*Puts Bear on guard, keeping an eye out behind us.*
Do I see anyway to prop them all open?
Since AM HEALER is holding the door he opened he walks over and goes to open the third door.
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Nasty: As you open the third door, you see what must be a 150' circular chamber. This chamber is filled with boiling hot water. However a sunken stone ledge projects out into the boiling lake. The corridor from the dungeon continues out into the lake under a rubbery magical forcefield that keeps the water out by forming an elastic skin of super surface-tension. The shape of the corridor is not square in cross-section, but rather semi-circular, as if a series a series of hoops were supporting the ceiling. The skin is soft, resilent and uncomfortably warm to the touch. Under any pressure it immediately becomes taut and any character unwise enough to puncture it with something sharp will leave a permanent hole letting in the scalding hot water.
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The skin will not "heal" once punctured. Major damage to the to the waterskin, as from a slash with a sword or axe or punctures from arrows will collapse the field like a balloon in
After 50' the corridoor widens out into a low, dome-shaped area. Here lives the guardian, it is without a doubt the biggest crab anyone's ever seen. On one of it's forearms it wears a rune covered copper band.
Ok done
More seafood!!!
Boiling water? Giant crab?
Is anyone else thinking what I'm thinking?
I'll start melting some butter.
"We should get up top and fish....never fished from under the sea...."
Begins to hum under the sea.....
AM H's got crabs.
Uhhhh... Boiling it alive MIGHT not be the best option considering where else that water will end up...
"Wow that is the biggest meal I have ever seen. I am hungry."
He starts walking towards the crab.
"Oh boy this is going to taste good."
Turning to his stomach. "Hey Midgarde serpent are you ready for some good food?"
Trap wishes he still had those metric tones of coco so that he could make all the water into hot chocolate for Nasty to drink.
He recalls the tale of the three brothers and begins to think about telling the story....
"I am coco for Choca crab !!!!!!!!!!!"
There you go, thinking with your stomach again.
Looking back at her with a strange look. "what else should I be thinking with beside my stomach? I have to feed the Midgard Serpent in my belly."
Mind the arrows! You don't want to puncture these bubbles!
My devotion to Bashy, Lord of all Bludgeons, has prepared me for this moment.
Blunt objects, people!
Okay. Stinking cloud. Save DC 17. It smells like... Hmmm... Nasty's breath.
"So am I not allowed to eat this crab either?"
"Go for it big nasty!"
"The serpent has to eat."
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"Hmm...I remember seeing such a monster before, except that that one was already dead when I encountered it, and it even had the courtesy to tell me so and apologize."
Minimus Macabre stands at Tvashtri's hooves, its free arm outstretched and waiting...
...while Wicked Weaver projects swirling bolts of magical power at the monster...
...and the mechanisms in Agni's jaw and neck click, skitter, and reconfigure themselves ominously.
"Be very careful, team... I hit it pretty hard, and it shook it off as if it was nothing. Oh, and don't get in contact with that greenish-brown cloud of withering, noxious death over there."
Everyone get out of the room and we'll let the doors close.
Nasty, all the hot crab soup you could ever ask for coming your way soon!
I leave. Unless the crab was wearing a clawring of fire immunity, this should be a cinch... And what are the chances of that?
I through a rock at it, then leave it to boil.
"Now I know how a lobster feels!"
Trap thinks and thinks of how to get out of this one....but being a kender of very little brain he thinks some more....
"Hate to burst a bubble!"
"Wait! How many of you have tanglefoot arrows?"
Run out like I was told to do and avoid the scalding hot water.
I set up one of those little chafing dishes for melted butter.
"I think we can patch the hole and get a perfectly cooked crab, what say we slow that hole down?"
Grabs a tanglefoot arrow.....
Are the doors closing on their own, like they did before?
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"I think we can patch the hole and get a perfectly cooked crab, what say we slow that hole down?"
"Now THAT, my friend, is using your intellect! I fear I have no tanglefoot compound in any form or means of delivery, but I do have THIS!"
Before hoofing it out the door, Tvashtri whips out his trusty Traveler's Any-Tool, shaping it into a heavy anchor with a curious back end reminiscent of a crossbow bolt fletching. He loads it into Agni's bolt-launching, gravity bow-augmented maw, and primes Agni so as to be aiming onto the crab's broad backside. Agni fires the anchor-bolt, its magic amplifying its weight several times over.
I think you missed.
I use levitate so I don't get hot feet if the door gets flushed through before it can close.
"Guys? Probably time to go now."
"SO your plan is to die quicker?"
Trap fires off the first tanglefoot arrow hoping that it slows the water....
Shortbow attack , Damage tangled goo!
Looking at Alissa. "Should I grab the Halfling and bring him back through the doors?"
I'm already out the door melting the butter.
Looking anxiously at the door drool starts to puddle around his feet.
"So when can I open the door and go in to get the crab?"