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Post #1277 (isolation #400) » Sun Dec 06, 2015 1:39 pm
Postby FakeGod »
FakeGod: Brian Skies is in jail! What do you guys do?
Cheetory6: Bribe the guard and sneak him out?
GuyInFreezer: We get our legless changeling girl to morph into the rich merchant who then tells the guards it was an misunderstanding.
Who: We sell the stolen gems and use the money to buy a scroll to resurrect the rich merchant and force him to go talk to the police guards and get Brian out.
Brian Skies: You guys should kidnap the jeweler's family and blackmail the jeweler to go and get me out.
ConManMick: We get the orc thug working for us to go offer the jeweler... "
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Post #1305 (isolation #411) » Sun Dec 13, 2015 1:02 pm
Postby FakeGod »
Summary
PCs visit Lunagard residence, but it seems that Halle isn't there. The next day, PCs get a message notifying them that Pinay has the artificial legs ready for Marion. PCs head over to his shop, but Pinay is acting funny. Finding this suspicious, Who teleports through the wall and finds Gundabog and the police ready to ambush them. Who goes invisible and warns the party, and a fight breaks out. During the fight, Avina gets grappled by bunch of police guards, and Gundabog gets ready to stab her with a blackened arrow, murmuring something about sweet revenge. Kat pulls Avina out of the grapple, and Avina rushes to the bag of holding and pulls out Marion. Gundabog freezes and mutters, "Marion.... alive? but that's impossible....", then turns to Pinay angrily. Gundabog's features change into Halle's as she asks Pinay what he has done. It turns out that Pinay has been blackmailed into setting a trap for Marion, and the building is about to blow.
Halle bluffs and says that whoever trying to kill Marion will think of Pinay as expendable, and that the potion he just drank will not protect him against the explosion. Pinay buys into this and becomes angry. He tells Marion to get under the bed as the building blows. He has a safe spot set up there (using rope trick) in case he was ever attacked. Avina also dives under the bed, and the building blows up. Everyone survives. No Two angrily walks up to Pinay and attempt to end his life, but Kat pushed him away before he could do so. Halle suggests that they regroup back at the Lunagard residence, and PCs agree.
A tearful reunion between the changeling sisters ensue at Lunagard house. Halle asks Avina whether she will expose her, and Avina says no. Halle then tells the group that while she's grateful that they saved Marion from death, she cannot assist them openly against Tuhin, since their brother is still on his ship. However, it would be a huge blow to Tuhin's forces if they were to get rid of Izzy, his top assassin and right hand man. Halle has gathered information and knows the Izzy is planning to assassinate someone at Rainsberg Ball in few days. Only place high enough in the city to grant uninterrupted line of sight to the Rainsberg Ballroom is at the lighthouse, and that's where Halle predicts Izzy will be. Halle suggests that the PCs split up into two groups, one ready at lighthouse, and the other at the dance, in case Izzy decides to come to the dance personally to deal with his target.
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Post #1311 (isolation #413) » Sun Dec 13, 2015 4:11 pm
Postby FakeGod »
I'm going to encourage you guys to come up with a plan and not just walk in hoping to casually beat Izzy in a 1v2 or something.
Izzy is Tuhin's top assassin, and probably the most dangerous man in this city. You guys will probably get the jump on him thanks to Halle's information, but next session can trivially end with a TPK if you guys aren't careful.
You guys have time and money to prepare yourselves, and I suggest you guys make the best of it.
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Post #1312 (isolation #414) » Sun Dec 13, 2015 4:55 pm
Postby FakeGod »
In post 1308, Who wrote:Wait, what do we do if he just cases fly and shoots from a random point in the middle of the sky?
From his point of view, middle of sky is a much worse position to be in than in the lighthouse, right?
Unless he's given a reason to suspect that a motley group of PCs are coming to ambush him there, there is no point in wasting money and spells to stay afloat in middle of the sky with utterly zero cover.
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Post #1317 (isolation #417) » Mon Dec 14, 2015 3:43 pm
Postby FakeGod »
I will put it in the song you requested, Hana. It sounds lovely.
In other news, I won't be able to play this or next Sunday.
I suggest skipping next two weeks regular sessions, and maybe schedule a one-off dungeon run session for those who may be interested in playing D&D over the holiday break.
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Post #1326 (isolation #420) » Wed Dec 23, 2015 11:27 am
Postby FakeGod »
Summary of Christmas One-off
Party = Human Monk, Human Monk, Dwarf Ranger, Dwarf Barbarian/Ranger, Halfling Bard
The party went down the hallway past the ominous looking statues, deeper into the tomb of Mira. They found a spell circle, a set of glyphs on the floor. The bard realized that it was what the ancient tomb workers used to protect the tomb. It was currently inactive, but if something set it off, it would warn the denizens of the tomb of intruders. While they were examining, a number of lightning-using bats dropped down from the ceiling. Party chopped through them quickly, but more and more of them appeared from the corridors around them. The monk got separated, and got zapped into negatives. Fortunately, their Barbarian/Ranger was highly optimized to chop down small and large beasts alike, and he cleared the airspace fast enough for the bard to go stabilize the dying monk.
They found armories. Someone had already took the weapons from them. They traveled down and discovered the bodies of the people they were supposed to rescue. They dragged the bodies out and travel deeper into the tomb, where they fought off multiple skeleton archers and zombies. The newer players panicked and ran, but the Barbarian/Ranger and the Bard tank and spanked their way through the minions and chopped them down. At this juncture, they discovered the source of the negative energy they've been tasked to find, and realized that they needed to kill whatever the creature that opened the rift to close the portal. They travel further and fight off some fire elementals. Then they discover a library, where they realized how to get to the sarcophagus of Mira. They set the statues straight, and they head into the tomb, only to have the demon follow them in and kill Mira. The demon melted the barbarian's weapons, but the monk managed to punch out the demon before his fists melted and banish it back to the abyss where it came from.
tl dr. Party was composed of bunch of newbies at first, but a powergamer showed up to carry their heavy asses with his double dwarven waraxe rhino hide charge build, along with a selfless girl who picked a Bard healbot to fill every other role needed by the party and help the party survive. Newbies shit their pants while the powergamer chopped shit down and bard kept them alive. Classic tank and spank all the way to the endgame.
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Post #1335 (isolation #422) » Thu Dec 24, 2015 5:09 am
Postby FakeGod »
Few things:
Just because a random NPC said it was a good idea doesn't mean split party is a good idea. It's the most common way PCs die.
Dim. door off a scroll can only take the caster and 2 other people.
There is a direct, uninterrupted line of sight between the Ball and the Lighthouse. They are about 1000 ft apart.
The Ball and the hill it's on are Rainsberg property; the Lighthouse is city-owned.
All of the police captains were invited to the Ball. Gundabog declined. Cedar Islow is going. Jin has not decided.
Izzy is targeting someone at the Ball. Halle does not know who.
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Post #1352 (isolation #429) » Sun Dec 27, 2015 2:46 pm
Postby FakeGod »
There was a
wizard
,
sorcerer
,
beguiler
,
warmage
, and a
warlock
apprenticed to a powerful mage.
One day, their master gave them their final task as apprentices: to meet him in the other side of a mountain. The mountain was home to a number of very dangerous creatures.
The
wizard
luckily prepared a
teleport
earlier that day. She snapped her fingers, and completed the task in
6 seconds
.
The
sorcerer
did not know how to cast
teleport
, but he did know
fly
. He flew over the mountain, and completed the task in
6 minutes
.
The
beguiler
did not know how to cast
teleport
or
fly
, but she did know
invisibility
. She trekked through the mountain while invisible, and completed the task in
6 hours
.
The
warmage
did not know how to cast
teleport
,
fly
, or
invisibility
, but he did know
fireball
. He fought his way through the mountain, and completed the task in
6 days
.
The
warlock
did not know how to cast
teleport
,
fly
,
invisibility
, or
fireball
, but she did know
eldritch blast
. She fired straight at the mountain and dug a tunnel to the other side, completing the task in
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Post #1380 (isolation #441) » Sun Jan 03, 2016 1:58 pm
Postby FakeGod »
Summary
Lor convinced Jin to take her to the ball. The dance people (Lor, Avina, Kel) went and bought themselves nice looking tuxes and dresses. The airborne division (No Two, Kat, karl) hid out in the top floor of the lighthouse.
The Ball started. People danced to the brilliant music and the beautiful night sky. Victoria was kinda miffed at having to dance centerstage with Captain Islow, but she wasn't too unhappy, considering that she had her childhood friend, James, as their lead violinist for their phantom orchestra.
Middle of the dance, a spell circle appeared, and a chain devil stepped through the planar rift. Islow immediately told everyone that he can take care of it, and charged in, only to be thoroughly mangled by the chain devil. Lor and Avina managed to destroy all of the activated chains, forcing the chain devil's summoning to dismiss, but not before it tore apart Islow's arms.
Immediately after the Islow got wrecked, Izzy dimension doored into the lighthouse...... into the waiting hands of the PCs. No Two alarmed Avina immediately, before using rooting Izzy. Desperate Izzy called for help, and a storm elemental named Sariel answered his call, but it was too late. Izzy's position got revealed by glitterdust, and Karl's double arrow crit with high damage dice rolls sealed his fate. Kat took out the storm elemental shortly afterwards.
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Post #1382 (isolation #443) » Sun Jan 03, 2016 2:06 pm
Postby FakeGod »
At one hand, I'm super glad that PCs didn't die.
On other hand, I was super hyped for this fight because Izzy is a very strong character, and then he dies in 2 rounds without being able to do anything.
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Post #1401 (isolation #449) » Sun Jan 10, 2016 12:46 pm
Postby FakeGod »
Summary
Avina jumped out of the lighthouse window and floated down via her ring of feather fall, and immediately made way for Rainsberg Ballroom. Rest of the party looted Izzy's body for lots of good stuff. Avina returned to find a note next to Victoria, who was crying on the dance floor. Apparently, James had confessed to planning and killing Cpt. Islow in that note, and he fled afterwards. People left the ballroom after awhile, and Avina's party rejoined her and begin to search the ballroom for clues, when Halle arrived with some bad news.
Halle has been smuggling in dinosaurs into Las Verisa warehouses under Tuhin's orders. She ordered her underlings to smuggle in narcotics to keep the dinosaurs sedated, but her head underling, same James the violinist, had just threatened her with releasing her true identity to the public. Halle fears that James has removed the narcotics from the dinosaurs and make them go on a rampage at the docks, and warns the PCs to go after him.
PCs arrive at the docks, and find two not very pleasant sailors on guard duty. Karl and Lor kills them, but not before one of them raises alert by lighting a flare. The PCs quickly burst into the warehouse to find James. They take him down, but dinosaurs, who are now fully awake, begin to rampage across the docks.
PCs take care of the couple raptors in the room right away, but hears screams outside. Avina rushes out, only to see a limbless sailor gets violently thrown through the door into the sea by a pair of gigantic megaraptors. She begins to burn through her mirror image spells while yelling for help. Her party responds by attacking the dinosaurs. No Two manages to land a critical stinking cloud spell to disable them, giving the party time to inflict enough damage to the megaraptors and take them down. The other dinosaurs are taken down by Cpt. Gundabog and his men.
PCs return to Lunagard House with James in tow. James explains that he did everything he did to get rich, in order to be not shamed to call Victoria his peer. They are interrupted by Halle, who has put together a new plan to save his brother. She is going to let Tuhin know that the preparations are complete, and that he should invade Las Verisa as soon as possible. When he invades, PCs are going to attack Tuhin's flagship, Nightsail, and hopefully kill Tuhin and rescue Gray.
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Post #1420 (isolation #459) » Sun Jan 17, 2016 12:17 pm
Postby FakeGod »
Summary
Trap was set. Halle immediately sent word to Tuhin that the preparations were complete, and he should immediately invade Las Verisa. Meanwhile, PCs made preparations for the upcoming battle.
The invading pirates were greeted by Cpt. Gundabog. Gundabog ANGRY, GUNDABOG SMASHES PUNY PIRATES.
Captain Gundabog began murdering the pirates en masse, while the PCs dimension door'd onto Tuhin's ship. There, they began to chop through the pirate raiders, and managed to find Gray, through detect magic. Eventually, Tuhin arrived with more men, but the PCs trapped the pirates from coming above decks, and laid down the spells on Tuhin to make him run for the hills. Tuhin vanished under the ship, and returned with a giant water creature, with Gray at its core. However, the PCs were able to come ahead and achieve victory.
Gray was saved by Karl's octupus friend. He was gasping for air, since the Oceanic Heart was shattered in their fight against the pirate lord. Avina immediately took him to the nearby cleric and paid for water breathing spells to keep him alive. Rest of the party looted the ship and became rich.