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Lunk folds is other eight fingers one-by-one, indicating he’s asking his own questions before the magic of Hey Listen fades…
Lunk wonders,
#3. What is the safest route to the sparkle stick?
#4. What is the safest route that the entire party can take, whether we walk, fly or take a conjured carriage?
#5. Who is the ogre’s boss?
#6. For what reason does he keep the sparkle stick?
#7. Can we destroy the sparkle stick be destroyed—(#8.) without taking an entire civilization with it?
Lunk sees a building of staggering grace and beauty. The magnificent structure soars more than 1000 feet upwards, its buttresses and supports leading from one pinnacle to another, making it a distinctive focal point in Sigil’s skyline. The Civic Festhall, amid the hordes of jugglers, singers, dancers, and other performers is a single cute woman who looks suspiciously like Kid Artemis, wearing the badge of a sensate. At a second glance she is clearly not Kid Artemis, but could be a sister or cousin.
#9. About that cute sensate who made the juggler drop his ball, what’s her name?
#10. Is she… nawww, I can’t ask that.
#3. What is the safest route to the sparkle stick?
Lunk gets a sensation in his mind not words, exactly the same as the first question. He knows how to destroy the barrier, a disintegrate spell, a devotee of Kiaransalee touches the barrier in her name, bones and only bones are struck against the barrier with great force.
#4. What is the safest route that the entire party can take, whether we walk, fly or take a conjured carriage?
Following the rule of three Lunk gets a sensation in his mind not words a third time. He knows how to destroy the barrier, a disintegrate spell, a devotee of Kiaransalee touches the barrier in her name, bones and only bones are struck against the barrier with great force.
#5. Who is the ogre’s boss?
Lunk hears the ogre's voice
#6. For what reason does he keep the sparkle stick?
Lunk hears nothing but silence.
#7. Can we destroy the sparkle stick be destroyed—(#8.) without taking an entire civilization with it?
Lunk feels a strange urge, he feels the urge not to steal the scepter but to destroy it, all he needs to do is touch the scepter to the gold band, he wears on his head.
#9. About that cute sensate who made the juggler drop his ball, what’s her name?Lunk sees a building of staggering grace and beauty. The magnificent structure soars more than 1000 feet upwards, its buttresses and supports leading from one pinnacle to another, making it a distinctive focal point in Sigil’s skyline. The Civic Festhall, amid the hordes of jugglers, singers, dancers, and other performers is a single cute woman who looks suspiciously like Kid Artemis, wearing the badge of a sensate. At a second glance she is clearly not Kid Artemis, but could be a sister or cousin.
Lunk hears nothing but silence.
#10. Is she… nawww, I can’t ask that.
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Lunk hears nothing but silence.
Savi is deeply disturbed by what Lunk signs to her.
“Okay… so Lunk knows how to destroy the barrier. He asked about burrowing, taking the safest route there, what gets us all in the place where the sparkly stick is… and… same answer: a disintegrate spell, a devotee of Kiaransalee touches the barrier in her name, bones and… only bones are struck against the barrier… with great force.” It’s apparent Savi does not want to relay this message. A sacrifice to a s%&~ty goddess, or maybe more like she-devil, is the price of admission.
“Tenebrous is the ogre-lady’s boss-man. Lunk heard a message in whatever language you guys were speaking before. If any of you knows the language and can read Lunk’s memory, he says go ahead and find out what else he heard.
“Also, the gold headband… touch the scepter to it, and that’ll destroy it.” She reports the only unanswered question of importance, “We don’t know why Tenebrous keeps the scepter. The question of his motive went unanswered.”
"Keep? Tenebrous is coming to get it. The drow guys buried it."
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Rinika starts to sift through the bones for anything about 10 feet long and relatively straight.
"Jek, I bet you could bring it down with a bone lance and one good charge. Think you could build up enough speed here?"
After sifting through the area for you find .
Time to pick spells for the next day in case it doesn't work T_T
"Well, we found a bone, let's see if it works. Jek is the strongest, right?"
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Looking to Jek from the long-ish bone they found, Nik sees Jek's horns.
He face-palms.
"Hey Jek, horns are bone... right? Think they're bone-ish enough? I hope them being attached to the rest of you doesn't mean they won't work..."
Savi repeats the point that Lunk repeated three times. “Bone and only bone’s gotta strike. So… just hit the brakes. Maybe use a skeleton’s rib cage as a face mask or something?
“Is there a bone armor spell or something?” The fairy shrugs. To Jek, “You’re a devotee of What’s Her Face? Kiaransalee?”
"Let's give this thing a shot..."
Jek takes the improvised bone weapon in both hands and backs up bit.
The force bubble pops with a loud crack which reverberates throughout chamber. Nothing stands in your way of claiming the scepter.
Rinika blinks in surprise. "Nice job, Jek! I knew you could do it."
She looks at the scepter and then over at Nik. "Hey, can I try tossing the headband at it? I don't know that we want anyone to be touching it when...well, when it happens."
Savi says, “Go for it! Or I can fly and drop if you’re afraid you’ll miss.”
"Maybe... maybe we should find out what we're breaking. It could be Tanenbrous got this hat and was keeping it in order to touch the sparkle stick to the hat. We don't want to do his job for him." Nik says scratching his cheek.
"Maybe someone else should hold on to the stick or the circlet. Anyone we can trust to ask about stuff this dangerous?" He wonders aloud.
"Maybe we should see if we can just take this stick to the outlands and chat about it there. I don't think we need to destroy it before we plane shift."
Baraxx nods appreciatively at Jek’s display of strength.
As the group discusses what to do, the half fiend suggests, ”Want I should just go over there and get it then?”
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Rinika eyes Baraxx, considers how much she trusts him with unimaginable power, and walks over to grab the staff herself, but she stops short.
"Maybe let's check for traps first."
Rinika finds no traps.
The shadows around you seem to darken and deepen, as if this pocket of Agathion is breathing in and holding it's breath. You feel the air chill causing you to shiver.
"Uhhhh- why are you all shivering?"
Nik's eyes go wide behind his gem goggles.
"Uh oh- we should hurry. Rinika, just take it. We need a hand holding circle like back on Oerth, right? Circle, PDQ. C'mon shamblers."
Rinika picks up the scepter. Then she'll move back to the group.
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Rinika's spot is drawn to the place she holds the scepter but suffers no ill effects.
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Savi takes the hands of Rinika and Baraxx, and purposely faces Lunk as everyone circles up for plane shift.
“Be gentle with me, haha.”
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Lunk can’t sign what he’s thinking because his hands are too busy holding hands. Male hands.
F$++ you, Savi. This spell should only work if you hold hands boy-girl-boy-girl… s+$&, Jek’s hand is warm!
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”Huh, we’re holding hands now?” Baraxx asks, confused as usual but just going with it, as usual, and also being careful to not crush Savi’s hand while fumbling his shield to his back before grabbing () Nik’s hand.
Nik gives Baraxx a sideways glance.
"You got rough hands." he explains, while holding on the claw of a shambler that's holding onto Lunk's other hand.
Somehow the other shambler ends up between Jek and Rinika.
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Baraxx simply grins at Nik’s comment, showing all his teeth ()
You arrive on the Outlands in a vast and untouched savannah. Strange cat like creatures laze about in the sun.
In the distance you hear the screeching of some kind of bird.
"Bars. Ale houses. Taverns. Let's destroy it before he gets us already!"
Nik sighs.
"Yeah, I guess you're right. Stupid stick, we don't need you anyway." he explains as he takes the circlet off his head and tosses it a dozen feet away.
He crosses his arms and turns his back on the relic.
Savi says, “I love how you guys think! Make a plan, scrap it, scrap scrapping! Men plan and gods laugh, y’know?”
"Just hurry up and scrap the stick." Nik huffs, unaware of anything strange going on.
Baraxx glares around at the surroundings. ”Something is watching us.” he growls.
“Of course,” Savi grumbles. She turns invisible but it’s a knee-jerk reaction.
“So whatever we’re doing, suggest we do it NOW, and then immediately GTFO. G for Gate. Destination: Surprise Me.”
"Wouldn't that be GDSM?"
Rinika's hair stands on end and her tail stands up and she lightly hisses at the spying. She quickly tosses the scepter at the headband.
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The skull atop the scepter bursts in a flash of bright light as the circlet and ground around it crumbles to dust. The iron rod, however, remains.
In your minds eye you see:
A shadowy form races through strange landscapes with frantic speed. Suddenly, it stops, and the toothy mouth of its gray, wraith-like face opens wide and lets out a terrible soul wrenching scream. The ethereal figure begins to grow in size and substance, quickly taking on the appearance of stone. In moments, it completely petrifies into the shape of a bloated ram-headed humanoid contorted in horror and pain. Then it slowly fades away.
"Yeah, let's get out of here." Nik agrees.
"Skellington the Eleventh, grab the iron rod." he orders.
"We can sell it or stick it into a museum." he explains with a shrug.
Savi says to Skellington XI, “That belongs in a museum.” Then she points to the other shambler and says, “So do you!”
”Ha!” Baraxx barks out a laugh and short clap at the boom and the mental image. ”That was fun. Though I do wonder if we waited longer if we’d have gotten to fight that thing, looked like it would have made for a good scrap.”
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Rinika looks on a bit bleakly as her eyes refocus on the present. "I think it's...it's done. Whatever it was, it was trying to get to us, like some enormous version of those undead that nearly took over Crux. But as soon as the relics were gone, it turned to stone and then just...dust."
She looks around a bit then cracks a smile. "Which is just the way of things, I suppose."