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

"Hello? A Teifling, thank god, I tried to Teleport out of this terrible place, but half of me went missing. Or teleported out, or something. If you can find him, I'd be in your debt.

Oh and please be careful, something terrible lurks within this old sanctuary, killed my companions. Though that dancing idiot possesses my memory of the incident, so I can tell you little."

"Mim? Name 's Cornelius Coxton, Elementalist extraordinaire. All four elements are mine to command, I'm somebody you want in your debt." he says with a broad smile and the intonation of a used potions salesman.

"Hiu's on this floor, I have a vague sense of Mim, thanks for possibly helping, Tiefling's are a great people all told."

Therai walks out into a passage running North-South, lined with red jelly and blue crystals. About half the crystals look like they've been chewed on or eaten.

A slow deep rumbling sound comes from the Southern direction.

Therai enters a large chamber with several dead adventurers within it, armour smashed into the ground, weapons broken, their treasure horded into a pile at the back of the chamber. In several places the rock looks like it had been melted at some point.

At the center of the chamber, bands of purple magical energy imprison a large humanoid figure, ten foot or so, whose body seems to be a collection of small blue lights topped with a nearly spherical head.

The other half of Cornelius is not here in the chamber.

The worm unfurls from Therai's back.

"Oh, the credomagic....that ain't good...don't know what it is, but the builders, my creators, really didn't want him to get out."

The North passage terminates in a massive blue crystal that has been gnawed on extensively, fragments of it lying all over the ground. However just before this, near the initial entrance to this passage, there is a ladder descending down to a lower level.

He enters a room with more of the fish columns and the annoying blue speaking crystals. However in the center of the room is a person in a robe, crushed to death, their head no more than pulp, however about their body is a hemisphere of golden light. Cornelius's other half seems to be crying next to them.

One side of the room ends in a ledge over a step drop.

The room seems to have no other exits.

Evade wrote: »

Therai approaches, "Cornelius, I've found your other half heus're waiting above"

"Should have been me you know, she died saving me, we were the last two...look her shield still going after all this time. She really was holy, wish I hadn't mocked her faith so much.

I was too greedy, the treasure...we pushed our luck too far.

My other half...I remember now...yeah lets go"

He stands and walks over to Therai.

He approaches slowly.

"You ain't going to like what I remember my trapped brother."

"Nor you what I remember...but the original Cornelius deserves to live again and I tire of this existence"

They begin to merge, blurring into one another. The trapped just has time to say "This will complete the teleport, see you outside..." and they vanish.

The bars pulse as he enters the chamber, this time the humanoid raises its head and approaches the bars, though it does not speak. Therai gets the strong feeling it is looking at him.

"NO"

There is no actual sound, but the voice booms inside Therai's skull, causing severe pain.

"That would be my guardian. The most sensible thing for you to do would be to leave. Leave the treasure and certainly leave me, for it will surely kill you otherwise."

Evade wrote: »

"No need to shout. What kind of creature is this guardian?"

"A large insect of some kind, a tremendously powerful, or at least more powerful than those who were here before"

The being stands away from the bars.

"I'm glad, a sensible one at last. You will not have that one's flesh beast" the being says aloud, to no response.

No giant insect appears to be within the chamber, looking around there are only the crushed corpses and the mound of treasure.

Evade wrote: »

OOC: Any other exits?

Looking around Therai can only see a hole in the roof.

Evade wrote: »

Therai looks around to see what seems the most valuable and stuffs as much of it into his pack as he can.

There is a gold statue, in exquisite detail, of one of the ancient rulers of Zassan. However also in the pile in a very expensive and ancient looking spellbook. these stick out the most in terms of value at a glance.

Therai then hears a huge rumble shake the whole complex.

He doesn't need to wait long as a massive millipede enters the room.



It screeches at the being in the energy cage.

"This one was too clever and left...leave" the being responds.

The millipede goes prone and scuttles slowly about the room.

OOC: Twist! It was actually a diplopod, not an insect!

Evade wrote: »

"Ant with extra legs" Therai thinks to himself. Therai tries to sneak back towards the door he came in.

OOC: Does it look like it will fit through the door?

OOC: It could.

Strangely as Therai walks the creature initially instantly turns its head in his direction, before looking everywhere else in the chamber. As he leaves it continues looking everywhere, except at him. He makes it to the exit unharmed.

He makes it there with no issues. The millipede continues to move around, but doesn't move in his direction.

OOC: Yeah

The worm unfurls and unlocks the gate.

"You're good to go there Therai"

Cornelius is lying in the grassy clearing just outside the archway.

"So you made it out, pretty nasty piece of work that thing, did you actually beat it in combat?"

Evade wrote: »

"I thought about it but then decided I didn't want to die. How are you after your ordeal?


OOC: What time of day is it?

Cornelius looks up at the evening sky.

"Coming on 7pm I'd say. I'm great, considering I've been bifurcated for eighty years. I can't thank you enough.

You do this on your own for a living?"

Evade wrote: »

OOC: Cornelius knows about the real world.:eek:

OOC: In the last game a character said 'Jaysus' at one point. Fragile fourth wall!

Evade wrote: »

"I had to leave the last town I was in in a hurry so... yes, for now. I'm on my way to check out another Málëhro ruin if that kind of thing interests you"

"Certainly...and I've nothing better to do"