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<blockquote data-quote="Ant" data-source="post: 3518223" data-attributes="member: 17627"><p><strong>The Adventures of Bas and Friends</strong></p><p></p><p><em>[<strong>DM’s Note: </strong> The heading for each episode is taken straight from Stephen’s emails. For the most part I’ve only done some very minor editing and corrections of the tales themselves. After the end of the first session Mick posted the following<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious :]" data-shortname=":]" /></em></p><p></p><p>Balthazar Abdiel Sakti Tahirah Abbán Radhika Dagmar (Bas for Short - Pronounced Baz) says:</p><p></p><p>Game good, lollies good, chips good, coke and fanta good.</p><p>Shiny hot stones good, bear owl claw across face not good.</p><p>Cut animal in half good, stone in head not good.</p><p>Fight good, falling on ground not awake not good. </p><p>Waking up feel better good, money gone not good.</p><p>Fight Bear Owl and losing not good, dragged away by companion good.</p><p></p><p>I'll leave the rest to Steve hehe.</p><p></p><p><em>[<strong>DM’s Note: </strong>Stephen responded and the rest, as they say, is history. No more interruptions from me from now on. Promise.]</em></p><p>Translation of Bas speak:</p><p></p><p>Being a dungeon crawl, our little adventure naturally begins in a Tavern. Here Bas the Half-Orc Barbarian with a magic phobia becomes friends with Mailcon the magical Druid/Ranger variant with orcs as favoured enemies. Tyrant the fighter/pyromaniac joins them (although I imagine he feels the drop in standards these days).</p><p></p><p>So off they go, seeking adventure, and joined by Mailcon's animal companion: Logan the wolverine. With a little backstory that no one seems to have paid attention too, they find themselves at a set of ruins with a haunted (with a full torso apparition no less) white glowing phallic tower in the middle. Bas' phobia becomes apparent at this stage, until Mailcon bluffs him into thinking the stone is naturally that glowing colour.</p><p></p><p>Seeing some giant bugs in one part of the ruins they carefully move around to another part to check out the tower from a more completed part of the remains. While stumbling through, Mailcon stealthily falls over, attracting the attention of a giant staghorn beetle. It rushes over, enraged by the fire bomb that Tyrant hits it with.</p><p></p><p>Bas ducks into a ruined building and, startled by bats, jumps in a hole he finds without looking. Once again Mick shows an uncanny knack for playing low Int barbarians and an instinctive disregard for D&D falling damage. 40ft later, he picks himself up and discovered that the 2 owlbears in the cavern he is in welcomes him with open arms.</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, Tyrant hacks into the beetle and Mailcon notices that the other bugs are also moving this way, but avoiding the underbrush he is standing next too. So he steps into the bush and lets the bugs run past him and attack the stag beetle. One does follow him into the bush, but is obviously wary, so gives up and joins in the Starship Troopers battle.</p><p></p><p>Tyrant jumps out of the way and joins Mailcon and Logan in the ruins, peering down the hole where the Raging barbarian is getting the snot beaten out of him by the owlbears. Always ready to help, Tyrant shoots at one with his bow, while Mailcon distracts the other by missing with his sling. However, his target is annoyed by being pelted with rocks and scrabbles up the wall to get them. This plan is foiled by an absent minded disemboweling AoO from Bas.</p><p></p><p>Keen to help even more, Mailcon sends Bas into a coma with a critically fumbled shot to the head. Tyrant takes control and jumps down into the pit with sword drawn and, in a vertical charge, slays the beast in a manner that draws applause from a passing god.</p><p></p><p>At this point, realising that Bas is close to death, and that the stag beetle has finished off its opponents, decides he wasn't going to leave Logan alone with the beetle and finishes it off. Just then he hears the jingle of harness and Orcish voices talking about searching the ruins for the humans and missing child (that backstory we didn't pay attention to).</p><p></p><p>With Bas having only one round to live, Mailcon gives a sigh he learnt off Kif of Futurama and jumps in the pit (why the sigh? He was the first to notice that the walls were climbable but no time to climb them). 7 pts of damage later, and several charges of a Cure Light Wounds wand, Bas is on his feet again.</p><p></p><p>They look around, pick one of 2 tunnels and off they go, Logan tracking in the lead. He comes back a few moments later quite excited and, due to Mailcon failing the Skippy school of communication, the group decides to look around the corner. Mailcon throws a lit torch into the room and they discover an Owlbear and cubs. They decide to leave it alone and continue. The corridor butts up against the glowing tower wall and some nearby bones from Owlbear feasts prove that the glowing barrier is solid and not disintegratey in any way.</p><p></p><p>Again mastering the art of being a barbarian, Bas decides to go back to beat up the owlbear. Tyrant backs him up with the bow, Mailcon pulls out some jerky to share with Logan and watches.</p><p></p><p>One unconscious Bas later, Tyrant moves up to drag him away while Mailcon and Logan flanks and distracts the owlbear. To further reward, I mean distract, the owlbear, Mailcon throws it the rest of the jerky. It retreats back to the cubs. Mailcon goes over to where Tyrant has dragged Bas and heals him by whacking him with the healing wand several times. While Bas is unconscious, Mailcon reimburses himself for the wand charges by taking 200gp from Bas' backpack.</p><p></p><p>They return to the other pit and try the other tunnel. At the bottom of the pit, super hearing rolling Mailcon discovers that the orcs are talking about descending into the pit. The group moves into the other tunnel, only to discover the tunnel was burrowed through the wall of a dungeon. Bas checks a door in the dungeon while Mailcon hears something from further down the tunnel. Bas checks out a room which looks like part of a jail, sees a 3 legged, 3 tentacled aberration, decides he didn't see that, keeps looking around the jail and looks back to discover the aberration is still there. Decides closing the door is a good idea. He holds it firm against the raging monster, but its roars awaken the creature down the tunnel. Deciding what worked once will work again, Tyrant wanders down the tunnel, sees an asthmatic owlbear and lures it down the tunnel by running really fast past Mailcon. When it moves into the room, Bas opens the door and runs as well. Mailcon retreats slowly enough to watch the beasts engage. When they do, he whistles for Logan and bolts back through the door. Tyrant and Bas hang around in the pit long enough to be noticed by the orcs climbing down and race into the room with Mailcon. They close the door just as the aberration becomes owlbear fodder.</p><p></p><p>And here we pause.....</p><p></p><p>------</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ant, post: 3518223, member: 17627"] [b]The Adventures of Bas and Friends[/b] [i][[b]DM’s Note: [/b] The heading for each episode is taken straight from Stephen’s emails. For the most part I’ve only done some very minor editing and corrections of the tales themselves. After the end of the first session Mick posted the following:][/i] Balthazar Abdiel Sakti Tahirah Abbán Radhika Dagmar (Bas for Short - Pronounced Baz) says: Game good, lollies good, chips good, coke and fanta good. Shiny hot stones good, bear owl claw across face not good. Cut animal in half good, stone in head not good. Fight good, falling on ground not awake not good. Waking up feel better good, money gone not good. Fight Bear Owl and losing not good, dragged away by companion good. I'll leave the rest to Steve hehe. [i][[b]DM’s Note: [/b]Stephen responded and the rest, as they say, is history. No more interruptions from me from now on. Promise.][/i] Translation of Bas speak: Being a dungeon crawl, our little adventure naturally begins in a Tavern. Here Bas the Half-Orc Barbarian with a magic phobia becomes friends with Mailcon the magical Druid/Ranger variant with orcs as favoured enemies. Tyrant the fighter/pyromaniac joins them (although I imagine he feels the drop in standards these days). So off they go, seeking adventure, and joined by Mailcon's animal companion: Logan the wolverine. With a little backstory that no one seems to have paid attention too, they find themselves at a set of ruins with a haunted (with a full torso apparition no less) white glowing phallic tower in the middle. Bas' phobia becomes apparent at this stage, until Mailcon bluffs him into thinking the stone is naturally that glowing colour. Seeing some giant bugs in one part of the ruins they carefully move around to another part to check out the tower from a more completed part of the remains. While stumbling through, Mailcon stealthily falls over, attracting the attention of a giant staghorn beetle. It rushes over, enraged by the fire bomb that Tyrant hits it with. Bas ducks into a ruined building and, startled by bats, jumps in a hole he finds without looking. Once again Mick shows an uncanny knack for playing low Int barbarians and an instinctive disregard for D&D falling damage. 40ft later, he picks himself up and discovered that the 2 owlbears in the cavern he is in welcomes him with open arms. Meanwhile, Tyrant hacks into the beetle and Mailcon notices that the other bugs are also moving this way, but avoiding the underbrush he is standing next too. So he steps into the bush and lets the bugs run past him and attack the stag beetle. One does follow him into the bush, but is obviously wary, so gives up and joins in the Starship Troopers battle. Tyrant jumps out of the way and joins Mailcon and Logan in the ruins, peering down the hole where the Raging barbarian is getting the snot beaten out of him by the owlbears. Always ready to help, Tyrant shoots at one with his bow, while Mailcon distracts the other by missing with his sling. However, his target is annoyed by being pelted with rocks and scrabbles up the wall to get them. This plan is foiled by an absent minded disemboweling AoO from Bas. Keen to help even more, Mailcon sends Bas into a coma with a critically fumbled shot to the head. Tyrant takes control and jumps down into the pit with sword drawn and, in a vertical charge, slays the beast in a manner that draws applause from a passing god. At this point, realising that Bas is close to death, and that the stag beetle has finished off its opponents, decides he wasn't going to leave Logan alone with the beetle and finishes it off. Just then he hears the jingle of harness and Orcish voices talking about searching the ruins for the humans and missing child (that backstory we didn't pay attention to). With Bas having only one round to live, Mailcon gives a sigh he learnt off Kif of Futurama and jumps in the pit (why the sigh? He was the first to notice that the walls were climbable but no time to climb them). 7 pts of damage later, and several charges of a Cure Light Wounds wand, Bas is on his feet again. They look around, pick one of 2 tunnels and off they go, Logan tracking in the lead. He comes back a few moments later quite excited and, due to Mailcon failing the Skippy school of communication, the group decides to look around the corner. Mailcon throws a lit torch into the room and they discover an Owlbear and cubs. They decide to leave it alone and continue. The corridor butts up against the glowing tower wall and some nearby bones from Owlbear feasts prove that the glowing barrier is solid and not disintegratey in any way. Again mastering the art of being a barbarian, Bas decides to go back to beat up the owlbear. Tyrant backs him up with the bow, Mailcon pulls out some jerky to share with Logan and watches. One unconscious Bas later, Tyrant moves up to drag him away while Mailcon and Logan flanks and distracts the owlbear. To further reward, I mean distract, the owlbear, Mailcon throws it the rest of the jerky. It retreats back to the cubs. Mailcon goes over to where Tyrant has dragged Bas and heals him by whacking him with the healing wand several times. While Bas is unconscious, Mailcon reimburses himself for the wand charges by taking 200gp from Bas' backpack. They return to the other pit and try the other tunnel. At the bottom of the pit, super hearing rolling Mailcon discovers that the orcs are talking about descending into the pit. The group moves into the other tunnel, only to discover the tunnel was burrowed through the wall of a dungeon. Bas checks a door in the dungeon while Mailcon hears something from further down the tunnel. Bas checks out a room which looks like part of a jail, sees a 3 legged, 3 tentacled aberration, decides he didn't see that, keeps looking around the jail and looks back to discover the aberration is still there. Decides closing the door is a good idea. He holds it firm against the raging monster, but its roars awaken the creature down the tunnel. Deciding what worked once will work again, Tyrant wanders down the tunnel, sees an asthmatic owlbear and lures it down the tunnel by running really fast past Mailcon. When it moves into the room, Bas opens the door and runs as well. Mailcon retreats slowly enough to watch the beasts engage. When they do, he whistles for Logan and bolts back through the door. Tyrant and Bas hang around in the pit long enough to be noticed by the orcs climbing down and race into the room with Mailcon. They close the door just as the aberration becomes owlbear fodder. And here we pause..... ------ [/QUOTE]
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