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i finally got to play in a masks game  things that happened- my character immediately ran into his ex and it was very awkward for everyone involved. 3 characters ended up in a immediate and very petty love triangle also we terrified some children (it was halloween) and managed to piss off several real ghosts.
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JustJeff88 posted:What's the fun of having so much narrative agency if you're not inevitably punished for any use of that power?
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According to my DM, "muffin" is pronounced "muffin" in Infernal, but every letter has an umlaut.
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The Meuefefeiene Man
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CobiWann posted:According to my DM, "muffin" is pronounced "muffin" in Infernal, but every letter has an umlaut. If you wanted to discuss, say, Motörhead in Infernal, would you have to pronounce it with an umlaut on every letter except the o that originally had an umlaut? Is Infernal just reverse german?
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Ichabod Sexbeast posted:If you wanted to discuss, say, Motörhead in Infernal, would you have to pronounce it with an umlaut on every letter except the o that originally had an umlaut? That o gets a second umlaut above the existing one.
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Ichabod Sexbeast posted:If you wanted to discuss, say, Motörhead in Infernal, would you have to pronounce it with an umlaut on every letter except the o that originally had an umlaut? According to our Cleric, you pronounce it ”MOTORHEAD!” while taking a shot of Jack Daniels. You have to take the shot while saying it for the correct inflection.
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CobiWann posted:According to our Cleric, you pronounce it ”MOTORHEAD!” while taking a shot of Jack Daniels. Ok, so the same as English
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CobiWann posted:According to our Cleric, you pronounce it ”MOTORHEAD!” while taking a shot of Jack Daniels. Abyssal pronunciation: mix 1 1/2 oz whiskey, 1/2 oz mead, and 2oz boiling water in a large clay mug. When the whisky is almost settled on top, light it on fire. Consume immediately. As an action, you can drink this cocktail and belch out a swear word. For 1 hour, you can correctly pronounce words in the Abyssal language. This does not grant you proficiency in spoken Abyssal, only the ability to pronounce it without accent. If the effect of the Abyssal pronunciation ends before you take a long rest, make a DC 20 Constitution saving throw. On a failure, you gain one level of exhaustion as you suffer the literal hangover from hell. On a success, you are instead poisoned for 1 minute as you suffer a figurative hangover from literal hell.
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According to my DM, I am not allowed to name our Federation starship the USS Omar Little.
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CobiWann posted:According to my DM, I am not allowed to name our Federation starship the USS Omar Little. Yeah Starfleet doesn't do first names on its ships much, it'd just be the USS Little
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Celestial Is Mꙮstly Nꙮrmal.
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Golden Bee posted:Park-North Snipe Hunt! Simon could count cards with the best of them. He didn’t count on a Nazi zeppelin. Our Pulp group reached the Canary Islands capital of Tenerife. Our mission is to find an ancient civilization with steles that emit weird radio patterns. Unfortunately, the location is a hard day’s travel up a volcanic mountainside. Highlights: *The omnipresence of gofio, a local wheat-based thickener that is terrible and used in everything. *The party urchin being insulted by the casino owner’s implication that she was too young to gamble and should enjoy the playground: she ran a scam earning thousands of dollars, then took the money and enjoyed the playground. *Our attempt to break into the radio station to locate the steles was made incredibly easy by the fact the radio station wasn’t used at night. Since nothing of worth there could be stolen without a ship’s crew and the nearest place to sell it was a boat ride away in Africa, we found the key underneath a potted plant. Golden Bee fucked around with this message at 21:42 on Apr 30, 2024 |
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Had a good moment in the homebrew Destiny RPG game I'm playing in. The party was infiltrating a Fallen (six armed bug aliens) hangar to steal a skiff so we could hijack it and ram it into a garrison to cause some panic while we shut down a Vex gate. The combat goes well in our favour with my Hunter taking out a Captain with one shot from her bow and then we carve through the rest of the heavy hitters and the walker there as well. But at one point my character is charged by a pair of Fallen who go up melee with her, and manage to roll so well they just instantly drop her to 0 health with their attacks. However, human guardians have a rule that they get to do one action before they die. So I do the only obvious things, I counter-attack. I'm dead anyway so I might as well get a hit in. Only to proceed to absolutely carve the mob of two of them up with my attack rolling exceedingly well. But Hunters also has an ability that if they get a melee kill they get to move to an adjacent unit to do another attack. So killing those two allowed me to push towards another nearby mob of five Fallen, kill one of them before dropping stone dead to the floor. And then I got back up two turns later as the combat was winding down because death is a temporary thing for a Guardian in most cases. Another highlight was the Warlock becoming incorporeal the moment someone even looked in her direction.
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 Love it, all sounds extremely on-brand for everyone's favorite humanity-protecting undead monsters.
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I should add the Titan contributed by taking 3/4ths of the Walker's health with the first salvo of his machine gun, tanking a number of missiles leaving him with one health before finishing it off a turn or two later. The fight would've probably taken a very different turn the Walker had been allowed to live for too long.
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A significant advance in an investigation was won by their big security guy and gulf war vet winning a proper jersey shoving match with a golden-chain clad mobster, preventing a larger brawl. X-COM was identified by Exalt operatives because the team's PI likes to wear 1920s cosplay and they pick up on that kind of thing, being enthusiasts of dressing like combat bartenders themselves.
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Golden Bee posted:Diplomacy was difficult this week in fellowship. The elf drew a dragon out of a thundercloud, but instead of using his talk to monsters ability, the harbinger attacked it with a venomous spit. He went down hard, which teaches the lesson not to get into a spitting match with a dragon. We ended up winning this campaign but the dragon was still pissed off.
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Because my party are a band of world-saving do-gooders, they entered into a bargain with a lich who—several hundred years before—had tried to conquer the world with an undead horde. In return for the “strength and conviction to ruin your enemies,” all they had to do was tear down a stone cairn that conveniently also served as the lich’s timeless prison, and which had kept him and his influence sequestered. The deal is struck, they realize their physical stats have gone through the roof (+15 Strength, +10 Constitution, +8 Dexterity, -2 Charisma), and they instantly tell the lich to jog on, that they’ll finish up their end of the bargain after they deal with the current world-ending apocalypse. The lich, having considered means of escape for longer than whole countries had existed, had at least once imagined that those he empowered would want to betray him. And thus, as they rode off into the sunset, the party was brought up short by a terrible affliction. They discovered that if they tried to leave a radius of about half a mile from the monument, their physical stats would drop to low single-digits, with a Charisma to match; only their intellect remained intact so they could fully grasp the severity of their situation. Morose and resigned, the “heroes” turned back toward the structure, and—with their gifted strength returning for the task—had no problem disassembling the earthen shrine. Out popped the lich, wagging a bony finger at them, before hieing over the horizon toward whatever terrible plans he had in mind. As the characters’ stats returned to normal, one player asked what would have happened if they hadn’t tried to betray the lich. “You would have kept a healthy bonus for the rest of the campaign.” Of course, there had been no doubt in my mind that the players, no matter how Lawful their characters, would think nothing of trying to get one over on the ancient being. Little do they realize this won’t be the last time that lich interjects himself into the story, and with another tantalizing offer in mind …
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Clearly your party needs to find a fey lawyer; the lich has made the mistake of now being the party's enemy, and (now that they have completed the task) is contractually bound to help them kick his rear end.
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Mage ended a couple weeks ago. Recaps over here: One Two Three Four So there's one thing left to resolve: prior to this battle, decades ago, the Kopa Loei had to move their locus of power from a sacred mountain to a spot around some coral reefs. This normally isn't advisable, or even possible, but they pulled it off. The problem is that they can't do it again, and the move turned out to be more of a co-location. This co-location has created a "tremor" in local reality, and is threatening to tear the whole region apart, physically. This has been an ongoing issue that has been hinted at and has been increasing in frequency and severity. So now with nothing left on our plate, it's time to deal with that. The Kopa Loei tell us that they need to enact a specific rite, the details of which have been lost during colonial conquests. A tome, The Marriage Rite of City Father and Earth Mother, contained the rite, but it no longer exists. But someone comes up with an idea to go fetch a copy from an alternate universe parallel to our own. So we go into the spirit realm to find a way into this mirror universe, as the spirit realm is kind of... agnostic toward specific versions of the physical world. Having a quest and two mages versed in sprit magic expedites things in The Shadow, and we get through it without incident. We cross over and--- We find ourselves occupying the place of our parallel selves in short, solo scenes: Aroha is normally a soft-hearted environmentalist who teaches swim and scuba lessons in between raising her orphaned niece. In this reality, she is a famous nature documentarian, like David Attenborough, but in the absence of having to raise her niece (and having only millions of dollars to keep her company) she has grown to be cruel and callous toward the many personal assistants, housekeepers, and gardeners on her sprawling estate. Adam is normally a mystically-flexible, archetypical wandering wizard who is as much in tune with Yahweh as The Green Man. In this reality, they are the head druid of a nature-worshipping cult, and at least one of the characters we know to be a hacker in our reality is one of their worshippers. They're not worse in this reality like Aroha, but their life just took the same ideas in a very different direction. Doc Joey is normally a goony burnout alchemist, living on the fringes of society, academia, and magical politics all at once. In this reality, he has become a sort of John C. Lily fringe dolphin researcher. We meet a pair of dolphins who can use the fruits of Doc's research to speak to humans. They are huge dickheads and are also addicted to the psychotropic drug that Doc has given them to make this communication possible. One of the people we know as a Technocrat in our reality is one of his research assistants here. Cezar is normally a good-natured teddy bear and retired MMA fighter. In this reality, he is the head of another cult, but one that is outwardly more of a fringe combat sports gym and its adherents. They follow a violent, amoral Hobbesian philosophy of might-makes-right. This version of Cezar has killed three people in the ring  by accident and is banned in most international sanctioned bouts. My normal character's Fame (1 out of 3) background is now the bad version of that, Infamy, at 3 out of 3 dots.The GM rightly doesn't rewrite everyone's character sheets, but does change backgrounds to reflect the material and social changes we just stepped into. Aroha, for example, goes from having Resources 0 (no extra expendable income) to having Resources 5 (millions in expendable income). But the characters are aware of their actual selves, and their quest. That's good for everyone, but causes quite an existential crisis and panic in Cezar. His paradigm hinges on the subjective relativity of time and perception, so he has a few moments of thinking maybe this is the "authentic" version of him. But he steps back form that ledge. HE does, however, realize that the mirror version of him from this reality might be doing the same thing he's doing: inhabiting his existence back in the "regular" reality. The idea of such a monster being anywhere near his wife and kid make Cezar very anxious to get the gently caress over with this quest ASAP, and it all makes him uncharacteristically angry and impatient. We all meet up at this reality's version of our safehouse. We're all self-aware and still on board with the quest, so we set about investigating where this tome is. Along the way, Doc swings through a McDonalds drive-thru just to see what the menu is like in this reality. The McRib is a mainline menu item, and the Filet o' Fish is occasional like our McRib. Also, the Aloha Burger (a burger using a thick slice of grilled pineapple in lieu of the burger patty) is still going strong as a seasonal item in this reality instead of being a notorious disaster as it is in ours. Truly, a waking nightmare. Anyway, our investigations lead us to a series of several more NPCs whom we know from our reality. They are also all different of course, but most importantly we find two Kopa Loei: Keoni, and Leilani. Keoni is normally a level-headed member of the Kopa Loei who acts as a sort of tempering force to Leilani's firebrand activism. He's committed to his people's cause but is more of an incrementalist. In this reality he is a Technocrat. He has a vision for fusing his people's traditions and environmentalism on a wider scale with this near-future tech he's been working on. But he's also become an egotistical goober in this reality, like if Elon Musk could actually build any of the things he describes. Leilani is still a firebrand in this reality, but just more so. Frankly, she is an outright ecoterrorist in this reality. She also has the tome we're looking for under lock and key at the collective farm/compound she lives at with her comrades. We learn this from speaking to Keoni, who had tried to use the tome's rite before to accomplish his goals of creating a more nature-tuned cityscape for Honolulu. He failed miserably, and Leilani's people stole it from him shortly thereafter. So we go to her compound. The gate is a bit dicey, as we are two weirdos (Adam and Doc) showing up with a famous nature documentarian (Aroha) and an infamous, remorseless murderer (Cezar). I manage to flip the disadvantage of my Infamy by saying to the guard at the gate, "If you think it's weird for such a strange mix of people to show up, then clearly it's for a specific reason." It helps that we come with info about Leilani that is hard to come by. We get in under escort (understandable, as I wouldn't trust this Cezar as far as I could throw him), and find out that Leilani wants to enact the rite herself, just as Keoni did. They both want to use it to improve their home, but neither will work with the other to do it. In the middle of our negotiations with Leilani, Keoni shows up with two Unmarked Black SUVsTM full of armed goons. As most of us prepare for a full on Waco situation, Doc goes outside, alone. As the closest thing we have to a Technocrat, he negotiates with Keoni since he sees the value of the idea, if not the method, of what he's doing. It becomes clear that Keoni doesn't get it, namely that he is a stand-in of City Father, and that his use of the rite failed because he didn't have the cooperation of the stand-in for Earth Mother: Leilani. He's written off Leilani and her cause as backward, and she's written him off as a culture-destroying traitor to his people. Both are wrong in their own way, and having them come to terms is part of this marriage rite. A couple of us make the next logical leap but keep quiet about it: that a marriage is a specific kind of partnership in terms of spiritual stuff, but we put it out of our minds for now and hope that these two bitter enemies (in this reality at least) don't have to gently caress to finish the rite, that it remains a sort of symbolic thing. Ultimately, the Men in Black stand down, and we don't get Waco'd. Keoni agrees to try it our way, and Leilani agrees not to kill him during that process. Each of the PCs contributes part of the setup of the rite, and it becomes clear that this ceremony is going to be the end of the game, one way or another, so these personalized "gifts" to the partners are a sort of send-off for these characters. Aroha surveys the perfect time and place for the rite: a spot on a remote, secluded beach at dawn. She also consecrates the spot with her own people's magic (Maori) as a sort of "gift for hospitality" to the indigenous people for whom we are working. Adam fetches a special tree that the cult version of his character has at the center of their temple. It's an inosculated tree made deliberately (and non-magically) from five different trees. Adam will also lead the rite as they are the most versed in ritual magic and function as a spiritual leader in this reality. Doc Joey asks my two new favorite characters, the Dickhead DolphinsTM, to witness the rite. He also likes the idea of some kind of representative of the non-human natural world blessing this rite. They agree, on the condition that Doc "hook them up with that dank poo poo he's been holding," to which he agrees. Cezar paces out a circle around where the tree will stand and consecrates it with his blood. Blood seems apt as a pennance for all of the dumb colonial poo poo everyone has done to these people for centuries. That, and it's already a part of Cezar's whole magical deal, so he's used to consecrating circles with his (or other people's) blood in ritual combat. The rite begins without any hiccups, and there comes a point where the officiant, Adam, has to commune with the spirits of City Father and Earth Mother. These are powerful spirits, so he takes Aroha along as the only other person in our party skilled at dealing with spirits. The discussion goes well, but apparently the deal must be consummated more than just symbolically. If these were any other kinds of spirits I'd cry foul, but it makes sense in this case. However, it puts us all in a super awkward, even dangerous position. A couple of us had this in mind, so Cezar was prepared to do some quick, on-the-spot discussion. He reaches out to the minds of both Keoni and Leilani to talk to them telepathically, at the speed of thought. Cezar had already done work with the version of Leilani in the regular universe, so he was already kind of attuned to her, and her to him. With that in mind (no pun intended), Cezar lays the cards on the table: City Father and Earth Mother are asking that Keoni and Leilani gently caress to seal the deal. This revelation, paired with Cezar knowing Leilani better than most (and with a good Empathy roll) tells Cezar that the two of them desperately want to gently caress each other, regardless of all this. Cezar breathes a huge sigh of relief. Everyone else does the same, in and out of character. The rite is completed and the two NPCs go off to finish the rite, tastefully, offstage. That ended the campaign. Each PC had a real quick, collaborative epilogue with the GM. It was weird and cool to have an "end boss" that wasn't wall-to-wall combat (we kind of did that already with the Technocrats in the normal universe). This and the quest to defeat/transform the spirit of Imperialism were both cool because they used the system in a creative way without any combat. That said, I am pumped to get back to D&D in a few weeks. We're running a couple one-shots (Masquerade 20 and Wanderhome) while we wait for real world bullcrap to shake down and we can start up our Undermountain campaign again. 
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Railing Kill posted:Mage... Love the hell out of this! Clearly, your GM/MC/ST/WE knew they couldn't top the Technocrat fight or turning Spirit of Imperialism into the purer Spirit of Exploration, so instead of going big for the ending they went deep, with a dive into your PCs and favorite NPCs. Good poo poo.
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Captain Walker posted:Love the hell out of this! Clearly, your GM/MC/ST/WE knew they couldn't top the Technocrat fight or turning Spirit of Imperialism into the purer Spirit of Exploration, so instead of going big for the ending they went deep, with a dive into your PCs and favorite NPCs. Good poo poo. Yeah, it worked well. The very end could have easily been handled awkwardly/terribly in less capable hands, but our GM is good. She's a character-first type of player, and I was super impressed with this being the first game she's ever run. She's been in our usual group as a player for almost 20 years and wanted to try running her favorite game as her first attempt at running anything. Normally I would say running Mage as one's first game is the stuff of nightmares, but she knows the game well enough to know what works and what to be flexible about for the sake of everyone's experience. She also came out as trans during pride month, so running her favorite game for the first time through that process was apparently a help to her as a distraction/something else to focus on. The group rallied around her and it's been good to see happy endings both in and out of game in Hellworld Times. 
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Railing Kill posted:it's been good to see happy endings both in and out of game in Hellworld Times. You love to see it! 
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According to my DM, when playing Legend of the Five Rings there's a big difference between kabuki and bukkake.
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CobiWann posted:According to my DM, when playing Legend of the Five Rings there's a big difference between kabuki and bukkake. Not if you’re doing it right.
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CobiWann posted:According to my DM, when playing Legend of the Five Rings there's a big difference between kabuki and bukkake. Yoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
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Yeah, I ended up with egg on my face over that one. I also say "brassiere" when I mean "brazier" and "martial" when I mean "marital." It's not meant to be funny, it's just how my brain hardwired those words.
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My tabaxi ballet dancer (monk/bard/rogue) was kidnapped by a fae lord (The Season Boy, played as a 1930's Looney Tunes Cherub by our DM) the day before her wedding to her orc pro wrestler girlfriend, so I tried to garotte him with one of my harp strings.
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CobiWann posted:Yeah, I ended up with egg on my face over that one. At least it was just egg
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CobiWann posted:Yeah, I ended up with egg on my face over that one. Are you being served did a joke on that first pair, to wacky results. There are two places near where I used to live: one is called 'Foster' and one 'Forest', and I constantly invert them. I know where they are and how they are dissimlar, but...
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Our fellowship session was briefly interrupted by the arrival of star reporter CALAMITY MAPQUEST who parachuted onto our airship, shook down our noble for an interview, and leaped back onto her airship in the space of like ten minutes.
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CobiWann posted:I also say "brassiere" when I mean "brazier" and "martial" when I mean "marital." It's not meant to be funny, it's just how my brain hardwired those words. For me it’s torch sconce vs scone.
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CobiWann posted:Yeah, I ended up with egg on my face over that one. Don't want to mix up the martial and marital aids in the bedroom, could get messy
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Admiralty Flag posted:Don't want to mix up the martial and marital aids in the bedroom, could get messy Preechr posted:Not if you’re doing it right.
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Admiralty Flag posted:Don't want to mix up the martial and marital aids in the bedroom, could get messy For the session, it was my character suggesting that a Barbarian and their spouse go to martial counseling. Which does kind of fit. Leraika posted:Our fellowship session was briefly interrupted by the arrival of star reporter CALAMITY MAPQUEST who parachuted onto our airship, shook down our noble for an interview, and leaped back onto her airship in the space of like ten minutes. Was it a tabloid style interview, a "what's the real story" kind of interview, or a Mass Effect interview?
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Soundbite type interview. I have never played Mass Effect, alas.
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