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Thank you for running this! This was a lot of fun. :-)
"I wish these things would just lie down and die," Faroris comments, as he throws another blast of energy at the remaining zombie.
Trusting Saphina to handle the one zombie for a few moments, Faroris continues to focus on backing up Fenri, throwing another beam of crackling energy at the zombie she's fighting.
Faroris throws another blast of magical energy at one of the zombies fighting Fenri, still staying crouched behind the debris. "Are you okay?"
Giving a little sigh of relief as the scream confirms that the girl is alive, Faroris continues to focus on helping Fenri. Once again, he raises his fist, this time looking like he punches at the air as he releases the blast of green energy at the zombie.
With Saphina now protecting the girl, Faroris turns his attention to the closer fight around Fenri. Raising his fist once again, he shoots out another beam of that crackling green energy.
As the girl goes down, Faroris snarls out, "Get away from her!" This time, he points his fist at the one attacking the girl, yet again releasing a beam of crackling, sickly green energy.
Stepping forward quickly, Faroris crouches down behind one of the pieces of debris, then raises his fist again. Another blast of the crackling, sickly green energy last is out in the direction of another of the dinosaurs.
There isn't even an instance of hesitancy from Faroris. The moment he sees what is happening, he moves forward to push his way past the gate and into the pens. "Hey!" He extends his fist, and a beam of crackling sickly green energy flies out, as he tries to hit one of the zombie dinosaurs. "Bigger meal over here!"
I love these escape descriptions. :-)
Swearing under his breath as the platform starts to buckle, Faroris yells, "Jump!" Even as he does so, he's jumping himself, trying to get off the platform.
Faroris is smiling through the ceremony, right up until the moment of the scream. "Already?" He turns quickly, though, running with the others towards the source.
Faroris quickly scrambles off the dinosaur after it finally stops, relaxing when he's back on solid ground. Did you do that? he silently thinks towards his patron. But, not expecting a response he turns his attention back towards his teammates. "Bit of a rough ending, but that was fantastic!" He doesn't really have much gear, just a pack of supplies, so he's quick to step up onto the elevated platform. Politely, he joins the applause for the blue team. Then, as the one member of the red team makes the aggressive move, he twitches a finger with a grin, but doesn't do anything. He simply settles back, watching the medallions and trophy being awarded, though this time he doesn't applaud. When it's finally their turn, he steps forward with the others.
Yeah, my character may not be liking this too much but as a player I think this is fantastic. :-)
Immediately cheering up, Faroris laughs and starts to give a cheer as they cross the finish line, but then has to scramble for grip as a dinosaur continues to run crazy. "What's going..."
"...on? Why isn't it stopping?" he yells to Saphina. He had only seen Scramsax fall, not why, apparently.
Faroris gives a shout as the halfling falls, but there isn't much you can do, so he again turns towards the closest of the opponents, snapping his whip again to try to throw off the other team.
Faroris turns towards the red dinosaur again, switching up to attack. He snaps his whip towards the red team's dinosaur, trying to throw it off.
Faroris wobbles as the triceratops veers around, but after a moment he regains his balance and steadies himself, raising an arm as he waits and then snaps the whip towards anybody who tries to attack them.
Faroris faces himself towards the red team, snapping his weapon at the attackers.
Faroris readies himself as the other team comes alongside, and when he sees their attackers he snaps his whip closer to them, trying to throw off their aim.
Faroris grins towards Sashah as the lock clicks open, and then he's through, climbing up onto the triceratops. Making a quick decision, he reaches for one of the whips, and says, "I'll try to keep them off of us if they catch up. I'll probably need help."
Faroris continues to swim around, adding his eyes to Saphina's and doing his best to at least narrow down the search areas. If she does find anything, he also helps load them into the bags.
Faroris nods to the instructions as he quickly makes his way onto the new dinosaur. "Got it." As they start to move out into the bay, Faroris takes a moment to pull on his goggles as well, tying them tight to his head. "I'm not a good swimmer, but better if we work together."
Faroris swings past but misses the ribbon by quite some distance. He glances back towards those behind him, but then swings around, coming at his ribbon again. "Come on, a little closer."
Faroris practically jumped out of his chariot, hurrying the steps over to the pterodactyl, and climbing into the saddle. He nods to the instructions, and says, "Understood. Thanks." Moments later, he's flying, reaching out to try to catch a ribbon.
Following the others, Faroris looks around as they get outside, waving to the crowd with a smile. After a moment, he climbs into his chariot, commenting, "This will probably be a bit easier to keep from falling off of." As soon as the signal is given, and the track is clear of children, Faroris flicks the reins to start moving.
Aeshuura, did you get murdered by a rebellious student helper? ;-)
Faroris laughs a bit, and says, "I'll remember that, thanks."
Faroris looks up to the representative, nodding seriously at various points in explanation, though he looks a bit nervous when flying is mentioned. Still, he gives a smile to the man as he wishes them luck, and says, "Thanks." He looks to the others, and says, "Let's do this." However, he does look over to Sashah and Saphina, and says, "Any dinosaur riding tips?"
Faroris considers the Golden Tyrannosaurus livery for a moment, but smiles, "I like it." He looks back up, and turns his attention back to their competition, taking in the other teams.
I like gold as well.
I'm not at all picky about the mascot. Personally, I like the Froghemoth and the Eblis, but they are all pretty crazy and fun I think. :-)
Faroris shakes his head and grins a bit sheepishly, "I'm not even all that good at riding horses." He looks around curiously as they enter the lounge, but then he looks down to the trinkets and livery curiously.
Faroris blinks, but looks back to Scramsax and nods, "Yeah, I got it. Are you alright?" This last asked with a bit of concern as he finally notices the bloody nose. Looking back to Saphina, he says, "My initial thought was that it was temporary riders, coming in to drug the animals and then disappearing. But, you're right, it could be that too." He grins, and says, "I would've tried to win anyway, but an extra incentive." Then, though, he says, "But I still think we should ask questions in with the racers." "Anyway, we still need to get down there, and we probably should go. The race is soon and we, or at least I, don't really know what the event is even," he says, at last.
Faroris looks to Fenri in confusion when she says she placed the bet. "I had the money he gave us, and I used it to place the bet. Did you use your own money to place another bet?" He turned back to the others and nods in agreement with Sasha before adding to Dwalar, "I didn't know about the riders, that's even more interesting. The riders, then, are probably the ones drugging or poisoning the animals. It might even be the only way to get someone into position to do that." Fenri's idea of what's going on has him staring at her in some disbelief.
Faroris continues to chat with people for a little while but returns to the box by the second race to wait for others to come back as well, so he'll be ready in time for their event. When everybody is there, he says, "I wasn't able to find it much in the way of specifics, but the suspicious wins seem to be going beyond making a few people rich. It's securing up the entire economy around here. That's going to hurt more than just the bookies."
Faroris listens to the explanation, as much weight as he can understand, anyway, and brightens a bit, "We get to actually race? That will give us a good 'in' to look around." And it will be fun, he thinks to himself. He waves to listen if anybody else asks any questions, but then moves over to one of the bookies to hand over the pouch he pocketed earlier, "Alaster Bol wants to place a bet on Mountain Thunder, please." He smiles after the bed is taken, but makes no bet of his own, returning to the others and says, "I'm going to go see what I can find out about those more suspicious wins." He makes a quick cast of prestidigitation on himself, and slips down into the crowd a few moments later, trying to act like the slightly intoxicated gambler he now smells like. He starts to strike up random conversations, "My brother... He says this is the place to win big. He won big, on the biggest the longshots... Twice! At least, so he tells me. I'm not really sure I believe him. Have you seen any long shot wins?"
No problem here! I wasn't really expecting anything more than once a day anyway. :-)
Faroris catches the little coin pouch as Scramsax tosses it to him, and pockets it as he glances back to the others. His attention returns then to the heavier man again, listening. Nodding along to the instructions, he says, "Now that makes more sense. Yeah, we can look into that." He almost says something else, but does a bit of a double take at the answer to Fenri's question, "Dinosaur races?" He grins, and says, "This will be interesting!"
Faroris steps into the room with the others who have been called as well, stepping forward to give a respectful bow to the larger man. He’s a skinny young half elf, with little in the way of muscle, and pale brown hair that is almost blonde. He smiles to the boy who brings drinks to them all, and says, “Thank you.” He takes a sip of his, and looks back up to the larger man curiously. For a moment, he keeps watching, as if expecting there to be more, and when it becomes apparent that there isn’t, he glances around at the others, and looks back, and speaks up again, “Why do you need so many of us just to place a bet?”
Oh yeah, I knew I forgot something. Harpers. He's out to do good unrelated to faith, so it seems most compatible.
Okay, it didn't take me nearly as long as I thought it would to fix things. Most of it was just fixing the numbers and deleting the stuff that doesn't apply to fifth edition. There, I think I have my character set properly now. At least, to what I intended it to be. I may have still made lots of mistakes, but they're my mistakes now and not PCGen's or data entry errors.
Okay, here's my idea. I know I probably messed up a number of places, but the trouble I had trying to make this textbased character sheet (DND Beyond does not export to text, hero lab data pack is $25 for just the SRD, I tried manually and then got the "You have backtracked too far" error message and lost it all, so I finally used PCGen. Due to disability, I dictate. I can't type without pain. To do this, I pretty much had to. My arm is killing me. If there are any errors, and I'm pretty sure there is many of them, I can fix it but I need to rest tonight. (Suffice to say, though, I kind of wish I'd bought the hero lab license. If I do anymore 5e PBP, I probably will.) Story-wise, this character is a young carpenter who had to make a literal deal with a devil to get the power to help defend his village. Now, with that battle over, he's just trying to have fun and do as much good as he can before he dies and has to pay off his bargain. Oh, as far as I can tell by googling, my old number is still valid, so my RPGA/DCI number is: 00808736 |