The Pyramid of Shadows (Inactive)

Game Master PathlessBeth

Sense Motive: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11

Yessai swims slightly out of reach of her aggressor, and calls to the lead sahuagin.

"We seek the tiefling Karavakos. What do you know of this place? Are you too prisoners here? Do you treat with Gurrak, above? How is it that you and the winged creatures are allied?"

Intimidate: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (10) + 11 = 21

I'll use an immediate action to use resilience, paying 2 pp to reduce the damage by 4.
Midioto then runs at top (unaugmented) speed down the staircase and onto the balcony, then yelling at the top of his lungs
I got the skull!!
then perception check to see if re realizes what is going on in the room
Perception Check: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 2 = 22
nat 20 o.O why now...

sense motive: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (3) + 9 = 12

Wonder if Gurrak likes swimming…

lol. There is a chance he will follow, but I believe he dosent fit through the staircase too well and even if he did, our party + 2 dragonborn + 2 harpies + a group of swimming thingies should make short work of a giant stuck in a doorway or worse, floundering in the water :)

Well, yes staircase aside, the door may prove a problem. Though an angry ettin and a doorway should be interesting. And yes, fighting him/her should provide a nice bonding experience for all of us.

not to mention if he does still chase after me and the skull, I can just take to the skies and theres no way Mr. Two-Head is going to cross the rope bridge XD

Visibly shaken, the sahuagin answers Yessai
"We were pulled in here when the Pyramid appeared near are home.
Karvakos? He won't be easy to find. "

She lightens up when Midioziggeroto returns.
"The Head of Vyrellis is inside that head? Excellent!"
Still a bit shaken, she continues
"If you are looking for Karvakos, you can take the Head with you. Just...be on your way. Although...if I could have a word with your two scaled friends, that would be appreciated. They can catch up with you later. The rest of you ought to be on your way."
She hops back underwater, still visibly frightened.

@Mundarion - you want to question the elf inside the drow head?

@DMB - Okay, sorry for the question time:

So we are all in the water except for Midioto, Thomas and Mundarion's bird... Is there a means of returning to the rope bridges/balconies? Via the secret door - is that in the water/half way up the wall? How much weight can Midio POP?

Are the draconics interested in talking to the sahuagin?

What is Gurrak doing?

Gemheart remains quiet now that the sahuagin backed off.

@Yessai:
The walls are rough enough to climb out easily. There is a secret door underwater, yes. There are also two other doors (one behind each harpy) in addition to the one you came in from. You cannot see or hear Gurrak. The dragonborn seem relatively indifferent to the sahuagin.

Thanks DMB - I now realise you have already told me most of that. Sorry! ;)

The confrontation apparently being over, Mundarion makes his way over to the closest wall (which should have him climbing up the same wall he jumped down to get in the water).

Climb Check: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (15) + 3 = 18

That should do it.

Once Mundarion gets to where it's nice, dry and flat he recalls Nightwing. Then he says in Common:

"Ok, first things first. Let's get everybody out of the drink and onto dry land."

Mundarion doesn't have any rope on him, but he gets ready to help whoever might need it with the last few feet of the climb.

One of the sahuagin rolls his eyes at Mundarion's climbing.
"There is an easier way up..."
He swims around to the back of the room. Anyone who follows finds a ladder The ladder is 'above' the 'T', leading onto the platform in the center of the far side of the room..

Gemheart will climb the ladder.

i can bring along anything up to 66lb with me when i teleport willy nilly or i can swap the positions of any two of you, so i could, for instance, throw mundarion back into the water and bring someone else back out or i could swap thomas out of melee range and put gemheart in his position. I had originally planned to do that with the skull XD
There is an even easier way than that! See?
As Midioto takes to the skies again, poping in and out of existance and heading over to one of the harpies (still under the effects of defy gravity. The thing lasts 40 minutes) POP! POP!
When he gets to her/him? he says, rather excitedly and entheusastically
Hi! Im Midiotoziggeroto! Who are you? What are you? I really like your wings. They look awseome!
untrained Knowledge nature check: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11
overbearing or friendly deplomacy check: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (7) + 9 = 16
Midiotoziggeroto smiles childishly as he struggles to keep balance in midair a few feet from the harpie.

"I am a harpy. I like my wings as well."
The harpy looks slightly annoyed at Midio.
"Are you not in a hurry to find a tiefling?"
The leader makes a strange chirping sound from under the water.
As if reacting, the other harpy smiles speaks
"You are welcome to come back here any time. There is a rumor that Karvokos is somewhere to the North of here. It is likely false, though."

I take it that is the top end of the "T" ?
Ok thanks birdies! Thanks Fishies! So guys, do you want to go left or rigth? Im left handed so I say left!
Also, I dont like the idea of leaving friends behind, but if Nightwing and Harska want to stay, well its their choice.

I am not sure if you are trying to get rid of the NPC hangerons that i have seemed to collected but midioto wouldnt want to just leave a friend behind.

The dragonborn's name is Nightblade. Nightwing is Mundarion's familiar.

Mundarion shakes his head and joins the group by the top of the ladder as they climb out of the water. He says, "Nightwing goes everywhere I do. I'm not quite so concerned about Harska and Nightblade, though I wouldn't want anything bad to happen to them."

"We'll be fine," says Nightblade, "We'll catch up with you soon. Or, barring that, we'll find the rest of our group somewhere in the pyramid."

"doesnt matter to me one way or the other."

Yessa is wet, bedraggled, sore and annoyed.

I would that we look for a fortifiable space from which to base ourselves. We have just arrived in a strange place and find ourselves beset by strange allies and fierce creatures.

It is plain she wishes to rest and regather her strength.

"Let us leave this chamber and move outward, but if we could rest soon that would at least allow me to dry myself… [*sneezes*] Water is not my favorite element, let alone when it surrounds me. Oh for the Astral Sea…."

Yessai took 15 lethal from the dragonborn back in Sigil, and another 10 non-lethal from the Sahuagin. Additionally, she also has almost depleted her Terror Pool. If outvoted she will merely shrug, accept her lot and move on.

Mundarion says to Yessai, "I can help you with at least one of your problems"

ASF CHECK: 1d100 ⇒ 80

Mundarion successfully casts a prestidigitation cantrip. Assuming that Yessai is willing he will use the spell to dry her off. Then he will dry himself off. He will also do the same for anybody else who wants it.

Hmmm. If we are to rest, here would probably be the best place, assuming that our hosts don't mind and the big guy dosent wander over here. We would be with some friends and in an area that we know. However, I would like to press on a bit further...
Then, turning to the skull that he just remembered was in his hands, he gives it a little shake
Hey, you in there! I am Midiotoziggeroto, explorer extraordinair! Who are you? And how did you get stuck inside this skull?

The head replies

Midioto sends a missive to the skull.
Missive, 1pp

Missive does not allow for a telepathic reply (it has also been updated to be a talent, so it doesn't cost pp if you spend focus).
If you all want to rest here you can. Or you could press on and see what a nearby room holds...

Mundarion says, "If our Sahuagin hosts don't mind our staying here then resting here would make sense. I could use 8 hours of sleep to recover and prepare more spells. However, I'm just the rear guard so I'll go along with what everybody else wants to do. Anybody who wants to get magically dried off and cleaned needs to see me before I go to sleep though. I'm going to be swapping that cantrip out when I wake up."

"I will go when you all go or i will stand guard while you sleep. I have no such requirement."

After climbing out of the watery lower section, De'Arv'Ki sits along the side of the area, checking her gear for damage and ensure the potency of her poisons. She looks about as miserable as she feels. After she has checked her gear, she pulls a small bead from somewhere on her person, whispers tracyn ([trah-SHEEN]) and suddenly a small campfire appears.
Take 10 to climb ladder, Cat in water...
Sleep sounds good at this point... i am neverrrr going to get my furrrr to sit flat again...

Mundarion turns to Gemheart and asks (in Elvish), "Are you going to need me to try to repair you when we wake up or can you handle that yourself?"

turning away from the bedroll she was setting up, De'Arv'Ki says to Mundarion(elven), "I'll help with that if I can, Mundarrrrion... I also believe we should trrrry ourrrr meeting again..., we appearrrred to get off on the wrrrrong paw..."

"There is nowhere in here for you mammals to sleep, aside from the ground."
One of the harpies remarks.
"The Pyramid also lacks day and night, and there is no need to sleep here, unless you are seriously hurt."
While creatures in the Pyramid do not need to eat or sleep, you still have to rest to regain spells and pp, and resting allows you to recover hitpoints as normal.
Fortunately there is plenty of space to set up camping equipment.

The next few hours of rest pass uneventfully.
You all get the benefits of a full night's rest.

True to her word, when they wake in the "morrow", De'Arv'Ki's fur has not settled in any form or fashion; in most places, it sticks up in strange spikes and clumps. She sits on her bedroll trying to get the worst of it to flatten, muttering the whole while.

Waiting to hear from Gemheart if he needs me to prepare a "Repair Light Damage" spell. I've got no problem doing it if he needs it, but if not there are other spells I'd like to have available.

If Paddfoot wants to say that she took advantage of my offer before we all went to bed then at the very least the cantrip I would have used would have dried her hair better and she might not look so disheveled this morning. Her call there.

Its easier for me to laugh at the character then keep thinking about my friend. q.v. discussion

technically, I dont think Repair works on Gemheart. He can slowly repair objects, not useful for combat.

The spell in question was specifically designed to work on Warforged in the Eberron campaign setting. As far as I can tell, Gemheart is simply somebody else's "clone" of a Warforged for their setting. So unless there's a very good setting specific reason for the spell not to work on Gemheart, I think the default assumption should be that it would work. Hopefully the GM can chime in here and give us a ruling. At any rate, I ought to be able to fix Gemheart for 1d8+2 points of damage repair, twice if necessary, before I'd want to reserve spells for other uses.

Forgeborn can be healed by normal healing magic, so Repair may not be needed. I'll allow the Repair spells to work on forgeborn as well, though.

ya I kniw that missive is only one way, it also has a cap of 10 words meaning things have to kind of be scrunched together. I also know I could cast i t for free by expending my psionic focus, but I would only do so in dire circumstances. To much rides on me maintaining focus :p
I would slow down significantly, be unable to port, I would lose my free catfall effect and lose some skills. No thanks!
While everyone was resting, Midioto would go around making small talk, getting some light excersise in and then discreetly, he would POP! up the staircase a bit, to try and get a bit of privacy.

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (18) + 9 = 27
Stealth: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (18) + 11 = 29
I get good rolls now...
During the night, De'Arv'Ki spots Midio moving back and forth between the camp and staircase, and stealthly follows midio as he talks to the head...

Hey D:
XD
So a perception check to see if I spot you hrmm?
Perception Check: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 2 = 20
Was pretty much hoping for a nat 20 >.>
Still 18 is pretty high!

Is this just the way things are going to work? high rolls outside of combat, RNG hating on us in combat? Also, i don't think a nat 20 wins in an opposed check...
Also, what can i say; i'm an ninja, gotta have at least one good stealth per crappy one, you just fit the bill, what with your shifty POP every couple of minutes ... >_<

Forgeborn are Half-Constructs, not Living Constructs, so there is an important distinction. That said, I think DSP goofed up a little when they did not specify what is good on the heal/repair spells.

Another way of looking at it would go something like this: Warforged in Eberron are living constructs that get full benefit from "Repair" spells but only 1/2 the benefit of "Heal" spells. If a half-construct is going to be able to get the full benefit of "Heal" spells, then maybe it ought to be able to get 1/2 the effect of "Repair" spells. It is still at least partially a construct so the "Repair" spell ought to still have some effect on it. Regardless, I still don't know if you want me to try. I haven't been tracking your damage that closely and if you've healed enough of it naturally then it's moot today. Down the road, however, it might be important.

Or the DMB could just be nice and let you have full from both ;)
Makes things simpler and is not much of a power bump.
@Padfoot. Of course that is how things work :D like when I got a nat 20. Just to see that you guys weren't hating on eachother when I entered the room >.>

After everyone is awake, the orb/head says
"Well, are you guys going to get on with killing Karvakos?"