Skill challenge that turned a bit...racy.

[Nightson]

Bluff: "I dunno, I think it must be you." (Hard; Mitigates one failure)
Diplomacy: "Look, we'll try it once and if you don't like it we can stop" (Medium; Opens up other skills for use)
Dungeoneering: "Is the rope tight enough?" (Medium; One success in setup)
Endurance: *stoic silence* (Medium; Earns successes after the third round of the challenge)
Heal: "I think that nerve cluster was right about... here." (Hard; Provides a single additional success)
History: "I read about this in a book once..." (Hard; Provides a single additional success)
Nature: "I saw two, err, I read about this in a book once..." (Hard; Provides a single additional success)
Religion: "All I know is it's apparently good enough to get smote for." (Hard; Provides a single additional success)
Streetwise: "Okay, I didn't really think this was possible when I heard about it, but..." (Hard; Provides a single additional success)
Thievery: "Oops, how did my hand get there." (Medium; Use once to add +5 to a main skill roll)

I'm going to a bad place.

Also I couldn't figure out possibilities for perception or stealth.

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

What? No Bluff checks to fake an....

(My lack of knowing the 4E skill names is annoying to my desire to contribute to the thread. Is there a "Sleight of Hand" skill anymore? "Streetwise" to know really disgusting acts? Use Rope?)

 

[Kingreaper]

Stealth: it'd only be activated AFTER that dungeoneering roll, you have her tied up and blindfolded, stealth is doing things to her without her seeing them coming.

Perception? I'd have it able to negate the next 1 rolled, but not count towards successes. possibly only 1 use.

 

[Relique du Madde]

I'm going to use a Healling Surge to catch my breath.

 

[S'mon]

Weren't there any checks for loss of healing surges and/or hit point damage? This is a Drow we're talking about...

 

[Goonalan]

Oh yes, already been there... as it were.

The Friday Knights (see sig) return from saving, well... most everything- that's what they do (Thunderspire- rescue the slaves) and are sent before the Lord & Lady Markelhay.

Entire five hour session devoted to roleplay for the guys- told them to relax, string of rewards, lots of chat and Lady Markelhay (a stunner) appears- the object of the players desire from earlier sessions. One of the charming PCs managed to convince the good Lady that as reward she should give each of them a kiss.

Skill challenge follows-

Athletics (vigorous kissing), Acrobatics (tongue-twister), Endurance (to sustain), basically most of the skills have an effect...

Most success' wins.

The Eladrin Mage (Eruan) comes up trumps, teleporting onto the queen's lips.

That warms them up, a few rowdy cheers and laughter.

Then when the PCs thing it's all over the Eladrin Princess turns up, in chainmail bikini... She too would like to reward the Knights, cue arched eyebrows and a world of double entendres- french maid broken english.

"You are very hard..."
"My poor tongue, I cannot get my mouth round..."
"I lick you a lot..."

Skill Challenge follows- mostly Social Skills, to charm the pants off the Princess, while the rest of court watches on.

Neck-and-neck (as it were), it actually gets very tense, certainly more tense than most combats. It's between Eruan and Lucan (nasty (very) but charming Elven Rogue)- they're spending Action Points, Rogue sneak attack bunch-of-flowers, song-and-dance routines etc. Madness ensues for a short while.

And Lucan comes out on top (as it were, again). Much wailing and gnashing of teeth, even the Dwarven Priest of Moradin is asking why his god has deserted him...

Particularly as Eruan is (and only he knows this) the son of the previous ruler of Fellscarp (see later), the Princess the daughter of the family that usurped his families rule (it's more complex than that but...)

A little later Lucan claims his reward, a return to the Princess' apartment in the Palace, another Skill Challenge... very similar to yours above. Cheekily the Rogue completes the skill challenge several times...

The other PCs fume, for a while.

At least until the next day when the PCs are visited by the Fallcrest Guard- the Princess is missing, her apartments show clear signs of a vigorous struggle...

A mystery person was spotted by a guard, at present the Royal Guard are investigating, a major incident if the Eladrin Princess is not back in Fellscarp (the Feywild mirror of Fallcrest) by Friday (4.5 days) then- well, not good, expect the invasion.

The Friday Knights to the rescue.

Of course that's not all, and I presume you wont go onto to read my sig story (or rather reports), so I'll tell you.

That ain't no Eladrin Princess.

No siree...

Turns out, at the finale of the find the Princess adventure, to be an illusion-clad... wait for it...

Wait for it...

Aboleth.

That's lovely.

Who throughout the final fight attempts to woo Lucan again with-

"When you squeezed my love floob... My mucus tentapods flail with delight."

And much much much more (worse)

The PCs overcome the beast only after Lucan agrees to join with the Aboleth, and then obviously betrays her soon after.

A little later Rock (Dwarven Fighter) discovers a fresh batch of eggs, within strange looking half-aboleth/half-elven bastards.

Some of the eggs have already been washed away as the entire chamber they are in begins to collapse.

Rock takes a few eggs- AboLucan spawn.

The message is- safe sex people, even for your PCs.

Cheers Goonalan

The AboLucan Bastard will be back...

 

[ProfessorCirno]

What.

 

[Goonalan]

What.

Which bit didn't you understand, do I have to have the conversation with you about the 'Elves and the Aboleths', is it that time... Right then, a mummy Aboleth (pretending to be an Eladrin Princess) and a daddy Elf love each other not at all...

 

[Mikaze]

Are you handling this with or without miniatures?

 

[Goonalan]

Are you handling this with or without miniatures?

We play via Maptools, and the players didn't have an idea that this was going to happen, quite a shock at the reveal.

I had around twenty pre-macroed responses from the Eladrin Princess/Aboleth imploring Lucan to "feel her ichor pulse at his sensuous touch", or, "my love bumps tingle when you are close"; I tried but couldn't find a picture of an aboleth in a dress.

The token for the princess was a looker however, as were the Aboleth's handmaidens- who turned out to be a squad of Skum Warriors likewise illusioned up- many of the Knights saw through the facade. Lucan however was in hog heaven for a while, passed from handmaiden to handmaiden en route to his beloved Princess.

Cheers PDR