Apr 24, 2025 10:28 am
Merkari continues on through the west door, leading the way!
The Story
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Apr 24, 2025 12:56 pm
Merkari (and anyone else going into the next room)
You enter a small hallway just wide enough for 3 people to walk shoulder to shoulder. There are some paintings along both walls and 2 lovely chandeliers hanging from the ceiling. In the middle of the hallway against each wall, a statue of some kind of nobleman is stood. They are facing each other, creating a 1-person sized whole through which the other side can be reached.
One of the statues is dressed in outdoor attire and holding a cane, the other is dressed as a horse jockey and holds a riding crop.
What do you do?
You enter a small hallway just wide enough for 3 people to walk shoulder to shoulder. There are some paintings along both walls and 2 lovely chandeliers hanging from the ceiling. In the middle of the hallway against each wall, a statue of some kind of nobleman is stood. They are facing each other, creating a 1-person sized whole through which the other side can be reached.
One of the statues is dressed in outdoor attire and holding a cane, the other is dressed as a horse jockey and holds a riding crop.
What do you do?
[ +- ] Dungeon so far
Apr 24, 2025 6:52 pm
Jotna tilts her head to the side, curious about this rusty oil lamp. She reaches down, picks it up, and examines it.
Apr 24, 2025 8:35 pm
Jotna
You pick it up and at first think it's just a regular old oil lamp. Until black tendrils shoot out like tentacles from its reservoir when you bring it in for a closer look. They latch onto your face and burrow themselves into your nostrils. It only takes a split second before the black oily substance has disappeared into your nose, leaving black traces behind on your lips and chin.
You pick it up and at first think it's just a regular old oil lamp. Until black tendrils shoot out like tentacles from its reservoir when you bring it in for a closer look. They latch onto your face and burrow themselves into your nostrils. It only takes a split second before the black oily substance has disappeared into your nose, leaving black traces behind on your lips and chin.
OOC:
Roll a DR14 presence test as the thing tries to occupy your brain.Apr 24, 2025 9:48 pm
Jotna snorts up the black goo as it enters her nose, as if trying to clear a head cold.
Rolls
Presence DC 14 - (1d20-1)
(8) - 1 = 7
Apr 24, 2025 9:54 pm
OOC:
I'm guessing this might be bad, so I suppose I should use my Omens. I currently have 2. I'll roll the dice and you can adjudicate the result (to expedite things). Nope! Three d20 rolls, none over 8.
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Rolls
Presence DC 14 - (1d20-1)
(2) - 1 = 1
Presence DC 14 if necessary - (1d20-1)
(8) - 1 = 7
Apr 25, 2025 6:04 am
OOC:
There's a house rule that you can't reroll a reroll. So you still have 1 omen left. ;) The entity that has inhabited your head messes with your mind. You get a strong headache and stumble for a minute as you try to fight it, but it's no use. The parasite has infected you. You are now one.
OOC:
Gain 1 permanent presence.In this case, not resisting was in fact the better option :D
With a success you would have lost 1 presence instead.
Apr 25, 2025 1:50 pm
Elma
She nods at Borda's evaluation and tries to see if the statues match any of the paintings on the side they are on. A name to the face?
Apr 25, 2025 2:02 pm
Elma
Rolls
Elma Mork Borg: Presence - (1d20+0)
(15) = 15
Apr 25, 2025 2:13 pm
Elma
You check the paintings more closely. Even though they don't seem to correspond to one of the statues - some are even just landscapes - you notice that one of the figures on a painting is following you with its eyes. At first you think it might be an illusion, but no they really are following you!
You check the paintings more closely. Even though they don't seem to correspond to one of the statues - some are even just landscapes - you notice that one of the figures on a painting is following you with its eyes. At first you think it might be an illusion, but no they really are following you!
Apr 25, 2025 2:58 pm
Elma
Elma goes up to the painting and tries to poke one of the eyes with her finger to confirm she is not crazy.
Apr 25, 2025 9:24 pm
Jotna snorts, sneezes, and then grips her head in pain for a moment. After a second, she recovers, shaking her head, but feeling ...surprisingly good. After all, she already has her own mind, and a lizard's, rolling around in her head. Why not add some weird black oil from outer space or whatever?
She shrugs and follows the others into the next room.
She shrugs and follows the others into the next room.
Zhang
Apr 28, 2025 6:44 pm
OOC:
Sorry for the delay :)Zhang
You poke the eye and hear "Auch! Watch where you put that thing, young lady!" The voice isn't come from behind the painting, but rather in the painting. As you pull your poking-finger back, the image of the person you just poked balloons into a 3D form and hops out of the painting. Turns out that was also its real size, about the size of a large watermelon.
"Allow me to introduce myself." It says to you. "I am Zhang, inter dimensional merchant by trade!" From behind the figure, a leather bag materializes out of thin air. "Now, since you got my attention, I assume you or one of your friends will want to buy something." It rummages a hand inside bag and speak up again. "Ah! I have just what you need."
Without taking anything out of the bag except its arm, it turns its gaze back to you and the bag disappears. "I can offer you either a flask or a stick. The flask is 15 silver, the stick 20." It raises its hands as if weighing 2 items on them like scales. "So will it be a flask or a stick?"
Apr 28, 2025 7:36 pm
Jotna studies the strange character who somehow just jumped out of a painting and says, "Flask and stick? Do, uh, these things do something special? Besides just contain a liquid and take up space in a stick shape?"
Zhang
Apr 28, 2025 8:07 pm
"I assure you, these items have been selected especially for this location." Zhang says. "You don't become the top inter dimensional merchant by selling any old junk, you know!"
Zhang
Apr 28, 2025 8:11 pm
Jotna shrugs and says, "Easy come, easy go. Stick it to me."
She hands over 20 sp.
She hands over 20 sp.
Apr 28, 2025 8:24 pm
"We should also ‘get ye flask,’" Merkari says. "I’ve only 14 silvers, but I will gladly contribute them towards the purchase!"
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Apr 28, 2025 9:37 pm
OOC:
No hurries, relaxed pace for this game has been good.Elma
Elma unceremoniously wipes her poking finger on her dress.
"G-good questions. I'm just going to put out there that sticks come from t-trees and those can't be trusted. It's also suspicious that it costs more. I am willing to pay for it though just so we can break it."
She hands over 1 silver to Merkari so she can get the flask she wants.
Last edited April 28, 2025 9:40 pm
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