Porridge, Porride Everywhere, and Not a Drop to Eat - December 15, 2023

 - Double CR sweatshirts

- After working with Raiàn late into the night, Tiff has figured out that if you can cast a spell into one of the crystals in the network, it can cascade through all the crystals.

- Rusty gets Connie the Construct out of Osiris's room and sends it over to the history library to wave at Adalbert and Glorina.

- Osiris wakes Tiff up (a very sleepy, crusty-eyed halfling) to follow up on what she might have figured out, and they try a Dispel Magic and Tiff realizes that while it didn't work, it probably only didn't work because these crystals aren't the anchor of the spell. Logic dictates the spell anchor is probably deep within the dragon's lair, mostly likely in a place it will guard itself.

- She immediately starts looking through a book on her table while Raiàn continues sleeping off the late night, so Osiris goes to meet with Magnus as she had arranged to teach him the spell "Create Food and Water"

- Magnus takes a while to figure out how to conjure porridge, and he accidentally makes a porridge monster construct when he finally manages to produce anything.

- Lyrielle runs around the corner from the courtyard where they were practicing and the Porridge has grown, a lot

- Lyrielle and Osiris and Magnus manage to contain the thing in the street long enough for the innocent bystanders to get away and long enough for Lyrielle's call over the Message Earrings to be heard and for Tiff, Raiàn, and Rusty to show up

 

TIME TO PUNCH THE PORRIDGE

- Rusty rushes up and hits the Porridge for 16 slashing dmg

- P smashes Rusty with a pseudo-pod of porridge knocking him prone for 20 (10) bludgeoning dmg then slams into him again for 19 (9) bludgeoning dmg

- Raiàn studies it for a second and then casts Chain Lightning on it for 19 lightning dmg. It smells like burned food on your stove 

- P sees who casts the lightning on him and lobs a glutinous ball of goo at Raiàn for 15 acid dmg and she is Grappled in the goo, and then lobs a second one at Tiff for 20 acid dmg, but Tiff is not Restrained.

- Tiff hands Raiàn an elixir of healing then she rushes forward 25', she casts Haste on Rusty, then activates her Rope of Climbing with the Healing Bonk tied to the end.

- P opens a giant mouth in the middle and spews porridge for 9 acid dmg on Tiff, Osiris, Rusty, and Magnus

- Lyrielle runs in to flank with Rusty and smacks it for 6 bludgeoning dmg and then for 12 and then for 13 and then lastly for 7 bludgeoning dmg and P is somehow through DMS robbed of its Reaction.

- P smacks Lyrielle for 12 bludgeoning dmg and she is knocked prone then it smacks her again for 10 bludgeoning dmg

- Osiris moves up 15' and calls her Twilight Sanctuary

 

- Rusty stands up slices into P for 24 slashing dmg, then again for 26 slashing dmg then lastly for 20 slashing dmg, 18 temp HP from the Sanctuary

- P slams into Rusty for 19 (9) bludgeoning dmg then again for 14 (7) bludgeoning dmg, and he manages to keep his feet this time.

- Raiàn casts Fireball (Carefully) above P so that it's high enough not to hit Rusty or Lyrielle and deals 56 fire dmg. The top half is now crispy and blackened and a strong of halfling-sized laundry is incinerated.

- P spews acid porridge on Tiff, Rusty, Osiris, and Magnus for 35 acid dmg and they all fall prone 

- Tiff sends the Healing Bonk Rope 10' towards Rusty, casts Cure Wounds on herself and ducks behind the nearby building, 14 temp HP

- P misses Rusty and then slams into him for 14 (7) bludgeoning dmg

- Lyrielle stands up and smacks P for 6 bludgeoning dmg, then again for 7 bludgeoning dmg, then she prepares herself to Dodge any incoming attacks, 17 temp HP

- Osiris stands up, casts Cure Wounds with a Prayer Point on Theophania for 21 HP, then gets the temp HP for her Sanctuary

 

- Rusty stands up and slices P for 17 slashing dmg then misses the slices it again for 20 slashing dmg, 14 temp HP

- P hits Lyrielle for 21 bludgeoning and then misses

- Raiàn casts Fireball in the air above P again for 47 fire dmg

- P slams Rusty for 14 (7) bludgeoning dmg and Rusty is knocked on his ass then it misses 

- Tiff moves out to line of sight, tries casting Sacred Flame, but P dodges, then she sends the Healing Bonk 10' closer to Rusty and ducks back behind the building

- Lyrielle deals 9 and then 10 bludgeoning dmg and prepares to Dodge again.

- Osiris also tried to cast Sacred Flame to show Tiff how it's done and P dodges again much to O's chagrin

 

- Rusty stands up slices into P for 35 slashing and 5 acid (CRIT!) then he misses then slices it again for 35 slashing dmg and then again for 22 slashing dmg

- P pummels Rusty for 25 (12) bludgeoning then again for 31 (15) bludgeoning then AGAIN for 21 (10) bludgeoning dmg

- Raiàn casts Fireball again for 41 fire dmg

- Lyrielle smacks P for 8 bludgeoning dmg then again for 12 bludgeoning dmg then again for 11 bludgeoning dmg, and then misses on her final punch

- Osiris casts Toll the Dead but misses 

- Rusty misses then slices into P for 20 slashing dmg, then again for 23 slashing dmg

- P slams Rusty 18 (9) then again for 20 (9) then misses

- Raiàn casts Fireball for 44 fire dmg and P splats and porridge goes everywhere splattering everyone except Tiff and Magnus

 

- Magnus says he'll try again now, but he passes out instead.

- Some healing is bonked.

- The guards finally run up and the situation is explained, and our badge is flashed.

- A wellness check is arranged for Magnus who is going to continue experimenting with the spell.

- While the party is drinking tea with Callie a chest with 1700 GP arrives for Rusty

 

- 3,500 XP ea for 112,500 XP ea.

D&D, the Sitcom #BYYYEEEEEEEEEEE - December 8, 2023

 - Fellowship of the Penguins

- First thing in the morning, Tiff opens the portal to the desert, introduces herself to Striker and Breaker, checks on the patients (no worse, but not better either), and then goes back and helps the change of the nursing staff shift from her side as well

- Osiris casts Commune in her butterfly garden with her butterfly

    - Are me and my friends ready to kill the dragon? No.

    - Are we capable of freeing the souls in the gems? Yes.

    - Is the only way to free the soul to kill the dragon? No.

- Osiris then goes and asks Rowan what she knows about souls, their composition, and that the souls are drawn to the celestial realm without the anchor of the body, but maybe Lady Blackmore's grimoires of necromancy might have some answers?

- Osiris then goes to find Rusty (Earring: "Hey Rusty, where are you? Are you wearing pants?" Which is funny because he does wear nor need to wear pants since he has no visibly genitalia as a robot man.) since the grimoires are in Dwarven and Rusty is the only person she knows who speaks Dwarven.

- Tiff starts carefully analyzing the chemical and structural make-up of the crystal from the soul hoard. It's just gonna take time.

- Raiàn goes and vists their rich friends

- Lyrielle is running around town and notices there's the start of a riot in the market over food. She sends over the earrings about it, and Raiàn and Osiris say they will come help. Tiff doesn't respond at all.

- Osiris goes to the Temple kitchen and grabs some bags of potatoes and apples and what she can carry and Sends to Captain Swinson, "There's a riot in the market. Didn't know if you knew. Bring food. Byyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee."

- Captain Swinson responds, "Damn. Be there in a bit."

- Osiris gets there first due to proximity and tries to start with one guy offering him food, but he takes the potato and throws it at the head of one of the guard. She moves on and tries to find other people who truly just want food and has about a 50% / 50% success rate, but the crowd grows a little bit smaller. A LITTLE bit.

- Osiris then identifies the person yelling the loudest and hardest at the guards and interposes herself between the two and discovers that there is like a 20x increase in prices since last week.

- Raiàn arrives at about this time.

- Osiris buys three stalls worth of food for 50GP and rations it out to the mob and that calms things at least for today

- She tells Marta about how she's sending hungry people to the temple who laughs about how angry Norman will be since he was released from the hospital this morning

- Osiris runs to beat Marta to Norman so she can fill out an expense report to get reimbursed for the food she bought

- She gets the just ahead of Marta enough to fill out the form in her best handwriting, which then Marta promptly approves for her upon arrival, and as she's speedwalking away down the hall she hears Norman's exclamation of "WHAT?!"

- Tiff's analyzing the crystal and when she turns back to where the slab black tendrils has already grown down the table and she shouts one of her very rare curses, "FOUK!" She chops the tendrils with a dagger and they dry out pretty quickly.

- The crystals themselves don't seem to be special. They're just a common mineral like a smoky quartz. 

- A watched tendril never grows (or at least grows much more slowly than if you aren't paying attention).

- Osiris heads back to Rusty who has found the sections of the grimoires related to trapping souls and has begun transcribing those bits into Common.

- Osiris and Rusty arrive to Tiff stomping on a black tendril she has freshly chopped off the crystals again

- Osiris voluntarily goes to talk to Magnus and offers to teach him the spell Create Food and Water if he promises not to charge for it until after the crisis is over so that he gains knowledge and maybe eventually something profitable. They agree to meet the next morning for the lesson

- Tiff does a Sending to Tina, "Can you reverse necromancy stuff or bring a friend who can? Whole new problem in Mistverge and it's getting worse. Miss you!"

- Tina responds, "Necromancy? Oh my gosh, still? I thought you got all that stuff sorted? It's not my best subject, but I've done a few Speak with Deads. How can I help?"

- Tiff Sends to Tina again, "TLFS*, but there's souls trapped in crystals by the thousands. There's a dragon. Any help appreciated and needed ASAP. Did I mention DRAGON?!" 

- *Too Long for Sending

- The response is, "Shit, a dragon! Kill it with fire! LOL. Will look into soul trapping stuff. Don't get eaten."

- Raiàn and Rusty immediately start arguing about his translation skills while Tiff is furiously

- Tina Sends to Tiff, "Sharai says that creating a bunch of soul crystal would be really hard. They would need to be networked together for the spell to work on them."

- Tiff responds, "Thanks. P.S. Breaking the crystals destroys the soul, so not an option. Nothing special about crystals chemically or structurally. Maybe that helps your further researches."

- With her new knowledge she realizes that the black tendrils are the network that connects the crystals and the crystals growing the tendrils are them trying to reconnect with the network.

- Rusty proposes going back to the hoard and chopping tendrils instead of crystals, and Tiff has them turn their backs on the soul crystals taken back out of the bag of holding and turning their backs on them for 5 minutes, and there are 18" of tendrils in only five minutes, so that's probably not a feasible option.

- The tendrils don't seem to grow inside the bag, so they go back into the bag after the tendrils are chopped again.

- Tiff Sends to her cousin Cora Goodkey whose a farmer out in the Hives (Punchipalma), "There's a food crisis in Mistverge. Please send any surplus this direction."

- She gets in response, "But all us Littl'un are leaving Mistverge. Shouldn't we keep the food here?"

- Same problem with another cousin in a different direction. 

- Apparently all the farm workers in the Mistverge area are halflings...

-3,000 XP ea. for 109,000 XP total ea.

Experimental Convalescence - December 1, 2023

 - You're doing a good job and your hair looks nice dino

- Tiff rushes over to the Hospital Wing and discovers that she now knows the spell Detect Poison and Disease through Aunt Thessalie

- Her observations show her that it is a magical disease which neither Cure Wounds nor Lesser Restoration will touch

- The scaly rash absorbs water and gets visibly worse when the water, so Thessalie sends a nurse (or someone) to get a few chemicals she knows to be desiccants and runs tests on the rashes on the outside of the three patients throats to see if anything will dry out the rash and kill it while also discussing with Osiris and the nurse if Water Breathing and a lungful of water would get around the rash while still allowing them to absorb water and not die of thirst

- Osiris goes down to the Rites wing to autopsy a person who has died of this disease to see how far down the rash goes

 

- Rusty goes to the library of history to show some of the Dwarven artifacts they found

- He meets Adalbert Gamwich and Glorina there

- He sells them all the paperwork, the tapestry, and the small weapons they found in the treasury for 1500GP, which would apparently come from Lord McNabb

- He also offers to translate the one manuscript in Dwarven they have as well the things he's brought them separately.

- He tells them that the manuscript they have is a cookbook for soups and stews, and almost all the recipes have options for when serving non-dwarves (so as not to accidentally poison humans and others less resistant to poison)

- Glorina tries to throw in a clause that Rusty will donate his body to the museum as a dwarven artifact if he dies

- He name drops Tiff as well

- The money will be delivered to the Curlywit Boarding House

 

- Rusty comes back to the hospital and finds Tiff first. She explains what she's discovered about the disease, and he asks if being in a desert environment would help, and she says maybe. She's named the disease Dragonscale Rash

- The two of them go to the teleportation circle with Rusty showing Theophania the "address" to one of the circles he saw in the desert and she figures out where to put all the sigils and activates the portal.

- Rusty goes through because he knows how to activate the device on the other side

 

- Osiris finds that the cadaver just basically has a calcified throat that is so tight they can't breathe or swallow anymore, but doesn't continue into the lungs.

- She then messages Tiff and discovers that she has sent Rusty through the Teleportation Circle. She is EXASPERATED beyond all imagining because they just got Rusty BACK from the desert.  

 

- Rusty appears in the room he recognizes and he sees Breaker and Striker waiting on him there, and they don't have much to report except that his other friends went back home

- He teaches Striker and Breaker how to run the machine so they can send people back to Mistverge, and then he goes back to the Temple.

- He then helps her come up with intravenous fluid injection to prevent dehydration in the patients who can't expose the rash to water

- They end up setting up a small ward for the Dragonscale Rash patients with all their attempts at a remedy and a couple of nurses guarded by Striker and Breaker 

- LONG REST

- 3,000 XP ea for 106,000 XP total ea.