"Secret doors are heroes' blood and butter, full of treasures to reward quest-finishing!" Pileus says. "Lead onward, Fellow-hero Wang!"
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"Villain, if you kill hostage, then leave in coffin. Goblin-clan and Hero Pileus and Fellow-Heroes easy to kill one villain. Best idea to drop hostage and leave. You don't die, hostage don't die, everybody happy," Pileus says sagely.
Pileus readies himself to climb up to the halfling should he harm the hostage.
Pileus runs forward◆ a total of 45'◆ and begins a flurry◆ of punches against the dragon. "Pileus Shady Pool and fellow-heroes will slay the dragon!" he cries as he attacks.
"Pileus not fast enough to reach villain-halfling and grab before hurts hostage-goblin. Not very stealthy, can't sneak across," he frets. "Pileus could throw seedpods at villain, would that be enough?"
”Pileus, what do you think? Can we trust him?” Gexi keeps his voice low in the hope of keeping his inquiry more private. "Yes, Hellknight seems trustworthyish. Not saying all things, but Pileus does not think trying to trap heroes," Pileus replies in a quiet voice. ---"Fellow hero Jojo, these doors lead around?" noting the door behind the goblin and his hostage. He points to the doors to his left. "Maybe Pileus go through door and behind to villain-halfling and disarm him of hostage-goblin?"
It can detect creature's intentions, why would that be a disappointment? Just because it only does so on a crit success doesn't mean that I don't have a shot at useful information. Even knowing whether he's acting normally or abnormally would be helpful.
I had posted to Sense Motive to see if the guy was on the level
I'm not opposed to it but since Pileus is pretty wise I figured he'd size the Hellknight up
Hell-knight, not hail-night, Pileus thinks. Maybe in caw-hoots with evildoers? Maybe looksee if he lies.
"Hero Pileus Shady Pool," the mushroom monk says proudly, "and fellow heroes. We fight fire devil in Breachill before our hiring to find gone goblins from this Hailnight city-dell. Are you wishing to become fellow-hero and join our possum?"
"Stop, hail monkey!" Pileus cries, water forming around his hands as he enters Reflective Ripple Stance◆. He rushes northward◆ next to Thark and unleashes a flurry◆ of Flowing Wave attacks.
Pileus seems fascinated by the mummified elf hand. "Why only keep hand? Too dry, can't even give to mold-friends to eat. Why on chain? Hailnights and goblins keep weird things." He shrugs and tosses it into the bag with the rest of the group's loot.
"Thank you friend Gexi. Wound almost all closed. Pileus ready to rebegin quest!" He bounds to his feet and looks a bit hesitantly toward the secret door. "Er, maybe Pileus leave glory for fellow-hero, so not to selfish-hog."
"Leshy-kabobbing is not fun, do not try," he says, pressing a hand gingerly to the wound. "Hailnights very much not want heroes finding secrets, but not enough to kill Pileus! Thank you fellow-hero Wang for healpoem. Need to step lighter now, not upset traps."
"Which door? Eeny meeny miney...west?" Pileus asks, pointing towards the western door.
"Shame spiders not want become fellow-heroes," Pileus muses. "Training hall good for bettering of our heroitude! Pileus train by shady pool, you train in hall, you get strong like Pileus!"
Pileus steps◆ forward, enters Reflective Ripple Stance◆ and tries to stomp the yellow spider swarm with a flurry◆ of kicks, dew and mist trailing his movements.
"Thark made spider-friends! Maybe they join fellow-heroes in quest to save goblin tribe?" Pileus asks hopefully.
"Both ways lead to ruing of our anenomes! But perhaps kitchen is best. Maybe meet new yeast-friend to rise bread for us!" Pileus pipes up.
Merry Christmas!
Pileus looks around for shinies or threats.
"Lead the way, Fellow-Hero Jojo!" Pileus says.
Pileus strides east◆ to move into flanking position with Thark. "Pileus wishes you not make him kick your grass!" the leshy cries, and unleashes a flurry of blows◆ with flowing wave attacks.
With one last desperate strike, he attempts once again to trip the goblinoid.
"Hero Pileus of the Shady Pool now floatens you with wave fist!" Pileus psyches himself up into Reflective Ripple Stance◆, the dewlike drops coalescing onto his fists. He strides up into flanking◆ position with Thark and makes a flowing wave sweep of his arm at her legs, not to hurt the goblin, but to trip◆ her.
"That, um, warning strike. Pileus floatens Enemy Goblin if you not surrender!"
"Pileus not very sneakful," Pileus thinks, "Search among room for clues? Or shinies?" He sweeps the room with his dark-seeing eyes. Secret Perception check:
Happy Thanksgiving!
"Hmm, maybe hushful entering is better. Once they see us heroes, they might make ruckus and bring all enemies at once," Pileus muses, absently chewing on a dead leaf he'd picked up in the road. "Maybe better sneak and fight one by one, save on healing."
We survived the Gap! How is everyone?
"Er, yes, Pileus was just, er, testing you," he says, crimson pulsing in his white face. "Let's charge the city-dell!"
"Pileus is right beside you!" the mushroom-man steps forward to accompany Thark towards the citadel. "Do you want to bust door, or should Pileus? Brought crowbar for crates, maybe open door too?" He pulls the tool from his pack and brandishes it.
"Do not worry, President Greta. Pileus's fists make enemy unconchance if want, not have to kill. Fellow heroes and me will get the firemaker," Pileus beams and secures his buckler once more to his forearm. "To the City Dell!"
"Ouch!" Pileus clutches his head. "Um, thank you, feeling much better. Going to go, um, listen to music..." Pileus sidles away from Thark and towards Shi, whose hymn of healing does the trick. "Thank you, fellow-hero Shi. Where did you learn heal-music? Never heard before."
Did Thark ninja your post? XD
"Heroitude is its own reward," Pileus says confidently, then reconsiders, "But then again, need silver for hero-gear and paying healer to fix Pileus brainburn. Uh, thank you," he says, taking the offered silver and elixirs. He still clutches his head, the blue cap blistered at the front and oozing a blood-like sap. "Anyone know good healer? Once brain is better, Pileus happy to go with fellow-heroes to Hailnight Hill to help Bumblebrashers and find firesetter."
"Thank you, fellow-hero Jojo. The shady pool taught Pileus everything about fighting, and shady pool kills fire, so that is how. What is iron-circle you hit fire monster with?"
"Pileus Shady Pool is firefighter now! Heroic journey has begun! Does magic fistwater work on bigger fire?" The monk begins trying flowing wave attacks against the fires in the room. "Also, any of you healers? Fire monster burned Pileus brain," he says, kneading his fingers on the blue cap that forms most of his head.
@GM Reflective Ripple Stance Flowing Wave attacks do have the [water] trait, although they deal bludgeoning damage not cold/energy. I'm not sure if just having the trait would have any effect on the scamps or if they just respond to cold damage, but I thought I'd let you know in case it did.
Pileus grits his teeth at the pain, then concentrates, his muscles rippling and what looks like dew forms on his arms and hands. "Fire monster, meet flowing waves!" Then he flurries◆ with two Flowing Wave attacks against the scamp, a puff of steam escaping from his fists where they contact it.
Finally, he raises his buckler◆ against the scamp.
"Stop fire, or Pileus Shady Pool will make you stop!" the monk-room charges◆ forward◆ with a double stride and flurries◆ the devil, bringing both fists to bear on the pyrophile.
Once he's made his way forward Pileus sits on a bench at the very front, calmly listening to the president speak with rapt attention. The leshy, it seems, has mastery over his ebullience when the need arises.
Hope the surgery goes well Gexi
Pileus retrieves a dented buckler from his backpack and straps it onto his left arm. "Come Friends Gexi, Shi, Thark, let's become heroes!" Striking (what he thinks is) a heroic pose with the buckler held to the sky, though it comes off a little goofy, he declares, "Hero-to-Be Pileus Shady Pool and hero-to-be-friends, coming through!" The fungus leshy makes his way through the crowd and as far forward as he can manage, too eager to notice whether or not the others join him.
"Hmm, Bumblebrashers, yes, decent folk, not far. Red smoke, no talk from City Dell Allterrain, this is bad, but good time for heroes to prove their heroitude and save the day! Don't fear, Pileus Shady Pool--" Pileus gestures to himself excitedly, "--will travel to City Dell with new friends and put out red smoke fire and ask why goblins stop talking to Hero Caller Warbal!" Pileus ponders to himself what kind of natural causes--such as herbs or minerals--might make red smoke. Nature RK secret check:
It's weird because I also play a gunslinger in JD's Abomination Vaults campaign and in the almost year we've been playing, he's never ghosted us for a whole week like this before, but he's gone silent over there too. I hope everything's okay.
"I hope Call is dire! There's no glory in small Calls. Like Call-Hero orc said, we want to hear lamb and tater rations of our anemones! Is that a kind of hero victory stew?" Pileus asks eagerly.
"I call myself Pileus Shady Pool, not Noble Kami," he says, misunderstanding the bard. "Meal is not needed. I eat in forest. But music is always welcome! What do you call yourself, friend?" Pileus, my friend,” Gexi says a little too loudly in the gathered crowd. ”I thought the meeting was to begin at midday. I’m just glad I didn’t oversleep. Any idea what the urgency is?” "No, no idea, friend Gexi. I was going to greet Sourdough Starter in kitchen when I saw big early crowd for Call. I wish to be called, so I hurried over."
A small man in a gigantic blue hat and monk's robes makes his way through the crowd. As he gets closer, you see that he is not wearing a hat. It is in fact the cap of a mushroom and clearly part of his head. The face beneath holds sapphire eyes, a pair of holes serving as nostrils, and a thin mouth. His skin all over is white as chalk where it isn't armored in what looks like tree bark and underneath the skin are thick muscles. His robes are dirty--no, not dirt--mold. His robe must have been a light tan when they started, but now it is spotted with blue, green, and black mold. His backpack too looks similarly mildewy. Perhaps the strangest thing is that the grouping of the mold isn't random--it appears in subtle patterns that make you think it may have been grown on his robes on purpose. "Early call for heroes, very early, must be needing much heroics, needing strong arms and courage, yes, I will answer call today," he says to no one in particular in a reedy voice. |