Chapter 3: Level 2 dungeon

My aim here is to call the Great Snake from Staff of the Python and order it to swim on the other side of the channel made by gargoyles heads - that he and Ixion discover and see if it it can do something about wine flowing in.

As I don't think it is so strong and long to stop wine flowing in from all 4 holes?

I expect that by THE RULES probably Zean is still not attuned to the staff, but...
1. he/I proposed long rest few times:)
2. it's an extreme situtation so maybe Moa spirit will decide to help here - moved by desperate call from Zean and others or something like that? :)

I propose to roll for this("luck roll"?) to see if Moa would help with this, with odds set by you:)

You only needed a short rest not a long rest to attune. But you can't command it without that process. Do you remember if you had a short rest after to got the staff?
Besides I don't really want to argue with myself weather the huge creature snake could swim through 2 feet diameter crawl way. It doesn't seem possible neither mechanically nor logically (because snakes swim by making waves with their tails and it would have enough space in the crawl way to do so.

I'm not sure about this short rest - honestly.

I don't think it has to "swim per se" in there. In my imagination it only needs something to hold to with the rest of its body in order to... inject its head in the hole(holding its breath while doing so - if magical being needs it?). And as there are columns visible on the map near each of the holes it's seams technically possible:) if its body is not wider than this hole... at least. But as there was possibility to go there for by adult man, maybe it can?

But we can also look at the subcjet in different way(meta?) if there - on the other side - is anything of interest or that could help us in our miserable situation... if there is not we can ditch the idea and say it's just to big, and try something else. And this would be a mistake on Zean side.

OK I'll try to narrate the best I believe I can without giving you more power than the feature/item allows. And let's assume you had the short rest because were not on a hurry

My plan with BIg Snake don't make too much sense after Grey's explanations, so any other ideas about it: fellow players?? @thorsman99,@annex,@valdattaMadun

GM: ordering it to hit the rock at the entrance will have not much sense?

I would think maybe the ceiling?

Hit: take a look at OOC in this post
Fix: I've only revealed 5 feet long of crawlway because that's how far you can see into the non-transparent red wine. You have no idea if crawlway is 10, 100 or 1000 feet long where it goes.

You saw the block is a whole stone 5x5x5 foot. Unless it is just an illusion physical damage will do nothing to it

From this moment and on I would like to ask all players to describe their actions in private message to DM please. I will tell back to everyone as much information as rest you you are supposed to know. I will also be asking you for your actions in private to not give away any information to other players. Not sure if this secrecy is worth it, let me know if you don't find it fun

I'm very ok, with hidden moves - very thematic!

What do you do?