Bandwagon - Death Drop Delve
Musings
I'm joining the Blog Bandwagon, and our focus is holes. Interesting how we've gone from holy to holey in the blog bandwagon. Enjoy this queer centered dungeon crawling tool? spell? action?
In the thick of a delve, what if you could Death Drop to save you and your friends? Rather than an action or bonus action, consider this, a Diva action. Death dropping to the floor of a damp, dark dungeon to summon a Diva that will tear a hole in the floor to shove you and your fellow adventurers to the next floor below. Letting your legs and booty butt crash to the ground with such a force that it tears the seams of reality open is quite a power.
What is a Death Drop? Please consider this amazing video by iconic drag queens. Now imagine your character, in armor, doing the same and afterwards, a goddess whispers in your ear, "Good luck, and don't fuck it up." before shoving you through the carved out portal to the next floor in the delve.
Where, exactly, on the next floor do you land? There are some fun options!
1. Roll for a room on the floor below.
If the floor is labeled something like Floor 2, Room 1, then it'd be easy to use a die and roll for where the players land. They could fall right into the lair of a hostile faction or something else.
2. Have the players shoved to exactly where they'd be on the next floor.
Death dropping through the floor without messing up the layout or having to figure out what's needed could be handy. If it's a wall, so be it. Death drop into a solid wall!! Or, fall through to the next floor.
3. Roll for how many floors they Death Drop to.
Death dropping is an ability in both lip syncs and dungeons. Perhaps a series of contested rolls between GM and player to determine where, exactly, the portal takes players to. Or even worse, maybe they fall through X number of floors. Who knows where the party could end up then.
4. Fall into another realm/area altogether
Listen, you don't have to delve further into a dungeon. What if you death drop in a forest with such a fierce intensity that you accidentlly summon the Diva Goddess? Well, then maybe you'll fall until the world opens up and takes you, or perhaps you suffocate in the dirt.
5. Fall through the floor, but it exists in a different time
Hey, maybe the death drop defies time, and you fall to the next floor of a delve but a hundred years in the past (or future!). Time traveling death drops??? Count me in.
Conclusion
Death dropping could be for scouting ahead or to get out of a gnarly situation. In the end, it's a gamble that could save or destroy the party in the most absurd way possible!