Jacques: I'll move to the region left of DAVE, then teleport to Alek
Igfig: and Dave, the well is too small for that
Lakanu: A second ago, my internet went meh
RobotDave: Dang it.
Igfig:  1d4 squares
Fortuna: Igfig, squares: [3] = 3
Jacques: and then begin to explore the rest of the building
RobotDave: You didn't miss anything, Lakanu
black_dynamite: Ig. Does my rock throwing do anything?
black_dynamite: I threw them into the center of the rock circle
Igfig: nope, not that you can see
black_dynamite: Oh well
black_dynamite: I'll just explore the cave
Alek_Deckard: I'll also be exploring the building to search for any items of interest, we split up so we can cover more ground, I hand him my sunrod.
Igfig: maybe if you knew more about magic
black_dynamite: Actually
RobotDave: 1d20 Perception check for anything at all that could be useful around here.
Fortuna: RobotDave, Perception check for anything at all that could be useful around here.: [4] = 4
Lakanu: We need to figure out this lightning well
black_dynamite: I'll arcana check that
black_dynamite: 1d20+1 arcana
Fortuna: black_dynamite, arcana: [11] = 12
black_dynamite: Oh nooooo
RobotDave: Damn it, Fortuna.
Fortuna: I won't dignify that with a response.
black_dynamite: YOU JUST DID
Igfig: yeah, with that low untrained Arcana, BD
RobotDave: Silly Fortuna. You know we love you.
Fortuna smiles shyly.
Igfig: you really don't know the significance of this stuff
black_dynamite: Anyway, I'll just explore the cave
Alek_Deckard: I'm searching this row of small rooms for stuff.
black_dynamite: "Oh hey an exit!"
Jacques: 1d20+1 perception looking for lightning object
Fortuna: Jacques, perception looking for lightning object: [8] = 9
black_dynamite: I punch the walls
Igfig: oh, oops
Lakanu: This is going to sound insane, but
Igfig: that exit is not there
black_dynamite: Oh
black_dynamite: "Oh hey. Not an exit!"
Lakanu: Can I pray to Bahamut to ask him to strike the well with lightning?
Alek_Deckard: 1d20+7 perception also looking for a lightning object.
Fortuna: Alek_Deckard, perception also looking for a lightning object.: [14] = 21
Igfig: You don't find any lightning objects, and... you could try, I suppose
Igfig:  2d4 squares
Fortuna: Igfig, squares: [2, 3] = 5
black_dynamite: I'm gonna do a percpetion check for anything useful. 
Jacques: what would that be, Religion?
Lakanu: 1d20+9 Religion fortheLULZ
Fortuna: Lakanu, Religion fortheLULZ: [7] = 16
black_dynamite: 1d20+7
Fortuna: black_dynamite, 1d20+7: [1] = 8
black_dynamite: Black Dynamite is blind
RobotDave backs away from the encroaching fire.
black_dynamite: BLINDED BY THE LIGHT
Igfig: Yeah, the cave doesn't have much in it
Igfig: water dripping down the walls
Igfig: actually, wait
Igfig: that's not qater
Igfig: water
Alek_Deckard: I think there's a tree in there.
Igfig: some sort of silvery liquid
Alek_Deckard: On the map.
Igfig: oh, right
black_dynamite: Unicorn blood!
Jacques: Wait, is anyone carrying any lemons?
black_dynamite: I have combustible lemons
Igfig: there is also, somehow, a tree, with leaves and stuff, despite the lack of light
black_dynamite: (I wish)
Igfig:  2d4 squares
Fortuna: Igfig, squares: [2, 4] = 6
black_dynamite: 1d20+7 perception on the tree
Fortuna: black_dynamite, perception on the tree: [16] = 23
Jacques: 1d20+1 perception looking for lightning thing or lemons
Fortuna: Jacques, perception looking for lightning thing or lemons: [13] = 14
Igfig: is anybody still in the well rooms?
Lakanu: Yarp
Jacques: DAVE and Lakanu
Alek_Deckard: Yeah, Dave and Lakuna are by the lightning well.
Igfig: there do not appear to be any lightning things in this part of the building, Jacques
Jacques: or lemons?
Alek_Deckard: I rolled a 21 earlier.
Alek_Deckard: Looking for lightning things.
Igfig: also no lemons
Jacques: damn
black_dynamite: What about me?
Igfig: dave and lak, you are now more or less cut off from the exit now
Lakanu: My god was a massive help then
Igfig: BD, the tree looks, strangely enough, like a perfectly normal sapling
black_dynamite: "Black Dynamite is confused by this. He feels the need to both punch it and leave it be."
RobotDave: DAVE IS WORRIED. WILL DAVE BE DESTROYED HERE?
Jacques: Ok, are there any cracks in the double doors, or anything like that?
Jacques: a gap under the door?
Igfig: A very thin hairline
black_dynamite: I leave the cave and walk up to the door
Jacques: enough for, say, ash to get through?
Alek_Deckard: I guess I'll search another area then.
Jacques: (god I'm wishing I chose sandsoul)
Igfig: you could get a piece of paper maybe, but notanything much thicker
Igfig: ash? hmm
black_dynamite: "You have blocked my way long enough door! I am going to wage war on your wooden ass!"
Alek_Deckard: 1d20+7 to search the southern set of small rooms for a lightning thing.
Fortuna: Alek_Deckard, to search the southern set of small rooms for a lightning thing.: [17] = 24
black_dynamite: Ig. I'm going to kick the door down
black_dynamite: 1d20+3 str
Fortuna: black_dynamite, str: [11] = 14
Igfig: Ditto the small set of rooms
black_dynamite: Crap
Igfig: and okay, BD, not much happens
Jacques: "Alek, I have an idea! Come punch me in the face!"
Alek_Deckard: "What?"
Jacques: "Just do it!"
RobotDave: DAVE GOES INTO HIBERNATE MODE.
Igfig: One door is of a greyish hue, the other, reddish
black_dynamite: Can I punch jacques through the door?
Lakanu: I float some crystals about, thinking
Jacques: They have accepted their face
Jacques: fate
Jacques: but also their face, I guess
Lakanu: I'm comfortable with my face
Alek_Deckard: "We must try to help them!"
Igfig: both intricately engraved, the grey door with rigid, rectangular patterns, the reddsih door with more organic flowing lines
Igfig: you can't punch anyone through the door, no
black_dynamite: Crap
Jacques: "Alek. Punch. Me. In. The. Face."
Igfig: there do not appear to be any lightning things anywhere in the eastern half of the building, searchy-people
Igfig: although you do turn up
Alek_Deckard: Alright then.
black_dynamite: Ig. I'm going to search the rooms in here
black_dynamite: 1d20+7
Fortuna: black_dynamite, 1d20+7: [12] = 19
Alek_Deckard: I punch Jacques in the face, I have 8 strength so yeah.
Alek_Deckard: I'm assuming he lets me hit him, do I have to roll damage?
Jacques: I need to take damage for this to work
Igfig: a number of ceramic rods, about a foot long and a few inches wide.  A loose pile in the southeast room
Alek_Deckard: What's the damage roll for unarmed?  1d4?
Igfig: yeah, 1d4
Jacques: I think
Alek_Deckard: 1d4-1
Fortuna: Alek_Deckard, 1d4-1: [4] = 3
black_dynamite: A loose pile of what
Jacques: Also go get those rods after you punch me
Alek_Deckard: That was something BD saw.
Jacques: I take three damage, and burst into a cloud of ashes
Igfig: the rods were in a loose pile
Alek_Deckard: Or, not, that was us.
Igfig: no, the rods were in the east section
Alek_Deckard: Kay.
Igfig: Bd saw somehting else
Igfig: which I am about to describe
black_dynamite: Dun dun
Alek_Deckard: Alright, I'll wait till you're done to nab those.
Jacques: Do those ashes go through the crack in the door?
black_dynamite: I saw a dildo covered in bird shit and fire
Jacques: If so, I re-materialize on the other side of the door
Igfig: a skeleton, overgrown with ancient roots
Igfig: must have been there a very long time
Igfig: Jaques, yeah I think that should work
Jacques: ok
Jacques: I do that then
black_dynamite: PUNCH THE SKELETON (After searching him for goods)
Igfig: that was a pretty clever use of that power, jacques
Igfig: it's hard to search the skeleton, since it's held down pretty solidly by the roots
black_dynamite: Do I roll something for it?
Jacques: Now the problem is just getting back
Igfig: yeah, rolll perception
Igfig: (bd)
black_dynamite: 1d20+7
Fortuna: black_dynamite, 1d20+7: [10] = 17
black_dynamite: ....
black_dynamite: There we go
Alek_Deckard: Kay, so I grab those rods, and working on a guess I bring them to the door.
Jacques: Arcana check on the massive glowy ring thingy
Jacques: 1d20+13
Fortuna: Jacques, 1d20+13: [11] = 24
Igfig: there appears to be some sort of key-looking thing around his pelvis area, bd
black_dynamite: GRAB IT AND PUNCH THE SKELETON
black_dynamite: 1d20+3
Fortuna: black_dynamite, 1d20+3: [13] = 16
Igfig: not sure what it's made out of, but it's silvery and untarnished - maybe silver or platinum
Igfig: the skeleton collapses
black_dynamite: "Fuck yeah."
Igfig: the massive glowy ring thingy appears to be some kind of arcane focusing array
Igfig: oh, by the way, I've been forgetting the fire
Igfig:  3d4 squares
Fortuna: Igfig, squares: [3, 1, 3] = 7
Jacques: Hmm... Arcane focusing array? That doesn't sound very.... good
Alek_Deckard: 1d20+10 Thievery check to inspect the doors and their compatibility with the rods.
Fortuna: Alek_Deckard, Thievery check to inspect the doors and their compatibility with the rods.: [8] = 18
Lakanu: It can come into this room!
Lakanu: DAVE, we're screwed
RobotDave wakes up
RobotDave looks around
Igfig: you're quite sure the ring has something to do with the wells
Jacques: Is the Array currently working?
RobotDave: YES, DAVE AND LAKANU ARE QUITE TRULY SCREWED
Lakanu: Unless the radiant room is safe
Lakanu: which i doubt
black_dynamite: Alright. So I have the key now. I run out the door and see jac doing... something
Igfig: oh yeah, it's definitely active, jacques
RobotDave: DIDN'T YOU GET PULLED INTO THE WELL BEFORE? DID IT HURT?
Igfig: when I say "arcane", though, I mean "does arcane things" not "does things using arcane means"
Igfig: if that difference makes sense
Igfig: the ring itself is not magical
Igfig: although it's doing magical things
Jacques: Hmm... So... If I go into the focusing array, would that make me more powerful than I can possibly imagine, but with dire consequences?
Igfig: poosibly
RobotDave moves away from the fire. Joins Lakanu.
Igfig: it might also kill you
Jacques: That was also a thought.
black_dynamite: Ig, does the key fit the door?
Igfig: the door has no keyhole
RobotDave goes into hibernate mode.
black_dynamite: Punch the door for lacking this
Jacques: So am I just so mesmerized by the Array, and BD so focused on the key that we walked right by each other without noticing?
Igfig: no, you see each other
Igfig: I guess you wave hi
Jacques: ah
Alek_Deckard: Does the 18 thievery check help me figure out how rods and doors combine to open?  If they do?
Igfig: it's like, the ring is some kind of inorganic, nonsentient wizard thing
black_dynamite: Actually jac wasn't with us during the last side mission I was in so I have no idea who he is
Lakanu: SOMEONE HELP US
Jacques: For all he knows I'm some fire-demon
Igfig: You don't think the rods directly open the doors in any way, though
Jacques: I go up to the door with BD
Alek_Deckard: Well crud.
Igfig: but they seem to have a sort of attraction, magnetic-like, to the grey door
Alek_Deckard: Oh.  Lightbulb.
Igfig: they grow quite warm when they're in contact with the door
Alek_Deckard: I bring one rod close to the grey door, aligning it with one of the edges of the rectangular pattern.
Igfig: incidentally, while you're holding them, touching the reddish door with your own hand feels warm
Lakanu: WHY IS NO ONE HELPING US
Alek_Deckard: I push on the grey door with the rod and the red door with my hand.
Lakanu: OR CARING ABOUT THE WELLS
Alek_Deckard: "We're trying!"
Igfig: they do align themselves naturally along the lines of the door, but they don't seem to affect the doors directly
Jacques: "Mr. Large Muscular Man. I need you to do something for me."
Igfig: maybe the rods are more of a passive thing?  A detector?  A litmus strip?
Alek_Deckard: Um, hell, insight check.
Alek_Deckard: 1d20+4
Fortuna: Alek_Deckard, 1d20+4: [14] = 18
Igfig: well, when you're not holding the rods, the grey door feels cool and the reddish door feels... pretty neutral
black_dynamite: "What do you want Mr. Person"
RobotDave wake up
RobotDave starts shuffling along the floor.
Lakanu: I start bouncing a ball against the wall, like steve mcqueen
Jacques: I need you to punch me in the face
Alek_Deckard: Use Lakuna's clothes?  They might help with the static electricity.
black_dynamite: Robots can't do the worm. Silly robot
black_dynamite: CAN DO
RobotDave: LAKANU, PLEASE TAKE OFF YOUR CLOTHES.
black_dynamite: I punch Jac in the face
black_dynamite: 1d10+3
Fortuna: black_dynamite, 1d10+3: [2] = 5
Lakanu: I only have a hood and a cape. Nothing to hide
Lakanu: here they are, though
Jacques: I explode into ashes again, and go back to the other side
Igfig: So Dave and Lakanu, are you trying to save yourselves from this fire?  Or hang out anf make lightning?
Igfig: or what?
Lakanu: Make lightning I guess
RobotDave takes the clothing and lays it on the floor, and begins to pace/shuffle
Jacques: What color are the rods?
black_dynamite: They are chanting
Igfig: the fire is encroaching further
black_dynamite: And praying to the fire gods
Igfig:  3d4 squares
Fortuna: Igfig, squares: [1, 4, 1] = 6
RobotDave: Yeah, make lightning. Might as well. We've got nothing to do.
black_dynamite: jI mean lightning gods
Lakanu: Shuffle like you've never shuffled before
Igfig: the rods are white
RobotDave shuffles like a mofo
Jacques: okay, that doesn't help my idea
Lakanu: Then shuffle s'more
RobotDave continues to shuffle
Igfig: hmm, what else
Alek_Deckard: Hell, time for another try.
Alek_Deckard: I'm going to pray to Pelor for inspiration.
RobotDave: Ig, what would I roll for the static electricity build-up?
Igfig: oh yeah, touching the reddish door, your own hand seems to align somewhat to the lines of the door
Alek_Deckard: 1d20+6 Religion
Fortuna: Alek_Deckard, Religion: [5] = 11
Jacques: Arcana to determine what's up with these damn rods
Jacques: 1d20+13
Fortuna: Jacques, 1d20+13: [9] = 22
Igfig: Maybe Con, Dave?
Alek_Deckard: I blame that on the vampirism, and only being a rookie cleric.
black_dynamite: Ig. Can I try to kick the door down again?
Igfig: Sure, Bd
black_dynamite: 1d20+3 DOOR KICK
Fortuna: black_dynamite, DOOR KICK: [7] = 10
black_dynamite: :(
black_dynamite: "Black Dynamite doesn't like this door
Igfig: You don't think these rods are particularly unique, Jacques
Igfig: in that you could probably get similar effects from things other than the rod
Jacques: Hmm... I shoot the red door with fire
Igfig: nothing happens
RobotDave stops shuffling after shuffling vigorously for a long while
RobotDave: Is it a 20-sided dice plus all the mods?
Igfig: probably any other inorganic material would have a similar, if less intense effect
Igfig: yeah, Dave
RobotDave: 1d20+3
Fortuna: RobotDave, 1d20+3: [8] = 11
RobotDave: OH COME ON, FORTUNA.
Lakanu: DIVINE GUIDANCE
Lakanu: REROLL
black_dynamite: Ig. Are there any windows I can fly out of and into another room?
RobotDave: 1d20+3
Fortuna: RobotDave, 1d20+3: [12] = 15
Igfig: You don't see any, no
RobotDave: ... slightly better. Did that work? Or should Lakanu try?
Lakanu: I start shufflng expectantly
black_dynamite: When I rolled perception on the tree earlier, did I search it or just look at it?
RobotDave: DAVE IS SAD.
Lakanu: With my +1 modifier
Igfig: You think you've got a bit of a static charge, Mr. Robot and Mr. Crystal
RobotDave: OH!?
RobotDave: Did it work on the well? Did it?
Jacques: TOUCH THE WELL
Lakanu fist bumps DAVE
Igfig: You inspected it fairly closely, Dynamite
RobotDave touches the well, then returns the fist bump
Igfig: the well... flickers for a moment, with a commensurate flicker over on the ring
Igfig: but then returns to as it was before
Igfig: just not enough electricity
RobotDave: SHALL WE TRY TOGETHER, LAKANU?
RobotDave starts shuffling again
Lakanu shuffles like a madman
Lakanu: Like MC Hammer
Igfig: you'll need enough to do some actual lightning damage, you're pretty sure
Lakanu: SHUFFLING
Igfig: and you strongly doubt that you can build up that kind of charge
Jacques: And none of us can do that, so we might as well just beat our foreheads on the door until it breaks
RobotDave: Well, we've seriously got nothing else to do. 
Lakanu: Apart from die
RobotDave: At least, I can't think of anything.
RobotDave: Yeah, there's that, too.
Igfig: speaking of which
Igfig:  3d4
Fortuna: Igfig,  3d4: [2, 1, 3] = 6
RobotDave: Damnit, Ig!
Alek_Deckard: Enraged at feeling helpless to help, Alek uses Vampire Slam, on the red door.
Igfig: argh
Alek_Deckard: 1d20+6
Fortuna: Alek_Deckard, 1d20+6: [14] = 20
Alek_Deckard: 1d10+7
Fortuna: Alek_Deckard, 1d10+7: [4] = 11
Igfig: this puzzle actually has a fairly simple solution
RobotDave: LAKUNA, IT'S NOW OR NEVER.
Alek_Deckard: And I push the target 1 square.
RobotDave: *LAKANU
RobotDave: 1d20+3 Constitution
Fortuna: RobotDave, Constitution: [14] = 17
Jacques: Wait, what are the rods made of again?
Lakanu: 1d20+1
Fortuna: Lakanu, 1d20+1: [13] = 14
Lakanu: pfft
Lakanu: Does somehow combining radiant and fire do something?
black_dynamite: WE NEED TO THINK WITH PORTALS
Alek_Deckard: If the solution is pushing on the grey door with an inorganic thing and pushing on the red door with an organic thing I tried that earlier.
RobotDave: TOUCH THE WELL WITH ME, LAKANU
Igfig: but you guys keep doing things that, by chance, make the solution more difficult
RobotDave touches the well with Lakanu
Lakanu: I climb into the well, and think electric thoughts
Alek_Deckard: You know what, new idea.
black_dynamite: Ig. I'm going to go stand in the center of the rock circle. I'm guessing nothing happens
Alek_Deckard: Opposites time.
RobotDave jumps into well as best as he can and thinks as hard as he can
Igfig: And when you did that, Alex, it did seem to do something
Jacques: I wonder aloud why we came in here, instead of going to the ancient city to get loads of treasure
Igfig: but the problem was that the rod was just a rod
Alek_Deckard: This information does not cause any processes in my brain, so I'm gonna try the opposites idea.
RobotDave: SO .... HOW'S THE WELL DOING?
Alek_Deckard: I'm going to push on the grey door with my hand and push on the red door with the rod.
Lakanu: I set myself on fire, run into the radiance, and then jump in the well
Lakanu: What else can I possibly do?
Igfig: Both doors become quite cool, Alek
Igfig: the well is still doing nothing much
Igfig: perhaps your energies would be better spent elsewhere
Jacques: Try it on the other set of doors?
Lakanu: Well, we can't get out now
black_dynamite: I'm standing in the circle ig
black_dynamite: I take it nothing is happening
Igfig: such as... setting yourself on fire and radiance and jumping in a well? That's kind of silly.
Lakanu: Have to exhaust all the possibilities
Lakanu: One was blue, one was yellow. The middle is green
RobotDave: DAVE WILL SET SELF ON FIRE. LAKANU GET THE RADIANCE. WE WILL JUMP TOGETHER.
Igfig: In the circle, the glow and the hum are much brighter and louder
Lakanu: We are essentially just beating up this well
RobotDave: WELL, IT'S THE WELL OR US. SO WE MIGHT AS WELL GO DOWN FIGHTING. OR BURNING OURSELVES. WHICHEVER.
black_dynamite: I'm standing in the middle of the rock circle
Igfig: and even untrained in Arcana, you can feel magic spiraling away into a narrow... somehting
RobotDave takes the robe on the ground and waves it in the fire.
Lakanu: We should use our daily attacks on it. Go out with a hail mary
Igfig: you don't really have the vocabulary to describe it, BD
RobotDave: I'm assuming the robe catches fire?
Igfig: but the hole or whatever is quite narrow
Igfig: yes, it catches fire
black_dynamite: "I AM SPIRALING INTO A NARROW SOMETHING"
Lakanu: Stop burning my robe
Lakanu: Use a stick
Lakanu: I like my robe
RobotDave: WE HAVE NO STICKS, SILLY.
RobotDave throws robe into well.
Lakanu: You are made of wood
RobotDave: RATHER YOUR ROBE THAN DAVE.
RobotDave: DAVE IS SENTIENT, THE ROBE IS NOT.
Igfig: that is very true
Lakanu: How very considerate
Lakanu: Now we're having a domestic
Lakanu: In the encroaching fire
RobotDave: So we have the fire.
black_dynamite: The cops are showing up
Igfig: ugh
Igfig: okay, this is seriously going nowhere anymore
Igfig: uhm
Jacques: it's going right over my head
black_dynamite: Wait,what about me
black_dynamite: I'm in a narrow somethign
Jacques: I don't understand this puzzle
Igfig: shall I just tell you what I was trying to get at?
Jacques: please
Lakanu: This is the part where we feel stupid
RobotDave goes to yellow well
Alek_Deckard: Yeah, I'm sure I'll facepalm afterwards, but it would be very nice.
black_dynamite: yes please ig
RobotDave: Do I catch radiance or - oh. Yes, please, ig.
black_dynamite: I woke up and started punching things
Igfig: You did have to push the grey door with something inorganic and the red door with something organic
Igfig: the thing was, they both had to be sentient
black_dynamite: ROBOT
Igfig: BD and Bashal got through because Bashal is a pile of crystals
Jacques: Oh. One of the people trapped behind hall full of fire
Alek_Deckard: Yeah, kay, that's not so bad that I'm gonna facepalm over it.
Igfig: and then Bashal disappeared or something
Alek_Deckard: Fire is inorganic.
Alek_Deckard: *points at Jacques*
Alek_Deckard: Sorta.
black_dynamite: BAshal became a skeleont
black_dynamite: I punched him for a key in his pelvis
Jacques: I'm not a construct of fire, I'm just a dude who has fire powers
RobotDave: Wood is organic, I'm pretty sure.
Igfig: Genasi are organic, they just happen to be also on fire
Jacques: at least the firesouls do
Igfig: warforged are mostly stone, with a bit of metal and wood
RobotDave: Oh, okay.
RobotDave: I guess I should have just run through the fire.
Igfig: yeah, I kind of dropped the ball on this puzzle
Igfig: yes, definitely
RobotDave: Nah, I was stupid. Should have gotten out when I could have. Would we have been able to do anything to the well at all?
Jacques: I was thinking that it needed two people, but the organic/inorganic thing didn't cross my mind
black_dynamite: Sooooo.... What am I doing
Igfig: I should have just retconned how it worked, so that Alek would have been successful with his attempt
Igfig: Yeah, it's like you had all the right ideas, but you weren't quite putting them together
Jacques: It's midnight, so I think that's understandable
black_dynamite: So what's happening to me right now?\
RobotDave: I live on the West Coast. It's slightly less understandable for me, I'm sorry.
Igfig: and to stop the fire and radiance, you just had to stand in the circle and cast the keyword-appropriate spells
Jacques: Bah, I could have stopped the fire!
Igfig: when Jacques went back through the door, I was like argggh
Jacques: I didn't think to shoot fire into the well
Jacques: er, the Array
Jacques: It's a giant focusing arcane array thingy
Jacques: I would think that'd just transport me to the fire-dimension or whatever
black_dynamite: So can I punch jac through the door so he can come back through
black_dynamite: and we can get htis over with
Igfig: ...oh yeah, uh I realized I just contradicted myself
RobotDave: ?
Jacques: I think since he had to explain the puzzle, it kinda means we're done for the night.
Igfig: I told you earlier that standing in the circle might give you power, or kill you
Jacques: transporting me to the fire dimension would kill me
Igfig: and then I totally forgot about that when BD went and stood in it
Alek_Deckard quit.
RobotDave: Well, to be fair, you did just say "might"
black_dynamite: Ah shit
Igfig: I think I improvised my way into deciding that you needed to be in the circle
Igfig: really, you just needed to cast the spells from anywhere
Jacques: I'm gonna have to re-work Jacques, give him more variety
Igfig: Fire is pretty cool though
Jacques: I think shooting fire into the cascading Focus Array was the last thing on my mind
Jacques: Yeah, but making it all he does kinda limits my options
Igfig: anyway, this whole puzzle thing has been something of a fiasco, and a little embarrassing
RobotDave: Don't worry about it.
RobotDave: It was fun.
RobotDave: I enjoyed shuffling and running around like a crazy robot.
black_dynamite: We are horrible puzzle sovlers
Jacques: Yeah, it wasn't bad for something improv'd
Igfig: so let's say you figure that out and turn the array off and then yeah.
Igfig: No, you're pretty good problem solvers
RobotDave: We need more puzzle-solving practise, though.
Jacques: it's just we're not up to snuff on our critical thinking tonight, apparently
RobotDave: Especially me. I was just running around like a headless chicken.
black_dynamite: We needed to think with portals
Igfig: it's kind of a cliche that DMs are always making traps that seem completely simple to them, that the players can never figure out
Igfig: Well, on the bright side, I can recycle the fixed, simplified version of this puzzle somewhere else
Jacques: Well Alek figured out the organic/inorganic thing pretty easily
Jacques: it's just we didn't think to make an inorganic person push the door
Igfig: He figured it out at about the right point, really
Jacques: Right
Igfig: but then after that point, yeah
Jacques: after that point our brains turned to mush
Igfig: also note that there was the next part of the puzzle after that, with the dealing with the circle
Igfig: yes jacques, I think that describes all of us pretty well right now
Igfig: I'm fried.
RobotDave: Well, it's been fun. I'm going to sign off for the night. Same time next week? Or we going to have any more sessions between now and then?
Igfig: Fried mush.
Igfig: Pancakes, you could say.
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Igfig: Same time next week.  I'm a little sidequest'd out right now
black_dynamite: In that case
black_dynamite: I shall now leave
Igfig: and with that, I'll be off as well
black_dynamite: Farewell
Igfig: night all!
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