Shade and the Yithian struggle to communicate with each other. The Yithian projects a series of mental images: one of his kind slithers into a circular apparatus and vanishes from sight; another stares into a crystalline device and disappears in a cloud of sparkles; a third leaps into an active volcano! The scene shifts to a jungle and the three Yithians each, separately, materialize from thin air.
Shade nods in understanding. He turns to the others in the group and explains...
**The Yithian are stranded here, their spaceship damaged beyond repair, and they're trying to get to a location where they can teleport... or use a wormhole... to return to their civilization. If I understand him correctly, three of them have made it to where they need to be, a set of coordinates in the Yathlogthotep Forest, but he has not. I will see if we can be of any service to him, for he protects the Jale man.**
He turns back to the Yithian and nods in understanding. He tries communicating in full sentence form.
**I understand. Four of you were stranded. Three of you have made it to the Yathlogthotep Forest. You need to get there. Where is your teleport point? Where is your wayline? We will help you get there.**
In simpler words, he repeats, **Teleport. Wayline. Portal. Wormhole. Where.** and waves his arm around in 360 degrees and shrugs.
He repeats the images of the circular apparatus, the crystalline structure, and the volcano. Then he sends the image of the fourth Yithian surrounded in a swirl of fog.
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Re: Episode 16: Dinosaurs of the Haunted Swamp « Reply #212 on Aug 10, 2012, 5:42pm »
Breath discovers that, not only is the tent not guarded from the outside, but there is a conspicuous lack of any dolm women milling about the camp... one would think they'd be emerging from their tents for breakfast right about now?
Shade looks to see if any of the Dino's are ready for travel.
He gathers anyone who is willing to come with him (his deep one minion, at the least) and follows the Yithian (Dino's or not).
Andre is back to full health and ready to ride.
The Yithian can scoot along on its "foot" at the surprisingly speedy rate of 12" compared to Andre's 9". It slows its pace and leaves an obvious trail so he and the Deep One can easily follow west toward the crash site.
Shade attempts a Knowledge: Great Race of Yith check [1 in 6 chance] and rolls 1!
Based on your literary knowledge of The Shadow Out Of Time please tell us [1dd] 5 interesting facts about this species...
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Re: Episode 16: Dinosaurs of the Haunted Swamp « Reply #215 on Aug 10, 2012, 9:58pm »
Breath gathers her bone women to her: the sax-wielding Devil Maw and Blasphemous Blade, trailed by the blissed-out Serpent's Scion. Absent is Dream Stalker, passed out in a nearby tent with her dolm hostess. They attempt stealth checks [2, 5, 5, 2] Serpent's Scion wisely calls a halt just at the edge of the the Crone's psionic barrier.
Breath and Serpent's Scion clench their daggers between their teeth and creep to the tent and stealthfully lift a flap of the tent. There is a circle of sea salt drawn around the inside of the tent. The nearest dolm woman is [1d6] 10" away from their peep-hole. The dolm women are gathered around the bride and groom, and they appear to be drawing or sucking some sort of invisible energy from them as they writhe. The couple fail their save vs. Paralysis [needed 13 but rolled 5, 10] and disengage to separate sides of the nuptial bed, totally spent and satisfied. The Crone sits on her high chair gazing contentedly with her milky eyes, mumbling and smacking her gums. She is in an opiate trance from psionic endorphins. So long as Breath does not cross the circle, she will not sense your approach. The dolm women form a circle and join hands, gently rocking back and forth. They seem to be softly chanting Flo - ower, Flo - ower...... The intonation rises on "Flow" and drops on "Wer."
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Re: Episode 16: Dinosaurs of the Haunted Swamp « Reply #216 on Aug 11, 2012, 12:36am »
Fated thinks it best to stay scarce -- he heads into the jungle with the others following the alien. He brings the Ulfires along with a curt toss of his head.
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Re: Episode 16: Dinosaurs of the Haunted Swamp « Reply #217 on Aug 11, 2012, 1:13am »
Noting that the Crone is occupied and unlikely to want to be disturbed, Breath retreats slowly back away. She decides that Dream Stalker knows what she's doing, but returns to the vicinity of the tent and waits out the second ceremony.
She would like to join the expedition to return the Yithian to its homeworld, but she doesn't want to abandon her henchwoman here if we're not coming back...
Fated thinks it best to stay scarce -- he heads into the jungle with the others following the alien. He brings the Ulfires along with a curt toss of his head.
Fated and his 4 wise ulfire men easily follow the alien's trail into the marsh. Will you bring Snarf and/or any of the other dinosaurs or NPC's?
She would like to join the expedition to return the Yithian to its homeworld, but she doesn't want to abandon her henchwoman here if we're not coming back...
Breath is in no danger of being left behind; apart from her henchwoman there are also 2 ulfire men and 2 of the quarry brothers under the villagers' enchantment. Gunnery and Minion are still here along with their henchmen and the majority of the dinosaurs.
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Re: Episode 16: Dinosaurs of the Haunted Swamp « Reply #221 on Aug 12, 2012, 1:17pm »
Breath (with 3 bone women), Fated (with 4 ulfire men), and Shade (plus 1 deep one) follow Yithy Yub Yub of the Great Race into the marsh.
In the Carcosan wilderness we must always check for wandering monsters... Negative.
The party uneventfully reaches the western shore. As you descend from the dunes to the beach, you have a clear view of the flying saucer crash site. A large area of the bay is strewn with floating debris, with a puddle of flaming fuel floating in the center.
The Yithian has communicated ahead psionically with the 3 others, and they are expecting your arrival. Yithy Cee Cee, the smallest of the group, studies you with a quizzical slant of its drooping appendages, while Yithy D displays no curiosity at all.
The 4 Great Race have been industrious through the night. They have gathered crash wreckage, beach trash, stone, shell, wood, and plant fiber, all neatly sorted into piles. Some of these they have begun to assemble into the skeletons of various machines and contraptions. Out of driftwood and the fabric of their parachutes, they have constructed a large dome tent above the high-water mark. It is from within this tent that all (not just Shade) hear a booming telepathic voice:
Greetings and salutations! Yithy Yaa Yaa has traveled through space and time and learned much of your species! I bring a message of joy to the world! We, like, totally parked our space ship right over there, we will trade it to you for 4 one-way rides on your teleporting machine?
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Re: Episode 16: Dinosaurs of the Haunted Swamp « Reply #224 on Aug 17, 2012, 6:02pm »
Sensing the previous invitation did not have the desired effect Yithy Yaa Yaa, the psionic entity within the tent, pauses for a few seconds, and then broadcasts a new message in a different tone of voice:
We believe in scientific method, replicable experiments. Much scientific knowledge secrets in store! Many technological data you give ride on antimatter transmat!
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