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Transcription of a D&D session - The Cult of Tentacles (updated 11/7)
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<blockquote data-quote="xnosipjpqmhd" data-source="post: 2667114"><p><strong>Session 5 : Part 4</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><em>THE STORY SO FAR: In the rented rooms of the healer Kelakor, the heroes are confronted by their undead grandmother, who slashes Longbeard with a butcher knife.</em></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><em>SESSION 5 : PART 4</em></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><em>Summary: The obligatory combat scene draws to a gruesome end. Meanwhile, odd ingredients and a sketch of the town’s dilapidated windmill are found.</em></span></p><p></p><p>DM: Alright, make a Spirit Lore roll.</p><p>Nepzillian: [rolls die] No, I didn’t.</p><p>DM: Yeah, you pretty much suck. What was the modified total?</p><p>Nepzillian: Uh, 4.</p><p>DM: Ok.</p><p>Nepzillian: Not worth a damn.</p><p>DM: Ok, new round.</p><p>Nepzillian: If all else fails, I’ll throw a hammer.</p><p>DM: What are you doing?</p><p>Roland: Did I start a fire?</p><p>Longbeard: Can I hammer this…</p><p>DM: You’re allowed to make another [Fire Building] roll.</p><p>Longbeard: …prehistoric…</p><p>Roland: Ok.</p><p>DM: Fire Building.</p><p>Roland: [rolls die] Good God. </p><p>Nepzillian: Is that 1 hard to read?</p><p>Roland: 7.</p><p>Nepzillian: Kills me. Who created that thing?</p><p>DM: You’re making sparks.</p><p>Roland: I’ve got book-- I’ve got paper now.</p><p>DM: I know you do. You’re making sparks.</p><p>Roland: Fine, dumping oil on it.</p><p>DM: Alright, yeah yeah yeah. Next turn. That’s that other game. Where you get 13 actions a round. That’s that other game.</p><p>Roland: Why does everybody gotta be a b--? I see.</p><p>DM: Ok. Your turn.</p><p>Roland: I’d let you have two [turns].</p><p>Longbeard: Take another whack at her.</p><p>DM: Ok.</p><p>Ulfgard: Who’s whacking?</p><p>DM: What are you whacking with?</p><p>Longbeard: The mace that I have handy all the time. [rolls die]</p><p>DM: Only air.</p><p>Roland: Man, this old woman’s gonna whoop you, and I’m gonna give you hell for the rest of your life.</p><p>Longbeard: Well…</p><p>DM: The next person is Nepzillian. What are you doing now? She didn’t budge. I mean, she’s still raising that knife up again to strike.</p><p>Nepzillian: I’ll throw my hammer at her.</p><p>DM: Ok, over the dwarf’s head?</p><p>Nepzillian: Yeah.</p><p>DM: Alright. It’s close range so you get a +5.</p><p>Nepzillian: Man! Hammer (thrown), I get +2 here.</p><p>DM: If you botch, you hit the dwarf on the head.</p><p>Roland: Eh, it’s worth it.</p><p>Nepzillian: Hell, make it on top of the head, make it interesting.</p><p>DM: Ok, alright. Instant death?</p><p>Nepzillian: [rolls die] 10. 15. Do I get the +2 here?</p><p>Roland: Hell, yeah.</p><p>Nepzillian: 17.</p><p>DM: Ok, partial.</p><p>Ulfgard: The sad thing about it is, I just can’t believe that [Nepzillian] actually tried to turn my undead wife. I can’t believe that we’re sitting here and we actually did it. It’s just like, oh boy, we’re whacked.</p><p>DM: Yeah, you don’t play D&D for 10 years and not learn a little something about the spirit world.</p><p>Ulfgard: What was that in?</p><p>DM: X-Files.</p><p>Roland: X-Files. “I’m not scared-- I’ve played D&D since 1984; I’m not scared of anything.”</p><p>DM: So half whatever you roll is the damage.</p><p>Nepzillian: [rolls die] Big ol’ deuce.</p><p>DM: Add your Strength to the roll.</p><p>Ulfgard: I love it.</p><p>Nepzillian: 3… 4. Then 2, halved. And then I’m grabbing my flail. Or mace rather.</p><p>DM: Is that what you call it?</p><p>Nepzillian: Mace, excuse me.</p><p>DM: Alright, Ulfgard, are you doing anything important?</p><p>Roland: [indistinct] …ball and chain.</p><p>Ulfgard: Yeah, you know, I’m going to-- do I have room in here to jab with a spear? I’m going to hit her with my hand axe. Can I throw it?</p><p>DM: He’s in front of you. [points to Nepzillian]</p><p>Ulfgard: Ok, I can’t really do anything in here, can I?</p><p>DM: Not melee-wise.</p><p>Nepzillian: Just sit back, relax.</p><p>Ulfgard: I’m going back in the room then.</p><p>Roland: Hey!</p><p>Ulfgard: Back in the room, what are you doing?</p><p>Roland: Trying to get this candle to light.</p><p>Ulfgard: I’ll light it.</p><p>DM: Fire Building, under Survival.</p><p>Roland: Here. Here’s some oil-soaked paper.</p><p>Ulfgard: Where’s it at, where’s it at, Survival, Survival.</p><p>Roland: Go second from the left…</p><p>DM: Second column, near the bottom.</p><p>Roland: Under Strength.</p><p>Ulfgard: Yeah. [rolls die] 14.</p><p>DM: Partial. That’s enough. It’s-- you’re going to have to blow on it and work on it for a couple turns, but it’ll be fine.</p><p>Ulfgard: Fine.</p><p>Roland: Show off.</p><p>DM: Ok, she attacks. She swings at you, Longbeard, chink, and buries her knife in the wall.</p><p>Longbeard: Yeah!</p><p>Ulfgard: Just go, kidney punch, bam, bam, bam.</p><p>Longbeard: Maybe I can actually do something…</p><p>Roland: Now it’s going to be undead urine.</p><p>Nepzillian: Heh heh. Undead urine.</p><p>DM: New turn. People in the room, what are you doing?</p><p>Ulfgard: Getting the…</p><p>DM: Nursing the fire?</p><p>Ulfgard: Well, do you want to nurse the fire, and I’ll look around?</p><p>Roland: No, go ahead. I’ll look around.</p><p>Ulfgard: Well, I mean, I might recognise some stuff and you might not.</p><p>Roland: Ok, I’m going to start looking at the books that I found about dead things. I’m going to start gathering them up, and putting them all in--</p><p>DM: There’s quite a few of them.</p><p>Roland: Yeah.</p><p>DM: I mean, it’s a big bookshelf. I mean, there might be 50 books here.</p><p>Roland: Right, but just the ones about dead things.</p><p>DM: 20 of them.</p><p>Roland: Ok, I’m going to look under the mattress, under the bed.</p><p>DM: Alright, do a little bit of searching. Make a Searching roll.</p><p>Roland: I’m going to make a Searching roll.</p><p>DM: Under Perception, isn’t it?</p><p>Roland: Yeah. +3. [rolls die] 21!</p><p>Ulfgard: Hey, rockin’!</p><p>DM: Ok, excellent.</p><p>Roland: I’m on it tonight, guys.</p><p>Ulfgard: That’s good.</p><p>Roland: Until I get in combat.</p><p>Ulfgard: That’s why we’ll keep you non-combatal tonight.</p><p>Roland: I think that’s a good idea.</p><p>DM: Ok, in a drawer, in the drawers of this desk, he keeps medicinal type items.</p><p>Roland: Are they labelled?</p><p>DM: Some of them are. Some of them aren’t.</p><p>Roland: Are any of the labelled--</p><p>DM: A lot of them are just very small jars with various things in them and you have to guess what they are.</p><p>Roland: Are any of them labelled what he’s been giving to Nepzillian’s grandfather?</p><p>DM: If you know what that is, then I’ll tell you whether they are.</p><p>Roland: I don’t remember from, like, a month ago.</p><p>DM: Then your character doesn’t know off the top of your head, but you can make a Memory roll.</p><p>Roland: Where is it?</p><p>DM: Under Intelligence. +3.</p><p>Roland: Oh, I get a +3?</p><p>DM: +2 for Intelligence… 10.</p><p>Ulfgard: I’m writing them down here…</p><p>DM: No, you don’t know.</p><p>Roland: Fine, put everything on top of the desk.</p><p>DM: Ok, pulling them all out.</p><p>Roland: Pulling them all out.</p><p>DM: Now, uh, you. [points to Longbeard]</p><p>Ulfgard: Yeah, you!</p><p>DM: What are you doing?</p><p>Longbeard: She got her knife jammed in the wall?</p><p>DM: Yes, she did.</p><p>Longbeard: Let’s see.</p><p>Ulfgard: Can I write in this? [holds up his spellbook]</p><p>DM: I’d rather you didn’t.</p><p>Ulfgard: Ok.</p><p>Roland: Screwed up, didn’t you?</p><p>DM: However, I can give you some index cards, and you can just slip them in.</p><p>Ulfgard: Ok.</p><p>DM: Do you want to do that?</p><p>Ulfgard: Yeah.</p><p>Roland: You screwed up and started drawing in there, didn’t you?</p><p>Ulfgard: No, no, I wanted to add Fate’s Tendril.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><em>Fate’s Tendril is what Kelakor had told Ulfgard that Nikkathyr (Nep’s grandfather) was receiving. Ulfgard assumes it is a drug, so he adds it to a list of other medicinal herbs listed in his mother’s journal/spellbook.</em></span></p><p></p><p>Roland: Evard’s Black Tentacles would be good.</p><p>DM: Ok, what are you doing?</p><p>Longbeard: It’s brawling time. I mean, how far away from--</p><p>DM: Oh, you’re right there at her.</p><p>Longbeard: Yeah, I’m going to absolutely just grab this thing and throw it around.</p><p>DM: Ok, that’s Wrestling.</p><p>Longbeard: Yeah, I know it is.</p><p>DM: Ok.</p><p>Longbeard: +2. I’m better at that than I am with the mace.</p><p>DM: Alright. Now specifically what are you doing, though? You’re grabbing her around the waist?</p><p>Nepzillian: Piledrive her!</p><p>Roland: Piledrive her!</p><p>Longbeard: I’m reaching whatever arm level is, which is probably around her waist.</p><p>Roland: Put her in a half-nelson! Put her in a half-nelson!</p><p>DM: And then throw her down?</p><p>Longbeard: …just throwing her across the [indistinct].</p><p>Roland: …back suplex. Dude, dude, dude, high half-nelson. Back suplex.</p><p>Longbeard: I can’t reach that high.</p><p>Ulfgard: He’s like this tall with +8 Strength.</p><p>Roland: She’s old…</p><p>Longbeard: [rolls die] Ok, that’s a 17, plus 2 would be 19.</p><p>DM: That’s full, and she’s not dodging it.</p><p>Ulfgard: Damn! [makes noises]</p><p>Roland: DDT her!</p><p>DM: So the damage is a d3 plus your Strength.</p><p>Ulfgard: Two-four leg lock.</p><p>Longbeard: Which is half a d6?</p><p>DM: Half of a d6 plus Strength.</p><p>Roland: You see this little dwarf… this skeleton tapping out.</p><p>Longbeard: [rolls die] Half of 3?</p><p>DM: 2.</p><p>Longbeard: Plus 6.</p><p>DM: 8.</p><p>Ulfgard: Bad!</p><p>Roland: Don’t ever, ever touch another weapon.</p><p>Nepzillian: Yeah, I know.</p><p>Ulfgard: It’s like, “I’m a pugilist!”</p><p>Roland: I don’t expect you to know the explanation of that word.</p><p>DM: Ok, here’s what happens. He grabs the woman, flings her against the wall. She splats like this. Bits of blood and teeth go against the wall, and parts of her flesh are dangling now.</p><p>Roland: I’m going to stop what I’m doing. That didn’t sound good.</p><p>Ulfgard: Bad! It’s like, geesh.</p><p>Longbeard: The knife is still buried in the other wall?</p><p>Ulfgard: It looks like somebody ran over a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken.</p><p>DM: What are you doing?</p><p>Nepzillian: I’ll hit her with my mace.</p><p>DM: Ok, alright, that’s fine. You can do that. I’m going to give you a -2 because you’re reaching over the dwarf. And again with the botching of the roll.</p><p>Nepzillian: Ok, I’ll wait for the-- Well, I mean, he threw her against the wall, I mean.</p><p>DM: She’s right there. You can still reach over him, but…</p><p>Nepzillian: Is she going to fall down to the ground when she…</p><p>DM: She might.</p><p>Roland: So right now she’s stood up?</p><p>Nepzillian: I mean, I’m not going to-- I’m going to wait a second, like, to see--</p><p>DM: You can wait until next turn, and see what happens.</p><p>Nepzillian: Alright, I’ll do it.</p><p>DM: She goes, Grrrr! [makes angry face and attacking motion, rolls die]</p><p>Ulfgard: Bad!</p><p>DM: And she gets a partial.</p><p>Ulfgard: …at least the dwarf can kick some butt.</p><p>DM: Are you going to try to dodge or anything?</p><p>Longbeard: What is she doing?</p><p>DM: She’s just grabbing you. She’s just grabbing you.</p><p>Ulfgard: Uppercut!</p><p>Longbeard: I’ll wrestle with her.</p><p>DM: She’s wrestling with you.</p><p>Longbeard: I’m rolling her!</p><p>DM: She gives you a partial for four points.</p><p>Ulfgard: Put her legs out!</p><p>Roland: Bite her!</p><p>DM: You are now at-- you’ve lost two-thirds of your hit points.</p><p>Longbeard: Yes, I have.</p><p>DM: You’re at -2 on all future physical rolls.</p><p>Ulfgard: You see this dwarf with this big, long, braided beard standing there going, smack! [makes boxing motions] I love it.</p><p>Roland: Is the fire going?</p><p>Ulfgard: Yeah.</p><p>DM: Alright, next turn. People in the room. The fire’s going.</p><p>Roland: Alright, I’m going to go out and get that sack that we found in the bathroom.</p><p>Ulfgard: Uh, we can’t get through there.</p><p>Nepzillian: We’re kind of busy right now.</p><p>Roland: Yeah, I can. I haven’t seen anything go on out here.</p><p>Ulfgard: Oh, ok.</p><p>DM: Ok, you can go out to the hall and stand in line.</p><p>Nepzillian: Move a little closer there, alright? Now is there any chance that he went this way to her, or they’re wrapped around…</p><p>DM: No, they’re still in that same orientation.</p><p>Nepzillian: Ok.</p><p>DM: [to Longbeard] Alright, what are you going to do now?</p><p>Ulfgard: Me?</p><p>DM: No, the dwarf.</p><p>Roland: Wait!</p><p>DM: What?</p><p>Roland: I’m going to try to make my way through there.</p><p>DM: They’re fighting, man, and it’s not a big hallway.</p><p>Roland: I’m not a big guy.</p><p>DM: Well, seriously, I don’t think you can do it.</p><p>Roland: I’m only 5’5”.</p><p>DM: Ok, what-- Basically what it’s going to be is a Brawling attack on everybody in front of you.</p><p>Roland: I’ll wait.</p><p>DM: Ok.</p><p>Roland: Actually, I get my bow ready.</p><p>DM: That’s fine. Well, not your bow. You get someone else’s bow ready, don’t you?</p><p>Roland: Not until I get Ulfgard to kill him.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><em>The head of the Rangers of Veemme loaned Roland a long bow a few days earlier, and the minstrel hasn’t seen fit to return it yet.</em></span></p><p></p><p>DM: Ok, dwarf?</p><p>Longbeard: Wrestling her again.</p><p>Ulfgard: Bad.</p><p>DM: Specifically--</p><p>Roland: Piledrive her!</p><p>Longbeard: I don’t know what a piledriver is, alright?</p><p>Roland: DDT her!</p><p>Ulfgard: Alright, just grab her and just snap her head into the wall. Grrr!</p><p>Roland: No, no. Grab her around like this so her head’s pointed that way and just drop straight back. It would work for Jake ‘the Snake’ Roberts.</p><p>Longbeard: What I really want to do is grab her and, like, charge her into the wall.</p><p>Roland: Dude, that never works.</p><p>DM: Alright, which wall?</p><p>Longbeard: This one.</p><p>DM: Ok, good. Do it.</p><p>Longbeard: [rolls die] Nope.</p><p>DM: Ok. She slips aside, and you’re now facing each other sideways in the hall like this.</p><p>Nepzillian: Well, I’m sure I’ll get a better swing at her then.</p><p>DM: And it’s your turn.</p><p>Longbeard: Did I hit the wall or anything?</p><p>Ulfgard: This is cool.</p><p>DM: No.</p><p>Longbeard: Ok.</p><p>DM: No, if you’d gotten a 1, you would’ve.</p><p>Longbeard: Ok.</p><p>Nepzillian: It’s a footman’s mace. [rolls die]</p><p>DM: Ok.</p><p>Ulfgard: It’s like, she turns around and it’s like she goes, whoom!</p><p>DM: Now your bonuses. What do you get?</p><p>Nepzillian: Uh, let’s see…</p><p>DM: Weapons skill. Look at Weapons skill.</p><p>Nepzillian: +2.</p><p>Roland: What I said was, for you in the cheap seats, deep high! Crack!</p><p>Nepzillian: +2 for the mace.</p><p>DM: Ok, so you’re definitely in full [success], and just roll your damage. She’s not going to dodge.</p><p>Roland: d8.</p><p>Ulfgard: If you could get-- like, here’s her head and here’s the wall. Hit this side, so when like, everything just sort of--</p><p>Nepzillian: No, that’s a 6 + 1, + 2 with Strength. [rolls die] 6.</p><p>Roland: Crack!</p><p>Ulfgard: Plus Strength?</p><p>Nepzillian: That’s everything.</p><p>Roland: What I said was, get out!</p><p>Ulfgard: Get the hell out of my way.</p><p>Nepzillian: I hit her with the hammer earlier for a couple, so…</p><p>DM: Alright, you slap-- </p><p>Longbeard: …taste right out of her mouth.</p><p>DM: You slap the end of your weapon across her head, and an eyeball goes flying, and you know, other parts of her go flying, flesh, blood, all this stuff. And of course, she’s shaken, but she’s still standing. And she has the presence of mind, or whatever, to reach one claw at you.</p><p>Ulfgard: Well, now it’s a claw. Earlier it was a hand that…</p><p>Longbeard: Long, uncut fingernails.</p><p>Roland: Hey, I don’t think it’s the same woman.</p><p>Ulfgard: I dunno.</p><p>DM: New turn.</p><p>Roland: I’m in the room. I ain’t watching.</p><p>Nepzillian: If you can, just kind of hold her still, I’ll hit again.</p><p>Roland: I’m going to start picking up the medicine and putting it in my bag.</p><p>Ulfgard: Yeah, I’m going to search the room, too.</p><p>DM: Make a Searching roll.</p><p>Ulfgard: Ok.</p><p>Longbeard: I found me something.</p><p>Roland: Screw this. I don’t want to see people’s body parts go flying all over the place.</p><p>Nepzillian: Dwarf, grab her and hold her. I’ll hit her again. Tear her arm off.</p><p>DM: Ok, on the windowsill, you find a small piece of paper. And it looks like a sketch of the windmill.</p><p>Ulfgard: Oo.</p><p>DM: From this angle. If you look out the window you can see the windmill.</p><p>Ulfgard: Ok.</p><p>DM: And here’s a sketch of it.</p><p>Ulfgard: Anything in particular on the sketch that is different than the windmill?</p><p>DM: It looks very similar.</p><p>Ulfgard: Fine.</p><p>DM: All of the details aren’t correct, but…</p><p>Ulfgard: Ok.</p><p>DM: I mean, you know, maybe the tines are in a different position and you know.</p><p>Ulfgard: Ok. Just the windmill on it? Look on the back of the sketch.</p><p>DM: No, just the picture of the windmill.</p><p>Ulfgard: Ok.</p><p>DM: Dwarf?</p><p>Longbeard: The old Irish whip across to the opposite wall.</p><p>DM: Ok. Roll.</p><p>Ulfgard: Gitter done.</p><p>Longbeard: [rolls die] I’ll be damned.</p><p>Ulfgard: What’d you get? What’d you get?</p><p>Longbeard: Deuce.</p><p>Ulfgard: Aww! Oh well.</p><p>Roland: Dude, she reversed it. She’s about to put you in a figure four herself.</p><p>Longbeard: I’m about to go down.</p><p>Roland: What’d you find, Ulfgard?</p><p>Ulfgard: A sketch of the windmill…</p><p></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><em>TO BE CONTINUED</em></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="xnosipjpqmhd, post: 2667114"] [b]Session 5 : Part 4[/b] [COLOR=Blue][I]THE STORY SO FAR: In the rented rooms of the healer Kelakor, the heroes are confronted by their undead grandmother, who slashes Longbeard with a butcher knife. SESSION 5 : PART 4 Summary: The obligatory combat scene draws to a gruesome end. Meanwhile, odd ingredients and a sketch of the town’s dilapidated windmill are found.[/I][/COLOR][I][/I] DM: Alright, make a Spirit Lore roll. Nepzillian: [rolls die] No, I didn’t. DM: Yeah, you pretty much suck. What was the modified total? Nepzillian: Uh, 4. DM: Ok. Nepzillian: Not worth a damn. DM: Ok, new round. Nepzillian: If all else fails, I’ll throw a hammer. DM: What are you doing? Roland: Did I start a fire? Longbeard: Can I hammer this… DM: You’re allowed to make another [Fire Building] roll. Longbeard: …prehistoric… Roland: Ok. DM: Fire Building. Roland: [rolls die] Good God. Nepzillian: Is that 1 hard to read? Roland: 7. Nepzillian: Kills me. Who created that thing? DM: You’re making sparks. Roland: I’ve got book-- I’ve got paper now. DM: I know you do. You’re making sparks. Roland: Fine, dumping oil on it. DM: Alright, yeah yeah yeah. Next turn. That’s that other game. Where you get 13 actions a round. That’s that other game. Roland: Why does everybody gotta be a b--? I see. DM: Ok. Your turn. Roland: I’d let you have two [turns]. Longbeard: Take another whack at her. DM: Ok. Ulfgard: Who’s whacking? DM: What are you whacking with? Longbeard: The mace that I have handy all the time. [rolls die] DM: Only air. Roland: Man, this old woman’s gonna whoop you, and I’m gonna give you hell for the rest of your life. Longbeard: Well… DM: The next person is Nepzillian. What are you doing now? She didn’t budge. I mean, she’s still raising that knife up again to strike. Nepzillian: I’ll throw my hammer at her. DM: Ok, over the dwarf’s head? Nepzillian: Yeah. DM: Alright. It’s close range so you get a +5. Nepzillian: Man! Hammer (thrown), I get +2 here. DM: If you botch, you hit the dwarf on the head. Roland: Eh, it’s worth it. Nepzillian: Hell, make it on top of the head, make it interesting. DM: Ok, alright. Instant death? Nepzillian: [rolls die] 10. 15. Do I get the +2 here? Roland: Hell, yeah. Nepzillian: 17. DM: Ok, partial. Ulfgard: The sad thing about it is, I just can’t believe that [Nepzillian] actually tried to turn my undead wife. I can’t believe that we’re sitting here and we actually did it. It’s just like, oh boy, we’re whacked. DM: Yeah, you don’t play D&D for 10 years and not learn a little something about the spirit world. Ulfgard: What was that in? DM: X-Files. Roland: X-Files. “I’m not scared-- I’ve played D&D since 1984; I’m not scared of anything.” DM: So half whatever you roll is the damage. Nepzillian: [rolls die] Big ol’ deuce. DM: Add your Strength to the roll. Ulfgard: I love it. Nepzillian: 3… 4. Then 2, halved. And then I’m grabbing my flail. Or mace rather. DM: Is that what you call it? Nepzillian: Mace, excuse me. DM: Alright, Ulfgard, are you doing anything important? Roland: [indistinct] …ball and chain. Ulfgard: Yeah, you know, I’m going to-- do I have room in here to jab with a spear? I’m going to hit her with my hand axe. Can I throw it? DM: He’s in front of you. [points to Nepzillian] Ulfgard: Ok, I can’t really do anything in here, can I? DM: Not melee-wise. Nepzillian: Just sit back, relax. Ulfgard: I’m going back in the room then. Roland: Hey! Ulfgard: Back in the room, what are you doing? Roland: Trying to get this candle to light. Ulfgard: I’ll light it. DM: Fire Building, under Survival. Roland: Here. Here’s some oil-soaked paper. Ulfgard: Where’s it at, where’s it at, Survival, Survival. Roland: Go second from the left… DM: Second column, near the bottom. Roland: Under Strength. Ulfgard: Yeah. [rolls die] 14. DM: Partial. That’s enough. It’s-- you’re going to have to blow on it and work on it for a couple turns, but it’ll be fine. Ulfgard: Fine. Roland: Show off. DM: Ok, she attacks. She swings at you, Longbeard, chink, and buries her knife in the wall. Longbeard: Yeah! Ulfgard: Just go, kidney punch, bam, bam, bam. Longbeard: Maybe I can actually do something… Roland: Now it’s going to be undead urine. Nepzillian: Heh heh. Undead urine. DM: New turn. People in the room, what are you doing? Ulfgard: Getting the… DM: Nursing the fire? Ulfgard: Well, do you want to nurse the fire, and I’ll look around? Roland: No, go ahead. I’ll look around. Ulfgard: Well, I mean, I might recognise some stuff and you might not. Roland: Ok, I’m going to start looking at the books that I found about dead things. I’m going to start gathering them up, and putting them all in-- DM: There’s quite a few of them. Roland: Yeah. DM: I mean, it’s a big bookshelf. I mean, there might be 50 books here. Roland: Right, but just the ones about dead things. DM: 20 of them. Roland: Ok, I’m going to look under the mattress, under the bed. DM: Alright, do a little bit of searching. Make a Searching roll. Roland: I’m going to make a Searching roll. DM: Under Perception, isn’t it? Roland: Yeah. +3. [rolls die] 21! Ulfgard: Hey, rockin’! DM: Ok, excellent. Roland: I’m on it tonight, guys. Ulfgard: That’s good. Roland: Until I get in combat. Ulfgard: That’s why we’ll keep you non-combatal tonight. Roland: I think that’s a good idea. DM: Ok, in a drawer, in the drawers of this desk, he keeps medicinal type items. Roland: Are they labelled? DM: Some of them are. Some of them aren’t. Roland: Are any of the labelled-- DM: A lot of them are just very small jars with various things in them and you have to guess what they are. Roland: Are any of them labelled what he’s been giving to Nepzillian’s grandfather? DM: If you know what that is, then I’ll tell you whether they are. Roland: I don’t remember from, like, a month ago. DM: Then your character doesn’t know off the top of your head, but you can make a Memory roll. Roland: Where is it? DM: Under Intelligence. +3. Roland: Oh, I get a +3? DM: +2 for Intelligence… 10. Ulfgard: I’m writing them down here… DM: No, you don’t know. Roland: Fine, put everything on top of the desk. DM: Ok, pulling them all out. Roland: Pulling them all out. DM: Now, uh, you. [points to Longbeard] Ulfgard: Yeah, you! DM: What are you doing? Longbeard: She got her knife jammed in the wall? DM: Yes, she did. Longbeard: Let’s see. Ulfgard: Can I write in this? [holds up his spellbook] DM: I’d rather you didn’t. Ulfgard: Ok. Roland: Screwed up, didn’t you? DM: However, I can give you some index cards, and you can just slip them in. Ulfgard: Ok. DM: Do you want to do that? Ulfgard: Yeah. Roland: You screwed up and started drawing in there, didn’t you? Ulfgard: No, no, I wanted to add Fate’s Tendril. [COLOR=Blue][I]Fate’s Tendril is what Kelakor had told Ulfgard that Nikkathyr (Nep’s grandfather) was receiving. Ulfgard assumes it is a drug, so he adds it to a list of other medicinal herbs listed in his mother’s journal/spellbook.[/I][/COLOR][I][/I] Roland: Evard’s Black Tentacles would be good. DM: Ok, what are you doing? Longbeard: It’s brawling time. I mean, how far away from-- DM: Oh, you’re right there at her. Longbeard: Yeah, I’m going to absolutely just grab this thing and throw it around. DM: Ok, that’s Wrestling. Longbeard: Yeah, I know it is. DM: Ok. Longbeard: +2. I’m better at that than I am with the mace. DM: Alright. Now specifically what are you doing, though? You’re grabbing her around the waist? Nepzillian: Piledrive her! Roland: Piledrive her! Longbeard: I’m reaching whatever arm level is, which is probably around her waist. Roland: Put her in a half-nelson! Put her in a half-nelson! DM: And then throw her down? Longbeard: …just throwing her across the [indistinct]. Roland: …back suplex. Dude, dude, dude, high half-nelson. Back suplex. Longbeard: I can’t reach that high. Ulfgard: He’s like this tall with +8 Strength. Roland: She’s old… Longbeard: [rolls die] Ok, that’s a 17, plus 2 would be 19. DM: That’s full, and she’s not dodging it. Ulfgard: Damn! [makes noises] Roland: DDT her! DM: So the damage is a d3 plus your Strength. Ulfgard: Two-four leg lock. Longbeard: Which is half a d6? DM: Half of a d6 plus Strength. Roland: You see this little dwarf… this skeleton tapping out. Longbeard: [rolls die] Half of 3? DM: 2. Longbeard: Plus 6. DM: 8. Ulfgard: Bad! Roland: Don’t ever, ever touch another weapon. Nepzillian: Yeah, I know. Ulfgard: It’s like, “I’m a pugilist!” Roland: I don’t expect you to know the explanation of that word. DM: Ok, here’s what happens. He grabs the woman, flings her against the wall. She splats like this. Bits of blood and teeth go against the wall, and parts of her flesh are dangling now. Roland: I’m going to stop what I’m doing. That didn’t sound good. Ulfgard: Bad! It’s like, geesh. Longbeard: The knife is still buried in the other wall? Ulfgard: It looks like somebody ran over a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken. DM: What are you doing? Nepzillian: I’ll hit her with my mace. DM: Ok, alright, that’s fine. You can do that. I’m going to give you a -2 because you’re reaching over the dwarf. And again with the botching of the roll. Nepzillian: Ok, I’ll wait for the-- Well, I mean, he threw her against the wall, I mean. DM: She’s right there. You can still reach over him, but… Nepzillian: Is she going to fall down to the ground when she… DM: She might. Roland: So right now she’s stood up? Nepzillian: I mean, I’m not going to-- I’m going to wait a second, like, to see-- DM: You can wait until next turn, and see what happens. Nepzillian: Alright, I’ll do it. DM: She goes, Grrrr! [makes angry face and attacking motion, rolls die] Ulfgard: Bad! DM: And she gets a partial. Ulfgard: …at least the dwarf can kick some butt. DM: Are you going to try to dodge or anything? Longbeard: What is she doing? DM: She’s just grabbing you. She’s just grabbing you. Ulfgard: Uppercut! Longbeard: I’ll wrestle with her. DM: She’s wrestling with you. Longbeard: I’m rolling her! DM: She gives you a partial for four points. Ulfgard: Put her legs out! Roland: Bite her! DM: You are now at-- you’ve lost two-thirds of your hit points. Longbeard: Yes, I have. DM: You’re at -2 on all future physical rolls. Ulfgard: You see this dwarf with this big, long, braided beard standing there going, smack! [makes boxing motions] I love it. Roland: Is the fire going? Ulfgard: Yeah. DM: Alright, next turn. People in the room. The fire’s going. Roland: Alright, I’m going to go out and get that sack that we found in the bathroom. Ulfgard: Uh, we can’t get through there. Nepzillian: We’re kind of busy right now. Roland: Yeah, I can. I haven’t seen anything go on out here. Ulfgard: Oh, ok. DM: Ok, you can go out to the hall and stand in line. Nepzillian: Move a little closer there, alright? Now is there any chance that he went this way to her, or they’re wrapped around… DM: No, they’re still in that same orientation. Nepzillian: Ok. DM: [to Longbeard] Alright, what are you going to do now? Ulfgard: Me? DM: No, the dwarf. Roland: Wait! DM: What? Roland: I’m going to try to make my way through there. DM: They’re fighting, man, and it’s not a big hallway. Roland: I’m not a big guy. DM: Well, seriously, I don’t think you can do it. Roland: I’m only 5’5”. DM: Ok, what-- Basically what it’s going to be is a Brawling attack on everybody in front of you. Roland: I’ll wait. DM: Ok. Roland: Actually, I get my bow ready. DM: That’s fine. Well, not your bow. You get someone else’s bow ready, don’t you? Roland: Not until I get Ulfgard to kill him. [COLOR=Blue][I]The head of the Rangers of Veemme loaned Roland a long bow a few days earlier, and the minstrel hasn’t seen fit to return it yet.[/I][/COLOR][I][/I] DM: Ok, dwarf? Longbeard: Wrestling her again. Ulfgard: Bad. DM: Specifically-- Roland: Piledrive her! Longbeard: I don’t know what a piledriver is, alright? Roland: DDT her! Ulfgard: Alright, just grab her and just snap her head into the wall. Grrr! Roland: No, no. Grab her around like this so her head’s pointed that way and just drop straight back. It would work for Jake ‘the Snake’ Roberts. Longbeard: What I really want to do is grab her and, like, charge her into the wall. Roland: Dude, that never works. DM: Alright, which wall? Longbeard: This one. DM: Ok, good. Do it. Longbeard: [rolls die] Nope. DM: Ok. She slips aside, and you’re now facing each other sideways in the hall like this. Nepzillian: Well, I’m sure I’ll get a better swing at her then. DM: And it’s your turn. Longbeard: Did I hit the wall or anything? Ulfgard: This is cool. DM: No. Longbeard: Ok. DM: No, if you’d gotten a 1, you would’ve. Longbeard: Ok. Nepzillian: It’s a footman’s mace. [rolls die] DM: Ok. Ulfgard: It’s like, she turns around and it’s like she goes, whoom! DM: Now your bonuses. What do you get? Nepzillian: Uh, let’s see… DM: Weapons skill. Look at Weapons skill. Nepzillian: +2. Roland: What I said was, for you in the cheap seats, deep high! Crack! Nepzillian: +2 for the mace. DM: Ok, so you’re definitely in full [success], and just roll your damage. She’s not going to dodge. Roland: d8. Ulfgard: If you could get-- like, here’s her head and here’s the wall. Hit this side, so when like, everything just sort of-- Nepzillian: No, that’s a 6 + 1, + 2 with Strength. [rolls die] 6. Roland: Crack! Ulfgard: Plus Strength? Nepzillian: That’s everything. Roland: What I said was, get out! Ulfgard: Get the hell out of my way. Nepzillian: I hit her with the hammer earlier for a couple, so… DM: Alright, you slap-- Longbeard: …taste right out of her mouth. DM: You slap the end of your weapon across her head, and an eyeball goes flying, and you know, other parts of her go flying, flesh, blood, all this stuff. And of course, she’s shaken, but she’s still standing. And she has the presence of mind, or whatever, to reach one claw at you. Ulfgard: Well, now it’s a claw. Earlier it was a hand that… Longbeard: Long, uncut fingernails. Roland: Hey, I don’t think it’s the same woman. Ulfgard: I dunno. DM: New turn. Roland: I’m in the room. I ain’t watching. Nepzillian: If you can, just kind of hold her still, I’ll hit again. Roland: I’m going to start picking up the medicine and putting it in my bag. Ulfgard: Yeah, I’m going to search the room, too. DM: Make a Searching roll. Ulfgard: Ok. Longbeard: I found me something. Roland: Screw this. I don’t want to see people’s body parts go flying all over the place. Nepzillian: Dwarf, grab her and hold her. I’ll hit her again. Tear her arm off. DM: Ok, on the windowsill, you find a small piece of paper. And it looks like a sketch of the windmill. Ulfgard: Oo. DM: From this angle. If you look out the window you can see the windmill. Ulfgard: Ok. DM: And here’s a sketch of it. Ulfgard: Anything in particular on the sketch that is different than the windmill? DM: It looks very similar. Ulfgard: Fine. DM: All of the details aren’t correct, but… Ulfgard: Ok. DM: I mean, you know, maybe the tines are in a different position and you know. Ulfgard: Ok. Just the windmill on it? Look on the back of the sketch. DM: No, just the picture of the windmill. Ulfgard: Ok. DM: Dwarf? Longbeard: The old Irish whip across to the opposite wall. DM: Ok. Roll. Ulfgard: Gitter done. Longbeard: [rolls die] I’ll be damned. Ulfgard: What’d you get? What’d you get? Longbeard: Deuce. Ulfgard: Aww! Oh well. Roland: Dude, she reversed it. She’s about to put you in a figure four herself. Longbeard: I’m about to go down. Roland: What’d you find, Ulfgard? Ulfgard: A sketch of the windmill… [COLOR=Blue][I]TO BE CONTINUED[/I][/COLOR][I][/I] [/QUOTE]
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