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<blockquote data-quote="Rybaer" data-source="post: 1114" data-attributes="member: 118"><p>Session #5.2 – Bunnies and Jellyfish and Turtles</p><p></p><p></p><p>The group cautiously descended into the thick fog of the Pit (of Certain Unpleasantness), staying tight to the cliff wall on their left and within reach of the person ahead and behind each. The path they walked was smooth stone with a gradual slope downward. About ten feet to their right was a sheer drop off into the fog. To satisfy their curiosity, they tossed a stone over the edge and were unable to hear it hit anything on the way down.</p><p></p><p>The further down they went, the darker it became as the fog blotted out the “sun” above. The mute silence of the fog had everyone on edge and each was convinced that there were shapeless shadows flitting about just at the limits of their vision. An hour went by before they had their first encounter. From upslope, a soft pitter-patter began to grow quickly in intensity and from the fog emerged a horde of fiendish bunnies.</p><p></p><p>The little critters resembled ordinary bunny rabbits except in two critical aspects: first, they had beady, glowing red eyes; second, they had a nasty disposition. About fifteen of the bunnies launched themselves through the air, latching onto anyone they could sink their sharp little fangs into. The group jumped into action, cutting up the bunnies, tossing them over the edge, and pounding them into pulp. Boaz was particularly effective, cleaving the rabbits four or five at a time with his flaming long sword. Aside from a few nasty little bites, they dispatched the horde effortlessly. Well, all except for momma bunny, that was.</p><p></p><p>As the last was tossed into the foggy void, a series of thuds shook the very ground. Something big was coming toward them. Weapons at ready, they were peering intently into the fog when a rabbit fully ten feet long and pushing a ton in weight came crashing into their midst. The fight with momma was a bit tougher, and they found that the hind legs were more of a threat than it’s dagger-sized front teeth. Amblin took a nasty kick square in the chest with both hind legs and was flung into the cliff wall. Everyone else immediately did their best to not find themselves between the rabbit and the open hole of the Pit (of Certain Unpleasantness). Several rabbit bites later, they finally managed to beat the rabbit to death. </p><p></p><p>Rurik healed up Amblin and treated some of the more minor wounds while Nigel and Boaz worked to cut some meat from the big momma rabbit (it seemed to be normal). They didn’t know how long the journey to the bottom would be, and they had virtually no food with them as they hadn’t expected to be stuck inside the Golden Sphere. As they had already been going for most of the day and Rurik was low on spells, they decided to take a rest here, keeping a double watch and sleeping up against the wall. They actually managed some nervous but uninterrupted rest.</p><p></p><p>Once Rurik had finished his prayers to Moradin, they headed back down the slope. Rurik volunteered to take the lead as he was the most heavily armored in the group and no one expected to have much warning of anything coming at them. Nigel and Boaz followed with Amblin and Kisty taking up the rear. While moving along, the ground changed from solid stone to sand. Nigel’s highly tuned elvish ranger eyes noticed immediately when Rurik’s feet abruptly stopped making tracks in the sand ahead of him. Nigel called a halt and poked ahead with the end of his bow. It sank down into the sand directly below Rurik. Quicksand, he concluded. Why wasn’t the plate-mail clad dwarf sinking like a stone? Then Rurik reminded him that one of the magic items he was wearing was a Ring of Waterwalking. Counting themselves lucky that one of the others hadn’t found a quicksand pit the hard way, they continued on with Rurik in the lead and Nigel using the end of his longbow to search out and avoid the multitude of other quicksand traps.</p><p></p><p>A short distance later, while still in the midst of the quicksand trap area, five forms coalesced from out of the fog over the cliff ledge. Five jellyfish, about two feet in diameter with three foot long tentacles, came floating directly at them. Just as they came into reach, four winged piranha dropped out from within the tentacles of each jellyfish and swooped in to attack. While the flying piranha alone could only cause small bites and were easily killed, the jellyfishes’ tentacles caused a nasty little paralysis. Nigel, with one of the strongest fortitudes, succumbed to the first lashing by a jellyfish and fell to the ground in a helpless heap while the piranha gnawed away on him. Boaz cleaned out a couple piranha before he too fell to paralysis. The others, watching their two strongest fighters falling so quickly, fought back frantically with efforts focused on taking down the floating jellyfish first. </p><p></p><p>Kisty, with the weakest fortitude of the group, managed to endure four consecutive lashings from the jellyfish before she brought the closest one down. Rurik and Amblin had mixed success, but finally started to drop jellyfish. Boaz was the first to recover from his paralysis and he started a mad hack and slash through the remaining attackers, flaming sword cleaving everything in reach. Nigel, bleeding from well over a dozen wounds and in dire shape, finally shook off his paralysis and joined Boaz in a relentless slaying of the creatures. Together, the group finally finished off the last of the jellyfish and finally the flying piranha. They healed up Nigel and tended to everyone else’s wounds as best they could without depleting all of Rurik’s magic.</p><p></p><p>Worried about what they might find next, they cautiously continued onward. About five minutes later, the sandy path widened from ten feet to beyond their ability to see through the fog. With the others staying firmly in place up against the wall, Rurik and Nigel followed the widening edge out until it reached a width of about thirty feet from the wall. It also came to a pool of standing water that extended from the wall to the edge of the cliff. A one foot wide stone retaining wall kept the water from spilling over the cliff. The water was murky and obscured by fog, so they could not determine how deep it was, nor how wide.</p><p></p><p>Nigel and Rurik returned to the others and reported what they had seen. Having little alternative but to cross it, they decided upon the best approach. They settled on giving Amblin the Ring of Waterwalking and let him use his exceptional monk speed to run across it and evaluate the distance across and find out what was on the other side. He dashed across and found it to only be about thirty feet across. The far side was another sandy bank and the trail appeared to narrow back to ten feet wide again. As he was trotting back across the water, a creature lurched out of the water and took a good chunk out of the back of his leg. Making it back to the others on sheer momentum, the group heard the unknown monster splash back down somewhere in the fog in front of them. Rurik healed Amblin as they backed away from the shore. Time for more planning, they decided.</p><p></p><p>No one was willing to walk along the narrow retaining wall with an unknown creature on one side and a sheer (bottomless?) drop off on the other. Swimming was out of the question as well. They only had one ring of water walking, and if these creatures were quick enough to snap at a running Amblin, the others would easily be taken by it. Fighting seemed an equally foolish option. Finally, Rurik came up with a strategy. Being a cleric of Moradin, he could perform a few tricks with stone. With Boaz and Nigel guarding him, he got as close to the retaining wall as he could. He called upon Moradin’s favor and cast Stone Shape. He caused a six inch wide gap to appear in the retaining wall, extending away and at a shallow angle downward. Through the gap in the wall, a waterfall spontaneously erupted and the water level quickly began to drop.</p><p></p><p>While the angle of the gap he’d created wasn’t quite perfect to drain all the water, it was sufficient to change the thirty-foot wide pool into a mere ditch of water. A pair of large, shiny black snapping turtles was left stranded on the shore on their side. The group surrounded the creatures and attacked. The turtles’ hides appeared to be made of some sort of metal and were very resistant to attack, but eventually gaps were found and both were slain. The turtles both put up a fight, but were too awkward on land to be much of a threat. </p><p></p><p>They checked the remaining water and, finding nothing, crossed and continued onward and downward. The path changed from sand back to stone after a while and they stopped worrying about quicksand traps. Another obstacle presented a challenge, through. A chasm cut through the path they walked down. The fog was just thin enough here for them to be able to see that the far side was between ten and fifteen feet away, dropping off into the foggy void below. Amblin and Boaz were both fairly confident that they could jump across. Nigel thought that he could climb across on the rough face of the wall on the left, but he wasn’t keen to try if he didn’t have to. Rurik and Kisty were left wondering how they could make it across.</p><p></p><p>Seeing little other choice, Amblin pulled off his last remaining 24-foot wood ladder from his Robe of Useful Items and laid it across the chasm. One by one, they crawled across on their hands and knees. Problem solved. They didn’t want to have to carry the ladder with them, so they pulled it across and laid it against the wall of the Pit (of Certain Unpleasantness). Onward down the narrow path they went.</p><p></p><p></p><p>-Rybaer</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rybaer, post: 1114, member: 118"] Session #5.2 – Bunnies and Jellyfish and Turtles The group cautiously descended into the thick fog of the Pit (of Certain Unpleasantness), staying tight to the cliff wall on their left and within reach of the person ahead and behind each. The path they walked was smooth stone with a gradual slope downward. About ten feet to their right was a sheer drop off into the fog. To satisfy their curiosity, they tossed a stone over the edge and were unable to hear it hit anything on the way down. The further down they went, the darker it became as the fog blotted out the “sun” above. The mute silence of the fog had everyone on edge and each was convinced that there were shapeless shadows flitting about just at the limits of their vision. An hour went by before they had their first encounter. From upslope, a soft pitter-patter began to grow quickly in intensity and from the fog emerged a horde of fiendish bunnies. The little critters resembled ordinary bunny rabbits except in two critical aspects: first, they had beady, glowing red eyes; second, they had a nasty disposition. About fifteen of the bunnies launched themselves through the air, latching onto anyone they could sink their sharp little fangs into. The group jumped into action, cutting up the bunnies, tossing them over the edge, and pounding them into pulp. Boaz was particularly effective, cleaving the rabbits four or five at a time with his flaming long sword. Aside from a few nasty little bites, they dispatched the horde effortlessly. Well, all except for momma bunny, that was. As the last was tossed into the foggy void, a series of thuds shook the very ground. Something big was coming toward them. Weapons at ready, they were peering intently into the fog when a rabbit fully ten feet long and pushing a ton in weight came crashing into their midst. The fight with momma was a bit tougher, and they found that the hind legs were more of a threat than it’s dagger-sized front teeth. Amblin took a nasty kick square in the chest with both hind legs and was flung into the cliff wall. Everyone else immediately did their best to not find themselves between the rabbit and the open hole of the Pit (of Certain Unpleasantness). Several rabbit bites later, they finally managed to beat the rabbit to death. Rurik healed up Amblin and treated some of the more minor wounds while Nigel and Boaz worked to cut some meat from the big momma rabbit (it seemed to be normal). They didn’t know how long the journey to the bottom would be, and they had virtually no food with them as they hadn’t expected to be stuck inside the Golden Sphere. As they had already been going for most of the day and Rurik was low on spells, they decided to take a rest here, keeping a double watch and sleeping up against the wall. They actually managed some nervous but uninterrupted rest. Once Rurik had finished his prayers to Moradin, they headed back down the slope. Rurik volunteered to take the lead as he was the most heavily armored in the group and no one expected to have much warning of anything coming at them. Nigel and Boaz followed with Amblin and Kisty taking up the rear. While moving along, the ground changed from solid stone to sand. Nigel’s highly tuned elvish ranger eyes noticed immediately when Rurik’s feet abruptly stopped making tracks in the sand ahead of him. Nigel called a halt and poked ahead with the end of his bow. It sank down into the sand directly below Rurik. Quicksand, he concluded. Why wasn’t the plate-mail clad dwarf sinking like a stone? Then Rurik reminded him that one of the magic items he was wearing was a Ring of Waterwalking. Counting themselves lucky that one of the others hadn’t found a quicksand pit the hard way, they continued on with Rurik in the lead and Nigel using the end of his longbow to search out and avoid the multitude of other quicksand traps. A short distance later, while still in the midst of the quicksand trap area, five forms coalesced from out of the fog over the cliff ledge. Five jellyfish, about two feet in diameter with three foot long tentacles, came floating directly at them. Just as they came into reach, four winged piranha dropped out from within the tentacles of each jellyfish and swooped in to attack. While the flying piranha alone could only cause small bites and were easily killed, the jellyfishes’ tentacles caused a nasty little paralysis. Nigel, with one of the strongest fortitudes, succumbed to the first lashing by a jellyfish and fell to the ground in a helpless heap while the piranha gnawed away on him. Boaz cleaned out a couple piranha before he too fell to paralysis. The others, watching their two strongest fighters falling so quickly, fought back frantically with efforts focused on taking down the floating jellyfish first. Kisty, with the weakest fortitude of the group, managed to endure four consecutive lashings from the jellyfish before she brought the closest one down. Rurik and Amblin had mixed success, but finally started to drop jellyfish. Boaz was the first to recover from his paralysis and he started a mad hack and slash through the remaining attackers, flaming sword cleaving everything in reach. Nigel, bleeding from well over a dozen wounds and in dire shape, finally shook off his paralysis and joined Boaz in a relentless slaying of the creatures. Together, the group finally finished off the last of the jellyfish and finally the flying piranha. They healed up Nigel and tended to everyone else’s wounds as best they could without depleting all of Rurik’s magic. Worried about what they might find next, they cautiously continued onward. About five minutes later, the sandy path widened from ten feet to beyond their ability to see through the fog. With the others staying firmly in place up against the wall, Rurik and Nigel followed the widening edge out until it reached a width of about thirty feet from the wall. It also came to a pool of standing water that extended from the wall to the edge of the cliff. A one foot wide stone retaining wall kept the water from spilling over the cliff. The water was murky and obscured by fog, so they could not determine how deep it was, nor how wide. Nigel and Rurik returned to the others and reported what they had seen. Having little alternative but to cross it, they decided upon the best approach. They settled on giving Amblin the Ring of Waterwalking and let him use his exceptional monk speed to run across it and evaluate the distance across and find out what was on the other side. He dashed across and found it to only be about thirty feet across. The far side was another sandy bank and the trail appeared to narrow back to ten feet wide again. As he was trotting back across the water, a creature lurched out of the water and took a good chunk out of the back of his leg. Making it back to the others on sheer momentum, the group heard the unknown monster splash back down somewhere in the fog in front of them. Rurik healed Amblin as they backed away from the shore. Time for more planning, they decided. No one was willing to walk along the narrow retaining wall with an unknown creature on one side and a sheer (bottomless?) drop off on the other. Swimming was out of the question as well. They only had one ring of water walking, and if these creatures were quick enough to snap at a running Amblin, the others would easily be taken by it. Fighting seemed an equally foolish option. Finally, Rurik came up with a strategy. Being a cleric of Moradin, he could perform a few tricks with stone. With Boaz and Nigel guarding him, he got as close to the retaining wall as he could. He called upon Moradin’s favor and cast Stone Shape. He caused a six inch wide gap to appear in the retaining wall, extending away and at a shallow angle downward. Through the gap in the wall, a waterfall spontaneously erupted and the water level quickly began to drop. While the angle of the gap he’d created wasn’t quite perfect to drain all the water, it was sufficient to change the thirty-foot wide pool into a mere ditch of water. A pair of large, shiny black snapping turtles was left stranded on the shore on their side. The group surrounded the creatures and attacked. The turtles’ hides appeared to be made of some sort of metal and were very resistant to attack, but eventually gaps were found and both were slain. The turtles both put up a fight, but were too awkward on land to be much of a threat. They checked the remaining water and, finding nothing, crossed and continued onward and downward. The path changed from sand back to stone after a while and they stopped worrying about quicksand traps. Another obstacle presented a challenge, through. A chasm cut through the path they walked down. The fog was just thin enough here for them to be able to see that the far side was between ten and fifteen feet away, dropping off into the foggy void below. Amblin and Boaz were both fairly confident that they could jump across. Nigel thought that he could climb across on the rough face of the wall on the left, but he wasn’t keen to try if he didn’t have to. Rurik and Kisty were left wondering how they could make it across. Seeing little other choice, Amblin pulled off his last remaining 24-foot wood ladder from his Robe of Useful Items and laid it across the chasm. One by one, they crawled across on their hands and knees. Problem solved. They didn’t want to have to carry the ladder with them, so they pulled it across and laid it against the wall of the Pit (of Certain Unpleasantness). Onward down the narrow path they went. -Rybaer [/QUOTE]
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