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- ThatDM: you
- Brenna: I think I'm probably just going to stick with the filler token for this session, get a proper one drawn before the next one
- Brenna: THAT SAID I don't think I ever figured out my icon alignment pointybois or backgrounds or anything really help me I'm so lost
- ThatDM: idk
- ThatDM: i should probably walk my dog soon
- Phatcat: i can't habeenb agi is playing mint
- Phatcat: fuck
- Phatcat: i don't think i ever named my dude
- Phatcat: or
- Phatcat: saved him
- ThatDM: gg
- ThatDM: just forget about icon relations for now
- Phatcat: thankfully it's super easy to stat up something in here
- Brenna: oh thank god
- Brenna: that was the one thing I was sketchiest on
- Phatcat: i actually kinda have mine anyway
- Brenna: since we don't like
- Brenna: KNOW them? They aren't all in this setting?
- ThatDM: yea proly not
- Zelgadis: i never got a sprite/sketch of my dude so i'll just use the filler token for now as well
- Brenna: So when it says things like... "3rd level Spell/Song", is that just like - do you use a higher spell slot for it, or it's just "if you cast this as a 3rd level character or higher"
- Brenna: I haven't actually seen anything about leveled spell slots.
- Brenna: like you gain access to more as you go along
- Zelgadis: basically oyu always prepare your spells, you don't permanently know any
- Zelgadis: to cast Endickening Gaze as a third-level spell you have to prepare it as a third level spell
- Zelgadis: and you have to -choose- it as a third level spell, if your class chooses spells
- Zelgadis: what class are you
- Zelgadis: that will simplify this
- Brenna: I'mma bard
- ThatDM: shit ya sure are
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- Brenna: I didn't really intend on having my thighs all out but w/e I guess
- Brenna: I'll rock em
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- ThatDM: Americans Be Stattin
- Brenna: Maybe I should prepare Spark, so I can heat up Lazarus over here
- Brenna: he's a cold boy
- ThatDM: bee tee dubs, u can set your portrait in your token
- Brenna: orite that's a thing
- Brenna: I'd completely forgotten that was an option.
- Lazarre: fair
- Brenna: So you went with paladin, then?
- Emergency has connected.
- Brenna: what
- Emergency: y'all fuckers
- Brenna: w h a t
- ThatDM: CANT ESCAPE FROM CROSSING FATE
- Brenna: Merge secretly prepared a character this whole time
- Lazarre: Yeah I'm a pallyboi
- ThatDM: https://youtu.be/dSKsCxTw4co
- Emergency: its flora v4
- Brenna: but yeah I have no idea when we're starting and no idea how combat works
- Brenna: so
- Brenna: this is going to be interesting
- Lazarre: I sort of kind of almost know how combat works
- ThatDM: combat is uuuhh
- Lazarre: the main thing that's different is the escalation die
- ThatDM: just do whatever and wait till thrice objects to something and he'll explain it
- ThatDM: I think I had a pretty solid grasp on it
- ThatDM: a month ago
- Lazarre: basically the escalation die starts at 0
- Brenna: Cool, I get to be the MT
- Lazarre: At the start of the second round and all rounds thereafter it goes up 1
- Lazarre: All PCs get a bonus to attack rolls equal to the escalation die
- Lazarre: Goes up to 6
- Lazarre: If shit gets boring, it can go down
- Lazarre: As it's a representation of building momentum
- Brenna: Is that +1, then +2, then +3, etc, or
- +1d4, 1d6, 1d8
- Lazarre: so if we just sit on our laurels and do nothing it'll go down
- Brenna: bc otherwise I don't get why it's a "die"
- Lazarre: It's a d6
- Lazarre: that's what you're meant to represent it with rly
- Brenna: oh it's just a d6 that sits on the table
- ThatDM: yea
- Brenna: (TimmyTurnersDad) IF WE HAD ONE
- Brenna: I HAD a Wood Elf thing that went with the escalation die
- Brenna: but I went with High Elf instead bc teleporting is cool and flavorful
- Brenna: Probably borked outside of combat though
- Brenna: High Elf is just "1/battle teleport to a nearby location you can see"
- Brenna: which gdamn that seems good
- Brenna: Black box
- Brenna: Red X
- Brenna: One of these days we'll get a green circle
- 1: we'll just represent it with these
- Brenna: Perfect
- 1: this was too much work for a dumb joke
- 6-1: i mean
- 6-4: this shit's standard
- Brenna: Tirk's is better
- 6-4: it's in the default folder
- 6-4: Or we could just use the initiative thing.
- 6-4: It already tracks rounds,.
- 6-4: So long as we ain't boring it'll be fine
- Brenna: but does it track downs
- Lazarre: So when ARE we starting
- Brenna: Sunday, I think
- 1: uuhhh
- 1: i guess now
- Lazarre: Cool
- Lazarre: so what's the scene
- ThatDM: gimme a moment
- Brenna: I'm just the perfect scale for this jeep.
- Brenna: which appears to be a repurposed nazi jeep.
- Brenna: Did Hendrix have a regime?
- Brenna: Was it against gnomes?
- Lazarre: nah hendrix is evil but not that evil
- ThatDM: Anyway, you're fresh from being sent by the Elf Queen to search the ruins that allegedy surround Maple Wise, called the Sunelss City. It's a rather large set of ruins populated by tribes of Seelie and Unseelie, and is, according to legend, the ruins of a civilization that destroyed themselves due to their uncontrollable power.
- ThatDM: my sister is watching TV too loud so its hard to concentrate hol up
- ThatDM: I presume you uh remember most of the details I said in chat no
- Brenna: (( I remember there's a tree that grows books and we need to find the elf bois that went after the unseelie trying to reclaim the books they stole ))
- ThatDM: so for further clarification, do any of you have any seeecret deeper meanings to delve into these barren ruins
- Elf Queen: Its ok u can tell me bb
- Brenna: (( well I don't really remember what the ruins are all about ))
- Brenna: (( is this the first mention of them? ))
- Elf Queen: To think I'm just here bc tirk made a whole ass sprite for me but I'll probably never appear on screen at this rate! Oh woe is me!
- Elf Queen: Well I said they were ruins
- Elf Queen: and they belonged to an ancient civilization that got destroyed
- Brenna: Right, caught up on that then
- Lazarre: Well if Lazarre has any deeper reason to investigate the place, it'd be either because he hopes there's a way to reverse his demonification hidden in there, or a hint as to how it works in the first place
- Brenna: It might be cool to find some scattered books while we're searching. Who knows what lost knowledge we could find in there?
- Brenna: Even if it's "useless" stuff like recipes no one thought were worth hanging onto
- Brenna: It's going to be a lot of boring searching, in character
- Brenna: Brenna keeps a magical floating light active, refreshing it as needed
- ThatDM: Ok thats good enough reasoning
- Lazarre: hopefully there is not a way to reverse it bc i have no idea what this jackass looks like as a human
- Brenna: I plan to leave with at least like, 5 books.
- Elf Queen: So the Elf Queen allows you to stay at her elf palace to rest up before booting you off to the entrance of the ruins, 7 miles down an overgrown old road. The entryway to the ruins is punctuated by sharp drops and laborous climbs, ensuring only the most able-bodied are able to even see the entryway...able bodied or if you're just able to fly like a bastard
- Lazarre: You don't look like the sort that can read
- Brenna: you don't look like the sort that can shave
- Lazarre: it is difficult to shave stone or whatever the hell that is on this dude's face
- Lazarre: scales probably actually
- Dr Felix: NOW PLAYING Mr. Explorer no I didnt make a radio yet shut up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxroV1ggEAg
- Dr Felix: Once you brave the twisted cliffs surrounding the ruins, you come across a endlessly pacing man with a moustache wider than his shoulders. "Oh what to do, what to do!"
- Brenna: (( Only 1 dislike on that video in 6 years? Gdamn. ))
- Brenna: (( This place isn't generally open to the public, is it? Or is it just kind of a no-man's land? ))
- Dr Felix: Sort of a no-mans land, it's quite a ways off and surrounded by various weak monsters, let's just say you followed a map here
- Brenna: "Ooh, what to do, indeed? It seems we aren't the only ones exploring today!"
- Dr Felix: Suddenly noticing your presence, the man shoots up and paces himself towards you
- Dr Felix: He adjusts his monocle and covers his other eye with a stray magenfying glass, getting a close look at the specimens before him "Ooh, curious...very curious...in my years of exploring I, the great Dr. Felix of the Grateniss Librarium, have never seen a specimen such as this! Wait, out here, that's never a good thing! HEEEEEAALP!!!!"
- Lazarre: Lazarre stares at the old man for a second, then turns to Brenna, "I don't think he likes you."
- Brenna: Brenna laughs. "Hold on now!"
- Dr Felix: "Oh blast it! If only the ground hadn't given way during my expedition out here!"
- Dr Felix: "Don't hurt me! I'll do anything! My research is too important to be lost out here!"
- Brenna: "Dr. Felix, was it?" Brenna holds out a hand. "Pleased to meet you. To meet anyone out here, really. Did you come alone?"
- Lazarre: "How did you get here? This wasn't a journey an old man could risk by himself."
- Brenna: "In the pursuit of knowledge, I'm sure he could!"
- Dr Felix: "Ooh. Oooh! That's one impressive grip you got there! Well uh, I was supposed to be met by a few colleagues of mine, but they've arrived far too late. I've begun to think they've done that whole, oh what do you kids call it nowadays...flaking? Yes, I believe they have pulled a flake on yours truly!"
- Brenna: ed. note: I have 10 Str, he's just that frail
- Lazarre: he got the 6 CON
- Brenna: he'd definitely die if he fell in
- Dr Felix: "When you're in pursuit of forbidden knowledge, no climb, no sprint, no defensive curl is too impossible! Well, that and my four wheels of fury there can take quite a beating."
- Dr Felix: "Sadly even if I could get to it, I'm not sure if the old dame is tough enough to take on whatever lies beyond these ruins. Just one man and one machine...that's not enough!"
- Brenna: "Over there?" replies Brenna, who begins climbing down the ladder.
- Lazarre: also if you want a non-0res image of mint you can use this https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/1/13/Mint.png
- Brenna: but I like this one
- Dr Felix: me 2
- Dr Felix: You climb down the ladder...
- Brenna: that one has that weird early Pokemon art faded-out aesthetic
- Dr Felix: "Oh, oh, you're doing that now? I wouldn't recommend it, see..."
- Kobra: "HEY HEY HEY! IT'S ME AGAIN! BUT YOU BETTER STAY OUTTA MY PIT!"
- Kobra: "who am i kidding nobody remembers me"
- Brenna: "Aaaah!" Brenna, previously undeterred by the prof's warning, bolts back up the ladder
- Lazarre: i remember you
- Dr Felix: "Quite!"
- Brenna: (( I do too ))
- Dr Felix: "Bit of a sticky wicket I've found myself in, see! Wouldn't recommend getting into a tussle with that specimen, no matter how hard your grip may be!"
- Brenna: "I - hoo..." Brenna pants. "I wasn't quite ready for that!"
- Lazarre: "I don't know whether to be more afraid of the talking snake, or the implications poised by the existence of such a creature. If I kill it, is that murder?"
- Brenna: "That's quite the 'if', isn't it?!"
- Brenna: "I don't even think I could reach that creature from here with my magic..."
- Lazarre: "You have a point. I'd be at a disadvantage getting down the ladder."
- Brenna: Do a plunging attack
- Lazarre: I like that image too but it just doesn't work as a tokken
- Lazarre: it'd probably work better if u just used the actual square sprite
- Lazarre: as the portrait
- Lazarre: https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/f/f8/TCG2_Mint.png
- Dr Felix: "Hmm, this might be a risky procedure, but given that I now have two other subjects with me, maybe this will work out...."
- Dr Felix: "Quick, does anyone here know magick arts?"
- Lazarre: "We both do, but she's more skilled at them than I."
- Brenna: "I could maybe charm it, but what if there's another, bigger monster just around the corner?"
- Lazarre: "None of my magic will help us much from this position. It's for healing and killing."
- Brenna: "Hmmm... well, I think I may have an idea, but did you have something in mind, professor?"
- Dr Felix: "Well, I was thinking maybe that pillar over there looked a tad fragile...but I'd break my heart to see such ancient pottery go to waste!"
- Brenna: doctor, whatever
- Dr Felix: "I do at least have some sturdy rope on hand, when the going gets rough....but one would need to swing quite fast to go unharmed..."
- Kobra: "ACTUALLY IM KINDA FINE SO LONG AS YOU STAY OUTTA MY PIT"
- Kobra: "THE WHOLE PIT THING, THAT'S THE WHOLE KICKER HERE, JUST STAY OUTTA IT AND WE SHOULD BE GOOD AND I WONT HAVE TO EAT ANYONES BRAINS"
- Brenna: "He has quite good hearing."
- Lazarre: "Simple enough, we just swing over."
- Lazarre: "But how sturdy is your rope? I'm a bit more...robust than you might have assumed."
- Dr Felix: "It uh should be enough to carry one person at a time. Wouldn't recommend anything over that."
- Brenna: Brenna cradles her hands together, concentrating for a few seconds. As an afterthought, she tests the ladder again with her foot, lightly pushing on it to check if it's anchored in place.
- Dr Felix: the ladder is sorta lodged in there, but not really nailed down or anything
- Dr Felix: could probably yank it out if you really tried
- Brenna: "Could we not simply use the ladder as a bridge?"
- Brenna: "Between the three of us, I think we could manage."
- Lazarre: "That could work for you, but I'm not acrobat, and I doubt the old man has seen his share of circus rounds."
- Lazarre: -t
- Brenna: "He was just suggesting we swing across."
- Lazarre: "I trust my grip more than my balance."
- Lazarre: "...actually..."
- Dr Felix: "Use the ladder as a bridge? Are you serious! That's a terrible idea!"
- Lazarre: "I could get across using my hands, under the ladder."
- Brenna: "Above the viper?"
- Dr Felix: "Wait, I know! Look over there! There's a ladder! How about we bring it back over here, and use it as a bridge!"
- Lazarre: "Oh, look down there, it's a long, flexible snake."
- Lazarre: "Let's use it as a rope."
- Dr Felix: "Tis but a classic jest! Please laugh."
- Brenna: "Way ahead of you, doctor!" Brenna casts a minor illusion, causing the distant ladder to disappear - but only from a very specific angle that the professor happens to be standing in.
- Brenna: "Now we'll just have to pull it up."
- Dr Felix: "Woah! Do my eyes deceive me, or...nevermind! We've gotten that done!"
- Dr Felix: The Dr. spits on his hands, rubs em together, and prepares to pull up the ladder. "I may not look it, but I've been known as...*GRRRUNNTT* quite the...*GRRUUNNTTT* strongman back in my day! *GRRRR*"
- Lazarre: that's just him grunting up the strength to rub his hands together isn't it
- Dr Felix: *PANT PANT* "Ok just...just give me a moment here.....*pant pant* okay, *GRRRRRRNNNNNTTTT*"
- Lazarre: "I suggest you leave that to me."
- Brenna: Brenna releases the smol fakemouse she'd been forming in her hands, watching for the Kobra's reaction
- Brenna: It scurries off and "disappears" in the underbrush
- Brenna: You just had that on hand
- Lazarre: "I might not look it, but I used to be a --god! what was that??"
- Brenna: "Plan B."
- Kobra: "Ah what a lovely day, the sun is nowhere to be seen and nobody is in my p- *GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSPPPPPP*"
- Kobra: "DID I JUST SEE SOMETHING IN MY PIIIIIT???"
- ThatDM: Lazarre roll for..uuh...
- ThatDM: whatever you roll to lift things here
- Brenna: "I think it just ran around the corner! You better get it!"
- Kobra: "JUST SIT BACK AND RELAX -WHILE I EAT YOUR BRAaiiiinnnss-"
- Kobra: *nah nah nah gonna eat your brains plays in the distance*
- Brenna: "Let's get this thing lifted before he comes back."
- Brenna: "Doctor, you and me on one side, alright? Lazarre will take the other."
- Lazarre: AFAIK it's d20+Strength
- Lazarre: unless my background doin MAD SQUATS as a knight comes into play
- Brenna: d20+relevant background if any+Strength
- Kobra: yea w/e roll that
- Brenna: I do not have a relevant background.
- Lazarre: 9
- Brenna: 1
- Lazarre: nice.
- Brenna: glad I burned that early tbh
- Lazarre: Well
- Dr Felix: *PANT PANT* "Boy it's really...really wedged in there, isn't it?"
- Lazarre: dynamic failure/success is in this
- Dr Felix: ooo what does that do again
- Dr Felix: Oh nat 1
- Brenna: I probably overexert myself and tumble into th epit.
- Brenna: Can I uh
- Kobra: yea sure that was my idea
- Lazarre: page 42
- Brenna: Try to catch myself midway down the ladder or something
- Lazarre: fail forward
- Kobra: sure why not
- Lazarre: basically, just failure, esp outside of battle, just slows the game down
- Kobra: but its FUNNY
- Lazarre: Oh, I mean the kind of failure that's like
- Lazarre: "you fail to lift the ladder"
- Lazarre: "okay but we have to eventually so can i roll again"
- Lazarre: "yea"
- Lazarre: But outside of battle, true failure tends to slow action down rather than move the action along. A more constructive way to interpret failure is as a near-success or event that happens to carry unwanted consequences or side effects. The character probably still fails to achieve the desired goal, but that’s because something happens on the way to the goal rather than because nothing happens.
- Brenna: "Eek!" The slippery ground under Brenna's feet gives way, and she flops over her head
- Brenna: she reaches out in desperation to grab onto something, anything 6 Dex roll
- Brenna: I'm on FIRE
- Lazarre: oh noooo
- Lazarre: ya just BREAK A RUNG
- Lazarre: with ur SAUSAGE FINGERS
- Kobra: you manage to somehow grab onto the ladder, but the support it's on breaks, causing it to fall forward
- Brenna: "fall forward" indeed
- Lazarre: Can I try to CATCH the latter
- Lazarre: ladder
- Dr Felix: "Oh rats! Let's grab it before it's too late!"
- Brenna: "Catch it! Catch iiittt!"
- Lazarre: "Don't worry! I got you!"
- Brenna: the ladder tilts sloooowly pitwards
- Lazarre: I don't know if I got you.
- Lazarre: What's the check
- Kobra: uuuh i guess a dex check
- Kobra: theres still dex in here right
- Brenna: Failure penalty: Now you, too, are on the ladder
- Lazarre: fugg
- Lazarre: I don't know if any of my BGs would apply here
- Lazarre: catching HER, probably
- Lazarre: 18 Let's do this shit
- Brenna: good
- Dr Felix: you have caught the ladder
- Kobra: "I JUST DONT GET IT MAN, I SWEAR I SAW SOMETHING IN MY PIT"
- Brenna: "Haa..." Brenna trembles in terror, clinging to the ladder with white knuckles
- Lazarre: Lazarre snatches the ladder before it falls, saving Brenna, "Well, something good came out of this. You managed to dislodge it. Not even I did that. ...must have been a lot of force."
- Kobra: "OOOOH, YOU'RE GETTING DAAANGEROUSLY CLOSE TO MY PIT"
- Brenna: "Get out of here, you awful snake!" Brenna kicks downwards, in an attempt to shoo the thing
- Kobra: "owww my snoot u didnt need to do that wtf"
- Brenna: Climbing back up now.
- Dr Felix: "Now let's get this ladder in working order!"
- Lazarre: "You okay? Not too shook to get across, are you?"
- Kobra: You proceed to shoot your shot and get the ladder over the pit, and golly does it fit just fine
- Brenna: "I'll... I'm fine. Slippery when wet. I'll remember that."
- Brenna: She takes extra time to wipe down her shoes.
- Brenna: "Maybe you should go first."
- Dr Felix: "All right, looks like I'm going first...that's the way of a true gentlemen!" Felix makes his way to the ladder and looks down once."Actually, maybe someone else can volunteer!"
- Brenna: "I did mean Lazarre, of course. He did have the confidence to FIGHT the cobra, if it came to it."
- Lazarre: "Oh, fine."
- Lazarre: "But I'm going under, not over."
- Lazarre: Lazarre climbs down the cliff just a tiny bit, and grabs the underside of one of the rungs, preparing to monkey-bar across this fucker
- Lazarre: Assuming they hold.
- Lazarre: They won't.
- Dr Felix: you proceed to monkey bar across that fucker actually its not really that hard
- Kobra: "YOU MAY NOT BE PLANNING TO GET INTO MY PIT BUT TRUST ME...I GOT MY EYE ON YOU...."
- Lazarre: "You see? There are always multiple approaches to these sorts of conundrums."
- Brenna: "I'll send a bird this time." Brenna prepares another illusion, sending it first to the platform above before it dives back into the pit.
- Lazarre: Lazarre glances down at the snake, "If it's just one eye of the...four?, I think we'll be fine."
- Brenna: "Let's get you across while the snake's still gone, doctor... I doubt he'll be fooled a third time."
- Brenna: name it Boid or no balls-
- Brenna: there it is
- Kobra: "HEY WHAT'S GOING ON THERE"
- angry boid: *boink*
- Kobra: "OWWW HEY SCREW YOU BIRD, THAT'S IT, ME, YOUR BRAINS, THIS INSTANT."
- Lazarre: "Don't worry. If you fall, I'll save you again. I'm used to it."
- Dr Felix: *Deep breath* "All right, let's get oneself composed here, and....AAAAAAAAAA!" The good Doctor runs across the ladder sloppily 7
- Brenna: An apple core bounces off the viper's head along with the impact of the bird. "Had to make that one a bit more real."
- Lazarre: "Oh, I guess I should help you, too." He extends a hand and offers to lift the old man up to the ledge
- Dr Felix: but he slips at the last step! "Whoops! Better use my grip for this!"
- Brenna: (( I should go pick up Jason ))
- ThatDM: dont forget to press X
- Brenna: Brenna lowers her center of gravity and gathers her resolve, before taking a crack at the ladder one last time
- Brenna: 8
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- Brenna: still got everything
- Brenna: I'll wait for Thrice to reroll
- Phatcat: but im here
- Brenna: oh
- Brenna: Brenna lowers her center of gravity and gathers her resolve, before taking a crack at the ladder one last time
- Brenna: She's had to balance armfuls of plates on the job, but this was juust a bit different
- Brenna: 12 but I'm putting in the +2 anyway try and stop me
- Phatcat: you're a fkn waittress
- Phatcat: exploring a goddamned death tunnel
- Brenna: Everyone needs a side job
- Brenna: Adventuring can't pay all the bills
- Brenna: I need my cable
- DrFelix: "Good show, good show! Now with Old Maddy in tow, it should be an easy trip from here to the heart of the Sunless City!"
- Lazarre: i can't tell if we're finne and kittie or darius and marian with the skin tones swapped
- Lazarre: "Is that thing going to fit everywhere we need it? I doubt these ruins were designed with a jeep in mind."
- Brenna: "If you don't mind me asking, doctor... how did it get over here in the first place?"
- DrFelix: "It is quite dangerous out there, I should warn you. Have you come fully prepared?"
- DrFelix: "Oh just simple endurance and ingenuity!"
- Brenna: "I don't think that explanation does it justice!"
- Brenna: ed. note: I do not need an actual explanation
- Lazarre: "Yes, we're prepared. I should hope."
- Brenna: "If not, it's far too late now!"
- Lazarre: "If we'd come this far with no plan in mind, it'd be a miracle we made it."
- DrFelix: "Jolly good! Now, before we head off, you're fully aware of what my goal is here, yes?"
- Lazarre: "You've not explained it beyond the pursuit of knowledge."
- DrFelix: "Deep within these ruins lie secret glyphs that give an insight into the ancient world that once inhabited this city.....And it just so happens that I'm fully capable of reading them! Yes, I trained day in and day out just to reverse engineer those blasted pictograms..."
- DrFelix: "Now hop in. If you spot any glyphs, you know just the gentleman to call your way!"
- Lazarre: All right so we got Nico Robin and we gotta find the poneglyphs
- Lazarre: Got it
- Brenna: "That's amazing! Oh, I'm glad we ran into you."
- Brenna: "We do have some missing people to find, but frankly they could be anywhere... we should be able to cover a lot more ground with you!"
- Lazarre: "Yeah, seems like a convenient deal we have here. We can protect you, and you can be our wheels."
- Lazarre: okay I can protect you and she can make little birdies n shit
- DrFelix: The good doctor revs up the machine. "It's great we've come to an understanding! Now, this being presumably our first foray into the ruins, you're probably unfamiliar with the setup here, correct?" The car vrooms off into the night
- Brenna: they're illusions
- Brenna: pls understand
- Lazarre: FTR agi, if you want to go full street magician, you might want to be a cantrip mastery wizard
- Brenna: I don't want to
- Brenna: she wants to
- Lazarre: As it does that part better than bard
- Lazarre: well I know that
- Lazarre: and by better I don't really mean like, mechanically more powerful
- Lazarre: it just gets to do more fun shit with cantrips
- Brenna: I'm just going to stretch the bullshit Tirk'll permit tbh
- Lazarre: gives u a cantrip version of -every spell-
- Brenna: that's alotte
- Lazarre: and can give cantrips actual mechanical effect
- Lazarre: so you can like, start up a rip-roarin fire with Spark every now and then
- Lazarre: But yeah tirk
- Lazarre: What's goin on
- Brenna: She's EVENTUALLY going to be pulled into Occultist. idk how
- Brenna: but it'll happen
- Jeep: As you zoom on by, the trees surrounding you form a tunnel that closes in on your sights, and soon you reach the light at the end of the tunnel, which illuminates the interior of the car once again
- Brenna: "Nothing beyond what I've read. Which is a lot, I think! But being here is a different beast entirely..."
- Brenna: "There's only so much you can prepare for without seeing it yourself."
- DrFelix: In front of you appears to be a sight you weren't quite prepared for; a vast, expansive desert peppered with random stray buildings indicating a society that had long since passed.
- Lazarre: didn't we just come out of a forest
- Brenna: "Wow...! So the rumors were true!"
- Lazarre: i'm not like, asking you for an explanation there, just confirmation
- DrFelix: "Just like the papers indicated!" The Doctor pulls out a large sheet of paper and leans back, showing a barren map. He takes out his pens and pencils and makes random markings on the sheet. "All right, if we want to survive this, we'll have to make some choices..."
- DrFelix: And yea we sorta went from forest -> Tunnel ->Desert
- Brenna: Brenna looks back towards where they came, half expecting the tunnel o' trees to have disappeared
- DrFelix: "A jarring change of scenery, to be sure, but keep in mind these sands only came about after a destructive cataclysm. It doesn't feel terribly natural..."
- DrFelix: and now there's a new "map" if u wanna see it
- Brenna: oh
- Brenna: oh no
- Lazarre: the stunning detail
- Brenna: what are you talking about this is what all deserts look like
- Brenna: didn't you ever play Journey
- Lazarre: "What in the world... What kind of disaster had to have happened to cause this?"
- Jeep: "All right, so maybe my map isn't the most elaborate here, but that gives us all the more reason to fill it out!"
- Brenna: "Well, there's a few leading theories!"
- Lazarre: "Doctor, I think there's something wrong with your map."
- Brenna: "Some believe that Maple Wise requires so much water to sustain itself that it's made the land around it barren!"
- Lazarre: "You appear to have confused it with an essay detailing all the confidence I have in you."
- Dr. Felix: "An infinite amount of potential then? Don't make me blush! Now give or take a few miles off from here, which direction do you think we should head towards?"
- Brenna: "Whenever an emerald tome is produced, it's said a hexagonal plot of land becomes desert. No one knows why it's hexagonal!"
- Brenna: "Oh, let's just stay the course. Due northeast, was it?"
- Jeep: "Jolly ho then! Let's take cour-"
- Dr. Felix: Suddenly all the color from Felix's face slips away.
- Dr. Felix: "Oh...oh...do you hear that?"
- Lazarre: "The sound of my hopes dying?"
- Brenna: hol up
- Lazarre: "Clearly so."
- Brenna: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JgJR4iy7wc
- Lazarre: "Well, stay behind me. I'll protect you."
- Brenna: "But... you're in the back seat!"
- Dr. Felix: "Oh, I've heard that these lands we're frought with these kinds of colonies, I just didn't expect to hear them so close by.."
- Dr. Felix: "I'm afraid we have a case...of Kobolds....."
- Lazarre: "Then hope whatever is attacking us comes at us from behind."
- Lazarre: "Kobolds? That's all? Can you not run them down with the car?"
- Brenna: how many Kobolds are we dealing with
- Brenna: are they chasing us?
- Dr. Felix: You see a cloud of dust coming in from behind
- Brenna: "Lazarre, I think I hoped too hard!"
- Dr. Felix: "Well, good news, they are coming in from right behind us! Bad news is that we won't be able to outpace them at this rate..."
- Brenna: Are they ratfolk or lizardfolk in this system anyway
- Lazarre: "It's okay. That's what I'm here for!"
- Lazarre: kobolds are usually either doggos or lizards
- Lazarre: not rly rattos
- Lazarre: "...we can't? What's the use of the car, then..."
- Brenna: "Are they on bikes? Are we being chased by biker kobolds?!"
- Lazarre: yea what IS goin on here
- Brenna: totally down with biker kobolds tho
- Brenna: Could be his jeep is a POS
- Brenna: and they're on ostriches or hyenas or something
- Brenna: "Either way, my illusions aren't going to cut it this time..."
- Dr. Felix: "Those Kobolds...they're good at adapting, I'll tell you that. They must be using scraps to make their way here..."
- Lazarre: "Fine, stop and let me out, I'll fight. You two, circle around in the jeep and take potshots. As a (former) knight, I won't let you into harm's way."
- Brenna: "Ooh, we could spin the jeep around! THEN we could ram them, or scare them off!"
- Dr. Felix: Okay NOW you can go onto the new map
- Brenna: "Whatever they're riding, it can't be as sturdy as-" and then the dust fkn cleared apparently and they had ALASKAN BULL WORMS?!
- Brenna: You drew that in 10 seconds didn't you
- Dr. Felix: mayb
- Lazarre: you may map it...once
- Lazarre: "DO NOT RAM THEM!"
- Lazarre: actually fuck it, ram them
- Lazarre: we'll go straight down the gullet
- Lazarre: kill the worm from the inside
- Brenna: "They didn't cover this in any of the documentaries!!"
- Dr. Felix: ok give me one more second apparently i was too dumb to actually make the standalone sprites for the kobolds
- Jeep: ok just pretend there's more kobolds
- Brenna: that's fair
- Jeep: Just crawling all over the fukn ship
- KoboldShip: "SKREEEE!!!!"
- KoboldShip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-LS7Vv1MzY
- Lazarre: "So what now?! I regret to inform you, I can't fight this bullship!"
- Brenna: "There's too many of them! Do we really have any choice besides surrendering?"
- Kobold2 2: "Aaaah, is that a- could that be? No, it can't be seelie nor unseelie! What business do you have here in the Sunless City??"
- Brenna: I could potentially use my teleport, zip onto the Tankobold, blast him off, take over the tank, and start firing
- Brenna: but I do not know how to operate a tank. Obviously.
- Lazarre: "Research! We're but researchers, seeking knowledge!"
- Lazarre: and not death
- Kobold2 2: "Oh ho ho. Researchers! You heard the man, they're just researchers! That's all they've come here for!"
- Lazarre: maybe since i look like a dragon I can command these lower lizardfolk
- Kobold3: "Hahahahaha! 4Head"
- Lazarre: by which i mean try to, and make them even agnrier
- Lazarre: "...they're making fun of your forehead."
- Lazarre: "Not very well-mannered, are they?"
- Kobold2 2: "So, you're here for the glyphs and the secret of maple wise too, huh? Well, you don't look like a human to me, so maybe you're unrelated to that FILTH who just stole our food supply!"
- Brenna: Brenna just holds her hands up in surrender. "Let them. It's better than being eaten!"
- Lazarre: "Of course not! Your food store must have been massive, what could I have done with it??"
- Kobold2 2: "Oh, is that all it takes? Well, kee hee hee, looks like we got ourselves a quadruple then! Let's lock 'em away with that thieving brat!"
- Jeep: "You can't be serious! You wish to be at the mercy of kobolds? Who knows what they'll do to a handsome, fresh-fleshed man such as I! I wanna keep my skin!"
- Lazarre: "Wait, wait, fine, I lied! We're here on a mission from the Elf Queen! If you interfere with us, you'll incur her wrath!"
- Lazarre: "It's just the old man who's here for research...though I admit I'm curious as well."
- Kobold2 2: "Oh, the ELF QUEEN huh? THE ELF QUEEN!!!?? You mean the same royal brat who sent those 3 devils here? Ooooh, you're on thin, THIN ice now, young man!"
- Brenna: "It's not that I WISH to be!"
- Lazarre: "Thin ice, huh..."
- MMFattank: "Dyuuuh, so did we just capture em, boss? Should we take em away to the dungeon quarters?"
- Lazarre: "I don't see a way out of this. If you'd like, I can try to hold them off while you escape, but...I doubt I'd buy you enough time for that to matter."
- Kobold2 2: "All right, hop on board and maybe, MAYBE we can make this peaceful! MAYBE!"
- Brenna: hm
- Brenna: well now that the tanks are lined up, I kind of have a plan.
- Brenna: well actually uh
- Brenna: That worm probably has more than 40 HP.
- KoboldShip: "Shrkeee!! I got more HP than u, I'll tell u that, SHRKEEE!!"
- Lazarre: yea i doubt sleep is gonna work on that thing.
- Kobold2 2: "Did Tiny Pete just say something? Must've been my imagination..."
- Brenna: Charm Person, actually.
- Brenna: Charm it into just fkn going.
- Brenna: Pushing the tanks along with it.
- Brenna: It's that or teleporting up and Soundbursting its ear to shreds and making it run away
- Lazarre: oh that's well drawn ship
- Lazarre: i thought it was "SS The Worm Ship"
- Brenna: nice
- Brenna: well drawn words
- Lazarre: i don't
- Lazarre: know if worms have ears
- Brenna: earslits
- Lazarre: lewd
- Brenna: n
- Brenna: (( well I may as well try it ))
- Brenna: (( if it fails we're captured anyway. ))
- Lazarre: have at it
- Kobold2 2: "Well?! What'll it be!?"
- Lazarre: So if you want
- Lazarre: I can try to freeze up one of the tank's engines
- Lazarre: i got ice breath
- Brenna: How're you going to get over there?
- Lazarre: Not the worm
- Lazarre: just a tank
- Lazarre: so it can't get out of the way of the worm
- Brenna: that could work.
- Lazarre: This one just pulled up to us
- Brenna: "I... ah..." Brenna looks around warily and pulls out her harmonica, before vanishing in a puff of smoke
- Brenna: I have no idea how elven teleport works
- Brenna: it's just "nearby place you can see"
- Kobold2 2: "Eeeh? eeeh? Where'd she go!?"
- Brenna: She zoops up onto the worm's head and desperately searches for an earhole.
- Kobold2 2: well i guess if u can see it and its nearby....
- KoboldShip: "ow hey what are you doing that for thats for my ears stop"
- Lazarre: In that case, Lazarre's gonna jump from the jeep to the nearby tank
- Brenna: Charisma + Level vs... PD. Of course.
- Lazarre: Gonna attempt to land behind the 'bold, grab him, toss him outta said tank, and...actually hell if I get that far
- Lazarre: It's already disabled
- Lazarre: I don't even need to freeze it at that point
- KoboldShip: ok do that
- Brenna: She spots what looks like the closest thing, yanks it open with both hands, and blows the loudest note she can manage! 16
- Brenna: vs wormyboi's PD
- Brenna: Soundburst Ranged spell; Daily Target: 1d4 nearby enemies in a group Attack: Charisma + Level vs. PD Hit: 5d6 + Charisma thunder damage, and the target is dazed until end of your next turn. Miss: Half damage, and deal thunder damage equal to your level to each of your allies engaged with the target.
- Brenna: Blowing this shit like, DIRECTLY down its ear canal
- Brenna: 28
- Brenna: yo
- KoboldShip: oh well that goes well over my highest estimation
- Lazarre: What do I gotta roll to rip this kid outta the pilot's seat
- Brenna: It's a Daily spell
- KoboldShip: probably some kind of combat manuever, ill let u choose between dex or str for now
- KoboldShip: or wait, whatever throwing is
- Lazarre: damm that's a lotta damage
- Brenna: It is.
- Lazarre: throwing is Str
- Brenna: I get a nuke for some reason
- Brenna: It's also vs 1d4 enemies in a cluster but it'll just hit wormyboi here
- Lazarre: dazed is a -4 to attacks btw
- KoboldShip: so yea str
- Brenna: so clearly 28*4
- Brenna: or *1d4 I suppose
- Brenna: 3
- Brenna: I've got one of those handsless harmonica holders
- Brenna: no idea what it's called
- Lazarre: would my experience pushin people outta the way and keeping them off my master/king as a guardian help me out here
- Lazarre: or just training as a knight, which'd be a smaller bonus
- Lazarre: you can also rule that it half applies
- KoboldShip: "KREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" the giant worm is struck hard by a sudden ear-splitting symphony of pain, causing it to lash up and down, splashing sand everywhere and making random kobolds go flying off the ship
- Lazarre: and the person gets half the bonus
- KoboldShip: yea sure half the bonus
- Lazarre: 16 I think it rounds down
- Brenna: Brenna does not even attempt to hold on, kicking herself off the worm as hard as she can and hoping the sand is soft.
- Lazarre: Fuck
- Lazarre: I got rid of the kobold
- Lazarre: but robocop's probably a lot heavier
- Kobold2 2: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" the kobold gets tossed off of the tank and into the rolling sands, and probably gets squished by the worm idk
- MMFattank: "Uuuh oooh..."
- Lazarre: "When my next turn rolls around, you're next."
- Kobold2: "That's it! Kick their collective butts!"
- Brenna: and then PTU fall damage
- Brenna: "Run away! Stupid worm!"
- MMFattank: "Dats it! Time to take aaii------"
- Brenna: (( the hope was that it'd plow through the tanks tbh ))
- KoboldShip: The giant worm topples over the tank and sends Dr. Felix's jeep flying
- Brenna: (( oh on ))
- Brenna: (( no ))
- Brenna: fair compromise.
- Jeep: "YAAAaaa ha hahaha hoooeeeeyyyy!!!!!!"
- Jeep: "Abandon shiiip! Or jeep! What have you!"
- Lazarre: "Doctor! Are you okay?!"
- Lazarre: (Man, I got off that thing just in time.)
- Dr. Felix: The doctor falls into the well drawn ship as it sprints away
- Brenna: fuck.
- Lazarre: "At least we've still got th---oh."
- Brenna: Brenna kinda just sits on her ass in pain, hands in the sand
- Brenna: "Agh... did it work?"
- Brenna: This kobold is our mascot now
- Random Kobold: A kobold then lands in the sand, and barely gets up before everyone runs away. "Wait! WAIIIT! Noo! Don't leeaave meee!!!"
- Random Kobold: "This is all YOUR fault! Filthy knife-eared scum!"
- Random Kobold: "AAAAAAAA!!!!" The Kobold charges at you in a rage!
- Lazarre: Lazarre hops off his tank and draws his...I never decided what kind of weapon this guy uses
- Brenna: "Watch it!" Brenna scolds the kobold, clearly bluffing. She readjusts her harmonica, but prepares to kick it away
- Brenna: still kind of on her ass from that
- Lazarre: Let's just go with like, some kinda weird naginata-like sword thing that he somehow uses one-handed
- Lazarre: cause I don't wanna use a sword
- Random Kobold: "Ooooh! Oooh!! I'm not scared of you! Dieee!!!!!"
- Lazarre: "Oi! You'd attack a downed woman? What kind of warrior are you? Face me, so that you can at least die a true fighter!"
- Brenna: She plays a few quick notes to channel some magic energy, then slaps some sand towards the kobold's face, creating the image of a scorpion to go along with it!
- skorp: ooh lookit me I'm all stingy I'm gonna sting you
- Random Kobold: https://youtu.be/MjDpWyGRGgw
- Random Kobold: "No!!! Covered with scorpions! GET THEM OFF ME!!!!!!!!"
- skorp: the skorp clings on for a few seconds before dropping off
- skorp: It waves its claws menacingly
- Lazarre: "You want to face a demon's wrath from behind, then?" i didn't mean for that to sound lewd
- Brenna: too late
- Random Kobold: "Nyeeeh? Who are you? You feel like dying first?"
- Random Kobold: "Well I won't hesitate!"
- Brenna: "Lazarre - the doctor, what happened to him? Is he alright?"
- Lazarre: "A former knight, and a current fiend."
- Lazarre: Staring down the Kobold, preparing to roll initiative, he replies to Brenna, "He's in their ship. We'll have to save him."
- Random Kobold: 23 init
- Random Kobold: https://youtu.be/LHJoqHz8MVE
- Brenna: 10 that's just a dex check right
- Random Kobold: dex mod+level
- Brenna: 11 alrighty then
- skorp: 1
- Lazarre: 3
- Lazarre: nice
- Random Kobold: The kobold tosses sand in your eyes before striking with his sword! 24
- Random Kobold: 4 damage
- Brenna: competent-ass kobold tbh
- Random Kobold: and now he's also just bashing your head in while grabbing onto your shoulders
- Brenna has received initiative.
- Lazarre: o
- Lazarre: oh
- Brenna: oh, uh
- Lazarre: there's no max and current hp
- Brenna: hm.
- Brenna: Just do it the old fashioned way
- Lazarre: or macros but those i can get around
- Brenna: edit the numbers in your token.
- Lazarre: Can you add a max HP line right after HP tirk
- Random Kobold: ah yes that is what i was missing
- Lazarre: in the properties
- Brenna: it needs to be MaxHP
- Brenna: not Max HP
- Brenna: or max HP
- Random Kobold: d
- Brenna: "Sonic support! Incoming!"
- Lazarre: ya gotta uh
- Lazarre: save the properties too
- Lazarre: "Grah! Get off me! You're asking for it..."
- Brenna: Brenna climbs to her feet, keeping the scorpion between herself and the kobold. She plays a note and whips her arm forward, sending a distorted mass of air towards the kobold!
- Random Kobold: Kobold crawls all over your head like he's stitch or some shit "I keel you!"
- Brenna: 21 Battle Chant
- Random Kobold: yea that does a thing
- Brenna: 4 thunder damages
- Brenna: m
- Brenna: The air explodes into sound when it hits the kobold!
- Random Kobold: Random Kobold loses 4 hit points.
- Lazarre: "Oh, uh...well then..."
- Random Kobold: The kobold gets knocked into the statue. "Owch!!!"
- Lazarre has received initiative.
- Lazarre: Can I like, run up to the giant sandface and stab the kobold from the ground
- Lazarre: or well, slash it
- Random Kobold: yea i guess
- Lazarre: 20 I don't think I need to smite a kobold
- Lazarre: 7
- Random Kobold: Random Kobold loses 7 hit points.
- Random Kobold: "Yaaoouuccch!"
- Brenna: God damn
- Brenna: Putting in the extra work with these effects
- Random Kobold: "Okay, okay, I gives! I gives! What the heck is wrong with you, you're waaaay too strong!"
- Lazarre: "What did you expect, challenging a demon? I didn't even try to hide it."
- Lazarre: "Now, tell me - what's the best way to get into that ship of yours?"
- Brenna: "Alright, Mr. Demon-complex, could we do the interrogating in the one vehicle we have left? They're getting away!"
- Random Kobold: Spitting out some spit n blood, the kobold relocates his jaw. "You mean old Tiny Pete's back? Iunno, you really scared the boy good. Or is it a girl? Nobody's really checked. All I know is that I gotta get back to my people or else who knows what'll eat me alive out here!"
- Brenna: Brenna nicks the knife from the Kobold's hands and tucks it away, before lifting it over her shoulders.
- Random Kobold: "Nooooo give it baack"
- Brenna: the second "it" being the kobold
- Brenna: you're getting a piggyback ride
- Random Kobold: "Okay, okay! You should be able to catch up with the damn thing in a vehicle! Even if Tiny Pete moves faster, it'll tire out eventually, and its speed will destabilize."
- Random Kobold: *stabilize
- Random Kobold: "Hey, do you even know how to operate one of these things???"
- Lazarre: "We can find out."
- Brenna: "You do!"
- Brenna: "Just tell me what levers to push so we don't blow up."
- Brenna: nah I ain't letting him drive
- Random Kobold: "Ooooh, I see how it is. Well, it's quite simple, the red lever means fast, the green lever means uuuh, probably even faster, the purple lever I think dispenses soda...."
- Lazarre: where's the muffin button
- Random Kobold: "The orange lever you have to use in tandem with the purple lever and I think it makes the cannons fire but there's mandatory lock-on, i think to turn that off you need to follow it up with the snooze button, it's harder to aim but it has more power...."
- Random Kobold: "We sadly had to remove the muffin button after a disaster 3 years ago"
- Brenna: "I... surely there's a 'go' and a 'steer.' I don't need to do anything crazy here!"
- Random Kobold: "Such a pain...to think I just got off duty guarding the blasted thief!"
- Random Kobold: "Just stepon the gas, stupid!"
- Lazarre: "The one that stole your food?"
- Random Kobold: "Yep. 50 lbs of radishes. I don't know how she got away with it for so long..."
- Brenna: "That's a lot of radishes, is it really enough to feed the army you had there? Much less the worm?"
- Random Kobold: "Well, we could always just grow more radishes in the Seelie gardens..."
- Random Kobold: "Lovely palace, those Seelie have, we've been made quite comfortable guests of hono- KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE ROAD, DUMMY!"
- ProbotectorTank: AND SO OUR HEROES DRIVE, DRIVE, DRIVE, IN HOT PURSUIT OF THE PROFESSOR. WILL THEY MAKE IT IN TIME BEFORE HIS FLESH IS TORN ASUNDER? AND JUST WHO IS THIS THIEF THEY HAVE LOCKED UP DEEP WITHIN THE SHIP? FIND OUT NEXT TIME ON this game doesnt have a name does it.
- Brenna: no.
- Brenna: No it doesn't. Fuck.
- ProbotectorTank: lets just go with tirkteenth age
- Brenna: Perfect.
- Brenna: it's been too long
- ProbotectorTank: sorry i'll try to train myself to stay up an hour later
- Brenna: Please don't.
- Lazarre: nah you're okay
- Brenna: this is when I go to sleep myself
- Lazarre: We just need to up the pacing
- Lazarre: We're still moving a little slowly
- ProbotectorTank: nah this is about all i prepared
- ProbotectorTank: (i mean i prepped more but its too spread out across everywhere)
- Brenna: RIP refurbished nazi jeep
- ProbotectorTank: I at least know the areas I should tackle after this in terms of prepping+learning how to use the system
- ProbotectorTank: which is what i primarily wanted to get out of a first session
- ProbotectorTank: anyway someone else save the log i got blackout'd
- Lazarre: i wouldn't make maxHP visible on mouseover
- Lazarre: it's not rly vital info
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