Date: 10 October
Moon: Waning Crescent
Zenith: Eris
Zenith: Eris
New Backstory:
- Shrub Jr was completely lost after a good night getting high on the moon. Eventually he managed to find his way to a chocolate factory and safety! +1 Bushcraft.
Events:
--- Afterparty
- Sydney wakes up on their bed in their extradimensional apartment, still sore from the pain poison that was injected into them by huge maggots with tentacle faces.
- They leave the room and see that the flat is... surprisingly fine! But why is everyone staring? Oh... they shaved of an eyebrow.
- Deletion Snels has long dangly fingers now - the gene-code that he absorbed from the tentacle maggots now allows him to slap enemies with poisonous wiggling!
- They leave the room and see that the flat is... surprisingly fine! But why is everyone staring? Oh... they shaved of an eyebrow.
- Deletion Snels has long dangly fingers now - the gene-code that he absorbed from the tentacle maggots now allows him to slap enemies with poisonous wiggling!
- Aximander heads outside and casts Guiding Lights again, trying for "awe of finding a new living god" or similar. The lights float on!
--- Oil and Statues
- The lights drift onwards. The walls here are covered with reliefs of gambling, coins, and feats of daring. All honouring The Lady.
--- Oil and Statues
- The lights drift onwards. The walls here are covered with reliefs of gambling, coins, and feats of daring. All honouring The Lady.
- They decide to check out a side room, and in it they find smashed and empty barrels with a thin oily residue. Shrub Jr grabs a shard and sucks on it - olive oil! He continues to suck on it as a treat.
- The next room has... olive oil in little jars! And a flitch of cured bacon! Shrub Jr insists that he prefers sucking olive oil off of wood scraps.
- They continue into a larger room with a headless statue. It's got the armour of a god they know - The Scorned. On neck is a sort of indented screw where a head might get screwed on!
- Odo attaches the stone Dwarf troubleshooting head and it animates against its will! It identifies its existence as a problem! Before it can do anything silly, Shrub Jr unscrews the head. In doing so, he notices that the statue is designed such that its costume can change. Probably god related.
- The next room has... olive oil in little jars! And a flitch of cured bacon! Shrub Jr insists that he prefers sucking olive oil off of wood scraps.
- They continue into a larger room with a headless statue. It's got the armour of a god they know - The Scorned. On neck is a sort of indented screw where a head might get screwed on!
- Odo attaches the stone Dwarf troubleshooting head and it animates against its will! It identifies its existence as a problem! Before it can do anything silly, Shrub Jr unscrews the head. In doing so, he notices that the statue is designed such that its costume can change. Probably god related.
--- The Chicken and the Crevasse
- The lights guide the party to a door, beyond which can be heard a low moaning. They open the door and see a crevasse, wind moaning as it blows out of the maw. The crevasse is filled with purple smoke. It smells like ozone.
- The Guiding Lights hover over the crevasse and wink out - clearly they considered this an appropriate target of "awe".
- Testing reveals that the purple smoke suspends magic when inhaled or moved through. Aximander tests the depth with his crab-spear to no avail - it's deeper than a spear-length.
- The Guiding Lights hover over the crevasse and wink out - clearly they considered this an appropriate target of "awe".
- Testing reveals that the purple smoke suspends magic when inhaled or moved through. Aximander tests the depth with his crab-spear to no avail - it's deeper than a spear-length.
- They tie a rope to Aximander and lower him into the mist. They hear screams! It's Julian, the human host of Aximander, unceremoniously dragged back to his body while inside the mist! He has no idea what's going on!
- Aximander reverts back into the body as he's lowered beyond the mist. He finds himself above a vast subterranean pool of pitch black starry liquid. He pokes his crab-spear into it... and the end of the spear melts away. Then he sees movement in the fluid, something large displacing the ooze as it comes towards him...
- He shrieks "pull me up!" and Julian glimpses a vast lamprey-mouth yawning wide just before he's pulled into the smoke!
--- The Floor is Mimic
- He shrieks "pull me up!" and Julian glimpses a vast lamprey-mouth yawning wide just before he's pulled into the smoke!
--- The Floor is Mimic
- They decide to cross the chasm, and so to that end Aximander casts his spell Giant Cock. The large rooster that appears obeys his commands, and effortlessly leaps over the gap with the elf on his back and a rope in his beak.
- The others shimmy across the rope and to the other side!
- As soon as they do... a slimy tendril emerges from below the ankle-high smoke on the floor...
- It goes for... Warm-Heart! Grumblebelch's Dwarven lackey! The crossbow is struck from his hands, melting away into nothing, and the Dwarf himself is flung down into the chasm! He screams as he falls, until they hear a crunchy sound that sounds exactly like a giant lamprey swallowing a Dwarf.
- Shrub Jr and Jojo uncork their Poison bottles - Bleed and Pain respectively - and dump them onto the pliant flesh of the ooze, then flee! The gang run after them, Jojo and Deletion Snels bickering about how fast they are based on what they're carrying. Jojo aggressively crams food into her mouth as she runs to save encumbrance.
- They escape!
- The others shimmy across the rope and to the other side!
- As soon as they do... a slimy tendril emerges from below the ankle-high smoke on the floor...
- It goes for... Warm-Heart! Grumblebelch's Dwarven lackey! The crossbow is struck from his hands, melting away into nothing, and the Dwarf himself is flung down into the chasm! He screams as he falls, until they hear a crunchy sound that sounds exactly like a giant lamprey swallowing a Dwarf.
- Shrub Jr and Jojo uncork their Poison bottles - Bleed and Pain respectively - and dump them onto the pliant flesh of the ooze, then flee! The gang run after them, Jojo and Deletion Snels bickering about how fast they are based on what they're carrying. Jojo aggressively crams food into her mouth as she runs to save encumbrance.
- They escape!
--- I'm-a Riiiiiich!
- They burst into a room with a biiiig holy altar covered in gold and gems!
- Shrub Jr yells "I'm-a riiiiiiiiiiiiich!" and grabs the gems... and explodes!
- He takes 10d6 explosive holy damage and turns into a big pile of 21 fried bananas.
--- It Burns!
- Unfortunately for the many Chaotic characters in the midst, the air burns with lawful energies! Aximander uses elf trickery to count as Neutral. Grumblebelch's barbarian Lawfulness leaves her as the only person who actually feels a sense of peace in here.
- Odo places her Last Sword of a Conquered Tribe on the altar... scraping off little chunks of banana to do so... and feels her faith in Law renewed. She asks the Scorned for guidance and receives his blessing!
- She also grabs a roman shield from a statue and notices that the Dead God in the frieze on the wall can move aside. A secret door!
- Aximander casts Magic Aura on the chaotic members of the team, hiding them from the effects of this room, and they all head through the door.
- He takes 10d6 explosive holy damage and turns into a big pile of 21 fried bananas.
--- It Burns!
- Unfortunately for the many Chaotic characters in the midst, the air burns with lawful energies! Aximander uses elf trickery to count as Neutral. Grumblebelch's barbarian Lawfulness leaves her as the only person who actually feels a sense of peace in here.
- Odo places her Last Sword of a Conquered Tribe on the altar... scraping off little chunks of banana to do so... and feels her faith in Law renewed. She asks the Scorned for guidance and receives his blessing!
- She also grabs a roman shield from a statue and notices that the Dead God in the frieze on the wall can move aside. A secret door!
- Aximander casts Magic Aura on the chaotic members of the team, hiding them from the effects of this room, and they all head through the door.
--- Zombie King
- It's a short secret passage, ending in a painting with the eye holes cut out. The next room has a huge zombie on a throne, crown of bone on his head, roman armour on his body, being worshipped by a bunch of lesser zombies.
- Slopping down from the ceiling in the secret passage is... a new character! Grog Greedy, an Inheritor, who loots Shrub Jr's body and absorbs some of his banana powers. Seems like a trustworthy demon guy!
- It's a short secret passage, ending in a painting with the eye holes cut out. The next room has a huge zombie on a throne, crown of bone on his head, roman armour on his body, being worshipped by a bunch of lesser zombies.
- Slopping down from the ceiling in the secret passage is... a new character! Grog Greedy, an Inheritor, who loots Shrub Jr's body and absorbs some of his banana powers. Seems like a trustworthy demon guy!
- Odo Grumblebelch, holding her roman shield in front of her, marches into the zombie room and declares herself part of the legion! Good thing she knows her classics, because the zombie king answers her in latin!
- It isn't the Dead God as Odo had presumed, but a Roman soldier who invaded Dwimmermount millenia ago. He was once a slave to the Halflings, then freed and joined the legions, before dying in the assault on the mountain. By the grace of the Nine, he was resurrected to maintain the worship of the Gods on this temple level.
- He offers directions downwards, being a reasonable fellow. He cannot go himself however - he can only leave on Sundays and every day is Tuesday for some reason.
- He also explains what he knows about Azoth, which accumulates in Dwimmermount. It saps magical energy in a gaseous form, accelerates evolution in liquid form, and can be refined into a variety of amazing things! Refined Azoth powered the Halfling superweapons - the Slaughtergrids - in centuries long past.
- He offers directions downwards, being a reasonable fellow. He cannot go himself however - he can only leave on Sundays and every day is Tuesday for some reason.
- He also explains what he knows about Azoth, which accumulates in Dwimmermount. It saps magical energy in a gaseous form, accelerates evolution in liquid form, and can be refined into a variety of amazing things! Refined Azoth powered the Halfling superweapons - the Slaughtergrids - in centuries long past.
- He also warns them not to touch his precious treasures in the next room - he needs them for worship purposes - and warns of his pet wight which drains levels at a touch! Our heroes quake in fear.
--- Treasure!
- They go into the next room... and Odo uses her pick to spike the door shut! Within are four more zombies, guarding various coffers with a profile of Emperor Hadrian drawn on!
- The Zombie King next door can speak through these zombie puppets, but not much else. They are swiftly eliminated.
- Deletion Snels uses his finglonger powers to pick a lock, while the others are variously broken open. Inside is... much loot! Like legitimately good stuff! There's gems, old roman money, a crystal snowglobe with Dwimmermount in it. Nice stuff!
- The Zombie King next door can speak through these zombie puppets, but not much else. They are swiftly eliminated.
- Deletion Snels uses his finglonger powers to pick a lock, while the others are variously broken open. Inside is... much loot! Like legitimately good stuff! There's gems, old roman money, a crystal snowglobe with Dwimmermount in it. Nice stuff!
--- The Wight Stuff
- Knowing that there's a wight ahead, they make a cunning plan. New character Grogg Greedy will act as bait. Odo opens the door with her fishing rod.
- But... no wight.
- Odo sprints through while she's got the chance! She sprints through... and Grogg sees a textureless man-shape emerge spookily from the floor. It looks at Odo briefly... then comes straight for Grogg!
- He runs back to the rest of the party, wight at his heels!
- Odo sprints through while she's got the chance! She sprints through... and Grogg sees a textureless man-shape emerge spookily from the floor. It looks at Odo briefly... then comes straight for Grogg!
- He runs back to the rest of the party, wight at his heels!
- It travels through the floor, listening to the orders from the zombie head! Jojo goes to stomp the head... and the wight goes for her foot! She sacrifices her shield and flips backward... directly into Aximander's line of fire!
- She's hit, rolls, lands well, and strikes a counter-blow to the wight! It explodes into dust, one-shot-killed by a Magic Missile Punch!
- She's hit, rolls, lands well, and strikes a counter-blow to the wight! It explodes into dust, one-shot-killed by a Magic Missile Punch!
- Grogg collapses into goo over the wight's "corpse", absorbing its level-draining power...
--- Odo's Solo Adventure
- Meanwhile, Odo has sprinted for the exit and grabbed some loose gems on the way! She's found the stairs down and runs for them and...
- A statue to the right of the stairway smashes her with a stone fist, stopping the Dwarf short! Odo's shield is splintered by the blow!
- A statue to the right of the stairway smashes her with a stone fist, stopping the Dwarf short! Odo's shield is splintered by the blow!
- It's a slugfest, Dwarf vs Statue. They smash each other back and forth with hammer-blows.
- Odo hits 0 and flies into a rage! She hits the statue over and over and over, finally shattering it into a million pieces.
- Odo hits 0 and flies into a rage! She hits the statue over and over and over, finally shattering it into a million pieces.
- By the time the others catch up, Odo is bleeding and smiling crazily. She just about manages to snap out of her rage and grabs the old coins in the urn next to the stairs.
- Next time... downwards!
Total: 11000 exp
Foes Defeated:
- Mystery floor slime (100 exp)
- Four zombies (100 exp)
- A Wight (75 exp)
- Four zombies (100 exp)
- A Wight (75 exp)
- A living statue (100 exp)
Total: 375 exp
Total: 375 exp
Treasures Acquired:
- 6 bottles of olive oil (6 exp)
- Flitch of bacon (50 exp)
- Flitch of bacon (50 exp)
- 21 fried banana (21 exp)
- Bag of salt
- Crystal Snow Globe (1000 exp)
- Crystal Snow Globe (1000 exp)
- Jewelled box (1000 exp)
- Eye agate (250 exp)
- Eye agate (250 exp)
- Smoky quartz (500 exp)
- Jasper (500 exp)
- Jasper (500 exp)
- Turquoise (250 exp)
- Jade (3750 exp)
- Jade (3750 exp)
- 500 obols in loose gems (500 exp)
- 500 obols in old coins (500 exp)
Total: 8327 exp
Exp Totals:
- Carter / Sydney, Level 7 Magic-User: 89252 (Level up at 144000)
- Ollie / Jojo Fullbeard, Level 6 Muscle Wizard: 63684 (Level up at 72000)
- Kitty / Julian & Aximander, Level 6 Languid Wastrel: 42208 (Level up at 72000)
- Tom / Grumblebelch, Level 5 Dwarf: 30412 (Level up at 32000)
- Charles / Shrub Jr, Level 2 Banana Brackling
DECEASED! Detonated by holy light after attempting to pry gems from an altar.
- George / Deletion Snels, Level 3 Cyber-Inheritor: 5243 (Level up at 9000)
Level Up! +1d6 HP! +1 Meat Point! +1 Mutation Limit! +Backstory!
Level Up! +1d6 HP! +1 Meat Point! +1 Mutation Limit! +Backstory!
- Charles / Grogg Greedy, Level 2 Inheritor: 3284 (Level up at 4500)
Level Up! +1d6 HP! +1 Meat Point! +1 Mutation Limit! +Backstory!
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