Agerg
Banana Scout Lvl 5
Skills:
Leadership
Reconnaissance
Searching and Gathering
Secret of the Axe
Way of the Banana
Rec + SG + Ban = 3
After handing over the Axe of Banana Leadership, Agerg walks off into the woods. With the sunrise at his right hand and the sunset at his left, Agerg wanders off northward. He gathers all the banana components he can hold in two hands as he travels.
He visits the Lady, or her shrine; he isn't sure which, but he acknowledges her as a fellow being of nature as he wanders and explores.
He sees the band of Singers off in the distance as they approach the Banana Grove, and can see Banana Phil, the Tiger and some others rescue them from the Death Log in the water.
He continues to explore...he wanders off until he can barely see the Banana Grove off in the distance. At the same time he notices a bright streak in the sky off in that direction...the earth rumbles...and a sense of foreboding sets in.
As the meteor approaches the Grove, the trees knit themselves into a fortress like shelter! It hits with a roar and a flash of light!
Suddenly Agerg finds himself cut off from the closest trees by a grass fire! Flame is everywhere! In the crackling of the fire, he hears singing...a crack in the earth almost twists his ankle as he moves away from the spreading blaze...he sees a pile of rocks off to one side...the fire, and beyond the fire, the forest...birds flying in panic away from the blaze!
A very large animal can be seen off in the distance on the horizon.
In the smoke seem to be smirking imp faces, lip synching to that singing off...somewhere...[/i]
MrPhil reflects on the situation as Banana King controls the body.
He remembers helping rescue the Singers, and the festivities afterward. He remembers that the Lady of the Wood gave out warning, of fire and stone falling from the sky. Banana King and the Lady cast a mighty spell, knitting the banana trees into a wooden fortress just in time for the firey rocks to be repelled. People begin to flee underground into the small tunnel which lets out into the banana grove - the tunnel that the grue lurked in before it was slain by iamatiger.
Inside the tunnel he discovered a carved grid. Inside the squares are many symbols. Only one can be made out; it is the shape of a banana, symbolized by the Knight symbol on this diagram:
Banana King reached up and touched the banana symbol and cast a summoning for a banana guardian. The spell awakened Uries to his destiny as the Banana Knight. Uries took the Banana Scythe that MrPhil had placed in a tree and entered the tunnel.
The tunnel was empty of anything but rubble and ashes between entrance and grid before the two tribes fled into it. Then it makes a sharp left and an immediate u-turn, preventing anyone from seeing farther without actually advancing farther.
Now, however, the tunnel is crammed full of people as flashes of light and roars come from outside as the flaming rocks strike! Fortunately tribal magic will protect the sacred banana grove.
The player characters, tiger first, advanced beyond the sharp turning point and discovered several tunnels. Iamatiger scouted first the main tunnel, and reported that it leads directly to the Rocky Slope the grue was encountered on earlier.
The tiger then explored a plant filled tunnel, and reported it led to a thorny trap which he was able to detect before he got stuck in it.
Now the party is exploring the third tunnel, which has bones, ashes and the smell of rot coming out of it.
A fourth tunnel looks very dangerous; it goes DOWN, and it's very, very narrow and twisty...the kind of place one could break an ankle in, or get stuck in...or maybe go through and not be able to come back up...
A creepy emaciated zombie corpse thing is on the ceiling of the tunnel currently being explored, clinging unnaturally, trembling, giving out a near-silent raspy sound as it glares at the glowing tiger with unnaturally wide, circular eyes, and hair standing on end - the look of a man who has been terrified to death. The party is approaching it to examine it. The tiger is providing all the light, though others are considering adding to the light.
Thanks for the update.
I will move up the corridor behind the tiger and knight, and if I have enough movement swing out to one side so I can get into a position to clobber the zombie ting if it leaps from the ceiling.
Under no circumstances will I go underneath it.
If it shows no sign of moving, I will speak gently to it and see if it show any response.
[b][i]Iamatiger meets the corpse's gaze and prowls about, watching it carefully, ready to respond to events. He moves swiftly around the corpse, scouting ahead.
Banana Phil pokes the corpse with his staff, scraping off a piece of dissicated skin and showing the ribs underneath. The thing grasps feebly at the staff with one hand.
It's face looks kind of like that of the man sitting on our right at 1:10 in this clip:
Uries approaches the corpse and looks closely at it. It swivels it's head about, looking at each person in turn, still feebly attempting to reach out for something, anything with it's trembling bony hand. It looks like a corpse that has been terrified to death and then left in the desert to dry out.
Banana Phil begins to taunt the corpse...he cannot stomp it since it is in the ceiling, but he dances around it, mocking it, poking it with his staff, trying to get some response from it. He then begins to speak gently to it as MrPhil begins to wake up.
Uries asks the corpse about itself.
The thing does not respond in any way but to reach out feebly and look around with a trembling head...
Banana King and MrPhil share the same body. They are both represented by the White King.
Iamatiger can see 2 squares ahead (he can't tell if it's north...he can't see the sun). It's empty. His light even reaches farther...there's another one, just at the edge of his vision! This one seems to have been a woman once. And that thing in the wall...a third corpse! This one is hiding in a crack in the wall.
Iamatiger thinks he can squeeze out a bit more light, but if he does so he must concentrate fully upon it, which will fatigue him and prevent him from doing anything else while the light is brightened.
The corpse ignores iamatiger when he attempts to communicate with it, except for feebly reaching out to him with his hand.
Banana Phil gets a banana from someone in the other room (he wasn't carrying one, but they're plentiful) When he goes back to the other room he notices that the Singers have left the tunnel.
He gets a banana from a Banana Tribesman and comes back to the corpse which is trying to reach for iamatiger. When he reaches the banana out toward the corpse, it reaches for it...and then suddenly LEAPS off the ceiling and grasps his wrist!
The corpse collapses lifeless to the floor, a few limbs falling off in the process. Banana Phil is suddenly having some sort of seizure!
The other corpses are creeping forward, slowly and shakily. But if they can leap like this one did...
Banana Phil is incapacitated for the moment. He appears to be having some sort of gran mal seizure (not that you'd know what that was, but you get the idea). This is represented by making the King black.