Research Proposal

"Research Proposal" is the 4th session of Season 4.

 

Spells are cast, items trade hands, and research is conducted on one mysterious quiver.

 

It was played on June 1, 2025.

The date in-game is the 14th day of Fall DST.

Synopsis

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Plot

  • We’re in the room with tables and carvings on the floor, it’s around noon
  • Quill and Lya eepy sleepy
  • Dorian does a system update
  • Aster is looking at the snake ring
    • Ring makes it so you can move full speed while prone (spidella)
    • You can not be paralyzed by magic
  • Aster casts sending to Arthur
    • last word: '25'
    • He can respond
      • ended with 'you shine 26'
      • not the best grasp of Common
  • Aella and Mariana talk about Aella’s deal with The Tempest Queen
  • Taolthetoth and Marem return on a skiff
  • Quill wakes up, Aella talks with him about who should get the health rings
    • Quill is fine without it
    • Quill: it’s meant for people with a connection
      • Aella turns red
  • Aster Dorian and Gelvrelver are at a table
    • Aella goes up to aster very red and stammering a lot and pulls out tin magic ring
    • Other people watch (and misinterpret)
    • Aster takes ring, cheek kisses are exchanged
  • We will long rest at night and leave the next morning
  • Quill is making trick arrows while restocking on supplies
    • He finds a light crossbow in the pile, can fit in quiver
    • Works on making a grapple arrow
      • Ingredients: arrow, metal arrowhead via Maeve, 
    • He shoots crossbow into the quiver, 9 piercing damage, the arrow disappears
      • He fishes for the arrow, it immediately shoots into his hand 9 damage for Quill
    • But what happens when shoot arrow tied by rope and pull rope?
      • Barrel is target, Lya ties rope around her wrist so it doesn’t go into quiver
      • Rope streams into quiver for like 3s then stops, not taut
      • Quill lays prone under quiver opening, yanks rope out while thinking ‘i want my arrow’
        • He feels it pull against something solid
        • Lya full body weight leans back to pull
          • She feels something give and she falls back
          • Arrow detached from rope
        • Quill reaches in there asking for a dagger, he gets dagger and no damage
        • He asks for an arrow, he gets back half of an arrow
        • He asks for another arrow, he gets 9 damage
    • Quill shoots arrow in there, Lya casts mage hand and has it go get the arrow
      • Mage hand does not come back, arrow comes flying out of the quiver
    • Quill shoots 5 arrows into the quiver, mage hand attempt 2
      • One arrow shoots out
      • Others shoot out, some of them go wide/miss
        • Accuracy is questionable (because of interaction of mage hand)
    • Aella throws rock inside quiver, it comes out at approx. same velocity
      • Thought experiment: one of the crystal bombs + catapult spell?
      • Someone should get catapult spell
    • DD throws spear into quiver
      • It launches out
    • Testing how time passes; place smoke bomb with fuse
      • 1-2 minute fuse, waiting 10m and walking outside
        • Kaviah is following
        • Ring of sandstone arches being formed around Armide (avocado), path being formed into the distance
      • Mage hand disappears, nothing comes out, just little charred remains
        • Time does indeed pass; smoke dissipated before even reaching in
    • Testing how impact bombs work
      • Meph chucks in a bomb
      • Lya takes 3 damage, it explodes on contact with mage hand, slightly chars quiver
    • Quill shakes quiver upside down, nothing falls out
    • Possibility that orantium (glass) bomb would work, since it would sooner break a hand than shatter on contact with one
    • Quill shoots another arrow in
      • Mage hand circle with fingers, asking for arrow
      • Hand persists, arrow does not emerge
      • Hand grabs fletching of arrow, it comes flying out, mage hand does not
        • Seems like it stops existing no matter what
        • Arrow spins + tumbles into the sand because it has no fletching
    • Need to create an arrow that has an extra part that can be taken off
      • Lya gets some string and Meph ties slip knot above fletching, shoot in
      • Mage hand grabs string, out comes arrow; it flew much better
    • Repeat experiment with Quill’s real hand
      • Out comes an arrow, slicing all the way down Quill’s forearm
    • Slip knot arrow, Quill doesn’t reach in that far, only tossed in (just enough momentum)
      • Comes out backwards
    • Slip knot at tip of arrow, Aella pulls out, no damage
    • Multiple arrows attached to one string
      • We get 10ft of string from the Armide
  • Aster wrote everything out lab notebook style
  • Dorian keeps 2 tallies: us, quiver
    • Also he can cast healing word, wound closed with a gold line, it ends with a little flourish

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