Apologies for the wait.
Fumbus will bank his Hero Point.
Fumbus would like two Item 1 upgrades, if they are available.
Thanks again, BR!
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Ah. I guess I misunderstood the “each character choose”. I thought it went to the upgrade list.
Could we get an updated list of things available for choice? EmpTyger, your choice of Item 1 or Armor 1 will enhance the list of choices for the rest of us, so could you choose one, please? Thanks. Cool Adventure Reward!
Fumbus would choose to add an Item 1 to that list.
Asmodeus's Tyranny:
Core Blessing 2 Traits: Deity: Asmodeus Divine When this is the hour: When you fail a check, you may bury your hand and discards to reroll. To Acquire: Charisma Diplomacy Divine 5+# On any check, recharge to bless. If the character fails the check, a random character buries a card. Discard to explore. Fumbus follows the rest of the gang into the ruined temple, intent on ending the kobold threat here and now.
A scrawny human dressed in scales and painted in blood prays feverishly at a debased altar just within the ruined shrine, obviously missing more than one screw. He points zealously at Fumbus. "Heathen!" he screams. "No!" Fumbus retorts. "You Ethan! Fumbus Fumbus!" The argument gets less clear, but more violent.
"Yes! You're right! I am Ethan!" the human submits, then runs crying from the temple. "That weird longshanks," Fumbus remarks.
Fumbus inspects the altar and finds the weird human's weapon. The forest dwarf's pet comes up and sniffs at it as well.
"That mine! Bad wolfy!" The goblin snatches the axe away from the not-wolf.
As Fumbus snatches the axe, the haft disrupts a small pile of Harrow cards secreted away along the base of the altar. The excitable alchemist whoops in excitement.
Unfortunately, the tarot cards are smeared with faeces and blood - desecrated beyond repair.
Skills and Powers: SKILLS
Strength d6
Dexterity d10 Disable +0 Ranged +1 Constitution d8 Intelligence d8 ☑ +1 Craft +3 Arcane +1 Wisdom d4 Charisma d6 Favored Card: Alchemical Item or Attack Spell
Skills and Powers: SKILLS
Strength d6
Dexterity d10 Disable +0 Ranged +1 Constitution d8 Intelligence d8 ☑ +1 Craft +3 Arcane +1 Wisdom d4 Charisma d6 Favored Card: Alchemical Item or Attack Spell
Fumbus watches impassively as the hapless goblin tossed by Talitha bounces and rolls down the ravine, landing in a way that no goblin lands and walks away from. At Talitha's silent apology, Fumbus shrugs. "Is ok. That Nettlewood gobbo. They stupid."
A painted kobold pops up from behind some rocks on the far edge of the ravine and sprays acid at Seoni. Fumbus jumps in front of the attack and sets off a fungal bomb, obscuring the adventurers in a cloud of spores!
From within the cloud, a glass vial of smoking venom marked with a Thassilonian rune arcs towards the kobold sorcerer's head!
The vial shatters on the kobold's upturned claws, showering the pathetic creature with noxious fumes and a poisonous spray. The envenomation proceeds quickly, the kobold clawing at his throat as bile and then blood bubbles up from its throat. Thrashing in agony, the kobold pitches off the edge of the ravine and crashes through the underbrush to lie some distance away from the goblin tossed by Talitha. Fumbus blinks at the party as the spore cloud fades. "We cross now, yes?"
Fumbus watches dispassionately as the sorcerer slaughters all of the bandits when their leader unwisely chooses to put his hands on her. "Wow!" Fumbus exclaims. "You'd make good goblin chief, See Ohno." It's then that the ghosts of the dead bandits swoop out of their fallen corpses. "Eh, maybe not," Fumbus decides, hefting an acid flask at the ghost.
Fumbus tosses a corrosive bomb at one of the ghosts; it passes straight through the phantasm. Fumbus screeches in terror and races away, his strange goblin weapon falling off his belt into the darkness of the cave as he flees.
Another drake awaits the goblin as he races from the cave! Fortunately, Fumbus’ friend Maznar sends his weasel charging at the creature, allowing the goblin to dive out of the way.
Skills and Powers: SKILLS
Strength d6
Dexterity d10 Disable +0 Ranged +1 Constitution d8 Intelligence d8 ☑ +1 Craft +3 Arcane +1 Wisdom d4 Charisma d6 Favored Card: Alchemical Item or Attack Spell
The Fiend:
CotCT
Blessing 1 Traits: Harrow Suit: Hammers Veteran When this is the hour: When you suffer a scourge on your turn, each local character suffers it. To Acquire: Strength Melee 4+# On any check, discard to bless; if a character banishes an ally, add 3d6 instead. Discard to explore. Fumbus scampers through the darkened cave in the aftermath of the fight with the drake. "Fumbus fought dragon-thing! It run away! Fumbus mighty!" The recount seems to omit the presence of Amiri in the fight. The goblin rounds a corner in the cave, trusting on his darkvision to spy hidden dangers planted by the kobolds.
Fumbus squawks as he comes nose to mildly-moist nose of a giant cave frog! "Ack!" Fumbus yells out.
The goblin jumps straight backward, an arc of electricity shooting into the toad from his hands. The doomed amphibian explodes in a cloud of goo as Fumbus lands onto his back. "Heh heh..."
Cutpurse Gang:
CotCT
Barrier 0 Traits: Obstacle To Defeat: Wisdom Perception Stealth 5 Before acting, each other local character must succeed at a Wisdom, Perception, or Stealth 5 check or discard a card. If undefeated, each local character buries a card from their discards.
A cache of highway bandits holed up just past the corpse of the frog wakes up at the explosion of their pet and sentry. Drawing daggers in anger, they face down the would-be kobold conquerors. It turns out that they know nothing of the dangerous kobold settlement all-too near their encampment. A few words from Fumbus (and better words from his companions) prevent an unnecessary fracas...though some pilfering attempts from the thieves still take place.
Skills and Powers:
SKILLS
Strength d6
Dexterity d10 Disable +0 Ranged +1 Constitution d8 Intelligence d8 ☑ +1 Craft +3 Arcane +1 Wisdom d4 Charisma d6 Favored Card: Alchemical Item or Attack Spell
Runewell's Echo: Discard this card to add 1 die to any check.Discard this card to add 1d12 to any non-combat check. After playing this card, you may play another blessing on this check.
A horrendous roar comes from within the forest, answering that heard from the church steeple within the kobold compound. A large shadow descends upon the party, branches snapping in its wake! Drake:
Core Story Bane 1
Traits: Dragon Veteran To Defeat: Combat 10+## THEN Combat 11+# Roll 1d4. This monster gains the trait, is resistant to, and all damage is: 1. Acid 3. Electricity 2. Cold 4. Fire Before acting, each local character must succeed at a Dexterity or Acrobatics 5+# check or suffer 1d4 damage.
Fumbus rolls out of the way as the giant blue-winged lizard crashes into the trees of the forest, claws raking for his flesh. Stray bolts of electricity judder around the form of the creature. Fumbus speaks a goblin word of power, shooting a dart of venom at the drake.
Correct!
Fumbus’ starting hand: Lightning Touch, Viper Strike, Laboratory Coat, Flash Freeze, Blessing of the Green Faith, Blessing of Chaldira Zuzaristan
Fumbus will drop his Blessing of the Elements and his Bladeguard and replace them with a Blessing of Chaldira Zuzaristan and a set of Burglar's Bracers. Ready to go!
Fumbus will spend his hero point on an Intelligence point. Deck upgrade wishlist:
If for some reason he needs to get a different upgrade for his two wishes, Fumbus will take an Item B.
Droogami (Ally 1)
The Lady of Mysteries:
Core Blessing 3 Traits: Deity: Pharasma Divine When this is the hour: On your check against an Undead card, when you would discard a boon to bless, you may recharge it instead. To Acquire: Wisdom Divine 8 On any check, discard to bless. On a check against an Undead bane, recharge to bless. Discard to draw 3 cards, then recharge 3 cards, then you may explore. The big angry human tells Fumbus and the others that she’s found the majority of the imprisoned townsfolk in cages in one of the buildings. Now that most of the kobolds have run away, it seems to Fumbus to be a shame not to use the opportunity to peer through their stuff, just for fun. Unfortunately, the big human is angry.
A scrawny human sits in one of the cages, calling for help.
Fumbus waves affably at the weak human, but walks past.
Fumbus spots an old human in the next cage. The man sports manacles on his legs and busies himself working to pick the lock binding him. ”Ooooh!” Fumbus squeals, intrigued.
Fumbus picks the lock on the cage and yells instructions excitedly to the old man, clearly more interested in acquiring the manacles than aiding the prisoner. Nevertheless, two birds are pegged with the same stone.
The kobold jailer resident in the prison comes upon the group, boldly pitching a vial of acid at them. The tattooed lady takes the hit. Fumbus bristles at the affront to alchemy. ”You call that a bomb?!” he yells apoplectically, sharing his own with the kobold.
The two bombardiers trade vials, and while the kobold’s second acid bomb shatters near Fumbus, spraying his coat ineffectively with caustic liquid, the goblin’s fire bomb lands true, immolating the jailer where he stands. ”Stupid dragon dropping,” Fumbus mutters. He then hurries to the flaming body of the kobold to look for yummy things on his person to eat.
Laboratory Coat, Acid Flask, Flash Freeze, Blessing of the Green Faith, Cloud Puff, Blessing of the Elements. Lots of support and blessings freely available. Also, Fumbus can recharge an alchemical item to add 1d4 to a local combat.
The Foreign Trader:
CotCT Blessing 1 Traits: Harrow Suit: Books Veteran When this is the hour: On any non-combat check, you may freely recharge an ally that lists Diplomacy in its check to acquire to bless. To Acquire: Intelligence Knowledge 4+# On a local non-combat check, discard to bless and add your Intelligence die. Discard to explore. Fumbus ventures upstairs in the government house, continuing his hunt for good things to eat.
Fumbus spies a tray full of bandages and unguents, topped with a scroll. With a mournful whine, the goblin approaches.
Fumbus slaps the scroll aside and begins shovelling gels and bandages into his mouth. As an afterthought, the alchemist stomps on the scroll, moaning to himself in ecstasy as he devours the first aid kit.
Skills and Powers: SKILLS
Strength d6
Dexterity d10 Disable +0 Ranged +1 Constitution d8 Intelligence d8 Craft +3 Arcane +1 Wisdom d4 Charisma d6 Favored Card: Alchemical Item or Attack Spell
”Help help!” the muffled sound calls out from a closed door within the Chambers. Fumbus looks up with curiosity from shoving a counsellor’s robe in his mouth. He spits it out. ”Ick. Didn’t taste good no way.”
Fumbus tries the door, but finds it locked. He then smells something tasty in another room. ”Ooooh!” the distractible goblin squeals, leaving the closet door (and the trapped person) unattended. The cries for help continue unabated.
The All-seeing Eye:
Core Blessing 3 Traits: Deity: Nethys Divine When this is the hour: When you would examine the top card of a location, you may examine the top 2 cards instead. To Acquire: Intelligence Arcane Divine 8 On any check, discard to bless. On an Intelligence or Wisdom check, freely discard to bless. Discard to examine the top 2 cards of your location and return them in any order, then explore. Fumbus uses the chaos of the kobold assault to sneak into the nicest-looking building of the village. He holds the door open for his new friend.
”Longshanks always hide nicest stuff in nicest building. Is stupid!” he comments to the half-elven priest of Gorum.
Fumbus spies a nice set of arm-bands laying unattended on a table.
Fumbus ignores the arm-bands once he sees the glass terrarium holding the enormous banana slug up against the back wall. He lets out a low whistle as he moves closer. ”Whoa. Gobbo lady love this,” he muses. ”Now just need to find Gobbo lady.”
Fumbus fumbles as he tries to pick up the slug from its tank, the slippery creature flopping back into the leafy green of the terrarium a few times. ”Grrr!” Fumbus exclaims, frustrated but singularly focused. His success is paid off as the half-elf acolyte fishes it out for him.
Laboratory Coat, Blessing of the Green Faith, Poisoned Sand Tube, Alchemist’s Fire, Giant Slug, Acid Flask
Skills and Powers: SKILLS
Strength d6
Dexterity d10 Disable +0 Ranged +1 Constitution d8 Intelligence d8 Craft +3 Arcane +1 Wisdom d4 Charisma d6 Favored Card: Alchemical Item or Attack Spell
The Demon's Lantern:
CotCT Blessing 1 Traits: Harrow Suit: Keys Veteran When this is the hour: On your check against a barrier, the difficulty is increased by 3. To Acquire: Dexterity Disable 4+# On your check, freely discard to use your Dexterity die instead of the normal die. Discard to remove up to 2 of your scourges. Discard to explore. Fumbus gives a side-glance at the kobolds rounding up villagers as he ducks inside the building that smells of precious reagents and chemicals. "Hmmm. Fumbus hero later. Need to grab hero stuff first."
A strange man-faced rat crawling on all fours hisses at the goblin as he slams open the door. "Bad rat-thing! This mine!" Fumbus grins with glee as he lights the bamboo cannon strapped to his back and aims it at the creature.
With a loud bang, the ratling disappears into a greasy, fur-lined stain on the floor of the lab.
Fumbus tosses the bamboo cannon to the side and eagerly begins rummaging through the drawers of the lab benches.
The door to the house bangs open. A gang of kobolds surge into the building, many holding bags and ropes with which to capture prisoners. They stop in astonishment as the begoggled Fumbus turns to them, glass vials in both hands. "Dragon-droppings want some?" he provocatively asks.
Fumbus' aim is true as the two poison bombs shower the unfortunate kobolds with venomous fury. The lucky survivors flee, coughing and hacking as blood streams from their eyes, nose, and mouth. A number of the would-be kidnappers lie still or twitching on the floor of the lab.
Card Caster:
CotCT Ally 0 Traits: Human Magus To Acquire: Intelligence Knowledge 5 OR Charisma Diplomacy 7 Recharge to examine the bottom 2 cards of any location. Discard to explore. This exploration, on all combat, Knowledge and Perception checks, add 1d4.
The town's chemist (whose house Fumbus is ransacking) emerges from behind the laboratory bench. "What in the Hells of Abaddon is going on?" he demands. "Rescue," Fumbus says offhandedly as he wrenches open a drawer under the lab bench, dumping its contents on the floor. The chemist shrieks and flees. Fumbus watches him briefly, then shrugs, returning to his heroic work.
Fumbus pokes through the remnants of the drawer, finding some scribblings in a journal. With a shriek, the goblin strikes a tindertwig and sets them alight for fear of the words escaping his brain. The comforting flames envelop and begin to consume the journal, and Fumbus flings it carelessly behind the laboratory bench. Focusing his attention of the dead kobolds' things, the goblin perks his head up at the sudden hiss emanating from behind the bench along with the sulphurous smell. "What that...?! AHHHHHH!" Fumbus races out of the front door of the chemist's home just as a massive thunderclap explodes behind him, caving in the roof of the building and expelling the front door on a cloud of super-heated black smoke.
Skills and Powers: SKILLS
Strength d6
Dexterity d10 Disable +0 Ranged +1 Constitution d8 Intelligence d8 Craft +3 Arcane +1 Wisdom d4 Charisma d6 Favored Card: Alchemical Item or Attack Spell
Sporting a dingy white lab coat that the goblin "liberated" from the repository, Fumbus rushes for the laboratory, eager to "liberate" more.
Skills and Powers: SKILLS
Strength d6
Dexterity d10 Disable +0 Ranged +1 Constitution d8 Intelligence d8 Craft +3 Arcane +1 Wisdom d4 Charisma d6 Favored Card: Alchemical Item or Attack Spell
Pending BR approval, Fumbus is going to use a boon to grab a second upgrade: taking an Armor 1 upgrade.
Fumbus ain’t no fool. He’s taking an Item 1 upgrade (methinks there are enough to forego a d1000 roll) and an Item Card Feat.
The funny sorcerer lady wanders away from Fumbus, mumbling about a lack of a team spirit. Fumbus looks up only briefly from the interesting mound of dirt and wood that he currently gnaws on. ”Tastes little bit like rat,” he muses idealistically. Suddenly, a chill blast catches Fumbus unawares as a humanoid figure steps back into the repository. ”I said I want keep shiny gold rock!” the goblin calls out, thinking the icy Seoni had returned. ”Wait a second,” Fumbus says with realisation as he turns to the walking cadaver with the glowing blue eyes, ”you fiery, not icy!” The wight lunges; Fumbus yelps.
Fumbus pours the first flask on which he lays his hand on the wight as it scrabbles to eat him. Fortunately, the acid does the trick. Flash Freeze, Fool’s Gold, Poisoned Sand Tube
The Forge:
CotCT Blessing 1 Traits: Harrow Suit: Hammers Veteran When this is the hour: On your check, add 1 for each type of boon played. To Acquire: Strength Craft 4+# On any check, discard to bless; after the roll, for each type of boon played on the check, add 1. Discard to explore. Fumbus fumbles about the repository, awkwardly looking at Seoni every few minutes as he pretends to hunt for foes (but really is hunting something more to eat). "Other places to guard from dragon-droppings," Fumbus suggests. "Like horsey-house! Or place with icky book things. But Fumbus stay here!" The goblin offers something similar to a smile, continuing to glance awkwardly at the sorcerer from time to time. Finding a small door set in the base of a wall, Fumbus grunts and yanks on it with unhealthy curiosity.
The door pops open, sending Fumbus to the ground with its sudden release. A hail of jagged spikes fire out from the empty portal, completely missing the face-first prone goblin. Fumbus raises his head from the floor. "What that whirring noise?"
Skills and Powers: SKILLS
Strength d6
Dexterity d10 Disable +0 Ranged +1 Constitution d8 Intelligence d8 Craft +3 Arcane +1 Wisdom d4 Charisma d6 Favored Card: Alchemical Item or Attack Spell
The tattooed sorcerer strikes down another annoying kobold as it enters the storehouse, freezing the hapless lizard where it stood. As it keels over, the kobold drops what appears to be a poisonous grenade. All too eager, Fumbus scampers forward to see what he can scavenge (and to see if the kobold carries anything good to eat).
Fumbus sniffs at the grenade carried by the kobold, making positive non-verbal grunts. With a sudden and decisive move, Fumbus picks up the poison bomb and swallows it whole! He then turns to Seoni with a satisfied look on his face. "Yummy!"
Skills and Powers: SKILLS
Strength d6
Dexterity d10 Disable +0 Ranged +1 Constitution d8 Intelligence d8 Craft +3 Arcane +1 Wisdom d4 Charisma d6 Favored Card: Alchemical Item or Attack Spell
Rovagug's Destruction:
Core Blessing 2 Traits: Deity: Rovagug Divine When this is the hour: On your check, you may banish a random blessing from your discards to bless. Fumbus squints at the tattooed sorcerer through his grimy goggles. "You not make Fumbus read nothing?" he says as more of a statement than a question. Not getting a response from the stoic woman, Fumbus shrugs and looks around for something good to eat.
Sniffing about, the goblin's head swiftly comes up. Even before the first howl sounds out, Fumbus produces a pregnant-appearing purple mushroom from his sack, tossing it to the ground where it explodes in a cloud of spores. He signals to Seoni. "Painted lady hold breath. Wolves no bite." Fumbus' eyes then begin crackling with electricity.
A blast of lightning arcs out in all directions from the purple puff of spores. Yelps and frightened barks pair nicely with the sound of multiple sets of paws retreating in all directions. The spores fade. Fumbus smiles at Seoni. "Too bad no dead wolves," the goblin grins. "Taste no good, yes? but make nice hat!"
Skills and Powers: SKILLS
Strength d6
Dexterity d10 Disable +0 Ranged +1 Constitution d8 Intelligence d8 Craft +3 Arcane +1 Wisdom d4 Charisma d6 Favored Card: Alchemical Item or Attack Spell
The Owl:
CotCT
Blessing 1 Traits: Harrow Suit: Stars Veteran When this is the hour: Your Survival check is blessed. To Acquire: Wisdom Survival 4+# On your check, freely discard to use your Wisdom die instead of the normal die. Discard to explore. This exploration, if you are at a Wild location, local checks are blessed. Fumbus looks around in confusion as villagers begin screaming and running around. The smell of smoke and the flash of things exploding doesn't seem to faze the goblin. "Silly village persons. Too stressed. There no---" Fumbus gets cut off as an explosion goes off near him.
As the green clouds of poison clear, a red-scaled kobold steps into view. Fumbus smirks at the bombardier. "Really?" the goblin alchemist says withe deadly seriousness. "This some joke, right?"
Fumbus shares with the inept kobold the secret to a potent poison bomb. He shares it all over the kobold. "Silly dragon-dropping," Fumbus remarks as the kobold scrabbles and chokes at his now-closed airway before collapsing to the ground.
Fumbus pokes around the now-dead kobold's belongings, looking for something good to eat. He pulls a matted wad of paper out of one of the kobold's sacks and immediately screeches. the now-panicked goblin screams. "Words! No, my brain thoughts!"
Fool's Gold:
CotCT Spell 1 Traits: Arcane Magic To Acquire: Intelligence Wisdom Arcane Divine 7 On a local Diplomacy or non-combat Charisma check, banish to add 1d10. If it is a check to acquire and the character acquires the card, they may give it to a local character. If proficient, discard this card; you may succeed at an Arcane or Divine 9 check to recharge it instead. Poking at the wad of paper, Fumbus breathes a sigh of relief as he discovers the paper's true purpose: wrapping up a special shiny gold rock. Fumbus pockets the rock and kicks the dead kobold for good measure. "Scary trick, silly dragon-dropping."
Skills and Powers: SKILLS
Strength d6
Dexterity d10 Disable +0 Ranged +1 Constitution d8 Intelligence d8 Craft +3 Arcane +1 Wisdom d4 Charisma d6 Favored Card: Alchemical Item or Attack Spell
Yes, but unoccupied locations also lose a card if the bane is undefeated and unavenged so covering those unoccupied locations is also a strategy... It seems that folks have partnered up naturally. Amiri and Hakon, Maznar and Talitha, Seoni and Fumbus? I don't see the goblin wanting to hang out at the Library.
Fumbus takes great offense at the village representatives' words, half-spitting the cold mutton on offer in chunks out of his mouth as he yells. "What?! You blind?! You having goblin sighting right now!!! You think Fumbus some red-eyed gnome???" When the villager apologises for defaming Fumbus' people with racist assumptions, the goblin shrugs and resumes devouring more than his share of the leftover meat. "Don't care bout that. You smart to think gobbos steal things from you longsh---good....village....persons." He stumbles over the last few words and resumes shoving mutton down his throat.
Skills and Powers: SKILLS
Strength d6
Dexterity d10 Disable +0 Ranged +1 Constitution d8 Intelligence d8 Craft +3 Arcane +1 Wisdom d4 Charisma d6 Favored Card: Alchemical Item or Attack Spell
Fumbus will spend his hero point on the following power feat: On a local combat check (☐ or a local check to defeat an Obstacle or Trap barrier), you may discard a card ([X] or recharge an Alchemical or Attack card) to add 1d4 and the Acid, Fire, or Poison trait. Fumbus will replace his Aklys with a Fire Lance and upgrade his Blowgun for a Poisoned Sand Tube. No interest in either of the loot cards from Fumbus.
Ah, yes. Mixed up a previous list where I listed loot. Fumbus’ second upgrade is a Weapon 0.
Lookout (Ally 0)
In other words: Ally 0: 1 available
To date: That leaves Amiri with Weapon 1 and Blessing 1 upgrades. Not bad! Is everyone satisfied?
My hero point expenditure will depend on what upgrades I get. 1.)
I’d agree that, given the bonus card upgrade, that we would need at least 12 cards to choose from. I count 11 cards including the loot card.
With all of his noisy "Lunchy-munchies!" Fumbus exclaims happily, scrambling to gobble up the crawling pale arachnids as they just as quickly try to scramble away from the half-mad goblin bomber.
Fumbus disperses the wave of scuttling spiders through sheer gluttony. The marks of a few painful stings for his pains appear on his face and hands.
Fumbus pokes around amongst the rocks of the cliff, spying something shiny.
"Ooooh! Shiny and chilly!" the goblin exclaims.
The painful welts on Fumbus' face begin swelling in a disconcerting way. The goblin turns triumphantly to his companions, holding out the obviously-magical longbow long-buried in the ice at the top of this cliff pass. "Errrrrrt's nnnn errrrrow-ssssssoooooty fing, eeesss?" (Translation: "It's an arrow-shooty thing, yes?")
Skills and Powers: SKILLS
Strength d6
Dexterity d10 Disable +0 Ranged +1 Constitution d8 Intelligence d8 Craft +3 Arcane +1 Wisdom d4 Charisma d6 Favored Card: Alchemical Item or Attack Spell
The Tangled Briar:
CotCT Blessing 1 Traits: Harrow Suit: Shields Veteran When this is the hour: When you close your location, instead of banishing its cards, shuffle them into a random other location. To Acquire: Constitution Survival 4+# On any check, discard to bless. Discard to remove a scourge from a character or a location. Discard to explore. "Stupid cave....didn't want it anyway....too crowded...." Fumbus grumbles as he leaves it to his comrades and scales the rock formation extending over it. After a few minutes of climbing, Fumbus pulls himself up onto a cliff path. "What dat smelly, yes?" Fumbus asks himself, detecting a sulfurous gas.
Fumbus pokes around amongst the rocks until he gets a full-on whiff of the toxic gas seeping out from the rocks. "Whew! Stinky!!!" Fumbus calls out, his eyes momentarily hazy. The goblin thinks for a moment, then snaps his fingers with a great idea. Fishing around within his capacious left ear, Fumbus a produces more-than-what-should-be-healthy quantity of ear wax, rolls it into a ball, and plugs the large crack in the cliff side with it. "Yes. Better now!!!"
A crack of thunder shakes Fumbus. Frightened more than he should be, the goblin scampers along the cliff path with reckless abandon, setting off a delicate trip-wire strung across the path. A hail of sharpened rocks fires at Fumbus' back!
Fumbus pitches face-first into the scree along the path, the heavy stone projectiles whizzing over his head. "Yes, *ack* Fumbus know how best to disable traps, *wheeze* yes," the goblin coughs as he picks himself up from the path.
The Empty Throne:
CotCT Blessing 1 Traits: Harrow Suit: Crowns Veteran When this is the hour: On your check, you may banish a boon to reroll a die. To Acquire: Charisma Divine 4+# On any check, discard to bless. Discard to ignore a bane's before acting or after acting powers. Discard to explore. This exploration, you may ignore banes' before acting or after acting powers. The camera zooms in on a snoring Fumbus laying on his side within the dank cave. The faint buzzing of giant wings echoes through the chamber once more. With a start and a snort, the begoggled goblin sits up. "Wazzah?!"
A wriggling mass of violent viscous venom has shellacked Fumbus' lower half to the ground as he slumbered! All of the goblin's alchemical vials are encased within its rubbery form. Fumbus yells with rage and begins beating the rubbery form with his fists and head.
Oddly enough, it's the repeated blows from Fumbus' head that succeed in driving the cave ooze away and unsticking his body from the floor. Unfortunately, the goblin suffers painful acid burns all over his face and head from the amorphous assailant. "Stupid blob," Fumbus grumbles as he peels himself with no small effort off the cave floor. [color=red]"Fumbus cook you and eat you and then we see who sliming who!"[/color]
Skills and Powers: SKILLS
Strength d6
Dexterity d10 Disable +0 Ranged +1 Constitution d8 Intelligence d8 Craft +3 Arcane +1 Wisdom d4 Charisma d6 Favored Card: Alchemical Item or Attack Spell
The Teamster:
CotCT Blessing 1 Traits: Harrow Suit: Shields Veteran When this is the hour: After your first exploration of your turn, you may discard a card to explore. To Acquire: Constitution Diplomacy 4+# On your check, freely discard to use your Constitution die instead of the normal die. Reload this card and discard another boon to explore. [color=red]"....and you STAY OUT!"[/color] the hallucinating goblin says to himself as he steps back into the entrance to the cave. Giggling quietly, Fumbus hums a silly tune as he moves deeper into the inky blackness, sipping from a flask that smells of mineral spirits.
The buzzing of large wings reverberates off the stony walls of the cave as it curves deep into the earth. Fumbus peers ahead, his goggles grimy with chemical residues. Briefly, the goblin removes the goggles and uses his tongue to clean off the lenses. When he replaces them, a giant fly lunges at him. "Ahhh! Goggies better when dirty!"
Fumbus tosses a gourd filled with foaming poison at the compound eyes of the huge insect, striking it squarely in the proboscis. The envenomed and irritated insect buzzes angrily but by-passes the troublesome goblin, leaving the cave through the main entrance, its wings fading off into the distance.
"Yup! This cave all Fumbus' now!" Fumbus stomps around a corner and straight into a strange succulent plant growing out of the rocky floor. The plant takes offense.
[color=red]"Ow Ow OW Ow Ow OW OW Ow STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP noise!"[/color] Fumbus furiously beats his hooked club on one of the large fronds of the shrieking plant, hoping it will turn down the volume. The club responds by cracking in twain.
The plant stops shrieking, leaving Fumbus shaking and smacking his head to try to get the ringing to stop. He takes a few half-hearted vindictive swings at the bruised and pulpy plant frond as he talks to it. "You [color=red]NO[/color] need to [color=red]YELL[/color] at Fumbus, yes? Fumbus [color=red]FRIENDLY[/color]!"
Skills and Powers: SKILLS
Strength d6
Dexterity d10 Disable +0 Ranged +1 Constitution d8 Intelligence d8 Craft +3 Arcane +1 Wisdom d4 Charisma d6 Favored Card: Alchemical Item or Attack Spell
Wandering through the woods, minding his own business (and wearing the plague mask on the back of his head), Fumbus hears a squeaking and a scream. Never one to shy away from squeaking (it often is a quite tasty treat), the goblin rushes into a clearing, only to find another grimy-looking druid constricting a tattooed human female in vines with a sinister grin while an older man lays on the ground. "Hey!" Fumbus calls out, tearing the plague mask off the back of his head. He is a bit unnerved when his shout actually draws the druid's attention; the unimpressed man whistles oddly and a female halfling, similary-grimy steps forward with a snicker.
Evoker:
Evoker
Core Monster 1 Traits: Halfling Wizard To Defeat: Combat 10+## OR Intelligence Arcane 7+# Roll 1d6. This monster gains the trait and all damage is: 1. Acid 4. Fire 2. Cold 5. Force 3. Electricity 6. Poison Before acting, a random local character suffers 1 damage. After acting, suffer 1d4 damage.
The halfling causes a nimbus of flame to dance amongst her fingers, spraying it across the forest clearing.
*************************Insert Seoni's triumphant battle here************************* The sneering druid turns his eyes more fully on the goblin, letting the vines around the tattooed human go limp. Fumbus sticks his tongue out and tosses a clay flask at the Green Faith follower.
The clay shatters over the druid's torso and hands, a hideous corrosive energy unleashed that melts the man of nature into a shuddering pile of blood and goo, screaming as he goes. Unfortunately, a second druid (the third of the night for Fumbus) hears his colleague's death rattle and steps into the forest clearing, whistling his own tune to call protection to his side.
Giant Toad:
Giant Toad
Core Monster 1 Traits: Animal Poison To Defeat: Combat 10 OR Acrobatics 7 All damage is Poison damage. If undefeated, suffer the scourges Entangled and Poisoned. "You stupid woody longshanks like tasty roaches!" Fumbus remarks as a giant toad waddles into view and whips its tongue at the goblin. "Stinky and all over!" The tongue arcing for Fumbus' face bounces off something invisible in mid-air. Fumbus turns his eyes and sees the tattooed human female drawing magic runes of abjurant force in the air for his benefit.
"What gonna work? TEAM WORK!" Fumbus sings, bringing a long tube up to his lips and propelling a dart straight into one of the toad's massive eyes. The eye pops like the yolk of an egg and the toad falls twitching onto its side. The remaining druid growls. "No complain! You next!" Fumbus bring his blowgun up to his lips again after reloading a different dart.
The dart appears suddenly in the neck of the druid, causing him to wheeze and splutter as the skin around the dart distorts and then swells comically, morbidly, to distort his face and choke off his airway. The doomed foe claws at his useless mouth for a moment before collapsing to the earth, quite dead. Fumbus looks around at the collection of four dead assailants in various states of decrepitude along with his two recovering adventuring companions wearing aghast expressions. The goblin pulls a mouldy carrot from a hip pouch and begins absently munching. "Some night. Many people out. Full moon, yes? I saw cave back that way." He jerks the carrot behind him as a means of invitation.
Skills and Powers: SKILLS
Strength d6
Dexterity d10 Disable +0 Ranged +1 Constitution d8 Intelligence d8 Craft +3 Arcane +1 Wisdom d4 Charisma d6 Favored Card: Alchemical Item or Attack Spell
The Mountain Man:
CotCT Blessing 1 Traits: Harrow Suit: Shields When this is the hour: On your Strength or Constitution check, you may recharge a card to reroll. To Acquire: Constitution Fortitude 4+# On a Strength or Constitution check, after the roll, discard to add 3. Discard to explore. Fumbus dances around the strangely-forlorn campfire, carrying on a conversation with himself. "Not hurt TOO bad if just your right foot stuck in fire, yes? May burn, may smoke. But not TOO bad, yes?" [color=red]"Don't be stupid head! Of course, it hurt! We know fire; we know smoke!"[/color] "Yes, but so shiny." [color=red]"You is right. Make good point."[/color] Before the clearly-ultra-typical goblin alchemist can put his hypothesis to action, a rustling in the bushes catches his attention.
Fumbus picks up the strange leather mask with the hooked nose, trying to fit it on to his face over his bulbous goggles. "Someone drop this?" he says to no one.
With a grunt, Fumbus forces the odd mask over his goggles.
"That's mine," an elf in green leather says, stepping into the clearing. Fumbus cries out, seeing the half-elf scout distorted through the plague mask.
Realising his error, Fumbus rips the mask off of his head and peers shrewdly at the elf. "I no sure you no meanie elf. I keep this -" he gesticulates with the mask - "in case you tricky-wicky! You go back bush-wacking to check for other longsh---- I mean, 'Adventure Partners'." Fumbus goes back to peering at the inside of his now-claimed property.
A hideous scream comes from the bush just as the elf disappears. Fumbus pays little attention. [color=red]"You make too much noise. Elves like shrubs!"[/color]
A disheveled-looking human wearing wood and bits of uncured fur stomps into the clearing and tosses the limp elf's body roughly onto the ground. Fumbus looks up. "You here for ghost stories?" Fumbus asks in a smart-aleck tone before detonating a fungal spore grenade in his vicinity, shielding his movement to the malevolent druid. Moving within the obscuring cloud, Fumbus unleashes a bolt of lightning at the flank of his foe.
The lightning blast propels the druidic henchman into an oak tree, his body bouncing off the solid object like a body really should not. His form lies still and smoking at the edge of the campfire. Fumbus grunts in dissatisfaction. "That not s'posed to happen! Head s'posed to pop." Fumbus grumbles to himself and wanders away from the campfire as he continues to study the strange mask, paying no attention to the two bodies left in his wake.
Skills and Powers: SKILLS
Strength d6
Dexterity d10 Disable +0 Ranged +1 Constitution d8 Intelligence d8 Craft +3 Arcane +1 Wisdom d4 Charisma d6 Favored Card: Alchemical Item or Attack Spell
The Google Hangout link for our table! "...seleventy-elefteen gobbos on the wall, seleventy-elefteen gobboooooos! Take one down, shake him around....Hunh?" Fumbus looks around, surprised that all the After a long pause, the begoggled goblin stumbles off the trail and through the brush, peering this way and that for signs of movement. Up ahead, he spies something that takes his breath away. "Camp FIRE!!!!" Fumbus calls out, rushing headlong for the welcome sight.
"Good to travel outside swamp," the stunted goblin in the goggles says to no one in particular, "yes?" The distinct smell of mineral oil wafts in the air when the goblin speaks. "Fumbus trail-blazing, yes?" Fumbus suddenly erupts in a bout of giggling laughter, finding something exceedingly humorous. The aroma of reactive solvents only grows stronger in the twilight air.
Skills and Powers: SKILLS
Strength d6
Dexterity d10 Disable +0 Ranged +1 Constitution d8 Intelligence d8 Craft +3 Arcane +1 Wisdom d4 Charisma d6 Favored Card: Alchemical Item or Attack Spell
POWERS:
Hello! I'm Dinketry and for this game I'll be playing Fumbus (the Fulminant). I'll swap out a few cards from the Alchemist deck for their Core equivalent, just like Seoni. I'm in New Zealand. We are 7 hours ahead of the west coast of the US and 10 hrs ahead of the east coast. Easiest way to think of it is that the start of a regular work day (8AM) is the end of your work day (6PM) on the east coast or school day (3PM) on the west coast. I generally post at this time of the day. I'm very much going to enjoy getting into Fumbus' roleplaying. I hope I don't get too annoying, but I've not yet had a chance to play a goblin in mixed company (though I've played the Season of the Gobbos with other goblins). And....I've already had a chance to kill Fumbus in playing my first solo session yesterday using the Core box (Thunder Road). Good times! Anyhow, very excited. Thanks for having me on board! |