Post by Andre on Sept 13, 2011 22:49:22 GMT -5
CHAT LOG AUGUST 30TH 2011
Once again my apologies for taking so long to post this
.. hopefully future postings should be much faster for XP and RP I think things are finally settling down now at the munchkins' new school .. as always feel free to jump down to the section with just your PC's name on it otherwise you'll be in for a long read 
.... Draug and Rin are on the "part 1" thread, Serinda, Udyr and Zane are on the "part 2" thread ..
SERINDA
500 XP - surviving encounter with Fistaldanius's steel pyrohydra
100 XP - fight (??) with stone golem harassing Rin's.. equipment.
80 XP good role playing
205 role playing points.
I thought Serinda was a bit quiet this FG game session but overall still really good RP'ing ..
Serinda gestures ... a small bead of ice hurtles towards the strange metallic hydra-thing and explodes in an icy blast .... the hydra is blanketed with ice for a moment .. then starts to move again ... the strange thing is .. it seems to be moving even FASTER than before .. not only that it looks undamaged (Serinda and Rin can make knowledge arcana rolls as can anyone else who has that skill )
If Rin or Serinda had to guess they would say... this thing has to have some sort of electrical component - metal constructs have that as a feature sometimes... it's been mentioned during their (respective) studies that cold makes electricity course through metallic objects more quickly ...
Campaign saved.
Draug: " Why you make it go faster princess? Now it harder to kill it ! "
Draug complains
Serinda: "It wasn't called a test for nothing."
Draug: " Hmmm... don't know, think we need new magic-person... you not up to snuff."
Draug grins and elbows Udyr in the side as he makes fun of Serinda
Rin looks at the thing for a moment and back to Serinda. "You have a spell that creats electricty?"
Draug: " What electricity ? "
Rin: "Doesn't have to be one of those high powered things you toss around either."
'Blahness98' connected
Serinda: "At least I didn't shoot my own side..."
Rin looks back ad Udyr. "Hey tall brutish and hairy. Think you can light that grease puddle on fire?"
Draug: " Hey what wrong with tall brutish and hairy ? That me too when I wolf-man "
Draug says indignantly
Draug: " You leave Udyr alone - he buddy of mine "
Serinda: "Same general smell too.."
Udyr looks down at his hand for a moment.
Udyr: No, I can't, not now.
Rin: "Huh...."
Serinda: "I find it amazing you two can sit there complaining nobody else has any ideas, yet feel you are contributing..."
Udyr: You want me to contribute? Fine I will!
Love the whole slightly condescending sarcasm here
Serinda sighs and casts her brand new fire shield spell, wrapping bright flames around herself like a cloak, before stepping off, and fall down with the rest
Love the whole resigned to " what have they gotten me into now" thing as she flies down towards the metal hydra to do battle with it
Zane: Are you two ok? Those bites looked pretty bad..
Serinda wipes some blood from her face and leans against the wall.
Serinda: "Not really..."
Zane: Sorry about your robes.. I figured you staying alive would be the better option given you knack of fixing your clothes..
Serinda leads the way down the stairs, whole holding the wall to steady herself.
Zane follows behind in case the princes falls..
Zane: Don't know if you heard earlier, but, sorry about your robes..
Panting for breath you find yourself on yet another level of skullcap even further below ground... (and see flavor text box that's about to pop up), safely out of reach of the hydra... as long as you move from this area quickly..
Serinda: "Yeah... I heard... However... well... never mind... it would just be nice if I could stop being eaten..."
Zane: That would help..
Rin: "I'd like to have a day when I'm not frozen lit on fire or cooked."
Udyr: You throw yourself at the creatures, and you expect NOT to be eaten?!
Zane: I didn't really throw myself at it.. kinda just fell into that situation..
Draug: ye gotta admit hydra know how to cook
Zane: and thank you Udyr.
Draug: well I dont like this place no more we move on?
Rin: "Shut up and pay attention to the creepy statue... We need to makes sure this thigs won't try and kill us."
Serinda: "Everything in this place seems intent on killing us...."
Serinda: "Wouldn't be surprised if the decorations do too..."
As usual the in-game descriptions of her non-verbal behavior and body language is spot on, great stuff ! Loved the comment on the decorations too and the whole commenting on her surroundings thing
Udyr looks over at Serinda, seeing her bloody and bandaged body
Looking around it occurs to Udyr that no one is operating at full capacity yet.. whether it be puncture marks on Draug or Serinda's part, burnt extra crispy skin on Rin's part, broken bones on Draug's part... everyone is definitely the worse for wear (that is not back up to full hit points)
Udyr sighs as he walks over to Serinda. (
Udyr places his hand roughly on Serinda's shoulder, green light once again radiates from it healing some of Serinda's wounds. He then walks off with out saying a word.
Udyr -> [HEAL] Touch of Healing [12]
Serinda winces as her shoulder is grapped roughly, and glances at Udyr as he walks away, wrubbing her belly, the memory of pain still lingering
Love the interplay here between Udyr and Serinda - I have to admit that's just like something out of the movies, two people who fight each other all the time, one suddenly helps another out of the blue and the one who's helped is left staring as the other person walks away, wondering ...
Serinda: "of course... this could also have been a room for one of his... experiments..."
Serinda: "And that door might contain said experiments..."
Again love how she's paying attention to her surroundings - Fistaldanius the evil black wizard's lair - and commenting on it
Draug jumps to the statue and jumps to the next set of doors avoiding the floor just in case
Serinda: "Certainly has courage... in a sense..."
Serinda sighs as she glances after Draug
commentary on Draug, great stuff
Inside is something strange looking on the ground.. skulls, a little half-circle shaped bookshelf ... a pentagram with, oddly enough, fires still burning around it in little pots ... even three centuries later after skullcap was rocked by the magical blast that transformed it's face into a skull-like exterior..
Rin: "Indeed they do."
That is, that's the scene DRaug sees beyond the doors from where he's standing... Rin sees it too... something seems.. familiar isn't the right word .. about the scene .. if he investigates it closer he could get a better handle on it, if Rin enters the room
Zane wonders over to the statue and sits down. "Let me know when we are moving on. I'm sitting down for a while.."
Rin walks inot the room looking around.
Rin -> [SKILL] Knowledge (Arcana) [MOD:INT] [1d20+15 = 34]
Rin -> [SKILL] Knowledge (Bardic) [MOD:INT] [1d20+18 = 19]
Serinda frowns, and decides to follow the others.
Serinda -> [SKILL] Knowledge (Arcana) [MOD:INT] [1d20+22 = 39]
Udyr watches at Zane sits down, and decides to sit down himself.
Zane several bones crack and pop as Zane sits down. "I don't think I am going to be getting up for a while."
Serinda: "I wonder what he was doing here..... But I think it's best not to disturb this... ritual..."
Udyr: Heh, did you lose your balance up there Zane? You were almost across
Serinda and Rin arrive at the same conclusion at the same time - no wonder it seemed familiar to Rin he spent a lot of time studying this very topic in bardic college ! This is a summoning circle that Fistaldanius used to call succubi to him.. indeed now that DRaug thinks about it... there's the faint , but unmistakable , odor of semen and vaginal juices.. mixed with sulphur of all things... odd the smells would still be here after all these years.. indeed all three of you (Serinda, Rin and Draug) appear to be standing on very faint suspiciously white looking patches ... the scent comes strongest from these patches...
Zane: Saw something move in the dust, then I got the hell beat out of me.
Zane: Then I woke up on the floor after you touched me.
Rin: "Oh I know what this is for.... Can I use it? Pleeeeaaasssseee?!?!?"
Udyr: What hit you?
You all stand staring at each other, Rin , Serinda and Draug.. what next ?
Zane: Hell if I know.. didn't see anything over there. Just dust moving..
Serinda: "No one is using this...... Thing... at any point."
Serinda: "We know what it's for... Let's move on..."
Draug: "Well wanna check out that hing over there (half circle doohickey)
Udyr: Was it a wall like we... felt at the bottom?
Half-circle type shelf with all sorts of books - books Rin and Serinda now recognize as specifically dedicated to summon succubi... and spells that allow you to draw on .. intimate relations.. with said succubi, to make the spells stronger.. dark, DARK stuff.. suitable for a black robe..
Rin: "Oh come on.... I might die in here we all might now that I've seen what's going on. I want to atleast get in a lay before the end. Yu can watch and make sure I don't completely screw up. You can join fi you want too aswell."
Zane: Not if a wall can punch the hell out of you.
Dungeon Master: So is Rin going for it or not ?
Draug: "Nah lets go you screw Christania whe nwe get back. We will get back" (
Udyr: So you are saying something you couldn't see, punched you, and is still wandering around?!
Draug: alright well ima head out
Serinda: "Either way, you're not using this."
Serinda: "Now start going"
Draug backtrack back to the second set of doors and attempts to open it
Rin looks at the circle and sighs. "Just ten minutes. You could take a break. I mean we all deserve a quick breather. Besides I might not even beable to use it. My magic and all..... Wouldn't you say it's best to know hwat I can and can't do?"
Serinda: "No"
The lock pops open under Draug's deft finger-claws.. it looks just like the other room you left, dwarf statue, red globes on the ceiling giving dim light.. except there are no scorch marks on the wall in this one...
Serinda: "Now get moving."
Serinda points towards the exit.
Draug: Zane come here help me search for what may esplode on us
Rin sighs. "Fine just give me a minute you can go ahead. I primise on my mothers life and that of Christania I won't use it."
Serinda: "I'll wait, nobody should stay alone in this place."
Rin: "I'll be fine, I just need to take care of something you proabably don't want to see. Besides I can scream pretty loud if I need help."
Deepfrey (Draug): alright
Draug: ooc lol
Serinda: "If it's nothing to be worried about, then there's no reason not to say what it is anyway."
Draug draug takes one step in and searches
Dungeon Master: udyr you there ?
Deepfrey (Draug): yuay draug draug
Zane gets up slowly, as more pops and snaps can be heard.
Zane: Just a second.
Dungeon Master: udyr , Draug is asking if people want to accompany him through the door
Zane walks over and gives the door a quick look over. Looks fine.
Dungeon Master: The door draug is peeking his head through right now that is
Campaign saved.
Rin visably blush's now that he has no feathers. "Well... the smell in the room... it's.... Umm....." He then points to his nethers.
Dungeon Master: No prob udyr
Serinda: "All the more reason to get away from it, right now."
Dungeon Master: So is anyone going in the room Udyr is at ?
Dungeon Master: Bleh, DRAUG is at I mean
Serinda: "If you want... I can make a little colder here...."
Zane looks inside the room carefully.
Zane -> [SKILL] Search [MOD:INT] [1d20+9 = 18]
Zane -> [SKILL] Spot [MOD:WIS] [1d20+12 = 24]
Rin: "Yeah that won't help.... all of it's internal untill I pull it out. Soo... You'd just make my skin cold To Zane it looks much like the other room ... a very large dwarf statue, bigger than a normal human, hands pressed to the ceiling, red gloes in the ceiling dimly lighting up the room - no traps or anything Zane or Draug can see ... the main difference is no scorch marks in this room..
Udyr watches as Zane gets up and walks over to Draug, he groans and gets up slowly, and walks over to the door.
Zane carefully takes a step into the room.
Serinda: "Then you can have some privacy in the next room. Just close both doors, and no one will bother you.... I'll look after this... fiend summoning place..."
With a creak the stone statue of the dwarf seems to come to life.. it removes it's arms from the ceiling as it looks at you...
Rin just decides to start to whip it out in front of Serinda, that ought to make her get he reckons. [TURN] Serinda
[TURN] Zane
Draug: "See I tell you all rock people come to life"
Campaign saved.
Serinda turns around to look away, but keeps her ears open for any, 'summonings' going on.
Interplay between Serinda and Rin , hilarious ! ... very funny watching the two of them go back and forth.. Rin " please ? " Serinda " No " Rin " Please " Serinda " No " Rin " Pretty please ? " Serinda " NO " 
..
Serinda moves back and then decides to cast her golden sphere spell on Rin instead, to keep him safe at least, carefully building the golden cage around him. (to protect Rin from stone golem swinging Rin by his -equipment).
Loved this, very evocative, descriptive wording of how she cast the spell
UDYR
500 XP - surviving encounter with Fistaldanius's steel pyrohydra
100 XP - fight (??) with stone golem harassing Rin's.. equipment.
70 XP good role playing
131 role playing points.
Udyr's RP'ing is improving, he was more vocal this FG game session than the last one - I'd like to see him stick with it and go on looking for ways to be more vocal - that is look for opportunities to interact with other PC's then follow up on them .. But again seeing improvement that's great ! For example :
Serinda gestures ... a small bead of ice hurtles towards the strange metallic hydra-thing and explodes in an icy blast .... the hydra is blanketed with ice for a moment .. then starts to move again ... the strange thing is .. it seems to be moving even FASTER than before .. not only that it looks undamaged (Serinda and Rin can make knowledge arcana rolls as can anyone else who has that skill )
If Rin or Serinda had to guess they would say... this thing has to have some sort of electrical component - metal constructs have that as a feature sometimes... it's been mentioned during their (respective) studies that cold makes electricity course through metallic objects more quickly ...
Campaign saved.
Draug: " Why you make it go faster princess? Now it harder to kill it ! "
Draug complains
Serinda: "It wasn't called a test for nothing."
Draug: " Hmmm... don't know, think we need new magic-person... you not up to snuff."
Draug grins and elbows Udyr in the side as he makes fun of Serinda
Rin looks at the thing for a moment and back to Serinda. "You have a spell that creats electricty?"
Draug: " What electricity ? "
Rin: "Doesn't have to be one of those high powered things you toss around either."
Serinda: "At least I didn't shoot my own side..."
Draug: " Tell me about it.. remember when she try to kill blue eyed man with fangs when red dragon man attacking us? She keep throwing around ice even though she can't see, nearly kill Draug ! Draug keep getting caught in crossfire ! "
Draug looks at Udyr and adds
Draug: " Me recommend you keep head down when she start firing things off bro"
Udyr: Oh, then she was quite deserving of that arrow then.
Serinda: "I could toss a lightning bolt down there.. About all i can do that does electricity..."
Rin: "No.... what did Trent call them.... Oh yeah Cantrips?"
Rin: "I wonder...."
Draug: " Yeah me wonder too ! "
Udyr: You going to try your spell or not?!
Rin 's eyes flash as a puddle of grease forms beneath the creature."
Draug: " Hey I know ! Udyr you big strong guy right? We toss princess down and have her fight hydra hand to hand ! Me bet princess win ! "
Serinda: "If it runs on electricity i'd hate to supercharge it. So no"
Rin: "Could over load it. Anyway, any fire that won't tap your more useful magic?"
Serinda: "What about my golden sphere..."
Rin: "Might be too big."
Campaign saved.
The grease pools under the hydra-like metal construct.. which continues to sit there, not moving.. though it's twelve heads definitely appear to be pointed upwards in your direction, looking at you.... waiting expectantly it would seem...
Rin looks back ad Udyr. "Hey tall brutish and hairy. Think you can light that grease puddle on fire?"
Draug: " Hey what wrong with tall brutish and hairy ? That me too when I wolf-man "
Draug says indignantly
Draug: " You leave Udyr alone - he buddy of mine "
Serinda: "Same general smell too.."
Udyr looks down at his hand for a moment.
Udyr: No, I can't, not now.
Rin: "Huh...."
Serinda: "I find it amazing you two can sit there complaining nobody else has any ideas, yet feel you are contributing..."
Udyr: You want me to contribute? Fine I will!
LIked the "you want me to contribute" comment, perfect example of Udyr's grouchiness and bear-like behavior .. as well liked his impatient " Are you going to try your spell or not ? " But if you look for it, there's other opportunities for him to be even more vocal ... for example when Rin called him tall brutish and hairy maybe he might have retorted with something like " Better than being a birdbrain ! At least I don't leave white droppings everywhere I go ! " Or perhaps " I"ll light it AND you on fire you irritating fowl ! " Stuff like that ... Or when Udyr set the stage for tossing "the princess" (which you probably guessed by now is a reference to Serinda ) down the balcony to the hydra perhaps Udyr might have joked back to Udyr " Not a bad idea - she'll poison the hydra and it'll be smooth sailing after that " .. or when he made the " You want me to contribute? Fine I will ! " comment perhaps he might have even tried grabbing Serinda and picking her up " HOw about if I contribute by tossing you down there like Draug suggested? Would that make you happy ? " Of course I'm guessing Udyr would never actually do this and he'd pick her up well away from the balcony so she doesn't accidentally fall down but it would still make for some good RP humor ..
Rin: "Yeah making oursleves invisible but even then if might be able to see us."
Serinda: "Actually i was going to make myself invisible, turn into a bird, then fly down there, once i've been into the area. I can teleport all of us down there bypassing the hydra alltogether."
Rin: "And if it can see you while your invisible?"
You all see Zane stiffen.. mutter something to himself - then desperately try to leap off the bridge onto the balcony.. he staggers backwards as if invisible blows - - HEAVY blows -- are falling on him... his head whips to the side, his eyes rolling into the back of his head as he loses consciousness.. he then plummets down, down , down .. landing with a heavy thud on the final floor of the balcony, unmoving (note he's still alive, just unconscious )
Serinda: "Well that would be a problem..."
Rin: "Oh look Scales is down
The steel looking hydra thing looks down at Zane.. then starts forward towards him...
Serinda: "Damn!"
Rin walks forward off the edge and floats down as his eyes flash. As he floats down his eyes flash agian as he yells at the creature.
Udyr: Uhhgg, this is going to be a pain in the ass.
I liked the pain in the ass comment but I would have liked to see Udyr expand further on this .. maybe hollering at Zane (even if he's unconscious ) " What the hell is the matter with you ? A three year old could keep his balance better than that ! Now we have to go fight this gods-damn steel hydra to save your gods-damn ass because you're too gods-damn clumsy to keep your balance ! " .. you know the typical Udyr grouching and complaining ..
Udyr bends down touches Zane murmuring prayers to Habbakuk.. there's a flash of green light ... And Zane sits straight up, eyes wide, conscious again .. seeing quite a spectacle before him - Draug flailing away and raging at something Zane can't see hollering about a wall... the smell of fried bird fills the air - Rin is singed, parts of him are on fire and he definitely looks the worse for wear..
Heal [0] -> [to Zane]
Zane falls back, groans and curls into the fetal position.
Zane: Watch that first step... it is a doozy..
Udyr looks down at Zane.
Campaign saved.
Udyr: You took quite a fall, NOW GET YOUR ASS UP!
Zane: You realize, yelling at someone who just took a nice fall isn't the nicest thing to do..
Zane: Then again.. I think the fall helped my headache..
Rin takes a step back from the creature and draws his whips as his eyes lfahs and one of his whips starts to hum loudly.
Zane felt Draug's hands on him when Zane regained consciousness.. not too difficult to put two and two together - Udyr called on Habbakuk to heal Zane.. Zane feels some of the bones knitting back into place in his ribcage that his invisible assailant shattered.. but it's not a full recovery...
Udyr: DO YOU WANT TO GET YOUR ASS FRIED LIKE THAT CHICKEN OVER THERE?!
Zane: Don't think you all would want to tastes baked dragon..
Draug: "Welll most o us wouldnt..,......"
Rin's whip begins to vibrate and THRUM in an almost obscene manner in his hand as it twitches..
Zane: I guessing that bone didn't tie you over?
Draug: "Draug how you say bottom pit it go in it and it gone"
BEAUTIFUL stuff loved the comments to zane here , great RP'ing the best I've seen yet ...
Zane: Are you two ok? Those bites looked pretty bad..
Serinda wipes some blood from her face and leans against the wall.
Serinda: "Not really..."
Zane: Sorry about your robes.. I figured you staying alive would be the better option given you knack of fixing your clothes..
Serinda leads the way down the stairs, whole holding the wall to steady herself.
Zane follows behind in case the princes falls..
Zane: Don't know if you heard earlier, but, sorry about your robes..
Panting for breath you find yourself on yet another level of skullcap even further below ground... (and see flavor text box that's about to pop up), safely out of reach of the hydra... as long as you move from this area quickly..
Serinda: "Yeah... I heard... However... well... never mind... it would just be nice if I could stop being eaten..."
Zane: That would help..
Rin: "I'd like to have a day when I'm not frozen lit on fire or cooked."
Udyr: You throw yourself at the creatures, and you expect NOT to be eaten?!
Zane: I didn't really throw myself at it.. kinda just fell into that situation..
Draug: ye gotta admit hydra know how to cook
Zane: and thank you Udyr.
Draug: well I dont like this place no more we move on?
Rin: "Shut up and pay attention to the creepy statue... We need to makes sure this thigs won't try and kill us."
Serinda: "Everything in this place seems intent on killing us...."
Serinda: "Wouldn't be surprised if the decorations do too..."
Rin: "Exactly my point."
Zane walks up to the statue and takes a look at it.
Udyr: I never liked this place to begin with...
Draug moves forward and kicks the statue
Zane: Don't want this thing to come alive and attempt to eat the princess..
The statue doesn't appear to respond.. aside from looking ugly as all hell..
Draug: that why i kick it
Zane glances over in the direction of Udyr. "No yell? You feeling ok?"
Zane: Rin.. I think you should back away from that room.. That thing looked like it smiled..
Udyr -> [HEAL] Touch of Healing [12]
Rin feels some of the burning agony from his skin fade away under udyr's touch.. surprising given how gruff the man is (udyr)
Rin: "And you're point is. Face it, a smiel like that might mean manything. Could even bee to throw us off."
Udyr looks over at Serinda, seeing her bloody and bandaged body
Looking around it occurs to Udyr that no one is operating at full capacity yet.. whether it be puncture marks on Draug or Serinda's part, burnt extra crispy skin on Rin's part, broken bones on Draug's part... everyone is definitely the worse for wear (that is not back up to full hit points)
Udyr sighs as he walks over to Serinda. (
Udyr places his hand roughly on Serinda's shoulder, green light once again radiates from it healing some of Serinda's wounds. He then walks off with out saying a word.
Udyr -> [HEAL] Touch of Healing [12]
Serinda winces as her shoulder is grapped roughly, and glances at Udyr as he walks away, wrubbing her belly, the memory of pain still lingering
I liked how you RP'ed out the whole healing thing here , particulary how he walked away from Serinda without saying a word - reminds me of the whole thing you see in movies, two people who don't get along, one does something unexpectedly nice to the other , walks away and leaves the other person looking after the first person and just.. wondering.. great stuff .. liked the " you throw yourself at them and expect NOT to get eaten" comment and the " I never liked this place to begin with " grouching is great .. I'd expand further on the reasons he doesn't like the place too though - list all the stupid things the other PC's have done, the things about the surroundings that are pissing him off in particular ( "Damn dragons everywhere , damn bird men who can't shut up and waste their time talking to everything we run into , damn elf women who keep getting eaten alive , damn half-dragon rangers - talking about YOU Zane - who can't keep their balance crossing gods-damn ledges " ... )
Udyr watches at Zane sits down, and decides to sit down himself.
Zane several bones crack and pop as Zane sits down. "I don't think I am going to be getting up for a while."
Udyr: Heh, did you lose your balance up there Zane? You were almost across
Zane: Saw something move in the dust, then I got the hell beat out of me.
Zane: Then I woke up on the floor after you touched me.
Udyr: What hit you?
Zane: Hell if I know.. didn't see anything over there. Just dust moving..
Udyr: Was it a wall like we... felt at the bottom?
Zane: Not if a wall can punch the hell out of you.
Udyr: So you are saying something you couldn't see, punched you, and is still wandering around?!
Loved how he saw an opportunity to sit and rap (RP) with Zane and took it - followed by the usual Udyr complaining of course
Udyr holds out his palm as a bolt of lightning shoots forth from it at the Golem.
Your explanations of how he casts his spells continue to be well written , good stuff
Again , look at what the other PC's are saying - I'm sure Udyr will find something to complain about .. for example in this passage :
Rin starts to run past Serinda his friend still hanging out. "Takes to long to put it back in I mean it's huge just look. And I don't want to stuff it in too quickly even when taking my time I might place it in the wrong hole."
Draug: Get that thing away from me
Draug: draug no want doggy style from Rin
Perhaps Udyr might have roared something like " The LAST thing I want to see is your pants-snake bird-man ! Put it away ! " ... then during this passage :
For the first time ever the spell has no effect ! . The arrows plunge harmlessly into the stone golems hide .. but don't appear to even faze it...
udyr watches as the bolt of lighting erupting from his palm blackens not only the stone golem's skin but also Rin's ..once again the tasty aroma of fried bird fills the air..
Zane smells the air. "I say we go and get some chicken.. Rin is making me hungry..
Zane: Sorry Rin.. A dragon's gotta eat..
Draug: I only have 6 herbs and spices right now we need at least 11
Rin: "I'll gove you something to eat later."
Zane: I think I might have a few with me as well..
What happens next is .. perhaps from Serinda's point of view.. beyond horrible.. the thing lifts Rin up and starts to literally SWING him by his member.. the pain is agonizing as the thing swings Rin like a weapon, beak first, right into Serinda...
Zane: You might not have anything lef....
Rin's pain that is though it isn't pleasant for Serinda either...
Draug: "And we both have plenty o canines to get through the tough parts"
[TURN] Stone Golem
[TURN] Draug
Draug: "Well let get this open now shall we
Zane looks away, while covering himself and gasping in a pain shared by all men..
Draug: "If ya tough it out it will grow longer thnk o Christania Rin"
Draug: "Rin cut it off and heal it later!"
Zane: I don't think it works that way Draug..
Rin: "Never!!!"
Zane: And I don't think he'll let you chew on it..
Maybe Udyr might have said something like " Don't you think we have more important things to worry about than recipes for fried bird ? Cook the bird man later, fight now ! And if you so much as even accidentally graze me with that thing Rin I SWEAR I'll wrap it around your neck and strangle you myself with it ! "
Basically if you pay really close attention to what the other PC's are saying and ask yourself " What about this situation could potentially piss Udyr off in even the slightest possible way ? " and act accordingly that will give you all sorts of RP opportunities right there .. if you decide you want to highlight Udyr's softer side too later on , for a dramatic/interesting personality contrast type thing (shows depth of chararacter, more than one side to Udyr et cetera ) maybe the next time someone's injured after Udyr tends to them have Udyr ask gruffly " Are you all right ? "
ZANE
500 XP - surviving encounter with Fistaldanius's steel pyrohydra
100 XP - fight (??) with stone golem harassing Rin's.. equipment.
100 XP good role playing
287 role playing points.
Usual bang-on job both interacting with your fellow PC's and taking note of and reacting to the things going on around Zane, his environment and surroudings in general .. For example :
Udyr bends down touches Zane murmuring prayers to Habbakuk.. there's a flash of green light ... And Zane sits straight up, eyes wide, conscious again .. seeing quite a spectacle before him - Draug flailing away and raging at something Zane can't see hollering about a wall... the smell of fried bird fills the air - Rin is singed, parts of him are on fire and he definitely looks the worse for wear..
Heal [0] -> [to Zane]
Zane falls back, groans and curls into the fetal position.
Zane: Watch that first step... it is a doozy..
Udyr looks down at Zane.
Campaign saved.
Udyr: You took quite a fall, NOW GET YOUR ASS UP!
Zane: You realize, yelling at someone who just took a nice fall isn't the nicest thing to do..
Zane: Then again.. I think the fall helped my headache..
Rin takes a step back from the creature and draws his whips as his eyes lfahs and one of his whips starts to hum loudly.
Zane felt Draug's hands on him when Zane regained consciousness.. not too difficult to put two and two together - Udyr called on Habbakuk to heal Zane.. Zane feels some of the bones knitting back into place in his ribcage that his invisible assailant shattered.. but it's not a full recovery...
Udyr: DO YOU WANT TO GET YOUR ASS FRIED LIKE THAT CHICKEN OVER THERE?!
Zane: Don't think you all would want to tastes baked dragon..
Draug: "Welll most o us wouldnt..,......"
Rin's whip begins to vibrate and THRUM in an almost obscene manner in his hand as it twitches..
Zane: I guessing that bone didn't tie you over?
Draug: "Draug how you say bottom pit it go in it and it gone"
Very much a "Zane" sort of reaction - oh gods what shit have they gotten me / have I gotten myself into now ? .. Loved the interplay with Udyr and loved the interplay with Draug even more (" what that bone didn't tide you over ? " )
One after one of the heads sinks fanged metal teeth into Serinda... blood fountains over her beautiful purple and white outfit, sprays over her hair as Zane and Rin watch ... she crumbles to the ground, unconscious, many, many puncture wounds starred across her body from the thing's teeth..
Zane looks at the horror that was Serinda, rushes over and pulls out some of his plants in an attempt to at leaststop the bleeding..
Zane frantically rips away strips of her outfit, binding the wounds, staunching the blood flow, pressing plants into the wounds.. he's staunched the worst of it , keeping her from death's door.. for now...
Zane: Healing Hands Skill Trick [1d6 = 4]
Rin leans down and presses his hand agianst Serinda as a white light bursts from underneath it
Zane: She's going to be pissed when you wake her up birdy. Just don't get cauht takinggetting an eyeful.
Zane removes his cloak and tosses it over Serinda.
Zane: Are you two ok? Those bites looked pretty bad..
Serinda wipes some blood from her face and leans against the wall.
Serinda: "Not really..."
Zane: Sorry about your robes.. I figured you staying alive would be the better option given you knack of fixing your clothes..
Serinda leads the way down the stairs, whole holding the wall to steady herself.
Zane follows behind in case the princes falls..
Zane: Don't know if you heard earlier, but, sorry about your robes..
Panting for breath you find yourself on yet another level of skullcap even further below ground... (and see flavor text box that's about to pop up), safely out of reach of the hydra... as long as you move from this area quickly..
Serinda: "Yeah... I heard... However... well... never mind... it would just be nice if I could stop being eaten..."
Zane: That would help..
Rin: "I'd like to have a day when I'm not frozen lit on fire or cooked."
Udyr: You throw yourself at the creatures, and you expect NOT to be eaten?!
Zane: I didn't really throw myself at it.. kinda just fell into that situation..
Draug: ye gotta admit hydra know how to cook
Zane: and thank you Udyr.
Draug: well I dont like this place no more we move on?
Rin: "Shut up and pay attention to the creepy statue... We need to makes sure this thigs won't try and kill us."
Serinda: "Everything in this place seems intent on killing us...."
Serinda: "Wouldn't be surprised if the decorations do too..."
Rin: "Exactly my point."
Zane walks up to the statue and takes a look at it.
Udyr: I never liked this place to begin with...
Draug moves forward and kicks the statue
Zane: Don't want this thing to come alive and attempt to eat the princess..
The statue doesn't appear to respond.. aside from looking ugly as all hell..
Draug: that why i kick it
Zane glances over in the direction of Udyr. "No yell? You feeling ok?"
Zane: Rin.. I think you should back away from that room.. That thing looked like it smiled..
Udyr -> [HEAL] Touch of Healing [12]
Rin feels some of the burning agony from his skin fade away under udyr's touch.. surprising given how gruff the man is (udyr)
Rin: "And you're point is. Face it, a smiel like that might mean manything. Could even bee to throw us off."
Again love how he takes the time to interact with his fellow PC's ... Zane pretty much spoke to every single PC around him here at one point or another during the entire exchange, great stuff ! This sort of RP behavior tends to "spark" RP'ing from another player which in turn makes the game that much more fun for both the DM and your fellow players - good stuff Also loved how he shows concern for Serinda here after she gets her butt kicked ..
Zane wonders over to the statue and sits down. "Let me know when we are moving on. I'm sitting down for a while.."
Rin walks inot the room looking around.
Rin -> [SKILL] Knowledge (Bardic) [MOD:INT] [1d20+18 = 19]
Udyr watches at Zane sits down, and decides to sit down himself.
Zane several bones crack and pop as Zane sits down. "I don't think I am going to be getting up for a while."
Udyr: Heh, did you lose your balance up there Zane? You were almost across
Zane: Saw something move in the dust, then I got the hell beat out of me.
Zane: Then I woke up on the floor after you touched me.
Udyr: What hit you?
Zane: Hell if I know.. didn't see anything over there. Just dust moving..
Udyr: Was it a wall like we... felt at the bottom?
Zane: Not if a wall can punch the hell out of you.
Love the evocative description of Zane here (bones cracking and popping) , loved the interplay withUdyr and got a huge laugh out of the " not if a wall can punch the hell out of you" comment
Serinda heads after the others rapidly, and comes to a dead halt as there's a huge stone creature attacking the others.
Serinda: "oh crud.."
Zane: Nice of you to join us princess..
Great stuff love the sarcasm here and the RP that goes with us .. " So nice of you to finally join us as we battle for our lives "
Serinda notes that Rin appears to be suffering from what could be considered a form of poetic justice.. the large stone statue appears to have grabbed Rin by.. well, by his little Rn ...
For the first time ever the spell has no effect ! . The arrows plunge harmlessly into the stone golems hide .. but don't appear to even faze it...
udyr watches as the bolt of lighting erupting from his palm blackens not only the stone golem's skin but also Rin's ..once again the tasty aroma of fried bird fills the air..
Zane smells the air. "I say we go and get some chicken.. Rin is making me hungry..
Zane: Sorry Rin.. A dragon's gotta eat..
Draug: I only have 6 herbs and spices right now we need at least 11
Rin: "I'll gove you something to eat later."
Zane: I think I might have a few with me as well..
What happens next is .. perhaps from Serinda's point of view.. beyond horrible.. the thing lifts Rin up and starts to literally SWING him by his member.. the pain is agonizing as the thing swings Rin like a weapon, beak first, right into Serinda...
Zane: You might not have anything lef....
Rin's pain that is though it isn't pleasant for Serinda either...
Draug: "And we both have plenty o canines to get through the tough parts"
[TURN] Stone Golem
[TURN] Draug
Draug: "Well let get this open now shall we
Zane looks away, while covering himself and gasping in a pain shared by all men..
Draug: "If ya tough it out it will grow longer thnk o Christania Rin"
Draug: "Rin cut it off and heal it later!"
Zane: I don't think it works that way Draug..
Rin: "Never!!!"
Zane: And I don't think he'll let you chew on it..
Serinda moves back and then decides to cast her golden sphere spell on Rin instead, to keep him safe at least, carefully building the golden cage around him.
Draug: "Draug no fancy them boners"
The elven woman gestures - and the nightmarish pain eases in Rin's equipment as a shimmering golden sphere.. a more lovely sight he's never seen - comes into view seperating him from the golem as Rin is encased in Serinda's magical protection...
[TURN] Udyr
Zane: Now put the damn thing away!
Zane: Otherwise it might get torn off..
There's a lot to love here - the jokes about frying Rin up with herbs and spices , the joke to Draug about how he didn't think Rin would let DRaug use his severed, um, equipment as a chew toy and the "put the damn thing away " comment was a laugh-out-loud moment for me when I read it ..
Once again my apologies for taking so long to post this
.. hopefully future postings should be much faster for XP and RP I think things are finally settling down now at the munchkins' new school .. as always feel free to jump down to the section with just your PC's name on it otherwise you'll be in for a long read 
.... Draug and Rin are on the "part 1" thread, Serinda, Udyr and Zane are on the "part 2" thread .. SERINDA
500 XP - surviving encounter with Fistaldanius's steel pyrohydra
100 XP - fight (??) with stone golem harassing Rin's.. equipment.
80 XP good role playing
205 role playing points.
I thought Serinda was a bit quiet this FG game session but overall still really good RP'ing
.. Serinda gestures ... a small bead of ice hurtles towards the strange metallic hydra-thing and explodes in an icy blast .... the hydra is blanketed with ice for a moment .. then starts to move again ... the strange thing is .. it seems to be moving even FASTER than before .. not only that it looks undamaged (Serinda and Rin can make knowledge arcana rolls as can anyone else who has that skill )
If Rin or Serinda had to guess they would say... this thing has to have some sort of electrical component - metal constructs have that as a feature sometimes... it's been mentioned during their (respective) studies that cold makes electricity course through metallic objects more quickly ...
Campaign saved.
Draug: " Why you make it go faster princess? Now it harder to kill it ! "
Draug complains
Serinda: "It wasn't called a test for nothing."
Draug: " Hmmm... don't know, think we need new magic-person... you not up to snuff."
Draug grins and elbows Udyr in the side as he makes fun of Serinda
Rin looks at the thing for a moment and back to Serinda. "You have a spell that creats electricty?"
Draug: " What electricity ? "
Rin: "Doesn't have to be one of those high powered things you toss around either."
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Serinda: "At least I didn't shoot my own side..."
Rin looks back ad Udyr. "Hey tall brutish and hairy. Think you can light that grease puddle on fire?"
Draug: " Hey what wrong with tall brutish and hairy ? That me too when I wolf-man "
Draug says indignantly
Draug: " You leave Udyr alone - he buddy of mine "
Serinda: "Same general smell too.."
Udyr looks down at his hand for a moment.
Udyr: No, I can't, not now.
Rin: "Huh...."
Serinda: "I find it amazing you two can sit there complaining nobody else has any ideas, yet feel you are contributing..."
Udyr: You want me to contribute? Fine I will!
Love the whole slightly condescending sarcasm here
Serinda sighs and casts her brand new fire shield spell, wrapping bright flames around herself like a cloak, before stepping off, and fall down with the rest
Love the whole resigned to " what have they gotten me into now" thing as she flies down towards the metal hydra to do battle with it
Zane: Are you two ok? Those bites looked pretty bad..
Serinda wipes some blood from her face and leans against the wall.
Serinda: "Not really..."
Zane: Sorry about your robes.. I figured you staying alive would be the better option given you knack of fixing your clothes..
Serinda leads the way down the stairs, whole holding the wall to steady herself.
Zane follows behind in case the princes falls..
Zane: Don't know if you heard earlier, but, sorry about your robes..
Panting for breath you find yourself on yet another level of skullcap even further below ground... (and see flavor text box that's about to pop up), safely out of reach of the hydra... as long as you move from this area quickly..
Serinda: "Yeah... I heard... However... well... never mind... it would just be nice if I could stop being eaten..."
Zane: That would help..
Rin: "I'd like to have a day when I'm not frozen lit on fire or cooked."
Udyr: You throw yourself at the creatures, and you expect NOT to be eaten?!
Zane: I didn't really throw myself at it.. kinda just fell into that situation..
Draug: ye gotta admit hydra know how to cook
Zane: and thank you Udyr.
Draug: well I dont like this place no more we move on?
Rin: "Shut up and pay attention to the creepy statue... We need to makes sure this thigs won't try and kill us."
Serinda: "Everything in this place seems intent on killing us...."
Serinda: "Wouldn't be surprised if the decorations do too..."
As usual the in-game descriptions of her non-verbal behavior and body language is spot on, great stuff ! Loved the comment on the decorations too and the whole commenting on her surroundings thing
Udyr looks over at Serinda, seeing her bloody and bandaged body
Looking around it occurs to Udyr that no one is operating at full capacity yet.. whether it be puncture marks on Draug or Serinda's part, burnt extra crispy skin on Rin's part, broken bones on Draug's part... everyone is definitely the worse for wear (that is not back up to full hit points)
Udyr sighs as he walks over to Serinda. (
Udyr places his hand roughly on Serinda's shoulder, green light once again radiates from it healing some of Serinda's wounds. He then walks off with out saying a word.
Udyr -> [HEAL] Touch of Healing [12]
Serinda winces as her shoulder is grapped roughly, and glances at Udyr as he walks away, wrubbing her belly, the memory of pain still lingering
Love the interplay here between Udyr and Serinda - I have to admit that's just like something out of the movies, two people who fight each other all the time, one suddenly helps another out of the blue and the one who's helped is left staring as the other person walks away, wondering ...
Serinda: "of course... this could also have been a room for one of his... experiments..."
Serinda: "And that door might contain said experiments..."
Again love how she's paying attention to her surroundings - Fistaldanius the evil black wizard's lair - and commenting on it
Draug jumps to the statue and jumps to the next set of doors avoiding the floor just in case
Serinda: "Certainly has courage... in a sense..."
Serinda sighs as she glances after Draug
commentary on Draug, great stuff
Inside is something strange looking on the ground.. skulls, a little half-circle shaped bookshelf ... a pentagram with, oddly enough, fires still burning around it in little pots ... even three centuries later after skullcap was rocked by the magical blast that transformed it's face into a skull-like exterior..
Rin: "Indeed they do."
That is, that's the scene DRaug sees beyond the doors from where he's standing... Rin sees it too... something seems.. familiar isn't the right word .. about the scene .. if he investigates it closer he could get a better handle on it, if Rin enters the room
Zane wonders over to the statue and sits down. "Let me know when we are moving on. I'm sitting down for a while.."
Rin walks inot the room looking around.
Rin -> [SKILL] Knowledge (Arcana) [MOD:INT] [1d20+15 = 34]
Rin -> [SKILL] Knowledge (Bardic) [MOD:INT] [1d20+18 = 19]
Serinda frowns, and decides to follow the others.
Serinda -> [SKILL] Knowledge (Arcana) [MOD:INT] [1d20+22 = 39]
Udyr watches at Zane sits down, and decides to sit down himself.
Zane several bones crack and pop as Zane sits down. "I don't think I am going to be getting up for a while."
Serinda: "I wonder what he was doing here..... But I think it's best not to disturb this... ritual..."
Udyr: Heh, did you lose your balance up there Zane? You were almost across
Serinda and Rin arrive at the same conclusion at the same time - no wonder it seemed familiar to Rin he spent a lot of time studying this very topic in bardic college ! This is a summoning circle that Fistaldanius used to call succubi to him.. indeed now that DRaug thinks about it... there's the faint , but unmistakable , odor of semen and vaginal juices.. mixed with sulphur of all things... odd the smells would still be here after all these years.. indeed all three of you (Serinda, Rin and Draug) appear to be standing on very faint suspiciously white looking patches ... the scent comes strongest from these patches...
Zane: Saw something move in the dust, then I got the hell beat out of me.
Zane: Then I woke up on the floor after you touched me.
Rin: "Oh I know what this is for.... Can I use it? Pleeeeaaasssseee?!?!?"
Udyr: What hit you?
You all stand staring at each other, Rin , Serinda and Draug.. what next ?
Zane: Hell if I know.. didn't see anything over there. Just dust moving..
Serinda: "No one is using this...... Thing... at any point."
Serinda: "We know what it's for... Let's move on..."
Draug: "Well wanna check out that hing over there (half circle doohickey)
Udyr: Was it a wall like we... felt at the bottom?
Half-circle type shelf with all sorts of books - books Rin and Serinda now recognize as specifically dedicated to summon succubi... and spells that allow you to draw on .. intimate relations.. with said succubi, to make the spells stronger.. dark, DARK stuff.. suitable for a black robe..
Rin: "Oh come on.... I might die in here we all might now that I've seen what's going on. I want to atleast get in a lay before the end. Yu can watch and make sure I don't completely screw up. You can join fi you want too aswell."
Zane: Not if a wall can punch the hell out of you.
Dungeon Master: So is Rin going for it or not ?
Draug: "Nah lets go you screw Christania whe nwe get back. We will get back" (
Udyr: So you are saying something you couldn't see, punched you, and is still wandering around?!
Draug: alright well ima head out
Serinda: "Either way, you're not using this."
Serinda: "Now start going"
Draug backtrack back to the second set of doors and attempts to open it
Rin looks at the circle and sighs. "Just ten minutes. You could take a break. I mean we all deserve a quick breather. Besides I might not even beable to use it. My magic and all..... Wouldn't you say it's best to know hwat I can and can't do?"
Serinda: "No"
The lock pops open under Draug's deft finger-claws.. it looks just like the other room you left, dwarf statue, red globes on the ceiling giving dim light.. except there are no scorch marks on the wall in this one...
Serinda: "Now get moving."
Serinda points towards the exit.
Draug: Zane come here help me search for what may esplode on us
Rin sighs. "Fine just give me a minute you can go ahead. I primise on my mothers life and that of Christania I won't use it."
Serinda: "I'll wait, nobody should stay alone in this place."
Rin: "I'll be fine, I just need to take care of something you proabably don't want to see. Besides I can scream pretty loud if I need help."
Deepfrey (Draug): alright
Draug: ooc lol
Serinda: "If it's nothing to be worried about, then there's no reason not to say what it is anyway."
Draug draug takes one step in and searches
Dungeon Master: udyr you there ?
Deepfrey (Draug): yuay draug draug
Zane gets up slowly, as more pops and snaps can be heard.
Zane: Just a second.
Dungeon Master: udyr , Draug is asking if people want to accompany him through the door
Zane walks over and gives the door a quick look over. Looks fine.
Dungeon Master: The door draug is peeking his head through right now that is
Campaign saved.
Rin visably blush's now that he has no feathers. "Well... the smell in the room... it's.... Umm....." He then points to his nethers.
Dungeon Master: No prob udyr
Serinda: "All the more reason to get away from it, right now."
Dungeon Master: So is anyone going in the room Udyr is at ?
Dungeon Master: Bleh, DRAUG is at I mean
Serinda: "If you want... I can make a little colder here...."
Zane looks inside the room carefully.
Zane -> [SKILL] Search [MOD:INT] [1d20+9 = 18]
Zane -> [SKILL] Spot [MOD:WIS] [1d20+12 = 24]
Rin: "Yeah that won't help.... all of it's internal untill I pull it out. Soo... You'd just make my skin cold To Zane it looks much like the other room ... a very large dwarf statue, bigger than a normal human, hands pressed to the ceiling, red gloes in the ceiling dimly lighting up the room - no traps or anything Zane or Draug can see ... the main difference is no scorch marks in this room..
Udyr watches as Zane gets up and walks over to Draug, he groans and gets up slowly, and walks over to the door.
Zane carefully takes a step into the room.
Serinda: "Then you can have some privacy in the next room. Just close both doors, and no one will bother you.... I'll look after this... fiend summoning place..."
With a creak the stone statue of the dwarf seems to come to life.. it removes it's arms from the ceiling as it looks at you...
Rin just decides to start to whip it out in front of Serinda, that ought to make her get he reckons. [TURN] Serinda
[TURN] Zane
Draug: "See I tell you all rock people come to life"
Campaign saved.
Serinda turns around to look away, but keeps her ears open for any, 'summonings' going on.
Interplay between Serinda and Rin , hilarious !
... very funny watching the two of them go back and forth.. Rin " please ? " Serinda " No " Rin " Please " Serinda " No " Rin " Pretty please ? " Serinda " NO " 
..Serinda moves back and then decides to cast her golden sphere spell on Rin instead, to keep him safe at least, carefully building the golden cage around him. (to protect Rin from stone golem swinging Rin by his -equipment).
Loved this, very evocative, descriptive wording of how she cast the spell
UDYR
500 XP - surviving encounter with Fistaldanius's steel pyrohydra
100 XP - fight (??) with stone golem harassing Rin's.. equipment.
70 XP good role playing
131 role playing points.
Udyr's RP'ing is improving, he was more vocal this FG game session than the last one - I'd like to see him stick with it and go on looking for ways to be more vocal - that is look for opportunities to interact with other PC's then follow up on them
.. But again seeing improvement that's great ! For example : Serinda gestures ... a small bead of ice hurtles towards the strange metallic hydra-thing and explodes in an icy blast .... the hydra is blanketed with ice for a moment .. then starts to move again ... the strange thing is .. it seems to be moving even FASTER than before .. not only that it looks undamaged (Serinda and Rin can make knowledge arcana rolls as can anyone else who has that skill )
If Rin or Serinda had to guess they would say... this thing has to have some sort of electrical component - metal constructs have that as a feature sometimes... it's been mentioned during their (respective) studies that cold makes electricity course through metallic objects more quickly ...
Campaign saved.
Draug: " Why you make it go faster princess? Now it harder to kill it ! "
Draug complains
Serinda: "It wasn't called a test for nothing."
Draug: " Hmmm... don't know, think we need new magic-person... you not up to snuff."
Draug grins and elbows Udyr in the side as he makes fun of Serinda
Rin looks at the thing for a moment and back to Serinda. "You have a spell that creats electricty?"
Draug: " What electricity ? "
Rin: "Doesn't have to be one of those high powered things you toss around either."
Serinda: "At least I didn't shoot my own side..."
Draug: " Tell me about it.. remember when she try to kill blue eyed man with fangs when red dragon man attacking us? She keep throwing around ice even though she can't see, nearly kill Draug ! Draug keep getting caught in crossfire ! "
Draug looks at Udyr and adds
Draug: " Me recommend you keep head down when she start firing things off bro"
Udyr: Oh, then she was quite deserving of that arrow then.
Serinda: "I could toss a lightning bolt down there.. About all i can do that does electricity..."
Rin: "No.... what did Trent call them.... Oh yeah Cantrips?"
Rin: "I wonder...."
Draug: " Yeah me wonder too ! "
Udyr: You going to try your spell or not?!
Rin 's eyes flash as a puddle of grease forms beneath the creature."
Draug: " Hey I know ! Udyr you big strong guy right? We toss princess down and have her fight hydra hand to hand ! Me bet princess win ! "
Serinda: "If it runs on electricity i'd hate to supercharge it. So no"
Rin: "Could over load it. Anyway, any fire that won't tap your more useful magic?"
Serinda: "What about my golden sphere..."
Rin: "Might be too big."
Campaign saved.
The grease pools under the hydra-like metal construct.. which continues to sit there, not moving.. though it's twelve heads definitely appear to be pointed upwards in your direction, looking at you.... waiting expectantly it would seem...
Rin looks back ad Udyr. "Hey tall brutish and hairy. Think you can light that grease puddle on fire?"
Draug: " Hey what wrong with tall brutish and hairy ? That me too when I wolf-man "
Draug says indignantly
Draug: " You leave Udyr alone - he buddy of mine "
Serinda: "Same general smell too.."
Udyr looks down at his hand for a moment.
Udyr: No, I can't, not now.
Rin: "Huh...."
Serinda: "I find it amazing you two can sit there complaining nobody else has any ideas, yet feel you are contributing..."
Udyr: You want me to contribute? Fine I will!
LIked the "you want me to contribute" comment, perfect example of Udyr's grouchiness and bear-like behavior
.. as well liked his impatient " Are you going to try your spell or not ? " But if you look for it, there's other opportunities for him to be even more vocal ... for example when Rin called him tall brutish and hairy maybe he might have retorted with something like " Better than being a birdbrain ! At least I don't leave white droppings everywhere I go ! " Or perhaps " I"ll light it AND you on fire you irritating fowl ! " Stuff like that ... Or when Udyr set the stage for tossing "the princess" (which you probably guessed by now is a reference to Serinda ) down the balcony to the hydra perhaps Udyr might have joked back to Udyr " Not a bad idea - she'll poison the hydra and it'll be smooth sailing after that " .. or when he made the " You want me to contribute? Fine I will ! " comment perhaps he might have even tried grabbing Serinda and picking her up " HOw about if I contribute by tossing you down there like Draug suggested? Would that make you happy ? " Of course I'm guessing Udyr would never actually do this and he'd pick her up well away from the balcony so she doesn't accidentally fall down but it would still make for some good RP humor ..Rin: "Yeah making oursleves invisible but even then if might be able to see us."
Serinda: "Actually i was going to make myself invisible, turn into a bird, then fly down there, once i've been into the area. I can teleport all of us down there bypassing the hydra alltogether."
Rin: "And if it can see you while your invisible?"
You all see Zane stiffen.. mutter something to himself - then desperately try to leap off the bridge onto the balcony.. he staggers backwards as if invisible blows - - HEAVY blows -- are falling on him... his head whips to the side, his eyes rolling into the back of his head as he loses consciousness.. he then plummets down, down , down .. landing with a heavy thud on the final floor of the balcony, unmoving (note he's still alive, just unconscious
) Serinda: "Well that would be a problem..."
Rin: "Oh look Scales is down
The steel looking hydra thing looks down at Zane.. then starts forward towards him...
Serinda: "Damn!"
Rin walks forward off the edge and floats down as his eyes flash. As he floats down his eyes flash agian as he yells at the creature.
Udyr: Uhhgg, this is going to be a pain in the ass.
I liked the pain in the ass comment but I would have liked to see Udyr expand further on this
.. maybe hollering at Zane (even if he's unconscious ) " What the hell is the matter with you ? A three year old could keep his balance better than that ! Now we have to go fight this gods-damn steel hydra to save your gods-damn ass because you're too gods-damn clumsy to keep your balance ! " .. you know the typical Udyr grouching and complaining .. Udyr bends down touches Zane murmuring prayers to Habbakuk.. there's a flash of green light ... And Zane sits straight up, eyes wide, conscious again .. seeing quite a spectacle before him - Draug flailing away and raging at something Zane can't see hollering about a wall... the smell of fried bird fills the air - Rin is singed, parts of him are on fire and he definitely looks the worse for wear..
Heal [0] -> [to Zane]
Zane falls back, groans and curls into the fetal position.
Zane: Watch that first step... it is a doozy..
Udyr looks down at Zane.
Campaign saved.
Udyr: You took quite a fall, NOW GET YOUR ASS UP!
Zane: You realize, yelling at someone who just took a nice fall isn't the nicest thing to do..
Zane: Then again.. I think the fall helped my headache..
Rin takes a step back from the creature and draws his whips as his eyes lfahs and one of his whips starts to hum loudly.
Zane felt Draug's hands on him when Zane regained consciousness.. not too difficult to put two and two together - Udyr called on Habbakuk to heal Zane.. Zane feels some of the bones knitting back into place in his ribcage that his invisible assailant shattered.. but it's not a full recovery...
Udyr: DO YOU WANT TO GET YOUR ASS FRIED LIKE THAT CHICKEN OVER THERE?!
Zane: Don't think you all would want to tastes baked dragon..
Draug: "Welll most o us wouldnt..,......"
Rin's whip begins to vibrate and THRUM in an almost obscene manner in his hand as it twitches..
Zane: I guessing that bone didn't tie you over?
Draug: "Draug how you say bottom pit it go in it and it gone"
BEAUTIFUL stuff loved the comments to zane here , great RP'ing the best I've seen yet
... Zane: Are you two ok? Those bites looked pretty bad..
Serinda wipes some blood from her face and leans against the wall.
Serinda: "Not really..."
Zane: Sorry about your robes.. I figured you staying alive would be the better option given you knack of fixing your clothes..
Serinda leads the way down the stairs, whole holding the wall to steady herself.
Zane follows behind in case the princes falls..
Zane: Don't know if you heard earlier, but, sorry about your robes..
Panting for breath you find yourself on yet another level of skullcap even further below ground... (and see flavor text box that's about to pop up), safely out of reach of the hydra... as long as you move from this area quickly..
Serinda: "Yeah... I heard... However... well... never mind... it would just be nice if I could stop being eaten..."
Zane: That would help..
Rin: "I'd like to have a day when I'm not frozen lit on fire or cooked."
Udyr: You throw yourself at the creatures, and you expect NOT to be eaten?!
Zane: I didn't really throw myself at it.. kinda just fell into that situation..
Draug: ye gotta admit hydra know how to cook
Zane: and thank you Udyr.
Draug: well I dont like this place no more we move on?
Rin: "Shut up and pay attention to the creepy statue... We need to makes sure this thigs won't try and kill us."
Serinda: "Everything in this place seems intent on killing us...."
Serinda: "Wouldn't be surprised if the decorations do too..."
Rin: "Exactly my point."
Zane walks up to the statue and takes a look at it.
Udyr: I never liked this place to begin with...
Draug moves forward and kicks the statue
Zane: Don't want this thing to come alive and attempt to eat the princess..
The statue doesn't appear to respond.. aside from looking ugly as all hell..
Draug: that why i kick it
Zane glances over in the direction of Udyr. "No yell? You feeling ok?"
Zane: Rin.. I think you should back away from that room.. That thing looked like it smiled..
Udyr -> [HEAL] Touch of Healing [12]
Rin feels some of the burning agony from his skin fade away under udyr's touch.. surprising given how gruff the man is (udyr)
Rin: "And you're point is. Face it, a smiel like that might mean manything. Could even bee to throw us off."
Udyr looks over at Serinda, seeing her bloody and bandaged body
Looking around it occurs to Udyr that no one is operating at full capacity yet.. whether it be puncture marks on Draug or Serinda's part, burnt extra crispy skin on Rin's part, broken bones on Draug's part... everyone is definitely the worse for wear (that is not back up to full hit points)
Udyr sighs as he walks over to Serinda. (
Udyr places his hand roughly on Serinda's shoulder, green light once again radiates from it healing some of Serinda's wounds. He then walks off with out saying a word.
Udyr -> [HEAL] Touch of Healing [12]
Serinda winces as her shoulder is grapped roughly, and glances at Udyr as he walks away, wrubbing her belly, the memory of pain still lingering
I liked how you RP'ed out the whole healing thing here , particulary how he walked away from Serinda without saying a word - reminds me of the whole thing you see in movies, two people who don't get along, one does something unexpectedly nice to the other , walks away and leaves the other person looking after the first person and just.. wondering.. great stuff
.. liked the " you throw yourself at them and expect NOT to get eaten" comment and the " I never liked this place to begin with " grouching is great .. I'd expand further on the reasons he doesn't like the place too though - list all the stupid things the other PC's have done, the things about the surroundings that are pissing him off in particular ( "Damn dragons everywhere , damn bird men who can't shut up and waste their time talking to everything we run into , damn elf women who keep getting eaten alive , damn half-dragon rangers - talking about YOU Zane - who can't keep their balance crossing gods-damn ledges " ... ) Udyr watches at Zane sits down, and decides to sit down himself.
Zane several bones crack and pop as Zane sits down. "I don't think I am going to be getting up for a while."
Udyr: Heh, did you lose your balance up there Zane? You were almost across
Zane: Saw something move in the dust, then I got the hell beat out of me.
Zane: Then I woke up on the floor after you touched me.
Udyr: What hit you?
Zane: Hell if I know.. didn't see anything over there. Just dust moving..
Udyr: Was it a wall like we... felt at the bottom?
Zane: Not if a wall can punch the hell out of you.
Udyr: So you are saying something you couldn't see, punched you, and is still wandering around?!
Loved how he saw an opportunity to sit and rap (RP) with Zane and took it - followed by the usual Udyr complaining of course
Udyr holds out his palm as a bolt of lightning shoots forth from it at the Golem.
Your explanations of how he casts his spells continue to be well written , good stuff
Again , look at what the other PC's are saying - I'm sure Udyr will find something to complain about
.. for example in this passage :Rin starts to run past Serinda his friend still hanging out. "Takes to long to put it back in I mean it's huge just look. And I don't want to stuff it in too quickly even when taking my time I might place it in the wrong hole."
Draug: Get that thing away from me
Draug: draug no want doggy style from Rin
Perhaps Udyr might have roared something like " The LAST thing I want to see is your pants-snake bird-man ! Put it away ! " ... then during this passage :
For the first time ever the spell has no effect ! . The arrows plunge harmlessly into the stone golems hide .. but don't appear to even faze it...
udyr watches as the bolt of lighting erupting from his palm blackens not only the stone golem's skin but also Rin's ..once again the tasty aroma of fried bird fills the air..
Zane smells the air. "I say we go and get some chicken.. Rin is making me hungry..
Zane: Sorry Rin.. A dragon's gotta eat..
Draug: I only have 6 herbs and spices right now we need at least 11
Rin: "I'll gove you something to eat later."
Zane: I think I might have a few with me as well..
What happens next is .. perhaps from Serinda's point of view.. beyond horrible.. the thing lifts Rin up and starts to literally SWING him by his member.. the pain is agonizing as the thing swings Rin like a weapon, beak first, right into Serinda...
Zane: You might not have anything lef....
Rin's pain that is though it isn't pleasant for Serinda either...
Draug: "And we both have plenty o canines to get through the tough parts"
[TURN] Stone Golem
[TURN] Draug
Draug: "Well let get this open now shall we
Zane looks away, while covering himself and gasping in a pain shared by all men..
Draug: "If ya tough it out it will grow longer thnk o Christania Rin"
Draug: "Rin cut it off and heal it later!"
Zane: I don't think it works that way Draug..
Rin: "Never!!!"
Zane: And I don't think he'll let you chew on it..
Maybe Udyr might have said something like " Don't you think we have more important things to worry about than recipes for fried bird ? Cook the bird man later, fight now ! And if you so much as even accidentally graze me with that thing Rin I SWEAR I'll wrap it around your neck and strangle you myself with it ! "
Basically if you pay really close attention to what the other PC's are saying and ask yourself " What about this situation could potentially piss Udyr off in even the slightest possible way ? " and act accordingly that will give you all sorts of RP opportunities right there
.. if you decide you want to highlight Udyr's softer side too later on , for a dramatic/interesting personality contrast type thing (shows depth of chararacter, more than one side to Udyr et cetera ) maybe the next time someone's injured after Udyr tends to them have Udyr ask gruffly " Are you all right ? " ZANE
500 XP - surviving encounter with Fistaldanius's steel pyrohydra
100 XP - fight (??) with stone golem harassing Rin's.. equipment.
100 XP good role playing
287 role playing points.
Usual bang-on job both interacting with your fellow PC's and taking note of and reacting to the things going on around Zane, his environment and surroudings in general
.. For example : Udyr bends down touches Zane murmuring prayers to Habbakuk.. there's a flash of green light ... And Zane sits straight up, eyes wide, conscious again .. seeing quite a spectacle before him - Draug flailing away and raging at something Zane can't see hollering about a wall... the smell of fried bird fills the air - Rin is singed, parts of him are on fire and he definitely looks the worse for wear..
Heal [0] -> [to Zane]
Zane falls back, groans and curls into the fetal position.
Zane: Watch that first step... it is a doozy..
Udyr looks down at Zane.
Campaign saved.
Udyr: You took quite a fall, NOW GET YOUR ASS UP!
Zane: You realize, yelling at someone who just took a nice fall isn't the nicest thing to do..
Zane: Then again.. I think the fall helped my headache..
Rin takes a step back from the creature and draws his whips as his eyes lfahs and one of his whips starts to hum loudly.
Zane felt Draug's hands on him when Zane regained consciousness.. not too difficult to put two and two together - Udyr called on Habbakuk to heal Zane.. Zane feels some of the bones knitting back into place in his ribcage that his invisible assailant shattered.. but it's not a full recovery...
Udyr: DO YOU WANT TO GET YOUR ASS FRIED LIKE THAT CHICKEN OVER THERE?!
Zane: Don't think you all would want to tastes baked dragon..
Draug: "Welll most o us wouldnt..,......"
Rin's whip begins to vibrate and THRUM in an almost obscene manner in his hand as it twitches..
Zane: I guessing that bone didn't tie you over?
Draug: "Draug how you say bottom pit it go in it and it gone"
Very much a "Zane" sort of reaction - oh gods what shit have they gotten me / have I gotten myself into now ?
.. Loved the interplay with Udyr and loved the interplay with Draug even more (" what that bone didn't tide you over ? " ) One after one of the heads sinks fanged metal teeth into Serinda... blood fountains over her beautiful purple and white outfit, sprays over her hair as Zane and Rin watch ... she crumbles to the ground, unconscious, many, many puncture wounds starred across her body from the thing's teeth..
Zane looks at the horror that was Serinda, rushes over and pulls out some of his plants in an attempt to at leaststop the bleeding..
Zane frantically rips away strips of her outfit, binding the wounds, staunching the blood flow, pressing plants into the wounds.. he's staunched the worst of it , keeping her from death's door.. for now...
Zane: Healing Hands Skill Trick [1d6 = 4]
Rin leans down and presses his hand agianst Serinda as a white light bursts from underneath it
Zane: She's going to be pissed when you wake her up birdy. Just don't get cauht takinggetting an eyeful.
Zane removes his cloak and tosses it over Serinda.
Zane: Are you two ok? Those bites looked pretty bad..
Serinda wipes some blood from her face and leans against the wall.
Serinda: "Not really..."
Zane: Sorry about your robes.. I figured you staying alive would be the better option given you knack of fixing your clothes..
Serinda leads the way down the stairs, whole holding the wall to steady herself.
Zane follows behind in case the princes falls..
Zane: Don't know if you heard earlier, but, sorry about your robes..
Panting for breath you find yourself on yet another level of skullcap even further below ground... (and see flavor text box that's about to pop up), safely out of reach of the hydra... as long as you move from this area quickly..
Serinda: "Yeah... I heard... However... well... never mind... it would just be nice if I could stop being eaten..."
Zane: That would help..
Rin: "I'd like to have a day when I'm not frozen lit on fire or cooked."
Udyr: You throw yourself at the creatures, and you expect NOT to be eaten?!
Zane: I didn't really throw myself at it.. kinda just fell into that situation..
Draug: ye gotta admit hydra know how to cook
Zane: and thank you Udyr.
Draug: well I dont like this place no more we move on?
Rin: "Shut up and pay attention to the creepy statue... We need to makes sure this thigs won't try and kill us."
Serinda: "Everything in this place seems intent on killing us...."
Serinda: "Wouldn't be surprised if the decorations do too..."
Rin: "Exactly my point."
Zane walks up to the statue and takes a look at it.
Udyr: I never liked this place to begin with...
Draug moves forward and kicks the statue
Zane: Don't want this thing to come alive and attempt to eat the princess..
The statue doesn't appear to respond.. aside from looking ugly as all hell..
Draug: that why i kick it
Zane glances over in the direction of Udyr. "No yell? You feeling ok?"
Zane: Rin.. I think you should back away from that room.. That thing looked like it smiled..
Udyr -> [HEAL] Touch of Healing [12]
Rin feels some of the burning agony from his skin fade away under udyr's touch.. surprising given how gruff the man is (udyr)
Rin: "And you're point is. Face it, a smiel like that might mean manything. Could even bee to throw us off."
Again love how he takes the time to interact with his fellow PC's ... Zane pretty much spoke to every single PC around him here at one point or another during the entire exchange, great stuff ! This sort of RP behavior tends to "spark" RP'ing from another player which in turn makes the game that much more fun for both the DM and your fellow players - good stuff
Also loved how he shows concern for Serinda here after she gets her butt kicked .. Zane wonders over to the statue and sits down. "Let me know when we are moving on. I'm sitting down for a while.."
Rin walks inot the room looking around.
Rin -> [SKILL] Knowledge (Bardic) [MOD:INT] [1d20+18 = 19]
Udyr watches at Zane sits down, and decides to sit down himself.
Zane several bones crack and pop as Zane sits down. "I don't think I am going to be getting up for a while."
Udyr: Heh, did you lose your balance up there Zane? You were almost across
Zane: Saw something move in the dust, then I got the hell beat out of me.
Zane: Then I woke up on the floor after you touched me.
Udyr: What hit you?
Zane: Hell if I know.. didn't see anything over there. Just dust moving..
Udyr: Was it a wall like we... felt at the bottom?
Zane: Not if a wall can punch the hell out of you.
Love the evocative description of Zane here (bones cracking and popping) , loved the interplay withUdyr and got a huge laugh out of the " not if a wall can punch the hell out of you" comment
Serinda heads after the others rapidly, and comes to a dead halt as there's a huge stone creature attacking the others.
Serinda: "oh crud.."
Zane: Nice of you to join us princess..
Great stuff love the sarcasm here and the RP that goes with us .. " So nice of you to finally join us as we battle for our lives "
Serinda notes that Rin appears to be suffering from what could be considered a form of poetic justice.. the large stone statue appears to have grabbed Rin by.. well, by his little Rn ...
For the first time ever the spell has no effect ! . The arrows plunge harmlessly into the stone golems hide .. but don't appear to even faze it...
udyr watches as the bolt of lighting erupting from his palm blackens not only the stone golem's skin but also Rin's ..once again the tasty aroma of fried bird fills the air..
Zane smells the air. "I say we go and get some chicken.. Rin is making me hungry..
Zane: Sorry Rin.. A dragon's gotta eat..
Draug: I only have 6 herbs and spices right now we need at least 11
Rin: "I'll gove you something to eat later."
Zane: I think I might have a few with me as well..
What happens next is .. perhaps from Serinda's point of view.. beyond horrible.. the thing lifts Rin up and starts to literally SWING him by his member.. the pain is agonizing as the thing swings Rin like a weapon, beak first, right into Serinda...
Zane: You might not have anything lef....
Rin's pain that is though it isn't pleasant for Serinda either...
Draug: "And we both have plenty o canines to get through the tough parts"
[TURN] Stone Golem
[TURN] Draug
Draug: "Well let get this open now shall we
Zane looks away, while covering himself and gasping in a pain shared by all men..
Draug: "If ya tough it out it will grow longer thnk o Christania Rin"
Draug: "Rin cut it off and heal it later!"
Zane: I don't think it works that way Draug..
Rin: "Never!!!"
Zane: And I don't think he'll let you chew on it..
Serinda moves back and then decides to cast her golden sphere spell on Rin instead, to keep him safe at least, carefully building the golden cage around him.
Draug: "Draug no fancy them boners"
The elven woman gestures - and the nightmarish pain eases in Rin's equipment as a shimmering golden sphere.. a more lovely sight he's never seen - comes into view seperating him from the golem as Rin is encased in Serinda's magical protection...
[TURN] Udyr
Zane: Now put the damn thing away!
Zane: Otherwise it might get torn off..
There's a lot to love here - the jokes about frying Rin up with herbs and spices , the joke to Draug about how he didn't think Rin would let DRaug use his severed, um, equipment as a chew toy and the "put the damn thing away " comment was a laugh-out-loud moment for me when I read it
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