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by waysoftheearth » Wed Mar 30, 2011 11:44 am
waysoftheearth wrote:
Koch is nearest to the doorway, and half a dozen feet ahead of the spilling mass of sickly vapours. He drops the gaudy painting he was investigating and makes a dash for the door!
Desmond was furthest into the room, and is also the shortest. Within half a moment the cloud climbs over his head height an envelops him completely! His torch light seems to glare right back at him off the fog, and everything else has become indistinct in the cloud! His poor eyes and throat are suddenly burning with the stuff! (1d20=10) The hapless Halfling runs right into a table, tearing at his shins fiercely and then sprawling over the collapsed table with a crash. His eyes are tearing so badly now he can't see a thing. Panicky now, he desperately tries to get up, but he can't breath! His lungs are on fire! He's coughing! Choking! Gagging! Passing out...
Gustave and Olaf are taller by some 2 feet, and thus have a moment longer before the fumes climb over them. Gustave nobly uses his moment to utter a well considered warning, while Olaf (wisely) drags in one last clean lungful before both reverse into the cloud and head for the door at full tilt.
Gustave (1d20=6) finds himself struggling almost immediately. The cloud is too thick, and stings at his eyes and nose intolerably. His lungs are burning and he cannot help but inhale the foul stuff. The coarse scent goes right to his head, punching his brain like a triple dram of Colonel Riggenhaut's Old Number 4 snuff. He immediately staggers, gagging and spluttering, then collapses with a clatter.
Olaf (1d20=14) somehow pushes through the foul tempest, and with streaming eyes and nose and hoarse, burning lungs burst forth and staggers out into the passage where he flounders about as his chest heaves for cleaner air...
[f=32]
Golgildir the Elf Medium (MV 12", AC 9, HD 1, hp 1/1, AL N) great cloak,
lantern; spells: color spray; scrolls: sleep, sleep, charm person
Hirelings: Georges;
torch[/f]