[2025/06/11 14:12] Sapphire: we should get started
[2025/06/11 14:13] Sapphire: --♦-- --♦-- --♦--
[2025/06/11 14:13] Sapphire: Robin, Novaya, would you mind filling Horizon in on what she missed while making sure the winged snakes were having a good time hunting rodents of surprising mass from the metal barn?
[2025/06/11 14:13] Sonja Bikergrrl: I powerbombed a glass sea monster into the drink.
[2025/06/11 14:15] Mecha: Okay we woke up fought some birds to fix a ship, Rode some flying lizard things and well here we are
[2025/06/11 14:15] Sapphire: >.> Martina was there for part of that
[2025/06/11 14:16] Sapphire: ( Last session link : http://81.133.27.194/Dungeons&Kittens/logs-2025shr/20250528.html )
[2025/06/11 14:17] Sapphire: Are you sure that's as basic of a description you wish to sair with your teammate?
[2025/06/11 14:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: pretty much?
[2025/06/11 14:18] Sapphire: share*
[2025/06/11 14:18] Martina: Only missed the last one, reading notes to catch up
[2025/06/11 14:19] Mecha: oh yeah Robin has been injured because she stinks at leap frogging
[2025/06/11 14:19] Sapphire: /name Narrator Sapphire
[2025/06/11 14:19] Sapphire: hmmmm
[2025/06/11 14:20] Sapphire: anyhow, So presumably Horizon is at least been informed that you all headed to the edge of the big lake after exploring through town some.
[2025/06/11 14:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: and looking at the big force ball thing
[2025/06/11 14:22] Sapphire: Indeed, in the middle of the water, a large yellow energy sphere isolates a mysterious obelisk, presumably one with interesting stuff inside
[2025/06/11 14:24] Sonja Bikergrrl: if only we could get in
[2025/06/11 14:26] Sapphire: Yep, the priest of truth back at the church had inquired with you to figure out a way in, though with the warning that their own attempts resulted in a member of their party losing a hand to it
[2025/06/11 14:26] Sonja Bikergrrl: okay.... sisters, suggestions?
[2025/06/11 14:27] Mecha: /me Robin ponders
[2025/06/11 14:27] Martina: does the barrier continue below water level?
[2025/06/11 14:28] Sapphire: It seems to, but that's an interesting angle to explore
[2025/06/11 14:29] Sapphire: Last session they only explored the above water parts
[2025/06/11 14:29] Mecha: Robin is going to look up and see if there might be an opening in the top, even a small one could be useful
[2025/06/11 14:30] Sapphire: The top of the sphere appears to be above you at the moment
[2025/06/11 14:30] Sapphire: Roll... from this angle that's a difficulty 12 check to find a gap
[2025/06/11 14:30] Sapphire: Int based
[2025/06/11 14:30] D20: Mecha rolls 6
[2025/06/11 14:31] Sapphire: Looks pretty smooth and spherical at this distance
[2025/06/11 14:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: like my brain
[2025/06/11 14:31] Martina: how far round does it go? radius maybe and can swim to check every angle?
[2025/06/11 14:33] Sapphire: without pulling out survey equipment to get an exact number, it's around ten or twelve body lengths in radius, half in the water. You are free to try swimming around in the lake, how heavy is your gear?
[2025/06/11 14:34] Sapphire: Might difficulty 6 or so
[2025/06/11 14:35] Martina: D20?
[2025/06/11 14:37] Sonja Bikergrrl: yup
[2025/06/11 14:37] D20: Martina rolls 16
[2025/06/11 14:37] Martina: goes for a swim around the sphere
[2025/06/11 14:38] Sapphire: The water parts under your limbs as you work on circling the sphere, ending up fairly close to it in the process and avoided the just-under surface cause way that the other two were traversing last session
[2025/06/11 14:39] Sapphire: At the surface, the sphere appears unbroken, though the water level just inside appears to a be a foot or two lower than the main lake.
[2025/06/11 14:41] Martina: no onvious breaks in the forcefield above water but water level is different, must be a way in underwater
[2025/06/11 14:42] Martina: going down to check underneath
[2025/06/11 14:42] Mecha: Robin pauses and thinks before swimming to the sphere and knock on the sphere part that is under the water
[2025/06/11 14:44] Martina: does the forcefield extend below the water and is there a gap somewhere underneath?
[2025/06/11 14:44] Sapphire: The forcefield does go below the water as well.
[2025/06/11 14:45] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me isn't sure getting wet is going to help
[2025/06/11 14:46] Martina: is the structure fixed to the bottom of the lake or floating free
[2025/06/11 14:46] Sapphire: Once underwater, you can see several smaller pickes of the black obelis along the edges of the field, possibly related to projecting it outwards. As well, you can see a field of grassy weeds along the lake floor and a few knee high chunks of black stone half buried in the mud
[2025/06/11 14:46] Mecha: Robin is thinking, and has a better angle to look up from
[2025/06/11 14:46] Sapphire: From the looks of it... the Obelisk itself is floating in the water, but smaller structures of the same material surround it, embedded in the lack bottom
[2025/06/11 14:46] Sapphire: lake*
[2025/06/11 14:47] Sonja Bikergrrl: is there any pattern?
[2025/06/11 14:48] Sapphire: radially symmetric at first glance, at least for the projecting spires. The broken ones seem much more random
[2025/06/11 14:48] Sapphire: you trying to stay on the surface of the water still?
[2025/06/11 14:49] Sonja Bikergrrl: yep
[2025/06/11 14:51] Sapphire: alright, noted
[2025/06/11 14:51] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me is out of any ideas.
[2025/06/11 14:51] Mecha: Wait Mecha is going to try to get back on the levy, but be up close to the forcefield
[2025/06/11 14:51] Sapphire: The causeway with the glass snails you mean?
[2025/06/11 14:52] Mecha: YEah, that too
[2025/06/11 14:53] Sapphire: alright, you make your way up there. now that you know to keep an eye out for them, the snails move slwoly enough that you've gotlike ten minutes before they arrive
[2025/06/11 14:53] Mecha: Going to poke and prod for the time she has.
[2025/06/11 14:54] Martina: dives to floor of the lake and tests the forcefield by the weeds
[2025/06/11 14:54] Sapphire: just with your hands or something else?
[2025/06/11 14:55] Martina: Use my Scan power to investigate
[2025/06/11 14:57] Mecha: Crap... Robin jumps into the water and heads back to look for a heavy stick or something for bludgeoning
[2025/06/11 14:57] Sapphire: Alright, you pulse several shimmering enegy waves at the force field, and determine the following: The shield itself has a basic difficulty of 18 (aka level 6), and seems to be composed of a mixture of air and water particles suspended in a force field,. the water on the inside is somewhat warmer than the water outside.
[2025/06/11 14:58] Sapphire: Robin, you reach the bottom, mostly finding weeds and chunks of black rock
[2025/06/11 14:59] Mecha: Was meaning heading back to the shore but. Robin grabs the longest black rock she can find and goes back to take a whack at it
[2025/06/11 15:01] Sapphire: The black rock seems to pass right through the field, though your hand doesn't, with a painful buzz on contact
[2025/06/11 15:02] Mecha: Robin yanks her hand back still holding the black rock."Did everyone just see that?"
[2025/06/11 15:03] Sonja Bikergrrl: Novaya: "See what?"
[2025/06/11 15:03] Mecha: Robin checks the snail real quick before putting a small part of black rock through the field
[2025/06/11 15:04] Martina: hmmm maybe we can gather enough, make a hole in the forcefield linking the rocks
[2025/06/11 15:04] Sonja Bikergrrl: ...anyone here a volunteer to being punched out?
[2025/06/11 15:05] Sapphire: there are those snails that keep oozing their way towards you, and a few large... fish? with three sets of wide fins swimming around, but they seem to be sircling you at a distance
[2025/06/11 15:05] Sapphire: circling*
[2025/06/11 15:05] Mecha: Here's the problem!" Robin calls before pushing through and touching the shield ehrself
[2025/06/11 15:06] Sapphire: Trying to just push through with pure force, or?
[2025/06/11 15:07] Mecha: Sure, PRobably gonna get knocked out by the shock but hell let's roll those dice
[2025/06/11 15:08] Sapphire: go for it, difficulty 18 if you're not applying any skills or effort
[2025/06/11 15:10] Mecha: Spending effort for might to push through
[2025/06/11 15:10] Sapphire: alright, the first instance gets you down to difficult 15, feel free to roll it
[2025/06/11 15:10] D20: Mecha rolls 16
[2025/06/11 15:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: suck-cess!
[2025/06/11 15:11] Martina: yay Mecha, brute force and ignorance wins the day
[2025/06/11 15:12] Sapphire: :O Robin takes a running start and pushes her way though the energy field, the edges of it searing at your hair and clothing, but your crystal body is able to shove your way in. Ripples roll across the field from where you breached, rapidly pushing the hole back closed
[2025/06/11 15:12] Sapphire: inside, there is a much louder humm of powerful energy. outside, Robin appears to be silent but visible
[2025/06/11 15:12] Mecha: Robin waves and jumps happily
[2025/06/11 15:13] Mecha: And then sits down.. that freakin' hurt
[2025/06/11 15:13] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me gesticulates as if to say "Have you got the key?"
[2025/06/11 15:13] Mecha: Can't hear but hold up the black rock still in her hands
[2025/06/11 15:13] Martina: mouth to Robin to go hunt for a switch or mechanism to turn off the energy field
[2025/06/11 15:14] Mecha: Can Robin understand that?
[2025/06/11 15:15] Sapphire: Novaya, int diff 6 to convey tour intent via gestures
[2025/06/11 15:15] Sapphire: your*
[2025/06/11 15:15] Sonja Bikergrrl: so, 5 or better?
[2025/06/11 15:15] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 8
[2025/06/11 15:15] Martina: waves her hands desperately trying to get Robin to understand
[2025/06/11 15:18] Sapphire: Robin, you're able to tell that Novaya is making lock and key type gestures along with an interrogative expression
[2025/06/11 15:19] Mecha: Robin shrugs and begins looking around for a switch anyway see if something can open or lower the force field
[2025/06/11 15:21] Mecha: Also looking at the snails and the fish, what are they doing?
[2025/06/11 15:21] Sapphire: Now that she's on the inside of the field, it takes a few moments to realize two things. A: her lungs don't seem to be complaining much about water being in them. And B: there are several hints of blue and green control crystals hidden in the protected side of the black stone, though not in the broken samples you've bene holding
[2025/06/11 15:21] Sapphire: The snails are now about to arrive behind Novaya and Horizon while they've been treading water and/or standing around. The fish seem to be losing interest in you
[2025/06/11 15:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: Time to get punching
[2025/06/11 15:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: Second thoughts, can I swim away a little?
[2025/06/11 15:22] Sapphire: you can, the snails mostly seem to crawl along surfaces
[2025/06/11 15:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: Defintely swim aside and watch Mecha
[2025/06/11 15:24] Mecha: Robin has another idea, and points to the black rock and then down into the water, pushing the rock she has out so someone else can grab it
[2025/06/11 15:25] Martina: gets the idea and grabs the rock
[2025/06/11 15:26] Mecha: Robin begins to pull as she mouths the words."Hold on tight."
[2025/06/11 15:28] Martina: grabs the rock and kicks hards towards to shield
[2025/06/11 15:28] Sapphire: One of the glass snails looks up at Novaya, and then starts stretching it's neck upwards, gaining much more length than expected and trying to take a bite out of her leg with it's needle-teeth, roll to evade, speed difficulty 9
[2025/06/11 15:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: well, so much for peace
[2025/06/11 15:29] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 14
[2025/06/11 15:29] Sonja Bikergrrl: Can I grab it and tie a knot in it's neck?
[2025/06/11 15:30] Sapphire: That would be a might difficulty 15 roll but if it works it'd end the fight in one move
[2025/06/11 15:30] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 14
[2025/06/11 15:30] Sonja Bikergrrl: Too late to expend Might?
[2025/06/11 15:30] Sapphire: I'll allow it this time but in general call in advance ;)
[2025/06/11 15:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me expends 1 might and ties a knot in its' neck
[2025/06/11 15:32] Sapphire: the snail thrashes gooily in Novayas arm as it's important parts are tied in a knot, attempting to retract into it's shell and getting stuck
[2025/06/11 15:33] Sonja Bikergrrl: Now, using it's head to hold on to, how far can I lob the fucking thing, straight up over dry and, more importantly, hard land?
[2025/06/11 15:34] Sapphire: um huh
[2025/06/11 15:34] Sapphire: Oh right, Horizon, base difficulty 18 to get through the sheild, sorry got distracted by the snail wrestling
[2025/06/11 15:35] Sapphire: Novya, do you have any throwing or similar skills, or just your vicious stuff?
[2025/06/11 15:35] Sapphire: It's probably too far to love it onto actual dry land, the shield is a lot closer, or you could actually swim back to chuck it
[2025/06/11 15:35] Sonja Bikergrrl: Just the urge to dispense some justice in the form of a physics lesson
[2025/06/11 15:35] Sapphire: Horizon you probably will want to spend effort
[2025/06/11 15:36] Sonja Bikergrrl: I'll swim back to where I can lob it
[2025/06/11 15:36] Martina: Use Push power while holding the rock
[2025/06/11 15:36] Sapphire: you could also swing it into some other hard thing like the cuaseway or the rocks... or swim to the beach, sure! roll to chuck it as far as you can, Novaya
[2025/06/11 15:37] Sapphire: and the Push power... that sounds like it'd be an asset to getting through in addition to spending effort. Using both can get you down to difficulty 12, Horizon
[2025/06/11 15:37] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me hauls back and FLINGS straight up. "Heads below!"
[2025/06/11 15:37] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 20
[2025/06/11 15:37] Sonja Bikergrrl: YES!!!
[2025/06/11 15:37] Sonja Bikergrrl: Fucking NAT20!
[2025/06/11 15:38] D20: Martina rolls 15
[2025/06/11 15:38] Martina: yay
[2025/06/11 15:39] Martina: high 5's Sonja
[2025/06/11 15:39] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me ^5s
[2025/06/11 15:39] Sapphire: The snail sails far away over the beach, and then cracks hard into a tree, shell splitting open and revealing delicious and transparent lime internals
[2025/06/11 15:39] Sonja Bikergrrl: ...it's edible?
[2025/06/11 15:39] Sapphire: why shouldn't it be?
[2025/06/11 15:40] Martina: cause we're not French, don't eat snails
[2025/06/11 15:40] Sonja Bikergrrl: How many other of these creatures are there?
[2025/06/11 15:41] Sapphire: you can see about two a medium range away, those two scraping their heads against the mossy rocks. This lake probably has more than just those
[2025/06/11 15:41] Sonja Bikergrrl: Time to grab the nearest one.
[2025/06/11 15:41] Sapphire: roll int
[2025/06/11 15:41] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 7
[2025/06/11 15:42] Sapphire: your party members are currently on the other side of an energy field from you, do you desire to prepare the celebratory feast before or after delving the obelisk?
[2025/06/11 15:43] Sonja Bikergrrl: They'll get by. I got creatures to teach how to fly.
[2025/06/11 15:44] Sapphire: Interesting. You can roll might to go after a second one. Robin! Horizon! What are you up to?
[2025/06/11 15:46] Martina: we're inside the energy field but not the obelisk itself? Looking for a way in maybe?
[2025/06/11 15:47] Sapphire: Ah ha, cool. As your looking around, the ... one moment someone is knocking on my door
[2025/06/11 15:47] Sapphire: ( Back, some salesperson )
[2025/06/11 15:48] Sonja Bikergrrl: Tell him you're renting
[2025/06/11 15:49] Sapphire: Anyhow, Horizon finds a set of seam lines in the obelisk, laced with barnacles, while the inside of the energy field projection spikes have several tiny crystals exposed in green and blue
[2025/06/11 15:51] Martina: how tiny? are they switches
[2025/06/11 15:52] Sapphire: about as big around as your thumb, slightly shorter.
[2025/06/11 15:52] Sapphire: Understanding Numenera check at difficulty... 15
[2025/06/11 15:53] D20: Martina rolls 6
[2025/06/11 15:53] Mecha: Robin is going to stick the rock out in case someone else *Hint hint* wants to try and get in
[2025/06/11 15:54] Sapphire: They're glowing and connected to a powerful energy field, but you can't make heads or tails of which ones you would pull out that would turn the field off instead of doing something much more random and energetic.
[2025/06/11 15:55] Martina: ok, not a great idea to touch them then
[2025/06/11 15:57] Sapphire: a risky one at the least
[2025/06/11 15:57] Martina: oh, what the hell.... yanks the closest blue one
[2025/06/11 15:57] Sonja Bikergrrl: poke buttons and let the dice gods sort it out
[2025/06/11 15:57] Sapphire: Is Novaya still harassing snails?
[2025/06/11 15:58] Sapphire: the closes blue one... alright....
[2025/06/11 15:58] Sonja Bikergrrl: Can I fling one up in the air again?
[2025/06/11 15:58] D20: Sapphire rolls 8
[2025/06/11 15:59] Sapphire: You pull out a crystal, which snaps in your hands while you do so, and the energy frield starts glowing brighter and warmer, ripples of power running across the surface
[2025/06/11 16:00] Sapphire: Novaya, if you want to fling more snails make a might roll against the 12ish, and they will start fighting back if you fail
[2025/06/11 16:00] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 11
[2025/06/11 16:00] Sonja Bikergrrl: Fisticuffs time. I'm sorting these fucks out.
[2025/06/11 16:00] Martina: hmmm blue increases power, wonder what green does... so yanks the closest green
[2025/06/11 16:00] D20: Sapphire rolls 10
[2025/06/11 16:01] Sapphire: The green cristal slide out and remains intack, the rippling of the energy field seems more dramatic now, with thin and thick areas moving around it in waves.
[2025/06/11 16:02] Sapphire: Novaya, the snail is biting into your arm for 4 damage, do you have any armor?
[2025/06/11 16:02] Sonja Bikergrrl: Light armour
[2025/06/11 16:03] Sonja Bikergrrl: also passive ward
[2025/06/11 16:04] Sapphire: so 2 gets through?
[2025/06/11 16:04] Sonja Bikergrrl: I guess...?
[2025/06/11 16:04] Sonja Bikergrrl: reduces Might?
[2025/06/11 16:05] Sapphire: yes, lose that much from your might pool. what are you gonna do about this big glass snail biting into your arm and attempting to goo itself to your chest?
[2025/06/11 16:05] Sonja Bikergrrl: bloodthirsty... +2 damage, and Chemical Onslaught, does 2 damage bypassing armour
[2025/06/11 16:06] Sonja Bikergrrl: I figure the chemical onslaught needs no roll
[2025/06/11 16:06] Sonja Bikergrrl: and is that 1 intellect point per 2pts?
[2025/06/11 16:06] Sapphire: it's 1 intellect to trigger the whole ability
[2025/06/11 16:06] Sapphire: and I think you have Intelelct Edge?
[2025/06/11 16:06] Sonja Bikergrrl: Let's do that then
[2025/06/11 16:06] Sapphire: Intellect*
[2025/06/11 16:06] Sonja Bikergrrl: Yes
[2025/06/11 16:08] Sapphire: It's already attaching to you, so I'll skip the roll to hit it with your mix of caustic onslaught, dealing painful chemical damage and cuasing the the snail to start thrashing around, biting down on you again
[2025/06/11 16:08] Sonja Bikergrrl: motherfucker
[2025/06/11 16:09] Sapphire: your response?
[2025/06/11 16:09] Sonja Bikergrrl: I'm gonna thump the fuuck out of it
[2025/06/11 16:09] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 9
[2025/06/11 16:09] Sonja Bikergrrl: a 9 is good?
[2025/06/11 16:11] Sapphire: It's hard glassy shell rings from the hit, but the creature doesn't break, instead using a clinging slime to adhere itself to your body and making one more biting attack, cracking some of the ruby crystals and gel out of your arm.
[2025/06/11 16:12] Sonja Bikergrrl: I'm gonna do it for that
[2025/06/11 16:12] Martina: meanwhile, as the green crystal didn't break, can I insert it where the blue one was and see what haoppens?
[2025/06/11 16:12] Sapphire: It's like you're a mage/barbarian hybrid :)
[2025/06/11 16:13] Sapphire: Ah sure, Horizon... roll a d20
[2025/06/11 16:13] D20: Martina rolls 9
[2025/06/11 16:13] Sapphire: The green crystal starts glowing brightly.... and then explodes in the socket, scattering dust through the water.
[2025/06/11 16:14] Martina: gets as far away as she can incase something blows
[2025/06/11 16:14] Martina: is the energy field still intact?
[2025/06/11 16:16] Sapphire: the energy field is rippling, it seems mostly intact but is probably easier to get through the weak spots now
[2025/06/11 16:16] Mecha: Robin is going to try and push her way out at least partially and yell "LET"S FUCKING GO! Stop trying to make escargot a thing in this world!"
[2025/06/11 16:16] Sapphire: Robin, roll Speed against 12 to manage that withouth getting hurt in the process
[2025/06/11 16:17] D20: Mecha rolls 3
[2025/06/11 16:17] Mecha: Nope, I'm hurting
[2025/06/11 16:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: Novaya: "This things started it, I'm finishing it!" Gonna smack the fuck out of this thing again, and Chemical Onslaught again. We'll see who has more hit points
[2025/06/11 16:18] Martina: mostly, lets try that again then, remove a blue, then a green and put it in blue socket and see if that lowers the field
[2025/06/11 16:19] Sapphire: Novaya, testing your acids against it's needs, you manage to sear your way through to it's critical organs and defeat it at the cost of another 4 might damage that gets past your armor. As well, it's shell is strongly glued to your chest and right arm, which is a penalty to moving around until you come up with a solution to this.
[2025/06/11 16:20] Sapphire: Horizon... roll a d20 to see the results!
[2025/06/11 16:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: 4 might, you say?
[2025/06/11 16:20] Martina: L'escargot 1 - 0 Novaya
[2025/06/11 16:20] D20: Martina rolls 6
[2025/06/11 16:21] Mecha: YOu killed it, can we go now?
[2025/06/11 16:21] Sapphire: 4 twice, but your armor catches half of it
[2025/06/11 16:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: I'm not sure what I can do with 0 might. That's not good, is it?
[2025/06/11 16:21] Sapphire: you still have speed and int left, yes?
[2025/06/11 16:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: yes?
[2025/06/11 16:21] Sapphire: you are at one level of inability to all tasks until you recover some might. you don't die until all pools drained out
[2025/06/11 16:22] Sapphire: any additional damage to might drains your sppeed pool instead
[2025/06/11 16:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: Ah, level one inability. That's better'n usual
[2025/06/11 16:22] Sapphire: which *stacks/ with the penalt for having a shell glued to you
[2025/06/11 16:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: stacks of pnalties
[2025/06/11 16:23] Martina: If it smells of garlic does that increase te penalty? LOL
[2025/06/11 16:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: or, penalties
[2025/06/11 16:24] Sapphire: Horizon! the energy overloads the crystal, and it explodes again. Finally... the black obleisk notices someone messing with it's defenses, and the door opens up.... a long serpentine machine sliding it's way free and extending six arms, three of them bladed... three of them baring energy cannons.
[2025/06/11 16:25] Sapphire: And here.... I think that's a good cliff hanger for next time to deal with the obelisk guardian and your battle mage on the... non-fight side of the shields
[2025/06/11 16:25] Martina: sounds good
[2025/06/11 16:26] Mecha: So the obelisk notices martina as Robin is still ticking halfway through the field trying to get Mistresses character
[2025/06/11 16:27] Sapphire: yes... on the bright side there's a way into the thing... on the shaded side it's guarded by a robotic horror
[2025/06/11 16:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: right... welll. time to turn in
[2025/06/11 16:28] Martina: well we got further than it was looking earlier, and Novaya has a new pet fused to her, which would be interesting of she could get past the (I assume it is?) still functioning energy field