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D&D Week 23 part 2: Don’t go into the water.

Poor tortured Val finally stops running away from us. We divvy up treasure and continue on into the formerly flooded passage.

GM Vaschon: Your party travels down the sloping passage and sees a long corridor to the east. Water appears to be mostly drained with roughly 2′ remaining.
Palin: “I can live with waist-high water.”
Aleanghi: (Beware that quote)
Torkal: “It could be worse. More slime or ooze water, with those mushrooms.”
Palin: You’re right, these quotes are dooming us.


We cautiously make our way into the water.

GM Vaschon: Your party continues east another 30′ and comes to the end of a passage. There is a small rocky outcrop leading to a chamber above.
Val: Val eyes the outcrop.
Torkal: The outcrop… STARES BACK.
GM Vaschon: The outcrop gives a stoney face.
Val: BAD! BAD!!!
Val: Val approaches the outcrop and begins climbing up. assuming he gets up he peeks at the surface before lifting himself onto the next level
GM Vaschon: roll a spot check
onlinehost Val rolled 1 20-sided die: 8
Bentein: Blades shoot out.
Val: +8 = 16
Veracity: Fire erupts.
Palin: fiery blades.
Torkal: You lick something and get herpes.
Val: Klyx is my only friend.
Veracity: ROTATING fiery blades.
Palin: rotating diseased fiery blades.
Veracity: Another opening, another show.
Val: Val is the victim of email phishing
Torkal: A Nigerian prince made of flaming metal blades with AIDS, ebola, swine flu, and SARS.
Val: Val hoists himself up into the chamber
Palin: If there’s a Nigerian prince in there, don’t give him your gold.

Val finds some shards of rusted metal but can’t identify them. He gives the all clear and we all climb up.

Torkal: I swear to god if there’s a rust beast in here. I’m throwing Val on it and running away.
Veracity: Veracity follows, shaking her feet like a cat as she climbs out of the water.
Palin: Hasn’t poor Val been through enough?
Bentein: No.

The chamber is roughly 30′ x 30′ and appears to be partly caved in. There are a number of rusted metal items on the ground. There’s a hissing sound coming from the corners of the room.
GM Vaschon: The hissing continues as you see a nom nom nom emerge from behind a boulder.
Palin: That link didn’t work so Palin is forced to believe that there is a LOLcat in the room.
Aleanghi: ..a huh?
Veracity: That isn’t working as a link for me either.
Aleanghi: Nor I
Val: IF THE LNK DOESN’T WORK IT MEANS IT’S NOT THERE
Val: WE CAN GO HOME
Palin: I can haz adventurerz?
GM Vaschon: http://www.rustmonster.org/rustmonster.jpg
Torkal: MOTHER OF F***
Palin: You were saying, Torkal?

GM Vaschon: The rust monster stares at Palin’s shiny mail.
Palin: Not my mail! Not my shiny shiny mail!!
GM Vaschon: The rustmonster mutters, “You got mail!”
Palin: oh my god.
Bentein: ROFL
Torkal: Hahahaha.
GM Vaschon: The rust monster advances as 2 others emerge. The rust monster is about the size of a small pony. The smaller ones are about the size of great danes 🙂

For those not in the know, rust monsters eat metal.
Val: A metal weapon that deals damage to a rust monster corrodes immediately. Wooden, stone, and other nonmetallic weapons are unaffected.

Most of us don’t have non-metal weapons, so we try to come up with plans.
Palin: what can I do, smother it with my bedroll?
Veracity: Okay, Veracity has a fishing net and isn’t afraid to use it.  Is there any chance she can entangle the monster in the net and sort of….inconvenience it?  Maybe even pull it off balance?
Palin: What if we toss it something metal to distract it, then while it’s distracted beat the living crap out of it?
Val: i like that idea
Palin: Or, here’s an idea, climb down.
Palin: I didn’t see any rusted metal at the base.
Val: although the wiki says it goes after the largest metal object
Torkal: Yeah. About that. Torkal and Palin are wearing sheet metal.
Palin: heh.
Val: it says the rust monster will give chase
Torkal: Well. Torkal has a few spear +1s with him.
Palin: ah.
Palin: I’m liking the distract and pummel, then.
Torkal: Let’s throw one of those at a big rust monster.
Palin: I also have a spear +1
Val: if the head of the spear corrodes maybe you can still use it as a beatin stick

It’s a plan! Torkal and Palin throw their spears at the creatures for minimal damage, but at least they wind up with poles to beat the monsters with!

Klyx casts burning hands on the big rust monster, rolls very well and manages to kill it. On Bentein’s turn, he decides to see if they can swim and climbs back down the rocky outcropping. The rest of us are baffled by this sudden retreat into the water.
Val: …the water? isn’t it like 2”?
Palin: feet, not inches.
Bentein: You see how rust monsters are built? Their heads are floor level. They have no necks.
GM Vaschon: correct
Torkal: Haha. Really? Man, I’m running away now too.
Veracity: So you were craftily trying to drown the sucker.
Palin: whoa, nice catch, Bentein!
Val: Val makes to draw something from his robes…but brings out just an open hand, which he waves. sounding like Snake from the simpsons he says, “Bye!” He climbs down as well

Veracity throws out her net to snare the rust monster and misses. Torkal and I hit it with sticks. I am mentally humming the old Star Trek fight music.

Torkal: Can I pole that dirty little beast?
Palin: I’m passing up about a bazillion “that’s what she said” moments here.  I hope you all appreciate my restraint.

Aleanghi keeps her ball of fire going and partially roasts one of the smaller ones. Torkal and I climb back down below the ledge. A rustmonster follows me, hungry for my shiny shiny mail. We manage to kill it and end the combat without it touching us and dissolving our armor. It’s a miracle!

Our reward for battling the rust monsters: in the chamber were they lived, we find the last of the stones we’re supposed to be gathering.

Veracity: And next week, we go back to the Mouth of Doom.

Which hopefully we’ll be doing tonight. Tune in again next time to find out which party member we’ll manage to fold, spindle, or mutilate!


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  1. May 26th, 2009 at 17:21 | #1

    I was doing that Star Trek fight music this weekend!

  2. May 26th, 2009 at 17:21 | #2

    I was doing that Star Trek fight music this weekend!

  3. May 26th, 2009 at 18:49 | #3

    I completely forgot that was tonight. I kept telling myself that I knew I had *something* tonight, but…

    Memorial Day has completely thrown me off.

  4. May 26th, 2009 at 18:49 | #4

    I completely forgot that was tonight. I kept telling myself that I knew I had *something* tonight, but…

    Memorial Day has completely thrown me off.

  5. May 26th, 2009 at 19:00 | #5

    Heh. Do come. We need your fireballs!

  6. May 26th, 2009 at 19:00 | #6

    Heh. Do come. We need your fireballs!

  7. May 26th, 2009 at 19:11 | #7

    I do hope everyone reminds you that you said that when you catch on fire later tonight sweetie. ::ducks::

  8. May 26th, 2009 at 19:11 | #8

    I do hope everyone reminds you that you said that when you catch on fire later tonight sweetie. ::ducks::

  9. May 26th, 2009 at 19:32 | #9

    Oh crud, you’re right. Irony is the strongest force acting upon our party.

  10. May 26th, 2009 at 19:32 | #10

    Oh crud, you’re right. Irony is the strongest force acting upon our party.

  11. May 28th, 2009 at 03:37 | #11

    Even more ironic after the fact, since fire was singularly unhelpful. So much for 2/3 of my spells…

    I really, really, REALLY SERIOUSLY want to research some additional water/ice spell. REALLY.

  12. May 28th, 2009 at 03:37 | #12

    Even more ironic after the fact, since fire was singularly unhelpful. So much for 2/3 of my spells…

    I really, really, REALLY SERIOUSLY want to research some additional water/ice spell. REALLY.

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