TURTLEDOME! (Battle Bone!) -- Part 2

[KenHood]

[sblock=Whoa!]TURTLEDOME! causes marriage and pregnancy. I should market this![/sblock]

The audience screams its approval.

"Wow! Just wow! Wow!"

"A simply amazing entrance by the Dusty Quill Team, or as the general public has been calling them, the EMRAUNIVANNIAN!"

"Wow!"

"Yes, I've seen a lot of incredible things in my days as an announcer for TURTLEDOME! I've seen a berserker whip himself into a frenzy, tear out his own heart, and pledge it to the audience. (Then, he died and lost by default.)"

"Wow!"

"But never before have I seen such a frenzy of--"

"Wow!"

"Yes, Pete. A frenzy of wow!"

"Did you see that thing they did with the stuff?!"

"Yes, Pete. I'm right here, watching it with you."

"Go, Emrausomethingsomething!"

The skeletons in the Legion huddle, with one or two popping up its head and looking pointedly at your party. Then, they break and reform their ranks.

"Uh-oh. Looks like our TURTLEDOME! team has a response..."

The cloaked skeleton raises its hand for silence. The crowd hushes.

The skeleton puts its fist to its mouth and clears its throat. Then, it points a baleful finger at the party.

In a loud voice, it shouts:

You!

Are!

Boned!​

Several people of weaker constitutions gasp in shock and dismay. As one, all heads turn towards the party, awaiting their response...

And now for the Trash Talk (tm)!

Make your skill rolls for your responses on Invisible Castle, and roleplay the results. Expect the skeletons to counter. You can aim the roll at denigrating the Legion (which lowers their approval) or impressing the audience (increasing your approval).

 

[fireinthedust]

Okay guys, let's huddle

*in the huddle*

Man, smack-talked by Minions! Drivan, quick: what are skeletons, y'know, um, sensitive about having this made fun of?

 

[fireinthedust]

[sblock=Whoa!]TURTLEDOME! causes marriage and pregnancy. I should market this![/sblock]

[sblock=yeah] Make a tonic for it, or a cream of some sort. One that causes pregnancy... oh, wait! How's about Turtlewax?

Seriously, though, change that gaming demographic! Gaming is totally social, which is good, but I think RL games could easily be marketed to married couples and families as a game night. Imagine if they had a totally pre-packaged one-nights' game module for a family? Less complicated than that mega boardgame, the sort of thing that can be picked up at parties, I dunno.

I'm listening to the Duck Tales theme song. Kinda nice.[/sblock]

 

[Reklaw]

[sblock=Congrats!]Good work FitD! Congratulations! You can definitely name the kid Drivan, it's an original but not strange name so you're set[/sblock]

[sblock=Ken]Now you just have to offer some sort of protection from the pregnancy side of things[/sblock]

Drivan says, "Great entrance Emral, I think you really grabbed the crowd with that one. Let me check with Oby and see what we can come up with for this pile of bones." //Do you want me to make that arcana roll Ken?//

 

[KenHood]

//Yeah, go ahead and make the roll. When it's a plot-spoiler to know the results, I'll invoke the 'Secret Roll' clause. You might want to use the Coco Roller. I've been getting pretty high results from it. Ah likes it more than Invisible Castle. (Don't worry. I won't use CoCo for the rank-and-file baddies.)//

//Ooooooh! Double slashes look cool for OOC comments!//

 

[Reklaw]

//I know, liking the // for OOC comments... btw, not listening to you about rollers again...//

Arcana roll - 1d20+13=18

 

[KenHood]

//Man! What did you do to get CoCo mad?

Okay. *Scratches head.* An Arcana roll to hurt a skeleton's feelings. What the heck am I gonna do with that?!//

Drivan recalls that skeletons, being the weakest of all undead, often suffer from an inferiority complex based on a lack of meat on their bones. (An insult based on this would gain a +2 bonus on a skill check, but only the first time you mock their un-meatiness.)

Also, intelligent skeletons find comparison to zombies to be hurtful and furthering stereotypes about mindless undead...

 

[Reklaw]

Drivan passes the information on to his companions...

"Perhaps you should mock their anorexic appearance Emral?"

"Finnian, shout something about decapitating them like the bunch of not-even-good-enough-to-be-zombies undead that they are."

"Vaunea... I have an illusion that we might be able to pull off..."

Drivan whispers to Vaunea, "I'm going to create a giant skeleton, illusory of course, and I want you to walk up to it and punch it square in the jaw."


//What is the limit on my illusions Ken? I know I can't create anything that would act on it's own but if Drivan is standing there subtly manipulating the image it should work right?

Oh, and good ideas on insulting the skeletons based on their appearance and stereotyped mindlessness.//

 

[Reklaw]

[sblock=Drivan gets an appearance overhaul]So I've got this new idea for a wizard in my head... No game-related changes though Ken.

After we finish here I think Drivan is going to go talk with Stillwort and will come back with a new appearance... not anything major but his spellbook will be transcribed to his skin, and not in tattoos but rather in ridges. Does that make sense? So his skin will have lines and patterns covering it. You'll be able to make out somethings such as a feather here or the pattern of a flame here which actually make up the spell components. Eventually he'll have to get enchanted so that any wounds will heal without scarring and damaging his spellbook.

Ideas, criticism?[/sblock]

 

[KenHood]

//What is the limit on my illusions Ken? I know I can't create anything that would act on it's own but if Drivan is standing there subtly manipulating the image it should work right?//

//Hmmmm... I'd say you could create the skeleton illusion. It would be obvious that its illusory--maybe outlined by a glow or transparent or something like that, so the effect doesn't duplicate any other powers. You'd have to concentrate the entire time to maintain it, if you want it to move around and do stuff.//