To Prove D&D Exists for Echolon

OOC:  Maybe my perception check was bad and we're about to pull the hood ornament off a giant Mercedes....

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"Just because I don't like how this smells, and I ain't talkin' about the outhouse stench," Ilyara muttered, snagging the immovable rod off her belt again.  Unslinging the length of rope she was carrying as well, Ilyara clicked the rod into place at about head height in front of her and started tying off the rope to it, fixing one end down with enough redundant knots that there was only about forty-five feet of rope left when she was done.

"Here.  Safety line.  This way if something weird happens down there, ye can tie yerselves off or have something to grab onto and follow back to the surface, eh?"

 OOC: You know the most interesting things.

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“Wait, what kind of wheel? Is it up and down like the waterwheels that at the falls in Cliffside? You know, the pump wheels*1 for the locksteps? Or is it sideyways like the carousel they set up every year for The Town Founding Festival*2? How big is the wheel? Does it have spokes? Is it attached to anything? Is it spinning? Are there cogteeth…?” Toots pauses in her typical barrage of questions to take a deep breath…

 OOC: Metal, shaped similar to a ships wheel with three spokes and no handles.

It is about a foot and half across, with the axel attached to the floor.

 
OOC: So like one of these submarine door handles, but a little bigger in diameter? (Obviously the photo depicts them on restaurant kitchen doors, but I’m presuming you know what I mean.)

Toots asks Tommary: ”How much space is between the wheel and the floor that a full-grown dwarf was stuck underneath? Those folks are almost as big as you humans!”

There is a few inches of space between wheel and the floor, enough to manipulate the wheel without bunging your knuckles.

“Thanks, Ilyara.  I’d rather not go down alone: Tommary, are you willing to dive down again?”

Tommary holds up the lite coin, "Just go to the light, and I'll help when you get down there," then submerges and backwards stealth strokes to leave minimal wake to obscure his coin beacon."

So when they're done there, Ely can roll with whatever advantage or disadvantage negation my help my provide.

TOOTS DOES/SAYS:

“Wait a few minutes, lemme just check if there’s anything hinky I might be able to see before we do anything.” Toots takes precisely ten minutes and six seconds to perform a quick ritual and cast detect magic. Once done, she turns to Elyona “Would you mind please holding my stuff so I don’t have to clean that too?” Toots hands her lute to Elyona, and then quickly takes off her clothes and equipment and hands that to her as well. Turning to the others she with a quick “wish me luck” and a Waywatcher’s salute she dives in. After a quick look about she pops back up out of the water, swims back to the platform and hoists herself up out of the water. As she begins wringing out her hair and prestidigitation herself clean again she says “You know, this should, gross, winky water may be everywhere, and stupid, gross, and stinky, but at least we’re in a volcano so it isn’t cold too.” Having gotten as clean as can be reasonably priced elected she begins putting her clothes back on and looks up at the expressions on the others’ faces. “What?!?”

OOC: So what did she see?

Toots detects conjuration magic coming from the bag.

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Tommary holds up the lite coin, "Just go to the light, and I'll help when you get down there," then submerges and backwards stealth strokes to leave minimal wake to obscure his coin beacon."

So when they're done there, Ely can roll with whatever advantage or disadvantage negation my help my provide.

 OOC: You each also have a candle that stays lit in water.

Tommary bobs during Toots' ritual, all this time in the water reminding him of that time he actually spent in the canal water with a team of other "inspectors" who'd been tasked by private interests to curb imports, which the team did by sending a trading sloop that had made headway and no little prosperity in the city into a collision with some more recently arrived importers, while the sloop was on fire.  There was a run on the price of, well, just about everything for about two years after that exercise in dramatic market regulation.  A lot of locals got paid more than they would have otherwise those years.

OOC: while self-fancied a know it all, Tommary is not a political economist, he just pretends to understand if he gets to light things on fire.

"Ritual magic is super neat and useful, but I gotta admit - it makes my tail itch to sit still for so long in one spot.  Usually a great way to get nabbed by somebody back home.  Plus it's more time sitting in this nasty stone swamp.  Ugh."
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"Oiy, Tallboots.  Y'ever wonder how people your size manage to float?  So much more weight on ye, I could never really figure out how any of you lot managed to hold up in the water."
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"What kinda oath are you sworn to, Elyona?  I know oath magic when I see it, and I'm damn glad t'have an oathblade along on this jaunt, but...well.  Some of the oathblades back home don't take too kindly to the Traveler's worship and practices.  Should I be, like...hidin' some of my neater tricks behind Tallboots?"
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"We never did figure out what that stuff from Henry's pool did, did we?  Huh.  s'weird, normally the Generals make sure there's at least one arcanist with any Waywatcher expedition.  You guys start out with an arcanist, or did the Generals just decide to screw around this time?"
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"I hate this damn smell.  Dunno if I'm ever gonna get it outta my nose..."
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Oddly, Ilyara didn't seem overly perturbed by Toots' Magical Skinny-Dipper Strip Show, managing a snarky grin as she took hold of her share of the woman's stuff.  "'Bout time there, Toots.  Or izzat Tits?" she said, though the halfling woman was already too underwater to hear her.  "That's one'a the cool things about fur," she said to Elyona.  "Y'always have a backup set of clothes at the ready.  'Course, when ye grow up with fur you don't ever really grok the whole 'naked' thing bald folks are always on about.  Though I'll admit, yikes - can definitely understand why you'd want to cover up certain bits.  Fur's definitely easier on the eyes than some'a the stuff furless folks got going on..."

Elyona Make STR/Athletics check at Advantage if you are going to turn the wheel.

Elyona attempts to turn the wheel:  24

With a grunt and burst of bubbles Elyona gives the wheel a twist. There is a squeal of rusted parts moving then the wheel becomes much easier to turn.

After a few revolutions, it stops turning. Everybody hears a *thunk* *thunk* THUNK* sound as Elyona tries to resurface.

The once stagnant water begins to ripple then visibly move from both directions towards the pit. The surface level of the scum water noticeably drops.

The water flowing into the pit increases in strength and causes a whirlpool effect. The rushing water roars and spatters as it works its way through the halls to this point. 

The dungeon is flushing itself!

Everybody make STR/Athletics checks to avoid being sucked into the swirling dank waters.

ROLL WITH ADVANTAGE as there is the rod and the rope.

However he ends up, Tommary is doing a full lunged "Woooo!" as he rides this out or down.  Athletics 19

OOC:

OOC: Ilyara.  If ever there was a time not to roll like a D&D character, this is it.  Do *not* get your fluffy self flushed down to the trash compactor.  You will not survive the experience.  Do you hear me, fox?  I ain't messing with you!  I know you're bad at Strength, but woman up and power through!  You set that line, use it!  Be the badass adventure fluff you know the Traveler wants you to be!

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OOC:

God damnit, fox...

Street/athletics: 20

TOOTS SAYS:

The party clambers for something to hold onto as the water sucks at their sodden clothing. Pieces of trash and debris are starting to appear- bones, straps, wood, and rusted metal.

One such, maybe a pelvis with connected thigh bone impacts Ilyara as she tries desperately to hang on to the rope. 

She lets out a shriek and is swallowed by the whirlpool of warm scum thick water. Ilyara takes 7 bludgeoning damage.