Session 27-11-05

[Prince Herb]

Session Start: Sun Nov 27 20:33:47 2005
Session Ident: #kotb
* Now talking in #kotb
* Rockman_Zero is now known as Ultimate_Overlord
* Iddy (iron_drago@c-67-163-114-219.hsd1.tx.comcast.net) has joined #kotb
<Princess_Herb> Right, last time, our brave heroes had vanquished 5 kobolds, and were planning what to do next
<Iddy> /nick Celanyth
* Ultimate_Overlord is now known as Mitchigan
<Iddy> Uhh..
* Iddy is now known as Celanyth
* Seriumu (Dizzy@ip64-75-150-29.dial.aloha.net) has joined #kotb
<Mitchigan> That was certainly what you would call a 'sticky situation', but no amount of sweet goodness can stop the valor of justice!!!
* Mitchigan says as he finishes de-stickyfying himself...
<Mitchigan> Now then! Onward... For Great Justice!!!
* Mitchigan wanders off to explore the caves...
<Princess_Herb> Gallantly Mitchigan wanders back out of the doorway and down the corridor
* Seriumu is now known as Hidoyou
<Princess_Herb> He comes to the junction ; on his right the unexplored corridor, straight ahead the way to the exit
* Mitchigan boldly tuns right and enters the unexplored corridor!!!
<Princess_Herb> It slopes up, and after about 20 feet, it meets another corridor parallel to the first
<Princess_Herb> To your left, the corridor continues about 10 feet or so and ends in a door
<Princess_Herb> The other way, a corridor leads off into darkness
* Mitchigan walks up to the door, and with his sword drawn, he boots the door open!
<Mitchigan> roll 1d20+3
* Musk-bot --> "Mitchigan rolls 1d20+3 and gets 11."
<Princess_Herb> *THUMP*
<Princess_Herb> The rather shabby-looking door swings inwards
* Mitchigan strides inside and looks around...
<Princess_Herb> The door opens to reveal that the room beyond is filled with treasuree!
<Mitchigan> BY THE GODS!!!!
* Mitchigan cries out in astonishment!
<Princess_Herb> An enormous pile of what must be thousands and thousands of coins lies heaped in the centre of the room.
<Princess_Herb> Gemstones, some of them as big as a walnut, lie scattered on the floor like marbles.   In the midst of all this wealth, a huge egg rests in a hollow scooped out of the coins like a giant nest.
<Princess_Herb> There is no sign of movement within this room.
<Princess_Herb> It's 20' wide by about 30' long, and very irregularly shaped.
* Mitchigan narrows his eyes...
<Mitchigan> This... Seems too easy.
* Mitchigan picks up a coin and attempts to throw it at the egg...
<Princess_Herb> The coin hits the egg and bounces from its leathery shell
* Mitchigan waits for any sign of activity...
<Princess_Herb> Nothing happens
* Celanyth glances around.
<Celanyth> "Nothing is never this easy. I'm betting we're about to feel pain."
<Mitchigan> "Well, be that as it may... I must brave whatever must come!!!"
* Mitchigan steps into the room...
<Princess_Herb> Hidoyou decides that the rock is a pretty ordinary sandstone
<Celanyth> "Sure, whatever. I just hope whenever that thing hatches, it thinks I'm daddy instead of lunch.."
* Celanyth follows in with Mitchigan, but moves off to the side, the easier to dive for cover with.
* Mitchigan begins rummaging around through the treasure to see if there is anything he can use... like a brand spankingly shiny new sword!
* Celanyth starts cautiously packing away gem stones, ignoring the coins, and looking for any items of use.
<Princess_Herb> roll 1d20+3 for Chandor's spot
* Musk-bot --> "Princess_Herb rolls 1d20+3 for Chandor's spot and gets 11."
<Celanyth> roll 1d20+6 to search
* Musk-bot --> "Celanyth rolls 1d20+6 to search and gets 20."
<Celanyth> roll 1d20+2 to appraise
* Musk-bot --> "Celanyth rolls 1d20+2 to appraise and gets 22."
<Mitchigan> roll 1d20+2
* Musk-bot --> "Mitchigan rolls 1d20+2 and gets 21."
<Princess_Herb> The gems are just paste, and the coins are all coppers, covered in what appears to be some sort of gold paint
* Hidoyou appears in the doorway
<Mitchigan> Curses! To think that they almost made fools of us!!!
* Mitchigan glances at the egg..
* Hidoyou looks at the egg
<Princess_Herb> Still, 6000 or so coppers is money
<Celanyth> "Figures.."
<Mitchigan> Why, I'll bet that THAT too is fake!
* Mitchigan reaches for it so he can throw it at something to vent his frustration...
<Princess_Herb> The egg is warm to the touch
* Mitchigan pauses...
<Mitchigan> Uh... Guys.
<Hidoyou> roll 1d20+4 for knowledge (the planes)
* Musk-bot --> "Hidoyou rolls 1d20+4 for knowledge (the planes) and gets 10."
* Celanyth approaches Mitchigan
<Celanyth> "What?"
<Mitchigan> This... This feels warm.
<Mitchigan> Fake eggs don't normally feel warm, do they?
* Celanyth blinks.
<Celanyth> "Uhh... I wouldn't think so.."
* Celanyth pokes it a bit.
<Mitchigan> Sooo... That would mean that this thing is real then?
<Celanyth> ".... So, who wants to get going while the egg is still an egg?"
<Princess_Herb> The egg is somewhat flexible, and leathery unlike a bird's egg
<Mitchigan> Celanyth, do you know what kind of egg this is?
<Celanyth> "No, but I know when I see an egg, there's usually a mom around."
<Celanyth> "And how big do you think 'mom' is, considering the size of that egg?"
<Mitchigan> I would say pretty big.
<Celanyth> "Yeah, so, I say we go before she comes back."
<Mitchigan> But... what if the creature within that shell is some vile spawn of evil!?
<Princess_Herb> Chandor points out that the creature must be less than 5 1/2 feet tall and 3 feet wide, or it couldn't have come throught the door
<Celanyth> "But what if it's not?"
<Mitchigan> But what if it *IS*!?
<Mitchigan> By letting it develop to adulthood, we might as well be killing the very people who will become it's victims in the future!!!
* Mitchigan nods!
<Mitchigan> IT IS FOR THE GOOD OF ALL!!!!!
* Mitchigan raises his sword and prepars to destroy the egg!!!
* Celanyth sighs and gets closer to the door.
<Princess_Herb> Chandor suggests that you find out first
* Mitchigan sighs...
<Princess_Herb> After all, he wouldn't want you hunted down by a vengeful whatever it is
<Mitchigan> Very well friend... But know that I do not stay my hand out of cowardice!
<Celanyth> "He who lives to fight another day..."
* Mitchigan chuckles...
<Mitchigan> Please... Don't hand me that stale old line..
* Mitchigan sheaths his sword.
<Mitchigan> Very well then, let us continue exploring...
* Mitchigan leads the party towards the corridor leading off into darkness...
<Princess_Herb> After a short while, you become aware that the corridor opens up ahead
<Princess_Herb> There's some kind of chamber ahead of you, around 60' from the junction
* Hidoyou strides forward defensively
* Celanyth draws his blades and follows cautiously.
* elisteran (user@pcp0011710027pcs.lascruces.nm.albuq.comcast.net) has joined #kotb
<Princess_Herb> You see that this room forms a vivid contrast to the bare stone walls you have seen so far in this cave.
* elisteran is now known as thorn
<Princess_Herb> From floor to ceiling, the walls have been covered in cave paintings in vivid colours, mainly reds, oranges, and blacks.
<Princess_Herb> The drawings depict a number of small creatures clearly meant to represent the monsters you've already encountered.
<Princess_Herb> They seem to be bowing and paying homage to a creature that looks just like them, but is ten times their height.
<Princess_Herb> The large creature's name KURTULMAK is chiselled benath his picture in crude runes.
<Celanyth> "Guess we found your evil, Mitch."
<Mitchigan> Wow... Mommy sure is big.
<Princess_Herb> The drawing shows him seated on a great throne, holding a tiny figure clearly meant to be a human aloft in one great paw, preparing to swallow the unfortunate in one single bite, while trampling another beneath his great feet.
* Mitchigan has an irritated expression on his face...
<Princess_Herb> As near as you can make out from the arrows and diagrams, the drawings seem to indicate that this is an antechamber to the room where the large creature lives.
* Hidoyou looks around cautiously
<Princess_Herb> A short corridor at the back of the room leads to a stone lintel holding huge double doors that fill the entire space between floor and ceiling, ten feet high and just as wide.
<Mitchigan> Guys, I have an idea.
* Celanyth glances at Mitchigan.
<Celanyth> "What is it?"
<Mitchigan> Well, remember that egg we found?
<Mitchigan> Maybe we could use it as a hostage!
<Celanyth> "Dunno, I think it'd just get even angrier."
<Mitchigan> Ah! But does not anger make one prone to make more mistakes?
<Celanyth> "Yeah, but mistakes by giant things tend to crush smaller things."
<Mitchigan> Well do YOU have any ideas then!?
<Celanyth> "Sure. How about we find out what this giant thing is, quietly, before we try anything else?"
<thorn> "And maybe we can offer it tribute of some kind."
* thorn looks at mitchigan significantly
<Mitchigan> M'LADY!!! I PROTEST!!!!!
<thorn> "too much, too much. So, how do you suggest we find out what this thing is, Celanyth ? Maybe it's just a primitive attempt at perspective"
<Mitchigan> Hmm... I think I have another idea!
<Celanyth> "Yeah, but since it seems it lives in the next room, we go over nice and quietly, meaning me, and take a look, then figure out what to do then."
<Mitchigan> Perhaps we could coax it out into the open by using someone as a lure... Creatures such as these tend to go after damsels and the like afterall.
* Mitchigan looks at Thorn significantly
<Celanyth> "Whatever, you two can keep flirting, just be quiet till I get back."
* Celanyth heads down the hallway, as silently as possible, keeping an eye out for anything that could be a trap.
<Mitchigan> We tie a roape around her, throw her in, and slowly drag her out into the open... It'd be like playing with an oversized kitten!!!
<Celanyth> roll 1d20+8 to move silently down the corridor
* Musk-bot --> "Celanyth rolls 1d20+8 to move silently down the corridor and gets 16."
<Princess_Herb> roll 1d20 to see if anyone hears
* Musk-bot --> "Princess_Herb rolls 1d20 to see if anyone hears and gets 14."
<Mitchigan> Another thing I could do is to be deliberately eaten, and make sure I am swallowed whole... From there I could beat thte creature up from the inside.
<Mitchigan> ...
* thorn bares teeth at mitchigan
<Mitchigan> No, That would wreak havock on my skin.
<Mitchigan> Hmmm....
* Mitchigan ignores the lady...
* Hidoyou looks at thorn's teeth
* Hidoyou looks after where Celanyth went
<Celanyth> roll 1d20+6
* Musk-bot --> "Celanyth rolls 1d20+6 and gets 21."
<Princess_Herb> Celanyth stands at the doors, inspecting them
<Princess_Herb> They seem perfectly normal in every respect
* Hidoyou walks towards Celanyth
* Celanyth tries to open the doors enough to peer in.
<Celanyth> roll 1d20+2
* Musk-bot --> "Celanyth rolls 1d20+2 and gets 19."
* thorn moves to be about 10 feet from the doors and moves against the wall
* Hidoyou stands ready for anything to jump out
<Princess_Herb> Celanyth opens the doors.
* Celanyth peers in.
<Princess_Herb> The double doors swing open easily.
* Mitchigan sighs and unsheaths his sword, and walks to the double doors...
<Princess_Herb> Behind is a room that seems full of the little creatures - dozens at least! - standing shoulder to shoulder in neat ranks.
<Princess_Herb> The light glints of their beady little eyes.
<Princess_Herb> off*
* thorn gasps and moves back
* Mitchigan growls...
* Celanyth edges back from the door and motions everyone back, then slowly closes the door again..
<Celanyth> "Okay, not going that way.."
<Princess_Herb> Suddenly they give a great bloodcurdling cry and raise their spears and javelins in unison, getting ready to throw the deadly missiles at you.
* Celanyth slams the doors shut.
<Celanyth> "Help! BRACE IT!"
<Princess_Herb> The doors swing closed and an eerie silence falls upon the caverns
* Mitchigan pushes against the door with all of his might!!!!
* thorn jerks into a run towards celanyth and the doors
<Celanyth> "Okay, this is bad. Anyone have any ideas?"
<Hidoyou> I suggest retreat
<Mitchigan> Well thankyou captain obvious!!!
<thorn> "What if we lock the doors and run out the cave?"
<Celanyth> "You see a lock anywhere?"
<thorn> "Surely there's a bar ? Who builds doors without a lock?!"
<Mitchigan> EGG ROOM!!!
<Mitchigan> We can make our stand there!!!
<Celanyth> "Are you insane? What the hell makes you think we can win against them
<Hidoyou> If we were going to 'make a stand', I would suggest the room with the roof alcove
<Celanyth> ?"
<Mitchigan> LOOK!!! Obviously that egg is important, otherwise they wouldn't have isolated it as such!!!
<thorn> "Maybe you should be ready to smash it!"
<Mitchigan> I was GOING to, but a cerain someone said that it would be a bad idea!!!
<Celanyth> "Fine, egg room it is. But don't smash it, if it's that important to them, maybe we *can* hold it hostage.. Though, I doubt it."
<Mitchigan> Okay... On the count of three, everyone run!!!
<Mitchigan> One!
<Mitchigan> Two!!
<Mitchigan> THREE!!!
* Celanyth takes off.
* Mitchigan bolts!
* thorn sprints
* Hidoyou sighs and goes after them
<Princess_Herb> Chandor and Third follow
* Hidoyou doesn't follow the group into the treasure room
* Hidoyou begins walking towards the exit
* Celanyth goes with Hidoyou.
<Celanyth> "Have fun in there holding off the Horde. I'm gettin' while the gettin's good."
<thorn> "Guys, the room is that way!"
<Princess_Herb> Chandor points out that there's no one pursuing the party and that the doors wouldn't take that long to open
* Mitchigan runs into the egg room, and grabs the egg...
<Celanyth> "The exit is this way, though. Single room, or the wide open, make your choice."
* Mitchigan runs out to the exit with the egg in hand!
<Hidoyou> The caves have other entrances. Going that way would be sucide...
<Princess_Herb> You negotiate the pit trap and arrive outside once more
<Celanyth> "To the town with warnings to the guards?"
* Hidoyou looks around
* Mitchigan gasps for breath...
* thorn is persuaded and runs for the exit as well
<Princess_Herb> The valley is pretty much as you left it
* Hidoyou begins looking for other cave entrances
<thorn> "Maybe we should get off the road... climb these banks here?"
<Princess_Herb> Hidoyou can see two cave entrances higher up the same valley side as the kobold cave
<Princess_Herb> There should be more on the other side as well, but he can't see because of the trees in the way
* Hidoyou puts away his sword and shield
* Hidoyou starts climbing up
<Hidoyou> roll 1d20+3
* Musk-bot --> "Hidoyou rolls 1d20+3 and gets 7."
* Hidoyou starts walking towards the next nearest cave
<Princess_Herb> Hidoyou reaches the more northerly of the two caves
* thorn follows hidoyou
<thorn> "Hey, shouldn't we talk about this rather than just going off on our own?"
* Hidoyou sees thorn
<Hidoyou> Go ahead and take a look inside, then
<Princess_Herb> A horrible odour of foul rottenness flows out of this place, the smell of dead animals left unburied too long.   Within all is still; no movement can be glimpsed as you peer into the darkness
<thorn> "Why me? Why not mitchigan? He's got all the armor"
<thorn> "He'd probably be happy to step inside"
* Mitchigan is busy wrapping a blanket around the egg...
* Hidoyou looks over to Mitchigan
<Hidoyou> Get over here!
<Mitchigan> Hold on.
* Mitchigan finishes wrapping the egg, puts it into his backpack, and stands up...
<Mitchigan> Do you need something?
<Hidoyou> I sense a great evil within this cave.
* Hidoyou speaks in a deadpan manner
<thorn> "Certainly smells dirty"
<Mitchigan> Really? It just seems rather smelly in here... But who am I to doubt the word of a companion?
* Mitchigan strides into the cave and unsheaths his greatsword...
<Princess_Herb> </game>
<Mitchigan> Come Hidoyou! Let us go forth and Smite this evil that you speak of!!!
<thorn> yeah, you're all gamy!
<Princess_Herb> Next week : The UNDEAD Menace!   Brother Chandor, where art thou?
<thorn> why don't you people take baths!
<Mitchigan> Thorn: It is the Smell of RITEOUSNESS!!!!
* Disconnected
Session Close: Sun Nov 27 23:43:15 2005