Under Strange Stars II

[Zerth]

Amira glares at Menghil. "You are crazy." She pauses for a moment and continues, "But that is the best plan so far. I happen to have a magical scroll, that allows me to cast a spell, that can turn rock into mud. I could probably make a passage in the wall, so the water would run into the crevasse."

"Moving the ship? Well, depending on the power level of the scroll I might be able to transform the rock under the ship also to mud making it slide to the crevasse. Or I could enlarge us all and then we might try, if our combined strength is enough, so we could drag the ship to the crevasse. I have also a couple of Bull's Strength spells prepared for additional muscle increase," the princess explains.

 

[dead_radish]

*Al-Khazad considers.* "My suggestion didn't do much for us, so I'm more than willing to try that. That ship is a Caliph's ransom on its own, nevermind possibly being our way out of here. Could you lift the ship up by magic, Amira?"

 

[Ashy]

Jagra nods and grins at the crazy dwarf. "That sounds like a great idea! I've even got some tricks up my sleeve that might be able to help - some spells that can help damage the walls, some summoned monsters to help push the boat, and I even have a magic item that is a small boat that we could use to help pull it down the mountain!" The gnome grins...

 

[hafrogman]

Menghil claps his hands together in front of him and begins rubbing them together.

"Okay, we have the plan, we have the tools. It's all begining to come together. Now of course comes the most important step."

He gets a very serious expression on his face and falls silent, but then he walks over to the pile of wealth that Calzada has harvested from the ships.

"We need to get all of my gold onto the boat!"

He laughs heartily, much more cheerful now that he has a plan, no matter how crazy. They'll survive this trip or die trying. He looks over to the man who has spent far too long in this cave.

"What say you, Calzada? Are you ready to tempt fate?"


[ooc - so, a rough plan outline, let me know what you think. Jagra's summoned creatures and perhaps Razeem distract the hatchlings while an enlarged Menghil and Al-Khazad try to budge the boat. If that works, we all board and Amira Softens Earth on the unstable wall (asuming it's in range)]

 

[Ashy]

"By the Four Winds, it sounds just crazy enough to work!", Jagra cackles madly and slaps the dwarf on the back...

 

[Zerth]

OOC: The plan sounds good to me. Amira uses her Fly spell to move closer and back to the ship, if the wall is not close enough for her to cast the Transform Rock to Mud spell while on the ship.

 

[Someone]

(Sorry if I missed it, but I still don´t have Jagra´s leveling and the party´s prepared spells. About the transmute rock to mud, it has a shapeable (S) area, giving a number of cubes to be transmuted. I don´t quite know if all the cubes have to touch or not: there was a similar question about another shapeable spell in the rules forum and there wasn´t an agreement. In this case I´ll go with the “cubes don´t have to be adjacent to another cube” option.)

Calzada looks at you with wide eyes. “Sail down a mountain? I can´t I can´t. Look, it´s the better opportunity I had in 10 years. I´ll go.”

The party prepares thoroughly. The treasure and tools gathered by Calzada, and is stored in the ship. All aboard, while Razeem danced over the two chicks, Amira studies the scroll –storing a more powerful spell than she can cast, there´s a possibility to blow it up. The princess manages to control the magic and pronounce correctly the spell. A large portion of the rock wall turns to mud, and a bed of mud forms under the ship, and it sinks several feet- but not falling on the crevasse.

Nothing happens.

Fearing the worst, Amira cast several spells on Menghil and Al-Khazad, doubling their size and strenghtening them. With the combined efforts of the two now huge warriors, the ship slides finally over the viscous mud into the crevasse, just when a low rumble starts shaking the plateau.

Rumble. Bram, boom. Rumble. The thick mud flows from the hole in the wall

Creack. Something happens to the rock wall.

The chicks suddendly stop playing with Razeem and look around.

BANG! The wall explodes, sending rock shards, mud and stone shrapnel in a wide arc, followed by a explosion of furious, white water. Calzada is hit by a blind cave fish, and you all fall to the floor when the angry stream of water hits the ship and picks it up like a leaf and throws it to the flank of the mountain. A gurgling sound from the top of the volcano mixes with your screams of panic as you are washed away, the tattered ship´s sails waving like grey flags…

 

[Someone]

It´s a rough ride down the mountain, like if you were dice being shaked in a cup, though what it took almost a day to climb is crossed ina matter of minutes. When you arrive at the shallower parts of the island, your speed somewhat lowers, following what´s now a flood that uproots trees and overruns everything in it´s path. You now sail through the jungle (and even go through the web of a colossal spider, making the surrounding trees bend before the web fails and frees the ship) and it´s the first time you realize that a different ship would have shattered in a bundle of splinters long ago. This one, however, is making a lot of noise, but doesn´t seem to be seriously dama…

…The newly created stream reaches it´s end: a small cliff over the sea. The ship falls thirty feet and abruptly lands into the sea, splashing water everywhere. You are wounded, though nothing serious, and under a big waterfall until the current pushes you out of the falling water. Slowly, you realize that you made it.

 

[Zerth]

Amira was scared to death during the rough ride down from the mountain and she sighs in relief and partially in disbelief, when she realizes they actually made it. "Is everyone all right?" she finally asks preparing to heal any injured party members.

OOC: What's the party's health status? Akeeta and Razeem are at full hp soon, of course. Amira's prepared cleric spells are on my CS. I updated those at the same time I leveled her up.

 

[hafrogman]

Menghil spends the entire ride trip holding on tight and screaming his head off. Once they hit water, he continues screaming for a while. However, a quick glance shows that he's not screaming out of fear or pain. He's red in the face, but grinning like an idiot.

"WOOOOO! That was fun, that was great! By the gods. . . If I could bottle that experience and sell it, I'd make a fortune."

He rubs his beard thoughtfully and starts muttering quietly to himself.

"Charge people to ride a chunk of wood down the side of a volcano. . . a log down a mountain. . .log. . .mountain. . . Nah, on second thoughts they'd never go for it. Most people are too cowardly."

He picks himself up and brushes himself off and looks over at the others. He walks over and checks on Calzada.