Venture to the Messenger

[Quila Oris (John M.)]

Noticing some commotion in her peripheral vision Quila drops out of scanning the ship's interior in a jump-wise fashion for now. Looking around at how thoroughly miserable everybody looks, she suggests "We might ask if the inside of the ship is safe and get ourselves inside? Aside from the dead creature that's now here instead of there, I have not seen any hostiles. Just a strange device that could have functioned as a wand. That might explain the hole in this creature's chest."

Quila scampers over at the creature and looks at the charred and cauterized wound to see if she could get any ashes loosed. She will prod with a stick but not get within a few feet of that horrendous thing.
If she sees anything remotely resembling ashes she will cast Clues of Ash (2nd level Dark Sun priest spell).

[Attilius]

HurK administers aid to the downed halfling...

Cell Adjustment 19, rolled 11 [-5 Psp's]
Power Manipulation NWP 17, rolled 6 [-5 Psp's]
round 1: All disease in the body is healed
Round 2: Heal him 10 HP [-5 Psp's]
Round 3: Heal him 10 HP [-5 Psp's]
Round 4: Heal him 10 HP [-5 Psp's]
etc.
[Let me know how many rounds It takes to bring him up to full Bob]

[Skrye [AC3; 48/48HP]]

- Looking at Quila - "I would much like to go in" - smiling at her after been looking at the restorative skills that big HurK is applying in him

[DM Bob]

So the wee fancy man is revived... just as Hurk purges any disease from his tiny frame. The mold disappears from his noggin. Whether any mold contaminated anything else remains to be determined, some is still upon his clothing.

He screams as he realizes that he's missing an eye and part of his cheek. At this point, cell manipulation is not doing anything as the body is revived, whole and technically undamaged. Mark off 15 PSPs Hurk. A reminder to not hurry without discussing among yourselves... but there's some damned kudos in store for reviving the ancient space halfling.

He does get a grip briefly, but the shock of a heavy rain, the non-blue lighting and the scene of being surrounded by creatures unlike any he's seen in fourteen thousand years causes him to faint.

Poor guy has had a helluva week.

You're all very wet. The alien body sits next to you, and Quila does get some ash to work with. She works her spell as lightning continues to crash both near and far. The wind whips hurriedly as if late for some elemental event.

The templaress sees as if she's the alien, a tiny man like the one passed out before you. He confidently holds the weird scaled rod before him - it is attached from wrist to elbow. A blast of bright yellow lightning discharges from the end as you swing an appendage into the little man's face, ripping into it. Your other appendage rips the strange weapon away and throws it behind you... and all fades to black.

[Quila Oris (John M.)]

"I have just verified from the ashes of the creature that it was indeed killed using the weird scaled rod device I saw inside the Messenger. It was attached not unlike a tortoise blade, but more, I don't know, well-adjusted or integrated. It discharged yellow lightning just as the creature clawed one of its appendages into this halfling's face. What a weird situation," Quila shouts over the lightning blasts, "Was this creature something already on the Messenger or did they encounter this out there? Was it an attack or an accident? Hopefully our ancient rescued halfling can shed light on that when he gets round again.

Quila looks for Ande and asks her "Can you make us all go into a wormhole into the Messenger? Or is that very dumb to do? Can you get us out again then or not if we encounter resistance?"

To Chat'cho she shouts over the whipping winds "Can you ask our kreen friends if storms like these are naturally occurring or is this unique, even for them? If not, this might be the doing of someone very interested in the Messenger."

[Skrye [AC3; 48/48HP]]

- <"Life-shaper Efurth Rin'Dahlan!"> - moving her head in front of him sideways, negating, as Eslyk speaks in halfling, pointing at herself - <"Eslyk, I am friend"> - pointing at each one of the group, calling their names and repeating 'friend' then - <"Can you understand me? We saved you"> - in a calm tone, trying to avoid a raise in mood, situating herself in front of him to avoid him to see anyone else for the time been, so he can get reassured if he first see a similar race member

[AthasianLaborer]

Aug 29, 2023 11:12:45 GMT -12 Quila Oris (John M.) said:

"I have just verified from the ashes of the creature that it was indeed killed using the weird scaled rod device I saw inside the Messenger. It was attached not unlike a tortoise blade, but more, I don't know, well-adjusted or integrated. It discharged yellow lightning just as the creature clawed one of its appendages into this halfling's face. What a weird situation," Quila shouts over the lightning blasts, "Was this creature something already on the Messenger or did they encounter this out there? Was it an attack or an accident? Hopefully our ancient rescued halfling can shed light on that when he gets round again.

Quila looks for Ande and asks her "Can you make us all go into a wormhole into the Messenger? Or is that very dumb to do? Can you get us out again then or not if we encounter resistance?"

To Chat'cho she shouts over the whipping winds "Can you ask our kreen friends if storms like these are naturally occurring or is this unique, even for them? If not, this might be the doing of someone very interested in the Messenger."

"I am sadly too unfocused currently to open another hole" Ande sighs, "I will do what I can to the best of my abilities now"

Power Manipulation rolled an 8 needing under a 13

Dimension Door rolled a 7 needing under a 19 (this is a success even with the largest penalty listed) 19 PSP, -4 for Dimension Door, -4 for 2 rounds of maintenance (she can afford another 5 rounds if needed) PSP total:11/112

The entrance will open to the side of the group that most of us are facing and will exit off one of the walls she saw while Clairvoyancing the interior.

[Deleted]

Whistling softly at the halfling she's resuscitated, Chat'cho hovers over him like she's not sure what to do, afraid to touch him in case something she does makes the situation worse.

[Tohr'Kreen] "...Give me a moment, please. I'd like to try to help."

She leans down and carefully administers a single Cure Light Wounds spell, hoping to see that it does something about the whole...partially missing face...thing.

[Niachi]

Niachi hunkers down a foot or 2 with each lightning strike, observing history in the making. Seeing as neither his or Coden's murder skills are not quite what the situation calls for, he signals the warrior/psion with his hand and (Niachi Stormtalker!!) yells over the weather:

"You're a Seer, yah? Have we tried focusing towards our horizons, for any newcomers? What about sensing danger in there (pointing to the Messenger) or out here (checking the angry skies)   Got any thief-like tricks to crack that nut?"

He wipes rain from his eyes (Niachi Rainblade!!)  and ponders if any of this sparks his knowledge of the alternate worlds.

Planes Lore proficiency check:  Need  15, rolled 16.

[Coden Rokos (Jesse H.)]

Coden squints and holds his spear low—probably to keep it from acting as an attractor for lightning. "Nothing has triggered my danger sense yet," he says. "Trick with using clairsentience at a distance is that for places far away it's very easy to miss and just see... nothing. If there's something a mile out, being just a couple degrees off when casting out remote senses would mean missing it completely."

"I feel like this place is dangerous, and it's just going to attract more trouble. We shouldn't stay any longer than we need to, to rescue any survivors."

[Attilius]

Aug 29, 2023 11:04:59 GMT -12 DM Bob said:

So the wee fancy man is revived... just as Hurk purges any disease from his tiny frame. The mold disappears from his noggin. Whether any mold contaminated anything else remains to be determined, some is still upon his clothing.

HurK pulls out his bone blade from its sheath and thoroughly inspects the fainted halfling all around. He then cuts away large patches of any infected clothing.

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Aug 29, 2023 15:53:00 GMT -12 Coden Rokos (Jesse H.) said:

Coden squints and holds his spear low—probably to keep it from acting as an attractor for lightning. "Nothing has triggered my danger sense yet," he says. "Trick with using clairsentience at a distance is that for places far away it's very easy to miss and just see... nothing. If there's something a mile out, being just a couple degrees off when casting out remote senses would mean missing it completely."

"I feel like this place is dangerous, and it's just going to attract more trouble. We shouldn't stay any longer than we need to, to rescue any survivors."

"Agreed!" The giant nods to Coden.
With the halfling fainted, HurK opens and sets up his Balican toga to snuggly place the unconscious halfling against his body:
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"J'lact, can you please have your guards take our mounts back to the Nirik-Tohr for protection and safe keeping?" He asks the tohr leader as he unstraps his pack and weapons from 'Fruit cart' and secures them on his own back.
"Don't worry buddy, I'll see you soon. Enjoy this rain!" He whispers in the inix's ear as he gives it another piece of ration jerky while patting it's haunch

Aug 29, 2023 11:48:37 GMT -12 AthasianLaborer said:

"I am sadly too unfocused currently to open another hole" Ande sighs, "I will do what I can to the best of my abilities now"

Power Manipulation rolled an 8 needing under a 13

Dimension Door rolled a 7 needing under a 19 (this is a success even with the largest penalty listed) 19 PSP, -4 for Dimension Door, -4 for 2 rounds of maintenance (she can afford another 5 rounds if needed) PSP total:11/112

The entrance will open to the side of the group that most of us are facing and will exit off one of the walls she saw while Clairvoyancing the interior.

"I'll take lead..." He gets down on all fours, places his light orb between his teeth before quickly moving through the Dimension door...

[Quila Oris (John M.)]

Quila quickly unclasps her bag and belongings (including the scroll case) and bow from the war crodlu and crams herself into the Dimension Door right after HurK with his halfling bundle package in his toga. "Second." she calls out.

[Niachi]

Niachi lines up behind Quila, but before following in, he pulls out his own Orb of Continual Light to create some shadow of his body, does a quick spin tracing the tip of his boot in a muddy circle around him, mutters a soft "not today" and casts Protection from Evil. (L1, duration 14 rounds)
Amid the wet dirt and ozone smells of the storm, a faint essence of raw iron wafts from him as he steps into the Unknown.

[DM Bob]

[Closing thread.]