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Profectus plucks up the various bottles he'd picked out and carries them across from the bar while you approach the glass window and peer down into the chamber below. The floor, as best as you can tell, is stone but you think you can spot a few patches of exposed metal here and there. There might also be something constructed beneath the surface of the magma pool surrounding the generator. You can't quite tell.

Profectus hands off the bottles to you one by one and you stuff them into your cloak. You wonder, absentmindedly, if Ricky has a taste for alcohol. You certainly hope not. You don't want some monster drunkenly screeching into your brain case. What would even happen if Ricky threw up? You banish those thoughts and turn your attention momentarily back to the generator. Glancing up at the crystalline growths spreading across the ceiling through the lens of your magic sight. It glows brightly and, though it may simply be a trick of the light or your imagination, it seems to throb in an almost organic manner.

You cut off the flow of vys to your armor and the ebbs and flows of ambient energy fade away. {Alright, lets check out facility cooling as long as we're down here. Might have something interesting in it.} As the five of you make your way out of the viewing chamber Fulvia pipes up. {It will likely just be the inner workings of the system intended to keep this facility habitable. Judging by the temperature, it is likely broken.}
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A short jaunt across the hallway later and you find yourself standing in front of the doorway to the cooling room. Unlike the viewing chamber, this one will not simply open for you and as a result Fulvia is busy digging away at the wires beneath the access panel, rigging them to allow you all entry. When the doors slide open mist seems to billow out around your feet into the hall, though it quickly dissipates. Stepping into the darkened room a single light flares to light on the opposite wall, illuminating a vast machine that takes up the entire wall.

Your armor seems less capable of protecting against cold than it is heat, you note frost already creeping its way across your armored joints and beginning to obscure your vision. Even if it's not capable of cooling the rest of the facility, this machine seems to do a fine job of freezing over this room at least.

>Ask Fulvia if she can fix it.
>Screw this place, the cold sucks. Check out the Central Chamber.
>The cold definitely sucks, but you'd rather just leave than screwing around in the Central Chamber.
>Write-in

>>32484648
>Ask Fulvia if she can fix it.

>>32484648
>Ask Fulvia if she can fix it.
Could help.

>>32484648
>>Ask Fulvia if she can fix it.

>>32484648
>>Ask Fulvia if she can fix it.

Calling it now. Boss fight ahead. And this is the big level that debuffs it a bit.

>>32484648
>>Ask Fulvia if she can fix it.

This thing could really piss off those dragon things.

>>32484882
Fuck it, i was planning on stealing thier eggs anyway.

>Ask if Fulvia can fix it.
Writin'

I wonder how many sentient beings there are in this mine?

Cause these dragon things seem intelligent.

>>32484921
They should be pretty smart if they taught magic.we could try learning magic from these fuckers.

>>32484898
>we fly into the magic hating town on dragons

>>32484921
>>32484944
I just find the thought of our companions reaction when we start talking to a fire breathing dragon.

>>32484921
>Cause these dragon things seem intelligent.

What makes you think that?

>>32484882
If we get it working it might actually just kill them outright, or at least slow them down a lot.

>>32485070
They taught magic, and loved being worshiped.

>>32485109
Do we know these are actually the real deal dragons and not just some primitive beasts?

>>32485159
Well we've seen two types so far. The big winged dragons and some wingless version that was smaller.

>>32485159
doubt they are experiments but hey we never know.

>>32485185
Up to this point I didn't even consider they could be experiments. How...naive.
I just thought they were some sort of wyvern maybe, but them being yet another escaped experiment makes sense.

Maybe they were attempt number 2, after the spiders failed horribly.

>>32485258
Still up for stealing an egg.

>>32485290
If the cooling is so damn strong that it makes even the dragons out side the facility *weaker* where we can actually tell. I am down for stealing after we deal with baldev. Don't want the bandit charging at us. while we're sneaking away from a mother dragon.

>>32485290
Same. Even if we can't hatch it, it would make one hell of an omelette.

What if these dragons are actually experiments, and they can only survive down here because they have innate ice magic?

{Can you fix this... uh...} You gesture to the machine, not really sure if it's an AI, or a 'computor' or just a vast collection of pipes filled with cold water. Fulvia looks from you to the machine and then back again. {Perhaps, with time and the proper materials. I would need to first run a diagnostic to determine what is wrong. Then I may need to interface with the machine or crawl inside to make repairs.}

You and Fulvia approach the glowing 'eye' at the center of the machine. Consciously you know it's just a light, but you can't shake the feeling that it's watching you It even seems to follow you across the room. As the two of you reach the machine Fulvia presses down on a panel, causing it to slide away and reveal a small receptacle not unlike the one on the back of Fulvia's neck. {Place me in the machine, I will determine if there is anything I can do.} She pulls her hood back and you pop open the panel that conceals the glowing blue core. You note with a hint of curiosity that small, black spots have formed throughout the crystal, though none are more than a speck at the moment. Worrying.

You pluck the gem out of her body and it slumps lifelessly to the ground. Once placed into the machine the panel slides shut and it the entire room seems to shake for a brief moment before falling still. Even the subtle hum that had filled the room previously has ceased. After several minutes of inaction you're beginning to grow worried, but you'd imagine that Fulvia would contact you if something was wrong. She's more than capable of it, as she's proven in the past.

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All at once the machine seems to return to life, churning away with a sort of urgency it lacked before. You hear hissing pipes and the grinding of metal gears from somewhere beyond the vast metal facade, and not a moment later Fulvia contacts you. {The computor regulating temperature was corrupted, not in the delirium sense but simply filled with junk files which hindered its operation. I have cleaned the storage drive. What would you like me to set the facility's temperature to?}

>Make it cold, freezing even. Drive out any unwanted visitors used to the heat.
>Just make it livable. You're tired of talking through the brooches.
>Leave it as-is. You were mostly just curious to see what it did.
>Write-in

>>32485649
>Just make it livable. You're tired of talking through the brooches.
But set it on a timer to make it
>>32485649
>Make it cold, freezing even. Drive out any unwanted visitors used to the heat.

>>32485649
>>32485677
I kinda like this.

>>32485649
>>Leave it as-is. You were mostly just curious to see what it did.
I don't want monsters raining down on us because we fucked the climate.

>>32485677
This. by the time we get back it'll have done it's thing.

Seems like
>Just make it livable.
but
>See about setting it on a timer
is the popular choice.

Writin'

>>32485799
Make that timer for like a day or two.

Because we gotta loot.

>>32485883
I doubt we'll spend another day or two down here. We're killing Baldev/looting Baldev's corpse and then leaving.

>>32485954
Don't forget Golem hunting, and meditating.

>>32485954
You assume that Baldev is still on this level.

This trail is a few day cold.

Fulvia's corruption worries me. If we can find a way to cure her while we are down here that's great, but if we can not, we should probably take into account the possibility of her going psycho and remove her core before continuing on and keep it stashed until it is cured.

I am talking about after we get out of this mine of course. We absolutely need her down down here and she shouldn't hopefully be getting corrupted that fast.

>>32486059
She mentioned that we may be able to cure it by entering her core and purging the corruption manually.

>>32486059
We agreed to go to the lake and have her make us go into her world and destroy the shades, and hopefully not damage anything inside her.

>>32486104
If this the plan. We should just send in darzi and some one else. That way we can meditate at the lake. And have some one watch our back/ meditate with us.

>>32485649
would we have bonus for an insigth if we meditated in this extreme cold?

>>32486215
Fulvia said anything damaged/changed in her core could have dramatic affects on her, so i rather personally do this, plus we need to be at the lake since she needs around 100 vys to pull off the move.

>>32486221
If you wanted to meditate using a method that took advantage of ice, then maybe. It would depend on the method. Usually environmental factors won't directly effect meditation rolls.

That wouldn't go towards learning healing magic at 3 insights though.

>>32486221
We should prioritize meditating on healing anon. We are close to getting Grandmaster healing.

{Just make it livable, I'd like to be able to talk without the brooches. At least until we go back out into the rest of the cavern.} There is a short pause, and then Fulvia contacts you once more. {The temperature should be dropping, though it will take several minutes to reach livable conditions.} An idea strikes you as you're approaching the machine to pull Fulvia out. {Is there some way you could set a timer, so that in a couple hours, or maybe a day or so, this place becomes freezing cold?} Fulvia responds promptly. {It would be a simple task to set a schedule in advance and have the temperature dropped drastically at a preset time and date. However, I do not see what this accomplishes.}

She falls silent for a few moments and then pipes up once more. {The timer is set, you may remove me from the machine.} You press down on the same panel Fulvia had earlier and pluck her core from the revealed receptacle. Flipping her body onto its stomach, you place the core back into the framework hidden in the back of her neck and help her to her feet. {I'm fairly certain that these creatures we've seen, the flying lizards, are used to extreme heat. Thus they should be averse to the cold.} As the two of you return to the rest of the party she remarks. {I suppose that would make sense, though depending on how intelligent these creatures are they may simply decide to investigate to see what caused the change.}

Once the party has gathered in the hallway outside of the cooling room, Fulvia shuts the door carefully using metal magic. You're relieved to feel the mask covering your mouth and nose recede into your armor, allowing you to breathe unfiltered air for the first time since exiting the lift. “I am really glad my armor has that function, because it means I'm not incinerated alive and all, but damn if it isn't uncomfortable.” Profectus comments. Chryssa nods in agreement.

>Check the Central Chamber.
>Just head for the exit and get back to tracking Baldev.
>Write-in

>>32486242
>Cryonics
Freezing cells, in a way to preserve them for generations.
Causing permafrost on cells, inside of a live animal? From inside to out. Focusing on not causing freeze damage and so.
Wouldn't count as healing?

>>32486283
Those would both still be focused on water manipulation rather than cell regeneration. Healing meditation really has to focus on repairing damage.

>>32486307
>Check the Central Chamber.

>>32486307
>Check the Central Chamber.

Might as well check it.

>>32486352
thanks.

>>32486307
>Check the Central Chamber.
BTW guys, so long as we're clear in the next chamber. we should all look into restoring our vys/eat/sleep for everyone who needs it. Don't want to run into a battle unprepared.

>>32486416
wE DON'T NEED SLEEP, AND ALSO OUR RESERVES SHOULD BE FULL.

>>32486307
>>Check the Central Chamber.

Might as well finish up. How long is the timer Fulvia set up?

>>32486307
>a day later
>horde of monsters come from below when we are trying to fix Fulvia

>>32486307
Let Prof know that Centurions armor is much nicer.

>>32486307
>>Check the Central Chamber.
I want to get on with it already but Central Chamber is just too tempting.

>>32486307
The timer is set for 1 day from now correct?

>>32486307
Central Chamber.

Then on to that Armory.

>Central chamber.
Writin'

>>32486425
>Vys Pool: 22/27
is our last numbers. But with the generator/high vys content wouldn't be surprised if we're full.
Also you can have strength while still being hungry. the whole party is not powered on will alone.
Far as we know we may run into baldev soon. Or something that managed to kill him. Also gives time for Chys to try out her new armor. For tricks. And Give Prof his armor and tell him about his perks. That could make him more useful to us during the fight.

“Say, how long did you set the timer for Fulvia?” She shrugs her shoulders. “I set it for twenty four hours. It should be long enough for us to finish our task down here and return to the surface before it activates.” You nod, and set off towards the last door in this hallway. You round the corner to find yourself faced with a massive bulkhead door standing between you and the Central Chamber. You'd imagine it to be several feet thick, and probably treated to prevent heat seeping into the halls from the generator.

There is no access panel, at least not one that you can see. Approaching the door Fulvia presses down on a round plate in the center of the door and it slides away to reveal a small pad of keys, not dissimilar to the one on the computor you've got stored inside your cloak. Fulvia presses a series of keys and after a few moments the door begins to gradually rise. “What did you do?” Profectus ask, a curious tone to his voice. Fulvia answers promptly. “I simply acknowledged that I understood the risk of entering this chamber unguarded and waived any right I might have to bring legal action against the operators of this facility.”

That's... comforting, you suppose. Not really. On the other side of the room is a small chamber empty save for two large vents on either side of the room. Your party packs in as much as it can, and once everyone is inside Fulvia flips a switch. The bulkhead behind you slams shut while the bulkhead in front begins to open. Immediately a wave of hot air rushes into the room, causing your suit's environmental seals to activate. You can't help but find yourself slightly annoyed, you were so enjoying not having all this crap covering your face.

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Once the bulkhead has raised fully you cautiously make your way into the central chamber. Just outside of the door is a metal platform that wraps around the entire room, but the ground beyond the platform seems terribly loose. Like taking one wrong step may send you plunging into the churning magma below. Fortunately it seems as though metal pathways were carved into the stone, though they've become partially covered by black rock over the years. Those must have been the glints of metal you'd seen from the viewport.

As you begin a slow patrol of the outskirts of the facility, something catches your eye. Positioned behind the generator, from the perspective of the viewing chamber, is a tunnel. It's roughly twice as tall and three times as wide as you are. You can't help but wonder where it might lead.

>Investigate. It might lead to loot, or adventure.
>You don't want to wander into a dragon's nest, fuck that.
>Write-in

>>32486825
>Investigate. It might lead to loot, or adventure.

>>32486825
>Investigate. It might lead to loot, or adventure.
but
>Write-in
Can we see about chipping some of those crystals from the ceiling? I bet they would be great for enchanting shit, since they're apparently so magical. Or maybe we could just carry them around and leech from them, like little batteries.

>>32486825
>Investigate. It might lead to loot, or adventure.

Check with nature staff and magic vision first though.

>>32486825
>>Investigate. It might lead to loot, or adventure

>>32486894
Second

>>32486825
>Investigate. It might lead to loot, or adventure.
We are fucked. Welp. Let's go.

>>32486865
You could have Chryssa try to knock a few crystals down with an arrow, or Fulvia may be able to tear them down using Earth magic. Things like Quartz and precious stones fall under its purview.

So...anyone else think of the fact that we're destroying the dragon's natural habitat? and that they'll try to find a new, warmer climate?

Like the surface?

>>32486956
Yeah, like the warm ass place that has some disgustingly over watered gardens

>>32486956

Screw the surface! What did it ever do for us?

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>>32486956
Yes, and?

>>32486956

>>32486429

Forgot to mention, I've been writing for
>Investigate
You'll scan it briefly with magic sight and the nature staff.

>>32487065
Actually, on this note. Roll me 3d10+2. +2 because of the staff. DC is 20

Rolled 6, 4, 5 = 15

>>32487092

Rolled 7, 9, 9 + 2 = 27

>>32487092

Rolled 5, 8, 7 + 2 = 22

>>32487065
And find a 8meters tall dragon inside.

Rolled 4, 5, 9 + 2 = 20

>>32487092

Rolled 7, 3, 8 + 2 = 20

>>32487092

Rolled 3, 3, 8 + 2 = 16

>>32487092
I remember you saying you only counted rolls that had the right modifier right, unless you changed your mind about that.?

>>32487092
>>32487092
If this is a loot roll. Spend the vys to make it a great success.

finding a manual to a custom centurion armor. Could be fucking nice..

>>32487130
I don't recall making that a rule, I only count rolls that are linked to my post. It's pretty easy to just tack the modifier on to a roll.

>>32487102
>>32487118
>>32487122
>17, 27, 22 vs DC 20
>Regular Success!

Spend 3 vys to make it a regular success?
>Y
>N

>>32487167
Y

>>32487167
>Spend 3 vys to make it a regular success?

I would love to spend vys to make my success a success.

>>32487167
>>N

>>32487167
>>Y
If it's for loot. if it's to not get seen/run into a pack of wild dragon. regular success is fine.

>>32487167
>Y
Might have been another quest then.

>>32487167
Nah.

I doubt that great success would make a difference in detecting a several hundred pound heavy dragon.

>>32487204
>>32487199
>>32487205
>>32487224
We are entering a nest/unknown cave, and the vys cost is minimal, the last times we gave up onm easy Great success were found to be bad ideas.

>>32486825
>>Investigate. It might lead to loot, or adventure.

>>32487167
whut? >Regular Success!

Spend 3 vys to make it a regular success?

>>32487243
small mistake you know what he means.

>>32486956
I doubt they could even make it up the 10+ miles of Horrors that this mine contains.

They would die.

>>32487266
>implying they need to take the stairs

>>32487167
Is using the nature staff this much, help with future nature meditation?
>>32487205
A bit spoiling.
The way i see it that a great success tells us how many, or if there are more further back.

>>32487294
>implying the spiders care about the stairs

These oversized bats will end up in some gigantic net on their way up that shaft.

>>32487361
Depends if they can breath fire.

Inb4 the crystals can store vys.

>>32487294
That still implies that they can fly up for 13 miles, if they even know about the surface.

In fact they probably would go down in search of a new home.

>>32487387

>Eat this piece of Quartz to recharge your vys reserves

>>32487350
soon enough we're going to meditate on nature. cause it's been usefull to some extent. For seeing whats going down around corners inside of building/ect.
Once we get to vatis I am sure it could * with the assistance of the staff* give us a huge bonus to finding enemies before they find us. when we're looking for one that is.

>>32487496
Especially once we get out of the mine that has minimal plant life.

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Is it me or is soma slowing down?

You glance around, looking for a metal platform you could use to get down to the tunnel. It takes you a while, but you eventually find a metal platform that should take you fairly close to the tunnel. You pick your way down slowly, careful not to make a mistep and send yourself splashing into a pool of magma. Your armor's environmental seals are good, but you're not sure if you want to go diving into lava for a swim.

You switch on your magic sight as you approach the mouth of the tunnel, or perhaps it's simply a cave. You suppose it's difficult to tell. Nothing immediately jumps out at you. Of course it's hard to see this close to the generator, the surroundings are absolutely saturated with vys to the point of obscuring your vision. You cut the flow of magic to your armor and instead reach into your cloak, withdrawing your nature staff.

This time when you shine the light towards the cave you're rewarded with a much more clear view of what you might face inside. You see a big patch of green a few meters inside the cave, it's indistinct, but since it's not moving you assume it's just plant life. What sort of plant grows adjacent pools of magma, you're unsure. Sweeping the staff further up the cave you spot a fairly defined head and neck, glowing green under the light of your staff. Continuing even further along it seems to stretch into a massive body... really the thing must be a minimum of fifty feet long, though it's curled up on itself so it's difficult to tell. You're not actually sure how it managed to wedge itself inside this cavern. The only explanation you can think of is earth magic.
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>>32487637
Got coffee.

>>32487637
This might be a big update over 2 or 3 posts.

>>32487667
could say a grand master of fire? swim in lava?

As you approach the mouth of the tunnel, a wash of hot air rushes out to greet you. It smells of sulfur and burnt flesh. You're suddenly quite aware of how small you are in comparison to the beast that lies within this chamber. Do you really want to rush in there and risk waking whatever it is, dragon or no? You have plans to enact and jobs to do, you'd really rather not find yourself eaten by some ancient beast a dozen miles from the surface of the Earth.

>Proceed, this is much more in line with what you've heard about dragons from legend. Maybe it will be sentient.
>Nah, nope. Hell no. You're not getting anywhere near something that large. It could swallow you whole.
>Maybe just a peek in the doorway couldn't hurt, maybe there will be something worth stealing.
>Write-in

>>32487693
>>Proceed, this is much more in line with what you've heard about dragons from legend. Maybe it will be sentient.

Um...time to cloak?

>>32487693
>>Proceed, this is much more in line with what you've heard about dragons from legend. Maybe it will be sentient.

Probably worst than the mask.

But I am willing to try and make a pact with a dragon for some more ancient lost magic.
Or cloak and steal 30,000 gold coins and gtfo.

>>32487693
>>Nah, nope. Hell no. You're not getting anywhere near something that large. It could swallow you whole.

>>32487693
>Nah, nope. Hell no. You're not getting anywhere near something that large. It could swallow you whole.

>>32487693
>Nah, nope. Hell no. You're not getting anywhere near something that large. It could swallow you whole.

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>>32487693
>>Proceed, this is much more in line with what you've heard about dragons from legend. Maybe it will be sentient.

Can we, say, create a very cold, dense mist in front of us to ward off any surprise fire attacks?

This *could* be good...

>>32487693
>Write-in
Have our party wait outside, proceed forward alone taking advantage of the cloak.

>>32487693
>Proceed, this is much more in line with what you've heard about dragons from legend. Maybe it will be sentient.

We can sneak well and can always block it with an ice wall or gtfo since it can't follow.

>>32487751
>Reminding me of your retardation

>>32487693
Changing >>32487718 to
>>Nah, nope. Hell no. You're not getting anywhere near something that large. It could swallow you whole.

>>32487693
>Proceed, this is much more in line with what you've heard about dragons from legend. Maybe it will be sentient.

>>32487693
>>Proceed, this is much more in line with what you've heard about dragons from legend. Maybe it will be sentient.
Go balls deep.

>>32487693
>Nah, nope. Hell no. You're not getting anywhere near something that large. It could swallow you whole.

Not until we're strong enough to avoid getting instagibbed.

>>32487693
>>Nah, nope. Hell no. You're not getting anywhere near something that large. It could swallow you whole.

>>32487829
nigga, I'm not coming back to the irradiated spider rape fortress

>>32487827
>>32487812
>>32487804
>>32487790
>>32487751
>>32487720
>>32487798
>Proceed

>>32487829
>>32487810
>>32487777
>>32487764
>>32487753
>>32487845
>Hell naw, man.

I'm counting
>Proceed alone, cloaked
As a vote for proceed

With that in mind
>Go it alone, use the cloak, be one with the shadows.
>Bring the whole party, maybe all of you combined could put up a fight if shit goes south.

>>32487693
>Proceed, this is much more in line with what you've heard about dragons from legend. Maybe it will be sentient.
ONWARD

>>32487693
seems like final destination vote should be used.
a lot of potential same fagging.

magically a few people joined all of a sudden.

>>32487810
enjoy the quest. If we die. It was good while it lasted. More risk = more reward.

>>32487880
>Go it alone, use the cloak, be one with the shadows.

>>32487880
>>Go it alone, use the cloak, be one with the shadows.

>>32487880
>>Go it alone, use the cloak, be one with the shadows.

Tell them to read a big fat surprise in case this goes south.

>>32487880
>>Go it alone, use the cloak, be one with the shadows.

I don't like the idea of fight a dragon right now.

>>32487880
>>Go it alone, use the cloak, be one with the shadows.

>>32487852
I don't really wanna come back here either anon. I wanna go to the damned water temple.

>>32487880
Damn it.
>Go it alone, use the cloak, be one with the shadows.

Can we at least tell our party about the incredibly stupid thing we're about to do.

>>32487693
>>Maybe just a peek in the doorway couldn't hurt, maybe there will be something worth stealing.

>>32487880
>>Go it alone, use the cloak, be one with the shadows.
Party is backup. If shit hits the fan, try to seal the dragon with magic (Fulvia and Mik) and run.

>Go it alone
Writin'

>>32487880
Alone

>>32487883
Oh shut up you dumb namefag. Taking risks isn't the same as being pants on head retarded like you've been throughout this quest.

>mik what are you doing
>I want one
>mik stop
>no chrys, I want one, for science

>>32487883
Well I mostly lurk and only vote when we reach dangerous levels of stupidity.

>>32487961
Agreed, but Mik wouldn't be able to resist the temptation.

>>32487975
This pretty much sums up all character interaction in this quest.

Think about this:
>You're not actually sure how it managed to wedge itself inside this cavern.
>The only explanation you can think of is earth magic.
>earth magic.

We are going into a TUNNEL

This idea is potentially TERRIBLE

>>32487975
>SCREEEEEE
>No Ricky, If I got you one you'd just eat it
>SCREEEEEE
>Don't sass me

>>32488014
It's asleep and we have our superstealth cloak.

Let's steal from it while it sleeps.

Because that never goes wrong.

Honestly, since we learned there might be a dragon down here, it has been the main reason (along with loot) I wanted to continue diving deeper. Even though it is dangerous, I always knew it would be, I want to continue.

>>32488055
Nah its a 4

So after we wake up the dragon how do we explain that in about 20 hours his home will be a freezing hell dooming him and all if his kind to a slow death?

>>32488034
>be a dragon
>comfy sleep near lava lake
>wake up because it's cold somehow
>all my money disapeared
>all my children run away because of cold

yep, it's time to ravage the world.

>>32488055
Look at the bright side anon if the dragon catches us and doesn't murder us on the spot, we can tell it that if it kills us all his kind will freeze to death.

>>32488090
We use it as leverage if he wants to harm us.

>>32488034
>>32488014
Probably could tell if it was asleep and if it had eggs with a great success.

>>32488090
We don't we jew him out of everything he owns, including his children, and possibly his eternal soul

>>32488102
fuck the world
we're rich

>>32488102
It probably couldn't even make it to the surface.

I doubt it's the baddest thing in this mine.

>>32488102
Remember that rumbling thing we felt back when we were near the surface? That thing could probably give this dragon a run for it's money.

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>>32488109
>>32488137
10/10 plan

nothing could go wrong

We gotta get at least one souvenir from this.

>>32488273
I vote a dragon egg.

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You turn to the rest of your party, transmitting through the brooches. {Listen, this is going to be dangerous. There is a creature in there larger than most houses and I'm relatively certain it's of the fire breathing, dragon variety. I'm going to proceed alone for now, between my cloak and my magic I ought to be the best equipped to slip in and out unnoticed.} Chryssa speaks up as soon as you're finished. {Mikhael, this is a bad idea. We do not need to steal or see everything this forsaken pit has to offer. If you go in there you will just get hurt and we will be stuck trying to drag you out.}

You shrug your shoulders. {What can I say? It's reckless, and stupid, and liable to get me killed. Just think about it though, Chrys. An actual dragon. Nobody has seen one in thousands upon thousands of years. Who knows, maybe it will even be friendly?} She shakes her head. {That is perhaps the most naive thing you have said in the last hour. In the legends they sacrificed hundreds, even thousands of lives at the drop of a hat simply to conquer the next hill or valley. Why on earth do you think a creature so callous would wish for anything but to advance its own standing?} You smirk, though it's not visible through your mask. {I don't! I simply want to use it to advance my own standing.}

She folds her arms in front of her chest. You're sure if you could actually see her face she'd be glaring at you but fortunately you can't see her face. As you turn to leave the party Profectus sends you kind words of encouragement. {If you die, I call your sword.}

(1/2)

Enjoy your Yaizmat I guess.

It's a short hop from the metal platform you'd been walking on to the floor of the cavern below. The ground cracks loudly as you land, magma bubbling up from beneath, but you hurry further into the tunnel before it breaks completely and sends you tumbling into the lava below. You draw your cloak tighter around yourself as you proceed deeper into the cavern, careful to stick to the shadows.

After the first few meters you come to a drop, overlooking some sort of river of lava running through the center of the tunnel ,and it is indeed a tunnel. The branch you're in seems to only be an auxiliary exit, or perhaps merely meant to allow heat and ambient vys to propagate throughout the tunnels. If your sense of direction isn't totally shot, proceeding down the right path should take you to the massive creature you saw earlier. You're unsure where the left path might lead. However, there should be something alive somewhere around here. You saw a patch of green a few meters into the cave, but nothing has stood out to you as a plant or animal since you've entered.

>Look around for that patch of green you saw from outside the tunnel.
>Just proceed down the right path, you wonder what loot the dragon might have in its hoard...
>Explore the left path, you want to know where it might lead.
>Write-in

>>32488311
>>Look around for that patch of green you saw from outside the tunnel.

>>32488311
>>Look around for that patch of green you saw from outside the tunnel.
Slow and Steady

>>32488298
>t. {If you die, I call your sword.}
I love that bastard

>>32488311
>Look around for that patch of green you saw from outside the tunnel.

I don't want any nasty surprises.

>>32487979
I haven't posted in possibly 1-3 threads. some times I am on my phone rather not go through the trouble but been here for most of it.
>>32487961
relax and pull that dildo out it seems you're in pain.
>>32488311
>Look around for that patch of green you saw from outside the tunnel.

>>32488311
>>Look around for that patch of green you saw from outside the tunnel.

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>>32488311
>>Look around for that patch of green you saw
from outside the tunnel.

>>32488311
>Look around for that patch of green you saw from outside the tunnel.

>>32488298
>Look around for that patch of green you saw from outside the tunnel.

{If I die, please give Ricky some chicken in my name.}

>>32488298
>{If you die, I call your sword.}
You'll have to get it first you pussy.

>>32488311
>Look around for that patch of green you saw from outside the tunnel.

>Gotta get dat green, namsayin'?
Writin'

>>32488434
Late thread today?

>>32488508
Yup. I hope to run for at least 6 more hours.

You channel vys into your staff, casting its light around the cavern. You search for a short while before spotting the patch of green once more, on a flat plane of stone. You think it's just where you left it, though you suppose it's hard to tell. You approach the spot where the green patch appears to be but, even stepping directly on top of it, you can't seem to detect anything there. Perhaps some sort of mold growth, or stone-like plant?

You crouch down to get a better look, running your hand over the stone. It's warm, you can tell that much even through your armor. It shoes signs of once being cracked but for all you know that could have been ages ago. The green patch itself appears vaguely ovoid, roughly the size of your head, actually probably a fair bit larger but close enough to make it an apt comparison.

>Well it's probably just a weird plant. Leave it alone for now.
>Weaken the stone enough that you can break the floor apart. (2 vys, DC 15).
>Write-in

>>32488619
It's probably the dragon's brood. We should leave it alone

>>32488619
>Well it's probably just a weird plant. Leave it alone for now.

Might be the cave equivalent of an angler fish, let's leave it alone.

Rolled 6, 4, 6 = 16

>>32488619
>>Weaken the stone enough that you can break the floor apart. (2 vys, DC 15).

>>32488619
>Weaken the stone enough that you can break the floor apart. (2 vys, DC 15).
It's behind the stone isn't it?

Rolled 6, 2, 6 = 14

>>32488619
>>Weaken the stone enough that you can break the floor apart. (2 vys, DC 15).

Rolled 7, 1, 1 = 9

>>32488619
>Weaken the stone enough that you can break the floor apart. (2 vys, DC 15).

Rolled 7, 3, 1 = 11

>Weaken the stone enough that you can break the floor apart. (2 vys, DC 15).

>32488619

>>32488695
>>32488716
>getting less than 15
you should consider suicide

>>32488619
>>Well it's probably just a weird plant. Leave it alone for now.
leave it, might wake the dragon

Rolled 1, 2, 3 = 6

>>32488752
1 vys nigga

>>32488619
>Weaken the stone enough that you can break the floor apart

>>32488672
>>32488695
>>32488716
>16, 14, 9 vs DC 15
>Regular Failure!

After casting the spell, your vys pool will be 20/27. Would you like to spend 1 vys to make it a regular success, or 7 vys to make it a Great Success?
>Spend 1
>Spend 7
>Don't Spend.

Rolled 10, 8, 4 = 22

>>32488821
1

>>32488821
>Spend 1

>>32488821
spend 1.

>>32488821
>>Spend 1

>>32488821
>Spend 1
We may have to fight a horrifying abomination, so I'd rather conserve vys.

>Spend 1
Writin'

>>32488821
>Spend 1

>>32488821
I say we spend 7. 1 will probably wake the dragon.

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>>32489009
Nah we good.

>inb4 egg

>>32489114
>Jew_intensifies.webm

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You channel some vys into a spell, pressing your palm against the stone just above the green patch and discharging the spell. The ground cracks as the magic deteriorates the stone, and you raise your fist to try and smash the rest of it apart. As your fist hits the stone pain shoots up your arm and if it weren't for the mask covering your mouth, you likely would've cried out. You didn't even manage to break the stone apart. You're suddenly glad nobody was around to see this.

Nothing is broken, fortunately, so you simply channel a little more vys to further weaken the stone. Then you stand up and use the butt of your Nature Staff to break apart the stone. It comes apart easily enough this time, and you find yourself looking down onto what can best be described as a stone egg.

You use your staff to prod it out of the lava it seems to be bathing in. It's fairly larger, in fact larger than you'd thought it was. It's damn near as big as your torso, though not quite that large. You'd expect it to be part of a clutch or at least a nest of some sort, but as far as you can tell it's the only egg buried beneath the rock. Here, at least.

Crouching down you take a moment to inspect it. The shell seems resistant to the heat, and outcroppings of rock have begun to grow around it. The shell itself is obviously organic, though quite hard. You wonder, do eggs need air? It might not be safe to just shove this in your cloak if they do, not to mention you're not sure if it would survive outside of this extreme environment.

>Just shove it in your cloak, if the occupant dies it will make a hearty meal.
>You'd better not fuck with a dragon egg, you don't want to piss off the momma.
>Carry it out and leave it with your companions, then proceed further into the tunnel.
>Write-in

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>>32489175
>Carry it out and leave it with your companions, then proceed further into the tunnel.

>>32489175
>Just shove it in your cloak, if the occupant dies it will make a hearty meal.
Fuck this chamber, i got what i wanted.

>>32489175
>Carry it out and leave it with your companions, then proceed further into the tunnel.
Tell chrys if prof touches it she can kill him

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>>32489175
>Carry it out and leave it with your companions, then proceed further into the tunnel.

So how do we keep it warm?

>>32489230
Eggs do actually need air to survive, man. Although... I mean, I guess it was stored in magma. There isn't any air in magma, not usually...

I don't know man, fuck. Lets err on the safe side.

>>32489175
>Carry it out and leave it with your companions, then proceed further into the tunnel.

I can just imagine us hauling us while carrying this, and see our companions faces of terror.

>>32489175
>Leave the egg here and proceed. We can take it on our way back if we are lucky enough to turn back.
>And if we can not and encounter the mama dragon, aat least we can tell her we don't mean no harm since we didn't steal her egg.

>>32489283
*ass

>>32489175
>>Carry it out

And leave!

>>32489283
>IS IT STILL A STUPID IDEA?
>Yes
>Shut up chrys

>>32489294
Seconding

>Carry it out.
And since there seems to be some contention

>Leave, you've got what you wanted.
>Keep going further, you want to see more.

>>32489347
>Leave, you've got what you wanted.
We gonna be hauling ass.

>>32489347
>Leave, you've got what you wanted.

Man, I really wanted to see a dragon but now that we took an egg it's best we leave.

>>32489347
>Leave, you've got what you wanted.
Nope, we fucking out of this bitch

>>32489347
>Leave, you've got what you wanted.
If we are stealing it now, we better not go to mother dragon. I really would've prefered leaving the egg there going further down first.

I'll host a final destination vote briefly, since I can write most of the post anyway as-is.

Vote
1
To carry the egg out and leave immediately.

Vote
2
To leave the egg here, proceed further into the tunnels. Get it on your way out.

>>32489482
1

>>32489482
2

>>32489482
>To carry the egg out and leave immediately.

>>32489482
2

>>32489482
2

>>32489506
>>32489510
quote and number guys

>>32489482
2

>>32489482
1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwoGnPrWCyQ

>>32489482
2

>>32489482
2

>>32489482
Damn it Soma, I know this is really dangerous but your quest is so well written and developed, I can't resist the urge to find out more and explore!

We will get a dragon daughteru, right?

2 seems the pretty clear winner. Writin'

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>>32489585
I'm just half mad at the thought of saying fuck it all, just for dragon pet.

>>32489562
Yeah, who knew getting robbed by bandits and trying to take revenge for it would net us a dragon egg at the bottom of an ancient gigantic prison.

>>32489585
Either that, or the biggest omelette we've ever seen/eaten

>>32489641
And all that sweet armor and tons of loot.

Imagine how pissed this thing is gonna be when it wakes up and finds out its baby is gone.

>>32489823
Imagine how pissed it's gonna be when we tell her our enemy kidnapped her kid and we saved it.

>>32489823
Hopefully it's like most dragons in stories and they sleep for years at a time.

>>32489851
I like this guy.

>>32489823
Hopefully
this>>32489865
over this>>32489851

You reach down, carefully touching the egg's shell to make sure it's not going to burn you through your armor or something. While slightly uncomfortable to the touch, it's not charring your flesh or anything. You wrap your arms around the base and do your best to lift it, hurting your back in the process. Seriously, this thing is damned heavy. You correct your form and try to lift with your legs, but still you find yourself struggling. This thing must way a hundred pounds, easy.

You let it sit, stretching your back and cracking your neck. Know what? You'll come back later. It's not going anywhere, after all. You turn back towards the tunnel you were facing a moment ago and scale a short drop from the ledge you'd been standing on to the floor below. Down here, it's much more difficult to find shadow to hide in. The river of lava flowing through the center of the room cast everything in a deep, red glow. You find yourself ducking beneath overhangs and sticking to the edges of the tunnel, trying to make yourself small to avoid possible detection.

You proceed down the right pathway for several minutes, occasionally casting paranoid glances over your shoulder for fear of seeing a dragon swooping down to rip open your chest or something. You're starting to realize that this creature you're approaching is even larger than you'd initially thought, because you were viewing it from quite the distance. Though it may have looked only fifty feet long, you're starting to think it may be quite a bit larger than that.

(1/2)

>>32489823
Let's just hope that thing runs into a helluva lot of trouble on it's way up the mine.

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You turn a corner in the tunnel to find yourself staring face to face with a creature roughly the size of a carriage. It's got two wings folded up against its back and it's resting its head on two massive clawed feet. It's curled up into itself, asleep. It's the closest you've been to one of these creatures. This one, compared to the beast up ahead, must just be a baby or at the very least quite young. How didn't you notice this thing with your nature staff before hand? Maybe it's dead...

>Try to slip past it.
>Get closer, inspect it. Look for weaknesses.
>Just... wait for a bit. See if it stirs or wakes up from your being near.
>Attack! While it's still asleep!

(Gonna grab food.)

>>32489959
>Get closer, inspect it. Look for weaknesses.

>>32489959
>>Get closer, inspect it. Look for weaknesses.

>>32489959
>>Get closer, inspect it. Look for weaknesses.

>>32489959
>>Get closer, inspect it. Look for weaknesses.
fuck it.

>>32489959
>Just... wait for a bit. See if it stirs or wakes up from your being near.

>>32489959
>>Just... wait for a bit. See if it stirs or wakes up from your being near.

>>32489959
>>Try to slip past it.
Onwards we go to our death adventure!

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>Get closer, inspect it, look for weakness.
Alright, I'll need 6 rolls.

The first three will be for getting up to it without disturbing it. Pretty easy since it's asleep, but you won't get the full cloak bonus since you'll be partially exposed. 3d10+9 vs DC 20.

Next set of rolls will be for getting a real good look at it, enough that you could pick out weaknesses. That'll be 3d10 flat vs DC 25.

Rolled 2, 2, 10 + 9 = 23

>>32490216

Rolled 7, 2, 8 + 9 = 26

>>32490216
I can dance on the head of a pin as well

Rolled 3, 4, 3 + 9 = 19

>>32490216

Rolled 10, 3, 8 + 9 = 30

>>32490216

>>32490216

Rolled 7, 9, 2 = 18

>>32490216
I am not wrenloft.

Rolled 6, 5, 8 + 9 = 28

>>32490216

eighth fucking time putting the captcha in holy shit

Rolled 6, 6, 6 = 18

>>32490216

Rolled 7, 6, 2 = 15

>>32490216

>>32490260
>>32490274
Oh shit we passed that roll

>>32490308
oh wait, second roll is flat. We fail miserably

>>32490347
We're still stealthed. We can take a second look.

>>32490230
>>32490234
>>32490259
>26, 26, 19 vs DC 20 to approach without alerting the dragon.
>Regular Success!

>>32490260
>>32490272
>>32490274
>21, 18, 19 vs DC 25 to actually find a weakness
>Severe Failure!
Disclaimer: You will not wake the dragon on this severe failure, you simply won't glean any useful information.

Spend 1 vys to turn the Regular Success into a Great Success?
>Y
>N

Spend 4 vys to turn the Severe Failure into a Regular Failure?
>Y
>N

>>32490383
No for both

>>32490383
Nah

>>32490383
>n
>n

>>32490383
yes for both

>>32490383
>Y, let it sleep
>N, it wouldn't make a difference that would worth 4 vys

>>32490383
no for both
and what exactly are we hoping to get from this little endeavor
some sort of dragon loot hoard?

>>32484612
A severe failure will probably wake the dragon guys

>>32490439
Dragon

>>32490448
>Disclaimer: You will not wake the dragon on this severe failure, you simply won't glean any useful information.

Rolled 8, 10, 5 = 23

>>32490448
>Disclaimer: You will not wake the dragon on this severe failure, you simply won't glean any useful information.
>n
>n

>>32490383
>N
>N

>>32490383
Yes
No

>>32490383
1:Y
2:N

>>32490448
learn to read.

>>32490448
You are dumb

Alright, looks like the answer is no for both. I've gotta run out for dog food, but it shouldn't take long. I think this should be the last interruption for the night.

>>32490620
>doesn't read post
>don't be mean to me
fuck off.

>>32490510
>>32490500
We all make mistakes, no need to be dicks about it.

Besides, there are equally worse things that can happen, like being trapped underneath a sleeping dragon.

>>32490661
You are such a gigantic faggot. Go lie down under a dragon.

>>32490660
Yeah sure thing, I'll do that.

Be sure not to be too many words in my mouth while I'm gone.

>>32490661
don't worry about it. some people are just massive faggots.

You approach the sleeping dragon carefully, picking your way across stone carefully and avoiding any loose rocks or other possible hazards that might cause noise. Briefly, the dragon stirs and shifts in place, rolling over onto its side to face you. You feel yourself starting to sweat, but that may simply be due to the heat. Fortunately it doesn't wake up. You close the distance and find yourself only a few feet away from a creature long thought lost to mith.

You crouch down to get a real good look at it. Its underbelly seems to be armored by wide interlocking scales, further apart on its neck than on its torso. They appear quite hard, though you suppose you couldn't get a good estimate without stabbing it with something. The rest of its body is composed of thick hide interspersed occasionally with hardened plates. You think the plates may actually be scar tissue of some sort, though you can't be certain.

Most of its body length is dominated by a long tail, spikes partially running down its length. It would probably hurt to get hit by it, but you're more worried about its mouth. This particular dragon appears to have an overbite of sorts, judging by the number of teeth poking out over its lower jaw. Its mouth seems drawn back in a permanent snarl, which doesn't necessarily bode well for its temperament. Growing from its had are long horns, reminiscent of a goat's horns in many ways. Down the middle of its back it has a large, spiked fin. You wonder, between the fin and the egg you found submerged in magma, if perhaps they begin life as amphibians of some sort.

(1/2)

If you had to pick out a weak point on this creature, it would have to be the wings. The membrane is thin and, at least on this creature, perforated and tattered in certain places. Likely the result of previous fights. Still you can't imagine that damaging the creature's wings would kill it. You suppose it would be better to avoid the underbelly as that seems the most heavily armored area. Overall you don't really glean much of use.

>Move on, you think the main chamber where you saw the massive dragon is just a short distance away.
>Attack it, you don't want it obstructing your escape if it comes to that.
>Try to wake it up, maybe it can talk?
>Write-in

>>32491292
>mith
Damn it, noticed that typo right as I hit submit.

>>32491321
>Move on, you think the main chamber where you saw the massive dragon is just a short distance away.

>>32491321
>Write-in
Turn around grab the egg and leave.

>>32491321
>Leave

Take the Egg and leave

>>32491321
>Write-in
Take egg and scadoodle

>>32491355
>>32491361
this

Lets get back to baldev. We need to finish up in this mine.

Why would you not want to see the big dragon? Wasn't that the whole reason we went further instead of just leaving with the egg right after we found it?

>>32491321
>Move on, you think the main chamber where you saw the massive dragon is just a short distance away.

>>32491381
this

>>32491321
>>Move on, you think the main chamber where you saw the massive dragon is just a short distance away.

>>32491467

We shouldn't push our luck. We got something very valuable. A dragon egg! What else do you want?

>>32491321
>Move on, you think the main chamber where you saw the massive dragon is just a short distance away.

>>32491355
second

>>32491321
>>Move on, you think the main chamber where you saw the massive dragon is just a short distance away

>>32491321
>>Move on, you think the main chamber where you saw the massive dragon is just a short distance away.
So final destination voting?