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Betel tries writing on the mirror - with a chalk stick - in mirror writing - to see if that works.
I discovered the Lodge's procedure to deal with planar anomalies she says. But, given the current circumstances, we'll need to communicate it to the students - or get them back to the conference room where they can read it for themselves.
Why is that blade doing that?
The shimmering sword looks almost tangible to Betel. As if it’s somehow in both the student’s AND your phase. Reaching out to touch it, Vim jumps back as the sword disappears from her perspective -Hey what happened, where’d it go? - and is easily clutched and held by you as it now looks like not just a practice blade but a nice steel short sword with a jewled pommel.
what should we do now? Greta asks her friends.
Perhaps keep looking around, see if there is any sign of the Pathfinders that should be here? Hari proposes. Theres still much of the Lodge we haven’t searched.
Wait! Tels exclaims to the others, looking at the mirror as Betel slowly scribes on it. Lutir? Oh, Ritual? he scratches his head. A ritual? What, where?
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"Yeah, that makes sense, we really should go there..." Hepcut says, "Let's get the little babies into that room and maybe they can figure out how to make it so we're not all ghosty and stuff."
She'll walk slowly to the conference room, and try to knock a small object or tilt a painting or something every 15 or 20 feet to give the children a path to the conference room that she and Betel were in before these Voidworms attacked.
"Also, does someone have like, a bandage or something? They did bite me a couple times."
Emergency. Conference Room Hari reads, then looks to Grelta. You didn't see anyone in there did you?
no the kobold replies. but i didnt look too close. maybe theres a clue in there!
The four students start moving with haste back towards the conference room as Hepcut also eads the way with scattered noises and rustles.
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When they're in the conference room, the kids look over the papers and quickly find the document Betel flagged.
So, there's some sort of ritual someone needs to do to get things back to normal? Are we those people? But it has to be in the center of the thing. Where's the center? The maze? The center of the lodge? Does Narven mean anything? as Vim asks a bunch of follow up questions, Tels shrugs.
I don't know Vim. But the one thing it looks like we definitely need is a shield, a pitcher, and a lodestone. I think I saw some shields in the training room, but I don't know where a pitcher or that stone might be.
Then we'll need to keep searching Hari says. But with our eyes open for a more specific focus.
As Ada heals her allies' cuts and bruises, the students exit the conference room and continue their search around the lodge's rooms.
As they approach the room next door, Grelta's snout twitches. hey. i think i smell something inside. it smells good!
The kobold opens the door and you can see a kitchen in the room beyond. A wide variety of chopped herbs and ground spices sits out in small bowls upon the room's central table next to open cookbooks, while a dusting of flour coats the work surface. Everything seems in place for the cooking of a delicious meal, and looking in you see there appear to be appears that five dishes are cooking simultaneously. Or rather are cooking simultaneously! On top of the large oven and cooktop on the far wall multiple pots are steaming and on the verge of bubbling over, while hot oil is sputtering and spraying in frying pans.
huh, or not. Grelta says confused as she looks in. it smells good but there's no food she says even as her eyes scan right over the pots you can see threatening to overflow.
(her bird Ruffles in turn squirms in her grip as its eyes seemed locked onto some caraway seeds on the floor)
Ooo, but there's gotta be a pitcher in here! Vim says. The goblin hurries into the room excitedly. Plus we still need to find the secret ingredient, right?
Of course as the goblin looks around, all of you see a big *splat* of grease popping launches a globule of grease out of a frying pan - and directly onto a nearby cookbook! None of the students seem to have noticed, but you wince as the grease smudges and smears the pages, rendering its recipes illegible!
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As the out-of-control cuisine overflows and spatters, a series of hot grease gets launches out from several of the pans to land on Hancock . Ada and Betel also have to avoid having hot grease sizzle against them.
Initiative, Round 1
[ooc]Potshot-ing pots and
Betel
Ahas
Hepcut
Ada
Hancock 7 damage
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"What now?!" Ahas exclaims when pots and whatnot begins to animate themselves. What a disaster is this field trip!" he tells himself as he gets inside to at least calm down the meals lest they fall to the ground and get wasted. Seeing Vim inside the kitchen though, he tries to move some empty saucers and plates to get her attention
"Notice these, notice these..." as he tries to nudge some empty wares on the table that is close to Vim.
What a disaster is this field trip!" he tells himself
Hancock gets the student's attention so they move into the room. What's that? Are we supposed to do something in here? Like a code or a trick?
Betel and Ahas shimmer a spoon and nudge a knife, which get Vim and Hari to try stirring and adjusting the heat of the fires. Unfortunately, the students still can't see what they're doing, and in the heat of the moment they misinterpret the chaperones instructions and the pots in question bubble and release a nauseating odor as they start to turn.
Luckily Ada seems to have taken some food-based electives in her time in the Magaambya. Manipulating the spoon and ladles isn't easy in her current state, but she knows just what to do to make the most of her minimal movements. Two of the dishes settle down and calm as fragrant and tantalizing scents waft through the air.
Initiative, Round 1
Hepcut
Hepcut jiggles the stove controls strongly enough that Tels notices and begins trying to lower the temperature and mime cooking the dish
Though a few of the dishes have setlled into their tasty form, the remaining pots and partially-provisonied-pans continue to clap-back with scorching splatter. Ada finds herself singed a bit, while Betel becomes burnt while bracing herself against a second splatter.
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Initiative, Round 2
Betel 9 damage, need Fort save
Ahas, need Fort save
Hepcut
Ada 7 damage
Hancock 7 damage
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What a disaster is this field trip!" he tells himself
"No! You turn it off the other way! Nooo!" Ahas exclaims as if he can be heard and just in time the fumes are starting to affect them.
Hero Point, if any:
Ahas then continues to communicate with Vim nudging the same knife to a certain direction to clue her the way to turn the fire out, hoping this time she understands the instruction despite the previous miscommunication.
Ahas holds his reptilian nostrils against the stench. However, even as Hancock tries to draw Vim's attention over there the nagaji struggles to get his message across. Vim fiddles randomly with the stove's dials. What is this supposed to be doing?
Luckily, Betel seems to have better luck. As the undine elf sends basic meanings through the veil, Hari moves towards a pan and replies I think they want us to cook it. Like there's food there. The half-elf picks the pan off the stove and gives it a flip - and you all see a nice pastry fly through the air to land perfectly back on the cookware.
-Okay, but like how though? Like there's a lot of things that you can cook...
Initiative, Round 2
Hepcut
Ada 7 damage
Hepcut attempts to jiggle the temperature gauge on the remaining burner to draw the kids' attention.
Ada manages to beat one of the last two dishes back under control!
While Hepcut draws the student's eyes to the one pan still about to spoil, a stray splatter strikes her for her troubles!
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Initiative, Round 3
Betel 9 damage
Ahas, need Fort save
Hepcut 5 damage
Ada 7 damage
Hancock 7 damage
Working together, you manage to finish up the last of the recipes!
Up close to the stove and countertops, Hari looks down into the pots. I'm still not entirely sure I understand. The smell of food is all around and the chaperones seemed to ask us to play at cooking it but there's nothing here.
not nothing. Grelta tugs at Hari's sleeve and points to a set of cookbooks on the counter. see?
The half-elf grabs one of the books and leafs through it, stopping at a page with a picture of a scrumptious-looking tart opposite its recipe. Good find Grelta! So, it looks like for a Woodsedge Tart, they use cinnamon specifically from Minata. That must be the secret! And getting it must be a nightmare.
Plus we got a pitcher! Vim says. The goblin has already grabbed a container almost as big as her torso and fills it with water as she talks. So that's two 'foci' or whatever down. And three assignments too! We're on a roll!
As they talk Betel notices out of the corner of her eye one of the pots in the corner of a room seemingly lift itself upwards. And upwards. Until it rises through the ceiling!
Meanwhile on the counter, while the foodstuffs in the pots and pans are still not exquisitely finished Ada sees a pair of completed appetizers crackers spread with cheese and pesto and topped with a bit of roast beef and a bit of cooking oil seem to shimmer on a side counter. She realizes those beef hors d'oeuvres could work as minor healing potions, and the oil as an oil of weightlessness
Vim and the other studetns finish filling the pitcher and move into the main hall.
Heading upstairs quickly Betel and Hepcut see that the Woodsedge Lodge's second floor seems shaped a bit like an 'H'. The central hall overlooks the main lobby and the students below while to the east and west two hallways stretch the length of the lodge, each of those with a set of four closed doors leading to rooms beyond.
But where - relative to the circumstances - the main floor of Woodsedge was fairly normal, the lodge's upper floor is immediately more strange. Strange noises faintly sound out from different corners as you look out over the landing: a bird chirp from the west followed immediately by a loud *gong* of a bell to the south, then a babbling brook sound clashing with whispers in an Ustalavic accent. The other sense are similarly affected, as the carpets lining the halls here swirl with shifting colorful patterns and the incongruous scent of low ocean tide and desert winds waft through the air.
Hancock tries to shift himself through the door. Where moving through other closed doors in the lodge have felt like pushing through a strong current, this movement makes the dwarf feel as though he is awash in wild rapids. As you finally passes through you blink: and see the backs of Betel, Hepcut, and the rest of your team as they are staring across the upper floor towards the door you just 'entered.'
Rather than emerge into the room beyond the door, Hancock finds himself coming back through another chamber on the upper floor!
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Ahas follows everyone as he keeps the vial of oil of weightlessness into one of his pockets. After a while he notices what bizarre thing has just happened to Hancock as he goes through the door and appearing to another.
"Is this some kind of teleportation device?" he muses as he follows Hancock.
"Ha! This is fun!" he adds.
Ahas seems excited about the strangeness of the doors up here. Trying to move through the door Hancock 'emerged from' the nagaji too feel a much more rough and disorienting sensation then when he had tried to pass through the lodge's doors below. A few moments later, he finds himself facing Betel and Hepcut as they talk, with Hancock a few doors down.
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Emerging and finding himself arrive somewhere in the second floor, he finds that Hancock does not appear on the same door he exited. He finds the barbarian into his left, maybe wondering what has just happened. "Hey, I'm here!" he calls out to the barbarian, waving both hands to be noticed.
"Look! I just got out to this portal instead!" he exclaims to others. "You should try it!" he suggests to them the fun he is experiencing now after the disaster that had happened just recently in the kitchen.