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Side Quest One: A Slight Xenomorph Problem...

[2025/04/21 14:14] Sonja Bikergrrl: so, who wants to do what?
[2025/04/21 14:14] Sapphire: /me ponders if SL has board games more complicated than skippo or Cheezi implemented
[2025/04/21 14:15] Sonja Bikergrrl: hard to say
[2025/04/21 14:15] Sonja Bikergrrl: we got D&D...
[2025/04/21 14:15] Sonja Bikergrrl: ...not really a board game though
[2025/04/21 14:15] Sapphire: /me nods.
[2025/04/21 14:16] Mecha: So excited this one is about to burst... well something is
[2025/04/21 14:16] Sapphire: oooh?
[2025/04/21 14:16] Sonja Bikergrrl: let's find the table... and gimme two minutes
[2025/04/21 14:19] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me finds notes, NCs
[2025/04/21 14:20] Sapphire: which campaign?
[2025/04/21 14:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: you just got to the T junction; behind you, the "forbidden"/"wrong" area. Left leads "out", right to the temple/shrine where you slew the cleric Aleena
[2025/04/21 14:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: "A Slight Xenomorph Problem", set in the Underdark
[2025/04/21 14:20] Sapphire: We may need to upgrade "slight"
[2025/04/21 14:21] Mecha: Set in the underdark and filmed before a live studio audience
[2025/04/21 14:21] Sapphire: we had humans and 'Morphs behind us?
[2025/04/21 14:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: I'm showing two surviving drow, and one big black skeletal/insectoid -thing- that towers over you
[2025/04/21 14:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: The bodies of two torn apart humans lie nearby, seems their protective amulets didn't...
[2025/04/21 14:22] Sapphire: and the big black thing is... declining to tear us apart like we just saw it do to others
[2025/04/21 14:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: It's just standing there.... "looking" at you.
[2025/04/21 14:23] Mecha: The skeletal thing just politely pushed skamos out of the way
[2025/04/21 14:24] Sonja Bikergrrl: for a creature that can tear humans apart, yes
[2025/04/21 14:25] Sapphire: "You hate the surfacers too, don't you? But your young forms don't yet know how to tell," Atilla surmizes
[2025/04/21 14:25] Sonja Bikergrrl: I hope you aren't expecting an answer, disappointment is so... disappointing
[2025/04/21 14:27] Sapphire: Does the being have any visible injuries?
[2025/04/21 14:27] Sonja Bikergrrl: As far as you can tell, no
[2025/04/21 14:27] Mecha: Skamos looks confused."Try showing it one of the things you grabbed."
[2025/04/21 14:27] Sonja Bikergrrl: It's not issuing acidic blood, anyway
[2025/04/21 14:28] Sapphire: Atilla checks their supplies for the things that were grabbed. The curled up bodies that we were going to show to the priestess?
[2025/04/21 14:29] Mecha: Skamos nods."Hell, We can try... While you do that I will be right back!" Skamos runs back to collect her downed familiar.
[2025/04/21 14:30] Sonja Bikergrrl: The creature turns slightly, as if to keep Skamos in a field of view while staying with Atilla.
[2025/04/21 14:30] Mecha: All it sees is Skamoses back, ass and tail as she goes back for the monkey familiar
[2025/04/21 14:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: You retreive a rather battered bronze ball.
[2025/04/21 14:32] Mecha: I start checking if it can be repaired as I come back
[2025/04/21 14:33] Sonja Bikergrrl: It looks pretty damaged, you'll need some tools, powdered diamond, and about twenty six hours
[2025/04/21 14:33] Sapphire: That sounds like more time than we have
[2025/04/21 14:34] Sonja Bikergrrl: One of the drow is chugging from his water bottle, gasping, and looking pale.
[2025/04/21 14:34] Mecha: Might have two of the three somewhere but time is not one of them
[2025/04/21 14:34] Sapphire: Atilla considers. "Who saw where the humans had gotten to?"
[2025/04/21 14:36] Mecha: Meanwhile I am going to check on the drow looking pale
[2025/04/21 14:36] Sonja Bikergrrl: The other drow is hauling out some rations from his pack and tears into them. "We didn't -see- then, we -heard- them, then.... we got jumped. And we woke up with you."
[2025/04/21 14:36] Sonja Bikergrrl: Pale drow pulls away with a look of annoyance. Female you may be, drow you are not.
[2025/04/21 14:38] Sapphire: How far are we from the priestess at this point?
[2025/04/21 14:38] Mecha: Skamos growls."And yet I am still trying to check and make sure you are all right. I'm not looking to have sex with you."
[2025/04/21 14:38] Sonja Bikergrrl: Pale drow, with a glare: "I am fine, animal!"
[2025/04/21 14:40] Mecha: Skamos flips him off and walks away."Fine, whatever ass hole."
[2025/04/21 14:40] Sonja Bikergrrl: Priestess? Probably not far. A few twists and turns, and you'll be there in ten minutes.
[2025/04/21 14:41] Sonja Bikergrrl: Pale drow: "straj kaezlen."
[2025/04/21 14:41] Sapphire: and we expect tracking down the remaining humans to be more or less than that?
[2025/04/21 14:41] Sapphire: or well, Atilla expects given his ranger background
[2025/04/21 14:41] Sonja Bikergrrl: Hard to say, you just know there's more to this cave complex that you've seen yet.
[2025/04/21 14:41] Sonja Bikergrrl: (Pale drow: "damn ")
[2025/04/21 14:42] Mecha: If Skamos can't check on one she is going to check on the other.
[2025/04/21 14:43] Sonja Bikergrrl: the other one glares at Skamos. "What do you want?"
[2025/04/21 14:44] Mecha: You and dippy over there ran into the same issue we did. We passed out and then woke up. He looks pale and I know I am having stomach issues. How are you doing?" She looks at him."Like it or not we were sent to work together and that's what I am trying to do."
[2025/04/21 14:45] Sonja Bikergrrl: Other drow: "I'm fine." (An obvious lie.)
[2025/04/21 14:46] Sapphire: Atilla frowns, considering. "Fine. We'll keep searching for the humans until something happens to more of us and report then."
[2025/04/21 14:46] Mecha: All right. well if things change let me know. Or if you really want to have issue with me tell Atilla until we get to the priestess.
[2025/04/21 14:47] Mecha: Skamos pauses and looks at Atilla."I think as long as we have puppy here we shouldn't go see the priestess anyway."
[2025/04/21 14:48] Sonja Bikergrrl: The xenomorph moves quickly, to block the passageway "out". It bares it's teeth - revealing another set of teeth - and issues a low but loud hissing growl, which has the same effect on you as nails dragging down a chalkboard
[2025/04/21 14:50] Mecha: Skamos walks up and pets puppy."Yessss, I know come on we'll find more topworlders for you to eat." She looks at the others."His name is now puppy and I will brook no argument.
[2025/04/21 14:51] Mecha: *IF she is going to die she is gonna do it crazy*
[2025/04/21 14:53] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me won't, by default, confirm or deny your imminent character deffs
[2025/04/21 14:53] Sonja Bikergrrl: Sapphire?
[2025/04/21 14:54] Sapphire: "No argument here."
[2025/04/21 14:54] Sapphire: So if 'out' is veto'd, that leaves us?
[2025/04/21 14:55] Sonja Bikergrrl: we're agreed then, Mecha is crazy.
[2025/04/21 14:55] Sonja Bikergrrl: "in"?
[2025/04/21 14:55] Sonja Bikergrrl: like the temple/shrine area
[2025/04/21 14:56] Mecha: /me nods
[2025/04/21 14:57] Sonja Bikergrrl: so... you heading to the temple/shrine?
[2025/04/21 14:58] Mecha: Sounds as good as anything
[2025/04/21 14:58] Sapphire: you mentioned a t-junction
[2025/04/21 14:58] Sonja Bikergrrl: off we go! (You're at the T junction).
[2025/04/21 14:59] Sonja Bikergrrl: At the shrine/temple area the bodies lie sprawled about where they fell, although pockets have been pulled open and packs torn open. Someone passed through and took what might be handy, and didn't stay to deal with the dead.
[2025/04/21 14:59] Mecha: Come on puppy :)
[2025/04/21 14:59] Sapphire: Someone not us?
[2025/04/21 15:00] Sonja Bikergrrl: you didn't search the bodies.... the drow didn't... and someone wrote that note on the wall for you....
[2025/04/21 15:00] Mecha: Go to look at the note
[2025/04/21 15:00] Sonja Bikergrrl: You read the note last session, it was scrawled on the wall.
[2025/04/21 15:01] Sonja Bikergrrl: Reminder: "Hey darkies. I'd have slit yer froats but yer were fast asleep, and I don't kill the defenceless. I leave that to you darkies. If what I think has happened has happened, you may wish I wasn't so nice. In that case, you have my condolences. Otherwise, I'm back up topside - and fuck you!"
[2025/04/21 15:01] Mecha: Oh yeah. Need to kick his ass over the darkies comment
[2025/04/21 15:02] Sapphire: And to find out what he knows about us
[2025/04/21 15:02] Sonja Bikergrrl: Too late, he's probably half way to the surface now.
[2025/04/21 15:03] Mecha: Lets see if we can follow the path
[2025/04/21 15:03] Sonja Bikergrrl: Reminder (you heard the humans talking before they saw you): "Bloody bastards took out Atilla, and Taurus fucked off in the confusion." "Hey, Bargle has everything under control, we clear this up, we're still good."
[2025/04/21 15:04] Sonja Bikergrrl: * Atilla of course should read Aleena (the cleric you killed)
[2025/04/21 15:04] Sonja Bikergrrl: both of you roll d20
[2025/04/21 15:05] D20: Mecha rolls 1
[2025/04/21 15:05] Sonja Bikergrrl: critical success! You hear humans approaching from a passageway that goes on into the caves.
[2025/04/21 15:05] D20: Sapphire rolls 12
[2025/04/21 15:06] Mecha: Skamos motions for everyone to hide."Come on puppy." She whispers
[2025/04/21 15:07] Sapphire: Atilla will take up a cover position and ready his bow
[2025/04/21 15:07] Sonja Bikergrrl: "I don't trust this oo vah dom. It's some wierd unnatural thing. And Aleena is dead, and Taurus buggered off and we got those dark bastards wandering about. And what happened to Bill and Ben? Why haven't they come back yet?" "You worry too much. Bargle will fix their asses. And I expect Bill and Ben are just drunk somewhere. We got this."
[2025/04/21 15:10] Sonja Bikergrrl: Now what?
[2025/04/21 15:10] Mecha: Gonna keep hiding until they enter the room
[2025/04/21 15:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: they're walking right up to you, holding up a lantern so they can see.
[2025/04/21 15:12] Mecha: Skamos pops out of the dark into the lantern light hoping a jumpscare will distract them enough to catch them
[2025/04/21 15:13] Sonja Bikergrrl: From their point of view a figure leaps out of nowhere. They draw swords and take a swing at you?
[2025/04/21 15:13] Sapphire: Arrow time
[2025/04/21 15:13] Sonja Bikergrrl: not sure why that's a question....
[2025/04/21 15:13] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 16
[2025/04/21 15:13] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 8
[2025/04/21 15:13] Mecha: No startle or surprise?
[2025/04/21 15:14] Sonja Bikergrrl: Due to shock and surprise, they got a minus 4 on to hit rolls, so, those swings went completely wide.
[2025/04/21 15:14] Sonja Bikergrrl: Arrow time! Sapphire, d20, +4 to hit
[2025/04/21 15:15] Sonja Bikergrrl: (Roll 3 times, for the 2 drow as well)
[2025/04/21 15:15] Mecha: Skamos leaps on one of them."Come to mama." She says before looking at Puppy."Play nice with them."
[2025/04/21 15:15] Sonja Bikergrrl: d20, Mecha
[2025/04/21 15:15] D20: Mecha rolls 20
[2025/04/21 15:15] Sonja Bikergrrl: DEX check I think
[2025/04/21 15:16] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me facepalms as you faceplant on the ground
[2025/04/21 15:16] D20: Sapphire rolls 10
[2025/04/21 15:16] Sapphire: and then allies
[2025/04/21 15:16] Sonja Bikergrrl: twice more
[2025/04/21 15:16] D20: Sapphire rolls 3
[2025/04/21 15:16] D20: Sapphire rolls 8
[2025/04/21 15:16] Mecha: *Thought it would count for an attack roll trying to grapple and all that
[2025/04/21 15:16] Sonja Bikergrrl: well your allies can't shoot for shit and you -barely- hit :P
[2025/04/21 15:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: roll d6
[2025/04/21 15:18] D6: Sapphire rolls 1
[2025/04/21 15:18] Sonja Bikergrrl: 'tis but a scratch
[2025/04/21 15:18] Sonja Bikergrrl: The xenomorph screeches loudly and charges forwards, to their initial relief. "A drone! Thank the gods!"
[2025/04/21 15:18] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 13
[2025/04/21 15:18] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 15
[2025/04/21 15:19] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 18
[2025/04/21 15:19] Mecha: Puppy smack them down!" She says
[2025/04/21 15:19] D8: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 2
[2025/04/21 15:19] D8: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 3
[2025/04/21 15:19] D6: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 3
[2025/04/21 15:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: Claws sink into human bodies and grip tight, lifting them up high overhead, and one gets the second, inner set of jaws smashing into his head. "YYYYYAAAAAAAHHHH WHAT THE FUCK the medallions...!"
[2025/04/21 15:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: Blood splatters in all directions. They're still alive, though.
[2025/04/21 15:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: The xenomorph literally powerbombs them head first to the ground.
[2025/04/21 15:21] Sapphire: *Oddly durable for humans*
[2025/04/21 15:21] D6: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 5
[2025/04/21 15:21] D6: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 5
[2025/04/21 15:21] Mecha: Skamos moves up and pets puppy."Gotta let them live. They have answers." She pets puppy softly and supportively."Good puppy, who's a good puppy."
[2025/04/21 15:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: Ones' brains splatter in all directions, the last just lies on the floor groaning in a huge pool of blood. The xenomorph seems to have made it's point.
[2025/04/21 15:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: Now what?
[2025/04/21 15:24] Sapphire: any humans left?
[2025/04/21 15:24] Mecha: Skamos goes to the living human."Now then, we have questions. You will give answers or puppy gets a new chew toy."
[2025/04/21 15:24] Sonja Bikergrrl: Just the one on the verge of death, groaning in a widening pool of blood
[2025/04/21 15:24] Sonja Bikergrrl: "...uuuhh.... fuhk yew..."
[2025/04/21 15:25] Sapphire: Atilla moves to loot the dead ones.
[2025/04/21 15:25] Mecha: Wait a minute. He mentioned the medallions. Didn't we collect a couple of those?
[2025/04/21 15:25] Sonja Bikergrrl: Couple of coppers, some rags, a few dried fruits and a knife is all you find.
[2025/04/21 15:26] Sapphire: "Destitute, even by human standards."
[2025/04/21 15:27] Sonja Bikergrrl: I'm not sure you collected more than one medallion; you did find it to be a small disc of unknown material with what look like little jems and beads connected by thin strands.
[2025/04/21 15:27] Mecha: Skamos looks at the human as she reaches for his medallion."You sure that is the answer you want to go with?"
[2025/04/21 15:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: "You're already dead" *cough cough*
[2025/04/21 15:29] Mecha: She yanks the medallion and moves away."Puppy, play time."
[2025/04/21 15:29] Mecha: *Excuse this one for a moment*
[2025/04/21 15:30] Sonja Bikergrrl: A loud HISS and you see the inner jaws slam out and into the guys' head. There's a brief splatter of blood and bits of bone and grey matter.
[2025/04/21 15:30] Sonja Bikergrrl: The pale drow, meanwhile, has sunk to his knees, grimacing in pain and clutching his chest, cursing loudly
[2025/04/21 15:31] Sapphire: "Still fine over there?"
[2025/04/21 15:32] Sonja Bikergrrl: By now he's on the floor doing a fair impression of someone having an ecliptic fit. His only answers are increasingly loud screams
[2025/04/21 15:35] Sonja Bikergrrl: roll d20
[2025/04/21 15:35] Sonja Bikergrrl: you're sure he'll be fine.
[2025/04/21 15:35] D20: Sapphire rolls 1
[2025/04/21 15:36] Sonja Bikergrrl: uh oh
[2025/04/21 15:36] Sonja Bikergrrl: a nat1
[2025/04/21 15:36] Sonja Bikergrrl: you get a sickening realization
[2025/04/21 15:36] Sonja Bikergrrl: he won't be fine :(
[2025/04/21 15:37] Mecha: I look at the pale one then the other one
[2025/04/21 15:37] Sonja Bikergrrl: there's a loud THUMP -crack- and he jerks, blood spraying out as if he were just struck from within
[2025/04/21 15:38] Sonja Bikergrrl: With a spray of blood, a tiny white creature rises from his chest, somehow putting you in mind of the xenomorph. But this creature is small, pale white, and smooth.... it turns slowly, "looking" at you all
[2025/04/21 15:39] Mecha: Skamos."Puppy, is this a relative of yours?"
[2025/04/21 15:39] Sonja Bikergrrl: then with a loud "NNNNNAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!" it takes off at a terrific pace away from you all, leaving the twitching drow corpse in a huge pool of blood.
[2025/04/21 15:39] Sonja Bikergrrl: Both of you roll d20
[2025/04/21 15:39] D20: Mecha rolls 12
[2025/04/21 15:40] Sonja Bikergrrl: Skamos slowly realizes that you each have one of those... -things- inside you
[2025/04/21 15:41] Mecha: Oh shit.
[2025/04/21 15:41] Sonja Bikergrrl: Sapphire - d20....
[2025/04/21 15:42] Mecha: *Sorry*
[2025/04/21 15:42] Mecha: "Oh shit."
[2025/04/21 15:42] Sonja Bikergrrl: roll for Sapphire, Mecha
[2025/04/21 15:42] D20: Mecha rolls 14
[2025/04/21 15:43] Sonja Bikergrrl: Atilla slowly realizes... you do NOT have much time....
[2025/04/21 15:43] Sonja Bikergrrl: and on that cheery note, CLIFFGHANGER!
[2025/04/21 15:44] Mecha: This one swears, she is so excited, she could pop
[2025/04/21 15:44] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me just looks at Mecha
[2025/04/21 15:44] D20: Sapphire rolls 4
[2025/04/21 15:45] Sapphire: o:
[2025/04/21 15:45] Mecha: Hehehe

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