Piratecat's Updated Story Hour! (update 4/03 and 4/06)

[Piratecat]

Undead sphincter? I barely know her!

Looking over the character sheets, I kind of wonder where in 3rd edition deep gnomes have natural armor...?

His skin has toughened up from all the abuse that has been heaped upon the svirfneblin race. Seriously, is this an artifact from 3e? I'll have to check and update him to 3.5; his prestige class was toned down in 3.5, too, making him lose a reasonable amount of power. Poor little fella.

Hitting the Githzerai monk with a mind effect, and succeeding, is just nasty.

Huh? Didn't you hear Galthia? It's Malachite who's being mind-controlled. It's important to pay attention to these things. Believe it or not, this created a fair amount of confusion and hesitation at a really bad time . . .

Most of the stuff the characters say is usally... well... I don't want to be mean.

You mean other than posting that? We're recounting a D&D game here, not creating high art, and I guess not everything can be pearls. Think of it this way; all the things that get said verbatim by my players are the witty bits, and anything you find boring or plodding is my own fault. It's probably true, too.

 

[Capellan]

Ummm, you rat-bastard-DM(tm)!!! According to the Character sheet on piratecat.org, Galthia has a Will save of +19. And he failed!!! The DoD are in trouble now...8-O

I can bear personal testament to the DoD's capability to roll a whole lotta natural '1's

The walls aren’t stone down here, or bone either. They’re fibrous and almost fleshy, like a throat.

You know, for me, this is a clear warning sign

 

[Knight Otu]

His skin has toughened up from all the abuse that has been heaped upon the svirfneblin race. Seriously, is this an artifact from 3e? I'll have to check and update him to 3.5; his prestige class was toned down in 3.5, too, making him lose a reasonable amount of power. Poor little fella.

I've checked my 3.0 monster manual before posting, and couldn't find a mention of natural armor. But he propably had an amulet of natural armor that no one ever noticed. I mean, if you cannot even notice himself, his equipment would likewise be unnoticeable, right?

 

[Ridley's Cohort]

You know, for me, this is a clear warning sign

Heck, yeah.

"This is no cave!"

 

[shilsen]

You know, for me, this is a clear warning sign

For me, just having Piratecat as the DM would be a clear warning sign

 

[Lord Pendragon]

Huh? Didn't you hear Galthia? It's Malachite who's being mind-controlled. It's important to pay attention to these things. Believe it or not, this created a fair amount of confusion and hesitation at a really bad time . . .

Are you being serious here? Rereading the passage I'm still not convinced. Galthia simply knows too much about what Malachite is supposedly planning before Malachite even gets down the hole. Sort of the way a Suggestion works, with an outside mind putting believable thoughts in your head for you.

And Malachite apparently had a magic item he got from Clarise that blocks some sort of mind control attempt...

 

[Shieldhaven]

So I went to poke around on the website - which, by the way, is super-awesome.

I found the Filk page.

I'm awfully lucky I wasn't drinking Coke at the time, because I can't afford a new keyboard just now.

Oh. My. God.

Haven

 

[Piratecat]

No, I'm not being serious -- I was trying to be funny. It's definitely Galthia who's controlled. He wouldn't tell you that, though.

My point was that although all the players knew what was going on, the PCs didn't know who to trust at first, and that made things messy.

 

[Lord Pendragon]

No, I'm not being serious -- I was trying to be funny. It's definitely Galthia who's controlled. He wouldn't tell you that, though.

Thank you for the clarification. It's a testament to how well you wrote the scene, that although I thought it was Galthia who was controlled on a first read, there was enough ambiguity in the text that I did have to go back and do a re-read after you said that.

 

[Paxr0mana]

How did you make the Mind Control work so that your players knew what was happening, but were still in the dark? What I mean is, how did you present it to your players?