Play@YSDC

Anybody who watches down the corridor,You see it as soon as you peer into the corridor. At the end of a relatively short corridor, five or six meters at most, there is the mouth. It's similar to the other mouths, in shape, but it's much bigger, so big it could easily swallow a person. It emerges from a wall, the stone somehow turning into swollen flesh. An obscene tongue wiggles around, spouting out Nectar, that forms a pool just under it. Just the sight of it sickens you. And as soon as it notices you, its tongue pushes forward with a disgusting liquid sound, closing the distance faster than you could have thought possible... [ooc]Roll Stability.[/ooc] [ooc]If Jonathan is ready to throw the dynamite, he can do so right away, then try to fall back. Throwing the dynamite requires an Athletics roll.[/ooc]

OOC,Can I get a sense of the difficulty and likely stability loss as with -1 stability I guess I'm probably gonna need to spend myself down to -5 to even stand a chance of passing

Cam,By rule Stability difficulty is 4, that goes up to 5 for Mythos tests. It might be higher when actual gods are involved. You might estimate Stability losses by checking page 18 of the condensed rules: https://www.google.it/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://site.pelgranepress.com/trail/files/Trail_of_Cthulhu_Condensed_Rules.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwi8xMO7qKPnAhUOyaQKHTR-ALkQFjAAegQIARAB&usg=AOvVaw2G3XZR0j-IZXNj6P1HOE5r

OOC,Cam will spend 4 Stability, [dice]0[/dice], this could all go terribly badly!

Cam and Jonathan,The dynamite flies towards the mouth and lands inside. Your relief is short-lived, though, as the tongue grabs [b]Jonathan[/b] and wraps around him. The smell is disgusting, sweet to the point that it makes you want to puke. You can feel your clothes getting drenched in that horrible mix of saliva and Nectar. But worst of all, the tongue is now trying to pull [b]Jonathan[/b] in. [b]Cam[/b] manages to grab him, but the huge tongue is showing an incredible amount of strength. [ooc]You both take no Stability loss. Jonathan takes 3 damage from the tongue. [b]Cam[/b] must roll Athletics to keep [b]Jonathan[/b] from being dragged into the corridor and possibly swallowed.[/ooc]

Everybody else,You see [b]Jonathan[/b] throwing the dynamite and turning to run. Then, suddenly, a huge, swollen red tongue appears to coil around him, trying to drag him back down. [b]Cam[/b] manages to hold him and grab him, and you can see his muscles strained as he exerts his maximum strength to resist the tongue.

OOC,Cam spends 3 Athletics, [dice]0[/dice]

Cam,You have held him for now, but the tongue is still pulling him in and you don't know how much longer you can resist.

Everyone else,[ooc]Helping Cam requires an Athletics roll. You can spend as many points as you like in the roll[/ooc]

OOC,Athletics roll (spending 4 points): [dice]0[/dice]

Ian,The scream of the mouth resonates amplified in your head. You feel nauseated, you only want to crawl in some corner and die. But worst of all, for a brief moment when the mouth eploded and died, you are sure it caught the attention of [i]something[/i]. [i]Something[/i] far, and utterly alien. [i]Something[/i] that, for a moment, set its eyes on you.