[pnpgm] Game Update #125 - File #885 - Lava of Streams..err Dreams
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Player DS Character Name Type Status/Notes Sex
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FH.John Haight.......HY..Arawn.............Druid .Normal/Al.. Ma
...Kevin Newark..........Dorhak............Warrior.Normal/Dwarf....Ma
--.Tobie Bonahoom....YY..Fremea............Sidh....Normal/Faerry.. Fe
W3.Mark Murtha.......HN..Kell..............Trader..Normal/Human....Ma
W2.David Sanders.....HN..Kiet.Sunan........Acrobat Normal/Human ..Ma
R4.Wout Broere.......YY..Unali.............Ninja...Normal/Human ..Fe
...Don.Kerr..............Maelorna..........Dancer..Normal/Human....Fe
...Gilbert.Isla..........Mournath..........Sailor..Normal/Human....Ma
R3 Panthera..............Pyandalgor........Hunter..Normal/Human....Ma
R4.Alex Koponen......YY..Z'leyra...........Healer..Normal/Human ..Fe
R3.Fukishtu.Newsome......Npc...............Chief...Normal/Human....Ma
R3.Lucria.Cegra..........Npc...............Hunter..Normal/Human....Ma
Fake-Kell/Raki........Npc...............Normal..Normal/Shaper...??
Z'leyha ..............Npc...............Normal..Normal/Shaman...Fe
Animals: Corona [Eagle] Z'leyra
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Game Update #125 sequence (file #885)
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Admin Notes: Forgot to add Z'layha to Roster. Done
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[Recap]
From Fremea: [Re: Loot]
Fremea knows that it is important to take as much away from
these creatures as she can. She scopes up as much as she can
load into her bags, safely, of the jewelry, gems, and other
precious items. Since, she and Arawn had already IDed the
magic stuff, the rest of it did not interest her.
She is not worried about which direction they take, she knows
she can easily get across or around, this is what she was
training to do and she can fly.
GM: Ack. Thanks.
From Arawn: [Re: Actions]
[Quote Scott: 'BTW technically the whole bridge ....
Both have witnessed the significant levels of shape-changing
and strength of the shifters already, in battle. From there it
doesn't take much to figure out form options for such powerful
shifters. If you're referring to how Arawn (and the rest of the
party) knows that Raki can turn into stone, Raki mentioned it
itself when addressing Dorhak's effort to take point in Update
122.
GM: Ack. Geesh. Using the words dictated to my dwarves
for update against me. So I'll blame them for not
reminding me they posted that. Yeah. That's it.
Its their fault. Good job you at least are paying
attention. :) It was a test. yeah that's it. A test. :)
From Pyan: [Re: Actions]
Pyan looks over the teasures but hearing Z'layha's pleads he
decides it best not to loud himself down thou there is one
piece of exceptionally shiny jewelry that is vary tempting
to him. but is worthless in this world and back in his world
he already has everything he needs.
GM: Ack. I probably didn't make it clear in last update.
Z swayed Z'layha with her words so taking the treasure
is fine now for her. Its a shock. But fine. So if
you want to take some let me know.
From Kiet: [Re: Actions]
Kiet hasn't heard anything definitive about which way we were
going to try to escape. One way seemed like suicide, the other
like a great way to be killed.
To the group he says "if we try to run past dozens or...
GM: Ack.
From Arawn: [Re: Posts]
I had sent this out a few days ago but didn't see it pop up. I
had figured that the server might be down but as David/Kiet has
a post up I thought I'd resend this.
GM: Ack. I got it. It was on Archives I believe. At top of
each list post is a link to the Archives. If a post ever
goes out it will be there almost immediately. Sadly I
get behind and don't upset my site too often so its not
updated in real time. :<
From Wout: [Re: Post]
I did see this pass by, so it has been sent out by the list.
Didn't notice any hickups lately, so ot sure why it didn't
reach you. If this happens again le me know and I will dig
into it. Wout
GM: Ack. It happens. I've noticed over the last 15 odd years
especially with pnp list (not mine) I'll be missing
posts. But see it on archives. But I always check
the Archives before update to see if anything missing.
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[New Stuff]
[Febris 9th, 1635TH]
[Time: 5:01 pm]
Kiet hears the news of a possible new escape route.
Kiet hasn't heard anything definitive about which way we
were going to try to escape. One way seemed like suicide,
the other like a great way to be killed.
To the group he says, "if we try to run past dozens or
hundreds of Zin's, we don't just lose our lives, but our whole
world. I think we have to avoid them at all costs."
Fuk fist bumps Kiet's shoulder. "The other way seems best.
What could go wrong? A bit of lava sun tan?" He smiles.
Raki turns with Kell still in his hands and heads to
the end of the line to become point now. "Let's go.
I've not been to this place in a very ...long time.
I hope it hasn't changed."
Dorhak catches up to Raki to help take lead as the
last of the treasure, as much as can be carried, is
scooped up and taken in a few bags. Since not everyone
has bags aside form Unali and Fremea it is a more
limited capacity.
Raki waves a newly formed 3rd hand to quiet and slow.
He reaches the passage leading to the large chamber
with the other shape shifters. While the passage is to
the left now he peers side and side listening. But he
seems to stare at the right wall a bit as if hearing
things no one else can.
Raki extends his eye on a long eye stem around
the corner creeping a few of the party members. He
watches and then waves the party down the passage.
As Arawn walks past the point Raki was staring
he places a gloved hand on the rock then removes
one glove to feel it. He can hear a slight shudder
or vibration. But Arawn can't tell the origin inside
the thick wall. Arawn only has a second or two and
catches up with the others.
Raki reforms into normal human shape and moves
the party back down the winding passage.
Reaching the passage to the right Raki stops and
listens. But only a second passes and he rounds
the corner. "This way." Raki leads the party
down a fully dark passage. There is no lichen or
other sources of light here. But Raki seems to
care less about the darkness.
About 120 feet down the passage he stops. He
gently places Kell's body on the ground. He stares
along the right wall then approaches a thick
crack. Upon closer inspection its a crack that
leads to a small hole enough for a small pony to
fit through. The crack in the wall is about 8 feet
from ground to ceiling but initially its only about
3 feet wide. After that it opens to about 5.5 feet.
Raki turns to the others, "let me go check it
out first. Give me a minute or two." With that
he forms into a medium sized hound and crawls through
the hole into the darkness.
Fuk approaches Arawn and whispers knowing that
Raki may hear. "Can we trust him?"
Arawn is still processing the mental meld that
he and Raki had shortly before coming here. While
Raki saw most of Arawn's mind, the Alfar also saw
a bit of Raki's essence. A very lonely and scorned
being. He even saw the memory that seemed to have
been utmost in Raki's mind that of the boy Raki. the
boy whose parents were tortured and dissected by
other shifters so long ago. As the being now known
as Raki watched the family slaughtered the boy seemed
to take a shine to the shifter. That is when Raki
seemed to have felt the futility of the situation.
Then his allies approached the 5 year old boy and
then ripped him to pieces like a piece of hot bread
for dinner. Raki seems to have lived that memory
for centuries over and over.
Raki approaches and reforms into a humanoid. "It
has changed. It will be difficult but we should
have the ability. Fremea, Mae with you flying you
should take rope and may need to help others cross.
Unali and Kiet are acrobatically skilled so should
have no isuue. The others we shall see...best to
show you. Let's go."
Raki with help from others pulls Kell's body through
the small hole. Raki forms four new legs to drag the
body behind him. It is a bit abrasive but with the
small tunnel there is little choice.
The hole forms a tunnel about 3-5 feet side and 3-5
feet tall at times. Enough only to crawl through. The
tunnel is at least not craggy likely formed by lava
and smoothed out long ago. The tunnel runs the about 30
feet and then wides a bit left then another 30 feet
straight. Finally light is seen about 20 feet from the
exit of this small tunnel. A orange-red light of
obvious lava.
Dorhak crawls and finds himself at home in this place.
he studies the rock as best he can and finds it to
be secure and ancient. He hears some grunt and groan
as they drag gear and bags of loot through the small
tunnel. But to him this is just a nice cozy place.
Raki exits the tunnel and drags the body out and
places it on the ground. He helps others as the
group exits the tunnel one by one. With minor head
bumps and aching bones only.
The tunnel exits into a chamber that is much wider
and taller. One the side of the party it is about
35 feet wide and 10 feet tall. This chamber ends
forward about 35 feet to a cliff that glows. The
glow of obvious lava.
Raki looks around, "the lava is higher than I
first saw. That will cause some heat and possible
other issues. We should cross fast."
Raki gets to the edge of the chamber and peers down.
Only 4.5-5 feet down is the stream of lava that seems
to extend 40 feet away winding to the right and forward
of the party.
Across the lava extends a ledge or a lance of stone
that goes about 23-25 away from the cliff edge. This
lance of stone is only about 1.5-2.5 feet wide. But
it seem to drop down maybe 3 feet giving it a good
base foundation.
Raki looks to the group, "the stone was a lot longer
when I first saw this place. It must've fallen off a bit.
I can extend over it maybe an additional feet or so past
its edge."
The party makes a quick calculation. The distance
is around 40 feet with lance of stone about 23-25
with Raki over it maybe 31-33 feet? That leaves
maybe 5-8 feet.
Fuk asks, "can't go a bit longer there?"
Raki shakes his head, "my mass is not large enough.
My bridge will be not wide enough and I'll need some
mass to extend to the ceiling to latch on to. I'm
sure a leap that far should be doable. Fremea and
Mae can use rope to anchor each person."
Raki then forms a creature that looks like a griffin
and grabs Kell's body. He flies across to the
other side and deposits Kell body on the other side
then flies back.
Fremea and Mae fly over and drop bags of loot and
any equipment like shields and weapons that might
be a problem crossing. This takes about 6 trips each.
"I don't know about this..." Fuk shakes his head.
Raki turns to the others, "I heard the others asking
where Zin was in that large chamber. It is a matter of
minutes before an alarm could go out. There is no time.
The window would've been faster but this is the safest..."
He turns and lowers his voice. "...I hope."
Raki steps to the edge and reforms into a thin piece
of stone like flesh. He begins to unroll outward over
the lance of stone. It almost looks like a boat's
plank that is maybe 2-3 feet wide. Every 4-5 feet
though Raki forms two claw hands that extend to the
ceiling and lance deep into the stone to hope it
holds his own new displaced weight.
Dorhak shrugs knowing this is nothing major, he's done
far more dangerous things in dwarf strongholds with
ease. He steps forward and waves for Fremea and Mae.
They tie rope around his waist and under his arms.
With Fremea on the left and Mae on right he steps
onto the Raki-plank-stone.
The dwarf extends his hands for balance and steps
forward. The Raki-plank begin to sway and a creak
is heard below as the lance of stone takes a bit
of displaced weight.
Dorhak realizes these things just need to be done
fast. Slow people cause things to happen fast and
fall apart. So he moves forward walking the 20 odd
feet toward the edge of the Raki-bridge.
As he moves both fliers look down at the lava only
some 5-6 feet away. While Mae seems oddly at place in
the heat, Fremea seems a bit uncomfortable. Dorhak
actually watches the natural stone cavern around him
in wonder trying to figure out what stone is around
him. This is actually a nice place for a dwarf.
But soon Dorhak reaches the edge and realizes the
gap is just under 7 feet (maybe 6 and 3 quarters?).
Dwarves can jump ravines this wide as youths. He
adjusts his armor and backs away a couple feet. Only
7 feet it should be easy right? He glances to the
fliers and realizes they'll be here to help. He
nods to each as he runs forward, grinning and leaps.
Dorhak lands on the other side with 2 feet to
spare and rolls a couple feet laughing. That
was rather fun. Mae and Fremea are lurched a bit
forward by the leap but fly to the cliff to get
the ropes. Untying the ropes they fly back for
the next person to cross.
The next to step forward is Kiet. For a acrobat
who can tumble it should be a easy jump. With
ropes tied for safety he moves forward. Kiet warns
the fliers he is about to run-leap. He dos so
and using his acrobatic skills he lands on the other
side easily with 3 feet to spare skidding onto the
dusty ground.
Unali is next up and moves forward. She warns the
fliers and at 5 feet takes the running leap. Oddly
enough her overall ability is less than Kiet's but
she lands on the other side with 3.5 feet to spare
without even bending her knees.
Arawn decides to go next. He knows if he dies here
all will die. He takes the running leap at 4 feet
and prays as he leaps. Knowing that no god will hear
him in this world. He lands onto the other side but
with only 1.5 feet to spare. But he begins to do
a back tumble. Fremea slams into his back and pushes
him forward onto the stone. The Alfar falls to his
knees and crawls away from the edge.
Mournath is next and is confused by all this fire as
his element is water. He runs and leaps knowing that
at best he might only do 8-9 feet. But in this heat
he is bound to do less. He lands with only half a foot
from the edge. With not so a graceful fall he falls
to his knees as Mae pushes him forward to the ground
to safety. Just as the sailor leaps though a tremor hits
the cavern and shakes the area. A minor earthquake. Those
who have no crossed see the Raki-Bridge wave back and forth
as he is trying to regain his balance. From the ceiling
stone falls from his claw anchors.
The tremor ends but Arawn can feel something more
intense. Maybe what he felt outside was this lava
pit shifting? Could this entire place go up?
Pyan is urged by Z'leyra to cross. There is no
point stopping now.
Pyan is next and takes the leap. But his legs seem
to give way and he goes a bit lower than he should. He
slams into the cliff right at his stomach level. With
his feet now only about 2 feet from the lava, the fliers
pull and yank the ropes. From above Arawn and Unali
also help pull the hunter up and over the cliff side.
The fliers take a few seconds to recover and go back
to the other side.
Z'layha is next and she doesn't walk she just does a light
jog and leaps. She makes it with ease for 2.5 fet to spare.
Fuk is the most hesitant as he steps onto the Raki-bridge.
It seems forever before he moves forward with Fremea
urging him on. Sweat is now pouring down the Fae's cheeks
but it seems the almost nude ex-slave seems fine.
Halfway across another minor tremor. but this time
the lava below churns as it shifts like a bowl of water
on a table on a ship. A section of lava seems to lap
upwards as it jets high and hits about a third the way
up of the Raki-Bridge. A groan is heard as the bridge
begins to rock from the pain taken.
Confused Fuk runs and leaps but is short. The leap
takes him almost 2 feet from the cliff. Fuk begin
to scream as he falls toward the lava. But as another
spout of lava jets upward toward Fremea the Fae releases
the rope and it breaks as the lava eats the rope. She
flies backward and flips a few times trying to reorient
herself.
But while the under the arm ropes are now gone the
ropes on Fuk's waist become taunt and Mae struggles
to hold on for dear life. Mae screams as her strength
may at best hold 100 pounds but the 230 pound man is
straining. Mae glances and sees the constable is only
about 2 feet from the edge to safety. But he is now
dangling with arms and legs down back to ceiling only
about 3 feet from the lava and slipping.
The others like Arawn and Unali try to reach for
the ropes but Mae's swaying back and forth is too
hard to grab on.
Actions? Comments?
Next Update....Wednesday...
GM: This was not planned. It was by the numbers. I used
Burton's (those who know the basic pnp mailing list group)
jumping variant. Using Jump Indexes based on a formula
he came up with. It ranged from 10 (Pyan) to 16 for
the acrobats. So it seems to be a fair system. I used
the index with some rolls to see success and if any
fallback/distance jumped (with space to spare). But
the Fuk/Mae thing was just rolls. It is ironic that the
man who disliked Mae is now literally being held
aloft by her.
Portage Ability is how much one can carry x5 of that
is your lifting ability. So Mae is doing almost
twice her limit and straining. Can she make it?
Talk about a cliffhanger!
To recap Z'leyra is on other side some 30 odd feet
away. Everyone else is on the other cliff those
who try to reach out over with arms is maybe 2 feet
from the ropes. Mae is maybe 4-5 feet from the cliff
and struggling to just hold Fuk. It could also bring
her down to the lava as well.
With the Event Rolls for this scene the lava jets
did hit 3 areas including Raki and Fremea/rope. That
was just a bad dice roll. (bad for you good for
the bad guys).
Fremea can recover but may take a few seconds.
What now? :)
Sadly this is draft 2. I had a software crash on
this old pc. I had to reboot and it lost about 45
min of typing. It was a bit more detailed. So
I hope I made a good enough word image in this second
draft.
GM: Treasure.
Dorhak: grab jewelry, jewels (no gold at all on room)
Mae : belt, 1 random necklace
Fuk : heaps of jewels and jewelry
Pyan - Nothing
Party/Magical items grabbed:
Metal Helmets: 4
Bastard Sword: 3
Short Sword : 1
Daggers : 4
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