Session Three - The Necromancer
[2023/09/09 15:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me opens up notecards and files and some more pop
[2023/09/09 15:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: you'd just explored the tower, Cassandra literally went to ground and.... we are letting Leesha get into our heads
[2023/09/09 15:22] Alicia Frakture: *Muahahaha*
[2023/09/09 15:23] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Which room are we in at the moment?
[2023/09/09 15:24] Alicia Frakture: I know Leesha is coming down the stairs to the main floor room with the hatch
[2023/09/09 15:24] Sonja Bikergrrl: but with that out of the way... Greeeeeeetings adventurers... some players get great battles against the forces of evil, you get to watch a deranged half-orc apparantly invent a new game with the head of a guy called Golfimball
[2023/09/09 15:25] Sonja Bikergrrl: as I recall it... Dahlia on the ground floor, Debben and Leesha on the first floor
[2023/09/09 15:25] Sonja Bikergrrl: What next?
[2023/09/09 15:25] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: What magey stuff is visible here on the first floor right now?
[2023/09/09 15:26] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (dinadrone): recovers from the startling event and while moving to look at the door that had been closed so quickly and loudly to see if it was in fact locked....yelling up towards the stairs as she was finally able to collect herself and move...."She just jumped through the door suddenly, no idea why."
[2023/09/09 15:27] Sonja Bikergrrl: Other than the parboiled head, and the picture of a radish, and the piles of notes.... nothing.... but I did mention there could be other things, besides the reading stand upstairs
[2023/09/09 15:27] Alicia Frakture: Leesha is still holding the now empty pot.
[2023/09/09 15:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: I'm sure the pot with a ring of rendered fat in it will be .... useful
[2023/09/09 15:29] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: She'll yoink the notes and call back downstairs. "Coming, Dhalia! Think shes turned on us?"
[2023/09/09 15:30] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (dinadrone): while still looking at the door, she yelled back up the stairs, "I do think so, didn't give any warning all, it was just so sudden"
[2023/09/09 15:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: (Also the "you'll be sorry")
[2023/09/09 15:32] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (dinadrone): she shook her head fully clearing it and spoke up once more, "she also said, you'll be sorry, I am thinking that was a threat but have no idea what made her do that"
[2023/09/09 15:33] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Debben blinks, and looks at their cleric. "Have you considered the theory that Cassandra might be the necromancer we've been worried about?"
[2023/09/09 15:33] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: She sighs, looking around at the stuff here on the ground floor for options.
[2023/09/09 15:34] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (dinadrone): her eyes went wide hearing Debben's words, "I had not thought of that but that makes it even scarier what she did"
[2023/09/09 15:34] Alicia Frakture: Leesha smiles."If that's the case she is going to be really mad, I washed away a part of her magic circle with what was in this pot
[2023/09/09 15:34] Sonja Bikergrrl: Other than a couch and a low coffee table, not much here to note
[2023/09/09 15:36] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "Chase or lock her in with that couch? I didn't see much in the way of places another exit might go to."
[2023/09/09 15:37] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (dinadrone): "The couch sounds like a good idea while we search these upper floors carefully. "
[2023/09/09 15:38] Alicia Frakture: I already did.. Oh you said carefully
[2023/09/09 15:38] Sonja Bikergrrl: >.<
[2023/09/09 15:38] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "Come on, help me move this thing." She moves to the couch, lifting one end so they can set it on top of the trap door.
[2023/09/09 15:39] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (dinadrone): helps with moving the couch to keep the door shut hopefully
[2023/09/09 15:39] Alicia Frakture: Leesha sets the pot down and goes over to help
[2023/09/09 15:39] Sonja Bikergrrl: well... you move the couch... now...?
[2023/09/09 15:41] Alicia Frakture: I guess we set it on the hatch to keep it from opening
[2023/09/09 15:41] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: How heavy does it seem? "Do we need more weight on it?"
[2023/09/09 15:42] Sonja Bikergrrl: Not that heavy... and what do you plan weighing it down with? Is it wise, barricading her in where she might have any number of supplies to fight back?
[2023/09/09 15:45] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Well if we could -seal- her in, no actual fight needed. But agreed we don't know what she has on hand. "So here's my plan, we lock this hatch down as tight as we can, loot what we can, and then smoke her out with fire."
[2023/09/09 15:46] Sonja Bikergrrl: seal her in? There might be any number of easy exits.
[2023/09/09 15:46] Alicia Frakture: Leesha looks to Dahlia and Debben. What do we do now?
[2023/09/09 15:49] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (dinadrone): well if we try to seal her in at least she most likely cannot come through this door. But she may be able to find another way in.
[2023/09/09 15:50] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "Right, it's a stalling tactic, not a winning one." She eyes the ground, checking her pack. "You two have caltrops or marbles?"
[2023/09/09 15:53] Alicia Frakture: Leesha shakes her head... then pauses.
[2023/09/09 15:53] Alicia Frakture: "Got a tent would the tent stakes be usefull?
[2023/09/09 15:53] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (dinadrone): "I have some spare sling stones, but no caltrops unfortunately", she dug through her pack trying to think if she might have anything that could help
[2023/09/09 15:55] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "Anything you can do to make this hatch a hazard to come through. Maybe that pot of gross you're carrying around, Leesha."
*** Sonja Bikergrrl: To DINA (Dahlia) *** Special Note from the DM #1: While looking through the pack, you find a mysterious book in there. It is written in some bizarre language, you're going to be -very- reluctant to give that book up....
[2023/09/09 15:56] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (dinadrone): /me digging through her pack her hand ran into a book she didn't recognize, pulling it out of the mess that was her pack slowly she examined it before opening to see if there might be any way of identifying it...."now that is very strange, how did this get in there?"
[2023/09/09 15:57] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Does it have a title?
[2023/09/09 15:58] Alicia Frakture: Less gross than it was, but can use it and the head to try and trip her up.
[2023/09/09 15:58] Sonja Bikergrrl: Megan would be spinning in her grave at generating speeds
[2023/09/09 15:59] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (dinadrone): i cannot make out the script it is very odd and unknown to me
[2023/09/09 16:00] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Debben moves over and checks if the script might be magical in any way.
[2023/09/09 16:00] Sonja Bikergrrl: d20
[2023/09/09 16:02] Sonja Bikergrrl: You note the writing is... not magic, per se, but certainly magical of a sort
[2023/09/09 16:02] Alicia Frakture: Didn't Leesha grab the book from upstairs as well as the pot?
[2023/09/09 16:02] Sonja Bikergrrl: You didn't say you did, as I recalled it?
[2023/09/09 16:03] Sonja Bikergrrl: if you did, then... you got a book to examine too
[2023/09/09 16:03] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Also worth checking in case it's useful to them!
[2023/09/09 16:04] Sonja Bikergrrl: d20 in that case
[2023/09/09 16:04] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (dinadrone): /me she held onto the book tightly and didn't open it , "I think I will keep it in my pack and research it later, it is probably not an accident that it appeared there. I might have forgotten I picked it up with the rest of the ones I carry for study, or my goddess may have had a hand in making it placed among the other books i must read and learn from.".
[2023/09/09 16:04] Alicia Frakture: guess she didn't
[2023/09/09 16:05] Sonja Bikergrrl: Although.... Leesha can't read...
[2023/09/09 16:05] Alicia Frakture: True.*
[2023/09/09 16:05] Alicia Frakture: "You know there is a book, top floor where i found the pot with the head
[2023/09/09 16:06] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "What was the title on it? Did it seem like magical secrets or boring stuff?" Not that Leesha would know how to tell.
[2023/09/09 16:07] Sonja Bikergrrl: (I wouldn't take that absolutely literally, you can read/write you name and simpler sentances. Just not to comprehend a contract or treaty)
[2023/09/09 16:07] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (dinadrone): /me quickly stuffing the book back amongst her other volumes in her pack, she pulled it back on and spoke, "Another book? i would love to see, , it might hold clues as to what is going on here"
[2023/09/09 16:07] Sonja Bikergrrl: There's some loud thumps coming from below.
[2023/09/09 16:08] Alicia Frakture: Leesha just shrugs."No idea, was distracted by the glowing kitten and then the pot of yuvk
[2023/09/09 16:08] Alicia Frakture: yuck
[2023/09/09 16:08] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "Times up. Make the hatch slippery, get ready to fight the undead that comes up once the couch is moved." She gets her cooking oil ready as well. Watch your own footing."
[2023/09/09 16:10] Alicia Frakture: Leesha groans."Gonna get gross." AS she reaches into the pot and scoops out the fat slathering it around the hatch to make the baddies hopefully slip and fall. "in repairs, grease makes things slippery. hope this works.
[2023/09/09 16:10] Alicia Frakture: *And yes she has an idea of what kind of fat it is and she is sufficiently grossed out by it.*
[2023/09/09 16:10] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (dinadrone): puts distance between herself and the greasy door, watching to see what happens
[2023/09/09 16:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: There's a few more thumps from below, then a shuffling sound
[2023/09/09 16:11] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "Dhalia, are you able to start a fire on short notice?" She gets on the other side of the couch as Leesha, spear at the ready.
[2023/09/09 16:13] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (dinadrone): "well Im no wizard or other fire flinger but i do know how to start a fire of course." , with that she moved to attempt to light the grease on fire much as she would start a fire to cook or simply for heat
[2023/09/09 16:14] Sonja Bikergrrl: More faint thumps... and a shuffling, getting louder...
[2023/09/09 16:14] Alicia Frakture: Leesha puts her hand out."Don't start it yet. I think Debben has a plan. I'm just gonna hit stuff really hard."
[2023/09/09 16:14] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (dinadrone): jumping back after the oil would catch fire to make distance between her and the door again
[2023/09/09 16:14] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: (( pause ))
[2023/09/09 16:14] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: (( Is fire started already or no? ))
[2023/09/09 16:15] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (dinadrone): "Oh no I 'm sorry i thought you meant light it now, I must apologize" , she had attempted to light the oil, ((but wasnt sure if she had been successful before being told to wait))
[2023/09/09 16:16] Sonja Bikergrrl: *shuffle... shuffle.... shuffle...*
[2023/09/09 16:16] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "Once the undead are actually in the oil, is when it needs to light up."
[2023/09/09 16:16] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: (( Sonja, we need clarity on the fire question. ))
[2023/09/09 16:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: ((Thought that was from you to Dahlia. I saw no lit fire.))
[2023/09/09 16:18] Sonja Bikergrrl: *shuffle... shuffle... are you ready yet?*
[2023/09/09 16:18] Alicia Frakture: *Nods*
[2023/09/09 16:18] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (dinadrone): /me nods and waits for undead to be in the oil
[2023/09/09 16:19] Sonja Bikergrrl: *shuffle... shuffle... the light is blotted out from the doorway to outside* Sanity checks!
[2023/09/09 16:20] Alicia Frakture: *46*
[2023/09/09 16:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: A d3 (d6) for Dahlia
[2023/09/09 16:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: What walks through the door... you KNOW it's dead. So how is it walking??? The sight sends a chill down Debben and Leeshas' spines, but they hold their nerve. Not so Dahlia, who is shaken by the sight, feeling herself get... unsettled...
[2023/09/09 16:23] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: What sort of dead?
[2023/09/09 16:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: Now what you going to do?
[2023/09/09 16:23] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (dinadrone): /me is startled and scared again watching the dead thing
[2023/09/09 16:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: A person... well, a dead person.
[2023/09/09 16:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: A very dead person, definitely
[2023/09/09 16:23] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: equipment, skin tone, gait?
[2023/09/09 16:24] Sonja Bikergrrl: Probably a villager from some graveyard. Rather green/grey/purple, as dead bodies tend to be after a while.
[2023/09/09 16:25] Alicia Frakture: Leesha looks at the dead guy and throws the pot at it
[2023/09/09 16:25] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Any shuffling sounds coming from below?
[2023/09/09 16:25] Sonja Bikergrrl: okay... roll the d20
[2023/09/09 16:26] Sonja Bikergrrl: Some shuffling below, mostly it's from the thing that just walked in
[2023/09/09 16:26] Sonja Bikergrrl: The pot sails past its' head. It doesn't flinch.
[2023/09/09 16:26] Sonja Bikergrrl: Debben, Dahlia?
[2023/09/09 16:28] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (dinadrone): /me moves back further away from the horrifying sight, still unsure of herself but does manage to pull her sling to her hand
[2023/09/09 16:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: Leesha?
[2023/09/09 16:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: wait... Debben
[2023/09/09 16:28] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "Now where is your binder, walking funeral?" She moves to try and trip up the monster with the end of her spear.
[2023/09/09 16:29] Sonja Bikergrrl: ...you want to -trip- it....?
[2023/09/09 16:29] Sonja Bikergrrl: d20, I'm sure, to start with
[2023/09/09 16:30] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: It doesn't look very steady on it's feet, does it?
[2023/09/09 16:31] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Do I have an idea what I need to roll to succeed?
[2023/09/09 16:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: fair comment, I guess... d20, make a standard attack
[2023/09/09 16:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: 12 or higher
[2023/09/09 16:33] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Probably close to what I would need to do a normal damaging attack I expect.
[2023/09/09 16:33] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Trip attempt!
[2023/09/09 16:33] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Natural 1
[2023/09/09 16:33] Sonja Bikergrrl: /m facepalms
[2023/09/09 16:33] Sonja Bikergrrl: ...are you... -trying- to TPK...
[2023/09/09 16:34] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: I'm not the one who controls the dice!
[2023/09/09 16:34] Sonja Bikergrrl: okay... the dice gods decree that you take a sweep at the creatures' feet... as it shuffles forwards it just kicks your spear aside
[2023/09/09 16:34] Alicia Frakture: *Jokingly, we have seen more ones than a second life live singer*
[2023/09/09 16:35] Sonja Bikergrrl: Meanwhile there's a cackle from the stairs behind you "I told you you'd be sorry! But not for long - now, you die!"
[2023/09/09 16:35] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "Rot-sucking abomination," she curses at the thing.
[2023/09/09 16:35] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: (( The *stairs!* Up or down? ))
[2023/09/09 16:35] Sonja Bikergrrl: There's mumbling, muttering, and a loud crashing from down below
[2023/09/09 16:36] Sonja Bikergrrl: the stairs that lead from the level above, yes
[2023/09/09 16:36] Sonja Bikergrrl: Now what?
[2023/09/09 16:37] Alicia Frakture: Leesha is going with the old standby, and tries to grab the zombie.. and if successful throw it at the voice behind her
[2023/09/09 16:38] Sonja Bikergrrl: okay... Debben, Dahlia?
[2023/09/09 16:39] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (dinadrone): turns toward the cackling voice trying to get a good look at the person speaking
[2023/09/09 16:39] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Do i need to -see- my target for my illusions or just know where they are?
[2023/09/09 16:39] Sonja Bikergrrl: That'll be none other than Cassandra, wielding two ornate daggers
[2023/09/09 16:40] Sonja Bikergrrl: depends... usually you'd want to see to "hit" them, unless you're leaving a "static" illusion for them to find
[2023/09/09 16:42] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Does the sound of screaming and wailing count as 'static' ?
[2023/09/09 16:43] Sonja Bikergrrl: Probably? I assume you're casting it at the stairs
[2023/09/09 16:43] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Yeah, the plan is to auditorially fake our deaths.
[2023/09/09 16:45] Sonja Bikergrrl: oh-kay...
[2023/09/09 16:46] Alicia Frakture: *7 for grab*
[2023/09/09 16:46] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: The idea is to get Cassandra to make a mistake because she thinks she's winning
[2023/09/09 16:47] Sonja Bikergrrl: just reading up a rule... I've not got my books but luckily much is googleable
[2023/09/09 16:47] Sonja Bikergrrl: What's Dahlia doing?
[2023/09/09 16:48] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (dinadrone): keeping her sling ready and watching to see what happens with the dead person to see if is successfully grabbed
[2023/09/09 16:49] Sonja Bikergrrl: 7 for grab... it was a nice attempt, at least.
[2023/09/09 16:50] Alicia Frakture: wait I have the +1 for unarmed so it would be an 8
[2023/09/09 16:50] Sonja Bikergrrl: Debben casts a spell at the stairs... okay, this is going to be interesting, she hears the wailing and screams.
[2023/09/09 16:50] Alicia Frakture: probably not a big whoop de doo but meh
[2023/09/09 16:50] Sonja Bikergrrl: That's... true, but, same outcome...
[2023/09/09 16:51] Sonja Bikergrrl: Now the zombie has a good target, it punches at Leesha
[2023/09/09 16:51] Sonja Bikergrrl: Missed
[2023/09/09 16:51] Sonja Bikergrrl: Cassandra cackles at the sounds of apparant death
[2023/09/09 16:52] Sonja Bikergrrl: Meanwhile the couch jumps up as something hits the trapdoor from below
[2023/09/09 16:52] Sonja Bikergrrl: Now what?
[2023/09/09 16:52] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (dinadrone): attempts to turn undead
[2023/09/09 16:53] Alicia Frakture: Leesha is gonna take a swing at the zombie
[2023/09/09 16:54] Sonja Bikergrrl: Debben?
[2023/09/09 16:54] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: How much space is behind the zombie? can I meaningfully flank it?
[2023/09/09 16:55] Sonja Bikergrrl: Probably. But if you're thinking of a backstab, that's equally probably not going to work
[2023/09/09 16:55] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: what about backblunts?
[2023/09/09 16:56] Sonja Bikergrrl: roll the dice and lets see....
[2023/09/09 16:56] Sonja Bikergrrl: Dina, d20
[2023/09/09 16:56] Sonja Bikergrrl: Leesha, d20
[2023/09/09 16:56] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Debben pulls her cooking skillet off her backpack, raising it high above the zombies head while trying to get behind it....
[2023/09/09 16:56] Sonja Bikergrrl: holy fuck
[2023/09/09 16:58] Sonja Bikergrrl: Dina recovers from her earlier fright and rises up prominently, a hand outstretched. "IN THE NAME OF THE GODDESS, DEPART!" - and from below there's a loud rattling, and the zombie stumbles and lurches backwards, clearly suddenly not wanting to be -here-
[2023/09/09 16:58] Sonja Bikergrrl: Debben is now down a cooking skillet, it clatters away somewhere, missing by miles
[2023/09/09 16:59] Sonja Bikergrrl: Leesha punches at the zombie - just, where it was, not, where it now is. A miss!
[2023/09/09 17:00] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Debben screams as if she were dying, attempting to keep up the ruse as long as possible.
[2023/09/09 17:00] Sonja Bikergrrl: Cassandra splutters as she realizes the screams are just an illusion. She points at Debben, and says, "I can cast spells too, little thing!" She bellows out some incantations... d20, save vs spells
[2023/09/09 17:01] Sonja Bikergrrl: Roll over 15
[2023/09/09 17:01] Alicia Frakture: Leesha sees this and steps between Cassandra and Debben as the incantations begin
[2023/09/09 17:02] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: 7 can eat 9, but cannot eat a 15
[2023/09/09 17:02] Sonja Bikergrrl: Fail. Debben doesn't get to see much... a black veil slams down over her sight!
[2023/09/09 17:02] Sonja Bikergrrl: Now what?
[2023/09/09 17:03] Alicia Frakture: Leesha grabs the head and throws it at Cassandra
[2023/09/09 17:04] Sonja Bikergrrl: Debben? Dahlia?
[2023/09/09 17:04] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Hoping dearly that her party members are quick enough on the take, she claps her hands and gestures furiously at where Cassandra should be. "Incindiary!" and surrounds Cassandra with the (for now) illusion of flickering flames and heat, particularly focusing on the feeling of it.
[2023/09/09 17:06] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (dinadrone): casts protection from evil on Debben hoping the sphere of the spell will cover Leesha too just in case
[2023/09/09 17:07] Alicia Frakture: *Crosses her fingers and rolls the dice*
[2023/09/09 17:07] Alicia Frakture: *10*
[2023/09/09 17:08] Sonja Bikergrrl: Dahlia casts her spell, surrounded Debben in a small circle of protective runes. Leesha comtinues her baffling desecration of someones' head, but it just bounces off a wall with a loud cracking sound
[2023/09/09 17:09] Sonja Bikergrrl: despite being blind af, Debben manages to cast a spell and Cassandra screams and retreats running up the stairs. The zombie lurches right out of the building.
[2023/09/09 17:09] Alicia Frakture: *Is there a chance it splatters and maybe hit her with said splatter? no damage but...*
[2023/09/09 17:10] Sonja Bikergrrl: no -.-
[2023/09/09 17:10] Sonja Bikergrrl: And on that note, we call time....
[2023/09/09 17:10] Sonja Bikergrrl: and Dahlia well and truely saved your bacon with that Turn
[2023/09/09 17:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: but, I'm being "reminded" 1am just isn't enough beauty sleep :/
[2023/09/09 17:11] Alicia Frakture: /me sleep well Mistress.
[2023/09/09 17:12] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (dinadrone): good night Mistress
[2023/09/09 17:12] Sonja Bikergrrl: Don't do anything I wouldn't... don't let games go to your.... head
[2023/09/09 17:12] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me hugs you all and quickly heads out
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