"Edward, can you provide some succor before we advance?"
"Let us camp here. I have some need to exact revenge on this creature."
Vojtek starts to kindle a fire at the base of the treant, and looks to comfort his little brother with some dried meat.
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I feel like I'm asking whether or not I'm getting drunk yet from the other room, but I'm serious about setting up camp here and using our fallen foe as kindling.
Kappi helps the barbarian kindle a jaunty fire from parts of the treant while they take a short break and let Edward get the healing done.
After a bit the young rogue looks to others [b]I think the last place we have to go is the building. I think we cleared out all the woodsy places... [/ooc]
"Then to the building! Lead the way my boy!"
Once fully healed and nice snack eaten over the fire of our latest foe, the party sets off for the unexplored building.
They enter the double doors and the rogue sets up on the north door. The lad listens while everyone gets ready.
Perception
Kappi knocks loudly and opens the door.
Inside, the room is completely disheveled, its once-comfortable chairs and seats now bearing shredded upholstery and broken wood. Several piles of discarded feathers and cloths that used to be used for comfort are strewn about the room.
Looking startled, and somewhat guilty, is a human-sized figure clad in red robes and wrappings.
It looks about frantically, then speaks in a tongue none of you understand before it touches its face and begins again.
Greetings, travellers! Its voice is raspy and its phrasing stilted as it continues. I request you to join me and meet my Master. Very interested in the inhabitants of this garden, my Master is.
The figure reaches into the folds of its clothing and produces an apple-sized red gemstone as it cocks its head to the left slightly. Enticement?
Hearing a language he doesn't know, Davosh raises an eyebrow. Not the one over the Big Eye mind you, that would be uncouth in an introduction. The other one; the normal one.
Davosh does, however, detect magic on the gem. "Curious. I don't know your language stranger. Edward there is our speaker, but I'm curious as to your language."
The figure turns its attention to the person indicated by the warlock's words, otherwise ignoring Davosh's question.
The way things immediately seemed understandable suggests a tongues spell, though Davosh saw nothing being cast.
Kappi always shares information.
Kappi’s eyes light up a little at the huge gemstone. The lad has no poker face.
Where is your master, Mr Red?
The figure turns its attention to Kappi, holding the gemstone out to the Varisian. Very close, very close. Just another room, just there.
"And who is your master? I've got time for a story."
Ali grasps Kappi's arm. My mother always told me, "if something looks too good to be true, it probably is." You ever have a total stranger just offer you riches out of altruism???
Ali eyes the guy with obvious suspicion.
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Ed growls a quick prayer in draconic to Apsu. Then switches to common. Please put that gem down, We won’t be bargaining with you I doubt any good would come from us receiving that gem. Who did Baba Yaga trap in her hut this time that you would call master? As Davosh has stated we have time for a story.
Ed places a hand on Vojtek, and gives him the warning tap to be ready. Ed smiles as he feels the rage and draconic heart come almost immediately to just below that boiling point of loosing control.
Just past a door. That door. Like this!
All at once the figure in red vanishes, only to reappear in the hallway behind Edward, who watches it open the door to the south and step through, the door swinging shut behind it. [ooc]Pog on map indicates where it went, though it is no longer visible.
"Nice trick. Edward, if we stuck around to fight a pissed off tree, I think we have to stick around and talk to this guy's boss. Lead the way."
Kappi nods at Davosh's statement. Yes, meeting his master is probably inenvyable. But, lets take a moment to search this room first. With that the lad begins looking for loot or at least clues to what the heck is going on. The others join in, while Vojtek watches the door.
Kappi Perception
Davosh Perception
Edward Perception
Ali Perception
Vojtek Perception
The rest of the party doesnt find anything, but Kappi's sharp eyes reveal a single curved iron bar with both ends embedded in the recessed masonry of the cold hearth.
Something tells him to check the flue itself, and his instincts are rewarded by finding a series of said iron bars making their way up the interior of the chimney to a closed trap door at the top.
The rest of the party doesnt find anything, but Kappi's sharp eyes reveal a single curved iron bar with both ends embedded in the recessed masonry of the cold hearth.
Something tells him to check the flue itself, and his instincts are rewarded by finding a series of said iron bars making their way up the interior of the chimney to a closed trap door at the top.
The Varisian lad whispers his find to the others. Shall we explore this first?
Kappi whispers to himself nobody said "no"... He quickly goes up to the trap door.
Can he hear anything? Or notice anything of note on the door?
Perception
Davosh chuckles at the intrepid youth, "Lead the way my friend."
Climbing the iron rungs brings the young Varisian to the trap door, which appears unlocked but looks rusted and disused. It actually opens astonishingly easy, and a cold blast of air rushes in as Kappi swings the lid up, noting the absence of an expecting groaning creak.
Out side the light is dim; after a few seconds, it doesn't get any brighter. Kappi imagines it must be twilight outside as he tentatively climbs up and sticks his head out into the cold air.
It isn't twilight, though. The sun is out and illuminating the landscape, though Kappi notes it is far smaller than usual when he squints at it in the cloudless sky. Frowning, he looks about, seeing that the Hut is nestled between a trio of snow-capped peaks amid a mountain range as far as he can see...which, in the oddly dim light, isn't as far as he's used to.
The air is crisp, but thin; he can feel his lungs working a bit harder to fill with air, and what is that scent? He has never smelled anything quite like it, like a pine aroma mixed with fresh tar. But not exactly that, either -- it's just as close as he can come to identifying the smell. It isn't unpleasant, just...odd.
Kappi eyes boggle for a moment at the unexpected scene. He looks around. Can he see any other trapdoors? That would possibly lead down into other parts of the Hut?
Perception
Then the rogue scuttles back down the ladder and gives an astonishing report to the others.
Kappi sees no other doors, windows, or egrets. :-)
Vojtek is totally baffled. Should they follow the strange person with a gem? Should he go up the steps to smell what Kappi smelled? Should he smash someone's brains in?
"It sounds like we're in the embrace of the place between the braced places. Interesting. Fascinating even."
He looks about, "Vojtek, I think I can read your face. The answer is explore this building."
Davosh doens't have any particular insight, though he's confident by the description that the Hut is no longer in Iobaria.
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I think we should go speak with “the Master” . Kappi uses airquotes when he says “the Master”. We will probably end up killing him, but its the polite thing to do...
Vojtek nods and shrugs agreement.
Just in case, Davosh casts a spell of See Invisibility and bless before following through the door.
Kappi gives the door a cursory check and then lets Vojtek kick it in.
This room appears to be a preparatory greenhouse used to cultivate plants for the garden. Its roof is some twenty feet up and has clear windows to let in light.
Near the roof can be seen a pale, froglike creature with clawed hands, no eyes, a wide mouth, and a snout ending in loathsome pink tentacles. Its red-garbed companion is now clearly visible as a strange humanoid, the twitching visage of which looks more alien and horrific the more one studies it.
In eerie silence, the red humanoid lashes at the Northman.
Meanwhile, the equally silent white creature with the tentacles in place of its face reaches out to the mind of Davosh!
Davosh hears a thoroughly alien voice in his head speaking in Aklo. Destroy these abominations, slave.
Round 1
baddies — baddie stuff
Kappi — GO
Ali — GO
Edward — GO
Vojtek — GO
Davosh — GO
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"I'll not become the devil's concubine this day!"
Davosh shouts what he can to everyone
Davosh quickly responds in kind by Opening The Big Eye!
"I'll hold that thing's mind off, just need to survive a few more seconds!"
- Round the First
- Current HPs: 129 - 20 = 109
With uncharacteristic loquaciousness, Vojtek mutters, "At least they're not flying" and sets to his grisly task of disassembling these... beings.
for
for
And for .
"At least they're not flying"
Edward lets a pair of arrows fly at the denizen of Leng! One manages to hit, but the other lodges in the wall!
Vojtek races in, and while his first blow swings wide, his second lands squarely on what passes for flesh! No blood or ichor emerges from the denizen of Leng — instead, the flesh appears to pour back in on itself like so much sand in an hourglass!
Davosh cannot seem to grab completely hold of the beast's slippery essence!
M 0, -4 to saves
Round 1
baddies — baddie stuff
Kappi — GO
Ali — GO
Edward — pew pew
Vojtek — Vojtek chop
Davosh — hexify
Round 1 Action
The rogue moves into the room and goes around the red robed figure to set up a flank w/ his barbarian comrade.
Attack
+1 sh sword
Threatening Critical!
extra damage
Kappi tries a fancy maneuver, but the denizen of Leng is lightning-fast, its horrible mouth of tentacles and unnatural growths chomping down on the Rogue!
The bite is painful, but what is worse is the radiating sensation of numbness than explodes through Kappi's body! He has never felt so slow and sluggish.
His hands fumble with his sword, and he plunges it into what he is sure is a vital spot...but the flesh morphs around his blade, preventing what was a devastating blow!
D 68
M 0, -4 to saves
Round 1
baddies — baddie stuff
Kappi — pays the price for movement
Ali — GO
Edward — pew pew
Vojtek — Vojtek chop
Davosh — hexify
Ali takes a deep breath, and casts a spell of Displacement to try to defend herself against the big ugly. She then steps between it and Vojtek, trying to break up the potential flank.
Ali spells up and steps in!
Some of the ...skin, you guess? on the denizen of Leng fills back in, like sand returning to an hourglass in reverse! It then focuses on the Northman!
The denizen of Leng savages Vojtek, its dreadful bite bestowing upon him the same radiating sensation of numbness Kappi experienced! So slow, so sluggish...
The red-robed horror then steps out of the flank!
The massive white revulsion messes with the group's mind, the burst catching both Ali and Vojtek!
M 0, -4 to saves
Round 2
baddies — moar baddie stuff
Kappi — GO
Ali — GO
Edward — GO
Vojtek — Fort save, then GO
Davosh — GO
Davosh gives a laugh that even his friends feel in their guts. He pulls out a small crystal and holds it before his Big Eye. Holding it with oddly articulated fingers, he stares at the spell caster through the crystal. "Behold denizen all the generations of ancestors and crumble before the weight of their wisdom and power!"