"Huh?" As if on cue his big feet catch and he goes stumbling down the stairs with loud cries of frustration waking anything that might be asleep below and notifying any creatures in a 5 mile radius of his location. When he reaches the bottom of the pit he stands up shakes his head and says. "No worries I landed on my head so I am okay."
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As you traverse down you realize you are inside a giant stalactite!!! inside of a huge cavern. The cavern itself is 1000 feet wide, 500' feet tall and almost half a mile long.
From the bottom stair you emerge onto a balcony-like overhang on the side of the stalactite . Below, you can see a huge stalagmite that juts out of the mist that perpetually shrouds the floor of the cavern. The top of the stalagmite is open, rather than coming to a point and appears much like Nasty's gaping maw filled with hungry darkness inside.
From your Balcony, a bridge made out of chain runs across to another huge stalactite, this one almost directly over the open stalagmite below. A chain ladder drops down from there straight into the maw.
Whew... this must have cost a lot to build...
Only in materials. The slave labor was cheap.
"We had a slave once a halfling ... but I ate him. He tasted good. Or maybe he was a gnome they both taste good though."
Gnomes are more sugary.
Halflings are more smokey and softer
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Your descent into the top of the structure is long and physically tiring. When you finally see the bottom of the chain ladder, the floor below seems uneven and maybe even moving. The closer you get the more it becomes apparent that the entire floor below you is covered with writhing ,black-skinned snakes.
*Waits for Indiana Jones commentary*
Awwww so CUTE!!!
Snakes; very dangerous. You go first.
'kay.
*climbs down into the writhing mass, changing into a noble-looking gelatinous cube along the way*
Looking at Schism. "So can I eat the snakes now?"
No. These belong to Jenny.
He pouts ... "Can't I eat like three of them? I mean there are a lot right ?"
*gathers a glob of snakes near her top face, then fires them in a decently aimed spray up at Nasty*
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The floors and walls here have very convincingly been carved from the natural black stone so that they appear to be constructed of writhing, intertwining snakes of all types and sizes. In a few places, the snakes rise up as though preparing to strike. Furthermore, the closer you look, the more you see the horrible carved visages of humans being overwhelmed by the serpents, with faces and the occasional grasping hand all that is visible in the mass of snakes. After getting used to this unsettling form of decor, you can see that the area is basically an octagonal room, and the room's center is burdened with a huge serpents head made of stone, 30' in length and 15' high. The dark green paint that colors it remains, although it shows signs of aging
Nasty smiles as his lolling tongue swings around and grabs hold of a few of the snakes and stuffs them into his gullet.
"Thanks Jenny."
Nasty finishes walking down the steps into the room. He looks around for any living little critter and shots his tongue out like a frog or toad to grab the creature and munches down on them with a sickening crunch.
"So anything in this room?" He looks around for another door or exit.
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Nasty: Sadly there is nothing edible in here unless you like obsidian
Schism: You find 4 hatches, surrounding the large snake sculpture in the middle of the room. Each is about 3' in diameter and is removed by pulling it completely out of the floor with a rearing snakehead "handle"(somewhat like the lid of a jack-o-lantern). Let's call them A,B,C,D. None are trapped
Let me pull one.
Pulls D at same time Tvashtri pulls B.
Huh. This snake/human prey motif is the same my parents used in my nursery.
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Hatch B opens at the top of an eight-foot diameter shaft with a metal ladder at the center running from top to bottom, which lies 100 feet below.
Hatch C opens to a square shaft, eight foot to a side, extends down from this hatch, with a metal ladder running down one side. The shaft is about 80 feet long.
Hatch D opens to a 10 foot diameter shaft with you guessed it a ladder running down it's approximately 100-foot length
Sticks head into Hatch D.
Can I see anything at the bottom?
Does the lever stay in place when I take my hand off it?
Is there another lever inside the hatch?
He said “shaft.”
He said the hatch opens.
I stick by what I said.
I turn back into human form and look down into room A.
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Sticks head into Hatch D.
Can I see anything at the bottom?
Nope just a long shaft
Does the lever stay in place when I take my hand off it?
Is there another lever inside the hatch?
Yeah the lever is attached to the hatch opening. No other lever is inside
I turn back into human form and look down into room A.
The floor of this circular chamber is covered in bones, bone fragments, and skulls. Upon closer examination, you see that all of them have been severely gnawed upon, and some appear very old. The curved wall has twenty crude drawings of leering, horrific faces around the perimeter that seem to mock you as you glance about. The drawings are chiseled into the stone and painted over with blood that is now discolored and flaking
Hey Nasty.
Looks like lunch may be down that shaft.
Wanna go have a looksee?
"Huh ... did you say lunch? Where?"
He heads off down the shaft that Schism mentions is down the shaft. He meanders down that way club in hand.
What do you see?
What do you see?
What do you see?
Nasty looks around to see if he can see anything.
"Hmmm not sure I see anything."
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Nasty as you climb down the ladder, a horrible stench grows thick. Ok maybe not for you. The room at the bottom of the shaft is large, and there are two wooden doors on the eastern wall. The doors are bound in black iron, and the doorways themselves are carved in a manner to resemble...you guessed it entwined serpents.
The bottom of the ladder touches down in the middle of a raised section of floor, with the north, west and south sections of the room three feet lower than this central,raised area. A few steps connect the two levels. A dented helmet, a broken dagger, and a few other bits of equipment are scattered about the floor
Can I come down now?
Nasty looks around to make sure nothing can eat or hurt his friend. Seeing nothing he says.
"Yes come down looks safe. Not much to eat though. Another door. Smells nice down here like good food."
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Just as TAK and his floral smelling mechanicals make it down You attacked by the now visible extremely large trolls. Each troll is armed with a 10-foot-long pole topped with an opaque glass ball three feet in diameter.
Nasty
Schism
TAK
Inside the glass ball is a small black pudding(and not those pathetic pathfinder ones) that score an automatic hit.
Nasty
Schism
TAK
The third hit got me.
Question: Are the trolls hitting with multiple poles, or are there 8 trolls?
If just 3 trolls, I would think the puddin would be released on the first successful hit. Any later hits would just be for regular damage.
Uses rarely used bard skills.
Sings cure moderate wounds on Tak.
Everyone make reflex (DC 16) to cover their ears or be deafened for rounds and be shaken for rounds as a noise like fingernails on a chalk board permeates the room.
To cover ears, you must have 2 free hands.
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Yumping Yimminy!
Flame strike! Friend and foe alike! We’ll sort it out later.
DC 18 Reflex save for half
Evasion => No damage.