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

[JustinCase]

Standing behind Yassah, the broodguard named Wrok impatiently waits to be let through. He feels an innate desire to protect the other yuan ti, but for a second there is also something else.

Unbidden, he imagines wrapping his clawed hands around the neck of the malison with his back towards him, and not letting go.

He shakes his head, repeaking to himself, 'Wrok, Wrok, Wrok'... The moment passes, and only a curious feeling in his stomach remains as he tries to look past his superior.

OOC: Moving into the corridor means blocking other people's line of sight/effect to the tomb guardian, so I imagine Yassah holds Wrok back. If not, feel free to command him to attack or take some other action. Obviously this post is just fluff; he will not actually attack allies. It's just part of his potential return-to-human-ish story.

 

[gnarlygninja]

Ghorrak gritted his teeth and did his best to ignore the Tomb Guardian's flailing and attempted to keep moving it toward the crossroads.

OOC: Not sure if you'll want me to roll to maintain the grapple, or how you interpret making multiple attempts as part of the same attack action, but I rolled two in case. _: 1D20+7 = [1]+7 = 8 _: 1D20+7 = [13]+7 = 20

 

[Hades#2]

"Stay!" Yassah ordered the Broodguard. "Let them come to us."

 

[Prickly Pear]

Chrysagon kicks the unmoving pile of meat and metal and turns to Dellrak and Ussal. Call the others back and let's get out of here!

 

[FitzTheRuke]

OOC: @gnarlygninja Should I just have Ghorrak throw the tomb guardian off the balcony and we'll move along to a less complicated location?

 

[gnarlygninja]

OOC: That seems to be the path of least resistance, so I'm ok with it as long as it doesn't mess anything up on your end.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Ghorruk grew frustrated trying to get the tomb guardian down the narrow hall to where the others waited at the crossroads to surround it. After a second or two of struggle, he suddenly reversed direction and the armor-clad undead was slow to react to the change. The Thayan orc ducked low and lifted the tomb guardian off its feet and then charged with it to the balcony rail and flung it over, where it fell out of sight into the abyss with a clanging crash far below.

"I think we should leave this strange duplicate place," suggested Qawasha when it was over, "And return to our original version of the tomb. It was bad enough."

 

[Kobold Stew]

Miss Imogen is clearly unhappy. "We must hope that the source of the Curse is there, and not in one of these other places."

Again, she places a distinctive mark on the wall of ne of the counter-tombs, and hopes that it is there when the return to their original location. That would suggest it was the same tomb, for all practical purposes, but she is no wizard and is not trained in the ways of magic.

 

[gnarlygninja]

Ghorrak paused to take one final look around the large room and see if there was any difference besides the size

OOC: perception: 1D20+3 = [17]+3 = 20

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Ghorrak looked out over the smaller version of the grand staircase. Size seemed to be the only difference, but because of the shorter distance between levels, Ghorrak could make out the bottom, unlike in the larger version. A large central square was dominated by four man-sized statues. Each had the hideous gape-mouthed (bearded devil?) visage that had appeared so often around the tomb. (It was on the wall near the entrance, appeared here-and-there in the murals, and was worn as masks by the undead dwarves). Here, it was the heads of these statues, and each one had four arms.

Suddenly, one turned its head and looked up at Ghorrak. Another left its pedestal and stepped down to help the fallen Tomb Guardian to its feet. The other two stood still, but Ghorrak did not know if they were statues, or could move.