DM Delmoth's Planescape

Game Master Delmoth

if only it were slashing or peircing, effortless lace would work T_T

did he also find our missing stuff? Baraxx’ belly gets all grumbly without that ring of sustenance

hmmm... we'll have to find some thieves for him to snack on while he re-attunes...
Alternatively, Jek still has over 100 lbs of trail rations iirc

did he also find our missing stuff? Baraxx’ belly gets all grumbly without that ring of sustenance

yes

Puuuush

I’ll post tonight. I hope. Snowpocalypse is apparently coming so I’ve got at a plan to snowblow now driveway at least twice in the next 24 hours

"Well, no need to hang around here worrying about flying cats." Nik says as the group recovers their stolen things.
"Since we're in Pelion now, why don't we take a look around for that other clue?" he says.
"I wanted to look around this plane first anyway." says he.

Baraxx just snorts and receives his ring back. ”Yeah, so why are we here again? Not that it hasn’t been fun. Maybe we can go back and fight to fish people again?

“Oh, Baraxx! It might be healthy to just let that go.”

Savi picks up the toy hammer. When it hits a rock, there is a rubberduckyish squeekoo! in addition to the regular donk.

Ghost Sound at will for the toy hammer sound, which I guess can work if she wills it a round ahead and concentrates when striking with the hammer?

RAW concentration requires a standard.
I hope cartoon sound effects when they don't alert anyone to anything might be a good rule 0 exemption...

"We're trying to stop Tenebrous from destroying the multiverse." Nik says.
"That's where we keep our stuff." he explains.

”Yeah, that makes sense. I happen to be in the multi-whatsits so I don’t want it destroyed. I meant I can’t remember what we are doing here” he gestures around to the hut and wasteland.

”Is it to kill a guy again, I hope so, or find a thing? Or just wander into random towers like that dream we all had?”

Ghost Sound at will for the toy hammer sound, which I guess can work if she wills it a round ahead and concentrates when striking with the hammer?

I'll allow it. If you try to make a distraction in combat follow the rules more closely. But if it'sjust flavor do it without any action required

Haha, yes. Just flavor. For sound-effect distractions, I’ll likely use Lunk, since Mockingbird includes Ventriloquism.

Savi hears Baraxx and decides to finally say what’s been eating at her for the past couple missions.

“Okay… I gotta say it. Two things I think we can all agree on: we make a great team, but morally, we’re all over the black-and-white-and-blue-and-orange extremes. So I think Baraxx nailed it just now—we all want the multiverse intact.

“So can we maybe not deliver weapons to asshoIes, take assassin jobs, or murder town guards for guarding towns? I wouldn’t ask Baraxx to run a soup kitchen either. Maybe we just try to focus on one simple thing we can all buy into: keep the multiverse intact. And yeah, I know we’ll have to fight and kill… but at least I can justify ending a foe who’s hellbent on destroying entire planes. Self-defense too, but not if we’re the ones provoking shít.”

Nik ignores Savi while he thinks of how to sum things up.

"Well, seems like that message in that tower was probably about Tenebrous getting something. So we might go there. Also we have a map to a place that might be the same place. Just need some landmarks..." Nik explains, starting to ramble about how to orient yourself without a compass equivalent.

I'll move us to the Last Tower later today. Got snow on top of frozen rain to deal with.

Savi assumes the tower is related to the multiverse stuff, and seems satisfied with that. Meaning she’s oblivious to the fact she was ignored.

The Last Tower, Present day

The journey to the tower takes the better part of a day. The path is surprisingly easy between the map you recovered in Tcian Sumere and some innate sense of direction you gained from your experiences in the past. However when you arrive at the spot the tower should be you find nothing but the same white sand drifting in the gentle breeze of Pelion. The tower has succumbed to the ravages of time, but you are certain in your heart that this is the correct place.

Baraxx cocks his head to the side in a shockingly doglike manner and frowns, ”Soup kitchen?” blithely ignoring all the other aspects of her speech, particularly the implications as to his moral ineptitudes.

“Y’know, feeding the homeless—it ain’t your thing. Mine either. It’s boring and takes too long and I’m a horrible cook.”

Savi isn’t sure anyone understood her point. “Maybe I’m the only one who sees the elephant in the room has no clothes. That or I’m the only one who wants to see an elephant with clothes on. A tutu, or it it’s a boy, one of those propeller beanies.”

No elephants in THIS room, Lunk thinks as he observes the tower. He looks for that entry the Naiad used with her hook shot and the spider-stepping…

If possible, he’ll cast Spider Climb and start retracing the Kid’s steps.

There's nothing to climb did you still want to cast spider climb?

"So... there isn't a tower anymore. Hopefully there isn't any evil water either. The entrance still has to be here somewhere, doesn't it?"

Nik casts Detect Magic.

"Suddenly I wish I had a Robe of Infinite Twine like that guy with the cat. Hopefully we won't need it." He mutters, looking around.

Does Savi still have the ability to detect evil? We might find more evil footprints...
Or would Rinika be willing to risk another nosebleed? XD

"Savi... your heart's in the right place, but" his words suddenly change to mimic his mother's "you're both in our herd. We teach each other and no one's done learning." Jek stops walking for a moment. Was he actually starting to miss his herd? He shakes his head a bit and gets back on task.

"This really does look like the place. I wonder if those elves are hiding around here... "

He wanders around where he thinks the tower was and tries to stand at its center.

"Do you think the entrance moved?"

He takes out a chakram and throws it straight up as hard as he can.

Jek vs AC 5, 3 range increments: 1d20 + 10 - 4 ⇒ (7) + 10 - 4 = 13

The chakram disappears as it flies 100ft above Jek's head.

Baraxx frowns at the small fairy in confusion. ”Feed the homeless to what? Each other?”. Sensing a cultural gulf between the pair, the half fiend decides to elaborate and reveal at least some of his past. ”Listen, let’s just say my upbringing was solely to feed grist to the mill of the Blood War, where I was raised didn’t put any stock in charity, purely survival of the fittest. Literally. You fall behind, you get eaten (also often literally).”

Seemingly tired out from the brief serious soliloquy, Baraxx cracks a toothy grin and finishes, ”But you are right, I’m a blunt instrument. Point me at what you need broken and I’m there for ya.”

Savi is about to reply, but as Jek’s weapon disappears, Savi has an idea she’s honestly not crazy about. She blurts it immediately:

“So if I were to fly up there, does that mean I’d be in that place?”

A hook shot would be very handy right now. Like the one that pretty naiad had. Maybe if she were here, with the hook shot…

Baraxx idly scratches behind his ear with his tail as he watches the chakram disappear and hears the fairy make the suggestion.

”I could fly up there too, might be better not to go alone. Unless you are going to do the sneaky thing. I don’t sneak.”

Nik sighs as he realizes the way in is still above them.
"If my shamblers ever catch up, I can ask them to push around enough dust to get up there."

Nik scratches his cheek and looks around.
"If we wait around a day, I can prepare spells to get us all up there."

Then he cocks his head and looks at Rinika and Baraxx. Then he looks from Savi to Lunk to Jek.
"Huh. Actually- Rinika and Baraxx can already fly, I can make Jek fly, Lunk and Savi can ride on Jek, and I can just levitate myself up." Nik nods to himself.

"We might want to prep something special for that snake, though- if it's still there..."
Nik scratches his cheek, lost in thought, as he tries to think of ways to kill a huge snake in a huge maelstrom.

Baraxx idly scratches behind his ear with his tail as he watches the chakram disappear and hears the fairy make the suggestion.

”I could fly up there too, might be better not to go alone. Unless you are going to do the sneaky thing. I don’t sneak.”

“Definitely, I don’t wanna go in alone. I felt that snake’s bite from the mind of Snowball the Cat.”

When Nik suggests everyone can fly up, she is relieved. “The more the merrier!”

Baraxx spreads his wings and floats a few feet above the ground, ”So, we doing this?” he asks the group at large.

"Yeah. Also, maybe I should just ride on Jek's back too. Saves a spell." Nik says nodding to himself.

"Can you carry us non-fliers up there, Jek?" Nik asks right before casting Fly on the bariaur.

Lunk signs to Jek:

Jek can lift anything except a giant brass plug.

You fly to the spot above you where your counterparts reached at times unknown and you disappear. You reappear in the same chamber that hangs over the malevolent pool which at one point a brass plug blocked the way. It has since disappeared entirely, not even 150 feet below you. You hear the sound of the maelstrom with winds that scour flesh still raging farther in.

Nik leans to the side, still on top of Jek.
"Alright, if that snake is still there, I'm going to try and possess it. Don't drop me? If I do go limp, please don't step through the doorway until I give you a slap on the- flank or- arm or- something. Can't have my body go through without my mind..."

Nik pauses a moment "I- we could try to kill the worm too, I guess. It'd suck for me, of course... better stick with having it curl in the farthest corner of the chamber after chucking everyone but Jek through the portal."

Then he sits bolt upright.

"Wait."

"What if the worm can fit in the portal? Oh boy. Maybe we can bring it with us for a few hours." Nik smiles mischievously.

"Stupid elf army and whatever else wouldn't stand a chance." he explains.

"Now suddenly I'm hoping the snake is still there and isn't too hard to possess. If there isn't any snake... maybe we just let you fly us in, Jek? Though... that wind might be too hard to fly in..."

Nik pulls out his metamagic rod and casts Mirror Image, creating 1d4 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7 more Niks, while he tries to think of something else that might help them get through the portal and through the other side more safely.

It'd only be your fly skill +4 (spell) +4 (good maneuverability) though...

“Wow! After TitaNik, you can just create Niks like—” Like they’re going outta style? Like rabbits? Like they’re going… in style? Ummmm… “—that!”

She points to NikTwo, then NikFive, then NikSeven and NikThree, then an unnumbered Nik.

"Hmmm... I need to figure out how to fly more. First that branch on the world tree and now this... I may just walk once I'm in there. We'll see. Everyone set?"

Fly Skill: +2 Dex; +0 Ranks; -2 Size; -0 Armor; +4 Spell Bonus; +4 Fly Speed; not normally a class skill but somehow is if I get a fly speed... but no ranks

Jek squirms and squeezes through the hole with the others on board and glides down to the hurricane doorway.

Nik comically scrambles from a riding position to a holding-on-to-a-hindleg-for-dear-life position to avoid being scraped off accidentally.
He climbs back up after Jek is safely through.

Maybe riding was a bad idea...

Down the long shaft you see it still contains the foul pool of water. A few of the statues lie broken and the silver door hangs open. Your combined masses prevent you from being sucked into the hurricane immediately though the winds are tugging on you.

Through the door you see the body of the Wraithworm, still coiled around the rock column and its head bobbing in the wind, something has come along and killed the creature. Recently enough that it has not fallen to decay.

Lunk takes Savi in hand and helps her to her bottle, fearing her tiny wings are no match for the wind!

Savi gladly crawls inside. Looking at the dead worm thing, she says, “Good riddance to that oversized cat-hating jerk!”

Glancing down Baraxx lets out a disappointed grunt, not vocalizing (for the benefit of the squeamish fairy with the pretty wings) his hope that he’d get to kill that worm thing himself.

Without comment he drops into the winds, bowing his head against the winds and pushing forward.

Same strength tests?

"Aw man, if only I had more gems on me. Anyone have a secret stash of gemstones?" Nik laments loudly before Jek takes them too close to the roaring wind that muffles all other sound.

I just remembered we still have those 4 pieces of Quivering Candy (Bull's Strength) and that everyone but Nik has one... in case anyone wants boosts for the upcoming checks and doesn't already have +4 enhancement to strength from Automatic Bonus Progression...

Same strength tests?

Yes, same hurricane.

Lunk uses his boots of the earth to root himself in place, as that cute naiad did. He casts Enlarge on himself.

If the wind no longer affects him, he’ll use his whispering gloves to offer this magic to Nik and Rinika.

Having some protection from the buffeting winds due to his affinity with air, Baraxx lowers his head and pushes towards strange word room.

STR, dc 10: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6
lol

But doesn’t quite have his wings set on his first thrust.

Once everyone is protected from the nonlethal damage I'm going to say you take 20s to get to the portal.

When Lunk grows, everything on him grows including Savi’s bottle.

“Great idea, Lunk. I have so much more room in here now!”

Lunk casts Spider Climb on himself, and will enlarge Rinika if she wants.

Nik quirks an eyebrow as Lunk grows in size.

"Hey Jek, I'm going to use some magic too!" Nik explains as he casts Undead Anatomy II and changes from 8 lanky little Aasimars into 8 massive four-armed monstrosities that look like walking piles of sun-bleached bones.

"Look, Jek, now I have six limbs too!" he bellows.