"We're being too cautious. We don't have time to second guess every blowing leaf. Just no more darts thrown at kids, okay?" Perspicacious impatiently goes up to the metal door and tries to open it.
As you approach the door there is a sudden cracking of branches overhead. Two heavy tree limbs, one from each tree, crashes down directly in front of you, blocking your access to the door. In fact...
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Dex Save: 25 Arcanature: 8
Perspicacious senses the movement before she sees it, she nimbly dodges back from the door as the first branch crashes to the ground in front of her. Reacting quickly, she runs up the branch about 5 feet as the other tree slams a limb down into the ground where she was just standing. As both trees retract their branches, she leaps backwards off the branch she was climbing, doing a back flip with a half twist, completing it with a three point landing facing the rest of the party.
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Perspicacious, for a roll like that, I really need some flavor. Was that a sweet backflip? I feel like it was a sweet backflip.
And yes, these are trees. But they're moving! Weird.
(Fiorello arcanature: 22)
"Step back!" shouts the owlakocra. "These are awakened trees. Obviously, they are guarding the entrance to the Solarium, but we may be able to reason with them without resorting to... arborcide."
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Amaruve takes a page from Tony's book. He strikes first and asks questions later. He grows into a bear keeping unseen, and spits fire at the tree on the left, hitting 13 for 7 fire damage. (Initiative: 5)
Amaruve casts Speak with Animals though the effects seem reversed as he is the Beast here. He addresses the trees in Druidic. His long eloquent sentences, musical and clear, yet foreign, sound oddly natural coming from his beast form.
"Le do thoil, caomhnóirí, ní mór dúinn pas a fháil. Fanann ár n-óg laistigh de, ionstraimí roinnt ollphéist mhóra."
"Please, guardians, we must pass. Our young wait within, the instruments of some heinous monster."
He sniffs around taking in the scent of magic in the air. (Detect Magic) His charm, the distinct earthy smell of transmutation magic. The trees have the same. Kyo's cane... The tower blade isn't on Jean's hip... Anything unexpected? *sniff sniff*
There is a small raised circular platform at the center of the floor of the antechamber. Two small saplings are engraved on its surface, with the castle of Laputa balanced between them.
The trees grow still and silent. They don't have faces, and they don't move to "regard you", but you feel the weight of their attention, nevertheless. Then the whispering of the leaves returns, and suddenly, Tony...
Suddenly you remember pulling your first job for your family, years ago when you were barely more than a child. You see yourself performing a number of unsavory acts as a young one, in fact. Then time moves on and you're a bit older. You sit at your father's side while he waxes poetic about the importance of the family. The family is more important than anything- more important than the law. Family is the law. Time moves forward. You're picking the pocket of an old dwarven woman who yelled at your Uncle in his food stand during the Steam Festival- you couldn't let that go unpunished. You're older still, you walk through a darkened manor, your brother nervously pacing by your side...
Of course you know how that last bit goes. Your poisoned dagger winds up in the eye of your target, but your brother...
The whispering of the leaves cease. The trees don't remove their limbs from blocking the door, however. You hear a soft voice say, "Your crimes have been measured. What is your argument, petitioner to the Solarium?"
Amaruve, it's just at that moment that you complete your ritual. There is magic within and surrounding the trees of course (transmutation). There is also a fair amount of divination magic in the air. It seems to emanate from the disc in the center of the room, but it also courses along the unseen tree roots beneath you.
All of that is overshadowed, though, by the magic going on beyond the door to the Solarium. You feel massive energies at play there. In fact, you're shocked that you didn't feel them without detect magic. You sense evocation and transmutation magic beyond the door- looks like somebody is playing with the weather.
"We're being too cautious. We don't have time to second guess every blowing leaf. Just no more darts thrown at kids, okay?" Perspicacious impatiently goes up to the metal door and tries to open it.
As you approach the door there is a sudden cracking of branches overhead. Two heavy tree limbs, one from each tree, crashes down directly in front of you, blocking your access to the door. In fact...
Dex save, Perspicacious!
DC 12 nature or arcana check for anyone to make!
Imani Jones - Lv 11 Warlock of The Living City - Variant Human| Fate/False Revelation
Wick Stumbleduck - Lv 4 Lore Bard - Forest Gnome | Elustran Days
Khurah - Lv 3 Star Druid - Half-orc | Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians
Dale Swanson - User of the Sound of Silence Stand - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Sunset Investigations
Ayaci Vikerfjell - Lv 8 Rune Knight | Variant Human | Storm King's Thunder
Tony will make an... Arcanature roll: 10. They’re trees.
DM - Elustran Days ~ Fate/False Revelation
Rex'aliha - Hoard of the Dragon Queen ~ Mozu of Worms - The Stormpoint Mountains ~ Muireach Maon - Shepherd’s Crossing ~ Crownsguard - Storm King’s Thunder ~ Gunnar Wayland - Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians ~ POUF! - Ex-Ravens ~ Pascal LaRoux - Long Road Dragon Heist
Dex Save: 25
Arcanature: 8
Perspicacious senses the movement before she sees it, she nimbly dodges back from the door as the first branch crashes to the ground in front of her. Reacting quickly, she runs up the branch about 5 feet as the other tree slams a limb down into the ground where she was just standing. As both trees retract their branches, she leaps backwards off the branch she was climbing, doing a back flip with a half twist, completing it with a three point landing facing the rest of the party.
"So yeah... watch out for those trees..."
Perspicacious, for a roll like that, I really need some flavor. Was that a sweet backflip? I feel like it was a sweet backflip.
And yes, these are trees. But they're moving! Weird.
(Fiorello arcanature: 22)
"Step back!" shouts the owlakocra. "These are awakened trees. Obviously, they are guarding the entrance to the Solarium, but we may be able to reason with them without resorting to... arborcide."
Imani Jones - Lv 11 Warlock of The Living City - Variant Human| Fate/False Revelation
Wick Stumbleduck - Lv 4 Lore Bard - Forest Gnome | Elustran Days
Khurah - Lv 3 Star Druid - Half-orc | Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians
Dale Swanson - User of the Sound of Silence Stand - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Sunset Investigations
Ayaci Vikerfjell - Lv 8 Rune Knight | Variant Human | Storm King's Thunder
Tony looks to the owl, then to the bear, and with a sweep of the arm gestures to the trees, “Well, nature boy, have at it.”
DM - Elustran Days ~ Fate/False Revelation
Rex'aliha - Hoard of the Dragon Queen ~ Mozu of Worms - The Stormpoint Mountains ~ Muireach Maon - Shepherd’s Crossing ~ Crownsguard - Storm King’s Thunder ~ Gunnar Wayland - Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians ~ POUF! - Ex-Ravens ~ Pascal LaRoux - Long Road Dragon Heist
(you mean Amaruve, right?)
Imani Jones - Lv 11 Warlock of The Living City - Variant Human| Fate/False Revelation
Wick Stumbleduck - Lv 4 Lore Bard - Forest Gnome | Elustran Days
Khurah - Lv 3 Star Druid - Half-orc | Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians
Dale Swanson - User of the Sound of Silence Stand - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Sunset Investigations
Ayaci Vikerfjell - Lv 8 Rune Knight | Variant Human | Storm King's Thunder
(Yes)
DM - Elustran Days ~ Fate/False Revelation
Rex'aliha - Hoard of the Dragon Queen ~ Mozu of Worms - The Stormpoint Mountains ~ Muireach Maon - Shepherd’s Crossing ~ Crownsguard - Storm King’s Thunder ~ Gunnar Wayland - Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians ~ POUF! - Ex-Ravens ~ Pascal LaRoux - Long Road Dragon Heist
Extended Signature
Amaruve takes a page from Tony's book. He strikes first and asks questions later. He grows into a bear keeping unseen, and spits fire at the tree on the left, hitting 13 for 7 fire damage. (Initiative: 5)(Scratch that, I missed posts)
Extended Signature
Amaruve casts Speak with Animals though the effects seem reversed as he is the Beast here. He addresses the trees in Druidic. His long eloquent sentences, musical and clear, yet foreign, sound oddly natural coming from his beast form.
"Le do thoil, caomhnóirí, ní mór dúinn pas a fháil. Fanann ár n-óg laistigh de, ionstraimí roinnt ollphéist mhóra."
"Please, guardians, we must pass. Our young wait within, the instruments of some heinous monster."
He also begins a ritual to Detect Magic
Extended Signature
The trees continue to bar your path.
The Solarium, you recall, housed the seat of the Judicate. Vox explained that your "crimes" would be weighed here...
(Here ends DM guidance- let's do some puzzle solving! Or tree burning! Your call!)
Imani Jones - Lv 11 Warlock of The Living City - Variant Human| Fate/False Revelation
Wick Stumbleduck - Lv 4 Lore Bard - Forest Gnome | Elustran Days
Khurah - Lv 3 Star Druid - Half-orc | Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians
Dale Swanson - User of the Sound of Silence Stand - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Sunset Investigations
Ayaci Vikerfjell - Lv 8 Rune Knight | Variant Human | Storm King's Thunder
"If we can't figure something out, then we'll have to make like a tree and leave." Jean commented her face carefully free of expression.
(The heavens open and Jean is immediately incinerated)
Imani Jones - Lv 11 Warlock of The Living City - Variant Human| Fate/False Revelation
Wick Stumbleduck - Lv 4 Lore Bard - Forest Gnome | Elustran Days
Khurah - Lv 3 Star Druid - Half-orc | Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians
Dale Swanson - User of the Sound of Silence Stand - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Sunset Investigations
Ayaci Vikerfjell - Lv 8 Rune Knight | Variant Human | Storm King's Thunder
Amaruve doesn't get it. People can be so odd.
He sniffs around taking in the scent of magic in the air. (Detect Magic) His charm, the distinct earthy smell of transmutation magic. The trees have the same. Kyo's cane... The tower blade isn't on Jean's hip... Anything unexpected? *sniff sniff*
Extended Signature
Tony looks to the trees, is there anything that would weigh or somewhere like a podium?
DM - Elustran Days ~ Fate/False Revelation
Rex'aliha - Hoard of the Dragon Queen ~ Mozu of Worms - The Stormpoint Mountains ~ Muireach Maon - Shepherd’s Crossing ~ Crownsguard - Storm King’s Thunder ~ Gunnar Wayland - Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians ~ POUF! - Ex-Ravens ~ Pascal LaRoux - Long Road Dragon Heist
There is a small raised circular platform at the center of the floor of the antechamber. Two small saplings are engraved on its surface, with the castle of Laputa balanced between them.
Imani Jones - Lv 11 Warlock of The Living City - Variant Human| Fate/False Revelation
Wick Stumbleduck - Lv 4 Lore Bard - Forest Gnome | Elustran Days
Khurah - Lv 3 Star Druid - Half-orc | Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians
Dale Swanson - User of the Sound of Silence Stand - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Sunset Investigations
Ayaci Vikerfjell - Lv 8 Rune Knight | Variant Human | Storm King's Thunder
Tony’s gonna step up on it.
DM - Elustran Days ~ Fate/False Revelation
Rex'aliha - Hoard of the Dragon Queen ~ Mozu of Worms - The Stormpoint Mountains ~ Muireach Maon - Shepherd’s Crossing ~ Crownsguard - Storm King’s Thunder ~ Gunnar Wayland - Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians ~ POUF! - Ex-Ravens ~ Pascal LaRoux - Long Road Dragon Heist
The trees grow still and silent. They don't have faces, and they don't move to "regard you", but you feel the weight of their attention, nevertheless. Then the whispering of the leaves returns, and suddenly, Tony...
Suddenly you remember pulling your first job for your family, years ago when you were barely more than a child. You see yourself performing a number of unsavory acts as a young one, in fact. Then time moves on and you're a bit older. You sit at your father's side while he waxes poetic about the importance of the family. The family is more important than anything- more important than the law. Family is the law. Time moves forward. You're picking the pocket of an old dwarven woman who yelled at your Uncle in his food stand during the Steam Festival- you couldn't let that go unpunished. You're older still, you walk through a darkened manor, your brother nervously pacing by your side...
Of course you know how that last bit goes. Your poisoned dagger winds up in the eye of your target, but your brother...
The whispering of the leaves cease. The trees don't remove their limbs from blocking the door, however. You hear a soft voice say, "Your crimes have been measured. What is your argument, petitioner to the Solarium?"
Imani Jones - Lv 11 Warlock of The Living City - Variant Human| Fate/False Revelation
Wick Stumbleduck - Lv 4 Lore Bard - Forest Gnome | Elustran Days
Khurah - Lv 3 Star Druid - Half-orc | Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians
Dale Swanson - User of the Sound of Silence Stand - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Sunset Investigations
Ayaci Vikerfjell - Lv 8 Rune Knight | Variant Human | Storm King's Thunder
Amaruve, it's just at that moment that you complete your ritual. There is magic within and surrounding the trees of course (transmutation). There is also a fair amount of divination magic in the air. It seems to emanate from the disc in the center of the room, but it also courses along the unseen tree roots beneath you.
All of that is overshadowed, though, by the magic going on beyond the door to the Solarium. You feel massive energies at play there. In fact, you're shocked that you didn't feel them without detect magic. You sense evocation and transmutation magic beyond the door- looks like somebody is playing with the weather.
Imani Jones - Lv 11 Warlock of The Living City - Variant Human| Fate/False Revelation
Wick Stumbleduck - Lv 4 Lore Bard - Forest Gnome | Elustran Days
Khurah - Lv 3 Star Druid - Half-orc | Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians
Dale Swanson - User of the Sound of Silence Stand - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Sunset Investigations
Ayaci Vikerfjell - Lv 8 Rune Knight | Variant Human | Storm King's Thunder