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<blockquote data-quote="DonTadow" data-source="post: 2301185" data-attributes="member: 22622"><p><strong>Episode 25: Are We There Yet</strong></p><p></p><p>Syxen and Jalentriel awoke from their second blackout in the same cemetery they had just left. The broken bodies of the drow was evidence that they had not gone anywhere. Rin and Nikylik were still there as well. The only ones missing were Alexandra and Vivian. </p><p> *** </p><p></p><p> Alexandra and Vivian awoke, bound with leafy tight vines around their ankles and hands. Vegetation stuffed in their mouth’s to prevent them from screaming. They appeared to be in the below ground cemetery, only the time was not the one they were from. Many Yuan-ti bodies filtered the area, as other Yuan-ti warriors appeared to be digging graves and building monoliths. Several priestly looking Yuan-ti seemed to be scribing Yuan-ti. A rather a large Yuan-ti wearing priestly garments that only paled in comparison to the ones Jalentriel stole from tomb’s approached the two as they lie on their backs on the ground. His head looked like a giant alligators as his tongue slithered back and forth inside of his large mouth. As he approached, a fearful Alexandra turned into a small serpent, casting the spell quietly under her breath. She slithered underneath the large husky dragon looking Vivian. </p><p></p><p> “ I didn’t expect you hear so soon. Apparently my plan has worked. Those idiotic humans. Believing that we would rest content down here guarding the secrets of the temple. I am glad that we have eventually proved our superiority to the humans in the future”, said the yuan-ti priest, whom identified himself as K’stallo. </p><p></p><p> Vivian smiled and played along. K’stallo had obviously mistaken Vivian’s half-dragon heritage as that of a relative of the Yuan-ti. He even believed Alexandra to be her snake familiar of sorts. She knew that a false move could end her up on the other end of a blade. Her demeanor was more passive than previously.</p><p></p><p> K’stallo began to tell Vivian the true history of Quarta Set. She was back in time 500 years ago, just after the big battle between the humans and the yuan-ti. The yuan-ti had lost and as a last resort transported their temple beneath the ground into a tear between dimensions. But the human soldiers led by Nomarch Regal were persistent and found them deep underground where the tear occurred. There, they continued the battle there. The Yuan-ti was near defeat before surrendering and throwing themselves at the mercy of Nomarch Regal. Regal showed sympathy towards them after K’stallo explained that the Yuan-ti was protecting the temple which possessed one of the six portals to he locked dimensions. K’stallo told Regal that he needed to protect the portal until the legendary warriors come to take the crystals out as Isis commanded. K’stallo snickers as he tells the story; “I knew Isis would get him”. </p><p></p><p> K’stallo continued to tell the story. That he and Regal used there combined magic to send the temple 378 years into the future. Regal etched the coordinates on his sword and said that he would only share the knowledge with the highest church leaders. When the time was right they would know. However, K’stallo did not tell the Nomarch that he was only the second in line of the Yuan-ti and that the highest priest lay wait in the temple, insuring that only a Yuan-ti would protect the world. </p><p> Vivian smiled and nodded pretending to have read about K’stallo’s great stories. She told him that she had been sent here to retrieve the coordinates, as the sword was lost many years ago. K’stallo eagerly believed her, telling her how he had invented the time potions and was a major leader for a number of the alchemical marvels of the Yuan-ti. Vivian agreed and told him of her leader, now ruler of all Yuan-ti. K’stallo seemed puzzled as to why a grunt was sent to greet him and retrieve the coordinates. He expressed that he would like to have met the ruler of the Yuan-ti. </p><p></p><p> *** </p><p></p><p>It took only Jalentriel and Syxen a few minutes to realize that the potion had not worked and they needed to drink more. They downed their remaining bottles along with Nikylik and Rin. </p><p></p><p> ***</p><p></p><p>As Vivian tried to manipulate the coordinates out of K’stallo, Jalentriel, Syxen, Rin and Nikylik appeared. Seeing Jalentriel’s robes and Vivian’s quick greeting of Jalentriel, all of the Yuan-ti began to bow, as they believed him to be the future leader. Jalentriel played along well, commanding the Yuan-ti to give them provisions and the coordinates. He also asked Syxen and the others to help them dig graves. Syxen was immediately against the idea, but since the entire conversation was in Draconic, he could only look puzzled as Jalentriel bossed him around. Syxen was not alone, Alexandra as well could not speak the dragon tongue and spoke wonderfully of Isis at times, prompting Jalentriel to smack her several times, one time to the ground. The sweat from his brow grew as Syxen had to stop himself from protecting the priestess. The Yuan-ti believed Jalentriel’s story, that Alexandria was a slave girl whom he was trying to train against Isis. </p><p></p><p>The six were led to one of the Alchemical labs were Jalentriel asked that they be allowed to make more potions. Nikylik got to work, using his gnome knowledge of alchemy to mix ice Molotov cocktails, more time potion and special antitoxins for the Yuan-ti Venom. As Nikylik finished the final batches Isis’s disgust of the Yuan-ti temple grew more as she began to pray feverishly to her Isis for guidance. At that moment, Yuan-ti began rushing the area, no longer roused by the lies told by the party. K’stallo yelled that no leader would allow prayer’s of such a vile god. Hoping to avoid conflict, they all drank the red potion and warped into 378 years into the future </p><p></p><p>They awoke inside of a room with no windows, no doors and no air. Jalentriel began singing the best he could, casting a spell to produce air in the room for several hours. Alexandra began searching for cracks in the floor. After finding one she turned into a scarab and scurried through dirt and to the outside as Nikylik searched for a way out. The entire place had been trapped and obviously built by the past Yuan-ti after discovering they were manipulated. Alexandra dug a tunnel to the outside and released the party. </p><p></p><p>The outside had not changed, the familiar purple cloudy haze still loomed over, and however, this time monoliths and a path of snake statues led down a long road. At the end was a large mountain with a dark gray stoned temple pyramid atop. The six journey’s into the temple. Tapestries, statues and books clearly showed that the temple was dedicated to Sobek. The party investigated the various rooms, finding strange color ribbons in each room. In one room, the high priests room, they found a book that contained prophetic writings that echoed most of the story K’stallo gave. The party searched the room meticulously spending nearly a half hour searching each room. Jalentriel even helped himself to several expensive tapestries and statues. </p><p></p><p>They met a dead-end though in a storage room which contained what look to be a 9-slotted box that fit each of the ribbons. Figuring it was some type of puzzle. They placed the colored slots on the box. Every time they placed a slot the room location would change. Each color ribbon represented a room and they had to be put in a particular order to move on. Many tries and an hour after their first attempt, they solved the puzzle and moved into the next room, a large treasure room filled with Yuan-ti artwork. Syxen suggested we pass up on the items now as too much time had been wasted. They agreed and approached the last room, a large snake filled pool of water. Remembering the yuan-ti jewelry, all but Isis adorned it and jumped into the water with Jalentriel in the lead. Alexandria turned into a huge alligator, which did not fool the snakes at all whom bit into her with several near poisoning bites. The rapid water was too difficult to swim for the party however, as they drained into a large room. </p><p></p><p>Before them their hearts stopped as Princess Alexandra lay on a sacrificial bed, being chanted over by a 50ft tall Yuan-ti hydra hybrid and a familiar looking drow, Cyntharia. Approaching them swiftly was six drow with two bladed swords, one of which swords glowed with psionics energy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DonTadow, post: 2301185, member: 22622"] [b]Episode 25: Are We There Yet[/b] Syxen and Jalentriel awoke from their second blackout in the same cemetery they had just left. The broken bodies of the drow was evidence that they had not gone anywhere. Rin and Nikylik were still there as well. The only ones missing were Alexandra and Vivian. *** Alexandra and Vivian awoke, bound with leafy tight vines around their ankles and hands. Vegetation stuffed in their mouth’s to prevent them from screaming. They appeared to be in the below ground cemetery, only the time was not the one they were from. Many Yuan-ti bodies filtered the area, as other Yuan-ti warriors appeared to be digging graves and building monoliths. Several priestly looking Yuan-ti seemed to be scribing Yuan-ti. A rather a large Yuan-ti wearing priestly garments that only paled in comparison to the ones Jalentriel stole from tomb’s approached the two as they lie on their backs on the ground. His head looked like a giant alligators as his tongue slithered back and forth inside of his large mouth. As he approached, a fearful Alexandra turned into a small serpent, casting the spell quietly under her breath. She slithered underneath the large husky dragon looking Vivian. “ I didn’t expect you hear so soon. Apparently my plan has worked. Those idiotic humans. Believing that we would rest content down here guarding the secrets of the temple. I am glad that we have eventually proved our superiority to the humans in the future”, said the yuan-ti priest, whom identified himself as K’stallo. Vivian smiled and played along. K’stallo had obviously mistaken Vivian’s half-dragon heritage as that of a relative of the Yuan-ti. He even believed Alexandra to be her snake familiar of sorts. She knew that a false move could end her up on the other end of a blade. Her demeanor was more passive than previously. K’stallo began to tell Vivian the true history of Quarta Set. She was back in time 500 years ago, just after the big battle between the humans and the yuan-ti. The yuan-ti had lost and as a last resort transported their temple beneath the ground into a tear between dimensions. But the human soldiers led by Nomarch Regal were persistent and found them deep underground where the tear occurred. There, they continued the battle there. The Yuan-ti was near defeat before surrendering and throwing themselves at the mercy of Nomarch Regal. Regal showed sympathy towards them after K’stallo explained that the Yuan-ti was protecting the temple which possessed one of the six portals to he locked dimensions. K’stallo told Regal that he needed to protect the portal until the legendary warriors come to take the crystals out as Isis commanded. K’stallo snickers as he tells the story; “I knew Isis would get him”. K’stallo continued to tell the story. That he and Regal used there combined magic to send the temple 378 years into the future. Regal etched the coordinates on his sword and said that he would only share the knowledge with the highest church leaders. When the time was right they would know. However, K’stallo did not tell the Nomarch that he was only the second in line of the Yuan-ti and that the highest priest lay wait in the temple, insuring that only a Yuan-ti would protect the world. Vivian smiled and nodded pretending to have read about K’stallo’s great stories. She told him that she had been sent here to retrieve the coordinates, as the sword was lost many years ago. K’stallo eagerly believed her, telling her how he had invented the time potions and was a major leader for a number of the alchemical marvels of the Yuan-ti. Vivian agreed and told him of her leader, now ruler of all Yuan-ti. K’stallo seemed puzzled as to why a grunt was sent to greet him and retrieve the coordinates. He expressed that he would like to have met the ruler of the Yuan-ti. *** It took only Jalentriel and Syxen a few minutes to realize that the potion had not worked and they needed to drink more. They downed their remaining bottles along with Nikylik and Rin. *** As Vivian tried to manipulate the coordinates out of K’stallo, Jalentriel, Syxen, Rin and Nikylik appeared. Seeing Jalentriel’s robes and Vivian’s quick greeting of Jalentriel, all of the Yuan-ti began to bow, as they believed him to be the future leader. Jalentriel played along well, commanding the Yuan-ti to give them provisions and the coordinates. He also asked Syxen and the others to help them dig graves. Syxen was immediately against the idea, but since the entire conversation was in Draconic, he could only look puzzled as Jalentriel bossed him around. Syxen was not alone, Alexandra as well could not speak the dragon tongue and spoke wonderfully of Isis at times, prompting Jalentriel to smack her several times, one time to the ground. The sweat from his brow grew as Syxen had to stop himself from protecting the priestess. The Yuan-ti believed Jalentriel’s story, that Alexandria was a slave girl whom he was trying to train against Isis. The six were led to one of the Alchemical labs were Jalentriel asked that they be allowed to make more potions. Nikylik got to work, using his gnome knowledge of alchemy to mix ice Molotov cocktails, more time potion and special antitoxins for the Yuan-ti Venom. As Nikylik finished the final batches Isis’s disgust of the Yuan-ti temple grew more as she began to pray feverishly to her Isis for guidance. At that moment, Yuan-ti began rushing the area, no longer roused by the lies told by the party. K’stallo yelled that no leader would allow prayer’s of such a vile god. Hoping to avoid conflict, they all drank the red potion and warped into 378 years into the future They awoke inside of a room with no windows, no doors and no air. Jalentriel began singing the best he could, casting a spell to produce air in the room for several hours. Alexandra began searching for cracks in the floor. After finding one she turned into a scarab and scurried through dirt and to the outside as Nikylik searched for a way out. The entire place had been trapped and obviously built by the past Yuan-ti after discovering they were manipulated. Alexandra dug a tunnel to the outside and released the party. The outside had not changed, the familiar purple cloudy haze still loomed over, and however, this time monoliths and a path of snake statues led down a long road. At the end was a large mountain with a dark gray stoned temple pyramid atop. The six journey’s into the temple. Tapestries, statues and books clearly showed that the temple was dedicated to Sobek. The party investigated the various rooms, finding strange color ribbons in each room. In one room, the high priests room, they found a book that contained prophetic writings that echoed most of the story K’stallo gave. The party searched the room meticulously spending nearly a half hour searching each room. Jalentriel even helped himself to several expensive tapestries and statues. They met a dead-end though in a storage room which contained what look to be a 9-slotted box that fit each of the ribbons. Figuring it was some type of puzzle. They placed the colored slots on the box. Every time they placed a slot the room location would change. Each color ribbon represented a room and they had to be put in a particular order to move on. Many tries and an hour after their first attempt, they solved the puzzle and moved into the next room, a large treasure room filled with Yuan-ti artwork. Syxen suggested we pass up on the items now as too much time had been wasted. They agreed and approached the last room, a large snake filled pool of water. Remembering the yuan-ti jewelry, all but Isis adorned it and jumped into the water with Jalentriel in the lead. Alexandria turned into a huge alligator, which did not fool the snakes at all whom bit into her with several near poisoning bites. The rapid water was too difficult to swim for the party however, as they drained into a large room. Before them their hearts stopped as Princess Alexandra lay on a sacrificial bed, being chanted over by a 50ft tall Yuan-ti hydra hybrid and a familiar looking drow, Cyntharia. Approaching them swiftly was six drow with two bladed swords, one of which swords glowed with psionics energy. [/QUOTE]
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