Level 9: #9
Chapter: Comic, Level 9 — Hotel Califormian
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Alt-text is accurate. I included a dusty well-worn fairy plushie in the treasure hoard of one dungeon. The players spent a good 10 minutes bickering over who got to keep it. In the end, they fixed it up and gave it to the group’s NPC attendant.
Am I the only one who thinks that the placement of the bar isn’t a coincidence? Personnel I am all for Madeline resorting to copious amounts of alcohol to deal with being resurrected.
No, she’s a GOOD girl. It’ll be all fruit juices and quietly suffered existential dread for her.
I think they’re prisoners of their own device.
I’m sure there’s pink champagne in the bar. Hopefully there’s an ice bucket just off panel.
They haven’t had that spirit here since 969..
Forwarding the alt-text to my DM. Just as food for thought. Yep.
Unrelatedly, Maddy, don’t you just wanna jump into the pile? I know I would.
She’s a paladin!
And frankly, that looks like their only CHANCE of escape.
Survive the elementals Temia and we’ll talk about getting A’rkhani to sew you plushies of all of your summons.
I mean, knowing our luck, we’ll probably be finding stuffed animals from other peoples’ collections roaming the feytouched wilderness as our next group
MMMMMmmm. Chocolate stuffed rodents….
Wait… The rodents weren’t previous guests that enjoyed the dessert buffet, were they?
No mirrors on the ceiling? No pink champagne on ice? What sort of a crummy set up are they running here anyways?
Nope rope says “Nope, dope. Cope.”
Wait, I know rust monsters like metal, but *hot, molten* metal?
Eat hot lead?
Though realistically, some metal-containing minerals would dissolve in water at far lower temperatures than the pure metals do.
What I want to know is, wouldn’t he just drink the bath instead of bathing in it?
They either knew they were coming or can work VERY quick.
They’re sharing one room? That’s a relief. Separate rooms would only lead to a divide-and-conquer scenatro when the hotel staff inevitably turns out to be evil.
Such a lovely place.
Such a lovely place
It’s a magical place…
Just like Tahiti…
I once put a young Dragon in a campaign, who was about as close to a pacifist as large carnivore gets. He collected butterflies. After killing him the party immediately attempted to disbelieve. OIf course there was the other time when a Huge ancient Red Dragon turned out to be a hypochondriac, but that’s another story.
Question – who’s the two people saying nope offscreen? It doesn’t seem like a very rusty thing to say.
Not quite a usual thing for him to say since it doesn’t have the word “eat” in it, but it is only one syllable long, which should be within his linguistic capabilities.
Given his tendency to oversimplified speech a plain “no” might have been slightly more fitting, but meh.
Incidentally, we were talking a couple weeks ago about how smart/dumb Madeline is, and this is one of those scenes that shows there’s definitely merit to her way of thinking. She’s the only one actually remembering the mission rather than being sidetracked by the obvious distractions.
Ways I could see this going are:
1. After an hour or two the luxuries get a little old and Rusty and Y.T. eventually get back to worrying about their objective (best-case scenario). It would be ironic if this happened right after Madeline has also succumbed to the temptations.
2. Madeline has to force them to get back on track.
3. Madeline gets fed up with them not taking the situation seriously and decides to leave them and go investigate on her own.
There is the problem that she can’t grab Rusty by the ear.
That tail looks pretty grabbable. The antennae too, possibly, but they might be too thin – Madeline doesn’t want to permanently hurt Rusty. Also, make sure you’re not wearing gauntlets if you try that.
Madeline is what tvtropes would refer to as Too Dumb To Fool.
Aside from it being expensive to put out that amount of (molten?) copper and tin, antimony is toxic,and I wouldn’t want a tub of it giving off vapors.
And here we find Problem #1: “Only one of it’s guests or a Myrmarch can open the warded door.” Who wants to guess what happens when they are no longer considered “guests”.
That’s an awfully lot of highly specialized items to just happen to have sitting around in the hotel storerooms.
Either the DM isn’t paying attention to ecology and economics (fairly common) or that is a clue for attentive adventures.
What’s up with the colored circles on the background? Could that be a hint about something?
“Ooo, each room has a crystal ball! Let’s see: ‘Behind the Green Bush- a dryad finds happiness with a druid’s wood’. 2 silver pieces will be charged to your bill upon check out’. How nice! A Nature documentary.”
They could have purchased these items fresh rather than taking them out of a storeroom. We don’t know what kinds of suppliers this hotel has.
Also, you can ignore most rules of economics if you have enough money
Is that a plush Roper?
Of course
I see a roper, and owlbear, and a cyclops, but I can’t tell what the dinosaur-like creature is supposed to be.
Given its body position, I’m going to say basilisk. If we could see its many legs, I could be sure (or definitely wrong).
(My captcha says “f4CT”, so I’m going to take that as a sign that this is fact.)
Looks like it could be a terrasque maybe?
Neither basilisks nor tarrasques are normally drawn with spiky tails like that. And basilisks don’t have horns either.
I feel certain I *have* seen that particular configuration of tail spikes on a creature before, but for the life of me I can’t remember where.
Even if you like chocolate and rodents would chocolate stuffed rodents really be at all enjoyable? Is it savory, more like a mole mole?