Day 34: Coffins, Psychic Gems, and Slime-Cats oh my

[Iron Dragoon]

Session Start: Wed Dec 31 11:40:48 2014
Session Ident: #dunes
* Now talking in #dunes
* Topic is 'Veren(32)>Lucy(29)>Jetina(27)>Pepo(25)>Moore(17)>Coffins(10) '
* Set by Kotono on Tue Dec 30 14:18:55
<Kotono> -----
<Kotono> * Lucy tosses her daggers into the air, where they start circling her protectively. Then, without a trace of fear she approaches the nearest coffin and lets her magical protections do the work for her!
<Kotono> <Lucy> roll 1d20+20 steeldance
<Kotono> <Lucy> roll 1d20+20 steeldance
<Kotono> * Hatbot --> "Lucy rolls 1d20+20 steeldance and gets 30." [1d20=10]
<Kotono> * Hatbot --> "Lucy rolls 1d20+20 steeldance and gets 33." [1d20=13]
<Kotono> <Lucy> roll 1d4+11 magic
<Kotono> <Lucy> roll 1d4+11 magic
<Kotono> * Hatbot --> "Lucy rolls 1d4+11 magic and gets 13." [1d4=2]
<Kotono> * Hatbot --> "Lucy rolls 1d4+11 magic and gets 12." [1d4=1]
<Kotono> Lucy's daggers dance out, chopping into one of the coffins. They chip it up decently well, but it's still knives against stone coffins. Not the most immediately lethal thing ever, unfortunately. OOC: Jetina.
<Kotono> Jetina presents her holy symbol and calls, "By Qupan's wisdom, magic be undone!"
<Kotono> roll 1d20+7 trying a dispel here
* Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 trying a dispel here and gets 14." 12 [1d20=7]
<Kotono> The coffins wobble slightly, but nothing more. OOC: Okay. Veren, were you going to take your held action? She was hoping to disable them or defuse it safely, but that doesn't seem to be in the cards here.
<Veren > OOC: If I toss out another Entangling Ectoplasm, how many could I cover with a gargantuan size casting, and can I target only the coffins and not hit friendlies with it?
<Kotono> OOC: Link me?
<Veren > OOC: http://therafimrpg.wikidot.com/entangling-ectoplasm
<Kotono> OOC: It's explicitly ST. That all being said, there's coffins all around, up and flying. Both sides, so it wouldn't be a terribly effective gambit in any case.
<Veren > OOC: Okay.
* Veren focuses on his mental powers and gains an insight into future attacks against himself! OOC: Defensive Precog, +2 ac/saves, 4pp
<Kotono> OOC: Done.
<Kotono> OOC: Pepo.
* Kotono changes topic to 'Lucy(29)>Jetina(27)>VerenPepo(25)>Moore(17)>Coffins(10) '
<Pepo> Seeing that Jetina's dispel had some reaction, Pepo elects to copy that rather than going with the sonic wall.
* Kotono changes topic to 'Lucy(29)>Jetina(27)>Veren>Pepo(25)>Moore(17)>Coffins(10) '
<Pepo> roll 1d100 5+ wild surge
* Hatbot --> "Pepo rolls 1d100 5+ wild surge and gets 54." 12 [1d100=54]
<Pepo> roll 1d20+10 dispel psionics
* Hatbot --> "Pepo rolls 1d20+10 dispel psionics and gets 11." 12 [1d20=1]
<Kotono> Pepo tries to shatter the power controlling the coffins, but nothing happens. It's just too stubborn for him to budge. OOC: Okay then. Moore.
<Moore> For now, Moore decides to hasten his allies' actions! "Here, let's try this!" OOC: Haste on... I think it'll hit everyone, actually. I'm staying invisible though.
<Kotono> OOC: Sure. Haste up.
<Kotono> As Veren shores up his defenses and Moore speeds everyone up, the coffins move. The one near Lucy tries to engulf her, while another comes flying at Jetina.
<Kotono> OOC: Using wings of cover like you said?
<Lucy> Lucy's wings come out to wrap protectively around her!
<Kotono> As Lucy's wings protect her, the other coffin goes to Jetina.
<Kotono> roll 1d20+16 vs her CMD this is probably not going to work out well for her
* Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 vs her CMD this is probably not going to work out well for her and gets 25." 12 [1d20=9]
<Kotono> The coffin slams right into her, lid opening up so she's taken in, then slamming shut behind her. You can hear Jetina pounding on it, as if far away and muffled. The coffin shakes slightly, but otherwise doesn't budge. OOC: Lucy.
<Lucy> As her wings retreat, the daggers orbiting Lucy strike at the same spots on the coffin she'd chipped already! And then she steps back to try and dispel this ghastly magic altogether!
<Lucy> roll 1d20+21
<Lucy> roll 1d20+21
* Hatbot --> "Lucy rolls 1d20+21 and gets 25." 12 [1d20=4]
* Hatbot --> "Lucy rolls 1d20+21 and gets 41." 12 [1d20=20]
<Kotono> OOC: Two hits.
<Lucy> roll 1d4+11 magic
<Lucy> roll 1d4+11 magic
* Hatbot --> "Lucy rolls 1d4+11 magic and gets 14." 12 [1d4=3]
* Hatbot --> "Lucy rolls 1d4+11 magic and gets 12." 12 [1d4=1]
<Lucy> roll 1d20+9 dispel
* Hatbot --> "Lucy rolls 1d20+9 dispel and gets 25." 12 [1d20=16]
<Kotono> At this, the coffins all fall. They land hard and with a heavy thump. Yet you can hear Jetina still pounding as...OOC: Free act after a damage roll for ??? happening to her.
<Kotono> roll 1d4 con damage
* Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4 con damage and gets 3." 12 [1d4=3]
<Lucy> "Hmph. You didn't last all that long," Lucy mutters, making way for Jetina to force the coffin holding her within it open.
* Veren moves to help Lucy crack open the coffin.
* Veren tries to pry the coffin open.
<Kotono> OOC: Str check, whichever has the higher mod (figure it out). The other can aid.
<Veren > OOC: I got a +1.
<Lucy> OOC: Go for it
<Veren > roll 1d20+1
* Hatbot --> "Veren rolls 1d20+1 and gets 21." 12 [1d20=20]
<Lucy> roll 1d20-1 awesome
* Hatbot --> "Lucy rolls 1d20-1 awesome and gets 14." 12 [1d20=15]
<Kotono> Pop! The coffin lid is stuck on tight, but somehow Veren gets it off. Inside you can see dozens of long, tapered tubes have pierced Jetina's skin all over. Her red blood is flowing out of them and into the coffin. She looks pale and out of it. OOC: You two acted. Pepo and Moore can still act this 'round'.
<Lucy> "Wake up!" Lucy calls to her, frowning. "Hey, get her out!"
<Pepo> Pepo just waits for further threats to appear.
<Pepo> OOC: holding
<Moore> Moore stays hidden since there's not much he can do to help at this stage.
<Kotono> roll 1d4 con damage Jetina, everyone can take a round's action snow
* Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4 con damage Jetina, everyone can take a round's action snow and gets 4." 12 [1d4=4]
<Kotono> Before your eyes, Jetina is withering. The blood is being sucked from her fast, her body starting to deflate like a leaky balloon.
<Veren > "Should I cut them off? I have the healing wand one of you can use on her."
* Lucy directs her daggers to cut through the tubes with precision only magic can achieve, while she pulls Jetina out as no one seems willing to do it.
<Kotono> OOC: Attack roll on the tubes.
<Lucy> roll 1d20+21
<Lucy> roll 1d20+21
* Hatbot --> "Lucy rolls 1d20+21 and gets 29." 12 [1d20=8]
* Hatbot --> "Lucy rolls 1d20+21 and gets 25." 12 [1d20=4]
<Kotono> OOC: Two hits.
<Lucy> roll 1d4+11
* Hatbot --> "Lucy rolls 1d4+11 and gets 14." 12 [1d4=3]
<Lucy> roll 1d4+11
* Hatbot --> "Lucy rolls 1d4+11 and gets 14." 12 [1d4=3]
<Kotono> The tubes are severed and Lucy pulls her out. But Jetina's still bleeding badly, dozens of holes across her body. She looks to be out cold, too. OOC: The rest of you can act, if you care to. If holding just say so.
* Veren hands his wand to Moore!
<Veren > OOC: Or rather, out for Moore.
<Moore> Moore will take the wand and immediately uses it Jetina twice to at least stop the bleeding! OOC: It was just a regular 1d8+1 wand, right?
<Lucy> With the immediate danger over, Lucy voices, "Veren, would you mind looking around to see if anything of interest is here?"
<Veren > OOC: I believe so, yes.
* Veren nods and moves to search the area for clues or items of interest.
<Moore> OOC: Ah, it's CL5, got it
<Moore> roll 1d8+5
* Hatbot --> "Moore rolls 1d8+5 and gets 9." 12 [1d8=4]
<Moore> OOC: Waiting to see if that closes up the wounds or not
<Kotono> Jetina's wounds close up. She's still dreadfully pale and out cold, but the bleeding is stopped.
<Moore> Moore will cast a Detect Magic on Jetina to ensure that it's just blood loss and not something more serious.
* Lucy frowns, and puts the magical iron ring on Jetina's finger.
<Kotono> OOC: Do you have ranks in Heal, Moore?
<Veren > roll 1d20+13 perception searching
* Hatbot --> "Veren rolls 1d20+13 perception searching and gets 26." 12 [1d20=13]
<Moore> OOC: Yes
<Kotono> Veren searches about. Near one of the moved coffins, he finds a little cache that was revealed. OOC: Loot.
<Kotono> OOC: Heal check, Moore.
<Moore> roll 1d20+11
* Hatbot --> "Moore rolls 1d20+11 and gets 25." 12 [1d20=14]
<Kotono> Jetina's suffering from extreme blood loss. Normal healing magic won't work - it'll take lesser restoration or the like. She's not suffering under any more undue magic, however.
<Moore> Moore wrinkles his nose. "If we had a scroll of restoration or something of that nature, that would help... I can't really do much else for her in this condition."
* Veren returns to the others with the cache of items for them to look over with magical sight.
* Veren blinks at Moore's comment and holds up the scroll he just found.
<Veren > "I have no idea what this scroll is, but maybe it'll be useful?"
<Pepo> 'Surely she can heal herself when she wakes,' Pepo says.
<Moore> Moore blinks and does indeed use his already-present Detect Magic to see what Veren found.
<Kotono> OOC: Spellcraft.
<Moore> roll 1d20+13
* Hatbot --> "Moore rolls 1d20+13 and gets 14." 12 [1d20=1]
<Kotono> The scroll and crystal are magical, but Moore can't puzzle them out.
<Moore> "Lucy, could you help me with these?" He indicates the scroll and the crystal.
<Lucy> roll 1d20+17
* Hatbot --> "Lucy rolls 1d20+17 and gets 26." 12 [1d20=9]
* Lucy takes a glance, storing her daggers away.
<Kotono> The scroll is a scroll of Graymantle, Lucy thinks. The crystal - now the crystal's odd, Lucy can't get a read on it. Something like Pepo's power, really.
<Pepo> 'Give me the crystal,' Pepo commands!
<Lucy> "Oh! Mister Pepo, why don't you take a look at this?" Lucy muses.
<Pepo> roll 1d20+20 psionics knowledge, how to safely open
* Hatbot --> "Pepo rolls 1d20+20 psionics knowledge, how to safely open and gets 28." 12 [1d20=8]
* Lucy blinks, and then asks Veren, "Would you mind terribly carrying Jetina as we go search for yet more undead to kill?"
<Kotono> The item here is a dorje - essentially a psionic wand. If there's a mind in it, Pepo's pretty sure something's gone badly wrong. There's no body to reveal, most likely, it's a mind trapped in there somehow. That or an intelligent magic item.
* Veren picks up Jetina as best he can.
* Veren blinks and cocks his head to the side, then looks down at Pepo.
<Pepo> Well, the voice did tell him to use it. Maybe that'll create a body out of ectoplasm or something? He lays a paw on it and tries to activate it.
<Veren > "I heard it."
<Kotono> OOC: Make a Will save, Pepo.
<Pepo> roll 1d20+8 +2 compulsion/lawful
* Hatbot --> "Pepo rolls 1d20+8 +2 compulsion/lawful and gets 17." 12 [1d20=9]
<Kotono> Pepo's eyes blaze green, the same color as the crystal. The voice that comes out of Pepo's mouth sounds powerful but thoughtful. "This body will do for a short borrowing," it says, "Thank you, it has been far too long to be stuck in a crystal."
<Moore> Well, on the plus side, it did say short, so... "Um... Hello, I suppose, then?"
<Lucy> "What."
* Veren tries to stealthily palm his dagger... Things that take over minds tend not to be good things...
<Kotono> Pepo gets onto two feet, like a humanoid. It manages a somewhat awkward cat-bow, "I am Reshemi, student of the mind's eye. It seems I have met with misfortune, for my mind was trapped in one of my dorjes and I was left to rot."
<Lucy> "That is unfortunate. Have you seen a large cerulean gem around?"
<Kotono> "I have been without practical eyes for a long time," Rashemi admits, "But I believe I know of what you speak. There is an underground spring where a source of great protective power rests. One of the words that I get as an impression is cerulean."
<Moore> "Oh, well... do you have any idea which direction that might be in? Or would you be able to guide us? Or... hm... perhaps guide Mister Pepo since he's the one who can use your... er... crystal?"
* Lucy tilts her head. "How about your magical aptitude, if I might ask?"
<Kotono> "I know that ahead is a tomb. Only unrelated treasure and danger lies in there. Two paths diverge from it, take the left. Explore in that direction for a spring near a cleft in the earth." Pepo paces before bowing again, "Unfortunately, that is all I know, for my senses are highly limited like this. Now, I'd like to discuss something else. Once you achieve your goal and escape, I'd like your
<Kotono> help in assembling a magical body. A small one, purely a modified ectoplasmic - ah. I am a student of the awakened mind, much like Pepo here and the other," he nods to Veren. "I do not need much help - several hours possessing one and the aid of the other should be enough. As for my talent, I regret it is largely irrelevant here. What I can draw on is highly limited due to the situation I find
<Kotono> myself in."
<Veren > "I am not as experienced as Pepo is... If he believes it to be safe, then I will assist."
<Moore> "Well, I think we can always use more people to help us out on our adventures... If you've lived as long as you have in a crystal -- actually, wait, how long -have- you been in there, do you have any idea?" Moore asks.
<Lucy> "And then you join our crew?"
<Kotono> "No idea," Rashemi says, a paw going up to flick one of his whiskers. "I am not sure what I want to do once I get a body. I am not terribly interested in joining a lightskimmer's ship's crew, if that's what you speak of? I would rather compensate you in some other way."
<Lucy> "Research assistant?" Lucy tries a different tack.
<Veren > "We should continue this as we move, I think."
<Kotono> "Perhaps we can resolve this later?" Rashemi asks, "I fear Pepo grows restless, for he is watching me intently. Much like a cat," he chuckles.
<Lucy> "Perfectly understandable. You will be carrying Jetina, then, Veren?"
* Veren lifts Jetina.
<Veren > "Apparently so."
<Moore> "Erm, if you don't want to go back into the crystal, you can piggyback with me if that, um... works." Moore says, since he isn't really sure how it does.
<Kotono> "It doesn't. I will be taking my leave now, please bring me back for discussion once this is done," he says, before Pepo's eyes return to normal and the feline returns to his normal senses - standing up like a humanoid, no less.
<Pepo> Pepo very quickly returns to his normal stature. 'I will only tolerate this for so long,' he broadcasts, licking his paw. 'Let us hurry.'
<Lucy> "The standing?"
<Moore> "Well, I suppose we should head to this tomb and go left?" Moore asks the others. "The sooner we get out of here, the better for all of us."
* Lucy is all too happy to start heading in the right direction.
<Kotono> You continue to walk through the tombland. After a few minutes of this, Jetina groans and stirs. "Ug...so cold," she murmurs, "Pe..po? Is Pepo here? He's warm."
<Pepo> 'I am near,' Pepo says, having gone back into stealth as they move.
* Lucy frowns, using this chance to stop for a quick rest. "You might wish to recover your strength with your magic," she notes.
<Moore> "You lost a lot of blood from the coffin. If you can use a restoration-type spell on yourself, that would be best." Moore says, hoping she can muster that. "I can heal you if you need it."
<Kotono> "R-right," Jetina manages, coughing as she clutches her holy symbol.
<Kotono> roll 1d4 lesser restoration
* Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4 lesser restoration and gets 3." 12 [1d4=3]
<Kotono> roll 1d4 lesser restoration
* Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4 lesser restoration and gets 1." 12 [1d4=1]
<Kotono> roll 1d4 lesser restoration
* Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4 lesser restoration and gets 1." 12 [1d4=1]
<Kotono> roll 1d4 lesser restoration
* Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4 lesser restoration and gets 4." 12 [1d4=4]
<Moore> OOC: Oh I should've done a healing hymn, my bad on that
<Kotono> OOC: Oh well, live and learn.
<Kotono> Jetina's color returns and she's able to stand on her own by the end. "Thanks," she murmurs, shuddering, "Mouths and coffins. This place is a nightmare."
<Pepo> Pepo emerges from hiding to rub against Jetina's shins briefly before he vanishes in the gloom once more.
<Pepo> roll 1d20+34 stealth since it might matter
* Hatbot --> "Pepo rolls 1d20+34 stealth since it might matter and gets 54." 12 [1d20=20]
<Lucy> "It has been fairly unwelcoming," Lucy agrees mildly. "How about we find the gem, kill the unkillable man and leave?"
<Moore> Moore nods.
* Veren pats Jetina on the shoulder.
<Kotono> Jetina leans over to pet Pepo, then smiles at Lucy and pats Veren's hand back. "Thanks, all of you. Let's finish this." OOC: Going ahead?
<Lucy> OOC: Yes.
<Veren > OOC: Yep.
<Kotono> roll 1d100
* Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 26." 12 [1d100=26]
<Kotono> roll 1d100
* Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 100." 12 [1d100=100]
<Kotono> roll 1d100 yep, that's subtables
* Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 yep, that's subtables and gets 72." 12 [1d100=72]
<Kotono> roll 1d5
* Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d5 and gets 2." 12 [1d5=2]
<Kotono> About twenty minutes of walking through the tombland. These tombs are silent at least, not rising up to smash up. But in due time you come to a massive stone crypt. A tomb, if you will. A path leads up to it, forks to the left and the right, then goes on towards the crypt. Sitting near the road is a calico cat., with brown and black splashed on its white coat.
<Lucy> "Hello there!" Lucy calls out to it, since no normal cat could possibly survive in this terrible place.
* Veren raises an eyebrow.
<Veren > "A girlfriend for Pepo?"
<Pepo> Pepo does the sensible thing and manifests psionic true seeing.
<Kotono> Pepo can see it is not a cat. It is an amorphous blob in the shape of a woman. It's facial feature are more defined and it looks quite piqued. It's muttering something silently in common - something like 'the cat, really?'. Meanwhile, the others see the cat look up cutely and then meow. The creature before you is adorable, pretty and utterly out of place.
* Veren decides to distrust it completely.
* Lucy immediately casts Shield! As subtly as she can make it.
<Moore> "Hello!" Moore does likewise as Lucy, since... really, this is not a cat.
<Pepo> 'It is some sort of slime creature,' Pepo informs the others before impressing his mental voice on the creature itself. 'Why are you taking the form of a cat here?'