Beneath the Dead Wizard's Skyscraper
Forbidden Island of Xygax the Wizard, Land of One Thousand Towers
Day Three. Midday? March 27th, 912 CY
Chaka and Tullia safely reach the floor of the glossy alabaster chamber. The dangling cage towers high above them, and the trapdoor higher still. They are confronted by two more identical doors of ivory-colored iron, facing north and south.
Meanwhile...
Eerie high-pitched screeches abate as the clinging vampiric bat-things feed upon the blood of their prey! (Fiefo: -3hp, Jeojand: -1hp, Ko-Nan: -4hp, Maskelyn: -4hp, Garamond: -1hp!)
Overcome at last by his many injuries, Ko-Nan the barbarian collapses to the latticework floor, the thing still attached to him, drinking!
Another incandescent mutated insect-monster impales Adrock's neck (-2hp)! The ravenous viridian creature inadvertently vomits the luminous contents of its stomach into the priest's jugular (-2hp more)! Adrock brings his mace to bear but fails to connect!
In gushes of bright green blood, Fiefo and Garamond each kill the blood-sucking bat-creatures affixed to them!
Maskelyn's staff bludgeons the glowing green predator draining his life away, but the hideous thing keeps feasting!
The horrific emerald vermin attached to the fallen adventurers, Ko-Nan and Jeojand, continue drinking their blood!
Actions?!
Map: One square = 10 feet. X = Dead or unconscious. Lit areas are visible. All else is from memory.
Chaka uses his torch to check out what he can see of the large room and doors. He listens at the northern door, checking the southern one next if he hears nothing from beyond.
"Chaka badly hurt, Tullia. It best if we can find others without attracting any attention."
Re: Chapter 5: Subterrane of the Cyborgs
Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2019 10:55 pm
by wolfpack
screaming adrock tries to knock the thing off of him
I know, Chaka. I am guessing we should try the northern door first. The others had to go east, so they should be to the north or northeast of this room. She will first listen at the door to hear any activity from the next room.
Re: Chapter 5: Subterrane of the Cyborgs
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2019 3:28 pm
by Urson
Maskelyn
Maskelyn drops to the floor, intending to crush the nasty beast between himself and the lattice.
He timidly pokes the creature just a little bit...
Re: Chapter 5: Subterrane of the Cyborgs
Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 1:22 am
by Inferno
Beneath the Dead Wizard's Skyscraper
Forbidden Island of Xygax the Wizard, Land of One Thousand Towers
Day Three. Midday? March 27th, 912 CY
Beneath the dangling cage, Chaka and Tullia move toward the northern door searching for their lost companions. Instantly, the portal opens before them, revealing a swarm of insect-like chiropterans assailing their friends in a viridian maelstrom of glowing, winged shapes!
The floor is covered in water and an iron ladder follows a thick pipe up to a second level where, crashed against the catwalk floor, Jeojand and Ko-Nan have fallen and their strange unrelenting attackers continue to gorge themselves on their blood!
Fiefo slashes at the mutated vampire insect draining Jeojand's life away, grazing it with his accursed ancestral fork and sending it airborne again, screeching! It stabs at Fiefo but the nimble rat-man evades its spear-like bill!
Pale and lightheaded with blood loss, Maskelyn the gnome collapses to the floor, trying to crush the bat-winged parasite that is slowly killing him! He injures the verminous bloodsucker but doesn't finish it. It keeps draining away Maskelyn's life essence! (-1hp)
Garamond the cyborg leaps over Maskelyn's prone form and rushes to the aid of the fallen barbarian, Ko-Nan! His drill does not land but he drives the winged leech shrieking into the air! It dives and pierces him with its razor sharp proboscis! (-1hp)
As the magic white door shuts of its own volition behind him, Adrock screams and hammers the bat-like fiend on him with a bone-crunching blow of his mace, killing it in an emerald harvest of blood and gore!
Actions?!
Map: One square = 10 feet. X = Dead or unconscious. Lit areas are visible. All else is from memory.
Fiefo will lash out at the hovering green bug with his scimitar (he dropped his fork on the catwalk) feinting upwards and to the left, then immediately following with a continuing slash to the right to try to catch the thing's counterattack. Attack with Scimitar (THAC0 19): To Hit: [1d20] = 3 Damage, s/M/L: [1d8] = 4
As the blade slashes only air, he thinks to himself that blood sucking bugs probably do not fight tactically...
Re: Chapter 5: Subterrane of the Cyborgs
Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 8:17 pm
by OGRE MAGE
Chaka prods at the water with his sword, trying to determine if there is a floor below it or possibly see how deep it is.
“Chaka can try to jump for ladder if Tullia think its a good idea.”
Re: Chapter 5: Subterrane of the Cyborgs
Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2019 3:47 am
by SpinwardMarch
Tullia
Well, arrows won't go through through those gratings. She puts the bow over her shoulder, and re-quivers the arrow. Back to the sword, I guess
No, Chaka, those things suck blood. We need figure out how to get there up to our friends, without getting ourselves hit. I also think the water may be poisoned. Don't get it on you. She examines the room for a safe way to get up to the catwalk.
Re: Chapter 5: Subterrane of the Cyborgs
Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2019 5:59 pm
by Pulpatoon
Garamond attempts to drill the creature mid-air. "I don't like you at all!" it wails.
Maskelyn rolls over, continuing to try and smash this creature.
Re: Chapter 5: Subterrane of the Cyborgs
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2019 1:03 pm
by Inferno
Beneath the Dead Wizard's Skyscraper
Forbidden Island of Xygax the Wizard, Land of One Thousand Towers
Day Three. Midday? March 27th, 912 CY
Beneath the catwalk battle, the urgent cries of the fight echoing all around him, Chaka tests the floor's dark waters with his sword, finding the liquid only an inch or two deep.
Peering over the crouched ape-boy, Tullia cautiously examines the room before setting foot in it. The moldy, rank, deteriorated chamber is two stories tall and illuminated by flickering witchlights in the ceilings. Its center is dominated by a 10' wide glass pillar rising from floor to ceiling, filled with a glowing green liquid. The walls are also lined with a variety of glass pipes. Some of these are full of the green liquid, some are broken and empty.
An iron ladder ten feet away from her leads up to the catwalk balcony above, where rages the wild fray. The floor between Tullia and the ladder is covered in opaque water; yellow torchlight swirling among black, brown and green. The last could be the color of the water itself or the reflection of the glowing pipes and the swarming bat monsters above.
Meanwhile, high above them...
Screaming, Adrock imagines himself soon sharing the same fate as Jeojand and Ko-Nan. Both adventurers have fallen to the flying green scourge that wreaks havoc among the wounded party.
The half-elven scholar-priest is wrong. It is Maskelyn who falls next, overcome from blood loss. (4 hp damage) The pallid gnome conjurer stops thrashing on the floor as the vampiric insect-bat affixed to him keeps drinking and drinking!
The viridian winged thing attached to the organic components of Garamond keeps feasting as well! (3 hp damage)"I don't like you at all!" Garamond wails as it drills the parasitic creature tapping its bloodstream! Impaled through its misshapen head by the cyborg's spinning blade, the bat-winged predator dies horribly.
Fiefo feels a thin sharp beak sink deep as the mutant monster that had been draining Jeojand's lifeblood turns its voracious appetites on the ratman warrior! (1 hp damage) Fiefo retaliates with his scimitar but his curving blade cuts only air!
Adrock ceases screaming and charges to Maskelyn's aid, smashing and bludgeoning the insidious insectoid on the gnome's chest to luminous emerald bits! When Adrock is done, his dripping mace glows bright green.
Only one of the pestilent swarm remains (S2). Attached to Fiefo's furry hide, it greedily quaffs his crimson blood.
Actions?!
Map: One square = 10 feet. X = Dead or unconscious. Lit areas are visible. All else is from memory.
