[2025/10/05 14:00] Sonja Bikergrrl: who are we missing
[2025/10/05 14:00] Sonja Bikergrrl: Andreas has internet issues
[2025/10/05 14:00] Sonja Bikergrrl: Sapphire is away
[2025/10/05 14:01] Sonja Bikergrrl: Jassie?
[2025/10/05 14:01] Sonja Bikergrrl: so we are missing one player
[2025/10/05 14:02] Mecha: Guess so
[2025/10/05 14:03] Sonja Bikergrrl: well... everyone roll a D20
[2025/10/05 14:03] D20: Mecha rolls 9
[2025/10/05 14:03] D20: Joe rolls 1
[2025/10/05 14:03] Sonja Bikergrrl: and we'll meditate a few minutes with Simba, the Warrior Kitten
[2025/10/05 14:03] Sonja Bikergrrl:

Simba, the Warrior Kitten

[2025/10/05 14:04] D20: Christina rolls 10
[2025/10/05 14:04] Sonja Bikergrrl: and Christina gets to roll 2D6
[2025/10/05 14:05] D6: Christina rolls 4
[2025/10/05 14:05] D6: Christina rolls 1
[2025/10/05 14:05] Sonja Bikergrrl: oh my oh my oh my
[2025/10/05 14:05] Christina: I'm rolling as poorly as last week, clearly!
[2025/10/05 14:05] Sonja Bikergrrl: well, last time you'd made contact with alien humans
[2025/10/05 14:06] Christina: And SO far we'd managed to avoid killing any of them.
[2025/10/05 14:07] Sonja Bikergrrl: they said they were friendly and had been shot down, and as they crashed, lost some (mostly) harmless specimens. Could you report to the authorities that they mean no harm, and deal with the specimens, as they have to fix their ship and deal with something they have contained.
[2025/10/05 14:07] Mecha: Oh yeah, the humans
[2025/10/05 14:07] Joe: they're in league with demons
[2025/10/05 14:07] Christina: That's what the demons want you to think.
[2025/10/05 14:07] Joe: gins. Agreed, the demons are a worse threat
[2025/10/05 14:08] Sonja Bikergrrl: And with that recap out of the way.... GGRREEEEETTTTTIINNGGSSS Adventurers! Other players get xenomorphs to hunt down, you get a bug hunt.
[2025/10/05 14:08] Sonja Bikergrrl: when we left off, you were still in their craft, talking to them
[2025/10/05 14:08] Christina: "Not another fucking bug hunt...." ::hopes she got the movie quote right::
[2025/10/05 14:08] Sonja Bikergrrl: Mecha, you can start us off
[2025/10/05 14:09] Mecha: Looks at these beings."Okay, okay who are you? What are you? Why do you look humans and what is an eee arth
[2025/10/05 14:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: Rynar, the woman in white with red insignia speaks. "We're humans... probably very identical to you, but from another world. That's why we look like you, because we're very similar. And Earth is the name of our home world."
[2025/10/05 14:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: joe?
[2025/10/05 14:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me slams the CAPS SHIFT key
[2025/10/05 14:12] Joe: "What about the blue one?"
[2025/10/05 14:13] Sonja Bikergrrl: The shimmering, semi-transparent figure speaks next. "I'll answer that one. The name is Novaya, and I'm a construct, a machine. My job is to support and help the crew."
[2025/10/05 14:13] Sonja Bikergrrl: Christina?
[2025/10/05 14:15] Christina: You..... You're a _machine_?!? ::struggles to wrap her brain around this concept:: You look more like a ghost... but I confess I'm more worried about these aleens you mentioned that are clearly so dangerous. ::gestures to the bloody corpse on the table::
[2025/10/05 14:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: The older guy says: "Well, they weren't dangerous when in their stasis cages, but, we got shot down. They didn't seem dangerous, anyway." Younger guy: "Not like that other thing that took out three of our crew members."
[2025/10/05 14:18] Christina: Do you have drawings, or paintings, of what these looks like? I'd like to eb able to recognize them if I see them.
[2025/10/05 14:18] Christina: look*
[2025/10/05 14:19] Sonja Bikergrrl: "Unfortunately, no, we just caged 'em and put them in storage."
[2025/10/05 14:19] Sonja Bikergrrl: mecha?
[2025/10/05 14:19] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me hammers that CAPS SHIFT key again
[2025/10/05 14:22] Mecha: Looks at Novaya, "so you are like a Metal Golem." She pauses and thinks." In the mean time, welcome to Sleepy Hollow. My name is Beltadona. I am a cleric of Iallanis
[2025/10/05 14:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: Novaya takes a bow. "More like a Light Golem, Beltadona of Sleepy Hollow."
[2025/10/05 14:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: Joe?
[2025/10/05 14:23] Christina: /me blushes. "So sorry! My name's Tina."
[2025/10/05 14:24] Joe: The paladin understands a golem is not inherently evil. "How many demons are we hunting?"
[2025/10/05 14:25] Sonja Bikergrrl: Older guy: "Hicks." Younger guy: "Gorman." Woman in white: "Dr Kade, but call me Rynar."
[2025/10/05 14:25] Sonja Bikergrrl: There's a couple of shrugs. "Probably not that many, half a dozen, maybe? And they're mostly like dogs, not demons."
[2025/10/05 14:26] Joe: "And, the other thing, which took out three of your crew?"
[2025/10/05 14:26] Sonja Bikergrrl: Christina?
[2025/10/05 14:26] Mecha: Other thing?
[2025/10/05 14:27] Christina: /me looks at the corpse on the table. "That doesn't look like the work of dogs to me... That looks like knife work."
[2025/10/05 14:27] Sonja Bikergrrl: There's a pause as everyone exchanges glances. "That... wasn't a sample we collected. We were .... somewhere... it snuck on board, like dancing lights swinging in... then it just.... killed the Sarge..."
[2025/10/05 14:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: Dr Kade: "Even dogs got claws and teeth, and will attack if stressed."
[2025/10/05 14:29] Christina: O,o
[2025/10/05 14:29] Sonja Bikergrrl: Mecha?
[2025/10/05 14:30] Mecha: Did the lights take the demons.. er dogs?"
[2025/10/05 14:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: Hicks: "No, the lights snuck on, we powered up the gravity drive, we realized we were in the wrong place, it attacked us - and then we were being shot down by those ships up there in space."
[2025/10/05 14:32] Sonja Bikergrrl: Christina?
[2025/10/05 14:32] Mecha: okay, so the lights did not come here after landing here
[2025/10/05 14:34] Christina: Or at least, it sounds like they found you when you were somewhere else... But Mecha, they've not said the lights went completely away. So I assume we still need to worry about THEM, too?
[2025/10/05 14:34] Sonja Bikergrrl: Hicks: "It's contained, we're dealing with it."
[2025/10/05 14:35] Sonja Bikergrrl: Dr Kade: "but we really need your authorities to know we're harmless - and those specimens need dealing with. Can you help us with that? And we'll be gone soon as we can."
[2025/10/05 14:35] Sonja Bikergrrl: Joe?
[2025/10/05 14:35] Joe: "The only thing in all that which makes any sense is our need to hunt a pack of dog-like demons and a more nasty demon, before they cause any more trouble. Which direction did they go?" (OoC how close is the coast?)
[2025/10/05 14:35] Sonja Bikergrrl: (Coast is -miles- away).
[2025/10/05 14:36] Sonja Bikergrrl: Mecha?
[2025/10/05 14:38] Mecha: Beltadona pauses.
[2025/10/05 14:38] Mecha: "Not to be negative, but introductions aside how do we know you're harmless?
[2025/10/05 14:39] Sonja Bikergrrl: Hicks: "To be blunt - you're still alive, aren't you? We're far from unarmed."
[2025/10/05 14:39] Christina: At the very least, you've brought something dangerous to where we live.
[2025/10/05 14:39] Sonja Bikergrrl: Hicks (sighs): "Again... we were -shot down- from craft over your planet."
[2025/10/05 14:39] Mecha: To be fair we are not exactly unarmed either. Not denying you but just some kind of proof we can bring with us
[2025/10/05 14:40] Sonja Bikergrrl: Dr Kade: "What do you suggest?"
[2025/10/05 14:42] Sonja Bikergrrl: Joe?
[2025/10/05 14:44] Joe: "I want to hunt these demons. Nonsense abut how your metal ship is so far from the sea is some sort of trauma madness." Joe is eager to go hunting.
[2025/10/05 14:44] Sonja Bikergrrl: Hicks: "We'd appreciate the help."
[2025/10/05 14:44] Sonja Bikergrrl: Christina?
[2025/10/05 14:44] Christina: I, for one, want to see how you have this set of flashing lights captured. I hope it's in something more secure than these stays-is cages you mentioned.
[2025/10/05 14:45] Sonja Bikergrrl: Gorman: "It's trapped in a corridor up above. As long as no one opens the doors - it's going nowhere."
[2025/10/05 14:45] Sonja Bikergrrl: Mecha?
[2025/10/05 14:47] Mecha: okay, is there a spell or way to bring the message to the others. That way it's not just us saying that. As for the thing. if it is locked away, right now it may be for the best.
[2025/10/05 14:47] Sonja Bikergrrl: Dr Kade: "I'm sorry... a... spell?"
[2025/10/05 14:48] Mecha: Do you not have a wizard or a cleric on your ship?
[2025/10/05 14:48] Sonja Bikergrrl: This gets blank looks.
[2025/10/05 14:48] Sonja Bikergrrl: Hicks: "You... you believe in... magic?"
[2025/10/05 14:49] Mecha: *Are any of them injured?*
[2025/10/05 14:49] Sonja Bikergrrl: Not as far as you can tell.
[2025/10/05 14:49] Sonja Bikergrrl: Joe?
[2025/10/05 14:50] Joe: "Are the dogs also still in this ship?"
[2025/10/05 14:50] Sonja Bikergrrl: Dr Kade: "As far as we can tell, their cages got loose over some village nearby."
[2025/10/05 14:51] Sonja Bikergrrl: Christina?
[2025/10/05 14:51] Christina: How BIG are these dog-like things? ::gestures with her arms, suggesting different sizes of what she knows as "dogs"::
[2025/10/05 14:52] Sonja Bikergrrl: Gorman: "Dog sized?" He waves his hands vaguely at thigh height
[2025/10/05 14:53] Christina: ((OOC: there's just the three of them here, plus the hologram, plus the corpse, right?))
[2025/10/05 14:53] Sonja Bikergrrl: (( In the room you're in? Yes. ))
[2025/10/05 14:53] Christina: ((👍))
[2025/10/05 14:55] Sonja Bikergrrl: Joe?
[2025/10/05 14:57] Joe: "Do you have any food?"
[2025/10/05 14:57] Sonja Bikergrrl: or Mecha? :)
[2025/10/05 14:57] Sonja Bikergrrl: Dr Kade: "We do...?"
[2025/10/05 14:57] Sonja Bikergrrl: Hicks: "Usually coffee and cornbread."
[2025/10/05 14:58] Joe: nods at Hicks
[2025/10/05 14:59] Mecha: The believe in Magic thing is sitting in her head."Iallanis bless me to show these beings of the aspects of this world.." as she casts produce flame, using it to not go any further than floating from her hand."Indeed we believe in magic."
[2025/10/05 14:59] Sonja Bikergrrl: Hicks nods at Gorman, who mutters and ducks back into the hatch he came from. After a few minutes, he's back with a clear cup containing brown liquid, and a flat lightweight smooth saucer with some thick yellow triangles on them.
[2025/10/05 15:00] Joe: taes and sniffs one of the triangles without eating it. "The dogs will eat this?"
[2025/10/05 15:00] Joe: *takes
[2025/10/05 15:00] Sonja Bikergrrl: The production of sudden flame has Hicks backing up and raising that half-crossbow thing reflexively. The woman in white just ducks back.
[2025/10/05 15:00] Christina: It's not a matter of _belief_ in magic. I mean, it just _is_, like rocks, or water.
[2025/10/05 15:00] Sonja Bikergrrl: Gorman: "You're... going to give aliens coffee and cornbread?"
[2025/10/05 15:01] Joe: "To distract them."
[2025/10/05 15:01] Christina: What, like bait?
[2025/10/05 15:01] Joe: "Yes!"
[2025/10/05 15:01] Mecha: "Magic is around in this realm. This is not a threat to you."As she dispels it. "t would not be right for a follower of the goddess of mercy to leave you unaware of this world."
[2025/10/05 15:01] Sonja Bikergrrl: Gorman shrugs
[2025/10/05 15:02] Sonja Bikergrrl: Hicks: "Yeah... we want to get back to our own place. If you can talk to the authorities and see those creatures aren't harming anyone - we'll be gone sooner."
[2025/10/05 15:03] Christina: There's obviously a whole lot of weird differences between what you know and what we know, but it sounds like we need to track down these dog-like creatures before they can do any (more?) damage to our area. Just how dangerous are they to people?
[2025/10/05 15:04] Sonja Bikergrrl: Hicks: "We keep telling you, they're like dogs. Not at all dangerous."
[2025/10/05 15:05] Christina: ((OOC: do we have dogs on our world, same basic behaviors and roles as RL?))
[2025/10/05 15:05] Sonja Bikergrrl: (( Yes, dogs, wolves, etc. ))
[2025/10/05 15:05] Christina: ((👍 Thanks.))
[2025/10/05 15:05] Mecha: Beltadona nods."Okay so it would seem we are to find these dogs,and let them know you are not a threat. Or you might be but are not looking to threaten the people.
[2025/10/05 15:06] Sonja Bikergrrl: Dr Kade: "We're no threat, and don't want to be seen as threats."
[2025/10/05 15:06] Joe: "Do you have any rope we can use to lasso the dogs?"
[2025/10/05 15:07] Sonja Bikergrrl: Gorman with a little laugh. "No, we don't have any cowbows either, pardner."
[2025/10/05 15:07] Christina: And are they tame like our dogs, or more wild like wolves?
[2025/10/05 15:07] Sonja Bikergrrl: Dr Kade: "We don't know."
[2025/10/05 15:07] Mecha: ... cowbows?
[2025/10/05 15:08] Sonja Bikergrrl: Hicks gives Gorman a dismissive slap to his chest. "Ignore him, he thinks he's funny."
[2025/10/05 15:09] Christina: Okay. Sounds like we need to track these "dogs". How do we get out of here to do so?
[2025/10/05 15:10] Sonja Bikergrrl: Hicks: "Gorman - escort our guests out."
[2025/10/05 15:10] Mecha: I would assume we head out the way we came in
[2025/10/05 15:10] Sonja Bikergrrl: So, going back to the village?
[2025/10/05 15:10] Mecha: Sounds like agood idea
[2025/10/05 15:10] Joe: Joe grabs the plate of triangle food and tips it into his pack
[2025/10/05 15:11] Christina: I want to do a circuit around the crash site to see whether I can pick up the trail of the dogs, and see whether they're trav elling in a pick or individually.
[2025/10/05 15:11] Christina: pack*
[2025/10/05 15:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: As you leave the ship, Christina sees a cat out of the corner of her eye...
[2025/10/05 15:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: Nipsy is a nimble cat, you gain +1 to all Dexterity, Missile to-hit rolls and AC
[2025/10/05 15:11] Christina: Nice!
[2025/10/05 15:12] Sonja Bikergrrl: Looking around the ship: you don't find any tracks, except the huge furrow ploughed by the thing as it slammed into the field.
[2025/10/05 15:12] Sonja Bikergrrl: And that brings us to the end of Chapter One....
[2025/10/05 15:12] Sonja Bikergrrl: Joe: roll a D6.
[2025/10/05 15:12] D6: Joe rolls 4
[2025/10/05 15:13] Sonja Bikergrrl: And that brings us to Chapter Two: The Dawn of the Unknown
[2025/10/05 15:13] Sonja Bikergrrl: Mecha, Christina, you both get to roll a D4
[2025/10/05 15:13] D4: Mecha rolls 4
[2025/10/05 15:13] D4: Christina rolls 2
[2025/10/05 15:14] Sonja Bikergrrl: and a D20, Mecha: Perception check.
[2025/10/05 15:14] Sonja Bikergrrl: Christina: you see something. A puddle reflects another sky - not this one.
[2025/10/05 15:14] D20: Mecha rolls 18
[2025/10/05 15:15] Christina: (What do we roll against for Perception?) // I go closer to it and examine it, while being careful not to touch it or disturb it.
[2025/10/05 15:15] Sonja Bikergrrl: Mecha: Failed. You're oblivious to anything. However... you lose 1 sanity point...
[2025/10/05 15:15] Sonja Bikergrrl: Usually (not always) Wisdom
[2025/10/05 15:16] Sonja Bikergrrl: You approach the puddle. It's clearly reflecting a very strangely cloudy sky, but the sky you see is clearly, er, clear.
[2025/10/05 15:17] Christina: Is this in the furrow of the crash?
[2025/10/05 15:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: It's in the path on the way back to the village.
[2025/10/05 15:17] Joe: Detect Evil !
[2025/10/05 15:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: You fail to detect any evil.
[2025/10/05 15:18] Christina: I toss a small pebble into the puddle to see if that changes anything.
[2025/10/05 15:18] Sonja Bikergrrl: The puddle ripples. Now it reflects a clear sky.
[2025/10/05 15:19] Mecha: What are you doing?
[2025/10/05 15:19] Christina: This.... was something strange. See this puddle? IT seems to be reflecting the sky normally now, but before I tossed a pebble in there, it seemed to be reflecting a cloudy sky.
[2025/10/05 15:20] Christina: I mentally mark the location, so that I can come back later and look at it again sometime.
[2025/10/05 15:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: As far as you can tell... it's just a puddle.
[2025/10/05 15:21] Mecha: Might be something to tell the town leaders though
[2025/10/05 15:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: So, closer to town... you encounter two goblins sneaking about stealthily. Joe: roll a D12
[2025/10/05 15:22] D12: Joe rolls 9
[2025/10/05 15:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: Mecha? What are you going to do about these goblins?
[2025/10/05 15:23] Mecha: Moving to a hiding spot, to watch.
[2025/10/05 15:24] Sonja Bikergrrl: They're acting furtive, and seem to be looking for something
[2025/10/05 15:25] Mecha: Are they saying anything?
[2025/10/05 15:25] Sonja Bikergrrl: Muttering, spitting, insulting each others' mothers, pondering why they keep getting picked on to work
[2025/10/05 15:26] Christina: (OOC: Do goblins ever NOT look like they're being furtive?) // I execute my patented "disappear into the vegetation" move to watch them (I hope) unobserved myself.
[2025/10/05 15:26] Sonja Bikergrrl: (( Rarely. ))
[2025/10/05 15:26] Sonja Bikergrrl: Joe?
[2025/10/05 15:27] Joe: Ignoring the goblins unless necessary. Disgusting creatures.
[2025/10/05 15:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: They wander on, muttering and swearing. You do hear one thing that is odd, as they disappear into a stand of trees: "They keeps callin'. They want us to praise them. Sod that, we praise Orca."
[2025/10/05 15:28] Mecha: Aaaaaand that has this one piqued.
[2025/10/05 15:29] Sonja Bikergrrl: Now what? Chase goblins, or head to town?
[2025/10/05 15:29] Christina: ((Do we recognize this reference to "Orca"? Some known humanoid deity?))
[2025/10/05 15:29] Sonja Bikergrrl: (( Orca = usually orcish god, occasionally worshipped by hobgoblins and goblins. ))
[2025/10/05 15:30] Mecha: Head to town, but keep that in mind to tell the local temple about what the goblins
[2025/10/05 15:30] Christina: ((Got it.)) // I'm leaning towards shadowing the goblins.
[2025/10/05 15:30] Sonja Bikergrrl: And you're in town! Where to?
[2025/10/05 15:31] Christina: (Follows Mech'as lead.)
[2025/10/05 15:31] Mecha: Beltadona is going to go to the temple. We left there to find these eee arth beings so we should report in
[2025/10/05 15:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: You pass an alley. A red ball, light and made of some smooth material, bounces out.
[2025/10/05 15:32] Joe: ALso heading to the temple, to see the Priest
[2025/10/05 15:32] Mecha: *oh no*
[2025/10/05 15:32] Christina: Looks down the alley to see who might have thrown/rolled it.
[2025/10/05 15:32] Sonja Bikergrrl: (Okay, why the "oh no")
[2025/10/05 15:32] Sonja Bikergrrl: You look down the alley. No one is there.
[2025/10/05 15:33] Mecha: This one will discuss it after game so as to not throw things out of whack if this one is right.
[2025/10/05 15:34] Christina: How "out of place" does this ball look? Is it more perfectly shperical, for example, than we'd expect someone of our culture to be able to make? Does the material look unfamiliar?
[2025/10/05 15:35] Mecha: Beltadona raises an eyebrow at the ball, and then moves to pick it up.
[2025/10/05 15:35] Sonja Bikergrrl: It's very out of place. It's perfectly spherical, smooth, lightweight, and made of a bizarre material you've never heard of.
[2025/10/05 15:35] Joe: "Dogs... playing fetch..." Joe peers into the alley
[2025/10/05 15:35] Sonja Bikergrrl: The ball doesn't resist being picked up.
[2025/10/05 15:36] Sapphire: ( Hello )
[2025/10/05 15:36] Christina: Hi, Sapphire!
[2025/10/05 15:36] Mecha: "What is this.. Some sort of magical artifact?" Beltadona shakes her head and carries it to the temple with her.
[2025/10/05 15:36] Sapphire: ( What'd I miss? )
[2025/10/05 15:37] Sonja Bikergrrl: Joe: you don't see anything out of place.
[2025/10/05 15:37] Sonja Bikergrrl: Mecha: If it's magic, how will you tell?
[2025/10/05 15:37] Joe: I snap one of the food triangles in half and put it near the entrance of the alley, just in case
[2025/10/05 15:38] Sonja Bikergrrl: Nothing happens... as far as you can tell.
[2025/10/05 15:38] Sonja Bikergrrl: So, to the temple?
[2025/10/05 15:39] Mecha: No idea but someone at the temple might be able to discern it
[2025/10/05 15:39] Sonja Bikergrrl: Hoffman is deep in contemplation and prayer as you enter the temple. He turns, rises to greet you. "My children, a great darkness is coming. The gods shall decend from the sky and we must purify. What have you found out? Have you spoken with the blacksmith?"
[2025/10/05 15:40] Christina: We tried, but he insisted we come back during normal business hours.
[2025/10/05 15:41] Sonja Bikergrrl: Hoffman: "I'm sure his shop is open now."
[2025/10/05 15:41] Christina: And the blacksmith might be one to ask questions of regarding strange materials.
[2025/10/05 15:41] Joe: the Paladin falls to his knees in prayer by the temple altar
[2025/10/05 15:41] Sonja Bikergrrl: hard to say, but, if they're metal, maybe?
[2025/10/05 15:42] Christina: Does that ball seem to be made of metal, MEcha?
[2025/10/05 15:42] Christina: Sorry -- "Beltadona"?
[2025/10/05 15:43] Mecha: No, at least not any metal I am aware of." As she shows it to hoffman."Have you seen anything like this before?"
[2025/10/05 15:43] Sapphire: "Well, he wasn't very interested in talking to us... I'm worried we might end up needing to force the matter..."
[2025/10/05 15:43] Sonja Bikergrrl: Hoffman looks at the ball and shrugs. "No, I have not."
[2025/10/05 15:43] Mecha: *is there something to indicate top or bottom of this ball?*
[2025/10/05 15:44] Sonja Bikergrrl: No, it seems to be perfectly devoid of any indications.
[2025/10/05 15:45] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me is amused that you seem to have missed an obvious Clue
[2025/10/05 15:47] Sonja Bikergrrl: Joe?
[2025/10/05 15:48] Joe: out of ideas
[2025/10/05 15:48] Sonja Bikergrrl: or Sapphire?
[2025/10/05 15:48] Mecha: What time of day or night is it?
[2025/10/05 15:48] Sonja Bikergrrl: Getting close to evening.
[2025/10/05 15:48] Sapphire: "Should we talk to the blaksmith anyway? Push our way in, or? wait until morning?"
[2025/10/05 15:49] Mecha: getting close. Means he might still be open. So off to the blacksmith
[2025/10/05 15:49] Sonja Bikergrrl: well... the shop is allegedly open
[2025/10/05 15:49] Sonja Bikergrrl: to the Blacksmith!
[2025/10/05 15:49] Christina: This alley the ball came out of... Were there children playing around there? Might there have been someone on one of the roofs who might have dropped it?
[2025/10/05 15:49] Sonja Bikergrrl: None that you could detect.
[2025/10/05 15:49] Christina: 'k....
[2025/10/05 15:49] Sonja Bikergrrl: Garrick Ironhand is a burly man with soot-streaked skin, a thick beard, and piercing eyes that seem to see through metal and flesh alike. His massive arms are adorned with scars from years of forging, and his workshop is filled with the rhythmic clanging of hammers on anvils, where he crafts everything from weapons to armor with unmatched skill and a quiet, steady dedication. Garrick: "Well met, strangers, how can I help ye?"
[2025/10/05 15:51] Christina: We're curious whether you have been out to the place where the pillar of smoke was rising, (however far away it is) miles from here? And if so, what did you find?
[2025/10/05 15:52] Sonja Bikergrrl: Garrick: "Nay, been busy in me shop, making horseshoes."
[2025/10/05 15:52] Christina: ((Are we in his workspace, so we could maybe see any projects he'd been working on with the unusual metal of the space ship?))
[2025/10/05 15:52] Sapphire: ( this is the same smith who was acting oddly earlier? )
[2025/10/05 15:53] Sonja Bikergrrl: (( Yes to both. ))
[2025/10/05 15:53] Sapphire: "Just horseshoes?" She wanders a bit, looking around, not currently touching anything.
[2025/10/05 15:53] Christina: ((Any unusual projects visible?))
[2025/10/05 15:53] Sonja Bikergrrl: Garrick (trying not to sound irritated): "Aye..."
[2025/10/05 15:54] Sonja Bikergrrl: You can see horse shoes, knife blades, and what looks like a spade
[2025/10/05 15:54] Mecha: Beltadona shows the ball."Have you ever seen anything like this?"
[2025/10/05 15:54] Sonja Bikergrrl: The blacksmith looks and laughs. "Nay, it's not iron, is it, lady?"
[2025/10/05 15:55] Christina: With that quality of construction or material, we mean... Obviously it's a ball of some sort.
[2025/10/05 15:55] Sapphire: He got an apprentice?
[2025/10/05 15:55] Sonja Bikergrrl: Garrick: "It's just me and me daughter."
[2025/10/05 15:57] Mecha: Beltadona takes the ball back, and ponders."Have either of you seen strange dogs run through the area?"
[2025/10/05 15:57] Sonja Bikergrrl: Garrick: "Aye, an' what if'n I did? They fall from the sky, stands to reason that finders is keepers, right?"
[2025/10/05 15:58] Christina: Oh, no criticism! We just talked to some people who said they'd lost theirs.
[2025/10/05 15:58] Sonja Bikergrrl: Garrick: "Aye? What did their dogs look like?"
[2025/10/05 15:59] Christina: They wouldn't say.... which was weird. They didn't seem entirely trustworthy.
[2025/10/05 15:59] Sonja Bikergrrl: Garrick: "Sounds ta me like they lost nowt and gave ye a fools' errand."
[2025/10/05 16:00] Sonja Bikergrrl: Joe?
[2025/10/05 16:01] Joe: looking around the smithy for anything useful or curious
[2025/10/05 16:01] Sonja Bikergrrl: Nails, horseshoes, blades, axe heads, chains....
[2025/10/05 16:02] Sonja Bikergrrl: Mostly crudely made and often unfinished
[2025/10/05 16:02] Sonja Bikergrrl: Sapphire?
[2025/10/05 16:03] Christina: /me nods. "Well, I got an odd impression that these dogs of theirs might not exactly be safe.... like they might be dangerous somehow. Diseased, or prone to attacking?"
[2025/10/05 16:03] Sonja Bikergrrl: Garrick grunts vaguely and hammers the horseshoe he's working on.
[2025/10/05 16:04] Sonja Bikergrrl: Mecha?
[2025/10/05 16:04] Mecha: Beltadona Pauses and thinks."Oh my, I think we need to go. My temple is on the outskirts of town. I think we should go."
[2025/10/05 16:05] Sonja Bikergrrl: Garrick: "Tell 'ee what. A gold each, you can lookit these dogs."
[2025/10/05 16:05] Christina: Gold, just to LOOK at the dogs? ::disdainful look::
[2025/10/05 16:05] Sapphire: "So any thoughts on the strange explosion a while back?"
[2025/10/05 16:06] Sonja Bikergrrl: Garrick: "Suit yersels. Goodbye."
[2025/10/05 16:06] Sonja Bikergrrl: Garrick hammers the horseshoe and doesn't answer.
[2025/10/05 16:06] Mecha: Beltadona pays the gold but she is concerned
[2025/10/05 16:06] Joe: "We should have a look at these dogs. They might be the same ones we are looking for."
[2025/10/05 16:06] Joe: (pays a gold)
[2025/10/05 16:06] Sonja Bikergrrl: Mecha is "in".... Joe is "in"
[2025/10/05 16:07] Sonja Bikergrrl: anyone else?
[2025/10/05 16:08] Christina: /me doesn't pay, wanders out of the shop, but keeps a close eye on where those who DID pay are taken to see the "dogs".
[2025/10/05 16:08] Sonja Bikergrrl: Christina splits the party.... Sapphire?
[2025/10/05 16:08] Christina: ((You knew it was bound to happen eventually! ;-P ))
[2025/10/05 16:09] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me guesses no Sapphire, so, Christina has company
[2025/10/05 16:09] Sonja Bikergrrl: well, was nice knowing you both.
[2025/10/05 16:10] Sonja Bikergrrl: The blacksmithy is a standard three room cottage with kitchen/living room central, bedroom to one side, store room to the other. The shop is just an extension on the front of the cottage
[2025/10/05 16:10] Sonja Bikergrrl: Mecha and Joe make to to the store room....
[2025/10/05 16:10] Sonja Bikergrrl: Sanity checks please.
[2025/10/05 16:10] Mecha: 2D10?
[2025/10/05 16:11] D10: Mecha rolls 8
[2025/10/05 16:11] D10: Mecha rolls 7
[2025/10/05 16:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: Joe: roll under 72. Mecha, under 73
[2025/10/05 16:11] D10: Joe rolls 7
[2025/10/05 16:11] D10: Joe rolls 8
[2025/10/05 16:11] Joe: whoops
[2025/10/05 16:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: oh no...
[2025/10/05 16:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: D6 from you both.
[2025/10/05 16:11] D6: Joe rolls 4
[2025/10/05 16:11] D6: Mecha rolls 1
[2025/10/05 16:12] Sonja Bikergrrl: Joe loses 4 Sanity, Mecha only 1.
[2025/10/05 16:12] Christina: OH NO! I BET IT'S SLAVERING DEMON CHIHUAHUAS!
[2025/10/05 16:12] Sonja Bikergrrl: With a loud chittering hiss of warninig, a creature equivalent in size to a large dog comes out of the store-room. It is one meter tall, with a tough leathery skin, with spikes jutting from its' body. It has a number of limbs that and possesses feet with sickle-like claws, and sharp incisor teeth clearly for tearing into flesh and ripping enemies to shreds. The eyes seem to glow a fierce hue of orange. A spiked tail completes the image of a vicious creature, ready to stab and tear into an opponent.
[2025/10/05 16:13] Sonja Bikergrrl: It looks at you noth, flexing claws and obviously sizing up who to attack. A moment later, and another is behind the first, hissing aggressively.
[2025/10/05 16:13] Joe: "DEMONS!"
[2025/10/05 16:14] Sonja Bikergrrl: Mecha?
[2025/10/05 16:14] Mecha: Beltadona heads for the door since the blacksmith hasn't closed it yet.
[2025/10/05 16:14] Sonja Bikergrrl: you're leaving Joe to them alone?
[2025/10/05 16:14] Sonja Bikergrrl: Roll for intiative: Joe & Mecha
[2025/10/05 16:14] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 6
[2025/10/05 16:15] D20: Mecha rolls 1
[2025/10/05 16:15] Mecha: /me faceplants
[2025/10/05 16:15] Sonja Bikergrrl: D20 from Joe
[2025/10/05 16:16] D20: Joe rolls 2
[2025/10/05 16:16] Sonja Bikergrrl: oops.
[2025/10/05 16:16] Sonja Bikergrrl: They leap to attack Joe!
[2025/10/05 16:16] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 17
[2025/10/05 16:16] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 11
[2025/10/05 16:16] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 5
[2025/10/05 16:16] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 18
[2025/10/05 16:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: Oooh. Nasty.
[2025/10/05 16:17] D4: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 4
[2025/10/05 16:17] D4: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 2
[2025/10/05 16:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: 8 points of clawing damage!
[2025/10/05 16:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: Joe is next
[2025/10/05 16:17] Sapphire: Sorry, meant to pay in for this, ack.
[2025/10/05 16:18] Joe: Attack the demons!
[2025/10/05 16:18] Sapphire: How much noise is this fight making?
[2025/10/05 16:18] Sonja Bikergrrl: Roll d20!
[2025/10/05 16:18] D20: Joe rolls 20
[2025/10/05 16:18] Sonja Bikergrrl: You just heard hisses and Joe shouting about demons.
[2025/10/05 16:18] Christina: (NIIIIIIIIIICE!)
[2025/10/05 16:19] Sonja Bikergrrl: What's Joe attacking with? Forgot to ask
[2025/10/05 16:19] Joe: Battle Axe +2 "Random Axe of Kindness" roll d8 and:
[2025/10/05 16:19] D8: Joe rolls 4
[2025/10/05 16:19] Joe: 4) Advantage on your next attack
[2025/10/05 16:19] Sapphire: Sapphire will move to check up on Joe
[2025/10/05 16:19] Sonja Bikergrrl: Roll the D8, Joe
[2025/10/05 16:19] D8: Joe rolls 5
[2025/10/05 16:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: 12 damage
[2025/10/05 16:20] Christina: /me sensed a little more urgency to Joe
[2025/10/05 16:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: One goes down with a huge spray of purple bile spraying about the place.
[2025/10/05 16:20] Christina: Joe's usual cry of "DEMONS!", so she heads in to investigate,
[2025/10/05 16:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: Mecha has backed up
[2025/10/05 16:20] Mecha: Cast cure light wounds on Joe
[2025/10/05 16:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: The blacksmith is not happy and comes round, waving his forge hammer
[2025/10/05 16:21] Joe: thanks Mecha
[2025/10/05 16:21] D8: Mecha rolls 2
[2025/10/05 16:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: Sapphire, Christina: you are outside the shop. On re entering, all you see is Joe swinging an axe and a blacksmith swinging a hammer
[2025/10/05 16:21] Christina: ((Do Scouts get backstab bonuses?))
[2025/10/05 16:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: You also hear the sound of a young girl screaming. "Daaaaddeeeeee!"
[2025/10/05 16:22] Sapphire: "Wait, what? Joe what are you swinging at?"
[2025/10/05 16:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: +4 I think
[2025/10/05 16:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: end of combat sequence
[2025/10/05 16:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: Sapphire, Christina, D20 for initiative
[2025/10/05 16:22] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 6
[2025/10/05 16:22] D20: Christina rolls 14
[2025/10/05 16:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: Sapphire: D20
[2025/10/05 16:23] D20: Sapphire rolls 14
[2025/10/05 16:24] Sonja Bikergrrl: Sapphire & Christina go at once. The blacksmith is in the way, shouting and swinging a large hammer. What are you doing?
[2025/10/05 16:24] Christina: Can we tell anything of who the blacksmith's intended target is?
[2025/10/05 16:25] Sonja Bikergrrl: Either Joe or Mecha, too hard to tell more than that
[2025/10/05 16:25] Christina: Enough! POMMEL of my shortsword aimed at that spot just behind his ear-hole, trying to knock him out (where you'd hit with a sap).
[2025/10/05 16:25] Sonja Bikergrrl: D20, add 4
[2025/10/05 16:26] D20: Christina rolls 3
[2025/10/05 16:26] Christina: /me groans.....
[2025/10/05 16:26] Sonja Bikergrrl: swing and a miss
[2025/10/05 16:26] Sonja Bikergrrl: Sapphire?
[2025/10/05 16:27] Sapphire: Sapphire moves to try to interpose their shield between the people trying to fight each other. "I leave you alone for two minutes!"
[2025/10/05 16:27] Sonja Bikergrrl: Blacksmith turns angrily as he sees Sapphire scooting past, he grabs at her
[2025/10/05 16:27] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 10
[2025/10/05 16:27] Sonja Bikergrrl: he tried.
[2025/10/05 16:27] Sonja Bikergrrl: Creature attacks Joe
[2025/10/05 16:27] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 20
[2025/10/05 16:27] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 19
[2025/10/05 16:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: :O
[2025/10/05 16:28] D4: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 3
[2025/10/05 16:28] D4: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 3
[2025/10/05 16:28] Christina: (That's gonna hurt...)
[2025/10/05 16:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: 9 points damage... both claws latch on and it clings to Joe and bites him
[2025/10/05 16:28] Sapphire: so I can't see the creatures?"
[2025/10/05 16:28] D6: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 1
[2025/10/05 16:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: At least the bite was but a scratch
[2025/10/05 16:28] Sapphire: that's the assumption I've been working on so far
[2025/10/05 16:29] Joe: down to 31 HP
[2025/10/05 16:29] Sonja Bikergrrl: 30.
[2025/10/05 16:29] Joe: (ok i missed one sorry)
[2025/10/05 16:29] Sonja Bikergrrl: You see some dog-sized creature with huge claws and jaws snapping and clawing at Joe
[2025/10/05 16:29] Sapphire: oh! Well then this all makes much more sense
[2025/10/05 16:29] Sonja Bikergrrl: Joe! Your go.
[2025/10/05 16:29] Joe: I whack it
[2025/10/05 16:29] Sonja Bikergrrl: how?
[2025/10/05 16:30] Joe: (ooh Mecha cast light wounds on me earlier)
[2025/10/05 16:30] Joe: with the axe
[2025/10/05 16:30] Sonja Bikergrrl: It's literally latched on to you, axe won't be optimal.
[2025/10/05 16:30] Sonja Bikergrrl: Also: no, her action was moving back
[2025/10/05 16:30] Christina: (("Random Axe of Kindness"... isn't that from Steve Jackson Games's "Munchkin"?))
[2025/10/05 16:30] Joe: ouch, okay I can try using a dagger
[2025/10/05 16:31] Mecha: Did cast cure light wounds on the last round
[2025/10/05 16:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: (( idk ))
[2025/10/05 16:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: you got advantage with the dagger, roll d20 twice
[2025/10/05 16:31] Joe: currently gripping an axe with two hands, the dagger is in my belt
[2025/10/05 16:31] Mecha: [16:20] Mecha: Cast cure light wounds on Joe
[2025/10/05 16:31] Mecha: [16:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: The blacksmith is not happy and comes round, waving his forge hammer
[2025/10/05 16:31] Mecha: [16:21] Joe: thanks Mecha
[2025/10/05 16:31] Mecha: [16:21] D8: Mecha rolls 2
[2025/10/05 16:31] D20: Joe rolls 13
[2025/10/05 16:31] D20: Joe rolls 5
[2025/10/05 16:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: [16:14] Mecha: Beltadona heads for the door since the blacksmith hasn't closed it yet. & [16:14] Sonja Bikergrrl: you're leaving Joe to them alone?
[2025/10/05 16:32] Mecha: *For the door, not through it*
[2025/10/05 16:32] Sonja Bikergrrl: It's an action.
[2025/10/05 16:32] Mecha: right and that was before combat initiated
[2025/10/05 16:32] Sonja Bikergrrl: D4, Joe
[2025/10/05 16:32] Sapphire: Sapphire will try to shield bas the dg off Joe so he can back up, and to avoid friendly fire with her sword
[2025/10/05 16:32] Sapphire: bash*
[2025/10/05 16:33] D4: Joe rolls 4
[2025/10/05 16:33] Sonja Bikergrrl: the D6 too
[2025/10/05 16:33] D6: Joe rolls 2
[2025/10/05 16:34] Sonja Bikergrrl: A deep stab and the dagger -flashes- with overworldly power, inflicting extra radiant damage, for a total of 8 damage. The creature slumps, gushing thick purple gunk from the hole it its' side.
[2025/10/05 16:35] Sapphire: only one creature?
[2025/10/05 16:35] Sonja Bikergrrl: The blacksmiths' daughter is standing nearby, wailing.... and that's when the second ghastly creature comes out to attack. This one looks like a shank of ham walking on three legs....
[2025/10/05 16:35] Christina: Joe got the other earlier.,
[2025/10/05 16:36] Sonja Bikergrrl: ...and we'll pick it up again next week!
[2025/10/05 16:36] Sapphire: o.o
[2025/10/05 16:36] Sapphire: things are heating up
[2025/10/05 16:36] Joe: phew
[2025/10/05 16:36] Sonja Bikergrrl: It's past 12:30pm and us Brits got work tomorrow.
[2025/10/05 16:36] Joe: got to kill some demons!
[2025/10/05 16:36] Sonja Bikergrrl: Oh yes... this is indeed your first intense combat of the one shot
[2025/10/05 16:37] Mecha: Beltadona has an idea.
[2025/10/05 16:37] Sonja Bikergrrl: Not the only one ;)
[2025/10/05 16:37] Joe: Thank you DM Sonja
[2025/10/05 16:37] Sonja Bikergrrl: Beltadona can now divulge what she was thinking earlier!
[2025/10/05 16:37] Sonja Bikergrrl: Hope you're all liking it :)
[2025/10/05 16:38] Mecha: Glowing lights in space, rubber ball.. It's Pennywise, or pennywise adjacent
[2025/10/05 16:38] Joe: nite all
[2025/10/05 16:38] Christina: Glad you could join us, even if only briefly, Sapphire!
[2025/10/05 16:38] Sonja Bikergrrl: Mecha: No.
[2025/10/05 16:38] Christina: It's Happy Fun Ball -- don't taunt it! ;-P
[2025/10/05 16:38] Mecha: Lol
[2025/10/05 16:38] Sonja Bikergrrl: right... c'yall next week... if you survive :)
[2025/10/05 16:39] Christina: (I was wondering whether anyone would get that referent!)
[2025/10/05 16:39] Joe: its a SL pose ball, you click on it and nothing happens
[2025/10/05 16:39] Sonja Bikergrrl: *GIGGLES*
[2025/10/05 16:39] Christina: Thanks, Sonja! That was fun, if utterl confusing.
[2025/10/05 16:39] Christina: utterly*
[2025/10/05 16:39] Sonja Bikergrrl: confusing?
[2025/10/05 16:39] Sonja Bikergrrl: should be logically building to terror :)
[2025/10/05 16:40] Christina: Oh, definite concern already!
[2025/10/05 16:40] Sonja Bikergrrl: heheh