Sagiro's Story Hour Returns (new thread started on 5/18/08)

[KidCthulhu]

KidCthulhu was playing Dranko that night, and rolled, on three consecutive saves, a "2," a "3," and a "4."

Oh, and you can bet I wasn't really happy about this. We thought around the table for a long time about how we were going to make this phone call.

Me: Er, Honey...The good news is that the Iron Storm - Chain Lightning combination did a ton of damage!

Piratecat: And what's the bad news?

Me: You took it.

Really, nothing worse than killing your husband's character. Then again, staying to evade the area affect spells is SO what Dranko would have done and always does.

And I just want to note that all the rude nasty Dranko dialogue you read here (and many other comments that wouldn't get past Eric's Grandma) are me. Playing Dranko and Ernie at the same time almost broke my little brain.

 

[dpdx]

Me: Er, Honey...The good news is that the Iron Storm - Chain Lightning combination did a ton of damage!

Piratecat: And what's the bad news?

Me: You took it.

I'm sorry to laugh at PC misfortune, but this snippet is hysterical.

 

[StevenAC]

Eigomic drops his club and raises his hands.

"Oom gah gah! Oom gah gah!" he yells.

I'm sorry, but I'm just going to have to think of all the giants as having cockney accents from now on. I've got this image of all the giants breaking into a slightly adapted musical number from Oliver! at this point:

GIANTS: Oom-gah-gah! Oom-gah-gah!
   That's 'ow it goes,
   Oom-gah-gah! Oom-gah-gah!
   Ev'ryone knows:
EIGOMIC: They all suppose what they want to suppose
   When they 'ear oom-gah-gah!



Ahem. On another note (so to speak)... I've just uploaded Part Six of the Collected Story Hour -- a bumper 60-page installment which ends with one of my favourite lines in the whole campaign:

There is stunned silence. Someone utters: "We're so screwed."

 

[Piratecat]

KidCthulhu was playing Dranko that night, and rolled, on three consecutive saves, a "2," a "3," and a "4."

Let's all hope my NEXT wife has better luck with dice.

Seriously, I knew something was wrong when I got home and called Sagiro's house to find out how the game was going. No one wanted to talk to me. That's never, ever a good sign.

 

[Swack-Iron]

KidCthulhu was playing Dranko that night, and rolled, on three consecutive saves, a "2," a "3," and a "4." And the damage dice for Aravis's second chain lightning were off the charts; something like 65 points of damage on 15d6 (expected total: 53)

We've got a couple of characters in our games that are immune to fire damage, and they also occasionally volunteer to have Fireballs and Flame Strikes dropped on their heads. We usually remind them that there's one very bad consequence even to immune characters: they could roll a 1, and if they roll a 1 they have to make saves for their precious magic items.

Only volunteer to get hit by a friendly spell (even if you don't think you'll take any damage) if you're willing to take the chance that you'll loose your favorite magic item!

 

[KidCthulhu]

I've got this image of all the giants breaking into a slightly adapted musical number from Oliver! at this point:
GIANTS: Oom-gah-gah! Oom-gah-gah!
That's 'ow it goes,

I'm sorry Steve, but I'm going to have to kill you now. Please hold still, this will only hurt a lot.

[I played the Dodger in high school. Still fighting the flashbacks.]

 

[Henry]

Let's all hope my NEXT wife has better luck with dice.

I do SEEM to recall a certain juvenile Old One rolling 4 consecutive "20"s sometime last year, in another time and place. So this could be looked at as Corilayna kinda balancing the scales?

Lesson: NEVER, EVER let someone with a lucky streak unbalanced roll dice for you.

 

[StevenAC]

I'm sorry Steve, but I'm going to have to kill you now. Please hold still, this will only hurt a lot.

*channels Step*
Ernest, that attitude does not become you...


So, who healed Dranko back up from his near-death experience? If he did it himself, Delioch's healing should provide him with a pretty impressive scar for that one...

 

[KidCthulhu]

*channels Step*
Ernest, that attitude does not become you...


So, who healed Dranko back up from his near-death experience? If he did it himself, Delioch's healing should provide him with a pretty impressive scar for that one...

Ah, but I'm not Ernie. He's just the nice face I put on occasionally. And the death sentence stands. As soon as I can get to Australia.. er, singing "Consider Yourself" all the way. AAARRGH.

As for the healing, don't think that hadn't occured to us. Morningstar Healed Dranko, so no all body scar.

 

[Piratecat]

Sagiro is SUCH A RAT BASTARD! What a frikkin' stinker. After [spoilers], he let us stew in our own juices for hours while we tried and tried to

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. And after all that, we finally figured out that [spoilers!]

Okay, it sounds less impressive in this form, but let me tell you - we pelted him with objects from across the table and threatened to take away his

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. Auggh!