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[Triskavanski]

Momoku frounds, tilting her head as she tries to think on this. "So.. you're going to not attack us?How many of you are there?"

[jakarta]

(Frowns ?)

Well, Kitty,...If you arh a going to try ti break our curse, I can have the boys be at truce with ya.


Thar only...nearly...about counting on his fingers and knuckles... round 200 us, give or take. Aye, that seems a lot for a pirate ship, but it turned out that the curse fell down the male line. All our male descendants on the island. The third generation were never able to marry once everyone knew. Little Billy Vidal's the last living one.

[CasualViking]

"Oh", Jokado simply says.

"Well, piracy is a crime of course. But servitude beyond death is dis-pro-portionate punishment. You have been wronged by your captain, that villain, and I shall set forth to redress your grievance and punish him for his unnatural ways".

He turns to the rest of the party. "No-one will blame you if any of you are too .....chicken..... to follow me into the cursed lighthouse".

[jakarta]

Baw-wak? Cluck you retorts Sanders.

[Triskavanski]

"Well might as well." Momoku sighs with Anaguma standing close by. "Isn't like there is gonna be much else to do around here." One thing she didn't want to bring up just yet was that there apparently was another person nearby, and the fact that they likely just killed billy... Which means that they were likely to have to fight a ghost goat gobbler.

[ChaoticHarmony]

"Hmph, a little full of yourself aren't you Lion? We already knew the place was cursed when we set out to i....wait, did you say Billy?" Tori suddenly asks the ghost.

[jakarta]

Well, properly the lad's name is Master William S. Vidal, but he's Billy to most folk.

[Dimers]

As the discussion about "Little Billy" progresses, Tam holds up a spindly, clawed finger, then thinks better of it and keeps his mouth shut. If they don't know yet, they don't need to know yet.

"Right you are, Jokado! Let's go break a curse! And probably several valuable objects, and perhaps a head or three, but the curse is the main thing, here."

[jakarta]

By general consent, the party starts heading towards the lighthouse.

You soon come to large whilte sign with black block letters.

WARNING: CURSED LIGHTHOUSE AHEAD
CURSED LIGHT HOUSE IS CURSED
PEOPLE APPROACHING THE CURSED LIGHTHOUSE HAVE BEEN KILLED OR HAVE NEVER BEEN SEEN AGAIN.

DO NOT APPROACH THE CURSED LIGHTHOUSE
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

next to the white sign is a smaller green sign with white letters.

NOTICE AND WARNING.
BEYOND THIS SIGN IS THE AQUATIC OWLBEAR BREEDING AREA.
AQUATIC OWLBEARS ARE HIGHLY AGGRESSIVE.
AQUATIC OWLBEARS KILL PEOPLE.
AQUATIC OWLBEARS ARE MUCH FASTER THAN THEY LOOK.
IF YOU CAN SEE AN AQUATIC OWLBEAR YOU ARE TOO CLOSE.
AQUATIC OWLBEARS CAN'T READ AND WILL CROSS THE BOUNDARY MARKER.
aQUATIC OWLBEARS ARE A PROTECTED SPECIES.
FINE FOR KILLING, HARMING, HARASSING, FEEDING, OR BEING EATEN BY THE AQUATIC OWLBEARS IS 1000 GP AND OR 10 YEARS HARD LABOR.
SEARCH AND RESCUE TEAMS DO NOT ENTER THE OWLBEAR PRESERVE.

A line of white stones spaced about 3 ft apart is about a yard past the signs.


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[samduke]

venus reading the sign "Well a cursed light house that needs purged and there are aquatic owlbears that we cant touch running amoke. Any plans for avoiding the owlbears?"

[ChaoticHarmony]

Tori reads the sign as well. "1000 gold or 10 years hard labor? For getting eaten by one of those blasted beasts? That is ridiculous.....no idea how we can avoid them though.....Well, the sign doesn't say the charges stack, so if we run into a problem and have to hurt an owlbear, we shouldn't have to worry after that."

[Dimers]

Tam unhelpfully suggests, "Flying? Anybody got an extra set of wings ... ? Mine are vestigial. Huh, how long do you suppose aquatic owlbears can spend out of the water?" Miss Chief shrugs her ignorance.

(( Whether Arcana or Nature, my Knowledge check for general info about aquatic owlbears would be (d20+11)[29]. ))

[jakarta]

Must be rare local species. You never heard of them.

[CasualViking]

Jokado pinches the bridge of his nose, as if having a headache. Then he resumes arching towards the lighthouse, sword out.

[Triskavanski]

"I have no idea what any of you are talking about." the cat says, "Those don't really exist."

[samduke]

walking her horse over to graze in the grass with some goats venus draws her swords, and begins to follow Jokado towards the lighthouse

[jakarta]

transferred from ooc:

"The Principle of Adversity says that the thing we will need to climb those stairs. Might as well get to it", Jokado mutters and starts ascending.

[Dimers]

"I have no idea what any of you are talking about." the cat says, "Those don't really exist."

"A friend of mine used to be claim that about dire rats, until one took a bite out of his shoulder. I hope for both our sakes that the references to aquatic owlbears are all part of an elaborate joke." Tam is unexpectedly serious as he climbs the staircase behind Jokado.

[CasualViking]

"I fought a half black dragon giant shark once. That was something", Jokado says, not yet winded from the stairs.

[jakarta]

The gnolls, apparently, have decided to stay back and watch the prisoners.

Reaching the landing you see a double door. Coins and gems litter the landing near the door.

The door is ajar.

[CasualViking]

"Anybody home?" Jokado calls out before pushing the door open. The other hand still grasps his sword.

[jakarta]

The door animates, opening like a huge mouth, the frame extending like lips sucking the entire party in with one gulp.....

---
You awaken disoriented. The world seems grey. You are on the floor of a room that is too small for the party and you are all jumbled up. Intermixed even.

Your bodies are transparent with your 'lines' and 'edges' outlined in white (like on Space Ghost ir the old Fantastic 4 cartoons to denote invisible figures.)

Only your ghost touch items remain "solid" and won't intermix.

[CasualViking]

Jokado stabs the wall, just testing out a hypothesis.

[ChaoticHarmony]

Whatever knocked them out caused him to revert to a Halfling again. Tori sits up, trying hild his head, but keeps missing for some reason. When he realizes he is Incoporeal, he pauses a moment, then lays back down. "Clearly I am dreaming, so if I just wake up again, I'll wake up for real."

[samduke]

"we can not all be dreaming the same dream" venus looks around for a way out

[jakarta]

The sword is selected before touching the wall. The exterior doors cannot be touched.

The room is a quarter circle pie wedge. The curving exterior wall being the bottom left of a quarter circle. There are 3 other exits. One door on each of the two interior walls and a spiral staircase in the center of the building.

[Dimers]

"Gahh, I'm scrambled," says Tam. "Remind me not to drink ... wait, I didn't drink anything, did I." Miss Chief shakes her head no.

The draco-monkey-man hums a little ditty and focuses on the blue energy he 'wears', causing it to darken in some spots and brighten in others. Then he tests the result, trying to touch the walls, small objects, Miss Chief, himself. During this rather odd-looking maneuvering, he comments to his protege, "See, this is why you still have to treat me like a teacher rather than a rather feeble-minded student. You can learn from how I prepare. And when you're a little better using these tools yourself, you can learn how I fix it when I'm not prepared." The nezumi looks properly humbled and forgoes her usual acerbic commentary.

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As described in a post early in this game-day, Tam is using the meld that lets him reroll incorporeal miss chance (and deal bonus damage to incorporeal creatures). Not exactly Ghost Touch proper. Does it work at all for touching things or people?

Also, does Scent work here? I'd assume so, because lack of corporeal eyes and ears doesn't stop creatures from seeing and hearing -- but it's not my call to make.

Apparently having tested his new reality enough, Tam suggests to the group, "The phrase 'it's all uphill from here' might fit. Do we want to go up that staircase?"

[jakarta]

It takes a while to get the tangle sorted out. Some of the ghost touch points are on the inside f people's "lines". Some selected selective activation lets Tam and Miss separate them selves, and you all learn that your new forms can squeeze and flow a bit, and you can choose to touch or pass through each other.

Is anyone heading for a door or the stairs? Which only go up.

[CasualViking]

Jokado tries to open the "eastern" door.

[samduke]

venus continues to follow behind Jokado weapons at the ready