Immersive Ink

Robur uses his thief skills (1d6=4, success) to scamper to the surface for a good berry and a few minutes of rest.

Willie begins searching for treasure, ten feet down at the bottom of the well. The battle stirred up a lot of sediment, and Willie finds himself standing in about a foot of water and muck. Chegs' warhammer is lodged deep in the muck like a ship's anchor. Willie tugs on the rope, and the suction brings a slurry of mud and coins to the surface. Willie can pick handfuls of coins off the hammer itself! Mostly copper pieces, a few silver and gold.

Is Willie grabbing coins indiscriminately, or does he take time to sort out the more valuable metals from the copper?

Something else floats to the surface!

Willie finds an antique terra cotta medallion! It depicts a warrior-king with the tail of a fish and the stern, bearded face of a man. He is rising from the waves to smite his enemies with his trident! The medallion is broken in half, right down the middle. Willie can see that it's a clean break, no pieces missing, probably could be mended. The medallion is on a braided necklace, slightly buoyant, almost like it wants to be found.

Does Willie put the pieces together?

Does anyone else climb down to help speed up the process?

Dame Simonetta doesn't want to have anything to do with desecrating the pool/pit.

After eating his favorite (and last batch of) red current loaf with cheddar cheese and salami, and a goodberry for desert, Robur's had quite enough of pools and spider webs for a while... and decides to finally carefully examine the "nice looking" dagger he picked up earlier from the skeleton.

Willie does put the medallion together.

Assuming nothing immediately happens to him, he'll tuck it into his pocket or pack, and continue loading coins.

He'll take the time to sort, grabbing gold & silver -- copper doesn't seem worth carrying.

Bastet1002 wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 20, 2022 2:40 pm

After eating his favorite (and last batch of) red current loaf with cheddar cheese and salami, and a goodberry for desert, Robur's had quite enough of pools and spider webs for a while... and decides to finally carefully examine the "nice looking" dagger he picked up earlier from the skeleton.

Robur's dagger is a hobbet stiletto! The pommel is perfectly sized for a hobbet wielder... and the blade is perfectly sized for backstabbing a hobbet-sized target!

"I thought I was a goner when that oil started flying over my head!" Beppo had said.

If there was still more to dredge out of the muck, Beppo helped with that.

Bilfur helps with the search.,

Turn 16 (Rest Turn)

Robur regains 2 hit points (1 for the good berry and 1 for second breakfast) bringing him to 5/7hp.

Willie puts the halves of the broken medallion together, and recognizes the idol as Poseidon, the Greek god of the ocean. The medallion doesn't magically repair itself or anything like that.

Willie, Beppo and Bilfur spend a turn harvesting coins from the muddy bottom of the well. At the end of the turn, they have collected 1,800 coins: 180 gold, 360 silver, and 1,260 copper pieces.

The Hobbets' skin is starting to break out in painful blisters from prolonged exposure to the foul, corrosive water. At the end of 10 minutes, Willie, Beppo, and Bilfur have each taken 1hp damage. New hit point totals: Willie 10/11, Beppo 5/6, Bilfur 2/3.

Willie has announced he will discard the copper pieces, keeping only the silver and gold. What about Beppo and Bilfur? If they want to carry all those copper coins, they will need a couple of empty large sacks.

Do you stay in the well and continue harvesting coins (risking additional corrosion damage) or do you get out of there; enough is enough?