233 - Now you're thinking with portals! 5

• Try to talk to Ealdwig (internal organs, eyes and bones)
• Tit trying to get back into dungeon
• Take out breastplate
• Ahh!
• How’d you get that?
• Off the statue
• Statue? Wha?
• Lutepluck gives him food and water
• Silent crying
• Breastplate will reinforce effect
• Debating what to do
• Heal or off
• Tit’s wants riches in return for offing
• It’s all gone in inheritance
• Decide to heal him. He can always decide to off himself later
• Move to put breastplate on
• What are you doing?
• It will help you get back
• Put it on
• Can see how he held is arm to scribe the runes
• Stares for a moment
• Seems to help and is able to stand
• Tit eager to go back to dungeon
• Discussion over responsibility
• Don’t want to leave Ealdwig locked up in room
• Worried about danger to self
• Could teleport him out
• Rafnar
• Always a pleasure
• Discus sending Ealdwig
• Debate CCMB vs fief
• Merrick has enough on his hands
• Ghurde Gorepunch, as a cleric, could help
• Debate sending barrels
• Barrels of what?
• Wasn’t it in your course?
• No? Not dungeon crawling
• Best teleporter in the world
• How much risk can you tolerate?
• Decide to not teleport goo, due to risk of contamination if it affects the accuracy
• Spesof recommends note for ghurd
• Momen writes it up
• Send it along with him and advance
• Head back into dungeon
• Inspecting the engraved circles
• Significant differences between the first two, more than expected for change in direction
• Spesof asks if orientation makes a difference, No
• Tit starts using one of the pens to fill in the engravings
• Wonder why it’s dimmer
• Unclear if fluid is drying or not deep enough
• Spesof tries flicking a drop into the drop
• Momen examines the first portal tit turned on
• Matches one of the engravings I first examined
• Try turning on the other one
• Doesn’t turn red
• 2 way is significantly different
• Have only 2 identical portals
• Check the two way to see if the ends are identical
• They are not
• Likely that the two identical portals go to the same place
• Spesof debates just flooding an engraving
• Try the first portal
• End up in drop
• Wall of force to save us
• Debate how to avoid further drops
• Short rest on ledge, Spesof using immovable rod to add extra space
• Tit fly
• 1-3 = 2
• First portal
• Safe, but one at a time, ledge
• Go through another first, get another ledge
• Rooms appear rotated, are we going in a circle?
• Tit confirms, it’s a circle
• Return to center by middle
• Mark portal with finger: Danger, Drop
• Check identical portal
• Drop to same place
• Fill out all the portals so Tit can explore them all
• Filling them up and marking up the drops as Tit comes through
• Tit finally finds one that isn’t a drop
• Finds a Fomorian, hidden behind a shimmering ?illusion?
• Tit heads back
• Goes through brighter portal
• Just a drop
• Etching is deeper, fluid has set for longer
• Goes through bottom portal
• Floor is lava
• Sees a young red dragon
• Returns
• Another room has a Rot troll
• Back to fomorian room
• It was ready
• Avoid curse of the evil eye
• Escapes
• Gets bardic inspiration before the next one
• Tit jokes the next room is filled with gold
• Deathkiss
• Stack up for last portal, right after Titlin
• Turns out safe , 2 large on end, one small in middle
• One large portal leads to Qyldryt ― The Patient
• Tit knocks on door, human maid opens it
• Discusses dead guy on floor
• Tries to spin stopping the goblin war as helping
• And what about the elf companion
• It’s one elf, how hard could it be
• There are political considerations
• Ahh yes, the dwarf who got caught in the trap
• I didn’t build it, it’s to stop the monstrosity in the bottom
• Room likely built for some kind of guardian, wasn’t here when I arrived
• S: Do you know what’s down there?
• Smile, do you wish to know the ending
• 10 floors
• S:3rd was a breeze (tit groumbling in background)
• been here 2 thousand year
• 10th floor, bird, regular old chicken chained to floor, surrounded by runes in an impermeable sphere
• T: trusts her more than other dragons
• Q: smart for an elf, not one of those naturalists. A bit of greed never hurt as long as they knew what not to touch
• S: Aside from the chicken prisoner, is there anything else to be concerned about
• Disconcerting toothy grin, that’s a surprise
• Ask about passwall
  • Explosive runes
  • May have been able to do it on first floor where the magic is weakness
• Leave Qyldryt
• Mark floor with “Ancient Dragon”
• S: Were you flirting?
• T: No, just like dragons. Already got a girl.