[2023/12/25 14:50] Alicia Frakture: Looks about right to this one
[2023/12/25 14:51] Sonja Bikergrrl: I've summarized things in a NC for you both
[2023/12/25 14:51] Sonja Bikergrrl: Suffice to say, you take the part of goblins defending their lair! They've raided a passing caravan and stolen the Holy McGuffin, and they have half hour to set up a defence for their base before the humans come...
[2023/12/25 14:52] Sonja Bikergrrl: Chief: "Okay gobbos, we got a party of humans coming in, spread out and defend the base, take three boys with you to help, the one that repels the party gets a nice reward!"
[2023/12/25 14:52] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me starts the half hour hour glass. (It's half of an hour glass.)
[2023/12/25 14:54] Sonja Bikergrrl: You'll each get three underlings to boss about, and you can pick from goblin mage/shaman/warrior/scout
[2023/12/25 14:54] Alicia Frakture: hmmmm
[2023/12/25 14:54] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: with or without dupes clause?
[2023/12/25 14:55] Alicia Frakture: how many in the party of humans?
[2023/12/25 14:55] Sonja Bikergrrl: depends on how much you bully 'em
[2023/12/25 14:55] Sonja Bikergrrl: you'll see when they arrive
[2023/12/25 14:55] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: so i can take three shamans if I want?
[2023/12/25 14:55] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: or more likely two shamans and a scout
[2023/12/25 14:56] Sonja Bikergrrl: no... you pick one of those "classes", you get three standard goblins
[2023/12/25 14:58] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: ah
[2023/12/25 14:58] Alicia Frakture: Ah okay.
[2023/12/25 14:58] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "dupes clause" is short for "no duplicates clause"
[2023/12/25 14:59] Sonja Bikergrrl: oh
[2023/12/25 14:59] Sonja Bikergrrl: you can both take the same class, it's up to you
[2023/12/25 15:01] Alicia Frakture: I'm going to go for warrior. I can work with some trap ideas
[2023/12/25 15:01] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: I'm always a mage, so I might play against type and run a Scout this time, set up fun traps
[2023/12/25 15:01] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: oh
[2023/12/25 15:01] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: hmmm
[2023/12/25 15:01] Sonja Bikergrrl: go for it
[2023/12/25 15:01] Sonja Bikergrrl: the idea is to try different things without buggering up your "main" character.
[2023/12/25 15:01] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: yeah, let's go hard trap theme and let the shamans and mage autopilot
[2023/12/25 15:01] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: /me curious how Mecha-Shaman goes
[2023/12/25 15:02] Sonja Bikergrrl: Sapphire: Thief goblin: AC 6, hp 2, dagger 1d4, backstab +4 to hit for double damage
[2023/12/25 15:02] Alicia Frakture: okay then this one takes Shaman
[2023/12/25 15:02] Sonja Bikergrrl: Mecha: Goblin shaman: AC 6, hp 2, mace 1d6, casts either Darkness or Cause Light Wounds (2)
[2023/12/25 15:03] Sonja Bikergrrl: you both got three underlings... you got the area/equipment list... time to get defending!
[2023/12/25 15:05] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "Hahah!" The goblin with one missing and the other adorned with a stolen wedding ring cackles. Cackly-Nobs grins. "We'll show those pinkers they messed with the wrong greenies! Doob, Crumb, Daub, come on! We need to rig a bunch of rope to mess with these idjits."
[2023/12/25 15:06] Alicia Frakture: So each of our lists are what we can use. So if this one uses the sock Sapphire can still use hers as well?
[2023/12/25 15:07] Sonja Bikergrrl: Eh. I think we can say you got access to more than one sock. If it's obviously unique, you decide who gets what
[2023/12/25 15:09] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: How many routes between the basement and the tower ground floor do we know of?
[2023/12/25 15:09] Sonja Bikergrrl: One, where the trap door is
[2023/12/25 15:10] Alicia Frakture: Shaman Doof looks at the 3 minions. Okay Gobs here is plan. Do as Me say and we get them dumb dumbs good
[2023/12/25 15:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: Goblins: All make vague grunts of agreement. A few fight over a rat, one or two scratch themselves.
[2023/12/25 15:13] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "Get the milkskin and the dust sock up to the ceiling, we'll rig them to swing into the door when the humans come through, mess them up a bunch!"
[2023/12/25 15:13] Sonja Bikergrrl: The goblins cackle and start fixing ropes and things
[2023/12/25 15:14] Alicia Frakture: Doof sets out her rope, planning to corral and direct the party into going up stairs as she looks around. Dumping out the dirt from the sock and filling it with the sour milk
[2023/12/25 15:14] Sonja Bikergrrl: Down, don't you mean.
[2023/12/25 15:15] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Cackling Nob will make a circuit of the wall, bringing along the cooking pan and spoon, scouting out the places that might be open enough for pinkers to come in through
[2023/12/25 15:15] Alicia Frakture: *Yeah*
[2023/12/25 15:16] Sonja Bikergrrl: There's a few fairly obvious places.
[2023/12/25 15:16] Alicia Frakture: /me heads down stairs to do this.
[2023/12/25 15:17] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: anything distinguishing the obvious places?
[2023/12/25 15:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: Hard to say, they're just big gaps where the wall fell down
[2023/12/25 15:18] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Will start setting up tripwires to each of them rigging one to the squirrel to pull it's tail when tripped, another to the pan to clatter when tripped.
[2023/12/25 15:19] Alicia Frakture: Doof hands gross sock to one of her gobs."When me signal you swings sock at party."
[2023/12/25 15:19] Sonja Bikergrrl: heh
[2023/12/25 15:20] Alicia Frakture: Doof hands the cooking pan and the spoon to another gob. When me signal you bang on it as hard and often as possible.
[2023/12/25 15:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: A goblin comes running out of the suurounding forest. "Big ones coming!"
[2023/12/25 15:22] Alicia Frakture: Doof doesn't stop. She sets up the rocks and sets the doll on it staring up stairs
[2023/12/25 15:23] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Nob arranges the planks to set up a hiding spot by the door, using it to set up themselves and one other gob in a hidy-hole to ambush from.
[2023/12/25 15:24] Sonja Bikergrrl: heh. okay... you start to hear the sounds of approaching humans.
[2023/12/25 15:25] Alicia Frakture: Doof closes the door to downstairs
[2023/12/25 15:26] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Cackling goes quiet, shusshing the other goblins as they lie in wait
[2023/12/25 15:26] Alicia Frakture: Her own team quiets as well
[2023/12/25 15:27] Sonja Bikergrrl: You see a band of humans break the cover of the trees, there's two in some shiny suits of metal, carrying various weapons, one in leather looking almost as sneaky as a goblin, and one bearded guy in robes wearing a pointy hat
[2023/12/25 15:30] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Cackling considers who's the better person to gank first, watching their matching order.
[2023/12/25 15:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: The humans huddle for a few, to discuss, you see them pointing to the tower here and there
[2023/12/25 15:32] Alicia Frakture: Doof lays out the broken glass on the ground, quietly
[2023/12/25 15:32] Sonja Bikergrrl: Where are you putting the glass?
[2023/12/25 15:32] Alicia Frakture: On the ground around the stairs from above
[2023/12/25 15:34] Sonja Bikergrrl: After some discussion, one of the guys wearing metal approaches the tower, along with the guy in leather hanging behind him for cover.
[2023/12/25 15:34] Sonja Bikergrrl: The other two watch.
[2023/12/25 15:35] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Excellent. Nob gets ready for the two to come in and so he can gank the other sneaky guy first.
[2023/12/25 15:37] Sonja Bikergrrl: The two approach carefully. "Once I open the door, check inside for traps, those little monsters will have something waiting." The armoured guy takes hold of the door, the guy in leather behind him.
[2023/12/25 15:40] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me awaits your intentions
[2023/12/25 15:41] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: previously given? gank the thief guy has his back turned to us
[2023/12/25 15:41] Alicia Frakture: As soon as Doof hears the door open she signals the noisemaker goblin
[2023/12/25 15:43] Sonja Bikergrrl: okay... the guy opens the door, the banging of the spoon on the pot catches both off guard, they jump and stare inside the tower and... d20, Sapphire
[2023/12/25 15:43] Sonja Bikergrrl: think a 10 hits
[2023/12/25 15:43] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: including the plus for surprise?
[2023/12/25 15:44] Sonja Bikergrrl: you mean the +4 for backstab?
[2023/12/25 15:44] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: yeah
[2023/12/25 15:45] Sonja Bikergrrl: Hmm. Surprise, good point actually.
[2023/12/25 15:46] Sonja Bikergrrl: +1 for surprise, need a 9
[2023/12/25 15:47] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: got an 8....
[2023/12/25 15:47] Sonja Bikergrrl: D'oh! An 8 was rolled. Tough luck! You miss, as the other two humans start shouting warnings, and that's when your squad of goblins attack too
[2023/12/25 15:48] Sonja Bikergrrl: ...a 5, a 5, and a 6... okay...
[2023/12/25 15:48] Sonja Bikergrrl: The humans recover from their surprise and raise weapons! Now what.
[2023/12/25 15:48] Alicia Frakture: Are there any holes in the floor?
[2023/12/25 15:48] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: How close are they to the door?
[2023/12/25 15:49] Sonja Bikergrrl: In the tower? Very probably, the floor is quite rotten. And close - literally 1' away
[2023/12/25 15:50] Sonja Bikergrrl: Other than the two outside the wall, of course.
[2023/12/25 15:51] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Nob takes hold of the defensive plank and tumbles around to a new position to make it complicated for the thief to follow, trying to lure them into the prepared trip wires
[2023/12/25 15:51] Sonja Bikergrrl: Mecha?
[2023/12/25 15:53] Alicia Frakture: Doof takes the malnourised Squirell putting it through the hole in the floor letting it smell any food on the heroes.
[2023/12/25 15:54] Sonja Bikergrrl: okay... Sapphire runs into the tower, Mecha lets the squirrel loose, the guy in metal gives chase while the guy in leather starts backing away and kicking at the squirrel. The other two humans run up, shouting warnings.
[2023/12/25 15:55] Sonja Bikergrrl: The guy chasing Sapphire trips over one of the wires, causing more clattering and banging. He pauses there, looking around wildly
[2023/12/25 15:56] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Prone! Cackling nob leaps and stabs his blade two-handed into the thiefs back, cackling madly once it lands!
[2023/12/25 15:56] Sonja Bikergrrl: Your three goblins attack, and one stabs him with a spear. Ouch! He's now badly wounded.
[2023/12/25 15:56] Alicia Frakture: Doof casts Darkness up through the same hole and uses the plank to open the trapdoor in the darkness
[2023/12/25 15:57] Sonja Bikergrrl: Alas for that goblin, a wild swing connects and throws him back in a spray of blood. But I'm sure he's fine, he's with Wahooka, the great goblin god now.
[2023/12/25 15:58] Sonja Bikergrrl: okay... roll d20, Sapphire
[2023/12/25 15:58] Sonja Bikergrrl: 10+ to hit
[2023/12/25 15:59] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: not counting the 14?
[2023/12/25 16:00] Sonja Bikergrrl: right, that crossed. Hit! Roll d4.
[2023/12/25 16:00] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: a 2 before backstab
[2023/12/25 16:01] Sonja Bikergrrl: The guy in leather goes down in a spray of blood. Then, the inside of the tower goes dark, and the trapdoor clatters open loudly.
[2023/12/25 16:01] Sonja Bikergrrl: The other two humans run up, and combat ensue between them and the goblins
[2023/12/25 16:02] Sonja Bikergrrl: It's not the guy in the pointy hats' day. He's run through with a spear, down he goes!
[2023/12/25 16:02] Alicia Frakture: Doof goes up the stairs signalling their gobs to come with
[2023/12/25 16:03] Sonja Bikergrrl: The guy in the metal outfit swipes at one, down that gobbo goes. The other guy sees the wounds and chants, laying hands on the wounds, healing them.
[2023/12/25 16:03] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Nob grabs the theives dagger, cackling and then suddenly cutting it short when he instinctively back-rolls away from the warriors swords, making his way to the way up to the next floor up.
[2023/12/25 16:04] Sonja Bikergrrl: "It's just us! Do we go on?"
[2023/12/25 16:04] Sonja Bikergrrl: "I'll not be bested by damn gobbos!"
[2023/12/25 16:04] Sonja Bikergrrl: so, Mecha is coming up with her goblins?
[2023/12/25 16:04] Sonja Bikergrrl: And Sapphire is staying back?
[2023/12/25 16:05] Alicia Frakture: Does Doof see the warrior making his way?
[2023/12/25 16:05] Sonja Bikergrrl: Goblins have dark vision, so the darkness isn't hampering you
[2023/12/25 16:06] Alicia Frakture: Cast cause light wounds on the warrior
[2023/12/25 16:06] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: You mean Cackling Nob?
[2023/12/25 16:06] Sonja Bikergrrl: d20 to touch, roll over 10
[2023/12/25 16:07] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: he's going into stealth and keeping 'above and behind' these guys while they can't see him.
[2023/12/25 16:07] Sonja Bikergrrl: okay
[2023/12/25 16:07] Alicia Frakture: darn it
[2023/12/25 16:08] Sonja Bikergrrl: Mecha lunges at the guy in armour, muttering an incantation to Wahooka, but I guess he's busy looking for a potato or something. Miss.
[2023/12/25 16:09] Sonja Bikergrrl: The goblins come out to attack, two miss, two hit, and the humans have had enough - they flee the tower, bellowing curses against anything green
[2023/12/25 16:09] Sonja Bikergrrl: You've repulsed the humans!
[2023/12/25 16:09] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Ah ha! Thrown dagger at the softest-looking back while they flee!
[2023/12/25 16:09] Alicia Frakture: She snarls before looking at Sock gob. throw it at the human.
[2023/12/25 16:09] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: An 11
[2023/12/25 16:10] Sonja Bikergrrl: The sock sails after the human, as does the dagger, but they don't stay to argue about this.
[2023/12/25 16:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: And the goblin cheiftain comes out, and looks out. "Good work, good work... now get out and steal something, or find me a rat for dinner."
[2023/12/25 16:11] Alicia Frakture: ... We got squirrell
[2023/12/25 16:13] Sonja Bikergrrl: Your reward! Both of your main characters mysteriously find a Potion of Goblin Healing in their packs later. Exactly what these green icky potions do when ingested... well, I got to keep some surprises :)
[2023/12/25 16:13] Alicia Frakture: Yay :)
[2023/12/25 16:13] Sonja Bikergrrl: (Added on the DM copies, you might want to note that on your sheets)
[2023/12/25 16:16] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Nob will work on looting the dead pinkers, they got the thief and pointy-hat?
[2023/12/25 16:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: That's the end of the one shot
[2023/12/25 16:17] Alicia Frakture: That was fun.
[2023/12/25 16:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: it's not the best one, at all, so... expect the others to be... well, you'll see :)
[2023/12/25 16:18] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me stretches, time did get on
[2023/12/25 16:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: that was certainly an interesting change
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