Without much in the way of other options, Esh continued to use his simple cantrip in hopes of whittling down at the creature.
1d20+5
1d20+51d3
Isis moved out of the cube and withdrew her full speed to safety.
Her melee attack for reversing the grapple is .
Moving on, the Cube continues to digest Isis, who is now no longer pinned, but is still grappled.
It also trundles forward and lashes out at Quinn.
+ Acid
Top of round.
With limited options and a big gun, Sharlavaka continued to fire.
Isis breaks free of her gooey predicament and Withdraws far away.
OOC: As I understand it, success is automatic.
Isis breaks free of her gooey predicament and Withdraws far away.
OOC: As I understand it, success is automatic.
As Isis escapes, the gelatinous cube "explodes" into a deluge of liquid acid. Everyone take acid damage. A Reflex Save, DC 15, reduces it to 1/2 (you can roll off-line; track your HP, I trust you).
Sharlavaka looked down as the acid hissed against his armour, then back up again. "Is it dead?"
Isis approached and addressed Irina. Her polymer skin was slightly pitted and scarred, and she was leaking viscous liquid. "Can you treat me?"
The elf takes a bit of the splash, but is capable of shrugging it off with little more then a grimace. He kneels down, taking a container to scoop up some of the creature's bio-matter. Perhaps with sufficient care and experimentation, he might be able to nurse a piece of it back to life, or cloning it if needed. At the very least it'd prove to be an extraordinary source of research.
Isis approached and addressed Irina. Her polymer skin was slightly pitted and scarred, and she was leaking viscous liquid. "Can you treat me?"
@Rando, yes, I'm down 5 hp. I had wanted you to push us to our limits. Be careful what you wish for.
By my tally we inflicted 78 hp on the cube.
In future I'll keep it constantly current.
"Already prepping my equipment. Give me just a minute here...
Irina dusts Isis with a neutralizing anesthetic spray, and then bandages her individual wounds.
Among the remains of the gelatinous cube, you find the silver ring that initially tipped you off to the cube's presence, another ring of gold-ish hue, a metal wand covered with Dwarvish runes, and coins totaling about 400 Credits (maybe more if you can find a collector, as they are really old).
Irina dusts Isis with a neutralizing anesthetic spray, and then bandages her individual wounds.
Rando, I believe you meant to type "all 5". Yes?
Isis lilted "I need a few minutes." Then she lied down on the stone floor, closed her eyes, and rejuvenated for 10 full minutes. She then sprang to her feet, much refreshed. She grabbed her zap gun."Let's rock and roll."
While Isis had decided to shut down with barely any warning beforehand, Esh did indeed focus on the objects he had before him. First he tried to determine if either was particularly magical in any way, before cross-referencing his in-house database to determine their properties.
Rando, I believe you meant to type "all 5". Yes?
Both rings and the wand are magical. The wand is easy enough:Detect Magic. The silver ring seems to enhance one's lifting capabilities. The other ring is more obscure.
A ring of lifting. Fairly standard as they went, though it had some interesting properties that helped indicate it's ancient origins. Putting it to the side, he examined the other interesting artifacts, excited to have finally uncovered magic unknown to the world at large. Perhaps he'd even write a paper on them, depending on just what these finds entailed.
Unwilling to take chances on pure skill alone, he mentally triggered an arcane subroutine within his cranial implant. Magic flooded through his brain, enhancing his mental pathways long enough to get a better grasp at what these could be.
Yeah, the wand can Detect Magic without expending a charge, or, for 1 charge, can cast Identify. There are 30 charges remaining.
The ring has transmutation properties; it's relatively powerful, but limited to an age related effect. Esh suspects it will restore youth in some manner, but is unsure of the specifics.
OOC: Maybe others could use the time I regain Stamina to move rocks?
"A magic wand. Not many of these around anymore." He spoke aloud, turning it over and tracing the runes with his metal fingertips. "This one appears to have been a means of identifying other arcane curiosities, good for perhaps thirty more castings. Even with those expended, it's still a useful means of locating other arcane auras. very nice."
esh slipped the ring of lifting onto a his cybernetic hand's left ring finger, flexing and feeling the magic dlow up through it's servos and into his body. "Fascinating. I feel as if I could lif a man three times my size. Though I feel as if you may havr more use for this then I." The elf informed, looking over at the Vesk.
"And then... we have this last curiosity. Transmuation, quite powerful at least. Something to do with the restoration of youth and vigor, but the specifics... Beyond my understanding. It seems these ruins were a good place to explore after all."
"Makes you younger? That might be useful someday." she says.
"Makes you younger? That might be useful someday." she says.
OOC: My character is 4 years old and doesn't plan to age.
Also OOC: As I see it, the Vesk has 9 1/2 minutes to use the ring of lifting to toss aside rocks like paper mache.
"Wonder how many weird ass things like that we're going to have to fight on this mission," Irina said, closing up her supplies.
There are several directions to explore. There were hallways back the way you came, and exits from this room as well.
Sharlavaka began to check the corridors for signs of interest, which might hint which ones would be useful. Or trapped. That could be interesting too.
OOC: I thought the plan was to clear the corridor for defensible backtracking, presumably while I'm resting. Are we skipping it?
OOC: I'll continue to nap while you do both.
"We need to clear out the rest of these side passages first. I recommend the one where the cube came from first, then doubling back to investigate the other following that." Esh spoke, as he removed the ring to hand it over to Sharlavaka.
"It's not of much used to me. Use it to greater augment your capabilities."
Sharavaka looked at the ring for a moment, then retracted the armour on his right hand long enough to slip it on. Flexing his hand as the armour reformed, he slung his laser weapon and moved to clear the passages.
Here's the map.
Sharlavaka finds his strength augmented greatly (as if it were a 23) and is able to move rubble much more effectively. Others chipping in with smaller pieces would speed up the process more.
Since some of the blockage seems to have come from some form of magma flow, it will be pretty challenging/time consuming to clear the whole blockage. Please let me know where you'd like to concentrate efforts.
Blue letters are partial blockages that can be seen around/over and moved through at 1/2 normal speed.
Purple letters are complete or near complete blockages and will take more effort (and some actual damage) to clear.
Sharlavaka paused once the access to the main entrance was cleared, noting that most of the passages remained blocked and awaiting instructions as to which one he should clear next.
"I think this is suitable for now. We should focus on exploring what we have cleared out, and come back to the rest later. Captain?"
Isis replaced her big knife in its spring-release sheath under her sleeve and took a firm grip on her arc pistol. "I'm ready for anything. Captain, tell me where to go and I'll scout ahead. I'm the stealthiest."
"Agreed, if we clear everything now, we risk something coming up behind us."
"Captain, where to?"
"Hmm, well lets go clockwise."
She points at a random corridor to start with.
Isis takes point and sneaks around using cover and darkvision.
stealth
Isis steps into the cold stone hallway and looks carefully in both directions. Perceiving no danger, she proceeds to ???
Isis proceeds left to the door at the end of the hallway. She opens it quietly, just a crack, and peeks in.
Perception , Stealth
Sharlavaka follows along a decent distance, waiting for the screaming to start.
Isis proceeds left to the door at the end of the hallway. She opens it quietly, just a crack, and peeks in.
Perception 1d20+8, Stealth 1d20+16
A very heavy iron block falls from the ceiling, landing squarely on Isis, causing 15 SP/HP of damage.