Session Six: The Return of the Old Ones...?
[2024/10/09 16:04] Sonja Bikergrrl: right, we all here
[2024/10/09 16:05] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: oooh, a world map
[2024/10/09 16:05] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: is that... our world map?
[2024/10/09 16:05] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: would be neat to have a hover diamond or something over our position
[2024/10/09 16:05] Sonja Bikergrrl: Yes, it is
[2024/10/09 16:06] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: or a ring prim perhaps
[2024/10/09 16:06] Sonja Bikergrrl: unfortunately I've played fast and loose with locations and positions and distances
[2024/10/09 16:07] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: true, and it's not like we're doing much sailing or teleporting
[2024/10/09 16:08] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: nifty
[2024/10/09 16:08] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Yet
[2024/10/09 16:09] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: looks cool :)
[2024/10/09 16:10] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: /me has a few marble and metal textures laying around too
[2024/10/09 16:10] Sonja Bikergrrl: Since the game has been built as we play, any discrepancies will be hand waved away
[2024/10/09 16:10] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: *nods*
[2024/10/09 16:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: and I'm realizing this map is different... slightly, but significantly
[2024/10/09 16:12] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: I like the little pixel river systems
[2024/10/09 16:12] Sonja Bikergrrl: there we go
[2024/10/09 16:13] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: oooh, and glows
[2024/10/09 16:13] Sonja Bikergrrl: =^..^= Music now on! =^..^=
[2024/10/09 16:13] Sonja Bikergrrl: okay, let's get this TPK started
[2024/10/09 16:14] Sonja Bikergrrl: The morning of the next day and you're woken by a loud roar. Much like the one playing... if I can get that on
[2024/10/09 16:14] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: link?
[2024/10/09 16:15] Sonja Bikergrrl: a loud roar, what could that be. And not evenhad breakfast.
[2024/10/09 16:15] Sonja Bikergrrl: I am now streaming music at: http://81.133.27.194:8000
[2024/10/09 16:16] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Sitting up quick, and looking around.
[2024/10/09 16:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: and with that recap, such as it is, out of the way... GGGGGGGGRRRREEEEEEETTTINGS, Adventurers! Other players play their characters as if they just had three Weetabix, you don't even get breakfast.
[2024/10/09 16:17] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me peeks around staying as hidden as possible
[2024/10/09 16:17] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Debben sits bolt upright at the roar, reaching for her weapons.
[2024/10/09 16:18] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana: tending to horse, keeping an eye on things... like, Valyra
[2024/10/09 16:18] Mecha (alicia.frakture): /me sees Katana with the horse."Did anyone else hear that?
[2024/10/09 16:18] Sonja Bikergrrl: Valyra: looks shifty and suddenly keen to be going
[2024/10/09 16:18] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana: Nay, I heard nothing?
[2024/10/09 16:18] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "Was that ours?"
[2024/10/09 16:19] Sonja Bikergrrl: (As I recall, only you three passed perception checks)
[2024/10/09 16:19] Mecha (alicia.frakture): I think we need to start breaking camp, quickly.
[2024/10/09 16:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: Tiger: comes padding out from the bushes, rather faster than usual.
[2024/10/09 16:20] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me flies around doing her best to help the big people get ready to move
[2024/10/09 16:20] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "Got it," she affirms, making sure to grab all her books and casting gear first.
[2024/10/09 16:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: Porphorin rolls up mats and ties them in a roll
[2024/10/09 16:21] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Starts working on tearing down as she speaks."Just heard a roar, that seemed rather loud which is why I'm surprised you didn't hear it Katana. Did anyone else not hear it?"
[2024/10/09 16:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: What the tiger heard is anyones' guess, but, he's staying close, tail twitching. Valyra doesn't answer.
[2024/10/09 16:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana: "Must be far away. I may have been busy with the horse."
[2024/10/09 16:23] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me flies up closer, "I heard it , it was loud, how could anyone not hear it ?"
[2024/10/09 16:25] Sonja Bikergrrl: I'm guessing breaking camp fast and moving on?
[2024/10/09 16:25] Mecha (alicia.frakture): No worries, if they didn't they didn't. Let's just get ready to go."Apples bread and cheese for breakfast everyone will hand it out as we travel."
[2024/10/09 16:25] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Preferably in a direction away from the roar.
[2024/10/09 16:26] Sonja Bikergrrl: well... there's a problem, the way you want to go, is probably in that direction.
[2024/10/09 16:26] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: How many lateral options does the path offer?
[2024/10/09 16:27] Sonja Bikergrrl: Forwards... backwards... you can't really take a cart offroad for any great distance, as a rule
[2024/10/09 16:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: Might be other roads too, of course, you passed by a junction a while back. With the hanged sheep thieves.
[2024/10/09 16:29] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "What kind of road do you think that was?" She looks at the sides of the road and frowns. "We might need to go through. spook it perhaps."
[2024/10/09 16:30] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Leesha looks at the others as the last of camp is packed and food is handed out from the cart."Pick a direction and let's go. If we have to fight, we will but let's just go."
[2024/10/09 16:30] Sonja Bikergrrl: (From last time: " Sonja Bikergrrl: Debben: That sound? It's familiar. It's like the roar of a dragon. ")
[2024/10/09 16:31] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "Let's turn back. We are not ready to deal with a dragon."
[2024/10/09 16:32] Sonja Bikergrrl: Any dragon would admittedly be a tough, probably deadly fight for you.
[2024/10/09 16:32] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Sounds good to me.
[2024/10/09 16:33] Sonja Bikergrrl: What's the plan exactly on this?
[2024/10/09 16:33] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me looks quite happy and relieved to be going in the opposite direction of the dragon, "that sounds like a very good idea, any plan that takes us away from a dragon"
[2024/10/09 16:34] Mecha (alicia.frakture): So we go back to where the sheep thieves were and turn down the other road? Everyone okay with that?
[2024/10/09 16:34] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "Which you have more experience fighting, the dead or dragons?"
[2024/10/09 16:34] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana: "I am not so sure we should be turning tail and fleeing."
[2024/10/09 16:35] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "Whyfor, Katana?"
[2024/10/09 16:36] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana: "We should stand and face evil down!"
[2024/10/09 16:37] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "Would you demand we try to fight a bear?"
[2024/10/09 16:37] Mecha (alicia.frakture): I um I think we could take a bear, and bear meat is good for stew
[2024/10/09 16:38] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana: "Of course not. A bear is an animal, not an evil creature."
[2024/10/09 16:39] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "So what makes a dragon... we don't have time to debate this. Who's for going backwards, raise your hand." she holds her hand up.
[2024/10/09 16:40] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana: "Dragons have intelligence." It's hard for someone who doesn't breathe to huff, but she does, and attends to the horse again
[2024/10/09 16:40] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Wait, do we have time? Have we heard any other sounds, like more roars? the flapping of wings, anything?
[2024/10/09 16:41] Sonja Bikergrrl: Only a distant roar, that might've been on the edge of hearing, since not all heard it. Then again, a dragon can fly fast....
[2024/10/09 16:41] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me flies up a bit high above the group and watches the argument while twitching her nose...
[2024/10/09 16:43] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Wait a moment I have an idea."Hey Dahlia, while your up there, do you see anything in the distance?"
[2024/10/09 16:43] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me looks surprised and then smiles, "of course I can , I will do that right now"
[2024/10/09 16:48] Mecha (alicia.frakture): She looks at the others."If Dahlia is up there and doesn't see anything we move forward if not we move to somewhere either safer or more advantageous. How does that sound?"
[2024/10/09 16:49] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "I suppose I can live with that." She mutters under her breath. "Until i don't."
[2024/10/09 16:50] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana swears loudly and jumps back from the horse suddenly. "What the fuck!"
[2024/10/09 16:50] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me yells back down, "Don't see anything interesting, all quiet and nice up here"
[2024/10/09 16:50] Sonja Bikergrrl: Valyra: (shakes head and mutters under her breath): "...yanki..." (Children)
[2024/10/09 16:50] Mecha (alicia.frakture): All right, forward it.. What Katana?
[2024/10/09 16:51] Sonja Bikergrrl: A small dragon... no one else see that??? Tell me you see it too.
[2024/10/09 16:51] Sonja Bikergrrl: (D20s from Debben, Leesha)
[2024/10/09 16:54] Sonja Bikergrrl: Yep, you both see a very, very small dragon sitting on the horses' neck, watching you
[2024/10/09 16:54] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Leeshas eyes open wide."Awwwwwwwwww."
[2024/10/09 16:54] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: ".....what in the deep dark is that?"
[2024/10/09 16:55] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Hey Dahlia, come down and check this out
[2024/10/09 16:55] Sonja Bikergrrl: Whatever it is, it looks at Debben, opens it's mouth, and winks out of sight.
[2024/10/09 16:56] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana: growls and draws her sword, waves it in the space it was, but, touches nothing.
[2024/10/09 16:56] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me floats down and looks at the creature before it disappears, with wide eyed curiosity
[2024/10/09 16:56] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "...we have an invisible tiny dragon in the area, don't we?"
[2024/10/09 16:57] Sonja Bikergrrl: Valyra: edging slowly to the undergrowth some distance away
[2024/10/09 16:58] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Do we notice this?
[2024/10/09 16:59] Sonja Bikergrrl: roll d20, if you want to see if the dice gods say, but I'd suggest it's -fairly- obvious.
[2024/10/09 16:59] Mecha (alicia.frakture): *Okay*
[2024/10/09 16:59] Mecha (alicia.frakture): /me looks over."Something you wanna tell us?"
[2024/10/09 16:59] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me will allow +4 for Obvious, but... you should notice.
[2024/10/09 16:59] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: as 12 plus 4
[2024/10/09 17:00] Sonja Bikergrrl: Valyra pauses: "Primers yanki. Rrakkma - you all die!"
[2024/10/09 17:00] Sonja Bikergrrl: (Ability check: 12 - 4)
[2024/10/09 17:01] Sonja Bikergrrl: (saves, roll over. Abilities, roll under)
[2024/10/09 17:03] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Remember when she called us Istik? Good times." She paused."So what, that was a baby and it's mom is coming for us?"
[2024/10/09 17:04] Sonja Bikergrrl: (Rough translation: "Primers children. Vengence band - you all die!")
[2024/10/09 17:04] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): ((are there tress close?))
[2024/10/09 17:04] Sonja Bikergrrl: Valyra: "You are istik."
[2024/10/09 17:04] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): ((trees))
[2024/10/09 17:05] Sonja Bikergrrl: (Probably, at least three or four round the camp area, I'd say)
[2024/10/09 17:05] Sonja Bikergrrl: Valyra: "Not mom. More Githyanki."
[2024/10/09 17:06] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me lands on limb high in the nearest tree
[2024/10/09 17:07] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "So we're about to be ambushed?" she looks for where the wagon could be directed that would be more defensible and orders the draft beast to pull in that direction
[2024/10/09 17:08] Sonja Bikergrrl: Valyra gives Debben a slightly exasperated look, mutters: "...is'tark..." ("coward") and says, rather louder: "Yes."
[2024/10/09 17:10] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Even if Debben knew she was being called a coward, she is a honor-starved thief who prefers survival over bravery. She fights from *desperation* rather than honor.
[2024/10/09 17:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: (You don't know what she said. It may be just as well; but, her point of view might be radically different to yours)
[2024/10/09 17:11] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Okay if you are not, or can not fight. Take the cart and get to hiding. If that stuff gets destroyed and we make it we wont have supplies. Those who are willing, and or able to fight group up
[2024/10/09 17:12] Sonja Bikergrrl: Valyra (blinks as if barely believing her ears): "They come for me."
[2024/10/09 17:12] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me follows the cart at great height flitting and gliding from tree to tree
[2024/10/09 17:13] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Debben fully expects these ambushers to be of the "kill them all" flavor anyway, and double checks her weapon is loaded.
[2024/10/09 17:14] Mecha (alicia.frakture): They come for you they have to deal with me. I wont speak for the rest of the group. thier voice, their choice."
[2024/10/09 17:15] Sonja Bikergrrl: Valyra (frowns): "Gith are Gith. Primers are yanki... you will all die!"
[2024/10/09 17:17] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "That sounds unpleasant," she comments, eyeing the trees and whatever evils they hide.
[2024/10/09 17:18] Sonja Bikergrrl: Valyra: starting to look like she regrets the whole thing, because everyone so far is insane.
[2024/10/09 17:18] Mecha (alicia.frakture): ... Yeah well. If that's the case I am not going out alone.
[2024/10/09 17:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: Valyra: Just looks at you, rather increduluously
[2024/10/09 17:20] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Leesha is going to make sure her handwraps are on and tight before drawing her wrench
[2024/10/09 17:21] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: So. How many apparent positions are there for someone to attack us from?
[2024/10/09 17:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: Valyra shakes her head. "They come on dragon. All of above. Use much power, much g'hel'zor." (Brainfire)
[2024/10/09 17:24] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "from above?" She looks around. "So we need cover from above, which means tree branchs and cliffsides."
[2024/10/09 17:24] Sonja Bikergrrl: (Good luck with that in open ground)
[2024/10/09 17:25] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: (( Ah, somehow I thought we were in forest. ))
[2024/10/09 17:25] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: SO what -is- the terrain around here? That's why I was asking about "possible approaches of ambushers"
[2024/10/09 17:26] Sonja Bikergrrl: ( More a ... I guess it's called heathland. Bushes, mainly, fields, a low number of trees, fairly flat)
[2024/10/09 17:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: (The main problem is the cart. It's fairly limited in options, by staying to the trail.)
[2024/10/09 17:28] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: (( how fast can we move along the trail? ))
[2024/10/09 17:29] Sonja Bikergrrl: (With the cart? Walking pace. Things just don't move fast with only muscle power available. I was surprised to find even dragon flight is only 1.5x walking pace)
[2024/10/09 17:31] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: (( Ok, so we probably try to set the draft beast going and be willing to jump off the cart as needed... hmmm. ))
[2024/10/09 17:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: Something to think on, but, 1:30AM and I can't guarantee I won't be called to a job tomorrow
[2024/10/09 17:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: I better get SOME sleep
[2024/10/09 17:33] Sonja Bikergrrl: hope that was fun... you got some serious converasations to have, I think :P
[2024/10/09 17:34] Sonja Bikergrrl: See you next time, when, we find out: primers vs Gith, who will win...
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