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Agrikk posted:Is there a campaign logs thread? I think you should definitely make a new thread for campaign logs in TG, it's quite popular and you shouldn't be discouraged from posting it. I just don't think it's the best fit for this thread. Honestly I think there's a lot more that can be done with the format when the whole space is dedicated to it, akin to how sufficientvelocity or spacebattles do their fiction threads.
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Yeah definitely keep posting them somewhere and drop a link in here, I'm engaged!
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Aug 6, 2019 22:32
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Please don't try to reserve this thread for negative stuff though - short, punchy, positive stuff is at least what I'm here for. Campaign highlights fit this thread well even if I'm probably not going to read a full campaign log.
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Aug 6, 2019 22:35
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What adventure is Agrikk playing anyway ? I'm seeing a lot of elements from the Black Company series in it.
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mllaneza posted:What adventure is Agrikk playing anyway ? I'm seeing a lot of elements from the Black Company series in it.
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Kaza42 posted:Not sure if I've posted this before, but I'll add a Notable Experience This is clever and wholesome and I approve.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Please don't try to reserve this thread for negative stuff though - short, punchy, positive stuff is at least what I'm here for. Campaign highlights fit this thread well even if I'm probably not going to read a full campaign log. Yeah I'm going to echo this. I may have been calling for more catpiss earlier, but honestly my main thing is that I don't have the patience to go through the large narrative posts, especially if I hadn't been reading them from the start. Good, Bad and Cat Piss are all good, as long as it's punchy.
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mllaneza posted:What adventure is Agrikk playing anyway ? I'm seeing a lot of elements from the Black Company series in it. This is a campaign I put together to run for a friend who had not played a campaign before. He had run TONs of modules from the 80’s but never run a character through a 1-20 campaign arc. Later on, others joined, but Snakeeyes was the first character. since the guy was a newbie he hadn’t seen these ideas before so I Even the name Thalos is pulled from a zone in DikuMUD.
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I'll throw in a couple of anecdotes that I originally posted in the 5e thread, which had jogged my memory, and I think that they are sufficiently pithy. This one came to me after someone used a cantrip to turn a medusa's gaze back on her: Years ago I had a longtime party member who was an abjurer. This doesn't seem to be much of a thing anymore, but 2nd edition was big on spell research. It ended up going through some revisions, but our abjurer created a spell called "Half for Me, Half for You" that did about what you would expect: if the caster was hit by a lightning bolt for 28 damage, the abjurer takes 14 and so does the caster. However, the original wording of the spell was vague in regards to non-damaging effects. This was worked out later, but he had the DM's approval for the vague wording when he was hit by a medusa's gaze. Back then turning to stone was instantaneous, but since petrified is about as bad as dead he used this spell in panic, which provoked a debate on how it should be resolved. Both he and the medusa failed Pet/Poly saving throws, so the DM flipped a coin for snake lady and our abjurer flipped a coin for himself. His came up tails, so it was ruled that he was petrified from only the waist down. Hers came up heads, so the DM determined that she was petrified from the waist up... after which she fell over and died because she was top-heavy and neither her heart nor lungs worked. ====================================================================================================================================================================================================== This one came due to a brief debate on what exactly constitutes "Incapacitated": Again back in 2d, but we once had a rogue claim victory in a duel that was fought until "one party was incapacitated." His opponent was wearing a woolly bobble hat and the thief pulled it down over this eyes, then kicked him in the groin. The rogue claimed that the guy was definitely inCAPacitated, and the DM agreed. Legend
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I'm not bothered about the write-ups, but , I didn't read them for two reasons - the quote box, for me, took visual precedence over the paragraph breaks, making it all read as a single block of text, and secondly they were started with zero context at all - just a sudden story dump with no context about mechanics, players, or characters. To bring my own content to the thread, players in a Monster of the Week one-shot nicknamed Grindylows as 'Pond Chavs' or 'Loch Neds' before they had the real name for them, which amused me.
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Campaign writeups are cool and good, but I skip over pretty much all of them unless they're about DivineCoffeeBinge's old Star Wars game. It's great when people have campaigns that are just consistently good and the group feels together and has interesting stories to tell, but when that evolves into something barely distinguishable from "here's a narrative recap of my group's weekly game" that the whole point of it being a Notable Gaming Experience sorta fades. I dont mind seeing them in this thread though as they're just as easily ignored, but I think exposure of good campaign log stories might be better in a dedicated thread.
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Hattie Masters posted:Yeah I'm gonna chime in and say that whilst I appreciate that there are many fans of the big narrative stories being posted, I do not personally like them and wish we had more short, choppy ones. And also more catpiss.
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Not cat piss horrible, but it was ... something. The characters: Myself, home for an entire summer after a decade abroad. GF, my girlfriend, in the same boat. DM, my friend who I don't see too much, because of the whole abroad thing. RG, Reasonable Guy. Todd. His name really was Todd. Says enough, to some. So, I'm home for the summer. DM, who has been a long-term DnD nerd, hears that I and GF just got into it quite recently at the time. Overjoyed, he proposes we play a campaign over the summer, since the GF and I are not working and are just hanging out visiting all the people we haven't seen in forever. It'd be a good chance to do what we used to do all the time (drink and smoke weed) while doing what he had always loved and I never tried (DnD). We were down. He just needed to arrange times with his coworkers, RG and Todd, who obviously had the same schedule and job as him. I'll skip through the boring parts, in that it took this Todd fucker (who INSISTED that he not miss a session) about two and a half months to finally nail down a time that he could show up. Now, mind you, when I met Todd I quickly found out he was NOT a guy with a girlfriend, hobbies, or an active social life. He obsessed over DnD and played videogames and watched Netflix, but he obsessed over DnD in the manner of reddit theorycrafting and reading books rather than actually making time with his friends. Finally, the night in question, two weeks before we leave the country for at least another year. At this point because of Todd we're obviously not going to get much of a campaign going, but we figure we could play a few big sessions and kick it off, and have some fun. GF and I arrive. We begin rolling up characters, and neither of us are particularly experienced nor do neither of us really care about long-term builds nor do we know of the optimum This Or That. GF made a .... Gnome Barbarian or something who was really fast and I made some sort of bumbling human thief with incredibly lovely rolled stats, because despite my inexperience when I heard that there was a proper way to do it (3d6 down the line) then that was what I was going to do, hell or high water. Reasonable Guy shows up, rolls up some sort of wizard. He didn't want any of our substance abuse but was cool with it. I'm fully capable of playing DnD while drunk in an unobnoxious way - I'm just high functioning. I'll DM when totally plastered and do fine. Todd shows up, and immediately wrinkles his nose and says "DM! Are there DRUG ADDICTS in your neighborhood?" This is the first time GF and I have met Todd. Todd has worked with DM for about 5 years, and DM is a major pothead, I guess he never knew? Before introducing himself he makes a bunch of scoffing complaints about the weed smell ruining his clothes (disheveled stained hoodie) and huffs and puffs while ostentatiously clearing the heaping pile of THREE empty beer cans from the "Gaming Table". He asked us about our characters. I'm not big on huge backstories but I mumble something about being a "second-story man, a guy who breaks into houses for the Inquisition to plant evidence of Satanic worship on them, so that they can be arrested by the Church, and he gets to steal what he wants from the house". Todd mentions that there is no Inquisition, Satan, or Catholic Church in The Forgotten Realms and I say "Well, whatever the equivalent" and he then goes into a long spiel on a bunch of gods that I don't care about (I'm happy with whatever) and how I need to read the background material. He then turns onto my girlfriend and I can already see her getting irked. She mentions that her Gnome was a nihilist who wanted to die in a way that no one had ever died before, or something like that, as her major life goal, and he then proceeded to rag on her for choosing the wrong stats and race for her class. He accepts Reasonable Guy's character. They know each other. He then busts out his own character, "rolled at home", who of course has 16, 17, or 18 in literally every stat. "Just lucky, I guess," chortles Todd. He explains to my totally uninterested GF how he spent hours on the internet trying to find the most powerful character build and then he SUCCEEDED and then he luckily rolled up the best stats to go with it! He's miffed that we're not amazed. GF, myself, and DM are now halfway through the first case of beer before we start. We begin the adventure. It is the Curse of Strahd, which is apparently a Dracula influenced adventure. I'm totally down with it, and began acting as if my guy is kind of a Gothic Horror aristocratic rake from a 19th century novel. Todd hates this. My GF acts tough with some NPCs, because she is a barbarian and is interested if they know any interesting ways to die. Todd constantly stands in her way and offers to 'protect her' because she's a woman, and you all get the idea. We arrive at a spooky haunted house which is obviously bad news, but the DM busted out this Dracula adventure and I am loving down for it so I act like a terrible horror movie protagonist and wish to go inside, along with the GF Barbarian who is eager for a new experience. We of course go around poking at various creepy things in the house because this is a horror game and nothing would happen if we stayed home and opened a sausage stand or something. Everytime we're about to touch something, Todd warns us off it with his "senses". He then finds all sorts of traps and secret doors flawlessly. We find one secret door ourself, and he warns us away, but we're just annoyed by him by now that we open it anyway and get ambushed by a bunch of animated armor suits and carpets and chairs and such. It is a fun battle and I run around throwing ball-bearings all over the stairs because I'm generally worthless stat-wise, and it really fucks up this armor stuff. Todd is annoyed that we defeated the armor with some clever tactic when he was doing a great job wacking away with his hammer. Todd gets very annoyed with us that we caused this "HP draining fight" to begin with (the only real fun part of the night) and extra annoyed that we were the ones who did the most to defeat it. We feel a moment of sympathy for Terrible Todd and resolve to take his next piece of advice just to be fair. We spot something odd with a piano or painting or something (3 years ago!) and look askance at Todd, who encourages us to go for it. It is of course a trap and it lays us flat - he then spends a long time lecturing us (in character, at least) before 'graciously' stabilizing us and letting us stand up. Oh, that crafty Todd got his revenge. By the time all the beer is finished and Hour 6 has passed, we are nowhere near done with this haunted house. We call a break. DM, with a haunted look in his eyes, asks us how it all went. Todd berates our lack of tactical acumen and our terrible character build. Todd reveals his true trump card, his real sign of genius: He informs us that part of the reason that the game got delayed so long was so that he could read the entire Curse of Strahd adventure (its a big book!) and memorize its dungeons so well that he could defeat them without ever coming close to death. If only my GF and I hadn't hosed up his flawless run! The DM spent months preparing all this campaign stuff for the Terrible Todd to destroy it in one fell swoop. He never DM'd Curse of Strahd again, from what I hear. That 1 night was the entirety of that campaign. Two weeks later, we moved abroad again and now thankfully have a good group full of Real Humans, but six hours under the reptilian gaze of Todd is a gaming moment I'll never forget. Mr. Grapes! fucked around with this message at 17:40 on Aug 7, 2019 |
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Mr. Grapes! posted:Not cat piss horrible I am so glad that the people I know would have said "we're starting on X day at Y time, if you can make it great if not we'll work you in when you figure your poo poo out" and left Todd to his pedantic screeching about FR lore on reddit.
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Aug 7, 2019 19:18
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Mr. Grapes! posted:The DM spent months preparing all this campaign stuff for the Terrible Todd to destroy it in one fell swoop. He never DM'd Curse of Strahd again, from what I hear. That 1 night was the entirety of that campaign. Two weeks later, we moved abroad again and now thankfully have a good group full of Real Humans, but six hours under the reptilian gaze of Todd is a gaming moment I'll never forget. Sounds like a good excuse to secretly change the name to The Curse of Tahd and make a few things where the 'right' moves for Strahd will set you back or get your character maimed. e:f,b by MBT
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I have to ask... putting aside that him delaying over and over was a a red flag the size of the actual nation of China, why did you not just tell him right at the start "Sorry, we only have a few months to play" and get on with it. I realise that this guy is the type of dysfunctional narcissist that would expect people to wait 11 weeks for him to grace their game, but why didn't you just tell him to hop it and carry on with 3 PCs? I could perhaps understand waiting if he was the DM and was in the middle of too many games to run another, but I don't see why you wouldn't all vote to say "Nothing personal mate, but we only have this summer."Yond Cassius posted:Sounds like a good excuse to secretly change the name to The Curse of Tahd and make a few things where the 'right' moves for Strahd will set you back or get your character maimed. This (x2)
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Personally I've always been of the opinion that the only thing worse than reading stories in a story thread that you're not interested in is reading posts about reading stories in a story thread that you're not interested in. Let people post the stories they wanna post, campaign logs, pithy tales, cat-piss, awesomeness, whatever. Think about how many stories would never have been posted in this thread if every poster had to be all "hmm, does this really qualify for inclusion, or am I gonna get yelled at?" poo poo, none of mine would've been. In conclusion,  . If someone doesn't like what you , they can scroll down like a fuckin' adultEDIT: Also it should be noted that back in the day there were multiple Gaming Stories Threads, one for good stories and one for awful ones, and they ended up getting merged into one thread because there wasn't enough activity to sustain them both. So maybe thread-splitting isn't the wisest course of action here DivineCoffeeBinge fucked around with this message at 22:53 on Aug 7, 2019 |
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:Personally I've always been of the opinion that the only thing worse than reading stories in a story thread that you're not interested in is reading posts about reading stories in a story thread that you're not interested in. Let people post the stories they wanna post, campaign logs, pithy tales, cat-piss, awesomeness, whatever. I agree with this. Sometimes I have skipped a longer post because I personally didn't find it engrossing, but that's just my opinion and people should feel welcome to post anything that they want. This thread doesn't get that much traffic as it is, so let's not discourage people.
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How about a compromise and people post short summaries at the top of their post for the longer ones? 'The worst thief in the world steals a pie, causes a city-wide riot' for example.
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VanSandman posted:How about a compromise and people post short summaries at the top of their post for the longer ones? that's called a tldr
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I like the cool campaign logs and summaries and skip past the catpiss. Agrikk's posts are fun to read and I am enjoying following along now that Cobiwann seems to be on hiatus or finished posting about their Tanicus game.
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looks like different people like different things and that's cool and one of the upsides of a forum is you can put different things in different threads and everyone can visit the ones with the things in it that they like!
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BabyFur Denny posted:looks like different people like different things and that's cool and one of the upsides of a forum is you can put different things in different threads and everyone can visit the ones with the things in it that they like! And one of the downsides of a forum is that a thread with no posts in it in a while doesn't get read and eventually gets locked~
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I would also like to see some more catpiss stories, but, I am also a fan of Agrikk's work and don't mind seeing it here.
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Canuck-Errant posted:And one of the downsides of a forum is that a thread with no posts in it in a while doesn't get read and eventually gets locked~ Which is what was happening to the Catpiss Stories and Awesome Stories threads, which is why they got combined into this one!
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I'll be starting a new thread, with a proper introduction and character background, but I had an update or two yet to post so I'm posting here for a little bit longer. edit: I'll eave the quote boxes out, though. Agrikk fucked around with this message at 06:28 on Aug 10, 2019 |
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Shadow Thalos Allustan continues, “Loris might try to use the Scrolls to create an ulgurstasta, but for what reason we do not know. Whatever his reason he must be stopped and you four are the ones in a position to stop it.” I ask, “and how do you propose we do that?” Allustan pours himself a cup from my bottle of wine. An utterly forgettable red. “Loris Raknian is hosting the Champions Belt, a famous tournament steeped in tradition in Thalos. An opportunity for Gladiators seeking fortune and glory to increase their station.” “Gladiators? Fortune and glory? What is this?” asks Snakeeyes, still clearly upset. “We are already saving Thalos and maybe the all of creation, and now we are to debase ourselves for the delight of a crowd?” “I’m not comfortable with this either,” says Ospar. “Our lot is with the underworld. Not arena games.” Allustan shrugs. “Just a suggestion. I shall stay out of this then and let you decide how you wish to proceed.” He stands up, finishes his cup of wine, nods thanks at me, and then departs. “To the hells with that plan,” says Snakeeyes, pacing the room. “Let’s do things our way.” “What, sneaking and murdering?” I say. “Exactly. The Arena is ‘steeped in tradition’. Do you think it will have changed much in Shadow Thalos? You have mastered accessing it without using a granite portal. We could flip in and out that way.” Over the next week we scout, probe and infiltrate the Thalos Arena. The Arena itself is a massive structure built on old cavalry parade grounds near the Nobles Quarter and exists due to the sheer drive and force of will of Loris Raknian. Above ground it is a multi-tier structure with seating for thousands and has, we discover though exploring its clone in Shadow Thalos, a sprawling network of underground passages, quarters, inns and restaurants for the discerning gladiator team and visiting dignitaries. Early in Games Week we are able to walk the underside of the Arena easily as they are packed with gladiator teams, managers, bookies, agents and hangers-on and we are just part of the crowd. But as the week progresses and individual gladiators and teams submit or are killed outright, we are forced to explore the underside through Shadow Thalos. We learn quickly how to avoid the creation of Red Eyes during our passage to and from Shadow Thalos after accidentally summoning and doing battle with them and we also learn that we are not alone in this strange place. It was the second day of the games and maybe our fourth trip into Shadow Thalos, when we encountered the demon that Severance classified as a Hezrou demon. It was crouched in a passage underneath the shadow-Arena and we thought it was a statue of a strange toad-like creature with human arms instead of forelegs. We walked by it and it exploded into action, bowling into us and sending us sprawling. As we recovered, it summoned two shadowy spirit demons to its aid and we were engaged. Once we recovered from our shock we were able to defeat the creatures, but the creatures were a horrible sight to behold. “Demons?!” I said while poking the corpse of the Hezrou with my staff. Ospar says, “I didn’t know there were demons here.” “I wonder if they aren't here ‘naturally’. I understood that this place was created from the maelstrom as a shadow of Thalos and that there was nothing alive here.” Severance stands up from crouching next to the corpse. “Eh. I wonder if t’ings be leakin’ in due to the Exile’s shenanigans. Daughter o’ th’ Night an’ th’ Queen o’ Chaos. Maybe entropy is takin’ effect an’ borders be weakenin’.” By day three we had explored the Coenoby, a housing complex called the Titan’s House, and an undead-infested complex called the Old Caves. The Old Caves led off to a network of caverns inhabited by ghasts and ghouls and I was able to dominate two ghouls who became my bodyguards for a little while until they made Severance too nervous to keep around and destroyed them. On the surface, gladiator teams continue to face off in the arena as we explore the underside. Occasionally as we grew fatigued from battling undead in the underside and demons in Shadow Thalos, we retreat via portal to the sun-kissed streets of the Nobles Quarter and listen to the roar of the crowd as we rest in whatever inn was nearby. On day four of the Games we discover a discrepancy between Thalos and Shadow Thalos. When I create a portal to enter back into our plane of existence from Shadow Thalos in an unexplored part of the caverns of the underside, the rift causes the creation of at least nine Red Eyes, indicating a large rift between the two planes. Several escape into Thalos and we defeat the rest and step through the portal back into the land of color.
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:Which is what was happening to the Catpiss Stories and Awesome Stories threads, which is why they got combined into this one! Can confirm.
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Agrikk posted:I'll be starting a new thread
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Yawgmoth posted:Please don't. There's no sense in letting a couple whiners ruin a thread by forcing it to split off into multiple threads no one is gonna want to keep track of. They can learn how a loving scroll wheel works and/or unfollow the thread if it bothers them so bad; meanwhile the rest of us can continue enjoying the gaming stories here in the gaming stories thread. Seriously, this. I scroll through a lot of what gets posted here, and it doesn't matter because at least that means folks are posting.
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Yawgmoth posted:Please don't. There's no sense in letting a couple whiners ruin a thread by forcing it to split off into multiple threads no one is gonna want to keep track of. They can learn how a loving scroll wheel works and/or unfollow the thread if it bothers them so bad; meanwhile the rest of us can continue enjoying the gaming stories here in the gaming stories thread. Agreed. Just because we're in a dry spell with only one steady campaign story doesn't mean anything's wrong.
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Yawgmoth posted:Please don't. There's no sense in letting a couple whiners ruin a thread by forcing it to split off into multiple threads no one is gonna want to keep track of. They can learn how a loving scroll wheel works and/or unfollow the thread if it bothers them so bad; meanwhile the rest of us can continue enjoying the gaming stories here in the gaming stories thread.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Yeah I'm no longer convinced it should be a new thread. Plenty of people like reading them here it seems. You should rename the thread then, considering it's inaccurate to what's posted.
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Throwing my hat in as a lurker, keep posting here. Thread title still works as well
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The Rise of the Ulgurstasta One end of the passage leads down into darkness, so we follow the other direction towards a large room and let Ospar scout ahead and he quickly returns. “The whole room looks purpose built. It is quite large with an encircled pentagram etched on the floor. Within the pentagram are two creatures towering to well over nine feet in height of ghastly appearance, being broad and strong-looking covered with a wrinkled hide, with a head much like a goat-horned dog, pincers instead of normal hands, and a small pair of human arms protruding from its chest.They are screaming in some fell language so I suppose some of the Red Eyes came this way.” “Eh hells,” says Severance. “Glabrezu. Tough’uns. Any ways ‘round ‘em?” Ospar nods. “Yes, but the space is thin and there would be no way to hide as we went past. Clearly these demons are guards to sound the alarm and they’ve been triggered.” We decide to move single file past the demon guards, hoping that any activity will be blamed on the Red Eyes that came this way. They hiss and snarl and throw themselves at us to smash against the barrier of the pentagram, but we are careful not to cross the magical boundary in any way and move on. Next is a rectangular room lit by a pair of braziers, and a simple altar of stone sits along one wall facing a pair of double doors. On the altar is a scroll which glows with an unnatural green light. A writhing green beam of light emanates from the scroll to strike the doors, bathing them in the same green glow. Standing at the altar, with one hand touching one of the five foot long rollers of the scroll is a middle-aged tiefling with a flabby and misshapen figure. His fiendish ancestry is evident in the unnaturally green, almost fluorescent color of his eyes, his twitching tail and the vestigial horns on his brow, and his hoofed feet. Floating to one side are a trip of Red Eyes standing perfectly still. He turns away from the altar and is about to say something, but Severance sends a bolt of raw fire into him, knocking him back and burning him horribly. The tiefling gestures at us and two of the three Red Eyes immediately swoop down towards us while one floats past us back the way we came. I send a kinetic bolt of ice at the Red Eye as it sails by and it gets knocked aside, but it moves down the corridor towards the demons imprisoned by the pentagram. Within moments there is a howling cry as the demons are freed and the four of us are beset by the two demons, two Red Eyes and the tiefling. I throw a rolling storm cloud down the corridor and the two demons and a Red Eye are wrapped by a cloud of lightning as Severance sends another bolt of fire at the tiefling. Snakeeyes skirmishes with the Red Eyes as Ospar sprints for the altar to get a flank or rear attack even as the tiefling casts protective magic and wades into the fray. The demons make no effort to coordinate attacks and we are able to concentrate our effort on one creature at a time, dodging their brute strength, resisting waves of fear they send at us as we cut them down with spells and enchanted steel. Ospar has engaged the tiefling but it is Snakeeyes who gets the final slash in, opening a bloody wound in its arm and causing it to drop from its wounds. Ospar tends to our wounds, every day looking less like a street-bred rat catcher and more like a grim, battle-hardened priest of a god of war. As we gather ourselves and regroup the tiefling bleeds out in a pool of black blood. At that moment, the green light emanating from the scroll on the altar fades and a shuddering howl thunders from the double doors. We ready ourselves for the next onslaught and push through the doors to find ourselves in a huge, vaulted chamber dimly illuminated by a fading green light. A colossal, disgusting, yellowish grub lies on a heap of rubble, bones, and rotting foulness and is throwing itself against the ceiling with a roar. Timbers crack and stones fall, and even as we hammer it with spells and arrows it begins to burrow its way up to the surface in an avalanche of dirt. We dive out of the chamber followed by a cloud of dust and debris and Snakeeyes slams the doors against the deluge. After a few moments of panting the tumult fades and Snakeeyes opens the doors to the wreckage of the room and its new chimney to the surface. Quickly, Severance scoops up the scroll from the altar and then he and I cast spells of flight. We gather up Snakeeyes and Ospar and fly up after the grub, which could only be the ulgurstasta as referenced by the Apostolic Scrolls.
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In 13th Age my players put in motion a chain of events that led into an ancient king being resurrected as an abomination with the head of a warforged and a body of a female werewolf, all connected through strange nekrotek machinery. And it all started from them finding a random warforged head several sessions ago. It was a completely out of left field element that's just gonna be a thing in the future. Now I just need to find a picture of some sort of werewolfish monster with a mechanical head. Oh, the players also thought the best name for this guy would be "Vecna", because of course.
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Syenite posted:You should rename the thread then, considering it's inaccurate to what's posted.
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Syenite posted:You should rename the thread then, considering it's inaccurate to what's posted. Orrrr, you could stop your incessant whining and share a catpiss story or two instead. Or even a good or bad story! Every post of yours save one in this thread has been bitching about you having to scroll past stories you don't want to read on the internet, and now complaining that the thread title is inaccurate, jfc You are the catpiss dude
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HiHo ChiRho posted:You are the catpiss dude And thus the prophecy was realised!
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