Zacharias furrows his brow. "Connor? What are you talking about? We might still become friends." He pauses. "Is everything all right? You sound funny."

Tetsuo's Tunnel:

Noldeme still seems a bit confused, the whole picture of what happened was a bit too wild for her to grasp it completely. "Okay, so you're fine? Good... Again, I didn't really know this path very well to know what we'd find, I just knew it existed... Would it be wiser to continue? I feel like we trying to solve the mystery with this pond isn't really gonna get us anywhere."

Tetsuo's tunnel

Nae nods "Yes please, anything else" Nae grips her stomach at the thought of the pond. Only other time she felt like that was "mother..." Nae says sadly under her breath, thats what the feeling reminded her of, the loss of her mother.
Nae recomposes herself "I feel fine now, I'd just like to stay away from that pond if possible"

Dungeon - Trial of Ratio and Scale:

Orina & Jogs (Bunny Battalion):  (awaiting Jogs initiative, but she can't beat it anyway, so you should take your turn.)

Baron's Mansion:

Ulrich:  Slamming the staff into the creature rips up a roaring smoke, as the flesh begins to dissolve away, the creature shrieking at the inescapble grasp of the Queen herself.

[|||||||||||||||||||||||   ] -15 HP!  +200XP!

Dula raises her hand, and a holy field surrounds Ulrich, a Shield of Faith His AC is increased by +2, then casts forth a sacred flame 5 4

John charges forth, raising his morning star for a powerful swing! Attack: 17 Damage: 9 and if he hits he will smite 18

[|||||||||||||||||         ] -31HP! +413 XP!

Go Ulrich, Go!

The Vilemind:   A vile looking fog pours from the doorway, it's dark, there is an odd heat coming from it, and the fog inside completely obscures the interior of the room.

"Oh, it's not that bad...wait...oh, yeah, that's probably some sort of horrible poison, alright."  Rattles stands right in the doorway and takes a big whiff.  "Yup, pretty nasty stuff, I imagine you'd probably keel over in seconds."  Rattles seems completely undettered by the miasma.  "Well, I don't really want to go in alone...got any ideas?  Whatever they got in there, they definitely took a heck of a percaution to keep it safe."

"Yeah, every port, Blackport has the Grand Dragon, of course, but nobody knows who it is, it's a very dangerous position to hold.  Heck, you know, I could be them and you wouldn't even know."  He gives a wink; yeah, the guy who got oneshotted by an ooze, sure.

Blackport -> Corvidae:

Leshanna:  The second to last one crashes to the floor, +100XP the last one finally managing to claw it's way up, not backing down from your assault only because of it's insatiable hunger.

The creature scales up to you an lashes out Attack: 13 Damage: 4  

Attack: 4 Damage: 5

The Enn:

Xamodas: "Hey, if your looking for it, we got it.  It get's awkward when people die on the way too and from a bar, they don't even realize their dead." She clinks down a mug, then pulls out a large jug fulls of corks from behind the counter, she looks for a while, then pulls out an orange cork and pours it out.   "Bit weird to think about this place, can't acutally eat or sleep, just sort of, think about doing it, well, except this.." she gives you a wrapped plate, and when she unwraps it there is a hot dish of fried chicken, collared greens, mac and cheese, and fried okra. "everyone can taste these, I guess it's becuase it's soul food."  

Zacharias:

"Yeah...yeah I guess we could, for a bit, but you know, but aspects forget those sorts of things, they remember their followers, not their friends. They become something else...oh, what am I even saying, it's no use trying to talk to you, you should already know me.  I manipulate people, play games, do the long con.  I'm just being selfish, if we were friends, it would be the same , all about playing games to keep secrets.  Just, please, forget what I said before, and remember this: I'm a really shitty person, alright, and you're perfect.  You're everything an aspect should be, and I'm everything a friend shouldn't.  You'll do a lot of good up there, don't worry about forgetting me, I'm worth forgetting...shouldn't have even made this call."  with that, the cracked and shaky voice is gone.  You couldn't even get a word in.

"Yikes" says Malum, hand still awkwardly to your head after that conversation, but slowly pulling away.  "I'll just let this be...not my duty to interject." he walks to another part of the bar.

((I really hope this post doesn't kill you from the sheer mood whiplash))

Orina and Jogs (Bunny Batallion) | Rabbit Warren Dungeon / Trial of Ratio and Scale

Orina lets out a little scream as the creature slithers its way over towards them when her foot hits the plate.  "Oh boy... I think I made it angry," she says nervously.

Concentrating, she says a prayer to the Light, casting bless on herself, Jogs, and GrrGrrFrr, scrabbling backwards to offer GrrGrrFrr some cover while allowing Jogs to swing her hammer about freely.

"Go away! Shoo!  Leave us alone!" she yells at the mechanical snake earnestly (for her bonus action).

((Waiting for the reply @Pin_Pieron if you forgot, I've posted one on the 38th page of the forum.))

Zacharias looks at the aspect, concern and confusion on his face. "What's he talking about? Is that true? Am I only going to care about my 'followers'? Am I going to have followers? I don't want followers. I just want to help people. And what does him mean by 'up there'? Aren't I going back?"

Where Everybody Knows Your Name

Xamodas scratches his chin absentmindedly as the tiefling conjures his meal out of thin air.   The kvass, at least, looked familiar.  The dish, however, was something different.  He recognized only about half of the food.  Lovely.

"Well, I knew when I died.  I was trying to make my way down a deathhall filled with traps.  Only made it halfway before my body was destoryed.  Mehanical hammer.  Or was it a falling block?  The last moments are somewhat unclear."

He tips his mug to the woman, takes a modest sip and sets upon his meal.    Piling some of the macaroni and cheese onto a fork, he continues talking.

"So, you are enjoyable company, yes.  But what happens now?  I saw a familiar face before I came in, and he suggested there was more to this than a lovely tavern. . . a purgatory, I think this is called?" 

Corvidae- Registration Tent

Iam finishes as much of his form as the forms question structure allowed him to. He keeps the spear pointed up wards in the bend of his left arm while he had worked on the form. Iam had been shuffling along in the line moving when it moved and pausing when it paused, but now the line has seemed to stop moving. Concerned Iam tries to use his six foot two height to see what is happening at the front of the line.

Perception 5

((Just trying to find a clever way to say waiting on update.))

Blackport > Corvidae...

Leshanna lets her rifle swing on it's shoulder strap and pulls out her shotgun.

To hit: 26

Damage: 17

The Vilemind: 

Yaw: “There isn’t much that I can do about that. Maybe if we leave the door open and go explore some more of the ship it will have time to air out. Let’s check out the rest of the ship and double back!”

”I don’t know that I would make a very good dragon. I’d be scared of my own shadow!”

Baron's Mansion 

Ulrich mumbles another prayer, raises the deathclaw again, and strikes at the monstrosity again. 

Attack: 18 Damage: 10

Corvidae - Rosebush Tent: ((Yup, sorry, happens sometimes))

The Dwarf says: "Well, hullo,  you came with Connor, didn't you?  I'm Tibet.  Good luck with all that Warlock buisness, I wish I could help, but I gotta run this here tent.  What are you planning to do once you find him?"

Corvidae:  Iam (Post #757 on the previous page has your most recent update)

Dungeon: Trial of Ratio and Scale: (I'll need to wait for Jogs initiative now, just in case.)

Blackport -> Corvidae:  

((AH, I finally get the purpose of the shoulder strap, gets around the whole 'can't stow and draw' problem, you can drop the weapon without actually dropping it.  Clever!))

Leshanna:  Chck-chck, BOOM!  +100XP!  The last demon is slain, however, the Vagrant has put plenty of distance between you after running into the woods.  What do you do?

The Vilemind: 

Yaw:  "Sure thing, I guess we could either take those stairs or keep following this path.  Might take us around the whole thing.  Yeah, I'm not brave enough for that stuff either, also I don't think I could shoot to save my life."

Baron's Mansion:

Ulrich:  You drive the staff as deep as you can into the mass of flesh, more and more skin melting away and clattering as a mass of warped bone

[|||||||||||||||           ] -10HP! +133 XP!

The Creature rears back, slamming into John, and trying to wrap around and crush him into it's form!

Attack: 20 Damage: 15

Attack: 27 Damage: 27

John barely manages to hold the creature back, he rears back, throwing all his might, hoping to get off one final smite!  Attack: 20 Damage: 22

Dula eyes the pile of goods, and leaps to it, picking up what she can.  She raises something gripped in her hand, and an orb of sparking energy forms around her fist, and with a shout, launches a Chromatic Orb Attack: 18 Damage: 14

[||||||                    ] -47HP! +622 XP!

The Enn:

Xamodas: "Yeah, that's a good idea, i guess, we just call it a demiplane.  Purgatory suggests expiating, this is just a waiting place, heck, you don't even have to stay, you can try to leave anytime, if you think you can survive the Zeitgeist on your own.  Not every plane is like that, but we're not along that sway.  Anyway, yeah, here's what happens next, I can show you to a reserved table."  She waves a Roladex into thin air.  "Let me check some of these schedules, what exactly are you looking for?  Trying to go back, or move on?  If your looking for an aspect, throw a word at me, and I'll see what I can do."

Zacharias:  Perserverence says  "Yes, you will go back, I don't know what worries you, although you will become much more familiar with the Zeitgeist in the coming time.  Of course, Zacharias, you will help people in need, and that's all you will do, for the rest of your existence.  Followers just come as they will."

In the Enn

"I want to return.  I don't think there is anything waiting for me on the opposite side of. . . 'this'.  But I need to be ready."  Xamodas tears off a thin sliver of chicken flesh before greedily slurping it down.  "My mentor, a dragon, appeared to me.  He spoke of a draconic aspect, of cost and compromise.  But he said nothing of a 'zeitgeist'."

He pauses thoughtfully before taking a swig of his kvass.  The yellow wheat dish had been good, if a little unsettling in color.  The chicken was good, but the vegetable remained untouched for now.  This 'aspect'.  Vant said the more I asked, the more it would cost.  He advised caution.  But he advised I work with dragons.  That seems reckless, but I must trust him.  

Corvidae- Registration Tent

((Ah, yes I did miss that))

Iam looks at the cards them back at the man behind him as the Caretaker questions him. "No, I don't know him. He didn't speak the whole way up here through the line." Iam answers the Caretaker. He addresses the man in plate behind him, "I understand your in a hurry, but this will just take a moment, where as causing a scene will just make this all take longer for everyone."  

Returning his attention to the Caretaker he points at three of the cards. "Those three have wagons, that one could be a wagon and probably is but could also just be a cart or chariot. The blured word is Winter with a 3 and an 8 to break it up and the t and the e are touching so the could be confused as a b." Iam will say as if nothing strange had occured.

Persuade 12

 5

Outer Corvidae - Rosebush tent ((I've got no problem with that))

Dordis Falthenfyern

Dordis   have lots of hills to the east, a small mountain range to the north, and a huge forest to the west, and loads of farmland to the south. I know there are some giant problems, that is to say, problems with is somewhat in a daze of sketching the map in his best detail, hills to the east, mountain range to the north, forest on the west, farm land on the south— it takes several seconds for him to snap out of the daze and recognizes the dwarf in the tent, "Oh, right—sorry about that. I'm not really sure about what to do when we find them, Tibet. Presumably  if we are to fight them, it would be helpful if we rendered them unconscious, gagged, and tied up to get them locked up for a possible reward, or kill them if it comes to be impossible to do so. I believe Areyo and I were just going to head out to the west, right?"  He looks at Areyo before scribbling down a legend on the map for symbols showing what's there, including a triangle on the east and west signifying a presence of demons in the general direction, "It's alright to stay and keep the tent in shape with how bent-over that doctor was."

Orina and Jogs (Bunny Batallion) | Rabbit Warren Dungeon / Trial of Ratio and Scale

[sorrysorrysorry, sick last night and today]

Initiative: 1

Jogs stays within 5 feet of Grr and Orina if possible, while yelling "Silly worm!  You go squish now!"

Attack: 16

Damage: 9

[Edit: missed the bless this time around, though I think this is a miss in any case: bless + 3

The Vilemind: 

Yaw: Rattles and I follow the path, leaving the open door behind us and wondering what vile thing we will stumble upon next. “I wonder what happened to the crew”

Baron's Mansion 

"We'll hurting it! We can kill it!" Ulrich moves toward the creature, trying to distract it so John can have a chance to regroup. He strikes with the deathclaw again.

Attack: 13 Damage: Unable to parse dice roll.

Tetsuo's Tunnel:

"Well... Okay, good." Noldeme recomposes herself, now much more sure Nae was okay, and she starts heading the way they were going before, further into the tunnel, with her bow prepared, and her pace slow.

Perception 8