He dropped it, watched it fall and said 'Hole'.

No one knew it was there, it looked like muddy water like everwhere else....

Also he only raised his axe if anyone went around him. Not 'OMG! There's a hole!' :)

 Gotcha... Although I'm not sure what the visual difference is between dropping a brick in shallow sludge and dropping a brick in deep sludge. Nevertheless, I've a clearer idea what he did now. ^_^

Waiting on posts :)

Waiting on a few more posts. The lizardfolk dove into the water. The kobold is missing.

So whos next? :)

Still waiting on posts from everyone :)

All set? Want to get the game moving along :)

I'm good. Is anyone else waiting on anything?

 Hoping the lizard will answer, mostly. We've kind of stalled out a little on a strange thing which isn't acting and although Viv would totally go and poke it, there's a sewer full of sludge between him and it and he doesn't feel like getting filthy. ^_^

 Just checking:

 The passage we came in through was filled with sewer 'water'.

 The room we came into is filled with more sewer 'water'.

 It looks like the lizardfolk found a 'plug' or something and the room in front of us is emptying out. Either the passage we came in through is also emptying, or it's blocked somehow.

 When it finishes emptying, there's a 30' pit with a pillar of trash-covered slimey stuff in the middle. Said pillar is about 30' tall.

 We (notably Viv and Vermina) are not stood on the platform, we're stood on the ledge that ran above the sewer 'water' around the outside of the room.

 That right?

The lizardfolk didn't do anything.

Its muck/water.

No. Its 30' down from where the group is. Its a pit thats sloped down with bones to the center area like a funnel. Its full of grim, muck, bones and misc refuse.

Yes they are on the 'edge' above. Everyone is in the sewer area watching what is going on.

 Heh, I said that it looks like the lizardfolk did something. As in he went into the sewer muck, and a moment later things started to happen. It doesn't mean that he did it, it's just a coincidence of timing.

 Also:



 So... there's a 30' sloping pit with slimy, oozy, bone-crusty sides in front of us. The pillar in it is 30' high?

 Like:

              Figure
Us              *              __
  ¦\          /¦P¦\          /¦
  ¦ \        / ¦i¦ \        / ¦
  ¦  \      /  ¦l¦  \      /  ¦
  ¦   \    /   ¦l¦   \    /Lot¦
  ¦    \  /More¦a¦    \  / of ¦
  ¦Ooze \/ Ooze¦r¦Ooze \/ Ooze¦


 I have no idea what you're saying 'no' to.

Its straight down on both sides. It doesn't go 'up to the pillar' and there is no pillar.

It slopes down to the ground on all sides like a funnel.

Also its covered in muck, bones and debree with the odd bones in the center.

The lizardfolk was standing there before it went down. So if you want to believe he did something, alright.

Your right about Vermina and Viv. Your above the area and looking down. Everyone else is in the sewers. There was no 'pillar'.

The figure is where the 'r' is.

Hope its understood?
This message was last edited by the GM at 00:48, Mon 30 Aug 2021.

 Not until I went back and found this:




              Figure
Us              ¦              __
  ¦\            ¦            /¦
  ¦ \           V           / ¦
  ¦  \                     /  ¦
  ¦   \                   /   ¦
  ¦    \                 /More¦
  ¦Ooze \       *       / Ooze¦
   ---------------------------


 I swear, I never have this much trouble parsing descriptions, but somehow the ones here always leave me scratching my head. Okay! Is anything stopping the sewer water from pouring out of the passage we were in, or is there a small waterfall now draining past us?

 That's only important 'cause there's folks still standing in it who might be being washed away. ^_^
This message was last edited by the player at 00:53, Mon 30 Aug 2021.

Also the figure is on the bottom not floating. There is no water. There isn't enough force to push people into the 'pit'.

Its aggrivating as I tried to put in everything but sometimes things are left out. My apologies.

In reply to Gamemaster (msg # 146):

 Nah, you're just running into the same problem a lot of DMs here do: You already know what's happening, so you fill in the blanks yourself. We'll work it out in due course. ^_^

 The key thing though, is that from what you just said the whole sewer just drained past us, right? But it did so slowly enough that it's not knocked anyone off their feet?

I didn't state the whole sewer sucked up. Just that one room :)

In reply to Gamemaster (msg # 148):

 Which is what baffled me in the first place!

 What, if anything is stopping the sewer from pouring into the pit, or is it pouring (and then draining away) but not fast enough to sweep anyone in?

The area suddenly was being empty out into a small area in the center of the room. I put it in the IC area. Its not a huge wave with everyone getting sucked into it. Like a bathroom drain. The group only has like maybe a foot or more to the ground. If it was strong enough to knock the group down, I would have stated it :)

 So the sewer is draining into the pit, it's just doing so really slowly because it's sluggish and only a foot deep? There's a fetid, sludgy waterfall going on, but the pace is slow and nothing to worry about, because it's draining as fast as it pours in...

 Okies!

The room was full of water.

Then the water was sucked down in that room.

Now its just a mucky covered skeleton ooze pit. There is litte mucky water in that one area.

The rest of the sewer still has about a foot or two water. It was not sucked down.

Just like I stated before: Bathroom Drain.

I'm also going to give it a few days for everyone to post.

In reply to Gamemaster (msg # 152):

 So what's stopping the sewer from draining into the pit?

 I wouldn't keep asking, but when I propose what I think is happening (it is, but it's sluggish so wherever the sewer is getting water from in the first place is keeping up with the slow rate of drainage) you miss the question.

 Although I don't suppose it's that important, if nothing's changing in the rest of the sewer.

Bottom of the pit. Its got a small grate.


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Annie

Its grated and its about 2'x2'. So the kobold might be able to get in. But the lizardfolk? Nope.
This message was last edited by the GM at 17:08, Tue 31 Aug 2021.