[5e] Courts of the Shadow Fey (Inactive)

Game Master mishima

Yes these little one shot duels are barely allowed (only during dueling season, otherwise they can only be done outside the palace walls on daring places like cliffsides).

The tournament games are a different beast, as is Carnadine's formal high stakes Honor Duel with Zaeri. You'll get to use your shield and whatever else, no worries. ;)

Hey yall! Crazy busy here, between work + Passover. hoping to post tonight!

Meanwhile, I hope yall are healthy and sane.

No worries Kjeta, I almost completely forgot about Easter...my son's teacher dropped off an easter basket the other day and I was shocked. XD I've only been out of work a few weeks but feels like I've fallen into timewarp.

I know the feeling. I've left my house like 3 times since we started work from home like 3 weeks ago.

Have a great weekend!

No. I think Carn prefers higher stakes combats.

He would join a team combat, but not one on one.

cheers

RE: Stay at home
I've been working from home for the past week, and I've discovered that I really don't like it. It's driving me a little bonkers because some part of me is like, "I'm home! I can relax." But, I have to work.

RE: Dueling
Raseri also offered to fight, but it looks like she's not going to be taken up on that offer, which is fine since I think she'd probably be KO'd pretty quickly.

I'm going to post, I just have to get my ducks in a row and make sure I don't miss anything.

Carn, sounds good. Seeking out quartermaster or squire first?

Ras, sorry I must've missed that. If you want to duel, feel free to challenge someone.

squire first, please

Nah, I'm good. Just reinforces in her mind that she doesn't belong here to be overlooked like that. :)

I must confess, I find it hard to follow three simultaneous threads. I'm a little lost.

Sorry Deimus, will knock it off...just trying to wade through the sandbox faster. Unless you had something else in mind for the kitchen, its concluded. So now its just the Hunt and the Games.

Summary of Kitchen:

Kjeta wanted to set up some brew for the Goblin King, so got that rolling in the kitchen. There was something strange about Johnny the Goblin that was never really discovered.

Summary of Hunt:

Kjeta is hunting venison for the Prince's dogs. She is on the trail, and has encountered some kind of strange ghost Raseri. Then, further on the trail, a slain brownie was discovered with its heart removed.

Summary of Games:

Lexi and Raseri had been watching the fights, with others in the party joining later. They were challenged to a duel by one of the Ravens, and Lexi accepted. Although defeated, the Ravens were impressed with her tactics and invited her in to their 'gang'. Around the same time, Carnadine was approached by a young shadow fey wanting to be his squire.

Thanks, that helps a lot!

Thanks for the recaps. Very helpful (especially given that life's been overfull recently.)

I likely won't be back online today, but expect to have a bit more time to post this week in general.

Sorry for still breaking it into multiple threads...things should coalesce again soon.

Oh crap. I know what this is. I've suspected it since you described the corpse, but now I know. Don't worry, I'm not going to say any more.

What can I say, I'm a sucker for classic monsters.

I KNEW IT!

:P

I totally ruined my friends one-shot in a similar way once long ago, it was hilarious. We were about 5 minutes into the game, and I knew the main villain was a revenant. I was so sure, I didn't only just say it, I sang it to him gently as everyone else was wtf-ing. He was so pissed. XD

In my defense, he perma-deathed one of my characters once for forgetting to announce that I loaded a flintlock pistol I had recently purchased...so he had it coming. :)

Hey, at least I never said what it was. :D

I actually did groan about the fact that we are about to go up against psions when the GM mentioned that an invisible mage didn't detect magic when something she was spying on went invisible or dimensioned doored out. His response was to say, "You! Quit your meta-gaming, you!" That got a chuckle out of the party.

Speaking of character deaths, there's a running joke that all of my characters are secretly suicidal in my real-time group. It's kinda funny because one, as a player put it, was the perfect face for an entirely different party, and he went bonkers towards the end. The other was killed by a combination of panic, stupidity, and more panic.

Then Waylon, my currently character, has gotten the reputation for a walking war crime. The players love him, the PC's are kinda on the fence about whether or not they should "accidentally" kill him. He's a fun one to play.

That's funny, I tend to develop that same suicidal reputation...but for a different reason: its true. I can't play the same character very long before I want to play a different one...which is why I DM more often than not probably.

When you mentioned that I could just perfectly hear my friend Josh's voice complaining "You always suicide your characters!"

Ironically, my old 3.5 party all voted to murder the highest level character I've ever had...

In my case it was more external forces, then I had the idea to have a temp character that would sacrifice himself when we finished up the dungeon so I could keep playing while waiting for an opportunity to introduce a new one, and the players feel in love with him.

The murderous reputation came a little later when he did more damage to an inn and the civilians than the dragon chasing us. Now we're trying to sneak into an enclave to save an NPC from before I started playing with the group, and I've got a feeling that he's about to earn the moniker "Diplomatic incident."

Though, I guess that's what happens when you bring in a wizard that specializes in evocation to the ninja party.

To be fair, panic, stupidity, and more panic are probably a common cause of death.

In a dangerous situation? absolutely.

An awesome foe to get to tussle with! ...Not that Kjeta knows what it is, of course. ;-)

Out of curiosity. I just looked it up on Wikipedia and...

Nice! Don't remember it from Gene Wolfe, but I think I only read Shadow and Claw.

I've been reading the old craptastic TSR FR novels from the early 90s lately (don't snicker, my public library is closed so I cant order books...had them on my hard drive), that's where inspiration for including it came from.

Nice!

Hrungnir, remember you have Advantage!

Thanks! I’d be better at D&D if I remembered things like that...

If it landed in front of Hrungnir, would it be 25 feet behind Carnadine, because it’s 10 feet square? Assuming both Carn and Hrung started side by side 70 feet away.

Makes a big difference for Carnadine.

Cheers

Yes good point, if its still there after its turn, it will be within 30 ft of you because of size Large.

You guys did a fuctastic 100+ dmg that round...knew I should've given this thing more hp. XD

A DPS focused group did DPS? What?

::Clutches pearls::

Lexi, don't forget advantage

Ras just tacked on at least another 20 unless if has evasion or something else that limits the damage.

A DPS focused group did DPS? What?

::Clutches pearls::

Me DM pretty one day.

I know we're Theater of the Mind in this combat, but can we get quick assessment of how far everyone is from one another.

thanks

Sure we can say you are all within 30 ft of each other.

The peryton is 60 ft in vertical direction.

Is Deimus DPS?! If so, then it's an accident...

Carnadine certainly isn't DPS, especially this combat.

Raseri supposed to be a damage dealer, but I didn't really focus on DPR.

Deimus focuses on DPY...

Dunno what yall are talking about, but Kjeta is 100% optimized for Beers Per Round.

But that's all dwarves.

and frat bros.

Can I get in with my Spiritual Weapon?

Kjeta the tricky (frustrating) thing with that is the 60 ft the peryton travels up at the end of its turn. Your SW, in comparison, can only move 20 ft per bonus action, meaning it would take 3 turns for it to get up in the sky.

You can Ready some action as Carnadine just did and hope you are in the right spot on the ground, but cant ready a SW attack.

I figured that was the case. It's all good, it's movement is part of what makes this a tricky encounter.

I'm thinking (unless there's someone who needs healing) I might go for a Guiding Blast next round.

Or might ready a Confusion for the next time it swoops toward the ground, and see if we can get a round to dogpile it.

My next plan is to try and leap onto it's back to stab it to death.