Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
Frozen Sick
D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Basic Rules (2014)
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"Why is the mission to restore Ythryn doomed?"
Chadderlay will summon his familiar, a black and white, tuxedo pattern cat into his arms and pet Mister Fancy while having a discussion with Everlast.
"How can Everlast help with the city's restoration?"
"Why was it doomed to go unfulfilled for thousands of years, you ask? In a word: Mages. They are fearful creatures, by nature. It's this fear that drives their lust for power, it is how they think. So, when there is a crisis, their first thought is always self preservation. Time and again the city's most powerful mages walled themselves in. As the poet T'Petricus remarked om the matter.
At this, the bald man changes form, fading and reforming, while cloth, into a gauntlet man with round glasses and a long coat, a cane and an ivesized top hat, whi smirks before speaking, still in common.
"All around your island, there's a barricade. It keeps out the danger, but holds in the pain."
At the conclusion of these words, the speaker returns to the form if the bald man. This is a rough translation from the original Loross, but preserves the meaning at the expense of some of the elegance of the original. I am bound to assist any reasonable effort that does not violate my other order. Alas, Ythryn's secrets are many, and as such, this order may prove quire ibstrusive if you outsiders have the intention of aiding in the restoration."
"What would be involved in the restoration? Is it a long and difficult process? What are the first steps we should take?"
Chadderlay leaves a pause after each question allowing Everlast time to answer. And continues to pet Mister Fancy displaying a benign and non-threatening presence.
Sam keeps a keen look out to see if anything moving on them “interesting
"Many powerful minds have tried. Everlast anticipated you might have some new ideas for restoring the city," replies the blue figure.
<just pointing out the brain lady in the other room just told you a plan to use a powerful artifact to use an ancient object to reverse time and restore the city, but now you're talking to someone who won't speak on 'secret' matters, so draw your own inferences.>
Sam observes slight changes in the intensity of the glow of the eleven small crystals, un time with Evwrlast's movements.
<I don't know how you're going to get this unless we pretend someone succeeded on that perception check, so... >
Akame notices the faint outline of a hatch mounted in the ceiling, 30 feet above the floor.
<bump.>
<Did you guys need more info? Sometimes I think I've revealed lore or environmental details that I actually haven't.>
Spoiler
You're supposed to go up. There's a trapped door overhead. You coukd poke it with a stick or spider climb or whatever else to get up there, rope trick? Anyhow, that's the intention.
<if anyone is waiting in me for anything, please let me know. We're not under initiative, but I called Akame the seer of a hidden thing. That said, anyone can assume they notice Akame notice the thing.>
Perception 4
"Whatcha looking at, Akame?" The paladin peers upward. "Hey, what's that up there? Everlast, is it? Where does that hatch lead to?"
"What hatch, where?"
Chadderlay cranes his neck to look up at the ceiling where the others are looking.
"Oh! I say! I never noticed that before and never would of thought to look up there. Maybe we should always look for hatches in the ceiling from now on. For that matter we should look for them in the floors too."
Knocking on the hatch causes it to swing open, revealing a 5-foot-diameter vertical shaft that ascends 50 feet.
You ascend into an oval hall glittering with frost. Carvings decorate the walls, and long icicles hang from the ceiling. A ten-foot-radius dome of translucent ice encloses the area around the shaft from which you emerge. At the far end of the hall, two blade-shaped patches of pitch darkness hover in the air to either side of a double door. A glowing green crystal roughly the size of a human fist is set into the arch above the doorway.
Bump.
“Hhhm that looks interesting ched why don’t you touch it first”
"Those two black things look too much like swords for my liking, perhaps we can ask Everlast if there's a safer way or some way to deal with those swords, if that is indeed what they are?"
Chadderlay will try taking a few steps toward the glowing green crystal just to see what happens, fearing the black swords will leap to life he is ready to spring back the couple of baby steps he takes.
Sam peers through the hole, his huge body dangking from the ceiling overhead as his upper body fills nearly hslf the dome of frost. Chadderlay approaches the green gem above the door for a closer look. Sam and Chadderlay woukd recognize the blades of disaster, similar to those encountered. The shadowy blades seem aware of the duo and move rapidly toward them.
Roll for initiative. (Target = 16)
Initiative 25
Chadderlay's Initiative: 18
Sam's up.
Anyone else joining the fray from below will have to figure a way past Sam unless he scrunched up inside that icy dome, drops down to the first floor, or finds a way through it, and the others can act after the swords.
Sam will cast a sacred flame dex 16 or take 6 raident damge and pops his head down
Dex save 16