Chapter 3: Level 2 dungeon

Aug 4, 2024 5:48 pm

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Round	Ixion	Throgin	Tinkara	Vatoris	Zean
Round 1 (narrated)	look at heads	wait	Close lid	nothing	Close lid
Round 2 (To be narrated)	???	Push block	Cast reduce	nothing	"investigate" ceiling
Round 3

before I narrate round 2 :

@annex anything Ixion is doing?
Everyone - anything you would like Vatoris to do?

Ixion Vanth IX

annex

Aug 4, 2024 8:18 pm

"The wall's actually a stone valve, and there's a crawlspace back there, too. We might be able to get out through there but I can't see how to stop the wine flow."

Zean

Pedrop

Aug 5, 2024 7:52 am

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My proposition for Vatoris is to - if he managed to get the wine sample somehow on his way out - to investigate the "wine". If it's of magical origin, is it something flammable maybe - is it really a wine? Then he may start to look for some mechanism to open the stone door where he is standing.

Aug 5, 2024 10:17 am

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Not only Vatoris and Throgin have no sample of a vine. They don't even have a clue that the vine is in the tomb right now.
Sequence of actions was: 1. Stone block descends (Throgin and Vatoris run away). 2. Only when stone block sealed the entrance vine started pouring

With an effort and using his maul Zean manage to reach the ceiling. Maul cast a shadow just as if the light were normal, but Zean fail to find any other features of the ceiling.

Zean standing on the coffin as on an island, but Ixion is now in two feet deep vine.

Throgin try to push the stone block for no visible result. Vatoris is looking for any mechanisms but with just us much progress as Throgin.

Tinkara try to reduce the stone block, but it is not affected by the spell.

Vine comes at the same intensity as before.

OOC:

@valdattaMadun I'm afraid you may need to just wait until the rest of the party solve this, at least I personally don't see a way for you or Vatoris to help them.

Round 3 starts. What do you each do?

Aug 5, 2024 11:30 am

I will pull a cup from my pack and try drinking a bit of the wine.

"Well, so much for magic! It said, 'Drown your sorrows'. Maybe we have to drink a bit of it to get it to stop."

Last edited August 5, 2024 11:31 am

Zean

Pedrop

Aug 6, 2024 7:42 am

Zean grimaced as he realized there was nothing he could do about the illusory light falling from the ceiling.

"Huh Tinks! Was thinking about it too... I just hope we won't have to drink A LOT of it..." - with those words Zean jumps off the coffin and walks hindered by the flowing wine towards the north-east gargoyle face, to see if there are any differences or similarities to what Ixion described about 'his' gargoyle mouth.

Aug 6, 2024 4:51 pm

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@annex feel free to add actions for last and next rounds, looks like we are no desperate on time and could use some faster forwarding

Tinkara drinks and realize it is indeed a vine. Good quality vine. Not enough to get drunk, but enough to taste it.

Zean manage to look into north-east gargoyle face a moment before it completely immerse in vine and he see there also a crawlway and a vine flowing through it.
A moment after mouth gets fully immersed in wine Zean feel something strange in the wine still pouring out of the mouth. His first reaction is that something changed because mouth is now fully immersed, but when he analyze impulses sent by subconscious mind he is quite sure some larger object in the same color as the wine just get into the tomb and past him.

OOC:

[ +- ] MAP

Round 4! I assume Tinkara fly just above wine level

Rolls

Secret Roll

Aug 6, 2024 5:29 pm

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I will continue to fly above the wine, and I will go examine the ceiling in the room, looking for vents. The air in the room has to be going somewhere.

Ixion Vanth IX

annex

Aug 7, 2024 4:08 am

Ixion joined Zean on the coffin, his lower half soaked in spirits.

"Either we try swimming upstream for those crawlspaces or we all drink some of the wine. I say we try the wine first."

Aug 7, 2024 5:29 am

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@thorsman99 please add an investigation roll. There is no visible vents so your PC will need to refer to her book knowledge in order to understand where if at all air is going anywhere.
@Pedrop unless Zean stay where he is right on the map I'd like to ask you to describe his movement along with any actions.

[ +- ] Reason spoiler

Aug 7, 2024 8:25 am

Investigation check

Rolls

Investigation check - (1D20)

(18) = 18

Zean

Pedrop

Aug 7, 2024 10:24 am

Looking at Ixion climbing on the coffin and feeling that something isn't quite right with the wine-flood Zean hastily:
"Oh.. Friends... I think we are not alone anymore on this great wine fest... and I agree that it is a perfect moment for toast..." - Zean simply catches some of the wine on his hand and drinks it.
"Not bad!" - he started to move into Ixion direction towards the coffin.

While climbing on the coffin and then standing with his sword pulled out, pointed at the liquids and turning around his head to see the most of the room he can:
"But we have to make sure... it won't be our last drink. Brace yourselfs!"

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So he drank wine, moved diagonally NW - directly to the coffin with hasty moves, then climbed and pulled his sword out of its scabbard and now is ready to slash with his sword.

I don't have slightest idea how it will go in terms of 5E mechanics. Ready malle attack action maybe?

Aug 8, 2024 8:22 am

Tinkara uncountable tiny gaps between stones ceiling is made of. She also conclude that air is currently pushed through those gaps.

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FIX: I'm sorry to write "Vine" all the time, when I should have "Wine".

Zean and Ixion both get on the coffin a moment before Wine completely cover it. Since Wine level reached gargoyle heads it stopped splashing and wine mass is waving and making small fountains where streams meet. Suddenly fountains rise and reach at each of you, just as if someone were aiming. But the Wine forms into substance and that substance is trying to constrict each of you

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We start combat, but we will roll no initiative. You don't see your enemy before it attacks, but you are not surprised, so that makes no sense for PCs to act before enemy acts. That's my homebrew rule for this combat, let me know if anyone have a better idea how to solve such a situation in future (if it happens)

Meta info: enemy is some king of water elemental, but in the color of wine, so while in wine it is invisible. Reach 10 feet, so they can reach the flying Tinkara no problem. They will have advantage on attack rolls when/if you get into the wine, but your attacks against them already have disadvantage and you can't target them with spells/features that require you to see them. You do know their location nevertheless

[ +- ] map

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@annex please let me know if you cast a shield spell to avoid constrict. Everyone, please hold on until then, it may impact your next turn

Rolls

Constrict Ixion - (1d20+5)

(14) + 5 = 19

Constrict Tinkara - (1d20+5)

(2) + 5 = 7

Constrict Zean - (1d20+5)

(10) + 5 = 15

Ixion Vanth IX

annex

Aug 9, 2024 1:27 am

Ixion thought drowning was the most likely outcome of this particular room but this twist made him laugh grimly. He manifested a force shield to deflect the alcoholic appendage, and wondered how to cut liquid.

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Yup. Casting Shield!

Aug 9, 2024 4:48 am

Warned by Zean everyone manage to escape wine's hug. Wine level keep increasing thoug. Wine "arms" fall back into the pool.

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5 feet deep now. Your turn, everyone. Any order.
Reminder - you don't see them but know location. Attack has a disadvantage though.

Aug 9, 2024 2:00 pm

I will cast Faerie Fire so that 2 and 3 are affected. Outlined in green to stand out from the wine.

[ +- ] Faerie Fire

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Aug 9, 2024 2:28 pm