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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9134336" data-attributes="member: 508"><p><strong>ADVENTURE 58: GIANT MONSTER RAMPAGE</strong></p><p></p><p>PC Roster: <p style="margin-left: 20px">Alewyth Putterpye, dwarf priestess of Aerik 12 (Anguiras)</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"> Thurloe Pulver, human fighter 3/wizard 3/spellsword 6 (MOGUERA)</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"> Wakuren, half-orc cleric of Cal 6/paladin 6 (Gamera)</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"> Xandro Silverstrings, human bard 6/rogue 6 (Gigan)</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"> Zander Quilson, elf sorcerer 12 (King Caesar)</p><p></p><p>Game Session Date: 9 September 2023</p><p></p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p>The first night after returning from their spirit quest, the five dreamwalkers gathered together in the Dreamlands with their individual moogle guides. "This ought to be an interesting session, kupo," remarked Kupek.</p><p></p><p>The moogles flitted through the Corridor of Dreams, the five dreamwalkers following. After a number of twists and turns, they arrived at a specific door - one seemingly no different than the numerous other ones stretching down along each of the hallways they'd traversed thus far. But opening it up, Doc ushered the heroes inside, and there they found their primary dreamwalking instructor, Mogo, fluttering alone in a vast wasteland of shattered earth and blowing winds.</p><p></p><p>"I've heard about your special new spirit guides, kupo!" he said by way of greeting. "You're going to have to get used to your new dream-bodies and their powers if you're going to be expected to have any luck fighting off those other guardian dream monsters, kupo! Well, this is where you'll get to practice, kupo!"</p><p></p><p>Mogo explained to his students how to channel the power of their spirit kaiju, allowing each dreamwalker to transform his or her body into kaiju form and back again. They practiced transforming back and forth a few times until they pretty much had the hang of it. Then Mogo suggested the best way to learn about their new powers was a five-way scramble. "It'll be a five-way fight to the death - except when you get 'killed' you'll just wake back up in your own bed, kupo!"</p><p></p><p>"You guys better all get ready to be awakened, pronto!" Thurloe warned the others, his face in a wide grin. He was stoked at putting his new, metal monster body through its paces.</p><p></p><p>"You'll be eating those words," Alewyth promised.</p><p></p><p>"Okay then, move yourselves out in a big circle, so there's more or less the same distance between you, kupo!" Mogo instructed. "When I say 'Go,' you all take on your kaiju forms and fight to the death, kupo!" Unnoticed, the door to the dreamscape opened back up and the five moogle guides slipped in, fluttering in the back of the dreamscape to watch the event. They seemed to be betting among themselves which of their assigned trainees would survive the longest.</p><p></p><p>"On your mark..." began Mogo.</p><p></p><p>"You're going down, elf boy!" warned Thurloe.</p><p></p><p>"...get set..."</p><p></p><p>"Bring it on - my kaiju can whip your kaiju any day of the week!" Zander replied.</p><p></p><p>"...<em>go</em>, kupo!"</p><p></p><p>As one, each of the five dreamwalkers began changing shape, growing to an enormous size in the process. Mogo flew straight up and then flapped over to the other five moogles, where he got involved in the side bets.</p><p></p><p>Zander finished his transformation into King Caesar - a towering, humanoid form with the head and bushy-tipped tail of an upright foo dog - and shuffled over towards Alewyth, whose transformation into Anguiras was likewise complete. She had dropped to all fours as she changed, and now sported a reptilian form protected by a shell covered in pointed spikes. King Caesar approached her from the side and scratched at her with his claws, keeping away from her snapping jaws. But Anguiras spun about after King Caesar's attacks, biting at the upright dog-man and scratching at his legs with the claws on her front feet. It seemed as if these two had declared themselves the first one-on-one combat.</p><p></p><p>Wakuren finished his transformation into the kaiju turtle Gamera, standing upright on his hind legs with his thick tail out to provide balance. He lumbered over towards Thurloe, noticing that while his stride was quite large, he moved much slower than he would have in his half-orc body. He roared in frustration, unable to make it to Thurloe before the spellsword's own transformation was complete. But Thurloe, now an upright construct of solid metal, met Gamera in a shuffling charge, stabbing at the turtle with a spinning drill from the end of one of his arms. Gamera roared again, this time in pain, as Xandro finished his own transformation into the cyborg bird-monster Gigan. He moved forward towards Gamera, hoping to flank the giant turtle while his attention was focused upon MOGUERA. Not satisfied with his slow speed, Gigan took to the air, swooping in behind the giant turtle, who was oblivious to the incoming attack.</p><p></p><p>Anguiras bit at King Caesar again, and when the giant foo dog went to retaliate, he learned that to do so came at a cost, for the spiny dinosaur's shell stabbed at King Caesar as he made his own attacks. Gamera, in the meantime, breathed out a blast of fire from his mouth at MOGUERA, striking the robot in the chest. Then he struck at him with his claws and his teeth, finding little purchase on the mechanical being's blocky form. But with a quick blast of his jets, MOGUERA skipped back out of range and shot Gamera in the chest with a blast of energy from his own torso and also with a pair of beams emanating from the robot's shining eyes.</p><p></p><p>Then Gigan struck, hitting Gamera on the back of his shell with his beak and his two pointed claws at the tips of his arms - and then he activated the rotating saw embedded in his chest, tearing a line through the giant turtle's protective shell. Gamera cried out in pain and fury from the attacks from both front and behind, but decided since he'd started out by attacking MOGUERA he was going to finish that job first. MOGUERA continued firing his eye-mounted laser beams, but Gamera hit him with another blast of fire and then closed in for another series of claw and bite attacks. Anguiras, however, made the first kill by rearing up on her hind legs and not only clawing at King Caesar but also getting his fur-covered throat between her dinosaur beak. Crushing his throat between her powerful jaws, she felt her mouth fill up with blood just before King Caesar vanished completely from the field of battle; having been "slain," Zander was shunted awake with a strangled cry at his throat - the same throat he found himself blocking protectively with his hands as he sat up, wide awake from the dream. "Dang it!" he grumbled, then settled himself back to bed to try to get back to sleep as quickly as he could.</p><p></p><p>In the back of the battle-dream, Calliope gave Moki a smug look and said, "I told you so, kupo!" Moki just looked crestfallen.</p><p></p><p>Gamera gave another fiery blast in MOGUERA's direction, then closed in for three more physical attacks from the front. But the robot monster was now also getting three physical attacks from his left flank, for Anguiras, flush with her first victory, had crawled over to the next-nearest monster to see what further damage she could do. MOGUERA, surprised at being double-teamed in this fashion, decided to focus his attacks on Anguiras for a bit, blasting her with a beam of energy from his mechanical torso. He followed that up with a drill attack, but Anguiras managed to make him pay for that attack with her spiny defense. Gigan, in the meantime, continued his full-on attack on Gamera's shell as the giant turtle continued to focus his attention on MOGUERA.</p><p></p><p>Gamera, finally realizing just how much Gigan had inflicted on his poor shell, turned to face the cyborg menace - but by then it was too late. Gigan's spiked arms stabbed the turtle in his front shell as his wicked beak snapped at the turtle's throat and his buzzsaw blades cut into his front shell. Just that quickly, Gamera was slain; he vanished from the combat dreamscape without a trace, as Wakuren sat up in his own bed and cursed silently to himself. (In the dreamscape, Kupek swore as well - even using some of the same words - but not at all silently, and he ended his rant with the traditional mooglish "kupo!")</p><p></p><p>But MOGUERA wasn't far behind, for Anguiras managed to get in her bevy of attacks before the robot monster could muster his own attacks, and the mechanical being exploded in a shower of sparks, which, when they fell away to the ground, had apparently taken MOGUERA with them. Thurloe awoke in his own bed, not at all happy at having been bested, but consoling himself with the fact it had taken two opponents to bring him down. He figured he'd handled himself fairly well given the two-to-one odds. (Doc made the same claims back in the dreamscape, swearing that MOGUERA could easily take out Gamera or Gigan in a one-on-one fight.)</p><p></p><p>Now it came down to Gigan versus Anguiras; ironically, the two kaiju who had no ranged attacks (for even King Caesar was able to reflect a ranged attack back at an enemy, not that he'd had an opportunity to do that during this initial five-way skirmish). Anguiras scurried forward on all fours, while Gigan flew just above the ground to make better speed. The crashed together in the middle, Gigan attacking four times to Anguiras's three. Both managed to wound the other several times over, but it all came down to Anguiras being able to summon forth the willpower to heal over some of her wounds and strike first after their initial clash; she managed to slay Gigan and claim victory, much to Calliope's delight.</p><p></p><p> - - - </p><p></p><p>After the initial skirmish, I had fully intended to have Mogo conjure up a powerful dream kaiju for the five dreamwalkers to fight - I had statted up Dream Destoroyah for that very purpose - but once MOGUERA had been defeated in the first fight Dan had started packing up his dice. And since the whole purpose of this short adventure was to get the players used to the shortened set of "Giant Monster Rampage" rules I'd pared it down to (I took out the part of each turn where there's a chance the military gets in an attack on whichever monster's turn it is, for one thing - I didn't mind using kaiju from old movies in the dreamscape but I didn't want to have to explain tanks and missiles), and they'd pretty much figured out the basics by then. So although each of the five PC monsters was created using a 175-point build, and Destoroyah was a 300-point-build monster, I figured in a five-to-one fight he'd be easily overtaken.</p><p></p><p>Incidentally, the players all liked their respective kaiju except Harry, who did not like at all the fact that Gigan doesn't have any ranged attacks. Pointing out that he had four melee attacks, each of which can do two points of damage (the monsters all have the equivalent of 10 "hit points" - they're called Wound points in GMR), which was more physical attacks than any of the other PC kaiju, didn't do anything to change his mind. So Logan came up with a good compromise - when the PCs use their kaiju forms to take on a guardian dream kaiju (scheduled to occur as soon as our next gaming session), he offered to let Harry run Gamera while Logan runs Gigan - Gigan will still be Xandro and Gamera will still be Wakuren, but they'll be running each other's (kaiju) PCs during the dream battles. Harry agreed, and that's what we're planning on doing.</p><p></p><p> - - - </p><p></p><p>T-shirt worn: Still my Godzilla T-shirt, because it was the same gaming session, but it was even more appropriate for this particular short adventure.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richards, post: 9134336, member: 508"] [b]ADVENTURE 58: GIANT MONSTER RAMPAGE[/b] PC Roster: [INDENT]Alewyth Putterpye, dwarf priestess of Aerik 12 (Anguiras) Thurloe Pulver, human fighter 3/wizard 3/spellsword 6 (MOGUERA) Wakuren, half-orc cleric of Cal 6/paladin 6 (Gamera) Xandro Silverstrings, human bard 6/rogue 6 (Gigan) Zander Quilson, elf sorcerer 12 (King Caesar)[/INDENT] Game Session Date: 9 September 2023 - - - The first night after returning from their spirit quest, the five dreamwalkers gathered together in the Dreamlands with their individual moogle guides. "This ought to be an interesting session, kupo," remarked Kupek. The moogles flitted through the Corridor of Dreams, the five dreamwalkers following. After a number of twists and turns, they arrived at a specific door - one seemingly no different than the numerous other ones stretching down along each of the hallways they'd traversed thus far. But opening it up, Doc ushered the heroes inside, and there they found their primary dreamwalking instructor, Mogo, fluttering alone in a vast wasteland of shattered earth and blowing winds. "I've heard about your special new spirit guides, kupo!" he said by way of greeting. "You're going to have to get used to your new dream-bodies and their powers if you're going to be expected to have any luck fighting off those other guardian dream monsters, kupo! Well, this is where you'll get to practice, kupo!" Mogo explained to his students how to channel the power of their spirit kaiju, allowing each dreamwalker to transform his or her body into kaiju form and back again. They practiced transforming back and forth a few times until they pretty much had the hang of it. Then Mogo suggested the best way to learn about their new powers was a five-way scramble. "It'll be a five-way fight to the death - except when you get 'killed' you'll just wake back up in your own bed, kupo!" "You guys better all get ready to be awakened, pronto!" Thurloe warned the others, his face in a wide grin. He was stoked at putting his new, metal monster body through its paces. "You'll be eating those words," Alewyth promised. "Okay then, move yourselves out in a big circle, so there's more or less the same distance between you, kupo!" Mogo instructed. "When I say 'Go,' you all take on your kaiju forms and fight to the death, kupo!" Unnoticed, the door to the dreamscape opened back up and the five moogle guides slipped in, fluttering in the back of the dreamscape to watch the event. They seemed to be betting among themselves which of their assigned trainees would survive the longest. "On your mark..." began Mogo. "You're going down, elf boy!" warned Thurloe. "...get set..." "Bring it on - my kaiju can whip your kaiju any day of the week!" Zander replied. "...[i]go[/i], kupo!" As one, each of the five dreamwalkers began changing shape, growing to an enormous size in the process. Mogo flew straight up and then flapped over to the other five moogles, where he got involved in the side bets. Zander finished his transformation into King Caesar - a towering, humanoid form with the head and bushy-tipped tail of an upright foo dog - and shuffled over towards Alewyth, whose transformation into Anguiras was likewise complete. She had dropped to all fours as she changed, and now sported a reptilian form protected by a shell covered in pointed spikes. King Caesar approached her from the side and scratched at her with his claws, keeping away from her snapping jaws. But Anguiras spun about after King Caesar's attacks, biting at the upright dog-man and scratching at his legs with the claws on her front feet. It seemed as if these two had declared themselves the first one-on-one combat. Wakuren finished his transformation into the kaiju turtle Gamera, standing upright on his hind legs with his thick tail out to provide balance. He lumbered over towards Thurloe, noticing that while his stride was quite large, he moved much slower than he would have in his half-orc body. He roared in frustration, unable to make it to Thurloe before the spellsword's own transformation was complete. But Thurloe, now an upright construct of solid metal, met Gamera in a shuffling charge, stabbing at the turtle with a spinning drill from the end of one of his arms. Gamera roared again, this time in pain, as Xandro finished his own transformation into the cyborg bird-monster Gigan. He moved forward towards Gamera, hoping to flank the giant turtle while his attention was focused upon MOGUERA. Not satisfied with his slow speed, Gigan took to the air, swooping in behind the giant turtle, who was oblivious to the incoming attack. Anguiras bit at King Caesar again, and when the giant foo dog went to retaliate, he learned that to do so came at a cost, for the spiny dinosaur's shell stabbed at King Caesar as he made his own attacks. Gamera, in the meantime, breathed out a blast of fire from his mouth at MOGUERA, striking the robot in the chest. Then he struck at him with his claws and his teeth, finding little purchase on the mechanical being's blocky form. But with a quick blast of his jets, MOGUERA skipped back out of range and shot Gamera in the chest with a blast of energy from his own torso and also with a pair of beams emanating from the robot's shining eyes. Then Gigan struck, hitting Gamera on the back of his shell with his beak and his two pointed claws at the tips of his arms - and then he activated the rotating saw embedded in his chest, tearing a line through the giant turtle's protective shell. Gamera cried out in pain and fury from the attacks from both front and behind, but decided since he'd started out by attacking MOGUERA he was going to finish that job first. MOGUERA continued firing his eye-mounted laser beams, but Gamera hit him with another blast of fire and then closed in for another series of claw and bite attacks. Anguiras, however, made the first kill by rearing up on her hind legs and not only clawing at King Caesar but also getting his fur-covered throat between her dinosaur beak. Crushing his throat between her powerful jaws, she felt her mouth fill up with blood just before King Caesar vanished completely from the field of battle; having been "slain," Zander was shunted awake with a strangled cry at his throat - the same throat he found himself blocking protectively with his hands as he sat up, wide awake from the dream. "Dang it!" he grumbled, then settled himself back to bed to try to get back to sleep as quickly as he could. In the back of the battle-dream, Calliope gave Moki a smug look and said, "I told you so, kupo!" Moki just looked crestfallen. Gamera gave another fiery blast in MOGUERA's direction, then closed in for three more physical attacks from the front. But the robot monster was now also getting three physical attacks from his left flank, for Anguiras, flush with her first victory, had crawled over to the next-nearest monster to see what further damage she could do. MOGUERA, surprised at being double-teamed in this fashion, decided to focus his attacks on Anguiras for a bit, blasting her with a beam of energy from his mechanical torso. He followed that up with a drill attack, but Anguiras managed to make him pay for that attack with her spiny defense. Gigan, in the meantime, continued his full-on attack on Gamera's shell as the giant turtle continued to focus his attention on MOGUERA. Gamera, finally realizing just how much Gigan had inflicted on his poor shell, turned to face the cyborg menace - but by then it was too late. Gigan's spiked arms stabbed the turtle in his front shell as his wicked beak snapped at the turtle's throat and his buzzsaw blades cut into his front shell. Just that quickly, Gamera was slain; he vanished from the combat dreamscape without a trace, as Wakuren sat up in his own bed and cursed silently to himself. (In the dreamscape, Kupek swore as well - even using some of the same words - but not at all silently, and he ended his rant with the traditional mooglish "kupo!") But MOGUERA wasn't far behind, for Anguiras managed to get in her bevy of attacks before the robot monster could muster his own attacks, and the mechanical being exploded in a shower of sparks, which, when they fell away to the ground, had apparently taken MOGUERA with them. Thurloe awoke in his own bed, not at all happy at having been bested, but consoling himself with the fact it had taken two opponents to bring him down. He figured he'd handled himself fairly well given the two-to-one odds. (Doc made the same claims back in the dreamscape, swearing that MOGUERA could easily take out Gamera or Gigan in a one-on-one fight.) Now it came down to Gigan versus Anguiras; ironically, the two kaiju who had no ranged attacks (for even King Caesar was able to reflect a ranged attack back at an enemy, not that he'd had an opportunity to do that during this initial five-way skirmish). Anguiras scurried forward on all fours, while Gigan flew just above the ground to make better speed. The crashed together in the middle, Gigan attacking four times to Anguiras's three. Both managed to wound the other several times over, but it all came down to Anguiras being able to summon forth the willpower to heal over some of her wounds and strike first after their initial clash; she managed to slay Gigan and claim victory, much to Calliope's delight. - - - After the initial skirmish, I had fully intended to have Mogo conjure up a powerful dream kaiju for the five dreamwalkers to fight - I had statted up Dream Destoroyah for that very purpose - but once MOGUERA had been defeated in the first fight Dan had started packing up his dice. And since the whole purpose of this short adventure was to get the players used to the shortened set of "Giant Monster Rampage" rules I'd pared it down to (I took out the part of each turn where there's a chance the military gets in an attack on whichever monster's turn it is, for one thing - I didn't mind using kaiju from old movies in the dreamscape but I didn't want to have to explain tanks and missiles), and they'd pretty much figured out the basics by then. So although each of the five PC monsters was created using a 175-point build, and Destoroyah was a 300-point-build monster, I figured in a five-to-one fight he'd be easily overtaken. Incidentally, the players all liked their respective kaiju except Harry, who did not like at all the fact that Gigan doesn't have any ranged attacks. Pointing out that he had four melee attacks, each of which can do two points of damage (the monsters all have the equivalent of 10 "hit points" - they're called Wound points in GMR), which was more physical attacks than any of the other PC kaiju, didn't do anything to change his mind. So Logan came up with a good compromise - when the PCs use their kaiju forms to take on a guardian dream kaiju (scheduled to occur as soon as our next gaming session), he offered to let Harry run Gamera while Logan runs Gigan - Gigan will still be Xandro and Gamera will still be Wakuren, but they'll be running each other's (kaiju) PCs during the dream battles. Harry agreed, and that's what we're planning on doing. - - - T-shirt worn: Still my Godzilla T-shirt, because it was the same gaming session, but it was even more appropriate for this particular short adventure. [/QUOTE]
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