This is the OOC thread for 4 goblins, whose unlikely heroism has brought them to 2nd level. Bucko, Klepy, Tark and Velag have become big heroes, and will now make the world suitable for rule by the mightiest race in all Golarion. None dare stand in their way!
Links:
Our previous We Be Goblins PbP
Humans:
Just makin my shopping list.
We get 50% on sale of stuff when we upgrade, right?
dotting
Tark's Group Name Suggestions:
The Mighty Tark and Chums
Ultimate Non Stupid Tark and Best Licktoads Ever (which can be abbreviated as "UNSTABLE")
Raiders of the Lust Tark (Tark is not certain if he likes indicating how lustful he is in the group name, but he just likes the sound of the whole name).
So Tough Licktoad Heros (Tark pauses for moment as he considers how to add his name into this one).
Beware all!
Our new name!
Bucko magic, Tark flatten, Velag stabs, Klepy takes
I still want to buy some kind of critters.....
Stirge was my first one....
I bought potions instead....
Klepy is shiny hehehehehehe! Klepy is still admiring himself.
Klepy is shiny hehehehehehe! Klepy is still admiring himself.
Bucko buys klepy "insurance", a small metal mirror to wear around his neck and to use if klepy ever get taken control by magic.......
I'm going with the Team Name of Efesti Skwad for sure. That is my idea. I just love how one thing leads to another to create something neat.
I'm going with the Team Name of Efesti Skwad for sure. That is my idea. I just love how one thing leads to another to create something neat.
"Bah!" Tark would say.
He would also comment along the likes of: "What sound more scarier? "Look out, da Efesti Skwad comin" to git you' or "Look out, da So Tough Licktoads of Doom'" comin' to git you'? Da choice ez obvi... obvus... easy to make. Even me mo'mo would make fun uv me if me use dat name. Efesti sound more like elvzie word. Iz you an Elvzie luver?"
I not gives back. My precious...
:) Ok, I'll adjust the sheet to reflect that.
Trying to find a way to boost AC and failing -- any better armour kills me based on max dex. I'll sit down and shop properly today, though.
"What sound more scarier? "Look out, da Efesti Skwad comin" to git you' or "Look out, da So Tough Licktoads of Doom'" comin' to git you'? Da choice ez obvi... obvus... easy to make. Even me mo'mo would make fun uv me if me use dat name. Efesti sound more like elvzie word. Iz you an Elvzie luver?"
"Elvzies good! Especially roast wit spotted toadstools! But thems both dumb names. We need make things afraid. Call usselves something scary, like Claws or Talons or Fangses. Mebbe all three! We can be Claws an' Talons an' Fangses of the Licked Toad!"
I got nothing.....
Where sees ring?
"Me should carry number two healy-stick. Me can use it too, and that way me can use it make Bucko better if him get splatted."
I am thinking about naming my recruits......
@ Velag: Sure. Other than Tark, you seem the most likely to ride into combat, and I did say it was trained, so barding would be suitable. You'd be the natural choice for the healy-stick. I don't think anyone would object.
Ok, two less scrolls = studded leather barding. Yay Wolfie.
Awesome pbp ....... if you need some additional raw meat... er I mean recruits let me know.
I am thinking of starting a short campaign for goblin PC's irl, and this is providing lots of inspiration.
Dyingz is nuturalh for goblinz.....other goblins anywayzzz
Me kill Klepy, me can playz as well?
Why are we talking about killing Klepy? He has valuable information for you all
Rules for Scent:
Scent(Ex) This special quality allows a creature to detect
approaching enemies, sniff out hidden foes, and track by
sense of smell. Creatures with the scent ability can identify
familiar odors just as humans do familiar sights.
The creature can detect opponents within 30 feet by
sense of smell. If the opponent is upwind, the range
increases to 60 feet; if downwind, it drops to 15 feet.
Strong scents, such as smoke or rotting garbage, can be
detected at twice the ranges noted above. Overpowering
scents, such as skunk musk or troglodyte stench, can be
detected at triple normal range.
When a creature detects a scent, the exact location of
the source is not revealed—only its presence somewhere
within range. The creature can take a move action to note
the direction of the scent. When the creature is within 5
feet of the source, it pinpoints the source’s location.
A creature with the scent ability can follow tracks by
smell, making a Wisdom (or Survival) check to find or
follow a track. The typical DC for a fresh trail is 10 (no
matter what kind of surface holds the scent). This DC
increases or decreases depending on how strong the
quarry’s odor is, the number of creatures, and the age
of the trail. For each hour that the trail is cold, the DC
increases by 2. The ability otherwise follows the rules for
the Survival skill. Creatures tracking by scent ignore the
effects of surface conditions and poor visibility.
Format: scent; Location: Senses.
Spell-Like Abilities (Sp) Spell-like abilities are magical
Me no kill Klepy?
No you no kill Klepy :p
Okay, in answer to your question about what we should do, I want some interaction with standard people. Not necessarily the friendly kind either. I wanna exercise my abilities as a theif. Also, I think it would be neat to go on some grand misadventure to recover a powerful artifact that we over heard a bunch of humies talkin about finding to save something or another. We go to beat them to it and we accidentally save the world instead. Just an idea is all.
Hrmm... what are Tark's ambitions. That is a good question. I generally believe that goblins probably don't plan anything much more that 1 week in advance.
Tark wants to find adversaries that are worthy of being flattened by him. Although Tark is beginning to think that his stories of everything he flattens are often falling on deaf ears. Tark has decided that he will not longer flatten skulls of the creatures he kills. He will remove the heads and bring them back to the village where he can flatten them for all to see.
Tark's ambition, is simply to bring back as many worthy skulls as he can.
His goblin chums have also become more capable, so now he will have to try harder to show is physical and combat superiority over them. They also ride mounts... so as well, Tark must prove that he is the mightiest wolf rider that the village has ever seen.
Tark also believes that having mushy with Gupy will also greatly help his hero status, so he will bring her back presents (skulls that he will flatten in her name) in a hope of getting her into his pile of straw.
Sorry, Murch. If a character dies, I'll let the player make a new one. If someone leaves the game for any reason, you'll be first in line, okay? Please! Don't kill my goblins!
Murch will be a patiunt Goblin
oooooh shiny butterfly............ must pull of wingsies
With regards to the trainees that are assigned to Tark, their training consists of:
- Tark talking about all the things he has flattened.
- Tark talking about the things that made him angry and ended up getting flattened.
- Tark talking about how awesome Fangz is, being the best wolf in the village.
- Tark talking about how some day he will get to mushy with Gupy.
- When they do encounter anything, they will watch as Tark charges off wrecklessly and attacks it by himself.
Although the trainees learn nothing practical from Tark, they do learn how mighty he is.
Me miss something! Was me supposed to go to another thread? Me not see! Stupid eye-coveries! Me been looking here for days! Where me supposed to go? Show me link! No replace! Need me to eat writtens!
Game thread is here Velag.
Me miss something! Was me supposed to go to another thread? Me not see! Stupid eye-coveries! Me been looking here for days! Where me supposed to go? Show me link! No replace! Need me to eat writtens!
Oh crap now Velag sees shinies an disappears!
Velag's plans are to use sneaksie-powers to infiltrate a stoopid, nasty human town , find the nasty-writtin-using people, judge them, eat their words to get smart, and then eat them 'cause they tastee-good. As a book eater, he knows words have power, and so eating more will make him way more powerfuller. (Him know big words like that because him eatses them)
His long-term plans, however, is to get away from the Licktoads and start the Bookeater tribe -- where he would be both chief and high priest -- which would be a tribe dedicated to the glory of Norgober -- and of Velag (the order on that isn't fixed yet).
Also, he's constantly getting feelings from the gods as to what they want him to do... but that might be indigestion -- dwarves are stubborn, even when they're in your stomach.
However, to this end, he'll be trying to convert his newbie (who he has renamed "Badbait" for obvious reasons and is telling everyone else to call him that too) to the path of the gods and tricksiness -- and will sprinkle small bits of shredded paper into his food to get him ready.
murch goes hide thread again, stuupid inquizitor cannot find it
I was going to go "Holy Crap, Klepy's got +21 to stealth! That's more than the bonus for being invisible while moving!", but then I noticed that Velag has +19 - and that's at -1 for the buckler, which I can unequip. :)
Goblins are *crazy* stealthy.
That is all. We now return to your regularly scheduled programming.
Ahhhh
Bucko is in the same boat!
Can you give me some background on Velag's interest in Norgober? Not a typical goblin god, but doable. I don't need an essay, just some idea of how he got into that particular god.
Well, he's got the birthmark trait, which would imply that Norgorber chose him, rather than the opposite.
Which, of course, based on the usual Goblin proclivities would have him more or less wandering aimlessly in terms of trying to figure out exactly who or what was calling him -- especially with the number of lesser deities (barghests) that seem to be the usual for non-Lamashtu-worshipping goblins sort of taking up space when he would try to explore his calling.
He'd probably have been doomed to never quite figure it out (the divine pushes toward sneakery and murder do tend to mesh quite well with a standard goblin personality) -- however, as he would say, "Me eat book once, then me knowed what me had to do."
This gets to the whole and completely-made-up lore of his position as a "word eater" -- someone with a semi-divine role to protect his fellow goblins by "preserving the knowledge" they might have lost by eating the books. Of course, as he learned his trade, he would have learned the preparation ritual for this (which is, in fact, reading the book, though he doesn't realize it - he thinks preparing and eating the book releases the knowledge).
I also figure that this was not a very popular position with the tribe - writing is risky and nobody wants to be near the strange guy who eats them. As such, I imagined that Velag was a 'marginal' member of the tribe at the time, and probably spent a fair amount of time on his own, wandering (especially since he was trying to figure out the call).
So, considering the proximity to Sandpoint, I figured that Velag happened upon (or was led to) a secondary site set up by the Skinsaw cultists (as per Runelords), and there he would have found (for the first time) a site made sacred to Norgorber and a religious text -- which he ate.
When he returned to the Licktoads after that, he was filled with confidence, and so he demanded that the Bookeater be treated with respect, because the gods demanded it (and used his new powers to prove it) -- and so took a stronger position in the tribe.
But yes, since that day, he's known who called him, and has been trying to answer the call -- Velag's personality is such that his worship lies somewhere between Norgorber's aspects as "Father Skinsaw" and the "Grey Master" (which is why I swapped his second trait for Colour Thief) -- he wants to kill in Norgorber's honour, but he's still, at heart, a cowardly goblin, and so he wants to do it from the shadows... and then eat them, since, you know, goblin.
That's what I had rolling around in my head, anyway.