Don't leave tumour skulls where you drink

[Ebiris]

[18:06] <@Ko-CV1> The party stands amid the rubble and ruin of the battlefield. The ground is littered with broken undead, piles of them all about. Dozens of the cursed dead are now returned to eternal slumber as the heroes catch their breath...OOC: Go ahead, free act.
[18:07] * @John bleeds copiously but doesn't want to make a fuss by asking for healing.
[18:07] * Feather takes the chance to look around for magic, both the ambient and any of the weapons littering the ground in these rooms.
[18:07] <Gildas> The angry bear shapeshifts back to place a hand on his own shoulder to heal himself from where he was cut.
[18:07] <Gildas> roll 1d8+5
[18:07] <Serith> Gildas roll for Serith < 9 > [d8=4]
[18:08] <Gildas> "Hold on a moment, I can get my wand out for this. We should conserve our strength otherwise, I think." He says as he reaches into his pack to start rummaging.
[18:08] <@Ko-CV1> OOC: Spellcraft, Feather.
[18:08] <Feather> roll 1d20+13
[18:08] <Serith> Feather roll for Serith < 24 > [d20=11]
[18:09] <Gildas> With that said, he withdraws his Wand and shakes it a few times before tapping it against John a few times.
[18:10] <Gildas> roll 4#1d8+1
[18:10] <Serith> Gildas roll for Serith < 4, 9, 7, 8 >
[18:10] <@John> "Th-thanks!" John is ever so grateful for the attention.
[18:11] <Gildas> He nods with a smile. "It's what it's there for. Do you two need any more patching up?"
[18:17] <@Ko-CV1> The entire tower is magical. The formula on the walls connect to it all - it could be studied and analyzed further, but he'd need to inspect the formulas. He can do so if he wishes.
[18:17] <@Ko-CV1> "Hal me as well?" Myann asks. "I'm trying to conserve my magic."
[18:18] <Gildas> He nods to Myann and taps her with it like he did John!
[18:18] <Gildas> roll 3#1d8+1
[18:18] <Serith> Gildas roll for Serith < 4, 6, 4 >
[18:18] <Feather> "Nothing strange here, beyond the usual," Feather muses. "Might help if we broke some of the walls? It's all connected. But might just take too long, so hit me once, Gildas, and we'll go on?"
[18:19] <Gildas> He nods and taps Feather's injury with the wand.
[18:19] <Gildas> roll 1d8+1
[18:19] <Serith> Gildas roll for Serith < 8 > [d8=7]
[18:20] <Gildas> "Do you need any more?" He looks to Myann.
[18:20] <@Ko-CV1> "One more," she decides.
[18:20] <Gildas> roll 1d8+1
[18:20] <Serith> Gildas roll for Serith < 4 > [d8=3]
[18:20] <@Ko-CV1> Her wounds are mostly mended now, only some bruises remaining in place of full wounds.
[18:21] * Feather starts exploring the corridor to the right.
[18:21] <Gildas> He nods and puts the wand back. "I do happen to have something that might help us, if we'd like to sneak at all." He withdraws a potion from his pack. "This works like the spell to shield you from the detection of the undead." He follows after Feather.
[18:22] <@Ko-CV1> Myann trots a long, falling into step with John, "You alright?" she murmurs, "You're stuttering."
[18:23] <@John> "I-I am?" John asks as if he hadn't noticed. Then he frowns and admits, "I c-can't st-stop it n-neither."
[18:23] <@Ko-CV1> Ahead, the hallway curves around into a circular loop. At the far end, you find a runic circle. Red light extends from it in a pillar, touching the ceiling. As you approach, the light shimmers and ethereal stairs going up can be seen.
[18:24] <@Ko-CV1> Myann frowns, "Gildas, Feather. Can you think of anything that would make a person start stuttering like John is?" she raises her voice and calls to them as the party walks along.
[18:25] <Feather> "Uh, sickness? Some unnatural one?" Feather ventures. "He's got no strange magic on him, I checked."
[18:26] <@John> "M-n-not co-cold," John says to remove that possibility.
[18:26] <Gildas> He looks to Myann and then rubs his chin. "A variety of things... I don't think it was that disease I was afflicted with, though... Maybe something just hit you hard enough to cause that and you need some time to rest?" He looks over, then up towards the stairs. "I do not believe he is in any immediate danger, though, for whatever that comforts you."
[18:27] <@John> "Th-thanks," he says in appreciation for that vote of confidence.
[18:28] <@Ko-CV1> Myann smiles briefly as she looks at the stairs, "Just waiting for us," she murmurs. "Rising to a higher level, a higher kingdom, hm?"
[18:28] <Gildas> "Who are we to turn down an invitation?" He muses.
[18:28] * Ko-CV1 is now known as Kotono
[18:29] * Feather steps on the stairs and starts heading up.
[18:31] <@Kotono> The party walks up the stairs. As you do, the ceiling above shimmers and fades away. The walls are now painted a dull red and the only light comes from John's newly enhanced staff. You stand in a simple room with a door straight ahead. The room's small and otherwise unremarkable as well as undecorated.
[18:31] * Feather goes up to the door to open it.
[18:36] <@Kotono> The door opens! Ahead i-OH GOD! Hundreds of mouths attached to tiny legs are piled up as far as you can see, slavering tongues licking as they fall forward at Feather in a massive tide! OOC: Ref save.
[18:36] <Feather> roll 1d20+7 save me, evasion!
[18:36] <Serith> Feather roll for Serith < 8 > [d20=1]
[18:37] <@Kotono> roll 8d6 chomp chomp chomp full the ow is in the house
[18:37] <Serith> Kotono roll for Serith < 24 > [d6=2,5,3,1,1,5,2,5]
[18:38] <@Kotono> They surge over Feather like a swarm, biting him all over! He's being chewed all over, stuck within the mouths! They conceal Feather completely, chomping on him from all directions! OOC: Init here. The mouths are in the same square as Feather, to be clear. Feather, you're surrounded but able to act - they aren't coordinated enough to lock you down or seriously restrict movement.
[18:38] <@Kotono> roll 1d20+2
[18:38] <Serith> Kotono roll for Serith < 16 > [d20=14]
[18:38] <@Kotono> roll 1d20+2 mouths
[18:38] <Serith> Kotono roll for Serith < 11 > [d20=9]
[18:38] <Feather> roll 1d20+3
[18:38] <Serith> Feather roll for Serith < 7 > [d20=4]
[18:38] <Gildas> roll 1d20+3
[18:38] <Serith> Gildas roll for Serith < 15 > [d20=12]
[18:39] * Kotono changes topic to 'Myann(16)>Gildas(15)>Mouths(11)>Feather(7)'
[18:39] * Feather screams incoherently and very loudly!
[18:39] <@Kotono> Myann's eyes go as wide as tea saucers, staring at the sight before her.
[18:39] <@John> roll 1d20+3
[18:39] <Serith> John roll for Serith < 9 > [d20=6]
[18:41] * Kotono changes topic to 'Myann(16)>Gildas(15)>Mouths(11)>John(9)>Feather(7)'
[18:42] * Joins: Hatbot (~Hatbot@72.183.113.233)
[18:42] * Serith was kicked by Kotono (Hatbotted.)
[18:42] * Joins: Serith (~iron_drag@cpe-173-172-46-15.tx.res.rr.com)
[18:43] * Kotono sets mode: +b *!*@cpe-173-172-46-15.tx.res.rr.com
[18:43] * Serith was kicked by Kotono (Temp ban for now.)
[18:44] <@Kotono> "What...I...what?" Myann says in utter dismay, sounding like her stomach just dropped out of her body. Then the momentary revelry passes, as she draws her blade and tries to dice up the mouths.
[18:44] <@Kotono> roll 1d20+14 (+2 undead bane, +2 favored enemy)
[18:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 (+2 undead bane, +2 favored enemy) and gets 15." [1d20=1]
[18:44] <@Kotono> roll 1d20+9 (+2 undead bane, +2 favored enemy)
[18:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+9 (+2 undead bane, +2 favored enemy) and gets 14." [1d20=5]
[18:44] <@Kotono> roll 1d100
[18:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 74." [1d100=74]
[18:44] <@Kotono> roll 1d8+9+2d6
[18:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+9+2d6 and gets 24." [1d8=6][2d6=6, 3]
[18:46] <@Kotono> Myann slashes out, managing to catch the mouths on Feather's side. She cuts through several, the strange creatures bursting into ash on being slain. A few down but many more still swarm! OOC: Gildas.
[18:46] <Gildas> OOC: Am I able to flurry here? I'm guessing yes, since we're so close.
[18:48] <@Kotono> OOC: Yes, you're all in melee since it was a surprise attack and you weren't particularly separated. Should've said that right away ,dru.
[18:48] <Gildas> roll 1d20+15
[18:48] <Gildas> roll 1d20+15
[18:48] * Hatbot --> "Gildas rolls 1d20+15  and gets 17." [1d20=2]
[18:48] * Hatbot --> "Gildas rolls 1d20+15  and gets 25." [1d20=10]
[18:48] <Gildas> roll 1d20+10
[18:48] * Hatbot --> "Gildas rolls 1d20+10 and gets 24." [1d20=14]
[18:49] <@Kotono> OOC: 1d100 on all of those.
[18:49] <Gildas> Gildas shapeshifts quickly into his Predator form and moves forward to strike at all the mouths on feather with his paws!
[18:49] <Gildas> roll 3#1d100
[18:49] * Hatbot --> "Gildas rolls 3#1d100 and gets 177." [3#1d100 = 72, 18, 87]
[18:49] <@Kotono> Firs tand third hit the swarm. The second threatens Feather instead. What's your AC, Feather? Gildas, if there's any undeadbane bonus there, note it so it can be subtracted for the second roll.
[18:50] <@Kotono> OOC: Whoops, forgot the OOC.
[18:50] <Gildas> OOC: There is
[18:50] <Feather> OOC: AC 22
[18:52] <@Kotono> OOC: Okay. All hit. Roll the damage for the swarm ones first then the one that hit Feather.
[18:52] <Gildas> OOC: Okay
[18:55] <Gildas> roll 2#2d8+12+2d6+2d6+2d6 first is undeadbane, second is fire, third is cold I hope I did that right
[18:55] * Hatbot --> "Gildas rolls 2#2d8+12+2d6+2d6+2d6 first is undeadbane, second is fire, third is cold I hope I did that right and gets 79." [2#2d8+12+2d6+2d6+2d6 = 35, 44]
[18:55] <Gildas> roll 2d8+12+1d6+1d6 first is fire, second is cold sorry friend
[18:55] * Hatbot --> "Gildas rolls 2d8+12+1d6+1d6 first is fire, second is cold sorry friend and gets 24." [2d8=4, 2][1d6=1][1d6=5]
[18:57] <@Kotono> A great deal of mouths are cleaved apart, dozens turning to ash! They fade away, leaving Feather half exposed - and struck! An errant strike hits Feather in the chest instead of the mouths around him. The CRUNCH of breaking bone is followed by Feather involuntarily coughing up a wad of blood. His vision turns red, FEather's world wobbling as pain overtakes him. OOC: Ow. You're bleeding bad
[18:57] <@Kotono> internally from that. -2 to attack rolls and fortitude saves, and -10ft to movement from general, critical damage. Some healing would help. Mouths are up.
[18:59] <@Kotono> Wracked and wounded, the mouths nonetheless converge on Feather and continue to hungrily tear him apart! OOC: Ref.
[18:59] <Feather> roll 1d20+7 evasion
[18:59] * Hatbot --> "Feather rolls 1d20+7 evasion and gets 10." [1d20=3]
[18:59] <@Kotono> roll 5d6 at least they're lessening
[18:59] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 5d6 at least they're lessening and gets 25." [5d6=6, 5, 3, 5, 6]
[19:00] <Feather> With a cry that turns into a groan, Feather collapses bonelessly to the floor.
[19:00] <@Kotono> Pain. Feather feels pain all over as he is eaten. There's a sensation of falling, falling, and then the simple respite of death's door. "FEATHER!" Myann screams as he collapses, "Don't go!" OOC: John.
[19:02] <@John> "Oh n-no!" John yells, wishing he had a broom instead of a staff now! Not wanting to risk actually hitting his mortally wounded friend, John discards his weapon entirely and crouches over Feather's fallen form, sweeping his arms over his body to try and just shove as many of those mouths as possible off of him so they can be killed without danger!
[19:02] <@John> roll 1d20+10 cmb I guess?
[19:02] * Hatbot --> "John rolls 1d20+10 cmb I guess? and gets 25." [1d20=15]
[19:03] <@Kotono> OOC: You'll provoke an AoO from this, you okay with that?
[19:03] <@Kotono> OOC: Well, sorta one since it'll have you do a reflex save, but the sentiment is the same.
[19:03] <@John> OOC: sure
[19:03] <@Kotono> OOC: Ref.
[19:03] <@John> roll 1d20+12 ref
[19:03] * Hatbot --> "John rolls 1d20+12 ref and gets 26." [1d20=14]
[19:04] <@John> OOC: evasion
[19:05] <@Kotono> John dodges the mouths as he shoves them away! It's enough to open a path to Feather and get the mouths off of him! As this happens...OOC: Stabilization roll, Feather. d100, target is con score or lower.
[19:05] <Feather> roll 1d100 dc17
[19:05] * Hatbot --> "Feather rolls 1d100 dc17 and gets 13." [1d100=13]
[19:05] <@Kotono> OOC: Success! You're stabilize dand lose no further hit points.
[19:06] <@Kotono> "Hold on, damn it! Just hold on!" she screams, chanting frantically. She chants in Sylvan this time, as a red and white mushroom appears over Feather. HIs body enlarges as Myann cries, "Heal him, Gildas!" OOC: Super mushroomed. Go Gildas.
[19:07] <Gildas> The bear shapeshifts back to his human form and puts his hands on Feather, intending to do just as Myann asked! OOC: Do I need to do anything before I do that?
[19:07] <@Kotono> OOC: No, the mouths were shoved away.
[19:08] <Gildas> OOC: Okie dokie
[19:08] <Gildas> roll 2d8+7 healin'
[19:08] * Hatbot --> "Gildas rolls 2d8+7 healin' and gets 13." [2d8=5, 1]
[19:08] <Gildas> OOC: Is it possible for me to try and shield him by moving in between the mouths and Feather with my move action?
[19:09] <@Kotono> Feather's body is badly torn. He's like a piece of half chewed meat that was spat out, but with healing this partially reverses. It's enough to stir him back to the world of pain and living, wounded but not dead! At this, the remaining mouths go back, swarming back over Feather! OOC: Ref.
[19:09] <Feather> roll 1d20+7 I lived a good, honest life
[19:09] * Hatbot --> "Feather rolls 1d20+7 I lived a good, honest life and gets 13." [1d20=6]
[19:10] <@Kotono> Feather is bitten over and over again - but he shrinks back down to size, the super mushroom absorbing the deathblows! OOC: Super mushroom saved your ass since Hatbot hates ref saves. John.
[19:11] <@John> "G-Get off!" John does his work again, even finding the confidence to say, "J-just kill them and heal him after!"
[19:11] <@John> roll 1d20+10 cmb
[19:11] * Hatbot --> "John rolls 1d20+10 cmb and gets 13." [1d20=3]
[19:11] <@John> roll 1d20+12 reflex
[19:11] * Hatbot --> "John rolls 1d20+12 reflex and gets 17." [1d20=5]
[19:11] <@Kotono> John shoves the mouths all over, but this time they aren't going. At least he avoids being chewed up and spat out. OOC: Feather, go.
[19:12] * Feather crawls away from the mouths while leaving a trail of blood on the floor behind him.
[19:12] <@Kotono> Feather crawls. He crawls out from the horde, who try and pounce on him as he goes! OOC: Ref save, this provokes an AoO. You okay with that?
[19:13] <Feather> OOC: Will I still get away even if they get me?
[19:13] <@Kotono> OOC: Asl ong as it doesn't reduce you to negative HP, yes.
[19:14] * Feather also has the presence of mind to swiftly call upon his fey heritage to try and survive!
[19:14] <Feather> roll 1d20+8 evasion
[19:14] * Hatbot --> "Feather rolls 1d20+8 evasion and gets 14." [1d20=6]
[19:16] <@Kotono> This time Feather manages to crawl away by the barest of margins, trailing blood as he dodges nipping mouths! His entire body aches terribly, savaged as his vision swims in and out of awareness. As he does...around him. Spectral images, howling, lamenting people clad in burial shrouds. He can't hear them, but he can see them crying out, praying for something unseen and unknown. OOC: Myann's up.
[19:18] <Feather> "Not going with you!" Feather calls out in a haze, weakly waving the spectral images away.
[19:18] <@Kotono> A look of relief turns to fury as Myann draws her blade. She smiles far too wide, two handing her blade as she plunges it down at the mouths. Her teeth show, perfectly white and pointed.
[19:18] <@Kotono> roll 1d20+14 (+2 favored, +2 bane)
[19:18] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 (+2 favored, +2 bane) and gets 25." [1d20=11]
[19:18] <@Kotono> roll 1d20+9 (+2 favored, +2 bane)
[19:18] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+9 (+2 favored, +2 bane) and gets 18." [1d20=9]
[19:18] <@Kotono> roll 1d8+9+2d6
[19:18] <@Kotono> roll 1d8+9+2d6
[19:18] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+9+2d6 and gets 22." [1d8=5][2d6=5, 3]
[19:18] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+9+2d6 and gets 20." [1d8=2][2d6=6, 3]
[19:21] <@Kotono> Myann's blade flashes out as mouth after mouth is torn apart. One is impaled, then used to brain another as it dissolves to ash. She stomps another one underfoot, the last of the undead routed. Ahead you cans ee a small, empty closet - not a thing of note past the door, now that the mouths are gone. OOC: Free act.
[19:21] <@Kotono> Myann buries her face in her free hand a moment, breathing a few times before she whirls around and goes to Feather. The smile's gone as she kneels, "Feather?" she asks, already weaving a heal spell.
[19:21] <@Kotono> roll 1d8+5
[19:21] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+5 and gets 12." [1d8=7]
[19:22] <Gildas> Gildas immediately withdraws his wand again and hurries over to Feather to do the same as Myann.
[19:22] <Gildas> roll 5#1d8+1
[19:22] * Hatbot --> "Gildas rolls 5#1d8+1 and gets 28." [5#1d8+1 = 2, 8, 9, 3, 6]
[19:22] <Feather> "Do I still have a face?" Feather asks, trying to focus on Myann.
[19:22] <@John> "Y-you alright F-feather?" John asks, looking in the closet. "St-stairs were a tr-trap I r-reckon."
[19:23] <@Kotono> Wounds heal, Feather's worlds readjusting. The strange specters vanish from view, as his internal bleeding ceases. OOC: Penalty for beign jacked up is gone.
[19:23] <Feather> "I saw dead people," Feather says shakily. "Not undead. Real dead."
[19:24] <@Kotono> "You're still here," Myann places both hands on his arm, "You're alright. You're still here."
[19:24] <Gildas> Gildas shakily lets out a breath and nods to John. "Perhaps... we should try and... simply knock a wall down from in here... if you're all right to stand?" He looks to Feather.
[19:25] <Feather> "Uh. Yeah, like I said. Um. Boost me up, I'll break through the ceiling. And we keep at it till they're all dead, yeah?"
[19:26] <Gildas> "I don't think any of us have any sympathy for them at this point." He responds.
[19:28] <Feather> "So," Feather says, climbing back to his feet. "You guys help me cross the distance? I figure, we might as well start in this here closet, since it's higher than the rest."
[19:29] <Gildas> He nods to him, still looking a bit shaken. "We can at least see if it goes somewhere else."
[19:33] <@Kotono> OOC: Going to get boosted to the roof and start diggin'?
[19:34] <Gildas> OOC: That seems to be the plan.
[19:35] <Feather> OOC: Adamant scimitar time
[19:37] <@Kotono> OOC: Right.
[19:38] <@Kotono> As Feather gets to working, Myann gently goes over to John, "Thank you," she whispers. OOC: Perception checks, y'all. -2.
[19:38] <@Kotono> roll 1d20+10 Myann
[19:38] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 Myann and gets 11." [1d20=1]
[19:39] <@John> roll 1d20+11
[19:39] <Gildas> roll 1d20+11
[19:39] * Hatbot --> "Gildas rolls 1d20+11 and gets 27." [1d20=16]
[19:39] * Hatbot --> "John rolls 1d20+11 and gets 19." [1d20=8]
[19:39] <@John> "S-seen enou-enough fr-friends d-die," John says simply.
[19:42] <@Kotono> As Feather starts to work the roof - good solid work but it'll take a few more hacks - Gildas can hear a sound from out in the stairway room, the left wall. It sounds like a soft, stony grinding.
[19:44] <Gildas> He frowns and glances in that direction, speaking in a whisper. "Can any of you hear that? Grinding... from over there." He points in the general direction. "I think something might be coming..."
[19:45] * @John steps out of the closet to retrieve his staff and have a look around.
[19:46] * Feather keeps on working as fast as he can!
[19:48] <@Kotono> A few more slashes open up the ceiling above! A blue-glowing room can be glimpsed, the scent of old herbs coming down. Meanwhile, going out, John gets his staff. At the same time, he sees a part of the left wall open up! A hidden door, and coming through it are zombies. These zombies are bloated and immensely fat, waddling along. A foul, choking stench surrounds them as...OOC: Init here. The
[19:48] <@Kotono> hole Feather made requires a climb check to get through or flight. There's only one fat zombie that you can see, but there could easily be more behind its massiveness.
[19:48] <@John> roll 1d20+3
[19:48] * Hatbot --> "John rolls 1d20+3 and gets 11." [1d20=8]
[19:48] <Gildas> roll 1d20+3
[19:48] * Hatbot --> "Gildas rolls 1d20+3 and gets 10." [1d20=7]
[19:49] <Feather> roll 1d20+4
[19:49] * Hatbot --> "Feather rolls 1d20+4 and gets 18." [1d20=14]
[19:49] <@Kotono> roll 1d20+2 Myann
[19:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+2 Myann and gets 15." [1d20=13]
[19:49] <@Kotono> roll 1d20-2 Zombie
[19:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20-2 Zombie and gets 7." [1d20=9]
[19:49] <@Kotono> roll 1d20-2 ???1
[19:49] <@Kotono> roll 1d20-2 ???2
[19:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20-2 ???1 and gets 5." [1d20=7]
[19:49] <@Kotono> roll 1d20-2 ???3
[19:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20-2 ???2 and gets 5." [1d20=7]
[19:49] <@Kotono> roll 1d20-2 ???4
[19:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20-2 ???3 and gets 2." [1d20=4]
[19:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20-2 ???4 and gets 9." [1d20=11]
[19:49] <@Kotono> roll 1d20-2 ???5
[19:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20-2 ???5 and gets 3." [1d20=5]
[19:49] <@Kotono> roll 1d20-2 ???6
[19:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20-2 ???6 and gets 10." [1d20=12]
[19:50] * Kotono changes topic to 'Feather(18)>Myann(15)>John(11)>Gildas(10)>Fat Zombie(7)>?1=?2(5)>?3(2)'
[19:51] * Kotono changes topic to 'Feather(18)>Myann(15)>John(11)>Gildas=?6(10)>?4(9)>Fat Zombie(7)>?1=?2(5)>?3=?5(2)'
[19:51] <@Kotono> OOC: Open Feather.
[19:51] <Feather> "Got it!" Feather calls out, climbing up through the opening he had made and then retrieving his rope, one end dropped back down while the other remains in his hands. "Come on!"
[19:51] <Feather> roll 1d20+11 climb
[19:51] * Hatbot --> "Feather rolls 1d20+11 climb and gets 30." [1d20=19]
[19:53] <@Kotono> Feather makes it up. He stands in a room full of jars. Jars of what look to be herbs, absolutely hundreds of them on shelves all over. There's a door on the north wall, as well as a door on the west wall, jammed in between two shelves. The room isn't small, but it feels that way with all the shelves and jars. OOC: Okay, you're up and in. Myann.
[19:53] <@Kotono> "Right," Myann turns to a mushroom hawk, flying up and landing past Feather. OOC: Okay. John, go.
[19:54] <@John> "Some really fat zombies coming our way," John warns as he backs up into the cupboard again and grabs onto the sides of the broken ceiling to haul himself up and through.
[19:54] <@John> roll 1d20+15 climb
[19:54] * Hatbot --> "John rolls 1d20+15 climb and gets 26." [1d20=11]
[19:56] <@Kotono> John scurries right on up, into the room as well! OOC: Gidlas.
[19:56] <Gildas> Gildas follows the others up by shapeshifting and flying!
[19:57] <@Kotono> Up Gildas goes, joining the party. Below the zombies can be heard, slowly advancing...OOC: Free act for now, they can't keep up/get to you. Loot.
[19:58] <Gildas> OOC: Can I identify the herbs with any check I have? Herbalism or K:N?
[19:59] * Feather shrugs and pulls the rope back up, heading for the door to the north before stopping and giving it an uneasy look.
[19:59] <@Kotono> OOCL ?You can try both.
[19:59] <@Kotono> OOC: Gah, typo hell.
[20:00] <Gildas> Gildas shapeshifts back and goes to check one of the shelves, curious as to what these herbs are.
[20:00] <@John> "I'll g-get it," John offers, moving ahead of Feather to take the brunt of whatever as he opens the door instead.
[20:00] <Gildas> roll 1d20+13 Herbalism
[20:00] * Hatbot --> "Gildas rolls 1d20+13 Herbalism and gets 17." [1d20=4]
[20:00] <Gildas> roll 1d20+14 K:N
[20:00] * Hatbot --> "Gildas rolls 1d20+14 K:N and gets 32." [1d20=18]
[20:01] * Feather gets ready to pounce on whatever enemy might be behind the door!

[Ebiris]

[18:06] <@Kotono> John opens the northern door. It leads to a small hallway. At the end is another door, and in the center-left of the hallway is a small archway that leads off in another direction. The hall is otherwise undecorated, the stone tinted sunset purple. Checking over the herbs, Gildas can tell that there are powerful reagents here involved in poison and corrupting the natural world.
[18:08] * @John walks up to the archway and has a look down that direction.
[18:08] <Gildas> Gildas wrinkles his nose. "These are... strong." He looks to Myann. "It might not be a bad idea for us to take some, in case we need to use it for whatever reason."
[18:09] <Feather> "Say, how high did it look like this tower go?"
[18:11] <@Kotono> "If you want some, take some. Otherwise I'll look at them when we get back," Myann offers, "Once we've dealt with the infestation here." Meanwhile John goes to the archway. Within the archway is a room of plants and bone. The plants are as much bone as matter, growing in odd angles. A bush becomes a cluster of hands midway, while a rose bush has blossoming fingers and toes instead of petals. A
[18:11] <@Kotono> tiny tree has dangling ribs instead of pruned leaves. In the back, 30ft away, is a humanoid. It is covered in thick cloaks, cloak and a floppy hat that hides its face. It's looking towards the archway and John.
[18:12] * @John gives it a little wave and then steps back. "Some bloke in a floppy hat's in the bone garden thing," he tells his friends, ready to give said hatted man a thumping if he comes this way.
[18:12] <Gildas> Gildas picks some of the herbs at random and will place them in his pack, just in case they have to exit the tower at a high speed later.
[18:13] <Feather> "What's that? A guy in a funny hat?"
[18:13] <@Kotono> OOC: How many jars, Gildas?
[18:14] <@John> "Probably a skeleton or something, he's not gonna be friendly if he's in here is he?" John figures.
[18:14] <Gildas> OOC: Let's say three.
[18:14] <@Kotono> OOC: Roll 3d20.
[18:15] <Feather> "Yeah, reckon so," Feather agrees, catching up to him. "So anyone got some idea how tall this tower is?" he repeats.
[18:15] <@Kotono> OOC: Hold lines for a sec, 'cept for that roll I called for. A reaction's coming, just waiting a sec to resolve Gildas first.
[18:17] <Gildas> roll 3d20
[18:17] * Hatbot --> "Gildas rolls 3d20 and gets 43." [3d20=20, 6, 17]
[18:17] <@Kotono> OOC: Loot post. Line incoming.
[18:18] <@Kotono> On John waving, the figure raises its arms up. The hat falls back, revealing a bare skull. The skeletal creature laughs, a rasping sound, as the bone and plants extend out! The entire room is swelling and reacting with mutated plants! OOC: Init here.
[18:19] <@Kotono> roll 1d20+2 Myann
[18:19] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+2 Myann and gets 3." [1d20=1]
[18:19] <@Kotono> roll 1d20+4 plant room man
[18:19] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+4 plant room man and gets 8." [1d20=4]
[18:19] * Kotono changes topic to 'Bone Planter(8)>Myann(3)'
[18:19] <Gildas> roll 1d20+3
[18:19] * Hatbot --> "Gildas rolls 1d20+3 and gets 14." [1d20=11]
[18:19] * Kotono changes topic to 'Gildas(14)>Bone Planter(8)>Myann(3)'
[18:20] <@John> roll 1d20+3
[18:20] * Hatbot --> "John rolls 1d20+3 and gets 8." [1d20=5]
[18:20] * Kotono changes topic to 'Gildas(14)>Bone Planter=John(8)>Myann(3)'
[18:20] <Feather> roll 1d20+3
[18:20] * Hatbot --> "Feather rolls 1d20+3 and gets 17." [1d20=14]
[18:20] * Kotono changes topic to 'Feather(17)>Gildas(14)>Bone Planter=John(8)>Myann(3)'
[18:20] <@Kotono> OOC: Open Feather.
[18:22] <Feather> Feather's eyes widen just a fraction, but then he calmly pulls his bow over his shoulder, and releases two fiery arrows into the undead tentacled plant creature.
[18:22] <Feather> roll 1d20+10
[18:22] * Hatbot --> "Feather rolls 1d20+10 and gets 12." [1d20=2]
[18:22] <Feather> roll 1d20+5
[18:22] * Hatbot --> "Feather rolls 1d20+5 and gets 21." [1d20=16]
[18:23] <@Kotono> OOC: One hit.
[18:25] <Feather> roll 1d8+3+2d6 last is fire damage, it is also dealt to everything adjacent to the target and makes combustible objects burst into flames!
[18:25] * Hatbot --> "Feather rolls 1d8+3+2d6 last is fire damage, it is also dealt to everything adjacent to the target and makes combustible objects burst into flames! and gets 10." [1d8=2][2d6=3, 2]
[18:25] <Feather> roll 2d6 other fire arrow had to go somewhere in that room
[18:25] * Hatbot --> "Feather rolls 2d6 other fire arrow had to go somewhere in that room and gets 8." [2d6=3, 5]
[18:26] * Kotono changes topic to 'Feather(17)>Gildas(14)>Bone Planter ON FIRE=John(8)>Myann(3)'
[18:26] <@Kotono> Foooosh! Arrows fly, peppering the room and skeleton! Fire begins to spread everywhere, the skeleton screaming like a bird's cry. It starts to runb ack and forth, ablaze! The plants in the room likewise writhe as the fire spreads! OOC: Gildas.
[18:28] <Gildas> Gildas shapeshifts and flies up into the air for the time being to try and avoid the flaming plantlife.
[18:28] <@Kotono> OOC: Okay.
[18:29] <@Kotono> The bone planter is ablaze, running back and forth like a headless chicken. The vines and tendrils come to the door, but don't strike! OOC: Okay, he's toob usy being on fire to direct the plants this round. John.
[18:29] * @John nods in satisfaction. "Everything looks under control to me," and then walks away.
[18:30] <@Kotono> Myann matches that nod, "Well done," she pats Feather's shoulder, stepping past the door and towards the other door in the hall. "Shall we go on?" OOC: Feather.
[18:31] * Feather scratches his cheek and gestures at the burning skeleton uncertainly, before shrugging and following after Myann as he puts the bow away and draws his sword.
[18:32] <@Kotono> OOC: Gildas.
[18:32] <Gildas> He just flies down after the others for the time being! If it decides to try and attack them, he can always do something later.
[18:33] <@Kotono> roll 1d20+4 skeleton
[18:33] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+4 skeleton and gets 12." [1d20=8]
[18:33] <@Kotono> Behind you, the blaze burns on. The scent of smoke spreads as...OOC: Free act, skeleton's burning up. Literally.
[18:34] <@John> Putting the strange garden and hatman behind him, John opens the door at the end of the hall.
[18:36] <@Kotono> Ahead is a large room, full of odd wall-curves and mind-bending angles. The wall is decorated to look like the sunset sky, with patches of darkness all over. The patches are man shaped, save for utterly blank, empty spaces where the faces should be. These figures are shown doing nothing, only staring ahead. In the center of the room is a stairway going up.
[18:36] <@Kotono> OOC: Perception.
[18:36] <@Kotono> roll 1d20+12 Myann
[18:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+12 Myann and gets 23." [1d20=11]
[18:36] <@John> roll 1d20+13
[18:36] * Hatbot --> "John rolls 1d20+13 and gets 23." [1d20=10]
[18:36] <Gildas> roll 1d20+13
[18:36] * Hatbot --> "Gildas rolls 1d20+13 and gets 15." [1d20=2]
[18:36] <Feather> roll 1d2-+11
[18:36] * Hatbot --> "Feather rolls 1d2-+11 and gets -10." [1d2=1]
[18:37] <Feather> roll 1d20+11
[18:37] * Hatbot --> "Feather rolls 1d20+11 and gets 19." [1d20=8]
[18:37] <@Kotono> OOC: HOLY SHIT YOUR DICE HAVE MUTATED INTO SIDHE DICE...ER, OKAY. Fixed.
[18:37] <@Kotono> John can hear something - a thump from the roof above. Soft but audible. At the same time Myann looks up.
[18:38] * Feather glances at Myann, asking, "You thinking we should go up again here?"
[18:40] <@John> "Someone's moving around up there," John says, heading up with readiness to thump any villainous undead that get in his way.
[18:40] <Feather> "Wanna give me a boost again so I'll get them down in a hurry?"
[18:41] <@Kotono> As the party talks, the ceiling above explodes! Stone rains down on the party as...OOC: Ref y'all.
[18:41] <Feather> roll 1d20+7 he stole my plan!
[18:41] * Hatbot --> "Feather rolls 1d20+7 he stole my plan! and gets 20." [1d20=13]
[18:41] <@Kotono> roll 1d20+7Myann really really really wants evasion already
[18:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7Myann really really really wants evasion already and gets Error: Numeric values only." [1d20=1]
[18:41] <@Kotono> OOC: Total of 8 and a natural 1, so she fails.
[18:41] <@John> roll 1d20+12
[18:41] * Hatbot --> "John rolls 1d20+12 and gets 24." [1d20=12]
[18:41] <Gildas> roll 1d20+11 evasion
[18:41] * Hatbot --> "Gildas rolls 1d20+11 evasion and gets 26." [1d20=15]
[18:41] <@John> OOC: evasion, yes
[18:41] <@Kotono> roll 3d6 y'all evade, Myann takes full
[18:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d6 y'all evade, Myann takes full and gets 7." [3d6=1, 2, 4]
[18:42] <Gildas> OOC: He's still a bird for whatever that matters
[18:44] <@Kotono> The gush of stone causes the party to leap back! The three evade safely while Myann is clobbered by the stonefall. She's sent sprawling, prone and momentarily stunned! As she groans and tries to get up, a figure stands before you. It is about eight feet tall and all rotting muscle. A massive zombie clad in an old jerkin and hose stands before you. It looks briefly at the party before raises its
[18:44] <@Kotono> bare hands and attacking! OOC: Yep ,stole your gimmick. Init here.
[18:44] <@Kotono> roll 1d20+3 oversized zombie
[18:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+3 oversized zombie and gets 7." [1d20=4]
[18:44] <@Kotono> roll 1d20-1 ???1
[18:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20-1 ???1 and gets 4." [1d20=5]
[18:44] <@Kotono> roll 1d20 ???2
[18:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20 ???2 and gets 9." [1d20=9]
[18:44] <@Kotono> roll 1d20-1 ???3
[18:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20-1 ???3 and gets 12." [1d20=13]
[18:44] <@Kotono> roll 1d20+2 Myann
[18:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+2 Myann and gets 13." [1d20=11]
[18:45] * Kotono changes topic to 'Myann(13)>???3(12)>???2(9)>Oversized Zombie(7)>???1(4)'
[18:45] <Feather> roll 1d20+3
[18:45] * Hatbot --> "Feather rolls 1d20+3 and gets 5." [1d20=2]
[18:45] * Kotono changes topic to 'Myann(13 prone)>???3(12)>???2(9)>Oversized Zombie(7)>???1(4)'
[18:45] <Gildas> roll 1d20+3
[18:45] * Hatbot --> "Gildas rolls 1d20+3 and gets 12." [1d20=9]
[18:45] <@John> roll 1d20+3
[18:45] * Kotono changes topic to 'Myann(13 prone)>???3=Gildas(12)>???2(9)>Oversized Zombie(7)>Feather(5)>???1(4)'
[18:45] * Hatbot --> "John rolls 1d20+3 and gets 15." [1d20=12]
[18:45] * Kotono changes topic to 'John(15)>Myann(13 prone)>???3=Gildas(12)>???2(9)>Oversized Zombie(7)>Feather(5)>???1(4)'
[18:46] <@Kotono> OOC: Y'all are 10ft away from him, except for Myann, who is only 5ft away since she failed the ref save. Open John.
[18:46] * @John lunges at the zombie and gives him a clobbering!
[18:46] <@John> roll 1d20+16
[18:46] * Hatbot --> "John rolls 1d20+16 and gets 24." [1d20=8]
[18:46] <@Kotono> OOC: Destination: hit.
[18:46] <@John> OOC: is it flat-footed?
[18:46] <@Kotono> OOC: It is.
[18:46] <@John> roll 1d6+10+2d6+2d6
[18:46] * Hatbot --> "John rolls 1d6+10+2d6+2d6 and gets 36." [1d6=6][2d6=6, 4][2d6=4, 6]
[18:49] <@Kotono> WHAM! The giant is hit off balance, smacked hard enough break its arm cleanly! It rocks back from the blow, bone poking out of its shattered arm! Meanwhile Myann lies where she is, a block appearing above the giant!
[18:49] <@Kotono> roll 1d20+9 touch AC
[18:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+9 touch AC and gets 26." [1d20=17]
[18:49] <@Kotono> roll 5d6
[18:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 5d6 and gets 19." [5d6=1, 4, 6, 4, 4]
[18:51] <@Kotono> The block that crashes downf rom above is perfectly aimed. With the giant already damaged and off balance, it can't dodge the heavy wood hunk. It is crushed beneath it, only a crumped corpse left behind once the block vanishes. Got him! OOC: Ow. He didn't last. ???3 is up.
[18:51] * Kotono changes topic to 'John(15)>Myann(13 prone)>???3=Gildas(12)>???2(9)>Feather(5)>???1(4)'
[18:52] <@Kotono> Running down the stairs is a skeleton. Its legs are normal, but from the hips up, it is the skeleton of a humanoid bird. A massive bird-skull and beak drip blood, skeletal wings instead of arms. It leaps off the stairs, half falling and half gliding towards Feather!
[18:52] <@Kotono> roll 1d20+7 (+2 charge) AC?
[18:52] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 (+2 charge) AC? and gets 23." [1d20=16]
[18:53] * Kotono changes topic to 'John(15)>Myann(13 prone)>Birdhalf skeleton=Gildas(12)>???2(9)>Feather(5)>???1(4)'
[18:53] <Feather> OOC: AC23
[18:53] <@Kotono> roll 1d8+3 and fort
[18:53] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+3 and fort and gets 11." [1d8=8]
[18:54] <Feather> roll 1d20+9
[18:54] * Hatbot --> "Feather rolls 1d20+9 and gets 16." [1d20=7]
[18:54] <@Kotono> The beast is swift and plunges its beak into Feather's side! It sends him reeling back, blood trailing down his leg and middle from the wound. As this happens...OOC: Gildas.
[18:55] <Gildas> The bird shapeshifts quickly back to a bear and leaps for the bird-like skeleton with his paws out, intending to stomp it into the ground and destroy it! OOC: I'm guessing it counts as being in melee since it's in our faces?
[18:57] <@Kotono> OOC: Yeah.
[18:57] <Gildas> OOC: OK
[18:57] <Gildas> roll 1d20+13
[18:57] <Gildas> roll 1d20+13
[18:57] * Hatbot --> "Gildas rolls 1d20+13  and gets 26." [1d20=13]
[18:57] * Hatbot --> "Gildas rolls 1d20+13  and gets 16." [1d20=3]
[18:57] <Gildas> roll 1d20+8
[18:57] * Hatbot --> "Gildas rolls 1d20+8 and gets 11." [1d20=3]
[18:57] <Gildas> OOC: Those should be +2 higher due to undeadbane if it matters
[19:01] <@Kotono> OOC: Two hits.
[19:02] <Gildas> roll 4d8+20+4d6+2d6 last is fire
[19:02] * Hatbot --> "Gildas rolls 4d8+20+4d6+2d6 last is fire and gets 60." [4d8=3, 6, 6, 4][4d6=1, 5, 4, 6][2d6=4, 1]
[19:02] * Kotono changes topic to 'John(15)>Myann(13 prone)>Gildas(12)>???2(9)>Feather(5)>???1(4)'
[19:04] <@Kotono> Gildas falls like a meteor, a bear kick knocking the skeleton down. Stomps follow, shattering it into rubble and ruin! As it is returned to oblivion, another races down the stairs. This one is an oversized wolf skeleton, leaping down for Gildas!
[19:04] * Kotono changes topic to 'John(15)>Myann(13 prone)>Gildas(12)>Bonewolf(9)>Feather(5)>???1(4)'
[19:05] <@John> OOC: do I get an AoO?
[19:05] <@Kotono> OOC: Yeah, you can AoO it.
[19:05] <@John> roll 1d20+16 eat it!
[19:05] * Hatbot --> "John rolls 1d20+16 eat it! and gets 23." [1d20=7]
[19:05] <@Kotono> OOC: Hit.
[19:05] <@John> roll 1d6+10+2d6
[19:05] * Hatbot --> "John rolls 1d6+10+2d6 and gets 18." [1d6=1][2d6=2, 5]
[19:06] <@Kotono> John's glowing staff lashes out, catching the wolf mid-leap! It's sent flying into the back wall, falling apart into several broken pieces! OOC: FEather.
[19:06] * Kotono changes topic to 'John(15)>Myann(13 prone)>Gildas(12)>Feather(5)>???1(4)'
[19:08] * Feather brushes pieces of skeleton off himself, and heads over to Myann to help her up while incidentally shielding her from any followup attack either down the hole in the ceiling or from the stairs.
[19:09] <@Kotono> Feather shields Myann, who is still down. "Ugh, any  more," she asks, rubbing her head. A small cut ist here, trickling blood down her nose. A moment later, another one comes down the stairs. This is a bony eagle, hawk or similar creature. It flaps in the air, going for Gildas as well! OOC: You can also AoO this one, John, if you have CR, which I think yo udo.
[19:09] <@John> roll 1d20+16 I do!
[19:09] <Feather> OOC: How about me?
[19:09] * Hatbot --> "John rolls 1d20+16 I do! and gets 29." [1d20=13]
[19:09] <@John> roll 1d6+10+2d6
[19:09] * Hatbot --> "John rolls 1d6+10+2d6 and gets 25." [1d6=6][2d6=6, 3]
[19:09] <@Kotono> OOC: You can, but it's already ker-smashy.
[19:10] <@Kotono> A single, oversped strike smashes the bird, causing it to careen to the ground. It lands in a broken heap, destroyed! OOC: FREe act. That encounter did not hold up.
[19:11] * @John remains on guard for a few seconds more before relaxing. "Think that was the last of them."
[19:11] <Feather> "So, uh, ceiling or stairs?" Feather asks. "My vote's for the ceiling, and then making another hole right up."
[19:11] <@Kotono> Myann gets up, "Whichever. It might be the same room, anyway."
[19:12] * Feather figures he might as well try, so after climbing up over the rubble he tries to find a good spot to make a hole in the ceiling of the floor above them.
[19:13] <@Kotono> Climbing up goes without incident. The room is...the room is...the room is...OOC: Will, FEather. Bonuses to enchantment apply.
[19:14] <Feather> roll 1d20+7
[19:14] * Hatbot --> "Feather rolls 1d20+7 and gets 23." [1d20=16]
[19:16] <@Kotono> The room spins, turns and twists. Space is wrong here. Naseau bubbles up in your throat as you see angles, shapes and lines that cannot be. Must not be. Yet with superhuman will, Feather looks past it. He shuts it out of his mind. It's a room - the details are too distorted. There's a wall with a door about 20ft away. There's also the ceiling.
[19:18] * Feather takes Oak Feller to the ceiling, not being particularly careful with avoiding the rest of the room while he carves a way out for himself.
[19:19] <@Kotono> The ceiling is cut through! A path above is revealed, hacked through. Ahead is pitch darkness, but you can hear Johann's voice from within. "I've been waiting for you."
[19:22] <Feather> "Huh." Feather drinks his last potion and casts Animalistic Power while he waits for the others to catch up, ready to proceed into the darkness together.
[19:22] <Feather> roll 1d8
[19:22] * Hatbot --> "Feather rolls 1d8 and gets 8." [1d8=8]
[19:22] <@Kotono> OOC: The rest of you climbing up?
[19:22] <@John> OOC: yes
[19:23] <@Kotono> OOC: Will save. Bonuses vs enchantment apply.
[19:23] <@Kotono> roll 1d20+8 Myann (+3 vs enchantment(
[19:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 Myann (+3 vs enchantment( and gets 17." [1d20=9]
[19:23] <Gildas> OOC: It's not fey-related, correct?
[19:24] <@John> roll 1d20+13
[19:24] * Hatbot --> "John rolls 1d20+13 and gets 26." [1d20=13]
[19:25] <Gildas> roll 1d20+10 +4 more if it's fey somehow
[19:25] * Hatbot --> "Gildas rolls 1d20+10 +4 more if it's fey somehow and gets 11." [1d20=1]
[19:26] <@Kotono> John and Myann climb up. The angles and spinning are all wrong, but they resist. Gildas is not so lucky. On coming up, he is completely overwhelmed by it! All he can do is double over, close his eyes and retch out the contents of his stomach. OOC: Naseaued, will link to the condition in #elysium.
[19:30] * @John keeps climbing!
[19:30] * Feather climbs alongside John!
[19:30] <Gildas> Gildas takes a deep breath after some bile ends up coming out, coughing a few times. He tries to calm himself and open his eyes again, trying to focus on following the others up.
[19:30] <@Kotono> Myann winces and nudges Gildas, offering him a hand up. OOC: More.
[19:32] <Gildas> He takes the hand offered!
[19:33] <@Kotono> Darkness. The next floor is darkness. Yet the light from John's staff slowly pushes it back. You stand in a massive masoleum. It stretches farther than the eye can see, hundreds of stone coffins lying about in rows 10ft apart. 50ft away and 20ft to the sides, two rows away from yours, stands Johann. "Welcome and glad tidings," he announces, "I'm afraid I wasn't able to meet you right away, but
[19:33] <@Kotono> the Fair Folk came calling. It's terribly impolite to keep them waiting." He smiles slightly, seemingly amused by it all.
[19:33] <Feather> "Just wanna know two things. If we kill you again, will you stay dead this time? And where's Grah?"
[19:36] <@Kotono> As Johann pats the coffin before him, "Right here. A prize to our contest, heroes." He smiles again, "What things the auguries spoke of, and then what things the Fair Folk said about you. I should have taken you more seriously from the beginning and razed your farm to ashes. Even then, the story of the dragonslaying should have roused me more."
[19:37] * Feather snorts. "And to think that if you just stayed the fuck clear and never bothered anyone, you would've gotten away with it to. Well, chat's over!" And then he lunges for Johann.
[19:38] <@Kotono> Myann draws her blade, "Let's end this," she says, starting to chant. OOC: Init here then.
[19:38] <@John> roll 1d20+3
[19:38] * Hatbot --> "John rolls 1d20+3 and gets 15." [1d20=12]
[19:38] <Feather> roll 1d20+4
[19:38] * Hatbot --> "Feather rolls 1d20+4 and gets 7." [1d20=3]
[19:38] <@Kotono> roll 1d20+2 Myann
[19:38] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+2 Myann and gets 20." [1d20=18]
[19:38] <@Kotono> roll 1d20+20 Johann
[19:38] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 Johann and gets 38." [1d20=18]
[19:38] <@Kotono> roll 1d20 Johann
[19:38] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20 Johann and gets 9." [1d20=9]
[19:39] <Gildas> roll 1d20+3
[19:39] * Hatbot --> "Gildas rolls 1d20+3 and gets 8." [1d20=5]
[19:39] * Kotono changes topic to 'Johann1(38)>Myann(20)>John(15)>Johann(9)>Feather(7)'
[19:39] * Kotono changes topic to 'Johann1(38)>Myann(20)>John(15)>Johann(9)>Gildas(8)>Feather(7)'
[19:39] * Kotono changes topic to 'Johann1(38)>Myann(20)>John(15)>Johann2(9)>Gildas(8)>Feather(7)'
[19:40] <@Kotono> "Let the dead rise and walk once more!" Johann spreads his arms wide and announces, "Let the gates of the kingdom above open, and the seven towers reveal the truth!" All around you coffins are thrown open, pits of inky blackness. From each dozens of grasping hands come forth, trying to get a hold of the party!
[19:41] <@Kotono> roll 1d20+10 AC vs all of you
[19:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 AC vs all of you and gets 21." [1d20=11]
[19:41] <Feather> OOC: AC24
[19:41] <@John> OOC: 21
[19:41] <Gildas> OOC: 19 since I'm not shapeshifted
[19:41] <@Kotono> roll 1d10 damage and 2 points of constitution damage all but Feather
[19:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d10 damage and 2 points of constitution damage all but Feather and gets 4." [1d10=4]
[19:43] <@Kotono> The party is clawed, maimed and mauled. The hands strike out, stealing away flesh and blood from the party! The wounds are barely there, yet bleed out profusely! OOC: Ow, con damage. Myann's up.
[19:44] * Joins: Nephrite2 (~rscuderi@rrcs-24-227-47-10.se.biz.rr.com)
[19:44] * Quits: Gildas (~rscuderi@rrcs-24-227-47-10.se.biz.rr.com) (Killed (NickServ (GHOST command used by Nephrite2)))
[19:44] * Nephrite2 is now known as Gildas
[19:44] <@Kotono> Myann winces and stumbles 30ft ahead, 20ft by 20ft away from Johann. Here she coughs up blood and chants, a block appearing above him.
[19:44] <@Kotono> roll 1d20+9 touch AC
[19:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+9 touch AC and gets 27." [1d20=18]
[19:44] <@Kotono> roll 5d6
[19:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 5d6 and gets 19." [5d6=3, 4, 4, 3, 5]
[19:45] <@Kotono> roll 1d20+29 (+20 ???) ref Johann
[19:45] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+29 (+20 ???) ref Johann and gets 35." [1d20=6]
[19:46] <@Kotono> The block slams into Johann, who endures it well. He throws it off after a second, keeping his balance. OOC: John.
[19:46] * @John runs hurdling over the coffins to get at Johann!
[19:46] <@John> roll 1d20+13 acrobatics
[19:46] * Hatbot --> "John rolls 1d20+13 acrobatics and gets 31." [1d20=18]
[19:46] <@John> OOC: is he undead?
[19:46] <@Kotono> OOC: Success. Attack roll.
[19:47] <@Kotono> OOC: Yes.
[19:47] <@John> And then whacks him over the head with his staff and vanishes from sight!
[19:47] <@John> roll 1d20+18
[19:47] * Hatbot --> "John rolls 1d20+18 and gets 37." [1d20=19]
[19:47] <@Kotono> OOC: That be a big old hit.
[19:47] <@John> roll 1d6+10+2d6
[19:47] * Hatbot --> "John rolls 1d6+10+2d6 and gets 17." [1d6=1][2d6=5, 1]
[19:49] <@Kotono> The blow catches Johann right on the chin, knocking his head back. But he goes back after a moment, even as the light of John's staff illuminates him. A shambling, rotted undead horror stands before you. Dozens of skeletons cling to him like needy lovers. In place of a face, each one has a pyramidal opening that flashes multihued light. Johann's voice becomes a choking rattle, "Oh, that weapon...!"
[19:49] <@Kotono> OOC: Johann is up again.
[19:51] <@Kotono> Johann stumbles back 5ft, starting to chant. He points at the glowing area where John is, a black beam going for him!
[19:51] <@Kotono> roll 1d100 vs total concealment, but at least he has the square figured out
[19:51] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 vs total concealment, but at least he has the square figured out and gets 70." [1d100=70]
[19:51] <@Kotono> roll 1d20+8 touch AC?
[19:51] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 touch AC? and gets 28." [1d20=20]
[19:51] <@Kotono> roll 1d20+8 touch AC? ow
[19:51] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 touch AC? ow and gets 24." [1d20=16]
[19:52] <@John> OOC: 19
[19:52] <@Kotono> roll 2d4 str, dex, con damage ow
[19:52] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d4 str, dex, con damage ow and gets 3." [2d4=2, 1]
[19:53] <@Kotono> The beam hits John dead in the chest, his unseen body withering like a dying plant. At the same time, Johann's twisted form throbs with energy, growing more solid and...more, somehow, obvious to the eye! OOC: The ow. Gildas.
[19:54] <Gildas> Gildas shapeshifts and moves to bound over the coffins to try and leap onto Johann! OOC: Acrobatics, yes?
[19:54] <@Kotono> OOC: Correct.
[19:54] <Gildas> roll 1d20+13
[19:54] * Hatbot --> "Gildas rolls 1d20+13 and gets 22." [1d20=9]
[19:54] <@Kotono> OOC: Hit.
[19:55] <Gildas> OOC: Well that was the acrobatics first
[19:55] <Gildas> roll 1d20+16 for the actual damage
[19:55] * Hatbot --> "Gildas rolls 1d20+16 for the actual damage and gets 24." [1d20=8]
[19:56] <Gildas> Gildas lands and slams a paw into Johann's face!
[19:56] <Gildas> roll 2d8+12+2d6+1d6 last is fire
[19:56] * Hatbot --> "Gildas rolls 2d8+12+2d6+1d6 last is fire and gets 30." [2d8=3, 4][2d6=6, 1][1d6=4]
[19:56] <Feather> roll 1d20+10 K:R
[19:56] * Hatbot --> "Feather rolls 1d20+10 K:R and gets 26." [1d20=16]
[19:58] <Feather> roll 1d20+10 K:A
[19:58] * Hatbot --> "Feather rolls 1d20+10 K:A and gets 28." [1d20=18]
[20:03] <@Kotono> Gildas lands atop a coffin and slams one burning paw into Johann's face! It snaps back again, his rotting head ablaze! He staggers just a moment, "The fool with the wyverns should have known better, too," he remarks, spitting out a tooth. "Defeating someone with unison and taming a fey..." He laughs, "You're as monstrous as I am. What sort of monster could reject everything and kill what does
[20:03] <@Kotono> fit a single kingdom? What sort of monsters hold high esteem amid the Fair Folk?" OOC: Feather, go.
[20:03] <@Kotono> *doesn't
[20:03] <Feather> "This whole fucking tower's his phylactery!" Feather exclaims as he tries to nimbly dodge between the coffins as he follows after Gildas and John, magic boosting his limbs. "Oh, this is bullshit!" But there is no time to lament the unfairness of it all, as his mind grows more focused on the task of killing this abomination to the exclusion of all else!
[20:03] <Feather> roll 1d20+13 acrobatics
[20:03] * Hatbot --> "Feather rolls 1d20+13 acrobatics and gets 31." [1d20=18]
[20:03] <@Kotono> OOC: Scucess.
[20:04] <@John> "Least... it's on fire..." John's voice is heard from his unseen location.
[20:04] <Feather> roll 1d20+14+2+2+1 I'll aim to hit him and then move 5ft to flank with Gildas
[20:04] * Hatbot --> "Feather rolls 1d20+14+2+2+1 I'll aim to hit him and then move 5ft to flank with Gildas and gets 39." [1d20=20]
[20:04] <@Kotono> OOC: That be a hit, alright.
[20:04] <Feather> roll 1d20+8+2+2+1 channeling my last shocking grasp into that one, sorry
[20:04] * Hatbot --> "Feather rolls 1d20+8+2+2+1 channeling my last shocking grasp into that one, sorry and gets 23." [1d20=10]
[20:05] <@Kotono> OOC: Also a hit.
[20:06] <Feather> roll 1d10+9+2d6+1d6+6d6 last are cold and elec
[20:06] * Hatbot --> "Feather rolls 1d10+9+2d6+1d6+6d6 last are cold and elec and gets 45." [1d10=1][2d6=6, 5][1d6=1][6d6=3, 4, 2, 4, 6, 4]
[20:06] <Feather> roll 1d10+9+2d6+1d6+1d6 last are cold and elec
[20:06] * Hatbot --> "Feather rolls 1d10+9+2d6+1d6+1d6 last are cold and elec and gets 33." [1d10=4][2d6=3, 6][1d6=6][1d6=5]
[20:07] <@Kotono> Feather falls into a potent dance, darting between coffins as he closes in with his quarry. Johann is surrounded as he slashes over and over! Bone and flesh are rended in equal measure, tearing away great heaps of him! Surrounded, yet Johann does not relent. He stands as he chants, "Open, open, open! Open the seven towers!" The coffins again open, hand grasping out for the party!
[20:07] <@Kotono> roll 1d20+10 AC all?
[20:07] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 AC all? and gets 20." [1d20=10]
[20:07] <@John> OOC: 19, also invis
[20:08] <@Kotono> roll 1d100 does attack every square so that isn't a concern vs John's invis
[20:08] <Gildas> OOC: 23
[20:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 does attack every square so that isn't a concern vs John's invis and gets 90." [1d100=90]
[20:08] <Feather> OOC: Bah, +1 more damage from each of my attacks. AC is 28.
[20:08] <@Kotono> roll 1d10 and 2 con Myann and John only ow
[20:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d10 and 2 con Myann and John only ow and gets 6." [1d10=6]
[20:09] <@Kotono> Tearing agony. While Gildas and Feather defend themselves, Myann and John are ripped terribly. Blood comes from the slightest touches, exploding out like pressurized torrents. Myann gasps and stumbles, holding her chest as a nick gushes blood like a river! She stumbles over, one hand out as a simple healing spell hits right into John.
[20:10] <@Kotono> roll 1d8+5 getting himb ack up
[20:10] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+5 getting himb ack up and gets 13." [1d8=8]
[20:10] <@Kotono> roll 1d20+11 acrobatics dur
[20:10] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 acrobatics dur and gets 13." [1d20=2]
[20:11] <@Kotono> Unable to reach him, she instead chants as a fiery red mushroom touche shim. John's clothing shifts red and white, fire mushroom power protecting him! OOC: Soaks the next hit at least since she couldn't manage acrobatics. John's down, make a stabilization check. It's equal to your con score.
[20:11] <@John> roll 1d100 DC 11
[20:12] * Hatbot --> "John rolls 1d100 DC 11 and gets 53." [1d100=53]
[20:12] <@Kotono> OOC: Nos uccess, but the mushroom stops any bleedout this round, at least. Wasn't her best move in retrospect, I see.
[20:12] <@Kotono> Johann whirls as John falls, going to Feather next, opening his hand up as a beam of darkness slams towards the warrior.
[20:12] <@Kotono> roll 1d20+8 touch aC
[20:12] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 touch aC and gets 17." [1d20=9]
[20:13] <Feather> OOC: 22 right now
[20:14] <@Kotono> But FEather nimbly avoids the beam! As this happens...OOC: Gildas.
[20:16] <Gildas> The bear shapeshifts back and the man kneels down to heal John's injuries!
[20:16] <Gildas> roll 2d8+7 CMW
[20:16] * Hatbot --> "Gildas rolls 2d8+7 CMW and gets 19." [2d8=5, 7]
[20:17] <@Kotono> John's injuries mend, restoring some life to the injured warrior, "You're going the wrong way!" Johann snaps, as....OOC: Feather.
[20:17] <@John> "I'm coming Big Eric..." John moans dazedly. "I see the light...!"
[20:17] * Feather does his very best to keep Johann entertained in the meantime, circling around him while slashing at his hideous face until he ends up in the spot Gildas had just vacated, ready to defend John and him.
[20:17] <Gildas> "Hey, none of that. Get up and show him your staff again." He says, turning back to Johann.
[20:18] <@Kotono> "Shut up and die again!" Myann snaps, snarling. "Shut up, you self absorbed little bastard that sucks death's prick!"
[20:18] <Feather> roll 1d20+14+1+2
[20:18] * Hatbot --> "Feather rolls 1d20+14+1+2 and gets 23." [1d20=6]
[20:18] <Feather> roll 1d20+9+1+2
[20:18] * Hatbot --> "Feather rolls 1d20+9+1+2 and gets 18." [1d20=6]
[20:18] <@Kotono> OOC: Two hits.
[20:18] <Feather> OOC: He can AoO me when I move the second time, AC would be 28
[20:18] <@Kotono> roll 1d20+8
[20:18] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 and gets 24." [1d20=16]
[20:18] <@Kotono> OOC: Touch AC
[20:19] <Feather> OOC: Ah. 24
[20:19] <Feather> roll 1d10+9+2d6+1d6+1d6 cold, elec
[20:19] <Feather> roll 1d10+9+2d6+1d6+1d6 cold, elec
[20:19] * Hatbot --> "Feather rolls 1d10+9+2d6+1d6+1d6 cold, elec and gets 27." [1d10=4][2d6=5, 3][1d6=3][1d6=3]
[20:19] * Hatbot --> "Feather rolls 1d10+9+2d6+1d6+1d6 cold, elec and gets 30." [1d10=5][2d6=1, 4][1d6=5][1d6=6]
[20:20] <@Kotono> roll 1d4 str/dex/con to Feather
[20:20] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4 str/dex/con to Feather and gets 1." [1d4=1]
[20:23] <@Kotono> A pair of chops catches Johann in the back. His dying form is bisected, falling apart! "Damn..." he utters, the tower shaking with him. "I was right. All of you are growing so monstrously strong..." His body falls in two halves, voice fading as the tower continues to shake. An army of the dead wasn't enough...the auguries..." Then there is silence, as the tower continues to shake! OOC: Free act.
[20:23] <@Kotono> You're on an obvious time limit here, so act carefully.
[20:23] <@John> "No... the light's going away...!"
[20:24] <Feather> "Fuck! Fuckfuckfuck! The tower's his phylactery!" Feather repeats, sagging to his knees. "He dies, tower dies!"
[20:24] <@Kotono> "Then we have to escape! Look in that coffin and let's GO!" Myann shouts, taking to bird form.
[20:24] * Feather turns his head back towards where they had seen Johann first. "Gildas! Get Grah!"
[20:25] <Gildas> "All right." He responds with a surprising amount of patience for the situation. He will try and open the coffin to get Grah!
[20:25] <@Kotono> Inside the coffine lies Grah. His body is badly wounded and he's out cold, but he's there.
[20:26] <@John> "Oh, where am I?" John asks, fumbling for his staff and using as a lever to get up on his feet, albeit rather unsteadily. "Are we going now? Did we win?" he asks plaintively.
[20:26] <@Kotono> OOC:Okay, so the party is grabbing Grah and fleeing out?
[20:26] <@Kotono> OOC: What's your plan here?
[20:26] <Gildas> OOC: I'd say just go back the way we came? We don't have time to hack open an exit I don't think.
[20:27] <@John> OOC: hacking an exit is way quicker!
[20:27] <Feather> "We won!" Feather calls back, stumbling towards the hole where he just intends to drop two floors down and head back the way they came.
[20:27] <@Kotono> OOC: Hacking or following a path? Need a decisive answer now.
[20:27] <@John> "Hurray!" John calls weakly, staggering after Feather, too out of it to show any initiative.
[20:27] <Feather> OOC: If we see like a window, let's hack our way out. If not, let's go where we know.
[20:28] <Gildas> OOC: Well we're still like, way in the air, so...
[20:28] <@Kotono> OOC: Okay then.
[20:29] <@Kotono> The party hurries down. The previous room's effect is gone and you reach the floor below. Hurry hurry! Down you go, reaching the room where the teeth ambush was. It's shaking tremendously and shuddering like a fading image, but the tower is intact! But standing before the stairway down to the first floor is one of the fat zombies. A flickering image of Johann is superimposed over it, "No...escape...!"
[20:29] <@Kotono> OOC: Init here. May want to hurry. He's blocking the way to the stairs, so getting around him or neutralizing him is advised. Gildas, remember you're carrying Grah.
[20:29] <@Kotono> roll 1d20+2 Myann
[20:29] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+2 Myann and gets 22." [1d20=20]
[20:29] <@Kotono> roll 1d20-4 Johann-zombie
[20:29] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20-4 Johann-zombie and gets 0." [1d20=4]
[20:30] <Feather> roll 1d20+4
[20:30] * Hatbot --> "Feather rolls 1d20+4 and gets 8." [1d20=4]
[20:30] <Gildas> roll 1d20+3
[20:30] * Hatbot --> "Gildas rolls 1d20+3 and gets 5." [1d20=2]
[20:30] * Kotono changes topic to 'Myann(22)>Feather(8)>Gildas(5)>Johann-Zombie(0)'
[20:30] <@John> roll 1d20+3
[20:30] * Hatbot --> "John rolls 1d20+3 and gets 11." [1d20=8]
[20:31] * Kotono changes topic to 'Myann(22)>John(11)>Feather(8)>Gildas(5)>Johann-Zombie(0)'
[20:31] <@John> OOC: -2 so 9 for me
[20:31] <@Kotono> Myann doesn't even break stride, divebombing at the zombie in her way!
[20:31] * Kotono changes topic to 'Myann(22)>John(9)>Feather(8)>Gildas(5)>Johann-Zombie(0)'
[20:31] <@Kotono> roll 1d20+11
[20:31] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 and gets 25." [1d20=14]
[20:31] <@Kotono> OOC: +2 favored
[20:31] <@Kotono> roll 1d6+8+1d6
[20:31] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d6+8+1d6 and gets 18." [1d6=5][1d6=5]
[20:32] <@Kotono> Myann flies by and down the stairs, ripping a huge hunk of the zombie's side out. Fat and blood pour out, but it stays up! OOC: John.
[20:33] * @John just staggers on past them, too out of it to even dodge or make any distance. It's all he can do just to follow the others without doing anything fancy.
[20:33] <@Kotono> OOC: Make a CMB check then, since the zombie's in the way.
[20:34] <@John> roll 1d20+8
[20:34] * Hatbot --> "John rolls 1d20+8 and gets 17." [1d20=9]
[20:35] <@Kotono> John is able to bull past the zombie, pushing it to the side! It falls in a heap, knocked prone as John continues his escape! OOC: Feather.
[20:36] * Feather forces his limbs to listen to him through pure willpower, woodenly throwing his body in a lunge over the zombie! Stopping would be the mistake Johann's retched ghost wants them to make!
[20:36] <Feather> roll 1d20+13 acrobatics
[20:36] * Hatbot --> "Feather rolls 1d20+13 acrobatics and gets 15." [1d20=2]
[20:36] <@Kotono> The tower shakes! Flames start to burst all around as the walls catch aflame! But Feather makes it over the zombie by the skin of his teeth, the leap successful! OOC: Gildas.
[20:37] <Gildas> Gildas just tries to move at full-tilt with Grah! OOC: Not sure if I need to do anything special for that.
[20:37] <@Kotono> OOC: ACrobatics.
[20:38] <Gildas> roll 1d20+13
[20:38] * Hatbot --> "Gildas rolls 1d20+13  and gets 19." [1d20=6]
[20:39] <@Kotono> Up and over! Gildas makes it across, the party fleeing the circular room, the bodies of the countless dead aflame as well! Everything burns as you hurry, reaching the room with the exit out! The tower is shuddering as if in the throes of a seizure! Myann wastes no time, diving out the hole and towards freedom!
[20:40] * @John dives out right after her!
[20:40] <@John> roll 3d6 falling damage
[20:40] * Hatbot --> "John rolls 3d6 falling damage and gets 6." [3d6=3, 2, 1]
[20:40] * Feather dives out after them!
[20:40] <@Kotono> OOC: DM usually rolls falling damage, y'all.
[20:40] <@John> OOC: sorry, my bad
[20:40] <@Kotono> roll 3d6 I hate to moot a good roll, but...
[20:40] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d6 I hate to moot a good roll, but... and gets 11." [3d6=5, 5, 1]
[20:41] <@Kotono> OOC: Bracers protect you, Feather. No damage.G Ildas?
[20:41] <Gildas> Gildas moves out and jumps, trying to turn himself to shield Grah from any damage and take the brunt of it himself.
[20:41] <@Kotono> OOC: Full damage to you then. Morer coming.
[20:42] <@Kotono> You land in Hell. No, merely a vision of it. All around the VAstwoods are aflame! The tower above is wracked with explosions of fire, screaming souls flying out and towards the sky! All around you the forest burns as Johann's tower sizzles! The air is thick with smoke, difficult to breathe! OOC: Free act and loot post.
[20:42] * Feather helps John up and doesn't stick around directly below the burning tower!
[20:43] * @John starts running and he doesn't care where!
[20:43] <@Kotono> OOC: Perception, y'all.
[20:43] <@Kotono> roll 1d20+12
[20:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+12 and gets 22." [1d20=10]
[20:44] <Gildas> Gildas pushes himself to his feet and moves to follow the others along with Grah!
[20:44] <Gildas> roll 1d20+13
[20:44] * Hatbot --> "Gildas rolls 1d20+13 and gets 25." [1d20=12]
[20:44] <Feather> roll 1d20+11
[20:44] * Hatbot --> "Feather rolls 1d20+11 and gets 30." [1d20=19]
[20:44] <@John> roll 1d20+13
[20:45] * Hatbot --> "John rolls 1d20+13 and gets 23." [1d20=10]
[20:45] <@Kotono> All around you is fire. There's no safe paths - only paths into more or less danger. THe party can see the path that's the least dangerous - only mostly ablaze and not totally thick with smoke. Also, to your side, burning flowers can be seen. They slowly twist into a circle, the air momentarily shimmering within.
[20:46] * @John runs around in circles a few times, forced back by the flames before he settles on the least nasty looking one and braves that!
[20:46] <Feather> "Fey realm!" Feather gestures, using his sword to ice the nearest flames over. "Let's go!"
[20:47] <Gildas> He idly thinks this is the first time that anyone's wanted to go to that realm but just carries Grah in that direction, towards the circle of flowers.
[20:47] * Feather waves for Myann and John, bringing in the rear.
[20:47] <@Kotono> "Shit!" Myann shouts, but nonetheless follows Feather.
[20:50] <@John> Seeing everyone go the other way he does yet another tiring about turn and follows them into the flowers, starting to choke and pant a bit from all the exertion.
[20:51] <@Kotono> Thus the party dives into the burning circle, reality twisting! Behind them there is another explosion, followed by - OOC: We'll pause there.

[Ebiris]

[17:59] <@Kotono> As the party passes through the portal, one final explosion is felt. Reality itself seems to waver as you're blasted through. The portal is like stepping into wiggling water, your bodies feeling like they're flying about in an uncontrolled tumble. Then the visage of flames is gone - and the partly is hurtling straight for a tree! OOC: Acrobatics checks, ya'll. If you have something else to
[17:59] <@Kotono> prevent painful impact, you're welcome to try that in lieu of it.
[18:00] <@Kotono> roll 1d20+11 Myann acrobatics
[18:00] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 Myann acrobatics and gets 17." [1d20=6]
[18:00] <Gildas> roll 1d20+13 don't got nothin'
[18:00] * Hatbot --> "Gildas rolls 1d20+13 don't got nothin' and gets 28." [1d20=15]
[18:01] <Gildas> OOC: I've still got Grah, so whatever penalties go along with that
[18:01] <@Kotono> OOC: Noted.
[18:02] <@John> roll 1d20+13
[18:02] * Joins: Feather (~DarkFlame@bzq-84-111-136-12.red.bezeqint.net)
[18:02] * Hatbot --> "John rolls 1d20+13 and gets 25." [1d20=12]
[18:03] * Feather twists himself in midair to hit the tree feet-first and bounce off to the ground.
[18:03] <Feather> roll 1d20+13
[18:03] * Hatbot --> "Feather rolls 1d20+13 and gets 33." [1d20=20]
[18:03] <@Kotono> roll 2d6 Myann only, others all passed
[18:03] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6 Myann only, others all passed and gets 10." [2d6=4, 6]
[18:04] <Gildas> Gildas takes a tumble to avoid the tree, holding onto Grah as he does and rolling with him! "I hope you'll forgive me for the rough treatment, but it was better than the alternative..."
[18:05] <@Kotono> Gildas is first, managing to hit the tree with one hand out, flipping up and landing deftly. Feather merely hits it feet first and rebounds off, coming to a safe landing. John simly shoulder-checks the tree, raw brutishness enough to negate thet impact. Myann isn't so lucky - she goes stomach first into it, turning into a sharp V as her ribs audibly crack under the impact. She falls off the
[18:05] <@Kotono> tree, lying on her side in a dazed, agonized heap.
[18:05] <Feather> "He awake?" Feather asks, heading over to Myann to pick her up.
[18:06] * @John then falls over anyway, his energy spent as the adrenaline ebbs from him. "Here's safe, right?" he asks, voice muffled by the ground.
[18:06] <@Kotono> Grah's out cold. Myann whimpers, a soft sound of excessive pain. "H..help..." she mewls, promply losing her lunch as well as streaks of blood. "
[18:06] <@Kotono> OOC: Gah.
[18:06] <@Kotono> Grah's out cold. Myann whimpers, a soft sound of excessive pain. "H..help..." she mewls, promply losing her lunch as well as streaks of blood. "Feather..."
[18:06] <Gildas> "I haven't really had the time to check, but I thought he might appreciate the sentiment." He pushes himself slowly off the ground. "Ah... hold on, both of you."
[18:07] <@Kotono> You stand in the forest. Unremarkable enough on first glance. No signs of the Fair Folk about or immediate danger - that you can see, anyway.
[18:07] <Gildas> Gildas moves over to Myann and places a hand on her shoulder and channels a Lesser Vigor into her! "That won't fix everything, but it should at least take care of some of it... it will take a bit of time."
[18:07] <@Kotono> OOC: Total HP healed?
[18:08] <Feather> "Safer than in that fire," Feather mutters, carrying Myann over to a cleaner patch of ground and then carefully lowering her back on it.
[18:08] <Gildas> OOC: Sec, double-checing to see if there's a level bonus
[18:08] <Gildas> OOC: 15
[18:09] <@Kotono> As Myann's ribs knit themselves back together, she wipes her mouth with the back of her hand. "Thank you," she murmurs in general, "We made it out alive?" She raises her head to look around, seeing everyone. "No one here?" she says, sounding rather dazed. "Hello? Who opened that flower circle?"
[18:10] <Gildas> He then moves over and kneels down next to John. "I haven't tried this one out before, but I think it will help you." He places a hand on John's shoulder and takes a breath! He will find himself filled with the unbridled power of the energy of nature!
[18:10] <Gildas> roll 1d10+7 temp hp
[18:10] * Hatbot --> "Gildas rolls 1d10+7 temp hp and gets 16." [1d10=9]
[18:10] <Gildas> OOC: also the same effect as barkskin for the duration
[18:11] <@John> "S'nice..." John mumbles, but it doesn't alleviate his weakness so he remains lying face-down like he is.
[18:11] <@Kotono> Myann rallies enough to murmur a healing spell over her body, sitting up and resting against Feather.
[18:11] <@Kotono> roll 1d8+5
[18:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+5 and gets 13." [1d8=8]
[18:12] <@Kotono> "I think I can manage a few more spells. Who needs healing?" Myann says, sounding less dazed and more bone weary.
[18:12] <Feather> "Another on yourself, until you don't sound that dazed," Feather tells her. "Then John and Grah. Us two, we're okay, just tired."
[18:13] <Gildas> "I'll see what I can do to help you with that later, John." He says with a small smile. "Ah... I think I will be okay." He says with a nod. "Some rest would do us all good."
[18:13] <@Kotono> "I'm not that tired. The...everything here is, I mean," Gesturing vaguely, "The Sidhe realm is tired here. I don't understand it. I'm okay now, physically."
[18:14] <Feather> "We'll figure it out later, then. Uh, want me to help you over to John?"
[18:14] <@Kotono> "Yeah," Myann says, struggling to rise. "Get me over there. Let's make camp here...I want to sleep and we could all use rest."
[18:14] <@Kotono> roll 1d8+5 John healing
[18:14] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+5 John healing and gets 9." [1d8=4]
[18:15] <Gildas> "I think Johann was somehow draining the power from this realm for his necromancy." He says. "He mentioned them in his rant..."
[18:16] <Feather> "Explosion didn't help, I bet," Feather muses while helping Myann get around. "Wonder if the way back still works here."
[18:16] <@Kotono> As John is knitted together, "I don't get him," Myann finally says, "He kept giving us different personalities, like a madman with many voices in his head. The first time he was resigned, then fought us with more vigor. This time he rants at us and seems...upset. Lamenting that he didn't strike us down earlier."
[18:17] <Gildas> "I think he wasn't expecting us to come to his home and put him down there." He responds. "Like... he expected us to get killed along the way. He was delighted when John was almost dead."
[18:18] <Feather> "He was one crazy asshole and now he's gone. Maybe. There was that ghost...." Feather grimaces. "Gildas, when we watch over our camp, keep an eye on Grah too, okay?"
[18:18] <Gildas> He nods. "I will do so."
[18:19] <@Kotono> "Mmm..." Myann murmurs, head on Feather's shoulder as her eyes droop shut. "I can still hear the mantle. Tell me to exercise my will here. But it's better not to."
[18:20] <Feather> "It's better not to," Feather agrees. "I'll take the first shift. Just... use up all the spells you have if you got any, and then let's rest up."
[18:20] <Gildas> "I think if we meet any Sidhe while we're here, we can probably find out exactly what was going on. It seems like we ended up being footsoldiers for them to do what they couldn't."
[18:21] <@Kotono> "Better not to," Myann echos, tapping Feather's shoulder with healing. "I can see my old mushroom house. Could remake it. Wouldn't be that hard if I just listened and let it flow and listened."
[18:21] <@Kotono> roll 1d8+5 Feather
[18:21] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+5 Feather and gets 7." [1d8=2]
[18:21] <@Kotono> roll 1d8+5 Gildas
[18:21] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+5 Gildas and gets 8." [1d8=3]
[18:21] <Gildas> He smiles a bit at her. "As if you'd ever want to see that again."
[18:23] <@Kotono> "Mmm..." Myann murmurs, resting against Feather. No more replies - she drifts off with nary another word. OOC: Party's pretty clearly wanting to heal+rest. Watches?
[18:23] <Feather> OOC: I take the first, then Gil
[18:23] <@Kotono> OOC: Sounds good.
[18:23] <@Kotono> roll 1d100+50
[18:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100+50 and gets 98." [1d100=48]
[18:23] <@Kotono> roll 1d100 subtable
[18:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 subtable and gets 21." [1d100=21]
[18:25] <@Kotono> It's barely been an hour. All but Feather sleep, while he munches on some rations and keeps watch. As he does...from far away, he can hear the sound of a flute being played. It's a ghostly and mournful sound.
[18:27] <Feather> Normally, he would try to wake someone up. But Feather decides to wait for a while first and see where it goes. Maybe they'll get bored and leave, or just entertain him for his watch.
[18:29] <@Kotono> Feather waits. The sound comes closer and closer. Then - it stops. A whispering cluster of winds giggle, like the sound of discordant wind chimes crashing together. "Hark," A woman's voice declares, old and mature. "It is an omen. Wherein life is found at the center of death. Delightful is this discovery, noble as the spraying blood of men."
[18:32] <Feather> He admires the way she spoke so much while saying nothing at all, and reluctantly nudges Gildas awake. "A pleasure to serve as an omen," Feather tells the disembodied voice. "We're just passing through after taking care of all that nasty death."
[18:33] <Gildas> He cracks an eye open, then there's a sound which could probably be interpreted as a harruph before he slowly sits up. "We found an admirerer, I see."
[18:34] <@Kotono> "I see it, I see the truth!" The voice sounds like it is coming from all around, echoing with itself. "Tomorrow's bloodshed has come today. Wonderous do I find this, marvelous is the revelation cast in blood."
[18:37] <Gildas> "So what truth is it that you can see, written so plainly in the blood of a necromancer?" He asks aloud, still rubbing some exhaustion from his eyes.
[18:40] <@Kotono> "His Highness has spoken to us, stirring the blood." The voice grows respectful in tone, almost chastised. "That a group of mortals has grown so greatly entertaining, many times forged in baths of blood and battle. I would be honored to join the court of the Lady of Mushrooms, before the blood becomes fey and the first act is finished."
[18:41] <Feather> "Oh. Well, she's resting now. Do you think you could return in... say eight hours? Maybe ten?"
[18:43] <@Kotono> "Ah, a sojourn. I shall stir my lifesblood and I shall return anon."  The voice says.
[18:43] * Feather nods, settling back. "Sounds good."
[18:44] <Gildas> "Ah..." He says, as if that answers all the questions. He then lays back down. "A sojourn indeed."
[18:44] <@Kotono> OOC: Back to resting then, assuming no more distractions?
[18:44] <Feather> OOC: Yes
[18:44] <@Kotono> roll 1d100+20
[18:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100+20 and gets 82." [1d100=62]
[18:45] <@Kotono> To be honest, it's more than eight hours. Closer to twelve of pure rest, the party finally rising once more to eat trail rations and recover. OOC: One day's rest for the sake of HP recovery and ability damage, there's something here slightly accelerating your recovery.
[18:46] <@Kotono> Myann sits next to Feather, groggily eating dried fruit and meat. "Mgh." A yawn follows, rubbing her eyes with both hands, "I still feel like I could sleep another few hours. How are the rest of you?"
[18:47] <Feather> "Fine, to be honest," he responds, flexing his arm. "Better than fine. As well as any day after a soak in our lake. Oh! You had a visitor while you were sleeping."
[18:48] <@Kotono> This causes Myann to pause, mouth open with a bit of dried meat an inch from going in. "Eh?"
[18:48] <@John> "Feel awful," John says, sitting hunched forward with his back to the tree and his arms around his knees. He's extremely pale and shivers periodically.
[18:49] <Feather> roll 1d20+10
[18:49] * Hatbot --> "Feather rolls 1d20+10 and gets 11." [1d20=1]
[18:50] <Feather> "Some invisible flute-playing woman wanted to be part of your court, but I said you were resting and to come back later. She talked about all this stirring fire this, and noble blood that."
[18:50] <@Kotono> The meat is put down, Myann slowly facepalming with both hands. "Agh!
[18:50] <@Kotono> OOC: Gah.
[18:50] <@Kotono> The meat is put down, Myann slowly facepalming with both hands. "Agh! I don't want a cour-" she stops, looking up, "Noble blood? What did she say about that now?"
[18:51] <Feather> "Hey, don't worry! I didn't make no promises! You could tell her no, or maybe, or maybe later, or that you're not hiring right now-- huh? Uh. Gildas, what did she say about the noble blood?"
[18:51] <Gildas> Gildas takes a moment to lay a hand on John to channel a Restoration spell into him! Two, in fact.
[18:52] <Gildas> roll 1d4 con
[18:52] * Hatbot --> "Gildas rolls 1d4 con and gets 3." [1d4=3]
[18:52] <Gildas> roll 1d4 con again since that's the worst off
[18:52] * Hatbot --> "Gildas rolls 1d4 con again since that's the worst off and gets 4." [1d4=4]
[18:52] <@John> OOC: that actually gets everything
[18:52] <Gildas> "That should help." He says with a smile. "I can do some more tomorrow if you're still suffering."
[18:53] <Gildas> He looks over to Feather. "That the King ...no, "His Highness," my apologies, had effectively told them about all of us."
[18:53] <@John> Colour returns to his skin and his breath comes easier. "Oh, wow that was sudden," he says, shaking his head. "Thanks Gildas, reckon I'll be fine now," he adds, starting in on the leftovers of his breakfast with more energy.
[18:56] <@Kotono> "Huh." Myann goes back to facepalming, a long sigh following. "The last thing I want is the Sidhe treating me like a noble. Can't I just be a village hedge wizard, huntress and a wife? I don't want a court and I don't want to rule." Another sigh, "Then again, I didn't want my powers growing stronger, but I think my mantle's grown stronger."
[18:56] <Feather> "Oh, don't worry about that! She said you rule in act two, and this is just act one. You know, like in plays?"
[18:58] <Gildas> He nods. "Yes, apparently your blood isn't fey yet." He says with a small smile.
[18:58] <Feather> "Hey, anyone got an idea how long a forest fire that large burns before it goes out?"
[18:59] <@John> "Can go for days but the place we were will be all burnt out. Just be other places that are getting it now," John volunteers.
[19:01] <Feather> "I'll take a look at the entrance, then," Feather says, casting Detect Magic and looking about.
[19:01] <@Kotono> "Hm." Myann goes back to eating for a bit, "My mantle's more responsive now. It's telling me how to do things here," she waves a hand, "I think I mentioned it before we rested, but it wouldn't be hard to make a mushroom house here and servants. My magic and skills in combat are getting stronger, but so is my mantle. What I'm more worried about is if I gain another mantle. I know it happens with
[19:01] <@Kotono> the Sidhe." OOC: How far a radius are you searching, FEather?
[19:02] <Feather> OOC: Around where we arrived
[19:03] <@Kotono> There's fading magic all around. OOC: Spellcraft.
[19:03] <Gildas> "Perhaps we can find a way for you to channel it into your shapeshift forms somehow." He suggests.
[19:03] <Feather> roll 1d20+13
[19:03] * Hatbot --> "Feather rolls 1d20+13 and gets 17." [1d20=4]
[19:04] <@Kotono> There's an absolute hash of magic around. It's a gigantic mess of various energies, Feather can't figure it out.
[19:05] <Feather> "Oh come on! Tell me! Tell me how you work!"
[19:05] <@Kotono> "That's a though-huh?" Myann looks up, "Feather?"
[19:05] <Gildas> Gildas decides to try his hand at it, sensing what Feather is after.
[19:05] <Gildas> roll 1d20+12 magic crap
[19:05] * Hatbot --> "Gildas rolls 1d20+12 magic crap and gets 21." [1d20=9]
[19:05] <Feather> "This circle!"
[19:05] <@John> "S'going on?" John asks curiously.
[19:06] <Feather> "It's here, going in circles! It's doing just about everything but tell me how to get back!"
[19:08] <@Kotono> The magical energy here is a fading mess. Gildas can tell that it's a mix of necromancy, abjuration and Fair Folk magic. There was a portal of sorts here, but it's been ruined by the magical overload.
[19:09] <Gildas> "We can't get back." He concludes. "We can't do anything about it, even if there is a fire." He sighs. "I have a feeling it will sort itself out, though."
[19:09] <@John> "Can't we just go find one of those circles somewhere else then?" John asks, not seeing a huge problem.
[19:10] * Feather grimaces. "Yeah, we just gotta ask for directions. How about it, we good to go?"
[19:11] <Gildas> He nods to Feather. "I have a feeling we're going to be greeted again as we go, or led in a direction."
[19:11] * @John nods. "Feel fit to walk now," he says, getting up to help clear their camp since he did nothing to set it up.
[19:24] <@Kotono> OOC: Any particular precautions, or just going to travel? Any direction?
[19:25] <Gildas> OOC: Are there any obvious paths that have been used or just lots of magical forest?
[19:29] <@Kotono> OOC: Quick survival check?
[19:29] <Gildas> OOC: Because I just suggest a general path back in the direction we came from in the real world if that's not impossible, otherwise just follow a path.
[19:29] <Gildas> roll 1d20+15
[19:29] * Hatbot --> "Gildas rolls 1d20+15 and gets 34." [1d20=19]
[19:29] <@Kotono> OOC: No signs of paths at all. It's all untamed wilderness.
[19:30] <Gildas> "Well, which direction should we go in? Just back towards the farm? We know there's a portal close to there, at least."
[19:32] <@John> "May as well," John says, "Even if we get lost we'll find one of those circles somewhere eventually, won't we?"
[19:32] <Gildas> He nods and starts in the general direction to go back towards the farm, then!
[19:32] <Gildas> OOC: Oh, does the Arrow still point towards anything?
[19:34] <@Kotono> OOC: The arrow is inert now.
[19:34] <@Kotono> roll 1d100
[19:34] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 78." [1d100=78]
[19:34] <Gildas> OOC: Figured.
[19:36] <@Kotono> The party goes on for a couple of hours. It is hard but not overwhelmingly difficult going. It is then you come to something - namely, a slab of granite laid on the ground. The trees part to allow sunlight to shine down on a tombstone in the center.
[19:37] * John gives it a look to see who it's for.
[19:37] <Gildas> Gildas tilts his head to the side. "I didn't think they died..." He moves to do the same as John.
[19:40] <@Kotono> "Huh." Myann murmurs, following along.
[19:41] <@Kotono> Carved into the tombstone is the following in Sylvan: Here lies a fool/Shorn of life and limb/Now entertaining the worms.
[19:42] <Gildas> "Ah. It's one of those kinds of tombstones." He says with a frown. "We should keep moving, I think."
[19:42] <John> "Why go to the trouble of making a nice gravestone if you're gonna write something like that on it?" John asks, shaking his head and walking on.
[19:43] <Gildas> "To serve as a warning no one will ever miss."
[19:44] <John> "If we'd been about fifty feet deeper in the woods on either side we'd have gone right by it without seeing," John reasons against that.
[19:45] <@Kotono> "He has a point," Myann observes, "It's not something you'll see easily."
[19:47] <Gildas> "Well, we can always ask if we come across anyone." He says. "I'm not sure it's something we should dwell on, though. I think I've had enough death for the time being." He glances to Grah.
[19:51] <Feather> "Maybe it's Johann's tombstone?" Feather ventures, shrugging. "Think it looks recent?"
[19:51] <@Kotono> Grah's still out cold, notably.
[19:52] * Feather takes a closer look at Grah himself.
[19:52] <Feather> roll 1d20+10 herbs?
[19:52] * Hatbot --> "Feather rolls 1d20+10 herbs? and gets 24." [1d20=14]
[19:52] <@Kotono> OOC: Herbalism?
[19:52] <Feather> OOC: Yep
[19:54] <@Kotono> It does look like he has some potent herbs in him, amid other things. Pain killers and incredibly long lasting sedatives.
[19:55] * Feather is almost about to ask Myann for help, when he figures it won't be a good idea and switches tracks. "Say, Gildas, got anything that flushes a sedative out?"
[19:56] <Gildas> He ponders, then decides to go through the herbs he hoisted from the tower to see if some combination of those might work. OOC: Do I need to do an herbalism for that?
[19:57] <@Kotono> OOC: Yes.
[19:57] <Gildas> roll 1d20+13
[19:57] * Hatbot --> "Gildas rolls 1d20+13 and gets 30." [1d20=17]
[19:58] <@Kotono> Fortune is with Gildas. One of the jars is full of Thornwert, a powerful herb that works as a natural stimulant. It counters most sedatives. It would probably wake Grah up, barring magic.
[19:58] <Gildas> "Yes, we do have some. I can probably prepare something if we want to take a break."
[19:58] <Feather> "Better get him to start walking for himself, I reckon."
[19:59] <Gildas> He nods. "Certainly." He lays him down in the least grassy area as possible and gets to work preparing the Thornwert to administer to Grah.
[20:00] * Feather is quite ready to help!
[20:01] <Gildas> OOC: Do I need to do any checks in order to actually give it to him?