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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: Oops. 🤷‍♂️ Yurei, ArwensDaughter, why didn’t either of you suggest that then?!?  😗🎼🎶 *whistling* 💭Just play it cool and nobody will notice, yeah… that’s it.💭

"Does anyone have the ability to turn the room into a ball pit or something? Like not changing all the magic but just fill it with balls, or oranges or something, maybe goodberries, and then we take our chances on making it through that before hitting the slip and slide to spikes bottom?"

Tommary says this while covering the corridor from which they came with his hand crossbow, in order to look like he's doing something.

"If I could fill the room with fluff I woulda done it," Ilyara replied.  "The only worthwhile idea I've got is fastening a few pitons into the wall out here, where we can actually do that, then gettin' somebody with a couple coils of rope tied together t'haul it over to the other side, go through t'other door, and fasten t'other end to the outside wall on that side where the slippy enchantment ain't.  Then we got a line we can hand-over-hand to get through without tryin' ta coordinate expandin' ladders or other Rudi Goldenbyrgh* nonsense, but we can't get anybody 'cept Toots to t'other side of the room.  And even if she went, she'd be all alone against whatever's on t'other side of the opposite door.  if there's nothing over there?  No problem, and it's the easiest an' safest way of managin' this annoying skating rink of a trap.  But if there's anything at all on the other side...and when has this rutting stone outhouse of a mountain ever not thrown something at us in the worst possible moment, eh?"

"Actually, speakin' of...maybe we're missing something obvious here.  Lemme check around this little antechamber spot, see if maybe there's a button to turn the room off or something..."

{Investigation (+2) or perception (+4) on a nekkid d20 to see if there's something on the not-slippy side of the doorway and its immediate area we've missed:  11}

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"Actually, speakin' of...maybe we're missing something obvious here.  Lemme check around this little antechamber spot, see if maybe there's a button to turn the room off or something..."

{Investigation (+2) or perception (+4) on a nekkid d20 to see if there's something on the not-slippy side of the doorway and its immediate area we've missed:  11}

*Rudi Goldenbyrgh was a famous clockmaker, well known for coming up with unnecessarily elaborate but deeply entertaining and fun to watch designs for her clocks.  Rudi originals sell for quite the princely sum for collectors, and many of the richer folk of Cliffside pride themselves on displaying an immaculately maintained, fully functional, and time-precise Goldenbyrgh Original.

There are no extraneous levers, switches, buttons, or plates in the short hall, the stairway, or the marquoscroto room.

"Vexation...I got nothin'," Ilyara muttered after a few minutes' searching.  "Whatever turns that damned room off ain't out here, if it even exists..."

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"Vexation...I got nothin'," Ilyara muttered after a few minutes' searching.  "Whatever turns that damned room off ain't out here, if it even exists..."

 It is warm, humid, smells like a swamp with dead thing overtones. If that's not a turn off, I've never seen one.

“What if you countered the magic here…” Toots points at the floor & wall just inside the door “…so we had somewhere to stand and anchor a line. Then I turn birdy and fly you over to the other end of the room so you can do it there too. That way there would at least be some backup in case we get jumped, and we’d have footing and a secure line in case we need it. Then if all’s clear I do the Ferryman’s Daughter routine, and if not I can just ziggy the two of us back right quick. Wadaya say?”

"That's the highest-level magic the Traveler's seen fit to bless me with, and I only got three sparks that potent before I'm tapped," Ilyara said.  "We can secure a line to this side of the door easily enough, though I suppose it's worth testin' to see if I can screw with whatever this is.  Lessee.  Traveler, if ye're listenin' and don't mind offering a pinch of aid?  Guide my hand and gird my will," Ilyara said, before turning to the floor and reaching down to lay one hand upon it.  The other glittered for a moment with sparks of divine magic that skittered across her fingers, gathering between them and taking the shape of a few links of shimmering golden chain.  Speaking a quiet chant in the Traveler's secret tongue, Ilyara's fingers flexed and snapped the ephemeral chain in two, hoping to unbind the magic holding the room's enchantments in place.

{Dispel Magic roll, if it's even a thing.  Fair warning: Ilyara is [i]not great[/i] at Dispel rolls, but she will be adding her Guidance to the Dispel skill check:  14 to Dispel.}

A glittering shower of silver sparks erupt from [__________] breaking the enchantment on that area. Testing it shows the slipperiness is gone.

OOC: NICE roll! What part of the room were you aiming at? The air, a section of wall, a part of the floor? You cannot do the whole room.

OOC: The floor immediately in front of the door, give people footing to better survey the room and possibly a launch pad for some of that Fying Grayfur nonsense from, like...six pages of tryin'a figure out this wax-on, wax-off Problem of a trap room.  Hueh.
EDIT: How large an area does she manage to clear, and does she have any sense of whether she did unusually well or if whatever she got is the spell's normal effects?

OOC: I'm thinking we can figure out the area of effect if someone, Tommary will volunteer since he's been doing nothing but chewing scenery during all this, just gets on hands and knees and feels around for when the give happens (likely requiring a DEX if DM wants to emphasize the POWAH of the SHEEN), if we can't eyeball the Mr. Clean polished areas from the what we've retainted.

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EDIT: How large an area does she manage to clear, and does she have any sense of whether she did unusually well or if whatever she got is the spell's normal effects?

 The slightly slanted section of floor right outside the door and to the edge of the pit gives a sudden release of sparks as the enchantment breaks and scatters into tiny motes of fading light. Ilyara feels the satisfaction of a perfect cast, and she senses that anything less would have failed.

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OOC: I'm thinking we can figure out the area of effect if someone, Tommary will volunteer since he's been doing nothing but chewing scenery during all this, just gets on hands and knees and feels around for when the give happens (likely requiring a DEX if DM wants to emphasize the POWAH of the SHEEN), if we can't eyeball the Mr. Clean polished areas from the what we've retainted.

 On hands and knees Tommary probes forward and confirms that the flat from wall to pit feel normal while the walls and ceiling are still slip slidey. The sides of the pit are also slippery. He can see that the pit is 20 feet deep with 5 foot rusted blades and spikes on the bottom. Proof of the danger is evidenced by a skeleton dressed in rotting rags impaled on multiple spears.

"Yoooof...we got lucky, folks.  That was one'a the prettiest Dispels I've ever cast, and it only just barely took.  Odds're a whole lot better than even that I could kill both the sparks I got left and whiff t'other end'a this slip-and-slide nonsense.  Could get lucky again, but I'd wager I got maybe a bit less than a one-in-four chance of scrubbin' t'other side too, and only two tries left before all my strongest magic's spent for the day.  But hey - now we got a place t'anchor Elyona's ladder if we need it, or at least one end of it.  Simplified this whole Rudi Goldenbyrgh mess, at least, and if we can't think of anything else I can always throw the dice and hope the Traveler smiles fortune upon me."

OOC: I got inspiration available which'd give you another d8. I mean the inspiration will be delivered in some sort of late 80s early 90s hypertoxicological masc monologue, but it's available.

Re: Ilyara’s comment about her number of high-level spell slots the limitations on how potent and how often she can channel the Traveler’s blessings.

Toots half shrugs at Ilyara’s comment, her expression a mix of commiseration and concern. “I understand. Being able to transform one of us into an animal is the most potent magic I’ve ever cast in my life. I only just got strong enough to pull it off after we found you, and I’ve only ever done it that one time. I can pull it off… maybe twice and then I’d have to take it kinda easy for the rest of the day. If I turn into a bird or something, and then change back right away it’ll be almost like I did it for nothing.”

Toots pauses to take a breath, and seems to hold it a bit before continuing. ”But the only other choices I think we have are to go on and try it, go back through that tunnel of doors we skipped, or go home without playing our full set. I don’t mind skipping an encore if the joint’s dead, but I hate not finishing….  Besides, if we go back without the job done, you know they’ll have to send someone else then. You know how rough this gig has been better than any of us. What if the next team don’t come back? What if they get turned into parchment people like your team did? What if…” for a brief moment she nervously chews her lower lip, a look equal parts anguish and anxiety in her eyes, “…what if more ‘Watchers die because we give up…?”

Re: Ilyara’s success.

”HUZAHH!!” Toots shouts as she jumps twirling into the air, her fist extended skyward in exuberance as she spins ‘round to land back facing the others.

Re: Ilyara’s request for help with the dispell

OOC: Toots is proficient in Arcana, so could attempt to help Ilyara with her check, but 🦅Toots won’t be able to, and if she drops polymorph to help that’s 1 of her 2 spell slots high enough to do it again gonegone. Ily could only have one Bardic Inspiration die at a time so Tommary and Toots can’t play a duet. She’s got nothing else that could help either that I can think of. 

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“What about you Ely, I know you got some of those blessings and such too, is there anything you could do to help?”

"Arvoreen has granted me the ability to aid my comrades in many ways; unfortunately I don't think any of those ways cover this situation."

OOC:  Thanks for the prod, Sposta: I had already checked E's options, but I just did again. If it were an attack roll or a saving throw, I could help, but Nothing in E's wheelhouse helps with ability checks, which is what Dispel Magic requires.  Any of you are welcome to check Elyona's sheet and see if I'm missing something.

OOC: I’ll double check yours if you double check mine.

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OOC: I’ll double check yours if you double check mine.

 OOC: didn't find anything.