To Prove D&D Exists for Echolon

Indeed, Happy Day-After-Thanksgiving to all.  I hope everyone ate until they were uncomfortable and then got to sleep for three hours in the middle of a normally-workday.

OOC: I actually celebrated contempt for federally mandated holiday for expressing gratitude to higher powers and instead ate Buffalo chicken rice r roni with Mountain Dew and Whiskey while reading the Secret History of Twin Peak, which coincidentally begins with a fictionalized Lewis and Clark expedition meeting the Nez Perce, which included the gifting of a certain iconic trinket and a heavily implied "this is not going to go well for anyone."  I just don't like turkey.

OOC: At the first thanksgiving they most likely ate venison as their main protein. For the pilgrims it was a harvest festival and as part of the celebration they discharged firearms. The First Peoples went to find out what all the noise was about, found out it was a party and went and hunted game as a contribution to go along with the veg the European settlers had harvested.

Yes, the ring with the petroglyph was probably still on the west coast.  Or maybe Roanoke.

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Yes, the ring with the petroglyph was probably still on the west coast.  Or maybe Roanoke.

 OOC: You’re gonna have to elaborate a bit please, I’m not entirely sure I’m pickin’ up what you’re puttin’ down.

Twin Peaks spoilers

OOC: I had only mentioned the harvest festival as it was originally a “hurray, we grew enough food that we won’t starve to death this winter” party and not necessarily “an expression of gratitude to a higher power.” It was only made into a national holiday by Lincoln during the Civil War as part of one of his PR campaigns to bring an early end to that war. It was a politically motivated “promote national unity” campaign attempting to remind citizens of both the North and South of their shared history more than anything else.

I mentioned the venison since you said you don’t like turkey.

I presume you deal with the sea lions with harsh language and foul smells?

OOC: Will hold this action if any party member disagrees.

Tommary will attempt to hail the Aquamanticores in Common, if he's getting a more animal than sentient vibe, he'll attempt a ritual casting of speak with animals.  The hail will consist of, "Hoping you all may be more up to conversation than forcing us to end you like your neighbors.  I'd be more polite but we're I feel my colleagues may be a little impatient at this point.  We've talked to other guardians in these tunnels and will be happy if you're amenable."

You get mostly a "hungry, food, give meat", vibe from them.

Luckily, there are many pounds of fresh scorpion nearby.

"Guess these are garden or terrarium or aquarium variety beasties and not aquamanticores ... we could continue our present onslaught, or feed them the scorpions to see that sates them or poisons them...."

“Feed ‘em. We can always kill ‘em if it doesn’t work.” Toots chucks some chunks of scorpion meat over the wall to the Sea Lions.

OOC: Are we mooring or tying off the kayaks on the top level or we pegging them to our backs like one of the coolest G.I. Joe Figures (Tundra Ranger Stalker) or otherwise taking them down onto the Scorpion terrace with us?

OOC: I'm also realizing Toots moment with Nine totally missed a reprisal of the Tommary Toots moment in the rotating door re: "needs of many outweights those of the few, or the one."  Maybe Layla will explain that to Nine.

Anycase, once I'm on the scorpion terrace I'll take another look around to see if I can see anything more to this structure beyond its initial impression, looking for potential access points or mechanisms or even a vulnerable exhaust port.  Perception 28

OOC:  CRITICAL EYE ;)

I'd say if we were playing with Quantum Principles my looking for a vulnerable exhaust port would bring one into being.  

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OOC:  CRITICAL EYE ;)

I'd say if we were playing with Quantum Principles my looking for a vulnerable exhaust port would bring one into being.  

 You do find some bent buckles and strips of cloth and leather. Additionally,  scraps of chain mail, bend scraps of metal armor and blades are found buried in the sand. Within some dried piles of feces and under the rocks you find:

23 silver

29 gold 

18 platinum

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“Feed ‘em. We can always kill ‘em if it doesn’t work.” Toots chucks some chunks of scorpion meat over the wall to the Sea Lions.

 Violent splashing and thrashing of water erupts as the sea lions pounce on chunks of scorpion meat. A short altercation between two of them  occurs as they fight for bits to eat. Their hunger seems sated before you run out of meat, and they swim lazily around their tank, ignoring you completely.

Just in case, Toots is gonna make the rest of the meat available to them too.

"So, just to point out - getting up from th' down side of one'a these water runs is gonna be a whole lot harder than getting down into it.  Like, gettin' back up into Crab Rangoon territory from this here firmish earth isn't too hard, but once we drop down ten feet into th' splash zone it's gonna be a whole lot trickier to get back up a smooth glassy wall, and those critters ain't gonna ignore us for too long.  Just checkin' - anybody got any clever ideas?  Or, like...grappling hooks they ain't usin' that we can leave in place for a getaway?"

"Maybe we can use Boat #3 as an anchor point and secure a line down from there?  Or the rest of us be that anchor while one of us goes down there and swims about to see. if the water's not just fine but enticing us further.  I can get a little wet and can do my disappearing act if the not aquamanticores get too interested."

“We have plenty of rope.”