Shipwrecked!

[GathersIngredients]

"Geez, I'm just saying that you might hurt him accidentally. Because Felicia and I most certainly didn't mean to hurt him, either. And then you will still have broken your promise." Henry grumbles softly and frowns.

[thinkslogically]

"No! I... sorry. But I really won't hurt him."

Ala frowns for a moment...

"Hey. Is Ralf your real name? What race are you?"

[spiderwrangler]

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Is it Ralf or Ralph, btw?

I think it's Ralph, but Ralf is the name of TL's gnome friend in GAL, so perhaps that's just her spelling of it?

[thinkslogically]

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oops! Sorry, I've just been being lazy! Ralph it is

[M0rtimer]

Jasper just stands in the back and has the others deal with the situation... Not exactly looking forward to entering alone.

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psst, this is the time Felicia sneaks in...

[Theis2]

"I promise I won't hurt you Ralf, and I won't let anyone else here hurt you either. But we are worried that something is wrong with your master, or maybe that there's something else in there that's pretending to be him so it's important that we learn as much about him as possible. You don't have to talk to us, and you can leave if you want to, but I think you could really help if you stayed."

Ralph looks around nervously but seems he's not going to run just yet. Perhaps from being sore from tumbling on the ground last time he tried to escape.

"Have you ever seen him cast his magic on other people?"

"No me not be with master when master helps people."

"Could you describe what he does when he changed you? Did he use any special items or say anything strange?"

"Master use thing on me to help me not die when me touch master's ball. Master's ball make me better."

"Wait, is your master a man or a woman? "

"Master be what master wants to be."


"Ala, be careful what you promise. We didn't -try- to hurt him at all, and still he's complaining that we -are- hurting him. He may have super sensitive skin or super sensitive hearing or something, I mean Felicia only -talked- to him at first and he started rolling up into a ball and whining."
"Ralph, I have no intention of hurting you as long as you don't hurt me. Can you tell me how we did hurt you before? I'm sorry and I don't want to risk hurting you again by accident. Help me and let me know how I can avoid hurting you."

Ralph turns towards Henry and narrows his eyes for a moment.

"Yoo and bad girl hurt me!"

With those words, it seems Ralph once again remembered what had happened and quickly turns around and starts running at full speed.

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psst, this is the time Felicia sneaks in...

Maybe she already did? You are outside with Ralph and she's alone in the corridor

You guys also got me worried that I've switched Ralphs name around! xD

[thinkslogically]

"...Ralph, wait! ...Damn it!"

Ala watches Ralph run off and sighs.

"Well, so much for that... All right. I can't think of anything much else we can do here except send someone else inside... Ralph's just reminded me of something and I don't know if I told you though. There's an orb in there that the "master" uses to make these transformations, but it seems like it doesn't always provide beneficial results to the person using it. The "Master" will ensure that the results are beneficial, but for a fee. It sounds like the orb might contain some sort of chaos magic, but I don't know magic and I didn't want to risk just grabbing it. Jasper, would you be willing to try visiting him? I think you'll be safe enough if you don't attack, but maybe you can make some more sense out of the objects he has in that cave. We'll guard each of the exits. If you're able to lower the barriers from the inside, we'll be waiting and ready to join you."

[Jacon]

" boy.He sure can run" He raises his hands to cast another sleep spell but slowly lowers them.
"Nay, he's obviously harmless and I don't were gonna get more info out of him.'
Cranberry turns to the others and smiles.
" Up to you Lurtz if you wanna go in or not. You could learn something new though."

[M0rtimer]

"Guess I will... Seems like our best shot at this point."

"If I don't come out again, just let it be known..."

"I'll totally be haunting you guys from the life beyond."

Guessing Jasper is going to enter...

[thinkslogically]

"before you go in, do you need anything from us? Weapons or equipment or anything?"

[M0rtimer]

"Hmm... Don't think there's anything that would really help... I'm not one to wear armor, and I'm more likely to rely on my spells than any weapons..."

"Do any of you think you have something that might help?"

[thinkslogically]

"Maybe... here, I have an amulet of natural armour. Is that any help? There's also my healing belt, if you think you might end up in a fight. He might recognise it, but I'm not sure if it matters or not since he knows we're here together anyway."

[spiderwrangler]

"I can cast a shield on you, but he'd know it's there.... These boots will let you run on the walls or ceiling if you think that'd be useful... "

[GathersIngredients]

"hrm, I don't think I have anything useful to offer. It would be nice to shrink one of us and have them come along with you in your pocket or something, but I doubt that any one of us has magic as powerful as that..." Henry says and shrugs helplessly.

[M0rtimer]

"I suppose those are all things that could be useful... If I see a way to bring down his shields, I guess I'll try that, although it'll likely not like me doing that- So stand ready in case it happens."

Accepting the items, Jasper heads in!

[thinkslogically]

"Ok, I think I know the way back to the exit. I'll head round that way with Henry, if he'll come with me. Darfel and Cranberry - you go with Jasper to the entrance corridor. Hopefully we'll find Felicia on our way. Jasper, do whatever you can to get that door open from the inside. If you can't... Good luck with the demon. May Heironeus guide you."

[Theis2]

Jasper bravely enters the cave and the horrifying sight to come stops him in his tracks as he reaches the entrance..

It's the dark red wall that's been blocking you several times now.

[thinkslogically]

Regardless, Ala heads to the exit tunnel to wait there. Hopefully Henry will come with her, but she'll go alone if needs be.

[spiderwrangler]

Darfel pulls off his Boots of Dragonstriding and hands them to Jasper. "Sorry if they smell..." He hauls out his pair of plain old boots that he presumably has held on to and puts those one...

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Boots of Dragonstriding: +2 Climb, +2 Jump, 1/day, gain climb spd = to land spd, 10 rds.

((Also, I'm terrible at keeping up my mythweaver's sheet... have either of the potions Darfel's carrying been identified? Anyone know? There's a mystery ring too...))

[GathersIngredients]

Henry follows Ala, and remains watchful.

[M0rtimer]

"...Damnit, did Felicia go in anyways?!"

"Well... Guess I'm waiting to enter then. Hopefully she doesn't do anything stupid..."

[Theis2]

Group back entrance are met with a similar sight of an empty corridor with a red wall at the end.

How long are you willing to wait for the doors to open?

[M0rtimer]

Considering that the alternative at this point if the wall isn't going down is "well, guess we're leaving", I'd say as long as it takes... Or there's suddenly a dragon outside, or something...

[Theis2]

You got about 5 days worth of rations and I don't think any of you are especially skilled at gathering food in the wilderness (survival skill)

[spiderwrangler]

I could purify any we do find, but can't just make us food for another spell level.