Seldom Spring

OOC > Going to wait before filling Erric in until DDP acknowledges that Erric has come through the window.

Anafrey, roll a death saving throw.

DM rollz: 17

Erric, followed by Ebokk, rushes outside at Maldorn's call. The dwarf watches as Erric is boosted through the broken pane of glass. "What's going on?" Ebokk asks worriedly.

Erric, you land with a thump, but right yourself quickly. You find yourself in a room about half the size of the sitting room. It has a masculine vibe and is decorated with weapons of various sizes and shapes. Besides the broken window, there is another pile of broken glass. A heavy-looking desk has been pushed up against the door you've been pushing against. There's another door on the wall opposite the windows. Slumped in front of the desk is Anafrey, bloody and unmoving. In one hand is the flail. Jambiya has one boot on that arm and is pulling on the flail, but the weapon is not coming out of Anafrey's hand.

Maldorn, you jump as something smacks the window above you. You look up to see the orange and red winged lizard. It crawls into the room through the broken pane.

Jambiya looks around at the commotion. “Erric! Oh, thanks all the gods and their ten toes, too! It’s definitely the flail! I can hear it talking to me in my head, don’t touch it! There’s another voice, too, telling me to not let go, it’s a woman. I can’t get the flail to let go of Anafrey, and she stabbed herself when she saw me, instead of hurting me!” The green girl is crying, tears flowing freely down her face, but she’s also fiercely determined.

”I have a plan, but... it’s a terrible thing Erric. I, think if Anafrey dies, the curse will end. But, I still have a vial of Sune’s Kiss... it’s in my bag, which is in the sitting room...”

She suddenly stops talking as she sees the little dragon in the room. “You? What’re you doing here?”

All the while Jambiya is still holding the flail and pulling on it.

OOC > I have the second vial of Sune’s kiss listed under Other Possessions on Jambiya’s character sheet.

OOC: Catching up here - am I to understand that Anafrey is bleeding out, unconscious, and she still will not let go of the flail??

"What the?!" Erric is gobsmacked but he springs into action and looks around the racks of weapons for one that might be helpful to hook around the chain part of the flail and pull it away without touching it. (Perception: 9). Failing that, he'll take out some rope and loop it around the chain part of the flail and pull both ends of the rope over to Maldorn out the window, telling him to pull it to help Jambiya try to get the flail away from her. As he's doing this, or trying to, he's speaking, a bit.

"Jambiya, can you let go of it if you decide to or are you stuck too? I could have Jack try to grab it and carry it away from both of you once we get it away from her. We might not have much time to try anything else before we get to Sune's Kiss. Can you talk to the voices you're hearing? This is the worst day."

Assuming the rope plan is moving forward, Maldorn nods to Erric and helps by pulling on it. While this is hapening, Maldorn adds a few tidbits: "Jambiya, this flying lizard knows something... I'm starting to think it is not really following you, but the flail instead. Talk to it."

Next point: "Master Ebokk, we are trying to save Icy in there from the same fate that most likely took your father. Your help is deeply appreciated. A full explanation and compensation for this damage can be discussed after we have dealt with this matter of life and death. Now, Jambiya needs her backpack. Please head inside and bring it out here so we can shove it through the broken window."

Before Ebokk gets too far. "And for the love of all the gods you believe in, send for a cleric like the boy-bard asked!"

Anafrey death save! 4 (that is a con save right? If it is supposed to just be a flat d20, subtract 2)

(OOC: I like to imagine a small crowd of confused people gathering in the street after a bloody woman was shot with an arrow before throwing a dagger at people in the street... only to have people keep coming out of the house and then crawl into the window :P Also, yes Erric, from what I understand... Anafrey stabbed herself and knocked herself unconscious. Everything that has happened after that has been while she is unconscious.)

The power of spoilers! The players get to be surprised instead of just pretending their characters are surprised. Sometimes annoying — sometimes effective.

Jambiya, the creature blinks at you and then you hear your own voice in your heard as if heard from outside the room, “Erric! I... I don’t know if I can do this!” Accompanying the "audio" is a wave of concern.

Erric, there are a ton of "hooked" items in the room. It's a little dizzying. You grab a nearby battleaxe off the wall and hook one edge of the blade within the weapon (careful not to chop anyone's limb off) and try to help pull.

DM rollz: 8

You pull and pull, but Anafrey will not release the weapon.

Outside, Ebokk looks at Maldorn wth wide eyes before stammering that he'll be right back. He then hurries back in the front door.

Erric would like to cast vicious mockery on the flail itself, hoping that what Jambiya said about it talking to her means that he can actually get it to react to his magic.

He sings at it, gritting his teeth, in an oddly serene but also exciting melody:

Stupid flail, stupid flail
Let my friend Anafrey go
This narrative breach is a reach
From the shore of the Sword Sea
You fail, as a flail
Let me crash you against this door 
This narrative breach is a reach
Jack will toss you in the sea

[Interlude]
De-da, de-da-de
De-da, de-da-de
De-da, de-da-de
De-da, de-da-de
Throw this...

[Chorus]
Flail away, flail away, flail away

If it works at all, it's a WIS 13 save for 4 psychic damage. It probably won't work, but Erric doesn't know that. He just really wants this to be done :)

He would also like to inspire Jambiya with his last inspiration of the day.

Jambiya smiles through the tears at the little dragon <<Thank you, little guy>>, and at Erric's song. She draws Inspiration from his song and his bravery (and stores it in her Ring of Inspiration for later), and continues to pull on the flail. "I have my friends here, and I'm not going to give up, so you might as well just let go of her, bad flail!" she says to the flail. "Um, if there's a good flail in there, tell me what I can do to help?! Anafrey, if you can hear me, I'm with you to the end!"

OOC > She's not taking any Action at this point, but also not letting go of the flail, and continuing to tug on it. She can't bring herself to hurt Anafrey any more than she's already hurt, to hurry the death along...

Erric, you finish your magical taunt and feel the magic go flat. Not really a miss; you feel like you just tried to communicate with a piece of furniture.

Anafrey, go ahead and roll another death saving throw.

Maldorn, are you just standing there watching?

OOC: Death saving throw? Didn't Jambiya feed a goodberry to Anafrey?

"Jambiya, Erric, put some pressure on her wounds... Wait, are we going with the unconscious plan or the revival plan?" Erric would notice that in this moment of stress, when a dear life is on the line, Maldorn finally got his name right.

"Stabilize her first if that is the plan then try to push the desk away from the door a bit so we can all be in that room, please." He adds. "Also, if any of you have traveling oil you might want to slather some of that on Icy's gripping hand. It might just do the trick." He hopes...

@DDP: To answer your question, I'm a bit at a loss here, unsure of what to do if unable to enter the room... besides waiting for Ebokk to bring the backpack and potentially a cleric, that is.

Erric shoves the deal away from the door to let the door open and shouts that he has done so.

Is Anafrey goodberried?

Jambiya tugs Anafrey’s body out of the way so Erric can try to move the desk.

OOC > Here are some statements from Jambiya to help clarify the situation from her perspective...

”Nobody else touch the flail!” she says. “I think it’s trying to get me to be like Anafrey was.”

”I haven’t given her a magic berry because I don’t want her to wake up, then we’d be right back where we were! But she’s bleeding out, and I don’t know how to stop it! If someone can stop it we can get her to a cleric!”

”I don’t want her to die, but I think if she dies, it’ll break the curse, like how we could just pick the flail up from Flindabar’s body!”

”Where is my bag!? If she dies I need to have Sune’s Kiss! She stabbed herself to stop it from using her anymore, to stop it from making her hurt me.”

”I don’t think the little dragon has anything to do with it, I think it is just worried about me.”

To recap, Jambiya thinks we should either:

1. Stabilize Anafrey but keep her at zero hp (so use Medicine skill to stabilize, or give her a Goodberry and then knock her out with non-lethal damage) and take her to get Remove Curse cast on her, or
2. We should let her die and then revive her after the flail is removed.

death save! 18

Erric can try to stabilize her but it would be with just a normal medicine check...

Jambiya turns to see her own uncertainty mirrored in Erric's eyes. "I think yes, try to stop the bleeding," she says, still holding the flail with Anafrey's limp arm attached.

OOC: The reason I didn't have Jambiya give a goodberry when Mingo first said so was because it came after she supposedly flung the flail away. When the flail could not be flung away, I figured that voided the rest. But I'm glad you said something, Lerus. And thank you, Mingo, for addressing it in your post. And I'm fine with Maldorn being at a loss and just standing there helpless, but I don't want you to get left behind because everyone is posting, and you're not able to get on as much, and therefore feel left out of the story. I'm posting more now than usual (as I'm sure you've noticed) because I'm trying to get through this before it gets tedious. It's funny how one small part of a module can become the hardest part of the whole thing. I wonder if the author ever foresaw this possibility.

Jambiya pulls Anafrey away from the front of the desk and Erric pulls the desk. It is heavy! But pulling from a better position evens out the legs and allows the halfling to unblock the door enough to open it a couple of feet wide. He pokes his head out to see Ebokk and his mother having a quiet argument in the sitting room. Ebokk is holding Jambiya's bag at least. Tairdai is looking on with worry, but clearly keeping her mouth shut.

"Maldorn!" Jambiya yells. "Erric's got the door open!"

OOC: did Jambiya reply to Erric's question about whether she COULD let go of the flail? I may have missed it in all this back and forth. 

Erric ducks his head out and makes eye contact with Ebokk or his mother and enunciates loudly. "CLERIC. NOW." He also looks at Tairdai and his expression brightens a bit in an encouraging manner and he says, "Would you be so kind as to grab Jambiya's bag over there and bring it to us? It has something inside that might fix all of this mess."

He does his best to try to stabilize Anafrey's wounds, with the very little experience seeing people in his former line of work get stabbed after deals gone bad. 

Medicine: 4

Jambiya did not reply to Erric about whether she can let go of the flail, sorry. She would reply thusly, “I don’t want to let go of it, so I don’t know! There’s a mean voice telling me to go away, and there’s a nicer voice telling me to keep trying to get it away!”