Malvoisin's Savage Tide, Act 1 - There Is No Honor

stonegod · Dec 5, 2006

OOC: Col will try to Id the pillar monsters w/ his vast cranium. I think I know a few, but I'd to make sure.

Malvoisin · Dec 5, 2006

stonegod said:
OOC: Col will try to Id the pillar monsters w/ his vast cranium. I think I know a few, but I'd to make sure.

That Col sure knows a lot, doesn't he? In order, they are roper, red dragon, aboleth, ettin, spectator beholderkin, gray render, and monstrous spider.

Voadam · Dec 5, 2006

Kalen grins as he finds the switch and flicks it "Well there we go."

Seeing the beasties Kalen steps forward to check them out further, and see if the red stones are valuable gems. Also he looks more closely at the spider, whether the eighth eye that should be there is an empty slot that the lady's ring could fit into or if it is simply not there due to angle of the image or whatever. "Let's see what we have here. Hmm, Lady Arachne's spiders always had eight eyes, hmm."

GwydapLlew · Dec 5, 2006

"What did note say?"

Rhun · Dec 5, 2006

"Most interesting," says Anar, examining each of the statues in turn.

hafrogman · Dec 5, 2006

Keoni stares at the strange assortment of creatures around them. None of them seem familiar to him, just as odd as the creatures named in the note. But Col is the monster expert. He pauses in front of the dragon's carving for a moment, raising a hand to it. There is something hauntingly familiar, and yet at the same time, terrifyingly wrong about the creature depicted. With a shudder he turns away.

"The note spoke much of sunrise and sunset, the east and the west."

Then he paces east and west through the chamber, looking for any connection.

stonegod · Dec 5, 2006

Col peers at the pillars, tracing out the forms. "Hrm. They be a roper, red dragon, aboleth, ettin, spectator, gray render, and monstrous spider, me'thinks. But, it be the eyes that matters. See"---pointing to the grey render---"it be hav'n six eyes and be on t'east, just like the chimera. That aberration be having one eye on the west, like t'clops. But it do break down. Not sure 'ow many eyes that snakey lady 'has, depends on the number of snakes. And th'basilisk do be havin' two eyes like th'dragon, but it be on th'west. Perhaps it be have'n to do w' what we do to da eyes?"

OOC: How many snakes on average would I guess a medusa has? And I'm right in thinking that a basilisk only has two eyes?

Malvoisin · Dec 5, 2006

Voadam said:
Kalen grins as he finds the switch and flicks it "Well there we go."

Seeing the beasties Kalen steps forward to check them out further, and see if the red stones are valuable gems. Also he looks more closely at the spider, whether the eighth eye that should be there is an empty slot that the lady's ring could fit into or if it is simply not there due to angle of the image or whatever. "Let's see what we have here. Hmm, Lady Arachne's spiders always had eight eyes, hmm."

The red stones, upon closer examination, don't appear especially valulable, though they sparkle nicely in the light from Col's spear. At best, they may be agates.

As for the spider carving, there is no empty eye slot to be seen. It appears that the artisans who crafted the work deliberately made the image with only seven eyes.