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<blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 8928590" data-attributes="member: 63"><p>About a decade ago, a friend was running a Conan game, in which we were ascending a tower of a scorpion cult, which had three wizards working for it, each of whom had their own mystical specialty. </p><p></p><p>The first was an illusionist who used drugged gasses and mirrors to mess with our perceptions. We defeated him by shattering all his mirrors and pouring mead to put out the censer of drugged gasses, so he had nowhere to hide.</p><p></p><p>The second was a sculptor who could cast his consciousness into various clay golems in his laboratory, and if you destroyed one, he'd just take over another. We defeated him by breaking all the clay sculptures he was not yet animating, so he had nowhere else to run once we focused on him.</p><p></p><p>Then we got to the third wizard, and the GM was getting kinda sleepy, so he described him as "being in, y'know, like a big black mecha suit." We rolled initiative, but then the GM said he needed to call it and sleep.</p><p></p><p>The next week we came back and the GM clarified that the damned sorcerer had clad himself in the iron skin of a black devil, and that the devil's blood was steam, and its eyes glared searing beams of red light as like the fist rays of dawn, and its joints scraped and ground like hammer and anvil and the dolorous wheel of pain.</p><p></p><p>Which is to say, it was a f***ing mecha suit, but it was suddenly a hell of a lot more evocative and in-line with the flavor of the world.</p><p></p><p>We defeated him by figuring out he had a pile of dragon eggs made of the same black devil skin, and that if those eggs shattered, the fiery soul of the unborn dragon would explode with all the fire it would have breathed in its life, so we lured the iron-skinned devil toward them and then toppled the fell monstrosity upon its own nest of oblivion.</p><p></p><p>(We tripped the iron golem so it would fall onto the big pile of rockets and have a chain reaction explosion that blew off the top of the tower and nearly killed us.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RangerWickett, post: 8928590, member: 63"] About a decade ago, a friend was running a Conan game, in which we were ascending a tower of a scorpion cult, which had three wizards working for it, each of whom had their own mystical specialty. The first was an illusionist who used drugged gasses and mirrors to mess with our perceptions. We defeated him by shattering all his mirrors and pouring mead to put out the censer of drugged gasses, so he had nowhere to hide. The second was a sculptor who could cast his consciousness into various clay golems in his laboratory, and if you destroyed one, he'd just take over another. We defeated him by breaking all the clay sculptures he was not yet animating, so he had nowhere else to run once we focused on him. Then we got to the third wizard, and the GM was getting kinda sleepy, so he described him as "being in, y'know, like a big black mecha suit." We rolled initiative, but then the GM said he needed to call it and sleep. The next week we came back and the GM clarified that the damned sorcerer had clad himself in the iron skin of a black devil, and that the devil's blood was steam, and its eyes glared searing beams of red light as like the fist rays of dawn, and its joints scraped and ground like hammer and anvil and the dolorous wheel of pain. Which is to say, it was a f***ing mecha suit, but it was suddenly a hell of a lot more evocative and in-line with the flavor of the world. We defeated him by figuring out he had a pile of dragon eggs made of the same black devil skin, and that if those eggs shattered, the fiery soul of the unborn dragon would explode with all the fire it would have breathed in its life, so we lured the iron-skinned devil toward them and then toppled the fell monstrosity upon its own nest of oblivion. (We tripped the iron golem so it would fall onto the big pile of rockets and have a chain reaction explosion that blew off the top of the tower and nearly killed us.) [/QUOTE]
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