This Looks Like A Job For: subSPUF! (Inactive)

Game Master Rynjin

I know-I have permeate 3.

I couldn't find that on the Effects page. Link?

It's on the Movement page.

Gotcha.

Amoeba squishes and squelches his way up to the camera, and eats it.

The way is now clear...though people might become suspicious in a few minutes when it becomes obvious the camera has been disabled entirely.

Amoeba spits out the remains of the camera. "Ugh. I'll take a bargain burrito any day. Cogito, you're eating the next one. Let's get moving."

So, 4 doors. Left 1, right 1, left 2, right 2. Which one? Or down the hallway?

"Shall we do this procedurally, or try to rush through and hit him before the broken camera is noticed?"

"Depends. How long do you think we have?"

"These scientist types are fairly obsessive, so not as long as I'd like - a few minutes, tops. Do you want to just super-speed around and permeate an eye through each door to see what's inside?"

"I was hoping you'd ask. Be back in a minute."

Amoeba does so, trying to stay as hidden as possible from people who might be inside.

Stealth: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (8) + 14 = 22

The first room is a storage room, full of crates and boxes (all unlabeled).

The second is a break room, with a snack machine, coffee maker (Cueryg brand single cup), sink, and table. A door leads into the next room down.

Which is a lab room. Three men in labcoats are mixing together several chemicals, very carefully.

3d20 ⇒ (12, 4, 14) = 30

None of them notice you.

The room across the hall looks more like a medical bay. It is currently empty.

As you get closer to the end of the hall a scent becomes apparent, acrid and chemical, but strangely familiar to Amoeba. He can't quite place where.

Amoeba reports back to the other guys. "Cogito, it looked like those scientist guys were being awfully careful with those chemicals. It'd be a shame if someone were to somehow jostle them while they were doing such a delicate operation, wouldn't it?"

"They probably aren't a threat - we need to find Madd himself."

And so our brave heroes ignore the scientists and move on...(?)

Around the corner is yet another locked door. This one appears SIGNIFICANTLY more advanced than the last, eschewing a simple number pad for a retinal scanner and a voice recognition system.

A shimmering orange field of force covers the door itself and the wall immediately adjacent.

Dmitri, though not formally trained in modern technology, accesses his vast stores of information and staggering intellect to determine whether or not the field will block his magical teleportation.

Eidetic Memory + Jack of All Trades means Dmitri can attempt any skill check without training.

Expertise (Tech): 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (12) + 10 = 22

This force field is not equipped with Quantum Flux™ technology, so should no interfere with your teleportation.

"I think it would be best to just teleport past it."

Turning to SATURDAY MORNING, Dmitri says "You can create a portal for us, I believe?"

Yo Huff.

"You got it, boss!"

SATURDAY MORNING pulls a small bag out from behind his back and leans halfway into it. Ruffling sounds come from the burlap-covered hero.

"Rubber chicken... no. 3-ton weight... no. Bird seed... no. Ah, here it is! Acme Portable Hole™!"

SATURDAY MORNING resurfaces from the depths of the bag and throws a black circle onto the nearest flat, unforcefielded wall. Another hole appears on a wall the other side of the door a few feet away. A faint elephant trumpet sounds from the bag. "Oh come on, Geoff" shouts SATURDAY MORNING into the bag (thankfully muffled by the burlap) "You know it isn't time for your appearance yet, be patient!"

SATURDAY MORNING shrugs apologetically at his compatriots. "Sorry fellas, he's not the most patient of people to work with but what can I say? The guy works for peanuts."

Saturday slaps his hole on the floor, and upon you jumping through it and popping up the other side, you finally see the true laboratory of DOCTOR MADD!

Madd himself stands on a platform, dressed in a labcoat with a grotesque mask reminiscent of Frankenstein's Monster covering his face.

He oversees the work of lowering several struggling, panicked people on winches into a large vat of...something.

Doing the work are four hideously mutated creatures. The "melted man" and "transparent glowy skull guy" mentioned earlier, along with a hulking, furry gorilla man and someone who looks like Freddy Kreuger without the dashing good looks.

Exp Chemistry to Identify the Vat: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (1) + 14 = 15

As he steps through the portal, Dmitri sets his sights on Madd and snaps his fingers to turn the scientist into a frog.

Resisted by will DC 15, Cumulative, Progressive. It goes Dazed, Stunned, Transformed.

Ranged Attack: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12

Since we seem like a bit of a ghetto team (we operate out of a denny's), I imagine we're not the sort to announce ourselves when we could more efficiently beat them otherwise.

Dmitri's ray misses Madd, and he is unable to identify the chemical.

Cogito tries to Mind Control the gorilla man.

Will 16, Cumulative. Dazed, Compelled, Controlled.

If successful, he will order him to attack Madd.

Amoeba splorches through the portal and runs up to Madd, aiming to punch him in the face and then start choking him by shoving his watery arm down his throat.

If my punch hits, then I can make a free grapple check without an AoO, and then if THAT hits I can start choking him. Fast Grab/Improved Hold/Chokehold, whoooo!

Initial Attack: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (1) + 16 = 17

Grab: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14

Oh g+% D&~N it.

You guys are lucky mad scientists are known for their low Wisdom/Awareness.

Gorilla Will: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (17) + 1 = 18

The gorilla man shrugs off Cogito's mind control and looks at him dumbly.

Amoeba completely fails to touch Doctor Madd!

Thankfully there are no critical failure penalties for attack rolls.

Huff/SatAm?

SATURDAY MORNING, last to move, Morphs to change his costume to a black, edgier, early 2000's Cartoon Network design and darts up into DOCTOR MADD's face.

"Doctor Badd at Life, is it? Me and my crew have been watching you for some time now... nearly twenty minutes, in fact. Stand down and let the nice people go and we won't have aaaaany problems. You're lucky I instructed my peons to just startle you and your henchmen. Gotta keep it on the edge of PG, you know." SATURDAY MOURNING THE EVIL AND HATE IN THIS DARK, JUSTICE-LESS WORLD gestures towards the citizens in peril as he says this.

Intimidtion: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (1) + 12 = 13

SATURDAY MORNING Elongates his head over to Amoeba and whispers to him, "It's just a ruse baby, you know I'd be nowhere without you guys." SATURDAY MORNING winks at the mushman and snaps his head back to stare at Madd's face with a glare that would make even the edgiest of dark, brooding rebooted protagonists break out in a cold sweat.

AHAHAHA WE ARE THE WORST AND I LOVE IT

Madd looks at SATURDAY MORNING in confusion, not fear.

"I know for a fact you haven't been watching me for 20 minutes because I just got here like 15 minutes ago myself. You're a bad liar."

He shakes his head to clear it.

"Oh, yes, right. Now DIE at the hands of the nefarious DOCTOR MADD! and his loyal MINIONS OF DOOM!"

4d20 ⇒ (16, 3, 18, 9) = 46

4d20 ⇒ (20, 9, 20, 11) = 60

"Jacko! Get them!" Doctor Madd! screams, and the man with the glowing skull head responds by firing a green fireball of pure RADIATION! at 1d4 ⇒ 2 Dmitri.

1d20 + 12 ⇒ (18) + 12 = 30

Dmitri Toughness: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (3) - 1 = 2

Dmitri Fort: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 2 = 22

Ouch.

The bolt of radiation hits Dmitri with mindblowing force, nearly knocking the warlock off his feet.

You failed by a whole 3 degrees, so you take a -3 penalty to further resistance checks against damage, and are Staggered.

Amoeba and Dmitri are up!

Huff, welcome to subSPUF tabletops-where we take hours to kill a group of crabs, alienate whole towns, and get nearly TPK'ed by a single hobgoblin.

Amoeba shrugs as Jacko kicks Dmitri's ass. "Personally I would've tried to take down the two guys right in front of you, but to each his own, I guess."

He swings again, trying to literally put his whole fist down Madd's throat.

Initial Attack: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (17) + 16 = 33

Grab: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10

Not quite sure how to do damage on this, but if my grab hits I still do damage and start suffocating him as well. He's got a -5 to escape my grab, btw

Minor mistake, that bolt of radiation hit COGITO, not Dmitri. Same result.

Madd! Toughness: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (7) + 9 = 16

Madd! rocks backwrds on his heels, hurt by Amoeba's attack, but not engulfed by him.

Cube, one of these days you gotta make a character who's good for absolutely nothing but tanking EVERYTHING. Like, no damage capabilities whatsoever, but you could have a building fall on you and you wouldn't notice.

Cogito keeps trying to control the gorilla.

Still waitin' on Dual.

Cube, one of these days you gotta make a character who's good for absolutely nothing but tanking EVERYTHING. Like, no damage capabilities whatsoever, but you could have a building fall on you and you wouldn't notice.

I actually thought about doing something like that with Rynj's Freeform Class system for lols. d12 hit die, all good saves, dump STR, INT, and CHA, build up DEX, CON, and WIS, only Diehard and other defensive feats, and spend all gold on AC and Cloaks of Resistance.

At which point every enemy goes "Lol" and proceeds to murder the rest of your group because you have nothing that forces them to stick around and attack hard to kill man. Defensive builds don't really work in PF, except in two rare cases (Bodyguard builds and "lockdown" builds which let you take hits for adjacent allies or stop enemies from moving through your threatened area respectively (the latter using a Reach weapon, maximizing reach to the extreme, with Combat Patrol, Improved Trip, Stand Still, etc.). Very very Feat intensive, both of them.

Jack DAS WAAALLLLLL does not travel with a party. He wanders across the land in solitude, either ignoring or completely oblivious to anything that stands in his way.

Dmitri turns his polymorphic potency upon the gorilla.

Affliction Ray: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13
Will DC 15, Cumulative, Progressive - Dazed, Stunned, Transformed
T H E S E R O L L S S U C K

Dmitri misses the gorilla, though a potted plant on the opposite side of the room turns into a fluffy bunny rabbit.

Doctor Madd! finally seizes his chance to retaliate against Amoeba.

"You think you can challenge the might of DOCTOR MADD!?!!" he cries, growing larger, more muscular and sprouting tusks as his labcoat strains to contain his mass.

He brings his newly formed claws to bear and attempts to rake Amoeba.

1d20 + 6 ⇒ (19) + 6 = 25

Confirm?: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (13) + 6 = 19

Amoeba Toughness: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (12) + 8 = 20

Doctor Madd! claws hit some precious bits of Amoeba's fluid form, grievously harming him.

Amoeba fails by two degrees, is Dazed and takes a -2 to further Toughness checks.

BTW you guys I just noticed all of your Dodge/Parry defenses are wrong. They should all be 10 higher. And Amoeba's Toughness should be 8, since his Stamina is 8.

*Cough*Huff*Cough* =p

SATURDAY MORNING Morphs to change his costume into that of a stereotypical doctor, complete with spectacles, mask, lab coat, and head miorror. He flicks Doctor Madd's new tusks and lets loose an inquisitive grunt.

"Aahhh, I see zat you have suddenly grown ein neuer set of toothen. Ach, and zey are making you so irritable! Lay down and I vill take a look at zem, ja?"

SATURDAY MORNING uses his Speed 3 to quickly grab a nearby chair and scoop Madd into it from behind. SATURDAY MORNING creates a large ACME buzzsaw, fires it up, and leans in towards Doctor Madd.

"Now say "ahhh". And don't move- it might hurt if you do."

Intimidation: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (7) + 12 = 19

Persuasion: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (14) + 10 = 24

Choose whichever one is more applicable, I'm not sure which is or if it's even the right thing to do. Or if this post is too ambitious for one turn.

You can attempt to Demoralize as a Standard, so I'll assume that's what you're doing.

Insight: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 15

Madd seems visibly shaken by SatAm's appearance, and it throws off his rhythm.

"I don't like dentists." he says, voice trembling and eyes widening.

The Mush man squishes towards Dmitri.

He tries to hit the warlock, pseudopod extending toward him and attempting to bludgeon then wrap around him.

1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12

And fails.

Cogito!

Cogito keeps trying to control the gorilla.

1d20 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

The gorilla is at your command.

"Your experiments are sloppy and unstable. Observe:"

Cogito commands his newest servant to attack Madd.

The gorilla moves off in that direction...fairly slowly.

Normal human speed.

He nimbly climbs though, and should be there soon.

Psst, Jacko.

Yeh.

Jacko turns his focus to G-Man, wanting to eliminate the burly gorilla as a threat too.

"Hahahahaha, you went and let yourself get MIND CONTROLLED? You MORON!"

1d20 + 12 ⇒ (11) + 12 = 23

Gorilla Toughness: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9

Fort: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 22

The Gorilla is thrown off balance, faculties thrown a bit off by the radiation blast.

Amoeba, Dmitri.

Dmitri tries to polymorph Madd once more.

1d20 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9

are you kidding me

Dmitri transforms a rock into a toad. The room is slowly filling up with harmless animals!

Ahem. Alex?

Sorry, had a few papers to do. Should be ok now though.

Amoeba whips out his sword thingy Free action with quick draw, slashing mode and tries to hit the good doctor with it.

Attack: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 8

I swear, these dice absolutely hate me.