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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jasper" data-source="post: 9578914" data-attributes="member: 277">Quests form the Infinite Staircase Session 17Chapter 5 Pharaoh Part 4Day 50 Breakfast to Day 60 breakfastPC Killed 0 Monsters Killed 157 Villains Captured 11 Villains Escaped 31Start Time 6:05 End Time 8:38Take 10 downtime days. 10,222 gp. Take a Level.Magic Items Staff of Ruling, gem of Seeing, silver cleaver. (Yes, silvered items now count as magic.)I had a very weak group of three (NOT!). Nick Warrior of Mercy 7 Harengon. Styx Storm Sorceress 7 Changeling. Ardor Vengeance Paladin 7 Elf. Sidekick Wrangler Warlock NPC.As the rest of group comes up for air, Nick is hopping mad at pewter spoon. He curses it and mangles it and puts in his pouch. Moving upstream everyone is clean. No dungeon funk.They enter a garden. Ferns, flowers and palm tree grow. Two huge bowls of fresh fruit are ignored as the group search for secret doors. They find one to their right. Nick explores the corridor behind it, while Ardor sticks his head in the far hallway which shows a second garden.The corridor has a gazelle statue, a long hallway, and ends in a pantry. The pantry is empty but has an old kitchen attached to it. A silver cleaver rests in a block. Meanwhile Ardor has check out the long hallway and crack open a door to some loot. And is knocking on the kitchen door.Nick, “Go away. I didn’t order Uber. Besides this place is a mess. No one has dusted here in ages. Look at this filthy kitchen. Some great cook must have worked here. Not.” The cleaver bounces between his legs. The ghost of the head chief appears motioning the two out.Nick, “you not the boss of me. I say...” The chef flicks her cleaning towel out at Nick for 19 points damage. “Miss me you Beep!” She shoves a bar soap down Nick’s mouth. Ardor just watches and then walks out. The sounds of battle fade. Finally, Nick pops out very dusty.The group back tracks to the second garden. It has four palm trees, two coffins, two doors are fifteen feet above the room, and a lion head spits out the running water. Nick hops up on the ledge and explores. The rest of group tries to decipher the script on the coffin.Styx, “I am having no lucky how about you Ardor?”Ardor, “me neither but lovely pineapple trees. Do pineapples grow on trees?’Wrangler, “NO!” Three pineapples fall from the trees exploding at their feet.Meanwhile, dirt has fallen at Nick’s feet and an eye is looking at him. “Stop staring at me.” He pokes the eye.Prit, “Why poke Prit in eye. Why has talking rabbit invaded the crypt? You have spoon? I have spoon. Gold spoons. Silver spoons. Plastic spoons. Steel spoons. Soup spoons. Slotted spoon. Coke spoon. Baby spoon.”Nick, “I have spoon too.” He holds up the mangled spoon.Prit, “My spoon I been looking for spoon for twelve years. Why you damage spoon? What spoon do to you. I will dig through the wall and.” Nick kicks the wall down showering the group below.Nick, “I give you spoon back for more information. Deal?” The deal is struck and Prit has a very strange relationship with spoons. So many spoons are in his vest he has spoon armour. While pewter spoon and Prit are getting to know each other, the rest of group climbs up. Some of the pineapples are picked. Prit tells them of two ways to fourth level, through the spoon tunnel or the door behind the water fall. They take the water fall but make Prit bath first, and they take a short rest since once the two feet of dirt is removed, Prit is really a gnome.Entering the fourth level, they open the door to the gauntlet. Nafik goes to monologue and is cut short by Styx’s fireball which melts the fist of justice. Nik and Ardor use various teleporting abilities to get up close and personal with the mummy. But this activates various jellies, wall of fires, and shadows behind them. Punches and lightning bolts are thrown and Nafik dust is kick off into the waterway.The fountain of water in the next room will not talk to them once it learns, they only killed Nafik. Exploring one side off the fountain, they steal Amun Ra’s silver and plate. They destroy Nafik’s coffin and find the front end of the spoon tunnel. Exploring the spoon tunnel, they stomp flat an earth elemental and a heart.The fountain is pleased. And carries them up to the real tomb. Entering the prechamber, they see a reed boat, a coffin, and mural. The mural is very life like and nearly mirrors the room with another reed boat floating in air. Moving to the tomb they find the Staff of Amun Ra. They collect the staff and open the coffin. They all flash loser signs at the corpse.Moving back to mural room, they know magic is happening as a cool breeze kisses their hands as they stick them thru the mural.Someone, “Hey flying boat out there. We can push this boat out the window, and row over to the second boat.” They wrestle the boat through the window. The boat plunges out of site. Their second cunning plan is either Misty Step or fly over. With five people the boat is full.Wrangler pulls the gem from the bow, “What would you adventurers give me for this gem. You have already promise me service.” He steps out of the boat and walks fifteen feet away juggling the gem.Styx, “How are you walking on air.”Nick, “Give the gem.”Ardor, “Who are you?”Wrangler, “You can call me Wrangler Jordache. Who are you working for?”Styx, “He is a djinn.” Nick leaps for the gem and misses.Wrangler, “Have fun falling three miles. Damn, I forgot about the ring of feather falling.”Ardor, “We work for Nafas.”Wrangler, “Tell him I said hello. Catch. Carlton it is time to open the doors now.” A door opens on the boat and behind Nick.The End.DM Note. See adjusted Gp. We will be using the new Monster manual. Beyond sometimes pulls up the old monster stats. Most of the changes are more hp which don’t matter, and an extra attack.End of session 565.</blockquote>

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