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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 1379511" data-attributes="member: 1210">Rex's Story“Look at it,” Blaesing hisses to the dragon disciple. Thrush’s face is impassive, his sword still bared and bloody. “That face. You say you want to learn about us? Look there! Look, and see the beginnings of our teachings!”Rex glances at the face, then turns to face Blaesing. Things are feeling desperate about now, that’s for sure. “That’s great,” he says. “Maybe I can talk to your masters at the Academy. I’m sure I have-“Blaesing gestures to Thrush, and the big fighter starts to move forward.“Wait a minute!” Rex exclaims, taking a frantic step back, Patyn held in his arms.And he steps right back into the mouth and everything vanishes.There's a blast of frigid air and the dragon disciple, mouth agape, finds himself upon a long span of bridge.  It's utterly dark, then there's a sudden dancing play of light as the clouds above light up with a flash of lightning.But there's no thunder.It's freezing cold- Rex is already shivering- and very dark.  And totally, completely silent. Lightning flashes again.  Still there is no thunder.  In the momentary light, Rex can make out the tops of towers in the distance.  Before him there's some sort of slab with chaotic writing chiseled into the surface, but he can't comprehend the characters. With a groan, the dragon disciple lowers Patyn's corpse.  Hell, he isn't sure it is a corpse.  He checks, and to his surprise, finds that Patyn's got a pulse- weak, but there.  "That's a bit of luck," he breathes, and jumps at the sound of his own voice breaking the unearthly quiet.  He groans again as he feels the fatigue and his wounds; his butt hurts from the arrow that lodged in it, he's barely able to stand.And it's cold.He tries to curl up and rest, but the cold starts to fade and he starts to drift off in a permanent direction, and he struggles back awake and picks up Patyn.  I have to find cover, he thinks, or we're going to freeze to death.  Slowly, trying to restore his circulation, Rex begins staggering off towards a tower.  His feet crunch on the ice below, but it's so cold that it isn't slippery.  It's like walking on a steel floor.Lightning punctuates the darkness, and for an instant Rex thinks he catches a glimpse of some kind of large sinister cloud roiling in the distance.  He quickens his steps, finally coming to the entrance to one of the towers after what feels like an interminable period.  There's no door; instead, an opening gapes before him.  Heedless, he staggers in and starts following the curving hall to his right.There's ice everywhere.This isn't going to work, Rex realizes slowly.He sets Patyn down and slumps against the wall.  Got to think.Slowly, he pulls out a potion and a scroll.  Rex's sorcerous abilities are inside of him, but it is a side he hasn't really addressed.*  He hasn't the personal power to use the scroll unaided, and it's magic of a level far above his normal capacity; but it's his only way out.He drinks his potion of eagle's splendor, hoping that it will help him enough so that what he's about to do won't turn to disaster.  Then he throws Patyn over his shoulder and reads plane shift off of his scroll, praying it will take him home.*He has one level of sorcerer.Next Time: Rex's plane shift!Dm Notes: When we started this session, I made Rex's player sit in the other room by himself with only a black light for light.  I ran the others first for a while (the session before had ended when Rex stepped through the mouth) then went into the room with Rex's player and ran him for a while.  Back and forth, etc.  It made for some really cool atmosphere.  (I also thought about opening the window since it was cold out, but decided against it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />)</blockquote>

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