[2026/04/09 14:06] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me opens up NCs
[2026/04/09 14:08] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me tries to decipher her notes
[2026/04/09 14:09] Sonja Bikergrrl: fuck it, it looks right
[2026/04/09 14:09] Joe: Apologies if I log out. Mobile app on my dad’s glitchy wifi.
[2026/04/09 14:09] Sapphire: oooof
[2026/04/09 14:09] Sonja Bikergrrl: Mecha: you gained a level, but no sanity. Roll 1d6 for recovered sanity
[2026/04/09 14:09] D6: Mecha rolls 5
[2026/04/09 14:10] Mecha: So Neopti is level 4?
[2026/04/09 14:10] Sonja Bikergrrl: 3
[2026/04/09 14:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: Fluffles is now level two
[2026/04/09 14:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: roll d4
[2026/04/09 14:11] D4: Mecha rolls 3
[2026/04/09 14:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: Fluffles now has 13 hp
[2026/04/09 14:12] Mecha: Yay Fluffles!
[2026/04/09 14:12] Sonja Bikergrrl: whispers: Fluffles gains one Natural Talent - you mau choose:
[2026/04/09 14:12] Sonja Bikergrrl: Natural Armor: Your Companion gains +1 AC. Tough: Your Companion gains an additional 1 hp for each level it has. Precise: Your Companion's attacks have +2 to hit Ferocious: Your companion's attacks have +2 to damage rolls
[2026/04/09 14:14] Sapphire: oooooh
[2026/04/09 14:14] Mecha: Considering how our dice rolls go Gonna say the natural armor.
[2026/04/09 14:15] Sonja Bikergrrl: Fluffles is not AC 5
[2026/04/09 14:16] Mecha: /me nods
[2026/04/09 14:16] Sonja Bikergrrl: And with that levelling up accounting done... you may recall you intercepted a goblin attack
[2026/04/09 14:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: led by the elusive Snaggletooth riding his... "dragon"... an alien flying thing
[2026/04/09 14:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: You saw him fall, and hit a rock... except he vanished.
[2026/04/09 14:17] Sapphire: some dastardly escape trick
[2026/04/09 14:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: I'm sure you won't be troubled by him again.
[2026/04/09 14:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: I take it you're going to rest and regain HP?
[2026/04/09 14:18] Joe: Yes yes
[2026/04/09 14:18] Sapphire: we're pretty worn down
[2026/04/09 14:18] Mecha: Agreed, rest is important
[2026/04/09 14:19] Sonja Bikergrrl: You rest. Time passes. The DM fetches paper to note chit down on.
[2026/04/09 14:19] Sonja Bikergrrl: so.... GGGRRRRREEEEEEEEEEETTTIIINGGGSSSS Adeventurers! Other players get some organized well thought out plot. You get recurring goblin plagues.
[2026/04/09 14:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: You have an outstanding invite from the Githyanki to learn more about these creatures that are infesting your world now.
[2026/04/09 14:21] Sapphire: Ah yes, we should probably follow up with them
[2026/04/09 14:21] Joe: Agrees
[2026/04/09 14:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: To the Githyanki encampment!
[2026/04/09 14:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: Hudson: "D'ya mind if I come along? I got a feeling you might need some extra firepower."
[2026/04/09 14:22] Mecha: Neopti is seriously down for that.
[2026/04/09 14:23] Mecha: Neopti shrugs."I guess, but no tricks or nothin' the Gith are important."
[2026/04/09 14:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: (Also Dr Voss, but remember she is non-combatant)
[2026/04/09 14:23] Joe: Asks; is it gith-ee-anki, or is it gith-yankee?
[2026/04/09 14:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: Hudson: "It ain't -us- playing tricks - they shot us down, you know?"
[2026/04/09 14:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: Pick whichever you prefer
[2026/04/09 14:23] Joe: (sidles up to dr Voss)
[2026/04/09 14:24] Sonja Bikergrrl: Sanity checks all round!
[2026/04/09 14:24] D10: Mecha rolls 6
[2026/04/09 14:24] D10: Mecha rolls 1
[2026/04/09 14:24] Sonja Bikergrrl: Failed.
[2026/04/09 14:25] Sapphire: i choose to believe it's gith-yankee so that they can wear ten-gallon hats
[2026/04/09 14:25] Joe: Mobile app, has not texted any dice yet. Please someone do me the dishonour of rolling constant fails on my behalf?
[2026/04/09 14:25] Sonja Bikergrrl: Joe, Sapphire - 2D10
[2026/04/09 14:25] D10: Sapphire rolls 10
[2026/04/09 14:25] D10: Sapphire rolls 6
[2026/04/09 14:25] Sapphire: 06
[2026/04/09 14:25] Sonja Bikergrrl: Pass
[2026/04/09 14:25] Joe: *rezzed, not texted
[2026/04/09 14:25] D10: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 8
[2026/04/09 14:25] D10: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 4
[2026/04/09 14:25] Sonja Bikergrrl: 84... Failed
[2026/04/09 14:25] D4: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 4
[2026/04/09 14:25] Sonja Bikergrrl: Those who fail: lose 5 Sanity Points
[2026/04/09 14:26] Joe: Thankees
[2026/04/09 14:26] Sonja Bikergrrl: Passing: you lose 1 sanity point
[2026/04/09 14:27] Joe: I like that the aliens are wearing ten dollar hats. Can they also speak with a southerner drawl accent ?
[2026/04/09 14:27] Sonja Bikergrrl: And what caused this mental derangement? When you arrive at the little hill the Githyanki are using for their base.... there's... a ship there
[2026/04/09 14:27] Mecha: Just got those back.
[2026/04/09 14:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: looks like a reasonably standard sailing ship, complete with fore and aft castles with ballistae mounted, sails, rigging.... and somehow on a hill, far from sea.
[2026/04/09 14:28] Sapphire: are there markings around it on the ground?
[2026/04/09 14:28] Joe: “They are looking a bit lost, if y’aks me.” Says Joe the Paladin squire
[2026/04/09 14:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: No, it's... just.... -there-.
[2026/04/09 14:29] Sapphire: does an 06 pass or fail?
[2026/04/09 14:30] Sonja Bikergrrl: a few Githyanki, looking like a cross between pirates and monks wait, one with a rather ornate jacket and a cap on his head. "You are the creatures?" he says, rather gruffly. "I am Captain, K'a'an."
[2026/04/09 14:30] Sonja Bikergrrl: 14:25] Sapphire: 06 14:25] Sonja Bikergrrl: Pass
[2026/04/09 14:31] Sapphire: "I am a human, as is Joe, Doctor Hudson, Doctor Voss. Neopti is a kobold." She responds to the "creature" comment.
[2026/04/09 14:32] Sonja Bikergrrl: K'a'an nods. "We leave soon. Aboard, creatures, have place below. Maybe not wise to be out when we sail."
[2026/04/09 14:33] Mecha: Neopti is already on a knee before Captain K'a'an."You honor us with your presence Captain."
[2026/04/09 14:34] Sonja Bikergrrl: K'a'an: wrinkles nose and rolls eyes, with the air of one used to such deference, and finding it confirms his beliefs.
[2026/04/09 14:34] Sonja Bikergrrl: K'a'an turns and heads to the ship. A gangway leads up to the deck. "Come, we go, leave this dar soon."
[2026/04/09 14:35] Joe: Remaining true to the knightly oaths of my order, I decide not to take the piss out the captain for getting his ship stuck on a hill miles from any ocean. Instead, having seen some really crazy stuff lately, concedes the path of least resistance in humouring these strangers until such time my axe is required.
[2026/04/09 14:35] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me stifles laughter
[2026/04/09 14:35] Sapphire: Gwennifer takes up the rear, making sure no one gets left behind.
[2026/04/09 14:35] Mecha: Neopti looks at all of you, giving the stink eye as she begins to follow."
[2026/04/09 14:37] Sonja Bikergrrl: it looks increasingly like some ocean-going ship. Masts.. sails.. rigging... a large hold converted into sleeping quarters, and the front part, between hold and the bow, a roughly triangular area where you can bed down and rest.
[2026/04/09 14:37] Sonja Bikergrrl: What do you do for the next.... say thirty minutes?
[2026/04/09 14:38] Sapphire: Wander around on the top deck looking at things!
[2026/04/09 14:38] Joe: That sounds to be a good plan. I will also wander around the ship looking at hi tax
[2026/04/09 14:39] Joe: Ffs spellchecker autocorrect. *Looking at things
[2026/04/09 14:39] Mecha: Neopti will be staying out of the Giths way. but when she does see them, the awe is evident.
[2026/04/09 14:40] Sonja Bikergrrl: There's not a vast amount to see; it's like any other sailing ship you've seen, and the Githyanki more or less ignore you as they do... well, sailor-y things
[2026/04/09 14:41] Sonja Bikergrrl: They do discourage you from going in the aft castle, which looks rather heavily armoured.
[2026/04/09 14:41] Sonja Bikergrrl: Where are you going to be when they start the voyage?
[2026/04/09 14:42] Sapphire: towards the front where i can see where we're going
[2026/04/09 14:42] Joe: aye
[2026/04/09 14:42] Sonja Bikergrrl: Joe, Mecha?
[2026/04/09 14:43] Mecha: *trying not to play Neopti as too much of a fangirl, but."Neopti comes to the captain."Is there anything I can do to help captain?"
[2026/04/09 14:44] Sonja Bikergrrl: K'a'an: "Stay out of way, k'chakhi." (Nearby Githyanki snigger)
[2026/04/09 14:45] Mecha: Neopti nods and backs away. going to her quarters. She doesn't know the translation but has a feeling about it.
[2026/04/09 14:46] Sonja Bikergrrl: The ship doesn't move, which is the strange thing. Perhaps that's the strangest... Joe, Sapphire, sanity check time!
[2026/04/09 14:46] D10: Sapphire rolls 2
[2026/04/09 14:46] D10: Sapphire rolls 7
[2026/04/09 14:46] Joe: Observes the alien being racist to the Kobold and thanks my God i was born a Human
[2026/04/09 14:46] D10: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 4
[2026/04/09 14:46] D10: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 10
[2026/04/09 14:46] Sonja Bikergrrl: Both pass, lose 1 sanity
[2026/04/09 14:47] Sonja Bikergrrl: The ship stays still... as far as you can tell
[2026/04/09 14:48] Sonja Bikergrrl: but the world seems to -swirl- and fade away. You're now in some huge expanse of black and purple, with far away pinpoints of lights, smears and smudges of colour, and faint twinklings all round - above, around, in front, behind, and below
[2026/04/09 14:49] Joe: I run very quickly bow deck
[2026/04/09 14:49] Joe: *below
[2026/04/09 14:49] Sonja Bikergrrl: I should have you roll CON checks for "sea sickness" but, the ship is rock steady
[2026/04/09 14:49] Sapphire: "It's like the night sky...."
[2026/04/09 14:50] Sonja Bikergrrl: The Githyanki near Joe laugh. "is'tark!" (Much laughter)
[2026/04/09 14:51] Sonja Bikergrrl: Nearest Githyanki to Gwen: "Is our dar. Astral Plane." (Sounds proud of this)
[2026/04/09 14:52] Sapphire: She considers this. "So not the Heavens, then?"
[2026/04/09 14:53] Sonja Bikergrrl: Githyanki smiles, as if talking to a child. "Not what you call Heavens, yank."
[2026/04/09 14:54] Sonja Bikergrrl: It's about half hour before K'a'an comes to meet with you (in the bow area, under decks)
[2026/04/09 14:55] Joe: I have been praying to the God of Light for protection and courage, for myself and my companions, and for this ship
[2026/04/09 14:56] Sonja Bikergrrl: K'a'an stands by the door. "It is time to tell you of these nightmareish things we war on."
[2026/04/09 14:56] Sapphire: Gwen nods and moves to catch up to the meeting
[2026/04/09 14:57] Sonja Bikergrrl: K'a'an: "Think, if you will, of the Githyanki, many thousands of years ago. We lived in peace, we farmed our fields, we lived, we loved. Then one day the spaces between the stars opened, and out poured the contagion from the far away places."
[2026/04/09 14:57] Sonja Bikergrrl: K'a'an (growing colder, angrier): "These... creatures... the ones you call the Zerg, they fell on our homes, our cities, our worlds, like a dark, relentless tide. Githyanki were consumed by these nightmarish monsters."
[2026/04/09 14:59] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me pauses for any comments
[2026/04/09 14:59] Joe: “From where did the Zerg fall on to your world?”
[2026/04/09 15:01] Sapphire: "How did you ever stop them?"
[2026/04/09 15:01] Sonja Bikergrrl: K'a'an (looking from party member to party member): "From far away. We tried to parley, to seek accomodation, but their arrogance was matched only by their brutality. They drove deep into our worlds, our places, stealing the lives of our citizens. These... were the dark days of the invasion of the dark nightmarish -things- from the places beyond the stars."
[2026/04/09 15:02] Sonja Bikergrrl: K'a'an: (nods to Gwen) "From the Githyanki arouse a great Leader - the undying Vaalkith. She lead us, she bring us victory. We drive the filth back. We crush them in their hives, we shall bring the war to their people, their worlds. So the undying Vaalkith decrees."
[2026/04/09 15:02] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me pauses again
[2026/04/09 15:02] Sapphire: "Like a Saint of your people."
[2026/04/09 15:04] Sonja Bikergrrl: K'a'an nods to Gwen, again.
[2026/04/09 15:05] Sonja Bikergrrl: K'a'an: "We arrive in six hours. Rest now, you shall be fighting soon."
[2026/04/09 15:06] Sonja Bikergrrl: What're you doing for the next six hours?
[2026/04/09 15:07] Joe: “So now you enlist warriors of other worlds affected by the Zergs, whether we choose this path or not. I recognise a need for it. I shall be proud to wet my axe in the birthing hives of demons.”
[2026/04/09 15:07] Sonja Bikergrrl: K'a'an: "It is your choice. Your dar is infected, if you do not fight, your dar will be their hive."
[2026/04/09 15:08] Mecha: Neopti is going to sit in a corner of her bed and try to rest. Thinking she did something wrong to the Gith captain
[2026/04/09 15:08] Joe: “What strong weapons have you against them? I have once tried fire.”
[2026/04/09 15:09] Sapphire: Gwen nods. "Fire, especially backed by the goddess, is strong at cleansing what does not belong in our home."
[2026/04/09 15:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: K'a'an: (smiling) "Nothing burns hotter than draa'zvir."
[2026/04/09 15:12] Joe: “May we have some draa’zvir to fight against the Zergs?”
[2026/04/09 15:12] Sonja Bikergrrl: K'a'an and the Githyanki in earshot laugh.
[2026/04/09 15:13] Sonja Bikergrrl: K'a'an: "Six hours, vin'isk."
[2026/04/09 15:14] Sonja Bikergrrl: About six hours later there is a slight, barely detectable -change-. Perhaps it's the sudden cool breeze of fresh air, or the slight change in gravity.
[2026/04/09 15:15] Sapphire: Gwen makes her way back up to the Deck to see
[2026/04/09 15:15] Sonja Bikergrrl: your first view of an alien world....
[2026/04/09 15:16] Joe: Follows Gwen, nodding at Neopti to come too
[2026/04/09 15:16] Sonja Bikergrrl: ...is anticlimatical. It looks like your own world; fields, greenery, mountains... although they seem a bit purple. What looks like a settlement some distance away.
[2026/04/09 15:16] Sonja Bikergrrl: K'a'an: "There, in that 'ad, you will find things of use to you. We stay here. Go, get what you need."
[2026/04/09 15:17] Mecha: Neopti and Fluffles head up as well. Hearing teh captain Neopti climbs on Fluffles and rides in the direction
[2026/04/09 15:18] Joe: “If this is some sort of trap… if we are being used to lure those demons out, used as bait, by my God I swear to you I shall wet my axe on your blood also, K’a’an.”
[2026/04/09 15:19] Sonja Bikergrrl: K'a'an just gives Joe a glare, somewhere between contempt, smug superiority and amusement. "Careful, kainyank."
[2026/04/09 15:19] Sapphire: Gwen declines to throw threats around, making her way towards the gang plank down to the ground. "Do the people here speak the same language as us?"
[2026/04/09 15:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: K'a'an: "I do not know, yank, maybe ask them."
[2026/04/09 15:21] Sapphire: She makes her way down, sword sheathed and bow on her back.
[2026/04/09 15:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: Hudson (mutters, clearly expecting a set-up)
[2026/04/09 15:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: So, a nice stroll on an alien world
[2026/04/09 15:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: It's almost pleasant. Gravity is about the same, air is breathable... roll D20
[2026/04/09 15:22] Sapphire: how's the plantlife? recognizable to us?
[2026/04/09 15:22] D20: Sapphire rolls 12
[2026/04/09 15:23] D20: Mecha rolls 7
[2026/04/09 15:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: Even Neopli notices... it's absolutely silent.
[2026/04/09 15:24] Sonja Bikergrrl: The plantlife looks like any other plants you've seen, with only minor variations.
[2026/04/09 15:24] Mecha: Neopti nuzzles into fluffles."We'll show that captain. Show him we're worthy of being in the presence of the Gith." Before it hits."You notice it is quiet? Like there is no life around here, no wind, no animals."
[2026/04/09 15:24] Sonja Bikergrrl: And after about ten minutes walking...
[2026/04/09 15:24] Sonja Bikergrrl: sanity checks!
[2026/04/09 15:25] D20: Sapphire rolls 16
[2026/04/09 15:25] D10: Sapphire rolls 1
[2026/04/09 15:25] D10: Sapphire rolls 1
[2026/04/09 15:25] D10: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 5
[2026/04/09 15:25] D10: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 8
[2026/04/09 15:25] Joe: Please make the d20 rolls for me, I can’t use the dice
[2026/04/09 15:25] Sapphire: you got a 58
[2026/04/09 15:25] Sonja Bikergrrl: passed... just
[2026/04/09 15:25] Joe: Thank you
[2026/04/09 15:26] Sonja Bikergrrl: Mecha: 2D10
[2026/04/09 15:26] D10: Mecha rolls 4
[2026/04/09 15:26] D10: Mecha rolls 6
[2026/04/09 15:26] Sonja Bikergrrl: also passed
[2026/04/09 15:26] Sonja Bikergrrl: You suddenly find yourself walking through a bunch of scattered long-dead and badly decomposed corpses
[2026/04/09 15:27] Sapphire: "Loooks like we got here too late. We should set up a funeral pyre for them."
[2026/04/09 15:27] Joe: “Of course.” Are the corpses ‘the same’ or all from
[2026/04/09 15:27] Mecha: Yeah, we should make sure we don't join them first." Neopti says
[2026/04/09 15:27] Sonja Bikergrrl: want to investigate the bodies?
[2026/04/09 15:27] Joe: different worlds and cultures? I examine them
[2026/04/09 15:27] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 16
[2026/04/09 15:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: You can't really tell anything.
[2026/04/09 15:28] Joe: Any weapons or other items?
[2026/04/09 15:28] Sapphire: "Hello?!" she calls out. "Any survivors?"
[2026/04/09 15:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: None that you can see....
[2026/04/09 15:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: -silence-
[2026/04/09 15:29] Joe: “I think we should return to the ship and force that K’a’an to be a little more honest with us.
[2026/04/09 15:29] Sonja Bikergrrl: Neopli, Gwen, want to check?
[2026/04/09 15:29] Sapphire: will check the buildings too
[2026/04/09 15:29] D20: Sapphire rolls 18
[2026/04/09 15:30] Sonja Bikergrrl: you're not near any buildings (yet)
[2026/04/09 15:30] Sonja Bikergrrl: You examine the bodies... but... nothing seems unusual
[2026/04/09 15:31] Mecha: Can This one roll to see if Neopti spies something suspicious about these bodies?
[2026/04/09 15:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: go for it
[2026/04/09 15:31] Joe: Are there any identifiable wounds or cause of death?
[2026/04/09 15:31] D20: Mecha rolls 18
[2026/04/09 15:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: None you could determine
[2026/04/09 15:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: ....fer fucks sake
[2026/04/09 15:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: why can't you roll like that in combat?
[2026/04/09 15:31] Mecha: Million Linden question there Mistress.
[2026/04/09 15:32] Sonja Bikergrrl: No, nothing can be determined or deduced. Just... some creatures died here in a fight, long ago
[2026/04/09 15:32] Mecha: Going to search one of the bodies. still cautious
[2026/04/09 15:33] Sonja Bikergrrl: roll d20
[2026/04/09 15:33] D20: Mecha rolls 16
[2026/04/09 15:33] Sonja Bikergrrl: some long-rusted blade is all you find, quite worthless
[2026/04/09 15:34] Sonja Bikergrrl: Time to move on?
[2026/04/09 15:34] Mecha: gonna leave it then.
[2026/04/09 15:34] Mecha: Yeah moving on."Nothing here feels right."
[2026/04/09 15:34] Joe: Yes let us leave this accursed place
[2026/04/09 15:35] Sonja Bikergrrl: Approaching the settlement, it becomes obvious how quiet it is. Also, the buildings seem to be covered with some strange reddish stuff, that looks like hardened meat. It appears to have been exuded somehow, but not -built-... it doesn't look good to touch.
[2026/04/09 15:36] Mecha: Neopti looks at this."What was that about accursed places?"
[2026/04/09 15:36] Sonja Bikergrrl: Also: Contact! Some big bloated floating thing drifts into view, with what you now know as a hydralisk approaching, followed by a handful of zerglings loping after
[2026/04/09 15:36] Sonja Bikergrrl: "DDIIEE!!"" hisses the hydralisk.
[2026/04/09 15:37] Sonja Bikergrrl: And that'll be this weeks' dreaded cliffhanger!
[2026/04/09 15:37] Sapphire: Eeep!
[2026/04/09 15:37] Sapphire: monsters!
[2026/04/09 15:37] Joe: Demons!
[2026/04/09 15:39] Mecha: Neopti looks at Joe. "You say demons so much, is there a fetish you don't want us knowing about?"
[2026/04/09 15:40] Joe: Staring between Neopti and the approaching monsters. “You choose now to ask?”
[2026/04/09 15:41] Sonja Bikergrrl: alright, time I wasn't here... hehehe you two
[2026/04/09 15:41] Joe: Thank you DungeonMistress !
[2026/04/09 15:41] Mecha: Thank you Mistress