Side Quest One: A Slight Xenomorph Problem...
[2024/03/14 16:15] Sonja Bikergrrl: MidnightMinion Cyberstar was invited to the conversation.
[2024/03/14 16:16] Sonja Bikergrrl: okay... been a while... but back to the slight xenomorph infestation
[2024/03/14 16:16] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Ah, yes, that minor exponential problem
[2024/03/14 16:17] Alicia Frakture: Slight
[2024/03/14 16:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: indeed
[2024/03/14 16:18] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me sees from your sheets you're not in a great situation
[2024/03/14 16:19] Sonja Bikergrrl: one priestess, one many legged monster, nine drow warriors, one critically injured
[2024/03/14 16:19] Sonja Bikergrrl: surface dwellers still well dug in behind their wall, you defeated two drones but they say four are coming now
[2024/03/14 16:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: Guess the ball is in your court on this one :)
[2024/03/14 16:20] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: How many forces on our side?
[2024/03/14 16:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: hmm, miscounted
[2024/03/14 16:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: 4 relatively unscathed warriors
[2024/03/14 16:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: 1 near fatally wounded
[2024/03/14 16:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: priestess
[2024/03/14 16:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: an injured servant of Lolth
[2024/03/14 16:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: and of course, you two
[2024/03/14 16:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: Sapphire: wounded
[2024/03/14 16:22] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: how badly?
[2024/03/14 16:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: Mecha: badly wounded, running low on spells
[2024/03/14 16:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: just wounded
[2024/03/14 16:24] Sonja Bikergrrl: so... intentions?
[2024/03/14 16:25] Alicia Frakture: Still have hypnosis spell so going to try that on the Xenomorphs and see if they can turn on each other
[2024/03/14 16:26] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Atilla gets his whip and short sword ready. "Alright, form up and get ready to cover each other. It sounded like the humans have a handful more of these things to send at us."
[2024/03/14 16:26] Sonja Bikergrrl: Pretty sure you tried that (unsuccessfully)
[2024/03/14 16:28] Alicia Frakture: Gonna throw out my familiar. Got to test a theory."Get a medallion."
[2024/03/14 16:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: yeah... quick re-read of the spell description and I gotta ask... "are you sure"
[2024/03/14 16:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: Ah.
[2024/03/14 16:29] Sonja Bikergrrl: okay, you toss out the sphere and it becomes a monkey and clanks and clatters away with little ooks and eeks
[2024/03/14 16:30] Sonja Bikergrrl: Sapphire gets ready and forms up with the drow warriors forming a battle line to face the gates, the servant to one side, priestess at the back
[2024/03/14 16:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: You get another round to act... but FIRST...
[2024/03/14 16:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: you didn't think I'd forgot? Here's some kittium to help you gain points of bardic inspiration for the battle you are about to face. 
[2024/03/14 16:32] Alicia Frakture: *So much adorable!*
[2024/03/14 16:32] Sonja Bikergrrl: Ooks, eeks and clanks come from the side of the cave.
[2024/03/14 16:33] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: ....is... Atillla previously aware of this moneky?
[2024/03/14 16:33] Sonja Bikergrrl: Yep, pretty sure
[2024/03/14 16:34] Alicia Frakture: IN the meantime skamos moves to the group up."Anybody have any healing so we don't drop too fast?" AS she draws her sabre of light.
[2024/03/14 16:34] Sonja Bikergrrl: The priestess frowns at this comment, but says nothing.
[2024/03/14 16:35] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: He shakes his head, getting ready to attack and call out the incoming enemies.
[2024/03/14 16:35] Sonja Bikergrrl: Ooking and clanking from the side
[2024/03/14 16:35] Alicia Frakture: Looking at the ooking
[2024/03/14 16:36] Sonja Bikergrrl: Sudden curses erupt! There's shouts and yells, and a slightly panicked shouting, as the mechanical monkey sails out over the wall and back onto your side and scurries back to Skamos, holding a medallion on a broken leather thong.
[2024/03/14 16:37] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: (Is that the one we needed?
[2024/03/14 16:38] Alicia Frakture: Takes the medalion and hopes her theory works and its like a ward to these creatures, but still keeps her sabre ready
[2024/03/14 16:38] Sonja Bikergrrl: (Don't give the psychopathic DM even more warped ideas....!)
[2024/03/14 16:39] Sonja Bikergrrl: Let's hope you're right... the gates literally burst open and four jet black creatures, all long limbs, bony protrusions, long jagged tails and wicked claws erupt and charge towards you!
[2024/03/14 16:39] Sonja Bikergrrl: Now what?
[2024/03/14 16:40] Alicia Frakture: Skamos holds out the medallion, hoping for the best
[2024/03/14 16:40] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "There! Get them!" Atilla lashes out with his whip, using the range to stay in ranks despite attacking.
[2024/03/14 16:41] Sonja Bikergrrl: The drow warriors aren't taking chances. They let loose with arrows, and injure two of the creatures.
[2024/03/14 16:42] Sonja Bikergrrl: The creatures swarm either side of Skamos - one pauses in the act of lunging to attack, and seems to look Skamos up and down, then it attacks the drow.
[2024/03/14 16:42] Sonja Bikergrrl: Atilla, d20
[2024/03/14 16:43] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: ....2
[2024/03/14 16:43] Sonja Bikergrrl: >.<
[2024/03/14 16:44] Sonja Bikergrrl: okay... drow draw swords and fight monsters, two get hits in... more injuries but they keep fighting
[2024/03/14 16:45] Sonja Bikergrrl: The four creatures hiss and snarl, attacking the warriors... the first two with no success
[2024/03/14 16:46] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: so now I'm in range to try for double handed attacks, yes?
[2024/03/14 16:46] Sonja Bikergrrl: The other two rake and claw at the drow, injuring them
[2024/03/14 16:46] Sonja Bikergrrl: Yep... d20 to attack
[2024/03/14 16:47] Sonja Bikergrrl: and you hit!
[2024/03/14 16:47] Sonja Bikergrrl: short sword, d6
[2024/03/14 16:47] Alicia Frakture: Okay since talking is a free action Skamos tells the monkey to get more medallions like the last one before moving to protect the priestess and swinging her sabre at a monster
[2024/03/14 16:48] Sonja Bikergrrl: Monkey ooks and eeks and scurries off... human voice: "It's that damn fucking monkey again! Get it!"
[2024/03/14 16:48] Sonja Bikergrrl: d20...
[2024/03/14 16:49] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: me or Skamos?
[2024/03/14 16:49] Sonja Bikergrrl: 6 is a good hit!
[2024/03/14 16:50] Alicia Frakture: and 3 of that is electrical
[2024/03/14 16:50] Sonja Bikergrrl: Atilla rolls d20.... roll under 16
[2024/03/14 16:50] Sonja Bikergrrl: A spray of acid, nimbly dodged!
[2024/03/14 16:51] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: :O
[2024/03/14 16:51] Sonja Bikergrrl: Skamos slices and fries one, the electrical blade neatly cauterizes the body (and is itself unharmed by acid). And that one is dead!
[2024/03/14 16:53] Sonja Bikergrrl: Now what?
[2024/03/14 16:54] Alicia Frakture: Just make sure the amulet and I are between the baddies and the high priestess, taking a swing at the next one while waiting for the monkey
[2024/03/14 16:54] Sonja Bikergrrl: Atilla?
[2024/03/14 16:54] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Alright, double-attacking now that these horrors are in range
[2024/03/14 16:55] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: ad whip second
[2024/03/14 16:55] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: >.>
[2024/03/14 16:55] Sonja Bikergrrl: okay... Sapphire can go first, d20 twice
[2024/03/14 16:56] Sonja Bikergrrl: it was going so well.... Skamos, d20
[2024/03/14 16:56] Sonja Bikergrrl: three sevens in a row???
[2024/03/14 16:57] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: jackpot?
[2024/03/14 16:57] Sonja Bikergrrl: what are the odds of that
[2024/03/14 16:57] Sonja Bikergrrl: 1/8,000 I think
[2024/03/14 16:57] Sonja Bikergrrl: okay
[2024/03/14 16:57] Alicia Frakture: how many 1's did this one get?
[2024/03/14 16:57] Sonja Bikergrrl: humans shoot arrows at the monkey
[2024/03/14 16:57] Sonja Bikergrrl: luckily they miss, with an average hit roll of 7, ironically
[2024/03/14 16:58] Sonja Bikergrrl: A drow gets raked by a claw!
[2024/03/14 16:59] Sonja Bikergrrl: as does another drow, most now have some injury or other
[2024/03/14 16:59] Sonja Bikergrrl: A drow hacks at one of the creatures, hits it hard.
[2024/03/14 16:59] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: At least we got a medallion out of all this
[2024/03/14 16:59] Sonja Bikergrrl: Back to you...
[2024/03/14 17:00] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: sword and whip
[2024/03/14 17:00] Sonja Bikergrrl: at least you're doing good damage when you DO hit :)
[2024/03/14 17:01] Sonja Bikergrrl: d20, roll under 16
[2024/03/14 17:01] Alicia Frakture: *Has the monkey returned?*
[2024/03/14 17:01] Sonja Bikergrrl: hasn't made it there, yet
[2024/03/14 17:01] Alicia Frakture: Either way gonna swing at the next one
[2024/03/14 17:01] Sonja Bikergrrl: Atilla nimbly dodges another spray of acid
[2024/03/14 17:02] Sonja Bikergrrl: and... Skamos, d20
[2024/03/14 17:02] Alicia Frakture: *Slowly draws her wrench*
[2024/03/14 17:02] Sonja Bikergrrl: how is 7 suddenly so popular
[2024/03/14 17:03] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me winces. A loud CLANG and a screech, abruptly cut off, suggests the monkey just got smacked by a sword. Jubliant shouts confirm this suspicion
[2024/03/14 17:04] Sonja Bikergrrl: Monsters claw at drow, miss
[2024/03/14 17:04] Sonja Bikergrrl: Drow fight back, get two more hits in, damaging them further
[2024/03/14 17:05] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: our turn again?
[2024/03/14 17:05] Sonja Bikergrrl: ....and... yes
[2024/03/14 17:05] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: 10 misses?
[2024/03/14 17:05] Sonja Bikergrrl: Yes. These are hard to hit.
[2024/03/14 17:05] Sonja Bikergrrl: Harder than is first apparant
[2024/03/14 17:05] Sonja Bikergrrl: Skamos?
[2024/03/14 17:06] Alicia Frakture: Gonna try something. Striking one beasty I look at another one and see if this can command them."Bring me back my monkey."
[2024/03/14 17:06] Sonja Bikergrrl: d20
[2024/03/14 17:06] Sonja Bikergrrl: swing and a miss....
[2024/03/14 17:07] Sonja Bikergrrl: The creatures don't show any signs of having heard you.
[2024/03/14 17:07] Sonja Bikergrrl: A drow gets savaged by a claw, and is badly injured at this point.
[2024/03/14 17:07] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Sending it back in might have been greedy
[2024/03/14 17:08] Sonja Bikergrrl: Good counterattacks by the drow -nearly- kill the monsters... nearly!
[2024/03/14 17:08] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: attempting to finish them!
[2024/03/14 17:09] Alicia Frakture: Wait a tic.. I have connection with the monkey I would know if it was dead
[2024/03/14 17:09] Alicia Frakture: Also taking a swing as well.. They have my monkey
[2024/03/14 17:09] Sonja Bikergrrl: The many legged servant of Lolth bites and misses... the priestess takes a swipe at one and bashes it's... does it even HAVE a head??? whatever, there's a spray of acid that misses all nearby, luckily
[2024/03/14 17:10] Sonja Bikergrrl: The connection is dropped, again suggesting the mechanical monkey is offline.
[2024/03/14 17:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: Shouts and a hubbub from the wall suggest the humans can see what is going on - and they're deciding the odds just aren't that good.
[2024/03/14 17:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: okay... what now? Just one creature, on point of death, but it's still showing fight
[2024/03/14 17:12] Alicia Frakture: Another swing at it
[2024/03/14 17:12] Sonja Bikergrrl: d20
[2024/03/14 17:12] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Oooooh
[2024/03/14 17:13] Sonja Bikergrrl: regardless of damage.... it's dead!
[2024/03/14 17:13] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "Get that last one and fall back." Atilla suggests, since they're all very heavily injured and likely to get wiped if this keeps up
[2024/03/14 17:13] Sonja Bikergrrl: and the last few humans are clearly fleeing now, with one familar voice demanding they return
[2024/03/14 17:14] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: fleeing from us or fleeing from the fort?
[2024/03/14 17:14] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: if the second, switching to Net!
[2024/03/14 17:15] Sonja Bikergrrl: Fleeing from the wall - into the fortification
[2024/03/14 17:15] Alicia Frakture: I would like to roll to see what this medallion is magic wise
[2024/03/14 17:15] Sonja Bikergrrl: d20, roll under 17
[2024/03/14 17:16] Sonja Bikergrrl: and, roll d%, must roll under 35
[2024/03/14 17:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: okay... this is an interesting artifact
[2024/03/14 17:19] Sonja Bikergrrl: as you study it, you realize two general things about it, first, it appears to be made of unfamiliar materials, and has a rather alien design to it. Second, as far as you can tell, it is some kind of protective talisman, although that part is probably obvious. More specific information eludes you.
[2024/03/14 17:19] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: oooh?
[2024/03/14 17:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: alright.... this looks like a good place for a cliffhanger :)
[2024/03/14 17:20] Alicia Frakture: okay even I know that if I experiment on it it will likely blow up so I hand it to the priestess.
[2024/03/14 17:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: She looks at it, looks at you as if you had two heads and sneers... "Lolth protects me!"
[2024/03/14 17:22] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "Fine, I'll carry it."
[2024/03/14 17:22] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "if only to get it back to someone who can figure it out."
[2024/03/14 17:22] Alicia Frakture: Look you know better magic users than me who can figure this out and possibly replicate the effects. You hold it so if there is more of them we don't lose you."
[2024/03/14 17:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: alright... I better get to bed... I got a days' work to do
[2024/03/14 17:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: then, weekend off :)
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