"Oh yeah, I haven't introduced you guys to me new friend yet, have I?"
Morphsnaps his fingers and a spider appears on his shoulder.
"Everyone, this is Lucy. Lucy, this is our group."
"Turns out, in another section of my Medic's Manual, there were instruction for making use of ritual spells, and it had two spells already recorded."
"So now I have a little spider friend. Her webbing comes in handy for weaving thread for stitching closed wounds. Her webbing is golden in colour and quite strong, considering its size."
"She says she is from a place called Mount Celestia, but felt the desire to answer my call, when I cast the ritual to call for a helper."
"Lucycan you keep an eye out, while we work on this painted line?"
Morphgoes back to helping Rethan, Lucyon his shoulder.
"Well, helloLucy," Lanielsays. "Welcome to the group. Morph, can I borrow your broom. I want to try and clear some of this sand so that the paint will stick. If that doesn't work, you might need to magic it clean a foot at a time." Laniel thinks for a moment as he looks around the room. "Although, we only need it to be on the floor for a place to come and go. It could be this space by the wall."
Lanielmoves over to the west wall and begins sweeping a 4 square foot area as clean as possible.
Meanwhile, Midnightcreeps down the hall to find a long, narrow room adorned with bas relief sculptures of various demons along the north wall, including a balor, a barlgura, a chasme, a dretch, a glabrezu, a goristro, and a hezrou. Midnight cannot quite see the south wall from where he sits. The skeleton of a kenku rests on the floor, his arm and finger pointing towards the south wall.
Midnighthisses briefly at the giant (though I suppose not really compared to how big spiders can really be in d&d :P) spider before heading off down the corridor to explore. Rethanchecks in periodically with the cat while the others work on getting the paint ready. When Midnightreaches the next room down the hall, Rethanfinds a spot to sit while he transfers his senses to his familiar to get a look at the room for himself. Coming back to himself after a moment, he reports what the cat found to the rest of the group.
Rethanreadily agrees with Morph'ssuggestion. "Sounds great to me. Means we don't have to distract one of us with the painting duties and leaves our hands free in case of an ambush or trap."
As Morphsettles in to do the ritual, Rethanwill once again find a comfortable place to sit and see and hear through Midnight'seyes, sending the cat to explore further into the long room to see what is on the south wall.
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Atuan steps forward to get a better look at the Kenku skeleton. "That is an unusual place to die." If he can, he will try to peer around the corner to look at the south wall, which the kenku appears to be pointing at. With his quick eye for detail (bonus action while making a perception check), he remains ready to dodge back and out of the way should any dangers appear.
Atuanand Midnightsee more bas relief carvings on the south wall depecting more demons, including a marilith, a nalfeshnee, a quasit, a shadow demon, a vrock, and a yochlol. Atuandetects no dangers.
Midnightsaunters over and starts down the stairs to keep exploring while the group ponders the room they're in. Rethanwalks to the skeleton of the Kenku for a closer look.
“It seems this part may already have been cleared out by those who came before us. I don’t sense any danger... yet.”
Titus takes position at the side of the group, though he does not believe there is any danger, he watches Midnight intently as he goes to explore the next area.
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Vercinius Thrax: Lizardfolk Cleric - Hoard of the Dragon Queen
L’Ouverture Zinn: Kobold Sorcerer - Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Titus Vorenus: Dragonborn Paladin - Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Nemean Goldenmane: Tabaxi Fighter - Lost Mine of Phandelver (Retired)
When Morph sees Midnight appear, he remarks,
"Oh yeah, I haven't introduced you guys to me new friend yet, have I?"
Morph snaps his fingers and a spider appears on his shoulder.
"Everyone, this is Lucy. Lucy, this is our group."
"Turns out, in another section of my Medic's Manual, there were instruction for making use of ritual spells, and it had two spells already recorded."
"So now I have a little spider friend. Her webbing comes in handy for weaving thread for stitching closed wounds. Her webbing is golden in colour and quite strong, considering its size."
"She says she is from a place called Mount Celestia, but felt the desire to answer my call, when I cast the ritual to call for a helper."
"Lucy can you keep an eye out, while we work on this painted line?"
Morph goes back to helping Rethan, Lucy on his shoulder.
David Gearlock | Human | Artificer | Revenge Heist
Knox | Warforged | Cleric | Shadowthorn's Out of the Abyss
"Well, hello Lucy," Laniel says. "Welcome to the group. Morph, can I borrow your broom. I want to try and clear some of this sand so that the paint will stick. If that doesn't work, you might need to magic it clean a foot at a time." Laniel thinks for a moment as he looks around the room. "Although, we only need it to be on the floor for a place to come and go. It could be this space by the wall."
Laniel moves over to the west wall and begins sweeping a 4 square foot area as clean as possible.
Meanwhile, Midnight creeps down the hall to find a long, narrow room adorned with bas relief sculptures of various demons along the north wall, including a balor, a barlgura, a chasme, a dretch, a glabrezu, a goristro, and a hezrou. Midnight cannot quite see the south wall from where he sits. The skeleton of a kenku rests on the floor, his arm and finger pointing towards the south wall.
Midnight hisses briefly at the giant (though I suppose not really compared to how big spiders can really be in d&d :P) spider before heading off down the corridor to explore. Rethan checks in periodically with the cat while the others work on getting the paint ready. When Midnight reaches the next room down the hall, Rethan finds a spot to sit while he transfers his senses to his familiar to get a look at the room for himself. Coming back to himself after a moment, he reports what the cat found to the rest of the group.
Morph helps Lanial clean the area and then has an idea,
"Hm, if we have a little time, I can ritually cast a spell, I used to have to use my spell reserves on."
"The spell summons an assistant. I call her nurse Joy, she comes in handy when another pair of hands are needed, while working the battlefield."
"I call her Joy, because I get this bubbly excited feedback down our psychic connection."
"If we have 10 minutes for me to cast, she can help paint or clean for an hour before needing to be resummoned."
"What do you think?"
David Gearlock | Human | Artificer | Revenge Heist
Knox | Warforged | Cleric | Shadowthorn's Out of the Abyss
Morph respond to Rethan's report,
"Well that a creepy start to our adventure."
"So the kenku is pointing to the south wall? hmmm..."
David Gearlock | Human | Artificer | Revenge Heist
Knox | Warforged | Cleric | Shadowthorn's Out of the Abyss
Rethan readily agrees with Morph's suggestion. "Sounds great to me. Means we don't have to distract one of us with the painting duties and leaves our hands free in case of an ambush or trap."
As Morph settles in to do the ritual, Rethan will once again find a comfortable place to sit and see and hear through Midnight's eyes, sending the cat to explore further into the long room to see what is on the south wall.
Morph opens his Combat Medics manual, turning to the appropriate section, before settling in to cast the spell.
Once completed, an invisible force picks up the brush and begins painting the line on the ground, while Morph holds the paint can.
"Right so we want to start on the ground and then for ease of application, we will move up onto the wall to continue along? Less to clean that way."
The invisible force continues to paint the line, moving up onto the wall at about waist level before continuing towards the bend in the passage.
Ritual Cast: Unseen Servant, lasts an hour before needing to cast again.
David Gearlock | Human | Artificer | Revenge Heist
Knox | Warforged | Cleric | Shadowthorn's Out of the Abyss
Atuan steps forward to get a better look at the Kenku skeleton. "That is an unusual place to die." If he can, he will try to peer around the corner to look at the south wall, which the kenku appears to be pointing at. With his quick eye for detail (bonus action while making a perception check), he remains ready to dodge back and out of the way should any dangers appear.
perception: 21
Atuan and Midnight see more bas relief carvings on the south wall depecting more demons, including a marilith, a nalfeshnee, a quasit, a shadow demon, a vrock, and a yochlol. Atuan detects no dangers.
(Is the skeleton of the kenku pointing at a specific demon? And what's on the west wall?)
The west side of the room is just stairs descending. The skeleton appears to be pointing at the nalfeshnee demon, although
Seeing the demons on the wall, Titus invokes his divine senses and scans the area.
Vercinius Thrax: Lizardfolk Cleric - Hoard of the Dragon Queen
L’Ouverture Zinn: Kobold Sorcerer - Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Titus Vorenus: Dragonborn Paladin - Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Nemean Goldenmane: Tabaxi Fighter - Lost Mine of Phandelver (Retired)
Titus finds no presence of actual demons, fey, or celestials.
Morph, standing at the back of the group, silently indicates to Lucy, to crawl up onto the wall, so he can get a better view.
Once Lucy is above the others and can see down the hallway, Morph's eyes go white, not unlike his true form, as his senses transfer into Lucy.
"What have we got? Any danger? Anything interesting?"
"Wow, that sounds strange, hearing myself from a remote location."
"Hmm, any danger from those carvings? Strange that the Kenku is pointing at one."
David Gearlock | Human | Artificer | Revenge Heist
Knox | Warforged | Cleric | Shadowthorn's Out of the Abyss
Midnight saunters over and starts down the stairs to keep exploring while the group ponders the room they're in. Rethan walks to the skeleton of the Kenku for a closer look.
“It seems this part may already have been cleared out by those who came before us. I don’t sense any danger... yet.”
Titus takes position at the side of the group, though he does not believe there is any danger, he watches Midnight intently as he goes to explore the next area.
Vercinius Thrax: Lizardfolk Cleric - Hoard of the Dragon Queen
L’Ouverture Zinn: Kobold Sorcerer - Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Titus Vorenus: Dragonborn Paladin - Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Nemean Goldenmane: Tabaxi Fighter - Lost Mine of Phandelver (Retired)
Rethan observes the kenku has been draped somewhat unnaturally so that his arm is purposefully pointing to the bas relief on the south wall.
“Someone arranged the skeleton like this on purpose. It’s not just a coincidence,” Rethan tells the others.
"Hmm, I can take a look at things using my magic sense, if you like."
Morph carefully picks his way to the front of the group, so he can see into the hall himself, and casts Detect Magic.
His eyes begin to glow with a faint blue light, as he scans the room, and the Nalfeshnee Demon carving in particular.
Perception check to scan the room, with Detect Magic active: 4
David Gearlock | Human | Artificer | Revenge Heist
Knox | Warforged | Cleric | Shadowthorn's Out of the Abyss