Turn Thirty SevenAction: Boot the skeleton's head off. Assuming it doesn't back to life with cheap creepy organ music, take the necklace and PUT IT ON.
"Oh, hey, it's a dead adventurer. Spooky. Say, does someone pay you for sitting around here and maybe a cheap jump scare?"The six comrades crowd around the former adventurer’s skeleton until Lady Foxglove steps forward.
…She boots the skeleton’s head off with such brutal violence that it bounces unharmed off the fountain and flies directly at the skeleton’s ribcage!
The skeleton explodes apart in a shower of dust and bone fragments!
When the dust settles there is nothing left except the adventurer’s artefacts, his skull, and a forlorn and lonely looking groinbone.
”Ooh, shiny,” chirps Lady Foxglove, bending down to pick up her new necklace.
"Idiot. I wanted those ribs."Item Acquired: Lady Foxglove Vainglorious III:
Necklace of Permanent Death!Loot the skeleton's skull, a few ribs, both hands and a thigh bone. Wash off the skeletal left hand in the fountain and see what happens. In case of positive or neutral effects, also clean all the other skeleton parts.
Still mumbling to herself disgustedly, Medha takes what's left, gently caressing the adventurer's groinbone before lowering it carefully into the fountain to see what happens.
It... it seems to shine very slightly? If you squint? Almost... almost as if it were... damp?
…Pleased with the result and the fact that she isn't now being violently assaulted by a reanimated groinbone, Medha whispers loving words and kind admonishments into the skull's ear, before thrusting it quite definitely into the depths of the fountain and holding it down as it begins to struggle and resist and-
"-Errr..."The skull overpowers Medha's delicate emo hands, leaping out of the fountain, yapping away like an angry puppy as it rubs itself back and forth against the curse crafter's leg! It urinates lovingly on Medha's boot!
”Teehee. Think you've made a friend.” Item Acquired: Medha Correo:
Pet Skull!Item Acquired: Medha Correo:
Groinbone of Good!Assuming nothing horrible happens after the head is booted, put on the helmet!
"While you lot are faffing about rubbing groinbones..." mumbles Tackov, half to himself,
"I'm going to..." He puts the helmet on his head.
Nothing happens.
"Oh. Oh well." Item Acquired: Tackov Cedtry:
Masterwork Helm!Take minor health potion and grab the sword.
Use careful application of thuggery to acquire new health potion from other party member.
Oi, interrupts Bukkar, wiping the last of his health potion from around his mouth,
Move.Without waiting for an answer he pushes forward and picks up the longsword.
Bukkar Crangrom is overtaken by maniacal laughter!
Muahahahahahahahahahaha!His comrades are not alarmed.
But then Bukkar attempts to carefully apply thuggery to
...Medha, to relieve her of a health potion!
The skull urinates on Bukkar's foot!
He kicks it across the corridor!
It bounces!
In the confusion Medha's cheese somehow ends up in Bukkar's inventory.
"Idiot."Item Acquired: Bukkar Crangrom:
Sword of Severing!Defend my own health potions, and fill one of my empty potion bottles with the fountain water. Stick my arm back into my socket AGAIN and pour the water over it. Also, give Gervedder, Medea, and Bukkar my spare crossbows and quivers, along with some arrows pulled from my infinite quiver.
Dumping a pile of crossbows and quivers and bolts on his friends, Whiz whips out one of his empty potion bottles and fills it with the fountain water with perhaps a little more trepidation than he might have done before a reanimated skull urinated on his comrades' footwear.
Gritting his teeth, he rams his severed arm into his socket and, holding it firmly in place, wonders just how the hell he's meant to now pour water over the putrid wound.
”Here, colleague, allow me...”The arm seals in place, as good as new!
Whiz faints with joy!
Smell the water. If that proves non-enlightening, take a bandage and dunk it in the water. See if anything changes with the bandage.
Gervedder, perhaps tired and thus a little slower than normal, has witnessed none of this. He stares intently into the fountain. After a short while he sniffs the fountain.
There's a very faint odour of urine.
"Ah, got an idea."He takes one of his bandages and dunks it gingerly but with determination into the water.
There's a sharp crackle, a fizz, a pop, and as Gervedder hurriedly pulls the perfectly clean bandage out of the water a loud bang!
Item Acquired: Gervedder Vietzo:
Bandage of Healing!The fountain splits in two and falls to the floor, the water spreading rapidly over the stone!
As the adventurers' feet soak through and the slight smell of urine fades, a kind of semi-visible barrier forms from the ground up in a circle ten feet around the ex-fountain. And then, where the fountain's base rose, there now appears a shimmering disc of light, through which seems to come the sound of drinking, casual violence, and merriment.
Bukkar peers into the growing disc.
I know that sound! he claims,
I'd feckin' know that sound anywhere! That's a feckin' inn!The disc grows to roughly the size of a grown man, clearly showing a dirty and dark wooden door that doesn't quite stretch to the ground or the ceiling, ornamented with a rusting coat hook and a wooden latch.
"Idiots."I’ll pop the new map in here once there’s more than a fifty foot corridor to describe.
((I hope we're all safely ensconced in an RP friendly inn then, and not at a terrible cliff hanger!))
So uh. You can safely ensconce yourself if you like, I've got another day, or you can try to squeeze in one turn of investigating the noise behind the door opposite the ex-fountain, which of course you'll be able to insta-travel back to shortly.
Name: Tackov Cedtry
Class: Level 2 Wind Mage
Status: -1 to strength! -2 to movement! -1 to dodging! -1 to combat! +1 to head defence.
Health: [HP: 55/55] |
Poisoned Buttock!! |
The Vomiting! |
Broken Legs!Abilities: Magical Typhoon I,
Wind Blast I,
Wind Step I,
Squishy,
Sissy Slap FightInventory: Minor Mana Potion x1,
Scroll of Beginner’s Fireball x1,
Masterwork Helm!, 3 Yuros, one memorised use of:
Gee, Mr. Whiz, You Sure Are Fast! Name: Whiz
Class: Level 2 Whiz Wiz(ard)
Status: -1 to lower leg damage. -1 to social interaction. +1 to balancing.
Health: [HP: 80/80] Giant Rat’s Tail!Abilities: Shield I,
Gee, Mr. Whiz, You Sure Are Fast! Gee, Mr. Whiz, You Sure Are Fast II,
Obviously a Powerful Wizard,
It’ll Make You Blind!Inventory: Crossbow, Unlimited Quiver,
Raider’s Dress of Shin Protection, 37 Yuros, Fancy Clothes,
Scroll of Beginner’s Fireball x2,
Middling Health Potion x1,
Middling Mana Potion x1, Cutlass, Three daggers,
Minor Health Potion x4, +1 Bolt of Accuracy x5, +1 Bolt of Burning x5, +1 Bolt of Paralysis x2,
Middling Health Potion x1 x1.
Name: Medha Correo
Class: Level 2 Curse Crafter
Status: -1 to gut damage. +1 to chest damage, -1 to dodge.
Health: [HP: 80/80] |
Severed Rib! |
Severed Rib! |
Broken Guts!Pet Skull Health: [HP: 10/10]Abilities: Opportunistic Attack,
Bad Luck Curse,
Curse of the Fool,
Wandering Asshole,
Curse of the Curse CrafterInventory: Dagger, Half a dress, 78 bandages,
Neckless of the Ribless, Coffee (half a jug), Small bottle of Mage blood, Dagger, Lock picking kit,
Iron Cuirass, unlit torch, 400 Green Farthings, Bones, Crossbow,
Groinbone of Good!.
Name: Gervedder Vietzo
Class: Level 2 Opportunistic Messenger
Status: -1 to gut/chest damage.
Health: [HP: 80/80]Abilities: Nimble Feet,
This Messenger Delivers,
Make Way for the Messenger! Important,
Stop For DirectionsInventory: Crossbow, Unlimited Quiver, 9 bandages, 7 Yuros,
Iron Cuirass, Crossbow,
Bandage of Healing!.
Name: Lady Foxglove Vainglorious the III
Class: Level 2 Ravenhaired Crusader
Status: Super-presentable!
Health: [HP: 80/80]Abilities: Silent as a Raven’s Wing,
Opportunistic,
Honeyed Tongue,
Vain,
Self-RelianceInventory: Minor Health Potion x1, Crossbow, Unlimited Quiver,
Necklace of Permanent Death!, 2 Yuros.
Name: Bukkar Crangrom
Class: Level 2 Ragin' Mage
Status: -1 to social interaction.
Health: [HP: 40/80] |
Bleeding Toes! |
The Vomiting!Abilities: Rage Lazors I,
Ass of the Flaming Foot I,
Lightning Fist I,
Always Looking For a Fight,
Always Hungover Inventory: Sword of Severing! Crossbow, 1
Stinking Eejit cheese, 2 Yuros.
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