D&D II Act One Scene III(b) - Into the Jungle

Fourier

Therai follows the map toward the tomb as best he can, the jungle is thick enough and hard to pass through without the odd irratating insect pit, snake bite or fall in quicksand, but he manages.

Some time in the afternoon he wanders into a clearing with strange spongy ground.

Evade

Therai pulls out a dagger and prods at the ground to see if it's safe to step on.

Fourier

A thick cloud of purple gas spews out of the ground at the point of puncture. After a few seconds, odd little spiders, green in colour, knit the wound closed.

Evade

Therai puts a foot on the spongy ground and carefully shifts his weight onto that foot to see if it will support him





OOC: How big is the area of spongy ground?

Fourier

Evade wrote: »

Therai puts a foot on the spongy ground and carefully shifts his weight onto that foot to see if it will support him

OOC: How big is the area of spongy ground?

The ground begins to give way as Therai steps onto it.

The spongy areas extent is hard to estimate, as the distinction between it and the typical soil, a smoother appearance, is hard to see from a distance.

Evade

Therai will try to skirt around the edge of the sponginess

Fourier

OOC:
Perception check

Evade

OOC: Perception check 11

Fourier

Keeping an eye on it, the extent of the spongy ground is easy enough to spot, Therai easily makes it around the spongy patch, only to see a poor stegosaurus blunder in and fall, exposing a strange green glow beneath the spongy layer and a lot of the purple gas, before the hole is quickly sealed up again.

Evade

"That's not good but at least it isn't purple" Therai tries to get himself back on course to his destination.

Fourier

Therai manages to make his way without incident through the jungle until the sunsets.

Evade

Therai looks around for a nice, and more importantly safe, spot to unfurl his bedroll.

Fourier

He finds a convenient enough spot, hidden underneath a large set of purple leaves.

OOC: Survival check for navigation and route.

Evade

Therai gulps down the last of today's rations and checks his pack "Riiiight. I was going to buy rations before leaving the town. 5 days left. I better keep an eye out for food"



OOC: Destination 24.18 Check = 20

Fourier

Therai passes through the jungle for another day, around evening he spots a man or possibly elf of some kind dancing through hoops of water in a clearing up ahead.

"What do think Jasfres?" he says to seemingly nobody.

Evade

"Uhh... hello there" he shouts in as friendly a tone as possible while waving.

Fourier

"Oh hello!" the man waves back.

"You visiting for pleasure or just passing through like Jasfres here?" he gestures at thin air.

"Fine building, they have me jumping through hoops to get in...hehehe, a little joke"

No building is present in the clearing.

Evade

"Just passing through. What kind of building is this?"

Fourier

"The famous Málëhro baths. They can do wonderful things with water, bubbles of water floating in air, undulating currents to sooth muscle pain. I've waiting here for ages though.

I could take the side entrance, but that'd be illegal" he points to a stone archway that is only now visible. The archway is decayed, with vines growing upon it.

Evade

"Málëhro baths you say" Therai head over to the archway and examines it.

Fourier

The archway is of fine craftsmanship and emitting a type of magic Therai doesn't quite recognise. The way it pulls at the web of magic is unlike any he has felt before.

Evade

Therai taps his sternum a few times with his fist "Hey worm are you in there?"

Fourier

The worm unfurls itself from his back.

"Hey Therai" he hears in his mind "What's up?"

Evade

"Can you open this door? I've heard only you can get into Málëhro structures"

Fourier

"Yeah no problem, it's an old type of building that exists in its own demiplane, just turn around with your back to it and I'll unlock it"

Evade

Therai turns around and shouts over to the dancing man "Looks like I have a key"

Fourier

"My word you have! One of the worms. You must have hobnobbed quite a bit with the Málëhro brass to get one of those!"

He runs up with a big grin on his face.

"Can't wait, can't wait, can't wait!"

Evade

"You wouldn't believe me if I told you"


Once the door is open Therai gestures to the door "Shall we?"

Fourier

"Of course!"

The man runs into the archway.

Evade

Therai follows him.

Fourier

Therai enters a very old elven building, with hieroglyphic writing on the walls. A strange blue mold covers the floor, glowing ever so slightly in the early evening.

A set of stairs further down the passageway lead down.

Evade

Therai heads down the stairs wary of any purple doors

Fourier

Therai enters into a room with columns of fish swimming in mid air. Ten such columns are to be found in this blue walled room, with the fish swimming from ceiling to floor and back again.

In the center of the room is a bath of a white bubbling liquid.

Aside from the stairs, there are three exits, one to the South, East and West.

Evade

Therai says to his new friend "This sure is something" and goes over to take a closer look at the bubbling bath.

Fourier

The fluid within the bath has a pleasant heat radiating off it and more strangely, a very soft quiet song emanating from its surface.

Evade

Therai beckons his companion over and says in a cheery manner "Hey... you. Come listen to this" and he leans in closer to try hear it more clearly.

Fourier

"Oh isn't it wonderful, the choir, I can hear them now. They used to sing like this all the time. The song of healing. Want to feel good? I'd jump in...maybe I will!" he says pirouetting and leaving Therai to dance about the room.

Evade

Therai jumps in and splashes around for a bit.

Fourier

The bath glows a bright orange as if lit from underneath and the song becomes a high pitch screech. Suddenly both the light and the song halt. The liquid turning a dull grey.

OOC: Max HP increased by 10 temporarily.

Evade

Therai stretches when he gets out of the pool "Wow, I feel better than I have in... ever?"


OOC: Are any of the exits purple?



"Any of these lead anywhere good?" He gestures towards the exits

Fourier

None of the exits are pruple. Looking around Therai sees the man has danced off, his voice echoing from the Southern Exit.

Evade

Therai follow the man down the Southern path.

Fourier

As Therai walks along the path South, he encounters a chasm cutting through the floor, a sheer drop to clear blue waters below, which are some how a refreshing looking blue, as though the sun was shining on them, despite being in doors.

Across the chasm he can see that the corridor turns West.

Evade

OOC: HOw wide is the chasm? And do I hear the dancing guy?

Fourier

The dancing man's song seems to have faded quite a bit, but can be heard coming from the passage to the West.

The chasm is about 15 foot wide.

Evade

Therai will take a running jump across the chasm and at the apex of his jump attempt to cast fog cloud beneath him and use the Tempestuous Magic (10 feet of flying speed immediately before or after casting a slotted spell) effect to fly the rest of the way.

Fourier

The fog erupts around Therai, obscuring the other side of the chasm, before a sudden explosive gust of wind parts the fog in front of him, flinging him toward the other side.

He lands gracefully just next to the point where the passage swings West. From where he stands, he can see that up ahead, further West, some sort of sauna lies behind glass on the Southern Wall of this passage. Past that the passage continues West to a chasm.

Evade

"Hmm... a sauna. I think I've had enough sweaty heat in the jungle" Therai heads for the chasm.

Fourier

The chasm walls are thankfully not at a 90 degree angle, but a gentle enough to descend via a careful walk. From where he stands, Therai can make out a set of blue crystals rotating about each other above a mosaic of three elven gods, a man, a spider and a tree.

The rest of the room below is hard to see.

Evade

Therai descends down into the room below

Fourier

The crystals float over to Therai and start speaking to him in Elvish, quite rapidly.

Within the room is a semi-transparent man, matching the appearance of the dancing man from earlier.

The rest of the room is filled with the fish columns from the upper floor. Fish passing up and down in thin air.

Two exits lead out, West and East.