Medieval Europe PbP campaign (Inactive)

Game Master Michael Johnson 66

I've been noticing that some of the rituals of the church are a wee bit...odd. Old blood that runs...a linen with the face of Jesus...a tad on the dark side, eh? Maybe it's just my not being entirely the most faithful of sorts....

Have I told you of Sun Wukong? It is all peanuts and peaches and bananas. Also one day you are the acclaimed champion of your village and the next you are a fugitive on the other side of the world. Praise be. Hisao says to Paddy. It is impossible to detect how sarcastic the ninja is being. Or if he is being sarcastic at all.

In Italian: Welcome, travelers, to the Cathedral of the Annunciation of Saint Maria.... I am Father Dominico, at your service.... I fear you have come to Naples at a dark time, but.... We faithful of Our Lady do our best to carry on....

"It is our hope that our coming may make brighter days ahead, Father Dominico. We are servants of the Lord, come to slay the might beast Conflagratius and end his reign of tyranny before he brings about the End of Days."

nods a greeting to the priest

Some of us are more holy than others, but we have come together as a group to fight for a common goal. The area has fallen on rough times, Padre. We're going to see about changing that... Paddy says as he looks around, the sights taking him aback slightly.

Hisao flicks imaginary peanuts at the priest.

May God bless you, good sirs! What can I do to ease your journey?

I am curious, Father Dominico.... Did the blood of Santa Januarius run freely this year on his holy day? Or no?

It is most baffling, noble sir.... Though clearly we suffer as we have not suffered since the Black Death overtook our humble port, yet the sacred blood bubbled and ran as if to proclaim blessings to come.... It gives our poor beleaguered faithful of Napoli some hope to cling to in these darkest of times, to be sure.... But I cannot for the life of me see what good we have to look forward to....

It may be that the blood runs to foretell the liberation of Europe from the dragon at our hands.... For that is our quest, holy man. I follow older gods than yours, but we who follow the old ways are united with Christendom in the goal of throwing off the foul wyrm's wicked yoke....

The young priest notices now the holy symbol of Odin around Iommi-Tyr's neck, and bites his tongue....

I'll not rebuke a friend, even a heathen friend, in our hour of need....

Pater Dominico explains to the Lusty Fools that he serves the folk of Naples under His Grace, the Archbishop of Naples, and offers six potions of resistance to fire (20) to the heroes to help them on their quest, as well as a magical blade, Wyrm's Doom, a +2 frost dragon bane longsword once wielded by the English knight, Saint George the Dragon Slayer....

I know I said no more op treasures, but it makes sense that someone would arm your party with a dragon bane weapon at some point before you try taking on the dragon.

Anyplace where Hisao could steal a cloak of resistance? oh god!

That's More a +3 weapon which on the grand scale of things is not OP especially since no one person is actively made to use it. Nacht has 4 of them mind you. It won't also help all that much against the dragon anyway... because Dragon. There wont be any Cloaks likely Hisao, i would say just trying to get out alive would be an accomplishment.

Hisao is going to be sticking very close to the magical mind saving holy man

listens to the father as he speaks keeping his cloak about him. He seemed to be slightly amused as he sat there.

Suddenly, a roar can be heard outside the cathedral, a primitive, reptilian shriek of hatred and avarice, hunger and malice, splitting the sky!

It is echoed by the faint screams of terror that come from within nearby buildings and on the streets and quays of Naples!

The swelling moan of unnatural winds howls through the city to drown out the cries of terror....

Initiative 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6

Initiative 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (17) + 7 = 24

EEEEEEEK!!!

Who dat!?

Uh-oh! Dragon here!!!

Shut secret door!

Shut rat-hole!

Shut murder hole!

Shut the f#!+ up!

when he hears the roar he stands and throws of his cloak. Electricty dances across his skin as water drips from it.

"lads we be having a guest."

initiative: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (13) + 14 = 27

"How did it know we've arrived?"

Init: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 1 = 17

Aww b$&&$$$s, lads. This can't be good...

initiative: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (20) + 13 = 33

Init: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (12) + 14 = 26

Nacht had kept himself relatively docile, even for a creature such as it. The constant sounds the surface-beings made droned annoyingly, but the underlying fear enticed him. This dragon, could this dragon be what kept these people in such a state? If he were to kill this dragon would they fall under his fear?

The roar of something unknown to him shook the abomination from its thoughts as it prepared for combat.

Initiative: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (12) + 9 = 21

Initiative 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (9) + 7 = 16

Huh? Whazzat?

Initiative 1d20 ⇒ 11

Who let the dragons out, round 1! Ooh! Ooh!

Paddy!
Fredrick!
Hisao!
Goblin minstrels!
Nacht!
Alphonse!
Iommi-Tyr!
Pater Dominicus!
Conflagratius!

Ooh! Ooh! EEEEEK!

Well, no time like the present, right?

Paddy leaps into the air and turns invisible. He gets as close to the beast as he can, blade at the ready.

==Round One==

I want the nicest shoen in heaven for this Hisao mutters and turns invisible and dashes after Paddy.

Stealth: 1d20 + 39 ⇒ (15) + 39 = 54

Standard Move to go invisible, One Move action. 20 of the stealth is invisibility

Well, no time like the present, right?

Paddy leaps into the air and turns invisible. He gets as close to the beast as he can, blade at the ready.

If he's leaping into the air, am I to assume he's flying?

Paddy soars invisibly through the nave of the church and out the main portal into the evening air....

He beholds the Beast in all its hateful splendor and fearsomeness, wings outstretched as it seems to hang and slowly glide in the coppery dusk sky.... A nightmare out of Revelations.... The Beast of the Apocalypse tearing apart the mournful sky....

A plume of red flame bursts from its howling maw, evaporating the clouds....

The Beast of the Fiery Pit come to raven and slaughter....

DC 27 Will save versus frightful presence or make shepherds pie in your pantaloons, Mister Paddy....

==Round One==

I want the nicest shoen in heaven for this Hisao mutters and turns invisible and dashes after Paddy.

[dice=Stealth]1d20+39

Standard Move to go invisible, One Move action. 20 of the stealth is invisibility

DC 27 Will save versus frightful presence or Hisao wets his ninja jammies....

As Hisao also glides like a ghost, unseen and unheard, out of the Cathedral, he looks up to see the great red apocalypse in the sky....

It is perhaps 150 ft above the city, close enough to hammer the seaside port with palpable terror by its very presence, but not close enough for its fiery belches to have burnt anything in Naples....

no potty: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (5) + 9 = 14

[dice=no potty]1d20+9

The usually fearless young Irishman can't help but quake at so dreadful a sight hovering like a nightmare in the sky....

Is there a back way out of the cathedral? Are the windows appropriately large and ornate or have they been damaged in some way?

Everybody should be making that save at only 150 feet out (it has a 360 foot range). Everyone near me gets a +4.

So Everything within 360 ft? even taking off 150 feet thats 200 feet left. Though to be fair not getting anywhere close to it this round.

No point in rolling for this.

Kore wa watashi ga Achiko ga modotta koto o nozomu koto ga dekimasu. Songokū wa, wareware wa ni taishite okonau koto ni natte iru mono o watashitachi o toru wa sono no

Hisao jabbers

He also goes ethereal. Very very ethereal.

will: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5

It's always worth rolling. 20s pass.

will save: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (5) + 8 = 13

Edited in my roll. All I can say is HAR!

Is there a back way out of the cathedral? Are the windows appropriately large and ornate or have they been damaged in some way?

In spite of the wreckage and ruin surrounding it, the Cathedral seems so have withstood the dragon's fury..:. Her ornate stained glass windows remain intact, if soot-blackened in some places....

Alright, does the aura hit us inside the Cathedrel or as soon as we go outside. Regardless Nacht plans on stealthing and getting to higher ground to eventually ambush this creature which he knows nothing about.

he grows frightful of the Dragon and uses his kintec cover talent to start placing walls of water around the building.

Alright, does the aura hit us inside the Cathedrel or as soon as we go outside. Regardless Nacht plans on stealthing and getting to higher ground to eventually ambush this creature which he knows nothing about.

Im ruling that the hallowed walls and ceiling of the intact cathedral block the frightful presence effect, but not the many damaged structures nearby, hence commoners huddled in their hole-riddled houses are feeling the dread....

if that's the case Fredrick will move to a window and fire an extended range pushing bolt at the Dragon when it comes in to range.

Well Regardless

Round One: Here there be Dragons
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Seeing the other beings shout and the loud roar it could only be the Dragon of which Nacht was bond by obligation to kill. Unaware of what capabilities it could have he took his usual approach blending into the ether and drawing his wickedly sharp blades as he moved forward stealthily. Not yet taken flight.

Scorpion Blend Stealth: 1d20 + 26 ⇒ (16) + 26 = 42

Will Save: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (20) + 8 = 28

Well Regardless

Round One: Here there be Dragons
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Seeing the other beings shout and the loud roar it could only be the Dragon of which Nacht was bond by obligation to kill. Unaware of what capabilities it could have he took his usual approach blending into the ether and drawing his wickedly sharp blades as he moved forward stealthily. Not yet taken flight.

[dice=Scorpion Blend Stealth]1d20+26

[dice=Will Save]1d20+8

Alone among all the living beings that quaked and trembled in the city beneath the great Beast's awful presence in the sky, Nacht felt no fear.... Only a queer sensation like excitement.... A palpable mental energy that fed the Beetle Man's compulsion to slice and slash and slay....