I'm definitely interested in concluding the series with you, RePete. I have no problem taking a couple of weeks in the meantime though.
Thanks again for running this with us!
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Player Name: Zin Z'arin (Rob Riemersma)
This is the same character, but I've changed his name. Nothing else changes. Thanks!
Reta takes aim one last time, sending an arrow after the fleeing woman and her dog. She then returns to the downed bride, and begins stripping the wedding dress from her limp form, to pair with the veil she'd already claimed. Actions:
Why they all crowd so close together? Much safer to stay back and fire arrows. Reta have to teach them tactics someday. Reta fires another arrow at the little dog, then moves a little closer despite her thoughts. Actions:
Reta thought she'd seen Poog talking to--and maybe even petting!--the nearby pig, so she thinks it may be friendly. But she keeps it in the corner of her eye, anyway... no need to take any unnecessary risks! Staying silent, lest she disturb the pig, she lets loose an arrow at the woman's dog. Actions:
Reta quickly picks up the veil and stuffs it under the strap of her pouch; she turns her attention to the crazy woman on the porch. I get dress later, after I kill the loud woman!
Reta moves to the unconscious body of the bride, where she begins stomping around on the dress and veil to put out the flames. Actions:
Reta continues moving forward, her eyes on one target only. Another arrow flies as her yells become almost incoherent. "MINMINMINMINMINMINMIIIIIIIIINE!!!" Actions:
Reta continues stumbling forward, her desire for the bride's dress and veil overwhelming the abilities of her body to keep up. She catches her feet in the chairs, nearly tripping, and her arrows fly awry in every direction. "MIIIIIIIIINE!!!!" she continues to yell. Actions:
Reta's eyes light on the glorious white dress currently being worn by the bride, and her mind can only process one thought. "MIIIIIIINNNNNNNEEEE!!!" she yells with more volume than she ever thought she had, heads turning from all over the yard to see the crazed goblin as she begins closing the distance to the bride and groom. She knocks over a folding chair as she scrambles to draw her bow and send an arrow flying at the bride. Actions:
Reta decides to leave Chuffy to his cake. It was interesting, but she didn't trust it. Just like the sparkly letters on the weak human's paper... too bright, too fancy, too risky. She instead slinks along the water's edge, emerging from the foliage along the bank to check out the rows of chairs. If anybody was seated there, she could have some fun, but otherwise, that building on the water looked far too unburnt for her liking.
Reta tests the string of the new bow she claims from the tribe's armory (that being the barrel outside Chief Gutwad's door), happy to have a proper bow instead of her rigged contraption--though she remains proud of her work and indeed has already put it on display in a tree where she intends to build her hut, once this current quest is complete. Unusually quiet, she grins ear to ear as the goblins gather, getting ready for the raid.
"WE'S ALREADY FIND HER!!!" Reta screams when she recognizes the description. "SHE RUN WHEN SHE SEE SO MANY FIERCE LICKTOADS CHASE HER!!!" Reta succumbs to violent laughter when she recalls the crazy elf's cowardice.
"WHAT GIBBERISH THAT?!? AND LONGSHANKS SAY GOBBIES DUMB, HAHAHAHA!!!" Reta watches the other goblins begin to harry the woman and she leaps into action. Just a half-step behind Chuffy, Reta charges into the fray alongside her annoying tribemate. Actions:
My inclination was to stab as well. She called Reta a "chap." Though, it will require speaking in Goblin for Reta to be upset about that, so I'll wait for the clarification.
Life first, always. Best wishes for you and your family.
"HEY!!! STUPID TRASH PANDA GRABBY CAT UGLY THING!!!" Reta bring her blade up instinctively as it leaps at her face. Attack of Opportunity:
"NOW RETA MAKE YOU PAY!!!" She scrapes her dogslicer down her face, trying to dislodge the attacker. Actions:
Attack of Opportunity:
Even though she can see that the effort of attacking is pretty much going to kill this little grabby cat, Reta has never been known to be sympathetic towards any creature smaller than herself. This serial-killer-in-the-making relishes the opportunity to make its life miserable, and she slices even as it comes at her. Seeing nothing more needs to be done, she turns her attention to the grabby-cat harassing Mogmurch. She takes... well... some effort to avoid slashing Mogmurch as she strikes--at least, that's what she'll claim if ever challenged on it! Actions:
"NOW WE HAVE SOME FUN!!!" She might have felt different had it been her who'd been ambushed, but Reta only feels glee. She steps forward and slashes at one of the grabby-cats with her dogslicer. Actions:
Why they all just stand with toad in hands; that not offer. Reta pulls her toad out of her pouch, checking briefly to ensure that it's still alive--luckily, it is. She draws her arm back and whips it at the impaled skeleton, trying to land it in the ribcage to represent it having eaten the toad... or something like that.
She draws her dogslicer and begins singing her song with gusto as soon as her toad is in the air, punctuating the more active notes in the song with stabs and slashes at the air. "RETA CHOP AND RETA BITE!!!
"SHUT UP CHUFFY YOU'RE SO LOUD!!!" Reta yells down as Chuffy scrambles to hide his find. What this about? Her eyes dart around and she notices these five bottles that Chuffy keeps trying to juggle. What he... why? She can't make sense of it, but she's smart enough to reach down and picks one up when it scatters in between her legs. She studies the label, and still can't make much of it. Too many M's. Hurt eyes like sawblade. She looks confused, but she stuffs it in her pocket. If Chuffy want so bad, must be good. She then continues her examination of Kettlehead's body, paying no mind to either Rempty or Culgick. Coming up with an unstrung bow and a quiver with some arrows, she looks puzzled. Hmmm. Now what can be string for bow? She briefly looks from Mogmurch to Poog, then back... but ultimately shakes her head. She looks back into the swamp. Maybe another toad.... "Twine!! Twine!!! Reta have twine!!!" she exclaims, then digs furtively for the scrap of hempen thread.
"Reta may be stupid, but Reta NOT GIVE TOAD!!!" She stuff her toad harshly into her pocket, and whips up her new dogslicer as she darts towards Kettlehead. Actions:
Poog so dumb. Stupid dog paw. Now Reta can KILL. As she makes the exchange with Poog, Reta keeps her eye on Mogmurch and Chuffy, wondering what will happen after a good lick like that.
"RETA FIND..." her voice trails off in confusion as she tries to figure out what she holds. "Lucky dog paw? RETA HATE DOGS!!! STUPID DOG PAW UGLY THING!!!" She eyes Poog and Chuffy's dogslicers. "POOG OR CHUFFY; TRADE WITH RETA!!!" She ties her two moles to a piece of twine, and ties that to her belt, allowing the moles to swing off her hip. She also makes sure the grappling hook is stowed nicely. Reta think of fun ways to use that... on dogs!
Reta watches Chuffy and Mogmurch lead the way into the swamp, and she's no goblin fool; she knows that the quiet approach is the only way. She slips into the reeds behind them, and branches off to the right to find her own hunting ground.
She spies toad to pounce on, but she hears Chuffy's squeal of glee at catching his toad on the first try, and Reta screams across the pond. Her own toad leaps away, and though she dives for it, she's not quick enough to catch it. She moves deeper into the reeds along the edge of the pond, continuing to search.
Crouching down low, with her eyes on another toad, she hears Mogmurch splash into the swamp nearby just as she's leaping at her target. Reta catches her foot on a root just under the water's surface and she misses again. She goes back to work, more serious than ever.
Pushing all sounds of other Licktoad goblins out of her mind, Reta really focuses when she sees another toad... an albino--or something like it! It's skin a disturbing mottle of pure white patches intermingling with the normal knobby green, she doesn't hesitate to claim her prize. With a quick and silent bound, she scoops it up and holds it aloft silently--so focused that for once, she forgets to yell.
Ability Score Damage, Penalty, and Drain For every 2 points of damage you take to a single ability, apply a –1 penalty to skills and statistics listed with the relevant ability. If the amount of ability damage you have taken equals or exceeds your ability score, you immediately fall unconscious until the damage is less than your ability score. The only exception to this is your Constitution score. If the damage to your Constitution is equal to or greater than your Constitution score, you die. Unless otherwise noted, damage to your ability scores is healed at the rate of 1 per day to each ability score that has been damaged. Ability damage can be healed through the use of spells, such as lesser restoration.
Reta walks around the area, gathering up any rocks she finds that have a good heft to them for throwing. When she wakes in the morning, and they get the new mission to find their own toad and not die, Reta is elated, and doesn't care to hide it. "RETA SO GOOD AT NOT DYING! LOOK, SEE?" She motions her arms up and down in front of her to show off her exceedingly-alive frame. "EXAMPLE 1!"
Reta eyes the pile of heated stones, and she takes a while, pondering, before she begins. Keep stone in mouth no big deal; Reta strong! But tell insult... Reta not as smart as other goblins; making smart insult not easy! Reta not ashamed, but maybe should think of insults first....
She takes the first heated stone into her hand, bounces it from one hand to the other for a moment like a hot potato, then places the stone in her mouth. She turns to Poog and speaks a muddled insult through her open mouth. "Ooog so ugly Aarongel olly heal once 'en go way!" She has no trouble keeping the stone in her mouth, but the other goblins don't seem to react much to the insult. Stupid. Ugly goblin is good goblin. That praise, not insult.
Reta closes her mouth completely as she ponders a new insult, and the heat inside her mouth rises as she makes more contact with it while she considers a new approach. She turns to Chuffy, and spits the stone out before speaking. "Chuffy so simple he can't even find one worm in dirt! Can't even feed himself!" Memories of his recent failure at the worm-eating contest seem to resonate with the crowd, and chuckles are heard, but the stone lies there on the ground, the obvious announcement of her failure. She balls her fists at her side and berates herself. "Dumb Reta, that a good insult!"
She returns to the pile, grabbing another stone, which she immediately places back in her mouth and rushes into a new insult, this time directed at Mogmurch. "Og-urk eak, ne-er decome eader of 'ribe!" Speaking around the hot stone proves too hard, and her words fall on confused ears, her insult simple unintelligible.
Sensing that her time is running out, Reta returns to her best (worst) instincts; the best way to get a laugh is to point the insult at herself. Taking care to speak around the stone so that she can be understood, she toys with her dead-rat-hat as she speaks. "Reta so pretty with rat-head hat, some longshanks probably steal her away and she'll never be Licktoad bride!" She spits out the stone as she herself joins the laughter that erupts.
Wormy wormy wormy worms!!! Reta is beside herself with joy. Finding new ways to capture bugs and grubs was one of her personal joys. Why I never think to just dive in mouth first. That sound like so much fun!!! She flops onto the ground and begins enthusiastically rutting around, looking for worms. She immediately finds one and snaps her jaws down on it--successfully!--but her instincts betray her; Reta swallows it whole along with much of the mud and dirt it had been encased in.
Yum!!! But that not what told! Have to spit it back out!!! REMEMBER!!! She slams her face back into the mud and roots around again, finding a second worm almost quicker than the first. She carefully tongues it out of the mud, spitting just the worm back out onto the soil to show it off while she swallows the remaining mud with glee on her face.
Reta tries to think of a way to heal herself from the spider's bite, but the only thing she can think of is Poog. Can Poog make Zarongel do that again? Reta not ask. One day, Reta command Poog to heal with Zarongel power, but Reta won't grovel today! She climbs the hill with a defiant stance, watching the others and concocting her own performance. She pulls an enormous beetle out of her pocket--nearly the size of an apple!--and holds it out so all the crowd can see. It's legs wiggle and it snaps its spiny jaws back and forth as she slowly waves it in front of the crowd, attracting many of the goblins that had been watching Poog and Chuffy, or waiting on Mogmurch. Without warning, Reta whips her arm back towards her own face, and the beetle snaps its jaws shut on her lower lip. She begins jumping and squealing in pained glee, letting the beetle bounce freely as it hangs from her lower lip, her eyes never leaving the crowd as a sharp grimace rises at the corners of her lips.
Reta revels in the praise, fist-pumping and cheering along with the other celebrating goblins as she's hoisted onto shoulders and carried around the small village. She snatches tasty tidbits out of the air as other goblins shower her in various bugs, grubs, and vermin. Reta like this! Maybe Reta try to be Queen goblin someday!
Reta feels more than sees the cheers and arguments for her as the bestest of all goblins, and smiles to herself even as she searches out her final target. she screams as she pounces towards a spider that seems confused by all the activity.
I just wanted to make this quick post to let you all know that I'm back! As you may have noticed, my goal to post during vacation was a complete failure, so I have a lot to get to; it could easily take me all day to catch up on all of my games. I'm cross-posting this note to all of my games early. Please feel free to continue to bot me until I post in Gameplay, if there's an urgent need; otherwise, I'll post before the end of the day if my character is up. Thanks!
Cross-posting in all of my games; apologies if you see this more than once. Tomorrow, I head out for a weeklong vacation to where there are beaches, sunshine, and tropical beverages. I intend to be taking utmost advantage of all of the above (especially the latter). As such, I may have difficulty posting while I'm away; please bot me if necessary. That said, the resort does have free WiFi, and I just got a new keyboard for my iPad that should allow me to post better on vacation than I ever have been able to before. I will be trying to keep up with all of my games as much as possible. I expect, though, that my posts will necessarily be brief, even to the point of simply making my rolls without much roleplay. If I am silent in social situations, or not posting my combats, please err on the side of botting me early, rather than waiting; it will likely be better for us all that way. Thanks!
"NOT NICE! NO BITEY, MEAN SPIDEY!!!" Reta does her best to secure the knot that she didn't get tied quickly enough before.
"WHY YOU NO SAY THREE AT START? RETA BE FASTER IF SHE KNOW GOAL!!!" Meaning to prove her words, she quickly guides her spider near another, and leaps off, grabbing some of the new spider's legs.
Unfortunately, in her haste, she fails to get the lasso affixed!
Reta quickly checks her pockets... she knew she had one in there. She pulls out a small handful of insects and begins sifting through them. Mostly wood lice... wood lice... there! The spider! Missing a few legs, but who cares; she opens her mouth wide and quickly consumes the dusty, dead arachnid. "NOW RETA HAVE POWER OF SPIDER QUEEN! COME TO ME!!!" She darts out into the field and selects her foe (the one closest to her after she runs out of momentum). She attempts to leap on its back and fasten the leash.
"NOW YOU MINE!!!"
She gazes out over her dominion from the back of her spider mount, as if to ask "what next?"
Reta eyes her competition with disdain. "RETA TOUGHEST LICKTOAD, AND RETA SHOW YOU NOW! RETA DO ALL CHALLENGES, AND RETA WIN ALL!!!" Her eyes settle on Kettlehead, though, and she spews verbal venom all over him. "RETA MUCH TOUGHER THAN STUPID KETTLEHEAD. KETTLEHEAD SO TOUGH, KETTLEHEAD COME DO CHALLENGES TOO!"
Reta eyes Poog with suspicion. "YOU LOOK LIKE POOG, BUT SOMETHING DIFFERENT. SMELL DIFFERENT. WHAT POOG UP TO? RETA NOT LIKE!!!"
Reta looks confused at Chuffy's command. "RETA DO OKAY FROM RIGHT HERE, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!" She knocks and fires two more arrows in quick succession. Trailers of flame arc through the air towards the monstrosity.
Actions:
We're approaching Thanksgiving here in America, so this is an early heads-up that I won't be available starting Wed afternoon through Sunday evening. I won't have access to either my home or work computers, so I don't expect to be able to post at all during my absence. Please bot me as needed! (No Bot Me spoiler provided; Reta is a pregen, so be gobbie with her)
"MOGGY! WHAT YOU LET HAPPEN TO YOUR KINGDOM!!!" Reta's question seems more of an indictment. She draws her bow and begins firing on the pumpkin-headed effigy. Actions:
From her perch in the nest, Reta begins throwing items down at Mogmurch. "YOU LADY LOVE, THAT FUNNY. SHE CLEARLY NOT LIKE BOYS LIKE YOU, SHE RETA LADY LOVE; ONLY HAVE HEART FOR RETA." Almost immediately, a potion, 2 scrolls, a wand, and a container of incense fly down. "MAGIC STUFF; WORTHLESS" she yells. Holding two smaller items, one in each hand, she discards both. "STUPID CORAL AND DUMB EGG." They both fall down towards their Emperor's head. Finally, she unrolls a painting of some sort. And immediately begins tearing into it! "WHO PAINT DOG! UGLY, UGLY DOG!" She tears the portrait in half, letting the half with an old man on it float down while she rips the other half to shreds, eating some pieces and letting others fly to the wayside, until no scrap is left with anything that appears canine. "SATCHEL BEST THING. EVERYTHING ELSE UGLY. RETA KEEP ALL HER THINGS IN LADY LOVE'S PURSE!!!" She begins packing a variety of her own personal items into the rough and smelly satchel, which she flings over her shoulder like a Taldan noble's fashionable bag.
"RETA FIND! RETA KEEP!!!" Reta squeals as she instinctively points at a satchel hanging in the nest. She immediately begins clawing her way up the side of the silo in an attempt to make sure she beats any other goblins up to the nest.
What? Reta looks around at the other goblins, unsure. Where? Her eyes narrow to suspicious slits. Reta so happy, now so... not happy. Why they steal Reta's joy? Her eyes send daggers towards all of her companions. When she sees Mogmurch start rushing towards the hut, Reta quickly follows, trying to take the lead. "Not before Reta, you sneaky gobbie!"
"REFRESH! REFRESH! REFRESH! REFRESH!" "FAKE RETA NOT SMELL FRESH TO ME!!! REFRESH OR NO; NOT FRESH!!! NOT FRESH!!!"
Why she keep moving! Reta just want stand and listen to her beautiful singing! Reta continues to try to meet up with the singer of her dreams.
"QUEEN FATHEAD NOT FOOLED BY SONG OF..." her voice trails off as she becomes captivated. "...pretty lady...." Reta begins moving towards the woman, in a trance. "...sooooo pretty...." she repeats, soft as a whisper.
This is a heads-up that I'm going to be traveling tomorrow through Monday (26-29 Oct) and will likely not be able to post while I'm away. Please bot me if I'm holding anything up.
Reta just barely avoids getting trapped in the swarming plants, swatting a particularly aggressive milkweed out of the way with her bow, breaking pods and spraying the milky-white liquid across the field. She quickly steps backward until she finds an area where the plants remain still, and she lines up another shot at the vine. Actions:
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