Spirits forfend, is everything in this jungle venomous? Nsizi hoped that he was able to resist this creature better than he had the little dinosaurs.
The giant centipedes were all around - it was not difficult to reach out to one. Calling on the sky spirits that had once gifted him with their power - and lamed him in the process - he sent a course of electricity flowing through his fingertips.
The electrified centipede let out a squeal of pain beyond human hearing, and curled on the floor, chittering and smoking.
They won initiative, so they're attacking her flat-footed AC of 14.
They won initiative, so they're attacking her flat-footed AC of 14.
Yes, this is correct.
The bite may do damage but it may not (1d4-2) but if it hits, the poison may still seep through. Small enough bite not to cause damage but still break the skin.
BTW, the door behind Min is open.
More questions?
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[dice=touch attack]1d20
[dice=damage]1d6
You would add your BAB and your strength or dexterity modifier, which ever you want. Yes, I'm a nice GM. :)
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The bite may do damage but it may not (1d4-2) but if it hits, the poison may still seep through. Small enough bite not to cause damage but still break the skin.
Minimum Damage: If penalties reduce the damage result to less than 1, a hit still deals 1 point of nonlethal damage.
Of course, you're free to continue to be a nice GM. :)
Zeljka felt the centipede trying to bite her. She shook it off but felt a stinging where it had tried to attach. Almost immediately she felt clumsier and off-balance when she tried to hack at the offending centipede.
Clumsily Min tried to bring down the end of her quarterstaff on the horrid little vermin but somehow failed to miss both of them as they writhed in separate directions. "Ugh! I say we let them have the kitchen and just shut the door!" She stepped backward out of the room. "Akosua, look out! There's one by your foot!"
Akosua's head whipped around at Min's words of warning and she twisted stabbing down an impaling the centipede with all three prong of her trident,
"Nature encroaches swiftly in the jungle it seems!"
I am sorry to hear this but totally understand.
We'll have Alleria play second fiddle during the fort investigation and then she'll fade back into Pridon's Hearth.
Let us know if you ever find time and energy and want to join back up.
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And then there were four... :)
So... cleric, wizard, oracle, and slayer.
I think we're still pretty good as far as 'balance' and have all the major roles covered. In any case, part of the fun is dealing with any perceived lack of skill/resource.
We'll move on with you four unless you feel strongly about recruiting another person.
One thing I would consider is someone who was very enthusiastic (so-so would love this type of game) about playing with us. Now that you've all seen the type of game I like run (pace, RPing, etc.), let me know if someone fits this description.
Thoughts?
Game on!
I will recap later today.
You would add your BAB and your strength or dexterity modifier, which ever you want. Yes, I'm a nice GM. :)
Turn 017 is up.
Read the OOC.
Questions, comments, and/or suggestions?
Game on!
, miss
, hit
Failing once again to squish the centipede with the end of her staff, Min slammed the door between herself and the vermin.
Zeljka was getting angered by these annoying pests. She moves to skewer one of them with her attack.
The ferocity behind the half-orc's attack was almost terrifying as she released her frustration at being poisoned by a bug. As she hit it, it seemed to disintegrate as it splattered over everything.
"If it's all the same," Nsizi called, as he brought his iwisa down square onto the back of the final centipede, "next time can we ALL be on the same side of the door?" The final arthropod twitched its last, and the kitchen was quiet.
Turn 018 is up.
Read the OOC.
Questions, comments, and/or suggestions?
Game on!
PS: So there's four of you which means that you'll have to start tagging each other to get some RPing done. I'll jump in with NPCs but they are not always available.
"If it's all the same," Nsizi called, as he brought his iwisa down square onto the back of the final centipede, "next time can we ALL be on the same side of the door?"
Min opened the door cautiously until she saw the centipede on the other side was dead. "I did suggest we all leave," she replied, "but I saw no point in continuing to allow it to bite me when I couldn't hit it. I'm not very good at hitting things with sticks."
"Dispensary-cum-kitchen, eh?" she remarked wryly when the medical supplies were discovered. "I can't say that sounds very sanitary. Still, when the pantry is infested with venomous centipedes, what's one one more bleeding head wound or suppurating blister in the mix?"
"That ought to be the watchtower, I suppose," she mused at the ladder to the trapdoor.
Min opened the door cautiously until she saw the centipede on the other side was dead. "I did suggest we all leave," she replied, "but I saw no point in continuing to allow it to bite me when I couldn't hit it. I'm not very good at hitting things with sticks."
Nsizi chuckled, as he shook centipede goo from his iwisa. "Fair to say," he said, still laughing, perhaps a mite more than was warranted, "you did suggest we all go. Though perhaps an open door is easier to follow through. No, I am teasing," he laughed again, "be at ease, Bibi Dakhwitsi. I am merely anxious from all the fighting today. When I am anxious, my mouth thinks it is in charge. I am also not very good at hitting things with sticks, though with practice I slowly improve. Now, are you hurt? Was anybody bitten?"
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As he looked over the medical kit, he asked, "Does anybody know - will this antitoxin help those already bitten?"
"That ought to be the watchtower, I suppose," she mused at the ladder to the trapdoor.
Nsizi nodded. "I suppose we must go there next, to be set upon by bats, I do not doubt."
Nsizi nodded. "I suppose we must go there next, to be set upon by bats, I do not doubt."
"At this point," she replied, "I wouldn't be surprised to find a roc nesting up there."
Zeljka was concerned that Min had run away and left them behind but she said nothing because she had never really known a wizard before. For all she knew, this was normal behavior for the educated.
Was anybody bitten?"
Zeljka looked disgusted even though it was solely directed at herself. "I was," she growled.
"Does anybody know - will this antitoxin help those already bitten?"
Zeljka shrugged. All of the medical supplies were quite foreign to her. "If that helps against poison, you should take it. Those reptiles poisoned you, didn't they?"
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"At this point," she replied, "I wouldn't be surprised to find a roc nesting up there."
The half-orc added, "Whatever it is we should expect it to be poisonous."
Zeljka started climbing the ladder. "Wait here until I give the all clear. If you hear nothing from me, leave."
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So the plan so far is to continue exploring upstairs through the trapdoor in the ceiling.
I'll wait for Akosua (who will hopefully post in the right thread this time :)) and intend to recap later today.
Questions?
Game on!
Akosua...
Turn 019 is up.
Read the OOC.
Questions, comments, and/or suggestions?
Game on!
, south
"Oh, heavens." Min put a hand over her mouth at the gruesome sight, both to compose herself and to get control of her stomach. "That's one, two ... three?" she went on weakly. "Five still to account for? Which way did they come in?" She considered the doors in the walls, ceiling, and floor. "Is there any way of telling? How could they not have heard the door being smashed in? Who does paperwork at a time like that? Unless there was some document that had to be destroyed and not fall into enemy hands...."
As Min looked around the room, Nsizi moved towards the woman's body. "Spirits, grant her peace," he prayed, as he gently rolled her over. She had many wounds, and from the size of them, it was another spear. "Spears, again," he said, standing up. "One, many times, or several, I cannot be certain. I wonder if this print was made by one who took her life, or one simply passing through." Squatting, taking care not to drag his neswambi through the blood, Nsizi mused, "My size print, perhaps larger. But claws. Mjusi, almost certainly."
His brain mulling over this mystery, Nsizi picked his way through the rubble towards the walkway.
Action 2
Seeing the small bodies, Nsizi immediately ran to them, thinking them children.
"Vidogo!" he said in surprise. "So here are the Song'o. But singing only as spirits, perhaps." He looked at the arrows, trying to determine their origin.
Zeljka looked over the scene with the same eye she would that involving dead animals. "Why decapitate her and why didn't she fight back?"
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"Which way did they come in?"
Zeljka took a closer look at the doors to the room to see if she could provide the wizard with an answer.
When she got around to looking at the footprint, Nsizi had already determined its origin. "More lizardfolk. Did anyone search the desk?"
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The half-orc waited for Nsizi to turn over the small bodies to get a better look at them. She didn't even realize she was holding her breath until he revealed they were halflings. Not that she expected children to be at the Fort but small, lifeless bodies would always stab at her heart as she was reminded of the loss of her own boys.
Yes, the heal check lets you know that taking the antitoxin while still fighting the poison (i.e., still making fortitude checks) will help.
Once the poison is no longer doing damage, the recovery of the ability scores can only be accomplished with time and/or lesser restoration and the like; that is the antitoxin will not help with that.
[dice=survival]1d20+5
It seems that the attackers came from below.
BTW, I'm assuming you are checking for traps and taking 20 on perception unless you are prevented from doing so.
This means that each room takes approx 5 to 10 minutes to search. If you want to go faster than that, then let me know.
I'll wait for Akosua and intend to move this along later today.
Questions?
Game on!
After looking around the room, the half-orc was able to respond to Min. "They came in the same way we did. Which is even more odd that she didn't fight and just sat at the desk. It's easy to knock someone off a ladder from above. They were either really quiet or she knew her attacker."
BTW, I'm assuming you are checking for traps and taking 20 on perception unless you are prevented from doing so.
After looking around the room, the half-orc was able to respond to Min. "They came in the same way we did. Which is even more odd that she didn't fight and just sat at the desk. It's easy to knock someone off a ladder from above. They were either really quiet or she knew her attacker."
Nsizi nodded slowly. "Yes, something is very strange here. Maybe we will find more information in the next room. Or, more likely, more bodies."
Turn 020 is up.
Read the OOC.
Questions, comments, and/or suggestions?
Game on!
PS: I sure hope we didn't lose Akosua...
THere seems to be something missing from between actions 1 and 2 in turn 020...
Nsizi felt the world grow grey and misty, and he lost control of his body. A dark spirit, the likes of which he hadn't felt in a long time, entered in, screaming into his mind. Nsizi watched helplessly through his own eyes, as he reached down to one of the dead vidogo and pulled a bloody bolt free.
The voices in his mind shouted of pain, and loss and vengeance. He didn't understand the words, but the meaning was clear. Wanting nothing more than to end the pain, Nsizi took the bolt and thrust it into his chest with as much force as he could muster.
The spirit left, and the greyness swirled away, leaving only pain and confusion behind. Nsizi gasped, and pulled the bolt from his chest. Pressing his hands over the wound, he slowed the bleeding with his the folds of his neswambi. Shaking the confusion from his eyes, he turned to see how his companions had fared during the spiritual attack.
THere seems to be something missing from between actions 1 and 2 in turn 020...
Why do say that?
In Actions 1, the haunt manifests and each PC either succumbs to it or not.
In Actions 2, the haunt ends (the spirits leave) and you are left to deal with the aftermath.
Is this clear?
Questions?
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Action 1:
As Zeljka was thinking about her family, she felt an overwhelming urge to take one of the bolts and impale herself with it thus allowing her to join her family in death. But she recognized these thoughts as being foreign and not her own which allowed her to shake them off. If she was going to end it, she would have done it months ago.
She watched in horror as some of the others began doing what she had just considered doing. She tried to stop them before damage could be done.
Action 2:
"What is going on? Is this why so many died without struggle? We should leave this place." Once she was sure the others were back in their right minds, she started for the east door, deciding to stay on this level.
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Action 1:
Not really because the haunt manifests pretty much at the same time to all of you. So while you fought off the urges, others succumbed to the 'evil spirits'.
You can certainly roleplay taking the bolts out of the hands of those affected after they do damage to themselves. I guess Zelkja wouldn't know if those affected would stop after one stab or would continue to stab until they killed themselves.
Questions?
Game on!
Seeing the tiny corpses Akosua's heart twisted in her chest, she felt herself compelled to move to them and to take their pain upon herself, even as she realized these were no true children. The alien nature of their chanting seemed to draw her in its jarring sibilance somehow soothing her natural fears and drawing her in. But as she clasped a bloodied arrow her birthmark warmed her, as if someone had gently caressed her flesh and she halted releasing her grip and stepping back breathing heavily kissing her fingertips and gently touching them to the leaf shaped mark over her eye.
"What was that? I share your instinct Zelkja, but if we leave it be this place will likely claim more through the years. We should at least pluck all the bolts from these bodies."
Then she called upon the power of her goddess, as much for the comfort of it as to heal her companions wounds. Then she stepped forward and steeling herself began to pluck the arrow shafts from the bodies breaking each in turn. That done she shook her head and moved to follow Zeljka.
The pain in her side brought Min back to reality with a gasp. She threw down the bloody bolt with a clatter to the floor. "Surely that soldier didn't decapitate herself!" she wondered, pressing her hand to the wound to stanch the bleeding. More than ready to follow Zeljka away from this place, she waited impatiently on Akosua as far from the scene as possible.
As Akosua rid the room of further weapons, Nsizi said, "I believe the spirits here are restless because they died in a holy place. These little gods are holding power here. If we are able to return, we should bury the dead. Bibi kuhani," he said, turning to Akosua, "are you able to make this place holy again? Perhaps tomorrow, if we survive today?"
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Akosua shook her head, "I do not think so, I can perform blessings, but they are short of life. Magics that would make a place sacred, or call it back from taint are beyond what my goddess has been able to bestow upon my small vessel so far."
Is there any way that we can help you with the format? I find that it helps quite a bit with keeping things 'orderly'. Narrative, pics, maps, status, OOC comments are all kept in one place and updated.
It does require work on the GM's part but I enjoy it. All I'm asking is for you guys to keep up the posting (quality and frequency) but I understand if it's too much to read and post every day.
Anyway, let me know if there's anything in particular that you (or any one else) are having trouble with and I'll see what I can do.
Questions?
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PS: I intend to recap later today.
Sadly the half-orc couldn't stop either Nsizi or Min from hurting themselves once but she could stop them from continuing. Snatching the projectiles from their hands, she snapped them in two.
"What was that? I share your instinct Zelkja, but if we leave it be this place will likely claim more through the years. We should at least pluck all the bolts from these bodies."
Not knowing what had happened or what may continue to happen, Zeljka helped the cleric so that the task would go faster. The sooner they were out of this room, the better - it felt unsettled and put the half-orc on edge.
Turn 021 is up.
Read the OOC.
Questions, comments, and/or suggestions?
Game on!
Min waited for any jumpers to go first, then carefully balanced the plank across the gap between the parapets. "My brothers and I used to dare each other to climb out the second story hall window and walk the ridgepole of the kitchen roof," she confided, a mixture of nerves and exhilaration, "until Dex fell off and broke his ankle, anyway. Then my father nailed the window shut."
Turning her walking stick horizontally, like a tightrope walker in a traveling circus, she inexpertly crossed the plank, which shifted and wobbled beneath her rather alarmingly. When she safely reached the other side, she let out the breath she hardly realized she had been holding. "Well! That was a lot easier when I was ten!"
"Four," Min continued her tally of the dead queasily. "I suppose we oughtn't to count the halflings."
While those less squeamish examined the corpse, Min absent-mindedly began picking up the spilled books and arranging them in neat stacks. "Ugh, sentimental dreck. One wouldn't think soldiers would go in for mushy love poetry.... Oh, I read this one! I don't believe the author really did half the things he claims to have, though.... Novelization of an overwrought Chelish opera...."