Midlands Zef, Second Session

<Dyel>Grounds For Midlands, Act 1, what goes bump in the night
<Dan>Oh dear god
<Dan>this is going to be the weird stand pasta isn't it
<Dyel>After taking the message from the Legit, shorty before he is murdered by a Commander of the Citadel, Dan takes his horse through the pony trail of Midland, a trail that involves stalls of horses that run to the next stall.
<Dyel>It takes 2 weeks to get to Midland this way, and Dan is half way through it.
<Dyel>He has reached the near end of Midlands forest, however, a fierce storm forced him to stay back a day, Dan now runs through the midnight of a boggy wood, the full moon bright above him as his horse stampedes a cadence on the wet cobble path
* Dan is restless having ridden fairly hard, always on the watch for any passing party
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<Dyel>Dan, make a riding check.
<Dan>^roll 1d100+100
<Aksa>You rolled a raw 37
<Aksa>Dan: your total is 137
<Dyel>roll another check
<Dyel>still ride.
<Dyel>Or atheltics.
<Dyel>which ever is higher
<Dan>definetly ride
<Dan>^roll 1d100+100
<Aksa>You rolled a raw 66
<Aksa>Dan: your total is 166
<Dyel>Dan, your horse buckles underneeth something, and rolls over onto the ground, neighing as it kicks its leg, however, you barely got yourself unholstered and fall out before you are roll over by the thousand pound beast of labor
<Dan>"Woah WOAH, no no no no no!"
<Dyel>It does not take a vet to know that a leg should not be flopping like that
<Dyel>what will you do, Dan?
<Dan>"...Almost made it, Bods. Almost...."
* Dan pauses and searches his remaining supplies for any apple or mints.
<Dyel>you still have your rations, and some dry crab apples.
<Dyel>awful stuff, but the horse isn't going to eat them
<Dyel>thankfully the new lamp you've gotten hasn't broke in the crash
<Dan>"Ah...looks like I can't give anything back friend. I guess what they say is true... 'crooked string only takes.'"
<Dyel>The horse has calmed down from its wreck, laying on the wet road heavily
* Dan draws an arrow and loads his bow, drawing it to point directly between the horses eyes.
<Dan>"Bodkin, I release you from burden. Go on ahead."
<Dyel>It's not a difficult shot, especially for your cursed eyes.
* Dan closes his eyes and fires
* Dan looks away, and unstrings his bow, gathering supplies. He leaves the horse untouched.
<Dan>"Alright, by foot then."
<Dyel>It is done, like magic, the horse is put into a sleep that it will not wake up from, your supplies are gathered, and the road ahead is ready, and full of puddles you can't see the bottom of, the full moon shines, but is clouded, only giving the barest of moon light
<Dyel>BGM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkDo4cTuSTc
<Dyel>Do you stick by the road?
<Dan>((of course not))
<Dan>((;P))
<Dyel>As you walk, your foot gets bogged down in satuated mud, sinking in, a hole, like some kind of wallow
* Dan grips his boot tightly and pulls up gradually, using his spurs to dislodge any trapped air
<Dyel>the water fills the empty space of your boot and makes it hard to pull out, this is difficult terrain at the least.
<Dyel>But no one is going to be tracking you
<Dan>"Ha, reminds me of back home."
* Dan smiles, then the look freezes on his face and he restrings his bow before carrying on
<Dyel>You don't hear anything unnormal, but the darkness unerves you
<Dyel>Shadows that create faces, clawed hands, fiends lurking behind the trees
<Dan>he peers deep into any puddles, up into tree's and looks into deep shadow for any strings of life, that would mark something untree
<Dyel>everything seems to have sheltered from itself from the storm ealier
* Dan puts arrow to bow, with replacements in his off hand, closing the lid on the lantern, narrowing it to a thin beam.
<Dyel>you can see the puddles, and more imporantly, the the mud holes, the foot prints.
* Dan examines the foot prints, to determine if the person was wearing metal shoes, leather, or if they were even human
<Dyel>6 large holes in the ground with nothing defining, like spikes that went through the ground, it makes you think of the large creature shasing you
<Dyel>chasing*
<Dan>That gets his attention.
<Dyel>which way did it go, backward or forward? That's a tricky question you cannot answer
* Dan thinks back to the monster he beat, and considers how well he could have done without his horse.
* Dan beats a hasty retreat back to the path, at the very least he'll be able to see something coming if it was coming
<Dyel>you go back to the where the horse was, or where you think it was, the horse is gone.
<Dyel>BGM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-heSRbvCErU
<Dan>"Huh, guess it wasn't that bad of a break," Dan chuckles under his breath.
<Dyel>Nothing seems to unnatural about it.
<Dyel>No drag marks, no blood stain, just ceased to exist
* Dan examines the area where the horse broke it's leg, keeping an eye up in the trees above and around him.
<Dyel>puddles, to dark to see the bottom, even if you use a light, the relfection is too black
* Dan uses a stick to examine the liquid in the puddles
<Dyel>It is really muddy water, not right for a cobble road
* Dan tries to remember exactly what the monster that chased him looked like, and every specific about how it was summoned.
<Dan>"Hmm."
<Dyel>The horror of the monster chasing you is something burned into your mind, you remember so clearly that you'll have trouble ever forgetting it, but how it was summoned, well it appeared over smoke and fire over a hill
* Dan briefly wonders if it'd be possible to backtrack and go around the forest.
<Dyel>Perhaps if you had 3 months, a guide, and a message that Midland needed 1 week ago
<Dan>"Right."
* Dan listens quietly.
<Dyel>the sound of the muddy water you disturbed settling is what you hear, it sounds, off.
* Dan backs up 100 paces, hides behind a tree and pauses
<Dyel>A whole lot of nothing
* Dan shoots the puddle
<Dyel>Your arrow breaks apart, mud would not shatter your arrow
<Dan>he attaches an arrow to a rope, and tosses the arrow into a puddle, then draws it back towards him to see what happens
<Dyel>the arrow gets stuck on something
<Dan>in the pool or on the draw back?
<Dyel>On the draw back
* Dan tugs on it slowly again, testing if it's a hard stick or something else. Meanwhile he examines the mud on his boot from earlier
<Dyel>It must be a stick, because it lifts and falls with effort, looks like any old mud
<Dan>((hard stick as in "when I pull, how much give does it offer"))
<Dyel>((A little bit))
<Dan>"Shit, If I had the time, I could bottle the stuff and sell it for a fortune."
* Dan silently marks down in his head the forests location, and marks out it's distance to the undead territory
<Dyel>what will you do, Dan?
* Dan ignites an arrow and shoots it into the mud
<Dyel>Roll a new character, the explosion kills you
<Dyel>(not really)
<Dyel>You have now one probably useless arrow
<Dyel>You realize you're still still holding onto the rope of a stuck arrow right?
<Dan>you can hold something in your hand and shoot an arrow...besides I'm not going to reach into the mud to untie the rope from the arrow am I?
<Dan>i'm shooting through the rope to get to the mud
<Dyel>Alright Mcgaiever.
<Dyel>Continuing
<Dyel>BGM http://img.4plebs.org/boards/tg/image/1450/62/1450623805114.jpg
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<Dyel>Dan has shot 3 arrows into the mod, one broke, one got put out, and the other one is stuck on a rope
* Dan does one last test
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<Dan>reaching into his supplies, he removes a small pouch stuffed with cotton. From within he retrieves a small bell, clapper muted with cotton, a small, long string attached to a ring on the top, and the cotton below.
* Dan attaches the bell to an arrow, drawing bowstring back with cotton string gripped in teeth. He moves back 200 paces, watching his step and then looses in the general area of the holes.
<Dan>the arrow fires, and the cotton is removed mid flight
<Dan>dyel?
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<Dyel>You loose a bell that rings into the water and is drowned out
<Dyel>Dan, roll dexerity or agility
<Dan>((I did not shoot it into the water))
<Dyel>((the holes, with water in them?))
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<Dan>((it was not my intention to shoot a bell into the holes))
<Dyel>((it's the general area, I do not really care.))
((I wouldn't throw away a bell like that))
<Dan>((they are expensive))
<Dan>((but yeah I shot it into the general area, into the land near a hole))
<Dyel>Dan, roll dexerity or agility
<Dan>^roll 1d100+10
<Aksa>You rolled a raw 96
<Aksa>Open! Open rolled a 18
<Aksa>Dan: your total is 124
<Dyel>That's 1d10 explain to me which stat you are using before you roll.
<Dyel>Actually.
<Dyel>Roll at -2 for holding a rope.
<Dan>Is this some sort of dodge?
<Dyel>Roll agility or dexerity with a -2
<Dyel>You will just roll a 0 on defense if I have to ask a 4th time.
<Dan>^roll 1d10+8 (both have the same modifiers, i'll say agility)
<Aksa>You rolled a raw 6
<Aksa>Dan: your total is 14
<Dyel>Dan, a hand reaches out from the water and strokes your leg, you jump away at the touch
<Dan>describe this "hand"
<Dyel>Do you wish to take the time to stop moving and investigate it?
<Dan>depends on if it's still moving towards me
<Dyel>Do you wish to take the time and find out?
<Dan>...how much noise did I just make by jumping back
<Dyel>A lot.
<Dyel>Not nearly as much as your bell though.
* Dan cheeses it...quite like
<Dyel>How fast is Dan?
<Dan>Dan has been sprinting away from trouble for his entire life, 80% of the fights he's ever been in have been done while in motion away from the target in question, and the other 20% are split up between fights from behind cover and fights where he paid people to beat other people up
<Dyel>Movement speed please.
<Dyel>I assume you ditch the rope.
<Dan>9 and yep
<Dyel>Skeletal hands begin rising from the water and try to grab you, Dan's quickness avoiding the majority of their grasps
<Dyel>Near the point where the rope lays,3 skeletal warriors are on the road.
<Dyel>much more on the flanks and difficult terrtain
<Dyel>Roll intiative
<Dyel>One of them as an arrow with a rope attached to it stick in the emptyspace of the forearm bone.
<Dyel>A literal wall of Dead is behind you
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<Dan>^roll 1d100+45
<Aksa>You rolled a raw 95
<Aksa>Open! Open rolled a 53
<Aksa>Dan: your total is 193
<Dyel>Dan, you go first
<Dyel>there are 3 placed at 60, 70, and 75 feet in front of you.
<Dyel>the 2nd skeleton is armed with a decrepid sword
<Dan>Am I running the way I came or further in
<Dyel>Further in.
<Dyel>You may face tackle certain doom if you seek an easy way to be torn to shreds
<Dan>((how many feet do I move a turn if all I do is run?))
<Dyel>((90 feet))
<Dyel>((your attack roll will be shit though))
<Dan>How far behind me is the skeleton hordes?
<Dyel>((about 120 feet))
<Dan>Alright I'll headshoot a skeleton with the Smurgian
<Dyel>target?
<Dan>((eyeballing it, if I can get two with one arrow that'd be great...if not then the 60 foot one))
<Dyel>((note that shooting and running does not ruin your aim, but running then shooting wood))
<Dyel>Because shooting a skeleton in the head will have no actual special effects, I am going to let you roll attack without negative.
<Dan>((man I hate skeletons))
<Dan>^roll 1d100+103
<Aksa>You rolled a raw 80
<Aksa>Dan: your total is 183
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<Dyel>Roll perception Dan.
<Dyel>as in 1d10
<Dan>^roll 1d10+20
<Aksa>You rolled a raw 6
<Aksa>Dan: your total is 26
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<Dan>((wait is my perception roll the modifier or the actual score?))
<Dyel>Use your raw not your modifer
<Dan>((gotcha))
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<Dan>^roll 1d10+11
<Aksa>You rolled a raw 5
<Aksa>Dan: your total is 16
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<Dyel>Dan, you don't get a collateral with your arrow, but the arrow shatters the clevical, and bounces off the pelvis, and even takes out a good part of the ribcage. simply dismantiling it on the spot
<Dyel>That is your turn
<Dyel>The skeleton 'horde' shuffles its way behind you, but quick feet will keep you ahead, the second skeleton takes its sword and...chucks it at you!
<Dyel>watch out! Roll dodge!
<Dan>((debates if I can shoot it out of the air))
<Dyel>(No, because you have no actions remaining)
<Dan>^roll 1d100+72
<Aksa>You rolled a raw 6
<Aksa>Dan: your total is 78
<Dan>((right))
<Dyel>you begin the movements to dodge
<Dyel>but the sword doesn't even make it half way before clattering to the ground, skeletons in front shamble towards you
<Dyel>roll intiative
<Dan>^roll 1d100+45
<Aksa>You rolled a raw 57
<Aksa>Dan: your total is 102
<Dyel>Dan, literally one of the skeletons disappear
<Dyel>And all of a sudden is grappling you.
<Dyel>Roll dodge with surprise, -90
<Dyel>The other one approaches very quickly, but is just too far away
<Dan>^roll 1d100-18
<Aksa>You rolled a raw 95
<Aksa>Open! Open rolled a 57
<Aksa>Dan: your total is 134
<Dyel>The dreaded foe goes from a blur to a slug trying to touch you, but you effortlessly dodge, you may counter attack at a +10 bonus, and add +30 from point blake, however, you have a negative of -40 for having to defend
<Dan>I'll take the shot then
<Dyel>attack as normal
<Dan>^roll 1d100+103
<Aksa>You rolled a raw 100
<Aksa>Open! Open rolled a 18
<Aksa>Dan: your total is 221
<Dyel>Dan has reach maximum stress and he's being tested.
<Dyel>...
<Dyel>Dan has become...RSLVED
<Dyel>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM33Hr94SKw
<Dyel>what is your damage?
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<Dyel>Dan roll a 1d100+65 for a critcal
<Dan>^roll 1d100+65
<Aksa>You rolled a raw 42
<Aksa>Dan: your total is 107
<Dyel>You deal him a mighty blow that destroys much of its rib cage, but it's like the blow has no effect on him
effect on him
<Dyel>roll intaitive
<Dan>^roll 1d100+45
<Aksa>You rolled a raw 94
<Aksa>Open! Open rolled a 12
<Aksa>Dan: your total is 151
<Dyel>Dan you go first, there is a skeleton uncomfortably close to you, and one soon approaching
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* Dan quickly shoots the skeleton in front of him
<Dyel>we're gonna say Dan killed the two skeletons because I work two jobs and don't want to wait anymore.
<Dyel>END