Purple Planet Funnel, Campaign

[TerraGoetia]

Next Turn
As Beega steps off the pedestal, he finds himself back in the cavern. The ship is gone. His friends are gone, and the pedestal's humming seems somewhat diminished.

The eye beast becomes less of a concern for the rest of you. Without the pedestal active, the ship begins to fall back towards the closest celestial object: the green sun! The stamina damage is now up to two for anyone within sunlight (except Qort), and one for anyone else. Unless Beega can move the ship, or you can find some way to sail the starry skies, you're all going to cook!

The eye beast, hit in the eye with an ebonplant fruit, spins away in agony. His magical attack discharges out into space, harmlessly. He's a fearsome opponent, but a perfect hit to the eye blinds it as much as anyone else.

There is a definite magical-electrical flow coming from the impression in the castle floor. If you had something attuned to the ancient technology, perhaps you could do something with it.

What Will You Do?

[Fenris Ulfhamr]

Did Beega see the ship in space, or was it just a tiny speck? I believe he is alone now in the room... so his next move would depend upon what his understanding of the situation was. Either way he's back on the pedestal, desperately looking for the ship, Arvis, anyone!

[Bilgewriggler]

Qort rushes into the castle.

Qort: We're falling into the sun!

Brandybland: Well, that's not good.

Nurzual: It looks like that pedestal should go here -- can anyone see anything we can use instead? Wait! The prisoner's peculiar tool!

Nurzual hurries to the indentation, pulling out the ray-gun. He tries to look in that compartment in the handle to see if there's any clue of how it might work with the indentation.

[Judge Blackthorn]

Blackthorn I think your on the right path, Narzual

Duke I hope so, the only other think I can think of that we have that might be attuned to this ship is the fruit that I ate, and I'm not looking forward to stepping into the energy pit

[TerraGoetia]

Did Beega see the ship in space, or was it just a tiny speck? I believe he is alone now in the room... so his next move would depend upon what his understanding of the situation was. Either way he's back on the pedestal, desperately looking for the ship, Arvis, anyone!

Please have Beega roll a Perception test with a DC of 10.

[TerraGoetia]

Can the party members messing with the indentation or the ray gun roll a an Intelligence OR Luck test, your choice, DC 12?

[Bilgewriggler]

Nurzual rolls a 2, plus 1 for intelligence is 3. Brandybland rolls a 12 ... minus 1 for intelligence is 11. Qort, looking around at the interior of the castle and carelessly ignoring where he's walking, will roll luck!

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another 19, believe it or not! That's a 17 after subracting 2 for luck! Does he stumble over something or bump into Nurzual just the right way?

[Judge Blackthorn]

Blackthorn rolls 8 + 2 int = 10

Duke rolls 16 + 2 int = 18

[GnomeBoy]

Lucius continues running around the ship and passes by a sensation that arrests his attention:

There is a definite magical-electrical flow coming from the impression in the castle floor. If you had something attuned to the ancient technology, perhaps you could do something with it.

He stops and waves his "strange rock" through the flowing energy field...


Havarth charges at the eyeball creature while it's in agony with his glaive!
Atk: 12
Damage: 6 (if it's a hit)


Toby attacks the thing with his longsword!
Atk: 11
Daamge: 9! (I reeally, reeally hope that's a hit!)


Kelven staggers away from the thing, thinking he's found stairs he can follow to get away from the burning rays of the sun!

Alas, they are the collapsed stairs and he fumbles his way down out of the sunlight, into the hold (presumably)...

[Fenris Ulfhamr]

Beega rolls an 11 perception, -1 INT for 10 exactly! Will burn a Luck if need be!
Arvis tries to help in the castle

[TerraGoetia]

Next Turn

Kelven runs for the stairway, not realizing that it is has crumbled and decayed. He falls into the darkness of the deck below, hitting his head on something unseen. He takes 2 damage and is knocked down.

Havarth charges into the blinded eye beast, damaging it severely. Toby's massive strike finishes it off.

As Lucius passes the greenstone through the energy field, he experiences a mild shock. A compartment opens in the floor, in the center of the indentation. Duke realizes that the indentation is too large for the greenstone to fit in normally; a bigger sample will be needed to fill the compartment. Though maybe the smaller stones you have can be wedged in there. As the others are speculating over the meaning of this, Qort bumps into Lucius and knocks the greenstone out of his hands, into the compartment.

Lights flicker throughout the castle, and a dim energy shield flashes around the ship.

Beega steps onto the pedestal again, again growing finding himself on titanic size in the depths of space. You see the ship, now, tiny and insignificant, slowly coasting towards the green sun.

What will you do?

[Bilgewriggler]

Qort apologizes to Lucius and says, "Here, let me get that for you," as he reaches toward the compartment where the greenstone fell.

Brandybland stops him, saying, "Dude, we started messing with this thing to see if we could get something to happen, and now something's happening. So maybe we should leave it there and see what it does."

Qort scratches his head and tries to process this concept.

Nurzual hurriedly digs in his backpack for his own greenstone shard. After adding it to Lucius's, he'll closely examine the raygun's handle to see if the compartment noticed earlier seems similar to that in the impression, and if it can be opened.

[GnomeBoy]

"Yeah, yeah, just leave that there, let's see what happens! I'm going to look for the wheel again, or whatever this ship may have in it's place!" Again, Lucius starts jogging around the ship, above and below decks to see if he can find a helm or wheel or anything that might be those things...

Kelven shouts out as Lucius runs by, "Here, kid, give me your hand and help me up..."

"Not now, Mr. Kelven, sir. Important work to be done if we're going to get home...!"

Havarth and Toby examine the beast briefly and search the "skies" around the ship to see if anything else is heading toward it.

[Fenris Ulfhamr]

The ship! But it's so far away... Beega will be left alone! He stretches his hands out toward that distant speck, toward the last survivor of his clan, willing the ship back to himself...
Meanwhile, aboard that very distant speck:
Arvis can't decipher the human's speech nor the alien tech, and so tries to help Lucius search the ship.

[Judge Blackthorn]

Blackthorn will attempt to search the deck for signs of means of control it the ship. Duke will search the castle for the same.

[TerraGoetia]

Nurzual is able to open the compartment in the handle of the ray gun. Inside there is a third greenstone.

A Beega reaches out towards the ship, the ship flies steadily away from the sun and towards him. The platform he is standing on must be the control system for the ship, knocked loose by Tio'Lizix's piloting.

Unfortunately the ship is mostly barren, aside from the death functional death ray on the deck and the door inside the castle from which mechanical sounds are coming.

The power for the shield is flickering, the amount of greenstone in the indentation is still not nearly enough to fill it. You guess it takes over 20 of these small stones to fill the indentation completely. You are, as they say on Earth, "running on Empty."

[TerraGoetia]

Checking out the dead eye beast reveals nothing useful, unless you intend to butcher it for its possibly-magical parts.

Looking over the edge of the ship reveals that, near the green sun, lies a whole colony of the eye beasts. You may have just killed a scout. Thank goodness the ship is no longer sailing in that direction...
Except that a large mass, about the size of your ship, is heading towards you from that direction. The polypy-looking blob may be a sort of ship piloted by the eye beasts themselves. Unless you get out of here quickly, you may be in a world of trouble.

[Bilgewriggler]

“Hmm,” says Nurzual. “Perhaps we should scour this vessel for any further stones ... Someone could check those devices up on the deck while others investigate that door over there.”

Qort volunteers to go back on deck. Nurzual suggests that someone accompany him to help figure out how to open any compartments they might find.

Nurzual and Brandybland proceed to the noisy door to investigate. Qort waits to see if anyone heads toward the deck with him. Either way, he then heads outside to look at the death rays and any other candidates for power stones.

[TerraGoetia]

Are they opening the door?

[Bilgewriggler]

Is that a trick question?

(The answer is “yes” regardless.)

[Judge Blackthorn]

Duke will be present at the opening of the doors, Blackthorn will attempt to remove any power source he can locate in the death ray to help power the ship.

[Fenris Ulfhamr]

Arvis moves back on deck and examines one of the death rays. Beega continues drawing the ship to him- but how will he board in his present size? What is Beega on/near, or does he seem to float?

[GnomeBoy]

Lucius returns to the deck reports what he knows, and Havarth and Toby describe the colony and the ship.

"If we don't get more of those stones or find some new way out, that ship is going to overtake us...!"

Havarth and Toby are ready for whatever is behind the door!
(Probably not, but they think they are...)

Kelven is still down in the hold, picking himself up and counting his bruises, muttering to himself.

[TerraGoetia]

Probably a Good Time to Level Up

We've left the boundaries of the module by a fair bit. It seems like a good time to let you reach level 1 and start to develop your characters more.

You may level up two of your characters. The rest stay as level 0's. The idea is simple: not everyone has what it takes to be a hero. Also, my funnel was supposed to kill more of you, so if you have survivors, you have more options. I will be sending the Kith class rules to Fenris.

[Bilgewriggler]

Nurzual levels as a wizard, rolling 2 hit points for a total of 6. Qort levels as a cleric, rolling a 7 to take his hp total to 8.

Spells for Nurzual: Charm Person (no Mercurial change), Color Spray (casting circle), Force Manipulation (terrible to behold), Read Magic (magical reverb), Spider Climb (skeletal caster).

Spell for Qort: Detect Magic.