KidCthulhu
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More specifically, he tried to mock it with his monkey pants. Apparently they don't like Buffy references. Not surprising, really..
KidCthulhu's Scarred Land story hour
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Iron Chef BBQ
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But he's so cute! (run of 7-1-03)
When they wake up in the morning, Deke still looks pale and shaken. Lucre again casts detect magic to see if anything about Deke is amiss, but detects nothing unusual. Kel prays to Corian to restore Deke’s vitality. He feels Corian’s warming rays emanate from his hands. He lays his hands on Deke’s head and feels the warmth penetrate into the little filcher’s body, but when he is finished, Deke is as tired and drained as ever. Everyone remembers Doppel-Deke and shivers at the thought of a repeat, but they just have to trust that he’ll be ok.
While this is going on, Kalina is scouting the area of last night’s encounter. She calls out that she’s found human footprints. The footsteps are a single set of standing prints, no sign of anyone walking into or out of the area. Fang bounds over to investigate, but stops cold at the edge of the area. He will not approach the footsteps, and for the first time ever Kalina senses fear in him.
Given Deke’s description of last night’s events, Kenyan is positive that he was attacked by a vampire. Marja remembers back to Amalthea when they met that frail blond woman in Lord Dobrick’s manor house. She too disappeared in a cloud of red smoke. How innocent they were that these kinds of creatures lived in the world. Kenyan has a lot of information on vampires and fills the party in on the basics.
With nothing else to investigate the party has no choice, but to head toward Hooffall. They are only four hours away, and it is only mid-morning so they are confident they can reach the shrine and investigate it before dark. They journey for two hours over rolling planes. Over the next hour of their journey the landscape begins to look like the area is suffering drought. Then the entire region is dead: no plant life, no insect sounds, not even any birds flying overhead on their way to someplace else. Finally, they crest a hill, and below them lies the crescent-shaped lake of Hooffall. The sight is depressing for the water is a deep color, not a crisp living blue, and the buildings, which can be clearly seen at this distance, are covered with a black sticky lichen.
They cautiously enter the area. There are three large buildings, all are boarded up and silent. The low one on the right seems to have been a stable. The tall one in the middle was obviously the church. Kel walks around each building detecting evil. He senses mild evil in the large main building and in the low building to the left. Kalina searches for tracks and finds the body of a guard lying beneath a dead scrub tree. His neck has been bitten.
Lucre and Borin chop stakes from the dead tree. They stand over the body of the guard. “Anyone want to say a few words before I chop his head off?” asks Lucre. Kenyan bows his head and says under his breath, “Sucks to be you. Hope it’s not me.” He lifts his head and says in a louder voice, “There. I said a few words.” With a swing Lucre severs the neck.
The group continues on to the graveyard. There are a dozen headstones. Six belong to brothers and sisters of the Hooffall order; 4 died many years ago; 2 died just four months ago. There are four graves, presumably of travelers, all with dates from over a year ago. At the far end of the yard there are two stones. They read, “Althea, beloved wife taken too soon,” and “Nicolo, beloved son.” They both died on the same day about 6 months ago. Kalina suggests digging up the graves, but the others don’t see much point to that. Kel informs them that he detects no evil in the graveyard, and realizing that his spell won’t last much longer, he continues on.
They come to the back of the church. This side of the building had a large 20-foot window that has been boarded over. It looked out over the once-beautiful lake. Marja casts fly on Kel who rises up to look down on the building. He senses 20 beings in the basement radiating moderate evil. As Kel’s spell fades, the party regroups behind the church. Kenyan lends Kel his gloves of the beloved (+2 Cha) to help him cast turn undead. Suddenly, Lucre comments on how Kel reminds him of his first sword instructor, and he reminds Deke of this kindly man who ran a general store when Deke was just a little elf. He used to turn his head when Deke would steel apples. Oh, how those gloves affect people!
They move around to the small, low building on the left which has a long row of shuttered windows. Deke silently moves down the wall unlocking each shutter. Only one sticks. The party circles the building. Lucre power attacks the locked shuttered, smashes it and tumbles inside landing on a bed. He is in a small cell with 2 beds. The door is closed at the other end. There is a chest on the floor at the foot of the bed, and Lucre can just make out a small figure crying in the dark. It’s a small boy, only about two years old. Lucre’s heart melts for the poor little guy, but then he remembers that Kel detected evil in this building. “Hey, poor little fella. Come on. Give us a hug.” When the crying child looks up, Lucre jumps down and slashes at the child. “Got me one in here,” he yells out the window. The child shrieks and yells, “Bad man!”
Suddenly, 4 scabby arms shoot through the unlocked shutters near Kenyan. They claw at him before he can back away, and suddenly he feels every muscle in his body seize up. He falls, paralyzed, to the ground. Deke grabs Kenyans mirror and reflects light into the room. He hears ghoulish snarls as the arms withdraw. Kalina casts flameblade and stands ready.
Marja cautiously opens the window in front of her. She sees nothing so she lightly vaults through the opening into the room. As she walks toward the door, she stumbles over something on the floor. It’s a bleached arm bone protruding from under the bed. The rest of the body is nowhere to be seen.
Borin has moved around to the other side of the building. He smashes in the door and finds himself in a narrow hallway facing a row of door. Kel follows him into the building. One of the doors swings open and out rush two purple-rotting creatures. Through the door Borin can see another still inside and Deke at the window with a mirror. Borin rages and swings his battle-axe. It slices clean through both legs of the nearest creature. Its torso lands with a squish on the floor, but it keeps coming forward, pulling itself with its arms. Kel stabs it. Uck! It feels like stabbing aspic.
Borin can hear Marja’s voice casting behind him as she opens her door to look into the hall. As she finishes her chant nothing appears to have happened, but then he hears her casting again, the same chant as before. Her words sound oddly sped up, and he grins. All at once, her chant becomes clear. It doesn’t sound sped up at all, and Borin swings his axe in a blur of hasted movement. He looks through the open door to see Kalina reaching through the window with her flame blade slicing a gash in the third creature’s side. Fang jumps through the window and tears the ghoul’s throat out. It falls dead, for the second time in its life.
Meanwhile, Lucre is alone with a two-year-old. “Please, don’t hurt me,” the child cries. He tries to hug Lucre, and wraps his arms around Lucre’s legs. Although the child is tiny and Lucre is agile, he cannot shake the little creature from him. He feels a chill enter his body as the child tries to drain him of life. (note: the child rolled a critical, and Piratecate rolled a 1 on his save)
Deke moves to the next window, pulls it open and peaks inside. Nothing animate inside. He spots a pile of bones, and on the pile something glints in the sun. It’s a ring. He scampers inside to investigate. Outside Kenyan lies motionless worrying that his hair got messed when he fell.
Kell attempts to turn undead. He drops to his knees and sends up a prayer in a loud, clear voice. His voice is so pure and inspiring that everyone momentarily stops to look at him. He seems almost to glow in his fervor, and then the light concentrates at his chest and springs, galloping from his holy symbol. A shining white stallion jumps to the sky leaping on the two remaining ghouls and blowing them apart.
Lucre reaches down and grabs at the two-year-old kid, but try as he might, he just can’t peel the kid off of him. The child slaps at him and climbs up his body. Lucre can feel his cold little hands reaching under his armor. He pulls open the door and calls for help. Borin steps into the room to aid his cousin. Lucre’s beard is streaked with gray, and his face looks haggard. Borin raises his axe and swings at Lucre’s back and hits, but he hesitates on the backswing as he realizes that he’s just severed the arm of a baby. His axe swings wide and lodges in the wall. Moving in a blur, he still manages to pull his axe from the wall before the child speaks. The adorable little creature cries out in pain and yells, “Stop!” raising its tiny remaining hand. Borin feels a moment of pity for the child, but gets a glance at Lucre’s beard and shakes it off.
Marja steps into the doorway. Her heart would be the most likely to be torn by the pathetic little thing, but she’s come to have blind faith in her companions. If Lucre called for help, she doesn’t question. She doesn’t even look. Three missiles of light spring from her fingers and fly at the lump clinging to Lucre’s back. The child falls in a heap on the floor.
Kalina jumps into the room through the window. Deke grabs an arm bone from the pile and runs to the door. “Need a hand?” Kel pushes into the room with his sword ready to cut off its head, but balks at attacking a child. Lucre, drained from his encounter, has no such compulsion. He pulls a stake from his pack and stabs the child through the heart. The limbs begin to shrivel so Lucre pulls the stake out again. Suddenly, the body begins to turn to mist. Both Borin and Lucre swing, but miss. “No,” cries Marja. Three more missiles shoot from her fingertips. Success! The creature gurgles and dissipates.
When they wake up in the morning, Deke still looks pale and shaken. Lucre again casts detect magic to see if anything about Deke is amiss, but detects nothing unusual. Kel prays to Corian to restore Deke’s vitality. He feels Corian’s warming rays emanate from his hands. He lays his hands on Deke’s head and feels the warmth penetrate into the little filcher’s body, but when he is finished, Deke is as tired and drained as ever. Everyone remembers Doppel-Deke and shivers at the thought of a repeat, but they just have to trust that he’ll be ok.
While this is going on, Kalina is scouting the area of last night’s encounter. She calls out that she’s found human footprints. The footsteps are a single set of standing prints, no sign of anyone walking into or out of the area. Fang bounds over to investigate, but stops cold at the edge of the area. He will not approach the footsteps, and for the first time ever Kalina senses fear in him.
Given Deke’s description of last night’s events, Kenyan is positive that he was attacked by a vampire. Marja remembers back to Amalthea when they met that frail blond woman in Lord Dobrick’s manor house. She too disappeared in a cloud of red smoke. How innocent they were that these kinds of creatures lived in the world. Kenyan has a lot of information on vampires and fills the party in on the basics.
With nothing else to investigate the party has no choice, but to head toward Hooffall. They are only four hours away, and it is only mid-morning so they are confident they can reach the shrine and investigate it before dark. They journey for two hours over rolling planes. Over the next hour of their journey the landscape begins to look like the area is suffering drought. Then the entire region is dead: no plant life, no insect sounds, not even any birds flying overhead on their way to someplace else. Finally, they crest a hill, and below them lies the crescent-shaped lake of Hooffall. The sight is depressing for the water is a deep color, not a crisp living blue, and the buildings, which can be clearly seen at this distance, are covered with a black sticky lichen.
They cautiously enter the area. There are three large buildings, all are boarded up and silent. The low one on the right seems to have been a stable. The tall one in the middle was obviously the church. Kel walks around each building detecting evil. He senses mild evil in the large main building and in the low building to the left. Kalina searches for tracks and finds the body of a guard lying beneath a dead scrub tree. His neck has been bitten.
Lucre and Borin chop stakes from the dead tree. They stand over the body of the guard. “Anyone want to say a few words before I chop his head off?” asks Lucre. Kenyan bows his head and says under his breath, “Sucks to be you. Hope it’s not me.” He lifts his head and says in a louder voice, “There. I said a few words.” With a swing Lucre severs the neck.
The group continues on to the graveyard. There are a dozen headstones. Six belong to brothers and sisters of the Hooffall order; 4 died many years ago; 2 died just four months ago. There are four graves, presumably of travelers, all with dates from over a year ago. At the far end of the yard there are two stones. They read, “Althea, beloved wife taken too soon,” and “Nicolo, beloved son.” They both died on the same day about 6 months ago. Kalina suggests digging up the graves, but the others don’t see much point to that. Kel informs them that he detects no evil in the graveyard, and realizing that his spell won’t last much longer, he continues on.
They come to the back of the church. This side of the building had a large 20-foot window that has been boarded over. It looked out over the once-beautiful lake. Marja casts fly on Kel who rises up to look down on the building. He senses 20 beings in the basement radiating moderate evil. As Kel’s spell fades, the party regroups behind the church. Kenyan lends Kel his gloves of the beloved (+2 Cha) to help him cast turn undead. Suddenly, Lucre comments on how Kel reminds him of his first sword instructor, and he reminds Deke of this kindly man who ran a general store when Deke was just a little elf. He used to turn his head when Deke would steel apples. Oh, how those gloves affect people!
They move around to the small, low building on the left which has a long row of shuttered windows. Deke silently moves down the wall unlocking each shutter. Only one sticks. The party circles the building. Lucre power attacks the locked shuttered, smashes it and tumbles inside landing on a bed. He is in a small cell with 2 beds. The door is closed at the other end. There is a chest on the floor at the foot of the bed, and Lucre can just make out a small figure crying in the dark. It’s a small boy, only about two years old. Lucre’s heart melts for the poor little guy, but then he remembers that Kel detected evil in this building. “Hey, poor little fella. Come on. Give us a hug.” When the crying child looks up, Lucre jumps down and slashes at the child. “Got me one in here,” he yells out the window. The child shrieks and yells, “Bad man!”
Suddenly, 4 scabby arms shoot through the unlocked shutters near Kenyan. They claw at him before he can back away, and suddenly he feels every muscle in his body seize up. He falls, paralyzed, to the ground. Deke grabs Kenyans mirror and reflects light into the room. He hears ghoulish snarls as the arms withdraw. Kalina casts flameblade and stands ready.
Marja cautiously opens the window in front of her. She sees nothing so she lightly vaults through the opening into the room. As she walks toward the door, she stumbles over something on the floor. It’s a bleached arm bone protruding from under the bed. The rest of the body is nowhere to be seen.
Borin has moved around to the other side of the building. He smashes in the door and finds himself in a narrow hallway facing a row of door. Kel follows him into the building. One of the doors swings open and out rush two purple-rotting creatures. Through the door Borin can see another still inside and Deke at the window with a mirror. Borin rages and swings his battle-axe. It slices clean through both legs of the nearest creature. Its torso lands with a squish on the floor, but it keeps coming forward, pulling itself with its arms. Kel stabs it. Uck! It feels like stabbing aspic.
Borin can hear Marja’s voice casting behind him as she opens her door to look into the hall. As she finishes her chant nothing appears to have happened, but then he hears her casting again, the same chant as before. Her words sound oddly sped up, and he grins. All at once, her chant becomes clear. It doesn’t sound sped up at all, and Borin swings his axe in a blur of hasted movement. He looks through the open door to see Kalina reaching through the window with her flame blade slicing a gash in the third creature’s side. Fang jumps through the window and tears the ghoul’s throat out. It falls dead, for the second time in its life.
Meanwhile, Lucre is alone with a two-year-old. “Please, don’t hurt me,” the child cries. He tries to hug Lucre, and wraps his arms around Lucre’s legs. Although the child is tiny and Lucre is agile, he cannot shake the little creature from him. He feels a chill enter his body as the child tries to drain him of life. (note: the child rolled a critical, and Piratecate rolled a 1 on his save)
Deke moves to the next window, pulls it open and peaks inside. Nothing animate inside. He spots a pile of bones, and on the pile something glints in the sun. It’s a ring. He scampers inside to investigate. Outside Kenyan lies motionless worrying that his hair got messed when he fell.
Kell attempts to turn undead. He drops to his knees and sends up a prayer in a loud, clear voice. His voice is so pure and inspiring that everyone momentarily stops to look at him. He seems almost to glow in his fervor, and then the light concentrates at his chest and springs, galloping from his holy symbol. A shining white stallion jumps to the sky leaping on the two remaining ghouls and blowing them apart.
Lucre reaches down and grabs at the two-year-old kid, but try as he might, he just can’t peel the kid off of him. The child slaps at him and climbs up his body. Lucre can feel his cold little hands reaching under his armor. He pulls open the door and calls for help. Borin steps into the room to aid his cousin. Lucre’s beard is streaked with gray, and his face looks haggard. Borin raises his axe and swings at Lucre’s back and hits, but he hesitates on the backswing as he realizes that he’s just severed the arm of a baby. His axe swings wide and lodges in the wall. Moving in a blur, he still manages to pull his axe from the wall before the child speaks. The adorable little creature cries out in pain and yells, “Stop!” raising its tiny remaining hand. Borin feels a moment of pity for the child, but gets a glance at Lucre’s beard and shakes it off.
Marja steps into the doorway. Her heart would be the most likely to be torn by the pathetic little thing, but she’s come to have blind faith in her companions. If Lucre called for help, she doesn’t question. She doesn’t even look. Three missiles of light spring from her fingers and fly at the lump clinging to Lucre’s back. The child falls in a heap on the floor.
Kalina jumps into the room through the window. Deke grabs an arm bone from the pile and runs to the door. “Need a hand?” Kel pushes into the room with his sword ready to cut off its head, but balks at attacking a child. Lucre, drained from his encounter, has no such compulsion. He pulls a stake from his pack and stabs the child through the heart. The limbs begin to shrivel so Lucre pulls the stake out again. Suddenly, the body begins to turn to mist. Both Borin and Lucre swing, but miss. “No,” cries Marja. Three more missiles shoot from her fingertips. Success! The creature gurgles and dissipates.
KidCthulhu
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Re: But he's so cute! (run of 7-1-03)
PirateCat has clearly been watching too much Buffy. I was so hoping one of them would pull the stake right out. [grin]
Iron Chef BBQ said:
PirateCat has clearly been watching too much Buffy. I was so hoping one of them would pull the stake right out. [grin]
Iron Chef BBQ
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Re: Re: But he's so cute! (run of 7-1-03)
Yah, too bad Kenyan C. Boltan was frozen solid, or he might have said something. *grin*
KidCthulhu said:
Yah, too bad Kenyan C. Boltan was frozen solid, or he might have said something. *grin*
ForceflowX
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Let there be more!
*Bump*
*Bump*
KidCthulhu
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But, to his credit, Leucre's scream was entirely manly, and contained no girlish shreaks or pathetic mewling. Really.
Blood Jester
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*now where's that damn light switch...*
>BUMP<
*OW! OW! OW!*
>BUMP<
*OW! OW! OW!*
Iron Chef BBQ
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updates coming
Look for THREE updates on Monday.
(I promise.)
Here's a teaser: We play Monday night, and we're all going to die! However, this will not impact the game in any way.
Also, look for some new characters, and say good bye to some old ones.
Chef.
Look for THREE updates on Monday.
(I promise.)
Here's a teaser: We play Monday night, and we're all going to die! However, this will not impact the game in any way.
Also, look for some new characters, and say good bye to some old ones.
Chef.
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