7.01.2005
It's A Good Thing It Didn't Land With The Other End Facing You. Think About It, Cowboy.
Okay, well, when everything here is taken care of, you can pick Brogg's pocket. According to his character sheet, Brogg has 37 gp and 5 sp. Take as much as you want. But first...
You head over to the body. It's fairly old, being all skeletal and shit, but not quite yet calcified, so you'd guess it's been here a couple years. Strange thing is, looks like the cause of death was impalement. With a stalactite, right through the torso. Huh!
Cinder, searching the body, you find it was pretty well outfitted. The cloak is in shambles, but the clasp is gold and depicts a tree. Also oddly enough, there's a wooden lute in perfectly good condition. You think it sort of, hmm, glows? There's also a fancy ring, a decayed pouch that reveals a small white gem and 30 gp. Finally, there's a well-preserved book; the pages are coated with some special substance, and it's open to the following poem:
Ode to the Piercer, by C. F.
Don’t you lose yourself in the cavern, or the cave
Will be your grave when the piercer let go
Piercer get one shot do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity come once in a piercer’s lifetime yo
Holy shit, you think, this must be the corpse of the famous poet Carl Ffleudenssen who disappeared in the Durth Mines a few years back! Piercers, huh. You collect up the treasure.
I'm not sure why you're trying to lasso the stalagmite, because it's on the ground. "Mites go up, tites go down", all that. But anyway, you practice your lassoing skills. Just before you make the successful lasso... you hear a strange rumbling from above you... piercer attack!
The piercer rolls a 7, missing you. The conical monster drops to the ground and begins to hiss, slowly- damn slowly- inching towards you. You ignore it for now and secure the rope around the stalagmite.
Then, reverse piercer attack! The stalagmite is a reverse piercer! As you tighten the rope, you see a small beady eye open at the base of the stalagmite! It launches into the air, before arcing back down and... 14, that hits you! You take 4 points of damage, are knocked to the ground on your back, and pinned beneath the heavy stone carapace of this fearsome monster. The big, non-pointy end of the reverse piercer ended up facing you. You can see a large stony maw, exuding drool with a nasty black tongue. The reverse piercer begins inching its way up to eat your face! You've got a couple rounds before you get a nasty bite attack. A few feet away, the normal piercer continues to try to come at you. Given its land speed, you figure you only have 26 rounds, plus or minus a few, before it gets to you.
However, Dave (and Brogg, Abby, and Mike), the rope, despite jerking all over the place, is secure.
Your actions.
You head over to the body. It's fairly old, being all skeletal and shit, but not quite yet calcified, so you'd guess it's been here a couple years. Strange thing is, looks like the cause of death was impalement. With a stalactite, right through the torso. Huh!
Cinder, searching the body, you find it was pretty well outfitted. The cloak is in shambles, but the clasp is gold and depicts a tree. Also oddly enough, there's a wooden lute in perfectly good condition. You think it sort of, hmm, glows? There's also a fancy ring, a decayed pouch that reveals a small white gem and 30 gp. Finally, there's a well-preserved book; the pages are coated with some special substance, and it's open to the following poem:
Ode to the Piercer, by C. F.
Don’t you lose yourself in the cavern, or the cave
Will be your grave when the piercer let go
Piercer get one shot do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity come once in a piercer’s lifetime yo
Holy shit, you think, this must be the corpse of the famous poet Carl Ffleudenssen who disappeared in the Durth Mines a few years back! Piercers, huh. You collect up the treasure.
I'm not sure why you're trying to lasso the stalagmite, because it's on the ground. "Mites go up, tites go down", all that. But anyway, you practice your lassoing skills. Just before you make the successful lasso... you hear a strange rumbling from above you... piercer attack!
The piercer rolls a 7, missing you. The conical monster drops to the ground and begins to hiss, slowly- damn slowly- inching towards you. You ignore it for now and secure the rope around the stalagmite.
Then, reverse piercer attack! The stalagmite is a reverse piercer! As you tighten the rope, you see a small beady eye open at the base of the stalagmite! It launches into the air, before arcing back down and... 14, that hits you! You take 4 points of damage, are knocked to the ground on your back, and pinned beneath the heavy stone carapace of this fearsome monster. The big, non-pointy end of the reverse piercer ended up facing you. You can see a large stony maw, exuding drool with a nasty black tongue. The reverse piercer begins inching its way up to eat your face! You've got a couple rounds before you get a nasty bite attack. A few feet away, the normal piercer continues to try to come at you. Given its land speed, you figure you only have 26 rounds, plus or minus a few, before it gets to you.
However, Dave (and Brogg, Abby, and Mike), the rope, despite jerking all over the place, is secure.
Your actions.
