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<blockquote data-quote="TarionzCousin" data-source="post: 5105591" data-attributes="member: 31304"><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>The Defrosters – February 21, 2010</strong></span></p><p></p><p><u>Present</u></p><p><strong>Arvin </strong>– Human Rogue and Flatulent Filcher</p><p><strong>Felonius Dark</strong> – Tiefling Warlock and Evil Embracer</p><p><strong>Flurge</strong> – “Friendly Fire” Eladrin Wizard </p><p><strong>Grommit</strong> – Dwarven Fighter and Risky Rusher</p><p><strong>Zanen </strong>– Deva Avenger and Phenomenal Phaser </p><p></p><p><u>Absent</u></p><p><strong>Marcus</strong> – Half-Elven Bard and Musical Mosher</p><p><strong>Vixten</strong> – Elven Cleric of Angharrad and Absent Admirer</p><p></p><p></p><p><u>Location</u></p><p>Under the hut on the shore of Gloomwrought, beneath the water.</p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Love Bites</strong></span></p><p>Vixten had apparently fled the shore immediately after speaking with the female tiefling—or perhaps she wasn’t as dead as we had supposed. They were last seen making love eyes at each other and sipping one chocolate malted with two straws at Gutless Joe’s Ice Cream Shack.</p><p></p><p>The elevator only held a maximum of four people. Arvin was elected to wait up top because he was extremely flatulent.</p><p></p><p>Felonius, Flurge, Grommit and Zanen descended approximately 200 feet in the rickety elevator to the little hideaway beneath the waves. Water coursed in through poorly sealed walls, much like one can see in the Holland Tunnel while parked there during rush hour.</p><p></p><p>The bottom of the elevator shaft opened onto a narrow tunnel through which a few snakey-humanoids could be seen playing cards on a crate. One of them was heard to pull a switch and nobody really remarked on it much. Then Grommit charged ahead and triggered the lightning trap that Snakey #3 had just set by pulling the switch. Oops. Everyone rushed forward into the room and began playing cards fighting.</p><p></p><p>Zanen’s snakey opponent turned into an actual large snake and bit and grabbed him with her big mouth. He phased through her, so she bit and grabbed Felonius and Flurge instead. Flurge responded with a friendly lightning bolt that fried the snake, himself and Felonius with electrical zapitude. Felonius dropped the snake via an incendiary punch.</p><p></p><p>Grommit hammered away at his new snakey friends, winnowing one down to bloodied in typical dwarf style while simultaneously banging his head to his own internal soundtrack. Felonius rebuked snakey for his bad manners and Grommit squashed his melon.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Pour Some Sugar On Me</strong></span></p><p>Up above, Arvin had managed to attract the attacks of two sahuagin who found his scent irresistably delicious. They attempted to season him to their taste, but he resisted becoming their dinner. Instead, the rogue stabbed them a couple times with his pointy phallic symbol before jumping into the elevator shaft and climbing down the rope. Along the way, numerous trident attacks poked through the wooden walls. They missed him, but increased the amount of water flowing in considerably. He “crowbarred” his way into the elevator and jogged out into the tunnel to be hit by the same lightning trap that someone really should have remembered to turn off.</p><p></p><p>Arvin arrived just in time to charge the lone snakey humanoid standing. It was repulsed by Arvin’s gassy stench and fled down the stairs, easily avoiding three futile Attacks of Opportunity.</p><p></p><p>Winded and nearly out of all of their Daily and Encounter Powers, our heroes wisely gave chase immediately instead of stopping to rest and recover. Grommit went first, exhibiting his typical “Charge first, ask questions never” approach that professional psychiatrists all over the multiverse claim demonstrates what is known as “A single-digit INT score.”</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Bringin’ On The Heartbreak</strong></span></p><p>The escapee fled into a large room, perhaps 50 x 60 or so. Scattered throughout this room were more snakey types, a lone shadar-kai, and a dark demonic female with an extremely high initiative score. She created a spooky black portal thing in the rear corner of the room, then sauntered over and blast-slapped all of the good guys with necrotic ick. </p><p></p><p>“You peasants aren’t worth my time. Finish them! I’m going back to Cormyr.” Her words and demeanor revealed her to be none other than Belendithus of the Dusk as portrayed by Lita Ford. After her pronouncement, she traipsed slowly back to her portal and stepped through. It remained open only long enough to taunt our heroes with heartbreaking imagined visions of home.</p><p></p><p>Prominent in the room but mysteriously not mentioned before now was the smoky black pillar of skulls and Deathitude known in Gloomwrought as “The Butcher.” This creepy entity surged forward and unleashed a swirly cloud of yuck that made everyone’s underwear itch in a very painful, hit-points-lost kind of way—everyone except Felonius, that is. He embraced the evil dark yuck and breathed it in as part of his tiefling heritage.</p><p></p><p>Grommit pounded the Butcher into slowness. Flurge summoned Frosty the Snowball of Pain and Zanen rushed to cleave through the support crew. As usual, every time the Butcher attacked the heroes went flying. Zanen and Frosty took out one villain while Felonius finished off the shadar-kai. </p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Foolin’</strong></span></p><p>The Butcher slammed Grommit onto a picnic table near a large snake. The snake attempted to grab the wily dwarf but instead got itself shaken out like an old rug. Arvin joined the fray, going toe to toe alone against the Butcher. He prevailed long enough to Daze the beast before succumbing to the sweet, sweet slumber of unconsciousness.</p><p></p><p>The Butcher wasn’t even bloodied yet, and all of our heroes had been gushing hit points for most of the battle. Zanen pushed and pulled the last snake-punk into the stairwell where he and Felonius finished it off. After another round of combat, only the Butcher was still among the living on the Bad Guys’ Side. Grommit and Arvin were down. </p><p></p><p>Flurge made himself invisible and snuck past everyone into the room so he could more easily see and control Frosty. Zanen moved in and poured a healing potion in Arvin’s throat. Flurge did likewise to wake up Grommit. Feeling confident and full of ten or more hit points each, they rained hot and cold pain down on the Butcher. It was time to finish this confrontation once and for all.</p><p></p><p>But the Butcher fooled them. It looked confident and ready to obliterate our heroes but it was just pretending. When it was next hit, it was finally bloodied. Immediately, it teleported away to a nice quiet dinner with its girlfriend. </p><p></p><p>Before the entire place flooded, the good guys looted the room and avoided the trap. Then they turned off the switch of the lightning trap and rode the elevator up to the top in record time. </p><p></p><p>Arvin had to climb the rope alone because he was still too gassy to ride with everyone else. Perhaps a magical charcoal diaper should be tops on the rogue’s wish list.</p><p></p><p><em>--End Session</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TarionzCousin, post: 5105591, member: 31304"] [SIZE="4"][B]The Defrosters – February 21, 2010[/B][/SIZE] [U]Present[/U] [B]Arvin [/B]– Human Rogue and Flatulent Filcher [B]Felonius Dark[/B] – Tiefling Warlock and Evil Embracer [B]Flurge[/B] – “Friendly Fire” Eladrin Wizard [B]Grommit[/B] – Dwarven Fighter and Risky Rusher [B]Zanen [/B]– Deva Avenger and Phenomenal Phaser [U]Absent[/U] [B]Marcus[/B] – Half-Elven Bard and Musical Mosher [B]Vixten[/B] – Elven Cleric of Angharrad and Absent Admirer [U]Location[/U] Under the hut on the shore of Gloomwrought, beneath the water. [SIZE="4"][B]Love Bites[/B][/SIZE] Vixten had apparently fled the shore immediately after speaking with the female tiefling—or perhaps she wasn’t as dead as we had supposed. They were last seen making love eyes at each other and sipping one chocolate malted with two straws at Gutless Joe’s Ice Cream Shack. The elevator only held a maximum of four people. Arvin was elected to wait up top because he was extremely flatulent. Felonius, Flurge, Grommit and Zanen descended approximately 200 feet in the rickety elevator to the little hideaway beneath the waves. Water coursed in through poorly sealed walls, much like one can see in the Holland Tunnel while parked there during rush hour. The bottom of the elevator shaft opened onto a narrow tunnel through which a few snakey-humanoids could be seen playing cards on a crate. One of them was heard to pull a switch and nobody really remarked on it much. Then Grommit charged ahead and triggered the lightning trap that Snakey #3 had just set by pulling the switch. Oops. Everyone rushed forward into the room and began playing cards fighting. Zanen’s snakey opponent turned into an actual large snake and bit and grabbed him with her big mouth. He phased through her, so she bit and grabbed Felonius and Flurge instead. Flurge responded with a friendly lightning bolt that fried the snake, himself and Felonius with electrical zapitude. Felonius dropped the snake via an incendiary punch. Grommit hammered away at his new snakey friends, winnowing one down to bloodied in typical dwarf style while simultaneously banging his head to his own internal soundtrack. Felonius rebuked snakey for his bad manners and Grommit squashed his melon. [SIZE="4"] [B]Pour Some Sugar On Me[/B][/SIZE] Up above, Arvin had managed to attract the attacks of two sahuagin who found his scent irresistably delicious. They attempted to season him to their taste, but he resisted becoming their dinner. Instead, the rogue stabbed them a couple times with his pointy phallic symbol before jumping into the elevator shaft and climbing down the rope. Along the way, numerous trident attacks poked through the wooden walls. They missed him, but increased the amount of water flowing in considerably. He “crowbarred” his way into the elevator and jogged out into the tunnel to be hit by the same lightning trap that someone really should have remembered to turn off. Arvin arrived just in time to charge the lone snakey humanoid standing. It was repulsed by Arvin’s gassy stench and fled down the stairs, easily avoiding three futile Attacks of Opportunity. Winded and nearly out of all of their Daily and Encounter Powers, our heroes wisely gave chase immediately instead of stopping to rest and recover. Grommit went first, exhibiting his typical “Charge first, ask questions never” approach that professional psychiatrists all over the multiverse claim demonstrates what is known as “A single-digit INT score.” [SIZE="4"][B] Bringin’ On The Heartbreak[/B][/SIZE] The escapee fled into a large room, perhaps 50 x 60 or so. Scattered throughout this room were more snakey types, a lone shadar-kai, and a dark demonic female with an extremely high initiative score. She created a spooky black portal thing in the rear corner of the room, then sauntered over and blast-slapped all of the good guys with necrotic ick. “You peasants aren’t worth my time. Finish them! I’m going back to Cormyr.” Her words and demeanor revealed her to be none other than Belendithus of the Dusk as portrayed by Lita Ford. After her pronouncement, she traipsed slowly back to her portal and stepped through. It remained open only long enough to taunt our heroes with heartbreaking imagined visions of home. Prominent in the room but mysteriously not mentioned before now was the smoky black pillar of skulls and Deathitude known in Gloomwrought as “The Butcher.” This creepy entity surged forward and unleashed a swirly cloud of yuck that made everyone’s underwear itch in a very painful, hit-points-lost kind of way—everyone except Felonius, that is. He embraced the evil dark yuck and breathed it in as part of his tiefling heritage. Grommit pounded the Butcher into slowness. Flurge summoned Frosty the Snowball of Pain and Zanen rushed to cleave through the support crew. As usual, every time the Butcher attacked the heroes went flying. Zanen and Frosty took out one villain while Felonius finished off the shadar-kai. [SIZE="4"][B]Foolin’[/B][/SIZE] The Butcher slammed Grommit onto a picnic table near a large snake. The snake attempted to grab the wily dwarf but instead got itself shaken out like an old rug. Arvin joined the fray, going toe to toe alone against the Butcher. He prevailed long enough to Daze the beast before succumbing to the sweet, sweet slumber of unconsciousness. The Butcher wasn’t even bloodied yet, and all of our heroes had been gushing hit points for most of the battle. Zanen pushed and pulled the last snake-punk into the stairwell where he and Felonius finished it off. After another round of combat, only the Butcher was still among the living on the Bad Guys’ Side. Grommit and Arvin were down. Flurge made himself invisible and snuck past everyone into the room so he could more easily see and control Frosty. Zanen moved in and poured a healing potion in Arvin’s throat. Flurge did likewise to wake up Grommit. Feeling confident and full of ten or more hit points each, they rained hot and cold pain down on the Butcher. It was time to finish this confrontation once and for all. But the Butcher fooled them. It looked confident and ready to obliterate our heroes but it was just pretending. When it was next hit, it was finally bloodied. Immediately, it teleported away to a nice quiet dinner with its girlfriend. Before the entire place flooded, the good guys looted the room and avoided the trap. Then they turned off the switch of the lightning trap and rode the elevator up to the top in record time. Arvin had to climb the rope alone because he was still too gassy to ride with everyone else. Perhaps a magical charcoal diaper should be tops on the rogue’s wish list. [I]--End Session[/I] [/QUOTE]
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