August 18 - 10.00 AM – Wellington cave

I carefully mark the wall of the cave with an arrow in chalk pointing back to the entrance.

"This one's just for practice."

Last edited August 20, 2019 3:02 am

Aug 21, 2019 1:16 pm

OOC:

did we have our rope behind us?

Aug 23, 2019 3:03 pm

OOC:

Yes, you have

Michael O'Shaughnessy

Aug 25, 2019 5:25 pm

To the others, "Let's proceed cautiously, I'm starting to think this may not be a simple kidnapping for ransom, what with the other tikes gone missing, but whatever is going on. I don't think it is good." Michael draws his service revolver and proceeds toward the music.

Rolls

Stealth (base skill level 30%) - (1d100)

(65) = 65

Aug 26, 2019 2:51 pm

As they keep walking, the music gets higher, and the investigators feel like a strange flow running throughout
the whole body, giving them a sense of lightness and well-being, which makes them willing to forget about anything else.

At some point, other sounds add to the music. The group clearly hears splashes and feminine laughter, and the sounds become stronger as the investigators walk on.

The tunnel ends in the East wall of a larger hall-like cave. The cave is about one hundred feet wide (from East wall to West wall) and two hundred long (from South wall to North wall). The ceiling is forty feet above the ground and is fully covered with stalactites. There are two big circular pools filled of stagnant water, whose diameter is about eighty feet.
The two pools lie in the North and South half of the cave, respectively, and an array of stalagmites, up to six feet high, lie in the space between the two pools.

An oil lantern placed on the cave floor is lighting the ambiance near the North pool. Along with the lantern, there´s a small pile of clothes. Three human bodies move inside the North pool, projecting shadows at the wall cave.

Michael O'Shaughnessy

Aug 26, 2019 8:59 pm

Michael tries to remain in the shadows, motionless, and watching and listening for a few moments, trying to determine more about the figures and pinpoint the source of the music.

Last edited August 26, 2019 9:00 pm

Rolls

Observation (45% listen, 60% spot hidden) roll if needed - (1d100)

(51) = 51

Aug 27, 2019 7:49 pm

As their eyes get used to the dim light of the lamp, The investigators see some details of the cave.
There is another opening in the cave, placed at thirty feet from the ground on the West wall.
There are two objects on the floor between the two pools, among the stalagmites, a dozen feet from the investigators. One is a rifle, the other is a small wooden crocifix.

There are vapors coming out of the waters, like a kind of thermal bath. The people in the pool also become clearer, as the vapors coming out of dissolve in the air. There are three young women . They look naked, even thought the lower part of their body, including genitals, is under the water of the pool. All of them are incredibly beautiful, their profile and features are harmonious and simply perfect, like Greek statues.

The music continues, now is stronger and seems to be everywhere. No apparent source is visible anywhere. The three feel enormously attracted by the people in the pool. The music and beauty of the people lights up an immediate sexual desire.

Michael O'Shaughnessy

Aug 27, 2019 8:04 pm

Michael tries to resist the desire, he holsters his gun and plugs his ears, trying to ignore the music, as he crouches and creeps toward the gun and crucifix. He also tries to get a better look at the west wall, see if there are any footholds, a ladder, or other means of descending from/ascending to that opening. If he reaches the gun and crucifix, he will examine them and the nearby area.

Rolls

a roll if you need it - (1d100)

(49) = 49

Mr. Edmond

Aug 28, 2019 1:39 am

kelly_coyle Inactive forever!

Mr. Edmond tries to resist, as he is crouched walking behind Michael.

Rolls

Stealth. 24% - (1d100)

(26) = 26

Binghampton Young

Aug 28, 2019 2:24 am

Bing follows uneasily, also, continuing to scan for any other features of the scene.

Aug 29, 2019 9:29 pm

Going towards the pool, the air becomes warmer. As the investigators approach further, they cannot hel but stare at the three women, so that they almost forget about anything else. One of the women turn to the group. She smiles and slightly moves his finger inviting them to enter. They call with a laughing sweet chorus.

"Come here.... come....."

The music continues, now is stronger and seems to be everywhere. When the people in the pool speak, their words seem to accompany the music sublimely.

[ +- ] Michael

Aug 30, 2019 1:45 pm

Michael shouts, "plug your ears!" and starts backing away, a look of disgust and confusion on his face.

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Rolls

roll, if needed - (1d100)

(99) = 99

Mr. Edmond

Aug 30, 2019 2:15 pm

Oh no I can't help staring at them. I am getting so many naughty feelings. I hear Michael and plug my ears, shaking my head.

Sep 1, 2019 5:41 pm

kelly_coyle Inactive forever!

As Emond and Binghampton also plug their hears the music stops.
The women bathing in the pool disappear, as they had never existed. One figure appear, as it has always been there.
One body, with the waters up to the hips. It looks like a woman, standing still and passive. It is a young woman, appearing now as suspended upon the water surface.
She is dressed, but her clothes are all wet. Something is holding her up. A number of tentacles emerging from the waters are keeping her suspended. These elongated organs have animal features of slimy mollusks, but they move on that body as guided by something intelligent.
Some tentacles are tightening her wrists and ankle, so to keep the legs open and exposing the whole body. Other tentacles lightly dance and touch her breast, genitals and other erogenous zones, passing under her clothes.
The girl has her eyes closed and seems lost in a dream of ecstasy.

Upon the waters of the same pool, relatively far from the girl, other tentacles were playing a flute. The mouth presumibely pushing air throught the flute is a spheroid mass, from which these tentacles seem to come from. The thing is hidden among the vapors of the pool. After Michael speaks loud, the thing stop playing the flute.
The tentacles holding the girl start moving fast and chaotically, like an animal that reacts instinctively.

Sanity rolls

Michael = 99
He loses 5 points.

[ +- ] Michael

Emmund
1d100
( 1 ) = 1
No loss

Binghampton
1d100
( 77 ) = 77
He loses 2 points.

Binghampton Young

Sep 2, 2019 3:25 pm

"She seems, ah, willing enough, but dare we rescue her?" Remembering the three girls from before, Bing says "Is she even real?"

Mr. Edmond

Sep 2, 2019 6:06 pm

Hmmm looking perplexed Maybe we should try to rescue them?
maybe there's something else around them I'm thinking

Rolls

Spot hidden. 60% - (1d100)

(46) = 46

Sep 2, 2019 10:57 pm

While the group is talking, the flute players becomes more visible as the thing gets closer towards the girl. It is a big creature vaguely resembling a frog, as well as squids or octopi. It is 20 feet tall and 10 feet wide and a concave shape makes the rough body structure. The skin covering the head and the back works as a kind of armor, protecting the ventral and hollow and part of the body, from which big tentacles depart, appearing those of a giant octopus. One of the tentacles is still holding the big flute.

Rolls

Sanity roll for Michael - (1d100)

(24) = 24

Sanity roll for Binghampton - (1d100)

(73) = 73

Sanity roll for Edmond - (1d100)

(83) = 83

Sep 2, 2019 11:01 pm

OOC:

Sanity loss

Rolls

Sanity loss for Binghampton - (1d10)

(8) = 8

Sanity loss for Hamton - (1d10)

(2) = 2

Sep 2, 2019 11:08 pm