DM Delmoth's Planescape

Game Master Delmoth

"Even better than a shambler." Nik replies.
"I don't think we can steal it, so let's make an omelette."

"Now you need to hide it and we find it, yeah?" Helios jokes.

Certainly, this is a very strange device. He focuses on the arm-like appendix, wondering if it's some sort of crane or similar. (Does it have a pincer ending, or a slashy/pointy thing that could hurt us?)

And the fact that there's Enchantment magic on it doesn't help solve the mistery, no.

Rinika waits til no one's looking and just slips the very tip of her tail into the mechanism, just to see how it feels.

Sleight of Tail: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (7) + 12 = 19

Curiosity something something the cat...

Perception: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (15) + 11 = 26

"More evil toys... we should move on before someone's head ends up in there..."

Perception: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (19) + 12 = 31
Lunk sees the tail-dipping and recalls how that went all those minutes ago. He looks a bit tense, eyes narrowing at the creepy mechanism.

I will not allow that thing to get a piece of her tail!

(Being unsure of his ability to save a cat from curiosity, he’s kinda glad he lacks the ability to make that declaration aloud.)

@Helios, nothing like that just a cup that would fit a medium or small sized head.

Rinika sticks her tail into the cup. Lunk tenses and hesitates. The device doesn't react to Rinika.

You've talked about destroying it but no one has done anything that would.

I get the strong impression that sticking one's head in there will either be very good or very bad for oneself xD

Rinika pouts disappointedly. Then she looks at the device, measures out the size of her bushy hair with her hands, shrugs, then looks at Nik. "I dare you to put your head in there."

Wisdom (is Nik retarded?): 1d20 - 1 - 4 ⇒ (14) - 1 - 4 = 9
yes, yes he is.
"Oh yeah? Outta the way. Bet you I can make it do something cool." Nik replies to the cat-girl before foolishly sticking his head in the cup.

RIP Nik xD

Lunk tenses up even more!

He must want a piece of her tail more than the chopper, or why would he—?!

Savi is concerned too. Is Lunk constipated again? I remember overhearing his mother telling my mother…

“Hey, Helios… there a place we buy chocolate? I ask because it’s delicious.” Her voice, so innocent. Her eyes, so guilty.

1d4 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Everyone

Nik stoops down and puts his head into the cup and a couple seconds later there's a tearing sound as the large pod on the other side of the device rips open. A figure almost 7ft in height pulls itself out of the egg-like casing, covered in organic ichor. Its skin is gray and its features human-like but poorly shaped, like a statue creature by a sculptor with little skill or perhaps just little concern for aesthetics.

"T- t- told you!" Nik manages to blurt out while standing up, rather obviously disoriented.
"Also, hah! I- I broke it. Myself! And now I'm an omelette I guess." the two Niks shake their heads synchronously.

Savi looks at Nik. Then at Nik Two. Then at Nik. Then at Nit Two. She says to Nik (One), “Good thing you stuck your head in the thing, or you never would’ve been born.”

But if he had never born, how would he have a head to stick in a thing?

Lunk signs to Savi,

"Why would you.... I... I'm surrounded by lunatics." Conor groans at Nik's antics. "I can't believe you would do that willingly, did you forget where we are?" the ex-paladin continues, seriously considering leaving this group of nutters as soon as they get back to Sigil, money be damned.

I see you three really are cranking each other's chaotic natures to 11. I had been pondering seeking atonement and going Gray Paladin, but even not being lawful stupid ya'll are too nuts to have a real paladin in the squad :)

soooo truuuuuuue, LOL.
And to think, I was originally thinking of making Nik LE xD

"Shaddup." Both Niks stumble over to a wall to lean on.
"I d-did the c-cool thing." Nik says, defiantly.

I'm going to just play this negative levels + everythingdrain as Nik being drunk-ish, lol

Jek looks a bit confused.

"Does this make you more undead than ever? Or are you twice as alive? Either way, welcome to the four leg club I guess?"

"No. All them things." Nik replies with a pointing finger.

"Now lets find the- um- let's go." Nik says before both of them begin trying to lead the way out.

"...welcome to the four leg club I guess?"

Savi adjusts her sleeves, and is suddenly wearing thick-rimmed eyeglasses.

“And the four-eyes club,” she says in a nasally voice.

Rinika looks wide-eyed between the Niks and backs up slightly. "That was unexpected."

"I wonder if you can give yourself wands."

"Uhm...are you really both Nik? Are you..okay? Should we kill one?"

“The tall one might do himself in bumping his head on a door.”

She turns to Nik One, and adjusts her glasses to peer over the lenses to show she’s serious. (That, and she can’t see a damn thing through the lenses.)

“If you’re both you and Other You, you might wanna be wary of the height difference, Niks. Trust me—my last growth spurt made me over five and a half inches taller, and it was jarring.” (She is six inches tall now.)

"Well, just when I thought you lot couldn't get any stranger..." Conor quips as he looks around.

"We moving on now?"

enough things are going on with my stats now that I decided to just update my character page. Who knows when I'll have more than 24 max HP again? xD

Nik ignores Rinika and Savi for some reason.

"After yooou." Nik replies to Conor, already forgetting that he was going to lead the way.

Rinika pouts, accustomed only to being ignored when she wants to be, and crosses her arms in a huff to float back out of the chamber. "Well I guess that's it then. Good. I hate it in here."

Nobody asks Lunk how he feels about this area. And in his silence, he doubts anyone can guess accurately.

He calmly heads out when Nik after-yous himself and others.

When they arrive in the sphere with the skeleton, Nik One and Nik Two wave. "Hi Skellington. I guess we're leaving you here. So bye."

Nik One then pulls a piece of charcoal that was once the end of a torch out of his pouch and starts waving it around in the direction of the middle of the room.

Jek takes out his piece of paper.

"We clearly need some new Niknames... Nik the Younger and Nik the Elder? Small Nick and Medium Nik? MaNik and TitaNik?"

Savi wills an applause when Jek says ‘MaNik and TitaNik.’

“MaNik-TitaNik! I love the names, Jek!”

"Maybe we can make this easier on you by tying little-you to big-you's chest."

"It'll still feel weird. Maybe more weird, actshually. Also, nice Nik-names, Jek."

Conor barks a laugh at Nik's wordplay.

Savi is seated on Lunk’s man bun as Rinika and Nik have some words.

“I gotta agree with MaNik on this one, Rinika. It is great having a friend that can carry you everywhere, but it’s gotta work without ropes.”

She sheathes her katana in Lunk’s man bun. Bobby Pin protrudes like Excali the Master Sword.

Unsurprisingly Nik's attempts at using a bit of charcoal to open the portal doesn't work. However as he drifts about the room, when he passes through the bounded space of the portal it springs to life and he's thrust through. Apparently Nik picked up the key when they were exploring, its unclear what it was.

You're deposited back on the dead world of Ranais. You can head back to Sigil from here or back to Crux.

Lunk keeps a hand ready to draw his living steel blade.

And with his other hand, he signs to Savi,

Once back on a prime material world, MaNik thrusts his hand into his haversack and retrieves a non-cursed wand of Infernal Healing. He immediately taps himself with it and then hands it to TitaNik.

19->18 charges

While MaNik rearranges a few things in his bag, TitaNik holds up the wand.
"Anyone else on the mend?"

Both Niks seem to be ignoring the shambler in this area for some reason.

@Conor: Credit where credit is due, Jek did it first xD

Savi finally gets a good look at TitaNik.

“Wow… he’s more a lunk than you are, Lunk. Maybe you should switch names. You could be Titanic.”

Savi stands on Lunk’s manbun and T-poses. “I’m quee—”

Whatever she was about to say, she clams up upon seeing the rapidly signing hand raised before her.

Rinika pats herself down and suddenly realizes that she's actually quite injured, and the overall horrible queasiness she had felt from the exposure to the last plane had masked it.

She looks around. "Uhm..I'll be okay."

Conor glares around the empty plain, waiting for the inevitable attack by wraiths.

"Glad to be standing on firm ground again. Crux or the cage? Either way we need to get moving."

TitaNik gives Rinika a swift (and probably mostly unwelcome) tap on the head with the wand, a little harder than necessary.

Do I roll vs SR? Or just she rolls a will save?
I forget how her doomguard thing works XD
18->17 charges either way, right? XD

After stuffing the surgical tools where they belong and pulling out a torch from his haversack to replace the one he had been keeping outside of it, MaNik straightens up.
"Alright Zombington, shtand up, drop dem torches, and resume following me 'round."

Turning to the others he adds "Crux, right? We need to tell... that guy about... the stuff. Maybe he has an opinion on our shuicidal ex-pris'ner, too. Which remind me, we have to keep him- um- no sunlight."
Both Niks start looking for the "dead" vampire with a sharpened torch through his chest.

did we stuff him inside anything? I forget. Nik has a couple of sacks if we want to do that now xD

She doesn't have any SR. She does have a will save though, and a mild glare for TitaNik.

Will: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 18

"Ask a girl before you go poking at her, man."

TitaNik shrugs and hands the wand back to MaNik with a slight wobble.

Both Niks soon start folding their arms and looking around in confusion until they slap their foreheads in unison.
"You guys weren't kidding, it is cold here."
MaNik casts Endure Elements on TitaNik, and both of them immediately look more comfortable.

looks like I needed that extra Endure Elements after all xD

Savi notices Lunk isn’t shivering this time. She says to Rinika, “If you’re cold, I highly recommend one of these.”

Sleight of Hand: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (14) + 13 = 27

If his endure elements has faded by now, Conor uses a pearl and recasts Endure Elements before the group starts out.

we've been here less than 24 hours for sure, so it'd only be our new member xD
Nik already molested gave a headpat to Rinika to apply Endure Elements when we came here from Crux xD

Rinika takes a look at the vest and nods, not quite shivering yet.

"Alright yeah let's go to Crux. We were in there a while though, I'm gonna go find a bush before we head out."

Rinika departs for a few moments.