DM_Hallu: Okay, soooo... dead carrion crawler, session BEGIN!

Markas: "Well, I have to thank you for saving my life back there."

Healer_Lina: ((Ack, food in the oven, if I'm slow to respond that might be why))

DM_Hallu: You all are faced with the problem of packing up your treasure and figuring out where to go next. There are no visible exits to the centipede room besides the staircase you came in by and the door to the sticky room. There are no visible exits to the sticky room besides the door to the centipede room and a ladder release mechanism on the north end of the room.

Markas: ((How much of the sticky room is covered with Tobias' bedroll, if it's still on there?)

Healer_Lina is still tending to various bumps and bruises, and ignores the question of how to progress for now.

DM_Hallu: ((Enough that you can walk all the way across the sticky part.))

Markas: ((And whereabouts is the ladder release mechanism in that room?))

DM_Hallu: ((On the other side of the sticky part.))

Markas tries to adjust his sandals, but finds they're stuck to his feet. He then struggles slightly to remove his hand from his sandal, but emerges victorious in the end.

DM_Hallu: Lina, you notice Glru putting the stuff he traded from the spider into his own personal bags rather than into the shared pile.

Markas: ((god it's a slow day today. Where's everyone else gone to? XD))

Glru: (back now from maily goodness)

Healer_Lina raises an eyebrow at Glru.

Markas: ((Akavi was going to be interrogating me, so if anyone else wants to continue that, then cool. Or we can get that done at a later point like we did with Akavi and Glru's argument.))

Glru looks back at Lina "yes?"

Healer_Lina: "I thought we agreed to divide everything equally?"

DM_Hallu: ((I don't see anything in the log about Akavi interrogating anybody...))

Glru: ((did akavi's truth potion end up getting used on anthony, or was he sufficiently forthcoming that we didn't bother using it?))

Markas: ((It did get used.))

DM_Hallu: ((It was used on Anthony.))

Markas: ((As far as I could remember, Akavi was about to ask something (or probably already had asked something) to Markas)

Glru: "everything found, divide. These were not found.�

DM_Hallu: ((oh... I think my log gets cut off a few minutes before the end.))

Markas: "Dividing treasure, huh?"

Glru: "these were purchased. if spider had been monster, monster would be killed, trove would be shared. Flower eater turned Spider into merchant.�

Glru: "So Glru traded with merchant, thus these belong to Glru.�

Markas: "I take it then you've been together since before you got yourselves thrown into this place."

DM_Hallu: Akavi purses her lips. "In certain senses of the word."

Healer_Lina: "Semantics. But if the others agree to your logic, I won't object."

Markas: "Well, do you mind if I tag along with you for the time being? I can't survive in here alone."

DM_Hallu: ((I'm not touching this one with a ten-foot NPC. Tobias, looks like you've got the swing vote.))

Glru: "Glru is willing to sell or trade... and if we find arrows, Glru will lend bow to tobias so he can help from range, but if Glru did not make deal, these would be back in spider's nest. either way, these would not be yours.�

Tobias: ((wait, what are we voting on?))

DM_Hallu: ((Whether the stuff Glru and Akavi traded from the talking harpoon spider is communal party property.)

Tobias: ((ah))

Glru: ((line feels the items Glru trades with the harpoon spider for belong to the group, Glru contends they are his because he traded for them, and had lina not turned the spider into a merchant we'd have fought it and had all the treasure instead of just the parts akavi and glru traded for))

Tobias: "He's got a point. He did trade his rations for it."

Healer_Lina: ((Lina disapproves of Glru not consulting the group in what was, really, a group effort))

Glru: "and dead foxling. but Glru would have brought other carcass if foxling had not gone k'boom."

Glru: ((lina should say so))

Markas tries to think what the group are talking about for a moment, before it clicks.

Tobias: ((man, with Akavi being gone, Anthony being dead, and Markas being new, there feels like a lot less of us))

Healer_Lina: ((Lina did, earlier, in her indirect way, when she said she has no objections if the others agree.))

Glru: ((also Akavi traded with the spider first, but lina did not give akavi the hairy eyeball...))

Markas: "Spider?... Oh... THAT spider?! You... You bargained with that thing?"

DM_Hallu: ((Ika's also gone, that's why.))

Tobias: ((yes, that's it))

Tobias laughs slightly. "We sometimes have... unusual methods."

Glru nods to Markas "Flower eater turned spider into merchant. So we do not fight with spider. We trade with spider instead.�

Glru: "we give spider food and pictures of food, trade for treasure.�

Markas: "Unusual methods, eh? That reminds me of that group I read about in the papers a while back."

Glru rolls his eyes.

Glru: ((Glru gets a 2))

Healer_Lina: ((Lina would hold Akavi to the same standard of openness and honesty, were Akavi's player here))

Markas: "Y'know, all that malarkey with the train and everything. Tell you, that Jove guy should've been doing more than sleeping on the job."

DM_Hallu: ((Umm, Glru? I don't mean to, um, totally derail this game session, but how do you have 12 ranks in Disable Device at level 4?))

Glru: ((where is Akavi anyhow? and are we expecting Ika to return?))

DM_Hallu: ((Akavi had an emergency. I've no idea about Ika.))

Markas: "just last week he said "We have nowhere to move but the future". I predict in a month, he'll be saying "Y'want fries with that?"�

Healer_Lina: ((Lina would also be more than happy to see Glru and Akavi's gifts to the spider pro-rated into their share))

Glru: ((I put 5 at level 2 when we started, 4 at level 3 and 3 more at level 4.

Markas: ((XD and Markas is completely oblivious to the fact that he's with the A0001 security team right now.))

Healer_Lina: ((Glru, skill ranks do not work that way. :P))

DM_Hallu: ((you, um... can't actually do that.))

Glru: ((what is the limit per level?))

DM_Hallu: ((you can have 4 at level 1 and then 1 more per level later.))

Healer_Lina: (( http://www.d20srd.org/srd/skills/skillsSummary.htm ))

Tobias 's expression drops slightly. "Well, he was trying his best, you know. I'm sure the whole thing was pretty stressful."

DM_Hallu: ((Sorry, I should have caught this before.))

Healer_Lina: ((Fourth line))

Glru: ((dear me... i shall have to do some serious shuffling.))

DM_Hallu: Ika mutters darkly about being wrestled by rats.

Glru: (( i won't address the continuity violations of being in this dungeon since before we got here, yet still having read the paper about us :D))

Markas: "I'll say it must have been stressful, what with a group like that helping guard the train."

Tobias: ((Hallu, you're taking the log, right? Unfortunately, this computer won't allow me to cut and paste neatly from Mibbit))

DM_Hallu: ((Yeah, I'm taking the log.))

Markas: ((Gaaahhahaha MUD things slipping back into my speech))

DM_Hallu: ((Glru, it took you several weeks to get called for this job after the train incident, and another week to get down here. Markas totally could have read about it.))

Glru: ((ahh, i forgot how long we spent in town after the train issue))

Glru: "this was us, gaurding train.�

Tobias: "What's that supposed to mean?" he asks, his expression dropping further and his eyes narrowing slightly.

Healer_Lina: ((As to the loot - we can't really resolve this without Ika and Akavi, so let's wait until we're all together and then retcon it.))

Markas falls speechless. "Uhh... wow... that's put me on the spot right there..."

DM_Hallu: ((Ok by me, Lina.))

DM_Hallu: Ika takes chalk and draws a little spot under Markas' feet.

Healer_Lina: ((I'm fine either way, but this sort of thing really should be a group decision rather than a "possession is 9/10ths of the law" thing))

Glru: ((whoah, big storm rattling windows.))

Markas: "...What are you doing?" Markas asks, inquisitively.

DM_Hallu: "Nothing," says Ika. She goes back to the treasure pile and digs through for more blue things.

Markas looks at the spot, beginning to worry slightly.

Glru asides to Markas "Glru thinks she has claimed you as found item..."

Markas then realizes the pun that was made, and looks over to Ika "...You're a good one."

DM_Hallu: "We actually resolved all of the problems on the train," says Akavi, sounding bored and wanting to go on with the ladder and things.

Tobias blinks, then chuckles to himself, but doesn't bother explaining.

DM_Hallu: "Thank you!" says Ika cheerily.

Glru: ((belated wince))

Tobias: ((I must learn to type faster ^^; ))

Markas: ((It's not often the punster becomes the punned.))

Markas: "Right, well, enough chit-chat, I can do my job later. We should try and get out of here. What about that ladder?"

Tobias: ((You've only been around a short while, you don't get the title of official group punster yet ^~))

Glru suggests to Markas "Glru will toss you to ladder and you will pull it down?"

Markas: ((xD this is Anthony's player. I've been around for a good while. XD))

Tobias: ((I don't remember you being very punny as Anthony though...))

Markas: "Well, I don't know how many Health and Safety regulations that'd break, but I'm not a politician. I make fun of them."

Markas: ((I know, that's because I was more a coward than a comedian.))

Markas: ((Though I cracked the occasional pun OOC.))

DM_Hallu: The ladder release mechanism is easily within reach of a Medium-sized character standing below it, but it is locked with a padlock.

Tobias: ((Yes, but I was referring to your character XD anyway, on with the session))

Healer_Lina comes over to Markas, and introduces herself properly while they examine the ladder.

Glru is a little reluctant to get another faceful of uglydust, but he heads for the release, stopping at the end of the bedroll, he experimentally places a foot and then lifts it, seeing how much effort it will take.

Markas: "Nice to meet you, I guess. Ermm... sorry about the Haurvatat joke earlier."

Glru: ((is the ladder release over stickyfloor or is there a non-sticky perimeter?))

Markas: ((We established the Bedroll stretches across the room.))

Markas: ((or across the sticky part anyway))

DM_Hallu: ((There is a non-sticky perimeter and/or you're standing on the bedroll.))

DM_Hallu: Glru, what are you lifting? The bedroll or the ladder?

Glru: ((big bedroll... must be one of those imperialist bedrolls...))

Markas: ((His foot.))

Healer_Lina: "It is forgiven. I do hope we will be able to work well together."

Markas: ((He stepped on the floor to test its stickiness.))

DM_Hallu: The floor is mildly sticky here, but not enough to impede movement, it just leaves a mildly distasteful residue on your boots.

Glru: (glru is lifting his foot. put foot on sticky, lift foot off of sticky)

Markas: "Watch you don't lose a boot there... Glru, was it?"

Glru: "better on boot than on foot."

Glru gestures to Markas "do you know how to open locks?"

Markas: "Of course I do. You think I'd be thrown in here for telling jokes about the Lizardfolk?"

Markas: "Though saying that they didn't seem to have much of a sense of humour when I came round."

Glru gestures to the ladder release lock "open lock," he suggests.

Tobias raises an eyebrow. "What exactly did you get thrown in here for, anyway?"

Markas nods and walks carefully across the bedroll to get to where Glru is.

Markas: ((During the battle, I established that I got thrown in here for stealing from the Lizardfolk.))

Glru steps back just in case something falls on markas.

Tobias: ((ah, nevermind that then ^^; ))

Glru is casual...

Markas: ((Hallu, You said the lock was easily within reach of a medium character. What about a Small?))

Glru is also afk or a moment.

DM_Hallu: ((You can get to it if you stand on your tiptoes.))

Markas: ((alright then. I stand on my tiptoes (with some difficulty, due to glue still being left on my feet XD) and start picking the lock.))

Markas: ((That's a 20 on Open Lock.))

DM_Hallu: As soon as you disturb the inside of the lock, a needle jabs out and stabs you in the hand. 4 damage.

DM_Hallu: The lock does not open. Also, make a Fortitude save.

Markas: ((9 D:))

Markas: ((D: ))

DM_Hallu: Horrible burning pain fills your veins as you take 1 Con damage from an oily poison on the needle.

Markas: "Gaaah!"

Markas: ((well, at least it wasn't Cha damage. :3))

Markas: ((Crap, that's going to get a Rule 0 isn't it?))

Glru: ((back))

DM_Hallu: ((No. But remember to reduce your hit points accordingly :3 ))

Glru oohs softly at the needle trap.

Markas: ((No change there then. 13 Con to 12 con. :3))

Markas: ((Odd numbered stats can be handy sometimes.))

Markas winces in pain.

Markas: "I should have been more careful there. Gah..."

Glru: ((sooo can i disable device with the ranks i have in it for this session and fix it before next one?))

DM_Hallu: ((Yes, that's fine.))

Healer_Lina touches him gently on the shoulder, and the pain is gone ((Lesser Restore ftw))

Markas: ((yaaay))

Markas: ((I was going to stagger about a bit in pain but thanks.))

Glru lifts markas out of the way "excuse please," and searches for additional traps.

Markas: "Woah! Do you handle all small guys this way?"

Glru: ((search 30))

DM_Hallu: You don't see any undiscovered traps, but you definitely see the fiendish little needle trap.

Glru: "not all... some Glru feeds to spiders...�

Markas suddenly feels a lot less comfortable.

Glru: ((disable device 33, open lock 18))

Markas backs off a little from Glru, possibly not watching where he's walking.

DM_Hallu: You take apart the trap with ease, almost-but-not-quite managing to keep the parts intact for later reconstruction. However, the lock itself isn't budging.

DM_Hallu: Markas, you bump into Akavi.

Markas: "Whoop, sorry there ma'am."

DM_Hallu: Akavi smiles ghoulishly, for effect.

Glru drops broken bits of trap (is the poison needle salvageable?)) and tries to pick the lock once more (21)

DM_Hallu: This time it eases open.

Markas: ((Wait, where's Akavi that I bump into her when I was standing next to Glru near the ladder? XD))

DM_Hallu: ((I don't know, just go with it.))

Glru: ((do the face trick))

Glru: ((wave akav's nose :D ))

DM_Hallu: Akavi does not do the face trick, as this might, like, compromise her security or something.

Tobias: ((I think we've all kinda followed you somewhat))

Markas feels even uneasier and backs off from Akavi a little faster. Again, he isn't watching his step.

Healer_Lina: ((....face trick?))

DM_Hallu: ((Shifting to default changeling face))

DM_Hallu: This time you bump into Tobias.

Glru: ((sometimes akavi's facial features do funny things when he is not concentrating))

Markas: "Sorry mate." ((I would've thought I'd have stepped into something by now, standing on this here bedroll. X3))

DM_Hallu: ((I decided bumping into tall menacing people was funnier.))

Glru makes sure the lock has lost all its poison bits on the floor and adds it to his collection of junk.

Tobias looks slightly startled, but then smiles. "Hey, it's okay." "He holds out his hand. "Tobias, by the way."

Markas shakes Tobias' hand. "Nice to meet you. I'm Markas."

Glru wraps a twist of wire around the release lever and steps back, moving along the non-sticky bit of floor "watching for falling things," he advises.

DM_Hallu: The ladder gently swings down. Nothing falls onto anyone, although a few bits of dust and pebbles fall from sheer disuse. It's been a while since anyone got this far in the test...

Markas: ((Why do I get the feeling we're going to encounter GLaDOS soon? XD))

Glru: ((did we actually kill the carrion crawler, or is it just resting? ))

Markas: ((I'm still waiting for a disembodied robotic voice to say "You're doing very, VERY well."))

DM_Hallu: (It's at -9 and stable.)

Glru: ((you will most likely be eatem by a Glru. er, grue))

Tobias: ((I wonder whose job it is to come in and check that all the monsters are still here))

Markas: ((Markas: *backs off, falls into glue, is killed by Glru then eaten by a grue. I was a poet, wasn't presently aware of it.))

Glru very carefully climbs, checking for dust.

DM_Hallu: You get a fair ways up, and then encounter a trapdoor.

Glru: ((search 29 woot.)

Markas nervously goes over to the ladder and follows Glru up, trying not to look down.

Glru: ((searching trapdoor for traps, latches, locks 23))

DM_Hallu: You find some nonmagical dust, but nothing harmful. You do not see any traps, latches, or locks.

Glru places his listening device against the trapdoor and listens (19)

Glru: (wait, +2 for device, 21)

DM_Hallu: Glru, Markas, Reflex save!

Glru: ((fuck.))

Markas: ((Now that's where I excel. *rolls* 20))

Glru: ((25. kitties rule))

Markas: ((What's your reflex save Glru? XD Mine's +8 total. :3))

DM_Hallu: As soon as you touch the trapdoor, an enormous fireball FOOMS down and does 19 damage to markas.

Glru: ((lvl 4 bodger +4, dex 20, +5))

Markas: ((Uh oh. XD))

Glru also has evasion :)

DM_Hallu: Glru's fur is only slightly singed.

Markas: ((Hey, I have evasion too. XD do I get a save or do I just take the damage?))

DM_Hallu: Oh, you have evasion?

Markas: ((Yah. Rogue. :3))

Glru: ((Glru does, however, do the cartoon black face for comedic effect))

DM_Hallu: My mistake, both singed, no dmg.

Markas: ((Otherwise that puts me at -3. XD))

Tobias jumps slightly at the sudden shot of fire.

Glru: ((evasion turns half damage to no damage))

Glru: ((doesn't it?))

DM_Hallu: (it does.)

Markas: ((Yep.))

Glru: ((nifty))

Markas: ((That must mean it was originally 38 damage being done to us. XD))

Glru ahems softly.

Glru leans way to the side "Glru is going to touch again... you may wish to move aside.�

Markas nods.

Glru: ((these lizards do not screw around))

Glru: ((if possible, i declare my dodge on the trap door and touch it again))

Healer_Lina: ((So.... Markas is at.... what?))

DM_Hallu: This time nothing happens. The charge seems to have been expended for now.

DM_Hallu: ((full hp :D))

Markas: ((Well, 16/20HP I think.))

Markas: ((For me anyway.))

Glru: ((I'm assuming the fireball is noisy, yes?))

DM_Hallu: ((oh right. and yes, fire noisy.)

Glru: ((like, noisy enough that if someone is on the other side of the door, they would have heard the whoosh?))

DM_Hallu: Yes.

Markas: (("Where's the "Kaboom"?! There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering "KABOOM"!!!"))

Glru tries the catch if he sees one, otherwise shoves the door open.

Healer_Lina comes forward and heals Markas for the remaining 4, with a quiet sigh at feeling Eir come near.

DM_Hallu: The door opens into a dim and foul-smelling, but empty, room.

Glru looks around (spot 16) and heaves himself up into the room "hand up torch please, is wery dark."

Markas: "Sorry I couldn't be more useful to you guys. Those bastards took my bow when they threw me in here, so I'm kind of useless at the moment. That, and I'm not a killer. Most I could hope for is fatal hilarity maybe."

DM_Hallu: Water is dripping very slowly from the ceiling, leaving a small puddle on the floor (away from the trapdoor) and slime on the walls and ceiling.

Markas: "Ugh... this room stinks."

Glru sniffs the air (why isn't there a sniff skill? what would i roll for that?)

DM_Hallu: (you would roll Wisdom.)

Markas looks at the slime on the walls and ceiling. ((Roll search for that?))

Glru: (12+2) glru tries to determine if the smell is something flammable before the torch comes up.

DM_Hallu: (Wait, Markas, are you in the room?)

Markas: ((I am. I followed Glru up here. XD))

DM_Hallu: (Did Glru move forward to make room for Markas, or did Markas exit in a different direction?)

Tobias: ((are the torches in the sticky room regular flame ones? or did someone bring one from the stairway?))

DM_Hallu: The smell does not seem particularly flammable in the way that, say, oil or paint are flammable. It smells like it would burn, but only if you shoved fire right at it.

Markas: ((I thought Glru had finished climbing the ladder and was in the room. If not, my bad, I'm still on the ladder beneath Glru.))

DM_Hallu: ((Glru?))

Glru looks around (spot 16) and heaves himself up into the room "hand up torch please, is wery dark."

Tobias passes up a torch to Markas to give to Glru.

Glru: (so, yeah, sitting on the lip of the trapdoor, you could climb past me)

DM_Hallu: ((What I'm concerned about that is whether you moved after that and whether Markas has room to heave himself up as well.))

DM_Hallu: ((Oh, ok.))

Markas hands Glru the torch and heaves himself up into the room.

DM_Hallu: ((Climbing past Glru, or in a different direction, or what?))

Markas: ((Climbing past Glru.))

DM_Hallu: As soon as you take a few steps past Glru, a patch of horrible green slime drops onto your head!

Glru lays his wrench beside him, takes the torch in one hand and helps markas up if desired "there is mossy slime on walls... perhaps you should negotiate with it..."

Markas: "Ugh, sick!"

Glru drops the torch on the floor, grabs his wrench and boot-slides down the ladder.

DM_Hallu: It does 5 points of horrible agonizing Con damage as it dissolves your flesh. Everybody (who's not planning on cowering at the bottom of the ladder like a kitten) roll Initiative.

Markas: ((Yikes.))

Glru is planning on cowering.

DM_Hallu: ((*gives Glru a ball of yarn*))

Tobias: ((7))

Healer_Lina: ((9))

Glru points up the ladder "mossy slime is not just mossy slime, it is eating squirel!�

Glru: (12)

Markas: ((I'm down to 18/18 HP then, I think. Maybe 17/17.))

Markas: ((22 on the init roll. *pumpfist*))

Tobias: (( I take it we're going up the ladder to his rescue in whatever order our initiatives are))

Glru: ((this dungeon is not stat-friendly... if we spend enough time inhere, we'll be down to 3s across the board :) ))

Tobias: ((not including Markas, who's already there))

DM_Hallu: Markas, your turn. What do you do?

Glru is back down the ladder, having bolted when markas got splatted.

Markas: ((Well, depends on if we're fighting anything.))

DM_Hallu: Currently nobody is in the room but you. You are covered with green slime that is eating your flesh. What do you do?

Markas: ((can the slime be removed in any way, or has its damage been done?))

Tobias: ((but we're going back up, right? otherwise we wouldn't have rolled initiative))

DM_Hallu: ((Yes, you can go back up if you like, but it is Markas' turn first.))

DM_Hallu: It seems like it could be removed if you had something to scrape it off with...

Markas: ((Can I see my surroundings at the moment? I was thinking of climbing down the ladder for help.))

DM_Hallu: Yeah, you can see.

Markas: ((Alright, I start climbing down the ladder.))

*** Glru quit (Quit: http://www.mibbit.com ajax IRC Client)

Markas: "I don't want to alarm you folks, but something is eating my head."

Tobias: (to Glru's previous comment) "Well, we better go up and get him then."

DM_Hallu: (...and it was Glru's turn next D: )

Tobias: ((would getting on the ladder be a free action?))

Markas: "It's burning horribly so all assistance is appreciated. Permission to scream in pain?"

Tobias: ((or would it take a turn just to get up there?))

DM_Hallu: It would be a move action.

DM_Hallu: Since Glru is not here, I hereby deem it Lina's turn.

*** Glru joined #AVENdnd

Glru: ((am so.))

DM_Hallu: Scratch that. Glru, it is your turn! Markas is climbing down the ladder with slime all over him.

Tobias: ((huzzah, he returns to us))

Markas: "Someone get this stuff of meeeee!"

Glru stands aside and gestures grandly in a 'be my guest' type motion.

Glru: "glru knows how to fight green slime, you throw fire at it from safe distance untill it is gone..�

DM_Hallu: Now it's Lina's turn.

Markas: "Well, would you care to get it OFF of me before you do that?"

Glru digs in his bags for a bit of throw-away metal suitable for scraping.

Glru tosses this bit to markas once markas is on the ground.

Tobias: ((I feel a bit like those Final Fantasy characters who can only talk at you because it's not their turn yet XD))

Markas: ((Now Lina is dead. X3))

Healer_Lina heals Markas with Lesser Restoration ((+4 Con!))

DM_Hallu: Akavi drops into a summoning spell for obscure reasons of her own.

DM_Hallu: Tobias' turn!

Markas: ((back to 20 HP xD))

Tobias: ((.... I'm so confused by this turn thing since nothing appears to be attacking us XD I'm sure there's a reason for it though))

DM_Hallu: ((There is.))

Tobias gives Markas a concerned look. "You okay, buddy? Did something throw that at you, or what?"

Markas: "It fell on me. It's apparently acidic."

Glru: "it leaps off ceiling onto him."

Markas: ((Lina, make with the soap!))

Glru: ((knowledge natur, 22. what is it?))

Healer_Lina: ((No no, you want one of my ROGUES for that. Lina is a nice girl who only uses soap for looking clean and pretty))

Markas: ((Markas: "You Haurvatat healers are all the saaaaame!"))

Healer_Lina: ((*rolls Know Nature too... and gets 22* =P))

DM_Hallu: (It is green slime. It lives in dungeons getting by through dissolving all materials except stone. It is vulnerable to cold, heat, and sunlight.)

DM_Hallu: Ika casts a well-meaning but useless Cure Light Wounds at Markas, mistaking his Con damage for HP damage.

Markas: ((There's no bargaining with this Slime. Please, kill it, don't ask it to check our stocks. <.<))

Tobias: "Anyone got any ideas on how to get through a room with acidic slime?"

Tobias: (( XDD Is the slime intelligent? Does it have a language?))

Markas: ((Slimes aren't intelligent as far as I can tell. They also can't be backstabbed.))

Healer_Lina: ((Hallu - Lina was already all over that, the Con damage is mostly gone already. =P))

DM_Hallu: The slime hisses and bubbles as it digs deeper into Markas' flesh, doing a further 3 points of Con damage. It is now too deeply attached to him to be merely scraped off; it must be cut, burned, etc.

DM_Hallu: Markas' turn!

DM_Hallu: (And no, the slime is a mindless member of the fungi kingdom.)

Markas: ((God I wish I had a weapon. XD))

Markas: ((Is there a torch nearby?))

Tobias: ((Glru gave you a scrappy thing))

Glru gestures upwards "is green slime, you kill with fire or sunlight. Did anyone bring pocket full of sunshine?" he looks pointedly at Lina and Ika.

Tobias: ((oh, but that's not helpful now))

Markas: ((Glru, are you still holding the torch?))

Healer_Lina: ((Hallu - would "Purify" do anything to weaken it, maybe? O=D ))

Glru dropped the torch up there.

DM_Hallu: ((No. But make a Knowledge (nature) check.))

Markas: ((Dammit. Are there any other torches in the room that I can access?))

Glru: ((quick check: do sunrods actually produce sunlight?))

DM_Hallu: ((Reisha still has her torch from the centipede room, but she has just been standing there with it as she is hesitant to stick fire into Markas' already tortured skin.))

Healer_Lina: ((Know Nature 22))

Markas: ((Right.))

DM_Hallu: ((Remove Disease would do it.))

Glru: ((marakas, scrape it off...))

Markas: ((It can't be scraped off now.))

Tobias: ((it's burned into him too deep for that now))

Markas: ((Can I grab the torch from Reisha?))

DM_Hallu: ((Yes.))

Markas: ((Right.))

Markas: "Sorry, I'm going to have to borrow this. No pain is worse than what I'm going through just now." That said, Markas grabs the torch and tries to burn the slime.

DM_Hallu: ((And sunrods provide "shadowy illumination".))

Glru grabs markas by the ankles and hangs him upside down, figuring gravity should make the slime fall off, or at least slow its decent into his flesh.

Glru: (and upside sown the fire will fet into it better)

DM_Hallu: The slime burns, shrivels, and falls off of Markas dead. He also takes 2 points of fire damage, but that's way better than Con damage.

Markas: "Much better."

Glru sets markas down.

Markas: ((It wasn't your turn anyway XD))

DM_Hallu: Reisha mumbles "Sorry..." in Dwarvish, clearly a bit embarrassed at her inaction.

DM_Hallu: ((Combat over, anyone can act whenever they please.))

Glru considers, then mentions "3 or 4 rooms back, is bow and arrows in your size..."

Markas: "That could prove to be handy."

Glru: "previous owner is not using them..."

Markas: "What happened to him? Or... do I want to know?"

DM_Hallu: ((he's being digested by a harpoon spider :D ))

Glru wiggles fingers in front of his mouth and makes a wet noise.

Glru: "First explosiong, then Spider.�

Markas: ((Reminder of which room we're currently in again?))

DM_Hallu: ((You are in the room with the sticky floor.))

Markas: ((alright.))

Markas once again backs a fair distance away from Glru. "Riiiight..."

Healer_Lina: ((So the thing is dead?))

DM_Hallu: ((Yes.))

Tobias does his best to ignore the ongoing conversation. "You know, if we had the bow and arrows we might be able to set an arrow on fire and shoot it up there. Burn away the slime without getting too close."

Glru: ((on that knowledge nature, is there likely to be more than one of those?))

DM_Hallu: ((No, there is not.))

Glru: "is probly only one that tried to eat squirel...�

Tobias: ((oh, so there's no more slime then?))

Glru: "probably...�

Markas wanders around the room again, trying to get his bearings straight after all that pain he just endured. As such, he's not too sure where he's actually walking to.

Glru leans, looks up.

DM_Hallu: ((That's not the sort of questoin that I as a DM can answer. But they do not tend to congregate in groups in places as small as that room.))

DM_Hallu: Markas, you smack right into the unconscious carrion crawler.

Markas backs off, still not quite aware where he's walking.

Markas: ((XDD Clumsy Markas.))

Tobias: (( fair enough))

Glru sighs, then starts up the ladder again "Glru will check..."

DM_Hallu: ((Markas, stop begging to get stuck, I'm only going to keep on denying it to you.))

Markas: ((Alright then. XD))

Tobias: ((by the end of this you're going to bump into every member of our party XD))

Glru: ((and ika will stab you :) ))

Healer_Lina: "May I request a small break of perhaps an hour? I will not be able to restore [ability damage] anymore without it."

DM_Hallu: Glru steps out into the dim room and is not hit by any slime.

Glru gets to the top of the ladder without entering the room, picks up the torch and holds it aloft, looking for more mobile slime.

DM_Hallu: ...or that.

DM_Hallu: Yah, a bit of mildew and yuck, but no more mobile slime.

Glru calls from the ladder "Certainly, will give Markas time to get bow and arrows.�

Tobias looks hesitantly up the ladder. "Anything up there still?"

Glru comes back down with the torch "slime. but not kind that eats you.�

Glru: "unless you sit very still for long time..."

Healer_Lina finds a quiet(er) spot, and begins the process of renewing her connection with Pelor and Eir.

Healer_Lina: (( FOR EIR!!! ))

Markas: "So it was just me? Typical, that."

Tobias: (( For PONY!))

DM_Hallu: Markas, while Lina meditates are you going to go down and get Anthony's stuff?

DM_Hallu: ((SPARTAAA!)

Healer_Lina: (( LFG reference there? ))

Tobias: (( I love that comic ^^ ))

DM_Hallu: (oh, I thought we were just randomly yelling...)

Healer_Lina: (( Don't suppose anyone caught my reference? :D ))

Markas: ((Sure thing. XD))

Glru: ((kill yourself and roll up a rogue, we'll wait.))

DM_Hallu: ((but he *is* a rogue.))

Healer_Lina: ((Who, Glru?))

Glru: ((starcraft, the protos. the dark templar if memory serves))

Healer_Lina: ((Zealots I believe, but I could be mistaken))

Glru: ((i was makin another Richard of LFG reference with the rogue comment..))

DM_Hallu: Akavi takes you down to Anthony's shrine and you are now the proud owner of a composite longbow with nonlethal ammunition and some leather armor.

Markas: ((Yay.))

Tobias: (( what part of the story was that quote from?))

Glru: ((you could be right. i think it's the ones that were manshaped, but invisible))

DM_Hallu: However, you cannot use the composite longbow because your Strength is not high enough.

Markas: ((Ah well. XD))

Markas: ((Wait, what was Ant's Str bonus again?))

DM_Hallu: 14/+2.

Glru: ((richard says to pinky 'you have the power inside you, look within yourself' and pinky concentrates and strains and focuses.... then sags in his chains and says "I can't get out of this, can i?" then richard says the rogue line))

Markas: ((Ahh, in that case that's correct.))

DM_Hallu: FAST FORWARD! An hour goes by, now Lina has all her spells.

Healer_Lina: ((Google suggests "Zealot"))

Tobias: ((hehe, I remember now))

Glru: ((take your word for it; it's been years since i played))

Glru: ((soooooo, upupup the ladder we go))

Glru generously offers to let someone else go first if they want.

DM_Hallu: Everybody goes up the ladder and finds themselves in the dank and foul-smelling room.

Healer_Lina climbs.

DM_Hallu: The good thing about the dank and foul-smelling room is that there are gold and jewels on the floor!

Glru: ((20 search))

DM_Hallu: You find gold, a blue banded agate, a red spinel, an aquamarine, a sapphire, and a potion of Eagle's Splendor.

Healer_Lina: ((So, two blue then. :P))

Markas: "Wow. You guys get all the gold, I get a bunch of acidic goo in my face."

Glru suggests "perhaps magic type would look for magic on treasure, walls, doors....�

DM_Hallu: ((Three blue! Aquamarines are blue!))

Markas: ((I am the party bitch after all. XD it's an inevitable position for me. XD))

Glru: ((blooooooo)

DM_Hallu: Akavi grumblingly casts Detect Magic and does not detect any magic, except for the fireball spell on the trapdoor which is still recharging, and something way up at the top of a chimney-like structure that you can't quite see the top of...

Tobias: "I think you deserve a share of what's in this room for the whole acid thing at least..."

Glru: (suggest we scoop the floor into a bag and let tobias carry it until we're all here to take picks, since tobias it probly the only one here that everyone trusts)

Glru taps markas on the shoulder and points up "Shoot magic thing, then ge out of way."

DM_Hallu: The chimney-like structure is very odd. The walls on the southwest side of the room converge into a narrow, rough shaft. Even with the slight sliminess of the walls, it looks like a Medium-sized person should be able to climb it if they are careful. A Small-sized person could still do it, but would have to be even more careful.

Healer_Lina: ((Thanks for the vote of confidence, Glru. =P But yes, Tobias is acceptable))

Glru: ((is the spell of fireball on the trap door itself?))

Markas: ((I can't use the bow, remember? XD))

Tobias: (( ^^ ))

Markas: ((What level of bow do you have Tobias?))

DM_Hallu: ((Yes, it hits whoever touches the bottom of the trap door.))

DM_Hallu: Other than the trapdoor and the chimney, there are no exits to this room.

Glru: ((really? you're scrawnier than anthony?))

Tobias: (( I do not have a bow. I have a sword. It is sharp and pointy, but not great for ranged attacks))

DM_Hallu: ((yes, he is scrawnier than anthony.))

Markas: ((Who got the bow from the Harpoon spider then?))

Tobias: ((Glru))

Markas: ((What kind of bow is it?))

Glru examines the trap door (which 'm assuming is pointed up) is it under the magic thing above? or could it be aimed at it?))

DM_Hallu: No, it could not be aimed at it, because the chimney goes up further than the top corner of the room itself.

Tobias: (( oh, I do have a sling))

Markas: ((XD I'm trying to find out what kind of bow it is. But it's probably a longbow now that I think about it, and I'm not proficient with those.))

DM_Hallu: ((It's a masterwork composite longbow with no strength bonus. You could easily use it.))

Markas: ((well, I could use it easily, proficiency-related penalties aside. :3))

Glru: ((the one from the horde? would a small person not need a strength bonus to use a medium bow? Glru is willing to lend it if he can use it, but i'm assuming it would be treated as a longbow because of the size))

DM_Hallu: ((Oh, good point.))

Glru: (extra-long bow)

Markas: ((It's already a longbow. o.o That'd make it a greatbow or something. XD))

DM_Hallu: ((well, YOU could try it. Or someone else could.))

Tobias: ((I cannot remember if fighters are proficient with bows))

Glru: ((a 48-tall))

DM_Hallu: ((Fighters are proficient with *everything*))

DM_Hallu: ((well, except exotic weapons.))

DM_Hallu: ((bows are not exotic.))

Glru: (i'm all for loaning it to tobias, but we have no arrows. the small arrows wouldn't work on as meduium bow.))

Healer_Lina: ((Greatbows are exotic))

DM_Hallu: ((yes they would, it's the same mechanism, just put them beside the string and pull back and let go.))

Tobias: ((would a sling have enough range to get up there? 'cause I've got a sling))

DM_Hallu: ((a sling would do.))

Markas: ((I was just comparing a Medium longbow to a small Greatbow. XD))

Markas: ((Repeating and hand crossbows are exotic though.))

DM_Hallu: ((it's not like a gun where you have to fit the ammunition in a little compartment))

DM_Hallu: ((...*thinks a little more about how bows work* wait, nevermind, maybe they wouldn't.))

Glru: ((darling, no. i don't know if the rules allow it, but if you have a bow that is 2 feet long, it will have arrows roughly a 18 inches long. a medium bow, say 3 or 4 feet long will use arrows 2 to 3 feet long. shorter arrows will cal off your thumb at full draw))

Glru: ((or the rest if the bow has one...))

Healer_Lina: ((Mmmm.... no, it should be possible, just maybe with a -2 or -4 penalty to attack rolls because of draw length issues and whatnot))

Tobias: ((alright, well someone mention something IC when we decide, because I don't think I know anything yet))

Glru: (you would have to be VERY good with a bow to use arrows that are too short)

DM_Hallu: ARGH GUYS I AM NOT GETTING INTO AN ARGUMENT ABOUT ARROW LENGTH. Tobias, shoot with your sling.

Tobias loads his sling and fires it at the trapdoor/chimney/whatever thing.

DM_Hallu: Roll damage.

Tobias: ((3))

*** Glru quit (Quit: http://www.mibbit.com ajax IRC Client)

DM_Hallu: The sling bullet pings off whatever's at the top of the chimney and lands at your feet. It does not appear to have done any damage; a sling does not tend to do enough damage to hurt a solid object. Arrows miiiiiight, but probably not, and even if they did it would take forever.

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Tobias: ((I thought the point was to set off whatever magical thingey))

DM_Hallu: No magical thingeys are set off.

Tobias picks his bullet back up and puts it in the pouch with the others.

Glru pops his revolver and shoots (23)(is the revolver a MW?)

DM_Hallu: (no.)

DM_Hallu: Roll damage, Glru.

Glru makes with the bang, regular round.

DM_Hallu: If you rolled damage, I didn't see it.

Glru: yay! max damage: 8

DM_Hallu: The bullet pings off in the same manner as Toby's sling bullet. No magical thingeys are set off.

Glru sighs.

Glru: "if no one has better idea, Glru will climb...�

Glru: "wait....�

Glru grins widely, puts away his revolver and unslings Verah.

Healer_Lina raises an eyebrow.

Glru: (21 to hit 15+2 damage)

Glru: ((dust sifts to the floor))

DM_Hallu: The bullet still falls to the ground, but you hear a small crunching noise and hear some falling dust that indicates you did a little bit of damage to whatever was up there. Again, no magical thingeys are set off.

DM_Hallu: (er, *see* some falling dust.)

Glru huffs indignantly and reloads verah (craft small arms 28) does the revolver to so it's fully loaded (23)

Glru suggests to markas "you are squirel, you are good climber, yes? if something explodes, drop down and Glru will most likely catch you."

Markas: "Ermm... Alright then."

Markas: ((That's an 18 on the climb.))

Glru hands his wrench to Ika in preparation of catching a falling squirel.

DM_Hallu: You slowly make your way up the chimney.

DM_Hallu: At the top, about 40 feet up, there is a cap of solid metal. You do not see any handles or other convenient mechanisms for opening the cap. You do, however, see an irregularly shaped carving in the metal, looking like something might fit into it. You estimate it is about the size of Glru's fist.

Markas shouts down. "Hey, I see a slot in here for something to fit. I remember being told something about getting the "Sun Stone". I wonder if it's supposed to fit in here. We never could find the damned thing though.

Glru: ((what, I'm hellboy?))

DM_Hallu: ((I have not seen Hellboy.))

Glru holds his palm out to Akavi "glru will throw...."

Markas: ((Hopefully you're strong enough to throw it, and I'm dexterous enough to catch. XD))

DM_Hallu: "Throw?" says Akavi. "Are you crazy? What if it breaks?"

Glru: ((in hellboy, his right fist is a key to open a dimensional portal))

Glru: "glru will catch.."

DM_Hallu: ((oh. no, your fist just happens to be about the same size as the Sun Stone.))

DM_Hallu: Akavi gives you a withering look of deep distrust, but she fishes the Sun Stone out of her picket and hands it over. It glows brightly, illuminating the dingy and slimy room like sunlight.

Glru sighs "Glru could tie to rope and throw rope instead...�

Tobias: ((it amuses me that we didn't think of using that to get off the slime ))

DM_Hallu: "Whatever you prefer," says Akavi, looking a bit miffed at not being able to just mosey on out of the city with the Sun Stone in her pocket.

Markas: ((remember, Markas is unaware that you have the sun stone.))

Glru throws his gappling hook instead, and assuming a catch, ties the sunstone up in the trailing end.

DM_Hallu: Markas, you suddenly see a bright light down below you.

DM_Hallu: You also see a grappling hook bury itself in the stone beside you.

Markas: "... You guys are better than I thought. You got the Sun Stone, I assume."

Glru: (well i was throwing it 'to' not 'at')

Markas starts pulling the rope that the sunstone is tied to.

Glru: "you have no idea..."

DM_Hallu: You quickly pull the Sun Stone up to your level.

Markas unties the Sun Stone and tries to fit it in the slot.

Glru prepares to catch the squirel or the sunstone or both (favoring sunstone if both fall at once)

Glru: "Check for traps!"

Markas: ((dammit.))

DM_Hallu: The Sun Stone fits perfectly in the slot. For a moment, it goes out, leaving you blinking in the dark.

DM_Hallu: Then, light streams across the metal plate even more brightly than before, and when the stars are gone from your eyes the cap and sunstone are both gone. The chimney opens out into what looks like a frequently used lizardfolk temple room, although it's hard to see anything but the ceiling from here.

Markas shouts down "It's open!"

Glru: "set hook on lip of chimney!"

Markas: "Exactly my thoughts."

Markas takes the grappling hook from the rock, then climbs out and sets the hook on the lip of the chimney.

Tobias gives a small cheer at the prospect of finally getting out of the dungeon.

Healer_Lina ascends, using the grappling hook's rope (take 10 on Climb, since we're not hurried)

DM_Hallu: Lina ascends easily. In fact, with the rope, everybody can get up.

Glru goes first since we may be walking into a roomful of angry lizards.

DM_Hallu: Ika cheers immediately upon hearing "it's open!" Reisha takes the news in stride, but when she gets high enough on the rope to see the ceiling, her eyes open wide in relief and hope.

Markas waits for everyone to get out, and shouts back down the hole "I'd like to see you get out of here, bloody beast!!", presumably at the carrion which had tried to devour him earlier.

Glru: ((waits for akavi's ghost sound of a carrion crawler))

DM_Hallu: Everybody gets out into a large, opulent temple room, and immediately sees a semicircle of about twenty lizardfolk pointing crossbows at you.

Markas: "Alright, alright, keep your bloody shirts on. We passed your damn test."

Glru coils up his rope and stows it.

Glru: "squirel does not represent Glru."

Markas: ((evidently Markas is pissed off. XD))

Healer_Lina activates her Calm (DC 21)

DM_Hallu: At the other end of the semicircle is a tall, elderly male lizardfolk, in robes even grander than Sayenya's, looking quite calm. "Do not be alarmed," he says, in correct but accented Common. "The guards are here as a precaution. We have heard noises from within the dungeon that are unprecedented. But the gods will judge as the gods will judge. Is this all of you?"

Markas: "As far as I can tell from what I've heard, all of us, minus one, plus one again."

Glru: "it is most of Glru. most of everyone. only little bits of anthony."

DM_Hallu: The lizardfolk nods. Sayenya, who has been kneeling in an apprenticed position at the side of the room, rises to her feet, looking at all of you. "They cheated!" she hisses. "Look! They've got weapons! They cheated!"

DM_Hallu: Reisha immediately puts up her hands, showing the lack of weapons on her own person, at least.

Glru: "Akavis brings weapons with magic. also, Glru does not recall agreeing to going without weapons. Glru does not recall agreeing to go..." Markas: "You honestly think we'd deal with a bloody carrion with bare fists and feet glued to the floor?"

Markas mutters to himself "at least I'll have material for next week's show." Tobias: "Besides, if we got weapons after being put in your test, then your gods must have judged we should have weapons, don't you think?"

Glru thinks about it "actually, except for testing door, group did not use weapons... "

Glru: "had, but did not need."

DM_Hallu: The male lizardfolk hmms. "That is more or less what I was going to say..." he murmers to Tobias.

Healer_Lina: "Enough. We have passed, and you are going to let us go now." ((Diplo 35))

Markas: "Yeah, as far as I've heard, these guys were making bloody arrangements with your damned mutant spider."

Glru: ((sweet roll.))

Glru gives markas a friendly brainduster.

DM_Hallu: The male lizardfolk gives Lina a sharp look. "The sun and the earth seem to have chosen not to teach any of you any humility. Be that as it may, you are correct. You have passed. Leave Ixtlanco now and you will not be harmed."

DM_Hallu: Sayenya looks like she wants to object, but the high priest silences her with another one of his looks.

Markas: "Pfft, fine. Not like you had anything of any real value anyway. Except in that dungeon of course."

Healer_Lina: ((Well, it's not in the dungeon any more now is it?))

DM_Hallu: Sayenya splutters "Do you know what blasphemy you are speaking in our own temple? Leave NOW!"

Markas heads for the door, hands raised at all times to show he means no harm, and has only a sharp tongue.

DM_Hallu: Reisha follows him, eager to leave.

Markas: "And y'can take your bloody freak experiments with you too. Never in my life have I seen a spider like that."

Glru: "is only blasphemy if it is our god."

DM_Hallu: Akavi and Ika are heading out, too, not wanting to get in an argument with these people.

Healer_Lina leaves as well.

Markas: ((XD Markas is starting to get an accent of his own.))

Tobias also leaves as quickly as possible, figuring the lizardfolk are peeved enough between Markas and Glru.

Glru: ((soooo, are we done here?))

DM_Hallu: ((has Markas headed out?))

Markas: ((Yes, I'm out the door.))

Glru does a little soft-shoe-shuffle.

Markas: ((If everyone else is out I've probably slammed the door as well, if there is one to be slammed. XD))

DM_Hallu: Okay. You all leave and skip like happy bunnies through the mud to House Timur's buildling.

Healer_Lina: ((Cuddly Fluffy Bunnies? O=D ))

DM_Hallu: ((Moments after Markas slams the door, two temple guards appear, pick him up by the elbows, carry him to the city gates and forcibly drop him in the waist-deep mud outside.))

DM_Hallu: ((No, just regular type.))

Markas: ((XD He just needs time to cool off, honest.))

Glru: ((and step on his head to push him under)

DM_Hallu: ((no, they don't step on his head.))

Markas: ((By the point they're at Timur, I'd like to make a note that Markas has taken a coat out of his inventory and started wearing it. XD))

Markas: ((Not coat, cloak.))

DM_Hallu: Herlel Kaurebar is standing at the front of the House Timur building and Reisha rushes to him. He inquires after Falrim and she spills the whole story, obviously very shaken, but keeping her voice steady and demeanor correct with dwarvish steadfastness.

DM_Hallu: Herlel gives her a friendly gnomish pat on the shoulder and sends her to have a bit of a rest.

DM_Hallu: He then turns to the rest of you, obviously disappointed. "So... that's it? That's the best you could do?"

Markas: "Don't look at me. I got caught up in this. No idea what's going on."

DM_Hallu: Herlel ignores Markas, having no idea who he is.

Glru: "you wanted dwarf back, you got dwarf who wishes to come. you wanted us to drag dwarf who does not wish to come in chains?�

Markas: "Wait... so there was another dwarf with this one?"

DM_Hallu: "You're missing the big picture," says Herlel. "Quite frankly, I was expecting more from House Aletheia. There's a whole society there built on sentient sacrifice and... well... murder! Just sitting there on their copper deposits acting like they're better than we are! You could have *done* something about it! Overthrown the status quo! Don't you see?"

DM_Hallu: Akavi gives a polite little cough, but says nothing.

Healer_Lina: ((Because the status.... is NOT quo.....))

DM_Hallu: ((woo!))

Glru: "Glru was told "find dwarves, do not start war." it is only murder when you sacrifice someone who does not wish to die. Dwarf chose to die. is suicide, and is sacrement, depend on who you ask, but is not murder.�

Markas: "So... from what I hear, you lot were supposed to be rescuing a couple dwarves from a sacrifice. Well, one dwarf is better than no dwarves, right? Besides, Glru there mentioned something about one of the dwarves not wanting to go. Obviously they believed in that sort of crap, even if I don't."

Markas: ((Markas is Atheist. All hail Athe. XD))

Healer_Lina: ((Sam & Fuzzy reference?))

Markas: ((Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal reference. :3))

DM_Hallu: Herlel makes a tutting sound. "Well, yes, but think about how often this goes on! Why should such a society as this be allowed to exist, sucking up our resources?"

Glru: "PFT! is not your resources. leave alone, all stab each other for god, all dead, then resources are yours."

Markas: "Hey, I may not believe in that kind of thing, but you shouldn't be one to talk. After all, it was YOU lot who barged in on OUR territory, as a whole, in the first place."

DM_Hallu: "Oh, never mind," says Herlel, sounding disgusted. "You obviously wouldn't understand. Next time, I'm hiring House Gomeric."

DM_Hallu: He walks back into the building.

Markas: "Good luck with that", Markas calls after him.

Healer_Lina: (( =D ))

Markas: "you'll bloody well need it," he mutters to himself.

DM_Hallu: ((please do not insert irrelevant comic strips into my d&d game kthx))

Healer_Lina: (( Ah, that was for Markas. Sorry))

Glru: "was he supposed to pay us?"

DM_Hallu: Akavi looks after Markas, mild distaste on her face. She then motions for the rest of you to follow. A normal, boring guide (not Sayenya) is found in short order to take you home.

DM_Hallu: "He will pay House Aletheia," says Akavi, "and House Aletheia will pay us."

Glru ahhhhs and nods.

Markas: "I guess that wouldn't include me then. After all, I'm not with the house."

DM_Hallu: Okay, you guys take a week to get back into the civilized areas. Akavi bitches the whole time about how it was really about the copper all along.

DM_Hallu: Do any of you happen to go back to Shuteye, or do you go somewhere else?

Markas: ((XD "After all, I'm not with the house." "You are now" "...The hell kind of recruitment scheme is that?"))

Markas: ((I head back to Shuteye. Probably to do a show there.))

Markas: ((yay Perform (comedy)))

Glru: ((shuteye is where now?))

DM_Hallu: Shuteye is where you were before you went on this adventure. It is near Beachhead.

Tobias: ((I buy drinks next time Glru and I are in a tavern, as I said I would after he saved my life ^~ ))

Markas: ((Hey, can I roll Perform (comedy) just to see how well I perform if I do a show in Shuteye?))

Healer_Lina: ((sounds good. I heal any injured wildlife along the way, and tend to my bonsai bush))

DM_Hallu: When you arrive in Shuteye, a frowning customs official motions you aside and says "Excuse me, but this city entrusted you with an operative by the name of Anthony Stieber. Can any of you account for his whereabouts?"

Glru probly looks for journeyman-type mechanical work after recovering from going drinking with Tobias, building the reputation and experience and all.

Glru: "operative was not so clever. surprised harpoon spider, then read exploding runes. very sad."

Markas winces at this. "Explosive runes. What a way to go."

DM_Hallu: "And yet, the rest of you are fine..."

Markas: "Hey, don't look at me. These guys saved me from that hellhole."

Glru picks at his jacket "might have pieces of anthony in clothing... probably more on healer; she was closer.�

Glru: "the rest of us are not stupid. anthony... very stupid.�

Markas: ((Don't forget, Anthony was already subject to several pay-cuts due to his incompetence. That might explain why he's no longer with us. :3))

Healer_Lina hands in whatever personal mementos of Anthony she still has, as well as the trace of blood she collected in case anyone can pay enough for a Rez/Reincarnate.

Tobias: "We fared luckier than Anthony," he says a bit more kindly.

DM_Hallu: The customs official looks down and back up, sadly. "Well, that seems to be in order. Very well. Sorry to detain you."

Markas: "No worries. It's your job, I suppose."

Markas: (("I only start panicking when they get the rubber gloves out."))

Markas: ((XD Gonna ask again, would I be allowed to roll for Perform (Comedy) to see how well I perform if I were to do a show while in Shuteye? XD I got a cracker of a roll here, and it'd be a shame if it went to waste))

DM_Hallu: ((Sure.))

Markas: ((Right. That's a 31. :3))

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DM_Hallu: You get 12 gold pieces (assuming a single performance) and are widely adored by the crowd and probably have groupies.