D&D II Act Two Scene I - The Tower

Fourier · 19-08-2018 9:40pm

The Halflings arrive and begin work on the door.

Banjo · 19-08-2018 10:54pm

Fourier wrote: »

When Iuric knocks, Patinkin sees a large snake become visible on the ceiling and slither down to the floor.

"Hello Manticore, what are you doing here. These potions won't work on you"

**It speaks to me Retula, what do I say?**

**Say? You can talk?? The creepy esr-to-ear isn't just for show? Cool. Tell it the truth - you're looking to open the door for a bunch of nosey moochers who will probably want to trade for, buy or otherwise appropriate those potions, what would they recommend , and if he has to eat one of them the armoured one is the tastiest, he's been marinating in his own juices inside that tin can. If it attacks you consider yourself dismissed. Unless... How good are you in a fight? **

Jack Moore · 20-08-2018 12:50am

Jack Moore wrote: »

“Hey Dragon “ I call over ; “ what’s the oathbreaker telling you ?”

I worry about the lack of an answer to this question. That coupled with iuric’s tendency to kill new members makes me very concerned. From now on I’m constantly Paying attention to the two of them and what they do and say.

Jack Moore · 20-08-2018 12:52am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5peFdOlGm8

Jack Moore wrote: »

I worry about the lack of an answer to this question. That coupled with iuric’s tendency to kill new members makes me very concerned. From now on I’m constantly Paying attention to the two of them and what they do and say.

Fourier · 20-08-2018 7:55pm

Banjo wrote: »

**Say? You can talk?? The creepy esr-to-ear isn't just for show? Cool. Tell it the truth - you're looking to open the door for a bunch of nosey moochers who will probably want to trade for, buy or otherwise appropriate those potions, what would they recommend , and if he has to eat one of them the armoured one is the tastiest, he's been marinating in his own juices inside that tin can. If it attacks you consider yourself dismissed. Unless... How good are you in a fight? **

**In my real form, quite weak I must admit. In this form, powerful I think**

OOC: He is equivalent to four Level 3 PCs

Fourier · 20-08-2018 7:56pm

The Halflings come away from the door, the youngest, Kazin smiles.

"A job well done I think, there was a poison tip in the lock, but we managed to hold it in place"

Evade · 20-08-2018 8:04pm

Iuric move into the room and on seeing the snake "Do you speak?" ready to react if the snake attacks.

Banjo · 20-08-2018 8:06pm

Fourier wrote: »

"In my real form, quite weak I must admit. In this form, powerful I think"

OOC: He is equivalent to four Level 3 PCs

**Dude, that can't be legal! Why, with your combat capabilities and me being 1800 years old now and far too old for this ****, why I might just have to register you as a leth- ah never mind. Ok, so ask him if he's selling , bartering or guarding. And while you're at it try distracting him away from the door cause we're about to open it, and this might be one of only two situations where I'd be interested in seeing how much damage Iuric can do with a sneak attack from behind.**

"Don't open it yet, there's a snake and it might be friendly, might be hungry. Gimme a sec"

(Edit)
Iuric breezes by

"Or not, I mean go nuts."
She dismisses the manticore

Fourier · 20-08-2018 8:08pm

Evade wrote: »

Iuric move into the room and on seeing the snake "Do you speak?" ready to react if the snake attacks.

"Yes..."

He eyes Iuric up.

"...hmmm, too strong...you may have two potions, no more. Otherwise I call in my bigger friend"

Looking in the case, Iuric sees the potions are Red, Green, Blue, Gold, Silver, Purple, White, Rainbow and Azure.

Evade · 20-08-2018 8:10pm

Fourier wrote: »

"Yes..."

He eyes Iuric up.

"...hmmm, too strong...you may have two potions, no more. Otherwise I call in my bigger friend"

Looking in the case, Iuric sees the potions are Red, Green, Blue, Gold, Silver, Purple, White, Rainbow and Azure.

"Must I choose at random or can you tell me their effects?"

Fourier · 20-08-2018 8:17pm

Evade wrote: »

"Must I choose at random or can you tell me their effects?"

"I can for three of them, the others I know not...

So, Red will make you loved by almost any beast. Nothing odd mind you, they will refuse to attack.

Green will make you twice as tall and stronger.

Blue...ah yes, it makes spells reflect off you for two minutes"

Evade · 20-08-2018 8:23pm

Fourier wrote: »

"I can for three of them, the others I know not...

So, Red will make you loved by almost any beast. Nothing odd mind you, they will refuse to attack.

Green will make you twice as tall and stronger.

Blue...ah yes, it makes spells reflect off you for two minutes"

"Blue seems quite useful and I have always liked azure" Iuric takes the potions.

Fourier · 20-08-2018 8:43pm

The snake curls around the cabinet and shifts colours to blend in.

Evade · 20-08-2018 8:45pm

OOC: Is there another way out of this room?

Banjo · 20-08-2018 8:47pm

Retula idly runs her finger past the fluids and vials in the lab. If she finds something caustic she summons Patinken but otherwise just looks for lab gear from her unfulfilled vivimantic shopping list from Bandysia, which should still be scrawled on her hand as she hasn't washed it recently.

Fourier · 20-08-2018 8:50pm

Banjo wrote: »

Retula idly runs her finger past the fluids and vials in the lab. If she finds something caustic she summons Patinken but otherwise just looks for lab gear from her unfulfilled vivimantic shopping list from Bandysia, which should still be scrawled on her hand as she hasn't washed it recently.

She finds enough lab gear to form a decent quality vivimantic set up. She also finds two vials of a heavily caustic substance.

Patinkin appears next to her.

Banjo · 20-08-2018 9:06pm

"So, P, remember how I asked you to check out the room below the trapdoor but you thought you might wander around checking out labs and sniffing after reckless Dragonborn? And then I asked you to talk to that snake and gauge it's mood? But you thought it was a better idea to tell me how strong you were?
Hold your pawhandthing out please.
So look, it's great that you're as strong as three burly men, but the thing about strong burly men is that if they can't do as they're told I have to cut them down or blow them up. I need an assistant who can follow orders.

Can you follow orders, Patinkin?

Paw."

Fourier · 20-08-2018 9:11pm

Banjo wrote: »

"So, P, remember how I asked you to check out the room below the trapdoor but you thought you might wander around checking out labs and sniffing after reckless Dragonborn? And then I asked you to talk to that snake and gauge it's mood? But you thought it was a better idea to tell me how strong you were?
Hold your pawhandthing out please.
So look, it's great that you're as strong as three burly men, but the thing about strong burly men is that if they can't do as they're told I have to cut them down or blow them up. I need an assistant who can follow orders.

Can you follow orders, Patinkin?

Paw."

"Oh, but I did bargin with him"

He winks.

Evade · 20-08-2018 9:30pm

Iuric goes back into the lab area and summons Grodinz. "Are you skilled in discerning the effects of potions?"

Banjo · 20-08-2018 9:33pm

She sighs.
"You're going to make me ask a 3rd time?"
She moves to throw the caustic material in his face but when he winks he gets these scrunchie little dimples around his gaping mouthgash that are just adorable.
"DAMNIT!" She cries, dismissing him, then rounding on the halflings. But what would be the point? She corks the flask and stashes it, moving through to the potion room, summoning P again.

"Dont look at me! Just walk.

Come out, come out wherever you are...?"

She is particularly interested to know of this snake looks like the one her old retainer used to ride before she exploded.

Fourier · 20-08-2018 9:50pm

Evade wrote: »

Iuric goes back into the lab area and summons Grodinz. "Are you skilled in discerning the effects of potions?"

"Sorry lad, not at all, unless it has a touch of the divine to it, as that blue one ye have does...well the lighter blue one"

Fourier · 20-08-2018 9:52pm

Banjo wrote: »

She is particularly interested to know of this snake looks like the one her old retainer used to ride before she exploded.

When the snake appears, it is clear it is the same species as the witch's mount, though younger.

"You'll want the White one, that's all I can manage without consequences to myself. In return for any more, I want a quart of your blood"

Evade · 20-08-2018 9:52pm

Fourier wrote: »

"Sorry lad, not at all, unless it has a touch of the divine to it, as that blue one ye have does...well the lighter blue one"

"This one?" Iuric holds up the azure one "What does it do?"

Banjo · 20-08-2018 9:59pm

Fourier wrote: »

When the snake appears, it is clear it is the same species as the witch's mount, though younger.

"You'll want the White one, that's all I can manage without consequences to myself. In return for any more, I want a quart of your blood"

"A quart? That's very nearly an armful!"

**P, based on my height and weight, can I spare that much?**

"But a whole potion of my very own? You are too kind. So... Lived here long? Get many visitors?"

She takes the white one.

OldGoat · 21-08-2018 8:39am

Mags, looking over the shoulders of all who are standing in front of him as he hums softly to himself looking/listening at the remaining potion bottles seeking to find the ones with the most favourable resonance to him.

"Are any of them good for dying hair? I clash so badly now that I'm blue rather than green. Got anything henna or a peroxide blondeish?"

Fourier · 21-08-2018 9:11am

OldGoat wrote: »

Mags, looking over the shoulders of all who are standing in front of him as he hums softly to himself looking/listening at the remaining potion bottles seeking to find the ones with the most favourable resonance to him.

"Are any of them good for dying hair? I clash so badly now that I'm blue rather than green. Got anything henna or a peroxide blondeish?"

The potions give off little resonance, probably designed to minimise it as it is rare that any object is this quite.

"Hair dye..." the snake smiles "...well the rainbow coloured one will certainly alter your hair colour.

However I'll need a worthwhile trade"

OldGoat · 21-08-2018 9:23am

Fourier wrote: »

The potions give off little resonance, probably designed to minimise it as it is rare that any object is this quite.

"Hair dye..." the snake smiles "...well the rainbow coloured one will certainly alter your hair colour.

However I'll need a worthwhile trade"

"Well, I do have this nice rapier, complete with a curse on it that you might like. Of course that would leave me without a weapon so if you could sweeten the deal with an other less cursed but serviceable rapier I'd be delighted to trade.

I could throw in an old set of leather armour, tuned and well serviced that I recently replaced.

All in exchange for the rainbow and one other potion.
Ooooph, and naturally a pair of complementary tickets to the Woodshock Festival. Now you can't ask for fairer than that!"

Mags hand over a flyer to the snake...or at least leaves the flyer on the ground in front of the snake.

Banjo · 21-08-2018 11:56am

**while you're at it, P, he looks like he has a lot more quarts than me, know what I mean? Run the numbers.**

She waves nonchalantly at Mags while looking for suitable exsanguination gear among her lab glassware.

Fourier · 21-08-2018 1:49pm

OldGoat wrote: »

"Well, I do have this nice rapier, complete with a curse on it that you might like. Of course that would leave me without a weapon so if you could sweeten the deal with an other less cursed but serviceable rapier I'd be delighted to trade.

I could throw in an old set of leather armour, tuned and well serviced that I recently replaced.

All in exchange for the rainbow and one other potion.
Ooooph, and naturally a pair of complementary tickets to the Woodshock Festival. Now you can't ask for fairer than that!"

Mags hand over a flyer to the snake...or at least leaves the flyer on the ground in front of the snake.

"I won't lie and deny my interest in the concert, but such things do not equal the worth of a potion of the great Retula...tell you what. Six floors up there is a door of Marble, long sealed. A Bard and only a Bard could open it, well outside of a powerful Wizard.

Let me place a geasa on you to open that door and we have a deal"

Fourier · 21-08-2018 1:49pm

Banjo wrote: »

**while you're at it, P, he looks like he has a lot more quarts than me, know what I mean? Run the numbers.**

She waves nonchalantly at Mags while looking for suitable exsanguination gear among her lab glassware.

**Indeed, 40% more**

OldGoat · 21-08-2018 2:20pm

Fourier wrote: »

"I won't lie and deny my interest in the concert, but such things do not equal the worth of a potion of the great Retula...tell you what. Six floors up there is a door of Marble, long sealed. A Bard and only a Bard could open it, well outside of a powerful Wizard.

Let me place a geasa on you to open that door and we have a deal"

"Done.
...
I don't suppose you'd be interested in being a patron of the festival at all would you? We can always use extra sponsorship. You could have your logo on the backdrop and half a page in the festival program."

After negotiations and idle chat Mags moves back out of the room into the hallway waiting to see if anyone else is going up to the higher floors.

Fourier · 21-08-2018 2:23pm

OldGoat wrote: »

"Done.
...
I don't suppose you'd be interested in being a patron of the festival at all would you? We can always use extra sponsorship. You could have your logo on the backdrop and half a page in the festival program."

After negotiations and idle chat Mags moves back out of the room into the hallway waiting to see if anyone else is going up to the higher floors.

The green glow of a geasa overtakes Mags and afterward he and the snake arrange sponsorship details, the snake informs him that the tower's 22nd floor might have something just right for the festival.

Banjo · 21-08-2018 4:28pm

Fourier wrote: »

**Indeed, 40% more**

"Thats a whole lot of quarts, right? Right? Oh maaa-aaaags!" She singsongs, but he's gone. Never mind.
"Wait a sec there, Mr Hiss, what was that you said about a ' potion of the great Retula'? What do these potions do and...uh... Tell me more about how great I am!"

Fourier · 21-08-2018 8:31pm

Banjo wrote: »

"Thats a whole lot of quarts, right? Right? Oh maaa-aaaags!" She singsongs, but he's gone. Never mind.
"Wait a sec there, Mr Hiss, what was that you said about a ' potion of the great Retula'? What do these potions do and...uh... Tell me more about how great I am!"

"The potions are distilled from your essence. Ursula took...will take...I'm never sure, a great interest in you. She used to say you two are similar"

Banjo · 21-08-2018 8:52pm

"eeeeew! Me-juice?? Thats gross."

She sniffs a bottle then sniffs her pits trying to gauge the vintage. More science needed, methinks. Jeremy might be able to figure out if it was from future her or past her... No , she knew the answer would be "JEREMY!" - Waste of time asking.

"So hey - you look familiar. With a capital F. Your kind often sign up for henchman duty or are you just a popular shape?"
She fiddles with her quartz portal ring while talking.

Fourier · 21-08-2018 8:59pm

Banjo wrote: »

"So hey - you look familiar. With a capital F. Your kind often sign up for henchman duty or are you just a popular shape?"
She fiddles with her quartz portal ring while talking.

"Think over our conversation. I'll say no more"

Banjo · 21-08-2018 9:06pm

"but that would.. no wait then... Does that make you... But then I'd have to... Oh ****lemuckles. Ok. Good chat. Be seeing you. No wait, let's never speak again - yeah, that would be better. "

She take her RJ flask and leaves via the lab.

"So, guys, dolls and neanderthals. Magic silvery door or head back upstairs?"

Banjo · 21-08-2018 9:13pm

"you know, you really notice the caked on blood when you haven't been in the room a while. Why aren't we more worried about the caked on blood?"

She catches Hetyaro's look.

"What?? I didn't say a word!

New-guy can taste it!"

OldGoat · 22-08-2018 8:42am

Banjo wrote: »

"Thats a whole lot of quarts, right? Right? Oh maaa-aaaags!"

From just outside the door in the corridor,
"Wot?"

She singsongs, but he's gone. Never mind.

"OK then."
Muttering to himself, "Women, unfathomable at the best of times. Probably looking for nearly an armful of blood or something."

"So, guys, dolls and neanderthals. Magic silvery door or head back upstairs?"

"I'd like to go up."

Mags recites the litany of Grace, Brothers in Freedom, Serving You.
"Ground floor:
Perfumery, stationary, and leather goods, wigs and haberdashery, kitchenware and food. Going up...

First floor:
Telephones, gents ready made suits, shirts, suits, ties, hats, underwear, and shoes. Going up...

Second floor:
Carpets, travel goods, and bedding, materials, soft furnishings, restaurants, and ties. Going up..."
To which he adds,
"Sixth floor, big marble doors. Twentieth floor, a new band or singer or something."

Banjo · 22-08-2018 10:46am

"Twenty floors??? This reminds me of that time T'Clsee needed 15 gp for these to-die-for spike-toed boots and like she didn't want to go alone but there was this centaur dude and he was getting life-bonded in the morning and anyway, 20 floors..."

She whistles and looks up.

"How big does this thing get?

So yeah, like she got the boots in the end but they were too big and totally uncomfortable, and I just felt awkward watching her wobble around like that... so I guess that's karma?"

Fourier · 23-08-2018 7:42pm

Evade wrote: »

"This one?" Iuric holds up the azure one "What does it do?"

"Temporary immortality, though after yer weak as a puppy"

Evade · 23-08-2018 8:04pm

Fourier wrote: »

"Temporary immortality, though after yer weak as a puppy"

"Do you happen to know if it renders you immune harm or merely able to quickly overcome it?"

Fourier · 23-08-2018 8:17pm

Evade wrote: »

"Do you happen to know if it renders you immune harm or merely able to quickly overcome it?"

"Immune lad, you could be dunked in lava without a scratch"

Evade · 23-08-2018 8:26pm

Fourier wrote: »

"Immune lad, you could be dunked in lava without a scratch"

"That could be quite useful. Although the other scenario could have been more versatile"

Banjo · 23-08-2018 9:09pm

"when you two lovebirds are done jawing, we headed up or does anyone want to check if that mystical silvery door is electrified? Hey P! Lick the walls! Who's blood is that. 1 ep says Of+ secreter!"

OldGoat · 24-08-2018 8:06am

Mags (cautiously) climbs the stairs to the landing of the first floor and has a look to see what he can see.

Fourier · 24-08-2018 9:39am

OldGoat wrote: »

Mags (cautiously) climbs the stairs to the landing of the first floor and has a look to see what he can see.

About halfway up the stairs, Mags notices the remaining steps hum with a potent spell.

OldGoat · 24-08-2018 10:00am

Fourier wrote: »

About halfway up the stairs, Mags notices the remaining steps hum with a potent spell.

Backing down a few steps Mags decides to wait for one of the halflings to go ahead.

Banjo · 24-08-2018 12:27pm

Retula pokes the thiefy halfling in the back.
"Adventure beckons, halfpint! Let's go be heroes"

While waiting for the halflings to do her thing, she has a go of using Identify (r) in case it's a permanent magical effect rather than a trap.

Ooc : when the time comes, happy to interrupt the ritual to apply Guidance on the little yoke for a little buff.

OldGoat · 24-08-2018 12:51pm

"Watch yer step there halfling. It might not be as straightforward as it looks. Bad juju."
Mags backs down another step or two.

D&D II Act Two Scene I - The Tower

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