Does everybody come, or do you leave one guy back or anything?
Riese descends the rope carefully.
"If light is needed, I am sure that myself and Altai here could shed some. I also have a couple sunrods on my person if someone wishes to use one."
Does everybody come, or do you leave one guy back or anything?
Beldan says he can from the first stage here down to this hall, but from the room below to the hall,....climbing is doubtful...
nobody's being dmpc'd right now...
Altai finds some good green stakes to do the job on them wit'.
"Hit looks soolid fram heerlad."
Says Stiggy.
"Lovely. Let's climb down, then."
You both make it down. Right in front of the face of the giant skull, the skull is 30 feet tall. The skull....is real bone, not a carving. Here and there on the floor lie a massive metacarpal, a gigantic rib bone 40 feet long. A humerus lies propped against the wall; the other end in the sandy turf of the room.
There are no exits, other than the way you came.
"Ooo - very big."
Gittik peers inside the skull.
The right orbit has a hole 6 inches wide in it for the optic nerve. The left orbit has a hole, circular, 2.5 feet in diameter.
The nasal cavity is filled with cartilage; kinda looks like a squeeze.
There's no lower jaw, and the teeth of the upper jaw rest firmly on the ground.
"Anyone have axe? Me chop and look inside, see if vampire hiding."
"They dissolved into fine mist, so they could probably just drift through that little hole. A sledgehammer would probably open it up."
You can shimmy through the hole on the left of the socket...f@@# it, it's 3.5 feet in diameter.
It's a giant human(like) skull, though the brow ridge is kinda neanderthally.
On top, on the forehead, there's a crack in the skull, like 3 inches wide and 6 feet long; in the center of the crack is a big sliver of metal. About 2 feet long hanging outside the skull, anyway.
"Wow. That is real big." Altai gapes up at the prehistoric giant's remains. "What's that up there? The sword that killed him?"
"Do not be alarmed my fellows" Riese states, "I can take on another form when I need more protection, I wish to let you know that when we enter into a battle I may wear the form of a lizardfolk or something similar, but for now my standard protections should prove effective."
"Encaseur gildritar guar'in!" Casts mage armor.
He then pops the head of a sunrod down on the ground, activating the light source. "If someone would carry this I could keep my hands free for wand use and to rain fire upon our enemies. Who would like the light?"
Elgan quickly an nimbly slides down the rope.
"Dat' wuz fun chere!" He smiles as he reaches the bottom. "Mo'e fun dan slidin' vines! When we finished heah, we haveta do dat agin', Holey Moley! Dat t'ing is huge!" He declares, finally spotting the skull. He prowls around the skull in wolf form, sniffing. Then finally changes back.
"Dat' looks lahk deh easiest way in, we gonna check it out?" He says pointing at the hole in the side of the skull.
He gratefully accepts a sharpened stick, then changes to his black-cat prowler form, and with a leap and a wriggle, follows the wild hobbit through the hole.
Once inside, and after making sure that nothing is waiting to leap upon them, Elgan shimmers back into Elf form to talk to Gittik. "Le's see if'n we kin fin' a way up to da top. Ah wants a look at dat shiny bit o' metal in dis guys haid." With another cautious look around, he shimmers back into the sleek black hunting cat.
"Huh. In we go, I guess..." As the other party members squeeze into the ginormous skull, Altai sighs and follows.
eastern times; cartoon network adult swim:
SUNDAY:Jul.13@11:30PM
MONDAY:Jul.14@3:00AM
SUNDAY:Jul.20@11:30PM
MONDAY:Jul.21@3:00AM
The inside of the skull is hollowed out.
Within there are 4 coffins.
Roughly rectangular; a-j across the top, 1-7 down the side. the right eye is at a2-3. the left eye is at a5-6. The right side of the skull goes from a1-j1; the back down to j7, and back around to form a rounded-edged rectangle. There are 4 wooden coffins, at h2, g4, i4, and h6.
Roll a move silently check when you enter the left eye...It opens onto the ethmoid sinuses, (like the top side of the hard palate,) slopes down 5 feet at column "b" into the bowl-shaped room that is the braincase.
About 10 feet in the air, you can see the other side of the metal shard in the cracked skull; it's about 3 foot long on the inside; 2 foot wide.
Beldan’s been getting increasingly nervous. He’s quiet on the way down, showing the others good places to put their feet and how to grip the rope on the climb, but otherwise not saying much.
Down the bottom he stares up at the skull in awe … and fear. He takes Riese’s torch … gulps. “Uh … you want me to check it out?”
He climbs up and peers into the left eye.
Bel's able to take any position he wants inside the skull.
Altai kicks a mummified pituitary gland.
It skitters clackily across the floor....the lid to the coffin at h2 goes flying off.
She stands...Ivy from "Thirty Days of Night..."
She was probably pretty good looking before, when she was alive, and not covered from the cheeks to the neck in dried blood and wearing a shredded ravaged ballgown.
She screams. And screams. And screams.
initiative...everybody pick a position rank a-d; Altai's where he said he is, Beldan can be anywhere he wants.
Beldan’s at D7, holding a torch.
right on,....gotta wait for more people to state their positions...
:)
Elgan snarls, waiting to see how quickly the others react before leaping into the center of what may turn into a Vampire-powered Cuisinart!
The cat shimmers and shifts back into an elf, snarls mystical words in the language of the wilds, and a ball of flame appears in his hand.
"Oaw, shuu TUP!" Elgan bellows as he hurls the ball of fire at the shrieking banshee,...
Produce Flame To hit(touch att)/Dmg rolls: (1d20+6=25, 1d6+4=9)
Riese is outside the skull still. Are there any passageways out of the entry area or is it all within the skull?
Right on; I guess c3 for Elgan;
It's not necessarily your turn yet, still waiting for placement before I announce initiative...so the attack doesn't happen yet.
Riese is outside the skull still. Are there any passageways out of the entry area or is it all within the skull?
No other passageways; it's all in the skull.
Again, the outer room's about 200 feet in diameter, "roughly" circular; naturally formed; there's giant bones everywhere, and a 30 foot tall skeleton a little to the side of the middle of this room...
Alright so nothin' outside. Riese will be in the middle of crawling into the eye socket.
Shut up! Shut the hell up! Shutupshutupshutup! Wincing, Altai's fingers weave a mystical pattern; suddenly, the pattern erupts into flames as searing fire washes over the shrieking monster.
I'll keep it in mind but I'm just waiting on positions before I say who won initiative.....Prolly kick the brouhaha off tomorrow morning, after Gittik, Stigg's and Becton have a chance to say where they're starting.
"AAAAIIIIEEEEE! She crazy vampire woman!"
right on; waiting on Stiggy and Becton to call position.
Well, Kruely said he won't update until 9 hours from now this afternoon, and Becton's just now back; I'll call their positions and do this thing in a few minutes.
Round 1:
Stiggy takes d3,
becton takes b4,
They won initiative, so......
the screaming banshee vampire moves to attack Altai. She moves to d1; running up the side of the wall like a climbing spider, to avoid an aoo...She rends at the mage, and misses.
The other 3 coffins' lids erupt off like my radiator cap last week.
at g4, your friend the taxman, a snivelling little runt of a blautsauger. At h6, a bald old man erupts out of the coffin, a blood crusted bald old man with a feral wolfen look on his face.
At i4, there is a powerfully muscled man; belongs in the Gladiator Pits of Yore; 6'4", garbed in a loinclout, and fangs springing from his mouth like a sandtiger shark. Long, slimy, crusted hair hangs like a limp mane around his face.
Beldan scrambles back to stand next to Becton, and reaches into his pack, his fingers closing about his potion of cat’s grace.
b5 I guess for Beldan....
You have time to swig the potion if you want; up to you.
They're making "gorilla noises" in a vampiric show of territory...
"ME SO ANGRY!"