To Prove D&D Exists for Echolon

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"Huh.  Nine said 'light, it burns'.  Lemme try something.  All'a ya, take yourselves and your lights around the corner."

Presuming the others did so and the light disappeared, Ilyara started padding her way slowly, carefully forward, one hand lightly resting on the metal pommel of her sword to feel for any temperature changes.  Should the sword start to heat, she'd immediately stop and retreat.

 There is still some reflected dim light at the 30 foot mark but the temperature on metal items only rises slightly. Tommary mentioned that at 30 feet it was hot enough to be uncomfortable. Stepping farther into total darkness, the items return to normal.

"Okay got it!  The hallway turns light into heat and cooks your metal!" Ilyara called back to the others.  "So either go through when it's dark, or put all your metal into a bag and drag it behind you.  I recommend the former, you never know what little bits and bobs of yer stuff's made of metal till it's burnin' holes in ya!"

Mentally dismissing the light still going in Nine's facehead, Ilyara drew her sword and started proceeding down the hallway with all due caution (half-speed, feeling for funny catches or pressure plates before putting her weight to them).  "Also maybe be sharpish, because forcin' us to turn off the lights prolly means something's 'bout to ambush us!"

OOC: Wait a minute, we have a Human, two Hin, and a Furling. Furling’s are templated from Gnomes, right? So Ily actually has darkvision then. Right?

”Well, I have an idea. The light is the problem, but you can still see without it; right Ily? What if you lead the way trailing a rope the rest of us can hold onto? You could be like a momma duck leading her ducklings along. And if anything does try to jump us we can toss out some light coins behind us to bake ‘em and run like the river to safety. Whadaya think all? We could even keep the lights ready to go and just cover them with cloth or something so they don’t cook us in the meantime.”

"Seems a solid enough plan if everyone else's amenable," Ilyara said, turning around and returning to the others.  "Any objections or alterations?"

"Just rather than rope tricks we do it like this." Tommary takes Toots by the hand and puts her hand on Yuri's shoulder, then Elyona onto Toots', then with a 1/4 squat put his own hand on Ely's shoulder,  then turns to Nine, "Nine, stack up, [looks Nine up and down] if my shoulder's too low, grab the top of my hair, just don't pull too hard, my roots are delicate.  When Nine's ready, he squeezes my shoulder then we just squeeze up the chain, and Yuri leads out when we're feeling it."

Tommary uses his free hand to put his goblin hand cross bow over the team's head drawing down the corridor to attack the darkness, "What do you know, these things do have uses" though he's really doing just cuz it looks tacti-cool.

OOC: It's text book entry/CQB, we don't necessarily need to be silent, but the physical prompting affirms positive contact by all team members in an orderly fashion, if someone gets ahead, the negative reinforcement is a yank.  And yeah sometimes the TL gets touchy feelie like that when ordering the stack.

OOC2: I thought we were gonna rest before contending with the convection, but I'm fine, and my slots can nurse us up if we somehow get nuked.

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OOC2: I thought we were gonna rest before contending with the convection, but I'm fine, and my slots can nurse us up if we somehow get nuked.

OOC: I did mention earlier that the party could take a long rest.

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"You're not afraid being alone in the dark...you're afraid of NOT being alone in the dark..."

OOC: I'll admit, trying to LR in an open, exposed section of unsecured dungeon with Who-Knows-What just a few meters away is not normally high on my list of Secure Dungeoning Strategies.  But if'n y'all wanna try now that we've established how this contraption works, up to you.  I've got enough reserves left to make it through another encounter, maybe two depending on, after that SR in Gobbo Motel.

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OOC: I'll admit, trying to LR in an open, exposed section of unsecured dungeon with Who-Knows-What just a few meters away is not normally high on my list of Secure Dungeoning Strategies.  But if'n y'all wanna try now that we've established how this contraption works, up to you.  I've got enough reserves left to make it through another encounter, maybe two depending on, after that SR in Gobbo Motel.

 Ilyara Spoiler

EVERYBODY else, perception checks. 

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“Okay then hand or rope is fine by me.” Toots shrugs, her hands clapping quietly against her thighs afterwards. “I just figured it would let us still stay tethered if we needed to run with a little more ease so we could all keep up with you there ‘Tallboots.’ But as long as you don’t run up the back of me or anything, we should be fine. Now, the real question is, do we want to make camp for the night and start fresh in the morning, or press on to put as much dungeon behind us as we can before we camp again? I still have some in the cupboard for today, so I’m okay to continue. How’s everybody else holding up?” Toots turns around. “Ely, how are you holding up in all that heavy armor? I know you’re really strong, but that must weigh as much as an eel cart.*1”

Perception: 12

•  If that roll ☝️ is a success: “Does anybody else hear that sniffling sound?”
•  If that roll ☝️ is unsuccessful: “What are you all looking at?”

1. *(A street food vender popular in the Warrens specializing in smoked, butterflied eel. The call of “Smoked eel, two for a copper!” is regularly heard throughout the district, day or night, except in the hours just before and after Daychange. As Daychange is the hour at which most taverns traditionally stop selling alcohol, almost every eel cart in Cliffbottom can be easily located without their calling out as they can all be found somewhere on the street colloquially known as “Tavern Row.”)

"I'm good to go on, but I'll need the rope or a hand."

OOC: Perception21

Perception 25

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•  If that roll ☝️ is a success: “Does anybody else hear that sniffling sound?”
•  If that roll ☝️ is unsuccessful: “What are you all looking at?”

OOC: Considering total darkness, nobody can see anything, except Ilyara.

A bank of fog that only Ilyara can see forms in front of her as she back up ninja like into the rest of you. 

Tommary is the only other person that detects a snuffling sound from the front.

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After the others get their Perception checks to see if they get to know why, Ilyara's going to pop one of the charges on her Ring of Obscuring in the hopes that a big cloud of fog will help dampen scents and sounds as well as sight, and slink backwards to meet up with the others.

Stealth, if required: 25

 OOC: If there is an image, I cannot see it =(

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•  If that roll ☝️ is a success: “Does anybody else hear that sniffling sound?”
•  If that roll ☝️ is unsuccessful: “What are you all looking at?”

 

OOC: Considering total darkness, nobody can see anything, except Ilyara.

A bank of fog that only Ilyara can see forms in front of her as she back up ninja like into the rest of you. 

Tommary is the only other person that detects a snuffling sound from the front.

 
OOC: Total darkness? I didn’t realize everything was dark. If I missed something, or forgot something, I’m sorry.

I know Ily doused her light, but I thought the rest of us had simply backed away with ours a safe distance from the mirrors while Ilyona walked partway down the hall to test her theory, so I thought the rest of us still had some light. I thought Ily had seen the monsters first because she was still in that hallway, which was why she need to “slink backwards to meet up with the others.” I only mentioned Toots hearing the sniffling because, not knowing there was any threat, she had turned around to ask Ely if she was okay wearing the heavy armor or needed a rest, so her back is facing the corridor. And since Tommar is behind Ely, and 9 is behind Tommary, I assumed whoever passed their check would be looking towards the hallway behind Toots. 

If any of that is incorrect, then please correct me because I must have missed something. 

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"Okay got it!  The hallway turns light into heat and cooks your metal!" Ilyara called back to the others.  "So either go through when it's dark, or put all your metal into a bag and drag it behind you.  I recommend the former, you never know what little bits and bobs of yer stuff's made of metal till it's burnin' holes in ya!"

Mentally dismissing the light still going in Nine's facehead, Ilyara drew her sword and started proceeding down the hallway with all due caution (half-speed, feeling for funny catches or pressure plates before putting her weight to them).  "Also maybe be sharpish, because forcin' us to turn off the lights prolly means something's 'bout to ambush us!"

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OOC: Wait a minute, we have a Human, two Hin, and a Furling. Furling’s are templated from Gnomes, right? So Ily actually has [Tooltip Not Found] then. Right?

”Well, I have an idea. The light is the problem, but you can still see without it; right Ily? What if you lead the way trailing a rope the rest of us can hold onto? You could be like a momma duck leading her ducklings along. And if anything does try to jump us we can toss out some light coins behind us to bake ‘em and run like the river to safety. Whadaya think all? We could even keep the lights ready to go and just cover them with cloth or something so they don’t cook us in the meantime.”

OOC: These posts gave me the impression that the party plan was to go dark. Only total darkness stopped the heating. Even peripheral dim light caused a reaction.

OOC: I'm tracking with Wysp in this scene, everything makes (unavailable) sense to me.  That said, since we're not in initiative, would Tommary be spooked enough to create and toss a lightcoin in the direction of the "ka-cha-cha-cha" stuff?  I mean since he had it out, he'd probably cast it on his handbow's bolt and take a literally shot in the dark with it, burn marks on his gloves be damned.  I'm having deja vu I think I've used this gag before:

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"Okay got it!  The hallway turns light into heat and cooks your metal!" Ilyara called back to the others.  "So either go through when it's dark, or put all your metal into a bag and drag it behind you.  I recommend the former, you never know what little bits and bobs of yer stuff's made of metal till it's burnin' holes in ya!"

Mentally dismissing the light still going in Nine's facehead, Ilyara drew her sword and started proceeding down the hallway with all due caution (half-speed, feeling for funny catches or pressure plates before putting her weight to them).  "Also maybe be sharpish, because forcin' us to turn off the lights prolly means something's 'bout to ambush us!"

 

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OOC: Wait a minute, we have a Human, two Hin, and a Furling. Furling’s are templated from Gnomes, right? So Ily actually has darkvision then. Right?

”Well, I have an idea. The light is the problem, but you can still see without it; right Ily? What if you lead the way trailing a rope the rest of us can hold onto? You could be like a momma duck leading her ducklings along. And if anything does try to jump us we can toss out some light coins behind us to bake ‘em and run like the river to safety. Whadaya think all? We could even keep the lights ready to go and just cover them with cloth or something so they don’t cook us in the meantime.”

OOC: These posts gave me the impression that the party plan was to go dark. Only total darkness stopped the heating. Even peripheral dim light caused a reaction.

 
Ahh…. I get it. I was going off of those as well, but along with some others. I was following these posts in this order as to what had actually happened so far:

The only exception being that I thought Ily was still on her way back down the corridor towards us, hence the slinking. So I thought we were still back a ways deciding if the party was going to camp first or proceed now. That’s why Toots had turned around and asking how everyone felt on the subject, why I thought there was still light and we could all still see.

OOC: Not a problem. If you are back near the dogleg, you see Ilyara stalk into the darkness and disappear. Getting a closer look exposes the corridor to more light - and you presume would hurt your companion. As of yet in any case, only Ilyara knows what is there and only she and Tommary hear the sniffing and ki-ki-ki ma-ma-ma.

She successfully makes it back to the group no worse for wear.