The girl sits down, crossed legged and starts to play an eerie yet soothing tune on her instrument in this dark place. Her hooved feet, sticking out, her bedraggled clothing. Sitting, she is no taller the a foot and a half from the ground.
(Images of people of all races, and disciplines being captured by Red Robed Priests. Then tortured, and experimented on (images of some of the areas they have seen in the dungeon where victims were found. Image of Piccolo chained to a tree, and the party rescuing her. An image of a liches skull, its eyes glowing with power, a strange voice: Szazz Tam. Then the music turns calm and peaceful, and she looks at Ashdra and smiles, a kindred spirit in this terrible place.)
"Yes, as Ethan said- WAIT WHO ARE YOU CALLING WEAK AND UNREASONABLE YOU PIECE OF-?!"Randy screams as his armour suddenly glows brighter in anger before he charges in to tackle his brother to ground... and misses, falling face first onto the floor near the drow lady, much to his infuriation.
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Wildland Shifters Pt 2 (Pt 1 with PyromaniIsDeadThankGod) Celci (The Lamb) - Non-Binary Changeling Sorcerer (Shadow Magic) Maya Kurosaki- Female Kitsune Cleric (Twilight Domain); Currently in Lancea Randy Wolftree - Male Human Artificer (Armourer); Currently in Crimson Sands of Time Shijiro Otsune- Male Kitsune Blood Hunter (Order Of The Lycan) Trojan Dseyller - Male Tortle Barbarian (Path of the Ancestral Guardian) Xenia Ironhide - Female Kobold Rogue (Soulknife)
"A male running about by himself is always bound to find trouble. What he and I could have in common before being brought to this place I wonder? Do you think he also hailed from Muzhajaarnadah? Actually. Where are we now, anyhow?" Ashdra asks the group.
Trisk places a hand on the side of her shoulder to comfort her from the shock of what he says, "We're in the Doom Vault."
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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.”
Piccolo plays here music again, showing a musically visual picture of the dungeon. Then of red wizards capturing various chosen (the ones she has seen). Then the red wizards doing experiments to empower the lich)
"I'm not entirely sure myself but from what I've been told it's where the Red Wizards run experiments and Liches keep their phylacteries."
Trisk will run his arm up and down from her shoulder to her elbow, the way someone would to warm up a cold person or in this case comfort someone getting very disturbing news.
"We're not planning on leaving until we finish our business here but you're welcome to accompany us until then. It might be safer than going it alone."
"This is what the other drow looked like. Do you recognize or know him."
And Trisk will change his permanent illusion into a likeness of the male drow while gesturing in that direction with his other arm.
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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.”
Piccolo plays here music again, showing a musically visual picture of the dungeon. Then of red wizards capturing various chosen (the ones she has seen). Then the red wizards doing experiments to empower the lich)
< Per her backstory, thus would include Picollo, I think.>
Ashdra recoils slightly at the unexpected touch, but calms quickly. "You are Shadar-kai? Has the Raven Queen sent you, then? Or were you taken as she," with a nod, indicating Picollo, "and I were?"
To the question of the other drow, she replies, "I know few males save my own servants, but the manner of dress suggests he is from the North. And, you're vision, it shows him wearing the symbol of Ghaunadaur." This last piece she says with a look of disgust far outstripping her general contempt for males.
[Calimshan is farther south, similar latitude to Lantan, just north of Chult. Both are on Faerûn's West coast. Thay is far to the east. PCs from Toril know this.]
"The current machinations of Thay have them taking many of the chosen."
Once she seems more relaxed Trisk will lower his arm and ask, "Which of the Gods do you serve?"
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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.”
I make no secret of my faith in Ibrandul. Though once primarily worshiped by humans in southern lands such as Calimshan, many drow now find comfort in his protection, for he guides those who travel and work in darkness. That I am hus chosen is a fact I seldom confide, but, given the circumstances, well, it seems obvious. How those Thayans knew this.. Their spies must ha e been following me for some time, I think." She looks worried, pained by the loss of the time she has spent in this pit, by the violation of it all. She snaps out of it. "Enough words. How do we get out of here?"
It is apparent she is in no shape ro fight after the ordeal she's been through. If you help her to a black gate, she'd be happy to take the gatehouse exit and head back the Calimshan.
Other than the doors you entered by, there is a set at the south of the room.
(ooc: where is the nearest black gate to us? didn't we just leave one a room or two back?)
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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.”
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Piccolo gets out of her sitting position and inspects the drow. The tiny girl looks her over, like a grandmother would look over a child, looking for bumps and bruises, broken bones, poking and prodding. Then, she takes out a healing kit and does what she can for her, and gives her some food and water (Heal 8 + additional HP equal to her max number of hit dice)
(ooc: where is the nearest black gate to us? didn't we just leave one a room or two back?)
The previous room with the oozes. It's how you got here, but your conjecture was that the slime is unlimited. In either case there at least 11 in there.
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"The room we just came from is a death trap! It has about a dozen oozes and who knows what else by now."
Looking toward the other exit from this room.
"You could tag along with us just until we find another black gate, it would be safer."
Trisk tries to convince her to stay with us for now.
Trisk's Persuasion: 18
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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.”
Randy takes a moment to get up, eyeing his brother with hostility, before turning to the lady without changing his expression, rifle rested in his dominant shoulders. "You have two choices given to you. Either listen to what Trisk-elion said and follow us or..."He twists his body to the previous room where he disabled the most recent black gate. "You can go that way and fall victim to a bunch of overgrown cell walls multiplying in your face to make our efforts go to waste. What is it you're thinking of?"
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Wildland Shifters Pt 2 (Pt 1 with PyromaniIsDeadThankGod) Celci (The Lamb) - Non-Binary Changeling Sorcerer (Shadow Magic) Maya Kurosaki- Female Kitsune Cleric (Twilight Domain); Currently in Lancea Randy Wolftree - Male Human Artificer (Armourer); Currently in Crimson Sands of Time Shijiro Otsune- Male Kitsune Blood Hunter (Order Of The Lycan) Trojan Dseyller - Male Tortle Barbarian (Path of the Ancestral Guardian) Xenia Ironhide - Female Kobold Rogue (Soulknife)
Like a cartoon character, the little girl subtly points her finger at Trisk, and winks. Then if Randy looks her way, she stops, looking like she is doing something else.
The dazed drow offers little resistance to the suggestion of tagging g along. She's actively adking for help, actually. Maybe from you, maybe from her god.
In any evern, does that mean you're taking to south door? I ah e ti assume so, given the 'death sentence ascribed to the other one.
So...
The doors to the south open onto a corridor that runs southwest and joins with two other passages. At the junction is a white gate that connects with two other hallways, the gate being a central.poi t of the three spokes radiating outward ro the temple of Shadows you are departing, and two others.
<mechanically, the drow can actually pass through the gate without a key, but you need one to open the gate blocking your way. Assuming you do, do you go left or right? >
"Who's navigating again, isn't there a map?" Trisk looks to whoever has a key for the white gate (unless when the keys were passed out he got one, if so he just uses his, whether it can open the white gate directly or has to first be attuned).
"My vote is left, what say you all?"
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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.”
The girl sits down, crossed legged and starts to play an eerie yet soothing tune on her instrument in this dark place. Her hooved feet, sticking out, her bedraggled clothing. Sitting, she is no taller the a foot and a half from the ground.
(Images of people of all races, and disciplines being captured by Red Robed Priests. Then tortured, and experimented on (images of some of the areas they have seen in the dungeon where victims were found. Image of Piccolo chained to a tree, and the party rescuing her. An image of a liches skull, its eyes glowing with power, a strange voice: Szazz Tam. Then the music turns calm and peaceful, and she looks at Ashdra and smiles, a kindred spirit in this terrible place.)
"Yes, as Ethan said- WAIT WHO ARE YOU CALLING WEAK AND UNREASONABLE YOU PIECE OF-?!" Randy screams as his armour suddenly glows brighter in anger before he charges in to tackle his brother to ground... and misses, falling face first onto the floor near the drow lady, much to his infuriation.
Wildland Shifters Pt 2 (Pt 1 with PyromaniIsDeadThankGod)
Celci (The Lamb) - Non-Binary Changeling Sorcerer (Shadow Magic)
Maya Kurosaki - Female Kitsune Cleric (Twilight Domain); Currently in Lancea
Randy Wolftree - Male Human Artificer (Armourer); Currently in Crimson Sands of Time
Shijiro Otsune - Male Kitsune Blood Hunter (Order Of The Lycan)
Trojan Dseyller - Male Tortle Barbarian (Path of the Ancestral Guardian)
Xenia Ironhide - Female Kobold Rogue (Soulknife)
"A male running about by himself is always bound to find trouble. What he and I could have in common before being brought to this place I wonder? Do you think he also hailed from Muzhajaarnadah? Actually. Where are we now, anyhow?" Ashdra asks the group.
Trisk places a hand on the side of her shoulder to comfort her from the shock of what he says, "We're in the Doom Vault."
Piccolo shakes her head in confirmation of Trisks statement.
"Whats a Doomvault?" Comes the nonplussed reply.
<btw. You do know what they have in common. They're the chosen of some gods, here for that reason. Up to you if you share this with her.>
Piccolo plays here music again, showing a musically visual picture of the dungeon. Then of red wizards capturing various chosen (the ones she has seen). Then the red wizards doing experiments to empower the lich)
"I'm not entirely sure myself but from what I've been told it's where the Red Wizards run experiments and Liches keep their phylacteries."
Trisk will run his arm up and down from her shoulder to her elbow, the way someone would to warm up a cold person or in this case comfort someone getting very disturbing news.
"We're not planning on leaving until we finish our business here but you're welcome to accompany us until then. It might be safer than going it alone."
"This is what the other drow looked like. Do you recognize or know him."
And Trisk will change his permanent illusion into a likeness of the male drow while gesturing in that direction with his other arm.
< Per her backstory, thus would include Picollo, I think.>
Ashdra recoils slightly at the unexpected touch, but calms quickly. "You are Shadar-kai? Has the Raven Queen sent you, then? Or were you taken as she," with a nod, indicating Picollo, "and I were?"
To the question of the other drow, she replies, "I know few males save my own servants, but the manner of dress suggests he is from the North. And, you're vision, it shows him wearing the symbol of Ghaunadaur." This last piece she says with a look of disgust far outstripping her general contempt for males.
[Calimshan is farther south, similar latitude to Lantan, just north of Chult. Both are on Faerûn's West coast. Thay is far to the east. PCs from Toril know this.]
"The current machinations of Thay have them taking many of the chosen."
Once she seems more relaxed Trisk will lower his arm and ask, "Which of the Gods do you serve?"
I make no secret of my faith in Ibrandul. Though once primarily worshiped by humans in southern lands such as Calimshan, many drow now find comfort in his protection, for he guides those who travel and work in darkness. That I am hus chosen is a fact I seldom confide, but, given the circumstances, well, it seems obvious. How those Thayans knew this.. Their spies must ha e been following me for some time, I think." She looks worried, pained by the loss of the time she has spent in this pit, by the violation of it all. She snaps out of it. "Enough words. How do we get out of here?"
It is apparent she is in no shape ro fight after the ordeal she's been through. If you help her to a black gate, she'd be happy to take the gatehouse exit and head back the Calimshan.
Other than the doors you entered by, there is a set at the south of the room.
(ooc: where is the nearest black gate to us? didn't we just leave one a room or two back?)
Piccolo gets out of her sitting position and inspects the drow. The tiny girl looks her over, like a grandmother would look over a child, looking for bumps and bruises, broken bones, poking and prodding.
Then, she takes out a healing kit and does what she can for her, and gives her some food and water (Heal 8 + additional HP equal to her max number of hit dice)
The previous room with the oozes. It's how you got here, but your conjecture was that the slime is unlimited. In either case there at least 11 in there.
"The room we just came from is a death trap! It has about a dozen oozes and who knows what else by now."
Looking toward the other exit from this room.
"You could tag along with us just until we find another black gate, it would be safer."
Trisk tries to convince her to stay with us for now.
Trisk's Persuasion: 18
Randy takes a moment to get up, eyeing his brother with hostility, before turning to the lady without changing his expression, rifle rested in his dominant shoulders. "You have two choices given to you. Either listen to what Trisk-elion said and follow us or..." He twists his body to the previous room where he disabled the most recent black gate. "You can go that way and fall victim to a bunch of overgrown cell walls multiplying in your face to make our efforts go to waste. What is it you're thinking of?"
Wildland Shifters Pt 2 (Pt 1 with PyromaniIsDeadThankGod)
Celci (The Lamb) - Non-Binary Changeling Sorcerer (Shadow Magic)
Maya Kurosaki - Female Kitsune Cleric (Twilight Domain); Currently in Lancea
Randy Wolftree - Male Human Artificer (Armourer); Currently in Crimson Sands of Time
Shijiro Otsune - Male Kitsune Blood Hunter (Order Of The Lycan)
Trojan Dseyller - Male Tortle Barbarian (Path of the Ancestral Guardian)
Xenia Ironhide - Female Kobold Rogue (Soulknife)
Like a cartoon character, the little girl subtly points her finger at Trisk, and winks. Then if Randy looks her way, she stops, looking like she is doing something else.
The dazed drow offers little resistance to the suggestion of tagging g along. She's actively adking for help, actually. Maybe from you, maybe from her god.
In any evern, does that mean you're taking to south door? I ah e ti assume so, given the 'death sentence ascribed to the other one.
So...
The doors to the south open onto a corridor that runs southwest and joins with two other passages. At the junction is a white gate that connects with two other hallways, the gate being a central.poi t of the three spokes radiating outward ro the temple of Shadows you are departing, and two others.
<mechanically, the drow can actually pass through the gate without a key, but you need one to open the gate blocking your way. Assuming you do, do you go left or right? >
"Who's navigating again, isn't there a map?" Trisk looks to whoever has a key for the white gate (unless when the keys were passed out he got one, if so he just uses his, whether it can open the white gate directly or has to first be attuned).
"My vote is left, what say you all?"