In theory a tentacle might last a round so you have to fight more than one.
As this is getting tedious, and there's not much point to it, the critter will decide to stop losing limbs and combat is over.
You wander into the middle of the crystal structures. You find a sigil.
A soothing purple light dances within the etched cracks of this sigil. Approaching it grants a feeling of warmth and healing, as though all troubles have been washed away.
"Welp I live here now. Carry on fellows." Marckus says contentedly.
Ulthar carries on.
You are pretty sure it is. Shame you have to destroy it. Marckus will probably be upset.
how to best destroy the sigil
You aren't quite sure.
Though in the course of investigating you touch it and get the idea that a heal check might help (don't ask me, I don't write this stuff).
You fail.
You aren't under any pressure.
"Don't you break my sigil." Marckus says through narrowed eyes.
Ulthar helps!
Ulthar is now a mind reader. I'm scared.
A character that touches the glyph is filled with
healing warmth. If that character succeeds on a DC 20 Heal check, he realizes that the glyph is filled with life and must be tampered with by an expert healer in order to deactivate it. As a full round action, a character adjacent to the glyph may attempt a DC 30 Heal check to divert the flow of life through its runes. This deactivates the aura as if a spell key had been cast. Three consecutive successful Heal checks made on the glyph deactivate it permanently, requiring
a new ritual from Allevrah to restore its power. These checks must be made in consecutive rounds, by the same character. If any damage is done to the glyph, the character must start the process over from the beginning.
While this won't work with taking 20, you have enough time for that rolling 3 8+s in a row is fairly inevitable.
Ulthar punches the sigil to be sure it's dead.
Yes, you turned if off before Markus managed to pout you into submission.
Marckus pouts nonetheless.
"So what was next on the list?"
Next on the list is suggested the Glyph of Warning, which offing would cut off Allevrah from being able to monitor things. It's in a chunk of the land of black blood called the Fetid Place, a sort of fungus jungle.
the Fetid Place, a sort of fungus jungle.
Like the one on Ulthar's toes?
"I guess we should rest before we go?"
I like the rest idea. Although if we'd planned better, we could have destroyed the world's greatest nightlight AFTER resting
"Eh." Ulthar is lukewarm about the idea to stop, but the noodle-armed party members asked so he feels obligated.
Some modules have deadlines, this one sort of does.
The end of WotR for example has a fixed deadline at the end with the ruin of Avistan if you don't solve it fast enough.
Rest is peaceful. You want to head onto Fetid land?
We'll assume yes.
In the western reaches of the Land of Black Blood grows a hideous and unnerving mass of fungus—the Hanging Jungle, a realm where ropes of thick, foul-smelling fungus hang from floor to ceiling. Mushrooms grow on the cavern’s floor and roof alike, many of them the size of trees. An eerie world exists between the caps of these mirrored mushroom forests, where down and up look the same.
You head to the indicated location of the glyph.
Rising out of the muck is a great, massive mushroom, its gradually sloping stalk rising hundreds of feet into the air—so far that light does not reach its tip from the cavern floor. A platform of fungal matter forms a sort of landing out of the swamp-like terrain, leading to a wide, tall gap in the side of the mushroom’s stalk fifty feet off the ground.
Ok guys. Here we are. This is where normal heroes(murder-hobos) would come up with a plan to maximize our chances of success. But we know that's not going to happen so lets charge in and see what happens
of course, Sileths not going to charge in. He'll follow the MBs and see what trap gets sprung and fire arrows at it
Marckus uses his wand of hitting harder and hopes that the cleric hasn't actually vanished.
"Ulthar, suggest the party sneak up."
"Don't tell me what to do. ...Friends, we should sneak up."
Good thing you guys grabbed that feat or as a group you're be about as sneaky as a bag of tin cans.
Yes, 33 is the low.
+?
Rising out of the muck is a great, massive mushroom, its gradually sloping stalk rising hundreds of feet into the air—so far that light does not reach its tip from the cavern floor. A platform of fungal matter forms a sort of landing out of the swamp-like terrain, leading to a wide, tall gap in the side of the mushroom’s stalk fifty feet off the ground.
There's a ramp of rotting stuff leading up to the gap.
Sneaky sneaky up the ramp
You head up the ramp into the gap. As Marckus squeezes into the gap, a puff of spores erupts.
Need fort saves from everyone.
Sneaky sneaky aaaaachhooo
Sileth and Ulthar both pass.
The other two, not so much.
it is a poison, so you will need to continue to save until you get past it.
and then you're OK.
Come-on guys stop sniffing the psychedelic shrooms..You can do that on the way back, AFTER we take care of bidness
"This thing nearly killed me. Medick?"