Even as you turn away for a moment, you can still hear Dalak's orders.

"Alright, we've already moved one of those ribs out of the way during a previous operation, so the heart should be immediately visible..." You can hear the sound of flesh smoothly parting under the scalpel blade.

"The exact nature of this creature's anatomy is not known. However, at this point, we have a bit to guess at it before we cut that implanted thing out of its body." Dalak says. "If anyone of you anatomists can tell me something I don't want to hear, the operation stops right here."

One of the kobolds whispers an incantation and is quiet for a moment. "Ioun crystals staying in small clusters. No spreading since last time." She says, confidently.

"Cardiovascular system looks familiar." A more rapid voice says. "Professor, if I may double-check my assumption."

"By all means." Dalak says, his voice even as the prior speaker walks past you out of the field. He is a smaller kobold, with the tatooes of an initiate of the sorcerous rites, and is clad in a clean white smock.

rolled 80 = 80

Clearly this is way beyond us.
We shouldn't get in the way.

How many entrances are to this room?

What is Six doing? What was her mission again? If this turns out to be Tayn, then our mission would be complete and we'll leave, what will she do?

>>14859838
Only one entrance to this room, it's why we picked it, though we should still be within the Magnificient Mansion we summoned last thread.

The younger kobold is soon back, clutching a book in his hands as he walks back into the circle. "As I thought! Lung has a dual-chamber, exceptionally large, bones are semi-hollow, but have a have a hard exterior coating, and finally, the distinctive heart palpations, able to reverse the flow and function of arteries and veins in case of a puncture." He points at an image in the book. The majority of the assistants are crowded around it, and Dalak seems taken aback.

"So what we're working on is..." He says, pausing.

"A dragon, for now, I think. Some kind of undiscovered species?" He says. "Naturally, we would have recognized it on sight if it was."

"Alright, a dragon." Dalak says, accepting the explanation. "So where's the, erm, elemental gland?"

"The rerum sac? Erm, should be adjacent to the lungs..." The younger kobold says, searching for it. "Clearly, it isn't."

"Well, be on the lookout for it, then. Don't want anybody getting killed while we try to save this creature's life." Dalak says.

>>14859819
We can't be of much use to this operation, and the farther away that Mynthar is from that implant, the less that it will pump pain into Tayne.

Let's ask Six what she's going to do if all of the Burning Web agents are dead. We've got what we came for, and will need to go back to the Crystal Cavern in order to prepare a large military force to come here and clean out this facility.

rolled 33 = 33

Wait ... maybe Tayn always had this form but he manifested as a Kobold in our dreams?

Or worse, maybe the drow brain-washed this creature to think that it is a kobold and a freak of a brother to us?

>>14859994
Nope, because we already scryed on him and saw him in kobold form. This is something new.

>>14859838

>>14859948

Six's mission was to follow the agents of the Burning Web. As most of them are dead, her mission is probably over.

You are inside of a large tent, which is inside of a magnificent mansion spell. There is one main entrance and exit.

You step outside for a breath of fresh air, leaving the surgeons and sorcerers to their work.

You see Six relaxing next to Felixhia in the dining area, the normally quiet kobold chatting with her about cuisine. He is still clad in the metal-studded bodysuit he wore in his mechanized armor.

"Usually we make, um, a roux..." He stammers, obviously a bit uncomfortable.

"What's that?" Six asks, smiling. This does nothing to eliminate the smaller kobold's tense behavior.

"Well, you take mushroom flour, mixed with water in a roughly even amount, and boil it down till it's, um cloudy." He tries to explain, obviously struggling.

Six notices you, and turns her attention to you. Felixhia visibly breathes a sigh of relief. "Mynthar, good to see you. I was just about to enjoy some kobold cuisine. Felixhia was just telling me about it."

"Um, yeah. I, uh, was doin that." Felixhia mumbles, looking away from both Six and you.

>>14859994

No, but that's sick and twisted.

I like it.

>>14860098
"So, Six, now that it appears that most of the Burning Web agents that were here have been killed, what will you do?
"As for us, as soon as we can get confirmation that the creature we rescued is Tayn, and that implant has been removed, we'll be returning home to prepare a larger military expedition to come here and secure this facility.
"Is there any sign or passphrase that your organization uses, so that we can avoid any unnecessary unpleasantness if we were to accidentally capture one of your agents embedded amongst other drow groups?"

rolled 41 = 41

(I'm not sure how magnificent mansion works. Is there anyone outside the spell? Where will we return when we exit it? Does it last indefinitely?)

Anyway, have a chit-chat with Six till the operation is over.

>>14860207
The spell creates a door which leads to an extra-dimensional place that is finely furnished and has enough food and drink to feed a group of a dozen people per caster level, and lasts about 30 hours.
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/m/mage-s-magnificent-mansion

We're using Pathfinder SRD for our spell list, and Mynthar is a 15th level sorceror.

rolled 81 = 81

>>14860250
>We're using Pathfinder SRD for our spell list, and Mynthar is a 15th level sorceror.

I will tell you that these words mean nothing to me. I don't know any RPG, D&D or otherwise.
I have never played a /tg/ game in my life.

but thanks, that clears up somethings for me.

>>14860189

"So, Six, now that it appears that most of the Burning Web agents that were here have been killed, what will you do?" You ask her, sitting down at the table.

"I'll go back to the father of shadows and report this incident." She says. "Same as always."

"As for us, as soon as we can get confirmation that the creature we rescued is Tayn, and that implant has been removed, we'll be returning home to prepare a larger military expedition to come here and secure this facility." You say.

"Oh, that's interesting." She says. "I wonder how you will deal with those white creatures?"

"Is there any sign or passphrase that your organization uses, so that we can avoid any unnecessary unpleasantness if we were to accidentally capture one of your agents embedded amongst other drow groups?"

Six shrugs. "If I told you our secrets, they'd stop being useful. Suffice to say, I will have to invent a new sign." She pauses, grinning. She draws a simple, jagged symbol in the air with one finger, using her right hand. "There, that should prove sufficient."

rolled 50 = 50

>>14860416
"Thanks"

anyway, not a lot to do till the surgery is complete.

>>14860416
Mynthar commits the sign to memory.
"Ah, if only more Drow were reasonable like you.
"Well, for both our sakes, I wish you and your organization luck. It will be quite the relief to speak with a person with whom I don't have to play the vaudeville villain to in order to be taken seriously."

I'm out of important talking points for right now. Perhaps timeskip till the end of the operation?

>>14860447
>>14860491

"Thanks." You say.

"Don't mention it." She responds.

"Ah, if only more Drow were reasonable like you." You say.
"Well, for both our sakes, I wish you and your organization luck. It will be quite the relief to speak with a person with whom I don't have to play the vaudeville villain to in order to be taken seriously."

"Oh, we take everyone very seriously in my line of work. No matter how big or small." Six says, shrugging. "Underestimating even one thing now could doom our cause to another two centuries of greedy, barbaric rule."

"On top of that, I kind of like your little camp." She says. "You seem much more civil than most of the civilized races I've infiltrated."

rolled 65 = 65

>>14860702
Civility is something we cannot afford to neglect.

>>14860702
"Our position in regards to the other races has given us a...unique perspective.
"Civility and professionalism are two things that are in short supply in the world. A state of affairs that is regrettable."

Herp derp new Ubuntu is retarded.

You all share a small meal, Six's metabolism being much faster than yours or Felixhia's.

You chat for a while longer before hearing a horrifying scream of pain from within the operation tent. You rise with a jolt, running over to the tent and seeing a huge lightning storm rising from the dragon's body, and Dalak on the ground, his hands smoking. The younger kobold who identified the creature appears to have pushed him to one side, and is caught in the blast, his small body convulsing horrifically as the violet electricity runs through him.

>>14860893
Cast Resist Energy (Electricity) on that convulsing kobold, and on Dalak and any others still caught in the open.

>>14860991
Wait, use Protection from Energy (Electricity) instead if we have it, since it'll provide full immunity.

rolled 18 = 18

Also cast healing

The words from your recent conversation ring in your head as you reach out for the kobold, words of protection almost screaming from another's mouth, the mouth of a madman, eyes wide with fear.

"Our position in regards to the other races has given us a...unique perspective."

Your metal fingers close around the kobold's arm, the current running into the electrical holster as you bestow him with similar protection. It will only hold so much. The young man has already been rendered unconscious by the energy, and you feel your muscles begin to tense as your rudimentary protection reaches its limits.

"Civility and professionalism are two things that are in short supply in the world. A state of affairs that is regrettable."

You reach in with your left hand, the surge of lightning dancing across your skin as you pull the boy's body out of the blast, the spell shattering into shards like glass as its protective abilities are spent.

"Though the brotherhood between our individuals is, I think, our greatest advantage. That's not the sort of thing you can make into a rule."

You feel electricity start to work through your muscles, the battery-like ore in your arm already having absorbed the most it can. You stagger towards the source of the energy, the dragon-like creature's body starting to shudder less and less, even as you feel every nerve in your body stab into your flesh like writhing needles.

"It's because we've been looked down on for so long that I think we can maintain that camaraderie, even when it means we face certain death."

You look into the wound for a moment, seeing the blackish-red blood start to fill up in the creature's body. You are in far too much pain to cast much of anything, the lightning anchored to you and coursing through you in seconds that feel like minutes.

You have little time to think. Rather, you have no time to think. Your hands are far too shaky to finish the operation, your body in too much pain as it is being baked by electricity, for you to get a spell off. Fortunately, you seem to be the sole recipient of the lightning bolt's ire.

What will you do?

>>14861157
Unless there are other spellcasters in our group that can cast something...wait, we're still inside the mansion, right?
This place has servants, as the Unseen Servants spell. If I count right, it should have 30 of them.
Call on all of them to drag everyone, including us, out of the field of effect of the lightning storm so we can cast more Protection from Energy spells.

>>14861283
We have a Wand of Cure Light Wounds with us.
Maybe we should just go in an tear out the implant, and hope that we can cure Tayn before he dies?

rolled 41 = 41

>>14861157
Can we channel the lighting we we just got into the ground?

>>14861336

It appears the implant has already been removed. Now, Tayn, if that is him, is rapidly bleeding to death.

You mentally order the servants to begin dragging people, and the phantasmal kobolds swiftly go to it. The one that touches you has the lightning spring to him and is instantly destroyed.

>>14861338

In essence, your arm's implanted device works like a battery. It can absorb energy using a protection from energy spell, then keep the left-over electricity charged for a time. Rapidly re-charging it could cause serious damage however.

>>14861443
Does the lightning storm have any indication of letting up? We may need to get out of the area of effect and try a Dispel Magic or Greater Dispel Magic on the lightning storm.

>>14861564

It is lessening, much more slowly than you would like it to. You can tell this is no magic spell. This is pure electricity, from wherever the hell dragons keep their electricity.

rolled 4 = 4

>>14861443
>Rapidly re-charging it could cause serious damage however.

I meant depleting the charge though.


Can we stop the bleeding somehow? Cast something?

We obviously can't touch anyone.

>>14861624
Unless we can cast another Protection From Energy spell on us, and then spamming our Wand of Cure Light Wounds on Tayn to keep him alive, I can't think of anything else we can try for...hm....is there anything of metal that we can use as a lightning rod? Something that some of the servants could bring here and place in the floor to ground it? A metal bar or..a line gun, maybe?

>>14861636

You can deplete the charge reflexively, but choosing to let it charge back up again would possibly start wrecking things in your arm.

You currently cannot cast anything because you are in too much pain.

>>14861700

You command one of the servants to bring a metal object, and the first thing they bring you is a linegun. You take a step towards it, grabbing it and ramming it into the ground barrel-first and then falling backwards, the current now linked up to the very conductive weapon.

You breathe in and out for a while, the voices of those around you indistinct and muffled. You are just glad the pain is gone. No more of that nonsense.

>>14861804
Breathe for a second or two, and then when the pain is at a level where we can begin casting again, cast Protection from Energy (electricity) on us and the other kobolds, and start spamming Tayn and Dalak with the Wand of Cure Light Wounds.

rolled 4 = 4

>>14861804

Cast healing and shit

Try to stop the bleeding.

(are there any kind of "stasis" spells from the spell set we are using? Would be much useful to just lock him in time and wait till surgeons are fixed up and give their take on the situation.)

>>14861804
A little off-topic, but what is the schedule for the current quests?

>>14861966
Unfortunately not. The closest is Gentle Repose, and that only preserves a corpse for later resurrection.

>>14861966
>>14861881

You quickly heal yourself after you catch your breath, and make sure everyone is adequately protected.

You don't have any stasis spells in your current repetoire. You crouch over Dalak, who is curled up, sobbing.

"This can't be happening. It can't be my fault!" Dalak cries. "I'm sorry, I can't work on him." Dalak brings his hands out from beneath his chest, and you can see that they are burnt and clawed, locked into a single position.

healing scrolls do we have any of those on hand

rolled 72 = 72

>>14862158

Aww, shit...

we can heal them, right?
Regenerate them somehow?

>>14862158
"Dalak! DALAK! Get ahold of yourself! We can fix this, you're not dead yet! If we need to, we'll buy a Regeneration spell off of a surfacer cleric to heal your hands. Now, you need to calm down and direct anyone who can still hold a scalpel and needle to keep Tayn from dying!
"Everyone else! Break out any healing wands or scrolls we have! Keep Tayn alive and on anyone who's been seriously hit!"

Then Mynthar turns to Tayn's body and begins casting more charges from his Wand of Cure Light Wounds to keep the dragon alive.

>>14861985

Yeah, I have been trying to figure out a when for that. At present, we have a Monday (21:00), Wednesday (21:00), and Sunday (18:00) slot. This got run today, but may also get run on Wednesday as well, along with Gargoyle Quest. Shit has been confusing lately. I slept in till 3. But, anyway, for nest week:

Monday: Sorcerer Quest

Wednesday: Kobold Sorcerer Quest and Gargoyle Quest

Sunday: Gargoyle Quest

>>14862225
Thanks for the heads-up.

Fortunately, you packed a restoration scroll. Unfortunately, Regeneration is expensive as hell. Fortunately, you can fix this with restoration, as his hands are not completely destroyed.

"Dalak! DALAK! Get ahold of yourself! We can fix this, you're not dead yet! If we need to, we'll buy a Regeneration spell off of that crazy druid to heal your hands. Now, you need to calm down and direct anyone who can still hold a scalpel and needle to keep Tayn from dying!"

"Alright, alright." Dalak coughs, struggling to stand. "We just need to attach the artery! Someone get in there!" He shouts, his voice cracking with pain.

"Everyone else! Break out any healing wands or scrolls we have! Keep Tayn alive and on anyone who's been seriously hit!" You snap to it, the healing spell reversing the flow of blood back into the heart. The lower sorcerers who are along with you continuously re-cast the electrical resistance spells as they are expended, and within a frightening thirty seconds, the artery is installed, and the creature's body is being closed. The dying sparks like those inside the dragon's body dim in the crystaline scale mounted on metal and ioun crystal that you see on a table next to the dragon.

bump

rolled 51 = 51

>>14862521
did it work?

>>14862521
Here's to forethought and being able to hand-wave "prepare healing items and scrolls" as being enough to make sure we have what we need on hand when in trouble.

Alright, now that the immediate crisis has passed, get a status report on the people that were injured, and on Tayn's status.

"No kobold left behind!"
That should be one of the mottoes of our military.

rolled 86 = 86

>>14862521
...

umm

well

Lets see if we fixed him up and if this indeed is Tayn

>>14862591
>>14862563

You see the creature's body begin to shrink, changing back into the body of Tayn, a fresh new scar over his back as his scales return from a deep violet blue to a rusty red. He breathes, slowly, haltingly, but the valve seems to hold.

"Thanks to the ancestors." You hear one of the attendants say.

"I want a damage report on everyone besides me." You say to her, and she seems startled, slowly nodding.

Dalak's hands still retain some functionality, but the tendons and nerves were damaged. The younger kobold, Turen, shoved him out of the way and took serious damage. He is currently in a medically induced coma, with serious burns. Had it not been for you, he would have died. Chance of necrosis in a number of areas is very high, despite healing magic.

You look over at the tent where Tayn is recovering as your ships leave down the river, Six standing on the shore and watching you go. Was it worth it? You hope so. At any rate, your shedding for this season is going to be coming a few months early.

End of Chapter 1.

If this is indeed him I just realised, that he probly the only thing we clound call a son right now. Or do we have other offspring?

rolled 26 = 26

>>14862879
sweet

thanks for this.

Don't forget to archive

rolled 43 = 43

>>14862905
...

more like a brother

>>14862945
No us and anthor being/beings produced him and brought him into the world he is more our offsping than brother.

>>14862905
He's really more of a twin brother, in my opinion.

>>14862879
Nice. We'll need to try to open up more trade with the surface world for magical healing, for both Dalak, who is a vital resource to our nation, and Turen, who deserves a commendation.

Also, thread has been archived, and has the proper tags.

>>14862945
Had he been a perfect clone of us I would a agree butclealy that not the case.
Also agree on the part that we need more trade with the surface in the future. To get better healing

>>14862945
Need sleep night