D&D 5E (IC) Fitz's Folly

[FitzTheRuke]

Qawasha twisted again, his seams splitting until he grew to a full-sized, fleshy human once more. He picked up the pot that held his friend Kupalue. From his new vantage, he could see the iron pot from which the green fog spilled forth - it was large enough to cook a humanoid.

In addition, he could see Joho the Monkey and the Straw Girl as they ran toward a rusted cage, where a shadowy figure lay under a tattered blanket. Barely visible through the haze were three rocking chairs, several work benches heaped with haberdashery, and a spinning wheel. Above him, a wooden railing marked upper galleries on either side of the room, free from the green smoke.

"This way!" said the Straw Girl, "And get under the Likey-Look's blanket before the Sewn Sisters see you!"

She stood by the rusty cage and motioned for the others to climb between the bars. Now that he was man-sized, there was no way that Qawasha would fit, nor would Weed's clay pot.

 

[TaranTheWanderer]

Spoiler: Qawasha (mini-sheet)

Qawasha Race: Human HP: 49/52 AC: 12	Pass Perc:17 Pass Inv: 12 Pass Ins: 14 HD: 5/7	Spell Slots: 1st [X ] [X][X] [ ] 2nd [X] [X ] [ ] 3rd [X] [ X] [ ] 4th [X ]
Wild shape: 1/2	Initiative: +2	Spell Save DC: 15
Spoiler: Stats(Saves) STR: 10+0 DEX: 14 + 2 CON: 14 + 2 INT: 14+2(+5) WIS: 18 +4(+7) CHA:11 +0	Spoiler: Skills Medicine: 7 Nature: 5 Perception: 7 Survival: 7	Spoiler: Spells Natural Recovery: 0/1 Cantrips Druidcraft, Shillelagh, control flames, Produce Flame, Guidance Memorized spells 1st Speak with Animals, Create Water, Goodberry, Entangle 2nd Animal Messenger, *Barkskin, *Spider Climb, L.Restoration, Spike Growth 3rd , Water Breathing, *Call lightning, *Plant Growth, Daylight 4th: Conjure Woodland being, Stone Shape, *Divination, *Freedom of Movement

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"No, come with me...let us go this way! All of us! Get your friend."

He points to the balcony above and opens his bag to allow them to climb in.

As he does so, he removes a dead spider from his pouch and prays to his god.

"Hurry"

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Spoiler: OOC

Casting Spider Climb

 

[MetaVoid]

Ussal hates his new form and even more being limited in this form and dependant on the human. He focuses, checking if his spells are available. But there is no time for experimentation. He slithers into the bag.

 

[Kobold Stew]

Miss Imogen sees Qawasha grow, and return to his former state. That means it's possible for her too, somehow. Eventually. Even if not now, as Qawasha picks up the pot that contains Weed, Miss Imogen follows along, trying to follow as best she can.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Qawasha scooped Ussal and Imogen up in his bag and began to climb a support beam for one of the balconies. When he saw what they would do, the Clay Baby nodded and waved and the Straw Girl said, "You better hide! We'll try to distract them for you!"

It wasn't long before a woman appeared, as if from nowhere. Even stooped over, she was tall - eight feet or more at the shoulder. In between the black goat-horns of her head was an ant's nest, and ants crawled down her face and along her shoulders. She wore a tattered black robe with a rope-belt, upon which was a ring of iron keys. As soon as she materialized, she began to cough.

"'Who left da pot a-boiling?" she said testily before snapping her fingers, and the cauldron stopped spewing green smoke. "Joho! Mama's here, ya cheeky monkey. Come an' take me boots off!"

She slumped into one of the rocking chairs and the stuffed monkey wheeled over slowly on his one-wheel and began to pull at one of her boots while the faceless clay baby and the straw girl stood nearby, nervously shuffling their feet. Ants trailed down onto the floor and began to cross the room toward the cage.

As the rocking chair leaned back, the Hag nearly looked toward Qawasha, who was still finding a spot to hide. The Straw Girl squeaked and the Hag shot her a glare as the doll stammered, "W-we could help him with your b-boots, Widow Groat! Would that b-be okay?"

The Hag nodded, "Why not? Ye've naught t'do until me sisters return."

Widow Groat leaned back and closed her yellow eyes while the dolls struggled to remove her long, twisted-looking boots.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Qawasha used his magic to gather lingering green smoke around himself. It smelled terrible, but it didn't seem to be poisonous. He found himself on the western gallery, where he was able to identify three exits - iron doors marked with a triangle, a pentagon, and a hexagon. Additionally, to the south, there was a staircase that led from the gallery, back down to the floor of the chamber with the hag, who rocked in her chair with her boots now off, her long toenails poking through woolen socks.

A swirl of yellow smoke and the discordant tinkling of many small bells showed the arrival of a second hag. She was younger-looking than the first, and stumped around on a peg-leg while her many bells, wrapped about her on strings that included teeth and other bones, jangled with every heavy step. She grunted and handed her walking stick to the Straw Girl, who couldn't hold it and fell over. "Don't ye be droppin' me stick, Girl!" she scolded, "Or I'll light ye on fire fer bein' such a naughty cuss."

The Straw Girl scrambled to carry the stick, and the Clay Baby helped her. Together they propped the stick up against a table while the hag sat down heavily in a rocking chair next to her sister and said, "Yer back early. Didja scry out the troublemakers?"

The first hag nodded and said, "Da cats an' da goat are inna oubliette. The other fools took da broken disk!"

The second hag cackled, rocking back and forth on her chair while yellow smoke poured from her ears and nostrils, "The broken disk! Poor wee things! Their brains an' bodies must be cast asunder fer sure."

 

[TaranTheWanderer]

Spoiler: Qawasha (mini-sheet)

Qawasha Race: Human HP: 49/52 AC: 12	Pass Perc:17 Pass Inv: 12 Pass Ins: 14 HD: 5/7	Spell Slots: 1st [X ] [X][X] [ ] 2nd [X] [X ] [ ] 3rd [X] [ X] [ ] 4th [X ]
Wild shape: 1/2	Initiative: +2	Spell Save DC: 15
Spoiler: Stats(Saves) STR: 10+0 DEX: 14 + 2 CON: 14 + 2 INT: 14+2(+5) WIS: 18 +4(+7) CHA:11 +0	Spoiler: Skills Medicine: 7 Nature: 5 Perception: 7 Survival: 7	Spoiler: Spells Natural Recovery: 0/1 Cantrips Druidcraft, Shillelagh, control flames, Produce Flame, Guidance Memorized spells 1st Speak with Animals, Create Water, Goodberry, Entangle 2nd Animal Messenger, *Barkskin, *Spider Climb, L.Restoration, Spike Growth 3rd , Water Breathing, *Call lightning, *Plant Growth, Daylight 4th: Conjure Woodland being, Stone Shape, *Divination, *Freedom of Movement

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The druid pulled a Triangle-shaped key and motioned towards the door with a quizzical shrug that said,

Should we try the door?

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Spoiler: OOC

edited

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Weed nodded its leafy head, eager to be away from the strange hags. Everyone else was stuffed in Qawasha's sack, and had little opportunity to voice their opinions. Qawasha tried the "skeleton" key on the door with the triangle, and it opened, revealing a brick room whose only furnishings was a floor-to-ceiling glass cylinder near the far wall. It was filled with light with no apparent source. A tiny triangular hole was cut in the bracing at the top of the cylinder, ten feet above the floor. Inside the cylinder, an iron lever was attached to a metal pole.

 

[TaranTheWanderer]

Spoiler: Qawasha (mini-sheet)

Qawasha Race: Human HP: 49/52 AC: 12	Pass Perc:17 Pass Inv: 12 Pass Ins: 14 HD: 5/7	Spell Slots: 1st [X ] [X][X] [ ] 2nd [X] [X ] [ ] 3rd [X] [ X] [ ] 4th [X ]
Wild shape: 1/2	Initiative: +2	Spell Save DC: 15
Spoiler: Stats(Saves) STR: 10+0 DEX: 14 + 2 CON: 14 + 2 INT: 14+2(+5) WIS: 18 +4(+7) CHA:11 +0	Spoiler: Skills Medicine: 7 Nature: 5 Perception: 7 Survival: 7	Spoiler: Spells Natural Recovery: 0/1 Cantrips Druidcraft, Shillelagh, control flames, Produce Flame, Guidance Memorized spells 1st Speak with Animals, Create Water, Goodberry, Entangle 2nd Animal Messenger, *Barkskin, *Spider Climb, L.Restoration, Spike Growth 3rd , Water Breathing, *Call lightning, *Plant Growth, Daylight 4th: Conjure Woodland being, Stone Shape, *Divination, *Freedom of Movement

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Qawasha let everyone out of the bag.

“There looks to be a key hole at the top. Should we try it? Do you know what it could be?”

Qawasha pulled the crystal out of the bag.

“Have you seen this before? Do you know what it does?”

Qawasha climbed to the ceiling and attempted to try the key in the hole.

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Spoiler: OOC

Qawasha still has spider climb so he will climb to the top of the ceiling and try the key unless there is some kind of new information that would imply he shouldn’t.

( the crystal is the severed head guy from the Red Wizard, if it wasn’t clear)

 

[FitzTheRuke]

The key was too large for this hole, but as everyone was out of the bag, it seemed likely that Ussal could fit, being shaped like a woolen snake.