She was not looking at all, too busy hiding behind Howler as others filtered into the room. They didn't need to see her. They didn't need to know her. She sobbed softly, content to stay behind him for now, but every so often casting quick glances at Flower from around the werewolf's side. She was being nice too. It was weird that people were being nice.
But of course this moment wasn't going to last.
Movement suddenly exploded around her and Howler was gone. Too slow to react, without forewarning, Rosary simply raised her head in surprise as a small dinosaur suddenly collided with her. Before she could react, teeth were sinking into the exposed skin of her chest and she was rearing back with an angry howl. Extremely un-horse-like.
The skrungler was off her before she could retaliate but it had already spooked her thoroughly. She took off in a direction - thankfully, it was the forward one and not the back, managing to dodge out of the way of the other small creatures flying past, but the first one had done its work. Her head was already beginning to pound and the shadows were growing thicker around her. She ended up running right into Howler, desperately searching for white among the dark greens and finding him, but her eyes were wild, oil was leaking from her jaws, mixing with the black blood dribbling down her front.
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The last of the Skrunglers fled, their skittering footfalls (and in one case, trail of blood) leaving the room silent but for the Gembounds, and their nests briefly unguarded.
The group moved on.
A room of carved sandstone bricks lay ahead. This had once clearly been a part of the dungeon proper, and a similar if less... destroyed room probably lay in the non-overgrown reaches. But this one was pretty destroyed. Its bricks, massive in size, had been carefully carved and set in place and but for that, it would've been crumbled away long ago. As it was, much of the stone had deep furrows carved by the passage of water. The ceiling was half caved-in, bright light illuminating the center of the room and the Giant Statue standing there. Thick vines overgrew much of the room itself, and giant, perforated leaves made for a shifting jungle within the dungeon. Rubble from the ceiling formed loose piles, and there was a squeak and skitter as Red Mice scurried away into the room's corners, so that the whole place seemed half-reclaimed by nature.
The statue was notable for several reasons. First, it was immense, some fifteen feet tall and broad, likely weighing several tons. It was bipedal, with thick legs and huge feet carved from brick-like chunks. A head--stylized in a strange, vaguely tribal fashion--bore inset eyes formed of cut rubies, impossible to remove. A fan or headdress carved from stone made it seem larger than it was, and its mouth was a black, rectangular hole in the face. Its arms were wide, reaching, with four bricks for fingers. The statue-creature was carved to be topless, with humanoid stone features, and a carved 'skirt' that looked rather like it were meant to be made of woven grass.
The statue was also undamaged, mostly. That made it notable, too: rather than worn by wind and water that undoubtedly fell from above, it looked mostly... okay, really. Content, if a stone statue could be said to look content, except for maybe the dimly lit ruby eyes (ominous) and the black hole of a mouth (also sort of creepy).
Lastly, the statue was notable for the carvings at first nearly invisible in the shadows, beneath the leaves, along the walls. These carvings depicted the giant statue, and they depicted it in motion: one had it chasing and eating rodents. Another, scooping up and eating the very plants within this room. And a third, for some reason, depicted it... eating rocks?
This room had no visible exit.
Characters should roll to solve this room's puzzle. They may use their rolls to try and puzzle out the puzzle or, if they have already figured out what they need to do, they may use any roll type to try and fulfill the room's requirements.
As a reminder, characters bitten by Skrunglers will continue to hallucinate eldritch horrors beyond their imagining. Yay!
Naskarra has obtained three intact speckled Skrungler eggs. She may consume these for free protein, or keep and attempt to hatch them to obtain one or more pet Skrunglers. (GM Note: Skrunglers are very hard to house-train.) Khavur may also take one or more eggs, but does not find anything further in the nests. Just eggs. (They are nests. With eggs in them.)
The next post will take place in four days, on June 15th, afternoon/evening GMT.
The group moved on.
A room of carved sandstone bricks lay ahead. This had once clearly been a part of the dungeon proper, and a similar if less... destroyed room probably lay in the non-overgrown reaches. But this one was pretty destroyed. Its bricks, massive in size, had been carefully carved and set in place and but for that, it would've been crumbled away long ago. As it was, much of the stone had deep furrows carved by the passage of water. The ceiling was half caved-in, bright light illuminating the center of the room and the Giant Statue standing there. Thick vines overgrew much of the room itself, and giant, perforated leaves made for a shifting jungle within the dungeon. Rubble from the ceiling formed loose piles, and there was a squeak and skitter as Red Mice scurried away into the room's corners, so that the whole place seemed half-reclaimed by nature.
The statue was notable for several reasons. First, it was immense, some fifteen feet tall and broad, likely weighing several tons. It was bipedal, with thick legs and huge feet carved from brick-like chunks. A head--stylized in a strange, vaguely tribal fashion--bore inset eyes formed of cut rubies, impossible to remove. A fan or headdress carved from stone made it seem larger than it was, and its mouth was a black, rectangular hole in the face. Its arms were wide, reaching, with four bricks for fingers. The statue-creature was carved to be topless, with humanoid stone features, and a carved 'skirt' that looked rather like it were meant to be made of woven grass.
The statue was also undamaged, mostly. That made it notable, too: rather than worn by wind and water that undoubtedly fell from above, it looked mostly... okay, really. Content, if a stone statue could be said to look content, except for maybe the dimly lit ruby eyes (ominous) and the black hole of a mouth (also sort of creepy).
Lastly, the statue was notable for the carvings at first nearly invisible in the shadows, beneath the leaves, along the walls. These carvings depicted the giant statue, and they depicted it in motion: one had it chasing and eating rodents. Another, scooping up and eating the very plants within this room. And a third, for some reason, depicted it... eating rocks?
This room had no visible exit.
Characters should roll to solve this room's puzzle. They may use their rolls to try and puzzle out the puzzle or, if they have already figured out what they need to do, they may use any roll type to try and fulfill the room's requirements.
As a reminder, characters bitten by Skrunglers will continue to hallucinate eldritch horrors beyond their imagining. Yay!
Naskarra has obtained three intact speckled Skrungler eggs. She may consume these for free protein, or keep and attempt to hatch them to obtain one or more pet Skrunglers. (GM Note: Skrunglers are very hard to house-train.) Khavur may also take one or more eggs, but does not find anything further in the nests. Just eggs. (They are nests. With eggs in them.)
The next post will take place in four days, on June 15th, afternoon/evening GMT.
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