Doug M's Way of the Wicked (Inactive)

Game Master Douglas Muir 406

The path curves to the left, and then to the right. It's slow going. The dusty air makes you want to sneeze.

To one side of the path grows a huge toadstool. A cluster of shiny red globes bulges from the edge of its cap; it's impossible to say whether this is some strange fruiting body, or another fungus that is parasitizing the first one.

Bow down before the one you serve, your going to get what you deserve

Head like a hole, black as your soul, I'd rather die, than give you control.

(that version really picks up around 0:28 or so]

none of the gameplay posts showed up for me! though the discussion did

Earlier to Judge Catch more goblins with Shiny than scary.

Looking at the globes... Goblin want!

WTF it wont let me roll dice!! Something is wonky with my GP thread. I will try in discussion

If anyone tells the Judge that Bref is wandering off the trail, he will immediately SHOUT through the Message spell.

GOBLIN STOP. You will return to the trail and follow Morsum or we shall leave you here!!!

Bref does not stop.

Goblin be faster and smarter. Need goblin faster and smarter

Bref shouts back through the message.

Head like a hole, black as your soul, I'd rather die, than give you control.

Props for finding that!

Cуровую will relay the Judge's Message to Bref, twice.

She will also remember not to hold her breath.

Cуровую is a little intrigued, Bref, become smarter did you say?

Cуровую is a little intrigued, Bref, become smarter did you say?

Yep, his intelligence is now 20, his wisdom is 2 and his charisma is -5.

Bref suddenly leaps up and grabs several of the shiny red globules. He's so nimble that he seems to be able to avoid the mycelial threads.

"Goblin get smarter!" Bref is about to gobble down the red spheroids. If you want to stop him, you can roll Init against him. Otherwise, you can let him eat them and see what happens.

wouldnt they have to move out there with bref to stop him?

Bref, you're second in line -- Morsum is just ahead of you, Jax behind. They can interact with you easily. The other three party members will have to lunge forward, which might require a Reflex save as well.

Let the green bugger stuff his face full of possibly poisonous shrooms, I'm not risking falling off this ledge or disturbing those strands to grab him.

Jax is going to continue going straight, slow and stealthy.

Wait, the redcaps are a powerful drug...they can make my mental powers more effective. We should harvest them for our use. Bref, remember the help in gold and the healing I have given you? Please retrieve the rest of the redcaps for me...

Well, that leaves Sir Edmin, Judge/Morsum, and Zimu. If one of you wants to intervene, go for it. Otherwise, Bref will chow down.

Morsum is in the front and the Judge is in the back. Neither of us will intervene. There was a clear instruction on the entry to this room and Bref has ignored it. At present doing anything would cause yet more of us to deviate from the path we were specifically direct to stay on.

Hearing that Bref has ignored the instructions, the Judge simply growls.

Whisper(Message) & to Morsum: Continue forward, ignore the goblin. He shall be dealt with once we have concluded this test.

Morsum resumes his slow crawl forward expecting the others to follow the Judge's instructions and to continue to follow the path.

Goblin get for Shadow Shanks.

Bref gobbles his down then brings one back for Dren. If he is able he will grab another one for whomever else might want.

Note I am fine with people rolling Dip and Int for Bref. For example that is why he stopped and let Judge and Zimu attempt to spellcraft the amulet after Judge made diplo. Being a megalomaniac Bref does not take well to threats on the best of days. Like he told Judge you catch more goblins with shiny than scary. That said I know that PvP is allowed, but I am pretty much against serious PvP, I will not kill another player while they are on my side still

Perception 1d20 + 5 - 1 ⇒ (4) + 5 - 1 = 8 wahoo! it worked! I kind of wish it hadnt though...

You just rolled an 8 Perception. What worked?

http://trenchescomic.com/comic/post/phantasm2

http://trenchescomic.com/comic/post/dietary

Anyway: Bref, I'll need to see a Fort save.

see my earlier post about the dice roller not working. But it is not working again. WTF! Does anyone have any ideas? everytime I try to roll dice other than that amazing 8 I get sent to the the paizo store is down page. But I can roll just fine in the discussion thread

DM do you want to just roll it?

Okay. Weird! Maybe post in the website issues forum? Anyway, it's working for me, so I'll roll. 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

gee thanks! lol. I will try clearing out all my cookies maybe.

Oh man you are one lucky goblin. That was only a DC 10 Fort save, but it was save or die, repeat, die.

And trying again. See if it works again.

Wierd that might have done it. I suck at the inter web

Okay, you saved. But since you only just barely saved...

"Goblin smarter! Goblin... uh..." Bref abruptly looks green. Okay, greener. "Goblin... BLEARRGH! BLURGH HUCK HUCK HUCK HUUUUUUUURRRL!!!"

1d2 ⇒ 1

The goblin is violently, explosively, and noisily sick all over Morsum.

LOL Frickin awesome! I will pop the other into my pouch.

Shadow Shanks this make goblin tumbly feel bad. I not feel smarter...Still want?

Bref quickly moves to catch up with Morsum.

Stealth 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (6) + 15 = 21

Perception checks!

1d20 ⇒ 5
1d20 ⇒ 3

OK I think I wish my dice roller was not working still. How do I fix it to make it roll well

Wow. Okay. -- Well, the goblin is bent double and retching -- he's going to be nauseated for a while. Bref, you can't use Stealth right now, or do anything but move slowly down the path.

What are the rest of you doing?

Bref does not move until he stops vomiting. He may not be wise but he is smart enough to know that he needs to be in control before moving again.

Instead he clamps his hands over his mouth to muffle the sound.

Seeing that the whole world has not come crashing down around his head, Morsum continues to stealthily move down the path. When Bref moves up and pukes on him, the shadowy creature looks back and glares at Bref with his blood red eyes almost glowing and red teeth clenched.

Toothpick in big trouble.

If possible, Morsum's voice is even more gritty and grating than usual.

Nonetheless, Morsum turns his head back and continues forward at a crawl.

Bloodlicker can lick Goblin poo! Blarg! Goblin one put in danger! Bloodlick Blarg Bloodlick just lead from back blarg Bloodlick can disarm next trap get stoopid trapped! blarg

Cуровую listens to Bref's Message and like a good interpreter, attempts to filter the thought to the Judge.

'Bref is alive, but ... indisposed. Bref would like to discuss your management style at some opportune time. Oh on the positive side, he believes your skill matches his at disarming traps.'

Cуровую looks around her and realizes she misses the bitter, cold, desolate Winter of her youth.

Bref will be nauseated for 1d6 ⇒ 3 rounds. During this time, the party may simply move past him. (You'll have to move carefully to squeeze past him down the narrow clear passage, but it won't actually require a Reflex save.) Since you're stealthing along at half speed, this will leave him just 25' behind the rearmost party member.

The Judge listens to the statement from Cy.

We wait for the goblin to recover from whatever poisonous mushroom he just ate. Then proceed forward. I will not have any of us getting knocked into this forest of fungi trying to pass him.

I know that it would not happen per DMDM statement, but the Judge would not know this where he is and all the non-dexterous party members are behind Bref at this point.

assuming that happens Bref will move full speed to get back up front, behind morsum though

1d20 + 15 - 4 ⇒ (12) + 15 - 4 = 23

'Bref, the Judge sees you as an integral part of the team and values you skill set, he insists that you please take a full 24 seconds to get your bearings, compose yourself, then get your green ars$e to the front of the column.'

Diplomacy - the Art of the lying without being caught.

Edmin curses under his breath at the goblins antics then smiles. "At least I wont be getting burned this time."

Okay then -- along the path you go. (The mycelial webbing is still overhead.) Another couple of twists and turns and... there's something glittering ahead, by the side of the path.

A skeleton in rusted chainmail; it looks like there was some sort of coat of arms on the front, but everything is so overgrown with mold and bizarre fungal growths that it's impossible to make out what it was. (It doesn't look like this particular skeleton is getting up and going anywhere; thick rootlike tendrils grow out of the fungus forest and through the thing's rib cage, joining together into a knotted purplish mass that sits roughly where its heart once was.)

Beside one bony hand, a weapon has fallen to the floor, where it lies on a carpet of mold. It's a light mace, and a lovely one too -- clearly the work of a craftsman. A dark red jewel gleams from its handle.

Want Goblin get mace?

Carpet of mold. Don't do it Bref.

edit - we posted at the same time.

Witchy Witch use magic to get mace maybe. Goblin tumbly not feel good. And not want Bloodlick mad.

Having Morsum relay that he saw the skeleton, the Judge responds.

Leave the mace and the skeleton. That is probably part of the second knot or fourth knot. A part that decided to not follow the instructions and wandered off through the fungi. You can see that it did not turn out well. Anyone that leaves the path, we shall leave to be the skeleton found by the tenth knot.

Continue forward, no deviations unless instructed to do so.

Actually, it is a light mace. I could lift it and move it to me using Mage Hand.

Actually, it is a light mace. I could lift it and move it to me using Mage Hand.

Agreed, I was thinking that too, but that may still disturb the mold. Remember what was written on the door. Could we make a knowledge or survival roll to see if that would be enough to trigger the mold?

Also, that whole scene just drips of a save or you go bye bye effect.