[2026/02/01 14:02] Sonja Bikergrrl: we all read last weeks sesh?
[2026/02/01 14:03] Mecha: there was a sesh last week?
[2026/02/01 14:03] Sonja Bikergrrl: wasn't there?
[2026/02/01 14:04] Sapphire: missed it
[2026/02/01 14:04] Sapphire: due to power outage
[2026/02/01 14:05] Mecha: Ah yes, there was fire... so much fire
[2026/02/01 14:05] Sonja Bikergrrl: Yes
[2026/02/01 14:05] Mecha: and someone shot a ballista at our dragon friend
[2026/02/01 14:06] Sapphire: Emily presumably got bounced back to her lamp, then
[2026/02/01 14:06] Sapphire: who's holding her now?
[2026/02/01 14:06] Sonja Bikergrrl: you know shit gets real when Sonja y Ddraig Aur gets stuck with a ballista bolt. That sort of thing really puts a crimp on ones' day
[2026/02/01 14:07] Sonja Bikergrrl: we'll give Jassie to ten past
[2026/02/01 14:07] Mecha: Talia still carries the lamp
[2026/02/01 14:08] Sapphire: we on the ground now?
[2026/02/01 14:08] Sapphire: I recall ending up in some creepy village
[2026/02/01 14:09] Joe: we explored the creepy village. There were traps, kobolds, zombies, and a lot of fire
[2026/02/01 14:09] Sonja Bikergrrl: as a very brief recap: you defeated the zombie horde, Sonja y Ddraig Aur heard of kobolds heading to her lair and killing her hatchlings, Jassie cast Heat Metal on an albino kobold in a chest plate who flew out on a wyvern
[2026/02/01 14:09] Sapphire: so you -did- find the zombies
[2026/02/01 14:09] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me waits.
[2026/02/01 14:09] Joe: we killed a lot of zombies
[2026/02/01 14:10] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me waits some more.
[2026/02/01 14:10] Joe: i think also we all got injured by, ah, the zombies ... and some fire
[2026/02/01 14:10] Joe: see, these were not normal zombies
[2026/02/01 14:11] Joe: as if there was not already enough fire happening,
[2026/02/01 14:11] Joe: these zombies sometimes exploded in fire too
[2026/02/01 14:11] Joe: it was a little confusing at the time
[2026/02/01 14:11] Joe: somehow the kobolds were responsible
[2026/02/01 14:11] Mecha: /me sits back and watches
[2026/02/01 14:11] Joe: kobolds are always responsible, or irresponsible, depending how you understand that
[2026/02/01 14:12] Sonja Bikergrrl: o_o
[2026/02/01 14:12] Joe: is that about right, Mistress?
[2026/02/01 14:12] Sonja Bikergrrl: I'm fairly sure I always start with a quick recap on what happened last
[2026/02/01 14:12] Joe: sorry boss
[2026/02/01 14:13] Joe: im amazed i could recall that much
[2026/02/01 14:13] Sonja Bikergrrl: if they're not informative enough, please say so, because questions as I'm trying to remember it coherently myself do break the flow and recall
[2026/02/01 14:13] Sonja Bikergrrl: and that then plays merry hell with having to edit logs later
[2026/02/01 14:13] Sapphire: /me awaits question time
[2026/02/01 14:14] Sonja Bikergrrl: okay, looks like no Jassie
[2026/02/01 14:14] Sonja Bikergrrl: Sapphire?
[2026/02/01 14:14] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me nearly has a fit as Jassie informs her she'll be a minute
[2026/02/01 14:15] Sapphire: we starting today's session flying back to the lair or our dragon has left us on the groun?
[2026/02/01 14:16] Sonja Bikergrrl: You're on your own, surrounded by corpses, many in pieces, most still smoking, while Sonja y Ddraig Aur flies rather unsteadily back to her lair.
[2026/02/01 14:18] Sonja Bikergrrl: And yes, there does seem to be a theme of explosive kobolds
[2026/02/01 14:18] Jassie: is online.
[2026/02/01 14:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: And with that recap out of the way, GGGGRRRREEEETTTTIIINNNGGGGGSSSS Adventurers! Other players get a bang out of playing D&D; you get a bang from exploding kobolds.
[2026/02/01 14:20] Jassie: sorry
[2026/02/01 14:21] Joe: Jassie!
[2026/02/01 14:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: It would seem your next step is to head to Lake Avalon, as that is where the rampaging kobolds are headed next, in search of some powerful weapon.
[2026/02/01 14:21] Sapphire: Emily's lantern wiggles, a puff od smoke coughing out after that last batch of explosions.
[2026/02/01 14:21] Jassie: heya
[2026/02/01 14:22] Jassie: if i look at all the corpses, anything i can utilize Sonja?
[2026/02/01 14:22] Mecha: Talia looks at the emerging Emily."Warn me a bit before doing that."
[2026/02/01 14:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: I shudder to think what you're going to do with ex zombies and scattered pieces of kobold
[2026/02/01 14:23] Jassie: scattered pieces of kobold, i can use their bones?
[2026/02/01 14:24] Sonja Bikergrrl: .....forrrrrr.....?
[2026/02/01 14:24] Jassie: animation
[2026/02/01 14:24] Sonja Bikergrrl: too badly blown apart
[2026/02/01 14:24] Sonja Bikergrrl: also, your god will frown on that
[2026/02/01 14:24] Sapphire: She flows out and reforms, dusted with rather more ash than usual and coughing. "That... was pretty rough." She looks around. "At least I come back together again after...."
[2026/02/01 14:25] Sonja Bikergrrl: So... heading to Lake Avalon next? It's a bit of a journey.
[2026/02/01 14:25] Mecha: Yep, lets go see if we can help Sonja and her kids
[2026/02/01 14:26] Sonja Bikergrrl: That's not the same place.
[2026/02/01 14:26] Jassie: who cares
[2026/02/01 14:26] Sapphire: What are we expecting to find at Lake Avalon aside from water?
[2026/02/01 14:26] Sonja Bikergrrl: I think Sonja y Ddraig Aur might; her lair is in a mountain, she might object to it being in a lake.
[2026/02/01 14:27] Sonja Bikergrrl: Kobolds, that may or may not explode.
[2026/02/01 14:27] Mecha: fair enough. we need to trust in Sonja and head to the lake, she will meet us there. Hell as slow as we move compared to her, she might beat us there
[2026/02/01 14:27] Sonja Bikergrrl: one of whom might express displeasure at Jassie installing central heating in his armour
[2026/02/01 14:28] Jassie: LOL yes
[2026/02/01 14:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: It's a good three day trip to Lake Avalon
[2026/02/01 14:29] Sonja Bikergrrl: this does at least mean you get to heal up and recover spells
[2026/02/01 14:29] Sapphire: Oh, lots of walking....
[2026/02/01 14:29] Jassie: and i can find some corpses
[2026/02/01 14:29] Mecha: Talia just raises an eyebrow at the corps collecting
[2026/02/01 14:30] Sapphire: Emily grumps some at leaving her lamp just to end up waling. What kind of terrain are we crossing on the way to the lake? Road with light agriculture along it? a bare trail of dirt in unkempted grasses?
[2026/02/01 14:30] Sonja Bikergrrl: you can find corpses buried in graveyards, but the authorities are going to be -very- annoyed if you disturb them.
[2026/02/01 14:30] Jassie: (do i notice the raised eyebrow?)
[2026/02/01 14:30] Sonja Bikergrrl: roll a D20
[2026/02/01 14:30] Jassie: oh im not that kinda maniac
[2026/02/01 14:30] D20: Jassie rolls 6
[2026/02/01 14:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: Yes, you do.
[2026/02/01 14:31] Jassie: lol, i tell Talia, "nono, dont get the wrong idea, its corpses which will help us in battle and the like." smiles with a thumbs up.
[2026/02/01 14:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: It's about 100miles, Sapphire, taking you from mountains through forests and plains and past coast and over a huge river before coming to some hills and swamps
[2026/02/01 14:32] D20: Sapphire rolls 7
[2026/02/01 14:32] Sapphire: an impressive range of terrains in a hundred miles
[2026/02/01 14:33] Sonja Bikergrrl: Joe... roll a D12
[2026/02/01 14:33] Sonja Bikergrrl: England is like that.
[2026/02/01 14:34] Sapphire: anything to note of the villages along the way?
[2026/02/01 14:34] Jassie: hehe i lived that, i know, i like it though hehe
[2026/02/01 14:34] Mecha: I look over again. no judgement, you do you
[2026/02/01 14:35] Sonja Bikergrrl: not really, Sapphire. Not as far as you can tell, anyway
[2026/02/01 14:35] Sonja Bikergrrl: did we lose Joe?
[2026/02/01 14:35] Joe: am here ]
[2026/02/01 14:36] Sonja Bikergrrl: lol... D12?
[2026/02/01 14:36] D12: Joe rolls 10
[2026/02/01 14:36] Joe: sorry i was doing a thing irl
[2026/02/01 14:36] Sonja Bikergrrl: consensually, I hope
[2026/02/01 14:36] Joe: the kettle had never yet failed me
[2026/02/01 14:37] Sonja Bikergrrl: Finding Lake Avalon is easy, it's near Glastonbury Tor, a 500' high hill, surrounded by swampy plains.
[2026/02/01 14:37] Sonja Bikergrrl: You arrive at 10AM on the third day, having made excellent time.
[2026/02/01 14:37] Sapphire: So the lake edge kinda drifts into the swamps
[2026/02/01 14:37] Sonja Bikergrrl: Of course, there's a problem first
[2026/02/01 14:38] Sonja Bikergrrl: The forest road narrows between rocky outcroppings; carts are overturned and there is a crude barricade of logs and iron spikes, with kobold standards nailed into wood.
[2026/02/01 14:38] Joe: glaston - ancient brythonic (and modern welsh) for bluestone, the same as stonehenge saracen stones are made from preseli bluestone
[2026/02/01 14:38] Sonja Bikergrrl: anyone want to make an INT check?
[2026/02/01 14:38] Sapphire: yes!
[2026/02/01 14:38] D20: Sapphire rolls 17
[2026/02/01 14:38] D20: Jassie rolls 18
[2026/02/01 14:39] D20: Mecha rolls 20
[2026/02/01 14:39] Sapphire: "They got here first."
[2026/02/01 14:39] D20: Joe rolls 17
[2026/02/01 14:40] Sonja Bikergrrl: omfg
[2026/02/01 14:40] Sonja Bikergrrl: why is this not combat
[2026/02/01 14:40] Jassie: because thats how the dice goes
[2026/02/01 14:41] Sonja Bikergrrl: None of you have the slightest idea what the sigils may (or may not) represent.
[2026/02/01 14:41] Jassie: we're all descendants of wil wheaton
[2026/02/01 14:41] Sonja Bikergrrl: A drum starts pounding behind the barricade. BOOM-da-BOOM, BOOM-da-BOOM, BOOM-da-BOOM, Boom-Boom, Boom-Boom, Boom-Boom.
[2026/02/01 14:41] Sapphire: "Alright, I'll go up and see what this is..... uh oh."
[2026/02/01 14:41] Sapphire: Say, Sonja... how *wide* is this rocky pass?
[2026/02/01 14:42] Sonja Bikergrrl: It narrows considerably here. Two carts could pass side by side earlier, but now it's barely a cart width wide.
[2026/02/01 14:43] Sonja Bikergrrl: You can either go straight to the barricade, or you -could- try to get through the trees and get to the side of them.
[2026/02/01 14:43] Sapphire: so comfortably fillable with a Web spell if i want
[2026/02/01 14:43] Sonja Bikergrrl: That is 100% feasible.
[2026/02/01 14:43] Sonja Bikergrrl: jassie, Joe, Mecha?
[2026/02/01 14:45] Joe: We are all healed, yes?
[2026/02/01 14:45] Sonja Bikergrrl: all at full health and spells
[2026/02/01 14:45] Joe: alrighty then
[2026/02/01 14:45] Jassie: at this moment, i'll just stay back for now
[2026/02/01 14:46] Joe: my startegic plan is to avoid the front way in and go around it and approach from the side. Does this make sense to anyone else?
[2026/02/01 14:46] Mecha: Talia looks at the others."What do you want to do?"
[2026/02/01 14:46] Sapphire: "I want to see what they try, but yeah." She smiles, unhooking her dagger from her belt. "That drumming tells me they know we're here."
[2026/02/01 14:46] Sonja Bikergrrl: Two glowing lights hurtle skywards and fall back down.
[2026/02/01 14:47] Jassie: they may know we're here, but not where we are exactly
[2026/02/01 14:48] Sapphire: do they fall towards us?
[2026/02/01 14:48] Sonja Bikergrrl: so... to be clear... Sapphire is readying a Web spell... Joe is planning on flanking via forest
[2026/02/01 14:48] Sonja Bikergrrl: They rise up from behind the barricade and fall back down behind the barricade.
[2026/02/01 14:48] Joe: yes and while doing that, i observe their defenses and exit points
[2026/02/01 14:48] Sonja Bikergrrl: Jassie is waiting... and Mecha?
[2026/02/01 14:49] Sonja Bikergrrl: *don't forget* I need to get everyones' intentions and then sort out actions, everything happens in the same "slice" of time.
[2026/02/01 14:50] Mecha: Oh for heavens sakes. Jassie go flank with Joe, emily get your spell ready I'm going down the middle while they're distracted you two hit them from the side or behind
[2026/02/01 14:50] Sapphire: to clarify, i plan to web if they look like they're attacking in force (more than a couple folks)
[2026/02/01 14:50] Sonja Bikergrrl: Also, roll initiative
[2026/02/01 14:51] Jassie: actually gonna prepare to cast an aid, the moment sapph casts the web
[2026/02/01 14:51] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 13
[2026/02/01 14:51] D20: Jassie rolls 14
[2026/02/01 14:52] D20: Joe rolls 18
[2026/02/01 14:52] D20: Mecha rolls 4
[2026/02/01 14:52] D20: Sapphire rolls 1
[2026/02/01 14:53] Sonja Bikergrrl: okay, Sapphire, you first... but so far, nothing has happened yet
[2026/02/01 14:53] Sonja Bikergrrl: do you want to wait and see what happens?
[2026/02/01 14:54] Sapphire: nah, let's go ahead
[2026/02/01 14:55] Sapphire: She plucks two of her hairs, twirls them into a pattern, and blows it forwrds to form a an ashen grey tanngle of sticky threads
[2026/02/01 14:55] Sonja Bikergrrl: you're casting Web at the barricade?
[2026/02/01 14:55] Sapphire: across the pass that hte barricade is blocking, yes
[2026/02/01 14:56] Sonja Bikergrrl: They get a saving throw
[2026/02/01 14:56] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 7
[2026/02/01 14:56] Sonja Bikergrrl: they fail
[2026/02/01 14:56] Jassie: can i aid at the time she casts like i said since im preparing
[2026/02/01 14:56] Sonja Bikergrrl: There's a loud yipping and yapping as sticky stands fill the area. It'll last... quite some time.
[2026/02/01 14:57] Sonja Bikergrrl: ie., 14 turns.
[2026/02/01 14:57] Sonja Bikergrrl: Mecha: is next.
[2026/02/01 14:57] Sonja Bikergrrl: I believe you are walking straight to the barricade
[2026/02/01 14:58] Mecha: Yeahhhh that path seems webbed up now
[2026/02/01 14:58] Sonja Bikergrrl: Indeed so. Are you stopping before the webs, or...?
[2026/02/01 14:59] Sapphire: i'm not one to kinkshame
[2026/02/01 14:59] Mecha: Yeah, gonna stop before the webs and try to puzzle out her next step
[2026/02/01 14:59] Sonja Bikergrrl: okay, you stop before the webbed area
[2026/02/01 14:59] Sonja Bikergrrl: Enemy actions prevented.
[2026/02/01 14:59] Sonja Bikergrrl: Jassie: who are you aid-ing?
[2026/02/01 15:00] Jassie: aid isnt all?
[2026/02/01 15:00] Jassie: oh its one person
[2026/02/01 15:00] Sonja Bikergrrl: Only in 3rd Ed+
[2026/02/01 15:00] Jassie: well, i said already so... Talia since shes going forward
[2026/02/01 15:01] Sonja Bikergrrl: Jassie: 1d8
[2026/02/01 15:01] D8: Jassie rolls 6
[2026/02/01 15:01] Sonja Bikergrrl: Talia feels REALLY healthy, gains 6hp and +1 to hit for 8 rounds
[2026/02/01 15:02] Sonja Bikergrrl: Joe! I believe you said you were going to detour through the forest
[2026/02/01 15:03] Joe: yes
[2026/02/01 15:03] Sonja Bikergrrl: Dexterity check with disadvantage
[2026/02/01 15:03] D20: Joe rolls 20
[2026/02/01 15:03] Sonja Bikergrrl: uh oh
[2026/02/01 15:03] Sonja Bikergrrl: critical fail.
[2026/02/01 15:03] Joe: yup
[2026/02/01 15:04] Joe: i celebrate the small win of drawing attention away from th rest of the party
[2026/02/01 15:04] Jassie: ah damn
[2026/02/01 15:04] Sonja Bikergrrl: You step into a snare, it tightens about your foot and then there is an almighty YANK and you are suddenly dangling upside down.
[2026/02/01 15:05] Sonja Bikergrrl: At the same time, there's a loud CLICK anbd a clay pot swings down, hissing and issuing smoke.
[2026/02/01 15:05] Joe: as far as almighty yanks go thats quite a memorable one
[2026/02/01 15:05] Sonja Bikergrrl: Strength check, -2 penalty to try to escape the snare.
[2026/02/01 15:05] D20: Joe rolls 10
[2026/02/01 15:06] Sonja Bikergrrl: Success. You pull your foot free and hit the dirt. The pot suddenly erupts in smoke and fire, flinging razor sharp shards of pottery far and wide, with a loud BOOM!
[2026/02/01 15:06] D6: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 6
[2026/02/01 15:06] D6: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 5
[2026/02/01 15:06] Sonja Bikergrrl: 11 points of damage, unless you succeed a DEX check again
[2026/02/01 15:06] D20: Joe rolls 5
[2026/02/01 15:06] Sonja Bikergrrl: Success! Only 5 damage.
[2026/02/01 15:07] Joe: hooray!
[2026/02/01 15:07] Joe: i shall brush myself off and carry on regardless
[2026/02/01 15:07] Sonja Bikergrrl: roll d20, WIS check
[2026/02/01 15:07] D20: Joe rolls 17
[2026/02/01 15:07] Sonja Bikergrrl: Ooooh bang on.....
[2026/02/01 15:07] Sonja Bikergrrl: It occurs to you that whoever you face, knows exactly what they are doing.
[2026/02/01 15:08] Sonja Bikergrrl: End of combat round.
[2026/02/01 15:08] Sonja Bikergrrl: Sapphire?
[2026/02/01 15:09] Sapphire: Running over to keep up with Joe on the flanking plan
[2026/02/01 15:09] Sonja Bikergrrl: You're running into the woods with Joe?
[2026/02/01 15:10] Joe: "Watch out, there are some nasty traps around here."
[2026/02/01 15:10] Sapphire: yeah, not leaving him alone!
[2026/02/01 15:10] Sonja Bikergrrl: D20, DEX check
[2026/02/01 15:12] Sonja Bikergrrl: Sapphire.
[2026/02/01 15:13] D20: Sapphire rolls 4
[2026/02/01 15:13] Sapphire: She's a nimble little genie
[2026/02/01 15:14] Sonja Bikergrrl: You charge into the woods. You spot a snare just at the last minute, and dodge easily. They're going to have to try harder than that!
[2026/02/01 15:14] Sonja Bikergrrl: Mecha!
[2026/02/01 15:15] Mecha: I'm going to stand there, calling them out. If Talia walks away they are going to split up around the sides
[2026/02/01 15:15] Sonja Bikergrrl: You call loudly. There's a high pitched yapping. Roll INT or WIS, your choice.
[2026/02/01 15:16] Mecha: INT roll...
[2026/02/01 15:16] D20: Mecha rolls 17
[2026/02/01 15:16] Mecha: Nope
[2026/02/01 15:16] Sonja Bikergrrl: It just sounds like yipping and yapping, although, you're fairly sure you heard "...and your father smelt of elderberries!"
[2026/02/01 15:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: Enemy action: blocked.
[2026/02/01 15:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: Jassie!
[2026/02/01 15:18] Jassie: so how far is everyone from me at this point
[2026/02/01 15:18] Sonja Bikergrrl: Not far.
[2026/02/01 15:19] Sapphire: "They'll be stuck in there for ages!" she calls back to the party members loitering
[2026/02/01 15:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: Ages = over 2hrs
[2026/02/01 15:20] Mecha: I know but they are blocked but not stuck!"
[2026/02/01 15:21] Jassie: hmmm i'll keep up with everyone, staying back for now,
[2026/02/01 15:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: well, they kinda are stuck
[2026/02/01 15:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: Jassie: you're going into the woods?
[2026/02/01 15:21] Jassie: but will also cast an aid, since i dont think the 2 spells need concentration?
[2026/02/01 15:21] Jassie: unless im wrong
[2026/02/01 15:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: Concentration for aid only needed during casting.
[2026/02/01 15:22] Jassie: ok, and i can keep the bless up on mecha?
[2026/02/01 15:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: It's in effect for 7 more rounds.
[2026/02/01 15:23] Jassie: ok and i can see them in the woods or no vision?
[2026/02/01 15:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: You can see them, it's not that dense.
[2026/02/01 15:23] Mecha: *Be right back finishing dinner.*
[2026/02/01 15:24] Jassie: ok
[2026/02/01 15:24] Jassie: then aid and follow behind them
[2026/02/01 15:25] Jassie: 👍
[2026/02/01 15:25] Sonja Bikergrrl: if you cast aid, you can't then follow
[2026/02/01 15:25] Jassie: aid
[2026/02/01 15:25] Sonja Bikergrrl: okay... d8
[2026/02/01 15:25] Jassie: i'll follow along next turn
[2026/02/01 15:25] Jassie: oh wait, i casted aid on Talia
[2026/02/01 15:25] Jassie: i mean Bless
[2026/02/01 15:25] Jassie: so everyone gets the +1
[2026/02/01 15:26] Jassie: i got confused
[2026/02/01 15:26] Sonja Bikergrrl: Bless: +1 to hit/AC/saves for 6 rounds
[2026/02/01 15:26] Jassie: yup
[2026/02/01 15:26] Sonja Bikergrrl: Joe!
[2026/02/01 15:26] Jassie: so mecha should keep her +6 also
[2026/02/01 15:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: RAW: Aid and Bless do not stack
[2026/02/01 15:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: What's Joe planning on doing?
[2026/02/01 15:30] Joe: the woods are probably trapped allthe way around
[2026/02/01 15:31] Jassie: oh what
[2026/02/01 15:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: That's quite possible
[2026/02/01 15:31] Jassie: ah well, i'll know that for next time
[2026/02/01 15:31] Joe: we need a new strategy
[2026/02/01 15:31] Joe: Perhaps we can chop down some trees and barricade the fortress so nobody can leave it
[2026/02/01 15:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: Web, unfortunately, is a double-edged sword.
[2026/02/01 15:32] Sapphire: "It's a forest, Joe."
[2026/02/01 15:32] Sonja Bikergrrl: you plan barricading the barricade?
[2026/02/01 15:32] Joe: its my best plan at the moment
[2026/02/01 15:32] Sapphire: "I say we navigate through and find a way in."
[2026/02/01 15:32] Sonja Bikergrrl: It'll take you -hours- to chop down enough trees.
[2026/02/01 15:32] Joe: also can i take the net? it might come in useful later
[2026/02/01 15:33] Sonja Bikergrrl: what net?
[2026/02/01 15:33] Joe: the one which ynaked me
[2026/02/01 15:33] Joe: *yanked
[2026/02/01 15:33] Sonja Bikergrrl: snare.
[2026/02/01 15:33] Joe: yeah
[2026/02/01 15:33] Joe: that
[2026/02/01 15:33] Sonja Bikergrrl: a noose made with old rope, that you tore apart before it got blown up
[2026/02/01 15:34] Joe: alright so abut cutting down these trees with my axe and dragging some of them across the entrance
[2026/02/01 15:34] Joe: what sort of trees are they ?
[2026/02/01 15:34] Sonja Bikergrrl: You're going to cut down a tree?
[2026/02/01 15:34] Joe: if theyre pine trees yes, if theyre oaks or beeches, not so much
[2026/02/01 15:35] Sonja Bikergrrl: I'm not convinced you want to damage your battle axe by doing that
[2026/02/01 15:35] Joe: or birch, i will cut them if the trunk is less than 1 foot thick
[2026/02/01 15:36] Sapphire: "It'll take more hours than we have, Joe."
[2026/02/01 15:36] Joe: well does anyone have a better suggestion?
[2026/02/01 15:36] Sapphire: "Those webs only last a couple hours."
[2026/02/01 15:36] Joe: whispers: -sits down, drinks some water, munches on some provisions
[2026/02/01 15:36] Sapphire: "We sneak through!" She goes ahead and starts poking ahead instead of argueing about this.
[2026/02/01 15:36] Sonja Bikergrrl: most of the trees are oaks, it'll take 1d6+1 rounds to cut one down, you'll need to make a save vs death to prevent damage to your axe, and, that's going to be per tree
[2026/02/01 15:36] Sapphire: we go -around- the barricade sillies
[2026/02/01 15:36] Joe: okay we go around the barricade
[2026/02/01 15:37] Sonja Bikergrrl: okay... so... Joe... D20, DEX check
[2026/02/01 15:37] Jassie: not much choice
[2026/02/01 15:37] Mecha: Meanwhile I am still trying to run the distraction
[2026/02/01 15:37] D20: Joe rolls 5
[2026/02/01 15:38] Sonja Bikergrrl: Success: you spot a snare before you step in it, and step aside.
[2026/02/01 15:38] Sonja Bikergrrl: You are now alongside the barricade.
[2026/02/01 15:39] Sonja Bikergrrl: You see five kobolds trapped in the web, one with a drum and wearing a bandolier with coloured pockets, the others are waving daggers about.
[2026/02/01 15:39] Sonja Bikergrrl: End of combat round
[2026/02/01 15:39] Sonja Bikergrrl: Sapphire!
[2026/02/01 15:40] Sapphire: Sapphire was recommending going through the forest to get to the side of the barricaded pass. That seem viable?
[2026/02/01 15:40] Sonja Bikergrrl: Yes, if you avoid snares.
[2026/02/01 15:41] Sapphire: gonna try for that
[2026/02/01 15:41] Sonja Bikergrrl: DEX check
[2026/02/01 15:42] D20: Sapphire rolls 16
[2026/02/01 15:43] Sonja Bikergrrl: You charge forwards. Straight into a snare. It tightens about your foot, yanks you up, there's a CLICK and a clay pot, issuing smoke and hissing loudly, swings down near you.
[2026/02/01 15:43] Sonja Bikergrrl: STR check to escape the snare!
[2026/02/01 15:44] Sapphire: "Merlin's beard!" she uses her dagger to slash through the snare rope
[2026/02/01 15:44] D20: Sapphire rolls 13
[2026/02/01 15:44] Sonja Bikergrrl: uh oh.
[2026/02/01 15:44] Sonja Bikergrrl: The pot explodes as you dangle beside it, in a cloud of smoke, fire and pottery shards.
[2026/02/01 15:44] D6: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 4
[2026/02/01 15:44] D6: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 3
[2026/02/01 15:45] Sonja Bikergrrl: 7 damage, luckily the explosion destroys the snare and you fall to the ground.
[2026/02/01 15:45] Sonja Bikergrrl: (An EVIL DM would make you take falling damage...)
[2026/02/01 15:45] Joe: whispers: grins sheepishly toward Sapphire
[2026/02/01 15:45] Sonja Bikergrrl: Mecha!
[2026/02/01 15:46] Sapphire: "Owww...." she lays on her back for a moment.
[2026/02/01 15:46] Mecha: Keep up the distraction attempt."HEy How do you Kobolds taste deep fried? I went to KFK a while back. Kentucky fried Kobold, but they were out.
[2026/02/01 15:46] Sonja Bikergrrl: More yipping and yapping.
[2026/02/01 15:47] Sonja Bikergrrl: Enemy action blocked still.
[2026/02/01 15:47] Jassie: LOL
[2026/02/01 15:47] Sonja Bikergrrl: But, you do hear a screeching, growing louder.
[2026/02/01 15:47] Sonja Bikergrrl: Jassie!
[2026/02/01 15:48] Jassie: how close am I to my party?
[2026/02/01 15:48] Jassie: enough to touch?
[2026/02/01 15:48] Sonja Bikergrrl: No, not now
[2026/02/01 15:48] Sonja Bikergrrl: you can touch Talia, but Sapphire and Joe are alongside the barricade
[2026/02/01 15:49] Sonja Bikergrrl: of course, Mecha might not consent to being touched, but that's between you too
[2026/02/01 15:49] Jassie: nvm, shes ok for now io think
[2026/02/01 15:49] Jassie: so just keep up
[2026/02/01 15:49] Sonja Bikergrrl: keep up? You are waiting beside Talia?
[2026/02/01 15:50] Sapphire: how tall is the barricade?
[2026/02/01 15:50] Sonja Bikergrrl: Tall for kobolds. Small for giants. Medium sized for humans.
[2026/02/01 15:50] Jassie: erm yea for now
[2026/02/01 15:51] Sonja Bikergrrl: It's a bit fuzzy now, thanks to the sticky strands all around.
[2026/02/01 15:51] Jassie: keeping an eye out for the growling
[2026/02/01 15:52] Sonja Bikergrrl: so what does Sapphire plan?
[2026/02/01 15:53] Sapphire: Can we get up the side of this wall?
[2026/02/01 15:53] Sonja Bikergrrl: You can, but, you'll want to save vs spells to avoid getting stuck too
[2026/02/01 15:56] Sapphire: so what is full of snares then?
[2026/02/01 15:56] Sonja Bikergrrl: well, the woods at the sides of the path
[2026/02/01 15:56] Joe: does the path go all the way around the fortress?
[2026/02/01 15:57] Sonja Bikergrrl: there's no fortress... I'm not sure where you got that
[2026/02/01 15:57] Sonja Bikergrrl: it's a forest path, with a barricade blocking progress
[2026/02/01 15:57] Sonja Bikergrrl: in the forest, lots of traps
[2026/02/01 15:58] Sonja Bikergrrl: and someone web'd the barricade
[2026/02/01 15:59] Sonja Bikergrrl: Sapphire?
[2026/02/01 16:00] Sapphire: alright, Emily heads up to the squirming kobolds. "So! What did you trap all this area for?"
[2026/02/01 16:00] Sonja Bikergrrl: I assume you stay back out of the web
[2026/02/01 16:01] Sonja Bikergrrl: They respond with yipping, yapping and a few vague gestures. You may make an INT or a WIS check, your choice which
[2026/02/01 16:02] Sapphire: indeed.
[2026/02/01 16:02] Sapphire: Int 12
[2026/02/01 16:02] D20: Sapphire rolls 4
[2026/02/01 16:02] Sonja Bikergrrl: They made a few unkind remarks involving sex and travel.
[2026/02/01 16:02] Sonja Bikergrrl: Mecha!
[2026/02/01 16:04] Mecha: Until given the all clear Talia is still aiming for distraction.."I'm into fitness digging ditches through an isthmus Rough riding down to Waterdeep like WHAT'S UP BITCHES!!!"
[2026/02/01 16:04] Sonja Bikergrrl: More yipping and yapping.
[2026/02/01 16:04] Sonja Bikergrrl: Enemy action: kobolds at barricade: blocked
[2026/02/01 16:05] Sonja Bikergrrl: A shadow zooms overhead and another loud screech.
[2026/02/01 16:05] Sonja Bikergrrl: It's a wyvern.
[2026/02/01 16:06] Sonja Bikergrrl: Six kobolds jump off, with large frames with hides stretched across them, and they float .... fall.... downwards
[2026/02/01 16:06] D6: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 3
[2026/02/01 16:06] D6: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 6
[2026/02/01 16:06] D6: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 2
[2026/02/01 16:06] D6: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 3
[2026/02/01 16:06] D6: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 3
[2026/02/01 16:06] D6: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 3
[2026/02/01 16:07] Sonja Bikergrrl: Four of them get their frames entangled in branches and are tipped upside down, they wind up falling head first and landing with sickening loud CRACKs.
[2026/02/01 16:07] Jassie: oh boy
[2026/02/01 16:07] Sonja Bikergrrl: Two, however, brandish daggers and bare teeth.
[2026/02/01 16:07] Sapphire: "How about this. You cut a deal before we take *advantage* of you being all tied up like you are? Better to play nice than mean..." she starts to monologe.... before turning with her dagger at the ready. She really should get a staff, but they don't seem to fit well in her lamp...
[2026/02/01 16:08] Sonja Bikergrrl: One attacks Sapphire
[2026/02/01 16:08] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 12
[2026/02/01 16:08] Sonja Bikergrrl: Hit!
[2026/02/01 16:08] D4: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 4
[2026/02/01 16:08] Sonja Bikergrrl: 3 damage, Sapphire is now badly wounded.
[2026/02/01 16:08] Sonja Bikergrrl: Other goes for Jow
[2026/02/01 16:08] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 15
[2026/02/01 16:08] Sonja Bikergrrl: or Joe, even, hits AC5
[2026/02/01 16:09] Sonja Bikergrrl: Joe is AC3. He's fine.
[2026/02/01 16:09] Sonja Bikergrrl: Jassie!
[2026/02/01 16:10] Jassie: begins casting up a spell and fires it at the 4 dead ones, u know what it is!
[2026/02/01 16:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: Four kobold zombies rise up.
[2026/02/01 16:12] Sonja Bikergrrl: Joe!
[2026/02/01 16:12] Jassie: i command them to attack those with the daggers
[2026/02/01 16:12] Jassie: whenever they get a turn
[2026/02/01 16:12] Sonja Bikergrrl: Next turn, after Joe
[2026/02/01 16:13] Sonja Bikergrrl: You could at least have let them go cold first, you know.
[2026/02/01 16:13] Sonja Bikergrrl: Joe!
[2026/02/01 16:14] Joe: It looks like the zombie kobold will tackle the kobold. What is the wyvern doing ?
[2026/02/01 16:14] Sonja Bikergrrl: Flying away.
[2026/02/01 16:14] Sapphire: Warm zombies are more flexible
[2026/02/01 16:14] Joe: ok i will begin killing kobolds
[2026/02/01 16:14] Sonja Bikergrrl: I assume you start with the one that tried to shank you... D20
[2026/02/01 16:14] D20: Joe rolls 2
[2026/02/01 16:15] Sonja Bikergrrl: ...
[2026/02/01 16:15] Sonja Bikergrrl: You probably should've started on easier targets, like, idk, a bug or something, and worked up.
[2026/02/01 16:15] Sonja Bikergrrl: End of combat round!
[2026/02/01 16:16] Sonja Bikergrrl: and that... will be where we leave off for tonight....
[2026/02/01 16:16] Sonja Bikergrrl: that was... interesting :-)
[2026/02/01 16:16] Joe: "forest bathing"
[2026/02/01 16:16] Sapphire: blocked a whole enemy wave... and it might not have helped all that much... than again we tend to struggle
[2026/02/01 16:17] Joe: we should build wyvern traps
[2026/02/01 16:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: you do have an amusing ability to somehow manage to get your booted feet right into your mouths
[2026/02/01 16:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: I've never seen anything like it :-D
[2026/02/01 16:18] Jassie: hahaha
[2026/02/01 16:19] Sonja Bikergrrl: I'm sure next week you might just make it past the kobold barricade
[2026/02/01 16:19] Jassie: well we got 4 bodies now
[2026/02/01 16:19] Sonja Bikergrrl: who knew five kobolds could hold back a party of level seven players so long :-P
[2026/02/01 16:19] Mecha: /me listens to this
[2026/02/01 16:20] Sapphire: mostly it was the snare grenades i feel
[2026/02/01 16:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: oh boy... you're really not gonna li... anyway, I'll see you all next time! :-)
[2026/02/01 16:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: I better dash, though, way past nidnight