[tomb] PerrySimm says, "Log on."

[tomb] baf says, "He's a Sorcerer. That means he doesnt' prepare spells."

[tomb] DM says, "He's a wizard, actually"

[tomb] Clem says, "No, he's a wizard."

Grog has arrived.

[tomb] DM says, "I don't know why I thought he was a sorcerer"

[tomb] Clem says, "Just so that you could ram the correct spelling down our throats."

[tomb] DM says, "Exactly"

[tomb] Paulie asks, "Because I'm a sorcerer?"

[tomb] DM says, "Yeah, he's not really a sorceror, he's a whizzard"

[tomb] baf says, "OK"

[tomb] Clem says, "Yay."

DM says, "OK, why don't we start, and hopefully Roger will show up before Finn is needed"

Clem says, "Sure, I'm finished fiddling with spells."

DM says, "since there will probably be some figuring-what-to-do-next first"

[tomb] baf says (to dfan), "Would you mind changing his listing on the page at hamesucken to say 'wizard' rather than 'sorcerer' at some point? This isn't the first time it's tripped me up."

[tomb] DM says, "Yeah, I meant to before, and I'll do so right now"

Clem says (to Crumbly), "Hrm, I guess my spare clothes are a little baggy on you."

baf has arrived.

Clem says (to Crumbly), "You need to eat some nice big beef pies and stuff. If elfs are allowed to do that."

[tomb] Rosie says, "*My* page was right ;-)"

[tomb] Rosie asks, "So was the basic plan to rest overnight for new spells, then start tossing things through archways?"

Clem asks, "Anybody need any healing before we start?"

[tomb] Clem says, "Yup."

DM says, "OK, so I'm assuming you rested overnight, and Finn summoned a reluctant Kong III"

DM says, "which means everyone should be healed up dandy"

Paulie asks, "'Fore we press onward, do we want to see if there be anything in the pits, if that lever's pushed the oter way?"

[tomb] DM says, "Also, I thought the chattiness worked well last time, althought it understandably lessened as time went on"

Rosie asks, "Ah, Crumbly's pit had other possibilities?"

[tomb] DM says, "so I encourage people to continue"

baf says, "Not really."

[tomb] Rosie says, "Sounds good."

[Crows-Nest] Rosie asks (of baf), "Who are you?"

Clem asks (of Rosie), "Can I see that map you drew last night? With your convenient supply of anachronistic multi-coloured pens?"

Paulie shrugs.

baf says, "Well, okay: The cell I was trapped in had a trapdoor that could be opened by pushing the levers the wrong way. I could levitte down there and check it out."

[tomb] DM says (to Clem), "I think the green stuff was drawn in gargoyle blood"

baf says (to Clem), "*Magic* pens."

baf says, "Or possibly markers."

[tomb] Clem says, "http://strackenz.spod-central.org/~lpsmith/rpg/transcripts/tomb/Tomb.png"

[tomb] DM says (to baf), "You're showing up as baf, not Crumbly"

Paulie says (to baf), "That's all I be wondering about."

Rosie says, "Sure."

Paulie says, "As pits have seemed to be a source of interesting passages at times."

Clem says, "So, we didn't investigate the mouth thing at the end of the first corridor."

Clem pats his bag of tricks, squeakily.

[tomb] baf asks, "Well, what's the protocol if I'm controlling two characters?"

Paulie says, "Aye, 'tis true. Seems as though we may as well at some point soon."

[Crows-Nest] Rosie asks, "Can you open another window?"

[tomb] Paulie says, "Two MUD windows? That's what I do with Grog."

[tomb] Clem says, "I think Ebezar can stay idle unless you reckon he's needed for something."

[tomb] InnocentBystander says, "log in with a second character"

[tomb] DM says, "I would either @emit stuff as Ebezar every once in a while as necessary, or open another window"

[tomb] Crumbly asks, "And two mud accounts?"

[tomb] Rosie says, "If you want npc1, the password is npc1, and you can do an @name"

[tomb] Clem says, "We should be okay if Ebezar just uses his wand to detect magic, and throws a few spells in battles."

[tomb] InnocentBystander says, "and heroically sacrifices himself if need be"

[tomb] Paulie says, "Account 'Eberzarr' created with passwor d'crumbly'."

[tomb] Paulie says, "Er, Ebezarr."

Clem asks, "Well, shall we?"

Paulie says, "Alright."

Clem says, "For some reason you all wanted me right at the back in the standard marching order."

[tomb] Rosie says, "Just don't forget he's not on the channels."

Clem says, "So I'm waiting for the rest of you to go in first."

[tomb] Rosie says, "(npc1 is if you care)"

Paulie says, "I believe Crumbly may be best suited-- no pun intended -- to lead us."

Clem says, "Heh."

Rosie chuckles.

(From DM) Ebezar says, "That's not very funny"

Crumbly says, "I enter the tomb"

Clem tosses his Bag of Tricks to Crumbly.

Clem says, "You might as well hang onto this."

[tomb] Rosie asks (of Crumbly), "Did you want to keep my boots for now, too?"

Crumbly says, "First thing I do is, I float back into the cell and push the levers down, to see if the pit leads anywhere."

[tomb] Rosie says, "Actually, I can ask that IC."

[tomb] DM says, "Ah, good thing Clem had a bag of tricks too"

DM says, "The crawlway is narrow enough that you have to crawl, but big deal"

Crumbly says, "The cell I was trapped in alone, that is."

[tomb] Clem says, "At one point when we were coming up with characters it seemed like everyone was going to have a bag of tricks and a handy haversack."

Rosie says (to Crumbly), "Go ahead and keep the boots for now."

DM says, "You drop down through the trap door at the end into the cell"

[tomb] Clem says, "Because they are clearly the awesomest artifacts."

Paulie follows in marching order, but doesn't enter the pit at this point.

DM says, "As you push the third lever down, the floor opens up beneath you!"

Crumbly exclaims, "Shocking!"

Rosie follows Crumbly, but just peers down at the proceedings from the ceiling.

Clem asks, "A pit in a pit?"

DM says, "Farther down than you can see"

DM says, "A few seconds later it closes again"

Paulie says, "I can just imagine the conversation."

Rosie says, "Oh, wow."

Rosie asks, "What happens if you hold it down?"

Crumbly says, "Hm. It's probably farther down than I can float and then get back up before it cloases."

Paulie says, "'I'd like to buy a pit trap.' 'Would ye like to stock it with anything? Spikes, scorpions, a pool of molten laval?'"

Clem says, "I could do the magical glowing chalk thing again if that helps."

Paulie says, "'I can't afford any of those. What have you got that I can put in my pit trap for *this* much gold?'"

Clem says, "Although tossing a torch down is probably a better plan."

Paulie says, "'Well... how about a pit trap?' 'Perfect!'"

Crumbly says, "Do we have a good supply of torches? I lost mine, of course."

Paulie asks, "Anyway, what've we got that's heavy?"

Rosie says, "Hmm, I don't have any, but there are branches outside."

Clem pats his armour as if looking for torches.

Rosie says, "Hang on."

Clem asks (of Paulie), "Grog?"

Paulie says (to Clem), "Armor, aye, but ye mightn't want to lose that."

Rosie sprints outside and grabs a likely branch off a tree, then returns.

Paulie says, "The crowbar's a good five pound. We could tie that to the lever."

DM says, "The levers stayed down, actually"

Paulie says, "Or a rock. There may be a rock someplace."

Crumbly says, "So, holding it down is no good."

Rosie asks (of Crumbly), "If you reset the levers, will the pit open again?"

Clem asks, "Can't we just pry the pit open again?"

Paulie says (to Clem), "Aye, the crowbar could help with that, too."

Crumbly says, "We can always just leave it."

Crumbly says, "Or Ebezar can drink his potion of levitation and pull the lever again when I'm ready to come back."

Rosie asks (of Crumbly), "Well, if it won't open again it's moot--can you check?"

[tomb] Rosie asks (of GM), "Was there no floor left when the pit opened?"

Crumbly says, "OK, I pull the third level up and push it down again."

[tomb] DM says, "Yeah, it all dropped away"

DM says, "As you push the third lever down, the floor opens up beneath you! Again!"

DM says, "And, once again, a few seconds later it closes"

[tomb] Rosie asks, "Do I think I could support myself by holding on to the levers while it was open?"

[tomb] Clem asks, "Is the floor made of wood or stone?"

[tomb] DM says, "Stone"

Crumbly says, "OK. Ebezar is going to get down there and drink his potion of levitation."

[tomb] DM says (to Rosie), "It certainly wouldn't be automatic"

Crumbly says, "Unless someone else has a less nonrenewable way to fly."

Clem says, "I think we just have the boots."

Rosie says, "Well, we have rope."

[tomb] Paulie says, "Actually, Mage Hand might work."

Paulie asks, "What about Mage Hand?"

Crumbly says, "Good idea."

Clem asks, "What's the plan here?"

[tomb] Paulie asks, "Is there a palce to safely stand that's within range of using Mage Hand on the lever?"

Crumbly says, "The plan is: I pull the lever, fly down with a light source, see what I can, then come up and knock on the floor, at which point someone mag-hands the lever to let me out."

Rosie says, "I think the plan is that Crumbly opens the lever and drops into the pit. Then he yells at us to open it again, and Paulie resets the lever with Mage Hand."

[tomb] Paulie says, "(For values of 'safely' that fall within our knowledge, that is.)"

Rosie and Crumbly talk over each other, but they both say the same thing.

[tomb] Rosie says, "You can peer down into the room from up here with me."

Crumbly says, "I do need a light source. I have low-light vision but not darksight."

Paulie nudges Grog.

Clem says, "Well, I'll magic up some chalk -- VOOMF"

Clem says, "And you'd better take a torch too just in case."

Grog starts to take out a lantern, but Clem gets there first.

DM says, "The piece of chalk suddenly emits a glowing light, as if by divine magic!"

[tomb] Clem says, "(this Light spells lasts for 90 minutes)"

[tomb] Clem says, "I am so proud for inventing this glowy chalk thing."

Crumbly tucks the chalk behind his ear and pushes the lever down again

[tomb] Paulie asks, "Crumbly's lost his cloak of resistance, hasn't he. Want a spell for a few minutes?"

DM says, "As you push the third lever down, the floor opens up beneath you! For the third time!"

[tomb] Paulie says, "Or rather, for one minute, I guess. Doesn't improve with level."

[tomb] Clem says, "Oh, let him go."

[tomb] Paulie says, "OK."

Crumbly says, "I float down until I reach bottom or see something interesting."

[tomb] Rosie says, "He could borrw my cloak if he thought he needed it."

Clem says, "Or get eaten. Let's not leave out any possibilities."

DM says, "Crumbly floats down and the floor closes behind him"

[interludes] DM says, "You descend for a while"

[interludes] DM says, "About a hundred feet"

Clem says, "If he doesn't come back, I can try a Locate Object on *my* pants this time."

[tomb] Paulie asks, "If this is a bottomless pit, does that mean he'll never return?"

DM says, "All is silent"

Clem listens carefully.

[interludes] DM says, "and the bottom of the pit is completely empty"

[tomb] Paulie asks, "Or does 'seventeen hours worth of pit' qualify as interesting?"

[interludes] Crumbly says, "OK. I search the walls while I'm down here, taking ten for 26."

[interludes] DM says, "The walls appear normal"

[interludes] Crumbly asks, "Not even any adventurer remains with mysteriously untarnished equipment?"

[interludes] DM says, "Nope"

[interludes] Crumbly says, "OK, I get back up and bang on the roof and holler."

DM says, "There is a banging on the floor"

Clem says, "Well, I guess he isn't coming back."

Clem says, "Let's try the next room."

[tomb] DM says, "Ha ha"

DM says, "and a shout"

Rosie exclaims, "Just a second!"

Rosie says (to Paulie), "Go for it."

Crumbly says, "Ebezar elbows Clem in the ribs"

Clem asks (of Paulie), "Hey, are you reading your spell book? You have cast this one before, right?"

Paulie casts Mage Hand.

[tomb] Paulie says, "Sorry, got momentarily distracted."

Clem asks (of Ebezar), "Oh, sorry, did my metal plate armour hurt your robe-clad elbow?"

Paulie twiddles the lever up and down.

DM says, "As you push the third lever down TELEKINETICALLY, the floor opens up beneath you! For the fourth time!"

Clem says, "Get up here!"

[tomb] Paulie asks, "Beneath me, even though I'm way over here?"

Crumbly says, "I emerge! Throwing my hands out in a 'ta-dah!' gesture."

[tomb] Rosie says, "You are directly above the pit."

[tomb] DM says, "You're looking down from the trap door in the ceiling"

[tomb] Paulie asks, "Or just 'beneath' in a general 'somewhere lower down' sense?"

[tomb] Rosie says, "Peering down at it."

DM says, "It's Crumbly!"

DM says, "Then the floor closes again"

Clem says, "Stone the crows!"

Clem asks, "So, anything interesting?"

Crumbly says, "The pit is about 100 feed deep. There isnt' even any loot from previous adventurers at the bottom."

[tomb] Paulie says, "OK, just making sure this wasn't one of those smart traps that opened up the pit wherever you were standing."

Rosie says, "Oh, man."

[rpg] Jon says, "something weird I just thought up: DitV's system, Babylon 5 as a setting, focusing on the Rangers."

[Crows-Nest] InnocentBystander says (to Paulie), "I saw those in Roadrunner"

Clem says, "Well, thank G'taar that this pit trap never claimed any lives."

Clem says, "(dammit)"

Paulie says, "Perhaps we be the first to find it."

Crumbly says, "So, unless we want to use the shaft for pants-triangulation, let's go on."

Rosie exclaims, "To the mouth!"

Paulie asks (of Crumbly), "I trust ye checked for secret passages?"

Crumbly says, "We could find out how deep they are that way."

Crumbly says, "Yeah, didn't find any."

Crumbly says, "So, to the mouth."

Crumbly says, "Ah, I was handed the canary bag."

DM says, "So there at the south end of the first hallway is the big green devil head"

Rosie scrunches around using her monkish dexterity, and crawls back out of the passageway, into the pit, and up into the pitted corridor.

DM | http://hamesucken.com/tomb/6.jpg

Crumbly says, "I pull something out of the loaner bag of tricks"

DM says, "Roll d100"

Crumbly rolls 1d100: 62 | 62

Clem says, "Great, a horny, cross-eyed, hairy, gaping-mouthed demon thing."

Crumbly says, "Looks like that's a cat"

Rosie asks, "Can Clem cast Detect Object on something living?"

DM says, "Aw, a kitty cat"

Clem says, "None of those is an inviting characteristic for a passageway."

Rosie asks, "Or do we need to strap something to it?"

Paulie says, "I didn't know bags of tricks even had any of those."

DM says, "You detect objects all around you!"

Crumbly hurls the cat through the gaping maw

Clem crouches close but not too close and yells, "KIIIIIIIITTTTTTTY"

DM says, "The cat disappears into the inky blackness"

Paulie says, "Poor Canary. We hardly knew ye."

Crumbly calls "Come!" through into the inky blackness

DM says, "Your voice doesn't even echo or anything"

Clem asks, "Oh, animals from the bag obey commands?"

Clem asks, "Even *cats*?"

Paulie says, "If not, I can get ye some dried fish from me rations."

Clem asks (of Ebezar), "Care to Detect Magic on this?"

Crumbly says, "Yeah, they can follow any of the commands detailed in the Handle Animal skill."

Crumbly says, "But I notice that the description doen't say that they *will* follow the command."

Clem says, "Well, let's try another animal, only this time we'll tie it to a rope."

Rosie says, "A cheap rope."

Crumbly says, "Seems teleporty."

Clem says, "G'taar forgive us for making all these little animals snuff it before their time."

Paulie takes out the piece of fish, kneels in front of the mouth with it, and says, "Here, kitty kitty kitty..."

Crumbly says, "Their time is ten minutes."

Clem says, "Oh, true."

Rosie asks, "Actually, can we cast detect magic on it?"

Paulie waves the fish around a bit.

Paulie says (to Rosie), "Aye. Ebezar has a wand for that."

Clem says, "So that's only a fourteenth-degree sin, on a par with snubbing a slight acquaintance due to their unpleasant smell."

Rosie asks, "To see if the sort of magic is the same sort as teleport?"

[tomb] DM says, "I read that as 'snuffing a slight acquaintance'"

Crumbly says, "Oh! Uh, Ebezar pulls out his wand and goes detecting."

[Crows-Nest] (from Paulie) Clem says, "No offense, Grog."

[tomb] InnocentBystander says, "me too#"

[tomb] Clem says, "That's a ninth-degree sin."

DM says, "It's magic, all right"

DM says, "Very powerful"

Crumbly says, "And continues holding the spell for three rounds to discover the school of magic."

DM says, "Ebezar can make a Spellcraft check to try to determine the school"

[tomb] Paulie says, "I suppose if there was a chance of the cat hearing me, I'd get to make some kind of Diplomacy or similar roll."

DM says, "Looks like a +12"

[tomb] Clem says, "Cat-herding."

[tomb] Clem says, "Although I think that's an Epic feat."

[tomb] Crumbly says, "Wait, Ebezar's character sheet doesn't mention a wand of detect magic."

[tomb] DM says, "It was someone else's"

[tomb] Paulie says, "He's borrowing it from the druid."

[tomb] Crumbly says, "OK"

[tomb] Clem asks, "Did we all pick up each other's haversack by mistake one morning or something?"

Crumbly rolls 1d20+12: 7+12 | 19

DM says, "He can't tell what school it is"

Crumbly says, "Bah."

[D&D] Allen says, "in Hackmaster, there's a Dungeon Cat, a cute little cat able to detect gold within a 120 foot radius. But, being a cat, it's totally untrainable, and if you keep one and ever miss a meal, it'll mew loudly until someone feeds it, and then start following that person around"

Clem says, "Come on, bat on a rope."

Clem says, "Unless anyone has a better suggestion."

Clem says, "I'll even use my rope."

Rosie asks, "Can he try again?"

Rosie asks, "Or someone else?"

[tomb] Clem asks, "Can anyone else try?"

Crumbly asks, "OK, I pull out another canary. How many from this bag now?"

[tomb] Clem says, "I'll roll if so."

Crumbly rolls 1d100: 61 | 61

Crumbly exclaims, "Another cat!"

Clem says, "I believe that's the third animal from this bag."

Clem asks, "How many do animals do these things come with?"

[tomb] DM says, "10 a week"

Crumbly says, "OK, I'll hold it down while you slip the rope around it."

DM says, "The cat mews pitifully, perhaps having a presentiment of its fate"

Paulie says, "Try not to throw this one so hard."

DM says, "But you successfully tie the rope to a leg"

[tomb] Paulie asks, "Have you ever actually tried to tie something to a cat?"

[tomb] Paulie says, "It is Not This Easy."

[tomb] Clem says, "It's a magic cat! Don't worry!"

Crumbly tosses the new cat through gently, allowing it to land on its feet.

[tomb] Paulie says, "Oh, man. *Especially* to a leg."

Clem says, "G'taar bless this cat, also my rather nice silk rope, may they both survive unscathed."

Paulie says, "We should give the cat a hat. So we can see if it turns up naked."

DM says, "The cat disappears, and as you pull the rope back, the part that entered the mouth is missing"

DM says, "as if cleanly severed"

Clem says (to G'taar), "Bollocks!"

Clem puts his 49ft silk rope back in his haversack.

Paulie says, "Ack. That could mean one of three things."

Rosie says (to Clem), "Hey, it's your rope--try casting Detect Object on the end of it."

[tomb] DM asks, "Locate Object?"

Clem says (to Rosie), "Hmm, not a bad idea."

[tomb] Rosie says, "Er, right."

[tomb] Crumbly says, "I seem to be having power issues here. My UPS keeps switching into beep mode."

[tomb] DM says, "Uh oh"

Clem says, "I can only cast that once a day, however."

Paulie says, "Four things, if we include the possibility that the cats got tgether, sliced the rope, and are now holing up on the other side hiding from us."

[tomb] Crumbly says, "I'm going to go check the circuit breaker. Be back soon."

Paulie asks, "Will we need it again today?"

Clem says, "If Crumbly can survive without his pants, I suppose not."

Rosie says, "We'll need it if we want to test the Orange arch."

Clem casts Locate Object.

Clem clearly visualises the missing foot of rope. How he used to tie it onto stuff in merry childhood games, then untie it, then tie it to other stuff.

Clem says, "(sniff)"

[tomb] DM says, "Ha ha"

[tomb] Rosie says, "Hee hee"

[Crows-Nest] InnocentBystander says, "right, "onto stuff""

[Crows-Nest] InnocentBystander says, "more like "around his brother""

DM says, "You do not detect a foot of severed rope within 760 feet"

Clem says, "It's gone! As far as I can tell."

Rosie says, "My guess is that it was destroyed."

Clem says, "No!"

[tomb] (from DM) Rosie says, "So, who wants to go in?"

Clem says, "That poor rope I mean cat!"

Paulie says, "Or it's been teleported to the lich's *real* lair on the other side of the world."

Paulie says, "Right. So, I propose we *not* enter the mouth."

Clem says, "Great, so now we're going to have to fight a lich and two cat-zombies."

Paulie says (to Clem), "Good thing none of us be a first-level wizard."

[tomb] Crumbly says, "Back now"

Rosie says, "Well, since we don't have any more Locate Objects, I suggest we ignore the orange arch for now and go through the mummy or nymph pasageways."

Clem asks, "So, back round to the hall of spheres?"

Paulie says, "Aye."

Clem says, "Right, that place."

[tomb] Crumbly says, "Circuit breaker fine. But the beeping stopped, so I'm going to assume the problem was transient and nonlocal."

DM says, "You dash through the arrow rooms again"

DM says, "and into the hall of spheres"

[tomb] Rosie asks (of DM), "Is my map relatively correct? Like, is the gargoyle entrance between the mummy an nymph, all of which are north of the hydra?"

[tomb] DM says, "Yes"

Crumbly asks, "Didn't we get some new gems Do we want to try those on the statue?"

[tomb] (from Clem) DM says, "You forgot the secret passage in the gargoyle ro -- damn!"

[tomb] Rosie says, "Cool, thanks."

Clem asks, "Didn't it just crush all the other ones we tried?"

Paulie says, "Let's wait."

Rosie says, "Nah, not yet, I think."

Paulie says, "We may get a third color."

Crumbly says, "OK"

Crumbly says, "That makes sense"

Paulie says, "Then we can try one of each."

Clem says, "This lich does seem to like his threes."

Clem says, "Hey, maybe there are three liches!"

Paulie says, "I vote for the mummy next."

Crumbly says, "And once we have three colors, maybe it'll turn into a misty archway,."

Paulie says (to Clem), "What an inspiring thought."

Clem says (to Paulie), "Well, it's not called the tomb of horror."

Rosie asks, "What do we know about mummies? Are they resistant to particular types of weapons? Do they have a weird attack we could avoid?"

Clem says, "Seems like they'd burn pretty well."

Crumbly says, "I think fire is good against them."

Clem says, "Got some oil here."

[tomb] Rosie asks, "Does Burning Hands still exist?"

Paulie says (to Rosie), "Mummy rot."

Clem asks, "Who's good at throwing?"

Crumbly says, "I've got a good dex."

[tomb] Paulie says, "I have it."

[tomb] Rosie asks, "Can you cast it on me if we fight a mummy, then?"

Clem says, "Okay, here's a flask of oil."

Clem says, "You can try chucking it at the mummy followed by a torch, maybe."

[tomb] Paulie says, "Um. I'd rather cast it on the mummy."

[tomb] Crumbly says, "Looks like my bonus for throwing is +10 right now."

[tomb] Rosie asks, "Oh, it does damage to what you cast it on?"

[tomb] Paulie says, "Since it doesn't do what I think you think it does."

[tomb] Rosie says, "Heh."

[tomb] DM says, "Someone should probably take over Finn and Kong, since it looks like he's missing another session"

[tomb] Paulie says, "It's a flamethrower, basically."

[tomb] Crumbly says, "Not me. I'm already handling a stray."

Paulie says, "I recommend not letting it touch you."

[tomb] Rosie says, "So it doesn't turn you into a flamethrower; gotcha."

[tomb] Clem says, "Me or Rosie then."

Paulie casts Mage Armor on himself and, if needed, Ebezar and/or Crumbly.

[tomb] Rosie says, "Hrm."

(From Clem) Finn casts Barkskin on everyone as per usual.

Clem says, "(I guess)"

[tomb] DM says, "Who does he usually cast it on? I can check the logs"

[tomb] Rosie asks (of Clem), "You got him?"

[tomb] Clem says, "Sure, I'll take him."

[tomb] Rosie says, "Excellent."

[tomb] Clem says, "But anybody feel free to remind me if he can do anything useful."

[tomb] Clem says, "Otherwise he'll just chuck a few spells in combat."

[tomb] Clem says, "Then maybe kill his familiar again."

[tomb] Rosie says, "I'll take Kong if need be."

[tomb] Paulie says, "I think usually on me. Can't remember if Grog gets it or not."

[tomb] Rosie says, "Ha ha"

[tomb] Clem says (to Rosie), "Sure, go for it."

[tomb] Rosie says, "I believe I am on the list."

[tomb] Paulie says (to Clem), "He has a wand of lightning, I think."

[tomb] Rosie says, "And if not, I would like to be."

[tomb] DM says, "Last time Finn cast Barkskin Iain decided to get Crumbly, Paulie, Rosie, Clem and Ebezar"

[tomb] Clem says, "Grog and Kong don't get Barkskin."

[tomb] Clem says, "Just the main PCs."

[tomb] DM says, "Oh, Ebezar might want to cast that spell that gives him more hit points"

[tomb] Rosie says, "The only modification to that that might be good is to replace Ebezar with Grog. Since Ebezar isn't here, and will clearly be hanging out in the back."

[tomb] DM says, "False Life"

[tomb] Crumbly says, "OK, thanks"

[tomb] Paulie asks, "What's the marching order?"

[tomb] Rosie says, "Standard."

[tomb] Paulie asks, "Also, did Crumbly want armor, or will he just be staying away from Bad People?"

[tomb] Crumbly says, "Yes, Ebezar will cast False Life"

[tomb] DM says, "Last marching order was Crumbly, Grog/Finn, Kong/Paulie, Ebezar/Clem, Rosie"

[tomb] DM says, "according to my notes"

[tomb] Crumbly says, "No reason not to."

[tomb] DM says, "OK, roll 1d10+9 for temporary hp"

[tomb] Rosie says, "Sounds good."

[tomb] Crumbly says, "Crumbly will be staying away from bad people."

Crumbly rolls 1d10+9: 1+9 | 10

[tomb] Rosie says, "1? Sheesh."

[tomb] DM says, "Well, he rolled great the day before"

[tomb] DM says, "So Ebezar's up to 71 hp"

[tomb] Clem says, "Finn is still barkskinning Ebezar, because Kong will turn up again if he dies."

[tomb] Rosie says, "Not Kong; Grog."

[tomb] Clem says, "Oops."

[tomb] Clem says, "Okay, sure, he'll do that then."

[tomb] Clem says, "So Clem, Rosie, Paulie, Crumbly, Grog."

[tomb] Paulie says, "I need to find a way to make Grog turn up again if he dies."

Crumbly asks, "So, are we ready to open a door?"

Paulie says, "Aye."

Clem adjusts hair.

Clem says, "Yes!"

[tomb] Paulie asks (of Clem), "Whose?"

Crumbly says, "OK. I open the door."

Rosie says, "Sounds good."

Crumbly says, "Oil-flask at the ready."

DM | http://hamesucken.com/tomb/12.jpg

DM says, "Except imagine you're not weraring so many clothes"

[tomb] InnocentBystander says, "1.wav"

Clem says, "Eagh!"

DM rolls 1d6: 6 | 6

[tomb] Crumbly asks, "Reflex save?"

DM says, "6 spears fly at Crumbly"

[tomb] DM says, "Nah, it's an attack"

[tomb] Crumbly says, "OK"

[tomb] Rosie says, "Whoops, forgot to check for traps."

DM rolls 1d20+23: 8+23 | 31

DM rolls 1d20+23: 12+23 | 35

DM rolls 1d20+23: 6+23 | 29

DM rolls 1d20+23: 7+23 | 30

DM rolls 1d20+23: 12+23 | 35

DM rolls 1d20+23: 7+23 | 30

DM rolls 6d8: 2 7 8 2 7 7 | 33

Clem wonders whether to start preparing Raise Dead.

[tomb] InnocentBystander says, "*and* no pants? say goodbye to your best parts"

[tomb] Rosie says, "Although if it's an attack, maybe that wouldn't have worked."

DM says, "Crumbly is speared by multiple spears"

[tomb] Clem says, "He's wearing my pants."

DM rolls 1d6: 4 | 4

Rosie exclaims, "Nooooo!"

DM says, "4 spears fly at Grog"

Crumbly exclaims, "Not dead yet!"

[tomb] InnocentBystander says, "say goodbye to your best pants, then"

[tomb] Clem says, "Oh good lord not this again."

DM rolls 1d20+23: 11+23 | 34

DM rolls 1d20+23: 4+23 | 27

Crumbly exclaims, "But pretty close!"

DM rolls 1d20+23: 3+23 | 26

DM rolls 1d20+23: 18+23 | 41

DM rolls 4d8: 2 2 8 2 | 14

[tomb] Clem says, "I refuse to believe there were 8d6 spears behind that one door!"

DM rolls 1d6: 5 | 5

DM says, "and five at Finn"

DM rolls 1d20+23: 2+23 | 25

DM rolls 1d20+23: 13+23 | 36

DM rolls 1d20+23: 16+23 | 39

DM rolls 1d20+23: 17+23 | 40

DM rolls 1d20+23: 12+23 | 35

[tomb] Crumbly says, "It's like the infinite arrow rooms."

(From Clem) Finn says, "Quick, Kong, stand in front of me!"

[tomb] Rosie says, "The no reflex save is wacky."

[tomb] Paulie asks, "Are those all attack rolls?"

DM says, "One of them bounces off Finn!"

[tomb] DM says (to Rosie), "They're just attacks"

[tomb] DM says (to Paulie), "Yes"

[tomb] Rosie says, "Yeah, I know."

[tomb] Crumbly says, "Yeah. This isn't a trap per se. I dont' know what it is."

[tomb] DM says, "So you get to use your Dex to avoid the attack"

[tomb] Paulie asks, "Also, are we flatfooted?"

[tomb] Rosie exclaims, "Shhh!"

[tomb] DM says, "Except that you're flatfooted"

DM rolls 4d8: 5 8 8 7 | 28

Clem says (to Rosie), "Crap! Even though we're standing at the back, I'm not sure we have time to leap aside before that indeterminate number of spears over there skewers us!"

[tomb] Paulie says, "(Not that it really matters, with those rolls.)"

DM says, "That's it, only the folks at the front of the party were in the line of fire"

[tomb] Clem asks, "Hey, since this may be relevant, can I use an unprepared spell slot to cast a spontaneous healing spell?"

[tomb] DM says, "I have Crumbly at 9 hp, Grog at 56, Finn at 47"

Grog says, "Ow."

[tomb] DM says (to Clem), "No, unless you find evidence otherwise"

[tomb] Crumbly says, "OK. Remember the first time we opened a door, and we tied a rope to the handle and got out of the corridor and pulled on the rope? We should probably go back to doing that kind of thing."

Clem says, "Okay, healing time."

[tomb] Clem says (to DM), "Okay."

[tomb] Rosie says, "Heh."

[tomb] Crumbly says, "Invisible Servants are good for this kind of thing."

Clem says, "1d8+1 from this wand if I remember correctly."

Rosie peers beyond the door.

[tomb] DM asks, "How many charges left?"

[tomb] Clem says, "20 left."

[tomb] Clem says, "From 50 initial."

[tomb] Paulie says, "I love how we're stopping to cast spells, right in front of an open doorway, before even looking through it."

[tomb] Rosie exclaims, "I looked!"

[tomb] Clem says, "Well, I'm not interrupting anyone."

DM says, "It looks like the picture"

[tomb] Crumbly says, "I'm not going near it until I'm healed some."

[tomb] Clem says, "Just doing my thing."

DM says, "That is, behind the door is a wall"

Clem rolls 1d8+1: 5+1 | 6

Clem rolls 1d8+1: 6+1 | 7

Clem rolls 1d8+1: 7+1 | 8

Clem rolls 1d8+1: 2+1 | 3

[tomb] Rosie says (to DM), "Is that a wall.. ah."

Clem rolls 1d8+1: 5+1 | 6

DM says, "I guess the perspective on the picture is not very good"

[tomb] Clem says, "5 charges used, 30 points healed on Crumbly."

Crumbly says, "Thank you."

[tomb] Clem says (to DM), "I'll continue healing but let me know if something happens first."

[tomb] DM says, "All is quiet"

Crumbly says, "Now that I'm healed, I want to search the wall behind the door."

DM asks, "Taking 10, 20, or rolling?"

[tomb] Clem says, "14 to heal on Grog."

Clem rolls 1d8+1: 3+1 | 4

Clem rolls 1d8+1: 6+1 | 7

[tomb] Clem says, "11, that'll do."

Crumbly exclaims, "Taking 20!"

[tomb] Paulie says, "That's good enough, probably."

[tomb] Clem says, "So Crumbly and Grog only lost 3hp each there after the healing."

Crumbly says, "Because it's going to take a while for the healing to finish."

[tomb] Clem says, "And 13 charges left."

[tomb] Paulie asks, "Finn?"

[tomb] Clem says, "28 to heal on Finn, man."

[tomb] Clem says (to Finn), "This robe is never going to be the same again, I'm afraid."

DM asks, "OK, so how long does taking 20 on a search take? 20 times 6 seconds?"

Clem rolls 1d8+1: 4+1 | 5

Clem rolls 1d8+1: 2+1 | 3

Clem rolls 1d8+1: 4+1 | 5

Clem rolls 1d8+1: 4+1 | 5

Clem rolls 1d8+1: 6+1 | 7

DM says, "It says search is a full-round action"

Crumbly asks, "I guess so. Search is a full-round action, yes?"

[tomb] Clem says, "Hey, 25, that'll do."

[tomb] Rosie says, "woo, 25."

[tomb] Clem says, "Okay, down to 8 charges."

DM says, "OK, Crumbly takes a couple of minutes looking all over the wall"

[tomb] Crumbly says, "Yes."

DM says, "but finds nothing"

Crumbly says, "So, two minutes to take twenty on a search. That's not so bad."

[tomb] Rosie says, "We keep using the charges and having leftover priest spells, annoyingly."

DM says, "Yeah, I thought it was more"

[tomb] Clem says, "Maybe I should've shelled out for the Super Healy-Wand Ultra, instead of just the Plus."

[tomb] Clem says (to Rosie), "You never know when the spells might be needed."

Crumbly asks, "There's one more door, right?"

Paulie says, "The nymph."

[tomb] Clem says, "I can always buy a new wand with our haul of, er, however many gems are left uncrushed."

Crumbly says, "Let's take this one a little more safely."

Paulie says, "I recommend not looking at her."

[tomb] Rosie says, "Yeah, it's just been bad luck."

[tomb] Paulie says, "We also got some crown or something we can sell."

Crumbly says, "I'm going to search it for traps, taking 20."

[tomb] Paulie says, "Although we'll probably be using it to buy diamonds to resurrect Crumbly."

DM says, "After just a minute Crumbly is not surprised to discover that the second door is trapped just like the first was"

[Crows-Nest] Paulie says, "I am trying hard not to imagine Crumbly, in his ill-fitting semi-dress, re-enacting Haley's scene of taking 20."

Crumbly says, "OK. I'm going to attempt to disable this."

DM asks, "Are people getting out of the way or standing around?"

Rosie says, "I will get out of the way."

Paulie stays behind something big. Like Grog.

Clem says, "I'm the hell out of the way and readying a Teleport."

Grog moves to one side.

Paulie follows Grog.

DM asks, "Are you taking 10 or rolling?"

Crumbly says, "I don't think you can take 10 on a disable device check, can you? It's always a secret roll by the DM."

DM says, "Aha"

Crumbly says, "And it looks like I'm at +16 without my tools."

DM says, "Okey dokey"

DM says, "Crumbly attempts to disable the trap"

Crumbly says, "OK, I *think* that did it. I'm gong to go stand far away now."

Clem asks (of Paulie), "Do you still have a Mage Hand?"

Paulie says, "Aye."

Paulie peeks around from behind Grog and attempts to open the door remotely.

DM says, "The door opens without incident - apparently Crumbly succeeded in disabling the trap"

Rosie sighs with relief.

DM says, "The bad news is that it opens onto another blank wall"

Paulie says, "We seem to be rapidly running out of ways to progress."

Crumbly says, "Well, this is not surprising. The clues led to the right exits."

Crumbly asks, "What's left?"

Rosie says, "Only the orange archway left, I think. Besides the gargoyle statue."

Crumbly asks, "The orange archway in the chapel?"

Rosie says, "Yeah."

Paulie asks, "Do we want to search this wall?"

Crumbly says, "I tried that during the earthquake. It didn't led anywhwere."

Crumbly says, "Oh, might as well. Search the wall behind the nymph door, taking 20."

Rosie says (to Crumbly), "I thought you only went through the archway down there."

Rosie points to the end of the hallway.

DM says, "Crumbly searches the wall for a couple of minutes and finds nothing"

Crumbly says, "I tried the chapel arch, it didn't lead anywhere, I came out coughing orange. Then I tried the archway in this room."

Crumbly says, "Maybe the chapel arch leads somewhere but has to be activated somehow."

Paulie asks, "By the pews?"

[tomb] Rosie says, "The transcript merely says, "I am going through the arch!" "Bah""

[tomb] DM says, "I might have whispered the results"

[tomb] Crumbly says, "That's because the DM told me the results privately."

[tomb] Crumbly says, "I assume. I don't really remember."

[tomb] Rosie says, "OK, I thought he was saying, "Oh, fine, I won't.""

[tomb] Rosie says, "The arch was indeed magical, though."

[tomb] Crumbly says, "Right, I was bah-inh the lack of teleportation."

[Crows-Nest] Ghogg asks, "bah, what's the command to get where you are again?"

[tomb] Rosie says, "Conjuration, looks like."

[Crows-Nest] DM says, "dtt"

[tomb] Paulie asks, "So the only things we haven't done are A) search the lich-lite room for passages, and B) gone through the Demon Mouth?"

[tomb] Crumbly says, "Well, let's go play with it. Clearly we don't understand it yet."

[tomb] Paulie asks, "And C) sit on the pews?"

[tomb] Rosie says, "I thought we did search the lich room."

Crumbly says, "Let's go to the chapel."

Ghogg has arrived.

[tomb] Paulie says, "For passages? OK."

Paulie nods.

[Crows-Nest] Ghogg says, "don't forget use every verb on every item and try kicking everything"

[tomb] Rosie | Crumbly searches walls of lich room, taking tens for 26

Rosie says, "Sure."

DM says, "OK, you all crawl through to the chapel"

Rosie says, "Maybe we can try a bag-of-tricks animal on the front pews."

Paulie says, "We did that. No effect."

DM says, "I think you already did"

Crumbly says, "I'm going to take off the boots of levitation just in case, then walk through the archway to demonstrate to doubters that nothing happens."

Paulie says, "Perhaps it's time to do something more direct. Like having Kong sit on it."

DM says, "Crumbly disappears into the mist"

DM says, "and returns"

Paulie says, "Or someone who can answer back, Ebezar or Finn."

Paulie says, "Or someone with equipment."

DM says, "Actually, I guess he didn't return yet"

[interludes] DM asks, "Rolling, taking 10, taking 20?"

Clem asks (of Crumbly), "Hey! Are you still alive and clothed?"

[interludes] Crumbly says, "Oh, this is a search for walls? Taking ten, I guess."

Paulie asks (of Finn), "Mind sitting on the pew?"

[interludes] DM says, "Oh, I thought I told you last time, it's just a 10x10 room"

Eolo has arrived.

Paulie says, "If all else fails, I could identify them."

[interludes] Crumbly says, "Yeah, that's what I remembered. Just making sure. My mind wasn't right at the time."

(From Clem) Finn says, "Oh, sure, not at all."

Crumbly says, "OK, I come out."

[interludes] DM says, "The walls seem normal"

Clem averts his eyes just in case.

Rosie asks, "Nothing in there?"

Crumbly says, "It's just a 10 by 10 room full of orange mist."

Crumbly says, "Feel free to check it out yourself."

Paulie asks (of Crumbly), "Sans secret passages?"

Rosie says, "You're the searchy guy."

[tomb] Paulie asks, "Are there any archways we haven't checked?"

Clem asks (of Ebezar), "Did you check the orange mist for magic?"

Rosie says, "Yeah, it had an aura of Conjuration."

Crumbly says, "Fine. I go back in and search the walls, floor, and ceiling, taking twenty. This will take like ten minutes."

[interludes] DM says, "You fail your saving throw this time"

[interludes] Crumbly exclaims, "!"

[interludes] DM says, "and are now 1) lawful neutral, 2) female"

[interludes] Crumbly says, "Oh my."

[interludes] DM says, "Welcome to 1st edition D&D!"

Paulie says, "Maybe it's a teleporter that takes you to a distant 10x10 room full of orange mist."

DM says, "Crumbly disappears into the mist once more"

[interludes] Crumbly asks, "Um, does this affect my rogueyness?"

Clem asks (of Crumbly), "HEY, CAN YOU STILL HEAR ME?"

[interludes] DM says, "I don't think it effects your abilities, but you are encouraged to role-play it up"

[tomb] Paulie asks, "Did Finn actually sit on the pew?"

[interludes] DM says, "affects"

[interludes] Crumbly exclaims, "Will do!"

[interludes] Ghogg asks, "what was Crumbly's previous alignment?"

[tomb] Clem says, "Not yet."

[interludes] Crumbly says, "CN"

[interludes] DM says, "Hey, rogues can be any alignment, anyway"

[tomb] Clem asks, "What caused the lightning bolt last time?"

[tomb] Rosie says, "Messing with the altar."

[tomb] Rosie says, "IIRC"

Crumbly says, "I call out 'Yes, I can still hear you' in an oddly high-pitched voice"

Crumbly emerged from the mists

Clem says, "You sounded oddly high-pitched there."

[interludes] DM says, "You found nothing special when you searched, btw"

(From Clem) Finn says, "Okay, I am going to sit down on a pew!"

DM says, "Crumbly looks kind of odd now too"

Clem looks closer.

[tomb] Clem asks, "Smaller?"

Crumbly blushes hotly.

Paulie looks 'up' at Crumbly.

DM says, "Well, for one thing, she's an elf-woman"

[tomb] Paulie says, "Ha ha."

Crumbly wraps her borrowed cloak more tightly around herself

Clem says, "!!!"

[tomb] Crumbly says, "Darn it, I wanted the pronouns in my comment to be the first clue."

[tomb] Paulie says, "I hope he never took Clem up on his pants offer."

Clem says, "Man, when they called this place the Tomb of Horrors, I didn't think they meant I'd end up with an elf woman in my pants."

[tomb] DM says, "Aw, sorry"

[tomb] DM says (to Clem), "Ha ha ha"

Rosie says, "Sheesh."

Rosie asks, "Was that just the mist, or did you find something in there?"

Clem asks, "Wait, how do we know this is Crumbly?"

Crumbly says, "I have no idea."

Crumbly says, "I mean, I didn't find anything. I assume it was the mist."

[tomb] DM asks, "Uh, so is Finn sitting down on a pew, or did he get distracted by all this?"

(From Clem) Finn, staggered by this new revelation, sits weakly down on a pew.

[tomb] Crumbly says, "He probably started to sit down but missed when he saw me."

DM says, "Finn sits down on a pew and nothing special happens"

Crumbly puts the glittery go-go boots of levitation back on.

Paulie asks, "Want me to just identify the blasted pew?"

Paulie asks, "Or do we still have another archway to look at first?"

Rosie says (to Finn), "Sit there too long, and you'll probably turn into a woman."

[tomb] Paulie says, "Specifically, I'm wondering about A2."

[tomb] DM says, "A2 is what declothed Crumbly"

Rosie says (to Paulie), "That's kind of expensive, but hey."

Paulie says (to Rosie), "We're running out of things to try."

[tomb] Paulie asks, "Did he try A2 while naked?"

[tomb] Paulie says, "Because if not, it seems like a good time to."

Rosie says, "If you're going to cast identify, I recommend casting it on the gargoyle statue first."

[tomb] Paulie says, "Even if it was checked already, it can't hurt to try it again."

[tomb] Paulie says, "Or even just to try doing other things while naked."

[tomb] Crumbly is *not* removing any clothing around you lot, thank you.

Paulie nods. "Fair enough."

Paulie asks, "Any opposed to the idea?"

Rosie says, "My only other suggestion is to see if something unconcious that goes through the second archway ends up with Crumbly's pants or at the first archway."

Rosie says, "Or something petrified, or with a temporary flesh-to-stone spell on 'em."

[tomb] Clem asks, "Hang on, there's one mystic passageway that turns you into a woman, and another mystic passageway that removes your clothes?"

Crumbly says, "hah"

[tomb] Clem asks, "What age was Gygax when he wrote this thing?"

[tomb] Eolo says, "Tomb of Loooooove"

[tomb] Paulie says, "And one mystic passageway that locks you in a small secluded darkened room."

[tomb] Crumbly asks, "Have we run out of explorable passages other than the Mouth?"

[tomb] Paulie says, "I think so."

Crumbly asks, "We've searched all the pits we've seen, right?"

[tomb] Paulie says, "Aside from the naked/unconscious suggestions for A2."

[tomb] Clem says, "At this point I'm just wondering what horrible torment could have befallen my poor pussy."

[tomb] Paulie says (to Clem), "That's what Cru-- er."

Rosie pulls out the sheet of paper with the clues on 'em.

Crumbly leaves the boys to their sniggering and goe back to the mouth.

Rosie says, "There's stuff here we clearly haven't seen."

Rosie quotes, "The iron men of visage grim do more than meets the viewer's eye."

Rosie says, "Anyway, if we're up for burning an identify, let's do it."

Clem says, "Sure."

Crumbly says, "OK"

Crumbly rejoins the others

Paulie says, "To the gargoyle, then."

Paulie heads back there, whips out a sheet of parchment, and lays hands on the statue.

Crumbly says, "If you find the false you find the true. That makes it seem like the fake lich chamber is on the way to the real one or something."

DM says, "The magic abilities of the statue, whatever they are, seem to be beyond your ken"

Crumbly says, "I did search there, though."

Paulie looks baffled.

Paulie says, "I can't seem to..."

Paulie shrugs. "The statue's immune to Identification."

Paulie says, "Perhaps the thing be some kinda artifact."

Crumbly out of ideas. Aside from going back down to the lich chamber and taking 20 on the searches.

Clem says, "Or we could put some more gems in this thing."

Crumbly says, "Or going through the mouth."

Crumbly says, "Yeah."

Paulie says, "Or try to Identify the pews, but they may be just the same."

Crumbly asks, "Who has the gems?"

Paulie says, "Ebezar."

[tomb] Paulie says, "...he declared arbitrarily."

[tomb] Rosie asks, "Can Ebezar try spellcraft on the mouth again?"

[tomb] DM says, "He'd have to do it as part of a Detect Magic"

[tomb] Rosie says, "Right."

[tomb] Paulie says, "If he fails it poorly again, I can try it to, on the off chance that I'll roll a natural 20 or something."

[tomb] DM says, "But yes"

[tomb] Paulie says, "(But it hadn't seemed worthwhile, considering.)"

[tomb] Rosie says, "Well, he got a 19 last time."

[tomb] Rosie says, "So it seems reasonable he could try again to get a 20+"

[tomb] Paulie says, "Right."

Paulie takes the gems from Ebezar and, if no one stops him, sets them up in the hands.

Crumbly says, "OK"

Rosie sighs. "I guess."

Crumbly says, "I didnt' realize Ebezar had them."

DM asks, "including the reattached one, or the other three?"

[tomb] Rosie says, "Wait, what? I thought there wasn't an indent in the reattached one."

[tomb] DM says, "There isn't"

[tomb] Rosie asks, "but we could put one in it?"

DM asks, "Also, the ones you had from the collar, or some of the ten you found in the lich room?"

[tomb] DM says, "Uh, let me see what I said before"

Crumbly says, "The lich ones, definitely."

[tomb] Paulie says, "I thought there was no place to put one in the detached arm, yeah."

[tomb] Paulie says, "And definitely the lich ones."

[tomb] DM says, "Yeah, only the three arms have indentations"

DM says, "OK, you put three of the new gems in the hands"

[tomb] Rosie asks, "Did the fourth one move to crush stuff the last time?"

DM says, "They crush the gems to powder, dump them on the floor, and return to their original position"

[tomb] DM says, "Nope"

Paulie says, "That was unimpressive."

Crumbly asks, "Mouth time?"

Paulie asks, "Or pew first, since we may not be able to return?"

Rosie says, "Well, apart from bringing back mining equipment and digging to Crumbly's pants, I'm out of ideas."

Paulie says, "I've nine more Identify scrolls."

Paulie says, "But mouth is fine with me."

[tomb] Paulie says, "This could be how it ends. We all march single-file into the Mouth Of Disintegration."

[tomb] Rosie exclaims, "I'm not going in there!"

[tomb] Paulie exclaims, "Sorry, I mean, into the entrance to Euro-Disney's latest theme attraction, the Mouth of Disintegration!"

Rosie says, "Let's ID the mouth and then the pews."

Paulie nods.

Crumbly says, "OK"

Paulie goes back to the mouth and burns another scroll. So to speak.

DM says, "Clem has gone idle, so okay, you all head back to the mouth"

DM says, "and I regret to say that it also exceeds your identifying capabilities"

Crumbly says, "Seems like the thing we need to find might not be a new passageway, but one final color of gem."

Crumbly says, "Which might be someplace we've been already but not noticed."

[tomb] Rosie says, "I dunno; I'm about ready to give up."

[tomb] Paulie says, "From what I can tell from the writeup, 'cannot be identified' == 'artifact'. Which is kind of interesting."

[tomb] Rosie says, "Were this an IF game, this is where I would haul out the walkthrough."

Paulie goes back to the pews, since he might as well use all these nice scrolls for *something*.

[tomb] Clem says, "Back, sorry."

DM says (to Paulie), "All righty"

DM asks, "So you're identifying one of the front pews?"

[tomb] Clem says, "Identifying the pews sounds like a good plan."

[tomb] Paulie says, "Right."

DM says, "Well, this one you can tell"

Paulie says, "This is strange... it's actually *working*."

DM says, "It's a magic pew that releases poison gas when opened"

Clem says, "Well, that's useful."

[tomb] Paulie asks, "Opened? The pews have openings?"

Crumbly says, "If only I had my necklace of adaptation! We could open them all."

[tomb] Rosie asks, "Yeah, since when do pews have openings?"

[tomb] DM says, "And in fact, look at that, there are hinges that allow them to be opened"

Rosie looks to see if the non-magical ones can be opened.

[tomb] Paulie asks, "Do the non-magic pews have openings?"

[tomb] DM says, "(The only person who searched them was Rosie and she had a Search of like +1)"

[Crows-Nest] olethros says, "to throw down the evil-doers"

[tomb] DM says, "Yeah, they're all hinged"

Crumbly says, "OK. I am so searching all these pews for traps. Taking 20 on each one."

DM says, "OK, this is going to take about half an hour"

Paulie asks, "Anyone for a game of dice?"

DM says, "Since that's a lot of 5x5 areas"

Crumbly asks, "Anyone have a problem with taking a half hour to search the pews?"

Rosie says, "Not I."

Paulie says, "I'm fine."

Clem asks, "Why not just search one and then open it?"

Rosie says, "I think this Barkskin just wore off anyway."

Paulie says, "We can go around opening each one as he finishes with it."

Clem says, "Sounds good."

DM asks, "OK, what order are you checking them in?"

Rosie says, "Back to front, I say."

Crumbly says, "Front to back, left to right, excluding the one we already know."

DM says, "OK, after a few minutes Crumbly determines that the other front pew is trapped in the same way"

DM says, "He moves on to the next row"

Paulie says, "I wonder if this means the treasure be hidden in one of those two."

DM says, "A few minutes later he determines that (as far as he knows) the left one isn't trapped"

Paulie asks (of Grog), "Mind opening that?"

DM says, "A few minutes after that, he decides that the right one isn't trapped either"

Grog opens the one that was just declared untrapped.

DM says (to Grog), "You find 2000 gold pieces!!"

DM says, "more or less"

Crumbly says, "I think we can assume that if taking 20 on one pew found the trap, then taking 20 and not finding a trap means there isn't one. They're unlikely to have different DCs on different pews."

Grog exclaims (at Paulie), "Money!"

Rosie blinks.

DM says, "No traps on row #3 left either"

Crumbly expresses concern over the morality of just taking money from a pew in a chapel.

[interludes] DM says, "Ha ha"

DM says, "A few minutes later, row #3 right appears to be OK"

Grog opens them each in turn as Crumbly finishes.

Rosie says, "After we open all the pews, I say we detect magic on the contents."

[interludes] DM says, "Hmm, I guess people will see in the transcript that your alignment changed"

Crumbly says, "Patience, guys."

DM says (to Grog), "The other one in row 2 had 2000 gold pieces also!"

DM says, "and both of the ones in row 3 have 500 gold pieces"

DM says, "Row #1 left isn't trapped"

Paulie asks (of Rosie), "In case they be secretly lead lined?"

DM says, "(and Grog opens it to find 4000 silver pieces)"

DM says, "and row #1 right isn't trapped, and also has 4000 silver pieces"

Rosie asks, "I don't think detect magic works through wood, does it?"

DM says, "and that's the lot"

DM says, "(except for the trapped ones)"

Crumbly says, "It works through 3 feet of wood."

Rosie says, "Oh, OK."

Crumbly says, "Or 1 inch of common metal."

Clem says, "Wow, actual treasure."

[tomb] Paulie | The spell can penetrate barriers, but 1 foot of stone, 1 inch of common metal, a thin sheet of lead, or 3 feet of wood or dirt blocks it.

[tomb] Paulie says, "From Detect Magic."

Grog collects the gold and silver and puts it in the haversack for safe keeping.

Paulie asks (of Crumbly), "D'ye mind checking for secret compartments as well?"

Crumbly says, "OK. If there's anything important, it's probably in the trapped pews. I want to try to disable them. Everyone else, clear out in case it goes off."

Rosie exits the room to the back.

[tomb] Paulie asks, "So, hmm. We've only found three monster rooms, haven't we? And two of them had gems?"

Rosie says (to Crumbly), "Here, borrow my cloak just in case."

Paulie and Grog leave the room with Rosie.

Crumbly puts on Rosie's cloak of resistance

Rosie donates her Cloak of Resistance (+3) to the cause.

DM says, "I assume Clem steps out as well"

Crumbly says, "Ebezar leaves the room with the otherss"

DM says, "(and Finn)"

Paulie says, "Don't forget to hold your breath when opening it."

DM says, "(and Kong)"

Crumbly says, "I now request that the DM make secret disable device checks"

DM says (to Crumbly), "As far as you can tell, you've disabled them"

Clem says, "Er, yep."

[tomb] Rosie asks, "OK, who has the best Fortitude save?"

Crumbly says, "OK, now I leave the room to where the othes are and say 'All done!'"

[tomb] DM says (to Rosie), "You"

Crumbly says, "and give Rosie her cloak back"

[tomb] Paulie says, "Grog's +10."

Rosie asks (of Crumbly), "Is there a way we can open these with a rope?"

[tomb] Rosie says, "Mine's 13 with my cloak, so yeah."

[tomb] Paulie says, "Although if he traded cloaks with you, he'd be +12."

Rosie looks to see if she can find a good place to attach a rope.

[tomb] Crumbly says, "Ebezar's at 12 too."

DM says, "Not really"

Rosie says, "Alrighty."

[tomb] Paulie asks (of Crumbly), "With or without a cloak of resistance?"

[tomb] Crumbly says, "With."

Rosie holds her breath, dons her cloak, and gets ready to sprint.

Rosie opens the front left pew.

[tomb] Paulie asks, "+3 or more?"

DM says, "You open it, revealing... nothing"

Rosie exhales.

[tomb] Crumbly says, "yes"

Rosie does the same for the front right pew.

DM says, "The other pew is also empty"

Rosie says, "Nothing but gas in these pews, guys."

Clem says, "Huh."

Crumbly says, "I clearly don't understand the lich mind."

Paulie asks, "What about secret compartments?"

Clem says, "Okay, I need to commune with the old deity for a bit."

Rosie asks (of Clem), "Can you ask G'taar about the gargoyle statue?"

Clem starts preparing another Divination.

Rosie says, "Hey, great minds think alike."

Rosie says, "And so do ours."

[tomb] Paulie asks, "So we've found three rooms (and only three rooms) with monsters, and two of those had colored gems, right?"

[tomb] Clem says, "Well, I don't want to waste this spell."

[tomb] Clem says, "What we're looking for is another secret passage, I assume."

[tomb] Crumbly asks, "The second set of gems was from the lich, right?"

[tomb] Clem says, "Yeah\"

[tomb] Rosie says, "Right."

[tomb] Rosie says, "Well, there was that singing."

[tomb] Crumbly says, "So we didnt' gat anything from the skeleton/snake room."

Clem says, "(this is going to take 15 minutes, then another 10 when I decide to cast it)"

[tomb] Crumbly says, "The singing game from the lava corridor."

[tomb] Rosie says, "Right, but we never saw the guys."

[tomb] Clem says, "I assumed that was just a magical trap."

[tomb] Eolo says, "(plus 15 minutes for the DM to think up a cryptic haiku to respond to the Divination with)"

[tomb] Crumbly says, "If there were any."

[tomb] Rosie says, "We got the loop of magical metal from the skeleton/snake room."

[tomb] Clem says, "I guess that demon mouth could teleport us 800 feet away."

[tomb] Clem says, "But I kind of doubt it."

[tomb] Crumbly says, "Ah, Clem is preparing to cast Beg DM For Hint"

[tomb] Clem says, "I'd better check I have enough cash."

[tomb] Rosie asks, "So: ask where we missed any secret passages? How we can get to Crumbly's pants?"

[tomb] Eolo says, "ha ha"

[tomb] Eolo says, "mighty G'taar, we seek the pants"

[tomb] Clem says, "Hey, asking about the pants is not a bad idea."

[tomb] Crumbly asks, "Also, if we put them in the orange mist, will they fit again?"

[tomb] Rosie says, "Hee"

[tomb] Clem says, "I left myself 300gp for spell components and the spell costs 25 each time, so I have enough."

DM says, "Clem finishes preparing his spell"

Clem asks, "Okay, so, should I ask about secret passages?"

Crumbly says, "That or pants. Or gems."

Clem thinks.

Rosie says, "Possibly ask where we should go and what we should do to reach a place in the tomb we haven't yet. And if there's more than one option, the one that leads to Crumbly's pants."

Clem says, "It has to be something specific..."

Clem says, "Mighty G'taar, we seek your aid! Forgive us for calling on you from this seriously tasteless evil church thing. I'll cast a Hallow on it later or something if that'll make you happier about it."

[tomb] Rosie says, "Hee hee"

Clem asks, "O great and mighty G'taar, how can we find, travel to and reclaim Crumbly's pants?"

Clem says, "Help us in our hour of direst clothing-related need!"

[tomb] DM says, "Roll d100 and for the love of G'taar roll 79 or less"

Clem rolls 1d100: 40 | 40

[tomb] Crumbly says, "G'tarr will probably advise us to seek out a tailor and get new pants."

DM says, "A voice booms down from the heavens"

Clem makes the sign of the holy air guitar.

[tomb] Eolo says, "yay"

DM says, "AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS FROM THE PIT TO THE LICH"

DM says, "IS A QUITE HIDDEN SECRET DOOR IN THE WALL, WHICH"

DM says, "YOU CAN FOLLOW TO MAKE ACERERAK YOUR BITCH"

[tomb] Clem says, "Ha ha ha ha"

DM says, "P.S. ALSO CRUMBLY'S PANTS"

[tomb] Rosie falls over.

Crumbly says, "That was surprisingly clear. Let's head down to the pit with the door in it."

Clem says, "Yea, verily thou art the greatest and awesomest of all the gods! Thanks, dude!"

DM says, "ROCK ON, MORTAL"

Paulie says, "Gods seem to be more useful than I thought."

[tomb] Rosie says, "Clem's religion will one day send Bill and Ted on a most excellent adventure."

Clem says, "You don't know the half of it!"

Crumbly gets on down to the pit and starts searching the walls at the head of the stairs

[tomb] DM says, "I was seriously afraid you guys would never think to cast Divination"

DM asks, "10, 20, roll?"

Crumbly says, "Let's make it a ten this time."

DM says, "Hmm, nothing obvious"

[tomb] Rosie exclaims, "I guess my walkthrough comment was actually apropos!"

Crumbly says, "Well! Quite hidden indeed, then. Let's take 20."

Paulie says, "The mysteriously holy voice did say *quite* hidden."

[tomb] Eolo says, "you find a sign reading "you'll have to take 20!""

DM says, "There's a secret door in the east wall! It was really well hidden!"

Crumbly says, "I would never have found that without divine aid."

Crumbly says, "Search for traps (taking 10), then listen."

Rosie asks, "Hmm, do we have more Barkskins, etc?"

DM says, "No traps that you can tell"

[tomb] Rosie says, "I assume they've worn off."

[tomb] DM says, "The Barkskins have definitely worn off"

[tomb] Eolo says, "the cleansing and exfoliating power of G'taar's voice would have stripped them from you even if nothing else did"

Crumbly asks, "And silent as the tomb?"

[tomb] DM says, "Uh, Finn used to have his prepared spells listed on his character sheet"

DM says, "Yeah"

Crumbly says, "OK, I'm opening this baby."

[tomb] DM says, "They might have gotten erased when I had him fix his AC"

Paulie says, "Be ready for spears."

[tomb] DM says, "Oh, they're correct at http://roger.carbol.com/Finn.txt"

[tomb] DM says, "I was looking at Lucian's copy"

[tomb] DM says, "Anyway, all his 2nd level spells were Barkskin and he cast them all"

DM says, "The door creaks open"

Clem says, "Oh, wait, wait!"

Clem casts Hide From Undead on everyone (9 people, 90 minutes).

DM says, "revealing a passageway to the east"

Crumbly says, "Let's keep moving."

Clem says, "Okay, I'm done."

Crumbly says, "East. East is the right direction."

Clem says, "Let's hunt some pant!"

Rosie takes her traditional spot in the back.

Crumbly says, "Although G'tarr's pronouncement really makes it sound like I'm right about the lich being between us and pants."

DM says, "So once again, Crumbly, Grog / Finn, Kong / Paulie, Ebezar / Clem, Rosie"

Clem says, "Maybe the lich is *wearing* the pants"

Rosie says, "Yeah, that must have been a minor lich or something."

Clem says, "A lichette."

Crumbly says, "Yes"

Paulie asks, "We didn't enter this tomb originally to find pants, did we?"

DM says, "The passage goes east for 30 feet and turns south"

Crumbly says, "Priorities change."

DM says, "I am assuming you are following it"

[tomb] Rosie asks, "BTW, when you say things like that, do you mean there is a 30 foot stretch of corridor, and then an additional 10 feet where it turns?"

[tomb] Rosie asks, "Or that the last 10 feet of the corridor opens to the south?"

[tomb] Clem says, "I probably should have taken two or even three Divinations."

[tomb] DM says, "The latter"

[tomb] Rosie says, "Ah, OK."

[tomb] DM says, "(That is, Clem should have taken three Divinations)"

[tomb] Rosie says, "Heh."

DM says, "It then goes another 40 feet and ends in a door"

Crumbly says, "I think we should keep going, yeah."

Crumbly says, "Door. Time for door routine."

Crumbly says, "Search, taking ten."

DM says, "You find no traps"

Crumbly says, "Listen at it."

[tomb] Rosie asks, "Again, 40 feet including the previous corner?"

[tomb] DM says, "No"

[tomb] Rosie says, "Gotcha."

[tomb] DM says, "I only counted each square once"

DM says, "You hear no traps"

[tomb] Rosie says, "OK, that works."

Crumbly says, "I'm more worried about four-armed gargoyles when I do the listening."

[tomb] Eolo says, "hee hee"

Rosie says, "Not that they make any sounds."

Crumbly says, "But this is an obvious door, not a hidden one, so there' probably a trick."

Rosie asks, "Is it locked?"

[tomb] Eolo says, ""what does a four-armed mutant gargoyle sound like?" "anything it wants""

Crumbly says, "I rattle thr knob."

DM says, "It seems like you could open it if you dared"

Paulie says, "Good, wouldn't want to take them by surprise."

Crumbly says, "OK, I open it."

DM says, "You enter a room 60 feet wide and 40 feet long"

DM says, "Here, let me describe it"

DM says, "Shelves line the walls, and each shelf is stuffed with jars, vials, and glass bottles filled with colorful liquids. A large desk stands between two workbenches. A lone mummified hand, herbs, bones, and skulls are scattered about on the workbenches. Clay pots, urns, and rolls of linen are strewn around the floor. Along the south wall stand three large vats, each nearly 4 feet deep and at least 7 feet in diameter."

DM says, "No exits"

Crumbly says, "First priority is disabling that hand."

[Crows-Nest] Rosie says, "Hey, it's the basement of the Magic Box."

Paulie asks, "With or without destroying the surrounding area?"

[Crows-Nest] DM says, "Yay"

(From DM) Ebezar prepares Fireball

[tomb] Eolo says, "hee hee"

Rosie peers in.

Rosie asks (of Crumbly), "You want me to get it?"

Paulie asks, "Should Grog just axe it?"

Paulie asks, "Or do we want something more subtle?"

[Crows-Nest] Rosie says, "Hey, maybe it's the Hand of Vecna."

Crumbly says, "Whatever. I'm not taking another step until I know it's dead."

Crumbly says, "I guess we are invisible to undead though."

Paulie asks, "Do we have any tanglefoot bags?"

Rosie says, "I'll grab it."

Crumbly says, "I think ebezar has a couple."

Paulie says, "We could throw one at it."

Crumbly says, "Ebezar hands a tanglefoot bag to Crumbly."

[tomb] Paulie asks, "Who has a good ranged attack?"

DM says, "It's about 20 feet from the door"

Crumbly says, "The bones and skulls might stand up too."

[tomb] Paulie says, "Mine's +11 with thrown stuff."

Rosie says, "Oh, let's not waste the bag. We'll need it for Acerack."

Rosie darts in and grabs the hand.

Rosie attempts to throw it on the ground.

DM says, "Mummified hand: taken."

DM says, "Dropped."

Rosie says, "It didn't do much."

Paulie asks (of Ebezar), "Could you check for magic?"

Crumbly says, "It's trying to lull us into a false sense of security."

Rosie says (to Paulie), "Good idea."

Crumbly says, "Ebezar rolls his eyes at Crumbly's cowardice and walks into the room, drawing his wand of detect magic"

Crumbly says, "and does a sweep"

DM says, "Surprisingly, Ebezar detects no magic in the room"

Paulie says, "Huh. Maybe all the magic is in protective containers."

Paulie says, "Like the vats."

Clem says, "Maybe there are a bunch of invisible undead standing around here wondering where all the noises are coming from."

Crumbly says, "I want to check the desk for traps."

Rosie asks, "They could be spell components. They're not intrinsically magical, are they?"

[tomb] Paulie asks, "Based on the locate spells earlier, how far do we seem to be from the pants?"

Crumbly says, "Taking ten."

Paulie says (to Rosie), "Correct."

DM says, "Crumbly finds no traps"

[tomb] Clem says, "We never got a distance, just direction."

Crumbly says, "I then ransack the desk. If it has drawers, I open them."

[tomb] Clem says, "Could be anything up to 700 feet away."

[tomb] Rosie says, "They are, I believe, a bit NE of us, and still a fair bit down."

[tomb] Paulie says, "From the pants' plumb line, I guess."

Crumbly says, "Ebezar's detect magic should still be ongoing as I do this. It's a pretty long duration."

[tomb] Paulie says, "It'd be handy if we could draw the pantsline on the map."

DM says, "The desk is disappointingly empty"

[tomb] Rosie says, "The pantsline was due east of the lich pit."

[tomb] Paulie says, "Or even a couple pantslines, since we did a little moving around."

[tomb] Rosie says, "And SSE of the mouth."

Crumbly says, "Ebezar is just going to keep concentrating on that detect magic until it wears off or I say otherwise."

DM says, "All righty"

Rosie asks, "Is anything here useful to replenish folks' spell components?"

[tomb] Rosie says, "Sadly, the chapel is not exactly correctly placed relative to the first corridor."

DM says (to Rosie), "You'd have to take a closer look"

Crumbly says, "I think we should all just search all containers here. There's lots of places where a third set of gems could be hidden."

[tomb] Rosie says, "But basically I think we still need to go east."

[tomb] Rosie says (to DM), "Right, I'm basically suggesting that magical folks do spellcraft checks."

Crumbly says, "I'm going to check out the workbenches next."

[tomb] Rosie asks, "BTW, where in this room does the door open into it?"

DM says, "There are a bunch of things that look like they might have been used for necromancy or other magical studies"

Crumbly says, "Taking ten on looking for traps or hidden compartments, then just looking in all the vials and skulls and things."

[tomb] DM says, "north wall, 10 feet from the east"

DM says, "Some old material components that have gone bad"

DM says, "Whatever was in the vials has long since dried out"

Crumbly asks, "Say, does the mummified hand have an indentation?"

DM says, "The mummified is lying on the floor palm down right now, so you can't tell"

Rosie turns over the hand.

DM says, "No indentation"

Crumbly says, "OK, I'm going to start lookin inside pots and urns now."

[tomb] Paulie says, "Whoops, got logged off."

[tomb] Paulie says, "But I'll do spellcraft while Ebezar's concentrating on detecting."

Clem scowls at the necromancy spell components.

Paulie rolls 1d20+1: 7+1 | 8

[tomb] DM says, "I think it has to be the person doing the detecting"

Clem says, "Looks like these might have been used by a lich!"

[tomb] Paulie says (to DM), "Huh? I thought he didn't detect anything yet."

DM says, "Looks like they used to hold your usual complement of magical-ingredients-you-put-in-pots-and-urns"

Crumbly exclaims, "You don't say Clem!"

DM says, "Oils"

DM says, "Perfumes"

DM says, "The odd unguent"

[tomb] Clem says, "I guess I'll try spellcraft too."

DM says, "but all dried up now"

Clem rolls 1d20+6: 8+6 | 14

[tomb] Rosie says, "Ebezar has like a +16 or something."

[tomb] DM asks, "Wait, what are you trying to do with spellcraft?"

Crumbly exclaims, "I ready my sword in case the unguent attacks us!"

[tomb] DM says, "I thought you were trying to piggyback on the detect magic"

[tomb] Paulie says (to DM), "I thought we were trying to identify what spell components were here."

[tomb] DM says, "Aha"

[tomb] Paulie says, "(At least, I thought that's what Rosie was suggesting.)"

[tomb] DM says, "I missed that"

DM rolls 1d20+12: 9+12 | 21

DM says, "(for Ebezar)"

DM says (to Ebezar), "A bunch of stuff looks mummification-related"

Clem says, "Oh, mummification? Well, I said lich, so we're agreeing. Good work."

DM says, "but none of it still appears usable"

Crumbly says, "Maybe we should keep the hand in case we come across a mummy that's missing one."

Rosie says, "I bet we could make a nice skirt out of these linens for Crumblette."

Rosie peers into the vats.

Paulie helps with the searching, poking around at this and that.

DM says, "The vats are filled almost to the rim with murky water"

Paulie rolls 1d20+1: 4+1 | 5

[tomb] Rosie asks, "They are vats in the floor, or are they vats on the floor?"

[tomb] Rosie asks, "Can we tip 'em over?"

DM says, "They're on the floor but pretty darn big"

DM says, "and filled"

Rosie asks (of Ebezar), "You checked in these vats for anything magical, right?"

Crumbly asks, "Someone has Dust of Evaporation or something, don't they?"

Rosie asks (of Crumbly), "Have you checked them for traps yet?"

Clem says (to Crumbly), "Hey, yeah, I do."

Paulie says, "We could drop a glow chalk in the water."

Paulie says, "To see better."

Clem sprinkles some Dust of Dryness in one of the vats.

DM asks (of Clem), "Which?"

Clem asks, "How many are there and where are they?"

[tomb] Rosie says, "There are three along the south wall."

DM says, "Along the south wall stand three large vats, each nearly 4 feet deep and at least 7 feet in diameter."

[tomb] Clem says, "For reference, http://d20srd.org/srd/magicItems/wondrousItems.htm#dustofDryness"

[tomb] Paulie says, "I vote for the east one."

Clem says, "Okay, the east one."

[tomb] Eolo asks, "did Clem get this as part of his hatred of swimming and bodies of water in general?"

[tomb] Clem says, "Mayyyybe"

[tomb] DM says, "Ha ha"

Rosie tries disbelieving in the water.

[tomb] Crumbly asks, "Does this use it up?"

[tomb] Rosie says, "Although I guess that would have shown up with detect magic."

Rosie rolls 1d20+11 for will: 3+11 | 14

[tomb] Clem says, "I think this uses it up, yeah."

[tomb] Paulie asks, "Can you spread it across all three?"

[tomb] Clem says, "Although if there's nothing weird about the water, I'll get a little pellet I can break open later."

[tomb] Clem says, "I will if the DM says I can."

[tomb] Paulie says, "(I suppose not.)"

DM says, "The dust settles on the surface of the vat's contents, which I guess weren't water"

Clem says, "Curses."

Crumbly says, "Hm."

Paulie drops a copper into the same vat.

Rosie asks, "Oooh. Acid?"

Crumbly asks, "No one has any Alchemy knowldge, do they?"

DM says, "The copper piece hits the surface and settles there"

Clem asks, "Settles on the surface?"

Paulie says, "That's... unusual."

Clem tries poking the surface with his dagger.

Rosie says, "Hey, maybe it's a gelatinous cube."

Paulie says, "Maybe the dust can be retrieved."

Clem says (to Paulie), "After you."

Paulie says (to Clem), "I'd like to see what happens to the dagger first."

DM says, "The vat-shaped gelatinous cube grabs at Clem's hand with a psuedopod as he sticks the dagger in!"

DM says, "Uh, pseudopod"

Rosie says, "Woo, score."

[tomb] (from Eolo) SHPLORP

Clem says, "Drat! Eaaaagh!"

Rosie says, "er, I mean, o no"

DM says, "and pulls him into the vat!"

[tomb] Crumbly says, "And we know that dfan doesn't joke about this kind of ting."

[tomb] Paulie exclaims, "This seems like a job for... Initiative!"

Clem says, " glub "

DM says, "Roll initiative!"

Rosie rolls 1d20+5 for init: 14+5 | 19

[tomb] Eolo exclaims (at Paulie), "if only he can get there in time!"

[Crows-Nest] InnocentBystander says, "IT'S GOBBLERIN' TIME"

Paulie rolls 1d20+8: 18+8 | 26

[Crows-Nest] Eolo says, "ha ha ha"

[Crows-Nest] InnocentBystander asks, "does a cube do, uh, digestive damage or something?"

Crumbly rolls 1d20+5: 6+5 | 11

[Crows-Nest] Eolo says, "acid"

Clem says, "I guess I still roll to see when my 'scream for help' action comes in turn order."

Crumbly rolls 1s20+3: 1+3 | 4

Clem rolls 1d20: 20 | 20

Grog rolls 1d20+6: 12+6 | 18

Crumbly says, "So Crumbly is at 11 and Ebezar is at 4."

[tomb] Rosie asks, "s?"

[tomb] Alex says (to Rosie), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that S is all curvy-like. That's why it's the bestest letter."

DM says, "I'll roll for Finn and Kong here"

[tomb] Rosie says (to Crumbly), "You misrolled."

[tomb] Rosie says, "(for eb)"

DM rolls 1d20+0: 10+0 | 10

DM rolls 1d20+2: 8+2 | 10

[Crows-Nest] DM says (to inky), "The roller should really complain about syntax errors"

[tomb] (from Paulie) Paulie asks, "Which one is which?"

[Crows-Nest] DM says, "instead of just giving 1s"

Crumbly rolls 1d20+3: 13+3 | 16

[Crows-Nest] Eolo says, "yeah"

[Crows-Nest] DM says, "although maybe that's what you deserve for syntax errors"

[Crows-Nest] Eolo says, "lemme see if I can fix that"

[tomb] Paulie says, "Oh yeah, Crumbly's 1s20."

[Crows-Nest] Eolo says, "tomb of unforgiving typos"

[tomb] Paulie says, "Er, Ebezar's. Should be rerolled."

[Crows-Nest] Rosie says, "It was great when we were trying to roll pairs in WotG."

[tomb] Clem asks, "Crappy crap, gelatinous cubes dissolve armour?"

Crumbly says, "That's better. Ebezar is at 16. Crumbly is still at 11."

DM says, "PAULIE Clem Rosie Grog Ebezar Kong Finn Crumbly Cube"

DM says, "Oh, first the cube gets to do some damage"

[tomb] Clem says, "Oh, hang on, that's black puddings, cool."

DM rolls 1d6: 4 | 4

DM rolls 1d6: 6 | 6

DM says, "4 from the grab and 6 from the acid"

DM says (to Clem), "Make a Fortitude save"

Clem rolls 1d20+8: 5+8 | 13

DM says, "Clem is paralyzed!"

DM says, "OK, Paulie"

Paulie hastes himself, Grog, Rosie, Ebezar, Finn, Crumbly.

Rosie says, "I suggest that we not use acid arrows on this thing."

[tomb] Paulie asks, "Do we have an idea of where we are?"

[tomb] Clem says, "INSIDE A GODDAMN SCHLORPY THING"

[tomb] DM says, "I figure everyone can make a regular but not full attack this round"

[tomb] Crumbly says, "Well, inside a vat with a schlorpy thing, anyway."

DM says, "Clem is paralyzed so he doesn't move"

[tomb] Crumbly asks, "Is Clem actually engulfed?"

DM says, "Paulie Clem ROSIE Grog Ebezar Kong Finn Crumbly Cube"

[tomb] DM says, "Yeah, he has been pulled inside the vat"

Clem asks, "Can I cast a spell that doesn't need movement or speech?"

[tomb] Paulie asks (of Rosie), "Are they really resistant to acid?"

Clem says, "Which unfortunately does not include Remove Paralysis."

[tomb] Paulie asks, "Is there someone with Knowledge(Dungeoneering) who could check that?"

DM says, "You can take purely mental actions"

[Crows-Nest] Rosie says, "I dunno, but they *are* acid, so."

[tomb] Eolo says, "Ebezar has it, I believe"

DM says, "So, like, you could panic"

Rosie takes up a position diagonally behind the vat.

[tomb] Eolo says, "only +6, though"

Rosie punches into it.

[tomb] Paulie asks (of Crumbly), "Could you roll it?"

[tomb] Rosie asks, "I probably don't have flanking yet, do I?"

[tomb] Crumbly says, "I'm just wondering what will happen if this works."

[tomb] Paulie says, "I thought two of us had that Knowledge skill."

DM says, "Oozes can't be flanked"

Crumbly rolls 1d20+6: 14+6 | 20

[tomb] Rosie says, "Alrighty."

Crumbly says, "That's my knowledge:dundeoneering roll"

Rosie rolls 1d20+14: 10+14 | 24

[tomb] Rosie says, "(that's with a +1/haste)"

DM says, "Rosie delivers a nice bunch of punches"

DM says, "Well, at least one"

Rosie rolls 1d10+3 for damage: 2+3 | 5

DM says, "I guess I said just a standard attack this round"

[tomb] Rosie exclaims, "There's still time to change your mind!"

DM says, "Roll 1d6 for acid damage"

DM says, "to your poor hand"

Rosie rolls 1d6: 3 | 3

Rosie says, "Ow."

DM says, "Tit for tat"

DM says, "Paulie Clem Rosie GROG Ebezar Kong Finn Crumbly Cube"

Clem . o O ( Fuck your hand! Keep punching! )

Grog gets out the crossbow he inherited from the late ranger.

[tomb] Paulie asks, "Does that take his whole action, or does he get an attack too?"

[tomb] Paulie says, "Also, whoops, I mean 'shortbow'."

[tomb] DM says, "That's just a move action so he can attack"

[tomb] Rosie asks, "If we dumped out the vat, would it be easier to hit?"

[tomb] InnocentBystander asks, "how much does a gelatineous cube weigh?"

Grog, enraged at what this strange pot has done to his friend, fires off an arrow.

Grog rolls 1d20+10: 2+10 | 12

DM says, "Even with being partially covered by being in melee, the cube is hit"

DM says, "or the cylinder, I suppose"

Grog rolls 1d6+4: 5+4 | 9

[tomb] Clem says, "Hang on, on previous engagements when you were enraged that involved hitting things with your axe and killing them."

Crumbly asks, "Ew. It's covered in melee?"

[tomb] Clem says, "Not poxy little arrows."

[tomb] Paulie says, "Fortunately, Grog has an instinctive realization that metal + acid = bad."

[tomb] DM says, "The arrow hits the gelatinous cube with a *thwub*"

[tomb] DM says, "stopping inches from Clem's paralyzed neck"

DM says, "Paulie Clem Rosie Grog EBEZAR Kong Finn Crumbly Cube"

Crumbly says, "Ebezar takes this opportunity to perform an experiment:"

[tomb] DM asks, "Oh, Crumbly was rolling to see if gelatinous cubes can be affected by acid?"

[tomb] Paulie says, "Yeah."

[tomb] DM says, "Yeah, surprisingly enough, you think they can"

Crumbly asks, "What happens, he wonders, when a gelatinous cube that has engulfed another creature is transformed into a box turtle?"

[tomb] Eolo says, "ha ha ha ha"

[tomb] Clem says, "Ha ha ha"

[tomb] Clem says, "ha ha oh crap"

Crumbly says, "So, here we go. Baleful Polymorph."

[tomb] DM says, "Man, I thought Ebezar was lawful"

Crumbly asks, "The DC is, what, 10 + level + stat bonus?"

[tomb] Clem says, "So was Dirty Harry."

Eolo says, "yeah"

[tomb] Paulie says (to Clem), "Hey, you were worried about losing your armor."

DM says, "Yes"

Crumbly says, "It probably has a pretty good fortitude dave though."

[tomb] Paulie says, "Now you can get a nice new shell for free."

Crumbly says, "save"

[tomb] Clem says, "Well, you know, armour, skins, skeleton."

Crumbly asks, "Spell level or caster level?"

[tomb] Clem says, "I worry about a lot of things."

[tomb] Clem says, "Er, skins? Skin."

DM says, "Spell"

Eolo says, "spell"

DM says, "The cube's shape does not change"

Crumbly says, "So that's 10 + 5 + 5 = 20 DC fort save"

Crumbly says, "Bah"

DM says, "Ebezar still has a move action if he wants it"

DM says, "Otherwise we're on to Kong"

[tomb] Rosie says, "I'll have Kong just attack."

Crumbly says, "Ebezar will move to a position some 25 feet away from the cube."

[Crows-Nest] Paulie says, "Hmm. I just realized that Grog forgot to collect a piece of the lich as a souvenir."

Crumbly says, "Preferably unblocked by combatants."

[Crows-Nest] Paulie says, "If we go back to that room, he'll need to get a bit of its shroud or whatever."

DM says, "OK, roll 1d20+8 for Kong"

Rosie rolls 1d20+8: 18+8 | 26

DM says, "and 1d6+6 for damage"

Rosie rolls 1d6+6: 6+6 | 12

[tomb] Rosie asks, "And another d6 for damage to him?"

DM says, "and 1d6 for damage to himself"

[tomb] Paulie says, "Go Kong."

Rosie rolls 1d6: 2 | 2

DM says, "Paulie Clem Rosie Grog Ebezar Kong FINN Crumbly Cube"

Crumbly says, "I'm probably going to do Cone of Cold next turn if people can get out of the way."

[tomb] Clem asks, "Was I controlling Finn?"

[tomb] DM says, "Yes"

[tomb] Paulie says, "Hey, you've got a character who can move."

[tomb] Clem asks, "Is there room for Finn to step up and whack the thing?"

[tomb] DM says, "Sure"

[tomb] Clem says, "I have a feeling Call Lightning won't do much good."

Crumbly says, "Or no. I don't have that prepared."

[tomb] Paulie says, "Mmm, yeah."

[tomb] DM says, "Also there is a guy in plate mail suspended in it"

(From Clem) Finn steps up and attacks the gelatinous wotsit!

DM says, "1d20+10 to hit, looks like"

Clem rolls 1d20+10: 7+10 | 17

DM says, "The scimitar slices through the gelatinous cube like, uh, a knife through jello"

[tomb] Clem says, "Hrm, I guess Finn's hitting it with a scimitar, which may not be much good either."

DM says, "1d6+4 damage"

Clem rolls 1d6+4: 5+4 | 9

DM says, "Finn's scimitar appears unharmed, by the way"

[tomb] Crumbly says, "I guess Scorching Ray looks like my best bet among the spells I've prepared."

[tomb] Paulie says, "Yay."

DM says, "Paulie Clem Rosie Grog Ebezar Kong Finn CRUMBLY Cube"

(From Clem) Finn says, "Take that, you poor excuse for a platonic polyhedron!"

[tomb] DM says, "I thought maybe Finn would throw Kong in"

[tomb] Clem says, "Ha ha."

[tomb] Ghogg asks, "using Kong's head as a weapon?"

[tomb] Rosie says, "Ha ha ha"

DM says, "Crumbly gets another 15 seconds before I delay him to after the cube"

Crumbly asks, "Ohm, my turn?"

Crumbly says, "I flee."

Crumbly says, "Sorry."

DM says, "Paulie Clem Rosie Grog Ebezar Kong Finn Crumbly CUBE"

Crumbly says, "Sorry, I was looking at Ebezar's spells. This is a disadvantage of running two characters."

DM says, "First of all, Clem takes another 20 points of acid damage"

Clem . o O ( OW OW OW OW )

DM says, "Then it lashes out at Kong"

[tomb] Paulie says, "I wonder if a Cube leaves enough behind to Reincarnate."

DM says, "missing by a mile"

DM says, "PAULIE Clem Rosie Grog Ebezar Kong Finn Crumbly Cube"

Paulie fires his traditional acid arrow at it.

DM rolls on the Acid Miscibility Table

Paulie rolls 1d20+12: 5+12 | 17

[tomb] Eolo says, "hee hee"

[tomb] Rosie asks, "Did Crumbly figure out if it was resistant to acid?"

[tomb] Paulie says, "Whoops, that's without the into-melee penalty."

[tomb] Eolo says, "he decided it wasn't, I believe"

[tomb] Paulie says (to Rosie), "It is not resistant, DM said."

[tomb] DM says, "Crumbly thinks it is not resistant to acid"

[tomb] Crumbly says, "Yeah, it's not."

[tomb] Paulie says, "Also, that's a touch attack, BTW."

[tomb] Rosie says, "Excellent."

[tomb] DM says (to Paulie), "It hits anyway"

[tomb] Eolo says, "but Crumbly is the guy who, as a result of prior decisions, is now naked and female and resurrected"

Paulie rolls 2d4: 3 2 | 5

[tomb] Crumbly says, "Also, it was Ebezar who has the dungeoneering knowledge."

DM says, "The arrow splashes into the gelatinous horror"

DM says, "just missing Clem's protruding feet"

DM says, "and sizzles a bit"

Paulie says, "Sometimes ye just have to fight fire with fire."

Paulie says, "Or acid with acid."

DM asks, "Any move action?"

Paulie steps outside of the reach of a typical creature of the cube's size.

DM says, "Paulie CLEM Rosie Grog Ebezar Kong Finn Crumbly Cube"

DM says (to Clem), "Feel free to take a purely mental action"

DM says, "or two"

Clem . o O ( 98 bottles of mead on the wall, 98 bottles of mead... )

DM says, "Paulie Clem ROSIE Grog Ebezar Kong Finn Crumbly Cube"

[tomb] Paulie asks, "Do you have any spells with no components at all?"

Rosie leaps into the air and explodes in a fury of kicks and blows!

[Crows-Nest] (from InnocentBystander) Clem . o O ( Cuuuuuuuurse yoooooouuuuuuu )

[tomb] Clem says, "Not that I could see."

Rosie rolls 1d20+14: 1+14 | 15

Rosie rolls 1d20+14: 1+14 | 15

Rosie rolls 1d20+14: 1+14 | 15

Rosie rolls 1d20+9: 13+9 | 22

[tomb] DM says, "Holy"

[tomb] Eolo says, "buh"

[tomb] InnocentBystander says, "what the"

[tomb] Rosie says, "Er."

[tomb] DM asks, "1s are automatic misses, right?"

[tomb] Paulie says (to Clem), "You could spend some quality time with G't."

[tomb] Eolo says (to DM), "yeah"

[tomb] Clem asks, "You MISSED the enormous wibbly gelatinous cube?"

[tomb] Rosie asks, "Really?"

[tomb] DM says, "At least it's not a critical miss"

[tomb] Eolo says, "I am pretty sure, lemme check"

[tomb] DM | A natural 1 (the d20 comes up 1) on an attack roll is always a miss. A natural 20 (the d20 comes up 20) is always a hit. A natural 20 is also a threat?a possible critical hit.

[tomb] Rosie says, "That looks like I missrolled, but I don't see how."

[tomb] Eolo says, "there we go"

DM says, "Maybe Rosie was overconfident or something, but only one of her limbs connects"

[tomb] DM says, "That was amazing"

Rosie rolls 1d10+3 for damage: 5+3 | 8

Rosie rolls 1d6: 5 | 5

[tomb] Rosie says, "yeah, bizarre."

DM says, "Paulie Clem Rosie GROG Ebezar Kong Finn Crumbly Cube"

[tomb] Paulie asks, "Hmm. So I can't do a full attack with the bow, right?"

[tomb] Paulie asks, "Because of reloading time?"

[tomb] DM says, "Uh, I forget how bows work"

[tomb] Eolo says, "that is correct"

[tomb] Eolo says, "(it's a crossbow)"

[tomb] Paulie says, "Shortbow, actually. Composite."

[tomb] Eolo says, "oh, whoops"

[tomb] Paulie says, "(I said it wrong the first time.)"

[tomb] Rosie says, "The scimitar was undamaged, don't forget."

[tomb] Eolo says, "I think in that case you're ok"

[tomb] Clem says, "JUST FIRE THE THING"

[tomb] Rosie says, "You may want to use the axe."

[tomb] Clem says, "OR THAT"

[tomb] Paulie says (to Rosie), "Mmm, yeah. OK."

[tomb] Eolo says (to Clem), "hey, you should be taking advantage of this time to quietly meditate"

[tomb] Paulie asks (of Clem), "My, my. Angst, aren't we?"

Grog wades in and tests his greataxe on it.

[tomb] (from DM) Grog delays until after the cube.

[tomb] Rosie asks, "When does Clem get to roll a fort save again?"

Grog rolls 1d20+16: 14+16 | 30

[tomb] DM says, "The next time something tries to paralyze him"

Grog rolls 1d12+11: 3+11 | 14

[tomb] Rosie says, "ah, how sad."

DM says, "Grog's greataxe comes crashing down through the cube between Clem's legs"

Clem . o O ( Use the bow! THE BOW! )

DM says, "and kills it!"

Crumbly exclaims, "Woo!"

[tomb] DM says, "Man, Grog finishes off everything"

[tomb] Clem asks, "'It' being the cube, right?"

[tomb] Paulie says, "I'm just waiting for the point where we all go flatfooted at the end of the fight, and then suddenly the second vat attacks."

[tomb] (from Eolo) Clem . o O ( Thank G'taar for codpieces )

Paulie does not let his guard down. Neither does Grog.

[tomb] Clem says, "Hee hee."

[tomb] DM says, "Well, it isn't moving any more, but Clem's still in there"

Clem . o O ( ow ow ow ow OW GET ME OUT )

Clem sizzle sizzle

Grog scrapes cube off of Clem. "Mister Clem!"

Clem says, " "

[tomb] Eolo says, "ah, here: | When using a bow, a character can draw ammunition as a free action; crossbows and slings require an action for reloading."

(From Rosie) Kong grabs Clem's legs and hauls him out.

[tomb] Eolo says, "and then licks him clean"

DM says (to Clem), "Roll 3d6"

Clem rolls 3d6: 3 4 5 | 12

DM says, "Well, you're paralyzed for another minute or so"

Grog borrows an empty potion vial and collects a sample of cube, to save with his snake fang and gargoyle ear and piece of bone.

Rosie, after Clem wakes up, checks the other two vats for gelatinous content.

Crumbly says, "In the meantime, we can check the Gelatinous Vat remains for undigested colored gems or whatever."

Rosie tosses a coin at 'em.

Clem says, "gnnnrrararag ow ow ow EAGH WTF WTF WTF WTF"

Clem says, "WTF"

DM says (to Crumbly), "There's a key at the bottom of it!"

Crumbly exclaims, "Yay!"

Clem says, "gnargh"

DM says, "Well, half a key"

Crumbly says, "OK."

Crumbly says, "Ya"

Clem says, "Oh, hey, while I was in the cube I noticed that there was a -- you'll never believe this -- a KEY at the oh you found it."

Eolo rolls 1s20: 3 | 3

Rosie says, "I bet it opens the door we smashed down."

Rosie says (to Eolo), "Nope."

Clem checks his belongings for acid damage.

Crumbly says, "Well, it's not like we really need keys."

DM says (to Rosie), "The coin disappears beneath the surface of both vats with a *sploosh*"

[tomb] Paulie asks, "No acid damage to the axe, then?"

Crumbly says, "But it might have something do do with that clue about 'the throne that's key and keyed'."

[tomb] Clem says, "Armour, sword, periapt, gloves of ogre strength, ring, holy symbol, cloak, spell pouch, and a bunch of stuff in my haversakc."

Rosie tries cutting off the bit of the cube with the dust on it, and tossing it into the center vat.

Paulie asks (of Crumble), "There was a throne in the chapel, wasn't there?"

Eolo rolls <bad roll syntax - 1s20>

Crumbly says, "The lich was on a golden couch."

[tomb] DM says (to Clem), "Eh, I think you're okay"

Rosie says, "We also have to get to the hallway with statues that attack us."

DM says (to Rosie), "Whatever dust was still there wasn't present in enough quantity to do anything"

Rosie says, "Aww."

Crumbly says, "We just chose the wrong vat."

(From DM) Rosie says, "Also, our souls have to die"

[tomb] DM says, "and no acid damage to the axe"

Crumbly says, "We need to have a look at the bottom of these vats to look for more key fragments but they're probably fill of acid or soemthing."

Crumbly says, "Or smelly poison."

Paulie says, "We could just dump them out."

Clem says, "Works for me."

Paulie says, "Now that they haven't dissolved the coins or attacked us."

Crumbly says, "OK"

Rosie says, "And watch where the water runs out to find the next secret door."

Paulie stands on the desk first.

Crumbly exclaims, "Aha!"

Paulie says (to Grog), "C'mon up here."

[tomb] Rosie asks, "Oh, did Crumbly find anything in his auto-detects?"

[tomb] DM asks, "Oh, has he walked past all the walls within 5 feet?"

[tomb] Crumbly says, "I will now."

[tomb] Rosie says, "He's been searching the whole room, so I presume so."

[tomb] InnocentBystander says, "CAREFUL maybe it's a TRICK QUESTI--- too late"

DM says, "Crumbly notices a secret door at the south end of the west wall"

Crumbly asks, "Is that where the gelatinous vat was?"

[tomb] DM says, "Leave the onlooker jokes to Crows-Nest or something, please"

Clem asks, "By the way, anybody need healed?"

DM says, "Nah, that was the easternmost vat"

Clem asks, "Except my entire body?"

Rosie says, "I'm a bit down."

[tomb] Clem asks (of DM), "Could you summarise the damage totals, if you have them?"

Crumbly says, "Well, I'm opening the secret door."

[tomb] Rosie says, "8."

[tomb] Clem says, "If not I'll check recap myself."

Rosie says, "Let's dump the vats or search 'em first."

Crumbly says, "Fine by me."

Rosie peers into the water in the center one.

[tomb] DM says, "Crumbly 39, Grog 67, Finn 72, Clem 38, Rosie 60, Kong 56"

DM says (to Rosie), "It's too dirty to make out any contents"

[tomb] Paulie says, "There's still the chalk options if you want to try that before dump