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Icefian Campaign => Noble Missions => Topic started by: Asinjin on September 21, 2022, 10:07:39 PM

Title: Deals with the Devils
Post by: Asinjin on September 21, 2022, 10:07:39 PM
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Title: Re: Deals with the Devils
Post by: Hero on September 21, 2022, 11:00:06 PM
Observation: the temple is shaped like a beholder, with each of the 10 chambers off of the main cavern representing an eyestalk. Seems like each chamber may be thematically tied to the power of the stalk it represents.

The 2 slave pens could represent the charm monster and charm person stalks. The crypt = finger of death. The torture chamber = inflict wounds. The black orb could be disintegrate or flesh to stone. Some of the chambers don’t map cleanly. I feel like this is important, but I’m not sure why.

Do the locations of the “keyholes” on the vault door approximate the layout of the temple eyestalk chambers?

Wonder if we overlooked something in those rooms that we could use to open the door.
Title: Re: Deals with the Devils
Post by: Asinjin on September 21, 2022, 11:02:46 PM
The Mind Flayers are going to tell us, so I don't think we have to try to figure it out.
Title: Re: Deals with the Devils
Post by: Malchia on September 22, 2022, 06:28:48 AM
The Mind Flayers are going to tell us, so I don't think we have to try to figure it out.
True, and I have the severed head of the latest Piscoloth as proof of our victory.  As soon as everyone is ready, I'll go back up to chamber 5 where the Mind Flayers are and present them the head. 
Title: Re: Deals with the Devils
Post by: Asinjin on September 22, 2022, 09:01:49 AM
True, and I have the severed head of the latest Piscoloth as proof of our victory.  As soon as everyone is ready, I'll go back up to chamber 5 where the Mind Flayers are and present them the head.

Let's go quickly before the alter the deal.
Title: Re: Deals with the Devils
Post by: Malchia on September 22, 2022, 09:58:31 AM
Let's go quickly before they alter the deal.
Agreed.
Title: Re: Deals with the Devils
Post by: Hero on September 22, 2022, 06:27:09 PM
The Mind Flayers are going to tell us, so I don't think we have to try to figure it out.
Lame!
Title: Re: Deals with the Devils
Post by: Asinjin on September 22, 2022, 07:00:13 PM
Lame!

Practical, efficient, strategic
Title: Re: Deals with the Devils
Post by: Malchia on September 22, 2022, 08:59:55 PM
Practical, efficient, strategic
And maybe even a little lucky. Truly, Lady Ruby, your father's blessings are upon us.  May he rest in peace.
Title: Re: Deals with the Devils
Post by: Hero on September 22, 2022, 09:19:49 PM
Practical, efficient, strategic
And foolish to trust the word of creatures we don’t know that bargain using the brains of sentient creatures as currency. We’ve completed our end of the bargain, but now we have no leverage. It’s just as likely that the flayers give us false information that leads to our deaths as it is they tell us something useful.
Title: Re: Deals with the Devils
Post by: Asinjin on September 22, 2022, 10:17:33 PM
And foolish to trust the word of creatures we don’t know that bargain using the brains of sentient creatures as currency. We’ve completed our end of the bargain, but now we have no leverage. It’s just as likely that the flayers give us false information that leads to our deaths as it is they tell us something useful.

It is our best course right now.  We have no ability to open the locks using the spells which are likely required and our time and resources run low.
Title: Re: Deals with the Devils
Post by: Zunder on September 23, 2022, 05:47:15 PM
wasn't there something we had to accomplish?  Showing the demon head to the thids..?  Getting the furnace, being prepared for whatever is actually in the vault
Title: Re: Deals with the Devils
Post by: whitesword on September 25, 2022, 10:36:10 PM
Observation: the temple is shaped like a beholder, with each of the 10 chambers off of the main cavern representing an eyestalk. Seems like each chamber may be thematically tied to the power of the stalk it represents.

The 2 slave pens could represent the charm monster and charm person stalks. The crypt = finger of death. The torture chamber = inflict wounds. The black orb could be disintegrate or flesh to stone. Some of the chambers don’t map cleanly. I feel like this is important, but I’m not sure why.

Do the locations of the “keyholes” on the vault door approximate the layout of the temple eyestalk chambers?

Wonder if we overlooked something in those rooms that we could use to open the door.

Bravo. 100xp