Yohoho and a bottle of Rep! (subSPUF Skull and Shackles)

Game Master Rynjin

Yep.

I could shoot it again. Who wants me to- Gremory cuts herself off mid-sentence.

Could this have something to do with the dreamstone we're searching for?

"Hell if I know, I can't see a damned thing"

Ace returns his sword to his hand and asks it to describe the surroundings.

Here, have some canned text.

A flare of light sweeps through this oval chamber, blazing from a large, singular crystal resting atop a six-foot-high silver pedestal in the center of a raised dais. Two large statues face the pedestal, holding up large, curved swords that nearly touch the chamber's ceiling.

We put it in a bag.

Man, I was ready to bust out laughing if one of you actually destroyed the only reason you're here and several people have died over. So who takes it? It's kind of hard for most of you to see. Ace? The main thing is you all move at half speed, so it'll probably fire off another Enervation beam before you can nab it.

Don't be so sure about that!

Jrahk uses his Quick-Runner's Shirt as he runs toward it, grabs it, and stuffs it in his haversack.

"Someone grab Daliya and let's get the f+!% out of here!"

Even if it hits me with 4 negalevels, rage will keep me going long enough for Sandra to heal me.

Make me a DC 22 Will save.

Will: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9

This must be a mistake, I'm not even Gremory.

HOO BOY

Everyone hears a whoosh of light, then nothing. Harry is the only one that sees that in a flash of light, Jrahk has disappeared.

Does Harry have Spellcraft ranks? If not, nobody knows what just happened in any sort of detail, just that he's now gone.

Gremory follows Jrahks last order and G's the FO from the egg-thing.

That's enough of this, come on. Can anybody tell me what just happened?

+2 arcana checks, if that applies, but no spellcraft

"Not a damn clue!" chimes Harry.

Ixrul scans the area for magic.

[b]"So uh, how long does the blindness last, again?

Ixrul scans the area for magic.

The entire room is magic.

Also before I forget, since you all seem to be sticking around inside the room, someone gets the whammy again.

1d4 ⇒ 2

1d20 ⇒ 5

1d4 ⇒ 3

Gremory eats another 3 Negative Levels.

Oh, and the blindness lasts for an hour.

Ace grabs Daliya and tries to get out of the strange room first, (and get to the healbot) than think about what to do

Gremory eats another 3 Negative Levels.

Gremory already G'd the FO.

Sundakan wrote:

Gremory eats another 3 Negative Levels.

Gremory already G'd the FO.

That's right.

Gremory follows Jrahks last order and G's the FO from the egg-thing.

That's enough of this, come on. Can anybody tell me what just happened?

Oh. Nobody followed her out, so I assumed by "egg thing" you meant the crystal. So Gremory is the only one that left. Shoulda been a d3 anyway.

1d2 ⇒ 2

So Ixrul eats the 3 negative levels.

I'm okay with that.

How durable does it look? Does it look like it would shatter if frozen, or could I just Icy Prison it for transport?

Maybe one of your summons can be the unlucky sap to transport it?

Well it ate two bullets and didn't break. Henry's not exactly an engineer, so hell if he knows.

I can just greater make whole it, hopefully, if worst comes to worst.

Ixrul freezes it solid.

Yes he does.

I assume Aaron and Sandra is waiting for us outside?

Yeah.

You take the Dreamstone and skedaddle.

What now? Your captain's disappeared, Daliya's dead, and you're all in bad shape.

"Did anyone ever hear Dailya say anything about raising her from the dead?"

"More importantly, how does the dreamstone work again?"

"Oh right, and Sandra, if you are there, mind if you patch me up a bit?"

Ace will use his sword as a seeing eye sword for the next hour.

"What happened in there?" Sandra asks as she releases teh healz.

15d6 ⇒ (1, 6, 4, 4, 1, 2, 3, 6, 5, 1, 3, 6, 1, 4, 4) = 51

"Big ugly guy disappeared with a flash into that rocky thing Mr. First Mate has, no idea how it works."

"Oh, and the zombie giant things took out Dailya."

"As first mate, I am acting captain until I ascertain Jrahk's fate or he returns. Let us return to the ship - once there, I shall rest and prepare several spells that will help me determine all that I need to know about the stone itself."

"I will make a salve for Daliya, as well."

Did we pick up the money we found here already?

Seniority rules then. I'll see what I can do in the meantime.

You already looted the place, yes.

Cool.

Ixrul racks his brain, trying to figure out what spells could cause Jrahk to vanish in such a manner.

Arcana: 10 + 18 = 28

Too many to count. Teleportation, Destruction, Plane Shifting, Soul Trapping, and others he probably hasn't thought of at the moment.

Perhaps the guy who sent us on this mission in the first place could offer some insight...

nah i'm pretty sure jrahk is dead forever

We return to the ship.

You stumble around on a dangerous, untamed island for an hour while blind and near death.

Miraculously, nothing bad happens, and once your sight returns you make it back to your ship.

Ixrul rests to recover his spells.

He will ask Sandra to prepare a Divination so as to determine what spell caused Jrahk to vanish.

The effect already happened, Divination can't help you.

Then he will have her ask what do to do return Jrahk.

A properly focused Dispel effect might work, but it would require knowing what spell to target or risk destroying the artifact entirely.

Should I just start making a new character now?

Ace asks Sandra to heal the negative levels he gained, if thats possible.

"So I guess we go back to the weird guy or the disembodied voice to ask what to do now, huh?"

If it's ennervate (which it probably is), it will go away on its own. Ixrul has the spell, so he would know this.

Should I just start making a new character now?

Dunno if your looking for an official answer, but I would. Just in case at the very least. I just saw a thread on this cool break-dancing fighting style using Intrepid Rescuer, and Monkey style.

It sort of depends on if you WANT to. There's a few less than rules legal ways out of this, I'm willing to fudge some aid from ghost wizard guy. Or, if you feel this is a solid jumping off point for Jrahk, roll a new dude.

He IS currently trapped in a paradise.

Yeah, I think I do. Don't get me wrong, I like Jrahk as a character - he's fun to roleplay, and I actually had some interesting ideas for how he could develop in response to this pirate council thing.

But in terms of combat, I feel like he doesn't measure up. Lately it seems like, even with his full set of buffs active, he usually just gets out one good full-attack before taking a lot of damage and failing a lot of saves.

On top of that, I greatly overestimated how useful Awesome Blow was going to be. Even ignoring that it only works on Medium things (we houseruled a way around that), it'll rarely be more useful than his full attack, which kills almost anything in two rounds or less.

I think this is as good a time as any to start over with something new. I've been wanting to try out a summoner for some time - a mounted one seems like it would be a lot of fun to play.

I guess Ixrul can be the real captain from now on. I've had my fun bossing you guys around.