In reply to GM (msg # 946):

Yes, and he didn't even catch any glasskin fish for his trouble! ;)

If Chlainn can find his cast iron codpiece all silent in the dark in time to piss in the lake before Lann and Caith go swimming, I'll be very surprised indeed, given the self inflicted -3 to all actions for the cider, let alone all that clanky metal.

Mind you, a certain capricious chap might take it as an invitation to have his wicked way with a wayward knight if you go treating the place as a gent's toilet. After all, he is one of the fairy folk...

In reply to Caith Cernach (msg # 947):

He's got impaired aim but he's still in control...


https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jaws_(film)

Don't go in the water.
She was the first.
Do you like fish? Well, he likes you too...
See it before you go swimming.
You'll never go in the water again!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-sX2Y0W8l0
This message was last edited by the player at 14:32, Wed 24 Apr 2019.

Mate, if you think you can frighten Australians with sharks?
Jaws would have been over in five minutes, never mind a sequel if it had been set in Oz.

In reply to Caith Cernach (msg # 949):

So what would australians do about jaws?

In reply to Caith Cernach (msg # 949):

I used to go diving at Sir Joseph Banks Group where they filmed the actual Great White footage for that just had to remember to head for the bottom when the sealions all left suddenly.

South Australians? Shrugged and changed beaches....eventually.

 Other states tend to have nasty shit like shark nets and will issue kill orders....both of which I'm pretty strongly opposed to.

In reply to Chlainn Vacrolann (msg # 950):

As noted, keep out of their way, and keep low where the sharks are less likely to want to hunt comparatively large prey. 'Don't look like a seal!' is another good reason why dull black wetsuits are less common now in Australia, or so I am told, as I have not been diving for decades.

Me, I quite like sharks IRL, even if I'm not against eating them (On the grounds they'd cheerfully eat me given a chance!) but I am revolted by the shark fin fishing trade's casual mutilation and slow death catch and release methods.

The shark 'Bruce' out of Jaws is actually a remarkable pair of OTT lifesize animatronic beasts and a credit to the effects team of the time.

My favorite Oz shark story concerns a young mum discovering a small juvenile shark trapped in the kids rockpool section of an East Coast beach. She simply picked the shark up like a reluctant toddler, carried it to the ocean, and dropped it into the surf. :)
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In reply to Caith Cernach (msg # 953):

Hm...  oh, the website is back up again eh?


Shark fin vs imitation shark fin, don't taste that much different.  Its a bit like eating some kinda' tapioca gel.  Don't see why they love it so much.  Its not like it makes girls easier...  or turn men into rhino horns...

In reply to Chlainn Vacrolann (msg # 954):

Cultural culinary choices are best not looked into too closely, as it was a chap from Hong Kong in the food business who told me the old proverb about the inhabitants of Shanghai and eating everything...

I am also here to belatedly note that the IC thread has hit 1001 posts with the last GM post. Should there be a new IC Southern Pagans III: Witchery! Thread perhaps?

I don't mind posting over the thousand limit, but there's a big note down the bottom of the page on both this thread (#955) and the IC thread saying I should be requesting the GM to create a new thread. I assume the site software has limits on thread size for ease of memory handling and all that jazz.

And yup, site is back up, as the SQL errors appear to have ceased, so I assume the server the site runs on is now working properly again, not running out of memory under the stress of a billion temporary SQuirreLs looking for their nuts at the wrong address.

I don't fix servers for a living, but I know of SQuirreL problems from running Minecraft servers in the past, and the strangeness they can inflict in play, like horrible lag, and the problem of 'flying squid' spawning in the air and hovering until the server catches up with their correct pathing.

In reply to Caith Cernach (msg # 955):

Damn thought we were far enough away that we could wrap this section up before we hit 1000.

Ok, new thread up in 5 mins unless the boss walks in.

In reply to GM (msg # 956):

Thanks, and I appreciate it as much as I appreciate jase fixing the server problem earlier. :)

In reply to Caith Cernach (msg # 957):

He doesn't appear fossilised but rather trapped like an insect in amber as if the crystal had grown around his form.

In reply to GM (msg # 958):

So it's more like a coating of clear calcite, than a full crystallization?
OK, that's a different case to crack than what Caith thought then.

Can maybe crack the outer coating away, if Lann can use sword to chip at the weakest points where the coating would be thinnest, but have to have something underneath to catch anything that isn't calcite from falling down into the lake.

If the fella in all that heavy bronze armour is still alive, rather than a sealed in corpse, then he's not likely to be in much condition to swim for his life, and a sealed box? Likely to float, depending on how much air was sealed in with it, and how heavy it is in the first place.

Still weighs less than slicing off the whole stone tooth at the top, body, box and all, with Lann wielding that sword that cuts into stone like a hot knife into butter, and trying to float stone tooth to the shore of the lake near the entrance.

Not saying you can't float big stones across water, but the only thing handy here to make a coracle of is tree roots, and that's a bit of a tall order.

However, Caith would genuinely like an opinion on the matter from the Hearthwarden and the Hunter on this one first, because it's going to be a little more complicated than she thought.

At the very least, the PC's will need Usopi's rope again.

Is it heavy? Suspended on ceiling or? Can I use my fire spell burn it? Dragonbreath and my forespell striking at the same point.

In reply to Caith Cernach (msg # 959):

You'd say from what you can see theres about a half foot of quartz between the figure and the outside.

In reply to GM (msg # 961):

Half a foot of the stuff?!
OK, definitely need something serious to make a dent in that with.

In reply to Caith Cernach (msg # 962):

Ok. I think I need some help guys, are my IC descriptions really bad? Because I get quite a few questions regarding locations etc. that to me look blindingly obvious from the IC description that apparently aren't.

Little help?

In reply to GM (msg # 963):

To be fair, some of it is misreading, and some of it is assumption by the readers.
And some of it is probably stress, compounded by lack of sleep and coffee in my case.

So let me get this right:
There's one entrance into the lower part of the caverns, comes out at a ledge of rock, by a deep underground lake. This section of cavern has a low roof, may a foot above the surface of the lake. There are no other exits above water surface level the PCs have seen so far. Could be other exits below the waterline, don't know for sure, but seem likely.

Somewhere over the surface of the lake, growing from the low ceiling of rock and roots is the spike of calcite bronze chest fella is in, hanging over/partly in? the water.

There are no convenient islands to stand on in the lake close to bronze chest fella.

Is that all correct, or am I misreading something?

All correct. Yeah the spike of quartz is partially in the water.

Yup, that’s about what I was tracking also.

In reply to GM (msg # 965):
OK, so the knights are crouching by the entrance, given the difficulty of trying to move in full metal in the cramped space, and even Caith being a scrawny little bitch still means she'd have had to crawl and crouch to look in the lake anyway.

So technically speaking, unless Chlainn did some highly impressive ninja in plate stunt, he'd have had to have made a ranged attack to pee in the lake regardless of the being three parts pissed penalty...

However, if there's any way of getting the box and the bronze chest out of the rock without dropping them in the lake, it's going to take some teamwork and care to accomplish, not a quick smash and grab.

Sorry my bad kept assuming it was hanging from the ceiling
Hmm I guess if we bring everyone in, tie a few ropes together, string the ropes together, we can try to haul the damn thing onto shore? I am assuming the man and armour probably 100kg, quartz another 200 kg?
Alternatively, i wait till midnight, summon a fey and hope get a lucky roll of some powerful being to help?

Um...this is kinda what I mean. It IS hanging from the ceiling. :)

In reply to Toirneach Lann (msg # 968):

OK, do you know what a stalactite is? Like a big tooth of stone or ice, formed by constant dripping water with a solution of minerals in it. They're wider at the bit attached to the roof than the downward hanging tip. So it's physically attached to the roof by the thickest bit to break.

Hence me thinking that a magic sword of the variety that apparently cuts into stone with ease would be the best way to hack it off at the top in a hurry.

The roof is really low, so a lot of the stalactite containing the bronze chest and the iron box is in the water, below the surface of the lake, but it's still hanging from the roof.

Caith could hold the detached stalactite up out of the water with TANGLEROOTS I suppose, but the PCs would still have to get the whole damn thing to shore without it sinking, well, like a stone. Would it fit back through the entrance the PCs came in by?

Mind you, if this lake connects to the river, Caith could try Summoning something a bit less random and slightly more practical...

Like a Kelpie for instance. Why keep a dog and bark yerself? ;)
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In reply to Caith Cernach (msg # 970):

It would fit...just...the 'stairs' would be fun....its going to be in the vicinity of Lanns calculations in terms of weight....well, it should be. Magical quartz might weigh nothing..probably not though. ;)