Side Quest One: A Slight Xenomorph Problem...
[2025/03/31 14:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: We never finished the Underdark quest
[2025/03/31 14:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: although, it's looking increasingly like being a TPK...
[2025/03/31 14:28] Sapphire: oh yeah, underdark team didn't actually die
[2025/03/31 14:28] Sapphire: yet
[2025/03/31 14:28] Mecha: /me waves to Sapphire. "Beep Boop."
[2025/03/31 14:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: want to try finishing that?
[2025/03/31 14:30] Mecha: we are still alive and this one does have an idea for when we get back
[2025/03/31 14:30] Sapphire: could do! where'd we leave off?
[2025/03/31 14:30] Sonja Bikergrrl: so, D&D Underdark?
[2025/03/31 14:31] Sapphire: sounds like a good plan
[2025/03/31 14:32] Sonja Bikergrrl: ....let me find the sheet...
[2025/03/31 14:33] Sonja Bikergrrl: did I ever say where I had it?
[2025/03/31 14:33] Sapphire: /me looks
[2025/03/31 14:34] Sapphire: i presume you store everything as notecard
[2025/03/31 14:34] Sonja Bikergrrl: Found it
[2025/03/31 14:35] Sonja Bikergrrl: Hmmm... you are not in a good way
[2025/03/31 14:35] Sonja Bikergrrl: per logs: you'd just slain the cleric
[2025/03/31 14:36] Sonja Bikergrrl: a human went running to a side passage - the wrong way to go
[2025/03/31 14:36] Sonja Bikergrrl: another tried to flee but caught too many arrows between shoulder blades
[2025/03/31 14:37] Sonja Bikergrrl: you are both rather badly injured and you got three surviving drow warriors... badly injured
[2025/03/31 14:38] Sapphire: suggesting we should get home and heal
[2025/03/31 14:38] Sonja Bikergrrl: well! What you going to do? You appear to be at a juntion of two passages - looks like a shrine further up, to the right, a passage to a bad place, and back leads, er, back
[2025/03/31 14:39] Sonja Bikergrrl: This'll get scorn at best, and severe punishment at worst; you're expected to clear the problem out.
[2025/03/31 14:40] Mecha: Seach the cleric and the other guy
[2025/03/31 14:41] Sonja Bikergrrl: the lesser mooks have feck all that interest you (beyond the bizarre medallions they all wear)
[2025/03/31 14:41] Sapphire: no potions or wands?
[2025/03/31 14:42] Sonja Bikergrrl: you find... a thick-walled bottle of some clear oil, a flail with a runed handle... a gem... and two potions in dark green glass on the clerics' body
[2025/03/31 14:42] Sonja Bikergrrl: patience :P
[2025/03/31 14:43] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me tries to decypher her writing for the temple area
[2025/03/31 14:43] Mecha: Dibs on the oil!"
[2025/03/31 14:43] Sonja Bikergrrl: The oil looks very thick and viscous, it really doesn't look like it's drinkable.
[2025/03/31 14:43] Sapphire: /me passes it over, pockets the potions in dark green glass and the gem.
[2025/03/31 14:44] Mecha: isn't THAT thirsty
[2025/03/31 14:44] Sonja Bikergrrl: anyone taking that flail?
[2025/03/31 14:45] Sapphire: runed handle... does it seem magical?
[2025/03/31 14:45] Sapphire: better question, are Rangers proficient with those?
[2025/03/31 14:45] Sonja Bikergrrl: runed things tend to be
[2025/03/31 14:45] Sonja Bikergrrl: sadly, you, specifically aren't
[2025/03/31 14:46] Mecha: I'll grab it. Maybe I can pour the oil on it and have a flaming weapon...*Giggles maniacally*
[2025/03/31 14:47] Sonja Bikergrrl: Going to search the temple area?
[2025/03/31 14:47] Mecha: Sounds like a good idea
[2025/03/31 14:47] Sapphire: "Good luck with that plan.... did we see where any pinkskins got away?"
[2025/03/31 14:48] Sonja Bikergrrl: Looks like a typical "away from base" shrine, an alcove with a figure of a deity, some runes and glyphs all about, a bowl of water and a cloth, and five potions in green glass bottles
[2025/03/31 14:50] Mecha: Do we recognize who it's a shrine to?
[2025/03/31 14:50] Sonja Bikergrrl: Some surfacer deity, you neither know nor really care.
[2025/03/31 14:52] Sapphire: more of those potions.... how do we test what they do?
[2025/03/31 14:52] Sonja Bikergrrl: drink one?
[2025/03/31 14:52] Sapphire: how do potions behave when you take a very small amount of them?
[2025/03/31 14:53] Sonja Bikergrrl: only way to know is to cast identify, or the potion owner if they know, or drink it (ie., all of it)
[2025/03/31 14:55] Sapphire: and our priestess isn't around at the moment?
[2025/03/31 14:55] Sonja Bikergrrl: she's outside "guarding the rear" (and can't identify anyway)
[2025/03/31 14:55] Sonja Bikergrrl: that's one smart drow-girl, she's not stupid.
[2025/03/31 14:56] Sapphire: Alright, will open the top of one of the potions and smell it
[2025/03/31 14:56] Sonja Bikergrrl: and it smells of...
[2025/03/31 14:57] Sonja Bikergrrl: ...fuck knows. It's a surfacer potion, you can't possibly know what it smells of. Not mushrooms, though.
[2025/03/31 14:58] Mecha: maybe it's a health potion. Give it to one of the boys here. I suggest the one who called me your...pet
[2025/03/31 14:58] Sapphire: "Strange...." he closes it back up, not currently wanting to take the risk of actually drinking it.... but checking the other fighters for anyone who... "Ah, that seems like a good way to test it."
[2025/03/31 14:58] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me hopes you like being glared at
[2025/03/31 14:59] Mecha: /me smirks at him.
[2025/03/31 15:00] Sonja Bikergrrl: so.... what you doing?
[2025/03/31 15:00] Sapphire: How may paths could the remaining humans have gotten though by now?
[2025/03/31 15:01] Mecha: She is holding the potions so I leave the testing to who she chooses, before looking at the glarer."It's either that," As she shakes the oil bottle."Or this."
[2025/03/31 15:01] Sonja Bikergrrl: There's two - one "straight through", the other "wrong way" to one side
[2025/03/31 15:02] Sonja Bikergrrl: Glaring drow: "You may be female but yer not drow, demon spawn."
[2025/03/31 15:03] Mecha: Yeah but as a female I still rank higher than you, and would you want me tattling to the drow women about you not being helpful on the mission they sent YOU on?
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[2025/03/31 15:04] Mecha: meanwhile She is going to send her mechanical familiar down the wrong way one, and to come back if there are any issues
[2025/03/31 15:05] Sonja Bikergrrl: Glaring drow: "You won't be doing much tattling if you somehow wind up reddening a wall with your blood, demonspawn!" The other two drow nod and growl
[2025/03/31 15:06] D20: Mecha rolls 17
[2025/03/31 15:07] Mecha: *Muahahaha*
[2025/03/31 15:08] Sapphire: ( Ah yes, the heirarchy distinction between being the right gender of the wrong race )
[2025/03/31 15:08] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me is sure Mecha will explain...
[2025/03/31 15:09] Mecha: *Pretty sure Sapphires got it figured out.*
[2025/03/31 15:09] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me waits stoically, she's only the DM
[2025/03/31 15:10] Sapphire: "What's your magic monkey finding?"
[2025/03/31 15:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: not a lot, it comes barrelling back like the entire forces of the Black Wizard Thargons' dark druegar dwarf detachment is after it.
[2025/03/31 15:11] Mecha: What did you find?
[2025/03/31 15:12] Sonja Bikergrrl: All you got is a view of corridors and rooms seen from low down, bed legs, table legs and something hurtling out of a corner before the monkey books it back
[2025/03/31 15:13] Sapphire: Atilla frowns, "Defensive places," he anounces, moving to get behind a table for cover, kicking it over if needed.
[2025/03/31 15:14] Sonja Bikergrrl: The drow mutter and spread out
[2025/03/31 15:16] Sapphire: "Any idea what it is?" He asks, bow at the ready
[2025/03/31 15:17] Mecha: No, just got a quick view of it." She pauses and listens is ther any sounds of movement coming down the path?
[2025/03/31 15:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: roll d20
[2025/03/31 15:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: must roll over 10
[2025/03/31 15:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: wait, under 10
[2025/03/31 15:17] D20: Mecha rolls 2
[2025/03/31 15:18] Mecha: *Whew*
[2025/03/31 15:18] Sonja Bikergrrl: you strain your ears... you don't hear anything unexpected or out of the ordinary
[2025/03/31 15:19] Mecha: Gonna send the familiar down the straight path with the same instructions
[2025/03/31 15:19] Sapphire: "Let's go check it out then."
[2025/03/31 15:19] Sonja Bikergrrl: familiar first, or, you going too?
[2025/03/31 15:20] Mecha: Familiar first
[2025/03/31 15:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: it ambles down the hallway, round a corner, down another hallway, past a door, then something slams into it and the signal is lost.
[2025/03/31 15:21] Mecha: Skamos starts getting fidgety. "Something broke my monkey..."
[2025/03/31 15:22] Sapphire: "What'd it look like?"
[2025/03/31 15:23] Mecha: No idea but I'm gonna find out
[2025/03/31 15:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: That's a good question.
[2025/03/31 15:23] Mecha: Come if you want. Leave el jerko behind though
[2025/03/31 15:24] Mecha: And with that Skamos is off to find her monkey using the directions she saw
[2025/03/31 15:24] Sapphire: Atilla follows behind, bow ready to take on whatever they meat
[2025/03/31 15:24] Sonja Bikergrrl: well, I tried.
[2025/03/31 15:25] Sonja Bikergrrl: You follow the passageway, and see after going round a corner, there's what look like a lot of cells either side, the doors open.
[2025/03/31 15:26] Mecha: Looking for monkey bits
[2025/03/31 15:26] Sonja Bikergrrl: Hmm, there's the battered figure of your mechanical monkey, lying spawled out and covered in clear sticky slime
[2025/03/31 15:27] Sonja Bikergrrl: It's just in a doorway.
[2025/03/31 15:27] Mecha: Gonna approach and try to figure out the slime, but will be very careful.
[2025/03/31 15:27] Sonja Bikergrrl: roll d20
[2025/03/31 15:28] D20: Mecha rolls 7
[2025/03/31 15:28] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 15
[2025/03/31 15:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: Sapphire?
[2025/03/31 15:28] Sapphire: Gonna let the alchemist play with slime and instead keep overwatch for any hostiles
[2025/03/31 15:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: roll d20
[2025/03/31 15:30] D20: Sapphire rolls 11
[2025/03/31 15:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: As Mecha approaches the fallen mechanical monkey, a -thing- hurtles out of the darkness with unbelieveable speed. You get a blurred view of something flying towards you like a custard pie to the face, claws outstretched!
[2025/03/31 15:31] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 20
[2025/03/31 15:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me chokes
[2025/03/31 15:32] Sonja Bikergrrl: It wraps itself round your head, blinding and suffocating you
[2025/03/31 15:32] D8: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 8
[2025/03/31 15:32] Sonja Bikergrrl: ....fuck....
[2025/03/31 15:32] Sapphire: which "you" ?
[2025/03/31 15:32] Sonja Bikergrrl: well. Skamos loses conciousness -fast-
[2025/03/31 15:33] Mecha: can I cast Hellish rebuke as I fall?
[2025/03/31 15:33] Sonja Bikergrrl: Atilla, you see a leathery-looking thing like a big long-fingered glove leap at Skamos' head and wrap about her head. She does down at once and lies limply.
[2025/03/31 15:34] Sonja Bikergrrl: It's wrapped about your head, do you really want to do that?
[2025/03/31 15:34] Mecha: This one really does but also realizes it would not be logical
[2025/03/31 15:34] Sapphire: You're surprised, do you act logically?
[2025/03/31 15:35] Sapphire: "Rot!" Atilla grabs his knife and starts trying to remove the evil glove from Skamos's face
[2025/03/31 15:35] Sonja Bikergrrl: good question, what does Hellish Rebuke do?
[2025/03/31 15:35] Mecha: You point your finger, and the creature that damaged you is momentarily surrounded by hellish flames. The creature must make a Dexterity saving throw. It takes 2d10 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
[2025/03/31 15:36] Sonja Bikergrrl: I'm not sure you'd point your finger accurately at your head, even panicked
[2025/03/31 15:36] Sonja Bikergrrl: or especially
[2025/03/31 15:36] Mecha: Yeah I'm just going to lay there unconscious
[2025/03/31 15:37] Sonja Bikergrrl: probably for the.... well. not best, there's no good coming... least worse?
[2025/03/31 15:37] Sapphire: Trying to get the horrid beast off my ally!
[2025/03/31 15:37] Sonja Bikergrrl: d20
[2025/03/31 15:38] Sapphire: ( *gives a pizza slice to the dice gods as snakrifice* )
[2025/03/31 15:38] D20: Sapphire rolls 16
[2025/03/31 15:38] Sonja Bikergrrl: using a dagger, you said?
[2025/03/31 15:39] Sonja Bikergrrl: knife. Roll d3 (d6, divide by two)
[2025/03/31 15:41] D6: Sapphire rolls 3
[2025/03/31 15:41] Sapphire: 2 after rounding
[2025/03/31 15:44] Sonja Bikergrrl: As you stab the thing, there is a spray of yellow-green liquid, and your knifes' blade bubbles and disolves. The thing has a ... must be a tail, it's so long... wrapped about Skamos' neck. It tightens a little, the long "fingers" tightening their grasp.
[2025/03/31 15:44] Sonja Bikergrrl: Next round!
[2025/03/31 15:44] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 6
[2025/03/31 15:45] Sonja Bikergrrl: Another leathery thing hurtles out of the darkeness and sails past you, and skitters aside
[2025/03/31 15:45] Mecha: *Expletive deleted*
[2025/03/31 15:45] Sonja Bikergrrl: Sapphire
[2025/03/31 15:47] Sonja Bikergrrl: what you doing?
[2025/03/31 15:47] Sapphire: Glance to the skittering thing to check where it landed and then trying to cut the creatures tail so it stops choking out Skamos....
[2025/03/31 15:47] Sapphire: Maybe we should take a risk with the potions.
[2025/03/31 15:48] Sonja Bikergrrl: you sure? that thing dissolved your knife when you cut a "finger"
[2025/03/31 15:50] Sapphire: I'm low on options that don't leave Skamos for dead
[2025/03/31 15:50] Sapphire: that said.... what's the harshest potion bottle we got? Maybe that will work
[2025/03/31 15:50] Sonja Bikergrrl: true, but, you don't want to kill Skamos yourself
[2025/03/31 15:50] Sonja Bikergrrl: not entirely sure what you mean?
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[2025/03/31 15:52] Sapphire: If we pour something damaging on the creature that might make it let go
[2025/03/31 15:52] Sonja Bikergrrl: you got a decanter of Youth, not sure how that'll help
[2025/03/31 15:53] Sonja Bikergrrl: some unknown potions in green bottles... Skamos had a sturdy flask of oil...
[2025/03/31 15:53] Sonja Bikergrrl: A vial of acid
[2025/03/31 15:54] Sapphire: let's try the acid vial
[2025/03/31 15:54] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me winces
[2025/03/31 15:54] Sapphire: actually
[2025/03/31 15:54] Sapphire: no
[2025/03/31 15:54] Sonja Bikergrrl: who you trying to kill, again...?
[2025/03/31 15:54] Sapphire: this thing already bleeds acid
[2025/03/31 15:55] Sonja Bikergrrl: MMHMM!!!
[2025/03/31 15:55] Sapphire: Let's try the.... sturdy flask of oil?
[2025/03/31 15:55] Sapphire: ugh
[2025/03/31 15:55] Sapphire: without igniting I don't expect that to do much either
[2025/03/31 15:56] Sapphire: Which.... leaves us the mysterious potions that were probably healing pots
[2025/03/31 15:56] Sonja Bikergrrl: and you got one of those things with you too
[2025/03/31 15:58] Sapphire: those things?
[2025/03/31 15:58] Sonja Bikergrrl: the leathery long-fingered longer tailed things that took Skamos down
[2025/03/31 15:59] Sapphire: oh yeah, that there's a second one
[2025/03/31 15:59] Sapphire: gonna pour the mysterious potion on the face hugger and then hold my sword up in front of my own face defensively
[2025/03/31 15:59] Sonja Bikergrrl: the mysterious oily potion?
[2025/03/31 16:02] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me doesn't dare look as she rolls d20....
[2025/03/31 16:02] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 7
[2025/03/31 16:03] Sonja Bikergrrl: It skitters out of the darkness and crawls quickly up your leg then falls again and rolls aside
[2025/03/31 16:03] Sonja Bikergrrl: As far as you can tell, the potion does nothing
[2025/03/31 16:03] Sapphire: o.o
[2025/03/31 16:04] Sonja Bikergrrl: your go!
[2025/03/31 16:05] Sapphire: Can I see where the loose one is?
[2025/03/31 16:05] Sonja Bikergrrl: It's skittering about at your feet.
[2025/03/31 16:05] Sapphire: Stomping it, keeping my face guarded
[2025/03/31 16:05] Sonja Bikergrrl: stomping.... hmmm....
[2025/03/31 16:05] Sonja Bikergrrl: d20
[2025/03/31 16:06] D20: Sapphire rolls 20
[2025/03/31 16:06] Sonja Bikergrrl: oh my
[2025/03/31 16:06] Sonja Bikergrrl: d6.... should be d3, but a 20 doubles it.
[2025/03/31 16:07] D6: Sapphire rolls 2
[2025/03/31 16:07] Sonja Bikergrrl: o_o
[2025/03/31 16:07] Sonja Bikergrrl: you stamp on it, it skitters aside.
[2025/03/31 16:08] Sonja Bikergrrl: Somewhat injured, at least there's no acid blood... this time
[2025/03/31 16:08] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 9
[2025/03/31 16:08] Sonja Bikergrrl: It skitters up your leg again, and falls again.
[2025/03/31 16:08] Mecha: *Chuckles* how's my adventuring? Call 1-800- I'm gonna freakin die!
[2025/03/31 16:09] Sonja Bikergrrl: Sapphire?
[2025/03/31 16:10] Sapphire: Punt the damn thing back towards the other elves. "Get it!"
[2025/03/31 16:10] D20: Sapphire rolls 3
[2025/03/31 16:10] Sonja Bikergrrl: .....swing and a miss...
[2025/03/31 16:10] Sonja Bikergrrl: Next round
[2025/03/31 16:10] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 14
[2025/03/31 16:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: It surges up your body and wraps itself about your head.
[2025/03/31 16:11] D8: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 2
[2025/03/31 16:12] Sonja Bikergrrl: It starts to throttle you, even as it tries to cover your face and smother you
[2025/03/31 16:12] Sonja Bikergrrl: Now what?
[2025/03/31 16:13] Sapphire: uh @_@
[2025/03/31 16:13] Sonja Bikergrrl: you'll be fine
[2025/03/31 16:13] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me crosses fingers behind her back
[2025/03/31 16:13] Sapphire: grab my mysterious potion and smash it against the side of the grappler
[2025/03/31 16:14] Sonja Bikergrrl: ....d20
[2025/03/31 16:14] Sonja Bikergrrl: minus 2 penalty
[2025/03/31 16:16] D20: Sapphire rolls 19
[2025/03/31 16:16] Sapphire: :o
[2025/03/31 16:16] Sonja Bikergrrl: well
[2025/03/31 16:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: you manage to smack the bottle against the things' body
[2025/03/31 16:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: d20 again
[2025/03/31 16:17] D20: Sapphire rolls 13
[2025/03/31 16:18] Sonja Bikergrrl: well... you bang the bottle on the creature... roll 1d2 for damage. It's not as effective as throwing a hand.
[2025/03/31 16:18] Sonja Bikergrrl: The bottle remains annoyingly intact, however.
[2025/03/31 16:19] D4: Sapphire rolls 2
[2025/03/31 16:20] Sapphire: hmmmmm
[2025/03/31 16:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: getting there, it's badly injured
[2025/03/31 16:20] D8: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 7
[2025/03/31 16:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: ....o.
[2025/03/31 16:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: Your conciousness fades and you slump to your knees as it smothers and chokes the life out of you. You get a brief sensation of falling... then darkness.
[2025/03/31 16:22] Sapphire: Eeep
[2025/03/31 16:22] Sapphire: I'm guessing we're about to hear we died with a belt full of healing potions
[2025/03/31 16:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: okay, I don't want to stay up too late, since I'm up at 4AM again soon
[2025/03/31 16:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: what you're about to hear....
[2025/03/31 16:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: ...is...
[2025/03/31 16:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: ...what was I saying, again?
[2025/03/31 16:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: J/K, J/K!
[2025/03/31 16:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: What you hear is....
[2025/03/31 16:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: This is our cliffhanger until next time! :D
[2025/03/31 16:24] Mecha: We are well and truly smegged
[2025/03/31 16:25] Sonja Bikergrrl: Things did not go well.
[2025/03/31 16:25] Sapphire: Somehow I feel we're going to show up next time and get handed chestburster sheets and asked to go on a stealth mission
[2025/03/31 16:25] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me tuts
[2025/03/31 16:25] Sonja Bikergrrl: what do you think I am, a good DM?
[2025/03/31 16:26] Mecha: Oh you are definitely a good Dm but you may be a bit evil. that's what makes it fun
[2025/03/31 16:27] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me harumphs, that was a clue to say she's an AWESOME DM.
[2025/03/31 16:28] Mecha: /me chuckles and leans over to smooch Mistress.
[2025/03/31 16:29] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me murrs and huffs
[2025/03/31 16:29] Sapphire: /me huggles. "A lovely DM."
[2025/03/31 16:29] Mecha: A wonderful DM
[2025/03/31 16:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me mutters... you're only saying that because you're the only players who get to f*** the DM
[2025/03/31 16:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: alright, I better dash, early days ahead of me, and I'm so NOT a morning person these days
[2025/03/31 16:32] Sapphire: /me snuggles
[2025/03/31 16:32] Sapphire: rest well, mistress
[2025/03/31 16:33] Mecha: Sleep well :)
[2025/03/31 16:33] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me riffles hairs and fucks off!
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