To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream

Sat Dec 10 2022 08:28:02 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)
Rolling line 1 : 1d20 + 10 to total : 9, + 10, TOTAL: 19

Marvin finds a 6th candle hidden under the shelf.

He’ll put the sixth candle up and light them all

Ok, all 6 are glowing warmly.... seems like something is still missing. What other clues are in the room?

Marvin will reluctantly say the magic words “piggy piggy piggy” as he looks in the mirror.

Whitey wrote:Marvin will reluctantly say the magic words “piggy piggy piggy” as he looks in the mirror.

Hehehe, as he does, the reflection of a lever appears on the south wall. He turns his head to look, but it is not really there, only as a reflection in the mirror. It looks similar to the other iron levers set on a metal plate.

He’ll try and make contact with the lever by reaching in the reflection for it

Marvin backs up a bit, angling himself in the reflection.... he watches as his hand reaches the reflection of the lever and he feels the cold iron touch his fingers. He pulls the lever and the hexagon seal grinds against the stone door.

Huzzah!

You avoided 3 were boars by finding the 6th candle before saying the magic words!

1 more puzzle room left! On to the octagon?

Yep

Marvin opens the door with the carved octagon. The ceiling of this plaster-walled room is 15ft high. A leather-backed tome rests upon a wooden lectern bolted to the floor. Set into the wall behind the lectern are 8 human skeletons, arranged so that they appear to be falling and screaming.

Just bones or are the skeletons wearing anything? What language is the tome?

The skeletons are set into the wall with plaster. They are just bones and some kind of macabre decoration.

Marvin approaches the lectern.... but stops short. His passive perception alerts him to a seam in the floor. Marvin suspects there might be a pit trap. It is easily avoided, now that Marvin has spotted it. He proceeds around the perimeter to the lectern.


The tome is open to the middle and looks to have only a few pages (8 at a guess). It is written in INFERNAL.

Marvin also notices a latch on the side of the lectern as he inspects the tome.



anybody habla el diablo?

Does the tome radiate magic?

navyik wrote:Does the tome radiate magic?

only the covers radiate magic from being magically glued to the lectern, but not the pages or the writing

Marvin can’t make heads or tails of the writing

Vasyli can't help with Infernal

comprehend languages spell also works for written word, in addition to spoken

or there were other clues....

Chris wrote:
Marvin also notices a latch on the side of the lectern as he inspects the tome.  

Does Marvin mention this?

Marvin will see what he can learn about the latch.
Investigation:
on Dec 12 2022 19:54:01 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)
Rolling line 1 : 1d20 + 4 to total : 8, + 4, TOTAL: 12

The latch is locked but Marvin doesn't notice any traps on it.

Marvin will attempt to pick the lock with his thieves tools:

Tue Dec 13 2022 08:02:37 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)
Rolling line 1 : 1d20 + 8 to total : 16, + 8, TOTAL: 24

Whitey wrote:Marvin will attempt to pick the lock with his thieves tools:

Tue Dec 13 2022 08:02:37 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)
Rolling line 1 : 1d20 + 8 to total : 16, + 8, TOTAL: 24

no problem for Marvin! the latch unlocks and reveals a familiar looking lever inside

Marvin will pull the lever

Whitey wrote:Marvin will pull the lever

ok then....  

The seams on the floor were a false trap.  The real danger is the ceiling.  It appears to be smooth cut stone, but is actually thin plaster.  5 ft above the false plaster ceiling is the room's true ceiling which has a bladed fan shaped like a giant iron spider with 8 blade-legs mounted to it.  Since the lines of the Infernal nursery rhyme were not read correctly before pulling the lever, the iron spider begins to twirl at very high speeds.

A reverse gravity spell activates within the room.  The lectern is the only object fixed in the room.  Marvin is next to the lectern but Vasyli and Warhol are not close enough to grab it.  Everyone "falls" upwards, like the plaster relief skeletons on the back wall.  Everyone "falls" into the whiling blades of death taking 8d10 slashing damage.  There is no save, except for Marvin who can make a Dex save to try and grab the lectern.

Result of the throw of dice "8d10" :

7 + 5 + 3 + 4 + 6 + 1 + 10 + 3 = 39

Vasyli will use Stone's Endurance to resist some of the damage.

Rolling line 1 : 1d12 + 2 to total : 12, + 2, TOTAL: 14

hey hey, max roll.

Vasyli suffers 25 damage

Marvin DEX (buffed by Potion of Heroism)

Tue Dec 13 2022 11:29:37 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)
Rolling line 1 : 1d20 + 8 to total : 18, + 8, TOTAL: 26
Rolling line 2 : 1d4 + 0 to total : 1, TOTAL: 1

27 total

Marvin grabs the lectern! He is dangling upwards and can feel the continued pull of the reverse gravity spell.

Vasyli's Goliath heritage partially saves him from the turbine trap. He wonders if this is how the Hags prepared his clone's meat.....

Let's see if Warhol has any tricks up his shell.



The spell effect persists, so you will take the same damage every 6 seconds.

Marvin will need a Str check to hang on each round. The Dex check to grab the lectern was 17.

If you try to cast a spell, you will need a Concentration of DC 1/2 damage from that round.

Vasyli still has the rope tied to his waist and looped over his shoulder... Athletics check or something to lasso the lectern and pull himself down?

whit10 wrote:Vasyli still has the rope tied to his waist and looped over his shoulder... Athletics check or something to lasso the lectern and pull himself down?

that seems both reasonable and impossible at the same time, sure!

but again, lets give Alan a chance to check in for the initial springing of the trap. then everyone can act and take damage again in rounds.

as a Tortle
Ac 22
Hp (80) 95 / 56
passive perception 19

Warhol gets sucked up into the fan with no recourse. He tries to grab the top of the door frame.

“Ow! Jeez, you’d think that being grossly overweight would be good fer somethin’…”

DM what is the floor made out of?

The floor is made of stone.

Overweight Warhol hits the ceiling with a loader THUNK than overarmored Vasyli.

Each player gets a full turn to act, but they take the fan damage at the start of their turn. You can roll initiative if you want or just go in any order.

Damage for this turn
Rolling line 1 : 8d10 + 0 to total : 8, 2, 8, 9, 4, 10, 8, 5, TOTAL: 54

Ouch!


Vasyli can make a lasso fling with an Athletics check, if that's still what you want to do.
Marvin needs a STR or Athletics check to hold on DC17

Athletics:
Tue Dec 13 2022 18:16:29 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)
Rolling line 1 : 1d20 + 5 to total : 12, + 5, TOTAL: 17
Whew.

Can Marvin use his action to reach back with one hand and get the rope from the side of his explorer’s pack? He intends to lash it to the lectern and then himself

A giant fan must have some clearance between itself and the ceiling, or it can’t turn freely. In that space there is still an updraft AWAY from the blades. Warhol will wild shape into a tiny dust mite and land safely on the ceiling and be stuck there in the dust that inevitably collects inside the eye of the vortex above the fan. Or is there an exhaust duct up through the ceiling?

Yes, Marvin still has his action, bonus action and movement. He lashes the rope as described for his main action.

Warhol busts out some physics and engineering? He takes the 54 and then transforms into a dust mite safely on the ceiling. Well done!

Big V?

Athletics check:

Rolling line 1 : 1d20 + 6 to total : 19, + 6, TOTAL: 25

let's hope that does it

Most definitely!  Vasyli takes another 54 but then Indiana Joneses himself to safety.  

After a minute, the reverse gravity spell ends and the spider fan slows to a stop.  The party can hear the octagon seal open in the stone door.  Finally!

he takes another 54 damage?! He just took a bunch before he acted...

The GM is playing dirty now.

Fine, Stone's Endurance again so that Vasyli can actually not die (in theory)

Rolling line 1 : 1d12 + 2 to total : 11, + 2, TOTAL: 13

41 damage. Vasyli is nearly down

whit10 wrote:he takes another 54 damage?! He just took a bunch before he acted...

The GM is playing dirty now.

Fine, Stone's Endurance again so that Vasyli can actually not die (in theory)

Rolling line 1 : 1d12 + 2 to total : 11, + 2, TOTAL: 13

41 damage.  Vasyli is nearly down

everyone (except Marvin) took damage a total of 2 times, not 3, sorry if that was confusing.
1st time was when you sprung the trap.
2nd time was at the start of your next\first turn since you were already in the effect

yeah, yeah.

So it's done then?

Vasyli will start healing himself. Are we at a pause point?

So the big door is unlocked?  The dust mite peeks through the cracks in the octagon door (not the big door) to see whether the big door is still closed. Is the coast clear?

Do we want a rest?

Warhol has a prayer of healing scroll he can use before we burn hit dice. Or we can save it for if we run out of hit dice.

The big door with the skeletons and the 5 geometric shapes is unlocked but still closed.  

The 3 oddities are going around in a circle.  Strawbundle recites the nursery rhyme in a sing-song voice

Backward, backward, eight to one
Speak the rhyme until its done
Keep the spider locked away
See the lever, clear as day
Spin, spin, iron spider
Turn their flesh and bones to cider
Speak the rhyme and meet your fate
Forward, forward, one to eight



go ahead and do whatever healing, etc.   let me know if you want to take a short rest in the Hags' craft room

do we want a short rest?

Marvin’s fine to rest. DM, how much time in-game has passed since they entered this hall?

as a Tortle
Ac 22
Hp (80) 95 / 74
passive perception 19

Hit dice

Result of the throw of dice "10d8 +30" :

3 + 8 + 1 + 7 + 1 + 7 + 3 + 7 + 1 + 4 + 30 = 72


Is copy Marvin free?

Clone Marvin is free
Time estimate, including eating a full meal.... 30 minutes maybe?

Before the rest, Warhol summons a unicorn spirit and casts healing word on Vasyli.
Result of the throw of dice "1d4 +5" :

4 + 5 = 9

Big V gets total 18. Everyone else including clone Marvin gets 9.

as a Tortle
Ac 22
Hp (80) 95 / 83
passive perception 19

"Many thanks Warhol!"

Now Vasyli will use 8 HD to heal

Rolling line 1 : 8d8 + 0 to total : 4, 7, 1, 6, 5, 6, 4, 7, TOTAL: 40

plus what Warhol gave him he heals 58. It will have to do

...on second though, burn the last two as well

Rolling line 1 : 2d8 + 0 to total : 1, 7, TOTAL: 8

back to full strength

everyone ready to move on?