To Prove D&D Exists for Echolon

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For lack of any better ideas, Toots pulls the door open, “Excuse me, 9, could you please hold this door open for me?” With that (literally) out of the way, she sits down cross legged in the doorway and starts pulling asorted items from her various pouches to run some experiments.

She pulls out the holy symbol of Yeenoghu that she found among the bones and bars under the collapsed ladder to see if it has any affect on the floor. If that yields no results she pulls out the little jar of wax she got from the goblin hoard to see if that will stick to the floor. Next she tries to hammer an iron spike into the floor. She melts some wax from a candle onto it, she shoots it with a crossbow bolt, she tries marking it first with charcoal, then chalk, abrasing it with steelthistle cloth, rubbing it with soap, then soap & water to try washing the enchantment off, she attempts to scratching it with a diamond, pours a little oil on it to disrupt the “finish,” and then she tries setting that oil ablaze. She tries various foodstuffs from her rations, she even tries to prestidigitate it to be warm, dirty, clean, and flavored….

OOC: Well, anything?

 OOC: One correction, the door opens into the hall, it does not pull out.

Everything Toots puts onto the floor, walls, and ceiling slides right off. The oil beads up and flows away before she can even light it. Balls of wax don't even roll, they just slide away into the spike pit. Bolts ricochet wildly before coming to a rest and falling into the openings in the floor. The chalk and charcoal just rub, none of it abrades away to write anything. Nothing sticks, and no damage can be done to the floor, the walls, or the ceiling.

“Oops, sorry Tom’ry, I didn’ see you there.”

Tommary gets a good side clod of "gunk" that's been building up in his hair for the past two-three days and gives the clod a toss at the ceiling.

OOC: how does the ceiling resist getting besmirched?  Maybe we're going about this wrong and we just have to find like the null point and float through like a space station centrifuge.

OOC: There is a solution to this room, right? (I mean, Toots could polymorph into a pidgin and get to the other door, but that won’t help anyone else through.)

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Tommary gets a good side clod of "gunk" that's been building up in his hair for the past two-three days and gives the clod a toss at the ceiling.

OOC: how does the ceiling resist getting besmirched?  Maybe we're going about this wrong and we just have to find like the null point and float through like a space station centrifuge.

 
*psst* 👇

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For lack of any better ideas, Toots pulls the door open, “Excuse me, 9, could you please hold this door open for me?” With that (literally) out of the way, she sits down cross legged in the doorway and starts pulling asorted items from her various pouches to run some experiments.

She pulls out the holy symbol of Yeenoghu that she found among the bones and bars under the collapsed ladder to see if it has any affect on the floor. If that yields no results she pulls out the little jar of wax she got from the goblin hoard to see if that will stick to the floor. Next she tries to hammer an iron spike into the floor. She melts some wax from a candle onto it, she shoots it with a crossbow bolt, she tries marking it first with charcoal, then chalk, abrasing it with steelthistle cloth, rubbing it with soap, then soap & water to try washing the enchantment off, she attempts to scratching it with a diamond, pours a little oil on it to disrupt the “finish,” and then she tries setting that oil ablaze. She tries various foodstuffs from her rations, she even tries to prestidigitate it to be warm, dirty, clean, and flavored….

OOC: Well, anything?

 OOC: One correction, the door opens into the hall, it does not pull out.

Everything Toots puts onto the floor, walls, and ceiling slides right off. The oil beads up and flows away before she can even light it. Balls of wax don't even roll, they just slide away into the spike pit. Bolts ricochet wildly before coming to a rest and falling into the openings in the floor. The chalk and charcoal just rub, none of it abrades away to write anything. Nothing sticks, and no damage can be done to the floor, the walls, or the ceiling.

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Tommary gets a good side clod of "gunk" that's been building up in his hair for the past two-three days and gives the clod a toss at the ceiling.

OOC: how does the ceiling resist getting besmirched?  Maybe we're going about this wrong and we just have to find like the null point and float through like a space station centrifuge.

 
*psst* 👇

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For lack of any better ideas, Toots pulls the door open, “Excuse me, 9, could you please hold this door open for me?” With that (literally) out of the way, she sits down cross legged in the doorway and starts pulling asorted items from her various pouches to run some experiments.

She pulls out the holy symbol of Yeenoghu that she found among the bones and bars under the collapsed ladder to see if it has any affect on the floor. If that yields no results she pulls out the little jar of wax she got from the goblin hoard to see if that will stick to the floor. Next she tries to hammer an iron spike into the floor. She melts some wax from a candle onto it, she shoots it with a crossbow bolt, she tries marking it first with charcoal, then chalk, abrasing it with steelthistle cloth, rubbing it with soap, then soap & water to try washing the enchantment off, she attempts to scratching it with a diamond, pours a little oil on it to disrupt the “finish,” and then she tries setting that oil ablaze. She tries various foodstuffs from her rations, she even tries to prestidigitate it to be warm, dirty, clean, and flavored….

OOC: Well, anything?

 OOC: One correction, the door opens into the hall, it does not pull out.

Everything Toots puts onto the floor, walls, and ceiling slides right off. The oil beads up and flows away before she can even light it. Balls of wax don't even roll, they just slide away into the spike pit. Bolts ricochet wildly before coming to a rest and falling into the openings in the floor. The chalk and charcoal just rub, none of it abrades away to write anything. Nothing sticks, and no damage can be done to the floor, the walls, or the ceiling.

 

 

OOC: Yes, but does it slide right off the ceiling and directly drops into the pit, or does it sort of slide from ceiling, down the walls and into the pit or does it slide off the ceiling, drop to the floor and slide into the pit?  THIS STUFF IS IMPORTANT SPOSTA, I DID NOT BRING MY FIVE DIMENSIONAL GRAPH PAPER TO DRAW CUTE BUNNIES, I BROUGHT IT SO I COULD MAP A CUTE BUNNY'S MIND RENDING TRIP THROUGH A SINGULARITY, THE SORT OF TRIBULATION THAT MAY IN FACT BEHOLD OUR PARTY SHOULD WE STEP THROUGH THIS DOOR

OOC: Things just don't stick, not like they slide around all over the place from irregular polarity, normal gravity is in effect.

OOC: Tommary picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue (because then he'd have glue and we could try that for good measure. and Airplane)

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OOC: Tommary picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue (because then he'd have glue and we could try that for good measure. and Airplane)

 OOC: Not even sovereign glue would work.

I know exactly what tribulation will befall us, we’ll slip into the spike pit and get skewered. What I can’t quite figure out is how to avoid that outcome.

Wysp said “Abjuration” magic, on the surfaces, and on the whole room itself. I’m thinking some variation on guards and wards and invulnerability. Or maybe private sanctum?

At first I thought the whole room had been slathered in oil of slipperiness, but that wouldn’t register as Abjuration. 🤷‍♂️

🤨 You know, ‘cause it works like grease when poured on a surface, and that’s a Conjuration spell. That’s why I ruled that out days ago….

If your graph paper can figure this out, I’ll put myself on mute and you jus’ lemme know when it’s time to go.

"I'm stumped," Ilyara grumbled.  "Toots can get across with her spell, and if she turned into something big enough she could fly a bunch of rope over there.  But without any way t'anchor it we're still be stuck, and she'd hafta open the other door and anchor it outside this room.  Great way to run face-first into whatever's waitin' over there without any backup, and anything on that side only needs t'soccer kick her back into this room and she's in the spikes.  Kinda feels like we got two equally lousy options - try an' find some way to jimmy our way across this slippy room, or go back to those stackin' doors that were gettin' hot and risk getting blown up.  Unless..."

The fox looked over to Toots again.  "Oiy, Toots!  How big a flyin' thing can you turn into, and how carefully can whatever it is maneuver?  Could ye get me to the other door, by chance?"

“I could turn into a flying dinosaur big enough for all of you and 9 to ride on, but the room isn’t big enough.”

OOC: Toots can polymorph into anything on this list, but this room’s ceiling is too low for anything Huge or larger.

"What if you because a giant snake, Nine holds your tail here, you use superior snake abs to not fall in the pit but bridge it, we abuse your snake form as a sort of rail or scale bridge, and repeat?  We'll hold onto your face when you change back so we don't lose ya.  We'll need to leave Nine behind till we find a way to defeat this rooms slick set up ... or we could try to set the trenches on fire, that may help ... this time.  But my first plan is like that kids toy with the can and the spring snake inside it, except it's you instead of springs and the doorway here is the can?"

EDIT: "Oh, Nine can stick with us with the snake charm.  You do the snake thing but you have to get yourself turned around so your face is in the door, you bite onto Ilya's rod.  We use you to bridge, we then keep you by the tail so when you change back you got the rod in your mouth and we got you by your bottom ... maybe Ilyra and Ella can do that, you know Waywatcher propriety protocol and all that."

OOC: I already suggested a giant snake a week ago (https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/play-by-post/99658-to-prove-d-d-exists-for-echolon?comment=3076), but I don’t think they’l be long enough to span the 80-foot distance.

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“I could turn into a flying dinosaur big enough for all of you and 9 to ride on, but the room isn’t big enough.”

OOC: Toots can polymorph into anything on this list, but this room’s ceiling is too low for anything Huge or larger.

 “Could you turn into something smaller than that but big enough to carry each of us across one at a time?  We might need to leave 9 here to guard our back, at least until we figure out how to turn the room “off””

OOC: Has anyone tried Dispel magic on the floor?

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“I could turn into a flying dinosaur big enough for all of you and 9 to ride on, but the room isn’t big enough.”

OOC: Toots can polymorph into anything on this list, but this room’s ceiling is too low for anything Huge or larger.

 “Could you turn into something smaller than that but big enough to carry each of us across one at a time?  We might need to leave 9 here to guard our back, at least until we figure out how to turn the room “off””

OOC: Has anyone tried Dispel magic on the floor?

 OOC: Interestingly enough, nobody has even suggested it until now.

OOC: Not in Tommary's repertoire plus "hard way 4 life" is tattooed somewhere in his ego.

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“I could turn into a flying dinosaur big enough for all of you and 9 to ride on, but the room isn’t big enough.”

OOC: Toots can polymorph into anything on this list, but this room’s ceiling is too low for anything Huge or larger.

 “Could you turn into something smaller than that but big enough to carry each of us across one at a time?  We might need to leave 9 here to guard our back, at least until we figure out how to turn the room “off””

OOC: Has anyone tried Dispel magic on the floor?

 OOC: Interestingly enough, nobody has even suggested it until now.

OOC: That’s because non of us have that spell. If we did I would have suggested it way back. You think I would have spent an IRL overnight scheming up those deathtrap contraptions out of what we had available if I hadn’t already checked and discovered we didn’t have any simpler solutions? How do you think I knew who had a better Nature bonus, and that nobody else had a better Arcana? After I scoured Toots’ sheet for solutions, I checked Ely, Ily and Tom’ry next. (I even checked Hawksley.)

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“I could turn into a flying dinosaur big enough for all of you and 9 to ride on, but the room isn’t big enough.”

OOC: Toots can polymorph into anything on this list, but this room’s ceiling is too low for anything Huge or larger.

 “Could you turn into something smaller than that but big enough to carry each of us across one at a time?  We might need to leave 9 here to guard our back, at least until we figure out how to turn the room “off””

OOC: Has anyone tried Dispel magic on the floor?

 
“Yeah, I could do that I suppose, but I’d hate to have the first one of you I drop off get bushwhacked without backup while I’m re-enacting a scene from ‘The Ferryman’s Daughter.*1’ not to mention abandoning 9 like that.” Toots face wrinkled with worry as she spoke.

OOC: Polymorph can only do Beasts, no other types of creature. And Tommary is Medium, so it would have to be a Large beast. But it couldn’t be any larger than that since the ceiling is only 10 ft. high and even a Large creature would have to be skimming the floor the fly in that space. Here are the options that fit those parameters: (Type: Beast✔️, Size: Large✔️, Speed: Flying✔️)

Edit, OOC:’Imjust checked and a Flesh Golem is also only Medium, not Large. Anything big enough to carry Tommary is big enough to carry 9 too.

1. *(A popular satyrical comedy in Cliffside.)

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“I could turn into a flying dinosaur big enough for all of you and 9 to ride on, but the room isn’t big enough.”

OOC: Toots can polymorph into anything on this list, but this room’s ceiling is too low for anything Huge or larger.

 “Could you turn into something smaller than that but big enough to carry each of us across one at a time?  We might need to leave 9 here to guard our back, at least until we figure out how to turn the room “off””

OOC: Has anyone tried Dispel magic on the floor?

 OOC: Interestingly enough, nobody has even suggested it until now.

OOC: That’s because non of us have that spell. If we did I would have suggested it way back. You think I would have spent an IRL overnight scheming up those deathtrap contraptions out of what we had available if I hadn’t already checked and discovered we didn’t have any simpler solutions? How do you think I knew who had a better Nature bonus, and that nobody else had a better Arcana? After I scoured Toots’ sheet for solutions, I checked Ely, Ily and Tom’ry next. (I even checked Hawksley.) 

OOC: I see it on Ilyara’s list.  I checked hers first (after checking what classes it’s available to) and didn’t check past that since at least one of the party had it available.  

OOC: If she chose to do so, she would need to designate which part she wants to try and dispel: the air, the front section of floor, a part of the wall, the ceiling, the pits?