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The party piles up the stairs. The upstairs is full of magical treasure, some sort of office/magical workspace, from the look of it, complete with a magical desk and chair set, cabinets, and bookshelves. The shelves contain a bunch of ritual books, among other, stranger books.
The party piles up the stairs. The upstairs is full of magical treasure, some sort of office/magical workspace, from the look of it, complete with a magical desk and chair set, cabinets, and bookshelves. The shelves contain a bunch of ritual books, among other, stranger books.


Some magical weapons and a pickaxe are lying around, and there is also a stand covered in tacky costume jewelry.
Some magical weapons and a pickaxe are lying around, and there is also a stand covered in tacky costume jewelry. A shiny blue orb is with the jewelry.


GREIBEL
GREIBEL
Oooo.
Oooo.


Greibel rushes to sit in the chair and recline, putting his feet up on the desk.
Greibel rushes to sit in the chair and recline, putting his feet up on the desk. It's nice and comfy.


Rhu opens a cabinet and finds a heap of zombie parts.
Rhu opens a cabinet and finds a heap of zombie parts.
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Dawn fights back.
Dawn fights back.


Radek hurries over to the books to make sure he's not missing anything good.
Radek hurries over to the books to make sure he's not missing anything good, but the two midget godlings and blocking most of it, hissy-slapping each other and grabbing books out of each other's hands.
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Radek tries to pick them up, one hand for each of them, but with them fighting like this it doesn't entirely work. The Gravedigger, however, has no trouple at all picking them up and putting them down elsewhere. In a corner.
 
As Radek sorts through the books, he tosses the ones he's not interested in towards them.
 
''Tenser's Flaming Trousers'' bounces off Amadi's head.
 
Radek winds up with a pile of ritual books: ''Silence'', ''Water Walk'', ''Magic Mouth'', 2 ''Secret Page''s, ''Tenser's Floating Disk'', ''Hand of Fate'', ''Sending'', ''Knock'', ''Leomund's Secret Chest'', ''Raise Dead'', and ''Forbiddance''.
 
Radek throws the second ''Secret Page'' at the godlings as well, then surreptitiously begins to stuff ritual books into his bag.


The Gravedigger walks up behind Radek and looms helpfully.


<pre>
Radek looks up as the shadow appears from behind and finds Gravy. Smiling helpfully.
Apheori (GM): I picture Dawn and Amadi hissy-slapping each other and grabbing books out of each other's hands.
And they're blocking the way to the rest of the books.
Gaurav: Victoria's Arcane Secrets?
Apheori (GM): Gaurav: Yes.
Some of that, too.
Ganelon: Aren't they both extremely lightweight?
Apheori (GM): Yes.
You probably could just pick them up and move them.
Ellemerr: It shouldn't be too hard to stop us.
Apheori (GM): Even with your strength.
Ganelon: He'll just use one hand for each of them to lift them up and move them out of the way.
Frezak (GM): I just pick them up and put them down elsewhere.
They can fight in a corner.
Ellemerr: FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT
Ganelon: As he sorts through the books, he'll toss the ones he's not interested in towards them.
Ellemerr: Wheeee
Frezak (GM): Does anyone want the weapons?
I can't remember whether Avengers can use greatswords.
Ellemerr: I use longsword, not greatsword. Says my sheet.
Apheori (GM): Amadi: Tenser's Flaming Trousers bounces off your head.
Frezak (GM): Huh, they can.
Ellemerr: I don't even have Amadi in my builder. I don't even think I've got her at the right level...
Gaurav: Avengers can use military melee. But I've already got a 2d6 maul. Are great swords better?
Apheori (GM): Radek: You wind up with a pile of ritual books: Silence, Water Walk, Magic Mouth, 2 Secret Pages, Tenser's Floating Disk, Hand of Fate, Sending, Knock. Leomund's Secret Chest, Raise Dead, Forbiddance
Feel free to throw any of those you already have at them too.
Ganelon: That's a lot of books!
Hold on as I make note of all this.
Frezak (GM): Greatswords are... 1D10, but have an extra +1 to hit.
Apheori (GM): Oh, the orb is an Orb of Indisputable Gravity. I dunno what that means, but it sounded funny.
Frezak (GM): I think it's an implement that's used to stop flying creatures.
Apheori (GM): The magic necklace is whatever the hell you want it to be, within reason.
You could use it on... uh... er.
Gaurav: 1d10 + 1 < 2d6, though. But thanks for looking that up!
We could use the magic necklace to tame sphinxes.
Ganelon: He actually did not know any of those rituals.
So they can just have the spare Secret Page.
Also, my gods. Forbiddance is a L20.
Which isn't a problem, necessarily, except that it's 5000 GP and 5 surges to cast, so maybe don't ask Radek to do it unless we really, really need to be scry-proof.
Apheori (GM): Heheh.
Gaurav: How completely scry-proof can you be when there's gods in your party?
Frezak (GM): You could break it down, though.
Radek surreptitiously begins to stuff ritual books into his bag.
Gaurav: I assume it'd be like trying to hide a screaming dinosaur.
Ganelon: It's like putting up a gigantic glass wall, Gaurav. And scrying sensors, as well as anyone attempting to teleport, are birds.
They never reach the godling because there's a glass wall in the way.
Less "hiding" and more "preemptively stopping".
Apheori (GM): It blocks anything of equal or lesser level.
And the godlings are of equal or lesser level.
I think.
Gaurav: Ah, okay.
Frezak (GM): Gravy walks up behind Radek and looms helpfully.
Apheori (GM): But what he said.
Frezak (GM): I imagine radek bent over his sack.
Eyes going from side to side.
Ganelon: Nah, it's worse than that. It blocks things of equal or lesser level from getting /in/.
Frezak (GM): And then this shadow just appears from behind.
And there's Gravy.
Smiling helpfully.
Ganelon: So something better than Radek attempting to scry him will still see through it.


RADEK
RADEK
...What? Did you need something?
...What? Did you need something?
Apheori (GM): It should be based on arcana, not base level. >.>
 
Radek lifts another book off the shelf.
Radek lifts another book off the shelf.


RADEK
RADEK
I'm busy.
I'm busy.
Apheori (GM): The better-than-ness.
 
Ohwell.
The Gravedigger looks sad and hurt.
Frezak (GM): Gravy looks sad and hurt.
 
Ganelon: Better Arcana actually makes the warded area larger.
Rhu piles up the weapons and other magic items (the orb and a random necklace that happened to be amidst the rest) on the desk by Greibel's feet.
So being a better wizard does help, just not with that.
Apheori (GM): Did anyone take the pickaxe, staff, greatsword, or orb? Otherwise that's all on the table.
Er, desk.
Magic desk of magic items.
Bear Soup Guy: Greibel's feet are also on the desk
Frezak (GM): I think that just went to the pile.
Are they magical?
Ganelon: If they don't want it, they should be putting it on a pile, yes.
Apheori (GM): The desk is the pile. That's the magic.
Ganelon: For DISENCHANTMEEEENT
Bear Soup Guy: As magical as any pair of feet can be
Apheori (GM): Greibel
s sitting on a magic chair?
Yes he is.
Bear Soup Guy: Yes
Apheori (GM): Greibel: It's nice and comfy.
You feel like you might be able to get stuff done at this desk, but not gettign stuff done here is also great.


GREIBEL
GREIBEL
Some day. Some day I'll get some stuff done...
Some day. Some day I'll get some stuff done...
Ellemerr: Amadi is fighting very passionately over "Fifty Shades of Blurple".
Greibel stares glassily at the walls while smoking a tobacco pipe
Bear Soup Guy: Not filled with tobacco, mind you
Dawn tears out some pages on accident trying to get it away from Amadi.
Frezak (GM): You have tobacco?
Ganelon: If I were pointlessly cruel, I'd cast Secret Page on the ending of Fifty Shades of Blurple.
It's there, you just can't read it.
Gaurav: Did Radek's arcana check tell us anything about this blue orb?
Ganelon: It is gravitous.
Apheori (GM): It's an Orb of Indisputable Gravity.
+2 or something.
Frezak (GM): To the pile!
Apheori (GM): Gan: Dude, that should have already happened.
Gaurav: Who would dispute gravity?
Apheori (GM): It still works if you tear out the pages, right?
Ganelon: It does.
Apheori (GM): So what, Dawn's holding a bunch of pages neither of them realise exist?
Uh.
Ganelon: I... guess so.
Apheori (GM): Amadi: Perception to notice Dawn pulled out a bunch of pages?
Ellemerr: I'm not sure she even cares. xD
Apheori (GM): XD
Ganelon: The DC to notice a concealed page for anyone is... the caster's Arcana result +5.
Beat that with your Perception.
Ellemerr: She's not going to read it, see. This is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT... She has to win! But she's not going to read them.
Ganelon: We don't know how good this wizard was, mind you.
Apheori (GM): Just give me a perception to notice. XD
Ellemerr: The goal MIGHT be to stop Dawn from reading them. In which case torn pages is actually a good thing.
rolling 1d20 + 7
(
3
)
+7
=
10
Ganelon: It might confer a tactical advantage to point out Dawn's damaging her own- ah.
Well it might /have/.
Apheori (GM): Okay, Amadi doesn't even notice she's fighting over less of a book now.
Ellemerr: Your point is moot, mr.
Apheori (GM): Dawn, however, does notice, and gets distracted by the wad of pages she suddenly realises she's holding.


AMADI
Greibel stares glassily at the walls while smoking a tobacco pipe. Not filled with tobacco, mind you.
Strength check.
 
You win as long as you don't roll a 1.
Amadi is fighting very passionately over "Fifty Shades of Blurple".
...wait, no, you win even if you do.
 
Nevermind.
Dawn tears out some pages on accident trying to get it away from Amadi. Amadi doesn't even notice, like the pages don't exist at all. ''(rolled 10 perception)''
Radek stands up, grinning.
 
Apheori (GM): Amadi wins and gets the book!
Dawn, however, does notice and gets distracted by the wad of pages she suddenly realises she's holding. ''(rolled 24 perception)''
Ellemerr: Snrrrrk
 
Apheori (GM): ...Dawn rolled a 1.
Amadi grabs the book and stuffs it in her pocket. She stuffs all the books in her pockets!
Ellemerr: Heh
 
Apheori (GM): And she was distracted on top of that.
Dawn stuffs the ending in her own pocket and goes back to fighting Amadi for the remaining books.
Amadi stuffs the book in her pocket. She stuffs all the books in her pockets!
 
Finished with the books, Radek heads over to the magic pile.


RADEK
RADEK
Alright, what do we have? Anything you all want to keep?
Alright, what do we have? Anything you all want to keep?
Dawn goes back to fighting Amadi for all the books.
Gaurav: Good thing they didn't go into Dawn's pockets. The rabbit would have destroyed them all! Think of the loss to civilisation from the utter eradication of Fifty Shades of Blurple.
Frezak (GM): I don't want any of this, as far as I know.
Apheori (GM): Nope, the ones Dawn gets do go in her pockets! Including the ending from that one.
Also, figure out what that necklace is.
Basically just pick something.
Ganelon: Uh...
Frezak (GM): Medallion Of Death Deferred?
Once a day, when you're dropped to 0, gain HP equal to 3+item bonus.
Ganelon: Not bad. For whom, though?
Gaurav: Girdle of Feminity/Masculinity
Frezak (GM): Anyone.
Ganelon: Also it's actually 3 x item bonus.
Frezak (GM): Don't be silly.
Girdles aren't necklaces.
Apheori (GM): Whatever it is, maximum of level 10.
Bear Soup Guy: A necklace could be a girdle for an exceptionally deformed person
Frezak (GM): Like a midget?
Apheori (GM): And if your gender is randomly swapping, you're probably deformed.
Gaurav: A Necklace of Get Off This Planet And Back Home
Bear Soup Guy: A midget with a very small torso
Even for a midget
Gaurav: Or Go Straight Back To Coffle So We Can Use The Gate
how about some sort of sense surroundings? That might have been useful to someone living in a tower in the middle of nowhere.
Ganelon: Well, no arguments about Death Deferred. That's L9 at +2.
Official stuff that'd improve Perception would be... mostly headgear.
Frezak (GM): I'd have thought that being in the middle of nowhere would reduce the need for the ability to sense your surroundings.
Gaurav: you're in a tower, so you're clearly concerned about being able to spot things at a distance or to defend yourself from something attacking below. Such a necklace would mean you didn't have to keep a continual watch, since you could just feel things approaching at a distance.
Frezak (GM): No, this is a tower because WIZARD
Apheori (GM): Death deferred it is.
Gravy: You with your passive perception notice Dawn has a bag on her head.
Do you care?
She slooks slightly headless.
Frezak (GM): Nope.
Apheori (GM): She's still trying to fight Amadi, but it's not working very well since she can't see or hear what she's doing.


AMADI
The Gravedigger picks up the necklace, which turns out to be a Medallion Of Death Deferred.
She looks REALLY headless.
 
Like the bag just ate her entire head and collapsed on her shoulders.
In the background, Dawn seems to have a bag on her head. She slooks slightly headless. She's still trying to fight Amadi, but it's not working very well since she can't see or hear what she's doing.
 
To Amadi, she looks ''really'' headless. Like the bag just ate her entire head and collapsed on her shoulders.
 
Radek prods Greibel in the shoulder.
Radek prods Greibel in the shoulder.


RADEK
RADEK
Out of the magical chair. Unless you have a way to take it with you, I'm unraveling it.
Out of the magical chair. Unless you have a way to take it with you, I'm unravelling it.


GREIBEL
GREIBEL
Someday my chair prince will come
Someday my chair prince will come.
Greibel sulks off
 
Ganelon: Can I identify what the chair and/or desk are supposed to do?
Greibel sulks off.
Apheori (GM): Arcana!
 
Ganelon:
Before he does anything else, Radek examines the desk and chair. ''(rolled 29 arcana)'' He finds that they seemed to be designed to make an ideal workspace - comfortable, bonuses to focussing, and something about an old, failing mind.
rolling 1d20+16
 
(
'''''Ganelon''' (Radek): Aw man. Now I wish we could take it with us.
13
 
)
Dawn finally stops fighting Amadi with a few books left, and just falls over and stops moving for some reason.
+16
=
29
Apheori (GM): They seemed to be designed to make an ideal workspace - comfortable, bonuses to focussing, and something about an old, failing mind.
Ganelon: Aw man.
Now I wish we could take it with us.
Apheori (GM): Amadi: Dawn finally stops fighting you with a few books left. She just falls over and stops moving for some reason.
Ganelon: It's probably related to her headlessness.
Apheori (GM): Maybe.


AMADI
AMADI
HAH! Mine! ALL MINE!
HAH! Mine! ALL MINE!
Amadi strikes various victory poses.
Amadi strikes various victory poses.
Rhu walks over and shakes Dawn
 
Rhu walks over and shakes Dawn.


RHU
RHU
You okay/
You okay?


AMADI
AMADI
Oh, she's just a sore loser.
Oh, she's just a sore loser.
Apheori (GM): Rhu: Her head seems to be missing and there's a bag over where it should be.


AMADI
AMADI
Because she lost.
Because she lost. And I didn't.
And I didn't.
 
Ganelon: I have a solution to this problem.
'''''Ganelon''' (Radek): I have a solution to this problem. We draw a face on the bag.
We draw a face on the bag.
 
Rhu tries to touch her head through the bag.
Rhu tries to touch her head through the bag, except the bag doesn't seem to have anything in it.
Apheori (GM): Except the bag doesn't seem to have anything in it.


RHU
RHU
... um, Radek?
...um, Radek? This seems more like a magic problem than a medic problem.
This seems more like a magic problem than a medic problem.
 
Radek is hovering over the chair, frowning.
Radek is hovering over the chair, frowning.


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RADEK
RADEK
Only just now?
Only just now?
Radek glances over.
(he glances over)
Ah, you meant literally.


RADEK
Rhu nods.
Ah, you meant literally.


AMADI
AMADI
Hey, why's she getting all the attention? I'm the one who won!
Hey, why's she getting all the attention? I'm the one who won!  
... Dawn, you are such a drama queen.
...Dawn, you are such a drama queen.
Rhu nods.
Rhu:
rolling d20+15 heal check on Dawn
(
15
)
+15
=
30


THE GRAVEDIGGER
THE GRAVEDIGGER
Is this our problem?
Is this our problem?
Apheori (GM): Rhu: She appears to be dead. Also headless.
The bag is still on where her head ought to have been, though.


RHU
RHU
(examining Dawn)
She seems to be dead, though for a godling that might not be saying much.
She seems to be dead, though for a godling that might not be saying much.
(From Ellemerr): Does it feel bad to me?


RADEK
RADEK
Hmph.
Hmph.
(To Ellemerr): She's dead, but she'll be fine, so naw.
(To Ellemerr): She has a magic bag on her head.


THE GRAVEDIGGER
THE GRAVEDIGGER
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RHU
RHU
What's going on? Where did the bag come from? Is it some kind of security system or something?
What's going on? Where did the bag come from? Is it some kind of security system or something?
Apheori (GM): You guys are the best.


THE GRAVEDIGGER
THE GRAVEDIGGER
Unless, of course, she is fixed now that she has no head.
Unless, of course, she is fixed now that she has no head. Maybe she's what she should be now. Who cares!
Maybe she's what she should be now.
 
RHU
She's dead! Dead's not fixed. Even for a godling.


AMADI
AMADI
Ugh, you people!
Ugh, you people!
Amadi drags the bag off of Dawn with an annoyed look on her face.
Amadi drags the bag off of Dawn with an annoyed look on her face.


THE GRAVEDIGGER
As soon as Amadi pulls the bag off, Dawn's head comes out and is perfectly normal again. She resumes breathing.
WHo cares!


RHU
She's dead! Dead's not fixed. Even for a godling.
Apheori (GM): As soon as Amadi pulls the bag off, Dawn's head comes out and is perfectly normal again.
Ellemerr: (or tries to.)
Apheori (GM): And she resumed breathing.
Ellemerr: (Yay I succeeded!)
Rhu checks all her vital signs again.
Rhu checks all her vital signs again.
Gaurav: I assume I can do that under the same heal check as before.


THE GRAVEDIGGER
THE GRAVEDIGGER
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RHU
RHU
Is that a bag of holding or something?
Is that a bag of holding or something? Or just a bag of killing-people-by-deleting-things?
Or just a bag of killing-people-by-deleting-things/
Apheori (GM): Rhu: She seems fun again. Alive and all that. Slightly unconscious.
fine*


RADEK
RADEK
...In the future, do not bother me about raising either of those two from the dead until three weeks have passed since they "died".
...In the future, do not bother me about raising either of those two from the dead until three weeks have passed since they "died".
Apheori (GM): Not fun
 
Gaurav: She's fairly fun.
Radek turns the chair around to face the pile of magic items, sitting down, and begins to disenchant them.
Apheori (GM): Would raise dead even work on a god?
 
Frezak (GM): No.
Rhu picks up a rather ugly stuffed rhinoceros off the shelf and experimentally sticks it into the bag. It disappears from the outside, leaving no external impression of its bulk, and weighing nothing outside, and comes out again like normal.
Gaurav: I think you need sacrifices to raise god.
Ganelon: No idea, but he's not going to waste the resources on it when they can just fix themselves.
Frezak (GM): Gods aren't mortal.
Apheori (GM): Heh.
And yes, that is a bag of holding.
Ganelon: If they stay dead for almost a month, we can start worrying.
Frezak (GM): They also don't have souls.
Rhu picks up something worthless off the shelf and experimentally sticks it into the bag.
Radek turns the chair around to face the pile of magic items and begins to disenchant them.
Ganelon: That is, he sits in the chair during this.
He'll do the chair and desk if he has to, after that.
Remind me what these things are?
Apheori (GM): pickaxe +2
staff +1
greatsword +1
Orb of Indisputable Gravity +2
table and chairs+1
Ganelon: Alright.
Apheori (GM): What that means I have no idea!
Ganelon: I do.
Apheori (GM): Good.
Frezak (GM): I don't know what +1 furniture is.
At least it's not a throne, eh, Gan?
Ganelon: +1 anything is generally 360.
Apheori (GM): Rhu: The thing you put in (a rather ugly stuffed rhinoceros), goes into the bag and disappears from the outside, leaving no external impression of its bulk, and weighing nothing outside.
Ganelon: Oh goodness no, we wouldn't want that.
Apheori (GM): +1 furniture is probably a bit more.
But it's also really hard to move.
Ganelon: In that case you'll have to elaborate how much more.
Gaurav: Does the rhinoceros come back out okay?
Apheori (GM): So all you can do is... uh... break it down into 1200 total for both.
Yeah.


RHU
RHU
Guys! I think this is a bag of holding!
Guys! I think this is a bag of holding!
Ganelon: The rest of the stuff should total 2160 (assuming 50% conversion).
Rhu puts the rhinoceros into his backpack and shows the bag to Radek
Apheori (GM): Cool.
Ganelon: So 3360 GP worth of INVALUABLE magic dust.
Apheori (GM) pleads cluelessness.
Apheori (GM): Sure, why not.


THE GRAVEDIGGER
THE GRAVEDIGGER
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
Rhu puts the rhinoceros into his backpack and shows the bag to Radek.


RADEK
RADEK
Ah, another one of these?
Ah, another one of these?
Apheori (GM): You know, I think the godlings technically do have souls. Or a soul, anyway. Maybe it's like one collective mind they just pass around occasionally. And use as a coaster the rest of the time.
(he takes the bag)
Ganelon: Isn't it more that the gods are /just/ a soul?
Thank you. I'll try not to destroy this one during experimentation.
Albeit an extremely powerful one?
Apheori (GM): Normally, yeah, I think. These are... weird, though.
These two. Four. Thirteen. However many there even are.
Ellemerr: Ya think?
Frezak (GM): Well, in base D&D, gods don't have souls.
Ellemerr: Just a wittle bit?
Frezak (GM): They're something else.
Apheori (GM): There's also issues with different kinds of gods. So the normal ones are probably more like base D&D, these are more like you guys, you guys are... bloody bizarre.
Ganelon: So what about the people who ascend to godhood?
Apheori (GM) cackles.
Apheori (GM): You can change the nature of a soul with MAGIC.
Bear Soup Guy: Are Demigods a thing?
Frezak (GM): They transcend the trappings of mortality.
Apheori (GM): YES.
Frezak (GM): WHich includes souls.
yes, BSG
Ganelon: Also, is Rhu giving Radek the bag of holding?
Demigods are more than just a thing.
You can choose to become one starting at L21.
Although you aren't one until L30.
Bear Soup Guy: Sexy
Apheori (GM): I think Shalias is a demigod. Not that you'd ever run into her. Or maybe you would? Her research would overlap with Radek's...
Ganelon: Research?
Apheori (GM): Well, your Shalias is a full god, but there's another one here that... uh...
Nevermind.
Research.
Ganelon: I think Radek would find the idea of a god doing research novel.
Maybe even appreciable.
Apheori (GM): Demigod. Technically.
Gaurav: Rhu is offering the bag to Radek. He feels bad about distracting Radek earlier re: Dawn, so he won't do more than stand beside him pointing enthusiastically at the bag or something.
Ganelon: Rhu's really nice sometimes, isn't he?


RADEK
Radek hesitates for a moment, then adds:
Thank you. I'll try not to destroy this one during experimentation.
Radek hesitates for a moment, then adds.


RADEK
RADEK
...Unless I need to.
...Unless I need to.
Frezak (GM): You're the only person here that isn't nice.
Apheori (GM): Man, I love Radek.
Ganelon: Which is why I'm surprised people are nice to him!
Apheori (GM): Frezak: You're putting a lot of emphasis on 'person' there, aren't you?
Frezak (GM): No?
Apheori (GM): Oh.
Ganelon: The porridge is nicer than Radek.
Apheori (GM): The godlings are nice?
Frezak (GM): Amadi is.
Ganelon: They're not nice to each other, but they're overall nicer than the grumpy old man.
Gaurav: he's grumpy, but not mean. That's all Rhu cares about.
Apheori (GM): So what now?
Y'all done with the tower?
Frezak (GM): I think so?
Was there any nomagical books of interest?
Ganelon: I'm done here.
Apheori (GM): Hard to say. Amadi and Dawn took them all.
Gaurav: have we learned anything about whoever used to live here
?
Apheori (GM): He was old, had a weird sense of humour, was decent at enchanting, and probably senile.
Gaurav: cool. yes. next side quest!
I need to leave in 40 mins or so, and should go and shower before then. be advised!
I can be back 1.5 hrs after I leave.
Apheori (GM): At which point Ellemerr, for one, should probably be asleep.
Maybe we should just sort out when the next time will be and then do more than loot.
Sorry about that.
When y'all leave, do you leave Dawn behind?
Bear Soup Guy: Loot is fun!
Gaurav: Sorry about that also. Thursdays and the weekend are literally the only days when I don't have to leave by 1:30pm MT (40 mins from now)
Ellemerr: I bring Dawn if nobody else does. Who else am I gonna fight with?
Gaurav: I think you guys should keep going! Rhu's sheet is actually readable now, so someone could play him if you need religious checks.
Frezak (GM): I thought Dave was perfectly able to walk by herself.
Apheori (GM): She's unconscious again.
Side effect of being temporarily dead.
Frezak (GM): Eh.
Gaurav: Rhu would have brought Dave along, but if Amadi gets to him first that's totally fine by him.
Apheori (GM): You could probably wake her if you actually try.
Maybe Amadi should do that.
Ganelon: Lean in close and whisper in her ear.
"Looooooseeeerrrrrr~"
Ellemerr: HEEEE
Gaurav: hahaha
Ellemerr: She's not the best at winning.
Aaaand brb
Apheori (GM): You know, I'd wondered why the restored Eapherod had later had such trouble readjusting.
But it all makes sense now.
Gaurav: Hee.
Apheori (GM): Okay, so y'all want to head out or end?
Heading out, where to?
Otherwise, when next?
TELL ALL.
Gaurav: Head out and do things! And I'll read all about them when I can!
Ganelon: I remember there being a map.
http://wiki.zaori.org/w/images/4/44/Holes_dorgin_area_map.jpg
This, right?
Apheori (GM): Yeah.
Also I did it backwards and south is up.
Frezak (GM): There was a fallen zepp?
Ganelon: Apparently.
Frezak (GM): I mean I think we planned to go there.
Gaurav: I can make any day this week if you guys want to keep going. Next week, I'm busy Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, but Wednesday, Friday or the weekend at the usual time would work.
Apheori (GM): If you wanted to get to the nearest big city, you would have taken the airship.
Except the airship was late.
Apparently due to crashing out in the woods.
Ganelon: Other days this week might be troublesome for me. I've got something scheduled tomorrow.
And maybes on Friday and Sunday.
Apheori (GM): Can everyone do next wednesday?
Ganelon: Sure.
Bear Soup Guy: Most likely
Frezak (GM): I should be able to.
Gaurav: Aye!
Ganelon: My vote is also for the downed airship, incidentally.
I might be biased, as the party's designated Tech Guy.
Bear Soup Guy: My vote is also for the downed airship
Because airship
Ganelon: But who knows, maybe it's not so damaged that it couldn't be fixed?
And if it is, we can loot the shit out of it.
Ellemerr: Back. And I can play next week as usual.
Apheori (GM): Excellent. We'll actually wait for you then.
Ellemerr: Eh, don't bother.
It usually takes a little time to get into stuff anyway, doesn't it=
?*
Apheori (GM): Some.
So airship next, then?
Note that there are a few places you could go to on the way.
Frezak (GM): Fine, I'll load the thing!
Apheori (GM): Most notably the random hut Greibel saw in the woods, and the really big tree.
Frezak (GM): The tree?
Tree.
Ganelon: It would actually be nigh impossible not to encounter one of those things on the way over. We'd have to be trying to avoid them.
Apheori (GM): There were also the hostile trees attacking that farm, but that's a little more out of the way.
Gaurav: We might want to look at the hut while we're near it, especially as it has a mysterious question mark beside it.
Ganelon: I'm predicting now - it'll be some manner of crazy person.
I'd say a hag, but somehow I have doubts.
We'll see, though. I just want that guess out here so I can say "told you so" if I'm right.
Gaurav: A hut on chicken legs
Frezak (GM): Some guy with an extensive fungus collection.
Bear Soup Guy: Can it just literally be Egon Spengler?
Gaurav: A fungus with an extensive guy collection.
Apheori (GM): Maybe.
I need to get food.
So I will be back sooooon.
Gaurav: I need to shower. So: ditto. But I'll check in again before I vanish into the lands of classrooms and evolution.
Apheori (GM): You definitely need to go to the really big tree or the hut. One of those has something really...
Apheori (GM) cackles.
Apheori (GM): Unless it was somewhere else.
Dammit, I need a usable system back. Bloody qt5.
Okay, I'm here.
Assuming y'all are too, wanna go do the hut?
Frezak (GM): I suppose so.
Ellemerr: I'm going to bed.
... In four mins.
Apheori (GM): SANE PERSON.
Apheori (GM) points accusationally.
Ellemerr: TIRED PERSON
Apheori (GM): Gan, Rob, whaddya wanna do?
Hut or end?
Bear Soup Guy: It would be neat and tidy if we end and then do the hut next time.
That said if others want to carry on I don't mind.
Frezak (GM): I actually maybe could do with going to sleep soonish
Apheori (GM): Aiight, that's sensible enough.
Next time or so, I very much do want to see Radek talk to a god. The very prospect fills me with glee.
GLEEEEE.
Okay, sleep well, sleepy people,
I love you all.
Sorry so little happened.
Apheori (GM): We will make legends later.
Gaurav: Legends! Yay!
Apheori (GM): And by 'legends' I mean 'annoying things I need to write around'.
Bear Soup Guy: Bye bye, you loonies
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Before they leave, the Gravedigger buries the dragon outside the tower.
With a sigh, Radek gets up and disenchants the table and chair, too.
 
Amadi wakes Dawn. This involves a certain amount of slapping and complaining about Dawn being a terrible loser.
 
They head back down. The Gravedigger grabs the dragon corpse on the way and drags it outside the tower.
 
Before they head out entirely, the Gravedigger buries the dragon.
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Session 44 (Overview)
INT. Wizard's tower second floor - day
A dead dragon and bits of zombie are all over the floor, and something Dawn maaaay have puked up. It's pretty gross. There also seems to be some sort of nest under the dragon.
Gold and gems are stuck to the floor all around. Literally stuck. It's all a bit sticky.
RADEK
Gravy, where did you just come from?
THE GRAVEDIGGER
Dunno.
RHU
Didn't he come up the stairs behind you?
THE GRAVEDIGGER
I think I accidentally stepped behind the wrong atom and got sidelined in spacetime.
Greibel. I have a very important question for you.
GREIBEL
I have a lovely bunch of coconuts.
THE GRAVEDIGGER
I'll take that as an assent of readiness.
Dawn walks over to the Gravedigger and headbutts his leg and then falls over as a result.
THE GRAVEDIGGER
Can you smoke dragon?
Greibel doesn't respond.
Radek grumbles and stomps over to Rhu to administer medical attention, giving him a pair of syringes.
Rhu looks grateful, accepts the syringes, and uses them.
Radek pries some gems out of the sticky floor. He tries to clean them off a bit before doing anything with them, but it looks like they may require industrial-strength solvents to fully do so. He winds up with a ruby and a couple saphires and a whole pile of garnets.
8000gp worth of sticky, gross, something-encrusted gems. They might even be toxic.
Radek stores them in a container.
Rhu searches his cloak for something that might help him pick up the gold, and finds the string of beads left for us on the driving seat of the car instead.
Apheori (GM): You should put the gold in Amadi's pockets.
Ellemerr: And when you ask for it back later, it'll have turned into mica. All of it. Except one coin. That's a crow. A tiiiiny crow. Made out of silver.
Ellemerr: On a half-related note, in Norway the name for mica is literally "crowsilver".
Dawn gets up and asks to borrow a shovel. The Gravedigger gives her his least favourite shovel.
DAWN
...thanks. I think?
Dawn tries to use Gravy's least favourite shovel, fails miserably, and then starts to hand it back.
RHU
Wait, let me try!
Rhu does so.
RADEK
You're all going to look like fools when we end up on a planet which doesn't accept coins as currency.
THE GRAVEDIGGER
Not if we offload 'em before that.
Rhu shovels the gold off the floor, (rolled 23 strength) then offers the gold to anyone who wants it, leaving the rest in a bag in the middle of the floor. It's about 3000gp worth total.
Dawn takes two pieces and puts them on her eyes. They stick like weird goggles.
Amadi touches a piece and it turns to mica.
At some point they head upstairs.


INT. Wizard's tower top floor - day
The party piles up the stairs. The upstairs is full of magical treasure, some sort of office/magical workspace, from the look of it, complete with a magical desk and chair set, cabinets, and bookshelves. The shelves contain a bunch of ritual books, among other, stranger books.
Some magical weapons and a pickaxe are lying around, and there is also a stand covered in tacky costume jewelry. A shiny blue orb is with the jewelry.
GREIBEL
Oooo.
Greibel rushes to sit in the chair and recline, putting his feet up on the desk. It's nice and comfy.
Rhu opens a cabinet and finds a heap of zombie parts.
RADEK
...Anything you can identify as magical but useless to us, gather up in a pile somewhere.
Dawn goes to the books and starts going through them, collecting all the non-ritual ones. They seem to be a lot of tacky novellas. Amadi fights her for some of them.
Dawn fights back.
Radek hurries over to the books to make sure he's not missing anything good, but the two midget godlings and blocking most of it, hissy-slapping each other and grabbing books out of each other's hands.
Radek tries to pick them up, one hand for each of them, but with them fighting like this it doesn't entirely work. The Gravedigger, however, has no trouple at all picking them up and putting them down elsewhere. In a corner.
As Radek sorts through the books, he tosses the ones he's not interested in towards them.
Tenser's Flaming Trousers bounces off Amadi's head.
Radek winds up with a pile of ritual books: Silence, Water Walk, Magic Mouth, 2 Secret Pages, Tenser's Floating Disk, Hand of Fate, Sending, Knock, Leomund's Secret Chest, Raise Dead, and Forbiddance.
Radek throws the second Secret Page at the godlings as well, then surreptitiously begins to stuff ritual books into his bag.
The Gravedigger walks up behind Radek and looms helpfully.
Radek looks up as the shadow appears from behind and finds Gravy. Smiling helpfully.
RADEK
...What? Did you need something?
Radek lifts another book off the shelf.
RADEK
I'm busy.
The Gravedigger looks sad and hurt.
Rhu piles up the weapons and other magic items (the orb and a random necklace that happened to be amidst the rest) on the desk by Greibel's feet.
GREIBEL
Some day. Some day I'll get some stuff done...
Greibel stares glassily at the walls while smoking a tobacco pipe. Not filled with tobacco, mind you.
Amadi is fighting very passionately over "Fifty Shades of Blurple".
Dawn tears out some pages on accident trying to get it away from Amadi. Amadi doesn't even notice, like the pages don't exist at all. (rolled 10 perception)
Dawn, however, does notice and gets distracted by the wad of pages she suddenly realises she's holding. (rolled 24 perception)
Amadi grabs the book and stuffs it in her pocket. She stuffs all the books in her pockets!
Dawn stuffs the ending in her own pocket and goes back to fighting Amadi for the remaining books.
Finished with the books, Radek heads over to the magic pile.
RADEK
Alright, what do we have? Anything you all want to keep?
The Gravedigger picks up the necklace, which turns out to be a Medallion Of Death Deferred.
In the background, Dawn seems to have a bag on her head. She slooks slightly headless. She's still trying to fight Amadi, but it's not working very well since she can't see or hear what she's doing.
To Amadi, she looks really headless. Like the bag just ate her entire head and collapsed on her shoulders.
Radek prods Greibel in the shoulder.
RADEK
Out of the magical chair. Unless you have a way to take it with you, I'm unravelling it.
GREIBEL
Someday my chair prince will come.
Greibel sulks off.
Before he does anything else, Radek examines the desk and chair. (rolled 29 arcana) He finds that they seemed to be designed to make an ideal workspace - comfortable, bonuses to focussing, and something about an old, failing mind.
Ganelon (Radek): Aw man. Now I wish we could take it with us.
Dawn finally stops fighting Amadi with a few books left, and just falls over and stops moving for some reason.
AMADI
HAH! Mine! ALL MINE!
Amadi strikes various victory poses.
Rhu walks over and shakes Dawn.
RHU
You okay?
AMADI
Oh, she's just a sore loser.
AMADI
Because she lost. And I didn't.
Ganelon (Radek): I have a solution to this problem. We draw a face on the bag.
Rhu tries to touch her head through the bag, except the bag doesn't seem to have anything in it.
RHU
...um, Radek? This seems more like a magic problem than a medic problem.
Radek is hovering over the chair, frowning.
RADEK
...What?
RHU
Dave's lost her head.
RADEK
Only just now?
(he glances over)
Ah, you meant literally.
Rhu nods.
AMADI
Hey, why's she getting all the attention? I'm the one who won!
...Dawn, you are such a drama queen.
THE GRAVEDIGGER
Is this our problem?
RHU
(examining Dawn)
She seems to be dead, though for a godling that might not be saying much.
RADEK
Hmph.
THE GRAVEDIGGER
It's fix itself.
RHU
What's going on? Where did the bag come from? Is it some kind of security system or something?
THE GRAVEDIGGER
Unless, of course, she is fixed now that she has no head. Maybe she's what she should be now. Who cares!
RHU
She's dead! Dead's not fixed. Even for a godling.
AMADI
Ugh, you people!
Amadi drags the bag off of Dawn with an annoyed look on her face.
As soon as Amadi pulls the bag off, Dawn's head comes out and is perfectly normal again. She resumes breathing.
Rhu checks all her vital signs again.
THE GRAVEDIGGER
Oh, it's one of those.
RHU
Is that a bag of holding or something? Or just a bag of killing-people-by-deleting-things?
RADEK
...In the future, do not bother me about raising either of those two from the dead until three weeks have passed since they "died".
Radek turns the chair around to face the pile of magic items, sitting down, and begins to disenchant them.
Rhu picks up a rather ugly stuffed rhinoceros off the shelf and experimentally sticks it into the bag. It disappears from the outside, leaving no external impression of its bulk, and weighing nothing outside, and comes out again like normal.
RHU
Guys! I think this is a bag of holding!
THE GRAVEDIGGER
Uh-huh.
Rhu puts the rhinoceros into his backpack and shows the bag to Radek.
RADEK
Ah, another one of these?
(he takes the bag)
Thank you. I'll try not to destroy this one during experimentation.
Radek hesitates for a moment, then adds:
RADEK
...Unless I need to.
With a sigh, Radek gets up and disenchants the table and chair, too.
Amadi wakes Dawn. This involves a certain amount of slapping and complaining about Dawn being a terrible loser.
They head back down. The Gravedigger grabs the dragon corpse on the way and drags it outside the tower.
Before they head out entirely, the Gravedigger buries the dragon.


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