Wiwaxia runs a SBURB D&D(ish) game - logdump/spectating/popcorn thread!

Spoiler: ilmatar wakes up on prospit, lemi has some fun on hellplanet

whimsy: good morning
the world beyond the blanket is inavcceptably cold
Wiwaxia (GM): hallo!
I have successfully added all of episode 1 to my timeline
@_@
whimsy: whee
Wiwaxia (GM): now i just needa get episode 2 on
whimsy: also i figured out why i overslept last week
Wiwaxia (GM): and get it all crossposted to the online version
mm?
whimsy: set the alarmto the wrong day
rolling 1d20 + 0
(
8
)+0
= 8
rolling 1d20 + 0
(
9
)+0
= 9
wait what
whimsy: i didnt mean to do thar
Wiwaxia (GM): huh
whimsy: why did this happen
stupid touch keyboard doing things it isnt supposed to do
(fucking windows shit) (idk if software or hardware bs but bs anyways)
Arxon: (hullo)
Wiwaxia (GM): hallo
episode 1 was almost exactly 12 hours, btw
Arxon: yay nice and even 0u0
whimsy: gmorning arxon
i just procured hot foodstuffs and cocolate and more blankets, the as well as long sleeved clotging, the cold can suck my dick
Arxon: I just stripped off all of the fur and extra layers I was wearing the heat can suck my dick
whimsy: ::D
11c / 52f here atm
which is only tshirt weather if im wearing longpants, am moving, and the suns out
Arxon: approx 29c/84f where I am, plus I spent today + yesterday walking up and down and up and down in a crowded and noisy ass convention center
every time I go to con I wonder why I like going to con
(the answer is friday and sunday but not saturday)
Karrin Blue: Hey
whimsy: hi karrin ::D
eheheh signed
Arxon: hi 0u0
whimsy: hi km ::3
Wiwaxia (GM): and that's everyone!
i'm gonna take a couple extra minutes on the timeline, though
because we left off in Nonlinearity Central
k m.: hiya
whimsy: spiced ham with rice and soy sauce is surprisingly delicious
Wiwaxia (GM): ilmatar is currently at ~24 hours, incidentally
whimsy: whee ::D
so my estimate of too much bs for one day has been correct
Wiwaxia (GM): ok, there's another hour or so of work left to get the timeline caught up
so I'm just gonna start
you're all at whatever time the person farthest on the timeline other than ilmatar winds up
ilmatar is fast asleep
actually
you know what
Wiwaxia (GM): ilmatar, can I get a grace check?
whimsy: sec
rolling 1d20+10
(
17
)+10
= 27
Wiwaxia (GM): you wake up in your bedroom
well, almost
the walls are ornate sky-blue wallpaper
and the furnishings are all golden
bright light streams in through the windows
Ilmatar Nordwind: -pinches self to check if this is a dream-
also wheres my tablet this needs documented
Wiwaxia (GM): you go "ow"
your tablet is nowhere to be found
Ilmatar Nordwind: curses
any other electrnics like a phone or a camera?
Wiwaxia (GM): not that you can see
Karrin Blue: actually dave's dream room had a computer
Wiwaxia (GM): true, but he was doing the sleep-wake thing with it
Ilmatar Nordwind: (but only jade could communicate with the outside dream, i mean world, bc of her robot)
Karrin Blue: yeah
Wiwaxia (GM): IIRC Jonh and Rose did not have computers in their dream rooms
Karrin Blue: i figure it only copies things in your room too so if there's no computer set up there then no luck
Ilmatar Nordwind: ok, looks like we gotta do this the old fashioned way
Karrin Blue: also no sylladexes
Wiwaxia (GM): although I can double check
yep
Ilmatar Nordwind: but i do hope theres pen & paper
-checks desk for writing utensils-
Wiwaxia (GM): there's a golden pen and some golden paper in the desk
fortunately, the pen's ink seems to be white
Ilmatar Nordwind: white on gold? yikes thats gonna be hard to read
Wiwaxia (GM): better than gold on gold, though
Ilmatar Nordwind: ....point
is there something i can misuse as a clipboard, like a larger format, thin book?
Wiwaxia (GM): you do have a desk
Ilmatar Nordwind: but theres no way i can jot down stuff i see while outside D::
come to think of it
what IS outside?
Wiwaxia (GM): take a look out the window?
Ilmatar Nordwind: aye
what am i wearing, anyways?
(ahahahha i love playing an ic of someone whos never known of prospit, its gr8)
Wiwaxia (GM): golden pajamas with a crescent moon on the front
they are kind of ludicrously comfy
Ilmatar Nordwind: makes up for the point that i'm a winter type and gold really isnt my colour xxDD
Wiwaxia (GM): outside the window is a colossal blue sky filled with puffy white clouds of strange shapes
you can see visions of landscapes and people moving inside some of them, but you can't make out the details without peering closer
look in clouds? y/n
Ilmatar Nordwind: Y
bc
ive got my head in the clouds ||D
Wiwaxia (GM): (i figured :P)
buuuut
we will come back to that
Ilmatar Nordwind: eheh kk
Wiwaxia (GM): what are other people doing?
lemi just went through her first gate and is somewhere on LOFAC
Arxon: yep!
at 0 hp
Wiwaxia (GM): leon was taking the highways afer recuperating from basement misadventure
and had just disturbed a shitload (literally) of seagulls
myrtha was investigating mysterious square thigns and saw some snake looking monsters from afar
moss I beleive was building up sera's house and possibly still chatting with TA
k m.: ohhh right yeah the stairs
Wiwaxia (GM): the very elegant stairs, yes
i think arxon hasn't had the chance to go in a while so, lemi?
Arxon: k!
So- old candles on the trees, right?
Wiwaxia (GM): yep
and on the ground
and generally dribbled everywhere
the trees are leafless and twisted and clawlike against the dark sky
Arxon: in general very cheery yes
Wiwaxia (GM): and the stones and dust on the ground are still blood-red
the spirograph-y gate you came from has disappeared
and your sheets appear to have come with you, rather than remaining attached on the other side
Lemi Malloy: So Lemi has lit a few of the candles
there is no sort of apparent path, right?
Wiwaxia (GM): nope
just trees as far as the eye can see
Lemi Malloy: And there's no moon or sun or stars out to tell direction
Lemi kind of regrets not having a compass on her
Ilmatar Nordwind: (hm, is it the sheets, the blanket itself, or the sheet-blanket combo that protects you from monsters? bc if th sheets can do that orle, then wrap up into your sheets ::D)
Karrin Blue: is there even a magnetic pole?
Ilmatar Nordwind: (nope ::D)
(hmm, bread roll && mattress or bread roll || mattress to get a bed roll?)
Wiwaxia (GM): the closest thing you have to a landmark is the purple Gates above your house, but you can't really see through the canopy well right now
Karrin Blue: a what?
Wiwaxia (GM): i'll go toss those in the "to alchemize" list
Ilmatar Nordwind: (yes please ::D)
Lemi Malloy: hmmmmmm
How climbable do these trees look?
Wiwaxia (GM): depends how good you are at climbing trees :P
lotsa branches, they're deciduous kinda things, not conifers
but they're bare and pokey and you can't see if the branches are sturdy or not
Lemi Malloy: (here is where Arxon pretends she knows tree things)
well, no time like the present!
Let's climb the nearest tree
Wiwaxia (GM): dex check, if you please
rolling 1t[THE-ADVENTURE-DIE-OF-ADVENTURE!!(and/or-misery)]
(
1 Encounter
)
= 1
rolling 1d6
(
3
)
= 3
Lemi Malloy: rolling 1d20+12
(
7
)+12
= 19
Wiwaxia (GM): you make a running jump towards the first branch, but realize you can't make it and pull off before getting hurt
Lemi Malloy: Dammit
ok then, suppose the next option is to just kind of... walk in a direction
I choose that direction
it looks like that was a mistake
Wiwaxia (GM): you see a colossal, shadowy crawling horror moving towards you, but it's creeping legs seem to lose purchase as the light from your candle hits it, and it is pushed effortlessly back as you move
Lemi Malloy: Ohhh what's it look like?
I mean, other then shadow and terrifying
Wiwaxia (GM): huge
a low, crawling lump, maybe 3m wide
with legs that crawl ceaselessly, but don't seem to properly interact with the ground
Lemi Malloy: Hmmmm
I have my camera, right?
Wiwaxia (GM): you do
Lemi Malloy: I take a picture of it
Wiwaxia (GM): cool, one sec
there's your camera flash
and gone
Lemi Malloy: I look down at the picture on the screen
did it capture the creature?
Wiwaxia (GM): ish
it's black in a dark forest, and there's some distortion
but you can definitely see it's there, if not the details
also, in the moment of the flash, you could see that it was continuously walking towards you without moving
like a cat walking into a wall on a slippery floor, or something
Lemi Malloy: Alright, well
have I ever heard of a creature similar to this one?
Wiwaxia (GM): nope
you think you may have seen some moving around outside your house just before you entered your first gate, though
Lemi Malloy: well, pros: Not the terrifying creatures that I already know of
cons: Terrifying creatures that I don't know of
I carefully skirt around the creature
Wiwaxia (GM): it follows you as closely as it can, pushing ineffectually against the edge of your light
Lemi Malloy: A giant, multi legged, eldritch puppy!
Who wants to eat me, probably!
I'm coming up against the side of the map- is it just more forest in this direction?
Wiwaxia (GM): yep
you can see the candles you lit wink out as you walk away
Lemi Malloy: 0n0
Well, if I keep walking in a direction, I'm bound to find something, even if I just find that the forest is sending me in circles
I light some candles around where I am now
Wiwaxia (GM): the crawling horror is trapped behind the light of the candles
allowing you to gain some distance before they flicker out again
rolling 1t[THE-ADVENTURE-DIE-OF-ADVENTURE!!(and/or-misery)]
(
3 Your current light source (if any) loses a pip of fuel
)
= 3
your candle burns out
Lemi Malloy: I have 3 more, I think
Is there any way I can salvage some from the ground/trees?
Wiwaxia (GM): you can just snap them off, but they're already pretty burnt down
have you been lighting candles continously, or are you caught in complete darkness?
Lemi Malloy: I've been lighting candles, yes
Wiwaxia (GM): k, so you can light another candle off one of those without fumbling for matches
and dealing with shadows reaching in to snuff out said matches before you can light a candle
Lemi Malloy: shadows are jerks :<
Alright, down to two. Things I should have done before leaving: alchemize more candles.
Are there any signs of imps about, r just shadow creatures?
Wiwaxia (GM): none that you can see
for whatever that's worth
Lemi Malloy: ...Is the light actually moving?
Wiwaxia (GM): you know what, yes
Lemi Malloy: Is it just a floating candle?
Wiwaxia (GM): no, but every time you look away and look back, it's in a slightly different place
Lemi Malloy: But it doesn't move if I keep my eyes on it?
...It could be dangerous.
It could also be awesome.
Wiwaxia (GM): what are you doing now?
Lemi Malloy: Looking away from the candle every few seconds and then uickly looking back at it
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 1t[THE-ADVENTURE-DIE-OF-ADVENTURE!!(and/or-misery)]
(
5 Roll twice
)
= 5
rolling 1t[Geez-billy-TWO-encounters?]
(
1 Encounter
)
= 1
rolling 1t[Geez-billy-TWO-encounters?]
(
3 Light burns down
)
= 3
rolling 1d6
(
6
)
= 6
(To GM) rolling 1d6
(
1
)
= 1
Wiwaxia (GM): the jumping light burns out
Lemi Malloy: ....Well.
I go to pick it up
Wiwaxia (GM): this motherfucker steps out of the woods
Lemi Malloy: Oh great this motherfucker
Wiwaxia (GM): what do/
*?
Lemi Malloy: Hmmmmm
what are the trees like around here? how thick are they?
Wiwaxia (GM): 30-50cm, generally
also, if someone else wants to do stuff, I think I can handle two threads at once right now
Lemi Malloy: So not really thick enough to use as cover, and if I tried to hide behind them they would probably break easily and fall on me
He does look big, though. How closely packed are the trees and how big is he?
Wiwaxia (GM): he's pretty big
he can fit between most of the trees, but not all of them
Lemi Malloy: Hmmm, alright.
I take off in the direction of the closest tighter-fit-then-he-can-manage trees because I don
't like my chances here
hopefully I can out-maneuver him
Wiwaxia (GM): he punches one of the tress you just ducked between
rolling 1d12
(
1
)
= 1
the tree is completely undamaged
Lemi Malloy: I WILL REMEMBER YOUR SACRIFICE NOBLE TREE
FOR NOW CONTINUE RUNNING
Wiwaxia (GM): the ogre bellows
rolling 1d6
(
4
)
= 4
what now?
Lemi Malloy: Continue running until I can't hear him anymore
Wiwaxia (GM): k
you are now well and truly lost
you have no idea where you are in relation to where you exited
let alone where you are in relation to your second gate
all the trees look the same here as anywhere else in this damn woods you've been
you're not sure if you've shaken your pursuers of if they've just stopped making noise or following close enough for you to see
Lemi Malloy: ...Well.
Is the shadow creature still following me?
Wiwaxia (GM): not that you can see
Lemi Malloy: Alright.
rolling 1d4
(
2
)
= 2
I will walk this was
*way
Wiwaxia (GM): you clip through a tree :V
Lemi Malloy: And then Lemi was the shadows
Wiwaxia (GM): :P
rolling 1t[THE-ADVENTURE-DIE-OF-ADVENTURE!!(and/or-misery)]
(
2 Environmental Hazard
)
= 2
heh
eheheh
you fall down a ravine
Lemi Malloy: SHIT
How deep?
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 1d6
(
1
)
= 1
about 2m
you bruise your shins on the way down
but aren't seriously hurt
and you manage to keep your candle alight
Lemi Malloy: this candle is my new best friend
how steep are the ravine's walls?
Wiwaxia (GM): hmmm
70 degrees and crumbly
you can get up them, but it's a 3 or four limb scramble
Lemi Malloy: And it would be really hard to keep a hold on my candle
Are there any candles in the ravine?
Wiwaxia (GM): nope
just red dirt and red rocks
and roots
it keeps going bouth ways, roughly perpendicular to the direction you were previously walking
Lemi Malloy: hmmmm
well it's not like it seems more dangerous then anything else
....I will walk down the ravine, walking in the same direction I was facing when I got up or to my right if I was facing the other wall
Wiwaxia (GM): to your right, then
rolling 1t[THE-ADVENTURE-DIE-OF-ADVENTURE!!(and/or-misery)]
(
3 Your current light source (if any) loses a pip of fuel
)
= 3
a fly buzzes into your candle and puts it out
it is very dark
you are likely to be eaten by a grue
Lemi Malloy: I grab one of my two remaining candles and the matches
Alright don't want that!
Wiwaxia (GM): grace check, please
(To GM) rolling 1d6
(
2
)
= 2
Lemi Malloy: rolling 1d20+13
(
17
)+13
= 30
Wiwaxia (GM): you manage to light a candle with no problems
and not a moment too soon, either
Lemi Malloy: Not a moment too soon?
Wiwaxia (GM): wraith

 

Spoiler: lemi gets beaten into unconsciousness by some imps and meets some iguanas

(Not) Literally A Bird: ((haha wow look at all these people i haven't seen in ages b/c i keep sleeping in! hi guys!))
Lemi Malloy: one of the same kind as the house?
Wiwaxia (GM): yep
Ilmatar Nordwind: hi bird ::D i was wondering why you were so silent! but youre 2 hours earlier than last week ::D
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d6
(
1
)
= 1
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d6
(
2
)
= 2
Lemi Malloy: Well
is it in the direction that I chose to walk in?
Wiwaxia (GM): nope
(Not) Literally A Bird: ((haha yeah i was....going to try to approach it from the other side of 2am then i was like 'nah' but ye at least i made it earlier!))
Lemi Malloy: Then I am just going to powerwalk away from it!
Wiwaxia (GM): you round a bend in the ravine and come out on the top of a hill
you can see out over the treetops a ways
in the middle distance, there's a clearing with lights in it
this is the good news
the bad news is that the timber ogre is right in front of you waiting for you
with several imp friends
Lemi Malloy: Alright
well
how are they arranged?
Wiwaxia (GM): afk for a sec
brb
alright, you can see what you can see
Lemi Malloy: which direction is the clearing relative to the imps?
Wiwaxia (GM): on the far side of the ogre, a ways away
Lemi Malloy: How tough do the imps look?
Wiwaxia (GM): the one right next to you looks p nast
long neck, creepy hair, leopard face, anime clothes, and covered in vines
the rest you can't get a good look at
Lemi Malloy: Alright, I am going to ready my axe and go for one of the ogre's legs
Wiwaxia (GM): charging?
or just walking past the imps
charging is +2 damage, -2 def, btw
Lemi Malloy: ......
......
LET'S CHARGE THIS MOFO THIS CANNOT GO WRONG
Wiwaxia (GM): alright, let's do this!
roll to hit
Lemi Malloy: rolling 1d20
(
19
)
= 19
(oh wait is that roll suposed to be a d6 shit)
Wiwaxia (GM): no, you're right
and then roll d8 +1 from int +2 from charge
for damage
Lemi Malloy: rolling 1d8+1+2
(
5
)+1+2
= 8
Wiwaxia (GM): bam
that did a hell of a lot
ogre's gonna back away
these two imps are going to rush you
rolling 2d20
(
15
+
2
)
= 17
only one hits
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 1d4
(
1
)
= 1
it gives you a nasty cut
Lemi Malloy: what are the other imps doing?
Wiwaxia (GM): you don't see
also, you take 3 and 2 damage from malevolent auras around those two dust imps
Lemi Malloy: (since I am at 0 does that mean we have to look at the chart?)
Wiwaxia (GM): you fall to your knees and are at -2 to all rolls for 1d4 turns
Lemi Malloy: I roll the d4?
Wiwaxia (GM): spindown
1d4, you're free if you get a 1, then 1d3, then 1d2
Lemi Malloy: right
rolling 1d4
(
4
)
= 4
Wiwaxia (GM): are you attacking or just running?
Lemi Malloy: I run in the direction the clearing is
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 1d4
(
1
)
= 1
the two imps keep pace with you easily
they move faster than the other imps you've seen
rolling 2d20
(
7
+
19
)
= 26
again, only one hits
rolling 1d4
(
3
)
= 3
Wiwaxia (GM): it jabs you in the back and sends you tumbling facefirst into the ground
the ogre comes up and grabs at you
rolling 1d20
(
2
)
= 2
the ogre coordinates poorly with it's imp friends and grabs right at were you were before you got knocked over
also more evil auras
rolling 2d4
(
4
+
2
)
= 6
Wiwaxia (GM): the ogre is really shit at this whole "teamwork" thing, and has just gotten itself killed by running into it's own imp-friend's aura
Karrin Blue: :D
Lemi Malloy: The ogre was just trying his best
His best was shit and he paid the price
How beat up am I?
Wiwaxia (GM): you can't move from the pain right now
rolling 2d20
(
9
+
15
)
= 24
rolling 1d4
(
4
)
= 4
rolling 2d4
(
2
+
4
)
= 6
rolling 2d20
(
12
+
16
)
= 28
rolling 2d4
(
1
+
1
)
= 2
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 2d4
(
4
+
1
)
= 5
Lemi Malloy: Holy shit I am dead
Wiwaxia (GM): you're basically getting stunlocked right now
nah, the imps are too much chumps to actually kill you
barring a crit
they would have needed the ogre for that
but they are p shit at teamwork too, as it turns out
Lemi Malloy: evil auras are a bitch?
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 2d20
(
9
+
6
)
= 15
yes, yes they are
rolling 2d4
(
2
+
4
)
= 6
ooof, almost able to get away
but no
rolling 2d20
(
20
+
20
)
= 40
Wiwaxia (GM): D:
Lemi Malloy: WHAT
Ilmatar Nordwind: i think it extremely funny that the auras have friendly fire enabled
Wiwaxia (GM): oh shit
Ilmatar Nordwind: eep
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 4+1d4!
4+(
1
)
= 5
rolling 4+1d4!
4+(
1
)
= 5
wow
that was close
that was very, very close
anyways, save versus unconciousness twice
Lemi Malloy: (what roll is that? fort, right?)
Wiwaxia (GM): yep
(also for reference, 1d4! is 1d4 exploding. that could have straight-up killed you)
Lemi Malloy: rolling 2d20
(
8
+
16
)
= 24
Succeed first, fail second
Wiwaxia (GM): yep
Lemi Malloy: (.....welp)
Wiwaxia (GM): you are unconcious
time to see if you wake up before your candle runs out
rolling 1d6
(
6
)
= 6
rolling 1t[THE-ADVENTURE-DIE-OF-ADVENTURE!!(and/or-misery)]
(
2 Environmental Hazard
)
= 2
rolling 1d6
(
4
)
= 4
Leon Gaspar: (leon making upset noises in the distance)
Wiwaxia (GM): whoops, sorry
rolling 1d5
(
4
)
= 4
rolling 1t[THE-ADVENTURE-DIE-OF-ADVENTURE!!(and/or-misery)]
(
6 Nothing
)
= 6
rolling 1d4
(
1
)
= 1
you wake up
you are battered black and fucking blue, and there's a wind picking up
Wiwaxia (GM): the imps are nowhere to be seen, the ogre's grist is still there
the lights are still in the distance
what do you do?
also, you were out for 30 minutes, so heal 1d6 hp
Lemi Malloy: ...Take the grist
No I didn't kill him but I EARNED IT
rolling 1d6
(
5
)
= 5
Wiwaxia (GM): you get 13 mahogany grist and 37 ebony grist
also, just, holy shit
i was not expecting you to survive that double crit
certainly not with all your limbs
Lemi Malloy: Lemi kinda needs a moment
Lemi is also very aware that she probably does not have a moment
(neither was I oh my god)
Ilmatar Nordwind: the random number god is drunk atm
Lemi Malloy: ...Is her axe large enough to use as a walking stick? Or is she at least feeling strong enough to cut down a branch to use as one?
Wiwaxia (GM): no and maybe
she should also try to get out of the wind before it picks up enough to risk blowing out her candle
Lemi Malloy: Right.
She memorizes the direction of the lights as best she can and heads towards them
(although is is privately pretty sure it's just a camp of imps waiting to take her out)
Ilmatar Nordwind: lemi, you need a lantern thing that keeps the wind away
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 1t[THE-ADVENTURE-DIE-OF-ADVENTURE!!(and/or-misery)]
(
1 Encounter
)
= 1
hoo boy
rolling 1d6
(
4
)
= 4
Lemi Malloy: (I AM GOING TO FIGHT GOD)
Wiwaxia (GM): hey!
Lemi Malloy: (also yeah that is also on the list of thigns she should have done before leaving home)
Wiwaxia (GM): you have stumbled across a lavender iguana carrying a candle lantern on a stick
Ilmatar Nordwind: (WHOOOO)
Lemi Malloy: this does not look like a imp
Lemi kinda squints at it to make sure she's not hallucinating
iguana: come, come!
we must get you to the village before the wind rises
have you seen a young one of our kind, traveller?
Lemi Malloy: An.....iguana? Um, no, I don't remember that, but I've been unconscious for a while...
iguana: come!
the iguana grabs at your sleeve and pulls you along
iguana: well, i had hoped you might have
Lemi Malloy Lemi is not strong enough or willing to resist
iguana: as it is, i can only hope one of the others finds her before they are forced to return
Lemi Malloy: (I did that wrong :<)
When did she go missing?
iguana: about 20 minutes ago
we do not know if she even had a candle, though if she did not she is surely dead by now
we can only pray
Lemi Malloy: What are those creatures in the forest?? The shadowy ones.
iguana: the Fears?
they haunt this planet
some say they were made by The Jabberwock
but he may merely be the greatest of their number
Lemi Malloy: The Jabberwock? Like in that poem?
iguana: i know of no songs of the jabberwock, but it is surely the same
there is only one Jabberwock
and he and the Fears have hunted us and our mothers and our mothers mothers
Wiwaxia (GM): you come to a clearing
three concentric rings of candelabras encircle several small buildings, all lit with candles
iguana: we are few now, but the candles keep us alive
for however long they last
Lemi Malloy: What about those imps? Did the Jabberowck make them, too?
iguana: no
they are far more recent
some even come cloaked in shadows that blot out our candles and allow the Fears passage
we do not know how they came to be
but I fear they may be our undoing
come!
iguana: we need to get you inside
Lemi Malloy follows him, staring around at the buildings and all of the candles
Lemi Malloy: Have the imps ever attacked this village?
Ilmatar Nordwind: (well, with the imps we can deal, at least) (also im thinking the sowilo lantern might be of use here) (pictures ilmatar with a mad grin and a pair of welding goggles)
iguana: yes, very recently
we lost three
including the mother of the missing girl
at least they came alone
if there had been a crawling horror or a shadow with them, we would probably all have died
Ilmatar Nordwind: (ooooh i wonder if lemis housetower can be modded to a lighthouse)
Lemi Malloy: Can anything communicate with the Fears?
(Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh)
iguana: no
Lemi Malloy: So the imps can't ally with them, right?
iguana: no, but sooner or later they will be in the same place at the same time
but we hold on
we will survive as long as we can
Lemi Malloy falls silent, feeling like she's prying too much
iguana: you are the first from outside our village we have seen in a very long time
we had wondered if we might be the only ones left
come, my daughter and I will tend to your wounds
Lemi Malloy: Oh, my wounds aren't that bad! If there's so much danger, you have to be low on medical supplies...
Ilmatar Nordwind: consorts are always so nice i wanna hug and protect them from all bad things
iguana: no, I insist
to leave you wounded would be tantamount to murder
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d16
(
12
)
= 12
Arxon: (cat why do you feel the need to refresh the page)
Lemi Malloy: Can I at least do what I can to work off the medical supplies?
iguana: another helping hand is always appreciated, but for now you should rest
I am sure there will be trouble you can assist with before too long
Lemi Malloy: Then thank you very much for saving me.
iguana: i could not very well leave you to be killed in the woods
here
The iguana gestures to a building lined with candles with many iguanas huddled withing
Wiwaxia (GM): at the back of the single room, one iguana sits huddled over bandages and stray cubes of blue gel
there is a vat in one corner
on inspection, it contains tallow, presumably for making candles
k m.: (heya guys i'm outie for the night, talk to yalls later?)
Wiwaxia (GM): k!
Ilmatar Nordwind: n8
Lemi Malloy shuffles awkwardly, not sure if she should wait for instructions or go to the iguana in the back
Arxon: (night!)
Wiwaxia (GM): sorry for not getting to you this time, i'll be sure to do some stuff with moss next session
k m.: no worries dude, i'm kinda glad, my exfun is no fun today
see yalls next week : D
Wiwaxia (GM): later!
iguana: my daughter, the most skilled healer left to us
the iguana gestures to the iguana in the back, who looks up and beckons you over
Lemi Malloy takes hesitant steps over to her
Lemi Malloy: (how big are the iguanas?)
Wiwaxia (GM): consort-size
a little over waist-high
standing up
which they do
Lemi Malloy: Um, ma'am?
healer: yes dear, please lie down
thip
healer sets busily about inspecting your various scrapes and bruises and cuts and wraps them gently in some sort of crude gause
healer: you are very lucky, traveller
your wounds are only superficial
most who become hurt in the woods do not live to be healed
healer pauses for a long moment
healer: if you do not mind my asking, traveler, how did you come by these wounds?
Lemi Malloy: Imps attacked me. I ran away from one of the big ones, but he must have followed me and he brought at least three of the others with him
healer: imps
then it is not just our home that has been attacked
does your village yet live?
Lemi Malloy: Um, I never really lived in a village. My sister and I always lived by ourselves...
healer: by yourselves!
that you yet live is a miracle twice, then
Lemi Malloy: I, um, I don't think it's the same forest, though...
healer: i
i do not understand
Lemi Malloy: Up until earlier today, my sister and I lived alone deep in the forest- but a lot of it was evergreen, so it wouldn't be so dead, and the ground wasn't red...but then earlier after my friends and I started playing that game all the lights in my house went out and my sister disappeared and the imps and wraiths invaded my house.
healer: well, the world is strange
i myself have never left our circle of lights
but in his younger days, my father went over two hills to the village there
their lights went dark before i was born
until you came, we did not know there were others in all the world save us you see here
and our brothers and sisters who have fallen
healer: thip
all: thip

Arxon wonders if she should say thip. is it a word of mourning or just a verbal tic? Is it not something an outsider should say or is she disrespecting them by not saying it? Iguanas are just as hard to figure out as people
Arxon: (....Pretend that was Lemi I am a ditz)
Lemi Malloy Decides to simply bow her head in silence, trying to figure out where she is and why she was taken here
healer: where are you headed, traveler?
if you have no place, we can take you in
Lemi Malloy: I am trying to find a gate, to get to my friend's...world?
He keeps using terms like that and I guess I kind of get it. All of us are going to try and meet up so that we can help each other.
healer: if any of us here know of gates, it would be my father
my mother traveled even more widely in her youth than he, and he is the one who best remembers her stories
Lemi Malloy: Then can I talk to him? If he's not too busy, of course!
healer: , yes, but don't move
father!
iguana_elder: yes, daughter
Lemi Malloy: (wait is he addressing his daughter-daughter or me as symbolic-daughter?)
Wiwaxia (GM): (addressing his daughter)
(but mostly coming over to where you two are)
(To GM) rolling 1d3
(
1
)
= 1
Lemi Malloy waits respectfully, because he's an elder, right?
Wiwaxia (GM): the healer explains your question to him as best she can
elder: thip
the only gates I ever heard of were in the old tales of the Rogue
i had doubted they ever existed
Lemi Malloy: I came to this part of the forest though one, but then it disappeared.
elder: i am sorry, traveler, but until just this moment i would have told you they were old fairy-tales
and ones i had not heard of in a long, long time at that
i wish that I had some knowledge to aid you in your search, but I do not
Lemi Malloy: It's fine, thank you! Once I work off my debt to you I'll go and find it. I just hope I don't cause Leon too much trouble...
elder: I am going to guard the perimeter and keep the candles lit.
if there is anything you need of me, you can ask my daughter to send word
rest well, traveller
Lemi Malloy: Thank you so much, sir!
elder: thip
Wiwaxia (GM): @lemi are you gonna do anything else before you rest, or ignore doctors orders and not rest?
Lemi Malloy: Lemi will rest, probably
Charging blindly into situations where she's already hurt hasn't worked out for her, and she's worried abut getting in the iguana's way or making things worse for them
Wiwaxia (GM): going to ask anything else of the healer or other iguanas before you do?
Lemi Malloy: hmmmm
she asks the healer about the legends of the Rogue
healer: thip
my mother used to love them
my father calls them stories from more hopeful times
but i think they remind him too much of his loss for him to bear them
and have too much hope in them
Lemi Malloy: Does the Rogue defeat the Fears?
healer: in a way, from what i remember
the Rougue has many adventures in many tales
but their ultimate feat is to steal the light that was hidden
and return it to the land
that was my mother's favorite story
but even when she was alive, father would always excuse himself as she started to tell it
healer: I wish I could remember how it went
Lemi Malloy: It's alright, thank you so much!
Ilmatar Nordwind: (wasnt healer the daughter of the iguana who found lemi?)
Wiwaxia (GM): (yep)
(the one who found lemi is the elder and her father, her mother is dead)
Karrin Blue: Hey, it's one am here so I'm going to go to bed
Ilmatar Nordwind: (ah)
n8 ::3
Wiwaxia (GM): night!
Lemi Malloy: (bye I am sorry for taking so much time!)
Karrin Blue: Also i just noticed that the map areas that Myrtha has explored into lit upedness is in a dick shape
Wiwaxia (GM): sorry for not getting to you either this time
pfffft
Karrin Blue: that was 100% unintentional but hilarious
nah don't worry about it
Wiwaxia (GM): alright
i'll still make sure to give you some focus next session
Karrin Blue: kay
gnight then! have fun! :)
Wiwaxia (GM): and man, this will be much easier once y'all meet up
Karrin Blue: yup
don't you know, you never split the party~
Wiwaxia (GM): but split up does lead to interesting things, so yanno
Karrin Blue: yeah
annyways hopefully next time Myrtha will stumble onto some helpful geckos or whatever
cliff lizards
gnight for real this time
Wiwaxia (GM): i'm getting tired too, and lemi's at a good stopping point, so i'm gonna wrap it up with her and get back to dream ilmatar for a bit
bird, are you cool with doing stuff next week?
Leon Gaspar: ayup!
...in that case is it ok if i sleep
Wiwaxia (GM): ya
Leon Gaspar: nice
it's cool to be around for other peoples stuff for a change tho =w=
alright, see ya both next week! ...or in the thread before that
Ilmatar Nordwind: n8 ::3
Wiwaxia (GM): yep!
night
Arxon: night!

 

Spoiler: ilmatar grabs some SICK DREAMVISIONS

Wiwaxia (GM): so dream ilmatar
was gazing into a cloud
Arxon: (also yeah I am going to pass out too goodnight)
Wiwaxia (GM): night!
Ilmatar Nordwind: n8
Wiwaxia (GM): gimme a sec to interpret randomly generated vision seeds
Ilmatar Nordwind: kk ::D
(also at some point ilmatar is gonna cover herself in woad warpaint swirls)
Wiwaxia (GM): :D
(well, there is woad grist running around...)
Ilmatar Nordwind: aye .:D
Wiwaxia (GM): you see in the cloud the cliff your house stood on on Earth
your house is not there
there's a young woman there, standing expectantly
Ilmatar Nordwind: do i recognize that woman?
Wiwaxia (GM): after a moment, yes
it's definitely your Mama
Ilmatar Nordwind: uhm
Wiwaxia (GM): but younger
Ilmatar Nordwind: huh
(i was about to say, but if mama came with me and bashed some imps, and mamas there, who was phone, i mean, who bashed the imps?)
Wiwaxia (GM): pfehehe
no, she doesn't look all that much older than you in the cloud
(To GM) rolling 1d6
(
3
)
= 3
Ilmatar Nordwind: huh
Wiwaxia (GM): as you watch, another woman of about the same age steps out of the woods and hands a bundle to your Mama
Ilmatar Nordwind: oh dear
(thats me, aight?)
(poor mama, raising a kid at 16 and no one to point at re: thats the dad)
do i recognize the other woman?
(also, whimsy woulda been an awful mom at 16, and ilmatar even more so) (poor ilmatars mama)
Wiwaxia (GM): no, but she seems quite familiar with your mama
Ilmatar Nordwind: whats she look like? (i got a hunch its someone elses guardian)
Wiwaxia (GM): (she's probably a little older than 16, maybe 19 or 20)
one sec
shades and long, light, wavy hair
whoops nope, dark hair
quite fashionably dressed for the time
she has a namecard or something on her chest but you can't read it
Wiwaxia (GM): the cloud passes on
keep looking?
(at other clouds, that is)
Ilmatar Nordwind: (hrm. itd be ic for ilmatar to keep looking but also to look at other things bc curiosity)
(one more cloud and then something else?)
Wiwaxia (GM): k!
(To GM) rolling 1d16
(
7
)
= 7
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d3
(
2
)
= 2
Wiwaxia (GM): you see a dark swamp in which great forms move
there's a woman there, light haired, covered in blood and muck, firing a rifle until she runs out of bullets
then hammering her assailants to death with the butt of the rifle
some of them explode into grist, some leave bleeding corpses
she has a burning candle in her teeth
Ilmatar Nordwind: hmm, didnt lemi say something in that reaction? shell be happy to her her sis is still alive and that you can kill the nasty things on her planet
(i guess the other woman in the first vision was tia, but thats whimsys speculation)
Wiwaxia (GM): keep looking, or explore other stuff?
Ilmatar Nordwind: jot down the info from the clouds on the paper, then look whatelse i can see from my window
also, is there a door in my room?
Wiwaxia (GM): nope, but you can climb out the windows pretty easily
Ilmatar Nordwind: huh
time to test if i can fly i guess
this is a dream after all
Wiwaxia (GM): you can!
Ilmatar Nordwind: ahhahaha booyeah
Wiwaxia (GM): gosh that would have been unpleasant if you couldn't
you can see that the sky doesn't quite fill the sky
it's a vast blue orb, and you can see blackness around the horizon
below you is a golden city of spires and criss-crossing walkways
your room appears to be in a ball at the top of a tower
you can see two similar towers in a line with yours
Ilmatar Nordwind: a tower the shape of which i am familiar with, yes?
Wiwaxia (GM): almost
no side sticky-outy-bit
but the resemblance is striking, to say the least
Ilmatar Nordwind: ah, that was before i started building. no hard feelings here at the moment
ima float over to the other spires
Wiwaxia (GM): you notice that the sky-sphere is getting bigger
or closer
one of the two
Ilmatar Nordwind: (ooh an eclipse) (well ilmatar already did cloud diving once but this time she can fly soooo)
(i love this character so much) (im glad i picked her over the thief bitch)
Wiwaxia (GM): :3
it appears that this tower houses a room like yours
there's someone sleeping in the bed
Ilmatar Nordwind: what do they look like?
Wiwaxia (GM): they're all huddled up under the covers
you can only see some curly dark hair on the pillow
it looks like there's writing on the walls
Ilmatar Nordwind: whats it say?
Wiwaxia (GM): DINGGNIGDINDINGDNGIDNGIDNGIDNDINGIDNGIDNGIDNGIDNGIDNGIDNGIDDDDNIGDGIGIIDNDIGIDNDNDIGNGIIDINGDIGNINDNIDNDINDINDDDIINDIDNGIDGNGIDGNDGDGIND
Ilmatar Nordwind: is the whole wall covered? maybe if i can find a similar pen i can add something to id....
Wiwaxia (GM): all four walls covered
Ilmatar Nordwind: ding? ahahahahhaha ("ding" means "thing" in german)
can i find pen&paper at their desk too? i want to write them a note
Wiwaxia (GM): yep
Ilmatar Nordwind: "Hello sillyhead with the writing on the wall!
I'm Ilmatar, from the next tower over. Pleased to meet you!
What's your name? What's your favourite colour? Mine is blue! I also like cookies. Do you like cookies?I hope we're awake here at the same time sometime!
Ooh do you have pets? What's your favourite animal? I REALLY love moths and butterflies and spiders. Tiny crawlies! But also cats and dogs. You can find clams just down the cliff where I used to live, but we didn't keep them as pets. There are yellow salamanders where I live now and theyre REALLY HUGE and REALLY NICE and aaaah I just wanna hug them all.
Ilmatar Nordwind: I'm gonna go explore some more, why don't you come over sometime and write me?
Ilmatar"
Wiwaxia (GM): (d'aww)
also I think I'm gonna call it a night there
Ilmatar Nordwind: kk ::)
i'd head over to the other tower and put a similar letter there, mind if i just drop it in your kintsugi inbox?
Wiwaxia (GM): you're gonna run into an eclipse before you get to the other tower
Ilmatar Nordwind: ::3
Wiwaxia (GM): so we're actually gonna play that through next session or maybe the one after
Ilmatar Nordwind: kk
then n8 ::3
Wiwaxia (GM): night!
(To GM) rolling 1d30
(
11
)
= 11
(Not) Literally A Bird: evening all, and by all i mean whimsy
whimsy: morning ::D
i actually slept tonight
for like 2 hours
(Not) Literally A Bird: nice!
well done :P
whimsy: i am now wrapped in blankets bc brrrr cold
and i have food as far as canned tuna mixed with mayo glooped on toast can be considered food
(Not) Literally A Bird: sounds like food to me!
if you can eat it, it's food
whimsy: its kinda surreal, i can just /buy/ the stuff i wanna eat
(Not) Literally A Bird: :o
is that a money thing or an independence thing or both or neither?
whimsy: like you know how bacon is special sunday food?? and i can just walk into the store and buy and make it on like wednesday
independence thing ::D
its been 4 years
(Not) Literally A Bird: niiiiice!
hehe
yeah
whimsy: but still
(Not) Literally A Bird: you make the rules now!
whimsy: yes. very much.
didnt you move halfways across the globe recently?
(Not) Literally A Bird: yeah! i am now in london, from sydney
still w/ my family though
whimsy: wow thats a difference tho
(Not) Literally A Bird: it really is! i'm excited/nervous about winter
whimsy: hows england treating you so fsr? cold & wet vs hellfire ::D
(Not) Literally A Bird: not so bad so far!
the weird thing is the rain
whimsy: theres a reasonin old european stories, hell is cold ::D
::D
(Not) Literally A Bird: in sydney, if it's raining, it comes down so hard that there's not much point going outside
like you just call up your mates and reschedule instead of going out
but here it's just
kinda soft and annoying but not enough to prevent you going out
ahaha yes. snow! i haven't seen snow outside ski places
back home snow is a destination.. you go 'to the snow' (to a ski resort) for holidays.
(Not) Literally A Bird: (sorry you got me started haha. lemme know if i'm rambling)
whimsy: i seem to live in places where snow doesnt really exist, my hometown is a heat bubble, and now im in germanys biggest city and it just doesnt stick
nah theres worse ways to pass the time
(Not) Literally A Bird: huh! that's interesting. i kind of assume everywhere in europe gets snow over winter, but i think that's because of all the snowy christmas stuff
gonna be interesting to see what the real thing is like, haha
whimsy: we get snow here usually in january, or around easter
(Not) Literally A Bird: dang, that's later than i'd've expected.
whimsy: a bit farther out theres spandau citadel, which is awesome for snowball fights
(Not) Literally A Bird: :o
that's a pretty awesome name too
whimsy: heh ::D
they do ren faires there
(Not) Literally A Bird: oooooo
i've never been to a ren faire!
whimsy: i need to finish my other garbs
o
em
gee
D::
(Not) Literally A Bird: i dunno! i imaigne we have them at home but i've never like, seen one advertised
whimsy: i grew up on the castle street, ive basically grown up on ren faires
(Not) Literally A Bird: damn
that's so cool :o
whimsy: castle street = burgenstraße = a rly long stretch of land with a lot of castles, keeps, etc
(Not) Literally A Bird: whoa
that sounds like the coolest thing i can imagine
whimsy: ::D
Wiwaxia (GM): boo
(Not) Literally A Bird: :P hey wiwaxia
so burgenstraße is on my list of Places to Go (when i Have Money)
whimsy: sup wi ::D
tbh, get a youth hostel card and just bike along
the sceneries v beautiful
(Not) Literally A Bird: :o
that sounds so cool =w= now i'm excited
whimsy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Road
also drop me a note if youre ever in berlin im sure we can find a ren faire ::D and if not spandau citadel is still awesome
(Not) Literally A Bird: :D okay! i'm definitely gonna go, just not sure when yet :P
(From whimsy): i got an idea, the eclipse is like the perfect opportunity for ilmatar to visit one of the other players
Wiwaxia (GM): k, gimme a minute to check where you guys were last
(Not) Literally A Bird: birdshit
i remember that very clearly
whimsy: just before an eclipse
sadly lemis player isnt online
Wiwaxia (GM): lemi's on derse anyways
yes, birdshit
(Not) Literally A Bird: :P
Wiwaxia (GM): iirc
you took the other road, saw some basilisks in the water, did an abrupt about face
whimsy: ya but, wasnt eclipse where you went places through the clouds, in a kinda sorta kind of way
Wiwaxia (GM): ah! yes
it's random where/when you go, though
whimsy: pfft, we can bend probability for a good story.
Wiwaxia (GM): @leon and then went down the other road into birdshit
there's a bunch of seagulls all up in your face
(Not) Literally A Bird: yep
Wiwaxia (GM): what do?
(Not) Literally A Bird: i'm committing to this
alright
Wiwaxia (GM): @ whimsy you can see a cloud coming low over the city at you
Leon Gaspar: take a couple of tentative steps forward, judge exactly how treacherous this is going to be
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d12
(
3
)
= 3
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d3
(
1
)
= 1
Wiwaxia (GM): a seagull takes off
Ilmatar Nordwind: Oh wow. Ilmatar sure didn't know they could come so close, and gets sparkly eyes.
Wiwaxia (GM): right for your face
Leon Gaspar: duck!!!
Wiwaxia (GM): you can see eggs in little dishes of shit
reflex save?
Leon Gaspar: rolling 1d20
(
15
)
= 15
praying that's the right dice
Wiwaxia (GM): yep
you juuuust make it
you can feel a wingtip graze the top of your head
@ilmatar, gonna move before the cloud hits?
Leon Gaspar: i kinda wobble a bit and regain my balance as best i can. oof. that was close.
i check out the lil nests. gonna try to walk around them, with as wide a berth as possible. the last thing i need is mama gulls tearing into me.
Ilmatar Nordwind: Hell naw ::D
Wiwaxia (GM): unfortunately, you and the mama gulls appear to have a difference of opinion about what constitutes a wide enough berth
@ilmatar, the cloud sweeps over the tower
Karrin Blue: Heyy sorry I missed the ping earlier
Wiwaxia (GM): there's a brief blur of white, and then the view changes
afternoon light streams through the windows
below you, you can see rolling woods, just starting to turn colors
there's a cool breeze coming in through the window
Leon Gaspar: i try to judge the distance between me and the next patch of not-bird-shit road, if i can indeed see that far ahead
((interrupting wiwaxia
s beatuiful prose like))
Karrin Blue: i can see i missed a wild ride
Wiwaxia (GM): it's about 6-7m
ilmatar's fucking around in a skaian eclipse
Leon Gaspar: ilmatar is having these beautiful graceful adventures and meanwhile, leon
Ilmatar Nordwind: hmm, do i know these woods?
Wiwaxia (GM): no
Ilmatar Nordwind: hm
Wiwaxia (GM): they're certainly not your woods
Ilmatar Nordwind: well!
i remember myrtha saying something about growing up near the woods, didnt she?
or was that lemi? one of the two
i look around a bit
Leon Gaspar: i briefly weigh up the pros and cons of continuing to edge along and possibly get knocked over by angry birds, and decide i'm just gonna make a run for it
Ilmatar Nordwind: am i still in my snazztastic pajamas and abke to fly?
Wiwaxia (GM): yep and yep
Ilmatar Nordwind: booyeah ::D
(also aaah sorry if im butting in w you dming for leon)
ima look around some. can i spot a calendar?
Wiwaxia (GM): nah, i'm p comfortable with running two threads at this point
that said, afk for a moment to deal w/ laundry
Leon Gaspar: (no problems here! i gotta get some more water anyway so afk)
(and back. i'm never sure if i should bother saying afk but i always do, just in case something important happens while i'm away)
Wiwaxia (GM): also back
@ilmatar nope, no calendars in the room
@ leon, can I get another reflex save?
Leon Gaspar: rolling 1d20
(
13
)
= 13
Ilmatar Nordwind: naww
whats the room look like?
Wiwaxia (GM): you successfully dodge an angry bird
and are on the other side of the birdshit
there are a number of angry birds after you, though
also, str check to keep running
Leon Gaspar: rolling 1d20
(
17
)
= 17
Wiwaxia (GM): @ilmatar unchanged. it's still the dream room with DINGDINGGINGDI all over the walls
only things outside the room have canged
Ilmatar Nordwind: ah
then i head outside ::D
Wiwaxia (GM): @leon that'll be + @Leon|strength
shit
whatever, almost certainly succeeds
Leon Gaspar: oh! strenght's +11
Wiwaxia (GM): yeah, that'll do
you can keep running
@ilmatar it's a bit chilly out here. You're well above the tops of the trees
Leon Gaspar: alright! running and also trying to look ahead!
Wiwaxia (GM): the golden tower with the room you were just in is still there, just transposed onto a clearing in the forest
there's a biiiig, steep hill behind it casting a long afternoon shadow over the stem of the house and onto the trees below
overhead, you can see an airplane scratching a long contrail across the clear sky
Ilmatar Nordwind: ooh, im back on earth
i swirl around in the air a bit
do i see anyone?
Wiwaxia (GM): you think you see some movement down in the trees, but you're not sure
Ilmatar Nordwind: lets check it out!
Wiwaxia (GM): @leon, unfortunately, the gulls can fly faster than you can run
they're all arounds
screaming in a whirlwind of wings
you can feel birdshit hit you
and hear a clang off your collander
Leon Gaspar AAAARGH
Leon Gaspar: anything in front of me? cover, buildings, a convenient drop into the water?
Wiwaxia (GM): water, road, water
water's maybe 3-4m down from the road
Ilmatar Nordwind: (i posted a pic of dreamer ilmatar in the thread)
Wiwaxia (GM): @ilmatar on your way down you hear a horrible scream of anguish
Ilmatar Nordwind: eeeeh
i almost drop out of the air! where did that come from?
Wiwaxia (GM): it goes on and on, before petering off brokenly
sounds like it came from below
Ilmatar Nordwind: whats there, below?
or who?
Wiwaxia (GM): well, there's a bunch of well tended garden plots around the base of where the tower seems to have been stuck onto the landscape
Ilmatar Nordwind: ahahahahah
Wiwaxia (GM): beans and corn, looks like
maybe some grapevines on the trellises?
@leon, jumping for it?
Leon Gaspar: yeah, fuck it
Wiwaxia (GM): also /roll 3d20
Ilmatar Nordwind: i drop down

 

Spoiler: leon learns to swim! the hard way!

Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 3d20
(
3
+
13
+
9
)
= 25
only one of those hits
you take 4 damage from a pissed off seagull
Leon Gaspar: okay yeah definitely gonna go for the jump. what kinda roll?
Wiwaxia (GM): there's no screaming now, only faint sobbing
none, you just jump
and then falling damage, potentially
it sounds to be coming from under the eaves of the forest
Leon Gaspar: alright, well, here goes. i've never dived before so i just go for the ol' feet-first flailing approach
Wiwaxia (GM): although it's all in shadow, you can't really make anything out
Ilmatar Nordwind: i try to locate the voice
Wiwaxia (GM): you take -2 damage
Ilmatar Nordwind: (brb, laundry)
Wiwaxia (GM): so none
you plunge underwater
it's... bracing
okay, freezing
it's freezing
Leon Gaspar unhappy leon noises
Wiwaxia (GM): you've still got some cuts and scrapes from the basement misadventure so those are burning like the dickens, too
you feel your colander come off your head from the impact
open your eyes?
Leon Gaspar: attempt to, yes. flail wildly and attempt to surface/find colander, too!
Wiwaxia (GM): well, your vision ain't so good without goggles, but you successfully locate and grab a slowly sinking shiny thing
Leon Gaspar: okay can i captchalogue that sucker without drowning
Wiwaxia (GM): you can also make out big blocky shadows of the road pilings vanishing down into the murky depths
yeah
Leon Gaspar: alright, that's one problem out of the way
what about the imps and stuff from earlier?
Wiwaxia (GM): that was on the other branch of the road
you can't see anything right now
for whatever that's worth
Leon Gaspar: alright, attempt to surface!
Wiwaxia (GM): you do so sucessfully!
a seagull shits on your head
Leon Gaspar is having a really, really bad day
Wiwaxia (GM): you're maybe a meter, meter and a half from one of the road plilings
Leon Gaspar hopes this is going to be worth it
Wiwaxia (GM): you can't see well, water in your eyes
also, how good is leon at treading water?
he's a new york kid, right?
Leon Gaspar: probably not that good, he's taken a couple of swimming lessons buuuut
Wiwaxia (GM): @karrin, you wanna jump on a thread, too?
Karrin Blue: maybe in a bit, I'm going to have to go to dinner soon
Leon Gaspar: gonna paddle up to one of the pilings. anything i can climb?
Wiwaxia (GM): hmm
well, it's a couple meters diameter
and covered in algae and barnacles
and there's still seagulls swooping around your head
but you could try!
Leon Gaspar: okay i'm gonna awkwardly cling to the piling for support and try to look for one of the roads that dips into the water
Wiwaxia (GM): k, you take 1 damage from barnacles
Leon Gaspar: D:
LEON: i hate nature
Wiwaxia (GM): the gulls keep squacking at you and buzzing you
but don't seem to be making active attacks right now
Leon Gaspar: "I'm sorry!!!"
ugh. no other way but forward, i guess
can i see any other roads besides the one i was on/am now clinging to?
Wiwaxia (GM): you can't see much of anything right now
water in your eyes
but you don't recall seeing any nearby roads before you jumped
Leon Gaspar: oh yeah whoops
Ilmatar Nordwind: (back)
Leon Gaspar: i blink as hard as i can several times, hoping to squeeze the water out. it stings but, y'know, vision is important
and its not like i'm not stinging all over anyway
Wiwaxia (GM): @ilmatar
the sobbing seems to be coming from the edge of the woods
Ilmatar Nordwind: still trying to locate it
aka i fly into that direction
is that were i saw the movement earlier?
Wiwaxia (GM): @leon
you can see the other fork of the road you took earlier going over the horizon
other than that, just this road
although it seems to get lower to the water further down
in the direction you were originally heading
Leon Gaspar: well, nothing for it, i guess! i let go of the piling and start paddling forward, the same way i was running before
Wiwaxia (GM): can I get a str check?
Ilmatar Nordwind: (also i choose to believe that ilmatars dreamself wears shoes that are the following: stiff felt sole, soft felt covering up over the ankles like a huge sockshoe
Leon Gaspar: rolling 1d20+11
(
3
)+11
= 14
Ilmatar Nordwind: (because those are the next most comfortable shoes next to walking barefoot and my wedgeheels)
Leon Gaspar: leon fails at everything, news at 11
Wiwaxia (GM): uh oh
you let go of the pillar
start to swim
have trouble keeping your head above water
and take a nasty gulp of seawater
Leon Gaspar BLUH
Leon Gaspar: surface! surface!!!
Wiwaxia (GM): well you're surface-ish
you're just flailing your limbs desperately to keep your head up above water
and not really moving at all
Ilmatar Nordwind: leon, stop fighting the water ::D
Wiwaxia (GM): you are painfully aware that you can't keep this up forever
Leon Gaspar: okay, distance between me and the next piling?
Wiwaxia (GM): one sec
i've legit got a road specs pdf pulled up
the things this game makes me look up
Leon Gaspar: tbh. i was googling 'falling from 4m' earlier and then i remembered that high diving is a thing so
Wiwaxia (GM): honestly, i've done flailjumps into water from higher than that
Leon Gaspar: ((i'm a big baby when it comes to water :P much like leon in that regard))
Wiwaxia (GM): next pillar is 6m away
along the direction of the road
across the road is
one sec
about as far
Leon Gaspar: alright. i'm gonna go for it. i'm gonna edge back up against the pillar, regain my breath (and do my best to avoid the barnacles this time, although that might not be possible), then kick off as hard as i can and paddle to the next pillar along
Wiwaxia (GM): 1 damage from barnacles as you grab on
Leon Gaspar: ayup
figured that
alright. strength roll?
Wiwaxia (GM): yep
Leon Gaspar: rolling 1d20+11
(
9
)+11
= 20
Wiwaxia (GM): not bad
Leon Gaspar: at least it was better than last time
Wiwaxia (GM): you make it, but you lose a shoe
Leon Gaspar: i decide to mourn for the shoe another time. i also captchalogue the remaining shoe. having never swum with shoes on before, i underestimated how difficult that would be.
Wiwaxia (GM): your clothing is also starting to get p heavy and waterlogged
also, are you wearing cotton?
Leon Gaspar: yeah, i was trying to avoid making that decision
uhhh lemme think
t-shirts are usually cotton i think
probably a cotton mix
Wiwaxia (GM): yeah, ok
can I get a con check vs. hypothermia?
Leon Gaspar: rolling 1d20 +9
(
10
)+9
= 19
Wiwaxia (GM): you're just starting to shiver a bit
Leon Gaspar: i realise i am probably going to have to captchalogue everything except for my underwear, and take a moment to mourn the loss of my dignity
Wiwaxia (GM): you can still stop shivering if you try
fortunately, there is noone to see
except the seagulls
Leon Gaspar: that is true. alright, clothes captchalogued. i try not to think about the seagulls.
suddenly i am much lighter!
Wiwaxia (GM): yes!
are you grabbing this pillar to catch your breath?
Leon Gaspar: yeah, i'd better
more sharp barnacles?
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 1d4 damage from barnacles
(
4
)
= 4
Leon Gaspar OW OW OW
Wiwaxia (GM): barnacles against bare skin ===> not fun
Leon Gaspar: i try not to cry. cry a lot.
okay! keep going! kick off the pillar again!
rolling 1d20+11
(
15
)+11
= 26
Ilmatar Nordwind: decaptha an item of clothing you dont particularily need and wrap it around your hand
Leon Gaspar hears a mysterious voice on the wind
Wiwaxia (GM): you make it to the next pillar without issue
at this point, the bottom of the road is maybe half a meter above your head
Leon Gaspar: alright, i kick out so that i'm just out from underneath it and try to reach up for the edge
to see if i can get a decent grip on it or if i need to swim further
Wiwaxia (GM): need to swim further
it's p thick
Leon Gaspar: alright, swim further it is!
rolling 1d20+11
(
20
)+11
= 31
Wiwaxia (GM): b/c, yanno, highway
nice
Leon Gaspar: i don't even know what that means in this context
Wiwaxia (GM): you think you're really getting the hang of this swimming thing
Leon Gaspar: nice B)
swimming: much easier with your clothes off
Wiwaxia (GM): you make it to where you can hold onto a ledge at the bottom of the highway
lemme check how thick it is
or actually, no
the highway splits ahead
there's an offramp heading down underwater
so you can just swim over to that and walk up onto the road
Leon Gaspar: that sounds like an excellent plan
i am going to do that. roll again?
Wiwaxia (GM): roll at +2
Leon Gaspar: ((also sorry ilmatar/whimsi! i feel like i'm hogging))
rolling 1d20 +13
(
20
)+13
= 33
Wiwaxia (GM): ((don't worry about it, I'm still sorting out exactly what ilmatar finds))
Leon Gaspar: (...taking my clothes off really helped, wow.)
Wiwaxia (GM): also i'm gonna count that towards leon actually learning how to swim
from practical experience
Leon Gaspar: nice. that seems like it'll come in handy. nothing like a trial by fire! ... water!
Wiwaxia (GM): you walk up onto the road
what do now?
get back on the main road?
Leon Gaspar: ...i still only have one shoe. fuck.
Wiwaxia (GM): try and see where the offramp goes underwater?
try to warm up?
Leon Gaspar: warmign up sounds like a good idea. i'll also decaptcha my pants and shirt
Wiwaxia (GM): the seagulls have broken off
k, con check to stop shivering
Leon Gaspar: rolling 1d20 +9
(
12
)+9
= 21
Wiwaxia (GM): k, that takes about 10 minutes
rolling 1t[THE-ADVENTURE-DIE-OF-ADVENTURE!!(and/or-misery)]
(
2 Environmental Hazard
)
= 2
Leon Gaspar: ...
I contemplatively chew a bugsnack
Wiwaxia (GM): an unexpectedly large wave splashes up to where you're resting
Leon Gaspar: well, crap
Wiwaxia (GM): you can jump clear or try to save your clothes
only one
Leon Gaspar: jump clear
Wiwaxia (GM): your shirt and pants are washed away
Leon Gaspar: ayup
but at least I wasn't washed away
Wiwaxia (GM): yep
Leon Gaspar: i look out mournfully over the ocean. why do you take everything i love, ocean, i say. i eat a bug snack.
Wiwaxia (GM): you feel much refreshed by a chance to get some sun(?)shine and food
the snack is deep fried crickets
they taste like little crunchy balls of fat and salt
Leon Gaspar: i try not to think too hard about what i'm eating. at least they're salty
although i'm not all that enthused by salt right at this moment
anyway! food is good.
(do karrin or whimsy want a go? not that i mind continuing, just noticed they've been quiet)

 

Spoiler: ilmatar gets a LESS SICK DREAMVISION, myrtha meets a profoundly unhelpful consort and some discussion of geology happens

(Not) Literally A Bird: ((i keep accidentally clicking my bookmark bar and leaving the screen))
Ilmatar Nordwind: im doing stuff in oras
(Not) Literally A Bird: ((...what am i hearing))
Wiwaxia (GM): although @ilmatar
i have figured out what you find
Ilmatar Nordwind: ooh
(dust, mostly) (-bricked-)
Leon Gaspar: (:P)
Ilmatar Nordwind: (listening to lots of wtnv atm)
Leon Gaspar: (ahhh that's probably what i overheard)
(something about listing numbers)
Ilmatar Nordwind: (aaaah sorry i didnt realize my mic would catch that)
Wiwaxia (GM): @ ilmatar you swoop down so you can see under the trees
Ilmatar Nordwind: (i turned it off now)
Karrin Blue: back from dinner
Wiwaxia (GM): it's shadowy, but you think you can make out someone hunched over double
there's kinda mixed sobbing/retching noises coming from them
Leon Gaspar: (it's okay! it was just surprising :P it kinda sounded like how i imagine ilmatar so i did a bit of a doubletake)
Wiwaxia (GM): there's also what appears to be a dead body a little ways away
a woman, about your mama's age
Ilmatar Nordwind: oh no D::
is this what i think this is
Karrin Blue: KIDS AND FUN
Ilmatar Nordwind: leon finding his dead mom
(is this the lady i saw in the other vision with my mama?)
Wiwaxia (GM): *moss
no it is not
Ilmatar Nordwind: fuck#yes
scratch that
i cant type
but yah
fuck, wrong name
yes, moss
Ilmatar Nordwind: can i see how she died?
Wiwaxia (GM): it looks like she's covered in rashes and boils
Ilmatar Nordwind: yikes
ugly way to go
i hug moss
Wiwaxia (GM): they don't respond
Ilmatar Nordwind: (completely disregarding that this probably startles the fuck outta him)
huh
(*them)
Wiwaxia (GM): you can't tell if it's because they're catatonic or because you're not "there" in some sense
Ilmatar Nordwind: hm
both would make sense, i suppose!
Wiwaxia (GM): you're still hugging them when the cloud passes on
Ilmatar Nordwind: fairies can happen to be intangential
naw
hm
did moss ever tell me about their mom dying?
Wiwaxia (GM): i'm not sure
Ilmatar Nordwind: i should ask that before next session
Wiwaxia (GM): i can check the logs later
you find yourself on a golden street-bridge at the foot of the tower
the streets are empty
the Breeze skims the golden city
Wiwaxia (GM): clouds scud past all around
(dang why are my exclamation marks not posting=
-remarks on the capital B there-
"To have your head in the clouds, to drown in visions without being able to help... This is stupid."
Wiwaxia (GM): @karrin you wanna pick up some?
Karrin Blue: Sure
though I have basically forgotten what was going on last time, sorry
Wiwaxia (GM): found weird grids of glass in the rock
climbed up a hill
saw some motherfucking snakey things on a motherfucking plane
Karrin Blue: *plain
buuut ok
Wiwaxia (GM): well, plane as in geometry works too
Karrin Blue: hmm, is there any way I could ascertain the snakeything's morality
Wiwaxia (GM): there's two of them, and they're a good ways away
look big, though
other than that, you have no idea
Karrin Blue: ughhh
Wiwaxia (GM): morally or otherwise
Karrin Blue: honestly not sure what to do here, I don't want to do something stupid and go up to these things if they're evil, but if they're not then they're probably plot relevant
Wiwaxia (GM): also I think leon and moss should be online
where you are on the timeline
so you could phone a friend
as it were
Karrin Blue: Hmm
Myrtha Oscurr: CO: Hm, there are these weird giant snakey things about

Myrtha Oscurr takes a photo and uploads it to the memo
Leon Gaspar: NI: do they have like
NI: weird features
Myrtha Oscurr: CO: See for yourself
Leon Gaspar: NI: okay. ooookay. those are bad
NI: i mean, if you can beat them they'll give you a bunch of grist, but they're strong
Myrtha Oscurr: COL You recognize them?
Leon Gaspar: NI: they're called basilisks
NI: yeah i saw one swimming around here earlier
Myrtha Oscurr: CO: I'll steer clear then.
Leon Gaspar: NI: yeah they're pretty mean
NI: how're you going on your end?
Myrtha Oscurr: CO: Things are going a bit slowly
Leon Gaspar: NI: hang on, i'm looking up basilisks in the walkthrough just in case
NI: uh. is there anything flammable nearby
Myrtha Oscurr: CO: Just sand and more sand
CO: No sign of the ghosts or whatever they were
Leon Gaspar: NI: well that's a positive
NI: basilisks can apparently breathe fire. the more you know.
NI: i should probably try to memorise this thing
Myrtha Oscurr: CO: Maybe.
CO: Anything about glass grids?
Leon Gaspar: NI: unfortunately not
Myrtha Oscurr: CO: Hm.
(Think I'll go check out the other side of the ridge)
Leon Gaspar: NI: sorry i couldn't be more help :(
Wiwaxia (GM): can you show me where you're going?
Myrtha Oscurr: CO: It's hardly your fault
thereish?
Wiwaxia (GM): there's a low valley and then another ridge
you can see something moving over the top of the ridge
rolling 1t[THE-ADVENTURE-DIE-OF-ADVENTURE!!(and/or-misery)]
(
5 Roll twice
)
= 5
rolling 1t[Geez-billy-TWO-encounters?]
(
2 Hazard
)
= 2
Myrtha Oscurr: ?
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 1t[Geez-billy-TWO-encounters?]
(
1 Encounter
)
= 1
exploration table
random happening as time passes
Myrtha Oscurr: ok
Wiwaxia (GM): *happenings
(To GM) rolling 1d6
(
4
)
= 4
Wiwaxia (GM): you hear a voice behind you
hssst: ssst!

Myrtha Oscurr turns around quicklike
get: get down!

Myrtha Oscurr does so reflexively
Wiwaxia (GM): ((that's an odd implementation of ??? roll20))
there's an indigo... snake? ish thing behind you
Myrtha Oscurr: "...Hi."
Wiwaxia (GM): its got hands
but no legs
just a long snakelike lower body
and big poofy frills behind its head

Myrtha Oscurr takes a photo cause that's pretty cool looking
stranger: hey!
not the time for that!
there's a giclops heading this way!
Myrtha Oscurr: "Oh dear. Is there somewhere safe to go?"
the weird snakey thing ponders
snakey: -thing follow me!
Wiwaxia (GM): ((oh come on))
Myrtha Oscurr: hehe

Myrtha Oscurr sends a quick update to the others as she follows
Wiwaxia (GM): you can see that come up over the ridge as you move
Leon Gaspar: NI: nice! consorts! probably.
stranger: stay low to the ground!

Myrtha Oscurr stays low
Wiwaxia (GM): also, myrtha, can you type out that update?
i'm keeping chatlogs on the timeline
so it's nice to have all the back-and-forth
Myrtha Oscurr: I'm thinking something like
"Met this guy, there's a monster coming, I'm going to follow with them to a safe place"
Wiwaxia (GM): they lead you over to the edge of the blue plain from before
there's some broken up rocks on the edge of the plain where they instruct you to hide, the slither in after you

Myrtha Oscurr hides as best that's possible
Myrtha Oscurr: being not a snake and all
stranger: what are you thinking, standing around on ridges like that?
you're really bloody obvious, you know that?
Myrtha Oscurr: (is this talking about before or now?)
Wiwaxia (GM): (before)
Myrtha Oscurr: Well I didn't know the giclops were around. I'm a bit new to this area.
Leon Gaspar: (also i think i might call it a night guys)
Wiwaxia (GM): (now that you're in a relatively safe place)
night!
Leon Gaspar: night all!
Myrtha Oscurr: gnight!
Ilmatar Nordwind: n8
Myrtha Oscurr: "In the area I'm from, there are a lot more places to hide even if you're standing up."
stranger: okay, rule one of LOWAW
THERE ARE NO FUCKING PLACES TO HIDE STANDING UP
Myrtha Oscurr: "I will remember that, then."
stranger: okay, good
good to hearr
there's monsters showing up all over the place right now
Myrtha Oscurr: "Oh dear! How long as that been happening?"
stranger: not long!
they're rampaging, apparently
i'm worried they might be taking down the Whisper Lines
but i haven't actually seen that
Myrtha Oscurr: "I know I saw some broken ones before, but I don't think I saw if they were broken by monsters."
stranger: ok, good to know
are you going to be okay on your own?
Myrtha Oscurr: "Well, I have food and water, but I don't really know what's going on around here."
"And... hm. Do you know anything about someone called the Witch? Or voices out in the dunes thataway?"
stranger: uh
above my pay grade, sorry
Myrtha Oscurr: "Well, do you know who I might talk to about that?"
"Wait, what exactly is your job, if you don't mind my asking?"
stranger: flib
sorry, can't share
flib
Myrtha Oscurr: "On which question, or both?"
stranger: flib
Myrtha Oscurr: >:[
"Well, what about those glass grid things on the rocks?"
stranger:
well, better get going
good luck!
Myrtha Oscurr: "Is there anything you _can_ tell me about this place?"
"Or the lines?"
stranger: yes. stay out of sight
Myrtha Oscurr: "Because so far I'm limited to 'it exists and there sure is a lot of blue bead stuff'"
"Well, that's something."
stranger: and there's no good places to hide in the open
and... it has its secrets
Myrtha Oscurr: "I noticed."
stranger: flib
Wiwaxia (GM): they slither off
Myrtha Oscurr: CO: Well that was supremely helpful.
Wiwaxia (GM): the giclops starts coming over the ridge
Myrtha Oscurr: Well shit.
Is there another ridge or someplace to hide out of sight?
that wouldn't require running through line of sight?
Wiwaxia (GM): you're hidden in some broken rocks
it doesn't notice you
Myrtha Oscurr: oh, ok

Myrtha Oscurr holds breath and is very very still
Wiwaxia (GM): you can see its head slowly drop over the horizon
you also see a faint trace in the sand where the snakey thing went
Myrtha Oscurr: ...well, might as well follow
Wiwaxia (GM): you get to about here
there track leads up onto a shallow ledge of rock
which obviously doesn't take tracks
look around and see if it resumes?
btw, there's a basilisk
about here
Myrtha Oscurr: ...yeah I'm going to hide then
Wiwaxia (GM): it hasn't seen you and is kinda milling about aimlessly
Myrtha Oscurr: still getting out of sight
Wiwaxia (GM): pfft i just realized how the nameplate looks from your screen
Myrtha Oscurr: ?
Wiwaxia (GM): if i'm not wrong, it should be reading "ass basilisk"
unless nameplates aren't affected by fog of war
Myrtha Oscurr: that does look like ass basilisk
Wiwaxia (GM): (it's a glass basilisk. for clarity)
Myrtha Oscurr: I figured.
Wiwaxia (GM): hiding, yes?
Myrtha Oscurr: Yes
Wiwaxia (GM): actually, do you mind if we wrap up around here?
Myrtha Oscurr: I don't mind.
Wiwaxia (GM): k!
i'll try to start off with you next session
Myrtha Oscurr: Mkay
Wiwaxia (GM): but i've got some prep to do there
Ilmatar Nordwind: n8 then ::3
Wiwaxia (GM): night!
Myrtha Oscurr: gnight!
whimsy: morning
Wiwaxia (GM): hallo
Arxon: hullo
Wiwaxia (GM): hey arxon, did you roll level-up HP for Lemi?
Arxon: I figured you might want it in the chat so you can tell I am not cheating about it?
Wiwaxia (GM): I trust you guys on that
also if you roll in the chat while i'm logged off, it shows up in the logs
which i comb over p thoroughly for timeline stuff
speaking of which, I just posted everyone's current times in the thread
Arxon: srry about that!
also yeah Lemi will definitely want to sleep before anything happens
rolling 1d6
(
4
)
= 4
Wiwaxia (GM): also, for the record +20xp to Leon for various barnacle-and-seagull-related scrapes
whimsy: so i had the brilliant idea for dozing another 20 min and now im tired agian
fffff
k m.: oh shit fun fact i am moving to wisconsin tomorrow morning, so the paper i had moss' stuff written down on is...packed
i will try to find it real quick
Wiwaxia (GM): I should have most of it to hand
with your character sheet here and footkind stuff in the thread
k m.: ok good
because i think it's in the suitcase
under some clothes
i'll have it next week though haha
...and then the week after that i'll have moved to cali, so i will see
Wiwaxia (GM): where in california, if you don't mind me asking?
k m.: sacramento! a part of americorps, so we're next to a military neighborhood i think
mclellan park
so far i have found 3 libraries and that is literally the only research on the area i have done
Wiwaxia (GM): good you have your priorities straight at least!
i don't really know the sacremento area
most of my mom's side of the family lives around Monterey Bay, so I go there a lot
k m.: i know right? i only have one library in my hometown, i'll be horribly spoiled
oh cool! i am hoping to do dumb touristy things in between PT and crying of exhaustion in my bunk at 4am :D
whimsy: (-does the lives in the capital and has a bazillion libraries and just finished their internship at the state library dance-)
k m.: oooooh nice
Arxon: Man we are clean across from each other, I'm in Land Park
(so many libraries tho. Many libraries. I have never lived more than a mile or so from a library)
k m.: i am so excited for libraries, i hope i get proof of address first thing
because bank account but Mostly because books
Arxon: I can't even check out books b/c I have learned that I am not to e trusted with other peoples books, but I love going to libraries and chilling for a few hours, esp the one that was by my old house
whimsy: libraries are really soothing for some reason ::D
Wiwaxia (GM): also, holy shit, Moss's Forge is oooooold
1.1 Ga
whimsy: (also im still not convinced the library i interned at had a euclidean structure)
Wiwaxia (GM): they're in Wisconsin, right?
k m.: mmmm libraries
yep!
Wiwaxia (GM): Ga=billion years ago, for clarification
whimsy: (there was something off about that building that is actually three buildings, and one huge reading hall) (all that sound has to go somewhere)
thats only about a quater of earths life, iirc ::D
Wiwaxia (GM): yep
k m.: basically, it's older than my house so i am automatically impressed
Wiwaxia (GM): but also about 500 million years before the first multicellular life
there has not been any volcanism in the middle of North America for a longass time
whimsy: ::DD
Arxon: 0u0 daaammn
k m.: well i mean if that earthquake in washington ever goes
...i guess that's not a guarantee of volcanos though is it
Wiwaxia (GM): no, but Washington's chock-fulla volcanoes anyways
Ranier, Hood, St. Helens, Baker, etc
k m.: so possibility of ground instability setting off a whole bushel of crazy shit?
(our disaster relief area is CA to WA and then CA to WY basically, so i am super interested in any potential national disasters)
Wiwaxia (GM): more like the volcanoes and the earthquakes are not directly linked, but are both caused by the same tectonic shit
k m.: ah that brain graph makes more sense
Wiwaxia (GM): you do get earthquakes before a volcano goes off, but those are small, local swarms and not the destructive kind that people talk about in a natural disaster context
give you advance warning, though
k m.: that's always nice
the advance warning bit
Wiwaxia (GM): also, has anyone seen Karrin around?
whimsy: yall fuced anyways if yellowstone ever decides to blow
k m.: boom
Wiwaxia (GM): i think we'll start in a few minutes if she doesn't turn up
hey, yellowstone going tits-up wouldn't be pretty for Europe either
Arxon: My dad went through a natural geographic disaster show phase and we haven't een back to yellowstone since
k m.: Boom
Wiwaxia (GM): awww, but it's so cool!
whimsy: yellowstone waking up would be bad news for the whole planet i guess, or at least humanity
Wiwaxia (GM): and it's not like you're any more fucked by being right there if it goes
k m.: i'm just so used to ground being stable but the weather being fucked
i feel like earthquakes are just gonna fuck with my head
whimsy: wasnt it like, they knew, theres volcanic stuff here, but couldnt find the caldera in the park, until they realized THE ENTIRE PARK IS THE CALDERA
gigantic calderas are so. cool.
k m.: give me a good old fashioned tornado or hurricane anyday
....ooh that must have been a terrifying realization
whimsy: (the n'go un'goro crater too)
Arxon: Yeah I guess it's immediate vs a slower ut still p quick death
clearly we need to start working on the underwater kingdom
whimsy: WIND WHEEEEEE -swirls around-
k m.: move to mars: solution
whimsy: take me to the mooooon ::D
dang, ninjad!
k m.: heehee
Wiwaxia (GM): noticeably large earthquakes aren't all that common, though
Arxon: (also Moss idk how much you'll be travelling around California but we raaarely feel earthquakes in the Sac area)
Wiwaxia (GM): on human timescales
k m.: 1 month of sac, the next nine months wherever they send us
so
shrugging
Wiwaxia (GM): i've been in one earthquake
whimsy: km, if you dont mind me asking, whatcha doing thats been sending you all over?
me neither, do i stood on a volcano once. (the one on lanzarote)
*tho
Arxon: If you're in, say, the Bay Area you might feel some baby earthquakes
(also I am one to talk every time I'm in San Francisco or around there I'm like "this is it. This is the day the earth splits open and the whole state sinks into the writhing sea"
Wiwaxia (GM): technically it won't sink
k m.: it'll be americorps nccc, which is disaster relief and environmental protection
so we do groups of 7-10 people and get sent
wherever
Wiwaxia (GM): you've got a strike-slip fault, not a dip-slip

Wiwaxia (GM) is helping
whimsy: ah
k m.: i get a stipend and an education award at the end that i can use on student loans
Arxon: right
my high school art teacher tried to convince me that if there was an earthquake in the north and the south at the same time, the valley would sink and become a salt water lake
I haven't been able to get that out of my head since D:
Wiwaxia (GM): ???
remind me to blather about how the San Andreas got there sometime, though
it is a crazy story
k m.: it was andrea's fault, right?
(i am hilarious)
Wiwaxia (GM): it involves the term "crustal collapse"
which gives you a taste of the whole flavor of thing
k m.: ooooh
boom
whimsy: that sounds... like something big oo00
Arxon: I love hearing about geological stuff but I know basically nothing about it
also crustal collapse would make a great name for a band
Wiwaxia (GM): alright, we're at the tradition rpg "half-hour past announced start time" start time, so i think we should go ahead and start
karrin will turn up or she won't
moss, you're the farthest back on the timeline

 

Spoiler: moss's attempts at exploring are rudely interrupted first by waking up and then by a basilisk

k m.: this is true! i know i had some missing space in there
Wiwaxia (GM): about two hours
one of which I assume was spent building Sera's house
k m.: yup!
good times
and TA is still in house
Wiwaxia (GM): yep!
at least at the start of that
lemme go grab what you were talking about last
k m.: k cool
Wiwaxia (GM): ah yes, astrology as practiced on Derse
TA: i think the astrologers do something with listening to their song during the eclipses?
not 100% on that, though
never been my department, thankfully
i mean they all seem to have a pretty good handle on their predictions, but they're all as batty as a cave on LOFAC
Moss Kaplan: "That sounds like an intense job. I think I'd prefer invesigation"
Wiwaxia (GM): TA: hah! you've certainly got a good head on your shoulders there
it's the perfect combination of lazy desk job and slow corrosion of the all-too thin walls that protect your illusory sanity to produce some right assholes, if you ask me
not that i want to bad mouth the noble allies of Derse or their interpeters, of course
Moss Kaplan: "Oh, of course not! no badmouthing here! wouldn't want to upset them"
TA: naturally!
by the way, could I trouble you for a statement on the drought?
Moss Kaplan: "me? a statement? wow, i've never been in the papers before."
"uhh,how about, it seems pretty serious-and doesn't really look like it'll let up anytime soon. i've never been in a drought before though"
TA scribbles down notes
TA: I'll put you down as a non-alligator occupant of the Land of Dust and you-know-what, if that's alright with you?
Moss Kaplan: "Yeah, that sounds good"
TA: excellent! thank you!
I notice you've got a pretty tall tower here?
is there any place I could look out from the top, if that's alright with you?
I haven't really gotten a chance to survey extent of the drought from above
Moss Kaplan: "Oh, sure! Follow me!"
(my screen's on sera's still i think, but yeah upstairs)
Karrin Blue: Hey
Sorry, forgot we had a game tonight
whimsy: sup ::D
Karrin Blue: things have been slightly hectic lately
Wiwaxia (GM): heya!
Karrin Blue: I miss anything?
Moss Kaplan: hey! nah, not much
Karrin Blue: hooray!
whimsy: we talked volcanos
TA: that mountain behind your house also seems like it hasn't been hit as hard
do you know what's up with that?
i think that's where I'll investigate next
Moss Kaplan: "I really don't! sorry, i don't know a whole lot about the area"
(it's a volcano, right? can we see it, like, smoking from here?"
whoops *)
Wiwaxia (GM): (it's a dead-ass volcano right now)
Moss Kaplan: (oh ok that works thanks)
at any rate, i lead TA up to my room because what a view
TA: oh wow
Moss Kaplan: (and kick some clothes under the bed)
TA: this is a really excellent view
I don't want to impose on you, and you've done a lot for me already, but would you be willing to let me stay and take notes from up here for a bit?
Moss Kaplan: "Isn't it? it's gorgeous, in a 'covered in drought kind of way'"
"and yeah! go for it, I'm gonna go putter around and get the rest of this mud off me haha"
TA: thank you so much!
I owe you one,
...uh
i don't believe I got your name actually
Moss Kaplan: "Oh, my name's Moss!"
handshake y/y
TA gives you a firm, very practiced handshake
TA: Moss, then! If you're ever on Derse after I'm done with this story, drinks are on me.
and if you ever need any help and I'm in the are, you can ask me.
Moss Kaplan: "Thanks for the offer! and really, no trouble"
TA: No seriously, this is really excellent stuff. And you gave me water, too.
I really am in your debt.
Moss Kaplan: "well, you know, it's a drought, i figured desert law of hospitality, right? I will definitely look you up if i'm in the area"
TA: sounds good to me!
here, I'll write my address on Derse down for you
probably best to write ahead if you're planning on visiting, though
I'm away a lot, and the neighbors tend to mug strangers hanging around
Moss Kaplan: "well, i will definitely write ahead then! wouldn't want to be mugged"
TA: haha, indeed!
was quite a surprise when I first moved in
made for a somewhat awkward next block party
they were nice enough to return my obsidian pen, though
so no hard feelings here
Moss Kaplan: "that's good!"
looking down at muddy clothes
"well, i should stop flaking around the house, and let you do your stuff!"
TA: thank you again!
TA turns to the windows and starts scribbling
Moss Kaplan: and i duck down through the trapdoor and wander downstairs
Wiwaxia (GM): going to start building right away, or do something else first?
(also, I think I can pick up another thread in parallel right now)
(Karrin, do you wanna go?)
Moss Kaplan: i'm gonna check real quick if there are any imps around
and then, yeah, i start planning and building
Wiwaxia (GM): there's some, but they're keeping well out of your way
Moss Kaplan: i mutter "i am the ogre destroyer" to myself, and start working
Wiwaxia (GM): about how long do you think that will take you?
Moss Kaplan: welll
i think when i was actually doing it it was like 45 minutes or something to plan it out
so total, like an hour 15 maybe? or an hour30
Wiwaxia (GM): let's do an hour 15
Moss Kaplan: k cool
Wiwaxia (GM): unbeknownst to you, while you build, one of your companions is getting stuck in a damp storeroom and another is sliding down a mountain on her ass through impenetrable fog
Moss Kaplan: both of those sound very fun
im pretty sure i wouldn't even notice if they were happening in the same room tbh
Wiwaxia (GM): alright, you lean back and look at your finished handiwork
what now?
you need to be able to have a chat with Myrtha in about 45 minutes
Moss Kaplan: i
realize that i never actually got the mud off
and start brushing myself off
Wiwaxia (GM): it's mostly on where you were sitting by now
Moss Kaplan: oh good
i give myself one last shake
and
hm do i have a phone we're pinging each other on? i don't want to disturb TA
Wiwaxia (GM): well, you're using pesterchum
presumably on some sorta smartphone or other
Moss Kaplan: oh right ok cool
maybe i'll take a nap
huh, i actually don't know what i want to do
Wiwaxia (GM): you'll only be asleep for about 45 minutes
because of "prior" timeline commitments
namely the chat in which you inform Myrtha that you bought her some goggles
Moss Kaplan: yeah that works
i don't think i have anything i need to get done with anyway
power napping!
Wiwaxia (GM): You awake on Prospit, as normal
sorry whimsy, ilmatar's not awake yet
Moss Kaplan: nice
i wander around for a bit
oh wait when was the eclipse gonna be
Wiwaxia (GM): Skaia is swinging into view over the horizon
you eyeball the eclipse in about 3 hours
Moss Kaplan: whew ok
-wipes brow-
yeah, i'm not really going for info gathering right now, probs just wandering around getting lost
Wiwaxia (GM): well, you know the neighborhood around the base of your tower pretty well
but you manage to get yourself enjoyably lost several levels of streets down
Moss Kaplan: niiice
Wiwaxia (GM): you can barely see the black sky above the steep golden walls and criss-crossing overpasses
people are wandering around, casually wrapping up any errands before the eclipse
they nod amiably at you as you go past
Moss Kaplan: i nod back, being a good neighbor
Wiwaxia (GM): you encounter a small brick arch with stairs leading down off the side of a small street
Moss Kaplan: ooh.
i wander down it!
Wiwaxia (GM): you've never been down anywhere like this before
you can see the bricks stay the normal gold, but it gets darker than you've ever seen on Prospit once you're away from the entrance
Moss Kaplan: oooooooooooh
cool
Wiwaxia (GM): the air has a kind of friendly abandoned mustiness
the steps keep going down, curving slightly, without any sort of landing or off-branch
you're still going down them when you wake up
Moss Kaplan: weird
and then i answer pesterchum and do crazy space tricks
Wiwaxia (GM): you also see that TA has left a note by you that she's headed off to investigate the mountain, and thanking you again for the water and the chance to use your tower
Moss Kaplan: she was cool! i approve of TA
i hope she has fun investigating
Wiwaxia (GM): what are you gonna do now?
also, you get 3 hp back
Moss Kaplan: nice!
what's my upper limit on HP because i think i just ate it
Wiwaxia (GM): 12
because you've got reeeeally shitty level-up rolls
Moss Kaplan: haha yeah, those dice... -shakes head-
uhm, i think most of my books were destroyed
so i captchalogue TA's note
and head upstairs to grab some more books in case i have to drop them on things
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 1d100
(
14
)
= 14
rolling 1d4
(
1
)
= 1
you grab a nice hefty marine biology textbook
Moss Kaplan: nice
i do like those
Wiwaxia (GM): (why yes, I do have a massive random books table)
Moss Kaplan: i am so pleased with this
especially since i was worried i was going to be dismembered by something when i saw you roll
Wiwaxia (GM): nah, d100 is almost always tables
almost
again, I can do two plot threads if someone else wants to do stuff too
(To GM) rolling 1d4
(
3
)
= 3
Moss Kaplan: oh, right, and i'm out around 1130ish i think, so in about an hour
otherwise we can do time skips, i just wanted to grab some books and keep them ready in case something was pissed off and big
oh also, i look out the window in case of something pissed off and big
whimsy: im way ahead of everyone atm and ima wait until everyone else is parallel w me again
Wiwaxia (GM): sorry, clarification, you've gotta leave in about an hour? or are you referring to the other chatlog moss needs to be awake for in an hour in-game
Moss Kaplan: oh, sorry, me,
we leave at like 8am tomorrow so i want to be able to load the car up
Wiwaxia (GM): @whimsy, good call, although dream ilmatar's about parallel with myrtha and leon
gotcha moss, that's what i thought but I wanted to make sure
Moss Kaplan: yep totes
Wiwaxia (GM): moss is just a wee bit behind on the timeline
well, lemi is too, but I assume she wants to sleep off her wounds some
Moss Kaplan: yeah, and since i scared off the imps, i don't have a huge amount of stuff to do unless i wander around outside
...
so i might as well grab like 4 books just in case
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 1d100
(
17
)
= 17
rolling 1d100
(
85
)
= 85
rolling 1d4
(
1
)
= 1
you also grab a bird biology textbook and some hefty book on poli-sci
rolling 1d100
(
21
)
= 21
Moss Kaplan: excellent! i store them
Wiwaxia (GM): and a wisconsin road atlas
which is already battered enough that you don't feel so bad about its inevitable demise
Moss Kaplan: i look at it
shrug
roll it up and give it a testing whack on the desk
and take it
Wiwaxia (GM): also, it's out of date
Moss Kaplan: oh good, that works
Wiwaxia (GM): there's a lot of meteor craters in Wisconsin it's missing
whimsy: (dang ninjad))
Moss Kaplan: apparently! haha
and i wander outside! because what the hell why not
Wiwaxia (GM): there's a warm, dry wind blowing
Moss Kaplan: i look around!
Wiwaxia (GM): one sec, lemme go retrieve the immediate surroundings of your house
so there's the little ex-island with dying bushes and big rainforest trees that you've already explored some
the ex-river leads into the drying forest in one direction
and then there's a big baking plain in the direction of the mountain
You can see big dark shapes moving in both directions
you presume more ogres
Moss Kaplan: huh. wellll i'm gonna follow the river into the forest
keeping an eye out for anything big an pissed off
Wiwaxia (GM): the riverbed is drier than when you were playing in the mud a couple hours
rolling 1t[THE-ADVENTURE-DIE-OF-ADVENTURE!!(and/or-misery)]
(
1 Encounter
)
= 1
rolling 1d6
(
1
)
= 1
Moss Kaplan: i am glad i took the opportunity earlier then!
...uh oh what is coming for me
(also according to this dove wrapper, i am supposed to solve all arguments with a dance off...i don't think imps can dance)
Wiwaxia (GM): a big snakey thing is lounging in the middle of the river
there's a couple imps hanging around it like middle schoolers acting tough because they're sitting next to the big high-school football player
Moss Kaplan: huh
....
i don't think i can dance at this thing
...does it know i'm here?
Wiwaxia (GM): you don't know if it hasn't noticed you or if it's just being lazy
Moss Kaplan: i walk away from it verrrry carefully
Wiwaxia (GM): one of the imps, with long matted black hair, gives a bloodcurdling scream and charges
Moss Kaplan: what a fucker
Wiwaxia (GM): here, lemme get this set up
k
yellow marks the riverbanks
brown is the part that's still muddy and kinda hard to move in
Moss Kaplan: whelp i guess we're gonna dance
-puts up dukes-
Wiwaxia (GM): motherfucker
Moss Kaplan: i'm bracing myself to kick him in the face
Wiwaxia (GM): alright, imp's charging you
rolling 1d20
(
17
)
= 17
yeeeah that hits
whimsy: (if it were more people, i'd feel reminded of the huge dancefight in erfworld, book 1)
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 1d4+2
(
1
)+2
= 3
Moss Kaplan: (i apparently should read? this story)
aw
Wiwaxia (GM): gonna kick it in it's dumb face?
Moss Kaplan: heck yeah
Wiwaxia (GM): it's defence is even shittier than normal because of the charge
whimsy: (erfworld is great) (parodies and deconstructs tabletop gaming and its tropes and is chock-full of popculture references and those are all justified its great)
Moss Kaplan: oh yeah, what's my roll for kickin it in the dumb face
Wiwaxia (GM): d20 to hit, d10 for damage
at this level
Moss Kaplan: rolling d20
(
18
)
= 18
pow
Wiwaxia (GM): yeah that hits
Moss Kaplan: rolling d10
(
5
)
= 5
Wiwaxia (GM): obviously
Moss Kaplan: haha take that fucker
Wiwaxia (GM): it goes poof into a buncha dust and grist
Moss Kaplan: MWAHAHAHA
Wiwaxia (GM): 28 build grist, specifically
Moss Kaplan: are the other ones coming at me?
Wiwaxia (GM): this un is
you notice that it's covered in vines and has four red eyes
Moss Kaplan: i step a little closer to the edge of walkable area, so i can keep them offbalance in mud but still be able to walk
uh oh
Wiwaxia (GM): gonna attack?
they are approaching aggressively, but haven't closed the distance yet
Moss Kaplan: yeah kicking it
rolling d20
(
4
)
= 4
oh fuck
Wiwaxia (GM): the basilisk?
Moss Kaplan: yeah
Wiwaxia (GM): yeah that don't work
it jabs you awkwardly with a foot
Moss Kaplan: book to face
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 1d20
(
5
)
= 5
unsurprisingly this awkward maneuver gets it absolutely nothing
Moss Kaplan: haha suck it
Wiwaxia (GM): k, books to face is 1d20 to hit and 1d6 damage
Moss Kaplan: rolling d20
(
3
)
= 3
goDAMmit
Wiwaxia (GM): book sails right over it's head
Moss Kaplan: goodbye book
Wiwaxia (GM): this guys turn
Moss Kaplan: i'm gonna pack car real quick, might be able to come back
Wiwaxia (GM): it breathes fire
will moss survive?
tune in... next week!
whimsy: even if i noticed moss' dreamself taking damage, i wouldnt wake up early enough to tell anyone fast enough, i fear
Wiwaxia (GM): also, you're not awake yet
whimsy: aye
and smooching a dreamself doesnt work as rezz
Wiwaxia (GM): you're still stumbling down the mountain when this is going down
whimsy: eheheh
Karrin Blue: wait, kissing a dreamself won't rezz you?
Wiwaxia (GM): we don't know
whimsy: afaik you have to smooch the corpse
Wiwaxia (GM): it's never come up in canon
Karrin Blue: ?
yeah
oh yeah
whimsy: terezi watched vriska bleed out on prospit i think, but they might not have known
Karrin Blue: corpsesmooching the the protocol
*is the
Wiwaxia (GM): it's also funny how all y'all's clusterfuck moments line up in time
Karrin Blue: Myrtha's just
hiding in some rocks
Wiwaxia (GM): circumstantial simultaneity, I guess
Karrin Blue: yes
Wiwaxia (GM): yeah, myrtha's done the best so far
Karrin Blue: and yet her consorts are useless
Wiwaxia (GM): in terms of not getting into horrible messes
whimsy: too much water on ilmas planet, too little on moss'...
Karrin Blue: and too little talkative helpful people on Myrtha's
whimsy: maybe we can bs some meaning into the simultaneous fuckups somewhere along the way, thatd be cool
Wiwaxia (GM): well, that's what circumstantial simultaneity is good for
Moss Kaplan: ok i am back

Karrin Blue has acquired tea!
Wiwaxia (GM): ok, I have bad news and I have bad news for moss
Karrin Blue: haha
the true homestuck experience!
Wiwaxia (GM): you can make a reflex save to jump back 5 feet away from the fire blast
Moss Kaplan: ok
is that d20?
Wiwaxia (GM): d20 <= your save, yep
Moss Kaplan: rolling d20
(
16
)
= 16
whimsy: i was about to say, try to roll low
Wiwaxia (GM): yeah, that doesn't get you
Moss Kaplan: thenk jegus
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 2d6
(
4
+
4
)
= 8
whimsy: hitting dice, high, reflex dice, low. get your dice sorted out ::P
ouuuuch
Moss Kaplan: uh oh
whimsy: i thought saves were low?
Wiwaxia (GM): saves low, yes
you want your d20 to be less than the number you have for your save
also your clothes need to make a save
one sec
Moss Kaplan: aw
rolling d20
(
19
)
= 19
i feel like my clothes are gonna be in better shape than me
Wiwaxia (GM): nope, saves are still roll low
your clothes are on fire
that's 1d6 damage a round unless you stop drop and roll
that's the bad news
the other bad news it that the basilisk is also on fire
and doesn't seem to mind
Moss Kaplan: uh oh
stop drop n roll away?
Wiwaxia (GM): sure
you're easier to hit if you're down, but it's a hell of a lot better than being on fire
Moss Kaplan: yep
Wiwaxia (GM): i'm gonna say you can roll a couple meters away in your turn
flaming basilisk on your ass
rolling 1d20
(
19
)
= 19
it jabs you with a foot again
Moss Kaplan: oh fuck me
Wiwaxia (GM): this works much better now that you are on the ground
(deducted damage from the fire)
Moss Kaplan: the words that moss are thinking are not appropriate for most 16 yr olds
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 1d4
(
1
)
= 1
congrats!
Moss Kaplan: yay!!!!
Wiwaxia (GM): you're at 0 HP exactly
Karrin Blue: geez
Moss Kaplan: -throws confetti, streamers-
Wiwaxia (GM): and, you know, not on fire
Moss Kaplan: -the confetti is on fire-
Wiwaxia (GM): cobble imp is hangin back
(To GM) rolling 1d6
(
3
)
= 3
Wiwaxia (GM): your turn
what do?
Moss Kaplan: uh
i vacate the area
swearing loudly
Wiwaxia (GM): good call
the basilisk takes a parting shot at you as you run
rolling 1d20
(
15
)
= 15
rolling 1d4
(
1
)
= 1
Moss Kaplan: :/
Wiwaxia (GM): you get a nasty bruise on the back of one knee
Moss Kaplan: :|
:\
i continue swearing and running
Wiwaxia (GM): the underlings do not pursue
Moss Kaplan: oh good
basically
fuck this, going home
to my tower
i flip off the basilisk as i run
Wiwaxia (GM): hey, you know what's great
the last messages in Moss's chatlog before they ran into that little mess
Moss Kaplan: guys being guys?
oh
Karrin Blue: ?
Wiwaxia (GM): CO: Look familiar to you guys?
sI: giant lizard snake? sounds cool but doesnt ring any bells. suggestion: don't piss it off
CO: If it isn't then I'll be basically screwed, probably
CO: Yeah, I'm not betting on it being friendly
Karrin Blue: what was it?
ahaha
Moss Kaplan:
what are
GODDAMMIT

Karrin Blue snrks
Moss Kaplan: well it rings some bells now
sI: Fun Fact! Don't mess with the giant lizard snakes!
Karrin Blue: CO: Oh dear.
Moss Kaplan: sI: They are Assholes
Karrin Blue: CO: I'll keep that in mind then
Moss Kaplan: sI: actually if you see one you should drop a cliff on it
Karrin Blue: CO: I wish I knew how to do that!
Myrtha Oscurr: CO: So far I'm just hiding in some rocks
CO: Because these snake consort people are very unhelpful

 

Spoiler: an otherwise pleasant altercation about pickpocketing is interrupted by a hard-to-shake basilisk

whimsy: BI: good to know, thank you
Wiwaxia (GM): hey! you're asleep!
Ilmatar Nordwind: (am i? damn)
Moss Kaplan: -takes a picture of the bruise-
-sends it to everyone-
Ilmatar Nordwind: (sorry, messed up the timeline)
(i thought that was when ilmatar was still outside, bc yknow, synchronous messups)
Wiwaxia (GM): yeah, no worries
i wouldn't have caught it if I wasn't actively looking at the timeline
speaking of which, I'm really glad to no longer be playing catch-up with that
Ilmatar Nordwind: i can imagine ::D
Wiwaxia (GM): (the "hey!" was joshing mock-sharpness, if tone didn't convey)
Ilmatar Nordwind: (no worries there ::3 ive got this here down as friendly, so sharp tone starts with "yo, not cool", and "stop right the fuck there")
Wiwaxia (GM): good, good
figured I'd clarify just in case
because mock-angry is a thing I do a lot
Ilmatar Nordwind: (better safe than sorry ::D)
k m.: annnd on that note i am going to bed because it's like midnight here
Wiwaxia (GM): good night!
whimsy: n8 ::)
Wiwaxia (GM): also before you go
k m.: yes?
whimsy: (getting winter, its 6am and still pitch black outside)
Wiwaxia (GM): if moss goes to sleep right away, they'll be on Prospit for the eclipse
Arxon: (night 0u0)
whimsy: oooh, and awake when ilmatars awake "_"
k m.: oooh that would be cool
Wiwaxia (GM): afk momentarily, and then I can switch to lemi or myrtha or someone
well, not ilmatar
whimsy: ::DD
k m.: ok! yes, going to sleep
talk to yall later!

Myrtha Oscurr can play Myrtha then
Myrtha Oscurr: huh that's weirdly meta

Myrtha Oscurr crosses fingers for plot progression
Wiwaxia (GM): so, as I recall you were trying to track the unhelpful consort
Myrtha Oscurr: yes
Wiwaxia (GM): but lost the trail on a ledge of rock
and are v worried about that ass basilisk on the horizon
Myrtha Oscurr: yes
perhaps one day i will be able to harvest it for ass grist
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d6
(
1
)
= 1
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d6
(
5
)
= 5
Wiwaxia (GM): one sec, posting that in out of context quotes
Myrtha Oscurr: :D
Wiwaxia (GM): so, what are you doing?
whimsy: (::DD)
Myrtha Oscurr: Well
waiting for the ass basilisk to go away
Wiwaxia (GM): oh! also
Myrtha Oscurr: ?
Wiwaxia (GM): before I forget
whimsy: (yknow whatd be awesome) (messing with your servers (... i think that was the direction it went) house via sburb interface while in it
Wiwaxia (GM): myrtha gets an extra attack with fistkind every other round now
because 3rd level
Myrtha Oscurr: hooray!
Wiwaxia (GM): you should probably note that somewhere in case i forget again
Myrtha Oscurr: OK
Wiwaxia (GM): but yeah, ass basilisk ain't going anywhere
at all
it's just kinda standing around
Myrtha Oscurr: seriously?
is it looking in my direction?
Wiwaxia (GM): nope
you're a good 100m away from it
it hasn't noticed you at all
Myrtha Oscurr: in that case, in lieu of other options, I guess I will try to hurry to another area with cover
in the direction that I think the snakeguy was heading
Wiwaxia (GM): unfortunately, cover and snakeguy are in opposite directions
snakeguy went thisaway (watch ruler)
Myrtha Oscurr: gosh darnit
Wiwaxia (GM): cover is over here (ping)
Myrtha Oscurr: harrumph
well i want to get to the plot so I guess I'll continue after snakeguy
and try to be as voidy as possible while doing so
Wiwaxia (GM): you meditate on the vast emptiness of your planet and the dark sky above it and the many many secrets around you
you're not sure if this is doing anything but make you feel kinda small and creeped-out
going here?
Myrtha Oscurr: sure
I think creeped out is how you're supposed to feel with Void
Wiwaxia (GM): you're moving out onto the plain now
there's very few beads here
just matte blue glass
with very slight bumps and dips in the surface
you can still see the hill that you looked out from earlier, which is good, because the plain itself looks pretty featureless
also, no beads means no trail

Myrtha Oscurr mutters quietly under her breath
Wiwaxia (GM): there's a couple other glass basilisks just standing around, but you keep your distance and they don't seem to notice you
or care, if they do

Myrtha Oscurr SNEAK SNEAK SNEAK
Myrtha Oscurr: or rather

Myrtha Oscurr sneak sneak sneak
Wiwaxia (GM): pfff
keep trying to pursue consort or break off and go somewhere else?
Myrtha Oscurr: guhh
maybe explore some more
in the direction with the least basilisks
Wiwaxia (GM): thataways is the direction with least basiliks
but you've explored there already
Myrtha Oscurr: So they're pretty evenly spread?
Wiwaxia (GM): just on the plain
Myrtha Oscurr: Hmm
I think I'll try and make a big half-circle back towards the house
Wiwaxia (GM): not much in the blue rock ridges or the bead dunes
Myrtha Oscurr: maybe I'll find something that way
Wiwaxia (GM): can you move yourself to show me?
the glass plain rises into steeper blue hills here
Myrtha Oscurr: oh god
a giclops
howww far can those things see
Wiwaxia (GM): you can just see the top of the head
it's mostly over the horizon
Myrtha Oscurr: D:
Wiwaxia (GM): and seems to be moving away anyways
Myrtha Oscurr: in that case I will try very hard to not draw its attention
when i get to that area
Wiwaxia (GM): keep going?
or try to wait for it to go past
Myrtha Oscurr: Wait, I think
Doing otherwise seems a bit dumb
or tempting fate
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 1t[THE-ADVENTURE-DIE-OF-ADVENTURE!!(and/or-misery)]
(
1 Encounter
)
= 1
rolling 1d6
(
5
)
= 5
you hear raised voices
Myrtha Oscurr: snake consort type voices?
or ghost type voices?
Wiwaxia (GM): neither
Myrtha Oscurr: ...
Wiwaxia (GM): sounds like two men yelling at eachother
Myrtha Oscurr: CO: OK this is weird

Myrtha Oscurr takes an audio recording as she sneaksneaks closer
Myrtha Oscurr: or, more like a livestream?
of the arguing

Myrtha Oscurr is going to record everything she hears out here
Myrtha Oscurr: if the voices in the desert are all in her head then recording them and sending it to friends will prove it one way or another
voice1: Look, just give me my money back, and we can forget this happened

Myrtha Oscurr what
voice1: I think I'm being quite generous by not taking you back to Prospit and turning you in
voice2: I didn't steal nothing!

Myrtha Oscurr sneeeak
voice2: let me go, you crazy motherfucker, and I'll pretend nothing happened
voice1: You fucking liar!
Myrtha Oscurr: Am I close enough to see them yet>
voice1: I fucking saw you, and look! now I don't have my money
Wiwaxia (GM): yep
two men(?) with shiny white shell-looking skin

Myrtha Oscurr photo
Wiwaxia (GM): the bigger one has the other one in a headlock

Myrtha Oscurr uploads
Myrtha Oscurr: ...
Can you ping where they are on the map?
I see
Wiwaxia (GM): up in the hills, not on the plain
they're on a path that winds up and over the hills
you are not on the path, because you are sneaking
headlocker: I suppose the desert wind stole my money?
oh! I know, it was your twin brother!
headlockee squirms but can't get away
Myrtha Oscurr: ...I should probably intervene but honestly neither of them seem very nicce

Myrtha Oscurr continues sneaksneak
headlocker: honestly, you know what upsets me most about this?
One of my own countryman picking pockets on the Lands.
I'd expect behavior like this from those Dersites
but you should be ashamed of yourself
whimsy: (kinda funny, the prospitians on prospit are nice, the dersites on derse are mean, but on the lands its the other way round)
Wiwaxia (GM): (well of the ones we've met so far)
headlockee: Okay, okay!
I'll give you your money back
just let go of me so I can get it
headlocker: I think you can get it right where you are
headlockee shuffles around and grudgingly pulls out a fistful of boondollars
headlocker counts them without letting go
headlockee: hey, man, I gave you your money back, now let me go
a deal's a deal
headlocker: you miserable liar
this is less than half
headlockee: that's all i can reach, you lout
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d6
(
6
)
= 6
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d6
(
3
)
= 3
headlocker: okay, you know what, deal's off
you've officially annoyed me enough that I'm turning you in
let's go
Myrtha Oscurr: ((... I still am not sure what I'm supposed to do here))
headlocker starts pushing headlockee along
Wiwaxia (GM): ((open book. you can do whatever the hell you like))
Myrtha Oscurr: ((hrmm))
...Oh, what the hell
"Pardon me. But maybe I can help in this situation?"
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 2d6
(
6
+
4
)
= 10
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 2d6
(
3
+
5
)
= 8
Myrtha Oscurr: "I mean, if you're worried about him getting away while he gives you your money, then having two people would make that risk smaller."
((it's late so idk if this makes sense)
headlocker: ...yeah, alright
headlockee: are you just gonna listen to him? he's trying to extort money from me by threatening to frame me as a thief!
please, lady, you gotta help me!
Myrtha Oscurr: "Didn't you say that was all the money you could reach, though?"
"If that was all the money you owed him you would've said so."
"But please, both of you, explain your sides of the story."
headlockee: I was just giving him money so he would let me go!
he randomly jumped out at me and accused me of theft, then grabbed me and demanded money when I tried to get away
I'm just grateful he doesn't have a kni--
headlocker tightens his arm to stop headlockee talking

Myrtha Oscurr considers. Neither of them knew there were other witnesses around, as far as she can tell. Accusations of theft wouldn't make sense if the only other person around to hear them would know they weren't true.
Myrtha Oscurr: "And what's your side?"
headlocker: Listen, you look like an upright lass
this jackass tried to pick my pocket and run, but he bit off a bit more than he could chew
headlocker laughs
Myrtha Oscurr: CO: Hey, have any of you seen these carapacey people on your lands?
headlocker: and now he's trying any desperate ruse to get away
pathetic, really
Myrtha Oscurr: "I haven't seen very many people around this area. What were you doing here?"
headlocker: I'm trying to find a nice neat, quiet place to farm

Myrtha Oscurr looks around the glass desert
headlocker: Battlefield's getting a bit hot for me, you know
headlocker shrugs ruefully
Myrtha Oscurr: "Battlefield?"
headlocker: haven't had much luck, though
Myrtha Oscurr: "I don't think there's much arable land around here, no."
headlocker: you know, the battlefield?
in the middle of Skaia
great place to farm, but now there's armies on the move
i'm all for supporting our troops, but I can't do that very well if my fields are on fire, you know?
Myrtha Oscurr: "That makes sense."
headlocker: Sorry, where are my manners
I'm Finicky Peasant
Myrtha Oscurr: "I'm Myrtha Oscurr."
FP: pleased to meet you
Myrtha Oscurr: "And what's your name?"
headlockee: Determined Traveller
FP: Determined Thief, more like
truth be told, I don't really have the time to take this miscreant back to Prospit
do you think you can handle him? there's probably a bounty you could collect if you turn him in
Myrtha Oscurr: "I suppose I can."

Myrtha Oscurr has a sylladex and so is hard to pickpocket anyways
Myrtha Oscurr: "Ah, by the way... you wouldn't happen to know the phrase 'Witch of Void' or anything, would you?"
FP: doesn't ring a bell, no
the castles on the Battlefield have some libraries that would be a good place to look
but like I said, that's not really a place for civilians like you or me these days
Myrtha Oscurr: "That's too bad."
FP: it really is
still, we can hardly roll over and let the Dersites have their way with us, eh?
here, I'm gonna let this disgrace go so he can give me the rest of my money back
make sure he doesn't run, okay?
Myrtha Oscurr: "OK."

Myrtha Oscurr keeps a close eye on DT and a hand about ready to pull out a halberd

Myrtha Oscurr and a close eye on FP because well
Myrtha Oscurr: no need to be uncautious
FP lets go of DT
Myrtha Oscurr: oh by the way i forgot to ask
is there a way to roll to see if one is lying
Wiwaxia (GM): grace check would do it
d20+entire grace score
Myrtha Oscurr: rolling d20 + 8
(
4
)+8
= 12
awww
Wiwaxia (GM): they both seem pretty legit to you!
Myrtha Oscurr: Xb
DT pulls out your dad's wallet and fishes out a handful of boonbucks and hands them to FP, who walks away with a cheery wave to you
Myrtha Oscurr: HEY WAIT A SECOND.
"You said that this guy is returning _your_ money, right?"
FP turns around
FP: yeah, why?
Myrtha Oscurr: "That wallet doesn't belong to him, and unless he put your money in there between him stealing it and you finding him, that's not your money either."

Myrtha Oscurr deathglare
DT assesses his options
Myrtha Oscurr: "And if he somehow put part of the money in there and part in another pocket."
DT: screams and bolts for it
Myrtha Oscurr: How big are these guys?
Like
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d6
(
3
)
= 3
Myrtha Oscurr: mayor-size
Wiwaxia (GM): yep
FP is fairly heavy-se
*heavy-set
Myrtha Oscurr: So I'm taller, right
So I can cover the distance over to DT quickly
so I want to run over, grab him, and then run back to FP
assuming I can't carry FP and sprint over to DT
Wiwaxia (GM): they're not smaller enough that you could carry FP easily, no
and you can catch up to DT fairly easily
but he's sprinting straight for a basilisk
Myrtha Oscurr: "You _idiot_"

Myrtha Oscurr is going to sprint for him and try to drag him away from basilisk
Myrtha Oscurr: It's ok if FP gets away in this case, information on where Dad might be is more important
Wiwaxia (GM): okay, opposed str check to see if you catch him before he gets to the basilisk
rolling 1d20+8
(
7
)+8
= 15
Myrtha Oscurr: rolling 1d20 + 11
(
10
)+11
= 21
:D
Wiwaxia (GM): you run him down pretty easily
he's gotten the basilisk's attention though

Myrtha Oscurr grabs the carapace and hightails it away towards cover
Wiwaxia (GM): it's ambling over your way at a leisurely pace
gueeeeess what time it is?
grappling time!
Myrtha Oscurr: D:
rolling 3d6+11 (0)
(
6
+
1
+
3
)+11
= 21
i'm a level 3 right?
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 1d6+8
(
1
)+8
= 9
yep
it is really not DT's day
you get an arm under his armpit and haul him away

Myrtha Oscurr is imagining Myrtha carrying him like a football
Wiwaxia (GM): what now?
Myrtha Oscurr: like
tucked under her arm
Wiwaxia (GM): pfft
Myrtha Oscurr: run-run-run
Wiwaxia (GM): the basilisk doesn't seem to be following you

Myrtha Oscurr run-run-run back to FP.
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d4
(
1
)
= 1
Wiwaxia (GM): the basilisk steps out from behind a rock behind FP
he doesn't notice
it's very definitely the same basilisk

Myrtha Oscurr gestures at FP to MOVE YOU IDIOT as well as she can
Myrtha Oscurr: wait _whaaaa_
did it teleport or
Wiwaxia (GM): speaking of which
whimsy: (am i smelling wormholes)
Wiwaxia (GM): this basilisk has skeletal raccoon paws, is wearing a shirt-thing with the green castle in 6 parts that's on flagcoonsprite's flag, and has long, creepy ghost-girl hait
*hair
you've got a chance to do something before it can attack
what do you do?
Myrtha Oscurr: How much distance is between me and Fp
and FP and basilisk
Wiwaxia (GM): about 3m apiece

Myrtha Oscurr back away
Wiwaxia (GM): the basilisk charges you and DT with fire at its lips

Myrtha Oscurr SPRINT AWAY
Wiwaxia (GM): FP gets bowled over as the basilisk goes past
Myrtha Oscurr: hmm
Wiwaxia (GM): reflex save, please
Myrtha Oscurr: how well can this thing corner?
like, can i dode it
dodge
Wiwaxia (GM): as in, rush past it and to try and stay safe while it turns?
feasible, but right now that means running into a wall of flame
Myrtha Oscurr: shoot
Wiwaxia (GM): also, lemme get this set up on a more detailed grid
Myrtha Oscurr: Is there any cover nearby
in the hills?
Wiwaxia (GM): dark blue is boulders and a ravine over here
Myrtha Oscurr: and bright blue?
Wiwaxia (GM): path
Myrtha Oscurr: ok i'm gonna head forrr
Wiwaxia (GM): there's some stairs down over here
Myrtha Oscurr: the ravine i guess?
whichever looks safest
Wiwaxia (GM): reflex save first
Myrtha Oscurr: d20?
Wiwaxia (GM): yep
Myrtha Oscurr: rolling 1d20
(
6
)
= 6
and my score on the sheet is 14
Wiwaxia (GM): that makes it?
Myrtha Oscurr: oh
Wiwaxia (GM): *!
Myrtha Oscurr: 20 then
Wiwaxia (GM): exlamation, not ?
Myrtha Oscurr: oh good!
Wiwaxia (GM): you jump back away from the flames and only get a little bit singed
rolling 1d6
(
4
)
= 4
rolling 1d20
(
3
)
= 3
your clothing also saves, and is not on fire
this is going much better for you than moss, so far
okay, where are you running?
Myrtha Oscurr: ravine I guess
Wiwaxia (GM): like there?
Myrtha Oscurr: sure
i'll be able to get out once the daner's passe, right?
Wiwaxia (GM): yeah, it's not that steep
reflex save to avoid skidding down it on your ass
you can intentionally fail that save
Myrtha Oscurr: rolling 1d20
(
4
)
= 4
Wiwaxia (GM): if desired
Myrtha Oscurr: oh forgot to add the 14 again
so, 18?
Wiwaxia (GM): no, reflex saves dont have +dex
Myrtha Oscurr: ahh
ok
so, just 4 then?
Wiwaxia (GM): just a straight d20 trying to get under the save on your sheet
so low is good for saves
Myrtha Oscurr: oh good!
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d6
(
6
)
= 6
Wiwaxia (GM): basilisk's gonna come charging right after you, still breathing fire
Myrtha Oscurr: :b
runrunrun
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 1d20
(
6
)
= 6
it also makes its save to not go skidding right past you
okay, make yet another goddamned reflex save against the fire
Myrtha Oscurr: rolling 1d20
(
17
)
= 17
Oops
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 2d6
(
3
+
4
)
= 7
well, at least it didn't manage to get you point-blank
that would have been 3d6
not pretty
what now?

Myrtha Oscurr does not really think she can take this thing in a fight
Myrtha Oscurr: especially while carrying DT
so:
EVASIVE MANEUVERS
aka run

 

Spoiler: basilisks are the worst

Wiwaxia (GM): which way?
Myrtha Oscurr: back to my house?
Wiwaxia (GM): you can go up to 12m if you do nothing but run
Myrtha Oscurr: that's the plan!
1 hex = 1 meter?
Wiwaxia (GM): towards your house takes you over the cover-less plain, though
yep!
Myrtha Oscurr: there we are then
Wiwaxia (GM): you see FP get up
the basilisk just kinda stands there staring creepily at you
keep running?
Myrtha Oscurr: yes
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d4
(
1
)
= 1
Wiwaxia (GM): hang on while I redraw the map
so you don't go off the edge
like so
you hear FP scream something but you can't make out the words
Arxon: (hey so if I suddenly disappear its prolly because the lightning storm knocked out the power)
Wiwaxia (GM): k!
Myrtha Oscurr: man it's 2 am here
GODDAMN TELEPORTING
CO: Well I got the attention of a teleporting basilisk
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d6
(
3
)
= 3
Wiwaxia (GM): you wanna keep going for tonight or pick this back up next time?
Myrtha Oscurr: I'd like to go to bed >.<
cliffhanger!
Wiwaxia (GM): yep!
Myrtha Oscurr: ok gnight
Wiwaxia (GM): I love basilisks
:3
night!
whimsy: n8
Arxon: teleporting enemies are the worst celearly we should infiltrate the highest levels of governemtn and ban them
night!
whimsy: ec
everyones on a cliff
damn cliffhangers
Wiwaxia (GM): if by "the highest levels of government" you mean "the prototyping towers..."
Arxon: yes those are basically the same thing
Wiwaxia (GM): myrtha gets 220 xp
putting her like halfway to leveling
again
moss gets 340
i think I'm gonna call it a night too, seeing as I'm in the same time zone as Karrin
Arxon: goodnight!
whimsy: n8
(Not) Literally A Bird: evening
am i on time. i have moved timezones again and now i am not sure.
...the longer i think about it the more i think i am early because we just went on daylight savings. :/ in which case i needa go soon so i'll catch you later in the evening. hopefully not too late lmao i won't be too long
Karrin Blue: Hey
Wiwaxia (GM): hallo
i am currently spriting your consorts, btw
Karrin Blue: akay
Wiwaxia (GM): oh also question
how is my gming style working out?
Karrin Blue: I think it's working out pretty well!
Wiwaxia (GM): I'm worried I'm getting you frustrated with the wandering
ok, good to hear
Karrin Blue: Well
I am getting a bit frustrated with that
because it seems like everyone else has found bits of plot or backstory but I haven't?
and I'm not sure how to get to the plot happenings
but in general I think things are going pretty well
Wiwaxia (GM): ah k
will keep in mind for prep and whatnot
you can also force some plot to respond if you decide to start fucking shit up
alright!
that is what your consorts look like
Karrin Blue: I see!
Wiwaxia (GM): also, since nobody else has shown up yet, do you just wanna start and get back to dealing with this basilisk?
Karrin Blue: sure
last I recall, I was running with a carapace under my arm?
Wiwaxia (GM): yep
DT
Karrin Blue: right
Wiwaxia (GM): who has your dad's wallet for some reason
Karrin Blue: yeah
Wiwaxia (GM): and FP is down there in the corner
having been run over by a basilisk
Karrin Blue: right
sp
I *so
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 5d6
(
4
+
2
+
3
+
2
+
4
)
= 15
Karrin Blue: guess I will continue running away from the basilisk
is it possible to put a carapace in your sylladex?
i know John did that with Casey
Wiwaxia (GM): Casey is notably smaller than a carapacian
if you had a sylladex that could store large items, sure
Karrin Blue: darn.
keep running i guess
do i know any sort of places where i could fit but the basilisk couldn't?
Wiwaxia (GM): nnnot really
it's a snakey thing, it's pretty good at fitting into tight spaces
Karrin Blue: darn
Wiwaxia (GM): you can probably climb better than it
although not with DT under one arm
also, remember: fire breath
and teleporting
Karrin Blue: urghhh
And I can't fight it, really
i would basically die
Wiwaxia (GM): you could try to lure it back to Flagcoonsprite
Karrin Blue: yeah
think that's what i'll try to do
head back to the house then
Wiwaxia (GM): k
lemme get how far that is real quick
ooof
better part of a kilometer
you wanna try it?
Karrin Blue: oh boy
I don't know that I have any other options
I can't outrun it, it probably won't get tired
I don't know the terrain very well, and in any case: teleporting
I can't overpower it myself
Wiwaxia (GM): you could see if you and FP can overpower it together
but risky
Karrin Blue: and I don't know anyone other than Flagcoon who could overpower it
and Flagcoon is stuck at home, right?
i don't have a way to signal
Wiwaxia (GM): stuck at home until you get his summoning pendant, yeah
Karrin Blue: So basically I'm up shit creek with no paddle
k m.: (for some reason every time i join a thing online i feel like i should yell "it's a-me, mossimo!"
...any way, hi!)
Karrin Blue: hehe
Hi!
Things are going interestingly
Myrtha may need someone to come and corpsesmooch her
or drag her carcass to a Quest Bed
k m.: ooh
ouch
found a snake i see
Karrin Blue: big snake
big fire breathing teleporting snake
Wiwaxia (GM): oh also, moss lookit thing I made
k m.: awwwww salamander!
casey
blue casey
Wiwaxia (GM): legless blue casey
k m.: v cute
Karrin Blue: they're secretive jerks
wait is that one that close to me?
aww darn
nope still on my own
with just DT
k m.: but cute secretive jerks
Wiwaxia (GM): nah, I was just showing it
well, there might be one that close, but not one you're aware of
:V
Karrin Blue: hummm
Even if there were I'd hate to bring the giant snakey asshole near them
be pretty rude
Wiwaxia (GM): you could also see if you could somehow kill the basilisk with the environment or something
rockfall, etc.
Karrin Blue: hmm
yeah
I thought it was mostly sand?
or beads
Wiwaxia (GM): not where you are right now
there's a bunch of blue glass-and-rock hills rising out of the glass plain
(also blue)
Karrin Blue: are they closer than my house?
Wiwaxia (GM): there are some right there
Karrin Blue: isn't that back in the direction of the basilisk though
Wiwaxia (GM): bouldery-outcroppy kinda things
Karrin Blue: that does not seem like a good plan
but i don't have a better one
so
sure let's do that
Wiwaxia (GM): i mean they're not just over there
lemme look at the map and I can draw some more in
like that
Karrin Blue: okkk
let's see
maybe thereish?
oh god it got bisected
without me even having to do that

Myrtha Oscurr will NEVER UNSEE THAT
Wiwaxia (GM): ((i've just got the token in two peices so it can turn properly))
Myrtha Oscurr: ahh
still the idea of sudden monster glitch that will give Myrtha nightmares (if she had normal dreams) is kind of hilarious to me
Wiwaxia (GM): ((files that away for later))
but that's all it's got for now
(To GM) rolling 1d6
(
3
)
= 3
Myrtha Oscurr: alright
hmmm
can i use my halberd to lever some rocks into position to fall on that
without letting go of DT
Wiwaxia (GM): probably not one-handed, no
you could try to just balance your halberd so it tips over on it
like that one imp tried to pull on you
*halbered tips over on basilisk, that is
Myrtha Oscurr: but I only have the one halberd
and that thing has ridiculous healt
Wiwaxia (GM): oh hi bird
(Not) Literally A Bird: heyo
Myrtha Oscurr: OK hmm
(Not) Literally A Bird: i forgot about daylight savings but im here now
Myrtha Oscurr: is DT wearing clothes or anything
if so i could maybe pin him to something with a sword
so i could have both hands free
Wiwaxia (GM): dt is wearing a mixture of kimono, anime cloak and flagcoon's castle insignia
it looks atrocious
Myrtha Oscurr: god ok well
in that case I will do that pinning thing
through the cloth that looks like it'd be harder to tear
and glare at him
"If you try and scamper up, I swear to any god listening I'll throw you to that thing _myself_."
*scamper off
Wiwaxia (GM): that, unfortunately, gives the basilisk enough time to round the corner
Myrtha Oscurr: darnit
can i do that levering thing quickly?
CO: Yeah I may die here?
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 1d20
(
6
)
= 6
the basilisk snaps at you but you manage to duck out of the way
Myrtha Oscurr: "sHIT"

Myrtha Oscurr does that levering thing as quickly as she can
Wiwaxia (GM): so you're trying to pry off a chunk of the rock face to fall on the basilisk?
Myrtha Oscurr: i thought there were looser chunks?
boulders?
if not, then yeah sure
Wiwaxia (GM): well, even a loose chunk will take some prying
Leon Gaspar: NI: oh god please don't die
Myrtha Oscurr: CO: I don't plan on it!
Wiwaxia (GM): so, str check, and if you succeed it'll do falling damage to the basilisk, who gets a reflex save to half
Myrtha Oscurr: rolling d20 + 11
(
10
)+11
= 21
right?
Wiwaxia (GM): you succeed at knocking off a chunk of rock quite handily!
yep, that's right
Leon Gaspar: NI: okay good. if there's any way I can help let me know! ...i don't think there is but I'll try!
Wiwaxia (GM): it is, however a bit of a smaller chunk than you would have liked
rolling 1d4
(
4
)
= 4
rolling 1d20
(
2
)
= 2
the basilisk dodges the rock, but still gets nicked
rolling 1d2
(
2
)
= 2
you manage to avoid getting hurt by it blundering around
Wiwaxia (GM): are you gonna move?
Myrtha Oscurr: humm
I'll try and pry off more rock, maybe?
Wiwaxia (GM): that choke point is too narrow for you (or the basilisk to fit through
Myrtha Oscurr: if i see a likely-looking chunk
Wiwaxia (GM): but you could go up and over
Myrtha Oscurr: but it can teleport
Wiwaxia (GM): if you go to break off another chunk of rock, it'll get another chance to bite you
Myrtha Oscurr: yeah but it's not like it's stuck
if it were then i could just leave it there
Wiwaxia (GM): clarification: you can run before it has a chance to bite you, and force it to run after you or teleport to catch up
or you can try to do something else standing where you are, but it'll bite you in the meantime
Myrtha Oscurr: well
am I any closer to my house
Wiwaxia (GM): nope
Myrtha Oscurr: I feel like running would do nothing but tire me out
i don't know of any limit on teleports it has
and again it has more stamina than me, over a km run it'd get me
so
I'll break off some rocks some more
oh, do I see any weak points?
Myrtha Oscurr: chinks in the armor?
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 1d20
(
10
)
= 10
of the basilisk? or the rock face?
Myrtha Oscurr: ummm
either?
but the basilisk i guess
I could try and stab For Massive Damage
Wiwaxia (GM): if you could get on its back somehow, you could do a direct strike to its neck For Massive Damage TM
rock face, you'd need to take a moment to look around
Myrtha Oscurr: ...is the scale of the gap there such that I could jump onto there?
Wiwaxia (GM): also
rolling 1d8
(
8
)
= 8
damage
oh yikes
Myrtha Oscurr: that's not good is it
Wiwaxia (GM): well, you had 7 HP
so, no
Myrtha Oscurr: how did i lose that much
CO: WELLP
CO: That hurts
Wiwaxia (GM): all attacks on you now go straight to the death and dismemberment table
Myrtha Oscurr: what's the green bar then?
thought that was health
Wiwaxia (GM): (you took a fire breath to the face twice)
blue is health
green is song, which I should get rid of because it's not relevant right now
Leon Gaspar: NI: dammit myrtha
Myrtha Oscurr: I probably stumble back from the cliff face because FIRE BREATH
OW
CO: I DID NOT CHOOSE TO HAVE MY FACE GET SET ON FIRE TWICE
Wiwaxia (GM): this time wasn't fire breath, just biting
it seems to be out of fire for now
(To GM) rolling 1d6
(
5
)
= 5

Myrtha Oscurr is mad now
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 1d2
(
1
)
= 1
Myrtha Oscurr: Can I try and break off rocks and shove them towards the neck area?
Wiwaxia (GM): it's bulk also pushes you into the wall, causing additional bruising
Myrtha Oscurr: I thought I was above it
or wait
these aren't plateaus?
Wiwaxia (GM): oh, I thought you were in the little cranny down with it
Myrtha Oscurr: no
Wiwaxia (GM): they're not plateaus but you can stand on them p easily
ah, k
then disregard the ramming
Myrtha Oscurr: will do!
Wiwaxia (GM): actually, can I have a str check to retroactively have climbed up?
Myrtha Oscurr: rolling d20 + 11
(
15
)+11
= 26
Wiwaxia (GM): because the -2 from attacking from below means that bite for 8 damage would have missed
so you still have 7 HP
make it last!
Myrtha Oscurr: ok
i still coulda sworn I had more
but whatever
Wiwaxia (GM): if you're all the way up top, it should also be easier to drop rocks
Myrtha Oscurr: ughh
yeah
ok
continue dropping rocks
Wiwaxia (GM): k, normal attack roll for a small one, or str check for something respectable
Myrtha Oscurr: rolling 1d20 + 11
(
1
)+11
= 12
DARNIT
Wiwaxia (GM): you drop it on your toe
Myrtha Oscurr: OW
Wiwaxia (GM): DT is also pinned on top of the rock, yeah?
Myrtha Oscurr: on the plateau? yeah
Wiwaxia (GM): well, the basilisk is gonna try to bite him from where it is
rolling 1d20
(
10
)
= 10
(To GM) rolling 1d6
(
1
)
= 1
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 1d8
(
1
)
= 1
it bites his foot
he screams in pain and passes out
Myrtha Oscurr: I'll continue with the rock idea
if I have the turn?
Wiwaxia (GM): you do
Myrtha Oscurr: rolling d20 + 11
(
20
)+11
= 31
YES
Wiwaxia (GM): you manage to heave over a boulder that weighs as much as you do
rolling 1d6
(
1
)
= 1
it doesn't do much damage, but it pins one of the thing's legs
Myrtha Oscurr: hmm
could I
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d20
(
11
)
= 11
Myrtha Oscurr: try to jump onto its neck and stab its weak spot?
or would it be better to keep dropping rocks on it
hrm
Wiwaxia (GM): your call
before that, though
Myrtha Oscurr: ?
Wiwaxia (GM): FP comes charging out of nowhere at it
rolling 1d20
(
4
)
= 4
not that it really helps
(To GM) rolling 1d
1
= 1
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d6
(
6
)
= 6
Wiwaxia (GM): the basilisk twists around so it's face is pointing up at you
and breathes fucking fire
again
reflex save means no damage this time, though
since you can duck behind the cover of the rock edge
high ground is a useful thing
Myrtha Oscurr: hooray
what do i roll?
Wiwaxia (GM): 1d20, you want lower than your reflex save
Myrtha Oscurr: rolling 1d20
(
9
)
= 9
reflex is 14
so
Wiwaxia (GM): you make it!
DT is unconscious and does not get a save
rolling 2d6
(
4
+
4
)
= 8
yeah he dead
Myrtha Oscurr: well shit
I wanted to ask him about my dad
oh well
Wiwaxia (GM): oh that reminds me
your dad's wallet has a save to make to not burn the fuck up
one sec
(To GM) rolling 1d20
(
18
)
= 18
Wiwaxia (GM): k
you don't know the results of that save until you have a moment to investigate
what are you doing now?
Myrtha Oscurr: trying to drop more rocks i guess
or possibly
hmm
ok jumping on it to stab it would be _really cool_
and Myrtha would likely be angry enough at the loss of her one way to find her dad so far to do that
but i also don't want to give up the high ground
Myrtha Oscurr: ><
Wiwaxia (GM): flip a d2?
Myrtha Oscurr: hmm yeah
if 1 then i'll stay where i am
rolling 1d2
(
2
)
= 2
wellp
This'll either be cool or I'll be dead

Wiwaxia (GM) witnesses you
Myrtha Oscurr: WITNESS

Myrtha Oscurr just saw her one way to find her dad again die and now she is _pissed_

Myrtha Oscurr jumps at the thing
Wiwaxia (GM): k
first off, you both take 3 falling damage
Myrtha Oscurr: down to 4 hp
right?
Wiwaxia (GM): 3, you lost one from dropping a rock on your foot
now you get to roll an attack
Myrtha Oscurr: oh yeah
I'm aiming for the weak point you mentioned
just to clarify
Wiwaxia (GM): it counts as a charge, too
Myrtha Oscurr: ok
so
how to roll?
Wiwaxia (GM): roll 1d20 and then you get +2 damage from "charging"
Myrtha Oscurr: rolling 1d20 + 2
(
9
)+2
= 11
Wiwaxia (GM): if you're punching it, you can punch it again once you land
Myrtha Oscurr: fuuuuuck
I was gonna try and halberd stab it
but if it doesn't matter either way in terms of mechanics
then yeah i'll punch it

Myrtha Oscurr is so mad she's going to punch a giant snake
Myrtha Oscurr: twice
Wiwaxia (GM): well your first punch whiffs as you bellyflop onto its back
second punch autohits, because come on, it's right fucking there
no +2 damage on this one, though
Myrtha Oscurr: darn
Wiwaxia (GM): so, roll 1d8 for damage
Myrtha Oscurr: rolling 1d8
(
6
)
= 6
Wiwaxia (GM): sorry, had to fiddle so you could see it's hp bar properly
while you're doing that, FP is going to run up behind it
rolling 1d20+3
(
13
)+3
= 16
rolling 1d6+2
(
5
)+2
= 7
FP fucking shanks it in the back of the neck with a knife he pull out from somewhere
it's not quite dead yet, though
Wiwaxia (GM): it's gonna try to slam you into the wall
reflex save, please
Myrtha Oscurr: rolling 1d20
(
12
)
= 12
still under 14
Wiwaxia (GM): yep
rolling 1d2
(
2
)
= 2
you ride that thing like a mechanical bull
rolling 1d2
(
2
)
= 2
FP also avoids the worst of its thrashing
(the 1d2s are because sufficiently large things have a 50% chance of damaging you just by being next to you, btw)
Wiwaxia (GM): your turn
Myrtha Oscurr: i'mma punch it some more
rolling 1d20 + 11
(
10
)+11
= 21
Wiwaxia (GM): that's a str check, not an attack roll, but I was just about to ask for a str check, soooo
Myrtha Oscurr: :)
Wiwaxia (GM): but that str check means you can move or hit it but not both
Myrtha Oscurr: i'm gonna try to hit it
because FUCK THIS SNAKE
Wiwaxia (GM): that's 1d20+1
Myrtha Oscurr: rolling 1d20 + 1
(
5
)+1
= 6
ugh
Wiwaxia (GM): oh wait, forgot
you autohit it
Myrtha Oscurr: :D
Wiwaxia (GM): because you're on its fucking back
how are you going to miss?
Myrtha Oscurr: yeah tru
Wiwaxia (GM): so just roll d8 for damage
Myrtha Oscurr: rolling 1d8
(
1
)
= 1
AUGH
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d6
(
3
)
= 3
Wiwaxia (GM): FP is gonna try and shank it again
rolling 1d20+3
(
5
)+3
= 8
that does jack shit and fuckall
it's gonna try to throw you again, because really, what else can it do
reflex save
Myrtha Oscurr: rolling 1d20
(
20
)
= 20
OH NOW
Wiwaxia (GM): uh oh
you bounce off the wall like so
and take 5 damage
Myrtha Oscurr: uh oh
that's
-2?

Myrtha Oscurr .....
Wiwaxia (GM): goes to death and dismemberment

Myrtha Oscurr can still use her hands and feet.
Wiwaxia (GM): for which the result for 2 overflow damage is -2 to all rolls for 1d4 turns
(also worth noting that when you are at 0 hp, all damage you take is counted separately, not cumulatively)
Myrtha Oscurr: ohh ok
Wiwaxia (GM): you gonna try to punch it again?
you get two punches this round
Myrtha Oscurr: yeah
Wiwaxia (GM): both at -2
Myrtha Oscurr: can i charge it?
Wiwaxia (GM): yeah, you can back up and then charge it
Myrtha Oscurr: hmm but if i'm aiming to the neck do i need to back up?
i'm on its tail right?
Wiwaxia (GM): you're next to its tail
Myrtha Oscurr: ok
i'll do a normal charge i guess?
is aiming to the neck feasible?
Wiwaxia (GM): not really
it's pretty crowded in that gap
you might be able to do it with a running leap if you do well enough on a str check
25+
Myrtha Oscurr: rolling 1d20 + 11
(
10
)+11
= 21
dammit
so close
Wiwaxia (GM): that's a partial success, though, so you still get a normal charge against its body
wait scratch that
-2
Myrtha Oscurr: urgh
Wiwaxia (GM): near miss
Myrtha Oscurr: so rolling to attack is str?
Wiwaxia (GM): so you still get an attack, but not with charge bonus damage
Myrtha Oscurr: twice?
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling to attack is 1d20+your attack, which should be on your character sheet
Myrtha Oscurr: attack is 1?
Wiwaxia (GM): yep
Myrtha Oscurr: ok
so
-1
Wiwaxia (GM): yep
Myrtha Oscurr: rolling 1d20 - 1
(
13
)-1
= 12
rolling 1d20 - 1
(
3
)-1
= 2
Wiwaxia (GM): that hits
Myrtha Oscurr: ugh
Wiwaxia (GM): first one
damage is 1d8-2
Myrtha Oscurr: rolling 1d8
(
2
)
= 2
UGH
wait if i'm so close why do i need to roll to hit?
Wiwaxia (GM): the thing is thrashing around in there
Myrtha Oscurr: oh ok
Wiwaxia (GM): FP is gonna try to stab it again
rolling 1d20+3
(
16
)+3
= 19
rolling 1d6+2
(
3
)+2
= 5
he gets it in the neck and it goes down
Myrtha Oscurr: YES
Wiwaxia (GM): he palms his knife aware somewhere and offers you a hand up

 

Spoiler: myrtha falls down a hole, leon walks a lonely road to some abandoned office buildings, END OF EPISODE 3

Myrtha Oscurr takes that
Myrtha Oscurr: "Everything hurts. Are you alright?"
Finicky Peasant: I'm fine
Looks like you got the worst of that beating
Myrtha Oscurr: CO: Still alive. The basilisk's dead.
Finicky Peasant: well, except for our thief there
Myrtha Oscurr: "Yeah."

Myrtha Oscurr goes over to the corpse

Myrtha Oscurr please please please
Finicky Peasant: that is someone you were just carrying under your arm a minute ago and who is now, not to put too fine a point on it, roasted
Wiwaxia (GM): shit
^is as gm
Myrtha Oscurr: "I noticed."
hehe
I'm checking for the wallet!
that's what she was please please pleaseing over
Wiwaxia (GM): yeah, I figyred
the wallet is fine!
Myrtha Oscurr: "Oh thank god."
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 1d20
(
10
)
= 10
Leon Gaspar: NI: phew, i'm glad you're alright

Myrtha Oscurr stores the wallet safely in her sylladex
Wiwaxia (GM): you throw up
Myrtha Oscurr: CO: Yeah me too.
actually scratch ^ then

Myrtha Oscurr throws up and collapses next to the rock wall

Myrtha Oscurr gets water out of sylladex
Finicky Peasant attempts to look comforting
Finicky Peasant is not very good at it
Finicky Peasant: I'll take care of the body, kid, don't worry about it
Myrtha Oscurr: "...Thanks."
"Don't suppose you've seen any adult humans like me wandering around? In a car, maybe?"
Finicky Peasant: Can't say I have
Myrtha Oscurr: "Well fuck."
Finicky Peasant: I'll keep an eye out, how's that sound
Myrtha Oscurr: "He was the only person who could've seen him that I've met, since he stole dad's wallet, but now he's _dead_ and -"
"Thanks."

Myrtha Oscurr is obviously trying very hard to keep it together
Finicky Peasant attempts to look comforting again
Myrtha Oscurr: CO: I really hope one of you gets here soon.
Leon Gaspar: NI: i'm working on it, i promise
Myrtha Oscurr: CO: I know.
Finicky Peasant unpins DT's corpse, hands you your sword and shuffles off awkwardly with the body

Myrtha Oscurr stores sword back in specibus
Myrtha Oscurr: "I hope you find a good place for your farm."
"Thank you."
Finicky Peasant nods
Finicky Peasant: No problem!
I'm just glad you're alright
Here, take some healing gel, too
Myrtha Oscurr: "Oh, thank you."
Wiwaxia (GM): you get a cube of blue goop that heals you for 4 hp
Myrtha Oscurr: hooray
Wiwaxia (GM): there's also fuckloads of grist scattered around

Myrtha Oscurr collects!
Wiwaxia (GM): k, get ready for the motherlode
54 glass grist
266 magnetite grist
and 60 amber grist
Myrtha Oscurr: gods above
k m.: (dang, nice haul)

Myrtha Oscurr still has a 1 km hike back to her house

Myrtha Oscurr is feeling weak in the legs area
Myrtha Oscurr: also in the arms area
and the torso
basically everywhere

Myrtha Oscurr looks for a safe spot to fall over and curl up until she feels better
Wiwaxia (GM): this little cranny isn't bad, actually, now that it's no longer full of thrashing basilisk
otoh, it is full of puke and smoke
Myrtha Oscurr: yyeah
that is a downside
Wiwaxia (GM): try this one instead?
(To GM) rolling 1d6
(
1
)
= 1
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d6
(
2
)
= 2
Myrtha Oscurr: sure
Wiwaxia (GM): you see some imps wander by, but fortunately they don't seem to notice or care about you
how long are you planning to sit there?
Myrtha Oscurr: hmm
how long do i have to rest to recover HP?
Wiwaxia (GM): like half an hour, probably
Myrtha Oscurr: ok
that long then!
Wiwaxia (GM): you get 1d3 hp back instead of 1d6, because I assume you're not actually going to go to sleep
rolling 1d3
(
2
)
= 2
Myrtha Oscurr: yeah no
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d6
(
3
)
= 3
Myrtha Oscurr: 6 hp
that'll have to do
I will head back to rendevous with Flagcoonsprite, I think
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d6
(
2
)
= 2
Myrtha Oscurr: unless I run into consorts on the way back
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d6
(
3
)
= 3
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d6
(
4
)
= 4
Myrtha Oscurr: it would be kind of funny to look at the snake guy from before and be like "yeah I ended up fighting a basilisk anyways"
or probably not in that many words
Wiwaxia (GM): you don't run into anyone or anything
the plains are just
empty
and flat
very, very flat
Myrtha Oscurr: "This place creeps me the fuck out."
"And now I'm talking to myself."
Wiwaxia (GM): you see the blue Gates above your house first, then the hill it's on comes into view over the horizon
you come across the decidedly unsettling sight of giclops footprints in the beads
Myrtha Oscurr: "Oh, hell."
Wiwaxia (GM): huge, shallow depressions almost as wide around as you are tall
there is fortunately no Giclops in sight
these were probably left by the one you saw going past earlier
Myrtha Oscurr: Well, that's something.
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d6
(
2
)
= 2
Wiwaxia (GM): you continue towards your home
at the base of the hill you stumble on something unseen and fall into a hole
Myrtha Oscurr: "Mothershitting fuckdammit -"

Myrtha Oscurr is not having a good day
Wiwaxia (GM): there is a square-cut tunnel leading back lightlessly into the hill
Myrtha Oscurr: "What the..."

Myrtha Oscurr photographs, uploads
Myrtha Oscurr: ...
"What the hell."

Myrtha Oscurr follows tunnels, uses light on computerband to see by
Wiwaxia (GM): one sec
lemme manip you an image
ffffucking
file sizes
roll20 doesn't like it
imma put it on imgur and link you
Myrtha Oscurr: ka
*kay
Wiwaxia (GM): http://i.imgur.com/J92G8eA.jpg
Myrtha Oscurr: I see
and this is in the hill under/right by my house?
yeah I'm going to follow this
Wiwaxia (GM): yep
I think I'm gonna switch to someone else for a bit, though
also, afk for a moment
Myrtha Oscurr: arright
Leon Gaspar: just try not to get stuck in a cleaning closet
Myrtha Oscurr: that's the hope!
Wiwaxia (GM): leon, you wanna go?
Leon Gaspar: yep!
Wiwaxia (GM): you've been chilling on the highway offramp for a bit
other than the loss of your clothes and some alarming messages from Myrtha, you're feeling pretty good
Leon Gaspar: have i regained any health? i was looking pretty bad last time
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 1d3
(
2
)
= 2
unless you took a nap
in which case potentially more
Leon Gaspar: hrm, i
i think i was probably too busying worrying about other people
+2 it is
gonna chow down on one of those insect bars, too
Wiwaxia (GM): you are glad that the eternal dawn-ish-ness here is fairly warm
Leon Gaspar: yeah. i mean considering that i'm lacking in the clothes department
i'm gonna peer into the water as best i can. the ramp continues down there; i wanna see if there's anything else
Wiwaxia (GM): it's pretty murky, you can't make out details, but you're pretty sure the area under you is full of huge blocky shadows
Leon Gaspar: filled with newfound confidence in my ability to swim, I start wading in!
Wiwaxia (GM): the water is still fucking frigid
Leon Gaspar: :/
Wiwaxia (GM): it might be a nice temperature if the promise of a hot summer day in the smell of the air was ever fulfilled
but as is, not so much
Leon Gaspar: alas, alas
gonna walk down as much as i can along the submerged road, until i start floating
Wiwaxia (GM): the road is slippery with algae under your feet
it dives fairly shallowly, and you're like 10 meters or more out before the water starts to get up to your head
Leon Gaspar: gonna duck my head under the water and open my eyes to see if i can get a better view of these shadows. am i close to them?
Wiwaxia (GM): they're still below you
you can see that the offramp curves away down into them
there's a lot of them
big, tall, not moving
Leon Gaspar: hm. buildings? do any of them come close to the surface of the water?
Wiwaxia (GM): could well be buildings, yeah
none of the ones close to the ramp come up to the surface, or even to the ramp, but you can see some tall ones a ways out
none of them reach the surface, but the tall ones are probably only like 2 or 3 meters below it
Leon Gaspar: and about how far away are the tall ones?
Wiwaxia (GM): maybe 20m away?
hard to tell exactly
Leon Gaspar: yeah, fair enough, especially if im in the water. hard to judge.
alright, i'm gonna try swimming to the closest building
Wiwaxia (GM): diving to the ones under you, or swimming across to the tall ones?
Leon Gaspar: across to the tall ones. strength check, right?
Wiwaxia (GM): nah
you got this
Leon Gaspar: B)
Myrtha Oscurr: ok it's 1 am here
so i think i'm going to bed
Wiwaxia (GM): night!
Leon Gaspar: alright, night!
okay! off to the tall structures!
Wiwaxia (GM): you swim over there comfortably in a couple minutes
floating over the top of one, you can tell that they are definitely buildings
relatively tall ones, too, you thing
*think
the bottom stories disappear down into the gloom
you can see light glinting of algae-cloaked windows as you swim
Leon Gaspar: i'm gonna try ducking down and seeing if I can look inside one of the top-floor windows
Wiwaxia (GM): diving?
Leon Gaspar: yep
Wiwaxia (GM): your ears start to hurt
well, your sinuses overall, really
Leon Gaspar: bluh bluh
resurface
Wiwaxia (GM): the pain goes away as you ascend
Leon Gaspar: that was deeper than i thought it was! i will need to think of another strategy if i want to explore those buildings
now that i'm floating a bit further out, what can i see?
Wiwaxia (GM): of what?
the roads or the stuff underwater
Leon Gaspar: the roads, yeah
i am still determined that there must be something out there somewhere
(gonna afk for two minutes to grab some tea)
Wiwaxia (GM): well, there's the seagull-road continuing off over the horizon
(k)
both in the direction you came from and in the direction you were going before, yanno, seagulls
k m.: (oh _shit_ my tea is cold)
Wiwaxia (GM): noooooooooo
k m.: terrible
Leon Gaspar: LEON: sigh
((D= my sympathies!))
Wiwaxia (GM): there is also the offramp to Davy Jones's locker
and what may be another road on the far horizon
hard to see for sure though, what with being right at water level
Leon Gaspar: still a whole buncha seagulls on seagull road?
Wiwaxia (GM): you left them behind a while ago
Leon Gaspar: alright. i'm gonna get on the road again. swimming back over!
besides, i might be in my underwear, but i'm still not convinced this cold water is doing my health any good
Wiwaxia (GM): you swim over to the offramp and walk back up onto what you are now thinking of as Seagull road
it stretches straight out to the horizon
Leon Gaspar: ain't nothin' gonna break my stride, nobody's gonna slow me down
alternatively:
on a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Wiwaxia (GM): well, except for the dark
or the desert
Leon Gaspar: well yes
i ponder how to change the lyrics without messing with the meter as i walk
Wiwaxia (GM): quite the opposite of a desert, really
(To GM) rolling 1d6
(
2
)
= 2
Leon Gaspar: also keeping an eye out for anything that is not either road or ocean
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 5d6
(
4
+
4
+
3
+
5
+
5
)
= 21
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 4d6
(
2
+
6
+
5
+
4
)
= 17
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 2d6
(
3
+
4
)
= 7
Wiwaxia (GM): you see a hell of a lot of nothing
no seagulls
no underlings
no consorts
no carapacians
no land
Leon Gaspar: attempting to dive again is starting to seem like a good idea
how far away am i from my apartment block?
Wiwaxia (GM): no idea
it dropped over the horizon hours ago
Leon Gaspar: figures
i keep walking, i guess B/
i contemplate my options
1. keep walking
2. dive, possibly drowning myself and/or exploding my sinuses
3. swim to what might've been a road over there??
Leon Gaspar: 4. go home (seagulls again??)
Wiwaxia (GM): the wind is starting to pick up, and the clouds are looking less friendly
on the plus side, you can see buildings start to poke out of the water like horrible green teeth a little bit down the road
although it's chilly without clothes. i start walking a little faster
i try to see if i can look in the windows of the buildings. are they broken? algae-ridden? just plain opaque?
Wiwaxia (GM): yes, yes and yes
you can see in some of the broken ones, but it just looks like a mess inside, frankly
however
one of the buildings comes up right next to the road
there's a room inside that you can see through a broken window
there's rows of desks with lines of computers on them
Wiwaxia (GM): all the computers are hissing with static
Leon Gaspar: how far is the building from the road? jumping distance?
Wiwaxia (GM): mmmmaybe, but you;d be jumping into barnacles and broken glass anyways
better to drop down and swim over
Leon Gaspar: yeah, fair enough
which is what i'm gonna do
cannonball! ... not really
more like, kind of an awkward drop
Wiwaxia (GM): you swim over
there's a nice glass shard-free open window just under water, and a nice water-free open window fulla glass shards a bit up
or you could try to climb the side
Leon Gaspar: yeah i'm just gonna dive into the one that's open and is lacking in glass shards
Wiwaxia (GM): you swim into a completely submerged room
it looks pretty much identical to the one above it
even though they are submerged, and often algae-covered or tipped over, all the computer monitors here also display grainy static
Leon Gaspar: is there a door perhaps? or maybe a loose bit of ceiling? sometimes office buildings have shoddy ceilings
Wiwaxia (GM): there's a door
it's closed, you can't tell if it's locked or not
the ceiling paneling has basically all fallen away and is strewn in chunks across the desks and floor and monitors and chairs
the "ceiling" is basically just corroding pipes and whatnot, and the supports for the next floor up
Leon Gaspar: can i swim up to the next floor? that is to say, can i get to where there's air?
Wiwaxia (GM): not immediately, no
you could try the door or see if there's some way to bust through the ceiling
Leon Gaspar: yeah i'm gonna try and look for a weak spot in the ceiling and ram into it
Wiwaxia (GM): that's an int check and then a str check, I think
Leon Gaspar: rolling 1d20 + 12
(
8
)+12
= 20
rolling 1d20 + 11
(
10
)+11
= 21
Wiwaxia (GM): well you found a kinda-weak spot and you kinda got through it
but that hurt like the dickens
take 5 damage
Leon Gaspar: ow ow ow :c
ugh, i'm at 0
or -2 i guess
Wiwaxia (GM): so -2 to all rolls for 1d4 rounds
you manage to kind of worm your way up to where there's air
but you don't think you can get through this gap all the way
Leon Gaspar: well, that's the most important thing. also should i roll that 1d4?
Wiwaxia (GM): eh, you're not in combat and you have air
that's like 30 seconds of time at the most
maybe more like 50
Leon Gaspar: alrighty. gonna take a big gulp of air and try to wriggle back down the way i came.
Wiwaxia (GM): you succeed!
Leon Gaspar: yeah!
alright, now that i'm refreshed, i'm gonna try that door
Wiwaxia (GM): it is unlocked, but the hinges are too rusted to move
opens out from you
Leon Gaspar: hm. flail's gonna be way too heavy to use under here. i look around for one of those office chairs
Wiwaxia (GM): whoof, suddenly really tires
*tired
Leon Gaspar: oh yeah, it must be getting late
Wiwaxia (GM): i think I'm gonna call it a night
Leon Gaspar: yeah, i'll wiggle back up to where there's air so i dont drown in the meantime
Wiwaxia (GM): it's 2 lmao
sounds good to me
always good to end a session where you can breathe
Leon Gaspar: yeah that generally helps
alright! i'll see you next time then!
Wiwaxia (GM): til then!

 

ooh yes i'm interested! i'll check it out when i have some time :D

 

Spoiler: myrtha explores some underground tunnels under her house and meets a lich

Karrin Blue: hey
Wiwaxia (GM): hallo
that reminds me to go tally up your xp from last time, actually
Karrin Blue: Oh yeah!
And does levelling up restore HP?
Wiwaxia (GM): ish?
you get all the same hp bump to your mac hp applied to your current hp, but you don't recover to full
Karrin Blue: ahh.
when's the game supposed to start again?
Wiwaxia (GM): 9
half an hour
Karrin Blue: ahkay
Wiwaxia (GM): you get 380
xp
wait, no
Karrin Blue: ?
Wiwaxia (GM): you get 345
first time calculating experience where there's multiple parties eligible for it
Karrin Blue: that enough to level up?
ahh
Wiwaxia (GM): FP gets 275, incidentally
and no, you're still about 700 xp from your next level
whimsy: sup
Karrin Blue: hi
Wiwaxia (GM): note that I was expecting a lot of the early game advancement to be from alchemizations
whimsy: with what grist wi, with what grist
Wiwaxia (GM): with the like thousand in assorted rare grist types myrtha got last tume
whimsy: (ill be heading under the shower real quick tho)
Wiwaxia (GM): *time
(Not) Literally A Bird: also wiwaxia do i get any exp for repeatedly smashing myself into barnacles and solid objects
Wiwaxia (GM): oh yeah
(Not) Literally A Bird: also hello
Wiwaxia (GM): i tallied up everything except for last session already
and you got a nice even 100xp there by ramming your head into the ceiling
(Not) Literally A Bird: nice
have you added it or shall i do it?
Wiwaxia (GM): Just did
(Not) Literally A Bird: nice
excited to be here for a whole game again, it's been like two months
Karrin Blue: I punched a snake!
(Not) Literally A Bird: yeah you did! it was gr8
Karrin Blue: also got set on fire
(Not) Literally A Bird: myrtha is not having a good time
Karrin Blue: she is not
she also may have found the hideout of the Consort KGB under her house
(Not) Literally A Bird: fucking incredible
Wiwaxia (GM): People who are having a good time in this session: Ilmatar, Sera (???)
(Not) Literally A Bird: ilmatar is always having a good time
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 5d4
(
1
+
4
+
2
+
1
+
4
)
= 12
(Not) Literally A Bird: as for sera ... well, er, no news is good news, right?
Wiwaxia (GM): yes, of course
:)
(To GM) rolling 5d4
(
2
+
4
+
1
+
1
+
2
)
= 10
(Not) Literally A Bird: oh, right
people enjoying themselves in this session: ilmatar, wiwaxia
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 5d4
(
1
+
3
+
4
+
2
+
2
)
= 12
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 7d6
(
3
+
2
+
6
+
2
+
4
+
1
+
4
)
= 22
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 5d4
(
2
+
1
+
2
+
2
+
3
)
= 10
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 5d4
(
2
+
1
+
3
+
2
+
1
)
= 9
whimsy: aaaand back
well ilmatars decidedly not enjoying the vision she got from the clouds last time, and she is planning on giving moss a pretty damn huge hug when they meet
(Not) Literally A Bird: awww
Karrin Blue: what happened there?
whimsy: saw moss find their dead guardian
wasnt a nice sight
Karrin Blue: oh yeah
poor guy
whimsy: and ilmatar couldnt really hug them bc, yknow, vision
and theres another reason ilmatars been having a good time so far buuuuut thats spoiler, althought if we get to moss and ilmatar talking tonight on prospit you might even get it
-rubs hands together and does a villain giggle-
(Not) Literally A Bird: :/ ruuuude
whimsy: hm? ::3
(Not) Literally A Bird: grumble grumble stupid prospitians with their stupid dreamselves grumble grumble
whimsy: ::PP
(Not) Literally A Bird: well now i want ilmatar and moss to go first
Arxon: hi hello srry I was late I got distracted
(Not) Literally A Bird: dat ok friend
whimsy: no prob wi seems to be semiafk atm and we havent started yet ::D
Arxon: kk! 0u0
Wiwaxia (GM): whaddya think of the map?
well what you can see of it
whimsy: v pretty
Wiwaxia (GM): this was actually the one I was referring to
(Not) Literally A Bird: also wi can you move me to whoevers map we're on when we start? i like being able to see the action :3
Arxon: it looks fancy :o
Wiwaxia (GM): i'm starting to get the hang of this "grab landscape images and recolor them" shit
Karrin Blue: bat!
Arxon: Purple bat?
Karrin Blue: yes
Arxon: Lemi bat :D
Wiwaxia (GM): imma go ping moss on skype
also, before we start proper-ways, just a few general reminder things
first of all y'all motherfuckers need armor
or at least +def spiffy clothes
whimsy: .... that is a good idea
Karrin Blue: yuuup
whimsy: hmm, i wonder if pot lids can be misappropriated for that
(Not) Literally A Bird: they totally can!
Arxon: Yeah, Lemi has a trashcan shield
whimsy: bc yknow, pot & pot lid warrior with a dish towel cape
(Not) Literally A Bird: leon's trusty collander is safely captchalogued away
since yknow
he's underwater
leon also needs clothes in general
Wiwaxia (GM): also, capes and cloaks are generally good for +1 def
obscure your form a bit, make it harder to get in a solid hit
Karrin Blue: yes
whimsy: ilmatars problem with coats are her wings ::D
(btw wi, does ilmatar have ears and or wings on her dreamself? (aka do we go the full changeling route))
(longass elf ears i mena)
Wiwaxia (GM): secondly, a thing that I and I think everyone else has forgotten, in addition to recovering HP via sleep and gel, if you can sit down somewhere safe for an hour and have a proper goddamn meal you get 2d6 hp back
hmmm
ears, yeah probably
whimsy: (oh fuck yeah)
(Not) Literally A Bird: how many bug snacks make a proper goddamn meal
whimsy: (argh ofc the milk wont cook if i heat up the wrong stove thing)
Wiwaxia (GM): wings are a bit of a big change, so probably not unless she consciously manifests them (remember that your dreamself's form is mutable as long as you still have a waking self)
(as per jade's dreaming up a few extra arms to play her advanced bass)
whimsy: (hmm nice)
(ilmatars basically wearing her wings wherever she can get away with wearing them)
Karrin Blue: well now i'm imagining Myrtha wearing some of these
http://variablejabberwocky.tumblr.com/post/131364949297/fullten-tidalmoon-hostagesandsnacks#notes
postapocalyptic desert wear
Wiwaxia (GM): @Bird not all of them in the world
whimsy: (although unlike the ears, shes switching them up every once so often)
Wiwaxia (GM): they're bug snacks
whimsy: @karrin look up strega fashion style ::D
Karrin Blue: oh yeah
(Not) Literally A Bird: hey man i make a toasted sandwich and call that a meal

Karrin Blue likes wearing lots of soft fuzzy things
whimsy: @bird -fistbunp of solidarity-
i feel you
Wiwaxia (GM): a toasted sandwich is still more substantial than some bullshit from a vending machine
(Not) Literally A Bird: -bunp- hell ye
Karrin Blue: ok so I have willed that Myrtha wears strega/dark mori fashion
(Not) Literally A Bird: i know, i'm being persnickety :P
Karrin Blue: she will be a pile of soft clothes and happy with it
whimsy: ilma will love her ::D
(ilma loves all her friends very dearly)
Wiwaxia (GM): also third thing
it's come up a few times, but no reason not to spell it out
sufficiently big monsters have a 50% chance of damaging you just by being next to you
whimsy: yikes oo00
Karrin Blue: yeah that was part of what happened to Myrtha
Wiwaxia (GM): possible damage is proportional to their weight
so be aware of that
(Not) Literally A Bird: yes that's a good thing to know
Arxon: yeeeee
whimsy: proportional? not antiproportional? (bc big mobs vs small people, and then the heavier the small person is?)
Arxon: (is that what happened to Lemi on the hill or was that something else?)
Wiwaxia (GM): getting bumped by an elephant is worse than getting bumped by a cow
no, that was a different thing
evil auras
whimsy: that was the other direction, wi ::D
Wiwaxia (GM): huh
I'm used to proportional being directly correlated and inversely proportional being one goes up as the other goes down
whimsy: yes?
like, monsters heigt goes up from yours, or yours goes down from its, and it does more damage
Wiwaxia (GM): yep
whimsy: or maybe i completely misread what you said and the damage depends on the monsters size not yours
(its 4 am ok)
Wiwaxia (GM): yeah, that
also, it's technically mass not height
but fortunately there's no lead imps running around
:V
alright, no word from moss, so i think we'll just start
any other questions before we do?
whimsy: nah
at least nothing game mechanic related, and nothing that cant be discussed next to the action
(Not) Literally A Bird: i'm good to go!
Karrin Blue: Me too!
Wiwaxia (GM): alright!
arxon, you wanna start off?
Arxon: umm probably not
parents are sickly nd I'm making dinner, sooo someone else should start
Wiwaxia (GM): K!

Karrin Blue volunteers as tribute!
Karrin Blue: if you don't mind me starting two in a row
Wiwaxia (GM): nah, 's cool
so you've just gotten beat up by a firebreathing snake, seen your only lead on your dad's hereabouts die horribly, recovered your dad's wallet from his corpse, been saved by a farmer's unexpected shanking skills and stumbled across this shit http://i.imgur.com/J92G8eA.jpg under the hill your house is on
what do?
Karrin Blue: Keep moving forward.

Karrin Blue puts one foot in front of the other
Myrtha Oscurr: oops
pretend that was IC
Wiwaxia (GM): it's pretty ratty-looking down here
the walls are blue brick, and bulge inwards uncomfortably in places
there's wooden supports and pallets and boxes everywhere, but they all look empty and abandoned

Myrtha Oscurr does the thing where you run your finger across a thing to judge how much dust is on there
Wiwaxia (GM): the floor is fused blue glass beads, almost like sandstone, and has settled and cracked in depressions
there's a fair amount of dust
doesn't look like anyone's been through here in a while
or if they were, they covered their tracks
whimsy: (or didnt leave any at all ::3)
Wiwaxia (GM): or that, yes
the ceiling of the tunnel is festooned with wires, but there's no lightbulbs or the like
Myrtha Oscurr: Where do they connect to?
Wiwaxia (GM): and many of the wires are hanging down loose or have their insulation cracked away
Myrtha Oscurr: also, do thhey look like electrical wires? or the sorts that I saw on the poles?
Wiwaxia (GM): yes and yes
you don't see where they run to
they just run in both directions along the length of the tunnel
by the time they reach they entrance they're all broken off or otherwise gone, though
Myrtha Oscurr: Hm.
Interesting.
I take more pictures and start walking along the hallway
Wiwaxia (GM): you pass a large bricked-over archway on one side of the tunnel
there's wires run through the mortar, all cut, and some sort of symbol you don't recognize carved into the keystone brick

Myrtha Oscurr MORE PHOTOS

Myrtha Oscurr tests the strength of the birkcs
Wiwaxia (GM): the photos you take are illegible, scrawled over with unreadable lines of blue cursive in every direction

Myrtha Oscurr what the fuuuuck
Myrtha Oscurr: is that just on the photos of this doorway or the other hall photos?

Myrtha Oscurr uploads the pictures to the memo
Wiwaxia (GM): just the bricked-off archway
Myrtha Oscurr: CO: What does this look like to you?
Wiwaxia (GM): timeline note: leon and possibly lemi are online at this point
(Not) Literally A Bird: NI: uh
Leon Gaspar: NI: looks like an uploading error
Myrtha Oscurr: CO: How so?
Leon Gaspar: NI: everything ok over there?
NI: as in, i'm just getting an error when i try to look at it
Myrtha Oscurr: CO: The original looks like a door with a weird symbol of it and the photo I took has blue scribbly writing on it.
Leon Gaspar: NI: spooky
NI: i'm...pretty sure i've seen a movie like this
Myrtha Oscurr: CO: Hm. I'm going to see if talking into this door will make anything happen.
CO: I'm in a tunnel that I fell into when I was walking back to my house
oh hey by the way, do I have any sense of how deeply into the hill I am?
Leon Gaspar: NI: ow. that sucks.
Wiwaxia (GM): depends how good you are at judging distance
Myrtha Oscurr: ...well I have no idea IC
probably decent?
Wiwaxia (GM): you pace out the distance a few times, and go outside to judge the size of the hill and conclude that the door is probably more or less below your house
Myrtha Oscurr: CO: So I'm basically right under my house. That's a bit creepy
CO: Well here goes nothing.
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d6
(
1
)
= 1
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d6
(
2
)
= 2
Myrtha Oscurr: "Hello. I don't mean you any harm. I'd like to talk with you, but I can't do that now because I don't understand how you're communicating right now."
CO: Hope I didn't just wake up evil ghosts under my house or something
Wiwaxia (GM): silence

Myrtha Oscurr takes another photo to see if anything has changed in the... corrupted data?
Leon Gaspar: NI: well, i'm getting pretty good at dealing with evil ghosts if you need a hand :P
Wiwaxia (GM): well the incomprehensible scribbles are different incomprehensible scribbles, for what that's worth
Myrtha Oscurr: Hm.
"I don't mean to insult you, but there's no way for me to understand this. In fact it's unclear to me whether you're self-aware or if this is weird spooky stuff happening."
Wiwaxia (GM): still silence
Myrtha Oscurr: How sturdy was the brickwork?
also, there's no other doors in the hallway? or other ways to go?
Wiwaxia (GM): looks pretty sturdy
it's not a dead end, the tunnel keeps on going
whimsy: (gdi) (i have an idea but im not awake)
Wiwaxia (GM): the archway is on one side of it
Myrtha Oscurr: well look I don't want to try to break down the archway and release some hideous evil ghost thing
Wiwaxia (GM): but you can just keep on walking past the bricked-over archway
Myrtha Oscurr: oh
i guess I'll do that then
Wiwaxia (GM): the tunnel slopes down slightly as you continue
there is a pool of dim purple light at the end
Myrtha Oscurr: 'Wow, something that's not blue.'

Myrtha Oscurr is surprised
Wiwaxia (GM): and a t-bone intersection with two tunnels leading at right angles to the one you've been going down
it's about the same distance from here to the arch as from the arch to the entrance, so you'd guess you're coming out from under the hill
Myrtha Oscurr: OK
any visible difference between the tunnels?
Wiwaxia (GM): you walk down to the intersection to investigate
you notice the light is coming from a skylight kind of thing
picture pending, one sec
looks like this
Myrtha Oscurr: ...how familiar
so this is under my house?
Wiwaxia (GM): not quite
coming out from under the other side of the hill you think
Myrtha Oscurr: well ok
rolling 1d2
(
2
)
= 2
right side tunnel it is
Wiwaxia (GM): there's a whole lot of nothing for a long stretch
then you run across... roots?
bare, dead wood, full of rusted staples
Myrtha Oscurr: ...huh
Wiwaxia (GM): but shaped kinda rootlike and coming down through the ceiling
Myrtha Oscurr: does it look like the same kind of wood as the poles are made of
Wiwaxia (GM): and passing on down through the floor
yep
whimsy: (staples in the wood instead of coins? ::D)
Myrtha Oscurr: coins?
Wiwaxia (GM): looks like some of the wires from the ceiling go up through the ceiling along with the "roots"
Myrtha Oscurr: Huh.
so the poles are... trees of some kind

Myrtha Oscurr will keep walking down the hall since there doesn't seem to be much to do beyond look at the pole
Wiwaxia (GM): you edge around the pole and see a similar one in line behind it down the tunnel
you hear footsteps
whimsy: (pushing a coin into a tree trunk was meant to bring good fortune and ward off disease, similarily to tossing a coin into a well) (and taking the coins would make all the bad luck and illness fall back on you)
Myrtha Oscurr: ohhh huh
How far are the footsteps?
Wiwaxia (GM): just around the next pole
Myrtha Oscurr: Onward!
Wiwaxia (GM): you see this motherfucker
it's covered in vines and has a leopard face
Myrtha Oscurr: oh come on.

Myrtha Oscurr chargepunch
Wiwaxia (GM): roll for it?
Myrtha Oscurr: d20 right
Wiwaxia (GM): d20+attack
rolling 1d20+1
(
4
)+1
= 5
Myrtha Oscurr: rolling 1d20 +1
(
15
)+1
= 16
Wiwaxia (GM): yeah, that hits
+2 to your normal damage because charge
Myrtha Oscurr: and that's what to roll?
Wiwaxia (GM): also it whiffs it's claw at you
d8
Myrtha Oscurr: rolling 1d8 + 2
(
4
)+2
= 6
like that?
Wiwaxia (GM): yep!
second punch?
Myrtha Oscurr: rolling 1d8 + 2
(
5
)+2
= 7
Wiwaxia (GM): gotta roll to hit for the second one first
Myrtha Oscurr: oh
rolling 1d20 + 1
(
5
)+1
= 6
Wiwaxia (GM): nope
Myrtha Oscurr: shoot
well one hit works
it's still a punch
Wiwaxia (GM): well, it's claw at you whiffed, so it's going to back up behind the next poleroots in line
your turn
Myrtha Oscurr: rolling 1d20 + 1
(
18
)+1
= 19
Wiwaxia (GM): yes that hits
is that another charge?
Myrtha Oscurr: sure
rolling 1d8 + 2
(
1
)+2
= 3
good thing too
Wiwaxia (GM): it reaches out to touch you
rolling 1d20+1
(
9
)+1
= 10
and succeeds
make a fortitude save
Myrtha Oscurr: rolling 1d20
(
15
)
= 15
shoot
my fort is 9
Wiwaxia (GM): your veins run icy cold
you cannot move
Myrtha Oscurr: well shit
Wiwaxia (GM): roll 1d4, you get free on a 1
Myrtha Oscurr: rolling 1d4
(
2
)
= 2
Wiwaxia (GM): nope
it bites you
rolling 1d20+2
(
13
)+2
= 15
rolling 4d2
(
1
+
1
+
2
+
2
)
= 6
damage

Myrtha Oscurr survived that basilisk for THIS to happen?!
Wiwaxia (GM): roll 1d3, you get free on a 1
Myrtha Oscurr: rolling 1d3
(
3
)
= 3
come ON
Wiwaxia (GM): it bites you again
rolling 1d20+2
(
7
)+2
= 9
it gets a nice big mouthful of your scarf and rips it apart savagely
on the plus side, that wasn't your neck
Myrtha Oscurr: D:<
Wiwaxia (GM): roll 1d2, get free on a 1
Myrtha Oscurr: rolling 1d2
(
1
)
= 1
finally
Wiwaxia (GM): aggress? abscond?
Myrtha Oscurr: aggress!
Wiwaxia (GM): you get two punches this turn
Myrtha Oscurr: rolling 1d20 + 1
(
8
)+1
= 9
Wiwaxia (GM): nope
Myrtha Oscurr: rolling 1d20 + 1
(
3
)+1
= 4
come ON
Wiwaxia (GM): nope
you gonna run?
Myrtha Oscurr: ...sure
Wiwaxia (GM): the lich slowly raises a clawed hand and points at you
a sizzling ball of purple energy shoots out of its extended finger and slams into the back of your knee
you take 2 damage
Myrtha Oscurr: "Mothershitfuckhell!"

Myrtha Oscurr RUN MORE
Wiwaxia (GM): (2 damage on the death and dismemberment chart is -2 to to all rolls for 1d4 turns)
(To GM) rolling 1d6
(
3
)
= 3
Myrtha Oscurr: do i roll now?
Wiwaxia (GM): yeah, sure
Myrtha Oscurr: rolling 1d4
(
4
)
= 4
blarrhh
Wiwaxia (GM): it's staying put and shooting another ball of magic at you

Myrtha Oscurr dodge
Wiwaxia (GM): it curves to follow you
Myrtha Oscurr: or

Myrtha Oscurr OH COME ON
Wiwaxia (GM): 2 damage
countdown die for the -2 penalty is now 1d7
(To GM) rolling 1d6
(
6
)
= 6
Myrtha Oscurr: how far would I have to run to get to the end of the tunnel, can I tell?
Wiwaxia (GM): you've put one poleroot thing between you and it
there's another one ahead of you
and then a long empty stretch to the intersection
(To GM) rolling 1d7
(
1
)
= 1

Myrtha Oscurr runrunrun
Wiwaxia (GM): it fires another bolt of magic, but this one fizzles out several meters behind you
seems like they can only go so far
also you should roll to shake off the -2 penalty
1d7 and then 1d6
Myrtha Oscurr: rolling 1d7
(
4
)
= 4
rolling 1d6
(
1
)
= 1
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d6
(
4
)
= 4
Wiwaxia (GM): you're FRE--------E!
also the lich has started running after you, although you've got a pretty solid head start
Leon Gaspar: [distant cheering]
Myrtha Oscurr: Whimsy, it's a rosemary thing
idk if there is a specific pic of it
whimsy: i just realised the weird thing i wasnt able to identify on the map is your character
Myrtha Oscurr: hee
Leon Gaspar: i can sprite you up a symbol later if you'd like :o it's a sprig of rosemary, right
?
Myrtha Oscurr: please do
rosemary blossom
Wiwaxia (GM): myrtha, gonna keep running?
Myrtha Oscurr: yes
Wiwaxia (GM): the lich pursues
it can't close enough to get another bolt off
at this point you're in the long straightaway and the lich is just rounding the last pole roots
you're leading it by about 12m

 

Spoiler: myrtha encounters more helpful consorts, lemi wakes up and reads her messages

Myrtha Oscurr notes to self: find some kind of way to attack at range
Myrtha Oscurr: for now, I'll keep running
Wiwaxia (GM): the lich stops pursuing and hangs back

Myrtha Oscurr continues running
Wiwaxia (GM): the lich recedes into the distance as you book it down the pasageway
you've been running for a bit over a minute now, you're gonna need to start making con checks to not drop to a walking pace in a couple rounds
Myrtha Oscurr: rolling 1d20 + 11
(
19
)+11
= 30
Wiwaxia (GM): thaaat is a crit success
you keep fucking running
all the way to the intersection
Myrtha Oscurr: ...the one that i flipped a coin to go right on?
it's a giant circle, huh
Wiwaxia (GM): no, you were running back the way you came
Myrtha Oscurr: weohhh
*ohhh
Wiwaxia (GM): because the alternative was running past the lich and I assumed you weren't doing that
Myrtha Oscurr: yeah no
Wiwaxia (GM): fun facts
at this point the lich has dropped over the horizon
also, there's a horizon in an underground tunnel
it is pretty weird

Myrtha Oscurr the fuuuuck
Wiwaxia (GM): you good to switch to someone else now?
Myrtha Oscurr: yeah
well
i'd like to have Myrtha go back how she came and make it to her house
so she can collapse on a couch
Wiwaxia (GM): K!
rolling 1t[THE-ADVENTURE-DIE-OF-ADVENTURE!!(and/or-misery)]
(
2 Environmental Hazard
)
= 2
meh, I'm just gonna say a beadstorm kicks up as you get home
Myrtha Oscurr: arright
Wiwaxia (GM): you hear them pinging off your windows
Myrtha Oscurr: so Myrtha Oscurr is going to go and take a very long, hot bath, then eat a lot of food, and go sleep
it safe to assume she can do that?
Wiwaxia (GM): mmmnope, there's one more suprise for her before that
Myrtha Oscurr: oh boy
has flagcoon fucked off to the dumpster again

Myrtha Oscurr walks in

Myrtha Oscurr recognizes that species
Myrtha Oscurr: do they see me?
whimsy: (and thats why you dont leave the fort unlocked while going exploring)
siren: Milady, are you the mistress of this castle?
Myrtha Oscurr: "I am."

Myrtha Oscurr considers 'milady' and hope this consort does not own fedoras
siren: My companion and I humbly request an audience with you at your convenience

Myrtha Oscurr really wants food and a bath but...
Myrtha Oscurr: "Certainly. Can I offer you some food? I don't have much, but what I have is yours if you need it."
both consorts bow deeply
siren: We would be offered to break bread with you, Lady
Wiwaxia (GM): *honored

Myrtha Oscurr collects food from kitchen and puts on a kettle of tea

Myrtha Oscurr offers foodstuffs
Myrtha Oscurr: "Alright. What did you want to talk to me about?"
siren: we have heard your castle has an armory
we have come to humbly request arms to defend our village in these dangerous days
we do not have much to offer, but you will have our gratitude and our allegiance

Myrtha Oscurr would feel a bit bad about giving away dad's stuff but maybe...
siren: we have also brought a dozen lampmoths as a token of our good faith
Myrtha Oscurr: (could I alchemize some copies of dad's weapons and give them to these guys?)
Wiwaxia (GM): (yep)
(they'll each be four or five build grist, and maybe 1 rust grist)
(armor will be more)
the siren emmisary gestures to their companion, who produces a battered wooden briefcase
siren: we know that this may not seem much to a Lady of your obvious wealth and power, but perhaps they may be of some small use
whimsy: (dang i just fragged the tab) (i think the void doesnt want me to comment on this)
Myrtha Oscurr: "Thank you very much."
how big are these guys?
i've been assuming like
waist high
but idk
Wiwaxia (GM): yeah, that's about right
they're sitting on your stools, though
Myrtha Oscurr: "I don't think the armory has armor that would fit you, but what kinds of weapons would work best?"

Myrtha Oscurr doesn't quite know if alchemizing armor for these guys would be feasible... what would you even combine that with?
siren: anything you can spare, milady
but if you are willing to grant us them, pikes are more suited than swords to our small arms
the siren flaps its small arms to illustrate its point
Myrtha Oscurr: "I see. Well, if you'll give me some time I'll see what I can find. Please, make yourselves at home."
the sirens bow again and shuffle off a respectful distance
Wiwaxia (GM): i think that's a good place to flip
Myrtha Oscurr: kay
Wiwaxia (GM): arxon, you up?
Arxon: yep!
Wiwaxia (GM): also, in case anyone was wondering, myrtha's consorts are these http://www.nwflec.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/lessersiren.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirenidae
Myrtha Oscurr: i see!
Arxon: (they are cut an d I lov them)
whimsy: omg cute ::O
they look like theyre related to axolotls!
(i know very little about actual biology so probs being captain obvious rn)
Wiwaxia (GM): only fairly distantly, actually
in that they are both salamanders
the similarity with the gills is because all salamanders (or most anyways) have gills like that when babies, and sirens and axolotls and a few other kinds have independently evolved retaining them into adulthood
whimsy: huh
Wiwaxia (GM): this has been your mid-dnd session bio lesson
Arxon: Yay! :D
Myrtha Oscurr: well
i think that i'll probably actually go to bed
Wiwaxia (GM): night!
Myrtha Oscurr: gnight!
Arxon: goodnight!
whimsy: n8 ::D
Wiwaxia (GM): first things first, how long is Lemi sleeping?
she's going to sleep at T=14:47 since entry
Arxon: what is the...mean? is that the right word? time right now?
Wiwaxia (GM): myrtha and leon are both around t=19:30
Arxon: if that is a sentence that makes sense
Wiwaxia (GM): ilmatar isn't awake again until t=24 hours
moss is at around t=15:00, but will probably be sleeping soon
Arxon: Hmmmm
then Lemi'll sleep until about 5 hours? until 19:30?
Wiwaxia (GM): k!
you get 1d6+5 hp back
Arxon: rolling 1d6+5
(
2
)+5
= 7
Wiwaxia (GM): you are feeling much better than when you went to sleep
your bruises and soul-bruises are still aching, but less than before
Lemi Malloy: Lemi reflects on how this is the best she's felt all day. Lemi reflects on her life choices.
Then she looks around the room
Wiwaxia (GM): it's emptier than it was before
instead of the bulk of the village huddled in together, there's only a few knots of sleeping iguanas, with candle-tenders wandering around between them
you notice that the candles are very carefully positioned to light the entire room with no gaps
Lemi Malloy: Is the...chief? is that his title? or his daughter anywhere around?
Wiwaxia (GM): the elder's nowhere to be seen
his daughter is dipping candles out of a vat of tallow
Lemi Malloy: How hungry is Lemi?
Wiwaxia (GM): famished
i don't think she's eaten at all since she entered
Lemi Malloy: I think she had some of Sis's gross food at one point?
Time for more of Sis's gross food!
Wiwaxia (GM): oh yes, so she did
you have some more of sis's gross food
it is
... nourishing
you hape
*hope
Lemi Malloy: Alright
Lemi opens her mouth, closes it, and then tries to desperately catch the chief's daughter's eye without seeming like she's staring at her wierdly
Lemi is wondering if there is a book on how to interact with people who aren't weird forest hermits
healer: Did you rest well, traveler?
Leon Gaspar: (going afk for a little while, shouldn't be too long)
Wiwaxia (GM): k
Lemi Malloy: "Very well! I haven't felt this good for, um, a while. Is there anything I can do to help you?"
(Lemi reflects that saying "this is the best I've felt all day" sounds a bit lame)
Wiwaxia (GM): (also what even are days here)
healer: do you know how to make candles?
Lemi Malloy: (...Does Lemi?)
Wiwaxia (GM): (probably not)
(i think her sister is probably more a paraffin-candle kind of survivalist, not a make-your-own-tallow-candle kind of survivalist)
Lemi Malloy: "Um, noooooo, sorry..."
(Yeah that sounds right)
healer: here, watch what I do and tell me when you think you've got it
Wiwaxia (GM): she busies herself with taking strings that have been soaking in one pot of tallow, dipping them in in cold water, then in hot tallow and back and forth and back and forth
it's kind of hypnotic, honestly
Lemi Malloy: Does there seem to be a trick to it?
Wiwaxia (GM): not that you can see?
well, she's moving pretty quickly, presumably from long practice
Lemi Malloy: "Ah, I think I've got it...."
Wiwaxia (GM): your first few candles are kinda shit and are consigned back to the tallow pot to be re-melted
but you start getting the hang of it
Lemi Malloy: Yay!
Is it as hypnotizing to do as it is to watch?
Wiwaxia (GM): yep
an iguana comes in with an armful of candle-scrapings gathered from the woods to refill the pot
iguana: I don't like this
we're having to go farther and farther afield to get tallow, and the new monsters will attack you even with a lit candle
healer: thip
I know, but what else is there to do
Lemi Malloy: Lemi pauses, looking up
"I...I could try to defeat the monsters near this village, but I don't know how many there are..."
iguana: no, not worth it, there are always more
you could go as an escort, though, if you are a warrior
Lemi Malloy: Lemi looks at her axe and debates whether or not to tell them about her shitty track record
"I...I am a warrior. First I would need to...consult someone, though, before I left."
iguana: the elder?
Lemi Malloy: "Ah, no, on my....."
she decapchalouges her computer
the iguana just kinda blinks at you
the iguana is completely nonplussed
Lemi Malloy: She opens it up and hopes that remotes iguana villages have decent wifi
Wiwaxia (GM): you have perfect signal, actually
who knows
Lemi Malloy: great! she opens up pesterchum and checks to see if there have been any messages
Wiwaxia (GM): hoo boy
you want me to copy them off the timeline?
Lemi Malloy: ...Lemi is just going to have a little freakout over the sheer volume any way, so...
AG: AH SORRY
AG: I got lost in the forest and then I was knocked out I'm sorry!

 

Spoiler: a bunch of chatlogs you already saw

chatlog backlog
Wiwaxia (GM): CO; Wind's picking up. This place probably gets sandstorms.
CO: Yup, definitely a blue bead sandstorm
---
CO: I guess I'm stuck here, but I have water and a bit of food.
CO: Any of you know what sandstorm-appropriate clothing is?
CO: This place is freaking me out. I hope one of you guys gets here soon.
Wiwaxia (GM): CO: ... Welp.
---
BI: longcoat, and something to cover your face. goggles and shawl, mostly
CO: So! I can actually hear understandable voices
CO: Downside: They are creepy as hell.
CO: You met some things, right? Did they know your name?
Wiwaxia (GM): BI: nope!
BI: the salamanders didnt even know what i am, save for the crone
help us myrtha help us
CO: Ilmatar that is not funny
CO: what the fuck
BI: so, you said you understood stuff?
Wiwaxia (GM): BI: huh?
CO: 'help us' 'why are you turning your back on us witch'
CO: And then you just said the same thing
BI: whats they say?
BI: whu?
-CO has attatched a file-
Wiwaxia (GM): BI: our logs are different
BI: hmm
-BI has attatched a file-
BI: pershaps something is trying to speak to you
BI: using every channel it can get its hands on
CO: ... Why'd you get salamanders and cool scenery while I get ghosts and nothing but blue sand beads
Wiwaxia (GM): BI: including the tiny fairy connected to the otherworld
CO: I guess?
CO: But you're not even here, how's it getting to you?
BI: these stories are interwoven, like fabric
BI: of course theyre connected
CO: Well, I'm going home and kitting up for desert jaunts as best I can.
Wiwaxia (GM): BI: you cannot help them if you are not prepared
CO: Right,
BI: you also cannot help them if you do not know what, or where they are, or what to help them from or with
BI: whatever is there whispering to you from the lines, reaching out to everywhere it can in hope to reach
BI: well, not everyone
BI: to reach you
Wiwaxia (GM): BI: you need to find them first
CO: That's also true.
CO: Hey, do any of you guys have goggles at your houses?
sI: I can check mom's old stuff though
sI: Proooobably not?
CO: Or safety glasses or anything?
Wiwaxia (GM): ---
CO: Please do
CO: I shall then!
sI: Hey! I actually think you'll find your own in your house :D Look for a box from Amazon!
CO: Found it!
---
Wiwaxia (GM): sI: I...ok this is probably weird game shenanigans
CO: How'd you know that it was there?
sI: but i swear to god i had a dream that you'd need them
sI: and i had some money laying around so...why not
CO: Wow, that's convenient
CO: And I owe you one, so let me know if there's something I can help you out with
Wiwaxia (GM): CO: Well, I'd help you out anyways, but I still owe you one.
CO: Don't suppose you had any dreams about anything out in the desert?
sI:...blue sandstorm. it was weird
sI: be careful. and like dude. weird game shenanigans buddies
sI: fistbump
CO: fistbump
Wiwaxia (GM): CO: I have a handsfree computer, so I'll keep you posted on what happens to me
sI: that's good!
CO: It is ridiculously quiet here, it's creepy
sI: would singing loudly make it better or just creepy
CO: Not if I use funny songs!
---
Wiwaxia (GM): CO: Man the geography of this place is weird.
---
CO: I wish I knew enough math to judge the width of this planet via something or other
CO: Found this while exploring
-CO has attatched a file-
CO: Any thoughts?
Wiwaxia (GM): sI: huh that's weird
sI: or is it only in that one place
sI: are there any other glass things around
CO: Maybe it reacts to some kind of trigger? Normally in games it'd be some otherwise useless tool.
sI: i'm going to be totally illogical here and tell you to talk to the pieces of glass
CO: None I've seen, but I haven't explored this scrubby area much.
Wiwaxia (GM): sI: because maybe something will happen
CO: But I don't think I have one of those yet, unless you count the useless rings.
CA: Like, there's 200 sections or whatever, and somewhere else I might find one with only 199 pieces
CO: And there's a magic puzzle piece for an extra life or an infinity+1 sword if you find all of them?
CO: It might be some kind of indicator, too
CO: Probably not though.
Wiwaxia (GM): CO: I should've brought Flagcoonsprite with me, he might've had something useful to say.
---
CO: Well, that's annoying.
---
-CO has attatched a file-
CO: Look familiar to you guys?
Wiwaxia (GM): sI: giant lizard snake? sounds cool but doesnt ring any bells. suggestion: don't piss it off
CO: Yeah, I'm not betting on it being friendly
CO: If it isn't then I'll be basically screwed, probably
BI: storm: weathered
CO: Hm, there are these weird giant snakey things about
NI: do they have like
Wiwaxia (GM): CO: See for yourself
NI: weird features
NI: okay. ooookay. those are bad
-CO has attatched a file-
CO: You recognize them?
NI: i mean, if you can beat them they'll give you a bunch of grist, but they're strong
Wiwaxia (GM): NI: they're called basilisks
NI: yeah i saw one swimming around here earlier
NI: how're you going on your end?
NI: yeah they're pretty mean
CO: I'll steer clear then.
CO: Things are going a bit slowly
Wiwaxia (GM): NI: hang on, i'm looking up basilisks in the walkthrough just in case
CO: Just sand and more sand
NI: uh. is there anything flammable nearby
NI: basilisks can apparently breathe fire. the more you know.
CO: No sign of the ghosts or whatever they were
NI: well that's a positive
Wiwaxia (GM): NI: i should probably try to memorise this thing
CO: Maybe.
CO: Anything about glass grids?
NI: unfortunately not
NI: sorry i couldn't be more help :(
CO: Hm.
Wiwaxia (GM): ---
CO: Met this guy, there's a monster coming, I'm going to follow with them to a safe place
CO: It's hardly your fault
---
CO: Well that was supremely helpful.
NI: i'm going on an adventure!
Wiwaxia (GM): sI: Fun Fact! Don't mess with the giant lizard snakes!
sI: They are Assholes
CO: Oh dear.
sI: actually if you see one you should drop a cliff on it
CO: I'll keep that in mind then
CO: So far I'm just hiding in some rocks
Wiwaxia (GM): CO: I wish I knew how to do that!
CO: Because these snake consort people are very unhelpful
CO: Hey, have any of you seen these carapacey people on your lands?
CO: Well I got the attention of a teleporting basilisk
---
CO: Yeah I may die here?
Wiwaxia (GM): NI: oh god please don't die
CO: I don't plan on it!
---
CO: Still alive. The basilisk's dead.
CO: What does this look like to you?
NI: uh
Wiwaxia (GM): NI: looks like an uploading error
CO: How so?
NI: everything ok over there?
NI: as in, i'm just getting an error when i try to look at it
CO: The original looks like a door with a weird symbol of it and the photo I took has blue scribbly writing on it.
NI: spooky
Wiwaxia (GM): NI: i'm...pretty sure i've seen a movie like this
CO: Hm. I'm going to see if talking into this door will make anything happen.
CO: I'm in a tunnel that I fell into when I was walking back to my house
NI: ow. that sucks.
---
CO: So I'm basically right under my house. That's a bit creepy
Wiwaxia (GM): CO: Well here goes nothing.
CO: Hope I didn't just wake up evil ghosts under my house or something
NI: well, i'm getting pretty good at dealing with evil ghosts if you need a hand :P
((yes i did that mostly to show off my chatlog records))

 

Spoiler: lemi decides to lead the iguanas on an expedition gathering tallow for candles, and runs into a basilisk

Lemi Malloy: Lemi tries to read as much as she can and hopes desperately that everyone's alright
She's going pretty fast thought because she also doesn't want to keep the iguanas waiting too long
Is anyne's lil lights green?
Wiwaxia (GM): hm
possibly leon's
but that depend on if hes out of the water or not at this point
bird?
may still be afk, so i guess we'll say he is IC, too
Lemi Malloy: alright!
Lemi dismays at the screen, bites her lip and reads back at all the cool adventures her friends have had
"Ah, alright, I'm ready, I can go out whenever you need me to!"
iguana: well, we should probably consult the elder as well as your shew-stone or whatever that is
come
Lemi Malloy: "Ah, right, um, of course!"
She captchalouges her computer again and looks around for the elder
the iguana gestures for you to follow
Wiwaxia (GM): ((afk for a moment))
Leon Gaspar: (aand i'm back :P)
Lemi Malloy: (Just in time to miss the chance to have Lemi flip out at u :p)
Wiwaxia (GM): i am also back
is lemi gonna talk to leon or just leave?
Lemi Malloy: Would we be retconing it into when she had her comp out?
Wiwaxia (GM): nah, just leon responding right before she puts it away, probably
Lemi Malloy: alright, that sounds right
Leon Gaspar: [nascentInterlude is online!]
Lemi Malloy: AG: AH SORRY
AG: I got lost in the forest and then I was knocked out I'm sorry!)
Leon Gaspar: NI: whoa whoa, no need to apologise!
NI: you okay?
Lemi Malloy: (was what Lemi said when she got on)
Lemi looks at her beeping computer right before she captchalouges it
"Ah, um, actually I'm sorry I need to do some more...consulting....with this....."
She looks down at it in order to not be looking the iguanas in the eye and also to see the message
AG: I'm fine now, an iguana found me and took me to his village and let me rest
Leon Gaspar: NI: an iguana ...? well it's good that you've rested
NI: i'm, uh
Leon looks around him
NI: kinda wedged in a ceiling
Lemi Malloy: AG:...Are you ok?
Leon Gaspar: NI: mostly, yeah, i'm just not very good at the great outdoors
NI: turns out i can swim though! that's exciting
NI: you still being haunted by the spooky dark things?
Lemi Malloy: AG: I can give you lessons on the great outdoors if you give me lessons on how to interact with people and also iguanas and possibly other amphibians?
AG:....Although I haven't had the best track record with that lately, so.
AG: The iguanas told me that the wierd wraiths are called fears, and they don't go in candle light? But they've been in this forest forever.
(please tell me I remembered that right)
Leon Gaspar: NI: fears? hrm. gimme a minute, i'll check that against the walkthrough, but i don't thiiink i saw that in there...
Wiwaxia (GM): (yeah, that's pretty much right)
Leon Gaspar: NI: i'd appreciate the lessons :P but idk much about interactions
NI: much less with sentient reptiles
NI: in general probably just be nice to them?
Lemi Malloy: AG: RIGHT SO UM
AG:...So I got my butt kicked by the imps, right?
Leon Gaspar: NI: also: nothing in the walkthrough. not that i thought there would be but it was worth a look. i guess land-specific stuff isn't in there
NI: er, yes, i remember that
Lemi Malloy: Ag: But the iguanas healed me up and I wanna repay it to them and they need protection from the imps when they go out collecting tallow and
on the one hand I have an axe and can swing it at things but on the other hand I am really bad at that and what if I get an innocent iguana killed by telling them I know how to fight????
Lemi seems very distressed to onlooking iguanas
Leon Gaspar: NI: alright lemme think
NI: i think, probably ... i mean, just tell them that? that you want to protect them but you're worried about whether you're capable of doing it
NI: and let them decide what they want to do
NI: i mean for what it's worth i think you're better than you think you are
Lemi Malloy: AG: I could have, though. If those imps had hit a bit harder, if my candle had gone out....
AG: And when someone else's life is on the line, isn't believing in yourself and trusting that kind of....selfish?
Leon Gaspar: NI: okay, lemme put it this way
NI: if the iguanas go out and they get attacked, are they going to be at least a little bit safer with you there?
Lemi Malloy: AG: I guess at the very least I can be a meat shield....
Leon Gaspar: NI: that's...kinda the spirit!
NI: i guess what i'm trying to say is
NI: if you wanna help these guys out, this is something you can do that they can't. presumably.
NI: obviously i don't want you to get in harm's way! but
NI: at the same time
NI: i believe in you
Lemi Malloy: AG: thanks, Leon
AG: I guess I'll, uh, believe in the you that believes in me?
Leon Gaspar: NI: damn straight
NI: wait fuck i left my sunglasses behind
NI: dammit i was gonna do a sweet pose
NI: and, no problem.
Lemi Malloy: AG: How easy is it to dramatically put sunglasses on when wedged in a ceiling?
Leon Gaspar: NI: i would find a way
NI: B)
Lemi Malloy: AG: B) Ok I'm gonna try and protect the iguanas!
AG: Um, wish me luck and if I die then don't bury me near my house?
Leon Gaspar: NI: yeah! good luck!
NI: and, er, duly noted.
Lemi Malloy: [AphoticGaze has ceased pestering nascentInterlude !]
"Ok, right, I'm ready to consult with the elder! Sorry for the delay!"
She says, captchalouging her computer and grabbing her axe
iguana: well, whatever you need to get your warrior mojo on
here, come this way, the elder should be at the perimeter
Lemi Malloy: Lemi follows the to the perimeter
Wiwaxia (GM): the elder and a couple other iguanas are walking around with a basket of candles, replacing the ones that are burning low and taking the stubs to salvage the tallow
he looks up as you approach
elder: how are you feeling, traveler?
Lemi Malloy: "I'm feeling much better, thank you very much! I, ah, I would like to volunteer to protect tollow-collectors...?"
elder: thip
i suppose I cannot stop you, although my old bones would rest easier knowing you were safe here
Lemi Malloy: "If it's something I can do to help, it's something I should do to help, though, right?"
elder: I would not ask it of you
but it is true that it would help
the elder thips solemnly
Lemi Malloy: (Lemi wonders if she should thip back)
"I'll do all I can, sir!"
elder: be safe, traveller
Wiwaxia (GM): he turns to the iguana with you
elder: gatherer, bring as many others with you as you feel we can risk
and help your escort find anything she needs to get ready
gatherer: well, you heard him
is there anything you need?
Lemi Malloy: "I guess some food would be nice? I have some but it's, um, not much/"
gatherer: our stores are this way
Lemi Malloy: Lemi follows them over.
Wiwaxia (GM): the food available looks mostly like wood ear fungus and cattails
Lemi Malloy: .....How gross is Sis's food
Wiwaxia (GM): probably about equal
Lemi Malloy: Lemi take some, because it never hurts to have more food and to be honest it is probably more nourishing
Wiwaxia (GM): (you should probably note that in your misc things sylladex card)
the elder also brings you half a dozen candles and a hooded candle lantern to protect your candles from the wind
Lemi Malloy: Lemi thanks him profusely
Wiwaxia (GM): he accepts your thanks but still seems ill at ease with you going out into the dark woods
the gatherer has found three others to go along
he asks if you can defend all four, or if fewer should come
Lemi Malloy: "I- I believe I can, yes!"
Wiwaxia (GM): he explains that monsters have been spotted wandering on the plains between the village and the Ledge
so you can either head up into the hills (where you came from)
or out into the forest in the valley
Lemi Malloy: hmmmm out into the forest in the valley
Wiwaxia (GM): the orange line marks the area that's been picked clean, for clarity
Lemi Malloy: so we have to go a ways out to get tallow?
Wiwaxia (GM): (the green aura is distance-to horizon, not light, to be clear
Lemi Malloy: (alright)
(So which way is the forest in the valley? not north west?)
Wiwaxia (GM): "west" in general
you lead, so move where you want to go
Lemi Malloy: .....So what do I see from here?
Wiwaxia (GM): whoop, sorry got "east" and "west" mixed up
you wanna go the other way unless you wanna tangle with that timber ogre
Lemi Malloy: ah ok!
this a ways then
Wiwaxia (GM): you make good time, just a couple minutes to the edge of the the area that's been picked clean of candles
the woods are too dense for you to see all the way to the horizon
the iguanas start to spread out to harvest candles
Lemi Malloy: I make sure to kind of circle around them, keeping eyes and ears out for any disturbances in the forest
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 1t[THE-ADVENTURE-DIE-OF-ADVENTURE!!(and/or-misery)]
(
6 Nothing
)
= 6
coast is clear so far
Lemi Malloy: I continue my surveillance, considering venturing out to scout but deciding it's robably best to stay near the iguanas
I hope so, at least
Wiwaxia (GM): the iguanas overall drift this way
the leader mentions that this area, while not completely picked out is still pretty well-harvested
with your presence, they could try to press their advantage and go for farther out areas where there are more candles to be found
but that would make flight back to the village difficult
and might mean that you would have to abandon collected candles if one of them was killed
he leaves it to your judgement
Lemi Malloy: hmmmm
maybe go a bit further out then they usually would?
Wiwaxia (GM): that would mean going out to about that distance
Lemi Malloy: Yeah that seems about right
Wiwaxia (GM): about six minutes careful walk from the village
Lemi Malloy: how long desperate flight?
Wiwaxia (GM): less. but there is a risk of getting lost
Lemi Malloy: right
Wiwaxia (GM): onward?
Lemi Malloy: onward!
Wiwaxia (GM): onward?
(out of curiosity, can other people see anything on this page if they don't have a token with sight on it?)
you can see the dim bulk of a treeless hill rising up thataway
the iguanas are visibly less comfortable and are starting to stick closer to you
rolling 1t[THE-ADVENTURE-DIE-OF-ADVENTURE!!(and/or-misery)]
(
1 Encounter
)
= 1
(To GM) rolling 1d6
(
2
)
= 2
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d6
(
4
)
= 4
Lemi Malloy: (....welp)
Leon Gaspar: i can see the glowy candle place and lemi's token
((er, oocly, that is))
whimsy: dito
Wiwaxia (GM): cool beans!
actually, we should probably move this to a dedicated combat screen
one moment
whimsy: (im falling asleep in front of the computer btw)
(so im gonna go to sleep now)
(n8
Wiwaxia (GM): night!
Arxon: night 0u0
Leon Gaspar: night friend!
Wiwaxia (GM): do you want descriptions of these ugly mofos?
Lemi Malloy: hell yeah
Wiwaxia (GM): this asshole has a freakishly long neck and has four bright red eyes
on top of all the usual imp ugliness
the basilisk is covered in nasty-looking thorns and it's face is a horrible mash-up of skeletal raccoon, leopards and standard-issue basilisk
Lemi Malloy: oh man Lemi's never fought a Basilisk!
this can only go well
alright, are we rolling for init or did they get the drop on me?
Wiwaxia (GM): roll 1d6 for init
rolling 1d6
(
1
)
= 1
Lemi Malloy: rolling 1d6
(
5
)
= 5
Wiwaxia (GM): yeeeeah you got this
Lemi Malloy: hell yeah!
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 4d6
(
1
+
5
+
1
+
6
)
= 13
Lemi Malloy: alright, Imma try and get the imp out of the way first
how far between me and it?
Wiwaxia (GM): you can get to it easy
5m
Lemi Malloy: Alright, then I hit him with my axe!
Wiwaxia (GM): you wanna actually be next to him for that :V
Lemi Malloy: :V
Wiwaxia (GM): 1d20+attack to hit, 1d8 damage
Lemi Malloy: rolling 1d20+1
(
2
)+1
= 3
Wiwaxia (GM): yeah, no
Lemi Malloy: FUCKING
I thought I could look cool in front of my new friends :(
(trashcan shield is a +1 defence on top of natural 10, right?)
Wiwaxia (GM): yep
imp is backing away and then using its freakish neck to bite you anyways
rolling 1d20
(
17
)
= 17
Lemi Malloy: ...regretting prototyping choices
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 1d4
(
4
)
= 4
it gets a solid nip in
basilisk moves like so, doesn't do anything else
your turn again
Lemi Malloy: I move here, attack again
rolling 1d20+1
(
11
)+1
= 12
Wiwaxia (GM): that hits!
Lemi Malloy: rolling 1d8
(
3
)
= 3
Wiwaxia (GM): +1
from exceptional int
dust imp goes poof
Lemi Malloy: >=D
FUCK
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 1d20+1
(
12
)+1
= 13
rolling 1d8
(
2
)
= 2
Lemi Malloy: fukfuckfuckfuck
can I attack from there?
Wiwaxia (GM): yep
Lemi Malloy: charge the motherfucker!
(that gives a +1 to attack?)
Wiwaxia (GM): nope, +2 damage if you hit, and -2 def next round
Lemi Malloy: ok
rolling 1d20+1
(
2
)+1
= 3
Wiwaxia (GM): well the good news is you got its attention
that is also the bad news
reflex save, please
Lemi Malloy: rolling 1d20
(
10
)
= 10
make it
(unless I forgot how saves work)
Wiwaxia (GM): k, you can jump 1m into any unoccupied hex
also, time for that tree to make a save
Lemi Malloy: rolling 1d20
(
9
)
= 9
...does the tree mak it?
Wiwaxia (GM): yep
you do not have a conflagration on your hands
your turn
Lemi Malloy: rolling 1d20+1
(
5
)+1
= 6
Wiwaxia (GM): man the dice really do not like you tonight
Lemi Malloy: never
the dice like me never
Wiwaxia (GM): the basilisk is gonna bite you
rolling 1d20+2
(
20
)+2
= 22
uh oh
Lemi Malloy: .....I am dead aren't I
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 6+3d2!
6+(
2
+
1
+
1
+
2
+
2
+
1
)
= 15
Leon Gaspar: [Leon screaming in the distance]
[Leon regretting literally everything]
[not actually, Leon not being all-seeing, but you know what I mean]
Lemi Malloy: (Leon never tell me to believe in myself again!)
Wiwaxia (GM): it bites you around the midsection and picks you up in its jaws
Lemi Malloy: (...Also if I hadn't been there and gotten them to go deeper then they would have been safe and one of them gotten killed so. yes, I did make it worse! :D)
Leon Gaspar: [Leon returns to his previous policy of building a bunker and locking himself and everyone else inside]
Wiwaxia (GM): heyyy guess what time it is
Lemi Malloy: it's dismemeberment table time?
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 3d6+3d4
(
3
+
2
+
5
)+(
3
+
2
+
1
)
= 16
Leon Gaspar: c'mon, grab your friends
Wiwaxia (GM): iiiits grappling time!
i suggest not losing
Leon Gaspar: or that :P
Wiwaxia (GM): because that is potential death right there
Arxon: so um
....Arxon doesn't know how to grapple in this system
Wiwaxia (GM): don't worry, there should be a button on your character sheet
just put in your level (3)
Arxon: rolling 3d6+9 (0)
(
3
+
4
+
6
)+9
= 22
Wiwaxia (GM): oh thank goodness
Arxon: ahahHAHAHA
Leon Gaspar: [Leon: contemplate almost causing friend to die. Leon: be crushed by guilt. Bird: Leave this until, y'know, Leon actually finds about about this IC.]
Wiwaxia (GM): you are now greppling with it more evenly
which is to say, you are no longer inside its mouth, staring at its fangs
(To GM) rolling 1d6
(
2
)
= 2
Arxon: (observing friend, encouragingly: You managed to get the imp made of dust!)
Lemi Malloy: ...Lemi can't quite find it in herself to be excited about this
Wiwaxia (GM): its turn
rolling 3d6+3d4
(
4
+
4
+
3
)+(
2
+
4
+
4
)
= 21
okay, you probably wanna beat that
Lemi Malloy: oh man do I?
rolling 3d6+9 (0)
(
6
+
1
+
6
)+9
= 22
AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA
Wiwaxia (GM): nice
Leon Gaspar: [oh my god dude that's incredible]
Wiwaxia (GM): it bites at your leg, but you manage to shove its head away so it snaps on empty air
your turn
Lemi Malloy: "EAT WHATEVER MY AXE IS MADE OF"
rolling 1d20+1
(
20
)+1
= 21
Wiwaxia (GM): nice
so that's 8+1d8! damage
include the exclamation point
Lemi Malloy: rolling 8+1d8!
8+(
3
)
= 11
Wiwaxia (GM): (it means exploding dice)
Lemi Malloy: (....by the way, what is my axe/hatchet made of?)
Wiwaxia (GM): wood and iron, I imagine
iiit's fucking pissed now
Lemi Malloy: Well
um
at least it'll kill me and not anymore iguanas?
Wiwaxia (GM): oh also, I owe you a couple of these, for consistencies sake

Wiwaxia (GM) The monster's bulk jostles you!
You take 0 damage!

Wiwaxia (GM) The monster's bulk jostles you!
You take 0 damage!
Leon Gaspar: [Leon, distantly: that's the spirit! kinda!]

Wiwaxia (GM) The monster's bulk jostles you!
You take 0 damage!
Leon Gaspar: [holy shit who did you sacrifice to the RNG gods]
Lemi Malloy: (....An iguana)
Leon Gaspar: [...oh.]

 

Spoiler: lemi maims herself a lottle

Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 3d6+3d4
(
5
+
5
+
2
)+(
3
+
3
+
3
)
= 21
Lemi Malloy: rolling 3d6+9 (0)
(
3
+
2
+
2
)+9
= 16
Wiwaxia (GM): uh oh
Lemi Malloy: ...it was a good run
Wiwaxia (GM): it picks you up in its jaws again
okay, you get a grapple check to get out of the pin your turn
Lemi Malloy: rolling 3d6+9 (0)
(
6
+
3
+
2
)+9
= 20
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 3d6+3d4
(
1
+
5
+
3
)+(
2
+
3
+
1
)
= 15
Arxon: (I am very glad I decided to get chocolates today they are helping)
Wiwaxia (GM): wait, forgot that you broke out of the grapple earlier
so you get a free attack on it for doing that
Lemi Malloy: rolling 1d20+1
(
9
)+1
= 10
Wiwaxia (GM): no dice, so no change
you have just broken free of the damn things jaws
again
(To GM) rolling 1d6
(
4
)
= 4
Lemi Malloy: It's turn, right?
Wiwaxia (GM): yep
well not quite
this guy charges it with a stick
rolling 1d20
(
5
)
= 5
Lemi Malloy: AH NO PLEASE DON'T STAY SAFE
Wiwaxia (GM): not to worry, it's still biting you
i'm not sure it actually can twist around to bite the iguana
rolling 1d20+2
(
19
)+2
= 21
"T
rolling 3d2
(
1
+
1
+
1
)
= 3
holy shit you are so lucky
Lemi Malloy: oh my god
Wiwaxia (GM): it knocks you over and grabs you in its jaws
Lemi Malloy: what
Wiwaxia (GM): you are getting the strangest sense of deja vu
Lemi Malloy: It's like the worst circus ride
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 3d6+3d4
(
2
+
4
+
5
)+(
2
+
2
+
2
)
= 17
Lemi Malloy: rolling 3d6+9 (0)
(
6
+
5
+
1
)+9
= 21
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 1d20
(
2
)
= 2
rolling 1d20
(
11
)
= 11
neither of those hit
Lemi Malloy: PLEASE STAY BACK :(((
my turn or its turn?
Wiwaxia (GM): yours, but you are still grappling with it
so you need to win a grapple check to do anything
Lemi Malloy: rolling 3d6+9 (0)
(
1
+
2
+
3
)+9
= 15
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 3d6+3d4
(
1
+
6
+
6
)+(
1
+
4
+
3
)
= 21
Lemi Malloy: ....yeah
Wiwaxia (GM): its turn now
rolling 3d6+3d4
(
3
+
4
+
1
)+(
4
+
3
+
4
)
= 19
Lemi Malloy: rolling 3d6+9 (0)
(
1
+
6
+
5
)+9
= 21
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 1d20
(
18
)
= 18
one of the iguanas gets a lucky hit in
rolling 1d6-2
(
2
)-2
= 0
okay, maybe not
rolling 1d20
(
19
)
= 19
Lemi Malloy: ONO SAVE YOURSELVES
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 1d6-2
(
3
)-2
= 1
your turn
you are still grappling with it
Lemi Malloy: rolling 3d6+9 (0)
(
1
+
5
+
1
)+9
= 16
Wiwaxia (GM): which, among other things means it is incapable of attacking the iguanas

Wiwaxia (GM) The monster's bulk jostles you!
You take 1 damage!

Wiwaxia (GM) The monster's bulk jostles you!
You take 1 damage!
Lemi Malloy: WAIT NO IGUANAS PLEASE STAY AWAY

Wiwaxia (GM) The monster's bulk jostles you!
You take 0 damage!
Wiwaxia (GM): you get another bruise to add to your collection
rolling 3d6+3d4
(
1
+
4
+
5
)+(
1
+
1
+
4
)
= 16
stalemate continues
(To GM) rolling 1d6
(
2
)
= 2
Wiwaxia (GM): your turn
Lemi Malloy: rolling 3d6+9 (0)
(
1
+
3
+
3
)+9
= 16
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 3d6+3d4
(
4
+
4
+
1
)+(
2
+
4
+
1
)
= 16
actually, ya know what
rolling 2d6
(
4
+
3
)
= 7
the iguanas jump onto it too
so you win that grappling check
do you want to autohit it with your axe for damage or try to pin it?
Lemi Malloy: autohit with axe
roll damage?
Wiwaxia (GM): yep
Lemi Malloy: rolling 1d8
(
5
)
= 5

Wiwaxia (GM) The monster's bulk jostles you!
You take 0 damage!

Wiwaxia (GM) The monster's bulk jostles you!
You take 0 damage!

Wiwaxia (GM) The monster's bulk jostles you!
You take 1 damage!
Wiwaxia (GM): and now for the grapple
add 2d6 to yours from the iguanas
rolling 3d6+3d4
(
2
+
4
+
1
)+(
4
+
3
+
2
)
= 16
Lemi Malloy: (does that mean I put 5 in the box?)
Wiwaxia (GM): yeah, that works
Lemi Malloy: rolling 5d6+9 (0)
(
1
+
1
+
1
+
2
+
6
)+9
= 20
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d6
(
4
)
= 4
Wiwaxia (GM): your turn
rolling 3d6+3d4
(
3
+
5
+
6
)+(
3
+
4
+
3
)
= 24
Lemi Malloy: still +2 extra d6?
Wiwaxia (GM): yep
Lemi Malloy: rolling 5d6+9 (0)
(
1
+
4
+
5
+
3
+
4
)+9
= 26
Wiwaxia (GM): oh also, you forgot to add +1 damage from exceptional intelligence last time
autohit it, I assume?
Lemi Malloy: yeah
rolling 1d8+1
(
4
)+1
= 5
Wiwaxia (GM): it is dead
the surviving iguanas hail you as a might hero with a chorus of thips
Lemi Malloy: I fall to the ground and cry
Wiwaxia (GM): the iguanas are unsure of what to do
Lemi Malloy: I hug the iguanas
Apologizing over and over
iguanas: thip
iguana: there is no need to apologize, you saved the three of us
and if this mission bears fruit, you may have saved our village by allowing us to gather enough tallow to keep the candles burning
we all know we might die when we step beyond the circle of lights
Lemi Malloy: "Still, I pushed you to go further and when I was in trouble, you had to save me..."
iguana: farewell, old friend
thip
other: -iguana You wrestled the might serpent with your bare hands and dodged its fire!
iguana: you were the one who saved us, we could not abandon you
Lemi Malloy: Tears well up in Lemi's eyes again, and she chokes out, "Thank you..."
Wiwaxia (GM): the iguanas all bow their heads and give a chorus of thips
one motions for lemi to join in
Lemi Malloy: Lemi tries her best to thip
iguana: come, let us clean up here and press on
Lemi Malloy: "Right..."
Wiwaxia (GM): (+215 ash grist, 484 build grist)
Lemi Malloy: Lemi picks up what the fallen iguana was holding, unsure if she should take the body as well
Wiwaxia (GM): (the body is actually small enough to captchalougue, if you want to)
Lemi Malloy: ....I will
(what should I put the iguanas things as in sylladex)
Wiwaxia (GM): 7 candle stubs, candle lantern, basket
3 whole candles
including the one in the lantern
oh, also the basilisk's head is still there
if you want it for some reason
Leon Gaspar: [please consider: a flail with a basilisk head on the end]
[altho idk if it'd be ic for lemi to take the heads of her fallen enemies]
Lemi Malloy: ....Well I'm pretty sure Myrtha has fought one of these before, but she still might find it cool
Lemi doesn't take it, but she does take a picture
[Lemi was kinda a collector in th forest before sburb, but that wasn't when she'd just nearly died to a terrifying basilisk creature after, from her point of view, causing the death of a noble iguana]
Leon Gaspar: [that is definitely fair enough]
Lemi Malloy: Alright
Lemi looks towards the area a bit closer to the village, to see how bare of candles it is
Wiwaxia (GM): one of the iguanas encourages you to press on
you've already come so far
Lemi Malloy: ...They're right
Alright, lets move on.
Wiwaxia (GM): (clarification: there's no trees and no candles in that direction, and you can see that. you want to go "east")
Lemi Malloy: (ah ok)
Wiwaxia (GM): or "northeast" or "SE" or whatever
Lemi Malloy: it seems pretty treed in this direction
Wiwaxia (GM): it is very treed
and pretty candled, too
Lemi Malloy: Lemi keeps 3 eyes and 3 ears and 3 noses peeled for any sign of distubance
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 1t[THE-ADVENTURE-DIE-OF-ADVENTURE!!(and/or-misery)]
(
1 Encounter
)
= 1
(To GM) rolling 1d6
(
2
)
= 2
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d6
(
5
)
= 5
Lemi Malloy: 0________0
Wiwaxia (GM): fucking seriously
you encounter a bunch of imps ripping up candles
Lemi Malloy: How many is a bunch?
Wiwaxia (GM): five
Lemi Malloy: ...Do they notice us?
[.....Reminder for later: Ask friends about amount of alcohol in their house, consider stocking up on molotov cocktails]
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d5
(
1
)
= 1
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d4
(
2
)
= 2
Wiwaxia (GM): okay, like that
they've noticed you, but you've got the drop on them
so surprise round and then initiative
Lemi Malloy: ...would the iguanas be included in said surprise round
....xan u captachalouge living beings?
Wiwaxia (GM): yes and yes
they will be trapped in your sylladex cards if you die, though
Lemi Malloy: ....yeah no that is to likely to risk
.....I'm going to go after the closest ebony imp and hope they can stay be hind me, because if I don't start getting rid of these guys they can surround us easy
rolling 1d20+1
(
13
)+1
= 14
Wiwaxia (GM): yep that hits
Lemi Malloy: rolling 1d8+1
(
5
)+1
= 6
Wiwaxia (GM): one down, four to go
Lemi Malloy: (Lemi considers taking levels in bard so she can draw aggro)
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 1d20
(
5
)
= 5
Lemi Malloy: (that or saying insulting things about th imps parantag-)
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 1d20
(
17
)
= 17
rolling 1d6-2
(
6
)-2
= 4
Lemi Malloy: "Wait please stay behind me!"
Wiwaxia (GM): okay, now initative
rolling 1d6
(
5
)
= 5
Lemi Malloy: (....what echeladder rung are the iguanas on)
Wiwaxia (GM): 1
Lemi Malloy: rolling 1d6
(
4
)
= 4
Wiwaxia (GM): imps go
a raccoony looking one jumps you
rolling 1d20
(
19
)
= 19
Lemi Malloy: 0n0n0n0n0n0n0n0 iguaannaassss
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 1d4
(
2
)
= 2
-2 to all rolls for 1d4 rounds
rolling 1d20
(
5
)
= 5
your turn
Lemi Malloy: (I roll 1d4, right?)
Wiwaxia (GM): at the end of your turn
Lemi Malloy: rolling 1d20-1
(
10
)-1
= 9
vague noises of frustration
Wiwaxia (GM): misses
now roll that d4
Lemi Malloy: rolling 1d4
(
1
)
= 1
Wiwaxia (GM): the dust imp next to you is jabbing you again
also, no more -2 to things!
Lemi Malloy: 0u0
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 1d20
(
6
)
= 6
it misses
the other two are staying put
Lemi Malloy: rolling 1d20+1
(
5
)+1
= 6
Wiwaxia (GM): nope
rolling 1d20
(
2
)
= 2
epic basilisk wrestling to slapfight in 10 minutes flat
your turn
Lemi Malloy: rolling 1d20+1
(
17
)+1
= 18
...I am going to go out on a limb and say that hits
Wiwaxia (GM): wow, you're right
Lemi Malloy: rolling 1d8+1
(
3
)+1
= 4
Wiwaxia (GM): other two still ain't moving
Lemi Malloy: ...The last time I didn't fight one of these guys I found it again with friends
Still, chasing after them feels like a dick move
I move to there
Wiwaxia (GM): they hiss and jab in your general direction, but don't move
Lemi Malloy: Does it seem like they have any friends waiting in the darkness?
Wiwaxia (GM): what you see is what you get
Lemi Malloy: ..I try to think back on the wise words of my friends
and I am pretty sure all of them would say to go for it
Wiwaxia (GM): is that a charge?
Lemi Malloy: yes
rolling 1d20+1
(
4
)+1
= 5
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 1d20
(
1
)
= 1
well then
rolling 1t[The-Ya-Done-Fucked-Up-Table]
(
8 You have stunned your nearest friend. They miss their next turn. You should probably apologize. If no friends are available, you have stunned yourself and lose your next turn and also you fall over.
)
= 8
your turn
Lemi Malloy: rolling 1d20+1
(
2
)+1
= 3
LEMI
Wiwaxia (GM): your turn again
Lemi Malloy: rolling 1d20+1
(
1
)+1
= 2
LEMI
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 1t[The-Ya-Done-Fucked-Up-Table]
(
4 You /crit/ yourself with your attack. Yeoow.
)
= 4
Lemi Malloy: ....
Wiwaxia (GM): D:
Lemi Malloy: so um
can I theoretically kill myself here
Wiwaxia (GM): yes
Lemi Malloy: .....
Wiwaxia (GM): 8+1d8!
Lemi Malloy: rolling 8+1d8!
8+(
4
)
= 12
.......
Wiwaxia (GM): random stat takes 1d4 permanent damage and an additional 1d8 temporary damage that heals at 1 per day
rolling 1d5
(
1
)
= 1
or actually i should let you roll for that
Lemi Malloy: stares into the sun
rolling 1d5
(
5
)
= 5
ono I like my grace
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 1d4+1d8
(
4
)+(
1
)
= 5
Lemi Malloy: rolling 1d4
(
4
)
= 4
oh
Wiwaxia (GM): do you just wanna take the 1
Lemi Malloy: ?
Wiwaxia (GM): i mean not roll your own 1d8 temp damage
Lemi Malloy: ...yeah
thank you
Wiwaxia (GM): also everything that hits you now deals one more damage
that also tanks your saves
important note: if you are ever revived as your dreamself, you get that grace back
Lemi Malloy: alright :(
I'll make a note of that on google doc character sheet
how do I adjust things
Wiwaxia (GM): i already adjusted your saves
-1 to each
Lemi Malloy: thank you
Wiwaxia (GM): and one short of -2
rolling 1d20+2
(
14
)+2
= 16
rolling 1d6
(
2
)
= 2
(+2 to attack is because it's on the ground)
iguana: are you alright?
Lemi Malloy: "I-I'm fine, thank you so much, are you ok?"
iguana: you are covered in blood
I am unhurt though
sit down, I will deal with the last one
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 1d20
(
18
)
= 18
Lemi Malloy: "Wait!"
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 1d6
(
6
)
= 6
Lemi Malloy: (Lemi says, covered in blood)
....goddamn iguana
Wiwaxia (GM): honestly, some of these iguanas might make it out with enough xp to get class levels
Lemi Malloy: Warrior iguanas ouo
....because Lemi failed at protecting ouo
iguana: I think we should retrn
this expedition is already the most productive we have had in a long time, and you are in no shape to be an escort right now
Lemi Malloy: "I- if you are sure..."
Wiwaxia (GM): the iguanas gather up the grist for you
8 build 12 ebony 13 dust
Lemi Malloy: "Ah, thank you, how did you know?"
Wiwaxia (GM): 44 build 12 ebony 13 dust
miscalculated
the iguanas support you slowly back towards the village
if this is another encounter...
rolling 1t[THE-ADVENTURE-DIE-OF-ADVENTURE!!(and/or-misery)]
(
5 Roll twice
)
= 5
well
Lemi Malloy: ......
Wiwaxia (GM): rolling 1t[Geez-billy-TWO-encounters?]
(
1 Encounter
)
= 1
rolling 1t[Geez-billy-TWO-encounters?]
(
2 Hazard
)
= 2
Lemi Malloy: ...
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d6
(
6
)
= 6
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d6
(
4
)
= 4
Wiwaxia (GM): you come across a iguana child pinned under a log with the dying embers of a candle before her
i would like to say that there was absolutely no dice fudging involved in that
Lemi Malloy: ouo
Wiwaxia (GM): the dice absolutely did turn up a consort encounter
Lemi Malloy: I rush towards her as best I can and try to pull the log up
(or get under the log and push it up, that might work better)
Wiwaxia (GM): the iguanas restrain you, sit you down and then lift up the log
you return to the village with a chorus of joyful thips
Lemi Malloy: I do not deserve this thips
but I try and thip along for them
Wiwaxia (GM): ooookay, I think I'm gonna break there
seeing as it's 5am and I've got a loooooot of xp to tally
holy shit
Arxon: yeaaaaaaah
um
sorry
Wiwaxia (GM): no worries, man
Leon Gaspar: fair enough :P
Wiwaxia (GM): that was so much fun
Leon Gaspar: dude it was pretty fun just watching
Arxon: (ahhh I always end up taking up so much time :<)
Wiwaxia (GM): yeah but then you're gone for two weeks, soooo
it evens out
Leon Gaspar: it evens out :V
Arxon: (....It was very fun when I wasn't flipping out tho)
(sorry for that as well)
Leon Gaspar: besides, it means we get cute thipping iguanas
Wiwaxia (GM): dude, don't sweat it
Arxon: me and observing friend actually tried thipping ourselves for a good 3 minutes at some point
Wiwaxia (GM): flipping out is a perfectly reasonable reaction to a lot of that
okay, xp
first of all, total damage dealt and taken by lemi
(Not) Literally A Bird: aww, observing friend :3
Wiwaxia (GM): 85 and iguanas dealt and took 15
yes, I'm double-counting the 12 damage you did to yourself
Arxon: well uh
silver linings
Wiwaxia (GM): so that's a total of 1100
sorry, 1400
from seeing a basilisk for the first time
you are literally 20 xp short of level 4
Arxon: weeeelpppp
I am fairly sure I will get that beat out of me sometime soon
Wiwaxia (GM): oh also, you didn't use your hope thing this session
i'll let you try to make a grace check with your damaged grace and roll twice take the lowest to avoid some of that permanent damage
Arxon: ouo thank you
rolling 1d20+8
(
6
)+8
= 14
rolling 1d20+8
(
12
)+8
= 20
Wiwaxia (GM): nope, sorry
:C
Arxon: :C I'll manage
Wiwaxia (GM): hmmm, I wonder if I should count stat damage towards experience
probably
so that'd be another 200 xp to lemi
Arxon: ouo
Wiwaxia (GM): welcome to level 4
AXING THE HARD QUESTIONS
you get +1d6 hp
and +1 to any one save of your choice
and a legit classpect power
which I will have to come up with this week
Arxon: alright!
rolling 1d6
(
5
)
= 5
man look at all that hp
that I will inevitably loose
*lose
...strategic thing would be to put +1 to fort but I'll do it to reflex
Wiwaxia (GM): i am baffled why literally all of you have fort as your lowest save
:?
Arxon: ...personally it is because when I started this game I was playing a tank in anothe game and I was trying to do something different
we are teens with bad diets idk
Wiwaxia (GM): yeah probably that
bad diets and that don't wear enough armor
(Not) Literally A Bird: definitely true of leon
Arxon: (Teens With Bad Diets is the name of my Simple Plan cover band)
alright I am emotionally and also physically exhaused, Im gonna go to sleep
goodnight, and thank you! :3
Wiwaxia (GM): night!
that was a hell of a session
(Not) Literally A Bird: night!
it certainly was, haha
i even got to roleplay :3
Wiwaxia (GM): for whatever good it did
:V
also that is most definitely waking lemi up on derse
(Not) Literally A Bird: well yes but
this is sburb
it's 'teenagers making bad decisions: The Game'
anyway, i assume you're beat? i wont keep you up
Wiwaxia (GM): i'm polishing off xp stuff so i don't forget
so i'll be around a bit longer
(Not) Literally A Bird: alas, im gonna get off the computer for a bit. i'll send some alchemisations your way for whenever leon gets back home
night! or, er, morning! :o
Wiwaxia (GM): hey, at least its not light out
looks like myrtha leveled too

 

Spoiler: myrtha consults with the more helpful consorts, lemi awakens on derse

Karrin Blue: Hey
whimsy: yo
Karrin Blue: whatsup?
whimsy: got a cold, not feeling very good tbh
Karrin Blue: I'm gonna get a voidy power!
aww

Karrin Blue offers tea, blankets
whimsy: thank you
(also im pretty close to throwing a temper tantrum ::P) (bc of moss time difficulties) (brain can you not)
Karrin Blue: awww
whimsy: and you?
Karrin Blue: pretty good
though i have a thing i need to work on so i probably shouldn't play too late here ><
whimsy: ah
(Not) Literally A Bird: hello i am hiding from my essay

Karrin Blue high fives in solidarity

whimsy high fives too

(Not) Literally A Bird x3 high five combo!
Wiwaxia (GM): hallo all
i'm probably gonna have to pop away in a few minutes to retrieve laundry
(Not) Literally A Bird: i gotta make myself some tea, too
whimsy: i might bow out early, im too sick to stand up and even do that atm
-silently curses their clogged up sinuses-
(Not) Literally A Bird: aww, whimsy :c sinus-based sickness sucks
whimsy: mostly annoyed by breathing is difficult and weird
im irl a breathy, too, and this just sucks
Wiwaxia (GM): :C
blech
that sounds awful
whimsy: like, being immobile from pain is just slightly more inconvenient
Wiwaxia (GM): also, power options up in thread
Karrin Blue: oh man
those are both intriguing options
Arxon: hullo
whimsy: sup xon
Arxon: sldo yikes whimsy that sucks :<
whimsy: i silently cheer for the wh40k pen&paper psionics system where you got multiple lesser powers along with ecery greater you took, and as such learned all those nifty handy little cantrips. i loudly curse d&ds system which forced a truly ridiculous limit on your amount of spells
like srsly why should i learn firestorm or ice hail or whatever the fuck when i cant even spot a magic door
(Not) Literally A Bird: meanwhile pathfinder: always take prestidigitation.
whimsy: (jacka of all trade for non combat situation characters ftw, dsa is a bit more open about this but this too depends on the gm) (no i dont have a probem with d&d why would anyone say that) (-whimsys battle capacities are crowd control and other disruptions, not shelling out damage)
Karrin Blue: hmm
still tryin to decide between 'Somebody Else's Problem Field' and 'Find out ALL THE SECRETS'
whimsy: shit those both sound good
(Not) Literally A Bird: this just makes me want to level leon up right NOW but alas he's a tiny baby who is scared of conflict
Arxon: I am gonna go with stealing candle light
ouo

Karrin Blue flops
Karrin Blue: when would the next time i'd get to choose be?
next level?
Wiwaxia (GM): laundry get!
eight level
and then the next after that is 10th iirc
powers start off slow, then you get a bunch right as you get near to the level cap
Karrin Blue: and i only get to pick one each time?
Wiwaxia (GM): later powers correspondingly more powerful, of course
yep
Karrin Blue: awww
Wiwaxia (GM): arxon, you wanna stick that on your character sheet or should I
Arxon: I got it!
Karrin Blue: i still can't deciiiide
Wiwaxia (GM): while you are struggling to decide, have you added your +1 to a save of your choice and +1d6 hp?
Karrin Blue: I have not1
rolling 1d6
(
6
)
= 6
woo!
I'll add 1 to my fort save
since it's lowest
Wiwaxia (GM): don't forget to add that 6 to your current hp, too
Karrin Blue: so Myrtha is no longer at 0
Wiwaxia (GM): yep
Arxon: oh hey does that mean Lemilems is at 5 currently?
Wiwaxia (GM): yep
Arxon: See now she is totally fine to get back out there, iguanas
no negative repercussions could come from her getting back into the fight
Karrin Blue: guhhh i want to be able to spy on everything
and also, possibly matrix into the wire network
but i also really like the idea of just being able to
just
'You don't see me'
everywhere

Karrin Blue rolls around on the floor
Karrin Blue: how long does it take to make a trap
and do they need maintenance
Wiwaxia (GM): maybe half a minute?
and no, unless they get like stepped on or something
Karrin Blue: hm
...i also like the idea of Myrtha making a Bad Decision and hooking her brain up to the whisper lines
what doooo
i also like the idea that i can just ninja around basilisks and monster though
Wiwaxia (GM): well, I am glad that I came up with two good powers that you want
:D
Karrin Blue: :D
(Not) Literally A Bird: flip a coin :P
Karrin Blue: perhaps so
rolling 1d2
(
1
)
= 1
so the song one i suppose
Wiwaxia (GM): unsong, technically
Karrin Blue: heh
Wiwaxia (GM): also fun facts, you singing in the desert is partially responsible for you getting a song power as an option this early
at least on a meta level, and probably on a sburb level too
Karrin Blue: I see!
Wiwaxia (GM): do you want your song bar in red so it doesn't get confused for HP?
Karrin Blue: sure!
Wiwaxia (GM): also, I assume both myrtha and lemi are going the fuck to sleep?
Karrin Blue: No
Myrtha has to arm some nice snakes
Arxon: Lemi is um
I am assuming the iguanas are gonna make her sleep
If she had her choice she would run into the forest out of shame
Wiwaxia (GM): yeah
the healer is gonna pin to a bed if that's what it takes
Arxon: Lemi feels like shiiiiiiit
...and not just because she's bleeding from her all of her
Wiwaxia (GM): you are very kindly pushed into a bed
myrtha, are you gonna bring them down some stuff or take them up to your armory
?
Karrin Blue: I am going to go collect pikes from the armory, write down the codes, go to the alchemizer, make a bunch, and give those to them
Wiwaxia (GM): also can I get a grace check with lemi's dreamself's (unreduced) grace to wake up?
Karrin Blue: also planning on having Myrtha ask for Plot Background details
and then maybe go mess around on Derse?
Arxon: ..
rolling 1d20+9
(
15
)+9
= 24
oh wait do you mean from before it got tanked entirely?
Wiwaxia (GM): yep
success either way though
Arxon: rolling 1d20+13
(
5
)+13
= 18
..oh
Wiwaxia (GM): i'm just using the first roll
Arxon: ok
Wiwaxia (GM): @myrtha you can make 2 pikes with the build grist you've got, after that you've gotta torrent
how many are you making?
Karrin Blue: hmm
shoot i didn't ask how many they would need
can i go and ask them quick
Wiwaxia (GM): ya
they're still in your kitchen
Myrtha Oscurr: "How many weapons will you need to protect your village?"
the sirens confer
siren: there are about ten of us able and willing to fight
but if you could spare them, we would appreciate a few spare weapons in case we lose or break some in combat
Myrtha Oscurr: "Certainly. And if you need, I will help you to defend your village, if I can."
the sirens bow low
siren: We are deeply thankful for your offer, Lady. You have our fealty.
if we are in need of aid, we will send a messenger through the tunnels

Myrtha Oscurr nods.
Myrtha Oscurr: "Well, please give me a few minutes, then."

Myrtha Oscurr goes to armory to collect pike captchacodes
Wiwaxia (GM): you have no trouble running around between the armory and alchemy equipment
Myrtha Oscurr: also bathroom afk
Wiwaxia (GM): @Lemi
you awaken in a room that is not quite like your room at home
flowery violet wallpaper covers the walls
Lemi Malloy: Lemi is pretty sure this isn't the iguana village
what does she see outside the window?
Myrtha Oscurr: back now
Wiwaxia (GM): above, a small blue light in the far distance
below, a city of twisted streets and purple stone
@myrtha how many pikes are you making?
they're 4 build, 1 rust apiece
Myrtha Oscurr: Hmm
i'd say 15?
how much build and rust do we have
Wiwaxia (GM): whoop, apparently fresh out of rust
you'll have to settle for the shorter spears
which are just 3 build
Myrtha Oscurr: so i don't have any rust at all?
blurgh
Wiwaxia (GM): nobody does
Myrtha Oscurr: how many build do we have?
Wiwaxia (GM): ilmatar burned through her stash apparently
you've got 12, other people have hundreds
Myrtha Oscurr: i will torrent and make 20
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 20*3
20*3
= 60
Wiwaxia (GM): (i assume you're torrenting from lemi who has far and away the most build grist)
Myrtha Oscurr: i thought there was 1 communal grist pool
but if not then yeah
Wiwaxia (GM): eh, I set it up as individual records, so I'm just keeping it that way in my bookkeeping
Myrtha Oscurr: mkay
Wiwaxia (GM): and it is potentially relevant if you're trying to make something in a hurry
cos grist can take a while to torrent
you make 20 spears!
Myrtha Oscurr: wooo
Wiwaxia (GM): that's as many as two tens
whimsy: wi, correct me if im wrong, because it just might b that ilma really needs t get to whacking some imps, but im building after i wake up, which is still some ways to the future
Wiwaxia (GM): and that's wonderful
yep
you build with your client's grist, though
Myrtha Oscurr: I take them, put them into a neat bundle, tie them together (there's probably a bungee cord or something in the garage right?)
Wiwaxia (GM): yeah probablu
*probably
Myrtha Oscurr: and bring them to the sirens
Wiwaxia (GM): they thank you profusely
Arxon: (how much grist should I remove from my stuff?)
Myrtha Oscurr: "You're welcome."
Wiwaxia (GM): (i did it in my records, but 48 if you're keeping records too)
Arxon: (thank u!)
Myrtha Oscurr: "...Hm. I wonder, would either of you happen to know who I could talk to about things pertaining to this land? Mysterious voices and patterns, that manner of thing."
siren: hmmmmm
the sirens confer
(Not) Literally A Bird: (yo since a bunch of people will have to leave early and I can literally stay for like 8 hours, i'mma take a break and come back in an hour or so, so other people can go before me. that sound good?)
siren: we have no great sages or records in our villiage
Wiwaxia (GM): (K!)
siren: You could probably find some records in the Underground
although there are... other groups active down there
Myrtha Oscurr: "What groups?"
siren: ah, hmm
I regret that I don't know more to tell you, milady
Myrtha Oscurr: "Don't worry. How would I get to the Underground?"
siren: but there is some organization that controls the deep tunnels
very secretive and very dangerous, they
Oh! You do not know? There is an entrance under your land, Lady
and others hidden across the desert
Myrtha Oscurr: "Oh. I saw an entrance that had been bricked up underneath..."
"It was very strange. When I tried to record the image of it, it was covered with strange writing."
Wiwaxia (GM): the sirens look nervous
siren: so you have been in the Underground, then
we passed that archway on our way to see you, Lady
we do not know what it is
we do not think it was there before

Myrtha Oscurr looks worried
Myrtha Oscurr: "I see. One last thing... do either of you know what the 'Witch of Void' refers to?"
the sirens confer
siren: No, Lady.
it may be something to do with the statues of Nyx?
you find them sometimes, in alcoves in the Underground
but I could not tell you more than that
Myrtha Oscurr: "Well, thank you."

Myrtha Oscurr looks around. "Do you need anything else?"
siren: You have done enough and more than enough, Lady.
If we may, we will stay here in your waiting room until the storm subsides and then take our leave.
Myrtha Oscurr: "Certainly."
the sirens bow again
Karrin Blue: ((alrighty, Myrtha should probably go and take a nap surreptitiously just because, well, 6 health))
Wiwaxia (GM): ((yeah probably. grace check?))
Karrin Blue: rolling 1d20 + 8
(
7
)+8
= 15
right?
Wiwaxia (GM): yep
you remain asleep
well, double asleep
Karrin Blue: so no dersedreaming
ah well
Wiwaxia (GM): another time
Lemi, what are you doing/
*?
Karrin Blue: ((hey i might leave for the night))
((to go and punch that essay))
Arxon: ((I forget, does being dreamself make u more dreamy/dream logicy?)
Wiwaxia (GM): depends of the person
dream personality is usually a little different from waking personality
but it's your call how
@Karrin when you are punching the essay, don't forget you get a second punch every other round!
:V
((which is to say good luck))
Karrin Blue: :D
thanks!
Wiwaxia (GM): ((also you should check back when you're done if you're up, we might still be going))
Arxon: ((bye :3))
Lemi Malloy: Alright, so Lemi looks around the room for a door
Wiwaxia (GM): oh boy, time to go check the comic for how that works
one sec
no door, but four open windows, one in each wall
easily large enough to climb out of
Lemi Malloy: Hmmm
well, Lemi thinks,I've climbed enough trees in my life, I bet I can climb down a wall
She climbs out of the window
(the one to the left of the room)
(on the left of the room)
Wiwaxia (GM): the outside of your room is a bigass ball far above the towers of the city below
you can see a tall tower with a similar ball and windows atop it in front of you
Lemi Malloy: How close is it?
Wiwaxia (GM): it's a ways
hard to eyeball here
Lemi Malloy: Hmmmm Lemi'll just walk
she grabs onto the sill and drops down, search for footholds on the tower
Wiwaxia (GM): ahahaha no, it's a smooth ball
can I get a str check to not lose your grip?
Lemi Malloy: rolling 1d20+9
(
11
)+9
= 20
Wiwaxia (GM): you hang on, but it's a close thing
you can feel your fingers slipping slightly
and are suddenly very aware of the air below
Lemi Malloy: ....how hard would it be to pull herself back up onto the sill?
Wiwaxia (GM): another str check hard
Lemi Malloy: rolling 1d20+9
(
18
)+9
= 27
Wiwaxia (GM): you pull yourself up handily
((i am amused by the differences in Lemi and Ilmatar's reactions to trying to leave their dream rooms))
Lemi Malloy: She looks around her room for, like, rope. Or bedsheets. In the movies they use bedsheets
((Lemi probably needs to loosen up))
Wiwaxia (GM): there's bedsheets on your bed
purple, of course
Lemi Malloy: She strips the bed and ties them together!
Wiwaxia (GM): you get the oddest sense of deja vu
Lemi Malloy: Clearly bedsheet ropes are the solution to all of lifes problems
Wiwaxia (GM): except basilisks
Lemi Malloy: How far down the tower do the bedsheets go?
....To be fair, she didn't try to use a bedsheet rope against the basilisk
maybe she could have lassoed it
Wiwaxia (GM): you get down past the ball
Lemi Malloy: does this part of the tower have handholds?
Wiwaxia (GM): there's a nice inviting ledge in a bit
under the curve of the ball
you can't reach it, but if you build up a swing you might be able to get to it
Lemi Malloy: This seems like a good plan, thinks Lemi
She starts swinging back and forth on the bedsheet rope, trying to aim just above the ledge so she can slide down onto it, hopefully
Wiwaxia (GM): dex check time!
Lemi Malloy: rolling 1d20+12
(
13
)+12
= 25
Wiwaxia (GM): you time it perfectly!
Lemi Malloy: Lemi high fives herself!
Wiwaxia (GM): you are now squatting on the ledge, and still holding one end of the bedsheet rope for good measure
Lemi Malloy: are there any other handholds I can get to from here?
Wiwaxia (GM): beneath the ledge, the tower narrows sharply, but is made of what looked like rows on rows of bricks that you could probably get a grip on
Lemi Malloy: Alright! Lemi is gonna try and scramble down the tower
Wiwaxia (GM): (one sec, lagging, gonna reload page)
(Not) Literally A Bird: ((that took less time than i thought it would :V i'm around if y'all need me))
Wiwaxia (GM): ((dammit was trying to upload picture of dream tower for reference, but roll20 aint cooperating))
theeeere we go
so how are you trying to get past the ledge?
Lemi Malloy: hmmmm
is there anything I could the the bedsheet rope onto, if I could pull hard enough it untied?
that's a thing that happens, right?
Wiwaxia (GM): you can't you tied it pretty well, but there's a knot close enough for you to recover one sheet
and not really a lot of good places to tie it
you could try looping it around a corner of the ledge, maybe?
Lemi Malloy: hmmmm
that seems dangerous
ok, how far away is the edge of the ledge to the tower beneath?
Wiwaxia (GM): it's in about half a meter
Lemi Malloy: alright, so
gonna hang off the ledge, get feet into foot holds and...
....I don't think in metric, about how many meters is, say, an arm
Wiwaxia (GM): foot and a half, about
little less than an arm, probably
Lemi Malloy: ...alright, so
going to get foot holds, then going to try to reach and get a handhold with one arm
Wiwaxia (GM): so hanging off the ledge and swinging your feet in to get footholds?
Lemi Malloy: ye
Wiwaxia (GM): alright, str check
Lemi Malloy: rolling 1d20+9
(
6
)+9
= 15
Wiwaxia (GM): you lose your grip and fall
well, except for the last bit
you just kinda hang there in midair in pure terror
before you realize that you are not actually falling
Lemi Malloy: Lemi blinks and looks around and then looks down to make sure that, like, her dead body isn't splattered down there and she's just a floating ghost
Wiwaxia (GM): nope
well, she's not completely sure she's not a ghost
but no dead body here, at any rate
Lemi Malloy: She does a few experimental loop-de-loops
whimsy: (hooray for flying ::D)
Arxon: (... honestly expected her to fall sooner)
Wiwaxia (GM): (me too)
(lemi, actually pretty competent at not falling when it doesn't matter)
Arxon: (she's gonna put that on her business card)

 

Spoiler: lemi explores derse some more

Lemi Malloy: She gets a gigantic grin and flies as fast as she can towards the other tower, spinning and lopping as she flies
Wiwaxia (GM): as you clear you tower, you see that there is a third one on the other side of your tower
Lemi Malloy: .....looping not lopping
Wiwaxia (GM): snapped in half and missing the ball
Lemi Malloy: Oh no!
Does it look like anyone was hurt?
Wiwaxia (GM): can't tell
looks like it's been that way for a while
whimsy: oh dear
(Not) Literally A Bird: ((er. oops.))
Wiwaxia (GM): :D
Lemi Malloy: Lemi studies it a bit. What do the towers look like on the inside of the not ball
Wiwaxia (GM): looks like it's mostly a hollow tube of brick all the way down to the top of the atrium
there's some cross-bracing with some sort of purple metal
Lemi Malloy: Where is the ball that was on it?
Wiwaxia (GM): you've got no idea
it's not lying around the base of the tower
and there's no obvious damage to the nearby buildings
though they could have been rebuilt
Lemi Malloy: Hmmmm
Lemi files that away in her mental Mystery Notebook
Also, she creates a mental Mystery Notebook
Wiwaxia (GM): flying to the other whole tower again?
Lemi Malloy: Yep!
Wiwaxia (GM): you look in the windows
there's someone sleeping in here, in a blue room
there's faintly glowing scribbled pictures of swords and other weapons all over the walls
Lemi Malloy: Hmmmmm
Lemi considers saying hi, but it would be very rude to wake a sleeping person!
At least, Sis never liked it
She looks down to the purple city below, trying to see any noticible landmarks
Wiwaxia (GM): well, all the towers seem to be on some sort of hill or moon or something
there's more of the city beyond the curve of the city below
the towers dominate the cityscape here
but there's a plaza between yours and this one
Lemi Malloy: Lemi flies down to the plaza, looking to see if there are any other, awake people
Wiwaxia (GM): there are!
the plaza is pretty deserted, but there's a few people walking around
and some more lurking under the eaves around the edges
they all have shiny, hard looking black skin
carapaces, maybe?
and are wearing various permutations of kimono, something anime looking, green castle icons, skull or panther design hats
Wiwaxia (GM): fake flippers
vines
Lemi Malloy: Fashionable
Wiwaxia (GM): fashion is kinda a mess here, you gather
Lemi Malloy: Who is the nicest looking person in the plaza?
Wiwaxia (GM): hmmm
(To GM) rolling 1d6
(
1
)
= 1
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d6
(
5
)
= 5
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d6
(
4
)
= 4
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d6
(
5
)
= 5
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 2d6
(
6
+
3
)
= 9
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 2d6
(
5
+
4
)
= 9
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 2d6
(
5
+
6
)
= 11
Wiwaxia (GM): the friendliest looking one is a nervous fellow picking his way across the plaza
Lemi Malloy: Alright!
Lemi walks up to him and politely sticks her hand out
Wiwaxia (GM): He jumps almost out of his what is definitely an exoskeleton, you can see from this distance
Lemi Malloy: "Hello! Can you tell me where I am!"
(she says, hoping she doesn't sound too fake)
NP: aaah, ah! ah...
sorry miss, you scared me there
you are, ah, on the Moon
the ah, ah Plaza of the Dreamers, I think this is
um
er. are you, ah, lost?
Lemi Malloy: "Oh sorry! I am not too used to, um, talking. I woke up in one of those towers and I tried to climb down and, um, I ended up here."
NP: ...
the, ah towers
Wiwaxia (GM): ?
sorry
NP: ?
Lemi Malloy: "Ummm, yes. Why, should I not be there?! It looked like my room..."
NP: as in, the, ah, towers of the princesses?
uh
NP suddenly looks even more nervous
Lemi Malloy: "Umm, I don't know, sorry, I've never been there- I wans't trying to break into somewhere important, I just woke up there!"
*here, not there
(for the first there)
NP: ah ah ah, my apologies, your majesty
your witchiness?
your rogueiness?
NP gives you a slightly panicked bow
NP fidgets
Lemi Malloy: "I, um, huh? I don't know what you're talking about...."
NP: You, uh, must be one of the princesses of the moon, if you, ah, woke up in one of the, ah, towers
because, ah, that is where the princesses sleep
well, not anymore, ah, as you are, ah, awake and, uh, talking to me
Lemi Malloy: "A-A princess? That sounds like something Ilamatar would say...."
(..Ilmatar please imagine I spelled it right first time)
"Um, I'm sorry, am I not suposed to be awake...?"
NP: no! no, no, this is wonderful news
although probably more for those of a higher station than, ah, a humble potter
Lemi Malloy: "Is there something I should do now that I'm, um, awake?"
NP: well, uh, I imagine they'll be reporters wanting to talk to you
and, ah. invitations to all sorts of parties with the, ah, upper crust, I'm sure
but if you're the princess, you don't have to do anything you don't want to
unless, ah, the Black Queen requests an audience, I suppose
Lemi Malloy: "I don't think I'd be good at parties, or talking to reporters....I don't want to disappoint anyone."
"Maybe I should just go back into my tower and retend to be asleep."
NP is clearly unsure of what to say and is looking increasingly desperate

Lemi Malloy does as well, to be honest
Lemi Malloy: "Ah, well, thank you very much, um, I'll leave now, sorry..."
NP: ah, ah, you uh, um. Thank you for talking to me...?
uh
NP gives another unsure bow

Lemi Malloy gives an unsure curtsy back
NP stands there awkwardly
Lemi Malloy: And then she slowly steps away awkwardly before jumping into the air and flying off as fast as she can
Wiwaxia (GM): pchoooooooooo
where to?
Arxon: ...I am trying to decide how serious Lemi was about pretending to be asleep
at the very least she isn;t going to try anymore interaction
Wiwaxia (GM): poor lemi
poor nervous potter
Arxon: They are both trying their best
Lemi Malloy: Lemi decides to fly around and look at the city, hoping that she's far enough up that people won't spot her
Wiwaxia (GM): you follow the curve of the ground
which eventually tells you that this is, in fact, a moon
attached to a larger purple planet below by a colossal purple chain
each of the links is longer than you are tall, and almost as thick around as your waist
you can see open-topped ferry ships taking off and landing on platforms on either side of the chain
to fly people across
Wiwaxia (GM): it looks like most of the denizens lack your gift of flight
Lemi Malloy: Does the larger purple planet just look like the moon but bigger?
Wiwaxia (GM): well, mostly
it looks like there's some larger buildings there in amongst the spiky towers of the city
and there's six towers as large as the one bearing your room coming into view over the horizon
much thicker and more substanital looking, though
Lemi Malloy: Hmmmm
Lemi decides to go and check out those other towers, trying not to get spotted along the way
Wiwaxia (GM): with a glowing grey globe on the top of each
(afk momentarily)
Arxon: (kk)
Wiwaxia (GM): (back)
(also)
Arxon: (hell yeaaah)
Wiwaxia (GM): you fly among the glowing spheres and amethyst steeples of this collection of towers
inside the the globes, you can see silhouetted forms
skull and flag
nessie
leopard face
ghost
Wiwaxia (GM): some face with four eyes
vine and leaf
Lemi Malloy: (does Lemi need to make an int check to figure out the pattern or)
Wiwaxia (GM): no, i think she can pick up on it
it's not like it's subtle
and the nessie silhouette is identical to what nessiesprite looked like before she Entered
Lemi Malloy: Right
Lemi is wondering what exact role these towers play
She looks for an enterence
Wiwaxia (GM): no dice
the walls are solid
Lemi Malloy: she looks down at the surrounding buildings, seeing if they have any signifigance
Wiwaxia (GM): the surrounding buildings are a looong way down from the tops of the towers
and pile up against their sides like waves breaking on a cliff
however, while the surrounding towers share walls and buttresses, none of them touch the six towers
Lemi Malloy: hmmmm, interesting
she looks at one of the grey orbs...
and just kinda. pokes it.
Wiwaxia (GM): it feels like glass
glowing light wreaths your arm in flickering spirals
Lemi Malloy: Do her arms feel wierd?
Wiwaxia (GM): nope
you can't feel it at all, really
Lemi Malloy: ...The Nervous Potter mentioned a Queen
Lemi doesn't want to intrude or make a nuisance of herself, but maybe this Queen would have answers?
Wiwaxia (GM): ... you haven't the faintest idea where to find a Queen
whimsy: (...)
Lemi Malloy: Can Lemi see a big...palacey kinda place?
Wiwaxia (GM): mmmmmnope
(whimsy, you want a turn, or do you wanna wait for moss to be on at the same time?)
whimsy: (i was mostly commenting on where to find a queen)
(urgh, give me a second please, words are difficult rn)
(a) id love to get a turn, playing is always fun
b) waking ilmatar is still ways in the future (when did she go to sleep again? at T=15? she should wake up around T=23 then, and then 2 more hours of mucking around moss' home?)
3) which leaves dream ilmatar, who is sort of on hold because i kinda wanted her to meet moss. who cant play rn, which sucks. at this point id say, ilmatar and moss miss each other narrowly in the dream because ilmatar bounces off somewhere)
(and i just realized, i cant make the words work atm to actually play her interacting with anyone in the way id like to)
Wiwaxia (GM): waking ilmatar's at T=24, yeah
hm, I'm actually getting kinda tired
would it be okay if we wrapped up here and I started with ilmatar and leon (and hopefully moss) next week?
(Not) Literally A Bird: yeah, that's fine with me :)
Arxon: m sorry I took up all the time again
Wiwaxia (GM): dude, don't worry about it
juggling time is my job, and I try to be fairly even with it without cutting people short on what they're doing
Arxon: if you're sure...
I ust feel like an ass but that is probably just brain being a jerk?
whimsy: tell your brain to cram it, i enjoy you guys having fun ::D
partially also because i know that im included in this ::3
but also because its nice to see a bunch of confused teenagers trying to figure shit out and not get maimed in the process
Wiwaxia (GM): well, only a little maimes
whimsy: (it strikes me that we are far too sensible for actual teenagers)
Wiwaxia (GM): nnnnot really
we've had a person walk blindly into a whiteout
(Not) Literally A Bird: so are the the actual homestuck characters tbh
whimsy: whiteout?
Wiwaxia (GM): lemi doing, uh, pretty much everything she's done
whimsy: (im braindead atm sorry)
Arxon: (ouo thank you)
LEMI MAKES GOOD LIFE CHOICES I DONT KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT
Wiwaxia (GM): except for the dream tower just now
ehehehe
whimsy: ::DD
Wiwaxia (GM): whiteout, fog or snow where you can't see more than like a meter
what ilmatar did coming down the mountain
super, super dangerous
whimsy: ah
i remember
Arxon: Lemi is a competent and cool headed young lady
there is no war in Ba Sing Se
whimsy: something like that happened
(i couldnt connect the term to anything for a bit there, stupid cold induced brainfog)
Wiwaxia (GM): that's how you got close enough to death to wake up on prospit, yeah
man, fuck brainfog
it is the worst
whimsy: (oh ye its winter time here atm, so it'll be 2 am to 8 am for me for the next half year)
Arxon: (to be honest right now I am wondering how I can get Lemi to grimdark)
also yeah brainfog is the woooorst 0n0
Wiwaxia (GM): good life choices
whimsy: ooh that was the trigger? huh
Wiwaxia (GM): is how
yep
Arxon: well those are Lemi's forte
whimsy: i think once ilmatar wakes up shes going to make a ridiculous charm out of random shit she has stashed away in her drawers for lemi
Arxon: Lemi probably needs to keep her friends more updated on her condition
so like, if she dies at least they know what was going on
Wiwaxia (GM): you do still have your get-out-of-death-once card
(Not) Literally A Bird: when he's not trying not to drown leon will probably organise a Team Meeting so he can be Fully Informed
Wiwaxia (GM): which you might need
because nobody has the planet-hopping mobility to be kissing right now
Arxon: yeaaaah Lemi is. Probably going to need that
whimsy: (aaaaah i want ilmatar to wake up and text lemi about the visions)
Arxon: (ahhh yes 0u0)
also hy wiwaxia
w/ Lemi's new Hope abiity, does it only work iwth allies near her or anybody?
Wiwaxia (GM): nearby or in active communication, let's say
you can't give them a flame through a phone, though
Arxon: makes sense
whimsy: time to create flame-resistant phones
(and also oh gods i just realised why the sowilo lamp costs this enormous amount of grist, and its got to do with the specific session setup or more specifically lemis land, having something like that early would be gamebreaking) (i cant believe i only realised that now)
(also ive been scribbling armor ideas into my notebook all week and the best thing i can currently come up with is bone armor made via myrthas skulls)
Wiwaxia (GM): ehehehe
Arxon: yeeeeeee
If Lemi ever gets back toher house and it isnt, likr, destroyed she is going to try and make ALL THE CLOTHES
even if it means breaking into Sis's room
Wiwaxia (GM): remember, you can boost def with things that aren't strictly armor
whimsy: ive got my coat, would thicker fabric, like felt, help?
decent boots?
Arxon: (maybe try and make herself something less dorky than a sleeveless turtleneck)
whimsy: lots and lots of sequins...
::D
ilmatar and i think its v cute
Arxon: clearly Ilmatar has the right idea about things :D
Wiwaxia (GM): coat would brobably be good for +1 def
sufficiently spiffy boots could either go to +1 def or +1 protection
but not mundane ones
needa alchemize them
whimsy: memo to me: catch something flying and make wing boots
Wiwaxia (GM): you could probably get +def wings, honestly, with the right combination
whimsy: aahhahahahhahahahahahahah
Arxon: yesssssssssssssssssss
whimsy: you do know i had planned to try and cross ilmatars wings with an assortment of tarot cards and runes? ::DD
hm, i need a sturdy metal that is not iron, because iron hurts fairies....
hm, steel flower crown?
a full bismuth crown, while hella, would be too heavy
Arxon: Bronze?
(also, please tell me I am not the only dork who is making an aesthetic blog for the character?
please?)
(Not) Literally A Bird: ...what are colanders made of
(i haven't, but i totally should :P)
Wiwaxia (GM): stainless steel, usually, I think
(Not) Literally A Bird: ss or aluminum according to google
Arxon: yeah stainless steel or aluminium I think
(joooiiinnnn meeee)
whimsy: (i have forsaken the tumblrs, but yeah, character aesthetic blog sounds good.)
Arxon: (there is not much on Lemi's because I don't know any good aesthetic blogs to follow_
(Not) Literally A Bird: aaaand done :P now i have to work out what aesthetic blogs entail
Arxon: (...and als I couldn't follow creepypasta/cryptid blogs because Arxon is a little bird, small enough to hold in hand, scared of all the world)
(I've just been reblogging pictures of forests)
Wiwaxia (GM): (hum te tum, adding aaaaall the eclipses to the timeline so I know when they are)
(there's a lot)
whimsy: ::DD
shenanigans?
Wiwaxia (GM): also, my timeline program shows the colors of each event on the scroll bar
so it's all multicolored on one end
and then just purple and gold the rest of the way
(Not) Literally A Bird: what is lemi's blog? owo
Arxon: http://aphoticgaze.tumblr.com/
what about leon's :>
(Not) Literally A Bird: nascentinterlude.tumblr.com :P i only just created it tho
Arxon: (man how do you even find aethetic blogs. I do not know about that side of tumblr)
(Not) Literally A Bird: i'm just going through tags tbh
my girlfriend runs an aesthetic blog, maybe i'll ask her
Arxon: I have been looking for pictures to put in the theme but I am still unsure about Lemi's actual coloration :p except that she has white or whiteblonde hair
maybe I can just find black and white photos?
(Not) Literally A Bird: that also works :P
whimsy: black and white is an aesthetic, too
(Not) Literally A Bird: yeah leon is like hispanic but he also has dersite white hair so basically :?
Arxon: yeah Lemi Malloy is a nonsense name I came up with on the spot so. It doesn't help much wrt nationality
whimsy: malloy sounds vaguely scottish or irish
or maybe im just subconsciously noticind the similarities to jack o malley, who is a character of one of my fave webcomics
(he cant see colours, but he can see magic)
Arxon: (ohhh that sounds cool)
...I could make Lemi a ginger but. My entire being revolts at the thought
whimsy: hahahahahahahhahah
you ciuld give her freckles and dress hr in green
(ilmatar is going to make her something green at some point, i will be hideous and awesome)
Arxon: noooo that is too close to making her a self insert
about 1 third of my wardrobe is green
whimsy: ehehehe
(ilma started out as an unfettered and slightly more unhinged self insert of me, but shes been developing away from mem which is good, bu it also makes playing her difficult when im not on top of my game)
Arxon: (Lemi started out fairly far from me except in the "how do people" department, but her string of total failures has made her closer and closer to me :/
This always happens in tabletop, I start out going "hey maybe this character won't be an unreasonable ball of anxiety and then. nope. Dice hate me and characters always develop a complex from the constant failing they do
Wiwaxia (GM): (note to self, have lemi's more advanced powers not use dice)
Arxon: (that is why I chose the candle one- it seemed like less dice rolling)
whimsy: arxon, that is why you test the dice before you buy them
Arxon: ono I got all mine off amazon
(Not) Literally A Bird: (meanwhile i'm setting up leon's blog because i'm a huge nerd, and also leon is not much like me except for being indecisive)
whimsy: ... maybe its personal bias, but i grew up among tabletoppers
its a ritual to check every die you consider buying
Arxon: I am too scared to go to game stores around here
the one tme I tried all the clerks were too busy playing magic the gathering and after 20 minutes we left
whimsy: you look at its colour, and if that specific pattern looks nice, you throw it a couple of times, and if it rolls detrimental to your uses, you set it aside and buy a different one
naw that sucks
that really sucks
D::
Wiwaxia (GM): technically speaking, though, all your dice on here are coming from slight fluctuations in a beam of light :V
whimsy: (you cant really check the dice on conventions, because its crowded af, but the clerks are usually nice)
aka, untrustworthy as fuck ::D
Arxon: (yeah I've bought a couple from cons and I did get to test those. they rolled well then and then. Didin't)
whimsy: i do so distrust artificial randomness, theres always an algorithm to it
Arxon: ....That Page of Light classpect is getting more and more apt, apparently :<

 

Spoiler: moss and ilmatar meet up on prospit!

whimsy: and thats when you put the damn things in timeout
and let them think about what theyve done
dont laugh, it works
sometimes you need to switch up the dice a little
(it probably wont surprise you, but ive got a good amount of dice. far less than my other tabletopper friends, but still 2 of each at least, planning to up that to four)
a dice cup works nicely, too
whimsy: (dont bother with plastic ones, leather is the way to go, and go for the plain ones you can doodle on yourself unless you want one of those cool ones that come with a lid)
Arxon: (I have, um, 7 sets of dice)
(...I stress buy)
(and yeah a dice cup does sound nice, tho I would need a leather one
I have the sound in plastic ones :?)
whimsy: heh
plastic ones suck
Wiwaxia (GM): plastic dice bags i assume you mean
whimsy: a leather one can take a bit of stress and if the thread rips you can sew it back together, but plastic cups are gross and can splitter
dice cups
the things you put dice in, shake them, and then throw them
Wiwaxia (GM): if you want non-plastic dice, you've gotta pay through the nose
whimsy: i just grabbed a random translation off dict-cc
dice cup. one term. in german Würfelbecher
not talking about the dice themselves atm
(although ive got a friend with an iron dice set, seen glass dice, and was very close to buying bone dice. such a shame its difficult to get anything but d6 in wood)
Arxon: a friend of mine has a set of metal dice and one time her was frustrated he rolled them so hard it hit me in the forehead
...Imma stick to plastic
:D I want wood dice tho omg
whimsy: (and my dice bag is hand knit)
Wiwaxia (GM): nah, man
forget wood and metal
http://crystalcaste.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=CC&Category_Code=DS
Arxon: (I wanna hand sew a dice bag)
whimsy: jesus
i need gem dice
Arxon: ....hell. yes.
whimsy: dice bags are pretty damn easy to make ::D
Arxon: Sewing machines scare me D:
whimsy: either you take a rectangle and sew the halves together, or you pull a drawstring along the edge of a circular patch of cloth
hand sewing ftw
arxon, if you have the time, you can check my posts in the cosplay tag. all of those? hand. sewn.
the darkrai cloak took so fucking long, and the giratina top was fucking aggravating
::D
Arxon: My mom is a professional costumer for theatres and has been sewing all my life so you think I would know how but NOPE
Wiwaxia (GM): (pssssst whimsy you should totally post those on kintsugi)
Arxon: is cosplay thread in general chatter? :?
(oh wait misreaaaddd)
whimsy: or in fan town, but i think it was general chatter
erm, cosplay thread
im dumb, its 7 am (theoreticall 8 am)
Wiwaxia (GM): ahhh
whimsy: (mom used to make gorgeous period dresses for renfaires. when i asked her to teach me how to sew, when i was... 6? she said glueing would be more interesting for me. i taught myself how to sew, on stretchy fabric. theres nothing that can scare me any more.)
Arxon: (Mom just gave me the book she learned how to sew on. It is large and scares me :<)
(ANYWAY I should sleep before I sadbrains even more at you all, I am sorry, thank you v much ouo
Wiwaxia (GM): night!
whimsy: nighty-night ::3 -hugs-
Arxon: (ahhh I can't find the cosplay thread :<)
whimsy: want me to give you a short crash course via pm?
Arxon: ...that would be really nice, yeah, if it wouldn't take too much of your time
whimsy: it would be a few lines and then turning you loose on your first project xxD ::D
Arxon: ahaha ok :>
we definitely have enough sewing supplies around here
whimsy: in dutch cookie tins, i presume?
Arxon: naaah mom uses the too much
she's transformed half the garage into her sewing room and has themm all in wooden ikea drawer sets marked with hello kitty stickers
whimsy: ahahaha nce
also ive got a couple 2.75-ish inch needles
Arxon: 0.0 what are those for? the biggest ones mom has are for denim I am p sure
whimsy: leather, i think
they came along my antique sewing machine which i still havent gotten running
(gods i wouldve taken a cheap electric one for what my mother paid for it and transport, but nooooo)
(i think i should stop here or else im just going to yell about my mother again)
Arxon: (ono)
(how big is the antique one?)
whimsy: its integrated in a table
Arxon: ohhh one of those old ones
whimsy: i fear i might have to disassemble it according to instructions and degunk it completely with some hard chemicals
but i dont have the brains for that atm
Arxon: yeah that sounds difficult :<
anyway I really should sleep or like. take a bath. ugh I am srry
thank u very much tho night ouo
whimsy: n8 ::3
evening ::D
Wiwaxia (GM): hallo!
whimsy: it's quarter to midnight here, for reference purposes
i'm not quite sure how time works
that might be because of the wtnv novel
i suspect dst is a nightvalean invention
Wiwaxia (GM): motherfucking miracles is how
Arxon: (hello ouo)
whimsy: i'm currently sorting my ocs via the sorting hat chats system
its fun ::D
Wiwaxia (GM): nce
Karrin Blue: Hey
whimsy: sup ::D
(ive got a ridiculous number of gryffindor secondaries)
(a ridiculous number of gryffindor secondaries either modeling or performing ravenclaw)
(yes i could totally plan everything here but rn I NEED TO PUNCH SOMETHING)
Wiwaxia (GM): so we're just waiting on moss, bird and me to desperately get together a nice prospit pic with the right number of towers
whimsy: ::D
k m.: wreh, so my wifi might cut out, we have like three routers on the whole damn base and everyone's watching ahs on em
it's like 3.12p here right now for ref sake
actually, are these coming through alright? we lost power earlier, and i can only see my replies
Karrin Blue: I can see alright
k m.: ok good i can see your response
then i am connected unless this stupid thing kicks me off again
whimsy: -fistbunp of solidarity re: shitty wifi-
k m.: yeah really
Wiwaxia (GM): bleh, fuckit
i don't think i can get this prospit ready for this session
it'll have to wait for next week
whimsy: i dont need an actual pic tbh
so if moss doesnt either and you dont either we can totally play a thing on prospit
Wiwaxia (GM): well, the plan is to eventually have a prospit pic with zoom-ins of important locations
but i'm not gonna have those zoom-ins ready for a bit
k m.: yeah we can just pretend unless you have a specific thing - and then you can just tell us
it'll be helpful eventually but i don't think i need it rn
Wiwaxia (GM): so not having the pic at all is no great loss
yep
k m.: i even have my detail notebook today
and i haven't read back through anything i've missed, just fyi
whimsy: should i pull up the letter dream!ilma wrote real quick? although i have no idea if that was still in 3 or already in 4
Wiwaxia (GM): still in three
and did you write two or only one?
whimsy: only one
Wiwaxia (GM): k
whimsy: then i ran into the eclipse
Wiwaxia (GM): so no, don't grab that then
whimsy: didnt get to write the other one yet
ok
Wiwaxia (GM): moss, last I recall, you had gone on a nice walk that was rudely interrupted by a basilisk and some sort of fire-breathing im
and ran back to your house to rest and regroup
k m.: correct! i believe i ran away
Wiwaxia (GM): the time is now about 16:10 since entry
you have just woken up on Prospit in the middle of the eclipse
Moss Kaplan: Ooops.
that's dangerous, isn't it?
Wiwaxia (GM): not if you're in your room
oop, sorry 16:30 since entry
your room can get transported to within the cloud visions
but the inside will remain unaltered
Moss Kaplan: well, i guess i'm staying in my room
...theoretically, what would happen if i wandered around outside
Wiwaxia (GM): well, knowing too much about your future can itself be dangerous
because what you know, you can't change, only re-contextualize at best
but more to the point
the visions during an eclipse can engulf you
and are actually physically present
and so present immediate threat to dream life and dream limb
Wiwaxia (GM): (http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002973 for canon details)
Moss Kaplan: ...yep, i'm staying in my room
but my room will wander around visions?
ah i will read that
Wiwaxia (GM): *watch
Moss Kaplan: man i should really reread hs
ok so visions are just happening all over basically
Wiwaxia (GM): yep
(i'm operating on the assumption that being in a cloud vision is somewhat like being in a dreambubble physically)
clouds scudding past in the Breeze
full of visions or in literal shapes of things to come
Moss Kaplan: yeah that's what i'm getting from this
Wiwaxia (GM): most people on Prospit just stay inside when the eclipse rolls around every sixteen hours
kinda a siesta time, culturally
Moss Kaplan: ok! do i have anything i could do in the meanwhile?
otherwise i think i will just chillax
Wiwaxia (GM): chillax, mostly
you know that the only way out of your room is through the windows
which is right out into the clouds at this point
and you shouldn't try to wake up yet, because you need your beauty sleep
(beauty here meaning "doesn't look gnawed on by a basilisk")
you can also cloudgaze from the relative safety of your windowsill
Moss Kaplan: what an excellent synonym for beauty
i will look contemplatively out the window, like a bizarre modern age andro princex fiona
Wiwaxia (GM): pffft
(To GM) rolling 1d3
(
2
)
= 2
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d14
(
5
)
= 5
Moss Kaplan: ((i think i had heard that someone else was wandering around in the eclipse, but moss k doesn't know this i assume))
Wiwaxia (GM): ((ya))
a cloud drifts by, not enveloping your tower, but close enough to see a good deal of the scene
you see a blue path winding through blue hills
Moss Kaplan: suddenly, that song about being blue is stuck in my head
Wiwaxia (GM): the sky is deep and empty above.
on one horizon, a flat blue plain stretches away
Karrin Blue: o hey
Wiwaxia (GM): you see a burly Prospitian man walking down the path
as you watch, another prospitian man, thinner, comes walking in the other direction
he doesn't look like he's paying much attention to where he's going
the two men bump into eachother, the thin one apologizes profuesly and keeps walking
after a minute, the burly man roars in anger and runs him down, grabbing him around the neck
whimsy: (and back) (my internet connection decided to die on me, im sorry)
Wiwaxia (GM): the cloud hangs outside your window as they yell at each other
whimsy: (ofc just when it started getting interesting)
Wiwaxia (GM): you see someone else, a human girl about your age, come up the path and stand watching the argument from behind a clump of rocks
Moss Kaplan: huh
Wiwaxia (GM): you notice that she is wearing a very familiar pair of goggles just as the Breeze turns and the cloud whisks past
Moss Kaplan: hey cool
Wiwaxia (GM): you see another cloud moving low, hugging the streets of the city
you can see your old woods, where your house used to be on Earth, from high above
Moss Kaplan: hey i can see my house from here
Wiwaxia (GM): then it whips past, leaving a girl in golden pajamas kneeling on the street, grasping at air
Moss Kaplan: hey
Hey!
-waving-
Ilmatar Nordwind: (do i hear that?)
Wiwaxia (GM): yep
Ilmatar Nordwind rubs her eyes and floats up a little.
Wiwaxia (GM): (well, you hear someone yelling, you can't make out the words)
Moss Kaplan: ((i don't know who people look like yet do i?))
Wiwaxia (GM): hmm, you might, actually, because you have the advantage of several years of prospit dreams
Ilmatar Nordwind: Ilma posted a fuckton of selfies actually
Moss Kaplan: ok cool on both counts then!
Ilmatar Nordwind: so yeah, long weird hair, long ears, just suddenly in bright yellow and not gothic black with colour splashes or weeaboo wardrobe
Ilmatar Nordwind thinks being inside the clouds is boring.
Ilmatar Nordwind: The closest tower is still the one I entered the vision from, right? (aka moss' tower)
Wiwaxia (GM): also, just for curiosity's sake, do you want pants or skirt on your propit pajamas?
nope and nope
Moss Kaplan: pantstacular
Wiwaxia (GM): the closes tower is moss's tower, but that's not the one you entered the vision from
Ilmatar Nordwind: (skirt and legwarmers!=
(huh)
Karrin Blue: you can play music through this?
Arxon: (omg legwarmers)
Wiwaxia (GM): yep!
Ilmatar Nordwind: but yeah, being inside visions is dumb so i'm not too keen on repeatng that for the moment and fly up, completely forgetting to check if theres a cloud above her.
Arxon: (Ilmatar is max adorbs)
Karrin Blue: cool, is this from the prospit and derse album?
Wiwaxia (GM): nope, song of skaia, from album of same name
Moss Kaplan: ((nice, this covers up the ahs screaming in the room))
Ilmatar Nordwind: (also please imagine i kept the pov straight)
Wiwaxia (GM): also notable for quenya vocals
Karrin Blue: ahh
Wiwaxia (GM): i felt it was appropriate
(and latin, which this may be rn)
there is a cloud above ilmatar, but it's just a puffy one in the shape of a leopard head that she flies right through
Ilmatar Nordwind is floating in a weirdly shaped cloud.
Ilmatar Nordwind: Is the cloud edible?
Wiwaxia (GM): uh
potable, more
inhalable?
it's made out of water droplets
probably water
maybe liquid visionstuff
Ilmatar Nordwind: and probably also pretty cold
Wiwaxia (GM): it's a little chilly, yeah
your pajamas are very warm, though
Ilmatar Nordwind 's face is still cold, along with their esophagus, so Ilma extracts herself upwards from the cloud and looks up.
Wiwaxia (GM): you're right below the tower you were heading to when the eclipse hit
there's someone waving at you out the window
Ilmatar Nordwind: huh
Wiwaxia (GM): it also looks like there's another cloud headed your way from behind the tower
(To GM) rolling 1d3
(
3
)
= 3
Ilmatar Nordwind flies up to the window and tentatively waves back.
Wiwaxia (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d14
(
8
)
= 8
Moss Kaplan: -can recognize ilmatar now probably-
Wiwaxia (GM): yep
Moss Kaplan: Hey! Ilmatar, right?
Wiwaxia (GM): ilmatar also recognizes moss very distinctly as the person from her last vision, although probably not as Moss
Ilmatar Nordwind: and a little bit older
Wiwaxia (GM): yep
Ilmatar Nordwind: well, she's his server player, so i probably should have recognized the woods tho
(and please imagine i kept the pronouns straight)
"You can see me?"
Wiwaxia (GM): (yeah, recognizing woods works)
Moss Kaplan:
((oh yeah, moss is a they, but life is hard and so are pronouns, so moss is a whatever. like gonzo))
Yeah!
Sorry, I'm Moss! Uh, sI
Ilmatar Nordwind: Oh, hi!
Ilmatar Nordwind beams.
Ilmatar Nordwind: Can I come in?
Moss Kaplan: yeah totes!
Ilmatar Nordwind: And yeah, Ilmatar
Ilmatar Nordwind tacklehugs Moss inside
Moss Kaplan: nice to meet you in person!
well
-looks around-
kind of in person
-is tacklehugged-
Wiwaxia (GM): a cloud sweeps around the tower outside, making the light suddenly murky and watery
dim ripple patterns of light dance on the floor
Moss Kaplan: whoa
Ilmatar Nordwind lets go
Ilmatar Nordwind: Aah, I'm sorry. I probably should've warned you. Or asked.
It's just... it's been a while since I've met people who can see me, people my age, I mean.
It's got to do with being a fairy, you know? Only people who believe in fairies can see me. Online stuff sorta circumvents that, dunno how.
But now I've met you in person and you can see me and...
Moss Kaplan: ...uh huh.
(moss rerealizes that this is ilmatar, of weird theories and high fantasy)
yeah i can definitely see you!
Wiwaxia (GM): ((pft))
Ilmatar Nordwind has a big grin on her face. She also rubs at her eyes for a little bit.
Moss Kaplan: (oh good, so an obsessive fact checking history nerd and a fairy walk into a bar...
this started out as a joke but i dunno what the punchline is)
Ilmatar Nordwind: (::D)
(hi bird)
(Not) Literally A Bird: (so daylight savings + me being tired = me having no idea what time this started)
(how much have i missed? x.x)
Wiwaxia (GM): no worries!
moss and ilmatar have met on prospit and are being adorable
((also i believe Moss's echeladder rank is still whipper-snoper :V))
(Not) Literally A Bird: d'awww
Wiwaxia (GM): oh, also moss saw a blue desert with prospitian guys arguing and someone watching from behind a rock
(Not) Literally A Bird: (aight, carry on!)
Wiwaxia (GM): which is obviously completely new information unrelated to anything that has happened in this game ever
Moss Kaplan: ((yeah i keep missing things and am so far behind. but moss' entire brain is that gif of ben from parks n rec going 'i don't even have time to tell you how wrong you are....actually it's gonna bug me if i don't'))
Wiwaxia (GM): ((pppf))
oh, other thing you missed, bird:
Ilmatar Nordwind: Eheheh!
You know
I hope you keep believing in me.
Ears and all.
Ilmatar Nordwind points to her long elf ears.
Moss Kaplan: ...uh huh
well, you are here.
and i see you
so, theoretically, you're real
Ilmatar Nordwind has this expression on her face: :D
Ilmatar Nordwind plops herself down in the air, because chairs are for suckers if you can fly.
Ilmatar Nordwind: So! This place! What is it? Is it a secret magical kingdom with a magical fairy queen?
Karrin Blue: oops
Ilmatar Nordwind 's face darkens and she leans forward.
Ilmatar Nordwind: Have you been keeping the knowledge of a fairy kingdom from me?
Ilmatar Nordwind assumes her smile again.
Ilmatar Nordwind: Or why are we here? Ancient prophecy?
Moss Kaplan: Uh.
no?
This is just where I go when I'm asleep.
Wiwaxia (GM): ((AHAHAHAHA))
Ilmatar Nordwind: Huh. This sounds like a mystery!
Wiwaxia (GM): ((actual irl guffawing here))
Ilmatar Nordwind: ((i love playing this character))
Moss Kaplan: ((this is great never change))
Karrin Blue: (I can't wait for us all to meet up ingame)
Ilmatar Nordwind: ((ilma is going to hug everybody so hard))
Moss Kaplan: Yeah. This is definitely a mystery. Very weird.
...Is this your first time here then?
Ilmatar Nordwind: Yeah! I was out looking around a bit.
There's someone else just like us in the third tower, but they're asleep. But I wrote them a letter, so they'll know they're not alone when they wake up.
And then I flew into one of the clouds, because, hey, the people who can see me tend to say I've got my head in them, but I'm not that tall! So I checked what it was like. But it's pretty boring, it's just like when no one can see me, and I've got that back at home.
Moss Kaplan: That's cool.
(moss is imagining that letter to have at least 4 references to 'unknown fairy kingdom')
Yeah, these clouds are pretty wild. They do visions
Ilmatar Nordwind: Huh.
Yeah, I gotta tell Lems her sis is ok, but she should pack some ammo for her. And that the dark things can be beaten.
Moss Kaplan: ...Wow, your visions sound way more hardcore than mine.
I got some super blue world fight and my old woods.