Six Heads of Mayhem--The Hydra Campaign (Inactive)

Game Master Almonihah

I have standards with food. I'm a gourmet, I'll have you know...unlike some head.

Ziphora takes a bite out if the smoked meat Mo is loading up. "Hmm, not bad, not bad..."She comments. "Pity there's no one alive to teach us the recipe." She then gobbles up all the smoked meat.

"DAMN RIGHT I WILL!" Hungry goes to the leader's corpse and bites off the hand with the ring, swallowing it, and also ripping out his throat to swallow the amulet in a similar fashion. Then he proceeds to dig into the remaining flesh of the corpse.

Ziphora winces and looks away from the ravening beast that is the Hungry One.

Watching Hungry devour the treasure, Beachhead says, "Someone is going to have to sift and find those when they pass through.

"Not it!"

Is our hydra belly hungry, or does Hungry's hunger deal with our hydra hunger?

Your hydra belly *was* hungry, until Hungry started chowing down... and Ziphora, in this case. :D Also, your stomach acid is strong enough that those weak magic items will likely not survive.

Mo, wisely, waits until you're done eating before gathering together what's left. With Hungry ravenously devouring the bugbear leader's corpse, Ziphora finds that there's more smoked meats than she wants to eat all at once. The hill giant ends up dumping out a couple of the crates of nails and other boring stuff and cramming them full of smoked meat and horse meat, then using a tarp to bundle them up into something he could carry.

By the time all of this is done, the sun is already sinking below the horizon. Your belly is full (though Hungry, expert as he is at such things, could probably cram some more in if you let him), your mission is complete, and the day is almost over.

I bet these nails and ropes would be useful for the humans, since they're building a bridge. These other valuables from the chest must be worth lots as well. Let's see if we can't stockpile them and sell them for a chance to see someone whose got more that's worth buying. Tomorbataar says, wincing when Mo pours them on the dirt.

Tomorbataar takes a few bites of horse, eventually stripping a piece of chewy flesh and gnawing on it for a while, which keeps him quiet. As the sun goes down, Tomorbataar looks around for a moment before remembering the bed. Can you use that magic cleaning spell to fix the bed? Tomorbataar says, eyeing the smelly bugbear corpses. I don't want to sleep in the same bed a corpse slept in unless it's been thoroughly cleaned.

Tomorbataar votes to sleep before returning to the lizards.

I'm too tired to do a proper post but I'll roll some heals for Tomorbataar since he asked so nicely. :P

Poke,

CLW: 1d8 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8

Poke,

CLW: 1d8 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8

Poke!

CMW: 2d8 + 6 ⇒ (5, 1) + 6 = 12

Tomorbataar lets out a sigh of relief each time he is healed, wow...maybe you casters have a place after all. Between this and the cleaning spell, it's like there's nothing you can't do.

"Can they do this?"

Beachhead makes a noise that sounds uncannily like a starling.

Ziphora curiously looks at him."Could you sound like a flute?" Then we could all dance to the music!"

"No..." Beachhead says with disappointment in his voice before brightening up, "Oooh! Maybe we can teach Mo!"

Beachhead envisions a scenario where they find Mo a flute, and then spend a few hours in a sun-kissed glade telling Mo to "Okay, now make a sound like this!"

Any further business to cover before sleeping? Are you sleeping in the middle of the bugbear camp, where Hungry can snack on whatever catches his fancy if he wakes up in the middle of the night, or are you going a little ways away first?

Beachhead votes to sleep here, within necksreach of the horsemeat.

Sleep in middle of bugbear camp

Hothead votes to sleep, perchance to dream.

Sleeping in the middle of the camp sounds like a good idea.

Hungry continues to gnaw at the bugbear leader's corpse and gets Mo to bring other corpses into his, and regrettably, the others' reach.

[ooc]I'm fine sleeping here but...[/oob]

You guys...can someone please clean this bed for me? Tomorbataar looks around, increasingly distressed.

Ziphora helpfully goes over to the bed and gives it a few blows of her breath, depositing some hydra saliva on it.

I don't think anyone has Prestidigitation memorized right now... >:D

[ooc]I'm fine sleeping here but...[/oob]

You guys...can someone please clean this bed for me? Tomorbataar looks around, increasingly distressed.

Hide: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (14) + 18 = 32

"How 'bout you clean it yourself?" Hothead mumbles half-asleep.

Just waiting on Tomorbataar's response to unclean bedding before moving to the next day... because I can't just skip it. :D

I tried to help!

Hungry tiredly and quickly casts through all of his cantrips. With an air of condescention, "Nope. Looks like I can't help you, Tom.

Tomorbataar looks closely at the bed again, then back and forth from the bed at each and every one of the heads. He begins to look quite desperate, and as Hungry begins cycling through his spells Tomorbataar looks downright frantic. When he gets to the last one Tomorbataar looks at him for a long moment, then suddenly starts shaking his head back and forth very quickly, which he does for a moment, until suddenly he vomits all over the ground.

Oh dear...we need to find a river...a river...we need water.

"Come on, Tom, you can just bunk in with us, you don't need no fancy bed!" Ziphora chimes in.

There is a stream about thirty feet from you, if you look at the battle map.

"But if we drink water right before bed, we might have to pee!" Beachhead whines.

I'm going to keep things moving here... you can fill in more night activities if you wish.

Eventually, you manage to get your sleeping accommodations to be to everyhead's satisfaction (Mo helps), and you settle down to sleep. In spite of Hungry's constant gnawing on more of the bugbear corpses in the middle of the night--it's not clear if he wakes up to do this or if he's actually literally eating in his sleep--you get a pretty good night's rest.

You do feel even more full in the morning than you did when you went to sleep, though.

Mo is still asleep when you start waking up in the morning. He's propped up against a corner of the stockade, snoozing away as the sun rises in the sky.

"Oh god...Hungry, that is disgusting. Do you ever stop eating?" Ziphora remarks as she sees Hungry sleepeating.

"Mo, wake up!"

Vote to move hydra body over so that Zip can tickle Mo

Tomorbataar spends a substantial amount of time rinsing the sheets in the stream, long enough that the moon has risen when he withdraws them. He shivers at the silt which has collected in the sheet before rinsing it out more, this time rinsing his head as well.

After a long while Tomorbataar ends up lying in a soaking wet bed, shivering, and listening to Hungry eat all night. He doesn't sleep much.

Come on, time to wake up.

Tomorbataar votes to move toward Mo.

Beachhead votes to move to Mo.

"Hngh... Just five more minutes..."

Hothead votes to press snooze.

Hungry keeps gnawing on the bugbear chunck he has in his mouth. "hnghgnghnghng... "

Hungry votes to hulksmash snooze.

"Oi! Lazy bums, WAKE UP!"

Burn a point from kinetic buffer

Ziphora summons gale force winds around her and moves near all the Sleepyheads.(Hothead, the hungry one)

Enveloping Winds wild talent defense

Breezy... sleepy...

Dru-head votes snooze.

Make that Dru-head as well!

Beachhead decides to try a tactic of annoyance, repeatedly yelling "WAAAKE UUUUUUUUUUP!" in a flat, nasally tone of voice until all of the heads wake up.

Hothead mutters something rather obscene, casts silence on himself, and resumes sleeping.

*nose poke*
*nose poke*
*nose poke*
*nose poke*
*nose poke*
*nose poke*
*nose poke*
*nose poke*
*nose poke*
*nose poke*
...

Votes to walk to the stream so I can suck up water and dump it on the sleepyheads. Failing that, we dump the sleepyheads in the stream.

I'm just chuckling to myself at your antics right now.

Mo starts awake at the commotion just before it's silenced. He looks over at you in confusion, and says something... but thanks to Hothead you can't hear it.

Hungry angrily rises and 'shouts', "___ ___ ____ __ ______! ____, ___ __ __ ___ _____?!?!" Hungry looks angrily at Hothead and 'shouts', "____ __ ______ _____________, _______!!!!" Then bites Hothead as hard as he can. Bite: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12

Ok, it looks to me like our votes are split between three different actions. Do we need a plurality or a full on majority of votes for the body to take action? Because the body is just going to continue doing what it was previously doing until we have "agreement," from the way I understand things.

Voting to sleep:
• Dru-Head
• Hothead
• Hungry (he's awake now, but he hasn't updated his vote)

Voting to wake up and move to Mo:
• Beachhead
• Tomorbataar

Voting to wake up and move to the stream:
• Ziphora

Beachhead will switch his vote to move to the stream, if that will get us moving somewhere.

Either way, I hope Dru and/or Hothead continue to try and sleep, because I like the visual of a hydra's heads dragging along the ground as the body moves, and maybe even getting trampled!

I'm not 100% sure I've been consistent on it, since I may have fudged it a couple of times to keep things moving, but it's supposed to take a full majority to agree on a course of action before your body moves.

Fiiine. I guess we can continue the game now.

This snooze *grumpble* five more minutes...

Dru-head votes to get up in a Mo-ward direction.

Hothead is finally woken up by Hungry's clumsy attempt at biting. "___... _____ __________? ___ ___ ___ ___ __________ __ ____? __ ____, _____ ____ ________ _____ _____ __ ______ _______ ____, _____ __ ____ ___ __,"

Vote to go wake Mo up.

You start making your way over to Mo, who looks a bit confused as he stands up. He speaks again, pointing at you, but you still can't hear him.

Ziphora bonks Hothead on his head, with her head.

Some of you really are a monster. >:D

I think I might agree, however, that the cooking thing is a *bit* too far for good taste.

Talk about dark and I'm supposed to be the evil one.

Heh. "Good taste."

Well, we've got three choices now. Auto-Cannibalism, guy cooks his brother, or we just head back to the fort. I vote the latter.

Latter. Please don't eat any sentient species!

Lol just saw this when I was looking for that last Hydra we ate...

While you and your sibling heads cannot share your thoughts, you can sense one another's feelings to some degree. So feel free to think angry thoughts at your traitorous other heads when they bite you off after one too many jokes about their preferences for slug meat.

^_^

I'm pretty sure Zip should be worshipping Shelyn...

Yeah, probably. We'll see if this lasts long enough for her to learn about Shelyn.

Oops. I forgot to heal from Druheads CMW for 18hp, +6 for leveling.
So doing that now :)

Sorry. A little confused now, who's to go and who gots haste?

I tried to answer that in the gameplay thread. Tomorbataar did his Archon Style to take the hit for you, giving you an attack of opportunity (which you took), then did a full-round attack on his round with the haste you'd done to get two attacks. I believe the rest of your sibling heads still have haste for this round (it's one target per caster level, right?).

My bad. I thought archon justice let you take AOOs as well. Misread text, sorry!

It would be handy if you posted the save DC's of your spells when you cast them, Hungry. It's not a huge issue, but it would be nice.

Ok, I'll do that from now on.

Ya I had thought that my first round action was actually my second one, so I was waiting for round 3 :p
Fixing this now, so I should have haste for this attack :)
And im taking -4 for non-lethal attacks cuz blockhead wants his Raptorbunny XD

Edit: now I need to take off 10 hp and remove the haste effect :)
Edit: done. Ready now :)

Most likely that is a miss, if the previous attack was an indication, so I will hold off on recoil damage until I know.
Also, I JUST REALIZED I HAVE 12 RANKS IN HANDLE ANIMAL!!
I might actually be able to use them ^_^ (I had forgotten)

Rechecks picture...
Oh O.o
I had in my mind something the size of a velociraptor, or something about 5-10ft tall... Ya not going to be able to lift one of those....
No chance of dragging one of those either. Hmmm...

As much fun as it would be to hang back until it wakes up and then try and rear it only to have ourselves a freaking 2 ton dinosaur on a leash I get the feeling I will be outvoted by the rest of the group by a large margin ^_^
Guess we are leaving this one behind!

Edit: that also explains why the thing did 40+ and 50+ damage a turn too..

Yes, this was a pair of full-grown Allosauruses. Why Allosauruses are stated out to have claw attacks and Pounce in Pathfinder, I don't know...

I won't eat your raptorbunny, I promise! Can't say the same for Hungry though...

And the daily lecture is out =)

Animals? Thats Magical Beast to you young lady.

I commissioned a picture of the last hydra I GMed:

Enjoy!

So fluffy! *huggles*

Can I keep him?

Don't mind me asking, how are you animating dead without ornyx?

I know there was no way of that working. I like to try and roleplay in the attempt of "invention" for spells that the character doesn't have access to yet as the game goes, especially for more bookish casters. It' just something I like to do to make it feel more like the character is actually trying to advance himself instead of just getting a strange surge of new spells all at once (at least from the player side).

Ah, okay, makes sense.

Hey Im all for that :D
I keep trying to do something of a similar nature, In blockheads case I keep trying to make him do different antics instead of just Attack! Damage!
I only got 2 things I can do, unlike spells but BY GOLLY THEY WILL BE ENTERTAINING!!!

Also, Im also trying to figure out what to do with the raptorbunny :? Hit him over the head? Something less direct? Guess Ill go with the soft touch.

Love the picture, first time I have had a picture of one of my characters made!!

Unfortunately it isn't the first time I've PvPed. Sorry state of affairs it is down here sometimes...with people throwing gauntlets at you or trying to turn you into a hat. I had to "persuade" a couple of people that wasn't the right course of action.

Of course, I think its ironic that the character with a CG in alignment initiates PvP, but oh well =)

I'm imagining you and Hungry have had disagreements like this before. Given that you just grow back afterwards, it's just your version of really serious roughhousing.

...Okay, maybe a little bit more serious than that.

OMG, I'm looking at the dialogue and laughing my tail off ^^

Waiting for GM input your actions, Blockhead, because the last hit would have taken me out.

Already broke his concentration on that slow earlier, so don't worry about that.

Well I am glad I have such a commanding presence on this body!
Just have to "throw" my weight around a bit >:D

Didn't your ma tell you its bad manners to stick your nose in other people's fights when the participants didn't ask for help? :p

Everything looks fine to me. Go ahead and be knocked out, Zip. :D

You should all have completely contradictory memories of your mother. Because that would be funny.

I was trying to give an awful description of Tiamat. I vote someone else describe Falcor.

I don't think you confirmed your crit on hungry, though

But it was my fight D: he was my Raptorbunny :,(
Also confirmed the crit in the edit post. Poor Hungry. He ate two crits a cast...

And then I did a thing >:D

Hungry's AC is 23, your confirmation was only 20, but nevermind lets just let it be. Too confusing it is to retcon.

I just realized my AC is lower, cause Mage Armor would have run out when we slept. EH! I've just fixed it so we won't have that problem again.

Ah ok then it would have worked. I just assume all wizards are paranoid and have their mage armor on all the time after lv 5 :)

All wizards are paranoid ;) , but I was EXTREMELY stupid and didn't re-prepare my spells after we slept last, leaving me without many of my more commonly used ones (including my buff spells).

Hell hath no fury like a woman scornedbetrayed =)

Just as a PvP critique, casters have the upper hand on that kind of thing due to their greater versatility. Though since you weren't expecting it, your spells were wrong for it(a single resist energy will shut down all of my abilities). Though on look of your spells, I'd probably have used mirror image early in the fight.

Again, spending resources on something like this is pretty silly.

Yeah, the only surefire way to beat most full casters in PvP is to play a Tetori monk and really hope you go first.

Doesn't work if the other guy is a divination wizard :p

I totally missed that I still had Mirror Image uncast... Next time I won't try and do this on my phone.

Yeah, but that's a stupid power to give a wizard. Doesn't work on Divine Strategist Cleric either. I've seen some Kensai Magus, and Sohei Monks that can keep up with that initiative, though they don't have the certainty of "I grab, you lose."

Still works on Druids, other Clerics, Master Summoners, and all other kinds though.

Also, the 5 ft step is a thing =) Once we find out who murdered us, let's jump him, ok? =D

A smart Tetori wants to spend one o them feats on Lunge for just such a thing.

Yeah, who would murder poor innocent Hydra heads like that? How dastardly.