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"The passageway to the left has collapsed..." notes Khessa "It will probably take many hours to dig through. I'm really curious what this strange greenish glow just peeking through the bits of rubble is... Maybe it has somethign to do with the journal writer?" she puts a finger to her lips, thoughtfully "We have found three beds, but only two jellies... if those were the 'brothers', then the journal writer is still missing. Anyway, I'd take a look to the room directly south of us. It looks to be partially collapsed, but might hide somethign of interest all the same - and does not require hours of excavation to check".
And with that, the blonde arcane warrior go and checks the room.
Half-buried in the rubble here is the skeleton of a dwarf priest wearing rotted red leather armor. The dwarf was killed when part of the room collapsed. Around the skeleton’s neck hangs an amulet of some kind: a tiny jeweled dagger on a silver chain. The symbol is inscribed with Dwarvish runes.
Rel smiles affectionately (surprising herself) at her companions' quirks. Echo's silliness, waving her fist around. Khessa's talkative running monologue. Jasper's quiet reserve and fascination with his moonstones. In a sudden epiphany, it dawns on her that the others probably think she herself has quirks too...
She holds her counsel and guards the room while the others investigate the dwarven skeleton.
At the sight of the skeleton, Khessa resumes her talkative running monologue: "Here we have the journal writer! His amulet must be a kind of holy symbol. I'm not thinking of converting to his religion (also considering how much good this did to him), but we should take it..." (she slips it from his neck) "we will try to resell it in Phandalin".
"Now, this means that the strange greenish glow must have something to do with something different" speculates aloud the blonde arcane warrior. "It might have something to do with whoever was 'coming for them'. What do you think, guys? Shall we share what we have found and learned so far with Dazlyn and Norbus? They might have some hint about who 'was coming' for the priests. And if not... they might at least help us with the final digging".
Echo scratches the back of her head, “This glow looks funny, I feel like this is the kind of thing we should uncover. But I think we’ll need more people to dig through all this, yeah. Isn’t the one that came for these guys just their god?”
Echo scratches the back of her head, “This glow looks funny, I feel like this is the kind of thing we should uncover. But I think we’ll need more people to dig through all this, yeah. Isn’t the one that came for these guys just their god?”
"I don't know, Echo..." Khessa is in doubt "it could be just their god the one that came, yes, but it could also be some other threat against which they asked their god for help".
"I think there is one more area to explore, and then report back to the dwarves before we decide whether to spend hours clearing the rubble?"
(Rel is referring to the tunnel area shaped like a backwards "C" on the map.)
"Shall we take our usual approach there with the rope and the light, and then check back with Norbus and Dazlyn?"
"Oh, you're right Rel Serafin!" realizes Khessa "I was forgetting of that passage. We'll definitely do like you say. Echo," the blonde arcane warrior turns her blue eyes to her pale friend "will you have our rope-scout lead the way?"
Khessa is too eager to explore the C-shaped tunnel area; at first she had thought of waiting for Echo to send the luminous rope forward, but she changes her mind now and goes to see firsthand, made confident by the new possibilities of view that Jasper has given her.
Greatsword ready and with her senses alert, she begins to walk down the corridor...
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Rel follows behind Khessa towards the passageway they hadn't explored yet. Still thinking with mild horror about dwarves turned to jelly. She agrees with Echo that turning follower into oozes sounds like something an evil god would do, or maybe what other oozes would do. She isn't sure.
Echo nods, standing up from where she is trying to see what the green glow is and follows behind but let’s her mage hand float forward in front of the group.
(ooc: to make things flow more, let’s just assume Echo’s mage hand is holding the light in front of them unless she gets distracted really bad. I’ll describe it if her mage hand disappears!)
As you walk down the southern side of the C-shaped passage you notice more rubble. This section of the passageway has collapsed. However, Rel is the only one to notice that there appears to be something in the rubble, although what she is not sure.
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As Rel uses her mage hand to clear the rubble, a new Ochre Jelly oozes through the crackes in the rubble, its yellow body separating but then recombining once it's free from the rubble. It undulates rapidly and a protrusion from its body, a pseudopod, rakes the air where the mage hand is, but the pseudopod passes right through the incorporeal mage hand.
Everyone is up except for the Ochre Jelly and Khessa!
This is a tight space for combat. Each square of the map corresponds to 5 ft. The passageway is big enough for two people standing next to each other but that's about it.
(OOC: So now Rel and Echo are up... since Khessa is being slower to react than the Ochre Jelly! Go on girls! You know by now how we cook a jelly-based dish)
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Rel's eyes flash black briefly once more as she transfers the target of her Hex to the jelly.
((While concentrating on this, she gets an 1d6 extra necrotic damage on hits against the target, and the target has disadvantage on STR checks.))
The flash of black extends from her eyes, through her earrings and out through her fingertips in the now-familiar jet-black beam of force energy.
Attack: 26 Damage: 15 force damage plus 4 necrotic damage.
Thankful for her waif-slender form for once, she slips back past her companions 30' north as far as she can go while still seeing the ooze. "It is more difficult to stay away from it in such cramped quarters, back away if you can."
"The passageway to the left has collapsed..." notes Khessa "It will probably take many hours to dig through. I'm really curious what this strange greenish glow just peeking through the bits of rubble is... Maybe it has somethign to do with the journal writer?" she puts a finger to her lips, thoughtfully "We have found three beds, but only two jellies... if those were the 'brothers', then the journal writer is still missing. Anyway, I'd take a look to the room directly south of us. It looks to be partially collapsed, but might hide somethign of interest all the same - and does not require hours of excavation to check".
And with that, the blonde arcane warrior go and checks the room.
Perception: 18
Half-buried in the rubble here is the skeleton of a dwarf priest wearing rotted red leather armor. The dwarf was killed when part of the room collapsed. Around the skeleton’s neck hangs an amulet of some kind: a tiny jeweled dagger on a silver chain. The symbol is inscribed with Dwarvish runes.
Extended Signature
Characters: Bryony Alderleaf (Phandelver and Below) ♦ Vesta Trevelyan (Vecna: Eve of Ruin) ♦ Ada Kendrick (Curse of Strahd) ♦ Gareth Blackwood (Dragon of Icespire Peak) ♦ Karys Velthune (Out of the Abyss) ♦ Surina Xarith (Simple, Heroic Adventure)
DM: Baldur's Gate: Descent Into Avernus
Rel smiles affectionately (surprising herself) at her companions' quirks. Echo's silliness, waving her fist around. Khessa's talkative running monologue. Jasper's quiet reserve and fascination with his moonstones. In a sudden epiphany, it dawns on her that the others probably think she herself has quirks too...
She holds her counsel and guards the room while the others investigate the dwarven skeleton.
[Tooltip Not Found]: 10
(The roll above was meant to be Perception)
Tanis(Ranger1): Shiverquill's Tempest City | Xarian(Fighter2): NioNSwiper's Tyranny of Dragons
Dyson/Eleo(TwilightCleric4): Vos' Beyond the Veil | Soren(ShepherdDruid5): Bartjeebus' Ravenloft | Ophelia(WildMagicSorcerer4): Ashen_Age's Risen from the Sands
Joren(EchoKnightFighter6): NotDrizzt's Simple Request | Sabetha(MercyMonk3): Bedlymn's Murder Court | Seri(NatureCleric3/DivineSoulSorcerer1): Bartjeebus' Greyhawk
At the sight of the skeleton, Khessa resumes her talkative running monologue: "Here we have the journal writer! His amulet must be a kind of holy symbol. I'm not thinking of converting to his religion (also considering how much good this did to him), but we should take it..." (she slips it from his neck) "we will try to resell it in Phandalin".
"Now, this means that the strange greenish glow must have something to do with something different" speculates aloud the blonde arcane warrior. "It might have something to do with whoever was 'coming for them'. What do you think, guys? Shall we share what we have found and learned so far with Dazlyn and Norbus? They might have some hint about who 'was coming' for the priests. And if not... they might at least help us with the final digging".
Echo scratches the back of her head, “This glow looks funny, I feel like this is the kind of thing we should uncover. But I think we’ll need more people to dig through all this, yeah. Isn’t the one that came for these guys just their god?”
"I don't know, Echo..." Khessa is in doubt "it could be just their god the one that came, yes, but it could also be some other threat against which they asked their god for help".
"I think there is one more area to explore, and then report back to the dwarves before we decide whether to spend hours clearing the rubble?"
(Rel is referring to the tunnel area shaped like a backwards "C" on the map.)
"Shall we take our usual approach there with the rope and the light, and then check back with Norbus and Dazlyn?"
Tanis(Ranger1): Shiverquill's Tempest City | Xarian(Fighter2): NioNSwiper's Tyranny of Dragons
Dyson/Eleo(TwilightCleric4): Vos' Beyond the Veil | Soren(ShepherdDruid5): Bartjeebus' Ravenloft | Ophelia(WildMagicSorcerer4): Ashen_Age's Risen from the Sands
Joren(EchoKnightFighter6): NotDrizzt's Simple Request | Sabetha(MercyMonk3): Bedlymn's Murder Court | Seri(NatureCleric3/DivineSoulSorcerer1): Bartjeebus' Greyhawk
"Oh, you're right Rel Serafin!" realizes Khessa "I was forgetting of that passage. We'll definitely do like you say. Echo," the blonde arcane warrior turns her blue eyes to her pale friend "will you have our rope-scout lead the way?"
Khessa is too eager to explore the C-shaped tunnel area; at first she had thought of waiting for Echo to send the luminous rope forward, but she changes her mind now and goes to see firsthand, made confident by the new possibilities of view that Jasper has given her.
Greatsword ready and with her senses alert, she begins to walk down the corridor...
Perception: 11
Rel follows behind Khessa towards the passageway they hadn't explored yet. Still thinking with mild horror about dwarves turned to jelly. She agrees with Echo that turning follower into oozes sounds like something an evil god would do, or maybe what other oozes would do. She isn't sure.
Perception: 13
Tanis(Ranger1): Shiverquill's Tempest City | Xarian(Fighter2): NioNSwiper's Tyranny of Dragons
Dyson/Eleo(TwilightCleric4): Vos' Beyond the Veil | Soren(ShepherdDruid5): Bartjeebus' Ravenloft | Ophelia(WildMagicSorcerer4): Ashen_Age's Risen from the Sands
Joren(EchoKnightFighter6): NotDrizzt's Simple Request | Sabetha(MercyMonk3): Bedlymn's Murder Court | Seri(NatureCleric3/DivineSoulSorcerer1): Bartjeebus' Greyhawk
Jasper follows close behind Rel and Khessa. “Echo…are you coming?”
Jasper Mooncrest🌙 ~ Wood Elf Cleric Twilight Domain ~ Nyx’s Dragon of Icespires Peak: PBP
Dastion Salvi ~ Half-Elf Warlock(Genie) ~ Lost Mines of the Phandelver: D&DBeyond/Roll20/Discord (Sunday 5-8pm cst) DM canceled
Jasper of the Wandering Wood ~ Wood Elf Cleric Twilight Domain ~ Tomb of the Delian Order One Shot(13): PBP complete
Echo nods, standing up from where she is trying to see what the green glow is and follows behind but let’s her mage hand float forward in front of the group.
(ooc: to make things flow more, let’s just assume Echo’s mage hand is holding the light in front of them unless she gets distracted really bad. I’ll describe it if her mage hand disappears!)
As you walk down the southern side of the C-shaped passage you notice more rubble. This section of the passageway has collapsed. However, Rel is the only one to notice that there appears to be something in the rubble, although what she is not sure.
Extended Signature
Characters: Bryony Alderleaf (Phandelver and Below) ♦ Vesta Trevelyan (Vecna: Eve of Ruin) ♦ Ada Kendrick (Curse of Strahd) ♦ Gareth Blackwood (Dragon of Icespire Peak) ♦ Karys Velthune (Out of the Abyss) ♦ Surina Xarith (Simple, Heroic Adventure)
DM: Baldur's Gate: Descent Into Avernus
As we walk down the passage, Jasper keeps a cautious eye at the back. Making sure nothing sneaks up on them.
Perception: 13
Jasper Mooncrest🌙 ~ Wood Elf Cleric Twilight Domain ~ Nyx’s Dragon of Icespires Peak: PBP
Dastion Salvi ~ Half-Elf Warlock(Genie) ~ Lost Mines of the Phandelver: D&DBeyond/Roll20/Discord (Sunday 5-8pm cst) DM canceled
Jasper of the Wandering Wood ~ Wood Elf Cleric Twilight Domain ~ Tomb of the Delian Order One Shot(13): PBP complete
Rel stops short, keeping her distance.
"Careful, there is something in the rubble but I am not sure what it is. Echo Thornhill, perhaps could you move the rope there?" (pointing).
The half-drow uses her own Mage Hand to try to clear smaller pieces of rubble so the party can see whatever it is more clearly.
Tanis(Ranger1): Shiverquill's Tempest City | Xarian(Fighter2): NioNSwiper's Tyranny of Dragons
Dyson/Eleo(TwilightCleric4): Vos' Beyond the Veil | Soren(ShepherdDruid5): Bartjeebus' Ravenloft | Ophelia(WildMagicSorcerer4): Ashen_Age's Risen from the Sands
Joren(EchoKnightFighter6): NotDrizzt's Simple Request | Sabetha(MercyMonk3): Bedlymn's Murder Court | Seri(NatureCleric3/DivineSoulSorcerer1): Bartjeebus' Greyhawk
As Rel uses her mage hand to clear the rubble, a new Ochre Jelly oozes through the crackes in the rubble, its yellow body separating but then recombining once it's free from the rubble. It undulates rapidly and a protrusion from its body, a pseudopod, rakes the air where the mage hand is, but the pseudopod passes right through the incorporeal mage hand.
Initiative Order
Khessa - 18
Rel - 17
Echo - 13
Jasper - 6
Ochre Jelly - 5
Extended Signature
Characters: Bryony Alderleaf (Phandelver and Below) ♦ Vesta Trevelyan (Vecna: Eve of Ruin) ♦ Ada Kendrick (Curse of Strahd) ♦ Gareth Blackwood (Dragon of Icespire Peak) ♦ Karys Velthune (Out of the Abyss) ♦ Surina Xarith (Simple, Heroic Adventure)
DM: Baldur's Gate: Descent Into Avernus
Everyone is up except for the Ochre Jelly and Khessa!
This is a tight space for combat. Each square of the map corresponds to 5 ft. The passageway is big enough for two people standing next to each other but that's about it.
Extended Signature
Characters: Bryony Alderleaf (Phandelver and Below) ♦ Vesta Trevelyan (Vecna: Eve of Ruin) ♦ Ada Kendrick (Curse of Strahd) ♦ Gareth Blackwood (Dragon of Icespire Peak) ♦ Karys Velthune (Out of the Abyss) ♦ Surina Xarith (Simple, Heroic Adventure)
DM: Baldur's Gate: Descent Into Avernus
Jasper pulls a vial of holy water from his belt and sprinkles a few drops on Khessa, Rel and Echo and recites “Benedico!”
Jasper casts Bless. Khessa Rel and Echo can roll a 1d4 and add it to attack rolls and saving throws.
Jasper walks back 20 feet away.
Jasper Mooncrest🌙 ~ Wood Elf Cleric Twilight Domain ~ Nyx’s Dragon of Icespires Peak: PBP
Dastion Salvi ~ Half-Elf Warlock(Genie) ~ Lost Mines of the Phandelver: D&DBeyond/Roll20/Discord (Sunday 5-8pm cst) DM canceled
Jasper of the Wandering Wood ~ Wood Elf Cleric Twilight Domain ~ Tomb of the Delian Order One Shot(13): PBP complete
(OOC: So now Rel and Echo are up... since Khessa is being slower to react than the Ochre Jelly! Go on girls! You know by now how we cook a jelly-based dish)
Rel's eyes flash black briefly once more as she transfers the target of her Hex to the jelly.
((While concentrating on this, she gets an 1d6 extra necrotic damage on hits against the target, and the target has disadvantage on STR checks.))
The flash of black extends from her eyes, through her earrings and out through her fingertips in the now-familiar jet-black beam of force energy.
Attack: 26 Damage: 15 force damage plus 4 necrotic damage.
Thankful for her waif-slender form for once, she slips back past her companions 30' north as far as she can go while still seeing the ooze. "It is more difficult to stay away from it in such cramped quarters, back away if you can."
Tanis(Ranger1): Shiverquill's Tempest City | Xarian(Fighter2): NioNSwiper's Tyranny of Dragons
Dyson/Eleo(TwilightCleric4): Vos' Beyond the Veil | Soren(ShepherdDruid5): Bartjeebus' Ravenloft | Ophelia(WildMagicSorcerer4): Ashen_Age's Risen from the Sands
Joren(EchoKnightFighter6): NotDrizzt's Simple Request | Sabetha(MercyMonk3): Bedlymn's Murder Court | Seri(NatureCleric3/DivineSoulSorcerer1): Bartjeebus' Greyhawk