The Rings of Destiny (OOC)

[Vesth]

There looks to be the shape of two magical keyholes on a blank door with no actual holes, for which, no keys can be seen.

So...

21. Go North
22. Go South
23. Go both North and South
24. Half the party goes north, the other party goes south
25. Give up and teleport.

[Ramsus]

Ah, finally a problem for Mountain to solve....maybe.

Edit: Oh....dang. I forgot we're supposed to be using the dice roller and not our irl dice since all my other RPs right now are using our irl dice. Vesth, please tell me I don't have to re-roll that. >_<

[Vesth]

It's ok. We all trust you

(Plus, I keep all my GM rolls secret anyway)

[Vesth]

Please note that

A. Not all the books will be useful, if at all. At least one is just fictional literature.

B. You don't have time to read all of it.

[Ramsus]

I suggest we skip the prophecy. They never help and in fact just tend to make things worse.

[usourselves&we]

Chee seems to be blind as a bat, as in he can sense things great but. . .

is he going to trip or not see the big doom prophecy or whatever important thing?

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anyway we need to read the thing, so we know what not to be a part of. do you want to unknowingly fallow the prophecy to good or bad? or do you want to pick the third option? betting on the edge of the coin is fun.

[Ramsus]

No no, that's the trap! Fighting a prophecy just leads to "bad end prophecy" results. The only safe measure is not knowing about it and behaving like you have free will because you do because you've already given Fate the bird.

Edit: Also, I thought Malus was supposed to be the jerk, not Chee.

[usourselves&we]

He . . . is just in a bad mood at the moment . . . yeah that's it, and uh, it's exasperated by the weird thought (bad roll) from before is all. . .

While all that is true, it's just kind of easier to run with slight jerkiness from a character that was roughly Chee in almost every way. Poor guy only saw one game before the GM up and left.

[Grue Bait]

Actually, I always planned Malus to be more snarky than anything, he just had a pretty nasty hangover that should return when the adrenaline runs out.

[usourselves&we]

So, Chee could if he wants pick up the books that Malus had been holding right? Or did he not see where Malus put them?

[Vesth]

Yeap, he can pick up the books.

However, only Tar-Kan has seen the books crammed near the ceiling.

[Ramsus]

Take the key or not take the key? On the one hand, who would put a key that people are going to need in disease infested water? On the other hand...green water is not normal.

[Matthias2207]

Maybe Stroop knows more?

[Vesth]

Small warning: when I mean you don't have time to read all the books, I mean you don't have time to read all the books. There may/may not be time-related penalties later on.

[usourselves&we]

It hasn't been too long, has it, and the guys are/were still looking to see if the pool is dangerous or not. Unless we have no idea how time works it hasn't even been ten/fifteen minutes since offing the skeletons and opening the bag.

[Ramsus]

Still, reading can wait till later. Might as well grab more books and shove them in your pack or look for secret rooms or stuff.

Also, wow, I think this is like the most posts in a day ever for this game.

[usourselves&we]

and Cheemormechee continues to probably be blind, but 10 is half of what he can get so maybe he is ok.

[Vesth]

Fact: The pool is as big as a swimming pool (depth slightly deeper than the deep end of a swimming pool), with the key in the centre. To reach it, someone must dive (or in Mountain's case, walk) to the bottom of the pool to retrieve the key. Funny though, algae would be seen as solid material. There's nothing solid in the pool other than the key...it's just a translucent green.

[usourselves&we]

Figured that may be the case, just didn't want to say anything.

so how are we all going to retcon this?

[Vesth]

Matthias, change your post about taking the key. We can adjust from there...

[Matthias2207]

Fixed, but my browser was acting strange and that messed up my roll.
Athletics - (1d20+7)[27]

[Vesth]

It's actually mainly because you can't roll in an edit to prevent cheating.

Usourselves&we and Ramsus, please delete your posts. Stuff happened when Matthias tried to take the key.

If it helps, you can keep your perception rolls for the next time you use them (Chee: 10, Mountain: 25).

Ramsus, just to confirm something.

Ramsus

Spoiler

Originally Posted by Dungeon Master's Guide Page 9

An adventurer can handle three weeks without food, three days without water, and three minutes without air outside of strenuous situations.

And each round is 6 seconds. So it can buy a person 30 rounds.

At the end of the time period (three weeks, three days, or three minutes), the character must succeed on a DC 20 Endurance check. Success buys the character another day (if hungry or thirsty), or round (if unable to breathe). Then the check is repeated at DC 25, then at DC 30, and so on.

You can last 30 rounds, but after that, you need to make an increasingly difficult check to extend by 1 round each time?

EDIT: And before I update the map, can I know where everyone is?

[Matthias2207]

I'm probably in the pool, depends on whether I still need to climb out or not. Otherwise I'm right next to it.

[Penguinator]

Well, I'm up a bookshelf...

(I didn't know we were going to post yesterday!

...And I didn't know I wasn't going to have internet yesterday...)

[Ramsus]

Yeah, that'd be right Vesth. The point being at that point they're running out of oxygen and are slowly suffocating and pushing on due to sheer badassery or just having the toughness to be able to hold their breath longer than normal. As it's feasible that someone can last longer than the normal.

Edit: I deleted my post. I would like to take this time to point out Warforged don't need to make any of those checks ever. My backstory even includes Mountain trudging along the bottom of the sea for months or at least weeks.

[usourselves&we]

Chee is just on the other side of the fake wall in the room with the pool.

and you guys are being kind of scary, what's this talk about no food, water and air about is Chee (. . .and the others, save for Mountan) going to die soon?

[Vesth]

Now now, usourselves&we, that stuff was in spoiler for a reason.

Now just to wait for Grue Bait and...where do you guys want to put Ligo?

[usourselves&we]

but it was so shinny. . .

You want that post deleted?

[Grue Bait]

Wait, why's my post need to be deleted? It doesn't go against the stuff.

ION: I'm trying my hand at DM'ing for some friends, and this is hard!

[usourselves&we]

huh, when was your post being talked about? that of yours was before matthias so it is fine.

who is in control of Ligo now anyway, was he passed to Grue?

Were we going to replace Ligo at some point? when? and is someone going to join the game, or what? anything happening on that front if so?