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Scarab Sages

Awww, man! First Chuko and Sym, now Vyth... It's always sad to see the underdogs fall. At least he went down makin' the Faceless One feel the sting. I think a moment of silence for our favorite fallen ninja is only appropriate.


Mike McArtor wrote:

The party finally caught up with Vyth and the Faceless One, and Dram knocked him down into negatives. He told Gar not to kill the Faceless One, so we could interrogate him later. Like in almost every other battle, Dram walked over to Vyth's prone body and checked on his friend. This time, though, something was different.

Dram looked again. He then turned to Gar, standing over the Faceless One...
Dram: "Vyth is dead. Kill him."
Gar: "Vyth is dead?"
CHOP! The Faceless One is dead now, too.

Kyle's reaction to Vyth's demise: "Vyth is dead?!?! No! No! No!"

It was really heartening to see how Kyle and several others reacted. I didn't realize they liked Vyth that much. Thanks for your sympathies guys! :)

And now a moment of silence as the otherworldly spirit of Chucko laments the passing of Vyth by imitating his last words.

"...."

*sniff, sniff*
Good bye Vyth.
GGG


Of course it wasn't like he was a collie or anything.

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Great Green God wrote:
Of course it wasn't like he was a collie or anything.

Sniff...they pruned his hedge...


Gavgoyle wrote:
Great Green God wrote:
Of course it wasn't like he was a collie or anything.
Sniff...they pruned his hedge...

I guess it's off to "Ninja Land" that outer plane next to the New Jersey suburbs with the moderate ninja planar traits (+2 bonus to Hide and Move Silently checks for ninjas).

GGG


With Vyth dead, the ninja in my game now IS the worst ninja around. I'll let him know.

ASEO out


Mike McArtor wrote:

Dram looked again. He then turned to Gar, standing over the Faceless One...

Dram: "Vyth is dead. Kill him."
Gar: "Vyth is dead?"

Aw, man! Vyth was cool.


Laeknir wrote:
Mike McArtor wrote:

Dram looked again. He then turned to Gar, standing over the Faceless One...

Dram: "Vyth is dead. Kill him."
Gar: "Vyth is dead?"
Aw, man! Vyth was cool.

Our ninja who art in Valhalla, Vyth would be his name...

The end has come, your time is done....
Since you tried to slay the faceless one...
We forgive you this day of all you misses...
And hope you aren't an undead against us...
And for all the overly hyped expecations ...
We will kick the can of Evil

Sleep well Vyth.........

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Mike Lowder wrote:

Our ninja who art in Valhalla, Vyth would be his name...

The end has come, your time is done....
Since you tried to slay the faceless one...
We forgive you this day of all you misses...
And hope you aren't an undead against us...
And for all the overly hyped expecations ...
We will kick the can of Evil

Sleep well Vyth.........

Cool!

Thanks everyone for your support during this difficult time. :)

Aseo, your group's ninja now has someone to idolize. ;D


ASEO wrote:

With Vyth dead, the ninja in my game now IS the worst ninja around. I'll let him know.

ASEO out

Mines pretty stunningly bad too. In the last adventure I sent them through he had to climb a wall to get to the bad Urd who was harrassing the party with a sling. About five attmpts later and having drained the cleric of all the the partys healing he finally truimphs over a wall a manages to get up (he kept falling off the wall...over and over again) having finally heroicly made it to the top he engages the Urd (A Kobold with wings). Sadly he fumbles and his spear goes flying backward out of his hands to land 20 feet below at the bottom of the wall. He implores the party to throw his spear back up so that he can fight the kobold. They do but the kobold goes first and steals the spear where upon it procedes to torment the Ninja while talking major smack. Pretty soon the other players are commenting that they don't think the Ninja is up to taking on a kobold mano-a-mano.

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Look at this, real time updating. There's a public wireless network up here on the 2nd floor, and since Vyth is dead this week I'm just watching. Supposedly I'm going to work on freelance, but come one...it's Erik Mona DMing Greyhawk. How cool is that? :)


Mike McArtor wrote:
Look at this, real time updating. There's a public wireless network up here on the 2nd floor, and since Vyth is dead this week I'm just watching. Supposedly I'm going to work on freelance, but come one...it's Erik Mona DMing Greyhawk. How cool is that? :)

So, are you working up a new character?

ASEO out

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ASEO wrote:

So, are you working up a new character?

ASEO out

I am! He's going to be a blind samurai who-- no, a deaf wu jen-- no, hmm...

There was no good time to work in a new character last night, so Erik and I agreed that it would be a good idea for me to merely observe and introduce my new character next week.

I'm not going to say just yet what my next character will be, but I will say he's going to use optional rules from Dragon and Class Acts. :)


Just a quick note of thanks to James and Jeremy, for the journals of Tyralandi and Demon Boy! Also looking forward to hearing about Mike's new character!


Mike McArtor wrote:


There was no good time to work in a new character last night, so Erik and I agreed that it would be a good idea for me to merely observe and introduce my new character next week.

What, no room in which a prisoner ready for sacrafice could be found tied up? I bet he Erik is waiting for your party to get to one of the baddie's bedrooms where your character will be found in a box as the Baddie's Gimp...

ASEO out

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Ha!

"Bring out the Gimp."
"I think he's still sleeping."
Whack!
"Well go wake him up!"

I think I'd pay good money to see how introducing a character in that manner would work.

hee, hee! "Bring out the Gimp!"

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Behold the adventure of Mike rolling stats!

The first eight (yes, EIGHT) ability score sets I rolled were teh suxx0r. Then James Jacobs, bless his soul, took it upon himself to roll ability scores for me.

18, 13, 13, 11, 10, 10

That is quite acceptable for a druid.

Thanks James! :)

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No combat tonight. Lots of roleplaying. No new Mike character.

Quotes!

Erik/Allustan: "That sounded stupid because I was distracted."

Tassilo, regarding Demon Boy: "He's burning something. He's happy. He's quiet."

Taan: "I'm no decapitator."
Gar: "Obviously."

Tonight, the fellas buried Vyth. Holy cow, that was moving. There was a strange cat killing ritual. Gar put some dirt in a mug and drank it and gave a speech. It was all very touching. Even Taan put in a few touching words.

Hot diggity!


Poor Mike. I know the loss of Vyth must be disheartening for you. But fear not brave soldier. All shall be better. For in the workings and thanks in no small part to Mr. Mel Brooks your character will now come alive on the big screen in Article 2: Clash of the Gummiworms Revenge of the Vyth.

*deeps breathing with a dry cough*
Vyth I was your nephew...

*smiles* Hope it makes you feel a bit better.


Uhm... what???

JDRastus wrote:

Poor Mike. I know the loss of Vyth must be disheartening for you. But fear not brave soldier. All shall be better. For in the workings and thanks in no small part to Mr. Mel Brooks your character will now come alive on the big screen in Article 2: Clash of the Gummiworms Revenge of the Vyth.

*deeps breathing with a dry cough*
Vyth I was your nephew...

*smiles* Hope it makes you feel a bit better.


Hey Mike!

Could you tell us more about your new Druid character - or did you go with another concept? Obad-Hai, or Ehlonna? Have y'all had a chance to do another round yet?

PS: thanks to James & Jeremy for continued journal updates, and for posting your character sheets - now our players can meet 'em!


Laeknir wrote:
Uhm... what???

Uum its called a little bit of unrelated humor to lighten the mood. Some jokes are just lost to others I guess.

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Aaaah! Silver dragons!

I actually got the joke. A reference to Spaceballs. Well done. ;)

So this is a good time to do the update from last Thursday.

The session started with further discussions of what everyone was going to do. Tyralandi decided to disguise Demon Boy so he could go with the party into town. Just then, Dae Jin arrived from the Bronzewood Lodge. She introduced a very tall, thin, aging man traveling with her. His name: Kol. He carried with him a long leash that trailed out the front door. Tyralandi told him to bring in whatever it was that was on the other end of the leash. Kol obeyed and in walked a massive white tiger wearing banded mail made from white dragon scales. Once we all became somewhat acquainted we headed into town. Dram, Kol, and Dae Jin waited outside the Dragon Chess parlor while the others went in and chatted up the competition. Then everyone left except Taan, who worked on betraying the competing adventurers. A paladin waylaid Tassilo and Dram, and they joined her inside the establishment for a little while before making a hasty retreat.

So Kol is a totem druid (from Dragon #335. He's a 42-year-old human standing about 6'8" and weighing only about 220 pounds. His big tiger's name is Nekonoshi, but he (and everyone else) shortens it to Neko. (Neko no shi is Japanese for "cat of death." Kol is Norwegian for "dark." Did I ever mention I'm a linguiphile?)

Quotes!

Dae Jin, upon spotting Demon Boy in disguise: "Who is that guy?"
Tyralandi: "This is Blink-Blink from Gretzelgottle."
Dae Jin: "Well I have a new friend too."
(This is where Kol got introduced. He called Demon Boy "Blink-Blink" for most of the session.)

Sean: "Dire crabs."
Kyle: "You get those from the Emporium."

Jason, paraphrasing my favorite sci-fi book: "The ore must flow."

Kalik: "We've been exploring the Stirgenest Cairn."
Gar: "Yeah, I used to go there as a kid."

Did I mention that everyone was very belligerent toward our competitors? ;)


Interesting Druid character, Mike! It'll be great to see how he joins the group and how the others react to your tiger - very cool!

(PS: sorry JDRastus that I didn't get the Spaceballs reference/joke. Haven't seen that movie in ages!)

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Blink-Blink is actaully from Grossettgrottell. Too bad everyone else rolled 20s to see through the disguise. Tyralandi rolled pretty well on her Disguise check to whip that one up.

Now Demon Boy'll never go outside again because he thinks Shag Solomon's gonna get him no matter what.

Poor Demon Boy.

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Laeknir wrote:
Interesting Druid character, Mike! It'll be great to see how he joins the group and how the others react to your tiger - very cool!

Demon Boy seems to want to ride Neko, but that's probably not a good idea. Armored tigers aren't made for riding... ;)

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Mike McArtor wrote:
Armored tigers aren't made for riding... ;)

Mabye not, but no one would mess with him!

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Jeremy Walker wrote:
Mabye not, but no one would mess with him!

Well you have a point. A fire-breathing red halfling riding a big white armored tiger would certainly strike an intimidating pose. ;)


Mike McArtor wrote:
Jeremy Walker wrote:
Mabye not, but no one would mess with him!
Well you have a point. A fire-breathing red halfling riding a big white armored tiger would certainly strike an intimidating pose. ;)

Well its like BattleCat from He-Man with a flamethrower on his back. *laughs* I wouldn't wanna mess with that either. Flaming razor clawed jungle vengence Baby!

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JDRastus wrote:
Well its like BattleCat from He-Man with a flamethrower on his back. *laughs* I wouldn't wanna mess with that either. Flaming razor clawed jungle vengence Baby!

Oh I'm sure BattleCat had nothing at all to do with Neko's schtick. ;)


Hey, I've got to ask... I've been reading all 180 of the posts on this thread so far, and I've just got to know: What is Taan, other than a tall elf with an attitude?

From reading this post, I've learned or surmised that Vyth was a human ninja, "Demon Boy" is a halfling sorcerer, Dram Cicaeda is a human scout, Tyrlandi Scrimm (kewl name, by the way) is a female human cleric of Wee Jas, and the article in Dragon #335 told me that DaeJin is a half-elf ranger, Gar Blitzhame is a dwarf fighter/transmuter, and Tassilo is a human cleric of Heironeous. But other than the fact that he wields a sword, is CN, and is a big jerk to boot (like all CN characters I've seen played... ask me about Sergoth some time)... I have no idea what class that character is. The sword tells me nothing, since elves get longsword proficiency for free and I've seen elven sword-wielding wizards, druids, and even monks!

So... who and what is Taan Goldenoak?

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Maveric28 wrote:
So... who and what is Taan Goldenoak?

He's like, totally a valley elf. I think he's a sorcerer, but Sean is relatively tight-lipped about his character.

(Truth be told, I think he's a valley elf sorcerer 1/troublemaker 2/menace to society 3.) ;)


Mike McArtor wrote:
Maveric28 wrote:
So... who and what is Taan Goldenoak?

He's like, totally a valley elf. I think he's a sorcerer, but Sean is relatively tight-lipped about his character.

(Truth be told, I think he's a valley elf sorcerer 1/troublemaker 2/menace to society 3.) ;)

I think you forgot in there somewhere between troublemaker and menace /ladies man 4. *laughs*

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Dust off your knickers, ladies, and doff you caps, lads. It's (finally) time for another rousing episode of...

ERIK MONA DMs GREYHAWK

It has been a long two months since we last played. Since I had only the briefest opportunity to play my new character—Kol—in the the previous session, I was excited to get to try him out at long last. We learned a few things in last night's game...

• Everyone at the table is a cheerless bum except Jason, Erik, and me. I brought holiday eggnog to the table with the happy visions of the table imbibing in a traditional holiday drink as one, with much laughter and good will. Well that got dashed in a hurry, let me tell you! Jason, however, had a glass, and Erik expressed at least a little interest (although he didn't actually drink any), but the rest of the Grinches all said nay. To them I say :PpPpPpPp

• The totem druid from Dragon #335 might just be broken in some situations...

But anyway, despite my grumblings I had a lot of fun last night and I think everyone else at the table did as well. :)

We spent the greater part of the evening discussing what to do next. And by we I mean Gar and Taan (Jason and Sean, respectively). And by discuss I mean argue. We fell into two camps, basically: go right away and take down Smenk or leave early and catch up with Allustan later. Gar and Kol were strong proponents of the former, while Taan and Dram supported the latter.

Eventually, through a series of lethargic voting and the machinations of Tyralandi, we decided on the former. Here's why:

Tyralandi, through sheer brazen bravado, talked her way into the garrison. Then into the jail. Then into being left alone with Filge.

When she left, through no direct fault of her own, Filge lay dead.

So we went and attacked Smenk. But first! First I got to play druid and talk to animals for recon purposes. The first critter I talked to, the night Filge died, was a cat. She was quite helpful in setting up my recon for the next night. The night of the attack. That night, Kol talked to a mouse who ran into the house and came back out and told us a lot of useful information and only a little bit of useless information. Oh, and the voice Erik used... ROFL!!! :D

Okay, so Kol cast warp wood to get in through the back door and we all ran inside. Gar set off a curse trap (–4 on attack rolls, saves, checks, etc.), but then Dram saved the day by having—against all odds—a potion of remove curse. Which he gave Gar a few rounds into combat, after...

At the end of the hall stood the wizard Bask. Now, keep in mind that this guy has been hounding us for the entire campaign. We expected our battle with him to be titanic and climactic. You know, a wizard several levels higher than us taking on the entire party by himself. Maybe with a few thugs to slow us down a bit. And indeed, that's what happened.

Except not really. Gar went third in the initiative order, charged Bask, and put him in the Dead Book with one swing. Mouths fell open. We boggled.

Then came the mooks.

The battle actually turned out to be fairly easy. Kol's pet, the white tiger named Neko, dealt more damage in that combat than poor Vyth had dealt in his entire life. Gar did what gar does—murderized people. The clerics spiritual weaponed the heck out of ginormous monkeys. And Sean took about 8,000 pictures. (!?!?!?!)

So! Quotes!

Velius Childerman, to a guard, after Tyralandi duped him: "He might make a creature!"

Tyralandi, buying kids' clothes for Demon Boy: "I'll take all of them."
Seamstress: "All of them? But I have so many."
Tyralandi: "Well I only need the boy clothes. Well... Hmm. I'll take all of them."

Tyralandi to Demon Boy: "Are you going to keep the girls' clothes too?"
...pause...
Demon Boy: "Yes."

Taan, about Dram's birthday party: "You celebrate these every year?"
Dram: "We get so few of them."

Dram, about his birthday party: "Last year I took a piss on Demon Boy."

Gar: "Who wants to help me with the guild house? Tyralandi?"
Tyralandi: "What do you need help with?"
Gar: "Moving rocks."
Tyralandi: "Pass."
Gar: "Tassilo?"
Tassilo: "I, uh... it's a holy day. I can't."
Demon Boy: "I have to remember that!"
Gar: "Dae Jin?"
Dae Jin, angry sounding: "What?"
Gar: *holds up his hands*

Taan, to Childerman about Filge: "No, we don't want to kill him—again."

Jeremy, looking at the battle: "Who! What is that thing?"
Me: "What thing?"
Jeremy: "Oh. It's Gar."

Scarab Sages

Woo-Hoo! The story is on again!


Mike McArtor wrote:


Gar: "Who wants to help me with the guild house? Tyralandi?"
Tyralandi: "What do you need help with?"
Gar: "Moving rocks."
Tyralandi: "Pass."
Gar: "Tassilo?"
Tassilo: "I, uh... it's a holy day. I can't."
Demon Boy: "I have to remember that!"
Gar: "Dae Jin?"
Dae Jin, angry sounding: "What?"
Gar: *holds up his hands*

You know. . . technically Gar created all of his own work. His alter-ego wrote the Wormfood article in Dragon #333, and had god-like control over every grueling, sweat-stained hour that it'll take to whip that building back into shape.

Shoulda made it an easier fixer-upper, man. :)

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Hey...

Know what tonight is?

Could it be... the first session of Erik's game in 2006?

IT COULD! We're less than two hours away from returning to the worm-infested lands of Greyhawk.

Ready yourselves... tomorrow there will be another update!!!

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We Gotta Get Outta This Place...

The party (well, some of the party) went to Allustan and said, "We gotta leave right away. We're in a heap o' trouble."

Allustan agreed. Demon Boy summoned a familiar, a grueling 24-hour ordeal that held the interest of Kol and Neko. Nobody else seemed to care. Once Demon Boy's familiar, Cinder, arrived, Kol (and Neko) were once again the only party members interested (besides Demon Boy, of course). Cinder represented the first application of something appearing in Dragon #341, the issue we're just now finishing up with. I'll get to the second application in a moment... er... paragraph.

That day we also celebrated Dram's 18th birthday. Mazel tov.

Right. So, on the road. We marched into the Mistmarch and came across a bridge. Kol jokingly mentioned looking for a troll under the bridge, but some of the younger and more attentive party members (Dram especially) noticed that something actually did lurk under that bridge. So Dram did one of the things he does well and snuck off into the woods. He snuck really well, but spotted pretty poorly, and as he readied himself behind a tree to snipe the goblin (goblin! *chortle*) waiting to ambush us on the other side of the bridge, he realized that someone was waiting on the other side of the tree he was hiding behind...

Combat ensued! Dram went around the tree and killed that goblin. Then a whole bunch more came issuing forth out from under the bridge. Gar rushed across the bridge and found himself surrounded by goblins (goblins! *snicker*). The other spellcasters cast buff spells in preparation. Neko yawned. Goblins, he seemed to say, who cares? Turns out, we all cared.

The goblins had a wolf. Not just any wolf, but a wolf who could change into a barghest. Or rather, the other way around. Neko charged the barghest while it was still in wolf form and proved pretty ineffective. Then the barghest tried to cast a spell requiring Neko to make a Will save...

The table held its collective breath. If Neko turned against us...

I cast my die...

*clatter... clatter... clat--*

19!!!

We breathed a collective sigh of relief. Allustan cast a spell and killed the barghest. We continued on.

To Blackwall Keep. There we encountered a whole mess o' lizardfolk and their allies. Dram snuck forward to attempt to talk to them. The rest of us just attacked.

The battle went well for us. Erik trotted out a monster that appears in issue #341 (so no, I can't tell you about it) that proved particularly menacing. Otherwise, the party enacted ruination upon the lizardfolk and their allies.

And that ended the session.

So before we get to quotes (and this would be the part where I call out, "Quotes!" and move along) Wes asked me to bring up this point:

Cottage Cheese!

So, moving right along...

QUOTES!

Commander Trask: "What do you know about this Miss Scrimm?"
Tassilo: "She's untrustworthy and of a questionable faith."

Me: "It's in an article you'll see tomorrow."
Erik: "If I'm lucky I'll see it tonight."
Me: *nervous chuckle*
Erik: "Or you're still working on it."
Wes, to me: "Then what are you still doing here?"
All: *laughter*
Erik: "Ha ha ha, he's right."

Jeremy: "Such a dirty old man..."

Gar: "I'll take Short and Shaggy over Tall and Yeasty."

James: "He throws sharks like darts!"
(No, I don't know who the heck he was talking about.)

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Mike McArtor wrote:

We Gotta Get Outta This Place...

The party (well, some of the party) went to Allustan and said, "We gotta leave right away. We're in a heap o' trouble."

...

It is great to see you guys playing (and writing) again!!!

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On the meager Abalard's Band website, I've posted pictures of Tann and Tasilo.

http://www.superunicorn.com/diamond_lake/

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Kyle Hunter wrote:

On the meager Abalard's Band website, I've posted pictures of Tann and Tasilo.

http://www.superunicorn.com/diamond_lake/

So cool!!!

Very awesome as usual, Kyle. When you have one of every character are you going to do a group shot? ;) Maybe a series of group shots? :D


The Tassilo picture is superb; but that almost goes without saying.

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sad_genius wrote:
The Tassilo picture is superb; but that almost goes without saying.

And just looking at the picture of Taan makes you want to smack him. Damn haughty elves.

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Last night's session is known as...

Tough Times in the Swamp

After handily defeating the lizardfolk in the previous session, last night we began by meeting the recipients of our assistance, ready to reap the rewards of our difficult fight and bask in their gratitude.

Bunch of dang ingrates!

The CO of the place, one Captain Harrant, seemed genuinely pleased to meet us, after Allustan made the proper introductions. In his reporting to us the captain let slip that Allustan's girlfriend (oh, I'm sorry... they're "just friends") got kidnapped by the lizardfolk, as did a half-dozen soldiers. Allustan seemed pretty intent on having us leave right away to rescue her, which we decided to do.

So, a few hours before nightfall we entered a swamp. Because we're PCs with above-average IQs and below-average survival instincts. With Dae-Jin, Dram, and Kol all possessing varying degrees of survival skill and knowledge of the natural world, though, we figured we'd be okay. Well, the three of us would be okay anyway. ;D

Walk, walk, walk. Walk through the dark. Suddenly, Dram and Dae-Jin stopped. They heard something. Something big. Something in the dark water. In a moment, the creature attacked! A ginormous crocodile lunged from the waters and caught up Kol in its maw, sank in its teeth, and hurled the middle-aged druid like a rag doll into the swamp. Kol took 26 points of damage and went from full health to -7 in a single attack. Oh, and he was flung out into the swamp where no one could see him. Erik had discovered the weakness of my potent character: my character.

Except, in a bit of revisionist history, James Jacobs realized that his ever-resourceful and surprising cleric, Tyralandi, had prepared a spell for just such an occasion. With an immediate action Tyralandi cast close wounds on Kol even as the ginormous crocodile flung him into the roiling black waters of the bog. Close wounds, in case you don't know, cures a small number of hit points as an immediate action. In fact, it cures those hit points as they are being struck away to actually prevent the character from losing them (thus keeping an otherwise killed character from dying). So, yay, Kol landed in the water with 2 hit points instead of -7. :)

Then the fight began, resulting in a Kyle Hunter original being rendered before our eyes on the whiteboard. Not one, but TWO ginormous crocodiles came at us, and at various times in the combat Gar and Demon Boy found themselves in on or the other animals' food holes. Chomp, chomp, chomp.

Through perseverance, luck, and the "help" of friendly fire, we finally beat down those blasted crocs.

After that, it was time to rest... finally. We found a kangaroo tree copse (hangaroo? mangaroo? I don't know... some Greyhawk tree that rhymes with hoppy Aussie pouch-wearers) and scampered up within. Only to run our faces right into some spider webs. Spider webs as thick as rope! *gulp*

It was Gar who found it first: a ginormous spider (why is everything in that blasted swamp so ginormous?). Demon Boy got the drop of the spider and blasted it with a few missiles of a magical nature. Then Gar stepped up to the plate and scored a home run. When the gore and the Gar settled we discovered the decapitating dwarf had dealt 62 points of damage with a successful critical hit, cleaving the spider in twain.

Then we slept like babes.

Tyralandi went crazy and listened to a violin being played badly out in the swamps, but when she tried to tell Dram he passed on her particular brand of nuts and focused on his watch. At one point Tyralandi got up to check on the violin playing, and found that it had stopped.

In the morning, we continued on our way. After a bit we found a little dry land and on it a number of statues skillfully rendered to look like men from Blackwall Keep. A little too skillfully rendered, actually. Fearing cockatrices (cockatri?), basilisks, or gorgons (Gordans?) we crept forward cautiously. And that's when we were set upon! And what a terrible and glorious fight it was, but it wasn't against stoners. It was against... uh... trashers?

Okay, enough with the clever. We fought a couple otyughs. They did to Tassilo what the crocs had done to Gar and Demon Boy, but thanks to our full compliment of spells they proved to be a much less formidable challenge. Well... unless you ask poor Tassilo. Poor guy sat in a pool of otyugh slobber after we downed the critters. He sat there and cried about how much he hated the swamp and everything in it. Tyralandi tried to comfort him but he screamed, "Don't touch me!" at her. So we left him in his discomfort, and with that the session came to a close.

Quotes!
Lots of fun last night, and not nearly as much swearing as usual.

At one point we were talking about knives and such, and I mentioned something about a Leatherman multi-tool. This led James to blurt out, "They can't even put that on the internet!"
(It's possible that what I said was misconstrued as a double entendre.)*

When the croc took up Gar in its maw, Tyralandi moved up and cured him so the croc would continue to chew on Gar (and his many hit points) instead of going after someone else. To that end, James declared, "He's an Everlasting Garstopper."

When the other croc took up Demon Boy in its jaw, Sean compared the sizes of the two chewed-on allies and said, "Demon Boy is fun-sized."

Then Taan shot an arrow at the Demon Boy-munching croc but hit Demon Boy instead, for which Kyle remarked, "An embarrassing own-goal by Taan."

Erik, DMing: "'Urrrrrrrr!' it screams out."
Wes, snarking: "Just like crocodiles do."

Erik, about the mini in use to represent Demon Boy's a-croc-alypse: "Keep in mind it's not actually a tyrannosaurus."

And later...

Wes: "I really wasn't comfortable with the Kol/Demon Boy slash I was reading."
Me: "Reading as you were writing it?"
Wes: "Mm." *pause* "Uh... nothing!"

Erik, to Wes, about Tassilo: "Do you do anything?"
Wes, as Tassilo: "I try to keep myself from crying. I'm cold. Why am I here?"

...
* And when I say "misconstrued" I mean "correctly interpreted."

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This, sir, was the funniest thing I've read all day. Of course, I do think halflings being eaten by crocodiles is hilarious. Consider the word "acrocalypse" stolen for my own sinister devices.


That was awesome! Oh, how I envy thee thine game.
Questions:
Did Kol enter at the same XP as the ninja?
How would you change the Totem Druid, if at all?

My Japanese is a bit rusty, but I think "Neko no shi" means ï of Cat" (reversed from English pattern). Gulp. Good luck, Little Kitty. (Shinoneko?)
Looking forward to more.
Oh, and I would love to see stat updates for the PCs as you go along. (Dwarven Eldritch Knight, anybody?)


Eh...
Why do some standard or innocuous words, like D E A T H or R E D H A N D, get edited out?
Shrug.

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Castilliano wrote:

That was awesome! Oh, how I envy thee thine game.

Questions:
Did Kol enter at the same XP as the ninja?

No, he started at the base XP of whatever level he started at. *bad memory*

Castilliano wrote:
How would you change the Totem Druid, if at all?

I'd make it a prestige class.

Castilliano wrote:

My Japanese is a bit rusty, but I think "Neko no shi" means ï of Cat" (reversed from English pattern). Gulp. Good luck, Little Kitty. (Shinoneko?)

Looking forward to more.

Hai, hai. I was wondering if someone would call me on that. ;) Neko was named after the pet of one of my World of Warcraft characters. Since naming him I realized I messed up my grammar. So now Kol's animal companion's name is officially Neko. Just Neko. No noshi. Or should I say, no shi. Ha ha ha!!! ;D *bad editor humor*

Castilliano wrote:
Oh, and I would love to see stat updates for the PCs as you go along. (Dwarven Eldritch Knight, anybody?)

Well, check out the Wormfood article from Dragon #335 for stats of Dae Jin, Gar, and Tassilo. As for updates... well, that's up to each individual player, I suppose.

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Mike McArtor wrote:


Hai, hai. I was wondering if someone would call me on that. ;) Neko was named after the pet of one of my World of Warcraft characters. Since naming him I realized I messed up my grammar. So now Kol's animal companion's name is officially Neko. Just Neko. No noshi. Or should I say, no shi. Ha ha ha!!! ;D *bad editor humor*

Neko, Neko...sounds very familiar when put in context as a WoW pet name. I swear i've seen a big white cat with that name running around Ogrimmar quite a few times. What server do you play on MM?

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Tessius wrote:
Neko, Neko...sounds very familiar when put in context as a WoW pet name. I swear i've seen a big white cat with that name running around Ogrimmar quite a few times. What server do you play on MM?

While I'll let Mike decide if he wants to reveal what server he plays on (and by extension, the server that most of us at Paizo who play WoW play on)... his WoW character's an Alliance character so I doubt the Neko you saw in Ogrimmar was him. Although who knows? He DID just bail on my guild, so maybe he's off slumming in enemy territory now...

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