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<blockquote data-quote="JoeNotCharles" data-source="post: 5470088" data-attributes="member: 79945"><p>[sblock=Shale]</p><p>Farmer Bob is thinking: <span style="color: Sienna">Ah, Vena, Vena, Vena, what am ah doin' here? Shoulda stayed on t' farm, Ah, Vena, Vena, gonna die, gonna die, gonna die, ah, Vena, Vena, Vena, what am ah doing here? Shoulda stayed on t' farm..."</span></p><p></p><p>7 Rabbit is genuinely awed and overjoyed to see the night gaunt, but also a little nervous as he wonders if he is worthy of its presence.</p><p>[/sblock]</p><p></p><p>As Artemis repeats the words the nightgaunts neck sways and bobs back and forth, up and down. As he reaches the last word, it leaps up into the sky and circles the clearing once, skimming close to your heads. <span style="color: DarkOrange">"It's pleased!"</span> cries 7 Rabbit, clapping his hands together. <span style="color: DarkOrange">"Oh, think what strange vistas this traveller has seen, all the way from the farthest aeons of the sky! And now it's here to add our tiny lives to its vast experience! Oh, the Dreamer in the Dark does us such great honour..."</span></p><p></p><p>Artemis' robe is now as bright as the missing moon, and his body is beginning to glow with a papery whiteness that seems to come from deep inside, shining right through his skin. 7 Rabbit regards him with satisfaction. <span style="color: DarkOrange">"A good start,"</span> he nods. <span style="color: DarkOrange">"Continue: the next step is..."</span></p><p></p><p>Suddenly there is a thundering <em>crack</em> and the ground shakes. 7 Rabbit staggers backwards, falls, and rolls over himself in a tangle of garish robes. The nightgaunt leaps skyward and vanishes. The ground falls away beneath your feet as a deep pit opens up, perfectly positioned to swallow Artemis and the five watchers into the depths of the earth. For a moment the distant stars are framed brilliantly in the opening, then the earth closes over you and they vanish.</p><p></p><p>[sblock=Artemis]</p><p>As the night gaunt stared at you, you began to feel yourself under the gaze of a vast, distant intelligence, and to feel insignificant and small beneath the vast reach of the sky. But now that feeling has vanished, to be replaced by a claustrophobic feeling that you are puffed up and pressing against the walls that surround you. As you fall, you begin to be oppressively aware of the vast tons of rock hanging over your head, and to long for the open sky above you.</p><p>[/sblock]</p><p></p><p>[sblock=Shale]</p><p>If you are able to read Artemis' mind as you fall, go ahead and read the Artemis block overhead.</p><p>[/sblock]</p><p></p><p>You tumble for what seems like an age, scraping roughly against sheer stone walls, before tumbling into a heap on a rocky floor. You are in an irregular cavern with several exits, including a hole overhead. The walls are braced with timbers, with empty torch brackets mounted on several of them. Deep cracks and crevices pierce the walls between several of the timbers, perhaps concealing more exits. A large central pillar is surrounded by fallen rock, discarded picks and tools, and trash. Several half-decayed bodies, dressed in rusted chain mail and rotted leather, lie among the fallen rock around the pillar.</p><p></p><p>Miraculously, most of you have taken only minor scrapes and bruises from the fall, though Shale has a large star-like crack marring one of his facets and Farmer Bob is bleeding from a scalp wound. He puts his hand to his head, stares at it as it comes away bloody, and says, <span style="color: Sienna"><span style="font-size: 9px">"Ah want t'go home. Dun' wanna see no more magic."</span></span></p><p></p><p>[Sblock=map]</p><p><img src="http://i54.tinypic.com/2gy2gr8.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>[/sblock]</p><p></p><p>[sblock=OOC]</p><p>Everyone takes 1d10 falling damage: <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2900455/" target="_blank">Falling damage on Artemis, Lilli, Gil, Shale, Karma (1d10=1, 1d10=7, 1d10=1, 1d10=10, 1d10=5)</a> The fall also bloodies Farmer Bob.</p><p></p><p>Farmer Bob is what I call a double minion: he has 2 hp and 1 healing surge. Anything that damages him does 1 hp of damage, and any effect that heals him heals 1 hp. He does not take any damage on a miss. The effect is that he's like a minion, except that one hit bloodies him and the next hit kills him.</p><p></p><p>There will be an XP bonus for you if you can get Farmer Bob out of here alive...</p><p></p><p>Oh, I never got a token for Gil, so he's represented by Ron Weasley there on the map. If you want a different token feel free to send me an image.</p><p>[/sblock]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JoeNotCharles, post: 5470088, member: 79945"] [sblock=Shale] Farmer Bob is thinking: [COLOR="Sienna"]Ah, Vena, Vena, Vena, what am ah doin' here? Shoulda stayed on t' farm, Ah, Vena, Vena, gonna die, gonna die, gonna die, ah, Vena, Vena, Vena, what am ah doing here? Shoulda stayed on t' farm..."[/COLOR] 7 Rabbit is genuinely awed and overjoyed to see the night gaunt, but also a little nervous as he wonders if he is worthy of its presence. [/sblock] As Artemis repeats the words the nightgaunts neck sways and bobs back and forth, up and down. As he reaches the last word, it leaps up into the sky and circles the clearing once, skimming close to your heads. [color=DarkOrange]"It's pleased!"[/color] cries 7 Rabbit, clapping his hands together. [color=DarkOrange]"Oh, think what strange vistas this traveller has seen, all the way from the farthest aeons of the sky! And now it's here to add our tiny lives to its vast experience! Oh, the Dreamer in the Dark does us such great honour..."[/color] Artemis' robe is now as bright as the missing moon, and his body is beginning to glow with a papery whiteness that seems to come from deep inside, shining right through his skin. 7 Rabbit regards him with satisfaction. [color=DarkOrange]"A good start,"[/color] he nods. [color=DarkOrange]"Continue: the next step is..."[/color] Suddenly there is a thundering [i]crack[/i] and the ground shakes. 7 Rabbit staggers backwards, falls, and rolls over himself in a tangle of garish robes. The nightgaunt leaps skyward and vanishes. The ground falls away beneath your feet as a deep pit opens up, perfectly positioned to swallow Artemis and the five watchers into the depths of the earth. For a moment the distant stars are framed brilliantly in the opening, then the earth closes over you and they vanish. [sblock=Artemis] As the night gaunt stared at you, you began to feel yourself under the gaze of a vast, distant intelligence, and to feel insignificant and small beneath the vast reach of the sky. But now that feeling has vanished, to be replaced by a claustrophobic feeling that you are puffed up and pressing against the walls that surround you. As you fall, you begin to be oppressively aware of the vast tons of rock hanging over your head, and to long for the open sky above you. [/sblock] [sblock=Shale] If you are able to read Artemis' mind as you fall, go ahead and read the Artemis block overhead. [/sblock] You tumble for what seems like an age, scraping roughly against sheer stone walls, before tumbling into a heap on a rocky floor. You are in an irregular cavern with several exits, including a hole overhead. The walls are braced with timbers, with empty torch brackets mounted on several of them. Deep cracks and crevices pierce the walls between several of the timbers, perhaps concealing more exits. A large central pillar is surrounded by fallen rock, discarded picks and tools, and trash. Several half-decayed bodies, dressed in rusted chain mail and rotted leather, lie among the fallen rock around the pillar. Miraculously, most of you have taken only minor scrapes and bruises from the fall, though Shale has a large star-like crack marring one of his facets and Farmer Bob is bleeding from a scalp wound. He puts his hand to his head, stares at it as it comes away bloody, and says, [COLOR="Sienna"][size="1"]"Ah want t'go home. Dun' wanna see no more magic."[/size][/COLOR] [Sblock=map] [IMG]http://i54.tinypic.com/2gy2gr8.png[/IMG] [/sblock] [sblock=OOC] Everyone takes 1d10 falling damage: [url=http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2900455/]Falling damage on Artemis, Lilli, Gil, Shale, Karma (1d10=1, 1d10=7, 1d10=1, 1d10=10, 1d10=5)[/url] The fall also bloodies Farmer Bob. Farmer Bob is what I call a double minion: he has 2 hp and 1 healing surge. Anything that damages him does 1 hp of damage, and any effect that heals him heals 1 hp. He does not take any damage on a miss. The effect is that he's like a minion, except that one hit bloodies him and the next hit kills him. There will be an XP bonus for you if you can get Farmer Bob out of here alive... Oh, I never got a token for Gil, so he's represented by Ron Weasley there on the map. If you want a different token feel free to send me an image. [/sblock] [/QUOTE]
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