Horrors from the Deep
| Horrors from the Deep | |
|---|---|
| Date | 2/19/24 |
| Storyteller | Sushi |
| Tier | Trainee |
| Player Characters | Rynexyra, Niko Barden, Takamono, Xie Chuntao, Jovial Guts |
| Rewards | 275 xp, 25 gp, fire energy mutagen (lesser) x 5, cold energy mutagen (lesser) x 5, electricity energy mutagen (lesser) x 5, healing potion (lesser) x 5 |
| Result | Success |
| Author | Jovial |
| Downtime | 4 |
Log
So we showed up at the lighthouse, and after convincing old man Jonas to let us investigate the basement we went and checked out the hatch. Had to deal with a ROUGH fish smell, on account of all the fish, but there sure was a hatch there. Had four key holes on it with different shapes. A square, rectangle, triangle and semi-circle. Along the way Xie picked up a triangle key, which weirdly enough didn't fit in the triangle hole? Oh yeah and there was a crank, when I cranked it like 30 times some gnomish dude started speaking about his vault. Spinwhistle apparently? Anyway the triangle needed to go in the square hole instead, and since we got it wrong the first time we had to listen the big bullhorn noise blare at us twice. Thankfully my ears are strong as hell, but wow it was loud.
Worst thing here wasn't the stench of the fish, it was the fucking FIVE FOOT TALL HOLE we had to navigate. Sure as shit was made for gnomes or dwarves or something, because I was walking like I had the worst hunch in a gnoll's life through those tunnels. Would've had an easier time crawling around, honestly. Anyway while we were exploring I got jumped by a bunch of these tiny raptor things, and they scratched me up pretty bad. Xie also got some on the other end to deal with, including one with a key on its neck. We killed most of them, but the one with the key ran into a side room and ended up locking it and Xie in the room. Xie managed to convince it to hand over the key somehow, and she let it go once we got out later.
With the semi-circle key acquired, we continued our exploration. Not far from where I got jumped we found the rectangle key, handmade somehow? Then we explored down south and found a pinned down tarp thing with all four symbols on it. Not key holes, just foreshadowing. Anyway we went down some stairs to the next floor, and the next room over was some alchemist room with some incomplete potions and a key behind a big glass door. We didn't wanna break the glass and see some bad shit happen, so Xie used a telekinetic hand to throw it down a chute and have it drop on Taka's head.
Next room absolutely SUCKED by the way. We found a big raptor looking thing and fought it, then two more showed up and were really messing us up. Their claws made us bleed and I had to give my last potion to Niko to stop his bleeding so I got pretty messed up. One ran off and we found it drinking the healing potions stored in the back, so we killed it and took what was left over. After dealing with those things we had to put all four keys in the four pillars in a weird order, based on the tarp thing up above I think? Anyway it opened a door that led outside, so that was the end of our little adventure anyway. A bit of money and all those potions we found should do us some good.
P.S. Thanks for the fish you-know-who, I appreciate ya.