Bander takes 10 on stealth and trap dars his way down the hall a bit
The runes on the wall do read as Thasselonian. They seem to be a chronicles of sort.
The myst at the end of the hallway (once you get close enough for detect magic to work) glow very strongly in transmutation.
After Bo explains the myst's dangers Jan sighs.
I really need to start carrying around a sack of goblins so I can throw them at things to see what they do.
"Only one way to find out what it does." Obi says as he walks forward and pokes his rifle into the mist.
Rifle feels normal when poked in, and comes back out looking the same.
"What's the worst that could happen?" Obi says over his shoulder as he steps into the mist to see how deep it is.
Need a fort save.
(+5 vs spells/spell like abilities) (spell resistance 24)
You feel a bit of a tingle, but pass through without trouble.
This chamber is paved with ivory tiles, each one engraved with a silver rune depicting what appears to be a claw gripping a gemstone. The walls and ceiling are of polished marble. A large silver basin in the center of the room contains an icy sculpture of a whale spraying crystal-clear water from its blowhole. The water cascades around it to keep the basin full, but never quite overflowing.
In the water of the fountain some winged humanoids who seem to be made of water are frolicking. They gab at you in some language you don't get (unless you speak aquan).
"What're you little water faeries gabbin' about in here?" he responds in common.
Knowledge planes to identify them.
They respond in common (Taldan)
"Go away you silly Taldan kahnigget. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!"
"Wait!!" but its too late as Obi moves through the mist..
There is no other route other than backtracking to some other hall of magic.
"I guess we have no choice but to follow.."
Bo moves through..
Just a tingle.
Will need Yap as well.
Does Obi recognize what they are?
They appear to be water mephits (neutral, water, outsider).
fort
Bander sneaks into the room
You don't even feel a tingle.
Jan steps into the mist and disappears.
OK, what are the rest of you doing? Everyone but Jan has stepped through the mist now. There's a bunch of mephits in the fountain taunting you.
"Well hello my little friends. How are you folks doing today?" Obi says to the mephits.
"We've been calling on the various inhabitants of this fine establishment to find out their opinions on sinfulness in the past versus the present."
"Would you folk happen to have an opinion on whether mortals are more or less greedy today than they were in the past?"
They all turn their backsides to you and eject foul smelling steam in your direction.
"Oh yeah?"
Obi slides the flametongue taken from the dragon's hoard out of its sheath and experimentally taps it against the floor a few times.
"How does this thing work again?" he muses to himself as he works out the mechanisms of the magic for a moment.
"Aha! Got it!" he says with satisfaction as the longsword bursts into flame.
Brandishing the flaming weapon in his right hand while holding his rifle in his right he says to the mephits:
"Why don't you watery nancy-boys come over here and do that again."
Bo puts his hand up.. "Perhaps there is not a need for violence. Perhaps there is something we can offer you in exchange for some information? We are not unreasonable."
Yap gets a tingle and no more.
The Mephits just cackle at what Obi says, but then actually look interested in what Bo has to say.
"Hmm, well maybe you can be of use to us, even if you are just flshlings. I just doubt you'd be up to what we need. "
You managed 1 step from hostile to unfriendly. You have a ways to go before they will actually help you.
We have managed many great feats in the past months. Perhaps we can discuss?
Another change favorably. Indifferent.
"Hmm, perhaps you should tell us more. Except him" pointing to Obi "He's a doody head. "
Obi clenches his cigar between his teeth and glares, but doesn't say anything.
Plop. Plop.
Any chance I can swim to the edge of the pool and jump out?
That is true, he is a doody head. But let us tell you what we have done... He goes on to tell about their adventures in moderate detail
diplo
Success. They sound much more amenable to helping (friendly, helpful is left).
"You do sound like an accomplished bunch, well except for doodyhead of course. I guess you drag him around out of pity, or to carry stuff. I'm not sure you want to get involved in here though. "
He does a good job at making things messy and carrying stuff. His cigars are nice too. What is going on...hey anyone see Jan...sorry our friend seems to be missing at the moment. Please do tell.
"Don't know about your friend. We never saw him. You sure he's not just outside? "
"Well back to our issue. In this fountain there's a passage to our plane of water. That's how we get here. I guess they built it to keep water in the fountain. We found it a while back, and we like it here since there's no predators, or elemental lords wanting to boss us around. We come here to screw off. We splash around and don't do anything bad. Nonetheless this silver guy walks in here and starts tossing spells at us. He's very powerful and we have to run or die. I don't know why he's such a sourpuss. "
Another one pipes up. "You friend could be a fish. That mist sometimes makes people into fish. It's kinda cool. They get made into fish, and then dumped into one of the fountains in here. Just not this one. "
A fish. Well, that sucks for him. So you would like us to kill this fellow? I guess we could do that, if he is a bad sort
"We certainly think he's bad. He comes in here and kills us on sight. He doesn't even tell us to go away or anything"
Obi shifts his cigar from one side to the other in his teeth.
"I cannot imagine why anyone would try to kill you on sight....." he drawls.
"See! Even Doodyhead understands!"
There are occasional peanuts in every turd. He says with a grin at Obi
Can you tell us any more about this fellow, when he comes and all that?
A fish. Well, that sucks for him. So you would like us to kill this fellow? I guess we could do that, if he is a bad sort
"Well he looks like a human made of silver. He casts spells which change the form of things. That seems to be his specialty. He's a real mean one. He seems to have wards up every time he's come in here, and is flying the whole time. Our hits don't seem to do much to him when we can manage to land them. "
How often does he come around? Maybe we can set up an ambush
"There's no telling. He keeps his own schedule. "
knowledge arcanna if you want to judge the school, but then again if I didn't already make it obvious...
"How do you know that the mist changes people into fish?
"If he is a fish, where are the other fountains that have fish in them?"
"We don't talk to doody heads. But there's fountains in all the other rooms. "
Plop.