and such and then when people started getting sick some wizard ladies from the capital came and fabricated the quarantine over the top of the wall"
<flibbyjibbits> its a big spidery structure that stands on top of the walls around the pit, couldnt have possibly been made without magic which i guess is why the guy said the "wizard ladies" made it
<Moonside> Are there any ways to get in?
<flibbyjibbits> theres a ramp leading up with some wagons going up, some have supplies, theres two or three of those cage wagons
<Moonside> Are the sick people visible from the outside?
<Eltrotraw> why do we want to go in with the sick people, again?
<flibbyjibbits> the structure itself seems to be entirely windowless
<Moonside> There are guards next to the ramp, yes
<flibbyjibbits> obviously
<Moonside> Visibly distressed, I tell one of them that I need to go inside.
<flibbyjibbits> "ya sick?"
<Moonside> "No. But my... ugh... my student is inside. I need to see her."
<CommodoreJim> alright so I'm really damn tired and I just got a new mattress this morning and am eager to give it a whirl so
<flibbyjibbits> "normally people arent allowed inside, but possibly, what is the name"
<Moonside> "Her name's Elizabeth. Her sister, Charlotte, is also inside."
<Moonside> bye jim
<Skeleton> "What? I thought we came here for Elly and Lotte"
<Moonside> freddie pls
<flibbyjibbits>	"You know this facility services the whole continent right?"
<CommodoreJim> MODOK will disappear with me
<Moonside> Are we going to do fighting
<CommodoreJim> if you guys continue much longer assume Drom is restless and anxious as all hell because his girlfriend might be dying of a terrible disease or worse
<Moonside> "...those are their names, Freddie."
<Skeleton> If we really need dice I got Bon
<CommodoreJim> nah but in case you wanted to do indimidation checks and such
<CommodoreJim> just lettin' y'all know
<Moonside> ok
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<Skeleton> Freddie squints and turns his head like 'huhhhhhhhh no way'
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<Moonside> 18 INT
<Skeleton> http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltuzjvbQ6L1qzgpx9.gif alternately
<Moonside> old freddie
<Fishfosh> genius wizard, everybody
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<Moonside> "Their surname is Tesser."
<Skeleton> "One has abnormally long white hair and specs"
<Skeleton> "And a cat"
<Moonside> poor socrates
<flibbyjibbits> "Well i dont know what woulda happened to the cat, but I'll put in a word and see if i can get a request made and maybe it'll get approved for visitation ifn theyre not too bad"
<Moonside> "Will it take too long?"
<flibbyjibbits> oh sorry
<flibbyjibbits> "idunno, might, might help if you know someone in charge or what"
<Moonside> "I see. Thank you." She's acting polite, but obviously not very calm
<Moonside> well, what now
<Arkay> can i dimension door our way into the facility or something
<Arkay> i just want an excuse to use something from the travel domain
<Fishfosh> Does your character even care?
<Arkay> maybe he really wants to use the travel domain for once
<Moonside> Well, travel domain is the best
<Fishfosh> it is
<Arkay> or i guess dimensional hop works too maybe
<Fishfosh> hmm
<Fishfosh> What time of day is it now?
<flibbyjibbits> idunno, afternoon
<Fishfosh> Since I assume we're not planning to just stand outside the quarantine waiting, I guess Vell will go looking for somewhere to stay the night.
<Moonside> Yes, let's
<Moonside> I'll assume that there's an inn called The Hole around here
<Fishfosh> heh
<Skeleton> "They really take their corpse pit gimmick seriously don't they"
<Moonside> We get a room, or a couple, at the Hole. And I guess Elsa tells the guard where she'll be.
<Skeleton> !roll 1 20 how nice is The Hole
<Skeleton> !roll 1 20
<Skeleton> right
<BonBonne> Skeleton rolled 20-sided die number 1 of 1: Result 4
<Skeleton> oh dear.
<Moonside> it's a hole
<Skeleton> !roll 1 20
<Skeleton> how's the drinks
<BonBonne> Skeleton rolled 20-sided die number 1 of 1: Result 12
<Skeleton> mm
<Moonside> Elsa gets off of her armor for the first time in a long while, and she seems a little relieved.
<Fishfosh> I should probably be getting to bed soon.  I need to be awake tomorrow.
<Fishfosh> Easter, family meal, etc.
<Moonside> It's pretty late yes
<Moonside> I guess this is a good stopping point
<Fishfosh> Yeah, I think so
<Fishfosh> Good night, then
<Moonside> Bye.