GM CHAPEL | OVERFLOW ARCHIVES PFS #6-15 (Inactive)

Game Master Great Green God

Hoo shudders, grinning, seemingly exhilarated by the haunting voices.
She is definitely shaken, but certainly more enchanted than scared.
"Definitely joined right fact-shin. So neat,,, love this."
Hoo excitedly follows the group.

Boomer moves into the map room and begins looking around.

Perception: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (17) + 3 = 20

Xavier enters the room, seemingly avoiding Stefan and his very loud book, and starts looking around.

Perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 19

Whimpering at the sound of tormented screams as he tried to speak again Stefan slouches and finally gives up on speaking while he has the book and just hopes that saying the words mentally or whispering would work when he needed to cast spells, however limited his selection of spells may be.

Hoo walks up to Stefan
"I don't have magicks, if you'ver need to cast spells, I could hold onto bag for you. Ooh! Let's make signal! You do a hand thing when you want me to take the bag! Trust, when has it, will not say a word!"

Zahd (after unplugging his ears of course) will follow the rest of the party and will give a familiar, saddened sigh at the sight of the ruined maps. "It just gets worse and worse and..." He will proceed to scan about the room for anything of relevance with the others.

Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14

Seeing the human ranger holding her hand out Stefan assumes she is offering to take the bag and holds it out to her, placing it in her hands.

Hoo takes the bag, a little surprised since this was a bit more than she was bargaining for, but she nods with affirmation, and follows the group without speaking.

Xavier watches the exchange between Stefan and Hoo and chimes in, "Or, better yet, we could just get rid of the thing? It's not like we'll be able to read it anyway."

I know it's probably for a faction mission or something, but I feel like Xavier is probably feeling to tired and hungover to deal with it.

He continues to look around the room, exploring deeper in.

Hoo takes the bag, a little surprised since this was a bit more than she was bargaining for, but she nods with affirmation, and follows the group without speaking.

Indeed, the warpriest kit Stefan carries, + 7 servings of rations comes to +47.5 lbs. of encumbrance before adding in the tome itself. Now some of that gear might be hanging on Stefan's belt so lets call it about +45 pounds of weight added to Hoo's (STR 8) encumbrance. That with her other gear puts her up into 'heavily encumbered' territory (MAX DEX bonus to AC = +1 [lowering her AC by 1], AC skill penalty -6, Spd 15' [Note: Hoo's Spd characteristic should be 20' because of her armor, an armored coat, would slow her down], and Run at x3 Spd).

Among the many, many, many unfurled maps a particularly colorful silk one done in a Tian-style portrays what looks like Tian Xia mashed into the side of Avistan to create a strange, Inner Sealess super-continent.

Those involved in search though come up empty handed in their quest for fragments of the mysterious parchment.

Feel free to drop the pack while in combat.

"Alright, I think we've checked this room enough, let's head to the next one. We can always come back if we need to sweep through again." Xavier calls to the group. He then starts trying to wade his way through to the next intersection.

Boomer nods and follows Xavier's lead. Anticipating something awful at any point now.

"Certainly, just let me..."
Zahd will pick up the silk map and examine it more thoroughly as the party moves to their next room. He'll do his best to keep it relatively dry, so much as that means anything in this space.

Now what?

Xavier sighs and puts his head in his hands in exasperation. "Ok, is there anywhere else we haven't looked? Is there anywhere we want to check again?" A thought suddenly occurs to him. "What about that Sir Crocodile that was mentioned in the scroll fragment? Have we seen anything of him? There was that alligator in Kreighton's office, but that's all I can think of."

Well, alligators and crocodiles are a bit of theme. ;)

"I theem to remember there being thix or theben riddleth all told."

"Then we are missing at least two more?" Stefan thought out loud. "Crocodiles remind me of the tooth fairy we fought earlier. Should we check there again? Though the poem already mentioned the fey we fought separately."

Have we been to the top four alcoves? I forget.

Hoo opens her mouth, and then doesn't say anything. She's thinking.

Boomer is lost realizing that they are missing a couple of the rather confusing pieces of scroll. He scratches his head and turns his face down.

Have we been to the top four alcoves? I forget.

I'll assume that the group looks around the entire sublevel as all the obvious threats seem to have been dealt with. However, regardless of how much time the party spends down here they do not find anymore fragments of the scroll.

Slightly frustrated that further searching does not reveal any other notes Stefan scratches his head.

"I don't think we will find the other fragments here. Should we go back and show the notes to those birds? It might jog their memories. That or we show them to the big fish. What do you guys think?

"Sounds like that's the only option we have right now. Let's see what they make of the stuff we've got."

A fishing hook snatches Stefan's ear as they come up the waterfall that is the stairs up to the library's main hall.. Something begins to tug at it.

Apparently in the time you have been downstairs the pair of them have returned to their fishing spot atop the overturned shelf beside the mezzanine waterfall.

Note: There's a bit of a lip around the stair down that keeps about a foot of water on the floor of this room, making it a shallow bog.

"IT'S A BIG ONE! IT'S A BIG ONE! ALBATROSS! GET READY TO CLUB WHEN I GET IT CLOSER TO THE BOAT!" shouts the owl. "DIDN'T I SAY THIS WAS A GOOD SPOT!?"

Albatross hefts what looks like an ogre-sized table leg for someone his small size and looks over. With evident disappoint he drops the club and directs the celebrating Owl to look over in the direction of stairwell and says. "It's just them again."

"ACK! YOU'VE FOULED MY LINE!" cries the owl at Stefan.

Hoo waves to them coyly, bracing against the weight of the pack.

"Hello again! We didn't mean to interrupt your... spot of fishing, I guess, but we were wondering if there was anything you would now about that scroll you fished up or this here map? Elsewise any avian wisdom you could grace us with?"

Diplomacy check if deemed necessary:

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20

"Ack! Let go my ear! Let go my ear!" Stefan shouts as the fishing lines starts tugging at his ear.

Xavier begins the walk up the stairs fairly annoyed and tired. However, once Stefan gets his ear caught, he can't help but start laughing. For a second, he forgets what the point of them being there is as he stands there, laughing to himself at the hilarity of it all. After a moment, it dies down, and he sighs. "Do you have any other information?" he inquires, refocusing on the task at hand.

"Hello again! We didn't mean to interrupt your... spot of fishing, I guess, but we were wondering if there was anything you would now about that scroll you fished up or this here map? Elsewise any avian wisdom you could grace us with?"

"You mean that fish you scrolled up and took with you? No. As experienced a fisher as I am I have not seen its like before or since." says Owl sagely.

"'Fisher'? I thought you were an owl." says Albatross getting a kick in the shin from owl as a reply.

Gingerly unhooking the fishing line from his ear Stefan growls as he tosses it into the water. "We've searched everyplace in the lower level but only found four scroll fragments. Do you have any idea where the others may be?"

"Isn't theeeere another entrance t...t..to the library then the one wwwwwe came in. A l...l...lobby, I thiiiink?"

"There is? Divines I've gotta get more sleep what else have I missed Erm yes; it seems worthwhile to scour this place as best we can, although I am interested to see if that stuffed beast in the Dean's office has anything to do with this. Goodness, this reminds me of the time when..."
Zahd will then proceed to go on a long and supremely boring story about finding a book in a library with poor management should no one manage to shut him up.

I'm okay with scouring remaining areas and asking around although I think we might be best investigating the stuffed alligator/crocodile/whatever

Aside from a little water on the floor from people traipsing in and out of the library proper there isn't much of anything out of place.

Back upon the mezzanine (inside the library).

The giant waltzing tentacled fish creature known as Mistress Koi, looks up from her rhythmic water-squirting with shocked face that only an intelligent four-eyed fish monster could muster and burbles something that sounds like the Common tongue equivalent of "Oh my stars and garters! Who are you?"

After a few minutes of comedic back-and-forth (in Sylvan) the party can eventually get her memory back up to speed again. Most of the time involves Koi looking straight at the party nodding, and making deep, burbling noises in agreement, while simultaneously kneading her chin with a thick tentacle.

If anyone wants to add anything to the conversation with Koi feel free to do so. I'll move us upstairs to check back in with Master of Scroll Shaine, tomorrow.

"We think there might be some other scroll fragment here. Have you seen any around?"

Sylvan subtitles:

"Certainly not!" Koi snaps, stomping a tentacle, apparently affronted at the very thought.

Back upstairs, in the scriptorium.

Shaine rubs the bridge of his nose and looks up from a pile of texts laid out before him as the party files in past the demolished pile of ink pots.

"I suppose you are back with your report. Well, don't leave Hurbert-" (he motions to the albino alligator) "-and I in suspense. What have you uncovered? Have you solved any of the fragment riddles you've collected?"

Boomer scratches his head, "Honestly, I d...ddddidn't even think about s..s..solving the frrrrragments. Any ideas?"

"Hmmm...The first fragment is talking about the albatross and the owl. Their fishing must have awoken something. Something that apparently ate them? The second fragment is about the early bird who gets the worm and a dead bird who is worm food.

If all the fragments are connected then whatever the two birds woke is called Sir Crocodile and whose teeth were taken by Lady Gormandelle and used to bite it back. The fourth fragment I don't understand at all."

"Honestly, if you are going to insist on standing 30' away, you'll have to speak up." snaps Shaine.

"The fourth fragment I don't understand at all."

"Oh? Which one was that?"

It's true. It is difficult to determine which fragment goes where in the order as the edges all seem to have been be cut sheer. That, and of course there's a large bit of the puzzle still missing even though the party is certain they have looked everywhere in the library and catacombs below for it.

Last thoughts? Actions? Here on the thread in-character, or in discussion. Otherwise, I shall move to wrap us up.

"The one about the judge." Stefan says as he indicates to the note he is talking about.

"That one is quite telling indeed, as it seems more of a double entendre. A wyrm dining upon a judge and his sons, making the judge himself a sauce while boring through the man's remains. You'll note that all the riddles seem to involve eating." calls the dean from 30' away behind his desk.

Something seems off about the way that that Dean knows all this stuff. Boomer starts to approach by way of the albino alligator.