OK, but I am not the brightest bulb when it comes to rule mechanics.  What do I roll for initiative?  O_o

Here's how this will work:

Each of you roll for initiative. You can each apply any applicable modifiers, Effort, etc. to your roll. The higher number gains initiative.

If Charis wins the initiative roll, she can use her action to attempt to prevent Amyron from touching the sphere.

If Amyron wins the initiative, he touches the sphere.

22:35, Today: Amyron Tirth rolled 16 using 1d20.  Initiative.

16?! Where were you when I needed to resist?!

RPoL Dice Roller:

15:48, Today: Charis rolled 5 using 1d20.  Initiative.

Sigh...

I will be at GenCon until Sunday the 5th, so I'll be posting after that!

"Have fun storming the castle!"  :)

Just a reminder before you burn a cypher... the passages are not lit...

I suppose we could drop a glowglobe down?

Out of interest, are glowglobes one shot items, or are they reusable? I've never been quite clear whether they burn out. I guess if we chuck one down, it's lost anyway (unless we find a way down), but for future reference...

What would be the odds that I could climb down the last bit, if I were lowered on a rope? And climb back to the rope again, of course!

Is the rock face sheer, or does it offer good handholds?

Lesser glowglobes last about an hour before burning out.

The shafts I thought were metal, which doesn't bode well for handholds...  :-O

The shaft is actually smooth stone much like the walls of this area of the ruins. Nonetheless, it stands that smooth does not bode well for handholds.

If Charis agrees with your plan, then I'll move things forward.

I believe that is so.  Quellan would like to try rig up another grappling hook (maybe with some daggers or something) and borrow someone else's rope so she can quickly go by the hostile automatons, do a reverse of what she did to get in here in the first place, go extract the fiber bundles from the vessels, and tie them off on the side of the shaft opposite the automatons so we can float down, grab the rope if need be, and investigate both places Charis' cypher saw, starting with the one highest up the shaft.

I guess that I am confused.  If we have to go by the automatons anyway, wouldn't it be easier to just go back to town for actual rope?  O_o

It's like a half-day back to town, and Serren has been missing for, what two days at this point?  I think our initial plan was to find him on the assumption that when he was going around the back of the living automaton's cave in our initial approach, he got lost or trapped or kidnapped or something.  We didn't want to go back to town for rope because of the time we'd lose, and also we weren't sure if anyone in town had 300' feet of rope anyways.

OK then.  On with the show!  :)

So are you all wanting to pull the spheres down and use their suspension cables they're tethered to?

Um... Touch the spheres?  Not my recommendation.  What did you folks have in mind?  My memory is a bit fuzzy (pardon the pun, given that we are talking about touching those spheres :)...

I believe the last time we had a lengthy discussion about rope (pun intended), we were talking about harvesting the cording from the things Vioden emerged from.  One other person (Amyron, I believe) had some rope on him, not enough to reach the bottom, but enough in this instance to let me make a return trip to the opposite side of the shaft, go to the Vioden vessels, do some scavenging, and come back with a big ol' haul of "let's get to the bottom of this".

Literally and figuratively :D

Quellan's ready to get fired across the pit anytime.  She'll get that fiber and be back in a blink so we can descend!

OK - let's do it!

09:33, Today: Amyron Tirth rolled 1 using 1d20.  Firing Quellan across the gap... 1 Level of Effort, just in case..

Well, that's the worst level of effort I've ever applied... let's hope that didn't go too badly wrong...

Oh dear, this could be... interesting.  I am unaware while I'm in the crystal (at least at this tier) and I set my trigger to being dropped hard on the ground.  And I'm drifting down slowly...  :-O

That sounds like "being dropped hard on the ground" to me...?  :)

Well, fine, just bring logic into it why don't you!  ;)