Hades (Campaign thread)

Siberys · Post by **Siberys** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 9:56 pm

OOC: How deep is Midnight Owl into the gravity field?

He's directly under it. The device itself takes up ten square feet (a 4 by 4 square), and is on the ceiling. Midnight Owl is on the floor covered in chains that also takes up a 4 by 4 space.

You toss the wine bottle into the gravity field, it flies like normal into the field but as it reaches, it almost immediately changes trajectory and crashes down right on the shoulder/neck area of Midnight Owl.

You hear several bones shatter under the pressure caused by the one wine bottle. The glass of the wine bottle shatters as well, and due to the weight being so profusely higher, the glass digs itself into midnight owls skin, causing him to scream in tremendous pain.

Claudius · Post by **Claudius** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 10:35 pm

"Wait you did help us against the warlock?", the halfling relaxes but doesn't come any closer, "Do you remember where you came from before coming down the hatch?"

Somewhere along the timeline:

"Let me check for any switches." Next the halfling searches the wine rack for a switch on the gravity field pulling bottles even but otherwise making 3 search checks.

Rolls 14, 7, 15

Search d20 + 7 = 14 + 7= 21
Search d20 + 7 = 7 + 7 = 14
Search d20 + 7 = 15 + 7 = 22

Siberys · Post by **Siberys** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 10:37 pm

@Jeronis-

You don't really find any switches.

MistSonata · Post by **MistSonata** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 11:16 pm

Allexa shakes her head at the halfling. "I don't remember anything between going to bed and waking up upstairs with a used syringe in front of me." Her thought is interrupted, though, when she hears the glass of the wine shattering, and the sound of the captive man screaming in agony.

She glares at Nordak. "Still think your piss poor ideas are better? Maybe YOU should go out and make sure no one catches us by surprise. I'm sure that without the noise from your blundering we'll be able to think of SOME way to save him, if you haven't already killed him."

Allexa turns back to look at the necromancer. "Unfortunately no one had the foresight to leave THIS walking skeleton alive enough to give us an idea of what we're up against. Being a wizard, he might have known how to deactivate it." She sighs, eyeing his cloak as well. "If his possessions were magic that might be something, sure, but there's little way for anyone who doesn't know a magic detection spell to figure out."

She stands straight and sighs, looking at Gu'dan. "You mentioned you were a holy man earlier, dwarf. I don't suppose there's any way you could pray for a hint? Or perhaps a magical device disabling cudgel?"

malinzaro · Post by **malinzaro** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 11:36 pm

malinzaro wrote:As Claudius pointed out we have no idea if this levitates or it is attached to the ceiling and if the the gravity field is pointed down or around it (which should be very easy to determine I think).

malinzaro wrote:
I wonder how big is the influence of this field? What are its limits ...

Methodically, he tries to determine the area of influence of the gravity field.

OOC: Please clarify the two separate posts above, which didn't received any answer at all. So again, is the field around the device or simply pointed down. This should be extremely easy to determine. I can make a basic drawing if it is needed, but I believe it is clear enough.

Siberys wrote:He's directly under it. The device itself takes up ten square feet (a 4 by 4 square), and is on the ceiling. Midnight Owl is on the floor covered in chains that also takes up a 4 by 4 space.

You toss the wine bottle into the gravity field, it flies like normal into the field but as it reaches, it almost immediately changes trajectory and crashes down right on the shoulder/neck area of Midnight Owl.

You hear several bones shatter under the pressure caused by the one wine bottle. The glass of the wine bottle shatters as well, and due to the weight being so profusely higher, the glass digs itself into midnight owls skin, causing him to scream in tremendous pain.

malinzaro wrote:Nordak picks a couple of bottles of wine and throws them at the device.

OOC: There is some misunderstanding so I am reposting all my unanswered questions. I will await for the DM to clear things out.

Obviously I didn't throw the bottles in the gravity field, but into the device as you can see in the post above, which I presumed it is not the same. Seems I was mistaken, but again only because I didn't received any answers.

Siberys · Post by **Siberys** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:34 am

OOC: Please clarify the two separate posts above, which didn't received any answer at all. So again, is the field around the device or simply pointed down. This should be extremely easy to determine. I can make a basic drawing if it is needed, but I believe it is clear enough.

I did clarify actually.

You all do notice that the cone shaped device is attached to the ceiling. The attachment is invisible though, you don't see any bolts or screws or anything, so you are unsure of how it's being held up there.

On the battlemap, the pink circle is the area with the cone.

But for a slightly more visual approach-
http://i.imgur.com/1Nkbu.jpg

All the arrows pointing down are where the gravity field is. It surrounds Jerusa.

Obviously I didn't throw the bottles in the gravity field, but into the device as you can see in the post above, which I presumed it is not the same. Seems I was mistaken, but again only because I didn't received any answers.

Hypothetically presuming that it was just the device creating a small point of a gravity field holding Jerusa down, instead of a field, allowing you the ability to touch it without ramification like Jeronis received when HE tried to touch it, if you tossed a wine bottle into the gravity device, it would have either bounced off and likely fallen directly under the device, yielding the same damaging results, or it would have shattered on the device, piercing a bunch of glass all over Jerusa's body, yielding the same results as well.

But as said, Jeronis DID try and reach for the gravity device and couldn't get to it before his fingers felt so heavy he was being pulled down.

@Everyone

You can all make an intelligence check now that you've witnessed the force of the gravity with the wine bottle to determine how heavy the gravity is.

MistSonata · Post by **MistSonata** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 8:34 am

((Can do))

[QUOTE="Intelligence"]1d20+2
14+2 = 16[/QUOTE]

malinzaro · Post by **malinzaro** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 11:07 am

Siberys wrote: But for a slightly more visual approach-
http://i.imgur.com/1Nkbu.jpg

All the arrows pointing down are where the gravity field is. It surrounds Jerusa.

@Everyone

You can all make an intelligence check now that you've witnessed the force of the gravity with the wine bottle to determine how heavy the gravity is.

OOC: Definitively more clear now. I wouldn't have thrown the wine bottle in this case, but it doesn't matter now. I should have asked for the drawing before.

Intelligence: 1d20+0 = 14,+0 = 14

Claudius · Post by **Claudius** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 7:13 pm

OOC: This is what I was going to ask if Allexa could just bear down and try lockpicking in the gravity field or if it felt just extremely strong and such impossible.

While I am asking questions, is there a part of the chain loose/apart that Nordak could have a clear hit away from the man or is it too dangerous? It would have to be quite loose as the trajectory of hitting within the gravity is expected to be difficult.

Intelligence

d20 + 2 = 14 + 2 = 16

Siberys · Post by **Siberys** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 7:25 pm

You guys can estimate between your collective intelligence that the gravity field is roughly 120-170 times normal gravity.

@Jeronis-

If Nordak bashed his axe down on the chain, it would likely sever the chain like butter no problem. Unfortunately, due to the gravity field, he probably wouldn't get his axe back.

It'd either bury itself into the stone, or it would shatter upon impact.

Claudius · Post by **Claudius** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 8:25 pm

"the device is the key piece we have to remove", the halfling says sagely. "Sundown must have been able to turn it off in order to chain him here. I don't want to leave this guy, but I don't want to stay here forever either."

"Either we try to disable the device by striking it, which I don't know what material the device is?" "Or we entice or force sundown into freeing the man which I think is just too much risk."

The halfling frowns and says "I say we leave and try to find some friends to help us oppose sundown."

"What say you?"

malinzaro · Post by **malinzaro** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 11:03 pm

Siberys wrote:You guys can estimate between your collective intelligence that the gravity field is roughly 120-170 times normal gravity.

@Jeronis-

If Nordak bashed his axe down on the chain, it would likely sever the chain like butter no problem. Unfortunately, due to the gravity field, he probably wouldn't get his axe back.

It'd either bury itself into the stone, or it would shatter upon impact.

Nordak takes a look at his greataxe and then at the device,

Should I hit the chains or not? I have no problem doing so. Obviously someone thought that a simple gravity shield is not enough to keep Midnight Owl imprisoned and added the chains into the recipe. Maybe if we break the chains he might be able to help him just enough so he can get out of there. So what does everyone think?

Siberys · Post by **Siberys** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 2:03 am

Ok, Just to be perfectly clear, I'm going to recap everything that you as characters know about the gravity field.

The room is stone walled, stone floored and stone ceiling just like the winery room behind it. It is approximately 10 feet high off the ground.

The gravity device is a 10 foot diameter acute cone shape, the point is down and the base is attached to the ceiling somewhere.

The EDGE of the diameter of the cone, basically right where the cone starts, is the gravity field. Thus, the gravity field is the exact same diameter as the cone shaped device.

The gravity is approximately 120-170 times normal gravity from what you can estimate. In simpler terms, a five pound bottle of wine will weight at minimum, 600 pounds inside the field.

Jerusa is is sprawled out on the ground Leonardo's Human style-

http://physicsforyou.net/Backgrounds&Im ... ratios.jpg

The chains are attached to a collar on his neck, ten in total. Each weigh 4 pounds you'd estimate.

You'd also estimate that as his body is just a couple inches taller than Allexa's, and so his body weight would be roughly ten to twenty five pounds heavier.

This is everything you guys know (regardless of whether I've told it to you before or not).

Claudius · Post by **Claudius** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 8:02 am

Jeronis rubs his chin, "Hmmm that gravity field is strong. I'm not sure even Nordak could lift those chains should we be able to cut them. Let alone lifting Jerusa which he weighs over a ton in that field, I don't know how he is still breathing."

"I also don't know how long he can last in that field but I am at a loss for how to rescue him."

OOC: is there actually a pentagram or something like that drawn around him? Some runes or something?

Siberys · Post by **Siberys** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 9:18 am

@Claudius-

No, there are no markings.

malinzaro · Post by **malinzaro** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 2:04 am

Nordak scratches his head looking completely disoriented,

Question is, if we break the chains loose can Jerusa get himself out of the gravity field? Is the weight of the chains that keeps him there or there is more to it? Because apparently we can't do it by ourselves. Unless you smarties figure something out.

Treblin · Post by **Treblin** » Sun Jul 31, 2011 4:55 pm

Gu'dan starts pacing around the room listening carefuly to everyones ideas contemplating them over and over looking for a solution.

"This isn't a particularly difficult challenge now that I've thought about it." Gu'dan cracks a wise smile glancing at everyone before revealing his thoughts.

"There are four chains which we must strike, we will strike them all with daggers, surely you all do not have four total amongst you we could easily aquire what we need. We then simply drag him out of the gravity field using our combined strength."

Siberys · Post by **Siberys** » Sun Jul 31, 2011 4:58 pm

No, the chains weigh 4 POUNDS each.

There are 10 chains Gu'Dan.

Claudius · Post by **Claudius** » Mon Aug 01, 2011 7:49 am

"I've got dagger's two of them," as he pulls two daggers and marvels at them. Adding, "I'll hate to see my lucky dagger go, its a masterwork. Anyone else have a dagger?" Putting his hand on his hip, "the problem is if the man cannot wake up and get out of the field. If we end up er talking to sundown, I expect I might need my daggers to do the talking."

Treblin · Post by **Treblin** » Mon Aug 01, 2011 12:48 pm

Dyslexia!

Anyhow..

"Perhaps we don't have the tools neccesary to break the chains, I don't know... My mentor, Master G'fn'ki sent me to find the Midnight Owl, I don't intend on giving up. Perhaps I could enlist his help in the matter now that we know the location."

Gu'dan stands thinking for a moment.

"I will be back, do not get yourselves killed."

Gu'dan kneels by the Midnight Owl saying a quick prayer in Skias name before leaving the kitchen headed back into the bar area and out into the streets headed for Master G'fn'ki.