"Screw that! they died we didn't continue where we left off and stop the whole *Batman voice* REVENGENCE kick" Chelsea started complaining the second everyone sat down.
"actually I agree just lighten the difficulty a little maybe?" Victoria just had to throw in her two cents. Tom sighs and looks at Mike and Larry both of which just shrug their shoulders. "Fine but you should probably try and wake up the mage and get to a temple.." Tom gets his screen back in place and starts the game back up changing a few 'minor' details to the story.
Melissa and Malree drag Anya to one of the few places on Liavara where people seem to be halfway coherent and ask them why everyone is asleep. groggily one of the natives reply "this planet is covered in Ley lines making it much easier for people to meditate and fall into a trance allowing them to connect to the higher planes, sadly it's more of a forced meditation on most parts of the planet.. those of us who have little to no magical aptitude tend to be more resilient to the forced 'dreaming' try to wake up the others every now and then just so they can bathe and eat but they usually scream at us so the ones who are nice about the wake up call wear a red necklace that shows they actually appreciate the efforts we go through.. we just let the others stay in their happy little coma, you must have just fell through a portal, so how sure are you your friend won't try to roast us the second she wakes up?"
Victoria is munching on some of her homemade candy so she looks to Chelsea to answer "We're fairly certain she would appreciate the wake up call but if you don't want to risk it just tell us the safest way to wake her". "well the safest way is just pouring water on them any kind of shock will work but usually a light slap or two is necessary.." the local states while looking a little sleepy himself before he smacks his own cheek to wake up.
"we have to sleep in shifts otherwise we won't wake up ourselves so do be careful and here wear these just in case" the local hands Malree three simple red necklaces and walks away to his half asleep comrades. "Can I try waking her up?" Victoria grins from ear to ear while looking at Mari.. "I would much rather Chelsea do it I don't trust you with the smile right now" Mari looks pleadingly to Chelsea "Fine I use create water to splash her awake" Chelsea and Mari roll there die before Tom could even ask, the dice land on 17 and 14 respectively "congrats you woke up the mage and she seems to not hate you" Tom narrates as he gets up to grab a soda from the cooler.
"what will you do now adventurers?"
"let's bring the boys back to life it would be a good idea to have a cleric on a planet where everyone falls asleep, he may have a way to keep us from having to do a saving roll everywhere we go" Mari suggests off the bat and looks at Tom as if she still held a grudge for the 'sleep talk incident' as the three women make their way to the closest temple they had to roll three more saving rolls and luckily manage to stay awake, only to find everyone in the temple is asleep...
"let's wake them up" Victoria grabs her die but Chelsea stops her. "I observe if anyone is wearing a red necklace" makes the perception check roll of 15 "sadly no necklace to be found in site you happen to be in a temple of lazy priests, what's your next move?" Victoria starts looking at her character sheet before coming up with a plan. "What's the head honchos level?" Mari looks at Victoria with caution "why would you ask that?" "oh you know.. just curious and all" Victoria replies innocently. "He is a grand priest on a planet with a heavy concentration of ambient Mana, if you're planning on insta-killing the sleeping guy.. DON'T"
"Geez you make me sound like a maniac.. I was gonna suggest barely waking him up so I could try dominating him while he has negatives on his wisdom check due to the sleepy sleep" Tom cuts in "He's level 8 you would need at least a Nat 18.. I'm only warning you cause failure would not be good for any of you"
"ok me and Malree are going to leave the building so Melissa can give it a shot" "You're gonna abandon me?!?" "Your plan, your consequences" "just roll the dice and I'll tell you how badly you die Vicky" Victoria blows on her die and begins humming as she cups her hands together and shakes for exactly twenty two seconds before giving a sharp snap of her wrist on release bouncing the die against the very edge of the top of Tom's screen.
The screen teeters as the die hits the table.. everyone stares at the results and no one says a word, forcing Tom to look out from behind his screen. Nat 20... "Mother f∆¢ker.. Malree and Anya can hear a rather happy old man laughing inside of the temple as two bright lights descend from the sky, an obvious sign that a resurrection spell has been cast"
Tom looks at Larry and Mike roguishly before he drops a nice little bombshell. "Both of you need to roll constitution checks... your deaths were caused due to and Eldritch God so there will be consequences for low rolls" The dice clattered against the table once again and Mike sighs in relief as Larry sighs in defeat.
"ouch only an 11? hmm since your teeth were the media for your resurrection they dissolved as your body formed, congrats man your characters new name is Lando the toothless -2 on charisma until the next long rest which will be quite painful as your teeth regrow" Larry stares indignantly at Tom before he goes into a little moaning B!t¢hy fit. "Dude I thought you said you were lowering the difficulty.. why did I get such a harsh penalty?"
"Yeah I lowered the difficulty but I still have my job as crypt keeper to make your adventure a challenge, besides I could have gave much harsher penalties so be grateful that you only sound like Herbert the pervert..." Everyone starts laughing as the game continues deep into the night...