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<blockquote data-quote="Isida Kep'Tukari" data-source="post: 1191126" data-attributes="member: 4441"><p>After last session, Helios and Dante went up to 6th level. Rhianna's player couldn't be here this week, so Rhianna was "in a trance to contemplate the changes in her life she had gone through recently."</p><p></p><p>This week's session (10-25) I call:</p><p></p><p><strong><u>The Tale of the Fork in the Road</u></strong> <em>or why a natural 20 can have a room full of gamers in stitches for a half hour</em>.</p><p></p><p>The morning after waking up in the Golden Ale tavern the party went to see Rishan to make sure Granny was doing ok. Granny was indeed doing fine, and hugged the characters and told them they were such nice boys and girls for looking out for her. She petted Etriki and told him he was a good puppy. Rishan thanked them for helping him out. </p><p></p><p>One thing the party wanted to do was to figure out why the cockatrice was able to turn things into stone with a gaze, rather than by touch as it was supposed to. They thought that Norrin, the mage that had unstoned Rhianna and the farmhand might be able to tell them why this was so. Rishan gave them directions, and they went to his house.</p><p></p><p>It was cheerfully painted, with pleasant flower beds being tended to by a gnome gardener. After the inevitable garden gnome jokes, the party asked if the master of the house was in, to which the gnome replied no. Just after that, someone asked if Norrin was in, to which the gnome said yes. He said that Norrin's wife was at the market, but Norrin was in, and he went to ask him if he wanted visitors, warning the party to not touch the flowers. Returning, the gardener said they could go in, and not to touch anything.</p><p></p><p>Going in, the party found Norrin sitting in a chair reading. When they spoke to him about discovering why the cockatrice was so different, Norrin said it was interesting, but would take some time. He asked where they might be in a few weeks so he could leave a message for them. The party said they were going to Port Lyalee, so Norrin said he'd leave a message at the Adventurer's Guild when he found something. </p><p></p><p>Thusly satisfied, the party set off southward again. By their calculations it would take them about a week to get to Port Lyalee. The first two days were fairly uneventful, but when the third day began, things got interesting. </p><p></p><p>When going along, the party spotted a fork in the road. Being a wise guy, Helios' player said, "I pick it up." I told him it was made of silver. Hilarity ensued, particularly when the party spotted a spoon a bit off the road... and then a knife... and then another fork next to that. Then they heard something clanking off into the woods. Most of them spotted a small figure, cloaked and carrying a bundle. Fanning out, Helios sneaked around, while Dante turned invisible to go around the other side.</p><p></p><p>Uianya called out to ask who he was and what he was doing, and the figure tried to duck down to hide better. By this time Helios and Dante were around enough that they could see what was going on. The figure was trying to wedge himself under a bush, with not a lot of success. The party called out that they didn't mean to hurt him, and that they wanted him to come out so they could help him. The figure stood up, and it was a young, adolescent red-headed halfling boy.</p><p></p><p>They asked him what he was doing and he said that he was a merchant's apprentice and that his caravan had been attacked by a landshark. The kid had grabbed a blanket full of various valuables so that the landshark wouldn't destroy them, then fled. He told them the landshark had eaten one of the two human guards, so he had just run and not stopped running. The poor kid was obviously in shock and very scared, and the party told him they would go help his caravan and kill the landshark.</p><p></p><p>Helios put the kid up on his horse, and then the party rode off to go find the landshark. They rode about an hour (the kid had been going for a loooong time), finding the occasional piece of silver flatware along the way. Ahead they finally found the ambush site, seeing the churned earth, overturned wagon, and splashes of blood. In the middle of the road was a boulder. Quite paranoid enough, the party spent a few rounds buffing themselves before firing arrows and spells at the boulder. </p><p></p><p>Their paranoia was well-founded as the boulder moved toward them, the huge form of the landshark becoming visible as it threw itself out of the ground and ran towards them. The party attacked it, Etriki biting, Alarian swinging his sword, etc. The landshark didn't like that, and so jumped on Alarian and tried to squish him. He didn't succeed, but still got in a few good hits. Helios and Alarian finished it off with swordwork. Dante remembered that landshark hide made good armor, and took the time to pry off a piece of it.</p><p></p><p>The other party members inspected the ambush site. Helios found two left hands, human-sized, among the pieces, and decided that both humans must have gotten eaten. The tracks of the halflings went into the forest towards the cliffs in the west (the cliffs went up, not down). Quickly the party overturned the wagon and strapped the remaining trade goods (cloth mostly) on the backs of their horses so they wouldn't be taken by anyone else.</p><p></p><p>Then they went into the woods, Helios and Uianya tracked the halflings to the cliff-face, and two a couple of narrow cracks in the rock where the halflings had gone in. They also noted the horse tracks (from the horses that had been pulling the wagon) paralleled the cliff. They had the kid call into the cracks in the cliffs, and eventually the halflings came out. The lead trader, Tess, counted noses and came up three short, and lamented that in their panic-driven flight into the woods, they might have lost some people.</p><p></p><p>The party looked about for tracks, backtracking where they could, and found that some of the tracks just simply vanished in midstep. Suddenly realizing what this meant, the party looked up at the cliff-face. They spotted a high cave... just in time for Alarian to get speared through the shoulder by an enormous spike. A vicious creature with the wings of a bat, body of a lion, head of a human, and a tail bristling with spikes launched itself out of the cave. Dante recognized it as a manticore. Gorf launched an <em>acid arrow</em> at it, but then Alarian quickly fired three arrows, and felled the beast at once (three hits, one of which was a crit, with a might longbow. x3 crit. 40+ points of damage. One very dead manticore). </p><p></p><p>However, the manticore's mate didn't care for that, and she came launching out of the cave next, hitting Alarian with no less than five spikes from her tail. Helios fired his bow, Gorf used <em>magic missile</em>, and Dante cast <em>sheild</em>. She swung up and out, and fired her spikes again, catching Alarian before he could get under cover. He fired more arrows at her, and wounded her further. Uianya threw some fire at her, then decided to <em>wild shape</em> into an eagle.</p><p></p><p>During this time Jenna was looking out for the halflings, and Gorf had cast a touch spell on himself and was flying (very slowly, flumphs aren't too fast) toward the manticore. </p><p></p><p>The next round she did so (there were more arrows from Helios, and Alarian was now firing from underneath Dante's <em>shield</em>, though one more spike got through), and after that flew to the manticore and tried to claw at her. Both claws missed, and the manticore savaged her nearly to death. Wounded, Uianya flew down. Alarian decided to stop hiding behind the shield, and stepped out and fired three arrows again. These were the trick, and the female manticore died like her mate, plowing into the earth.</p><p></p><p>Dante said the spines were good for some spell components, and plucked about a dozen out of Alarian before chopping off the tails of the manticores. They also took the heads to prove the manticore's deaths. Since there were two manticores lairing together, the party thought there might be a baby manticore. Gorf volunteered to go up (his spell was still active) and take care of any babies. He went up, and there was a crackle of lightning from within the cave. Then Gorf dropped a rope down from within the cave.</p><p></p><p>The party found the remains of the three halflings (as well as the now-dead baby manticore), as well as a few things the manticores must have picked up (a belt pouch with some gold and a gem in it, a potion of some sort, and the rope). Going down the cliff again, Jenna said she had found a larger cave a bit further along that they could stay in tonight. </p><p></p><p>The party decided to rest now and then go find the horses in the morning. The night passed uneventfully, and after a couple hour's search, the party found the horses drinking by a stream. Bringing them back, the party returned to the road. Dante decided to cut part of the "fin" off of the landshark as proof of its death. The traders quickly put their own trade goods back on their own horses and took turns leading them along as they pressed southward.</p><p></p><p>The next couple days of travel were uneventful. They spent the next couple nights at small farming towns, and met a couple other traders. They told them about the dead landshark, for which the traders were grateful. The only thing of note that happened was that Helios was finally able to find his animal companion, a jaguar. He calls her Xot.</p><p></p><p>Finally the party reached Port Lyalee, which had white walls from pieces of crushed shell being used in its construction. The scent of the sea was in the air. The one fairly usual thing about Port Lyalee was that it is run almost exclusively by halflings that do a lot of trading between Albon and the coast. Many parts of the city are sized for halflings only, but it is a trade town, and there are many kinds of people there.</p><p></p><p>At the gate, the guard asked what was happening. They told her, and she brought the halfling traders inside for a minute and talked to them. Satisfied, the traders waved good-bye and then the guard motioned the party in. Helios asked where a good inn might be where he would be able to take Xot. The guard pondered for a minute, and thought that the Jeweled Parrot might be the place. Port Lyalee got several shipments of unusual animals, and often they stayed at the Parrot. Lots of entertainers stayed there too.</p><p></p><p>First things first, the party went to the Adventurer's Guild to tell them what was going on and update them on their activities. The man behind the counter looked quite weather-beaten, and his hair was crusted with salt, as if he had taken a recent swim in the sea. The party told him their name, and he exclaimed that they were "the new, up-and-coming group." They told him of their battles with the landshark and manticores, and produced the heads and fin. He told them there was a bounty on them, which the party gleefully collected. </p><p></p><p>They asked where one could find a blacksmith who could fashion a shield from a piece of landshark hide and he directed them to Tiddlywinks, the gnome blacksmith. Thanking him, the party went to find the gnome. His shop was more cheerfully painted than most, and Tiddlywinks himself greeted them. They asked him about making a shield from the piece of landshark hide, and he took it from them an examined it. He said he could make a good large shield from the piece they had, or he could also make one good buckler from the middle of it. He could make it good enough to be enchanted, for a mere two hundred gold pieces. Alarian tried to talk him down, but Tiddlywinks held firm and finally he paid the full two hundred. Then the party finally went to the Jeweled Parrot.</p><p></p><p>It was painted in a riot of colors, appearing to be a brightly colored bird. Inside, several brightly colored birds were flying around, landing on the rafters. Several people had animals, mostly merchant-types. One had a lap dog, and another fat man had an equally fat small jaguar-type animal with a collar and leash by his side. Helios cast <em>speak with animals</em> to converse with the little jaguar, and asked it how it was being treated. It said it was being treated fine, it got lots of fish, and that this was a good place. Xot agreed that this place smelled right, and thus they decided to stay.</p><p></p><p>As Helios was finishing up talking to the cats, one of the birds landed above the party on the rafter and squawked, "Welcome! Welcome to the Jeweled Parrot! Welcome!" Somewhat amazed, Uianya asked the bird if it had actually talked to them. "Welcome!" was the bird's response.</p><p></p><p>The party got a table and a few rooms, and sat down to dinner. They asked a very young serving girl what the birds were. </p><p></p><p>Her response, "A corollax!" </p><p></p><p>"What's a corollax?"</p><p></p><p>"Like a parrot, but different."</p><p></p><p>"What's a parrot?"</p><p></p><p>"Like a corollax, but not quite."</p><p></p><p>Probing a bit to see what made the two different, the girl said that you don't make loud noises around a corollax because they can "made the loud colors." Which didn't help at all.</p><p></p><p><strong><u>Note: The following may offend Eric's Grandmother. Read at your own risk.</u></strong></p><p></p><p>After dinner, a bard by the name of Brightfire got up to sing and play the lute. She was very lovely, with brilliant blue skin and dark pink hair. Dante recognized her as one of the rare radiance genasi, touched by the elemental plane of light and color. Both Helios and Alarian vied for her attention, but it was Helios she smiled at. He wanted to convince her to be his company for the night, or so he was hinting.</p><p></p><p>Now, here's where it gets zany.</p><p></p><p>On pure whim I asked Helios' character to make a "booty call" check (it was the end of the session). He rolled and then started laughing. Natural 20.</p><p></p><p>Wow.</p><p></p><p>Ok, so a natural 20 booty call check pretty much covers all of the bases and few I didn't know existed, so Brightfire took Helios up to her room.</p><p></p><p>The next half hour were taken up with such descriptions as to Helios' new outfit: big white jacket with fur trim, big had with a feather, lots of jewelry, and silver-topped cane. Much was made of the fact that he would have to get a white horse with fuzzy barding, silk saddlebags, with fuzzy dice hanging between the horse's ears, with a halfling on the back doing his best imitation of a beat box. His new attacks were described; the ultimate pimp slap, with his jewel-encrusted rings of ultimate pimpin.'</p><p></p><p>Phrases were bandied about such as the fact that Brightfire was to be "appraising his family jewels," that Helios was now "The Staffmaster," and another title that revolved around him being the master of felines. Except the word feline wasn't used. </p><p></p><p>Colors were discussed such as magenta and chartreuse crushed velvet. Alarian ran right out and got Helios a hat with a big red feather. Much was made of the fact that Brightfire was going to be composing some songs that would give Helios a +20 to all future booty call checks after singing them. Then Helios' player mentioned that Brightfire had already been singing a song tonight... I mentioned that I had seen a Master Pimp PrC that I was going to have to find for him...</p><p></p><p>And much more. Pretty much the whole group was in stitches for a good 20 minutes as we kept coming up with more comments and additions. </p><p></p><p>I will never look at a natural 20 the same way. Ever. Again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Isida Kep'Tukari, post: 1191126, member: 4441"] After last session, Helios and Dante went up to 6th level. Rhianna's player couldn't be here this week, so Rhianna was "in a trance to contemplate the changes in her life she had gone through recently." This week's session (10-25) I call: [b][u]The Tale of the Fork in the Road[/u][/b][u][/u] [i]or why a natural 20 can have a room full of gamers in stitches for a half hour[/i]. The morning after waking up in the Golden Ale tavern the party went to see Rishan to make sure Granny was doing ok. Granny was indeed doing fine, and hugged the characters and told them they were such nice boys and girls for looking out for her. She petted Etriki and told him he was a good puppy. Rishan thanked them for helping him out. One thing the party wanted to do was to figure out why the cockatrice was able to turn things into stone with a gaze, rather than by touch as it was supposed to. They thought that Norrin, the mage that had unstoned Rhianna and the farmhand might be able to tell them why this was so. Rishan gave them directions, and they went to his house. It was cheerfully painted, with pleasant flower beds being tended to by a gnome gardener. After the inevitable garden gnome jokes, the party asked if the master of the house was in, to which the gnome replied no. Just after that, someone asked if Norrin was in, to which the gnome said yes. He said that Norrin's wife was at the market, but Norrin was in, and he went to ask him if he wanted visitors, warning the party to not touch the flowers. Returning, the gardener said they could go in, and not to touch anything. Going in, the party found Norrin sitting in a chair reading. When they spoke to him about discovering why the cockatrice was so different, Norrin said it was interesting, but would take some time. He asked where they might be in a few weeks so he could leave a message for them. The party said they were going to Port Lyalee, so Norrin said he'd leave a message at the Adventurer's Guild when he found something. Thusly satisfied, the party set off southward again. By their calculations it would take them about a week to get to Port Lyalee. The first two days were fairly uneventful, but when the third day began, things got interesting. When going along, the party spotted a fork in the road. Being a wise guy, Helios' player said, "I pick it up." I told him it was made of silver. Hilarity ensued, particularly when the party spotted a spoon a bit off the road... and then a knife... and then another fork next to that. Then they heard something clanking off into the woods. Most of them spotted a small figure, cloaked and carrying a bundle. Fanning out, Helios sneaked around, while Dante turned invisible to go around the other side. Uianya called out to ask who he was and what he was doing, and the figure tried to duck down to hide better. By this time Helios and Dante were around enough that they could see what was going on. The figure was trying to wedge himself under a bush, with not a lot of success. The party called out that they didn't mean to hurt him, and that they wanted him to come out so they could help him. The figure stood up, and it was a young, adolescent red-headed halfling boy. They asked him what he was doing and he said that he was a merchant's apprentice and that his caravan had been attacked by a landshark. The kid had grabbed a blanket full of various valuables so that the landshark wouldn't destroy them, then fled. He told them the landshark had eaten one of the two human guards, so he had just run and not stopped running. The poor kid was obviously in shock and very scared, and the party told him they would go help his caravan and kill the landshark. Helios put the kid up on his horse, and then the party rode off to go find the landshark. They rode about an hour (the kid had been going for a loooong time), finding the occasional piece of silver flatware along the way. Ahead they finally found the ambush site, seeing the churned earth, overturned wagon, and splashes of blood. In the middle of the road was a boulder. Quite paranoid enough, the party spent a few rounds buffing themselves before firing arrows and spells at the boulder. Their paranoia was well-founded as the boulder moved toward them, the huge form of the landshark becoming visible as it threw itself out of the ground and ran towards them. The party attacked it, Etriki biting, Alarian swinging his sword, etc. The landshark didn't like that, and so jumped on Alarian and tried to squish him. He didn't succeed, but still got in a few good hits. Helios and Alarian finished it off with swordwork. Dante remembered that landshark hide made good armor, and took the time to pry off a piece of it. The other party members inspected the ambush site. Helios found two left hands, human-sized, among the pieces, and decided that both humans must have gotten eaten. The tracks of the halflings went into the forest towards the cliffs in the west (the cliffs went up, not down). Quickly the party overturned the wagon and strapped the remaining trade goods (cloth mostly) on the backs of their horses so they wouldn't be taken by anyone else. Then they went into the woods, Helios and Uianya tracked the halflings to the cliff-face, and two a couple of narrow cracks in the rock where the halflings had gone in. They also noted the horse tracks (from the horses that had been pulling the wagon) paralleled the cliff. They had the kid call into the cracks in the cliffs, and eventually the halflings came out. The lead trader, Tess, counted noses and came up three short, and lamented that in their panic-driven flight into the woods, they might have lost some people. The party looked about for tracks, backtracking where they could, and found that some of the tracks just simply vanished in midstep. Suddenly realizing what this meant, the party looked up at the cliff-face. They spotted a high cave... just in time for Alarian to get speared through the shoulder by an enormous spike. A vicious creature with the wings of a bat, body of a lion, head of a human, and a tail bristling with spikes launched itself out of the cave. Dante recognized it as a manticore. Gorf launched an [i]acid arrow[/i] at it, but then Alarian quickly fired three arrows, and felled the beast at once (three hits, one of which was a crit, with a might longbow. x3 crit. 40+ points of damage. One very dead manticore). However, the manticore's mate didn't care for that, and she came launching out of the cave next, hitting Alarian with no less than five spikes from her tail. Helios fired his bow, Gorf used [i]magic missile[/i], and Dante cast [i]sheild[/i]. She swung up and out, and fired her spikes again, catching Alarian before he could get under cover. He fired more arrows at her, and wounded her further. Uianya threw some fire at her, then decided to [i]wild shape[/i] into an eagle. During this time Jenna was looking out for the halflings, and Gorf had cast a touch spell on himself and was flying (very slowly, flumphs aren't too fast) toward the manticore. The next round she did so (there were more arrows from Helios, and Alarian was now firing from underneath Dante's [i]shield[/i], though one more spike got through), and after that flew to the manticore and tried to claw at her. Both claws missed, and the manticore savaged her nearly to death. Wounded, Uianya flew down. Alarian decided to stop hiding behind the shield, and stepped out and fired three arrows again. These were the trick, and the female manticore died like her mate, plowing into the earth. Dante said the spines were good for some spell components, and plucked about a dozen out of Alarian before chopping off the tails of the manticores. They also took the heads to prove the manticore's deaths. Since there were two manticores lairing together, the party thought there might be a baby manticore. Gorf volunteered to go up (his spell was still active) and take care of any babies. He went up, and there was a crackle of lightning from within the cave. Then Gorf dropped a rope down from within the cave. The party found the remains of the three halflings (as well as the now-dead baby manticore), as well as a few things the manticores must have picked up (a belt pouch with some gold and a gem in it, a potion of some sort, and the rope). Going down the cliff again, Jenna said she had found a larger cave a bit further along that they could stay in tonight. The party decided to rest now and then go find the horses in the morning. The night passed uneventfully, and after a couple hour's search, the party found the horses drinking by a stream. Bringing them back, the party returned to the road. Dante decided to cut part of the "fin" off of the landshark as proof of its death. The traders quickly put their own trade goods back on their own horses and took turns leading them along as they pressed southward. The next couple days of travel were uneventful. They spent the next couple nights at small farming towns, and met a couple other traders. They told them about the dead landshark, for which the traders were grateful. The only thing of note that happened was that Helios was finally able to find his animal companion, a jaguar. He calls her Xot. Finally the party reached Port Lyalee, which had white walls from pieces of crushed shell being used in its construction. The scent of the sea was in the air. The one fairly usual thing about Port Lyalee was that it is run almost exclusively by halflings that do a lot of trading between Albon and the coast. Many parts of the city are sized for halflings only, but it is a trade town, and there are many kinds of people there. At the gate, the guard asked what was happening. They told her, and she brought the halfling traders inside for a minute and talked to them. Satisfied, the traders waved good-bye and then the guard motioned the party in. Helios asked where a good inn might be where he would be able to take Xot. The guard pondered for a minute, and thought that the Jeweled Parrot might be the place. Port Lyalee got several shipments of unusual animals, and often they stayed at the Parrot. Lots of entertainers stayed there too. First things first, the party went to the Adventurer's Guild to tell them what was going on and update them on their activities. The man behind the counter looked quite weather-beaten, and his hair was crusted with salt, as if he had taken a recent swim in the sea. The party told him their name, and he exclaimed that they were "the new, up-and-coming group." They told him of their battles with the landshark and manticores, and produced the heads and fin. He told them there was a bounty on them, which the party gleefully collected. They asked where one could find a blacksmith who could fashion a shield from a piece of landshark hide and he directed them to Tiddlywinks, the gnome blacksmith. Thanking him, the party went to find the gnome. His shop was more cheerfully painted than most, and Tiddlywinks himself greeted them. They asked him about making a shield from the piece of landshark hide, and he took it from them an examined it. He said he could make a good large shield from the piece they had, or he could also make one good buckler from the middle of it. He could make it good enough to be enchanted, for a mere two hundred gold pieces. Alarian tried to talk him down, but Tiddlywinks held firm and finally he paid the full two hundred. Then the party finally went to the Jeweled Parrot. It was painted in a riot of colors, appearing to be a brightly colored bird. Inside, several brightly colored birds were flying around, landing on the rafters. Several people had animals, mostly merchant-types. One had a lap dog, and another fat man had an equally fat small jaguar-type animal with a collar and leash by his side. Helios cast [i]speak with animals[/i] to converse with the little jaguar, and asked it how it was being treated. It said it was being treated fine, it got lots of fish, and that this was a good place. Xot agreed that this place smelled right, and thus they decided to stay. As Helios was finishing up talking to the cats, one of the birds landed above the party on the rafter and squawked, "Welcome! Welcome to the Jeweled Parrot! Welcome!" Somewhat amazed, Uianya asked the bird if it had actually talked to them. "Welcome!" was the bird's response. The party got a table and a few rooms, and sat down to dinner. They asked a very young serving girl what the birds were. Her response, "A corollax!" "What's a corollax?" "Like a parrot, but different." "What's a parrot?" "Like a corollax, but not quite." Probing a bit to see what made the two different, the girl said that you don't make loud noises around a corollax because they can "made the loud colors." Which didn't help at all. [b][u]Note: The following may offend Eric's Grandmother. Read at your own risk.[/u][/b][u][/u] After dinner, a bard by the name of Brightfire got up to sing and play the lute. She was very lovely, with brilliant blue skin and dark pink hair. Dante recognized her as one of the rare radiance genasi, touched by the elemental plane of light and color. Both Helios and Alarian vied for her attention, but it was Helios she smiled at. He wanted to convince her to be his company for the night, or so he was hinting. Now, here's where it gets zany. On pure whim I asked Helios' character to make a "booty call" check (it was the end of the session). He rolled and then started laughing. Natural 20. Wow. Ok, so a natural 20 booty call check pretty much covers all of the bases and few I didn't know existed, so Brightfire took Helios up to her room. The next half hour were taken up with such descriptions as to Helios' new outfit: big white jacket with fur trim, big had with a feather, lots of jewelry, and silver-topped cane. Much was made of the fact that he would have to get a white horse with fuzzy barding, silk saddlebags, with fuzzy dice hanging between the horse's ears, with a halfling on the back doing his best imitation of a beat box. His new attacks were described; the ultimate pimp slap, with his jewel-encrusted rings of ultimate pimpin.' Phrases were bandied about such as the fact that Brightfire was to be "appraising his family jewels," that Helios was now "The Staffmaster," and another title that revolved around him being the master of felines. Except the word feline wasn't used. Colors were discussed such as magenta and chartreuse crushed velvet. Alarian ran right out and got Helios a hat with a big red feather. Much was made of the fact that Brightfire was going to be composing some songs that would give Helios a +20 to all future booty call checks after singing them. Then Helios' player mentioned that Brightfire had already been singing a song tonight... I mentioned that I had seen a Master Pimp PrC that I was going to have to find for him... And much more. Pretty much the whole group was in stitches for a good 20 minutes as we kept coming up with more comments and additions. I will never look at a natural 20 the same way. Ever. Again. [/QUOTE]
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