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Apheori (GM): Hmm.
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So you all beat a stone guy up.
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Something happened to Gravy.
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Ganelon: We beat him up and then fixed him up in very short order.
 
Apheori (GM): I'm not sure what yet.
<screenplay>
Gaurav: Does the stone guy have any pockets?
 
Apheori (GM): Yeah, he's wearing stone clothes, with stone pockets, probably full of stone.
INT. Wizard's tower foyer - day
Gaurav: He's a credit to his stonemason.
 
Ellemerr: My pockets are better.
Radek is kneeling over the unconscious stone man, who is simply stone, wearing stone clothes, with stone pockets, probably full of stone, while the others look on.
Rhu:
 
rolling d20+15 perception check on the box the stone man was in
The Gravedigger suddenly disappears without a trace.
(
 
12
RADEK
)
...Oh. ''Marvelous.''
+15
 
=
Butterflies flutter around behind them, and especially around Amadi. Dawn bats at one that gets too close to her.
27
 
Apheori (GM): It's a box. Bit of a crate. Was originally nailed shut, but from the look of it he hadn't been nailed in.
Also, for anyone with perception: Gravy disappears.
Gaurav: There's a good chance your pockets contain multiple stone guys with stone pockets all of their own.
Ganelon: I assume you mean "basic observational skills" and not actual training in Perception.
Apheori (GM): Yes.
Ganelon: Okay, good.
Apheori (GM): Amadi: There are still butterflies everywhere, though a lot of ones on the floor have been smashed.
Radek: ...Oh. /Marvelous./
Apheori (GM): Unless someone got rid of them.
I can't remember. Did anyone?
Ganelon: I didn't do anything to the butterflies.
Apheori (GM): Okay, yeah, still there.
Ganelon: Radek commented on them being a waste of magical effort.
Possibly their feelings were hurt.
Amadi tries to comfort any possibly hurt feelings.
Apheori (GM): Butterflies flutter around Amadi.
Ganelon: "a flamboyant waste of resources" was the exact phrasing.
Apheori (GM): Dawn bats at them.
Rhu: Any comment on the missing Gravy? DO STUFF DAMMIT.
Gaurav: The only way Rhu gets a 27 on a perception check is if he's been sitting staring at that box for at least 15 minutes.
And no. He just thinks Gravy might have stepped out or gone upstairs. Is the spiral staircase still in one piece?
Radek rises to his feet and glances back at Amadi and Dawn. He doesn't take particular care to address one over the other.
Radek rises to his feet and glances back at Amadi and Dawn. He doesn't take particular care to address one over the other.
Radek: Was that your doing?
 
RADEK
Was that your doing?
 
Amadi says immediately and at once "yes" and "no" at the same time.
Amadi says immediately and at once "yes" and "no" at the same time.
Ellemerr: Wow. Immediately AND at once. I am so good at this word-stuff.
 
Dawn: (after an entirely too long pause, scrunching her face up in concentration) ...maybe.
DAWN
Radek 's scowl deepens.
(after an entirely too long pause, scrunching her face up in concentration)
Apheori (GM): The stairs are fine.
...maybe?
What about the stone guy? He's watching you somewhat fearfully.
 
Radek's scowl deepens.
 
Amadi tells the butterflies that "flamboyant" is a really good thing to be. Anything that sounds that fancy has to be good. Flamboyant!
Amadi tells the butterflies that "flamboyant" is a really good thing to be. Anything that sounds that fancy has to be good. Flamboyant!
Apheori (GM): A bit afraid you'll smack him again.
 
The stone man wakes up and looks at Radek fearfully.
 
Dawn nods vaguely and wanders over toward Rhu and Radek and the stone guy.
Dawn nods vaguely and wanders over toward Rhu and Radek and the stone guy.
Radek returns his attention towards the Stone Guy, still scowling.
Radek returns his attention towards the Stone Guy, still scowling.
Radek: Say something.
 
RADEK
Say something.
 
STONE GUY
Uh... hi?
 
Rhu walks up the stairs as far as he can without losing sight of the rest of the party.
Rhu walks up the stairs as far as he can without losing sight of the rest of the party.
Stone guy: Uh... hi?
 
Apheori (GM): Rhu: Any attempts at stealth?
RADEK
Radek: Good enough - you can speak.
Good enough - you can speak.
Ganelon: That seems like a strange thing to ask, regarding Rhu.
 
Apheori (GM): Point taken.
Rhu hears something horrible from the floor above and falls down the stairs. ''(rolled 16 perception (natural 1))''
Rhu: Perception.
 
Gaurav: Heh, what he said. Also: I imagine we made quite a bit of noise attacking a hunk of walking stone, so.
Rhu:
rolling d20+15 perception check
(
1
)
+15
=
16
Apheori (GM): o.O
Ganelon: Hey, he's not /that/ attractive, is he?
Gaurav: I see NOTHING
Apheori (GM): Rhu: You hear something horrible and fall down the stairs.
Radek twitches just barely at the sounds of assumed incompetence, but otherwise remains focused.
Radek twitches just barely at the sounds of assumed incompetence, but otherwise remains focused.
(To Greibel): Something horrible sounds like an irate dragon, disturbed in particular by the /approach/ of the insolent small things, getting up upstairs.
 
Rhu: (comically rolling to a stop near Radek's feet, muffled from getting his cloak tied up around his head) Thr's sth hrble up thr.
RHU
Gaurav: Damage?
(muffled from getting his cloak tied up around his head)
The porridge 's eyes widen
Thr's sth hrble up thr.
Ganelon: The porridge has eyes?
 
Bear Soup Guy: lulwhat
On Greibel's shoulders, the porridge opens a pair of porridge-coloured eyes.
Apheori (GM): I should stop rolling dice.
 
Greibel 's eyes widen
Almost at the same time, Greibel's eyes widen.
Apheori (GM): Rhu takes four points of damage.
 
Bear Soup Guy: The porridge too
Radek looks down at Rhu, then back at the Stone Guy.
They're linked together now
 
Apheori (GM): The porridge can MAKE eyes, man.
Bear Soup Guy: Imagine the porridge's mock eyes just exactly mimic everything Greibel's eyes do
Gaurav: Where is the porridge? Bring its cute little icon back.
Apheori (GM): It'd be on Greibel.
Wiggling.
Surprised.
Bear Soup Guy: Mimicking Greibel's facial expressions
Gaurav: That's both adorable and creepy.
Bear Soup Guy: It should be
Rhu gets back to his feet, untangling his cloak as he goes.
Rhu gets back to his feet, untangling his cloak as he goes.
Radek looks down at Rhu, then back at the Stone Guy.
 
Radek: I wish to understand your circumstances. Why were you turned to stone?
RADEK
...And then stored in a box?
I wish to understand your circumstances. Why were you turned to stone? ...And then stored in a box?
Stone guy: Um...
 
STONE GUY
Um... Hiding.
 
Amadi places a number of butterflies on Dawn.
Amadi places a number of butterflies on Dawn.
Stone guy: Hiding.
 
Radek: From what?
RADEK
From what?
 
Dawn goes and looms over the stone guy, juggling butterflies.
Dawn goes and looms over the stone guy, juggling butterflies.
Greibel looks up toward the upstairs ominously
 
Ganelon: That must be some slow juggling.
Greibel looks up toward the upstairs ominously.
Or some very cooperative butterflies.
 
Rhu looks down at his boots. They need cleaning.
Rhu looks down at his boots. They need cleaning.
Stone guy: (pointing toward Greibel) From the thing he's looking at.
 
Apheori (GM): Yes.
STONE GUY
Dawn: Yes.
(pointing toward Greibel)
From the thing he's looking at.
 
DAWN
Yes.
 
Radek glances towards Greibel, then the ceiling.
Radek glances towards Greibel, then the ceiling.
Ganelon: I'm guessing he does not See.
 
Rhu walks over to the door and glances outside.
RHU
Rhu: Where's Gravy?
Where's Gravy?
Apheori (GM): Radek just sees ceiling and a set of stairs up.
 
Percpetion?
DAWN
Dawn: Oh, he's not here.
Oh, he's not here. Elsewhere, probably.
Elsewhere, probably.
 
Greibel mouths words and gestures toward Radek and back to the ceiling
 
RHU
(to Dawn)
...oh.
 
Dawn suddenly looks confused.
Dawn suddenly looks confused.
Greibel mouths words and gestures toward Radek and back to the ceiling.
Greibel exaggerates mouthing the word "Dragon."
Greibel exaggerates mouthing the word "Dragon."
Ganelon: I'll roll but you might be asking Gaurav rather than me.
 
Stone guy: Look, guys, I don't mean to be rude, but this has all been a huge misunderstanding.
STONE GUY
Ganelon:
Look, guys, I don't mean to be rude, but this has all been a huge misunderstanding.
rolling 1d20+10 Perception
So can I... maybe... go?
(
 
2
Amadi finds some of the more damaged butterflies and tries to teach them how to fly again. She's particularly persistent towards the butterflies that have lost a wing.
)
 
+10
The butterflies fail to fly, but a few manage to float in a rather disorganised fashion, tumbling about even more ridiculously than the normal flight patterns of butterflies.
=
 
12
RADEK
Stone guy: So can I... maybe... go?
(absently)
Rhu: (to Dawn) ... oh.
Go where?
Ganelon: Oh yeah, he definitely sees nothing.
 
Apheori (GM): Yeah, doesn't hear anything in particular either.
STONE GUY
Aside from A WHOLE LOT OF BUTTERFLIES.
Um... away. Out. Somewhere that isn't here.
And annoying people.
 
Amadi has found some of the more damaged butterflies and is trying to teach them how to fly again. She's particularly persistent towards the butterflies that have lost a wing.
RADEK
Radek speaks absently.
...Could I have one of your limbs, first? For study.
Radek: Go where?
 
Stone guy: Um... away.
STONE GUY
Out.
Er. I'd rather you didn't? Kind of attached to them.
Somewhere that isn't here.
 
Radek: ...Could I have one of your limbs, first?
DAWN
For study.
We can fix that.
Apheori (GM): The butterflies Amadi is working with fail to fly, but a few manage to float in a rather disorganised fashion, tumbling about even more ridiculously than the normal flight patterns of butterflies.
 
Stone guy: Er.
Dawn grins maniacally and offers Radek a giant pair of scissors. Very giant.
I'd rather you didn't?
 
Kind of attached to them.
RADEK
Dawn: We can fix that.
Emotionally, physically, or both?
Dawn grins maniacally.
 
Radek: Emotionally, physically, or both?
GREIBEL
Greibel: Draaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagoooonnnn......
Draaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagoooonnnn......
Dawn offers Radek a giant pair of scissors.
 
Greibel flaps his arms like a dragon and points up
Greibel flaps his arms like a dragon and points up.
Stone guy: Yes, yes!
 
Amadi flaps her arms too, but more like a butterfly.
 
STONE GUY
Yes, yes!
 
Radek makes a "hush" motion at Greibel.
Radek makes a "hush" motion at Greibel.
Radek: That was not a yes or no question, sir.
 
Apheori (GM): Greibel: More perception.
RADEK
Amadi flaps her arms too, but more like a butterfly.
That was not a yes or no question, sir.
Greibel:
 
rolling 1d20+12
STONE GUY
(
(now, somehow, looking very flustered, especially for stone)
19
That is... both. Please, just let me go.
)
 
+12
RHU
=
(to stone guy)
31
Stay with us, we'll keep you safe.
Stone guy: (now, somehow, looking very flustered, especially for stone) That is... both.
 
Please, just let me go.
DAWN
Rhu: (to stone guy) Stay with us, we'll keep you safe.
(making quotes with her fingers)
Apheori (GM): Greibel: It seems to be settling down a bit.
Safe.
Dawn: (making quotes with her fingers) Safe.
 
Radek grumbles.
Radek grumbles.
Radek: Fine, do what you like. Live to delay the advancement of knowledge another day.
 
Rhu: We'll only throw you at our enemies very, very occasionally.
RADEK
Stone guy gets up uncertainly.
Fine, do what you like. Live to delay the advancement of knowledge another day.
 
RHU
We'll only throw you at our enemies very, very occasionally.
 
The stone guy gets up uncertainly.
 
Radek gives him some space, but grumpily.
Radek gives him some space, but grumpily.
Stone guy flees.
 
Ganelon: It's like this guy doesn't even appreciate the medical applications of turning people to living stone.
As soon as Radek is out of the way, the stone guy flees.
Radek: What a waste...
 
'''''Ganelon''' (Radek): It's like this guy doesn't even appreciate the medical applications of turning people to living stone.
 
RADEK
What a waste...
 
Radek sighs and turns back to Greibel.
Radek sighs and turns back to Greibel.
Radek: Now, you wanted something?
 
Greibel blinks
RADEK
Rhu: Some day we will fight shoulder-to-shoulder with a cool stone dude. But it is not this day.
Now, you wanted something?
Greibel: I think there's a dragon upstairs
 
Radek: ...Ah.
Greibel blinks.
Greibel: Yeah
 
Dawn: It's fine. It's a small one.
RHU
Some day we will fight shoulder-to-shoulder with a cool stone dude. But it is not this day.
 
GREIBEL
I think there's a dragon upstairs.
 
RADEK
...Ah.
 
GREIBEL
Yeah.
 
DAWN
It's fine. It's a small one.
 
Radek tries to look less concerned so his ignoring it earlier seems more justified.
Radek tries to look less concerned so his ignoring it earlier seems more justified.
Greibel: Where there are small dragons, there'll be big dragons coming back to find them
 
Amadi: That depends entirely on the breed of dragon, the size of the cave, and whether you had any blood pudding last week.
GREIBEL
Greibel turns to Dave worryingly
Where there are small dragons, there'll be big dragons coming back to find them.
Greibel: I /did/ have blood pudding last week!
 
Greibel turns to Amadi
AMADI
Greibel: I DID!
That depends entirely on the breed of dragon, the size of the cave, and whether you had any blood pudding last week.
Dawn: I might have had blood pudding.
 
Rhu: I crawled through an eldritch abomination two nights ago, does that count?
Greibel turns to Dawn worriedly.
Dawn: Was that the soupy stuff with the weird bits?
 
Amadi: No, Dawn, it's the wriggly green stuff.
GREIBEL
Dawn: Oh.
I ''did'' have blood pudding last week!
Amadi: Yes.
 
Greibel turns to Amadi.
 
GREIBEL
I DID!
 
DAWN
I might have had blood pudding. Was that the soupy stuff with the weird bits?
 
AMADI
No, Dawn, it's the wriggly green stuff.
 
DAWN
Oh.
 
AMADI
Yes.
 
RHU
I crawled through an eldritch abomination two nights ago, does that count?
 
Radek facepalms.
Radek facepalms.
Radek: This is a wizard's tower. If a dragon inhabits it, it is - or more likely, was - a captive.
 
(To Amadi): Also I think Rhu's thing in the horrible nightmare realm might have just been a hallucination due to the pills Greibel gave him shortly before.
RADEK
(From Amadi): Okay. O_o
This is a wizard's tower. If a dragon inhabits it, it is - or more likely, was - a captive.
Rhu: Maybe it's hiding, like the stone guy was. Maybe there's something ever scarier on the top floor.
 
Amadi: I could go to the top floor and be the scarier thing!
RHU
(To Amadi): Although considering where you are and all that, it's doubtful a hallucination that powerful wouldn't be at least partly real, too.
Maybe it's hiding, like the stone guy was. Maybe there's something ever scarier on the top floor.
Ganelon: I'm trying to think of a reason to discourage that plan.
 
Apheori (GM): Is there one? Is there?
AMADI
Ganelon: ...I can't think of one.
I could go to the top floor and be the scarier thing!
Amadi: I'd be a really good scarier thing. I can rawr. RAWR!
 
Dawn: RAAAAWR!
'''''Ganelon''': I'm trying to think of a reason to discourage that plan.
Ganelon: "It puts Amadi in danger" seems unlikely.
 
Greibel blinks
'''''Apheori (GM)''': Is there one? Is there?
Dawn makes a bit of a wind with her rawr.
 
Ganelon: "She's unlikely to be convincingly scary" is probably /true/, but a low chance of success for no risk is still a good idea.
'''''Ganelon''': ...I can't think of one.
Amadi: ... Or Dawn could do it, I guess.
 
Gaurav: Are there stairs going downstairs from where we are?
AMADI
I'd be a really good scarier thing. I can rawr. RAWR!
 
DAWN
RAAAAWR!
 
Dawn makes a bit of a wind with her rawr, but it sounds more like stomach trouble than something actually scary.
 
Greibel blinks.
 
AMADI
...Or Dawn could do it, I guess.
 
Dawn beams. It's slightly adorable and also a bit pathetic.
Dawn beams. It's slightly adorable and also a bit pathetic.
Apheori (GM): I think they only go up.
 
Ganelon: Wizards don't need basements.
RADEK
Their compulsive hoarding tendencies extend to all rooms of their houses already.
Well go on, then.
Gaurav: Why not? Where do they keep old bicycles and play D&D?
Apheori (GM): In the main rooms, of course.
Ganelon: Bicycles go in the shed.
They play D&D in demiplanes.
Those things are great, incidentally. You can make the progression of time faster or slower.
Gaurav: Huh. Cool!
Ganelon: So if the group can only meet for an hour, you can still squeeze in a six hour session in Steve's demiplane.
Apheori (GM): I'll take ten.
Gaurav: I suppose we should go upstairs and say hi to this dragon.
Given that we came here to look for wizards or knowledge or magic objects, and we've found none so far, except the one that ran away.
Apheori (GM): Amadi can go say hi.
Or not.
Radek: ...
Apheori (GM): I unno.
I love Radek.
Radek: Well go on, then.
I don't care which one of you does it. You could both try to be frightening at once, for all it matters.
I don't care which one of you does it. You could both try to be frightening at once, for all it matters.
Amadi grins happily, takes Dawn's hand, scoops up a number of butterflies, places these on both their shoulders, and commands the butterflies to fly them upstairs.
 
Apheori (GM): Amadi: d20
Amadi grins happily, takes Dawn's hand, scoops up a number of butterflies, places these on both their shoulders, and commands the butterflies to fly them upstairs. ''(rolled 16 reality)'' Somehow, the butterflies do, picking up the both of them and drawing them slowly upward... through the ceiling.
Amadi:
 
rolling 1d20
GREIBEL
(
Well. They're with God now.
16
 
)
RADEK
=
...They ''are'' gods. What is that even- ugh, never mind.
16
 
Ganelon: Presumably through the ceiling, though what are obstacles to Amadi?
Gaurav: Optional.
Apheori (GM): Somehow, the butterflies do, picking up the both of them and drawing them slowly upward... through the ceiling.
And then through the dragon.
Ganelon: "She emerges on the other end in a spray of blood and viscera."
Apheori (GM): And then through the air above the dragon as the dragon suddenly startles and takes a swipe at them with its claws.
Amadi: Do anything, or keep going?
Greibel: Well
They're with God now.
Amadi blows the dragon a kiss and keeps going.
Radek: ...They /are/ gods.
What is that even- ugh, never mind.
Apheori (GM) tries to dodge away from the claws and falls out of the butterflies, landing in front of the dragon, while Amadi, meanwhile, drifts through that ceiling, too.
Radek shakes his head and walks over to wait on the stairs for pretty much any kind of result.
Radek shakes his head and walks over to wait on the stairs for pretty much any kind of result.
Amadi shows no real concern at her loss of Dawn.
 
Ganelon: Wow, what a fantastic ally.
RHU
Apheori (GM): Amadi drifts up through the floor of a room that turns out to be full of magical treasure and a bunch of zombies, which all completely fail to notice her.
We don't still have that flying disk the mouse forged would ride on, do we?
Rhu: We don't still have that flying disk the mouse forged would ride on, do we?
 
Apheori (GM): Radek: Perception.
Some loud clunks drift down the stairs.
Ganelon:
 
rolling 1d20+10
RHU
(
Or maybe we could climb up the outside of the tower. Maybe it's a blind, deaf dragon?
1
 
)
RADEK
+10
Tenser's Floating Disk. It is a magical force construct.
=
I don't have a copy of the ritual. Your best hope is that we might find one in here
11
 
Apheori (GM): Radek hears some loud clunks.
 
Rhu: Or maybe we could climb up the outside of the tower. Maybe it's a blind, deaf dragon?
INT. Wizard's tower second floor - day
Amadi shrugs, lands gently, and does her scariest rawr.
 
Apheori (GM): Greibel: It sounds like fighting above you.
Amadi and Dawn float up through a dragon.
Ellemerr: Which I should probably also roll for.
 
Apheori (GM): ROLL.
Amadi blows the dragon a kiss.
Ellemerr:
 
rolling 1d20
They float up through the air above the dragon as the dragon suddenly startles and takes a swipe at them with its claws.
(
 
8
Dawn tries to dodge away from the claws and falls out of the butterflies, landing in front of the dragon.
)
 
=
Amadi shows no real concern at her loss of Dawn and continues to drift upward, going up through the floor of a room that turns out to be full of magical treasure and a bunch of zombies, which all completely fail to notice her.
8
 
Hm.
Amadi shrugs, lands gently, and does her scariest rawr. ''(rolled 21 bluff)''
Radek: Tenser's Floating Disk.
 
Apheori (GM): Add something bardy to that.
The zombies all panic and run away down the stairs. Toward the dragon. Which is trying to smash, claw, bite, and breathe on Dawn.
That's basically an attack.
 
Amadi:
 
^
INT. Wizard's tower foyer - day
Ellemerr: Bluff +13?
 
Apheori (GM): Sure, why not.
Clunks, bangs, roars, scrapes, and tearing noises come down the stairs, along with a sort of horrible wailing.
Okay, yeah, the zombies all panic and run away.
 
Down the stairs.
Toward the dragon.
Radek: It is a magical force construct.
Ellemerr: There's a grandfather singing opera above me. I thought you'd all like to know.
Apheori (GM): Which is trying to smash, claw, bite, and breathe on Dawn.
Gaurav: 0.0
Apheori (GM): Fancy.
Ellemerr: Hopefully my plan to distract the dragon with zombies is working.
Radek: I don't have a copy of the ritual. Your best hope is that we might find one in here
Apheori (GM): Meanwhile sounds of clunks, bangs, roars, scrapes, and tearing come down the stairs.
Along with a sort of horrible wailing.
(or up the stairs, in Amadi's case)
Rhu runs up the staircase, maul drawn.
Rhu runs up the staircase, maul drawn.
Apheori (GM): Dawn yells something about how they will all taste her superweapon.
 
Radek follows after him.
Radek follows after him.
Dawn: (yelling) Bow before the power of BUNNNNY!
 
 
INT. Wizard's tower second floor - day
 
DAWN
Prepare to meet my superweapon!
 
Amadi saunters down the stairs, hoping that she'll turn out to have perfect timing for being a superweapon.
Amadi saunters down the stairs, hoping that she'll turn out to have perfect timing for being a superweapon.
Apheori (GM): Does Greibel go too?
 
Amadi stops for a moment, considering whether she should try looking like a bunny and then deciding against it. Some things are /too/ scary. Even for fragments of gods.
DAWN
Rhu stops running at the mention of "bunny", walking up slowly and carefully instead.
(yelling)
Apheori (GM): Everyone roll initiative.
Bow down before the power of BUNNNNY!
Amadi:
 
rolling 1d20 + 3
Amadi stops for a moment, considering whether she should try looking like a bunny and then deciding against it. Some things are ''too'' scary. Even for fragments of gods.
(
 
13
Rhu stops running at the mention of "bunny", walking up slowly and carefully instead as he comes out onto the second floor. Radek is behind him, and Greibel behind him.
)
 
+3
They find that Dawn has apparently been carrying that bunny from before around all this time and has thrown it at the dragon. And apparently it did some serious damage.
=
 
16
There are also several zombies wandering around in frightened confusion, and an Amadi at the top of the stairs looking down on it all.
Apheori (GM): Actually, scratch that.
 
In this case it'd just be determined by order up/down the stairs.
Ganelon: So that's... what?
Rhu before Radek before Greibel.
Gaurav: Can you move Rhu to the top of the stairs? I'm not sure where they emerge.
Thanks! So who starts initiative? And is the dragon visibly attacking Dawn at this point?
Apheori (GM): Hold on, still need all the zombies.
Um.
Greibel: Back! Sorry, went afk for a few minutes
Gaurav: That is a very sinister bunny.
Ellemerr: brb
Bear Soup Guy: Oop, Greibel didn't go afk, I did.
Greibel can say that too though, sure.
Apheori (GM): Okay.
Four-way mad fight.
Ganelon: That better be a Monty Python bunny or it won't be four ways for long.
Apheori (GM): It might be.
So you all spill into the room to find Dawn has apparently been carrying that bunny from before around all this time and has thrown it at the dragon.
And apparently it did some serious damage.
Ganelon: Actually, if it is a Monty Python bunny it still won't be four ways for long because we'll all be dead.
Apheori (GM): There are also several zombies wandering around in frightened confusion.
And an Amadi at the top of the stairs.
Amadi looks very aloof. She's so proud of her own terrifyingness.
Amadi looks very aloof. She's so proud of her own terrifyingness.
Gaurav: The best strategy might be for us, the zombies and the dragon to unite as one against the rabbit.
 
Dawn: Will you all bow before me! I am the might and wrath and judgement of... uh, the flying spaghetti monster! BOW DOWN!
DAWN
Will you all bow before me! I am the might and wrath and judgement of... uh, the flying spaghetti monster! BOW DOWN!
Noodly appendatures!
Noodly appendatures!
Apheori (GM): For some reason the command is oddly compelling.
 
Do any of you do anything?
She flails her arms a bit for emphasis.
Rhu just stares at the whole confused mess. I assume there's blood everywhere?
 
Apheori (GM): Yes.
GREIBEL
A zombie falls over dead.
Mmmmm, spaghettiiiii....
Amadi does not bow down. She's twice as scary as any spagetti monster, flying or otherwise.
 
Rhu: Ew.
Rhu just stares at the whole confused mess.
Apheori (GM): Dawn looks very disappointed.
 
Greibel: Mmmmm, spaghettiiiii....
A zombie falls over dead. Dawn stares at it, then looks very disappointed.
Apheori (GM): The dragon bites at the bunny and misses.
 
The bunny bites back.
RHU
Also misses.
Ew.
Amadi.
 
GO.
The dragon tries to bite the bunny and misses. The bunny bites back and also misses.
DO STUFF.
 
Apheori (GM): ACTUAL TURN.
Amadi roars again, this time focusing her scariness towards the dragon. This, unfortunately, has no effect, and she looks thoroughly disappointed as well and sits down on her stair to sulk.
Amadi roars again, this time focusing her scaryness towards the dragon.
 
Ellemerr: Focused Sound attack:
Rhu finally gets ahold of himself and runs up and smites a zombie with his holy symbol. There's a brilliant flash of light.
rolling 1d20 + 6
 
(
Meanwhile Radek summons his eyebot, adding to the chaos, and just stands back and waits, as Greibel shouts to the heavens for a storm to purge the dragon taint. A small storm coalesces on the ceiling, makes a tiny bolt of lightning, and hits a random metal spike on the wall.
4
 
)
A moment later, the storm quietly disperses. Greibel looks sad.
+6
 
=
The zombies make zombie noises and mill around. The zombie nearest to Rhu takes a swipe at him with a rotting arm. It completely misses, and bits fall off. Another slams itself at the bunny. Another tries to grab Rhu, but he dodges. Yet another zombie ambles up to Dawn and makes funny noises at her. She ignores it and shoots at the dragon, directing her bunny, and gets smacked in the face by the zombie. The eyebot zaps everything she hit.
10
 
Aaaand I miss. >.>
DAWN
Apheori (GM): fOO.
(yelling at the zombie)
Anything else?
You've lost now!
Amadi looks thoroughly disappointed and sits down on her stair to sulk.
 
Apheori (GM): Rhu!
Dawn wipes zombie grossness off her face.
Gaurav: Move action: 3 squares
 
Would a close burst 5 from this spot hit all the undeads, or should I take a step SW?
The dragon breathes lightning at the bunny, hitting a zombie as well, resulting in a really, really awful charred smell, but the bunny just tears the zombie apart and makes a horrible screeching noise, darting backwards.
Oh, actually, never mind. It only targets one thing.
 
Standard action: Radiant Vengeance against the zombie closest to Dawn
Rhu takes the brunt of its shriek right in the brains. A nearby zombie falls over.
Apheori (GM): I like how we've got two very disappointed god fragments on either side of this.
 
Gaurav:
Amadi sings a song of discord in an attempt to take control of the bunny, and the bunny bites itself in confusion.
rolling d20+8 vs Reflex including Holy Symbol
 
(
DAWN
3
Hey! That's my bunny! Get your own!
)
 
+8
AMADI
=
Learn to share, Dawnie!
11
 
eeks
There is a bit of a magical surge behind the dragon and while nothing exactly appears, the Gravedigger is suddenly... there. Invisible. He opens his mouth to shout GRRAAAAAAAVES, then doesn't because he's being sneaky.
Apheori (GM): Yup.
 
Remember, they are zombies.
'''''Ganelon''' (Radek): No-one sees him open his invisible mouth.
Gaurav: oh yay!
 
Ellemerr: We have very good reasons to be disappointed.
The Gravedigger then just jumps up and smashes the dragon on the head, knocking it into the floor, punctuated by a shot from the eyebot. The dragon smacks back with a wing, but only blocks part of the damage, something about the Gravedigger still being invisible.
Apheori (GM): Yes.
 
Gaurav:
Meanwhile Rhu swings his maul at a zombie, chanting retribution, killing it dead. Radek shoots at the dragon with his rifle. Greibel tries to summon a pack of spirits on the dragon, but it has no effect on the dragon. Greibel sulks.
rolling 1d8+5 radiant damage
 
(
Zombies try to beat Rhu and Dawn to death and do a terrible job of it, not even hitting either one of them.
6
 
)
Dawn tries to go to the bunny, but the zombie next to her grabs onto her leg and she falls over, so she just crawls the rest of the way to to her bunny with a zombie attached to her leg. She then stuffs the bunny in her pocket. While lying face down on the ground with a zombie stuck to her.
+5
 
=
DAWN
11
Bunny.
not sure if the divine keyword makes the damage worse or anything
 
Apheori (GM): +5
The dragon roars and looks scary, even off the floor, threatening at Gravy, Radek, and Greibel. Nothing really comes of this.
Gaurav: and I get 5 temp HP
 
Apheori (GM): Aiight.
Amadi screams in annoyance at the dragon, the Gravedigger hits it with his shovel, and the eyebot lasers it.
Put the icon on yourself.
 
Gaurav: I'm not going to Oath of Enmity anyone as I don't know who's dangerous yet
The Gravedigger pounds on the dragon with the weight of the earth, a coordinated shovel attack crushing the dragon even more. It also gets lasered. Then he shoots the head of his shovel out at the dragon's head, but it misses.
Apheori (GM): Radek?
 
Everyone's dangerous. Except the zombies.
Rhu runs away from the zombie trying to hit him, and it, too, tries to attach to his leg. This one fails. He swears an oath of enmity against the dragon and then charges it, swinging his maul about in a whirlwind. He nearly drops his maul in the process when the dragon reacts with swing from its tail, but he also hits the dragon a few times before he does.
Bear Soup Guy: Hint: The dragon is dangerous
 
Apheori (GM): Although there are a lot of them.
The Gravedigger hits the dragon with his other shovel. Radek shoots it. The eyebot lasers it. Greibel summons a fire hawk on the dragon.
Ganelon: Oh, Radek's turn is easy.
 
Apheori (GM): The dragon survived monty python bunny.
The dragon gets hawked with fire, and, naturally, lasered.
Gaurav: It survived one round. I don't trust the bunny rabbit.
 
What's the temp HP icon?
Meanwhile the zombie on Dawn's leg chews on it. The other one hurls a glob of necrotic filth at the back of Rhu's head, hitting it with a wet splat.
That?
 
Oh. Thanks!
Dawn blasts the zombie on her leg away with a brilliant flash of light.
Apheori (GM): Usually that.
 
But I got the number wrong.
The dragon breathes on everyone. It's like a komodo dragon. The smell is the worst thing ever.
Go fix it.
 
While the scientist does stuff.
Radek deactivates his nose.
Ganelon: Well this turn is real easy.
 
Radek summons Kepler 4, the eyebot.
The dragon also takes some swipes at the invisible Gravedigger, but misses.
And as a standard action that's most of what he does, but it ought to add to the chaos.
 
Apheori (GM): Heee.
Amadi viciously mocks the zombie for chewing on Dawn's leg and getting wrathed. The eyebot takes this as another excuse to laser it, and the zombie dies, leaving only one zombie remaining.
Ganelon: No need to move and nobody's hurt, so he ends his turn on the stairs.
 
Apheori (GM): Greibel!
The Gravedigger rams the dragon with great force, smashing it backwards with his shovel, then summons a cloud of boiling blood and bone, which scours the dragon and kills it. Then he scoops away the last piece of reality to fully enter this plane, becoming properly visible. He stares at the dragon and takes a breath.
Gaurav: Do the robots fly high enough that people can walk under them, or do they obstruct movement?
 
Apheori (GM): That one's high.
THE GRAVEDIGGER
Ganelon: It's too small to actually occupy space.
GRAAAAAAVES.
And it's flying 3 squares above the floor.
 
Gaurav: Cool.
GREIBEL
Bear Soup Guy: This is my favorite
I told you there was a dragon up here.
Greibel shouts to the heavens for a storm to purge the dragon taint
 
Apheori (GM): A storm coalesces on the ceiling.
THE GRAVEDIGGER
Greibel:
I need to dig a really big hole now.
rolling 1d20+8 vs dragon reflex
 
(
Radek shoots and kills the remaining zombie.
6
 
)
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Bear Soup Guy: The storm quietly disperses and Greibel is sad
Gaurav: Aww
Apheori (GM): It got off a lightning. It just missed.
Poor griebel.
At this rate everyone will be sad.
Bear Soup Guy: Those storm Gods will rue the day they made Greibel sad
End turn
Apheori (GM): The zombies make zombie noises and mill around.
The one Rhu hit at goes for him.
Gaurav: Rhu is happy! He's surrounded by putrefying, soon-to-be-dead undead. Best feeling in the world.
Apheori (GM): 18 vs ac?
Gaurav: Too weak!
Rhu's AC is 20
Rhu hit the one closest to Dawn
Apheori (GM): Oh. I thought you meant closes to Rhu.
I don't think that one would have hit at all, since it was obstructed.
Frezak (GM): Yo.
Ganelon: Welcome back.
Apheori (GM): Wait, no, that one's dead.
Ganelon: You joined just in time to witness utter chaos.
Apheori (GM): Okay, fine.
Frezak (GM): Oh, great, a rodent.
Apheori (GM): NEarest one takes a swipe at Rhu and misses.
Frezak (GM): That's not unusual, Gan.
Apheori (GM): One near dawn takes a swipe at the bunny.
Frezak (GM): A rabbit and zombies, eh?
HMMMM.
Apheori (GM): It slams the bunny.
Frezak (GM): I USE HELLSWORN BLE- no, wrong game.
Gaurav: Lagomorphs aren't rodents.
Apheori (GM): Another one goes and tries to grab Rhu.
Frezak: Gravy disappeared and nobody even bothered to investigate.
Gaurav: Wait! If it crosses near me, I get an opportunity attack.
Frezak (GM): That's cold.
Apheori (GM): It went up to you.
Frezak (GM): He's the heart and soul of the party.
Apheori (GM): I keep forgetting diagonals work.
13 vs reflex?
Gaurav: 17 Reflex!
Ganelon: Investigate?
Apheori (GM): It tries to grab Rhu and fails.
Ganelon: I asked Amadi if she was responsible.
She said yes and no at the same time. Dawn added "maybe".
Apheori (GM): Other zombie ambles up to Dawn and makes funny noises at her.
Dawn's anti-undead thing is better than Rhu's.
Bear Soup Guy: That's why Dawn is a God and Rhu is a worshipper
Apheori (GM): Heee.
Ganelon: Why do the gods hate zombies so much anyways?
Like /all/ of the gods, too.
Gaurav: They gross them out.
Ganelon: But there's undoubtedly gods of gross things.
Bear Soup Guy: Gods /are/ used to a certain level of cleanliness
Apheori (GM): So Dawn shoots at the dragon and gets smacked in the face by a zombies.
-s
This is why gods hate zombies.
They do stuff like that.
Gaurav: Rhu's is really, really good -- but only if there's one massive undead to put the hurt on. It's an enounter power, so I'll probably spend it on the last zombie round, but it's a bit of a waste when there's lot of zombies (hopefully with low HPs?) milling around.
Ganelon: If she succeeds...
Eyebot does 5 damage.
Apheori (GM): On multiple targets? It was at the dragon, hit a zombie too.
Ganelon: Anything that gets hit!
Apheori (GM): Aiight.
Ganelon: Just hit, though.
Apheori (GM): She yells at the zombie and wipes zombie grossness off her face.
Dragon breathes lightning at the bunny.
Gaurav: brb
Apheori (GM): Zombie gets breathed on too and makes a really, really awful charred smell.
Ganelon: Eyebot shoots!
Apheori (GM): At which?
Ganelon: Whoever got hit.
Apheori (GM): Does it just shoot any enemies?
That get hit?
By anything?
Ganelon: Any enemies of mine that get hit by any attack.
Apheori (GM): Heh.
Frezak (GM): WHen an ally hits an enemy.
Ganelon: Oh.
Right, sorry, that's correct.
It doesn't shoot for my enemies when they betray each other.
Apheori (GM): Ah.
So no shooting now.
Ganelon: Yes. My apologies.
Apheori (GM): Bunny tears the nearest zombie apart and makes a horrible screeching noise.
Gaurav shudders.
Radek wishes that Gravy - and by extension Codrichun - were right right about now.
Ganelon: Were here*
Apheori (GM): 16 vs rhu fortitude?
Gaurav: Hit. Rhu's Fort is 15.
Apheori (GM): 12 thunder damage and he's dazed.
A zombie falls over.
Gaurav: Eeks.
Apheori (GM): Save ends.
Gaurav: What's the icon for dazed?
Apheori (GM): And the bunny slid away.
Ganelon: I usually go with the lightning bold.
Bolt*
Apheori (GM): The bunny is a hell of a pokemon.
Amadi, you're up.
Ellemerr: Let her attempt to wrestle control of the bunny. Song of Discord.
rolling 1d20 + 6
(
7
)
+6
=
13
That's against will. >.>
Apheori (GM): Nope.
Ellemerr: Didn't think so.
Apheori (GM): So close, too.
The thing has like no will.
Frezak (GM): Even on a miss you make it attack itself
Ellemerr: Yeah.
Frezak (GM): Or whoever is in range.
Dawn: Hey! That's my bunny! Get your own!
Apheori (GM): So what happens?
Ellemerr: Well, it doesn't affect movement, and I don't want it attacking Dawn, so... I just made a suicidal bunny.
Amadi: Learn to share, Dawnie!
Ellemerr: So make a bunny attack against bunny.
And hopefully it's better at hitting than I am.
Apheori (GM): It attacks and somehow blinds itself.
Ellemerr: Cool.
Gaurav: o.0
Frezak (GM): Claws itself on the eye.
Ganelon: Ears cover its eyes.
Apheori (GM): Yes.
Ellemerr: Heh.
Well, that's it from me.
Apheori (GM): Which icon should that be?
Frezak: Would you like to join in and add to the chaos?
Frezak (GM): Sure.
Apheori (GM): There's a bit of a magical surge behind the dragon and while nothing appears, those of you who aren't Rhu will notice that the Gravedigger is suddenly... there.
Except he's invisible.
Frezak (GM): Hmm.
Ganelon: Put him on the tracker somewhere.
Gaurav: Does Gravy go now in the initiative order, or should Rhu take his turn?
(To Frezak): You apparently triggered something magical, which de-synced you with the rest of existence so while you could go around and watch things, you couldn't actually interact with anything and noone could see you. Then you probably dug or something back into normal space but you're still invisible or something.
Apheori (GM): Yeah, sorry.
Gravy! Go!
Frezak (GM): Gravy opens his mouth to shout GRRAAAAAAAVES
then doesn't because he's being sneaky.
Ganelon: No-one sees him open his invisible mouth.
Frezak (GM): And just jumps up to smash the dragon on the head.
Apheori (GM): Amadi might.
Frezak (GM): Rules question.
Am I Hidden from the dragon?
Apheori (GM): Sure, why not.
What's that mean?
Frezak (GM): I just get Combat Advantage.
Apheori (GM): Ah.
Yeah. Add that or whatever.
Frezak (GM):
rolling 1D20+10+2
(
12
)
+10+2
=
24
Dragon AC
Ganelon: Eyebot shoots.
Apheori (GM): Yup.
Frezak (GM):
rolling 1D10+5 And the dragon is prone and can't stand up next turn.
(
6
)
+5
=
11
And I mark it.
Apheori (GM): The dragon smacks back with a wing and blocks part of it.
I assume 16 vs ac doesn't actually hit back.
Frezak (GM): No.
Does.... Rhu need to gget away from the zombies?
Apheori (GM): Rhu's up, I guess?
Frezak (GM): I mean I have a power to move him.
If he needs it.
Gaurav: Nah. I think he's happy keeping these two zombies busy while you guys deal some damage on the dragon. Plus, he's scared of the bunny.
Frezak (GM): hokay.
Am I still invisible?
Apheori (GM): Oddly, yes.
Frezak (GM): Sweeeeet
Apheori (GM): That's it, then?
Frezak (GM): yup
Gaurav: Okay, so "dazed" means I only have a single action this turn. Hmm.
I swing my maul at the prone zombie, chanting retribution at him as I do
Ganelon: Don't you have that channel divinity thing to do ridiculous damage to zombies?
Gaurav: I'm saving it up for the zombie that's far away. It's got a pull and an immobilize, so I don't want to waste it on something right next to me.
rolling d20+10 vs AC on the prone zombie
(
5
)
+10
=
15
Apheori (GM): Yup.
Gaurav:
rolling 2d6+5 radiant damage
(
4
+
6
)
+5
=
15
Apheori (GM): It's dead.
Gaurav: Yay!
rolling d20 save against dazed
(
17
)
=
17
Bear Soup Guy: Rhu - Zombie Hunter
Apheori (GM): How does 'save ends' work? >.>
Ganelon: At the end of his turn.
He rolls 1d20.
Frezak (GM): roll a D20 at the end of your turn.
Ganelon: 10 or more means the effect ends.
Apheori (GM): Ah, neat.
Gaurav: Since I'm dazed, this _is_ the end of my turn.
Apheori (GM): But now you're better and it's Radek's turn.
Gaurav: Yay!
I need to go rush into the shower so I can leave for work as late as possible. If you need Rhu's defences, they are: AC 20, FORT 15, REF 17, WILL 19. I'll be back as soon as I can!
Apheori (GM): GAAAAN.
Ganelon: YES YES
UM
What are our thoughts on bunny killing? Yes, no, or "wait until it's the last thing standing"?
Frezak (GM): I'm cool with chopping it up.
Ellemerr: Dawn might be upset. It IS her bunny.
Apheori (GM): There is that.
Ganelon: Right.
Apheori (GM): So what's it going to be?
Ganelon: Then I'll just shoot the acid bullet at our dragon friend, here.
(Rifle Weapon Attack 31)
Subtract 2 from that (it doesn't matter).
Apheori (GM): Yup.
Ganelon:
rolling 2d10+6 Acid
(
9
+
4
)
+6
=
19
And it has a -2 to AC until the end of my next turn.
Give it a... cracked shield icon.
As a move action I command the eyebot to relocate.
That ends my turn.
Apheori (GM): Greibel!
Bear Soup Guy: GREIBEL!
I shall Call Forth The Spirit Pack on this dragon
rolling 1d20+8 vs reflex
(
1
)
+8
=
9
Oh balls
Apheori (GM): >.<
Bear Soup Guy: Greibel always has the worst attack rolls
Apheori (GM): It misses.
Bear Soup Guy: Greibel sulks and ends his turn
Apheori (GM): Zombies try to beat the folks next to them to death.
They both just miss.
(folks in question being rhu and dawn, for clarification)
Dawn tries to go to the bunny, the zombie next to her grabs onto her leg and she falls over, so she just crawls the rest of the way to it with a zombie attached to her leg and stuffs the bunny in her pocket.
Dawn: Bunny.
Apheori (GM): While lying face down on the ground with a zombie stuck to her.
Frezak (GM): LIke a real adventurer.
ANd just reminding you that the dragon can't stand this turn.
Apheori (GM): What would be the dragon's ability to hit Gravy due to its and his conditions?
Frezak (GM): If I'm invisible?
And it's prone?
Apheori (GM): Mhm.
Frezak (GM): Chances of hitting me are minimal.
Apheori (GM): I need a number.
Frezak (GM): I have +5 defenses against things that can't see me, and attacking while prone is at -2.
Apheori (GM): It roars and looks scary, even off the floor, threatening at Gravy, Radek, and Greibel.
Ganelon: He's also Gravy, who is naturally unhittable.
Apheori (GM): 15 vs Greibel will?
Bear Soup Guy: Miss
Apheori (GM): Aiight, nothing really happens.
Fails on all of you.
Nice seriies of exceedingly bad roles.
Even before the modifiers. >.<
Amadi: Still awake?
Ellemerr: Yes.
For another 15 mins or so.
Apheori (GM): GO.
Ellemerr: Let's scream in annoyance at the dragon, because we're upset with our bad rolls, yes we are. Staggering Note.
rolling 1d20 + 6
(
11
)
+6
=
17
vs will
Apheori (GM): Yup.
Ganelon: Eyebot shoots.
Frezak (GM): That eyebot.
Overclocked much?
Ellemerr: It takes 4 dmg and Gravy gets to attack it as well.
Frezak (GM): sweeeet
rolling 1D20+10+2
(
15
)
+10+2
=
27
And it has -2 AC from radek.
Apheori (GM): Yeah.
Ellemerr: And I should push it two but uh.
Ganelon: Eyebot shoots AGAIN!
Apheori (GM): It swings back at Gravy. Misses due to yet another bad roll.
Ganelon: Kepler 4 is /carrying/ this party.
Frezak (GM):
rolling 1D10+5+5
(
6
)
+5+5
=
16
Apheori (GM): At some point I would like a roll higher than 7.
It would be nice.
Amadi do anything else?
Ellemerr: Naw.
Apheori (GM): Then Gravy can have at it even more.
Frezak (GM): Okay.
I start with Weight Of earth
rolling 1D20+10+2
(
13
)
+10+2
=
25
Apheori (GM): Yup.
Frezak (GM):
rolling 1D10+5+5
(
7
)
+5+5
=
17
And it is slowed.
ANd takes eyebot damage AGAIN
Still alive?
Apheori (GM): Yes.
What all does slow do?
Frezak (GM): reduces speed to 2.
And then I use a Minor Action to use my Chainreach SHovel attack.
rolling 1D20+10+2
(
3
)
+10+2
=
15
AC
bah
Apheori (GM): Nope.
Ganelon: Yes, all hits are punished with eyebot lasers.
Frezak (GM): that's it, then.
Gaurav: Rhu!
I don't need to shift to move away from this zombie, do I?
Move action: three squares back.
Apheori (GM) shrugs.
Gaurav: Are we using our dailies yet?
Apheori (GM): The zombie attempts to latch onto your leg as well and fails miserably.
Ellemerr: I did one. :P It's up to you, innit?
Apheori (GM): Congratulations, you can do at least one thing better than Dawn can.
Dawn used both of hers. XD
Gaurav: Minor action: Oath of Enmity against the dragon (now that the bunny is safely tucked away ...)
Apheori (GM): Not sure she's a good example to follow, though.
Yes?
Gaurav: Nah, I'll save my daily.
What's the minimum distance for a charge?
Frezak (GM): 2 squares of free space to reach target.
Gaurav: Sweet. I charge the two spaces to the dragon and let fly with a Whirlwind Charge.
Ganelon: Radek's summons are all dailies.
Gaurav:
rolling d20+10 vs AC against the dragon
(
5
)
+10
=
15
Frezak (GM): Well.
That's... upt to 19 AC.
20, possibly.
Gaurav: This is a melee attack and I have no enemies close to me. So Oath of Enmity says I can reroll.
rolling d20+10 vs AC
(
5
)
+10
=
15
HA
well
Apheori (GM): Heh.
Gaurav: Rhu charges at the dragon swinging wildly.
Ganelon: Well it does have...
-4 to defenses?
Apheori (GM): Yeah, that actually works.
Gaurav: YAY
rolling 4d6+5 damage
(
2
+
1
+
5
+
6
)
+5
=
19
end of my turn
Apheori (GM): The dragon smacks at Rhu when he does that.
23 vs ac?
Gaurav: total hit. Rhu's AC is 20
Apheori (GM): 10 damage.
Gaurav: I assume Rhu charged straight into its tail or something.
Apheori (GM): It's about time. It's been trying to do that every time so far.
Gaurav: Rhu's in Oath of Enmity mode, so he's not really paying attention to anything apart from hurting the dragon. It makes sense.
Frezak (GM): Uhhhhh
Waaaait
It has -2 to attack Rhu from my mark.
And attacking someone else lets me attack it.
Gaurav: Anyway, I have to run to work now! Sorry about that. I can be back online in 1.5 hours if you guys are still around.
Apheori (GM): You can interrupt interrrupts?
Oh gods.
Ganelon: You can do more than that!
Bear Soup Guy: Bye Gaur!
Frezak (GM): yep
Apheori (GM): No wonder people find the combat in this edition so tedious.
Ganelon: I interrupt Gravy's interrupt to interrupt the dragon's interrupt, with my own interrupt.
(Yes I'm serious)
Apheori (GM): Do your rolls.
Ganelon: I use Shocking Feedback.
It's an attack, reduces damage that he takes if I hit his attacker.
(Rifle Weapon Attack 26)
Apheori (GM): Aye.
Ganelon:
rolling 2d10+5 lightning
(
9
+
2
)
+5
=
16
Rhu's damage from the attack is reduced by 5. That's all.
Although if Gravy hits, the eyebot shoots.
Lest we forget.
Gaurav: byeeeeee. feel free to keep going without me or to play Rhu if you like: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19429772/dnd-skype/Rhu.pdf
Apheori (GM): Gravy?
Frezak (GM): I... can't roll.
Ganelon: Rolling for Frezak.
Apheori (GM): O_o
Ganelon:
rolling 1d20+10+2
(
6
)
+10+2
=
18
Ganelon shrugs.
Apheori (GM): Hit.
Ganelon: He says his R20 is crashed.
rolling 1d10+10
(
7
)
+10
=
17
That's his damage, it grants combat advantage to all allies for a round, and... eyebot shoots for 5.
Apheori (GM): >.<
Ganelon: This dragon should just give up.
Poor thing.
Apheori (GM): I suppose it can't hit back when something hit it back for hitting back.
Ganelon: Nah, you're limited to one interrupt per round per person.
Technically one immediate action of any sort.
Ellemerr: I have to sleep now.
Apheori (GM): Sleep amidst sweet nightmares, beloved.
Ellemerr: Thank you, dearest. I hope you will be blessed with delightful daydreams.
Apheori (GM): Always.
Bear Soup Guy: Bye Ellemerr!
Apheori (GM): Well, usually.
So, uh, Radek's turn?
Ganelon: He'll just shoot some relatively ordinary bullets at it.
(Rifle Weapon Attack 15)
Bluh.
Alright that's all he does.
Apheori (GM): vs what?
Ganelon: AC.
Apheori (GM): Ah, okay.
Yeah, that misses.
Greibel?
Bear Soup Guy: FIRE HAWK
rolling 1d20+8 vs dragon reflex
(
14
)
+8
=
22
Apheori (GM): Yup.
Bear Soup Guy:
rolling 1d8+4 damage!
(
2
)
+4
=
6
Ganelon: Eyeboooot!
Bear Soup Guy: Opportunity attack thing until next turn!
End turn!
WHOO!!
Apheori (GM): Zombies do stuff.
The one on Dawn's leg chews on it.
The other one hurls a glob of necrotic filth at the back of Rhu's head.
20 vs reflex?
What did he say it was?
Wait, he has a real character sheet now.
Apheori (GM): Eeeeee.
Ganelon: 'Bout time he got one of those.
Apheori (GM): So a glob of necrotic filth hits rhu in the back of the head for 13 necrotic damage, weakening him, whatever that means.
And Dawn probably takes some damage due to having a zombie chewing on her leg.
If something's grabbed you and you do something that would push it away, what happens?
Frezak (GM): The grab breaks.
Apheori (GM): Oh, okay.
She blasts the zombie on her leg away and it gets all dazified and hurt and stuff.
And this is why you don't chew on god fragments.
The dragon breathes on everyone.
It's like a komodo dragon.
The smell is the worst thing ever.
Ganelon: ...
Can I deactivate my nose?
Apheori (GM): I expect that's probably a minor action.
4 damage to gravy, 3 to radek, 7 to Greibel.
Ganelon: Done.
And I just ask for the sake of his immediate future.
Apheori (GM): It also takes some swipes at Gravy but misses.
Frezak (GM): Done.
Apheori (GM): Amadi viciously mocks the zombie for chewing on Dawn's leg and getting wrathed.
It takes some damage.
Frezak (GM): The dragon can stand now if it wants.
Apheori (GM): La la la.
Yeah, well, it didn't.
And you're up.
Kill it for us all so we can be done with this craziness.
Gravygravygravygravy if the rolling aint working just tell us what the rolls would be or something.
I don't know.
Ganelon: Eyebot shoots.
Apheori (GM): What? What happened?
Oh, the zombie.
Right.
It died.
Considering we've lost all but two, should we just come back later?
Ganelon: I... yeah.
Probably.
Frezak (GM): ugh
These webs.
Apheori (GM): Or maybe frezak can just kill it now.
Frezak: KILL THE DRAGON.
Frezak (GM): Okay.
Apheori (GM): Or something.
Frezak (GM): Is it still prone?
Bear Soup Guy: All but THREE
Apheori (GM): Yeah.
Frezak (GM): Okay.
I engange the Fearsome ram Strike
rolling 1D20+10+2
(
16
)
+10+2
=
28
AC
Apheori (GM): Yup.
Frezak (GM):
rolling 2D10+5+5
(
2
+
7
)
+5+5
=
19
And eyebot damage.
Apheori (GM): It tries to block it and doesn't even pull that off.
Frezak (GM): Still alive?
Apheori (GM): Yes.
Frezak (GM): I spend an AP to use Codrichun.
Apheori (GM): Okay.
Frezak (GM):
rolling 1D20+13+2
(
18
)
+13+2
=
33
Vs AC
Apheori (GM): Yes.
Frezak (GM):
rolling 2D10+5+5
(
8
+
4
)
+5+5
=
22
And it has -2 to all defenses (Save ends)
Apheori (GM): Now it's dead.
Frezak (GM): AS the boiling cloud of blood and bone scours it's... corpse.
And I scoop away the last piece of reality to fully enter this plane.
Stare the dragon.
Take a breath.
The Gravedigger: GRAAAAAAVES
Greibel: I told you there was a dragon up here.
The Gravedigger: I need to dig a really big hole now.
Apheori (GM): There's still a zombie off to the side.
Frezak (GM): Rhu can solve that.
Apheori (GM): Should Rhu just smash it?
Frezak (GM): Does he still have his... Rebuke undead,
Apheori (GM): No idea.
I'ma just have him smash it and send it flying.
That only took out half its hp.
Radek should just shoot it.
RADEK: SHOOT THE ZOMBIE.
You know what, I'm done with this.
Apheori (GM): Radek shoots the zombie, hits the zombie, kills the zombie good day I need to go find my clothes.
Greibel: XD
Frezak (GM): You lost your clothes?
Apheori (GM): More like myself.
My clothes are probably exactly where they ought to be.
Frezak (GM): Your clothes lost you?
Ganelon: What is this, Polythyreme?
Frezak (GM): Maaaan
Apheori (GM): My clothes... well, I need specific ones. Winter ones.
Frezak (GM): +1 for reference, Gan.
Apheori (GM): It's all snowy and crap.
And it miht even be cold.
IN THE DAYTIME.
I don't get it.
Anyway we'll sort out when the next one is later.
You can go loot the place and stuff them.
Apheori (GM): Obligatory notes to self that today was 150121, everyone just fought and killed a pile of zombies and a dragon and there might be lootables on the dragon, and there was a room full of treasure and magical junk above. La de da.
Bear Soup Guy: Sounds like a good plan
Adios everyone!
Frezak (GM): I have a hole to dig.
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Session 43 (raw log) (Overview)
INT. Wizard's tower foyer - day
Radek is kneeling over the unconscious stone man, who is simply stone, wearing stone clothes, with stone pockets, probably full of stone, while the others look on.
The Gravedigger suddenly disappears without a trace.
RADEK
...Oh. Marvelous.
Butterflies flutter around behind them, and especially around Amadi. Dawn bats at one that gets too close to her.
Radek rises to his feet and glances back at Amadi and Dawn. He doesn't take particular care to address one over the other.
RADEK
Was that your doing?
Amadi says immediately and at once "yes" and "no" at the same time.
DAWN
(after an entirely too long pause, scrunching her face up in concentration)
...maybe?
Radek's scowl deepens.
Amadi tells the butterflies that "flamboyant" is a really good thing to be. Anything that sounds that fancy has to be good. Flamboyant!
The stone man wakes up and looks at Radek fearfully.
Dawn nods vaguely and wanders over toward Rhu and Radek and the stone guy.
Radek returns his attention towards the Stone Guy, still scowling.
RADEK
Say something.
STONE GUY
Uh... hi?
Rhu walks up the stairs as far as he can without losing sight of the rest of the party.
RADEK
Good enough - you can speak.
Rhu hears something horrible from the floor above and falls down the stairs. (rolled 16 perception (natural 1))
Radek twitches just barely at the sounds of assumed incompetence, but otherwise remains focused.
RHU
(muffled from getting his cloak tied up around his head)
Thr's sth hrble up thr.
On Greibel's shoulders, the porridge opens a pair of porridge-coloured eyes.
Almost at the same time, Greibel's eyes widen.
Radek looks down at Rhu, then back at the Stone Guy.
Rhu gets back to his feet, untangling his cloak as he goes.
RADEK
I wish to understand your circumstances. Why were you turned to stone? ...And then stored in a box?
STONE GUY
Um... Hiding.
Amadi places a number of butterflies on Dawn.
RADEK
From what?
Dawn goes and looms over the stone guy, juggling butterflies.
Greibel looks up toward the upstairs ominously.
Rhu looks down at his boots. They need cleaning.
STONE GUY
(pointing toward Greibel)
From the thing he's looking at.
DAWN
Yes.
Radek glances towards Greibel, then the ceiling.
RHU
Where's Gravy?
DAWN
Oh, he's not here. Elsewhere, probably.


RHU
(to Dawn)
...oh.
Dawn suddenly looks confused.
Greibel mouths words and gestures toward Radek and back to the ceiling.
Greibel exaggerates mouthing the word "Dragon."
STONE GUY
Look, guys, I don't mean to be rude, but this has all been a huge misunderstanding.
So can I... maybe... go?
Amadi finds some of the more damaged butterflies and tries to teach them how to fly again. She's particularly persistent towards the butterflies that have lost a wing.
The butterflies fail to fly, but a few manage to float in a rather disorganised fashion, tumbling about even more ridiculously than the normal flight patterns of butterflies.
RADEK
(absently)
Go where?
STONE GUY
Um... away. Out. Somewhere that isn't here.
RADEK
...Could I have one of your limbs, first? For study.
STONE GUY
Er. I'd rather you didn't? Kind of attached to them.
DAWN
We can fix that.
Dawn grins maniacally and offers Radek a giant pair of scissors. Very giant.
RADEK
Emotionally, physically, or both?
GREIBEL
Draaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagoooonnnn......
Greibel flaps his arms like a dragon and points up.
Amadi flaps her arms too, but more like a butterfly.
STONE GUY
Yes, yes!
Radek makes a "hush" motion at Greibel.
RADEK
That was not a yes or no question, sir.
STONE GUY
(now, somehow, looking very flustered, especially for stone)
That is... both. Please, just let me go.
RHU
(to stone guy)
Stay with us, we'll keep you safe.
DAWN
(making quotes with her fingers)
Safe.
Radek grumbles.
RADEK
Fine, do what you like. Live to delay the advancement of knowledge another day.
RHU
We'll only throw you at our enemies very, very occasionally.
The stone guy gets up uncertainly.
Radek gives him some space, but grumpily.
As soon as Radek is out of the way, the stone guy flees.
Ganelon (Radek): It's like this guy doesn't even appreciate the medical applications of turning people to living stone.
RADEK
What a waste...
Radek sighs and turns back to Greibel.
RADEK
Now, you wanted something?
Greibel blinks.
RHU
Some day we will fight shoulder-to-shoulder with a cool stone dude. But it is not this day.
GREIBEL
I think there's a dragon upstairs.
RADEK
...Ah.
GREIBEL
Yeah.
DAWN
It's fine. It's a small one.
Radek tries to look less concerned so his ignoring it earlier seems more justified.
GREIBEL
Where there are small dragons, there'll be big dragons coming back to find them.
AMADI
That depends entirely on the breed of dragon, the size of the cave, and whether you had any blood pudding last week.
Greibel turns to Dawn worriedly.
GREIBEL
I did have blood pudding last week!
Greibel turns to Amadi.
GREIBEL
I DID!
DAWN
I might have had blood pudding. Was that the soupy stuff with the weird bits?
AMADI
No, Dawn, it's the wriggly green stuff.
DAWN
Oh.
AMADI
Yes.
RHU
I crawled through an eldritch abomination two nights ago, does that count?
Radek facepalms.
RADEK
This is a wizard's tower. If a dragon inhabits it, it is - or more likely, was - a captive.
RHU
Maybe it's hiding, like the stone guy was. Maybe there's something ever scarier on the top floor.
AMADI
I could go to the top floor and be the scarier thing!
Ganelon: I'm trying to think of a reason to discourage that plan.
Apheori (GM): Is there one? Is there?
Ganelon: ...I can't think of one.
AMADI
I'd be a really good scarier thing. I can rawr. RAWR!
DAWN
RAAAAWR!
Dawn makes a bit of a wind with her rawr, but it sounds more like stomach trouble than something actually scary.
Greibel blinks.
AMADI
...Or Dawn could do it, I guess.
Dawn beams. It's slightly adorable and also a bit pathetic.
RADEK
Well go on, then.
I don't care which one of you does it. You could both try to be frightening at once, for all it matters.
Amadi grins happily, takes Dawn's hand, scoops up a number of butterflies, places these on both their shoulders, and commands the butterflies to fly them upstairs. (rolled 16 reality) Somehow, the butterflies do, picking up the both of them and drawing them slowly upward... through the ceiling.
GREIBEL
Well. They're with God now.
RADEK
...They are gods. What is that even- ugh, never mind.
Radek shakes his head and walks over to wait on the stairs for pretty much any kind of result.
RHU
We don't still have that flying disk the mouse forged would ride on, do we?
Some loud clunks drift down the stairs.
RHU
Or maybe we could climb up the outside of the tower. Maybe it's a blind, deaf dragon?
RADEK
Tenser's Floating Disk. It is a magical force construct.
I don't have a copy of the ritual. Your best hope is that we might find one in here


INT. Wizard's tower second floor - day
Amadi and Dawn float up through a dragon.
Amadi blows the dragon a kiss.
They float up through the air above the dragon as the dragon suddenly startles and takes a swipe at them with its claws.
Dawn tries to dodge away from the claws and falls out of the butterflies, landing in front of the dragon.
Amadi shows no real concern at her loss of Dawn and continues to drift upward, going up through the floor of a room that turns out to be full of magical treasure and a bunch of zombies, which all completely fail to notice her.
Amadi shrugs, lands gently, and does her scariest rawr. (rolled 21 bluff)
The zombies all panic and run away down the stairs. Toward the dragon. Which is trying to smash, claw, bite, and breathe on Dawn.


INT. Wizard's tower foyer - day
Clunks, bangs, roars, scrapes, and tearing noises come down the stairs, along with a sort of horrible wailing.
Rhu runs up the staircase, maul drawn.
Radek follows after him.


INT. Wizard's tower second floor - day
DAWN
Prepare to meet my superweapon!
Amadi saunters down the stairs, hoping that she'll turn out to have perfect timing for being a superweapon.
DAWN
(yelling)
Bow down before the power of BUNNNNY!
Amadi stops for a moment, considering whether she should try looking like a bunny and then deciding against it. Some things are too scary. Even for fragments of gods.
Rhu stops running at the mention of "bunny", walking up slowly and carefully instead as he comes out onto the second floor. Radek is behind him, and Greibel behind him.
They find that Dawn has apparently been carrying that bunny from before around all this time and has thrown it at the dragon. And apparently it did some serious damage.
There are also several zombies wandering around in frightened confusion, and an Amadi at the top of the stairs looking down on it all.
Amadi looks very aloof. She's so proud of her own terrifyingness.
DAWN
Will you all bow before me! I am the might and wrath and judgement of... uh, the flying spaghetti monster! BOW DOWN!
Noodly appendatures!
She flails her arms a bit for emphasis.
GREIBEL
Mmmmm, spaghettiiiii....
Rhu just stares at the whole confused mess.
A zombie falls over dead. Dawn stares at it, then looks very disappointed.
RHU
Ew.
The dragon tries to bite the bunny and misses. The bunny bites back and also misses.
Amadi roars again, this time focusing her scariness towards the dragon. This, unfortunately, has no effect, and she looks thoroughly disappointed as well and sits down on her stair to sulk.
Rhu finally gets ahold of himself and runs up and smites a zombie with his holy symbol. There's a brilliant flash of light.
Meanwhile Radek summons his eyebot, adding to the chaos, and just stands back and waits, as Greibel shouts to the heavens for a storm to purge the dragon taint. A small storm coalesces on the ceiling, makes a tiny bolt of lightning, and hits a random metal spike on the wall.
A moment later, the storm quietly disperses. Greibel looks sad.
The zombies make zombie noises and mill around. The zombie nearest to Rhu takes a swipe at him with a rotting arm. It completely misses, and bits fall off. Another slams itself at the bunny. Another tries to grab Rhu, but he dodges. Yet another zombie ambles up to Dawn and makes funny noises at her. She ignores it and shoots at the dragon, directing her bunny, and gets smacked in the face by the zombie. The eyebot zaps everything she hit.
DAWN
(yelling at the zombie)
You've lost now!
Dawn wipes zombie grossness off her face.
The dragon breathes lightning at the bunny, hitting a zombie as well, resulting in a really, really awful charred smell, but the bunny just tears the zombie apart and makes a horrible screeching noise, darting backwards.
Rhu takes the brunt of its shriek right in the brains. A nearby zombie falls over.
Amadi sings a song of discord in an attempt to take control of the bunny, and the bunny bites itself in confusion.
DAWN
Hey! That's my bunny! Get your own!
AMADI
Learn to share, Dawnie!
There is a bit of a magical surge behind the dragon and while nothing exactly appears, the Gravedigger is suddenly... there. Invisible. He opens his mouth to shout GRRAAAAAAAVES, then doesn't because he's being sneaky.
Ganelon (Radek): No-one sees him open his invisible mouth.
The Gravedigger then just jumps up and smashes the dragon on the head, knocking it into the floor, punctuated by a shot from the eyebot. The dragon smacks back with a wing, but only blocks part of the damage, something about the Gravedigger still being invisible.
Meanwhile Rhu swings his maul at a zombie, chanting retribution, killing it dead. Radek shoots at the dragon with his rifle. Greibel tries to summon a pack of spirits on the dragon, but it has no effect on the dragon. Greibel sulks.
Zombies try to beat Rhu and Dawn to death and do a terrible job of it, not even hitting either one of them.
Dawn tries to go to the bunny, but the zombie next to her grabs onto her leg and she falls over, so she just crawls the rest of the way to to her bunny with a zombie attached to her leg. She then stuffs the bunny in her pocket. While lying face down on the ground with a zombie stuck to her.
DAWN
Bunny.
The dragon roars and looks scary, even off the floor, threatening at Gravy, Radek, and Greibel. Nothing really comes of this.
Amadi screams in annoyance at the dragon, the Gravedigger hits it with his shovel, and the eyebot lasers it.
The Gravedigger pounds on the dragon with the weight of the earth, a coordinated shovel attack crushing the dragon even more. It also gets lasered. Then he shoots the head of his shovel out at the dragon's head, but it misses.
Rhu runs away from the zombie trying to hit him, and it, too, tries to attach to his leg. This one fails. He swears an oath of enmity against the dragon and then charges it, swinging his maul about in a whirlwind. He nearly drops his maul in the process when the dragon reacts with swing from its tail, but he also hits the dragon a few times before he does.
The Gravedigger hits the dragon with his other shovel. Radek shoots it. The eyebot lasers it. Greibel summons a fire hawk on the dragon.
The dragon gets hawked with fire, and, naturally, lasered.
Meanwhile the zombie on Dawn's leg chews on it. The other one hurls a glob of necrotic filth at the back of Rhu's head, hitting it with a wet splat.
Dawn blasts the zombie on her leg away with a brilliant flash of light.
The dragon breathes on everyone. It's like a komodo dragon. The smell is the worst thing ever.
Radek deactivates his nose.
The dragon also takes some swipes at the invisible Gravedigger, but misses.
Amadi viciously mocks the zombie for chewing on Dawn's leg and getting wrathed. The eyebot takes this as another excuse to laser it, and the zombie dies, leaving only one zombie remaining.
The Gravedigger rams the dragon with great force, smashing it backwards with his shovel, then summons a cloud of boiling blood and bone, which scours the dragon and kills it. Then he scoops away the last piece of reality to fully enter this plane, becoming properly visible. He stares at the dragon and takes a breath.
THE GRAVEDIGGER
GRAAAAAAVES.
GREIBEL
I told you there was a dragon up here.
THE GRAVEDIGGER
I need to dig a really big hole now.
Radek shoots and kills the remaining zombie.
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