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She's here! Natalie Skye, born at 5:46 PM. 7 lb 2 oz, 20 inches long. Both mother and baby are doing well. :D
Baby might be coming soon! We are heading to the hospital now. I will check in when I can.
Princess wakes after a fitful slumber, taking the extra time while the others snooze to study the spellbook. Her stomach grumbles happily as she remembers the meal she made of the wizard that formerly owned the tome. Today, new understanding dawns on her as she unlocks the secrets of the telepathy spell.
Once her spells are prepared, the ogre studies the jade necklace, hoping to understand its powers.
"Oh, my! Well, it's not about the size, it's how you use it, right? Maybe if the big boy had a little more stamina, this ogress could take it for a spin," Princess muses, the minds of her companions no doubt filling with revolting images. The wizard finds a comfortable corner to prop up her heaving bulk, and soon she nods off as well, grateful for the chance to rest.
"I can think of a few good uses for these," Princess says as she tucks the scrolls between a few rolls of her blubber. She then turns to examine the deck of cards.
Princess examines the scrolls. "Ooh, come to mama!"
No bonds resolved. Alignment: Use magic to cause terror and fear. I think having a sun lover kill his ally counts. +1 XP Looted a memorable treasure. +1 XP XP 11 -8. Level up! New Move: Arcane Ward
Str +1
I will level up when I have some free time tomorrow.
My wife and I are expecting the birth of our second daughter any time between now and her due date of July 13th. When that occurs, I will likely be incommunicado for a few days. I will also be taking a month off from work, and since I usually do most of my posting from there, my posts will be sporadic and infrequent during that time. Things should get back to normal when I return to work though. GM, please feel free to bot me during this time.
"Damn fools are going to get themselves killed. Shame--they were handsome, too." Princess sighs. She turns to Wek. "Unless we want to die too, I suggest we retreat now."
"Wekky-wek! Are you okay, scaly boy?" Princess jiggles over to the druid's side, offering him her healing potion. She squints up at the sun streaming down from the hole. She's not certainly charging up there!
Princess grunts as the lance stabs her. Fortunately, the wound isn't that bad, and Shattertooth makes the sunlover pay for his insolence. The ogre recovers her staff and moves to help Wek, smacking the abomination to try to rescue him.
Her charmed soldier's sacrifice is not in vain, as Princess delivers a solid wallop with her staff. But then the sunlover grabs it and hurls it into the darkness. "How rude!" Princess declares. Caught in melee without a weapon, the ogre concentrates on defending herself while trying to grab something off one of the fallen soldiers.
Finding herself in the thick of things, Princess lashes out with her staff.
"Back off!" Princess snarls. She charges the sunlover threatening her and slams him with her prodigious belly, knocking him off-balance before letting her charmed friend keep her for at bay.
Standing behind her devoted bodyguard, Princess fires magic missiles at one of the enemy sunlovers.
Seeing the sunlovers approach, Princess decides to try to even the odds. "Hey there, handsome. How about you come on over to the right side?" The ogre casts a spell and reaches out to caress the nearest knight.
Princess waits with the others, ready to cast a spell when the fight is joined.
Princess lets out a low whistle as the muscular half-orc emerges from the webbing. "Hello, gorgeous!" she croons, fluttering her eyelashes. "My name's Princess. What's yours, big boy?" When Wek asks about the compound, she gets down on her hands and knees and sniffs at it experimentally. "Of course! That's..."
Princess lays a comforting arm over Lur's muscular shoulders. "Don't worry, my big teddy bear. I'm sure there will be another opportunity for gruesome bloodshed very, very soon!"
"Agreed. The witch first. Murdering humans second."
The ogress clambers to her feet. "Thanks, boys. Next time we go spelunking, remind me to bring an umbrella." She brushes dust and rocks off of her rugose body.
"Sure thing, I'll just take a little nap," the ogre says sarcastically, wincing in pain.
Princess trusts her blubbery body to batter the rocks out of the way. It doesn't work out the way she plans.
Princess sends another pair of bolts at the monsters.
Princess's nose wrinkles as she sees the spider-thralls. "Ugh, nasty beasts!" She casts a spell, sending pure projectiles of magic streaking into one of the creatures.
"Hmm, I just remembered an old trick! It must have been hidden in the corners of the wizard's brain. I am just now digesting it." The ogre rubs her bulging tummy happily, then proceeds to cast the bridge spell flawlessly.
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Princess looks dubiously at the snake pit and the gap across it. "I'm not really the running and jumping sort. I don't think I'll be able to make it across." The ogre calls out to Wek and Lur. "Yoo-hoo, boys! Any way you can help the rest of us across?"
Princess shakes her head. "Anything I could do wouldn't be quick or inexpensive. If there's no easy way across, we should head back and try a different path."
"Wek, would you be a dear and fly over to see what's on the other side?"
"Shall we continue this direction?" Assuming no objections, the ogre heads straight.
"Might as well go down this way as far it leads before we double back," Princess says. She leads the group further down the hallway.
"I agree, Lur. Nothing good ever comes from fairies." Princess scowls, but lets the others play with their new pet. Perhaps she'll be able to snack on it later. The ogre gathers the alchemical equipment for further study later on. "Shall we move out?"
"Hey, if you can't save her, she won't be entirely useless," Princess says. "Fairies make good eating." She licks her lips hungrily.
"Very well." The ogre waits to see what Shattertooth will find.
Princess gathers 100 gold coins and secrets them in various fat folds. "All done here? No permanent damage to either of you, I hope?" Once everybody is ready, she will lead the group back to the intersection of three passages down the other corridor.
"Alright, I'll try." Princess reaches down with the grate to try to haul Lur up.
"A lovely thought dear, but beyond my capabilities!" She sighs as Lur plops down into Wek's oozy body. "Just wait it out!" There's not much the ogre can do to help right now.
"Ooh, these are lovely little treats," Princess says, licking her lips excitedly. She looks down to where Uek and Lur are still dancing about. "Come on, boys! Finish up your little spat and let's keep exploring this dungeon!"
As the others play with ooze Wek, Princess examines the other potions to determine their function.
Princess stares in wonder at the shuddering mass of ooze that Uek has become. "I don't know... There's something oddly alluring about him..." She shifts to get a better view, her own flesh shuddering about with the movement. "It would probably be best to cut the coins out before he reforms."
"That potion will turn you into an ooze, love! Not sure if it's useful right now!" Princess calls down. She clambers up the ladder once Vorgo passes.
Congratulations!
"Ouch! Back, beastly things! Curse the gods for giving me such a juicy, delicious body!" Princess gets back to her feet and tries to bully her way to the ladder again.
"Oops! I think I woke the babies! Vile, voracious little babies!" Princess makes for the ladder out, bodily shoving mimic coins aside with her jiggling blubber.
"Lur! Hold on, honey-bear!" Princess appears as she casts a spell.
"I'll see if I can figure it out," Princess says quietly. The invisible ogre moves to alchemical vials and, assuming nothing untoward happens, tries to study them to discern their properties.
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