If Trisk takes the crown, he hears the same thing Uriel did when he received it:
A gentle voice on the wind seems to speak
"The beginning of Whenever
The end of Ever After
The start of an Age
The finale of every Moment
The first in History"
Also, its sharp needles make the crown difficult to handle without gloves or gauntlets. The pricking of the needles isn’t severe enough to deal damage, but a character can’t grasp the crown with bare hands for longer than 1 minute before the discomfort becomes unbearable.
When the crown of silver needles is placed on Envy’s head, Envy is banished to its demiplane along with the crown until Zybilna wills them both to return (which can’t happen while she’s trapped in temporal stasis)
If Trisk takes the crown, he hears the same thing Uriel did when he received it:
A gentle voice on the wind seems to speak
"The beginning of Whenever
The end of Ever After
The start of an Age
The finale of every Moment
The first in History"
Also, its sharp needles make the crown difficult to handle without gloves or gauntlets. The pricking of the needles isn’t severe enough to deal damage, but a character can’t grasp the crown with bare hands for longer than 1 minute before the discomfort becomes unbearable.
But I like the logic of not letting people access things easily, since the other tower opens to the castle and not the garden. That would make sense.
So, the doors are still locked, magically, but you can still open them. It's not that hard, but it's not really necessary it's bonus material.
Seeing the large lion disappear, Piccolo frowns and looks around. Then she holds up both her tiny hands (oh well). She looks at the group, wondering what they might do next. Then she finds a small stick and sticks it on top of her head, like a unicorn. She starts looking around seeing if she sees anything that could help them.
"We can always check the other tower, or that beanstalk outside?"
Trisk looks to see if the rest show any interest in one over the other.
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"A rightful place awaits you in the Realms Above, in the Land of the Great Light. Come in peace, and live beneath the sun again, where trees and flowers grow."
— The message of Eilistraee to all decent drow.
"Run thy sword across my chains, Silver Lady, that I may join your dance.”
Following the friend he so recently shared a special bond with in the doom vault Trisk is led by Piccolo out to the giant beanstalk.
"I guess we do what Jack did in the children's stories and climb it?"
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"A rightful place awaits you in the Realms Above, in the Land of the Great Light. Come in peace, and live beneath the sun again, where trees and flowers grow."
— The message of Eilistraee to all decent drow.
"Run thy sword across my chains, Silver Lady, that I may join your dance.”
Bypassing the axe in the stump, the crew take the long way back through the carriage house and hallway, tiptoe past the dragon and note as they pass, the fomorian woman devouring the penultimate layer of the crimson candle cake. At last they arrive in the kitchen, wherein the roots of the stalk spill in from an adjacent room. Here, the palace has been torn asunder by the growth of an enormous beanstalk that has lifted one of its towers high into the air. The space beyond the open doorway is choked with rubble and the thick roots that form the beanstalk’s base.
The beanstalk is 80 feet high, elevating the floor of the tower 20 feet above the palace roof
(Ooc could piccolo use second story work, roguish archetype to climb up the bean stalk, or acrobatics/ Dex)
SsW makes climbing faster. I assume you're good at it. I dont actually think this needs a check as a group if one of you has a rope and any if you can make it, let's say you all make it.
The interior of the tower is a mess of broken furniture and grasping vines. Amid the ruins, a toad wearing a tiny wizard’s cape perches on the lid of a treasure chest that has slid into a wall and become surrounded by junk.
If Trisk takes the crown, he hears the same thing Uriel did when he received it:
A gentle voice on the wind seems to speak
"The beginning of Whenever
The end of Ever After
The start of an Age
The finale of every Moment
The first in History"
Also, its sharp needles make the crown difficult to handle without gloves or gauntlets. The pricking of the needles isn’t severe enough to deal damage, but a character can’t grasp the crown with bare hands for longer than 1 minute before the discomfort becomes unbearable.
Oh. I missed #7165.
Well...
When the crown of silver needles is placed on Envy’s head, Envy is banished to its demiplane along with the crown until Zybilna wills them both to return (which can’t happen while she’s trapped in temporal stasis)
(Can Piccolo try to counterspell the banishment?)
It was cast ages ago
But I like the logic of not letting people access things easily, since the other tower opens to the castle and not the garden. That would make sense.
So, the doors are still locked, magically, but you can still open them. It's not that hard, but it's not really necessary it's bonus material.
If you're wondering what's left, it's the tower, the beanstalk and the dragon.
Also, did you guys find Zybilna yet? I think you might have missed her.
Seeing the large lion disappear, Piccolo frowns and looks around. Then she holds up both her tiny hands (oh well). She looks at the group, wondering what they might do next. Then she finds a small stick and sticks it on top of her head, like a unicorn. She starts looking around seeing if she sees anything that could help them.
"We can always check the other tower, or that beanstalk outside?"
Trisk looks to see if the rest show any interest in one over the other.
Uriel:
(Sorry, I had forgotten there even was a rhyme until our DM mentioned it again. The perils of time delay in PBP, I suppose).
“Let’s try the beanstalk,” suggests Uriel, still not sure if this Zybilina is worth rescuing or not given the conflicting stories they have heard.
Gerrard Feldren - Human Noble in Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Kerric Brightblade - Elven Warrior in "Apocalypse"
Piccolo takes them to the vine
Following the friend he so recently shared a special bond with in the doom vault Trisk is led by Piccolo out to the giant beanstalk.
"I guess we do what Jack did in the children's stories and climb it?"
Bypassing the axe in the stump, the crew take the long way back through the carriage house and hallway, tiptoe past the dragon and note as they pass, the fomorian woman devouring the penultimate layer of the crimson candle cake. At last they arrive in the kitchen, wherein the roots of the stalk spill in from an adjacent room. Here, the palace has been torn asunder by the growth of an enormous beanstalk that has lifted one of its towers high into the air. The space beyond the open doorway is choked with rubble and the thick roots that form the beanstalk’s base.
The beanstalk is 80 feet high, elevating the floor of the tower 20 feet above the palace roof
Drain:
"So we climb it?
(ooc:How difficult does it look to climb?)
A creature can climb the beanstalk without needing magic or climbing gear, but doing so requires a successful DC 15 Strength (Athletics) check
(Ooc could piccolo use second story work, roguish archetype to climb up the bean stalk, or acrobatics/ Dex, she weighs 30 lbs)
Uriel:
Activating his Winged Boots, Uriel goes up last, ready to assist anyone who may struggle with the climb.
Gerrard Feldren - Human Noble in Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Kerric Brightblade - Elven Warrior in "Apocalypse"
SsW makes climbing faster. I assume you're good at it. I dont actually think this needs a check as a group if one of you has a rope and any if you can make it, let's say you all make it.
The interior of the tower is a mess of broken furniture and grasping vines. Amid the ruins, a toad wearing a tiny wizard’s cape perches on the lid of a treasure chest that has slid into a wall and become surrounded by junk.
For anyone who can detect types of creatures
The toad is a shape changed demon.
"Iggrik has seen you before." says the toad. "You aren't with those who've taken over the castle, then, are you?" it asks.