Pud dances his funny little jig along with Ben, celebrating the occasion, until he catches sight of Matilda. He realizes the gravity of the situation and how insensitive he was being. He puts his head down in shame and walks over to Matilda.
“I…I’m sorry, Matilda. That was really really dumb. Im good at tinkering, but I’m kinda bad at being a friend.
But I meant what I said earlier. I’m gonna figure out a way to save your little brother. He’s gonna be okay. I promise.”
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Pud - lvl 7 Human Artificer - Alchemist (The Wild Beyond the Witchlight).
Quinn - lvl 4 Human Ranger - Hunter (Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk)
"I'm so happy for you, Pud!" Titaani says, giving the artificer a heartfelt hug. Catching sight of Matilda's face, however, deters her from joining in on the dance. Instead, she adresses Morgort. "I don't know! Let me try."
The warlock sticks her hand in. "Vegetarian food!" She announces confidently.
Considering the frog too heavy to move, Ben tries once more reaching into the frog's mouth and says, "All items and people taken from those visiting the Witchlight Carnival," intending to take them back to the Lost and Found should they ever return to the Carnival.
Ben picks up the stag's head in case they run across the gourd-headed fellow on the bridge who mentioned the hag took his stag's head. He then goes and checks other items for any locks that the key he has might fit. If he finds nothing, he heads to the unexplored door on the south wall of the other room, listening to it and checking to see if it is locked.
Perception: 15
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Pud collapses his new magical retractable 10ft pole and follows the group out of the room. Watches the floating white light, trying to make sense of it. He watches to see if it follows anyone in particular.
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Quinn - lvl 4 Human Ranger - Hunter (Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk)
Titaani fishes around for vegetarian food, but only pulls out a handful of slimy, rotten seaweed from the bronze frog's mouth. It smells bad, like swamp muck. "That's okay," adds Morgort, waving it away with her hand. "I think I'll wait."
Ben tries next in the mouth, but comes up empty. Next, he pulls down the stag's skull from the hook on the wall. It's a little small for a full-grown stag, but appears otherwise ordinary. Glancing around the room, the only other thing that appears to have a lock on it is the padlocked chest with clawed iron feet and the initials B.B. crudely carved into its lid. But he remembers hearing that Matilda had opened it the last time they were here with another key she acquired. Finally, he examines the door to the south. It appears to be unlocked and quiet.
Pud tries to collapse the pole. It doesn't seem to want to physically collapse. Perhaps there is a magical trigger? he wonders. He watches as the floating white light follows Ben carefully around the bedroom.
Pud tries to collapse the pole, but it doesn't seem to go. He shakes it, looks at it again to see if he's missing something.
"...Stiltsomere!"
Pud repeats the word inscribed on the side of the rod, hoping this is the command word to collapse the pole.
He heard Matilda say she cleared out the clawed foot chest, but Pud is still curious.
"Hey, uh...how bout we look in that chest again. Who knows. Maybe Barflona put something else inside of it since Matilda cleaned it out." Pud says with a shrug.
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Quinn - lvl 4 Human Ranger - Hunter (Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk)
Upon the use of the magic word, the pole retracts to its original one-foot length. Fortunately, his leg does not - that seems to be a permanent effect.
The small ball of light continues to carefully follow their actions in this room.
Pud entertains himself expanding and contracting his magical 10-foot-pole.
Matilda digs out the key she had been given on her first visit; it still opens the padlock of Bavlorna's claw-footed chest. The light bobs overhead, watching.
Inside she finds a tiny skull covered in ink fingerprints, a set of 27 silver forks with all of their outer tines bent sideways, and a smallish rock.
The retractable pole collapses just as Matilda opens the chest. Pud walks over, pokes his head around Matilda and looks into the chest. He tilts his head as he tries to make sense of whats in the chest.
"What the...well, that's weird."
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Pud - lvl 7 Human Artificer - Alchemist (The Wild Beyond the Witchlight).
Quinn - lvl 4 Human Ranger - Hunter (Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk)
Ben opens the door to the south. It opens onto a small semicircular exterior balcony overlooking little but fog. Below him (not pictured on map) the thatched roof of the larger floor below extends out another 20 feet or so.
The ball of light does not respond, nor does it approach Horatio.
Pud casts detect magic and scans the room for any magical signatures. He focuses on the weird assortment of items in the chest, the floating light and he pops his head into the previous room with the toad statue and looks to see if anything magical lights up.
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Quinn - lvl 4 Human Ranger - Hunter (Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk)
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Matilda tried very hard to look happy for Pud.....she mostly succeeded.....
Pud dances his funny little jig along with Ben, celebrating the occasion, until he catches sight of Matilda. He realizes the gravity of the situation and how insensitive he was being. He puts his head down in shame and walks over to Matilda.
“I…I’m sorry, Matilda. That was really really dumb. Im good at tinkering, but I’m kinda bad at being a friend.
But I meant what I said earlier. I’m gonna figure out a way to save your little brother. He’s gonna be okay. I promise.”
Pronouns: he/him/his
Pud - lvl 7 Human Artificer - Alchemist (The Wild Beyond the Witchlight).
Quinn - lvl 4 Human Ranger - Hunter (Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk)
The party remains crowded around the frog statue, some with newly-acquired items retrieved from its gaping black maw.
Ben weighs the idea of moving the statue. But it's quite heavy. Made of thick bronze, it probably weighs 700 or 800 pounds.
"Does it have any hors-d'oeuvres?" asks Morgort, stepping in from the next room. "I'm hungry!"
"I'm so happy for you, Pud!" Titaani says, giving the artificer a heartfelt hug. Catching sight of Matilda's face, however, deters her from joining in on the dance. Instead, she adresses Morgort. "I don't know! Let me try."
The warlock sticks her hand in. "Vegetarian food!" She announces confidently.
Ben:
Considering the frog too heavy to move, Ben tries once more reaching into the frog's mouth and says, "All items and people taken from those visiting the Witchlight Carnival," intending to take them back to the Lost and Found should they ever return to the Carnival.
Ben picks up the stag's head in case they run across the gourd-headed fellow on the bridge who mentioned the hag took his stag's head. He then goes and checks other items for any locks that the key he has might fit. If he finds nothing, he heads to the unexplored door on the south wall of the other room, listening to it and checking to see if it is locked.
Perception: 15
Gerrard Feldren - Human Noble in Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Kerric Brightblade - Elven Warrior in "Apocalypse"
Pud collapses his new magical retractable 10ft pole and follows the group out of the room. Watches the floating white light, trying to make sense of it. He watches to see if it follows anyone in particular.
Pronouns: he/him/his
Pud - lvl 7 Human Artificer - Alchemist (The Wild Beyond the Witchlight).
Quinn - lvl 4 Human Ranger - Hunter (Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk)
Titaani fishes around for vegetarian food, but only pulls out a handful of slimy, rotten seaweed from the bronze frog's mouth. It smells bad, like swamp muck. "That's okay," adds Morgort, waving it away with her hand. "I think I'll wait."
Ben tries next in the mouth, but comes up empty.
Next, he pulls down the stag's skull from the hook on the wall. It's a little small for a full-grown stag, but appears otherwise ordinary.
Glancing around the room, the only other thing that appears to have a lock on it is the padlocked chest with clawed iron feet and the initials B.B. crudely carved into its lid. But he remembers hearing that Matilda had opened it the last time they were here with another key she acquired.
Finally, he examines the door to the south. It appears to be unlocked and quiet.
Pud tries to collapse the pole. It doesn't seem to want to physically collapse. Perhaps there is a magical trigger? he wonders.
He watches as the floating white light follows Ben carefully around the bedroom.
Pud tries to collapse the pole, but it doesn't seem to go. He shakes it, looks at it again to see if he's missing something.
"...Stiltsomere!"
Pud repeats the word inscribed on the side of the rod, hoping this is the command word to collapse the pole.
He heard Matilda say she cleared out the clawed foot chest, but Pud is still curious.
"Hey, uh...how bout we look in that chest again. Who knows. Maybe Barflona put something else inside of it since Matilda cleaned it out." Pud says with a shrug.
Pronouns: he/him/his
Pud - lvl 7 Human Artificer - Alchemist (The Wild Beyond the Witchlight).
Quinn - lvl 4 Human Ranger - Hunter (Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk)
Upon the use of the magic word, the pole retracts to its original one-foot length. Fortunately, his leg does not - that seems to be a permanent effect.
The small ball of light continues to carefully follow their actions in this room.
Matilda looked at the frog and sighed, " Maybe once we rescue the Queen of this place she can fix everything and get the stupid frog open?"
" Should we search the rest of the house?"
Ben:
”Matilda, if you still have that key, do you want to check the chest again? Then I can open this door and we keep searching,” suggests Ben.
Gerrard Feldren - Human Noble in Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Kerric Brightblade - Elven Warrior in "Apocalypse"
Matilda nodded and went to open the chest.
Meanwhile, Pud continues to play with the retractible rod.
"Stiltsomere!..." He laughs in amazement as it extends. "Ssssssstiltsomere. Haha, that's cool."
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Pud - lvl 7 Human Artificer - Alchemist (The Wild Beyond the Witchlight).
Quinn - lvl 4 Human Ranger - Hunter (Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk)
Pud entertains himself expanding and contracting his magical 10-foot-pole.
Matilda digs out the key she had been given on her first visit; it still opens the padlock of Bavlorna's claw-footed chest. The light bobs overhead, watching.
Inside she finds a tiny skull covered in ink fingerprints, a set of 27 silver forks with all of their outer tines bent sideways, and a smallish rock.
The retractable pole collapses just as Matilda opens the chest. Pud walks over, pokes his head around Matilda and looks into the chest. He tilts his head as he tries to make sense of whats in the chest.
"What the...well, that's weird."
Pronouns: he/him/his
Pud - lvl 7 Human Artificer - Alchemist (The Wild Beyond the Witchlight).
Quinn - lvl 4 Human Ranger - Hunter (Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk)
" Ok...well...take what you want I guess."
Ben:
When the others are done with the chest, Ben opens the door he walked over to earlier.
Gerrard Feldren - Human Noble in Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Kerric Brightblade - Elven Warrior in "Apocalypse"
Horatio reaches up and offers a hand to the curious glowing yellow orb. "Are you trapped here too?" He asks kindly.
Ben opens the door to the south. It opens onto a small semicircular exterior balcony overlooking little but fog. Below him (not pictured on map) the thatched roof of the larger floor below extends out another 20 feet or so.
The ball of light does not respond, nor does it approach Horatio.
Pud casts detect magic and scans the room for any magical signatures. He focuses on the weird assortment of items in the chest, the floating light and he pops his head into the previous room with the toad statue and looks to see if anything magical lights up.
Pronouns: he/him/his
Pud - lvl 7 Human Artificer - Alchemist (The Wild Beyond the Witchlight).
Quinn - lvl 4 Human Ranger - Hunter (Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk)