(OOC) Fitz's Folly (ToA PBP)

[FitzTheRuke]

Someone give me an intelligence check (I'll take wis (insight).

 

[KahlessNestor]

Insight: 1D20+2 = [17]+2 = 19

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I'll spell it out from the check, because I believe that sometimes things would be more clear to characters (who are there in person) than they are to players (who are not):

There are six corpses. On the bronze disk to the west (that is being held up by two bear statues) there are a dozen eyes. The eyes move about, watching over the sarcophagus on the dais. So far they haven't seen you, as their range of vision is blocked by the statues (and the direction that the disk is facing). (It's only the "eyeball" that can move about, locked in a bronze socket).

Dellrak figures that the eyes belong to the corpses (both literally and magically connected). Chrisagon is already man-handling a corpse and it hasn't reacted. It seems that they won't move unless they can "see" intruders.

You could tie them all up, if you had enough rope. But as has been asked: to what end?

 

[Kobold Stew]

...to the end of the rope, obviously.

 

[Prickly Pear]

I was thinking that one could immobilise the corpses to their thrones, like this:

However, this may not be possible if we don't have enough rope. Chrysagon does not carry any rope...
Could we use something else? Some of the vines and growths from the main corridor?
What else could we do? Cast darkness on the shield with the eyes? If the corpses wake up they are blind? Take their masks off and they are also blind?
Or just leave the place?

 

[Neurotic]

I was thinking that one could immobilise the corpses to their thrones, like this:

However, this may not be possible if we don't have enough rope. Chrysagon does not carry any rope...
Could we use something else? Some of the vines and growths from the main corridor?
What else could we do? Cast darkness on the shield with the eyes? If the corpses wake up they are blind? Take their masks off and they are also blind?
Or just leave the place?

I understood the intent, I just commented on the activation trigger. Either they activate once you enter in which case you don't get to bind them or they don't in which case you don't have to.

Blindness is a great idea.
@MetaVoid, can your pet cover the eyes with a cloak or something?

 

[Prickly Pear]

I understood the intent, I just commented on the activation trigger. Either they activate once you enter in which case you don't get to bind them or they don't in which case you don't have to.

Blindness is a great idea.
@MetaVoid, can your pet cover the eyes with a cloak or something?

According to post #2497, Dellrak has already been in and out of the area without any corpses moving or reacting. From what I can gather, the eyes on the bronze disc belongs to the undead corpses but their vision were limited and did not detect Dellrak. So, once the eyes can 'see' us then I would think that the corpses would react. We can become 'invisible' and/or we could 'immobilise' the corpses.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Just as I thought I'd get all my games rolling along again at a decent pace (decent for PBP at any rate), I got sick. Probably Covid, though I didn't manage to get tested (I didn't have a car or access to a home test) I just stayed home for the isolation period. In spite of being home, I wasn't up to much in the way of thinking. At any rate, I'll try to keep things rolling along now. Thanks for playing!

 

[Kobold Stew]

Hope you are all better! Stay safe, everyone.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

It's interesting that in PBP, a dungeon, such as where were are now, is much easier for me to run, but much harder for you all to play (because of the slow back-and-forth that comes with deciding what the party wants to do). I'm not sure what the solution is, other that to keep chugging along.