Session Start: Sat Nov 08 17:32:01 2008
Session Ident: #castlevania
* Logging for #castlevania started
<Holmes> [The intrepid party finds itself deep underground in the
City of Lifebreak.  The Cult forces around them are broken and
defeated.  Particularly the chicken being held by Biff.]
* Charlotte stretches.
<Biff> Come on, then.  We've got a tomb to raid.
* Nyyx pushes aside the gates and enters to take a look.
* Charlotte looks in.
<Holmes> [Beyond the shattered doors is a small chamber twenty feet
on a side with a series of coffins made of stone set along the walls.
A passage leads down into the rock at the far end of the room.]
* Nyyx eyes the coffins, then heads for the passage.
* Biff hands the chicken off to someone who isn't here and turns back
into his usual suave self.
<Holmes> [Skip puts the chicken into a satchel and carries it along.]
<Holmes> [The passage is a roughly worked tunnel angling down into
the earth.  Visibility is blocked when the tunnel bends sharply some
fifty fee onward.]
<Biff> I'll take a look ahead, toots.  Gimme some room.
* Biff darts forward into the shadows for a sneak preview.
* Nyyx waits.
* Charlotte stands by.
<Holmes> [The tunnel continues to descend into the earth, turning
every few dozen feet as it goes.  It eventually breaks into what
appears to be a natural cave system under the city.]
<Biff> Nothin back here, come on ahead, toots.
* Nyyx nods and follows the passage further.
<Holmes> [The caves at the end of the tunnel are unworked and wet
with dripping water in places.  The rocky outcroppings, stalagmites
and stalagtites disrupt torchlight and make even darkvision a
nerve-wracking affair.]
<Holmes> [No sounds can be heard this far underground save the
movement of water overhead and the occasional drip from the rocks.]
* Nyyx looks around, noting any interesting fungi, if any grow here.
* Biff scouts even further ahead!
<Holmes> [There is very little fungal life in the cave.  A few
mushrooms is all.  As Biff scouts ahead, he comes to a break in the
outcroppings that apears to have been cleared by something large.  A
tunnel leads from the cite up into the rock at a steep angle.]
* Nyyx follows after Biff, leaving him some distance in case he calls
out a warning.
<Biff> Well, well, well.  What have we here.
<Biff> Looks like it's climbing time again.
<Nyyx> Why am I not surprised?
* Nyyx gets to climbing.
* Charlotte follows!
* Biff hops up the shaft!
<Holmes> [The party struggles to climb the shaft carved into the
rock.  It is very steep and the going is very slow.]
* Olivia has a climbing kit, at least, but how annoying!
* Nyyx , as usual, doesn't have much trouble with climbing.
* Biff decides this shit is getting old and throws around climbing
magic like it's going out of style.
<Holmes> [The party begins its ascent.  The tunnel is cleanly cut and
rises at a severe angle for several hundred feet.]
<Biff> Something pretty fucking awesome musta dug this.
* Charlotte climbs magically!
<Holmes> [The tunnel breaks through a worked stone wall and leads
into a dark chamber much like the one Nyyx so recently broke into.]
<Holmes> [A long hallway leads off to one side.  The chamber itself
is devoid of furniture or debris.]
<Charlotte> Let's see what we'll find here...
<Biff> Huh.  If there's no back door, make one, I guess.
<Biff> Charlotte, pop those doors open, we'll see what's out there to
kill.
<Charlotte> Right.
* Charlotte examinesdoors.
<Holmes> [The door is a solid work of stone with iron hinges.  It is
unlocked.]
* Charlotte pulls them open. Or pushes them.
<Holmes> [The chamber beyond is worked stone and filled with the
sound of rushing water.
<Holmes> ]
<Holmes> [The passage leads forward to what appears to be an
underground aquaduct some forty feet away.  There is movement near
the water's edge.]
* Biff darts forward to see what's up.
* Charlotte steps through and observs carefully...
<Holmes> [Biff spies several creatures in the water hastily lashing a
large metallic humanoid to a raft tied to the shore.  The creatures
appear to be ghouls but are bloated and rotten from the water.]
<Holmes> [Some of the creatures turn at Charlotte's approach.
Another begins to untie the raft.]
* Charlotte draws her bow
* Nyyx blurs forward through the open doors and vaults into the air.
A moment later, she lands behind the two ghouls standing at the edge
of the aqueduct, and the rotting undead fall neatly into cubed chunks
at her feet.
* Biff appears from the shadows, flinging a spell at the ghoul
untying the raft, but the thing shrugs off the spell.
<Holmes> [The remaining ghouls untie the raft from the side of the
canal and drop into the water.  The current begins to carry them
away.]
* Olivia rushes towards the water, and extends her hand, a mass of
webbing coming out of it and, with sticky adhering noises, gumming up
the entire stream area with strong magical webbing, complete with
stopping the raft cold, and giving the two ghouls a difficult time of
escaping!
* Nyyx lands with a splash in the water and lops the head off one of
the ghouls trapped in Olivia's web.
<Holmes> [The remaining ghoul tries to push its way through the web
to the clear water beyond and is almost there.  The large construct
rises up, tipping the raft and sending it into the web and the water.
The construct sinks underwater and appears to also be pushing through
the web.]
* Olivia moves forward and tosses a dagger at the ghoul in her web,
to no avail!
* Biff darts downstream, ahead of the golem as it heads away, and
spins around, and an invisible, but tangible field springs up,
keeping people from moving that direction. Even the little fishies.
* Nyyx is pushed away from Biff's repulsion field, but she's close
enough to the remaining ghoul to take two huge chunks out of it with
her sword.
* Skip leaps into action. Reaching the water, Skip runs across the
surface as those it was made of glass. Reaching the ghoul, he lets
out a battle cry and splits the fiend's head in two.
<Nyyx> Thanks.
<Holmes> [The construct sits down under the water, apparently trying
to hide.]
* Nyyx fixes her eyes on the construct in the water. "Hello?"
<Holmes> [The construct sits inert.]
<Charlotte> This is tricky.
<Nyyx> All right. What do you think we should do about this guy?
<Nyyx> He looks heavy--and stubborn.
<Biff> Uh... I got nothin, toots.  Kill it?
* Nyyx hesitates. "Well, I usually don't kill things without asking
questions first--unless they come at us first, of course."
<Charlotte> Yeah.
<Charlotte> Why aren't they attacking us?
<Charlotte> There's gotta be a reason...
<Nyyx> Who knows. He's not talking.
* Nyyx calls out to the construct again, "We won't hurt you if you
come out of the water."
* Nyyx watches and waits.
<Holmes> [The construct rises to its feet.  Its head is still under
the water.]
* Olivia rubs her neck as she walks over to Nyyx, and says, quietly,
"Odd."
<Holmes> [The construct raises its bulky arms over its head.  They
reach out of the water but that is all.]
* Nyyx blinks a few times. "Would you like to come out?"
<Holmes> [The construct waives its arms once.]
* Nyyx glances over at Olivia. "We could probably make use of that
raft to check out the channels. What do you think?"
* Nyyx looks back to the construct. "Do you...need help?"
* Olivia mms and nods slightly. "It is a start at it... could be more
stable though."
<Holmes> [The construct waives its arms once again.]
<Nyyx> Hm. What do you think that means?
<Charlotte> No idea...
<Charlotte> At least it's responding. And not hostile.
* Nyyx nods. "I suppose we could see to the raft first."
<Nyyx> Skip, can you help us bring it over, since it appears you can
walk on water?
<Skip> Sure, I'll do what I can.
<Nyyx> Maybe we can help him out of the water with the raft.
<Charlotte> Yeah.
* Nyyx keeps her sword by her side in case anything goes wrong.
* Skip pushes the raft over to the golem.
<Holmes> [END OF SESSION]
Session Close: Sat Nov 08 22:31:08 2008