Holes/Session 54/raw
A fragment of the Garden of Remembering
< Holes | Session 54
May 27, 2015 11:08AM Apheori (GM): Food mornaing. May 27, 2015 11:08AM Frezak (GM): Phnragh! May 27, 2015 11:09AM Gaurav: Bless you. May 27, 2015 11:09AM Apheori (GM): I guess we have everyone we're going to get. I have no idea what happened, who was present, or really much of anything. May 27, 2015 11:11AM Frezak (GM): There were shadows. May 27, 2015 11:11AM Apheori (GM): But, uh, apparently y'all killed some shadows, Amadi turned the remainders into rain, and... yes. Anyone know what the porridge was up to? May 27, 2015 11:12AM Frezak (GM): GLooping? May 27, 2015 11:12AM Gaurav: Oh right. Rain and umbrellas. May 27, 2015 11:13AM Apheori (GM): How big was it? You know what, it doesn't even matter. May 27, 2015 11:13AM Gaurav: Porridge didn't do anything. I asked if it had initiative and Frezak said it had the speed of oats. May 27, 2015 11:13AM Frezak (GM): Quantum! I was probably right. May 27, 2015 11:13AM Apheori (GM): The porridge oozes over and covers Greibel. May 27, 2015 11:13AM Frezak (GM): it sounds right. May 27, 2015 11:14AM Gaurav: What kind of AC boost does being covered in sentient porridge give you? May 27, 2015 11:16AM Frezak (GM): The Armour of Oats. May 27, 2015 11:17AM Ganelon: Not enough to wash away the shame. May 27, 2015 11:17AM Gaurav: Hee. May 27, 2015 11:19AM Frezak (GM): The cleansing power of oats: May 27, 2015 11:20AM Apheori (GM): So none of you do anything about it? May 27, 2015 11:20AM Gaurav: About Greibel and his glooping porridge? Noooooo May 27, 2015 11:20AM Ganelon: I have both doubts about my ability to do anything about it, and also the actual danger posed. May 27, 2015 11:20AM Gaurav: Never get between a man and his porridge, my mum always taught me. Rhu tries to hand the drugs Greibel handed him earlier back to him. May 27, 2015 11:21AM Apheori (GM): More and more porridge seems to be covering him. May 27, 2015 11:21AM Ganelon: Anyone got a hollow tube handy so he doesn't suffocate? Also, another important point - does he even care this is happening? May 27, 2015 11:22AM Apheori (GM): Frezak suggests Radek's rifle. May 27, 2015 11:22AM Ganelon: That's not hollow on both ends. May 27, 2015 11:22AM Apheori (GM): He seems to be trying to walk. May 27, 2015 11:22AM Ganelon: Also no. May 27, 2015 11:22AM Frezak (GM): IT COULD BE May 27, 2015 11:22AM Apheori (GM): But it's not working very well. May 27, 2015 11:22AM Ganelon: No. Rhu pokes at the porridge. May 27, 2015 11:24AM Ganelon: But really, unless you want me to set him on fire to try and bake the porridge, I haven't really got a way to stop a completely amorphous entity from covering someone. May 27, 2015 11:25AM Rhu: rolling d20+15 Heal check on Greibel ( 7 )+15 = 22 May 27, 2015 11:25AM Gaurav: Mostly, I want to check if the porridge is affecting Greibel's brain function in any way. May 27, 2015 11:26AM Apheori (GM): You ascertain that the porridge seems to be alive and growing. May 27, 2015 11:26AM Gaurav: ... growing? Uh oh. May 27, 2015 11:26AM Apheori (GM): You recall Greibel was in there, but there isn't much sign of him anymore. It's basically just a large, lumpy, vaguely conical lump. May 27, 2015 11:27AM Frezak (GM): I POKE IT With a stick May 27, 2015 11:27AM Gaurav: It's too late. Greibel has been consigned to an oaty grave. We should bury him and move on. May 27, 2015 11:27AM Frezak (GM): to see if there's a druid in there May 27, 2015 11:28AM Gaurav: I wonder what would happen if he were to transform into a swarm of bees right now. May 27, 2015 11:28AM Frezak (GM): They would be really upset bees? May 27, 2015 11:29AM Gaurav: I mean, would each bee be wrapped in a tiny bit of porridge, or would they all be stuck as a ball inside all of the porridge. What if a bee escapes? Stuff like that. May 27, 2015 11:30AM Ganelon: We've already pondered the question of how druid swarms even maintain a gestalt intelligence. In short, it's weird and magic. And I don't think they can separate from the same close area. May 27, 2015 11:30AM Apheori (GM): The stick goes in slightly and then gets stuck. May 27, 2015 11:31AM Frezak (GM): I relinquish the stick. Defeat! May 27, 2015 11:31AM Gaurav: Ah, never mind then. Rhu remembers that one of the shadows was consumed by an invisible thing beside Greibel, and he starts saying "Hello?" and waving his arms in the empty space. May 27, 2015 11:31AM Rhu: rolling d20+15 perception check ( 8 )+15 = 23 May 27, 2015 11:34AM Apheori (GM): Rhu: You see porridge tracks. May 27, 2015 11:34AM Frezak (GM): More of a trail, really. like an oaty slug May 27, 2015 11:35AM Apheori (GM): Little porridges coming together into big porridge... May 27, 2015 11:35AM Frezak (GM): A porridge singularity: We're DOOOOMED May 27, 2015 11:35AM Gaurav: We're heading towards a Hole. We're doomed anyway. Rhu follows the trail. May 27, 2015 11:36AM Frezak (GM): Yeah, but we could do with LESS dooms. May 27, 2015 11:37AM Apheori (GM): ...any trail in particular? May 27, 2015 11:37AM Gaurav: If we got a comically large magnifying glass as part of our Sarathi expedition supplies, Rhu will take it out and do his best Elmer Fudd impression. Do the trails converge on a point? Is that point Greibel? May 27, 2015 11:37AM Apheori (GM): The little ones all go off in random directions. ...yes. And yes. May 27, 2015 11:38AM Ellemerr (GM): Amadi hands the porridge a cup of hot chocolate. May 27, 2015 11:38AM Gaurav: Any trails heading towards one of the walls, or do they go down the corridor? May 27, 2015 11:38AM Frezak (GM): Can I x-ray the Porridge Form for a bong? May 27, 2015 11:39AM Apheori (GM): Instead of accepting the hot chocolate, all the porridge collapses into the floor and disappears, leaving something of a horrible dark hole behind. May 27, 2015 11:39AM Frezak (GM): Because Greibel wouldn't be without it. It's the soruce of his power. May 27, 2015 11:39AM Gaurav: Ew. May 27, 2015 11:39AM Frezak (GM): GREAT A HOLE YAY May 27, 2015 11:39AM Apheori (GM): Gaurav: All of the above. May 27, 2015 11:39AM Gaurav: We should try offering more of our enemies hot chocolate. Rhu follows the largest trail that leads towards the wall. He'll poke at the trails as he goes, looking for clues. May 27, 2015 11:40AM Ellemerr (GM): Um. Where's Greibel? May 27, 2015 11:40AM Gaurav: Towards a wall, I guess. The nearest wall. May 27, 2015 11:40AM Frezak (GM): I shine my Space Elf issue Flashlight down this new hole. May 27, 2015 11:40AM Apheori (GM): Rhu spends the next hour following all the porridge trails up walls, down floor, etc etc. He finds they all just sort of randomly start out of nowhere and needs to give me a perception check. May 27, 2015 11:41AM Rhu: rolling d20+15 perception check on random trails ( 10 )+15 = 25 May 27, 2015 11:41AM Gaurav: Up walls. Nice. May 27, 2015 11:41AM Apheori (GM): Rhu notices the shadows at the edge of the light and doesn't walk into them and get devoured. May 27, 2015 11:41AM Frezak (GM): oats don't bow to gravity. May 27, 2015 11:41AM Gaurav: YAY! May 27, 2015 11:41AM Apheori (GM): Unless he really wants to or something. May 27, 2015 11:42AM Frezak (GM): Hug your doom! May 27, 2015 11:42AM Gaurav: No no. Undevoured is fine. May 27, 2015 11:42AM Frezak (GM): Embrace it like a comfortable bear! May 27, 2015 11:42AM Gaurav: Rhu's doom is waiting for him at a dead end somewhere. Anyway, brb. I'll be back in 10 mins. May 27, 2015 11:44AM Apheori (GM): Okay, so presumably that didn't actually go on for an hour. May 27, 2015 11:44AM Frezak (GM): Gravy shouts down the hole. May 27, 2015 11:45AM The Gravedigger: GRAAAAAAAAVES May 27, 2015 11:45AM Frezak (GM): Maaaaybe it's echolocation. May 27, 2015 11:45AM Apheori (GM): It completely fails to echo. May 27, 2015 11:45AM Ganelon: The real question is whether it's a hole or, you know, a Hole. May 27, 2015 11:45AM Frezak (GM): Maybe he's just shouting. Damn you, echolocation! You fail me in my most dire of hours! 10-foot poles! Deploy a drone? Probably safer than spelunking. May 27, 2015 11:47AM Ganelon: A fair point. May 27, 2015 11:47AM Frezak (GM): That said short of evil darkness, Gravy could probably just jump down most caves. May 27, 2015 11:48AM Ganelon: But I want to know what we're dealing with before I even toss junk in there. May 27, 2015 11:48AM Frezak (GM): No light, no echo.... Does it smell like a Hole? A capitalised hole? May 27, 2015 11:49AM Midoriki Hano: It smells like a dead end. May 27, 2015 11:49AM Frezak (GM): ... Gravy pushes hazz down the hole. Roll to punt: rolling 1D20+11 ( 11 )+11 = 22 AC? Reflex? May 27, 2015 11:52AM Apheori (GM): Something. She's knocked flying into the hole. May 27, 2015 11:53AM Frezak (GM): Against MYSTERY Have at thee, mystery! May 27, 2015 11:53AM Apheori (GM): Kyrule appears behind Gravy and giggles. May 27, 2015 11:53AM The Gravedigger: Oh, hey. May 27, 2015 11:53AM Kyrule: Ahem. Yes. Hello. The Gravedigger shouts down the hole. May 27, 2015 11:53AM The Gravedigger: OKAY IN THERE? May 27, 2015 11:53AM Ganelon: I can't really disagree with this course of action. May 27, 2015 11:54AM Kyrule: I'm sure he's fine. She's. Something? May 27, 2015 11:54AM Radek: What about Greibel? May 27, 2015 11:54AM The Gravedigger: Well, he's not here. May 27, 2015 11:54AM Radek: Is he "fine"? May 27, 2015 11:55AM The Gravedigger: Difficult to say. Since. You know. He's not here. Amadi shrugs. May 27, 2015 11:55AM Amadi: Soft landing. Oaty. Kyrule leans over and peers down into the hole. May 27, 2015 11:55AM Kyrule: I'm not sure there will be much of a... landing. The Gravedigger 's eyes light up. May 27, 2015 11:56AM The Gravedigger: Jetpacks! May 27, 2015 11:56AM Kyrule: You'll see him again. May 27, 2015 11:56AM Amadi: Well, a cushioned fall that... doesn't end. May 27, 2015 11:56AM Kyrule: You might even see both of them again. Though I do hope not. May 27, 2015 11:56AM The Gravedigger: Hey! I quite like Greibel! May 27, 2015 11:56AM (From Ellemerr (GM)): Where's my bong? May 27, 2015 11:56AM The Gravedigger: Somehow! May 27, 2015 11:57AM (To Ellemerr): Your bong is just... gone. But also not. It's... right here, in fact? May 27, 2015 11:57AM Kyrule: I'm kidding. Mostly. Radek grumbles. Amadi leans over the hole, looking a tiny bit like she's about to just fall into it. May 27, 2015 11:58AM Amadi: He's... not terribly gone... somehow. The Gravedigger throws drugs down the hole. May 27, 2015 11:58AM The Gravedigger: In case he gets lonely. May 27, 2015 11:59AM Amadi: I wonder what'd happen if he used... Amadi mumbles. May 27, 2015 11:59AM Frezak (GM): Perception to clarify the mumble! rolling 1D20+14+10 ( 1 )+14+10 = 25 May 27, 2015 12:00PM Gaurav: Mumbling intensifies. Kyrule points at Gaurav and laughs. May 27, 2015 12:01PM Kyrule: Er, ooc. May 27, 2015 12:01PM Apheori (GM): ...sorry. >.> May 27, 2015 12:01PM Frezak (GM): Even the gods mock you! May 27, 2015 12:01PM Gaurav: Yes. They do. May 27, 2015 12:02PM (From Amadi): "I wonder what'd happen if he used my/his mumble-bumble-thingy-whatsnot to blah blah blah..." May 27, 2015 12:02PM Apheori (GM): So your god just got shoved in a hole. May 27, 2015 12:02PM Gaurav: I'm just going to say that Rhu was peering intensely at a wall while his god was unceremoniously dumped into a torn piece of the fabric of the universe itself by his so-called friend. ^ May 27, 2015 12:03PM Frezak (GM): If pushed, Gravy will blame Amadi. May 27, 2015 12:03PM Ganelon: It wasn't that kind of hole. May 27, 2015 12:03PM Apheori (GM): Gaarav: Perception. Also literal hole in the floor. May 27, 2015 12:03PM Rhu: rolling d20+15 perception check ( 3 )+15 = 18 May 27, 2015 12:03PM Ganelon: Also the world is better off without. May 27, 2015 12:03PM Gaurav: I like Hazz'. But then I like Dave, so what do I know. Sorry, Dawn. May 27, 2015 12:04PM Frezak (GM): Gravy whistles. Scuffs a foot in the dirt. Hands behind his back. hands that hold a giant sarcophagus lid and a shovel. May 27, 2015 12:04PM Apheori (GM): Rhu: Okay, fine, you missed the exact details, but you definitely heard something get hit with a shovel and saw Hazz anime boobchick fall into the floor hole. May 27, 2015 12:04PM Rhu: HEY! May 27, 2015 12:04PM Apheori (GM): And now there's Gravy. Doing that. May 27, 2015 12:04PM Amadi: Hello! May 27, 2015 12:04PM Gaurav: Hee, boobchick. May 27, 2015 12:04PM The Gravedigger: Hey? May 27, 2015 12:05PM Apheori (GM): Oh, and Kyrule's back to normal. Just grey and godly and masked and not an anime boobchick. Also her hair is a bit crazy, and in a completely different style from before. There seems to be a sausage embedded in it for some reason. May 27, 2015 12:05PM Rhu: (runs up to Hole, peers inside) HELLO? HELLO? (to Gravy) Did you just shove my god in there? May 27, 2015 12:06PM Apheori (GM): Not a rift hole, just a broken floor hole. It looks dark and rocky and there is no echo when you shout down. May 27, 2015 12:06PM Gaurav: Oh, sorry. I misinterpreted what Hazz' said before his exit. The Gravedigger looks at his shovel. May 27, 2015 12:06PM The Gravedigger: Um. No? Maybe? May 27, 2015 12:07PM Rhu: Not cool, man, not cool. May 27, 2015 12:07PM The Gravedigger: Hey, he killed me. Tit for... uh... tit. May 27, 2015 12:07PM Rhu: You know he's pissed off at me already, and I'm pretty sure we need all the godly intervention we can get for this stupid suicid-- wait, what? May 27, 2015 12:08PM The Gravedigger: Yeah. Your god's a bit of a dick. Kyrule tries to look innocent and inconspicuous behind Gravy. May 27, 2015 12:08PM Amadi: I tried to stop her. But I'm not Squirrel. May 27, 2015 12:08PM Gaurav: Which is totally doable, given Gravy's size. May 27, 2015 12:09PM Apheori (GM): Also Kyrule is really big, so she's not actually managing to hide at all. So you can totally see this. May 27, 2015 12:09PM Rhu: (looks from Gravy to Amadi and back again, then shouts down the hole) DID YOU KILL HIM? May 27, 2015 12:09PM Gaurav: Psh, like Rhu would notice. May 27, 2015 12:09PM Frezak (GM): So tempted to punt Rhu in. May 27, 2015 12:09PM Gaurav: omg do it Kyrule whispers behind Gravy, "You know you want to." May 27, 2015 12:10PM Frezak (GM): The votes are in! Gravy just whacks Rhu on the butt. May 27, 2015 12:10PM Gaurav: That's one PC and one reasonably competent god against nil. I got 17 reflex. What you got? May 27, 2015 12:10PM Frezak (GM): Also the GM herself is egging me on. rolling 1D20+11 ( 20 )+11 = 31 May 27, 2015 12:11PM Apheori (GM): Rhu topples into the hole. Radek edges further away from the hole - and Gravy. May 27, 2015 12:11PM Ganelon: I'm not going to be next. No way, man. May 27, 2015 12:11PM Gaurav: Gravy, solving this party's problems one character at a time. May 27, 2015 12:11PM Apheori (GM): Gravy, Amadi: You think you see a tentacle reachng up to meet him right as he disappears entirely into shadow. May 27, 2015 12:11PM Frezak (GM): MEET YOUR GOD Amadi smacks Gravy over the back of the head. (She might have to climb onto him to do this.) May 27, 2015 12:12PM The Gravedigger: Okay, now we can get some work done! That's.. uh... you, Radek. May 27, 2015 12:12PM Radek: ...Yes. Well. May 27, 2015 12:13PM Gaurav: Important question: did Amadi ever actually get off Rhu's shoulders? She was braiding his hair when the last encounter began. May 27, 2015 12:13PM Radek: ...Onwards, then. May 27, 2015 12:13PM Frezak (GM): HAHAHAHA May 27, 2015 12:13PM Apheori (GM): O.o Apheori (GM) falls over laughing. May 27, 2015 12:13PM Kyrule: Actually, maybe... you shouldn't have done that. May 27, 2015 12:14PM The Gravedigger: Ooops. May 27, 2015 12:14PM Kyrule: Maybe. May 27, 2015 12:14PM Apheori (GM): Hmm. Let's see... rolling 1d3 ( 2 ) = 2 Okay, Amadi was on him, but fell off when he got punted in. May 27, 2015 12:15PM Frezak (GM): Whew! May 27, 2015 12:15PM Apheori (GM): She was just by the edge of it. And now she's on him punching Gravy. Which I guess is why you both would have been able to see the tentacle, yeah. Also we should... go buy food. Because we're all horrible at planning. So, uh. May 27, 2015 12:18PM Gaurav: BYE May 27, 2015 12:20PM Apheori (GM): Right, we'll be back in a bit, sorry about. May 27, 2015 12:20PM Gaurav: I'm in no rush. Take your time and have a nice dinner! May 27, 2015 12:48PM Apheori (GM): Okay, we got dinner for tomorrow and stuff. And breakfast. And lunch. There was arguing. May 27, 2015 12:49PM Gaurav: Any porridge? May 27, 2015 12:52PM Apheori (GM): That was dinner. So to recap, the current situation is... Uh... May 27, 2015 12:53PM Ellemerr (GM): Dinner today. May 27, 2015 12:53PM Apheori (GM): Gravy pushed Hazz and Rhu into a hole in the ground. Greibel is gone. This leaves Gravy, Radek, Amadi, and Kyrule in the tunnel around a hole in the ground? Is this the point where you head out onwards as Radek suggested, and stop for a relaxed lunch along the way? May 27, 2015 12:55PM Gaurav: I don't suppose Rhu is in a position to shout up out of the hole at everybody else? May 27, 2015 12:56PM Apheori (GM): Rhu is gone. Goooone. May 27, 2015 12:56PM Gaurav: Well then. May 27, 2015 12:56PM Apheori (GM): ...I should probably figure something out with that. May 27, 2015 12:57PM Gaurav: We can figure that out next week if necessary. I'm pretty excited, since this is a particularly messed up time in the Rhu-Hazz' relationship for them to be stuck together somewhere, which should be fun. May 27, 2015 12:58PM Apheori (GM): Uh, care to have a nice chat with your god? May 27, 2015 12:58PM Frezak (GM): They can play games! Charades! May 27, 2015 12:58PM Apheori (GM): One on one? All alone? Weightless? May 27, 2015 12:58PM Frezak (GM): WITH NO ESCAPE IN SIGHT? May 27, 2015 12:58PM Gaurav: You say that like Rhu doesn't do that every few weeks anyway. May 27, 2015 12:58PM Frezak (GM): ... That's a really good point. May 27, 2015 12:58PM Gaurav: Up to you. I'm happy to watch everybody else adventure for a while, too. May 27, 2015 12:59PM Apheori (GM): Have a chat. I don't expect it will last long. May 27, 2015 12:59PM Rhu: ...so. May 27, 2015 12:59PM Apheori (GM): Rhu: You are suspended in blackness. As far as you can tell. Also Hazz. Though you can't actually see him/her. May 27, 2015 12:59PM Frezak (GM): Doesn't he have Hair-o-Vision? May 27, 2015 1:00PM Apheori (GM): It may be in his bag. May 27, 2015 1:00PM Gaurav: Yeah, I don't think I have it on. Do I have my bag with me? Rhu attempts to move around in the empty blackness. May 27, 2015 1:00PM Frezak (GM): I'm not aware that you were disequipped? May 27, 2015 1:01PM Gaurav: It might be a blackness of the mind and not the body, in which case I might not have access to my things. I -> Rhu May 27, 2015 1:01PM Hazz'ridan: So. May 27, 2015 1:02PM Rhu: I don't suppose you did kill Gravy. May 27, 2015 1:02PM Hazz'ridan: I did. May 27, 2015 1:02PM Frezak (GM): As if Gravy would lie! May 27, 2015 1:02PM Apheori (GM): Hazz isn't going to either. Probably. May 27, 2015 1:02PM Gaurav: As if Gravy would shove party members into holes! May 27, 2015 1:03PM Apheori (GM): Well. Things happen. Rhu sighs. May 27, 2015 1:03PM Frezak (GM): Frankly, blame Names on that one. May 27, 2015 1:03PM Rhu: This is a pretty crazy party. May 27, 2015 1:03PM Apheori (GM): You didn't HAVE to. May 27, 2015 1:03PM Frezak (GM): I did it because YOU TOLD ME TO PUSH YOUR CHARACTER DOWN THE HOLE BLAME YOURSELF May 27, 2015 1:04PM Rhu: Is there any way to get back to the others, or do we have to wait for Mrs. Teatime to come rescue us again? May 27, 2015 1:04PM Frezak (GM): You are your own downfall. May 27, 2015 1:04PM Gaurav: I am Rhu's downfall. Which is fair, really. Hazz'ridan chucks Rhu back up out of the hole. May 27, 2015 1:04PM Gaurav: What. Like undercooked meat. May 27, 2015 1:04PM Apheori (GM): So Rhu comes up with a tentacle, bounces off the ceiling, and lands in a heap next to Radek. Comes up flung via tentacle, I mean. May 27, 2015 1:05PM Rhu: Ow. May 27, 2015 1:05PM The Gravedigger: Hey! Done with so soon? May 27, 2015 1:05PM Apheori (GM): Is Gan still here ? May 27, 2015 1:05PM Rhu: Hi. I think we're all even now. Maybe. May 27, 2015 1:06PM Gaurav: Any tentacles still in the area? May 27, 2015 1:06PM Apheori (GM): A small chunk of porridge jiggles on Gravy's shoulder. No tentacles, though. May 27, 2015 1:06PM The Gravedigger: Hokay! Radek? May 27, 2015 1:07PM Rhu: rolling d20+10 religion check to thank Hazz' for his redemption/rescue ( 7 )+10 = 17 May 27, 2015 1:07PM Apheori (GM): You don't need to roll for that. You thank your god. He's thanked. Yadda. May 27, 2015 1:08PM Gaurav: Shh. This is Rhu's first chat-with-god religion check in ages. Let him have his moment. May 27, 2015 1:10PM Ganelon: I'm back. May 27, 2015 1:11PM Apheori (GM): Rhu got flung back at you. He landed next to you. You were about to just head out anyway? May 27, 2015 1:11PM Ganelon: Yes. May 27, 2015 1:12PM Frezak (GM): Radek remains as STEEEEEL Radek grumbles and shakes his head as he steps over (not on top of) Rhu. May 27, 2015 1:12PM Radek: It's a wonder anyone fears the unknown these days... May 27, 2015 1:13PM Ganelon: Damn youngsters don't even appreciate the unspeakable terrors they find themselves facing. May 27, 2015 1:13PM Kyrule: People don't know what unspeakable horrors lie beneath. Easy to only see what you see. May 27, 2015 1:15PM Radek: Hmph. Only because you've all gone soft. Back in my day, we were never this blind. May 27, 2015 1:15PM Ganelon: Damn gods keeping us mortals ignorant for our own well-being. May 27, 2015 1:15PM Amadi: I'm not actually blind, I'm just wearing shades in the middle of the night. It's a fashion statement. Kyrule pulls the sausage out of her hair and mutters, "yeah, blind," and then starts munching on it. May 27, 2015 1:16PM Ganelon: He'll be heading down this tunnel, whether or not anyone actually cares to follow him. The Gravedigger 's eyes widen. May 27, 2015 1:16PM The Gravedigger: Sausages! Amadi draws out some sausages for Gravy. May 27, 2015 1:17PM Ganelon: ...That sounds like an answer. May 27, 2015 1:17PM Apheori (GM): Y'all head after Radek. The Gravedigger produces his own sausages (ALL FOUR KINDS) and declares this to be The Time Of Lunching As Soon As We're Out Of This Cave May 27, 2015 1:17PM Ganelon: Damn sausages, stealing my thugs' attention away from matters of great import! Rhu cheers. May 27, 2015 1:18PM Ellemerr (GM): Answer to what? Right then! Tunneling! Are there moles? May 27, 2015 1:22PM Apheori (GM): Uh, okay. You head down the tunnel. Passage. Thing. No moles. Not even dead ones. There are some... people. They're all frozen in place. May 27, 2015 1:22PM Ganelon: Oh, that's remarkable. May 27, 2015 1:22PM Apheori (GM): In the middle of actions. May 27, 2015 1:22PM Frezak (GM): BASILISKS? May 27, 2015 1:23PM Ganelon: What's keeping them frozen? May 27, 2015 1:23PM Apheori (GM): The first one you come to is running as if in utter terror. Behind him are others, as though following, chasing or whatever. Nothing apparent is keeping them frozen. May 27, 2015 1:24PM Frezak (GM): I poke one. May 27, 2015 1:25PM Apheori (GM): Which one? The first one? May 27, 2015 1:25PM Frezak (GM): Closest, yeah. With a shovel. May 27, 2015 1:25PM Apheori (GM): Kyrule stops you, or at least moves to stop the shovel with a hand on it. Like, you know. Gestury. Of stopping. Like someone... stopping... ...er. May 27, 2015 1:25PM Frezak (GM): Sure. May 27, 2015 1:26PM Apheori (GM): The one in front is some sort of warrior-looking guy in leathers and stuff. He has swords, but they're not out. The chasers look like an odd mixture of soldiers, peasants, and aliens. A few of them are glowing. May 27, 2015 1:26PM Ganelon: Sounds like magic is afoot. Shall I roll the thing? May 27, 2015 1:26PM Frezak (GM): I halt my pokage? May 27, 2015 1:26PM Ganelon: The understanding thing? May 27, 2015 1:27PM Apheori (GM): Roll all the things. Yes. May 27, 2015 1:27PM Gaurav: Aliens? May 27, 2015 1:27PM Ganelon: rolling 1d20+16 Thing ( 18 )+16 = 34 May 27, 2015 1:27PM Apheori (GM): Also it would help if I could remember if anyone ever mentioned this. Gan: Looks like some sort of temporal distortion - they're not actually frozen. Probably. Well, relative to you they totally are, but from the ambience you get the feeling that really you're just moving really really fast and they're normal. Aliens as in... not elven or human, but I guess they're humanoid or something. Maybe. I dunno. May 27, 2015 1:29PM Gaurav: It's times like this that we need to ask ourselves the important question: what would Greibel do? May 27, 2015 1:29PM Ganelon: "What drug would Greibel do in these trying times?" "Oh, definitely PCP. No doubt." May 27, 2015 1:29PM Frezak (GM): Get high? May 27, 2015 1:29PM Ellemerr (GM): I can produce drugs if you want them. May 27, 2015 1:29PM Frezak (GM): I'm... good, I think. And with godly fortitude, probably pretty resistant to drugs. May 27, 2015 1:33PM Gaurav: I... thought maybe throw porridge in their faces, but that works too I guess. May 27, 2015 1:33PM Rhu: Can either of you gods unfreeze them somehow? May 27, 2015 1:33PM Kyrule: We're currently kind of outside of time. I wouldn't touch them. May 27, 2015 1:34PM Rhu: What happens if we touch them? May 27, 2015 1:34PM Amadi: Separate time-streams! Like two rivers running at different speed. Which can totally happen. May 27, 2015 1:35PM Radek: Consider this, Rhu. An object moving at sufficient speed relative to its observer is effectively undetectable. If we have even the slightest semblance of mass, contact with these people could potentially annihilate them. May 27, 2015 1:36PM Kyrule: You can break the weak forces within atoms. It's fun. May 27, 2015 1:36PM Ganelon: Gods! No sense of responsibility! May 27, 2015 1:36PM Frezak (GM): rolling 1D20+4 ( 17 )+4 = 21 Gravy trying to grasp science May 27, 2015 1:37PM Rhu: So it's something to do with the observer's relative. Hmm, interesting. May 27, 2015 1:37PM (To Frezak): (whispering) Also this is totally wod magic and I have no idea how well it even works according to the laws of physics or anything anyway. May 27, 2015 1:37PM The Gravedigger: It's fine, the differential in temporal rates is vast enough that the slipstream would only shear off a minor value of particles. May 27, 2015 1:38PM (To Frezak): (whispering) So who even knows what could happen. May 27, 2015 1:38PM The Gravedigger: Or so they say. May 27, 2015 1:38PM Rhu: I think Holy Kyrule is right, though. I think it will be fun. May 27, 2015 1:38PM Radek: ...Just leave them undisturbed. May 27, 2015 1:38PM Frezak (GM): FUN?! May 27, 2015 1:38PM Kyrule: That was sarcasm. May 27, 2015 1:38PM Rhu: Oh. May 27, 2015 1:38PM Ganelon: How minor is Gravy talking here? The Gravedigger runs around them in slow motion. May 27, 2015 1:38PM The Gravedigger: Toooooo faaaaaasssssst fooooorrrrr yyyyooouuuu Caaaaaant caaaaatchhhh meeeee Iiiiiiiim theeeeee giiiiingerrrrbreaaaaad maaaaaan Radek clears his throat. Loudly. The Gravedigger stops immediately and salutes. Kyrule goes up to the fleeing guy and almost - very nearly - touches him. Kyrule just looks really, really sad for a moment and back away. May 27, 2015 1:41PM Amadi: rolling 1d20 ( 6 ) = 6 Amadi tries to drop a sausage into their time-stream, right in front of a runner's face. May 27, 2015 1:42PM Gaurav: Amadi: YAY! May 27, 2015 1:42PM Radek: Let us continue. May 27, 2015 1:42PM Gaurav: I know this might destroy the universe as we know it, but I approve strongly. May 27, 2015 1:42PM Apheori (GM): Amadi tries this on one of the pursuers. ...it explodes. May 27, 2015 1:42PM The Gravedigger: Noooooo! May 27, 2015 1:42PM Apheori (GM): Both pursuer and sausage. May 27, 2015 1:43PM Amadi: ... Oooops? May 27, 2015 1:43PM Apheori (GM): ...and a bit of the floor underneath. But in slow motion. Radek facepalms. Amadi whistles and skips after Radek. May 27, 2015 1:43PM The Gravedigger: Maybe don't do that again? May 27, 2015 1:43PM Amadi: Yes, let's go! May 27, 2015 1:43PM Apheori (GM): Just a weird expanding explosion. Glowing. May 27, 2015 1:43PM Gaurav: Uh oh. May 27, 2015 1:43PM Apheori (GM): Getting bigger really, really slowly. Kyrule face-palms. May 27, 2015 1:43PM The Gravedigger: Let's go.... a leetle faster? Rhu nods at Gravy and is clearly ready to run for it. May 27, 2015 1:44PM Frezak (GM): Hustle! Kyrule hangs back and puts out the explosion while y'all run away and then suddenly appears with you again a moment later. May 27, 2015 1:46PM Apheori (GM): Also Kyrule did something else with the fleeing guy but nobody cares. Ahem. May 27, 2015 1:46PM Gaurav: What? May 27, 2015 1:47PM Ganelon: It was probably someone important to her. May 27, 2015 1:47PM Frezak (GM): He is now wearing a fez May 27, 2015 1:48PM Apheori (GM): Yes. That is now canon. May 27, 2015 1:49PM Frezak (GM): Sweet! May 27, 2015 1:51PM Apheori (GM): Now I need to look up what actually happens here. Uh. Actually no, there was no visible change at all and she just grumbled a bit and left him there. Sorry. No fez. Also the guy looked utterly terrified, though I forget why I might have thought this was important. Interesting. Uh. May 27, 2015 1:54PM Apheori (GM): So y'all go on down the passage. There's more folks, all frozen, but now they're more just milling around or clustered. There are a couple on the ceiling. Roll sanity? May 27, 2015 1:54PM Amadi: rolling 1d20 ( 11 ) = 11 May 27, 2015 1:55PM Frezak (GM): rolling 1D20 ( 6 ) = 6 May 27, 2015 1:56PM Ganelon: rolling 1d20 ( 5 ) = 5 Hoo hooooo May 27, 2015 2:00PM Frezak (GM): ONe day we'll get snake eyes again. May 27, 2015 2:00PM Apheori (GM): Okay. That's weird. There's weirdness. And stuff. And light. And distortion. It's not night. Yadda yadda. We should go to bed. May 27, 2015 2:00PM Apheori (GM): Goodbyw. e May 27, 2015 2:01PM Rhu: rolling d20 ( 7 ) = 7 May 27, 2015 2:01PM Ellemerr (GM): Mhm! Sweet nightmares. May 27, 2015 2:01PM Gaurav: Good night, all. Are we playing any more this week? May 27, 2015 2:01PM Ellemerr (GM): Veeeeery doubtful. May 27, 2015 2:02PM Gaurav: Cool. See you all next time, then! May 27, 2015 2:02PM Ellemerr (GM): Have fun! May 27, 2015 2:03PM Apheori (GM): Rhu: Schoolgirls. May 27, 2015 2:04PM Frezak (GM): Pervert! May 27, 2015 2:04PM Gaurav: Rhu is thinking only of his god. May 27, 2015 2:16PM Apheori (GM): His god is one. HEEE ISSSSS.
